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Land Rover fans get their own shoes
By Staff Writer 5 October 2018 | Categories: news
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Calling all those Landy fans out there. You already have your own smartphone, how about your own pair of Land Rover boots? British shoe brand Clarks has worked together with Land Rover to create two styles of shoes. Available as six pairs, the shoes promise to be as tough as your vehicle.
Our heart lies with the sport boots (featured at the top), with the CLR 52.N Hi GORE-TEX striking the fine balance between performance and lifestyle. The upper features GORE-TEX Performance stretch technology that offers waterproof, insulated and breathable properties. This while the shock-absorbing EVA midsole keeps these boots lightweight, and targeted rubber pods in the outsole deliver on flexibility and traction to ensure you're prepared for every adventure, or at least every trip in your Landy. This range starts retailing at $220, and is available in black, dark grey/black and khaki.
The CLR 51.N GORE-TEX men's sneakers looks a lot more casual, and features breathable and waterproof GORE-TEX Extended knitted weave uppers. It does not contain the ankle support of the boots, but certainly appears to be comfortable, easy to wear shoes that wouldn’t mind a bit of outdoor fun. They are available in khaki, grey and light grey, starting at $200.
As to when these will hit the market, November is the date provided, but whether we will see these in South Africa remains to be seen.
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Home / Biography / Hannah McCloud – American Actress
Hannah McCloud – American Actress
Birth Name:
Hannah McCloud
Birth Sign:
Corey McCloud
Jennie McCloud
Hannah McCloud was born on 6th November of 2003 in Los Angeles, CA. She is an American actress famous for playing the role of Young Louise in ABC’s drama series Revenge and Tenured. She was homeschooled and later joined Marnie Cooper School of Acting.
Hannah McCloud’s net worth is estimated to be $150K. She was born to parents Corey McCloud and Jennie McCloud. She grew up along with two siblings, brother Skyler McCloud, and sister Madelyn McCloud. Hannah is possibly single and dating no one.
Net Worth and Earnings
Hannah McCloud’s net worth is estimated to be $150K. She has managed to amass such wealth from her career as a professional actress. She is also a model and chorus singer.
Hannah McCloud is an American actress and model with an estimated net worth of $150K.. Picture source: Getty Images.
Hannah McCloud began her acting career at a very young age. She made her debut in 2014 after playing a short movie named Life in Color. After that, she appeared in several projects, including TV series, movies, and music videos. Her fame even rose more in 2015 after she played the role of young Louise in Revenge, TV series.
Hannah McCloud played the character of Holly in Tenured. She also has appeared in short movies such as Heroes and Go Out in Violet Waters. She must have received a considerable amount of money for her work in the above films.
Apart from acting, she is also a model and has appeared as one of the faces of Gap’s 2015-2016 international Hello Campaigns. According to some source, the averages earning of a model is $42,180. As she is one of the talented girls, she probably earns somewhere around that range or even more than that. As a chorus singer, Hannah has performed with National Children’s Chorus at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Family and Relationship
Hannah McCloud was born to Corey McCloud and Jennie McCloud. Her family members have preferred to stay away from the media limelight. For some reason, Hannah also hasn’t shared much information regarding her parents and other family members.
The gorgeous Hannah McCloud was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Picture source: Listal.
However, it is reported that she was homeschooled because of her busy schedule. Later she was sent to Marnie Cooper School Of Acting in Los Angeles, California. She holds American nationality and white ethnicity. She grew up along with two siblings, Skyler McCloud and Madelyn McCloud who is also a model.
Hannah McCloud has kept her personal life away from media. She hasn’t shared her relationship status yet. It is unclear whether she is dating someone or single. She was previously dating Aidan Gallagher, The Umbrella Academy star.
Hannah McCloud along with her former boyfriend Aidan Gallagher. Picture Source: Pinterest.
However, she has shared a picture of her on Instagram with Julien Silvas, mentioning him the best and funniest person in life.
Idk why i have this stupid dumb face in both photos but ILYSM JULIUEN ur one of the best/ funniest person in my life happy birthday @pvsurfbitch
A post shared by Hannah McCloud (@hannahgmccloud) on May 21, 2019 at 12:11pm PDT
But there is no sign of these two datings. As per our reports, she is possibly single and dating no one. It seems Hannah is more focused on her career rather than being stuck in a relationship.
Is Hannah McCloud Vegan?
There is a YouTube channel named ‘Hannah McCloud’ who often likes vegan related videos. She promotes healthy recipes and vegan lifestyle. It is unclear whether she is vegan or not. However, many fans believe she is vegan.
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Colorado 0 2 5 2 0 0 0 0 1 12 18 0
W: C. Stammen (5-3) L: J. Díaz (1-1)
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Coors Field, Denver, Colorado Attendance: 38,077
Renfroe hits 3 homers, Padres rally to stun Rox 16-12 in 12
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DENVER (AP) Hunter Renfroe hit his third homer of the game in the 12th inning after Fernando Tatis Jr. tied it as part of a six-run rally in the ninth and the San Diego Padres stunned the Colorado Rockies 16-12 on Friday night.
Tatis led off the 12th with a triple to deep center and scored on pinch-hitter Austin Allen's double off reliever Jairo Diaz (1-1). Manny Machado added an RBI double and Renfroe hit a towering two-run homer to wrap up an improbable win. Renfroe also had a solo shot in the second and two-run homer in the ninth for his second career three-homer game.
Down 11-5 in the ninth, the Padres rallied off Rockies reliever Mike Dunn, who gave up a two-run single to Eric Hosmer, followed by Renfroe's homer. Closer Wade Davis allowed two singles and a walk before Tatis delivered a two-out, two-run single to center that tied the game.
The Rockies had never blown a lead of six or more runs in the ninth inning before Friday, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Craig Stammen (5-3) earned the win by pitching a scoreless 11th inning and Kirby Yates finished up the 12th.
This five-hour, four-minute marathon featured a combined 39 hits, 16 pitchers and plenty of dramatic twists.
Machado had four hits, including a solo homer, while Rockies outfielder David Dahl capped a 12-pitch at-bat by lining a two-run shot in the third over the fence in left-center. Ian Desmond added a three-run, inside-the-park homer during a five-run sixth inning that helped the Rockies extend the lead to 9-3. It looked like it put the game out of reach.
But things were just heating up as Colorado's bullpen faltered in allowing 15 runs.
Trevor Story collected three hits before the smooth-fielding shortstop left the game in the eighth after a grounder took a bad hop, glanced off his glove and struck him in the head.
Charlie Blackmon had four hits, including a solo homer in the 12th, and is now hitting .437 at Coors Field this season. What's more, Blackmon's reached base in all 24 home games he's appeared in.
Padres: OF Franmil Reyes wasn't in the starting lineup due to a stiff neck after making a lunging catch before hitting the ground Thursday. "The ground's probably still sore," manager Andy Green cracked. Reyes entered as a pinch-hitter in the sixth and grounded out.
Rockies: 3B Nolan Arenado was given a rest day, but entered in the eighth when the Rockies shuffled around their infield with the departure of Story.
THE STARTERS
Rockies starter Jeff Hoffman allowed three hits and one run - a solo homer by Renfroe in the second.
Cal Quantrill, the son of longtime major league pitcher Paul Quantrill, allowed four runs over five innings. Quantrill's start was the major league-leading 29th by a Padres rookie.
SPEEDY DESMOND
With two on, Desmond drilled a pitch down the line in right that Josh Naylor missed on a diving attempt. Naylor tracked down the bounding ball with Desmond motoring around the bases. The relay throw home was off target to get Desmond, who slid head-first into the plate and let out a scream soon after standing.
There was a moment of silence to honor Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, who died late Thursday. Bowlen, 75, had battled Alzheimer's for several years. ... Dahl finished with four RBIs and made a sliding catch in center that saved a run.
Rockies righty German Marquez (6-3, 4.19 ERA) takes the mound Saturday against San Diego. Marquez is 3-1 with a 5.06 ERA at Coors Field this season. The Padres will throw lefty Eric Lauer (5-5, 4.14), who's holding opponents to a .212 average over his last five starts.
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A terrible mistake EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 04/22/2012
A terrible mistake
There seems to be something terribly wrong with the policy tack Noynoy is taking on the territorial dispute with China, in that instead of the conflict calming down to a level where negotiations are possible, the situation is headed to a critical boiling point.
It is the President’s call on what moves the government will take amid the conflict which is an age-old dispute and not necessarily a source of concern, if handled intelligently and professionally.
The country also has territorial issues with neighbors other than China but it seems that Noynoy has made it among his obsessions that encompass his perceived political enemies, domestic and abroad, to take a hardline stance against China..... MORE
The mouse that roars FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/22/2012
The mouse that roars
Noynoy and his foreign office, along with his defense and military chiefs, are at pains to portray themselves before the Filipinos at least, that they will not take the bullying of China sitting down.
The trouble is, Noynoy and his boys are no different from the mouse that roared but that ended up being swallowed by the huge lion.
The Noynoy administration certainly knows it is no match for China even in that claimed stand-off. The truth is, the Philippines blinked some time ago during the first few days of the stand-off when, after sending its antiquated American warship that gave the Philippines the early edge in that the Philippine soldiers were able to get into the Chinese fishing boats with their illegal marine catch, blinked by quickly pulling out of Scarborough Shoal, with the lame excuse of its having to return to port to refuel..... MORE
Caught on tape: Chilling new video of US border patrol beating immigrant to death
A new video shows Anastacio Hernadez-Rojas lying on the ground in the fetal position, circled by at least a dozen federal agents as one repeatedly shocks him with an electric stun gun.
The video was shot by a passer-by and was obtained by the lawyer for the Hernandez-Rojas family as they push on with their wrongful death suit against the US government.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired the video and an interview with the woman who shot it as part of a new documentary. In May 2010, Seattle resident Ashley Young was crossing a bridge from Mexico to the United States. In the "Need to Know" report, Young said that she saw the man lying on the ground was handcuffed..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/mexico-border-patrol-death-video-649/
Security Council changed prerogatives in Syrian crisis – Churkin to RT
The latest resolution on Syria, unanimously passed in the Security Council, may finally put things “on the right track” in the troubled country, Russia’s envoy to the UN exclusively told RT.
RT:The Security Council has just agreed to boost the number of observers. Do you think this time around the mission will be a success?
Vitaly Churkin: We certainly hope so. In fact we are very pleased with the outcome of today’s vote, which happened less than two hours ago. It was Russia who took the initiative in introducing the draft yesterday morning. And it took us just 26 hours to bring it to fruition, to the unanimous vote of the Security Council on a rather complex resolution, both politically and technically, no mean feat by Security Council standards, let me tell you..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/churkin-un-resolution-syria-interview-652/
UN Security Council votes to send 300 observers to Syria (w/ Video)
UN Security Council votes to send 300 observers to Syria
The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to pass a resolution increasing the number of ceasefire observers in Syria to 300. Meanwhile, the first wave of observers reached war-torn Homs.
The resolution is aimed at enforcing a truce in the conflict between the Syrian government and the opposition, which was signed last week, but has been broken numerous times since.
The final text was a compromise between two rival versions of the resolution proposed by Russia and the European Union, achieved after hours of negotiation on Friday night..... MORE
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I am the boss, not you, Filipino people NO NONSENSE Jacinto ‘Jing’ Paras 04/22/2012
I am the boss, not you, Filipino people
NO NONSENSE
Jacinto ‘Jing’ Paras
It is indeed ironic that during his oath-taking at the Luneta as President of the Republic, President BS Aquino said “You are my boss,” but at the Power Summit in Davao he told his audience, “you pay more or else there will be more blackouts in Mindanao.” This means that Mr. BS Aquino is after all not the servant of the people which he initially wanted to portray, but he is the boss and dictator as he dictates on the people of Mindanao what to do, instead of doing what the people had requested him to do which is to solve the power crisis that has gripped Mindanao.
The Power Summit which was held in Davao recently which was supposed to find solution to the power crisis in Mindanao, turned out a to be a big disappointment to the disgust of the attendees and stakeholders who expected a solution to the recurring blackouts lasting eight to 10 hours daily in Mindanao.
No less that the President was there to preside and this has provided hope to the people because the highest official was attending the summit and would provide an answer to the nagging question of how to solve the lack of electricity in their area..... MORE
Unfair to SM TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 04/22/2012
Unfair to SM
Poets do exaggerate. But poets need not overreact when poems “as lovely as a tree” are being “earth balled.” Obviously, the issue of SM City Baguio’s environmental “sin” has been stretched beyond poetic justice to overkill, leading to blatant injustice and unfairness to the SM conglomerate.
The environmental “messiahs,” ill-equipped with misinformation rushed too early to the streets carrying banners depicting SM as environmental fiends? Amid chants of, “we cut it all for you” and “greedy” in full media spreadsheets and screens.
The ranting caused misplaced bias and “rushed” judgments leading to the court issuance of a temporary environmental protection order (Tepo). Then surprisingly, there is the Catholic diocese of Baguio joining the fray by suspending the Eucharistic celebrations held regularly in the mall lobby as if SM is some sort of an ecclesiastical entity being slapped with church canonical sanctions..... MORE
Climate change or earth change VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 04/22/2012
Climate change or earth change
Which is what? Is it climate change that causes Earth change? Is it Earth change that affects climate change? Or is one simply giving rise to the other? Or are they in fact one and the same composite natural phenomenon?
This issue is not really unlike the interesting — and allegedly — profound century old question: Which is first, the hen or the egg? Round and round the answers go. If the chicken is first, then where is the egg it came from? If the egg is first, then where is the chicken that laid it?
The matter of climate change has been long since hogging the attention of people the world over. Foreign and local media continuously bring to focus either the great wonder of or the big fear about the changing climate all over the globe. Initiated by a known and familiar political figure in North America, he said that the ongoing change in the climate has been the origin of the large and significant movements of the soil — especially in the form of frequent strong earthquakes — not to mention the frequent deluge of water that causes frequent and destructive floods which in turn annihilates rice fields, roads, bridges and so on..... MORE
China’s PLA paper warns of armed confrontation By Rocky G. Nazareno 04/22/2012
COMMENTARY SAYS US-RP WARGAMES FAN RISKS OF CONFLICT
China’s PLA paper warns of armed confrontation
By Rocky G. Nazareno 04/22/2012
As Malacañang maintained yesterday that the government has been consistent with its position of not adding any more tension in its standoff with China over the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, a newspaper of China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) warned military exercises being held between Philippines and United States forces “have fanned risks of armed confrontation over the disputed area.”
Presidential deputy spokesman Abigail Valte, nevertheless, stressed that the Aquino administration had done its commitment to “de-escalate tension” in the area.
Valte issued the statement after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) tagged as an “aggravation” a move by China to send a large patrol vessel to Panatag Shoal last Friday..... MORE
US forces being tapped for anti-insurgency bid 04/22/2012
US forces being tapped for anti-insurgency bid
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CCP) called President Aquino a liar as the leftist group bared the true intention of Balikatan, the joint military exercises between the US military and the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Citing pictures taken by Reuters showing the exercises geared towards US involvement in local counter-guerrilla operations in the Philippines, the CPP said the President and his military leaders concealed the real objective of Balikatan.
“Clearly, Aquino and his military spokesmen are lying when they claim that the Balikatan exercises are only meant to boost the external defense capabilities of the Philippines,” said the CPP..... MORE
4 new purple crab species found in Palawan 04/22/2012
4 new purple crab species found in Palawan
Four new species of freshwater crab, bright purple in colour, have been discovered in the biologically diverse Philippines, by a team led by Hendrik Freitag, of Germany’s Senckenberg Museum of Zoology.
The tiny crustaceans were found in streams in remote areas of the Palawan island group.
“They are semi-aquatic and hide in burrows at the stream bank, which are usually found under boulders and roots,” Freitag said in a paper published in the latest edition of the National University of Singapore’s Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.
“Their eggs hatch directly into juvenile crabs and the creatures emerge at night to forage under water,” Freitag added..... MORE
Task Force formed to arrest Ecleo 04/22/2012
Task Force formed to arrest Ecleo
Caraga police regional director Chief Supt. Reynaldo Rafal on Saturday said the Police Regional Office-13 has formed a task force to arrest convicted killer Ruben Ecleo, Jr., Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association (PBMA) supreme leader and Dinagat Island representative.
Rafal said the Task Force was in response to Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Dir. Gen. Nicanor Bartolome’s order for Ecleo’s the immediate arrest.
“The task force will focus on the arrest of Ecleo,” Rafal told the Philippine News Agency..... MORE
House bill sets time interval before presumption of death By Charlie V. Manalo 04/22/2012
House bill sets time interval before presumption of death
A lawmaker has proposed a one-year prescription for a person missing due to extraordinary forces of nature under the New Civil Code on the declaration of presumptive death needed for estate settlements.
“This bill seeks to help the victims to settle their successional rights over the estate of their departed loved ones who were declared casualties of a natural calamity without the unnecessary delay in the settlement of their estate,” said Kasangga Rep. Teodorico Haresco, author of House Bill 6015.
The bill seeks to amend Section 2, Article 391 of the New Civil Code on the Declaration on Presumptive Death..... MORE
‘Boy Bayong’ to help solve problem of plastic bags 04/22/2012
‘Boy Bayong’ to help solve problem of plastic bags
“Boy Bayong,” the EcoWaste Coalition’s favorite mascot for ecological and sustainable lifestyle, will stage a comeback amid the clamor for solutions to the plastic garbage crisis.
As part of the Earth Day 2012 festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines today, April 22, “Boy Bayong” will greet and inspire the public to “think out of the plastic bag” and embrace eco-alternatives to the ubiquitous symbol of our throw-away culture: plastic bags.
“The fragile state of our environment requires a key revision to our inconsiderate consumption and disposal habits that tend to view Mother Earth as a boundless source of raw materials to be extracted and consumed and as a dumping ground for leftover toxics and wastes,” said Roy Alvarez, president of EcoWaste Coalition..... MORE
Higher penalty sought for theft of nat’l library, museum properties 04/22/2012
Higher penalty sought for theft of nat’l library, museum properties
Describing the penalty for robbing a national library and national museum as outdated, a solon is proposing the imposition of higher penalty for those convicted of stealing a property belonging to the two government institutions.
Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco, author of House Bill 5774, justified his proposed measure, saying the accompanying fine is outdated considering the fact that the artifacts in a museum are priceless.
Under Article 311 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC), the penalty for stealing properties from the national library and national museum is arresto mayor and a fine of not more than P500..... MORE
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Azealia Banks has released unveiled the video for 'No Problems' - a diss track aimed at rival rapper, Angel Haze.
In January this year, Banks and Haze engaged in a fiery twitter fight which offended many, yet resulted in Banks having the last laugh as the fight seemed to spike sales of her 1991 EP.
After their very public fight, Haze released two diss tracks aimed at Banks: 'On The Edge' and the blatantly titled, 'Shut The Fuck Up'.
While the release of this track was provoked by Angel Haze, Azealia Banks has had a big year of rivalries and insults.
'No Problems' was released on the same day that Azealia Banks engaged in a fierce Twitter argument with UK pop star Rita Ora, claiming "she's mad she's Rihanna's understudy".
While she was in Australia earlier this year for Future Music Festival, Banks lashed out with a death threat aimed at The Stone Roses. Banks claimed that The Stone Roses soundchecked their instruments behind her stage to disrupt her show as an act of revenge for Bank's ex-tour manager, who she fired.
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It is rare for me to ever support anything that is anti-gay. In fact, it has never happened. So, with the news that the UK may discontinue providing foreign aid to countries that have anti-gay legislation, I should be cracking open a Guinness and digging my fork into my bangers and mash in celebration of all things UK-ish, but I am not. What is bothering me is that the aid for third-world countries isn’t for the lawmakers, it is for those that do not even have a pen to write a law. They have no choice as to what laws are enacted or not. I am sure many of them do not even have the opportunity to vote! I think food on their table is their main concern. It is not just gays that are persecuted it is all individuals that can not afford to feed their families, and without aid, there is little to no hope for them.
With this being said, I do commend the UK powers and Andrew Mitchell, International Development Secretary for their emphasis on gay rights on a global scale. A spokesperson for Mitchell states, “The government is committed to combating violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in all circumstances, in this country and abroad. We take action where we have concerns.”
Recently, Malawi’s aid has been cut by 19 million pounds. More countries are going to follow suit as the rules and reviews for foreign aid are going through some strict reconditionings.
“We now allocate funds every three months, rather than every year, so that we can review a country’s performance, for example on human rights, and take swift action when governments fall short. We only provide aid directly to governments when we are satisfied that they share our commitments to reduce poverty and respect human rights.”
Ghana is first on the hit list. A Minister from that country recently asked for the arrest of all gay individuals in its western region. The UK has vowed to cut its aid by £36 million a year if that turns into a reality.
So, what is right in this situation? Koodos go to the Europeans for fighting for our rights. But, what about the people of the country? Would it not be more beneficial to work with the common folk of these countries to develop a better way of keeping these homophobic government officials off of the political platform?
I am not even remotely close to understanding the world’s problems. I am, however sympathetic to all people, not just the gay ones.
via: Pink News
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Sorry, but sink or swim is my thinking at this stage of the game when it comes to foreign aid.
All this policy has done has allowed regressive and immature countries stay that way, rather than letting them develop through the growth pangs that the “civilized” countries themselves went through.
I truly feel that we need to cut them loose and let them figure things out on their own. Yes, It’s a tough, even cold-hearted decision, but we’re not really helping them grow up if we’re always there to fall back on whenever there is trouble.
I hear what you are saying Christopher. Unfortunately these countries are governed by a standard group of middleaged, homophobic, sexist leaders that are generally after thier own interests and no one elses. I do not agree with how developed nations support these countries as I do not believe that throwing money at people solves any problems. I do however believe in educating the population, teaching them about birth control, and empowering women. Education is power and unfortunately it is lacking in many of these nations, especially for women. So, to sum it up, I do no believe in cutting aid as punishment. I believe in an overhaul of what aid is, and how we can assist the countries in becoming as democratic as possible.
Nigerian Citizen
Sorry to dissapoint you gay boys, we nigerians DO NOT support homosexualism. In fact we are deeply homophobic.
your prime minister will not dare to make such comments where countries like saudi Arabia are concerned. in fact they will not dare to tell Moslems in Egypt to condone homosexualism, yet they would dare tell ghana or Nigeria with muslim populations in the millions to condone such a crass and unclean act.
I am happy that Ghana came out with such a strong message and the Nigerian senate has even gone harder.
About time you realised that these countries are NOT YOUR CHATTELS.
And one more thing:
Keep your aid, its only being used to feed corrupt NGOs and government officials anyway, our oil and other resources will be enough for us.
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BY LAUREN MATTHEWS - EDITOR (LMATTHEWS@WETZELCHRONICLE.COM) , Wetzel Chronicle
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Editor's Note: Bill Hughes stopped by our office a few weeks ago to share some information concerning a case he had before the Public Service Commission. We were finishing up the story on Monday, March 25 when we received the news that he had passed away. We were uncertain about publishing the story so soon after his passing, but his family gave their blessing for such, noting it was important information for the public to have. Thus, we have decided to go ahead and publish our story. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Bill Hughes, who was a passionate champion of many causes.
Recently, the Public Service Commission's Division of Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) passed down a Recommended Decision, stating that Frontier Communications of West Virginia "undertake certain remedial steps in the Reader Exchange."
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Photo by Bill Hughes
Pictured is one of the many photos submitted by Bill Hughes as part of his case against Frontier Communications, before the Public Service Commission.
This decision, signed off by Matthew J. Minney, Deputy Chief Administrative Law Judge, comes as the result of Case No. 18-1106-T-C, William J. Hughes (Complainant) vs. Frontier Communications.
On December 11, 2018, an evidentiary hearing was held in the case. At the Dec. 11 hearing, Hughes presented testimony from five witnesses and tendered exhibits; Frontier elicited testimony from two witnesses. The assigned Staff, Utilities Analyst David Howell of the PSC Utilities Division, also offered testimony. After the hearing, briefs were then filed. The following information can be found on the PSC website, by researching Case No. 18-1106-T-C.
Hughes' Witnesses:
One of Hughes' witnesses manages a detox and crisis stabilization center. She does not have cellular service at her residence, and described Frontier service as inconsistent and unreliable, including a number of outages. She said at times, the parties to her calls are unable to hear each other. She said she will contact Frontier each time her service is out, but the contact requires a 15 or 20 minute drive to use her cellular phone.
Hughes' first witness also claimed she was forced to temporarily relocate at times to "ensure telephone access for work or because of her medical needs."
Under cross examination, Hughes' first witness said her residence is 14 miles from New Martinsville and 15 from Reader. She said she lives in a very rural area. She said she had service at that point, but quality is still poor. She said the other party sounded "muffled." She claimed Frontier gives inconsistent repair information. She further stated she should not have to give detailed medical information for Frontier to expedite its repair service.
Hughes' second witness resides in the Wileyville area and formerly worked with the Wetzel County 911 and emergency management. He said his neighborhood often loses telephone service when it loses electrical power, and he said he hears "crosstalk" when using his phone. He said he does not have an alternative for telephone service, and cell phones do not work in his area.
Hughes' second witness said service reliability at the 911 center decreased once Frontier purchased the local telephone system. He said Frontier used portable generators to power its network during the 2012 derecheo, but the generators were stolen. He said Frontier has not been responsive in replacing old backup batteries. He also expressed frustration with a request he had for Frontier to move his service drop.
Hughes' third witness said his phone service was out for 15 days in September 2018, and 28 days in October 2018. He said he has had Frontier service for 15 years and has no other options, such as telephone service. He attributed some of his telephone issues to weather service, but noted he believes Frontier lost a repair ticket for one of his outages. The third witness said he and his wife require reliable telephone service, as they have medical issues. He said Frontier wasn't responsive during one of its extended outages, until he called the Frontier president.
Hughes also called his wife, Marianne to testify. Marianne said she and her husband have past hospitalizations and medical problems requiring telephone service and reliable fax line. She said she is incapable of loading Hughes in a vehicle by herself.
Marianne said rural residents are unable to call 911 when their telephone service is unavailable. She said sometimes Frontier representatives are unwilling to receive a trouble report from third parties, and she expressed frustration in having to drive to another location to report a telephone outage.
Marianne said telephone service has been unsatisfactory for many years, and her fax line which she uses to communicate with medical professionals - was out for nine days in September. She said her phone line was out of service for 15 days.
