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Immigration News - November 2019
Archived reports on immigration matters for November 2019, including horrific UK migrants death, USCIS forms updates, Supreme Court on DACA, massive H-1B fee hikes:
11/27/2019: Happy Thanksgiving!
At this time of Thanksgiving we pause to count our blessings. The freedom of this great country in which we live. The American Dream. The friendship and confidence you have shown in us. For all of these things we are deeply thankful. Our best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving! - ImmigrationRoad
11/27/2019: U.K. Truck Driver Admits Illegal Immigration Plot After 39 Migrant Deaths
Just more than a month since dozens of dead migrants were discovered in a truck in southeast England, the driver has admitted to conspiring to assist unlawful immigration and acquire criminal property. Maurice Robinson pleaded guilty to the two charges at a court hearing Monday in London. - NPR
11/22/2019: USCIS Forms Update Notice
USCIS has recently updated the following immigartion formas. Please make sure you're using the correct version to avoid any potential delays or rejections.
Form I-817, Application for Family Unity Benefits; New Edition Dated 11/08/19.
Form I-824, Application for Action on an Approved Application or Petition; New Edition Dated 11/08/19.
Form I-694, Notice of Appeal of Decision Under Sections 245A or 210 of the Immigration and Nationality Act; New Edition Dated 10/20/19.
Form G-1450, Authorization for Credit Card Transactions; New Edition Dated 09/27/19.
11/19/2019: Implementing Bilateral and Multilateral Asylum Cooperative Agreements Under INA
The Departments are adopting an interim final rule to modify existing regulations to provide for the implementation of agreements that the United States enters into pursuant to section 208(a)(2)(A) of the INA. Such agreements--referred to by the Departments as Asylum Cooperative Agreements and alternatively described as safe third country agreements in existing regulations--are formed between the United States and foreign countries where aliens removed to those countries would have access to a full and fair procedure for determining a claim to asylum or equivalent temporary protection. - Federal Register
11/18/2019: December 2019 Visa Bulletin Released
The Department of State has released the Visa Bulletin for December 2019. The table below shows "Final Action (Approval)" cut-off dates and movement from the previous month, for all major employment-based categories. To see filing cut-off dates or family-sponsored categories please go to the Visa Bulletin page linked above. For our unique Visa Bulletin Graphical Tracker, cutoff date predictions and more information please refer to the Visa Bulletin Toolbox.
Cut-off Date (Y-M-D)
Movement from last month (Days)
ROW EB1 2018-07-15 44
ROW EB2 C 0
China EB1 2017-05-15 103
China EB2 2015-06-22 99
China EB3 2015-11-01 0
India EB1 2015-01-01 0
DOS also warned that EB demand for adjustment of status (I-485) has been increasing at USCIS lately. As a result, EB2, EB3, and EB3-Other categories may see the establishment of final action dates, as early as January 2020.
11/17/2019: The Trump administration’s immigration jails are packed, but deportations are lower than in Obama era
Though President Trump has made cracking down on immigration a centerpiece of his first term, his administration lags far behind President Barack Obama’s pace of deportations. Obama — who immigrant advocates at one point called the “deporter in chief” — removed 409,849 people in 2012 alone. Trump, who has vowed to deport “millions” of immigrants, has yet to surpass 260,000 deportations in a single year.
And while Obama deported 1.18 million people during his first three years in office, Trump has deported fewer than 800,000. It is unclear why deportations have been happening relatively slowly. - WaPo
11/16/2019: USCIS Releases Report on Arrest Histories of Illegal Aliens who Request DACA
Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated data (PDF, 756 KB) on arrests and apprehensions of illegal aliens who requested Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Nearly 110,000 DACA requestors out of nearly 889,000 (12%) had arrest records. Offenses in these arrest records include assault, battery, rape, murder and driving under the influence.
Of approved DACA requestors with an arrest, 85% (67,861) of them were arrested or apprehended before their most recent DACA approval.
Of approved DACA requestors with an arrest, more than 31% (24,898) of them had more than one arrest.
Of all DACA requestors, 218 had more than 10 arrests. Of those, 54 had a DACA case status of “approved” as of October 2019.
11/14/2019: County Clerks Revolt Over N.Y. Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants
The law makes New York one of 14 states that allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, which proponents argue will help them avoid deportation for relatively minor offenses, such as traffic violations.
But the change has been met with resistance from county clerks in conservative areas of upstate New York, who are now setting the stage for a political clash when the law takes effect next month. Some say they will refuse to issue the licenses, while others are also threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement if applicants show up without documentation. - NY Times
11/12/2019: Supreme Court leans toward Trump plan to end DACA program
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to side with the Trump administration in its effort to end a program that lets nearly 700,000 young, undocumented immigrants live and work in the United States without fear of deportation. During an extended, 80-minute oral argument inside a packed courtroom that included some of the threatened immigrants, several conservative justices said the Department of Homeland Security laid out sufficient reasons for its decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. - USA Today
11/11/2019: Supreme Court to Hear DACA Arguments Tuesday
The justices will hear extended arguments concerning whether the administration’s attempted termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was lawful. The program, put in place seven years ago, protects about 700,000 immigrants and allows them to receive work permits.
Trump sought to end the program in 2017 but was blocked from doing so by lower courts in California, New York and Washington, D.C. Trump has argued that President Barack Obama lacked the legal authority to institute the program, but has shied away from criticizing DACA as bad policy. - CNBC
11/08/2019: USCIS Proposes to Increase Fees by 21%
"Fees collected and deposited into the IEFA fund nearly 96% of USCIS’ budget. Unlike most government agencies, USCIS is fee-funded. Federal law requires USCIS to conduct biennial fee reviews and recommend necessary fee adjustments to ensure recovery of the full cost of administering the nation’s immigration laws, adjudicating applications and petitions, and providing the necessary infrastructure to support those activities.
The rule proposes adjusting USCIS IEFA fee schedules by a weighted average increase of 21% to ensure full cost recovery. Current fees would leave the agency underfunded by approximately $1.3 billion per year." - USCIS
11/07/2019: USCIS Implements $10 Fee for H-1B Visa Registration
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced a final rule that will require a $10 non-refundable fee for each H-1B registration submitted by petitioning employers, once it implements the electronic registration system. The registration fee is part of an agency-wide effort to modernize and more efficiently process applications to live or work in the United States.
11/06/2019: Policy Alert: EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization Final Rule
Under the employment-based fifth preference (EB-5) classification, petitioners may seek an immigrant visa if they make the necessary investment in a new commercial enterprise in the United States and meet certain job creation requirements.1 On July 24, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security published the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization rule to reflect statutory changes and modernize the EB-5 program. This rule provides, among other things, priority date retention for certain EB-5 immigrants; increases the investment amounts to account for inflation; reforms targeted employment area (TEA) designations; and clarifies USCIS procedures for the removal of conditions on permanent residence. - USCIS
11/05/2019: Upcoming December 2019 Visa Bulletin
The Department of State is expected to release December's Visa Bulletin soon. You are welcome to sign up for our free Visa Bulletin Alert, and we'll send you an email as soon as it's published.
11/04/2019: U.S. Supreme Court mulls making it easier to deport immigrants for crimes
The nine justices during an hour of arguments appeared divided over the fate of Andre Martello Barton, a legal permanent U.S. resident from Jamaica who challenged his planned deportation for drug and gun convictions in Georgia dating back to 1996.
Barton appealed a lower court ruling that the 41-year-old father of four was ineligible to have his deportation canceled under a law that lets some longtime legal residents avoid removal for certain crimes. The court’s liberal justices seemed sympathetic toward Barton. Some conservative justices appeared inclined to agree with the government’s bid to deport him. - Reuters
11/02/2019: Federal judge blocks Trump's health insurance rule for immigrants seeking visas
A federal judge in Oregon on Saturday blocked the Trump administration's rule requiring immigrants applying for U.S. visas to prove they have health insurance or can afford medical costs from going into effect Sunday.
U.S. District Judge Michael Simon granted the temporary restraining order while he considers a federal lawsuit brought Wednesday by seven U.S. citizens and a nonprofit organization, who contend the rule change would block nearly two-thirds of all prospective legal immigrants. It was not immediately clear when Simon would rule on the merits of the case. - Fox News
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Hyundai rolls out 200 vehicles from Chennai plant on first day of resuming operations
The auto major has commenced production at the facility adhering to 100 per cent compliance of safety and social distancing norms, Hyundai Motor India said in a statement.
By: PTI | New Delhi | May 9, 2020 2:04:11 pm
The company re-started manufacturing activities at its plant in Sriperumbudur (near Chennai) on May 8. (AP)
Hyundai Motor India on Saturday said its Chennai-based manufacturing facility rolled out 200 cars on the first day of resuming production.
The company re-started manufacturing activities at its plant in Sriperumbudur (near Chennai) on May 8.
In line with the government’s objectives of reviving the economy and company’s global vision of progress for humanity, the commencement of manufacturing operations is aimed at boosting economic activities and bringing back normalcy, it added.
Several industries are resuming operations in a phased manner following an over month-long shutdown due to the coronavirus lockdown.
For all the latest Auto & Travel News, download Indian Express App.
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Family involvement is essential to student success. At Hughes STEM High School, there are many ways to connect with students and staff. If you are interested in assisting us, please contact (513) 363-7400.
Become a volunteer! Your time and talent will make a difference in the lives — and futures — of our students. Opportunities to volunteer include:
Chaperone
Phone calls to parents
Help with schoolwide functions
Serve on welcome committee
Recruit committee members to the Hughest Parent, Teacher, Student Association (PTSA)
Attend community council meetings to represent the school
Instruction helper
Room parent
To get started, email or call (513) 363-7400.
Local School Decision Making Committee (LSDMC)
The LSDMC is the primary governing body for each school in the district. This committee gives insight and input into important decisions that greatly impact students' lives and shape their educational experiences.
Meetings are held on the first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in the Hughes Innovation Lab.
The function of the LSDMCs includes:
Adopting bylaws, including the school's mission and vision
Setting measurable goals, based on a needs assessment
Developing a broad plan (One Plan) to implement these goals
Completing a mid-year and end-of-year progress report
Making recommendations and approving the school budget
Participating in the selection of the principal when a vacancy exists
Approving locally initiated changes in the school's program or focus
Making recommendations to the principal regarding other school issues
Seeking grants to support the school's programs (optional)
Coordinating and overseeing the development of the school as a Community Learning Center
The committee is composed of parents, teachers, staff members and community members.
Hughes STEM PTSA
The Hughes STEM PTSA acts as a resource for families as they advocate for the education and wellbeing of their children. This mission is met by providing parent education, modeling the STEM core values and providing resources to families for improved communication and performance between teachers, students and parents.
President - Elease North
Vice President - Mike Story
Secretary - Kellie Dennard
Treasurer - Fran Larkin
PTSA meetings are held on the first Monday of the month at 4:40 p.m. in the Innovation Lab during the school year. When the first Monday of the month is a holiday, we will meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 4:40 p.m. in the Innovation Lab.
If you have any questions or concern contact Fran Larkin via email or call at (513) 556-1503.
Need more information? Check us out on Facebook!
Alumni and Reunions
The Hughes Alumni Foundation exists to inspire pride and support of Hughes Center (formerly Hughes High School) among alumni, friends, students and the Greater Cincinnati community; to connect alumni, students and the community; to encourage academic excellence among Hughes students; and to be vigilant in protecting and tending to the beautiful and historic building of Hughes Center.
Visit the Hughes Alumni Foundation Facebook page.
Security Badges and Background Checks
To assure the safety of students and staff, Cincinnati Public Schools requires security badges for anyone entering CPS' buildings. One-time visitors receive a temporary security badge from the front office. Individuals who visit our buildings on a regular basis, such as volunteers, must obtain a security badge and wear it at all times in our buildings. Learn more about how to obtain a security badge.
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A version of this article appears in the Spring 2017 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
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Eric Martin explains how, through systems integration, heat pump water heaters can be used to reduce space-conditioning energy while saving lots of water-heating energy. This year, Martin celebrates 20 years of employment at the University of Central Florida’s Florida Solar Energy Center. He says, “I never imagined reaching a 20-year milestone when I started at FSEC as a graduate student.”
What you didn’t know about him: “Outside of family and work, surfing continues to be my passion.”
Joseph Peterson
“Mind the Gap: Summary of Window Residential Retrofit Solutions”
Joseph Peterson tells us not to overlook window fenestration products when we do energy-efficient upgrades on older single-family homes. “In certain situations, it’s ideal to do work with differing retrofit technologies,” he says, “than to do a complete replacement of the primary window.”
What you didn’t know about him: “Before joining the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, I had no experience or interest in energy efficiency.”
Scott Pigg
"Weatherization and Indoor Air Quality"
For Scott Pigg, a principal researcher at Seventhwave, research comes as second nature. Of course, some projects are more memorable than others. Amusingly memorable for him is the day he spent measuring how much the temperature of the shower water drops between the showerhead and the drain—“field research in the buff!” he jokes. In this issue, Pigg explains how air sealing without mechanical ventilation can adversely effect indoor air quality.
What you didn’t know about him: “Before getting into energy efficiency, I spent four years building trail suspension bridges in the remote Himalayas of Nepal.”
Liz Robinson
“EnergyFIT Philly: Preservation of Affordable Housing—Gentrification Without Displacement”
Author Liz Robinson argues that the national Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) is the perfect vehicle to incorporate an ongoing “weatherization plus health” approach. “If we build the interface between building science and medical science to solve the housing problems that are literally making low-income occupants sick, we will produce deep energy savings and reduce health care costs into the bargain,” she says. What’s not to like?
What you didn’t know about her: “My first career idea was to be a jazz singer.”
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Completing weatherization and home performance upgrades can be dirty work. Add the challenges of being in occupied homes, and you have one of the toughest jobs in the industry! The type of dust created during ...
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Nobody likes energy codes. This unfortunate fact maintains my popularity ratings, as a writer and enforcer of energy codes, down in the low single digits. Energy codes fall into the same category as speed limits ...
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Category: Desktop Computers
simonmackay 14/01/2021 Computer Systems, Current and Future Trends, Desktop Computers, Laptop, Notebook and Netbook Computers No Comments
The Lenovo Legion Slim 7i gaming laptop representing the kind of investment taking place for regular computers in this era
The PC is suddenly cool again … for now | CNBC
The pandemic has made it harder to buy a new laptop | The Verge
Due to us having to stay home more due to the COVID-19 coronavirus plague, we have had to rely on online services for our work, education and social life.
What this has meant is a stronger interest in the use of desktop and laptop regular computers that have more powerful silicon and run desktop operating systems. These purchases are justified more due to increased usage of these systems and a longer lifespan that they typically have. Let’s not forget that these computers typically have or are able to be connected to larger screens and better input devices suited for long usage sessions. As well, the money that people have saved by not going out or travelling is financing the purchase of these systems.
Short supply early in the pandemic
This high demand for newer computers has caused problems in the supply of these computers due to factories in China that supply parts or subassemblies for these systems shutting down during the first few months of this pandemic. Another factor that slowed down the supply of thee computers was the logistics associated with their parts being limited due to various restrictions on the transport modes and ports / airports to limit the spread of the virus. But once it became a known quantity and factories were able to adapt to the bug in a prophylactic manner, the backlog of computer orders was able to be fulfilled by the major vendors.
The steady rise of Chrome OS as a viable alternative
Google’s Chrome OS is coming to the fore in this context due to schools and workplaces implementing Chromebooks as a viable computing platform. This is due to it having a limited third-party software base, although it can run Android software, and its support for a secure computing environment. But even these machines are becoming more capable with them acquiring faster silicon and more memory.
But could this mean that more software providers, especially games studios, will have to write software for the Chromebook? Similarly will there be requirements to create software development environments that target many platforms including Chrome OS at once?
Laptops still hold their ground with ever-increasing computing power
There is a strong interest in the portable form factors like laptops because of their innate flexibility. As I have mentioned before when raising the issue of whether to buy a desktop or laptop computer in this era, this could suit household members who don’t have a dedicated workspace and end up using the dining table; people who prefer to use the computer to suit seasonal needs like outside or by the fire.
It is leading towards a significant trend for increased computing power in these computers, especially the ultraportable units like Ultrabooks or MacBook Air units. Around September, this meant the arrival of Intel’s Tiger Lake silicon with the Xe graphics infrastructure. Here the Xe integrated graphics processors were on a par with low-tier mobile dedicated graphics processors and could offer elementary games-grade graphics performance with a Full HD screen.
For example Intel have just premiered at CES 2021 the Tiger Lake H35 silicon which is their attempt to bring on gaming-grade performance to Ultrabooks. This is in addition to opening up Chrome OS to Tiger Lake performance silicon.
This has come about because the computer industry has found that over the past year that it is increasingly justifiable to invest in regular-computer platforms. That is thanks to these units being able to last and be relevant for the long term. It also has been underscored over the past ten years with laptops, all-in-ones and low-profile desktop computers being found to exhibit real computing power for primary workday use.
Continual post-pandemic interest in the regular computer
There is doubt whether the demand for regular computers will last long as more of us return to work or school. It may not be an issue for laptop users if your workplace or educational institution implements “bring-your-own-device” policies or they have bought the device for you to use during your tenure with them, and you are able to take your computer between there and back.
Similarly, some pundits may be seeing the increased and continual interest in remote working with this maintaining a need for the regular computer. This may be enforced by offices being required to work at reduced capacity to avoid the risk of contagion until we are sure this pandemic is totally under control. It is also along with businesses looking towards downsizing their office premises or moving away from inner-urban areas due to the reduced need for on-site staff.
Here, this could evolve towards the use of local “third places” like libraries and cafes as alternative workspaces with, perhaps, interest in local flexible shared-working facilities. Similarly, hotels are seeing renewed interest in offering their guestrooms for day use and pitching this towards remote workers. These will continue to exist as an alternative to working from home, especially where one wants to avoid home distractions.
This may be also augmented by a desire to “move away from the city” and only visit there for regular but infrequent workplace meetups, as those pundits in the real-estate game are underscoring. Here, you would have to have a decent Internet connection and a decent computer at your new country house to be able to work from there.
Again these will be about maintaining interest in the regular computer, especially laptop computers.
This is due to them being conducive for long working sessions thanks to properly-sized hardware keyboards and larger screens that these computers have. As well, most of these units will also appeal for use beyond work like playing powerful rich games, doing further learning or supporting entertainment needs.
Here, the laptop will maintain its space for those of us who like flexible working whether at or away from home.
Dell jumps on the prosumer bandwagon with the XPS Creator Edition computers
simonmackay 08/09/2020 Computer Hardware Design, Computer Systems, Current and Future Trends, Desktop Computers, Laptop, Notebook and Netbook Computers No Comments
Dell is offering variants of the latest XPS 17 desktop-replacement laptop that will be pitched at prosumers and content creators
What is Dell’s XPS 17 ‘Creator Edition?’ | Windows Central
Dell Reveals Redesigned XPS 15 and Powerful New XPS 17 Aimed at Creators | Petapixel
Dell’s new XPS Desktop looks to be a premium powerhouse PC | PC World Australia
XPS 17 Series (USA product page with Creator Edition packages)
XPS Desktop series (USA product page with Creator Edition packages)
RTX Studio program (Product Page)
As I have previously reported, computer-equipment manufacturers are waking up to the realisation that prosumers and content creators are a market segment to address. This group of users was heavily courted by Apple with the MacOS platform but Windows-based computer vendors are answering this need as a significant amount of advanced content-creation and content-presentation software is being written for or ported to Windows 10.
Here, the vendors are shoehorning computer specifications for some of their performance-focused computers towards the kind of independent content creator or content presenter who seeks their own work and manages their own IT. This can range from hobbyists to those of us who create online content to supplement other activities towards small-time professionals who get work “by the job”. It can also appeal to small-time organisations who create or present content but don’t necessarily have their own IT departments or have the same kind of IT department that big corporations have.
Lenovo answered this market with a range of prosumer computers in the form of the Creator Series which encompassed two laptops and a traditional tower-style desktop. Now Dell is coming up to the plate with their Creator Edition computer packages. Here, this approach is to have computers that are specifiied for content creation or content presentation but aren’t workstation-class machines identified with a distinct “Creator Edition” logo.
The first of these are the Creator Edition variants of the latest Dell XPS 17 desktop-replacement laptop. These have, for their horsepower, an Intel Core i7-10875H CPU and a discrete GPU in the form of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX-2060 with 6Gb display memory, based on the NVIDIA Max-Q mobile graphics approach. This will run RTX Studio graphics drivers that are tuned for content-professional use and will be part of the RTX Studio program that NVIDIA runs for content professionals.
The display used in these packages is a 17” 4K UHD touch display that is rated for 100% Adobe RGB colour accuracy. The storage capacity on these computers is 1 Terabyte in the form of a solid-state disk. The only difference between the two packages is that the cheaper variant will run with 16Gb system RAM and the premium variant having 32Gb system RAM.
Dell is also offering a Creator Edition variant of its XPS-branded desktop computer products. This will be in the form of a traditional tower-style desktop computer but is equipped with the latest Intel Core i9 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super graphics card and able to be specced with RAM up to 64Gb and storage of up to 2Tb. It has all the expandability of a traditional form-factor desktop computer, something that would come in handy for project studios where special audio and video interface cards come in to play.
What is being shown up here is that computer manufacturers are recognising the content-creator and prosumer market segment who wants affordable but decent hardware that can do the job. It will be interesting to see who else of the large computer manufacturers will come up to the plate and have a product range courting the content creators and prosumers.
Desktop or laptop computing in the COVID-19 era
simonmackay 23/07/2020 Buying Tips, Computer Systems, Desktop Computers, Laptop, Notebook and Netbook Computers No Comments
Whether to buy a desktop computer like these gaming rigs…
Thanks to the COVID-19 plague, we are being encouraged if not required by law to stay at home to limit the spread of this disease.
This has led to us using regular desktop and laptop computers that run Windows, MacOS or desktop Linux at home more frequently for work, education, communications and pleasure. Think of those many Zoom or Skype videoconferences you have been making very lately. This may even cause some of us to purchase a new desktop or laptop computer or upgrade an existing one that is long in the tooth.
or a low-profile NUC computer like this Intel Skull Canyon…
The question that will come about more frequently in this era is whether we should buy desktop computers or laptop computers. The desktop computers are appearing in newer and different form factors like “all-in-one” computers where the computing power is part of the display; or three-piece systems that now use a low-profile system unit like the Intel “NUC” boxes. This is while the highly-portable laptop computers appear in the traditional “clamshell” form or a 2-in-1 convertible that folds over to become a tablet.
or something like the Lenovo IdeaCentre 510 all-in-one or Apple iMac …
There is also the fact that high-performance computers like gaming rigs or workstations are appearing in low-profile or “all-in-one” desktop form, or in laptop form. This is so you can think of having higher performance computing in an aesthetically-pleasing or portable form factor.
As far as a regular computer’s durability and longevity is concerned, it is becoming more plausible for these systems to last for many years compared to a smartphone or mobile-platform tablet. This is furthered by some people gaining more mileage from these computers by doing things like “upsizing” their computer’s RAM memory or storage to suit newer expectations. Or they end up using external or portable USB hard disks and SSDs or network-attached storage systems as a data-offload solution.
or a laptop like the Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming high-performance laptop …
But the question that can come about is whether a desktop or a laptop is a more relevant computer purchase at this time.
It is more so as we see schools of thought develop concerning the purchase of portable computing technology like laptop computers, smartphones and tablets. Here, some of these schools of thought may downplay the need to invest heavily in such technology because it is perceived as “something to impress others with” when out and about in a similar vein to cars, bikes or fashion. This is with us spending more time cocooned within our homes thanks to this virus therefore driving a preference for us to lead a simple contemplative homespun life.
A desktop computer may be seen as being more relevant in the short term due to us not moving around. It may be more real where there is the expectation to use only one particular workspace for your computing activities and may be augmented by the fact that you use other complementary devices like mobile-platform tablets or gaming consoles for different activities away from the workspace.
.. or a 2-in-1 like this Dell Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1 convertible
Some users who chase high performance at all costs may simply state that a desktop computer, preferably the traditional “tower-style” unit, is the way to go. It is due to a desktop form-factor offering increased performance at a cheaper cost or being easily upgradeable or customisable. This would be preferred by the core gamers who value their custom-built gaming rigs. As well, those of us who are willing to throw down money on the latest CPU and graphics-infrastructure silicon as soon as Intel, AMD or NVIDIA release it would go for the traditional easy-to-upgrade desktop computer.
Laptop and Notebook Computers
Or a laptop or notebook computer, including a 2-in-1 convertible, can be about a long-term view of us coming out of the crisis and being able to get out and about. Here it may be about travelling again or working away from home whether that be your workplace’s office or a “secondary office” that is your favourite cafe.
In the short term, it can also be about the idea of using a highly-portable computer that can be taken around the house or stored away quickly when not in use. This can be driven by seasonal wishes like wanting to use your computer by the fire during winter or outside on the balcony or in the garden during summer.
Let’s not forget that a small home may be about not having a dedicated desk for your workspace and you have to use a dining table or coffee table for that purpose. Similarly you may use a desk types that can be closed up when not in use like a roll-top or slant-top desk or has significant storage space and you could store your laptop computer there.
Or you could take that laptop in to a lounge area to have that casual videoconference between family and friends using something like Zoom or Skype, perhaps hooking it up to the large TV for that purpose.
The transportability issue weighs more in the laptop’s favour because you carrywith the screen, keyboard and pointing device. one piece of equipment that is essentially your useable computer system
A recent trend that has affected laptop-computer use is to create a primary workspace that is equipped with a large display, a full-size keyboard and mouse along with other peripherals. These would be connected to your laptop whether directly or through a USB-connected dock (expansion module). You may follow this path when you want to work in a particular primary location but be flexible to move around for your regular-computing needs.
When it comes to choosing that next regular computer during this time, it is important to think of what form-factor really suits your needs both in the short term and the long term. This includes whether you see the possibility of frequently evolving your computer system to suit newer needs or whether you value portability or affordable performance.
How to go about buying a performance-focused computer
simonmackay 11/05/2020 Buyer's Guide, Computer Systems, Desktop Computers, Laptop, Notebook and Netbook Computers No Comments
Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming performance-focused laptop computer
Increasingly, every computer manufacturer is offering one or more product ranges in their regular-computer lineups that is focused towards high-performance personal computing. This is alongside their regular-computer product ranges that are focused towards ordinary computing tasks like word-processing, presentations, Web browsing and multimedia consumption.
What is a performance-focused computer
A performance-focused computer is a computer, typically a regular computer that runs a desktop operating system, that is engineered for high performance at demanding computer tasks. This is compared to ordinary computers which are engineered to work with the typical workload of computing tasks that most of us do in a manner that is expected for today’s standards.
Such computers will have highly-powerful main CPU and graphics processor chips along with copious amounts of RAM memory that runs at high speed. The storage devices, whether mechanical hard disk or solid-state, will be optimised to load and save lots of data very quickly. The peripheral-interface and network-interface chipsets in these systems will typically be engineered for high throughput between the computer and the connected peripherals or networks.
How did these evolve?
An example of those gaming-rig desktop computers
Computer enthusiasts who were into games, multimedia, CAD, statistics or similar demanding tasks would improve their computers for higher performance. This is to provide smoother gameplay, quicker graphics rendering or quicker calculations.
It was part of effective competition by the various computer manufacturers to achieve increasingly-powerful personal computer products. This goal came about due to the acceptance of graphical user interfaces and graphics-rich computing for business and pleasure during the 1980s and 1990s.
For example, games enthusiasts would work on building the fastest games-focused computers that were commonly described as gaming rigs. This was like motor enthusiasts engaging in “souping up” or tuning their cars to become high-performance “hot-rods” or “street machines”.
As well, the computer software focused towards computer graphics, statistics, multimedia and allied fields and was used as part of day-to-day work became increasingly sophisticated. This required the computers to work under strenuous loads and manufacturers had to design workstation computers to handle these workloads.
Previously the perfornamce-focused computer was offered as the traditional “three-piece” system with a dedicated system unit that housed the “brains” of the computer i.e. the main CPU processor, graphics infrastructure, RAM memory and data storage while the keyboard, pointing device and display were separate units connected to this device. Now this class of computer is evolving towards portable laptop computers and “all-in-one” computers that have the “brains” of the system and the display in the same box, leading towards user-friendly setups for this kind of computing.
In the case of laptops, the performance-focused models came about in the form of “multimedia laptops” which were focused towards a wide range of tasks involving creating or consuming multimedia content. These typically had dedicated graphics infrastructure and, in some cases, high-performance sound infrastructure; along with high-performance processors, generous RAM and high-speed hard disks. Now they are in the form of gaming laptops, prosumer / content-creator laptops and mobile workstations.
Performance computer types
These computers don’t just have high-speed CPUs, plenty of high-speed RAM and dedicated graphics infrastructure. Here, the combination of components installed in these computers is focused towards quick response during games, especially action-type games with increased player interaction with the characters of the game.
Initially these computers were aggressively styled in a similar manner to hot-rod cars in order to appeal to the core gaming community. But today most manufacturers are styling the computers in a similar manner to their regular mainstream laptop products. Here this practice is very similar to how most vehicle builders are offering their performance-tuned variants of common passenger cars like the Mini Cooper S or the Holden Monaro.
They can work well for most graphics or multimedia software but the software vendors don’t count on these computers delivering the high-performance that their software would need to work. It is because most of this software is required to engage in processes that are of a hands-off nature like “joining” desired parts of a film clip in to a cohesive sequence.
Prosumer / content-creator computers
These prosumer computers like the Lenovo Creator family have the high-speed silicon infrastructure optimised to quickly handle process-driven work with minimal changes to whatever appears on the screen. In some cases, they would be “certified” by consumer / hobbyist / entry-level business graphics and multimedia software vendors to perform at their best.
Lenovo IdeaPad Creator 5 15″ clamshell prosumer / content-creator laptop
The manufacturers who make these computers are offering them as an affordable gap-filler between their gaming computers and the workstations, especially for those of us who don’t have the budget to hire a specialist IT team.
Here, they are pitched at hobbyists, bloggers and freelance content creators who want to create multimedia content and be sure of optimum performance without having to pay through the nose for a high-specification workstation computer. This is because most of the software pitched at this user class doesn’t have high expectations compared to the software offered to larger businesses.
Workstation computers
The workstation computer is typically focused towards larger businesses where the use of demanding software is part of a person’s daily job. These have very high performance silicon for the main system and the graphics infrastructure that is optimised for these high workloads.
Dell Precision M2800 – a mobile workstation that also bridges performance and portability
These would be certified by the likes of Autodesk to work with highly-demanding software like AutoCAD at their best. They also have enterprise-focused features like manageability or high-security features with such features being pitched towards IT managers optimising them towards their company’s needs.
What does it mean for a high-performance computer to be certified?
For a high-performance computer, especially a workstation, to be “certified” by a software vendor to work with their software, the computer design has to pass tests that the vendor performs regarding its reliability and performance with their software. It brings an express guarantee of compatibility, reliability and performance regarding the computer’s ability to run the software in question and the software vendor is more likely to support users who are using these certified computers.
A computer that isn’t certified to work with the highly-demanding software in question can run the software but the user cannot expect it to run reliably for their day-to-day tasks. Some of these vendors may not even provide full support for the software running on these systems.
Which kind of high-performance computer would suit different users
People who are focusing on high-performance gaming including eSports would be best to stick with gaming computers as their computer of choice. Here, they are not expecting more than quick response from their game’s characters. The other high-performance computer types will also be able to work well with games, which can allow those who use these systems for their work to use them for rest and relaxation with their favourite “regular-computer” game.
Often it is recommended for a student to invest in a high-performance computer if their coursework involves the use of demanding software associated with their target profession like CAD or statistics packages. But there is the factor that a student may not be showing interest in completing the course they initially intend to complete and following on with the career associated with the demanding software.
It may be better for them to use a gaming computer or a content-creator / prosumer computer that can run the software that is part of their coursework. Similarly a prior-generation workstation computer refurbished by computer technicians can also suit their needs. This is more so if the software is an entry-level class of program that doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of something one would use as part of their duties. These software vendors license this software to students at relatively-cheap prices while they are studying their courses.
A photo or video hobbyist or similar content creator could get by with a gaming computer if they are doing their work on an ad-hoc basis. But if they do this kind of work more frequently, they could get by with a prosumer / content-creator machine especially if they use the hobbyist / entry-level business-grade content creation software.
A workstation would be considered of value for those of us who are intending to use the demanding software as a regular part of our primary paid work. If you work for yourself, you may find it ideal to omit the manageability features from these systems or allow these features to work with a computer vendor that provides the full-on support that takes advantage of the features.
External grpahics modules like the Akitio Node can allow a user to use fit-for-purpose graphics cards with their existing Thunderbolt-3-equipped laptop, all-in-one or low-profile computer
If the computer in question has the ability to be upgraded for better performance, you may head towards the more advanced performance levels easily without throwing away your existing system. This is exemplified by traditional desktops equipped with standard-form user-replaceable display cards and user-upgradeable CPUs and RAM chips, or laptops and “all-in-one” computers equipped with Thunderbolt 3 ports so they can work with “card-cage” external graphics modules that accept desktop-grade display cards.
Increasingly computer manufacturers are identifying out and differentiating their lineups of high-performance computer systems pitched for games and advanced computing tasks. Here, you need to be able to choose the right high-performance computer system to suit your task that demands that kind of power.
Intel premieres the CPU/GPU chip at CES 2018
Intel Corporation is introducing the 8th Gen Intel Core processor with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics in January 2018. It is packed with features and performance crafted for gamers, content creators and fans of virtual and mixed reality. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
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8th Generation Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics (Product Overview – PDF)
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Intel have used the Consumer Electronics Show 2018 to premiere a system-on-chip that is to affect how portable and small-form-factor computers will perform.
This chip, part of the 8th generation of Intel CPUs contains an 8th Generation Core i5 or i7 CPU along with an AMD Radeon RX Vega M discrete graphics processor and an Intel HD 630 integrated graphics processor.
It is positioned in the Intel 8th Generation processor lineup which is like this:
U-Series processors that are only equipped with an Intel UHD integrated graphics processor. One of these is installed in the latest iteration of the Dell Inspiron 13 7000 which I reviewed for this site. Here this family of processors is pitched towards what most people will want for their personal and business computing needs.
G-Series processors that are also equipped with the above-mentioned Radeon RX Vega M graphics processors. These are pitched as a performance option which would appeal to most gamers, virtual-reality / augmented-reality enthusiasts and content creators who want a machine with that bit of “pep” when it comes to graphics.
H-Series processors which are pitched towards those who want the highest performance and would rely on a dedicated graphics processor. Here, they would apply to the gaming rigs and workstations where the goal is for full-on performance.
What is special about these Intel processors
These Intel processors place the Core CPU and the AMD GPU on the same die along with a stack of dedicated graphics RAM and they are linked using the EMIB (Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge). This arrangement provides a short link between each component to provide for quick data transfer. There is also a power-optimised design to allow for efficient power use by all the components on the chip.
There are two variants of the graphics subsystem available for the chipset known as the GL and the GH. The GL (Graphics Low) variant is optimised with less than 65 watts power draw and is pitched towards “thin-and-light” laptops and the like. The GH (Graphics High) variant is a higher-performance variant that draws less than 100 watts of power and only comes with the Core i7 CPU. Here, it is pitched towards the small-form-factor desktops, all-in-ones and similar computers that normally work from a constant power supply.
All that horsepower in those dies can allow the computer to paint an image across nine display devices at once. The fact that there is an integrated graphics processor on board can allow these “system-on-chip” setups to engage in “performance / economy” switching to maximise power efficiency.
Where are they being premiered in?
The first two variants are the Core i7-8809G CPU with Radeon RX Vega M GH for performance and the Core i7-8705G CPU with Radeon RX Vega M GL as the value option.
These are being released to go with the the Hades Canyon series of “Next Unit Of Computing” small-form-factor computers. Both of these computers are available as a kit which can support 32Gb (2 x 16Gb) DDR4 RAM and 2 M2-compliant solid-state drives. These have plenty of USB connections including 2 Thunderbolt-3 sockets and can connect to your home network via one of two Gigabit Ethernet sockets or 802.11ac Wi-Fi.
What kind of impact do I see these Intel chips have on computer design?
One class of computer that will definitely benefit will be the portable computers that most of us will consider purchasing. The computing press see a benefit when it comes to “enthusiast-class” laptops where they will benefit from a slimmer chassis along with the ability to run in a quiet and cool manner yet deliver the performance they are known for. It will also lead to longer battery runtimes like nine hours even while engaging in high-performance work.
But I see computer manufacturers deploying these CPU/GPU chipsets as the standard expectation for the mainstream 13”-15” home or business laptops that are their “bread and butter” products. Typically these machines have a larger chassis than the ultraportables and are valued by most users for factors like durability, connectivity and ability to choose different configuration options. Here, the manufacturers can design in larger battery packs or extra peripherals like multiple storage devices or optical drives or even improve how these computers sound by using larger speakers.
Let’s not forget that the computer manufacturers could also offer in their ultraportable lineup a run of computer products that are thin and light yet powerful.
As far as sessile computers are concerned, I would see that ultra-small “next unit of computing” units benefit along with the all-in-ones that have the computing electronics part of the screen. Other traditional desktop computers that could also benefit include those that are the same size and shape as typical consumer-electronics devices.
I would see Intel’s 8th-generation “Coffee Lake” G-series CPU/GPU hybrid chip being something that offers greater potential for how the personal computer is designed without losing the desire for more computing power.
Consumer Electronics Show 2017–Computer Trends
simonmackay 17/01/2017 Computer Systems, Consumer Electronics Show (January - Las Vegas USA), Current and Future Trends, Desktop Computers, Laptop, Notebook and Netbook Computers, Mobile Computing, Trade Shows No Comments
I am writing up a series of articles about the trends that have been put forward at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The first article in this series covers all of the trends affecting personal computers.
1: Computer Trends
2: Accessories And The Home Network
Most manufacturers were exhibiting refreshed versions of their product ranges. This is where the computers were being equipped with up-to-date chipsets and had their RAM, storage and other expectations brought up to date.
Key trends affecting mainstream computers included:
the use of Intel Kaby Lake processors for the computers’ horsepower
solid-state storage capacity in the order of up to 1 Terabyte
RAM capacity in the order of up to 16Gb
at least one USB Type-C socket on mainstream units with Thunderbolt 3 on premium units and / or ultraportables using just USB-C connections with some having 2 or more of these connectors
More of this year’s laptop computers will be equipped with these USB Type-C or Thunderbolt 3 sockets
Wi-Fi connectivity being 802.11ac multi-band with MU-MIMO operation
Another factor worth noticing is the increase in detachable or convertible “2-in-1” computers being offered by most, if not all, of the manufacturers; along with highly-stylish clamshell ultraportable computers. This class of computer is being brought on thanks to Microsoft’s Surface range of computers with some of of the computers in these classes also being about performance. The manufacturers are even offering a range of these “2-in-1” computers targeted towards business users with the security, manageability, durability and productivity features that this use case demands.
More of these convertibles and detachable 2-in-1 computers will appear in manufacturers’ product ranges
Nearly every manufacturer had presented at least one high-performance gaming laptop with the Intel Core i7 processor, at least 16Gb RAM and 128Gb solid-state storage, dedicated graphics chipset. Most of these computers are even equipped with a Thunderbolt 3 connection to allow for use with external graphics docks, considered as a way for core gamers to “soup up” these machines for higher gaming acumen.
Lenovo had refreshed most of their laptop range, especially the ThinkPad business range. Here, this is a product range that makes no distinction between the small-business/SOHO user class where a few of these computers are managed and the large-business/government user class where you are talking of a large fleet of computers handling highly-sensitive data.
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon has been refreshed to newer expectations
The new ThinkPads come in the form of a newer ThinkPad Yoga business convertible, a refreshed ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook and a refreshed ThinkPad X1 Yoga convertible. For example, the ThinkPad Yoga 370 has the 13.3” Full HD screen, the classic ThinkPad TrackPoint button as a navigation option but is driven by Intel Kaby Lake horsepower. This machine can be specified up to 16Gb RAM and 1Tb solid-state storage and has a Thunderbolt 3 connection along with 2 USB 3.0 ports. Lenovo even designed in protection circuitry for the USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 port to protect the ThinkPad against those dodgy non-compliant USB-C cables and chargers. Like the rest of the new ThinkPad bunch, this computer comes with the Windows 10 Signature Edition software image which is about being free of the bloatware that fills most of today’s laptop computers. The computer will set you back US$1264.
Other ThinkPads will also come with either a USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 connection depending on their position in the model range. For example the T470 family and the T570 family will be equipped with the Thunderbolt 3 connections. Let’s not forget how the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Yoga have been refreshed. The Carbon implements horsepower in the Intel Kaby Lake Core i family, a 14” Quad HD display, 16Gb RAM and 1Tb SSD storage, and an expected battery runtime of 15 hours along with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity. The X1 Yoga has been given the similar treatment with similar RAM and secondary-storage capacity but can be outfitted with an LTE-A wireless-broadband modem as an option.
Lenovo Legion Y720 gaming laptop with Dolby Atmos sound
Gamers can relish in the fact that Lenovo has premiered the Legion range of affordable high-performance gaming laptops. The Legion Y720 is the first of its kind to be equipped with Dolby Atmos sound. The Y520 has a Full HD IPS screen driven by NVIDIA GeForce GTX1050Ti dedicated graphics chipset, the choice of an Intel Core i5 or i7 CPU, 16Gb RAM and hard disk storage between 500Gb and 1Tb or solid-state storage between 128Gb and 512Gb, and network connectivity in the form of 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Gigabit Ethernet. Peripheral connectivity is in the form of 1 x USB-C, 2 x USB 3.0 and 1 x USB 2.0 and an audio jack, with this computer asking for at least US$900. The better Y720, along with Dolby Atmos, has a bright IPS screen either as a Full HD or 4K resolution and driven by NVIDIA GeForce GTX1060 graphics chipset with 6Gb display memory. Lenovo was also offering a MIIX 720 creative-arts mobile workstation that eats at the Apple MacBook Pro and Microsoft Surface Pro lineup.
Dell XPS 15 ultraportable in a 15″ size
Dell had refreshed the XPS 13 lineup of Ultrabooks, known for offering the right combination of features, durability, comfort and price. But they also offered a convertible 2-in-1 variant of the XPS 13, again offering that right combination of features, durability, comfort and price. They also released the XPS 15 which is the smallest 15,6” laptop with Intel Kaby Lake processors, NVIDIA GeForce dedicated graphics and a fingerprint reader.
Dell XPS 27 all-in-one computer with best bass response in its class
The XPS and Precision all-in-one desktop computers have had their sound quality improved rather than having it as an afterthought. This has led to audio quality from the XPS 27 and the Precision business equivalent being equivalent to that of a soundbar, thanks to the use of 10 speakers working at 50 watts per channel, including two downward-firing speakers to make the work surface augment the bass. Two passive radiators also augment the system’s bass response. Both have a 4K UHD touchscreen while the Precision certified workstation can work with AMD Radeon graphics and Intel Xeon CPUs.
Like Lenovo, Dell had exhibited their business-grade computers at a trade fair typically associated with goods targeted at the consumer. This could underscore realities like people who use business-tier computers for “work-home” use including those of us who are running a business or practising a profession from our homes. Dell have been on a good wicket here because of themselves selling computers direct to the public and to business users for a long time.
Here, Dell had refreshed their XPS, Inspiron, Optiflex, Latitude and Precision computer lineups with new expectations. They would come with Kaby Lake horsepower under the bonnet, USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 connectivity depending on the unit along with newer dedicated-graphics options from NVIDIA or AMD. The business machines would be equipped with Intel vPro manageability features to work with business-computer management software.
Dell Latitude 5285 business detachable 2-in-1 – the most secure of its class
In the case of business computers, Dell had underscored a desire to integrate the aesthetics of consumer-tier ultraportable computers with the security, manageability and productivity wishes that the business community crave for. For example, the latest Latitude Ultrabooks and 2-in-1s show the looks but come up with the goods as a business “axe” computer. One of the systems in the Latitude lineup is the Latitude 7285 detachable 2-in-1s which implement WiTricity wireless charging and WiGig docking while the Latitude 5285 detachable 2-in-1 sells on a highly-strong security platform with Dell-developed data-protection / endpoint-protection software and the option for a fingerprint reader or smartcard reader.
Samsung had shown some Windows 10 tablets but they also presented the Notebook Odyssey gaming laptop, available as a 15” variant or a 17” higher-performing variant. Both of these implement “dual-storage” with a solid-state drive in the order of 256Gb for the 15” variant or 512Gb for the 17” variant along with a 1Tb traditional hard disk. RAM is in the order of 32Gb or 64Gb for the 17” variant while these are driven by Intel Core i7 CPUs. Graphics is looked after by NVIDIA GTX dedicated GPU with 2Gb or 4Gb display memory but the 17” variant also has a Thunderbolt 3 connection for external graphics units.
There is also the Notebook 9 which implements a 15” HD display driven by NVIDIA 940MX graphics processor and Core i7 processor. Of note, the Notebook 9 implements a Windows Hello fingerprint reader along with a USB-C port which is its power socket thanks to USB Power Delivery.
HP was not silent but had fielded the Spectre x360 15” convertible Ultrabook, one of the few 15” portable computers that can be a tablet or laptop. It is driven by Intel Core i7 Kaby Lake horsepower and has the quota of 16Gb RAM and either a 256Gb or 512Gb solid-state storage. The 15” 4K IPS screen is driven by an NVIDIA GeForce 940MX graphics processor with 2Gb display memory, but the sound-reproduction has been tuned by Bang & Olufsen while there is an HP-designed noise-cancelling microphone array. The Webcam is an HP infra-red type which is Windows Hello compatible for facial recognition login. Connectivity is in the form of an HDMI socket, 1 USB-C socket, 1 Thunderbolt 3 socket, 1 traditional USB Type-A socket and an SD-card drive. Expect this convertible’s battery to run for 12 hours and be ready to go after 90 minutes of quick charging. The expected price is US$1299 for the 256Gb variant and US$1499 for the 512Gb variant.
Another interesting trend highlighted at CES 2017 has been an increase in the number of “Next Unit Of Computing” midget computers. This is thanks to use cases like augmented-reality / virtual-reality gaming and an emphasis on aesthetics for desktop-based computing and has been brought about by the likes of the Intel Skull Canyon NUC. One of these was a range offered by Elitegroup with computers powered by Intel Braswell, Apollo Lake and Kaby Lake processors.
The latest Zotac Mini PC that is the hub of a “hi-fi” approach to computing
But Zotac approached the NUC trend in a manner not dissimilar to the “micro component” hi-fi systems, especially some of the premium offerings that emerged from Japan through the early 80s. These premium “micro-component” systems offered for their amplification needs a control amplifier and a power amplifier so as to provide more power output, along with their source components being a tuner and a cassette deck. In the case of Zotac, they offered the C-Series NUC midget computer which could be powered through its USB-C port thanks to USB Power Delivery. It came with the Intel Kaby Lake processors, NVIDIA GeForce dedicated graphics, a Thunderbolt 3 connector along with a few other features. The C-Series even has corporate manageability and security abilities such as Intel vPro and AMT system management along with the UNITE secure conferencing feature.
But Zotac offered an external “card-cage” graphics dock with a PCI Express x 16 expansion slot for graphics cards, 3 standard USB 3.0 ports and one USB 3.0 port supporting QuickCharge, but being able to supply power to the host computer via the Thunderbolt 3 port using USB Power Delivery. The graphics module’s power supply has a power budget of 400 watts and the module is known to be compatible with NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards. They even offered their own NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mini graphics card as a partner card for this dock.
The goal here was to supply a two-piece high-performance computer setup with a system unit and a module that can serve as its graphics subsystem and power supply. But users still had the ability to install better equipment when they felt like it. Or the graphics module could be purposed to provide extra graphics horsepower to portable, “all-in-one” and other small computers that are Thunderbolt-3-equipped as well as supplying necessary power through this port to host computers that honour USB Power Delivery.
Even though Samsung had suffered a deep blow with the exploding Galaxy Note 7 phablets, the mobile-computing platform has not died yet. It is although we may be hanging on to our smartphones for longer than the typical two-year contract period in order to save money.
At the moment, the phones that are being given an airing are the mid-tier Android smartphones like the Huawei Honor 6X with a dual camera and the ASUS Zenfone 3 Zoom which is one of the first to have an optical zoom on the rear camera’s lens.
Samsung launched their Galaxy A3 and A5 Android smartphones which are still positioned in the mid-tier segment. This is while Sony came to the fore with the XPeria X2 premium smartphone which has a 5.5” 4K display and 5Gb RAM, just above the baseline expectations for RAM capacity in a desktop computer.
LG had launched a range of low-tier Android smartphones that are equipped with user-replaceable batteries. The K3 is a compact unit with a 4.5” display while the K4 comes with the standard 5” display. There is the K8 5” selfie smartphone which has a highly-optimised front camera for taking those selfies to appear on Instagram or Facebook. Then LG brought the 13 megapixel camera featured in the G series lineup to the K10 5.3” smartphone. They also offered a Stylus 3 phablet with an integrated fingerprint scanner.
The next in the series will cover high-resolution monitors, computer accessories and the home network including the distributed-WiFi trend.
Investing in an external graphics module for your laptop
simonmackay 26/12/2016 Current and Future Trends, Desktop Computers, Graphics subsystems, Hardware setup, Laptop, Notebook and Netbook Computers No Comments
Razer Blade gaming Ultrabook connected to Razer Core external graphics module
Just lately, as more premium and performance-grade laptops are being equipped with a Thunderbolt 3 connection, the external graphics modules, also known as graphics docks or graphics docking stations, are starting to trickle out on to the market as a performance-boosting accessory for these computers.
The Thunderbolt 3 connection, which uses the USB Type-C plug and socket, is able to provide a throughput similar to a PCI-Express card bus and has put forward a method of improving a laptop’s, all-in-one’s or small-form-factor computer’s graphics ability. This is being facilitated using the external graphics modules or docks that house graphics processors in the external boxes and link these to the host computer using the above connection. What it will mean is that these computers can benefit from desktop-grade or performance-grade graphics without the need to heavily modify them and, in the case of portable computers, can allow for “performance” graphics to be enjoyed at home or in the office while you have battery-conserving baseline graphics on the road,
Acer Aspire Switch 12S convertible 2-in-1 – can benefit from better graphics thanks to Thunderbolt 3 and an external graphics module
The devices come in two classes:
Integrated graphics chipset (Acer Graphics Dock) – devices of this class have a hardwired graphics chipset similar to what is implemented in an all-in-one or small-form-factor computer.
Card cage (Razer Core, Akitio Node) – These devices are simply a housing where you can install a PCI-Express desktop graphics card of your choice. They have a power supply and interface circuitry to present the desktop graphics card to the host computer via a Thunderbolt 3 connection.
What will they offer?
Akitio Node Thunderbolt 3 “card cage” external graphics module
All these devices will have their own video outputs but will yield what the high-performance graphics chipset provides through the host computer’s integral screen, the video outputs integrated with the host computer as well as their own video outputs. This is in contrast to what used to happen with desktop computers where the video outputs associated with the integrated graphics chipset became useless when you installed a graphics card in these computers.
I have read a few early reviews for the first generation of graphics modules and Thunderbolt-3 laptops. One of these was Acer’s integrated graphics module kitted out with a NVIDIA GTX960M GPU, known to be a modest desktop performer but its mobile equivalent is considered top-shelf for laptop applications. This was ran alongside an Acer TravelMate P658 and an Acer Aspire Switch 12S, with it providing as best as the graphics would allow but highlighting where the weakness was, which was the mobile-optimised Intel Core M processors in the Switch 12S convertible.
Simplified plug-in expansion for all computers
The Intel Skull Canyon NUC can easily be “hotted up” with better graphics when coupled with an external graphics module
Another example was a manufacturer’s blog post about using their “card-cage” graphics dock with one of the Intel Skull Canyon “Next Unit Of Computing” midget computers which was equipped with the Thunderbolt 3 connection. This showed how the computer increased in graphics performance once teamed with the different graphics cards installed in that “card-cage” module.
It opened up the idea of using an “AV system” approach for enhancing small-form-factor and integrated computers. This is where you connect extra modules to these computers to increase their performance just like you would connect a better CD player or turntable or substitute an existing amplifier for something more powerful or plug in some better speakers if you wanted to improve your hi-fi system’s sound quality.
This usage case would earn its keep with an “all-in-one” computer which has the integrated monitor, the aforementioned “Next Unit Of Computing” midget computers or simply a low-profile desktop computer that wouldn’t accommodate high-performance graphics cards.
Software and performance issues can be a real stumbling block
What I had come across from the material I had read was that as long as the host computer had the latest version of the operating system, the latest BIOS and other firmware to support graphics via Thunderbolt 3, and the latest drivers to support this functionality then it can perform at its best. As well, the weakest link can affect the overall performance of the system, which can apply to various mobile system-on-chip chipsets tuned primarily to run cool and allow for a slim lightweight computer that can run on its own batteries for a long time.
At the moment, this product class is still not mature and there will be issues with compatibility and performance with the various computers and external graphics modules.
As well, not all graphics cards will work with every “card-cage” graphics module. This can be due to high-end desktop graphics cards drawing more current than the graphics module can supply, something that can be of concern with lower-end modules that have weaker power supplies, or software issues associated with cards that aren’t from the popular NVIDIA or AMD games-focused lineups. You may have to check with the graphics module’s vendor or the graphics card’s vendor for newer software or firmware to be assured of this compatibility.
Multiple GPUs – a possible reality
A situation that may have to be investigated as more of these products arrive is the concurrent use of multiple graphics processors in the same computer system no matter the interface or vendor. The ability to daisy-chain 6 Thunderbolt-3 devices on the same Thunderbolt-3 connection, along with premium desktop motherboards sporting this kind of connection along with their PCI-Express expansion slots, will make the concept become attractive and easy to implement. Similarly, some vendors could start offering Thunderbolt-3 expansion cards that plug in to existing motherboards’ PCI-Express expansion slots to give existing desktop PCs this functionality.
Here, the goal would be to allow multiple GPUs from different vendors to work together to increase graphics performance for high-end games or multimedia-production tasks like video transcoding or rendering of video or animation projects. Or it could be about improving the performance and efficiency of a multiple-display setup by allocating particular graphics processors to particular displays, something that would benefit larger setups with many screens and, in some cases, different resolutions.
Highly-portable gaming setups being highlighted as a use case
A usage class that was always put forward for these external graphics modules was the teenage games enthusiast who is studying at senior secondary school and is ready to study at university. Here, the usage case underscored the situation where they could be living in student accommodation like a college dorm / residence hall or be living in a share-house with other students.
The application focuses on the use of a laptop computer that can be taken around the campus but be connected to one of these modules when the student is at their home. I would add to this the ability to carry the graphics module between their room and the main lounge area in their home so that they could play their games on the bigger TV screen in that area. This is due to the device being relatively compact and lightweight compared to most desktop computers.
That same application can cover people who are living in accommodation associated with their job and this is likely to change frequently as they answer different work placements. An example of this would be people whose work is frequently away from home for significant amounts of time like those who work on ships, oil rigs or mines. Here, some of these workers may be using their laptop that they use as part of their work during their shift where applicable such as on a ship’s bridge, but use it as a personal entertainment machine in their cabin or the mess room while they are off-shift.
What could be seen more of these devices
Once the external graphics modules mature as a device class, they could end up moving towards two or three classes of device.
One of these would be the integrated modules with graphics chipsets considered modest for desktop use but premium for laptop use. The expansion abilities that these may offer could be in the form of a few extra USB connections, an SD card reader and / or a higher-grade sound module. Perhaps, they may come with an optical drive of some sort. Some manufacturers may offer integrated modules with higher-performance graphics chipsets along with more connections for those of us who want to pay a premium for extra performance and connectivity. These would be pitched towards people who want that bit more “pep” out of their highly-portable or compact computer that has integrated graphics.
Similarly, it could be feasible to offer larger-screen monitors which have discrete graphics chipsets integrated in them. They could also have the extra USB connections and / or secondary storage options, courting those users who are thinking of a primary workspace for their portable computer while desiring higher-performance graphics.
The card-cage variants could open up a class of device that has room for one or two graphics cards and, perhaps, sound cards or functionality-expansion cards. In some cases, this class of device could also offer connectivity and installation options for user-installable storage devices, along with extra sockets for other peripherals. This class of device could, again, appeal to those of us who want more out of the highly-compact computer they started with or that high-performance laptop rather than using a traditional desktop computer for high-performance computing.
Portable or highly-compact computers as a package
Manufacturers could offer laptops, all-in-one and other highly-compact or highly-portable computers that are part of matched-equipment packages where they offer one or more external graphics modules as a deal-maker option or as part of the package. These could differ by graphics chipset and by functionality such as external-equipment connectivity or integrated fixed or removable storage options.
This is in a similar vein to what has happened in the hi-fi trade since the 1970s where manufacturers were offering matched-equipment packages from their lineup of hi-fi components. Here they were able to allow, for example, multiple packages to have the same tape deck, turntable or CD player while each of the package was differentiated with increasingly-powerful amplifiers or receivers driving speakers that had differing levels of audio performance and cabinet size. It still was feasible to offer better and more capable source components with the more expensive packages or allow such devices to be offered as a way to make the perfect deal.
Expect that as more computers equipped with the Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C connection come on the market the external graphics module will become a simplified method of improving these computers’ graphic performance. It will be seen as a way for allowing highly-compact or highly-portable computers to benefit from high-performance graphics at some point in their life, something that this class of computer wouldn’t be able to normally do.
Infocus ups the capacity for its Kangaroo mini-PC
simonmackay 04/02/2016 Computer Hardware Design, Desktop Computers No Comments
The $170 Kangaroo Plus pocketable PC doubles the RAM and storage | Windows Central
Previous Coverage on HomeNetworking01.info
InFocus Presents A PC As Big As A Smartphone
InFocus, known for their range of value-priced projectors, had previously released the Kangaroo mini-PC which is about the size of a smartphone. But like most of the “Next Unit Of Computing” devices which represent the ultra-small “fixed-location” computers, this model used an Intel Atom CPU, 2Gb RAM and up to 32Gb solid-state storage. This made people think of them as being “toys” rather than tools.
But InFocus raised the game for this series of computers by offering the Kangaroo Plus “deluxe” version of their small-form-factor computer. Here, this is equipped with 64Gb of data storage capacity and 4Gb RAM which is considered iy most computer users to be a realistic amount of baseline memory. It was offered in response to customers expressing a need for real capacities on both the “primary-storage” RAM and the non-volatile secondary storage.
There is still the ability to use an Apple iPad as the display and input surface for the InFocus Kangaroo through the use of a special cable and an iOS app. It also works with the Kangaroo Dock expansion module so you can safely upgrade your existing Kangaroo pocket computer to the bigger-capacity model without dumping that accessory.
Could this be a sign of hope for small-form-factor desktop computers to have specifications that can allow for most elementary desktop uses? Would this also be a sign that these computers could end up being specified as part of a standard operating environment?
Consumer Electronics Show 2016–Part 1 Desktop and Mobile Computing
simonmackay 15/01/2016 Computer Hardware Design, Computer Systems, Consumer Electronics Show (January - Las Vegas USA), Desktop Computers, Laptop, Notebook and Netbook Computers, Mobile Computing, Smartphones, Tablet Computers No Comments
This article is part of a series about the trends that have been shown at the Consumer Electronics Show 2016 in Las Vegas in the USA.
Part 1 – Desktop and Mobile Computing
Part 2 — Accessories, Peripherals and the Home Network
Desktop and Mobile Computing
This encompasses personal computing systems ranging from desktop and laptop computers that run “regular” or “traditional” computer operating systems like Microsoft Windows or Google ChromeOS to smartphones and tablets that run a mobile operating system typically Android. Apple hasn’t been showing their equipment at CES because of the way they see themselves as their own unit.
The key trends
Windows 10 – influences how this year’s computers are being designed
Microsoft Windows 10 and the Intel Skylake processor / chipset family have become established as far as personal computing system is concerned. This has led to most of the manufacturers refreshing their desktop and laptop product lines to take advantage of the new microarchitecture and operating system with what it offers. It doesn’t matter whether you use these computers for work or play; or at home, the office or on the road.
Expect the USB Type-C connector to be common on this year’s computers
Feature that are being made available include the USB 3.1 Type-C connector which offers data transfer and laptop power on one cable, Thunderbolt 3 which uses the USB Type-C cable as an effective way to provide PCI-Express data throughput along with mobile-optimised design based around reduced heat output and reduced power demands.
This has led to a situation where most of the manufacturers have engaged in a race to see who is the first with the lightest 15” laptop and the most svelte 13” 2-in-1 convertible or detachable computer. The latter goal has been brought on because of Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book 2-in-1s as something to emulate or beat where these systems are being offered as a credible alternative to the Apple MacBook lineup. This has been brought about because of the Intel Skylake processor family offering more options for mobile-focused processors that can lead to fanless cooling and improved battery runtime. The latter benefit benefits designers due to the ability to supply a smaller battery yet yield the same runtime.
The display is being seen as a tool to differentiate the premium-grade laptops. This is based on an increasing number of laptops and 2-in-1s having a 4K ultra-high-resolution display along with some manufacturers offering OLED displays as an option in their premium models. From my personal experience with my Samsung Galaxy Note phones and their AMOLED displays, I have noticed that photos and videos do come across more vividly due to the improved contrast that these displays offer. This could mean that the OLED-equipped laptops could woo photographers and video editors away from the Apple MacBook Pro as their tool of choice.
This year has also seen a larger number of business-grade laptops and tablets being exhibited by the manufacturers. Why show business-focused computers at a consumer-focused show? Firstly, there is the concept of “bring-your-own-device” appearing in a large number of workplaces where workers could choose their own devices, perhaps with the employer subsidising the cost of the equipment. Then there is the concept of the Internet-based “cottage industry” where your place of business is your home, perhaps with extra rented premises as a shopfront or storage where applicable.
All the computer names are offering gaming-optimised desktop and laptop computers with two significant trends showing up this year. One of these is to have gaming computers rated to work with the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset at best performance. Another is to have highly-compact gaming desktop computers in a manufacturer’s lineup rather than the traditional “gaming-rig” tower computers.
Some of what the brands offer
Acer Aspire Switch 12S convertible 2-in-1
Acer has premiered the Aspire Switch 12S detachable which uses Intel Thunderbolt 3.1 via USB Type-C connectivity. As well, there is a 4K ultra-high-resolution screen in the lineup but these computers normally have a 12.5” Full HD (1080p) screen. These detachables use a magnetic docking mechanism which shouldn’t be about messing around with a latch; while they maintain 2 USB 3.0 connections, microHDMI external display connection and a microSD card slot.
Acer Travelmate P648 Business Notebook computer
Acer’s TravelMate business notebooks have been brought up to date. One of these is the TravelMate P649 14-incher which come with WiGig short-throw Wi-Fi support, a USB Type-C port, NVIDIA GTX940M discrete graphics, start with 4Gb RAM but can be set up with 20Gb RAM, storage up to 512Gb SSD or 1Tb hard disk, MU-MIMO 802.11ac Wi-Fi for the latest routers, amongst other things. It seems like this computer could be called as an “all-rounder” work-home computer. They even offered the ProDock expansion module as a recommended “desktop-computing” accessory for this laptop, because this can provide 2 USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet wired network adaptor, and the ability to connect display devices via DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI or VGA.
The gaming scene didn’t miss out, thanks to Acer refreshing their Aspire Nitro range of gaming computers uprated to current expectations including Skylake technology. The Black Edition even sports an Intel Realsense camera for 3D scanning and Windows Hello facial recognition.
Acer Iconia Tab 8 family Android tablet with Kids’ Center
There is the Acer Liquid Jade Primo smartphone which is Acer’s entry in to the Windows 10 Mobile foray. This has the USB Type-C connectivity along with 3Gb RAM and 32Gb storage. But Acer hasn’t forgotten about Android with their Iconia One 8” family tablet that runs Android Lollipop 5.1, 9 hours battery runtime and has 16Gb storage and 1Gb RAM. Acer also added to this tablet the “Kids Center” software which is effectively an app corral for kids.
Acer has fielded a few Chrome OS computers to the foray with the Chromebook 11 which has 9 hours battery runtime, a Celeron processor and starts with 2Gb RAM but can go 4Gb RAM; and a Chromebase 24 all-in-one desktop which uses an Intel Core-family CPU and uses 8Gb RAM.
ASUS didn’t show up much in the way of laptop computers but presented their Zenfone Zoom which is a camera smartphone that uses a 10-element Hoya 3x optical-zoom lens. This phone is not as bulky as other camera-smartphone hybrid designs.
Dell revamped their Latitude range of business portable computers by offering the Latitude 11 500 series of business-focused tablets , the Latitude 13 7000 series of Ultrabooks and the Latitude 12 7000 series of detachable 2-in-1 tablets.
The Latitude 12 7000 series 12” tablets are effectively Dell’s answer to Microsoft’s Surface detachable tablet range, with an option to have the display resolution as 4K resolution as an option or Full HD (1080p) as standard; Intel Core M3, Core M5 0r Core M7 processors; 2 USB 3.1 Type-C ports with a USB Type-A adaptor supplied, 802.11ac Wi-Fi connectivity and an Intel RealSense camera. These 2-in-1s will offer 8Gb RAM and 512Gb storage. There is also the Latitude 11 5000 which is a closely-specced 11” variant of the Latitude 12 7000 2-in-1. The Latitude 13 7000 13” Ultrabooks will have the InfinityEdge “narrow-bezel” look, Thunderbolt 3 over USB Type-C and a fingerprint reader and NFC / RFID reader. Other members of the Latitude 5000 and 7000 business portable-computer lineup have been revamped to newer expectations with Intel Skylake technology, all USB connections being USB 3.0 or better, Thunderbolt 3.0 and 2560×1600 screen resolution at least. One of the systems even has support for WiGig short-throw high-bandwidth Wi-Fi wireless connectivity.
The Dell Inspiron 11 3000 is Dell’s entry to the bargain-basement laptop market with at least US$199 buying you a Windows laptop that has Celeron or Pentium processors, 2Gb or 4Gb RAM, 32Gb SSD storage and the 1366×768 display resolution.
For the gamers out there, Dell’s Alienware gaming brand has fronted up with some Oculus-ready gaming computers. They even put up the prospect of offering a gaming laptop with an OLED screen to improve those games graphics.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) have premiered their Phoenix x360 convertible notebook which has a variant equipped with a 15.6” display. This series implements the Intel Iris graphics engine and a 4K screen with OLED offered as an option. At the moment, HP are claiming this Skylake-equipped computer to he the thinnest lightest 15” convertible notebook on the market. These computers are equipped with a USB Type-C connector and have their sound subsystem tuned by Bang & Olufsen which is part of a trend affecting HP laptops.
They have also released a larger version of the Pavilion x2 detachable tablet, which is another attempt to answer Microsoft’s Surface tablet range. It will come with low specs like a Core M or Atom CPU depending on the price range. The keyboard has a magnetic attachment mechanism rather than the usual mechanical latch used with most detachable tablets and the screen will come in at 12.1”.
The HP Elitebook Folio – as part of one’s office, whether that’s the main one or the café.
For business users, HP has released the Elitebook Folio whcih can lay flat for collabberation in the main or secondary office. This very thin Ultrabook has 2 USB Type-C connectors, a sound system that works well for voice communications, dedicated call-control keys, a piano hinge and, like a lot of this year’s computers, will have a 4K touchscreen option. As well, it is built on an aluminium chassis rather than a plastic chassis. You could achieve a good long workday and a few coffees from your favourite barista at your “second-office” café before the battery goes flat even if you go for the 4K touchscreen display variant or have the display at maximum brightness.
Other business computer options premiered by HP at this year’s CES include the Elitebook 1040 G3 14” notebook based on an aluminium chassis and using Core processors, Full HD or QHD displays. This is along with HP launching the Elitebook 800 family of business notebooks, available as 12.5”, 14” or 15” variants. HP have also added in a privacy filter feature to their latest Elitebook lineup as a deal-making option to prevent others like baristas or neighbouring aeroplane passengers from snooping on your work that is on the screen.
HP have not forgotten about the gamers and have premiered the Envy Phoenix performance gaming desktop which is pitched at today’s virtual-reality gamers.
Lenovo have come up with a large lineup of very interesting computer equipment.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet with additional options
Firstly, they have released the ThinkPad X1 as a family of portable computing devices rather than one notebook computer. The first of these is the ThinkPad X1 Tablet which is a highly-modular 12” detachable tablet set to answer Microsoft’s Surface. It has USB Type-C charging. Core M horsepower, up to 16Gb RAM and a 2K IPS screen. But its piece de resistance is the fact that there are clip-on modues that extend its functionality further. One of these is the Productivity Module which is a 15-hour external battery while another of these is the Presenter Module with a pico projector and HDMI video connectivity and the last of these is the 3D Imaging Module with an integrated Inntel Realsense 3D camera.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga convertible notebook
The X1 Yoga is a 14” convertible notebook that carries through the Lenovo Yoga 360-degree hinged convertible design weighs in about 2.8lb and has a pen integrated in the tablet. This has a 2560×1440 OLED display as the top-shelf option or an LCD with similar resolution or a Full HD LCD at cheaper prices. It has that standard HDMI connector for external displays, uses Core M horsepower, is equipped with an Ethernet socket for Ethernet or HomePlug AV2 networks, and can have up to 16Gb RAM and 1Th SSD storage.
The Skylake-driven iteration of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon notebook
The X1 Carbon is a follow-on from the legendary business notebook which I reviewed that has a carbon-fibre housing. It comes with similar specifications to the X1 Yoga and has military-specification construction and there is the option to have it run with Intel i7 processors while you have the same “elasticity” that you have with RAM and storage types and capacities as the X1 Yoga.
Lenovo ThinkCentre X1 all-in-one business desktop
It is followed on with the ThinkCentre X1 all-in-one desktop computer that is as slim as one of today’s typical computer monitors. This has a 23.8” Full HD screen; Intel i7 Skylake processor; 16Gb RAM and an option of 500Gb or 1Tb hard disk, 512Gb solid-state drive or a 512Gb self-encrypting drive or OPAL self-encrypting drive for storage; 1080p Webcam; DisplayPort input and output; SD card reader and 5 USB 3.0 sockets. It connects to home or business networks via Ethernet.
There are some more of the ThinkCentre and ThinkPad product families being offered for business users. One of these is the ThinkCentre Tiny which is Lenovo’s latest small-footprint computer but this is designed to be able to be attached to one of their monitors as part of a “ThinkCentre-In-One” all-in-one computer design.
Lenovo ThinkPad T560 business notebook
The ThinkPad T Series manifests this year in the form of the T460 and T560 laptops, which continue the heritage that this series embodied. The T460s is a lightweight durable Ultrabook with a 14” screen while the T460p is equipped with improved graphics in the form of discrete graphics and WQHD screen. The ThinkPad X260 is a 12” Ultrabook that has an option of an add-on battery pack that gives this machine a runtime of 21 hours – enough for a long-haul flight to the other side of the world. The ThinkPad L460 and L560 are focused on military-specification durability.
Lenovo ThinkPad 13 durable budget notebook – can be supplied with Chrome OS or Windows 10
But the ThinkPad 13 budget notebook is the shining star when it comes to a purely secondary computer although it is pitched at the education market. It is available as a version which runs on Windows 10 or as a version that runs on Google Chrome OS. This unit implements military-specification durability, Intel Core i5 horsepower and up to 16Gb RAM and 512Gb storage. The Windows 10 variant has the IBM/Lenovo thumbstick on the keyboard, an HDMI external-video port, 3 USB connectors as well as a USB Type-C connector. This is while the Chrome OS variant has 1 USB connector along with 2 USB Type-C connectors. Personally, I would see this as a budget small-enough “portable typewriter” computer that is comfortable for answering emails, writing blog posts or completing that magnum opus while away from home or office – think of your favourite café or bar.
Lenovo Yoga 900 – now available as a Business Edition computer
Let’s not forget that Lenovo also offered the Business Editions of both the Yoga 900 and MIIX 700. These add on features that allow for improved security and allow for management by a business’s own IT department or IT contractor. This will also mean that they may be available at value-added IT resellers that pitch to the business community.
Improved watchband hinge in the Lenovo Yoga 900S Series
Speaking of the Yoga 900 Series, there is the Yoga 900S which is a deluxe edition of the Yoga 900 with an improved watchband hinge and is available in that “Champagne Gold” finish reminiscent of early-1980s Marantz hi-fi equipment or a platinum-silver finish. Lenovo says that the Yoga 900S is the thinnest 360-degree convertible laptop on the market.
Lenovo IdeaCentre 510 all-in-one – aimed squarely at the Apple iMac
Lenovo is taking aim at the iMac by offering the IdeaCentre 510s 23” touchscreen all-in-one with narrow bezel which is equipped with a drop-down module that houses some USB ports and a Webcam. This comes in wiht Intel Skylake Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GT930a discrete graphics and has up to 1 Tb hard disk and a 256Gb solid-state drive for storage.
Lenovo Y Series Razer Edition gaming desktop
Lenovo are trying their best to conquer the US gaming market by offering a run of gaming-focused computer equipment. This is in conjunction with them developing and publishing a game that would appeal to the core-level games. The Ideapad Y900 17” gaming laptop, which I reckon is a desknote, has the Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GTX980M discrete graphics, and up to 64Gb of DDR4 RAM. The IdeaCentre Y900 Razer Edition, which comes with a Razer mouse and keyboard, has the multi-colour lighting effects and Robocop look that will appeal at that frag-fest. It comes in with an Intel Core i7 CPU, 32Gb RAM, NVIDIA GTX750Ti discrete graphics and up to 2Tb hard disk and 256Gb solid-state drive capacity.
The IdeaCentre 610s small-form-factor desktop looks like a home appliance or wireless speaker and has a micro projector that docks on to it. This again comes with an Intel Core i7 Skylake CPU, NVIDIA GTX750Ti discrete graphics and up to 16Gb RAM.
Let’s not forget that Lenovo are showing the Vibe S1 Lite metal-body smartphone to the American market. This implemtns a 1080p Full HD screen and a selfie flash.
Samsung are not just offering Android smartphones and tablets but are introducing Windows 10 tablets to the US market. For that matter, they are applying the Galaxy Tab Pro model name also to tablets that run Windows 10 and have offered the Galaxy Tab Pro S which is a Windows 10 2-in-1 tablet that looks like the Microsoft Surface Pro, implements a Super AMOLED display, Intel Core M processor, and can fast-charge its battery in 2.5 hours to lead to a 10.5 hours runtime.
They have also shown the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge Android smartphones which will be equipped with a microSD card slot.
As for laptops, they are offering the Notebook 9 in 13” and 15” variants with a choise of Intel Skylake Core i5 or i7 processors, Full HD displays, 2 USB Type-C connections, and have them in metallic housings. Their Chromebook is the Chromebook 3 which will be equipped wiht an 11.6” 1366×768 display, a dual-core Intel Celeron processor, a choice of 2Gb or 4Gb RAM, and 16Gb storage.
LG Gram 15 laptop – how lightweight it is
Their South Korean rival, LG, are offering some computing equipment of their own. They have launched a pair of budget smartphones in the form of the K10 and K7 smartphones. As well, they launched the ultra-light Gram 15 laptop which they say is the lightest 15” laptop. It has the Full HD IPS display, a choice of an Intel Core i5 or i7 Haswell CPU, a USB Type-C connector and a Cirrus Logic audio DAC for its sound. They also launched the 15U560 15” mainstream home laptop which has a 15” 4K display driven by NVIDIA 940M discrete graphics, 8Gb RAM, and powered by Intel Skylake Core i3, i5 or i7 processors. Storage is up to 512Gb SSD or 1Tb hard disk and this laptop comes in a white finish.
Huawei have introduced fingerprint sensors across its phone and tablet range for this year. Examples of these include the Mate 6P 6” phablet and the Mate 8 6” phablet which is highly tuned for performance. There is also the MediaPad 10” 1920×1200 Android tablet which runs Android 5.1 Lollipop. This iPad alternative comes with 2Gb or 3Gb RAM and 16Gb or 48Gb storage.
Yezz Sfera have shown up with a smartphone that implements a 360-degree camera but could this catch on? Another newcomer called E.Fun fronted up to Las Vegas with a pair of budiget-priced laptop computers – a 14” notebook with a 1366×768 display, 32Gb onboard storage and a microSD slot, along wiht an 11” convertible notebook with similar specs except for 64Gb onboard storage.
Alcatel have fielded a small tablet in the form of the One Touch Pixi 3 which can work wiht 4G LTE mobile broadband. This 8” tablet works using Windows 10 Mobile, similar to what the Windows smartphones work on and it will support Contunuum for Mobile when it is used with a keyboard and mouse.
This is while Archos have presented a US$50 entry-level smartphone in the form of the Archos 40 Power 4” Android unit. This will have an 800×480 screen, 512Mb RAM, 8Gb storage, a microSD card slot and runs Android 5.1 Lollipop. Archos expects that this phone will run for 2 days before the battery dies but this depends on how many apps are running at once.
Nextbook have also fielded a range of entry-level detachable-tablet 2-in-1s driven by Atom x5 horsepower and equipped with 2Gb RAM and an HD touchscreen. Other features that are common include a microSD card slot, 802.11g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, the mobile-phone-standard microUSB port and a microHDMI port. The 9” 9A and 10” 10A units come with 32Gb storage while the 11” 11A comes with 64Gb storage.
Maingear have fronted up with a gaming computer that is based on an all-in-one design. As well Gigabyte have refreshed their Aorus X5 gaming notebook lineup with Skylake internals, Fusion keyboard, 4K display option, USB-C connectivity.
Razer have proven the concept of using Intel Thunderbolt 3 over a USB Type-C connection to work with user-attachable outboard graphics modules. This is by demonstrating their Razer Blade gaming laptop being hooked up to and working with a card-cage that houses a performance graphics card.
Intel have come up with their own consumer hardware in the form of a smartphone under their own brand and equipped wiht a RealSense camera. They also revamped their line up of Compute Sticks that plug in to a display’s HDMI port by releasing an entry level variant with an Atom x5 CPU, 2Gb RAM and 32Gb storage; along with better models that implement Core M3 or M5 CPUs and have 4Gb RAM and 64Gb storage. These units use a power adaptor which is actually a USB hub, thus making sure you are not forfeiting a USB port for power.
MSI are flexing their muscles amongst the gaming community by offering the Gaming 27XT all-in-one gaming computer which has an outboard card cage for a desktop-grade graphics card. This lets gamers and video enthusiasts upgrade the display card at any time without the need to take the computer apart. The computer cam put up 330W of power to the display card.
They also released the GT72 Dominator gaming laptop with a Tobii EyeX eye-tracking sensor which allows game players to control the action wiht their eyes. There is also the Vortex Compact Gaming PC which is a cylindrical modular small-form-factor gaming PC with dual NVIDIA GTX 980 SLI display cards and implements 360-degree Silent Storm airflow cooling. This is demonstrative of a trend towards highly-compact but powerful gaming computers rather than the large towers thar have always represented the gaming rigs.
What is being highlighted in this year’s Consumer Electronics Show 2016 in Las Vegas is that everyone is offering personal-computing devices that are pitched at every user class and wallet. This is underscored with the goal to benefit from what the new chipsets offer thus leading to slimmer and lighter-weight laptop and 2-in-1 computers along wiht higher-resolution displays.
Kangaroo is a portable, phone-sized Windows 10 desktop | Engadget
InFocus, associated with value-priced projectors, has stepped out further with a US$99 Windows 10 desktop computer that is as big as one of today’s smartphones or a small USB hard disk. The idea is picking up from the “Intel Compute Stick” idea with computers as big as a Chromecast and plug directly in to a display’s HDMI port.
The Kangaroo has the same computing power as an entry-level netbook therefor can do some basic computer tasks. This would be in the form of an Intel Atom x5 processor, 2Gb RAM and 32Gb flash storage. There is also a microSD card slot for storage expansion along with a fingerprint reader for improved data security courtesy of Windows 10 Hello.
But the Kangaroo comes with a clip-on expansion module that has an HDMI display connection along with 2 USB ports with one being a USB 2.0 port and one being a USB 3.0 port. It has 802.11ac Wi-FI and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity and can run on its own battery for 4 hours.
A feature that was of interest was for a user to connect the Kangaroo to an Apple iPad and use the iPad as the mobile desktop’s user interface. This is facilitated with the iPad and Kangaroo hooked up using the standard Lightning-USB charge / data cable and both devices running OSLinx remote-access software. But I would like to see the OSLinx software also made available for “via-USB” connection to tablets based on other platforms.
It is one of these highly-pocketable computers that may be talked of as a “general purpose” desktop that may be rolled out as an alternative to a low-end Windows notebook or Chromebook. Because it runs on Windows, it could appeal to schools and businesses who want it as part of a standard operating environment for essential computing tasks. This would also include point-of-sale terminals and the like where a small footprint is highly desired.
Other users may also see it as part of one or more special-purpose computing projects like automotive or marine computing applications or simply this computer could serve as a personal sidekick to a tablet like an iPad.
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‘Wishful thinking’ to believe Hong Kong gov’t will yield to protesters’ demands, leader Carrie Lam says
by Holmes Chan & Tom Grundy 12:40, 12 November 2019 23:36, 31 March 2020
Chief Executive Carrie Lam said it is “wishful thinking” to believe the government will yield to protesters’ demands amid escalating violence, calling demonstrators the “enemy of the people.”
Meeting the press on Monday night, the embattled leader appealed for calm after a long day of unrest which left several injured. “These violent activities and disturbances have caused major consequences for almost everyone in Hong Kong,” she said.
Protesters attempted to disrupt the morning commute as part of a plan to mobilise a mass general strike. They urged students to boycott classes, business owners to close shops and employees to skip work, in keeping with the city’s 24 weeks of civil resistance calling for democracy and accountability for the police handling of the ongoing crisis.
On Monday morning, one black-clad protester was shot by a police officer in Sai Wan Ho, whilst a man was set on fire by demonstrators in Ma On Shan.
“[I]f there is still any wishful thinking that by escalating violence the Hong Kong SAR Government will yield to pressure to satisfy the so-called political demands, I’m making this statement clear and loud here: That will not happen,” Lam said.
Mong Kok. Photo: Tam Ming Keung/United Social Press.
“Violence is not going to give us any solution to the problems that Hong Kong is facing. Our joint priority now as a city is to end the violence and to return Hong Kong to normal as soon as possible,” she added.
Setting a defiant tone, Lam said in her Chinese-language remarks that the protesters’ violent acts have made them “enemies of the people,” and put the city on a “path of no return.”
She said that the incident of a man being set on fire was “very malicious” and a “totally inhumane act,” though she shied away from giving her assessment on the shooting of the unarmed protester.
