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Thursday, October 15th, 2020 4:02pm
By Jennifer Mitchell
The Elected Mayor of Watford, Peter Taylor, has revealed that Watford Borough Council has ‘not lost hope’ over the previously abandoned Metropolitan Line Extension (MLX) scheme.
In this week’s #AskTheMayor segment on Vibe 107.6, he stated the council are ‘trying everything’ they ‘can in the background to make some progress’ in reviving the project. Mr Taylor added he had ‘written to the Prime Minister,’ and that the local authority ‘do think’ there ‘eventually will be a scheme' established. However, it is important to stress at this stage that no formal proposals are in place.
Mr Taylor said:
“It’s a huge project obviously linking the Metropolitan (Met) Line from Croxley all the way to Watford Junction. A lot of it is a disused rail line. I think it makes so much sense to have that link for people… travelling on the Met Line, and want to get to Watford Junction. We’ve not lost hope, and there is still lots of work going on in the background. Hopefully we’ll be able to make an announcement in the next few months. We need better transport infrastructure, so that people can get around the town.”
“We’ve been looking around at different ways of making it happen, so as I say there is nothing formally agreed yet. The government talk about ‘shovel ready’ schemes, wanting to improve the transport infrastructure. Watford’s still a town that’s growing, and we’re trying everything we can…to make some progress on it.”
When asked about recent reports of proposed MLX land being sold for housing development, the Mayor stated this was related to ‘a car park at one of the stations, not the line itself.’
What is the MLX project, and why has it been abandoned?
The MLX scheme (formerly called the Croxley Rail Link) involved extending the line from Croxley to Watford Junction, via five miles of disused rail track. Moreover, it was proposed the terminus at Watford Underground would close to the public, with two new stations instead being created at Cassiobridge and Watford Vicarage Road. In 2010, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced a proposed funding programme for the scheme. A year later, it was confirmed the project had secured £76 million of central government funds, and was finally allowed to go ahead. Furthermore, the new line was expected to open in 2016.
Preliminary on-site works commenced in June 2013, with local company Taylor Woodrow appointed as contractors. A month later, Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) and London Underground were allocated legal powers to construct and maintain the new rail link. By the end of 2014, the plans received final approval as construction started. At this point, the projected costs were £230 million.
During 2015, Transport for London (TFL) assumed control of the project from HCC. Yet in 2016, the initiative did not feature on the Mayor of London’s travel agenda. A £50 million shortfall in funds was reported within March 2017, placing the extension in jeopardy. Talks over the scheme’s future were scheduled seven months later between the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and previous MP for Watford, Richard Harrington. During this period, TFL anticipated it would cost nearer to £360 million to deliver the scheme, rather than the previously quoted figure of £284 million. Additionally, Mr Khan stated TfL needed a further £73.4 million in funds for the project to continue.
Finally, in 2018 TFL announced it had to abandon the scheme despite the government offering the system operator the surplus funding it required. However, this was on the condition that TFL accepted to cover the costs, if the project overran. Funding for the project was split between TfL, DfT, Watford Borough Council, HCC and Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership.
In January 2018, a spokesperson for Mr Khan said the previous Mayor, Boris Johnson, had allocated £49 million of London taxpayers' money to the scheme, ‘without working out how much it would cost’. In addition, they suggested TfL needed ‘more than double the funding commitment,’ as there was a ‘considerable risk’ that costs would increase. Also, it was stated the transport operator had in fact offered alternative methods to meet additional outlays. This included using funds generated from new developments, along with proposing an alternative bus route. When questioned about the MLX scheme in 2019, Mr Khan said if the government or local authorities could provide the funds required, he would be ‘more than happy’ for the line to be expanded. To date there have been no further updates on the scheme’s progression.
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YRF and Ranbir Kapoor are set to collaborate again for a desi, mega-action, masala entertainer titled SHAMSHERA. The film is set in the heartland of India and will be a high-octane, larger-than-life entertainer with jaw-dropping action sequences and Ranbir Kapoor in a never seen before avatar. Sanjay Dutt to play the ruthless, merciless villain in the period action adventure SHAMSHERA! He will be pitted against Ranbir Kapoor in the mega action spectacle. Vaani Kapoor is set to sizzle like never before in this mega action adventure. She will play the character of the most desirable and sought-after travelling performer from heartland India.
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Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt and Vaani Kapoor
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PEAK SPIDER-MAN: The Enduring Power of the CONWAY-ANDRU Team
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Posted By Dan Greenfield on Aug 13, 2019 | 5 comments
THE SPIDER’S WEB: A pairing for the ages…
Welcome to The Spider’s Web — an ongoing feature by novelist and Archie Comics Co-President Alex Segura that looks at Spider-Man’s development since his start in 1962’s Amazing Fantasy #15. (Alex has been re-reading from the beginning.) Each installment covers a specific period in Spidey’s history, with Alex giving you a kind of bouncing ball approach, as opposed to an issue-by-issue breakdown. Click here for the complete index of columns. — Dan
Issue #136. Pencils by Ross Andru.
By ALEX SEGURA
OK, we’re spinning along at a good clip — at around Issue #145 of The Amazing Spider-Man — and, dear reader, a LOT has happened.
One thing that really impresses me about Gerry Conway as a writer is his ability to not only juggle multiple plot lines, but to allow them to resonate.
For example, you can tell the guy loves Mary Jane. He wants Peter and MJ together, and he seems to have little love for Gwen — I mean, he killed her! — but he doesn’t let that get in the way of allowing Spider-Man to grieve, and in the process, allowing his love for MJ to blossom. That first kiss, in the airport before Pete leaves for Paris to save JJJ, is a special one — and really well done. Just great pacing and build-up.
Issue #143. Pencils by Andru.
— The cameos of the Gwen Clone (which we don’t know is a clone yet!) before her final, full appearance.
— The Jackal, in general. He starts off as a small-stakes villain, but we soon learn there’s more to him — to a lesser degree, Jonas Harrow falls into this “cool subplot/slow burn” category. Worth noting is how Conway starts to utilize Miles Warren in subtle ways, eventually revealing him to be the Jackal.
— Conway takes the baton from Stan Lee in terms of Harry’s addiction, but deftly places him at the scene of his father’s death, which sets the stage for his discovery of Pete’s secret ID, and his own, eventual adoption of the Goblin mantle.
My point? Conway knows how to balance stories and knows how to keep the villain-of-the-month churn going, but is able to keep it interesting and play the long game. It’s a really special thing to see, and you feel like the entire series ups a level after Stan’s run comes to a close.
Conway’s also great at adding depth/conflict/motivation to older characters — Doc Ock’s weird plot to get Aunt May’s inheritance; Molten Man’s quickly decaying form; new takes on Mysterio, Scorpion, Vulture, and Green Goblin — they all feel stronger, more emotional and intense… and, for lack of a better word, more modern.
At the same time, Conway isn’t scared of adding to the mythos, something he also did with his lengthy Batman run. He introduces a number of memorable villains (some with more lasting power than others), like Cyclone, Hammerhead, the aforementioned Jackal, Tarantula, the freakin’ Punisher (not a villain per se, but still) — it’s so impressive to me, as a writer, to see how Conway was able to not only “play the hits” in terms of bringing in the familiar baddies (and improving on them), but also introduce some lasting members of the Spidey Rogues Gallery.
Now, to be fair, not all of the villains introduced work. The Mindworm is pretty lame, but for the most part, Conway’s batting average is pretty darn high.
On the art front, wow — is Ross Andru amazing or what? From his first issue on, it felt like we were all settling back into a comfortable, well-worn chair. The guy just knows Spidey, and I’d argue is only behind Romita and Ditko in terms of defining the classic, evergreen Spider-Man look. Honorable mention must go to Gil Kane, but you get my point. Glad he’ll be around for a bit.
A few more thoughts:
— As noted, Conway’s Jonas Harrow subplot is cool, and he makes for a useful concept — almost like he’s making his own writing desires (to fix/rebuild/relaunch some of Spidey’s weaker villains) come to life on the page. The Kangaroo, sadly, is still pretty lame.
— I found the Vulture two-parter, which introduced the short-lived Vulture III, to be a little convoluted and hard to follow, but overall, it was solid — a good shakedown cruise for the Conway/Andru team.
— It’s so funny to see the Punisher’s early appearances, because while the basics of the character are there, his entire attitude is so different. Still, what a great home run for Conway to hit so early.
— The Spider-Mobile idea is a joke, and it’s a relief to be reminded that it was never taken that seriously.
— Peter flirting with Betty Brant to get a line on where J. Jonah Jameson might be feels really creepy and weird.
— Love the return of Liz Allan and the introduction of Glory Grant.
— I just couldn’t grok the Ock/May wedding. It felt like a little too much. But I did appreciate that Conway dug back to Stan’s run and pulled a thread to use on his own. It managed to be a fun, wacky romp, though.
— Betty Brant was referred to as Betty Leeds in an earlier issue, but we only discover they’ve set a wedding date around #140. So, what gives? My vote is she changed her name early. Where’s my No-Prize?
— Having Harry as the Green Goblin is so smart, and adds so much more to the dynamic between them — but I don’t think it lasts that long, IIRC? We’ll have to see. Still, he comes out gunning and it makes for a great two-parter.
— Let’s zoom out for a second and just admire how much Conway’s done in such a short amount of time, OK? Gwen Stacy, Green Goblin, Gwen Clone, Pete and MJ getting together, Spider-Mobile, revamping classic villains, introducing at least three or four lasting, new ones… The guy just came in strong, and was lucky to have such a stellar artist in Andru to visualize everything. I guess you have to bring your best stuff if you’re following Stan!
— So, all this gushing about Conway leads me to what we’ll discuss next time — which is, alas, the end of his run! The Original Clone Saga brings it all to a close. Hope you’ll pop by.
MORE From THE SPIDER’S WEB
— The Timeless Brilliance of GERRY CONWAY’s SPIDER-MAN Launch. Click here.
— For the Complete THE SPIDER’S WEB Index of Features. Click here.
A nice insight on two legendary talents for the Spider-Man™ franchise. ☺️
Thanks, Philip!
These were my first Marvel comics to purchase as a kid and I have to say what a gateway into the Marvel universe and Spider-Man they were! I still have them all as battered as they are. Sadly to this day I do have a few gaps as this was the pre comic shop days and if you missed an issue your really missed it in those days! Fun times they were and one of these days I will catch up on those missing issues.
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I have always loved Ross Andru. Started my comic collection with Spider-Man 134 way back in the day. He grabbed me immediately. So did Conway.
But, I beg to differ with you on the Mindworm being lame. Conway, I believe, is actually on record at Comic Con admitting he loved the character too. I loved his hippy roots and scary mind powers. But then, I’m the guy who loves the Star Trek hippy episode “The Way to Eden”.
Joe Jusko
It was actually John Romita’s idea to kill Gwen. There’s a video interview where he explains his rationale for the decision
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Fauci Says He’d “Absolutely” Join a Biden COVID Task Force
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Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984 and a member of President Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus task force, said in an interview on Wednesday that he’d be happy to continue on as an adviser to President-elect Joe Biden if he was asked to do so.
Fauci, who was being interviewed on C-SPAN about the matter, was asked if he’d serve on a similar coronavirus task force set up by Biden, once he assumes office in January.
“Of course, yes. The answer is absolutely,” the infectious diseases expert said.
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Fauci added that he has been in contact with Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain. The two, however, have not discussed the “nuts and bolts” of what the next president’s plans would be regarding a response to the pandemic when he occupies the White House.
Fauci applauded the decision by the Trump administration this week to finally allow the transition process to begin to allow for Biden’s entrance into office.
“Obviously, soon, we will be getting the transition team and the task force to give them the information that would make their assuming the responsibilities easier and more efficient,” Fauci said.
Trump’s long refusal to acknowledge the outcome of the presidential race, and to allow the transition process to begin, had kept Biden’s team from being involved in discussions regarding a number of important issues, including how the eventual rollout of a vaccine for coronavirus was being planned. In an interview last week, Fauci explained that it was imperative for the Trump administration to share that info with Biden.
“I’ve been through five transitions; I can say that transitions are extremely important to the smooth continuity of whatever you’re doing,” Fauci said at the time.
Fauci’s inclusion in the Biden White House would likely be welcomed by most Americans, as the NIAID director is widely regarded as trustworthy.
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For more than a year, a campaign has been underway to revise the text of HR40, legislation to establish a commission to develop proposals for a black reparations plan in the United States. I personally submitted testimony to the House Judiciary Subcommittee hearings on the bill on June 19, 2019. More
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Ones To Watch at Slam Dunk 2019
As we have just under a month until Slam Dunk Festival, Tom Butterworth gives us his lowdown on his stand out acts of the festival in the first of a two part Ones To Watch.
With the release of After The Party, Menzingers shifted from the emo tinge of their breakthrough The Impossible Past and it’s follow up Rented World, to something more akin to the Springsteen-influenced punk that The Gaslight Anthem have popularised in recent years, and what an inspired switch it has proved. Perhaps it was made for the bigger moments and bigger stages, and this will be the chance for us to find out with them playing the headline slot on the Dickies Stage. This is a big moment for the Philadelphia-based band and they will surely top line-ups on stages bigger than this in the near future.
Employed To Serve
As Monty Python once said, and now for something completely different. Employed To Serve’s journey over the last four years has been nothing short of astonishing. They’ve gone from being a relatively unknown band, to releasing The Warmth Of A Dying Sun and scooping Kerrang’s album of the year gong in the process. They’ve moved to a major label, and are currently gearing up to release third album, Eternal Forward Motion. In the process of this, they’ve developed a prestigious reputation as a ferocious live band. This will be the band’s first UK festival appearance after the release of Eternal Forward Motion, and their first chance to showcase those new songs to a wider audience. If you want to see them on a smaller stage, do it now, because if current trajectory is anything to go by, this could be one of the last times.
A year ago, the members of Pagan hadn’t released their debut album and hadn’t set foot on English soil. Since then they’ve unleashed last year’s death-disco masterpiece that was Black Wash and played a UK headline tour (and they’ll have done another by the time they hit the stage at Slam Dunk). This is a band at the very promising beginnings of what will hopefully be a long career. They are already beginning to climb up the venue ladder from tour to tour. You’ll have to be in early to catch them as one of the first bands on The Key Club Stage, but they’ll surely be a live-wire start to the day that you won’t want to miss.
Cancer Bats
From a band building a reputation, to one whose is so firmly cemented that you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who has seen a bad Cancer Bats show. They’ve become veterans at Slam Dunk, even headlining a stage in 2013. The last few years have been pretty full-on for the Canadian hardcore crew, from performing explosive Black Sabbath tribute sets as Bat Sabbath, to celebrating the 10th anniversary of the exceptional Hail Destroyer, to surprise releasing their 6th album The Spark That Moves last year. Now they bring their wild stage presence and unrelenting riffs to the heaviest of the stages at Slam Dunk, The Impericon Stage. With the bands they’re brushing shoulders with here they’ll have to bring their A-Game, but it would appear that that’s all that they’re capable of, so we should be in for a treat.
One of those bands rubbing a shoulder with them is the revelatory Turnstile. At the end of last year, it was impossible to move for seeing their sophomore album Time & Space atop everybody’s end-of-year lists. They have absolutely taken the world by storm with their brilliant melding of classic hardcore and 90s alternative rock which they blend the two expertly with ear-worm riffs and scream along vocals. If the clips coming out of last years’ US festival circuit are anything to go by, those attending Slam Dunk are surely in for a treat.
One album, a large number of EPs, and more line-up changes than a Premier League football team. Now a three-piece, British alt-punk rioters Milk Teeth are not showing any signs of letting recent changes slow them down. 2017’s EPs Be Nice and Go Away were followed up with the departure of bassist Chris Webb and guitarist Billy Hutton. Wasting no time, they drafted in the singer of Nervus (and countless other bands), Em Foster, to complete the trio with Becky Blomfield and Oli Holbrook, and released the outrageously brilliant single Stain. Given the prolific nature of this band, and the hunger they seem to have to either be on tour or in the studio whenever possible, it can’t be long until the next material is released, and it would be great to hear new songs performed at Slam Dunk.
Hi, I'm Tom Butterworth. Born and raised in Northampton, resident in Liverpool for six years now. I've been obsessive about music for over ten years. My favourite bands include Nightwish, Death, Letlive, Slipknot,, The Menzingers, Gojira, Opeth and Pink Floyd among others. \m/
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The impact of four dynamic, goal-steered treatment strategies on the 5-year outcomes of rheumatoid arthritis patients in the BeSt study
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Naomi B Klarenbeek1,
Melek Güler-Yüksel1,
Sjoerd M van der Kooij1,
K Huub Han2,
H Karel Ronday3,
Pit J S M Kerstens4,
Patrick E H Seys5,
Tom W J Huizinga1,
Ben A C Dijkmans4,6,
Cornelia F Allaart1
1Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
2Department of Rheumatology, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
3Department of Rheumatology, Haga Hospital, The Hague, The Netherlands
4Department of Rheumatology, Jan van Breemen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
5Department of Rheumatology, Franciscus Hospital, Roosendaal, The Netherlands
6Department of Rheumatology, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Correspondence to Dr N B Klarenbeek, Department of Rheumatology, C-01-R, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; n.b.klarenbeek{at}lumc.nl
Objective To compare clinical and radiological outcomes of four dynamic treatment strategies in recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis (RA) after 5 years follow-up.
Methods 508 patients with recent-onset RA were randomly assigned into four treatment strategies: sequential monotherapy; step-up combination therapy; initial combination with prednisone; initial combination with infliximab. Treatment adjustments were made based on 3-monthly disease activity score (DAS) measurements (if DAS >2.4 next treatment step; if DAS ≤2.4 during ≥6 months taper to maintenance dose; if DAS <1.6 during ≥6 months stop antirheumatic treatment). Primary and secondary outcomes were functional ability, joint damage progression, health-related quality of life and (drug-free) remission percentages.
Results After 5 years, 48% of patients were in clinical remission (DAS <1.6) and 14% in drug-free remission, irrespective of initial treatment. After an earlier improvement in functional ability and quality of life with initial combination therapy, from 1 year onwards clinical outcomes were comparable across the groups and stable during 5 years. The initial combination groups showed less joint damage in year 1. In years 2–5 annual progression was comparable across the groups. After 5 years, initial combination therapy resulted in significantly less joint damage progression, reflecting the earlier clinical response.
Conclusion Irrespective of initial treatment, an impressive improvement in clinical and radiological outcomes of RA patients can be achieved with dynamic treatment aimed at reducing disease activity, leading to 48% remission, 14% drug-free remission and sustained functional improvement. Starting with combination therapy resulted in earlier clinical improvement and less joint damage without more toxicity.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ard.2010.141234
Great improvements in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been made in the past few decades. The evidence for the benefit of the early use of (combinations of) disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD) and biological agents,1,–,6 together with the introduction of dynamic tightly controlled treatment aimed at a predefined goal,7,–,9 has led to a shift in traditional treatment paradigms. It is not known what clinical and radiological outcomes can be expected in the longer term in RA patients treated according to an early, intensive treatment approach.
The BeSt (Behandel-Strategieën, Dutch for treatment strategies) study incorporated these new insights into early, goal-directed treatment by comparing four dynamic treatment strategies rather than individual therapies, using antirheumatic drugs and combinations of drugs in various orders.10 11 Designed in the late 1990s, it was ambitious in aiming at low disease activity,12 13 and introducing protocolised tapering and discontinuation of all antirheumatic drugs when clinical remission is achieved. Furthermore, it provides a unique patient cohort because it is, as far as we know, the only RA trial in which patients are still monitored every 3 months after 5 years of follow-up and protocolised treatment adjustments continue to be made aiming at low disease activity.
Here we present the clinical and radiological outcomes of the BeSt study after 5 years of follow-up. The main objectives were: (1) to assess functional status, quality of life and the amount of joint damage after 5 years of intensive, disease activity score (DAS)-directed treatment; (2) to assess whether initial improvements in functional ability and quality of life can be sustained; (3) to compare clinical outcomes and annual joint damage progression scores between the four treatment strategies; (4) to assess the percentage of patients in remission and drug-free remission and assess joint damage progression in these patients.
The BeSt study design has previously been published in detail.10 It is a randomised single-blind clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of four treatment strategies in recent-onset RA patients. Based on 3-monthly disease activity measurements, treatment adjustments were made aimed at achieving and maintaining a DAS (44 joints) of 2.4 or less.12 It is designed and conducted by the Foundation for Applied Rheumatology Research, a collaboration between rheumatologists in the western part of The Netherlands.
Between March 2000 and August 2002, 508 patients from 20 hospitals in The Netherlands with DMARD-naive RA according to the 1987 American College of Rheumatology criteria,14 ages 18 years or older, disease duration of 2 years or less, with active disease with six or more of 66 swollen joints and six or more of 68 tender joints, and either an erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 28 mm/h or greater or a global health score of 20 mm or greater on a 100-mm visual analogue scale (0, best; 100, worst) gave informed consent.
Patients were randomly assigned into four treatment strategies. Group 1 (sequential monotherapy, n=126) and group 2 (step-up combination therapy, n=121) started both with methotrexate monotherapy, whereas group 3 (initial combination therapy with prednisone, n=133) and group 4 (initial combination therapy with methotrexate and the tumour necrosis factor alpha inhibitor infliximab, n=128) started with combination therapy. In all groups, treatment adjustments were made based on 3-monthly disease activity measures, aiming at a DAS of 2.4 or less (low disease activity). The DAS was calculated by a trained nurse, who remained blinded to the treatment. If the DAS was greater than 2.4, the next treatment step was taken according to the fixed stepwise treatment protocol for each group (figure 1A). If the DAS was 2.4 or less (low disease activity) for 6 months or longer, medication was tapered to a maintenance dose. Details of the drug doses in the different treatment steps were reported previously.10 Routine laboratory measurements were performed 3-monthly. For all strategy arms the protocol allowed discontinuation or reduction to the lowest tolerated dose of drugs that, in the opinion of the treating physician, caused side-effects.
Flow diagram for treatment (A) and patients (B). AZA, azathioprine; CSA, ciclosporin A; HCQ, hydroxychloroquine; IFX, infliximab; MTX, methotrexate; pred, prednisone; SSA, sulphasalazine.
From the third year of treatment, patients who had tapered to low-dose monotherapy and had a DAS less than 1.615 for at least 6 months tapered and discontinued the last DMARD. If the DAS increased above 1.6, the last DMARD was immediately restarted, and could not be discontinued again.
Study endpoints and assessments
Primary outcomes were functional ability measured every 3 months with the Dutch version of the health assessment questionnaire16 (HAQ; 0, best; 3, worst) and joint damage progression on radiographs of hands and feet measured with the Sharp-van der Heijde method (SHS; range 0–448 points).17 Annual radiographs of hands and feet at baseline and years 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 were scored in one session per patient by two independent readers, blinded to treatment allocation, patient identity and in random time sequence. The mean scores of the two readers were used in the analysis.
Secondary outcomes
Health-related quality of life was measured with the medical outcomes study short form 36,18 3-monthly in the first 2 years of treatment and annually from year 2 onwards. Based on a reference population,19 two norm-based summary scales were derived: the physical component scale (PCS) and mental component scale (MCS). By definition, the mean PCS and MCS of the reference population are 50 (SD 10). Higher scores represent better health.
Remission and drug-free remission percentages were calculated, using DAS less than 1.6 as the remission criterion.15 We calculated the SHS progression in patients in sustained drug-free remission (remission ≥1 year) in their first full year drug free.
All adverse events (self-reported, or evident from laboratory tests or yearly general physical examination) were recorded. Serious adverse events were defined as conditions that are life threatening or leading to death, malignancies, conditions leading to (prolongation of) hospitalisation or conditions leading to significant or permanent disability.
The software program SPSS version 16.0 was used, using the intention-to-treat principle for all results, except for the analysis of the proportions of patients in remission and drug-free remission in which completer's data were used. Characteristics at t=5 years were compared between the groups using analysis of variance, χ2 and Kruskal–Wallis when appropriate. Baseline PCS and MCS scores were compared with the reference population with a two-sample t test.
The outcomes HAQ, SHS and quality of life (PCS, MCS) were longitudinally analysed using linear mixed models (LMM). For each outcome the covariance structure with the lowest Akaike value was used.
To test whether there were differences in HAQ between the groups during 5 years of follow-up, a LMM with the outcome HAQ (21×HAQ per patient) was performed, with treatment group, time and their interaction as determinants (covariance matrix ARMA1.1).
In the second LMM log-transformed SHS scores (to approach normality) of all years were compared to investigate whether there were differences in joint damage progression between the treatment groups over time, with time, randomisation and the interaction time*randomisation as determinants, corrected for log SHS of baseline, baseline C-reactive protein, age, gender, anticyclic citrullinated peptide, rheumatoid factor and baseline body mass index (covariance matrix unstructured).
Finally, LMM was used to assess whether there were differences in quality of life between the patients in the four treatment groups during 5 years of follow-up, with PCS and MCS as outcomes and randomisation and time as covariates (covariance matrix unstructured). This was done by calculating and comparing areas under the curve (AUC) between the treatment strategies under the custom hypothesis subcommand of the LMM (TEST in SPSS).
In all analyses comparing treatment groups, each treatment group was assessed independently and compared with the other groups one by one, without combining the results of treatment groups.
Baseline characteristics between the four treatment groups were comparable (table 1). Patients had high disease activity (mean DAS 4.4) at baseline with compromised functional ability (HAQ 1.4). Erosions on radiographs of hands and/or feet were present in 72% of patients. During 5 years of follow-up, 72 patients (15%) withdrew from the study (figure 1B), 15 (12%), 27 (22%), 20 (15%) and 12 (9%) in groups 1–4 (group 2 vs group 4 p=0.05, other comparisons ns).
Baseline demographic and disease characteristics
The percentage of patients who had achieved the goal of DAS of 2.4 or less was similar in all groups (p=0.94, total 82%). The proportions of patients in each treatment step at t=5 years are depicted in figure 2. The initial monotherapy groups needed more treatment adjustments before achieving a DAS of 2.4 or less than the initial combination therapies. After 5 years 25%, 21%, 45% and 65% of patients in groups 1–4 were still on the initial treatment. Fifty per cent of patients in group 4 had permanently discontinued the initial treatment with infliximab because of a continuous good response, and 46% of patients in group 3 had successfully tapered and stopped prednisone. In groups 1–3, 41%, 12% and 21% had started delayed infliximab because of insufficient response to previous drugs, and 21%, 5% and 11% were still treated with infliximab at t=5 years, compared with 19% in group 4. In group 2, 26% had started prednisone because of insufficient response to step-up therapy with conventional DMARD, and 6% were still treated with prednisone at t=5 years, compared with 14% in group 3 (median dose 5 mg in both groups). For details on annual prednisone and infliximab use see supplementary table, available online only.
Pies representing the proportion of patients in each treatment step after 5 years follow-up. (A) Sequential monotherapy, (B) step-up combination therapy, (C) initial combination with prednisone, (D) initial combination with infliximab. CSA, ciclosporin A; HCQ, hydroxychloroquine; IFX, infliximab; LEF, leflunomide; MTX, methotrexate; pred, prednisone; SSA, sulphasalazine.
Functional ability
Patients in the initial combination therapy groups experienced an earlier improvement in functional ability than the initial monotherapy groups (figure 3A). At the end of the first year, the functional capacity had improved substantially to a comparable level in all four groups, and this improvement was sustained until 5 years of follow-up. At t=5 years there were no significant differences in functional capacity between the groups (mean HAQ 0.58). No major differences between limitations on the eight subscales of the HAQ were observed (data not shown). When taking into account all HAQ scores during 5 years of follow-up, patients in group 4 had better HAQ scores over time than patients in groups 1, 2 and 3 independently, and patients in group 3 had better HAQ scores than patients in groups 1 and 2 independently (LMM, p<0.001 for group 3 and 4 vs groups 1 and 2, p=0.01 for group 3 vs group 4). The mean HAQ score during follow-up was 0.70, 0.70, 0.62 and 0.54 in groups 1–4, respectively.
Changes in HAQ, remission percentages, Physical and Mental Component Scale of the Short Form 36 and Sharp-van der Heijde score during 5 years of follow-up. HAQ, health assessment questionnaire; MCS, mental component scale; PCS, physical component scale; SHS, Sharp-van der Heijde score.
Quality of life (PCS and MCS) was lower at the beginning of the study compared with the reference population (33 vs normal 50 for PCS (p<0.001) and 47 vs 50 normal for MCS (p<0.001) figure 3C,D). The PCS improved earlier in groups 3 and 4 than in groups 1 and 2. After 1 year the mean PCS was increased to a comparable level in all four groups (mean 45, SD 10) and sustained until 5 years of follow-up, without significant differences between the groups (mean PCS (AUC per month) 43.5, 43.3, 44.1, 45.0 for groups 1–4; PCS p=0.09 for 1 vs 4, p=0.08 for 2 vs 4, p>0.36 for other comparisons).
The mean MCS improved to 52 (SD 9), which is slightly better than the healthy reference population. After 5 years of follow-up, we observed no differences in mean MCS between the treatment groups (mean MCS (AUC per month) 51.8, 51.0, 50.9, 51.2 for groups 1–4).
Radiological damage
In total, 2595 sets of radiographs were available, 479 (94%) from baseline and 446 (88%), 436 (86%), 432 (85%), 421 (83%), 381 (75%) from years 1–5. The interobserver intraclass correlation coefficient of the two readers for 5–0 change scores was 0.98. After 5 years, there was significantly more radiological progression in groups 1 and 2 than in groups 3 and 4, with median (mean) SHS progression of 3.5 (14.0), 2.5 (11.0), 1.0 (7.6) and 1.0 (6.0) units for groups 1–4, respectively (groups 1–2 vs group 4 p<0.01; group 1 vs group 3 p<0.001; other comparisons ns). There were no differences in radiological joint damage between groups 3 and 4. Annual SHS progression rates were the highest in year 1 (mean 3.4), with significantly more progression in groups 1 and 2 than in groups 3 and 4 (LMM p<0.05, figure 3E). In the following years, progression scores continued to increase (mean annual progression 1.5, 1.1, 1.5, 1.6 in years 2–5; LMM p<0.02 for each year compared with the preceding year) without differences between the four groups.
Remission and drug-free remission
After 5 years, 48% of patients were in clinical remission defined as DAS less than 1.6 equally distributed among the groups (figure 3B). Of those, 46%, 51%, 65% and 81% of patients in groups 1–4 had achieved that on the initial therapy. Patients in remission after 5 years had significantly less joint damage progression (mean 7.6 vs 10.7, median 1.0 vs 2.5, p=0.001) and significantly better functional ability (mean HAQ 0.34 vs 0.79, p<0.001) than patients not in remission but with DAS of 2.4 or less.
After 5 years, 14%, 16%, 10% and 19% of patients in groups 1–4 were in drug-free remission (overall p=0.18), with a median duration of 23 months (IQR 15–25 months) in all treatment arms. At achieving drug-free remission the mean HAQ was 0.16 (SD 0.30), comparable to HAQ values of the general population (mean HAQ 0.34).20 The median SHS progression after 5 years in these patients was 1.5 (IQR 0–7.8). Of the patients in sustained drug-free remission (definition ≥1 year, radiographs available in 41/48), 78% showed no joint damage progression (defined as >0 SHS units) in the first year of drug-free remission.
During 5 years of follow-up, 437 (86%) patients experienced at least one adverse event. In total, 251 serious adverse events occurred in 152 (30%) patients, equally distributed among the treatment groups and over time (table 2; figure 4). The majority of the adverse events was mild to moderate and did not lead to treatment adjustments. Eleven of the 120 patients treated with initial combination with infliximab in group 4, and three of 52, none of 15 and three of 28 patients in groups 1–3 treated with delayed infliximab had an infliximab infusion reaction. During 5 years of treatment, the number of serious infections, malignancies and deaths (12 patients, table 2) were comparable across the groups. In group 4 one patient was treated for disseminated tuberculosis, despite 6 months previous treatment with isoniazide because of latent tuberculosis before the start of infliximab, according to the then current guidelines and the study protocol. She subsequently died of other infectious complications (year 2). Since then, the Dutch guidelines for the pretreatment of latent tuberculosis before start of tumour necrosis factor inhibitors have been intensified, as was the study protocol. No other tuberculosis occurred in the trial.
Distribution of serious adverse events among the treatment steps and over time. Each dot represents one serious adverse event.
Adverse events and serious adverse events during 5 years follow-up
The BeSt study shows that with dynamic treatment with currently available drugs, an impressive clinical and radiological gain can be made in the majority of patients presenting with severe RA, resulting in significant and sustained improvements in daily functioning and quality of life over time and adequate suppression of joint damage progression, irrespective of initial treatment. Contrary to expectations, by aiming at low disease activity, 48% of patients achieved early clinical remission, showing the least damage progression and the best functional ability of all. Up to 19% of patients even achieved drug-free remission, enjoying a functional ability that is similar to the general population, without having damage progression.
Patients treated with initial combination therapy showed a more rapid improvement in disease activity, daily functioning and quality of life than patients treated with initial monotherapy, as shown earlier.10 The earlier clinical response in the first 6–9 months of treatment was reflected in significantly less joint damage progression in the initial combination therapy groups compared with the initial monotherapy groups in year 1.
After 5 years of follow-up, the initial differences in joint damage progression are still present, although the annual progression rates in years 2–5 were comparable between the groups. Starting with combination therapy or reserving it for later did not affect toxicity.
The initial combination arms showed an earlier clinical response than the initial monotherapy groups, but medication costs are substantially higher in the beginning of the study in the combination arms, especially in the initial combination arm with infliximab.21 This raises questions about the cost-effectiveness of the early start of biological agents.22 An early clinical response has been suggested to be relevant for the maintenance of paid work.23 24 In line with this, the cost–utility analysis of the BeSt study after 2 years showed that patients treated with initial combination therapy groups were able to keep paid work longer than initial monotherapy groups,21 which might (partly) compensate higher medication costs in groups 3 and 4. We are currently working on the 5-year cost–utility analysis that will elucidate which strategy is most cost-effective in the long term.
The long-term follow-up of the COBRA and FIN–RACO trials suggested a difference in slope in the amount of joint damage after 1–2 years between the combination and the monotherapy arms, whereas we did not observe a difference in annual progression from year 1 until year 5 between initial monotherapy and initial combination therapy.25 26 Differences in study design and patient populations might have contributed to this discrepancy and harms direct comparison: continuous protocollary (BeSt) versus non-protocollary treatment after 1–2 years (COBRA, FIN–RACo), differences in frequencies of radiographs and scoring methods, different medication schemes and control groups (sulphasalazine in COBRA and FIN–RACo vs methotrexate in BeSt) and different targets (remission in FIN–RACo, DAS ≤2.4 in BeSt, no targeted treatment in COBRA).
Reported remission percentages vary widely (10–65%) in various studies with recent-onset RA patients,27 as a result of differences in remission definitions, patient characteristics and study designs.28 Given the patients' disease severity and bad prognostic outlook at baseline, it is remarkable that after 5 years, 48% of patients were in clinical remission and 31% of those in drug-free remission. The study is underpowered to evaluate whether there are differences in (drug-free) remission rates between the four treatment groups. As the patients all satisfied the 1987 American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for RA, they already had well established disease. It is tempting to speculate on the impact of starting effective, dynamic, DAS-directed therapy even earlier in the disease course.
Our results underline the importance of early, targeted treatment in RA. Rheumatologists should be aware that both the immediate and later outlook of newly diagnosed patients depend on early reduction of disease activity and consequent treatment adjustments until this goal is achieved. Various tools have been developed to measure disease activity,12 13 29,–,31 but measuring alone is not enough. The gain from using these tools lies in setting a goal and adjusting therapy until it is achieved.7 8 There is insufficient evidence as to what the target should be. Aiming at remission may possibly lead to even better treatment outcomes. The recommendations of an international taskforce on treating to target will hopefully encourage rheumatologists to adopt targeted treatment in their daily practice.9
Rather than comparing one static treatment with another, the BeSt study has integrated dynamic treatment into the trial protocol, to mimic daily practice. Taking it one step further, it has introduced protocolised tapering and discontinuation of medication into the trial design. We would like to encourage other research groups also to use a dynamic approach in future randomised clinical trials.
In conclusion, with dynamic treatment with currently available drugs an impressive improvement in clinical and radiological outcomes of patients with recent-onset RA can be achieved, leading to 48% remission and up to 19% drug-free remission, irrespective of initial treatment. Starting with combination therapy resulted in earlier clinical improvement and less joint damage progression than starting with monotherapy, without more toxicity. With treatment adjustments aimed at low disease activity, in all four strategy groups the initial clinical improvement is maintained until 5 years of follow-up without deterioration.
The authors would like to thank all patients as well as the following rheumatologists (other than the authors) who participated in the Foundation for Applied Rheumatology Research (all locations are in The Netherlands): W.M. de Beus, MD (Medical Center Haaglanden, The Hague); C. Bijkerk, MD (Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis, Delft); M.H.W. de Bois, MD, and G. Collée, MD (Medical Center Haaglanden, The Hague); J.A.P.M. Ewals, MD (Haga Hospital, The Hague); A.H. Gerards, MD (Vlietland Hospital, Schiedam); R.J. Goekoop, MD (Haga Hospital, The Hague); B.A.M. Grillet (ZorgSaam Hospital, Terneuzen); J.H.L.M. van Groenendael, MD (Franciscus Hospital, Roosendaal); J.M.W. Hazes, MD (Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam); H.M.J. Hulsmans, MD (Haga Hospital, The Hague); M.H. de Jager, MD (Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Dordrecht); J.M. de Jonge-Bok, MD (Groene Hart Hospital, Gouda); M.V. van Krugten, MD (Admiraal de Ruyter Hospital, Vlissingen); H. van der Leeden, MD (retired), W.F. Lems, MD (Slotervaart Hospital, Amsterdam); M.F. van Lieshout-Zuidema, MD (Spaarne Hospital, Hoofddorp); A. Linssen, MD (retired), P.A.H.M. van der Lubbe, MD (Vlietland Hospital, Schiedam); C. Mallée, MD (Kennemer Gasthuis, Haarlem); T.H.E. Molenaar, MD (Groene Hart Hospital, Gouda); M. van Oosterhout, MD (Groene Hart Hospital, Gouda); H.C. van Paassen, MD (Sint Franciscus Gasthuis, Rotterdam); A.J. Peeters, MD (Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis, Delft); H.K. Markusse, MD (deceased), D. van Schaardenburg, MD (VU Medical Center, Amsterdam and Jan van Breemen Institute, Amsterdam); A.A. Schouffour, MD (Groene Hart Hospital, Gouda); R.M. van Soesbergen, MD (retired), P.B.J. de Sonnaville, MD (Admiraal de Ruyter Hospital, Goes); I. Speyer, MD (Bronovo Hospital, The Hague); K.S.S. Steen, MD (Kennemer Gasthuis, Haarlem); G.M. Steup-Beekman, M.D. (Bronovo Hospital, The Hague); J.Ph. Terwiel, MD (Spaarne Hospital, Hoofddorp); A.E. Voskuyl, MD (VU Medical Center, Amsterdam); M.L. Westedt, MD (Bronovo Hospital, The Hague); S. ten Wolde, MD (Kennemer Gasthuis, Haarlem); J.M.G.W. Wouters, MD (Sint Franciscus Gasthuis, Rotterdam); D. van Zeben, MD (Sint Franciscus Gasthuis, Rotterdam). The authors would also like to thank all other rheumatologists and trainee rheumatologists who enrolled patients in this study, and all research nurses for their contributions.
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Funding The trial was sponsored with a government grant from the Dutch College of Health Insurance Companies with additional sponsoring by Centocor Inc. and Schering-Plough Ltd. The sponsors were not involved in the study design, data collection, data analysis or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests TWJH, BACD and CFA received speakers' fees from various pharmaceutical companies (less than US$5000 per year).
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Ethics approval Ethics approval was obtained at the medical ethical committees of all participating centres.
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Cover Reveal and Exclusive Excerpt of The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet: Book 1, by Katherine Cowley
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Isn’t the cover striking? The blue and green tones are lovely. It makes you wonder what Miss Mary Bennet is doing at an ancient stone castle. Let’s find out.
In Jane Austen’s revered Pride and Prejudice, Mary, the middle sister, is often passed over. Until now…
Upon the death of her father, Mary Bennet’s life is thrown into turmoil. With no fortune or marriage prospects, Mary must rely on the kindness of her relatives. When a mysterious late-night visit by an unknown relative—a Lady Trafford from Castle Durrington—leads to an extended stay and the chance for an education, Mary gratefully accepts the opportunity.
But even as she arrives at the castle, she’s faced with one mystery after another. Who is Lady Trafford really and what is she hiding? Do her secrets and manipulations place the small seaside community at risk of an invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte? Always curious, Mary sets out to discover the truth. But when she discovers the dead body of a would-be thief she outed prior to her father’s funeral, Mary jeopardizes her position at the castle and her family’s good name in her quest for the truth.
Never underestimate the observation skills of a woman who hides in the background.
Excerpt from The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet, after Mary arrives at Castle Durrington
Mary did not want to continue the tour with Mrs. Boughton, but she knew it would be impolite to refuse. People like Elizabeth always managed to do things that were impolite, yet in a way that did not give others offense. Perhaps Mary would try it. She pictured her older sister in her mind and decided on the proper phrasing.
“I would truly love to see the terrace, but I am feeling great fatigue from my long journey. Perhaps we can continue it another day.”
“It is well worth seeing the back of the house. I can make it a short excursion.”
Mary had seen plenty of backs of houses. They were typically a duller version of the front.
“I need to lie down,” Mary said flatly.
Mrs. Boughton looked like she was about to protest but then thought better of it. As the grand staircase did not lead to the second floor (it was covered by a dome) they went up the smaller spiral staircase. Even though Mrs. Boughton had agreed to continue the tour another day, she would not stop talking. There were over a dozen rooms, with one section reserved for visiting relatives. Mrs. Boughton pointed out her own room (“it is close to yours, and I will act as a chaperone until Lady Trafford returns”), and the nursery (“should Mr. Withrow ever choose to marry and produce heirs”), and then she finally brought Mary to the room that would be hers during her stay. Her room was on the north side of the house, the side from which the carriage had approached. From her windows, besides the clearing in front of the house and a glimpse of the road, all Mary could see were trees, some with a few leaves turning their fall colors.
After Mrs. Boughton verified that all of Mary’s cases had been brought up, she left so Mary could rest.
As soon as the door was closed, Mary opened the case with her music and found her error. It was an easy part—how could she have completely forgotten the opening movement? She wanted to return to the pianoforte but stopped herself short of the door. She had used the excuse that she was tired to free herself from the rest of the tour, but now that prohibited her from using the pianoforte. Next time, she should come up with a different polite reason. And next time, she would not decline refreshment after traveling.
Mary lay down on the bed, holding her music to her chest. This castle—no, house—was grander even than Netherfield, where Mr. Bingley had lived for a time. And compared to the residence of the Philipses—well, she should not compare her aunt’s house to this place. Perhaps she should have stayed there, in a place that was familiar, with people who were familiar. At least there she knew her place in the world. Here, more seemed possible, yet it also made her future feel more uncertain. But there was no use in looking back. Her decision had been made, and she would make the best of it.
She set her music to the side and tried falling asleep, but too much afternoon light shone through the window. She rose and walked to the window; instead of closing the curtain, she gazed outside at the walk and the trees. She removed her mourning ring. She read her father’s name and date of death, then flipped the bezel to reveal the clip of hair. She pressed the translucent stone to her lips. Change was inevitable, and death, as the philosophers liked to say, was but a natural part of life. While she would suffer through it with resolve, that did not mean she had to relish her suffering.
A movement—or perhaps a light—caught Mary’s attention. She peered out her window. There, in the trees, a red light flashed, two more times. A minute later the light flashed again, three times. What even made a red light, strong enough to be seen through trees in the daytime?
She waited, but the light did not flash again. Yet a minute or two later, someone walked away from Castle Durrington, towards the light. She recognized his clothes and hair. It was Mr. Withrow.
She tightened her fingers around the fabric of the curtain. Withrow could be engaged in business for the estate, but then why the mysterious red light? It seemed like a signal, a secret signal that most people were not meant to understand.
What he did was none of her concern, yet she could not stifle her curiosity. This was the man who had searched her parents’ room, after all, and she still did not know why he had done so. She might never learn why, but at least she could discover what occupied him now. If Mrs. Boughton questioned her leaving her room, she would simply state that she had received sufficient rest.
Mary took the small spiral staircase down two flights, all the way to the main floor. A servant stood at attention in the front entryway.
“Would you please open the door?” she asked.
He did so, asking, “Where are you going, miss?”
“I need a bit of fresh air,” said Mary. She should not need to justify her movements to Lady Trafford’s servants.
“Are you in need of any assistance?”
“No. I am quite independently minded.”
As she stepped away from the castle, she realized that the servant might report to Withrow that she had left the house. She did not want the servant to know that she was following his master, so she veered to the left, as if she was headed to the side of the house. After a minute she turned back, towards the place in the trees where she had seen the light.
As she neared the trees she slowed. She stepped over branches and around fallen logs, keeping as quiet as possible. She heard voices, not truly audible, and as she neared them, she crouched down into some shrubbery.
She pushed aside a branch and peered at the two figures who stood a bit farther forward. One was unmistakable: it was Withrow. The other took her a moment to place, in part because his presence was so unexpected. The man had a mustache and a beard, which changed the look of his facial structure, and his hair was now a darker color, but despite these changes, Mary recognized him.
Mr. Withrow was meeting with the man who had attempted to steal her family’s mourning rings.
Katherine Cowley read Pride and Prejudice for the first time when she was ten years old, which started a lifelong obsession with Jane Austen. She loves history, chocolate, traveling, and playing the piano, and she teaches writing classes at Western Michigan University. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan with her husband and three daughters. The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet is her debut novel.
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7 thoughts on “Cover Reveal and Exclusive Excerpt of The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet: Book 1, by Katherine Cowley”
As a Mary Bennet fan, I am really looking forward to reading this, especially as historical mysteries is my favourite genre to read
And I love the cover
Jorie
Hallo, Hallo Ms Laurel,
I LOVE reading your blog to find out which are the latest after canon stories I can soak my bookish heart inside and when it comes to finding stories for JA – clearly I have a sweet passion of love for PRIDE as it is singularly my most sought out sequel/inspired by tale out of her canon! Mind, it has a bit to do with the fact I’m dearly behind in my readings of JA and PRIDE is the only one I’ve finished thus far along (*smirks). Still. Like you said, its such a maze of choice with Darcy & Lizzie but when it comes to the other sisters, the offerings are not as wide and deep.
In recent years I loved The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen trilogy which took me into the threads of JA’s own life rather than owning to one of her novels being retold and this Christmas for #blogmas I’m decidedly going to dig my heels into sorting out a way to finish reading at least 2x more JA novels as this October I am reading Persuasion. It would be nice to have more of an authority about her works than just repeatedly trying to seek the stories without being able to read them.
What struck my interest about this story was how the scope of the plot matched well with the artwork on the cover as I’m a bit of a strictler for that – whilst without a keenly curious plotting the art is mere art in the end. And another thread of after canon JA mysteries!! I hope one day to pull myself back into Ms Barron’s series as I’ve never fully finished Scargrave Manor! (oy!) I am now duly curious how Mary would fare as a sleuth!
The kicker which makes me think this would be a cracking good read is the fact the very last tagline of the synopsis stated it best: don’t undersestimate the girl in the background! And how wickedly true?! Those who are more quiet and silent are not without observation and knowledge, they simply choose their words more selectively! If memory serves I always felt Mary was the deep thinker of the Bennett sisters and the one who internally had loads of activity percolating in her mind but did not quite have the bold confidence of her sisters to relate too much of it aloud.
This looks like she’s finding her voice and using it well!
Thanks for giving me a reason to seek this lovely out!!
This sounds intriguing! I’ve never read a Mary Bennet story. Can’t wait to read it!
I love the cover! I’ll wait to preorder so I can get a physical copy. The excerpt sounds intriguing. I love the idea of Mary trying figure out her way in the world and can’t wait to discover her hidden depth of character!
I happen to currently be reading one of those many Mary Bennett books & enjoying it SO much. But I know it’s because, in part, I’m waiting for Katherine Crowley’s Secret Life! This little chapter snippet shows me I’m right to be excited. And the cover? Lovely! Keeping watch for the release. May it sell a million!!! Thanks so much for the advance peek.
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vOilah! 2020: Getting a taste of French culture at VUE, café gourmand, and a photography walk
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They say that the quickest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, a saying that also holds true when it comes to falling in love with a country – through its food. As with every edition, the 2020 vOilah! France Singapore Festival once again showcased the very best of French cuisine in Singapore, ranging from pastries to desserts, wines to fine dining.
But of course, being in Singapore, and this being the France Singapore Festival, some of these experiences had a little twist to make them stand out all the more. Take for example our experience of a café gourmand at the rustic Tanglin Mall in Orchard, and found ourselves seated in the cosy House of AnLi.
A café gourmand concept typically comprises an espresso and a selection of petits fours. In this case, against the picturesque backdrop, with the bright skies clearly visible from our seats, with wide windows and antique furniture around us, the atmosphere was just as important as the food, prepared by Executive Chef José L. del Amo. The selection comprised five of France’s most renowned pastries – a vegan lemon tart with eggless meringue, a canelé infused with Rum; a madeleine made with Bordier and dipped in raspberry chocolate (hence the pink colouration); the iconic Paris Brest with hazelnut and almond praline cream; and ending off with a Gateaux opera with Grenada single origin 76% chocolate. And to top it all of, we went full on French by pairing these bites with a Perrier-Jouët champagne, for a perfect afternoon tea.
But perhaps the gastronomic experience that stood out most for us was our dinner at Wild Wild West (of France) at VUE. Sitting atop OUE Bayfront, with a magnificent view, we were eager to taste the 7-course menu by Executive Chef Sam Chin, showcasing more than just your usual French cuisine, as he dived in to flavours from the Western part of France to tickle our tastebuds.
While the star of our first dish was the Specialé Geay Oyster N02 from Champagne, we found that every ingredient here came together very well, with profound layers of flavour to it. Popping the entire poached oyster into your mouth, you immediately get a taste of the ocean it was fished from, before the earthy porcini mushroom espuma hits you. Topped off with a spoon of caviar, and this dish has just the right touch of luxury to begin our night, and helps marry the flavours together.
Our second dish looked nothing liked what we expected – the Rougié Duck Liver, sourced from Alsace.
We were definitely impressed by the presentation, with the dish resembling a cheesecake more than foie gras. With a miso duck liver mousse tart, a buckwheat crust, poached pear, pear gelée, and pine nut, this was a great starter, and just enough to whet our palate.
The Sturia caviar “Oscietra” took centrestage for our third dish, and was served atop a ‘potato brûlée’. Taking on the appearance of a crème brûlée, while tasting more similar to a potato gratin, this was a beautifully done dish, with a potato ‘glass’ we had to break through to reach the smooth potato beneath. Combined with the generous dollop of caviar atop it, it doesn’t get any more luxurious when you spoon up some potato with the caviar, and the creaminess of the potato and the saltiness of the caviar blending well in each mouthful.
It was obvious what our next dish was all about the moment it was served. Sourced from Loire, the langoustine tail was nestled atop a dish of barley porridge, and pan-seared to perfection. The langoustine retains its natural sweetness and texture, and when eaten with the barley porridge (with kelp and brown butter), complements rather than overwhelms it. What we really enjoyed about this this is how each element is able to stand on its own with a distinct flavour, yet still comes together well in every spoonful.
For our meat dish, we were served Mieral pigeon from Rhône. The pigeon was cooked to perfection – pink on the inside and supple on the outside. This was complemented by the Japanese sour plum glaze, the sweet, grilled nectarine purée and Bayonne ham shavings, all of which worked in tandem to make this dish shine.
For our first dessert, we were served Mons cheese from Sauternes, and this for us, was the dish of the night. We definitely didn’t have this in mind when looking at the menu, and when it was served, the plating makes it resemble an exquisite work of art. The gabietou cheese in filo pastry was fried such that it was crispy on the outside, before revealing melted cheese inside upon first bite. The Hungarian honey truffle dressing was apt for the dish, and together with the pistachio and figs, brought to mind the beauty of a relaxing French autumn.
We ended off our evening with another exquisite dessert that ticked all the boxes for us, with a spiced pumpkin crémeaux, pickled pumpkin rolls, caramelised pecan crumble and a sea buckthorn sorbet. The featured ingredient of course, was pumpkin, and this dish was unafraid to capitalise on this bold flavour. The pumpkin crémeaux reminded us of a spiced pumpkin drink we might have had around a bonfire, while the pickled pumpkin roll and pecan crumbles gave the dessert different textures to play with. A dessert tends to act as a palate cleanser to end off a meal, and with the sea buckthorn sorbet, made from a berry found in Scandinavia, this gave the sorbet an unusual but bold flavour that was tart and refreshing, something we appreciated greatly.
At the end of the meal, gazing out at the panoramic view of the Singapore skyline at night and were reminded of this event as part of the France Singapore Festival and its position as a celebration of French culture in Singapore. Seated with other Singaporeans indulging in these French ingredients, we thought about how good food brings about good friendships and relations at the table, thanks to Chef Sam’s culinary skill and willingness to try new things. While it’s been a difficult year, it’s certainly nice that these days, we once again have the opportunity to be back sitting with friends around the table, chatting and enjoying a nice meal together, with the hope that these establishments will soon be as lively and full as our pre-pandemic days once again.
And having been stuck in Singapore for so long with no travel, it seemed that going on a photo walk to re-discover our city through a new lens was exactly what we needed to appreciate our country a little better, with a photography walking tour with French photographer Xavier Keutch.
Waking up early on a Sunday morning isn’t our usual routine, but one I challenged myself to do, as someone who enjoys taking photos and the experience of taking photos. Arriving at Telok Ayer in the early hours of the morning was an interesting experience, watching people going about their activities in these quaint surroundings. We felt relaxed on this casual walk led by Xavier, who was open to any questions we wanted to ask. Bringing us to various parts of the district, we had good opportunities to capture photos in different styles and various angles, while Xavier gave advice on how best to frame our photos for the best effect.
In all, this just proves that photography is incredibly accessible, and suitable for almost anyone interested in taking it up. Photos play such an important role in capturing the mood of the moment, the memories that we made, and really, was simply an enjoyable one, as we walked together, conversed, and experienced the city in a new light. For us at least, that was the best way to end off vOilah! 2020.
Café Gourmand took place on 4th November 2020 at House of AnLi. More information available here
Wild Wild West (of France) took place on 3rd November 2020 at VUE, OUE Bayfront. More information available here
Photography Walking Tour with Xavier Keutch took place on 25th October, 1st November, 15th November and 22nd November 2020. More information available here
vOilah! 2020 ran from 22nd October to 22nd November 2020. For more information, visit their website here, and their Facebook page here
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March 15, 2016 by Barbara
LBTS Candidate Yann Brandt and family – 2016
Dear Readers…. I guess Sea Ranch Club was not as strong as it was in 2008 and will unfortunately bear the brunt of that loss as tonight candidate for commission Yann Brandt lost his race against his opponent Buz Oldaker who was heavily promoted and lobbied by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Realtors Association… an association he belongs to as a licensed realtor …This was a huge omission in his biography he purposely enacted to keep voters in the dark…in this writer’s opinion… He was the weaker candidate by far as he went head to head with Yann showing his utter lack of knowledge about the town with no homework done during the campaign to bone up on the issues he was sorely lacking insight in to…. Yann was endorsed by the Sentinel who saw those differences and recommended by the Pelican where the editorial staff was split … He tried mightily once he saw the writing on the wall at the League of Women Voter’s Candidate Forum and the underbelly of what forces were behind his opponent to let the voters know and to convey the differences and assure voters that he would not go down the road it seems we are definitely going down after March 29th… with no brakes in sight ….We will now see votes that will go down…4-1 ( Mayor Sasser who won heartily tonight might still be the 1 opposed on the apartment building purchase)……but….more often than not…. votes will be 5-0 …..It’s a return to those days this writer saw a decade ago… the Old Guard votes are back….It’s a sad day in Lauderdale-By-The -Sea….
Shortly after Yann Brandt decided to run for Stuart Dodd’s seat Mayor Scot Sasser made the upsetting and surprising decision not to run as a slate in this election or to openly endorse his former co-campaign manager (2010) making it much more difficult for Yann as this truncated election began….This about- face was made after Scot initially agreed it made sense do both and then for reasons this writer found contrary to the Scot Sasser I knew chose not to ….. Then the Supervisor of Elections messed up the ballots including Dan Darnell’s name after he had withdrawn within the allotted time to do so….and it was Yann who made the first calls…to the SOE, the Town and the Town Clerk to get it all straightened out…. when it seemed no change was forthcoming….I made the decision to inform Sea Ranch Club resident and board member Dan Darnell his name was on the ballot as he was in the dark about the snafu … but as he thanked me for doing so and knowing I supported Yann …I was informed by fellow condo owners that he sent an email to support Yann’s opponent Buz ….which was his right…but he did it admitting in his email he knew nothing about either candidate that early in the race… A disservice to those early voters ….in my opinion….especially since the issue of the Palm Club sewers settlement and where each candidate stood was not known at that time….a bone of contention in the Sea Ranch Condominiums who have long said ( 1st in 2007) a settlement to Palm Club for sewers on private property means SRC will ask for our lift ( for sewer) on private property to be paid for as well by the taxpayers….( I expect other condos to do the same!)…. He also later was shown endorsing Buz Oldaker in his mailer/ads…. The only remaining political action committee in town the aging CIC organized a last minute meeting with the candidates to ask them questions and then have their small group of members vote to endorse one…Their Chair Ken Evans called to ask Yann to ask him to participate even though Ken Evans the Broward Democratic State Committeeman had already openly endorsed Buz Oldaker as the Chair of the CIC online and was making phone calls for him….Yann asked Ken for a fair shake and went to the CIC to get one….The CIC did not comply….they ultimately endorsed Buz even though his stances on the issues ran counter to their core principles … They said as much in their endorsement last weekend … causing many former CIC members to comment on the strange content of that endorsement ….. Then you had an onslaught of attack emails to fellow realtors and businesses from that Realtors Association….asking for funds for their guy Buz and for their own association….. Vacation rentals will increase in town big time with continuing lack of enforcement and increasing numbers in neighborhoods with large imbalances as a result ….They are shown giving him $900 in total in Buz’s Candidate Treasury Report turned in to the Town Clerk on March 11th with one more treasury report to come in June which may exceed that amount….That’s influence paid for …just like the downtown businesses who have donated monies ….and are sure to come before him and others on the dais who accepted those funds….in my opinion…. Phony charges were trumped up at the 11th hour by the obnoxious Bob Fleishman… the former chair of the defunct north end of town PAC Unite Our Town at that CIC meeting with the help of one of his former nemesis concerning the VFD …. Yann was a member who proudly served and was the last one out when they were locked out by some of the very supporters of Buz who were and are involved with that issue as they were and are with the Palm Club sewers….being paid for by taxpayers as a “settlement” which will be sold to us a a “public safety issue” ….just as it was in the past….. The false charge made was that Yann was dismissed from the VFD in 2008….He received a form letter along with many others once the VFD was no longer the Town’s provider and they operating from a storefront on Commercial Blvd. doing training in the hopes of returning to replace the BSO…… Talk about negative campaigning…. Then there was the outlandish Buz Oldaker ads and mailer stating his opponent Yann Brandt had gone”negative” and was attacking him stating in his (Yann’s) ads/mailer he did not say what he is on the video saying …Saying he (Buz) did not say what he said at each meeting …until he took cover and had a meltdown at the CIC meeting ….Yann Brandt was not negative he was forthright in trying to do what opponents are supposed to do…inform the voters of the facts and the where the candidates stand on the issues as candidates and when they govern……I thought those differences were heard loud and clear when that Buz Oldaker mailer came last weekend due to where so many of those mailers ended up in Sea Ranch Club….. in the mailroom trash!….
This election continued from start to finish to be an uphill battle with so much to lose …and with a loss of 157 votes …. and the biggest coming from the 120 votes from the north …Buz Oldaker won with 54%…. certainly not a mandate…but definitely much larger and much more impactful than we’ve seen since 2006 showing …in this writer’s opinion….there is still a big divide in our town…. and districts must be kept in place… In fact…we may need to further address the way we vote by in the future by having the south end of LBTS vote for their 2 commissioners and the north end of LBTS for their 2 commissioners retaining a town-wide vote for the mayor if we see a backslide of governing in the next 2-4 years…..We are not one town when it comes to what we pay for and how we pay for it….or who we vote for and why…..The south better wake up just like they did in 2006….and keep a sharp eye on what is on the town commission agendas…what is voted on and how it’s enacted….with or without the peoples input ….and if the commission truly represents ALL of the people in LBTS….It’s a sad day in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea….
More to come…..
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Dear Readers… This year once again I have been asked by many who I support for the Lauderdale- By-The- Sea Commission in our election that takes place next Tuesday March 15th….So… as has been my practice for the last 10 years I put those candidates signs on the windshield of my car …. This year I support the re-election of Scot Sasser for a second term as Mayor and Yann Brandt for Seat 4 District 2 to replace Stuart Dodd who is term limited out….