Hughes himself testified and said he experienced an outage on May 18-21, 2018. He said he had to drive to a ridge top to contact Frontier by cell phone. He said the outage was caused by a subcontractor, and Frontier refused to allow him to report the outage for any other party. He said he didn't want to discuss other accounts but report a wider outage. He said outages occurred on June 28 and September 10, 2018, and interfered with communication with his medical providers.
Hughes' said he believes poor maintenance is the underlying cause of telephone outages and that a lack of maintenance creates a "vicious circle" of declining service.
During Hughes' testimony he showed several photos of telephone poles and lines in the area. Telephone facilities near his residence appeared to be in good condition, while other photos depicted the following: a broken pole and loose lashing wire (near Route 7), a broken pole tied with rope (near Pine Grove), a tree supporting a line, a branch holding a telephone line, telephone lines covered by tree limbs (along Routes 7 and 20), and trees supporting telephone lines (east of Pine Grove on Route 20).
Hughes' photos also included a section depicting the use of rope to make telephone repairs rope holding the broken part of a pole and rope tying the telephone line to a tree. Other photos depicted vegetation overgrowth, and further photos depicted low hanging cables, a cable unraveling because of its own weight.
Under cross-examination, Hughes admitted he had not presented the photos to Frontier before. It was also noted some of the photos depict telephone lines throughout Wetzel County, and the lines along Route 20 do not provide his service. During Hughes' testimony, he requested the PSC direct Frontier to improve its facilities maintenance and customer service, noting the latter should be more flexible in passing information to the right hands, such as the local technicians.
Frontier's Witnesses
Frontier's first witness was its local manager for portions of Wetzel County and Morgantown. The manager said Hughes is served through the Reader central officer via a remote terminal in Green Acres.
The manager said Hughes' residence is located in a very rural area, quite far from the central office, and Hughes' service is provided through a very long loop a copper circuit delivering service. It was stated a longer loop provides additional opportunities to sustain damage to the facilities, and the signal has difficulty reaching its destination.
The manager said most of Hughes' service difficulties, as depicted through his trouble tickets, were due to falling trees or truck traffic outside of Frontier's control. During cross-examination, the manager said he was not familiar with the May 2018 outage at the Hughes,' because he wasn't employed by Frontier then. However, said Frontier moved a cable to accommodate a bridge project, and a splice was performed incorrectly, leading the outage. He said his technicians are not responsible for vegetation management, and a third-party is dispatched to perform tree removal. He said he is not familiar with Frontier contracting practices. He said relatching the support strand or reinforcing a pole requires specialized equipment, which Frontier utilizes outside contractors for.
The manager said he attempts to maintain communication with his technicians , who make him aware of service-affecting problems.
The manager said he believes Frontier is adequately staffed to address current service calls, and he said a Frontier technician works 40-70 hours a week. He said presently a technician will render service in two to three days, excluding a specific unexpected incident. He said he is not familiar with the process Frontier uses to address customer service calls until the trouble ticket reaches dispatch. He did note that Frontier uses algorithms to examine trouble tickets for a common cause that impacts multiple customers.He said eight Frontier technicians are assigned to the portion of Wetzel County supervised by him. He said he and his technicians regularly work overtime, and he is always on call.
The manager aid he believes the 17-day outage affecting Hughes was from the wires in his service drop crossing and shorting out. He said a 17-day outage is "towards the upper end of unusual."
The local manager said he believed the photos shown by Hughes are not representative of the facilities in the area of Wetzel County that he supervises. He said technicians report potential maintenance needs to him for further attention, and this occurs two to three times per week for his section of Wetzel County. He said he was unaware of any organized preventative maintenance program for Frontier.
He said Frontier has a dispatch program which provides him with an overview of his technicians and their assigned work for a particular day. He said there is also a list of unassigned work, which includes upcoming service orders and trouble tickets. He said he can review comments, including medical indicator or other reasons for expedited service. He said a ticket is automatically assigned by software, but can pass through him. He said the dispatch team operating with the software is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he can intervene with the dispatch team to modify scheduling.
Of Hughes' photos, the manager said poles should not lean, but rope is potentially a viable means of suspending lines. He said lines should not be a few feet from the ground, and vegetation can be difficult to control but the removal may be unnecessary. He said he is not aware of a vegetation control program.
Frontier's second witness was a Frontier manager for government and external relations for West Virginia. She said she gathers information to formulate an answer to the PSC and attempts to resolve complaints amicably. She said she has not previously received any of the information Hughes has presented, and she said she worked with the local manager to restore Hughes' service and will work with him to address problems set forth in Hughes' evidence. She emphasized the need for customers to advise Frontier of service problems.
Under cross-examination, the Frontier manager said she would accept information from Hughes regarding his neighbors but said she is not a general customer service representative.
PSC Staff Testimony
The PSC Staff called David Howell, utility analyst for the PSC, to testify. He said he has 25 years of experience with the PSC. He said Case No. 17-1435-T-C may be a possible course of action to adopt in Hughes' case including a preventative maintenance plan. He said the circumstances in that case are similar to Hughes. Under cross-examination, he said he does not have a background in the technical aspects of telecommunications.
Recommended Decision, Discussion, & Order
It was noted that the PSC has established a number of standards "relating to the quality of telephone services," and telephone utilizes are required to "employ prudent management of engineering practices that allow them to maintain physical plant and equipment in a good state of appear."
It was "Local telephone service should meet satisfactory transmission quality at least 99 percent of the time," and "That service should be free of excessive distortion, noise or cross-talk."
It said a telephone utility should continually review its operations and adopt a preventative maintenance program. "In the event that a telephone customer loses service, the telephone utility should generally resolve an outage within 24 hours and handle the service request with courtesy and consideration."
"The testimony and exhibits presented at hearing support the conclusion that Frontier telecommunications facilities in the Reader exchange have deteriorated beyond the scope of a single customer and no longer meet the service quality standards"
It was noted Hughes' photos support the testimony that witnesses had when noting their service quality has declined over several years."
Also, the local manager's testimony supported that of Hughes' witnesses, in that the manager noted his technicians are working an average of 50 hours and lack a number of maintenance capabilities," and " Extended outages described by (Hughes') witnesses are also consistent with both Frontier staff operating at their full capacity and declining physical plant."
It was noted the conditions described justify addressing the individual service problems, as well as "formulate and execute a preventative maintenance plan." It was noted the plan that should be implemented was outlined in Case No. 17-1200-T-C, in which a process employed by Frontier in other instances involved targeting a specific location with a preventative maintenance crew that reviewed the outside plant on an area-area basis or replace damaged facilities.
The plan is be developed and filed within 90 days. An update was requested 180 days and one year from the filing of the plan.
However, it was stated the plan would include only the Reader exchange, as the the evidence supported issues in the Reader exchange.
It has not yet been determined if the Recommended Decision has become the PSC's Final Order.
Notably, Hughes has filed exceptions to the Recommendation, arguing the location should include Pine Grove, as some of his photographs were taken in the Pine Grove exchange area, and two of his witnesses are on the Pine Grove exchange. Hughes recommended the Recommended Decision be expanded to include at least Pine Grove and Reader exchanges.
Other PSC action involving Frontier:
The Recommended Decision involving Hughes' cases against Frontier comes after the Public Service Commission, on Jan. 30, encouraged Frontier West Virginia to revise and complete its filings in the Focused Management Audit of Frontier's operations.
After receiving numerous and increasing complaints regarding Frontier's quality of service, on August 30, 2018, the Commission ordered a focused management audit of Frontier to determine if Frontier was operating efficiently, utilizing sound management practices and to identify those areas where Frontier was operating inefficiently.
Frontier informed the Commission on January 23, 2019, that it had missed several Commission imposed deadlines, including the scheduled issuance of the RFP for the Audit.
Additional information is available on the Commission website: www.psc.state.wv.us by referencing Case No. 18-0291-T-P.
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DWP: Fake, Fake, Fake!
• August 19, 2015
The question on many people’s lips is, “Will the Department for Works and Pensions now be sanctioned for lying and have their money stopped?”
Amid fresh reports that The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted making up comments from supposed “benefit claimants” that appeared in a leaflet about sanctions.
Earlier last year, the DWP were found to have also made up fake or bogus vacancies on their Universal Jobmatch website. Social affairs editor from Channel 4 Jackie Long said, “1 in 50 of the jobs on the website which appeared to come from many different companies. The worrying fact is that they (DWP) couldn’t prove the jobs were genuine. The DWP have been forced to admit that many of their jobs on their website are in breach of the department’s own guidelines and shouldn’t be there.”
“It is extraordinary but are we are surprised? Well we are not surprised; we have continued to investigate Universal Jobmatch. There are 2.7 million jobs on the website and the DWP have admitted there are a number of jobs on there that don’t meet their terms and conditions but they insist that doesn’t mean the jobs are bogus”, Long added.
This week, it has emerged that a DWP leaflet, which has now been withdrawn, included positive example stories from people who claimed to have interacted with the sanctions system.
In one example, titled “Sarah’s story”, a jobseeker is quoted as being “really pleased” after a cut to her benefits supposedly encouraged her to re-draft her CV.
The fabricated quote further read, “It’s going to help me when I’m ready to go back to work.”
Another, by a benefit claimant supposedly called “Zac”, details the sanctions system working well.
In response to a freedom of information request by the Welfare Weekly website, the DWP said the quotes were not actually real cases and that the photos were not of real claimants.
The revelation is controversial because the sanctions system has been criticised for causing extreme hardship and being operated in an unfair and arbitrary way.
Charities including Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation say the sanctions are responsible for a significant increase in homelessness and rough sleeping in Britain under David Cameron’s government.
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In depth interview with Pankaj Chaddah, Founder of Zomato
Zomato is a restaurant discovery platform and has a global presence spanning 28 cities across eight countries. My partner Deepinder Goyal and I started scanning delivery menus when we were working at Bain & co. in New Delhi in an attempt to save time while looking for restaurants to lunch at. This soon snowballed into an idea for a business and ‘Foodiebay’ (as Zomato was then called) germinated from that idea in 2008. The idea rapidly gained strength and in under two years, we rebranded ourselves to ‘Zomato’, were starting to attract investors and also working on our international expansion blueprint. Currently, Zomato lists over 120,000 restaurants, caters to over 15 million consumers and employs 500 people worldwide.
In the UK alone, we list in-depth information for over 21,000 restaurants, including menus, reviews, directions, opening times, contact information etc. Our mobile app has recently been featured as one of the best new iOS Friday apps and is available across all mobile platforms i.e. iPhone, Windows, Android and Blackberry.
Who is your startup aimed at?
The simple answer to that is – Zomato is aimed at anyone who is hungry!
On one end of the spectrum, the service is directed at consumers who are looking to discover new places to eat. For instance, there are over 18,000 restaurants in London, but people are not able to make an educated decision while choosing a new place to dine at. They don’t want to take a risk and end up revisiting the same five places they usually eat at. Zomato offers people exhaustive information, including reviews and ratings on these places so they can make an informed choice.
On the other end of the spectrum, we have restaurants which use Zomato to showcase their brand to the end-consumer. Currently we cater to over 700,000 users in London and this is a massive target audience for restaurants. We track ROI month on month for these restaurants and have an active measurement system in place to help them make the best of their partnership with us.
How does your startup stand out against its competitors?
The consumer internet space is massively crowded. Having said that, in the UK, whilst a number of services cater to consumers in the deals, bookings and delivery space, there is no single comprehensive discovery platform in the information and restaurant space. Zomato’s USP lies in the fact that we offer exhaustive and updated information on all the restaurants in the city. Every three months, we update restaurant information and all this is done manually by meeting the restaurants directly. We also have a strong ‘vertical social network’ offering independent and very relevant reviews from people the user chooses to trust.
Also, we are never, ever complacent about our product. With every new market that we enter, we customise the product to suit that market. For instance, in London, we have introduced new sections like afternoon tea, weekend brunches etc. In the summer we had a section for rooftop venues and the Christmas menu section went live just this past week! It’s not been easy – but we have always believed in ensuring that our product speaks for itself.
What is your business background, and what got you interested in startups?
I am a mechanical engineer by education and worked at Bain & Company for over 2 years. Yes, neither of the two has anything to do with the concept of Zomato J. To be frank, I never thought I would start something of my own. When we started Zomato we were doing this as a hobby and before we knew it we could see huge business potential. It was the pure merit of the opportunity, which led us to quit our cushy jobs and jump into the chaos without any safety nets.
How long has your startup been in the making, and who is the team behind the business?
Zomato originated as ‘Foodiebay’ in 2008, when it was just Deepinder and me dabbling with the idea, while handling our full time jobs at Bain. We continued working on Zomato (then Foodiebay) on the side for 18 months before quitting in December 2009.
Deepinder and I both come from engineering (Deepinder graduated in 2005 and I graduated in 2007), then consulting backgrounds. We had a core team of 5-6 members for the first year, all of whom are still with us and managing their respective teams. It may sound clichéd, but everyone who is (and has been) with Zomato is the reason that we are where we are today.
What has been your biggest challenge so far as a startup owner?
Getting the right people has been our biggest challenge. The growth of the business, the personality of the brand and the firm’s culture – all depend on the people who work with you and carry things forward. We grew by 300 people in the last one year and we have still not cracked the talent sourcing problem, I doubt anyone in the world has! The team we have right now, is our biggest achievement. And scaling it up – the biggest challenge!
In the coming year, what would you like to achieve with your business?
International expansion will be the principal focus area. We tend to get bored easily and have an inclination towards setting seemingly impossible targets and testing the mettle of our team. 7 new countries and 15 new cities in under 12 months would have otherwise not been possible. Edinburgh and Glasgow are in the works for the UK, while teams are in Turkey, Indonesia and Brazil currently, setting up shop. The next calendar year will see Zomato getting launched in another 30 cities across the globe.
Securing our next round of funding and growing the strength of our international teams are also on the map for 2014. We have 25 employees currently in London and the target is to touch 100 before end-2014.
If you could give one piece of advice to someone thinking about starting a business, what would it be?
Never start a business because you want to ‘start something of your own’, or ‘be your own boss’ – it never works out. Start a venture because you are confident there’s an opportunity for it to do well.
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SummerhallTV Selection: Laura Yuile
SummerhallTV is an arts channel dedicated to capturing and sharing artistically wonderful happenings. For the past year their channel, Art in Scotland TV has been dotting about Scotland to cover various art news and events. With such a vast archive of videos, we decided to ask creative individuals to filter these and share their favourites. Below are visual artist Laura Yuile’s selections.
Laura Yuile is an artist from Glasgow. She works with video, sculpture and performative installation to explore the boundaries between public and private space, the fetishisation of transcience, and notions of displacement, transition and transformation in relation to time, place and the invisible infrastructures that shape our existence. She is currently based in London, participating as an associate artist at Open School East, where she is developing a project centering around the issues raised by recent property developments within London, and how their role as speculative architecture reshapes urban space and propels global flows of capital – and the tension between these redevelopments and actual lived experience. Laura gained a BA from The Glasgow School of Art in 2008 and recent exhibitions have included Welcome to Ecumenopolis, The Arts Foundation, Athens; Time Pieces, Caustic Costal, Manchester; Conversation of Monuments, Collective Edinburgh; Same Homepage, The Project Room, Glasgow; and Processing Progress, Mauve, Vienna. Laura has participated in international residency programmes such as IOAM in Beijing, and Temporary Art Platform in Beirut. She frequently organises discursive events and throughout 2012 facilitated a series of discursive events to take place in the showrooms of various IKEA stores. You can see some of Laura’s work here.
My Top Five
Art in Scotland: China Miéville
I was introduced to China Miéville’s work last year and have become particularly interested in it since moving to London this year, because of his sharp accounts of the realities of our time, as experienced from his home of London, as well as his powerful visions of a pre- and post- apocalyptic city.
Liva Dudareva: The Urbanography Series
I met METASITU through a residency in Lebanon last year, which was centered around exploring an industrial site that was located in the middle of a pine forest, and which was needing relocated due to the effect it was having on the surrounding environment. Calling themselves both artists and an urban consultancy, Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina have an interesting research-based practice that explores the development of urban and rural space, and the structure of global networks.
The Merz Barn Project
The Merz Barn was a farm shed that Kurt Schwitters rented as a studio when he moved to live in Ambleside in the Lake District after the war. I’ve not yet visited them but I’ve heard good things from those who have undertaken short residencies there, and I’m interested in how such a site can maintain itself and offer something relevant and interesting to artists working today.
Flesh & Stone
I spent half of 2014 working with Collective as the Satellite’s programme Critical Discourse Intern. During this time I developed a project, Conversation of Monuments, that materialised as an installation in the form of an ‘inverse’ tourist information, in which I engaged visitors in conversations in order to generate feedback and input to assist with constructing a plan for a new monument for the city. It got me thinking a lot about Scotland’s architecture and heritage, and this video offers perspectives from individuals, on various architectural sites in Scotland, which are at some times quite amusing.
Cityscape: Social Inclusion
It’s interesting to look back on things like this and think about how discussions on social inclusion and exclusion change over time, and might develop towards the future. These are issues that feature heavily in the discussions at Open School East.
This is the fifth part of an ongoing series selecting films from SummerhallTV’s archive. Take a look at the first installment by Dave Rushton, the second by Bill Millett, the third by Alex Hetherington and the fourth by artist filmmaker Ruth Paxton. For a chance to curate your very own SummerhallTV film selection, please email Central Station on hello@thisiscentralstation.com.
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SummerhallTV Selection: Ruth Paxton
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SummerhallTV Selection: Alex Hetherington
Artist curator Alex Hetherington shares his Top 5 SummerhallTV archive videos
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“The Parlors positions the Cole Site at the forefront of 21st-century presentations of historic properties,” said Elizabeth B. Jacks, Executive Director of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. “It combines meticulous scholarship with immersive storytelling to bring history to life for contemporary audiences.”
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The Parlors brings Thomas Cole’s voice back into his historic home. The experience immerses visitors in the conversations that took place in these very rooms, where the Hudson River School of landscape painting began, America’s first art movement. Who better to tell these stories than Thomas Cole himself? The multimedia installations bring his paintings to life and give voice to Cole’s original essays, letters and private journals.
Thomas Cole’s Interior Designs
Thomas Cole moved into his home in the Village of Catskill in 1836 after marrying Maria Bartow and immediately embarked on a redesign of the first floor. Thomas Cole is an artist with a strong point of view and he created bold and elaborate spaces that were used to display his paintings for guests and patrons.
During the restoration of Cole’s interior designs, the Thomas Cole Site discovered something truly remarkable – original paintings by Thomas Cole on the walls of his home. Cole hand painted decorative borders in both parlors that had previously been lost to history under layers and layers of modern paint. The works were uncovered and today visitors can stand amidst Cole’s interiors, surrounded by his original decorative painting.
Technology-Driven Story-Telling
At first glance, both Parlors appear as 19th century historic rooms. But further investigation reveals Cole’s original letters, essay and journals and of course his dramatic landscape paintings. In the East Parlor, the paintings on the wall come to life and visitors soar through the landscapes as Thomas Cole, given voice by the acclaimed actor Jamie Bell, speaks directly to you touching on his ambitions and his profound relationship with the American landscape.
When visitors approach the historic furniture in the West Parlor, Cole’s private correspondence appears on the surfaces. The letters back and forth with his patrons get heated. What is beautiful? And what exactly is a landscape?
Read Thomas Cole's Words
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Visit & Read Cole’s Private Letters
GILMORE & COLE
Can imaginary views tell the truth?
STURGES & COLE
Can development be balanced with preservation?
TOWN & COLE
What is a “landscape” painting?
Read about discovering Thomas Cole’s decorative paintings.
Watch as the decorative borders are uncovered.
The Parlors installation has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor, and also by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-10-15-0116-15. Support provided by Empire State Development’s I LOVE NEW YORK program under the Market NY initiative. Additional support provided by Herzog’s of Kingston, Geoff Howell Studio and the Hudson River Valley Greenway, Eli Wilner & Company. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.Support for programs at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Jennifer GreimThe Parlors 01.26.2018
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site preserves and interprets the home and studios of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School of painting, the nation's first major art movement.
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Travelers acquires stake in Toronto broker
TRAVELERS Canada has made its first foray into broker ownership but it does not intend to acquire any outright.
Earlier this month the insurer made a majority investment in Toronto-based digital broker Zensurance to close the gap on the advantage its competitors have gained through technology-based market insights.
Zensurance provides online insurance solutions for small businesses.
“(The investment) is a wonderful opportunity to close that gap,” Travelers Canada president and CEO Heather Masterson said at the recent Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario’s convention in Niagara Falls, Ont.
“Right now we are looking to glean learning in Canada through the broker channel, through market research and tapping into U.K. colleagues. But in terms of having hands-on knowledge we are excited for this opportunity.”
She said the company views the investment as a move to enhance its insurance technology capabilities as opposed to a straight-out investment in the broker channel.
“When we take a look at the majority investment in Zensurance we look at that as an insurtech play,” Ms. Masterson said.
“We have ramped up our commitment to technology and innovation.”
She said Travelers has appointed a global chief innovation officer, operating its own innovation lab, and it has also partnered with California-based startup accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center.
“We have a lot going on in terms of innovation and see the investment in Zensurance as an extension of that, supporting and participating in insurtech,” Ms. Masterson said.
She said ultimately what Travelers wants to gain from the Zensurance investment is how to be more customer-focused, particularly because it has no direct operation in Canada from which it can directly see customer preferences.
While the insurer does not intend to buy Canadian brokerages outright, it is exploring ways to invest in them to help interested businesses grow.
Ms. Masterson said the company spent a lot of time ironing out a broker acquisition strategy.
“The conclusion we have reached is we don’t think we need to get involved in broker acquisitions, we don’t think we need to be in a position where we need to own a broker network,” she said.
“Because of that thoughtful analysis and place we have landed, we have decided we are going to earmark a specific fund of money dedicated toward broker financing for independent brokers that want to consolidate, grow and achieve scale in the Canadian market.”
She said Travelers has been talking to Canadian brokers about this strategy and brokerages south of the border are also interested in the investment opportunities.
“We have been having interesting conversations with brokers in Canada and U.S. brokers,” Ms. Masterson said. “(They are thinking of) coming into Canada and thinking about making investments here and we view all as opportunities.”
Travelers Canada is a subsidiary of Travelers Companies Inc., the second largest insurer in the U.S.
In 2013, Travelers Companies acquired The Dominion of Canada General Insurance and St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. and combined and rebranded them along with its existing Canadian operation as Travelers Canada.
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Rhetoric & American Cultures
Alexandra Hidalgo’s Cámara Retórica Video Book Published by Computers and Composition Digital Press
Earlier this year, Assistant Professor Alexandra Hidalgo published her video book Cámara Retórica: A Feminist Filmmaking Methodology for Rhetoric and Composition with Computers and Composition Digital Press. Cámara Retórica is comprised of six video-essay chapters that connect film and video production, feminist filmmaking, and Rhetoric and Composition. Drawing from interviews conducted with ten faculty and graduate students in the field who produce and teach the production of moving images, as well as original footage and clips created by rhetoricians and filmmakers, Cámara Retórica weaves a visual and aural tapestry that performs the kind of feminist, moving-image scholarship it argues can be transformative for Rhetoric and Composition. The video essays develop six principles of feminist filmmaking and apply them to the ways in which faculty and graduate students in Rhetoric and Composition engage with film and video production—from learning the technology, to publishing and screening their work, to making traditional and non-traditional modes of recognition for their films and videos count for tenure and promotion. As far as we can tell it's the first video book—the first collection of interconnected video essays around one topic. It is definitely the first one in Rhetoric and Composition.
XA alumni Shell Little worked on coding and designing the website that hosts the video book. Arts and Humanities and Media and Information alumin Sarah Shaw did part of the sound editing and PW alumni Lindsey Spitzley and PhD student Shewonda Leger filmed footage that is featured throughout the video book.
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The Politics Of Fashion With...Commissioner Bob Stump
This post is the first of a new feature on my blog called "The Politics Of Fashion" where I plan to take a closer look at the accessories politicians, public servants and heads of state are wearing. It's my opinion that except for a few political wives (Jackie Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Cindy McCain, Michelle Obama, Kate Middleton, Princess Diana, Carla Bruni, Queen Rania, etc) not enough people in politics dress the part. Even most female candidates don't seem to make presentation a priority. Without any political statement or political preference intended by this blogger, here's to dressing the part and looking good, while hopefully doing good.
While some politicians use social media to take pictures of their "junk" and send them out to their female constituents, others know exactly what women really want to see: shoes! I recently met Bob Stump, Chair of the Arizona Corporation Commission, and learned that he was voted "Best Shoes" by the Arizona Capitol Times in 2011. What a fabulous contest! A perusal of his Facebook page and his Twitter account revealed that even two years later his constituents are still talking about his shoes, and there's a hilarious video that Stump graciously participated in making.
https://vimeo.com/25212989
(video by Evan Wyloge of Arizona Capitol Times http://azcapitoltimes.com/)
Of course, I had to know which shoes Commissioner Stump was wearing in the video and it turns out they are these Gucci loafers (below) with bamboo bits. I'm not sure if he was trying to make a political statement with the bamboo, which is a sustainable resource, but as someone who helps set energy policy for Arizona he made a good choice.
Bob Stump's Gucci Loafers
(photo courtesy of Bob Stump)
It seems Commissioner Stump really loves shoes, and maybe needed a new pair of sneakers, as he's photographed here stuffing a Puma sneaker in his jacket:
Bob Stump pretending to shoplift sneakers at the video shoot
(Photo by Evan Wyloge of Arizona Capitol Times http://azcapitoltimes.com/)
Commissioner Stump admiring a selection of shoes
(Photo by Evan Wyloge of Arizona Capitol Times http://azcapitoltimes.com/ )
Interesting to note my discovery on his Twitter account that another Arizona paper, the Arizona Republic, called Mr. Stump "A dashing tuxedoed figure" which led to a discussion about him and bow ties. Apparently he has been wearing them since he was a little boy.
Commissioner Stump as a young child, sporting a bow tie
All grown up and standing in front of Nancy Pelosi's office
I don't know who tied his bow ties when he was a kid, but he can tie his own now thanks to lessons from a former co-worker at The Weekly Standard in DC, none other than the lord of bow ties, Tucker Carlson. Now, that's impressive!