Photo: inmediahk.net.
She also urged the public to beware of “malicious rumours” and that her administration would put out clarifications. Her words came after rampant rumours on social media about possible fatalities of protesters, which had not been independently verified.
‘New low’
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said that she was “saddened” to see the scenes of violence against unarmed protesters.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has said that she hopes her country will serve as a beacon of democracy for those who seek freedom. Full coverage of the unrest in #HongKong: https://t.co/kmLJLFTZhx [corrected quote] @iingwen #China #antiELABhk #antiELAB #HongKongProtests pic.twitter.com/n9nt7AE3oi
— Hong Kong Free Press (@HongKongFP) November 11, 2019
“The people of Hong Kong are seeking dialogue and democracy, not beatings and bullets,” she wrote on Twitter. “[I] hope that Taiwan can continue to serve as a beacon of democracy for those who seek freedom.”
Baroness Natalie Bennett, who has previously called on the UK to defend human rights in Hong Kong, said that the actions of the police were a “clear breach” of the Sino-British Joint Declaration which made Hong Kong’s handover possible.
“The behaviour of the Hong Kong Police Force today marks a new low,” she said. “The Hong Kong government are complicit because they are refusing to call an independent inquiry. The UK must consider targeted sanctions in response.”
Photo: KH/United Social Press.
Her words were echoed by Man-Kei Tam, Director of Amnesty International Hong Kong, who also said police behaviour hit a “shocking low.”
“The live rounds fired by police are clear evidence of reckless use of force. Another policeman was seen driving at high speed into a group of protesters on a motorbike. These are not policing measures – these are officers out of control with a mindset of retaliation,” Tam said.
Tam called for the officer who fired the live rounds to be suspended, and for an independent investigation into the force’s behaviour.
“These behaviours call their training in question and the commands they have been given – officers should be deployed to de-escalate difficult crowd control situations, not make them worse,” he added.
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Film Review: X-files – I Want to Believe (2008)
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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their trademark roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in this long-awaited sequel to the 1998 hit film The X Files: Fight the Future, based on the phenomenally popular TV series. Amanda Peet (“Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”), Billy Connolly and Xzibit fill out the cast, along with series regular Mitch Pileggi (“Stargate: Atlantis”), who returns as FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner.
We’ve waited patiently for the return of Scully and Mulder for quite some time. And yet, our wait was returned with a luke warm greeting. Back again for more fanfare, we are re-acquainted with a shadow of the team we once knew. Mulder is still obsessive and Scully is still hammering away at medical science. Though maybe this might work for a 2-part tv series return but not for a feature film. Original trailers suggested somewhat of a fright fest although the only thing frightening was a lack of material you could follow after so many years.
This round we are working along side a pedophile psychic priest which is an odd combination to start with. Though while the film brought back a few old faces and few new ones it felt more like a party in which the guest of honor never really showed up. Do I call it a bad film. No, but pretty uninspiring at best. Even with a few body parts, a few headless corpses and some bleeding from the eyes there wasn’t much that turned on the heat or engaged the viewer. So we’re dealing with a Russian Frankenstein scientist, kinda.
A boy with a yet to be cured disease. A priest who’s really sorry for molesting 30 boys. A somewhat confused relationship between Dana and Fox. And a FBI team who’s just going about business. Skinner also makes a brief return to in a-just-in time role. Amanda Peet stars as the lead FBI agent who digs Fox out of hiding. But pretty much takes a backseat to let Mulder take over. And Fox until being recalled seems to spend his days cutting out clippings for his scrapbook collection.
I’m not going to take the give-em-a-break route on this one. X-files fans will surely be disappointed. Maybe even enough to go back and watch reruns afterwords to cover up the memory of this film with an old classic. Ther X-files period in it’s hay day was in full force with Chris Carter ruling the networks. Somehow, that much needed break extended far longer than we was probably necessary. My guess is the time lost also weighed on the creators ability to re-recognize what the fans were looking for. “Fight the Future” promised a great start tot he X-files film launch. but sadly the writing and staff returned tired and with an apparent lack of energy that fueled the original series and first film. Really I don’t think the public has tired of the series. They just want the same level of quality that they were left with.
I would hope that maybe it was just writers cramp that came into play and that our next round would knock our socks off. This round is best saved as a rental or maybe just not at all. All I can say is don’t give up on us x-philites we know the fire is still waiting to ignite. Though just not today.
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Juno will also fly through Europa and Io tori – annular clouds of ions – several times, characterizing the radiation environment near these satellites to better prepare the Europa Clipper and JUICE missions to optimize monitoring and planning strategies, scientific priorities and mission design. The extended mission also adds planetary geology and ring dynamics to Juneau’s extensive list of research.
Evolving orbit
The natural evolution of Juno’s orbit around the gas giant provides a wealth of new scientific opportunities that the expanded mission is taking advantage of. Each scientific omission sends a solar-powered spacecraft scaling low over Jupiter’s cloud peaks, collecting data from a unique point of view that no other spacecraft has enjoyed.
The point during each orbit where Juno approaches the planet closest is called the Parisian (or PJ). During the mission, Juno̵
7;s parishes migrated north, dramatically improving the resolution over the northern hemisphere. The design of the extended mission took advantage of the ongoing northward migration of these periwinkles to sharpen his gaze to the many cyclones surrounding the North Pole, while including Galileo’s ring and moon flies.
“The mission’s designers have done an amazing job of creating an expanded mission that preserves the only valuable resource on board, fuel,” said Ed Hirst, Juno’s project manager at JPL. “Gravity assist from multiple satellite flights directs our spacecraft through the Jovian system, while providing a wealth of scientific opportunities. Satellite flights also reduce the Juneno orbital period, which increases the total number of scientific orbits that can be obtained. “
The satellite encounters began with Ganymede’s flight at low altitude on June 7, 2021 (PJ34), reducing the orbital period from about 53 days to 43 days. This flight established a close flight to Europe on September 29, 2022 (PJ45), reducing the orbital period to an additional 38 days. A pair of close Io flights, on December 30, 2023 (PJ57) and February 3, 2024 (PJ58), are combined to reduce the orbital period to 33 days.
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Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne left behind a cloud of confusion when he resigned in 2019 from the internet retailer he created after he panicked investors with his strange claims that he had romanticized a Russian agent on orders of Men in Black for the United States Government.
He has now returned, with what he described as his personal “army,” citing what he said was evidence that Democrats had stolen the election from Donald Trump.
“I funded a team of hackers and cyber people, other people with strange skills,” Byrne said in an interview with One America News on Tuesday, where OAN personality Chanel Rion praised Byrne as head of an “elite shadow cybersecurity team.”
As Trump’s chances of securing a second term dwindle to zero, Byrne embarks on a media tour to promote his mysterious hacking team, emerging from an “undisclosed location” at OAN, Newsmax and a series of remote YouTube reviews related to Movement for Theory of the QAnon conspiracy. On Friday, a guest host on Rush Limbau’s popular radio show praised Byrne’s allegations of voter fraud and offered to invite Byrne to the show.
With Trump’s allies on his legal team and in the conservative media fighting for any evidence that Trump did not legally lose the presidential race, Byrne has become a hero to the MAGA crowd, despite his story of claims outside the wall.
Byrne claims to be funding teams of “hackers and biscuits” who realized back in August that Dominion voting machines could be used to steal Trump’s election. After the election, these voting machines appeared prominently in Trump supporters’ allegations of fraud, despite the company’s repeated refusals and any factual evidence that the voting amounts had changed.
However, the actual details of Byrne’s alleged hacking super-team are just as subtle.
“I am a free agent and I am self-financing and funding this army from various strange people,” Byrne said in a November 23 podcast with a QAnon promoter using the name InTheMatrixxx. “He really will make a great movie one day.”
Asked for more details about his hacking team, Byrne directed The Daily Beast to his blog, DeepCapture. But the 40,000-word explanation on Byrne’s website focuses on his longstanding feud with Wall Street short sellers and Byrne’s conversations with a mysterious informant called the Easter Bunny, not on any election investigation team.
Byrne stopped responding to emails from The Daily Beast when asked if any members of his hacking team would be available for interviews.
“I am a free agent and I am self-financing and financing this army from various strange people.”
– Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne
Despite his vague allegations, Byrne says he has been fueling allegations of elections to the White House and one-time Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for weeks. Byrne’s claims are similar to those made by Powell in public, including the claim that the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez somehow interfered in the election seven years after his death.
“Sydney was the first to really get it and get what we say is so huge that you need a very open-minded person to get it,” Byrne said in the InTheMatrixxx podcast.
After the election, Byrne became the latest with extensive “technological” experience to rediscover himself as an expert in voting machines. In this niche, Byrne is joined by former 8kun administrator Ron Watkins, who left his position managing the site for his QAnon posts on election day and has since appeared at OAN as a so-called election researcher.
During his post-election media tour, Byrne made a number of other strange claims, including that he may have been the incarnation of an ancient Chinese monk.
“I love the Chinese, I speak Chinese, I think I’m the incarnation of a Shaolin monk, maybe,” Byrne said in the InTheMatrixxx podcast.
Byrne has also encountered some other strange allegations on his media tour. While participating in a QAnon YouTube show hosted by a woman named Cirsten W, Byrne heard his host claim that Bill Clinton and the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had been cloned.
Byrne’s habit of making strange claims made headlines in 2019, when he was still CEO of Overstock. Using letterhead, Byrne issued a statement claiming that figures in the Federal Government’s “Men in Black” had called on him to romanticize Russian agent Maria Butina, who at the time was trying to infiltrate conservative circles as a human rights activist. weapons. Overstock’s stock price fell and eventually Byrne resigned after Overstock’s insurer refused to insure the company, led by Byrne.
A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee, published in August, sets out a different view of Byrne’s interactions with Butina. In the report, Butina sees Byrne as a potential way to reach Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), then a presidential candidate. In a July 2016 email published in the committee’s report, Butina’s friend Paul Erickson wrote that Byrne was “stalking” Butina after meeting her at a libertarian conference and claimed that Byrne had offered her $ 1 million. dollars associated with the birth of his child.
“Byrne is a bachelor by choice and the consequences of his intellectual gifts and limitations, but now he is concerned about mortality and his family heritage,” Erickson wrote. “Since he met Maria, he has found more and more creative ways to offer her a permanent $ 1 million offer to have a baby with him.” He is completely in love with her imaginary gene pool and believes that the baby will strengthen not only his family line, but also the relationship between our two nations. “
Byrne did not respond to The Daily Beast about the allegations made in Erickson’s email.
Byrne’s other claims also do not always work. In 2018, he lost a significant defamation lawsuit filed against him by a Canadian businessman who was described on Byrne’s blog as a terrorist financier and drug and arms dealer, with the plaintiff awarding $ 1.2 million in damages.
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Hong Kong proposal to link railways in Canton, newspaper article 1934
December 24, 2020 Hugh Farmer Articles
IDJ has sent the following newspaper article of June 1934 which covers opposition in Canton to efforts in Hong Kong to link the Canton – Hankow railway with the Canton – Kowloon railway. This might be read in conjunction with our article, Hong Kong-London direct train service, newspaper article 1935, linked below which also mentions connecting the two railway lines in Canton.
HF: I have retyped the article. Thanks to SCT for proofreading the retyped article.
Canton, June 14
Officials and merchants here are not in favour of joining the Canton-Hankow Railway with the Canton-Kowloon Railway at this centre as proposed by Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.
The Canton Chamber of Commerce has sounded all the guilds on this point and has received unfavourable replies from them. These commercial bodies hold the view that in such through service Canton has nothing to gain but everything to lose.
If through traffic can go between Lohchang and Kowloon and between Hankow and Kowloon in 1936, merchants here believe that Canton will lose all the wharfage and warehouse business. In that event, goods would not stop here but would proceed direct to Hong Kong.
“Hong Kong is already the entrepot of South China,” a leading merchant here pointed out today. “Should there be a connection between the two lines Canton will no longer be a centre of trade in Kwantung. Hong Kong will then feed and receive all the goods imported into and exported from South China.
Mr. Lee Shin Kan managing director of the Canton-Hankow Railway (South Section) denied any possibility of joining his line with the Canton-Kowloon Railway. Mr. Lee said that the efforts of his administration are concentrated on the early completion of the railway from Canton to Hankow.
Similar views are expressed by Mr. Hsiao Fu Chen, member of the South-west Political Council. He said Canton would become a dead city if goods consigned to various parts of the province cannot be concentrated first at this point.
Canton Railway Station – The Terminal of the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway c1920s Source: Wikimedia Commons
Source: Hong Kong Daily Press 15th June 1934
This article was first posted on 24th December 2020.
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Labour backs plan to build selective school on Green Belt
Posted on January 9, 2018 by insidecroydon
KEN LEE reports on a planning application that would lead to Croydon getting its first grammar school since the 1970s
The school playing fields at Coombe Wood, which could be built on to provide a school that specialises in sport
A planning application is being considered by the council to develop a site in Croydon’s Green Belt, concrete over some school playing fields, and all to build the first state selective school in the borough for more than 40 years.
All of those outcomes go against Labour Party policy, nationally and locally, yet the proposal to build a vast free school opposite Lloyd Park appears to have the backing of Tony Newman and the Labour group running Croydon Town Hall.
Newman’s Blairite leadership clique looks likely to ignore the council’s own Green Belt planning rules to approve the application from a satellite school of a Sutton grammar. This will all happen just before the local elections in a South Croydon ward that Labour might have hoped to capture from the Tories.Planning notices were sneaked up on to lamp-posts over Christmas around the Coombe Road playing fields, advising anyone who might see them of the application for temporary school buildings for Coombe Wood School. The temporary buildings would provide accommodation for the first couple of years’ intake from this September, while the permanent structure is being built.
The application is from the Folio Trust, the multi-academy body formed by Wallington County Grammar School for Boys. Initially the proposed new school will take in 180 pupils aged 11-to-12, but it aims to provide 1,680 places eventually, including a sixth form from 2020. The school, which would provide car parking for its large staff, would operate seven days a week, with the school day beginning at 7.30am with a breakfast club.
Nice tie: Jonathan Wilden, grammar head teacher with plans in Croydon
The school’s plans promise a partially selective intake, with 10 per cent of pupils offered places based on their sporting ability.
In Folio’s own publicity blurb, they struggle to disguise their intention to operate as a grammar school in all-but-name: they will have streaming and say their approach will be “no different to a Grammar School such as Wallington County Grammar School”.
At Coombe Wood, the wearing of school ties will be important, apparently. Pupils will be “… provided with a guide of how to wear their tie with pride ensuring that it is in a business-like manner. CWS believes that if children are to wear a tie then they must wear it well”.
Of course, as a free school, and therefore outside local authority control, Coombe Wood School could decide to alter its admissions policy as soon as the £30million new buildings – built using tax-payers’ money – open for the first time.
With a couple of fee-paying independent schools just up the road, both of which offer enhanced sporting curriculums, it all has the appearance of a hefty state-subsidy for the Folio Trust’s thrustingly ambitious senior staff to go into competition for pupils with the private sector.
The “executive headteacher” is Jonathan Wilden, formerly the headmaster at Wallington grammar, who in League of Gentlemen style promises “a local school for local children”. Chris Philp, the Conservative MP for Croydon South, has been a long-time supporter of re-introducing grammar schools into Croydon.
Free schools have been in the news recently because of the controversy surrounding the Tory government’s appointment to a university watchdog of one of their champions, Toby Young, the eugenics advocate.
And Wallington County Grammar is also attracting attention this week because of the start of the inquest into the death in 2015 of a sixth former while on a school rugby tour to Canada.
The planning application, to build on Green Belt playing fields, was sneaked out over Christmas
A previous proposal to build a school on the Coombe Wood site (for Archbishop Tenison’s) was turned down by the council because not a strong enough case was made to demonstrate the demand for school places in the area.
With some of the new-build secondaries elsewhere in the borough struggling to attract enough pupils to fill all their classes, it is hard to see what evidence there is to suggest that that situation has changed significantly.
The council maintains that there is demand for school places, but council predictions of pupil numbers dating from as recently as 2014 have already been shown to be well out: one new-build primary, supposed to accommodate 90 pupils per year, had an intake of just 26 in September.
As well as spending millions on a school for which there may not be any real need, “exec head” Wilden’s expansion plans into Croydon could create a precedent for building on Green Belt land.
The planning application notices admit, “The proposed development does not accord with the provisions of the development plan in force in the area in which the land to which the application relates is situated.”
Croydon Council, when under Tory control, pushed through development plans to build on Municipal Open Land (which is supposed to offer similar planning protections to Green Belt) for the Oasis Arena Academy, in South Norwood, despite there being no clear evidence of a demand for additional secondary places in that area.
This latest proposal is unpopular with members of the Croham Valley Residents’ Association, whose homes look out over the extensive Green Belt running up to Conduit Lane’s Vanguard Way long-distance walking path, with the Royal Russell school hidden behind the protected wooded escarpments around that school on the plateau at the top of the Addington Hills.
Labour’s Flemming: backing a new grammar school
More recently, Labour’s deputy leader, Alison Butler – the cabinet member who approved a scheme to build blocks of flats on Queen’s Gardens in the town centre – claimed that there was no threat of over-development on the borough’s parks and Green Belt open spaces because there is sufficient planning protection in place. She said this after the government inspector threw out her request to include “Local Green Space” as an additional planning designation in the Local Plan for 70 open spaces around Croydon, potentially leaving all of them vulnerable to development.
The 27-acre Green Belt site at Coombe Wood playing fields, however, was ear-marked for development in the Local Plan submitted to the inspector by Butler and the council planners.
If a two-storey building can be erected on Green Belt land here with such alacrity, you have to worry whether any Green Belt in the borough is safe.
The building has the backing of Alisa Flemming, the Labour council’s cabinet member for children and Ofsted emergencies, who delivered a report in October effectively endorsing the grammar school and recommending having 180 secondary school places on these playing fields by September 2018.
With Alison Butler’s husband, architect Paul Scott, chairing the planning committee, there seems little in the way to stop the public playing fields being taken out of use and handed over to Folio for its selective free school.
How Coombe Wood appeared in the Local Plan, marked for de-designation as Green Belt. Note: ‘No reasonable alternative option’
The Folio Trust, which as well as Wallington CGS runs what are looking like potential feeder primaries in Croydon at Park Hill Juniors and St Peter’s, now faces a race against time to grab its planning permission and have its school ready in eight months.
There is a possibility that bats and badgers might stand in the way of the bulldozers.
Coombe Wood provides valuable habitat for wildlife, so the site should be subject to a thorough monitoring survey before any building permissions are granted – though on past track record, this is rarely something which bothers either Scott or the Croydon Council planning department.
And while local Tory opposition to Green Belt development has been vociferous elsewhere, barely a peep has been heard over this proposal – probably because of MP Philp’s penchant for grammars.
Site 662, the 27 acres of public-owned playing fields, which Croydon’s Labour-lite council wants to hand over on the cheap to a free school
A more reliable road block to the process might be the usual, exceedingly slow, grinding of the wheels of local government administration. Croydon’s Local Plan is still sitting in the in-tray of the government planning inspector, never mind being approved by the council.
The consultation on the inspectors’ amendments to the council’s Local Plan closed last Friday. The inspector will write his report and his proposals will be rushed to the council meeting in March, the last of this administration before the council elections on May 3.
But the school’s plans will need approval before March to secure their building deadlines.
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Not having had the benefit of a grammar school education, I find myself ill-equipped to respond appropriately to either this proposal or our Labour Councils apparent support of it. I will therefore limit myself to the contemporary vernacular response;
Nick Mattey says:
Sutton Council prides itself on the results of its sacred grammar schools.
The pupils are oftern not chosen on the basis of their own ability but rather on their parents having the financial means to pay the £40 an hour required to hot-house them through the entrance exams with tutors.
The children are urged to great efforts by parents anxious that their offspring should not rub shoulders with pupils who come from poorer backgrounds. If free school meals are an indication of wealt,h then some of Sutton’s selective schools have only 2% of children who qualify for free school meals, whereas in non-selective schools the figure is closer to 15%.
One of the reasons Labour won a landslide victory in 1945 was to avoid this discrimination and move towards a more egalitarian society. Obviously the current Labour administration in Croydon do not believe in these values .
I am still waiting to hear the implications on young adults mental health of the educational burn out they have had to endure over the last decade of government policies.
This all seems to be a fait accompli.
Engineers have already carried out scans of the local area using ground-penetrating radar to search for hidden obstructions. I doubt if all this investment would have been done without expectations of approval being given on the nod. However with all the concerns raised in the article it does seem to be cutting it exceptionally fine in starting an intake by September this year. All done with undue haste.
Further no mention has been made on the transport implications of developing a site on one of the main commuter routes into Croydon by road and tram. The underground scans may not have detected any hidden obstructions, but are there any out there from another source?
Lewis White says:
GCSE – Politics, Education and Geography Answer ALL questions Discuss the following :-
Question 1 – Why does Croydon council have to find space for an offshoot of a Sutton selective school? Is there not room for such a school in the borough of Sutton ? e.g. on part of the underused game fields of Sutton Grammar School in Northey Avenue, Cheam, or maybe, in the extensive grounds of the new Beddington Incinerator?
Q 2 – (a) How can a Labour council justify facilitating such a school with a starkly different educational admissions philosophy from that held my most Labour party members? (b) Is there a relevant UK Government direction influencing the council ?
Q3 – if the above can somehow be justified, and a school site has to be found within Croydon’s borders, is there no suitable brown field site , or area of green belt that has been spoiled by previous land use, or could be restored and improved by having a new school with well landscaped grounds? e.g. certain areas in the Addington / Selsdon borders?, or Purley Way / Croydon airport / (but not on the roadside zone), or the semi derelict open lands remaining at the ex Heath Clark school site at Waddon?
There’s a huge brownfield site currently full of old shipping containers with a central location and superb transport links. Perhaps it could go there?
Ken Towl says:
Toby Young would be proud.
Curse of Nephros (@CurseofNephros) says:
Very interesting, Croydon Council (CC) recently resurrected previously rejected plans to expand Greenlawn Memorial Park, which it owns, but is located in Tandridge District greenbelt. Major rationale is that it will do less harm to develop Tandridge greenbelt than developing alternative greenbelt sites within Croydon Borough. Cane Hill was one identified alternative site which CC previously felt was unsuitable for development of a cemetery but those same doubts strangely disappeared when it came to sticking a housing estate on it.
Of course the whole thing is rubbish, there are CC documents going back at least a decade which make clear Greenlawn expansion has always been the most financially lucrative and therefore preferred option for Croydon Cemetries; unfortunately though in the public domain they cannot legally be considered in the application because they undermine rather than support the ‘presumption in favour of development’ which is now government policy.
The last attempt to develop Greenlawn was thrown out by the planning inspectorate as it clearly lacked ‘very special circumstances’ required for greenbelt development. But it almost slipped through the TDC planning committee in controversial circumstances (there was much rumour about undisclosed horse trading between the then leaderships of TDC and CC, much of it revolving around development of Kent Gateway).
Amanda Dunstan says:
The Oasis Arena school was supposed to be a “specialist” school for Sport and Science, and was presented as Croydon’s “Olympic Legacy”, which would utilise the neighbouring sports Arena. Or were those just cheap words to get through the planning process and nick a bit of Metropolitan Open Land?
This current administration won’t be happy until they have built on every bit of green space.
Ah! A town planning “Eureka moment” !
Instead of building a Westfield shopping centre on the Whitgift Shopping Centre site, why not a much greener solution, in this “post-peak-shopping age”.
i.e.- rip down all of the existing buildings, rip up the concrete floors and multi storey car parks, and lay topsoil and turf on a big part of the area, plant some nice trees, and build a new free school on the remaining site.
It could be styled in a neo Hogwarts architectural style, and called “New Whitgift Academy” . The public could come in and picnic at lunch times, allowing them to sunbathe while using their mobile devices to order their spring clothing choices via the Internet.
Job done!
I wonder what was there before the shopping centre?
croydonplebiscite says:
Whitgift Middle school – it moved to Shirley Park in the 60s have a canter though here if interested https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/489203578264750498/
Think the question was rhetorical
Alison Chisholm says:
As a parent with a child looking for a secondary school within the next year I am happy that this new school is being built. I may have the choice of quite a few schools in and around the borough of Croydon, however has anyone who has commented actually had a look at how many places are offered in each secondary school and how many actually apply. Normally 2 and a half times more than actual places. This tells us there are not enough schools in and around Croydon to educate our children who live in this borough.
That’s simply untrue, Alison.
The council’s official figures show that there is a surplus of 5,000 secondary school places in the borough – it’s just that they tend to be in the schools where parents don’t want to send their children (often with good reason).
The recently built Oasis Arena Academy, for example, is operating with around two-thirds of the number of pupils it is supposed to accommodate.
Of course, the better schools are over-subscribed. They always are. Even in a supposedly non-selective borough. Sutton’s grammars get eight applications for every place that is on offer.
And by spending £30m of public money on building a free school on what was Green Belt land, Croydon’s Labour council is wittingly assisting one of those grammars in meeting that “demand” by giving them a foothold in Croydon with a selective school.
I understand what you are saying. Long gone are the days in which you just went to your local secondary and all was well. Unfortunately the borough of Croydon does have some schools with bad Ofsted results. I as a parent do not want my child to go to any of these schools therefore will not be choosing them. There are very few in our area who do have good results. What does a parent do who wants the best for their child? I have never voted Labour in my life. This for me is about what I want for my child, which in turn goes out of the window as I can put down schools that I wish her to go to, but what happens if there is no offer? I as a parent will not be noting 6 names, my child’s education is already a lottery which is why I welcome this new school.
Specialist Sport Free Schools have failed in the past and more free schools than academies and local authority proportionally fail. As with most things in life you are a person to whom facts are inconveniences to be avoided and your own selfish aims to be satisfied. Surely the Whitgift bursary scheme has already received your application?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/25/free-schools-policy-under-fire-as-yet-another-closure-announced-plymouth
Those said facts show 5000 place surplus at schools that no residents want to send their children to. What a shocking statistic, could that £30m not have gone towards making some serious improvements so people actually want to send their children there? Why are the schools and the Council not held to account for this?
The £30m is from a Tory government fund used for building publicly funded free schools, which is not available for staffing or other elements of underfunded school budgets. And the schools and the council are not accountable, because the schools have largely been taken out of council control, and are now run by religious groups or carpet salesmen, as “academies”, making profits from the privatisation of our education service.
So if there are 5000 surplus places it means residents don’t want to send their children there? Could it possibly mean there are not 5000 children around to attend these schools and more money is being spent by Central Government to create more schools? Councils do not make education policy !
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BMW Hydrogen VP Says FCEVs Could Be As Cheap As ICE By 2025
Jan 28, 2020 at 11:24am ET
By: Andrei Nedelea
There’s currently a big price gap between fuel cell and internal combustion-engined vehicles.
Manufacturers seem quite torn on the matter of fuel cell electric vehicles - there is certainly no industry-wide consensus on the matter. Some are adamant this means of propulsion is superior to battery powered EVs and that it's the future, while others say that even though it has advantages, its considerably higher cost keeps it from going mainstream any time soon.
BMW seems to be on the side of those in favor of quicker fuel cell electric powertrain adoption, because it plans on launching a limited series FCEV version of the X5 SUV in 2022 - it was previewed by the i Hydrogen NEXT concept which was shown at the 2019 Frankfurt motor show.
Now, BMW’s VP for hydrogen, Dr. Jürgen Guldner, has reiterated the commitment for this power source. He told The Telegraph “fuel cells (are) helping us to convert all our cars to zero emissions over the next two decades,” going on to say that they “will add to our spectrum of powertrains for the future. We don’t see it as competition for the battery electric vehicle, but as a further offer to our customers.”
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He expects this to happen no earlier than 2025, or somewhere between 2025 and the end of the decade. There currently isn’t enough demand for the manufacturer to launch a full FCEV model, since it would still be too expensive to have a chance at success, but things may not stay like this for too long.
This is an interesting standpoint given that fellow German automaker Volkswagen announced it would be diverting most of the resources it had allocated for fuel cell development towards battery electric vehicles in the near future. Audi, which is part of the VW group, may still keep the fuel cell development flame lit, though.
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A 21-year-old man from Newport Beach accused of killing a former classmate could face life in prison without parole after prosecutors added a hate crime enhancement to murder charges.
Samuel Woodward is accused of murder in the stabbing death of his former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein.
Bernstein was reported missing by his parents in January while he was visiting home during the winter break at the University of Pennsylvania. His body was eventually found in a shallow grave in Borrego Park with over 20 stab wounds.
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At the time the hate crime component was added to existing murder charges, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas told CBS News that a search of Woodward’s social media and cellphone data revealed “graphic” and “chilling” photos and text messages.
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CBS News also reports that Woodward has been linked to white supremacist group.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Woodward denied the hate crime enhancement during a court appearance on Wednesday even though he admits it was a kiss that sparked the altercation.
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March 30th, 2015 | In the News
Daily Beast: Can SXSW Make Policy Cool?
With the dust from the corporate Mardi Gras settling on the streets of Austin, it’s time for some sober self-assessment. After all, South By Southwest is supposed to be a party with a purpose. And this year there were promising signs from the must unlikely suspects: politicians.
From Republican Senators like Rand Paul and Jerry Moran to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker to congressmen and women like Hakeem Jeffries, Cathy McMorris Rogers and Mircosoft vet Suzan DelBene, Capitol Hill jockeys were shifting their focus and doing more listening than talking. They had a receptive audience because rising tech entrepreneurs are realizing that they can’t ignore government policy indefinitely without hobbling their own growth.
Evidence of their increased interdependence was everywhere at SXSW—attendees use services like Uber and Lyft to get around town and now stay at AIRBNB’s as often as local hotels. And these companies have run into resistance from local regulations and bureaucracies that are built to resist change.
The two customarily warring camps met over panels like “Friend or Foe? How Government Impacts Startups,” “Move Fast, Government, or Get Out of the Way” and a series of stage conversations that paired congressmen with local tech entrepreneurs, sponsored by Dell and the Austin Tech Council.
Trying to make public policy cool in an age of cynicism about government is an uphill battle. But it’s an essential effort.
“South By Southwest is lucky to be at the intersection of a lot of these changes,” explained Hugh Forest, the director of SXSW Interactive. “Entrepreneurs are understanding that there have to be policy initiatives for them to keep innovating and disrupting. Are regulations impeding the marketplace or is it putting safeguards in place that need to be there for consumers? Let’s debate.”
It’s a debate that President Obama’s Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker welcomes. “Entrepreneurs are like, ‘oh you’re from the government, please go away,’” she said before her SXSW panel. “I spent 27 years in the private sector and so I get it.” But leading what she calls the “department of innovation” requires dialogue with disruptors.
“What we’re trying to do is help them understand disruption can be great but you have to understand what the implications are of disruption. Right? So for example, take AirBNB: you’re not paying hotel tax. Here’s the problem. Cities run on hotel tax. You’ve got to find another way to think about this or you’re going to put cities out of business, and that’s probably not what you’re trying to accomplish.”
The larger shift from bricks and mortar isn’t going away. Pritzker is hawking a new study that shows there are now 8.6 million digital data based jobs in the U.S.A—nd “those jobs pay about 68 percent higher than the average wage.”
Senator Jerry Moran sees an opportunity for the GOP to connect with the tech crowd in their mutual fight to cut the red tape of excessive regulations.
“South by Southwest allows me as a Republican to interact with people that I might not normally come in contact with, to pursue issues that I think are broadly supported across the political spectrum,” he says. Moran eagerly brings up the Start-Up legislation, backed by AOL founder and Revolution CEO Steve Case that he’s co-sponsored with Virginia Democrat Mark Warner. It offers Entrepreneur Visas and STEM visas for students to stay here, in addition to a erasure of capital gains taxes on investments held over 5 years to counteract high-volume trading speculation.
“These kind of policies can bring Republicans and Democrats together,” says Moran, while predicting that the persistently pursued Start-Up legislation would get out of committee this year and opened up for a full-senate vote. “While we’re fiddling, the rest of the world is taking advantage of our inaction.”
This pervasive sense of government paralysis is one reason why many millennials would rather try to change the world through technology and culture rather than direct involvement in politics or public service. Washington’s endless war of attrition and childish sandbox politics makes reasonable people want to run for the hills rather than engage in policy debates.
But there comes a point where that hands off approach doesn’t comport with reality—it not only threatens to degrade representative democracy, it can hold back powerfully disruptive business ideas that could otherwise improve society.
“Policy can either really drive entrepreneurship in the US and around the globe, or it can really screw it up, “ says Cris Turner, the head of North American Government Affairs at Dell. “Once entrepreneurs reach a point in their development that they understand that, then it becomes really cool – and really important—for them to get involved in policy.”
Trying to make public policy cool in an age of cynicism about government is an uphill battle. But it’s an essential effort. Tech leaders have a lot to teach politicians about pursuit of practical solutions and measurable results. And politicians, for all their faults, can transmit a modest sense of mutual responsibility rooted in public service. Not a bad takeaway to wash down with a Shiner Bock.
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Movie Review: ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Offers Goofs Galore and Surprise Reveals Aplenty
jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Angourie Rice, Cobie Smulders, J.B. Smoove, Jacob Batalon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jon Favreau, Jon Watts, Marisa Tomei, Martin Starr, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, Remy Hii, Samuel L. Jackson, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Tom Holland, Tony Revolori, Zendaya 1 Comment
CREDIT: Sony Pictures/YouTube
Starring: Tom Holland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zendaya, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Angourie Rice, Martin Starr, J.B. Smoove, Marisa Tomei, Tony Revolori, Remy Hii
Director: Jon Watts
Rating: PG-13 for Nicks and Bruises from Webslinging Around and Awkward Situations That Teenager Somehow Stumble Into
The name of the game is the ol’ switcheroo, the bait-and-switch, the smoke-and-mirrors routine … yeah, that’s the ticket. It’s only been a couple of months since the release of Avengers: Endgame, but despite all that seeming finality, the MCU must continue. And the first arrival in this new status quo is Spider-Man: Far From Home, which means we’re going to kick things off with an in memoriam montage that features Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” Comic Sans lettering, and a Getty Images-watermarked photo. But there are also some baddies to defeat, although Peter Parker (Tom Holland) would much rather focus on his school’s European class trip and taking things to a more romantic realm with his friend MJ (Zendaya). You get the sense that this cinematic iteration of Spider-Man would also like to just focus on the high school ecosystem. But superhero movie requirements beckon, and Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers’ script does a fun enough job of incorporating Peter and his pals’ shenanigans into the CGI blowout.
The topsy-turvy hook begins with the fallout from the fact that the people who were snapped away in Infinity War and then returned in Endgame (referred to here as “the Blip”) have not aged the five years that everyone who remained did. Adding to all the pandemonium is the appearance of Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal), a caped-and-suited fellow who claims to be from a parallel Earth and is here to help fight some monsters that have escaped from his world. But not all is as it seems, as characters may not be who they say they are, relationships have sudden accelerations and decelerations, and it really isn’t what it looks like when a classmate discovers Peter taking his pants off next to a much older woman.
That sense of the wool being pulled over and off and back on everyone’s eyes lasts all the way through to the end of the credits, with the extra scenes turning out to be surprisingly essential in clarifying what just happened. Peter’s efforts to puncture his way into what’s really going on have a satisfying vibe of getting past the bullshit. However, that level of satisfaction is not met with any corresponding visual panache, as Far From Home plays it way too safe in the standard-issue Marvel CGI department. If this is the post-Endgame status quo, at least it won’t be so stressful.
Spider-Man: Far From Home is Recommended If You Like: Spider-Man: Homecoming, High Quality Character-Centric Jokewriting
Grade: I don’t know how to grade these Marvel movies anymore. I could give it a 4 out of 5 for Fun, but I also want to downgrade it to 3.5 out of 5 for (Lack of) Originality, and then I also want to downgrade it to Less Than 3.5 out of 5 for Frustration about this being yet another good-but-not great Marvel movie. So my overall grade is all of that somehow mixed together.
Avengers: Endgame First Thoughts
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CREDIT: Disney/Marvel Studios
Maybe some movies should be reviewed in parts over the course of months, or maybe even years. That’s how I’m feeling about Avengers: Endgame. So I’m going to go ahead and talk about what’s striking my fancy about it now and maybe talk about it some more later.
The closest comparison I can think of for the premise of Endgame is The Leftovers. The opening scenes for the two are eerily similar in terms of both tone and function. But of course they then head in very different directions. I didn’t stick with The Leftovers because I just wasn’t hooked by how its particular characters responded in their particular ways to the disappearances. But with Endgame, I already know the context, so I’m already in, baby. And no doubt about it, I am happy that the ultimate focus is on Tony Stark’s beating heart, and everyone keeping things right with their families. That emotional resonance is enough to buoy the whole affair along for three hours. And it’s also enough to prevent me from getting too angry about the characters who don’t have much meaningful to do or the moments that make me go, “But why?”
Also important: how about those end credits? It’s not very often 50-plus above-the-line cast members have to be assembled in some sort of appropriate order, so we must cherish it whenever it happens. And I’ve got to say, it appears that for the most part, there was no rhyme or reason to the assembly. But we shall, and must, investigate whether or not that is true for as long as we can. The cursive credits for the core Avengers are great, though.
I give Avengers: Endgame A Handful of Snaps to the Beat.
Movie Review: ‘Captain Marvel’ is a Blast of Low-Key Wonder
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CREDIT: Marvel Studios
Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn, Annette Bening, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Clark Gregg
Directors: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Rating: PG-13 for Sci-Fi Action Violence That Tends to Cause Nosebleeds
It’s been a while since I have felt consistently sustained excitement for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I’m a fan of superheroes, and Marvel in particular, but I’m a bigger film buff, and I often find myself in a weird liminal space where I want to have more unbridled emotions for these movies, but it is hard to feel that way about a series sticking to a formula that is so much about ticking off obligatory long-term checkpoints. Captain Marvel does not burst free of that formula, but it has enough of its own magic to make it the first MCU movie in quite some time in which I left the theater wanting to re-watch it. It could have just been the way it happened to hit me on one particular day, but I think it has also something to do with its vibe of ignoring all the noise and getting on with it mission.
The plot is a little too complicated to easily synopsize, which Disney and Marvel are surely happy about, as they do not want us spoiling any of their MCU flicks, particularly this one, as it is uniquely dependent on backstory reveals and memory retrieval. Suffice it to say then that Vers (Brie Larson) is an intergalactic warrior fighting for the race known as the Kree, but she is also plagued by visions of a past life as U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Carol Danvers. The Kree are stuck in a long-term struggle against the shapeshifting Skrulls, which leads Vers to Earth in 1995 in a race for a powerful energy source. This is a typical McGuffin-focused Marvel film, but this particular McGuffin is unusually resonant, touching on themes of refugees and the perils of deep psychological deception.
Captain Marvel is also your standard MCU movie insofar as it builds to a climax with an unengaging, undistinguished action set piece. But luckily, that is not the main attraction. Vers teams up with a pre-eye patch Nick Fury, resulting in a buddy flick that serves as Samuel L. Jackson’s biggest showcase thus far in this franchise. His and Larson’s dynamic is one of instant respect that still leaves plenty of room for clowning around as they save the universe. That feeling is matched by a strong sense overall of the film being aesthetically tuned in. I cannot think of any other superhero movie that features a steady stream of crickets chirping amidst characters talking outside.
Captain Marvel is not massively revolutionary. While it may be the first MCU movie fronted by a female hero, it is not about femininity the way that Black Panther is about blackness. But while it does not respond hard to the big questions, it gets so many of the little things right.
Captain Marvel is Recommended If You Like: Top Gun, Nineties Rock, Friendly and Intelligent Aliens Who Speak English or At Least Have Universal Translators
Grade: 4 out of 5 Supreme Intelligences
This Is a Movie Review: ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Keeps It Cool for the Summer
jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Abby Ryder Fortson, Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Bobby Cannavale, David Dastmalchian, Evangeline Lilly, Hannah John-Kamen, Judy Greer, Laurence Fishburne, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, Michael Douglas, Michael Peña, Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Peyton Reed, Randall Park, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Walton Goggins Leave a comment
CREDIT: Disney/Marvel Films
This review was originally posted on News Cult in July 2018.
Starring: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Abby Ryder Fortson, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Hannah John-Kamen, Laurence Fishburne, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, Michelle Pfeiffer, Randall Park
Director: Peyton Reed
Rating: PG-13 for Large-Scale and Small-Scale Action Movie Destruction
Ant-Man and the Wasp has left me feeling a lot more peaceful than other recent Marvel movies. I would it put about on the same quality level as Black Panther and Thor: Ragnarok, but those blockbusters left me with nagging bits of emptiness, whereas Paul Rudd and company just give off good vibes. That is partly a function of my own expectations, but it is also a matter of how this franchise and its sub-franchises are promoted. The excursions to Wakanda and the garbage planet promised that they would be unprecedented game-changers. Whether or not they lived up to that hype, it is hard to match the buoyancy of their ad campaigns, and it takes effort for audiences to avoid every commercial. But with the original Ant-Man and now with The Wasp, you can just come in, be chill, and not have to worry about it being the best movie ever.
Director Peyton Reed and his team of five credited screenwriters (including Rudd) maintain those good vibes by allowing for some conflict, but avoiding true evil, and establishing that those who are at odds are ultimately really on the same team as each other. The main story thrust is the recovery of Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) from the “Quantum Realm,” a subatomic space where the normal laws of space and time do not apply. Her husband Hank (Michael Douglas) and daughter Janet, aka the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), have the science skills to track her down, but they need the help of Ant-Man Scott Lang, as his previous venture into and escape from the Quantum Realm has allowed Janet to establish him as a point of contact. Standing in their way is a black market dealer (Walton Goggins), who sniffs out a big potential profit, but he does not have the killer instinct to tear them down. More serious are those who represent the skeletons in Hank’s closet, but their threat is neutralized by the ultimate realization that they can solve each other’s problems together.
A-M and the W has genuine, successful humor to match its laid-back style. The comedy in Marvel movies often has the cadence of a joke without actually being funny, but here there is a cast that is trained to find the laughter. Rudd obviously has more of a comedy background than any other Marvel headliner. Michael Peña delivers another round of his motor-mouthed, very detail-oriented storytelling. And the most delightful subplot features Fresh Off the Boat‘s Randall Park as a fastidious FBI agent hounding Scott while he remains under house arrest. If their jobs did not require them to be enemies, they would be friends for the ages.
It is certainly odd that Ant-Man and the Wasp arrives in the apocalyptic wake of Infinity War, but die-hard MCU fans will be happy to discover that the connective tissue is clear and satisfying. And those who are tired of every superhero movie being about the end of the world will be happy that that connectivity does not get in the way of everyone just having a good time.
Ant-Man and the Wasp is Recommended If You Like: The Marvel Cinematic Universe but with lower stakes
Grade: 3.5 out of 5 Quantum Realms
This Is a Movie Review: Avengers: Infinity War
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CREDIT: Marvel
Much more so than 2012’s Avengers, Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of all that has come before in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After ten years and nearly twenty films, this has been THE destination. Sure, “saving the whole world and/or universe” is what so many previous superhero movies have been about, so Infinity War cannot fully be satisfying on that score. But as a narrative experiment, it works as a satisfying conclusion (or beginning to a conclusion).
Weirdly enough, I think Infinity Wars works whether or not you have seen all the preceding entries. I cannot say for sure, as I have seen every MCU flick, though I have only watched all of them once each and I am by no means the most devoted Easter egg hunter. But there is just something about how this massive teamup of heroes manages to avoid feeling busy and instead come off as electric. There is a lived-in feel to Tony Stark and Stephen Strange trading banter and then becoming fast friends or the Guardians of the Galaxy making sense of Thor on the fly. If you don’t know what these characters are all about ahead of time, you can pick it up along the way, just as they do with each other. As for Thanos and his plan, it’s fine for setting the plot in motion, but I’m mainly here for all the combinations and permutations.
I give Avengers: Infinity War 4 Infinity Stones out of 5 “Shocking” Deaths.
This Is a Movie Review: The God of Thunder Gets Stranded in the Louche ‘Thor: Ragnarok’
jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Anthony Hopkins, Cate Blanchett, Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, Taika Waititi, Tessa Thompson, Thor, Thor: Ragnarok, Tom Hiddleston Leave a comment
CREDIT: Disney/Marvel
This review was originally posted on News Cult in November 2017.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Taika Waititi
Rating: PG-13 for Colorfully Stylized Action Violence and a Glimpse of Hulk Butt
Even in its stronger outings, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has consistently exemplified the distressing 21st century trend of “franchise film as trailer for its upcoming sequels.” But putting at the helm Taika Waititi, the New Zealand director behind vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows and coming-of-age charmer Hunt for the Wilderpeople, would perhaps signal a willingness to kick back with an idiosyncratic one-off effort. And indeed, Thor: Ragnarok is not particularly burdened by setting up the next “phase” for all the other Marvel heroes, save for the mandatory post-credits scene as well as an early rendezvous with Doctor Strange that at least has the courtesy to be completely ridiculous. But as Waititi is not creating something out of whole cloth, it is still a bear of a job to wrap his sensibility around Thor’s personal history and Asgard’s extensive mythology.
One of the biggest disappointments of most MCU films, and what made Doctor Strange so satisfying when it bucked this trend, is their lack of imagination in design and music. Their craft is far from ugly, but it is no more than workmanlike. Ragnarok has plenty of personality, but it kind of gets in the way of itself. Mark Mothersbaugh’s prog-rock synth score is entirely fitting, but it never really fully rocks out until the end credits. All the new supporting characters make a convincing case to be the breakout star, but there is only room for so much of that in a busy 2 hours. I would never willingly sacrifice Cate Blanchett’s evil diva goddess Hela, or Jeff Goldblum’s eccentric sensualist Grand Master, or Tessa Thompson’s hard-drinking and unapologetic Valkyrie, or the most hedonistic version of the Hulk we have yet seen on screen. But this is a series of solo acts, not a supergroup. They play nice together, but they only intermittently gel as a unit greater than the sum of its parts.
The plot of Ragnarok is fairly straightforward, but a little overwhelming in its climax, due to the surfeit of moving parts. The titular end of Asgardian days is threatening to come to pass with the return of Hela, the long-imprisoned goddess of death and sister of Thor. Thor and Loki broker one of their many peaces to team up and save their home realm, but they are first waylaid onto the Grand Master’s home planet, where they get caught up in some gladiatorial combat.
By the end of it all, I found myself confused about who was defeated and who was victorious, and how much so on either count. Frankly, I am perfectly willing to forgo any prosaic interpretation for the sake of embracing a more expressionistic experience. This is not hard to do, as there are plenty of blasts of pure imagination (punneriffic reference perfectly intended). Trouble is, the story does matter to the people who made this movie, and even if it did not, it is too imposing to disregard. By the end of all these affairs, Ragnarok is the type of feast that overloads you with deliciousness but leaves you crashing instead of the kind that fills you up and floods you up with endorphins. It is adequately cromulent, but not very transcendent.
Thor: Ragnarok is Recommended If You Like: Doctor Strange, ’70s Glam Rock Stars, Kiwi accents
Grade: 3.5 out of 5 Nonsense Circles
This Is a Movie Review: ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Switches Back and Forth Between Amusingly Diverting and Alarmingly Deadly
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This review was originally published on News Cult in July 2017.
Starring: Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr., Laura Harrier, Marisa Tomei, Zendaya, Tony Revolori, Martin Starr
Rating: PG-13 for the Usual Superhero Action
The problem with the two Spider-Man movies with Amazing in the title (as opposed to the Spider-Man movies that could be accurately described as “amazing”) is that they hewed too closely to what had already been told in recent cinematic history. Spider-Man: Homecoming (the first Spidey flick to take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) avoids that issue by crafting a Peter Parker (here played by 21-year-old Tom Holland, who easily passes for 15) that is markedly different than any classic conception. Rather than bounding himself by the code of “with great power comes great responsibility,” this Spider-Man bounds into any crisis with reckless abandon. As a big proponent of not being beholden to source material, I admire this decision, but I wish that director Jon Watts and his team of co-screenwriters had a stronger handle on what exactly this conception means.
This is very much a high school movie, with its emphasis on episodic, almost sitcom-esque structure. But it is also a superhero action flick, so the threats are just as deadly and just as adult as they are in any other Spider-Man or any Avengers film. The tonal bridge between these two halves is plentifully whiplash-inducing. It is absolutely fine to awaken a hero to the dangers of the world, because the hero’s journey has been fruitful for centuries of storytelling, and it is a valuable representation of real-life maturation. Even switching back to scenes of high school shenanigans after fights with the most wanted criminals is theoretically acceptable, because mundanity does exist right alongside evil. But it requires a deft hand to make that balancing act entertaining and palatable, a feat whose difficulty Homecoming vastly underestimates.
What Homecoming succeeds at most is its skillfulness at making fun of itself, or the MCU more generally. I often find blockbuster stabs at humor to be glib and obvious, but it helps when you have comedy heavyweights like Hannibal Buress, Martha Kelly, and Martin Starr (whom Community fans will note is essentially reviving his performance as Professor Cligoris). Still, as funny as it is, it feels out of place. After all, it is essentially window-dressing to the fight that Peter takes up against arms dealing Adrian Toomes (a controlled, but thoroughly sniveling Michael Keaton), who eventually takes flight as a mechanized version of classic comics baddie the Vulture. We’ve previously seen Spidey get into predicaments as stressful as what he gets into here (a rescue atop the Washington Monument, holding together the two halves of a fissured Staten Island Ferry), but never against the context of a Spider-Man who actually looks like a teenager.
Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark stops by for several scenes to lend a hand in some of these most dangerous moments. Holland does not need RDJ’s help to make his first big starring vehicle work, but Peter Parker does need Iron Man’s help to avoid killing himself. It is that alarming realization that makes it clear that this ostensibly light and fluffy actioner has maybe taken on more weight than it can bear. Still, it is enjoyable when it allows itself to be kid’s stuff.
Spider-Man: Homecoming is Recommended If You Like: The Other Spider-Man Movies But Wish That Peter Parker Actually Looked Like a Teenager and That Everyone Was Hitting on Aunt May
Grade: 3.5 out 5 Best Sandwiches in Queens
This Is a Movie Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2’ Fulfills Its Blockbuster Duty
jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Baby Groot, Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, David Hasselhoff, Elizabeth Debicki, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, James Gunn, Karen Gillan, Kurt Russell, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, Michael Rooker, Pom Klementieff, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana Leave a comment
This review was originally published on News Cult in May 2017.
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Kurt Russell
Director: James Gunn
Rating: PG-13 for Space Opera Whiz Bang and Discussions About the Facts of Life
As fun as this era of Marvel-ous moviemaking can be, a corporate agenda gets in the way of originality. But it is not necessarily the blueprint of interconnected universes that mandates that every superhero movie must end with a fight for the survival of the planet. That is simply this genre’s instinct. If you want to avoid it, you have to fight it. And expanding the setting to multiple galaxies is not the way to do so. That just raises the stakes. Instead of just Earth, it is the fate of the entire universe that hangs in the balance. Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 cannot help but be a part of this exhausting pattern, but it does what it can by rendering this gigantic fight as personal as possible.
When Peter Quill’s (Chris Pratt) long-lost papa Ego (Kurt Russell) shows up, Quill suspects that the reunion is a little too perfect. Gamora (Zoe Saldana) convinces him to give his dad a chance, assuring him that if treachery is afoot, killing him is always an option. So they, alongside Drax (Dave Bautista) and Ego’s empathic companion Mantis (Pom Klementieff) head off to Ego’s home planet. It looks like an idyllic utopia, but eventually it is revealed that Ego is the planet, and his intentions with his son may not be so aboveboard. The threat of universal apocalypse thereby feels intimate because it depends upon how Quill will or will not be manipulated.
Meanwhile, Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and Baby Groot (Vin Diesel) are holding down the fort elsewhere and forming unlikely, but satisfying, alliances with Yondu (Michael Rooker) and Nebula (Karen Gillan). They must deal with an onslaught from a new race of aliens that I do not feel like getting into. They are probably here because they will factor significantly into future Marvel Cinematic Universe installments, but for now, they are a distraction from the main conflict. I am not opposed in principle to splitting up the main crew. Rocket and Groot, after all, have a delightful C-3PO/R2-D2-style repartee wherever they go. They can do their own thing, it just does not need to be so extensive when the main thrust is already so all-encompassing.
While vol. 2 does fall prey to sequel bloat, the Guardians crew is reliable enough for their adventures to have a pretty high floor. The banter is top-notch, fueled as it is by intergalactic culture clash. Gamora attempts to comfort Quill by referencing his attachment to a certain beloved-by-Germans celebrity, but she totally botches the details. Quill later fires back with a Cheers analogy of their relationship that is adorably confused. Drax demonstrates how his race is quite open about discussing sexual matters with a colorful description of his parents’ experiences. This is all helped along by Mantis’ empathic abilities, in which she can feel others’ emotions and thus open up the dams holding back honesty. The pinnacle of all this sharing is Baby Groot’s opinion on hats (which does not even need Mantis’ prompting).
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 is Recommended If You Like: “I am Groot.” “I am Groot?” “I AMMM GROOOOOOOT!”
Grade: 3.5 out of 5 Sweet Sounds of the Seventies
This Is a Movie Review: Doctor Strange
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This review was originally published on News Cult in October 2016.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Rachel McAdams
Directors: Scott Derrickson
Rating: PG-13 for fantastical bumps and bruises and a gruesome accident
Now at 14 films strong, the Marvel Cinematic Universe shows no signs of abandoning its (consistently profitable) template: initial humbling, transformative origin, world-threatening climax. Doctor Strange is not interested in (or prohibited from) straying from that template, but it does mess with the rules in ways that do right by its protagonist.
That transgressive attitude is there right from the start. Stephen Strange is a highly respected and highly arrogant neurosurgeon whose superheroic path is catalyzed by a car wreck that is as horrific and as indulgent as a PG-13 rating allows. The comic book model often begins with these intense powder kegs, but they are rarely this visceral, unless they are making a show of being “adult,” which is not what this entry is all about.
With his hands left stubbornly tremorous, Strange is enticed by the promise of an alternative treatment in the mountains of Nepal. While initially prone to skepticism about the sorcery he encounters, he hears out the pitch, perhaps because all characters played by Chiwetel Ejiofor or Tilda Swinton exude confidence. Convincing Strange could have been drawn out, but that likely would have been tiresome, so instead he is soundly convinced by a cosmic trip that achieves cinematic psychedelia unheard of for decades.
Of course, this all leads to a grand climactic battle – this time, a traitorous rebellion led by a former pupil (Mads Mikkelsen). As usual, the entire planet is at threat, but Dr. Strange is sly about how this comes to pass. With much of the action taking place in the “Mirror Dimension” or “astral planes,” the world at large generally has no idea what is going on.
Basically, while Doctor Strange must work within constraints, it has no intention of dialing back the pizzazz. And why should it, considering that so many of its characters can bend the very nature of reality? The film’s most striking visuals – rolling skyscrapers, warped cityscapes – are obviously reminiscent of Inception. That earlier dreamscape flick famously utilized primarily practical effects, while Strange quite obviously employs CGI. That is not a knock – this is perhaps the most artful use of impractical effects of all time. As Stephen Strange learns in his hero’s journey, it’s all about playing to your strengths.
Doctor Strange is Recommended If You Like: Inception But Wish It Had Been More Maniacal, 2001, a Healthy Helping of Looney Tunes
Grade: 4 out of 5 Astral Bodies
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Video shows Illinois trooper throwing woman to safety seconds before sliding truck crashes
National/World News
Posted: Nov 19, 2019 / 03:58 PM MST / Updated: Nov 19, 2019 / 03:58 PM MST
WAYNE COUNTY, IL (KTVI) - An Illinois couple who survived an incredibly close call on an icy interstate last week hopes their story and dramatic dashcam video will cause drivers to be more careful.
The video from the Illinois State Police shows a box truck barreling toward the couple as two Illinois State Troopers are assisting them.
Peggy and Wilbur “Bud” Vaught live in Fairfield, Illinois. They were on the side of Interstate 64 when they discovered they had a flat tire. Peggy Vaught was standing next to a trooper who was helping them when the truck started sliding.
“It was over with before I knew what was going on," she said.
The video shows a trooper grabbing her and throwing her into a ditch to protect her from the sliding truck. She estimates the truck was approximately 6 inches above her head as it passed over her. Her husband was still in their car and managed to walk away from the crash even though it totaled their vehicle. Peggy has a broken wrist.
“I’m still covered with bruises and everything but if I come out of this with only a broken wrist, that’s good,” she said.
The driver of the truck was cited for driving too fast for conditions and failure to reduce speed. The Vaught's hope their story will help other drivers see just how important it is to slow down and move over when possible in situations where first responders or flashing lights are on an interstate shoulder. The Illinois State Police reminds drivers that is the law in Illinois.
“Slow down,” said Peggy Vaught. “No one’s paying attention anymore.”
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The KIN Quiz 93: Answers
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Mariano Rojay is prime minister of which country? (Spain)
Name the two test nations who the All Blacks will play on their northern tour. (Scotland and Wales)
How many years ago was President Kennedy assassinated: 52, 53, 54 or 55? (54)
What is the English name for the karearea bird? (falcon)
In relation to sleep, what do the initials REM stand for?(rapid eye movement)
In which country was investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia assassinated recently? (Malta)
The film The Imitation Game was about which famous English mathematician? (Alan Turing)
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Which Romantic Poet wrote a sonnet with the opening line An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king? (Shelley)
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In the 1880s, a small group of Norwegian immigrants led by Jorgen Eliason happened upon a piece of Washington land so rich and beautiful, it reminded them of their own homeland in Norway. It was a verdant valley nestled between two snow-capped mountain ranges, the Olympics and the Cascades, with water lapping at its shores from a bay that on calm mornings reflected the blue sky like an exquisite looking glass. The immigrants, who missed the fjords of Norway with heartbreaking intensity, immediately claimed the land as their own and eventually founded a small town.
This town, Poulsbo, or “Little Norway” I as it is known around the world, was molded in the image of the immigrants’ mother-country. Through the years, its residents have remained proud of their heritage and Poulsbo has become a regional tourist destination where old-world charm meets Scandinavian sophistication. Although Poulsbo is a fascinating place to visit, the nearly 10,000 residents of the town all agree: it is an even better place to live.
Although Poulsbo is surrounded by gorgeous natural beauty, the town itself is also a beautiful sight to behold. This is apparent in the picturesque downtown core most of all, where rosemaled storefronts mix with historic murals and blooming flowers. A walk down the main streets of Poulsbo showcases the best of what the town has to offer, from Scandinavian-themed shops and restaurants, to heritage exhibits, to calming green space tucked here and there among the buildings. It is a town filled with interesting gift shops and delicious bakeries. The scent of baked goods permeates the streets.
The beauty and small-town feel of Poulsbo have made it a great local destination, but its focus on Norwegian culture has made it famous world-wide. Indeed, Poulsbo is to Norway as Leavenworth, Washington, is to Germany. Norwegian culture is served up everywhere in town, from local restaurants to annual events like the Sons of Norway Lutefisk Dinner and Viking Fest.
Although the old-world town is proud of its Norwegian heritage, it is also a hotbed of Scandinavian and European sophistication. Sprinkled among its charming shops are trendy restaurants serving delicious food from around Europe, lovely wine stops, beautiful cafes, and several pubs featuring award-winning local micro-brews. Poulsbo is a place where even the pickiest foodies are satisfied with steaming hot spaetzle, Swedish meatballs, and Norwegian lefse.
The diversity of food available in Poulsbo is mirrored by the diversity of its residents. The town is a mixture of blue-collar and white-collar residents, many of whom enjoy an 18-mile ferry boat commute to work in Seattle and other surrounding eastern cities. Many Poulsbo residents also commute to nearby Bremerton for work at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, or to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor.
Poulsbo is a popular place to live for many military families because of its small-town feel, low crime rate, great schools, and full line-up of year-around events. It’s also regarded as an excellent stepping-off point for adventures around the Kitsap Peninsula. Many residents enjoy weekend trips to Bainbridge Island and Vashon Island. Poulsbo is also a gateway for trips to the coast, including Victoria, B.C., and the Olympic National Park. For urban adventures, Bellevue and Seattle are just a short ferry ride away.
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Observable Beehive Installed in UNC’s Ross Hall
The University of Northern Colorado has new tenants on campus — thousands of them! In Ross Hall, an observable bee hive was installed with hardworking honeybees fortifying their new home.
UNC Student Creates Music with Electronics and a Bowling Ball
University of Northern Colorado doctoral music student Todd Swingle is an expert at playing a number of instruments including the piano, bass, percussion and more "non-traditional instruments," such as a bowling ball ... yes, a bowling ball.
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Solar Flower Blooms for First Time on UNC’s Campus
Nicknamed the Solar Flower, the device was installed on the front lawn of UNC’s César Chávez Cultural Center last month and provides 2,500 watts of power to meet the majority of the center’s needs.
USEPA Scientists at Work: Measuring Roadway Pollutants
People who live, work and play near major roadways may experience health effects from traffic pollution. Dr. Gayle Hagler, an EPA environmental engineer, uses an electric, zero-emissions "air-sniffing" vehicle to learn more about air quality near roadways. Her work is part of a larger research effort by EPA to understand the health impacts of major roadway pollution.
And Then They Were Gone: Egypt’s Disappearing Wildlife
Using fossils and depictions in ancient art, Justin Yeakel and his colleagues reconstructed the food web of larger-bodies mammals over the past 11,000 years in Egypt. As the climate became more arid and human population densities increased, the mammalian food web of Egypt lost its redundancy as more animals became locally extinct. Most notably, midsized herbivores—such as gazelles and antelope that link to the most carnivores—declined. Animals that are herbivores are outlined in green; carnivores are red.
3D Printing Replacement Body Parts
Researchers in that field are now amplifying their efforts with 3D printing technology, to create scaffolds from organic materials that cells need to grow into their final forms.
Richard Wysk, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at North Carolina State University, discusses the latest successes with this research, and the timeline for creating more complicated structures.
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Laramie Girls Softball Captures One Title at State Tournament
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Laramie hosted the 2020 Wyoming State Softball Championships last weekend, and Laramie Girls Softball had one champion.
LGS also had seven other teams place in the top three of their respective division.
For the third consecutive year, each year the division has been played, a team from LGS captured the 8U Pitching Machine division. The Laramie Tigers won the championship this year.
The Tigers went undefeated through five games over the weekend. They were 2-0 in pool play and outscored their opponents 20-3. The Tigers were 3-0 during bracket play and defeated another Laramie team, the Wildcats, 6-2 in the title game.
The Laramie Wildcats came in second, and the Laramie Mighty Bears took third place in the 8U division.
Laramie had three teams finish in second place, two of which didn’t get a chance to conclude their tournament.
Sunday’s major storm about 5 p.m. wiped out the remainder of the games. Results were based on previous games played between teams.
The Laramie Lightning 10U Competitive squad took second. They split their pool play action. LGS won 7-6 over the Gillette Blue Jays in their first bracket play game. They lost in the semis to WYCO, 8-5, but were leading their game, 12-6, against the Blue Jays, when it was rained out.
The 14U Lightning Competitive team also came in second place. After a 0-2 start in pool play and a loss in their first bracket game, Laramie rattled off three straight victories in elimination games and made it to the title game. 14U defeated Gillette Havoc 8-6, outlasted WYCO 12-11, and beat Gillette Wicked 307, 9-8. Laramie fell short in the championship game to the Cody Pride, 12-0.
The other runner-up finish was at 16U Rec. Laramie rattled off two wins in pool play. Then, they slipped past Wheatland, 5-4, before a 16-8 loss in the semis to Rock Springs. After a 5-2 victory over Wheatland, Laramie was leading 6-2 in the title game when the rain came and finished off the tournament. Due to Rock Springs’ victory over Laramie earlier, the Storm got the title over Laramie.
The Laramie Lightning 12U Competitive team took third place in their bracket. After a rough start in pool play, LGS rallied. The Lightning was the last seed after pool play. They won their first game of bracket action over Gillette Wicked 307, 15-7. A loss to eventual champion WYCO of 17-5, put LGS in elimination play. Laramie won their next two games, over Cody Pride, 10-6, and the Casper Rebels Blue, 11-3. The Lightning fell in a loser-out semifinal to the Gillette Blue Jays, 10-4.
The last team in the top three was the Laramie 18U Competitive division squad. They suffered losses to the state champion Cheyenne Extreme and runner-up Gillette Blue Jays.
LGS also had teams in the 10U Rec and 12U Rec divisions. Their total of 10 teams was the most in the 2020 state tournament that brought 43 other teams to Laramie last Thursday through Sunday.
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Jazz picks week of March 28
Juanito Pascual New Flamenco Trio. Photo by Anastasia Sierra.
Here are just a few jazz events around town this week. These and more coming attractions — classical, dance, theater, etc.— can be found at The Arts Fuse.
March 28, 8 p.m.
Scullers Jazz Club, Boston, MA.
The former child prodigy alto saxophonist from Brookline, now 21, celebrates 10 years of performing — including gigs with Phil Woods and Lee Konitz — by playing a show at her home base, Scullers.
Juanito Pascual New Flamenco Trio
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA.
Guitarist Juanito Pascual’s idea of flamenco has always been expansive, going well beyond the sound of the Gypsy Kings. His latest CD, New Flamenco Trio, incorporates a variety of traditional flamenco rhythms as well as a bit of Panama, American jazz, and George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” His trio — with bassist Brad Barrett and percussionist Tupac Mantilla — will be joined by flamenco dancer Auxi Fernández. (The show was rescheduled from the original snowed-upon February 15 date.)
Mary Lou Williams “Mass for Peace”
Union United Methodist Church, Boston, MA.
The great jazz pianist and composer spent much of the latter half of her career devoted to religious works. UnionARTS at the Union United Methodist Church presents the Euphonic Chorale in Williams’s “Mass for Peace.”
Ran Blake
April 2, 7:30 p.m.
Regattabar, Cambridge, MA.
Just shy of his 79th birthday (April 20), the endlessly exploratory pianist, composer, and teacher offers a rare solo concert — playing standards (from gospel and folk to American songbook), film noir soundtracks, and originals. (This is another show rescheduled from an earlier storm date.)
Marissa Licata
April 2, 8 p.m.
Honduran-American Marissa Licata matches an effervescent stage presence with fearsome chops, born of classical training and gigs with pop acts like Jethro Tull. She’s best when she pushes her Gypsy-jazz world-music fusion to the edge.
Café 939, Boston, MA.
For the past several years, guitarist Matthew Stevens has been Christian Scott’s right-hand man in the trumpet star’s rock-edged jazz quintet. Now, in anticipation of his Concord Records debut as a leader, Stevens returns to alma mater Berklee for a gig at the school’s Café 939, with his own formidable quintet: pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Vicente Archer, drummer Eric Doob, and percussionist Paulo Stagnaro. It’s part of “The Checkout” live broadcast series by Hoboken’s WBGO-FM and NPR.
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol Jazz Orchestra
The Turkish-born pianist and composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol came to Boston 20 years ago and studied big-band composing and arranging with the likes of Herb Pomeroy and Bob Brookmeyer. Ironically, his study of American big-band jazz led him back to the court music of the Ottoman Empire. His orchestra compositions, at their best, are a provocative blend of varied traditions. He celebrates the release of his album whatsnext? with his orchestra at the Regattabar.
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Phil DiPietro April 4, 2014 at 9:54 am
thanks for hipping us to these shows
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Immune Dysfunction in Children with CHARGE Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study
Monica T. Y. Wong ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Monica T. Y. Wong, Annechien J. A. Lambeck
Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, The Netherlands
Annechien J. A. Lambeck ,
Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical Immunology, Groningen, The Netherlands
Mirjam van der Burg,
Affiliation Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Department of Immunology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Sacha la Bastide-van Gemert,
Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
Lianne A. Hogendorf,
Conny M. A. van Ravenswaaij-Arts,
Elisabeth H. Schölvinck
* E-mail: e.h.scholvinck@umcg.nl
Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Beatrix Children’s Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, Infectious Diseases and Immunology section, Groningen, The Netherlands
Monica T. Y. Wong,
Annechien J. A. Lambeck,
Monica T. Y. Wong Annechien J. A. Lambeck ... Elisabeth H. Schölvinck
CHARGE syndrome is a variable, multiple congenital malformation syndrome. Patients with CHARGE syndrome have frequent infections that are presumed to be due to anatomical anomalies of the craniofacial region and upper airway, and cranial nerve problems resulting in swallowing difficulties and aspiration. The possible contribution of immunological abnormalities to these infections has not been systematically studied even though immune deficiencies have been described in patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a condition which shares remarkable clinical overlap with CHARGE syndrome. We assessed the frequency and nature of immune dysfunction in 24 children with genetically proven CHARGE syndrome. All patients, or their parents, completed a questionnaire on infectious history. Their immune system was extensively assessed through full blood counts, immunoglobulin levels, lymphocyte subpopulations, peripheral B- and T-cell differentiation, T-receptor excision circle (TREC) analysis, T-cell function, and vaccination responses. All CHARGE patients had a history of infections (often frequent), mainly otitis media and pneumonia, leading to frequent use of antibiotics and to hospital admissions. Decreased T-cell numbers were found in 12 (50%) patients, presumably caused by insufficient thymic output since TREC amounts were also diminished in CHARGE patients. Despite normal peripheral B-cell differentiation and immunoglobulin production in all patients, 83% of patients had insufficient antibody titers to one or more early childhood vaccinations. Based on our results, we recommend immunological evaluation of CHARGE patients with recurrent infections.
Citation: Wong MTY, Lambeck AJA, van der Burg M, la Bastide-van Gemert S, Hogendorf LA, van Ravenswaaij-Arts CMA, et al. (2015) Immune Dysfunction in Children with CHARGE Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0142350. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142350
Editor: Douglas F. Nixon, George Washington University, UNITED STATES
Received: July 9, 2015; Accepted: October 19, 2015; Published: November 6, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Wong et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Funding: The study is supported by Fonds NutsOhra (http://www.fondsnutsohra.nl/) with a grant (1202-023) to MTYW. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
CHARGE syndrome (MIM# 214800) is a rare, multiple congenital anomaly syndrome with an estimated birth prevalence of 1 in 15,000 to 17,000 newborns [1]. The clinical diagnosis is made using criteria proposed by Blake et al. [2] or Verloes [3]. The syndrome is caused by a dominant loss-of-function mutation in, or a deletion of, the CHD7 gene (#MIM 608892), which usually occurs de novo and can be found in over 90% of all children who meet the clinical diagnostic criteria. The encoding protein of CHD7 is a member of the chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein family that regulates the transcription of genes during embryonic development. Because of the regulating function of CHD7, haploinsufficiency of CHD7 affects multiple organ systems, which explains the broad clinical variability seen in CHARGE syndrome. No clear genotype-phenotype correlations have been found, although variants leading to a premature stop codon are, in general, associated with a more severe phenotype than variants with a non-truncating effect (i.e. missense variants) [4].
Since Pagon et al. [5] proposed the acronym CHARGE (Coloboma of the eye, Heart defects, Atresia of the choanae, Retardation of growth and/or development, Genital abnormalities, and Ear abnormalities), new clinical features have been added to CHARGE syndrome that include cranial nerve dysfunction, absent or hypoplastic semicircular canals, anosmia, cleft lip and/or palate, and skeletal abnormalities [3,6,7]. In addition, patients with CHARGE syndrome have frequent infections including recurrent otitis media, sinusitis, and infections of the respiratory tract, which lead to morbidity and even mortality [8,9]. Deviations of the palatal and ear anatomy, as well as cranial nerve dysfunction affecting swallowing, contribute to these infections. However, the contribution of abnormalities in the immune system may be of importance because T-cell lymphopenia and thymic abnormalities have been described in individual patients with CHARGE syndrome, and these abnormalities resemble immune abnormalities seen in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (#MIM 192430) [9]. In contrast to 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, the frequency and exact nature of the immunological abnormalities in CHARGE syndrome have so far not been studied either prospectively or systematically. In this respect, knowledge is needed to develop guidelines to optimize the care of children with CHARGE syndrome. Our aim in this study was to systematically explore the prevalence and nature of immune dysfunction in children with CHARGE syndrome.
Children with genetically confirmed CHARGE syndrome were recruited through the Dutch Expert Clinic for CHARGE syndrome between September 2013 and June 2014. Mutations in CHD7 were classified as truncating (i.e. nonsense, frameshift, or deletion) or non-truncating (i.e. missense or splice-site). Healthy children, mainly siblings of CHARGE patients, were included as age-matched controls for the T-cell function assay and as a control group for the T-cell receptor excision circle (TREC) analysis. Exclusion criteria were age below 20 months or above 18 years or active infection and/or immunosuppressive therapy (e.g. steroids) at the time of the blood tests. Further exclusion criteria for healthy controls were ear-nose-throat problems in the previous two years defined as adenoidectomy, placement of tympanostomy tubes, or otitis media with effusion. Potential healthy controls with primary immune deficiencies or autoimmune disease were also excluded.
Patients, or their parents, filled in a Dutch questionnaire on infectious history (available from the authors upon request). Questions were based on international guidelines and protocols for identifying primary immune deficiency [10,11]. Additional medical information was extracted from the patient files and the database of the Dutch Expertise Centre for CHARGE syndrome. Because the thymus has not been routinely examined in CHARGE patients, information on the thymus could only be retracted from cardiac surgery reports, where available. The study was approved by the Medical Ethical Review Committee of the University Medical Centre Groningen and written informed consent was obtained from all patients, controls and/or their parents.
Immunologic assays
Peripheral blood was obtained from all patients and healthy controls for immunological assessment. All the immunological assays we performed have been validated and are used in routine patient diagnostics. For all assays, age-matched reference values are available [12–15], except for the T-cell subpopulations of patients under the age of 5 years, TRECs, and T-cell function assay [16]. Healthy controls were used to establish age-matched reference values for the T-cell function assay and as the control group for TREC analysis. Lymphocyte populations and peripheral B- and T-cell subpopulations were also analysed in the healthy controls. Results of all assays, except for the TRECs, were assessed on the basis of the age-matched reference values.
Full blood counts were measured with an automated cell counter (Sysmex XN10/20, Kobe, Japan); serum immunoglobulin (Ig) G, IgG subclasses 1–4, IgA, and IgM were nephelometrically analysed using BNII system (Siemens AG, Munich, Germany); and serum total IgE was measured by fluoro-enzyme-immuno-assay (Phadia, Uppsala, Sweden). These assays were performed according to the manufacturer’s protocol.
IgG-specific antibodies to diphtheria toxoid and tetanus toxin were analysed at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM, Netherlands) using a Luminex-technology-based multiplex immunoassay developed in-house [17,18]. A protective concentration of antibody to both diphtheria and tetanus was defined as ≥0.10 IU/ml. IgG-specific antibodies to Haemophilus influenzae type b and to 13 types of pneumococcal polysaccharides were analysed at the laboratory of the Antonius Hospital (Nieuwegein, Netherlands). Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA, Binding Site, San Diego, CA, USA) was used to analyse IgG-specific antibodies to H. influenzae type b and a concentration of >1.0 mg/l was considered protective. IgG-specific antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharides were analysed by multiplex assay [19,20]. An adequate response to pneumococcal polysaccharides was defined as an absolute level of >0.35 μg/ml in > 50% of the serotypes.
Multicolour flow cytometric phenotyping of the lymphocyte populations was performed using a FACSCanto II (Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) and data were analysed using FACSCanto Clinical Software version 2.4 and FACSDiva software version 7.0 (Becton Dickinson). Absolute numbers of CD3+, CD4+, and CD8+ T-cells; CD19+ B-cells; and CD16+/56+ NK-cells were measured using the MultiTest TruCount method with MultiTest reagents to CD45/3/4/8/16+56/19 (Becton Dickinson). The lyse-no-wash preparation method was performed as prescribed by the manufacturer.
Peripheral B- and T-cell differentiation was assessed by multicolour flow cytometric phenotyping of the peripheral B- and T-cell subpopulations based on the methods described by Driessen et al. [14]. The monoclonal antibodies and the gating strategy for the B- and T-cell subpopulations are discussed in S1 Appendix. Absolute numbers of the B- and T-cell subpopulations were calculated using their relative numbers and the absolute number of CD19+ B-cells or CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells. Absolute numbers of the B- and T-cell subpopulations were then compared to age-matched reference values [14,15]. Because of the heterogeneity of the peripheral T-cells, T-cell subpopulations were only considered to be decreased if both the absolute and relative numbers were lower than the age-matched reference values.
TRECs, which can be used as a reflection of thymic T-cell output [21], were assessed by the methods proposed by Hazenberg et al. [22] and Chan and Puck [23]. In brief, DNA was extracted from dry blood spots using generation DNA elution solution method (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). Subsequently, real-time quantitative PCR for TRECs was performed with Albumin as control for DNA input. The amount of TRECs per μg DNA was calculated.
T-cell function was assessed by stimulating whole blood with five different stimuli and measuring T-cell activation (percentage CD69+ T-cells) and cytokine production (TNF-α, IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-4) as described by us earlier [16] and further described in S2 Appendix. T-cell activation and intracellular production of cytokines were determined within the CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells. The interpretation of these T-cell function tests was done by the medical immunologist (AJAL) who has extensive experience with it in our immunologic laboratory.
We used descriptive statistics to provide summary results on individual outcomes. Fisher’s exact test was used to compare two groups of dichotomous outcomes. Student’s t test was used to compare the TRECs results of the patients with the healthy control group. In addition, the effect of age on the TRECs results was analysed with linear regression. A two-sided p-value smaller than 0.05 was considered as significant. The statistical software programme IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 22.0 (Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.) was used for statistical analysis. To construct graphs, GraphPad Prism for Windows, Version 5.04 (La Jolla, CA, USA) was used.
Clinical characteristics
We initially included 27 patients and 14 healthy controls in the study. Two of the patients were later excluded because blood sampling was unsuccessful, and one patient and two healthy controls withdrew from the study. The clinical characteristics of the remaining 24 patients are presented in Table 1. The median ages of patients and controls were 8.3 (range 1.9–16.9) and 11.5 (range 5.5–17.3) years, respectively. Two-thirds of the mutations in CHD7 in our cohort are known to lead to a premature stop in CHD7 (truncating mutations). All but five patients fulfilled the clinical criteria for typical CHARGE syndrome as defined by Blake et al. [2] and/or Verloes [3].
Table 1. Clinical characteristics of 24 patients with CHARGE syndrome.
All 24 patients had a history of infections (often frequent). Twenty (83%) patients had experienced upper airway infections, including otitis media in 16 (67%) patients. Seven (29%) patients had had pneumonia and eight (33%) patients had a history of other infections, including dermatomucosal infections (n = 5), gastroenteritis (n = 1), and pyelonephritis (n = 2). Ten (42%) patients had needed hospital admission for their infections, predominantly for pneumonia (n = 5). In addition, 12 (50%) patients needed placement of tympanostomy tubes because of recurrent otitis media. Antibiotics had been ever given to 17 (71%) patients and seven (29%) patients had received prophylactic antibiotics for recurrent upper airway infections or pneumonia. None of the patients had had life-threatening infections like sepsis or meningitis. Candidiasis was only seen with concomitant antibiotic use. Atopic disorders (n = 8, 33%) were mentioned as allergy (n = 6, 25%), eczema (n = 2, 8%) and asthma (n = 1, 4%). None of the patients had an autoimmune disease.
In summary, all CHARGE patients had a history of infections. Otitis media and pneumonia were the most prevalent, with prophylactic antibiotics given to 29% of patients. Eighteen patients (75%) needed hospital admission for reasons related to infectious diseases.
Full blood count
Haemoglobin levels, numbers of erythrocytes, thrombocytes, and leukocytes (including neutrophils, lymphocytes, basophils, eosinophils, and monocytes) were normal in all 24 patients.
Humoral immunity
Humoral immunity was evaluated by determining immunoglobulin levels and absolute numbers of peripheral B-cells and B-cell subpopulations. The levels of immunoglobulins and immunoglobulin subclasses are shown in Table 2 and were normal in all 24 patients, except for one who had a marginally decreased IgA level of 0.50 g/l (normal 0.54 g/l).
Table 2. Immunoglobulin levels per CHARGE patient.
Absolute numbers of peripheral B-cells and B-cell subpopulations, in which relevant results were found, are shown in Table 3. Three (13%) patients had low numbers of B-cells. The absolute number of memory B-cells, consisting mainly of class-switched memory B cells and a small amount of IgM-only B-cells, is only slightly lower than the reference value in 4 of 24 (17%) CHARGE patients. Absolute numbers of all other peripheral B-cell subpopulations (transitional, naive mature, marginal zone-like, plasmablasts and CD21low B-cells) were normal or only slightly decreased in all CHARGE patients (see S1 Table).
Table 3. Peripheral B-cells, memory B-cells and IgM expression on class-switched memory B-cells per CHARGE patient.
Interestingly, in eight patients (33%), the memory B-cells, which clearly had undergone class-switch recombination as shown by strong IgG expression, retained IgM expression (Table 3 and Fig 1).
Fig 1. IgM and IgG expression on memory B-cells.
IgM and IgG expression on memory B-cells (CD27+IgD-) of a CHARGE patient (B, D) and a simultaneously analyzed healthy control (A, C). A, B) IgG and IgM expression are used to differentiate between class-switched memory B-cells (CD27+IgD-IgM-/CD27+IgD-IgG+) and IgM-only memory B-cells (CD27+IgD-IgG-IgM++). Memory B-cells with high IgM expression and no expression of IgG are considered to be IgM-only memory B-cells (upper-left quadrant), all other memory B-cells are considered to be class-switched memory B-cells. C, D) Part of the CHARGE patients show abnormal expression of IgM on class-switched memory B-cells compared to healthy controls. MFI, mean fluorescence intensity.
Thus, immunoglobulin production and peripheral B-cell differentiation were normal in our CHARGE patients, except for the abnormal expression of IgM on class-switched memory B-cells in a third of the patients.
Cellular immunity
Cellular immunity was evaluated by determining absolute numbers of peripheral NK-cells, T-cells and T-cell subpopulations, TRECs, and T-cell function. In Table 4, the results of peripheral NK-cells, T-cells and naive T-cells are shown. Two of 24 (8%) patients had low numbers of NK-cells. Overall, 12 of 24 (50%) patients had low peripheral T-cell numbers (CD3+, CD4+ and/or CD8+ T-cells), of which five (21%) had low numbers of CD3+ T-cells, five (21%) had low numbers of CD4+ T-cells, and eleven (46%) had low numbers of CD8+ T-cells. Compared to the healthy control group, decreased CD8+ T-cell numbers were found more often in CHARGE patients (p = 0.031). Decreased numbers of CD4+ T-cells also occurred more often in CHARGE patients than in the healthy control group, but this difference was not significant (p = 0.146).
Table 4. Peripheral NK-cells, T-cells and naive T-cells per CHARGE patient.