I encourage all readers to take the time to look online at the League of Women Voters Candidate Forum which was held in Jarvis Hall on Feb. 25th and is replayed on the Town’s channel 78 on the weekends through March 13 th as well as being able to pull up on the Town’s website at lauderdalebythesea-fl.gov which has the information on the front cover page to access…The commissioner portion of the debate begins at 56 minutes if you do not want to watch the whole event…..which included the sad “implosion” of the Mayor’s opponent James Pady who was clearly in over his head in this long time required forum to showcase for voters the candidates and what they can and cannot offer the voters if elected…. http://www.lauderdalebythesea-fl.gov/
There are definitely big differences between Yann Brandt and his opponent Buz Oldaker with the depth and detail of knowledge concerning the most important issues…. There is a large glaring difference in the institutional memory between Yann Brandt and lack of such with Buz Oldaker on the history of the town, the knowledge of the Charter and the will of the people….. Initially, I as a voter thought there might not be due to the fact that they each served on the Planning and Zoning Board for some time ( Yann went on to serve on the Charter Review Board as well as currently serving on the Audit Committee) and felt that either would be a welcome addition to take Stu Dodd’s seat….. My first inkling that might not be the case was a look back at Planning & Zoning meetings which showed a stark contrast in Yann’s insights, proposed input and changes which were voted on and passed vs Buz who did not add much substance although he was the Chair…. I definitely changed my mind early in this race when I was asked about statements made by Buz in print for an interview that he worked on many campaigns and provided advice to the commissioners. I was taken aback because I thought they had confused him with his opponent!… Yann Brandt was the one who did that!…. Buz Oldaker was not involved in any aspect except perhaps a sign in his yard…. These inconsistencies continued on when he is said to have responded that he wanted to run in 2008 and 2010 but was “bumped” for Stu Dodd and Chris Vincent. That is a major untruth that I would have been privy to at that time as I was co- campaign manager for both those elections… In 2010 with Yann for Minnet/Sasser/Vincent….. My antenna consistently went up over these last weeks as I watched the LOWVoters Candidate Forum and saw that Yann Brandt brought forth in methodical, clear responses with his stances on the issue of sewers on private property-….Yann is against it/ Buz stated they pay property taxes… indicating a yes…. and…. Buz has his sign at the front of the Palm Club gates!….Definitely a yes vote for sewers on private property….in this voter’s opinion!…. Mayor Sasser does as well but unfortunately he is bound by shade session rules and cannot divulge if he is before or against …although we will know once litigation/shade are over…. UPDATE…3/14/16-Just heard from an avid reader…a few hours after this writer posted Buz sign at Palm Club gates it was removed!….Sasser sign is still there….Hmmmmm…..just more of the bait and switch we have seen since day 1 with the Oldaker campaign!…..Yes.. Indeed …the Palm Club sewers is back in play yet again using the “public safety” issue ploy in order to provide taxpayer funds on what is a “horizontal” condominium …. Google Palm Club sewers Lauderdale-By-The-Sea to see it’s a replay of a failed use of taxpayer monies in 2007. …. Redeveloping Town Hall- Public Safety building complex-…Yann wants taxpayers having a say in the funding…. Yann stated how Lighthouse Point had a separate millage for a major expenditure such as this and wanted it on the ballot, not a referendum but a ballot question/ Buz said we need a consultant and put forth that a vote was not needed as well as no need for separate millage … (his response to many questions involving longterm planning was a disturbingly laid back attitude that nothing is “finite” and we can budget for it/move monies around to address on an annual basis) ….Buz spoke of a recent planning of the future of the town meeting that pulled in approximately 60 people into Jarvis Hall that he felt showed that was enough to steer this multi-million dollar expenditure…….. I was at that meeting and while I was happy to see a large contingency were new to town, I was also saddened to see they chose heights in town as number one concern due to not being aware of our charter. ….The purchase of the $3 million dollar apartment building is waiting in the wings ….in my opinion….for that 4th vote to purchase it…. Yann stated he was against the purchase as were Mayor Sasser and outgoing Comm. Dodd and explained alternatives and traffic congestion were a more immediate problem with peak limited times of parking problems…. he cited our last parking study…. Buz turned his nose up to that consultant which countered his call for a consultant for the Town Hall Complex issue, and spoke of a parking problem and that some parking garages could be “pretty” pointing out the Minto buildings across from Jarvis Hall. ….. He stated”….I’m not going to take anything off the table” ….On the Marina- Basin Drive area Yann stated we need to put the residents first, no overnight stays on the boats and brought forth a concern of the town selling the underwater rights to the marina owner citing alternatives to doing so….Buz brought forth he didn’t know how this could be done but he would like the town to turn that area into a park for people to gather and enjoy….. The inference was clear he wanted the town to purchase the property….. If I was a neighbor who opposed overnight boat use I would not want an area open to people at all hours that looks into my back yard. ….Beyond this meeting I watched as each came forth at public comments to speak and again saw a clear difference of what they chose to speak on and the substance or lack of substance contained in those 3 minutes….. I read the interviews in the Sun Sentinel and the Pompano Pelican as well as the endorsements…. True to form the interviews showed Yann Brandt to have a full grasp on the issues and Buz sorely lacking in all areas….The Sun Sentinel concurred in their endorsement of Yann and the Pelican was split in their decision offering up no endorsement of either… just recommending BOTH …( although Buz used their recommendation in his mailer not addressing it was for BOTH!)…Yann is endorsed by Rep. Chip La Marca / Commissioner Stuart Dodd/ Commissioner Elliot Skolow/ Former Florida House of RepresentativesMajority Leader Adam Hasner…..(Commissioner Brown and Mayor Sasser chose to not endorse either candidate)…. Buz is endorsed by Dan Darnell from Sea Ranch Club in an email he sent to some residents stating he did not really know either Yann or Buz/ Former Broward Mayor Ken Keechl/ Ken Evans CIC Chair/Democratic Broward State Committeeman / Dean Trantealis Ft. Lauderdale Commissioner/ Vice Mayor Chris Vincent and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Realtors Assoc…. (a really large sized portion of his mailer!)….On this last endorsement ….I am really deeply disturbed due to the fact that Buz …in my opinion …purposely omitted he is a member of this organization as he is a realtor!… Why not include that in your bio?…. No sitting commissioner on our LBTS dais over the last 10 years has ever taken a meeting to obtain the association’s endorsement or funding for their campaign and have all stated they took a pass to avoid any problems arising on issues coming before them in the future… ( Mayor Sasser and unopposed Commissioner Mark Brown joined Yann in not participating this year)….. These issues are impacting issues such as vacation homes and sober homes which have impacted many neighborhoods and the balance of homeowners vs. transient influx of vacationers and those seeking help for substance abuse….The Greater Fort Lauderdale Realtors assoc. sent out successive emails this week claiming Yann Brandt’s stance was an attack on them and asked for funding to Buz Oldaker- a fellow realtor and to their assoc. to combat Yann and the issue of such homes…. In this writer’s opinion that is only done when you want to know you have influence just as we have seen in the general election again this year!…. I attended the Chamber of Commerce Meet the Candidates Breakfast meeting on Wednesday March 10th and again saw Yann Brandt answer in detail his major role in the successful installation of the parking exemption program which aided in turnaround of the downtown as well as his acumen with hotels from growing up and working in his family’s hotel on El Mar Drive and his out of the box ideas for working with the Chamber, businesses, hotels and the residents… Buz Oldaker could not directly respond to any questions… offering up instead reflections of his personal experiences….In fact he brought forth when asked about the Chamber-Town relationship the Town could put an item on the agenda and have the Chamber come to speak…Yann responded correctly he enjoyed when the Chamber came each month to do just that!… On heights he chose to talk about a large development happening …in Pompano Beach!…. Then in what could only have been a gotcha – setup… A resident stood to try and accuse Yann of missing meetings while serving on Planing and Zoning and resigning… as if he was not forthcoming ….. Yann responded with his resume of serving on the VFD / P & Z /Charter ReviewBoard/ P & Z again and then the Audit Committee… (2005- 2016)….He correctly spoke about the boards all being voluntary and that he always informed staff and alternates are available to sit in for absences… He also correctly spoke of Buz Oldaker’s many missed meetings which he chaired in his place…….Buz chose to call Yann on his saying that he (Buz) had also missed P & Z meetings saying Yann should have been thrown off…I spoke as an audience member deeply concerned that we have a hard time finding volunteers for boards and if they are subjected to false inuendo why would they want to serve….I was present when Yann resigned due to career conflicts ( no longer a conflict) and spoke at the podium as his resignation was put in to the record…he was then appointed to the Audit Committee which was a board that offered him a way to continue on serving to date.. I am told at the CIC meeting that night for its declining number of members once again some Buz supporters …Bob Fleishman former chair of the Unite Our Town …(talk about strange bedfellows)…was touting the Bytheseatimes newspaper and the Maureen McIntee’s “Truth Detector” column as he falsely accused Yann Brandt of a dismissal from the VFD which was a defunct department at the time of this false accusation…Two other non- members tried to smear Yann Brandt on his resume…same as at the Chamber Breakfast meeting which is easily verifiable and complete unlike Buz’s which leaves out his realtor business in Fort Lauderdale / manager of veterinary office(s)/ Royal Caribbean guest services…which show up in Google ….Yann, according to those who were there and spoke to me …did not rise to their bait …due to the fact that his resume/ bio/ institutional memory are beyond reproach and he does not change his stance depending on the audience he is speaking to unlike…. I am told…. his opponent did at that meeting having what was described as a meltdown that upset members who had come to listen to the candidates to make an informed decision……..The CIC chose to endorse Buz Oldaker absolutely throwing out their own long held principles to join with their current CIC chair Ken Evans Democratic Broward State Committeeman who had pre-endorsed him prior to the CIC meeting and the members voting!….In a newsflash the CIC sent out they stated they did NOT support the sewers or the parking garage which their newly endorsed candidate Buz Oldaker “seemed to favor”!… Their false claim that Yann Brandt had negative ads/mailers stated the same findings the CIC found !… They falsely used former UOT chair Bob Fleishman’s assertion on Yann’s dismissal from the VFD without checking the facts which is grounds for libel!…….In this weeks’s Pompano Pelican Yann Brandt has put his ad in addressing the differences with the link to the LOWVoters Forum for voters to see for themselves what each verbally stated…Buz Oldaker chose to run 2 ads that in my opinion hopes voters will not watch that forum for he skirts what he said there and elsewhere… it’s the classic moving the goal post strategy he is playing in the last days of and finger in the wind kind of politicking that should raise a red flag to voters…. as it did for me!….I have also been told the Realtor’s Assoc. is making calls possibly robo- calls on Buz’s behalf…that shows the influence they want to have over him ( and us) the next 4 years…in my opinion…and the major lack of understanding LBTS elections and voters who have a total disdain for such interference and calls!….
I have received all the Candidate Treasury reports that show that Buz received $900 thus far from various “arms” of the Realtors Assoc…. and with a final report due after the election there may be much more to show up after the emails sent out for funding this week from the Greater Fort Lauderdale Realtors Assoc…. A mailer came out as well which will either be a last ditch effort to counter what is on the LOWV video with assertions made to skew his own words as we saw in the Pelican today…. It was a poorly written ( no proof-reader hired by Buz’s professional consultant?)…. He falsely again asserts he did not make statements that are now a public record on the LOWVoter’s Candidate Forum and again falsely characterizes Yann Brandt by printing Yann offered no solutions!… It was Buz who did that!…
Buz’s claims and rants along with his supporters who are set to benefit if he succeeds in getting up on the dais that is opponent Yann Brandt went “negative” is a non-starter in this writer’s opinion…Showing the differences on issues and getting that information out to voters BEFORE they vote is a candidate’s duty and definitely “puts the people above politics”……so that they are warned that a vote for that opponent means they will represent the voter one way or another!….
My conclusion is Yann Brandt offers voters a commissioner that will do his homework, come up with ideas, solutions and implementations that keep us out of debt while securing our character and quality of life mindful of its history and its future…. beholden to no one but those voters/residents he represents …. His opponent Buz Oldaker is quite the opposite and as they say “buyer beware”…. which in this case means…taxpayers buying sewers for private property under the guise of “public safety” in commission shade sessions …an apartment building being bought with that coveted 4th vote now in place….throwing out young residential renters and being torn down for a mere 30 spaces and possibly parking garage for the businesses who donated to his campaign …. more vacation rental homes with the possibility of less restrictions than are currently on the books throwing off the balance of transient vs anchored neighborhoods….. all done with no town-wide participation offered ahead of important votes that will impact us all….for two years at the very least!… Those of us who have been around a long time know very well what changes can be made in 2 years…and how they can impact longterm…. Do we really want to repeat all that?…. If not….vote Yann Brandt!……
Mayor Scot Sasser still has an opponent despite James Pady’s LOWVoters decision to leave the meeting and state he would vote for his opponent Scot Sasser saying he was a good man…. There has been no official withdrawal and Mr Pady despite removing his signs around his condominium appeared at the Chamber’s Meet the Candidate breakfast yesterday shortly before it was over sitting in the back answering no questions and handed out some copies of his concern over his single issue drive to run in the first place…. James Pady is a superintendent at the Winter Colony Condominium who has been upset ( see LOWV video/interviews Sentinel/ Pelican) over the beach raker and its impact on the environment…He has repeatedly sent what could be characterized as manifestos to the town concerning this issue and felt he was being disregarded and dismissed….Anyone is allowed to run for office as long as they are a registered voter and have lived in town for longer than 6 months…James Pady registered on Jan 7, 2016 in order to run for mayor…He never attended meetings and was woefully unprepared to answer questions put forth on specific issues at that Feb 25th forum leading to his decision to end his participation and he said his candidacy …. It appears days before the actual election day on the 15th he is not so sure …due …it is said…to not having the Mayor’s immediate and constant attention to his issues dealt with asap… … The Mayor has gone out of his way to aid James Pady throughout this weird campaign from personally going to inform him of the infraction on his signs, to assisting him off and on the dais in preparation for the LOWV forum and providing him some cover of sorts in applauding his attempt to get up and speak publicly after Mr. Pady spoke of how overwhelming this was for him….Scot Sasser has put forth steps to get the parties …beach raker….Broward County… Town staff…to come and address all Mr. Pady’s concerns…mindful that he still had to run a full out campaign and all the time and costs that go with it to once again show the voters he values their vote and is working to secure it for a second term… Scot was endorsed by the Sun Sentinel/ Pompano Pelican/ CIC ( who had issues with him as well!)….
I recommend that you go to each of these candidates websites Scotsasser.com and Yannbrandt.com/YannBrandt Twitter and Yann Brandt Facebook ( you do not need to be a Twitter/Facebook member to access either)… These candidates have stated their positions and accomplishments… for all to make their own informed decision of who gets that “bubble” filled in….
Once again …. every vote matters for what direction we go in ….in the future of this town…. and the impact it will have for us all!….
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Read and Review "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Read and Review “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens Essay Sample
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I have decided to read and review “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens. The book is set in the late 1800’s and is a story about an orphan growing up and his struggles throughout life.
My first impression of this book was that it would be a typical Charles Dickens plot, which meant a poor orphan adopted by his or her cruel and spiteful relatives. A good example in this case would be “David Copperfield.” However my stereotypical thoughts proved wrong as usual and instead Great Expectations major themes revolved around love, vengeance and redemption.
The story begins in a village near the marshes where a young boy called pip leaves with his sister and her husband Joe the blacksmith. One day at the marshes Pip meets an escaped convict who demands for food, fearing for his life Pip complies and the convict leaves without any trouble. At this moment in time this meeting seems irrelevant but as the story develops we see the convict, Magwitch becoming Pips’ secret benefactor.
A few weeks later a wealthy woman by the name of Miss Haversham hires Joe to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Miss Haversham was left at the altar and turned into a cold bitter woman. As a result she adopted Estella in a cold calculated manoeuvre to train her as an instrument of revenge against all men. Estella goes by this and is constantly treating Pip like dirt, looking down on him. In time Pip loses his self-esteem and feels he needs to become a gentleman. He says:
“I never thought of being ashamed of my hands before- but I now see them a very different pair.”
Pips’ big break comes a few weeks later when a lawyer by the name of Mr Jaggers says he is to have “great expectations” because of a secret benefactor. With his newly earned money Pip tries to become a gentleman but fails and becomes phoney and superficial. We assume this as he continues to waste money in a London club called “Finches and Grooves” even though he himself thinks that they “dine expensively…quarrel expensively and spend money frivolously.”
Unfortunately for Pip his money spinning life style is short lived and his self-gratification comes to a downfall when he falls into debt. This is because his secret benefactor, Magwitch is arrested and so hence was his money and funding.
It is only now through the trails and tribulations do wee see Pip realise that a true gentleman is not only about money, but also about morals. Consequently, Pip goes into a stage of redemption whereby he apologises to Joe and his wife Biddy for his previous snobbish attitudes and even develops a real affection for Magwitch who he previously thought was nothing but a low life. This change in heart has come after we learn that Magwitch the “war mint” was betrayed by an ex-criminal partner- “Compeyson” thus making him take the brunt of the blame. After we hear this not only does the reader feel remorse and pity for convict but so does Pip. He alongside another a fellow called Herbert attempt to help Magwitch escape via sea; unfortunately for the convict the escape is unsuccessful and he dies from the resulting injuries.
Following Pips tragic loss he returns to the marshes and reunites with Estella. Both of them talk and realise that their lives have changed dramatically- Pip with his bankruptcy and loss of friend and benefactor, Abel Magwitch while Estella has emerged a more compassionate person after her violent relationship with former husband Bentley Drummle.
And so the story finishes with Estella and Pip reuniting as friends but nothing more. Both of them have learned to appreciate people for what they are and not shun them for what their not. From this novel Dickens has taught as an important lesson; you can’t get something from nothing are in this case revenge hurts you as much it hurt others. This is reflected when Miss Haversham is left heartbroken because Estella says she cannot love her as she herself never received any. She says:
“I am what you have made me.”
In conclusion, I thought this was a very well written book, although at times the plot was a bit too complex. Love was the backbone of the novel with a touch of mystery by its side. This book was so engrossing simply because both plot and character had such depth- I would recommend it to anyone.
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Pip and Magwitch in Great Expectations
Sympathy Towards Pip in Great Expectations
Great Expectations - Theme of Class
Pages: 15 Word Count: 4303
How Does Charles Dickens Create Sympathy for Pip in the Early Part of "Great Expectations"
How does Dickens Create Sympathy for Pip in the First Part of Great Expectations?
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Noun Phrases in Creole Languages
A multi-faceted approach
Edited by Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron
[Creole Language Library 31] 2007
4. Papiamentu and Brazilian Portuguese
A comparative study of bare nominals
Ellen-Petra Kester
Cristina Schmitt
This paper presents a comparative study on bare nominals in Papiamentu and Brazilian Portuguese, taking into account also the distribution of definite and indefinite articles in these languages. Following Munn and Schmitt (2001) and Schmitt and Munn (1999 , 2003), we argue bare singulars in both languages are nouns phrases that lack interpretable number, which allows them to be interpreted both as singular or plural depending on the context. Semantically they can be interpreted as kinds as in Chierchia 1998 . The differences are to be explained by differences among the items competing for the same position in the syntactic structure. Bare plurals in both languages, on the other hand, differ syntactically and semantically. While bare plurals in Papiamentu are disguised bare plurals in the sense that they have a definite feature, which dramatically restricts their distribution, bare plurals in Brazilian Portuguese behave like English bare plurals.
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.31.07kes
Cited by other publications
Baptista, Marlyse
2011. On the development of verbal and nominal morphology in four lusophone creoles. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 56:1 ► pp. 7 ff.
Munn, Alan & Cristina Schmitt
2020. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, ► pp. 1 ff.
Schmitt, Cristina & Ellen-Petra Kester
2014. In Weak Referentiality [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 219], ► pp. 129 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 23 december 2020. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
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crypto, voting
Blockchain and Voting
Blockchain and Bitcoin may prove to be amazing innovations that change our daily lives, but I doubt they will materially impact how we vote. Here’s why.
What Blockchain Is and Isn’t
The common way to describe Blockchain is something like: it’s a database, only instead of being run by one central computer you have to trust, it’s run by many different computers around the world. Alternatively, it’s a distributed ledger. One linear set of events/transactions managed by a distributed set of computers.
These descriptions are true, but they’re also misleading in their oversimplification. It’s that oversimplification that leads some to think the Blockchain will solve all of our problems. Because … decentralized!
OK, but distributed databases are not new. We’ve known for a while how to replicate a database with a sprinkle of cryptography to distribute the trust. The Merkle tree, a key component of Blockchain that lets you verify consistency of a large dataset quickly, was invented in 1979. The Hash chain, another key component of Blockchain that lets you create a tamper-proof chronology of events, was invented in 1981 (it’s used in things like git). You can build a distributed ledger with Merkle trees and hash chains. We’ve been able to do this since the 80s. So … what’s new?
Blockchain isn’t just a distributed database, it’s a very specific kind of distributed database where
the database maintainers aren’t authenticated: anyone can be a blockchain maintainer without revealing who they are or having any kind of privileged relationship with other maintainers.
the set of maintainers changes over time. New maintainers come in, existing maintainers leave, without central planning or predictability. The maintainers of the Bitcoin blockchain 5 years ago are very different from the maintainers today.
In other words: anyone can become a maintainer of the Bitcoin blockchain at any time, without asking for permission, with nothing more than computing power. Just start up the software and join the club. This is pretty amazing stuff. It wasn’t obvious, before Blockchain, that it would be possible to design such a distributed database with an amorphous untrusted set of maintainers where you just need half good guys.
(There’s another really cool trick in Bitcoin, which is the incentive system for database maintainers: they get rewarded in Bitcoin for doing their database maintenance part, which makes the whole system self-sustaining. Super cool, but off topic for today.)
It’s important to realize that the true Bitcoin/Blockchain innovation is actually in this very specific trust setting of a dynamically changing set of database maintainers. If your use case doesn’t call for that, if you can designate the maintainers at the start of your protocol and have them authenticate to each other, then you don’t need the full Blockchain toolkit. You need only fairly standard cryptography and your use case was achievable 20 years ago.
What We Need to Vote Securely
In a typical election setting with secret ballots, we need:
enforced secrecy: a way for each voter to cast a ballot secretly and no way to prove how they voted (lest they be unduly influenced)
individual verifiability: a way for each voter to gain confidence that their own vote was correctly recorded and counted.
global verifiability: a way for everyone to gain confidence that all votes were correctly counted and that only eligible voters cast a ballot.
Let’s say we have a Blockchain-style distributed database. How far does that get us to meeting these needs?
A distributed database of all cast votes, where everyone sees the same state of the world, would certainly be useful for (3) global verifiability and to some degree for (2) personal verifiability. That said, it won’t get us all the way there on those, and it won’t get us anywhere on (1) enforced secrecy.
Specifically, to combine personal verifiability with enforced secrecy, we need some mechanism that gives each voter enough confidence that their vote made it all the way to the tally, but not so much that they can sell their vote to a buyer/coercer. A public ledger of plain votes is a terrible idea, since that makes vote selling trivial. A public ledger of vote tracking numbers of sorts is better for privacy, though it doesn’t really provide actual verifiability that the contents of the ballot weren’t tampered with. Clearly, we need something more, and that something simply isn’t provided by a distributed ledger.
Then there’s the need to check voter eligibility, a critical piece of global verifiability. No matter what technology we use, we need a clear list of eligible voters, and each voter should get to vote only once. Ultimately, the list of eligible voters is set in a centralized way: it’s produced by the State. There’s nothing distributed about voter eligibility. Even when there is federation / delegation to individual counties, like in the US, there is a centralized effort to cross-check that a voter isn’t registered in multiple counties.
In real-world elections today, we get personal verifiability with in-person paper ballots that voters can verify and cast directly, followed by risk-limiting audits where all political parties play a role to ensure integrity at each voting precinct. Combined with publicly auditable voter eligibility lists, this process, verified by all parties, is also how we get global verifiability. There are end-to-end voting verifiability techniques (zero-knowledge proofs) that have been around in various forms for 20-30 years that can provide an even stronger sense of personal and global verifiability, though these aren’t implemented in anything more than the occasional pilot.
Bottom line: Blockchain can help a bit with voting, but it’s not doing the most important part of the work. It doesn’t help tally secret ballots in a publicly verifiable way. It doesn’t provide individual verifiability that a ballot was correctly encoded. And it’s not useful for voting eligibility, since that’s all about human authentication and a centrally produced voter list. At best, in voting, Blockchain can be a ledger that helps us track the voting metadata.
And here’s the rub: to track voting metadata, it’s questionable whether you need a full Blockchain. Ultimately, a distributed database run by all political parties, where the maintainers are known and authenticated well ahead of time, is plenty sufficient. We don’t need the power of Blockchain. We just need Merkle trees and hash chains. And we’ve had those for 30 years.
To sum it up, using Blockchain for voting solves a small part of the problem with an unnecessarily big hammer.
A Marketing Sidebar
It’s very possible that, though we’ve had the parts of Blockchain technology we could use in voting for a while, that Blockchain tech and the hype around it helps this technology “break through” to the voting universe. It’s possible we use just simple Merkle trees and hash chains, but we call them Blockchain, and Blockchain scores a win. Maybe this is about marketing, after all. I’m dubious — because Blockchain doesn’t begin to solve the most important parts of voting — but it’s possible.
[“Voting” by Cali4beach is licensed under CC BY 2.0.]
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Sally Dutton
Brad Heywood
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GERRI VAN ANTWERP • Executive Director
Gerri joined Benzie Area Christian Neighbors (BACN) as its Volunteer Coordinator in 2009 and was named Executive Director in 2011. While her job entails all the responsibilities as a CEO for a regional nonprofit, she is driven by the principles of a servant leader. Gerri holds a BS in Hospitality and Tourism Management from Grand Valley State University. Having relocated extensively throughout the Midwest, Gerri now resides in Benzie County and has grown to love this place where her children grew up.
Gerri is an active volunteer. She serves on several area Boards and works with a variety of community events. Gerri and husband Mike have five grown children spread throughout Michigan and the U.S. Gerri enjoys high school sports and reading the Sunday newspaper, and walking Bella on our area’s gorgeous trails. She believes being authentic and respectful have been drivers in her career successes.
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Michelle has been with BACN since 2012. She is responsible for the logistics of all food and clothing programs, facility maintenance and safety, and administration/customization of the database. Michelle has been involved in the Poverty Reduction Initiative, Grand Vision to Grand Action, Northwest Michigan Food Coalition, and has been instrumental in building BACN’s relationships with Food Rescue and Feeding America. She has presented at both the Traverse City and Michigan Salesforce User Groups.
Michelle lives in Traverse City with her husband Tom, son Hayden and daughter’s dog Nixie. Nixie is living with Michelle while daughter Allie is establishing her career in southern California. Michelle plays flute, is an outdoor enthusiast, and enjoys yoga, good coffee and tea. She also makes excellent pies!
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Kelly hails from northern Indiana and in 2015 fulfilled a dream of many years by beginning her work at BACN and moving to northern Michigan. She was a correspondent for a variety of newspapers in northern Indiana, before becoming the Grant Writer/Administrator for Boys & Girls Clubs of Elkhart County until making the move to BACN. She enjoys keeping BACN’s Facebook page updated, and writing communication pieces such as the bi-annual newsletters. She finds Benzie County not only beautiful in the landscape, but in the extraordinary generosity of the people living here.
Kelly and husband Jon have three grown children: Abby (Valparaiso, IN), Casey (Denver, CO) and Charlie (St. Petersburg, FL), and two grandchildren, Logan and Liam. She is a member of First Congregational Church in Frankfort, and sings with the Benzie County Community Chorus. She is a hobby soap-maker, and volunteers with Great Lakes Border Collie rescue. She has two dogs of her own (Eljay and Ruby) and has fostered several others.
LIZ HAM • Services Coordinator
BACN’s newest employee, Liz Ham, was born and raised in Lima, the capital of Peru. Liz came to Michigan fourteen years ago through a program called Life and Work Experience to help her become more fluent in English. While working at Crystal Mountain, Liz met her husband. They have two children, Diego who is 12 and Sofia who is 7.
Liz has applied her marketing background in a number of settings. She worked at Crystal Mountain for nine years, has worked part-time with the health department, Telemon, and most recently was employed by Experience Early Learning, a company that creates a preschool curriculum.
Liz brings more than experience and energy to her new position; her understanding of different cultures and native Spanish language are also a huge benefit to BACN. In her words, “I am happy and very proud to represent BACN and be part of this wonderful organization.”
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What Country Makes The Best Watches? Brands From Around The GlobeRafael Dominguez2020-01-03T10:29:54-05:00
Throughout many corners of the world, watches are constantly being crafted. Most of these are the relatively inexpensive type, while others are exclusive enough to be considered luxury timepieces.
In this resource, we will be concentrating on the latter. Naturally, one comes to wonder – among all, which nation makes the best? To answer this, we’ve put together a list of the top timepiece manufacturers today, as well as provided links to our individual guides on each. Feel free to use the links below to jump around this page:
Why Buy A Watch From A Specific Country?
List Of Top Watch Manufacturing Countries
One thing – if horological history has taught us anything, it’s that those at the top don’t tend to stay there. Read through our list and then let us know in the comments who you think may take the top spot next.
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It’s safe to say that watch fans everywhere buy their timepieces for many different reasons. We can also guess that most of these buyers also have a smartphone in their pockets when they reach for their wallets.
Accordingly, it quickly becomes evident that watch purchases are not a consequence of the need for keeping time. Nor is there a true need for mechanically recording time down to the tenth of a second, for example.
Watches are a passion purchase, fueled by our emotions. Indeed, they are beautiful objects, aesthetically speaking. Yet most captivating of all is the story behind them.
The wearer may have a particular connection to the horological heritage of a country. Britain, for instance, has a rich history of innovative watchmakers, one that could make a solid case for purchasing an English timepiece.
Similarly, other countries are known for particular techniques. Markedly, German made watches have a very specific style of decorating movements, which is quite distinctive from the Swiss. This is yet another characteristic that could make watches from a specific region a personal preference.
At the end of the day, the wearer attaches their own meaning to their timepieces. This meaning, in turn, allows us to make our own stories behind the timepieces we wear. And if you know “watch people”, you already know they won’t pass up the chance to talk about what they’re wearing.
The Top Watch Manufacturing Countries
1. Switzerland
Bovet 1822 Récital 20 Astérium Watch. Image: Bovet.com
Coming in at the top of our list are Swiss made watches. We admit, this is surprising to absolutely no one. It’d be difficult to argue against this, though, given that even the layman associates Switzerland with expensive wristwatches.
Almost every well-known watch manufacturer is located in Switzerland, specifically between the cities of Geneva and Basel. In this 200km long expanse you’ll encounter common watch pantheons like Neuchâtel (Bvlgari), Le Brassus (Audemars Piguet), and Le Locle (Ulysse Nardin), among dozens of others.
Moreover, Switzerland is home to the biggest watch shows of the industry. When brands are preparing to release their newest models, they will usually exhibit them for the first time at Baselworld (Basel) and SIHH (Geneva).
Want to learn more about specific Swiss watchmakers? We’ve got you covered with our list of the best Swiss watches, categorized by price. Check it out if you want a peek into the brands based in the watchmaking capital of the world.
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When it comes to the the art of fine timepieces, Germany is a close second to Switzerland. It can be said that what Geneva is to the Swiss, Glashutte is to the Germans.
It is in this town that German watchmaking was born, and where the biggest of Saxon brands operate out of today. Surprisingly, while Germany is often identified as a nation of engineers, they don’t come up in horological conversations as often as they should.
A look at popular brands like Nomos and A. Lange & Sohne should quickly shift this perspective. The characteristic three-quarter plate, Glashutte stripes finishing, and hand-engraved balance cocks are incredibly attractive. Likewise, the increase in German made watch movements is putting the European nation’s watchmakers on the map.
For a depeer look into German watch brands, visit our page on the best German made watches.
The world of Japanese watchmaking revolves mostly around quartz movements. This is due to the fact that, while an entire industry crumbled in the ’70s and ’80s, the Japanese thrived.
Seiko Quartz Astron Watch. Image: Seikowatches.com
Having been the first to market with high-quality, low-cost quartz watches, Japanese movement manufacturers enjoyed incredible success. The likes of Switzerland and the US tried to keep up. Yet, they were not successful, with most going out of business.
Even in the modern day, high-end “Swiss made” watch brands continue using movements sourced from Japan. Aside from being reliable, the cost of these is significantly lower than their Swiss equivalents.
If you’d like to learn about the history behind Japanese watchmaking, as well as our list of the top Japanese watches, use the previous hyperlink to jump to our guide.
4. Britain
In the modern watch industry, Britain has seen itself become one of the underdogs. This is rather unfortunate though, as the country possesses probably the richest hological heritage of all the countries on this list.
Arnold & Son Movement Being Assembled. Image: Arnoldandson.com
Indeed, brands like Graham and Bovet were founded in England. Furthermore, the first marine chronometers were crafted in England, by the historic watchmaker John Harrison.
Today, numerous brands tout a British heritage, though many of their manufactures are located within Switzerland. Nevertheless, their designs still possess distinct design cues.
For a more detailed review of English watchmaking history, as well as the top brands, check out our guide on the best British watches.
The French are yet another nation of watchmakers that has been pushed outside of the focus of modern watches. Nevertheless, it’s easy to make a case for their significance.
Image: Cartier.com
The most famous watchmaker of all, Abraham Louis-Breguet, though Swiss-born, worked in Paris a great majority of his life. He served a Royal clientele, the likes of Napoleon and Marie-Antoinette, while also making substantial horological advances.
Surely you’ve heard mention of tourbillons? These were invented by Breguet himself.
Today, the brand by the same name carries his legacy. As do various others, like Cartier, who maintain French design and inspiration in most of their timepieces.
For the best French watches and a recap of their rich history, check out our guide at the previous link.
Often looked down upon as the makers of cheap, disposable watches, Chinese watchmakers have been working at expanding their line of work.
China will likely never cease to manufacture the aforementioned types of watches, they’re simply too good at it. This being said, various Chinese brands have been diligently working to push boundaries and change this perception.
Most recently, Chinese watchmakers have managed to produced incredibly accessible tourbillons. While lower in price, these are still made to very high standards. So high, in fact, that they’ve reportedly been employed by Swiss made brands.
Check out our guide on the top Chinese watches to learn about their history, as well as their future outlook.
Having produced timepieces since the 1930s, Russian watch brands have recently become a huge hit in online watch communities.
The economical nature of their timepieces, along with their variety and their ties to Russia’s history, has made for very popular timepieces.
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Most of them fall under the “tool” watch category, being diver and sports model. Yet, even in Russia, there are independent watchmakers with a hunger for innovation.
To read over our list of brands, as well learn about the history and the modern landscape, check out our guide on the best Russian watch companies.
8. United States
Once a powerhouse of watch manufacturing, the United States holds a weak position in modern watchmaking.
There’s plenty of horological history stateside, though, and many young brands are looking to build on it. From watches crafted of old Hamilton pocketwatch movements, to a 100% USA made tourbillon, there’s a rising tide of brands that deserve your attention.
The RGM Pensylvania Tourbillon. Image: RGMwatches.com
Learn more about them in our guide of American watchmaking and the best US watch brands.
Panerai PAM 616. Image: Panerai.com
It’s almost alarming that a country so often associated with fine, fashionable goods is not itself a power in the watch industry.
Yet this is the case with Italy. Seemingly the only remnants of Italian watchmaking left today are Panerai and Bvlgari, with both of these producing their timepieces in Switzerland. The city of Florence, rich with watchmaking innovation and historic figures like da Vinci, have also been forgotten by the watch world.
Hope remains, though, as various brands are forging ahead with true Italian-inspired designs. You can read into these at our page on Italian watch brands and their history.
Simply put, there is not much watchmaking history in Australia.
In fact, the country has a history of importing timepieces rather than making them themselves. It’s hard to blame them though, given the physical distance between them and the watchmaking hubs of the world.
Nevertheless, the modern watch brands of the “land down under” are not letting this stop them. Indeed, many still import the majority of the components to then assemble and retail domestically.
However, as we have encountered in the other countries on this list, there remain small players with an appreciation for the traditional craft. These same players are persevering in bringing the appropriate machinery to their country, and in doing so, planting the seeds for a fruitful local industry to flourish.
You can read our page on the best Australian watch brands to learn more about them.
11. Scandinavia
It may surprise you to see the Nordic countries included on this list. Similarly, it may be strange to see a “The Best…” list made up of 11 points, when the normal choice would have been to just leave it at 10.
Having recently delved into what horological offerings the Scandinavian countries have to give, we thought it’d be unjust not to highlight them. By the same token, if you check out our list of the top Scandinavian watch brands, you may be as pleasantly surprised as we were.
Included in our page are some rather talented watchmakers who merit your attention, not merely minimalist fashion watches, which we think any watch enthusiast will enjoy.
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Now that you’ve read through our top list of watch manufacturing countries, we’d like to know your thoughts. Do you agree with the order of the countries on our list? Leave a comment below!
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Martin April 14, 2020 at 3:34 pm - Reply
To complete the list you should mention the Czech republic. A country with rich horological tradition (Prague astronomical clock dates to early 15th century) started manufacturing wristwatches in 1950s as one of just seven countries in the world (Switzerland, Germany, France, UK, USA, Japan) then able to do so. The only wristwatch manufacturing company (Elton), once producing 500.000 watches per year, has survived until today, moved upmarket and is still producing its own movements.
And no mention of India as well?
Charles-Philippe April 15, 2020 at 12:03 pm - Reply
I’ll chase up our watch editors and see what they can do for you!
Jared April 23, 2020 at 8:33 pm - Reply
I agree completely with Martin. The Czech Republic should definitely be mentioned on this list as PRIM has a very respectable history in watch making. There are also brands there like Prokop & Brož, and Bohematic which deserve attention.
We’ll look into it!
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Union Budget Allocation Gets Lukewarm Response From Agro-Sector
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“Peanuts” was how one rural politician described a 6,000 rupee ($84) yearly handout to small farmers promised in Friday’s budget. As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries to secure the support of rural voters in a forthcoming election.
Recent polls predict Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to emerge as the biggest party in the vote which is due by May. But that it will fall short of a majority as the main opposition Congress party gains ground. Late last year the BJP lost power in three big agrarian states to Congress, which has promised to forgive farm loans as farmers struggle with huge debts and falling crop prices. Several farmers told Reuters after interim finance minister Piyush Goyal finished presenting this government’s last budget that it had not swayed them to vote for Modi’s party.
“The government is trying to lure farmers by offering peanuts,” said Raju Shetti, a farmer leader and member of parliament in the western state of Maharashtra. “These measures will hardly make any difference to our earnings,” Shetti said the proposed sum was negligible compared to the losses incurred by farmers due to the fall in crop prices in recent years. Blaming Modi for resorting to big imports despite bumper local crop production in a bid to keep inflation in check.
A steep drop in prices of crops like vegetables and pulses led to protests across the country in 2018. In response, the southern state of Telangana, run by a regional party, has started paying farmers Rs 20,000 per hectare a year.
“Our debt burden has risen because we have been making losses,” said Jitendra Nirwal, who grows sugarcane in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. “The government should have waived farm loans.”
Farmers borrow from banks to buy seeds and fertilizers. But erratic weather and falling crop prices cripple their ability to repay. After defaulting on bank loans, farmers were forced to borrow from private moneylenders charging exorbitant interest rates.
In 2008, the then Congress-led federal government announced a national loan waiver programme costing nearly Rs 72,000 crore in a move that helped it retain power the next year. Its new governments in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have promised or already forgiven farm loans worth billions of dollars.
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what they think will serve it. And it is equally manifest, that they find themselves encumbered with no easy task, and furnished with very scanty materials for their work, when they set about the vindication of their sy hem by bringing it to the death-bed testimony of its friends and abettors. Hence their endeavours to make much of a little, 10 conceal the truth, and to furnish out tales of composure and serenity, which probably are greatly coloured, if not entirely fabricated. Do they wish to combat christians on their own ground? Let the following facts be attended to, and it will be seen, that, after all, they do not attempt a fair competition. Christians, when they come to die, are often afraid that they have not been sincere in the religion they have professed. But you cannot show one instance of a christian in these circunistances, whose fear arises from the apprehension that the system he has embraced, the gospel of Christ, is not true in itself. He is then, more than ever, satisfied that his religious system is true. He is only afraid that he has not lived up to it. On the contrary, the infidel often fears, because he then suspects that his system is not true, and that he is going to be punished because he has lived up to it.
THOUGHTS ON SLOTH. Sloth and self-indulgence are extremely natural to man. Whoever has informed himself respecting the character of our fellow creatures in their most savage, which is, unquestionably, their most natural state, will be prepared to admit the truth of this observation. The native Indian, as Dr. Robertson remarks, will lie on the ground for many days, and even weeks together; and will only shake off his sloth when excited by appetite, or raised by some violent gust of passion. The case of persons in civilized society is not altogether different. Their artificial wants, indeed, are multiplied, and in consequence of these a system of more permanent industry is produced; but when appetite, as well as ambition and vanity are satisfied, even civilized man, except so far as religion has new created him, relapses into his native sloth.
Let us proceed to point out the manner in which the spirit of idleness and self-indulgence shows itself in this country among the higher and middling ranks of life.
How many hours are needlessly spent by some on their beds ; by others in the most idle and frivolous conversation; by others in reading, with a view to the mere gratification of the fancy; by others in unprofitable amusements, in amusements, we mean, which tend to kill time rather than to afford that recreation which qualifies for future employment? What temptations also break in during these idle hours! what corrupt images play before the fancy! what a general habit of self-indulgence gains strength! Thus a breach is made through which other sins enter, and much of the important business of life is left undone. Sloth is one of those sins into which men fall by imperceptible degrees, and many are altogether given up to it, who are not at all aware that they are incurring any guilt. Among worldly persons, to indulge the humour of the present moment, to do whatsoever thing they like, and to do it simply because they like it, is the professed system. Their conscience is under no alarm on this account.
Sloth, moreover, is a sin into which religious people are more liable to fall than into almost any other. In Popish countries many have retired from the world under the plea of wishing to be uncontaminated by it, and have then passed their days in the indolence of a cloister, professing, indeed, an extraordinary piety, but becoming the drones of the community, and a reproach to religion itself. It is possible also, that a protestant may chuse that sort of domestic ease and self-indulgence, which is little better than the sloth of the monastery, and is nearly allied to it. In escaping one evil we often fall into another. We have, perhaps, been manfully resisting the world; we have become insensible both to its smile and to its frown; we now betake ourselves to our own little religious circle, among whom we are respected and indulged, and are little contradicted; or we retreat into an almost total solitude, thinking that we shall now commune only with God. Are we aware of the dangers to the soul which may arise from the indulgence of sloth in these new circumstances? The body pampered by what are deemed its lawful gratifications, the mind enervated by mental indolence, the little humours habitually indulged, many a precious hour wasted, and a life employed in discussing the controversial niceties of religion, rather than attending to its practical duties, are some of the consequences of even a religious system, when that system allows the indulgence of sloth. Infidels have often brought against the body of christians the charge which we are applying only to a few.
“ The world,” say they, “ is the school of vittue, because it is the scene of activity and exertion; there the humours are contradicted; there sloth is prevented, and the energies are called forth; there the excess of selfishness is repressed; there both the boy and the man are formed for action and extensive services; but the same being in retirement becomes soft, luxurious, and self indulgent, and in proportion as he is so, he is also uncharitable and censorious; he is first useless to others and then a burthen to himself.”
These accusers of religion forget that the world is, itself, a teacher of corruption, and they know not that there is a holy art of so using the world as not to abuse it, and of so living in it as to share in its duties without following its pleasures, or becoming a partaker of its iniquities.
We admit the danger lest too much solitude should lead to sloth: we even affirm that, perhaps, we are never in more peril than when we think that we have removed ourselves out of the way of temptation, and when we lay down our arms, conceiving no farther conflict to be necessary.
The life of a christian upon earth is ever a scene of warfare. Let us reflect on the spirit of St. Paul in this respect. “ I keep under my body,” said he, “ and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means when I have preached to others I myself should be a castaway." Can any thing more strongly show the necessity of resisting our natural disposition to sloth and bodily indulgence than this passage? Did the apostle, possessing all his privileges, endowed with such holy affections, favoured also by the abundance of revelations, deem it necessary to maintain a conflict with his body, and shall not we? Did he contend as for his salvation, fearing lest, after all, he should be cast away, and do we incur no danger if we yield to our natural sloth?
The truly enlightened christian is aware of his constant temptations from this quarter, and he is ever on his guard against them. He limits himself to the degree of refreshment which nature demands, and he charges himself with guilt when he exceeds. “ What avails it,” he will say to himself, “ that I profess to believe all the articles of the christian faith, that I presume to talk of God, and Christ, and his Holy Spirit, if, after all, I am brought under the power of my own body? I feel that this body is my tempter, and I must not allow even its lawful desires to bear sovereign sway. My meat and drink must be moderate. I must beware of sumptuous and indulgent fare. I must avoid that sloth, both of body and mind, which is apl to grow upon me unperceived. I must abstain from those needless recreations which an idle world has invented and multiplied. I must reject those plausible excuses which the false reasonings of irreligious men may suggest, for a life of relaxation. I must be fearful also lest I take credit for diligence, because I surpass those idle persons who live around me. I must beware of vacant thoughts, vacant time, vacant conversation, vacant crowds of company. I must beware of trifling employments, which take the appearance of industry, while they are mere contrivances by which I disguise from myself the indulgence of my sloth. I must fear lest I should neglect the proper business of the hour, deeming the present duty to be severe, and perpetually postponing it for the sake of doing some other thing which demands less diligence, and is more to my present taste. I must beware of slothful habits, and must not admit the vain excuse that they are too fixed to be broken. If I read, I must not do it with listlessness and inattention, nor must I perfer books of mere amusement to those which will add to my stock of useful knowledge, or improve my heart. I must beware even of unprofitable labour. I must suspect that earnestness and diligence, which is a mere following of my own fancy, which is directed to trifling and unworthy objects, which proceeds from a corrupt motive, and issues in no good or material end. 'I must be diligent, it is true, but my diligence must be for God. I must be active, but my activity must not be in the way of mere indulgence, it must be for the good of men. I must not presume that I have a right to intermit my work, because I am not obliged to it by human laws, or by positive claims which any persons can make on me. I must be active for the poor, the destitute, the ignorant, and the world at large.”
These are some of the feelings of the true christian, and in order to maintain this spirit he exercises much self-denial. When sloth intrudes, and promps him to spare himself, he rejects its suggestions. “ I must deny myself, or I cannot be Christ's disciple. Christ went about doing good, and I profess to be a follower of this master, I desire therefore to go and do likewise. Tell me not that I am to spare myself. Did Christ spare himself when he came to die for me? The spirit of self-indulgence is the spirit of antichrist; it is the spirit of the children of this world; it is that spirit which in my baptism I abjured, and which my profession requires that I should renounce day by day."
One case in which an indolent slothful spirit is to be denied has not yet been noticed: we mean the case of our religious duties. How idle is the manner in which many persons read the scriptures! The want of self-denying attention is greater in perusing this book than any other. Reacler! what pains have you taken in endeavouring to understand that volume which you profess to believe to be a revelation from God? Have you ever carefully examined and considered it? Have you bestowed any pains in comparing your manner of life with that of Christ and his apostles and followers, your faith with their faith, your temper with their . tempers, and, in short, your whole turn of character with their's? It We requires much self-denying diligence to make this faithful practical
application of the scriptures, and yet if this be not done, they can be of little use to us. Idleness is equally apt to prevail in respect to secret devotion. There is a way of running over our prayers with little thought or reflection. Perhaps while you are in the very act of prayer, some engagement seems to be pressing
upon you, some interesting circumstance is agitating your x mind; and this is not surprising, for you were at no pains to arvareject those intruding thoughts; you have long given way to the
custom of indulging them at those seasons. There has been no self-denial in this respect, and therefore the habit has increased, till it seems almost impossible to cast it off. A wide field for selfexamination here opens upon us, for the wanderings of the mind, both during public and private worship, may unquestionably be traced in part to the want of due diligence and self-denial, in respect to this very point.
It may be proper here to remark, that it is not inconsistent with the fullest belief in the supreme agency of the Holy Spirit, to suppose, that the self-denying diligence which has been spoken of ought to extend to our prayers.
We have, indeed, clear scriptural authority on this point; for are we not told, that we are to “ wrestle” in prayer, to “ pray always and not to faint;" to “ pray without ceasing;” terms which evidently imply that we are not to give way to our own indisposition to the duty. We are likewise exhorted to “ draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to us,” as well as “ to ask, to seek, to knock,” in order that we may obtain God's Holy Spirit.
To conclude, let us then remember that prayer must be joined to our diligence, and also that this very diligence is to be exerted by us in our prayer. Does it appear to us a hard thing to practise the self-denial which has been spoken of? “ With man it may be impossible, but with God all things are possible." Let then the sense of the difficulty suggest to us the importance of imploring the divine aid with earnestness. “ I can do all things,” said the apostle, “ through Christ which strengtheneth me.” We ought not to account that we have either believed aright, or prayed aright, or learned any part of our religion aright, unless we have, in some measure, been enabled to cast away that spirit of selfindulgence which is so natural to us; for our Saviour has said, that “except a man deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me, he cannot be my disciple."
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Babysitter killed in trailer fire had discussed girl's abduction with suspect, warrant says
The woman killed in a trailer fire in June had discussed abducting the 5-year-old she was babysitting with the suspect in the girl's kidnapping, according to new court documents.
A search warrant submitted by Beltrami County revealed more details of the relationship between Jacob Kinn, the man charged with kidnapping the girl, and Melissa Norby.
Norby was babysitting the girl at her home in Hillcrest Manor Trailer Park the night of the fire. Norby's body was found after the fire was extinguished; both her hands and feet were bound.
The girl was found alive the next day at a property belonging to one of Kinn's family members near Big Fork, about 80 miles away from Bemidji. Her hands and feet were also bound, and she had injuries consistent with being sexually assaulted.
The warrant reveals that during the interrogation, Kinn admitted having a previous relationship with Norby, and about 18 months earlier the two of them had sex while the girl was nearby.
Later text messages sent between Norby and Kinn – who had recently rekindled a romantic relationship – suggest she was at least aware of plans to abduct the 5-year-old.
Here's what it says:
"While reviewing the cell phone examination report, Your Affiant also observed that there were numerous photos of apparent child pornography retrieved from Jacob Kinn’s cell phone, that there were sexually explicit text messages between Norby and Kinn apparently referring to the five year old girl who was abducted.
In reviewing the text messages between Kinn and Norby, Your affiant observed that Kinn and Norby had apparently been attempting to acquire the child for the purpose of sexually assaulting her and that Norby and Kinn also discussed details pertaining to possible scenarios in which Norby and Kinn may abduct the child at which time Norby would report to law enforcement that she was assaulted by an unknown individual leading up to the child being abducted."
The search warrant is seeking information tied to Google accounts registered to Kinn's phone, including full location history.
Kinn, who has a previous conviction for child pornography, has been charged with kidnapping and faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted.
Authorities have yet to file charges against him in relation to the fire that killed Norby, despite previously saying he could face charges.
KARE 11 notes that the fact 11 search warrant applications have been submitted shows investigators are clearly looking to file additional charges.
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Twins open 2017 at home for the 2nd time in Target Field history
38,000 fans showed up when the Twins opened in 35-degree weather in 2013.
With a hopeful future ahead, the Minnesota Twins have announced that their 2017 regular season and home opener at Target Field will be April 3 against the Kansas City Royals.
The only other season the Twins have opened at home while playing at Target Field was in 2013. They started on the road in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and this season.
Minnesota's interleague opponents in 2017 will include home games against the Brewers, Rockies, Diamondbacks and Padres. They'll play the Brewers, Giants and Dodgers on the road in interleague action.
Season tickets are available for 2017 and fans can visit www.twinsbaseball.com or call 612-375-7454 to buy them.
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Klay Thompson Suffers Season-Ending Achilles Tear
by Mark Harris November 19, 2020
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Just hours before the NBA Draft on Wednesday night, the Golden State Warriors received some brutal news. Several reports indicated that guard Klay Thompson, who missed the entire 2019-20 season with a torn ACL, suffered a lower leg injury in training on Wednesday afternoon. Reports suggested it was a significant injury and according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski it was about as significant as they come as Thompson suffered a torn Achilles that will cause him to miss the upcoming season.
Source: Golden State’s Klay Thompson has suffered a season-ending Achilles tear.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 19, 2020
The Warriors posted a tweet confirming the news shortly after Woj’s report:
Klay Thompson suffered a torn right Achilles tendon, an MRI confirmed today in Los Angeles. Thompson suffered the injury in a workout yesterday in Southern California. He is expected to miss the 2020-21 season. pic.twitter.com/w733cWawK6
— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) November 19, 2020
This is absolutely brutal news for the Warriors and had to have been devistating for Thompson to learn the severity of his injury after already missing last season. The Warriors were geared up to make another run toward the NBA Finals this upcoming season with Steph Curry and Thompson expected to be healthy, but with this major blow it will be interesting to see how the Warriors handle the situation.
Golden State selected James Wiseman out of Memphis with the second-overall pick in the NBA Draft on Wednesday.
Mark is an associate editor and the resident golf guy here at BroBible. He earned a piece of paper that says he's a master of journalism and online media from The University of Tennessee, but the verdict is still out on that one.
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Brandon Wikoff
Sunday Links: Legends Take Game Two
Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball
The Legends moved a game ahead of Bowling Green in the full-season standings with a 3-1 victory in the “Battle for the BluGrass” Sunday. Bowling Green has to win the final two games of the season to finish ahead of their state rivals.
The Legends report Brandon Wikoff’s two-run single in the seventh was the difference in their 3-1 victory.
The Hot Rods report Shane Dyer held the Legends to one run in six innings in the 3-1 loss.
Rehabbing Reds Jay Bruce and Ryan Hannigan were 6-10 with four runs scored in a 7-4 victory over Indianapolis.
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Game Time Notes
Lexington Legends vs. Greenville Drive
The Legends send top prospect Jordan Lyles to the mound tonight to open a four-game series with Greenville and an eight-game homestand. Lyles is 6-9 with a 3.42 ERA on the season. The 19-year-old right-handed pitcher ranks second in the South Atlantic League with 133 strikeouts. Jordan won his last start with six shutout innings against Charleston.
Shortstop Brandon Wikoff resumed his assault on SAL pitching since his recent callup with a 2-5 performance Tuesday. Wikoff had gone hitless in his previous two games, but is 14-32 (.438) with five runs scored and six RBI in 8 games with Lexington. The 2009 fifth-round pick has at least two hits in six of eight games with the Legends.
Lexington closer Patrick Urckfitz recorded his first save in over a month Monday. Urckfitz has 11 saves in 13 opportunities in 2009, but hadn’t pitched in a save situation since July 5 and hadn’t recorded a save since July 2. Patrick actually allowed one run in his save opportunity Monday, ending a seven outing scoreless streak. Urckfitz was 1-0 with two saves and a 0.77 ERA in July.
The Drive will send recently converted starting pitcher Fabian Wilson to the mound against the Legends. Wilson is 7-3 with a 2.13 ERA on the season but has only started five games for Greenville. Fabian’s last two appearances have come out of the Drive starting rotation, but he hasn’t pitched longer than five innings in a game this season. Wilson has 77 strikeouts in 72 innings and opponents are only batting .176 against him.
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The topper on Chokegate
If there’s a contest to see who can write the most over-the-top response to Todd Grantham’s Crime of the Century stupid choking gesture, it’s officially over. John Clay has managed to make Tony Barnhart look reasonable by comparison. It’s not simply that he’s called for Grantham to be fired, or even that he’s tossed out this O tempora! O mores! plea:
… Have college athletics become so mercenary, so dollar-oriented it would let something so egregious — a coach of one team making insulting gestures and screaming obscenities at a player on the other team — slide? Will we excuse anything and everything in the name of winning?
No, what closes the deal is that he actually attempts to find some equivalence (“On a related note…”) between the incident and the tragic death at Notre Dame of Declan Sullivan.
Unless someone tries to compare Grantham to Osama bin Laden, I think we’re done here.
39 responses to “The topper on Chokegate”
TennesseeDawg
Got to drive those advertising dollars somehow.
Garageflowers
Exactly. That’s why I’m done with the AJC and will not click on anymore links to these ridiculous “articles”.
devildawg
I deleted AJC from my bookmarks. It’s not like I was getting much of anything read-worthy there anyway, aside from an occasional 10-at-10 or something. There’s less ridiculous places to get coverage.
From GatorBait
“After Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham directed a choking gesture at him in overtime last Saturday night in Jacksonville, Florida kicker Chas Henry did something a tad unconventional for the manly world of football.
“I blew him a little kiss,” Henry said Wednesday.
According to Henry, the move didn’t sit too well with Grantham.
“That may be why he got a little upset,” Henry said. “He did [the choke gesture] again.”
When the time came to kick, Henry didn’t choke.
Quite the opposite.
With the pressure on and Florida’s Southeastern Conference eastern division hopes hanging in the balance, the senior calmly nailed a 37-yard field goal to give the Gators a 34-31 win.
Not long after the game ended, images of Grantham taunting Henry surfaced and hit the Internet hard. The incident quickly drew attention nationwide and caused some in the media to call for Grantham, who later said he regretted making the gesture, to be fined and/or suspended.
But unlike many, Henry isn’t upset with Grantham. Not even a little.
In fact, he laughed about the episode Wednesday and suggested talk that Grantham should be punished was absurd.
“It was in the middle of a game,” Henry said. “It’s an intense game. It’s one of the most intense rivalries in college football. ? It’s just football. I think it’s ridiculous what people are trying to say that he should have to apologize for it and everything, or that he should be fined.”
For Henry, a Georgia native, the thrill from making Saturday’s game-winning kick hasn’t yet disappeared. And it’s easy to understand why.
A standout punter, Henry was pressed into placekicking duties in Week 5 after starter Caleb Sturgis was sidelined by a stress fracture in his back. Henry made two field goals against Alabama, but then missed four straight, including a potential game-tying kick in the final minute of a loss to Mississippi State.
Henry also missed a 42-yarder against Georgia in the first quarter, but rebounded to make one from 34 yards out in the fourth quarter and, of course, his overtime attempt.
“Going into the game, I knew it was going to be my redemption week,” Henry said.
Henry’s walkoff winner was the first for Florida in 21 years. In a 16-13 victory at LSU in 1989, Tampa native Arden Czyzewski put one through as time expired.
Since his memorable kick, Henry’s phone has been bombarded.
Asked how many people he had heard from, Henry said, “Probably like 80 or so.”
The messages he has received, from both texts and on Facebook, were welcome.
“It’s good to hear from everybody,” Henry said. “Even after the Mississippi State game, I got a lot of messages of support. It was nice.””
*yawn*
BCDawg97
Or what really started the whole thing:
“I see that they’d taken a timeout and I looked over at their coach and I started laughing, like, ‘You’re going to ice me? I’m not even the kicker. You’re going to ice me?’” Henry said today. “So I start looking and I see the guy doing the choke. I look at him again and he does like, ‘You’re gonna choke.’ So I take my helmet off and I gave him a little smooch at him. I blew him a little kiss.”
h/t Emerson
Yea, a 20 year old baited a 44 year old to acting like an ass.
The fact that Clay can write an entire “Will we excuse anything and everything in the name of winning?!?!” column without once mentioning Chris Rainey’s presence on the field that game pretty much tells you everything you need to know about how warped his priorities are.
Dawgwalker07
Hm. Meant to put 1. That’s what you get for doing this on your phone in a rush.
Absolutely correct. 100%
No One Knows You're a Dawg
“The fact that Clay can write an entire “Will we excuse anything and everything in the name of winning?!?!” column without once mentioning Chris Rainey’s presence on the field . . . ”
Or mentioning the hiring of John Calipari.
+eleventy billion. No one from Lexington should be lecturing anyone else on what a university will do in the name of winning.
The crazier the media/UF fans are getting about it the more proud I am becoming of it. Maybe we should take up a collection to have the choke memorialized in a painting in the style other great moments in our football history have been recorded. By the way, Chas Henry is officially off my s#%t list for handling this like a grown man. Good luck kid, sorry your Mama named you that.
Good points both. Unfortunately I kind of wish UF players/coaches were more obsessed with it so they can get all bent out of shape and nutso leading into next year’s game.
We have to get them even with us in the “playing tight” dept. What Grantham did, actually, is the same kind of BS that Spurrier pulled that made us want to beat him so badly that it got in the team’s heads.
They got all bent out of shape over The Celebration and then came back the next year and kicked the crap out of us. Just sayin’.
4 turnovers and Willie Two Thumbs coaching the D may have had more to do with that loss (and the one last year) than being “in their heads.”
I don’t think they were in our heads in the early to mid 90’s they were just way better than us (with the exception of 92′). I mean Goff had us to a place where at one time we had only one player on defense (Randall Godfrey) that anybody would really want. We were pathetic, we couldn’t tackle a paper sack.
Let’s get a laser etching of the choke and put it on a plaque on the wall of the stadium.
I was coming here to post the same thing. I’m pretty tired of talking about this, but want to give Henry credit for having some class about this after the fact.
“…the more proud I am…”
Pride goeth before the fall, Brandon. I remember three years ago, everyone on this site was expressing the same righteous indignation over the endzone celebration and poking fun at Gatornation for reacting to it. Your dawgs are 0-and-3 against UF since then. You think Meyer isn’t already thinking about how to use this to his advantage? Think again.
Also, kudos to Chas Henry for saying what he said.
+1. I take back all the bad things I said about him.
I still can’t believe that this is as big of a deal as it is…HE MADE THE KICK!! Had he missed it, this non-story may have had some merit. I can honestly say if the roles were reversed it would not have “offended” me at all. It would have actually made it more comical.
RussDawg
Done with the AJC! Always stirring the pot. It’s college football for goodness sakes, not tea time!
Mergz
Amazing that a kid (Henry) can have the best perspective on this.
As a Gator, I still don’t see it. But Meyer will probably punish you Dawgs with timeouts next year.
Amazing that people are amazed by this.
Have you never played a sport?
Has no one ever said naughty things about “yo momma” while playing said sport?
Have you never seen an adult ejected from the stands at a little league girls soccer game?
Good grief, football is a violent sport. The whole purpose is to grind your opponent to mincemeat.
And we’re should be shocked by a taunt? BFD.
I think this series has gotten to the point that if there isn’t something to be flabbergasted about, someone makes something up.
Naw…It’s a bad deal, and Grantham’s a bad man. Corch will have him banned from the stadium next year. If Chas were his son, he’d fight CTG right now. He’ll also hand-out game balls to fans with sons who avoided felony charges and now play for the gators being the classy guy he is and all.
RedCrake
That’s a fight I’d pay to see. A lineman from VaTech with a desire to choke and a DB from Cincinnati with a heart condition and a brain cyst.
Check out #58 in white at about the 28 sec mark.
JamesBrett
The coach put a hand to his throat
suggesting the kicker would choke.
He felt no regret,
hoped all would forget.
I’m sure later he’ll claim he misspoke.
It wasn’t a suggestion.
It was a heartfelt wish.
One that every single Georgia fan shared.
We hoped Chas Henry would choke and miss the FG.
Is this a story?
i don’t think it should be a story. or i didn’t…
until grantham refused to simply apologize, choosing to instead say, “I’ve kind of basically said what I’m going to say.”
Well stated. An apology was all that is truly needed to remedy this situation and show players that his behavior is not to be emulated. All this media BS and fist clenching would be over with a simple apology. Alas…
This country has completely lost its damn mind.
Toon Dawg
If only he had included the phrase “could someone please think of the children??” and it would have been complete.
But it does take a village….a village idiot, that is
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September 25, 2016 · 11:35 AM
We’re gonna need a bigger Process.
Jeez, four games into the season, and I’m already typing one of those existentialist posts about Georgia football that I loathe. Not a good look, Dawgs.
I’m sure there is a temptation on the part of some who thought a coaching change was unnecessary to point to yesterday’s crushing loss as a certain form of vindication. Since I was a Richt agnostic by last season, while I can understand the sentiment, I can’t say I share it.
And I’m not gonna even touch this one:
Four games into the season and I'm seeing some fans ready to fire Kirby Smart
— Anthony Dasher (@AnthonyDasher1) September 25, 2016
The problem with jumping to conclusions after four games is that you’re relying on a small sample size to justify a big picture argument. Even so, I do think there are certain takes that are justified early on.
This team has some serious structural flaws in personnel. Georgia doesn’t appear to have an offensive tackle. It certainly doesn’t have a reliable place kicker. (Auburn got a school record six field goals in its win yesterday; it’s legitimate to question whether Georgia will exceed six field goals for the entirety of the 2016 season.) It’s starting a true freshman quarterback who’s never played in a pro-style offense before this spring. The defensive line is both green and thin. Some of these issues will likely be addressed through more experience, but some don’t stand a chance of being fixed this year.
Jacob Eason isn’t the only rookie in red and black. I don’t know if you heard what Greg McElroy said during the broadcast, but it really stuck with me. Basically, he noted that he came out of a similar high school shotgun passing attack as Eason did, but whereas he got to learn the ropes on Alabama’s scout team for a season, Eason is getting his baptism by fire in live SEC play. That’s understandably rough. The same thing, relatively speaking, can be said about his head coach. Smart may be a Saban clone — at least that’s what we’re hoping — but he doesn’t have Saban’s history. Saban was a head coach at three other college programs and on the NFL level before taking the Alabama job. By the time he got there, he’d had plenty of time to learn what did and didn’t work running a program. Georgia, on the other hand, is OJT for Smart. Once again, we’re seeing that working for a great head coach and being a great head coach aren’t the same thing.