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Meet Irene Appiah – Hamburger Behörde (Ministry) für Schule und Berufsbildung
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Social Work is giving back to the Community
Received certificate of recognition from Fr. Bundespräsidenten Horst Köhler in -2009 for her special social engagement –
Irene Appiah could be correctly described as a lady with many talents and there are enough reasons to do so. She is the Co- founder of „Bildung ohne Grenzen e.V.“, an NGO that focuses on educational development of people with immigration background. She was able to organize Motivational workshops in cooperation with initiatives from the Hamburger Senat which eventually brought her a special certificate of recognition in 2009 from the former Bundespräsidenten Horst Köhler for her special social engagement, and that is not all.
Irene Appiah is also involved and was active in many other projects including Bildung durch Beteiligung; Interkulturelle Patenschaftsprojekte; Hamburg meets Afrika and 2nd Hon. Kenneth Gbandi/ACF Public Debate: German School System / „Ohne Bildung läuft nichts….“
R) Staatsrat, Dr. Michael Voges
She is also working as a legal case coordinator at Wyccon Europe GmbH that specializes in court reporting and transcription of political debates/parliamentary protocols such as: Federal Court of Justice, Karlsruhe, German-French gathering in order to honor Charles de Gaulle and his initiated German-French youth-pact, with Angela Merkel and President Francois Hollande.
She is equally an associate of ConVotex (GbR) together with her partner Kimberly Turnage, they are responsible for advocating, speaking and consulting on the benefits of implementation of live, real time, voice to text communication access services which provides equal access for: Deaf or Hard of Hearing people; as well as provide improved productivity during international events, like, the United Nations and International Information Technology Conferences throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Since 2010 Irene Appiah is responsible for the planning and implementation of the “Motivationsworkshop” – part of the Bündnisplan project. With help of selected mentors who mostly have gone the same or similar ways in growing up in Germany, they share their experiences of being seen as foreigners with the students in school but at the same time showing them how they are able to use the advantage of having foreign roots in order to make a successful professional standing, even in Germany.
R) Bedo (Orientalischen Nights/HH 1) – Schirmherr Motivationsworkshop till 2011
Born in Hamburg-Altona in 1976 her parents of Ghanaian origin who later moved to Hamburg- Billstedt before she turned one years old and grew up in the suburb of well known “Brennpunkt: Sonnenland”. She was basically a child of the now so-called school system of the “Stadtteilschule” formerly known as Gesamtschule, which just got re-implemented into the school system back in 1986 under the then Hamburger Mayor, Henning Voscherau. She attended the Grundschule An der Glinde Au from 1982 – 1986. From 1986 – 1995 she got admitted to the Gesamtschule Öjendorf and made a transit to Gesamtschule Horn for her A-Levels. During her time at the Gesamtschule Öjendorf only 9 students received the A-Level qualifications. 7 males and 2 females. Only 2 from the 9 students are with immigration background and Irene Appiah was one of them.
After her A-Level she move into the music business but decided in 2003 to take up the study of law. Studying law as a single mother was never easy as she had to financially support herself, her son and her parents.
L) :Irene Appiah, Hon. Kenneth Gbandi and Sally Mary Riedel (Young Mentors for equality at school, Projekt “yes”), during the 2nd Hon. Kenneth Gbandi/ACF Public Debate: German School System / „Ohne Bildung läuft nichts….“
It was during her internship with lawyer, Ama-Pokua von Pereira, that the two quickly became a team in the field of law and social work. Since that time, Irene has been totally in love with social work and how caring can impact a person’s life. “Social work is one of the ways of giving something back to the community „she said. Because she has seen what the difference changed individuals can make, she has decided to encourage others to make changes for the better by going into politics. As a member of SPD and a stronger supporter of the African Consultative Forum “ACF” concept, she is joining the new bread and new faces of Africans in Hamburg as she navigate her way through the current bureaucratic jungle in giving the Community a Voice.
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Autism may reflect excitation-inhibition imbalance in brain, study finds
A study by Stanford University investigators suggests that key features of autism reflect an imbalance in signaling from excitatory and inhibitory neurons in a portion of the forebrain, and that reversing the imbalance could alleviate some of its hallmark symptoms.
In a series of experiments conducted on a mouse model of the disorder, the scientists showed that reducing the ratio of excitatory to inhibitory signaling countered hyperactivity and deficits in social ability, two classic symptoms of autism in humans.
The study is published in Science Translational Medicine. Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, is the study’s senior author. The lead author is former graduate student Aslihan Selimbeyoglu, PhD.
In 2011, Deisseroth’s group published a study in Nature showing that autismlike behavioral deficits could be induced in ordinary mice by elevating the ratio of excitatory to inhibitory neuronal firing patterns in the mice’s medial prefrontal cortex. The new study shows that decreasing that ratio restores normal behavior patterns in a strain of lab mice bioengineered to mimic human autism. These mice carry a mutation equivalent to a corresponding mutation in humans that is associated with autism spectrum disorder.
Autism incidence increasing
For reasons that are not understood, the incidence of autism spectrum disorder has increased steadily in recent years, said Deisseroth, a practicing psychiatrist. Around 1 in 80 American children may be diagnosed with the disorder, which is characterized by repetitive behaviors and difficulty with social interaction. To date, there are no medications that treat the fundamental underpinnings of the disorder.
“In all of psychiatry, there’s no lab test that can diagnose this condition,” said Deisseroth. “It’s been associated with numerous genetic variants, many of which appear to exert only small individual influences.”
Deisseroth, who holds the D.H. Chen Professorship, notes that UCSF psychiatrist John Rubenstein and his colleagues, among others, have theorized that an excitation-inhibition imbalance might account for these phenomena. While myriad genetic variations contribute to autism, many of them may do so by impairing, in diverse ways, a single process or a small number of processes necessary for overall healthy brain function, such as a balance between excitatory and inhibitory signaling in key brain regions. One of those regions is the medial prefrontal cortex, which plays a major role in executive functions, such as planning, prediction, attention and integrating information from other individuals’ behaviors and speech for clues as to what they might be thinking.
Testing the hypothesis
“Social interaction may be the hardest thing a mammal can do,” Deisseroth said. “It’s an immensely complex phenomenon that requires rapid, highly integrated communication among disparate, distant parts of the brain. Specific brain states well-suited for rich information handling may be needed for effective social communication and behavior.”
To test the excitation-inhibition balance hypothesis, the Stanford scientists launched a set of experiments employing the mutant mice, which display hyperactive behavior and impaired social interaction. Interestingly, these mice also share a less visible characteristic with humans carrying the equivalent mutation: a shortage, compared with normal mice and humans, of parvalbumin neurons, a particular category of inhibitory nerve cell found throughout the brain. In a 2009 Nature paper, Deisseroth and his team reported that parvalbumin neuron activity can improve the information-handling capacity of forebrain neurons.
The researchers used optogenetics, an advanced laboratory technology that Deisseroth pioneered, to insert genes for two types of light-sensitive proteins, or opsins, into two distinct sets of neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex of the mice. The researchers inserted one type of opsin into parvalbumin inhibitory neurons in that region of the mice’s brains. It made the neuron more excitable if it received a pulse of blue light, delivered via an implanted optical fiber.
The other opsin, also activated with a pulse of blue light, had the opposite effect: When activated, it rendered the neuron on which it sat more resistant to firing. The scientists put this inhibitory opsin in a set of excitatory medial prefrontal cortex neurons called pyramidal neurons.
Reducing the excitation-inhibition ratio by either diminishing the excitability of the pyramidal neurons or by increasing the excitability of the parvalbumin neurons led to the same result in the mice: more time spent engaging in social encounters with other mice and less hyperactivity during those encounters or when the mice were by themselves.
“Excitation-inhibition balance can take many forms and may be important at different stages of life,” Deisseroth said. “Together, these findings suggest that this form of regulating the ratio of excitatory- to inhibitory-cell firing in the medial prefrontal cortex may be significant in normal social behavior and in autism.”
Article: Modulation of prefrontal cortex excitation/inhibition balance rescues social behavior in CNTNAP2-deficient mice, Karl Deisseroth et al., Science Translational Medicine, doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aah6733, published 2 August 2017.
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Reflections Upon Situation — Watch for the Arrival of the Native Boys — Their Probable Fate — Proceed on The Journey — Facility of Obtaining Water — Kill a Horse for Food — Silver-Bark Tea-Tree — Intense Cold — First Hills Seen — Good Grass — Appetite of a Native — Injurious Effects of Unwholesome Diet — Change in the Character of the Country — Granite Forms the Low Water Level — Tree Washed on Shore — Indisposition.
May 17. — This morning I felt rather better, but very weak, and wishing to give the horses an opportunity of drinking, which they would not do very early on a cold morning, I did not break up the camp until late. Upon laying down last night Wylie had left the meat on the ground at some distance from our fire, instead of putting it up on a bush as I had directed him, the consequence was that a wild dog had stolen about fourteen pounds of it whilst we slept, and we were now again reduced to a very limited allowance.
After travelling about five miles we found a great and important change in the basis rock of the country; it was now a coarse imperfect kind of grey granite, and in many places the low-water line was occupied by immense sheets of it. Other symptoms of improvement also gradually developed themselves. Mountain ducks were now, for the first time, seen upon the shore, and the trunk of a very large tree was found washed up on the beach: it was the only one we had met with during the whole course of our journey to the westward, and I hailed it with a pleasure which was only equalled by finding, not far beyond, a few drops of water trickling down a huge graniterock abutting on the sea-shore. This was the only approximation to running water which we had found since leaving Streaky Bay, and though it hardly deserved that name, yet it imparted to me as much hope, and almost as much satisfaction, as if I had found a river. Continuing our course around a small bay for about five miles, we turned into some sand-drifts behind a rocky point of the coast. from which the islands we had seen yesterday bore E. 47 degrees S., Cape Pasley, S. W., Point Malcolm, S. 33 degrees W., and Mount Ragged W. 32 degrees N. Several reefs and breakers were also seen at no great distance from the shore.
Our stage to-day was only twelve miles, yet some of our horses were nearly knocked up, and we ourselves in but little better condition. The incessant walking we were subject to, the low and unwholesome diet we had lived upon, the severe and weakening attacks of illness caused by that diet, having daily, and sometimes twice a day, to dig for water, to carry all our fire-wood from a distance upon our backs, to harness, unharness, water, and attend to the horses, besides other trifling occupations, making up our daily routine, usually so completely exhausted us, that we had neither spirit nor energy left. Added to all other evils, the nature of the country behind the sea-coast was as yet so sandy and scrubby that we were still compelled to follow the beach, frequently travelling on loose heavy sands, that rendered our stages doubly fatiguing: whilst at nights, after the labours of the day were over, and we stood so much in need of repose, the intense cold, and the little protection we had against it, more frequently made it a season of most painful suffering than of rest, and we were glad when the daylight relieved us once more. On our march we felt generally weak and languid — it was an effort to put one foot before the other, and there was an indisposition to exertion that it was often very difficult to overcome. After sitting for a few moments to rest — and we often had to do this — it was always with the greatest unwillingness we ever moved on again. I felt, on such occasions, that I could have sat quietly and contentedly, and let the glass of life glide away to its last sand. There was a dreamy kind of pleasure, which made me forgetful or careless of the circumstances and difficulties by which I was surrounded, and which I was always indisposed to break in upon. Wylie was even worse than myself, I had often much difficulty in getting him to move at all, and not unfrequently was compelled almost forcibly to get him up. Fortunately he was very good tempered, and on the whole had behaved extremely well under all our troubles since we had been travelling together alone.
May 16. — We commenced our journey at daylight, travelling along the beach, which was very heavy for nine miles, and then halting, at a very low part of the coast, to rest the horses. Whilst here, I dug for water, and getting it of very fair quality, though with an effluvia very like Harrowgate water, I decided upon remaining for the day. We were very much fatigued, being weak and languid, and like our horses, scarcely able to put one foot before the other. From our present encampment, some islands were visible at a bearing of S. 18 degrees E. The tops of the hills, also, to the back, were visible above the level bank, which formed the continuation of the singular table land extending round the Bight, but which was now gradually declining in elevation, and appeared as if it would very shortly cease altogether, so that we might hope to have an unobstructed view of the country inland.
A jagged peak, which I named Mount Ragged, bore W. 10 degrees N., and a round topped one W. 30 degrees N. We were now actually beyond those hills; but the level bank, under which we had been travelling, prevented our seeing more of them than the bare outline of their lofty summits. The whole of the intervening country, between the level bank and the hills, consisted of heavy sandy ridges, a good deal covered with scrub; but we now found more grass than we had seen during the whole journey before. In the night I was taken ill again, with violent pains, accompanied by cold clammy sweats; and as the air was cold and raw, and a heavy dew falling, I suffered a great deal.
May 15. — I intended to have proceeded early on our journey this morning, but was so ill again, that for some hours I could not stir. The boy was similarly situated. About ten we got a little better, and packing up our things, moved away, but had scarcely gone more than a couple of miles along the beach, when I discovered that the horse-hobbles had been left behind. It was Wylie’s duty always to take these off, and strap them round the horses necks, whilst I was arranging the saddles, and fixing on them our arms, provisions, etc.; he had forgotten to do this, and had left them lying on the ground. As we could not possibly do without the hobbles, I sent Wylie back for them, telling him I would drive on the horses slowly for a few miles, and then halt to wait for him.
After proceeding eleven miles along the coast, I halted, and Wylie came up a little before dark, bringing the hobbles with him. We were both very hungry; and as we had suffered so much lately from eating the horse flesh, we indulged to-night in a piece of bread, and a spoonful of flour boiled into a paste, an extravagance which I knew we should have to make up for by and bye. I had dug for water, and procured it at a depth of five feet; but it was too brackish either to drink, or give to our horses; we used it, however, in boiling up our flour into paste. The afternoon was exceedingly dark and stormy looking, but only a few light showers fell. The night then set in cold, with a heavy dew.
May 14. — I was again seized with illness, though I had been particularly careful in the quantity of flesh which I had used. For many hours I suffered most excruciating pains; and after the violence of the attack was over, I was left very weak, and incapable of exertion. Wylie was also affected. It was evident that the food we were now living upon, was not wholesome or nutritious. Day after day we felt ourselves getting weaker and more relaxed, whilst the least change of weather, or the slightest degree of cold, was most painfully felt by both of us. What we were to do in the wet weather, which might daily be expected, I knew not, suffering as we did from the frosts and dews only. In the state we now were in, I do not think that we could have survived many days’ exposure to wet.
May 13. — After breakfast, Wylie said he thought he could catch some bandicoots, by firing the scrub near the sand-hills, and went out for an hour or two to try, but came back as he went. During his absence, I was employed in repairing my only two pair of socks now left, which were sadly dilapidated, but of which I was obliged to be very careful, as they were the only security I had against getting lame. In the afternoon I walked down to the beach, to try to spear sting-ray, but the sea was rough, and I saw none. In my ramble, I found plenty of the beautiful white clematis, so common both to the north and south of Sydney.
May 3 Continued
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Japanese schoolboy wants to study at USATU
19:15, 25 March 2019 Society
UFA, 25 March 2019. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.
A Japanese schoolboy Hayato Ohta became a guest of Ufa State Aviation Technical University (USATU), met with the rector and spoke about his desire to study at USATU, “to build rockets and airplanes”.
The seventeen-year-old Hayato Ohta lives in Shizuoka on the island of Honshu near the famous Mount Fuji. He arrived in Bashkiria under the international school exchange program.
The schoolboy from the Land of the Rising Sun studies mathematics and physics in depth at school No. 8 of the city of Tuimazy and lives in the family of its director Tatyana Soboleva.
The acquaintance with the university began with a meeting with the rector. Nikolai Krioni welcomed the guests, spoke about the university, invited the Japanese school student to study and handed him a company gift as a memory of the meeting.
Hayato visited the museum of aircraft engines, reviewed its exhibits and met with the students. The next point of the excursion was a Center for Space Information Receiving and Processing at the department of telecommunication systems, where the guest was shown an engineering model of the student satellite UGATUSAT. At the end of the tour, Hayato visited the monument to Yuri Gagarin.
“I liked your university,” he said at parting, “it's so big and beautiful! There are so many students studying here. I would like to speak the language of Gagarin well and come here to study. My dream is to become an engineer, build rockets and airplanes!”
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Does Luck Matter More Than Skill?
January 2nd, 2013 · 55 comments
Luck Over Skill?
The most provocative business title I’ve read recently is Frans Johansson’s The Click Moment. In this book, Johansson argues the following:
For activities with clear fixed rules — such as sports, chess, and music — the only way to succeed is to put in more deliberate practice than your peers. Johansson uses Serena Williams as a key example: her dad started her practicing tennis absurdly hard at an absurdly young age.
For activities with rapidly evolving rules — such as business start-ups or book writing — success comes when you change the rules to a new configuration that catches the zeitgeist just right. Johansson uses Stephanie Meyers, author of the Twilight series, as a key example. Meyers, in Johansson’s estimation, is not a good writer. Her first Twilight book reads more like fan fiction than a professionally-scribed genre novel. She had not, in other words, spent much time in a state of deliberate practice. But this didn’t matter. Something about her new take on vampire tales hit the cultural moment just right and earned her extraordinary renown. The lesson, according to Johansson, is that luck plays the central role in success for these activities. If you want to do something remarkable,therefore, you have to keep trying new things — placing, what he calls, purposeful bets — hoping to stumble into an idea that catches on.
Here’s the obvious follow-up question for Study Hacks readers: how do these ideas square with my skill-driven philosophy of building a remarkable life?
Schwarzenegger’s Serendipity
I gained insight into this question from another book I read recently (and found surprisingly engrossing): Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new autobiography, Total Recall.
At a high-level, Schwarzenegger’s story seems to validate Johansson’s serendipity-fueled vision of success. The young bodybuilder’s ascent in movies required several lucky breaks:
being brought to LA — of all possible cities — to train in Joe Weider’s Gold’s Gym;
meeting a writer, Charles Gaines, who was writing about the bodybuilding subculture at the time, and who helped introduce Schwarzenegger to many important players in Hollywood; and
starting to take acting seriously just as the the 1980s action movie trend generated a sudden need for larger than life characters who knew how to film a movie.
There was no way Schwarzenegger could have planned this rise to stardom. Serendipity played a big role.
But does this mean that deliberate practice and the striving to become so good they can’t ignore you is not so important? Schwarzenegger would disagree. Throughout his autobiography, he kept emphasizing that you “have to do the reps” — a reference to the unavoidable importance of putting in the hard work required to do something well.
When you dive deeper into his story, you notice that this dedication to skill-building plays a supporting role behind all of his lucky breaks:
he was brought to LA because he was the most promising bodybuilder of his generation, a status he achieved by starting his serious training at least two years earlier than most elite competitors, and adding a new level of intensity to his workouts;
when he arrived in America, he hustled: starting at least four different businesses (real estate, mail order, seminars and construction), taking night classes, and shadowing Joe Wieder on international business trips. His smarts and ambition is what helped him gain access to Charles Gaines’s circle of influential friends; and
when he began acting, he worked really hard at it. He took classes and trained intensely for small roles throughout the 70s, eventually winning a Golden Globe for “Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture” for 1976’s Stay Hungry. In other words, Schwarzenegger wasn’t picked out of nowhere to star in 1982’s Conan the Barbarian (his big break). He was, at that point, a world famous bodybuilder who could act and was well-known in Hollywood circles. From this perspective, he was the obvious choice for the role.
The Serendipity Equation
The combination of The Click Moment and Total Recall has helped me developed a more nuanced understanding of how skill and luck interplay in the quest to do something remarkable. Being a math geek, I find that equations help me better capture the relative importance of different factors, and with this in mind, I came up with the following:
<success of a project> = <project potential> x <serendipitous factors>,
where <project potential> is a measure of the rareness and value of your relevant skills, and the value of the serendipitous factors is drawn from something like an exponential distribution.
In this equation, there are two variables.
The first is the potential of the project. The more rare and valuable your skills, generally speaking, the more potential you have for the project to succeed. This is something you control.
The second variable captures serendipity. You cannot predict or control this factor, but you can expect that really big values are really rare (hence the approximation to an exponential distribution).
This equation helps explain examples like Stephanie Meyer. Her project potential was low because she did not have much skill as a writer. But her serendipity factor was huge, swamping her low potential.
At the same time, the equation tells us that Meyer’s example is not a generally replicatable strategy. The huge serendipity factor she enjoyed is rare. You could launch 1000 low potential projects in your lifetime and never encounter anything close.
Objectively, the best strategy for success, given this equation, is to combine a commitment to increase your project potential as much as possible (by sharpening your rare and valuable skills), with a commitment to keep launching a steady stream of such projects and seeing them through to completion, increasing your chances of encountering high (though perhaps not Meyer’s-level) serendipity.
Without serendipity, your skill alone might not create the results you crave. At the same time, however, without a high project potential to multiply, the type of serendipity you can realistically expect to encounter if you try enough things, also won’t generate these results. You need both.
If you believe that something like this equation is true, then this approach of becoming as good as possible while trying many different projects, maximizes your expected success.
Indeed, we can call this the Schwarzenegger Strategy, as it does a good job of describing his path to stardom. Looking back at his story, notice that he tried to maximize the potential in every project he pursued (always “putting in the reps”). But he also pursued a lot of projects, maximizing the chances that he would occasionally complete one with high serendipity. His breaks, as described above, all required both rare and valuable skills, and luck. And each such project was surrounded in his life by other projects in which things did not turn out so well.
Summary: You cannot count on luck or skill to generate remarkable outcomes in isolation. The most consistent path to meaningful accomplishment seems to be a combination of the two. Pick a small number of things and become so good they can’t ignore you. Along the way, however, keep taking your growing skill out for a spin, launching related projects, one after another, carefully studying the outcomes to see if you stumbled into something big.
For more examples and tactics regarding this idea of launching exploratory projects in the search of breakthroughs, see chapters 13 and 14 of SO GOOD. For more on building rare and valuable skills, see chapter 7.
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Rohan Rajiv says:
Little bets seem to be the under lying thread..
Arseny says:
Great point! Luck is extremely important, but in most cases luck itself is a skill, and a trainable one.
I once saw a billboard that read “luck is when preparation meets opportunity”. Opportunity doesn’t lead to success if you’re not in a position to take advantage of it. That’s where “being so good they can’t ignore you” comes into play. It prepares you to take advantage of the opportunities that come your way.
Josh Earl says:
Great post. Most people base their business ventures on the serendipity factor and overlook “doing the reps.”
I’d add, however, that it’s often possible to increase your odds of finding a project with high serendipity potential by looking for unmet demands. Perhaps Meyers picked up on an interest in vampires among a demographic that had been overlooked by other authors in the genre. If that’s the case, the question wasn’t whether she’d succeed, but what the magnitude of her success would be.
The better you know your market, the less luck comes into play.
I agree. Success involves work of the right quality being at the right place at the right time, and so, we should aim not only to be good at what we do, but also to try and maximize our susceptibility to good fortune with respect to our goals. Louis Pasteur once said “Luck favours the prepared mind.”
… But is it just a matter of putting your eggs in different baskets? I insist it is more of a question of being receptive to opportunities, as well, which is not a trivial matter. It takes a rather creative mind to recognize opportunities when they arise.
This is an interesting article I found which deals with luck and attitude in everyday life, and whether it’s valid or not, it convinced me of one thing — taking advantage of luck in your particular field has a lot to do with having a keen awareness of exactly where you are with respect to project potential, and KEEPING IT IN MIND when you’re away involved in something else. The ‘keeping it in mind’ part is as important as the ‘involved in something else’ part (otherwise it’s not luck). I seriously doubt Arnold would’ve got anywhere if he was focussed enough on his bodybuilding to never leave the gym, or even if he forgot completely that he was a bodybuilder when he was away. He had to have a subroutine running somewhere in some corner of his mind, waiting to seize the opportunity when it came.
I’m not quite clear on how this interacts with deliberate practice and its emphasis on focus. I’m sure that relation is something worth thinking about and studying.
Dale Davidson says:
Great post Cal. I’d like to throw in a strategy advocated by Nassim Taleb, author of the Black Swan and Antifragile.
He advocates applying a “barbell strategy” to many areas of your life. This entails being very conservative in many areas of your life mixed in with some high risk, potentially high payout activities.
For investments, this means placing the vast majority of your capital in cash or cash like instruments, say 90% of your assets. The last 10%, the 10% you could lose without too much pain, should be placed in high risk ventures (start-ups, biotech, investments with very high risk but virtually unbounded payouts). This way you preserve much of your capital while still being able to capture huge gains.
For exercise, he highly recommends doing low stress activities like walking 90% of the time with the occasional very heavy weight lifting or sprints thrown in.
It’s a way to take advantage of black swan events and randomness, a condition that he calls being anti-fragile.
I imagine it applies to a career in the sense that the conservative, safe end of the barbell would largely amount to skill building and mastery. Get very good at things that you know you’ll get some reward for.
On the “risky” or serendipitous end, you should do things like start projects, connect with people in different industries, etc. These things aren’t very risky but could have potentially unlimited payouts.
I also believe that the more mastery you develop, the more people will want to be around you. You will be able to take advantage of the “halo effect” which will lead to even more opportunities that could lead to huge payouts.
I think the supplement to your Career Craftsmen manifesto would be “make sure you put yourself in a position to get lucky.” I think 99% of this luck will arise from being exposed to people that you wouldn’t normally meet.
It seems that the success of a project “for activities with rapidly evolving rules” requires a few things of the project launcher.
Find out what “putting in the reps” means with respect to your field
Use deliberate practice to become “so good they can’t ignore you”
After surpassing the beginner skill level in a field, don’t solely focus on deliberately practicing to acquire skills. Take time out on a consistent basis to put your skills to work and create something.
In terms of So Good They Can’t Ignore You, the last step listed above would be dropping a cow into the world, and letting the world decide if the cow is going to be purple or brown.
I like the argument that we may not be able to guarantee success on a project, but we can maximize the potential for our projects to succeed…and this is a nontrivial task. Great post.
CarlosFM says:
Don’t depend on biographies too much. They will naturally try to find a linear thread (the culmination appearing inevitable) in what was surely a more chaotic and tentative life.
The biggest weakness of planning is the plan (or what left out).
That said, enjoying your blog.
Aahnold had his first leading man role back way back in 1969 — the cheesy “Hercules in New York.” OK, so they dubbed his voice, but he was the lead. He had a second leading man role in 1979 — “The Villain”, which is still worth watching.
Have you read The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb? Right along with this post. There are cemeteries full of Arnolds who put in all the time and hard work, if not more, and simply weren’t lucky enough to become superstars. We don’t hear their story because they aren’t lucky because statically most people aren’t.