In the T-cell subpopulations, we primarily saw deviations in the number of naive mature T-cells. The absolute or relative numbers of other T-cell subpopulations (central memory, effector memory, terminally differentiated, activated, CD4+ regulatory, αβ, γδ and double negative αβ T-cells) were not abnormal in a relevant way (S2 Table). For seven patients, T-cell subpopulations could not be interpreted because age-matched reference values were not available. Of the other seventeen patients, five (29%) and eight (47%) patients had low numbers of naive mature CD4+ T-cells and naive mature CD8+ T-cells, respectively. Most patients with low numbers of naive mature CD4+ or CD8+ T-cells also had low numbers of total CD4+ T or CD8+ T-cells. Decreased numbers of naive mature CD4+ T-cells (p = 0.059) and naive mature CD8+ T-cells (p = 0.009) occurred more often in CHARGE patients than in the healthy control group.
Low numbers of naive mature and total T-cells can be caused by congenital thymic aplasia or hypoplasia, both of which have been described in patients with CHARGE syndrome [9]. However, low numbers of naive mature and total T-cells may also be caused by thymectomy during cardiac surgery due to congenital heart defects in CHARGE patients. Information on the thymus was available for six patients who had undergone cardiac surgery (Table 1). Two patients (CHD18 and 27) had thymectomy during cardiac surgery and had low peripheral T-cells. One patient (CHD 26) had only a partial thymectomy and had normal T-cell numbers (except for low naive CD8+ T-cells). In one patient (CHD14) thymus aplasia was confirmed during surgery, with resulting low T-cell numbers. The thymus was not mentioned in the operation reports for the other two patients (CHD10 and 15). Of the eighteen patients without cardiac surgery, eight patients (CHD09, 12, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23 and 25; 44%) had low peripheral T-cell numbers (CD3+, CD4+ and/or CD8+ T-cells).
TREC analysis could be performed in 22 patients with CHARGE syndrome. The mean TRECs/μg DNA was 998 (SD 535), which is significantly lower than the TRECs in the healthy control group (Fig 2, mean 1688, SD 814, p = 0.005). To evaluate the effect of age on the amount of TRECs, a linear regression analyses was performed and showed no significant effect.
Fig 2. T-cell receptor excision circle (TREC) analysis.
Numbers of TRECs in patients with CHARGE syndrome (n = 22) compared to healthy controls (n = 12). Error bars indicate means and standard deviations, *p = 0.005.
Overall, the results of all 24 patients showed sufficient T-cell activation and intracellular cytokine production after stimulation with different mitogenic and antigenic stimuli (S3 Table). Of note, 11 (46%) patients had increased T-cell responses to one or more stimuli, compared to the age-matched reference values established on the results of our 12 healthy controls. Eight of these patients had decreased percentages of naive mature T-cells and increased percentages of effector memory or terminally differentiated T-cells, which might be an explanation of the increased responses.
In summary, 50% of patients had low peripheral T-cell numbers, mainly caused by low numbers of naive mature T-cells, which is consistent with the decreased numbers of TRECs. Although the numbers of T-cells are decreased, deficiencies in T-cell function were not found with the assay we performed.
Vaccination responses
All patients were vaccinated according to the Dutch or Belgian National Immunization Programmes [24,25], with the exception of one patient who had not been vaccinated at all (Table 5). Levels of IgG-specific antibodies to tetanus toxin were normal in all vaccinated patients. Eight of 22 (36%; assessment was unsuccessful in one patient) vaccinated patients had insufficient levels of IgG-specific antibodies to diphtheria and 15 of 23 (65%) vaccinated patients had insufficient levels of IgG-specific antibodies to H. influenzae type b. The vaccination response to pneumococcal polysaccharides could only be interpreted in 11 patients, since vaccination to pneumococcal polysaccharides was introduced into the Dutch vaccination programme in 2006. Three of 11 (27%) patients had insufficient antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharides. Of 23 vaccinated patients, 19 (83%) had insufficient levels of IgG-specific antibodies to one or more of the vaccines we tested, while only four patients had sufficient levels of IgG-specific antibodies to all of the vaccines tested. Overall, reduced responses to one or more vaccinations, given in early childhood, are prevalent in patients with CHARGE syndrome.
Table 5. IgG-specific vaccine-induced antibody responses per CHARGE patient.1
This is the first study to systematically and extensively explore the immune system of CHARGE patients. In our cohort of CHARGE patients, all had a history of infections (often frequent), specifically upper airway infections that often led to hospital admissions and the use of prophylactic antibiotics. Anomalies in the upper airway (atresia of choanae, abnormal outer and inner ear anatomy) contribute to patient susceptibility to infections and extend infection duration by impeding drainage or clearance of infectious debris. It is, however important, to know whether immunological abnormalities contribute to the frequency and complicate the severity of infections in order to optimize the management of care in these patients.
No abnormalities were found in routine diagnostics (full blood count), but with detailed immunologic assays, we found T-cell lymphopenia in 50% of patients, mainly caused by low numbers of naive mature T-cells. Our finding is comparable with the results of a retrospective study by Jyonouchi et al. [8], who found overall T-cell lymphopenia in four of nine (44%) CHARGE patients.
Notably, we found low T-cell numbers in 44% of patients who had not undergone cardiac surgery and therefore should have an “intact” thymus. Congenital dysmorphology or dysfunction of the thymus might be the underlying cause of T-cell lymphopenia and this is supported by our finding of diminished TREC numbers in the patients. Little is known about thymic abnormalities in CHARGE patients from the literature. Thymic anomalies have been reported in foetuses with confirmed CHD7 mutations [26] and were reported in 16 of 36 (44%) patients with a proven mutation in CHD7 [9]. Unfortunately, there is no specific information on the thymus for 18 of 24 patients in our CHARGE cohort.
Evidence for the role of CHD7 and TBX1, the causative gene of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, has been shown in the embryonic development of the thymus in animal models. Both genes are expressed in the pharyngeal arches which contain precursors of thymic stromal cells [27,28]. Bi-directional molecular interaction between thymic epthelial cells and T-cell progenitor cells is critical for the complete morphological and functional maturation of both cell compartments [27]. Thus, abnormal thymic development presumably not only affects the level of T-cell output, but could also affect the function of T-cells. For example, the T-cell receptor repertoire [29] and the development of natural regulatory T-cells [30] have been shown to be affected in patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Although we found normal T-cell responses with our T-cell function assay, we cannot exclude subtle dysfunctions in more complex T-cell function, such as the delicate interaction between T-cells and B-cells.
Peripheral B-cell and NK-cell numbers were normal in almost all patients, comparable to former reports [9]. However, hypogammaglobulinaemia was found in 61% of CHARGE patients in former case reports [9], while in our study the immunoglobulin levels were normal in all patients. Publication bias needs to be taken in consideration for the higher percentages found in case reports. Actually, our results were more comparable with those from 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, where hypogammaglobulinaemia was found in only 6% of a large cohort of 855 patients [31]. Although peripheral B-cell differentiation was normal, a third of the CHARGE patients had class-switched memory B-cell retaining IgM expression. We had not anticipated on this finding in our methods by including isotype controls, which limits the interpretation of these data. Nonetheless, these cells may indicate impaired class-switch recombination and memory B-cell formation in CHARGE patients. To our knowledge, these phenotypically abnormal class-switched memory B-cells have not been reported before, but lower numbers of class-switched memory B-cells have been found in adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome [32]. We can speculate that the formation of fully functional class-switched memory B-cells in CHARGE patients is impeded due to insufficient T-cell help during the class-switch recombination process, leading to diminished production of specific antibodies. However, our data is insufficient to fully support this tentative hypothesis which links our findings in the peripheral T-cell populations with the humoral abnormalities. More research is needed on memory B-cell formation and function in CHARGE patients.
Specific antibodies to one or more vaccines given in childhood were insufficient in 83% of patients, specifically to diphtheria and H. influenzae type b vaccines. In the literature, vaccination responses in CHARGE syndrome are only described in case reports and in one retrospective study. Reduced responses to diphtheria (n = 3), tetanus (n = 4), H. influenzae type b (n = 2), and pneumococcal polysaccharides (n = 1) have been reported [8,33,34]. Although protective levels of specific antibodies decrease over time, this waning seems to occur at an earlier age in patients with CHARGE syndrome (median age 14.7 years) compared with the general population (30–40 years of age) [35,36].
We studied the largest cohort of well-defined CHARGE patients with confirmed CHD7 mutations so far but, of course, statistical analysis on only 24 patients limits the interpretation of our results. What we can state is that immunological abnormalities are often seen in patients with CHARGE syndrome. We hypothesize that abnormal thymic development leads to diminished numbers of T-cells that may also be impaired in more subtle functions as activating B-cells to differentiate into fully functional class-switched memory B-cells. Incomplete class-switched memory B-cell formation can be an explanation for the insufficient responses to vaccines in our CHARGE patients due to poor humoral memory.
The high prevalence of immunological abnormalities combined with the frequent occurrence of infections demonstrates the need for more research in a larger cohort to extend the analysis of correlations between clinical data and immunological laboratory results, and to confirm some of our immunological findings. With such data, evidence-based guidelines can be developed for the timely diagnosis of immune dysfunctions based on clinical symptoms, which will help protect these children from excess morbidity and mortality due to infections. Nonetheless, based on the results of this study, we would recommend performing specialised immunologic assays (B- and T-cell numbers and vaccination responses) in patients with persistent infections who need prophylactic antibiotics, since the immune abnormalities we found will not be apparent with routine diagnostics. Considering the high prevalence of reduced antibody responses, it may be worthwhile to give these patients booster vaccinations and recheck the antibody responses. Firstly because H. influenza and pneumococcal infections are highly prevalent in otitis media [37], and secondly to determine if CHARGE patients have a primary lack of response to some vaccines or if they have poor humoral memory.
S1 Appendix. Monoclonal antibodies and gating strategy for the B- and T-cell subpopulations.
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S2 Appendix. Stimulation, fluorescent barcoding, and monoclonal antibodies in the T-cell function assay.
S1 Dataset. Data of the T-cell receptor excision circle analysis.
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S1 Table. Peripheral B-cell subpopulations per CHARGE patient.
S2 Table. Peripheral T-cells subpopulations per CHARGE patient.
S3 Table. T-cell function assay per CHARGE patient.
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Foremost, we would like to thank the patients, their siblings, and their parents for their cooperation in the study. We thank Eelco Dulfer for recruiting eligible participants; Jetske T. Anema, Janneke Heimweg, Bessel J. Schaap, and Ingrid Pico-Knijnenburg for analyzing the samples and Kate Mc Intyre for editing the manuscript.
Conceived and designed the experiments: MTYW AJAL CMAR-A EHS. Performed the experiments: MTYW AJAL MB LAH EHS. Analyzed the data: MTYW AJAL MB SB-G EHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTYW AJAL MB LAH EHS. Wrote the paper: MTYW AJAL MB SB-G CMAR-A EHS.
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BEST: Next-Generation Biomedical Entity Search Tool for Knowledge Discovery from Biomedical Literature
Sunwon Lee ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Sunwon Lee, Donghyeon Kim
Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Donghyeon Kim ,
Kyubum Lee,
Jaehoon Choi,
Seongsoon Kim,
Minji Jeon,
Sangrak Lim,
Donghee Choi,
Sunkyu Kim,
Aik-Choon Tan,
Affiliation Translational Bioinformatics and Cancer Systems Biology Laboratory, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
Jaewoo Kang
* E-mail: kangj@korea.ac.kr
Sunwon Lee,
Donghyeon Kim,
Aik-Choon Tan
Sunwon Lee Donghyeon Kim ... Jaewoo Kang
As the volume of publications rapidly increases, searching for relevant information from the literature becomes more challenging. To complement standard search engines such as PubMed, it is desirable to have an advanced search tool that directly returns relevant biomedical entities such as targets, drugs, and mutations rather than a long list of articles. Some existing tools submit a query to PubMed and process retrieved abstracts to extract information at query time, resulting in a slow response time and limited coverage of only a fraction of the PubMed corpus. Other tools preprocess the PubMed corpus to speed up the response time; however, they are not constantly updated, and thus produce outdated results. Further, most existing tools cannot process sophisticated queries such as searches for mutations that co-occur with query terms in the literature. To address these problems, we introduce BEST, a biomedical entity search tool. BEST returns, as a result, a list of 10 different types of biomedical entities including genes, diseases, drugs, targets, transcription factors, miRNAs, and mutations that are relevant to a user’s query. To the best of our knowledge, BEST is the only system that processes free text queries and returns up-to-date results in real time including mutation information in the results. BEST is freely accessible at http://best.korea.ac.kr.
Citation: Lee S, Kim D, Lee K, Choi J, Kim S, Jeon M, et al. (2016) BEST: Next-Generation Biomedical Entity Search Tool for Knowledge Discovery from Biomedical Literature. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164680. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164680
Editor: Luis M. Rocha, Indiana University, UNITED STATES
Received: May 12, 2016; Accepted: September 29, 2016; Published: October 19, 2016
Copyright: © 2016 Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (http://www.nrf.re.kr/) grants (NRF-2014R1A2A1A10051238, NRF-2014M3C9A3063543, NRF-2012M3C4A7033341). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
With biomedical publications increasing in number, knowledge discovery from the literature represents a new challenge for biomedical researchers. Extracting relevant information from a large volume of publications has become an extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming task. Although PubMed serves as a good starting point for researchers, it produces only a list of relevant articles, leaving most of the information-extraction task to the users. For example, PubMed returns 28,924 articles (as of April 14, 2016) for the query “chronic myeloid leukemia.” It is almost impossible for users to sift through all these records to extract relevant information. The problem is exacerbated by the increasing amount of published literature (on average, more than 3,000 articles are added to PubMed every day).
To address this problem, text mining techniques and tools have been developed to assist users.[1] Many biomedical entity search systems have been created to enhance PubMed search. However, the systems have several limitations such as outdated results, slow response time, and limited coverage. First, many existing systems are out of date. To speed up query processing, they preprocess the PubMed corpus to extract information and index the corpus in advance. The PubMed corpus is updated daily and hence new information may not be discovered by existing systems unless they constantly preprocess and index the corpus. Second, many existing systems are slow. Some systems do not preprocess or index the PubMed corpus. Instead, they submit queries to PubMed and process the results returned by PubMed at query time (i.e., each time a user’s query is posted). Consequently, these steps take a long time as the information extraction tasks are done at query time and hence the systems cover only a fraction of the PubMed corpus as the number of articles that can be processed in a given time is limited. Last, many existing systems do not cover all necessary biomedical entities or relations such as mutations, targets, and drugs, to name a few.
More specifically, most previous systems use a conventional search system structure. They extract biomedical entities in indexing time. This scheme speeds up the system at query time. FACTA+ [2,3], DigSee [4], and OncoSearch [5] are index-based entity search systems. Their indices enable them to immediately return query results. However, they can become inconsistent with a source data set. When a source data set (e.g., PubMed) is frequently updated but the systems are not, a search result returned by these systems will not contain up-to-date information or newly discovered knowledge. To resolve this consistency problem due to the systems’ outdated indices, other systems such as Alibaba [6] and PolySearch [7,8] retrieve PubMed abstracts at query time. By this approach, these can use the most recently published articles. Unlike the index-based systems, these systems do not have the consistency problem; however, they process articles after a query is inputted. Thus, these systems take a much longer time to process a user’s query, and cover only a fraction of the PubMed corpus as the number of articles that can be processed in a given time is limited.
To address this challenging problem, we introduce a next-generation biomedical entity search tool (BEST) that directly returns relevant entities rather than a list of documents. BEST returns, as a result, a list of ten different types of biomedical entities including genes, diseases, drugs, chemical compounds, targets, transcription factors, miRNAs, toxins, pathways, and mutations that are relevant to a user’s query. BEST uses a dictionary-based approach to extract biomedical entities from texts, and indexes the entities along with the source texts. The BEST dictionary consists of 12 different databases each covering different subsets of entity types (we will describe it in the Methods section). BEST finds an entity relevant to a query based primarily on the number of co-occurrences between the query terms and the entity in the literature. Besides the co-occurrence, the ranking function of BEST takes into account other various metrics including the authority of journals, the recency of articles, and the term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) weighting. To the best of our knowledge, BEST is the only system that processes free text queries and returns up-to-date results including mutation information in real time.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In the Results section, we provide an overview of the BEST system, which includes details on querying BEST, identifying entities of various types, the evaluation of entity extraction in BEST, and the performance comparison of BEST and existing systems. In the Discussion section, we explain the differences between BEST and existing systems. In the Methods section, we describe indexing, index update policy, and search and entity scoring methods.
Biomedical Entity Search Tool (BEST) System
We developed BEST on Apache Solr v.4.9, a Lucene-based search platform. We logically redefined Solr’s indexing structure and ranking system to score entities. Fig 1 is an overview of the BEST system. BEST can be divided into two parts: Indexing (Fig 1(1)) and Searching (Fig 1(2)). BEST indexes not only PubMed abstracts, but also biomedical entities described in the abstracts. The pair of abstract and entity list is indexed as a posting in the inverted index. This indexing scheme was originally introduced in our prototype system BOSS [9]. BEST extends the original indexing system with the auto-update feature to synchronize with PubMed. BEST improves the accuracy of search with the enhanced coverage of indexed entity types and its new ranking algorithm.
Fig 1. Overview of the BEST System.
The BEST system consists of two main parts: Indexing and Searching. (1) “Indexing” represents the indexing subsystem of BEST. For every document, BEST extracts all biomedical entities (1-a) and makes a paired posting (1-b). The basic structure of BEST’s index is similar to that of the inverted index of conventional search engines. However, BEST uses a different indexing unit, paired posting, which is a pair of a document ID and a list of entities that appear in the document. (2) “Searching” represents the search subsystem of BEST. All retrieved paired postings are aggregated to rank the entities (2-a). Ranking scores are computed using four subcomponents described in “Searching and Scoring” in the Methods section (2-b).
BEST indexes the entire MEDLINE/PubMed corpus that consists of more than 25 million abstracts and continues to grow daily as more articles are added to the corpus. To keep its database up to date, BEST is programmed to visit the PubMed FTP site once every day and update its index by incorporating articles that were newly added to the PubMed corpus. There exist other archives with full-text articles (e.g., 3.9 million articles in PubMed Central). However, the current version of BEST is designed to search only the 25 million abstracts (just like PubMed) for the following two reasons: 1) we want the search coverage of BEST to be the same as that of PubMed; and 2) indexing all full-text articles and updating them daily requires a considerable amount of computing resources. However, we are aware of the importance of using full-text articles. In our future work, we will investigate how to extend BEST so that it can search full-text articles while keeping the system cost low.
Due to the paired posting list of BEST’s index, the system can immediately return biomedical entities from a query. First, BEST obtains all the postings from the inverted index that matched the query terms. Second, BEST groups the retrieved postings by entities contained in the postings. Last, BEST scores each entity by aggregating the scores of the postings in the corresponding entity group. The BEST system architecture and the scoring scheme is further detailed in the Method section. BEST is freely available at http://best.korea.ac.kr.
Querying BEST
Similar to PubMed, BEST answers any ad-hoc keyword query. Even though a query does not include any biomedical entities, BEST returns a list of entities related to the query. BEST also supports Boolean queries. Here, we illustrate some query examples, and the results returned by the BEST system.
Identifying genes and drugs using BEST.
To illustrate the functionality of BEST, we use chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) as a running example. CML is a type of leukemia that is caused by the BCR-ABL oncogene which is due to chromosomal rearrangement. To query the mutations and drugs related to CML, a user can query “chronic myeloid leukemia” in BEST. BEST returns a list of entities including the disease itself and imatinib as the first and second results, respectively (Fig 2). Imatinib (Gleevec) is the first approved targeted therapy for CML. Additional information provided with each entity includes a description of the entity (Fig 2(D)), a molecular interaction network centered around the entity (Fig 2(E)), computed enriched GO terms from the abstracts that match the entity (Fig 2(F)), and three abstract snippets with highlighted query terms and the entity (Fig 2(G)). Users can obtain more detailed information about a particular entity by clicking on the entity’s name, which will lead to an entity page where users can access all the abstracts in which the query terms and the entity co-occur.
Fig 2. BEST Interface.
Users can pose queries in the query window (a) and select result entity types either by using the drop down box (b) or by clicking on the entity-type filter tab (c). BEST returns a list of entities that are relevant to a user’s query. For each entity in the list, BEST shows a description (d), an interaction network (e), enriched GO terms (f) of the entity, and top 3 abstracts (g) in which the query terms and the entity co-occur.
Identifying mutations that confer resistance to drugs.
In CML, acquired mutations in ABL1 can lead to imatinib resistance. Suppose a user would like to know about the mutations that confer resistance to imatinib in CML. The user can select “Mutations” from the dropdown box as the desired result type and search “imatinib resistance ABL1” (Fig 2(A) and 2(B)). Table 1 lists the top 10 results from the query. Among the top 10 mutations returned by BEST, mutations T315I, Y253H, and V289F were found to be the binding sites of imatinib [10,11]. These mutations are acquired gatekeeper mutations that result in drug resistance. Notably, all three mutations were previously demonstrated to confer resistance to imatinib, and found in CML patients resistant to imatinib.[11,12] However, PubMed will return 190 articles for the same query (as of April 14, 2016), and the user still has to go through these articles to extract the ABL1 mutations that confer resistance to imatinib in CML. This result demonstrates that the user can use BEST to gather and summarize information scattered across multiple articles.
Table 1. Search result of query "imatinib resistance ABL1" with type filter "mutations."
Identifying alternative drugs that overcome acquired resistance.
Users can also apply an entity type filter by clicking on one of the entity type tabs (Fig 2(C)). If a user would like to know about alternative drugs for patients who are resistant to imatinib, the user can simply click on the “Drug” tab in the result page for drugs such as nilotinib, dasatinib, bosutinib, and ponatinib. These drugs have been found to be effective alternatives.[13] For example, in one of the abstracts returned from the query “nilotinib,” a user can find an alternative therapeutic choice for CML patients resistant to imatinib as follows.
“In recent years, several second-generation inhibitors—such as dasatinib and nilotinib—have become available, these promise to overcome some of the mutations associated with acquired resistance to imatinib.” [PubMed ID: 25216683]
Identifying related genes in a pathway.
By querying “MAP2K1,” a gene involved in the MAPK pathway, and clicking on the “Genes” tab, BEST will return all related genes involved in the MAPK pathway. Fig 3 shows the top 10 gene results from the query. As expected, the top nine genes are the known members of the classical signaling cascades (RTK, RAS, RAF, MEK, and ERK) of the MAPK pathway. Interestingly, the tenth gene returned from this query is PIK3CA, a gene not directly involved in the MAPK pathway but is a known core member of the parallel PI3K/AKT/MTOR signaling pathway. As presented in this result, BEST returns a series of genes that are relevant to the query.
Fig 3. BEST’s result of "MAP2K1" with type filter "genes."
These simple steps provided by BEST allow the user to navigate the retrieved information from the initial query and discover new knowledge. We believe these features distinguish BEST from other existing biomedical text mining systems. Users can retrieve articles from PubMed but they have to read the returned abstracts to discover information. For a more detailed explanation about the BEST query interface and additional use cases, please refer to the BEST manual at http://best.korea.ac.kr/help/BEST_Guide.pdf
Evaluation of biomedical entity extraction in BEST
Next, we evaluate the precision and recall of BEST’s entity extraction module using the Biomedical entity Relation ONcology COrpus (BRONCO).[14] BRONCO-A is a corpus that consists of 108 oncology-related PubMed abstracts containing annotations of gene, disease, drug, and cell line information. BEST uses its own dictionary-based named-entity extraction module which is available at http://infos.korea.ac.kr/bioentityextractor/ (see the Methods section for details). We compared BEST’s entity extraction module with PubTator[15] which is a state-of-the-art machine-learning-based biomedical entity extraction tool. We evaluated the performance of BEST and PubTator in extracting genes, chemical compounds (drugs), and diseases from BRONCO-A. BEST’s entity extraction module achieves a precision of 92.80%, a recall of 69.06%, and an F1-score of 79.18%. In comparison, PubTator’s precision, recall, and F1-score are 87.26%, 74.59%, and 80.43%, respectively. This comparison demonstrates that BEST’s biomedical entity extraction module achieves results comparable to those of PubTator.
Comparing BEST with Existing Systems
To evaluate the performance of BEST, we compared it with FACTA+[3] and PolySearch2,[8] the two most recent biomedical entity search systems. We chose FACTA+ and PolySearch2 because they support ad-hoc query search and multiple types of biomedical entities. Similar to BEST, the two systems use PubMed as their source data. We qualitatively compared BEST with FACTA+ and PolySearch2 using various queries.
FACTA+ and BEST construct their indexes using PubMed abstracts. BEST automatically updates its index daily; however, FACTA+ has not updated its index since the launch of the service, producing outdated results. PolySearch2 analyzes retrieved abstracts at query time, while the other systems do not conduct query-time analysis. Due to the query time analysis, PolySearch2 requires a much longer query processing time than the others. For the test with the query “chronic myeloid leukemia,” PolySearch2 took more than 30 seconds to return the result (cold-cache query). To improve query response time, PolySearch2 utilizes cache. Once a user inputs a query, the system caches the result for later use. However, due to the constant addition of new articles to PubMed, the cached results must be frequently invalidated, limiting the benefits of using cache. Table 2 lists the query response time of the three systems for the query “chronic myeloid leukemia.” As Table 2 shows, FACTA+ is the quickest system in returning the results, and is followed by BEST. PolySearch2 has the longest query response time.
Table 2. Top 10 drugs returned for query "chronic myeloid leukemia."
To evaluate the accuracy of the systems, we focus on identifying relevant drugs for “chronic myeloid leukemia” in the results. The top ten drugs retrieved by the three systems were tabulated in Table 2. For evaluating the results of each system, we obtained the list of ten FDA approved drugs for CML from the National Cancer Institute’s drug information page [16]. Out of the top ten drugs returned by BEST, eight are FDA approved for CML. In contrast, FACTA+ returned only three FDA approved drugs from its top ten list (note: Gleevec is the brand name for imatinib). PolySearch2 returned only six drugs out of which five are FDA approved for CML. While evaluating the BEST results, we found that hydroxyurea is also an FDA approved drug used in treating CML in the chronic phase, and has demonstrated better efficacy than busulfan.[17] Another drug retrieved by BEST is fludarabine, which is an FDA approved drug for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. This demonstrates that the results returned by BEST are all relevant drugs for CML. However, not all of the drugs that were returned by FACTA+ and PolySearch2 are used for chronic myeloid leukemia. For example, progesterone and lysine were in the FACTA+ results and cocaine was in the PolySearch2 results.
For a concrete evaluation, we tested three systems using more queries. Each query is expected to return a list of drugs that are related to the query. For a disease query, we expect a list of treatments of the disease, and for a drug query, we expect the drugs that belong to the same category. For each query, we checked how many correct biomedical entities are returned. Table 3 shows the summarized results. Moreover, the detailed query results are presented in Table A, B, and C in S1 File. Briefly, BEST achieves the best performance. PolySearch2 returns relatively accurate results, but it takes more than 30 seconds for each query. FACTA+ immediately returns results but the results were not as relevant to the query as those returned by the other systems.
Table 3. Accuracy and response time comparison of Best, PolySearch2, and FACTA+.
We can conclude that BEST returns the most relevant results for the query, followed by PolySearch2 and FACTA+.
Evaluating the recency factor in BEST
To demonstrate the utility of the recency factor in BEST, we query the drugs that were retrieved for “chronic myeloid leukemia” from 1990 to 2015 with a 5-year interval (i.e., from all articles up to 2000, all articles up to 2005, etc.). As illustrated in Fig 4, we found that the ranking of the drugs changed over this period of time. For example, busulfan, a chemotherapy agent approved in 1954 by the FDA, was ranked as the top drug result for the query “chronic myeloid leukemia” from 1990–2000. However, since the introduction of imatinib in 2001, we have entered into the targeted therapy era for cancer treatment. In 2005, imatinib was ranked as the number one drug for chronic myeloid leukemia whereas busulfan was ranked number two. Dasatinib (2006) and nilotinib (2007), both of which are second-generation targeted therapies for CML, ranked higher than busulfan in the 2010 results. From the 2015 results retrieved by BEST, we observed an increase of bosutinib and ponatinib drugs both of which are new-targeted therapies that were approved for CML in 2012. This demonstrates that BEST uses the recency factor for ranking results, reflects up-to-date knowledge, and uncovers research trends in the biomedical literature.
Fig 4. Recency evaluation of BEST using "(chronic myeloid leukemia) AND (year:[*—YYYY])" with result type filter “drug.”
We also evaluated how the search result changes if we remove or boost the weight of the recency component in our scoring scheme. We control the impact of the recency factor by the recency component in our scoring formula (refer to the Methods section for details about the BEST scoring function). For example, if the recency component is raised to the fourth power, then its value will be weighted four times more than that of the other scoring components. On the other hand, if the power is zero, the recency factor is not used in scoring. The default value (as used in Fig 4) is one. As presented in Table 4, when we give more weight to the recency factor, drugs that have been approved more recently, e.g., ponatinib or bosutinib, are ranked higher in the list. Busulfan, the old-fashioned treatment of CML, is ranked lower. This result supports our argument that the recency factor is useful to a user who wants to get up-to-date knowledge. We implemented the “tunable scoring function” which can be accessed in the “Advanced search” option. By this option, users can customize the weights of scoring components according to their search purposes.
Table 4. Search results of drugs when more weight is given to the recency factor.
We developed BEST, a next-generation biomedical entity search tool for knowledge discovery in PubMed. The BEST system utilizes sophisticated text-mining approaches to extract biomedical entities from PubMed abstracts. Using a novel indexing and scoring scheme, BEST indexes 10 different types of biomedical entities (e.g., genes, diseases, drugs, targets, transcription factors, miRNAs, and mutations) from the entire PubMed corpus. BEST processes users’ free text queries and returns up-to-date results in real time. As we have demonstrated in several examples, BEST is capable of returning relevant results for queries. Results were evaluated against known knowledge, and found to be accurate and relevant. Furthermore, BEST outperform the other systems in returning relevant results for queries.
Most of the systems developed previously focused on a limited number of entity types or knowledge context. Consistency with PubMed, query processing time, and coverage of knowledge as well as the generality of information are important features for biomedical entity search systems. However, existing systems lack at least one of these features. BEST is different from the existing tools for the following reasons: (i) it is fast and constantly up to date; (ii) returns rich information including genes, mutations, diseases, drugs, and targets; and (iii) returns the relations between these entities. The main features of the existing systems are presented in Table D in S1 File. No existing system has both the consistency and real-time response features. Unlike the existing systems, BEST automatically updates its index and preprocesses rich information from the PubMed corpus daily, and thus has both the consistency and real-time response capability. Moreover, retrieving genomic variants from the literature is one of the unique features of BEST that is not supported by the other systems.
When we extract named entities from massive text data, we consider precision more important than recall because low recall can be resolved by integrating results from a very large amount of source text. However, if the results are not precise, the integration of these results will not be useful for inference tasks. For this reason, BEST employs a dictionary-based approach for extracting entities. We want BEST to achieve high precision and reasonable recall in extracting biomedical entities from text. As demonstrated in the Results section, BEST’s entity extraction module performance on the BRONCO-A corpus was comparable to that of PubTator. Like PubTator, BEST’s entity extraction module can extract genes/proteins, chemical compounds (drugs), and diseases from text. We also implemented tmVar[18] for extracting genetic variation information from the text, similar to PubTator’s mutation module. In addition, BEST extracts cell lines, kinases, toxins, miRNAs, and pathways, whereas PubTator does not.
In summary, BEST assists users in searching and linking biomedical entities in the literature. BEST is programmed to update its database daily to remain consistent with PubMed. All PubMed abstracts are indexed with a paired posting of documents and entity list so that BEST can immediately retrieve relevant biomedical entities. BEST scores all biomedical entities and returns them to a user as a ranked list using a novel scoring method. When scoring an entity, BEST considers the co-occurrence frequency between query terms and the entity, recency of an article, the reputation of a journal, the number of entities in a document, and the conventional information retrieval score. BEST is a unique system because it contains the latest published information and it can immediately return results.
BEST System Architecture
BEST is built on Apache Solr v.4.9, a Lucene-based search platform, where the Solr’s indexing structure and ranking system were logically redefined to score entities. The BEST system can be divided into indexing and searching subsystems.
Indexing Subsystem
BEST indexing subsystem performs entity extraction, entity indexing, and meta-information indexing. The detail of each step is given below. The index size of BEST is 34.22 GB, which includes 11,882,670 abstracts. The 282,936 entities are extracted from the abstracts. More statistics are provided in Table E in S1 File.
Dictionary based named entity recognition.
We used a dictionary-based approach to extract entities from text (Fig 1(1-a)). To construct our entity dictionary, we integrated biomedical entity names from 12 different sources as listed in Table 5. We also used cross-reference IDs from each database to deal with identical entities in different entity databases. If there was a pair of entities that shared the same reference ID, they were considered as synonyms and merged into a synonym set. To resolve potential type assignment conflicts, we categorized biomedical entities into the following four groups: gene_group, chem_group, disease_group, and pathway_group. In the gene_group, genes/proteins, targets, transcription factors, and miRNAs are included. Chemical compounds, drugs, and toxins are included in the chem_group. Diseases and pathways are included in the disease_group and the pathway_group, respectively. One entity can be multiple types within a group but not across the groups. For example, TP53 can be a “gene/protein” entity type and a “transcription factor” entity type, simultaneously. To avoid missense type assignments, BEST prioritizes the entity groups. The gene_group has the highest priority followed by the chem_group, disease_group, and pathway_group. If an entity from a source erroneously has multiple types from different entity groups, BEST will assign the more prioritized type to the entity. After integrating entity names from the 12 sources, human reviewers manually checked the correctness of the contents of the dictionary. The entity extraction module was developed independently, and is available at http://infos.korea.ac.kr/bioentityextractor/.
Table 5. Source databases for BEST dictionary.
Document-entity list pair indexing.
After recognizing entities from PubMed abstracts, BEST indexes the entities and abstracts (Fig 1(1-b)). Similar to other document search engines, BEST indexes all the words in the abstracts. However, unlike conventional information retrieval systems, BEST indexes the link between the abstracts and the biomedical entities that appeared in the abstracts. BEST pairs abstracts with lists of entities that appear in the abstracts, and each pair is considered as one posting. For example, from a document containing the sentence, “Consistent use of imatinib is critical for treatment success in chronic myeloid leukemia.…,” (PMID: 24524212), BEST makes the posting <PMID: 24524212, [imatinib, chronic myeloid leukemia]> for indexing. In this posting, two entities (imatinib and chronic myeloid leukemia) are included in the list. All the terms in the articles (such as consistent, use, imatinib, critical, treatment, success, and so on) will be the keys of the index where each key indicates this posting.
Entity meta-information and index update policy.
As a query result, BEST returns not only a list of entities but also the information of each entity such as the molecular interaction network of each entity, enriched Gene Ontology (GO) terms, and frequent n-gram phrases that co-occurred with an entity (Fig 2 and Fig A in S1 File). This information is called the meta-information of an entity. The molecular interaction network of each entity, which visualizes the relationships to other entities, is shown as a graph and is extracted using Biomedical Entity-Relationship eXplorer (BEReX).[19] We calculate the enriched GO terms using the graph and a method proposed by Eden et. al.[20] In this method, a set of genes is required to compute enriched GO terms for each entity; we used the genes adjacent to the entity in the BEReX graph. This information is indexed in indexing time. However, frequently co-occurring n-gram phrases are computed at query time since they are dependent on documents retrieved for each query (Fig A-(a) in S1 File). Last, the related keywords are extracted from the “related substances” field in the PubMed records (Fig A-(b) in S1 File). The keywords are sorted based on the frequency in retrieved documents. This information is computed at indexing time.
BEST automatically downloads abstracts newly indexed in the PubMed system and updates its index every day. As a result, BEST can remain consistent with the PubMed system.
Searching and Scoring Subsystem
Document retrieval.
When users input a query, BEST searches its index for documents containing the query terms (Fig 1(2-a)). This process is similar to that of general search engines. After the query is input, the system looks through the inverted index to retrieve postings that match the query terms. BEST supports conventional search operations such as Boolean operators, proximity search, and term boosting. Fig 1(2) depicts the searching process for the query “resistant to imatinib.” First, BEST parses the query string. In this example, BEST removes the stop word “to” from the query string. In the next step, BEST tokenizes each query term and retrieves all the postings that match them. In this example, d1, d2, and d3 are retrieved using the term “resistant” and d1, d2, d3, and d4 are retrieved using the term “imatinib.” For documents d1 to d4 and the postings, refer to Fig 1(1).
Entity scoring.
BEST calculates the scores of all matching entities for a query, as illustrated in Fig 1(2-b). All entities retrieved by the query are ranked according to their integrated entity scores. The score of an entity is computed as the sum of the scores of all documents that contain the entity and the query terms. The entity score Se(q) is formally defined as where Sd(q) is the score of document d with respect to query q and De(q) is the set of documents containing both query q and entity e. The document score Sd(q) is a product of four components and is defined as where Td(q) is the term match score of document d with respect to query q; Nd is the entity number score; Qd is the source reputation score; and Rd is the recency score of document d. The details of the four score components are given below.
1) Term match score (Td(q)).
The term match scoring scheme of BEST is similar to that of general document search engines. To compute the term match score, term frequency (TF) of a query word in a document, inverse document frequency (IDF) of a query word in a corpus, and the overlap between the query words and the document (coord) are used. The term match score Td(q) is defined as where coord(q,d) represents the overlap between query q and document d, which ranges from 1/|q| to 1, and tfidf(q,d) is the sum of TF-IDF weights of the terms in query q with respect to document d.
2) Entity number score (Nd).
We give penalties to articles that contain many entities. If an abstract contains only one entity, most of the sentences in the abstract may be related to the entity. However, if an abstract contains many entities, the contribution of the abstract toward the entity score must be proportionally reduced. The entity number score ranges from 1/10 (lower bounded) to 1 and is defined as where Ed is the number of entities in document d.
3) Reputation score (Qd).
BEST considers the reputation of the source journal of each article. According to [21], a journal’s reputation can be considered to help users prioritize search results. The impact factor (IF) is one of the metrics that measure the reputation of journals. The impact factor is computed based on the average number of citations of research articles published in a journal. If articles are cited often, the impact factor of a source journal will be higher. We use this metric to measure the reputation of an article. We scored a journal’s reputation from 1 to 10. The score of an article published in a journal that does not have an impact factor is set to 1. The reputation score is defined as where IFd is the impact factor of the journal where article d is published and max(IF) is the maximum IF value in the BEST corpus.
4) Recency score (Rd).
In the search domain, page recency is one of the most important factors for better user experience [22]. Therefore, BEST gives more weight to new articles. The recency score is computed based on the publication date of a paper. The older the publication date is, the lower the recency score. If an article’s publication date is in the same month as the date of a user’s query, the recency score is 1. An article published two years prior to the query will have a recency score of 0.5. The recency score reduces to half every two years. The recency score of an article older than 8 years is set to 0.0625 (lower bounded). The recency score is defined as where M is the current time in months and md is the month when document d was published.
Above four scoring components are combined to give the score to each article. The term match score represents the relevance between query and article, and the entity number score reflects the dispersion of importance to the entities, which co-occurred in same article. Thanks to the reputation score and the recency score, the better reputed and newer information is preferred. All the parameters in our scoring model including the lower bounds were selected through the extensive qualitative analysis of query results.
PubTator.
PubTator is a web-based text-mining application that assists in the manual annotation of biomedical entities in PubMed abstracts.[15] It employs a variety of text-mining tools for named-entity recognition of genes, chemicals, diseases, species, and mutations. For the evaluation of our entity extractor, we used PubTator as the current state-of-the-art baseline. We used PubTator’s API for extracting biomedical entities from the abstracts.
BRONCO.
We used the recently developed Biomedical entity Relation ONcology COrpus (BRONCO)[14] for comparing the entity extraction accuracy of BEST with that of PubTator. BRONCO is manually curated and contains more than 400 variants and their relations with genes, diseases, drugs, and cell lines in the context of cancer and anti-tumor drug screening research. The variants and relations were manually extracted from 108 full-text articles. In this study, we created BRONCO-A which is a corpus of all the abstracts in BRONCO, as PubTator performs biomedical entity extraction only on abstracts. As BRONCO-A is manually curated, we have the “true answers” to evaluating the precision and recall of the entity extraction methods. BRONCO is freely available at http://infos.korea.ac.kr/bronco.
Precision, Recall, and F1-score.
To evaluate the biomedical entity extraction accuracy of BEST and PubTator, we used precision, recall, and F1-score as the evaluation metrics. Precision and recall are defined as where TP, FP, and FN are true positives, false positives, and false negatives, respectively. F1-score is the harmonic mean of precision and recall and is defined as
S1 File. Supporting information file.
Conceptualization: JK.
Data curation: DK SLe JC SuK MJ SLi DC.
Formal analysis: SLe KL ACT JK.
Funding acquisition: JK.
Investigation: SLe KL ACT JK.
Methodology: JK.
Project administration: JK.
Software: DK SLe JC SeK MJ SLi DC.
Validation: SLe KL.
Visualization: SLe DK.
Writing – original draft: SLe JK ACT.
Writing – review & editing: SLe JK ACT.
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Convergence Media wins big
LC Convergence Media students make mark at the 2019 SEJC Competition:
1stin TV News and Photojournalism
MURFREESBORO, Tenn.–Louisiana College Convergence Media students earned top honors at the 2019 Southeast Journalism Conference, including 1stplace in TV News Reporting.
Some of the most-storied journalism programs in the South entered the competition held at
Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Feb. 14-16.SEJC consists of journalism programs in seven states and more than 45 colleges and universities.
“Everything rises and falls on leadership,” said Louisiana College President Dr. Rick Brewer. “I am just as proud of our committed and capable Convergence Media faculty as I am of our dedicated students who plied their classroom instruction so successfully.”
In only its second year as a member of SEJC, Louisiana College submitted entries to the Best of the South Competition, which acknowledges the Top 10 students’ work from the previous year, as well as entries in the on-site competition in various areas of journalism.
Student winners include:
On-site competition:
Jamarcus Fitzpatrick and Maycee Lachney
1stplace, TV News Reporting
Haleigh Lachney 1stplace, Photojournalism, News/Feature
Jacob Wilson 3rdplace, Radio News Reporting
Best of the South:
Alena Noakes 2ndplace, Best Op/Ed Writer
Jacob Wilson 2ndplace, Best Press Photographer
Brad Welborn 9thplace, Best Sports Writer
“I haven’t come down from the excitement of SEJC yet,” said Dr. Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, chair of the Division of Media, Communication and Theatre and faculty adviser to Wildcats Media. “We beat the University of Mississippi. Ole Miss journalism has won Pulitzers. They are the best of the best in the South, and our TV News team placed 1st. Ole Miss was second.”
Christian said this demonstrates the importance of having a convergence media program rather than students focusing solely on one specialty. The students were able to use multiple skillsets, and it gave them the edge, she said.
She cited Jacob Wilson as a perfect example.
“Jacob wasn’t able to compete in his choice of onsite categories—sports photography—because it was full, so I put him in radio news reporting,” Christian said. “I had heard some of his radio work from a broadcast class he took with our adjunct professor Al Quartemont. Jacob placed in the top three in that category, as well as his Best of the South win for photography. Many other programs don’t train their students like this.”
Seven LC students competed in the on-site competition.
“You’re competing against all these top schools in the Southeast,” Wilson said. “It puts our name out there and makes us look good. It makes me want to yell ‘Claws Up.’”
Senior sports media major Jamarcus Fitzpatrick gave thanks to God first for his win: “It’s a blessing to know that I am not only an award-winning journalist, but it means that all my hard work has come to fruition.”
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Urban & Regional Planning *: Home
Below are links to databases and scholarly web sites that support the study of urban planning and its related sub-disciplines.
Directories and Resource Guides
Historic Preservation and Image Archives
Organizations/Think Tanks
Additional Research Guides
Reference Resources for Basic Background Information
These databases enable you to search the contents of handbooks, encyclopedias, and other reference books in a variety of subjects.
Blackwell Online Reference
USC Library Catalogs
The library catalogs list materials owned by the USC Libraries and the libraries for Law and Health Sciences.
HOMER (USC Libraries)
HELIX (Health Sciences)
ADVOCAT (Law)
The planning curriculum has at its core the study of urban and regional theory, planning history and theory, and planning methods. The North American experience is emphasized but English-language material is also collected to support academic program initiatives in Asia and Europe. Concentrations include land use, real estate development, economic development, information systems in planning, transportation planning, environmental planning, social justice issues, international planning, and the history of city planning. Overlap with other subjects include architecture, business, environmental studies, geography, history, political science, public administration, and sociology. Traffic engineering items are split between Seaver Science Library and Von KleinSmid Center Library for International and Public Affairs depending on whether the emphasis is engineering [Science] or public policy planning [VKC]. The Architecture and Fine Arts Library also maintains a collection of regional architecture journals that are used by faculty and students from School of Polict, Planning, and Development. Publications from the United States, Canada, and selected western European countries are acquired based on research and curricular emphasis within the School. Special attention is paid to materials about the Southern California region. Primary focus is on twentieth century and current materials with items about earlier time periods acquired selectively. With the general exception of dissertations and course textbooks, scholarly materials of all types are collected, including monographs [books], scholarly journals, microfoms, government documents, and digital resources. English is the primary language of the urban planning collection, with major western European languages acquired selectively. Occasional solicitation of municipal planning commissions in the Southern California region may be conducted to build and maintain the planning documents collection. For a more comprehensive overview and analysis of the current collection policy, GO HERE [pdf].
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The one present you need to give someone this Christmas
by Michelle Collins
5th Dec 2020 12:50 PM
Think of it as environmentally-responsible "re-gifting": buying at least one second-hand present this year Christmas.
World's Biggest Garage Sale is on a mission to save the estimated 20 million unwanted presents it says that, after being unwrapped on Christmas Day, are promptly plonked in the bin.
It's #OneSecond campaign is encouraging everyone to source just one second-hand item as a present, instead of buying new.
Yasmin Grigaliunas from World's Biggest Garage Sale is urging everyone to buy one second-hand present this year. Picture: Jamie Hanson
It could even be something from your own wardrobe or cupboard.
The upside is less rubbish in our landfills; the warm, fuzzy feeling that comes from briefly opting out of the commercialization of Christmas and a few extra bucks in your pocket as second hand is cheaper - and sometimes free.
But what it isn't is second rate.
World's Biggest Garage Sale's circular economy precinct at Morningside has plenty of potential quality gifts.
CEO and co-founder, Yasmin Grigaliunas, claims the precinct is one-of-a-kind.
"It's an innovation - here in Brisbane - that does not exist anywhere else in this country," Yasmin told Saved By Michelle.
"We are different to an op shop. The 'precinct' approach is about bringing more value to a product and not just taking in second-hand stuff and chucking it on the floor.
"We look at how we can improve the value of something, either in its current state, or to make something new.
"For example, Officeworks is one of our partners and we get deliveries every day from them of dented, scratched, imperfect or maybe old-range products that would not end up for sale.
"Our team will use those materials to make new products and we re-manufacture them.
"So it is both second-hand and new."
WBGS is at Building 3, 500 Lytton Rd, Morningside, but you can also shop online.
worldsbiggestgaragesale.com.au
THE OTHER HAND
Brisbane Tool Library Not just power and hand tools, this library also lends out camping and sports equipment - and you can get a gift membership. A gift membership allows the recipient to borrow up to four items for a week and costs $75 for 12 months (or $60 concession) or $25 for three months.
https://brisbanetoollibrary.org/
Camp Hill Antique Centre
Don't be misled by the name. The Camp Hill Antique Centre also has plenty of retro, vintage and upcycled items.
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm and Saturday and Sunday 8am-5pm, 545 Old Cleveland Rd, Camp Hill
camphillantiquecentre.com
Sunday Discovery Markets
It's dubbed Brisbane's biggest garage sale and has been running for more than three decades.
There's usually around 100 stalls selling an array of second hand items including clothing and accessories, household bric-a-brac, antiques, toys and games, books, records, furniture, tools, collectables, vintage and retro, musical instruments, video games and art.
Open every Sunday throughout the holidays from 6am to noon at 250 Sherwood Rd, Rocklea.
brisbanemarketplace.com.au
RSPCA Op Shops
There are currently we have five stores open in the Gold Coast, four in Brisbane (and one soon to open in Ascot), one in Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Gympie and Rockhampton. All sell a
mix of preloved items from clothing and accessories, bric a brac and manchester, to toys, games, books and electrical items, for the discerning op shopper some of our stores have some higher quality and designer clothing and nearly all of our stores offer some kind of furniture, sometimes just smaller pieces like chairs and small bookcases and bedside cabinets and in other stores dining sets, sofas, dressing tables and larger pieces of good furniture. Stock is replenished daily.
rspcaqld.org.au
Moonage Daydream Vintage
Buying for someone else can be just as hard if its vintage or second hand as it is new. So why not choose a gifts card which can be pushed in store or over instagram or email.
257A Annerley Rd, Annerley
Wednesday to Sunday, 9am to 3pm
facebook.com/Moonage-Daydream-Vintage-1236247316530156/
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New Myspace Features Offer a More User-friendly Experience
Thaddeus July 26, 2020
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There have been many blog posts and online articles suggesting that Facebook is a better social networking website than Myspace and articles sharing How To Buy TikTok Fans or Followers in 2020. Such thoughts may stem from people who do not like Myspace at all. Others who recommend Facebook may be former members who were fed up with glitches and other problems from the competing popular social networking site. No matter how great or poor these websites may be, Myspace has new features that will help to maintain popularity among its users.
Friend Search
Myspace members who only have a dozen friends may not find difficulty in locating anyone. However, it is not easy for others who have hundreds or thousands of people on their friend’s list. One would have to manually sort through everyone individually to find a specific person. That can be tiresome and aggravating. Myspace has recently included new search features that make this task much easier.
Members of this social networking site can search through friends by the letter of their user name. The feature allows users to find their friends faster than before. Myspace members can also search through friends by age or online status. This is a great feature for musicians and others who may want to target specific people for parties and concert invitations. The online status feature makes it easier to find people to communicate with immediately
New Video Rating System
Myspace has re-launched its video section (now called Myspace TV) and added rating features. These changes may be part of an attempt to keep members from spending all of their video time on Youtube. The social networking site’s new video section has attracted more interaction among users. It features a new colorful layout that allows members to locate more videos. This has improved the exposure of videos that may have not been as popular as featured media on the site.
A movie trailer that I uploaded earlier this year had around 200 views in March. Many of these views occurred as a result of an online advertising campaign that was launched outside of Myspace. I recently noticed that the same movie trailer now has around 600 views. This is a significant increase that may have occurred due to the new re-launch and usability on Myspace. It is a great sign that the social networking site has improved.
News and Weather section
Many of the younger members may not care about these two new sections. However, the news and weather sections are very useful to Myspace users who search for this information throughout the day. Adding these features make it easier for members to remain on the website. There is no need to go elsewhere for more information on the news and weather.
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Confirmed Cases and Deaths in Washington, UT from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic
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City unveils $2.3M 'emergency response' to winter homelessness
Daryl Newcombe CTV News London Reporter
@DNewcombeCTV Contact
LONDON, ONT. -- Living in tents and make-shift structures, 117 Londoners remain unsheltered at the onset of winter weather.
A new ‘Winter Response Plan’ has been unveiled by City Hall to create safe shelter space through the winter for individuals experiencing street-level homelessness.
“This is an emergency response. It is not an intervention that is long-term,” explains Kevin Dickins, City Hall’s acting managing director of Housing, Social Services, and Dearness Home.
The $2.3-million plan will create two daytime ‘coffee house’ drop-in centres, and two daytime/overnight shelters in neighbourhoods where unsheltered Londoners are already living.
Each will operate until the end of April 2021.
“Its not a plan that will be perfect, but it’s a plan born out of principles of dignity and respect,” adds Dickins.
Daytime Coffee Houses:
Hamilton Road Seniors Centre, 525 Hamilton Rd.
Dundas Field House, 177-179 Dundas St.
Daytime/Overnight Shelters:
T-Block Parking Lot, 652 Elizabeth St.
Privately-owned parking lot, near downtown
Each facility will accommodate up to 30 people, plus social workers, volunteers and outreach teams.
City Hall is also adding 10 rooms to its hotel/motel program, bringing the room count to 132.
Dickins admits it isn’t enough overnight space for everyone currently living unsheltered, but staffing limitations prevent more spaces from being created.
“Our numbers will not solve the fact people are unsheltered,” he says.
The two overnight shelters set up in parking lots will include three trailers for sleeping, plus bathroom facilities, laundries, and a community space.
Dickins says it will be a low-barrier shelter system, but not a no-barrier shelter system. People will not be permitted to use drugs inside the trailers.
So-called ‘amnesty totes’ and ‘amnesty lockers’ will allow individuals to safely store items while they sleep.
Individuals will be verbally screened for COVID-19 risks before entering the spaces.
Beds will be distanced to reduce the risk of transmission.
A temporary security fence will also be installed for the safety of shelter residents.
But most importantly, social workers and volunteers will seek to maintain a sense of ‘community’ among residents who have spent the summer months living together in parks and along the river.
“They want a sense of community,” says Dickins. “People have been very clear with us they won’t move indoors if they don’t have safe space and community.”
The city intends to have the shelters open by late December.
A report detailing the plan will be considered by council’s Community and Protective Services Committee on Tuesday.
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Published Tuesday, December 1, 2020 1:07PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 1, 2020 6:46PM EST
MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ONT. -- The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is reporting 38 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday, the highest daily count since the pandemic began in March, and three new deaths.
The previous record was reported Nov. 8, when 36 cases were reported. Tuesday also marks eight days in a row of double-digit cases.
The three deaths include a woman in her 80s and a man in his 70s. One had been revealed by the health unit Monday and another won’t be included in MLHU totals until Wednesday. However, all are associated with the ongoing outbreak at the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC).
The new cases and deaths bring the totals in the region to 1,651 cases, 1,395 recoveries and 70 deaths, leaving 186 active cases.
MLHU Medical Officer of Health Dr. Chris Mackie says, “From a case count perspective we’re very much in the orange over the last few days, the cutoff is about 16 cases per day.”
The region has been at 16 or above for more than a week, and Mackie added that he wouldn’t be surprised if the province decided to move the region to orange – restrict later this week.
Outbreaks are ongoing in one unit at the Parkwood Institute and in six units at LHSC’s University Hospital.
On Monday, hospital officials announced that outpatient activity was being limited to urgent or emergent appointments, with other clinical care being rescheduled as virtual appointments wherever possible.
As of Tuesday, LHSC is reporting 43 patients and 34 staff testing positive for the virus. There have also been additional cases among close contacts, with the health unit reporting a total of 93 linked cases.
In total, seven deaths have now been linked to the outbreak, and LHSC has announced it will be, “lowering its flags to half-mast in memory” of those patients and is offering condolences to the families.
A statement released by LHSC President and CEO Dr. Paul Woods continued, “LHSC remains committed to doing everything within its power to help prevent this number from growing higher. Along with our community we must remain steadfast and diligent in our collective adherence to public health safety protocols. We must work together to keep ourselves and each other safe and healthy.”
An outbreak has also been declared at St. Marguerite d’Youville Catholic School in London, Ont. after another member of that community tested positive.
The health unit says it appears to be associated with a previous case reported on Saturday and the declaration is an effort to limit further spread.
Dr. Alex Summers, associate medical officer of health at the MLHU said in a statement, “Transmission of COVID-19 within a school has been a rare occurrence in the Middlesex-London region. Health Unit staff will continue to follow up with affected families and staff members to provide support and advice on next steps.”
The school remains open, but staff and students in classrooms identified as close contacts are being told to stay home.
A new case was also reported at East Elgin Secondary School in Aylmer, Ont., but that school also remains open as Southwestern Public Health investigates and informs close contacts.
Here is where the cases stand in the region based on the most recent publicly available data, no new deaths were reported in any of the regions:
Elgin-Oxford – eight new, 64 active, 563 total, 493 resolved, six deaths
Grey-Bruce – two new, 34 active, 338 total, 294 resolved, no deaths
Huron-Perth – 10 new, 49 active, 343 total, 276 resolved, 18 deaths
Across Ontario, just over 1,700 new infections were reported Tuesday, as well as seven deaths.
The London Health Sciences Centre's University Hospital in London, Ont. is seen Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. (Jim Knight / CTV News)
St. Marguerite d"Youville Catholic School in London, Ont. is seen Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. (Jim Knight / CTV News)
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Meet your Neighbour: Marc Forrat; one of London's sweetest!
Tammy Heisel CTVNewsLondon.ca News Acquisitions Editor
@TammyHeiselCTV Contact
Published Saturday, November 28, 2020 9:55PM EST Last Updated Saturday, November 28, 2020 10:04PM EST
Marc Forrat displays his hand made chocolate bars (Source: Marc Forrat)
LONDON, ONT. -- There's chocolate, and then there's that really good chocolate that you know was made by a professional. Chocolatier, Marc Forrat brings Londoners the very best.
People find their passion through different ways. For Forrat, becoming a chocolaterie was an escape from a difficult childhood.
"I made chocolates for people. They loved me back, therefore validating that I was worth loving. As a kid, bullied, hurt by family and strangers, you end up hanging on for dear life and chocolate created an avenue for me to finally feel loved instead of hurt or ignored."
Born in Brazil, Forrat moved to London with his wife, whom he met in France 18 years ago. Together they relocated to Windsor before settling in London.
His first store opened in September, 2003 at the Covent Garden Market under the name, "La Choclaterie Forrat Inc." but it was changed to Forrat's Chocolates.
Using natural ingredients and no preservatives or artificial flavours, his chocolate brings you back to the basics, "fresh ingredients, hand crafted quality, and a passion for making chocolate."
Specializing in European handcrafted truffles and fine chocolates, Forrat has some unique products to offer his clients.
"Right now, the craze is Hot Chocolate Bombs, where you put your 'bomb' inside a mug and fill it with hot milk to reveal a delicious hot chocolate treat."
Ever the entrepreneur, he created Forrat's Chocolate Studio and Chocolate Lounge, for customers to enjoy the full chocolate making experience.
Unfortunately, they had to temporarily shut the studio down because of the restrictions of the pandemic. He has since re-opened and considers himself one of the lucky ones.
"We've lost a large portion of our sales, but thankfully Londoners helped us stay afloat and kept the business going."
Customers can purchase caramels, chocolate bars, hot chocolate bombs, truffles, and many other customer favorites at their store at 2190 Dundas Street in London.
Chocolate dipped gummies (Source: Marc Forrat)
His chocolates are so good they caught the eye of the Dragon's Den in 2006. Forrat was offered an investment deal with Jim Treliving, co-owner of Boston Pizza who wanted 50% of the business to create 200 franchise outlets across the country.
"Dragons Den was an opportunity to become known and expose my craft to millions of people. They've helped me a lot, but nothing materialized after we disagreed with what the outcome would be."
Forrat wanted to stick to his roots and grow the business through his reputation of home-made chocolates with natural ingredients and not have the corporate feel that he felt the agreement would have created.
Never forgetting his passion for helping others, he created Forrat's Feeds Families.
"When COVID-19 started, we wanted to help so we've started an initiative to bring food to Londoners in need."
To date, they have been able to help feed approximately 200 households.
From chocolate dipped gummies to Oreo's dipped in Forrat's European chocolate, there's plenty of sweet treats to choose from.
"We appreciate Londoners for their support during these unprecedented times."
A chocolate bouquet makes a unique gift. (Source: Marc Forrat)
Meet your Neighbour: Tracey Silverthorn, Pugtastic mom to Zombie!
Meet your Neighbour: The Donut Diva's Dee Spencer provides London with sweet treats!
Meet your Neighbour: Mallory McCartney; pet groomer turned author!
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'They are happy tears': St. Thomas, Ont. woman reunites with dog after being separated due to apartment fire
ST. THOMAS, ONT. -- It was an emotional reunion that had everyone in tears.
Kate Corless with her arms extended, waiting for her dog Kynzi to run to her.
Corless has only seen her five-year-old German Rottweiler three times since fire ripped through her St. Thomas, Ont. apartment on Oct. 25.
Over the past month, Kynzi has been boarded at Tail Waggin' Dog Ranch in Muncey, Ont.
"I don't come see her a lot because it's hard on her when I leave, and I always go away in tears," says Corless.
The owners of the ranch shot video of the reunion, while getting emotional themselves.
"They are happy tears," says Wendy Wallace, co-owner of Tail Waggin' Dog Ranch (TWDR) for the past three years.
"Kate is a customer of ours and we hate to see anything happen to our customers. Kynzi is a great dog, and it was nice to see her with her mom."
Since the fire, Corless has been staying in a St. Thomas motel. However their policy only allows for dogs to be there for seven days.
"When we first heard about Kate's fire, we let her know Kynzi would be staying here and we would not charging her," says Tim Raven, co-owner of TWDR.
At TWDR the dogs are socialized, and able to run on a large fenced property.
"We've been taking on dogs with a need from domestic violence, mental illness, people separating or being displaced," says Wallace.
"We take on one to two dogs and we hang onto the dogs for free, only asking the owners to buy food."
Corless continues to look for a permanent residence, but has struggled due to high rent rates, llow vacancy and owners not allowing pets.
"The big picture goal is for us to find a place to be together again, and get on with our lives together," says Corless.
Until then TWDR is happy to keep looking after Kynzi.
"We love having Kynzi here, but the ultimate goal is to get her to a forever home with her mom," says Raven.
Kate Corless with her dog Kynzi in Muncey, Ont. on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. (Brent Lale / CTV News)
A sign for the Tail Waggin' Dog Ranch in Muncey, Ont. is seen Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. (Brent Lale / CTV News)
A fire on Hincks Street on Oct. 25 destroyed a multi-unit complex in St. Thomas, Ont. as seen on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (Brent Lale / CTV News)
'There's been a lot of crying': Victim of St. Thomas house fire returns home for first time
Fire destroys four apartments in St. Thomas
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Kazan is well-known within Russia for the quality of life its citizens enjoy, and a big part of this is the wide variety of green spaces in the city. The most popular of these is Millennium Park, built to commemorate the city's 1,000th birthday in 2005. Other Kazan Parks include the Central Park of Culture and Park Imeni. Kazan (/ k ə ˈ z æ n,-ˈ z ɑː n /; Russian: Каза́нь, IPA: ; Tatar: Казан) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.With a population of 1,243,500, it is the sixth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in Western Russia, about 715 kilometres (444 mi) east from Moscow.In the Late Middle Ages, Kazan.
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Kazan (meaning 'cooking pot' in Tatar) is the Istanbul of the Volga, a place where Europe and Asia curiously inspect each other from the tops of church belfries and minarets. It is about 150 years older than Moscow and the capital of the Tatarstan Republic (Республика Татарстан) – the land of the Volga Tatars, a Turkic.
Russia map kazan. Kazan A Day in Kazan. Version 2 Dwell into the history and culture of Kazan through museums and city streets and get to know the traditional and modern gastronomy of the region 10 hours 6,2 km With interactive Kazan Map, view regional highways maps, road situations, transportation, lodging guide, geographical map, physical maps and more information. On Kazan Map, you can view all states, regions, cities, towns, districts, avenues, streets and popular centers' satellite, sketch and terrain maps. Kazan – Overview. Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, is a city with a long history located about 820 km east of Moscow on the left bank of the Volga River.This is one of the largest economic, scientific, educational, religious, cultural, and sports centers of Russia. The population of Kazan is about 1,252,000 (2019), the area – 589 sq. km.
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Tatarstan overview. The Republic of Tatarstan is a federal subject of Russia located in the center of the East European Plain (about 800 km east of Moscow), part of the Volga Federal District. Kazan is the capital city of the region. The population of Tatarstan is about 3,885,000 (2015), the area – 67,847 sq. km. Satellite view and map is showing Kazan (Russian: Каза́нь), an inland port at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka River (Reka Kazanka). The city is situated about 60 km north of the confluence of the Volga and the Kama River. From Kazan it is a one-and-a-half-hour flight (720 km or 450 mi) west to Moscow. Map of Kazan, Russia. Other Biggest Cities in Russia. Moscow 13 M. Saint Petersburg 5 M. Novosibirsk 2 M. Yekaterinburg 2 M. Kazan 1 M. Nizhniy Novgorod 1 M. Chelyabinsk 1 M. Omsk 1 M. Samara 1 M. Krasnoyarsk 1 M. Rostov-on-Don 1 M. Ufa 1 M. Perm 1 M. Voronezh 1 M. Volgograd 1 M. Krasnodar 957 k. Saratov 843 k. Tyumen 843 k. Tolyatti 700 k.
Administrative divisions map of Russia. 4000×2308 / 1,55 Mb Go to Map. Russia political map. 3357×2161 / 5,55 Mb Go to Map. Map of Russia and Ukraine. 4786×2869 / 10,6 Mb Go to Map.. Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Samara, Ufa, Rostov-na-Donu. Official language: Russian. Currency: Russian ruble. Kazan Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.With a population of 1,243,500, it is the sixth most populous city in Russia. As a result of the Siege of Kazan (1552) Russia under Ivan the Terrible conquered the city for good, the majority of the population was massacred and 8000 slaves were set free. In spite of the fact that under the treaty of 1551 all Russian slaves must be released Kazan Khanate still kept a lot of Russian slaves. Siege of Kazan (1552) put an end to slavery.
Metros in Russia: Kazan. Kazan is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, in the Russian Federation. It is also its most populous city, and the 8th largest in the country. The river Kazanka runs through the city and divides it into two areas. It then joins the Volga (one of the most important rivers in Europe), as it runs just south of the city. Kazan map Where is Kazan located in Russia? Travelling to Kazan, Russia? Find out more with this detailed interactive online map of Kazan downtown, surrounding areas and Kazan neighborhoods. If you are planning on traveling to Kazan, use this interactive map to help you locate everything from food to hotels to tourist destinations. Kazan, capital city, Tatarstan republic, western Russia. It lies just north of the Samara Reservoir on the Volga River, where it is joined by the Kazanka River. Ancient Kazan (Iske Kazan) was founded in the late 13th century by the Mongols (Tatars) of the Golden Horde after their overthrow of the Bulgar kingdom.
Russia, the world's largest country, obviously defies a "brief description," as it covers 9 time zones, all climate zones except tropical, with land that stretches almost halfway around the planet and a population of 138,082,178.. In fact, by jet from Moscow, it takes about eight hours to reach Vladivostok on the Pacific Ocean coast. If you were to take the trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Kazan (Каза́нь) Tatar: Казан, Qazan ) is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.The eighth largest city of Russia, it lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. The Kazan Kremlin is a World Heritage Site.
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Sungnyemun, a 600-year-old landmark in Seoul, was officially opened to the public on May 4, five years after it was severely damaged by an arson attack. Sungnyemun served as the official main entrance to Seoul during the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910). The walls on both sides of the gate have been rebuilt. In order to make the structure more faithful to its original design, the width of the stairway on its east side has been broadened. The ground level has also been lowered by 30 to 50 centimeters.
Sungnyemun Gate in the 1900s ⓒ Kim Young-taek
Nearby Namdaemun Market is the land of opportunity for culinary adventurers looking for Korea’s authentic street-cart snacks.
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If you cannot find a good buy at Namdaemun Market, head to Seoul Station’s Lotte Mart outlet.
It is worth checking out the number of physical improvements cited above.
www.sungnyemun.or.kr, Open Tuesday through Sunday (9am–6pm)
(29 Namdaemun-ro 4-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul | 서울시 중구 남대문로4가 29)
City Hall Station 시청역 (Line 1, 2), Exit 8
Seoul Station 서울역 (Line 1, 4, A’REX), Exit 4
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The following is a chronology of key events in the history of Time Warner Inc. and America Online Inc.
Time, a weekly magazine is founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden with����������������������������
$86,375 borrowed from friends and Yale classmates. First issue of Time, with fewer than 20,000 subscribers; magazine loses $39,454 in 1923.
Time turns a profit.
1930���
Fortune, a monthly magazine, is published.
Life, a weekly photojournal is published with circulation of more than 500,000 in less than four weeks.� Company diversifies into radio, newsreels,book publishing, oil, and forest products.
1960 �
90 percent of company�s revenues come from magazines.
Time Inc. trades from over-the counter to the NYSE
Time revenues reach $600 million.
Time's bottom line takes a beating as television becomes a major threat.
Life ceases publication; Money is launched.� HBO, a new form of pay TV, where viewers pay a monthly fee rather than per-view, debuts. �Its first Vice President of Programming is Gerald Levin.
1974�
People magazine is launched.
Gerald Levin, now President and Chairman and CEO of HBO persuades Time Inc. to buy $7.5 million of satellite time to distribute HBO programming, making it available nationwide by April. HBO is owner of 52 cable systems around the country.� By end of year, HBO had 287,000 customers but decifit continues until 1977.
Profits from Time�s video divisions exceed those from magazines for the first time.
One of 10 television households receives HBO.� Time begins to be seen as a cable company.
Levin initiates program suggesting merging with newspapers, broadcasting stations, and network.
AOL is incorporated under original founding name, Quantum Computer Services, registered in Delaware
Warner buys out American Express share of Warner-AMEX Cable for $400 million.
Time joined with TCI, the country�s largest multi-system cable operator and other cable companies to bail out overextended Turner Broadcasting System, Cable News Network (CNN).
Warner acquires Lorimar Telepictures.
Time merges with Warner Communications, setting the stage for a string of media consolidations.
America Online service is launched for Macintosh and Apple II
Steve Ross, the architect of the Time Warner deal, dies in December. Levin is named chairman and chief executive officer.
America Online goes public on the NASDAQ market at original price of $11.50 under symbol AMER
Windows version of America Online launched.
AOL reaches 1 million members.
�Time Warner acquires Turner Broadcasting System. Time Warner regroups its operations into Filmed Entertainment, Cable Networks, Publishing & Cable Systems divisions.
AOL tops 5 million members.
AOL tops 10 million members.
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Opening This Weekend: May 16
The Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals are behind us. Though here in New York we were still wearing coats after Easter, I am hoping this is now also a thing of the past and that May arrives with spring weather, fully loaded with flowers, and the start of the summer movie season. This May brings us an eclectic mix of films with a few award caliber entries (The Immigrant, Belle and Ida), the beginning of the summer blockbuster season (The Amazing Spiderman 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Godzilla), and a few comedies to smooth out the edges (Walk of Shame and Neighbors).
So, whether you choose to check out that indie you heard so much about or the latest big studio release, don’t forget to click on the movie title below to view the trailer. We want to make sure you know what you are getting into before you head to the theater.
– Myrna E. Duarte
Godzilla (IMAX)
Godzilla, being directed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters), comes from a screenplay written by Drew Pearce, Max Borenstein and Frank Darabont (Walking Dead). The cast is lead by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, with Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe and Juliette Binoche. An epic rebirth to Toho’s iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. He’s coming, the giant King of Monsters, finally traveling from Japan to America and I’m excited to see him.
Million Dollar Arm
Based on a true story, Disney’s Million Dollar Arm follows JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm), a once-successful sports agent who now finds himself edged out by bigger, slicker competitors. He and his partner Aash (Aasif Mandvi) will have to close their business down for good if JB doesn’t come up with something fast. Setting off for Mumbai with nothing but a gifted but cantankerous scout (Alan Arkin) in tow, JB stages a televised, nationwide competition called “Million Dollar Arm” where 40,000 hopefuls compete before two 18-year-old finalists, Rinku and Dinesh (Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal), emerge as winners.
The Immigrant (Limited)
Young Polish immigrant Ewa (Marion Cotillard), after being separated from her sister at Ellis Island, finds herself caught in a dangerous battle of wills with a shady burlesque manager (Joaquin Phoenix) in James Gray’s richly detailed period tragedy. Working with the great cinematographer Darius Khondji (Se7en, Amour), Gray imagines 1920s Manhattan as a dusty, sepia-toned dreamworld, sometimes faintly luminous but often dejectedly burnt-out. The same could be said of the film’s heroes: after a charismatic magician (Jeremy Renner) starts to compete for Ewa’s affections, The Immigrant builds steadily to its devastating climax. The Immigrant, based on the stories and experiences told to the director by his grandparents, is perhaps one of the last of its kind—a personal epic.
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Sean Shelby's Shoes: What's next for Daniel Cormier and UFC 252's other losing fighters?
By Mike Bohn, Abbey Subhan August 16, 2020 4:49 pm
By Mike Bohn and Abbey Subhan | August 16, 2020 4:49 pm
(ALSO SEE: Sean Shelby’s Shoes: What’s next for Stipe Miocic and UFC 252’s winning fighters?)
After every event, fans wonder whom the losing fighters will be matched up with next.
With another night of UFC action in the rearview mirror, it’s time to look forward, put on a pair of Sean Shelby and Mick Maynard’s shoes, and play UFC matchmaker for UFC 252’s most notable fighters.
Those fighters included Daniel Cormier (22-3 MMA, 11-3 UFC), who fell short of reclaiming the heavyweight title from Stipe Miocic (20-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC) in a unanimous decision at UFC Apex in Las Vegas, as well as Sean O'Malley (12-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC), Junior Dos Santos (21-8 MMA, 15-7 UFC) and John Dodson (21-12 MMA, 10-7 UFC).
John Dodson
Should fight: Miles Johns
Why they should fight: After nine fights back at bantamweight, it’s safe to say Dodson isn’t where he wants to be. He’s 4-5 in this current run in the division after losing a unanimous decision to Merab Dvalishvili, and it’s hard to say where he goes from here.
“The Ultimate Fighter” winner talked about being a top contender coming into the fight given the competitive nature of his recent contest with now-champ Petr Yan, but he had few moments of success in this latest fight against someone who came in consisted lesser in the scheme of the weight class.
Dodson turns 36 next month and it seems like if he’s going to put it all together, it has to happen soon. He’s likely going to have to take a lower or lateral step from Dvalishvili in terms of opponent after this fight, and perhaps a youngster like Johns (10-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) could help him get back on track.
Junior Dos Santos
Aleksei Oleinik
Should fight: Aleksei Oleinik
Why they should fight: Former UFC champ Dos Santos extended the longest skid of his career with a second-round TKO to fellow striking specialist Jairzinho Rozenstruik.
It’s a rough spot for Dos Santos He looked solid before getting caught. His speed, precision and technique are still there, but seems he just can’t take the damage. He’s now been finished seven times in his career, including three straight.
To get a real determination on where Dos Santos stands, though, he needs to fight again against lesser competition. Not that Oleinik (59-14-1 MMA, 8-5 UFC), who is coming off a TKO loss to Derrick Lewis at UFC on ESPN+ 32 this month, is an easy win for anyone, but he does not present the striking threat of most of Dos Santos’ opponents over the past few years.
Dos Santos hasn’t been submitted since 2007, and he would have to focus hard on keeping that intact against Oleinik. If the Russian can’t get it down, however, then Dos Santos would have a good shot to work his magic on the feet without much knockout threat.
Sean O’Malley
Andre Ewell
Should fight: Andre Ewell
Why they should fight: O’Malley’s rocket ship to UFC stardom was grounded when he suffered his first career loss in his biggest spot to date.
Whether it was a freak injury or something Marlon Vera caused in the fight with his low kicks, O’Malley left the octagon on a stretcher due to the pain from his first-round TKO. The severity of his injury is not yet known, but it seems he could be out for a bit.
In his absence, however long it may be, the loaded bantamweight division will surely continue to evolve. Things could change depending on O’Malley’s timeline and what happens in the upcoming months, someone outside the rankings like Ewell, who if nothing else has proven to be scrappy, could be a good fit as “Suga” attempts to rebound from his first loss.
Daniel Cormier
What’s next: Watch the video above to see what the future holds for Cormier after his loss.
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With a career spanning nearly four decades, Kim Gordon is one of the most prolific and visionary artists working today. A co-founder of the legendary Sonic Youth, Gordon has performed all over the world, collaborating with many of music’s most exciting figures including Tony Conrad, Ikue Mori, Julie Cafritz and Stephen Malkmus. Most recently, Gordon has been hitting the road with Body/Head, her spellbinding partnership with artist and musician Bill Nace. Despite the exhaustive nature of her résumé, the most reliable aspect of Gordon’s music may be its resistance to formula. Songs discover themselves as they unspool, each one performing a test of the medium’s possibilities and limits. Her command is astonishing, but Gordon’s artistic curiosity remains the guiding force behind her music.
Gordon continues this pursuit on No Home Record, her first-ever solo release, produced by Justin Raisen (Angel Olsen, Yves Tumor, John Cale, Charli XCX, etc.) and recorded at Sphere Ranch in Los Angeles. Borrowing its name from a Chantal Akerman film, No Home Record is, in many ways, a return as much as it is a departure. When Gordon first began playing music in the early 1980s, she used a guitar, a drum machine, and some lyrics sniped from magazine advertisement copy. No Home Recordcontains echoes of that setup, in both form and concept. On “Cookie Butter” (produced by Shawn Everett), Gordon’s vocals jut out insistently over a tinny raindrop beat: “You fucked / You think / I want / You fell.” The song continues, hectic and driving, until finding resolution in the lines “Industrial metal supplies / Cookie butter,” perfectly illustrating Gordon’s singular lyric capacity to meld cultural critique, divulgence and humor.
This captivating ability is further exemplified by “Don’t Play it Back” (produced by Jake Meginsky) where Gordon’s wiry vocals slice the track’s circling electric floor: “You don’t own me / Golden Vanity / You can pee in the ocean / It’s Free.” This nod—with a wink—towards culture’s increasingly fraught (and increasingly commodified) relationship with identity and the self is one of No Home Record’s central themes. “Shopping off a cliff / You’re a breath on my eye / To lose a compass of teeth / Hash away at twitter,” Gordon recites, phosphorescent and dirge-like, on the album’s stunning closer “Get Yr Life Back Yoga,” “Everyday, everyday, everyday / I feel bad for you / I feel bad for me.”
It makes sense that this “American idea” (as Gordon says on the agitated rock track “Air BnB”) of purchasing utopia permeates the record, as no place is this phenomenon more apparent than Los Angeles, where Gordon was born and recently returned to after several lifetimes on the east coast. It was a move precipitated by a number of seismic shifts in her personal life and undoubtedly plays a role in No Home Record’s fascination with transience. The album opens with the restless “Sketch Artist,” where Gordon sings about “dreaming in a tent” as the music shutters and skips like scenery through a car window. “Even Earthquake,” perhaps the record’s most straightforward track embodies this mood; Gordon’s voice wavering like watercolor: “If I could cry and shake for you / I’d lay awake for you / I got sand in my heart for you,” guitar strokes blending into one another as they bleed out across an unstable page. Front to back, No Home Record is an expert operation in the uncanny. You don’t simply listen to Gordon’s music; you experience it.
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This Anguished World of Shadows: George Rouault's Miserere et Guerre
A dying, shipwrecked man utters his last sentence, declaring that tomorrow will be beautiful. A poor woman struggles down the road carrying a heavy load on her back. A barren suburban street is outlined in shadows. These are among the haunting impressions in Georges Rouault’s Miserere print series, originally titled Miserere et Guerre (“Have mercy,” a quotation from Psalm 51, and “War”). This portfolio was initially commissioned in 1914, but remained unpublished until 1948, by which time Rouault had witnessed the immense destruction of World Wars I and II, and with them, the complete transformation of the European landscape. This Anguished World of Shadows: Georges Rouault’s Miserere et Guerre presents all fifty-eight prints from the series, offering a close look at this artist’s poignant commentary on the hardships of war and the promise of redemption. Rendered with thick black outlines and diffused gray tonalities that evoke the smoke and darkness of a world destroyed, the Miserere prints simultaneously have the luminescence of stained glass, hinting of light breaking through darkness. While sombre, the prints also carry the message of hope for renewal and rebirth, for as Rouault knew well, behind every shadow is a source of light.Of the 450 editions of the Miserere originally printed, only a limited number remain intact; the series featured in this volume, is a generous loan from a private collector. This new colour catalogue features over seventy images, including all fifty-eight plates from the Miserere. The catalogue features contributions from MOBIA’s curatorial staff, including an essay on Rouault’s printmaking techniques by Dolores DeStefano and a bibliography
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Let’s Talk About Tom Cruise; Scientologist, Weirdo, and The Last True Mega Movie Star
September 13, 2018 EnjoyTheTom Leave a comment
I recently watched Tom Cruise in his latest blockbuster Mission Impossible: Fall Out and it dawned on me, due to his epic meltdown on the Oprah show, his non-wavering support of Scientology, and his very odd public divorce from Katie Holmes, we may have lost sight of how incredibly talented Tom Cruise really is. I would consider Tom as the last true mega movie star, his movies have stood the test of time, and have brought joy and entertainment to families for generations.
Mission Impossible: Fall Out
He has stayed relevant since starting in the movie Endless Love (1981) and has been apart of some of the most memorable movies since then. In fact, a quick glance at his resume and you’ll see that Tom has made a movie almost every year since then, and the longest break he has taken in between movies (3 Years) came after his Golden Globe-winning performance in Jerry McGuire.
He has been nominated for 3 Academy Awards for his performances in Back on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996), and Mongolia (1999), sadly, he hasn’t won but his performances were masterful.
At 56 years old it would appear Tom Cruise does not age, he looks the same as he did when he was piloting fighter jets as Maverick in Top Gun (1986). To put things in perspective, Alec Baldwin (Tom’s co-star in Mission Impossible: Fall Out) is 3 years older than Tom, not to stay anything negative about Alec but I think it’s safe that he hasn’t aged as well as our boy Tom.
I bring at age because at 56-year-old Tom Cruise is one of the few actors who actually does his own stunts! It’s an insanely impressive feat considering how easy it is for actors to just rely on CGI to make scenes look more intense. Below is a picture of Tom actually hanging from a helicopter for Mission Impossible: Fall Out (2018)
I understand that a lot of people will not publicly admit to being a Tom Cruise fan but based on his Box Office numbers will tell you that we’re all secretly Tom Cruise fans. You may not believe in his beliefs or approve of the way he handled his very public divorce but when it comes to acting Tom Cruise is legendary.
If you’re still unsure about whether or not you like Tom Cruise here is a list of nice things he’s done over the years;
He rescued a family from their burning sailboat.
He helped rescue a victim of a hit-and-run and paid her medical bills.
He personally arranged for Bill Hader to leave a set and get home to New York after an attempted bombing in Times Square.
He gave Kanye West advice on his fledgling comedy career but declined a role in Kanye’s HBO pilot.
He always takes his kid’s calls, even in the middle of a scene.