The team hasn’t bought into Smart’s vision for the program. Small sample size arguments can cut both ways and, like it or not, it’s noteworthy that in four games, Georgia hasn’t shown up to play in half of them. Yes, it’s true that Mark Richt had his share of humiliating losses. So that’s nothing new… except that Richt had a few years under his belt before we started seeing those. You want an even nastier comparison? Kirby Smart’s fourth game was a 31-point loss to a conference opponent that for a while was on pace to be an epic disaster for the program. Richt’s fourth game led to Munson’s Hobnail Boot call. Sure, it’s not like Georgia didn’t lose a few more games that year after the Tennessee win, but it was clear that the team had bonded with the coaching staff in a way that made them believe. The mindset of this year’s squad is nowhere in the same vicinity of the 2001 team. The question yet to be determined is when the players will buy in. (Using “if” in that last sentence is too depressing for me to consider.)
At the time of the events leading to Richt’s dismissal and Smart’s hiring, you will recall that my misgivings centered around the athletic administration’s inept track record in hiring/firing. If the stories we heard at the time were true — the fig leaf of hiring a search firm to cover a decision that McGarity had already reached and the panic that hit several big boosters from the news that Smart, one of “our guys”, was speaking with South Carolina about becoming the head coach being just a couple of those — I think my concerns were certainly valid.
I mention this not because I’m seeking my own form of vindication here, but because if Kirby Smart does have a vision in the sense of a concrete plan on how to take the Georgia program to the next level, he’d best realize he’s on his own on implementing it and bringing it to fruition. The people he answers to don’t have a clue. (I’m betting McGarity has begun honing his “remember what Saban’s first season in Tuscaloosa was like” marketing pitch to the fan base and Mark Bradley for next offseason. That should work like a charm.)
I assumed Smart went into this season trying to have his cake and eat it, too, by transitioning the program into his model while remaining competitive enough to be a factor in the divisional race. There’s a very good chance a week from now that approach will have been blown to shreds. Tennessee may or may not be as good a team as Ole Miss, but that won’t matter in the slightest if Georgia doesn’t show up for the game next Saturday.
If that is what happens, that’s when things really start getting interesting around Athens. Kirby may know where he wants to go with Georgia football, but that doesn’t mean he knows the best way to get there, or maybe even any way to get there. Regardless, I expect him to try and stand by his convictions in that regard. Where this all goes in 2016 if his team never buys in to it, for whatever reason, could get pretty ugly. For a lot of reasons, I hope things never reach that point. But I can’t say I’m not a little uneasy this morning in that regard. Piling up bad efforts in a very short time can do that to a person.
UPDATE: I see from some of the comments in response to this post that I’ve created some confusion with regard to the terms “buy in” and “show up”.
Let me just say there’s more than one context for those terms. Sure, both can be taken in a purely psychological sense. But I was also thinking of that post of mine from several years ago about how Georgia’s biggest problem on defense in Martinez’ last year or so was the lack of trust the players had in the coaching staff’s approach to mechanics and game planning, which in turn led the staff to lack trust in the players’ ability to play.
There’s a similarity in my mind between that and Georgia’s 2016 secondary. Smart and Pruitt both come from the Saban coaching tree, but their approaches are different. Pruitt played a lot of zone and dropped the linebackers into coverage a lot to help protect a secondary that had its share of shortcomings on the talent/experience side. Smart is all in with what worked at ‘Bama: much more man coverage and pattern matching. That’s a big change and his defensive backs, based on what we saw yesterday, aren’t even close to being on the same page. Are they buying into what Smart’s preaching? I can’t read their minds. But it was obvious yesterday that they might as well have been invisible on most of Kelly’s touchdown throws, because they offered zero resistance in coverage. In my mind, that meets a definition of not showing up.
I’ll leave it for you to describe the team’s mentality for the Nicholls game.
My apologies for not being clearer with my meanings.
198 responses to “We’re gonna need a bigger Process.”
SouthGaDawg
I went to the UGA/Ole Miss game in 2012 (37-10 and it wasn’t even that close). How did Ole Miss get to where they are now and how did UGA get to where it is now? I was shocked at how UGA was so physically overmatched. Wow…
scottdavid329
Because Ole Miss pays their players.
And we don’t have any, paid or otherwise, it would appear.
Dawgs1
Did I see Maurice Smith on a milk carton? Where was he the last 2 games? Witness Protection?
I know our players are getting used to a new staff, new signs, new process, etc., but our secondary looked like they had never covered a receiver before. It looked like they were new to the game of football.
GATA 72
#7 Carter makes Ray Drew look like LT in his NFL prime
kevinsauer
How long can we go in this thread before Richt is mentioned (aside from that one)
T-Minus 3…2..
Great post Senator and right on the money. I also wanted B-M to hire an experienced HC with a proven track record of winning. But instead we have Kirby Smart as our HC whether we like it or not. We have no real alternative except to get behind him. He’s going to make mistakes, some we can see and others we can’t see. It is painfully obvious that this team hasn’t bought in to what Smart is selling–yet. Let’s hope they do. Nothing is worse in football than a team foundering on the rocks like a rudderless ship. Things could get really ugly if they don’t.
Saban coached at 10 or more stops as an assistant, including 2x in the pros before he landed as HC for Michigan.
Everybody has that first time shot.
Michigan State when Sparty sucked and was the Wolverines’ whipping boys
Yes. There is that.
He beat a number 3 Michigan abd number 10 Florida his last year as Michigan’s whipping boy. He finished in top 10 and moved to Louisiana.
Absolutely – my point was that Sparty had to go the career assistant route at the time Little Nicky was hired
Ahhhh….fair enough. But the career assistant blossomed. Not as an NFL coach. Are you thinking Smart moves on ….after 3 or 4 years then.
I don’t know. I guess my point is that we weren’t in the situation that Sparty was when they hired Saban. Other than Saban, Corch, Jimbo, Big Game Bob and D’Antonio, we could have had any college head coach we wanted.
I hope Kirby is wildly successful and retires as the winningest coach in Georgia history by wins, winning percentage, and championships.
I whaaaa
Other than Saban, Corch, Jimbo, Big Game Bob and D’Antonio, we could have had any college head coach we wanted.
Name a few.
Herman, possibly Shaw, Strong (although his star has fallen), Petrino(!), among others …
Chi-town Dawg
Don’t forget Jason Fuentes who went to VT.
And Bronco Mendenhall who went to Virginia. Even South Carolina hired a HC with prior HCing experience even if Boom’s past experience is questionable at best LOL. I think Jim Mclewain will prove that he’s done more with less in his first two years than Kirby once he makes it thru 2 years and JM inherited a mess at Florida.
All the talk was that Herman pulled his name out at USCe when Richt was relieved of his duties in Athens. If we had conducted a search, names would have lined up for the opportunity to coach at UGA. Everyone says it’s a top 5 or 10 job. Why wasn’t a national search conducted? If Kirby got through that, we would have known we got the best guy.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I want Kirby to be wildly successful because I don’t want to get into the “Hire, Struggle, Fire” cycle we’ve seen elsewhere or that we went through between 1989 and 2001.
Don’t forget that Clay Helton was the interim coach at USC. My point is that virtually every major P5 football power that’s hired a new HC over the past few years hired someone with prior HC experience whether it was at an FCS or FBS school with UGA being a notable exception.
Kirby speaks often on “imposing your will” on an opponent with physical, relentless, tough, knock-you-back play.
This approach can be successfully implemented if you have invested years in recruiting this kind of size and depth into the roster and have developed them with a consistent strength-and-conditioning program.
This program has done none of this, opting instead for smaller, faster athletes who have bounced between several strength-and-conditioning programs. In our league, this is why we are starting over.
Similar to the final five games of last season, we have to adjust our coaching strategy this season to leverage the strengths we have.
In our case, it is a more mobile offensive line, with tough blocking backs and tight ends and a receiving corps with quickness and moves. Playing a speed game, with more sweeps, traps, and counters instead of trying to straight drive-block opponents 30 pounds larger and stronger than us may lead to some success. Running shorter routes with more protection may lead to some success if our line has difficulty handling a straight bull or speed rush one-on one.
Defensively, we cannot feature as our base defense a one-on-one man coverage scheme against larger, stronger receivers if we do not have the size and depth to generate a consistent pass rush.
Finally, this program has long shown that players’ coaches cannot generate the consistent motivation and focus needed to perform at a championship level. At the end of the season, drop the first-name-basis and build into the newcomers the respect and discipline needed to perform at this level.
Timphd
Your third point is the one that troubles me the most. As I watched that debacle unfold yesterday, any delusions I had that the 4th and 10 touchdown against Mizzou was Kirby’s “hobnail boot” disappeared quickly. That whole game was so discombobulated, with 12 defenders on the field called at least twice, players stating the defense was playing “different coverages”, the lack of fire in the players, dropped passes, missed blocks, etc. that I just felt this isn’t Kirby Smart’s team yet. Will it be? I sure hope so, or else this will be a long painful journey.
As for Eason, I think most of us accepted he would have a game or two (maybe more if he is under siege like that all season) in which he would look like a true freshman. I had anticipated this game as a loss partly for that reason. The Ole Miss defense can play and put pressure on a QB and he had not faced that yet. I think he overall stood in there and took his lumps. I didn’t see too much panic or frustration even when his receivers let him down with dropped touchdown passes. He will grow from this.
Senator, I won’t blame you if you decide to not watch this game a second time and report on further review. I already deleted it from my DVR.
As for Eason, he still looks worlds better than Stafford did as a freshman (until the light bulb went on at halftime of the Auburn game for Staff).
I mean, even after Stafford got the hang of it and beat 3 ranked teams in a row (Auburn, Tech, Virginia), he still finished the year with 7 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. And don’t forget the losses to Vanderbilt and Kentucky.
So, yeah, it could be a lot worse (and still might be–UGA lost to UT and Florida that year as well).
Let the man play, and FFS quit trying to mold him into a pure Pro-Style QB as a freshman and let him operate out of the shotgun more…
ericdawg
I think Chaney and Kirby is trying to fast tract Eason. Unfortunately with a weak OL failure is inevitable. They also tried to balance run and pass which further worsened the games result. I think the team is better served this season to have more pass like the Mizz game and at least have a better chance of winning.
You know, the third point is where I’m at, too. From my perspective, CKS has been dawgrading these players and the program from the moment he set foot on campus. He was also subtly criticizing CMR often, although he never mentioned his name, with comments like “turn a battleship around”.
It’s a poor carpenter who blames his tools. But beyond that, it’s really bad leadership. He’s been defensive and paranoid since he got here, and I don’t think this team is behind him because he’s always bitching about what they’re not.
+100….far different to “lay out your vision for the team” and call out the current players and former staff for everything they’re not
“Yes. Tools matter. Good tools won’t bring you to your optimum peak performance on your own, but bad tools will guarantee you’ll never get there. Bad tools typically take longer to work with, and typically teach bad habits to get around their deficiencies.
Da Vinci with a mop and a bucket of mud may be a better painter than you, but he would never beat Da Vinci with quality tools.”
Gurkha Dawg
I like your term ” Richt agnostic”. That’s where I was last year also. I didn’t really like the KS hire mainly because I like an offense guy as HC. In the game today you have to score points in bunches to keep up with teams like Ole Miss no matter how good your defense is. Bama has a great defense but you saw what OM did to them. I wish KS the best but don’t feel real good right now. If we can recruit like Bama we’ll be fine, but that remains to be seen. Also, Saban may have had a poor first year at Bama but IIRC he went into the SECCG ranked #1 his second year. If Smart can do that, I don’t care what happens this year.
You are 100% right about Saban’s first year at Alabama. Plus, he already had a BCS championship under his belt, so everyone knew he could be a winner.
Im tired of hearing there’s no talent.
http://247sports.com/Season/2016-Football/CollegeTeamTalentComposite
I’m not saying that.
But if you insist, perhaps you can tell me who should be starting at left and right offensive tackle. I’m all ears.
Ham and Blankenship?
I kid.
That comment was the only fun I got out of the entire game this week.
You didn’t say that. Everyone else has.
The problem is your number 3.
Turd Ferguson
There is a talent problem, whether anyone wants to admit it or not. And unfortunately, the deficit lies primarily along the line of scrimmage. You’re welcome to point to recruiting rankings all you’d like, but then I’ll just remind you of such 5-star duds as John Theus. Not all 4- and 5-star recruits are really good enough to compete in the SEC. And we’re learning the hard way what that really means.
Thankfully, we’ve finally got an OL coach who knows what the hell he’s doing. But we’re all going to have to be patient while he rebuilds the OL from scratch, trusting that he can tell the difference between a 4-star who looked great at his private school with no competition, and a 4-star who actually has what it takes to block an SEC-caliber DE.
Sh3rl0ck
People for some reason think that the recruiting services actually do a thorough evaluation of High School prospects and are actually qualified to do so. Look people, the ratings come after the offers. Part of the reason our recruits are rated as highly as they are is because they were offered by Georgia. The spread of “non-committable” offers has led to even more screwed up rankings.
The recruiting services do not specialize in evaluating recruits; they specialize in getting grown men to pay for information about children.
Napoleon BonerFart
And yet, recruiting rankings correlate with college success and the pro draft. Curious.
The top programs, to whom they give the best rankings, are also able to recruit the best players. I’m not saying that the information that comes from the recruiting services in worthless. I’m saying that it is only useful in the aggregate. The rating for an individual recruit, though, is almost meaningless.
While I concede that the margin of error increases with smaller sample size, it’s also true that the aggregate is made up of individuals.
Basically, UGA is a team with SEC talent. Yes, there are holes. But this team is talented enough to wax FCS teams and compete with good SEC teams.
Five stars doesn’t mean that a player is what you need. If you think that offensive line is talented then I’ve got some great beachfront property in Valdosta to sell you. Hell our starting tackle is an FCS transfer and most of the rest are either just bad or playing out of position.
As I said in a comment yesterday. Our OL consists of an FCS Left Tackle (i.e. he should be a career backup in the SEC), 3 Guards, and a 3rd string Nose Tackle. Will Friend was a quality coach but a shite recruiter. Rob Sale apparently screwed up any good that Friend had previously done. Sam Pittman has a hell of a job ahead of him.
Also, some freshman need to step up. We need to get Sims and Galliard off of the field. The TEs can help the Tackles on the outside. The Guards are allowing people to come in unblocked as they are not releasing from combo blocks.
SAtownDawg
No, we need to move Galliard to center and get Kubanlow off the field…hard to run up the middle when our center is blown up on a regular basis
Kublanow was the Left Guard for the 2014 team. You know, the one that set the record for most points scored by a UGA offense. He played great. The key is that he was playing LEFT GUARD and not Center. Playing Center is not the same as playing Guard but with snapping duties. Kublanow was great at taking on a 3 technique, helping on a combo for a 1 technique, and pulling as a lead blocker. All things that a Left Guard does. He is not equipped for handling a 1 technique solo. If you read my comment from yesterday, part of our OL problem is that we lack a natural center. If we had one, we could kick Wynn back out to LT, move Catalina to RT, move Kublanow back to LG, and move Pyke back to RG. At that point, our OL problem would only be that we do not have natural Tackles. That is a problem we can fix with TE help. Right now, the only person playing their natural position is Wynn.
Dylan Dreyer's Booty
^This^
We have lots of talent. We have perhaps the most talented freshman QB ever. We have great running backs, plural. We have great TEs, very good LBs, some really good DLs, and a decent – sometimes very good -secondary. The OL has some pieces but as a group, it’s a weak link. We may have some big recruits on the OL, but if there’s anything more dangerous than a freshman QB, it’s a freshman OL. So when Sam and Kirby say they are playing the best, they probably are. We also have glaring deficiencies at receiver. And the kicking game is a mess. I saw a bit recently showing that having to kick a field goal is essentially a failure, but that failure is eclipsed by having to kick one and not being able to do it successfully.
So yeah, we have talent, but it’s not spread out particularly well, yet. If we’re honest, we knew that coming in. A 3-1 record puts us on pace for the 8-4 or maybe 9-3 record most of us predicted before the season began. We lost to a team that has been prolific against really good defenses even in losses and it happened at their house. It’s too early for us as fans to wet the bed. Some things will get better as the season develops, I hope, and others I think we’re going to have to wait a year or two. Let’s see what happens next week.
AMEN, when you stop a team on the 8 etc., and they get 3 it feels like a wash or a win, but when you fail and then miss the FG inside 30, it is a shot to the nuts.
Those of you writing that 4 and 5 stars don’t mean anything….rofl. This team has talent deficiencies in certain areas, but the recruiting services are more often right than they are wrong.
We grouse about CMR not recruiting enough talent then we move the goalposts by saying the universally accepted measure of talent isn’t actually a good measure after all.
EVERY team has deficiencies. The OL has its issues, but it’s not as bad as it’s being made out to be. Coach Pruitt had this same personnel group at secondary ROCKING – with half the game-ready players and when the whole squad was a bunch of freshmen.
Under Richt, everybody said we had a lousy OL coach when the OL didn’t perform. Under Smart, we have a genius OL coach, he just doesn’t have the players. Gotcha.
A better QB situation and a now-healthy 3-4 juggernauts at RB offsets the loss of Theus and Mitchell, in my opinion.
Who exactly tested the secondary last season though? Final ranking was nice, but I recall Vandy nearly hitting 300 yds passing, and Dobbs shredding the secondary. Beyond Dobbs it wasn’t exactly a murder’s row of passers.
Great post. We now see what 5 years of administrative foot dragging and a coach on the hot seat did to recruiting.
Or a coach who seemingly didn’t place emphasis on recruiting on the OL. Don’t give me the fans hurting recruiting straw man argument. Plenty of top ten classes in the last five years. Just perhaps misevaluation of needs at best or negligence at worst.
This is it…KS wants to play a way that doesn’t suit the talent at hand, it would seem. I guess we’ll see where that gets us: 1. KS changes, for this year at least; 2. the team changes; 3. nothing changes, and we go 5-7 or something.
Baitstand
Is it too early, or too late, to start the “could’ve had Tom Herman” meme??
86BONE
Hey BR549….that started yesterday!
If you don’t catchem the first time we will re bate you…we sell worms, crickets and minnows!
budlite
For all of the “cupboard half full, half bare folks”, I’d like to paraphrase Bear Bryant’s definition of a good coach. “He’s somebody that can take his’n and beat yor’n and then turn around and take yor’n and beat his’n”.
I fear that our new coach’s world view has been shaped by his Alabama experience to the point that he hasn’t learned to win without an overwhelming talent edge. It is hard to imagine UGA gaining that talent edge while Saban is still alive. I hope I’m wrong, on both counts.
DawgsFan1
Anybody else watch TA&M v ARK last night? ‘Hogs played a smash mouth, “impose my will on you” kind of offense against a defense stocked with a number of Sunday players soon enough and it got them beat (my english is terrible there). Kinda like our game yesterday. It has taken four years for Sumlin to get where he is with these Aggies. I suspect it will take Smart that long as well.
“For us, it was all about playing the Georgia way, the Georgia brand of football. Which is physical, relentless, tough, knock you back. I think we did that.” — Kirby Smart, Dawgs247, 9/5/16
For some reason, I can’t quit that quote.
I look forward to the game that he can say it again.
G-Day?
You should put up his quote today where he calls out players by name.
Did he actually do that??
“Because I’ve seen them do it,” Smart said when asked why he has confident his UGA can turn the page and respond against Tennessee. “I’ve seen Jayson Stanley make that catch. I’ve seen Isaiah McKenzie make that catch. I’ve seen Malkom Parrish make those plays. He made one against a 6’5″ guy against North Carolina. I’ve seen them do it. We’ve just got to do it when we need to do it. We didn’t do it today. Like I said, it’s not all on them. We’ve got to do a better job as coaches to help them. At the end of the day, the thing snowballed and we didn’t have anybody step up and make a play. Lorenzo Carter, go make a play — go make a tackle for a loss right there. Go make a play on the perimeter out there, Malkom, and it possibly changes the game. We didn’t do that.”
http://georgia.247sports.com/Bolt/Rowe-These-things-take-time-47761434
He just broke the Golden Rule of coaches, never call out the players especially by name unless it is to praise them. He very well may lose the team especially the seniors and juniors.
ugafidelis
It is to me like he is praising them. Hes saying that he’s seen what they CAN do and he knows they can do anything they set their minds to.
*sounds to me
I think Carter for instance needs to be called out. Maybe not in the press though.
sectionzalum
i think that may be a source of our problem. kirby is a manball, pro-style evangelist, and our qb is not yet ready to be effective under center. big cognitive dissonance from january to today for college kids to absorb. physical-physical-physical sermon, pass block-passblock- pass block in games. our most effective offensive player thus far is 5’8, 165.
and it elevates my appreciation of theus.
I’ve been impressed with Smart’s grasp of meaningful upstream factors that contribute to success, such as offensive line recruiting and accountability. I’m equally troubled by the recent vacuous refrains of “effort,” “compete,” “wanting it,” and “hustle.” Those are inputs in the formula of winning on the same level as “playing well” – which is to say, they’re much closer to the result than to root cause. I am not encouraged that Smart has not given much time at his podium to talking about where effort comes from while giving so much time to the need for effort. He’d better have some good ideas on where motivation to play hard comes from other than experiencing success on the field and/or getting yelled at.
Do we have any sports psychologists on retainer? For consultation with Kirbs, not for meeting with players.
Not a sports psychologist but:
We assume football players are competitive. At a place with Alabama’s depth, you are reminded every day that, if you don’t play your best, there is someone as talented as you just waiting to take your place. If a program doesn’t have that kind of depth. . . Well, I think you may have what we’ve got. I suspect the guys played often hard for Mark Richt because they loved and respected him. I have no idea what the players think about Kirby. Maybe you have some thoughts.
This, exactly.
The other Doug
Great post. I feel like Smart needs to show his players that he can make the changes necessary to be competitive this week. Otherwise he is going to lose them.
Soccerdawg
I am most disappointed in the lack of offensive creativity. Have we thrown a screen pass? Why don’t we use the toss sweep more? Still missing the tight ends. I know we have had a lot of drops. But I am 100 % sure Bobo and Richt, even Lilly could have done more with this talent.
You do realize that, with the exception of bubble and smoke screens, screen passes rely on Offensive Linemen blocking in open space, right? They have a hard time blocking a guy 18 inches away who was standing still.
Why not throw to the TEs? The tight ends have having to stay in help the Tackles against the pass rush. Eash can’t throw a pass to a TE while laying on back with a concussion.
I don’t think you, along with a lot of people on this board, understand how bad of OL is. The lines from the 2009 and 2010 teams were much better than this, and they were less than mediocre.
Mary Kate Danaher
Good post, Senator. As disappointing as yesterday’s result and effort were, I’m not ready to conclude that the players haven’t bought into the process. While the 4 game sample size is sufficient to show the glaring personnel issues (kicker, tacker, receiver), in my view it is not large enough to gauge whether the team is buying into Kirby. I find myself thinking back to the aftermath of the Carolina game, when the consensus was that the team had bought into the process by showing a resilience and toughness that we hadn’t seen in recent years. Only 7 days ago, we commented on how the team kept their composure and pulled out a win on the road. And maybe Ole Miss is just that good.
That said, I have no clue at all which team shows up this Saturday. I have a feeling that we’re going to see our fair share of both the teams we saw in Oxford and at the Dome before the season is over.
I just keep reminding myself that I said over the off-season to expect bumps in the road with a rookie HC and freshman QB. I just didn’t expect us to look this clueless. We have talent (and holes, obviously). But a good coach should be able to figure out some way to use the talent at hand. That was Kirby’s reason for hiring Chaney and Pittman. But the offense shows very little creativity and our WR play has been abysmal.
Defense, Kirby’s forte, has been disappointing as well.
The comebacks earlier in the season gave me hope, but yesterday makes me wonder if those were a fluke. The Tennessee game will tell us a lot, and I’m really afraid of what it’s going to tell us.
I’ll go further to offer a caution of my own on the talk of effort, speaking as someone who has studied psychology at the doctoral level. The most dangerous thing he could do to undermine morale (and subsequently, effort and buy-in) is to accuse those who are trying their best of not trying their best. I’d be willing to bet there’s a fair amount of that going on. The culture will change in response to intense pressure, but while you hope it compresses into something stronger, it could just crumble instead.
Excellent – he’s been doing that publicly with his comments since January about the roster. I think he has crushed the offensive line’s confidence in particular.
I’ve been concerned a about that as well. He seems to have gone far over the line of calling out a player to encourage greatness (i.e. see what Yoculan did with that freshman class that went on to win 4 straight NCs!) into just knee jerk negative as a “on the other hand” they can get better line. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him simply compliment a guy without the other “he could get better” shtick. maybe he did it about Chubb’s rehab, but then he even the week before the game acted like he didn’t know if he’d play despite everyone else knowing he most certainly had a great camp and was fine. There is Dooley esque gloom about how good the opponent is as a general commentary vs, how bad we are individually.
tmflibrarian
Having someone who is a fine example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect make this hire was always going to have some issues with it, especially when that decision was made in a panic by some big money boys over hiring rumors somewhere else.
We shouldn’t be surprised that McGarity, who worked for a successful AD but hasn’t been able to translate that level of success to his own AD career, would think an assistant from a successful program like Kirby would do fine, and Georgia didn’t deserve or need a new coach with head coaching experience. (Though he was going to pay him like one.)
But it just breaks my heart for the players. We’ve lived a couple blocks from Butts-Mehre for nearly 20 years, and there isn’t energy around here like in a normal football season. Some of that is the rotten September schedule, perhaps. But after watching the second half of UT-UF, with UT knowing they can essentially cinch the East next week, I’m definitely worried that things are going to get worse, and we won’t have a coach with the experience to keep it from happening.
doofusdawg
I’m sure the kids love taking a bus every day to and from practice. Something to consider when considering attitude and “buying in”… man I hate that term.
The problem as I see it… and it’s the only thing I see… is what happens when the ball is snapped. On offense we clearly have a lack of talent on the line and at receiver. But for the life of me I can’t figure out how professionals making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year can’t see what is and is not working. Toss the damn ball. On defense we can either sit back and cover or be aggressive and blitz. We clearly have chosen the former. And it doesn’t take a “rocket scientist”… love that term… to see which works and which doesn’t.
If Kirby wants to be successful like Saban then he needs to copy Saban and get in the face of his two coordinators during the game and tell them to change what isn’t working.
I put the over/under in Cola at 23 and Lexington is gonna be a barn burner. This weekend will be ugly.
Fortunately for me I have other hobbies that aren’t as painful as watching the Dawgs. Hobbies like cutting myself, drinking lye or shoving knitting needles into my eyeballs.
Post of the day!
I see my Tennessee fan neighbor has his flag back up, this one satin I think. He also has the “Next are the _______!” With the coming opponent in the blank. He has “Puppies” currenty.
When we left this morning I mention he wasn’t suppose to have that sign in the yard.
“I rather not go through that again…. concentrate on the house please.” Was all the support she offered.
A David Wiggins plan. L’Atessa de vita! Indeed.
They stock sheetrock on Wednesday. Cabinets are ready. Exterior is finished. Preliminary grading done…..topsoil and double ground mulch stockpiled. Won’t be long.
LOL, careful, they are everywhere now. Don’t think any of us will be able to escape them until Sgt Carter gets slapped back into reality. What a horrifying half that was after they were booed loudly leaving the field just 30 minutes earlier. I think they drugged the Gatorade in the FU dressing room. Looked like a different team that came back out.
Mac I chuckled at your earlier post when you sugggested i consider making a move to a new neighborhood. 😉
Firing Kirby Smart would be the stupidest possible move we could make. Kirby is what he is: probably not a very good coach, but it’s only 4 games, so who knows? All that matters are (1) pretending everything is fine so that Kirby can continue recruiting like gangbusters and (2) firing Greg McGarity so that he has zero influence over hiring Kirby’s replacement.
I remember well the hiring of an Assistant Coach as HC in Athens back in 1964 and a similar outcry from what spawned today’s Instant Gratification Fan Generation. Just as it was then, Dooley inherited what Griffith left him and managed a 7-3-1 season. The next was a 6-4 effort marked by the thrilling upset of Bama on the flea-flicker but marred by back to back 2 loss stretches (FSU, UK & UF, AU) before vengence upon the nats.
The History lesson is intended to introduce a little reality into what is not much more than a bunch of whining over team issues all knew existed back in August.While the Bear’s homily is quaint, such as is the game today he too would struggle matching up with today’s superior distribution of talent.
Four games in, I believe it’s obvious that the first Year HC has not yet captured all 105 players into functioning as a Team. This Saturday we shall all discover whether that 2×4 strike in Oxford brings more of them around to the Process.
Didn’t we go up north and win a big game in year 2? CKS has a chance to repeat that but in South Bend this time.
That with year one. And Notre Dame lost to Duke yesterday.
Dooley’s first year was 1964. We beat Michigan in 1965.
Dooley inherited a smoldering dumpster fire from Johnny Griffith. The program was an absolute disaster from the end of the Little Round Man’s era.
Mike Cooley
I disagree that we didn’t show up yesterday. We showed up. We are just lacking in a lot of areas and for now, we just aren’t very good. I’ve seen posted here more than once that we are and still will be feeling the affects of the disaster that was the 2013 recruiting class. Why do people think this transition is going to happen without us getting our noses bloodied a few times? Did yall honestly think that game yesterday was goi g to look like anything other than what it looked like? If so, why? Ole Miss gave Alabama all they could,handle. What made any of our fans think that four games into a season with new coaches who have a new approach, a freshman qb, and a bad offensive line, we were going be able to give ole miss a game? They nearly beat Alabama. Go ahead and get ready for a few more games like this. It ain’t got a thing to do with players not buying in. They can buy in til the cows come home and it won’t make up for a talent disparity. I think it will be two more seasons before we start to really see things take shape. My phone blew up all day yesterday and I was just shocked at how shocked people were. A buddy of mine even said he thought the players are mad because Richt was fired and are taking it out on the new coaches. Come in off the ledge folks.
chilidawgnv
Good post Mike
BarneyDawg
Agree, good post
illinidawg
dawgman3000
Well said Mike
dudemankind
DawgByte
Blutarsky – Your key phrase is this… “small sample size…”
It’s waaaaaaay too early to push the panic button! We knew going into the season the OL would be an issue. They’re undersized, Kublanow IMO has never been able to live up to either of his two predecessors, Wynn is not big enough to play Guard, Gaillard is a converted DT, Catalina is transfer from… well you know and lastly Pyke was playing Guard last year and was a 3 star in HS. Additionally, we all knew the WR corp was weak on depth and their lack of consistency is proving what we feared. The QB situation is playing out exactly how we anticipated, both good and bad. On the defensive side of the ball, in fall camp everyone was worried about the front 7 and our inability to get pressure on QBs, so that’s also playing out as feared. The true bright spot has been our ILB play. The DB situation is worse; however, than we anticipated and Briscoe is proving to be the new Prince Miller of this bunch. If the guy behind him is worse, then we’re in really, really bad shape!
The real story here is a lesson in Red & Black coke bottle glasses. Our fan base drank the talent Kool Aid, when in reality there’s a significant separation between our players and the upper tier SEC programs.
Blutarsky, for some reason you’ve either forgotten Kirby’s vision for the future or are ignoring it. It’s quite simple: Get bigger, faster, stronger, deeper and more talented. It will take 3 recruiting classes to get the type of high caliber players Kirby’s use to coaching. Making a silk pillow out of a sow’s ear is impossible, so everyone’s going to have to alter their 2016 expectations in line with REALITY!
DB, for some reason, you’ve misunderstood what I posted. I’m in no panic over Smart. I think he knows what he wants and how to get there.
But I am a little uneasy over the possibility that things don’t head in a positive direction this season, not because of Smart per se, but because there will be unrest in the fan base, and B-M isn’t doing fan unrest too well these days.
You’re looking through some funky colored glasses of your own, though, if you can pretend that the Nicholls and Ole Miss results are merely the consequence of a talent gap.
Nicholls is certainly not the result of a talent gap. That was straight coaching combined with all the flaws everyone has noted.
BTW, I posted a very similar concern to your #3 this morning on BI. Your #3 with what appears to be a lack of player confidence can breed a cancer that’s worth keeping an eye on.
FWIW, I don’t think you’re pushing the panic button. You’ve written a thoughtful analysis of what you believe are root causes of this teams problems, along with your usual spy novel tangents. It makes for entertaining reading.
If things don’t improve, there have to be some people who are chewing their fingernails to a nub about the impact on the increased minimum giving levels and the ticket price increases. That with a downright awful home schedule is a perfect storm. It may require a withdrawal from the AA’s 401k.
As I said back in December, I’ll wait until 2018 to form any lasting conclusions about Kirby’s ability to coach winning football. I gave Richt more than a dozen years. I’m willing to give Kirby more than a few weeks.
Until then, the rational among us will be patient and enjoy whatever few highs we’re given on what is going to be a roller-coaster of a couple years.
I get that the “well look at Saban’s first year at Bama” excuse can come across as a bit of a cop out, but that doesn’t mean it’s completely invalid either. I mean, I doubt if anyone was under the impression that their players were totally bought in while they were watching them lose to U-La-La. I concede the point that Saban had a history backing him up that Kirby doesn’t have, but I’m not getting too concerned just yet. For me it’s always been that this was going to be a rebuilding year, and I’ll judge Kirby on 2017 & 2018 results.
This is gonna sound weird, but I think in some ways, the UNC victory has impaired our growth. The win was not as impressive as it looked – we got a LOT of breaks in that game that even just 2 or 3 of them going the other way would have changed the result of the game. I told my buddies afterwards that we weren’t as good as everyone thought – if we played that UNC team 10 times, I think both would win roughly half, that’s the level of team we are right now. Whatever your expectations are for UNC, that’s what your expectations should be for us right now. Of course most of them thought I was crazy, they were caught in the euphoria of the media praise, the top 10 ranking, etc. And I think the players thought that too. Instead of realizing how far they still had to go, I think that game and all the love right after it made them feel as if they had already arrived.
I know you never want to sacrifice wins, but I would be happy if the rest of the season was focused on getting the young guys built up and experienced. We have a ton of talent but it’s young talent. Let them make their mistakes this year so we can have a kick-ass 2017 & 2018. And yeah, that’ll mean some less than desirable results this year, but our future is still very bright, in my eyes.
It sure feels like 1990 doesn’t it?
Will McGarity give me a rebate on the Hartman Fund contribution and season ticket check it sent to see UGA do its best to win every game in 2016?
The “let’s sacrifice to make 2019 better ” stuff is easy to say when one isn’t spending any money to see them play.
Well said Gaskill. It also assumes that 2018 or 2019 will be “the year”, which is anything but a given. I think Kirby or any new, unproven HC for that matter has a 3 year window to show significant progress in terms of making it to or winning a conference championship, winning 11 games or making it to the CFP. Otherwise, the fan base and athletic department are very likely to make a change because the expectation level is so high now-a-days. That leash becomes even shorter if a HC essentially decides to take program used to winning 10 games a season and throw in the towel to settle for a 5-6 win rebuilding season. This team has talent issues, but not to the point where they can’t win 8 games unless the team completely quits on the coaching staff.
Ed Kilgore
I’m with Charles in being inherently suspicious of psychological explanations of why a team is not doing well at a physical game. Frankly, I don’t know precisely what it means for Kirby’s players to “buy into” his approach to the game. They presumably want to win. So unless he’s tormenting them physically or psychologically and they’d rather lose than support him, why would they not cooperate? There’s nothing about his game-planning that seems radically different from what Georgia was doing last year, but maybe I’m missing something.
He’s been telling everybody who will listen how badly his players suck since he got here. You don’t think that has an effect?
Some professionalism would go a long way. 1. Do the easy stuff (fundamentals) really really well. 2. Practice the hard stuff while still doing the easy stuff perfectly. 3. Do the hard stuff only when necessary and don’t let it affect the easy stuff. 4. Success is making the hard stuff look like the easy stuff.
The mental side of things was my passion as I went through grad school. Inner game of tennis type stuff was where I lived. I imagine Kirby to be the micro manage to a fault type. For example, when someone asks you to stand up, you just flash the action in your head, and you’re standing up. You did not look at your legs and identify each muscle that needed to contract and extend, you didn’t reach your hands out to try to balance. Single thought drove many actions and it all works smoothly. The team needs to work on details, but they can’t play the details. Perhaps some “get out of their own way” would help em out.
Biggus Rickus
Eh. A 7-5 season this year, which looks very possible right now, would be a somewhat worrying sign, but ultimately there’s not much difference between 9-3 and 7-5. If there’s no step forward next season, that’s when major concern should start to kick in.
I beg to differ … There’s a lot of difference between 9-3 and 7-5.
Besides the fact you’ll be happier on two more Saturdays, there’s really not.
Better record means higher rankings, better publicity, and likely better bowl game. It would also mean we beat a couple of rivals during the regular season. If the record doesn’t matter, why keep score?
I don’t particularly give a shit about being ranked 18th vs. unranked or publicity. As for rivals, as I said, you get to be happier on two extra Saturdays. That’s nice, but in the end, Kirby Smart is not going to be any better off if he goes 9-3, especially considering how ugly that 9-3 will look based on the first third of the season, if he doesn’t show substantial improvement next year.
So you think recruiting and overall direction of the program would be exactly the same at 7-5 as it would be at 9-3.
Losing to Florida, Auburn, Tennessee, and tech or USCe –> no thanks
Yes, he will be better off at 9-3 than 7-5. To say there’s no difference makes absolutely no sense.
After his first year, yes, I absolutely think 7-5 is the same as 9-3 when it comes to recruiting. The overall direction of the program is up to Smart, and an ugly 9-3 or an ugly 7-5 is not going to make a lick of difference. Either they improve in year 2 and contend with a 10-2 type of season or they don’t and the hot seat talk begins. That’s when you’ll see problems in recruiting.
You have a different impression than what I got from it. You see a team that hasn’t bought in. I see a team with glaring deficiencies that simply can’t be covered up against a team like the one we played yesterday. Our offensive line is garbage. We have few good receivers. We’re asking a true freshman QB to save us on offense but he can’t do it if 15% of his passes are dropped. And the defense can’t recover five turnovers every game.
I don’t think it has anything to do with “buying in.” They just don’t have the players.
Strange how we got worse at virtually every position right around the same time Miami got better. No accounting for college kids, I suppose.
TXBaller
Miami is Greatness….v. Fla Atlantic, Fla A&M & ApSt. Richts done an outstanding job in only 3 games. Turnaround job I’d say.
Receiving talent is a problem, but I’m not as sure about the offensive line. It’s not great by any means, but blown assignments seem to be an issue as often as being physically beaten. If they were to cut down on mental mistakes, they wouldn’t look quite so bad.
This would be a theory except we can point to position groups with almost the exact same personnel as last year that are underperforming relative to last year.
As someone mentioned above, if talent is the problem, then what happened against Nicholls State? If talent is the problem, why did it take five turnovers and 4th quarter heroics to defeat Mizzou, with whom we are at least equal to in talent?
lakedawg
This years team has more talent than last year by a long ways Las t two years with no QB and no healthy RB’s won 10 games. This staff not getting it done first 4 games.
Nobody should think we had no chance against Ole Miss because of the talent difference. That’s BS. There was a far greater talent difference between UGA and Nicholls State than between UGA and Ole Miss. Nicholls certainly was competitive against us. The team was not ready and played like shit. That’s on the coaches.
Got Cowdog?
No offense, Ghurka, but I think you are wrong. I think our talent level over the last 4 years has degenerated to a bottom tier SEC level at best. outside of a brand new QB, a couple of stud backs, and the odd DL player, we are not at the level of the teams we wish to compete against.
But ya gotta start somewhere, and here we are. 2 to 3 years for sure before it gets better.
David Pinson
Amen. There is one common feature of every great team at UGA (and elsewhere). Very high quality players man the line between the skill players and the opponents. When was the last time you could say of a Georgia team that our offensive and defensive lines (including linebackers) are superior to quality opponents and can and do dominate the rest.
And yet the recruiting services have ranked our signing classes in the top ten each year. It’s interesting how those guys can be so right about Alabama and Ole Miss and so wrong about UGA.
What’s really going on with the fans is their wishes and wants does not jibe with reality. Those that are very upset about yesterday’s result are refusing to accept what had always been a possibility at the back of their minds since the beginning of Smart career with Georgia. I think the best scenario for Smart is to win enough to go and limp into SECCG(by default) just like FU last season with expectation to get whip again by the West Conf. champ.
Biggen
Count me in with those that think the explanation is as simple as “we don’t have the horses” this year. I really don’t think it’s as complicated as the players not “buying into the process”. Kirby just doesn’t have the RIGHT players for what he wants to do. UGA is no better than a decent Div 2 squad as we stand currently. We are staring down the barrel of an 8 – 4 season at best I’m thinking. Maybe 9 wins if we can squeak past AU. Consider the following:
Kirby has been saying all spring that the kicking game scared him to death.
Kirby has been saying all spring the secondary was not as good as their numbers from last year had advertised.
We all know the risks of starting a true freshman at the QB position.
The O line is a mess thanks to lackluster recruiting by Richt & Co. Kirby can only do so much this this bunch when the talent ceiling is so low in this group. I don’t think any of us expected it to be this bad but could CMR done any better if he were here this year? I’m inclined to say not.
A 4-star D-lineman by the name of Ledbetter is still riding the bench. Who would have thought UGA would have had to deal with his addiction?? So a young and think D line is made even thinner by this.
I’m not saying that Kirby has no fault here. Obviously the dropped passes are a coaching issue. Did these kids forget how to catch balls out of high school? Of course not. This is a coaching problem. The special teams miscues (sans field goals) are also a coaching issue. This is the most maddening part since UGA has a ST coach now which we have been screaming at CMR to hire one for years.
The fans calling for Kirby’s head have no idea what they are talking about. I’m betting they are young 20 something year olds who have nothing better to do that call into Finebaum and tweet all day long.
I think we just all need to adjust our expectations this year. Kirby isn’t a miracle worker. The players at some of the skill positions just aren’t that good. It’s a simple as that…
UGA is no better than a decent Div 2 squad as we stand currently.
I don’t think Bigger realized how damning to Smart that comment is. Smart gets paid a lot of money to produce an SEC team that is a lot better than a Division 2 team.
I do not want to fire him; that would be the worst thing UGA could do. However, if there was any truth to the statement that Smart took a team that was better than beat 7 Power 5 teams and reduced it to the level of a decent Division 2 team he should be fired immediately.
I was overzealous with that Div 2 remark. Obviously, UGA is better than the average Div 2 team…
…But by how much? Hanging on to beat Nicholls seems to make me think not much.
Doubling down on your condemnation of Smart? If he has taken a team that was better than 7 Power 5 teams last year and coached it down to being not much better than a Division 2 team, then he still should be fired immediately.
I disagree with your assessment that we are not much better than a Division 2 team. Your benchmark was Nicholls State, which is a Division 1 team (albeit in the FCS subdivision of Division 1.) Any FCS team ought to be better than a Division 2 team. After all, Division 2 teams can give no more than 36 football scholarships. You really can’t, with a straight face, say we are not much better than Shorter College, or Valdosta State or West Georgia.
I’m curious what the score would have been had Valdosta St. played Ole Miss last Saturday instead of UGA. It’s conjecture of course but the butt whipping I’d guess would be about the same. When a Power 5 teams pulls its starter against another Power 5 team in the 3rd quarter that is a pretty piss poor team they are playing.
My point is that I do believe last year’s team is better than this year’s team. It’s still early in the season but 4 games in, I don’t think you can say with a straight face we will win 10 games this year like we did last year.
“but he doesn’t have Saban’s history”
…or his players, or the experience coaching real-world players… Coaching Saban’s players, it should be patently obvious, is more like coaching pro players than coaching college players.
Christ in a red corvette, folks we had to throw the fucking football 55 times to beat Missouri cause we could not run the damn ball against MISSOURI!!! What exactly did you expect to happen in Oxford?
Kirby, I hope to ever-loving God almighty, may turn out to be the greatest coach in Georgia history, I just hope I am sentient when it happens.
“I think the best scenario for Smart is to win enough to go and limp into SECCG(by default) just like FU last season with expectation to get whip again by the West Conf. champ.”
I don’t know what he is smoking, but I sure am going to need some of it by November.
Eason’s footwork is just terrible.
The worst thing that could have happened yesterday did not happen in Oxford, it happened in Knoxville.
“The people he answers to don’t have a clue. (I’m betting McGarity has begun honing his “remember what Saban’s first season in Tuscaloosa was like” marketing pitch to the fan base and Mark Bradley next offseason. That should work like a charm.)”
And neither, if I may, do the fine folks who led the charge to fire Mark Richt.
Bluto this may be your finest hour…I hope you are wrong, but there’s a voice in my head telling me you are not.
UGA85
As I look at the schedule, 8 – 4 is certainly doable. Why did we expect more from a first year coach? I was disappointed yesterday, but we are 3 – 1, with several cream puffs left on the schedule. At this point, to me, I am hoping for one win this season over a good team, like Florida or Auburn. I am fine with UT going to ATL; we clearly don’t need to be there.
shane#1
Very disappointing outing. Glad they took Chubb out. It seems that the enemy D is keying on Chubb so much that playing all the backs would open things up. I am concerned about his injury. Anyone have any idea how serious Chubb’s injury could be?
Brian Van Gorder
Guys, let me know if I can help. Experienced head coach here with a great defensive mindset and extensive resume.
Yeah, right…your Notre Dame defense is simply awesome.
Actually…see above, I should have said “the defense at Notre Dame formerly belonging to Brian Van Gorder.”
Lol, that was funny
You forgot “and always-innovative choices in facial hair.”
I guess I thought that these new coaches might do some of that “coaching up”. You know take a 5 star kid and turn him into an All SEC player and an NFL draft pick.
It’s hard to find any players on this teams that look better than they did last year.
Mediocre Dawg
Saban’s style of coaching does not appeal to everyone.
Kirby Smart wants to be Saban, without all of the advantages.
The offensive line is a liability. I’d like to know what sort of playcalls or scheme would turn them into assets or even significantly less liabilities.
The game reminded me of our high school team. They beat the snot out of other 2As because their skill position talent is top-notch. Ranked Top 10 in the state. They lose to 4As badly because the 4A lines are just bigger and faster.
Nothing you can do when the other team is just better on the line on both sides of the ball. Given a month to prepare for a bowl game, maybe you can scheme around those weaknesses and hope for a couple of breaks.
The wins haven’t been as aesthetic as we would like and the L was ugly. But did anyone here think this team was 4-0 material? I didn’t.
Screen pass and toss sweep. Jet sweep and tunnel screen. Essentially anything where they can block someone much smaller than them.
Stop trying to play smash mouth against opponents that outweigh you by 50 lbs.
At this point my biggest worry is that the offensive tackles are going to get our future star QB killed. At one point in the game I feel Eason was justified to seek out Pike on the bench and kick him in the nuts. I am not joking here. Other than that, I am a little concerned that we should be more fundamentally sound than what I am seeing. Kirby has much work to do.
The results were to be expected. Ole Miss Is much better than any
Team In the East. How good, or bad. will the Dawgs be this year?
That question will be answered this week against the Vols.
The “buying in” comments are confusing as hell to me. Most of these athletes started playing football when they were around 8 years old. That means they have all had 10 years or more to become decent players. These guys just need to go back to the basics and DO their job….block, tackle, catch, throw, kick, etc…
While performing above duties, showing passion and hustle is a must. These are the things coaches can demand from our players. If they do not perform then they sit the bench.
I saw such lackluster efforts out of players yesterday that it made me question their passion for the game of football, much less the Old Piss game.
We have a long row to hoe this year…..
blands
Everyone just be patient. The worst thing that can happen is that these coaches get run out of town and Georgia becomes an unstable program hiring and firing coaching staffs every 2-3 years. Stability is really important.
Our lines stink, we have a true Fr QB, and no kicker. Receivers are shaky.
Our best hope was to catch Ole Miss with a Bama hangover and we got their best game.
We need to do some real recruiting and roster management.
8-4 is somewhat realistic and maybe that will include a victory over Tech and someone else decent.
Perhaps this game will turn out to be a “teachable moment” and hopefully we will be a serious SECC threat in 2018.
And let’s kick Notre Dame’s ass next season.
Will Trane
Why are the fan expectations for this team so high?
Why was this team even ranked 11 in the polls.
This is a very young inexperienced team with a freshman QB starting his second game in the SEC, and on the road. As well as a few others on that team
Granted the play was not there at all times. They did do some good things.
The bad. Well, to me they looked like a team that had been on the road for three of their first four games. They had a short week after getting back from a late night game on Saturday and arriving back in Georgia on Sunday. Not good for a team this young and inexperienced. More so playing a team that had tested FSU and Bama, and on both of those teams put up the points. But the Dawgs are nowhere near a Bama or FSU re experience and players.
Now the defense had a very rough game yesterday. I will let up on the offense a little. No pass rush, but hopefully they get an interior D lineman back this week. Ole Miss pretty much did to them what they did to the Tide and Noles. Kelly racked them up.
The D faired about as good as those two teams did in the first half. Now UF is alleged to have the best and deepest D in the SEC. Can thank the current USC coach for that senior and junior laden roster. But the Vols put up 35 unanswered points on them and could have put 7 more in that second half.
The Dawgs do not have the defensive linemen and offensive linemen they need. It will come. Be patient. The roster was set before Smart and company got there, and for all purposes that was February. In any recruiting classes there will be hits and miss.es
A former TECH grad and now sideline reporter / SEC NOW commentator told Freeze post game that Eason is “not an athletic QB”. I guess he means mobile. In fact one of those other game announcers for SEC, former Bama QB, said many times this week [as did others] that Dobbs at UT will not be able to pass on UF.
My point here. Well, Eason is an athlete. Want to check those throws in the end zone that were dropped. Hell, Kelly can not make those throws. Nor Dobbs when freshmen or now. The kid can flat out throw the damn ball. He can put a freaking dime in mason jar at 25 yards and splash out the JD on the rocks.
Look folks, lighten up. For me they are ahead of the pace. Looked for them to drop these games at the beginning…UNC, Ole Miss, UT, UF, and Auburn.
Before this season is over they will start more O line rotation and player rotation. Give them a break and some time.
If your idea of high expectations includes the team taking an FCS opponent reasonably seriously, I guess you have a point.
Easy folks. It’s early
OrlandoDawg
“I’m a patient man, and willing to take a wait-and-see approach until Saturday.”
–Georgia Fan
Unfortunately that’s a common mindset.
Bet at Ole Miss they were saying fire Freeze if we put up 30 points on Georgia and get beat.
Bet at old Rocky Top they were saying fire Butch Jones [man will have a heart attack on the sidelines like some Dawg folks] if he drops another to UF. Hell some of that 102,000 thought they were on the way and left the game at half time.
Now UT comes in. With an experienced three year starter at QB and TB. UT is a team sitting at high expectations for half a decade. Same with Ole Miss. Same with Arkansas. Same with South Carolina. How many times did the old ball coach beat our butts badly. Want to revisit that Clowney game. And yet not one SEC championships team from those teams. What Spurrier went one time to the Dome at USC before he just simply quit in mid season
Dawgs are a team in heavy transition. Want to check the coaches and players who have revolved off that team the past three years. Not one dab of continuity.
Georgia does not have a quality solid roster yet.
Recommend you folks give the current staff a little break and understanding.
Plus we would like to thank the idiots who set this team up at 11 in the polls.
No doubt the man to man coverage is killing the secondary. UNC missed a couple of wide open receivers that would have lead to TD’s and mizzu, Nichols burned the sec, but what Oke Miss did to them was just man among boys kind of stuff. They just scored at will. Easily could have put 60-75 points on us.
We all knowOle Miss had been cheating every sense freeze got there and he will probably be gone sooner rather than later, and ole miss will be on probation, but boy he sure can cheat!
Am I the only one who was wanting to see more Michel and Herrien in place of Chubb? I think Chubb is the best we have, but he is not getting the looks the others are getting. Not saying that would have made all the difference in the game, but let’s go with the back who is “hot”. Bring Chubb in more in the second half until we can get a more balanced attack. When he is in there, the defense is teeing off on this terrible O Line. He is going to get hurt because they are not able to give him ANY space. It’s maddening to watch.
You are not the only one. It seemed our running game was more effective without Chubb in the game.
His long run was a toss sweep….which we promptly abandoned. Boy, that crappy OL sure calls some stupid plays!
Somebody explain how Pruitt gets a top 5 secondary out of this crew last uear and Kirby doesn’t.
Thought I did that. Scheme change.
Let me point out a point that addresses most of the discussion. The defensive backfield this year contains the same players that were back there last year. Now I know that Ole Miss is a special case because they air it out. How does this back field go from being one of the best against the pass to being a hot mess when the only thing that changed was the coaches. Pruitt, love him or hate him knew how to coach the whole defense to adjust for it’s weaknesses. Kirby has them playing like Bama and that is exposing the things that Pruitt had to deal with. Kirby is willing to put his player in a position to fail just because it’s the Alabama way. We are screwed. The players are getting a weekly dose of negative reinforcement from getting beaten and I’m not sure if Kirby GAS. We may in the next few years become the Alabama of the East but I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.
You did. I looked for it and couldn’t find it. My question is rhetorical, really. It doesn’t appear that Kirby believes he can get that that kind of production out of this secondary due to the lack of a pass rush. It doesn’t appear he had tried, either.
Sorry, 69, that was for Blutarsky. You asked what I have been wondering. I’ll hang up and listen now.
Let’s also no forget the Mel Tucker affect. I told you he was a complete flop here in Chicago for the Bears and people couldn’t run him off fast enough. Same story at other NFL teams before he was the DB coach for one year at Bama. He could turn out to be a great DC or he could turn out to be a real bust. For our sake, I hope it’s the latter and not the former.
I really think the biggest issues right now are at OL and DL. If either line was better at least you might be able to hang with a really good team, but having both sides dominated consistently almost assures you of taking the L. It seems basic to break it down that way, but it has been that way for a while. The years UGA has had decent play on both lines it has won a majority of the games. This year is looking pretty bleak unless these guys can gel and start dominating the opponent to an extent. I have seen none of that this year with the exception of Trent Thompson in the Nicholls game. I think the UNC game was a bit of a misleading game. They suck defending the run.
Uglydawg
Please take down the “quote of the day”.
Not the feature….just that particular quote.
Mad Hatter gone at LSU….
JUST WIN BABY!
How long till some dope here want to hire him?
Mr Herman call for Mr Herman!!!
Jt (the other one)
I am hearing that many simply aren’t buying in…so you get our players showing up and going through the motions or half stepping. This wouldn’t shock me and would explain why we seem like we are sleepwalking in all or parts of our game…
As others have said coaching is harder when you do not have the Alabama benefits. You have to inspire them and they don’t seem inspired. I saw a quote from Kirby that said Eason needed to take better control of the huddle. He is a freshman they need to support him not lay blame at his feet. The team lacked chemistry this week. They had it the first game and against Mizzou but it was gone yesterday. His job as coach is to bring them together as a team. They are stronger when they work together. It is too soon to call for anybody’s head. LSU is stupid to fire now. Kirby needs to start building up his team not by saying things that are untrue but praising.their strenghts and scheming to use those strenghths. We are who we are and we need to be behind our team and our coach.
junkyardawg41
I really have to look at some of the things we are doing and wonder about the buy in and whether we are doing the square peg in the round hole. I had a couple of thoughts and take aways from yesterday. Most have pointed out the defensive struggles and what it reminds me of most is the Grantham years. We all love Pruitt’s players talking about being able to go out and make plays. Yes Pruitt was protecting the defensive backfield but the last two years our defense was in the top 15 (including 7 last year). I am not sure how you lose a few players and drop to 59th nationally without a confusing playbook/technique.
With the offense, several people talk about Chubb and his lack of production. I have seen a loss of a step versus last year but I have also seen what I will call coach focus versus player focus. Chubb had excellent vision and would go out and find the daylight. If you look at how he runs, he follows the play exactly. If the hole is not there, he hits it anyway. Same with Michel. I think we are seeing the effects of run the ball here and be consistent. I don’t think that is where Chubb’s strength lies. Personally, I think that is a CKS thing.
Also, I have to wonder about all the focus being placed on blocking and if it is bleeding over into the receivers focus on catching the ball. I understand CKS’s comments about catching the ball is the easiest thing a receiver can do… but if you aren’t practicing it enough, it ceases to be the easiest thing.
Kaaya leads No. 25 Miami over Appalachian State 45-10
Brad Kaaya threw for 368 yards and three scores, Mark Walton ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns and No. 25 Miami rolled to a 45-10 win Saturday over Appalachian State in front of a record crowd
The Old Jeffster
No one should be shocked at defeat at Oxford and no one should be shocked at a number of other “L’s” along the way this season. I wish Smart could have worked the freshman into his QB rotation a little more gradually but he had no better choice. Clearly the win in Atlanta raised everyone’s expectations a tad too high on this group. They whys of how it seems so fouled up will come out in time; the good ole-fashioned eyeball test says we don’t have the caliber of players to adapt to a new system and win big in the SEC. But I’m far from writing off the season after one loss.
We knew going into the year that lacked experience and/or depth at QB, WR, DL, and OL. Four games in, it is readily apparent that the Rhode Island transfer is not Anthony Munoz in disguise, and that the OL is just five guards thrown out there indiscriminately because it wouldn’t matter if thought were given as to where they should play. We have eight guards, and the last I checked only two should play at a time. We have zero offensive tackles. The WR’s, despite their promise, are undersized, lack any consistency catching the ball, and aren’t good blockers. The DL is like Trenton Thompson and a few body doubles. Our DBs are asked to cover for an eternity because the front is not generating any pass rush. Aside from that, the team is just chock full of All-SEC performers.
There is no amount of coaching that will turn a guard into a tackle. Either you can play in space or not. None of our guys can. They also can’t push anyone around, so playing tight formations to avoid a speed rush is also a failure. How do you formulate any sort of offensive identity when your OL can’t play in space or in tight formations? What plays would you like for them to call? What identity do you want them to have? So far this year, they’ve had more success slinging it around a little bit. If you don’t think that is Kirby trying to adapt to what he has on his roster, then I’m not sure you really are being honest with yourselves.
The problem is that UGA can’t be a power running team. The OL can’t do it. They can’t pass block either, but we try to get them help with a RB or TE on the edge rushers. That typically gives Eason enough time to throw it, but the WRs aren’t holding up their end of the bargain. If you can’t run it like you want to, and you can’t pass it because the WRs won’t catch it, and you can’t kick it because your kickers are basket cases, then what do you have left? A 7-5 team… maybe. Unless this team turns into something it hasn’t shown it is capable of to this point, it is going to be the rebuilding year that UGA was destined to have under Richt anyway (similar to 2006, 2010). Next year will be better, and 2018 should be even better. If things haven’t changed by then, it may be time to revisit the topic. Otherwise, enjoy the wifi.
jabo052
Installing his players and his system aside, this team looks as poorly disciplined and coached as I’ve seen. Then he throws the players under the bus and promises more effort next week. Lmao. I didn’t see effort being much of an issue this week. I saw bad penalties and guys acting like they’d won the game after finally making a play while we were down 3-4 touchdowns.
At some point he’s gonna have to stop pointing fingers and talking about the process and actually show it.
Looks like we got Coach Mus-smart
First tee Hazeltine….Arnie’s red, white and blue wing tips as tee markers….can’t get any better than that!
Long live The King!!
Yesterday was going to happen whether the coach was Smart, Saban, Richt, Bryant, or Lombardi. Maybe not against Ole Miss, but it was absolutely going to happen.
Kirby’s biggest challenge is cleaning out ten years’ worth of Richt’s chronic tolerance of half-ass.
Kirby’s second biggest challenge at UGA is recruiting. The 2013 class had 33 players. There are 8 left. THREE ARE STARTERS. Three senior starters from a signing class of 33. A grad transfer from Virginia started at QB last year and a grad transfer from RHODE FREAKING ISLAND starts at LT this year. This DL has to be in the bottom half of the SEC. The OL, LB, DB, and WR are in the bottom third. At best. How Lorenzo Carter was a five star is beyond me. Outside of QB, RB, and TE, Kirby has exactly d**k. Give him time.
Okay, Pruitt had exactly the same dick in the secondary (actually, worse dick since we added Maurice Smith this year) and he coached far better results from the secondary. Four of the five dicks on the o-line last year are back. We had a 1,100 yard rusher and another runner who averaged 150 yards per game before his injury. The new LT’s problem is pass blocking, not run blocking. Think the same dicks this year will produce a 1,000 yard rusher?
Stan, even if we trotted out 11 dicks from a Class A high school to play against Nicholls State and Ole Miss good coaching would result in those 11 knowing what coverage to run, even if they are overmatched. By contrast, we could have suited up the Denver Broncos defense against Ole Miss but if our coaches cannot get them all running the same coverages then that talent can be exploited.
12 men on the field, missed assignments, stupid penalties and lack of focus are coaching issues, not talent issues.
Pruitt had a pass rush last year in Floyd and Jenkins. A pass rush makes a secondary much better.
Georgia also played practically nobody who could throw the ball effectively. They’ve faced three better passing teams in their first four games this year than they saw all last season, with the possible exception of Alabama.
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“… you ask me what’s the difference in last year and this year? We blocked better.”
Say what you will about Jim Chaney, one thing he’s not is pretentious.
“Last year didn’t meet anyone’s expectations,” Chaney said. “It was a difficult year for everybody, particularly me, because I have a lot of pride in what I do, and I hate putting products out that don’t meet the expectations. But nobody does.”
Chaney said he only had one choice: Get his butt back to work (he didn’t say butt) and try to do a better job. The result: Chaney was giving his annual bowl press conference at the Rose Bowl, as Georgia prepares for a national semifinal match-up against Oklahoma.
“I was lucky enough that the pieces I had to work with all just kind of fell into a beautiful puzzle this year,” Chaney said. “It’s been a pleasure to be a part of it.”
So, what’s made the difference? Wizardry calling the plays? A fancy new scheme? Nah.
“People think: Let’s change, let’s put a wideout over here, a tight end over here. Hell I want to block better! I just want to block better,” Chaney said.
Okay, so what, then? Turns out to be our old friend, the second year effect.
“They understand our plays, they understand our temperments. We all know who we are,” Chaney said. “We all know one another a lot better right now. We know the objectives. We know there’s no false pretense, we’re all after the same thing. …
“At the end of the day we believe in what we’re doing and we’re playing super hard. Are we the most talented offense out there in the history of the world. I would argue probably not. But I would argue we would turn on the tape and we’d play as hard as most people.”
Bottom line: from here on out, this offense is gonna go as far as the offensive line — and Sam Pittman — will take it.
UPDATE: This may be the best quote of all.
“You can’t look at our success and say, ‘Oh, Chaney went to the RPO. The dumbass didn’t do it a year ago, now he is,'” Chaney said, drawing laughs.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say he was reading the GTP comments section.
Name that caption, rare sighting in the wild edition
Here’s something you don’t see every day.
A rare Jim Chaney and Jake Fromm media availability. And Sony Michel. pic.twitter.com/i4uuayqRnY
— Marc Weiszer (@marcweiszer) December 28, 2017
Coincidentally, that kind of looks like what Sony Michel is thinking. Have at it in the comments.
Filed under Name That Caption
“I suppose we should start with the SEC, or as some call it, the $EC.”
This is, simply, a tour de force of tin foil hat theorizing.
It’s not that I don’t think there isn’t any cheating going on in the SEC (**cough**Ole Miss**cough**) or other college conferences. Of course there is, and probably will always be.
It’s that his research boils down to stream of consciousness rambling interspersed with a few timely tweets. I mean, when you can jump to Nick Saban cheats because he owns a car dealership without batting an eye, you’re just a few steps away from offering some new and meaningful insights about the Moon landing or the Kennedy assassination.
I wonder if he knows that Corch used to recruit in the Southeastern Conference once upon a time. Maybe that’s that’s a discussion for another day, too.
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Filed under It's All Just Made Up And Flagellant, Recruiting
Rose Bowl W2W4
Earlier in the season, I linked to a couple of videos posted by Matt Wyatt, a former Mississippi State quarterback who likes to break down games.