Paul Tune says:
Cal, Michael Mauboussin studied this to a certain extend, albeit from an investment point of view. In his white paper “Untangling Skill and Luck”, he discusses domains where deliberate practice leads to the greatest probability of success, while other areas are highly dependent on luck, with most domains lying somewhere in the middle e.g. investing. Liked his work because it’s backed up by numbers. That being said, he suggests that skill and the process of achieving an outcome highly matters, as it does help in overall improvements.
jlcollinsnh says:
outstanding article and analysis of the luck v. effort balance. something I’ve wrestled with but never defined quite so well.
I’ll be adding a link to this post in my own on the subject. Bravo!
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Let’s not forget another serendipitous factor for Arnold, he was born with superior muscle building genetics. Sure he had developed an amazing work ethic to support his natural gifts, but in the end great athletes are both BORN and MADE.
http://www.sportsscientists.com/2012/03/10000-hours-vs-training-debate-no.html
He took steroids like every bob. Add cheating to luck and reps.
dmfdmf says:
I don’t recall who said it but I once read that one mark of genius like Newton or Einstein was being able to see better than others which problem is “ripe” for solving. Of course this is only obvious in retrospect, once the genius has shown the way. Also, of course, the genius must also develop the skills to actually solve the problem. Work on a problem too soon or beyond your potential and you die in obscurity. Work on a problem too late and you’ll either be scooped by someone else or your results will be seen as mundane and/or obvious (nothing inherently wrong with that as that is the fate of us non-geniuses). So in a sense serendipity is somewhat self created too.
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Sara Martin says:
This question reminds me of your writing about the “impact instinct.” Impact is a function of how your work is received by other people. For a project to have impact, it has to be packaged and positioned so the outside world can connect it to serendipitous opportunities you could never anticipate or arrange.
In other words, your project has to be communicated. Marketed. People who do the reps and produce something valuable have to take one more step towards impact and luck. They have to act like a homing device – broadcasting their work out to the world like soundwaves until they locate their targets (or their targets locate them).
Nan Watts says:
Thank you for this post. It is timely for me as I begin a new year.
Chet Frame says:
This same question is worked through by Taleb in, “The Black Swan.” CarlosFM’s point above about linearity of histpry is another concept that Taleb dissects. Good post!
I forgot to mention that I was glad to find your book. It offers valuable perspectives for my work. I have shared it with colleagues, friends and my kids who are in college and creating their lives post college.
Brett Warner says:
I don’t think it’s any surprise that there’s a great degree of luck in any endeavor. I think the problem is that most people never put in the hours so that if luck strikes they can capitalize on it.
Using your twilight example is great, I’ve seen writers that have been trying to write a novel or at least talk about writing a novel over a time span of years with still nothing in their names. She actually got something out there. Now your odds of achieving her success are extremely slim, but if you don’t finish the book your odds are zero.
I’ve started reading a lot of biographies lately and it seems like the majority of the people that truly make it do have some great strokes of luck, but they also do a hell of a lot more than the average person does.
Elizabeth Saunders-Time Coach says:
Excellent post Cal-
I completely agree with your point that we should focus on maximizing project potential because that is the one factor in our control. It’s more or less the spark and the serendipitous factors are the fuel that determine whether the project ignites.
I think this also leads to a really important point about learning things from successful people. I believe that others can teach you how to maximize the project potential but can not guarantee you will achieve their same level of success.
To your brilliance!
Kirn says:
Cal – I broadly agree with you but I think the idea that Stephanie Meyers is a bad writer but just got really lucky is too simple. Isn’t it more likely that her writing is *skilled in certain ways*, different from literature, that made it so ripe to take off with a teenage audience? If it’s really just fan fiction, well, fan fiction has a very different aim than literature – it’s often wish-fulfillment and allows readers to place themselves in the story. I think it fits better with your previous thoughts around this topic to assume that writing this kind of fiction is its own skill and that Meyers is actually superb at it, even if she’s a bad writer by literary standards. Clearly luck played a big part, but if you had predicted at the exact same time she did that a vampire teen romance novel would be a smash hit, could you have rivaled her impact by writing your own? If I’m wrong, what other examples are there of someone having almost no skill at their chosen pursuit but just getting really, really lucky – and are we maybe just failing to see the true skills of those people?
qznc says:
I like to compare this to Poker. Obviously skill plays a big role in Poker. Nevertheless, in a 10-player poker game, the most skilled player maybe has a 15% winning chance. It is only over time that skill pays off.
For another variant, in the startup community the saying goes “overnight success takes years”. There are nice stories of overnight successes, but they usually have put in years of hard work before.
So how do you explain Timothy Ferriss’ book reaching the NYT bestseller list and doing better financially than yours? I’ve read them both, your is full of much, much more valuable advice. Ferriss’ is a regurgitation of all the crap he’s published in his two previous useless books(except for the dieting advice which he just culled from Rob King and Loren Cordain’s paleo method books). I’ve never used a thing from Ferriss’ books whereas I’ve used and achieved a ton of stuff with concrete results to show from your work. And yet, Ferriss is the marketing hype genius par excellence. He also seems to want to plug into the zeitgeist thing more aggressively since food and culinary arts are so topical right now –what is even more ludicrous about his book is that he claims the learning strategies he expounds can help you become 90th percentile in any endeavour you choose in less than a year! Seems Ferris has found the true secret: hype and marketing trump skill, deliberate practice and luck.
Rare says:
Trust in Allah and tie your camel.
I guess the essential thing that you need to pay attention here is that you need to create opportunities. No matter how good or bad your skill is, just let other people see and evaluate it. Schwarzenegger and Meyer could’ve fared the same if they did not at least try to “launch 1000 [whatever] potential” projects.
Ryan Tiong says:
To Raj,
Marketing is a skill and Tim Ferriss is VERY skilled at that. He has also honed his writing skill, teaching , management (he has a team of researchers etc), his rolodex, and etc etc.
Of course, I should say that i don’t know him from Adam. however, I am a student of marketing.
J Dilla says:
I’m curious as to whether placing small bets in a wide variety of pursuits, as did Schwarzenegger, would detract from the singular, specialized focus necessary to becoming ‘so good they can’t ignore you’ in a single domain. For example, while Arnold focused on bodybuilding and acting, it seemed he cast his net quite wide in terms of the types of business ventures he pursued (real estate, construction, etc.). You cited his ‘smarts’ and ‘hustle’ in this regard. How should one go about deliberately practicing those skills? Thanks, I’m a big fan of the book.
Prasanna says:
Luck = Prepared State + opportunity. Prepared state is being prepared for utilizing an opportunity, which obviously needs deliberate practice , focus etc which is being said in your blog.
weak stream says:
I think the way to look at this is that “luck” is not something that is possible to pursue. You can’t ‘try’ to find a dollar on the sidewalk. Therefore ‘luck’ is the element to ignore completely. Arnold and Steve Martin weren’t trying to get lucky. They were developing ideas they thought were unique and then getting as much exposure to their idea as possible. American Idol tries to push this ‘lucky break’ idea by convincing people that all they need to do is sing in the shower for six months then ingratiate themselves to a ‘panel’ and that’s it. A lottery mentality. But if you can’t find a way to get exposure to your ideas directly then, yeah, luck will be the only way. It is so extremely rare that it happens like this that luck should be a concept we all ignore. People that really have something unique will ‘find a way’ to get exposure.
Mike Cane says:
It still seems to me that people are constantly “discovering” everything that Max Gunther wrote about in the 1970s in books like The Luck Factor and How to Get Lucky. The words are different, but the concepts are the same.
In my opinion, arguably your best post since I started reading last year—really resonated with me. Bravo!
Artin says:
It takes a lot of hard work to be “lucky”.
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Wade says:
Great post. I recommend reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success. It touches on these same key points and gives many examples of how being in the right place at the right time with the right skill set has developed some of our biggest business leaders and sports stars.
I think serendipity plays a big role in your successes. But skill, hones your senses into recognizing these once in a lifetime opportunities.
It’s not ‘rediscovering’ some other guy said before. It’s rephrasing it in as many ways as possible so that the larger population can understand it. At the end of the day, it’s the same thing, but understood from a different perspective – it’s progress!
Scott Donnelly says:
Fantastic post, very insightful. I’d add to the “Many Pies” aspect of the Schwarzenegger Strategy, the “Fail Fast” mantra , as exemplified Here.
@Josh Earl:
“it’s often possible to increase your odds of finding a project with high serendipity potential by looking for…”
There’s your first mistake. I Think you’ve slightly misunderstood the concept of serendipity.
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Love that part.
Thank you for pointing me to this book! I interviewed the author for Psychology Today.
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Luck – yes I have it – but, funny thing….the more I practice, the luckier I seem to get.
Hmm.. You’ve encouraged me to read up on Schwarznegger’s autobiography. The guy has actually had quite an incredible life when you actually think about it!
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Great Article. Arnold put in his reps and got very lucky….And he put in his reps. Opportunity is tough to embrace without the hard work. You have influence over the hard work.
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argyletryit says:
Yes I believe luck really plays an important role in our life. But we need to test different thing and find our luck. Luck comes from hardwork and determination. Just like the movie Rocky, I believe Stallone believe that he will be lucky someday and find a better deal.
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Feature | Oct 23 2014
Nick Blackwell lets rip at Adam Etches as he prepares for Frank Buglioni-conqueror, Sergey Khomitsky
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SOMETIMES there isn’t much a boxing writer can do to make his own work as good as the quotes given to him by the man on the other end of the phone.
You may have prepared diligently and attempted/pretended to be intelligent with your questions, but on some occasions all you need to do is sit back and let the fighter make your task a bit easier.
Take Nick Blackwell for example. Boxing News Online caught up with the 23-year-old, 15-3 (6), middleweight contender last week ahead of what may be one of the six-round contests of the year when he faces Sergey Khomitsky, 29-11-2 (12) this weekend in Monte Carlo.
There was the usual talk of camp, preparation and the opponent, but if the answer was initially predictable then what followed in the next few sentences occasionally had nothing to do with the question.
So when we asked: What are you expecting of your new promoter (Mick Hennessy) and yourself over the next 12 months? Blackwell’s answer began with “Obviously I want that British title shot but the main thing is to keep busy.”
And then a few lines later we somehow got onto Max Bursak, a former European middleweight champion that Blackwell gave plenty to think about when dropping a 12-round unanimous decision to him in Ukraine last year.
“I was offered the Max Bursak fight again,” said Blackwell. “And I said ‘Yeah that’s the fight I want’. I thought I beat him in Ukraine and it’d be good to settle it in Monaco or on a Channel 5 (Hennessy’s TV platform) show but they wanted it at 74kgs (163lbs) and I said ‘Yeah that’s fine’. They knocked it back thinking I’d say no so they didn’t want the fight in the end.”
Anyway, back to Khomitsky. A 40-year-old Brit-slayer in the making. Frank Buglioni will testify. That bad night at the office went six rounds for Frank, before referee and corner had had enough, despite it being scheduled for 10. Sat’s fight is scheduled for a 6x3s because….?
“I think it’s because of the casino we’re fighting at,” Blackwell answered. “I think they want to get the show done as early as they can. I’m the first fight on. They’re squeezing me on.”
You gotta love boxing.
Six-round fights never spark much of a flame in fight fans but this one will and it most certainly has for the Brit hoping to be the ace in the pack at middleweight.
“I’ve never trained as hard as I have for this fight against Khomitsky,” said Blackwell.
“I was there when he fought Buglioni and I wanted the fight with him straight away. I had a fight called off early October so I’d been training for 12 weeks solid when it got called off so I’ve had about a 16-week camp for this fight. I’d be fit for a 15-round fight. When the Khomitsky fight was offered I took it straight away.”
“He’s a world class fighter,” he added. “I know he’s 40 years old but he’s Felix Sturm’s sparring partner. Some people think I’m stupid taking this fight. It’s a fight that’s made for me. He’s a strong come-forward fighter like myself. I know I’m quicker than him. I’ve showed in sparring that I’m on a different level to what I was and I’m getting better all the time. I just want to show that to everyone. I want to put a statement out to the other middleweights in fighting Khomitsky. People in sparring will tell you how good I am.”
And that was a good 180 words on the recent world title challenger. Then in the same breath, Nick shifted the conversation to Adam Etches. That prompted some no holds barred honesty.
“I went over to watch Adam Etches (when he fought Samir Santos Barbosa in Sept). I stood there thinking I’m 100% confident I’d beat him.”
Okay. So what do you think about what the unbeaten big punching crowd pleaser is doing with his career?
“Financially, fair play to him but when you’re kicked in the deep end and you’re not in your hometown and you’re fighting someone who will punch back then he’s going to be in a situation where he’s never been before. I’ve been kicked into the deep end so many times in boxing so I’m used to it. He doesn’t know what it feels like. He’s wrapped in cotton wool. When I was watching him, Mick Hennessy asked me what I thought of him and if it was a fight I fancied and I said ‘In my honest opinion he’s rubbish. Get me the fight in December’. His manager, Rich whatever his name is, doesn’t want none of it. He’s saying they’ll go their own way to get a world ranking. Etches said he’d fight any middleweight in Britain. I saw him after his fight, I was polite to him and shook his hand and said ‘Good fight mate’ but he didn’t want none of me, you could see it in his face. You’re a boxer, take the fight. I want to be involved in massive fights.”
On a more traditional route of writer interviews fighter, it was noted – as it would be by many reading this – that at just 23, Blackwell has fought Martin Murray and Billy Joe Saunders as well as Bursak. Three defeats but three nights of boxing education which so much has been learned from. And as the following quotes delved into some recent sparring, it can only be hoped that gym form is turned into fight form beginning on Saturday.
“In my mind I didn’t have an amateur background, those three fights were my apprenticeship in my boxing career. People said I shouldn’t have fought Martin or Billy Joe but I’m glad I did because I learned so much in those fights and I’ve came on so much from those fights that it’s made me the fighter I am now.
“A lot of people would’ve gave up and there’s been times when I wanted to give up because of money, I was getting paid rubbish money and was getting messed about. They say Khomitsky is a hard fight to come back to but I’ve fought people like Murray, like Saunders and like Bursak. They’re the fights I should be involved in.
“I’ve improved a lot, even Billy Joe tells me that when we’ve sparred, we’re quite good mates now. I managed to fight him for the British once but they don’t wanna fight me now. Billy Joe says he doesn’t want to fight me, he’s got Eubank. He’s got me to step aside so he can fight Eubank. I’m going to fight the winner next year so I’ve accepted they pay me outright to step aside and I fight the winner. I don’t think Eubank’s gonna win anyway, Billy Joe will vacate the belts and I’ll fight [John] Ryder. If Eubank wins he’ll have to fight me but he doesn’t want to fight me either. I’ve improved a lot, I throw a lot more punches and I’m a lot more confident in myself. I never believed in myself because people always used to put me down. I sparred [Matthew] Macklin and gave him a good hard spar. [James] DeGale was out watching me, he’s bigged me up quite a bit. He thought I’d brought Macklin in as a sparring partner for a fight of my own! So all that’s been a big confidence booster with everyone praising me up. I used to do alright against people in sparring now I beat them up and knock them out. I’m feeling good in myself and I hope I show that in my fight against Khomitsky.”
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Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie, by Anthony Del Col
I don't know about you, but I am OVER THE MOON about the news that A) there's a new Nancy Drew comic in the works, and that B) Kelly Thompson is writing it:
Since the titian-haired girl detective from River Heights cracked her first mystery in The Secret of the Old Clock nearly 90 years ago, there have been dozens of iterations of Nancy Drew and her best friends, Bess and George, featured in books, TV, and films. Now, Dynamite Entertainment offers the latest rendition of the cracker-jack teen sleuth with a comic that fully realizes Nancy’s feminist tendencies, adds several characters who are people of color, and finally, unmistakably queers perpetual “tomboy” George.
The first issue isn't out until mid-June, though—yes, OBVIOUSLY I have it pre-ordered—so I picked up Anthony Del Col's Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie to tide me over. In it, Fenton Hardy is MURDERED and Frank, Joe, and Nancy team up to solve the case!
It's fine. I'd recommend borrowing it from the library over buying it, but I read all six issues this morning, so clearly it kept my interest. The thing is, it's less a Nancy Drew story—in terms of her personality and know-how, I mean—and more a modern noir story starring teenagers from various Stratemeyer Syndicate series. Kind of like Riverdale and Archie, but with far less Easter Eggs.
There are some fun moments, though. Including the reveal that, as I've always suspected, the Bobbsey Twins are The Worst:
The Bobbseys!
Tom Swift is, appropriately, a hacker:
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And Nancy makes her first entrance by walking through a secret passage hidden behind an old clock:
GET IT???
Also, it supports my headcanon about Carson Drew being a wicked dirtbag:
Sadly, Bess doesn't appear and the one time George does, she looks more like Bess than George AND is trying to find something out about an ex-boyfriend, which, like. No. Even in the original books I never bought it about George having boyfriends.
MID-JUNE CAN'T GET HERE SOON ENOUGH, OMG!!!!
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By Jeffrey M. Anderson
With the title of his new movie The Birth of a Nation which opens Friday, writer, director, and actor Nate Parker deliberately evokes D.W. Griffith's 1915 film of the same name.
It's arguably Parker's boldest move. Griffith's silent-era release was a phenomenon, changing not only the way that people looked at and thought about movies, but also, through its sheer cinematic power, inspiring (perhaps indirectly, perhaps not) a new wave of racism, reinvigorating the Ku Klux Klan.
Parker's choice of title suggests that he has something up his sleeve, something he wants us to chew on. But, at the same time, his movie takes the low road.
While The Birth of a Nation is visceral, rousing, and eye-opening, it employs simplistic, primitive tactics. It's unclear if these were designed to whip up an audience into a froth, or if they are merely the work of a raw amateur — or both.
Yet for every ludicrous device — a weapon just out of reach during a fight scene — Parker provides haunting, disquieting images that linger.
The Birth of a Nation tells the story of Nat Turner, a slave that, in 1831, led an uprising that led to the deaths of some sixty whites. Even if Parker's writing and directing are not without flaw, he gives a lead performance above reproach.
Encouraged to read the Bible from a young age, Nat grows to be a natural preacher. His cotton planation master Samuel (Armie Hammer) takes takes Nat to other plantations to preach to other slaves. Nat is enraged by the cruelty he sees on these trips, but holds his tongue.
After his wife Cherry (Aja Naomi King) is brutalized by a sadistic white man (Jackie Earle Haley), and after a fellow slave's wife is given to a white guest as a plaything, Nat begins to sow the seeds of rebellion.
In essence, this The Birth of a Nation is a big revenge picture, enhanced by Parker's thin portrayal of white characters: they are all unwashed, drunk, mean, and have bad teeth. Yet, after a century of black stereotypes in films, is Parker's use of white stereotypes justified?
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Croatia in the finals of the 2016 Davis Cup after the victory against France in the city of Zadar
By Nenad N. Bach and Darko Žubrinić | Published 09/20/2016 | Sports | Unrated
Croatia - France 3 : 2 / Croatia will meet Argentina in November's final
ZADAR (CROATIA)
Croatia sealed their ticket to the Davis Cup final after Marin Cilic's three sets victory over Richard Gasquet gave them an unassailable 3-1 lead over nine-time champions France in Zadar.
Croatia, titleholders only once in 2005, will face the winner of the other semi-final between holders Great Britain and Argentina in the November final.
World number 11 Cilic bagged the all important point in the first of Sunday's reverse singles, seeing off Gasquet 6-3, 6-2, 7-5.
Gasquet, 17th in the world, was drafted in after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils pulled out with knee injuries.
Croatia had taken command of the tie in Saturday's doubles when Cilic and Ivan Dodig downed top-ranked French pair Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut 7-6 (8/6), 5-7, 7-6 (8/6), 6-3 after the two sides split the opening singles on Friday.
Source www.france24.com
Croatia was the winner of the Davis Cup Tournament in 2005. The first known traces of tennis playing in Croatia date from 1878 (in Zagreb and Samobor). The first Davis Cup match in Croatia was played in Zagreb in 1927. In the finals of the 1939 Davis Cup match for the European zone, held in Zagreb, the Croatian team defeated the representation of Germany.
Source www.croatianhistory.net
Krešimir Ćosić Sports Hall in Višnjik in the city of Zadar. Photo by Davor Strenja.
Interior of the Krešimir Ćosić Sports Hall in Višnjik in the city of Zadar
Zadar, Croatia, is one of the most beautiful cities on the Mediterranean
CROATIA 3, FRANCE 2
Venue: Kresimir Cosic Hall, Zadar, CRO (hard - indoor)
World No. 11 Marin Cilic was the hero for Croatia on Sunday, sending the eastern European nation into its second Davis Cup Final. Cilic, who won both his singles rubbers and teamed with Ivan Dodig to take Saturday's doubles clash, clinched the tie 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 over Richard Gasquet.
Croatia defeated France 3-2 after Frenchman Lucas Pouille won an abbreviated fifth rubber 6-4, 6-4 against Marin Draganja. The team victory marks Croatia's return to the Davis Cup Final for the first time in 11 years, when Ivan Ljubicic and Mario Ancic guided them to their lone title in 2005. Croatia became the first unseeded nation to win the title then and will look to replicate the feat this year when they host the final against Argentina, which defeated Great Britain on Sunday.
"When you look at the atmosphere, it’s an incredible feeling," said Cilic. "It’s been a dream weekend for us. I played incredible tennis. I produced a great performance for all the crowd. I can’t be more proud than right now.
"We have always been playing well in Davis Cup. It’s something that’s in your heart."
On Sunday, Cilic was dominant on the fast hard court in Zadar. He sealed the tie with forehand approach winner into the open court after two hours and 14 minutes. In total, the 27 year old fired 21 winners, including 14 aces, while converting six of nine break chances.
Cilic levels his FedEx ATP Head2Head series against Gasquet at 2-2, having dropped their first two encounters. The Croatian has since won two in a row this year, including a three-set victory at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. He has been on a tear in recent months, after reaching the Wimbledon quarter-finals and claiming his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title in Cincinnati.
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Monet, Ceaznne, Degas, Renoir: some of the world’s most popular artists. Their works, and that of their contemporaries, fetch tens of millions of dollars around the globe. But who were they really? Why & how exactly did they paint? What lies behind their enduring appeal?
To help answer these questions, this unique film secured unparalleled access to a major new exhibition focussing on the man credited with inventing Impressionism as we know it: 19th century Parisian art collector Paul Durand-Ruel. This eagerly anticipated international exhibition is possibly the most comprehensive exploration of the Impressionists in history.
It was Durand-Ruel’s brave decision to exhibit the Impressionists in New York in 1886 that introduced enlightened wealthy Americans to this modern French painting. In doing so, he not only filled great American galleries with Impressionist masterworks, but kept Impressionism alive at a time when it faced complete failure. This energetic and revealing film will tell his remarkable story along with that of the Impressionists themselves. Featuring universally loved masterpieces by Monet, Degas, Cezanne, Renoir, Pissarro and many more.
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» Home » Croatian Cuisine » First Taste: Dubrovnik in New Rochelle. Croatian Restaurant in New York
First Taste: Dubrovnik in New Rochelle. Croatian Restaurant in New York
By Marko Puljić | Published 08/14/2013 | Croatian Cuisine | Unrated
You need to book a meal at Dubrovnik Restaurant in New Rochelle right now, this instant.
First Taste: Dubrovnik in New Rochelle
Okay, folks, close your laptop and pick up the phone. You need to book a meal at Dubrovnik Restaurant in New Rochelle right now, this instant.
Here’s the deal: this month-old Croatian restaurant has an intimate stony outdoor terrace on which its owner has built a serious, bang-up, wood-burning oven. Oh, but it’s not just any old pizza oven (because any simp could buy one of those from any number of companies, like here and here.) Oh, no—this sucker was built by hand and does not contain a pre-formed oven interior. In fact, this oven is practically a freak among Westchester’s great wood-burning ovens (which is something I sort of collect). Dubrovnik’s oven has more in common with the unique outdoor grill/oven complex that Chef Jeremy McMillan and Russell Hernandez designed and built at Bedford Post. And just like in Bedford Post’s outdoor kitchen, Dubrovnik’s cooking—of fish, squid, octopus, goat, and lamb—is done on moveable grills positioned over wood embers.
People, you can’t believe how dreamy the confluence of summer night, burning wood, and roasting meat smells.
Imagine tiny, tender, smoke scented octopus and squid, the tips of their tentacles curled lightly charred. Or a generous whole branzino, its belly stuffed with herbs, sparkling with Croatian sea salt, and still cracking from the fire. Heaven.
One of the cooler dishes at Dubrovnik is the mixed grill “cooked under the bell” (you need to order it ahead: don’t forget). Here, sections of goat and lamb are placed on a pan, which is fitted with a giant dome (the “bell” of the dish’s name; it was brought to New Rochelle from Croatia despite some grief from US Customs officials). Once the bell is placed onto the pan, it is fitted with a hoop that rings the top 1/3 of the dome. This works to contain embers that are piled on top of the dome and that turn the whole contraption into a sort of Croatian Dutch oven. What emerges from under the dome are succulent, crisp-skinned chunks of bone-in meat that taste like some sort of primeval, celebratory feast. Sure, I could have done without the why-bother raw scallion garnish, but that golden, smoke-licked meat was truly delicious. By the way, you know the drill (I say it so often, I wish I’d trademarked it): First Tastes are not critical reviews. We only visited once and Dubrovnik has only been open a few weeks, and that’s way too soon judge.
The key is to sit outside. While Dubrovnik’s interior is fine in a modern, very stony way (its owner is in the building trades), the real scene is to sit outdoors and be bathed in the delicious smells emanating from the oven. The terrace—which is hidden like a secret behind a Main Street façade (on one of New Rochelle’s less glamorous, urban stretches, no less)—feels like it could be found in rural France, Italy, or (I suppose) Dubrovnik, a sunny city located just across the Adriatic Sea from Italy’s eastern coast.
The terrace overlooks Dubrovnik’s lavish vegetable garden, which is highlighted by a grand marble fountain that was salvaged by the restaurant’s owner from a Riverdale estate. Take a peek. There are tiny goldfish swimming in its mossy marble pool. The garden itself—densely planted and wonderfully anal-retentive—yields herbs, cabbages, peppers (and, soon, tomatoes and figs) that go right into Dubrovnik’s kitchen, also located downstairs. Sit on a bench and relax with a glass of delicious Croatian wine (and why not? Croatia is located just across from Italy and shares much of its winemaking history). You’ll be as seduced as I was by Dubrovnik’s secret, fertile, wood scented garden. Folks, I’m telling you: pounce.