Mission Impossible: Fall Out was a wildly fun movie to watch, again, thinking about the fact that almost all the stunts were done by none other than Tom Cruise is enough to leave you mesmerized, but the story (A semi-sequel to the last Mission Impossible movie) is enjoyable and a pleasure to watch. The supporting cast is perfect, Henry Cavill was far better in this than in Justice League (2017) and Man of Steel (2013), and this movie reaffirmed my love of Simon Pegg in a supporting role. It’s a must see for everyone who enjoys actions movies!
Coming up after this post will be a list dedicated to a Tom Cruise Movie Marathon, an action-packed day, in honour of one of The Last True Mega Movie Stars.
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Trips of a Galaxy of Contemporary Artists. LUXUS Group
(Thursday), 5.45 PM, start: level III
A film screening and meeting in the series
Trips of a Galaxy of Contemporary Artists.
• LUXUS. The Simple Story, screenplay and production: Agnieszka Mazanek, Poland 2017 (duration: 67’)
A colourful and dynamic documentary about the legendary LUXUS – a group of artists who for over 30 years have been enthusiastically and, more importantly, collectively carrying out their artistic projects, and whose art has not aged and still triggers emotions. The film explains the phenomenon of the collective and underlines that their actions did not come down to carefree pranks, but emphasised the threats accompanying dreams of a consumer paradise. As the film shows, at the time of rampant censorship and lack of freedoms it was possible to participate in avant-garde street actions and listen to music which brought a breath of freedom and openness.
• presentation of works by Stanisław Sielicki Our Shadows, Joanna Korsan, Justyna Chojnacka, Wojciech Skibicki (level III)
• screening of Agnieszka Mazanek’s film (level I)
• conversation with the artists (level I).
LUXUS, the legendary troublemakers from Wrocław – still provoke and watch the effects of their provocations! Metaphors and symbols are their antidote to the dullness of the surroundings.
One of the most important art collectives in the Polish art of the 1980s and 199s, it was set up by graduates of the famous “studio 314” at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław. The makeup of the group would change, but its core has consisted of Paweł Jarodzki (leader), Ewa Ciepielewska, Bożena Grzyb-Jarodzka, Jacek “Ponton” Jankowski, Jerzy Kosałka, Szymon Lubiński, Małgorzata Plata and Stanisław Sielicki, who shared similar sensitivity and attitude to reality.
They make popular art, simple in execution and available to all, detaching themselves from “academism” and conceptual art in particular. One of the mottos of the group is: “Not abstraction but attraction.”
They often use the existing products of the mass culture and images of pop-culture icons. The artists have always employed playfulness and jokes to oppose the crude reality and detach themselves from it with their peculiar sense of humour, grotesque and irony.
As they once said, “The idea of LUXUS was born when we realised that the only people we can count on are ourselves. We are creating a world for ourselves, a world in which we would like to live, with our own magazines, music and films. LUXUS is a way of life, an attempt to make our childhood dreams of fame and glory come true – it is us who are making history and legends.”
Using various art techniques, they make elaborate spatial installations, carry out carnivalesque actions, performances and happenings. They are always planned and executed collectively. An important aspect of the group’s functioning was the LUXUS Magazine. Resembling a fanzine and made primarily with collage and stencil, it was based on visual images and mental shortcuts, referring thus to the aesthetics of a comic book.
The greatest interest was aroused by the following exhibitions:
– LUXUS Paints a Panorama of the World, 1986, Zamek, Wrocław;
– A Presentation of Confectionery with Extended Lifetime, 1991, City Gallery, Wrocław;
– Love Is Not All, 1993, BWA, Sopot;
– Make Love or War, 1994, BWA, Cracow;
– Brain Rose, 1995, BWA, Wrocław.
The purchase of works for
the MWW collection was co-financed by
the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Preparation and production Wiesława Wilczyńska-Koper
Published on:4.04.18
admission free of charge
limited number of seat (40)
free tickets can be collected in the museum’s ticket office on the day of screening after 5 PM
"Luxus raises Poland", performance, 28.06.2016, Survival Art Review
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For movies opening June 1, 2018
Kam’s Kapsules
Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun
by Kam Williams
WIDE RELEASES
Action Point (R for profanity, sexuality, brief nudity, crude humor, drug use and underage drinking) Daredevil Johnny Knoxville stars in this stunt comedy as the crackpot owner of a daredevil theme park where the rides and attractions have been designed with danger in mind. With Brigette Lundy-Paine, Johnny Pemberton and Susan Yeagley.
Adrift (PG-13 for peril, profanity, partial nudity, mature themes, injury images and brief drug use) Tale of survival recounting the real-life ordeal of a young couple (Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin) who encountered one of the worst hurricanes in recorded history while sailing in a small boat from Tahiti to San Diego. With Jeffrey Thomas, Elizabeth Hawthorne and Grace Palmer.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN
All Summers End (Unrated) Tale of overwhelming regret about a guilt-ridden teenager (Tye Sheridan) trying to hide from his girlfriend (Kaitlyn Dever) that he was the person who pulled the prank that killed her big brother. Supporting cast includes Paula Malcomson, Annabeth Gish and Austin Abrams.
American Animals (R for pervasive profanity, drug use and brief crude sexuality) Fact-based crime caper about four young men (Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner and Jared Abrahamson) who hatch a plan to pull off one of the most audacious art heists in history. With Ann Dowd, Udo Kier and Lara Grice.
Discreet (Unrated) Revenge drama about a traumatized victim of sex abuse (Jonny Mars) who returns to his Texas hometown to confront the pedophile (Bob Swaffar) who had molested him years ago. With Atsuko Okatsuka, Joy Cunningham and Bill Johnson.
The Doctor from India (Unrated) Reverential retrospective chronicling the career of Dr. Vasant Lad, the holistic health pioneer who brought the practice of Ayurvedic medicine to the West in the late Seventies. Featuring commentary by Deepak Chopra, Robert Svoboda and Claudia Welch. (In English and Marathi with subtitles)
A Kid Like Jake (Unrated) Transgender baby-maybe drama about a Brooklyn couple (Claire Danes and Jim Parsons) who find themselves at odds over whether or not their precocious 4 year-old son’s (Leo James Wheeler) interest in playing with dolls and dressing up like a girl is just a phase. With Octavia Spencer, Ann Dowd and Priyanka Chopra.
Rodin (Unrated) Vincent Lindon portrays Auguste Rodin in this romance drama, set in Paris in 1880, revolving around the famous French sculptor’s scandalous affair with a teenage protege (Izla Higelin) less than half his age. Cast includes Severine Caneele, Bernard Verley and Anders Danielsen Lie. (In French with subtitles)
Social Animals (R for profanity, drug use, graphic sexuality and crude humor) Midlife crisis comedy about a promiscuous, broke stoner (Noel Wells) who finally falls in love after a series of one-night stands. Trouble is, he’s a married man (Josh Radnor). Featuring Aya Cash, Carly Chalkin and Samira Wiley.
Upgrade (R for profanity, graphic violence and grisly images) Sci-fi horror comedy about a cured paraplegic (Logan Marshall-Green) who embarks on a revenge-fueled reign of terror after a billionaire inventor (Harrison Gilbertson) implants an experimental computer chip in his spinal cord enabling him to track down the muggers who’d murdered his wife (Melanie Vallejo) and left him for dead. With Betty Gabriel, Benedict Hardie and Richard Anastasios.
Source: BaretNewsWire.com
Filed Under: Entertainment Tagged With: Independent and Foreign Films, Kam's Kapsules, Wide Releases
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Edited Transcript of NIPF.NS earnings conference call or presentation 15-May-20 12:30pm GMT | #riskmanagement | #security | #ceo | #businesssecurity | #
Jul 11, 2020 (Thomson StreetEvents) — Edited Transcript of Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd earnings conference call or presentation Friday, May 15, 2020 at 12:30:00pm GMT
JM Financial Institutional Securities Limited, Research Division – Research Analyst
Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited Q4 FY ’20 Earnings Conference Call hosted by JM Financial Institution Securities Limited. (Operator Instructions) Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Sameer Bhise from JM Financial. Thank you, and over to you, sir.
Sameer Bhise, JM Financial Institutional Securities Limited, Research Division – Research Analyst [2]
Thank you, Rehman. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining this call today. From the management side of Nippon Life India Asset Management, we have Mr. Sundeep Sikka, ED and CEO; Mr. Fujikake, Nominee from Nippon Life Insurance; Mr. Prateek Jain, CFO of the company; Mr. Chatterjee, who is the Co-Chief Business Officer, Distribution; Mr. Aashwin Dugal, who is the Co-Chief Business Officer, Institutional; Mr. Saha, Head of Digital Business; and Abhishek from Investor Relations. Without much ado, I’ll hand over the call to Mr. Sikka. Over to you, sir.
Sundeep Sikka, Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited – CEO & Executive Director [3]
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to our Q4 FY ’20 Earnings Conference Call. We have with us Prateek Jain, Chief Financial Officer; Saugata Chatterjee, Chief Business Officer, Distribution; Aashwin Dugal, Chief Business Officer, Institutional; Arpan Saha, Head of Digital Business; Fujikake-san, Nominee of Nippon Life; and Abhishek. I’m happy to share that post change in principal shareholding in October 2019, NAM-INDIA has grown and has regained its lost market share and investor base. We have seen green shoots with induction of more than 290 new corporate and SME investors who have started investing with us post this transition. The rebranding exercise has been successfully completed and is yielding favorable results. Since September 2019, our mutual fund assets have grown despite a very challenging macro environment. On a monthly average basis, the AUM touched a high of INR 2,210 billion in February 2020 as compared to INR 1,886 billion in September 2019. Owing to COVID-19 crisis and subsequent volatility in the capital markets, Nippon India Mutual Fund fell down in line with the industry by March end, and the quarterly average AUM was INR 2,049 billion. We continue to have one of the largest retail AUM in the industry at INR 444 billion. Our aim is to increase our base of retail investors, especially from B30 locations. The contribution of retail AUM to total AUM is amongst the highest in the industry at 24%. Our SIP folios increased to INR 3.2 billion as on March 2020. The progress highlights of our retail execution capabilities during the challenging period. The annualized SIP book is at INR 97 billion. During the year, the new digital SIP registration grew by 56 — from — by 56% and 86% of the incremental SIPs have a tenure of greater than 5 years. We continue to be amongst the leaders in the beyond top 30 cities category. The category contributes an AUM of INR 321 billion, over 17% of the total assets are sourced from these locations against an industry average of 15.6%. As on March 31, 2020, 68% of the individual assets have a vintage of more than 12 months as against 63% as on March 2019. We are the second largest ETF player in the market, having a market share in excess of 16%.
In this segment, the AUM rose by 39% to INR 295 billion, excluding the EPFO allocation that goes to 2 PSU on mutual funds, we are the largest ETF player in the country. I’m happy to share that the digital platform contributed 45% of our new purchase transactions. Our investments in digital ecosystem is yielding results. And transactions grew by 31% to 1.4 million over the last financial year. We are ongoing — we have ongoing tie-ups with 20 prominent digital partners. Nippon India Mutual Fund remains well diversified in terms of distribution with no single distributor contributing more than 5% of the AUMs. We have over 76,200 distributors in panel with us. During the year, we launched Nippon India Digital Innovation, AIF, a fund of fund in technology and venture capital space, which received commitment of approximately USD 100 million from our key investors in Japan. In our offshore business, the assets under management and advisory rose to INR 89 billion.
Now on our financial performance. For the quarter ended March 31, 2020, the revenue from operations was INR 2.7 billion, operating expenses decreased by 34% to INR 1.2 billion. Despite a 12% fall in quarterly average AUM in Q4 FY ’20, the operating profit remains stable at INR 1.5 billion.
On average, overall operating expenses have declined by 10% every year over the last 4 years. As on March 31, 2020, our financial assets are INR 24 billion. Of this, 12% is invested in our own equity schemes, 57% is invested in our debt schemes and 25% in bank FD and tax-free bonds and remaining is in sundry assets. This proportion has remained similar over the last few quarters. The domestic equity markets witnessed extraordinary volatility in March 2020, whereby the benchmark industry declined by 25%, while the mid-cap and small-cap industry declined by 40% to 46% respectively. As a result, there was an unrealized mark-to-market loss in excess of INR 1 billion in Q4. Due to this, the profit before tax decreased to INR 274 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2020.
For the year ended March 31, 2020, the profit before tax was INR 5.6 billion. The M2M losses are notional and unrealized. We have already recouped a part of this loss driven by the favorable market condition post March 31. With regard to our response to the COVID-19 crisis, we implemented 100% work-from-home in March 2020. Since then, all business operations, including investor purchase (inaudible) transactions have been executed without any disruption. On average, over 140,000 purchases were executed through digital mode in March 2020, an increase of 30% over the monthly average for the last — the previous 11 months. Since March, our sales team as well as the portfolio managers connected with more than 10,000 investors, conducted 80 con calls and webinars.
For our distributor partners, we conducted over 135 online learning training sessions and engaged with more than 5,000 partners during this lockdown. A strong risk management framework continues to be bedrock of our business. Over the years, we have built a detailed fund casing framework for every fund within the — with an in-depth research-driven process and assigned dedicated responsibilities to individual fund managers in line with the fund objective. To strengthen the framework further in these volatile times, the Board decided that — to make fresh investments in fixed income in only assets, which are AA and above for all mutual fund schemes, except Nippon India Credit Risk and Nippon India Hybrid Bond because of the SEBI categorization. I would again like to reiterate the Board has taken a decision that in fixed income no mutual funds — all mutual fund schemes will be investing only in AA and above. I’m happy to announce the Board has proposed a final dividend of INR 2 per share. With this, the total dividend for the year is INR 5 per share.
In FY ’20, we consolidated and grew our business amid unprecedented challenges. Post rebranding in October, we saw the AUM recover on a fast track until February 2020. Despite external hurdles, our operating performance remains strong, driven by retail strength and cost — and control on cost. We will continue investing in our AIF, ETF and offshore business for future growth opportunities. We are confident towards regaining the lost market share and increasing our profitability in coming quarters.
With these comments, we are happy to take any questions. Thank you.
Operator [1]
(Operator Instructions) We take the first question from the line of (inaudible).
Unidentified Analyst, [2]
Yes. Thanks for the opportunity. Am I audible?
Yes, please go ahead, [Rishabh].
Yes. Just while going through the income statement, I just came across the other income where you have mentioned that INR 124 crores as a negative figure. If you could please explain the rationale behind it and how much of that has been recovered in the sense that you said something about mark-to-market losses, but if you can please explain it in detail?
Prateek Jain, Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited – CFO [5]
Sure. [Rishabh], this is Prateek here. Rishabh See, basically, the company has a net worth of close to about INR 2,900 odd crores, of which predominantly, almost 70% has been invested into our own mutual fund schemes, close to about — if you take the FDs and the tax-free bonds. If you take all these together, close to about 95% of the money has been of this INR 2,900 crore have been invested into our own schemes, tax-free bonds or fixed deposits. So of the total amount, if you see INR 1,800-odd crores is in our mutual fund, of which, typically, we have been allocating close to about 12% to 18% into our own equity scheme. It is part of our seed capital, also are our treasury investment. Now of the total — on the equity side, close to about INR 400-odd crores of investment into our ETF schemes and our equity schemes. On the INR 400 crores, if you see from March 1 to March 30, there was an overall decline in the benchmark indices of about 30%. And going by the same thing, we have seen almost about 26% kind of a decline in our — these portfolio, and that is what Sundeep was alluding to, that these are mark-to-market impact on our team investments. Please note, we do not take any kind of direct exposures into any equity or any other mutual fund’s equity schemes. All these investments pertaining to are in our own equity schemes and ETF schemes, which has — due to this unforeseen black swan kind of an event have declined in terms of M2M value.
Great. Great. Just 1 more follow-up question on this. You said that 26% of the portfolio has declined in the period from March 1 to 31st due to the unprecedented crisis. But if you could give me some figure as to how much of that has been recovered post the recovery that we have seen in the indices?
See, I will tell you, basically, this is a very dynamic figure. And obviously, it then becomes the information for the current quarter. But what they’re saying is that is available from our NAVs. Our — if you see the NAVs of our schemes, where we have invested our available even in public domain. You can do that. But, yes, a significant part of it has been recovered post this 31st of March because market has come up about 20-odd percent.
The next question is from the line of [Jatin Kumar] from [Alpha Capital].
Sir, my first question would be, if I look at this in mutual fund industry data, April was also degrowth for our AUMs. In terms of equity also, while equity markets have recovered, our equity as well as debts AUM have degrown in April. What would be the reason for that, sir?
Sundeep Sikka, Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited – CEO & Executive Director [10]
I think it’s the way — I think you have to see is, I think it’s not that the whole thing has recovered. The fact remains as these have been — April has also been one of the most turbulent months. so I would not like to comment anything beyond 31st March, right now in this call. But clearly, I think these are, I think, volatile times. I mean, it will always be, I think, where the — for us, the — for us, the backbone of our growth is we have today 33.2 million SIPs, and this is the retail flow, which continues. So you will always have HNI money which will come and go and which is more, especially during these volatile times. But from a sticky sets point of view, we are happy that I think we are — SIPs continue to grow.
Unidentified Analyst, [11]
Sure, sir. And sir, on a broad base figure, what would be our equity revenue as a percentage — as in our equity aim, how much that would be contributing to our revenue in terms of total?
Prateek, you want to…
Prateek Jain, Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited – CFO [13]
Yes. [Jatin], we do not disclose the individual breakup, but let me share with you that in terms of our overall operating revenue, we are — for the year, we are about 55 basis points. And in terms of the net margin, we are about 27 basis points. So from the last year’s, where we’re having a net margin of 21 basis points, we have improved our operating profit to about 27 basis points. So despite these challenging times, because of our relentless focus on operating efficiencies, we have to — we have been able to improve our operating margins.
Sure. Sure. I agree, sir. And my last question would be this employee expenses and other expenses have gone down quite a bit in this quarter. What would be the sustainable run rate for these 2 numbers?
Yes. So we have been — always been maintaining that our significant part of our salary is variable. We have on record said that 20% to 25% of our salary bill is variable. And obviously, in terms of in the current scenario where the number — for the financial year, there has been certain reversal or the lowering of our small-term PLI and also the long-term incentives, which has resulted in the almost about INR 30 crores of reduction in terms of quarter on to salary bills.
And other expense, sir?
So in other expenses, if you see — again, we have been mentioning that there is a reduction of about INR 20-odd crores when you look at a stand-alone basis. Predominantly, it is because we’ve been working improving our operating efficiency. But this time the large part of it is from the marketing spend and the other discretionary spend. We have been always been maintaining that in the times we can reduce them and control them. And so this quarter, this discretionary spend on marketing and other digital, et cetera, has been lower. And, therefore, this is the number for the — where we’ve got — we saw the INR 20 crores reduction in our other operating expenses.
Operator [18]
(Operator Instructions) We take the next question from the line of Anand Trivedi from Nepean Capital.
Anand Trivedi;Nepean Capital;Analyst, [19]
First question is a clarification. The other income, which has come down from INR 56 crores to INR 112 crores negative. Is that primarily because of equity? Or is there also some debt mark-to-market component in that?
No. See, of course, from an NAV basis, marginally, that would have been the case. But predominantly, it is on our portfolio investments into our own equity scheme and our EPS schemes.
So to answer the question, it’s a seed capital, which has been put in equity, mutual funds and ETF. It’s…I understand that. The second question is in your expenses. Year-over-year, your fee and commission expenses has come down from INR 56 crores to INR 3 crores. Can you explain why it’s come down so much?
Yes. So this is the expenses which industry used to historical pay as upfront commission, which used to amortize in the books, but post the regulation, these expenses are — upfront brokerage are not allowed, and trade expenses are amortized in this case.
So the 3 is then the more sustainable number. Is that a fair way of looking at this?
Yes, these are the numbers which is pertaining to the unamortized part of the longer duration or close-ended funds and also some part of it is pertaining to the PMS and PIFs in the consolidated one.
The next question is from the line of [Nikhil Chaudhary] from [Akash Ganga].
My question was with respect to the newspaper article in Feb ’20, wherein the regulator has issued an order in our favor in respect of the Reliance Capital dues, so have you reversed the amount of INR 320 crores, which we had provided, like — I just wanted to get a sense on that.
So I think first, let me share with you. I think as far as the Reliance Capital, there is no exposure of Reliance Capital in the AMC. The financial assets of the industry — of the AMC, we do not have any exposure to any Reliance group company or any other company other than our own mutual fund schemes. That is number one. Number two, the exposure, which is in some of the schemes, there is — it’s under litigation. I think we will not be able to comment too much about it, but I think we are making significant progress on that.
Okay, sir. Okay. And sir, could you share the Nippon’s SIP closure rate, like yesterday, I understand, there was an article where in the SIP closure rate was 70%, 72% for the industry. So if you could share some number in respect of Nippon, like that would be great?
I think broadly for us, we are in line with the industry. We’re in line with the industry. Fortunately, I think the only thing because our SIPs are very retail. The stickiness is much more than we have, 80% of our SIPs are greater than 5 years.
The next question is from the line of Haresh Kapoor from IIFL Asset Management.
Haresh Kapoor, IIFL Asset Management Limited – Assistant Analyst [31]
Sir, just coming back to this other income, if you could just talk about the absolute value of impact and the normalized other income, excluding the M2M rate, what would that number be for the quarter?
Prateek?
Yes. So if you see — in terms of the normalized income, if you — this is close to about INR 140-odd crores of mark-to-market income and the rest is the other income, which we have — because see you have to see even the debt schemes, while there is no impact on that, but the debt schemes are also construed as NPM only.
No. So my question is, so in the presentation, it mentions about INR 1 billion. My question is what is the exact value of M2M hit for your Q4 quarter. So if you could just give that number?
Yes. So…
Absolute M2M hit for the quarter.
Yes, absolute M2M hit is close to about INR 149 odd crore, lies there about.
Okay. So basically, if your quarter-on-quarter, INR 57 crores in Q3 would have more or less been like your approximately INR 27 crores or so for this quarter, the normal as other income?
Okay. And so sir, this — so that’s other income. The second question just around this — the cost front. So obviously, you mentioned the key reasons for that. But going ahead, how do you look at for the quarterly run rate in terms of the other expenses because, as you rightly mentioned, it’s also a discretion. But markets are where they are, we might need some push on the marketing front too to kind of get our brand to the clients. So we have reduced in Q4, but how do we look at it immediate quarter or Q1, Q2, where we might need some push on that front too?
Yes. So see, Haresh, if you see consistently, we’ve been clocking in the range of INR 150 crores thereabout. And importantly, we have also been — if you’ve seen in the last 3 years, and it is part of the presentation also, our other expenses have been significantly coming down. So I think we will be definitely — be, I would say, the north of INR 150 crores per quarter in terms of the overall expenses — other expenses.
And just to add to it, we are not trying to cut any cost, which will have impact on a long-term growth. I think the discretionary cost that we’re talking of. So we keep investing into digital because I think — and the cost-cutting that is coming is also the fact that today when 50% of your transactions are coming through digital, I think the cost — operational cost is also coming down. So I want to just assure you that I think from our point of view, we will have — we will be closely looking at all discretionary costs, but we will not be cutting any cost which can impact the future growth of the company.
Yes. I just want to reconfirm. So did Mr. Prateek just say that going ahead, it will be INR 150 crore run rate. So there is INR 112 crores, INR 113 crores because INR 150 crore on a normalized run rate basis, where we will be investing in the business and whatever push it needs, is that right? INR 150 crore is the number, which you gave?
No, see, if you — again, there are multiple components to it. If you see — in terms of the other expenses, you have seen that INR 46 crore to INR 60 crore. Obviously, there is a bit of variability in terms of the other expenses on one side. And the other part is — the other bigger item is our employee benefit expenses, which has been in the range of about INR 75 crores per quarter. Obviously, that was basis the — as I mentioned, there are variable component to it as well. Now it will all depends how this year pans out. So — but what I’m saying is that in terms of the steady run rate, it was about INR 150 crores. And given the variability, we can always bring it down depending on how much we have to invest in terms of marketing as well as in terms of the providing for the long-term incentives as in a PLI.
Okay. And next question just around this quarterly revenue run rate. Now obviously, you’ve had some — on the total AUM basis has been pretty steady. And you have also started gaining some traction in — at least in Q4, was on the debt front and some mix change there. But little positive on the AUM front, but approximately 9.5%, 10% down on the revenue side on a quarter-on-quarter basis. So is it just the mix change front? Or is this something more in terms of some yields changing or something on that front too?
No. So, 2 things. One is the predominant part is the mix front. Obviously, the mix has changed in the fixed income side. Most of the duration and the credit where we used to earn slightly more money is now coming to in form of a liquid and very, very ultra short-term kind of a category. Also there, because of the yield compression, we have reduced certain expenses. So basically, that is the predominant reason for that.
And just last thing for this, you spoke about April, in particular, we had pretty decent trajectory in Q4, some of the debt initiatives, some of the liquid initiatives seem to be on a positive note, but can I understand the equity hit that we’ve had because of M2M. But even in April, we had some impact on the debt side and some of the other impact in AUM. So coming back to that, so is this on a particular segments, as you mentioned, which are seeing that investment and outflow? Or how should we read through because debt momentum was good and in the month of April obviously had some decline. So how should we read-through on that front?
You see, I think the way you have to see this in April. I mean, like I think, again, because we’re talking of March results, I don’t want to touch too much to April — about April, but I think just to give an — you saw a lot of in the industry, there were a lot of events which happened. We being a part of the industry we also get impacted by that. So some of the credit funds we saw the impact because of some industry player — some event in some industry player. So I will just like to put it. There’s nothing specific with any segment. I mean whenever events as big as what happened in April happened in the industry, everybody gets a little bit impacted.
Okay. And no other subcategories or subsegments that we are seeing meaningful hit other than credit funds?
And I would also like to touch this, credit funds for the industry are less than 5% of the…
The next question is from the line of Pritesh Chheda from Lucky Investment Managers.
Pritesh Chheda, Lucky Investment Managers Private Limited – Analyst [55]
Yes. Sir, I was a bit confused on the expense line side. So I think when you’re referring to INR 600 crores, probably you’re referring to total expense, including depreciation number? Because last year’s full year expense is about INR 572 million. So I think are you taking that number in consideration? Because when you say that there is variability in expense and employee expense has a variable component and other expenses a variable component, then whatever was your run rate quarterly and what came in the quarter 4, your expense line ideally should then land up between the 2 numbers for FY ’21. Is that the interpretation we should make?
Well, we are not into a business of giving guidance, but most of these expenses, as you’ve seen, and as you rightly pointed out, would be following this kind of trajectory. So obviously, by your — the way you articulated it, it would be between INR 550 million to INR 600 million.
That’s including depreciation, right, because that’s the total expense line, I think, you are referring to.
Yes. Yes. Absolute.
Perfect, right?
Yes, that was the problem.
The next question is from the line of (inaudible) Financial.
A couple of questions on the employee cost. Is it linked to the NAV of the scheme? Or…
No. No. Employee costs are not related to the NAV.
Go ahead. Go ahead, Prateek.
Yes. See employee cost is not linked to the NAV. However, most of the research firms just put across into their research reports the expenses as a percentage of AUMs or rather total expenses as a percentage of AUM. So, otherwise, this is…But Sundeep can dwell on in terms of PLI, how performance is rewarded or underperformance or how PLI are fit. Sundeep, you can add it on that.
I think broadly, it’s not linked to NAV, number one. I think it is — I think it’s linked to overall the company performance, individual performance and a team performance. So I think broadly about almost 1/3 of the total compensation is variable for the key people. And it is basically — that is the discretionary part that we talked about.
Sure. Okay. Okay. And just going on to the expense part on the other expenses, you mentioned that you had lowered the marketing expenses in the quarter. So is it — so should we link April loss of equity market share versus the industry somewhat to this? Or this is purely because of the NAV and the volatility in the market?
No. I don’t think so there’s a direct correlation between investing money in 1 month and getting market share in the next month. I think it’s a franchise that has been built over 20 years. And I think it is not — so I think it’s — I would like to, again, maybe this comment has been taken a little differently. We will be looking at discretionary costs, I think. It does not at any time mean we’ll stop investing in initiatives, activities and investments, which will help us grow in the future. So at no point of time — I think the cost-cutting will be — not be done at the cost of future growth.
Sure, sir. And last question is on the — what would be the effective tax rate for us?
Yes. So, see, we have chosen to be — go for the lower tax rate; however, in terms of this NPM losses, which is more of an accounting losses, we do not get any kind of tax breaks. And hence, you see the effective tax rate being — appearing as higher.
Yes, yes. I got that. But tax rate would be 25%?
Yes. Yes. Yes, it will be 25%. Typically, for us, when in a good scenario where we have other NPM income. And when we realized most of our other income basis, long-term gain, and that is tax at lower rate, and therefore, our effective tax rate will be lower than the maximum marginal rate.
Right. Okay. Sure. And just — sorry, 1 last question on the INR 2900 crore treasury money that you have invested. If I got it right, is INR 400 crores in equity mutual fund scheme is of our own company? And 57% is debt, and the balance is FD and…
Tax-free bonds.
The next question is from the line of Madhukar Ladha of HDFC Securities.
Madhukar Ladha, HDFC Securities Limited, Research Division – Research Analyst [76]
So first on this other income and your composition of investments. So on Slide 41, you’ve put out the complete composition. So what is the — what are these other assets of INR 158 crores approximate?
Yes. So those are actually are in — one is that these are the trade receivables, and these are — and specifically, these are our investment into our own AIF and our subsidiaries.
Okay. So even — so okay, you’ve included that as well. Trade receivable is also included in this? Or only…
These are the total breakup of our financial — total financial assets.
Okay. Okay. And trade receivables come under financial assets?
Okay. Got it.
Effectively, everything, Madhukar. Whatever is there is within the company and within the mutual fund schemes.
Right. And so can you give a breakup of this mark-to-market loss of roughly INR 150 crores between equity, debt and anything else?
So, frankly speaking, there is 0 — see, first of all, we have no investments outside of this, okay, of our own scheme, et cetera. And therefore, if you see the entire mark-to-market loss is on our own investments into our equity schemes and ETF schemes.
Understood. But can you like just quantify how much will be equity and ETF and how much will be debt? Because as of March, the equity NPM amount is about INR 281 crores, whereas debt is INR 1,400 crores. Now I mean, even if you take a 30% odd hit on equity, then you are roughly coming to about INR 100 crores sort of a hit number.
So, see, everybody is alluding to get the precise numbers so fed up. See, almost about INR 415 crores was there and which equally divided between — almost equally divided between the ETF and in our equity scheme. So if you will ask me what is the breakup of INR 280 crores right now, I can give you that because that is a published number. So the INR 280 crores is now INR 147 crores in our equity scheme and INR 133 crores in our ETF scheme.
No, but what is the return on value now, Prateek? I think what actually Madhukar is asking. Before that, the value was roughly about INR 385 crores, type of INR 400 crores roughly, INR 380 crores, INR 400 crores, which effectively 30% comes down to about INR 130 crores negative.
Okay. So that negative number is about INR 130 crores. And the debt is about INR 20-odd crores. So understood.
And on the expenses side, what would be given these numbers now for the full year, we have staff cost off — sorry, I can’t — I don’t — yes, our staff cost is about INR 300 crores, and our other expenses are about INR 221 crores. So what would be — within these expenses, what percentage would be fixed and what would be discretionary? Can you give a little bit of flavor on that?
As I mentioned earlier, I think in our total fixed salary cost, 1/3 will always be discretionary, which is in the variable pay.
Okay. And in the other expenses?
So other expenses, Madhukar, as you mentioned that close to — again, it all depends on — in terms of the fee and brokerage, so these are all variable expenses. And in the years where business unfolds…
Exclude. Exclude. Exclude fee and commission expense.
So that has been in the range of about…
So if you see, that has been in the range of about INR 50-odd crores. So in a good times, where Sundeep is saying that we invest into our discretionary spend is go to INR 60-odd crores. And in a bad time where we want to squeeze it, we can bring it down to about INR 45-odd crores. So you will see this in the range of between that.
Understood. Okay. And 1 final question. You had these phantom stock options at the time of IPO. Has all of that been settled now? Or is there still some mark-to-market pertaining to those in the employee expenses right now? Or is it all closed out?
No. So as I mentioned that the reduction in the salary for this quarter is predominantly part of the 2 things. One is the immediate for the year PLI. And also in terms of — part is due to the long-term incentive, which is in the form of phantom, the valuation of that. So it is a combination of these 2 things.
Okay. Okay. So when do all the outstanding — see, right now, we are not issuing any more Phantom. And when do all the phantom stock options get closed. So when do they finally get settled? What is the outer date on that? And yes.
So next financial year — see, that will complete the 4-year period when it was planned. So next financial year we will get, if not the current one. The next financial year, it will get closed completely.
Madhukar Ladha, HDFC Securities Limited, Research Division – Research Analyst [100]
March ’22?
Prateek Jain, Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited – CFO [101]
Operator [102]
Before we take the next question, a reminder to participants to please limit your questions to 2 per participant. The next question is from the line of Viraj Mehta from Equirus Portfolio Management.
Viraj Mehta, Equirus Portfolio Management Services – Head of PMS and Fund Manager [103]
Yes, my questions have been answered.
We move to the next question. The next question is from Kunal Shah from Carnelian Asset Management.
Kunal Shah;Carnelian Asset Management;Analyst, [105]
Most of the questions have been answered. Just 2 questions. In the quarter, the fee and commission expense has increased from INR 12 crores to INR 19 crores. If I understand correctly, these expenses are the ones which were prepared before those circular came in, which — where all these expenses have to be debited directly to the schemes. So any reason why this has gone up from INR 12 crores to INR 19 crores. And what is the pending amount going ahead, which would be debited in the next financial year? That is the first question.
Sundeep Sikka, Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited – CEO & Executive Director [106]
Okay. Sorry. Yes, second — put your second question as well.
The second question was pertaining to — now we’re seeing a flight of safety, where a lot of money be it liquid or debt moving to probably say banks, which have got AMC houses, right? And also, as far as the equity schemes go, it is more a kind of a link to the performance of the schemes where it gets pushed by IFAs. Now looking at both the scenarios, where probably we don’t have a bank as a channel partner, right? And Nippon is new when it comes to branding as it was earlier known as Reliance. And also on the backdrop of equity schemes having a lackluster time. What is the feedback that we get from IFAs when it comes to getting incremental business?
So I will take — I think, firstly, I think I’d like to highlight the fact, I think, yes, we’ve not been a part of the bank. We’re not a bank-sponsored sub-management company. And we do not take that at any — at any point of time, I mean, that has a disadvantage. I think we are today supported by all banks, and our biggest trends have been the IFAs. So I think I do not see that, I think, being a part of the bank gives you extra advantage or does not give you not having it because as long as you have a well-diversified distribution mix, the sigma of that put together takes care of it. That is number one. Number two, I think the question of whether investors will now move to bank sponsored for safety, I don’t think so. I think that is not the case. I think today every company comes from the — I think it’s more to do with the institution, which is backing it. Today, I think we clearly see, especially the HNI, the institutional investors clearly see Nippon as a Fortune 500 company. And the kind of response we are getting from these investors post the main change has been very, very positive.
Coming to performance — coming — flows coming to few schemes. Yes, we had some schemes, which have not been doing well. But at the same time, we’ve had a couple of equity schemes, which have been doing very well; the value fund, the growth fund and some other funds. And we have been seeing good flows coming into it. Having said that, our long-term approach will be that we’ll be working on consistent — consistency of the performance of the schemes rather than being in the top 3 because we believe that is not a top 1 or 2 because that type of performance is not sustainable from a long-term point of view. So the way you have seen we have done in fixed income. I think we are one of the first asset management companies to put out with a formal distinguish board policy that we will not be growing below AA. I think we are moving more towards a conservative approach in fixed income and consistency in equity.
In terms of your first question, if you see 2 set of par results. One is the standalone. There, this fee and commission expenses have come down from INR 7 crores to INR 3 crores. While when you look at the consol basis, it has gone up from INR 11 crores to INR 19 crores. The reason for that consol fee and expenses going up is because in the fourth quarter we did — were able to manage to raise assets in our AIF business for our equity business. So — and therefore, there is an upfront commission that’s payable. And due to that effect, the expenses are higher.
The next question is from the line of Jignesh Shial from Emkay Global.
Jignesh Shial, Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd., Research Division – Research Analyst [111]
Just 2 quick questions. One, how is the trend happening right now on the — this is not about March, but post this quarter (inaudible) trouble on the net fund side. So how is the flow happening on the net fund side right now in this quarter? Just a flavor, not the number. And number two, now, look post COVID can give you some remorse — some sense over how we’re thinking about the distribution side, how changes would be happening to reach the end target in this kind of lockdowns or this kind of social distancing continuing. So any strategy was there that how you guys are planning to reach to the end customer more easily or more digitally. Any platform has been developed or not? If you will give some sense over this, that would be really helpful.
Let me take the first one on the fixed income. I think clearly — I think because of some of the events which have happened in the industry, we have seen the flows which are coming in, I think they have been moving away from credit funds and have been moving more towards the high-quality and lower duration, you see? We have seen good flows in some of our schemes like Nivesh Lakshya, which are more to do with, which are — and the (inaudible) funds. So there’s clearly a change in — which we have seen. But having said that, is this going to be a long-term trend? It’s very difficult to comment at this point of time because this has just happened very recently, and many times these kind of change in behavior may be temporary or may be permanent, only I think we will come to know after a couple of quarters.
Coming back to distribution, we are very happy and proud of the digital capability that we built up over the last 5 years. The fact that I think we’ve been in this lockdown for such a long time, we still, I think, have been doing roughly about 10,000 investor — subscriptions per working day without offices being open. We are doing roughly 1 incremental SIP every 20 seconds through our digital properties. So I think 1 good thing is I think the — whatever investments we had done in our digital properties has — is showing results. Clearly, we will see more and more digital happening. But I’m also — I think the way I see is, I think once things come back to normal, whether it’s going to be in 3 months, 6 months, I think, nobody can — nobody knows that, I think. In financial services, there will always be a set of people who would like to physically come to the branches, let to deal with the distributors. And everything cannot move digital. So what is happening right now, I think while it is a big advantage for us because of the investments in digital, which we have done. But it is not that the branches will close. It will not happen that the people will not come — the distributors will not be having a face-to-face interaction. So I think we need to see how things play. I think it’s always — I think you have to always keep diversifying and keep building and investing for future. So I think we are happy today, both whether it’s a physical or digital. I think we are ready on both the fronts.
Understood. Understood. And just confirming it, the absolute loss number that is given for the other income part had been INR 149 crores. Is that number correct?
No, no, the overall number for the quarter is INR 125 crores on a consol basis.
It is just that the question was asked that look if you have earned other incomes, what is the total MTM? So while the quarter number is as much, but we would have definitely accrued other incomes in our FD and tax-free bonds, et cetera. And therefore, the question was on overall MTM will be how much?
Understood. And since market has already recovered in the month of April and May, we will see the reversal happening in this quarter or wait for it and all?
See this quarter is still a long way to go. And let’s say, if market grows up, significantly from here, the entire could be recovered or if it — obviously, it is very difficult to predict from our side. But of course, all those investments which we have made, we have not realized these losses. So obviously, these will be subject to MTM effect.
The next question is from the line of [Aadesh Mehta] from Motilal Oswal Asset Management.
Unidentified Analyst, [119]
Sir, we have seen a very sharp drop in other expense from around INR 60-odd crores to INR 40-odd crores and so how should we read this trend? Should we conclude that we have exhausted all legal in this plan item and this should be the new normal? Or you have further levers to reduce this?
See, obviously, we are working towards more and more automation, more and more efficiencies. So I don’t think we have exhausted all of it. Yes, increase mentally the delta from here will not be significant. And therefore, while we don’t give any guidance, I mentioned that it would be in the range of about INR 45 crores to INR 60 crore, where we have the liberty of discretionary spend depending how the market conditions are. But yes, despite of that INR 45 crores, we still can definitely bring in some small savings by improving the efficiencies.
Right. Right. And sir, we also hold some asset management rights of around INR 240-odd crores on our balance sheet, right? So, any write-off provision provided on that this year?
No. See, we’ve got this external valuation done. And at this point of time, the carrying value is lower than the valuation carried out by the independent agency, and hence, does not require any kind of write-down.
Okay. Okay. And sir, last question from my side. This INR 1,400 crores of debt exposure you have, everything is there in the scene. You don’t have any exposure directly to bonds or entities, right? Is that fair to…
No. We do not take any kind of bond or direct fixed income exposure or any equity exposures?
The next question is from the line of (inaudible).
So my first question was given the uncertainties due to COVID-19, what would be the impact on our (inaudible) from that? And the second question is in terms of market share. When we light it up in terms of the institutional, retail and HNI. So if you could share like what was the market share across these 3 categories in September? And what was it in Feb 2020?
If I got your question, market share between Feb and April, March?
Between September last year and Feb in terms of HNI, retail and institution?
I think broadly to put it very simply, I think we over the last 2 years, let’s say, let me break it while you are going 6 months back, I’m going to — I think the highest market share loss was in institutional investors and HMS. And as we have mentioned, we are already seeing about 290 corporate investors coming back. And along with that, I think we have been seeing good traction coming in from HNIs and even more, especially for a lot of HNIs coming in ETFs also. So I think while I will not right now have the number ready, which I think [Abhishek] can share with you off-line. But these are the 2 segments where we can and will see highest growth.
Sir, just to add to what Sundeep said, and most — as against the industry, our retail contribution to AUM is about 24% and our B30 contribution is about 17.5% as against 15.6% of the industry. And in terms of retail, 24% as against 19% of the industry.
Can the (inaudible) in terms of offshore mandate a lean makeover given the COVID-19 situation? Any sense of what can we see in terms of next one year in the offshore mandate?
It is, as of now, no, I think the last — I think since our last quarterly call, there’s nothing much to share on that. I think — but as we mentioned in the last call that I think with as Nippon being the primary shareholder, we will — we are in the process of leveraging the global network of Nippon to see — get money into India. Clearly, this is going to be a function of how the overall investors see in there. And so I think from a long-term point of view, we are very confident. I think we will gain market share in this segment, leveraging Nippon’s network across the globe.
But just in case if you are interested (inaudible) equity fund has been in quartile 1 from — in 1 year category, in 3-year category and in substantial date category. So obviously, fund has been doing well. Obviously, the opportunities come and which is likely that India is likely to grow faster than the rest of the world. In case the money comes in into India, then obviously, this performance will surely help.
The next question is from the line of [Pavan] from IFFL.
A couple of questions. Number one is like I want to understand how — this is a very basic question. I want to understand how the arbitrage funds are classified? Whether they’re as equity or debt? Another thing is solution-oriented schools like retirement fund and children’s fund and close-ended schemes. Are these classified directly as — so arbitrage funds classified as equity or debt in the asset classification that you show as average?
Arbitage thing if you were to look at it, I think, is included in the equity segment for data.
Okay, sir. What about the solution-oriented schemes, retirement funds and the children’s fund?
What is our equity… Whichever is equity will be for equity-oriented Our interest scales will come in equity whether they are close-ended or a gold-based fund. All these come into equity. So retirement fund, which is an equity fund will come into equity.
Yes. Okay. Sir, second question is related to investment, but not related to the NPM loses. Just wanted to understand the complexes here because you have close to INR 2,400 crores or INR 2,300 crores in terms of investments, cash and FDs. But there is like — considering the cash flow — operating cash flow cost and nature of the business, you don’t really need that much cash on the balance sheet. Are you considering extraordinary dividends or buybacks, whenever the share price goes below (inaudible) estimates?
I will not be able to comment on this. I will let the Board decide this. And I think from our point of view, over the last many years, we’ve been giving higher dividends. And I think that purposes will continue. But, however, I think that’s very difficult to comment on that question at this stage.
The next question is from the line of Mr. Madhukar Ladha from HDFC Securities.
We’ve been losing a little bit of market share, both on the equity and debt side. And that is a little concerning. So can you talk a little bit about what the thought process is and how you will regain this market share over the next for another couple of years?
So Madhukar, if you were to see, again, like I mentioned, I think from the — if you were to break down the last full year — financial year in 3 parts, I’ll say, from April to September, nothing (inaudible) change took place at the Nippon Life, I think. We came from an AUM of INR 2,40,000 monthly AUM to INR 1,82,000. And from there until 1st of March, we moved all the way up to INR 2,20,000 or 20% growth. I think — so post less than 1 month, I think we have clearly seen, I think, because of the mark-to-market credit events happening, I mean it’s more industry phenomenon. But I think the way you need to read it is, I think, clearly, I think, yes, we lost in past I think if you were to look at the last 6 months minus the month of March, I think, you can see the recovery story or to regain market share has already started. Even if you were to see the April data, I think where there is a few basis points, but we are gaining market share. So I think — I think we are clearly getting our market share back. Having said that, I would like to also highlight the fact, while I think we will keep talking about market share. But as — from a Board point of view, I think the thought process is to continue focusing on profitable growth and profitability rather than market share. But I’m just trying to — both the sides, we have been gaining — I think we are seeing positive response. But for us, if it’s between market share and bottom line, I think it would be bottom line.
Right. And just a follow-up. You said that, obviously, we’re looking more at profitable growth. But if I do a little bit of a back of the envelope calculation of this quarter’s numbers, and I try to derive the yield on equity, I believe that the equity yields have dipped pretty significantly in the fourth quarter. I have also seen the commission sort of disclosures in terms of normal TR minus direct TRs and for the March — for March, commissions have also increased. So can I get some comment on whether these are — this is sort of a continuing (inaudible) high commission payouts?
Madhukar, I’ll tell you that, look, what Sundeep mentioned is our strategic intent. Technically, we will keep working on. Our market was not good. We saw that there is an opportunity, our schemes doing well. In some of the schemes, we — to get the traction back, we might have gone and slightly increased our brokerage structure. But these are all technical intent, and we don’t want to discuss this. But strategically, if you see, despite the overall decline in the realization, our operating profit is about — for the quarter is about 29 basis points. And for the year is about 27 basis points as against 21 basis points last year.
We’ll be able to take 1 last question. We take the last question from the line of Mohit Surana from CLSA.
Mohit Surana, CLSA Limited, Research Division – Research Analyst [147]
I just wanted your thoughts in terms of — you said that your digital initiative, et cetera, has held during the lockdown phase. But just from a regulatory point of view of KYC, et cetera and all of that and that you mentioned that the fact that people want to visit branches, et cetera. So I just want to know what has been your experience in terms of daily or weekly account opening rates post-lockdown and pre-lockdown and how do they compare and your comments and thoughts?
I think I will — while I will not have the exact number and data to share at this point of time. But clearly, the fact that we’ve been in lockdown, we are doing about 9,000 to 10,000 transactions per day, we are getting incremental investors. See what we have to understand is the digital system, ecosystem is also evolving and maturing, the EKYC. Today, we have come to a point. I mean, it is lot more smoother for and easy for someone to onboard somebody digitally than what it was 1 year back. So I think I would say, I think things are, I think, very positive. Regarding EKYC it is not a challenge anymore the way earlier it used to be. So from the fact that in last year, only it’s last year itself, we added (inaudible) 1.6 lakh only through the digital — on the digital properties. So I think it is evolving.
I think we remain positive on this.
Thank you very much. We’ll take that as the last question. I would now like to hand the conference back to the management team for closing comments.
Thanks a lot, everyone. I think thanks for being on the call Saturday [Friday] evening, so late, and hope to talk to you all again after the Q1 results in June. Thank you.
Sameer Bhise, JM Financial Institutional Securities Limited, Research Division – Research Analyst [152]
Thank you. On behalf of JM Financial, that concludes the conference.
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#parent | #kids | Skullbreaker TikTok video challenge reportedly leads to child’s death | #parenting | #parenting | #kids
A dangerous trend on social media reported to have caused serious injuries and at least one death has sparked fears more kids could face the same fate if it continues.
The “Skullbreaker” craze emerged on video sharing app TikTok and involves three people standing side-by-side tricking the middle person into jumping and having their legs kicked from underneath them.
Many injuries have reportedly been sustained by people who fell for the cruel prank overseas, with Brazilian TV station Costa Branca reporting that a 16-year-old girl died because of the prank in December.
A recent video taken at a school in Venezuela, South America, went viral after it showed a boy slamming into the concrete ground after two peers kicked his feet away.
The Skullbreaker … Two girls shown teaming up to kick the legs of another girl so she falls back onto the tiles. Source: TikTok via Facebook
Reports suggested the student ended up in intensive care due to the severity of the injuries he sustained, The Mirror reported.
Cyber safety experts are now warning of the grave risks associated with taking part in the challenge, with parents being encouraged to pay close attention to how their kids are using the app.
“It never ceases to amaze me the stupidity of people,” cyber safety expert Susan McLean told Yahoo News Australia.
“Parents need to be aware of what their kids are doing and they need to have conversations with them about what’s acceptable behaviour on the internet.”
Mrs McLean said the Skullbreaker challenge was far from the first social media trend to pose serious danger to the people who took part.
These men kicked the legs out from beneath a woman, causing her to fall back. Source: TikTok via Facebook
She referenced previous social media challenges involving people pouring ice on themselves, eating laundry detergent pods and using salt and ice to cause painful burns to the skin.
“Young people have always taken risks, but this is risk-taking at a whole new level,” she said.
“They have to understand that a lot of the stuff they see online is faked, and kids don’t discern about that as well.”
Mrs McLean urged those using social media to not participate in activities “that are likely going to cause you or someone else harm”.
Stunt could lead to criminal charges
“All you can do is have conversations with your children about their behaviour both on and offline – that’s your job as a parent, to make sure your children travel safely through life to the best of your ability.”
She warned those taking part in dangerous challenges of the potential there is for them to face criminal charges if they have a role in someone being seriously hurt or killed.
These three gents begin the video in typical fashion, but stop before the fall in a message to others not to try it. Source: TikTok
“You can be charged with recklessly or negligently causing injury – you can go to jail. Regardless of whether it’s your mate, you’re probably going to face charges if you inflicted that injury,” Mrs McLean said.
“Don’t be a sheep and follow what people are doing online if it’s dumb and dangerous.”
TikTok parties becoming a danger in themselves
Yasmin London, executive directer at cyber safety education provider Ysafe, told Yahoo News Australia children hosting and attending TikToks parties were also becoming a concerning trend.
She said these were troublesome because the “entire party revolves around taking these videos” and often involved children under age 13 who don’t always get permission from their parents.
“It’s causing problems in terms of privacy for people. Kids are going to parties whose parents may not know that all of these TikTok videos are being uploaded to that platform without their knowledge,” Ms London said.
This is one of the warnings being shared by TikTok users about the Skullbreaker challenge. Source: TikTok
She added that any social media app showing content of children and in some cases, paid content, made it a target for online predators.
“Kids can get paid for their performances by adults and people they don’t know and that obviously leads down a pretty dangerous path.
“There’s a number of issues when we have young children on platforms that, while they might appear fun, can have some dangerous implications.”
In the wake of serious injuries being reported from people using the app, some TikTok users have taken it upon themselves to share videos urging people to stop taking part in the Skullbreaker challenge.
Do you have a story tip? Email: newsroomau@yahoonews.com.
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Wiretaps obtained by Nordic Monitor have revealed the names of Turkish intelligence officers who had worked closely with a suspect indicted on charges of sex trafficking and organized crime.
Five agents of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) were exposed during the investigation into key suspects in an organized crime gang operating out of Turkey’s western province of Izmir. The gang was using honey traps with escort women as bait, including some foreign nationals, to obtain confidential documents from Turkish military officers and government employees as well as NATO ally officers who were deployed to Turkey.
The preliminary probe led Turkish investigators to a man named Co?kun Ba?bu?, a retired colonel who was working as manager of the Marmaris Marina, owned by Bilgin Özkaynak, the leader of the gang and the key suspect in the investigation. In order to expose Ba?bu?’s contacts, the police obtained wiretap warrants from the courts as well as authorization for physical surveillance. He was closely followed by a team of undercover police officers while meeting with other suspects including the MIT agents.
From the phone records and surveillance, investigators identified five MIT agents who were working with Ba?bu?. Two agents — Gürcan Çapar and Mehmet Lütfi Belül – were assigned to the predominantly Kurdish province of Diyarbak?r in Turkey’s Southeast. Two others — Ismail Hakk? Yurttakalan and Hasan Duru – were working at the headquarters of the spy agency in Ankara. The fifth one, Erol Ya?c?, was employed at MIT’s regional directorate in Istanbul.
During the interrogation in the police station after his detention, Ba?bu? admitted his ties to the MIT agents and acknowledged the content of the wiretaps when the transcripts of the phone conversations were read to him. The police surveillance photographed Ba?bu? meeting with MIT agents at the airport, in a restaurant, in a parking lot and elsewhere.
On November 19, 2011 the police tailed Ba?bu? and MIT officer Duru as the two went to Sabiha Gökçen Airport in Istanbul to meet an incoming passenger, a woman named Dilara Erol, in order to pick up a green passport from her. Green passports are issued to senior Turkish government employees to facilitate overseas travel. Many countries including the EU Schengen member states do not require visas for green passport holders.
The content of the conversations in the wiretaps depicts Ba?bu? and the MIT agents as harboring extremist and racist views with respect to Kurds and as opposed to the botched initiatives launched by the government to settle Turkey’s Kurdish problem. They also voice anti-Western views in their conversations.
Wiretap transcript showing retired Col. Co?kun Ba?bu? using foul language targeting then-Defense Minister ?smet Y?lmaz over conscientious objection:
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For example, in a wiretap recorded on November 15, 2011, Ba?bu?, talking to Ersin Kaymakci, also indicted in the same organized crime case, swore and used profanities to lash out at then-Defense Minister ?smet Y?lmaz, who announced the government was working on options for dealing with conscientious objectors. Y?lmaz said their efforts were aimed at protecting the Turkish state from additional fines imposed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) due to Turkey’s policy of mandatory military service.
Y?lmaz’s remarks were made at a Q and A session with reporters, joined by then-Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin, after the two met with Council of Europe (CoE) representatives during which Turkish and CoE officials reviewed recent rulings from the ECtHR, which found Turkey to be in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
According to Article 72 of the Turkish Constitution, all male Turkish citizens must perform military service: “National service is the right and duty of every Turkish male. In addition, Article 45 of the Military Penal Code explicitly states, “Individuals may not evade military service, and penalties may not be revoked, for religious or moral reasons.” Such legal mandates make conscientious objection a crime in Turkey.
“Did you hear that son of a bitch a while ago? That fucking son of a bitch with an almond mustache. The fucking guy says they look at Europe [for conscientious objection] and are going to assess the matter accordingly. Let Europe screw his mother,” Ba?bu? said. He claimed at the police station that he was drunk and could not remember the details of the conversation when presented with a transcript of the call.
Co?kun Ba?bu?, a retired colonel who was indicted in a sex trafficking case.
When Ba?bu? was about to lose his job at the marina, MIT agent Çapar suggested a job at Hyundai, saying said he knew the manager and could easily fix it up for him, according to a recorded conversation between the two on December 10, 2011.
In a wiretap dated January 25, 2012, Ba?bu? talks about how he wants to invest in a government-subsidized program and submit the deed of his house as collateral for cheap credit. MIT agent Duru, a womanizer, advises him to offer booze and a prostitute to the government expert who would assess the value of the collateral so that he can get a higher price for the house than the market value. Concerned that the phones were wiretapped, Ba?bu? warns Duru that the content of their conversation may be revealed one day, putting them in a difficult spot. The two also talked about a scheme for insurance fraud.
In the wiretap Co?kun Ba?bu? and MIT agent Hasan Duru talk about fraud and an insurance scheme by bribing a government expert with drinks and prostitutes:
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MIT agent Çapar called Ba?bu? on October 12, 2011 to ask a favor for his nephew, who had been detained for drunk driving in Izmir. Ba?bu? said he would take care of it and immediately called Capt. Serhan Varol, commanding officer of the gendarmerie unit that detained the suspect, urging him to make the charges go away. But Serhan said the man not only drove under the influence but also refused to submit to a breathalyzer on the scene and got into a quarrel with the officers. The local prosecutor ordered the man’s detention and sent him to the hospital for a blood test, Serhan said, adding that the matter was in the hands of the judiciary. The suspect was also slapped with an additional charge of resisting arrest.
The wiretap that shows a MIT agent asking for a favor to make DUI charges against his nephew go away:
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In other wiretaps Ba?bu? was seen receiving calls from people who asked that their sons be given a better deployment while performing their compulsory military service. The investigators intercepted two such conversations, one on May 12, 2011 and the the other on December 12, 2011. In the interrogation, Ba?bu? claimed he did not act on such requests for favors.
Two wiretaps that show Ba?bu? receiving requests to make arrangements in the Turkish military:
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The discovery of MIT’s involvement in the organized crime syndicate was made after the police in Izmir received a tip on August 10, 2010 that informed the authorities about a sex trafficking and human smuggling network which was involved in blackmail, prostitution, privacy violations and further criminal activities. Police briefed the prosecutor’s office on the tip and submitted preliminary research on the people named in it. The prosecutor ordered the organized crime unit on October 26, 2010 to investigate the claims and suspects named in the whistleblower’s account.
The report, dated December 3, 2010, shows the police investigated the claims made in the tip and identified nine people, including Russian and Belarusian women, who were involved in the gang. The report indicated that the gang forced women to engage in sex and seized the passports of foreign women who were lured to Turkey and forced to work in honey trap schemes. The gang was recording the sexual encounters to blackmail government officials.
The investigators had worked on the case for two years, obtained wiretaps from the courts and ran surveillance on suspects to uncover the network. It turned out the gang was much more than a sex trafficking network and resembled more of an espionage group collecting top secret information from various government and military officials through honey traps, sexual favors or blackmail. Among the thousands of pages of secret documents were classified NATO and FBI documents that were shared with the Turkish government as a member of the alliance.
The first wave of arrests was launched on May 9-10, 2012 at the order of prosecutors, and more criminal evidence was gathered from the homes and offices of suspects during the execution of search and seizure warrants. The police detained 28 people in the first wave including nine active duty military officers. According to the internal memo submitted to the Smuggling and Organized Crime Department (KOM) in Ankara on May 11, 2012, a copy of which was obtained by Nordic Monitor, investigators drew up profiles of the detained suspects and the content of the seized materials from the suspects.
The assessment made by investigators indicated that at least two MIT officers, Yurttakalan and Duru, were involved in the scheme and had to be incorporated into the investigation file, indicted and tried.
21-page transcript of wiretap records for suspect Co?kun Ba?bu? shows him interacting with Turkish intelligence agency MIT officers:
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However, while investigators were mapping out MIT’s role in the illicit sex trade and human smuggling network, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdo?an rushed an intelligence bill amendment through parliament on February 17, 2012, providing more immunity for MIT officials from the criminal probes. It required that prosecutors obtain permission from the government to pursue investigations into MIT officials.
The reason for the government action was to cover up MIT’s trail in aiding and abetting jihadist groups in Syria as well as to save agents who were caught in armed and bomb attacks that took place in Istanbul but were blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Istanbul prosecutors had to issue a summons to MIT Undersecretary Hakan Fidan to respond to the allegations, but Erdo?an intervened and made changes to the intelligence bill in parliament using the majority he controlled.
As a result, the Izmir prosecutor decided to not press charges against MIT, thinking that the Erdo?an government would not allow their prosecution. In the indictment, 357 suspects including 55 active duty officers and numerous retired officers were named when the prosecutor filed criminal charges against the gang in 2013. The indictment also mentions 831 victims and 196 co-plaintiffs.
According to the indictment, the gang hired foreign women as prostitutes to send to military officers from whom the gang eventually obtained classified military information. The gang’s main objective was to make money through the sale of confidential military documents to third parties, according to the indictment. The gang, which included civilian suspects, infiltrated the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and had many members from inside the military, who facilitated its activities in establishing contact with high-ranking officers and obtaining confidential documents from them.
The indictment revealed how NATO and US security was compromised. For example, NATO documents seized from suspect Narin Korkmaz during the execution of a search warrant identified Alparslan Yücel Soysal, also a suspect in the case, as revealing in detail the assets and capabilities of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EAD) units operating in every NATO member state. The note next to his name clearly singles out Russia, China and Iran as potential clients for these documents.
The gang used prostitutes in honey trap schemes to obtain secret government documents, according to the prosecution in Izmir province.
A suspect named Bülent Karaaslan, a bomb expert, supplied secret US and NATO directives in bomb-making and bomb-diffusion techniques to the spy ring. Suspect Ayd?n ?it, an air force officer, handed over FBI bomb-making analyses to the gang that explained, among other things, how to make improvised bombs manually and where in the car these bombs should be planted. Suspect Ersin Kapucu, an air force pilot, was identified as an important source for electronic warfare data and information on how it is used in the Turkish Air Force (THK) and NATO. He supplied 22 Power Point presentation files dated 2009. A note in his file says he was soon expected to supply passcodes, which the gang believed would be very beneficial.
The gang obtained from a mark named ?smail Demir a hard copy of top secret details on AIM-120 missiles used in Turkish F-16 fighter jets. The note advises that he be rewarded for supplying this sensitive information. Another mark named Andaç Keskin, an officer at the field corps school of engineering in ?zmir, was identified as an important asset in hooking up with NATO officers. The note about him says he knows many NATO officers and coordinates logistics for them. It says Keskin operated out of the Aktur Hotel in ?zmir, where many NATO officers stayed, in a room fitted with surveillance equipment.
Suspect Nuri Dereli, a flight lieutenant, supplied the gang with a very sensitive file titled “Tur_AEM_F16.pdf,” which is 954 pages long in English and classified as “Secret Releasable to USA, TUR.” It details technical, tactical and procedural data for F-16s. The note attached to this file says it should not be obtained by anybody else. It even warned that when a file of a similar nature was previously leaked, it created problems between Turkey and the US. “I repeat it should not be leaked in order not to experience similar problems with the US,” the note added.
Turkish intelligence agency MIT headquarters in Ankara.
Similarly, suspect Okay Yalç?n, an air force officer, leaked sensitive information on US-made Hawk medium-range surface-to-air missile systems, including a 24-page secret document titled “60G-2-2-70 Hawk Passive Engagement System.pdf.” Another set of documents seized from suspect Sayg?n Özdemir details performance reports of pilots assigned to the 151st squadron and their evaluations on war preparedness. A document titled “F-1” reveals frequencies and positions pilots use with ground control at the 5th Air Base and was described as vital information that cannot be allowed to be leaked to the enemy in wartime. Another document explains how the ammunition loaded on F-16s should be used and under what conditions. It says this document cannot be transferred to any country other than Turkey and the US. A document leaked by Gökhan Gülbalar explains the nuts and bolts of a signal intelligence system named Milsis-23u, used within the General Staff’s Electronic Systems Command (GES), the military’s most comprehensive and top secret communications interception unit.
The criminal case against the gang members was quashed by the Erdo?an government, and all suspects were let go. Many returned to their duties in the Turkish military, advancing in the ranks despite their controversial records.
Prosecutors, judges and police investigators who uncovered this massive espionage ring were punished either by dismissal or arrest on trumped-up charges.
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Vail Celebrates National Safety Awareness Week With "Stay Safe in Seven Easy Steps"
Safety theme to continue throughout the season with a focus on “Safety Saturdays”
VAIL, Colo. – Jan. 14, 2011 – National Safety Awareness Week returns to Vail, Jan. 15-21, encouraging skiers and riders, guests and employees, to simply “Stay Safe in Seven Easy Steps,” referring to the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA)’s “Your Responsibility Code.”
The resort, which has been recognized by the NSAA for its safety efforts for more than 10 years, plans to continue promoting “Stay Safe in Seven Easy Steps” throughout the remainder of the season with added emphasis and events on “Safety Saturdays,” as a means to highlighting the importance of always abiding by “Your Responsibility Code” on the slopes. While Vail will continue to host various events and activities around safety as in previous years, organizers are primarily focusing on simply and effectively communicating the seven steps safety message to guests and employees.
“This season, the intent is to communications simple and straightforward for our guests and employees alike with a daily safety message that ties directly back to ‘Your Responsibility Code,’ something skiers and snowboarders alike should all be aware of every day of the year,” said Bob Cox, manager of the Vail Yellow Jackets. “We plan to complement the daily message with traditional and new events, activities and ways to engage both guests and employees in safety throughout National Safety Awareness Week and beyond.”
Also new this season, Vail Mountain has created signs with “Your Responsibility Code” in Spanish, German and Portuguese to help communicate with international guests. Signs in other languages will be added as available.
“Stay Safe in Seven Easy Steps” With “Your Responsibility Code”:
Saturday, Jan. 15 – Code # 1: “Always stay in control, and be able to stop or avoid other people or objects.”
Sunday, Jan. 16 – Code # 2: “People ahead of you have the right of way. It is your responsibility to avoid them.”
Monday, Jan. 17 – Code # 3: “Stop in a safe place for you and others. You must not stop where you obstruct a trail or are not visible from above.”
Tuesday, Jan. 18 – Code # 4: “When starting downhill or merging into a trail, look uphill and yield to others.”
Wednesday, Jan. 19 – Code # 5: “Always use devices to help prevent runaway equipment.”
Thursday, Jan. 20 – Code # 6: “Observe all posted signs and warnings. Keep off closed trails and out of closed areas.”
Friday, Jan. 21 – Code # 7: “Prior to using any lift, you must have the knowledge and ability to load, ride and unload safely.”
With this in mind and in addition to daily safety efforts, Vail will also be extending the “Stay Safe in Seven Easy Steps” concept beyond National Safety Awareness Week to “Safety Saturdays” with regular events and programs like Catwalk Awareness Training, Sweep with Patrol and the Vail Safety Center.
Additional events throughout National Safety Awareness Week at Vail will include:
Check out a “sleeping” snow cat at Henry’s Hut, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Vail Snowsports School Presents Terrain Park Etiquette
Join snowboard instructors at the Golden Peak Terrain Park for up to date park use information; meet at the log structure above the Golden Peak Terrain Park. Thursday, Jan. 20, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Free Adult Ski Tips
Intermediate and advanced skiers depart Mid-Vail Monday, Jan. 17-Friday, Jan. 21 at 11 a.m.
Sweep with Vail Ski Patrol
Join the Vail Ski Patrol with closing the mountain at the end of the day. To sign up call (970) 754-4610 or stop by Patrol Headquarters at the top of the Mountaintop Express Lift (#4) for more information. Daily, Jan. 15-21 and every Saturday for the remainder of the season.
Vail Yellow Jacket “Stay Safe Center”
Check out the tent at the top of the Mountaintop Express Lift (#4): Have your skis or snowboard registered with the Vail Police Department and pick up Safety swag/ buttons/other fun stuff. Jan. 15, 16 and 21 and every Saturday for the remainder of the season from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Avalanche Safety Introduction
Henry’s Hut Top of the Mountaintop Express Lift (#4). First come, first served. Sign up Vail Ski Patrol (970) 754-4610. Thursday, Jan. 20 at 10 a.m.
Catwalk Awareness Training
Educating our guests as to how far they travel in one second on catwalks on Vail Mountain. Lions Way at Mid-Vail, Jan. 15-21 from 2-3 p.m.
“Mustard and Ketchup” Safety Quiz
Complimentary cookies with Yellow Jackets and Patrol with a completed Safety Card at PHQ. Friday, Jan. 21, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
"Stay Safe Scavenger Hunt"
Put on by the Yellow Jackets at Chaos Canyon. Wednesday, Jan. 19 from 1-3 p.m.
"Code around the World"
New communications of "Your Responsibility Code" in Spanish, German and Portuguese around the mountain. Vista Bahn Express Lift (#16), Eagle Bahn Gondola (#19), PHQ and Two Elk.
Other events, activities and communications may be added throughout the week and all events are subject to change; please check with Vail Ski Patrol or Yellow Jacket personnel about daily activities or call (970) 754-4610 for more information.
About Vail Resorts
Vail Resorts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the leading mountain resort operator in the United States. The Company's subsidiaries operate the mountain resort properties of Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone mountain resorts in Colorado, Heavenly Mountain Resort in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada, and the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyo. The Company's subsidiary, RockResorts, a luxury resort hotel company, manages casually elegant properties across the United States and the Caribbean. Vail Resorts Development Company is the real estate planning, development and construction subsidiary of Vail Resorts, Inc. Vail Resorts is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MTN). The Vail Resorts company website is www.vailresorts.com and the consumer website is www.snow.com.
Liz Biebl
Director, Brand Communications
Email: ebiebl@vailresorts.com
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Whooping cough (pertussis) is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection
In many people, whooping cough (pertussis) is marked by a severe hacking cough followed by a high-pitched intake of breath that sounds like "whoop."
Before the vaccine was developed, whooping cough was considered a childhood disease. Now whooping cough primarily affects children too young to have completed the full course of vaccinations and teenagers and adults whose immunity has faded.
Deaths associated with whooping cough are rare but most commonly occur in infants. That's why it's so important for pregnant women — and other people who will have close contact with an infant — to be vaccinated against whooping cough.
Once you become infected with whooping cough, it takes about seven to 10 days for signs and symptoms to appear, though it can sometimes take longer. They're usually mild at first and resemble those of a common cold:
Red, watery eyes
After a week or two, signs and symptoms worsen. Thick mucus accumulates inside your airways, causing uncontrollable coughing. Severe and prolonged coughing attacks may:
Provoke vomiting
Result in a red or blue face
Cause extreme fatigue
End with a high-pitched "whoop" sound during the next breath of air
However, many people don't develop the characteristic whoop. Sometimes, a persistent hacking cough is the only sign that an adolescent or adult has whooping cough.
Infants may not cough at all. Instead, they may struggle to breathe, or they may even temporarily stop breathing.
When to see a health care provider
Call your health care provider if prolonged coughing spells cause you or your child to:
Turn red or blue
Seem to be struggling to breathe or have noticeable pauses in breathing
Inhale with a whooping sound
Whooping cough is caused by a type of bacteria called Bordetella pertussis. When an infected person coughs or sneezes, tiny germ-laden droplets are sprayed into the air and breathed into the lungs of anyone who happens to be nearby.
The whooping cough vaccine you receive as a child eventually wears off. This leaves most teenagers and adults susceptible to the infection during an outbreak — and there continue to be regular outbreaks.
Infants who are younger than age 12 months who are unvaccinated or haven't received the full set of recommended vaccines have the highest risk for severe complications and death.
Teens and adults often recover from whooping cough with no problems. When complications occur, they tend to be side effects of the strenuous coughing, such as:
Bruised or cracked ribs
Broken blood vessels in the skin or the whites of your eyes
In infants — especially those under 6 months of age — complications from whooping cough are more severe and may include:
Slowed or stopped breathing
Dehydration or weight loss due to feeding difficulties
Because infants and toddlers are at greatest risk of complications from whooping cough, they're more likely to need treatment in a hospital. Complications can be life-threatening for infants younger than 6 months old.
Learn more about prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Make sure vaccinations are up-to-date, including your pertussis vaccination.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a single dose of tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis - whooping cough (Tdap) for healthcare personnel who have never received Tdap, regardless of previous Td vaccination. All adults are also advised to get Td or Tdap every 10 years for ongoing protection against tetanus and diphtheria. With immunity able to wane over time, choosing Tdap for your routine booster dose will support ongoing immunity for pertussis. Speak with your provider if you have questions about Td or Tdap booster doses.
If it has been 10 years since your last Tdap vaccination, schedule an appointment with your health care provider to get a booster dose.
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By Joe YerdonFeb 24, 2013, 11:56 AM EST
The (temporary?) post-Rick DiPietro era on Long Island is underway and the new Islanders backup, Kevin Poulin, gets right to action tonight as he’ll be in goal to face Carolina.
For Poulin, it’s not his first time with the big club, but the new set of circumstances has him feeling a bit conflicted as Arthur Staple of Newsday reported. Going from being a starter in the AHL to taking over for DiPietro as Evgeni Nabokov’s backup makes for a dramatic change.
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Matt Forbeck already enlightened us on his latest interview, but we also wanted to hear directly from the other man of the RPG game: Robert Schwalb.
Forbeck & Schwalb have worked closely to finish the first of the S&S RPG manuscript. With around 180,000 words and a little over 300 pages long it seems it’ll be one of the biggest game books of the year.
Let’s find out what they’ve exactly been up to while working for the upcoming Roleplaying Game based on Forbeck’s IP Shotguns & Sorcery.
How was it to integrate the Cypher System™ seamlessly with the S&S setting?
It was a whole lot of fun to be honest! As my fourth RPG adaptation of fiction to game material, the process was really comfortable and made easier having Matt just an email a way to answer all my finicky questions. Plus, Cypher is a flexible game engine and can handle a wide range of stories, so that was a benefit.
Was it an organic process?
To some extent, yes. The novels have a some strong world-building elements, but they are short, so we inferred a lot about the world from the books and Matt filled in a lot of the blanks. As far as adapting the game system, we didn’t have to make many significant changes. Cypher uses a universal mechanic for dealing with narrative complications, regardless of what those complications are.
Was it more difficult to adapt an already existing IP into the rules of the RPG universe or is it the same as when you start a game from scratch?
I wouldn’t say it’s more difficult. Rather, it’s a different kind of difficult. Building a game from the ground up presents its own challenges—you have to nail down the kinds of stories you want to tell, the stakes involved, and build the system to meet the story’s needs or build the story to match the game system as in the case of original creations bolted on to an existing game system. With fiction adaptation, the author creates a world without thought given to game balance or telling stories outside the story involving the protagonists. So the challenge really is to look at the world around the protagonists and find stories and characters that could exist within the same story and then building the game for them.
System work is also tricky since the objective is to match the mechanics to the narrative. For example, the novels show a wide range of magical effects, from enchanted bullets to nets of blue magical energy that catch falling people to astral projection. The characters in the book don’t “grow” into these things. Rather, they just have them. While Cypher does not place an emphasis on growing one’s individual power, it does feature a system of Tier advancement and from those tiers, characters gain additional benefits and options. It was a bit difficult pinning certain effects found in the story to particular tiers and/or character building blocks such as focus and descriptor, but it wasn’t an insurmountable difficulty.
What exactly was your job on this specific part of this big venture?
It was my job to put the Cypher System through its paces, bending and adapting the core rules to fit the needs of the game and to create new mechanical content to help players and GMs express the story in play. Sometimes, I took existing mechanical content from the Cypher System rulebook and embedded them in new story wrappers. Others, I rebuilt certain rules to make them more suitable for Shotguns & Sorcery. And I also spent a great deal of time creating new content for the game, such as new horrible creature, descriptors, cyphers, and more.
What was the biggest challenge or even obstacle you found?
Shotguns & Sorcery places a considerable amount of importance on race and the tensions of disparate peoples forced to live together under the tyrannical reign of the Dragon Emperor. As the Cypher System doesn’t sweat race/ancestry/people/whatever too much—though there are guidelines in the Cypher System Rulebook—I had to find a way to make the race choice important within the system’s framework. After four or five attempts, I finally settled on extracting a few game elements granted by type and presenting them in a second adjectival choice point called race. This approach allows race a greater impact on how characters take shape and helps differentiate characters who share the same type.
Did the results so far assume the form you wanted?
Oh yes! I’m quite happy with how the game turned out and I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing it in its final form.
What is it that you’re most looking forward to show the audience as soon as the RPG is available?
Fans of the novels are going to find out so much more information in this game and Matt added a lot of detail to Dragon City, which really brings the place to life. I’m just excited to get this game in the hands of the customers so they can start playing!
Can you give us any scoop on a favorite character, magic, cypher…?
So many things! But let’s talk about magic. Spells operate as benefits gained from your Type choice. You can access spells from one of two types, the Wizard or, if you want to be a dabbler, the Freelance. Now, anyone can pick up additional spells too by selecting a magical focus such as Conjures Monsters or Commands the Dead. And then there are cyphers. We introduce a subcategory of cyphers called Words, which are spells in written form. They can be written on pages in books, on scrolls, etched onto tablets, or painted on the walls of an ancient, ruined building. Magic is fully integrated into the game, so it’s pretty easy for most characters to have a bit of mojo.
People are already wondering about GM advice you could give them. What’s the one recommendation you would share?
Make Dragon City your own. While we go into detail about the city, there’s plenty of room to add your own creations and characters. Don’t feel locked into the story told in the novels. This is your city now and you can do with it whatever you like!
Thank you, Robert! We are very excited to be part of the 1st third party game licensed with newCypher System™ from Monte Cook Games.
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Elite Seattle Restaurant Canlis Transforms into 'Community College,' Offers Wine-and-Doritos Education
With its latest reinvention and an assist from Bill Gates, the Wine Spectator Grand Award winner is rethinking fine dining for these stay-at-home times
Mark and Brian Canlis, going back to the drawing board again. (Chona Kasinger)
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It’s no secret that it’s been a challenging-at-best year for restaurants. But with business as usual off the table for many, some have been up for trying new things. We’ve seen historic dining rooms become nationwide meal-shipping operations, sommeliers serve as delivery drivers, Wine Spectator Grand Award–winning cellars offer bottles at online auctions and capacity-restricted restaurants manage to fill their dining rooms with some guests who are less human than others. But few restaurants have consistently reached the levels of creativity that Seattle’s historic fine-dining destination Canlis has been pulling off for months.
In their latest act, brother-owners Mark and Brian Canlis have declared class to be in session at Canlis Community College, a six-week series of diverse online and in-person educational programming that ranges from cooking how-tos and wine tastings to Seattle-specific history lessons and … intramural sports. The project is the latest of Canlis' innovative reinventions since it was forced to halt its longstanding tasting-menu format in March (“No. 10,” specifically, Mark told us). First came a drive-through burger joint, followed by a pop-up bagel shop, then a meal-delivery model and then a drive-in movie theater. Now, it's back-to-school season.
Mark and Brian Canlis went high to brainstorm new ideas for the restaurant. (Chona Kasinger)
As summer wound down and Seattle faced the usual autumn rain, coupled with wildfire smoke that has been omnipresent on the West Coast this year, restaurants got the go-ahead to reopen restricted indoor dining. But Mark said that he and the team weren’t yet comfortable with that, a tough proposition for tasting-menu spots even if they were. So they got to work brainstorming their next big idea, and Canlis Community College was born. “I just think that this is a great time for learning,” Mark told Unfiltered. “And we thought, ‘Well, let’s go back to school, let’s learn and invite the city to come along with us.’”
Even the announcement itself was creative: A two-minute video featuring a cameo from Seattle's most famous proponent of, ah, DIY education, Bill Gates, who jokes about leaving his phone at the restaurant. (Mark told us that was a bit of creative license, as Bill Gates is “not very absent-minded.”)
Some of the courses are taught by staff who are experts in their fields, like wine director Nelson Daquip and his Champagne-and-oysters pairing 101 or chef Brady Williams’ session on how to cook Canlis classics. But many are not, like Mark’s recent how-to on cutting your hair at home. “A lot of the classes that we’re covering are things that we know nothing about," he said. "I don’t know how to cut my own hair, but 1,100 people just watched me do it. We’re all learners here.”
Canlis calls on experts from Seattle businesses to help lead the way, like Rudy’s Barbershop (in that case) or the Wing Luke Museum for a lesson on the local legacy of Asian Pacific Islanders. They also look to in-house talent: Reservation agent Amy Wong and her mother, a first-generation Chinese immigrant, show chef Williams how to make dumplings. “That’s the spirit of the school, to be curious and to just lean into what we don’t know,” Mark said.
There’s plenty of programming for pupils seeking wine education, like a session on boxed and canned wines, a topic Daquip was pleasantly surprised by when preparing his lesson plan. “It was not something I was very familiar with to begin with, but it’s an amazing culture of boxed-wine drinkers out there.”
“I think fine dining should be the best hospitality, and hospitality is an invitation in,” said Mark. Canlis is an elite restaurant with 19,000 bottles in its cellar, sure, but its goal with these laid-back sessions—including tips on pairing wines with sour gummies and Cool Ranch Doritos—is to make wine more accessible during a stressful, and frankly “weird” time, as Daquip explained. (Advanced classes are available as well, such as “Treasures from the Canlis Cellar” which involves tastings of Dominique Lafon’s Clos de la Barons 2014 and Mouton-Rothschild 2003.)
And the team is getting the chance to do what they’ve been missing: connect with guests. "It’s about reaching out and being like, 'You know what? I don’t know what I’m doing right now, but the cameras are rolling, and I know about wine, and I know you’re interested, so let’s pour a glass and do this,'” said Mark.
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A $25 enrollment fee includes access to all the online classes, with kits of “class materials” for an additional charge. Most sessions are virtual, but there are field trips and a “finals week” scavenger hunt. And it's all for a good cause. After covering the costs of the seminars, all further funds have been donated to Farestart, an area charity that helps employ the homeless and feed the underserved in the Seattle community. Canlis is facing the same financial difficulties as the rest of the restaurant industry. “It’s hard to be a restaurant, but it’s just as hard, if not way harder, to be a nonprofit, or any of the folks that they would be serving right now," Mark explained of the decision to donate the proceeds. And of the broader opportunity to get schooled, “It’s what we need right now."
”I don’t know if we need to be sitting at tables having 32-course meals of precious little bites sipping on fancy juice as much as we need to just send out an encouraging, hopeful word.”
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The other day I was thinking about how game music has changed over the years, and I realised I can't think of that many games I have played recently with great soundtracks.
I know there must be recent games out there with amazing soundtracks so I thought I'd create a thread about it.
If you've played a game with an amazing soundtrack lately share it here!
djpretzel
Austin Wintory's Journey soundtrack is pretty great, and Flower before that (from TGC). I'm still peeved at Vincent for dissin' Yoko Kanno at that MAG panel a few years back, but he's a great composer and a true innovator.
I'm playing LBP Vita and I don't know what's original and what's licensed, but it's great.
Also playing Mutant Blobs Attack on Vita and while there's not a huge amount of variety, what's there is great in a retro 50's scifi sorta way.
Skyrim. 'Nuff said.
I think there are a TON of recent games with soundtracks that have a few strong pieces. In terms of soundtracks with a LOT of DIFFERENT, memorable & awesome melodies, well, Super Meat Boy is the shit.
Cerrax
Bastion's mix of country/western twang and electronic beats is a masterpiece. Every song drips with futuristic cowboy imagery.
And while it's not terribly innovative or memorable, I never tire of the FEZ soundtrack. Downsampled/bitcrushed pads and synths with excellent melodies evokes a nice mix of retro game music and modern atmospheric soundtracks simultaneously.
I'll also throw in a vote for any of the LittleBig Planet games. Even though less than half of the songs are original compositions, the soundtracks always have great variety and song choice.
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Ditto that. Reminds me of Trigun and Firefly but very much has its own identity.
Otakatt
I like the music for Orcs Must Die 1 and 2.
Melbu Frahma
Austin Wintory's Journey soundtrack is pretty great... I'm still peeved at Vincent for dissin' Yoko Kanno at that MAG panel a few years back, but he's a great composer and a true innovator.
In terms of soundtracks with a LOT of DIFFERENT, memorable & awesome melodies, well, Super Meat Boy is the shit.