Here’s his Rose Bowl preview, a quick five-minute job:
It’s certainly not an in-depth analysis, but one thing that comes through, even in its brevity, is how good both offenses are with their execution.
Filed under Big 12 Football, Georgia Football, Strategery And Mechanics
Talk, talk, talk. When do we leave?
If you can’t get enough of my seemingly endless bloviation at GTP, Derek at The DawgCast was gracious enough to invite me on for a 30-minute Rose Bowl-edition gab session last night. I’m not gonna tell you we broke a lot of newly stunning insight about the game, but a good time was had by all. Clicky to give us a listen.
“If people think this is the last time it’s going to be like this, they’re sadly mistaken.”
Here’s a nice “Georgia, the sleeping giant awakes” piece from Dan Wolken.
Kind of makes you wonder how this CFP appearance will play with the folks back in Montana, doesn’t it?
The Oklahoman’s Berry Tramel looks us over and finds we’re not crazy.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Georgia football strike you as sort of normal? Not normal as in average. Normal as in not kooky. Normal as in Michigan or Penn State or Oklahoma or Nebraska or Notre Dame or Southern Cal. Normal as in passionate and dedicated and over the moon about the football team in Athens. But also normal as in not still fighting the Civil War.
The latter is the feeling you get every time you’re around the likes of LSU or Auburn or Alabama or Tennessee. That’s the impression you get listening to the Paul Finebaum Show, which whether it means to or not is a daily dose of making fun of the South.
We don’t yell PAWWWLLL!!! So we’ve got that going for us. Hey, you gotta start somewhere.
Alabama doesn’t have time for this shit.
This is kind of what Ivan Maisel was warning us about in his post about embracing the freshness of this year’s experience.
The Crimson Tide flew to New Orleans on Wednesday hoping for a better showing compared to the inaugural playoff after the 2014 regular season, when they entered No. 1 but dropped the Sugar Bowl semifinal to No. 4 Ohio State, 42-35.
“When we came to this game a few years ago, we were trying to balance the bowl experience with the whole playoff experience, not having done that before,” Saban said in a news conference moments after his team arrived. “Our players make the decision about curfew, what they do and how they do it, because I give the leadership of the team the opportunity to do that.
“Each year, they have been more and more serious about the game and less and less interested in the bowl experience.”
Alabama’s loss to the Buckeyes marked its only one-and-done playoff performance. The Crimson Tide have played Clemson in the past two national championship games, winning 45-40 in the title contest of the 2015 season and losing 35-31 in last season’s rematch.
Since the inception of the playoff, the Crimson Tide have ventured to New Orleans, the Dallas suburb of Arlington, the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Atlanta and Tampa, Fla.
“They’ve experienced consequences in these games, both good consequences and bad consequences,” Saban said. “They understand that after going through those experiences, the fun of it all is the success. The fun of it all is winning the game.
“You don’t always remember what you do, but you always remember whether you won or lost the game, and that’s what has changed a little bit with our players, which doesn’t disappoint me at all.”
I’m sure that’s satisfying for Saban, but it strikes me as a little grim. When you’re a man in his sixties making millions, sure, it’s a business trip first and foremost. But a youngster deserves to savor a little of the experience after a season of busting and grinding to get there.
Find someone who will hold onto you like Roquan Smith holds onto Kirby Smart on the @guardians ride at #Disneyland #UGA2Rosebowl #GoDawgs https://t.co/kOM0bi8U8l pic.twitter.com/hnNlMyUlPG
— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) December 28, 2017
Not just Kirby, either. The players have earned a little fun time, too.
Filed under Georgia Football, Nick Saban Rules
The most impressive thing about this…
Mike Leach cooling off his hot coffee while Mark Dantonio answers a question during the Holiday Bowl press conference is the best Mike Leach moment ever. pic.twitter.com/jN6QyuUhDS
— Sam Adams (@SWXSamAdams) December 27, 2017
… is that nobody in the audience starts giggling.
Filed under Mike Leach. Yar!
Today, in it just means more
It appears that, after one season, Coach O is prepared to throw away a perfectly good, $1.5 million/year offensive coordinator.
LSU plans to split with Matt Canada after the Citrus Bowl.
Canada, the 45-year-old offensive coordinator the Tigers plucked from Pittsburgh last December, is not expected to remain on the LSU staff for the 2018 season, multiple sources told The Advocate.
Officials at LSU have been in discussion with Canada’s representatives on a potential settlement for a split with the coach, according to multiple sources. A possible replacement is longtime assistant Steve Ensminger, something Orgeron revealed himself during a news conference after the regular season finale against Texas A&M.
Deciding to can a guy you made the highest paid OC in the business after twelve games? That’s one helluva vetting job, dude. And you’ve left the school with a nice tab to pick up.
Canada signed a three-year contract last December paying him $1.5 million per year as the highest-paid offensive coordinator in college football. The school would owe him about $3 million to be paid in monthly installments over the life of the contract, through 2020. That amount is offset by any future compensation Canada earns at another job, according to a copy of his contract.
Man, I’d sure be tempted to offer my services to the next coach for a buck a year.
Amazing how much money these schools can waste.
Filed under It's Just Bidness
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Toronto: BDS stickers on Israeli products
April 6, 2019 , Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi , Comment Closed
Pro Palestinian activists attached BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) stickers to Israeli products sold in several stores in Toronto.
Vancouver rally: “Al-Quds (Jerusalem) is the sacred land of Palestinian Arabs”
Pro Palestinian activists in Vancouver call on the Canadian government to withdraw its support for the state of Israel.
Montreal rally: Zionism is Satan, “Zionists are the real anti-Semites”
Pro Palestinian activists and members of Neturei Karta held a rally in Montreal denouncing Zionism and calling for the destruction of Israel.
Toronto students on Trudeau – Rivlin meeting: “Someone come pick up this white trash”
Toronto Students for Justice in Palestine (TSJP) at the University of Toronto Scarborough calls leaders of Canada and Israel, Justin Trudeau and Reuven Rivlin, “white trash.”
Dawah in Canada: “Jews don’t consider it a sin to cheat or lie to a gentile”
March 28, 2019 , Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi , Comment Closed
The Walk in Islamic Info Center (WIIC) is a Toronto-based Islamic organization that provides free Islamic literature in an effort to spread the message of Islam among Canadians. Here are the “About” section on its…
Anti Israel “Cross-Canada Day of Action”
The Canadian BDS Coalition is planning a “Cross-Canada Day of Action” against Israel and in support of Palestinian right of return.
“The Muslim community doesn’t accept condolences, sympathies from Zionists”
Two Muslim Facebook groups in Toronto refuse to accept condolences from Zionists.
Speaker at UWindsor rejects Zionists’ solidarity with Muslims
Imran Salha, an American Imam who was a speaker at University of Windsor, refuses to accept condolences from Zionists.
Toronto Al-Quds Day: Zionists believe they’re “the superior race”
Speaker at Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto in June 2018 claimed that Israeli settlers believe that God has chosen the Zionists as the superior race.
Article in Canadian newspaper equates Israel to Nazi Germany
Canadian Meshwar newspaper published an article equating Israel, the Jewish State, to Nazi Germany.
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Can You Transfer License Plates From One Car To Another In Wisconsin?
How much does it cost to transfer plates in mass?
What do I need to transfer plates in mass?
What does it mean when a cop takes your license plate?
What speed does your car get impounded?
Can I transfer plates from one car to another in Mass?
Am I responsible for a car after I sell it?
How much is title and registration in Wisconsin?
Can you gift a car in Wisconsin?
Can you transfer license plates from one person to another in Wisconsin?
How many different license plates does Wisconsin have?
Can you transfer a car title online in Wisconsin?
What do cops see when they run plates?
How do I register a new car in Wisconsin?
Can I put my private plate on a car I just bought?
How much does it cost to transfer plates from one car to another in Wisconsin?
Is switching license plates illegal?
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Can I drive a car without plates if I just bought it Wisconsin?
RMV Fees.
[spacer height=”20px”]The RMV fees are $75 for a new title (unless the car is already in your name) and $25 for a plate transfer plus taxes..
To transfer a registration and title from out of state, you will need the following:Proof of Massachusetts insurance through the Registration and Title Application with insurance stamp and signature.Proof of ownership through certificate of title or if a lien exists on the vehicle, your registration from previous state.More items…
Mihill. If the plates did not belong on that vehicle, or if they were not registered correctly, the police may remove the plates from the car. Without plates, it could not be driven and would have to be towed away.
Many Alberta drivers don’t realize that under the new rules, if they’re caught going more than 40 km/h over the speed limit on B.C. highways, their vehicles are impounded for a week and they face a fine of $368 to $483, in addition to a towing and storage fees.
If you already own a vehicle or trailer, and buy a new one from a dealer or a used vehicle or trailer from an individual, you can transfer your registration to the new vehicle. Massachusetts allows a grace period of 7 calendar days from the date you dispose of your previous vehicle to register your new one.
In most states, used car sales are understood to be “as is.” This means the buyer understands that if something goes wrong after the car is driven away, it’s entirely his or her responsibility. That means that, as a seller, you’re not responsible for the car after it’s sold.
The registration fee is going up, and the cost for a title will more than double, thanks to the recently passed state budget. Currently the cost is $69.50 for a title and $75 for registration. But after Oct. 1, the fee jumps to $164.50 for a title and $85 for registration.
How To Transfer A Car Title To A Family Member. In Wisconsin, it is possible to give a car to your child without charging a purchase price. On the back of the original title, you will write in a purchase price of “zero dollars”. The title and MV1 form must still be filled out as if cash were exchanged for the car.
If you would like to transfer plates in your name to a different vehicle in your name, you can use this online service. Review eligibility page to confirm if this online service will work for your vehicle. To be an owner or lessee of the vehicle (must be an individual, not a business) …
Two distinct plate styles are valid if currently registered. For auto registration: Any day of the year (365 days), based on first date of operation in Wisconsin. Motor home and truck registration: Last day of expiration month. Basic annual registration fee plus $15 when new non-personalized plates are issued.
If you have purchased a car from a private seller, you must apply for a Wisconsin car title transfer immediately. You can do this online, by mail, or in person. To save some time, you can complete a DMV title transfer partially online and by mail.
Most police forces use automated licence plate recognition (ALPR), where cruiser-mounted infrared cameras snap photos of up to 3,000 plates an hour – catching cars in both directions at more than 100 km/h. The system checks the plate to see if it’s on a hit list that includes expired or suspended licences.
To apply you will need the following items:The vehicle title or registration card from your previous state of residence. … Completed and signed Title/License Plate Application form MV1.Current proof of identity, if applying in person at a DMV customer service center or to a DMV agent.Title fee.More items…
If you purchased your car in the past few days you don’t need to wait for the V5C Registration Document to return from the DVLA. You can still apply to transfer private number plates by filling in this form and sending it with the V5C/2 little green slip.
Vehicle license plate fees Vehicle license platesFeesMunicipal (MUN/MNC)$5 registration fee – non-expiring; $1 plate transfer feeMunicipal – Official (MNO)$5 registration fee – non-expiring; $1 plate transfer fee88 more rows
It’s illegal wo switch plates, but as far as “how illegal”, if that means how serious is the crime, consult laws in the state where you plan to do this. You may have to pay for a few hours of a lawyer’s time to get an imterpretation of how serious this is in the state (or country) where you plan to do this.
You must apply for a new license plate for all other transfers. Recreational vehicle trailers (RVT) and mopeds (MPD) previously titled and registered in Wisconsin should have the license plates on the vehicles. License plates for these types of vehicles are to remain with the vehicle (transfer to the new owner).
Wisconsin’s mandatory display law State law requires autocycles, automobiles, and light trucks (8,000 pounds gross weight or less) to display a permanent or temporary plate within two business days of purchase. Temporary plates are available when applying for title and registration.
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Purpose and Authority
The purpose of an Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC) is to conduct airport land use compatibility planning. ALUCs protect public health, safety, and welfare by ensuring the orderly expansion of airports and the adoption of land use measures that minimize the public’s exposure to excessive noise and safety hazards within areas around public airports to the extent that these areas are not already devoted to incompatible uses. The statutes governing ALUCs are set forth in Division 9, Part 1, Chapter 4, Article 3.5, Sections 21670 – 21679.5 of the California Public Utilities Code (PUC).
An ALUC has the following powers and duties, per PUC Section 21674:
To assist local agencies in ensuring compatible land uses in the vicinity of all new airports and in the vicinity of existing airports to the extent that the land in the vicinity of those airports is not already devoted to incompatible uses.
To coordinate planning at the state, regional, and local levels so as to provide for the orderly development of air transportation, while at the same time protecting the public health, safety, and welfare.
To prepare and adopt an airport land use compatibility plan pursuant to Section 21675.
To review the plans, regulations, and other actions of local agencies and airport operators pursuant to Section 21676.
The powers of the commission shall in no way be construed to give the commission jurisdiction over the operation of any airport.
In order to carry out its responsibilities, the commission may adopt rules and regulations consistent with this article. The plan is primarily concerned with land uses near the two public-use airports in the county:
Buchanan Field Airport
Byron Airport
ALUC Planning Review Fees Effective November 13, 2016
Initial review by ALUC staff - $500 deposit plus additional fees for time and materials.
Review by the Commission - $2,500 deposit plus additional fees for time and materials.
At the conclusion of review, any unused fees will be returned to the applicant.
Board Order approved September 13, 2016 (PDF)
Resolution 2016/529 (PDF)
Letter to County Planning Directors (PDF)
**The Contra Costa ALUC meets the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Location: 30 Muir Road, ZA Room, Martinez, CA 94553. Agendas are available prior to the scheduled meetings.
**To slow the spread of COVID-19, the Health Officer’s Shelter Order of April 29, 2020, prevents public gatherings (Health Officer Order). In lieu of a public gathering, the ALUC meeting will be available via remote access per Governor’s Executive Order N29-20. Please see this months respective agenda for details.
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Link to ALUC Meeting Videos
If a meeting is in progress, there will be a link to live streaming at the top of the ALCU Meeting Videos page.
Commissioner Roster
Appointing Body
Term Expires
Ken Carlson (Pleasant Hill City Council) County Mayor’s Conference (Contiguous city delegate) May 2, 2022
Joel Bryant (Brentwood City Council) County Mayor’s Conference (Non-contiguous city delegate) May 6, 2024
Timothy Barrow Board of Supervisors
Appointee 1 May 6, 2024
Ronald R. Reagan Board of Supervisors
Geoff Logan, Chair Director of Airports
Maurice E.P. Gunderson Director of Airports
Thomas R. Weber
Appointed by balance of ALUC (General Public seat) May 1, 2023
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Jamar Stamps, AICP
Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan
1. Cover, Introduction, Countywide Policies (PDF)
2. Buchanan Field Airport Policies (PDF)
3. Byron Airport Policies (PDF)
4. Background Data: Buchanan Field Airport (Part 1) (PDF)
6. Background Data: Byron Airport (PDF)
7. Appendices (PDF)
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'Entourage': The 10 best cameos from the series
When Entourage ruled the small screen from 2004 to 2011, we tuned in each week as excited to see which famous faces would pop up in cameos as we were to see Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), Turtle (Jerry Ferrara), Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon) and Eric's (Kevin Connolly) latest adventures in Hollywood. From Mark Wahlberg - whose life inspired the show - to funnyman Jimmy Kimmel and starlets like Anna Faris and Jamie-Lynn Siegler, the dramedy was a revolving door for celebrity appearances.
CLICK THE IMAGE TO SEE ALL THE CELEBRITY CAMEOS:
Perhaps one of the most memorable recurring spots went to Fuller House star Bob Saget, neighbour to Vincent who desperately tries to shed his squeaky clean sitcom persona in the last few seasons. From illicit drug use to ladies of the night, Bob's appearances were the anti-Danny Tanner.
Matt Damon also stole the show as a rage-filled fundraising version of himself in the sixth season, practically stalking Hollywood-star Vincent to secure massive donations - and manipulating Johnny Drama in the process, who memorably explains that the actor "Jason Bourne-d me."
CLICK THE IMAGE FOR THE GALLERY OF CAMEOS:
In the fourth season, Anna Faris accidentally bumps fenders with Eric, which proves to be a win-win- for Vincent's best friend and manager as she cover the damages and becomes his new client. The price he pays, aside from pining over the actress to no avail? Her boyfriend Dave.
With the Entourage movie set to hit the big screen on June 3 - and rife with cameos that include Jessica Alba, Warren Buffet, Liam Neeson and more - we've rounded up 10 of the best cameos from the series.
First ‘Entourage’ trailer features dozens of celebrity cameos
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Restrictions in place at Banff, Alta. ski resort after massive lineups caught on video
Published Sunday, November 22, 2020 4:25PM MST
CALGARY -- Representatives at Sunshine Village Ski Resort in Banff, Alta. say the rules have been changed at the facility after a video appeared to show huge crowds.
The footage, recorded Saturday, shows a lineup of skiers trailing through the parking lot, back and forth between the rows of vehicles.
While a representative of the facility says physical distancing rules made the video look like the resort was much busier than it was, they add more rules are being put in place.
Effective immediately, Sunshine Village says that once its parking lot has reached capacity, access to the resort will be temporarily restricted.
"We usually have a large number of guests leaving at around 11 a.m. or noon and when guests leave, that will open up other spots for guests in the afternoon to join us," said Kendra Scurfield, brand and communication director for Banff Sunshine Village.
She says the resort will try the "rolling entrance" approach for a few weeks and revisit the issue later in the season.
A video shows a huge lineup at Sunshine Village Ski Resort in Banff, Alta. on Nov. 21, 2020. (Supplied)
What Biden presidency could mean for Alberta
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Posted on December 3, 2019 by TheCurator
Rebels: “Spark of Rebellion: Part 1”
I don’t remember too much about the first season of Rebels. I didn’t watch it quite as it came out, but I think I binged the whole season in between it finishing and the second season starting, and I’ve only watched it once; unlike The Clone Wars, which I’ve seen through many times.
Score: B+
Timeline: 5 BBY
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Minor spoilers contained for: Rebels, Jedi: Fallen Order
I definitely didn’t remember the show opening with a shot of some Imperial Star Destroyers (as all OT content should, tbh) and Darth Vader telling the Grand Inquisitor that while “the Jedi Knights are all but destroyed”, the Emperor has foreseen a new threat: The Children of the Force. Having Vader be the first person to speak is a great way to tell us what kind of Star Wars experience we’re about to have. The Empire is at its strongest, the Jedi are extinct, but there are still some force sensitive kids out there, and this show is going to be about that.
Cut to Ezra Bridger, who at this point is basically an Alladin-style street rat (referred to disparagingly as a Loth-rat, because all animals on Lothal (Ezra’s homeworld) are just called whatever they’re normally called with Loth- before (did y’all notice the loth-cat in Ep 4 of The Mandalorian???)). He pranks some imperials to help a fruit seller, but takes some of the fruit once the stormtroopers are gone, just saying, “Kid’s gotta eat”. Fair enough, Ezra.
Things get interesting when Ezra finds himself on a roof watching the crew of the Ghost executing a plan to steal some Imperial crates. I love this as an intro to Kanan, Sabine, and Zeb. We get to see them in action right away before properly ‘meeting’ them, and seeing them as a clever, efficient band of Rebels is a great first impression. Of course, Ezra only sees an opportunity for himself and steals a couple of crates from the rebels. A fun chase sequence follows during which Ezra initially gets the best of Kanan and crew, but then gets rescued by the Ghost once he’s cornered by a few TIE fighters.
What happens on the Ghost here is the least interesting part of the episode. There’s not much character development beyond Zeb is big and angry, Kanan isn’t exactly saying everything he’s thinking, and Ezra starts crushing on Sabine as soon as she takes off her helmet (which is really the only eye-roll moment of the episode). Eventually, Ezra goes with (or, is taken along by) the crew to deliver the crates to what’s essentially a shanty-town outside the city. We learn that most of the crates are full of food, which they give away for free to the impoverished citizens. Ezra has a nice humbling moment when he’s thanked profusely, but just says to himself, “But, I didn’t do anything.”
Meanwhile, Kanan and Hera Syndulla (yes, she’s the daughter of that Syndulla) deliver a crate of blasters to their informant Vizago, who pays them half and offers intel about some Wookies in exchange for the other half of the payment. The rebels accept this deal as they’d been eagerly after that intel, and before long they’re back on the Ghost chasing down a shipment of Wookie slaves that they’re eager to free. Ezra gets dragged along as they don’t have time to drop him back home, but only after he follows a humming sound into Kanan’s bunk and grabs Kanan’s Holocron and lightsaber. Kanan catches him holding the lightsaber and makes him give it back, but Ezra gets away with the Holocron, although Kanan clearly intended that and says something like, “Now we’ll find out” as Ezra walks off.
Ever since Ezra first laid eyes on Kanan, the show has strongly been hinting that he’s force sensitive, and the call of the Holocron is obviously because of that. Kanan’s suspicions (up until this scene) were less obvious, but at this point, it’s pretty clear that he’s testing Ezra for something other than just being a street rat. It’s also not exactly hard to connect the dots between this and the Vader’s opening bit about “the children of the force”, so early on we get to foresee a major conflict between our Jedi(ish) heroes, and the Inquisitors.
But that conflict will have to wait because the Ghost is actually walking into a trap. A Star Destroyer appears once Kanan, Sabine, and Zeb have boarded the slave transport, and Hera has to plead with Ezra to run over and warn them. Ezra, who has presumably been on his own for a long time, tells Hera he doesn’t understand why he’d stick his neck out for some total strangers, which would be a more understandable thing to say if he wasn’t also being tractor beamed onto a Star Destroyer with them. However, the hero has to refuse the call to adventure, and Part 1 ends with a close up of his face as he makes his decision.
Overall the episode is a good intro into a new Star Wars world, and while it’s not immediately as good as The Clone Wars was at its best, neither was The Clone Wars. There’s good tension set up both in the immediate cliffhanger, and the broader storylines foreshadowed for the show. Over its run, Rebels deals a lot with the mystical side of the Force, something we only got hints of in TCW (with the notable exception of the Mortis arc and the last few episodes), and I think that’s something I didn’t really appreciate enough as the show aired.
Ezra, at 14, is about halfway between the ages of Anakin and Luke Skywalker when they respectively began their Jedi training, and, like the Skywalkers, already has a number of traits considered antithetical to the Jedi way. It’s not hard to see how his selfishness and lack of discipline could lead him on a path to the Dark Side, even at this early stage (the dude just stole a Holocron, after all).
For whatever reason, the musical sting when the Rebels logo shows has always grated at me.
I didn’t talk about Agent Kallus at all, but I don’t think it would be possible for me to finish this review without mentioning his sideburns.
I saw an article the other day about how Sabine’s willingness and ability to take off her helmet around people doesn’t coalesce with The Mandalorian‘s whole deal about how he can never take it off around anyone. Considering Dave Filoni (who is an executive producer on both shows) has basically written everything there is to write about canon Mandalorians, I’m not exactly willing to see this as a plot hole. As we learn later in Rebels, Mandalorians are tribal and different tribes have different rules. We’ll probably learn more about this in The Mandalorian, but my guess would just be that his tribe just functions differently than Sabine’s.
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Victorian Tin : Chagall, single released June 2020
Swedish duo Victorian Tin began making music several years ago and now have renewed recording, beginning with ‘Silver and Perfume’, included on a compilation and reviewed on this site as ‘….strangely addictive, with shades of 80s cult popsters Japan as it features roving bass slidings and a world-weary vocal….’.
The newly reworked single ‘Chagall’ is named after the twentieth century Russian-French artist, famous for his colourful, dreamlike imagery. His reproductions have featured in many carefully planned living spaces ever since his death in 1985. While superficially of the mainstream, the images still have an unnerving quality and their otherworldliness is also reflected in the name of the band and this track, especially the slightly dissonant string quartet introduction.
The pace picks up as the rest of the instruments push the the song along, driven by the rhythm of an acoustic guitar. The lyric describes an encounter with a painting (‘Over The Town’) depicting ‘….a man and a woman flying or escaping in the sky and she is blue he is green…’ then the musings become more sinister ‘…and you slept here in my grave…when was it…in another time?….’. An echoing piano joins the mysterious party as the narrator becomes lost in his world of the picture.
It is an attractive and enigmatic track, a prelude to a four track EP due later this year…
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https://cambridgemusicreviews.net/2019/11/30/various-artists-the-sounds-your-dreams-make-lp-released-november-2019/
This entry was posted in Music and tagged Chagall, review, single, Sweden, Victorian Tin on July 1, 2020 by iknoweno.
Benz : Erazor, EP released February 2019
A new EP from Benz, the performing name of Swedish composer and singer Ebba Salomonsson. Moving easily between dense, layered instrumentation and a sparser sound these three tracks represent some of the diversity and range of her ideas.
1. Swing My Soul A distant undulating keyboard, echoing drum beat and the song begins with the cryptic lyric ‘….I guess the light blew up in my face…..I couldn’t turn away…’. The loose tempo and beguiling vocal is a heady concoction, before we reach the big title hookline. A languid trumpet sound interweaves with an avalanche of guitar noise for the climatic last third of the song, as the words turn to regret ‘…we used to live like moments would come back….now I got no more to give…’
2. Erazor The deceptively loud introduction gives way to a lighter than air vocal on a joyous pop song with a tune that sounds so perfect and natural you wonder why nobody has thought of it before.
There is some tension in the lyrical sentiment though; the doubts of ‘….I fear your heart is going numb…..love me until your heart breaks…love me until it don’t…’ soon give way to the frustrations of ‘…keep on falling apart, keep on heading the wall…’. The guitar keeps bursting back into the mix and the whole thing motors along like a War On Drugs A-side. This gem of a song is released simultaneously as a single.
3. The Smile The dissonant mellotron heralds a lush, sensuous soundscape of synthesisers and a smooth, rich voice over a stately pace set by an insistent but muted drum. Another classy melody and words revolving around the ‘smile’ of the title. ‘…keep her head in the breeze…in hope she’ll feel alive and see what’s left of me… oh, that smile she gave to me…’. The extended instrumental coda features the smoky trumpet sound again.
This is a lovingly-crafted set of songs, brought to life by top quality musicians. Excellent!
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This entry was posted in Music and tagged Benz, EP, Erazor, review, Sweden on February 16, 2019 by iknoweno.
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Paul McCartney will marry Nancy Shevell this weekend
Nancy Shevell, Paul McCartney September 14, 2011
Paul's hearing wedding bells this weekend
Sir Paul McCartney will be marrying his true love Nancy Shevell this weekend at his home in Sussex, England.
A source dished on the details saying that the ceremony will be private and intimate. They said; “It will be a small, intimate wedding. It’s going to be very elegant and classic.”
A second wedding reception is planned to take place in New York, Manhattan where Shevell is from. The source added; “They are having a big party in New York to celebrate later on.”
Paul proposed to Nancy in April with an impressive $650,000 engagement ring.
This will be the third marriage for the former Beatle. His first marriage to Linda ended when she passed away from Cancer and his second marriage to Heather Mills ended in disaster with an incredibly expensive, public divorce.
As they say, the third time’s the charm!
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“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence, summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance, winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” — Yoko Ono
In just three days those of us in the Northern Hemisphere will experience the winter solstice, the darkest day of what has been a very dark year.
But there is a reason that virtually all of Western civilizations have identified this day as special.
“The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring – the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one… The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature.” – Samuel L. Jackson
“The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.” – Joseph Campbell
“That’s what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there’s still some life and light left in the universe. It’s more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker…. Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We’re all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.” – Lawrence Kushner
The solstice, this time compounded by an international pandemic, delivers us to what Fr. Richard Rohr calls the liminal state. “It is where we are betwixt and between, having left one room or stage of life but not yet entered the next.” He also suggests that while liminal states can be unsettling, they offer unique opportunities for setting aside assumptions and opening ourselves to real change.
As you know, dear reader, I strive to live in and for this state of learning, transition and growth.
Happy Friday. Happy solstice. As Yoko says, perseverance rocks.
Learning, Collective Consciousness
Liminal space is an inner state and sometimes an outer situation where we can begin to think and act in new ways.
“It is where we are betwixt and between, having left one room or stage of life but not yet entered the next. We usually enter liminal space when our former way of being is challenged or changed—perhaps when we lose a job or a loved one, during illness, at the birth of a child, or a major relocation. It is a graced time, but often does not feel “graced” in any way. In such space, we are not certain or in control. This global pandemic we now face is an example of an immense, collective liminal space.
“The very vulnerability and openness of liminal space allows room for something genuinely new to happen. We are empty and receptive—erased tablets waiting for new words. Liminal space is where we are most teachable, often because we are most humbled. Liminality keeps us in an ongoing state of shadowboxing instead of ego-confirmation, struggling with the hidden side of things, and calling so-called normalcy into creative question.”
Article: Between Two Worlds
Thank you to Gratia Napier for reminding me of this post.
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What if these difficult times are part of an important transition into a better way for human beings to live together?
David Rynick is a Resident Teacher at Boundless Way Temple in Worcester, MA Image by Steve Lavana
“Deep Democracy asserts that each person in a situation speaks not just for themselves, but for the situation itself. Each person deserves to be heard, not just because they have a right to be heard, but because they see and experience some unique aspect of what is occurring.
“Author and thinker Arny Mindell teaches that there is wisdom inherent in every situation – even situations of conflict and chaos. Our job as participants is not to control or fight to impose our will on a situation, but to support what is emerging. What if the current difficulty is the gateway to new understandings and new solutions? As we uncover and support the deep currents of what is already happening, we create the potential for new and sometimes paradoxical resolutions of ancient problems.
“Curiosity and courage are the two essential skills here. We have to be willing to step beyond right-and-wrong thinking and to set aside, even briefly, some of our cherished certainty. This requires an intentional practice of flexibility and growing capacity to deal with the many inner opinions and feelings that inevitably arise. This is not easy to do, but we can grow our skill and capacity to appreciate and work with what is emerging.”
Article: Deep Democracy
Thank you to Steve Abdow for introducing me to the work of David Rynick.
Employees increasingly want their employers to become more responsible corporate citizens.
Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz
“Here is a playbook for how employees can be effective change agents and how leaders can respond to employee activism.”
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Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Learn about the history and dynamics of how racism manifests at the individual, interpersonal, organization, and systemic levels.
This week my friend and colleague Beth Tener told me about a very cool online “learning challenge” that she is co-facilitating starting next month. Presented by New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility, the Workplace Racial Equity Learning Challenge provides individuals and teams in the workforce community a way to:
“- Learn about the history and dynamics of how racism manifests at the individual, interpersonal, organization, and systemic levels.
– Gain insights into NH history and current imperatives on issues relating to racial equity.
– Discover local resources and leaders working on these issues so you can support, amplify, and/or complement this work.
– Have a space for dialogue with other organizational leaders to reflect and consider how you can take action and invest your resources for change in the most effective ways.”
While the curriculum is centered around New Hampshire communities, Beth assures me that it will be highly relevant to all, and that all are welcome.
And thanks to the support of generous sponsors, participation is free. See you there?
Workshop Series/Learning Community: Racial Equity Learning Challenge
Graphic Design, Social Messaging
Art and design have the power to document, inform, comfort, provoke and create hope for us in times of crisis.
“Dylan Mulvaney, head of design at Gretel, explores how art and design played a part in communicating vital information during the influenza, polio and HIV/AIDS epidemics.”
Article: Art and Design in a Time of Crisis: What Can We Learn from the Graphic History of Viruses?
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Artist demonstrates how the far right might leverage environmentalism to justify white supremacist agendas.
“What happens when alt-right ideologies are packaged in progressive aesthetics?
“This is the question posed by Ours, Samuel Marion’s new conceptual browser work, commissioned by Rhizome and presented by the New Museum. It foretells a near future in which conservative politics leverage environmental sympathies to both justify and obscure white supremacist and anti-immigration agendas. In order to explore these issues through the lens of advertising conventions, Marion created a darkly satirical corporate website for an imaginary outdoor clothing and equipment brand called Ours, that loosely resembles companies like Patagonia and REI.”
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What GIFs tell us about ourselves
“Giphy has revealed its always popular list of most-viewed GIFs of the year, a visual summation of 2020’s global emotional rollercoaster. Dominated by love, support, gratefulness and virtual hugs, the list also depicts isolation and a smiley dumpster fire – exemplifying the past 12 months’ events. Each of the GIFs has been shared hundreds of millions of times, showing how the platform can act as a litmus test for how online society is expressing itself.”
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The image of the week is by Jesse Krimes. “Red Eagle” (2020), is made from antique quilts, used clothing collected from incarcerated people, and other assorted textiles. 95 x 72 inches.
“Jesse Krimes is quilting a history of disappearance. Originally a sculptor, he developed an interest in patchwork while incarcerated. With no art supplies, he made do with old newspapers, bed sheets, pencils, and hair gel. His large-scale quilts now reach over eight feet, draped across the walls of Malin Gallery like grand tapestries. For his latest exhibition, he brings together works focused on the loss of individual identity within the prison industrial complex, interweaving victims’ cherished materials into solemn, contemplative scenes.
“Multiple quilts in American Rendition portray a solitary bird perched beside a chair. These two symbols are particularly thought-provoking in the context of imprisonment — the caged bird longing to fly, an empty chair at the dinner table. Krimes sews pieces of denim, US flags, and textiles collected from current and formerly incarcerated people. Decorative flourishes bring the scenes to life, with patterned borders and backdrops drawing the eye to each colorful motif and panel.”
Article: In Large-Scale Quilts, Jesse Krimes Memorializes Those Subsumed by Incarceration
As you know, since last winter Tiny Desk Concerts has been asking their hand-chosen Tiny Desk artists to phone their contributions in, rather than trek to DC to perform behind the the NPR team’s actual tiny desks. But few artists have been able to showcase their Tiny Desk (Home) Concert as dramatically as Brazilian vocalist Bebel Gilberto. Her home frames a lagoon in the heart of the Leblon neighborhood that overlooks the dramatic Dois Irmãos mountain in Rio de Janeiro.
“Bebel Gilberto is, of course, the daughter of one of the creators of bossa nova, João Gilberto. But as she slinks into the subtle electronic samba of “Cliché,” from her new album Agora, it becomes clear why she is now a standard bearer of Brazilian music. During this concert, she is accompanied by Chico Brown, the son of famed musician Carlinhos Brown and grandson of the legendary Chico Buarque.”
Tiny Desk Concert: Bebel Gilberto: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
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Lab-Grown Sector Gears Up for Eco Audit
Six companies sign up for sustainability pilot program.
Oct 15, 2019 5:57 AM By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... Six synthetic-diamond companies have signed up for a pilot program aimed at creating a sustainability standard for the sector.
SCS Global Services, a third-party auditing specialist, will analyze companies’ environmental, social and governance records, with the goal of devising an independent sustainability certification for lab-grown diamonds.
Crystal brand Swarovski and jeweler Helzberg Diamonds — both sellers of lab-grown — are among the participants, SCS said last week. They are joined by four synthetics growers: Florida-headquartered Green Rocks, Maryland-based WD Lab Grown Diamonds, Indian chemical vapor deposition (CVD) producer Goldiam, and Israel-based Lusix. A newly launched Standard Review Committee comprising lab-grown-diamond producers, retailers, academics and nonprofit organizations will oversee the process.
The Lab Grown Diamond Council (LGDC), which came into being earlier this year, brought in SCS to work on the standard following criticism of the sector’s portrayal of synthetics as green alternatives to natural diamonds. The US Federal Trade Commission wrote to eight synthetics companies in March, warning them against making unproven environmental claims such as “eco-friendly,” “eco-conscious” and “sustainable.”
The pilot program will help confirm facts about the production operations behind lab-grown diamonds, noted Stanley Mathuram, vice president of SCS. “The pilot audits mark an important step in the process of certifying sustainability,” he said.
Image: A 9.04-carat round brilliant produced by WD Lab Grown Diamonds in 2018 using chemical vapor deposition. (WD Lab Grown Diamonds)
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Masks and Make-Up, Boobs and Butcherettes: The Many Faces of Soundwave 2015
davecrewe / March 2, 2015
Credit: Stuart Blythe, LifeMusicMedia.com
Like most punters heading to Soundwave at Brisbane’s RNA Showgrounds this weekend, I made some effort to dress the part. With my carefully-groomed beard and thick-rimmed glasses, I’m neither a metalhead nor a punk, but the combination of a black Refused T-shirt, contact lenses and a relatively unkempt beard served as concession to the hard rock demands of the festival. Of course, I wasn’t alone. There was posturing evident amongst every attendee, whether it was black T-shirts, mohawks or tattoos (ranging from subtle ankle tattoos through to extravagant, fuck-getting-a-real-job face tattoos). Plenty took it a step further, donning jump suits or masks (there was even a group of gentlemen getting around in dashing ensemble of black morph suit and banana costume).
This is all entirely unexceptional – all the cosmetic choices we make are to some extent cultural positioning – but the phenomenon is particularly pronounced at Soundwave. It’s not hard to see why: just look to the stage. Costumes are de rigeur amongst most artists, but it’s embellished and exaggerated in the metal and metal-adjacent subcultures that dominated this festival. Whether its Marilyn Manson’s gothic affectations, Slipknot’s grotesque masks or Steel Panther’s parodic cock-rock accoutrements, Soundwave is all about live music as performance: personas rather than persons.
If the social media reaction was anything to go by, Marilyn Manson – king of the assumed persona – did not impress his audience at Brisbane’s Soundwave. I found his set was entirely decent. Nothing mindblowing, but despite my relative unfamiliarity with his back catalogue (I can name less than a half-dozen Manson songs), it kept my interest throughout. (The Eurythmics/Depeche Mode covers helped.) I suspect the disappointed reaction I saw online was less about the quality of the music – which was full-bodied and well-mixed, as was thankfully the case for the majority of the festival – but rather related to Manson’s presence on stage.
Simply put: he seemed like an old dude. He is an old dude, though he looked about a decade older than his forty-six years. Manson’s regular disappearances into a black-draped cage in the middle of the stage were apparently justified by minor costume changes –a bit of face paint there, a new black jacket here – but given his obvious weariness, it might have just been an excuse for a bit of a sit down; a sort of rock star pit-stop. But while this tiredness might have been disappointing – disillusioning, even – to avid fans, I found it absolutely fascinating.
Perhaps this is because I’ve always felt that the fragility of Manson’s assumed façade – the cracks in the white face paint that separates Marilyn Manson from Brian Hugh Warner – is absolutely integral to his aura. Whenever you look at Manson, you see a little bit of the nerdy, bullied kid who made himself something new. He’s never tried to hide it entirely, especially with the Eurythmics and Depeche Mode covers. The fact that he looks like Nicolas Cage now and the fact that he draws attention to his costuming with his frequent disappearances are part and parcel of a performer whose identity has always been deliberately counterfeit.
Slipknot, on the other hand, require a total obliteration of underlying identity. They closed the main stage on Saturday night with a volcanic performance, delivered from an elaborate stage that looked like what you’d get if the gates of hell ran through Rocky Horror Picture Show. With immense gouts of flame, drum kits staged on revolving cherry pickers and diverse, horrific costumes, it’s nigh impossible to watch a Slipknot show and contemplate the band members having a bowl of cereal for breakfast on Sunday morning.
Not that you’d be thinking about breakfast watching them perform. Ignoring a short-lived heavy metal infatuation in my late teens, Slipknot aren’t my kind of music. Yet I found myself transfixed by them, to the point that I spent more time watching them than the Smashing Pumpkins (the band I’d most been looking forward to seeing at Soundwave!). Their unbridled, incoherent intensity reminded me of why I’d loved metal as a teenager, that sense of tapping into something subterranean and hellish, a lava flow of pure noise. The performance – the masks, the fire, the everything – is crucial to this effect; while I have no interest in listening to a Slipknot album on Spotify, I’m definitely going to make the effort to see them live again.
The first band I saw on Sunday didn’t wear masks or make-up. That band, Le Butcherettes are a Mexican post-hardcore band described by the Soundwave program as the offspring of Luis Buñuel and PJ Harvey. They earned that description with a vital performance impelled by feminism and old-fashioned punk aggression (with an edge of uninhibited insanity). Apparently the band are known for confronting shows featuring blood and animal parts to drive their political message home, but no props were necessary for their show to resonate. Lead singer Teri Gender Bender transfixed her audience with a commanding masculine posture that worked pretty much entirely because it didn’t feel like acting – it felt utterly inhabited, utterly real, and was the clear highlight of the festival for me.
The contrast between Le Butcherettes and the next band I saw, Steel Panther, couldn’t be greater. Steel Panther don’t wear masks either, but there is a fair share of make-up involved in their pitch-perfect burlesquing of 1980s cock rock. Glammed up in spandex, torn shirts and hair that threatens the ozone layer, they’re responsible for songs with titles like “Asian Hooker”, “Glory Hole” and “Party All Day (Fuck All Night)”. Each member of the four piece has their own stage name and an exaggerated persona to go with it. Much like Marilyn Manson or Slipknot, when you’re watching Steel Panther you’re not there to see Ralph Saenz, Darren Leader, Travis Haley or Russ Parrish – married middled-aged guys with wives and kids – you’re there to see “Michael Starr”, “Stix Zadinia”, “Lexxi Foxx” and “Satchel” – guys who brag about sleeping with countless groupies.
Well, to be honest, there’s a reasonable chance you’re just there to see boobs. Steel Panther’s hyper-masculinity comes with a side dish of overt misogyny (and occasional racism). A verbatim quote from the show: “Show us your boobies, you fucking whore!” But the ladies seem to lap it up – Brisbane’s show featured dozens of girls clambering up on their boyfriends’ shoulders to flash the band, and a mid-set performance of “17 Girls in a Row” featured about that many women on stage, most of whom either periodically bared their breasts to the crowd or simply abandoned their tops for the duration of the song.
The crowd participation section of the Steel Panther show
So, Steel Panther are a joke. But what sort of joke? Should we celebrate their hyperbolic take on hair metal as an on-point parody, or should we condemn their predatory misogyny? Or should we just relax and enjoy the show? I’ll admit, for the duration of their set, I was definitely in the latter camp. The combination of self-deprecating dad-jokes and copious female nudity made it easy to switch off my critical faculties and just enjoy the show. But with the benefit of hindsight, I’m in two minds.
For starters, ‘80s hard rock is a pretty soft target for satire; Steel Panther’s jokes are often funny, but they’re very lowest denominator – yeah, dudes wearing spandex, yeah, groupies, yeah, venereal disease. No-one takes that music seriously anymore anyway (if anyone ever did). But they still kind of function as a primary school version of drag, ridiculing the patently silly masculinity driving a lot of rock music by turning the dial to eleven. You could argue that their parody fails because of fans that take it seriously but I’m (a) not convinced that’s true of many of their fans and (b) every satire ever fails that test.
The misogyny issue is trickier. It’s not like ladies getting their kit off at rock concerts is a new thing – it’s a time-honoured way of showing appreciation to the band and earning attention in return. It’s not like it’s forced upon them – it was amusing to watch one mousy, bespectacled girl spend the majority of the set trying to get Starr’s attention so she could doff her top to him. The girls who chose to jump on stage and derobe certainly knew what they were doing, and honestly I think someone having the confidence to get up and make that choice in front of a few thousand people is as sexy as a pair of bared breasts. It’s assuming a persona – the groupie, the stripper – that might not suit their everyday lives. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t come across as decidedly creepy to have these aging dudes crack wise about a girl’s chest reminding him of “pancakes”, or singling out one girl to flash the crowd.
As in any performance – whether at a music festival or simply in a social encounter – the line between the actual person and the image isn’t so easily drawn. Are Steel Panther effective satire or misogynist? Is Marilyn Manson an aging weirdo or a gothic rock star? Are Slipknot a bunch of dudes wearing silly masks or emissaries of hell? They’re both, they’re neither: I don’t have a satisfactory answer. But at least its something to think about in between headbanging.
March 2, 2015 in Extended Cut, Music. Tags: 17 girls in a row, asian hooker, boobs, brisbane, concert, depeche mode, eurythmics, festival, glory hole, le butcherettes, luis buñuel, marilyn manson, music, nicolas cage, nudity, party all day (fuck all night), pj harvey, refused, slipknot, soundwave, soundwave 2015, soundwave brisbane, steel panther, teri gender bender
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4 thoughts on “Masks and Make-Up, Boobs and Butcherettes: The Many Faces of Soundwave 2015”
Abbi says:
I’ve always thought getting your tits out at a festival was the height of lameness. And when you can choose any name in the world who picks Satchel??? Loved this post. Reminded me of when I still had the energy to go to festivals.
davecrewe says:
I’m definitely running out of energy myself when it comes to festivals; this was a two day deal and I bailed early on Sunday because chilling on the couch sounded way more appealing than hanging around for Faith No More…
rboy93 says:
I honestly thought Manson was just getting high in that little tent, I figured at the rate his body is deteriorating from drug abuse he probably needs a little kick every 10 minutes to keep going.
A plausible theory! There were definitely costume/make-up changes, but some reality altering may have been going on as well.
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For the better part of a decade, Joshua Astrachan was a producer for the American film director, Robert Altman,. He produced Altman’s last film, A Prairie Home Companion (2006), written by Garrison Keillor and starring Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson and Kevin Kline.Astrachan also produced The Company, Altman’s narrative feature set in the world of dance, starring Neve Campbell, James Franco, Malcolm McDowell and the company members of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. He co-produced the critically acclaimed, Academy Award-winning and seven-time Oscar-nominated Gosford Park starring, among others, Maggie Smith, Clive Owen, Kelly Macdonald, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, Emily Watson and Bob Balaban. For Gosford Park, Altman received the Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Circle Award as Best Director.In 2007, Astrachan founded LOCOMOTIVE, a film and television production company, with producing partner Lucy Barzun Donnelly. The first film to go out under the LOCOMOTIVE banner, produced by Ms. Donnelly and Rachael Horovitz, was Grey Gardens, the critically acclaimed feature for HBO, starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore. Grey Gardens won 6 Primetime Emmy Awards alongside two Golden Globes and the Producer’s Guild, Broadcast Film Critics Association and Television Critics Association Awards for the best motion picture made for television.Also with LOCOMOTIVE, Astrachan produced Jennifer Westfeldt’s celebrated ensemble comedy Friends with Kids, starring Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Chris O’Dowd, Maya Rudolph, Megan Fox and Edward Burns. The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and was theatrically released by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions in March, 2012. The film was named by New York Magazine’s film critic, David Edelstein, as one of the 10 best films of 2012.In July 2012, Astrachan co-founded ANIMAL KINGDOM, a film and television production company, under whose banner he produced Short Term 12 by writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton. The film stars Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr, Kaitlyn Dever, Rami Malek and Keith Stanfield – and premiered at SXSW in 2013, where it was awarded the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature. The film has since won awards at, among others, festivals from Little Rock to Los Angeles to Locarno – where the film had its international premiere. At Locarno, Brie Larson was also honored with the Best Actress Award. Released by Cinedgim, Short Term 12 has been one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year – and on December 2, 2013, Ms. Larson was also awarded the prize for Best Actress at the 23rd IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York City.
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CNN Reporter Breaks Down Reporting On Worsening COVID Crisis
January 12, 2021 R.M.
Some have been fortunate enough to escape the deadly health dangers ravaging our world with COVID. For CNN reporter Sara Sidner, she may not have contracted the disease herself — but she’s certainly experienced the fallout first hand.
On Monday, she appeared on live camera to discuss the worsening state of the pandemic and the rising death toll in Los Angeles. As Sara attempted to deliver the latest update, saying she’d been to 10 hospitals, she choked up. She tried a couple more times to get out her message, but she ultimately broke down into tears.
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In a display of genuine compassion, anchor Alisyn Camerota jumped in from the news desk and spoke on behalf of Sidner. With gentleness, Camerota thanked Sidner for her service and drew attention to the 48-year-old’s courage in dealing with the coverage of not only a pandemic but the response to George Floyd‘s death, many other recent social injustices, and the dumpster fire that generally made up the year 2020. Alisyn even seemed to hint that Sara’s pain was representative of all of our understandable struggles this year.
For Sara’s part, her actions this year have been truly commendable. In the Trump Era, where the media has been so unfairly condemned by his administration, Sara stepped up and continued to shed light on the state of our world, bringing truth and justice to the screens of millions. That could not have been easy, and we sometimes take for granted how hard that must be for people who work in the news industry.
Near the end of the broadcast, Sara bravely worked up the courage to talk once more — and used her ability to speak again to deliver an important message. She stressed:
“These families should not be going through this. No family should be going through this. Do whatever you can to keep this from killing your family members and your neighbors and your friends and your teachers and doctors and firefighters. All of these people are here to help you, but you have to do your part.”
Thank you, Sara, for saying what we collectively need to hear right now.
In this place where we have all been hurting so badly, it takes courage to show love the way we witnessed it in this broadcast — and it especially takes courage to speak up for what’s right. It takes a level of strength to step away from the anger, hate, and just generally disturbing treatment that we’ve seen — particularly from the people who have been allegedly leading America.
Right now, we needed to see this love and compassion between Sara and Alisyn. To not only see the warmth between two people but to also once again see the reminder that COVID is not a joke or something to take lightly.
Echoing this sentiment, Sara later tweeted out a message on January 12 that read:
“I’m still not okay after seeing the heartbreak in the City of Angels because of #coronavirus. I know that being there to see the destruction it’s doing to families is small in comparison to the pain the families feel.”
Check out the tweet below:
I’m still not okay after seeing the heartbreak in the City of Angels because of #coronavirus. I know that being there to see the destruction it’s doing to families is small in comparison to the pain the families feel. W @annamajaCNN https://t.co/6IgDWouYqz
— Sara Sidner (@sarasidnerCNN) January 12, 2021
Our hearts stand with everyone hurting right now, including Sara. Between violence in the world, COVID, and all the other injustices we’ve suffered together as of late, it’s been a tough time for us all. But despite the harsh reality of our times, we’ll continue to band together when we can. Hopefully soon, things will begin to return to a more peaceful time.
By the way, you can watch the video here (below):
Sobering—CNN reporter @sarasidnerCNN crying on air after seeing devastation at California 10 hospitals full of #COVID19 patients and witnessing countless parking lot funerals. This reporter has been to war zones & covered bombings. But COVID is next level. pic.twitter.com/yXEFikXUzc
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 12, 2021
And you can see the full video of Sara and Alisyn on CNN’s website here.
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Red Kite Feeding Frenzy
Posted by Colin Crowdey in Wildlife
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There is a great story circulating the Internet at the moment about the BBC Wildlife Photographer Gordon Buchanan sitting in a perspex cage in Svalbard waiting to film polar bears – he gets more than he bargained for – but he captured on film some images that few people will ever see in the real world.
And this got me thinking about one of my own experiences as a wildlife photographer – no where near as dramatic as polar bears but none the less a site that few people will see let alone be fortunate enough to capture on film.
I shoot a lot of birds of prey, in particular Red Kites. These spectacular birds were once hunted to almost extinction in the UK, but after a successful re-introduction programme the species is thriving once more.
Red kites are a chestnut red with striking white patches under the wings and a pale grey head. Viewed from above, a broad white crescent curves across the inner part of the wings, but it is the underside that produces the most startling image.
The head is equipped with hooded amber eyes ringed with lemon yellow. The beak, wickedly hooked and very sharp, is designed for tearing meat and killing small prey animals.
It has a wingspan of nearly two metres, but a relatively small body weight of 2 – 3 Ibs. This means the bird is incredibly agile, and can stay in the air for many hours with hardly a beat of its wings.
There is a Red Kite feeding station in Powys, North Wales, which attracts up to 400 of the birds daily. It was at this feeding station where I captured a site on film that I had never seen before.
Every day the site owner hauls his tractor up to the feeding site and unloads several dozen kilos of raw beef onto the ground. Within a matter of moments the birds descend onto the meat and pluck it from the ground to be eaten on the wing/
It was whilst shooting this behaviour that I heard lots of squeals and whistles above me and looking up I saw a mass of birds – I immediately pointed my lens to the sky and kept my finger on the motor winder shooting at 9fps. The “event” I had witnessed was over in a split second and I didn’t realise what I actually had on film until I got home and downloaded the images.
The sequence shows a single red kite carrying a large piece of beef in its claws, this kite was attacked by a number of other birds after the beef – not unusual behaviour at this site, but often it happens out of site or too high in the sky to be witnessed. The naked eye saw only a mass of feathers in this instance, it was the camera that caught the sequence and slowed it down to see each frame.
These images have been published around the world.
Best – Colin
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After Agents Of SHIELD Finale, Disney+ Should Make A Quake Series With Chloe Bennet
BY Joshua M. Patton August 16, 2020August 16, 2020
The flagship television series of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ended in a fantastic fashion. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD ended a seven-season run on ABC, making its mark on the MCU. One of the key aspects of comics-based storytelling is that no there is no well that ever runs dry. Sure, the series may have implied that the world of Agents of SHIELD is not the one we see on the big screen. Yet, with the multiverse set to be the next big thing in the MCU, why not continue the story of one of the MCU’s coolest superheroes? Chloe Bennet should get to star in a series about Quake for Disney+. She may have started as “Skye” the “hacker” on the team, but by the middle of the second season, she found out she was much more.
Before Marvel Studios had access to their mutant characters, they planned to introduce the idea of “born a superhero” via the Inhumans. Agents of SHIELD laid the groundwork for that by introducing “terragenesis” the process through which Inhumans gain their powers. Over six successive seasons, Daisy Johnson (who adopted her comics’ moniker Quake) grew into a superhero who could easily hang with the Avengers. Given the same SHIELD training as Black Widow and Hawkeye, she also has vibrational powers. According to the show, she has enough power to crack the planet, though if she ever uses it that way she won’t survive. So, there’s a natural built-in limit to her powers, which is something superhero stories can struggle with.
However, Bennet and the writers on the series made Daisy the sort of character who could carry a show even without superpowers.
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A Quake Series With Chloe Bennet on Disney+ Is Just What the Service Needs
There are some fantastic Disney+ series coming from Marvel Studios. There is WandaVision which looks unlike any other superhero story thus far. There’s Loki which will be fun so long as they let Tom Hiddleston loose on chewable scenery. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier could make a kind of cultural impact like Luke Cage did before it. Yet, the idea of filming television like movies only sounds like a good way to spend more money than you might need to. After seven years of experience on a 22-episode per year series like Agents of SHIELD, Bennet, those storytellers, and that crew could get them 8 episodes every six months. Also, it would allow the rich tapestry of characters from that show to live on in other stories. Who wouldn’t want to see Quake meet up again with Robbie Reyes, Ghost Rider? (We hear he’s available!)
Also, centering a new Marvel Studios series around a woman of color with a badass reputation is a politically smart move, as well. Anthony Mackie leads on of Marvel’s shows for Disney+, and he pointed out they still have work to do. Agents of SHIELD was one of the most diverse Marvel casts for a long time. Continuing these stories, at least that of Quake, allows that representation to continue. Kids will “grow up” with the character.
Finally, the character herself is just fantastic. She can kick ass. She can make earthquakes. Even though she’s tough, Quake is compassionate. The character embodies the values of Marvel’s best heroes already. Also, Daisy Johnson works in a big space-battle or a small, street-level heist story. A rumor suggested a series was already in the works, but Bennet denied them. But it’s a great idea.
Marvel Studios Would Be Foolish to Waste the Legacy of Marvel Television
One of the oldest rumors since Clark Gregg’s Phil Coulson died in Avengers and came back to life on Agents of SHIELD is that Jeph Loeb and Kevin Feige did not work well together. His ouster and the shuttering of Marvel Television came shortly after Feige took over all of Marvel. From the Save Daredevil Convention, we learned that Loeb may even not be that great of a guy. Yet, what the other artists and storytellers who worked for him created was spectacular. It’s not just Agents of SHIELD. There were heartfelt shows for teenagers like Cloak and Dagger and Marvel’s Runaways. The Marvel and Netflix collaboration that came to an end produced three fantastic series, and two under-appreciated ones. Legion was a series that showed comic book stories can look like anything. Marvel Television proved that you can tell great superhero stories on the small screen.
So, a Quake series with Chloe Bennet for Disney+ seems like a can’t-lose bet. There’s already an audience and fanbase for the character. Marvel Studios doesn’t have to throw a feature-level budget at the series. They definitely could pay less than the $25 million per episode that some of the other Disney+ and Marvel series cost. Or, since ABC reportedly wanted another Marvel series with a female lead, they could just keep Quake on network television.
The business of television aside, the reason to make a Quake series with Chloe Bennet for Disney+ or ABC is simple. She’s a great character that people love, and there are so many more good stories they could tell about her.
What do you think? Do you want to see a Quake series with Chloe Bennet on Disney+? Or should it stay on network TV? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Featured image via ABC
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Joshua M. Patton is a father, veteran, and writer living in Pittsburgh, PA. The first books he read on his own were comics, and he's loved the medium ever since. He is the greatest star-pilot in the galaxy, a cunning warrior, and a good friend. His book "What I Learned: Stories, Essays, and More" is available in print from Amazon and from all electronic booksellers.
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My first CSP show opened in September 1993. Less than seven months later, I had my directorial debut in this theatre. My experiences at CSP helped me to grown in many ways over the past 25 years, but the way in which I think I’ve grown the most is as a director. I’ve learned how to be a better director from so many individuals: working with other directors, ass’t directors, backstage crew, actors and even audience members here at CSP and other local community theatres. All have helped me to learn, improve and become a more confident director.
I first read the script for One Flew Over the Cuckoo‘s Nest over four years ago. I was less than 20 pages in and I knew I had to direct this. The writing is exquisite, the themes are rich and varied and Cuckoo’s Nest, while written in early 1960s, still holds up as a relevant piece of theatre. What drew me to “Cuckoo’s Nest” was the complexity of themes and how we could represent them from the characterization, costumes, props used, lighting, sound, projection and the set design and decoration. I truly hope that you feel that all of these elements help to immerse you into this world – and please come up and tell me what you thought after! I love hearing what you thought different elements meant and learning from you so I can become a better director.
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White Sox’s Skid Reaches 7 After 10-3 Loss
Filed Under:Alcides Escobar, Brent Morel, Chicago White Sox, Eric Hosmer, Jeff Francoeur, Juan Pierre, Kansas City Royals, Melky Cabrera, Mike Moustakas, Ozzie Guillen, Salvador Perez, Tyler Flowers, Zach Stewart
Kansas City Royals' Chris Getz (17) beats the tag of Chicago White Sox third baseman Brent Morel (22) on an RBI-triple during the seventh inning of a baseball game on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Chris Ochsner)
KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — Poor pitching and a lack of clutch hitting kept the Chicago White Sox reeling on Saturday night.
The White Sox dropped their seventh straight game, a 10-3 loss to the Royals.
That matched the longest losing skid of the season for the White Sox, while the Royals have won seven straight, their longest winning streak since September 2008.
Mike Moustakas hit his third home run in four games and Jeff Francoeur hit a three-run homer as the Royals had 18 hits, including six for extra bases.
“Those guys right now are locked in,” White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said.
“They are swinging the bats pretty good right now. When they score 30 (actually 24) runs in three games, what do you think is the reason? You look at their lineup and they have those guys all hitting .280 with 80 RBI. Most of the guys at the top of the lineup are hitting the ball pretty well. Hopefully tomorrow we won’t give up 17, 18, 20 hits in one game.”
The White Sox went 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position, stranding runners at second and third with one out in the third and left the bases full in the fourth.
“We had some missed opportunities to score early,” Guillen said. “I don’t think we deserved to have a better game.”
White Sox rookie right-hander Zach Stewart (2-5), who was acquired in a July 27 trade with Toronto, allowed five runs and 11 hits in five innings. He has given up 18 hits and 11 runs in 10 innings in losing his past two starts.
“No matter what the count they were getting good swings,” Stewart said.
“They were always battling me and then they got me. There were some pitches I needed to make and I didn’t. When those guys are swinging the bats that well you can’t make mistakes. That’s what killed me the last two innings. I got out of a couple of jams before that, but they got me the last couple of innings.”
“My changeup was hit or miss and I couldn’t throw my curve for strikes. It wasn’t that I couldn’t throw the change, but I just couldn’t get it to go over the plate like a fastball. When guys are swinging the bats as well as they are, you can’t pitch like that.”
Moustakas, who had three hits, homered in the fifth with Eric Hosmer, who had doubled aboard. Moustakas and Salvador Perez singled in the fourth and both scored on Alcides Esocbar’s triple.
“Our goal is to win ball games every day,” Moustakas said. “We’re trying to finish this year up strong and carry this onto next year.”
Francoeur hit his 19th home run in the eighth with Melky Cabrera and Hosmer on base.
Perez and Cabrera each contributed three singles to the Royals’ 18-hit attack. Escobar doubled and tripled and drove in two runs.
Moustakas, Hosmer and Perez, a trio of highly regarded rookies, combined to go 7 for 14 with two RBIs and scored five runs.
Everett Teaford (2-0), a rookie left-hander, has won both of his starts since moving into the rotation after 23 relief appearances.
He held the White Sox to four hits and one run — Alex Rios’ homer to lead off the second — while walking two and striking out four.
In beating Seattle and Chicago, Teaford has allowed one run and seven hits in 11 innings, while walking three and striking out nine.
The White Sox scored two runs in the seventh off Nate Adcock, yet another Royals rookie. Tyler Flowers scored on an Adcock wild pitch, while Brent Morel came home on a Juan Pierre ground out.
Adcock worked the final three innings for his first major league save.
Notes: RHP Luis Mendoza will be promoted from Triple-A Omaha and start Tuesday for the Royals against Detroit. Mendoza went 12-5 with a Pacific Coast League-leading 2.18 ERA. He went 2-0 with a 1.29 ERA in two playoff starts. Omaha wrapped up the PCL championship Saturday with Lance Zawadski getting four hits and David Lough hitting a two-run HR in an 11-6 victory at Sacramento to sweep the series. … Royals closer Joakim Soria remains sidelined with a strained right hamstring, which he injured Sunday. … White Sox DH Adam Dunn is 4 for 87 against left-handed pitching after a fourth-inning single off Teaford. … LHP John Danks, who is 0-3 with a 10.91 ERA in his past three starts, will start Sunday for the White Sox. … LHP Bruce Chen, who struck out eight and held Minnesota to two hits in eight scoreless innings in winning his previous start, will be the Kansas City starter in the finale of this four-game series.
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Ofman: Te’o Should Not Be Urlacher’s Replacement
Filed Under:Brian Urlacher, Chicago Bears, George Ofman, Manti Te'o, Notre Dame
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By George Ofman-
(CBS) Wow, would this be a mistake.
If, on April 25 the Bears are in position to draft the Notre Dame linebacker, whose dalliance with a she that was a he splashed headlines from here to Hawaii, they should simply say pass. I don’t mean go offense, I mean don’t go Te’o.
It has nothing to do his talents, which are questionable, yet still could translate into a decent career in the NFL. I mean he would be the worst possible replacement for Brian Urlacher. The Bears have decided to part ways with the future Hall of Famer. That’s fine. I can deal with the decision and you should, too. It’s not going to change. Urlacher is gone whether you like it or not.
The last thing the Bears need is a rookie to replace Urlacher and the last rookie they need is Te’o.
The Bears locker room is reeling with the loss of Lovie Smith even though this was a decision that had to be made. And it’s also been impaired by the loss of defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli and the bolting of Nick Roach, the viable and sensible replacement to No. 54. Funny: if the Bears knew Urlacher would reject their $2 million offer, and you knew they did, why didn’t they simply re-sign Roach and tell Urlacher to take his story walking weeks ago.
Now they need a man in the middle and it has to be a veteran if one exists. But drafting Te’o could set him and this franchise back for years. Can you imagine the pressure on Te’o even if Urlacher was still here? His transition would be smoother but still replete with some significant pot holes. Choosing Te’o now would be like housing him in a home sitting square on a sink hole.