Wood-Roasted Whole Branzino at Dubrovnik
It’s really not complicated. In fact, it’s almost primal—which makes this dish nearly as attractive as sex or a painkiller drip when you’ve broken a bone (so, that’s very). We’re talking beautifully fresh ocean fish stuffed with some herbs pulled straight from the garden, roasted over an open wood fire until its skin begins to crackle. With a squirt of lemon and a lashing of oil, this branzino tastes like a dream of an Italian or Greek beach vacation—except you can get it in New Rochelle.
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Dubrovnik Restaurant
Address: 721 Main St, New Rochelle, NY 10801
Monday – Thursday 11:30AM – 9PM
Friday – Saturday 11:30AM – 11PM
Sunday 3PM – 9PM
http://www.dubrovnikny.com
Formatted for CROWN by Marko Puljic
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Year : 2017 | Volume : 3 | Issue : 4 | Page : 154-163
Evolution of the digital biomarker ecosystem
Justin M Wright1, Oliver B Regele1, Lampros C Kourtis1, Sean M Pszenny1, Rhea Sirkar1, Christopher Kovalchick1, Graham Barry Jones2
1 Eli Lilly Innovation Center, 450 Kendall Street, Cambridge, MA, USA
2 Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Tufts University Medical Center, 800 Washington St, Boston, MA, USA
Date of Web Publication 26-Mar-2018
Graham Barry Jones
Tufts University Medical Center, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, 800 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111
The pursuit of digital biomarkers wherein signal outputs from biosensors are collated to inform health-care decisions continues to evolve at a rapid pace. In the field of neurodegenerative disorders, a goal is to augment subjective patient-reported inputs with patient-independent verifiable data that can be used to recommend interventive measures. For example, in the case of Alzheimer's disease, such tools might preselect patients in the presymptomatic and prodromal phases for definitive positron emission tomographic analysis, allowing accurate staging of disease and providing a reference point for subsequent therapeutic and other measures. Selection of appropriate and meaningful digital biomarkers to pursue, however, requires deep understanding of the disease state and its ecological relationship to the instrumental activities of daily living scale. Similar opportunities and challenges exist in a number of other chronic disease states including Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Duchenne's disease, multiple sclerosis, and cardiovascular disease. This review will highlight progress in device technology, the need for holistic approaches for data inputs, and regulatory pathways for adoption. The review focuses on published work from the period 2012–2017 derived from online searches of the most widely used abstracting portals.
Keywords: Closed loop, devices, digital biomarkers, medicine
Wright JM, Regele OB, Kourtis LC, Pszenny SM, Sirkar R, Kovalchick C, Jones GB. Evolution of the digital biomarker ecosystem. Digit Med 2017;3:154-63
Wright JM, Regele OB, Kourtis LC, Pszenny SM, Sirkar R, Kovalchick C, Jones GB. Evolution of the digital biomarker ecosystem. Digit Med [serial online] 2017 [cited 2019 Jul 15];3:154-63. Available from: http://www.digitmedicine.com/text.asp?2017/3/4/154/228663
The landscape for digital biomarkers has evolved through a combination of technology push from instrument and device developers as well as end-user pull from patients, advocacy groups, and more recently providers. In the former case, health-related applications embedded in smartphones and wrist-based monitors have become ubiquitous and commoditized. In the latter, there exists a rapidly growing demand for systems and devices that can diagnose, monitor, and assist in the management of chronic diseases most evident in the neurodegenerative arena. The confluence of these drivers has thus become a dynamic environment, and expectations are high that tangible progress will be made toward improved health-care outcomes. Workshops and symposia that bring together scientists, engineers, clinicians, and patient advocates are starting to drive the agenda,[1] scientific journals are emerging,[2],[3] and venture funding is becoming readily available to help translate ideas into clinical practice.[4] The underpinnings and evolution of the digital biomarker industry are presented along with initial clinical observations.
The Clinical Value of Biomarkers
The term biomarker entered the lexicon of clinical medicine in the 1980s [5] and gained momentum with the definition of “a characteristic that is objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a therapeutic intervention” assigned by the NIH working group in 1988. In clinical parlance, the terms “surrogate marker”[6] and surrogate endpoint [7] “a biomarker intended to substitute for a clinical endpoint” are often seen as more relevant. Nonetheless, biomarkers often represent readily accessible data points, which can be useful where definitive assessment is impractical from both time and financial perspectives. The origin of the term digital biomarkers is less precise, but a formal definition as “consumer-generated physiological and behavioral measures collected through connected digital tools” has been advanced.[4] The use of biomarkers (both conventional and digital) in clinical trial design requires that such markers are appropriately validated, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a biomarker qualification program through the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and a stakeholder-based approach which seeks to engage academia, industry, government, and consortia has been outlined.[8] This has stimulated progress toward these goals ranging from efforts to establish digital biomarkers for mood disorders [9],[10] to assessment of functional biomarkers derived from implanted and wearable devices in cardiovascular disease.[11]
The near explosive growth in consumer products which digitally monitor and track health-related parameters has heightened expectations regarding improved health outcomes. In addition to now, ubiquitous examples of app-laden smartphones and wristbands are a plethora of electronic devices, sensors, and monitors that are worn, embedded in clothing, or implanted [Figure 1]. A long-term objective would be for the integrated data from sensors to inform a response with an effector, for example, the administration of a drug and neurotransmitter or analgesic from an implanted reservoir. Such “closed-loop” systems have already been prototyped, trialed, and commercialized in the type I diabetes market,[12] and new systems for the administration of anesthetic agents in response to processed electroencephalogram signals are also in development.[13]
Figure 1: Potential portable, wearable, and implantable components of radio frequency-based hybrid “closed-loop” health maintenance systems
It has been estimated that three quarters of the world population have access to mobile communication networks and that more than one third of global smartphone users have installed some type of medical application which will rise to >50% by 2018.[14] In the USA alone, smartphone use is expected to reach 80% by 2020 and approximately 30% of current users have at least one health-based app in use.[4] However, it is incumbent on developers to keep consumers engaged in the process as it has also been estimated that one quarter of these apps are used only once, and three quarters are not used more than 10 times.[15],[16] The potential impact of mobile devices on lowering health-care costs is a subject of active analysis, one study calculating that in 2017 alone, >€100 billion in health-care costs could potentially be saved in the European Union (composed of €69 billion on disease prevention and €32 billion on disease treatment and monitoring).[14] One of the first notable examples of integration of smartphones with health monitors was the release of the Nike + wireless chip in 2006. Inserted into the base of certain athletic shoes, it allowed users the ability to record elapsed duration of workouts, including distance travelled, pace, and estimated calories burned when paired to the Apple iPod or iPhone 4 platform.[17] Innovative in design and user adoption, it required purchase of the sensor and a subscription-based service to the Nike + online community and specific athletic shoes capable of hosting the sensor chip. Other competitors in this space followed with similar technology, including the Adidas miCoach among others.[18] Development of smartphone technology-based health apps became popularized en masse in 2013 with the launch of the iPhone 5S by Apple which incorporated a step counter, thus integrating all functions into a single device. The system, comprising an accelerometer, digital compass, and Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS) gyroscope, allowed users to track activity, set targets, and record data over extended periods. Given the widespread popularity of the phone, its subsequent iterations, and competitor products with similar capabilities, the smartphone has become the platform for myriad additional health-related applications. Based on the trend for increased screen size, durability of the units, and touchscreen alphanumeric keyboard entries, a number of studies have focused on the phone-user interface in disease assessment and management (vide infra). In addition, notable technological advances have emerged, including the development of dedicated smartphone-based mobile health coaches, exemplified by the Ginger.io system.[19]
The use of a commercial smartphone to detect change in heart rate has been stimulated by the success of wrist-based monitors (vide infra) which use photoplethysmography (PPG) to assess cardiovascular outputs. Reflection-based PPG techniques are employed using the smartphone light and camera functions, confirming its versatility as a sensing device.[20] Demonstrating smartphone capabilities in the field of diagnostics, a team recently reported use of a powerful neural network to analyze pixel-based images derived from the device to assess dermatologic cancers.[21] The results were validated independently by board-certified dermatologists, suggesting potential applications in field diagnosis. Very recently, precision analytical devices which couple with commercial smartphones have been reported. In one example, developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a smartphone powered nanopore DNA sequencer was demonstrated.[22] In another case, mobile phone-based microscopy was applied to enable in situ point mutation assays and DNA sequencing reactions.[23]
Handheld device use in health care is not restricted to smartphones. A team has successfully used a composite application on the Apple iPad for at-home assessment of Alzheimer's disease patients.[24] The suite (denoted “C3-PAD”) was used by older individuals in the absence of a psychometrician with encouraging results. In a broadly similar vein, Akili Interactive Laboratories have developed a gaming technology platform able to detect statistically significant differences between participants with and without brain amyloidosis, the primary biomarker for Alzheimer's risk. The study which was conducted in collaboration with Pfizer has presented positive topline data.[25]
A survey of consumers who have purchased wearable health monitoring devices [17] reported that 45% owned one of a large variety of fitness bands on the market, 27% a smartwatch, 15% smart glasses, 14% a smart video or photo device, and 12% a form of smart clothing. Significantly, respondents indicated that interest in the products waned over time for multiple reasons including re-evaluation of use-case need, ease of misplacing or losing the device, lack of esthetic appeal, poor comfort level, short battery life, and issues surrounding smartphone synchronization. Given the large number of wrist-based monitors in the marketplace, the report is likely to stimulate additional modifications to those devices, which clearly have considerable potential to capture digital biomarkers.[26] An advantage for a wrist-based device (smart band or watch) over a smartphone is the intimate surface contact with the skin of the individual. Furthermore, with appropriate attention to esthetics and comfort, the device could be realistically worn 24 h/day, providing data which is clinically more relevant than serial/batch analysis. The principle biomarkers studied to date have been cardiovascular, capitalizing on PPG. Initial work in this field employed transmission PPG, where infrared (IR) light penetrates skin and underlying tissue, and changes in blood flow in the arteries and arterioles during the cardiac cycle (systolic phase) impact the light path, whose changes are correlated with blood pressure.[27] Sites for measurement include the earlobe, fingers, and more recently wrist. One of the most commonly used PPG sensors is ring based, attached to the finger base. Recent developments in optics technology have resulted in the development of green light-emitting diode (LED) for use in PPG. Green LEDs operating at ~550 nm (as opposed to ~800 nm for IR) have more pronounced interactions with both oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin, allowing more accurate pulse oximetry readings, as they are now classified.[27] The technology has been rapidly incorporated into wrist-based devices and will likely feature in next-generation smartwatches. One caveat with the use of green light for PPG analysis is its inability to penetrate >1 mm (the IR band by comparison can penetrate 2.5 mm or greater). Accordingly, reflectance mode PPG is typically employed where the sensor and light source are in proximity. In either mode, it is expected that the signal is derived from both systolic pressure changes in the artery and the impact of those forces on surrounding connective tissues.[27] It is reasonable to assume that arterial plasticity/rigidity and composition of connective tissue impact measurements, presenting both challenges and opportunities for use in chronic cardiovascular conditions and in gerontology studies where specific (trained) algorithms may be needed.[28] Another issue to be resolved is the impact of skin pigmentation on the accuracy of data obtained and remains topic of active debate.[29],[30]
A number of studies have reported that pressure imposed on wrist-based sensors has a beneficial impact on the PPG signal. These externally applied pressures are assumed to impact interstitial and arterial microenvironments and when optimized have a marked impact on the amplitude of the AC signal from the PPG. However, uniform standards for contact pressure have not been established to date. A study of healthy volunteers using applied pressures ranging from 0 to 200 mmHg was conducted and concluded that the highest signal amplitude was obtained at pressure of 60 mmHg.[31] PPG technology has recently been extended to the quantification of respiratory-based variations to the measured PPG waveform, partially allowing the gauging of volume responsiveness.[32] Applications of smartwatches in the management of Parkinson's disease (PD) have been reported, where output data were integrated to a customized smartphone.[33] A key factor in the study lies in that the device is worn continually throughout, providing constant data points. There is major interest in the potential of the smartwatch recently launched by the Verily Corporation.[34] The device, referred to as “Study Watch,” is capable of collecting participants' electrocardiograms (ECGs), heart rate, dermal electrical conductance, and physical movements. It is also able to record light and sound and encrypts all data, which is periodically uploaded to the cloud.[35] Although not available for consumer purchase, it will be deployed in the Personalized Parkinson's Project in the Netherlands and a longitudinal study known as “baseline” which will track 10–20,000 people over a multiyear period in an effort to identify clinically relevant biomarkers. Given that the same company also developed the glucose-sensing contact lens, the potential for multiple point data integration (for example, through a smartphone) may exist.[36] Of relevance to consumer concerns regarding smartwatch battery life (and potentially esthetics), the design of polymer-based rechargeable devices for possible use in wearable electronics was recently reported.[37] The materials are robust and may allow other desirable properties to be incorporated for the use in consumer products. Finally, progress in the miniaturization of sensor technologies could expand the repertoire of biomarkers studied using wearables. One of the most promising lies in Fabry-Perot interferometry, which is tunable from the ultraviolet through IR spectrum. Using optical MEMS approaches, these systems have been miniaturized by the VTT Technical Research Center in Finland, and numerous applications can be anticipated.[38]
Although accelerometers are now commonly embedded in integrated smart devices, there exist a number of scenarios where a stand-alone monitor has utility in the capture of digital biomarkers. A recent study sets out to measure motor impairment in individuals with Huntington's disease using multiple strategically positioned accelerometer-based sensors.[39] The pilot study, which used five sensors to measure patient gait, showed variation between in-clinic and at-home settings and between patients with higher levels of motor function.[39]
Ocular devices
Much excitement was generated with the announcement of the glucose-sensing contact lens outlined by Verily. The device (often referred to as the Google contact lens) is envisioned as a component of a hybrid closed-loop system, where radio frequency (Rf)-based communication between the biomarker sensor (lens) and effector pump (logically, insulin) allows homeostatic management. The use of contact lens sensors for digital biomarker capture is likely to mature rapidly as it offers many opportunities for insight to health and disease.[40] Tears are a potentially very rich source of relevant biomarkers,[41] and potential diagnostic biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease have been noted.[42] In addition to providing a locus for sensing events, smart contact lenses may also be amenable to enhanced retinal scanning procedures, where prognostic/diagnostic disease markers are monitored at periodic intervals. High-resolution retinal imaging has been applied to identification of preclinical Alzheimer's disease,[43] and it is possible that a combination of imaging and tear sensing could evolve into a highly effective strategy.
Substantial research has been undertaken in the long-term deployment of biosensors in implanted devices as they represent a critical component of closed-loop insulin systems, with potential applications in myriad indications.[44] One of the principle obstacles to overcome is the foreign body response,[45] which currently limits sensor deployment to a matter of days due to formation of fibrous tissue and inflammatory responses.[46] Advances in device and material design may provide solutions, including the use of polymer coatings.[47] Dental implants offer a potential locus for biomarker sensing in that they enjoy close contact with biologic fluids (saliva and blood), have a permanent base, and could in theory be modified to include appropriate circuitry. The use of such technology for the detection of cardiovascular events has been demonstrated [48] and other applications could be envisioned. In addition, development and strategic deployment of skin-based and implanted nanosensors (e.g., nanotattoos) may have potential for the sensing of various analytes.[49],[50] Flexible devices containing sensors attached to the skin surface are being developed for the analysis of biomarkers [51] including the BioStampRC ® system developed by MC10 Incorporated. In one example, analytes within sweat are channeled through microfluidic arrays then subjected to colorimetric analysis, imaged using a smartphone.[52] Successful integration within closed-loop Rf-based systems for drug delivery could be profound [Figure 1], for example, triggering release of neurotransmitters for patients when low serotonin levels are detected, release of anticoagulants when stroke forming micro clots are detected, or release of anti-infectives when the immune system is triggered. This will require establishment of appropriate biomarkers and technology for quantitation, but guidelines are being advocated [50] and progress made in several key areas.[11]
Ingestible sensors
The ability to track medication dosage is of key significance in certain diseases where noncompliance with regimen can have serious consequence. One method to accomplish this has been demonstrated in the form of ingestible sensors, which are released in the gastrointestinal tract when co-administered with medications. Data are transmitted from the sensor to a receiver placed on the patient torso giving real-time data on drug movement in addition to other biomarkers such as heart rate and activity.[53] These studies have evolved to comprise what are referred to as MEMS and have been demonstrated clinically in central nervous system (CNS) disorders.[54] Coupling these data to other digital biomarkers – for example, those captured from a smartwatch could allow close monitoring of certain neurodegenerative diseases.
While the systems described above offer considerable potential as stand-alone devices, integration of data from multiple sensors and devices to permit clinical grade decision-making is likely to remain a formidable challenge for the foreseeable future. This said that compelling evidence is becoming available in specific therapeutic areas,[55] and given the potential ramifications in disease detection and management, it seems inevitable that these issues will ultimately be addressed.
Regulatory Pathways
The regulatory pathway for approval of digital biomarker-based systems involves a potentially complex landscape, the first of which involves definition on the validity of the biomarker itself.[8] Given progress in the field of precision medicine, there is considerable interest in the development of in vitro companion diagnostics in drug development and the FDA has issued formal guidance.[56] The regulation of wearable devices, however, appears fluid and is described in guidance on mHealth applications.[57] Notable is that the FDA has determined that many health monitors and products designed to promote general wellness are exempt from regulation, a stance which is supported by the device industry.[57] Such is a relief as it has been reported that in just one of these device categories (wrist-worn pedometers), considerable variation in the actual number of steps counted was observed between three branded devices (Fitbit Flex, Nike FuelBand, and Jawbone UP24) which presumably needs to be factored into any comparison groups used in clinical settings.[4] The regulatory landscape is likely to evolve as progress is made in the field and influenced by instrument developers, those engaged in clinical trials, and patient advocacy groups. For example, the International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society Task Force on Technology is currently making the case for open standards to be introduced which will allow crosstalk connectivity between devices, opening dialog with regulators in the FDA and European Medicines Agency.[15] Similarly, there is evident need for standards which address the interoperability of devices across different platforms. For example, in the case of closed-loop continuous glucose monitors, some systems communicate with the base unit using the 2.4 GHz band (and the IEEE 802.15.4 standard) whereas others use either 868 or 916 MHz channels.[58] The adoption of the 802.15.4 standard is strategic as it avoids the potential for interaction with the most common Wi-Fi channels which are based on the now ubiquitous 802.11 standard. How such sensors can communicate with various smartphone platforms,[59] and the adoption of necessary data security protocols will be an area of active and substantial research and debate.
The Patient-Centric Ecosystem
To fully realize the benefits of digital biomarkers in managed health care, holistic approaches to the patient's environment also need to be factored. This is exacerbated in the case of neuromuscular diseases, where in addition to the patient's physical environment, the interactions with caregivers, family members, and social networks play a key role. Broadly considered, factors which impact patient quality of life include health maintenance, physical function, mental function and social networks, and metrics need to be developed for each in order to assess impact on disease. Many of these factors can be derived from digital sources, for example, monitoring Facebook postfrequencies, proficiency in mental tests administered through a smart device etc., and thus integrated into digital outcome assessment. Driving the agenda for these considerations falls outside the scope of any one instrument developer, but various consortia are rising to the challenge. Among the most prominent is the Coalition Against Major Disease (CAMD) which facilitates interactions with corporations, regulators, research foundations, government agencies, academic experts, and perhaps most critically with patient advocacy groups.[1] Global collaborations established under CAMD involve over 1300 scientists and 61 corporations with “C-Path” consortia in over a dozen fields including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Duchenne's disease and multiple sclerosis. Their express goals include development of data standards, clinical outcome assessment instruments, and biomarkers. Coordination and integration of efforts will become vital if maximal benefits are to be derived from the near explosive growth in digital applications which are becoming available. Examples include the mPower application launched by Apple for PD patients together with its ResearchKit (for health-care professionals) and CareKit. Apps from academic medical centers include the iPhone-based MyHeart Counts and the Android-based Parkinson's Voice Initiative. Online communities such as PatientsLikeMe ® have been established, creating major opportunities for data sharing, but in order that such be clinically useful, some level of standardization will be necessary.
Incentives from End-Payors?
Perhaps, the most critical component in a fully realized world of digital biomarker-driven health care will be the end-payors. Without reimbursable cost designation, many anticipated devices will not be economically viable and stagnation of the innovation cycle would result. That said, the prospect of millions of patients succumbing to neurodegenerative diseases in an era where life expectancy is increasing could ultimately bankrupt the managed health-care system as we know it. It is thus likely that the technology push from device manufacturers and tech-savvy patients will be met by end-user pull from the managed health-care industry and major employers. A utopic version involves providers agreeing to reduced premiums for patients who enrolled in digital health monitoring programs, and some examples are beginning to emerge (vide infra). Comparison with the automobile insurance industry is tempting, where customers of one company (Allstate Inc.,) who install a monitoring device into the OBD-II port of their automobile (Drivewise ®) may qualify for premium discounts dependent on driving habits. Some of the pioneers of this model are driving innovation in the industry. For example, WellDoc was the first company to develop an FDA approved, physician prescribed, and end-payer reimbursed digital medicine product.[60] The product, Blue Star, is a digital disease management application for subscribers with type 2 diabetes and is accessed through mobile device to assist in glucose level management. Omada Health has introduced a performance-based prevention program which is marketed directly to employer health plans. In partnership with both Kaiser Permanente and Humana, the company is reimbursed based on performance with its enrollees. Its online course (entitled prevent) lasts 4 months and targets motivated individuals who are considered at risk for diabetes and obesity. Digital sensors are provided in the form of a pedometer and weight scale, and a personal coach assists users tracking their health data. The program also provides guidance on nutrition and fitness and access to its peer community of users. AliveCor has developed mobile ECG technology which is attached to a smartphone case. Data are automatically analyzed for irregularities through an associated app which has been FDA validated through a number of clinical studies. Reportedly, from a study conducted at the Cleveland Clinic, the monitor had near total specificity for the detection of atrial fibrillation and flutter, offering an alternative to conventional monitoring. Establishing reference quality data will require longitudinal studies which incorporate physical inputs coupled with patient biorhythmic, genomic, and microbiome data. One company leading such efforts is Arivale, co-founded by Leroy Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology. Participants, identified through their 100k Challenge, provide lifestyle data, and DNA variants are correlated and tracked along with data obtained from gut microbiome, blood, and saliva samples.[61] It can be expected that increased engagement of end-payors in this process will translate to the introduction of reimbursement systems and incentives to incorporate datasets into the physicians' decision-making dashboard. According to a recent American Medical Association survey, some 26% of clinicians already actively recommend patients' use of such technology and 13% currently deploy remote monitoring protocols.[55]
Numerous examples on the impact of digital biomarkers in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of acute and chronic diseases are being reported regularly.[62],[63],[64] The most compelling to date is in the diabetes space, where meta-analyses have demonstrated that the use of apps has resulted in statistically and clinically significant improvements in HbA1c levels in Type 2 patients.[55] The following examples are representative of clinical studies currently underway.
Studies are actively investigating the impact of implanted and wearable devices through clinical trials.[11] The most prominent example of application of digital biomarkers in a commercial device is the ECG developed by AliveCor Inc.[59] This class II medical device connects to a smartphone and records single-channel ECG rhythms and heart rates through patients placing fingers on the device or placing the device on the chest. Electrical signals are converted to ultrasound by the device which then transmits to the smartphone microphone.[59] Data are interpreted in real time and also sent to the cloud to allow storage, interpretation, and monitoring by a physician. The FDA-approved device is being studied in a long-term clinical trial on atrial fibrillation and had to meet exacting regulatory criteria including the standardization of cellphone technology.[65] It is also likely that studies in one therapeutic area can inform that of others. One of the most widely cited longitudinal health-care studies is the Framingham Heart Study. Now, several decades in the study are providing insightful estimates of trends in the incidence of dementia among its participants.[66] As a study of this magnitude is unlikely to be repeated, it seems likely to serve as a reference model for study power in both the cardiovascular and the neurodegenerative field and potentially a test bed for the application of digital biomarkers.