Seconding these. Also, Mass Effect 2 & 3's soundtracks had some truly memorable tracks on them; there's at least three that I find myself humming in the car or while working on something totally unrelated. (I'd say ME 1, too, but that'd be on the edge of qualifying as recent - depend on your definition of "recent" I guess.)
http://sidhe.bandcamp.com/album/shatter-official-videogame-soundtrack
Flexstyle
Super Cartography Bros. Director
One more vote for the Bastion soundtrack--that thing is pure gold. I've also been partial to the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Videogame soundtrack by Anamanaguchi. Finally, if you want some of the most beautiful, emotion-driven piano music you've ever heard in a video game, check out the To The Moon soundtrack.
Edit: Looks like the Shatter soundtrack also got a mention above me, and that is a really solid OST as well.
Radiant Historia.
This town theme perpetually blows my mind. The mood it evokes....DAMN:
Some great suggestions on here!
I did love the soundtracks of Bastion and Super Meat Boy.
Skyrim I found good but a bit unmemorable - I guess I just find the orchestral stuff a bit samey.
Mass Effect is an interesting one, because I loved the music from ME1, but they went a lot more orchestral in 2 and 3 which I think made it sound like every other epic game and not quite so space age as the mainly electronic style of the first game.
Fez and To The Moon are both on my To Play list so I look forward to enjoying their soundtracks!
That Radiant Historia tune sounds amazing for a Nintendo DS game, will definitely have to check that out. Reminds me of Chrono Trigger's soundtrack actually.
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Also on the subject of indie games,
, although you might view it more as interactive art than a game. Edited December 20, 2012 by Kuolema
Arcadia Legends Co-Director
SuperBrothers EP has fantastic music. Hated the game, but OST is up there among my all-time favorites.
How recent are we talking here? Last five years? Last ten? From 2000-on?
Either way, one you all need to listen to, immediately, is Yousuke Yasui's soundtrack for Eschatos, for the XBOX360, released in 2011. It was only released in Japan, but the game will work in any region. This is seriously some real damn good slammin' jammin' stuff.
Stellar Light
It's music like this that got me to love VGM in the first place.
He also did some music for the upcoming HD rerelease of Under Defeat, styled
The original score was by Shinji Hosoe,
DariusBurst, by Taito, also has very great music by its in-house band, ZUNTATA (who are, and remain, the greatest VGM composers ever. Established fact.)
It recently came out on iOS products,
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The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki - Super Arrange Version. Sound Team JDK is awesome
The Gravity Rush OST is pretty fantastic!
Kid Icarus: Uprising (3-disk collection)
omnipotentBagel
Dan Hibiki (+75)
How about Xenoblade?
Zerothemaster
Baaaaaaaaaaastion.
VVVVVV.
Jaaaaaamestown.
Suuuuuuuperbrothers.
basically.
Jamphibious
Workshop Evaluator
I notice Skyrim was mentioned, which is excellent. But even more recently than that is Guild Wars 2, another soundtrack by Jeremy Soule. Its absolutely phenomenal. With a lot of MMOs, seeing the same locales over and over with the same music may cause it to lose its luster, but I don't ever have that problem with Guild Wars 2. It's wonderfully crafted, I highly recommend.
Also thiisssssssss <3 Love this song, and soundtrack overall. Here's a more upbeat one that I also enjoy.
Annie Felis
Nobody's mentioned Nier yet? I plan on plodding through Drakengard 2 just so I can better understand Nier when I play it, which I admit only getting for the music.
Tales of Graces F had some pretty nice tunes that stood out, too. A lot of the soundtrack was your typical bad-synth JRPG fare, though.
And yeah, I have to say "me too" about Skyrim. I spent my time hunting dragons just to 1. hunt dragons and 2. hear that hunting music while killing a frickin' dragon. I'm a sucker for Jeremy Soule's music.
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Vampire Variations Trilogy Director, Legacy Co-Director
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
CinnamonJihad
Did someone say Shinji Hosoe?!
Maybe it was just a combination with the gameplay, but I thought that the music he composed for 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors was pretty damn gripping myself, particularly for a DS game. It's like it took the feelings you were supposed to be having and amplified them tenfold. Memorable enough that I still listen to it at least weekly.
DarkeSword
Judge, Moderator, For Everlasting Peace Director
Every town theme is in 3/4 time also.
Milestone, a group of former Compile employees, unfortunately went out of business (so it seems by their error and 404-ridden website).
But their games had some of the best damn music this side of cools-ville. "Bitches Blue," indeed.
Radirgy/Radio Allergy (Dreamcast, PS2, GC, Wii, 360) - i hate tha sun
Daisuke Nagata is a seriously talented composer, and I hope that, even though Milestone went under (which is a crying shame; their games were excellent. Better than the other Compile offshoot, Compile Heart), he can find some work somewhere else.
RECKENEFIN
"Thomas Was Alone" has a pretty good soundtrack in my opinion. It's short and pretty minimal, but the mix of sounds emotion make it an enjoyable listen. (The game is pretty solid too but that's another topic entirely).
More mainstream, you've got the orchestral stylings of either Super Mario Galaxy, the ethnic blend of Sonic Unleashed, and the nostalgia factor of Sonic Generations.
Portal 2 wasn't bad either. A bit on the heavy side, and there's a lot of it, but I thought it was good too.
Mixed feelings about the whole soundtrack, but any version of "Nate's Theme" from Uncharted also has my vote.
Skylanders is also pretty well put together. A bit on the youthful, fun side, but still well put together.
And nobody has put in a plug for Metal Gear Solid yet?
Also . . .
Can't really argue with that.
BaconProcurement
I kind of surprised that no one mentions Daisuke Ishiwatari's work on the Blazblue soundtracks. Definitely my favorite rock album that I have ever heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ2_vVmpXmw&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkLImIt4LZ4&feature=plcp
My personal favorite song from the first soundtrack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le6UB6d3f0s&feature=plcp
I actually really enjoy the Blazblue OST's myself as well, but I dunno if it is really diverse enough to list as a great recent soundtrack. Completely up my alley, but it's all pretty much the same.
That being said, isn't Tagers theme sick?! Haha! I am super psyched for Chrono Phantasm as well! Oh, wait uhhh.. OST's...
I actually found the Witcher 2 soundtrack to be quite cool as well.
I think I also have to back the Bastion and Jamestown bandwagons. And Scott Pilgrim. And does the Hotel Dusk OST still count as recent? I LOVE that one. Ohhhh, and also The World Ends With You. And.... okay I'll shut up now.
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US police clash with protesters over Breonna Taylor case
More than 100 arrested in louisville as demonstrations erupt after grand jury decision
More than 100 people were arrested in louisville, kentucky, as protests broke out at the news that only one of the three officers involved in the killing of breonna taylor would face criminal charges.
The kentucky attorney-general on wednesday announced charges against former louisville police department officer brett hankison for wanton endangerment but not for the death of taylor, a black woman, directly.
Protesters took to the streets in louisville and across the us in response, including in new york, washington, houston and los angeles. in portland, oregon, the location of fierce clashes for several months, police declared a riot.
In louisville, two police officers were shot but are expected to recover. one suspect is in custody. local police did not provide further details about the suspect at a press conference on wednesday night.
Donald trump wrote on twitter that he was praying for the two police officers that were shot tonight in louisville, kentucky. the federal government stands behind you and is ready to help.
The us president, who has sought to leverage civil unrest this year to warn voters off electing his democratic presidential rival, joe biden, followed up with his election slogan: law & order.
The fbi louisville field office said it was assisting in the investigation of the shooting of the two officers.
Taylor was killed late at night in march when three officers burst into her apartment to execute a search warrant in a drugs investigation. her boyfriend, who was lawfully armed, fired a shot, injuring one of the officers, and said he did not know it was the police.
The three officers, including mr hankison, returned fire into the apartment. mr hankison wantonly and blindly fired 10 rounds, louisville police said this year when he was fired from his job.
On wednesday, the kentucky attorney-general, daniel cameron, said that the officers had announced themselves when serving the warrant, arguing it was not a no-knock warrant. louisville has banned no-knock warrants since taylors killing.
He said that charges were not appropriate against the two other officers, including myles cosgrove, who investigators found had fired the shot that killed taylor, because they were justified in the return of deadly fire.
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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, ed. J.M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963-1991), 33 vols. Editorial committee: J.M. Robinson, General Editor, Harold Bohme, J.C. Cairns, J.B. Conacher, D.P. Dryer, Marion Filipiuk, Frances Halpenny, Samuel Hollander, R.F. McRae, Ian Montagnes, Ann P. Robson, F.E. Sparshott.
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Vol. I: Autobiography and Literary Essays, ed. and introduced by John M. Robson and Jack Stillinger (1981) [</titles/242>]
Vol. II: Principles of Political Economy Part I, ed. John M. Robson, introduction by V.W. Bladen (1965) [</titles/102>]
Vol. III: Principles of Political Economy Part II, ed. John M. Robson, introduction by V.W. Bladen (1965) [</titles/243>]
Vol. IV: Essays on Economics and Society Part I, ed. John M. Robson, introduction by Lord Robbins (1967) [</titles/244>]
Vol. V: Essays on Economics and Society Part II, ed. John M. Robson, introduction by Lord Robbins (1967) [</titles/232>]
Vol. VI: Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire, ed. John M. Robson, Introduction by Joseph Hamburger (1982) [</titles/245>]
Vol. VII: System of Logic: Raciocinative and Inductive Part I, ed. John M. Robson, introduction by R.F. McRae (1973) [</titles/246>]
Vol. VIII: System of Logic: Raciocinative and Inductive Part II, ed. John M. Robson, introduction by R.F. McRae (1973) [</titles/247>]
Vol. IX: An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy, ed. John M. Robson, introduction by Alan Ryan (1979) [</titles/240>]
Vol. X: Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society, ed. John M. Robson, introductions by F.E.L. Priestly and D.P. Dryer (1979) [</titles/241>]
Vol. XI: Essays on Philosophy and the Classics, ed. John M. Robson, introduction by F.E.Sparshott (1979) [</titles/248>]
Vol. XII: The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill 1812-1848 Part I, ed. Francis E. Mineka (1963) [</titles/249>]
Vol. XIII: The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill 1812-1848 Part II, ed. Francis E. Mineka, with an Introduction by F.A. Hayek (1963) [</titles/250>]
Vol. XIV: The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part I, ed. Francis E. Mineka and Dwight N. Lindley (1972) [</titles/251>]
Vol. XV: The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part II, ed. Francis E. Mineka and Dwight N. Lindley (1972) [</titles/252>]
Vol. XVI: The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part III, ed. Francis E. Mineka and Dwight N. Lindley (1972) [</titles/253>]
Vol. XVII: The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part IV, ed. Francis E. Mineka and Dwight N. Lindley (1972) [</titles/254>]
Vol. XVIII: Essays on Politics and Society Part I, ed. J.M. Robson and Introduction by Alexander Brady (1977) [</titles/233>]
Vol. XIX: Essays on Politics and Society Part II, ed. J.M. Robson and Introduction by Alexander Brady (1977) [</titles/234>]
Vol. XX: Essays on French History and Historians, ed. J.M. Robson and Introduction by John C. Cairns (1985) [</titles/235>]
Vol. XXI: Essays on Equality, Law, and Education, ed. J.M. Robson and Introduction by Stefan Collini (1984) [</titles/255>]
Vol. XXII: Newspaper Writings December 1822-July 1831, ed. and Introduced by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (1986) [</titles/256>]
Vol. XXIII: Newspaper Writings August 1831-October 1834, ed. and Introduced by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (1986) [</titles/257>]
Vol. XXIV: Newspaper Writings January 1835-June 1847, ed. and Introduced by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (1986) [</titles/258>]
Vol. XXV: Newspaper Writings December 1847-July 1873, ed. and Introduced by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (1986) [</titles/259>]
Vol. XXVI: Journals and Debating Speeches Part I, ed. John M. Robson (1988) [</titles/260>]
Vol. XXVII: Journals and Debating Speeches Part II, ed. John M. Robson (1988) [</titles/261>]
Vol. XXVIII: Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I, ed. John M. Robson and Bruce L. Kinzer, Introductions by Bruce L. Kinzer and John M. Robson (1988) [</titles/262>]
Vol. XXIX: Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part II, ed. John M. Robson and Bruce L. Kinzer, Introductions by Bruce L. Kinzer and John M. Robson (1988) [</titles/263>]
Vol. XXX: Writings on India, ed. John M. Robson, Martin Moir, and Zawahir Moir, Introductions by Martin Moir and John M. Robson (1990) [</titles/264>]
Vol. XXXI: Miscellaneous Writings, ed. John M. Robson (1989) [</titles/238>]
Vol. XXXII: Additional Letters of John Stuart Mill, ed. Marion Filipiuk, Michael Laine, and John M. Robson, Introduction by Marion Filipiuk (1991) [</titles/239>]
Vol. XXXIII: Indexes to the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, ed. Jean O’Grady and John M. Robson (1991) [not available online]
Contents of Volume I: Autobiography and Literary Essays ↩
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INTRODUCTION vii
Autobiography (Parallel Reading Texts of the Early Draft and the Columbia MS) 1
I. Childhood, and Early Education 5
II. Moral Influences in Early Youth. My Father's Character and Opinions 41
III. Last Stage of Education, and First of Self-Education 65
IV. Youthful Propagandism. The Westminster Review 89
V. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 137
VI. Commencement of the Most Valuable Friendship of My Life. My Father's Death. Writings and Other Proceedings up to 1840 193
VII. General View of the Remainder of My Life 229
Periodical Literature: Edinburgh Review (1824) 291
On Genius (1832) 327
Thoughts on Poetry and Its Varieties (1833) 341
Writings of Junius Redivivus [I] (1833) 367
Writings of Junius Redivivus [II] (1833) 379
Views of the Pyrenees (1833) 391
Tennyson's Poems (1835) 395
Aphorisms: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd (1837) 419
Ware's Letters from Palmyra (1838) 431
Writings of Alfred de Vigny (1838) 463
Milnes's Poems (1838) 503
Milnes's Poetry for the People (1840) 517
Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome (1843) 523
Letter to the Editor of the Edinburgh Review, on James Mill (1844) 533
Appendix A. Juvenilia (1812-13?) 541
History of Rome 542
Ode to Diana 549
Appendix B. Mill's Early Reading (1809-22) 551
Appendix C. Mill's Early Writing (1811?-22) 582
Appendix D. A Few Observations on Mr. Mill (1833) 589
Appendix E. Note on Browning's Pauline (1833) 596
Appendix F. Editorial Notes in the London and Westminster Review (1835-39) 598
Appendix G. Rejected Leaves of the Early Draft of the Autobiography 608
Appendix H. Helen Taylor' s Continuation of the Autobiography 625
Appendix I. Bibliographic Index of Persons and Works Cited, with Variants and Notes 628
Folio lr of the Early Draft MS University of Illinois facing page xx
Recto of "Ode to Diana" MS British Library facing page 18
Folio 6r of the "History of Rome" MS British Library facing page 544
Folio R24r of the Early Draft MS University of Illinois facing page 608
Contents of Volume II: Principles of Political Economy Part I↩
Introduction, by V. W. Bladen xxiii
Textual Introduction, by J. M. Robson lxv
Prefaces and Book I
PREFACES lxxxix
PRELIMINARY REMARKS 3
BOOK I: PRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER I. Of the Requisites of Production 25
§ 1. Requisites of production, what, 25
2. The function of labour defined, 26
3. Does nature contribute more to the efficacy of labour in some occupations than in others? 28
4. Some natural agents limited, others practically unlimited, in quantity, 29
CHAPTER II. Of Labour as an Agent of Production 31
§ 1. Labour employed either directly about the thing produced, or in operations preparatory to its production, 31
2. Labour employed in producing subsistence for subsequent labour, 33
3. Labour employed in producing materials, 35
4. Labour employed in producing implements, 36
5. Labour employed in the protection of labour, 37
6. Labour employed in the transport and distribution of the produce, 38
7. Labour which relates to human beings, 40
8. Labour of invention and discovery, 41
9. Labour agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial, 43
CHAPTER III. Of Unproductive Labour 45
§ 1. Labour does not produce objects, but utilities, 45
2. These utilities are of three kinds, 46
3. Productive labour is that which produces utilities fixed and embodied in material objects, 48
4. All other labour, however useful, is classed as unproductive, 50
5. Productive and Unproductive Consumption, 52
6. Labour for the supply of Productive Consumption, and labour for the supply of Unproductive Consumption, 53
CHAPTER IV. Of Capital 55
§ 1. Capital is wealth appropriated to reproductive employment, 55
2. More capital devoted to production than actually employed in it, 57
3. Examination of some cases illustrative of the idea of Capital, 59
CHAPTER V. Fundamental Propositions Respecting Capital 63
§ 1. Industry is limited by Capital, 63
2. Industry is limited by Capital, but does not always come up to that limit, 65
3. Increase of capital gives increased employment to labour, without assignable bounds, 66
4. Capital is the result of saving, 68
5. All capital is consumed, 70
6. Capital is kept up, not by preservation, but by perpetual reproduction, 73
7. Why countries recover rapidly from a state of devastation, 74
8. Effects of defraying government expenditure by loans, 75
9. Demand for commodities is not demand for labour, 78
10. Fallacy respecting Taxation, 88
CHAPTER VI. On Circulating and Fixed Capital 91
§ 1. Fixed and Circulating Capital, what, 91
2. Increase of fixed capital, when at the expense of circulating, might be detrimental to the labourers, 93
3. But this detriment to the labourers seldom if ever occurs, 97
CHAPTER VII. On What Depends the Degree of Productiveness of Productive Agents 100
§ 1. Land, labour, and capital, are of different productiveness at different times and places, 100
2. Causes of superior productiveness. Natural advantages, 101
3. Causes of superior productiveness. Greater energy of labour, 102
4. Causes of superior productiveness. Superior skill and knowledge, 106
5. Causes of superior productiveness. Superiority of intelligence and trustworthiness in the community generally, 107
6. Causes of superior productiveness. Superior security, 112
CHAPTER VIII. Of Co-operation, or the Combination of Labour 116
§ 1. Combination of Labour a principal cause of superior productiveness, 116
2. Effects of separation of employments analyzed, 118
3. Combination of labour between town and country, 120
4. The higher degrees of the division of labour, 122
5. Analysis of the advantages of the division of labour, 124
6. Limitations of the division of labour, 129
CHAPTER IX. Of Production on a Large, and Production on a Small Scale 131
§ 1. Advantages of the large system of production in manufactures, 131
2. Advantages and disadvantages of the joint-stock principle, 135
3. Conditions necessary for the large system of production, 140
4. Large and small farming compared, 142
CHAPTER X. Of the Law of the Increase of Labour 153
§ 1. The law of the increase of production depends on those of three elements, Labour, Capital, and Land, 153
2. The Law of Population, 154
3. By what cheeks the increase of population is practically limited, 156
CHAPTER XI. Of the Law of the Increase of Capital 160
§ 1. Means and motives to saving, on what dependent, 160
2. Causes of diversity in the effective strength of the desire of accumulation, 161
3. Examples of deficiency in the strength of the desire of accumulation, 164
4. Exemplification of excess in the strength of the desire of accumulation, 170
CHAPTER XII. Of the Law of the Increase of Production from Land 173
§ 1. The limited quantity and limited productiveness of land are the real limits to production, 173
2. The law of production from the soil is a law of diminishing return in proportion to the increased application of labour and capital, 173
3. Antagonist principle to the law of diminishing return; the progress of improvements in production, 177
CHAPTER XIII. Consequences of the Foregoing Laws 186
§ 1. Remedies when the limit to production is the weakness of the principle of accumulation, 186
2. Necessity of restraining population not confined to a state of inequality of property, 187
3. Necessity of restraining population not superseded by free trade in food, 190
4. Necessity of restraining population not in general superseded by emigration, 194
BOOK II: DISTRIBUTION
CHAPTER I. Of Property 199
§ 1. Introductory remarks, 199
2. Statement of the question concerning Property, 201
3. Examination of Communism, 203
4. Examination of St. Simonism and Fourierism, 210
CHAPTER II. The Same Subject Continued 215
§ 1. The institution of property implies freedom of acquisition by contract, 215
2. The institution of property implies the validity of prescription, 217
3. The institution of property implies the power of bequest, but not the right of inheritance. Question of inheritance examined, 218
4. Should the right of bequest be limited, and how? 223
5. Grounds of property in land are different from those of property in moveables, 226
6., Grounds of property in land are only valid on certain conditions, which are not always realized. The limitations considered, 228
7. Rights of property in abuses, 232
CHAPTER III. Of the Classes Among Whom the Produce Is Distributed 235
§ 1. The produce is sometimes shared among three classes, 235
2. The produce sometimes belongs undividedly to one, 235
3. The produce is sometimes divided between two, 237
CHAPTER IV. Of Competition, and Custom 239
§ 1. Competition is not the sole regulator of the division of the produce, 239
2. Influence of custom on rents, and on the tenure of land, 240
3. Influence of custom on prices, 242
CHAPTER V. Of Slavery 245
§ 1. Slavery considered in relation to the slaves, 245
2. Slavery in relation to production, 246
3. Emancipation considered in relation to the interest of the slave-owners, 249
CHAPTER VI. Of Peasant Proprietors 252
§ 1. Difference between English and Continental opinions respecting peasant properties, 252
2. Evidence respecting peasant properties in Switzerland, 254
3. Evidence respecting peasant properties in Norway, 259
4. Evidence respecting peasant properties in Germany, 262
5. Evidence respecting peasant properties in Belgium, 267
6. Evidence respecting peasant properties in the Channel Islands, 271
7. Evidence respecting peasant properties in France, 273
CHAPTER VII. Continuation of the Same Subject 278
§ 1. Influence of peasant properties in stimulating industry, 278
2. Influence of peasant properties in training intelligence, 280
3. Influence of peasant properties in promoting forethought and self-control, 281
4. Their effect on population, 283
5. Their effect on the subdivision of land, 292
CHAPTER VIII. Of Metayers 297
§ 1. Nature of the metayer system, and its varieties, 297
2. Its advantages and inconveniences, 299
3. Evidence concerning its effects in different countries, 301
4. Is its abolition desirable? 310
CHAPTER IX. Of Cottiers 313
§ 1. Nature and operation of cottier tenure, 313
2. In an overpeopled country its necessary consequence is nominal rents, 316
3. Nominal rents are inconsistent with industry, frugality, or restraint on population, 318
4. Ryot tenancy of India, 319
CHAPTER X. Means of Abolishing Cottier Tenancy 324
§ 1. Irish cottiers should be converted into peasant proprietors, 324
2. Present state of this question, 331
CHAPTER XI. Of Wages 337
§ 1. Wages depend on the demand and supply of labour--in other words, on population and capital, 337
2. Examination of some popular opinions respecting wages, 338
3. Certain rare circumstances excepted, high wages imply restraints on population, 343
4. Restraints on population are in some cases legal, 346
5. Restraints on population are in other cases the effect of particular customs, 348
6. Due restriction of population the only safeguard of a labouring class, 351
CHAPTER XII. Of Popular Remedies for Low Wages 355
§ 1. A legal or customary minimum of wages, with a guarantee of employment, 355
2. Such a minimum and guarantee would require as a condition legal measures for repression of population, 357
3. Allowances in aid of wages, 360
4. The Allotment System, 362
CHAPTER XIII. The Remedies for Low Wages Further Considered 367
§ 1. Pernicious direction of public opinion on the subject of population, 367
2. Grounds for expecting improvement, 370
3. Twofold means of elevating the habits of the labouring people: by education, 374
4. Twofold means of elevating the habits of the labouring people: by large measures of immediate relief, through foreign and home colonization, 376
CHAPTER XlV. Of the Differences of Wages in Different Employments 380
§ 1. Differences of wages arising from different degrees of attractiveness in different employments, 380
2. Differences of wages arising from natural monopolies, 385
3. Effect on wages of a class of subsidized competitors, 388
4. Effect on wages of the competition of persons with independent means of support, 391
5. Wages of women, why lower than those of men, 394
6. Differences of wages arising from restrictive laws, and from combinations, 396
7. Cases in which wages are fixed by custom, 398
CHAPTER XV. Of Profits 400
§ 1. Profits resolvable into three parts; interest, insurance, and wages of superintendence, 400
2. The minimum of profits; and the variations to which it is liable, 402
3. Differences of profits arising from the nature of the particular employment, 403
4. General tendency of profits to an equality, 405
5. Profits do not depend on prices, nor on purchase and sale, 410
6. The advances of the capitalist consist ultimately in wages of labour, 411
7. The rate of profit depends on the Cost of Labour, 413
CHAPTER XVI. Of Rent 416
§ 1. Rent is the effect of a natural monopoly, 416
2. No land can pay rent except land of such quality or situation, as exists in less quantity than the demand, 417
3. The rent of land consists of the excess of its return above the return to the worst land in cultivation, 419
4. The rent of land consists of the excess of its return above the return to the worst land in cultivation or to the capital employed in the least advantageous circumstances, 420
5. Is payment for capital sunk in the soil, rent, or profit? 423
6. Rent does not enter into the cost of production of agricultural produce, 428
APPENDIX [TO BOOK II] 431
Substance of three articles in the Morning Chronicle of 11th, 13th, and 16th January, 1847, in reply to MM. Mounier and Rubichon and to the Quarterly Review, on the Subdivision of Landed Property in France, 434
Contents of Volume III: Principles of Political Economy Part II↩
BOOK III: EXCHANGE
CHAPTER I. Of Value 455
§ 1. Preliminary remarks, 455
2. Definitions of Value in Use, Exchange Value, and Price, 456
3. What is meant by general purchasing power, 457
4. Value a relative term. A general rise or fall of values is a contradiction, 458
5. How the laws of Value are modified in their application to retail transactions, 460
CHAPTER II. Of Demand and Supply, in Their Relation to Value 462
§ 1. Two conditions of Value: Utility, and Difficulty of Attainment, 462
2. Three kinds of Difficulty of Attainment, 464
3. Commodities which are absolutely limited in quantity, 465
4. The Equation of Demand and Supply is the law of their value, 466
5. Miscellaneous eases falling under this law, 468
CHAPTER III. Of Cost of Production, in Its Relation to Value 471
§1. Commodities which are susceptible of indefinite multiplication without increase of cost. Law of their Value, Cost of Production, 471
2. Law of their Value, Cost of Production operating through potential, but not actual, alterations of supply, 473
CHAPTER IV. Ultimate Analysis of Cost of Production 477
§ 1. Principal element in Cost of Production---Quantity of Labour, 477
2. Wages not an dement in Cost of Production, 479
3. Wages not an element in Cost of Production except in so far as they vary from employment to employment, 480
4. Profits an element in Cost of Production, in so far as they vary from employment to employment, 481
5. Profits an element in Cost of Production, in so far as they are spread over unequal lengths of time, 482
6. Occasional elements in Cost of Production: taxes, and scarcity value of materials, 485
CHAPTER V. Of Rent, in Its Relation to Value 488
§ 1. Commodities which are susceptible of indefinite multiplication, but not without increase of cost. Law of their Value is Cost of Production in the most unfavourable existing circumstances, 488
2. Such commodities, when produced in circumstances more favourable, yield a rent equal to the difference of cost, 490
3. Rent of mines and fisheries, and ground-rent of buildings, 492
4. Cases of extra profit analogous to rent, 494
CHAPTER VI. Summary of the Theory of Value 497
§ 1. The theory of Value recapitulated in a series of propositions, 497
2. How the theory of Value is modified by the case of labourers
3. How the theory of Value is modified by the case of slave labour, 500
CHAPTER VII. Of Money 502
§ 1. Purposes of a Circulating Medium, 502
2. Why Gold and Silver are fitted for the purposes of a Circulating Medium, 503
3. Money is a mere contrivance for facilitating exchanges, which does not affect the laws of Value, 505
CHAPTER VIII. Of the Value of Money, as Dependent on Demand and Supply 508
§ 1. The value of money is an ambiguous expression, 508
2. The value of money depends, caeteris paribus, on its quantity, 509
3. The value of money depends also on the rapidity of circulation, 512
4. Explanations and limitations of this principle, 514
CHAPTER IX. Of the Value of Money, as Dependent on Cost of Production 517
§ 1. The value of money, in a state of freedom, conforms to the value of the bullion contained in it, 517
2. The value of bullion is determined by the cost of production, 519
3. How this law is related to the principle laid down in the preceding chapter, 521
CHAPTER X. Of a Double Standard, and Subsidiary Coins 524
§ 1. Objections to a double standard, 524
2. How the use of the two metals as money is obtained without making both of them legal tender, 525
CHAPTER XI. Of Credit, as a Substitute for Money 527
§ I. Credit is not a creation but a transfer of the means of production, 527
2. In what manner credit assists production, 528
3. Function of credit in economizing the use of money, 530
4. Bills of exchange, 531
5. Promissory notes, 535
6. Deposits and cheques, 536
CHAPTER XII. Influence of Credit on Prices 538
§ 1. The influence of bank notes, bills, and cheques, on price is a part of the influence of Credit, 538
2. Credit is a purchasing power similar to money, 539
3. Effects of great extensions and contractions of credit. Phenomena of a commercial crisis analyzed, 540
4. Bills are a more powerful instrument for acting on prices than book credits, and bank notes than bills, 544
5. The distinction between bills, book credits, and bank notes is of little practical importance, 546
6. Cheques are an instrument for acting on prices, equally powerful with bank notes, 550
7. Are bank notes money? 552
8. There is no generic distinction between bank notes and other forms of credit, 553
CHAPTER XIII. Of an Inconvertible Paper Currency 556
§ 1. The value of an inconvertible paper, depending on its quantity, is a matter of arbitrary regulation, 556
2. If regulated by the price of bullion, an inconvertible currency might be safe, but not expedient, 558
3. Examination of the doctrine that an inconvertible currency is safe if representing actual property, 560
4. Examination of the doctrine that an increase of the currency promotes industry , 562
5. Depreciation of currency is a tax on the community, and a fraud on creditors, 565
6. Examination of some pleas for committing this fraud, 566
CHAPTER XIV. Of Excess of Supply 570
§ 1. Can there be an oversupply of commodities generally? 570
2. The supply of commodities in general cannot exceed the power of purchase, 571
3. The supply of commodities in general never does exceed the inclination to consume, 572
4. Origin and explanation of the notion of general oversupply, 574
CHAPTER XV. Of a Measure of Value 577
§ 1. In what sense a Measure of Exchange Value is possible, 577
2. A Measure of Cost of Production, 578
CHAPTER XVI. Of Some Peculiar Cases of Value 582
§ 1. Values of Commodities which have a joint cost of production, 582
2. Values of the different kinds of agricultural produce, 584
CHAPTER XVII. Of International Trade 587
§ 1. Cost of production is not the regulator of international values, 587
2. Interchange of commodities between distant places is determined by differences not in their absolute, but in their comparative, cost of production, 589
3. The direct benefits of commerce consist in increased efficiency of the productive powers of the world, 590
4. The direct benefits of commerce do not consist in a vent for exports, or in the gains of merchants, 591
5. Indirect benefits of commerce, economical and moral, are still greater than the direct, 593
CHAPTER XVIII. Of International Values 595
§ 1. The values of imported commodities depend on the terms of international interchange, 595
2. The terms of international interchange depend on the Equation of International Demand, 596
3. Influence of cost of carriage on international values, 600
4. The law of values which holds between two countries and two commodities, holds of any greater number, 601
5. Effect of improvements in production on international values, 604
6. The preceding theory not complete, 607
7. International values depend not solely on the quantifies demanded, but also on the means of production available in each country for the supply of foreign markets, 609
8. The practical result is little affected by this additional element , 612
9. On what circumstances the cost to a country of its imports depends, 615
CHAPTER XIX. Of Money, Considered as an Imported Commodity 618
§ 1. Money imported in two modes; as a commodity, and as a medium of exchange, 618
2. As a commodity, it obeys the same laws of value as other imported commodities, 619
3. Its value does not depend exclusively on its cost of production at the mines, 621
CHAPTER XX.Of the Foreign Exchanges 623
§ 1. Purposes for which money passes from country to country as a medium of exchange, 623
2. Mode of adjusting international payments through the exchanges, 623
3. Distinction between variations in the exchanges which are self-adjusting, and those which can only be rectified through prices, 627
CHAPTER XXI. Of the Distribution of the Precious Metals Through the Commercial World 630
§ 1. The substitution of money for barter makes no difference in exports and imports, nor in the law of international values, 630
2. The preceding theorem further illustrated, 633
3. The precious metals, as money, are of the same value, and distribute themselves according to the same law, with the precious metals as a commodity, 636
4. International payments of a non-commercial character, 637
CHAPTER XXII. Influence of the Currency on the Exchanges and on Foreign Trade 639
§ 1. Variations in the exchange which originate in the currency, 639
2. Effect of a sudden increase of a metallic currency, or of the sudden creation of bank notes or other substitutes for money, 640
3. Effect of the increase of an inconvertible paper currency. Real and nominal exchange, 644
CHAPTER XIII. Of the Rate of Interest 647
§ 1. The rate of interest depends on the demand and supply of loans, 647
2. Circumstances which determine the permanent demand and supply of loans, 648
3. Circumstances which determine the fluctuations, 650
4. The rate of interest, how far, and in what sense connected with the value of money, 653
5. The rate of interest determines the price of land and of securities, 658
CHAPTER XXlV. Of the Regulation of a Convertible Paper Currency 660
§ 1. Two contrary theories respecting the influence of bank issues, 660
2. Examination of each theory, 662
3. Reasons for thinking that the Currency Act of 1844 produces a part of the beneficial effect intended by it, 665
4. But the Currency Act produces mischiefs more than equivalent, 670
5. Should the issue of bank notes be confined to a single establishment? 682
6. Should the holders of notes be protected in any peculiar manner against failure of payment? 684
CHAPTER XXV. Of the Competition of Different Countries in the Same Market 686
§ 1. Causes which enable one country to undersell another, 686
2. Low wages is one of the causes which enable one country to undersell another, 688
3. Low wages is one of those causes when peculiar to certain branches of industry, 689
4. Low wages is not one of those causes when common to all branches of industry, 691
5. Some anomalous cases of trading communities examined, 693
CHAPTER XXVI. Of Distribution, as Affected by Exchange 695
§ 1. Exchange and Money make no difference in the law of wages, 695
2. Exchange and Money make no difference in the law of rent, 697
3. Exchange and Money make no difference in the law of profits, 698
BOOK IV: INFLUENCE OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY ON PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
CHAPTER I. General Characteristics of a Progressive State of Wealth 705
2. Tendency of the progress of society towards increased command over the powers of nature; increased security; and increased capacity of co-operation, 706
CHAPTER II. Influence of the Progress of Industry and Population on Values and Prices 710
§ I. Tendency to a decline of the value and cost of production of all commodities, 710
2. Tendency to a decline of the value and cost of production of all commodities except the products of agriculture and mining,which have a tendency to rise,711
3. That tendency from time to time is counteracted by improvements in production,713
4. Effect of the progress of society in moderating fluctuations of value, 714
5. Examination of the influence of speculators, and in particular of corn-dealers, 715
CHAPTER III. Influence of the Progress of Industry and Population, on Rents, Profits, and Wages 719
§ 1. First case; population increasing, capital stationary, 719
2. Second case; capital increasing, population stationary, 722
3. Third case; population and capital increasing equally, the arts of production stationary, 722
4. Fourth case; the arts of production progressive, capital and population stationary, 723
5. Fifth case; all the three elements progressive, 729
CHAPTER IV. Of the Tendency of Profits to a Minimum 733
§ 1. Doctrine of Adam Smith on the competition of capital, 733
2. Doctrine of Mr. Wakefield respecting the field of employment, 735
3. What determines the minimum rate of profit, 736
4. In opulent countries, profits are habitually near to the minimum, 738
5. Profits are prevented from reaching the minimum by commercial revulsions, 741
6. Profits are prevented from reaching the minimum by improvements in production, 742
7. Profits are prevented from reaching the minimum by the importation of cheap necessaries and instruments, 743
8. Profits are prevented from reaching the minimum by the emigration of capital, 745
CHAPTER V. Consequences of the Tendency of Profits to a Minimum 747
§ 1. Abstraction of capital is not necessarily a national loss, 747
2. In opulent countries, the extension of machinery is not detrimental but beneficial to labourers, 749
CHAPTER VI. Of the Stationary State 752
§ 1. Stationary state of wealth and population is dreaded and deprecated by writers, 752
2. But the stationary state is not in itself undesirable, 753
CHAPTER VII. On the Probable Futurity of the Labouring Classes 758
§ 1. The theory of dependence and protection is no longer applicable to the condition of modern society, 758
2. The future well-being of the labouring classes is principally dependent on their own mental cultivation, 763
3. Probable effects of improved intelligence in causing a better adjustment of population--Would be promoted by the social independence of women, 765
4. Tendency of society towards the disuse of the relation of hiring and service, 766
5. Examples of the association of labourers with capitalists, 769
6. Examples of the association of labourers among themselves, 775
7. Competition is not pernicious, but useful and indispensable, 794
BOOK V: ON THE INFLUENCE OF GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER I. Of the Functions of Government in General 799
§ 1. Necessary and optional functions of government distinguished, 799
2. Multifarious character of the necessary functions of government, 800
3. Division of the subject, 804
CHAPTER II. On the GeneraI Principles of Taxation 805
§ 1. Four fundamental rules of taxation, 805 io
2. Grounds of the principle of Equality of Taxation, 806
3. Should the same percentage be levied on all amounts of income? 808
4. Should the same percentage be levied on perpetual and on terminable incomes? 813 i
5. The increase of the rent of land from natural causes is a fit subject of peculiar taxation, 819
6. A land tax, in some cases, is not taxation, but a rent-charge in favour of the public, 821
7. Taxes falling on capital are not necessarily objectionable, 822
CHAPTER III. Of Direct Taxes 825
§ 1. Direct taxes either on income or on expenditure, 825
2. Taxes on rent, 825
3. Taxes on profits, 826
4. Taxes on wages, 828
5. An Income Tax, 830
6. A House Tax, 833
CHAPTER IV. Of Taxes on Commodities 838
§ 1. A Tax on all Commodities would fall on profits, 838 ,
2. Taxes on particular commodities fall on the consumer, 839
3. Peculiar effects of taxes on necessaries, 840
4. How the peculiar effects of taxes on necessaries are modified by the tendency of profits to a minimum, 843
5. Effects of discriminating duties, 847
6. Effects produced on international exchange by duties on exports and on imports, 850
CHAPTER V. Of Some Other Taxes 857
§ 1. Taxes on contracts, 857
2. Taxes oncommunication, 860
3. Law Taxes, 862
4. Modes of taxation for local purposes, 862
CHAPTER VI. Comparison Between Direct and Indirect Taxation 864
§ I. Arguments for and against direct taxation, 864
2. What forms of indirect taxation are most eligible, 868
3. Practical rules for indirect taxation, 870
CHAPTER VII. Of a National Debt 873
§ 1. Is it desirable to defray extraordinary public expenses by loans? 873
2. Not desirable to redeem a national debt by a general contribution, 876
3. In what cases it is desirable to maintain a surplus revenue for the redemption of debt, 878
CHAPTER VIII. Of the Ordinary Functions of Government, Considered as to Their Economical Effects 880
§ 1. Effects of imperfect security of person and property, 880
2. Effects of over-taxation, 882
3. Effects of imperfection in the system of the laws, and in the administration of justice, 883
CHAPTER IX. The Same Subject Continued 887
§ 1. Laws of Inheritance, 887
2. Law and Custom of Primogeniture, 889
3. Entails, 892
4. Law of compulsory equal division of inheritances, 894
5. Laws of Partnership, 895
6. Partnerships with limited liability. Chartered Companies, 897
7. Partnerships in commandite, 901
8. Laws relating to Insolvency, 906
CHAPTER X. Of Inteferences of Government Grounded on Erroneous Theories 913
§ 1. Doctrine of Protection to Native Industry, 913
2. Usury Laws, 922
3. Attempts to regulate the prices of commodities, 926
4. Monopolies, 927
5. Laws against Combination of Workmen, 929
6. Restraints on opinion or on its publication, 934
CHAPTER XI. Of the Grounds and Limits of the Laisser-Faire or Non-Interference Principle 936
§ 1. Governmental intervention distinguished into authoritative and unauthoritative, 936
2. Objections to government intervention --the compulsory character of the intervention itself, or of the levy of funds to support it, 937
3. Objections to government intervention--increase of the power and influence of government, 939
4. Objections to government intervention--increase of the occupations and responsibilities of government, 940
5. Objections to government intervention--superior efficiency of private agency, owing to stronger interest in the work, 941
6. Objections to government intervention--importance of cultivating habits of collective action in the people, 942
7. Laisser-faire the general rule, 944
8. Large exceptions to laisser-faire. Cases in which the consumer is an incompetent judge of the commodity. Education, 947
9. Case of persons exercising power over others. Protection of children and young persons; of the lower animals. Case of women not analogous, 950
10. Case of contracts in perpetuity, 953
11. Cases of delegated management, 954
12. Cases in which public intervention may be necessary to give effect to the wishes of the persons interested. Examples: hours of labour; disposal of colonial lands, 956
13. Case of acts done for the benefit of others than the persons concerned. Poor Laws, 960
14. Case of acts done for the benefit of others. Colonization, 962
15. Case of acts done for the benefit of others. Miscellaneous examples, 968
16. Government intervention may be necessary in default of private agency, in cases where private agency would be more suitable, 970
APPENDIX A. Book II, Chapter i, "Of Property," §§ 3-6, 2nd edition (1849), collated with the 1st edition and the MS 975
APPENDIX B. Book II, Chapter x, "Means of Abolishing Cottier Tenancy," §§ 1-7, 2nd edition (1849), collated with the 1st edition and the MS 988
APPENDIX C. Book II, Chapter x, "Means of Abolishing Cottier Tenancy," § 3, 4th edition (1857), collated with the earlier editions and the MS 1003
APPENDIX D. Book IV, Chapter vii, "On the Probable Futurity of the Labouring Classes," §§ 5-6, 2nd edition (1849), collated with the 1st edition 1006
APPENDIX E. Appendix to Vol. II, 4th edition (1857) 1015
APPENDIX F. Account of the MS of the Principles 1021
APPENDIX G. John Smart Mill--Harriet Taylor Mill correspondence concerning the Principles 1026
APPENDIX H. John Stuart Mill--John E. Cairnes correspondence and notes concerning the Principles 1038
APPENDIX I. Bibliographic Index of persons and works cited in the Principles, with variants and notes 1096
Facsimile of the first folio of the text, from the MS in the Pierpont Morgan Library facing page 3
Facsimile of the beginning of Book I, Chapter iv, from the MS in the Pierpont Morgan Library facing page 1025
Contents of Volume IV: Essays on Economics and Society Part I↩
INTRODUCTION, by Lord Robbins vii
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION, by J. M. Robson xliii
Essays on Economics and Society
War Expenditure (1824) 1
The Quarterly Review on Political Economy (1825) 23
The Corn Laws (1825) 45
Paper Currency and Commercial Distress (1826) 71
The Silk Trade (1826) 125
The New Corn Law (1827) 141
The Nature, Origin, and Progress of Rent (1828) 161
The Currency Juggle (1833) 181
Corporation and Church Property (1833) 193
Miss Martineau's Summary of Political Economy (1834) 223
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy (1844) 229
Preface, 231
Of the Laws of Interchange Between Nations, 232
Of the Influence of Consumption on Production, 262
On the Words Productive and Unproductive, 280
On Profits, and Interest, 290
On the Definition of Political Economy, 309
The Currency Question ( 1844) 341
The Claims of Labour (1845) 363
De Quincey's Logic of Political Economy (1845) 391
Contents of Volume V: Essays on Economics and Society Part II↩
The Savings of the Middle and Working Classes (1850) 405
The Regulation of the London Water Supply (1851 ) 431
Newman's Political Economy (I 851 ) 439
The Law of Partnership (1851) 459
The Income and Property Tax (1852) 463
The Bank Acts (1857) 499
Currency and Banking (1867) 599
Endowments (1869) 613
Thornton on Labour and Its Claims (1869) 631
Leslie on the Land Question (1870) 669
Land Tenure Reform (1871) 687
Property and Taxation (1873) 697
Chapters on Socialism (1879) 703
Appendix A. McCulIoch's Discourse on Political Economy (1825) 757
Appendix B. Petition on FreeTrade (1841) 761
Appendix C. Examination Paper in Political Economy (1872) 764
Appendix D. Circular of the Land Tenure Reform Association concerning the Public Lands and Commons Bill (1872) 765
Appendix E. Bibliographic Index of persons and works cited in the Essays, with variants and notes 767
Contents of Volume VI: Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire↩
INTRODUCTION by Joseph Hamburger vii
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION by J. M. Robson liv
Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire
Brodie's History of the British Empire (1824) 1
Ireland (1825) 59
The Game Laws (1826) 99
Intercourse between the United States and the British Colonies in the West Indies (1828) 121
Notes on the Newspapers (1834) 149
The Close of the Session (1834) 281
Postscript to the London Review, No. 1 (1835) 289
Parliamentary Proceedings of the Session (1835) 295
Postscript: The Close of the Session (1835) 309
State of Politics in 1836 (1836) 319
Walsh's Contemporary History (1836) 329
Fonblanque's England under Seven Administrations (1837) 349
Parties and the Ministry (1837) 381
Radical Party and Canada: Lord Durham and the Canadians (1838) 405
Lord Durham and His Assailants (1838) 437
Lord Durham's Return (1838) 445
Reorganization of the Reform Party (1839) 465
What Is to Be Done with Ireland? (18487) 497
England and Ireland (1868) 505
Appendix A. England and Ireland: First Draft (1867-68) 535
Appendix B. List of Titles of "Notes on the Newspapers" (1834) 544
Appendix C. Textual Emendations 546
Appendix D. Bibliographic Index of Persons and Works Cited, with Variants and Notes 550
INDEX 669 -
Folio lr of "What Is to Be Done with Ireland?" MS The King's School, Canterbury, 500
Folio 3r of draft of England and Ireland, MS Houghton Library, Harvard University, 510
Contents of Volume VII: System of Logic: Raciocinative and Inductive Part I↩
Introduction, by R. F. McRae xxi
Textual Introduction, by J. M. Robson xlix
PREFACES cix
Introduction and Book I
§ 1. A definition at the commencement of a subject must be provisional, 3
2. Is logic the art and science of reasoning? 4
3. Or the art and science of the pursuit of truth? 5
4. Logic is concerned with inferences, not with intuitive truths, 6
5. Relation of logic to the other sciences, 9
6. Its utility, how shown, 11
7. Definition of logic stated and illustrated, 12
BOOK I: OF NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS
CHAPTER I. Of the Necessity of commencing with an Analysis of Language 19
§ 1. Theory of names, why a necessary part of logic, 19
2. First step in the analysis of Propositions, 20
3. Names must be studied before Things, 22
CHAPTER II. Of Names 24
§ I. Names are names of things, not of our ideas, 24
2. Words which are not names,but parts of names, 25
3. General and Singular names, 27
4. Concrete and Abstract, 29
5. Connotative and Non-connotative, 30
6. Positive and Negative, 41
7. Relative and Absolute, 42
8. Univocal and Aequivocal, 44
CHAPTER III. Of the Things denoted by Names 46
§ 1. Necessity of an enumeration of Nameable Things. The Categories of Aristotle, 46
2. Ambiguity of the most general names, 48
3. Feelings, or states of consciousness, 51
4. Feelings must be distinguished from their physical antecedents. Perceptions, what, 52
5. Volitions, and Actions, what, 54
6. Substance and Attribute, 55
7. Body, 56
8. Mind, 63
9. Qualities, 65
10. Relations, 67
11. Resemblance, 70
12. Quantity, 73
13. All attributes of bodies are grounded on states of consciouness, 74
14. So also all attributes of minds, 74
15. Recapitulation, 75
CHAPTER IV. Of Propositions 78
§ 1. Nature and office of the copula, 78
2. Affirmative and Negative propositions, 80
3. Simple and Complex, 81
4. Universal, Particular, and Singular, 84
CHAPTER V. Of the Import of Propositions 87
§ 1. Doctrine that a proposition is the expression of a relation between two ideas, 87
2. Doctrine that it is the expression of a relation between the meanings of two names, 90
3. Doctrine that it consists in referring something to, or excluding something from, a class, 93
4. What it really is, 97
5. It asserts (or denies) a sequence, a coexistence, a simple existence, a causation, 99
6. --or a resemblance, 102
7. Propositions of which the terms are abstract, 105
CHAPTER Vl. Of Propositions merely Verbal 109
§ 1. Essential and Accidental propositions, 109
2. All essential propositions are identical propositions, 110
3. Individuals have no essences, 114
4. Real propositions, how distinguished from verbal, 115
5. Two modes of representing the import of a Real proposition, 116
CHAPTER VII. Of the Nature of Classification, and the Five Predicables 118
§ 1. Classification, how connected with Naming, 118
2. The Predicables, what, 119
3. Genus and Species, 120
4. Kinds have a real existence in nature, 122
5. Differentia, 126
6. Differentiae for general purposes, and differentim for special or technical purposes, 128
7. proprium; 130
8. Accidens, 132
CHAPTER VIII. Of Definition 133
§ 1. A definition, what, 133
2. Every name can be defined, whose meaning is susceptible of analysis, 134
3. Complete, how distinguished from incomplete definitions, 136
4. --and from descriptions, 137
5. What are called definitions of Things, are definitions of Names with an implied assumption of the existence of Things corresponding to them, 142
6. --even when such things do not in reality exist, 148
7. Definitions, though of names only, must be grounded on knowledge of the corresponding things, 150
BOOK II: OF REASONING
CHAPTER I. Of Inference, or Reasoning, in general 157
§ 1. Retrospect of the preceding book, 157
2. Inferences improperly so called, 158
3. Inferences proper, distinguished into inductions and ratiocinations, 162
CHAPTER II. Of Ratiocination, or Syllogism 164
§ 1. Analysis of the Syllogism, 164
2. The dictum de omni not the foundation of reasoning, but a mere identical proposition, 174
3. What is the really fundamental axiom of Ratiocination, 176
4. The other form of the axiom, 180
CHAPTER III. Of the Functions, and Logical Value of the Syllogism 183
§ 1. Is the syllogism a petitio principii?, 183
2. Insufficiency of the common theory, 184
3. All inference is from particulars to particulars, 186
4. General propositions are a record of such inferences, and the rules of the syllogism are rules for the interpretation of the record, 193
5. The syllogism not the type of reasoning, but a test of it, 196
6. The true type, what, 199
7. Relation between Induction and Deduction, 202
8. Objections answered , 203
9. Of Formal Logic, and its relation to the Logic of Truth, 206
CHAPTER IV. Of Trains of Reasoning, and Deductive Sciences 209
§ 1. For what purpose trains of reasoning exist, 209
2. A train of reasoning is a series of inductive inferences, 209
3. --from particulars to particulars through marks of marks, 212
4. Why there are deductive sciences, 214
5. Why other sciences still remain experimental, 218
6. Experimental sciences may become deductive by the progress of experiment, 219
7. In what manner this usually takes place, 221
CHAPTER V. Of Demonstration, and Necessary Truths 224
§ 1. The Theorems of geometry are necessary truths only in the sense of necessarily following from hypotheses, 224
2. Those hypotheses are real facts with some of their circumstances exaggerated or omitted, 227
3. Some of the first principles of geometry are axioms, and these are not hypothetical, 229
4. --but are experimental truths, 231
5. An obiection answered, 233
6. Dr. Whewell's opinions on axioms examined, 236
CHAPTER VI. The same Subject continued 252
§ 1. All deductive sciences are inductive, 252
2. The propositions of the science of number are not verbal, but generalizations from experience, 253
3. In what sense hypothetical, 258
4. The characteristic property of demonstrative science is to be hypothetical, 259
5. Definition of demonstrative evidence, 260
CHAPTER VII. Examination of some Opinions opposed to the preceding doctrines 262
§ 1. Doctrine of the Universal Postulate, 262
2. The test of inconceivability does not represent the aggregate of past experience, 264
3. --nor is implied in every process of thought, 266
4. Objections answered, 273
5. Sir W. Hamilton's opinion on the Principles of Contradiction and Excluded Middle , 276
BOOK III: OF INDUCTION
CHAPTER I. Preliminary Observations on Induction in general 283
§ 1. Importance of an Inductive Logic, 283
2. The logic of science is also that of business and life, 284
CHAPTER II. Of Inductions improperlyso called 288
§ I. Inductions distinguished from verbal transformations, 288
2. --from inductions, falsely so called, in mathematics, 290
4. Examination of Dr. Whewell's theory of Induction, 294
75. Further illustration of the preceding remarks, 303
CHAPTER III. On the Ground of Induction 306
§ 1. Axiom of the uniformity of the course of nature, 306
2. Not true in every sense. Induction per enumerationem simplicem, 311
3. The question of Inductive Logic stated, 313
CHAPTER IV. Of Laws of Nature 315
§ 1. The general regularity in nature is a tissue of partial regularities, called laws, 315
2. Scientific induction must be grounded on previous spontaneous inductions, 318
3. Are there any inductions fitted to be a test of all others? 320
CHAPTER V. of the Law of Universal Causation 323
§ 1. The universal law of successive phenomena is the Law of Causation, 323
2. --i.e. the law that every consequent has an invariable antecedent, 326
3. The cause of a phenomenon is the assemblage of its conditions, 327
4. The distinction of agent and patient illusory, 334
5. Case in which the effect consists in giving a property to an object, 336
6. The cause is not the invariable antecedent, but the unconditional invariable antecedent, 338
7. Can a cause be simultaneous with its effect? 342
8. Idea of a Permanent Cause, or original natural agent, 344
9. Uniformities of co-existence between effects of different permanent causes, are not laws, 348
10. Theory of the Conservation of Force, 348
11. Doctrine that volition is an efficient cause, examined , 353
CHAPTER VI. Of the Composition of Causes 370
§ 1. Two modes of the conjunct action of causes, the mechanical and the chemical, 370
2. The composition of causes the general rule; the other case exceptional, 373
3. Are effects proportional to their causes? 376
CHAPTER VII. Of Observation and Experiment 379
§ 1. The first step of inductive inquiry is a mental analysis of complex phenomena into their elements, 379
2. The next is an actual separation of those elements, 381
3. Advantages of experiment over observation, 382
4. Advantages of observation over experiment, 384
CHAPTER VIII. Of the Four Methods of Experimental Inquiry 388
§ 1. Method of Agreement, 388
2. Method of Difference, 391
3. Mutual relation of these two methods, 392
4. Joint Method of Agreement and Difference, 394
5. Method of Residues, 397
6. Method of Concomitant Variations, 398
7. Limitations of this last method, 403
CHAPTER IX. Miscellaneous Examples of the Four Methods 407
§ 1. Liebig's theory of metallic poisons, 407
2. Theory of induced electricity , 410
3. Dr. Wells' theory of dew, 414
4. Dr. Brown-Séquard's theory of cadaveric rigidity, 421
5. Examples of the Method of Residues, 426
6. Dr. Whewell's objections to the Four Methods , 429
CHAPTER X. Of Plurality of Causes; and of the Intermixture of Effects 434
§ 1. One effect may have several causes, 434
2. --which is the source of a characteristic imperfection of the Method of Agreement, 435
3. Plurality of Causes, how ascertained, 438
4. Concurrence of Causes which do not compound their effects, 440
5. Difficulties of the investigation, when causes compound their effects, 442
6. Three modes of investigating the laws of complex effects, 446
7. The method of simple observation inapplicable, 447
8. The purely experimental method inapplicable, 449
CHAPTER XI. Of the Deductive Method 454
§ 1. First stage; ascertainment of the laws of the separate causes by direct induction, 454
2. Second stage; ratiocination from the simple laws of the complex cases, 458
3. Third stage; verification by specific experience, 460
CHAPTER XlI. Of the Explanation of Laws of Nature 464
§ 1. Explanation defined, 464
2. First mode of explanation, by resolving the law of a complex effect into the laws of the concurrent causes and the fact of their coexisteuce, 464
3. Second mode; by the detection of an intermediate link in the sequence, 465
4. Laws are always resolved into laws more general than themselves, 466
5. Third mode; the subsumption of less general laws under a more general one, 469
6. What the explanation of a law of nature amounts to, 471
CHAPTER XIII. Miscellaneous Examples of the Explanation of Laws of Nature 473
§ 1. The general theories of the sciences, 473
2. Examples from chemical speculations, 474
3. Example from Dr. Brown-Séquard's researches on the nervous system, 476
4. Examples of following newly-discovered laws into their complex manifestations, 477
5. Examples of empirical generalizations, afterwards confirmed and explained deductively, 479
6. Example from mental science, 480
7. Tendency of all the sciences to become deductive, 481
CHAPTER XlV. Of the Limits to the Explanation of Laws of Nature; and of Hypotheses 484
§ 1. Can all the sequences in nature be resolvable into one law? 484
2. Ultimate laws cannot be less numerous than the distinguishable feelings of our nature, 485
3. In what sense ultimate facts can be explained, 488
4. The proper use of scientific hypotheses, 490
5. Their indispensableness, 496
6. The two degrees of legitimacy in hypotheses, 498
7. Some inquiries apparently hypothetical are really inductive, 5O5
CHAPTER XV. Of Progressive Effects; and of the Continued Action of Causes 509
§ 1. How a progressive effect results from the simple continuance of the cause, 509
2. --and from the progressiveness of the cause, 512
3. Derivative laws generated from a single ultimate law, 514
CHAPTER XVI Of Empirical Laws 516
§ 1. Definition of an empirical law, 516
2. Derivative laws commonly depend on collocations, 517
3. The collocations of the permanent causes are not reducible to any law, 518
4. Hence empirical laws cannot be relied on beyond the limits of actual experience, 519
5. Generalizations which rest only on the Method of Agreement can only be received as empirical laws, 520
6. Signs from which an observed uniformity of sequence may be presumed to be resolvable, 521
7. Two kinds of empirical laws, 524
CHAPTER XVII. Of Chance, and its Elimination 525
§ 1. The proof of empirical laws depends on the theory of chance, 525
2. Chance defined and characterized, 526
3. The elimination of chance, 530
4. Discovery of residual phenomena by eliminating chance, 531
5. The doctrine of chances, 533
CHAPTER XVIII. Of the Calculation of Chances 534
§ 1. Foundation of the doctrine of chances, as taught by mathematics, 534
2. The doctrine tenable, 535
3. On what foundation it really rests, 537
4. Its ultimate dependence on causation, 540
5. Theorem of the doctrine of chances which relates to the cause of a given event, 543
6. How applicable to the elimination of chance, 546
CHAPTER XIX. Of the Extension of Derivative Laws to Adjacent Cases 548
§ 1. Derivative laws, when not causal, are almost always contingent on collocations, 548
2. On what grounds they can be extended to cases beyond the bounds of actual experience, 549
3. Those cases must be adjacent cases, 551
CHAPTER XX. Of Analogy 554
§ I.Various senses of the word analogy, 554
2.Nature of analogical evidence, 555
3. On what circumstances its value depends, 559
CHAPTER XXI Of the Evidence of the Law of Universal Causation 562
§ 1. The law of causality does not rest on an instinc, 562
2. But on an induction by simple enumeration, 567
3. In what cases such induction is allowable, 569
4. The universal prevalence of the law of causality, on what grounds admissible , 572
CHAPTER XXII. of Uniformities of Coexistence not dependent on Causation 578
§ 1. Uniformities of coexistence which result from laws of sequence, 578
2. The properties of Kinds are uniformities of coexistence, 579
3. Some are derivative, others ultimate, 581
4. No universal axiom of coexistence, 582
5. The evidence of uniformities of coexistence, how measured, 583
6. When derivative, their evidence is that of empirical laws, 584
7. So also when ultimate, 585
8. The evidence stronger in proportion as the law is more general, 586
9. Every distinct Kind must be examined, 587
CHAPTER XXIII . Of Approximate Generalizations, and Probable Evidence 591
§ 1. The inferences called probable, rest on approximate generalizations, 591
2. Approximate generalizations less useful in science than in life, 591
3. In what cases they cmayobe resorted to, 593
4. In what manner proved, 594
5. With what precautions employed, 596
6. The two modes of combining probabilities, 597
7. How approximate generalizations may be converted into accurate generalizations equivalent to them, 602
CHAPTER XXIV. Of the Remaining Laws of Nature 604
§ 1. Propositions which assert mere existence, 604
2. Resemblance, considered as a subject of science, 605
3. The axioms and theorems of mathematics comprise the principal laws of resemblance, 607
4. --and those of order in place, and rest on induction by simple enumeration, 608
5. The propositions of arithmetic affirm the modes of formation of some given number, 610
6. Those of algebra affirm the equivalence of different modes of formation of numbers generally, 613
7. The propositions of geometry are laws of outward nature, 616
8. Why geometry is almost entirely deductive, 618
9. Function of mathematical truths in the other sciences, and limits of that function, 620
CHAPTER XXV. Of the Grounds of Disbelief 622
§ 1. Improbability and impossibility, 622
2. Examination of Hume's doctrine of miracles, 622
3. The degrees of improbability correspond to differences in the nature of the generalization with which an assertion conflicts, 626
4. A fact is not incredible because the chances are against it, 630
5. Are coincidences less credible than other facts?, 632
6. An opinion of Laplace examined, 634
Contents of Volume VIII: System of Logic: Raciocinative and Inductive Part II↩
BOOK IV: OF OPERATIONS SUBSIDIARY TO INDUCTION
CHAPTER I. Of Observation and Description 641
§ 1. Observation, how far a subject of logic, 641
2. A great part of what seems observation is really inference, 64 1
3. The description of an observation affirms more than is contained in the observation, 644
4. --namely, an agreement among phenomena; and the comparison of phenomena to ascertain such agreements is a preliminary to induction, 647
CHAPTER II. Of Abstraction, or the Formation of Conceptions 649
§ 1. The comparison which is a preliminary to induction implies general conceptions, 649
2. --but these need not be pre-existent, 650
3. A general conception, originally the result of a comparison, becomes itself the type of comparison, 653
4. What is meant by appropriate conceptions, 656
5. --and by clear conceptions, 658
6. Further illustration of the subject, 659
CHAPTER III. Of Naming, as subsidiary to Induction 663
§ 1. The fundamental property of names as an instrument of thought, 663
2. Names are not indispensable to induction, 664
3. In what manner subservient to it, 665
4. General names not a mere contrivance to economize the use of language, 666
CHAPTER IV. Of the Requisites of a Philosophical Language, and the Principles of Definition 668
§ 1. First requisite of philosophical language, a steady and determinate meaning for every general name, 668
2. Names in common use have often a loose connotation, 668
3. --which the logician should fix, with as little alteration as possible, 670
4. Why definition is often a question not of words but of things, 672
5. How the logician should deal with the transitive applications of words, 675
6. Evil consequences of casting off any portion of the customary connotation of words, 679
CHAPTER V. On the Natural History of the Variations in the Meaning of Terms 686
§ 1. How circumstances originally accidental become incorporated into the meaning of words, 686
2. --and sometimes become the whole meaning, 688
3. Tendency of words to become generalized, 689
4. --and to become specialized, 693
CHAPTER VI. The Principles of a Philosophical Language further considered 698
§ 1. Second requisite of philosophical language, a name for every important meaning, 698
2. --viz. first, an accurate descriptive terminology, 698
3. --secondly, a name for each of the more important results of scientific abstraction, 701
4. --thirdly, a nomenclature, or system of the names of Kinds, 703
5. Peculiar nature of the connotation of names which belong to a nomenclature, 705
6. In what cases language may, and may not, be used mechanically, 707
CHAPTER VII. Of Classification, as subsidiary to Induction 712
§ 1. Classification as here treated of, wherein different from the classification implied in naming, 712
2. Theory of natural groups, 713
3. Are natural groups given by type, or by definition? 717
4. Kinds are natural groups, 718
5. How the names of Kinds should be constructed, 723
CHAPTER VIII. Of Classification by Series 726
§ 1. Natural groups should be arranged in a natural series, 726
2. The arrangement should follow the degrees of the main phenomenon, 727
3. --which implies the assumption of a type-species, 728
4. How the divisions of the series should be determined, 729
5. Zoology affords the completest type of scientific classification, 731
BOOK V: ON FALLACIES
CHAPTER I. Of Fallacies in General 735
§ 1. Theory of fallacies a necessary part of logic, 735
2. Casual mistakes are not fallacies, 736
3. The moral sources of erroneous opinion, how related to the intellectual, 737
CHAPTER II. Classification of Fallacies 740
§ 1. On what criteria a classification of fallacies should be grounded, 740
2. The five classes of fallacies, 741
3. The reference of a fallacy to one or another class is sometimes arbitrary, 744
CHAPTER III. Fallacies of Simple Inspection, or à priori Fallacies 746
§ 1. Character of this class of Fallacies, 746
2. Natural prejudice of mistaking subjective laws for objective, exemplified in popular superstitions, 747
3. Natural prejudices, that things which we think of together must exist together, and that what is inconceivable must be false, 750
4. Natural prejudice, of ascribing objective existence to abstractions, 756
5. Fallacy of the Sufficient Reason, 757
6. Natural prejudice, that the differences in nature correspond to the distinctions in language, 760
7. Prejudice, that a phenomenon cannot have more than one cause, 763
8. Prejudice, that the conditions of a phenomenon must resemble the phenomenon, 765
CHAPTER IV. Fallacies of Observation 773
§ 1. Non-observation, and Mal-observation, 773
2. Non-observation of instances, and non-observation of circumstances, 773
3. Examples of the former, 774
4. --and of the latter, 778
5. Mal-observation characterized and exemplified, 782
CHAPTER V. Fallacies of Generalization 785
§ 1. Character of the class, 785
2. Certain kinds of generalization s must always be groundless, 785
3. Attempts to resolve phenomena radically different into the same, 786
4. Fallacy of mistaking empirical for causal laws, 788
5. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc; and the deductive fallacy corresponding to it, 792
6. Fallacy of False Analogies, 794
7. Function of metaphors in reasoning, 799
8. How fallacies of generalization grow out of bad classification, 801
CHAPTER VI. Fallacies of Ratiocination 803
2. Fallacies in the conversion and aequipollency of propositions, 803
3. Fallacies in the syllogistic process, 804
4. Fallacy of changing the premises, 805
CHAPTER VII. Fallacies of Confusion 809
§ 1. Fallacy of Ambiguous Terms, 809
2. Fallacy of Petitio Principii, 819
3. Fallacy of Ignoratio Elenchi, 827
BOOK VI: ON THE LOGIC OF THE MORAL SCIENCES
CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks 833
§ 1. The backward state of the Moral Sciences can only be remedied by applying to them the methods of Physical Science, duly extended and generalized, 833
2. How far this can be attempted in the present work, 834
CHAPTER II. Of Liberty and Necessity 836
§ 1. Are human actions subject to the law of causality? 836
2. The doctrine commonly called Philosophical Necessity, in what sense true, 836
3. Inappropriateness and pernicious effect of the term Necessity, 839
4. A motive not always the anticipation of a pleasure or a pain, 842
CHAPTER III. That there is, or may be, a Science of Human Nature 844
§ 1. There may be sciences which are not exact sciences, 844
2. To what scientific type the Science of Human Nature corresponds, 846
CHAPTER IV. Of the Laws of Mind 849
§ 1. What is meant by Laws of Mind, 849
2. Is there a science of Psychology? 849
3. The principal investigations of Psychology characterized, 852
4. Relation of mental facts to physical conditions, 856
CHAPTER V. Of Ethology, or the Science of the Formation of Character 861
§ 1. The Empirical Laws of Human Nature, 861
2. --are merely approximate generalizations. The universal laws are those of the formation of character, 863
3. The laws of the formation of character cannot be ascertained by observation and experiment, 865
4. --but must be studied deductively, 868
5. The principles of Ethology are the axiomata media of mental science, 870
6. Ethology characterized, 872
CHAPTER VI. General Considerations on the Social Science 875
§ 1. Are Social Phenomena a subject of Science? 875
2. Of what nature the Social Science must be, 877
CHAPTER VII. Of the Chemical, or Experimental, Method in the Social Science 879
§ 1. Characters of the mode of thinking which deduces political doctrines from specific experience, 879
2. In the Social Science experiments are impossible, 881
3. --the Method of Difference inapplicable, 881
4. --and the Methods of Agreement, and of Concomitant Variations, inconclusive, 883
5. The Method of Residues also inconclusive, and presupposes Deduction, 884
CHAPTER VIII. Of the Geometrical, or Abstract Method 887
§ 1. Characters of this mode of thinking, 887
2. Examples of the Geometrical Method, 888
3. The interest-philosophy of the Bentham School, 889
CHAPTER IX. Of the Physical, or Concrete Deductive Method 895
§ 1. The Direct and Inverse Deductive Methods, 895
2. Difficulties of the Direct Deductive Method in the Social Science, 898
3. To what extent the different branches of sociological speculation can be studied apart. Political Economy characterized, 900
4. Political Ethology, or the science of national character, 904
5. The Empirical Laws of the Social Science, 907
6. The Verification of the Social Science, 908
CHAPTER X. Of the Inverse Deductive, or Historical Method 911
§ 1. Distinction between the general Science of Society, and special sociological inquiries, 911
2. What is meant by a State of Society? 911
3. The Progressiveness of Man and Society, 913
4. The laws of the succession of states of society can only be ascertained by the Inverse-Deductive Method, 915
5. Social Statics, or the science of the Coexistences of Social Phenomena, 917
6. Social Dynamics, or the science of the Successions of Social Phenomena, 924
7. Outlines of the Historical Method, 925
8. Future prospects of Sociological Inquiry, 928
CHAPTER XI. Additional Elucidations of the Science of History 931
§ 1. The subjection of historical facts to uniform laws is verified by statistics, 931
2. ---does not imply the insignificance of moral causes, 934
3. --nor the inefficacy of the characters of individuals and of the acts of governments, 936
4. The historical importance of eminent men and of the policy of governments illustrated, 939
CHAPTER XII. Of the Logic of Practice, or Art; including Morality and Policy 943
§ 1. Morality not a Science, but an Art, 943
2. Relation between rules of art and the theorems of the corresponding science, 943
3. What is the proper function of rules of art? 945
4. Art cannot be Deductive, 946
5. Every Art consists of truths of Science, arranged in the order suitable for some practical use, 947
6. Teleology, or the Doctrine of Ends, 949
7. Necessity of an ultimate standard, or first principle of Teleology, 951
8. Conclusion, 953
APPENDIX A. The Early Draft of the Logic 955
Introductory Matter, 961
Statement of the Problem, 969
Of Names, 974
Classification of Things, 989
Of Predication, 1005
Of the Predicables or Universals, 1030
Of Definition, 1040
Of Inference, or Reasoning, 1053
Of Ratiocination, or Syllogism, 1057
Of Trains of Reasoning, 1079
Of Deductive Sciences, 1083
Of Demonstration; and Necessary Truths, 1088
Of Induction in General, 1099
Of the Various Grounds of Induction, 1103
Of the Uniformity in the Course of Nature, 1106
APPENDIX B. Supplementary Note to Book II, Chapter iii, 4th edition, with variant notes to the 3rd and 5th to 8th editions. 1111
APPENDIX C. Book III, Chapter v, § 9, 2nd edition, with variant notes to the MS and 1st editions. 1118
APPENDIX D. Book III, Chapter x, § 4, variant, 7th edition, with variant notes to the 4th to 6th editions. 1120
APPENDIX E. Book III, Chapter xiii, §§ 1-3, 5th edition, with variant notes to the MS and 1st to 4th editions. 1132
APPENDIX F. Book III, Chapter xviii, 1st edition, with variant notes to the MS. 1140
APPENDIX G. Book III, Chapter xxv, § 5, 1st edition, with variant notes to the MS 1151
APPENDIX H. Book VI, Chapter xi, § 6, 2nd edition, with variant notes to the MS and 1st edition. 1154
APPENDIX I. Typographical errors in the 8th edition. 1156
APPENDIX J. Description of the Press-copy Manuscript. 1161
APPENDIX K. Bibliographic Index of persons and works cited in the Logic, with variants and notes. 1170
FACSIMILES facing pages lxxii, 17, 978, 1169
Contents of Volume IX: An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy↩
Introduction, by A. Ryan vii
Textual Introduction, by J. M. Robson lxix
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
PREFACE to the Third Edition ciii
CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks 1
CHAPTER II. The Relativity of Human Knowledge 4
CHAPTER IIl. The Doctrine of the Relativity of Human Knowledge, as Held by Sir William Hamilton 13
CHAPTER IV. In What Respect Sir William Hamilton Really Differs from the Philosophers of the Absolute 34
CHAPTER V. What is Rejected as Knowledge by Sir William Hamilton, Brought Back Under the Name of Belief 60
CHAPTER VI. The Philosophy of the Conditioned 66
CHAPTER VII. The Philosophy of the Conditioned, as Applied by Mr. Mansel to the Limits of Religious Thought 89
CHAPTER VIII. Of Consciousness, as Understood by Sir William Hamilton 109
CHAPTER IX. Of the Interpretation of Consciousness 125
CHAPTER X. Sir William Hamilton's View of the Different Theories Respecting the Belief in an External World 149
CHAPTER XI. The Psychological Theory of the Belief in an External World 177
CHAPTER XII. The Psychological Theory of the Belief in Matter, How Far Applicable to Mind. Appendix to the Two Preceding Chapters 188
CHAPTER XIII. The Psychological Theory of the Primary Qualities of Matter 210
CHAPTER XIV. How Sir William Hamilton and Mr. Mansel Dispose of the Law of Inseparable Association 250
CHAPTER XV. Sir William Hamilton's Doctrine of Unconscious Mental Modifications 272
CHAPTER XVI. Sir William Hamilton's Theory of Causation 286
CHAPTER XVII. The Doctrine of Concepts, or General Notions 301
CHAPTER XVIII. Of Judgment 324
CHAPTER XIX. Of Reasoning 342
CHAPTER XX. On Sir William Hamilton's Conception of Logic as a Science. Is Logic the Science of the Laws, or Forms, of Thought? 348
CHAPTER XXI. The Fundamental Laws of Thought According to Sir William Hamilton 372
CHAPTER XXII. Of Sir William Hamilton's Supposed Improvements in Formal Logic 385
CHAPTER XXIII. Of Some Minor Peculiarities of Doctrine in Sir William Hamilton's View of Formal Logic 404
CHAPTER XXlV. Of Some Natural Prejudices Countenanced by Sir William Hamilton, and Some Fallacies Which He Considers Insoluble 417
CHAPTER XXV.Sir William Hamilton's Theory of Pleasure and Pain 430
CHAPTER XXVI. On the Freedom of the Will 437
CHAPTER XXVII. Sir William Hamilton's Opinions on the Study of Mathematics 470
CHAPTER XXVIII. Concluding Remarks 490
APPENDIX A. Manuscript Fragments 507
APPENDIX B. Textual Emendations 513
APPENDIXC. Corrected References 518
APPENDIX D. Bibliographic Index of Persons and Works Cited in the Examination, with Variants and Notes 521
Contents of Volume X: Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society↩
INTRODUCTION, by F. E. L. Priestley vii
MILL'S UTILITARIANISM by, D. P. Dryer lxiii
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION, by J. M. Robson cxv
Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy (1833) 3
Blakey's History of Moral Science (1833) 19
Sedgwick's Discourse (1835) 31
Bentham (1838) 75
Coleridge (1840) 117
Whewell on Moral Philosophy (1852) 165
Utilitarianism (1861 ) 203
General Remarks, 205
What Utilitarianism Is, 209
Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility, 227
Of What Sort of Proof the Principle of Utility Is Susceptible, 234
On the Connexion between Justice and Utility, 240
Auguste Comte and Positivism (1865) 261
The Cours de Philosophie Positive, 263
The Later Speeulatiom of M. Comte, 328
Three Essays on Religion (1874) 369
Introductory Notice, 371
Nature, 373
Utility of Religion,403
Theism, 429
Appendix A. Preface to Dissertations and Discussions (1859) 493
Appendix B. Obituary of Bentham (1832) 495
Appendix C. Comment on Bentham in Bulwer's England and the English (1833) 499
Appendix D. Quotation from "Coleridge" in Mill's System of Logic ( 8th ed., 1872), 519-23 (VI, x, 5 ) 503
Contents of Volume XI: Essays on Philosophy and the Classics↩
INTRODUCTION, by F. E. Sparshott vii
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION, by J. M. Robson lxxvii
Essays on Philosophy and the Classics
Whately's Elements of Logic (1828) 1
Notes on Some of the More Popular Dialogues of Plato (1834-35) 37
The Progatoras, 39
The Phaedrus, 62
The Gorgias, 97
The Apology of Socrates, 151
The Charmides, 175
The Euthyphron, 187
The Laches, 197
The Lysis, 210
The Parmenides, 222
Two Publications on Plato (1840) 239
Bailey on Berkeley's Theory of Vision (1842, 1843) 245
Grote's History of Greece [I] (1846) 271
Grote's History of Greece [II] (1853) 307
Bain's Psychology (1859) 339
Grote's Plato (1866) 375
Taine's De L'Intelligence (1870) 441
Berkeley's Life and Writings (1871) 449
Grote's Aristotle (1873) 473
APPENDIX. Bibliographic Index of Persons and Works Cited in the Essays, with Variants and Notes 511
FACSIMILES facing pages 175,474-5
Contents of Volume XII: The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill 1812-1848 Part I↩
PREFACE vii
INTRODUCTION,by F. A. Hayek xv
ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES XXV
THE LETTERS, 1812--1837
1812-1830, 3
1831, 69
Facsimile of Letter 1, to Jeremy Bentham, from MS in the British Museum facing page 3
Contents of Volume XIII: The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill 1812-1848 Part II↩
THE LETTERS,1838-1848
General Index 745
Index of Correspondents 780
Facsimile of Letter 405, to Macvey Napier, from MS in the British Museum facing page 367
Contents of Volume XIV: The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part I ↩
INTRODUCTION XV
ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES X1V
THE LETTERS, 1849-1855
Portrait of Harriet Taylor (ca. 1834) facing page 3
Contents of Volume XV: The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part II↩
ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES vii
John Stuart Mill and Helen Taylor (ca. 1869?) facing page 503
Contents of Volume XVI: The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part III↩
John Stuart Mill, portrait by E. Goodwyn Lewis facing page 985
Contents of Volume XVII: The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part IV↩
Abbreviations and Short Titles
The Later Letters, 1869-1873
Appendix I: Additional Earlier Letters
Appendix II: Additional Later Letters
Index of Correspondents
Detail of original Watts portrait of Mill facing page 1535
Contents of Volume XVIII: Essays on Politics and Society Part I↩
INTRODUCTION, by Alexander Brady ix
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION, by J. M. Robson lxxi
Essays on Politics and Society
Use and Abuse of Political Terms 1
Rationale of Representation 15
De Tocqueville on Democracy in America [I] 47
State of Society in America 91
Civilization 117
Essays on Government 149
De Tocqueville on Democracy in America [II] 153
Reform of the Civil Service 205
On Liberty 213
I Introductory. 217
II Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion. 228
III Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being, 260
IV Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual, 276
V Applications, 292
Contents of Volume XIX: Essays on Politics and Society Part II↩
Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform
Recent Writers on Reform
Considerations on Representative Government
I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice
II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government
III That the Ideally Best Form of Government is Representative Government, 399
IV Under What Social Conditions Representative Government is Inapplicable, 413
V Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies, 422
VI Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable, 435
VII Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority Only, 448
VIII Of the Extension of the Suffrage
IX Should there be Two Stages of Election?
X Of the Mode of Voting
XI Of the Duration of Parliaments
XII Ought Pledges to be Required from Members of Parliament?
XIII Of a Second Chamber
XIV Of the Executive in a Representative Government
XV Of Local Representative Bodies
XVI Of Nationality, as Connected with Representative Government
XVII Of Federal Representative Governments
XVIII Of the Government of Dependencies by a Free State, 562
Centralisation 579
Appendix A. Taylor's Statesman
Appendix B. Appendix to Dissertations and Discussions, Vol. I
Appendix C. Jowett on Civil Service Examinations
Appendix D. Substantive variants in the People's Edition of On Liberty 657
Appendix E. Substantive variants in the People's Edition of Considerations on Representative Government
Appendix F. Bibliographic Index of Persons and Works Cited in the Essays, with Variants and Notes
Contents of Volume XX: Essays on French History and Historians↩
Introduction, by John C. Calms
Textual Introduction, by John M. Robson
Essays On French History and Historians
Mignet's French Revolution (1826)
Modern French Historical Works (1826)
Scott's Life of Napoleon (1828)
Alison's History of the French Revolution (1833)
The Monster Trial (1835)
Carlyle's French Revolution (1837)
Armand Carrel (1837)
Michelet's History of France (1844)
Guizot's Essays and Lectures on History (1845)
Duveyrier's Political Views of French Affairs (1846)
Vindication of the French Revolution of February 1848 (1849)
Appendix A. Guizot's Lectures on European Civilization (1836)
Appendix B. French Texts of Material Quoted inVindication of the French Revolution of February 1848
Appendix C. Textual Emendations
Appendix D. Index of Persons and Works Cited, with Variants and Notes
Contents of Volume XXI: Essays on Equality, Law, and Education↩
Introduction,by Stefan Collini
Essays on Equality, Law, and Education
Law of Libel and Liberty of the Press (1825)
On Marriage (1832-33?)
Austin's Lectures on Jurisprudence (1832)
Reform in Education (1834)
On Punishment (1834)
Smith on Law Reform (1841)
The Negro Question (1850)
Statement on Marriage (1851 )
Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy's Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children (1853)
A Few Words on Non-lntervention (1859)
The Contest in America (1862)
The Slave Power (1862)
Austin on Jurisprudence (1863)
Educational Endowments (1866)
Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews (1867)
The Subjection of Women (1869)
Treaty Obligations (1870)
The Contagious Diseases Acts (1871)
Appendix A. On Marriage, by Harriet Taylor (1832-33?)