While Te’o was a leader at Notre Dame, the much publicized “catfish” incident reduced him to a national joke and psychological gamble let alone one on the field. And just think about the first day he introduces himself to Charles Tillman and Lance Briggs. Can you imagine what their reaction might be? I’m thinking Julius Peppers sacks him right on the spot, picks him up and tells him, “Kid, here’s a phone, call a real estate agent and tell him you need to relocate but make sure his name isn’t Ronaiah Tuisasosopo.” Of course when Jay Cutler greets him he’d just pat him on the back and utter, “You’re just what I need.”
Leadership in a locker room is palpable. So is someone with baggage and Te’o has enough to fill a Carnival cruise.
The Bears defense is in flux if not devoid of key personnel. The current veterans aren’t happy with all the changes. That’s their problem. But adding Te’o would create a significant other. He’s a failure waiting to happen at Halas Hall. Maybe he makes it somewhere else, but not here.
In an offseason filled with monumental changes the last thing Phil Emery and Marc Trestman need to do is force feed his hungry Bears with Manti Te’o. He’ll be swallowed quicker than a catfish sandwich.
George Ofman is a sports anchor and reporter for WBBM Newsradio 780 & 105.9FM. Look for him on Facebook and find him on Twitter at @georgeofman.
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Alexander and Cyrus: Two Different Routes to Babylon
Posted by spressfield on 16th September 2009 (All posts by spressfield)
by Steven Pressfield
Great initial post about logistics! Here’s a related piece–a comparison between Alexander the Great and Cyrus the Younger and their different strategic/logistical solutions to a similar problem: how to bring an invading army to bear against a defending army awaiting the assault in the vicinity of Babylon, in what was then Mesopotamia (today Syria and Iraq.)
Some of what follows is speculative, as no one knows for certain what Alexander was thinking at every juncture. But it’s based on my research for The Virtues of War, a novel about Alexander. Here’s my take on how the great Macedonian, invading Persia seventy years after Cyrus (and armed with Xenophon’s Anabasis, which he and his generals studied in great depth) chose a different route and strategy than that taken by his predecessor, bound for Cunaxa.
Both Cyrus’ army and Alexander’s crossed the Euphrates at Thapsacus, three or four hundred miles north of Babylon (see map in our Anabasis). Cyrus was coming from the north, Alexander from the south, via Damascus–from Egypt, where he had been crowned Pharaoh and son of Ammon. Alexander was marching to confront Darius III, (grandson of Artaxerxes II, against whom Cyrus and Xenophon campaigned) who was raising an army of a million men. Contingents of horse and foot had been summoned from all over the empire, from as far away as Afghanistan. Alexander’s force numbered about 50,000. Alexander had previously defeated Persian forces twice–at the Granicus River, near Troy, with Darius absent; and at Issus with Darius present and commanding. This coming fight would be for all the marbles.
Alexander held up at Thapsacus and debated with his generals whether they should follow the Cyrus/Xenophon route straight down the Euphrates. Alexander decided against it for a number of reasons. First (here’s where it starts to get speculative), such a choice was expected. Darius would have time to prepare a field that tilted in favor of the Persians’ preferred weapons, their massive numbers of infantry and cavalry and their scythed chariots. Second, the Euphrates route would not compel Darius to move. The Great King could simply sit tight and await Alexander, secure in his bastion at Babylon, with an abundance of riverborne supplies for his troops. Third, the Euphrates route would bring the two armies together too soon for Alexander’s taste. He wanted to stall. He was banking on impatience and discontent gnawing at the morale of Darius’ eager tribal levies, who were not a disciplined modern army but rather horseborne raiders and pillagers.
Alexander’s concept of operations was different from Cyrus’s. Babylon (Cunaxa) was not his ultimate goal. Babylon wasn’t even Persia, it was Mesopotamia, a province. Alexander’s aim was Persepolis in modern Iran, the royal capital of the empire–and the lands further east.
What Alexander feared, entering the heartland of the Persian empire, was having to fight his way across two great and defendable rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris. He also had no taste for besieging Babylon, which had walls 150 feet high and fifty feet thick and a circuit of forty miles.
Alexander went north and east from Thapsacus instead of south. He didn’t follow the Euphrates. Instead he struck for the foothills of the mountains of southern Armenia. The season was summer coming into fall. Alexander preferred to get provisions for his army by sacking unwalled villages, where the harvest would be stored in garners, rather than cities where the year’s grain would be fortified behind walls. He wanted his horses and pack animals to drink water from mountain streams rather than the silty, unwholesome Euphrates. And he didn’t want his men and beasts marching in 110-degree heat. He also feared the dikes and irrigation channels of the country north of Babylon, by which he must approach his enemy. This kind of terrain could be flooded easily by the defenders, which would create hellish problems for an army advancing across it.
Alexander wanted to get on the far side of the Tigris (to the east of the Euphrates) without having to make a crossing under fire. Once across, he reasoned, Darius would be compelled to come out to meet him, thus fighting according to Alexander’s timetable and on unprepared turf. If Darius failed to face Alexander, he would leave Persepolis and the eastern empire open to the invader’s depredations. More importantly, he would lose prestige in the eyes of his own troops and those of the subject nations serving under him.
The final objective Alexander hoped to achieve by taking the northern route was to vanish off Darius’s scope. He wanted to make the Great King sweat. Where was Alexander? What was he up to? Surely, Alexander reasoned, Darius would be holding many war councils with the impatient, hot-blooded tribal contingents of his empire. Let them sweat too. Let them second-guess Darius. Let them complain about pay and food. Let them demand action.
In the end, Alexander’s plan worked out a little better than Cyrus’s. The Macedonian’s tactics did indeed force Darius to march out from his bastion at Babylon. Darius was compelled to cross the Tigris himself, march his army north some two or three hundred miles to Gaugamela, where he faced Alexander on turf of his own choosing, yes, but not the favored manicured field he was hoping for, at Cunaxa or some other arena closer to home.
Gaugamela became one of the epochal battles of history. Darius’ defeat made him, in the end, the last Great King of Persia. The Achaemenid line as rulers ended with him, as did the Persian empire.
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Landmark Case on Lead Poisoning in Children Begins
Posted by Cindy | Jun 12, 2015
On Friday, a court in Hunan Province began hearing a landmark pollution lawsuit filed by a group of 13 families from Dapu, who accused the local Melody Chemical plant of causing abnormally high levels of lead in the blood of their offspring. South China Morning Post reports:
A court in central China on Friday began hearing a closely watched case filed by families who have accused a local chemical plant of being responsible for high levels of lead in the blood of their children and grandchildren.
Lawyers say the case in Hengdong in Hunan province is a test of the central government’s resolve to address the human cost of environmental damage caused by decades of unbridled economic growth in China. It is believed to be the first time a Chinese court is hearing a case involving lead poisoning in a group of children.
The trial comes amid a series of public interest lawsuits filed since a revised environmental protection law that came into effect in January enabled the submission of such cases and increased the penalties for polluters.
Thirteen families from in and around nearby Dapu town have accused Melody Chemical, a chemical plant and metal smelter, of pollution that caused elevated levels of lead in the blood of their children and grandchildren. They are seeking compensation, although the precise amount varies by child. [Source]
While more than fifty families agreed to participate in the lawsuit at the outset, many were later forced to withdraw due to pressure from local government authorities. The Guardian reports:
Reuters reported in May that of the original 53 families who agreed to participate in the lawsuit, most dropped out, some because of pressure from local officials. Dapu authorities denied any interference.
Dai Renhui, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, said: “This case will be a useful reference for other families affected by pollution, particularly heavy metals pollution, and give them the confidence and courage to use the law to defend their environmental rights.”
[…] Li Laiyin, a farmer who lives on the edge of an industrial park in Dapu, said he was unable to add his grandchildren to the lawsuit because he had insufficient medical records.
Li Wenjie, eight, and Li Xiongwei, 12, were diagnosed with high lead in their blood in 2012 and cannot sit still at school, Li said. “The government hasn’t given a thought to the safety of the people who live here,” he added. [Source]
When Chinese state television CCTV exposed Dapu’s lead problem last year, the township chief denied the accusation and blamed pencil chewing as the underlying cause of high lead levels in children. Alexandra Harney at Reuters reports:
Dapu’s lead problem made headlines a year ago in an expose by state broadcaster CCTV, in which the head of the township was shown saying children might have raised their own lead levels by chewing on pencils.
After the broadcast, which said more than 300 children had high lead levels, officials opened an investigation and Melody was ordered to shut down.
[…] On June 1, China’s supreme court issued a judicial interpretation which reiterated that even if emissions from polluting companies were within legal limits, they could still be liable for any harm caused.
“If courts begin to rule in favor of pollution victims more often in these types of cases, companies will be forced to internalize the cost of pollution,” Alex Wang, an expert in Chinese environmental law at the UCLA School of Law, told Reuters before the trial. [Source]
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Could Lurline be Boris' deputy?
It was a shame that Lurline Champagnie didn't make it through to the shortlist. After getting over her obvious disappointment she's been "backing Boris" quite actively, attending the Back Boris launch and Monday's hustings in a supportive role and now formally as an adviser to the campaign.
Tottenham Conservatives Chairman Justin Hinchcliffe claims to know for certain that she will be appointed to be Boris' Deputy Mayor if he is selected and elected. I've spoken to a campaign representative and Lurline herself, and both deny such a decision has already been made, however.
Lurline would be a sensible appointment. She's put a lot of thought into London issues and would of course help to assuage any lingering doubts about Boris' views on race in voters' minds. The other remaining candidates might be disappointed about missing out on this role if they did lose out to Boris.
I don't want to get into speculation about these things too much though, Boris may be the frontrunner but he's failing to impress at the moment...
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Lurline launches her campaign
Lurline Champagnie held a reception in Parliament yesterday to formally launch her campaign to be the Conservative candidate for Mayor. Her leaflets and manifesto never really mention the Conservative Party but she is known as a regular attendee and occasional speaker at party conference, and if there was any doubt at the launch - she had blue fingernails.
After reading out a very positive letter sent to her from Lord Tebbit she spoke about the failure of multiculturalism (and her Cosmopolitan Community vision), and her personal profile:
"I came to Britain from Jamaica in my late teens. I did not expect patronizing handouts or any unfair advantage. I worked; I worked and learnt; I developed skills as a specialist nurse; I succeeded and took on significant responsibility; I brought up my family; I started a highly successful business; and I have served my local community as a councillor for 20 years. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have lived a real life and, more to the point, I have succeeded – not only in accordance with Tory values, but because I embodied Tory values. I have a life path and career that is real – I am not some plastic “inside the beltway” apparatchik. Believe me, this is a distinction that is not lost on the public."
Download the speech here.
Andrew Rosindell MP sponsored the event as one of her high profile supporters, saying:
“I’m delighted that someone that has such clear Conservative views and is prepared to stand up for them is running for Mayor of London. I have known Lurline for 25 years. She’s got guts, determination and beliefs in all the right things. She’s told me that her first act as Mayor of London will be to raise the Union Jack above City Hall – something that Ken Livingstone has not been prepared to do and I think that she deserves the chance."
Nicholas Winterton MP, apparently spontaneously, was full of praise for the speech and strongly endorsed her campaign as a result of it. Lords, councillors, and MPs Brian Binley, Julian Lewis and Roger Gale also spoke in support of Lurline.
There was a photo-op afterwards on College Green:
She's certainly one of the strongest declared contenders for the Conservative nomination.
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move more freely when you’re out on the moors and you’re doing more active shooting”. Sympatex was chosen for the membrane because,
being made of recycled materials itself, it is more ecologically forgiving than other brands. Not only that, but when Sympatex reaches the end of its lifecycle, it too can be recycled. This new technical
shooting range has been so
successful that Purdey will extend it to womenswear in A/W19. Elsewhere, Purdey has used the common nettle for
its range of holdalls and gun sleeves. Nettles were first used around a century ago in Switzerland to make the iconic Swiss Army Rucksack – cotton was scarce and nettle fibres are actually stronger. “Nettles grow in the wild and don’t need to be
treated with insecticide. Nettle combines with our ethos of durability and sustainability,” says Guegan.
ETHICAL SOURCING Another trend making inroads into Savile Row is provenance and what Huddersfield Fine Worsted calls
‘traceability’. Just as people want to know
where food is sourced from, they want to know that yarn has been gathered ethically. Savile Row has to assume that the actual sourcing of the yarn is conducted ethically by its mills. Dugdale Bros has an ethical code of conduct
when it comes to sourcing yarns. Dugdale says that some of the larger wool growing countries have,
a bit unusual.” Dugdale Bros makes the point that traditional wool is just as
sustainable as newfangled super lightweight cloths. In fact, the traditional heavyweight wools are greener because, unlike, say, new Italian superfine wools, they are much more hardwearing. The irony is that even something handmade in Savile Row
using superfine wool will only last for a decade compared to generations for a robust suit. Someone who needs a lighter weight cloth because of climate
change buys something that doesn’t last as long and will ultimately been thrown away sooner – adding to the landfill, only increasing the problem. Ironically,
the best customers for Dugdale’s proper
characterful English cloth are to be found in Italy – the home of the super lightweight textiles English cloth merchants compete against. Corinne Metcalfe, a clothing designer at Purdey, used to work
in the sailing industry and has noticed the same drive towards lighter, more breathable fabrics when it comes to country sports – partly as a response to our warmer, wetting climate. Metcalfe says that
customers want lighter and more breathable fabrics. Purdey launched its first synthetic membrane into its technical shooting range this autumn. This technical tweed is 30 percent lighter than standard sports jackets “which allows you to
in the past, used questionable practices – such as cutting into fly-infected sheep in a practice known as ‘mulesing’, which has been called cruel and inhumane. HFW is in the process of being able to trace where its cloth
comes from, right back to the exact sheep in Australia – tracing the journey from shearing to yarn spinners to Chinese brokers. It’s the same as proving the provenance of a work of art.
SMALL FOOTPRINT Where Savile Row can really show its green credentials is by using British mills manufacturing locally. This shortens its supply chain and avoids the energy spent importing from China and the Far East. In short, reducing its carbon footprint. Dugdale Bros sources its wool from local yarn suppliers, mills
and finishers within a five mile radius of Huddersfield, which similarly reduces its carbon footprint. Alexander Lewis, brand and business director at Norton & Sons,
says: “We do think about this a lot. As a house, Norton & Sons prefers to work with British-made cloth. We only use foreign-milled cloth if there’s something we cannot get
from a producer- the
weaver in the UK”. “Bespoke tailoring is at very top
fashion producers in terms of
the footprint it leaves behind. The effect that it has on the environment is very different to say, a big fashion brand.” “Keeping our carbon footprint
small is a luxury that a high-end brand such as Purdey can afford. Sustainability is very much in our ethos,” adds Guegan.
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Jimmy Kimmel Sends Off Donald Trump With Help From Billy Bush & The Access Hollywood Bus & GIF From Iconic Landmarks– Watch
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Showtime said today that its much-hyped Floyd Mayweather Jr-Conor McGregor fight Saturday on pay-per-view is tracking near a record total, with preliminary numbers showing a number in the mid- to high-4 million range for buys. Final numbers are expected by the end of next week.
The current mark was set in May 2015 by the Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, which saw 4.6 million buys of the event co-aired by HBO and Showtime. That totaled more than $410 million in domestic revenue. Either way, Showtime will be able to boast the two biggest PPV events ever.
“We’d love to break the record – if we don’t we’ll come really, really close,” Stephen Espinoza, EVP and General Manager of Showtime Sports, told Deadline today. He said the fight certainly will be the highest-grossing of all time with all revenue streams taken into account.
Showtime To Offer Some Refunds For Mayweather-McGregor PPV Glitches Amid Lawsuit
“In general with pay-per-view, there is a certain amount of growth between the initial report and when all the buys come in later,” Espinoza said. “It’s a little too soon to definitively say it will break record, but it’s definitely within reach.
“Overall, we are happy.”
As for those tech glitches that delayed the start of Mayweather-McGregor, “Media reports of technical issues were disproportionately high,” Espinosa said. “We did receive a very limited number of complaints, but it was a tiny fraction of our stream.” He added that the fight “generated four times the number of streaming buys than we projected” across gaming consoles, UFC and Showtime apps and such.
The fight marked the first time a boxing PPV had been distributed for streaming on a wide basis. “Overall, the streaming was a high point,” Espinoza said.
Viewers of last weekend’s fight, won by Mayweather in a 10th-round TKO, ponied up $99.99 for the matchup of the undefeated boxing legend and MMA champion McGregor, who was making his pro boxing debut. The win boosted Mayweather’s record to 50-0, breaking his tie with Rocky Marciano, who retired in 1956 with a 49-0 career mark.
The payout for both was also big: McGregor is expected to receive about $30 million while Mayweather — who moved to Showtime from HBO in 2013 — is guaranteed $100 million.
Showtime will re-air the fight Saturday at 6 PM PT.
Patrick Hipes contributed to this report.
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How Social Institutions Can Imitate Nature
The opposition between nature and culture has always been paradigmatic in the philosophy of society, and in this sense it is certainly striking that, in contemporary theories of collective acceptance in social ontology—theories which actually entail the presence of individual mental content in the form of (at least dispositional) beliefs—the shaping role of culture has not found significant recognition. However, it cannot but be trivially true that cultural pre- suppositions play a role in the maintenance and development of beliefs on rules and other kinds of abstract artifacts. But once we recognize that the reality of social institutions is at least culturally-dependent, the question emerges whether there is still room for nature as a possible determinant of social reality. Many authors maintain that there is and argue that there are objective natural features shared by human beings which are necessary conditions to explain the emer- gence of institutional structures within society. This is a culture-independent relation between nature and social institutions. In this paper, however, I will try to argue that there is another, very peculiar, way in which nature can work as a possible determinant of social reality, a way which is instead culture-dependent. In particular, I will give three examples of this kind of culture-dependent relations— examples about states, corporations, and contracts—and I will introduce a new concept to account for it, that of ‘‘institutional mimesis.’’ I will then provide an explanation of how institutional mimesis can have an impact on the content of collective acceptance by appealing to two influ- ential theories in contemporary cognitive psychology (those regarding conceptual metaphors and conceptual blending). Finally, I will explain the ontological significance of institutional mimesis using Ian Hacking’s concept of historical ontology.
Titolo: How Social Institutions Can Imitate Nature
Autore/i: ROVERSI, CORRADO
ROVERSI, CORRADO
TOPOI
Abstract: The opposition between nature and culture has always been paradigmatic in the philosophy of society, and in this sense it is certainly striking that, in contemporary theories of collective acceptance in social ontology—theories which actually entail the presence of individual mental content in the form of (at least dispositional) beliefs—the shaping role of culture has not found significant recognition. However, it cannot but be trivially true that cultural pre- suppositions play a role in the maintenance and development of beliefs on rules and other kinds of abstract artifacts. But once we recognize that the reality of social institutions is at least culturally-dependent, the question emerges whether there is still room for nature as a possible determinant of social reality. Many authors maintain that there is and argue that there are objective natural features shared by human beings which are necessary conditions to explain the emer- gence of institutional structures within society. This is a culture-independent relation between nature and social institutions. In this paper, however, I will try to argue that there is another, very peculiar, way in which nature can work as a possible determinant of social reality, a way which is instead culture-dependent. In particular, I will give three examples of this kind of culture-dependent relations— examples about states, corporations, and contracts—and I will introduce a new concept to account for it, that of ‘‘institutional mimesis.’’ I will then provide an explanation of how institutional mimesis can have an impact on the content of collective acceptance by appealing to two influ- ential theories in contemporary cognitive psychology (those regarding conceptual metaphors and conceptual blending). Finally, I will explain the ontological significance of institutional mimesis using Ian Hacking’s concept of historical ontology.
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Stadium Development
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On September 10th 1891 ‘Butterly’s Field’ played host to its first GAA Athletics meeting. Between 1891 and the early 1920's the sports grounds were the scene of many athletics meetings.
In 1894 Maurice Butterly sold his sports field to the City and Suburban Racecourse and Amusements Ground Ltd. who soon began to rent it out to the GAA on occasion. ‘Butterly’s Field’ becomes known as the City and Suburban Racecourse or Jones’ Road.
On March 15th 1896 the first All-Ireland finals were played at Jones’ Road, prior to this All-Ireland finals were played at various locations around the country. Championships at the time were usually played behind schedule and counties were represented by a club team. The delayed 1895 All-Ireland Hurling Final was played in 1896 when Tipperary (Tubberadora) defeated Kilkenny (Tullaroan) 6-8 to 0-10. The delayed 1895 All-Ireland Football Final saw Tipperary (Arravale Rovers) defeat Meath (Pierce O’Mahony’s) 0-4 to 0-3
In 1897 the GAA Dublin County Board siged an agreement to use Jones’ Road as a venue for their Dublin Championship.
On August 2nd 1903 London Emmets became the only county outside of Ireland to win the All-Ireland Hurling Championship after British GAA clubs were admitted to the championships in 1900. London defeated Cork 1-05 to 0-04 in the delayed 1901 All-Ireland Hurling Final at Croke Park with a team that consisted of nine players originally from Cork, four from Clare, two from Limerick and one each from Tipperary and Kerry.
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A Second Life for IMVU? Virtual Social Network Launches In-Game Crypto
IMVU is a virtual social network with its own digital economy; with the introduction of Ethereum-based VCOIN, the company is backing in-game currency with real money.
By Will Gottsegen
IMVU is banking on crypto giving its users added value. Image: IMVU
Virtual hangout space IMVU has launched a new in-game currency called VCOIN.
VCOIN are ERC-20 tokens with real-world value.
They can be exchanged on- and off-platform via the wallet provider Uphold.
IMVU, the virtual hangout space and Second Life competitor, has launched a new in-game currency with real-world value.
You may remember IMVU (pronounced “imm” + “view”) from the halcyon days of the late-2000s internet, when banner ads for the service felt inescapable. A hybrid between a social networking site and a virtual reality hangout space, IMVU was founded in 2004, and married the instant messaging capabilities of AIM with the escapist allure of 3D avatars; as with Second Life, it’s been putting along quietly ever since. According to press materials, IMVU has users in over 140 countries.
With its new digital currency, VCOIN, the company is looking to reposition virtual money as a legitimate asset—an Ethereum-based token that works like stablecoin, and that IMVU says is backed by real currency. While it’s not uncommon for new video games to use premium currencies as a way of facilitating microtransactions, the money almost always flows from the real world into the game; with the launch of VCOIN, those transactions will start to work both ways.
Though IMVU is free to join, it’s attached to a digital marketplace where users can buy virtual items like clothes and accessories through microtransactions: in-game trades conducted entirely on the platform. Up until now, the coin of the realm has been the IMVU credit, which is analogous to something like Fortnite’s V-Buck—you can either buy it with real money, or slowly earn it by performing in-game tasks.
IMVU’s situation is more unique than Fortnite’s, according to Chief Strategy Officer John Burris, since it’s less of a video game and more of a digital replica of the real world; on IMVU, you can pay for in-game services that are more intangible than a skin for your character, or an accessory from the marketplace.
“There’s people who’ll pop on and say, ‘Look, I’m not a real psychiatrist, but if you want to come and chat with me in my cool lounge about your girlfriend problems, let’s do it,’” Burris told Decrypt. In another hypothetical, he described a situation in which users could pay each other for short-term virtual companionship: “Hey, give me 50 VCOIN, I’ll be your girlfriend for the night.”
These are so-called “gray market” transactions, happening outside of the purview of the platform. VCOIN could help bring these sorts of payments (which have historically been funneled into services like PayPal) onto IMVU. “The more that happens on-platform, where we have some oversight,” said Burris, “we think that’ll be valuable.”
One of IMVU's interfaces for purchasing VCOIN. Image: IMVU
The twist is that VCOIN is actually a ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain, with value outside of IMVU. Thanks to a partnership with Uphold, the digital wallet provider behind the Brave browser’s BAT token, any VCOIN purchased on IMVU can be exchanged for fiat currency. The company also received a no-action letter from the SEC, allowing it to sell VCOIN as a “transferable non-security.” It's only the third company to receive this type of approval from the SEC for the sale of a crypto token.
A single VCOIN is worth $.004, and the price is fixed, though Burris said it’s “not a traditional stablecoin,” in that it doesn’t have to adhere to regulations that apply to other stablecoins. “You know how, USDC, those guys put away exactly a dollar when you buy a coin? We’re not doing that exactly, we have some flexibility in how we pay out users.”
The natural follow-up here is: if each VCOIN isn’t backed one-to-one with $.004, how do users know for sure that they’ll be able to cash out? And what if every user wanted to cash out at once?
“As we sell VCOIN, we’re setting aside cash to purchase back VCOIN,” explained Burris. “So any user that either is on IMVU’s platform, or that comes in and creates an Uphold account, can convert into cash.” He continued, “Over time we’ll begin to understand what percent of the VCOIN market is being converted into cash, and we’ll know what cash we have available for cash flow, but obviously we’re going to be super conservative and make sure we have plenty of cash to handle that.”
The Uphold wallet interface for converting VCOIN to fiat. Image: IMVU
Going forward, Burris explained, IMVU is hoping VCOIN could help attract DJs and virtual performers to the platform—artists who want to get paid for virtual concerts (think: Travis Scott in Fortnite, or 100 Gecs and Charli XCX in Minecraft) without the “friction” of dealing with services like PayPal.
“I’m very confident it will become the currency of choice in and around our platforms,” said Burris. “It’s our job to make it useful, and a good economic tool for others off our platform.”
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Ranking All 31 WWE Survivor Series PPVs
Every Survivor Series in WWE history, from worst to best. What are you waiting for?
By Jack G. King
18 November, 2018 9:30 PM
We all love Survivor Series, don't we guys? We just love it. We're all proper wrestling fans here, and we won't have a bad word said against good old #WWESurvivorSeries. Some are suggesting Money in the Bank should replace it in the Big Four! Hedonists. Burn them.
Survivor Series is a charming old relic of WWE's PPV calendar, and it harks back to an altogether more innocent era. The inaugural event was in 1987, a time before we had entire shows themed around weapons, before hells in cells, before blood even existed, I think. It's funny to imagine now, but when Vince decided to stage a pay per view around the concept of elimination tag matches, it must have blown people's minds.
Yes, if one thing's for certain, it's that we all love Survivor Series.
But do we actually?
Survivor Series is, of course, the least anticipated of WWE's holy quartet. Let's imagine each as a social gathering, because I'm about to embark on a really big list, and I'm probably not going to enjoy actual real-life company for a while.
WrestleMania is that huge blowout you've had planned for months; the Rumble's a hilariously messy house party; SummerSlam is - naturally - the biggest party of the summer, but your dad's manning the barbecue so it could go either way.
But Survivor Series - poor old Survivor Series - is a team-building exercise at work. It features people mashed together, often regardless of prior friendships or like-mindedness. The winners are exhausted and few in number and everyone forgets about their new allegiances as soon as it's over.
That may be harsh, but what I'm trying to say is that Survivor Series suffers a reputation as archaic. It's been called old-fashion, and it's even been called (whisper it) boring.
Is this fair? It's time to find out.
Come with me as I rank all 31 of the damn things, from 1987 onwards. It's gonna be fun! Where will your favourite rank!? Only one way to find out! Let's go!
(I must warn you, I am now an expert on Survivor Series. I am the high priest of Survivor Series, and my life is devoted to its teachings. In gaining knowledge for this list, I have shut down all other avenues in my brain. All there is is Survivor Series, and all there ever shall be is Survivor Series. When I close my eyes, I see crowded ring aprons. I see beloved Canadians screwed out of their world titles. I see Randy Orton surviving, like, all the time. This is me now. My life is pain; my life is Survivor Series.)
31. Survivor Series 1993
Where: Boston Garden - Boston, Massachusetts
What: A litany of rescheduled matches, forced by the absence of Jerry Lawler and Doink the Clown - all topped off by Lex Luger leading 'The All-Americans' into battle against 'The Foreign Fanatics'. Those aren't joke names I've made up for the purpose of this article; the teams really were called that. The red white and blue squad consisted of Luger, the Steiner Brothers (who are patriotic, I guess...?) and The Undertaker. Who says evil zombie morticians can't also love apple pie, denim jeans and freedom.
The Good: The opener was admittedly decent, as The 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty survived for Team Razor. At one point Randy Savage got rolled up by IRS, which seems...an interesting booking decision. Jim Cornette oversaw a Smokey Mountain Wrestling tag showcase between the Heavenly Bodies and The Rock & Roll Express, and while the action was pretty good, the crowd couldn't have cared less.
The Bad: Like everything else, guys. The Hart Family plodded to a 30-minute victory over Shawn Michaels (standing in for Lawler) and four anonymous dudes in knight helmets. Doink's absence didn't deter WWF from dressing up The Bushwhackers and Men on a Mission as clowns. They steamrolled Bam Bam Bigelow's team with an offence based almost entirely around circus gimmickry, clearly the hidden secret to a clean sweep at Survivor Series. Interesting that no other teams have tried that since. The main event saw everyone's favourite real American - Luger, obviously - running through some dastardly foreigners. As thrilling as it sounds.
Star of the Show: The 1-2-3 Kid. Yes, X-Pac is our first standout performer, carrying much of the load in that opening traditional tag match. Bonus points for not dressing as a clown. There were too many clowns on this show. Too many clowns.
Where: Freeman Coliseum - San Antonio, Texas
What: This is the one with all the little people, but I'm amazed that remains the standout memory of Survivor Series '94. It was also the site of that Bret vs. Backlund submission match, one of the most opinion-dividing title bouts I've ever seen. The main event saw Undertaker face Yokozuna in a casket match, with Chuck Norris as the special outside referee!? What a sentence that is to write. Certainly an incident-filled show, but was it any good? (It's this early on the list; you've probably worked out the answer ahead of time.)
The Good: Hey, if you like watching Diesel absolutely destroy people, the opener is certainly for you. Big Sexy ran through everybody, before becoming totally distracted to argue with Michaels (understandable, I guess). The entire babyface team spilled to the outside to break up the fight and were all counted out - a dubious finish at best. Bundy and Bigelow scored one for big lads all over the world when they survived their match, while Bret Hart vs. Bob Backlund was incredibly divisive - as we'll discuss in a second.
The Bad: It pains me to say this, but Undertaker and Yokozuna's casket match was an absolute stinker of a main event. Chuck Norris didn't even do anything cool, although I guess this was before the meme era when he regained all his powers. Lawler and Doink's duelling squads of little people didn't exactly steal the show either. The WWF Championship match was long as hell and can be a bit of a chore to watch in hindsight. It wasn't terrible by any means, but it's sad watching Bret lose the title because his mother threw in the towel. Still, there's enough here to drag the show off the bottom of this list.
Star of the Show: Bret Hart. The Hitman did his damnedest to make his match a compelling one, despite being asked to drop the WWF Championship to a 45-year-old Bob Backlund. Remarkable professionalism from the Canadian.
Where: Hartford Civic Center - Hartford, Connecticut
What: The site of one of the most significant debuts in WWE history, as the Gobbledy Gooker finally hatched from his oversized egg. Also the first appearance of some dude named 'The Undertaker' - I dunno. This whole show was built around a mega main event featuring all the night's survivors, and saw perennial underdogs Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior finally go over. About time those guys caught a break.
The Good: Fittingly, the match featuring Undertaker's debut was also the best on the show. The WWF hadn't seen anything quite like him before, and even though he didn't progress to the main event (eliminated after chasing Dusty Rhodes to the back), everybody immediately bought him as the new terrifying heel on the block. It also featured Ted DiBiase and Bret Hart wrestling their asses off; what's not to like about that?
The Bad: The booking, the booking, the booking. God, the booking. Yes, the action from Survivor Series '90 was lacklustre for the most part, but the storytelling really drags this PPV into the lower reaches of the list. Hogan, Warrior, Tito Santana, and Ted DiBiase were all sole survivors of their matches, which seems like overkill. 'The Visionaries' joined DiBiase in the main event thanks to the first clean sweep in event history, leading to a frankly nonsensical three-on-five showdown. This really bugs me; heel/babyface alignments are purely storytelling devices but were pretty clearly acknowledged by the line-ups here. My fourth wall, it lies in tatters. (Also I just feel sorry for Tito, eliminated inside two minutes before his invincible teammates marched to victory.)
Star of the Show: The Undertaker. Although far from the excellent wrestler he would become, 'Taker stole Survivor Series 1990 by virtue of his aura alone. A phenomenal debut.
Where: American Airlines Arena - Miami, Florida
What: Perhaps the biggest blown call in Survivor Series main event history. I can't emphasise enough how much Wade Barrett should have won the WWE Championship here. Instead, he lost to Randy Orton, which - as per the stipulation - led to John Cena being fired! We never saw him again (for at least 20 hours). This was really the only memorable thing on an otherwise decent show - so yeah, the event lived or died on its main. Uh oh.
The Good: Bryan vs. DiBiase Jr. was a perfectly acceptable opener, but match of the night goes to Team Mysterio vs. Team Del Rio. This bout featured great work from several guys, including both team captains, Kofi, Swagger, Cody, and a fresh-faced Drew McIntyre. Mysterio and Big Show proved a fun and effective little n' large partnership, dishing out KO punches and 619s aplenty en route to survival.
The Bad: I've already had my little tantrum about Wade Barrett not winning the WWE Championship here, but it bears repeating. This - along with (Team) Cena's victory over The Nexus a few months earlier - totally robbed the stable of their momentum, and it was all downhill thereafter. Elsewhere, Edge capped off his kidnapping and torture of Paul Bearer (as a babyface!?) with a draw against Kane - featuring that side-by-side double pinfall that never really pleases anyone. A huge shout out also to my boy Kaval - AKA indie legend Low Ki - who celebrated his one and only WWE PPV appearance by losing to Dolph Ziggler.
Star of the Show: Rey Mysterio. The dude has to be one of the most underrated and consistent PPV performers in WWE history and was the standout performer in the best match of the night. Booyaka booyaka, indeed.
Where: TD Garden - Boston, Massachusetts
What: The birth of The Big Dog. Survivor Series '13 marked the first of many 'Roman Reigns is the best wrestler' moments in WWE, as he was the sole survivor of a compelling opening tag match. The rest of the show felt like a big step back, to be honest. Cena won; Orton won; Cena and Orton had a big ol' standoff with their respective titles - and everyone on the internet went "This feud again!?".
The Good: Daniel Bryan and CM Punk formed the ultimate smarky dream team as they defeated Harper and Rowan in tag action, although it also represented a pretty clear attempt to shove D-Bry out of the main event scene after being screwed by Orton and Triple H at SummerSlam. The aforementioned Shield opener was super sweet, while Del Rio and Cena also put on a solid match.
The Bad: Total Divas vs. True Divas. In hindsight, by 2013 we were absolutely desperate for the Women's Revolution to roll around, as WWE treated us to a seven-on-seven elimination match featuring JoJo, Eva Marie, Rosa Mendes, and Aksana. The Bellas survived, in case you were wondering. Orton vs. Big Show put on a plodding main event, one made even more infuriating by the interference of The Authority.
Star of the Show: Roman Reigns. The Big Dog eliminated four of his team's five opponents (all with Spears). We were warned, guys. The warnings were absolutely there.
Where: Joe Louis Arena - Detroit, Michigan
What: A pretty rotten show from a pure in-ring standpoint, but one with plenty for fans to get excited for in terms of booking. Undertaker beat Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship - an utterly seismic result, as well a logical one, with Hulkamania well and truly on the wane. Ric Flair interfered in that match, and was the sole survivor in the show's opener, while the Legion of Doom stood tall to end the night. Elsewhere in the tag division, signs of friction between Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty began to show...
The Good: The opening match was the best on the show by a country mile, even if it was hamstrung by one of the most infamous finishes in Survivor Series history. Flair partook in one of his favourite hobbies - bumping like an absolute legend to the outside - while everyone else brawled in the ring. The referee decided to disqualify them all, leaving The Nature Boy victorious. Hogan vs. Undertaker, despite being uninspiring in terms of sheer wrestling, felt big. It was the first ever singles match at a Survivor Series PPV and saw an important moment in 'Taker's career, as he Tombstoned the Hulkster onto a steel chair (or, more accurately, in the general vicinity of a steel chair) to win his first ever WWF Championship.
The Bad: Uhh, everything else is probably worth skipping. The Nasty Boys survived a match alongside one half of the Beverly Brothers (way to let the team down, Beau), and Sgt. Slaughter led a team of loveable babyfaces to a clean sweep victory, just months after turning heel on all of America. The real downside to this show, however, is that much of the action appeared to be phoned in - almost as though the roster were saving themselves for a PPV just six-days later. They were: This Tuesday in Texas, where Hogan got his win back. He was stripped of the title the following week, but it still felt as though the damage had been done.
Star of the Show: The Undertaker. Truthfully, nobody really stood out in terms of actual in-ring action here - but 'Taker won his first ever WWF Championship with a win over the biggest fish in wrestling.
Where: Ice Palace - Tampa, Florida
What: Just absolute anarchy, not all of it good. Remember Austin trying to literally murder Triple H with a forklift? Of course you do! We also saw WWF Champion Kurt Angle trick his way to victory over The Undertaker by switching places with his real-life brother (seriously), and Lita bleeding all over the place hardway. A strangely inconsistent show in the middle of one of the hottest PPV years in company history.
The Good: So much crazy stuff happened on this show, the traditional Survivor Series matches were actually a nice palette cleanser. The Radicalz ground their way to victory over a ragtag babyface team, while Jeff Hardy emerged the sole survivor in a fast and furious bout later in the night. The Rock got the crowd behind him in very Rock fashion as he defeated Rikishi (who had dared to turn heel, despite being molten hot as a likeable midcarder).
The Bad: I mean, Stone Cold dropping Triple H's car from the hugely extended prongs of a forklift truck was certainly unforgettable - but it was a little too farfetched for my liking, even in the Attitude Era. However, the worst crime of the night by far was Undertaker's shocking burial of Kurt Angle. Even in victory, the obscenely talented WWF Champion was made to look incredibly weak. 'Taker deliberately pulled him up at the count of two, twice! It didn't even follow a Chokeslam or Last Ride; the first came after a Big Boot and Legdrop, and the second after a Sidewalk Slam. Craziness.
Star of the Show: Jeff Hardy. A match pitting The Hardys and Dudleys against Edge, Christian, and Right To Censor should have really been given more than 10 minutes - but Jeff was at least made to look like a star, surviving two-on-one odds to win the bout on his own.
What: Backstage, Austin got ran down by a mystery assailant (later revealed to be Rikishi, later still revealed to be the lackey of Triple H) - and it totally overshadowed the rest of the show. Of course it did! Dig a little deeper, though, and you'll find a collection of noteworthy moments. The main event was overbooked Attitude Era fun, which kinda worked, even with the fans robbed of a Stone Cold appearance. Elsewhere, Kurt Angle made pro wrestling look like the easiest thing in the world to learn, as he made his eerily comfortable PPV debut against Shawn Stasiak.
The Good: As mentioned, the main event, a Triple Threat between Triple H, The Rock, and Big Show (stepping in for Austin) was certainly entertaining in a chaotic way. It succeeded despite - or perhaps with the aid of - run-ins from DX and Vince McMahon, the latter essentially winning the WWF Championship for Show. Chris Jericho bumped like a pretty blonde pinball in a great intergender match with Chyna, while a traditional Survivor Series bout - featuring Hardcore Holly as the sole survivor - was far better than it had any right to be on paper.
The Bad: A quick word of warning - the bad stuff on this show was bad. The team of Gangrel, Steve Blackman, Val Venis, and Mark Henry plodded to victory over The Mean Street Posse, with the latter two babyfaces surviving. (For real though, if I could change one thing in WWE booking history, it would be to give those boys a clean sweep. What a loveable lineup!) The worst match by far was an eight-woman tag, pitting Mae Young, Moolah, Tori, and Debra against Ivory, Luna, Jacqueline, and Terri. Typing that sentence felt like it took me about 20 minutes.
Star of the Show: Big Show. For better or worse, the world's largest athlete was the in-ring story of the night (the biggest overall talking point being, of course, the assault on Austin). Sole survivor in one match, first ever WWF Championship win in the second - not a bad night for the big man.
Where: Madison Square Garden - New York, New York
What: 'The Most Charismatic Tag Team of All Time' screamed the event poster for Survivor Series 2011 - but it wasn't referring to the actual most charismatic pairing in WWE history (Edge and Christian, in my book). It actually meant the ersatz duo of The Rock and John Cena, forced to tag together in the run-up to their WrestleMania XXVIII clash, with hilarious consequences. If your definition of hilarious involves a straightforward 20 minute victory over The Miz and R-Truth. Also, CM Punk's mammoth WWE title reign began on this show. It feels like I should have paid more attention to that, rather than Rock and Cena - but neglecting Punk for a match of considerably less substance seems oddly fitting.
The Good: That Punk match, of course. He and Del Rio shared a very solid chemistry, and that was on full display here. We all know how over Punk was in 2011, and even if Triple H and Kevin Nash did try to utterly destroy his momentum, he was simply too molten hot for that to happen. There was only one traditional Survivor Series match on the card, but it was a good one. Wade Barrett captained his heel team to victory alongside fellow survivor Cody Rhodes, and the boys even managed to quell a Randy Orton comeback (which is, I believe, five times harder than usual at Survivor Series).
The Bad: It was understandably exciting to see Cena and Rock on the same page, especially with their big 'Mania main event on the horizon - but the match was kinda underwhelming as a main event. Had this been a highlight-reel sprint earlier on the card, I'd have totally bought it, but I guess there's no way WWE were going to pair two of the biggest stars in wrestling history and not have them close the show. It's a tricky one. Also, Mark Henry deliberately got disqualified against Big Show and it suuucked.
Star of the Show: CM Punk. The man's 400+ day title reign began on this show and he was clearly delighted by it, leaping into the Madison Square Garden crowd to celebrate. Or he was desperately trying to create a significant moment, to grab just a little bit of the limelight from attention-juggernauts Rock and Cena.
Where: Bankers Life Fieldhouse - Indianapolis, Indiana
What: I was going to spell out 'Survivor Series' in the phonetic alphabet, but it would have gotten way too tedious. Basically, this was the debut of The Shield - the three superstars who would go on to slowly take over the WWE main event scene. They interfered in the main event, helping CM Punk overcome Ryback and John Cena to retain the title he won a year earlier. Elsewhere, a messy backstory didn't manage to ruin a nice elimination tag match between Team Foley and Team Ziggler. Originally, Punk was supposed to captain the heel team - but he was instead forced to defend his title by the infuriatingly smug, heel-scuppering incarnation of Vince McMahon. Had Vince been watching a lot of detective shows around 2012-13? He eventually busted The Shield for helping out Punk in the same manner.
The Good: Sorry, that turned into quite a rant there. The show was the inverse of Survivor Series 1991, in that '91 was a poor in-ring event, but told a lot of good stories: 'Taker's triumph, Flair's craftiness, tension between The Rockers, and so on. 2012 was generally a good wrestling show, but little mattered beyond The Shield's debut. Ziggler won the big tag match, despite being hastily shoved in at the last minute. Rey Mysterio, Sin Cara, Tyson Kidd, and Justin Gabriel flipped adorably to victory in a meaningless opener. Sheamus absolutely took it to Big Show (no seriously, watch the match!), but was disqualified when he thought he'd won the World Heavyweight Championship.
The Bad: Honestly, not a lot - and I feel quite bad having Survivor Series 2012 in the bottom 10 of this list, but as a show it felt so hollow. A common criticism of WWE booking is that it coasts once SummerSlam is out of the way, waiting until the Royal Rumble comes around in January to pick things up. This show's a pretty good example of that.
Star of the Show: Dolph Ziggler. The Shield's debut was easily the biggest (and arguably only) moment of the night, but Reigns, Ambrose, and Rollins weren't even on the card - so it's only right to give this to the show's best performer. Ziggler gets a lot of criticism, but if there's one thing he does brilliantly, it's going deep in traditional Survivor Series matches.
Where: Kiel Center - St. Louis, Missouri
What: Absolute Russo chaos. All the run-ins! All the swerves! Just chuck 'em in! Survivor Series '98 took the very bold step of staging a 14-man tournament in one night, with the vacant WWF Championship waiting for the eventual winner. There was way too much going on here to recap in full, but the show essentially revolved around Vince McMahon trying to keep The Rock and Steve Austin from winning the title - mainly by backing Mankind. Except this is peak Russo-era, so when Rock and Mankind made it to the final, Vince screwed Foley and revealed that he'd been aligned with Rocky all along. What!? Why!? Don't worry about it.
The Good: There were 14 matches on this show, not including four dark matches for the extra lucky live crowd - but everything apart from the main event was kept relatively short, so the show rattles along at a decent pace if you watch it back. I want to especially single out the clever use of the Big Boss Man, who initially seemed to be trying to get The Rock eliminated at every opportunity, but was actually helping him to the final. He fell victim to the Brahma Bull's roll-up in a matter of seconds, and later "accidentally" tossed him a weapon supposedly meant for Ken Shamrock.
The Bad: So many swerves, interferences and turns! Just so many! The main event reference to the previous year's screwjob was in decidedly poor taste, especially with Rock's use of the Sharpshooter. He turned heel, obviously, and the nature of the loss turned Mankind face out of sympathy. Elsewhere, the recently babyface Shane McMahon turned heel again to align with his father, screwing Stone Cold out of his semi-final bout. Kane got in on the overbooking action during the other semi-final, deliberately attacking The Rock in order to eliminate The Undertaker (who had beaten his brother earlier, with interference from Paul Bearer). To top things off, Boss Man was entered into the tournament twice: first deliberately getting himself DQd in order to soften up Austin with a weapon, then taking Triple H's place to deliberately lose to The Rock. Remember, this all happened in one night. I'm glad this paragraph is over.
Star of the Show: The Rock. I don't really agree with WWF's eagerness to rehash the Montreal Screwjob one year on, but it certainly made a star out of Rocky. His tournament matches were also the most consistently entertaining, especially those with Ken Shamrock and Mankind.
Where: Philips Arena - Atlanta, Georgia
What: Another tournament for the vacant WWE Championship, but far more sensible than its 1998 predecessor. Perhaps too sensible. Everyone smugly predicted how the bracket would go - and were then proven exactly right, as Roman Reigns beat Dean Ambrose in the final. Elsewhere, we celebrated 25 years of The Undertaker by watching him team up with Kane to beat the crap out of the Wyatts. Interestingly, Bray and co. had previously abducted both Brothers of Destruction, beating them unconscious and carrying them out of arenas. That sort of went nowhere. 'Taker and Kane must have teleported themselves to safety or something?
The Good: The actual wrestling was decent. WWE wisely held most of the tournament before the PPV itself, leading to a strong final four of Reigns, Ambrose, Kevin Owens, and Alberto Del Rio. All four men were capable of putting on good matches, and did. Undertaker was treated to a sick entrance for his tag match, with fire and symbols and all that good stuff.
The Bad: Here's something I forgot to mention at the start of this entry: Sheamus cashed in the goddamn Money in the Bank briefcase on Roman Reigns! That's right, a midcarder who actually said the words "get jiggy on these posers" earlier in the night (before losing) pinned Cena 2.0 to win the WWE Championship. If I remember rightly, there was an immediate internet-wide pop for Roman getting screwed over, before the dawning realisation of Sheamus as champion hit us.
Star of the Show: Dean Ambrose. It can't be Reigns after the backlash that greeted his win - and it can't be Sheamus after the even bigger backlash that greeted his win. Instead, I'll go for heroic loser Ambrose, who plays the 'close but no cigar' position better than most. See also the closing stages of the 2016 Royal Rumble.
What: Last year’s Survivor Series was a little bit weird. It was built upon Shane McMahon rolling into Raw with his SmackDown posse and beating everybody down gangland style. It’s amazing what you can get away with when you’re the boss’ son. Still, it certainly built hype for a series of inter-brand matches, some of which worked, and some of which didn’t.
The Good: The best was AJ Styles vs. Brock Lesnar, which saw the Phenomenal One push Brock to his best match in a long time. The Shield and New Day also put on a show, while Asuka was the sole survivor of an intense tag match.
The Bad: Then came the main event, in which Triple H turned the entire concept of Survivor Series into his personal playground. Shane McMahon faced horrible odds against The Game, Kurt Angle, and Braun Strowman - only for Triple H to ambush Kurt and take him out of the match. But why!? We’re still not 100% clear on an explanation, other than “he was messing with his brother-in-law”. Anyway, Raw won, but Braun was a little irritated to say the least.
Star of the Show: AJ Styles. In recent years, compelling Brock Lesnar matches have become gradually more scarce. The WWE Champion's ability clearly motivated Lesnar into raising his game, allowing Styles to bump around like a pinball in an excellent match. He even got a hefty amount of offence in - no mean feat against the Beast Incarnate.
Where: Wachovia Center - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What: This show is probably best remembered for a match I'm going to refer to as Cool Team DX vs. Crappy Loser Heels. It's the one where Shawn Michaels instinctively Superkicked and pinned Mike Knox before asking who he was, and whether he was even in the match. It's also the one where we got a taste of how over CM Punk was capable of being, as he received thunderous chants despite standing alongside DX and The Hardys.
The Good: This show was quite akin to junk food, in that the good stuff was enjoyable, but not really much use in terms of substance. Cool Team DX vs. Crappy Loser Heels was a fun clean sweep, while Undertaker and Mr. Kennedy tried to punch each other a lot in a First Blood match. The main event, while not the best, at least saw Batista in ultimate ass-kicking babyface mode. He bounced Booker T around (and threatened to Powerbomb Sharmell - what a nice guy!) en route to winning the World Heavyweight Championship.
The Bad: Remember Survivor Series '90, where Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior took a massive dump on everybody else? This show had quite a similar feel, as John Cena and Bobby Lashley steamrolled their way to survival in just over 10 minutes - despite their opponents including Big Show, Test, and Umaga - and MVP and Finlay, I guess. Earlier in the night, a team of legends took on the Spirit Squad and it was heartbreakingly underwhelming - although Arn Anderson played his classic outside enforcer role and almost saved the day. Because everything involving Arn Anderson is automatically better.
Star of the Show: Batista. CM Punk's early popularity was very evident here, but Survivor Series 2006 belonged to The Animal. His title win also led to that awesome WrestleMania showdown with The Undertaker, so no complaints here.
Where: Gund Arena - Cleveland, Ohio
What: Randy Orton's big babyface partaaay. After being the sole survivor in his match the year before, the Evolution outcast went two-for-two here, thereby winning his team the right to be Raw General Manager for one week each. I wish they'd do that stipulation again, to be fair. Jericho, Benoit, Maven, and Orton himself all took charge of a Raw, and I'll be honest, I have no idea what Maven did with his night - but you can be sure I'm heading to the WWE Network to dig that episode out.
The Good: The main event - which saw Orton and the boys overcome the heel team of Triple H, Edge, Batista, and Snitsky - was actually a great traditional Survivor Series match, as unnatural as Randy is in a top babyface role. The card's other elimination tag wasn't half-bad either and featured Cena chasing off Carlito before the bell had even sounded. Why was John so angry? Because Carlito's bodyguard had stabbed him in a freaking nightclub, that's why. Late 2004 WWE storylines did not mess around, apparently.
The Bad: We were only a few months into JBL's mammoth World Heavyweight Championship reign of doom at this stage, but fans had already started getting restless. His victory over Booker T here came after a ref bump and a belt shot, and sapped the crowd's energy. Elsewhere, Undertaker vs. Heidenreich was very...Undertaker vs. 'Heidenreichy.' Like, if you'd never seen Undertaker vs. Heidenreich, just imagine how Undertaker vs. Heidenreich would be. You've pretty much nailed it.
Star of the Show: Randy Orton. We all know that Randy's not great at portraying a sympathetic main event babyface, but also that he thrives around Survivor Series time. He is to Survivor Series what Shawn Michaels is to WrestleMania, which is...probably like a quarter as awesome, but still a good thing. Well done, Randall!
Where: Scottrade Center - St. Louis, Missouri
What: A one match show, to be honest. The main event saw Dolph Ziggler being a hero, the unbelievable debut of Sting, and the demise of The Authority (for about a month, anyway). It should probably be remembered as one of the most dramatic elimination matches in the history of the PPV, the stakes only really higher in 2001 - which we'll get to in a short while. A special shoutout must be given to John Cena for his strategy in picking teammates. He just decided to recruit large men (Big Show, Erick Rowan, and Ryback), and presumably picked Dolph Ziggler because he loves turning it on at Survivor Series.
The Good: The main event, although a hilariously overbooked mess, was genuinely compelling - especially when Sting strode out as the icing on the cake. Earlier in the night, Dean Ambrose lost his mind against Bray Wyatt and decided to simply batter him with foreign objects, setting up a rematch at TLC. It's always nice when Dean remembers he's supposed to be a crazed lunatic, as opposed to a fun lovin' guy who just does stuff, Maggle!
The Bad: The rest of the show was either mundane or actively bad. Nikki Bella won the Divas Championship from AJ Lee in a matter of seconds, a clear nod to Daniel Bryan's humiliating loss at WrestleMania 28 (which AJ herself was involved in). Elsewhere, in a match the world had been waiting to see, Adam Rose and The Bunny defeated the pleasingly-named Slator-Gator - Heath Slater and Titus O'Neil - in a match that couldn't have felt more like filler if it tried.
Star of the Show: Dolph Ziggler. One again, Ziggler proved himself to be an absolute dude at Survivor Series with a Shawn Michaels-esque performance. Even though he needed the help of Sting to get across the finish line, he pinned Kane, Luke Harper, and Seth Rollins in succession. Bravo!
Where: American Airlines Center - Dallas, Texas
What: A show full of stuff. Lots of stuff happened at Survivor Series '03, good and bad. Vince McMahon beat The Undertaker in a Buried Alive match (lol), signalling the end of BikerTaker. Team Bischoff defeated Team Austin, costing Stone Cold his position as co-General Manager of Raw. Kane survived an onslaught of tiny little Shane McMahon punches to throw him in an ambulance. Finally, Goldberg retained his World Heavyweight Championship against Triple H in an 11-minute match - or in Goldberg years, an incredibly, incredibly long contest.
The Good: Team Austin vs. Team Bischoff was brilliant, largely due to the heroic attempts of Shawn Michaels to overcome the odds. HBK is at his best when he almost wins but doesn't (see the 2010 Royal Rumble, and both WrestleMania epics against 'Taker) - and this show was no exception. The other traditional elimination match also managed to be decent, despite including Nathan Jones, while Eddie and Chavo Guerrero were able to squeeze an entertaining seven minutes out of the Basham Brothers.
The Bad: Triple H and Goldberg, although both legends of the business in their own right, were never able to truly click in the ring together. Also, despite the interference of Kane, I can never get over the fact that Vince McMahon has a Buried Alive match victory over The Undertaker.
Star of the Show: Shawn Michaels. HBK did his HBK thing, which was kinda similar to Dolph Ziggler at Survivor Series 2014 but slightly better. By the way, Randy Orton stood tall as the sole survivor yet again. That man was made for this pay per view.
Where: Richfield Coliseum - Richfield Township, Ohio
What: No Hogan, no Warrior - yet WWF somehow managed to scramble a respectable show together. Warrior was replaced in the marquee tag match by Mr. Perfect, who teamed with Randy Savage to face Ric Flair and (a rather inexperienced) Razor Ramon. What a collection of talent! However, the main consequence of the card reshuffle saw Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels' title match bumped to the main event - setting the scene for one of the most iconic feuds of the '90s.
The Good: Survivor Series '92 is generally regarded as a two-match show. Bret and Shawn weren't as comfortable with each other as they would go on to become (before their mutual hatred tore the entire wrestling landscape apart). Despite this, they wrestled a long, compelling main event, and Hart was finally able to force HBK to submit to the Sharpshooter. The big tag match lived up to its billing - at least until the finish, which saw Flair and Razor spoil the party by getting themselves disqualified. Boo those men.
The Bad: The card also featured two gimmick matches, which looked very fun on paper, but ended up being absolute toilet-fodder. Boss Man took on Nailz in a Nightstick on a Pole match. Did the weapon feature in the finish? No it did not, ladies and gentlemen. Later, Undertaker laboured to victory over Kamala in a five-minute casket match, which absolutely felt longer than that.
Star of the Show: Bret Hart. The Hitman showed his class and experience in a drawn-out main event, bumping all over the place for Shawn before rallying to pick up a big win. He also made friends with Santa.
Where: Molson Centre - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
What: Come on now; this event should need no introduction. The Montreal Screwjob is one of the most infamous incidents in the history of pro wrestling, as Vince McMahon, Shawn Michaels, and Earl Hebner (cowardly, cowardly Earl Hebner) conspired to legitimately screw Bret Hart out of the WWF Championship. Also, a bunch of other matches happened, but does anyone even care about that?
The Good: Michaels vs. Hart was obviously good while it lasted, but the finish overshadowed absolutely everything that came before. As far as traditional Survivor Series action, two of the four elimination matches impressed. One saw Team Canada face Team USA in a highly-charged, patriotic affair (featuring the debut of my absolute boy Steve Blackman). The other was an enjoyable exhibition in big, scary men beating the crap out of each other, as the Legion of Doom, Ahmed Johnson, and Ken Shamrock joined forces to take on The Nation of Domination.
The Bad: The Screwjob, of course - although it's hard to imagine what wrestling would look like these days if it hadn't happened. Elsewhere, Kane made his PPV debut against Mankind, with the entire match contested under an atmosphere-killing red light. Kinda like if Sin Cara was seven foot tall, and got over as much as WWE originally expected. Also, The Truth Commission clashed with The Disciples of Apocalypse in a 17-minute match that was just...maaan.
Star of the Show: The British Bulldog. Davey Boy wrestled his backside off to emerge as the sole survivor for Team Canada - despite, y'know, being British.
Where: TD Banknorth Garden - Boston, Massachusetts
What: Both John Cena and Edge came out of nowhere to win titles. One was more awesome than the other; no prizes for guessing which. This was the night of the great Jeff Hardy bait-and-switch, where he was found unconscious in a hotel room before the show, only for the Rated R Superstar to take his place and scoop the WWE Championship from under the nose of Triple H (and Vladimir Kozlov, as if he was going to win anyway).
The Good: The WWE Championship shenanigans were wild and entertaining, unless you're a massive Jeff Hardy supporter - not the smallest fan club in the world. The show also featured two good traditional tag matches. The heels won one, with Randy Orton, of course, surviving (although not on his own this time - props to Cody Rhodes). The unlikely babyface trio of HBK, Rey Mysterio, and The Great Khali battled their way through the other, and I'm immediately keen for a WWE Network special focusing on their friendship.
The Bad: As decent as the main event was, it was immensely frustrating to see John Cena knock off Chris Jericho to win the World Heavyweight Championship. Y2J was coming off the back of his amazing feud with Shawn Michaels, while Cena was returning from injury - so of course Big Match John hit the FU for a comprehensive victory. On the undercard, Big Show and Undertaker had a casket match which wasn't great, and the women's division battled through an unspectacular elimination tag - but neither were horrible, truth be told
Star of the Show: Edge. A worthy addition to the 'Edge comes out of absolutely nowhere to win a world title' collection. Opportunism pays off, kids. Start betraying your friends and ambushing your enemies, and one day you too could pretend to have sex with your girlfriend in the middle of a packed arena.
Where: Rosemont Horizon - Rosemont, Illinois
What: The first Survivor Series to really divide opinion, after '87 and '88 both wowed those excitable Golden Era fans. It was especially notable for Ultimate Warrior stepping into the spotlight, as he truly broke free from the midcard with a huge performance in the main event - emerging as sole survivor against the dastardly (and entertaining) Heenan Family. Hogan was the sole survivor in his match too. Because obviously.
The Good: The main event was great fun, especially with the mouthwatering prospect of Warrior vs. Heenan as a final showdown - a perfect example of the antagonistic, cowardly heel finally getting his comeuppance. Note the lack of forced disrobing and BBQ sauce, Cena. Rick Rude's 'Rude Brood' defeated 'Roddy's Rowdies', with Mr. Perfect as the deserved sole survivor. Props to the booking team for managing to avoid the 'Hogan squashes everyone' trap - by instead having most of his opponents get themselves disqualified in their desperation to attack him. Different, at least.
The Bad: To be fair, nothing on this show was outright bad - but the weakest match was definitely the opener, which saw Dusty Rhodes and Brutus Beefcake outlast a heel team including The Honky Tonk Man and Rick Martel. Clearly, despite not being of the highest quality, it still had the feel-good factor in its favour. Honestly, the biggest crime this PPV committed was being the third Survivor Series ever; the uniqueness had worn off, and it didn't really stack up to its predecessors. Still, nothing was actively unwatchable.
Star of the Show: Ultimate Warrior, who didn't just announce himself as a bonafide main eventer, but also eliminated Andre the freaking Giant in a matter of seconds (by knocking him to the outside - a tremendous visual). I was tempted to give this to Arn Anderson for Spinebusting (Spinebustering?) the hell out of Shawn Michaels, but resisted.
What: Brand warfare, bitches! Sorry, I got quite excited there. You see, if this list has taught us anything, it's that Randy Orton and Shawn Michaels are two of the best when it comes to epic performances in traditional Survivor Series matches. Well guess what happened on this show?! That's right, both men - one representing SmackDown, the other representing Raw - squaring off as the final two of a wonderful elimination bout. Sometimes the pieces just fall into place.
The Good: The main event is well worth a viewing, and stay tuned after the bell for a vengeful return. (The vengeful return is The Undertaker. It's usually The Undertaker in these situations.) Triple H and Ric Flair took one another to the limit in a bloody Last Man Standing match, which was admittedly a little uncomfortable to watch, but also enthralling at times. The women's division was also well represented by Trish Stratus and Melina here, who made the most of the five-or-so-minutes they were given.
The Bad: Teddy. Long. Versus. Eric. Bischoff. Nobody predicted the clash of the General Managers to be a good match - and hey, guess what?! It wasn't. Not even a Boogeyman run-in could save the day, and I love me some Boogeyman. A WWE Championship match between John Cena and Kurt Angle sounds potentially amazing, but the booking was all wrong. Kurt, despite being the heel, could easily have gone toe-to-toe with the far less experienced Cena. Instead, he resorted to cheating with the help of special guest referee Daivari, before eventually getting his comeuppance. It was quite a damp squib.
Star of the Show: Randy Orton. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the Legend Killer really knows how to steal the show at a Survivor Series pay per view. His big win also segued nicely into a feud with The Undertaker and put a crowd-popping cap on the show despite the heel victory.
9. Survivor Series 1987
What: The first ever Survivor Series: a then-groundbreaking procession of long, multi-layered tag matches featuring the larger-than-life stars of the Golden Era. Coming off the back of the mammoth WrestleMania III, this cluttered extravaganza featured Hogan and Andre clashing in the main event (alongside their chosen tag partners, of course). Needless to say, it felt huge. Not bad for a PPV created entirely to overshadow WCW's Starrcade.
The Good: From top to bottom, the booking of the show was very intelligent. We had a feel-good babyface victory to start things off, as Savage, Roberts, and Steamboat (what a trio!) survived - sending the cowardly Honky Tonk Man running for the hills. The women's match followed, in which the WWF audience was wowed by Japanese imports Itsuki Yamazaki and Noriyo Tateno - The Jumping Bomb Angels. A gargantuan 20-man bout followed, which somehow managed to be more than watchable despite clocking in at 37-minutes. Finally, the main event saw Hulk Hogan shockingly counted out halfway through - a booking masterstroke. Andre saw off the brave efforts of Bam Bam Bigelow to become Survivor Series' first ever sole survivor, and his planet-sized feud with the Hulkster rumbled on.