Longitudinal evaluation of disease progression involves complex inputs and individual variations have limited the success of many trials. A goal of the Parkinson@Home study is to provide continual assessment in an at-home study, using multiple sensors linked to a smartphone application. The study, which involves a total of 1000 patients, will be used to determine patient compliance with the devices and the usefulness of the obtained data in addressing clinically relevant questions.[33] The two-phase study involves assessment of disease state using the protocol from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative, and participants continually wear a designated smartwatch, fall detector, and smartphone, all linked to a custom smartphone app. Over the 90-day period of the study, sensors estimate physical activity, sleep quality, tremor, and falls. Medication intake and fall incidents will be measured through patients' self-reports in the smartphone app. The initial phase of the study is designed to validate the feasibility of the protocol, whereas in Phase 2, sensor outputs will be used to correlate clinical endpoints. The study (Phase 2 commenced late 2016) should provide proof-of-principle for the use of patient collected data and the suitability of wearable sensor technology in day-to-day living for patients in various stages of PD. In addition, the team plans to develop a database which can be used to validate data obtained from sensors in real-world settings, and the associated the algorithms behind them.[31]
Another (global) study has been established using high-frequency remote sampling from smartphones.[67] The system, Hopkins PD, involves both patient-initiated measurement of symptoms (which are prompted throughout the day) and background data obtained continuously through passive means. Five key traits are assessed voice, balance, gait, dexterity, and reaction time, and provision is made to correct pre/postadministration of medication (levodopa or other). The study commenced in 2014 using online enrollment, recruiting over 200 participants within 6 months, and is reportedly able to detect differences related to medication administration with >70% accuracy.[67]
The validation of smartphones in diagnosing and assessing PD has been investigated through a study where participants were baseline assessed, then participated in series of smartphone (android)-based analyses at home over a 1-month period.[68] Smartphone inputs were used to assess voice, posture, gait, finger tapping, and response time in a cohort of 20 participants by performing a series of tasks several times/day. Interaction with a PD specialist was provided weekly through a telemedicine appointment, who also performed a modified UPDRS. Statistical analysis was used to discriminate participants with PD from controls and predict the modified motor component of participants. Excellent correlations were observed on both counts (>95% accuracy), suggesting this to be a viable diagnostic and assessment protocol.[68]
In a collaborative venture between Akili Interactive Laboratories and Pfizer, positive data have been reported using Akili's digital biomarker assessment tool among participants with and without brain amyloidosis, an acknowledged Alzheimer's biomarker.[25] The tool, based on a gaming platform, is expected to allow identification of patients for subsequent positron emission tomography imaging, allowing conclusive diagnosis with commercial radiotracers.[69]
A smartpad-based cognitive assessment tool has been demonstrated in preclinical Alzheimer's patients.[24] Based around the Apple iPad system, the “C3-PAD” was deployed for at home use by older adult participants without access to a trained psychometrician. With a cohort of 49 participants, reliable and valid cognitive data were reportedly obtained from the assessments. In addition, through prior in-clinic training, the percentage of participants completing at-home assessments correctly was high, suggesting potential for future at-home cognitive testing which can be incorporated into clinical trial design.[24]
A recent pilot study was designed to determine the feasibility of at-home assessment of motor impairment in Huntington's disease patients.[39] A total of 20 participants wore multiple sensors (accelerometers) and gait measurements were taken both in a clinical setting and at home. Participants we classified according to the Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale total motor score using the Cohen's d value. Significant differences were observed in gait measures for the at-home group versus the in-clinic group, and additionally, it was found that the gait of those with higher total motor scores differed significantly from participants with lower total motor scores. The study suggests at-home monitoring and assessment is feasible, and variations can be attributed to clinical standards.[39]
Conclusions and Outlook
There is growing confidence that the use of digital biomarkers in the diagnosis, monitoring, and ultimately treatment of diseases will have a transformative impact on managed health care. To present compelling drivers for end-payors and developers, strategically designed longitudinal studies will be necessary, which will be guided by historical and recent efforts.[66] One option would be through the national network of Clinical and Translational Science Institutes, which have capacity for multicenter trials. For example, one of its components, the PCORnet, recently participated in a summit on Alzheimer's disease and the development of digital tools.[70]
It is also likely that the application of these digital tracking tools will become integrated in areas currently in their infancy. One obvious use case would be in the development of specialized exercise equipment for patients with neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases. Evidence points to the beneficial impact of targeted exercise in Parkinson's patients where mobility can often be restored for a period of weeks.[71] Adding the ability to layer clinical grade digital monitoring inputs and outputs in real time could prove transformative for these and other patients and is likely to attract interest from end-payors motivated by tangible measures.
The future developments in this space will ultimately be guided by a combination of financial, regulatory, and outcomes-driven assessments. Very recent data confirm that over 800 clinical trials are currently underway on the use of digital technologies, the majority of which are in the USA.[55] In terms of technology development, more than 300,000 apps are now on the market along with 340 consumer wearable devices. This said that a number of challenges will need to be addressed in order for such technology to be adopted widely and integrated into common health-care practice.[55] The six noted barriers to introduction that have been identified by the health-care industry are (a) patient usability, (b) safety and efficacy, (c) data privacy and security, (d) malpractice risk, (e) financial incentive, and (f) clinician usability. Progress is being made in each area at a rapid pace as the financial ramifications are evident and scalability on the global stage realistic. It is also likely that development will be more rapid in select therapeutic areas. The FDA approval of the first closed-loop diabetes management system (Medtronic 670G) introduced in 2017 represents a watershed event and likely to stimulate continued advances in sensor design, data communication protocols, and drug delivery techniques. One could envision similar developments in the cardiovascular and CNS marketplace, where real-time administration of an event stabilizing therapeutic could offer immediate benefit. There remains little doubt that the digital biomarker ecosystem will evolve at a rapid rate and will remain one of the most exciting components of contemporary medicine for years to come.
Methods Used
The author team conducted in-depth literature searches using Medline, PubMed, and SciFinder Scholar over the period 2012–2017. Search terms included digital biomarkers, digital medicine, m-health, and e-health. Additional searches of abstracts from conferences were conducted along with regulatory guidance documents.
The authors would like to thank William A. Jones for creating [Figure 1].
GBJ acknowledges funding from the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through grant UL1 TR001064.
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A brisk summary of "The Great White Hype": An undefeated however disliked African American champion played by Damon Wayans requests a tremendous payday from his Don King-propelled promoter (Samuel L. Jackson). This leads the promoter to coordinate him against a white contender who beat him as a beginner. The white warrior (Peter Berg) is presently the front man of a substantial metal band and has never battled professionally. A substantial fragment of the media depicts the challenge as a sham, however the general population in any case purchases in. The challenger is thumped out in 27 seconds.Shelton thinks McGregor has as a lot of a shot as Berg's character did."You have one of the best contenders who at any point lived against a person who's not a boxer," Shelton said. "It's such buildup.Mayweather vs McGregor Live Stream
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Despite everything we have barely a month prior to the firecrackers occur in "Wrongdoing City" (subtle elements), so most likely there will be a lot of additional from the two sides. Meanwhile, make certain to swing back around tomorrow evening for section two, including the Top 5 "Most noticeably awful Moments" from a similar visit.
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Casey Anthony: Another Hearing Coming, Part 3
When Casey Anthony spoke with detectives last July, she told them that she worked for Universal Studios. She even took them there to show them her office. Fact was, she hadn't had a job since her daughter Caylee was born. She lived with her parents who supported her and covered for her thieving ways. From reading the interviews, we learned that she had taken money from her parents, her brother, and her grandparents. One friend described her as a "mooch" in one of the interviews.
After June 16, 2008, Casey must have been short of cash. Her daughter had "disappeared" and she wasn't able to go home without her. She was hiding out with her current fling, Tony Lazarro, a young man unknown to her parents.
Fortunately for Casey, her friend, Amy Huizenga, left her checkbook in her car. Since Casey's car was... pick one: a.) out of gas, b.) broken down and in the shop, or c.) abandoned and hopefully stolen from the Amscot parking lot due to the putrid odor, her friend had graciously lent her the car she had recently acquired after an accident while she was on vacation in Puerto Rico.
At that point, Casey took the checkbook and spent the money in it by forging checks at Target, the AT&T store, and the Bank of America.
In between her charges for felony child abuse and lying to police and her indictment for the murder of her daughter, Casey was arrested for bank fraud a couple of times.
Originally, the defense asked that the fraud trial be postponed until after the murder trial. Judge Strickland agreed twice. The original trial was scheduled for January, 2009. When the death penalty was reinstated in April of this year, Casey had to get a new lead attorney who was qualified to try the case. The murder trial is now scheduled for sometime in 2010.
On June 19, the prosecution filed a Motion For Determination Of New Trial Date. The State maintains that they and by extension, the victim of the crime have a right to a speedy trial. The motion also states that they were prepared for trial on November 17, 2008 and that to let this less complex trial "languish another year" was unreasonable.
In response, the defense filed a motion entitled Miss Anthony's Response to Motion For Determination of New Trial Date. While Casey's attorneys Jose Baez and Andrea Lyon agree that the State has a right to a speedy trial, they state that the
... complexity of the capital case necessitates a delay in the check forgery case in order for the defendant's right to be served. The right to due process includes the right to a fair and impartial jury trial. To find an impartial jury even for this charge would require a change of venue due to the media storm surrounding this case and influencing potential jurors. (para 2)
My goodness! Orlando must have a large jury pool. I'm sure they could find twelve people to hear a relatively simple bank fraud case. It's not quite a murder trial and there is an awful lot of great evidence here. Just take a look at the picture up top of Casey cashing one of Amy's checks at the Bank of America just hours before her parents discovered her smelly car a the towing lot and found out Caylee was missing.
Baez and Lyon also indicate in the motion that the State was responsible for the delays and that Casey's criminal trial requires all their time and attention since the consequences are so much greater. They point out that the evidence in this case will not disappear.
My favorite part of the motion is paragraph 8:
Additionally, while the state attempts to use the victim's rights as a reason to set this case, Miss Anthony has already served more time that a person would normally be sentenced for a first-time offense of this nature and the complaining witness in this case, Miss Amy Huizenga, has already been made whole by the Bank of America. Thus, there is no urgent need to resolve the alleged check forgery case. The bank was also recompensed...
What they are saying here is that Casey has already "done her time" while in jail without bond pending her trial for murder. Bank of America had to pay Amy the money for the forged checks. Then, somehow, Casey has managed to send the bank the 600 plus dollars! As many others have pointed out, the repayment to the bank is a tacit admission of guilt!
Many people were daunted by the amount of paperwork the latest motions have generated. I've gone through them all and can tell you that, if you want a more detailed explanation of the contents of the motions, they are there in sublime detail. There are also appendices added with additional documentation.
Personally, I don't understand why Casey didn't take a plea deal in this case. I suppose she's going to provide her attorneys with tons of information why what she did wasn't a crime.
As to whether or not the case will be postponed until after the criminal trial, I haven't a clue. I will be interesting to hear what Judge Strickland has to say about this.
Tony Lazarro, the Unfortunate Boyfriend
I have so much sympathy for those friends of Casey Anthony who have had their young lives blighted by this murder case. To add to their misery, they have had to hire attorneys to represent their interests. Casey seems to be the friend who "keeps on taking."
Tony Lazarro is one of those people. There he was, a young man studying for a career and working as a promoter for Fusion. Then, he happened upon a cute gal on Facebook and met her in person for the first time on May 24, 2008. In less than two months he found himself to be a "critical witness" in a capital murder case.
At a hearing on May 28, 2009, Jose Baez requested extensive phone records from many witnesses in the case. T&T link to the report on this hearing. Some of the witnesses were represented by counsel who spoke to limit the scope of the information. Judge Strickland asked those parties to try to come to a private resolution in the matter. A couple of witnesses' requested a continuance. Those who did not have representation at that time were granted by the judge. Tony Lazarro was one of those people.
On June 16, WESH reported that
Tony Lazarro, Anthony's former boyfriend, was the latest key state witness to come forward and file court papers Monday asking to be shielded from a subpoena. Baez is seeking to find out who Lazarro talked to and when.
Lazarro has cooperated with investigators and provided phone records to detectives. But, Baez wants to go back more than a year of phone records and Lazarro argued that would be an invasion of his privacy.
The actual motion was never put on-line, but I would imagine it is similar to all the rest. It was also reported on July 6 that Lazarro had hired an attorney, Attorney William R. Jay, to represent him in both trials.
Today, Jose Baez and Andrea Lyon filed their latest motion. The Amended Motion addresses only Tony Lazarro and his phone records. To show the "materiality" to the defense case, Baez and Lyon state in paragraph 5, complete with misspellings and grammatical errors...
a. Mr. Lazzaro was the Ms. Anthony's boyfriend.
b. The State of Florida has listed him as a category A witness.
c. The Defense and the State of Florida consider Mr. Lazarro a critical witness to this case.
d. The State has already requested Mr. Lazzaro's phone records. Nonetheless, said records are incomplete.
e. Law Enforcement has invested a significant amount of resources investigating the time period between June 16th to July 15th 2008. Much of that time, Mr. Lazzaro was either in the presence of, or in direct communication with Ms. Anthony.
f. In addition to having been interviewed as a witness, law enforcement had Mr. Lazzaro take a polygraph and went so far as to have his vehicle examined by cadaver dogs.
g. The witness telephone calls and records are of particular importance especially since for a specific time period he became an agent for the State by allowing law enforcement to monitor his telephone calls. As evidenced by the Consent by Cooperating individual form, dated July 22nd, 2008.
h. On or about July 29 2008, Mr.Lazzaro51, 255);"> also acted in the capacity of a confidential informant by allowing Law Enforcement to video record a conversation between himself and Lee Anthony
i. Mr. has refused to cooperate with the Defense's investigation and has given multiple statements to law enforcement
j. The Defense has narrowed it's request to June 2008 to January 2009.
I know, that was a long quote, but I had to copy it here. Does anyone else have the feeling that the defense isn't very happy with Tony's level of cooperation with Law Enforcement?
I'm sure the judge will get this motion taken care of.
As with the TES volunteers who fear their personal information could get out into the general public, I think it would be wrong for the defense to receive information on every single phone number in his records. Undoubtedly, his friends and acquaintances would appreciate their privacy and well as Tony.
See you in court on Friday, August 21, 9:30 AM. It's going to be QUITE a hearing!
Posted by ritanita at 7:35 PM
Labels: Amy Huizenga, Andrea Lyon, Anthony Lazarro, Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony, Jose Baez
Bravo ritanita! You wrapped everything up and explained it perfectly.
Katprint said...
The defense is arguing a fallacy of logic i.e. non sequitur. The fact that the police conducted an extensive, in depth investigation which ruled out Tony Lazzaro as a possible suspect, and that Tony fully cooperated and assisted that investigation, DOES NOT mean that he has forfeited all constitutionally protected rights to privacy. Even if he is a "critical witness" (primarily because he will testify that Casey did not have Caylee after June 16, 2008 while Casey was staying over at his house), that does not mean that every single telephone call he made to anyone for the next six months is fair game.
By way of analogy, imagine a rape victim is the primary witness against a defendant being prosecuted for that rape. Could the defense get records of each and every telephone call made by the victim from the date of the crime to the present, just because the victim was a "critical witness"? Of course not! But the defense could probably get records of calls made the day of the crime and probably up to the time that the crime was reported to law enforcement. (For example, that was what the defense obtained in the Duke LaCross team rape case; the cell phone records of the defendants as well as their false accuser helped establish the impossibility of the time line.)
I think the judge will probably order disclosure of Tony Lazzaro's records from around mid-May through the end of July, with a protective order prohibiting disclosure to the media or anyone else (kind of like the protective order concerning Caylee's autopsy photos.) That should be enough to allow the defense to investigate any alternative-culprit theory directly or indirectly involving Tony Lazzaro.
Awesome entry RitaNita. Looks like the defense is really focusing on Tony again and trying to throw him under the bus just like they did to Jesse. I feel horrible for all of Casey's friends, but especially for Jesse, Tony and Amy. Their lives will never be the same.
Thanks for the update. I hope I can wake up on time to watch the hearing!
ritanita - you rock!
Nora said...
Since Casey paid the bank for the money she stole, and that is an admission of guilt and responsibility, why is there going to be a trial for this? Seems a waste of time and money.
katfish said...
Thanks Ritanita for a VERY informative entry. I look forward to your report on the hearing since I have a "breakfast date" tomorrow. I'll set the dvr just in case Insession covers it, but I still look forward to reading your "take" on the hearing. You go girl!
Reports of pictures that Tim Miller has of the "crime scene" sound like the defense may have to change their strategy a bit...I bet Jaunny Cochran is PO'd about that. BWAHHHHH! Too bad!
I remember reading way back when about the check stealing trial, that it would have a direct impact on the murder trial, I think because she would be someone with a record or something along those lines, if found guilty. Since she has paid that $ back to Bank of America and Amy Huzienga, would this still be valid. Or maybe had something to do with since it would be her second crime (if she is found guilty of check stealing), can the state ask for the death sentence? I cannot find which post this was, and I am thinking it was this spring it was posted. Anyone remember?
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Michael Gargiulo Case - Opening Statements 5/2/19 Part I
Michael Gargiulo Trial - Opening Statements, Morning Session, Part I
NOTE: I was using my laptop to take notes during opening statements. I accidentally had auto-correct switched on which made it difficult to re-interpret what I had originally typed. I edited my notes from memory. This is still a rough draft with possibly more editing to be done. Sprocket
Who's Here at the Gargiulo Opening Statements
There are so many new faces from the press attending the opening that I don’t know. Here is a list in order of appearance/notice. CBS News is the pool reporter with a camera in the far left corner. Nathan from Courthouse News is here. The head of the court’s Public Information Office, Mary Hern is here. With Mary Hearn is Ann Donlan newly hired Communications Director for the LA County Superior Court. Ms. Donlan introduces herself and hands out her card. Terri Vermeulen Keith from City News and Carolyn Murnick, Ashely Ellerin's high school friend who wrote a book about her and Ashley’s friendship. Defense attorney Dan Nadoni is here, with his standard kerchief -navy and red today- in his suit pocket. Defense lead counsel Dale Rubin is now talking to Mary Hearn. Los Angeles Times reporter Alene Tchekmedyian who I met at the Jennifer Francis civil trial is here. The prosecution team, Deputy DA’s Daniel Akemon and Garrett Dameron have now shown up. Court reporter Laurie Small and her husband Retired Detective Thomas Small who investigated the Ellen murder are in the gallery.
Local NBC 4 Patrick Healy arrives. I brief him on why this case has taken so long. More media arrive. Young clerks from DA’s office and Deputy DA’s are here. The young clerks have the blue badges and the Deputy DA’s are all wearing dark suits. At the prosecution table there is a new female assistant. I’m guessing she may handle the documents during opening statements.
Tracy from DA’s Victim Advocate unit arrives. There is a pretty black woman sitting with her. In the very back row is a handsome black reporter I don’t recognize. RHD Detective Daryn Dupree who worked the Grim Sleeper case comes in and says hello to other detectives in the gallery, then leaves. Retired LA County Sheriff’s Detective Mark Lillienfield is here saying hello to People Magazine's Christine Pelisek. Another female reporter I don’t know arrives. More reporters show up that I’ve never seen and sit in the back row. Terri and I talk new doggies. Alex from the London Sun introduces himself. The attorneys in the well from both teams have been chatting back and forth for a while now.
Wendy announces to the room she is bringing the jury through in the 3rd row. This row will be empty for the jury to walk through. We are all to be quiet and remain seated. There are many older looking people on the panel. A few middle age white males as well as Latino men and women. I don’t see a single young face. A woman with pretty dyed red hair. The jury goes back into the jury room to wait.
On the right side of the gallery behind the bailiff’s desk, the very young interns from the DA’s office move up a row to sit with Tracy. Mr. Rubin and Detective Small are chatting in the well. So many faces in the back row I don’t know. Terri Keith is so dedicated. She is reading documents and making notes on other cases while we wait.
There are four deputies in the well now waiting for the defendant to be brought out.
Another individual that might be from the DA’s office sits with RHD Detective Greg Stearns -one of the voices in the infamous Stephanie Lazarus interview video- and another detective right beside Sterns.
Two more casually dressed women arrive and sit with Stearns in the second bench row behind the bailiff's desk. This is a light crowd. No one sitting in the front row yet and the third row is clear for the jury to walk through. More stragglers arrive. Another CBS reporter. We make room for that person in the second row.
Judge Fidler’s clerk Wendy watches everything going on in the courtroom. Dale Rubin smiles, shakes Thomas Small’s hand then sits at the defense table. Last little moments around the well of the court before the jury is brought in. Deputy DA Akemon chats with Detective Small for a moment. Dan Nardoni and Deputy DA Garrett Dameron chat quickly. Akemon and Small are still chatting.
Bailiffs ask for quiet in the courtroom. Gargiulo s brought out. He looks much like I've seen him over the past several years except he's in civilian clothes today. He’s got a white goatee. Bald head. Black horn rimed glasses. I don’t notice a tie. The defendant smiles as Dan Nardoni leans in to talk to him. Nardoni rubs the defendant’s back. Gargiulo is wearing a purple shirt, dark pants.
The courtroom becomes eerily quiet. I can hear my keys type. I didn’t have time to pick up a keyboard silencer. We are now waiting on Judge Fidler. Gargiulo smiles again as he chats with defense counsel Nardoni.
9:45 AM Judge Filder Takes the Bench
Judge Fidler states someone wanted to raise an issue. All the counsel go to the bench to speak to the court. Rubin tells the court about the “…onslaught of ABC news, … the media … I find that disturbing”
I believe Mr. Rubin continues with, “ … last in the middle of survivor a news story came on. I don’t know if we can do …. access…”
I hear DA Akemon respond, “I agree.” Judge Fidler asks, “How did they get pictures?” Nardoni responds to the court but I miss his statement.
Gargiulo leans forward, his left hand on his chin. He is intently watching the activity at the bench.
Mr. Rubin is now in a discussion with DDA’s Akemon and Dameron. I believe I hear the defense say, 'We are in the process of getting a jail [cell?] at the police department.'
Note: Sounds like something happened at the jail. A stabbing?
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Judge Filder tells the parties. “Ready for the jurors.”
A reporter tells me that the media got pictures from Chicago of when he was growing up.
The jury files through and takes their seats. Judge Fidler greets the jury. Judge Fidler addresses the jury about jury instructions. "Your verdict must be decided by the law and the evidence as it is provided to you.” I don’t type out the extensive jury instructions. This is something that will be provided to the jury after closing arguments.
The defendant keeps himself facing forward. He does not look over at the jury. People in the back row try to get a look at the jury. From my viewpoint, there are five women seven men.
Note: I believe I have that correct. Sprocket
Alternates are three men and three women. Gargiulo watches Judge Fidler give the jury instructions. There are five bailiffs in the courtroom. One in the back by the entry doors and four around Gargiulo.
An individual who looks like and LAPD employee and friend enter late. They are asked to move to the fourth row. Judge Fidler asks Mr. Rubin if he wants the circumstantial evidence instruction read. Mr. Rubin indicates yes. A female detective or it’s a Deputy DA, I can't tell, enters and sits beside Detective Greg Stearns.
The jurors are ordered by the court not to post on Facebook & Twitter about the trial. Dan Nardoni, asks the court, in an abundance of caution puts forth an oral motion to exclude any an all witnesses from the gallery. Deputy DA Akemon joins that motion.
Opening Statements
And we start. Deputy DA Akemon puts up four photos on the big bulletin board. Tricia Paciccio, Ashley Ellerin, Maria Bruno and Michelle Murphy.
Note: You can see an image of what the jury was shown HERE. Sprocket
Photos of the women, the year of the event and their age. (Paciccio 1993, Ellen 2001, Bruno 2005, Murphy 2008)
DDA Akemon greets the jury.
The methodical and systematic slaughter of women by Michael Gargiulo, the boy next door. A killer. That’s what this case is about. Michael Gargiulo was watching. Always watching. Plotting the perfect opportunity to attack women in and around their homes.
What you will hear is … [Tricia Pacaccio] Ashley Ellerin, Michelle Murphy and Maria Bruno were all young attractive and outgoing. What these women also had in common was they all lived near Mr. Gargiulo. He had targeted them for murder and he ultimately attacked all of them with a knife.
From the onset you will learn that Gargiulo was a neighborhood kid who grew up in and around the Chicago area. He was athletic. He played high school football. He later worked as an air conditioning repairman and eventually owned his own plumbing business. And he was a husband and father. What no one knew for many years is that Michael Gargiulo was leading a double life.
He fancied himself an expert in forensic science. He attacked four women with a knife killing three of them and able to escape detection for almost 15 years.
How did he plan the attacks? The evidence will show that Gargiulo’s plan to kill was to first identify a target that lived near him. He would acquaint himself with that victim, their lives and routines. The evidence will show he stalked and hunted down the victim relentlessly … to plan his kill.
He watched and waited and collected real time intelligence on the victims. He then manipulated the circumstances to pounce and kill in a blitz type knife attack and then escape detection.
His killing spree ended in 2008 when he accidentally cut himself during one of the attacks and he bled all over the victim’s bedspread and sheets.
You will hear that his killing spree started in Chicago in summer of 1993 almost 26 year ago.
He killed his first victim 18 year old Tricia Pacaccio, who lived in Glenview, Illinois, an affluent neighborhood. Gargiulo lived around the corner [from her].
Friday August 13, of 1993. It was hot and muggy in Glenview and a thick fog settled over the area. Tricia Pacaccio ended her Friday at TGI Fridays. Tricia and her friends had just all graduated and were bidding each other a final farewell and heading off in different directions to college.
Tricia was bound off to Purdue University and had earned an engineering scholarship. For Tricia it was the summer of her life and the end of a perfect evening with friends. What she didn’t know is that Gargiulo who lived around the corner had targeted Tricia for murder.
She would never make it to college and the summer of 1993 would be her last. On the night that Tricia was killed she gave several friends a ride home after leaving TGI Fridays. She dropped her last passenger off a little after 1 am and walked up to her door, keys in hand but never made it inside.
Gargiulo was waiting for her. Gargiulo, who was experienced in marital arts, snapped her arm and stabbed her in the breast and chest. He left her bleeding on the doorstep of her home and fled. Tricia’s father found her the next morning.
Years later Gargiulo bragged to friends about killing Tricia. “ I left the bitch on the steps for dead.” Gargiulo’s DNA was found on Tricia’s fingernails. As detectives worked to solved the case, Gargiulo moved across the country and took up residence near Ashley Ellerin. Ashley was young and social with the Hollywood crowd. She soon attracted Gargiulo’s attention.
He frequented the dog park across the street from her house and injected himself into Ashely’s life. He offered to change a tire. Then offered to fix a furnace. He then showed up unannounced. A friend saw him staring up into the house at odd hours. Shortly before she was killed he crashed a party at their house. He obtained a key somehow and got inside and scared her. One of her friends concluded that he was stalking Ashely and she should be concerned.
One day he appeared unannounced and her roommate [was there?]. Gargiulo told the roommate that the FBI was pursuing him for a murder from Chicago. He showed the roommate a knife in a sheath (in his ankle).
Feb 21, 2001. Ashley was found stabbed to death [the next morning] in her hallway. She was stabbed over 47 times.
The evidence will show that the defendant attacked Ashley from behind, cutting through from right to left nearly decapitating her, indicating an attack from a left handed perpetrator. Gargiulo is left handed. The attack on Ashley shared several characteristics with [the attacks on] Tricia Pacaccio, Maria Bruno and Michell Murphy.
Gargiulo moved away to another city.
[In El Monte] Gargiulo entered Maria Bruno's apartment, put on blue surgical boots and murdered Maria while she slept. He stabbed her multiple times and gashed out her throat. Cut off her breasts and attempted to remove her breast implants and placed one of her breasts in her mouth.
Maria Bruno’s murder shared several similar events as the other victims. Gargiulo lived in the very same complex [as Bruno] and [from his upper floor unit] could see into her very own living room. Gargiulo attempted to inject himself in the victims life. He surveilled the victim in her home.
A witness saw someone matching his description watching the victim, staring. And also entered her apartment uninvited. Gargiulo left his DNA at the crime scene.
Afterwards, Maria’s husband discovered her body and called police. [Detectives] located a surgical bootie outside Maria’s front door. Analyst discovered there were drops of Maria’s blood on the booties. Gargiulo’s DNA was found around the elastic band. Years later, the matching bootie was found in Gargiulo’s apartment attic [space].