Appendix B. Papers on Women's Rights, by Harriet Taylor Mill and J. S. Mill (1847-50)
Appendix C. Enfranchisement of Women, by Harriet Taylor Mill (1851 )
Appendix D. Draft of a Portion of the Inaugural Address (1866)
Appendix E. Jamaica Committee: Public Documents (1866, 1868)
Appendix F. Textual Emendations
Appendix G. Bibliographic Index of Persons and Works Cited. with Variants and Notes
Folio lr of"On Marriage" by J. S. Mill, 38
Foho lr of "On Marriage" by Harriet Taylor, 374
Contents of Volume XXII: Newspaper Writings December 1822-July 1831↩
INTRODUCTION, by Ann P. Robson xix
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION, by John M. Robson cv
December 1822 to December 1824 3
1. Exchangeable Value [1] 3
3. Religious Persecution 6
4. The Word "Nature" 8
5. Free Discussion, Letter I 9
6. Free Discussion, Letter II 12
7. Free Discussion, Letter III 15
8. Tooke's Thoughts on High and Low Prices [1] 18
9. The Debate on the Petition of Mary Ann Carlile 21
10. The Debate on East and West India Sugars 25
11. Judicial Oaths 30
12. Tooke's Thoughts on High and Low Prices [2] 34
13. Errors of the Spanish Government 39
14. The Mischievousness of an Oath 42
15. Blessings of Equal Justice 43
16. Persecution for Religious Scruples 46
17. Resurrection-Men 48
18. Malthus's Measure of Value 51
19. Technicalities of English Law 60
20. Securities for Good Government 62
21. Parliamentary Reform 64
22. Atrocities of the Tread Wheel 67
23. Practicability of Reform in the Law 70
24. Old and New Institutions 72
25. Reputed Thieves 75
26. Effects of Gambling 77
27. Question of Population [1] 80
29. Place's On the Law of Libel 91
30. Pleadings 95
32. James Mill on the Question of Population 97
33. Effects of Periodical Literature 100
September 1825 to October 1828 103
34. Absenteeism 103
35. Blunders of The Times 106
36. The Inhabitants of Queenborough 108
37. New Ministerial Publications 109
38. Advertisements Free of Duty 111
39. Dr. Croker's Opinion 113
40. Another Opinion of Dr. Croker's 113
41. Compensation to the Shopkeepers on the Approaches to London Bridge 114
42. The Brunswick Clubs 116
July 1830 to July 1831 121
43. The French Elections 121
44. Prospects of France, I 128
45. Prospects of France, II 134
46. Mr. Huskisson and the Jacobin Club 140
47. The Recent Combination of Journeymen Printers at Paris 141
48. Prospects of France, III 142
49. Answer to Bowring's Criticism of Prospects of France, II 147
50. Prospects of France, IV 149
51. Prospects of France, V 158
52. Attempt to Save the Ex-Ministers 163
53. The Quarterly Review versus France 168
54. France and the Quarterly Review 172
55. French News [1] 180
56. Ignorance of French Affairs by the English Press 182
57. Prospects of France, VI 184
60. Use and Abuse of the Ballot 193
61. Prospects of France, VII 196
63. The Ballot 204
65. Controversy on the Ballot 209
67. The Truck System [ 1] 212
69. The Labouring Agriculturists 216
70. The Truck System [2] 218
73. The Spirit of the Age, 1 227
74. French News [ l 0] 235
75. Conduct of the United States towards the Indian Tribes 235
76. French News [ 11] 237
77. The Spirit of the Age, II 238
78. France 246
79. French News [12] 247
80. The Quarterly Review on the Political Economists 248
82. The Spirit of the Age, III [Part 1] 252
84. The Municipal Institutions of France 259
86. The Budget 263
88. The Emigration Bill 270
90. The Parliamentary Reform Bill 276
94. Herschel's Preliminary Discourse 284
97. The Spirit of the Age, IV 289
98. The Prospects of France 295
99. Paragraph on France 301
100. French News [22] 301
101. Cavaignac's Defence 303
103. The Spirit of the Age, V [Part 1] 304
104. Mile Léontine Fay [1] 307
105. The Croix de Juillet 308
106. Mlle Léontine Fay [2] 310
108. Death of the Abbé Grégoire 317
109. Attack on Literature 318
110. Whately's Introductory Lectures on Political Economy 327
111. Reply of the Brighton Guardian to the Examiner 329
112. Flower's Musical Illustrations of the Waverley Novels 331
Contents of Volume XXIII: Newspaper Writings August 1831-October 1834↩
August 1831 to July 1832 335
114. State of Parties in France 336
115. The Peerage Question in France 341
118. The Sugar Refinery Bill and the Slave Trade 347
121. Dr. Whately's Elevation to an Archbishopric 356
138. The Irish Character 397
139. Employment of Children in Manufactories 398
141. Hickson's The New Charter 404
144. Todd's Book of Analysis 411
146. Female Emigrants 419
151. Smart's Outline of Sematology [ 1] 425
153. Smart's Outline of Sematology [2] 429
155. Flower's Songs of the Seasons 436
158. Comparison of the Tendencies of French and English Intellect 442
159. Lewis's Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Political Terms 447
162. The Close of the Session in France 453
163. Property in Land 459
166. Deaths of Casimir Périer and Georges Cuvier 462
168. Pemberton's Lectures on Shakespeare 464
170. Death of Jeremy Bentham 467
174. Pledges [1] 487
175. Lewin's The Fisherman of Flamborough Head 494
September 1832 to August 1833 507
179. Recommendations of Candidates to Parliament 507
184. The Corn Laws 522
186. French and English Journals 525
189. Death of Hyde Villiers 533
191. On the Necessity of Uniting the Question of Corn Laws with That of Tithes 534
193. Death of Charles Lameth 541
194. The President's Message 543
195. Necessity of Revising the Present System of Taxation 545
196. Errors and Truths on a Property Tax 549
197. Flower's Hymn of the Polish Exiles 554
198. The Monthly Repository for March 1833 555
200. The Monthly Repository for April 1833 561
201. Flower's Mignon's Song and When Thou Wert Here 562
202. The Budget 563
203. Confiscation Scheme of The Times 566
206. Beolchi's Saggio di poesie italiane 573
207. The Monthly Repository for June 1833 574
208. The Bank Charter Bill [1] 575
209. The Ministerial Measure Respecting the Bank 576
211. Municipal Institutions 585
213. The Quarterly Review on France 593
214. The Monthly Repository for September 1833 595
215. Note on Benefactors of Mankind 596
216. The Ministerial Manifesto 596
217. The Marvellous Ministry 608
218. The Review of the Session Continued 618
219. Lord Brougham's Law Reforms 622
220. The Corporation Bill 628
221. Conduct of the Ministry with Respect to the Poor Laws 634
222. Martineau's A Tale of the Tyne 638
223. Conduct of the Ministry with Respect to the Post-Office Department, and the Payment of Officers by Fees 643
224. Napier's The Colonies 647
225. The Monthly Repository for December 1833 651
228. War with Russia 658
229. The Monthly Repository for January 1834 659
231. Wilson's History of Rome 663
234. Fontana and Prati's St. Simonism in London 674
239. The Poor Law Report 685
240. The Poor Laws 686
243. Reply to Dr. Prati 689
244. State of Opinion in France 691
248. Flower's Songs of the Months [ 1] 702
252. Walter on the Poor Law Amendment Bill 707
253. The Poor Law Amendment Bill 713
254. Death of Lafayette 716
255. The English National Character 717
256. Sarah Austin's Translation of Cousin 727
259. The New Colony [1] 733
260. French News [100] 735
263. Wakefield's The New British Province of South Australia 738
264. French News [ 102] 743
265. The Poor Law Bill 743
267. Garnier's Deutsches Leben, Kunst, und Poesie [ 1] 746
270. Gamier's Deutsches Leben, Kunst, und Poesie [2] 748
271. New Australian Colony 749
Mill's MS list of his articles bound with his copy of the Examiner, 1833 xi
French News [78] Examiner, 5 May, 1833, p. 281 xii
Contents of Volume XXIV: Newspaper Writings January 1835-June 1847↩
Newspaper Writings: January 1835 to June 1846 753
272. Senior's On National Property [ 1] 753
273. Flower's Songs of the Months [2] 759
274. The Word "Destructive" 760
275. Senior's On National Property [2] 763
276. Bribery and Intimidation at Elections 767
277. The London Review on Municipal Corporation Reform 769
278. Senior's Preface to the Foreign Communications in the Poor Law Report 774
279. First Report of the Poor Law Commissioners 776
280. The House of Lords [ 1] 779
281. The House of Lords [2] 781
282. Grant's Arithmetic for Young Children and Exercises for the Improvement of the Senses 785
283. Wakefield's Popular Politics 787
284. The Sale of Colonial Land 791
285. Commercial Crisis in the United States of America 793
286. Nichol's Views of the Architecture of the Heavens 794
287. Molesworth's Address to the Electors of Leeds 797
288. Exception to the Objections to Nominal Punishments 801
289. Petition for Free Trade 803
290. Steding's The Election 806
291. Puseyism[1] 811
292. Puseyism [2] 815
293. Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain 822
294. Lord Ashburton's Treaty 830
295. Torrens's Letter to Sir Robert Peel 836
296. Lord Brougham and M. de Tocqueville 841
297. The Bank Charter Question [1] 844
300. The Bank CharterQuestion [4] 856
301. The Malt Tax 859
302. The Poor Rates as a Burden on Agriculture 862
303. The Acquittal of Captain Johnstone 865
304. Grote's History of Greece [ 1] 867
305. Dr. Ellis's Conviction 875
Newspaper Writings: October 1846 to June 1847 879
306. The Condition of Ireland [ 1] 879
307. The Case of Private Matthewson 882
308. The Condition of Ireland [2] 885
316. The Condition of Ireland [10] 910
318. The Suicide of Sarah Brown 916
320. Poulett Scrope on the Poor Laws 923
322. The Condition of Ireland [ 14] 930
327. The Appointment of Judges under the New Local Courts Act 945
329. The Case of William Burn 952
341, The Condition of Ireland [31] 991
344. The Condition of Ireland [34] 1001
350. The Case of the North Family 1020
355. The Quarterly Review on French Agriculture [ 1] 1035
356. The Quarterly Review on French Agriculture [2] 1040
359. The Irish Debates in the House of Commons 1058
360. Austin on Centralization 1062
361. The Proposed Irish Poor Law [1] 1066
363. The General Fast 1073
364. Emigration from Ireland 1075
365. "Sanitary" v. "Sanatory" 1078
366. The Opening of the Prussian Diet 1079
367. Enlightened Infidelity 1082
368. Grote's History of Greece [2] 1084
The Condition of Ireland 1 ix
Morning Chronicle, 5 October, 1846, p. 4
MS, Principles of Political Economy x
Appendix incorporating No. 356
Contents of Volume XXV: Newspaper Writings December 1847-July 1873↩
Newspaper Writings: December 1847 to July 1858 1089
369. Eugene Sue 1089
370. The Provisional Government in France 1091
371. George Sand 1094
372. England and Ireland 1095
373. The Reform Debate 1101
374. On Reform 1104
375. Electoral Districts 1107
376. French Affairs 1110
377. Landed Tenure in Ireland 1112
378. The French Law against the Press 1115
379. Bain's On the Applications of Science to Human Health and Well-Being 1118
382. The Attempt to Exclude Unbelievers from Parliament 1135
383. Corporal Punishment 1138
384. The Czar and the Hungarian Refugees in Turkey [1] 1141
386. M. Cabet 1144
387. Lechevalier's Declaration 1146
388. The Californian Constitution 1147
389. The Case of Mary Ann Parsons [1] 1151
390. The Case of Anne Bird 1153
393. The Case of Susan Moir 1167
394. Questionable Charity 1170
395. The Law of Assault 1172
396. Punishment of Children 1176
397. Constraints of Communism 1179
398. Stability of Society 1180
399. Religious Sceptics 1182
400. Wife Murder 1183
401. Street Organs 1187
402. The Rules of the Booksellers' Association [1] 1188
404. The India Bill, I 1189
405. The India Bill, II 1194
406. A Recent Magisterial Decision 1196
407. The Law of Lunacy 1198
Newspaper Writings: March 1863 to July 1873 1201
408. Poland 1201
409. The Civil War in the United States 1204
410. England and Europe 1205
411. On Hate's Plan 1208
412. The Westminster Election [11 1210
413. Romilly's Public Responsibility and the Ballot 1212
414. The Westminster Election [2] 1217
415. The Ballot 1218
416. Gladstone for Greenwich 1219
417. Bouverie versus Chadwick 1220
418. New England Woman's Suffrage Association 1220
419. The Case of William Smith 1221
420. The Education Bill 1222
421. The Treaty of 1856 [1] 1223
423. De Laveleye on the Eastern Question 1226
424. The Society of Arts 1226
425. Advice to Land Reformers 1227
426. Should Public Bodies Be Required to Sell Their Lands? 1232
427. The Right of Property in Land 1235
Appendix A. Cavaignac's Defence ( 1831) 1247
Appendix B. Lettre à Charles Duveyfier (1832) 1251
Appendix C. Enfantin's Farewell Address (1832) 1256
Appendix D. George Sand (1848) 1260
Appendix E. Death of Francis Place (1854) 1262
Appendix F. Textual Emendations 1266
Appendix G. Corrections to Mill's List of His Published Articles 1277
Appendix H. Signatures 1280
Appendix I. Newspapers for Which Mill Wrote 1282
Appendix J. Index of Persons and Works Cited, with Variants and Notes 1284
The Case of William Smith ix
Draft letter to the Daily News [late 1869 to early 1870]
Contents of Volume XXVI: Journals and Debating Speeches Part I↩
Introduction, by John M. Robson xi
Textual Introduction, by John M. Robson lvii
France, 1820-21
1. Journal and Notebook of a Year in France (May 1820 to July 1821) 3
2. Traité de Logique (1820-21 ) 145
I Considérations Générales 145
II Des Idées en Général 150
IIl Sources où Nous Puisons Nos ldées 152
IV Classification des Idées 159
V Des Notions Abstraites 161
VI De la Division 167
VII De la Définition 171
VIII Du Langage 179
IX De l'Origine des Idées 187
3. Lecture Notes on Logic (1820-21) 191
Debating Speeches, 1823-29
4. The Utility of Knowledge (1823) 257
5. Parliamentary Reform [1] (Aug. 1824) 261
7. Population: Proaemium (1825) 286
8. Population (1825) 287
9. Population: Reply to Thirlwall (1825) 296
10. Cooperation: First Speech (1825) 308
11. Cooperation: Intended Speech (1825) 308
12. Cooperation: Closing Speech (1825) 313
13. Cooperation: Notes (1825) 325
14. Influence of the Aristocracy (9 Dec., 1825) 326
15. Primogeniture (20 Jan., 1826) 335
16. Catiline's Conspiracy (28 Feb., 1826) 341
17. The Universities [ 1] (7 Apr., 1826) 348
18. The Universities [2] (7 Apr., 1826) 354
19. The British Constitution [1] (19 May?, 1826) 358
20. The British Constitution [2] (19 May, 1826) 371
21. The Influence of Lawyers (30 Mar., 1827?) 385
22. The Use of History (1827) 392
23. The Coalition Ministry (29 June, 1827) 397
24. The Present State of Literature (16 Nov., 1827) 409
25. The Church (15 Feb., 1828) 418
26. Perfectibility (2 May, 1828) 428
27. Wordsworth and Byron (30 Jan., 1829) 434
28. Montesquieu (3 Apr., 1829) 443
Sussex viii
Contents of Volume XXVII: Journals and Debating Speeches Part II↩
Walking Tours, 1827-32
29. Walking Tour of Sussex (20-30 July, 1827)
30. Walking Tour of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Surrey (3-15 July, 1828)
31. Walking Tour of Yorkshire and the Lake District (July-Aug. 1831)
32. Walking Tour of Hampshire, West Sussex, and the Isle of Wight (19 July-6 Aug., 1832)
33. Walking Tour of Cornwall (3-9 Oct., 1832)
Diary, 1854
34. Diary (8 Jan.-15 Apr., 1854)
Appendix A. The Manuscripts
Appendix B. Journal and Notebook: Ancillary Materials (1820-21 )
I) Plan of a Dialogue on Government
II) "Lieues de poste"
III) Translation of Cicero
IV) Letter from Lady Bentham to James Mill
V) Letters from Richard Doane
Appendix D. Index of Persons and Works Cited
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Surrey, p. 476
Contents of Volume XXVIII: Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I↩
November 1850 to July 1865
1. Secular Education (after 4 Nov., 1850?)
2. Cooperation (28 Mar., 1864)
3. Corruption at Elections (4 Apr., 1864)
4. Hare's Plan for the Metropolis ( 10 Apr., 1864)
5. The Westminster Election of 1865 [ I ] (3 July, 1865)
6. The Westminster Election of 1865 [2 ] (5 July, 1865)
7. The Westminster Election of 1865 [3 ] (6 July, 1865 )
9. The Westminster Election of 1865 [5 ] ( 10 July, 1865 )
10. The Westminster Election of 1865 [6] ( 10 July, 1865 )
11. The Westminster Election of 1865 [7 ] ( 12 July, 1865)
February to August 1866
12. The Cattle Diseases Bill [ 1] ( 14 Feb., 1866)
13. The Cattle Diseases Bill [2] ( 16 Feb., 1866)
14. Suspension of Habeas Corpus in Ireland (17 Feb., 1866)
15. Representation of the People [ 1] ( 12 Apr., 1866)
16. Representation of the People [2] (13 Apr., 1866)
17. Representation of the People [3] ( 16 Apr., 1866)
18. The Malt Duty ( 17 Apr., 1866)
19. Inclosure of Hainault Forest (25 Apr., 1866)
21. Chichester Fortescue's Land Bill ( 17 May, 1866)
22. Representation of the People [5] (31 May, 1866)
23. The Ministerial Crisis (23 June, 1866)
24. The Jamaica Committee (9 July, 1866)
25. Electoral Franchise for Women ( 17 July, 1866)
26. The Disturbances in Jamaica [ 1] ( 19 July, 1866)
27. The Reform Meeting in Hyde Park [ 1] ( 19 July, 1866)
28. W.E. Gladstone [1] (21 July, 1866)
29. The Reform Meeting in Hyde Park [2 ] (24 July, 1866 )
30. The Value of Land (25 July, 1866)
31. The Reform Meeting in Hyde Park [3] (26 July, 1866)
33. The Disturbances in Jamaica [2] (31 July, 1866 )
34. The Reform Meeting in Hyde Park [5] (2 Aug., 1866)
35. Public Health (2 Aug., 1866)
36. The Extradition Treaties Act [ 1] (3 Aug., 1866)
37. The Extradition Treaties Act [2] (4 Aug., 1866)
38. The Naval Dockyards (4 Aug., 1866)
40. The Disturbances in Jamaica [3] ( 10 Aug., 1866)
41. The Lord Chief Baron ( 10 Aug., 1866)
42. Political Progress (4 Feb., 1867 )
43. Goldwin Smith (4 Feb., 1867)
44. The Royal Commission on Trades' Unions ( 15 Feb., 1867)
45. The Metropolitan Poor Bill [ 1] (8 Mar., 1867)
46. The Straits Settlements (8 Mar., 1867 )
47. The Metropolitan Poor Bill [2] (8 Mar., 1867)
48. The Metropolitan Poor Bill [3] ( 11 Mar., 1867)
50. The Reform Bill [ 1] (8 Apr., 1867)
51. Trades Unions (10 Apr., 1867)
52. The Reform Bill [2] ( 11 Apr., 1867)
53. The Reform Bill [3] (9 May, 1867)
54. The Reform Bill [4] (17 May, 1867)
55. The Admission of Women to the Electoral Franchise (20 May, 1867)
56. The Municipal Corporations Bill (21 May, 1867 )
57. The Fenian Convicts (25 May. 1867)
58. Reform of Parliament (25 May, 1867 )
60. Personal Representation (30 May, 1867)
61. The Bankruptcy Acts Repeal Bill (4 June, 1867)
62. Petition Concerning the Fenians (14 June, 1867 )
63. The Sunday Lectures Bill ( 19 June, 1867 )
64. The Libel Bill (25 June, 1867 )
65. The Reform Bill [6] (27 June, 1867)
66. Redistribution (28 June, 1867 )
67. William Lloyd Garrison (29 June, 1867 )
68. Martial Law (2 July, 1867 )
69. The Reform Bill [7] (4 July, 1867)
70. Tancred's Charity Bill (4 July, 1867 )
72. The Case of Fulford and Wellstead (5 July, 1867 )
73. The Reform Bill [9] ( 15 July, 1867)
74. Commodore Wiseman and the Turkish Navy [ 1 ] ( 16 July, 1867)
75. Commodore Wiseman and the Turkish Navy [ 2 ] (22 July, 1867)
76. Meetings in Royal Parks [ 1] (22 July, 1867 )
77. Public Education ( 29 July, 1867 )
78. The Courts-Martial in Jamaica ( 1 Aug., 1867 )
79. Meeting in the Tea-Room of the House of Commons (2 Aug., 1867)
80. England's Danger through the Suppression of Her Maritime Power (5 Aug., 1867)
81. The Extradition Treaties Act [4 ] (6 Aug., 1867)
82. The Metropolitan Government Bill (7 Aug., 1867)
83. The Reform Bill [ 10] (8 Aug., 1867)
84. East India Revenue ( 12 Aug., 1867 )
85. Meetings in Royal Parks [2 ] ( 13 Aug., 1867 )
February to November 1868
86. Proportional Representation and Redistribution (29 Feb., 1868)
87. The Alabama Claims (6 Mar., 1868 )
88. The State of Ireland ( 12 Mar., 1868)
89. Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [ 1] (26 Mar., 1868 )
90. Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [2 ] (2 Apr., 1868 )
91. Procedure in the House: Amendments (21 Apr., 1868)
92. Capital Punishment (21 Apr., 1868)
93. The Municipal Corporations (Metropolis) Bill [ 1] (5 May, 1868)
94. The Established Church in Ireland (7 May, 1868)
95. Local Charges on Real Property (12 May, 1868)
96. Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [ 3] (21 May, 1868)
97. Representation of the People (Scotland) [ 1 ] ( 28 May, 1868 )
98. Representation of the People (Scotland) [2] (8 June, 1868)
99. Married Women's Property ( 10 June, 1868)
100. Registration of Publications ( 12 June, 1868 )
101. Representation of the People (Ireland) ( 15 June, 1868 )
102. The Government of India Bill [ 1] ( 15 June, 1868)
103. Lodger Registration ( 15 June, 1868)
104. Public Schools [ 1] ( 16 June, 1868)
105. The Municipal Corporations (Metropolis) Bill [2] ( 17 June, 1868)
106. The Government of India Bill [2] (22 June, 1868 )
107. Public Schools [2 ] (23 June, 1868 )
108. The Sea-Fisheries (Ireland) Bill (24 June, 1868 )
109. Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill [4] ( 25 June, 1868)
110. The Municipal Corporations (Metropolis) Bill [3 ] (30 June, 1868)
111. Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [5 ] (6 July, 1868)
112. Public Schools [3] (7 July, 1868)
113. Supply--Post Office (7 July, 1868)
114. The Government of India Bill [3] (8 July, 1868)
115. Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [6 ] ( 10 July, 1868)
117. The Fenian Prisoners [ 1] ( 16 July, 1868)
I 18. Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [8 ] ( 17 July, 1868)
119. Poor Relief [ 1] ( 17 July, 1868)
120. Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [9 ] (18 July, 1868)
121. Imprisonment for Costs on a Dismissed Charge [ 1] (21 July, 1868)
122. The Fenian Prisoners [2] (21 July, 1868)
123. Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections [ 10] (22 July, 1868)
124. The Westminster Election of 1868 [ 1] (22 July, 1868)
127. Smoking in Railway Carriages [ 1 ] (24 July, 1868)
128. The Westminster Election of 1868 [2 ] (24 July, 1868 )
129. The Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Market (25 July, 1868 )
130. Smoking in Railway Carriages [2] (25 July, 1868)
131. Imprisonment for Costs on a Dismissed Charge [2 ] (27 July, 1868)
132. Poor Relief [2] (27 July, 1868)
133. The Westminster Election of 1868 [3 ] (2 Nov., 1868)
134. The Westminster Election of 1868 [4] (4 Nov., 1868)
135. The Westminster Election of 1868 [5 ] (6 Nov., 1868 )
137. Fawcett for Brighton ( 10 Nov., 1868 )
138. The Westminster Election of 1868 [7] ( 11 Nov., 1868)
140. W.E. Gladstone [2] (14 Nov., 1868)
142. The Westminster Election of 1868 [ 10] ( 18 Nov., 1868 )
"Westminster Election: The Nomination in Covent-Garden" Illustrated London News, 22 July, 1865, p. 56, XXVIII, xi
"Nomination of Candidates for Westminster at the Hustings, Charing Cross" Illustrated London News, 21 November, 1868, p. 485, facing 370
Contents of Volume XXIX: Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part II↩
Public and Parliamentary Speeches: July 1869-March 1873
143. The Cobden Club ( 10 July, 1869)
144. Women's Suffrage [ 1 ] ( 18 July 1869)
145. The Education Bill (25 Mar., 1870)
146. Women's Suffrage [2] (26 Mar., 1870)
147. The Elementary Education Bill (4 Apr., 1870)
148. Election to School Boards [ 1 ] (22 Oct., 1870)
149. Election to School Boards [2] (9 Nov., 1870)
150. Women's Suffrage [3] (12 Jan., 1871 )
151. The Cumulative Vote ( 13 Feb., 1871 )
152. Discussion of the Contagious Diseases Acts (23 Feb., 1871)
153. The Army Bill (10 Mar., 1871)
154. Land Tenure Reform [ 1] ( 15 May, 1871 )
155. Land Tenure Reform [2] ( 18 Mar., 1873)
Appendix B. Questions before Committees of the House of Commons
l) Select Committee on Metropolitan Local Government (1866)
II) Select Committee on Extradition ( 1868 )
Appendix C. Petitions in the House of Commons (1866-68)
Appendix D. Manuscript Drafts of Speeches
I) No. 6(1865)
II) No. 16(1866)
III) No. 144 (1869)
IV) No. 145 (1870)
Appendix E. Missing Speeches
Appendix F. War and Peace, by Helen Taylor ( 1871 )
Appendix G. Textual Emendations
Appendix H. Index of Persons and Works Cited
"Miss Mill Joins the Ladies" Judy, 25 November, 1868, pp. 46-7, XXIX, vii
"Poor Ireland!" Fun, 28 March, 1868, facing p. 28, 432
Contents of Volume XXX: Writings on India↩
Introduction, by Martin Moir
Writings On India
Trade with India (1828)
Minute on the Black Act (1836)
Penal Code for India (1838)
The East India Company's Charter (1852)
The Petition of the East-India Company (1858)
Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the Last Thirty Years (1858)
Report to the General Court of Proprietors (1858)
A Constitutional View of the India Question (1858)
Observations on the Proposed Council of India (1858)
Practical Observations on the First Two of the Proposed Resolutions on the Government of India (1858)
The Moral of the India Debate (1858)
A President in Council the Best Government for India (1858)
Letter from the East India Company to the President of the Board of Control (1858)
Maine on Village Communities (1871)
Appendix A. Check List of Mill's Indian Despatches (1823-58)
Appendix B. List of Published Extracts from Mill's Indian Despatches
Appendix C. Editorial Emendations
Appendix D. Index of Persons and Works
Contents of Volume XXXI: Miscellaneous Writings↩
Introduction, by John M. Robson
Editions of Jeremy Bentham and James Mill, 1827 and 1869
Jeremy Bentham's Rationale of Judicial Evidence (1827)
James Mill's Analyszs of the Phenomena of the Human Mind ( 1869)
Botanical Writings, 1840-61
Calendar of Odours (1840)
Rare Plants in West Surrey ( 1841)
Isatls Tinctoria 11841 )
Notes on Plants Growing in the Neighbourhood of Guildford, Surrey ( 1841 )
Cnicus Forsteri ( 1841)
Additional Guildford Stations ( 1841 )
Polygonum Dumetorum ( 1841 )
Rarer Plants of the Isle of Wight (1841 )
Corrections and Additions in Mr. Mill's List of Plants in the Isle of Wight (1842)
The Phytologist; a Botanical Magazine (1843)
Notes on the Species of Oenanthe ( 1845 )
Correction of an Error in the "Notes on the Species of Oenanthe'" (1845)
Observations on Isatis Tinctoria and Other Plants (1856)
Plants Growing Wild in the District of Luxford's Reigate Flora (1856)
Note on West Surrey Plants (1856)
Reigate Plants (1856)
Plants Growing on and near Blackheath (1857)
Late (Early?) Flowering Plants (1858)
Hutchinsia Petraea (1858)
Leucojum Aestivum ( 1858 )
Clifton Plants (1858)
Plants on Sherborn Sands, Blackheath, and Other Stations _1858)
Some Derbyshlre Plants I 1858)
Linaria Purpurea ( 1858 )
Faversham Plants ( 1858 )
Lepidium Ruderale (1859)
Wallflower Growing on the Living Rock (1860)
Spring Flowers of the South of Europe (1860)
Botany of Spain (1861-62)
Verbascum Thapsiforme (1862)
Medical Reviews, 1834 and 1842
Dr. King's Lecture on Anatomy (1834)
Carpenter's Physiology ( 1842 )
Appendix A. Wills and Deed of Gift ( 1853-72 )
Appendix B. The Vixen, and Circassia (1837)
Appendix C. The Spanish Question (1837)
Appendix D. Questions before the Select Committee on Metropolitan Local Government (1867)
Appendix E. Mill at the Political Economy Club
Appendix G. Index of Persons and Works
Contents of Volume XXXII: Additional Letters of John Stuart Mill↩
Introduction, by Marion Filipiuk
Additional Earlier Letters: 1824 to 1848
Additional Later Letters: 1849 to 1873
Undated Letters
Appendix A. Letters to Theodor Gomperz: Variant Readings
Appendix B. List of Form Letters at the India Office Library and Records
Appendix C. Additions and Corrections to the Check List of Mill's Indian Despatches in Volume XXX
Appendix D. List of Letters to Mill
Appendix E. Index of Correspondents
Appendix F. Index of Persons and Works Cited, with Variants and Notes
Contents of Volume XXXIII: Indexes to the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill ↩
[not available online]
Introduction, by Jean O' Grady
Alphabetical List of Titles in the Collected Works
Chronological List of Mill's Writings in the Collected Works
Index of Persons and Works
Mill, J.S.
A Guide to JS Mill Online
Ashley’s Introduction to Mill’s Principles of Political Economy
Hayek on Mill’s early letters: Collected Works vol. XII
Mill and Liberty as the Cardinal Moral Virtue
Mill and Taylor
Mill and Taylor on Women
Mill on England, Ireland, Empire: Collected Works vol. VI
Mill on Equality, Law, Education: Collected Works vol. XXI
Mill on Ethics & Religion: Collected Works vol. X
Mill on French History: Collected Works vol. XX
Mill on Hamilton’s Philosophy: Collected Works vol. IX
Mill on India: Collected Works vol. XXX
Mill on Philosophy & Classics: Collected Works vol. XI
Mill on Political Economy: Collected Works vol. II
Mill on Politics & Society: Collected Works vol. XVIII
Mill’s Additional Letters: Collected Works vol. XXXII
Mill’s Autobiography, Literary Essays: Collected Works vol. I
Mill’s Essays on Economics: Collected Works vol. IV
Mill’s Journals & Debating Speeches: Collected Works vol. XXVIII
Mill’s Later Letters: Collected Works vol. XIV
Mill’s Newspaper Articles: Collected Works vol. XXII
Mill’s Parliamentary Speeches: Collected Works vol. XXVIII
Mill’s System of Logic: Selected Works vol. VII
Mill’s The Spirit of the Age (1831)
Mill’s Utilitarianism: Collected Works vol. X
Mill: A Bibliographical Essay by John Gray
Stephen’s Critique of Mill’s Idea of Liberty
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Thai dance Songkran festival Hyde Park Perth Australia
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Thai dance Songkran festival Hyde Park Perth Australia 2018
Thai food and family fun to Celebrate Thai New Year Enjoy this free event at Hyde Park on Sunday, April 8th for Songkran, the Thai New Year festival. The festival will celebrate Thai food and culture and the wonderful relationship between the Thai and Australian communities.
The Thai New Year celebrations involve a mix of food, dance and song. At Hyde Park, the stage will come alive with the beautiful and entrancing Thai cultural music and choreography from the four regions of Thailand.
Hyde Park is an iconic Perth landmark situated between Vincent and William Streets, easy to access by public transport or by car with parking around the venue. Tourists to Perth would enjoy the relaxing gardens and the delicious array of authentic, fresh and very inexpensive meals, all with the backdrop of traditional entertainment
Songkran means the shift of the sun from one side of the zodiac to the other. The holiday is celebrated when the sun moves from Pisces to Aries, beginning a new astrological year. The origins of Thai New Year combine Buddhist beliefs, ancient astrology, and the solar calendar. Songkran is also known as the Water Festival. New Year in Thailand is greeted with a splash of scented water to wish someone a happy new year. It is believed that water help to cleanse and to wash away unhappiness from the previous year.
Thai dance Songkran festival Hyde Park Perth Australia 2018. – Event date: 8th of April 2018
Traditional Thai dance
Beautiful dance choreography of Thai traditional dance is a combination of graceful body movements in addition to elaborate costumes and music there are a total of six different forms of Thai dance: the khon, li-khe, ram wong, shadow puppetry, lakhon lek, and lakhon. One of the most distinctive aspects of this Thai art form is the costumes worn by the performers. Though the quality of the designs has gradually declined since its beginnings some centuries ago, the outfits still remain stunning and elaborate. Gold and silver sequins are used, and even unusual adornments such as beetle wings have been used in their creation.
Ram wong, meaning to dance in a circle, is one of the most popular forms of Thai dance. It is a Thai folk dance, and as the name suggests, men and women come together in pairs and dance in a circle. Movements are slow and graceful, and this is one of the most social forms of dance out of the six.
Unlike the Kohn style of Thai dance, Lakhon performers are mostly women. Instead of having individual roles in a performance, the women work together and perform as a group. Many stories are told through these performances through acting, song, and of course, dance. The costumes and stage settings are usually much more lavish in lakhon than in some of the other forms of Thai dance. The lower half of the body does not move as much as the top, with graceful and lively hand movements throughout a performance.
The Songkran Festival
Songkran is a period when the Thai people cleanse and pour water mixed with Thai fragrance on Buddha images. The festival also showcases a bathing ritual where the people pour water on the senior Buddhist monks. This process is believed to bring good luck to them. After that, the chief monk will give a sermon and bless those who attend this bathing ritual.
The Songkran Festival is a period when Thai people splash water on themselves, which they believe will cause plenty of rainfall in the coming year. Water is used to cleanse themselves of those bad things and also a symbol of fertility.
In some areas in Thailand, Buddha images are paraded from one street to the other, allowing Thai people to shower them with water. The young people pay gratitude and also show a sign of respect to elders in a sacred ritual, which involves pouring down scented water on their hands and also giving them new clothes. This water festival in Thailand involves merrymaking, presenting offerings to monks, releasing birds and fishes into the river, paying respect to elders, building sand pagodas, listening to sermons and, more importantly, splashing of water. This is believed to bring longevity, good health and prosperity.
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Mongolia 2000
During 2000 Mongolia was hit by a severe drought. The north west of the country which relies mainly on livestock hearding was particularly hard hit so Mission East supported the people there with both a food distribution for the most vulnerable along with programs to help the animals get through the winter. This is a large selection of photos both of background to the country and of our work there.
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Bob and Maggie Greenberg Memorial Fund
By Progressive Democrats of America
On Sunday, April 9, 2017, in Albuquerque, NM, PDA’s dear friend Maggie Greenberg was remembered at her memorial service. Maggie died last month just a few days after we had all been together at PDA’s leadership summit in Las Vegas, NM. As she always had been, Maggie was strong and loving during our summit, and she will be missed so very much. Maggie’s husband, Bob, passed away not too long ago, and the loss of these two courageously compassionate people is significant for us all. If you were not lucky enough to know Maggie and Bob, Maggie’s obituary includes many details about her incredible life and is available here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/abqjournal/obituary.aspx?pid=184799346
Shortly after Maggie died, PDA asked her family if it would be a fitting remembrance to create a Maggie and Bob Greenberg Memorial Fund. We are pleased that they approved. If you choose to donate to this fund, please know that PDA intends to use those funds to support travel and expenses for activism work done by those who could otherwise not afford to do so. Often, PDA has helped fundraise for individual chapter leaders and other leaders to attend political gatherings/trainings/actions and also to register for conferences that bolster our efforts. This fund will help avoid any embarrassment activists might feel about the need to raise money to help fulfill our mission — to elect strong progressive leaders to Congress. And, who knows? Perhaps among those who benefit from this fund and the lasting legacy of Bob and Maggie Greenberg will be a future progressive leader or even a future Congressional member.
If you were blessed enough to know Maggie and Bob Greenberg, you will join us in not only mourning Maggie’s passing but also in celebrating how much they both meant to their New Mexico friends and to all of us in PDA. May we always work in support of those ideals and values that brought Maggie and Bob into our fold. Rest in beautiful peace, dear friends, rest in beautiful peace.
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Alamo CEO applying armtwisting pressure to secure gated plaza
Posted on August 30, 2018 by postcardsfromsanantonio
Alamo CEO Doug McDonald said the City Council must approve the lease with the Land Office before the state will hire a museum designer.
“A major turning point for the Alamo Plaza redesign comes Thursday night,” Scott Huddleston, Express-News, August 29, 2018
So now, Alamo management is trying to blackmail the San Antonio City Council into turning over its public park. The disposition of Alamo Plaza should have little to do with the awarding of the museum design contract. There has been no talk of its construction within that “sacred” space.
What does affect the architectural design project is whether it is build-from-scratch or adaptive-reuse. The Alamo did not release the request for qualifications for an architectural historian to assess the significance of the three buildings on the west side of the plaza until a week ago. The RFQ claims earlier assessments are out of date. No mention is made of their potential candidacy for adaptive-reuse. It is a thinly veiled request for a study slanted toward finding excuses to demolish the historic landmarks.
Rather than letting the Texas General Land Office hold the museum hostage in exchange for San Antonio’s public park, the City of San Antonio should withhold any lease on the land without agreement from the State of Texas to respect our designated landmarks.
And then there is the issue of fencing in Alamo Plaza, funneling everyone through one non-historical access point conveniently located by the museum entrance to encourage the purchase of admission tickets and rental of audio guides for the Alamo and its plaza. To try to soften this closure, the barriers restricting public access are now called a “combination of architectural elements” by District 1 Council Representative Roberto Trevino.
Trevino’s justification for restricting access to one point during “special events,” according to a report by Paula Schuler on San Antonio Heron, is “having three access points open at all times could be costly.” We are unsure why unlocking a gate to the public is so costly, but we do know erecting no fences, aka “architectural elements,” is free.
And, while Trevino earlier signed his name to an op-ed saying barriers would only be used during “special events,” he has redefined that phrase. He is quoted on San Antonio Heron:
What we wrote was that the site needed to be maintained as a civic space aside from special or schedule events. And so that, I think, is addressed by what we’re telling you: The museum hours are special scheduled and special events. Non-museum hours, it’s open.
Wait, the Alamo is open seven days a week. So, in the Mr. Rogers’ spirit, Trevino is proclaiming everyday is “special.” How special.
The time for public input is limited. The Alamo Citizens Advisory Committee (advice often ignored) is expected to vote on the plan tonight, with no opinions from the peanut gallery permitted.
According to Huddleston, the procedure that will follow is:
If approved then, the plan will next be considered by a six-member Alamo Management Committee and a two-member Alamo Executive Committee composed of Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush.
It will be reviewed at open meetings of the city’s Historic and Design Review Commission, Planning Commission and the City Council. Review by the council could happen in mid-October.
Some elements of the plan, including relocation of the 1930s Alamo Cenotaph and demolition or significant alterations to three historic state-owned commercial buildings on the west side of Alamo Plaza, also would require approval of an antiquities permit by a 10-member Antiquities Board of the Texas Historical Commission and the full 15-member commission.
The monument and buildings are in the national Alamo Plaza Historic District created in 1977. Meetings of the board and full commission are open and include citizen input.
For the plan to be carried out, the state Land Office will become the manager of Alamo Plaza.
Alamo CEO Doug McDonald said the City Council must approve the lease with the Land Office before the state will hire a museum designer. The nonprofit Alamo Endowment can then begin active fund-raising for the plan. But McDonald said the project is on a challenging timeline for completion by 2024.
We trust the City Council will refuse to be bullied into ceding public parkland without adequate protections and reversionary clauses.
Just in case, though, please take every opportunity to protest the closing of Alamo Plaza and be on standby to place your bodies between the wrecking ball and the Crockett Block.
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Kandy Davis August 31, 20181:07 am Reply
Thank you for this most informative and interesting article. The entire “Reimagine the Alamo” plan is a huge disgrace to the memory of our brave defenders. Wake up citizens of Texas. Join the fight to save our History.
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Telefomin hospital nearly ready to serve people
The people of Telefomin will soon have a district hospital that will address the health needs of this remote community, Health Secretary Pascoe Kase said.
BY JEFFREY ELAPA
Speaking at the second graduation of the Telefomin community health workers, last Friday, Mr Kase said he was impressed with the development of the Telefomin district hospital that meets the standards to be fully fledged level-four district hospital.
‘‘A tour of the hospital last Friday indicated that the hospital is 98 per cent complete with the minor touches to be made to the main outpatient ward,’’ Mr Kase said.
‘‘The next phase will be for the standard assessment team to do their assessment if it meets the specific standard.’’
However, a visit around the facility indicated that the level of construction meets the specification and standard.
“The Telefomin district hospital needs minor works to be done to the main outpatient ward before it is opened to the people,” he said.
“It is 98 per cent complete and as the Health Secretary, I’m happy to witness the level of support by the MPs to the health sector in his district.”
He said it is difficult to deliver services in places like Telefomin, meaning that the cost of service delivery and in particular the health sector services is very difficult but changes can take place when the political will is there.
He also commended the West Sepik Provincial Health Authority and the Baptist Union of PNG for the partnership in delivering health services to the area that needed most like West Sepik and in particular Telefomin.
He encouraged the church partners in social development in the country and made a special mention to the churches who are partner in health serve delivery.
Local MP Solan Mirisim thanked the National Government for the funding for the hospital, Ok Tedi Mining for all the material and support, ExxonMobil for the commitment for financial assistance, the Baptist Union, the Health Department, the Sandaun PHA and provincial administration for the support to the hospital.
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Structure-function studies of epoxide hydrolases
Naworyta, Agata (2010). Structure-function studies of epoxide hydrolases. Diss. (sammanfattning/summary) Uppsala : Sveriges lantbruksuniv., Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae, 1652-6880 ; 2010:5
Epoxides are three-membered cyclic ethers formed in cells via several metabolic pathways. Epoxide hydrolases (EHs) are enzymes that hydrolyse epoxides to the corresponding diols. The main goal of this thesis was to investigate the structures of EHs from the alpha/beta-hydrolase family. The first part concerns the structural and functional analysis of a protein-water channel found in EHs in many plants. Thermostability studies, sequence analysis and determination of the x-ray structure of a mutated EH enzyme from Solanum tuberosum led to the conclusions that the water channel in plants participates in stabilization of the protein structure and furthermore, it forms an efficient system to enable transfer of protons that are required for enzymatic catalysis. The second part describes how computational methods together with structural and kinetic information identified factors that are responsible for the enhanced enantioselectivity of an improved variant of EH from Aspergillus niger obtained during a directed evolution process. The x-ray structure of the mutant showed that dramatic changes in the active site explain why the preferred (S)-substrate binds more easily in the active site than the disfavored (R)-enantiomer. The study underscores the importance of obtaining structural data when attempting to understand the results of directed evolution. The last part presents the structures of two novel microbial EHs that have been shown to produce chemically valuable 1,2-diols and exhibit high enantioselectivity. Their similarity to the mammalian microsomal EH, a key enzyme in detoxification, provided new information about its possible structure. The improved sequence alignment based on the structural work gives new insights on the connections between sequences/structures and the broad scope of selectivities among EHs.
Naworyta, Agata
ALL I. Thomaeus A., Naworyta A., Mowbray S.L., Widersten M. (2008). Removal of distal protein-water hydrogen bonds in a plant epoxide hydrolase increases catalytic turnover but decreases thermostability. Protein Science 17(7), 1275-84. II. Reetz M.T., Bocola M., Wang L.W., Sanchis J., Cronin A., Arand M., Zou J., Archelas A., Bottalla A.L., Naworyta A., Mowbray S.L. (2009). Directed evolution of an enantioselective epoxide hydrolase: uncovering the source of enantioselectivity at each evolutionary stage. J Am Chem Soc. 131(21), 7334-43. III. Naworyta A., Zhao L., Weiner D.P., Mowbray S.L. Structures of two novel microbial epoxide hydrolases showing high and broad enantioselectivity. (manuscript)
epoxy compounds, hydrolases, enzymatic hydrolysis, chemical structure, crystallization, computer applications, solanum tuberosum
chirality, crystallography, diols, enantioselectivity, enzyme, epoxide, epoxide hydrolases, regioselectivity, substrate specificity, X-ray structure
(NL, NJ) > Dept. of Molecular Biology (until 131231)
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Tournament Won Winners
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1946/1947 1963/1964 1965/1966 1972/1973
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League North Second Championship’ 1 1942/1943
Liverpool & District First Division Winners’ 1 1892/1893
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Central League First Division Winners’ 16 1956/1957 1968/1969 1969/1970 1970/1971
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Premier Reserve League First Division Winners’ 2 1999/2000 2007/2008
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FA Cup Winners’ 7 1964/1965 1973/1974 1985/1986 1988/1989
Football League Cup Winners’ 8 1980/1981 1981/1982 1982/1983 1983/1984
The Super Cup Winners’ 1 1985/1986
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UEFA Cup Winners’ 3 1972/1973 1975/1976 2000/2001
European Super Cup Winners’ 3 1977 2001 2005
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FA Women’s Super League Winners’ 2 2013 2014
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Preston Cup Winners’ 1 2010
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iOS activations have reached highest numbers in Q1 since 2016
We have data that shows us how much iOS has grown in the first quarter of 2020 in activations when compared to past years
Published 11 April 2020, 01:01 EDT
Activations,
CIRP,
According to a new analyst report that focuses on the US smartphone activations in the Q1 of 2020, most users went for Android devices. However, iOS activations have reached their highest numbers since the Q1 of 2016.
CIRP has presented data from the first quarter of 2020 that represents Android and iOS market share in the United States. iOS held 44 percent of the market, while Android took the remaining 56 percent. When we compare these numbers to past years, we see that iOS say an 8 percent increase in its numbers. We can also see that iOS has been growing since Q1 2018 when they were measured a 32 percent of market share.
CIRP’s data also shoes that OS loyalty is very high at around 90 percent for both Android and iOS, meaning that there are very few customers that choose to switch from iOS to Android or the other way around.
Source 9to5Mac
Via CIRP
A former bilingual teacher that left the classrooms to join the team of Pocketnow as a news editor and content creator for the Spanish audience. An artist by nature who enjoys video games, guitars, action figures, cooking, painting, drawing and good music.
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Drew Scott Swenhaugen on Gramma
Tell me about the creation of Gramma. When and how and why was it conceived?
Gramma was created over a conversation in June of 2017 between William (Bill) True (Gramma's Publisher) and myself, Drew Scott Swenhaugen (Gramma's Managing Editor). Bill has been an arts advocate and art collector in Seattle for many years. Under the William and Ruth True foundation, Bill founded Western Bridge, a contemporary arts space that ran from 2004 to 2012. Bill is a poetry lover as well, and when he had found out my publishing history with Poor Claudia and Octopus Books (of Portland), we began scheming on starting a press together. Gramma seems to be a natural evolution from Bill's Western Bridge and my work with Poor Claudia and Octopus Books. We both felt that there was room for a new press in Seattle, and brainstormed ways that Gramma could contribute to the literary world in general. The big goal for Gramma is to facilitate a daily content series (Daily Gramma) as well as a full-length book series (Gramma Books, coming in 2017). I pitched him a plan and budget, and we decided to roll with it. I moved to Seattle in August and began building the foundations of the press.
It was important to both Bill and me that the press be an inclusive space, both in terms of content and editorial decision making; I asked colleagues and fellow poets to see if there was any interest to begin an editorial board. There are ten of us. That number may grow.
What makes Gramma different from other places to read poetry (and literature) on the internet?
We loved the idea of having a daily (Monday through Friday at least) content site in order to make Gramma a constant destination for readers. As daunting as managing a daily series is, we editors love the task of searching for new work constantly. It makes us better readers, better writers, and better people. As editors, we pride ourselves in the task of finding poetics in many disciplines. We want all types of work—traditional poems, essays, audio, visual, video, translations, non-traditional translations, you name it—anything we can design for the website, we are willing to publish. We want to challenge the definition of poetry and to break down boundaries within the publishing world. That doesn't happen overnight. Having a daily content series allows us to keep chipping away at these boundaries, and to provide a constant array of new voices.
Each editor holds a large amount of autonomy with that they/she/he decide to accept for publication. There is no '"final vote." Ten different editorial viewpoints makes for a really great medium for different types of poetics.
What is something that you have recently published that really excited you, and why?
"Election Day," a collaborative poem written by 26 different artists that acts as a protest poem against the deplorable, unbelievable language that came from the mouth of the president-elect. This poem will be printed in book form soon, where all proceeds will go to a number of organizations, including a large ACLU event held in NYC later in December. The "Election Day" poem will hopefully be a jumping off point for poets who want to collaborate on a large scale. Expect an "Inauguration Day" poem soon ...
'THERE ARE NO BIRDS IN THE NESTS OF YESTERDAY," an interview with filmmaker Roland Dahwen Wu—a nonfiction film by Roland Dahwen Wu that documents el silbo gomero, the whistling language of the Canary Islands. The documentary focuses on Lino, one of the master whistlers on the island of La Gomera, who recounts his youth growing up as a whistler, teaching children to whistle, and the loss of this unique language.
What should someone submitting work to Gramma know about the site?
Anything goes! Send us your most experimental work. We want new voices! For those who have never sent out work or have a hard time finding the confidence to send out—we want you! We want unrepresented voices.
What other literary sites and journals, online or print, are your go-to?
So many! Public Pool, The Offing, Pinwheel, Fence, Lana Turner, Reality Beach, THE DESTROYER, jubilat, SUSAN, Poor Claudia, Big Big Wednesday, Cold Cube, The Fem, etc etc etc
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I began curating poetry for Hyperallergic last year, the summer of 2016, taking over for former editor Joe Pan. The magazine was already a daily read for me, so I was excited when Joe asked me to step in—he's developing a place for fiction in the series, which excites me too. I publish original poetry and poetry-in-translation bi-monthly, each time paired with visual art that is selected in collaboration with Associate Editor Elisa Wouk Almino.
Michelle Tudor on wildness
When we were starting Platypus Press we realized we also had a desire to build something more accessible, something that a broader audience would be able to experience. This was around August 2015 and we released our first issue in the December.
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Melanie Monnich: new dance gym teacher, Orchesis coach, and assistant Dance Team coach
By Marissa Provenzale, Staff Writer
It was the last night of a sold-out show. Melanie Monnich’s family sat lost in the sea of people, while she gracefully whirled about the stage as her black unitard swayed and stretched with her fluid movements. She unzipped part of her costume to reveal a colorful layer of fabric underneath, and gradually the seam started to unravel. Higher, higher, and higher the rip traveled up the leg stitching.
“Don’t stop dancing,” she recalls telling herself, as part of her pants was hanging off of her body. At least Monnich can say her last college performance was a memorable one.
Not only is Monnich an Illinois State alumni with an interesting college story to tell, but she is also now the newest teacher to Prospect’s dance program.
Monnich has been dancing for seemingly forever. Like most, her mom had signed her up as a toddler and as she grew she fell in love with the art form.
However, unlike most, she did not find her passion for dance in the studio, as her ballet teachers were consistently looking for potential professional dancers, which she did not have the body type for. It was only when her parents signed her up for a musical theater class that her teacher Pat Doyal commented on her passion and ability for dancing.
“My musical theater teacher was like you have potential to be something, where my other ballet teachers as I got older were not as supportive,” Monnich said. “Once I got that one comment it made me work that much harder, so then I was able to improve in all the areas of dance.”
When Monnich got to high school, she joined the Rolling Meadows orchesis team her sophomore year. Once again, an instructor recognized her special abilities; this instructor was Regina Good. Knowing Monnich had a passion and a talent for dance, Good suggested that Monnich would enjoy majoring in dance education. This push was all Monnich needed to realize that she was destined to take her love for the art and turn it into a career.
“I was so drawn in, and totally bought into it,” Monnich said. “I was like oh my gosh I have to do this.”
However, majoring in dance education was not the only thing Monnich discovered about herself while in high school. During her senior year after getting her gallbladder removed, she found out that she also has Celiac disease, which caused her to go gluten free permanently.
Monnich recounts senior year as being “a rough year” overall because of the health issues she was going through. However, Monnich describes making the transition to a wheatless lifestyle as very easy with the support of her family. Every day, she would simply drive home for lunch instead of going out with her friends.
Soon after her senior year, Monnich headed off to college at Illinois State University. It was there where Monnich self-diagnosed a dairy allergy, further limiting her dietary restrictions. She recounts eating gluten and dairy free to be harder in college, especially since the campus had no specialized options limiting her to chicken and veggies almost every day.
While this lifestyle does not sound appealing to the average college student, it made sense for Monnich not only because of her allergy, but as a dancer too. She began to notice her dancing improve as she became stronger with more muscle and less fat. Her unique diet ultimately gave her a leg up when it came to auditioning for Illinois State’s dance company each year.
Monnich graduated from Illinois State University in May of 2017 with a major in dance education and a minor in physical education. After graduation, before making her way to Prospect, she worked as an orchesis assistant and a teacher for Rolling Meadows High School and as an instructor at North Shore School of Dance in Highland Park.
At the end of last February, she heard that there would be a dance teacher position opening up at Rolling Meadows and Prospect. Monnich’s dance teaching degree is very specialized, meaning jobs like these were hard to come by, and she knew that she wanted to teach in District 214, so she applied for both jobs hoping her dream would come true. Monnich got the job at Prospect, and soon followed in the famed Kristin Burton’s– the previous face of Prospect’s dance program– footsteps.
Early on Monnich had to decide if the culture of her class would be more disciplined like Burton’s class, or more like of her past instructor’s curriculum.
“I think she left such a fantastic legacy here,” Monnich said referring to Burton. “I’m just trying to make sure that I make her proud and keep her legacy going, and make my own.”
Good was ultimately her biggest influence when it came down to designing the culture of her dance class. Monnich makes it her priority to create a “super positive excited energy” that suits all skill levels and gets everyone involved.
“I definitely feel like it is a little bit more universal,” Caroline Sandberg, a Dance 2 student, said.
Monnich is “a big fan of working out,” which definitely shines through in her classes. Every day, she starts her dance classes with an upbeat workout. Her goal is to share her passion for fitness and prepare kids for when they go to the gym on their own. Then, the workout is followed by a “confidence walk,” where teens strut across the dance floor to pop music. Her goal is to get kids out of their shell, while also creating an environment they feel comfortable in.
“It is not like she is the adult and I am the student,” Julia Fergus, a Dance 2 student, said. “It is like we are the same age; she is just in charge.”
Monnich left high school for college just to find herself back amongst teens in high school halls, but this time she is in control of what the class she attends looks like.
“Future plans are teaching for a long time in high school,” Monnich said. “I don’t think I would ever go off and teach at the studio again.”
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Scholar Government - El Dorado Hills » Home
We have mature and determined scholars, however, sometimes we get sidetracked because our highest grade level is 9th and we are still learning the ropes of how a government meeting is supposed to look. We have made a lot of progress in our meetings and been able to achieve a lot of goals because of it. Our scholars have been able to introduce proposed bills in our monthly meetings and then pass on bills for admin passage (Dean Cammarota) and “put into law.” A few examples are: “spirit days” planned around Halloween, the Entrepreneurial Fair, and our first official secondary school dance.
We spent the first couple meetings in November (and late October) discussing how we wanted to advertise and set up for the 3rd Entrepreneurial Fair. We also set up a dance committee via our deme classrooms (1 per for a total of 12). The last 3 weeks our focus has been on planning for the dance. It is our first official secondary (7th-9th actually) dance after 2 and half years of existence. The scholars wanted that to be a priority and because of our meetings, we were able to make it happen. Scholar government has also reached out to our PSO for their assistance. They have been vital to our success and growth as a campus and we are extremely for their support and guidance.
I am very grateful to be a part of this process and I am so happy to see so many scholars from all secondary grades work together for a common cause. Each scholar embodies so many of our Core Values and they truly have the best interests of our campus at heart.
Lucas Swaika
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2018 HONDA CRF250R – a Whole New Bike
Posted on July 31, 2017 July 31, 2017 by Bogdan Buleandra
Honda promises a lighter, more powerful and race-ready CRF250R
The CRF250R is well known in the MX world for being a reliable and powerful machine. The Japanese manufacturer has just announced its plans for the next year's CRF250R. The 2018 model will be a fresh new version fitted with a brand new power plant, the same frame as its bigger sibling the CRF450R and even an electric starter as standard.
The previous single cam engine is replaced by a DOHC unit that can reach higher revolutions. Honda developed a brand new 249.4cc single with a slightly increased compression ratio 13.9:1 (13.8:1. previous) and Bridged Box design piston. Peak power is increased by 9% and that translates to superior acceleration and greater torque. The electronics system packs three riding modes: Standard, Soft and Aggressive.
The coolest gain for the new CRF is the electric starter that now comes as standard. The kickstarter is now history. Honda managed to only increase the engine's weight by 1 kg with the addition of the starter.
The frame and suspension is borrowed from the CRF450R. The frame is 340g lighter than the old one, and it promises the right balance between rigidity and flexibility. The Absolute Holeshot philosophy of the 2017 CRF450R is now shared by the CRF250R. The rear subframe is 20% lighter, and the gas tank is made out of titanium and can handle 6.3 litres of gas. The whole assembly weights 108.1kg fully loaded.
Both front and rear suspensions are the ones from CRF450R. A 49mm Showa up-side-down front fork and a lowered Showa rear shock that ensures a superior feedback and improved rear wheel drive.
Honda is confident the new CRF250R recipe will make it a winning machine. The main rival in the MX class is the Kawasaki KX250F that has an appetite for being the first, but we will find out next year. We don’t have any information about the price or when it will be available, but we will see it for sure this fall at the Milan show.
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Rudy Barell, VP Business Development and Public Relations
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SESSION I: July 2 - July 17
SESSION II: July 16 - July 31
SESSION I & II: July 2 - July 31
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all boy and girl students (age 14-17 years old)
LANG. REQS.: No prior knowledge of Spanish is required
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CULTURAL AND SOCIAL IMMERSION PROGRAM
PROGRAM COSTS, DATES AND WHAT'S INCLUDED
This unique program in Seville allows US High School students, age 14 - 17 years old, to have an international study abroad & culture experience.
To offer this program the SAIIE study abroad program has partnered with the local Spanish High School, Colegio San Jose SS.CC. to offer its culture program.
The program is set in a way that the American students who paticipate do not only take Spanish language courses at SAIIE but they are fully inmmersed into
Spanish culture through the cultural program that is set up with other Spanish students (age 13 - 18 yearls) and living with Spanish families.
All students participating in our program are placed in carefully screened Spanish homes. Living in a Spanish home is one of the most important aspects of the students’ intercultural experience because it helps to improve language skills and increase cultural awareness, two key goals of the program.
The principal goals of increased fluency in the language and greater familiarity with the culture are an integral element of the experience that SAIIE strives to provide.
SPANISH FAMILIES
All Spanish families are made up of a married couple with children, a divorced or widowed woman with children, or a family with some members living at home and others living outside the home. All students will receive their host family information 3 weeks UPON ARRIVAL into Seville.
In this program, all students are housed with other students studying abroad at SAIIE. Each student will have 1 to 2 roommates.
Students can easily walk from their homestay to SAIIE, with travel times ranging between 15 and 30 minutes walk.
All meals are included in program cost.
The host family will provide 3 meals per day (breakfast, lunch and dinner) Monday through Sunday. Days that they are schedule a trip with the program the family will prepare a packed meal. Naturally, adjustments with regard to customs, food, and heat must be anticipated by the students. SAIIE does take dietary and other personal restrictions into consideration when assigning students to their host family.
Internet will be available in all homes.
Each student is allowed 1 load of laundry per week, which is washed by the host family.
For more information on housing, please contact the SAIIE Director, Samantha Chipres at Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.
Hours per week: 20hrs
Classes: Monday - Friday
Students per class: 6 to 12
Minimun age: 14 - 17
Language levels: A placement exam is administered upon arrival to determine Spanish level. Classes are offered at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.
Courses: Spanish language classes will be held in the mornings from Mo - Fri (3 hrs per day)
All SAIIE teachers are Spanish native with many years of experience teaching Spanish language at all levels.
All SAIIE teachers collaborate or have collaborated with the "Instituto Cervantes" (Instituto Cervantes is the official world wide reknown and leading organism thats mission and responsibility is to promote the teaching of Spanish language as a foreign language and culture).
SAIIE strongly promotes cultural and social activities, because it’s a great tool for students to learn and immerse themselves into the Spanish culture. Through these activities students will be able to find out more about the city, Spanish customs, culture, language, food, etc, which will complement their education in class.
SAIIE has partner with a local Spanish High School to offer its culture program.
During most of these activities we will have a group of Spanish swimmers or Spanish children from a local high school join to foster the Spanish culture and allow our American students the chance to meet local Spanish people and practice their Spanish.
These are the following activities included in the program costs during the program:
Welcome dinner at Barrio de Santa Cruz (Old Jewish quarter)
Walking tour of Barrio de Santa Cruz (Old Jewish Quarter)
Visit to the Alcazar palace, Plaza España, and cathedral of Seville
Tapas in Triana neighbourhood
2 Day trips with Spanish students - (one to the beach and the other one TBD)
Dinner to celebrate 4th of July at the Hard Rock Cafe Sevilla with Spanish students
Farewell dinner with Spanish students
All of these activities students will be accompanied by a minimum of 1 bilingual (Spanish-English) SAIIE staff member.
Session I: July 2 - July 17, 2021
Session II: July 16 - July 31, 2021
Session I & II: July 2 - July 31, 2021
Program Cost for per student: 1,525€ (2weeks)
Program Cost Includes:
SAIIE full-time tuition and fees
Airport reception, pick up and transfer (includes transfer to Spanish home and transfer to airport at the end of the program)
On-site orientation
24/7 on-site support throughout the term
Accommodation with Spanish family and full board + one load of laundry per week are included in the program cost.
Tour in English of the Cathedral, Alcazar Palace, Barrio de Santa Cruz (Old Jewish quarter) and Plaza España.
2 or 4 week Intensive Spanish language course (20hrs per week) at the SAIIE Center.
1(If only here for 2 weeks)-2 day trips with other Spanish students (one to the beach and the other 1 TBD).
4th of July lunch celebration (Not included for Session II students)
Welcome dinner
Out-of-Pocket Costs Include:
Mandatory International Student Identification Card (ISIC)
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TERM ABROAD
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Summer Session October 1 May 15
Missed the deadline? Please contact SAIIE to enquire about late application options.
Samantha Chipres
Director and Student Affairs
Samantha is the youngest of four, following her brother's steps in education: went to the French School where she graduated from High School to later jumping into the American system through SAIIE to finally graduating with a Bachelors degree in International Studies from UW-Platteville.
In 2007 she began working in SAIIE as Assistant Student Affairs. In 2010, she became the Student Affairs Director; amongst her duties, she organised excursions and cultural activities, served as the 24/7 emergency contact for all students, placed students with corresponding households and roommates, carefully selected host families through a comprehensive interview process and arranged contracts.
In 2016, Samantha moved to London to continue her education and pursued her Master's Degree in International Business at the Regent's University of London.
With her new role as Director back in SAIIE, her responsibilities are to continue helping in the Student Affairs department, as well as to work with the Planning and Development department in the decision-making process for upcoming projects, developing new strategies and ideas to improve our services for the students and to create potential partnerships with U.S. universities.
"My number one passion is to travel to different parts of the world and getting to know their culture. To be able to be a small part of an unforgettable experience such as studying abroad is an honour. Seeing the students sad to leave Seville and us at the end of the semester means that we have done our job to show them that this city and this program are special".
Stuart Chipres
Stuart Chipres was born and raised in Seville (Spain) with a huge international background (Dual-citizenship: American-British). He studied at the French School in Seville for 10 years, and then went on to study at Padres Blancos High School, a well-known private Catholic school in Seville. Once graduated from High School, he jumped into the American system going to the Spanish American Institute of International Education, to finish graduating as a student of the University of Wisconsin- Platteville with an International Studies degree.
In 1999 he began working for the Spanish-American Institute in the accounting department and since then, he has moved through all the departments working in the registrar department, student affairs and academic departments. In 2009 he became the Director of the Spanish-American Institute of International Education.
Fluent in three languages (Spanish, English and French), he loves travelling around the world and has been almost everywhere (US, Asia, Europe and Africa). However, his biggest passions are a clear representation of Andalusian culture: Soccer, Semana Santa, Bullfighting and the overall lifestyle.
"It's a pleasure to share my International experience, views on life and passion for Sevilla with American students from all over the US and different backgrounds. Their transformation is breathtaking and makes me prouder than anything else in my life."
Sean Chipres
Sean Chipres graduated from the University of Wisconsin- Platteville with honors in an International Studies degree.
Prior to his studies in the US, he had received his entire education in Seville, Spain. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French.
He began to work for the Spanish-American Institute of International Education in 2001 as the Assistant Student Affairs department. In January 2005 he was promoted to Director Student Affairs.
In 2007 he become the Director of the Planning & Development department.
Among his duties he's involved in all the marketing and recruiting for the SAIIE program, as well as public relations for SAIIE with other educational institutions. He is also the coordinator of all the athletic programs offered at SAIIE as well as the coordinator of all the faculty led programs we host.
Since 2010 he has been involved in the development of SAIIE cultural immersion program (internships, ONG's, and volunteer opportunities), along with the creation and design of SAIIE’s new website, catalogs, brochures and social media.
In 2012, Mr. Chipres developed a study abroad program for student athletes starting with the soccer program. The sports program for college athletes has been a huge success and now we offer rowing, volleyball, basketball, swimming,rugby and water polo programs for student athletes.
Since 2014, he has been the Faculty Led Program Coordinator for all faculty led programs hosted by SAIIE.
His biggest passions include travelling and meeting new people from around the world.
“I love my job and international education. The most gratifying part of my job is to see how students evolved throughout their study abroad experience and how they turned into new people after their experience is over, and to know that we played a big part in it”.
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The Janssonius Family
Joannes Janssonius (Arnhem, 1588-1664), son of the Arnhem publisher Jan Janssen, married Elisabeth Hondius, daughter of Jodocus Hondius, in Amsterdam in 1612. After his marriage, he settled down in this town as a bookseller and publisher of cartographic material. In 1618 he established himself in Amsterdam next door to Blaeu’s book shop. He entered into serious competition with Willem Jansz. Blaeu when copying Blaeu’s Licht der Zeevaert after the expiration of the privilege in 1620. His activities not only concerned the publication of atlases and books, but also of single maps and an extensive book trade with branches in Frankfurt, Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Koningsbergen, Geneva, and Lyon. In 1631 he began publishing atlases together with Henricus Hondius.
In the early 1640s Henricus Hondius left the atlas publishing business completely to Janssonius. Competition with Joan Blaeu, Willem’s son and successor, in atlas production prompted Janssonius to enlarge his Atlas Novus finally into a work of six volumes, into which a sea atlas and an atlas of the Old World were inserted. Other atlases published by Janssonius are Mercator’s Atlas Minor, Hornius’s historical atlas (1652), the townbooks in eight volumes (1657), Cellarius’s Atlas Coelestis and several sea atlases and pilot guides.
After the death of Joannes Janssonius, the shop and publishing firm were continued by the heirs under the direction of Johannes van Waesbergen (c. 1616-1681), son-in-law of Joannes. Van Waesbergen added the name of Janssonius to his own.
In 1676, Joannes Janssonius’s heirs sold by auction “all the remaining Atlases in Latin, French, High and Low German, as well as the Stedeboecken in Latin, in 8 volumes, bound and unbound, maps, plates belonging to the Atlas and Stedeboecken.” The copperplates from Janssonius’s atlases were afterwards sold to Schenk and Valck.
Nobilis Fluvius Albis.
Verso text: Dutch
Condition: Old coloured, some browning.
References: Van der Krogt 1, 2070:1A.1.
From: Nieuwen Atlas, ofte Werelt-Beschrijvinge, vertonende de voornaemste Rijcken ende Landen, des Gheheelen Aerdt-Bodems. Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1645-47. (Van der Krogt 1, 433)
Southern Schleswig by J. Janssonius, published by Moses Pitt and J. Janssonius-Waesberge. 1680
Ducatus Slesvicensis Australis Pars.
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Hamburg by J. Boisseau. 1648
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The RAIC’s Annual Conference on Architecture is an important gathering for the profession in Canada. As the state of our day-to-day lives continues to shift and we adapt to new realities, the RAIC’s commitment to supporting the practice remains a top priority. The RAIC has therefore transitioned its annual conference to a virtual platform. With the success of the live broadcast, the RAIC Virtual Conference on Architecture is now available on-demand!
Join your colleagues and peers in a virtual learning and networking experience. The RAIC Virtual Conference on Architecture brings together professionals at every stage in their career to learn, explore, and discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the practice. The virtual program offers eighteen hours of structured learning in a flexible format. Participants will learn from industry-leading experts through educational sessions on a diverse range of topics. While 12 of the sessions are now available, the 6 broadcasted session will be made available June 18.
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Canadian Architecture Forums on Education: Toward an Architecture Policy for Canada
Live Broadcast | 1 CEU
History, Heritage and Culture
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT
This session will share outcomes of a year-long consultation process involving students and professors from all 12 Canadian schools of architecture. Beginning in Fall 2019, a series of forums were held to gauge and debate aspirations and concerns of the next generation of design professionals. Led by the Canadian Council of University Schools of Architecture (CCUSA), these Canadian Architecture Forums on Education (CAFÉs) were established to help define the tone and tenets of a national architecture strategy. Through presentation and interactive demonstration of consultation processes, RAIC participants will explore the role of education and research in shaping Canada’s architectural future.
Lisa Landrum
B.Arch, M.Arch2, PhD, MAA, AIA, FRAIC
Associate Professor, Associate Dean, University of Manitoba
Canada Declares - How Canadian Architects can begin to address the challenge of halving our annual emissions by 2030.
Sustainability, Technology and Construction
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. EDT
The climate challenge we face is overwhelming and complex. Our industry's emissions currently account for 40% of total global annual emissions. To meet the 2030 challenge we must radically refocus that effort into our biggest contributor to carbon emissions over the coming decade - embodied carbon. Collectively we need to face new questions: How do we now choose between two different window options, two doors, two walls, two structural systems? Assuming both options perform and cost the same, does either contain minerals and materials that were sustainably sourced, processed and transported? Was either sourced and made with fair labour? Does either option have half the carbon footprint of the industry norm? What is the norm? This panel will address the most pressing question of our profession, and provide theoretical, technical and policy background to enable participants to address this challenge.
Kelly Alvarez Doran
M.Arch, OAA
Senior Principal, MASS Design Group
Anthony Pak
P.Eng., MSc.
Principal, Priopta
Housing Academic Communities – Designing Exceptional Environments for Student Living
Housing, Planning and Urbanism
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT
Student housing has the ability to impact academic performance and influence future success. Learn how student residence design is responding to economic and cultural change to create inspiring environments that foster a sense of community and fellowship.
Drawing on the experience of delivering more than 10,000 residence beds across Canada, including two recent projects in Edmonton, this typology case study highlights architectural innovation both in new construction and adaptive reuse to create hubs of student activity that anticipate the collaborative environment of today’s workplace. Design issues of privacy, security, even managing the pervasive presence of digital devices will be discussed.
Ana Maria Llanos
M. Arch. Architect AIBC OAA RAIC LEED AP
Principal, Diamond Schmitt Architects
Gary Watson
B.Tech.Arch BEDS M.Arch, OAA, MRAIC
Senior Associate, Diamond Schmitt Architects
Health, Safety and Accessibility
This session is presented by the RAIC Emerging Practitioners (RAIC EP).
For many of those in the architectural profession, long hours and build up of stress is an accepted reality. Owners of firms, along with their employees, can feel overwhelmed by the shear number of tasks and concerns which must be juggled on any given day - from financial concerns relating to running a practice to general project issues- which can lead to burn out and other mental health issues. This session will review the main causes of burn out - not just for the owner of a practice but to all those working in a firm - and discuss how to avoid and address it. The presentation will share both research data as well as anecdotal information garnered via a series of interviews. Mental health is a serious issue in the architectural profession and this session aims to shed light on the topic while encouraging more open discussion.
Ksenia Eic
NWTAA, OAA, MRAIC
Managing Associate, Taylor Architecture Group
RAIC EP Committee Member
Architecture, Anthropology and Social Acceptance: Design that Created Zones of Acceptance in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EDT
This presentation documents a series of community-based design initiatives dating from 2001 to the present day, spear-headed by the Portland Hotel Community Services Society, that deliver a comprehensive response to the needs of individuals living on the margins in Vancouver with multiple barriers to their psycho-social well-being --- including poverty, injection drug use, HIV/AIDS, HCV, trauma, homelessness, conflict with the law, mental illness, and survival sex trade involvement.Architect Sean McEwen and Anthropologist Dr. Dan Small, will describe such design collaborations as InSite, North America's first supervised injection facility, OnSite, a detox without barriers, and other social service and social entrepreneurial initiatives that serve the local community. In total, these projects have facilitated the creation of a zone of acceptance for the marginalized in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and may serve as an example of how other urban centres can respond to a range of significant social challenges.
Sean McEwen
Architect aibc fraic
Architect, S.R. McEwen Architect
Dan Small
PhD, MPhil. Cantab., BA Soc/Anth Hon, BA Psych. Hon
Medical Anthropologist, University of British Columbia
Rise for Architecture
7:00 PM- 8:00 PM EDT
This presentation and discussion will discuss a current collaborative initiative of the Canadian Architectural Licensing Authorities (CALA), the Canadian Council of University Schools of Architecture (CCUSA) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) focused on the development and implementation of an Architecture Policy for Canada. The session will include discussion of the consultation feedback received to date, provide an overview of the emerging vision statement and discuss calls to action for the profession.
Darryl Condon
Architect, AIBC, AAA, SAA, OAA, NLAA, AIA, FRAIC, LEED AP
Managing Principal, HCMA Architecture + Design
On-Demand Sessions
Creating a Legacy with Transit Architecture: Lessons Learned
On-Demand | 1 CEU
How can architects design great transit infrastructure that preserves built heritage and creates a legacy?
The growing demand for the expansion of transit infrastructure asks architects to address the heritage of the City today while designing a legacy for future generations. This session will focus on three case studies: the Eglinton Crosstown LRT stations that are adjacent to- or within heritage buildings; the London, Ontario BRT which used community consultations to determine the heritage components of new stations; and Finch West which integrated Public Art into its design. The session will provide insight on the balance required to consider both legacy and preservation.
Ana-Francisca de la Mora
MRAIC, OAA ARQ, LEED AP BD+C
Associate Director – Practice Lead, Architecture, IBI Group
Cybersecurity: Mitigating Risks and Protecting data
The Practice and Business of Architecture
Architectural firms have tremendous motivation to protect their digital data, however many organizations do not take the proper steps to mitigate these risks. This presentation will discuss some common methods that attackers utilize to gather information before launching an attack, why it is important for organizations to consider the security of their digital data, and how to mitigate these risks.
Ryan Duquette
Licensed private investigator, Masters of Science (Digital Forensics Management), Certified Fraud Examiner
Partner - Security, Privacy and Risk Consulting, RSM Canada
Filling in the Blanks: Missing Middle Infill Design Competition
Endorsed by the Alberta Association of Architects (AAA), the Missing Middle Infill Design Competition drew 30 proposals from teams of architects and builders/developers from across Canada and as far away as London, UK. Their task: design a multi-unit, ‘missing middle’ housing development that was not only thoughtful of neighbourhood context, but also economically feasible and well-designed to work in Edmonton. An esteemed National Jury Panel from across Canada reviewed the proposals and awarded first, second and third place honours to the top finalists. The winning team has acquired the right to purchase five parcels of City-owned land at the northeast corner of 112 Avenue and 106 Street in the Spruce Avenue neighbourhood and build their winning design, subject to rezoning approval. The Infill Design Competition is one of many ways the City is working to help encourage more and better infill in Edmonton. The competition is part of action five on the Edmonton Infill Roadmap 2018, the City of Edmonton’s work plan for welcoming more people and homes into Edmonton’s older neighbourhoods to help keep these neighbourhoods vibrant and healthy. The City Plan, which will be completed in 2020, will set out the choices that will help our city grow to a city of two million people, and reach the goal of creating vibrant urban communities. A big part of reaching this goal will involve increasing housing choices, particularly how we can integrate more housing in the ‘missing middle' range. A panel featuring the City of Edmonton (City Planning, Development and Zoning Services, Real Estate, Law, Communications), the winning design team (Studio North, Gravity Architecture, Part + Parcel, and the Spruce Avenue Community League will share lessons learned on how the competition drew in well-designed, economically feasible designs — and how the process employed helped to attract interest from across the country, to fortify community support, and to ensure the winning design would be built.
Jason Syvixay
Master of City Planning
Principal Planner, City of Edmonton
Joshua Culling
Urban Planner and Community Advisor
Hazel Borys
PlaceMakers, Inc.
James Sande
AACI Senior Strategist, Land Governance, Real Estate, City of Edmonton
Karen Parker
Manager of Business Analytics, City of Edmonton
Mark Erickson
Principal, Studio North
Inclusive Design in the Federal Government
With the amendment to the “Canadian Human Rights Act” and the creation of Canada’s first federal accessibility legislation “Accessible Canada Act” the federal government has a focused interest on inclusive design for all. This session will focus on the built environment, how the legislation is interpreted with respect to gender neutral facilities; such as, washrooms, change rooms and showers. The presentation will share research and development by federal government departments, stakeholder engagements and lessons learned from implementation of respectful universally inclusive facilities.
Murray Gallant
OAA, FRAIC, AIA, B.Arch., H.Dipl. Arch. Tech.
Chief Architect, National Defence
Robert J Smith
OAA, RAIC
Architectural Advisor, House of Commons
Parametric Design: The Past and the Future
Parametric Design has often been reduced to merely Parametricism which is a self-referential system using internal mathematical equations translated into computer algorithms to create fashionable and complex forms that has only a little, if any, input from the real-world parameters. On the contrary, Parametric Design is neither new in architecture history nor limited to computational formal extravagance. It is a way of thinking that was used in the past, like analogue models by Gaudi, and should be further studied to find ways to better incorporate environmental, social, structural, and geographical parameters in architecture models using algorithms and real-world data.
Reza Assasi
PhD (Architecture), MArch II, MArch, OAA
Architect, Professor, Centennial College
Restore, Renew, Revitalize: Working With Canada’s Modern Heritage
Canada’s modern buildings represent a significant attempt to forge a national identity and a vital architectural legacy for the country. As these buildings enter their next 50 years of service, however, many are in need of significant modernization. Through case studies of five significant projects, this session explores the conceptual, technical, and logistical challenges particular to working in buildings of this era. Case studies include:
Viljo Revell’s Nathan Phillips Square
Arthur Erickson’s Bank of Canada Headquarters
Ron Thom’s Bata Library
John Andrews’ Weldon Library
Dimitri Dimakopoulos’ Place du Portage Complex
Andrew Frontini
OAA, NSAA, FRAIC, LEED® AP BD+C
Principal, Design Director, Perkins and Will
Jon Loewen
OAA, MRAIC, LEED® AP BD+C, Certified Passive House Designer
Associate, Senior Architect, Perkins and Will
Soundscape, Human Perception, and the Built Environment
Noise is an essential sensory stimulus and impossible to ignore. Any disturbing noise can be agitating and confusing. Soundscape refers to the human perception of the auditory environment in context; it relies on the subjective quality of sound and the objective quality of the auditory environment based on people’s perception. We design a space based on the idea that users have the same perception of the space as we intended. Not everyone, however, has the same capability to perceive the space. This session introduces the concept of the soundscape and how to conduct a soundscape study and evaluate the outcome.
Arezoo Talebzadeh
OAA, NCARB, MRAIC
Architect, Kasian
Spaces, People, Things: Environments for People Living with Dementia
How can we improve quality of life for people with dementia where they live? As researcher-in-residence in a care facility, Lara Pinchbeck uses findings from an extensive international University of Alberta research study to provide insight and influence on design to change the daily life for aging adults with dementia. Learn how elements from these findings will make a healthy and happy environment for people aging-in-place. A model of the material environment will be presented as the basis to shift the design process beyond the four walls. The session will also highlight current examples of practical applications.
Lara Pinchbeck
MA (Material Culture + Design Studies), BEDS (Architecture), Professional Human Ecologist, Rick Hansen Foundation Professional Accessibility Assessor, Public Relations Diploma, International Association for Public Participation Certification, PRINCE2 Proj
Founder + Principal; PHD Student, Lara Pinchbeck: Research+Design; University of Alberta
Charles Olfert
Architect AAA, SAA, FRAIC, LEED AP
Principal, aodbt architecture + interior design
Walterdale Bridge: the making of a destination to ‘Touch the Water’
How do you make an infrastructure project, a replacement bridge, a public place? The Walterdale Bridge project team sought to answer this question through a unique design process bringing together architects, engineers, urban designers, landscape architect and artists to realize the potential of this incredible location in Edmonton’s Saskatchewan River Valley. The new bridge, a gracious single span arch, has quickly become a landmark and a gateway to the City’s downtown. But it is more than a bridge across a river. By integrating the bridge with a passerelle, connecting to the river valley trail system, intertwining nature, history and art an engaging public place is created, a destination on the river; where the duality of city and nature are experienced and celebrated.
Donna Clare
AAA, OAA, FRAIC, RCA
Principal, DIALOG
Doug Carlyle
BES, M LAND ARCH, AALA, FCSLA, ASLA (International), RCA
Dr. James Montgomery
Your Building. Our Collective Future.
Over 20% of Canadian adults identify as having a disability, and this number is rising as our population ages. 70% of Canadians believe that all new buildings should be universally accessible. The usual approach to setting the level of accessibility of the built environment often relies on minimum requirements, such as building code. This does not meet the needs of all its users. The Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification™ (RHFAC) is the only national program that rates and certifies the built environment on its level of meaningful access, ensuring everyone has access to the places where we live, work, learn, and play. This session will leave you understanding the critical role you play in rethinking how we design the built environment, along with practical information on how you can design spaces for everyone, everywhere.
When Architects Design for Themselves
Throughout architecture school, we all dream of the great projects and designs we will accomplish upon graduation. Then the reality of budgets, client preconceptions and zoning by-laws start to nibble at the margins of the great design. But, when architects design for themselves, we take back full ownership of that dream. This session explores case studies and lessons-learned when the architect is designer, critic, client and occupant.
Terrence E. Smith-Lamothe
MRAIC, NSAA, M.Arch., B. Env. S., B. Sc., LEED a.p.
Architect, Architech, Ltd.