The Bad: The show hasn't aged too well, as much of the wrestling on display was of a far lower quality than modern audiences are used to. I'm talking to you, every single competitor in the women's match apart from Yamazaki and Tateno. Additionally, the huge tag match, although partly fun, was a pretty exhausting affair in hindsight.
Stars of the Show: The Jumping Bomb Angels. To claim these women were ahead of their time would be a massive understatement. The Japanese duo legitimately wouldn't look too out of place in the modern era (and were certainly way better than many female WWE superstars of recent years - *coughEvaMariecough*).
Where: Greensboro Coliseum - Greensboro, North Carolina
What: The merciful end to the disastrous Invasion angle - but also a pretty damn decent pay per view in its own right. Yes, the entire undercard was essentially a prelude to that epic Team WWF vs. Alliance showdown, but the warring factions theme really helps set this apart in the history of Survivor Series. Although the Invasion's ends came nowhere close to justifying the means, the blowoff at least had the courtesy to be entertaining.
The Good: Yes, it was ridiculously overblown in terms of scale and drama, but the main event was impossible not to enjoy - even if The Alliance were represented by names far more synonymous with Titan Towers, such as Austin, Angle, and Vince McMahon's literal son. Although a long match, it was kept hot with various flashpoints, including Jericho taking his ball and going home, Angle defecting, and Rocky being the big beautiful hero we all love him to be. Every other match had to be content with second fiddle, but The Hardys and Dudleys did their best to steal the show with a compelling cage war. (I've still never forgiven Jeff for that boneheaded Swanton. All you needed to do was climb down!)
The Bad: The rest of the show was largely underwhelming, with matches like Edge vs. Test and Regal vs. Tajiri failing to capture the imagination (although the latter really should have been given more than a couple of minutes, come on now). The Women's Championship match and Immunity Battle Royal were similarly shoddy, but if ever a show openly revolved around one match, this was it. Also, like, almost every Royal Rumble.
Star of the Show: The Rock. With Austin still heeling it up (magnificently, by the way, even if fans weren't ready to see him play the bad guy), The Rock stepped up to become WWF's guy. Of course he handled it. He's The Rock.
Where: Verizon Centre - Washington, D.C.
What: A strong Survivor Series peppered with memorable moments - most notably the epic main event between Cena, Triple H, and Michaels. With just about everyone expecting DX to work together, HBK blew the roof off by immediately Superkicking The Game out of the ring. Earlier in the night, Kofi Kingston made his case for a main event push, showing great babyface fire as he became sole survivor and stunned Mr. November. That's Randy Orton, in case you haven't been paying attention. Yes, I just invented that nickname and really want to get it over. Let's move on.
The Good: Mostly covered above - the main event and Team Orton vs. Team Kingston showdown were unquestionable highlights. A special mention must also be given to the gloriously dickish Batista, who was in full heel mode having turned on tag partner Rey Mysterio one month prior. He absolute decimated the underdog in an entertaining five-minute squash. At the start of the night, The Miz, Sheamus, and Drew McIntyre survived against a fun team of babyfaces, and were kind enough to seem young and exciting in the process.
The Bad: The women's elimination tag match was ugly, lasting a difficult 10 minutes as Melina and Mickie James survived. In the World Heavyweight Championship bout, Undertaker took on Chris Jericho and Big Show - triumphing when the heels were predictably unable to co-exist.
Star of the Show: Shawn Michaels. I really, really wanted to give this to my boy Kofi Kingston - his one-two elimination of CM Punk and Randy Orton is always exciting to revisit - but HBK stole the show yet again. What a main event.
What: A card built around two huge matches: an Undertaker Hell in a Cell match, and Randy Orton vs. Shawn Michaels for the WWE Championship (and, presumably, the King of Survivor Series crown). We only saw one traditional elimination tag match this time around, but it was a good one, as Triple H and Jeff Hardy dug their heels in to survive five-on-two odds. We also saw Hornswoggle vs. The Great Khali, a match you just know Vince McMahon was itching to book from the moment both men were on the same roster.
The Good: HBK and Orton pulled it out of the bag - of course they did - but Michaels' performance was particularly noteworthy. Triple H and Jeff Hardy busted their asses to make the show's sole Survivor Series match a good one, while CM Punk defended his ECW Championship in an entertaining curtain-jerker. Batista and Undertaker threatened to deflate everything with a fairly ordinary Hell in a Cell main event, but Edge showed up (disguised as a cameraman, the cheeky devil) to end the night with a bang. Ooh, I love me some ultimate opportunism.
The Bad: Take a seat, because this may shock you: Great Khali vs. Hornswoggle was not a good match. We were also made to suffer a sloppy 10-diva tag match - one of those booking decisions where the writers clearly hadn't bothered to build many feuds, so threw all the women together and gave them about three-minutes to work a miracle.
Star of the Show: Shawn Michaels. In the clash of Survivor Series specialists, HBK went above and beyond to steal the show. It's almost like he gets a kick out of being the best wrestler or something.
5. Survivor Series 1988<
10 Things We Learned From WWE Survivor Series 2017
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Iran warns of ‘strong step’ from atomic deal if no new terms
Iran will “take a strong step” away from its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers if Europe cannot offer the country new terms by a deadline at the end of this week, a government spokesman said Monday as top Iranian diplomats traveled to France and Russia for last-minute talks.
The comments from Ali Rabiei reinforced the deadline Iran had set for Friday for Europe to offer it a way to sell its crude oil on the global market. Crushing US sanctions imposed after President Donald Trump withdrew America from the deal over a year ago have halted those sales.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was in Moscow, while his deputy was to travel to Paris with a team of economists Monday in a renewed diplomatic push. The developments come after French President Emmanuel Macron surprised the Group of Seven summit in France by inviting Zarif last week.
Rabiei described Iran’s strategy to journalists at Monday’s press conference in Tehran as “commitment for commitment.” “Iran’s oil should be bought and its money should be accessible to return to Iran,” Rabiei said. “This is the agenda of our talks.”
It’s unclear what the terms of negotiation are. In theory, anyone caught buying Iranian crude oil would be subject to US sanctions and potentially locked out of the American financial market. Already, Iran has gone over limits set by the deal. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed last week that Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium still exceeds the amount allowed by the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA as the deal is known.
The UN agency also said Iran continues to enrich uranium up to 4.5%, above the 3.67% allowed. Enriched uranium at the 3.67% level is enough for peaceful pursuits and is far below weapons-grade levels of 90%. At the 4.5% level, the uranium can help power Iran’s Bushehr reactor, the country’s only nuclear power plant.
It remains unclear what further step Iran will take, though it could involve restarting advanced centrifuges prohibited by the deal or further bumping up its enrichment of uranium. Iran insists the steps it has taken so far are easily reversible. “We will announce implementation of the third step in a letter to the Europeans if the Europeans do not impalement necessary measures by Thursday,” said Zarif in a Sunday interview with Iran’s parliament news agency, ICANA.
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Large car bomb hits Afghan capital near area with embassies
A large car bomb rocked the Afghan capital on Thursday and smoke rose from a part of eastern Kabul near a neighborhood housing the US Embassy, the NATO Resolute Support mission and other diplomatic missions. At least three people were killed and another 30 wounded, a hospital director said.
It was the second major blast in the Afghan capital this week while a US envoy has been in town briefing officials on a US-Taliban deal “in principle” to end America’s longest war.
Firdaus Faramarz, a spokesman for Kabul’s police chief, told The Associated Press that the explosion took place in the city’s Ninth Police District. It appeared to target a checkpoint in the heavily guarded Shashdarak area where the Afghan national security authorities have offices.
Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said a car bomb had exploded on a main road and police were sealing off the area. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Three bodies and 30 wounded people were brought to the nearby Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan hospital, said its director, Gul Ahmad Ayubi.
An Associated Press reporter on the phone with the US Embassy when the blast occurred heard sirens begin there.
A Taliban suicide bombing in eastern Kabul on Monday night — which the insurgents said targeted a foreign compound — killed at least 16 people and wounded more than 100, almost all of them local civilians.
The Afghan government has expressed serious concerns about the US-Taliban deal, which US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has said only needed the approval of President Donald Trump to become final.
Thursday’s blast occurred as Afghan presidential adviser Waheed Omer was speaking to reporters. He warned that difficult days were ahead and he described the deal as moving with “excessive speed.”
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Archaeological Finds in Retreating Swiss Glacier
I will write up some notes on the U.S. Climate Change Science Workshop, but I’d like to post up some information on a couple of interesting reports in the past few days on archaeological discoveries in a receding glacier on a high Swiss pass towards Italy, sent in by a reader. Glacier retreat in the hot 2003 summer exposed remains from several distinct periods: from ~ 2800-2500 BC; from 2000-1750 BC; ~150 BC-250 AD; and the MWP up to the 14th/15th Century. I’ve tidied some machine translations from the German to give a gist of the articles; I’ve not tried to figure out the details of the translation as the gist is pretty clear. The archaeologists say that summer temperatures were warmer in these past warm periods. When you see information like this, it really reinforces my doubts about Thompson’s dating of Kilimanjaro, which seems fragile in the extreme.
Die Welte, Nov. 14, 2005 German
Stone Age trade routes yield spectacular finds on alpine pass – clothes, weapons and devices also from Roman time and the Middle Ages
Holger Kroker scientist of the archaeological service Berne found among other things a Roman booklet (garb latch):
In the hot summer of 2003 two wanderers from the Swiss Thun did not trust their eyes. They stood at the edge of an icefield at the Schnidejoch above Lenk, when they discovered a birchbark arrow-quiver. A dating with the archaeological service of the canton Berne showed that the birchbark is nearly 5000 years old. Meanwhile the Bernese archaeologist searched the area thoroughly and found some evidence for a much-used connection between that Bernese upper country and north Italy. The glacier between the today’s ski place Lenk in the north and Sitten, the principal place in the canton Wallis, had released pieces of find from four different epochs. For the archaeologists, the discovery is of comparable importance to Oetzi, the South Tirol glacier corpse.
"Naturally, Oetzi is more sensational", says Peter Suter, Leader of the department of prehistory and early history with the archaeological service in Berne. "However for historical research, these finds from several centuries are just as important." Because they represent not only a snapshot, but as it were a diagram of the settlement and climatic history in the central Alps. The oldest finds are clothing remnants and articles of equipment dated from the Late Stone Age and the epoch between 2800 and 2500 BC. Among them are a birchbark arrow-quiver, some stone arrowheads as well as fragments of Stone Age leather shoes and trousers. The researchers found also particles of human skin as well as skin remnants, which may come from a horse. "One asks oneself, what was a horse doing there?", so Peter Suter.
If DNA investigations confirm the fact that it actually comes from a horse, it could show a completely early form of domestication. A second group of finds originate from the Bronze Age between 2000 and 1750 BC, among them bronze aristocracy and remnants of a splinter box, which obviously served for the transport of goods. From Roman times, a Wollguertel, numerous shoe nails were held together and a booklet from the 1st or early 2nd century AD were found with the dresses. The youngest find is part of a shoe dated to the 14/15th Century.
Afterwards the pass over the Schnidejoch was locked in again by ice and snow until 2003. "These finds are so important, because they reflect the on and starting from the Vergletscherung in the past 10,000 years that we also know from other sources", stressed Peter Suter. For instance from the drill cores of the Greenland glaciers, which serve as climatic archives. For the times from which the finds originate from the Schnidejoch, these drill cores show clear references to warm periods.
Also investigations of researchers of the ETH Zurich on the apron of the Unteraargletschers in the upper Bernese country resulted in strongly varying temperatures in the Alps, into whose attendants the glaciers advanced at times and retreated at times. "Scientific and archaeological findings fit together outstandingly", says Suter. From climatic research, it is well-known that in Europe between the 3rd Millenium and 1750 BC, a mild climate prevailed. The average summer temperatures might have been at that time for 0.5 to two degrees than today. As consequence the pass was passable over the 2756 meters high Schnidejoch in the summer and represented together with that 2000 meters high Simplonpass the shortest connection between north Italy and the Bernese upper country. The large number of finds is for the Bernese experts evidence of traffic movement at that time.
Later climatic degradation in Europe let the glaciers advance again and blocked the way starting from 850 BC to Roman times, the ice masses releasing the pass starting from approximately 150 BC. There are remnants of Roman settlements in the upper Bernese country: a whole row about a temple district in Thun from the first until the third century AD. Also few hundred meters underneath the pass, one found remainders of a Roman lodging. "We always asked ourselves, where it continued, reports from there" Peter Suter, "We know now we that the way led across the Schnidejoch." A climatic degradation accompanied the fall of the Roman realm, so that the pass between Lenk and Sitten became blocked again. In the late Middle Ages, the glaciers withdrew and opened the way for few centuries, but since the Little Ice Age, those again remained blocked from the middle of the 16th to the 19th Century. Only the summer of 2003 changed that and opened the way over the Schnidejoch again. In the meantime, even modern city people can move on the traces of their Late Stone Age ancestors. "The moving way", thus Peter Suter, "was marked in the past summer."
Tages Spiegel, Nov. 16, 2005 German
A glacier near Berne releases finds from the Stone Age – remnants of a forgotten alpine pass
By Michael Zick
"We were simply lucky", say Peter Suter. The boss of the department of pre- and early history of the archaeological service of the canton Berne helped the luck in the last two years purposefully, and so he could announce a small sensation now:
In the mountains between Thuner lake and Rhonetal, he and his aides discovered human belongings from the third millennium BC. The inheritances, remnants of shoes, clothes, an arrow-quiver, originate from the time around 2700 BC. – that is Oetzi era. It had begun in the autumn of 2003 with a hut migration of the married couple Leuenberger from Thun. The mountain climbers had to master the 2756 meters high Schnidejoch. The ice of the Chichli glacier had shrunk in such a way that the way led only across rubble.
In a place, where the ice had only recently melted, Ursula Leuenberger discovered a dark article. Against the advice of her husband, she fastened the strange Fetzen on her backpack and handed it over later to the archaeological service. There one puzzled first: What – was a koecher? How old or rather young was it, because it was well preserved? An exact investigation and dating with C14-Method showed then: The oblong object from together-sewn birchbark, with leather belts tapes, resembled in design and age Oetzi’s quiver from the Austrian-Italian Alps.
The find and discovery site were kept secret from fear of "treasure graves" first. In the following two years, coworkers of the archaeological service looked for the area precisely off. They found approximately 300 further articles at the edge of the ice: Stone Age articles of clothing and arrows, garb needles from the Bronze Age and shoe nails from the Roman period. Suter wants to further-search in the next year "in any case." Particularly the Stone Age artifacts from organic material did it to the archaeologists. They are a truly lucky find. Because the wood -, to leather and textile remainders only kept, because they were covered before scarcely 5000 years rapidly by snow and ice and found very fast now after that to way ropes of the gletschereises. "depending upon size of the pieces", Suter says, " such old organic material only keeps itself for two weeks" if it lies exposed. With the professional search on the forgotten pass, two further larger pieces of the koecher were found, of one contained two flint heads of the arrow. Several arrow shanks from the wood of the snow clenching smoke completed the hunt equipment.
A larger piece phloem network could come from a umhang, as Oetzi put it around the shoulders. Like the wanderer from the Oetztal, Stone Age Swiss wore deer leather trousers sewn with lime tree phloem. The archaeologists constituted repair patch on it still another. From the many other leather bits they could reconstruct a Neolithic shoe including tying volume eyes. Altogether "we have fragments of more than two shoes", reports Suter. Whether these belonged to the footwear of a further traveller over the pass or carried as a pair of reserves, he cannot say.
All this the archaeologists owe to the retreat the glacier in the upper Bernese country, which continues for decades and was accelerated by the particularly hot summer of 2003. However it was still hotter in the third millennium BC. At that time the temperatures in the Swiss Alps were up to two degrees over the today’s. The timber line had climbed substantially, the glacier zone began only at 2700 meters. In the outgoing Stone Age and the early Bronze Age, the inhabitants of central Switzerland used the later completely forgotten Schnidepass, in order to come directly into the Rhonetal. Identical garb needles in graves at the Thuner lake and in the Rhonetal speak for such a direct connection.
After a climatic degradation around 850 BC. then the Romans used this Diretissima again. Starting from 150 BC as occupy over 100 nails of their sandalen in the ice-free mountain rubble. Our ancestors were by far more mobile, than one generally assumes. Oetzi’s stone knife blade originated from the south alpine area of north Italy. From these Lessini alps the desired flint blade were traded also to the Bodensee and after Bavaria, even until Tschechien. Identical tools in Switzerland and in Austria prove Stone Age east west traffic by the Alps. Many archaeological finds occupy the exchange over far areas, perhaps even a regular trade. With the goods also ideas moved – and humans such as Oetzi. The chance to seek out a Swiss ice man estimates Suter as rather small: "the ice was not any longer very thickly there above, we would have already seen it.
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Posted Nov 19, 2005 at 5:10 AM | Permalink
I can imagine the response: “Yawn. The MWP and Roman Warm Period were North Atlantic climate phenomena only)
To which I’d reply, “I’d assume these North Atlantic phenomena could be attributable to some natural cause. Would you like to answer what these localized causes could be?”
JerryB
Meanwhile in Iceland (from http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/10/23/iceland.glacier/index.html ):
“It really is not a human-induced situation,” he said. “This glacier is receding from the coast because it advanced to the coast during what is known as the Little Ice Age.
“Relatively speaking, things have become warmer, but they were warm before the Little Ice Age.”
Evans says that 300 years ago the coastal land around Breidamerkurjokull was ice-free and used for farming by local people.
Then, in the early decades of the 18th century, the climate grew colder and giant rivers of ice spread out from the Vatnajokull sheet, including the Breidamerkurjokull glacier.
These moved miles down to the coast, covering pastures and crushing farmhouses that lay in their path.
Re #2:
“Breidamerkurjokull still has to go quite a long way back yet to get to where it was prior to the Little Ice Age,” said Evans.
There is an interesting story at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeology/king_stonehenge_01.shtml
which may have some relation to the Alps findings. The grave of a man, the Amesbury Archer, has been found about 2 miles from Stonehenge. The grave, which is very richly furnished, dates from about 2200 to 2400 BC. The grave of a relative of this man is nearby – they are known to be related from an unusual characteristic of bones in their feet. Oxygen isotope measurements of teeth enamel of the Archer show that as a child he had lived in a climate much colder than that of present day Britain, possibly near the Alps. The metal of a copper knife came from Spain and the gold of some ear rings could have come from Continental Europe.
This leads to the suggestion that a European elite existed about 5000 years ago.
louis beckers
a “pfeilkoecher” is a quiver in english. Birkenrinde is not a place somewhere. It is birch bark.(in “ein Pfeilkoecher aus Birkenrinde”, “aus” means “made of”. The grammatical rule to spell the first letter of a noun in german with an uppercast first character may have further contributed to the error).
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Murray Duffin
Posted Nov 29, 2005 at 4:20 PM | Permalink
That works out to about a 900 to 1000 year cycle, with 800-700BC missing. I have to do some digging, but I seem to have seen such a cycle length suggested elsewhere. Murray
Patrick Trombly
Posted Dec 5, 2006 at 10:32 AM | Permalink
Here is what I don’t understand about the MWP deniers:
What is their alternative explanation for all the physical evidence?
The “local phenomenon” argument really doesn’t gibe. All I can think of there
is that because the average person on the street knows only about the Vikings and
the British vineyards and olive trees in Germany that they think they can convince
those people with that disingenuous brush-off.
But the argument can’t be taken seriously, since the evidence isn’t at all limited
to the North Atlantic.
I’ve never hear the Mann crowd offer an alternative explanation for the myriad events
that took place between 1000-1300 AD that have since they occurred been attributed to
warm temperatures and clearly indicate warmer temperatures than today.
It’s not just a choice between extrapolations from tree ring widths and tree lines – – if I were
going to go with the tree ring widths, I would never advance that conclusion without first
having an explanation for why the tree lines were higher than today. The record of what
grew when and where, what harbors and inlets were iced over for what part of the year, is pretty
clear. How did some warm weather plants grow where they don’t today?
Mann does make a feeble attempt with respect to one plant, wine grapes, which grew in England.
He points out that there are vineyards in England today. Sure, and there is a vineyard in Nashoba
Valley, Massachusetts. But they don’t grow the same varieties of grapes, using the same methods, as
is the case in the south of France! And in Medieval Britain, they did! Just the fact that they
STARTED vineyards at a time when landowners’ primary asset was the land and its produce, when they kept
their lands only by paying a duty out of the profit made through selling the produce, and when there
was almost no access to credit and the capital outlay required for a vineyard was very high, all of
which meaning that devoting acreage to wine grapes was a large investment with a high opportunity
cost, which people wouldn’t undertake on a whim.
And this explanation, pathetic as it is, is the only MWP example that Mann addresses.
If we’re to infer that the only answer to each example is a “local” warming, and we
apply that explanation to each event from around the globe, that’s tantamount to an admission,
isn’t it?
But I won’t infer an argument from the MWP deniers where one isn’t offered. I’ll just point out
that it’s kind of like arguing that Washington didn’t in fact cross the Delaware without producing
an alternative theory as to how he wound up on the other side. Until someone produces that alternative
theory, he crossed the Delaware. Until they explain away the physical evidence, it wouldn’t matter
to me if you folks HADN’T found problems with the models and the cherry-picking of proxy data – –
the MWP happened and was warmer than today because the physical record is clear that innumerable
events occurred around the globe for which there is no other rational explanation than warmer
temperatures.
Err, pardon my ignorance, but how do you know these weren’t simply the result of people falling into crevasses? This happens all the time on glaciers, and crevasses form and close all the time. Why do we need to posit that the whole thing melted?
yes, that is possible. maybe even “plausible”. what about evidence of horses in glaciated mountain passes? most people who fall into glaciers are in the mountains for recreational purposes. this, of course, does not rule out an occasional hunter falling into a crevasse. usually, the middle of a mountain pass is not a heavily crevassed area, and also a relatively flat section. this lends evidence to the idea of things covered by advancing glaciers, rather than falling into a cevasse.
8: I don’t think there would be much left of a person who fell into a crevasse after a couple hundred years. He would be reduced to paste by the glacier’s movement in no time.
woodentop
#8, I remember reading a book about Oetzi, the ice-man mentioned in the original article. It would appear from the archaelogical evidence found on the well preserved body, thought to be lying in the same rock hollow where he had fallen (probably as the result of a wound), that there was trade and travel between what is now Italy and Austria across the pass where he was found. Until fairly recently, it was practically impassable except to those with modern clothing and equipment. This suggests natural cycles of warming and cooling, posited to be around 1500+/-500 years. See this recent offering, which incidentally cites LOTS of papers on the global nature of this phenomenon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unstoppable-Global-Warming-Every-Years/dp/0742551172/ref=pd_bowtega_1/203-1556262-7415128?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180645573&sr=1-1
Filippo Turturici
We know very well that Alpine glaciers mainly formed during Little Ice Age, and that almost none of it (just small parts of nowadays major glaciers) existed during Medieval Warm Period or during the rise of Roman Empire.
And that both the rescue of Europe from Dark Centuries and the expansion of Rome were greatly helped by warmer climate.
And that Venice lagoon never had a major freezing event for 2 centuries near the year 1,000 (4 such events in XXth century, 10-12 in XVIIIth).
And that it is a nonsense to say “also today we got vineyards in England” for at least two reasons: we are talking of Middle Ages, not of modern agricultural techniques and technologies; vineyards today are cultivated just in a small south-eastern region of the island, not far north as to Scotland Lowlands, it would be as considering Italin climate from Sicily or US weather from Florida.
And that, for the same reasons, there were once olive trees in Germany, or ice-free areas in Greenland large and mild enough to settle, or so few ice along Newfoundland coast to found a colony (we are now in June and such coast is today still mainly frozen).
And that it is a very small chance that all the area from North Pole to Urals to Rocky Mountains was very warmer than any decade we have lived, without at least all the Northern Emisphere being at least a bit warmer than today.
And that alpine glaciers are retreating since 1850, with 3 main retreats: 1850-1880, 1920-1950, 1980-today; and that it was in the XIXth century that the most part of glacial mass was lost, with retreats up to 1km/0.6mil of glacial front in a pair of decades, and that last glacial retreat is the last not only for time but also for lost mass (simply because we have little to save, we might say: but, I have a guide to my region dating to ’60ies where local glaciers are described as very small and almost disappearing in the previous decades – most part of them is still very small but also still alive).
But who cares?
#11: higher alpine passes, like Stelvio, were closed 2 days ago for heavy snow falls (snow fell down to 1,000-1,500m/3,300/5,000ft); even in 2006, we had snow until early June on the Alps; and we are talking of areas that today are still glaciers, not of passes with paved roads but opened only during summer (and which usually see at least a snowfall even in July).
There is an American film “The Italian Job” where there is a key scene filmed in an area that is supposed to be at the Italian – Swiss or Italian – Austrian border. Based on the way the area looked, I think it really was filmed there. Quite a stark landscape – above tree line, snow and ice everywhere, strangely attractive. (Of course, for those who saw this film, the result in that scene was anything but attractive! …. on the contrary, it was tragic)
Posted Jun 1, 2007 at 4:16 AM | Permalink
#14: Steve, are you talking about the recent film with Donald Sutherland, or the older one with Michael Caine?
Gaudenz Mischol
I give you some more hints
there were about 300 objects found on this “new pass”
those objects were found scattered all along the pass
they dated back to several periods: MWP, Roman Period and even further back
the objects were defenitely not suitable for climbing over glaciers, ice and snow
so all these hints make it not “very plausible” that those people just fell into crevasses
in a small town north to this pass, called Thun, many years ago the fundaments of a roman villa was found, far off all known roman streets. So this new pass might be an explanation why the villa was there.
Jeff Norman
Posted Jun 1, 2007 at 10:45 AM | Permalink
Re: #14 Steve Sadlov,
(Of course, for those who saw this film, the result in that scene was anything but attractive! …. on the contrary, it was tragic)
Yes, they magically didn’t die from exposure.
RE: #15 – the new one, with Sutherland.
Human artifacts, and occasional remains, have been popping out of melting ice patches on the mountain slopes of the southern Yukon for the last decade – Google ‘ice patch artifacts’ to get a whole pile of references. The artifacts have been carbon-dated to roughly 1,000, 4,000 and 8,000 years BP. At those times the climate was warmer, there was no perma-ice in the hollows, and there were a lot more caribou around, with hunters in hot pursuit. (Warmer climate = more caribou. Whodathunkit?) The archaeologists and anthropologists are interested in this, but I haven’t seen any reference to it from climate scientists. There’s probably an interesting paleoclimatology study to be done just from reviewing the artifact dating and the anthropology observations that follow from it.
Posted Jun 1, 2007 at 12:23 PM | Permalink
19: the folks at RC will use bender’s double standard #xx to claim that, while the current warming is a global phenomonen, the past warmings evidenced in the Yukon were “localized events.”
#18: seen it time ago, I think I might not remember it so well, but I would find it just magic as landscape 🙂
But Jeff, #17, that was not surely the worst thing: in movies, we are used to people who walk at -40°C without gloves and cap, maybe also with the wind-cheater opened (try just -10°C with wind…) or who never sweat in places like Bangkok or Hong Kong, or to noise in space etc.
During late stone age and early bronze age (say about 3,000-2,000 b.C.) it is almost sure that sea levels were higher than today, but also than other historical periods: during following centuries, as result of cooling, sea retreat made available to human settlements many sites on the coast (e.g. Peter Salway’s chapter “Roman Britannia”, in Kenneth O. Morgan’s “Illustrated history of Britain”).
Also, during MWP sea levels of Mediterranean were higher than nowadays (it is really strange that World should not be warmer then…) and some small lagoon and coastal marsh in North-Eastern Italy was just a remainder of that era.
Paul Biggs
The paper was published in the February 2007 JQS and the abstract states that, The preservation of Neolithic leather indicates permanent ice cover at that site from ca. 4900 cal. yr BP until AD 2003, implying that the ice cover was smaller in 2003 than at any time during the last 5000 years. Current glacier retreat is unprecedented since at least that time. This is highly significant regarding the interpretation of the recent warming and the rapid loss of ice in the Alps.’
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114125034/ABSTRACT
Rapid Communication
Ice-borne prehistoric finds in the Swiss Alps reflect Holocene glacier fluctuations
Martin Grosjean 1 *, Peter J. Suter 2, Mathias Trachsel 1, Heinz Wanner 1
1NCCR Climate and Institute of Geography, Bern, Switzerland2Archaeological Survey Canton Bern, Bern, Switzerland
email: Martin Grosjean (grosjean@giub.unibe.ch)
*Correspondence to Martin Grosjean, NCCR Climate, University of Bern, Erlachstrasse 9a, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Grosjean, M., Suter, P. J., Trachsel, M. and Wanner, H. 2007. Ice-borne prehistoric finds in the Swiss Alps reflect Holocene glacier fluctuations. J. Quaternary Sci., Vol. 22 pp. 203-207. ISSN 0267-8179.
archaeology ‘€¢ glaciology ‘€¢ climate change ‘€¢ global warming ‘€¢ Switzerland
During the hot summer of 2003, reduction of an ice field in the Swiss Alps (Schnidejoch) uncovered spectacular archaeological hunting gear, fur, leather and woollen clothing and tools from four distinct windows of time: Neolithic Age (4900 to 4450 cal. yr BP), early Bronze Age (4100-3650 cal. yr BP), Roman Age (1st-3rd century AD), and Medieval times (8-9th century AD and 14-15th century AD). Transalpine routes connecting northern Italy with the northern Alps during these slots is consistent with late Holocene maximum glacier retreat. The age cohorts of the artefacts are separated which is indicative of glacier advances when the route was difficult and not used for transit. The preservation of Neolithic leather indicates permanent ice cover at that site from ca. 4900 cal. yr BP until AD 2003, implying that the ice cover was smaller in 2003 than at any time during the last 5000 years. Current glacier retreat is unprecedented since at least that time. This is highly significant regarding the interpretation of the recent warming and the rapid loss of ice in the Alps. Copyright ⧠2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Received: 26 September 2006; Revised: 24 December 2006; Accepted: 3 January 2007
RE: #23 – Make that “during the last five thoussssaaannndddd yyyyyeeeearrrrsssssss!”
#23: that is precisely why I feel so difficult to believe in AGW, and overall that “scientists” could make such a theory remaining “scientists”.
Are glaciers “fixed and motionless”? Not at all, they continue to grow or to retreat, moving upward and downward, moving their own ice but also the terrain where they are based, covering and uncovering, creating lakes or occupying valleys etc.
Moreover, some kinds of muddy terrain can preserve bodies and tools as well as ice, and even without needing to freeze.
So, if we found reperts from 5,000bC to 1,400AD, should the glacier be at its smallest extent since 7,000 years? But all the Roman and Medieval tools, were placed there millennia before they were made? This is simply a non-sense!
And in the end: “This is highly significant regarding the interpretation of the recent warming and the rapid loss of ice in the Alps.” what does it mean? That 7,000 years ago factories and machines were emitting CO2 and changed climate?!?
#25: or that during the largest ice mass loss, 1850-1880, greenhouse effect was so strong (but maybe only in the Alps)? Or that during the second largest ice mass loss, 1920-1950, such effect was equal or even greater than today? Because, to be people who study Alps glaciers, they seem to completely forget that contemporary glaciers melt is happening on glaciers already melting since 1850, many of them already reduced to their historical minimum before 1960, and overall that much greater losses in glacial mass (it is true for melting velocity too) happened before we begin to pollute the World so much.
So, or they do mean nothing, or their phrases are the usual AGW stuff.
#23: The abstract strongly implies that leather remains could not have survived an early uncovering. I don’t have access to the full paper — does it go into more depth on this issue, or is it just an assumption? Since they found such remains from 5 separated (presumably warm) historical periods, if this assumption holds, then each warming period would have to have been a little less warm than the previous one, so that artifacts from any previous warm period were not uncovered, but still warm enough to permit some travel through the pass. Does this make sense to you?
Alan Woods
Re #23…27.
The critical point in the context of this paper is that leather
requires permanent embedding in ice in order to stay preserved
and, as it is observed today, deteriorates very quickly if exposed
at the surface. In consequence, the finds at Schnidejoch suggest
permanent ice cover at that site for the last 5000 years, more
specifically from ca. 3000 BC until AD 2003. At first glance our
conclusion differs from the conclusions drawn from exposed
trees in the forefields of melting glacier tongues (Jo⦠rin et al.,
2006). However, the conclusions by Jo⦠rin et al. (2006; see also
by Hormes et al., 2006) refer to the AD 1985 level:glaciers in
the Grimsel [and Alpine] area were smaller than at 1985 AD
during several times for the last 5000 years’; while our
conclusion reads: in the year of 2003 AD, the ice field at
Schnidejoch has reached the smallest extent since the last
5000 years’.
This is not a contradiction. We argue that this difference is
explained by the dissimilar response lags of the two types
of archives compared: ice mass balance near the ELA
(Schnidejoch) responds immediately to sub-decadal climate
variations, while Alpine glacier tongues respond with a
multi-decadal lag to climatology (20’€”60 years (Jo⦠rin et al.,
2006); importantly this fact also applies to the study by Hormes
et al. (2006)). Differences between the equilibrium states of fast
and slowly responding climate archives are typically large
during phases of rapid changes. Indeed while the ice field at
Schnidejoch is in equilibrium with the state of the atmosphere
of the most recent years, the glacier tongues have not yet
fully responded to the excessively warm years of the last
15 years, when (1) solar radiation at the Earth’s surface has
increased owing to brightening of the atmosphere (globally
6.6Wm2 10 yr1 between 1992 and 2002, Swiss Plateau
7.2Wm2 10 yr1; Wild et al., 2005), (2) anthropogenic
greenhouse forcing with related strong water vapour feedback
enhanced the downward longwave radiation in Europe
(à¾1.18Wm1 yr1, data 1995’€”2002; Philipona et al., 2005)
which increased temperatures, and (3) negative trends in the
specific mass balance of Alpine glaciers accelerated (Zemp,
Obviously the underlying mechanisms for the current ice
retreat are very different from those during the mid-Holocene
(6 kyr BP), when Milankovich forcing at 478 N alone accounted
for à¾25Wm2 (summer) and 15Wm2 (winter; Berger,
1978) compared with today (Fig. 3(D)). Also the role of solar
irradiance may have played a role (Holzhauser et al., 2005, and
references therein).
MrPete
#24, you forgot to include Dr Evil 👿 — just takes a colon, evil, colon…
Other relevant posts on Alps stratigraphy include http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=765 772, 773 and 774. The movement of material engulfed in alpine glaciers is quite complicated. Hormes in various studies notes that objects (fossil wood especially) from different periods has merged in sediments at the same stratigraphic level. THere is a real need for careful geological mapping of all finds – in Thompson’s articles, if there is such mapping, it is not reported.
It seems to me like the Geophisyc Research Letters, which stated a few days ago that winter 2007 was the warmest ever since winter 1289 in the Alpine area and in all Europe.
What’s the matter? Other very mild winters for Alps and Europe, between 1289 and 2007, and very similar to these two, were (at least): 1505, a series of winters around 1530, 1607, 1788 and 1817.
I would like to hear more about evidence of glacier melting in the MWP period, elsewhere in the world. After all, if glaciers melted as much then as they have now, then, regardless of the cause of current temperatures, that would reassure me (and no doubt other casual inquirers) that there is nothing “exceptional” about the current earth climate.
It seems clear that this is the case in Europe. How well can it be demonstrated elsewhere? I am aware of that book about the 1500 year cycle, but I’ve read so much about temperature proxies that I’d like to step back from them and look at something I can relate to (what the heck do I know about marine sediment and tree rings — nothing) — hence, glaciers.
Live to Ski
Check this out, scientist Morten Rasmussen just sequenced the entire human genome of a 4000 year old Intuit man: http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/02/meet_inuk_-_full_genome_of_ancient_human_tells_us_about_his.php
Posted Sep 5, 2010 at 12:26 AM | Permalink
Well you know the reason why they find evidence of warmer climates that existed on Earth thousands of years ago? It was those damn Mayans and their SUVs creating global warming which eventually wiped them all out.
Seriously though, the heating and cooling of the Earth is a cyclical event. Science has proven that the planet has heated and cooled numerous times; causing droughts, floods, submersion of land masses, exposure of land masses, periods where there was no ice, and periods where the planet was half frozen. None of which was caused by humans. These changes often came rapidly and have caused indigenous people to migrate or change their lifestyles to compensate for the weather changes. In some extreme cases, it has resulted in the deaths of certain groups of people who were unable to adapt or relocate in time.
I remember reading an article in 2005 where scientists found an area near the Arctic where melting ice had revealed grass that had been flash frozen over 25,000 years ago. Some scientists also argue that we are over-due for another ice age, and that such an event can occur with little to no warning, and could likely happen at any time. Taking into consideration the recent lack of sun spot activity and that the winter of 2009-2010 resulted in record low temperatures for much of North America, Europe and Asia, I wouldn’t be surprised if the next ice age happens sooner than later.
Chris Shaker
There are many scientific papers detailing temperatures reconstructed from the Medieval Warm Period, proving that temperatures were as warm or warmer than today. Evidence appears to be world wide that warm temperatures existed for about 500 years.
AGU published research paper, “Evidence for a ‘Medieval Warm Period’ in a 1,100 year tree-ring reconstruction of past austral summer temperatures in New Zealand”. Looks like it had world wide effect.
Click to access CookPalmer.pdf
Sequoias endured 500 years of fiery drought during the Medieval Warm Period, tree rings show
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2010/03/18/sequoias_endured_500_years_fire_and_drought/
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Examines 2,000 years of sediment records for temperature reconstruction
“A new 2,000-year-long reconstruction of sea surface temperatures (SST) from the Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) suggests that temperatures in the region may have been as warm during the Medieval Warm Period as they are today.”
“Water temperature during the late Medieval Warm Period, between about A.D. 1000 to 1250, was within error of modern annual sea surface temperatures. (Oppo, Rosenthal, Linsley; 2009)”
Found another interesting page about sediment record analysis at Woods Hole, covering the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=3842
“Events warmer than today occurred about 500 and 1,000 years ago, during the Medieval Warm Period, and it was even warmer than that prior to about 2,500 years ago.”
“Because the Sargasso Sea has a rather uniform temperature and salinity distribution near the surface, it seems that these events must have had widespread climatic significance. The Sargasso Sea data indicate that the Medieval Warm Period may have actually been two events separated by 500 years, perhaps explaining why its timing and extent have been so controversial. Second, it is evident that the climate system has been warming for a few hundred years, and that it warmed even more from 1,700 years ago to 1,000 years ago.”
This graph of the Sargasso Sea Surface Temperature, reconstructed from sediment cores, shows what they are talking about
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewImage.do?id=8722&aid=3842
There is a ton of data on reconstructed temperatures around the world from the Medieval Warm Period at the Woods Hole web page. Go there and search for ‘Medieval Warm Period’
http://www.whoi.edu/search.do?q=Medieval+Warm+Period&g=ext&search=Search&type=search
Paper offering high resolution temperature proxy data from an Alaskan lake over the past 6,000 yrs, derived from midge analysis on the sediments. Shows temperatures there were higher in the past 3,000 yrs than today
“Although the Moose Lake TJuly record displays an increasing trend over the past 150 years, the TJuly values in several warm intervals of the past 6000 years were comparable to or exceeded early 20th-century values. For example, the TJuly values during the MCA were generally higher than the early 20th-century values (Fig. 4C). ”
Click to access Clegg_et_al_2010.pdf
Evidence for the existence of the medieval warm period in China
The collected documentary records of the cultivation of citrus trees andBoehmeria nivea (a perennial herb) have been used to produce distribution maps of these plants for the eighth, twelfth and thirteenth centuries A.D. The northern boundary of citrus andBoehmeria nivea cultivation in the thirteenth century lay to the north of the modern distribution. During the last 1000 years, the thirteenth-century boundary was the northernmost. This indicates that this was the warmest time in that period. On the basis of knowledge of the climatic conditions required for planting these species, it can be estimated that the annual mean temperature in south Henan Province in the thirteenth century was 0.9–1.0°C higher than at present. A new set of data for the latest snowfall date in Hangzhou from A.D. 1131 to 1264 indicates that this cannot be considered a cold period, as previously believed.”
http://www.springerlink.com/content/gh98230822m7g01l/
Greenland recently incurred record high temperatures and ice loss by melting, adding to concerns that anthropogenic warming is impacting the Greenland ice sheet and in turn accelerating global sea-level rise. Yet, it remains imprecisely known for Greenland how much warming is caused by increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases versus natural variability. To address this need, we reconstruct Greenland surface snow temperature variability over the past 4000 years at the GISP2 site (near the Summit of the Greenland ice sheet; hereafter referred to as Greenland temperature) with a new method that utilises argon and nitrogen isotopic ratios from occluded air bubbles. The estimated average Greenland snow temperature over the past 4000 years was −30.7°C with a standard deviation of 1.0°C and exhibited a long-term decrease of roughly 1.5°C, which is consistent with earlier studies. The current decadal average surface temperature (2001–2010) at the GISP2 site is −29.9°C. The record indicates that warmer temperatures were the norm in the earlier part of the past 4000 years, including century-long intervals nearly 1°C warmer than the present decade (2001–2010). Therefore, we conclude that the current decadal mean temperature in Greenland has not exceeded the envelope of natural variability over the past 4000 years, a period that seems to include part of the Holocene Thermal Maximum. Notwithstanding this conclusion, climate models project that if anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions continue, the Greenland temperature would exceed the natural variability of the past 4000 years sometime before the year 2100.
Posted Sep 3, 2013 at 2:42 AM | Permalink
Really impressive! Roman shoe nails in the coffin of the AGW early history narrative. Archaeology de luxe.
I really like ‘the wood of the snow clenching smoke’.
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Autonomic Networking Definitions Revisited
draft-pentikousis-nmrg-andr-02
Versions: 00 01 02
NMRG K. Pentikousis
Internet-Draft EICT
Intended status: Informational M. Sifalakis
Expires: November 5, 2015 University of Basel
J. Nobre
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
This document revisits the autonomic networking terminology
established in peer-reviewed literature, aiming to contribute to the
ongoing discussion in the IRTF NMRG about how to move forward with
standardizing various autonomic networking aspects.
Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/.
This Internet-Draft will expire on November 5, 2015.
Pentikousis, et al. Expires November 5, 2015 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft Autonomic Networking Definitions May 2015
1.1. Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2. Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Operational Considerations and Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. New Deployment Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2. Programmable Network Elements and Functions . . . . . . . 6
3.3. Autonomic Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.4. DevOps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.5. Autonomic Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The IRTF Network Management Research Group (NMRG) has been working on
a set of definitions for autonomic networking. Defining and agreeing
on autonomic networking terminology is not an easy task as discussed
in [TAN]. In general, autonomic operation is associated with a range
of properties, such as self-configuration, self-healing, self-
optimization, and self-protection [ACDawn]. It is worth pointing out
that although there is some implicit consensus within the autonomic
computing community on the key properties/attributes of an autonomic
system, in the autonomic networking community this is not necessarily
the case. In the past, the common ground between different projects
and different contexts of operation was the presence of self-*
properties, without converging to a minimum set or different levels
of autonomic behavior, or where this behavior needs to be manifested.
1.1. Motivation
Behringer et al. [I-D.irtf-nmrg-autonomic-network-definitions]
describe a set of design goals and non-goals for autonomic networking
and introduce a model reference architecture in the context of future
IETF standardization [I-D.behringer-autonomic-control-plane].
Prior to this effort at NMRG, autonomic networking has been the focus
of several research projects. For example, Bouabene et al. [ANA]
detail an autonomic network architecture (ANA). Nguengang et al.
[UMFSpec] propose a unified management framework (UMF) which has
autonomic properties and functions at its core. Chaparadza et al.
[SelfFI] introduce an elegant and "standardizable" [sic] generic
autonomic networking architecture (GANA) which they propose to be
adopted as a reference model. GANA was indeed further elaborated
under the auspices of ETSI as a group specification [GANA].
Jennings et al. [TAM07] discuss the challenges one must deal with
when applying autonomic principles to network management. This
includes translation from business rules to resources/services to be
provided, contextual changes in the network, adaptation of the
management control loops, and verification of dynamic models for
machine learning purposes. Samaan and Karmouch [SK09] analyze the
requirements and the main contributions for the building blocks of
autonomic network management systems, describe a classification
methodology which compares previously proposed architectures, suggest
a reference framework, and point to a set of research challenges.
This list of earlier work in only indicative of the breadth of
research in this area over the last decade. However, standardization
remains an open question and deployment has been limited to specific
mechanisms only [I-D.irtf-nmrg-an-gap-analysis].
1.2. Scope
We concur with Behringer et al.
[I-D.irtf-nmrg-autonomic-network-definitions] that for most of the
work in IETF it suffices to define autonomic behaviour at the node
level. However, recent standardization efforts in the IETF, such as,
for example, I2RS [I-D.ietf-i2rs-problem-statement], SFC [RFC7498],
ABNO [RFC7491], SUPA [I-D.pentikousis-supa-mapping], and LIME to name
a few, and new IRTF research groups such as SDNRG and NFVRG, indicate
that NMRG should perhaps dig a bit deeper into the definitions for
autonomic networking that will be of tangible benefit to the
researcher and practitioner communities alike. In particular, one
could reconsider the aspects of defining node-level autonomicity
This document revisits the autonomic networking definitions proposed
earlier in the peer-reviewed literature Section 2, and relates them
with recent developments aiming to assist in the definition of a
coherent terminology in this emerging area of standardization at the
IETF.
2. Definitions
After some thorough analysis and discussion, Schmid et al. [TAN] put
forward the following definition, which captures in a concrete and
concise manner the essence of autonomicity:
An Autonomic System is a system that operates and serves its
purpose by managing its own self without external intervention
even in case of environmental changes.
Note that the authors explicitly define autonomicity at the system
level, not at the node level. They go on to list the minimum set of
properties that an autonomic system should possess. Namely, an
autonomic system is
o automatic, i.e. it can "self-control its internal functions and
operations"
o adaptive, i.e. it can change its "configuration, state and
functions", and
o aware, i.e. it can "monitor its operational context".
In principle, an autonomic system could wholly replaces a non-
autonomic one. In practice, however, real-world deployments will
include legacy network elements and services as well as new autonomic
ones.
A salient paper in the autonomic networking area is [FOCALE], in
which Strassner et al. lay the foundation for an autonomic network
architecture. We will not delve into the details of FOCALE, but we
do note that the authors define three types of managed components
according to their autonomic capabilities. In the remainder of this
document we consider that FOCALE "components" equate to network
resources as defined in [RFC7426], i.e. each network resource is a
"physical or virtual component available within a system", and expand
these definitions further.
In this sense, legacy equipment can be seen as autonomically unaware
resources, and can only be managed using traditional mechanisms. In
practice, field equipment could be upgraded to support certain
autonomic features, thus becoming autonomically-aware managed network
resources. This type of network element would typically require a
mediation layer as suggested in [FOCALE] or at the very least certain
system software updates. Finally, a deployment could include fully
autonomically-enabled network resources. FOCALE explicitly aims to
"accommodate legacy components" and foresees the deployment of an
autonomic manager "that orchestrates the behaviour of other autonomic
components in the system."
Figure 1 illustrates a simple sketch of an autonomic networking
control loop, based on Fig. 2 of [FOCALE]. In short, an autonomic
manager gathers data from the managed resource(s), evaluates the
current state, compares it with the desired one, and configures the
managed resource as necessary. As illustrated, this simple system
possess the minimum set of properties introduced above.
+---------------------+
(Maintenance Loop) | Actual vs. desired | Autonomic manager
+-------------->| state evaluation |
| | and decision making |
| +---------o-----------+
v |
+----------------+ | New configuration
| Data gathering | | (Adjustment Loop)
+----------------+ |
^ v
| +------------------+
+----------------o Managed resource |
Figure 1: Simple sketch of an autonomic networking control loop
All three types of network resources (i.e. autonomically-unaware,
autonomically-aware, and autonomically-enabled) need to be managed.
One viable approach is proposed by Nguengang et al. [UMFSpec] who
describe an architecture based on the definition of two types of
management systems depending on the capacity of the underlying nodes,
namely an Enhanced Legacy Management System (ELMS) or a future
management system. In this context, it is worth considering the
approaches taken in other disciplines. For example, in aviation,
auto-navigation systems solve this challenge by means of distributed
consensus among an odd-number of controllers/managers that
independently carry out the tasks of data gathering and state
evaluation, and then make an election for each decision. On the
other hand, biologically-inspired systems have emergent coordination
(of managers) following principles such as entropy or mass action.
Finally, autonomic properties are highly desirable in the context of
new mobile architectures. For example, Barth and Kuehn [SON4G]
discuss the need for self-* properties in the context of small cell
deployments in 3GPP 4G/LTE, while Hamalainen et al. [LTESON] provide
a comprehensive guide and handy references to the efforts in 3GPP
along these lines.
3. Operational Considerations and Outlook
This section briefly describes emerging operational considerations
that in the authors' view should be taken into account as we move
forward with autonomic networking standardization in the IETF and
IRTF context.
3.1. New Deployment Models
Strassner et al. [FOCALE] highlight that an important goal of
autonomics is "making the life of the user easier by changing the
focus from a computer-centric to a task-centric model". Deployment
of new network technologies is typically a time-consuming, labour-
intensive and cumbersome task. In the past, we have seen that if the
newly designed infrastructure cannot be managed satisfactorily,
adverse results such as service launch delays may be inevitable. As
we move forward with new deployment models which are oriented towards
softwarized and cloudified network functions, autonomic networking
principles may prove invaluable.
As per [TAN], autonomic systems are by design programmable, which
bodes well with the emerging deployment models which emphasize
agility and shorter technology introduction cycles. We argue that
autonomic networking definitions, goals and gap analysis within the
context of IETF standardization should take this more into
consideration. Further, recent initiatives such as SUPA
[I-D.pentikousis-supa-mapping] point towards infrastructures which
are managed through intent (generic policies), for instance, as
opposed to network element specific configuration.
3.2. Programmable Network Elements and Functions
Although the development of models such as FoRCES [RFC5812] coincided
with the core of the above-mentioned autonomic networking research
literature, by and large, the two areas did not cross-pollinate. It
appears that as SDN and NFV principles reach a wider audience of
researchers and practitioners, fully programmable network elements
and functions could be further introduced in autonomic networking
architectures. Indeed, moving towards a "task-centric model" relates
well with other efforts in IETF such as SFC [RFC7498]
3.3. Autonomic Planes
Recent work at the SDNRG [RFC7426] highlighted the need for the wider
SDN community to think in terms of control, management, and
operational planes comprehensiveness and complementarity. As we have
seen above, earlier work in autonomic networking has been primarily
focusing on management aspects (cf. [UMFSpec]), while recent work in
NMRG is focusing on standardizing an autonomic networking control
plane [I-D.behringer-autonomic-control-plane].
For an autonomic plane, there is the challenge on "which
functionality to place where". For example, one could consider an
architecture in which all three planes have autonomic features.
Alternatively, one could adopt a knowledge plane approach [KP2003]
establishing a separate, virtual/logical plane. A way forward could
be to consider autonomics in NMRG in the context of programmable
networks and through a more comprehensive manner.
3.4. DevOps
John et al. [NSC] elaborate on the concept of continuous network
service delivery. In this context, the authors argue for the need of
programmable observation points which could be inserted in a dynamic
service chain on demand. They expect that future service provider
DevOps would require new management technologies "based on the
experience from data centers" thus "addressing the challenges of
dynamic service chaining". This bodes well with the model
illustrated in Figure 1 and we could expect more results in this
direction in the future.
3.5. Autonomic Monitoring
Network monitoring is related to the mechanisms employed to perform
measurements and collect the respective results. These mechanisms
are some of the most important tools employed by network
administrators. Monitoring results encompass metrics such as delay
(one-way or round-trip), jitter, throughput, packet loss, protocol/
application usage, among others. Results can be used in different
contexts, such as pre-deployment validation and measurement of in-
band live network performance characteristics, and by several
applications, such as intrusion detection and lawful interception.
Traditional (i.e., non-autonomic) monitoring mechanisms usually rely
on the predetermined production of measurements results. Thus, such
mechanisms are not able to dynamically adapt to different operational
conditions during runtime. On the other hand, autonomic monitoring
mechanisms are able to adjust themselves in order to optimize their
operation. This can be done using several techniques, such as
reinforcement learning and neural networks.
Several classifications have been proposed regarding autonomic
monitoring. Samaan and Karmouch [SK09] discuss a classification
methodology for autonomic monitoring methods in the context of an
analysis of current and future research directions of autonomic
network management. The authors provide a classification of
autonomic monitoring approaches considering the following classes:
active versus passive monitoring and distributed versus centralized
monitoring. The authors also comment on monitoring granularity
(measurements can be performed at the byte-, packet-, flow- or
aggregated-traffic levels); monitoring timing (fixed time, event-
based, and on-demand); and monitoring programmability (levels on what
the monitoring mechanism itself can dynamically modify with respect
to its operation).
In the following we provide a set of literature pointers to
monitoring systems which exhibit autonomic features. Note that such
mechanisms exhibit different levels of autonomic monitoring
functionality and employ different techniques to support this
Massie et al. [MCC04] proposed Ganglia, a scalable, distributed
system monitor tool for high-performance computing systems such as
clusters and grids. This system is based on a hierarchical design
targeted at federations of clusters and it relies on a multicast-
based listen/announce protocol to monitor state within network nodes.
Using a set of programmable interfaces, Ganglia follows a passive
distributed monitoring approach where monitoring programmability is
left to the applications.
Song et al. [SQZ06] proposed NetQuest, a centralized monitoring
control of active measurement mechanisms with self-programmability
features. NetQuest models the selection of monitoring
functionalities and uses Bayesian experimental design concepts to
define the solution parameters.
Duarte et al. [DNGT11] proposed ManP2P-ng, a system focused in
materializing distributed self-healing features through the use of
P2P management overlays and high-level descriptions called workplans.
Workplans are used to set up the self-healing parameters regarding
managed devices and management peers. The self-healing service is
composed of independent monitoring and healing services.
Sekar et al. [SRWZKA08] proposed CSAMP, a centralized optimization
engine for system-wide flow monitoring. The main features of CSAMP
are the use of traffic information to steer flow sampling and hash-
based packet selection through a centralized engine for the
distribution of measurement responsibilities across routers.
Pietro et al. [PHCN10] proposed DECON, a decentralized coordination
system aimed at assigning passive monitoring probes. DECON uses
traffic information from probes seeing a particular ow to decide
which one shoud do the actual monitoring. After that, messages are
sent back to probes communicating the decision.
This document would not have been possible without the stimulating
discussion during the NMRG meeting at IETF 90 in Toronto. Many
thanks to all participants.
This memo includes no request to IANA.
This document does not propose a new network architecture or protocol
and as such does not have any impact on the security of the Internet.
Autonomic networking introduces a range of opportunities for formal
verification techniques which could increase trustworthiness,
although this is clearly beyond the scope of this first version of
this document. Interested readers should consult [ACSec] for an
early exploration of the issues at hand in the context of autonomic
computing.
7. Informative References
[ACDawn] Ganek, A. G., and T. A. Corbi, "The dawning of the
autonomic computing era", IBM systems Journal, 42(1), 5-18
, 2003.
[ACSec] Chess, D. M., Palmer, C. C., and S. R. White, "Security in
an autonomic computing environment", IBM systems Journal,
42(1), 107-118 , 2003.
[ANA] Bouabene, G., Jelger, C., Tschudin, C., Schmid, S.,
Keller, A., and M. May, "The autonomic network
architecture (ANA)", Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications, 28(1), 4-14 IEEE, 2003.
[DNGT11] Duarte, P. A. P. R., Nobre, J. C., Granville, L. Z.,
Tarouco, L. M. R., "A P2P-Based Self-Healing Service for
Network Maintenance", Proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE
International Symposium on Integrated Network Management
(IM) IEEE, 2011.
[FOCALE] Strassner, J., Agoulmine, N., and E. Lehtihet, "FOCALE: A
novel autonomic networking architecture", Proc. Latin
American Autonomic Computing Symposium (LAACS), Campo
Grande, Brazil, July 2006.
[GANA] ETSI GS AFI 002, , "Autonomic network engineering for the
self-managing Future Internet (AFI): GANA Architectural
Reference Model for Autonomic Networking, Cognitive
Networking and Self-Management.", April 2013.
[I-D.behringer-autonomic-control-plane]
Behringer, M., Bjarnason, S., BL, B., and T. Eckert, "An
Autonomic Control Plane", draft-behringer-autonomic-
control-plane-00 (work in progress), June 2014.
[I-D.ietf-i2rs-problem-statement]
Atlas, A., Nadeau, T., and D. Ward, "Interface to the
Routing System Problem Statement", draft-ietf-i2rs-
problem-statement-06 (work in progress), January 2015.
[I-D.irtf-nmrg-an-gap-analysis]
Jiang, S., Carpenter, B., and M. Behringer, "General Gap
Analysis for Autonomic Networking", draft-irtf-nmrg-an-
gap-analysis-05 (work in progress), March 2015.
[I-D.irtf-nmrg-autonomic-network-definitions]
Behringer, M., Pritikin, M., Bjarnason, S., Clemm, A.,
Carpenter, B., Jiang, S., and L. Ciavaglia, "Autonomic
Networking - Definitions and Design Goals", draft-irtf-
nmrg-autonomic-network-definitions-07 (work in progress),
[I-D.pentikousis-supa-mapping]
Pentikousis, K. and D. Zhang, "Simplified Use of Policy
Abstractions (SUPA): Configuration and Policy Mapping",
draft-pentikousis-supa-mapping-04 (work in progress),
[KP2003] Clark, D. D., Partridge, C. , et al., "A Knowledge Plane
for the Internet", Proc. SIGCOMM, Karlsruhe, Germany ACM,
[LTESON] Hamalainen, S., Sanneck, H., and C. Sartori, "LTE Self-
Organising Networks (SON): Network Management Automation
for Operational Efficiency", John Wiley & Sons , 2012.
[MCC04] Massie, M.L. and Chun, B.N. and Culler, D.E., "The ganglia
distributed monitoring system: design, implementation, and
experience", Parallel Computing, vol. 30, no. 7, pp.
817-840 Elsevier, 2004.
[NSC] John, W., Pentikousis, K., et al., "Research directions in
network service chaining", Proc. SDN for Future Networks
and Services (SDN4FNS), Trento, Italy IEEE, November 2013.
Pentikousis, et al. Expires November 5, 2015 [Page 10]
[PHCN10] di Pietro, A. and Huici, F. and Costantini, D. and
Niccolini, S., "DECON: Decentralized Coordination for
Large-Scale Flow Monitoring", Proceedings of the IEEE
Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshops
IEEE, 2010.
[RFC5812] Halpern, J. and J. Hadi Salim, "Forwarding and Control
Element Separation (ForCES) Forwarding Element Model", RFC
5812, March 2010.
[RFC7426] Haleplidis, E., Pentikousis, K., Denazis, S., Hadi Salim,
J., Meyer, D., and O. Koufopavlou, "Software-Defined
Networking (SDN): Layers and Architecture Terminology",
RFC 7426, January 2015.
[RFC7491] King, D. and A. Farrel, "A PCE-Based Architecture for
Application-Based Network Operations", RFC 7491, March
[RFC7498] Quinn, P. and T. Nadeau, "Problem Statement for Service
Function Chaining", RFC 7498, April 2015.
[SK09] Samaan, N. and A. Karmouch, "Towards Autonomic Network
Management: an Analysis of Current and Future Research
Directions", Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 11,
no. 3, pp. 22-36 IEEE, 2009.
[SON4G] Barth, U., and E. Kuehn, "Self-organization in 4G mobile
networks: Motivation and vision", Proc. 7th International
Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), York,
UK, pp. 731-735, IEEE, September 2010.
[SQZ06] Song, H. H., Qiu, L., Zhang, Y., "NetQuest: a flexible
framework for large-scale network measurement", ACM
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 34. No. 1.
ACM, 2006.
[SRWZKA08]
Sekar, V. and Reiter, M.K. and Willinger, W. and Zhang, H.
and Kompella, R.R. and Andersen, D. G., "CSAMP: a system
for network-wide flow monitoring", Proceedings of the 5th
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and
Implementation (NSDI) USENIX, 2008.
[SelfFI] Chaparadza, R., Papavassiliou, S., et al., "Creating a
viable Evolution Path towards Self-Managing Future
Internet via a Standardizable Reference Model for
Autonomic Network Engineering", Future Internet Assembly
(pp. 136-147) IOS Press, 2009.
[TAM07] Jennings, B., van der Meer, s. et al., "Towards autonomic
management of communications networks", Communications
Magazine, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 112-121 IEEE, 2007.
[TAN] Schmid, S., Sifalakis, M., and D. Hutchison, "Towards
autonomic networks", Proc. Autonomic Networking, LNCS
4195, pp. 1-11 Springer, 2006.
[UMFSpec] Nguengang, G. (ed.), et al., "UMF Specifications, Release
1", FP7-UNIVERSELF-Deliverable D2.1 , July 2011.
Kostas Pentikousis
EICT GmbH
EUREF-Campus Haus 13
Torgauer Strasse 12-15
Email: k.pentikousis@eict.de
Manolis Sifalakis
Bernoullistrasse 16
Email: sifalakis.manos@unibas.ch
Jeferson Campos Nobre
Email: jcnobre@inf.ufrgs.br
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Top cardiologists back Usha Prasad’s fight against ” badly behaving ” health trust
Posted on January 11, 2021 by davidhencke
Dr Usha Prasad
Just before Christmas I carried a blog on a tribunal held in Croydon looking into allegations of sexism and racism brought by Usha Prasad, the sole woman cardiologist employed by the Epsom and St Helier University Health Trust. The case centred round an anonymous letter by a junior doctor who believed she put patient safety at risk and sent it to the chief executive, the Care Quality Commission, the General Medical Council; Jeremy Hunt, then secretary of state, and one of her patients.
She lost the case at a bizarre hearing presided over by employment judge Katherine Andrews which would only discuss whether the letter was racist or sexist.
But now two very eminent cardiologists Professor Jane Somerville and Dr David E Ward, have come forward to speak out in her defence – and raise much wider issues about how our National Health Service is being run and how trusts are using taxpayers’ money to pay large sums to lawyers to silence people who raise uncomfortable issues they would rather brush under the carpet.
Professor Jane Somerville, now 87, is one of the country’s leading cardiologists. She recently was awarded the World Heart Federation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cardiovascular Health for defining the concept and subspecialty of grown-ups with congenital heart disease (GUCH) and being chosen as the physician involved with Britain’s first heart transplantation in 1968.
David E Ward has recently retired as a cardiologist at St George’s Hospital, in South London.
Jane Somerville: Pic Credit: World Heart Foundation
This is Jane Somerville’s detailed comment:
“There are many serious problems that are illustrated from this sad report of the ruining of a young doctor’s career as a cardiologist. She was an obvious target for bullying, harassment, and victimization by management at all levels. Why? Because she was Asian (foreign), small and female. This is such easy picking for those in charge to establish a continuous stream of it as indeed is shown over years.
“What is of more concern is the failure of the regulatory bodies and support services on which we have been brought up in medicine to believe they will be there for us to help give advice and support when in need. Just to name a few involved in this case: BMA, legal representation, GMC, MPA or MDU and indeed, the civil law itself. This is particularly important as the offending trust can afford on taxpayers money to engage the best advisors and the young doctor cannot afford to enlist such help.
questioning integrity and fairness of the judiciary
“Now from this case, one is forced to question the integrity and fairness of the actual judiciary. This is something one hopes in a civilised country one would never need to do. However in this case it is clear to assume that what has been reported is true, that the judge was biased against Dr Prasad with more than one example and did not allow relevant evidence (letters) to be shown.