While that case was under investigation, Gargiulo moved to Santa Monica, and moved into an apartment across the alley from Michelle Murphy. Again, Gargiulo lived near the victim in an apartment directly across the alley where he was able to see into her apartment and see her movements.
April 20, 2008, at approximately 8 pm, Michelle Murphy went to bed. She was alone. Her roommate was out of the country. It was a warm evening, and she left a window open.
He climbed onto the railing, sliced through the screen with knife and climbed through the window. He found Michelle sleeping in her bed.
Gargiulo learned over her and stabbed her in the chest with a knife.
Michelle woke up and fought with Gargiulo as he stabbed repeatedly, stabbing her hands and arms as she defended herself. Michele who was very athletic in her own right was able to get her legs [underneath?] her. She was able to kick Gargiulo causing him to cut his own wrist.
Bleeding profusely, he ran out the door and said “I’m sorry.” He left a blood trail out the alley.
Gargiulo’s blood was on Michelle’s bedspread and sheet combined with Michelle’s blood. He left his DNA at the crime scene. When Gargiulo’s DNA was found on her bedspread and sheet it linked him with DNA on Tricia Pacaccio’s fingernails and the bloody booties from Maria [Bruno’s murder].
Gargiulo was arrested in June of 2008. When Gargiulo was held in the El Monte jail, he made makeshift handcuff keys, planned to attack a jailer, steal a police car and escape to Mexico.
Now back to the details of each stabbing. It all started in Glenview, Illinois in the Summer of 1993. What you seeing on the screen are the four women.
Tricia was 18 years old.
Ashes was 22.
Maria was 32.
Murphy was age 26 when she was attacked.
It started on the doorstep around the corner from Gargiulo’s residence. He told one friend, “I actually left the bitch on the steps for dead.” Gargiulo’s DNA was on Tricia Pacaccio’s fingernails.
In 2001 Ashley Ellerin was stabbed to death in Hollywood. He entered Ashley’a house without permission.
In 2005 Maria Bruno was stabbed to death inside her residence. Gargiulo lived across the pool from Ms. Bruno’s residence. The bootie found outside her door had his DNA on it.
In 2008 Michelle lived across the alley. Gargiulo left a blood trial across the alley. In 2008 Gargiulo was arrested and tried to escape from jail.
Tricia Pacaccio Murder
A photo of Tricia is put up on the screen. Then a photo of Tricia’s home in Glenview. Deputy DA Akemon points out Tricia’s bedroom on the second floor. He points out the door where she was stabbed outside of her home. The photo shows her car was parked in the driveway.
DDA Akemon now presents an aerial photo of Gargiulo’s home area. Gargiulo’s and Tricia’s home are 550 feet apart on the diagonal. He tells the jury that each victim lived within eye-shot and ear shot. Now we are shown a photo of Gargiulo’s residence in 1993. He lived there with brothers and sisters and mom and dad.
Deputy DA Akemon explains the event that Tricia participated in right before she was murdered, a road rally. Up on the screen there are about 40 names, to show the jury about how many kids were involved. These are the students who participated in the road rally roster. About 40 people attended. Deputy DA Akemon explains that it was like a treasure hunt.
Next is a photo of the TGI Fridays where Tricia’s group ended up that evening. August 13 going over into the 14th, 1993.
August 13, Tricia’s group arrived at TGI Fridays. Gargiulo was dropped off at home 12:30 am. At 1 am Tricia dropped off her friend. She arrived home around 1:15am.
In 1997 Gargiulo told a friend, “I stabbed up a girl.” He told another friend, “I stabbed up the bitch.”
In 2002 Gargiulo’s DNA matched up to the DNA found on Tricia Pacaccio.
Deputy DA Akemon explains that Gargiulo is not charged with Tricia’s murder in California. The presentation is used for special evidence even though the jury will not decide guilt or innocence in that case.
Next on the screen are photos of most of the people who attended the road rally that night. About 40 of them. Of those 40 people, many were people that Tricia had contact with that evening. None of those people’s DNA was found on Tricia.
Now the jury is shown photos of Tricia Pacaccio’s crime scene. Tricia’s car, a blue Buick is in the driveway. She parked her car, walked across the law to the side door of the residence and then [would have] headed to her bedroom.
Photo of crime scene, outside of house, August 14, 1993. Tricia's body is located at the face of that white door. Now a photo of Tricia’s body on the doorstep. Her feet on the lower step, her head is closer to the door. We are shown another view of her body on the doorstep then a closer view of her on the doorstep. It is so sad. She was so close to getting inside. At the upper part of the door is Tricia’s pocketbook, and near her head are her car keys. Another photo that shows the keys at the top of her head.
Coroner’s Evidence
Tricia was stabbed 12 times and she had a spiral fracture of the left arm.
Deputy DA Akemon details each wound and where they were located on her body. Shows photos of the wounds. Many stab wounds to the left arm. X-ray’s of Tricia’s left arm that show the spiral fracture. X-ray clearly shows it snapped.
What you will hear in this case, when Tricia Pacaccio’s body was taken to the morgue in Chicago, somebody, some person, tampered with her clothing. Another photo. What you looking at here are photos of Tricia’s body in the morgue, when she was transported to the morgue she was fully clothed.
And [also] and at the scene her hands were bagged at the scene. When they did the post mortem they noticed her clothing had been manipulated. That’s when a coroner’s investigators said that’s not the way she was [when she was brought into the morgue]. Somebody, it was never determined who, pulled her panties down and also pulled her t-shirt over her breasts. There’s no evidence that she was sexually assaulted, or the bags on her hands were tampered with, only her clothing was tampered with. Through the photos, we can see that the bags are still on Tricia’s hands in photos.
There will be DNA evidence in this case. A DNA expert tested [her] fingernails. Compared them to Gargiulo. A DNA match [came back], one in 97 million. No other DNA found on her fingernails. Only her own DNA.
People who attended the road rally. Gargiulo did not attend the road rally. There were [people] hugging and kissing that evening saying goodbye. Despite all those people having contact with Tricia that night, the only person whose DNA shows up on her fingernails is Michael Gargiulo.
Photo of a DNA evidence table. Expert will give an opinion. The DNA is a match and that will explain the DNA.
This is to Tricia Pacaccio’s case. Her brother Tom discovered her body with other family members. [Gargiulo] was not a friend of Tricia. [They] did not have any sort of relationship. He was a friend of Tricia’s brother. Gargiulo was 17 and lived around the corner. Tricia’s mother [will testify]. There was no reason for her to have contact with Gargiulo.
Doug was Tricia’s younger brother. This was Gargiulo’s friend. He will testify that he was friend of Gargiulo. There was no reason for Tricia to have any contact, physical contact with Gargiulo. What you will hear that night Tricia had [upset?] Rick Pacaccio [her father]. She took a long shower that night. She was very clean. She had an argument with her father for taking such a long shower. There’s no reason for her to have physical contact with Gargiulo.
[You will hear from] Andrew [Crouch?], Jennifer Spanjer, and [Karen?] Isenberg, Tricia’s friends. Tricia had physical contact with her friends. Very touchy feely. Gargiulo was not present at the [road rally].
You will hear from Gargiulo’s ex-girlfriend. On the night of Tricia’s murder, she was with Mr. Gargiulo. She dropped him off at [12:30 am? 1 am?] around the corner from Tricia’s residence before the stabbing. That was to show that he was in a position … No physical contact between Tricia and Gargiulo that night.
The Anarchist Cookbook
Next slide is up on the screen.
About 10:55 am, Judge Fidler calls for a break.
At the break, several reporters that are in the hallway, watching the cable feed and are asking for the attorneys to be identified for their reporting.
Judge Fidler’s clerk, Wendy, call’s for the jury. A sheriff’s deputy informs the courtroom that at the lunch break everyone [in the gallery] is to remain seated until all the jurors have left then you may go.
The Jury comes out then Judge Fidler comes out.
Deputy DA Akemon continues his presentation. What you will hear in this case, one of Gargiulo’s [friends] Suzanne [will testify] that Mr. Gargiulo liked this book [The Anarchist Cookbook] and he talked about this book. And he talks about what’s in there. This book talks about knives. There is a section for, there’s a section on knives. And how to use a knife on various sections of the body. Cuts to the throat, subclavian area. A key to this type of attack is the speed and silent [method] … based on approaching the enemy from behind …
Prosecutor Akemon mentions that there is no evidence of sexual assault with the victims in this case and the DNA matching.
Prosecutor Akemon mentions a former friend of Gargiulo’s, Anthony [?] who worked with Gargiulo as a bouncer at the Rainbow Room Bar in Hollywood in the 1990’s. I believe he presents a photo of them together at a party. This witness had a prior criminal history for theft and drug offenses. He [this witness] was the one that Gargiulo said this is from a [prior incident?]. Gargiulo told his friend, “I actually left the bitch on the steps for dead.”
Deputy DA Akemon puts up a photo of Tricia where she was found on her doorstep.
Temer Leary, another friend of Gargiulo’s. He also worked with Garigulo as a bouncer at the Rainbow Room Bar in Hollywood the 1990’s. He has a prior criminal record including violent offenses. Mr. Gargiulo told him that he “he stabbed up the girl” referring to Ms. Pacaccio.
These former friends of Gargiulo’s saw Gargiulo on television accused of the Pacaccio murder. When they saw that they were shocked per [their] girlfriends. They had one of those moments of watching Gargiuo on TV. When they found what they knew was relevant they texted to each other about being heroes.
Ashley Ellerin Case
Photos of Ashley are up on the screen. Ms. Ellerin was 22 when Gargiulo stabbed her to death. A Photo of Ellerin’s residence on Pinehurst Road in Hollywood. Photos of the house gated and a red car in front. Now an aerial view of the area showing where various things are.
When Ms. Ellerin was stabbed to death he [Gargiulo] lived in Hollywood at his building there [points to photo] and Ashely lived right down the street, about 400 feet down the street.
Across the street from Ms. Ellerin is the dog park. And Gargiulo frequented the dog park and Gargiulo would watch from that park.
Deputy DA Akemon will tells the jury they will go to a site visit and see the particular scenes so you can see the geography yourself and these particular scenes you will be able to see this house.
1759 Orchid Ave was Gargiulo’s apartment building. Showing a type of aerial view from the top of that building and you can see Ellerin’s house off in the distance. The roof of Gargiulo’s building is open to the tenant’s. And her bedroom is on that side of the house. You can see if the light is on or off from the roof of Gargiulo's building.
Pointing out on a photo, this is the dog park. Right across from Ellerin’s residence.
Now a view of what her home looked like from the dog park at night. But when the house was lit up inside you can see what was going on inside. And we show this to show that Mr. Garguilo was watching all the time. Pointing out on a photo, here is the front door to Ellerin’s home. Now a floor plan of Ellerin’s residence.
Older style bungalow home and the floor plan is older. The prosecutor explains where the front door is, the sun room. We’ll explain that when Ashton Kutcher came over and which window that he looked into the house.
Her bedroom is in the upper left hand corner. She just exited the shower and was getting ready to go out with Mr. Kutcher when she was attacked from behind. Identifies the other rooms on the photo. Points out the layout and the rooms and the windows that Kutcher looks into.
February 21, 2001. Ashley drops her father off at the airport. Between 7 and 8 pm her friend Durbin came over and they had sex. Then he left and she locked the door. At 8:24 pm Ashley talked to Ashton Kutcher on the phone with a plan to go out that night.
A man, Mr. Todd Jackson, around 8:30 to 9 pm heard screaming from her house. He was walking his dog in the dog park.
Between 9 and 9:20 pm Mr. Durbin called her three times but Ashely did not answer.
10 pm another friend called.
10:15 pm Ashton Kutcher called and got no inswer.
10:15 pm Ashley’s roommate was locked out of the house.
10:45 pm Ashton Kutcher arrives, knocks on the door and looked inside and saw what he thought was spilled wine on the floor.
On the following day, 9:15 am Jennifer Disisto discovered her body.
Up on the screen is a photo of Ashley on her back, on leg splayed out her finger pointed toward her leg. Again, seeing Ashely is quite sad. There was a very violent struggle in this small space. Ashley was stabbed 47 times.
More crime scene floor plans of the house are presented. Now a view of the front door to the house. Explains layout and relation as to where her body is in this photo. Ashley’s body is inside the red circle in the photo. New photo showing the angle from her bedroom, her feet toward the bathroom door. The most severe injury to the neck area. She was nearly decapitated.
Dr. Ortiz [performed the autopsy]. He will give the opinion this is from a left to right cut so a left handed person. Bloody footprints and blood drops. Criminalist Steve Schliebe will testify to what the blood drops and the footprints mean. What we believe is the path he took to get out of the house.
Coroner Evidence
Stabbed 47 times. Overview of the injuries are presented. The first stab wounds were to her head. Many to her head first. Deputy DA Akemon goes over each stab wound and what area of the body they went through.
The coroner will testify that this stab wound on her neck nearly decapitated her body. More stab wounds are presented to the jury.
In the coroner’s photos, you can see her head was shaved to get a better photo of her stab wounds. Now describing wounds 28-30, wounds to her neck. Stab wounds 36-38 to the left hand, defense wounds. Stab wounds 39 40 are right hand defense wounds. More stab wounds to the hands. All defense wounds.
Deputy DA Akemon tells the jury about witnesses they will hear from in Ashley's case.
A photo from a party is shown. Ashely and her friends standing with her. Justin Peterson was her room mate. And this is Jennifer Disisto who discovered Ashley’s body. And Justin came face to face with Mr. Gargiulo.
It was during this party when Gargiulo was fixated with on Ms. Ellerin.
There in the back of a photo, appears to be Gargiulo at this party..
This woman who was the party was for, will testify about the photos. Justin Peterson was Ashley’s friend. At social gatherings Gargiulo was watching Ashley.
Just Peterson, identified Mr Gargiulo as the man he saw outside of Ms. Ellerin’s house out in the middle of the night watching Ms. Ellerin’s home. Mr. Gargiulo was hanging out in this green truck, sitting in the truck and watching the house. Justin Peterson will testify that Gargiulo flashed a knife and Peterson drew [a sketch of] the knife he saw.
Mark Durbin,. Mr. Durbin was Ashley’s friend and landlord. He had sex with Ashley the night of the stabbing. He left her residence at 8:15 pm. He had to be home by 8:30 to meet his girlfriend. He called Ashley at 9 and 9:15 pm and she did not answer. Because he had sex with her he was initially looked at.
Ashton Kutcher, Ashley’s friend called at 10:45 pm. Mr. Kushner is called to testify to show there was a very narrow opportunity in this case.
Jennier Disisto. Ashley friend and roommate. She came home at 10:15 pm. The door was locked and she didn’t have her keys. She left and stayed the night with a friend. She came home the next day and discovered her body.
Anthony Castellane, Ashely’s friend. He attended a party at Ashley’s residence. Gargiulo shows up uninvited and was the last guest to leave. Gargiulo fixated on Ashley. Anthony decided to stay and sleep on the sofa he was so concerned.
Monica Grandy. Will testify Gargiulo was fixated on Ashely. Weeks before Ashley was stabbed to death Gargiulo came into the apartment, [somehow] obtained a key, surprised her and Ashley and ran away.
Todd Jackson. Walked his dog in the dog park. Heard a scream from Ashley’s residence.
Witness Steve Schliebe, LA County Sheriff’s blood spatter expert. [I know Steve. He’s an excellent criminalist. Sprocket] Will testify blood drops are oriented to the door meaning the blood will go out that door. Gargiulo headed out that door. A line of blood drops to the left of the foot prints.
Maria Bruno Murder
She was 32 years old when Gargiulo mutilated her. Photos of Bruno’s residence. Deputy DA Akemon tells the jury they will go out to the residence and see the relationship between Ms. Bruno’s apartment and Gargiulo’s. And just to the left is the kitchen window and that’s the point of entry.
A photo view of Gargiulo’s and Ms. Bruno’s apartments in Arden apartment complex. Gargiulo’s apartment was 20 feet away across the pool. From his living room he could look right down into Ms. Bruno’s apartment. Another photo view showing her apartment looking up to Gargiulo’s apartment. This is the view Gargiulo had of Ms. Bruno’s apartment. Deputy DA Akemon points out in the image the point of entry, the kitchen window.
Cronology of the night of Ms. Bruno’s Murder
November 23, 2005, she was moved into the apartment complex. She moved there because she believed it was a very secure apartment building.
December 1, 2005, at 11:30 pm her and estranged husband left for a date. Maria and her husband Irving went out, they were drinking heavily, and then came back to the apartment and had sex.
The evidence will so that as soon as Irving left, Mr. Gargiulo entered her apartment. Since they had been drinking her husband drove her home and came back the next day to take her back to her job.
Her husband Irving climbed into her window to wake Maria up. He found her body and called 911. The prosecution plays the 911 call for the jury. He’s sobbing on the 911 recording.
“Someone broke into my wife’s house and they killed her.”
One of her nipples was placed over her mouth.
Gargiulo turns toward Mr. Nardoni and leans in to talk to him. Crime Scene photos of Maria’s body. There are parts muted out of the photos. A photo of Maria’s body on the bed. DDA Akemon flashes through a series of photos before shutting down the presentation. Now Gargiulo is leaning in to speak to Mr. Rubin and Mr. Nardoni.
At 11:55 am Judge Fidler excuses the jury for the lunch break.
To be continued in Part II….
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Monica Sementilli & Robert Louis Baker Pretrial Hearing 10
I arrive on the 9th floor around 8:19 am and I'm already tired. I haven't been sleeping well of late and the nearly 2 hours of travel time to get to court is not easy on this antique body.
About a minute later, most of Sementilli's defense team arrives. Blair Berk along with the gray-haired gentleman and the dark haired data/computer expert. Also with them this time is Sementilli's sister as well as an older woman with very short dark brown hair. Sementill's blond-haired sister is wearing a white blouse and a black sweater-jacket. Leonard Levine was absent.
Right after the Sementilli defense team arrives, Baker's counsel, Michael Simmrin arrives. As soon as Simmrin arrives, I overhear snatches of conversation between defense counsel about when to schedule the next pretrial hearing.
What looks like a Deputy DA and a young, pretty blond intern (she's wearing the standard blue badge I've come to recognize as what interns wear) arrive and greet Simmrin. This other attorney tells Simmrin he has a case in front of Judge Coen.
Department 101 opens and I follow the defense team inside Judge Coen's court. There is a male clerk at the clerk's desk. Like I've seen many times before, Judge Coen is at his clerk's desk chatting with the gray-haired man. Judge Coen is wearing a white shirt with a shimmering, baby blue tie. Sementilli's sister and older friend sit in the second bench row. The defense data expert takes a seat in the well of the court. When the gray-haired man is finished chatting with Judge Coen, he sits directly to my left in the second bench row. When he first entered the court, he placed his worn satchel he always carries in the spot he likes to sit, on the aisle, second bench.
A very attractive black woman with perfect make-up, small gold earrings and long tiny braids had entered earlier. She has taken a seat in the well of the court. I'm a bit mesmerized by all those tiny perfectly braided braids.
DDA's Beth Silverman and Melissa Opper arrive. DDA Silverman is wearing a blended thread black/gray pant suit with a black top. She accented it with a nice silver necklace. She hands Simmrin a document with a folder and says, "Here's your copy." Over at the clerk's desk, DDA Opperman returns back to the court, the original SDT's they previously received.
I then hear DDA Silverman tell Simmrin "We're ready." I believe she followed it with, Whenever you're ready. I believe Simmrin says something about any more discovery and DDA Silverman says something to the effect that there's always discovery. My interpretation of this exchange is, the people have handed over their discovery to the defense and they are ready for trial.
Another male Deputy DA arrives and sits in the first row.
Judge Coen is on the bench in his robes. The defendants are inside the courtroom yet. They are not on the record yet. It appears Judge Coen is waiting. Then I notice that the court reporter is not at her desk yet.
The court reporter comes out quickly with her equipment and Judge Coen asks her, "Are we ready?" She replies to the court that she is. We are waiting for the bailiffs to bring the defendant's out. Mr. Simmrin works on his laptop. Judge Coen patiently waits. A second bailiff enters. He goes to the custody door, opens it and holds it open. Defendant Baker enters first. He still has short black hair. No noticeable beard but a slim mustache. He's in the usual orange jumpsuit and white long-john type undershirt beneath that.
Soon after Sementilli comes out. She is in an orange jumpsuit also this time. I don't know when the change happened since I missed the last hearing but this is the first time I've seen her in the higher-security orange jumpsuit. Sementilli's hair is long and all dark.
Judge Coen goes on the record. He indicates there are no motions before the court. Blair Berk addresses the court first. She tells the court that they are anticipating a new round of discovery and that they are still working through the last two rounds turned over by the prosecution.
Burk tells the court they would like to return on July 16 or 17 as a new pretrial and on that date, set a new trial date. The case will be set at zero of 60 on that date. Judge Coen asks Simmrin which date is agreeable, the 16th or the 17th. Simmrin takes a moment before he tells the court the 16th.
Judge Coen then addresses the people and asks them if that date is acceptable. The people agree with that date. Judge Coen then addresses defendant Baker and asks, "Is that agreeable to you?" Baker agrees. The court then asks defendant Sementilli if that date is agreeable and she affirms.
And that's it. The people inform the court that several SDT's that have been copied and returned to the court.
Next hearing is July 16th.
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Synopsys Custom Design Platform Accelerates Robust Custom Design for Samsung Foundry's 7LPP Process Technology
Samsung and Synopsys Release 7LPP Custom Design Reference Flow
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Jun 22, 2018 -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, has certified the Synopsys Custom Design Platform for Samsung Foundry's 7-nanometer (nm) Low Power Plus (LPP) process Samsung Foundry's 7LPP is its first semiconductor process technology to use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, a state-of-the-art process technology that greatly reduces complexity and offers significantly better yield and fast turnaround time when compared to its 10-nanometer (10nm) FinFET predecessors. Synopsys custom design tools have been updated to support Samsung Foundry's 7LPP requirements. In addition, a Synopsys-ready process design kit (PDK) and custom design reference flow are available from Samsung Foundry.
The Synopsys Custom Design Platform has been certified for Samsung Foundry's 7LPP process technology. The platform is centered around the Custom Compiler custom design and layout environment, and includes HSPICE, FineSim SPICE and CustomSim FastSPICE circuit simulation, StarRC parasitic extraction, and IC Validator physical verification. To support efficient 7LPP custom design, Synopsys and Samsung Foundry have collaborated to develop a reference flow that includes a set of tutorials illustrating key requirements of 7-nm design and layout. These tutorials include sample design data and step-by-step instructions for performing typical design and layout tasks. Topics covered include electrical rule checking, circuit simulation, mixed-signal simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, layout, parasitic analysis, and electromigration.
To achieve certification from Samsung Foundry, Synopsys tools have been optimized to support the demanding requirements of 7-nm design, including:
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"Our custom design collaboration with Synopsys has expanded substantially over the past two years," said Ryan Sanghyun Lee, vice president of Foundry Marketing Team at Samsung Electronics. "With this latest effort, we have added Synopsys Custom Design Platform support for our 7LPP process, including a custom design reference flow based on Synopsys tools."
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Key capabilities of the platform include physically-aware design, visually-assisted layout, reliability-aware verification, and IC Compiler™ II co-design. Physically-aware design minimizes the mismatch between pre- and post-layout simulation by fusing technologies from StarRC parasitic extraction into simulation and layout. Visually-assisted layout provides automation without requiring complicated constraints. Reliability-aware verification ensures robust design with signoff-accurate transistor-level EM/IR analysis, large-scale Monte Carlo simulation, aging analysis, and other verification checks. IC Compiler II co-design connects Synopsys' digital and analog tools to into a combined solution for mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) implementation. The Synopsys Custom Design Platform is based on the OpenAccess database, includes open APIs for third-party tool integration, and supports programming in TCL and Python. Platform tools include HSPICE and FineSim SPICE, CustomSim FastSPICE, Custom Compiler layout and schematic editor, StarRC parasitic extraction, and IC Validator physical verification. For more information, visit www.customcompiler.info.
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By Adrian Bridgwater, December 22, 2014
An open source cloud Dataflow SDK for Java
Google used its summer I/O event to unveiled Google Cloud Dataflow and described it as "significant step" towards a managed service model for data processing.
The firm now discusses availability of the Cloud Dataflow SDK as open-source to open up the integration gates. Google also hopes that this move will form the basis for porting Cloud Dataflow to other languages and execution environments.
"The value of data lies in analysis — and the intelligence one generates from it. Turning data into intelligence can be very challenging as data sets become large and distributed across disparate storage systems," Google reminds us.
Google Cloud Dataflow is now currently an alpha release, as a platform to democratize large scale data processing by enabling easier and more scalable access to data for data scientists, data analysts, and data-centric developers.
The firm promises that users can discover "meaningful results" from their data via simple and intuitive programing concepts, without the extra noise from managing distributed systems. So now with Cloud Dataflow SDK as open-source, another door opens.
According to Google, "We've learned a lot about how to turn data into intelligence as the original FlumeJava programming models (basis for Cloud Dataflow) have continued to evolve internally at Google. Why share this via open source? It's so that the developer community can spur future innovation in combining stream and batch based processing models."
Reusable programming patterns are a key enabler of developer efficiency — and here, the Cloud Dataflow SDK introduces a unified model for batch and stream data processing.
"Our approach to temporal-based aggregations provides a rich set of windowing primitives allowing the same computations to be used with batch or stream based data sources. We will continue to innovate on new programming primitives and welcome the community to participate in this process," reads the Google blog.
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Vol 20 No 23
Art by and for the lost
George Estreich
What I noticed, after we arrived in Melbourne from our small Oregon town, was the sheer density of it: how much graffiti there was. It was everywhere, in carparks, railway stations, on bridges and in alleyways, on trucks and trains and park benches and rubbish bins.
It was overwhelming, part of the blinding newness of Australia: an Antipodean light shined in my eyes, or the afterimage of that light, coruscating behind the eyelids.
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But in time the vibrating colors faded to particulars, and the particulars became familiar. The spots faded from vision, leaving a landscape that seemed strange and bright and new.
Riding the Cranbourne/Pakenham line to the State Library, I memorised the shadow destinations between the official stops: in the tunnels and retaining walls between Malvern — Armadale — Toorak — Hawksburn — South Yarra — Richmond — Parliament were fanged clown in agony, naked girl reclining, hieroglyph with eyes.
In time, walking around the city, I began to recognise the work of individual artists; and with that, I began to appreciate the vast spectrum enclosed by the word graffiti, from undeniable vandalism to undeniable art.