Designing for Community Wellbeing
The built environment is intricately tied with the wellbeing of people and the environment. With this idea, though well intended, most architects, planners, and designers operate from a place of intuition. This session will review an evidence-based methodology and set of indicators developed by the Conference Board of Canada (and others) intended to guide the work of design-professionals and city-builders. The Community Wellbeing Framework embraces a proactive approach to wellbeing, including mental health, social wellbeing, and contextual nuances. Following a presentation, participants will be able to workshop the fundamentals to elucidate ways of enriching their individual practices.
Antonio Gomez-Palacio
Arq. MES, RPP, MCIP, FRAIC
Ana Maria Llanos leads the Vancouver studio of Diamond Schmitt. Her work is focused on western Canada, including institutional, health care facilities, performing arts, residential, commercial, restoration and academic projects. Recent works includes Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She is a graduate of UBC’s School of Architecture and is rooted in the west coast lifestyle of British Columbia. ↑back
Ana-Francisca is an architect with over 18 years of experience. Her work is characterized by innovative design with a commitment to making healthy and inclusive spaces. Her work focuses on large-scale transit and Transit Oriented Development in Canada, Latin-America and Saudi Arabia. Ana-Francisca is currently leading the design and construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT’s Keelesdale Station, Summerhill Station Easier Access and the Richmond Hill Terminal in Toronto. ↑back
Andrew’s approach to design is driven by a strong social agenda. He uses bold material expressions and considered responses to context to create spaces around which communities form. By maintaining a design philosophy that is open and collaborative, Andrew never stops learning, producing, and evolving. His award-winning designs for universities, municipalities, library systems, and commercial clients have been published internationally. ↑back
Anthony is the Principal at Priopta, a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) consulting firm that is one of the first in North America to offer a custom Parametric LCA service for new construction projects. He is also the founder of ECN Vancouver—the first local chapter of the Embodied Carbon Network—which organizes local events that empower building industry professionals to champion the topic of embodied carbon on their projects and within their firms. He is a Professional Engineer with a Masters in Industrial Ecology from NTNU, which is a leading LCA research group in Norway. Anthony is passionate about building awareness around embodied carbon and frequently gives presentations locally and internationally at conferences, industry events, and lunch and learns at leading design firms. ↑back
Antonio Gomez-Palacio, is a founding partner of DIALOG, one of Canada’s leading design firms. He is internationally recognized for transforming cities into vibrant urban places, which respond to their social, economic, environmental, and political context. Grounded on both a participatory and an evidence-based approach, his work is credited with meaningfully improving the wellbeing of communities.Antonio has worked on a wide range of projects focused on urban intensification, master planning, mixed-use, transit, heritage, economic development, and sustainability. Antonio has acted as the Chair of the Toronto Society of Architects and Vaughan’s Design Review Panel and is involved with a number of industry initiatives and organizations including the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (of which he was names a Fellow this year), and the Canadian Urban Transit Association. He is currently leading multi-sectoral research on the link between built environments and Community Wellbeing. ↑back
Arezoo Talebzadeh is a registered architect with more than 15 years of experience in private and public projects in Canada. She became fascinated by public health through senior housing projects, which prompted her to get a master’s degree in Design for Health from OCAD university focusing on soundscape in dementia care units in collaboration with Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. ↑back
Architect AAA, SAA, FRAIC LEED
Charles Olfert is an Architect and founding principal of aodbt architecture + interior design. His passion to create accessible environments for all people has guided his career. Charles is Rick Hansen Foundation Professional Accessibility Certified Assessor. ↑back
Dr. Dan Small is a medical anthropologist and Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia where he teaches in both anthropology and sociology. He is trained in psychology, sociology, anthropology, circumpolar studies and medical anthropology. His research has examined the etiology of addiction, culture in mental health, social determinants of health as well as patient, family and professional understandings of cancer genetics. He has helped develop and operate a range of healthcare, housing and social enterprises for marginalized populations including: North America’s first supervised injection facility (Insite), a community grocery store, inner city bank, art gallery, harm reduction (e.g. syringe distribution, supervised injection, safer crack kits, managed alcohol, intravenous antibiotic treatment and a drug users resource centre), a free dental clinic, low-barreir detox and East Van Roasters chocolate shop for women in recovery. He has made it his professional goal to use cultural analysis to unpack professional and institutional narratives in order to help create more person-centred approaches to healthcare. ↑back
Darryl is a registered Architect, a LEED Accredited Professional and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He is a Past-President of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and has been an adjunct professor at the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Darryl has lectured and presented extensively, locally nationally and internationally, on a variety of subjects related to architecture, design and the future of practice. Over the past ten years he has performed over 60 speaking assignments including six international talks in 2019. A comprehensive list of previous talks is available upon request. ↑back
Donna Clare is an Architect and Principal at DIALOG, an interdisciplinary design practice with studios in Canada and the United States. A graduate of the University of Toronto School of Architecture, she has practiced in Toronto, San Diego and Edmonton building a portfolio of work that covers a broad spectrum of building typologies. Donna is an innovative, creative architect committed to community wellbeing. ↑back
Doug Carlyle is a nationally recognized award-winning Landscape Architect and Principal at DIALOG. He brings over three decades of experience in urban design and landscape architecture. He strives for placemaking that offers meaningful and memorable experiences from the large to the small scale. He is a passionate advocate for increased community wellbeing through city building and placemaking initiatives. ↑back
Gary Watson, Senior Associate, Diamond Schmitt Architects, works on large-scale academic buildings, athletic facilities, theatres, hospitals, offices and residential. He is passionate about workflow efficiencies providing architects more time to focus on design. His advocacy for advancing technology in studio has made the firm an early adopter of leading edge practices in the vanguard of digital architecture practice. ↑back
Hazel Borys is President of PlaceMakers, LLC in the US and PlaceMakers, Inc., in Canada, city planning firms working to advance the livability conversation. She guides governments around the world through land use law reforms — allowing walkable, mixed-use, compact, resilient places to develop by-right — and helps developers get things built under the increasingly prevalent form-based by-laws of the new economy. Hazel is an engineer with an MBA in finance and marketing. She is the organizer of the Placemaking@Work webinar education series, CodesStudy.org co-author, and PlaceShakers.com blogger. Hazel serves as a board member on both the Transect Codes Council and the Winnipeg Foundation. ↑back
Jim Montgomery is a Structural Engineer and Principal at DIALOG. He has led the design and construction of many significant projects including the Walterdale Bridge, the Royal Alberta Museum and the Calgary Cancer Centre. Jim is the recipient of APEGA’s Centennial Leadership Award, the Consulting Engineers of Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Distinguished Achievement, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. ↑back
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Land Governance, Real Estate, City of Edmonton
James has 25 years of commercial real estate valuation experience in both the public and private sectors. He has led and supported land management policy and strategy development for the City of Edmonton since 2017. James holds degrees in Law and Commerce. ↑back
Jason has presented at various conferences and events, discussing planning issues related to equity in public space, representation, and infill development. Jason is an award-winning urban planner and public relations professional from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has a passion for people and places, and engages in city building that listens to and empowers the community, builds knowledge and capacity, and works towards equity in urban places. Through media platforms such as the Winnipeg Free Press, Plan Canada, Canadian Architect, and Style Manitoba, Jason has shaped and informed dialogue around pressing urban issues. Jason holds a Master of City Planning from the University of Manitoba, a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Winnipeg, and is completing his Doctor of Philosophy in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Alberta. He is an RPP Candidate and a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. ↑back
Jon is an enthusiastic collaborator dedicated to high-performance design. Driven by a commitment to tackling complex problems with creativity and elegance, he believes great design cultivates inspirational and inclusive communities. Jon delivers creative vision and innovative solutions informed by a deep understanding of stakeholder and user priorities to maximize the potential of spaces for learning, collaboration, and well-being. ↑back
Urban Planner, Community Advisor
Joshua was a community advisor to the City of Edmonton's 'Missing Middle' Infill Design Competition process, ensuring community perspectives were upheld during the jury deliberations. He is currently the Vice President of the Spruce Avenue Community League. A graduate of the Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning program at the University of Alberta, Joshua works for a local municipality. He lives in a semi-detached infill with his wife, son and Boston Terrier. ↑back
Karen has been instrumental in advocating for better use of data both within the City of Edmonton organization and for its citizens. She has created multiple tools to make data more accessible, including the popular "Kids Map of Edmonton". Prior to joining the City of Edmonton, Karen worked as a business analyst in the software consulting industry. This experience, combined with an education background in Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, has left her not only with a keen understanding of the technology of data, but also the ability to translate it into usable visualizations and to educate others about it. ↑back
Kelly joined MASS in 2014 to lead our Kigali office, overseeing the growth of the practice from an office of 8 to 80 over a five year period. He has led the design and implementation of several of MASS’s projects across the East Africa - notably the award winning Munini District Hospital and Rwanda Ministry of Health’s Typical Hospital Plans, headquarters for both One Acre Fund and Andela’s in Kenya, and the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture. Kelly is a past recipient of the Canada Council’s Prix de Rome for Emerging Practitioners, the Irving Grossman Prize for innovation in housing design, and both the AIA and RAIC medals. He has held an adjunct professorship at the University of Waterloo and a Visiting Lectureship at Harvard University. ↑back
Lara Pinchbeck is a researcher and designer whose work focuses on making indoor and outdoor spaces accessible to everyone. She is a professional accessibility assessor for the Rick Hansen Foundation and holds a Master of Arts in Human Ecology (Material Culture + Design Studies). Her Ph.D. research is on designing optimal spaces for people with invisible disabilities, dementia and our ageing population. ↑back
Ksenia is an architect registered in the Northwest Territories and Ontario. She is a managing associate of the Yellowknife-based firm Taylor Architecture Group, aiding in office/business management of this growing firm. Ksenia is also a committee member of the RAIC Emerging Practitioners RAIC EP - an advocacy group for interns and other emerging practitioners. ↑back
Dr. Landrum is Associate Professor and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, and a registered architect in Manitoba and New York State. She is working with the RAIC, CALA and CCUSA to mobilize an architecture policy for Canada, and is leading the CAFÉ consultations. Landrum holds a professional Bachelor of Architecture from Carleton University, and a Master's and Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory from McGill University. Her scholarship on architectural agency and the role of the architect has been presented and published internationally. ↑back
In his early life, Mark spent a lot of time in the workshop with his dad learning how to use tools and make things. For him, the process of making has always involved learning through experience and being hands on. While studying Fine Arts at the University of Calgary with a focus on drawing and sculpture, Mark found an interest in articulating spatial concepts using a variety of media. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction in 2007. He then achieved his Bachelor of Environmental Design and Masters of Architecture at Dalhousie University in Halifax where he received his Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's (RAIC) Honour Roll Certificate.
He has worked in architectural offices in London, UK, Vancouver, and Halifax, and taught architectural technology at the Bachelor of Community Building and Design (BCBD) program at the University of The Gambia, Banjul, West Africa. Working internationally has helped broaden his understanding of how architecture is shaped according to culture, climate, geography and ways of living. ↑back
Sean McEwen has practiced architecture in his home city of Vancouver for over forty years. He consults principally to the non-profit sector and has worked extensively with neighbourhood groups and social advocacy organizations. Many of his projects deal with the adaptive re-use and restoration of heritage buildings for community and social housing uses. ↑back
Murray Gallant, Chief Architect, National Defence. 27 years experience in federal government. Chair B651 committee; member Rick Hansen Foundation Technical Working Group; member Ottawa Accessibility Advisory Committee; and chair Federal Architects Network. Past councilor OAA; past President CACB; and past chair ORSA. ↑back
Dr. Reza Assasi is professor of Architecture at Centennial College and Senior Architect at Hatch Ltd. He holds Ph.D. in Architecture History and Theory and Master of Architecture from McGill University. He is a registered architect in Ontario and is an active member of several international scientific societies with research interest in Architecture History, Philosophy, and Emerging Design Technologies. ↑back
Robert is currently employed as an Architectural Advisor at the House of Commons. In response to recent anti-gender discrimination legislation, he is researching and advising the House on non-binary washrooms facilities. He is also working with the accessibility advisory group on the rehabilitation of Center Block. With the newly minted Accessibility Act, Robert is working to help define Architectural guidelines on accessibility and sustainability. Previous to this, Robert was Chief Architect for Minto Communities, a multi-year national award winning sustainable green builder. ↑back
Ryan Duquette focuses on cyber incident response, privacy and technology risks, digital forensics and cyber fraud matters. Ryan has been an investigator for over twenty years and was previously a police officer focusing on cybercrime and fraud cases. Ryan works closely with clients involved in workplace investigations and civil litigation matters including data breaches, intellectual property theft and HR investigations. ↑back
T. E. Smith-Lamothe organized Architectural Overdrive!–a discussion group about architecture and good design–for the Halifax design community in 2009. The group meets quarterly, and a recurring theme has been homes or offices self-designed by architects. As a moderator for the group, he has interviewed architects about the projects and visited many of the homes and offices. He has also written articles on architecture for Azure, Canadian Collector, Visual Arts News and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Dalhousie School of Architecture. ↑back
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Christmas Ghost Stories: The Christmas Banquet, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tonight’s story features no pranks, no rollicking, romantic youths, no jolly country houses with their jolly and picturesque country servants. In fact, it features no ghosts, not in the classic sense. No, this story is quite Other indeed: it is not even English. This horror, The Christmas Banquet, comes (creeping, slowly, just over your left shoulder) from the United States, and specifically the pen of the mighty Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Would you call this Christmas ghost story existential? Certainly bittersweet. A sort of anti-Greek tragedy, and very American in that sense, that we are doomed and damned not by our ancestors but by our very nature.
Enjoy?
The Christmas Banquet
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death comes to the table, by Giovanni Martinelli
“I HAVE HERE attempted,” said Roderick, unfolding a few sheets of manuscript, as he sat with Rosina and the sculptor in the summer-house–“I have attempted to seize hold of a personage who glides past me, occasionally, in my walk through life. My former sad experience, as you know, has gifted me with some degree of insight into the gloomy mysteries of the human heart, through which I have wandered like one astray in a dark cavern, with his torch fast flickering to extinction. But this man–this class of men–is a hopeless puzzle.”
“Well, but propound him,” said the sculptor. “Let us have an idea of him, to begin with.”
“Why, indeed,” replied Roderick, “he is such a being as I could conceive you to carve out of marble, and some yet unrealized perfection of human science to endow with an exquisite mockery of intellect; but still there lacks the last inestimable touch of a divine Creator. He looks like a man, and, perchance, like a better specimen of man than you ordinarily meet. You might esteem him wise–he is capable of cultivation and refinement, and has at least an external conscience–but the demands that spirit makes upon spirit, are precisely those to which he cannot respond. When, at last, you come close to him, you find him chill and unsubstantial–a mere vapor.”
“I believe,” said Rosina, “I have a glimmering idea of what you mean.”
“Then be thankful,” answered her husband, smiling; “but do not anticipate any further illumination from what I am about to read. I have here imagined such a man to be–what, probably, he never is–conscious of the deficiency in his spiritual organization. Methinks the result would be a sense of cold unreality, wherewith he would go shivering through the world, longing to exchange his load of ice for any burthen of real grief that fate could fling upon a human being.”
Contenting himself with this preface, Roderick began to read.
In a certain old gentleman’s last will and testament, there appeared a bequest, which, as his final thought and deed, was singularly in keeping with a long life of melancholy eccentricity. He devised a considerable sum for establishing a fund, the interest of which was to be expended, annually forever, in preparing a Christmas Banquet for ten of the most miserable persons that could be found. It seemed not to be the testator’s purpose to make these half-a-score of sad hearts merry, but to provide that the stern or fierce expression of human discontent should not be drowned, even for that one holy and joyful day, amid the acclamations of festal gratitude which all Christendom sends up. And he desired, likewise, to perpetuate his own remonstrance against the earthly course of Providence, and his sad and sour dissent from those systems of religion or philosophy which either find sunshine in the world, or draw it down from heaven.
The task of inviting the guests, or of selecting among such as might advance their claims to partake of this dismal hospitality, was confided to the two trustees or stewards of the fund. These gentlemen, like their deceased friend, were sombre humorists, who made it their principal occupation to number the sable threads in the web of human life, and drop all the golden ones out of the reckoning. They performed their present office with integrity and judgment. The aspect of the assembled company, on the day of the first festival, might not, it is true, have satisfied every beholder that these were especially the individuals, chosen forth from all the world, whose griefs were worthy to stand as indicators of the mass of human suffering. Yet, after due consideration, it could not be disputed that here was a variety of hopeless discomfort, which, if it sometimes arose from causes apparently inadequate, was thereby only the shrewder imputation against the nature and mechanism of life.
The arrangements and decorations of the banquet were probably intended to signify that death-in-life which had been the testator’s definition of existence. The hall, illuminated by torches, was hung round with curtains of deep and dusky purple, and adorned with branches of cypress and wreaths of artificial flowers, imitative of such as used to be strewn over the dead. A sprig of parsley was laid by every plate. The main reservoir of wine was a sepulchral urn of silver, whence the liquor was distributed around the table in small vases, accurately copied from those that held the tears of ancient mourners. Neither had the stewards–if it were their taste that arranged these details–forgotten the fantasy of the old Egyptians, who seated a skeleton at every festive board, and mocked their own merriment with the imperturbable grin of a death’s-head. Such a fearful guest, shrouded in a black mantle, sat now at the head of the table. It was whispered, I know not with what truth, that the testator himself had once walked the visible world with the machinery of that same skeleton, and that it was one of the stipulations of his will, that he should thus be permitted to sit, from year to year, at the banquet which he had instituted. If so, it was perhaps covertly implied that he had cherished no hopes of bliss beyond the grave to compensate for the evils which he felt or imagined here. And if, in their bewildered conjectures as to the purpose of earthly existence, the banqueters should throw aside the veil, and cast an inquiring glance at this figure of death, as seeking thence the solution otherwise unattainable, the only reply would be a stare of the vacant eye-caverns, and a grin of the skeleton-jaws. Such was the response that the dead man had fancied himself to receive, when he asked of Death to solve the riddle of his life; and it was his desire to repeat it when the guests of his dismal hospitality should find themselves perplexed with the same question.
“What means that wreath?” asked several of the company, while viewing the decorations of the table.
They alluded to a wreath of cypress, which was held on high by a skeleton-arm, protruding from within the black mantle.
“It is a crown,” said one of the stewards, “not for the worthiest, but for the wofullest, when he shall prove his claim to it.”
The guest earliest bidden to the festival, vvas a man of soft and gentle character, who had not energy to struggle against the heavy despondency to which his temperament rendered him liable; and therefore, with nothing outwardly to excuse him from happiness, he had spent a life of quiet misery, that made his blood torpid, and weighed upon his breath, and sat like a ponderous night-fiend upon every throb of his unresisting heart. His wretchedness seemed as deep as his original nature, if not identical with it. It was the misfortune of a second guest to cherish within his bosom a diseased heart, which had become so wretchedly sore, that the continual and unavoidable rubs of the world, the blow of an enemy, the careless jostle of a stranger, and even the faithful and loving touch of a friend, alike made ulcers in it. As is the habit of people thus afflicted, he found his chief employment in exhibiting these miserable sores to any who would give themselves the pain of viewing them. A third guest was a hypochondriac, whose imagination wrought necromancy in his outward and inward world, and caused him to see monstrous faces in the household fire, and dragons in the clouds of sunset, and fiends in the guise of beautiful women, and something ugly or wicked beneath all the pleasant surfaces of nature. His neighbor at table was one who, in his early youth, had trusted mankind too much, and hoped too highly in their behalf, and, in meeting with many disappointments, had become desperately soured. For several years back, this misanthrope had employed himself in accumulating motives for hating and despising his race–such as murder, lust, treachery, ingratitude, faithlessness of trusted friends, instinctive vices of children, impurity of women, hidden guilt in men of saint-like aspect–and, in short, all manner of black realities that sought to decorate themselves with outward grace or glory. But, at every atrocious fact that was added to his catalogue–at every increase of the sad knowledge which he spent his life to collect–the native impulses of the poor man’s loving and confiding heart made him groan with anguish. Next, with his heavy brow bent downward, there stole into the hall a man naturally earnest and impassioned, who, from his immemorial infancy, had felt the consciousness of a high message to the world, but, essaying to deliver it, had found either no voice or form of speech, or else no ears to listen. Therefore his whole life was a bitter questioning of himself–“Why have not men acknowledged my mission? Am I not a self-deluding fool? What business have I on earth? Where is my grave?” Throughout the festival, he quaffed frequent draughts from the sepulchral urn of wine, hoping thus to quench the celestial fire that tortured his own breast, and could not benefit his race.
Then there entered–having flung away a ticket for a ball–a gay gallant of yesterday, who had found four or five wrinkles in his brow, and more grey hairs than he could well number, on his head. Endowed with sense and feeling, he had nevertheless spent his youth in folly, but had reached at last that dreary point in life, where Folly quits us of her own accord, leaving us to make friends with Wisdom if we can. Thus, cold and desolate, he had come to seek Wisdom at the banquet, and wondered if the skeleton were she. To eke out the company, the stewards had invited a distressed poet from his home in the alms-house, and a melancholy idiot from the street corner. The latter had just the glimmering of sense that was sufficient to make him conscious of a vacancy, which the poor fellow, all his life long, had mistily sought to fill up with intelligence, wandering up and down the streets, and groaning miserably, because his attempts were ineffectual.. The only lady in the hall was one who had fallen short of absolute and perfect beauty, merely by the trifling defect of a slight cast in her left eye. But this blemish, minute as it was, so shocked the pure ideal of her soul, rather than her vanity, that she passed her life in solitude, and veiled her countenance even from her own gaze. So the skeleton sat shrouded at one end of the table, and this poor lady at the other.
One other guest remains to be described. He was a young man of smooth brow, fair cheek, and fashionable mien. So far as his exterior developed him, he might much more suitably have found a place at some merry Christmas table, than have been numbered among the blighted, fate-stricken, fancy-tortured set of ill-starred banqueters. Murmurs arose among the guests, as they noted the glance of general scrutiny which the intruder threw over his companions. What had he to do among them; Why did not the skeleton of the dead founder of the feast unbend its rattling joints, arise, and motion the unwelcome stranger from the board? “Shameful!” said the morbid man, while a new ulcer broke out in his heart. “He comes to mock us!–we shall be the jest of his tavern friends!–he will make a farce of our miseries, and bring it out upon the stage!”
“Oh, never mind him!” said the hypochondriac, smiling sourly. “He shall feast from yonder tureen of viper soup, and if there is a fricassee of scorpions on the table, pray let him have his share of it. For the dessert, he shall taste the apples of Sodom. Then, if he like our Christmas fare, let him return again next year!”
“Trouble him not,” murmured the melancholy man, with gentleness. “What matters it whether the consciousness of misery come a few years sooner or later; If this youth deem himself happy now, yet let him sit with us, for the sake of the wretchedness to come.”
The poor idiot approached the young man, with that mournful aspect of vacant inquiry which his face continually wore, and which caused people to say that he was always in search of his missing wits. After no little examination, he touched the stranger’s hand, but immediately drew back his own, shaking his head and shivering.
“Cold, cold, cold!” muttered the idiot.
The young man shivered too–and smiled.
“Gentlemen–and you, madam,”–said one of the stewards of the festival, “do not conceive so ill, either of our caution or judgment, as to imagine that we have admitted this young stranger–Gervayse Hastings by name–without a full investigation and thoughtful balance of his claims. Trust me, not a guest at the table is better entitled to his seat.”
The steward’s guarantee was perforce satisfactory. The company, therefore, took their places, and addressed themselves to the serious business of the feast, but were soon disturbed by the hypochondriac, who thrust back his chair, complaining that a dish of stewed toads and vipers was set before him, and that there was green ditch-water in his cup of wine. This mistake being amended, he quietly resumed his seat. The wine, as it flowed freely from the sepulchral urn, seemed to come imbued with all gloomy inspirations; so that its influence was not to cheer, but either to sink the revellers into a deeper melancholy, or elevate their spirits to an enthusiasm of wretchedness. The conversation was various. They told sad stories about people who might have been worthy guests at such a festival as the present. They talked of grisly incidents in human history; of strange crimes, which, if truly considered, were but convulsions of agony; of some lives that had been altogether wretched, and of others, which, wearing a general semblance of happiness, had yet been deformed, sooner or later, by misfortune, as by the intrusion of a grim face at a banquet; of death-bed scenes, and what dark intimations might be gathered from the words of dying men; of suicide, and whether the more eligible mode were by halter, knife, poison, drowning, gradual starvation, or the fumes of charcoal. The majority of the guests, as is the custom with people thoroughly and profoundly sick at heart, were anxious to make their own woes the theme of discussion, and prove themselves most excellent in anguish. The misanthropist went deep into the philosophy of evil, and wandered about in the darkness, with now and then a gleam of discolored light hovering on ghastly shapes and horrid scenery. Many a miserable thought, such as men have stumbled upon from age to age, did he now rake up again, and gloat over it as an inestimable gem, a diamond, a treasure far preferable to those bright, spiritual revelations of a better world, which are like precious stones from heaven’s pavement. And then, amid his lore of wretchedness, he hid his face and wept.
It was a festival at which the woful man of Uz might suitably have been a guest, together with all, in each succeeding age, who have tasted deepest of the bitterness of life. And be it said, too, that every son or daughter of woman, however favored with happy fortune, might, at one sad moment or another, have claimed the privilege of a stricken heart, to sit down at this table. But, throughout the feast, it was remarked that the young stranger, Gervayse Hastings, was unsuccessful in his attempts to catch its pervading spirit. At any deep, strong thought that found utterance, and which was torn out, as it were, from the saddest recesses of human consciousness, he looked mystified and bewildered; even more than the poor idiot, who seemed to grasp at such things with his earnest heart, and thus occasionally to comprehend them. The young man’s conversation was of a colder and lighter kind, often brilliant, but lacking the powerful characteristics of a nature that had been developed by suffering.
“Sir,” said the misanthropist, bluntly, in reply to some observation by Gervayse Hastings, “pray do not address me again. We have no right to talk together. Our minds have nothing in common. By what claim you appear at this banquet, I cannot guess; but methinks, to a man who could say what you have just now said, my companions and myself must seem no more than shadows, flickering on the wall. And precisely such a shadow are you to us!”
The young man smiled and bowed, but drawing himself back in his chair, he buttoned his coat over his breast, as if the banqueting-hall were growing chill. Again the idiot fixed his melancholy stare upon the youth, and murmured–“Cold! cold! cold!”
The banquet drew to its conclusion, and the guests departed. Scarcely had they stepped across the threshold of the hall, when the scene that had there passed seemed like the vision of a sick fancy, or an exhalation from a stagnant heart. Now and then, however, during the year that ensued, these melancholy people caught glimpses of one another, transient, indeed, but enough to prove that they walked the earth with the ordinary allotment of reality. Sometimes, a pair of them came face to face, while stealing through the evening twilight, enveloped in their sable cloaks. Sometimes, they casually met in church-yards. Once, also, it happened, that two of the dismal banqueters mutually started, at recognizing each other in the noon-day sunshine of a crowded street, stalking there like ghosts astray. Doubtless, they wondered why the skeleton did not come abroad at noonday, too!
But, whenever the necessity of their affairs compelled these Christmas guests into the bustling world, they were sure to encounter the young man, who had so unaccountably been admitted to the festival. They saw him among the gay and fortunate; they caught the sunny sparkle of his eye; they heard the light and careless tones of his voice–and muttered to themselves, with such indignation as only the aristocracy of wretchedness could kindle:–“The traitor! The vile impostor! Providence, in its own good time, may give him a right to feast among us!” But the young man’s unabashed eye dwelt upon their gloomy figures, as they passed him, seeming to say, perchance with somewhat of a sneer–“First, know my secret!–then, measure your claims with mine!”
The step of Time stole onward, and soon brought merry Christmas round again, with glad and solemn worship in the churches, and sports, games, festivals, and everywhere the bright face of Joy beside the household fire. Again, likewise, the hall, with its curtains of dusky purple, was illuminated by the death-torches, gleaming on the sepulchral decorations of the banquet. The veiled skeleton sat in state, lifting the cypress wreath above its head, as the guerdon of some guest, illustrious in the qualifications which there claimed precedence. As the stewards deemed the world inexhaustible in misery, and were desirous of recognizing it in all its forms, they had not seen fit to re-assemble the company of the former year. New faces now threw their gloom across the table.
There was a man of nice conscience, who bore a bloodstain in his heart–the death of a fellow-creature–which, for his more exquisite torture, had chanced with such a peculiarity of circumstances, that he could not absolutely determine whether his will had entered into the deed, or not. Therefore, his whole life was spent in the agony of an inward trial for murder, with a continual sifting of the details of his terrible calamity, until his mind had no longer any thought, nor his soul any emotion, disconnected with it. There was a mother, too–a mother once, but a desolation now–who, many years before, had gone out on a pleasure-party, and, returning, found her infant smothered in its little bed. And ever since she had been tortured with the fantasy, that her buried baby lay smothering in its coffin. Then there was an aged lady, who had lived from time immemorial with a constant tremor quivering through her frame. It was terrible to discern her dark shadow tremulous upon the wall; her lips, likewise, were tremulous; and the expression of her eyes seemed to indicate that her soul was trembling too. Owing to the bewilderment and confusion which made almost a chaos of her intellect, it was impossible to discover what dire misfortune had thus shaken her nature to its depths; so that the stewards had admitted her to the table, not from any acquaintance with her history, but on the safe testimony of her miserable aspect. Some surprise was expressed at the presence of a bluff, red-faced gentleman, a certain Mr. Smith, who had evidently the fat of many a rich feast within him, and the habitual twinkle of whose eye betrayed a disposition to break forth into uproarious laughter, for little cause or none. It turned out, however, that, with the best possible flow of spirits, our poor friend was afflicted with a physical disease of the heart, which threatened instant death on the slightest cachinnatory indulgence, or even that titillation of the bodily frame, produced by merry thoughts. In this dilemma, he had sought admittance to the banquet, on the ostensible plea of his irksome and miserable state, but, in reality, with the hope of imbibing a life-preserving melancholy.
A married couple had been invited, from a motive of bitter humor; it being well understood, that they rendered each other unutterably miserable whenever they chanced to meet, and therefore must necessarily be fit associates at the festival. In contrast with these, was another couple, still unmarried, who had interchanged their hearts in early life, but had been divided by circumstances as impalpable as morning mist, and kept apart so long, that their spirits now found it impossible to meet. Therefore, yearning for communion, yet shrinking from one another, and choosing none beside, they felt themselves companionless in life, and looked upon eternity as a boundless desert. Next to the skeleton sat a mere son of earth–a haunter of the Exchange–a gatherer of shining dust–a man whose life’s record was in his leger, and whose soul’s prison-house, the vaults of the bank where he kept his deposits. This person had been greatly perplexed at his invitation, deeming himself one of the most fortunate men in the city; but the stewards persisted in demanding his presence, assuring him that he had no conception how miserable he was.
And now appeared a figure, which we must acknowledge as our acquaintance of the former festival. It was Gervayse Hastings, whose presence had then caused so much question and criticism, and who now took his place with the composure of one vvhose claims were satisfactory to himself, and must needs be allowed by others. Yet his easy and unruffled face betrayed no sorrow. The well-skilled beholders gazed a moment into his eyes, and shook their heads, to miss the unuttered sympathy–the countersign, never to be falsified–of those whose hearts are cavern-mouths, through which they descend into a region of illimitable wo, and recognize other wanderers there.
“Who is this youth?” asked the man with a blood-stain on his conscience. “Surely he has never gone down into the depths! I know all the aspects of those who have passed through the dark valley. By what right is he among us?”
“Ah, it is a sinful thing to come hither without a sorrow,” murmured the aged lady, in accents that partook of the eternal tremor which pervaded her whole being. “Depart, young man! Your soul has never been shaken; and therefore I tremble so much the more to look at you.”
“His soul shaken! No; I’ll answer for it,” said bluff Mr. Smith, pressing his hand upon his heart, and making himself as melancholy as he could, for fear of a fatal explosion of laughter. “I know the lad well; he has as fair prospects as any young man about town, and has no more right among us, miserable creatures, than the child unborn. He never was miserable, and probably never will be!”
“Our honored guests,” interposed the stewards, “pray have patience with us, and believe, at least, that our deep veneration for the sacredness of this solemnity would preclude any wilful violation of it. Receive this young man to your table. It may not be too much to say, that no guest here would exchange his own heart for the one that beats within that youthful bosom!”
“I’d call it a bargain, and gladly too,” muttered Mr. Smith, with a perplexing mixture of sadness and mirthful conceit. “A plague upon their nonsense! My own heart is the only really miserable one in the company–it will certainly be the death of me at last!”
Nevertheless, as on the former occasion, the judgment of the stewards being without appeal, the company sat down. The obnoxious guest made no more attempt to obtrude his conversation on those about him, but appeared to listen to the table-talk with peculiar assiduity, as if some inestimable secret, otherwise beyond his reach, might be conveyed in a casual word. And, in tmth, to those who could understand and value it, there was rich matter in the upgushings and outpourings of these initiated souls, to whom sorrow had been a talisman, admitting them into spiritual depths which no other spell can open. Sometimes, out of the midst of densest gloom, there flashed a momentary radiance, pure as crystal, bright as the flame of stars, and shedding such a glow upon the mystery of life, that the guests were ready to exclaim, “Surely the riddle is on the point of being solved!” At such illuminated intervals, the saddest mourners felt it to be revealed, that mortal griefs are but shadowy and external; no more than the sable robes, voluminously shrouding a certain divine reality, and thus indicating what might otherwise be altogether invisible to mortal eye.
“Just now,” remarked the trembling old woman, “I seemed to see beyond the outside. And then my everlasting tremor passed away!”
“Would that I could dwell always in these momentary gleams of light!” said the man of stricken conscience. “Then the blood-stain in my heart would be washed clean away.”
This strain of conversation appeared so unintelligibly absurd to good Mr. Smith, that he burst into precisely the fit of laughter which his physicians had warned him against, as likely to prove instantaneously fatal. In effect, he fell back in his chair, a corpse with a broad grin upon his face; while his ghost, perchance, remained beside it, bewildered at its unpremeditated exit. This catastrophe, of course, broke up the festival.
“How is this? You do not tremble?” observed the tremulous old woman to Gervayse Hastings, who was gazing at the dead man with singular intentness. “Is it not awful to see him so suddenly vanish out of the midst of life–this man of flesh and blood, whose earthly nature was so warm and strong? There is a never-ending tremor in my soul; but it trembles afresh at this! And you are calm!”
“Would that he could teach me somewhat!” said Gervayse Hastings, drawing a long breath. “Men pass before me like shadows on the wall–their actions, passions, feelings, are flickering of the light–and then they vanish! Neither the corpse, nor yonder skeleton, nor this old woman’s everlasting tremor, can give me what I seek.”
And then the company departed.
We cannot linger to narrate, in such detail, more circumstances of these singular festivals, which, in accordance with the founder’s will, continued to be kept with the regularity of an established institution. In process of time, the stewards adopted the custom of inviting, from far and near, those individuals whose misfortunes were prominent above other men’s, and whose mental and moral development might, therefore, be supposed to possess a corresponding interest. The exiled noble of the French Revolution, and the broken soldier of the Empire, were alike represented at the table. Fallen monarchs, wandering about the earth, have found places at that forlorn and miserable feast. The statesman, when his party flung him off, might, if he chose it, be once more a great man for the space of a single banquet. Aaron Burr’s name appears on the record, at a period when his ruin–the profoundest and most striking, with more of moral circumstance in it than that of almost any other man–was complete, in his lonely age. Stephen Girard, when his wealth weighed upon him like a mountain, once sought admittance of his own accord. It is not probable, however, that these men had any lessons to teach in the lore of discontent and misery, which might not equally well have been studied in the common walks of life. Illustrious unfortunates attract a wider sympathy, not because their griefs are more intense, but because, being set on lofty pedestals, they the better serve mankind as instances and by-words of calamity.
It concerns our present purpose to say that, at each successive festival, Gervayse Hastings showed his face, gradually changing from the smooth beauty of his youth to the thoughtful comeliness of manhood, and thence to the bald, impressive dignity of age. He was the only individual invariably present. Yet, on every occasion, there were murmurs, both from those who knew his character and position, and from them whose hearts shrank back, as denying his companionship in their mystic fraternity.
“Who is this impassive man?” had been asked a hundred times. “Has he suffered? Has he sinned? There are no traces of either. Then wherefore is he here?”
“You must inquire of the stewards, or of himself,” was the constant reply. “We seem to know him well, here in our city, and know nothing of him but what is creditable and fortunate. Yet hither he comes, year after year, to this gloomy banquet, and sits among the guests like a marble statue. Ask yonder skeleton–perhaps that may solve the riddle!”
It was, in truth, a wonder. The life of Gervayse Hastings was not merely a prosperous, but a brilliant one. Everything had gone well with him. He was wealthy, far beyond the expenditure that was required by habits of magnificence, a taste of rare purity and cultivation, a love of travel, a scholar’s instinct to collect a splendid library, and, moreover, what seemed a munificent liberality to the distressed. He had sought domestic happiness, and not vainly, if a lovely and tender wife, and children of fair promise, could insure it. He had, besides, ascended above the limit which separates the obscure from the distinguished, and had won a stainless reputation in affairs of the widest public importance. Not that he was a popular character, or had within him the mysterious attributes which are essential to that species of success. To the public, he was a cold abstraction, wholly destitute of those rich hues of personality, that living warmth, and the peculiar faculty of stamping his own heart’s impression on a multitude of hearts, by which the people recognize their favorites. And it must be owned that, after his most intimate associates had done their best to know him thoroughly, and love him warmly, they were startled to find how little hold he had upon their affections. They approved–they admired–but still, in those moments when the human spirit most craves reality, they shrank back from Gervayse Hastings, as powerless to give them what they sought. It was the feeling of distrustful regret, with which we should draw back the hand, after extending it, in an illusive twilight, to grasp the hand of a shadow upon the wall.
As the superficial fervency of youth decayed, this peculiar effect of Gervayse Hastings’ character grew more perceptible. His children, when he extended his arms, came coldly to his knees, but never climbed them of their own accord. His wife wept secretly, and almost adjudged herself a criminal, because she shivered in the chill of his bosom. He, too, occasionally appeared not unconscious of the chillness of his moral atmosphere, and willing, if it might be so, to warm himself at a kindly fire. But age stole onward, and benumbed him more and more. As the hoar-frost began to gather on him, his wife went to her grave, and was doubtless warmer there; his children either died, or were scattered to different homes of their own; and old Gervayse Hastings, unscathed by grief–alone, but needing no companionship–continued his steady walk through life, and still, on every Christmas-day, attended at the dismal banquet. His privilege as a guest had become prescriptive now. Had he claimed the head of the table, even the skeleton would have been ejected from its seat.
Finally, at the merry Christmas-tide, when he had numbered four-score years complete, this pale, high-browed, marble-featured old man once more entered the long-frequented hall, with the same impassive aspect that had called forth so much dissatisfied remark at his first attendance. Time, except in matters merely external, had done nothing for him, either of good or evil. As he took his place, he threw a calm, inquiring glance around the table, as if to ascertain whether any guest had yet appeared, after so many unsuccessful banquets, who might impart to him the mystery–the deep, warm secret–the life within the life–which, whether manifested in joy or sorrow, is what gives substance to a world of shadows.
“My friends,” said Gervayse Hastings, assuming a position which his long conversance with the festival caused to appear natural, “you are welcome! I drink to you all in this cup of sepulchral wine.”
The guests replied courteously, but still in a manner that proved them unable to receive the old man as a member of their sad fraternity. It may be well to give the reader an idea of the present company at the banquet.
One was formerly a clergyman, enthusiastic in his profession, and apparently of the genuine dynasty of those old Puritan divines whose faith in their calling, and stern exercise of it, had placed them among the mighty of the earth. But, yielding to the speculative tendency of the age, he had gone astray from the firm foundation of an ancient faith, and wandered into a cloud region, where everything was misty and deceptive, ever mocking him with a semblance of reality, but still dissolving when he flung himself upon it for support and rest. His instinct and early training demanded something steadfast; but, looking forward, he beheld vapors piled on vapors, and, behind him, an impassable gulf between the man of yesterday and to-day; on the borders of which he paced to and fro, sometimes wringing his hands in agony, and often making his own wo a theme of scornful merriment. This, surely, was a miserable man. Next, there was a theorist–one of a numerous tribe, although he deemed himself unique since the creation–a theorist, who had conceived a plan by which all the wretchedness of earth, moral and physical, might be done away, and the bliss of the millennium at once accomplished. But, the incredulity of mankind debarring him from action, he was smitten with as much grief as if the whole mass of wo which he was denied the opportunity to remedy, were crowded into his own bosom. A plain old man in black attracted much of the company’s notice, on the supposition tht he was no other than Father Miller, who, it seemed, had given himself up to despair at the tedious delay of the final conflagration. Then there was a man distinguished for native pride and obstinacy, who, a little while before, had possessed immense wealth, and held the control of a vast moneyed interest, which he had wielded in the same spirit as a despotic monarch would wield the power of his empire, carrying on a tremendous moral warfare, the roar and tremor of which was felt at every fireside in the land. At length came a crushing ruin–a total overthrow of fortune, power, and character–the effect of which on his imperious, and, in many respects, noble and lofty nature, might have entitled him to a place, not merely at our festival, but among the peers of Pandemonium.
There was a modern philanthropist, who had become so deeply sensible of the calamities of thousands and millions of his fellow creatures, and of the impracticableness of any general measures for their relief, that he had no heart to do what little good lay immediately within his power, but contented himself with being miserable for sympathy. Near him sat a gentleman in a predicament hitherto unprecedented, but of which the present epoch, probably, affords numerous examples. Ever since he was of capacity to read a newspaper, this person had prided himself on his consistent adherence to one political party, but, in the confusion of these latter days, had got bewildered, and knew not whereabouts his party was. This wretched condition, so morally desolate and disheartening to a man who has long accustomed himself to merge his individuality in the mass of a great body, can only be conceived by such as have experienced it. His next companion was a popular orator who had lost his voice, and–as it was pretty much all that he had to lose–had fallen into a state of hopeless melancholy. The table was likewise graced by two of the gentler sex–one, a half-starved, consumptive seamstress, the representative of thousands just as wretched; the other, a woman of unemployed energy, who found herself in the world with nothing to achieve, nothing to enjoy, and nothing even to suffer. She had, therefore, driven herself to the verge of madness by dark broodings over the wrongs of her sex, and its exclusion from a proper field of action. The roll of guests being thus complete, a side-table had been set for three or four disappointed office-seekers with hearts as sick as death, whom the stewards had admitted, partly because their calamities really entitled them to entrance here, and partly that they were in especial need of a good dinner. There was likewise a homeless dog, with his tail between his legs, licking up the crumbs and gnawing the fragments of the feast–such a melancholy cur as one sometimes sees about the streets, without a master, and willing to follow the first that will accept his service.
In their own way, these were as wretched a set of people as ever had assembled at the festival. There they sat, with the veiled skeleton of the founder, holding aloft the cypress wreath, at one end of the table; and at the other, wrapt in furs, the withered figure of Gervayse Hastings, stately, calm, and cold, impressing the company with awe, yet so little interesting their sympathy, that he might have vanished into thin air, without their once exclaiming–“Whither is he gone?”
“Sir,” said the philanthropist, addressing the old man, “you have been so long a guest at this annual festival, and have thus been conversant with so many varieties of human affliction, that, not improbably, you have thence derived some great and important lessons. How blessed were your lot, could you reveal a secret by which all this mass of wo might be removed!”
“I know of but one misfortune,” answered Gervayse Hastings, quietly, “and that is my own.”
“Your own!” rejoined the philanthropist. “And, looking back on your serene and prosperous life, how can you claim to be the sole unfortunate of the human race?”
“You will not understand it,” replied Gervayse Hastings, feebly, and with a singular inefficiency of pronunciation, and sometimes putting one word for another. “None have understood it–not even those who experience the like. It is a chillness–a want of earnestness–a feeling as if what should be my heart were a thing of vapor–a haunting perception of unreality! Thus, seeming to possess all that other men have–all that men aim at–I have really possessed nothing, neither joys nor griefs. All things–all persons–as was truly said to me at this table long and long ago–have been like shadows flickering on the wall. It was so with my wife and children– with those who seemed my friends: it is so with yourselves, whom I see now before me. Neither have I myself any real existence, but am a shadow like the rest!”
“And how is it with your views of a future life?” inquired the speculative clergyman.
“Worse than with you,” said the old man, in a hollow and feeble tone; “for I cannot conceive it earnestly enough to feel either hope or fear. Mine–mine is the wretchedness! This cold heart–this unreal life! Ah! it grows colder still.”
It so chanced, that at this juncture the decayed ligaments of the skeleton gave way, and the dry bones fell together in a heap, thus causing the dusty wreath of cypress to drop upon the table. The attention of the company being thus diverted, for a single instant, from Gervayse Hastings, they perceived, on turning again towards him, that the old man had undergone a change. His shadow had ceased to flicker on the wall.
“Well, Rosina, what is your criticism?” asked Roderick, as he rolled up the manuscript.
“Frankly, your success is by no means complete,” replied she. “It is true, I have an idea of the character you endeavor to describe; but it is rather by dint of my own thought than your expression.”
“That is unavoidable,” observed the sculptor, “because the characteristics are all negative. If Gervayse Hastings could have imbibed one human grief at the gloomy banquet, the task of describing him would have been infinitely easier. Of such persons–and we do meet with these moral monsters now and then–it is difficult to conceive how they came to exist here, or what there is in them capable of existence hereafter. They seem to be on the outside of everything; and nothing wearies the soul more than an attempt to comprehend them within its grasp.”
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Dwayne Lacy
Review – Jai ‘Culture Shock’
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Jai is an artist that has been prevalent in Christian Hip Hop and in Urban Gospel for the last 3 or 4 years. She has been featured on Invasion (Hero) by Trip Lee and God Is Enough by Lecrae. She seems to be everywhere from the Stellar Awards showcases and GMA (Gospel Music Association) showcases, to Bobby Jones Gospel. She is very engaging when seeing her live performance, helping to explain why she has created quite a buzz for herself. So it is only fitting that she finally releases Culture Shock, a full length album of her own. The majority of the album was produced by the extremely versatile artist/producer, JR. Impressively, Jai wrote or co-wrote every song.
Culture Shock is a seemingly fitting title for this album as she is now sporting purple hair. Her delivery may not totally fit into one category; thus bringing a jolt to cultural expectations. Misfits, youth and those who are open-minded will definitely be drawn to Jai’s style. Although Jai has used auto tune on her voice on different songs, she does not do so on every song on this album. She does layer her vocals a certain way that helps to give her a signature sound.
Most songs on Culture Shock are songs of praise and worship regardless of the way she presents it. Calling You is an upbeat, electronica anthem that speaks of the beauty and holiness of God. she sings lyrics like, “You’re amazing. You are awesome. You are worthy” while the chorus goes on to say, “God, You are Holy. Lord, You are holy. If I search all over the world and I can’t find nobody like You…” Lecrae adds that signature flow over the pulsating beat. Praise Grenade will put you in the mindset of 90’s group, Ace of Base. Jai is taking chances and not looking back. You Deserve My All is probably the most pop/CCM sounding number on the album. Will Sterns produced the track while Jai does all of the vocal production.
Jai tackles the issue of being confident in her own skin on Reflection while encouraging people to get up and celebrate life on Good Day. The latter song was one that I did not enjoy at first listen. As I listened to it again, it became more infectious and one you can start your day with. The distortion on Jai’s voice was a bit much on Incredible, but Thi’sl brings balance with his signature gritty flow. The remix is no short of bananas as Jai’s vocals, whether intentionally or not, take a backseat to her special guests. Joining her on the remix is Canton Jones, Japhia Life and KJ-52. Each one blazes their bars, but KJ impresses, murdering his 16 bars leaving you wanting more.
Jai puts things in perspective with the head nodder, I Love You (Human) produced by BOYZfromMARZ. She exposes situations that may have been disappointing, but realizes that God is in control and she is only human. Aziel Gonzales lays a dope beat with a beat box loop that would make Timberland smile. You Deserve My Praise is beautiful song that borrows from Psalms 51:15, “Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare your praise”.
Jai impresses with Culture Shock with the one complaint being that a few of the beats sounded redundant. Overall, this is a solid, energetic and praise-heavy album. Today’s generation needs Jai, and thankfully she is only getting started.
Label: Outlet Music Group
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2. Praise Grenade
3. Calling You feat. Lecrae
5. You Deserve My All
7. I Love You (Human)
8. I’ll Wait
9. Stand Alone
10. Savior
11. Yes
12. Incredible feat. Thi’sl
13. Dancing For You feat. Guvna B
14. Victory
13. Incredible REMIX feat. Japhia Life, KJ-52, & Canton Jones
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The amount of sugar in baby food should be restricted and parents should give their young children more vegetables to stop them from developing a sweet tooth, a report from child health experts says.
It warns that even baby food marked “no added sugar” often contains sugars from honey or fruit juice. Parents should offer bitter flavours too, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health recommends.
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This will guard against tooth decay, poor diet and obesity. The recommendation is one of many included in a report on how to improve the health of children.
Reducing child obesity is a key priority in all parts of the world. Targeting food high in sugar and fat is an important part of that aim, following the introduction of a tax on sugary drinks in England in 2018.
The report says the government should introduce mandatory limits on the amount of free sugar in baby foods.
Many can contain high levels of sugar added by the manufacturer or present in syrups and fruit juices, it says, despite labels suggesting otherwise.
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The report says infants should not be given sugary drinks. Instead, they should have sugar in a natural form, such as whole fresh fruit, milk or unsweetened dairy products.
Prof Mary Fewtrell, nutrition lead for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said products for weaning babies often contained a high proportion of fruit or sweet-tasting vegetables.
“Pureed or liquid baby foods packaged in pouches also often have a high energy density and a high proportion of sugar,” she said.
“If sucked from the pouch, the baby also misses out on the opportunity to learn about eating from a spoon or feeding himself.
“Baby foods can be labelled ‘no added sugar’ if the sugar comes from fruit – but all sugars have the same effects on the teeth and on metabolism.”
She said babies had a preference for sweet tastes but parents should not reinforce that.
“Babies are very willing to try different flavours, if they’re given the chance,” Prof Fewtrell said, “and it’s important that they’re introduced to a variety of flavours, including more bitter tasting foods such as broccoli and spinach, from a young age.”
Prof Fewtrell also said parents should be educated on the impact of sugar.
“Excess sugar is one of the leading causes of tooth decay, which is the most common oral disease in children, affecting nearly a quarter (23%) of five-year-olds.”
She added that sugar intake also contributed to children becoming overweight and obese.
The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition recommends sugar provides no more than 5% of daily total energy intake for those aged two and over, and even less for children under two.
But results from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey suggest the average daily intake for the children between one-and-a-half and three years is 11.3% – more than double the recommended amount.
A review of food and drinks aimed at young children, by Public Health England, found that processed dried fruit products contained the highest amount of sugar – but were often marketed as healthy snacks.
The products, which contain fruit juices, purees and concentrates, making them high in free sugars, should not be sold as suitable snacks for children, PHE said.
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Selfie safety features might not be as private as it's promoted to be
By Mae Yen Yap 1 year, 3 months
Update: Grab has contacted Mashable Southeast Asia to clarify that the company follows the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA) that protects users' personal data in regards to consumer transactions.
A spokesperson from Grab said that while data may be shared with third parties, it is only for government authorities and in the case of criminal activity.
Just a few months ago, Grab introduced a new safety feature: Taking selfies.
Users, both new and existing, will need to take a picture of themselves before they can book their first ride.
Grab Malaysia Country head Sean Goh said then that the feature was strictly just for safety reasons and that information about Grab passengers will not be collected.
Well it seems that his statement might not have been entirely correct.
Grab's Privacy Notice.
On the Grab Privacy Policy page, it states under legal purposes that the personal data that the app collects may be used "as allowed or required by applicable law."
Which sounds fine until you continue reading.
Grab says that they "may also use your Personal Data in connection with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, sale of company assets, consolidation, restructuring, financing, business asset transactions, or acquisition of all or part of our business by another company."
And the company also shares "Personal Data with our subsidiaries, associated companies, jointly controlled entities and affiliates."
Why this matters.
Malaysia is not doing so well in terms of security breaches.
Out of 47 countries surveyed by Comparitech, Malaysia was recently ranked as the fifth-worst country in protecting its citizens' privacy. It was given a total score point of 2.6 which under the scoring system meant there were "some safeguards but weakened protections."
Malaysia was ranked above Thailand, India, Russia, and China.
Just days ago, the Malay Mail reported that the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has officially terminated the services of a company that is suspected to have leaked the personal data of millions of Malaysians.
In October 2017, Lowyat.net reported that a data breach from between 2012 and 2013 that customer data from various Malaysian Telcos were being sold for an undisclosed amount of the digital currency Bitcoin.
Alarmingly, the breach included at least 46.2 million mobile phone accounts that included email IDs, nationalities, passwords and more.
Nuemera (M) Sdn Bhd was named as the contractor that was unable to protect the personal data and is now under investigation by the Attorney General's Chambers, according to the Malay Mail.
So with ride-hailing companies like Grab keeping our personal details on their databases, it's understandable why people are feeling a bit reluctant to hand over private information.
Well, nothing really.
People are complaining online about the use of Grab's facial recognition tech, but the company has not formally acknowledged any of those complaints. Other than a Twitter reply that is.
Hi there 😊. The selfie is for identity verification, safety, and may be used to assist the authorities when required. Grab ensures that your selfie and identity is secured and will not be shared with our driver-partners and merchants. Link - https://t.co/1X1yXQJuab
— Grab Malaysia (@GrabMY) October 15, 2019
What do you think of the facial recognition feature and Malaysia's low ranking on security privacy? Do share your thoughts with us.
Cover image sourced from TechNave.
TOPICS: Facial Recognition, Tech, Grab, Security, Ride Hailing, Privacy Issues, Privacy, biometrics
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Welcome to the GAME Chapter 3
Posted on July 27, 2020 July 30, 2020 Author adminPosted in Newsletter World, Welcome to the GAMELeave a Reply
The votes are in, Juno chooses her punishment as her mouth!
Welcome to the GAME: a playground for the rich and powerful, a hell for those ignorant of the rules. To play, you embody your true self. The vile you. The desperate you. The sexual, depraved, despicable you.
She doesn’t know her role, her location, or even her name. Trapped in a world designed for the devious to indulge, the tribute known only as Juno is the ultimate prize—whether she realizes it or not.
K, a game master with many secrets, is more than eager to take the spoils of this twisted fantasy landscape for himself. But when the consequences are laid bare, he has to give in to the very traits of humanity the GAME is designed to suppress, or play his role to its full extent.
No matter the cost.
Chapter 3!
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Damn Scotty—or Jax, whatever the hell he’s calling himself now. Barring his unsolicited pseudointellectual bullshit, the bastard couldn’t even give me a decent fucking starting point to go off on. Considering the fact that he’s currently sleeping with my lead game designer, I should have had the forethought to ask him for that much.
To hell with my intentions for starting fresh anyway. My tried and true method has always been to bullshit my way through any scenario, regardless of the planning or forethought required. That method eventually got me to academic acclaim and billions in the bank. Why not continue to act on ruthless impulse?
Like sailing a rowboat blind in the middle of only God knows where. At the back of my mind, I toy with the very real possibility that this mode of exploration may be entirely pointless.
Hours on the water, and it’s obvious that this arena isn’t set over one fucking island—it’s an archipelago of them. Given the sizeable budget set aside for this enterprise, the breadth and scale of the landscape isn’t much of a shock. And yet, as always, I’m impressed by the ingenuity of my team. The damn bastards went all out in designing this aspect of our little game.
So far, I’ve spotted at least four islands, each within swimming distance of the others, all off the west hand side of the isle I spawned in on. Most appear to be sparsely inhabited by a few scraggly plants and little else. Only one seems promising in terms of supporting actual civilization.
It lies due north, sporting mostly a tangle of emerald jungle with a hint of gleaming white structures towering above. A city? I feel my upper lip quirk. What the hell does my team have in store?
I can’t shake a shred of unease though. Those fuckers wouldn’t hesitate to slip in a poisoned pill just to keep me on my toes. By joining in on this round, I’ve upped the ante as far as performance reviews go.
It’s up to any one designer to either use this opportunity to impress me, or capitalize on the chance to humiliate me.
Not that doing so would require much effort on their part. Sure enough, my thoughts distract me long enough that I’m caught off guard when a sudden current tugs at the oars, nearly ripping them from my grasp. Fuck. What was that about a poisoned pill?
After a few seconds of struggling, I surrender to my base impulse. Fuck it.
With a hiss of irritation, I relinquish both oars to the ocean and lurch to my feet, disrupting the vessel’s precarious balance. One look at the churning turquoise waters below conjures a tendril of apprehension at what might lurk beneath. Swimming is a risky proposition, even in this carefully constructed environment. The whims of nature tend to excel at upsetting the best laid plans, and sharks aren’t known for obeying manmade barriers.
But what the hell? Turning my attention to the larger island, I dive in, powering myself forward with a vigor I haven’t experienced since my days in university.
Years of wealth and success have made me soft. Spoiled by luxury and a regiment of tailored workouts undertaken in a state-of-the-art gym at one of my various properties, or swims in a heated, climate-controlled pool.
And I had no clue what I was fucking missing. The seawater stings like a bitch and the current slams into me relentlessly. Keeping a steady pace is a struggle and it feels as though the water is deliberately trying to shove me back with every stroke. My limbs sear at the exertion and for the first time in months I sense a feeling settle over me that makes me shudder in relief. Some fragile semblance of…peace.
This is the kind of shit I’ve been looking for. Hoping for.
Mindless physical activity capable of wrestling my racing thoughts into submission—whether it’s fighting, or running or fucking. The latter of the three unnerves me the most. It excites me the most—perhaps because I’ve never let myself dwell on the need until this moment, up to my ass in the middle of a fucking sea.
I want to fuck. Need to.
And not for fun, or passion or simply to come. No. I want to pin someone down without giving a damn if I’m hurting them or not. Feel them squirm. Fuck them up the ass with no ounce of restraint to hold me back.
It’s about damn time I know what it feels like to do the brutal screwing for once. This whole goddamn year has been nothing but fucking taking it from every direction. Up the ass, no lube, no preparation, no dinner after.
Scotty, given his limited variety of dialogue, has a saying he likes to whine when shit doesn’t go his way. Fuck my life.
Been there. Done that. I’ve been fucked by my life. Over and over again.
Because of her, a part of me insinuates, sounding suspiciously like my nosy cunt of a brother. That bitch and what she’s done. She’s driven me to this—swimming against the current with all I fucking have, feeling like it’s never enough to propel me forward. I’m perpetually drifting, at the mercy of the ocean’s whims and whatever else the fucking universe deigns to throw my way.
Because of her. All of it is because of fucking her—literally and figuratively. That bitch. That whore. The beautiful, deceiving cunt. I can admit that even now I admire her vicious cunning. Hell, her charms beguiled me in the first place. That intellect. Her perception.
She always had a talent for seeing through someone, right down to the bone. What did she see in me? She never told me outright, but her actions since have made that mystery easier to decipher.
A dumbass.
A patsy.
A gullible little boy.
The only problem? I’m no longer an eighteen-year-old cuck. She isn’t the center of my universe anymore. Ten years later, and the naïve, oldest Kendall has grown up—and these days, his jaded heart isn’t foolish enough to hope that salvation lies within a woman.
And I’m over it. Gritting my teeth, I power forward, so fiercely my muscles throb. I feel the burn all the way down to my goddamn toes, and a pang in my chest triggers alarm in the part of my psyche still somewhat sane. I’m pushing myself to the brink, hovering on that dangerous edge of exhaustion when the potential of quitting is beyond your control—your limbs may just decide to fail, or heart may give out.
Regardless, I keep going, straining my body to its very limits.
Or, that Scotty-like voice taunts, in other words, you’re punishing yourself. Like that dirty word you pretend doesn’t apply to you anymore. Masochist. Haven’t you outgrown self-flagellation, K?
Far too soon, my kicking feet strike sand and I blink to find myself paces from shore, panting in the surf. My chest is on fire, knees wobbling, muscles cramping in fucking agony. And still, I keep going, wading through the tide until I’m collapsing onto dry sand, unable to go another step.
It’s as hot here as the other beach. The sun beats down relentlessly, and… Just as before, I’m not alone.
“It’s about time you got here,” a smug voice calls from further up the sand embankment.
I groan, wishing I’d drowned rather than made it this far if this is what awaits me—Scotty—Jax, whatever the fuck he’s called, skipping my way, looking as bright-eyed and bushy tailed as he did when we spawned in.
I inhale, bracing my torso with both hands flat against the burning sand. Regulating my breathing takes me a full damn minute. Even then, it’s a struggle to wrestle enough air into my lungs just to speak. “How…the fuck did you…get here?”
The bastard shrugs. “I walked. Over the bridge.” He points east toward a dense copse of trees.
Sure enough, I realize my folly the second I sense the wind change. I’d been so caught up in finding my own way, I never stopped to scan the horizon until now. That so-called “island” we started on was just a peninsula of this larger one, but the mass linking them is so damn small you can only glimpse it from the right angle.
“Son of a bitch,” I rasp, partly impressed, partly irritated. My team has earned a reputation as the best in the world for a reason—they simply are.
“Did you have a nice swim?” Jax asks and I don’t even have to look at his face to tell that he’s suppressing a grin, his eyes gleaming. “Worked out some of that aggression?”
The fucker knows me too damn well. Ignoring him outright, I lurch to my feet, disregarding the pang in my muscles demanding a longer rest.
“Where are we?” I ask, eyeing our surroundings with avid interest. This beach is longer. Dense forests loom in either direction, and up ahead is a seemingly desolate patch of rolling hills, coated in scraggly grasses. Though one detail I do remember from the boat is a glimpse of some kind of structure nearby.
And then it hits me.
“Perception,” I hiss out loud. “That must be one of the fucking themes. Things aren’t always what they seem from afar.”
“That’s very smarty pants-like,” Jax says, bounding to my side with all the enthusiasm as a hyper puppy. “It’s probably at least one concept we’re meant to ‘uncover on this adventure toward self-discovery.’” He makes finger quotes. “I still can’t believe you didn’t manage to peek at the game plan before you publicly announced your decision to join in.”
I say nothing. Even he doesn’t know the real truth behind my supposed volunteering. Like the fact that it’s more like an ultimatum. A challenge. A dare.
I can still hear that cunt’s voice, soft like a cat’s purr, as deadly as the hiss of a snake. Do you even have it in you? She’d wondered. To undertake the challenges you charge those rich bastards by the thousands just to undertake? Can you even face your true self?
She’d laughed then and uttered the answer she came up with. No. You never could, could you? Not even now. You’re still hiding. Still suppressing. All these years and nothing has changed…
“Earth to K!” I flinch as a pair of manicured fingers snap together beneath my nose.
“What?” I snarl, whirling on Jax.
He raises his hands in surrender. “Jesus. Easy there, Kujo. While your theory on ‘perception’ is nice and all, I think some concepts may be a bit simpler than that.”
“Like what?” I demand, my eyes narrowing.
He shrugs and once again points to a detail in the landscape I’ve overlooked.
“Like the fact that there’s a sign,” he says simply, indicating the narrow structure made of wood paces away. “Leading to a path. I’ve already followed it partway and it doesn’t seem to be a trap.”
A sigh rips through me, robbing my shoulders of tension. “Fine,” I concede. “Lead the fucking way.”
“As you wish, master,” Jax says with a bow. “Rest that big, bad brain of yours and let an idiot take charge for once. I think you’ll find it stimulating—” he chuckles. “You should have applied to have a coil on your bracelet. Some submission would definitely teach you to loosen up.”
I scoff. “I guess that explains why you opted out, then. You’re already accustomed to being used as a punching bag in your daily life.”
“Ouch.” His expression falls as he slaps his hand over his chest. “That hurts. I’ll have you know that only my Dom is allowed to call out my meek, docile qualities.” He winks and for the life of me I have no idea if he’s joking or not.
He wouldn’t be the first person in my inner circle supporting a double life. Or the last to betray me if the urge struck him.
Suspicion permeates my every thought lately. It’s this goddamn mood I’m in—fucking with my senses and making me second guess every interaction. Every mind state.
I’ve tried reflection. Therapy. Meditation. Nothing seems to hone in on the exact cause of it. This crippling, niggling emotion I haven’t faced in…
Well, over a fucking decade.
Doubt?
Or fear…
“This way, Mr. Brooding Warrior,” Jax calls from paces ahead. He’s already starting down the stone path. “Let’s follow the yellow brick road,” he suggests with a grin. “Hopefully to where the fun begins.”
“Or not,” I gruffly reply, shouldering past him. “I’m not here for fun.”
“Yeah yeah,” he replies. “You’re here to find some unlucky woman who happens to be into some hardcore kink and work out all that sexual frustration in ways that can’t be accomplished by swimming across the goddamn ocean like some kind of he-man. Right?”
I don’t dignify that with a response.
Mainly because there isn’t any point in denying it.
Not when it’s the truth.
Damn this place already. Not only is it hotter than sin, but it’s laid bare a stark reality I don’t think my brother and I have experienced since the days we used to play card games while hiding in the servant’s wing. Gleefully, the asshole has to declare as much out loud.
“Jax two, K nill. How does it feel to be inferior to my gaming prowess, big brother?”
I roll my eyes, glowering up ahead where, sure enough, a stone wall looms. Tall, imposing and formed of square masonry, it perfectly encapsulates the period of history the game makers took inspiration from when designing this arena.
“Score!” Jax brandishes a fist in triumph. “I was right! This is so ancient Rome. Could you see me as a gladiator? I wonder when we’ll get our assignments.”
“Assignments?” I question out of habit. My attention is fixated on the gate—and the ornate wooden gate serving as its entrance. Suspiciously. Jax and I are the only two in sight, a fact that has me so on edge I barely notice his amused glance.
“We get assigned our roles, master player,” he snipes. “God, I hope I get something good. Last time I was theme was ancient Mongolia, and I was a pony boy. I’ll leave it up to your imagination as to what duties that entailed.”
“And I’m sure you learned plenty on that path to self-discovery.” I can’t resist aiming for an open target. “Like how many different ways you can take it up the—”
“Look!” Jax points to the gate. It’s opening, revealing a glimpse of paved streets beyond, as well as tall, square-shaped buildings composed of the same light-colored stone as the wall. Even from here, the scope of the design is astounding—a literal fucking city crafted by a team of engineers on a whim.
Baring our path, however, stands a woman, her dark hair coiled onto her head. A tight-fitting dress clings to her frame, but her bracelet designates her as a moderator, apart from the rest of the game—black rather than gold. I don’t recognize her outside of corporate attire, and her eyes flit over me without a shred of acknowledgment.
“Halt,” she calls, her voice lilting. Golden skin enhances her brown eyes, lending them a glinting quality that makes every searching glance she tosses our way land with an unmistakable sense of judgment.
“Nice casting,” Jax stage whispers to me. “Pity she isn’t part of the rotation.”
“Looks like your avatar self is no different from the fucker you are in the real world,” I bite back. “Always thinking with your head in the gutter.”
To my utter shock, he doesn’t seem to have a comeback. His face takes on an uncharacteristically serious nature as we approach the woman, coming close enough to realize that she stands precisely on the opposite side of the gate. Beside her rests a closed wooden chest, adorned with golden filigree.
Turning to Jax, she extends a slim hand. “Welcome to the city of Nika. Step forward and see for yourself, the path that awaits you within these walls. May you rise to the challenge, or fall at the mercy of your worst whims and inclinations.”
Jax sneers and smooths a hand down his tunic. “What are the odds on me being another pony boy?”
He steps forward before I can reply, boldly crossing the threshold to meet the woman on the other side. At first, it seems nothing changes—despite a rather fucking anticlimactic buildup.
But then he jumps and raises his arm, watching in shock as a glowing, silver insignia appears on the face of his bracelet as if stamped there by an invisible force. A symbol in the shape of the letter R.
“Holy fuck!” he exclaims.
“A renegade,” the woman says. She stoops to open the chest and from it withdraws a sack made of scarlet cloth that she hands to him. “Take these tools and wear your title with pride, for you are one of the vaulted elite of this city, capable of commanding those lesser to do your bidding.”
Jax, the fucking idiot, looks like he might piss himself.
“You hear that, K?” he says incredulously. “A fucking master. Though with your luck, watch you be the king or some shit—”
I step forward, cutting him off midsentence. Again, crossing the threshold feels an overly dramatic act at best. At least until I look down and find that my bracelet has also transformed. Only the silver insignia forms the shape of an M.
“A mercenary,” the woman declares. “A servant, whose only aim is to fight and serve at the command of his master. May you find a lord worthy of your exploits.”
She hands me a sack as well, but mine is made of an unbleached linen, twice as large as Jax’s.
Who looks like he really has pissed himself this time.
“A servant,” he mouths with utter glee written across his face. “Damn, K. I’m starting to see what you mean about how seriously you’re taking this arduous journey of self-reflection—”
“Fuck off.” Shouldering the sack, I push past him, eyeing what appears to be an intersection. The roads to the left and right follow the length of the wall, encircling the city proper while the one straight ahead leads into the heart of the development. The sprawling mecca itself seems to be built on a sloping hill, with a complex of square, towering buildings at the center, rising above everything else.
“I wonder if that’s my pad,” Jax says from my side, keeping pace as I advance. “Since I’m a master and all.”
“I’m guessing, seeing as how it’s a focal point, that it serves as a gathering point,” I say dryly.
“Gathering point. Castle. Tomato, tomahto. It looks fucking sick. Though shouldn’t we change, first?”
He glances around at the slowly increasing foot traffic. Other players are already trickling through the backdrop of what appears to be a busy hub in the style of ancient Roman architecture. I don’t study the buildings we pass in full, but they seem to span the gamut of everything from taverns, to pubs, to various markets.
Of the random players nearby, very few seem to be sporting the rough, plain clothing similar to what Jax and I spawned in wearing. Most have already changed into a colorful array of togas that signify varying social statuses
“My stuff looks sick,” Jax remarks and I look over to find him rummaging through his sack. “I’m gonna look so hot in this shit.”
I don’t bother doing the same. Driven by an impulse I can’t shake, I keep moving, wading through increasing foot traffic toward the heart of the city.
I wasn’t wrong at least.
Soon, it’s apparent that this section of the city serves as the main destination to many of the inhabitants already here. A tall, sprawling array of buildings, adorned with scarlet, shingled roofs and marble pillars. We’re herded into an open courtyard before the tallest building which resembles a temple, with a series of broad steps leading to an entrance.
And at the top of the steps stand three women.
“Sexy,” Jax mutters as we jostle through the thickening crowd for a better position. Even from here, their attractiveness is apparent. In the center is a redhead clothed in a tight semblance of a toga—historical accuracy all but damned in the sake of sex appeal—designed to reveal her curves. The two women flanking her are equally striking and I sense that inner discontent I’ve struggled with growl in satisfaction. Finally.
Something to take my mind off her.
Another woman appears to join the others—seemingly dragged from the temple by a shapely brunette.
Her mouth draws my attention first—mainly what’s covering it. A strip of dark leather shrouds her lips, rendering her silent. A gag.
Odd, but given the circumstances, not completely unexpected. I can’t make out the symbols on her bracelet, though I can hazard a guess as to what some might entail.
But her eyes… They’re so fucking dark their murky color is apparent from here. A soulless shade of brown damn near black. In sharp contrast, her hair is practically white. Platinum, but in a soft, subtle way that doesn’t seem like it’s been bleached to hell and back.
In fact, everything about her holds that raw, untampered quality. She’s small, barely coming to the shoulders of the women around her, all of average height. The breasts visible through the gaping neckline of her sheer turquoise gown aren’t remarkable, definitely not surgically enhanced.
And her face…
“Holy fuck,” Jax whispers, seemingly coming to the same grim realization I already have. “You know, if you squint, she kinda looks like—”
“Don’t say her fucking name,” I hiss.
But he’s right.
She looks like her.
Younger, of course, with suppler skin. Her tits aren’t enhanced with implants, her body lacking the general poise that years of studying the art of manipulation can embolden a woman with. She’s too thin. Too short. Too scrawny.
Too fucking different.
But it doesn’t matter. A wave of emotion ignites within me regardless, like a fire. One fed by emotional gasoline with every passing second. Lust. Hate. Rage. Most of all, a searing, brutal need for revenge.
And maybe a little pity underneath.
She’s everything I never fucking wanted, and everything a part of me grudgingly realizes I might need. To get herout of my system once and for all. To make her pay in the only way I can.
To shake this fucking mood.
It’s with an almost pathetic sense of relief that I spy the gold bracelet on her wrist and know for sure that she’s fair game. Mine to exploit. Mine to conquer. Mine to use.
I barely hear the voice of one of the women ring out, seemingly aided by unseen equipment.
“Welcome, travelers,” she says. “I am Minerva and welcome to the Hill of Valor. Here you can relish in the darkest impulses of your nature and claim that what you wish with skill and blood. Before you, await our lovely prizes—including the loveliest of all.”
She approaches the blond and runs her fingers through the smaller woman’s hair.
“Our Tribute of Juno. A prize to the winner of the Gauntlet, the deadliest challenge that lies within this arena. Whether you undertake the challenge yourself, or employ a vassal to fight for you, know that only the mightiest of players have a chance of claiming this prize.”
Prize. That word echoes in my head as I watch the blond squirm, her gaze wide. Despite the muzzle, I swear I can hear her whimpering from here. Screaming.
Fuck, I almost don’t want to suspect that she might embody that most elusive of fucking kinks. Role play. Submission. Someone ready to break and eager to be broken.
“Damn,” Jax murmurs, sounding miles away. “I think someone has a hard-on.”
Again, the bastard is right. But the tension building below my abdomen isn’t one I relish anymore. Fuck, I hate myself for the reaction.
I think I hate her.
Or pity her.
Or I know better than to even entertain this sick, twisted impulse buzzing through my skull. What I should do?
Is walk away.
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Shenmue 3 & E3 2017 - UPDATE - Confirmed will NOT be at E3
(Chapter 7 and beyond)
Re: Shenmue 3 & E3 2017
by Spaghetti » Sat May 27, 2017 12:09 pm
mrandyk wrote: The lack of content shown is certainly a reason to believe this game isn't coming out in 6-7 months.
I don't think this is a solid argument when we know for a fact that far more work has been done than shown on Kickstarter. YSnet have their reasons for not showing it yet, but don't take that to mean they're struggling to get things done.
Obviously this isn't a guarantee they'll make December. Just a reminder that not seeing game content yet is kind of irrelevant in the wider context.
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by ShenmueForeseen » Sat May 27, 2017 12:32 pm
Ever since the Windows 10 update some days ago Demul runs like garbage, huge sound distortion. There goes my Shenmue 1 playthrough at the start of disk 3. :(
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by Lan Di-sama » Sat May 27, 2017 1:48 pm
I think a no-show at e3 might be cause for some concern, unless they address it in this month's update. At best, it would mean a delay is likely - at worst, they could be struggling to get things to where they need to be. It isn't easy making a masterpiece and my worry is that Shenmue 3 will not hold a candle to its predecessors. There's still a lot of work they need to do in regards to the Kickstarter rewards as well.
However, a no-show would totally be mitigated by a Shenmue I and II HD reveal. It seems imminent, the time is right, and it's the only course of action since the very beginning that makes sense. I know I can dig out my Dreamcast at any time, but the idea of playing a polished re-release on my PS4 (which I bought primarily for Shenmue 3) is exciting, and would really hype me up for the sequel. Really hoping for some footage in the May or June update (or, obviously, an e3 showing) to reassure the fans all is going well.
On a side note, I had a weird dream the other night that Shenmue 3, due to development woes, ended up being a stripped-down, first person point-and-click adventure game released just to tell the story. Eek
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by khmlight3 » Sat May 27, 2017 2:20 pm
YS Net said development for Shenmue III is still going well!
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by mrandyk » Sat May 27, 2017 3:52 pm
Spaghetti wrote:
I agree that we haven't seen everything, but with the lack of revealed content it can be inferred that the game still isn't refined enough for the public eye. If it isn't ready for the public eye 6 months before the December deadline then a December release seems incredibly unlikely.
How far do you believe we have to get into 2017 (without gameplay footage) before a delay can be safely assumed? I do not anticipate Shenmue 3 at E3, and I believe that a no-show is a near guarantee that December 2017 is out of the question.
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by Sappharad » Sat May 27, 2017 5:17 pm
Lan Di-sama wrote: On a side note, I had a weird dream the other night that Shenmue 3, due to development woes, ended up being a stripped-down, first person point-and-click adventure game released just to tell the story. Eek
I had a dream this past week that I was being chased through a parking lot by a small octopus.
Anyway, if their plan is to ship in December, (Kickstarter estimates are for delivery) then they have less than 4 months to finish if they want to deliver on time since major titles typically get released to manufacturing 2 months in advance. Unless they've already scheduled time for the voice actors to come in and do the dub, it's not making 2017. They can't just bring in voice actors that don't live locally with 1 week notice, they'd schedule it in advance and spread it over multiple sessions potentially lasting weeks depending on how much VO there's going to be this time around.
It could be that they plan to finish in December and not ship until early 2018, and I guess that would somewhat equate to no delay if the backer trial that they promised was delivered in December.
We get this month's update next week, and Sony's E3 presentation is in just over 2 weeks. If it's not clear what's going on after that, well, that will be disappointing.
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by Spaghetti » Sat May 27, 2017 5:18 pm
mrandyk wrote: I agree that we haven't seen everything, but with the lack of revealed content it can be inferred that the game still isn't refined enough for the public eye. If it isn't ready for the public eye 6 months before the December deadline then a December release seems incredibly unlikely.
I would actually agree with you that if it doesn't show at E3 the likelihood of the game releasing in 2017 plummets to beyond zero, but being ready for the public eye and a snapshot of a game's development are very different things.
I use this example a lot, but Final Fantasy 15 says it all. Debuts at E3 2013 with a very advanced looking trailer, but doesn't actually come out until December 2016, even despite having a demo released in March 2015. People familiar with this game's content and how they're basically developing it on the fly via patches will be more than happy to tell you they probably should have spent less time making trailers and demos for conferences, and more time actually figuring out what they wanted the game to be.
We're probably closer to a reveal than you think, but because YSnet clearly has designs on doing it in a big way at a games press event, every time they have to kick that can down the road - it gets deferred by half a year due to the timing of shows like E3 and PSX. It was pushed back last PSX. Will it be pushed back again? Who knows. We'll know in a matter of weeks now.
Spaghetti wrote: It was pushed back last PSX.
It was NOT pushed back last PSX. Gio Corsi told me that they never planned to show it or had even discussed showing it with them.
Sappharad wrote: It was NOT pushed back last PSX. Gio Corsi told me that they never planned to show it or had even discussed showing it with them.
That's not the word from the Japan dinner, where it was said explicitly or near-explicitly by the developers that they were aiming for PSX (this is the first hand information we've been told on here publicly by people like Peter, so I obviously cannot personally verify even if I do believe it to be true).
And as I've said before, these statements do not contradict each other. YSnet could have had PSX plans and killed them before they even spoke a word of them to Sony.
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by Valascaziel » Sat May 27, 2017 9:31 pm
Always nice to see the original Shenmue on Dreamcast listed as a "Best Seller" on Amazon in 2017, long after the Kickstarter fervor ended. The interest is truly real..lets hope Sega makes the move in the coming weeks on those HDs.
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by shredingskin » Sat May 27, 2017 10:53 pm
FUck it's the first time I watch the giantbomb e3 coverage, what a fat piece of shit.
Really, you can see 3 guys are actually exited about it and brings down the mood for everyone, and the guy just keep shitting on it.
This year Shenmue is gonna rock it hard.
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by Spaghetti » Sun May 28, 2017 12:17 am
I don't wanna start throwing personal insults at him for differing opinions, but I'm totally not surprised Gerstmann reacted like he did given the old history with Shenmue when he worked at Gamespot.
I do think Giant Bomb can be suffocatingly negative though, and it always seems to reach its nadir during press conference season. Their E3 2015 stream was awful for me (not because of Shenmue reactions, I expected that), because this was the first E3 with GB for two of their usually high-energy new hires and Jeff just sucked the fucking life out of the room throughout.
They're the perfect example of people who have their hobby turned into a job, and react accordingly. E3 is basically gamer Christmas, and I'd rather not spend it with people who treat it just like a particularly grueling work day.
Actually, for the first time in over five years I'm not going to tune in to any of their E3 coverage because of this. I've even been weaning myself off their podcast(s) after they spent 30 minutes bitching about stuff they didn't like in a game they all agreed they loved at the top and tail of the conversation.
This is coming from someone who was a paid subscriber to their site for like two years too. The Dojo's E3 stream is the only one I'm going to watch that isn't just a direct feed of the event with no commentary. Game punditry can get fucked.
by south carmain » Sun May 28, 2017 12:50 am
I'll be watching the easy allies stream if they're doing one. Can't miss Huber's reaction if there is a shenmue 3 trailer shown.
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by Let's Get Sweaty » Sun May 28, 2017 3:18 am
Valascaziel wrote: Always nice to see the original Shenmue on Dreamcast listed as a "Best Seller" on Amazon in 2017
Is there a page you can link me to that shows this?
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by KidMarine » Sun May 28, 2017 5:57 am
Spaghetti wrote: I don't wanna start throwing personal insults at him for differing opinions, but I'm totally not surprised Gerstmann reacted like he did given the old history with Shenmue when he worked at Gamespot.
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In late 1917, the German High Command was desperate to knock Russia out of World War I and devote more resources to the Western Front. Despite upheaval at all levels of society and especially within the military, Russia had remained a belligerent after the Russian Revolution in February 1917. The Russian military had essentially ceased to be an effective fighting force and yet the Provisional Government under Alexander Kerensky insisted on continuing the fight against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Thus the Germans devised a plan to invade a trio of islands in what is now Estonia. The operation would achieve two significant objectives and potentially force Russia to withdraw from the war. First, the Russian Baltic Fleet would be all but neutered by German control of the islands and, more importantly, the Russian capital of St. Petersburg would be threatened with invasion.
Dubbed Operation Albion, the plan called for a combined arms operation in which infantry and cyclist troops would land on October 12, 1917 on Saaremaa Island and isolate the garrison. Meanwhile, a naval task force would provide fire support and deal with any attempted intervention by the Russian Navy. Both land and sea forces would be supported by seaplanes which flew reconnaissance and bombing missions.
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The German landings were achieved without serious opposition and cyclist troops quickly pushed to divide the Russian forces by occupying a dam which connected Saaremaa and Muhn. The cyclists reached their objectives and wreaked havoc on the Russian forces as they attempted to withdraw across the dam. Russian naval forces and 3 Royal Navy submarines attempted to intervene, however, their efforts were unsuccessful and resulted in the loss of the pre-dreadnought Slava, the destroyer Grom and a few smaller vessels. Apart from damage from mines, the Germans lost no capital ships during the operation.