“It is clear from the beginning of this case which started with simple complaints related to poor bureaucratic and system management which was influencing safety and comfort of patient management and continuing a few months later with acceptance from the trust with anonymous letters from her junior colleague and unacceptable behaviour in contacting one of her patients, that the trust was not interested in being even handed to her and worse, wanted to get rid of her.
bullying trusts
” In these current times of enormous difficulty and pressure in the NHS where it is clear that junior staff and nurses are needed and should be valued and cared for, that one must wonder why anyone would want to work in this trust or other trusts who have shown similar behaviour, victimising a young useful doctor. Despite what claimed, doctors who draw attention to something wrong for patients or staff safety (whistleblowing), have little or no protection in the bullying Trust.
The Department for Health with all its talk needs to address this matter urgently and stop just giving lip service to the excellent recommendations (Sir Robert Francis QC) that have been made to them. They must be made responsible for this bad behaviour by trust managers which alas is not unique to Dr Usha Prasad.
Dr David E Ward
Dr David E Ward commented earlier on my blog as aceofhearts44. He is now happy to repeat his view in his own name.
“I know Dr Prasad as friend and colleague. I and a senior eminent British cardiologist have been supporting her cause for sometime. It is astonishing that what was initially an anonymous complaint has led to a chain of events culminating in the dismissal of a small, female doctor of Asian descent. It smacks of bullying, victimisation and other behaviours doesn’t it?
Something is seriously amiss in this story. It needs to be exposed. It’s heartening that a respectable journalist has taken an interest (we tried unsuccessfully to get others involved). Let’s hope justice is done. Sadly I’m not optimistic. We will continue to support Dr Prasad in any way possible.”
Something seriously wrong in the NHS
These are not the only people who are concerned. I have had a number of people contact me – some in confidence – who are raising similar behaviour elsewhere – and want me to look into other cases. Since this is not a mass circulation blog – with the exception of the campaign I have backed for justice for the 1950s born women who are having to wait another six years for their pensions – it suggests to me that there something seriously wrong in the NHS and needs a thorough investigation. Otherwise I would not have such a strong response.
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A bizarre tribunal hearing on the treatment of Epsom’s health trust’s sole woman cardiologist
Posted on December 22, 2020 by davidhencke
Dr Usha Prasad.
Dispute could last a decade
Last week by Zoom I attended a tribunal hearing – just one in a long running saga between the Epsom and St Helier University Trust and their former consultant, Dr Usha Prasad.
This dispute which is by no means over – she has already had one employment tribunal, one employment appeal tribunal, a reference back to the original employment tribunal – and has still to go to a General Medical Council hearing and an another tribunal over her unfair dismissal claim.
The hearing took I attended just one day but it felt to me that I had just stepped into an unreal world of interminable hospital politics. The issue goes back to 2012 and won’t be settled until 2022. And all this, by the way, is being funded by the taxpayer using NHS funds.
Dr Usha Prasad is a well qualified cardiologist who has been popular with patients but ran into difficulties with staff at the trust and complained she was subject to gender and racial discrimination, bullying and harassment. There are also whistleblower issues which are yet to come out at another hearing.
Three years ago she featured in the current trust’s chief executive’s report for receiving a Patient First Gold Badge award for giving ” a wonderful extra five years of life” to an 81 year old patient suffering heart disease. She is pictured here with chief executive Daniel Elkeles.
Dr Usha Prasad with the trust’s chief executive Daniel Elkeles at the award ceremony Pic credit: Epsom and St Helier University Trust
Behind these happy scenes however all was not well. Usha felt she was not being treated well by some of her fellow male colleagues and relations between her and her junior doctor Dr Aran Kumar Perikala were strained.
Anonymous letter sent to Jeremy Hunt
The centre of her complaint surrounded an anonymous letter which turned out to have been sent by him in 2015 to Daniel Elkeles, the chief executive, the Care Quality Commission, the General Medical Council, and to Jeremy Hunt, then health secretary and to one of her patients. It was signed as representing the entire cardiology team at St Helier Hospital and made very serious allegations that Dr Prasad was putting patient safely at risk.
Jeremy Hunt.
She saw this attack by a fellow Indian doctor as sex discrimination and also as racist. It went to an employment tribunal headed by employment judge Katherine Andrews (more about her later) and her complaint was rejected. She appealed to an Employment Appeal Tribunal who upheld three of the letters but said that sending an anonymous letter to a patient and to Jeremy Hunt was going too far. The EAT ordered it to be referred back to the employment tribunal which held a hearing last week.
The hearing was unbalanced from the start. The trust was represented both by a barrister and a solicitor at enormous public expense. She appeared as a litigant in person ( funding herself) but was helped by Philip Howard ,a part time consultant at St Helier, who acted as Mackenzie friend, a pro bono role.
The part time judge, Katherine Andrews -a solicitor – was appointed as an employment judge by Chris Grayling when he was Lord Chancellor in 2013. Coincidently Grayling is also the Tory MP for Epsom and Ewell and is familiar with the workings of his local health trust.
Judge rules clinical judgement is irrelevant
From the start the judge brusquely limited the hearing to the contents of the letter and nothing else. Two other consultants at St Helier, Dr Sola Odemuyiwa, and Dr Ranjit Shail, a consultant physician, who wished to testify about Dr Prasad’s abilities were ruled as ” irrelevant” by the judge as they had no detailed knowledge of the letter. She ruled as ” irrelevant” any discussion about the clinical judgement of Dr Prasad. An issue that her brother in law, Dr Anand Kamath, working as a NHS dentist had committed suicide after being bullied by a primary healthcare trust over a complaint about his record keeping ,when this started, was also deemed to be ” irrelevant ” by the judge.
This left Philip Howard a very limited role to help defend her. His description of the circumstances of Dr Perikala writing the letter were illuminating. He told the hearing that he wrote the letter while all the other consultants were on holiday, did not consult them about it and paid a ” rare” home visit to one of her patients without her knowledge. He was only unmasked when the chief executive thought the entire cardiology department were of that view and other consultants objected. He told the tribunal that the patient had received excellent treatment and had no objections.
You would have thought that he would be the key witness that should be cross examined about why he acted alone and what his motive was. But the hospital trust’s lawyers did not call him and the judge ruled that as it was his belief it didn’t matter whether he was right or wrong. In other words the man can say anything he liked to a lot of important people and as long as he believed it, it didn’t matter a jot.
Not a level playing field
The trust has taken the matter to the General Medical Council where his behaviour could be questioned and certainly the issue of clinical judgement will not be brushed aside there.
The judge ruled against her but she has asked for the whole matter to reconsidered because she has received new information. Some of the time was spent arguing that she had missed legal deadlines to present new information. Given one side is using full time professional lawyers – and she is having to bring a case while still working elsewhere for Mid Yorks Health Trust – on loan from Epsom and St Helier University Trust. – it is hardly a level legal playing field.
Since the first tribunal hearing in 2017 she has effectively been suspended by the trust on full pay and faced losing her job. There are still two hearings to go.
One has to ask why the Epsom and St Helier University Health Trust is spending so much time and taxpayers money on this protracted dispute rather than using the cash to treat patients. When I earlier raised this with the trust they said they didn’t discuss issues about individuals working for them. They have also refused to give me details of how much taxpayer’s money they are spending on disputes.
This story is not over and I shall return to it when there are more developments.
Posted in equality, health, Uncategorized | Tagged cardiology, dr usha prasad, employment tribunal, epsom and st helier university health trust, jeremy hunt, whistleblowers 27
Exclusive: Are whistleblowers now too frit to reveal when NHS patients and care home residents are in danger?
Posted on November 17, 2017 by davidhencke
Dr Henrietta Hughes, 4 day a week National Guardian Pic Credit: CQC
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Tucked away in a recent National Audit Office report on the NHS and social care regulator, the Care Quality Commission, is the extraordinary statistic that the number of whistleblowers who tipped off the regulator fell by a staggering 16 per cent to 7452 in 2016-17. That is one in six fewer whistleblowers than the previous year. See paragraph 2.19 of the report.
The figure compares with 153,000 members of the public – an increase of one per cent – expressing concerns about services during the same period.
I have written about this in Tribune this week.
And the latest figures come after a report by Robert Francis QC to Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary,which was highly critical of the way some had been treated after they made a complaint.
In 2015, Francis reported widespread severe victimisation of staff by senior management when they spoke up for patients. Francis recognised that sacked whistleblowers are blacklisted and recommended a re-employment scheme but nothing seems to have come of it.
His most substantial recommendation was for a National Guardian to protect staff. This led the CQC to create a part time post with no powers. The first appointee, Dame Eileen Sills, quit before starting.
Since then Dr Henrietta Hughes . a GP has been appointed as National Guardian, on a four day week. And according to the CQC yesterday marked her first year as the National Guardian for the NHS with the publication of her first case review report and her annual report highlighting the work of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.
The one case review she published covered Southport and Ormskirk Health Trust which has the unenviable reputation for bullying and discriminating against black and ethnic minority staff , a dodgy appointments system favouring some people against others and an attitude of not bothering when staff raise concerns about patients. This might sound familiar incidently for those who have followed my articles on staff practices at the Equality and Human Rights Commission but we should wait for the employment tribunals to see what happened there.
Dr Hughes has recommended a series of recommendations to put matters right – 22 in all – and there is promise from the interim chief executive of the trust, Karen Jackson, to act with a new senior management team. We shall see. Also this was a trial – how many reports are we going to get from her in future?
The National Guardian has also produced a series of high flown documents which sound terribly good in theory – but again I think we should wait to see what happens.
What has happened so far is that the appointment of a national guardian has coincided with a drop in whistleblowers telling the CQC when things are going wrong.
What we do know is that staff do lose jobs are blacklisted and get the reputation of being troublemakers. There is a website which covers 11 such cases here. All designed I suspect to cover up an NHS and care system creaking at the seams and not being adequately financed. I hope Dr Hughes does not turn out to be a convenient fig leaf for a service in trouble.
Posted in abuse, equality, NHS, Uncategorized | Tagged bullying, care quality commission, national audit office, national guardian, southport and ormskirk NHS health trust, whistleblowers 3
Jimmy Savile: How the BBC have by passed Dame Janet Smith’s child sexual abuse review
Jimmy Savile: Credit: BBC clip
The BBC is an extremely adept organisation in managing news – especially involving its own organisation. So faced with the huge Jimmy Savile scandal it launched a review into how the culture at the BBC allowed such a monster celebrity to get away with such vile and nasty crimes for so long.It also had a remit to decide what child protection and whistle blowing policies were needed to prevent it happening again.
The Corporation appointed a very well respected former judge, Dame Janet Smith, who investigated the appalling misdeeds of murderer Harold Shipman – a GP who killed his own patients.
Her report finished over a year ago remains unpublished because of ongoing police investigations and no date has even been set when it will see the light of day.
But midway through her inquiry the BBC suddenly changed the remit of the inquiry – separating the investigation into what went wrong from the recommendations of what is needed to put everything right in the BBC’s present day child protection and whistleblowing policies.
This change in the terms of reference of an inquiry -midway through an investigation- looks pretty unusual to me. It hasn’t happened elsewhere to my knowledge. The reason given was the trial of BBC presenter Stuart Hall was delaying the report’s publication ( rather ironical given that it is still not published) and there was a need to get the BBC’s child protection and whistleblowing policies sorted out. In fact the trial was over within six weeks.
Nevertheless by then the BBC had appointed Good Corporation, a business ethics company, without tendering, to do the work on changing present day policies for an unknown fee.
The full saga is reported by me and Tim Wood on the Exaro website today.
The findings of Good Corporation’s report were made public last July on the very day the BBC issued its annual report and accounts which dominated the media. You can read them on Exaro here. They are full of praise for the BBC’s current child protection policies and have little criticism of its whistleblowing policies.
Evidently the BBC is a wonderful place to work, women are rarely sexually harassed by men and don’t formally complain about this sort of thing anyway and with a few tweaks whistleblowing works perfectly.
What I find extraordinary is that the BBC seem to have got away with putting the cart before the horse over Savile. We have no idea what Dame Janet Smith has found out about BBC culture, though there are rumours that the report could be damning
Yet we have a business consultancy already acquitting the BBC of any problems over child protection and whistleblowing before we know. what the report says. How can the lessons be learned without first presenting the evidence.
Finally there is an extraordinary rub. All this information I have reported is in the public domain but has never been reported by the press which seemed to be asleep on the job. The change to the terms of reference and Good Corporation report findings were openly announced by the BBC. Yet no one was interested even though Jimmy Savile is the most prominent paedophile ever to have lived in the UK. Amazing.
Posted in abuse, BBC, media, Uncategorized | Tagged BBC inquiry, child protection, dame janet smith, Jimmy Savile, whistleblowers 8
Misusing deregulation to smash journalists’ freedom
Posted on February 3, 2014 by davidhencke
One of the most precious freedoms for journalists is the protection of their sources. Now it appears the Cabinet Office is using an obscure bill – as part of the government’s drive to cut “red tape”- as cover to erode that freedom.
By changing the rules to allow the police to go to court to obtain reporter’s notebooks, pictures and computer files- without facing an open challenge from newspapers, TV, or even individual freelance journalists themselves – they are placing that protection in serious danger.
No wonder the Newspaper Society is up in arms and media lawyers are raising very serious questions. There is an excellent and elegant argument on the Inforrm blog by Gill Phillips,the Director of Editorial Legal Services at Guardian News and Media, about the dangers.
She rightly concludes: “This appears to be yet another backdoor attempt to limit and restrict essential and hard-fought journalistic protections.”
Bloggers should also be aware of this as it could affect them – and they will be much more vulnerable to a police raid- as they would be in a weak position to defend themselves. It is worth reading Vox Political’s blog on this point and taking action.
The official response according to my former colleague Owen Bowcott in the Guardian has been muted.
He reports :A Cabinet Office spokesman said: “Every measure in the deregulation bill is intended to remove unnecessary bureaucracy. Clause 47 would bring the Police and Criminal Evidence Act into line with other legislation in this area and would allow the criminal procedure rules committee to make procedure rules that are consistent and fair.
” However, the government has noted the concerns raised about this issue and Oliver Letwin is happy to meet with media organisations about this before the bill goes to committee.”
I think the government should go further and drop this now. It can hardly save much money and I think their motives in introducing this are questionable and undo good work under the Defamation act and by the Information Commissioners’ Office to protect journalists from interference by the police and the state.
Posted in media, police, Whitehall | Tagged cabinet office, judges, police, press freedom, whistleblowers 7
Responsibility in Public Office? – Cathy James
Posted on April 25, 2013 by davidhencke
I am reblogging this because it reveals an appalling attitude by Cumbria Police to prosecute those who exposed an outrageous expense claim by their new Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner,Richard Rhodes. Such an act is chilling responsible journalism and bullying the staff who rightly disclosed this. Why is there not a proper public log of his use of taxpayers’ money for expenses?
One cannot fail to be shocked by the way in which the Cumbrian police have dealt with those who leaked information to the press about the excessive expenses of their recently elected Police and Crime Commissioner. The Commissioner, Richard Rhodes, held a press conference in which he admitted that it was wrong to have incurred the cost of hiring a private chauffeur at the public’s expense, but then said he was not responsible for the decision to prosecute those who put the information into the public domain.
Posted in media, police, Uncategorized | Tagged cumbria police, police commissioners, Public Concern At Work, whistleblowers 0
Silence of the Whistleblowers
Posted on September 28, 2012 by davidhencke
Knives out for A4e whistleblowers? Pic courtesy:snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com
Today confidential evidence given to MPs on Parliament’s most powerful committee of MPs by a team of whistleblowers on fraud should have become public.
The whistleblowers- people once employed by two rapidly growing companies A4e and Working Links which are dominating the government’s welfare to work programme – spent two hours giving dramatic evidence in private to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee last May.
The result of their information and a frankly complacent performance by Robert Devereux, the patrician permanent secretary, to the Department of Work and Pensions led to a damning report by MPs on the ministry’s stewardship of taxpayers’ money handed over to these profit-making companies.
As reported in Exaro News today ( see http://www.exaronews.com ) Tory and Labour MPs were disgusted at the ministry’s performance.
Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, said: “The DWP’s arrangements for overseeing and inspecting its contractors were so weak that vital evidence on potential fraud and improper practice was not picked up.”
Richard Bacon, Conservative MP and deputy chairman of the committee, said: “Encouraging innovation and fresh approaches is important, but so is ensuring value for taxpayers. Providers cannot be allowed to run wild and free with public money.”
Margaret Hodge; Agrred to withold whistleblowers evidence
The evidence came from an appalling internal audit report prepared in 2009 by A4e’s own auditors and leaked to committee on the Exaro website which concluded:” found that more than one quarter of the company’s placements was potentially fraudulent, irregular or unverifiable. The jobs agency even placed one job-seeker at a Liverpool lap-dance club. Last May, Exaro published the auditors’ findings in full. That was under Labour.
But according to one of the whistleblowers it continued under the Tories. Eddie Hutchinson, former chief auditor of A4e, told the committee in his submission of “systemic” fraud and malpractice at the company.
Hutchinson, worked at A4e from October 2010 until May last year, and at Working Links before that. He described what he saw at both companies as “a multi-billion-pound scandal”. This we only know because of his evidence was leaked to the Daily Telegraph. A4e insist that this eveidence is not true and the new company is now wonderful.
Today we should have had a more rounded picture with new evidence from other whistle blowers. The draft report would have included the minutes of that meeting and with names redacted all the information.
But just days before publication the whistleblowers, according to a top source panicked and asked the chair, Margaret Hodge, to censor all their evidence.
Why? All the whistleblowers were happy to give evidence in public last May but some Tory Mps, Chris Grayling, then the minister for work, and A4e were desperate for the public to know nothing. They stopped the public hearing. Billions of pounds of new contracts were at stake. Now ministers and A4e have got their way. We are none the wiser. Have the whistleblowers been threatened? Did they decide they had lied to the committee? Or is there a blacklist in the auditing profession to prevent people who blow the whistle from getting fresh work?
Today is a bad day for transparency and democracy when the most powerful committee in Parliament that holds the government to account cannot publish the facts. The government is making matters worse by changing the law protecting whistleblowers to make it even more unlikely they will risk their careers at the moment.
A4e as well should have been allowed to give evidence to the committee as well as the rather arrogant Mr Devereux. The company could then have put its case and been questioned on its performance. For those interested in the full or should I say half redacted report, it is here (http://bit.ly/PKPO9a ).
Posted in Uncategorized, Whitehall | Tagged A4e, fraud, Margaret Hodge, Public Accounts Committee, whistleblowers 5
Scrap red tape, silence a whistleblower
Posted on June 8, 2012 by davidhencke
Whistleblowers under threat
MPs begin to debate the government’s new Enterprise and Regulatory Reform bill today (monday). Buried in this legislation in Clause 14 is a plan to limit people with employment contract disputes using the whistleblowers law.
The reasoning behind it is explained in the latest House of Commons Library report on the bill. It says:
“In March 2012, the Department issued its annual employment law review which stated: It has come to light through case law that employees are able to blow the whistle about breaches to their own personal work contract, which is not what the legislation (Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA)) was designed for.
Clause 14 would ensure that only disclosures that are in the public interest would attract protection under the whistleblowing provisions of the Employment Rights Act,1996.”
Superficially this sounds quite reasonable. Whistleblowing legislation should not be used for personal contract disputes. But the way the government is going about this it could sound the death knell for potential whistleblowers just at a time when they are most needed.
Think for one second. A company gets a complaint from a whistleblower about a nefarious practice. What better way to frighten a whistleblower than by going to the courts claiming this is not in the public interest and demanding a hearing before a judge. The company can then rubbish the whistleblower using the absolute privilege afforded by court hearings for maximum publicity by claiming the complainer is a bad worker, in breach of contracts etc – damaging the whistleblower’s reputation.
There then follows a long dispute about what should be a public interest test – since this until now is only used in Freedom of Information Act disputes in tribunals – with different judges defining it in different ways. As Lord Touhig, a whistleblower champion said in a Lords debate: ” This would make a field day for lawyers.”
But there could be another agenda. The government’s fast track privatisation programme for public services has already led to whistleblowers revealing bad practice as shown in the recent private hearing of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. There I am told two Tory MPs put pressure on the committee not to hear in public whistleblowers’ allegations about bad practice in A4e, the private work provider, which has £200m of Department of Work and Pensions contracts.
The next day the Daily Telegraph leaked some of their evidence and Chris Grayling, the minister for work but one suspects sympathetic to A4e, used an appearance on BBC Newsnight to cast doubt on the motives of the whistle blowers. Has he got DWP files on them I wonder or did A4e brief his press office or special adviser?
Now the Guardian’s splendid Rajeev Syal is reporting that Osita Mba, who blew the whistle on former Revenue chief Dave Harnett’s secret tax deal for bankers Goldman Sachs, has found himself being investigated by the criminal investigations unit of Revenue and Customs. (see http://bit.ly/Mo5oXF )
It seems to me that people should back the campaign by Cathy James, chief executive at Public Concern at Work (http://www.pcaw.org.uk ) to stop this piecemeal change. At the very least the clause should be redrafted to define what should be excluded as a personal contract rather than submitting everything to a public interest test. Otherwise the public have every right to believe that the government has something very different in mind.
Posted in media, Uncategorized, Whitehall | Tagged A4e, enterprise and egulatory reform bill, Public Concern At Work, whistleblowers 2
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Botched internal inquiry hearing into Dr Usha Prasad at St Helier Hospital as doctors fight death from Covid- 19
Top cardiologists back Usha Prasad's fight against " badly behaving " health trust
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A bizarre tribunal hearing on the treatment of Epsom's health trust's sole woman cardiologist
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Wife brands husband ‘mad’ after he spends £600 on a no-deal Brexit preparation shop
sunmence March 20, 2019
A wife has branded her husband “mad” after he spent more than £650 stockpiling supplies for a no-deal Brexit.
Juliet East shared a photo on Twitter of the massive supermarket haul, which includes 144 rolls of toilet paper and more than 50 tins of food.
After looking at lists that suggested items to stockpile, her husband Tony Smollett put in an order with Tesco that totalled £658.29.
Ms East, who works in the hospitality industry, said she did not tell him how much to buy for the family of five and “couldn’t believe” the amount he ordered.
Juliet East’s husband spent more than £600 stockpiling supplies for a no-deal Brexit. (Juliet East/PA Wire)
“I didn’t think he was going to buy so much,” she said.
“He just went mad and bought lots of everything. He was laughing at the situation and said he doesn’t want anyone online to think he’s mad.”
Ms East, from Worcestershire, said she decided to stockpile certain items when they began planning for a no-deal scenario at her work.
She said: “It’s becoming increasingly apparent that no-one knows what is going on.
The receipt from Tesco. (Juliet East/PA Wire)
“Many of our favourite foods come in from overseas and we don’t want to run out of things if there’s a shortage of certain items.
“It’s the same way people fill their cars with petrol when there’s a shortage.”
The prospect of a no-deal Brexit increased on Monday after the Commons Speaker John Bercow ruled the Government could not bring Theresa May’s deal back for a third “meaningful vote” unless there were substantial changes.
The tweet, in which Ms East said she was “gently mocking” her 58-year-old husband, an IT director, attracted hundreds of comments and likes online.
She added the reaction on Twitter was not always positive, with other users giving her a “hard time” about the cost of the food and suggesting she was causing a sense of panic.
“We’re a family of five, we have big shopping lists,” she said.
“I’m the last person to try to create a panic. We’re just keeping all of the bases covered.”
Posted in FOREIGN, General
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What Is The Best Pioneer DJ CDJ/XDJ For You?
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By Dan White On Sep 24, 2018
Pioneer DJ continues to dominate the market when it comes to standalone rigs. Yes, Denon DJ has made bold challenges that deserve recognition, but for now, most club DJ booths in the world will have some form of CDJ in them. If you’re looking to get the right DJ gear to emulate the club experience, the question is: which CDJ or XDJ is right for you?
There continue to be many good reasons to invest in a DJ controller (paired with a computer) instead of a standalone system like CDJs – so this article doesn’t have the answers for everyone. Instead, we’re taking a closer look at the many pieces of Pioneer DJ’s hardware lineup that allow DJs to play tracks without a computer, as so many touring and industry professional artists do every single night all around the world. Do you really need to shell out all that money for a high-end NXS2 setup? Are you better off investing in the all-in-one XDJ-RX2? Keep reading for our best advice for your investment.
Why Only Pioneer DJ Gear? Like it or not, Pioneer DJ has a bit of a lockout on our industry. Based on sales reports, it’s easily the top-selling brand in almost every category they enter. Yes, there are offerings from Gemini DJ, Denon DJ, Numark, all of which offer a similar-but-different experience from the CDJ ecosystem – but for now, you’re not likely to encounter those in a venue unless you’ve asked for them.
Practicing and preparing on Pioneer DJ gear gives you the best odds of being able to play in a typical DJ booth with an installed system – so that’s what this guide focuses on.
XDJ vs CDJ
Before we work through every model, it’s important to note that Pioneer DJ standalone gear is divided into two name prefixes (XDJ or CDJ), but three groups by style:
CDJ players: standalone media players that have CD drives, USB slots
XDJ players: standalone media players like CDJs, but without CD drives
XDJ all-in-ones: dual-deck media players with built in mixers (no CD drives on these either)
Below, we’ve collected our advice on each model Pioneer DJ offers – ordered starting with the gear we think will be best for most DJs and working our way to the more rare choices.
XDJ-RX2: The Most Sensible Purchase?
Current Price: $1,699 in the DJTT store
Best For: DJs looking to get the full two-deck NXS2 experience
Without a doubt, the XDJ-RX2 is the best way to practice on a Rekordbox setup without investing in three different pieces of hardware (two media players and a mixer). It has many of the best features from the NXS2 lineup, including the browsing experience, a touchscreen display, track filtering, short cuts, Sound Color FX with a parameter knob, and most of the same Beat FX as on the DJM-900NXS2.
Having these features in one package represents the best bang for your buck on the market – if you were to try to get something comparable with individual units, you’d spend well over $2,500.
The XDJ-RX2 in some ways outclasses even a CDJ/DJM NXS2 setup – you’re able to record your mixes directly to your USB, there are parallel waveforms, and the 16 performance pads below the jogwheels allow for quick beatjumping, looping, slip looping, and hot cue triggering.
No CDJ has this type of pad-based control
Transitioning over to another Pioneer DJ rig (like a full NXS2 setup) is fairly simple when coming from an XDJ-RX2, with the biggest challenge being adjusting to two disparate displays (one per deck) instead of just one.
XDJ-1000MK2: Digital Decks
Current Price: $1,199 on DJTT store
Release Date: August 2016
Best For: CDJ-style practice for DJs who don’t care about CDs
In 2016, Pioneer DJ released a new version of the XDJ-1000, a USB-only player. The new MK2 model updated the browsing/onscreen experience to reflect the NXS2 style, with track filter and short cut features easily accessible. The other big difference is the MK2 has support for FLAC/ALAC files and offers a digital out on the back of the unit, making it more suitable for club installs.
One important thing to consider with the XDJ-1000MK2 versus a CDJ-2000NXS2 is that many of the controls are on the touchscreen. For example, if you want to double/halve a loop length, the only way to do it is by tapping the screen – on CDJs, there are dedicated physical buttons for this. Same with Slip Mode, Cue Point setting/calling, and Sync/Master controls.
The XDJ-1000MK2 also makes for great third/fourth decks for DJs looking to expand beyond just two CDJs. They’re easily linkable and syncable with the other models (except XDJ-RX/RX2s).
One major drawback for many digital DJs is the lack of HID support on Traktor and Serato. This means you can’t use an XDJ-1000MK2 to natively control decks in these softwares, which is a frustrating way to get DJs to buy a higher end device (or, amusingly, an original XDJ-1000, which does offer HID support) or jump to Rekordbox DJ’s performance mode.
CDJ-2000NXS2: Industry Standard
Best For: DJs who want an identical set of decks as what most clubs will have
The CDJ-2000NXS2 is easily the most common club install deck out of Pioneer DJ’s full lineup. It’s the standard that other digital DJ players are compared to. If you’re a DJ who wants the exact same setup as what you’ll experience in a club situation, buy a pair of these. They’re likely to stay the standard for at least 2-3 years.
One of the big changes on the NXS2 unit versus the older CDJ-2000NXS is a focus on sound quality – there’s now support for FLAC/ALAC, a better digital output, a separate power supply, and a 96kHz/24-bit sound card. This has largely assuaged many complaints that sound technicians had about the original CDJ-2000NXSs.
Compared to the XDJ line, the jogwheels are also a bit higher quality – and have a heft to them that you won’t get on most other units aside from the TOUR1 model.
The biggest obstacle for most DJs looking at buying CDJ-2000NXS2s is price. At just over two grand each, these are hefty investments – and that’s before you even start looking at mixer prices. A full NXS2 rig runs over $6k.
XDJ-RR: The New Budget All-In-One
Current Price: $1,099 on the DJTT store
Best For: Budget-sensitive DJs who want an all-in-one Rekordbox unit
Instead of releasing a higher-end, four deck all-in-one unit, Pioneer DJ decided to make their most recent product announcement a budget XDJ-RR. It has almost everything that the XDJ-RX2 has, but with a few features picked away from it, including a number of effects controls. Read more about the unit in our announcement article from earlier this month – but suffice to say we’re not convinced on the unit yet.
In all honesty, many DJs would be better off spending the additional $600 and getting an RX2 instead of the RR. Getting the full array of Pioneer DJ effects controls are well worth it alone – not to mention the booth output and more performance pads.
CDJ-TOUR1: Beautiful Excess
Release Date: May 2016
Best For: Festival DJ setups
In the world of big-name DJs who tour the world, playing gigs for over $10,000 each, there’s a demand for very high-end gear. Pioneer DJ created a higher echelon of their CDJ line specifically to appeal to festivals, where DJs often have front of house engineers and are playing on multi-million dollar soundsystems.
On the DJ side of things, the controls are almost identical to a CDJ-2000NXS2. Sure, there’s a large 13-inch touch screen attached to the top of the unit that allows for advanced browsing and multi-waveform views from up to four CDJs concurrently. But that aside, the big differences on the CDJ-TOUR1 is inside the unit. There’s a 32-bit D/A converter that allows for “incredibly low noise and distortion, even at the super-high volumes needed for large-scale events.” Beyond that, it’s about a full system – read more about why the TOUR1 system matters to festival DJs + sound techs.
The CDJ-TOUR1 also has been ruggedized, with isolation feet, locking ethernet ports, and reinforced sides. The unit has been specifically designed to survive and thrive in even the most extreme festival conditions, but probably isn’t necessary for any home DJ setups.
XDJ-700: Likely To Be Updated Soon?
Current Price: $699 in the DJTT store
Best For: Extreme budget DJs looking for individual decks
Think of the XDJ-700 as a micro-sized XDJ-1000 – they are incredibly compact and efficient. The unit is just 10 inches wide, and carries many of the same features as the other players in this article. That said, almost all the controls are confined to the touchscreen – don’t expect to have a lot of the physical control that you might find on other units.
Another challenge for many DJs is the non-standard power port on the back of the XDJ-700. Don’t expect to be able to use an IEC cable (like every other unit in this guide) – you’ll need to keep track of a 12V power brick to use with these players.
It’s also important to point out the XDJ-700’s age. Even though the price is incredibly reasonable, the three-year old device is likely to see an update soon, at the very least to bring the browsing and onscreen experience in line with the NXS2 style.
Buying Tips For CDJs / XDJs
When starting to hunt for deals on these models, it can be a bit overwhelming to keep track of prices and bonus offers. One of the best things you can do is talk to a real person – in our own DJTT store, we have a support staff of real DJs who will help you choose the right model and get a good price or secret discount. Chat with them now and get a deal on your next Pioneer DJ purchase.
Pioneer DJ gear also tends to hold value fairly well even when used, particularly the more common club install models. This means that when your’e ready to upgrade or change your setup, as long as you’ve kept your gear in good condition, you’re likely to get a fair amount of your investment back. For example, recently sold listings on eBay show that used CDJ-2000NXSs (released in 2012) regularly still sell for $1,000 – $1,800.
If you’re going to buy used gear, we highly recommend using eBay (look for sellers with good reputations) or even better, buying locally (and get a chance to test the gear before you spend your money).
Bottom Line Recommendations:
Most DJs can’t go wrong with an XDJ-RX2 to get the full features of a NXS2 rig without the price
If you need more than two decks, consider the XDJ-1000MK2s – but not if you need HID support
CDJ-2000NXS2s are great if you’re running a club or renting your gear out regularly and can recoop the heavy cost
The TOUR1 is probably too costly for almost everyone except major festivals.
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Jennifer L West
Fitzpatrick Family University Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Jennifer West’s research in biomaterials and tissue engineering involves the synthesis, development, and application of novel, biofunctional materials, and the use of biomaterials and engineering approaches to study biological problems. Current projects include the design of ECM-mimetic hydrogel materials, novel microfabrication strategies for biomimetic patterning, and nanoparticle theranostics.
Appointments and Affiliations
Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Dean for Ph.D. Education
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Professor of Chemistry
Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Affiliate of the Regeneration Next Initiative
Email Address: jennifer.l.west@duke.edu
http://westlab.pratt.duke.edu
Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, 1996
Biomaterials, nanotechnology and tissue engineering that involves the synthesis, development, and application of novel biofunctional materials, and the use of biomaterials and engineering approaches to study biological problems.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Member. National Academy of Inventors. 2017
President's Circle Lecturer. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. 2017
Capers and Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award. Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. 2016
Member. National Academy of Engineering. 2016
Clemson Award. Society for Biomaterials. 2015
ACS Editors' Choice Manuscript. ACS Journals. 2015
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science. Thomson Reuters. 2014
Admiral of the Texas Navy. Governor of Texas. 2012
Best Discovery of 2003. Nanotechnology Now. 2012
BioHouston's 2009 Women in Science Award. Unknown. 2012
CAREER Award. National Science Foundation. 2012
Duncan Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Rice University. 2012
Excellence in Research Mentorship Award. Rice University. 2012
Fellow. American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. 2012
Fellow. Biomedical Engineering Society. 2012
Frank Annunzio Award. Christopher Columbus Foundation. 2012
HSEMB Oustanding Young Scientist Award. Unknown. 2012
Hershel M. Rich Invention Award. Rice University. 2012
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Unknown. 2012
Inventor of the Year Award. State Bar of Texas. 2012
J. M. Chance Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Rice University. 2012
Most Cited Paper. Annual of Biomedical Engineering. 2012
Most Highly Cited Papers. NanoLetters. 2012
Nanotechnology Researchers of the Year. Small Times Magazine. 2012
O'Donnell Award in Engineering. The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas. 2012
Outstanding Faculty Associate. Weiss College, Rice University. 2012
Outstanding Research in Drug Delivery Award. Cygnus-CRS. 2012
Outstanding Younger Investigator Award. Society for Biomaterials. 2012
Parke-Davis Atorvastatin Research Award. Unknown. 2012
Quantum Award. National Institute of Health, NIBIB. 2012
Samuel Lunden Scholarship. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2012
Secretariat Lecturer. American Chemical Society. 2012
Tech Review TR 100 Most Innovative Young Scientists. MIT Technology Review. 2012
University Fellow. University of Texas. 2012
HHMI Professor. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 2006
Fellows. American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. 2005
Young Investigator Award. Society for Biomaterials. 2000
BME 221L: Biomaterials
BME 493: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
BME 524: Nanotechnology in Medicine (GE, BB, MC)
BME 590: Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering
BME 791: Graduate Independent Study
BME 792: Continuation of Graduate Independent Study
EGR 101L: Engineering Design and Communication
EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
EGR 790: Special Topics in Engineering
A Milestone Toward Cancer Therapy Without Chemotherapy and Surgery (Aug 28, 2019 | Pratt School of Engineering)
Three Duke Researchers Named To National Academy Of Inventors (Dec 12, 2016)
Jennifer West, Two Others Elected to National Academy of Engineering (Feb 8, 2016)
Chemotherapeutic Coatings Enhance Tumor-Frying Nanoparticles (Jul 13, 2015)
Pratt's Jennifer West Wins 2015 Clemson Award (Apr 8, 2015)
Dual Contrast Agent to Light Up Arterial Health Risks (Jul 11, 2014)
Faculty Council Reboots Campus Conversation on Diversity (Jan 20, 2014)
Representative Publications
Abar, B; Alonso-Calleja, A; Kelly, A; Kelly, C; Gall, K; West, JL, 3D printing of high-strength, porous, elastomeric structures to promote tissue integration of implants., Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A, vol 109 no. 1 (2021), pp. 54-63 [10.1002/jbm.a.37006] [abs].
Chapla, R; Abed, MA; West, J, Modulating functionalized poly(Ethylene glycol) diacrylate hydrogel mechanical properties through competitive crosslinking mechanics for soft tissue applications, Polymers, vol 12 no. 12 (2020), pp. 1-16 [10.3390/polym12123000] [abs].
Hammer, JA; West, JL, Chemically Orthogonal Protein Ligation Domains for Independent Control of Hydrogel Modification with Adhesive Ligands and Growth Factors., Bioconjugate Chemistry, vol 31 no. 11 (2020), pp. 2504-2512 [10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00405] [abs].
Unal, AZ; West, JL, Synthetic ECM: Bioactive Synthetic Hydrogels for 3D Tissue Engineering., Bioconjug Chem, vol 31 no. 10 (2020), pp. 2253-2271 [10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00270] [abs].
Hammer, JA; Ruta, A; West, JL, Using Tools from Optogenetics to Create Light-Responsive Biomaterials: LOVTRAP-PEG Hydrogels for Dynamic Peptide Immobilization., Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol 48 no. 7 (2020), pp. 1885-1894 [10.1007/s10439-019-02407-w] [abs].
Affiliate Topics in Materials Research
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Growing Watermelons
Anyone who has ever planted watermelon seeds knows the vine will crawl across the ground at an alarming rate, reaching up to 20 feet!
How does such a large vine come from one tiny seed?
Such a seed was planted in the mind of Spencena Antwanette over ten years ago.
From that seed came two children’s books, two adult books, various college degrees and numerous nonprofit organizations.
Her first book follows a little boys adventures as his watermelon vine produces more than he ever imagined.
Much like Spencena. From that first book she has helped so many.
She’s experienced being homeless. Domestic violence. And single motherhood.
But she didn’t become a statistic. Or a victim.
She became an advocate for children that have no voice in the world.
She’s earned an Associates in Early Childhood Education, a Bachelors in Early Childhood Development and a Masters in Psychology.
She went on to write a second children’s book.
This book chronicles children’s experiences in the foster care system. Each chapter starts the same but has different endings.
One scenario has a child removed and placed back in the home. Another has the child removed and placed with a relative. The last scenario has the child removed from home permanently and adopted.
The world needs a book like this. Children going through the system as well as classmates and peers of the child need to fully understand what they’re going through.
Spencena also found working on adult books as a way to heal. They are a testimonial and very motivational.
She started the Prayer of Salvation Ministries. A non profit that has branched out.
A learning center, affordable housing, helping the homeless, daycare and learning center to name a few.
That tiny seed God planted in the head of Spencena Antwanette has grown and flourished and fed so many.
Like a vine. Growing from a single seed.
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YCFW Behind The Scenes Part VII: Where Are All The Models???
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A fashion show shoot without models???? What???
Yes….No models.
It was time for the York County Fashion Week Team to get decked out and shine for the cameras.
Everyone….the founder, director, model coaches, assistants, etc….. Even the blogger.
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We gathered at The historic Hightower Hall in Mconnells, South Carolina.
We were instructed to wear navy or plum formal attire.
Several did double duty
Model coaches became photgraphers assistants.
Videographers became stylists.
We looked fabulous.
So much fierceness in one picture.
I tried to replicate their look but I just scared the photographer.
Another new experience for me on this behind the scenes journey.
And one step closer to the first ever York County Fashion Week!!!
WE’RE HERE FOR IT!!!
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The Littlest Engine
About a year ago I became aware of the little bundle of energy known as Ayeeedubb in Charlotte’s Hip Hop Seen.
The local well known radio personality was popping up at events all over Charlotte.
On the surface she’s a sassy, street smart, larger than life persona.
But I had a feeling there was more to her than meets the eye.
Arranged by our mutual friend IV Montana, our meeting was bittersweet. The young lady I’d wanted to meet for so long was leaving town a couple of days later. Starting a new job and new life in South Bend Indiana.
Alex gained most of her following while in college. She was pursuing a degree in Biology Education and later a BA in Human Resources. But by night she was building a huge social media following.
She began taking newspaper and TV elective classes.
All this led to her internship at a local radio station.
And ‘Ayeeedubb’ was born.
After the internship ended she was sure she’d be offered a position at the station. But it didn’t happen. She was persistent and eventually landed a weekend gig.
Watching other people get favorable time slots and being passed over time after time was daunting.
She worked Part time for over three years. Taking on odd jobs and side hustles to get by.
But she never gave up. Rejection fueled her desire to succeed.
“God will give you the time….” she told me.
She hit a recent low when she was let go from the station she’d called home. The station all her social media followers helped build up due to her presence.
But she quickly realized her worth.
She went after her dream job. Charlotte’s loss is South Bend’s gain.
But I can still watch her latest #AwSnap video(I low key LOVE these) on her IG.
Her followers are still behind her 100%. And she’s gaining more each day.
She has a one year contract and considers this her ‘Growth Year’.
I see a lot of myself in Alex. Her determination inspires me.
She’s not just the Little Engine That Could.
She’s The Little Engine That Did.
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UK doctors in Australia – Why they won’t be going home any time soon
The numbers are telling: About 1,500 UK doctors move to Australia and New Zealand each year. This exodus is causing havoc in England. A GP-shortage creates high workloads and overstretched doctors, and a survey showed that over half of UK GPs plan to retire before the age of sixty. This stressful situation has prompted a coming home campaign to entice doctors to go back to the United Kingdom.
Why are doctors leaving, and, will they move back to save the NHS?
Dr Nathalie Departe is a UK-trained GP working in Fremantle, Western Australia. “I moved to Australia in 2009 for a change of scenery. I had visited Australia before and loved it, so when my husband found himself in a career hiatus, we thought we would enjoy the sunshine for a few years.”
“Working in Australia was a breath of fresh air. Patients were pleased to see me, understanding if I ran late, and I was rewarded and not penalised if I spent time with a complex patient to sort out their management. Access to pathology and radiology services was prompt, rather than a standard 6-8 week wait for an ultrasound, and access to allied health services didn’t compare – good luck trying to see a clinical psychologist on the NHS.”
“Initially it was a bit odd to bill patients and not provide free care at the point of need, but I soon came to value the transparency of the transaction. The integration between private and public care makes private care accessible and affordable in Australia, rather than in the UK where private care has to be funded in full.”
Escaping the NHS
“In Australia I can arrange imaging quickly, receive the results the next day and organise appropriate and timely care
Dr Janaka Pieris moved to Brisbane in 2010 to ‘escape’ the NHS: “When I think back to my working life as a GP in South East London, I have two overriding memories: there was never enough time in the day to do the work asked of me, and there was no means of limiting my workload. NHS General Practice is a sink for everything no-one else will take responsibility for. Many GPs feel unable to decline these demands – many of which are not NHS work and therefore unfunded – and as a result, are drowning in work.”
“When a patient presents with painless obstructive jaundice in the UK, I have no option but to refer in to hospital, because I have no access to appropriate imaging, or I cannot get it done in a timely fashion. In Australia I can arrange the imaging quickly, receive the results the next day, discuss the case with a specialist and organise appropriate and timely care. It is much more satisfying from a professional perspective.”
Dr Tim Leeuwenburg made the move in 1999, immediately after his internship in the UK. He is now a GP at Kangaroo Island in South Australia. “I was married to an Aussie and always knew I’d be coming to Australia for love and a better lifestyle.”
“That was 15 years ago. Since then I’ve vicariously witnessed the demise of UK medicine – and am anxious that Australia doesn’t make the same mistakes: Other professions trying to do doctors’ work, capitation and performance payments, privatisation, walk-in clinics, phone advice lines, revalidation. They are all seemingly good ideas, but not evidence-based and all have served to emasculate the profession and increase the number of doctors seeking to retire, locum or emigrate from the cesspit that is the NHS. None of these measures have reduced costs or increased quality.”
“The myth of the ‘fat cat’ wealthy GP laughingly enjoying his round of golf whilst poor patients helplessly waited for his attentions was regularly portrayed in the media
Departe: “Despite working in a nice area and enjoying my job, I had a growing sense of unease with the way UK general practice was going. There seemed to be ever changing targets to qualify for practice payments with increased red tape and less time for consultations.”
“There was a general loss of respect for the role of a GP; it was not unusual for patients to demand medication, tests and home visits inappropriately, then to be outraged if you questioned the need for it. The myth of the ‘fat cat’ wealthy GP laughingly enjoying his round of golf whilst poor patients helplessly waited for his attentions was regularly portrayed in the media, and I felt that general practice was being devalued in the eyes of public and politicians alike.”
Dr Mark McCartney left the UK in 2013 because he was not happy with the working conditions in the NHS, but moved back to England after 12 months because of family circumstances. “There is a huge cultural difference in Australia, where there is a mixed health economy of private and state-subsidised services. The NHS is free at the point of access for patients, and service always struggles to meet the demand and prioritise appropriately. UK hospitals are dysfunctional places and the effects of this trickle into General Practice.”
“UK GPs are mostly paid on the basis of capitation payments depending on the number of patients registered, with additional payments for reaching clinical targets and a small amount of fee for service payments. There is now a shortage of GPs and we work in an environment of running faster and harder just to meet demands, without additional incentives or resources.”
“Australian GPs have the luxury of earning a high proportion of income from fee-for-service payments, including patient fees and Medicare payments. The more patients they see and the more services they provide, the more they earn. Clinical practice is also more interesting with rapid access to x-rays and scans. It is a professionally motivating environment to work in.”
Would you move back to the UK?
Dr Pieris is sceptical about the fully funded induction and returner scheme: “Firstly, it is manifestly insulting to suggest that doctors who have worked in similar systems, such as Australia, need retraining to work in UK general practice. I do more medicine in Australia than ever I did in the UK.”
“Secondly, if people are leaving because of a failed system, a sensible approach would be address those failings, not try to tempt people back into the same environment they left.”
“To return would require most GPs to undertake 6-12 months of supervised training, and to surrender to ridiculous bureaucratic imposts
Departe: “Why would I return to a role where I am restricted in my clinical practice by financial constraints, strangled by paperwork, stressed out by time pressures, undervalued by patients and politicians and where I would earn less money for more work and more stress?”
“To return would require most GPs to undertake 6-12 months of supervised training, and to surrender to ridiculous bureaucratic imposts,” says Leeuwenburg. “The reason doctors are leaving the NHS is because of unfettered demand from patient ‘wants’ not ‘needs’, and reduced income as a result of capitation. Why on earth would you go back?”
McCartney: “Very few GPs will return, unless they have personal or family reasons. UK GPs are retiring early, but this does not seem to be the case in Australia. There are also huge barriers to doctors wishing to move back to the UK in terms of medical registration and licensing to practice. The NHS is wasting resources trying to recruit in Australia and they look foolish because of that.”
Doctor’s advice
“My message for governments,” says Departe, “would be Stop undervaluing good general practice! Good general practice has been proven to provide better value for money and a more integrated care approach than secondary care. By all means, regulate general practice to maintain appropriate standards of care but then pay us accordingly and let us get on with being general practitioners.”
Leeuwenburg: “Listen to grassroots doctors, not NHS managers who have destroyed the NHS and are now sprucing their wares in Australia. Nor to academics who think things like capitation and revalidation are necessary. Our Australian system is marvelous and we should be proud. Sure, there is fat in the health system that could be trimmed, mostly in hospitals and specialists, but primary care is overall incredibly efficient and GPs do a great job.”
“The UK government needs to stop attacking GPs and listen to doctors and the BMA, who have been largely ignored for the last ten years
“Ofcourse there are some outliers, but there are many more who are hard working and ethical, doing the right thing for patients and Medicare. Alienate GPs and risk the collapse of a great primary care system. It will cost more if we surrender to the failed experiments of the UK or privatise us with private health funds.”
“The UK government needs to stop attacking GPs and listen to doctors and the BMA, who have been largely ignored for the last ten years,” says McCartney. “Doctors want to work in an effective service so that they can focus on caring for patients. Learn from Australia that good access to radiology for GPs can keep people away from hospital until they really need to be there.”
Pieris: “The UK Government should let us do our jobs. Trust us. Stop interfering. No-one is saying regulation and scrutiny are not required. However, GPs are not some malign enemy. Stop treating us as if we are.”
Recommended further reading: Doctors from overseas, about my experiences as as a Dutch doctors starting Australia.
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David Cartland says:
Excellent article read with great interest and after 12 months as a strained and undervalued GP can’t see my UK career into a second year. packing bags as we speak. Where do I sign……?
Andreas Lehmann says:
True and depressive read. How do we nudge our representatives and ‘unions’ to be more vocal. Time to tell things as they are and become a bit more radical I think
Andreas, GP
Rod Mackenzie says:
The constant NHS bashing by expats is tiring. Tim Leeuwenburg, amongst others, is entitled to his opinion but describing my profession, career, employers, employees, colleagues and patients as, collectively, “the cesspit that is the NHS” is just plain rude.
It’s also pretty rich coming from someone who (a) confesses that their main reason for moving to Australia was nothing to do with medicine: “I was married to an Aussie and always knew I’d be coming to Australia for love and a better lifestyle”; (b) has never, as far as I can tell, actually experienced sustained substantive clinical practice in the UK and (c) works on Kangaroo Island (yep, I’ve been there).
I wonder if there is anything a little less shallow and insulting that could inform this debate…. What about the Commonwealth Fund’s comparison of healthcare systems around the world at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror?
David Guest (@zeeclor) says:
“Good, fast, cheap. Pick any two.” is the business maxim. Yet the Commonwealth Fund 2014 Mirror, Mirror report suggests England has all three. I suspect the cheap part (in British pounds) comes at the expense of job satisfaction as suggested by Jonathan Brown’s informal poll (infra vide). The former is of importance to governments. The latter is important to the work force.
Http://about.me/timleeuwenburg says:
Sounds more like Stockholm syndrome to me. Certainly am a fan of the ideals of the Nash – and was too polite to describe the bastardry of my intern year there (involving Liz Paice, no less, she of Scott Junior infamy), let alone the almost daily ongoing litany of complaints from family/friends who require care in the UK…as well as the comments from colleagues who remain in the UK and are desperate to get out.
But we are each entitled to our opinions. The topic under debate was whether one would return to the UK to work as a doctor. The answer is a resounding no….in my case, because of the ridiculous bureaucracy that requires a period of supervision…as well as informed by colleagues who are desperate to RLE (retire, locum, migrate) as the Nash collapses around them.
Forgive my plain speaking, I have clearly gone native…
Interesting survey of GPs in Australia and the UK comparing working life. 75 GPs from Australia and 70 GPs from the UK were surveyed: http://gpsdownunder.com/news/entry/life-as-a-gp-in-australia-and-the-uk-stresses-pay-autonomy-who-has-it-better
Matt Edwards says:
Rod, no one was calling your profession (we’re doctors here, too), career, employees, colleagues or patients “the cesspit that is the NHS”. But the politicians, first and foremost, followed by the employers, “blue sky thinkers”, privitisers etc have made it a very difficult place to work, and a very difficult place to be a patient.
Ex NHS surgeon says:
The NHS experience is heavily dependent on where you are within it. There are some specialisms in tightly defined geographical or administrative areas where things are very tolerable, thank you. Then there are others which are pure hell. Overall, however, only the blinkered and deluded are unable to see the consistent, unremitting, unfair, sinister and Machiavellian undermining, the ritual humiliation of the medical profession as a whole in the UK. Tim is quite correct: there is overwhelming denial and embarrassing obsequiousness, justified by defence of the nobility of the NHS as an ideal. The latter is not in question: the maintenance of the illusion that the NHS is not an abusive employer relies on complicity: omertà might be an apt description…….
Parts of the NHS remain very good. Other parts are functioning, but tottering. Cardio thoracic surgery has been virtually annihilated. Almost entirely on the back of a perverse insistence on publishing individual surgeon mortality rates. Creating a statistical league table that has as much relevance to predicting numbers on a roulette wheel as anything else. Everything is on hold till the May elections. Thereafter, predict a renewed wave of frenetic reorganisations, all completely useless, and an exponential increase in internal angst, the vast majority of the public having no idea what is going on, but happy to have a moan about any or everything. ‘Its my right – innit? ‘
DOI: left the UK last year. Ex NHS consultant surgeon, clinical and later medical director. Just attended a depressing society conference in UK: won’t be making the journey over again anytime soon.
Reblogged this on Dr Thinus' musings and commented:
Australian politicians PLEASE read this and stop trying to sneak bits of the NHS into how our system works
Valent Lau says:
Interesting because I see so many friends in other fields that are going from Australia to the UK instead
Dr No says:
Revalidation has not only driven many doctors away due to the extreme paperwork and assessments, on a much darker note it also forces all doctors to agree to be vaccinated against all common illnesses and forbids them to speak to their collegues and patients about the drawbacks of vaccinations.They even have to prove this in writing before they can be revalidated! So much for a balanced view and free speech….. So what ever your views on vaccines, this will only undermine patient confidence in doctors when this gets out that all revalidated practicing doctors in the UK have effectively become pimps for big Pharma
iODyne says:
I believe that a company titled SERCO is undermining the NHS with a view to taking over the system. read their wiki and be afraid. the first terrifying para of that, refers to “it’s customers” which are/is in fact our government. eg: The AUS govt pays serco $650Bn p.a. to run prisons for refugees.
in case you don’t read as far as the Health section of (the CIA-founded) SERCO’s infiltration of the UK govt, here’s a snip:
‘In health services, Serco’s difficulties include the poor handling of pathology labs and fatal errors in patient records. At St Thomas’ Hospital, the increase in the number of clinical incidents arising from Serco non-clinical management has resulted in patients receiving incorrect and infected blood, as well as patients suffering kidney damage due to Serco providing incorrect data used for medical calculations.[49] A Serco employee later revealed that the company had falsified 252 reports to the National Health Service regarding Serco health services in Cornwall.[50]
It emerged in November 2013, Serco, which won a contract for Suffolk Community Healthcare in 2012, had 72 vacancies after earlier cutting 137 posts. Problems identified by Ipswich and East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group include “staff capacity, skill mix, workload, succession planning and morale, training, communication, mobile working, care co-ordination centre processes, incidents and near miss incidents”
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Graham Gourley says:
I wish to seek your advice please? I am looking to attract UK doctors to fill a variety of roles in Australia, in most states and also with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). I have a solid network within the UK Military MO cohort, but not within the NHS. Any assistance is very welcome. Cheers, Graham
I am disappointed to see this article but not surprised as it is an English cultural attitude to complain rather than act and make a change. I am Australian born and bred, lived and worked in every part of my country both city and Outback and work as an emergency physician in the UK due to family circumstances. I have been working in the NHS for the past 5 years in various parts of the country. Back in Australia, apart from 15 years in the hospital system in various specialities, mainly ED, I also worked as a locum fulltime GP both in city and rural practices. I am one of the multiskilled Australian docs of which there are many in Oz who still exist. Firstly, I see a great cultural difference between the way patients and doctors are in the UK compared to Australia. I have worked alongside English trained docs in Australia and found their practices occasionally peculiar but mainly inferior to the standard that we have in Australia. That is not a criticism, it is because of the system that exists for them. The GPs in the UK work as hard as those in Australia, as do the emergency physicians, however there is a large Big Brother approach enforced on them. Having said that, there is no point complaining, they should take a stand within their country because the UK needs its UK doctors. The Australians need their Australian doctors. I am sorry to say this, but enough complaining and coming over to Oz expecting to have a relaxed life and creating issues for Australian patients. If UK GPs really feel so insecure about their jobs in the UK, it is not going to get any better in Australia. One thing us Aussies do is complain directly to their GP if they think they are being shortchanged. UK patients sadly do not, and so their GPs provide reduced service and default to the ED physician because of the belief that things can happen quicker in the ED. All that is doing is overstretching the EDs in the UK. I see that on a daily basis and see a lot of poor quality referrals too. There are systems in place for GPs to manage patients but what I see is a lot of GPs not using them. By the way Graham – take care in using UK doctors. From the doctors firsthand, those who have been down and done stints with RFDS and rural hospitals – they come back shaking, feeling quite overwhelmed about their experiences, and they are not that good at managing patients in retrievals (I also have international retrieval and disaster medicine experience)…….Stick to trying to recruit Aussie doctors. Oh, may I add that the number of UK locum agencies that have opened up in Australia is sickening. I have dealt with them and they are as bad as the ones in the UK. All trying to make a quick buck out of Australian hospitals and practices.
Rural GP says:
What a load of BS! Plenty of high quality UK trained GPs and Specialists working in Oz. they’re well respected by patients and colleagues and generally fit in well with the Australian system.
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There have been a few revelations in the Zondo Commission this week. The Gupta’s have been denied their request to testify by video-link and will be forced to return to SA, Jacob Zuma has said that he is misunderstood and will co-operate with the State Capture Enquiry, and Duduzane Zuma will be allowed to cross-examine Mcebisi Jonas.
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The US has threatened to arrest or sanction judges and other officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) if they decide to investigate American war crimes in Afghanistan. John Bolton, the National Security Advisor to the White House, called any investigation “unjustifiable”. Bolton gave no reason for why the investigations should not take place, resorting to threats alone.
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South African business confidence has slipped marginally in the third quarter of 2018. The Rand Merchant Bank business confidence index compiled by the Bureau for Economic Research fell to 38 points in the third quarter from 39 points in the second.
“We think things look fairly stable and see a small chance of a ratings move – either up or down – in the next eight months,” Lucie Villa, a senior analyst with Moody’s sovereign risk group, said at a presentation in Johannesburg.
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Fin24 wrote an article on five key takeaways from Ramaphosa’s Q&A with Parliament, follow this link for the article.
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Thyroid cancer after hysterectomy and oophorectomy: a nationwide cohort study
Authors: Mijin Kim 1 , Bo Hyun Kim 1 , Hyungi Lee 2 , Hyewon Nam 3 , Sojeong Park 3 , Min Hee Jang 1 , Jeong Mi Kim 1 , Eun Heui Kim 1 , Yun Kyung Jeon 1 , Sang Soo Kim 1 , and In Joo Kim 1
1 Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Trial Center, Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
2 Academic Research Organization, Clinical Trial Center, Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
3 Hanmi Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea
Correspondence should be addressed to B H Kim; Email: pons71@hanmail.net
Little is known about the role of estrogen in thyroid cancer development. We aimed to evaluate the association between hysterectomy or bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) and the risk of subsequent thyroid cancer.
A nationwide cohort study
Data from the Korea National Health Insurance Service between 2002 and 2017 were used. A total of 78 961 and 592 330 women were included in the surgery group and no surgery group, respectively. The surgery group was categorized into two groups according to the extent of surgery: hysterectomy with ovarian conservation (hysterectomy-only) and BSO with or without hysterectomy (BSO).
During 8 086 396.4 person-years of follow-up, 12 959 women developed thyroid cancer. Women in the hysterectomy-only (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.7, P < 0.001) and BSO (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.4, P < 0.001) groups had increased risk of thyroid cancer compared to those in the no surgery group. In premenopausal women, hysterectomy-only (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.7, P < 0.001) or BSO (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.4, P < 0.001) increased the risk of subsequent thyroid cancer, irrespective of hormone therapy, whereas, there was no significant association between hysterectomy-only (P = 0.204) or BSO (P = 0.857) and thyroid cancer development in postmenopausal women who had undergone hormone therapy.
Our findings do not support the hypotheses that sudden or early gradual decline in estrogen levels is a protective factor in the development of thyroid cancer, or that exogenous estrogen is a risk factor for thyroid cancer.
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Maui: Best Activities
BRAD AUERBACH May 15th, 2013 0 Comment
Where do you start when you arrive on this luxurious island? You probably want a set of wheels so that you can explore all the options. You can spend a lot and get a current model or you can save some serious dollars by booking with Kihei Rent A Car. As instructed, we called them as we deplaned in Maui and by the time we grabbed our luggage (yes, we needed to check our snorkel equipment even though everything else was contained in our carry-on bags) their shuttle driver was waiting for us curbside. The drive to their shop was not real far. Soon we were packed into our Jeep Wrangler. The ragtop was a bit frayed, the front seats did not move smoothly for back seat access, but we felt like long term natives tooling around the island. Our daughters’ hair was flying in the breeze, and we toggled the 4 way sound system between the island’s two beach stations: 92.5 and 107.5. Equal measures of reggae and hip local music was our perfect playlist. The vehicle was otherwise well-maintained, as evidenced by its 107k mileage. Even though we had some trepidation about the lack of storage space, we found that most of our island roadtrips were only with snorkel gear.
Forget the other vehicles….this family wants a Jeep Wrangler for our Maui excursions.
Kihei Rent A Car has been in business for nearly a quarter of a century, and they have developed a reputation for friendly service with very competitive rental prices. The hassle of wrestling with the passenger seat to let my daughters get in the back seat soon became a family joke. Indeed, my wife became the seat wrangler, befitting the name of the Jeep model we enjoyed.
The vast bulk of visitors flock to the Maui shore, but there is at least one great activity ‘upcountry’ in the mountains. The growth of ziplining is evidenced by the several operators on Maui. Seek out Piiholo Ranch Zipline for a great experience. Their staff had exactly the right blend of humor and confidence to make us comfortable and adventuresome. We weighed in at the office and then headed a few miles further upcountry for our treeline tour across six lines. We were fitted into our harnesses and helmets by our sender guide and receiving guide. The latter is “the only thing between you and the tree, so be friendly with him.” Both Ben and Jon were easy to like, and once prepped we set out into the forest. A hundred yards later we climbed up to our first perch, and then traversed a slat and rope bridge, Indiana Jones style. Our first zipline served to get us accustomed to stepping off the ledge. We eased into our confidence about the double locking harness system, so much so that Ben soon had us leaning backward over the perch prior to launch. Within the next few lines we were spinning and even launching ourselves blindly backward. Those brave enough to also choose the ‘no peeky’ option were guided into their landing by Jon. Our daughters quickly became flying squirrels, whereas my wife and I took a bit longer to get the hang of it, pun intended. Jon and Ben pointed out some of the local flora and fauna, and its use in the local culture. By the sixth line we were sad to have our ziplining come to an end.
Young daughters playing Indiana Jones
Swinging in the breeze
There are dozens of restaurants from which to choose after a day of island activity on Maui, but head for Lahaina to get a taste of Pizza Paradiso. Featuring Italian, Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine, there is plenty from which to choose. With most ingredients sourced locally, you will get a real taste of Maui. We had a few slices of their signature pizzas, and we can understand why they were voted “Best Pizza” in Maui three times by readers of The Maui News. We also tried the chicken shawarma, which was tender and flavorful. We finished with some homemade tiramisu and locally created gelato. We were certainly fortified for our next adventure.
Certainly it is the water that attracts visitors from all over the world. Maui is blessed with a variety of places and ways to enjoy the water, from waterfalls off the Hana Highway to offshore snorkeling havens. We signed on with Paragon Sailing Charters for a cruise to Molokini, an extinct volcano whose upper crater forms a crescent above the water. Parking was easy at Maalea Harbor, where we boarded our catamaran helmed by Captain Greg. He and first mate Ron got us squared away with continental breakfast and soon we were heading to Molokini, an hour offshore. The trampoline front of the boat was the optimal place to watch Molokini growing larger on the horizon. Some of the other tour operators boast first arrival, but Captain Greg pointed out that our trip was more leisurely and “the other swimmers will warm the water up for us.” The most dramatic aspect of the snorkeling at Molokini was swimming toward the rim of the submerged crater’s top edge. The depth was about 15 feet as we approached the submerged top edge of the rim, and as we swam over it the opposite side dropped off 200 feet below. It was a remarkable experience. All sorts of fish were visible, and the current that pulls you to the backside of Molokini was noticeable but not dangerous. Captain Greg called it the “Aloha Current, as in not the hello part of aloha.”
Not a mermaid, but my daughter at Molokini
First mate Ron had been in the Coast Guard, and came to know intimately the rigging on sailing schooners. Captain Greg started working with the family that owns Paragon in a non-nautical role, but when they decided to explore the business of sailing he was the logical man to steer that ship. He now spends the morning sailing charters and the afternoons windsurfing. He admits he never has any real plans beyond the next two weeks. These Jimmy Buffet types exist the world over, and are an inspiration for the rest of us who spend most of the time flying desks.
SNUBA®
As the perfect stepping stone from snorkel to scuba, SNUBA® is viable for any swimmer from about eight years old. Our teenage daughters have grown comfortable in the water with snorkel equipment, so we were pleased to give SNUBA® a go. There are about half a dozen SNUBA® locations on Maui (and over 90 across the globe). We found our location on Ka’anapaali, where Royce was our instructor. He is transplanted from the Pacific Northwest, where he was a professional diver doing welding and the like. As such, he is very comfortable with scuba and SNUBA®. He competently guided us through our pre-dive preparation. In that my wife and I have been certified as scuba divers, we were familiar with the concept of underwater breathing apparatus. The 20 foot SNUBA® tube is attached to an oxygen tank secured in an inflatable raft, from which two tubes dangle. Royce had two rafts ready for us on the beach. He hooked us in, and we all backed into the water. As he predicted, the entry was the most difficult due to the slightly higher surf coupled with the weight belts around our waist.
But soon we were through the surge and ready to use the regulators. One of us had a bit of trouble descending, but Royce was gently firm that we all entered and left the water together. Soon he had us all under the surface, tooling around with ease. His hand signal instruction was effective, as we were all delivering the island “OK” greeting with thumbs and little fingers extended. His next hand signal was the best: turtle sighting. We had yet to see a turtle on our island trip, so this sighting was huge. The turtle moved through the water more like a bird in flight, its huge shell gliding seemingly weightless under the power of its flippers. These were moments of magic with my family I will remember always.
Our daughters getting acclimated to Snuba
Royce led the way underwater; he was untethered and using scuba equipment. We saw a bounty of fish amid the coral. We swam along for 47 minutes (“two minutes longer than expected!” Royce said later), our four tubes happily intertwining. When we finally resurfaced, we were down the shore quite far from our entry point. But we emerged from the Pacific exhilarated, finally able to communicate with words. Our girls took to SNUBA® like, well….fish to water. SNUBA® is a tremendously simple way to explore the world beneath the waves.
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BRAD AUERBACH
Brad Auerbach has been covering the media, entertainment, travel and technology scene for many years. He has written for Forbes, Time Out London, Village Voice, LA Weekly and early in his career won a New York State College Journalism Award.
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Rock On, Bioluminescence.
If there’s one thing I know for sure about the world of living light, it’s that it rocks. Hard. From radiant jellyfish dropping mad beats of visual brilliance to swarms of fireflies flickering in a song of sparkle, Creatures of Light swim, fly, crawl, slither, grow and glow in a symphony of natural rhythm. This rare talent has never been found among flowering plants, reptiles, amphibians or mammals, so it’s not always easy to score a ticket to a live show. But from February 23–June 10, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science will host a magical exhibit that unites the lights from around the world and unequivocally proves why these instrumental creatures shine like rock stars.
I had a blast riffing ideas for this glowing exhibition with the musically and aesthetically gifted design team at Urban Canvas. We paired song lyric headlines with a neon-esque visual style to create a promotional drumroll announcing what’s to come. Then the tagline Glow Toward the Light ignites a playful call to action to catch this mysterious light before it goes out (of town).
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prominent Soviet revolutionary; served as a diplomat for the Soviet Union
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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — TASMANIA
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The recorded values are determined by the invoices and declarations ; the quantities are ascertained rom invoices, weights heins checked by the customs officials. It is diffi- cult to arrive at t'le value of t'le import trade in respect of any particular country, the ci'stom beinij to refer all imports, whether transhipments or re-exports, to the last port of clearance. Owing to the incre.'ising facilities offered by steam communication, direct trade with Tasmaniais falling off in favour of Indirect trade principally through Victoria, which from its geographical position is the nearest port of junction with the great oceanic lines of steamers with Euro])e. It is estimated that the true extent of inter-colonial trade in itself does not greatly exceed 25 per cent, of the whole, the balance being principally trade with England.
The total value of the imports into the United Kingdom from Tasmania and of the exports of British produce to Tasmania direct, for six years, was as follows, accordinfir to the Board of Trade returns : —
Imports from Tasmania . Exports of British pro- duce ....
The staple article of import into the United Kingdom from Tasmania is wool. The value was 135,909Z. in 1893, 194,170Z. in 1894, 168,336Z. in 1895, 215,462Z. in 1896, 181,134Z. in 1897. In 1897 fruit was imported to the value of 74,917Z. The principal exports from Great Britain to Tasmania are apparel and haberdashery, of the value of 71,374/. in 1897 ; iron, wrought and un- wrought, 37,562^; cottons, 65,065?.; woollens, 40,863/.
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The registered shipping in 1897 consisted of 155 sailing vessels of 8,340 tons, and 44 steamers of 6,036 tons ; total, 199 ves.sels of 14,376 tons. In 1897 699 vessels of 542,049 tons entered (38 of 116,719 tons belonging to the United Kingdom), and 717 of 542,119 tons (36 of 115,190 tons belong, ing to the United Kingdom) cleared Tasmanian ports. Of the former 250 of 322,046 tons entered, and of the latter 285 of 826,277 tons cleared Hobart ; the remainder falling to Launceston and sub-ports.
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“It weighs about 5 lbs.”
This stems from a discussion over on ELL which has moved beyond being useful to second-language learners. In short, consider the sentence:
It weighs about 5 pounds.
What part of speech is "about?"
Since the verb "weigh" is not having any effect on the "about five pounds," I think it must be intransitive. That leaves the "about five pounds" as a long adverbial phrase, modifying the verb, right?
If that is correct, then isn't "about" an adverb modifying the adverbial noun "pounds?"
Would the answer hold true if we were talking about the price tag on something?:
This shirt costs about 5 pounds.
prepositions adverbs
And so the question is mis-titled. It is only about the function of "about". It has nothing to do with whether the verb is intransitive. – Brian Hitchcock May 20 '15 at 6:44
"about" modifies "5", not "pounds". – a better oliver May 20 '15 at 8:51
You need a sandwich if you weigh about 5 lb. – Janus Bahs Jacquet May 20 '15 at 9:06
The verb weigh doesn't take an object, but it does take a complement, usually a measure phrase. The noun phrase about ten pounds is the complement of the verb weigh here. The head of this noun phrase is the word pounds. – Araucaria - Not here any more. May 20 '15 at 14:25
@zeroflagL: No, about modifies the whole measure phrase 5 lbs, not just the number 5. As Edwin points out, this is a quantifier which modifies a measure phrase. It indicates that the measure is approximate, not exact. It's not a preposition in this construction. – John Lawler May 20 '15 at 15:50
Traditionally, words modifying just about anything other than a noun phrase were lumped into the default category: adverbs.
Here, a more analytical approach is to label about as a quantifier modifier, which is obviously its function (if one is in the 'numbers are quantifiers' camp. Those who define numbers as being different from quantifiers on the grounds of precision will find a difficulty with this.)
Collins certainly recognises numbers used before noun phrases as determiners:
6. a. amounting to seventy: the seventy varieties of fabric.
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Words that modify nouns are adjectives. Adjectives don't modify noun phrases. "He saw a probable UFO"/"He saw probably a UFO". – Greg Lee May 20 '15 at 16:27
British Council_Learn English: 'Noun Phrases : Often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun.' Adjectives do modify noun phrases. I didn't claim that they modified all noun phrases. – Edwin Ashworth May 20 '15 at 21:24
Often a noun phrase may consist of just a noun or a pronoun, but that doesn't mean it is just a noun or a pronoun. For instance, when an adjective modifies the noun of a noun phrase subject, e.g., "Old hats are tough", even though "Hats are tough" is possible, with a one word subject, the "old" doesn't modify the noun phrase subject, it's inside the noun phrase subject, and within that subject, it modifies the noun "hats". Not the noun phrase. The noun. Adjectives never modify noun phrases. – Greg Lee May 20 '15 at 23:11
I'd argue that refreshing in a refreshing cup of coffee is modifying other than the head noun. – Edwin Ashworth May 21 '15 at 13:53
yes, I think you're right about "a refreshing cup of coffee". Following McCawley, "refreshing" modifies the N' "cup of coffee", and in turn, that N' consists of the noun "cup" with its complement "of coffee". I usually conflate noun and N' (N-bar) in these discussions, because most people don't know about N', I don't believe in them 100%, and it complicates discussions. But the structure for your example is [NP a [N' refreshing [N' [N cup] of coffee ] ] ]. N' can be replaced by "one", as in "You'd like an old stale cup of coffee, but I'd prefer a refreshing one." – Greg Lee May 21 '15 at 14:57
In short, yes, about is an adverb here. It means approximately, and is used correctly in both your examples.
EDIT: When I say adverb, I mean it modifies the adjective five, not the verb weigh. In English, adverbs can modify not only verbs, but also adjectives and other adverbs. This Oxford entry confirms that it is an adverb indeed.
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Is it an adverb or adjective? It means approximately. Consider She walked about four miles. It seems to me to be qualifying the noun miles rather than the verb walked. – WS2 May 20 '15 at 7:36
@WS2 You wouldn't say "She walked about miles", would you? "About" modifies "four" in this case. – a better oliver May 20 '15 at 8:50
@WS2 "Dark" is an adjective because it modifies "red pullover" (so effectively pullover). Or it could be part of the expression "dark red". Mind the difference between "a particular hard task" and "a particularly hard task", or "a bare minimum" and "a barely sufficient minimum". Are "hard" and "sufficient" modified by an adverb or an adjective? – a better oliver May 20 '15 at 10:51
In English adverbs can modify just about any part of speech apart from co-ordinating conjunctions. Btw, dictionaries are rubbish at parts of speech! – Araucaria - Not here any more. May 20 '15 at 14:20
"post-verb noun groups such as appear in 'it weighed a ton'; ... 'the piano seemed an antique' should not be considered objects but are best regarded as belonging to a slightly different category". See the 'Give it me! Write me!' thread. Be aware that 'complement' is used as a generalisation. – Edwin Ashworth May 20 '15 at 21:46
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May’s divorce deal doesn’t add up
posted on Dec. 09, 2017 at 6:38 am
PARIS — The sighs of relief in Brussels, London and Dublin may not last long.
To be sure, the first-phase divorce settlement Britain struck with the European Union early Friday morning keeps the show on the road. It will greatly reduce the risk of a no-deal “cliff-edge” Brexit in 2019 — a result that would inflict major economic damage on both sides of the English Channel and of the Irish Sea.
It could also convince some banks and companies to put on hold plans to relocate jobs and production to Continental Europe in the next few months, while the two sides discuss a transition period and the outlines of a future trade relationship. London was desperate to start that second phase of talks before businesses voted with their feet and left the U.K.
Friday’s agreement also gives welcome legal security to 3 million Europeans living in Britain and 1 million Britons dwelling on the Continent.
And yet, fundamentally, the deal doesn’t add up. Its creative wording can’t disguise the ambiguity in the agreement regarding the Irish border — an issue that’s primed to get much trickier during the next phase of negotiations.
“I never realized you could have a border without a border, but I was obviously wrong” — Peter Guildford
How do you keep regulations aligned between the United Kingdom and the EU to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, as Theresa May has promised, while simultaneously insisting that Britain will leave the single market and the customs union and preserving the constitutional and economic integrity of the U.K?
“I never realized you could have a border without a border, but I was obviously wrong,” said Peter Guildford, a former British EU official who runs a Brussels consultancy. “Now let’s see how they create a single market without a single market. The wheels have to come off somewhere.”
It was the Irish border question that nearly caused negotiations to derail this week when Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, on which May’s minority government depends for its survival, rejected the initial text she had negotiated with EU and Irish officials.
And there’s nothing in the agreement that indicates it has been answered. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier appeared to acknowledge that five days of redrafting had merely glossed over the problem rather than truly resolving it. “No one should underestimate the difficulties we will face on this issue,” he said. “Nobody.”
Barnier briefs the press after the Juncker and May’s statement | Olivier Hoslet/EPA
The only way to square the circle would be for the U.K. to continue indefinitely observing EU rules, norms and standards like Norway — not just during a transition period but as part of a future trade agreement, without becoming a formal member of the European Economic Area.
That ultra-soft form of Brexit would blow far past the “red lines” of Leave campaigners who vowed to “take back control” of legislation and national borders and cast off the yoke of EU bureaucrats and judges. It would leave Britain as a rule-taker instead of a rule-maker.
British officials are insisting that the commitment to “regulatory alignment” is limited to areas such as agriculture which affect intra-Irish trade and the application of the 1998 Good Friday agreement that ended three decades of civil strife in Northern Ireland. But even that would cause deadly disagreements within May’s Tory party.
Former Brexit minister David Jones warned: “To maintain EU regulation in that area may inhibit free trade agreements with third countries.”
The Brexiters have not said their last word. They will want to reassert Britain’s sovereign right to diverge from EU regulations.
For now, the Conservative standard bearers of Brexit are giving the prime minister the benefit of the doubt, claiming the deal is a victory. Never mind that London has essentially had to accept the EU27’s divorce terms lock-stock-and-barrel, including net payments to the EU expected to reach at least €50 billion over time and an 8-year oversight by the European Court of Justice of EU citizens’ rights after Britain leaves.
Environment Secretary Michael Gove, a leading Cabinet hardliner, said May had “won.” He even endorsed the extended role for the ECJ as providing a period of certainty.
Gove and his fellow Brexit crusaders seem so anxious to ensure that Britain leaves the EU on time with no way back that they have embraced financial, judicial and regulatory concessions that they had previously vehemently opposed.
For the same reason, they may well now accept the EU’s strict terms for a transition period after March 2019. Brussels insists that London will have to stay in the single market and customs union during that period of at least two years, respecting all EU rules including unrestricted free movement of the bloc’s citizens into the UK, and continuing to make budget payments. The only thing that will change is that Britain will no longer have a seat at the table.
Environment Secretary Michael Gove, a leading Cabinet hardliner, said May had “won”| Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Friday’s deal papered over deep differences in the ruling Conservative party over the trade-offs that still lie ahead, between market access and permanent acceptance of EU rules. The crunch will come when Britain and the EU have to define their long-term relationship.
May and EU governments have a common interest in postponing that moment as long as possible, both to avoid economic disruption and in the hope that public opinion may shift. The obvious way would be to make the transition period renewable by mutual consent, since legal experts say it may take up to five years to negotiate a free trade agreement.
The Brexiters have not said their last word. They will want to reassert Britain’s sovereign right to diverge from EU regulations. A blow-up has been averted for now, but the fundamental contradiction inherent in the Irish deal is bound to return to haunt the negotiations.
Paul Taylor, contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the Europe At Large column.
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Coronavirus: 3,300 people under surveillance in J&K
posted on Mar. 20, 2020 at 6:47 pm
JAMMU: As many as 184 travellers and persons in contact with suspected coronavirus cases were put under surveillance in Jammu and Kashmir in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of such people to 3,330, an official bulletin said on Friday.
Of the 3,330 people, 2,465 were in home quarantine, 44 quarantined in hospitals and 416 in home surveillance, while 405 had completed the 28-day surveillance period, it added.
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The Vampire Diaries recap: Bob Mahoney/The CW
The race for the cure takes a tragic turn as Silas is reached
By Mandi Bierly
Updated February 15, 2013 at 05:21 AM EST
S4 E14
We’ve been hearing rumors of a TVD death, and we may or may not have witnessed it in this episode as thawing Silas drained Jeremy and snapped his neck. Jeremy looked more dead than usual, and the promo for next week seems to suggest that Jeremy has not woken up (if Meredith wants Elena to release “the body”) — even though he had his ring on. Does being a member of The Five make him supernatural, and therefore the ring no longer works on him? If he did die, who gets the Hunter’s Curse: Silas for finishing him off, or Katherine for setting it in motion? Or will there be no curse because of a loophole? If Silas is raised, does that mean there’s a way for him to bring Jeremy back from the dead, or was the possibility of resurrection just a lie that Silas’ hallucinations told folks like Shane and Bonnie? And wait, how was Katherine there? Is she working with Shane? Was she completing the final sacrifice of 12 for Shane? Does she want the cure for Klaus, so she can stop running and hiding from him? So many questions. But let’s go back to the start.
Vaughn, the Hunter who captured Damon, had him tied to a tree and wanted to know why his mark suddenly completed itself two days ago. Damon insisted he knows nothing about tattoos. “Look at my skin, it’s flawless,” he cracked. A new classic Damon line. While Vaughn took a poker to Damon’s neck to show he should be taken seriously, Elena recapped everyone’s whereabouts on the phone for Caroline. They saw signs of a struggle, so they assumed Damon has been taken and wasn’t just off brooding. They asked Caroline to get Klaus’ sword so they could translate Jeremy’s tattoos via the photos Bonnie took and send them a map and directions. Klaus wouldn’t hand the sword over, Rebekah argued. He didn’t need to: “There’s only so many places you can hide a 3-foot piece of metal,” Stefan said. Next time we’d see Caroline, she and Tyler would have found the sword in Klaus’ attic. That is like Damon hiding the moonstone in his soap dish, only less clever. The handle is a cryptex (“I’ve seen the Da Vinci Code,” Caroline said), so they basically had to twist parts and read Aramaic, which of course Klaus knew.
Jeremy, Bonnie, and Shane reached the well, and the islander who was assisting Shane asked for his payment. Shane gave him the tombstone. Like Bonnie, I thought that was a lame use for it. Apparently its core is made up of Qetsiyah’s calcified blood, which is more valuable in some witch circles than the Hope Diamond. While Rebekah tried to get a signal, Elena and Stefan talked about the fact that he’d never told her he’s always wanted to be human again, even before he met her. I don’t think it’s that much of a deep dark personal secret, Stefan, considering you preferred to drink animal blood when we met you. But Stefan referred to Elena as a friend, which made Elena happy and Rebekah concerned.
Vaughn now had Damon walking toward the well. His plan was to use Damon to make Bonnie open the crypt to Silas for him. He’d make Silas take the cure, kill him, and complete the Brotherhood of the Five’s mission. Damon noted that Bonnie would not do anything for him, but good news for Vaughn: They didn’t give a crap about Silas, they just wanted the cure, so yes, Bonnie would open the crypt regardless. Vaughn dropped the bombshell we all kind of saw coming: There’s only one dose of the cure. Klaus, who’d wisely decided that he could help Caroline and Tyler read the cryptex and keep that important information to himself, shouted it out to Rebekah when Caroline phoned her to say they were emailing the translation and directions. Did he really want her to be happy, or did he just want her to take the cure so no one would try to force feed it to him? I assume the latter.
On her way down into the well, Bonnie fell and cut her hand. Jeremy bandaged her up so they could talk about how she wouldn’t let Shane raise Silas and would kill Shane herself if he made a move to hurt either one of them, but not before she bleed heavily enough that it seeped down below to the crypt and fell on stony, steely Silas’ mouth. (Ah, so the blood is what gives him enough mojo to produce the hallucinations.) Meanwhile, Damon and Vaughn took a break on their trek to reveal that Vaughn hadn’t saved Jeremy and Elena, there’s someone else on the island — someone who also took out the islander who’d been given the headstone. From the neck injury, it looked like a vampire. It didn’t occur to me yet that it’d be KATHERINE.
NEXT: Tantric magic
In the well, Shane realized they were standing on top of the magical passageway Bonnie had to open to lead them to Silas’ crypt. Bonnie had to hold Jeremy’s hand, touch his bare chest, breathe, and pull the power of the mark into her. So it’s tantric magic. Sexy! The more Bonnie “pulled,” the more Jeremy shook, though he didn’t seem to be in pain. The well began to crumble around them. Awkward commercial break!
Rebekah had sent Elena jumping first off a cliff so she could tell Stefan there was only one dose of the cure. She knew even if she gave it to him, he’d just give it to Elena. She couldn’t handle two against one, so she snapped his neck.
After the magicquake stopped, Bonnie and Jeremy were fine. They’d succeeded in opening the passage. Jeremy put back on his shirt. Boo! And Bonnie refused to help Shane, who’d broken his leg. A little convenient, perhaps? She told Shane it was best if he stayed off the leg, which meant she and Jeremy moved ahead on their own.
The Hunter and Damon officially entered the playing field. Since Vaughn no longer needed Damon because Bonnie had done her part already, they were ready to kill each other. Damon said he was going to do away with Vaughn and get the cure for the girl he loves. Vaughn said Damon’s attachment to his friends would be the end of him. We heard a noise. “You don’t know my friends,” Damon said. Enter Rebekah. “Or my enemies,” he finished.
Elena had made her way back to the top of the cliff to sit beside Stefan. As he drank from a blood bag, he told Elena about there only be one cure, and she said she couldn’t take it above everyone else who deserved it just as much as her. (Maybe Stefan and Rebekah deserve it more, since they’ve been vampires longer, Elena?) She said maybe it was for the best: Even if she could be human again, she’d never be the same girl she was before Matt’s truck went off the Wickery bridge. She’d have to learn to embrace the new her and live her life. Sired to Damon, Stefan said. She’d deal with that when they got home. HOME. They realized Bonnie’s spell holding Klaus would soon wear off, and after what they did to Kol, Klaus would kill them all. They had to get the cure and ram it down his throat. At Elena’s house, Tyler had realized that, too. He wanted to get out of town, knowing Klaus would start with him. Caroline begged him to let her try to fix things with Klaus because she didn’t want to say goodbye to him again.
We cut back to the well, where Vaughn proved he’s the James Bond of The Five. He knocked Rebekah out with some kind of stake grenade he buried in her chest and fired some kind of vervain yo-yo around Damon’s neck. Stefan and Elena caught up, and Vaughn fled through the passage. Stefan sent Elena on, and he stayed behind to try to help Damon.
NEXT: Oh, I keep forgetting Silas was a witch
Jeremy clearly thought it was romantic that he and Bonnie were on this mission together. That is, until she started talking to Grams, who only she could see and hear. Now the minute Grams started telling Bonnie that all she had to do to bring her back to life for good was reach Silas and “feed him,” I called bull. Grams would never violate nature like that. Jeremy was able to snap Bonnie out of it, because if it was really the ghost of Grams, he’d be able to see her since he can see ghosts. He guessed it was Silas trying to control Bonnie through a hallucination, as he had done with Shane. The tears in Kat Graham’s eyes were beautiful. Jeremy held her hand and told her to listen to the sound of his voice only. Ah, Jeremy. I was sorta surprised he was that smart and in control, but it was nice to see.
Caroline tried to convince Klaus that he didn’t have to forgive Tyler, he just needed to let him live far away from Mystic Falls. Klaus resisted, and we veered off into a conversation about whether Caroline would take the cure if she had the chance. Klaus knew she wouldn’t, she’s like him: She likes being strong, ageless, fearless. That makes total sense. Caroline turned it around on Klaus: If they’re so much alike, he should show Tyler the mercy she’d show Klaus. For a moment, it appeared she’d gotten through to him. We heard the epic love theme in the background. But the only mercy Klaus would show Tyler, for Caroline’s sake, was a head start.
Stefan finally freed Damon, and Damon insisted Stefan go help Elena get the cure while he sat, sulked, and recovered. Stefan didn’t waste time telling Damon that they had to save the dose for Klaus. On he went. Elena was still on her own — except for whoever jumped out and attacked her. That’s when I realized it was Katherine.
On Elena’s porch swing, Caroline said a tearful goodbye to Tyler. They’re immortal, he reminded her. “This isn’t goodbye, this is until we find a way,” he said. Beautiful line. Also simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking was her response: She told Tyler if they couldn’t find a way, he had to promise he’d live a full, happy life without her and never think of her again. For her sake, he said it. They kissed. He slowly walked away. And Caroline sat there crying. Where’s Tyler going? And how long will he be gone?
Stefan came to the Pass Professor Shane part of the game. Shane insisted he never knew there was only one dose, and he tried to barter his guide skills for some of Stefan’s healing blood, but Stefan refused. As Stefan went on, bleeding Shane saw another hallucination of his wife. Can he bleed out and die, please?
Bonnie and Jeremy reached Silas, who was clutching a box they presumed contained the cure. It was “fossilized in place,” Bonnie said. Trying to remove it was like trying to bend stone. Bonnie realized he’d been frozen like this for 2,000 years, and, perhaps remembering what faux Grams had said, she knew what they had to do: They had to feed him their blood to loosen his grip. They had to wake him up.
Speaking of waking up, Damon had crawled over to Rebekah and picked the stake shrapnel out of her back. She knew he hadn’t gone with Elena and Stefan because he wanted Elena to have the cure, even if she may not love him back then, which meant he was being selfless with her and was now a “halfway decent person.”
NEXT: Can we still like Katherine?
Back to Silas: As Jeremy beat him with a rock, Bonnie tried to tell Jeremy they’d find a way to get the cure without raising him. Just then, we heard the sound of knife stabbing Bonnie in the back: It was Vaughn. He told Jeremy not to listen to the witch — they had to raise Silas and do it now. With Bonnie already bleeding, why didn’t Vaughn just use her blood? Does it have to be blood from one of The Five to raise him? (That would explain why Katherine had saved Jeremy on the island before.) Vaughn cut his own hand and started dripping blood over Silas. Jeremy went Bourne on his ass, but Vaughn was the more experienced fighter. He was about to finish Jeremy off, when “Elena” sped in. Jeremy reminded her of the Hunter’s Curse, right before she took a bite out of Vaughn’s neck. She just knocked him out instead. Definitely Katherine, I thought.
Over to Klaus… He walked out of Elena’s house. He told Caroline he assumed he was free because something had happened to Bonnie. He also said he’d never hurt Caroline except for impaling her, and that he’d shown kindness, forgiveness, and pity — for her.
Stefan finally caught up to bleeding Elena, who confirmed that Katherine was there. Jeremy had wanted “Elena” to feed Bonnie her blood to save her, but “Elena” wanted Jeremy to raise Silas first. Katherine finally grew impatient and grabbed Jeremy, slit his wrist, and put it in Silas’ mouth. His eyes lit up. To speed things up, Katherine bit Jeremy’s neck and shoved it in Silas’ mouth. Silas raised his hand to hold Jeremy’s head in place and Katherine grabbed the box. She could have taken a second to yank Jeremy out of Silas’ bite — Silas couldn’t be full strength yet, right? — but she fled. Silas snapped Jeremy’s neck and he fell, looking really, really dead. Had he already drained Jeremy of all his blood? Again, does Jeremy’s ring not work because he’s a Hunter? Or because it was Silas who drained him? OR WHAT JUST HAPPENED?! All Bonnie could do was lie there looking paralyzed and stare helplessly at Jeremy. Man, worst Valentine’s Date ever. What if we never see that chest again, you guys?
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Mahavishnu Orchestra Live at Montreaux
By Nilan Perera
The Mahavishnu Orchestra, at their inception, were the first mutation of Miles Daviss electric experiments brought to stadium rock level by guitarist John McLaughlin. Initially, the Orchestra were also a vehicle to carry the spirituality McLaughlin found in the teachings of Sri Chinmoy. This double DVD primarily documents a live concert from the 1984 post-Sri Chinmoy fusion band via some video and audio from 1974 with a string section, Jean-Luc Ponty on violin and a lot of gauzy white Indian clothes in evidence. The music itself is a catalogue of blistering solos that, while quite awesome in technique, eventually adopt that "sameness in sound that went on to afflict most other fusion ensembles. The 84 recording has better sound and the 74 concert has that archaic hippie feel but overall, this gets fairly tired after about 45 minutes. If you like your riffage endless, then this ones for you. (Eagle Rock)
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Didier William, Haitian-American b. 1983 Dantor a Anais (detail), 2018 collage, acrylic, ink, wood carving on panel Private Collection Image courtesy of Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City, © Didier William
Lakou will feature mixed-media paintings and prints by Haitian artist Didier William. Born in Port-au-Prince and raised in Miami, William draws on Haitian history, mythology and personal experience to explore themes of cultural identity. William utilizes a variety of techniques including woodcarving, collage, printmaking and painting in his work. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from Yale. William is Assistant Professor of Expanded Print at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Didier William: Lakou catalogues are available for purchase through the Figge Art Museum Store. To order, contact Ann Nicknish by email at anicknish@figgeartmuseum.org, or by phone at 563.345.6643. Please provide a contact name and phone number.
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Does Dollar Tree Do Cash Back? Policy Explained
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William Lipovsky | Verified & Updated Sep 29, 2018
There are a number of ways to convert that debit or credit card in your pocket into cash. ATMs are convenient when you need to withdraw funds, but you can avoid ATM service fees — and the hassle of finding a machine — while shopping at stores that offer cash back with your purchase. Does Dollar Tree do cash back? Dollar Tree, like most retailers, can give you cash back when you pay with a debit card. Here are the details.
The Dollar Tree Cash Back Policy
Limits and Amounts
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By contacting several customer service representatives, we learned that Dollar Tree does give cash back when you make a purchase with your debit card. However, like most other retailers, Dollar Tree doesn’t offer cash back when you make a purchase using a credit card or check.
When you use your debit card at Dollar Tree, you can get up to $50 cash back with your purchase — note that there is a $1 service fee added to all cash back transactions. There is no purchase minimum required to get cash back. A pack of gum will do. Simply swipe your debit card at the register, select “yes” on the keypad when the cash back option appears, then choose the amount of cash back you’d like to receive with your transaction.
Dollar Tree offers cash back amounts of $10, $20, $40, and $50. If you’d like your cash back to include specific denominations ($1 bills, $5 bills, etc.) simply request them from the cashier while the register is open, during your transaction.
There are a number of other retailers and grocery stores that offer cash back with your purchases. Most often, these stores offer cash back on debit card transactions, but some stores also give cash back on personal check and credit card purchases. Typically, though, the amount of cash back you’ll be able to receive with a personal check is lower than with a debit card options.
Shopping somewhere else or don’t have a Dollar Tree near you? Check out these stores that give cash back on checking, debit, and credit transactions to find grocery stores, pharmacies, superstores, and convenience stores that offer cash back, as well as the requirements and limits for each of these retailers.
If you have a Discover card, you may be able to take advantage of the Discover Cash Over program, which allows up to $120 cash back at participating retailers.
Need a lot of cash back? We’ve compiled a detailed list of retailers that give $100 or more in cash back in our article, What Store Gives the Most Cash Back on Debit Card, etc?
While ATMs are a convenient way to withdraw cash from your checking account, you can avoid costly transaction fees by shopping at retailers that offer cash back with purchases. The Dollar Tree cash back limit is $50 on purchases made with a debit card, for a $1 fee. There are also a number of other retailers that offer cash back at the register, so you’re sure to find a convenient cash back option near you.
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jefrastarrlinn » Hip hop » PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
PM_Dawn Pop_Rap 1991 Europe
PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss flac album
Performer: PM Dawn
Title: Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
Style: Pop Rap
Category: Hip hop
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Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" is a song by American hip-hop group . It was released in August 1991 as the second single from their debut album Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience.
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There isn’t a sadder or sweeter movie this Oscar season than Nebraska–a disarmingly understated masterpiece by director Alexander Payne, who doesn’t always so elegantly drift between comedy and tragedy. Bruce Dern stars as Woody Grant, a monosyllabic, drunken father who may be in the early stages of dementia. When his son, David (Will Forte), attempts to bond with him, he has little to give in return but a grunt or the occasional guilt trip. This central relationship–which eventually opens up to include his nasty wife Kate (June Squibb) and his other son Ross (Bob Odenkirk)–seems ripe for the expected moments of spoken affections and the healing of old wounds. Where Payne and writer Bob Nelson succeed is in keeping most of these revelations under the surface (and that is only if it can be argued that they’re even fully there). This is a story about missed opportunities and resentments, where David seems to be the only person whose intention has anything to do with making somebody else happy. The two-faced townsfolk of Hawthorne are just as eager to pressure Woody for his supposed lottery earnings as they are to congratulate him–his resurfacing in his hometown causes such a ruckus because the residents see him as their own ticket out of there. For a movie that deals both with violent envy and unspoken despair, however, Payne does find the occasional sweet moment under unexpected circumstances, such as a hilarious set piece involving an air compressor. A late shot of Woody’s old flame (played by Angela McEwan) is among the most haunting in recent years–a profound “what if?” that might offer some hope for the future if it wasn’t already too late.
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Alaska Airlines Unveils A Comfortable and Modern New Cabin
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Starting this month, guests flying on Alaska Airlines will experience a comfortable and modern new cabin, as the West Coast airline shifts into high gear retrofitting its Airbus fleet.
The upgraded cabin is the result of two years of customer research and combines the best features of Alaska Airlines and Virgin America, along with many thoughtful enhancements to make the travel journey comfortable, hassle-free and productive.
“Just two years after acquiring Virgin America, we’re thrilled to introduce a modern cabin that aligns the onboard experience across our fleet,” said Ben Minicucci, president and COO at Alaska Airlines. “After extensive feedback from our guests and in collaboration with our partners, we’ve infused the Alaska Airlines cabin with key brand elements from Virgin America – the result is a premium experience at an affordable price.”
Alaska’s new cabin features include:
· Refreshed color palette from the updated bulkhead design to the carpet, bringing in neutral tones that are associated with relaxing environments against pops of Alaska’s signature blue.
· Ambient mood lighting with calming, cool blue hues developed by lighting and color experts to complement the human body’s natural circadian rhythm. The result is lighting that changes throughout the flight to promote an uplifting energy during the day and calming energy into the evening.
· Advanced high-speed satellite Wi-Fi by Gogo will deliver faster connection speeds, including the ability to stream content from popular services like Netflix or HBOGo.
· Redesigned first class Recaro seats that evoke the feeling of both performance and comfort, like a luxury car. The sculpted design features memory foam and a 40” pitch, along with footrests to support guests of varying heights.
· Ergonomically-friendly tablet holders at each seat that accommodate most tablets and smartphones. The holders free up tray table space and an added shelf keeps devices in prime viewing position. Flexible mesh pockets also allow for easy access to essentials during the flight.
· Upgraded premium and main cabin seats now feature memory foam for added comfort.
· Conveniently-placed and tilted power outlets at every seat (USB & 110V) that allow guests to easily locate and charge two devices at once. The electrical boxes under the middle seat have been relocated to provide more personal space for guests.
· Curated, onboard music program with a cool West Coast vibe that complements the relaxing and modern ambiance.
· Cup holders throughout first class and premium class, so that guests can multi-task while they savor a craft beer, wine, or cocktail and have full use of the tray table.
Alaska’s Airbus fleet of A319, A320 and A321 aircraft are being updated in phases this year and by early 2020, 36 percent of the mainline fleet will feature the new cabin interior – including the entire Airbus fleet, Boeing 737-700s and three new Boeing MAX 9 planes. The retrofitted planes will bring consistency to the guest experience across the Alaska fleet, and expand the First Class and Premium Class sections with 12-seats and 24-seats respectively, offering more guests the option of an elevated experience. Alaska will take delivery of its first MAX 9 this summer, which will feature the new cabin interiors.
"Our guests are at the center of everything we do,” said Andrew Harrison, Alaska Airlines’ executive vice president and chief commercial officer. “From relaxing in our lounges to being in the air, we know travelers want more control and comfort, while also enjoying the same low fares and great service. So that’s exactly what we did – we created a relaxing travel experience, so that our guests can focus on where they’re going and leave the rest to us.”
The new cabin is part of a series of investments Alaska has made to its onboard offering over the last 12 months, which includes advanced, high-speed satellite Wi-Fi, free chat, free movies and entertainment, and a new rotating seasonal menu. The menu offerings feature fresh, locally-sourced ingredients and feel-good snack and beverage options from beloved West Coast brands including Salt & Straw, Luke’s Organic and Fremont Brewing. By 2020, the majority of the mainline fleet will have the new satellite Wi-Fi installed.
The unveiling of the new cabin interior comes on the heels of Alaska Airlines’ plans for a new 8,500-square-foot rooftop lounge at San Francisco International Airport’s Terminal 2. Featuring stunning views of the San Francisco Bay, the lounge will feature warm finishes and a modern and welcoming vibe, along with generous amenities such as hand-crafted Starbucks beverages, made-to-order meals for purchase and an expansive bar program featuring local Bay Area draught beers and West Coast wines. The Lounge is expected to open in 2020.
In addition, as part of Alaska’s multi-year investment to refresh and expand its Lounge portfolio, the new flagship 15,800-square-foot lounge at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will open in the next few months. Alaska is also renovating its Lounges in Anchorage, Alaska, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. These renovations are expected to be completed in the next few months and will include a new barista station, made-to-order meals and additional seating, as well as an updated look-and-feel.
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About the Feldmann Family
The name suggests an original residential or occupational designation.
The Feldmann family is an old-established family whose place of origin seems to be Schwanden. Already in the 16th century families settled in Glarus and Näfels. For the first time a Feldmann is mentioned in a document in 1372, in which year Rudolf Feldmann is named as one of the 42 guarantors. In 1385 he makes his seal available to a compatriot. In 1395 a Johann Feldmann is one of the guarantors for the annual tax to the monastery Säckingen. Since the middle of the 16th century, various members of the family have lived in Schwanden. In 1542, for example, master blacksmith Michael Feldmann, who served the congregation as a church keeper, was handed down. From 1543 an Ulrich Feldmann is mentioned in the files several times. In 1551 Thys Feldmann served as Freibergschütze, and in 1555 a Hans Feldmann represented the Tagwen (civil community) in a dispute. By the way, the family in Schwanden was never very numerous, and their relatives did not hold higher offices in earlier centuries. The Feldmann were craftsmen and often served the church as sexton. In earlier centuries several members of the family wore the otherwise not very common name Levin.
The Feldmann from Glarus undoubtedly came from Schwanden, since they renewed the Tagwenrecht (citizenship) there several times. In 1560 a Feldmann was already the owner of a house in the main town of Glarus, and since the end of the century a butcher's family has been proven in Glarus, who also practiced their profession in the 17th and 18th centuries. Some have become known as Mätzen dealer (Mätzen were wool cloths, which were mainly produced in Glarus and were also used there as clothing). Only Jakob Feldmann (who died in 1655) held a higher office. During three terms of office, he served as bailiff at Werdenberg Castle and as Landesfähnrich (ensign) and Landeshauptmann (governor) in Glarus. The family then achieved significance in Switzerland through Colonel Rudolf Markus Feldmann (1869-1947). At a young age he taught at the Gymnasium in Thun and then worked as head of the section of the general staff department and head of the military welfare department as well as a lecturer in military science. His son Markus Feldmann (1897-1958) first made a name for himself as a lawyer, editor and member of the National Council, and from 1951 to 1958 he was a Federal Council of Switzerland.
The Feldmann from Näfels do not know exactly whether they came directly from Schwanden or took the detour via Glarus. They apparently go back to Hans Feldmann, who together with his son Jakob became a citizen in 1598 for ten guilders each and became the progenitor of a family that is quite numerous today. In old Glarus the family did not provide any magistrates worth mentioning. Members of the family served the country as caretakers, ship masters, masters of the country scale and messengers. Some distinguished themselves as master stove fitter. Franz Jakob Feldmann became provost of the Bischofszell canon monastery in 1754. Today, a Feldmann from Näfels runs a printing press in Schwanden in the second generation.
Interpretation of the Family Crest
Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Band 3, p 134
Stucki Fritz, 50 alte Glarner Familien, p 29-30
Tschudi-Schümperlin Ida / Winteler Jakob, Wappenbuch des Landes Glarus, p 30-31
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Gestapo of the New World Order arrest Br. Bugnolo today
October 17, 2020 Editor 31 Comments
ROME, ITALY (October 17, 2020): Today was the most glorious day for me during the Scamdemic, because I was arrested by the gestapo of the New World Order.
My crime was distributing this leaflet in the sight of the Italian State Police, at Piazza del Popolo, today at about 4:30 PM.
This is the first leaflet for the new Catholic party in Italy (ItaliaPerItaliani.it), which was founded on Friday. It explains what the party promises to do, in a very few bullet points.
The name of the Party is “Italy for Italians”.
The first line of the checkboxes here reads in English: We promise an end to the controls for the Pandemic.
Someone who disagreed with the pamphlet went and denounced me to the State Police who had been watching me peacefully for about 2 hours or more.
When they arrived, they asked me where was my mask. I asked them why they asked. They said there was a decree from the Prime Minister which requires that I wear it at all times outdoors. I said how can the Prime Minister demand such a thing. They said there is a state of emergency. I said, but the Constitution of the Italian Republic says that the Prime Minister can only declare a state of emergency in time of war on Italian soil. Therefore all these controls for the Pandemic are unconstitutional.
They did not know what to say.
One said that the Constitution is from 1948 and the Prime Minister’s decree is from last week, and therefore the latter is more in force! Another said that the Constitution says no such thing — I repoved him for lying to my face. Then the same man, who seemed to be the leader of the Gestapo, said that it does not matter what the Constitution says, because his word is a law higher than the constitution!
We talked for a while, while I gave them a lesson in Italian law. Then the leader admitted there is no military war in Italy right now. At that point the plainclothesman stopped filming us, because the leader had just destroyed his entire legal case.
I warned them all that if they arrest me that I will file a criminal charge against them all for violating my liberty of free speech, my liberty of religion, my liberty of political expression, and my liberty of free movement.
The man who arrested me, Andrea Valeri, began to shake at my repeated legal threats. The leader called two other state police from another station so that they would arrest me, and thus conceal the identities of the ones who initiated the violation of my 4 constitutional rights.
They dragged me away, and I gave no resistance. And they took me to the Distretto I Police Station near the Piazza S. Marco, at the center of Rome. There, they had 5 men lift me out of the car, and drag me into a police room for interrogation and to be booked, as we say in English. That is, charged.
I told them that inasmuch as they were violating my constitutional rights, they were to me not the police but criminals and thus I refused all cooperation. They dropped me on the floor and one of them took one of my sandals which had fallen off my foot and assaulted me with it by throwing it violently at me. I said, “Oh this is how you treat me. Can I not sit on the bench like a human being?”, and the one who had just assaulted me said, “You are not a human being, so No!”
I was then made to sit on the dirty cold floor for 2 hours. It took them that long to write a 4 page report and charge me with I do not now what. Finally they allowed me to go to a bathroom which had no toilet paper or way to wipe ones hands dry after washing them without any soap.
When the presented me with the papers which charged me they asked me to sign, and I replied: “In your bathroom there is no toilet paper, now you have some!”
Before I left, I reminded them, that as the Patron of the State Police in Italy is Saint Michael the Archangel, that since they had just committed terrible mortal sins of injustice and false accusations against me, that Saint Michael will now have to punish them for their sins. I promise to pray that the Archangel be merciful to those who have children, so that the little ones not lose a dad who supports them.
As I left, they said goodbye, and I replied, “You are now my enemies”. These may sound like harsh words, but in the face of men who have so closed themselves to the truth as to abuse their great responsibility and kidnap citizens for preaching civil liberty and religious liberty, there is no other word that fits.
REMEMBER! They have no power over us but fear. We need only to NOT fear, therefore, to break their psychological control over the masses. I have done my little part, it is now for you to do yours!
I look forward to being arrested another 1000 times, if liberty can only come at such a cost.
About an hour before I was arrested, a YouTuber interviewed me for his channel, Italia s’addestra.
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31 thoughts on “Gestapo of the New World Order arrest Br. Bugnolo today”
markmillward says:
You are an example to us all Brother Alexis. Well and courageously done.
thomasm1987 says:
What an example
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afspilot1025 says:
Brother Alexis, I pray for you every day for God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit to protect you and give you courage and wisdom.
Thank you. Let us all pray for one another.
mickieknows says:
I do not wear a mask. When I go into a store I tell myself, “Be brave.” The county judge has just put us back into lockdown. I now travel to the next county to do any shopping. I never thought that the delusion would be in the form of a false pandemic face mask. Jesus said that the devil will wear out the saints.
Citizens need to arm themselves and go about armed. That is the only real way to secure liberty.
Lynn Colgan Cohen says:
Yes, you’re absolutely right. Early this summer I bought a pistol, a Ruger rifle and a Smith & Wesson AR 15. Joined a military- police-style range and know how to use them…. also have a concealed carry permit.
God bless you Br. And keep you safe. You are in our prayers. And thank you for your bravery.
Walter Covens says:
21 October will be the f anniversary of our first meeting in Rome for the conference on Pope Benedict. Looking forward to the next one… maybe in prison? 🙂 I will try to remember to bring toilet paper.
Thanks. Please pray for me. There is a great battle ahead of all of us. — And these police are pigs, because they live without toilet paper, as they themselves told me.
Catholicus says:
God bless you, Brother. As devout Roman Catholics we will soon be following your example when the mandatory “vaccine” arrives. We have to look forward to arrest, imprisonment, torture and finally martyrdom. For to cooperate with the Antichrist and his NWO is the same as denying Jesus Christ. Something we simply can not do even upon pain of death. Ave Maria.
Thank you. We must all now chose to rebell against the NWO, they are coming for us. If we do not fight now while we have liberty, they will come for us all in the night, one by one and kill us. I have seen the face of Satan, and I pledge myself to defeating him, knowing that Jesus Christ has my back!
God bless you Br. And keep you safe.
Whoa!! Proud of you, Brother! Thank you for showing how real Catholic men should behave in the face of evil! 🤓
::badghir:: says:
La legge universale del Creatore ci mantiene umani e ci dirige al divino.
Antonio Sartori says:
Dio benedica Fr. Alexsis. Christus vincit
“Quo vadis, Domine?”
“Romam vado iterum crucifigi”
As history is repeating itself, we are with you in truth and in spirit, Fra Bugnolo.
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Ordinary times in Italian dictarorships.
I’m one of the Italians who received the leaftlets you were distributing at Piazza del Popolo.
When I saw you at first glance I recognized a kindly hearted person with compassion and humiility. Those policemen were blinded by their own ego to not see wha I saw. Or maybe their brutal attirude was driven by having seen in you the qualities what they have lost.
I’m ashamed of my country, my people, and the police state that my government has established.
Thank you, for everything you are doing.
Apologies for my english.
Che Dio ti benedica.
Grazie tanto signore. Non dica che quelli che hanno fatto a me sono Italiani, no, sono servi dei globalismo, un complotto dei stranieri.
Mazara says:
Bravo Brother, sounds like you gave them some good lessons on the Law.
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Paul DiNucci says:
Admiring your courage from the states. Remember, you’re in good company: St. Peter was arrested and executed; St. Paul was arrested, jailed and later executed; Jesus was arrested and executed. In the Old Testament Daniel was jailed, as was Joseph in Egypt. All of them faced false charges by the ruling government. The planned-demic is forcing all the fascists out of their ratholes in the states as well. I was rudely kicked off a tour bus at the Grand Canyon for wearing my mask below my nose. And people have been arrested in the states for not wearing masks outdoors. Time for freedom-loving people to end this tyranny by the ruling elites to control and manipulate us through fear.
dxv515 (@dxv515) says:
Brother do you recommend strapping a gun to your belly while attending the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?
What type of gun?
No I do not. As I have never owned, possessed, used or even touched a gun, I do not know the first things about them. You should speak with a lawyer who is an expert in gun rights in your country to answer a question like this.
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Juan Luis Galván says:
I live in Texas, I respect the laws, but when it comes to the mask I only wear it when it is required by individual businesses, “my place my rules”, but I do not follow the law as it refers to the public space. We are forced to civil disobedience.
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Genesis - Selling England by the Pound on CD: Blind Listening Test
Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Diablo Griffin, Jun 24, 2019.
Best sounding sample
Poll closed Jul 12, 2019.
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Dr. Funk Vintage Dust
Found some time this morning........grabbed a cup of joe and put on my Grado's. Not a bad sounding one in the bunch, but D sounded the most balanced to my ears. I'm going with D.
Dr. Funk, Jul 1, 2019
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Okay, this is my first time doing one of these polls. I don't have an audiophile setup, but I listened to the samples through my Sony MDR-7506s out of my MacBook. I'm posting without having read the other replies.
I've read/skimmed some of the threads about old Genesis CD and vinyl releases with a mixture of fascination and something like dread — call it the Changer of 32 Matrices. Four seems like it should be relatively manageable....
To my ears the four samples split into two camps: A & B, which have a more "modern" sound; and C and D, which sound like older masterings. A and B were brighter, where C and D were more smooth. To me A overdid the brightness, where D was the dullest sounding. This leaves me torn between B and C. Superficially I like B the best because it seems to have the greatest sharpness and clarity, e.g., the distinct "voices" of the mellotron stand out best on "Cinema Show." The bass on B also sounds like an actual bass being played, with impact, as opposed to an undistinguished tone that is kind of vaguely present in the mix. That said, I imagine that B is the sort of thing people are talking about when they mention "smiley faced EQ" and that it might be considered fatiguing compared to C, which has perhaps less clarity but is smoother. I did find that the 12-string on "Firth of Fifth" (which I had barely remembered was there, even though I've heard this album many times) stood out best on C. "Dancing" is a bit of a mess regardless of which version you're listening to and Phil's vox seem to be distorted on the original recording of "Fool"; the latter was probably easiest on the ears on C and D, but it's never been a favorite track for me anyway.
In the end, I think I'll go with B — I like its caffeinated sound, though it might disturb the album cover's hero.
eatandoph, Jul 2, 2019
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BrilliantBob Select, process, CTRL+c, CTRL+z, ALT+v
.flac files can’t be previewed. waste of time.
BrilliantBob, Jul 5, 2019
Sorry, I didn't think non-previewable files would have been an issue for anyone. I will use wav samples next time so they can be previewed if people do not want to download them.
dosjam Forum Resident
Listened via powered monitors. This ain't no studio masterpiece and none sounded great. I started with D and worked back to A. D was the best. It had the best, deepest bass and it was the most dynamic. Interesting that at this point "C" is most preferred. I thought it was the worst, possibly a lower generation tape? I felt A and B were too compressed. B had a treble boost that makes the latter vocal section sound better but doesn't help the other 3 samples. A has solid, deep bass but the vocals have digital grain.
Thanks for arranging this, Diablo.
dosjam, Jul 5, 2019
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I still want to upload a clip from my US Atlantic vinyl, but won't be able to needledrop it until Monday at the earliest.
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5 more days.
4 more days left. I'm hoping we get at least 30 votes for this one, or at the very least avoid a tie breaker.
Ringmaster_D Surfer of Sound Waves
Finally had a chance to listen. I'm on the road, so the caveat is that I had to listen via high-end earbuds.
Sample A: Sounds like the lowest gen tapes to me, but the sound is "goosed" and overly loud. Everything sounds like it's playing at max volume, so subtlety is lost.
Sample B: Sounds good to my ears. Nice high end, although possibly a little distortion here and there?
Sample C & D: Both sound well-balanced, but the high-end is gone. Lower gen tapes or noise reduction?
My vote: B
Ringmaster_D, Jul 8, 2019
I'm needledropping the vinyl right now. Sounds good, though I don't know how it'll fare against the CDs. The sample should be uploaded later today.
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Eleventh Earl of Mar Somehow got them all this far.
I completely forgot about this!
Okay give me like 10 minutes.
Eleventh Earl of Mar, Jul 8, 2019
Sample A is fine, and probably the most even out of the four. The quieter pieces probably are the best here, but in the bigger picture it's not as good as B
Sample B is the best, has the low end represented the best (you can KIND OF make out Rutherford!) and generally works well for the louder pieces. But with that said, it's not bad on the lower end. The echo effect might be a bit aggressive but that's a minor complaint.
Sample C is the worst, it's just too thin and Rutherford is actually gone now. It doesn't compliment any of these songs, honestly.
Sample D is a bit odd. It has the most obvious echo effect, but seems to prefer vocals above all else. The thing is it's not to any extent where it hurts the rest of the mix, so I kind of don't know how to feel here. It's the second worst however the album in general just was produced very well aside from the bass response being really poor no matter the pressing.
If I had to guess which pressing I have... the sound leveling makes this tough but I believe it's B.
Click here to download the vinyl sample.
Version - 1980 US Atlantic reissue (SD 19277), mastered by George Piros
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Diablo Griffin said: ↑
I keep forgetting. I'll try to get to this tonight.
Daniel Plainview, Jul 8, 2019
I found the vinyl to sound similar to the other samples. However, I thought it had slightly more mid-bass.
While listening to the vinyl, I need to point out that I also heard some print-through during extremely quiet parts. More Fool Me and Aisle of Plenty are where it's most noticeable.
Just 2 more days!
Diablo Griffin, Jul 10, 2019
Only one more day left! Hopefully someone'll break the tie between C and D!
Listening to C and D again right now. To me, it sounds like they might have used a similar source tape, but D sounds more analog in the bass and mids, while C is a little more like a flat transfer in comparison. Even though the album sounds good, I think it could use a minor touch-up in the highs. Specifically, the ideal version for me would be something between D and B.
bdfin Forum Resident
C, A, B, D..... listened before looking at other responses, then looking at other responses we are all over the map.....
Used my main setup, Marantz receiver played from Mac mini through ifi dsd DAC and then to Sierra 2 speakers. I also thought they sounded not identical, but not hugely different either. Then compared to my 2008 Atlantic/Rhino vinyl copy and actually preferred that to all of the Flac. Not saying it's better, but I like the extra body and seemed there was better separation of instruments. It did also sound a touch brighter than the files.
bdfin, Jul 11, 2019
bdfin said: ↑
The remix is really good save for the replacement vocal in the intro to Dancing With the Moonlit Knight. That kind of kills it for me, and I knew that version first...
Eleventh Earl of Mar, Jul 11, 2019
Eleventh Earl of Mar said: ↑
It's been a while since I've heard the remix. While I don't own a physical copy anymore, the autorip mp3 from when I bought the 1970-75 box set is still available to download on my Amazon account. I should give it another listen.
mr.datsun Incompletist
C and D sound clearer and more open jumping into track 2. A and B both sounded more muddled in comparison. But C edges it over D on listening to the opening of the first track at around 20 seconds in, where more detail and separation of the instruments seemed evident. Cheap AKG over-ear headphones.
Reminds me how Selling England seems to have been a poorly engineered record. Or is the muddled sound part of its charm?
mr.datsun, Jul 11, 2019
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Becky ScottOctober 12, 2017
It started out innocently enough. The internationally renowned pop star, Pink, wanted to project light and love into a world filled with a darkness that can be directly traced back to President Donald Trump. So, instead of tweeting obscenities at the American president, she chose to put this message out into the world:
Unfortunately, it’s 2017 and if you don’t have anything mean to say, you probably shouldn’t say it at all. Instead of taking kindly to Pink’s message of hope and empathy, people became very angry, very quickly — much to Pink’s dismay and confusion.
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It’s never easy to witness someone whose soul is still intact as she discovers the true nature of 21st century Twitter — but the innocent can’t stay innocent forever.
This isn’t kindergarten, Pink — it’s Twitter.
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By Larry Shuen Fai Ng, ALLNISON Auditing & Consulting Co., Ltd.
Compared to its neighbouring countries, Cambodia is relatively new in opening itself to the global market. Therefore, there have been very limited regulations and policies addressing matters related to international tax compliance. However, this has not caused limitations in the investment activities of foreign investors. Except for the investment in immovable property such as land holding, in general, the country has no restrictions to the foreign participation and activities in investments.
This enables the establishment of 100% wholly foreign-owned limited companies, a form preferred by a large proportion of investors.
Forms of Investment in Cambodia
Wholly foreign-owned limited companies fall under the category of limited liability company, which is one of the main forms of entities available in Cambodia. Limited liability company is then classified into single member private limited company, private limited company, and public limited company. The other main forms of business include branch, and representative offce, which is well known as a non-taxable legal entity.
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All entities established in Cambodia have the obligation to follow the Cambodia-International Financial Reporting Standards (“CIFRS”) or the CIFRS for SMEs. They are wholly based on the International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) and International Accounting Standards (“IAS”) which, therefore, ease the understanding and application process of international citizens and foreign entities in Cambodia.
In respect of the tax system, various relevant policies and regulations have been structured to target tax collection in different magnitudes. It is worth noting that the annual income tax declaration deadline is by the end of March of the following year. In some countries, such tax is referred to as the Corporate Income Tax (“CIT”) while it is called Tax on Income (“TOI”) in Cambodia. There are no individual income tax filings nor any tax obligations on trusts, foundations, and capital gains under the current taxation system.
TOI is imposed at the standard rate of 20%, except for oil and gas, and certain mineral exploitation activities, which are taxed at 30% on the total annual world-wide income of taxpayers that are considered as tax residents of Cambodia. The insurance sector is taxed at 5% on gross premium income. Qualified Investment Projects are exempted from TOI during the tax holiday period. The TOI rate for nonresident taxpayers is 20% on income derived in the Cambodia territory.
Cambodia has also introduced Minimum Tax (“MT”), which is taxed at 1% on total turnover, aside from TOI. Companies are subject to either the MT or TOI, whichever is higher. Certain companies which fulfil special conditions set by the tax department may be exempted from MT.
The most recent development on trusts is the promulgation of the new “Law on Trust” in early 2019. The law provides an introduction on trusts and its four categories, namely the commercial, public, social and private trust. However, tax implications on corporate trustees and beneficiaries have not yet been brought up at this point, not to mention the duties on individuals currently not liable to file income tax.
Although individuals are free from the annual TOI filing obligation, payrolls of residents and non-residents are subject to Tax on Salary (“TOS”) at a rate starting from 0% up to 20%. Certain incomes will also be taxed and withheld by a registered taxpayer/entity then remitted to the tax department as Withholding Tax (“WHT”). Such incomes include rental income and service-related income like personal service.
Speaking of WHT, services rendered within the territory of Cambodia are subject to WHT at a standard rate of 15%, 14%, or 10%. Any service including, but is not limited to, managerial and technical service, interests, any rental of property, royalties, and others of similar nature provided by non-residents (both legal persons and physical persons), shall have 14% WHT of the total amount payable withheld on behalf of the income recipient before payment is made to the service provider.
The repatriation of profit to nonresidents, for both legal and physical persons, are subject to WHT of 14% while such repatriation to residents is tax free.
Cross Border Taxation
With the ratification of the Double Tax Agreement (“DTA”), the standard rate of 14% WHT levied on non-residents (both legal and physical persons) shall be lowered to 10% in most cases. To be qualified for such tax relief, the aforementioned non-residents must be determined as a tax resident of the other contracting party of the agreement and are required to have suffcient documents of proof such as passport, certificate of residence, and so on. Depending on the relevant laws and regulations of the other jurisdiction, the amount of tax withheld and paid to the Tax Authority of Cambodia may be claimed as tax credits for the computation of income tax.
Up to the first quarter of 2020, eight countries and regions have entered and signed a DTA with Cambodia, seven of which have come into effect: the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, the People’s Republic of China, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Republic of Indonesia, and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Apart from the tax relief for the residents of the treaty partners, the ratification of DTA helps in eliminating double taxation on the same income, limiting income shifting, and improving the transparency of cross-border transactions. This implies that an income recipient must be determined as the tax resident of one of the jurisdictions, thus the income derived must be declared and subject to tax under the relevant tax authority(s).
The openness to international trading signifies that there will inevitably be flows of foreign currencies in and out of the territory. Although there is no strict control on the flow of foreign exchange transactions and capital movements, cross-border transactions of large figures or one considered abnormal or suspicious, are still subject to due diligence by the reporting entities in accordance with Cambodia’s anti-money-laundering regulations. Such regulations also extend to the real estate industry with both the developers and the investors under the supervision of the competent authority.
Future Outlook
Despite being new to global integration and the rapid inflow of international citizens and investments, Cambodia is constantly putting effort into drafting new regulations and setting up systems to ease compliance in many areas, especially taxation. The Cambodia Authority announces that, in the near future, an online tax filing system will be released which would replace the current manual tax filing system to improve transparency and compliance procedures of resident and non-resident taxpayers. More tax and relevant regulations, as well as agreements between more countries and regions, are expected to be released to cope with the drastic change of Cambodia’s economic environment.
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by Vanessa Gabriel
on Nov 29, 2010 March 10, 2014
When E. and I decided to embark on the adventure that is Girls Gone Geek, I spent a good amount of time perusing the interwebs for fellow comic book bloggers. I found that the comic blogosphere is a vast community with every flavor of geek one could imagine. Of all the sites that crossed my virtual path, there was one that was so wildly impressive that I was a tad jealous. Not in an “I’m gonna take this geek down” kind of way, but in a “Holy shit! This is so good I better step up my game” kind of way.
The blog is Desperate Worlds, and there is some excellent comic book commentary contained within its figurative walls. Think the New Yorker meets Newsarama. The smarty-pants behind Desperate Worlds is Ramon Gamboa, and he’s officially got a standing invite to geek lunch with E. and I. His approach to comics has a philosophy feel with definite artistic honesty, which makes Desperate Worlds intelligent and often scathingly funny. E.’s got my back on this one. Shortly after I discovered Desperate Worlds, Mr. Gamboa launched another illustrious project: an eight-panel daily comic strip called LBD.
I’ll be honest; I’m not really a comic STRIP kind of girl. I love my comic books, and aside from some Farside and Calvin & Hobbes as a kid, my strip game is slim. But, I was so impressed by Desperate Worlds, that I decided to give LBD a whirl.
LBD describes itself as a “comic strip about a company named LBD that produces a comic strip entitled LBD.” Meta, much? Not really. LBD is a well-crafted, nuanced and immensely thoughtful daily conversation between women who work in the fashion industry. But, one certainly doesn’t have to be privy to fashion jargon to play along. Tour Guide, Model, Designer, Dancer, Angry Stylist, and Editrix offer so much more than just fashion commentary. LBD deals in perception and human experiences that infiltrate everyday lives, no matter what industry you work in.
What makes LBD exceptional is the clear and conscientious ways it presents its all-female cast and their experiences. The strip has a lot to say about American culture, beauty standards, gender and race. I found myself relating and empathizing with the characters on a very personal level, which is so not typical. It’s not that men can’t write women well. Many men can and have done so. But, particularly in comics, it is glaringly apparent when a male perspective is projected onto a woman rather than the character being treated simply as a person … who happens to be female.
We all know gender roles exist; let’s not be dense here. However, an understanding of the mythology that is sold to women and how we are portrayed in the larger media eludes so many men — and women. LBD acknowledges it and talks about it, and it does so in thought-provoking and humorous ways. It’s a rewarding reading experience, and an uncommon one. I have come to absolutely adore the women of LBD, and their stories.
Mr. Gamboa is quite religious about his work; thus, Monday through Friday at 5 a.m., a new LBD goes live. I NEVER wake up at 5 a.m., but LBD goes quite nicely with my coffee around 8 a.m. How about you give it a whirl?
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Mark Gibbs says:
Hmmm… well, I went and checked some out… think I might be missing something, though. Sharp stuff, but I couldn’t warm to the characters – found it a little depressing, actually, but that could just be my head at the moment.
…or maybe it’s a chick thing? ; )
It is indeed sharp stuff. I found that LBD reads best from the start … sequentially. Then one gets a much better sense of who the characters are. I personally heart Angry Stylist … to death. She always makes me laugh.
But, I am so glad you checked it out!!!
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