Pre-Dreadnought Slava Sinking
After little more than a week, the Germans had secured the three islands – Saaremaa, Muhu and Hiiumaa and captured 20,000 Russian troops. Most significantly, though, the Germans had successfully launched a combined air-land-sea operation and were now poised to invade St. Petersburg. Less than 6 weeks after the action, the Russians sued for peace and German troops were freed from the Eastern Front to launch a last ditch effort to win on the Western Front.
The operation also had a minor World War II connection. Lieutenant Ernst Lindemann, later the captain of the ill-fated Nazi battleship Bismarck, served in the operation as a wireless officer aboard the battleship SMS Bayern. In 1944, the Soviets would launch their own Operation Albion, this time to wrest control of the islands from Nazi forces garrisoned there.
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A to Z Family Stories: N for Nona, Storybook Grandma
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Nona, her name, or at least the name she was willing to tell us. Her “real” name had something to do with Rosa or Rosabelle but she was not going let us call her that and never explained why to our satisfaction. She was my grandmother.
Three of my brothers and I were born in succession, two years apart, to a young mom who was thrust into childrearing almost before she was done being a child herself. We also lived in semi-isolation in the country. We desperately needed a good grandmother and fortunately, my dad’s mother, Nona, was that person. She and grandpa lived fairly close to town so it was a grateful mother who would drop us kids off to play in safety while she did grocery shopping or errands.
Grandma was always glad to see us come, always had a smile for us, gave us freedom to play and explore outside and seemed to be waiting for us to come in and have story time. She commonly sat at the kitchen table for letter writing and other work but come story time she would move to her recliner. We would grab a handful of books from the shelf in the stairwell and pile on top of her and the chair and listen as long as she would read. Peter Rabbit, Elmer Fudd, and other Little Golden Books were our well-worn favorites.
Grandma Nona wore an apron, the kind that goes over the head and covers the front of the dress, because she wore dresses all the time and they needed to be kept stain free. The apron only came off when she left the house to go to town or when pictures were being taken. It was a functional piece of clothing, used to carry everything from eggs gathered in the coop, to asparagus picked along the fence row. Besides the apron, her “grandma uniform” was pretty consistent – the same kind of dress, thick flesh-colored stockings, the same type of shoes. Once my aunts got her to wear a polyester pantsuit which she liked and acknowledged as comfortable, but I never saw her wear it again. She was probably saving it for “good” like all the other new things given to her as gifts.
Grandma stopped going to church when I was very young. She stayed home and cooked dinner for us, on her wood fired cook stove. We would arrive shortly after noon, to a very warm kitchen, where we sat down to fried chicken, mashed potatoes, garden vegetables, rhubarb sauce or some other dessert. Grandma baked her own bread and was also know for her cookies which were kept in a tightly covered lard can in the cupboard under the sink. All girls, including me, washed dishes after the meal, dried them and put them away. The vegetable trimmings, kept in a “swill pail” under the handwashing sink, would be taken out to the chickens or thrown on the garden. Then a couple of hours of quiet play would ensue while the grownups digested, slept or read.
Even when I went away to college, grandma was one of my strongest supporters. She would write to me regularly, as well as writing to each of her three daughters every week. When I would visit home she would watch out the kitchen window for me to come down her driveway. She would sit at the table with me, smiling, and listen to everything I could tell her about school, home, my life. I remember after I was married, bringing my firstborn daughter to grandma and setting the baby in her lap as she sat in the recliner. “Little sweetie” she called her. Somewhere there is a picture of that.
I miss her now. I think of many things I would ask her if I had the chance to do it, deeper subjects, questions that no one who knew her seems to be able to answer. I’m just sayin’, if you have a grandma, an aunt, a mom, who is close to you, have those conversations while you can. They are precious.
Grandma Nona wearing her apron (a rare picture!), sitting in her recliner, maybe waiting to read a story…
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I call my grandmother Nana 🙂 Love her to pieces.
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Trish’s Soda Bread
Posted on March 25, 2015 by singersong
Soda Bread is made in a few countries other than Ireland but it remains quintessentially Irish. So I decided to learn how to make it. Never refuse an invitation is one of my rules here in Ireland so when Trish from Lahinch offered to show me I jumped at the opportunity. What is Soda Bread? It is a simple quick bread that uses sodium bicarbonate (what the Irish call ’bread soda’) as the leavening agent instead of yeast. It relies on mixing buttermilk (weak acid) with the soda (alkaline) to produce tiny carbon dioxide bubbles which cause the bread to rise. It does not need kneading or time to stand. It has an Australian equivalent in Damper widely made in rural Australia and popular with indigenous Australians.
Trish’s Soda Bred – the final product
Here is Trish’s Recipe which she got from her mother and who knows how far back it goes beyond that. Trish’s recipe uses half and half white flour and wholemeal flour but it can be mixed in any proportion depending on taste. It’s very simple – here goes. Take 20 ounces of mixed wholemeal and plain flour and add one heaped teaspoon of bread soda. Crush it between the fingers to break up the lumps. Mix. Add buttermilk, a little at a time, and lightly mix until consistent slightly sticky dough is attained. Salt is optional. Make into a ball with a little flour on the bench and flatten into the desired shape and place on a floured baking tray. Make fairly deep cuts into quarters and place into a preheated oven at 200˚C for about 30-35 minutes. Check regularly in last five minutes. Tap bottom – a hollow sound means it is cooked! That’s it. The proof is in the pudding and it was delicious with Kerry butter and Irish Cheddar or spread with Clare jam (Strawberry and Baileys!). I had a go and mine was made with just white flour and with raisins (about 3-4 oz). Pretty proud of it – check the final photo. It’s in the freezer so yet to taste it. Thanks Trish for taking the time to open another window for me on the real Ireland. Give me half an hour’s notice if you’re coming to visit and I’ll have a hot loaf ready for you!
1. Add 10 oz wholemeal flour
2. Add 10 oz plain flour
3. Add heaped teaspoon baking soda
4. Add buttermilk
5. Mix to make dough
6. Round and flatten to shape
8. Place in oven at 200 deg
9. Tap bottom to check if cooked
10. Ready to serve
11. Portions can be frozen and eaten later
12. Sliced soda bread delicious with butter and jam
13. My version of Trish’s soda bread with white flour and raisins
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Solar Eclipse in Co. Clare
I dutifully set the alarm for 8 am after the usual late night playing tunes, so that I could see the much hyped total eclipse of the sun. Well it’s not actually total where we are but it was to be pretty damn close. I didn’t have high hopes as there was a thick blanket of fog when I drove home last night at 1 am. Sure enough I looked out the window at as the alarm sounded to a complete whiteout and promptly rolled back over to sleep.
Something woke me up an hour later and made me look out the window again This was what I saw peeking through the haze.
First glimpse of the eclipse March 20 2015
I madly grabbed the camera put the telephoto on and, while mindful of all the dire warnings that I would lose my sight, pointed it in the general direction and fired away. Of course I didn’t have a sun filter so the first shots were completely blown out but the fog was working in my favour and as the slowly diminishing sun peeped in and out I kept clicking. For the technically minded I shot on my Canon 5D Mark 2 at the lowest ISO and on programmed automatic stopped down between 1 and 1 2/3 stops to cut the light. I only had a 200m lens so couldn’t get in that close.
It was an amazing experience as I watched the light fade. As we reached near “total” the fog closed in and there wasn’t enough light from the sun to get a shot. So I turned my attention to the rocks and the sea. It was deathly quiet. Eerily so. I think the word ‘eerie’ must have been coined during a total eclipse of the sun. It was not as dark as I expected but it was the quietness and stillness that struck me. Not even familiar sounds like the birds, which are my constant companions, or the lowing of cows, which only minutes earlier had welcomed the dawn. The only sound was the restless sea and even it was unusually quiet. It lasted about ten minutes as the light gradually returned and I heard the first quack of a wild duck heralding the new dawn.
For a moment the fog thinned and I saw the sun emerge on the other side of the moon. Just for a moment. Long enough to take one last photo. Then as the sun became bright enough to penetrate the haze it was impossible to photograph let alone look at.
In the end I had to be grateful for the fog and cloud. It enabled me to witness something that the gods have continually conspired to prevent me seeing.
Roll on 2024.
Eclipse, Caherush March 20 2015. About 15 minutes before “total”.
Eclipse over Mt Callan from Caherush March 20 2015
Eclipse Caherush, March 20, 2015. Minutes before “total” and just before the cloud covered the sun.
Caherush during the “total” period of the eclipse March 20 2015
Eclipse, Caherush March 20 2015, Minutes after “total”, the sun emerges briefly before being covered by cloud again.
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St Patricks Day in Ennis. Fifty Shades of Green.
My first St Patrick’s Day in Ireland.
It has always been something I have avoided in Oz. An excuse for all and sundry to parade themselves as being Irish (whether they are or not) fuelled by green beer and endless renditions of Wild Rover and the Fields of Athenry. Not always a pretty sight. And sessions on St Pats Day are non existent as every person who can hold a fiddle or accordion is gigging somewhere that night. So I was keen to find out what it was like back here.
St Patrick’s Day honours the death of St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, in 461 and it is celebrated as a national holiday in Ireland and Northern Ireland and around the world by the Irish diaspora. It has moved from being a religious holiday to a day of secular celebration much to the chagrin of the church. I like this quote from Father Vincent Twomey who wrote in 2007, “It is time to reclaim St Patrick’s Day as a church festival without mindless alcohol-fuelled revelry” and concluded that “it is time to bring the piety and the fun together.” This plea seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
March 17th was a glorious sunny day in Clare so I headed into Ennis. The place was decorated with bunting and flags in preparation for the Parade, which kicked off at 11.00. Parades are a big deal here and every town and village has one. Not as big as Dublin of course which is now supposedly beats that in New York but definitely not as small as the one in Dripsey in Co Cork (which celebrates the fact that it has the shortest parade in the world – 100 yards between the village’s two pubs).
They are often staggered so the limited number of brass bands and prime movers can rotate between the villages. Community groups and schools go to a lot of effort and there are prizes for the best float or display. And everyone dresses up, with green of course being the dominant colour. At least fifty shades of green. Somehow it’s not tacky as it tends to be in Australia. It is the Irish celebrating their Irishness. So I saw nothing incongruous in leprechaun beards and green wigs as I might have in Australia if worn by Australians.
The other thing that struck me as the Parade moved past me was that just as in Australia now, Ireland is a multi-layered society and a quick flick through the photos shows groups with a diversity of ethnic identities. There is a strong representation of support groups for people with special needs. It was quite a window into what is important to the people of Clare. The whole thing is very much a family day and this spilled over into the pubs and restaurants with family groups continuing the celebrations as others geared up for a big night.
I had heard there would be tunes all day at Cruises so at 1:00 I joined Eric and Hugh Healy with Brian O’Loughlin and Catherine for some great tunes. Energetic and fast – great fun. Accompanied as we were by a young lad who practiced his dance steps continuously for well over two hours! Gradually the families left the pub and by 4 pm there was a change in musicians to Eoin O’Neill and Quentin Cooper and friends. The pub was rapidly filling up but at 6:00 I decided to head back to Friels at Miltown Malbay where there was a session in full swing when I arrived with with Damien O’Reilly, Caoilfhionn Ni Fhrighil, Eamonn O’Riordan, Brian Mooney and Thiery Masur . The pub was packed like I haven’t seen it since Willie Week and there was plently to like about the music. At 8.30 it wound up and my next stop was Liscannor where Ennis band Los Paddys de las Pampas were playing at Egans. I have to say I had never heard them before and wasn’t sure what to expect – Ireland meets South America? But with talent like Adam Shapiro and Kirsten Allstaff involved it had to be good. And what a great night. The music was surprisingly infectious and even a boring old fart like me was up on the dance floor bopping along. There were some great cameos from Clara Buettler and two flamenco dancing sisters (can’t remember their names) and then Lenka Hoffmanova took to the floor looking resplendent in her dress of orange white and green. Flamenco meets sean nos! Great stuff!
Now that was how St Patricks Day should be celebrated.
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Stocktons Wing Concert Ennis
There was one vinyl above others which rested nearly permanently on my turntable in the early 80s and that was ‘Light in The Western Sky’. I loved the freshness and the energy and the post-Planxty inventiveness – they were my favourite band. Then I saw them live during the Guinness World Tour (of 1984 I think) in Perth, Western Australia and I remember them as being standouts on a bill that included Mary Black and Christy Moore.
Fast forward now to Treacy’s West County Hotel in Ennis in March 2015 and I am sitting in a crowded room hearing those same songs and tunes being belted out and sounding just as fresh thirty plus years later. It is the Stocktons Wing Reunion tour and they have returned to Ennis where it all began for them in 1977. The locals are excited to have them back and they did not disappoint. The concert focussed around that seminal album so we heard Walk Away and the Belltable (which Maurice informed us was written upstairs in Brogans) and the Golden Stud as well as other hits such as Take a Chance. Of the original line up Paul Roche, Maurice Lennon and Tommy Hayes remain but it was brilliant to see Steve Cooney and Mike Hanrahan back in the line up too. For me the unique sound of the band rests on the driving guitar of Cooney and the brilliant percussion of Tommy Hayes which elevates the music and takes you along for the ride. Maurice Lennon has lost none of his fiddling prowess and weaved his magic brilliantly with his long time collaborator Paul Roche on flute and whistle and essential to that original sound was the familiar vocals of Mike Hanrahan. And I shouldn’t forget Cooney’s didgeridoo which back then was such a revelation but still works so brilliantly to enhance the music. There was plenty of energy on stage and it was clear they were enjoying being there as much we were; this despite some issues with the sound, which was frustrating to band and audience alike.
I left the hall humming the Belltable Waltz which I couldn’t get out of my head and, in the mood for music, managed to squeeze in some tunes at Kelly’s before heading home well satisfied. I look forward to seeing the band again at Doolin in July.
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Wild Dingle, Co. Kerry
With all the festivals of late I haven’t had any time to post any pictures from the various road trips I have made in the last few weeks. So I will try and catch up slowly. This post is about the beautiful Dingle Peninsular. When at Ballyferriter (https://singersongblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/scoil-cheoil-an-earraigh-ballyferriter-co-kerry/) I had a couple of opportunities, with breaks in the weather, to get out and have a look at the countryside between Slea Head and Mount Brandon. I was pretty lucky but it was frustrating as well as I couldn’t help thinking she was like a heavily-veiled Turkish dancer shyly lifting her shroud to reveal the beauty within and then quickly covering up again. Tantalising me with fleeting glimpses, just as the sun peeks out before another squall or hailstorm swept in. You had to be quick with the camera to catch it. There was a snowfall the day before I arrived and another while I was there so Mt Brandon had a good dusting which, when the mist lifted, contributed to an Alpine feel.
The west Kerry landscape is so beautiful. A little more ordered than Clare (without the wildness of the Burren) but a patchwork of stone-walled verdant fields dotted with quaint villages – almost the archetypal Ireland. It has a rugged Atlantic coastline in common with West Clare and some spectacular beaches, which on this particular weekend were being pounded by some mighty waves. It is no wonder the area attracts tourists in droves along with artists, filmmakers, musicians and people seeking the ‘real’ Ireland.
Here are some photos which I think will give a taste of the extraordinary beauty of this part of Ireland. But it is only a taste and I will return to have another look and explore further when the weather is kinder. So expect more.
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Corofin Traditional Festival, Co Clare
The festival at Corofin is the 25th festival I have been to in Ireland since I arrived in May 2014. Is it the best? Hard to answer but for me it had everything. Some festivals have better workshops, bigger concerts, more variety, but this one to my mind gets the balance just right. Let me tell you about it.
The festival committee headed by the dynamic O’Reilly brothers have developed a tried and true formula and know better than to tinker with it. In fact the Festival won the MórGlór award last year in recognition of its contribution to music in Clare and the efforts of the organisers to put on a consistent and high quality festival.
Corofin is a small village on the edge of Clare’s spectacular Burren (see my blogs at https://singersongblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/the-burren/ and https://singersongblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/the-burren-again/) about 14 km from Ennis. The festival was held over the week 2nd March to 8th March 2015. It kicked off on the Monday night and there were events every night until the weekend when the festival proper got into full swing. I didn’t attend the opening by Eoin O’Neill on Monday (I was still enjoying the final session of the Russell Weekend in Doolin (https://singersongblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/russell-weekend-doolin-co-clare/) so I can’t comment on that but Tuesday and Wednesday saw two more free events in the Teach Ceoil. This is an intimate venue where there is a great connection between the artists and the audience. On Tuesday we heard Mick, Donal and Conor McCague launching their album of mainly Mick’s original compositions. It was lovely music, a highlight for me being; yes you guessed it, the fiddle playing of Donal. Wednesday was a tribute night to the irrepressible Joe Rynne from Inagh who has had such a big influence on music in North Clare As recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award, we were treated to some wonderful cameos from members of his family, from renowned flute players, Christy Barry and Brid O’Donoghue and then finishing with an all in session comprising 25 of Joe’s friends, many of them legends themselves and some previous members of the Corofin Hall of Fame. Their playing of the ‘Tulla’ set was something to behold.
Then there were three concerts on Thursday Friday and Saturday. One can’t be everywhere so the only one of these I saw was on Friday with the Yanks, a group of yes, you guessed it, Americans, led by 2014 All Ireland Senior Fiddle Champion Dylan Foley and the most gorgeous flute from Conal Ó Gráda with Colm Murphy backing on bodhran. I had never heard flute playing quite like that of Conal. It was light, full of energy and spirit and I was mesmerised. Performers at the other concerts included Angelina Carberry and Dan Broudar, Noel Hill and Liam O’Connor and Jesse Smith and Colm Gannon, and while it was disappointing not to see everyone, I was able to catch up with some of these at the various sessions.
I attended the fiddle workshop and in the allocated three hours we had an hour each from Jesse Smith, Dylan Foley and Conor McEvoy. This was nowhere near enough time and in particular Jesse Smiths’ insightful perspective was particularly helpful to me.
This festival however very much revolves around the virtually continuous sessions that take place from Friday night to the death on Sunday evening. It is a musicians’ festival and quality players turn up in droves and this brings a big contingent of international trad followers. It felt at times a bit like Willie Week without the baggage, if you know what I mean. Of course there were some sessions that didn’t deliver, just as in any festival – too much noise, too big, whatever; but there were so many that did. I played on the Saturday (not counting the workshop) from 2:30 to close at around 2am (after three hours sleep the night before) and again on the Sunday for twelve hours, exhausted but satisfied. There were both large sessions such as at Crowley’s on Saturday where despite there being possibly forty musicians, the music was fast and tight and had a good strong pulse, and there were small intimate sessions, such as with Stefan and Paolo at the Anglers Rest on Sunday or on Saturday where I had the great pleasure of playing with the incredibly talented Sarah, Ellen and Seamus O’Gorman, All Ireland champions from Waterford and the future of fiddle playing in Ireland. Great stuff. And I have to mention the Sunday evening session at the Angler’s Rest, with Derek Hickey, Claire Egan, Eoin O’Neill (box), Liam O’Brien, Dan Brouder, Angelina Carberry and Geraldine Cotter among others. This was sublime music played at a gentle pace and with wonderful restraint and despite the number of boxes you could hear each instrument clearly. It became almost hypnotic at times and a largely silent and appreciative crowd were treated to a memorable evening and a great finale to a weekend of wonderful music. Great to be part of it.
I caught up with a host of overseas musicians, some regular visitors to Clare who include Corofin on their must-visit list along with Willie Week and the Tradfest in Ennis and judging by the variety of inter-county number plates jostling for parking space there were visitors from all over Ireland drawn to this celebration of the best of Irish music. And as usual I made many new friends. Who wouldn’t want to be part of the traditional music scene?
There was not a bed to be had in Corofin as I discovered when my car was locked inside the Centra Car park, but that’s another story!
I only had one issue, and I mention it as something for the organisers to think about next time. There was a fantastic session going at Bofey Quinn’s on Saturday evening and the place was packed and buzzing. At 10pm the musicians who play at the regular scheduled session arrived and virtually mid-tune the session came to an abrupt end. As the regulars took over, the pub quickly cleared both of musicians and drinkers. This was not in the best interests of the Festival or the pub. I don’t know what the answer is but, like I say, I just mention it as something to think about.
Fair play to the O’Reilly brothers who seem to be the driving force behind this festival (I hope that’s not being unfair to others who contribute), while at the same time appear in the concerts, do MC’ing and turn up at sessions all over town as well as being at the end of the phone to answer requests for lost caps. Thank you.
So is it the best? Let me just say if it was a restaurant I’d give it three hats!
See you there next year.
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Russell Weekend, Doolin. Co. Clare
Posted on March 6, 2015 by singersong
Another week another festival. This time in my backyard at Doolin, pretty much the spiritual home of traditional music in Clare. This festival, held over the weekend 27th February to 2nd March 2015, honours the Russell family but in particular the much loved Micho Russell who died tragically in 1994. This is now its 14th year.
Doolin, for those who don’t know it has three pubs and a hotel and is spread out over a couple of kilometres just north of the famed Cliffs of Moher, Ireland’s biggest natural attraction. So it gets lots of foreign visitors. It has been something of a mecca for those seeking traditional music and for most of the year there is music every night in all the pubs. In itself this has brought about quite a change in Doolin as the pubs are very crowded and noisy and ironically it is not always the best place in Clare to hear traditional music. But there is no denying that the craic is mighty. This festival seems to mark the reawakening of Doolin from its winter slumber. Not that there wasn’t any music through the winter (take the Monday session at Hotel Doolin for instance) but this weekend brings out the punters in a big way and is a promise of what’s to come.
The festival kicked off on the Friday with the opening function in the hall. This was a showcase for the young talent of the district and the hall was packed with proud parents and relatives. And they had a lot to be proud of. From whistle-toting tots, who could hardly read and write, to All Ireland age champions on a variety of instruments. For over an hour there was a cavalcade of young musicians and dancers. I couldn’t help feel a sense of wonder at how important this music was to the soul of Ireland and how great it was that this was being passed to the kids. Yes kids learn musical instruments all over the world but nothing like here in Ireland. I have said it before but the future of Irish traditional music and dance seems safe. I was particularly taken with the set dancing where they were clearly enjoying themselves, even though they all had to rush to a disco afterwards. Good to keep a sense of perspective.
Then there was the main concert. This is traditionally held on the Saturday afternoon and was a cracker. I loved the format with all the musicians on stage, taking turns at solos and interspersed with performances from the whole band. With musicians such as Oisín Mac Diarmada and Kieran Hanrahan and the amazign Seamus O’Donnell, the music was absolutely brilliant. We also had some brilliant sean nos dancing from Samantha Harvey and two show stopping performances from the 74 year old dancing singing fiddler Desssie O’Halloran, who had the enthusiastic crowd on their feet. For me the high point of the concert was the saxophone playing of Seamus O’Donnell including a soulful rendition of Danny Boy. Something I had never heard before. I was sceptical but wow!. What a lift it gave to the music. Not ‘traditional’ I know but played from the heart.
There was copious quantities of food and wine afterwards and then a singing session capping a great evening.
I love to attend workshops. I had not heard of the tutor so it was to be a complete surprise. After two very late nights it was a wonder that I actually managed to turn up. And I am so glad I did. Unusually the fiddle workshop was scheduled for McGann’s pub, definitely a new one for me. I was the only one there. So I had a one on one with Catriana Ruine. I learnt five tunes but learned so much more than that, just playing and listening, It sounded so great just two fiddles in a quiet pub with the main distraction the crackling from the fire. I was very pleased with how quickly I picked up the tunes. When Catriana left I stayed in my corner near the fire and played tunes on my own for nearly an hour as the pub filled with diners, who happily, largely ignored me. It felt so good. Somehow I got inspiration from the moment. I don’t know where I got the confidence from but here I was, me playing on my own in one of the most famous music pubs in Ireland to a full house (even though they were more interested in their black pudding and crispy bacon than me) and playing competently enough not to be asked to shut it. All good things however come to an end and unceremoniously the piped music was turned on and I couldn’t compete. As I packed my fiddle away I was met with a lovely burst of applause from the diners which really surprised me as I didn’t think anyone was actually listening.
The workshop on the Sunday was equally good but for different reasons. There were two of us this time, and eventually our tutor turned up. We had the irrepressible and enthusiastic Cáit Ryan from Upperchurch in Tipperary. And while we only learned a couple of tunes, for one so young she was so full of good advice. In particular emphasising the importance of learning to sing in Irish. I now have a new challenge! We even had a crack at the air Ned from the Hills. This time the pub was not the best place as we were constantly interrupted, sitting as we were on the way to the toilets. Her family runs a music pub in Tipperary called Jim of the Mills, a place that is now firmly on my agenda to visit.
The sessions continued all afternoon and night over the weekend with musicians of quality. Highlights for me were a session that went at least 7 hours with the Clancy sisters and Mary Shannon at McGanns, some quiet tunes with Adam Shapiro and Terrry Bingham at O’Connors on Sunday and, at least for a while, some great music at McGanns with James Cullinan and others on Sunday. I say for a while because this session was brutally murdered by the arrival of two additional guitars (there was already one) competing with each other to see who could be the loudest and drowning completely the music. A shame. Fiddles were packed up and flutes disassembled and pretty soon the lads had McGann’s to themselves. The arrival of a cahone was the final plunge of the knife. This was more than made up for though on the Monday. James Cullinan again, his wife Carol, Noel O’Donoghue and Kevin Griffin kicked off in O’Connor’s at 3pm They were joined at various stages by others such as Donie Nolan, Seamus MacMahon, Carmel O’Dea, Anita Broderick and a couple of very talented kids, until it finally concluded at 12:30 am . A marathon 9 ½ hours of the most wonderful music that ebbed and flowed with the change in personnel. no guitars, no spoons and no bodhrans! Despite the pub noise that increased through the evening the music stayed pure and real. I changed my plans to go to Corofin that night and stayed to the very end. I had heard of James Cullinan’s quality and was not disappointed. And for a couple of hours I had the added privilege of meeting and playing with Carmel O’Dea. Another class fiddler. It was also special to hear a wonderful version of the Clogher Road from the fine voice of Donie Nolan. This is a session that will stay with me for years. Unfortunately I could not drag myself away so I missed what looked like another mighty session with Terry Bingham, Christy Barry and Anne Rynne in the other bar.
The craic was mighty, as they say, all weekend. I met lots of new people and everyone was so friendly. I have to share one story. As I walked past the bar in McGann’s, with my fiddle on my back one young guy grabbed my arm and stopped me saying “you play the spoons”. A bit taken aback I pointed to my fiddle and said “no what makes you think that?” “You just look like it” came the response. I wasn’t sure what to say when he finally registered my accent. “Fuck! you’re American” he blurts out. After telling him he had now insulted me on two counts, we parted the best of friends. Just love it…..
A fabulous festival and as I drove home that night through the light snowfalls I thought on this and the many other festivals I have attended. Every festival I go to gives me something. That’s why I keep going. Can’t wait for Corofin.
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Burren Backroom Series Concert Ennis
A concert of traditional Irish music was held in Ennis on Thursday 26th February at the Queens Hotel, not a usual venue for this style of music but those who braved the cold February night were well rewarded.
The concert was staged by Tommy McCarthy, from Galway and Boston, in aid of the Walk in my Shoes campaign to support the St Patrick’s Mental Health Foundation. This Foundation helps vulnerable young adults with a need for mental health services. This is one of a series of concerts which Tommy has staged under the banner ‘Burren Backdoor Series’ and it follows on from an earlier successful Facebook campaign involving traditional musicians in Ireland and the US.
Tommy gathered together an extraordinary array of talent mostly from Clare but with a few welcome blow-ins from places such as Donegal, Galway and Tipperary, all who generously gave their services to the cause. What a night.
The evening was very ably hosted by Paula Carroll, one of the presenters on Clare FM’s West Wind programme (which by the way is unquestionably the best nightly Irish traditional music show in the world and a showcase for music from Clare and elsewhere). The show began with the Tulla Junior Ceili Band, all aged between 11 and 14 and displaying a maturity way beyond this. They certainly captured that Tulla sound and this augurs well for the senior band in years to come. Their act had plenty of variety with a shortened brush dance and a delightful recitation from young seanchaí (shanachie), Naois O’Sullivan entitled ‘The Restaurant’. Great to see this fading tradition being handed down from her grandfather, who is also a shanachie. This well and truly set the scene.
There were too many acts and too many wonderful musicians to describe individually. So what were the highlights? A good mix of songs from Mullagh’s own PJ Murrihy and, the internationally renowned Sean Tyrell singing of his native Galway and at the end of the evening a beautiful rendition of Beeswing, but the night belonged to traditional instrumental music. There was a group of local musicians led by Siobhan Peoples who called themselves simply “The Ennis Trad Musicians”, with that energetic sound that regulars at Faffas or Dan O’Connell’s would be very familiar with and there were delicious counterpoints from groups such as the Boruma Trio (Andrew MacNamara, Eileen O’Brien and Geraldine Cotter) with their self-deprecating description of the band as the ‘RTE Light Orchestra’ (though they showed they could pump it out too with a rousing rendition of the Bucks, Rakish Paddy and the High Reel to finish their set!) and the sweet combination of the harp and concertina of Eimear Coughlan and Francis Cunningham. In between we had the McCarthy family Tommy, Louise, daughter Rose and from Miltown, Tommy’s sister Bernadette, a group from Lissycasey, who call themselves ‘In Tune’ (and they were!), which spanned the generation gap, and I have to say my favourite of the night, some gorgeous fiddle playing from Yvonne Casey with tasteful bouzouki from Eoin O’Neill. There was a group called Moher (another ensemble of Clare musicians), some strong representation from Miltown Malbay with regulars from Friel’s Pub and the incomparable Frankie Gavin for good measure. Frankie was worth the 20 euros alone and it was great to see him with just Geraldine Cotter’s piano and without the distraction of other instruments. His effortless bowing and vivacious playing, though definitely not “Clare-style”, was undeniably music from the top drawer and the product of a musician who has been at the top of his game for over forty years.
For those lucky enough to attend, despite the cold inside and out, which even with numerous layers left me with cold knees and toes throughout (God knows how they could play in t-shirts!!), it was a memorable evening with well over four hours of class music.
Another reminder why so many of us call Clare home!
Well done Tommy.
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An Olfactory Cilia Pattern in the Mammalian Nose Ensures High Sensitivity to Odors
R. C. Challis, University of Pennsylvania
H. Tian, University of Pennsylvania
J. Wang, University of Pennsylvania
J. He, University of Pennsylvania
J. Jiang, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Xuanmao Chen, University of New Hampshire, DurhamFollow
W. Yin, University of Pennsylvania
T. Connelly, University of Pennsylvania
L. Ma, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
C. R. Yu, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
J. L. Pluznick, Johns Hopkins University
Daniel R. Storm, University of Washington
L. Huang, Monell Chemical Senses Center
K. Zhao, Monell Chemical Senses Center
M. Ma, University of Pennsylvania
In many sensory organs, specialized receptors are strategically arranged to enhance detection sensitivity and acuity. It is unclear whether the olfactory system utilizes a similar organizational scheme to facilitate odor detection. Curiously, olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) in the mouse nose are differentially stimulated depending on the cell location. We therefore asked whether OSNs in different locations evolve unique structural and/or functional features to optimize odor detection and discrimination. Using immunohistochemistry, computational fluid dynamics modeling, and patch clamp recording, we discovered that OSNs situated in highly stimulated regions have much longer cilia and are more sensitive to odorants than those in weakly stimulated regions. Surprisingly, reduction in neuronal excitability or ablation of the olfactory G protein in OSNs does not alter the cilia length pattern, indicating that neither spontaneous nor odor-evoked activity is required for its establishment. Furthermore, the pattern is evident at birth, maintained into adulthood, and restored following pharmacologically induced degeneration of the olfactory epithelium, suggesting that it is intrinsically programmed. Intriguingly, type III adenylyl cyclase (ACIII), a key protein in olfactory signal transduction and ubiquitous marker for primary cilia, exhibits location-dependent gene expression levels, and genetic ablation of ACIII dramatically alters the cilia pattern. These findings reveal an intrinsically programmed configuration in the nose to ensure high sensitivity to odors.
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.065
Challis RC, Tian H, Wang J, He J, Jiang J, Chen X, Yin W, Connelly T, Ma L, Yu CR, Pluznick JL, Storm DR, Huang L, Zhao K, Ma M. An Olfactory Cilia Pattern in the Mammalian Nose Ensures High Sensitivity to Odors. Current biology : CB. 2015;25(19):2503-12. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.065. PubMed PMID: 26365258; PubMed CentralPMCID:PMC4596779.
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Which “God” did Varys see and hear?
Which "God" did Varys supposedly see and hear? I know that the most obvious answer would be R'Hllor since the medium was fire, but I think that begs a greater question: "Can the "Gods" in GoT manifest themselves physically, and if so why haven't they done so rather than using human mediums?"
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MariovingianMariovingian
Currently it is unknown if any gods exist in GoT at all. We know the supernatural exists (we see wights, "warging" and "shadow babies" and such like), but currently we don't know if any of those can be attributed to gods of any kind. – Andres F. Aug 9 '13 at 16:08
Can you clarify which chapter/book or episode the event you're referencing occurred in? – Memnoch Aug 9 '13 at 16:09
I could be completely off, but I think he mentions it when recounting the story of his castration. That's one of Tyrion's POV chapters in the first half of book three, I think. – Anthony Grist Aug 9 '13 at 16:12
@AnthonyGrist Ah, I seem to remember. Wasn't the wizard who castrated Varys trying to summon some sort of demon? Maybe that's it, but I can't remember the exact quote. – Andres F. Aug 9 '13 at 16:14
@AndresF. - He did indeed see something that he described as a demon, not a god. – System Down Aug 9 '13 at 17:10
Here are a relevant couple of quotes by Varys (A Clash of Kings - Chapter 44 "Tyrion"):
"I watched him burn my manly parts in a brazier. The flames turned blue, and I heard a voice answer his call, though I did not understand the words they spoke."
And later on in the same chapter:
"Yet I still dream of that night, my lord. Not of the sorcerer, nor his blade, nor even the way my manhood shriveled as it burned. I dream of that voice. The voice from the flames. Was it a god, a demon, some conjurer's trick?"
Varys himself doesn't know who or what the owner of that voice was. Even if gods do exist in the world of Westeros (which is still not a foregone conclusion), they are not the only supernatural beings in the series. We've seen:
the Others,
a shadow monster born out of Melisandre,
the ghostly inhabitants of the House of the Undying,
and demonic shadows summoned by Mirri Maz Duur.
So calling what Varys heard that night a God would simply be wild speculation.
System DownSystem Down
If Varys' story is true, and if there was really a supernatural entity (of any kind: god, demon or whatever) answering to the offerings being made in the brazier, it might have been a deity (meaning, an entity worshiped by men and perceived to have divine status) known as the Lady of Spears, since they share the ritual of burning someone's manhood (I don't think that such a ritual could be common practice in other god's rituals or common practice at all in Essos).
This Lady of Spears could be, in turn, just an aspect or a different name for any other of the (real?) gods in the world of GoT, since the true nature of the gods (if any) has not been explained even in George R.R. Martin's detail-rich world.
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We Do Not Know
The scene in the show is very similar to that of the books.
Varys: With a hooked blade he sliced me, root and stem, chanting all the while. He burned my parts in a brazier. The flames turned blue and I heard a voice answer his call.
I still dream of that night. Not of the sorcerer, not of his blade. I dream of the voice from the flames. Was it a god? A demon? A conjuror's trick? I don't know.
But the sorcerer called and a voice answered.
And ever since that day, I have hated magic and all those who practice it.
Game of Thrones, Season 3 Episode 4, "And Now His Watch Is Ended"
All we know from that scene is what Varys has told us and he doesn't know what the voice was.
However, we do know that the flames can give visions to people, even those who don't follow the Lord of Light, as we see from Sandor Clegane:
Thoros: We can't tell you. Only the fire can tell you. What do you see?
Sandor: Logs burning.
Thoros: Keep looking. What do you see?
Sandor: Ice. A wall of ice. The Wall.
Thoros: What else?
Sandor: It's where the Wall meets the sea. There's a castle there. There's a mountain. Looks like an arrowhead. The dead are marching past. Thousands of them.
Beric: Do you believe me now, Clegane? Do you believe we're here for a reason?
Game of Thonres, Season 7 Episode 1, "Dragonstone"
As such we can speculate that whatever gave the vision to Sandor and the magic to Melisandre, Thoros and other Red Priests is what called from the flames. As for what that is, well we don't know.
TheLethalCarrotTheLethalCarrot
For the second part (the greater question) only speculation can be made at this point. For the first question, we will find out in a few days time (episode 1 of season 6 "The Red Woman") that the deity in question is indeed R'hllor.
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Israeli actress Ania Bukstein was recently confirmed for the part of "High Priestess Kinvara".
Seeing her in the recent #2 trailer interacting with Tyrion & Varys inside the throne room of the Great Pyramid of Meereen, pretty much confirms this piece of leaked script we got last year from another actress' (Tehmina Sunny) audition for the same part. And, although this piece of dialogue may eventually have been altered for the final version of the shooting script, the gist cannot but be the same, as it is most essential to the overall storyline.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/game-thrones-season-six-leaked-5938294
http://winteriscoming.net/2015/06/21/game-of-thrones-season-6-audition-leak/
On a personal note, I 'm quite sad it won't finally be Tehmina Sunny as "Kinvara"...
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Ankita Arora is a Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and avid op-ed writer.
Ankita at Yosemite National Park
Can you explain your research? To understand my research better let’s take an analogy of a warehouse that stores commodities at a nearby locality depending on the demand at the specific location. Similarly, cells store RNA molecules at close proximity to locations that need to produce proteins depending on the stimulus, a process called RNA localization. My research focuses on the role of RNA localization in brain cells. It’s important because disruption in RNA localization, often leads to degenerative brain disorders.
What got you interested in Science and Science Policy? One of my cousins has cerebral palsy, an incurable neurodevelopmental disorder. I saw him suffer each day while taking the drugs that only relieved symptoms. This drove me to science and research in particular. One of the primary motivations behind science was to serve society by problem solving - science for society. However, recent developments and technological advancements have widened the gap between science and society. Controversies surrounding gene editing, stem cell research, personalised medicine, and vaccines have become widespread. Instead of addressing the concern through evidence and data, these issues are getting increasingly politicized and polarized. An increased need to bridge the gap between science, society and policy-makers got me interested in science policy.
What motivated you to write an op-ed as part of the 2020 Election Initiative accelerator program and what was the topic? I strongly believe that for science to serve the community, scientists have to step outside their labs and communicate with larger audiences. This urge got me interested in writing op-eds, as they are one of the most efficient ways to disseminate information to the masses. However, I was struggling to get over the fear of the unknown - what the 2020 Election Initiative accelerator program did for me was to provide the initial push which drove the intimidation away. The op-ed call was focused on COVID-19 and me having a healthcare background [fit] - I centered my piece on the lack of diagnostic testing and why it is important in our path to recovery.
What was the most challenging part of the writing and publishing process? I will admit that it was a very steep learning curve. The way we as scientists are trained to write follows different rules than op-eds. While in scientific writing you start from background and end at conclusions, the op-ed works through an inverted process. It’s difficult to adapt to the new structure especially when it means that you have to unlearn years of scientific writing training. I am extremely grateful to the NSPN editors, who had the patience to walk me through the process for the first time. Secondly, the thought of pitching to editors with no prior experience was daunting. If you keep the pitch sweet and small it can do wonders. Lastly, learning that no response or refusals is part of the publishing process was hard.
What was something positive or rewarding that you gained from this experience? Writing op-eds has made me a better thinker, and forced me to learn the art of concise, succinct writing. It has helped me to communicate with clarity and precision.
Have you received any follow up questions or responses to your op-eds from the community or lawmakers? I have received lots of positive responses from my family, peers and colleagues. More often than not, my pieces have led to discussion amongst my cohort, and brought awareness, perspective to many around me. I remember peers sharing their personal stories about telemedicine and how that was a positive, stress-free alternative to in-patient visits after reading my second op-ed on technology and healthcare during the pandemic.
Do you have any advice for anyone not experienced with op-eds who wants to give it a try? Don't be scared to take the leap of faith and be persistent. I was in your shoes a few months ago, I sailed through the storm and came through in flying colors. SO CAN YOU. Also, don’t feel shy - reach out for help. You’ll be surprised to see how many of your peers would stand by-your-side and help you out. The best op-eds are ones where you have a personal story, but that’s not the end. Try to diversify your reach by interviewing an expert in the field, it shows you have given time and input which speaks volume.
What do you enjoy out of your work? I have been in Colorado for almost 2.5 years - and as a true Coloradoan I'm a big outdoor[s] fan and a bigger national park geek. Once, while hiking in Yellowstone, my husband and I encountered a black bear within 6 feet of us. We were completely unprepared, alone on the trailhead, and with no bear spray. We were dumbfounded, scared, yet excited. Thankfully, the bear was busy eating the grass and hardly noticed us but seeing a natural wonder in its [natural] surroundings was a humbling experience.
How do you see and feel the impacts of the recent order from ICE about the deportation of F1 visa students who are not taking in-person classes? What does it mean now that the order has been rescinded? What can other NSPN members and students be doing to support international scientists? I’m already in the U.S. on a J-1 research scholar visa, so neither the executive order nor the student ban directly impacts me professionally. But personally, the freedom to visit my family back in India seems to be limited as I risk my entry back to the US. I can see the impacts all around; some of my friends and family are directly affected and are dealing with increased anxiety and uncertainty which bring a great mental toll with it. The message that these orders give is that despite being experts and skilled in our fields, we’re not welcomed here. They make us feel as outsiders and that’s disheartening to witness. By rescinding the student ban, we have won one of many battles to overhaul the current immigration system. However, now that people have started paying attention to immigration issues, it is time to talk about other loopholes in the immigration system. It’s important to realize that immigration has always been a challenge, not just now. Being empathetic to your immigrant colleagues, reaching out to show support and increasing awareness of the hardships they face go a long way.
You can read Ankita’s three recently published op-eds through the links below. She shares that there is a fourth in the works. In addition to this work Ankita is actively involved with the NSPN Science Diplomacy Committee.
The path to COVID-19 economic recovery lies in large scale testing (The Colorado Independent)
How technology is shaping the brave new world of health care in the coronavirus era (The Coloardo Sun)
Beyond the tears and protests: let's stand up, act and spark change (The Colorado Independent)
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Amadeus and Points.com Partner to Scale Loyalty Tech for Airlines
Sean O'Neill, Skift
- Dec 13, 2018 8:40 am
This deal is noteworthy because it represents a recent industry shift in the gravity of airline sales efforts. Work that used to happen on computers that interact mainly with travel agencies is now shifting toward computers that mainly power an airline’s brand.com site and other direct sales channels.
— Sean O'Neill
Sometimes a small deal underscores a big trend. That’s the case with Thursday’s news that Amadeus, the travel tech colossus, and Points International, a provider of tools for travel loyalty programs, have signed a commercial and technical deal to sync their airline loyalty systems.
For Points, based in Toronto, this deal is a coup. Points will be able to piggyback on Amadeus’s broad customer list to sign up more airlines to its tools for servicing frequent flier programs.
Points International has relationships in place with more than 60 loyalty programs worldwide, with the majority of them being airline programs. Amadeus has more than 80 airline customers — roughly double the number of summer 2017 —using a selection of its Amadeus Loyalty Management and Awards services.
For Amadeus, based in Madrid, this integration is just one of many it has done with much smaller partners. That said, the deal bolsters its loyalty and redemption servicing tools, which Amadeus has been offering since its 2013 acquisition of the customer relationship management unit of tech provider Hitit.
Indirect Benefits for Flyers
For consumers, the deal between the public companies may eventually help airlines offer easier ways for frequent fliers to earn and burn their miles.
“Historically, airlines have a patchwork of systems, and that can lead to pain points where, say, a passenger might not see their points arrive in their accounts for three days after a trip,” said Dominic Matthews, head of loyalty, airlines, at Amadeus.
“We can avoid consumer frustration by implementing real-time data exchanges,” Matthews said. “In the first quarter of next year, our engineers from both teams will scope out how to streamline integrations.”
Amadeus’s and Points.com’s systems are cloud-based which, when synched, can offer real-time data updates and backups more consistently than the on-premise data centers still used by many airlines, the companies said.
Rival vendors include loyalty management systems from Oracle’s Siebel and Comarch, who also offer cloud-based systems.
The nuanced point is that airline IT is becoming a hotbed of investment and software development. Airline adoption of the cloud is driving the trend. Internet-based systems communicate using more flexible methods of data exchange than former on-premise data centers. This new reality has encouraged more non-traditional airline IT players to offer services in a dynamic that has sparked innovation and competition.
For example, Amadeus and Points are among the vendors who provide tech that intends to help airlines provide better service to members of frequent flier loyalty programs, but both have only made a big push in this sector in since 2013. Some IT companies that are moving more assertively into loyalty management tools include IT services firm DXC, marketing enterprise software provider Kobie, and Chinese global distribution system TravelSky via its 2016 acquisition of OpenJaw.
Marketers may want to promote a product, such as an opportunity to receive a bonus for a particular type of travel, by providing different awards based on which tier a flyer belongs in their programs, such as platinum or gold.
Airline IT Becomes the “It” Girl
For the industry, the deal represents a change in where the most crucial data gets crunched.
The deal highlights the rising importance of airline passenger services systems and related software applications loosely described as “airline IT.” To an extent, these systems are taking over some of the selling work that used to be the mainstay of so-called “distribution” tech systems.
We’ve written a lot about how Amadeus and its rivals Sabre and Travelport have been improving their reservation systems for travel agencies.
Another side of the sales puzzle, however, has been the growing prominence of airline operational systems.
Airlines need IT systems for services such as revenue management, the accounting of passenger sales revenues, and loyalty program management and servicing. These systems all have an impact on airline sales efforts but happen in a different part of their so-called tech stack.
To be sure, both airline IT and distribution systems will continue to work in concert. They both help airlines sell better.
However, the growing sophistication of airline IT systems means that, when airline executives want to boost their selling games, they’re turning to these systems first to implement changes because they can instantly test the results directly on their mobile apps and other direct channels.
Until now, Amadeus and Points offered separate loyalty systems to airlines. Points would often offer its tech wares to an airline only to discover that the airline was already using some different but related loyalty solutions from Amadeus.
In that case, Points would have to go through a back-and-forth between its team and the airline IT department to complete the integration, said Christopher Barnard, president of Points.
The new integration between Points and Amadeus means that work has already been done in advance, so to speak.
Airlines that haven’t used either one will now have a one-stop process to add tools from both Amadeus and Points without having to split the work into phased commercial and technical talks.
Airlines wanting to configure more complex marketing promotions for their loyalty programs generally need better tech than their in-house systems, which mainly manage accrual of balance totals and dispersals.
On Thursday, Amadeus and Points talked about immediate opportunities. It’s easy to imagine future ones, though.
Amadeus could look at addition synergies between the two companies’ product suites. It might also look one day at offering the advanced loyalty services beyond the users of its Altea suite of passenger service system to also include the primarily low-cost carriers that use its passenger service system Navitaire whose loyalty management tools are rudimentary today.
Points International also offers loyalty management tools to other types of suppliers, such as hotel chains and rental car companies. Amadeus also has business relationships with many of the same companies.
In the near-term, the deal helps Barnard of Points bolster the case he makes to investors in roadshow presentations that Points International has escaped its past doldrums and is on a growth trajectory.
The loyalty tech game and the broader airline IT investment it represents will only be heating up from here.
Tags: airline retail, amadeus, amadeus airlines, frequent flyer programs, loyalty, loyalty programs, Points.com
Photo Credit: A view of an Amadeus office Bel-Air à Villeneuve-Loubet near Nice, France, where the Madrid-based travel technology company has its engineering headquarters for Europe. Amadeus has entered into a strategic partnership with Points International, a provider of loyalty tech solutions to airlines. Amadeus
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On the Anniversary of the Weirdest Recast in Soap History, a Look Back With Eyes Wide and Jaws on the Floor
Charlie Mason
Steve Fenn/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
It shouldn’t have worked… and yet…
On December 17, 1991, One Life to Live did a whole lot more than change the actress that played the role of Blair Cramer, the much-missed ABC soap went and changed the character’s race, too.
We know — we were like, “WTH?!?” too. And this was before Twitter abbreviations were even a thing.
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Longtime viewers will recall that the part of Dorian Lord’s conniving niece was originated in 1991 by Mia Korf, who is of Japanese and Caucasian descent. And the role was virtually made for her; she and Blair shared the same birthplace, hobbies, even the same astrology sign. But when the newcomer left two years later to appear in a play, the show recast with… blonde Kentucky native Kassie Wesley, who’d previously appeared on Guiding Light as songbird Chelsea Reardon.
Even Wesley couldn’t believe it. As she told the Evansville Courier & Press in 2011, she was “a little bit shocked, because I didn’t think I looked the part.”
Why It Worked
Ah, but Wesley had the chutzpah to make it work. In fact, on her first day, she pulled off scene after scene that was nothing but double entendres. When a Speedo-clad rando warned Blair about the dangers of tanning for too long — it was, after all, a hot day in Miami Beach — her portrayer, without missing a beat, replied as Blair, “Well, that’s how I like most things — hot.”
From there, the One Life to Live newcomer set straight the audience about what Blair 2.0 would be like. She “only gets burned once,” intoned Wesley in character, letting a “Been there, done that” look cross her face. “There’ll never be a second time.”
At once, the audience could tell that Wesley could throw sparks with an inanimate object — which was pretty much what she had to do with this slab of beefcake. Long before she was paired on screen with future real-life husband James DePaiva’s Max Holden, she made it work with this vapid eye candy whose come-ons included, “I’ll show you my snorkel. Maybe you can teach me the breast stroke.”
More: Tribute to One Life to Live’s creator
Mrs. DePaiva reacted as Blair the same way that the audience did, with a virtual eye roll. The vixen liked a pastime that was, ahem, “a bit more active,” she said. So he offered to give her “a private lesson in water aerobics,” which honestly sounds odder than it does sexy, even as a cheesy double entendre.
You can watch the scenes play out in full above. And while you’re here, marveling at the fact that Days of Our Lives’ future Eve went on to become a soap icon owing to this, the most “Wait, whaaaat?” recast in soap history, peruse the below photos of daytime’s all-time best replacements.
Image: John Paschal/JPI (2), Howard Wise/JPI
<p>Even now, Grossman strikes us as a smidgen youthful to be playing Victor Newman’s black-sheep son, Adam, on <em>The Young and the Restless</em>. Nonetheless, his charisma — <em>and</em> chemistry with leading ladies Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea) and Sharon Case (Sharon) — have enticed us to accept him in the role played in bygone days by <em>This Is Us</em>’ Justin Hartley and <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/572300/michael-muhney-demands-apology-tmz-young-restless-adam-newman/" target="_blank">headline-maker Michael Muhney</a>.</p>
Image: ABC
<p>It’s a tall order, picking up where someone left off, especially when that someone is Emmy winner Michelle Stafford (Phyllis, <em>The Young and the Restless</em>). But Watros, an Emmy winner herself for her stellar work as Annie Dutton on <em>Guiding Light</em>, has pulled it off as <em>General Hospital</em>’s Nina Reeves. (If only Signy Coleman had managed to do the same when she took over for Watros on <em>Guiding Light</em> in 1998.)</p>
<p>All these years later, of course we know that <em>Days of our Lives</em>’ amnesiac John Black was never Roman Brady, as was initially believed. However, that doesn’t in the slightest diminish Hogestyn’s accomplishment, in making fans obsessed with Wayne Northrop as Marlena Evans’ one and only accept someone new in the role. Heck, even after Northrop was reintroduced in 1991 as the real Roman, he wound up being jettisoned in favor of Hogestyn, whoever it was he was playing!</p>
Image: NBC
<p>We know. We know that Ellen Wheeler, who first played Vicky and Marley on <em>Another World</em>, eventually returned to play the good twin (leaving Jensen Buchanan to continue on as the more twisted sister). But that does a total of nothing to detract from the superlative work that Wheeler’s replacement, Anne Heche, did in the roles. She, like her predecessor, waltzed straight into the Daytime Emmys’ winner’s circle. Can Buchanan say that? Didn’t think so.</p>
<p>When the <em>Another World</em> alum (as Sam Fowler) joined <em>Days of our Lives</em> as Bo Brady, he famously <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/gallery/real-life-soap-scandals-photos/" target="_blank">failed to make a fan of leading lady</a> Lisa Rinna (ex-Billie). The rest of us, however, bought what he was selling in the role that Peter Reckell originated. In fact, after Kelker-Kelly’s first stint as Bo ended, he “negotiated a second contract,” he told <a href="https://www.welovesoaps.net/2013/09/robert-kelker-kelly-interview.html" target="_blank">We Love Soaps</a>, “and then that one fell apart” (paving the way for Reckell’s return).</p>
<p>The accent is an issue, it’s true. But you also can’t deny that when this soap-hopper (who’d previously played Patrick Thornhart on <em>One Life to Live</em>, Ian Thornhart on <em>Port Charles</em> and Zach Slater on <em>All My Children</em>) was tapped to succeed Ronn Moss as <em>The Bold and the Beautiful</em>’s Ridge Forrester in 2013, “the dressmaker” plumbed depths of emotion that had been previously out of reach.</p>
<p>The fact that you’re probably at this moment asking yourself, “Wait, why is Wally Kurth on this list?” is exactly the reason that he is. Before he assumed the role of <em>General Hospital</em>’s Ned Ashton in 1991, the part had been played — and to great success — by Kurt McKinney (who’s better known now as Matt Reardon on <em>Guiding Light</em>); in fact, it was McKinney’s Ned who embarked on that infamous, pseudo-incestuous affair with the strumpet played by the actress at No. 2!</p>
<p>So, um, adequate a Blair Cramer was Mia Korf for <em>One Life to Live</em> that when she was replaced after two years by Kassie DePaiva (then Kassie Wesley, a veteran of <em>Guiding Light</em> as Chelsea Reardon), the character’s Asian heritage was dispatched. Overnight, the schemer became, er, vaguely Southern — and also a hit. DePaiva held the role for the next 20 years.</p>
<p>Truth be told, we don’t consider Thomson, best known for his work as Adam Carrington on <em>Dynasty</em>, a replacement for Terry Lester, who played <em>Santa Barbara</em>’s Mason Capwell with a cheesy flair after Lane Davies called it a day. We consider the actor a recast of Davies, in that he brought to the role an altogether necessary wit and intelligence that, were the soap gods fair, would have him standing in the spotlight to this day.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI (2)
<p>Justin Gaston (aka the husband of <em>The Young and the Restless</em>’ Abby, Melissa Ordway) had only played <em>Days of our Lives</em>’ Ben Weston for a short time in 2014 before the NBC soap replaced him with Wilson. Which turned out to be a genius move. Even after the character was turned into a serial killer, the powers that be couldn’t get out of their heads his charismatic portrayer, so ultimately, he was brought back, Ben was cured, and we all delightedly descended into, um, “Cin.”</p>
<p>If you’re stepping into shoes left empty by Buffy the Freakin’ Vampire Slayer, you’d better be prepared to bring it. Luckily, Minshew was. Though the role of <em>All My Children</em>’s Kendall Hart was her big break, the relative newcomer managed to make the most of it, convincing us all to forget Sarah Michelle Gellar and invest wholeheartedly (or whatever comes after wholeheartedly) in the romance of Zendall — to the uninitiated, that’s Kendall and her true love, Zach Slater.</p>
Image: John Paschal/JPI, ABC
<p>You can argue all you like that no way, no how was Miller’s Jake Doe in any way, shape or form <em>General Hospital</em>’s Jason Morgan (and, in fact, he turned out not to be Stone Cold but his heretofore-unknown twin brother, so you’d technically be right). However, the passionate fan base that remains committed to the connection that Drew Cain formed with Kelly Monaco’s Sam McCall would beg to differ, despite the rehiring of Steve Burton as the real McCoy, the preppy-turned-hitman that he’d played since 1991.</p>
<p>Are you surprised to see Evans on this list? <em>Long</em>-longtime viewers of <em>Days of our Lives</em> won’t be; they’ll remember that before she brought her, um, sweetness to the role of Steve Johnson’s better half, the part was played, and quite successfully, by Catherine Mary Stewart, whose version of Kayla was smitten with Chris Kositchek (to the point that she even lost her virginity to him!). Three years after Stewart split to do movies like <em>Weekend at Bernie’s</em>, <em>Rituals</em> vet Evans stepped in and laid claim to the plum part.</p>
<p>OK, this one’s a no-brainer. In the late 1980s, when <em>The Bold and the Beautiful</em> debuted, Katie Logan was a secondary character, the sort of (in her own mind!) Plain Jane whose dramas played out in the background of her gorgeous older sisters’ affairs. But when Nancy Sloan was finally replaced by Emmy winner Tom (previously Victoria Newman on <em>The Young and the Restless</em>), Katie moved front and center, shining as brightly as either of her blonde-bombshell siblings could’ve ever hoped to!</p>
<p>Somewhere, Erica Hope has kinda-sorta gotta be gnashing her teeth — because in 1979, grown-up child actress Scott left <em>The Waltons</em> — <em>The Waltons</em>, for John Boy’s sake! — to step into Hope’s former role of <em>The Young and the Restless</em>’ troubled Nikki Reed. Scott — then just plain ol’ Melody Thomas — had options, too; she reportedly joined the soap instead of signing with a sitcom pilot (which, as luck would have it, didn’t get picked up). The rest, as we well know, is history — more than 40 years of it at last count!</p>
Image: NBC (2)
<p>We don’t need to tell you what a hard act to follow is Robin Strasser (Dorian, <em>One Life to Live</em>). So it will come as no surprise that her original replacement as Rachel Davis on <em>Another World</em> was such a flop that the Daytime Emmy winner had to come back for a few months while the show <em>re</em>-recast. Thankfully, the powers that be discovered Wyndham — a veteran of <em>Guiding Light</em> as Charlotte Bauer — and once she took on the role in 1972, she made it so definitively her own that she played it until the NBC soap was cancelled in 1999.</p>
<p>You could have argued — and credibly — that after three-time Emmy winner Sarah Brown split from <em>General Hospital</em> and her role of Carly Roberts, no one could possibly hold a candle to her. But then Tamara Braun (who later played Kim Nero on the show) did just that, so brightly did she burn. And, ultimately, Wright, by then a veteran of <em>Loving</em>, <em>The City</em> and <em>Guiding Light</em>, did the unthinkable: put yet <em>another</em> unique stamp on the part. So, as she put it after signing a new contract in 2009, “you guys are <a href="https://www.soapcentral.com/gh/news/2009/1109-wright.php" target="_blank">stuck with me.</a>” And happily so!</p>
<p>If you <em>really</em> want to gauge how successful a recast this record-holding six-time Daytime Emmy winner was as <em>One Life to Live</em>’s embattled Viki Buchanan, all you have to do is ask yourself, “Hmm… who played the part before her?” No idea? Exactly! But the role of the sometime Niki Smith was actually originated by the well-liked Gillian Spencer (later Daisy Cortlandt on <em>All My Children</em>). When she left in 1970, someone no one remembers tried and failed to fit the bill before Slezak stepped in and brought Viki to life for the next four-plus decades.</p>
<p>When the soap vet, who’d already paid her dues on <em>A Flame in the Wind</em>, <em>As the World Turns</em> and <em>Love Is a Many Splendored Thing</em>, was tapped to play <em>General Hospital</em>’s Dr. Monica Webber, “I walked into something that I would never want to do again — replacing Patsy Rahn, who played [the character] before me and was rudely let go,” she told <a href="https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/tbt-leslie-charleson-3/" target="_blank"><em>Soap Opera Digest</em></a> in 1981. “It was done in a very tactless way.” Nonetheless, Charleson rose to the challenge and has become one of the longest-serving actors in daytime history.</p>
Image: CBS, John Paschal/JPI
<p>When in 1989 the late Terry Lester not only left behind <em>The Young and the Restless</em> but Jack Abbott, the popular playboy he’d portrayed for almost a decade, the soap worked itself into a real lather trying to find a suitable substitute. Thankfully, Bergman had just been canned by <em>All My Children</em>, where he’d played Dr. Cliff Warner for two decades. “I think <a href="https://www.tvinsider.com/834711/peter-bergman-young-and-the-restless-jack-abbott-30th-anniversary/" target="_blank">my firing was on the cover</a> of every soap magazine,” he told TV Insider in 2019. “Melody [Thomas Scott, Nikki] had one with her and said, ‘<em>That’s</em> Jack Abbott.’ Isn’t that just crazy?” Mm-hmm. Crazy-<em>brilliant</em>!</p>
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Miss Bailey Says…#9
in: "Miss Bailey Says...", Eras in Social Welfare History, Great Depression
“Miss Bailey Says…” – Practical Advice for Relief Workers in the 1930s #9
Introduction: In the depth of the Great Depression, the March 1933 issue of Survey Midmonthly carried the first in a series of columns that would continue for a decade. The subject of the columns — Amelia Bailey — “Miss Bailey” to most people — was a 1930s-style virtual-reality public relief supervisor. She existed on paper only, created at the typewriter of Gertrude Springer, an associate editor at the Survey magazine in New York City. In what became a popular monthly column, Miss Bailey listened to and advised the inexperienced social workers faced with coping with the Depression’s desperate unemployed relief applicants. “Miss Baily Says…” columns dealt with issues such as: “When Your Client Has a Car,” “Are Relief Workers Policemen?,” “How We Behave in Other People’s Houses.” She gave common-sense advice to questions such as what to do when the relief worker observes situations such as bootlegging, clients with a bank account, a family on relief seen attending a movie, the daughter of a family on relief sporting a new permanent wave. Below is one of her columns.
By Gertrude Springer
, Survey, Midmonthly, Vol. 69, November 1933, pp. 376-377
What shall the home visitor do about:
• The unemployed son of the house who brings home an unemployed bride?
• The girl who holds out her slender earnings from the family budget and takes title to a cheap fur coat the day the family is dispossessed?
• The able-bodied youth who refused to go to a reforestation camp and who has since kept himself in cigarettes by bartering the tidbits of the family grocery order?
• The mother who persistently and successfully connives to swap essentials of the food order for cream to satisfy the “weak stummick” of her 200-pound son?
• The mother who supports her stalwart eldest in his refusal to take a job that requires him to get up at six o’clock in the morning?
Just the way the telephone rang warned Miss Bailey of bad news. And yet, could such a joyous “‘Scuse me, Miss!” be a forerunner? “It’s Miz Muller, an’ I spend a whole nickel to tell you the news. My big boy Adolf gave us big surprise. A wife! Ja, ja, a wife. A lofely girl. She ain’t got no job poor thing, an’ you know about my Adolf, such bad luck, poor boy. But, my Got how they lof each other. An’ now,” interlude of giggling, “maybe some day I get to be grossmama.”
By the time Miss Bailey had noncommittally wished everybody good luck she had found the Muller’s card. Husband deserted. . . five children headed by Adolf aged twenty. . . relief off and on for three years,-mostly on, occasionally off when Adolf picked up garage jobs, or Mrs. Muller got a little cleaning work. No security, no anything. And now, a bride — and everybody happy. What a world!
Female worker helping a client with government loan accounting matters. Library of Congress
Before she could write herself a reminder to speak to the Muller’s home visitor in burst that young woman herself, fire in her eye. “Wa-ait a minute,” Miss Bailey stopped her. “If it’s about Adolf Muller I know it already and I think it’s just as unreasonable as you do.”
“Well, I’m going over there this minute, and what I’m going to tell that Adolf! I don’t care if he has been a good son. This is just too much. And if they think they’re going to get their grocery order increased for this hussy they’ve another guess coming.”
“Is she a hussy? Do you know her?” put in Miss Bailey mildly.
“Never laid eyes on her. But it stands to reason, doesn’t it ?”
“I don’t know. So few things stand to reason these days. Maybe she’s just a girl who has grown up in the depression, like Adolf. I remember what Jane Addams said, ‘Young people who have grown to thinking years since 1929 believe that things will go on as they are and they are hopeless and bewildered.’ I don’t believe we can blame them very much if they begin to snatch at life. Do you?”
“But Miss Bailey, would you really increase the grocery order?”
“I don’t know. I might. I’d find out more about it first. Perhaps the girl’s family is on relief in another district, and one order can be reduced as the other is increased. But let’s get the facts first, and let’s remember that while the Muller’s economic life has been out of joint their emotional life has gone along naturally. Adolf has been brought up to expect to marry at twenty or twenty-one. He’s all ready for it. His mother is all set for a grandchild. It’s rather nice isn’t it, that in such a situation as this they can all be so happy. There’s something so normal about it, even if it isn’t sensible. Life just does go on.” :
The younger woman turned to go, but Miss Bailey had not finished.
“I remember a young couple — it was my first year in case work — they had been married a year, no children. He had no job and the only way their families would help was to take them back, but separately. I used the power I had to make them go — and I was terribly wrong. Let’s not use our power now to spoil what may be the salvation of Adolf, — just the incentive he needs — though I shouldn’t have prescribed it. And even if the girl is just a tiny bit hussy, that’s not our trouble. We don’t have to live with her.”
People with fixed ideas on the duties of children are having some rude shocks these days when every once in a while a girl or boy weighted down by the hopelessness of the home situation, reaches out and snatches at something to make life more endurable to him. The wandering young people of the road are recruited – in part from those who have escaped from family burdens too heavy for them. More often the rebellion comes in the form of personal indulgences which spell disillusion and irritation to those who are always sure of “what I would do in his place.”
A worker sorts out the application process with a family. Library of Congress
“Young people are more and more restless as the depression drags on,” says the supervisor of a big city district who for three years has watched the gradual emotional ferment that relief as a way of life engenders. “The sense of duty of girls and boys whose slender earnings are swallowed up by their families’ necessities is beginning to wear down. ‘What am I getting out of it?’ they ask. ‘Three meals a day, if you want to call them that, and a dispossess at the end of the month. I’m willing to work, and I’m sorry for Pop and Mom, but gosh, is it going to be like this all my life?’
“We are finding that we cannot put too much pressure on young people to pool all their earnings in the family budget. They just won’t stand it. They either rebel or else lose the incentive to work and quit. We had one girl whose nine dollars a week was for three years the only income of a family of five. We helped a little. Then a widowed sister and her baby came along and we put in a small regular grocery order. But the girl quit. We talked to her as sympathetically as we knew how but she was completely beaten. All she would say was, “Oh, what’s the use anyway?”
“Then we had another girl whose earnings were supposed to pay the rent, and everything but the food for a family of six. We weren’t just satisfied with the way things were going — but you know how it is these days, the workers have so many families to visit. Then, one cold day, word came that the family was dispossessed. The worker came back, fairly boiling over. The girl, the one earner in the family, had strolled in on the proceedings all done up in a new fur coat.
“I had the girl in here that night, fur coat and all, to talk it over. She was pretty sulky at first, but when she found that we weren’t disposed to eat her alive she finally talked. It seems that her boy friend had invited her to a football game. He was a very grand boy friend and she was none too sure of him. The family had been dispossessed before — that didn’t represent very much to her. But the boy friend, and the coat apparently would make her status with him secure, was her only hope of escape from what seemed to her a life sentence. Her story and her surprise at our willingness to listen and not scold, showed us what poor case work we had been doing. We had taken no account whatever of that girl as a human being. The upshot of it was that we worked out with her a new budget for the family, which left her with responsibility but not an unendurable burden. The fur coat? Of course she kept it. The payments were part of the budget. And what’s more, she got her man.
“We have a diamond-ring in one of our families, such a little bit of a diamond, but it has a whole tenement-house by the ears. It belongs to a young widow forced to return to her family, none of them ‘in work.’ If that little ring has been reported to us once it’s been reported a dozen times. It’s gotten to be as big as the Kohinoor. The girl is bound to keep it and the neighbors are bound she shall sell it. Fortunately we have a worker on the case who realizes that the ring, which the family would eat up in a week, is to the girl the symbol of her whole emotional life, of the married status and of an independence which she once had and may have again. She still has her diamond, thank goodness, but a tigress defending its young has nothing on her.”
But the divine right of youth to some degree of self-expression becomes sullied sometimes by what bears the marks of just plain selfishness. Doting mothers, as every one knows, can ruin children whatever their walk in life, and when dotingness is mixed with relief the home visitor, be she ever so objective, is apt to get into family situations that strain her patience.
“Mother love is fearful and wonderful,” said the supervisor of a city district with a large foreign-speaking element, “and it came out in its full glory when the boys were recruited for the reforestation camps. We didn’t blame the boys who refused to go — it was the mothers who wouldn’t reason an inch — just wailed, ‘My Abie can’t stand wet feet,’ or, ‘My Carlo don’t want to leave his mama, do you Carlino?’ One of our workers came in the other day ready to commit mayhem or something because she had discovered that some Abie who couldn’t leave his mama was keeping himself in cigarettes by trading off the jam and oranges from the food order, and that some mama had been for weeks conniving with the grocer to swap parts of the food order for cream for the ‘weak stummick’ of her 200-pound Carlo. Well there just wasn’t anything we could do about it. In our hurried contacts we can’t make over the mamas and the Abies and the Carlos of this world. Maybe Carlo does have a ‘weak stummick’ — we haven’t time to find out. And probably Abie’s cigarettes bring a peace to the household that is worth the tidbits they cost. Anyway the families have to work these things out for themselves. We can’t do it for them.”
Worker explains a potential relief program to a visitor in the local office. Library of Congress (1939)
Selfish sons and doting mamas would be a comparatively simple problem of relief discipline were it not for others in the family.
“We have to consider the whole family and its needs, not just one spoiled member,” said a supervisor in a midwestern city, “and we must remember the constant factor of family loyalties. If a family thinks we’re picking on one of them, no matter how much they pick themselves, they stand as a block against our every effort. I remember when we landed a job for Mrs. Arden’s oldest, Wullie she called him. It wasn’t such a wonderful job, he had to get up at six in the morning for it, but a lot better than nothing. And would WulIie take it? He would not, nor would his mother turn a hand to make him. Said Wullie always had a headache if he got up before eight. We felt there was more back of it than that, but the whole family turned on us and we could never get an explanation. Of course if it had been just WulIie and his mother we would have let them figure out a way of living without us. But there was a half-blind father and four younger children, and we couldn’t punish them by cutting off the food order, could we? Even to reduce it by Wullie’s share would have hurt them more than it hurt Wullie. But some day a nine-to-five job will come along and then we’ll have something to say to Mr. Wullie. But I wonder if there’ll be anything we can really do about it even then.”
Social workers to whom mass relief has brought abundant evidence of the infinite variability of human nature are agreed that if there is one thing this old world needs more than economic security it is grown-up emotions. The long ordeals of unemployment and relief have revealed a world of family solidarity and devotion but they have shown up too many sins of undiscipline and unreason. “What we need to do as soon as we get the depression attended to,” say the social workers, “is to train up a whole new generation of parents who will neither exploit nor pamper their young. But just now there is very little we can do about parent-child relationships except to be as understanding as God gives us to be and to let them alone.”
Source: Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries: www. special.lib.umn.edu/
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First SpaceX Falcon 9 mission of 2021 targeting mid-week launch
Zac Hall
- Jan. 4th 2021 9:51 am PT
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SpaceX is positioned to conduct its first mission in 2021 with a Falcon 9 rocket as early as this week. Originally expected to target today, the 45th Weather Squadron has published a Launch Mission Execution Forecast for the Falcon 9 TurkSat-5A mission.
The mission will also mark the first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this year and begin what will likely be a record launch year for Kennedy Space Center and CCSFS in Florida. SpaceX also hopes to conduct a record number of launches in 2021, doubling its launch cadence from 2020.
TurkSat-5A will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) in Cape Canaveral as soon as 8:28 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6. The 45th Weather Squadron predicts an 80% chance of favorable weather conditions on Wednesday; weather conditions drop to a 60% chance of favorable conditions on the backup day of Thursday.
The mission will see a Turkish communications satellite built by Airbus and operated by TurkSat reach orbit for commercial and military use.
Space Explored will have on-site coverage of the Falcon 9 TurkSat-5A mission on launch day. Later this month, SpaceX is expected to conduct its Transporter-1 ride sharing mission.
Update: New target is Thursday, January 7. Stay tuned!
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nicpo - Network Information Center Portal
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Baupo - word mark - DPMA 30304954
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Baupo® is an artificial word registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office. It is made up of the first letters of the business areas in which Baupo® Consulting formerly provided consulting services. BAUPO is based on the life cycle model of IT systems known from computer system validation. However, it can also be used as a synonym for a construction portal, a construction company or as an abbreviation for 'Baupolizei'.
In addition to the property rights to the 'baupo' brand, the sale includes the trademark rights to the company logo (DPMA 30772013), the web project www.baupo.com and 24 national and international top-level domains.
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Baupo - figurative mark - DPMA 30772013
For sale is the figurative mark 'baupo' which has been used as the company logo for more than a decade. In addition to the figurative mark, the word mark 'baupo' (DPMA 30304954, the Internet project www.baupo.com and 24 national and international top-level domains are also for sale.
The brand 'baupo' was used by the management consultancy Baupo Consulting. The company has provided consulting services for medium-sized companies in the process industry. In addition to the topics 'Organizational Consulting', 'Interim Management' and 'System and Supplier Evaluation', the focus was on the processes of the logistics chain (SCM processes) with emphasis on planning and production processes.
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Nicpo - word mark - DPMA 302010066450
The nicpo brand was registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office with the registration number 302010066450. The aim was to establish an internet portal for the registration and trade of trademarks and domains. Together with the trademark, 15 national and international domains were registered, which are also offered for sale.
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Medipo - word mark - DPMA 30500413
The trademark medipo was applied at the German Patent and Trademark Office with the registration number 30500413, with the aim of operating an internet portal for the presentation, advertising and distribution of pharmacy-customary goods. For example a classical online pharmacy. Together with the trademark, 18 national and international domains were also registered, which are also offered for sale.
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müller / mueller - an absolute rarity
Definitely a delicacy, an absolute rarity. In the western language area there are only a few names that occur more frequently than the name 'Müller', even in the spelling 'Mueller'. In the name and on behalf of the company Gustav Müller Industrievertretung a package consisting of 9 national and international domains is offered for sale. These are word combinations of the name Müller (Mueller) and the supplement industry or industrial agency.
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7t1 - exquisite 3-character single domain
The domain 7t1 is one of the rare 3-digit/letter year domains. The domain has not been used for any project so far. As top-level domain the national ending of Germany (.de) is available.
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baupo - package consisting 24 domains
The company Baupo Consulting was founded in May 2007 and provided consulting services in the medium-sized process industry until the company was closed down in 2019. The industry focus was on the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, the food and luxury food industry and the manufacturers of medical devices.
Among the well-known customers of Baupo Consulting were not only classical pharmaceutical producers and contract manufacturers of pharmaceutical products, but also producers of consumer goods in the cosmetics sector, a manufacturer of adhesives and producers of organic food.
After the abandonment of the company, the word mark 'baupo', a figurative mark which has served Baupo Consulting as the company logo, as well as 24 national, international and theme-oriented domains are for sale in addition to the internet project.
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Tagesmutter24 - package consisting of 11 domains
Originally, the domains were registered for a privately operated internet portal, which could be used free of charge by persons and institutions involved in day care for children. The aim of the project was to support parents in their regional search for persons and institutions that can take over the care of their children. The domains are partly 15 years old and the original project was online for more than 10 years. The portal was discontinued due to lack of time. In the end, more than 1,000 persons and institutions from Europe, mainly from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, were registered. Most of them were childminders/day care workers, but there were also educators. Even today some websites still refer to the former Tagesmutter project.
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medipo - package consisting of 18 domains
In addition to the domains offered here, the sales mandate 'medipo' also includes the property rights to the trademark medipo® (30500413).
The brand medipo has already been registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office in 2005. The property rights were extended in 2015 until 2025. The registered trademark classes allow the use of medipo for the development of an internet portal and cover the services of a pharmacy, the presentation of drugs and medical products on the internet as well as products and services in the field of health and beauty care for humans and animals. For further information, please use our contact form.
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nicpo - package consisting of 15 domains
In addition to the 15 national and international top-level domains listed below, the sale includes the intellectual property rights to the nicpo® trademark (DPMA 3020100664509, registered on 11.11.2010, intellectual property rights valid until 30.11.2030):
In order to secure nicpo's international presence in the most important markets, the following national top-level domains were registered:
Austria (.at), Switzerland (.ch), Germany (.de), Spain (.es), France (.fr), India (.in), Italy (.it), the United Kingdom (.uk) and the United States of America (.us).
In addition, the European central domain (.eu) and the international or theme-based domains .biz, .com, .info, .net and .org were secured.
gammarus - Single domain
The domain gammarus.de is up for sale. If you are interested in purchasing it, please use our contact form to get in touch.
Gammarus (Gammarus fossarum) is the Latin name for the brook flea cancer. Brook flea crabs in both live and dried form are used as animal feed for reptiles, amphibians and fish, for example. Gammarus are offered for sale on numerous internet platforms. The domain can be used, for example, as a link domain to an existing trading platform.
XXL Domain hodgepodge
In this article you will find an overview of numerous individual domains and domain collections that are offered for sale privately. You will find domains on various topics, be it the US election campaign of Joe Biden and Donald Trump in 2020 or a domain related to Bernie Sanders. You will also find information about Corona (COVID-19) or the 'hamster buyers' in the crisis.
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Gene induction studies and toxicity of chemical mixtures.
Environ Health Perspect. 110(Suppl 6):947-956.
Environ Health Perspect
Mumtaz, M M ; Tully, D B ; El-Masri, H A ; De Rosa, C T ;
Mumtaz, M M ; Tully, D B ; El-Masri, H A ; De Rosa, C T Less ▲
As part of its mixtures program, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) supports in vitro and limited in vivo toxicity testing to further our understanding of the toxicity and health effects of chemical mixtures. There are increasing concerns that environmental chemicals adversely affect the health of humans and wildlife. These concerns have been augmented by the realization that exposure to chemicals often occurs to mixtures of these chemicals that may exhibit complex synergistic or antagonistic interactions. To address such concerns, we have conducted two studies with techniques that are being used increasingly in experimental toxicology. In the first study, six organochlorine pesticides (4,4 -DDT, 4,4 -DDD, 4,4 -DDE, aldrin, dieldrin, or endrin) were selected from the ATSDR Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (or Superfund) priority list and tested for their ability to modulate transcriptional activation of an estrogen-responsive reporter gene in transfected HeLa cells. In these assays, HeLa cells cotransfected with an expression vector encoding estrogen receptor and an estrogen-responsive chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter plasmid were dosed with and without selected environmental chemicals either individually or in defined combinations. Estradiol consistently elicited 10- to 23-fold dose-dependent inductions in this assay. By contrast, all six of the organochlorine pesticides showed no detectable dose-related response when tested either individually or in binary combinations. Thus, these chemicals as binary mixtures do not exhibit any additional estrogenicity at the levels tested in these assays. In the second study, arsenic [As(V)], cadmium [Cd(II)], chromium [Cr(III, VI)], and lead [Pb(II)] were tested in a commercially developed assay system, CAT-Tox (L), to identify metal-responsive promoters and to determine whether the pattern of gene expression changed with a mixture of these metals. This assay employs a battery of recombinant HepG2 cell lines to test the transcriptional activation capacity of xenobiotics in any of 13 different signal-transduction pathways. Singly, As(V), Cd(II), Cr(III, VI), and Pb(II) produced complex induction profiles in these assays. However, no evidence of synergistic activity was detected with a mixture of Cd(II), Cr(III), and Pb(II). These results have shown metal activation of gene expression through several previously unreported signal-transduction pathways and thus suggest new directions for future studies into their biochemical mechanisms of toxicity. In conclusion, the (italic)in vitro(/italic) methods used in these studies provide insights into complex interactions that occur in cellular systems and could be used to identify biomarkers of exposure to other environmental chemical mixtures.
Biological Markers
Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase
HeLa Cells
Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated
Metals, Heavy
Toxicity Tests
Transcriptional Activation
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Signaling from toxic metals to NF-kappaB and beyond: not just a matter of reactive oxygen species.
Chen, Fei; Shi, Xianglin;
The nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappaB) family of transcription factors controls expression of a number of early response genes associated with inflammatory responses, cell growth, cell cycle progression, and neoplastic transformation. These genes inc...
Differential Gene Expression in Normal Human Mammary Epithelial Cells Treated with Malathion Monitored by DNA Microarrays
Gwinn, Maureen R.; Whipkey, Diana L.; Tennant, Lora B.; Weston, Ainsley;
Environ Health Perspect. 2005; 113(8):1046-1051.
Organophosphate pesticides are a major source of occupational exposure in the United States. Moreover, malathion has been sprayed over major urban populations in an effort to control mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus. Previous research, reviewed by...
Mirna Expression Profiles Identify Drivers in Colorectal and Pancreatic Cancers
Piepoli, Ada; Tavano, Francesca; Copetti, Massimiliano; Mazza, Tommaso; Palumbo, Orazio; Panza, Anna; di Mola, Francesco Fabio; Pazienza, Valerio; Mazzoccoli, Gianluigi; Biscaglia, Giuseppe; Gentile, Annamaria; Mastrodonato, Nicola; Carella, Massimo; Pellegrini, Fabio; di Sebastiano, Pierluigi; Andriulli, Angelo;
PLoS One. 2012; 7(3).
Background and AimAltered expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) hallmarks many cancer types. The study of the associations of miRNA expression profile and cancer phenotype could help identify the links between deregulation of miRNA expression and oncogeni...
Wnt signaling in triple negative breast cancer is associated with metastasis
Dey, Nandini; Barwick, Benjamin G; Moreno, Carlos S; Ordanic-Kodani, Maja; Chen, Zhengjia; Oprea-Ilies, Gabriella; Tang, Weining; Catzavelos, Charles; Kerstann, Kimberly F; Sledge, George W; Abramovitz, Mark; Bouzyk, Mark; De, Pradip; Leyland-Jones, Brian R;
BMC Cancer. 2013; 13:537.
BackgroundTriple Negative subset of (TN) Breast Cancers (BC), a close associate of the basal-like subtype (with limited discordance) is an aggressive form of the disease which convey unpredictable, and poor prognosis due to limited treatment options ...
Speed, Sensitivity, and Bistability in Auto-activating Signaling Circuits
Hermsen, Rutger; Erickson, David W.; Hwa, Terence;
PLoS Comput Biol. 2011; 7(11).
Cells employ a myriad of signaling circuits to detect environmental signals and drive specific gene expression responses. A common motif in these circuits is inducible auto-activation: a transcription factor that activates its own transcription upon ...
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