At one end of the spectrum, a black slosh across a dry-cleaner's window, and a sneaker print, where the artist stepped in his own paint: no message, only a mess.
At the other, the Martian-green man on the side of a defunct Richmond warehouse, brooding on a thought as immense as himself and strange as the color of his skin.
In between was a vast middle range of expression, violent, incomprehensible, arcane: words twisted and folded like proteins, icons plucked from an unknown rebus. Crowns, winged hearts, weapons. Hell's emoticons. Frescoes of the profane. Art therapy, by and for the lost. Obscure confessions. Unwritten laws. Splintered codex. Illuminations for the encyclopedia of Babel. Pictures that were words, words that were pictures.
Looking at them, I felt as if the city had bled in an intelligible form, as if the bricks themselves had opened up and told a secret. But I had no idea what the secret was.
The characters depicted in Melbourne graffiti fall, roughly, into four categories:
People in agony.
Aliens with weapons.
Men, laughing at the viewer.
A hot chick named 'Deb'.
The word 'Deb' is written in bubbly letters, the kind you'd expect in a young girl's diary. 'Deb' is ubiquitous in Melbourne, in pastel colors — pinks and ochres — that stand out from the aggressive neon favoured by the painters of aliens.
One day late in the year, walking around Collingwood, I came across a series of lizards rendered in earth tones. They were precise, rendered from above, as if the artist were a predator, an eagle descending. A wedge-shaped head; the living curve of a tail, ornamented with a devilish triangle. The lizards breathed on the wall, a sketch in spray paint.
The painting rendered a thing in the world, and it was a thing in the world unlike most graffiti, which is a thing in the world, but also seems an obsessively rendered map of the interior of the artist's skull.
But there were occasional clarities too. Once, waiting at a bus stop, I saw a plain message in block letters on a concrete wall: THERE IS NO EMOTICON FOR EXISTENTIAL DESPAIR.
As the year went by, the graffiti faded back into the texture of everyday life. Australia was our home, if only temporarily; and being at home entails a certain blindness of habit.
One day, on train platforms around the city, poster-sized warnings appeared: mere possession of a spray can meant a $500 dollar fine. I knew it would be less than a day before the warning was tagged, and I was right. I smirked and enjoyed the scrawled tags, but I knew that in the end I was on the side of the official signs: the neatly labeled stations in their predictable order, the rails guiding the train in its sparking, certain path.
I was on the train, not in the tunnel. Each day I went to the State Library to write. I sat on the brightly printed fabric of the seat and watched the graffiti go by like a single composite dream, the figures naked and agonised and sullen and smiling with unpleasant secrets, and when I arrived at Parliament a printed sign told me where I was.
George Estreich was born in New York City. He received a BA from the University of Virginia and an MFA in poetry from Cornell. His collection of poems, Textbook Illustrations of the Human Body, was published by Cloudbank Books in 2003. The Shape of the Eye, a book about raising his younger daughter, Laura, who has Down syndrome, will be published by SMU Press in 2011.
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rubbish is not art - that is what I read and I accept that it is right.
and I think there are main-streamers who don't want to understand new window of art.
I think they should find a common-ground.
Azure | 02 December 2010
nice piece. graffiti could make melbourne an even more beautiful, artistic, expressive city if people/government weren't so obsessed with keeping blank walls blank.
louise | 03 December 2010
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Two nuns and my second confession
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Scotty confirms tour with Brad Paisley!
Posted by Tarah at 9/27/2011 10:13:00 PM 10 comments
21 Under 21: Music's Hottest Minors 2011- Scotty comes in at #4!
They've got hit records, millions of fans, and the kind of success most musicians only dream of -- and they can't even buy a glass of champagne to celebrate their success. Welcome to Billboard.com's 2011 installment of 21 Under 21, our annual ranking of music's most powerful minors.
From bubbly boy bands to white-hot producers, sexy K-Pop princesses to pint-sized Reggeaton powerhouses, rising hip-hop stars to international pop icons, these are the fresh faces whose careers will continue to pack the biggest punches over the next 12 months. Get used to this crew, because they're all just getting started.
Birthdate: Oct. 9, 1993 (age 17)
Why He's Hot: When viewers first saw Scotty McCreery at the Milwaukee auditions for "American Idol" season 10, they could barely believe the big ole voice coming out of the North Carolina teen. McCreery skated through the season not only on his baritone and Josh Turner covers, but also his fresh-faced charm and country drawl. Crowned "Idol" champ back in May 2010, McCreery signed to Mercury Nashville shortly and delivered his first smash single, "I Love You This Big," to radio shortly thereafter. McCreery's idol status is set to loom even larger when his anticipated debut album, "Clear as Day," is released on Oct. 4.
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Brad Paisley Wraps Tour, Invites Scotty McCreery to Join Him On the Road in 2012
Brad Paisley’s H2O II: Wetter & Wilder World Tour played its final show this past Sunday night in Raleigh, NC. Paisley’s 2011 tour played to over 1,079,436 fans in 52 markets including five stadium shows and eight European performances.
As has been custom on the H2O II tour Paisley ended the show in Raleigh with an encore performance of crowd favorite “Alcohol” with all the tour special guests and others joining him on stage. When American Idol 2011 winner and Garner, NC native Scotty McCreery joined the group on stage the crowd went crazy. Paisley asked, “Do you want to go on tour with me?” and McCreery nodded “yes” in response. “Great, I’m going to take you out next year!” More details on Paisley’s 2012 tour will be out soon.
The last show of a Paisley tour is known for the pranks – and the Raleigh show was no different. A wide variety of shenanigans went on through-out the evening ranging from a toilet seat showing up on stage, a tour bus being trashed with packing peanuts, an artist’s meet and greet was swamped with an extra 200 fans and strange costumes appeared on stage during songs. But one prank Paisley had been planning for a while – he had done his research and ordered remote control water spraying trucks. During Blake Shelton’s performance Paisley stood side of stage and thoroughly enjoyed watching Shelton’s reaction as he was doused with water. During Paisley’s show he called Edens Edge on stage and presented them with a brand new Arkansas Razorbacks floor mat to replace the one that was destroyed a little earlier in the year – everyone’s happy now.
Special guests on the H2O II: Wetter & Wilder tour have been Blake Shelton and Jerrod Niemann with Sunny Sweeney, Edens Edge, the JaneDear Girls and Brett Eldredge as performers on the Water World Stage.
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Congrats on another top 40 hit Scotty!! So proud of you <3 Scotty is also listed on the Country's Music most added songs list!
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Posted by Hailey at 9/27/2011 04:13:00 PM 4 comments
Scotty McCreery Prepares For Album Release « Nashville Music Scene
Sent by Donna Edited by Hailey - This seems to be an official promotion event release. I think we have all these things listed on the side bar, but the "Today Show" question seems to be answered here, and yes he'll be there 2 days! The GAC Documentary looks to be really interesting, and we're gearing up for a whirlwind week!
Scotty McCreery Prepares For Album Release
Scotty McCreery will release his debut album, Clear As Day, on Oct. 4 during a week that will include several national television appearances and a hometown event celebrating his album release and 18th birthday.
“I am so excited,” Scotty says. “This is something we’ve been working on for months now and the release date is almost here. We are super-stoked and ready for you guys to hear the music.”
Scotty will perform on Today on Monday, Oct. 3. On Tuesday, Oct. 4, he will perform on Live With Regis and Kelly and appear on Today in the 10 a.m. hour.
GAC will premiere Introducing: Scotty McCreery on Oct. 3 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT. GAC cameras have been following Scotty since June and have captured many important moments that have occurred since he won Season 10 of American Idol in May. The show also features interviews with family, friends and industry leaders who have played an important role in his personal and professional life.
On Wednesday, Oct. 5, Scotty will perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. On Friday, Oct. 7, he will perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Scotty turns 18 on Sunday, Oct. 9, so he is inviting all of his friends and fans to attend his Album Release and Birthday Bash Homecoming. It will be held on Saturday, Oct. 8 at 11 a.m. at the Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek in Raleigh.
Scotty will perform with his band during the event and also participate in a Q-and-A with a WQDR radio personality and answer questions from the audience.
Those arriving at the event with a copy of Clear As Day will be admitted to the event free, along with a guest, and copies of the album will be sold at the venue. Also, tickets can be won through local media outlets. All attending the event will receive a commemorative poster.
“It’s going to be a blast,” he says. “It’s going to be held at the venue where I’ve grown up watching country concerts. It will be so cool to get the album out there and sing some songs and have a good time while doing it. It’s my 18th birthday party. What better way to celebrate than at Walnut Creek?”
On Oct. 11, Scotty will perform on The Grand Ole Opry, which will be televised on Opry Live on GAC at 8 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CT.
Contact: jerry@nashville.com
http://www.nashville.com/music/2011/09/scotty-mccreery-prepares-for-album-release/
Posted by Donna at 9/27/2011 02:40:00 PM 6 comments
Scotty's bday announcementWQDR-94.7 FM -- Today's Best Country
Scotty 94.7 QDR invites you to the world’s biggest 18th birthday and CD release party for our own hometown idol Scotty McCreery.
Listen to win your tickets this week so you can come and play Saturday October 8th 11 AM at Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion as Scotty celebrates his 18th birthday with a CD release party! Win tickets or support Scotty’s first CD release “Clear As Day” on Universal Music Group.
Bring Scotty’s CD with you or purchased the CD at the gate to get you and a friend in to the party. Scotty will sing us some of his new hits from the stage so plan on an event full of love as we finally welcome our American Idol winner Scotty McCreery home!
Here is some information about the venue, parking, directions, address etc..
http://www.livenation.com/Time-Warner-Cable-Music-Pavilion-at-Walnut-Creek-tickets-Raleigh/venue/114763
WRAL - Scotty McCreery at Garner Football.
Thanks for the heads up in the comment section for this one.
Scotty's On air interview with Ryan Seacrest 9/27
This is a fun interview, remember Ryan's show has one of the largest audiences, and even though it's a hiphop/top 40 it's great promotion! Scotty sounds very mature here, and answers the Thia/Scotty dating question, along with some things he used to sneak out and do, prior to going on stage during tour. They play a clip of "Walk In The Country", and it sounds AMAZING on radio. I'd not complain if this was the next single.
http://www.kiisfm.com/player/?station=KIIS-FM&program_name=podcast&program_id=onair.xml&mid=21439949 <-- click here to listen
It allows embedding, but I'm challenged to get the embed code to do it's job here. :/
Labels: Interview, Ryan Seacrest
Wish Scotty McCreery a happy birthday!
Scotty turns 18 on October 9th!
In the comments section below, feel free to post your birthday wish for him as part of our virtual birthday card.
Please help us get as many wishes as possible by spreading the word through e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and whatever else you can think of.
Let's make Scotty's 18th birthday the best yet!
Scotty McCreery 18th birthday party/cd release party
QDR announced today that Scotty McCreery will be having an 18th birthday party/cd party!
Saturday, October 8th @ 11:00 am
Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
IF YOU BUY A CLEAR AS DAY CD YOU CAN GET 2 FREE TICKETS TO THE PARTY! JUST BUY YOUR CD THAT DAY OR BRING THE ONE YOU'VE ALREADY PURCHASED
QDR will also be giving away 1,000 of tickets so tune into 94.7 QDR for your chance to win!
Scotty McCreery QDR BIG Scotty news coming today
@mikewheless. Tweeted this a few minutes ago
@ScottyMcCreery news coming today!!
Hang tight!!
We'll be sure to get the big news posted as soon as we find out what it is!!!
You can also listen at QDR.COM
Listen to Scotty McCreery on air with Ryan Seacrest this AM
Ryan's show is from 6am - 10am West Coast or Pacific Time or even (California time) he will be on after 7am, for me that's after 10am. You can listen live by clicking the stream below.
http://www.iheart.com/#/live/185/?autoplay=true <--- Listen here
If you miss it live, no problem I'm sure Ryan's site will have the interview up later, and we'll post it!
For those that aren't sure :D lol
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+ ====== Rick Genest ======
+ ~~socialite~~
+ Rick Genest is a Canadian male model that has been in editorials for Schon Magazine, Hunter Magazine and Dansk. What makes him unique is that he is completely tattooed to resemble a zombie.
+ ===== Personal Details =====
+ * Nationality: Canadian
+ * Height: 1.78 m
+ * Eye Color: Brown
+ ===== Agencies =====
+ Rick Genest is signed with Unique Denmark Copenhagen, IZAIO Management Berlin, Jill Models Management Antwerp, Why Not Model Management Milan and Premium Models Paris. His mother agency is Dulcedo Model Management in Montreal.
+ ===== Work History by Year =====
+ In 2011 Rick Genest modeled for an editorial in the spring edition of Vogue Hommes Japan, which was called Hard to be Passive. He modeled for an editorial in the spring edition of Arena Homme +, which was called Anatomy of a Murder. He modeled for an editorial in the spring edition of GQ Style UK. He modeled for an editorial in the April edition of i-D Magazine, which was called Alien Excess. He modeled for an editorial in the July edition of FFW Magazine, which was called Pierrot Tropical. He modeled for an editorial in the July edition of GQ Italia. He modeled for an editorial in the fall edition of Vogue Hommes Japan, which was called True Colors. He modeled for an editorial in the fall edition of Dansk, which was called Body of Evidence. He modeled for an editorial in the fall edition of Hunter Magazine, which was called Rick Genest. He modeled for an editorial in the October edition of Schon Magazine, which was called Undercover. He was in the fall ad campaign for Mugler. He was in the spring ad campaign for Auslander. He was on the spring cover of Fashion Magazine. He was on the Vogue Hommes Japan fall cover. He was on the October cover of Schon Magazine.
+ In 2012 he modeled for an editorial in the March edition of Vogue.It, which was called Rico the Bullshit Dodger. He modeled for an editorial in the fall edition of ES Magazine, which was called Portraits of Rick. He was on the July cover of Traffic Magazine.
+ In 2014 he was on the December cover of Dazed & Confused.
+ ===== References =====
+ * [[http://www.modelmanagement.com/blog/2011/03/04/model-rick-genest-zombie-boy-becomes-fashion-sensation/]]
+ * [[https://models.com/models/Rick-Genest]]
+ * [[http://www.unique.dk/male/models/rick-genest/]]
+ * [[http://www.city-data.com/forum/fashion-beauty/|Discuss Rick Genest on our popular forum]]
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»Former Miss EGSC, Harley Strickland, crowned 2016 Miss GSU
by Elizabeth Gilmer | February 15, 2016
Last Edited: February 23, 2016 by Katelyn Moore
Georgia Southern junior Harley Strickland was crowned Miss Georgia Southern University on Saturday evening during the 68th annual scholarship pageant hosted by the University Programming Board at the Performing Arts Center.
Strickland was chosen by the five judges out of 18 contestants who graced the stage as they competed in categories including talent, swimwear, evening wear and onstage question. The contestants also competed in a private interview prior to the pageant.
A journalism major from Claxton, Georgia, Strickland will go on to represent the University at the Miss Georgia Pageant in June. In addition to being crowned Miss Georgia Southern, Strickland will receive a $2,000 scholarship, which includes a Miss Georgia Southern travel stipend, 25% off at Frills by Scott during her reign and a complimentary photo shoot courtesy of Lori Grice Photography.
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Lewis Chessmen to be discussed
Posted at 9:37 am in British Museum, Similar cases
After a lot of coverage at the start of the year, it appears that efforts to secure the return of the Lewis Chessmen to Scotland are still underway, with the Scottish Culture Minister due to meet Neil MacGregor to discuss the issue.
Stornoway Gazette
Chessmen could celebrate ‘Homecoming’ on Lewis
By Michelle Robson
THE LEWIS Chessmen could be coming home next year as part of Scotland’s national celebrations.
2009 is the Year of the Homecoming and Scottish Ministers are hoping the British Museum will agree to return the historical items to their finding place.
Culture Minister Linda Fabiani said this week that she was due to meet the Director of the British Museum on October 6 to discuss the issue further.
Speaking in response to a question from MSP Hugh O’Donnell in the Scottish Parliament last week, Ms Fabiani said: “I discussed the Chessmen when I visited the British Museum in January this year, but have been disappointed by its apparent lack of responsiveness to continuing that dialogue. However, I have managed to secure a meeting with the director of the British Museum on Monday, 6 October. I hope that our discussion will be constructive.”
She added: “I am sure that the Member will be interested to know that there have been positive operational discussions between the British Museum and the National Museums of Scotland about potential future exhibitions of the Chessmen in Scotland and future collaboration on research. The National Museums of Scotland is also considering activities involving the Chessmen for the Year of Homecoming in 2009.”
Mr O’Donnell also quizzed Ms Fabiani on the general policy of the Scottish Government in repatriating artefacts and asked whether she supported a move to return the Elgin Marbles to the people of Greece?
Remaining focused on the Chessmen she replied: “Every case should be considered on its own merits. The case for the Lewis Chessmen is particularly strong, and there is no reason whatsoever why, under the current United Kingdom settlement, the British Museum should not return the chessmen to the National Museum of Scotland. Of course, come independence, how such things are dealt with will change.”
Western Isles MSP Alasdair Allan joined the debate and asked Ms Fabiani whether the plans would bring the Chessmen not only to Scotland but up to Lewis, and she told the Parliament she was optimistic this would happen.
“I have no doubt whatsoever that agreement will be reached between the National Museum of Scotland and Lewis so that Lewis’ legacy can be properly displayed throughout the Homecoming season.”
And so the debate about the rightful place for artefacts to be displayed continues and Conservative MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Ted Brocklebank, also questioned whether the Chessmen should be going ‘home’ to Norway rather than to Lewis.
Nevertheless, Ms Fabiani maintained that they should go back to where they were found.
“Research is on going not every expert agrees with Mr Brocklebank’s contention. However, the chessmean certainly marched out of the sea and landed at Uig, and that is where they should be,” she concluded.
Why aren’t the Lewis Chessmen returning permanently : October 26, 2009
Some of the Lewis Chessmen to be reunited temporarily in Scotland : October 1, 2009
More on the temporary loan of the Lewis Chessmen to Scotland : October 8, 2009
Lewis Chessmen to return temporarily on loan – but never permanently : October 5, 2009
Scotish minister to confront DCMS over Chessmen : January 26, 2008
Next move for Lewis Chessmen : January 21, 2008
The Lewis Chessmen are reunited temporarily : August 13, 2010
SNP steps up battle for Lewis Chessmen : August 20, 2010
Tags: British Museum, Lewis Chessmen, Neil MacGregor, Restitution, Scotland, Stornoway Gazette
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When I was a boy of 12-years-old, life seemed so uncomplicated. The year was 1954 and food rationing from the Second-World-War was still a recent memory. One's best wear comprised of 'hand-me-down' clothes and most toys were also 'hand-me-downs', including the favoured tricycle of the three boys in the family. Only wealthy adults ate eggs daily and the children of poorer households had to make do with the ‘egg top.’ In those days, we experienced a certainty which today’s youngsters will never know and would find difficult to understand. Do something wrong and the likelihood of getting caught was greater than that of escaping detection.
The formula was simple in the struggle to maintain standards in the community: do wrong and you would get caught and then punished for your transgression. There were no ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ that were accepted under the umbrella of ‘excuses’. There was no blurring in distinction by society between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ and consequently, there was no moral dilemma for the community to contend with.
Children caught raiding their neighbour’s orchard got a severe reprimand on the spot by the aggrieved owner, and when the local Bobby frogmarched them back home to their parent’s house, their mum and dad dispensed another dose of the same corrective medicine.
Those were the days when there was honour amongst thieves; when aggressive boys or men fighting other aggrieved males were armed only with the weapons which were anatomically attached to their bodies. These were the days when burglars didn’t try to ‘leg it’ or batter the arresting officer or house occupant senseless whenever caught in the act. Even the criminal was of a better class and had standards to maintain!
Any working-class young man between the ages of 15 and 21 years arrived home on wage day and unthinkingly handed his unopened weekly wage packet to his mother. She kept most of it as a contribution to the family budget. When the father of the house came home from his pit or factory job on wage day, he did the same before getting his wash in the tin tub. Both would receive some ‘spending money’ back from the woman of the house. Consequently, the son found this routine to be customary as he learned to ‘walk in his father’s footsteps.’ When however, the young wage earner became engaged to be married, this routine would usually change. He would then progress to ‘paying his board’, a much reduced amount that recognised he was now saving up to get married and needed to save for his 'bottom drawer.' Once married, the wheel of life would turn full circle, as working son became working husband and now handed his unopened wage-packet to a different woman in his life; his wife.
Morality was clear for all to see; it was unashamedly dressed in the certainty of black and white terms and totally devoid of any shade of grey. Girls weren't there for the taking as it so often seems today. They had to be chatted up, wooed and then courted for a number of months before one might even think of taking a romantic kiss any further.
There were two absolute truths shared by most children with unquestionable conviction: the existence of God and the undoubted wholesomeness of Horlicks and Hovis brown bread! Every child in possession of a functioning brain instinctively knew that the ‘Earth’s sandwich’ comprised of three stratas. Humans lived out their existence on the lower level and the sky represented the middle level. They also knew that only the sky separated mankind from God and His angels in Heaven and that the only way to get there was to lead a good life.
Few of us cared what lived beneath our feet, in the sub-strata under the crust of the Earth’s surface. That was the domain of dead bodies, rotting corpses, creepy crawlies and all buried past life. We accepted at face value that if such a spirit as the ‘Devil’ existed and a place called ‘Hell’, then it was ‘down there’ somewhere in the bowels of the earth.
All play and weekend leisure-hours were filled to life’s brim with exploration, excitement, sport, adventure, risk, socialised learning, and more fresh air than any pair of healthy lungs could cope with.
There were two community rules which were commonly acknowledged by all that helped to shape the character-building of the growing adolescent; strengthening the moral fabric of society’s code of conduct for young and old alike in the process.
The first rule stated that if you got caught with your hand in the till or your trousers down, you owned up and received your punishment without complaint. People were responsible for the consequences of their actions and were subsequently made to suffer such consequences.
Adult offenders were punished with a severity of sentence proportionate to the offence. The death penalty still existed in my early years of childhood for the murder of another person and I can still recall Ruth Ellis being the very last person in Great Britain to be hanged at H.M.Prison,Holloway on the 13th July, 1955. With regard to the crime of burglary which was viewed as a particularly vile crime, all burglars were automatically sentenced to prison and the only discretion exercised by the judge was whether it was one of two years or more! Whatever the length of sentence received corresponded more closely with the length of sentence served and though time for good behaviour might knock off a month or two from a two year stretch there was no automatic reduction of sentence by half as there is today, providing an inmate hasn't tried to escape or has knifed a Governor!
Being caught without a dog, radio or TV licence might warrant a small fine along with a mention in the local press and the shame of being so-named within your community. Transgressions in the work place always resulted in the instant sacking of the worker without the accruement of pension rights, or the forced resignation of the offender. With regard to rapists and the molesters of children; had they been offered capital punishment instead of the prison sentences they were sentenced to, many second offenders would have probably taken the option of the hangman as the easier way out! 'H.M.Prison Strangeways' in Manchester always fascinated me as a child as I walked passed its outer wall that seemed to me to go on forever.
The second rule identified a hierarchy of protected human species. Top of the list were children, followed by pregnant women, then widows, women in general, old age pensioners, disabled and infirm citizens, soldiers, and finally, able-bodied men. Despite being high on their list of 'protected species,' children seemed to receive a double-edged sword. Because parents wanted their offspring to grow up as ladies and gentlemen, it was universally accepted that the best way to achieve this was to occasionally physically chastise them; hence the saying, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." Looking in shop windos was never discouraged ,but wanting to buy all that was displayed certainly was.
Although they came first in the list of ‘protected species’, children came last in the sitting-down rotas of overcrowded buses and trains. They were, without exception, the ‘last’ to be heard to voice an opinion in any conversation which included adult participants. In the presence of adults, the main requirement of children was to remain respectful and silent, and to only speak if spoken to. Children of all social classes were rarely molly-coddled in areas of human functioning and social expectation. Do wrong in school and you got six of the best.
Although as children, we were deprived of today’s surplus toy mountains, what we lacked in material stimulation, we more than made up for through our imagination, collaboration and cooperation, along with using little more than a few of earth’s accessories that could be found in any house. Our childhood games and activities were played in a spirit of fairness and sportsmanship. In true Olympian spirit, ‘to play’ was as important as ‘to win’ and yet, nobody ever tried to suggest to us that ‘healthy competition’ and ‘winning’ were wrong!
Often, simple things available to all and sundry were all that was required as the foundation of a game. Easily accessible items were fashioned and put to new purpose in those games borne from the power of our imagination. Hours of play could be had through the simple use of a piece of wood, a pebble, a piece of chalk with which to draw a dozen squares on the pathway, a chain of daisies, a bucket and spade, a few chicken feathers with which to make a head-dress, or perhaps a dustbin lid that doubled as a knight’s shield and which defended one's body from enemy blows. Simply using one’s curved body as a ‘gym horse’ enabled hours of harmless pleasure to be derived by a group of children leap-frogging their evening away.
On a Monday evening we might be a policeman or a villain, a cowboy or a ‘Red Indian’ (political correction had yet to be born), one of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table or even Rob Roy. We always recognised the potential presence of our ‘wicked side’ and there was never a shortage of children wanting to play the role of a villain, renegade or robber.
On a Tuesday evening, we’d take our turn at being Robin Hood or the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. Any old sticks or rods would be used as swords of play. Dad’s clean handkerchief of large proportion, tied across your mouth as you ran astride your mother’s long-handled sweeping-brush would make you Tuesday’s cowboy. A section of your mother's washing line would be used to swing in looping manner above your head to rein in the fleeing bank robber.
And just as Robin Hood's arch enemy was the Sheriff of Nottingham, the natural foe of the cowboy in the 1950s (before anyone had ever heard of the term 'political correctness'), were the different tribes of 'Red Indian.' All that was required to make a brave's headdress was a rubber band fastened around the forehead with a chicken feather poking out. To complete the transformation from that of 'cheeky laddie' to 'Cherokee warrior', the judicious application of mum's lip stick and mascara to the face of the boy would ensure that he was now ready to fight the cowboys.
Wednesday evenings would be given over to either school homework or household chores and Thursday evenings would involve going down to the local record shop with a few of your friends to listen to the latest songs in the charts.We would try to hang around listening to the latest hit until some spoil sport adult moved us on. I never saw so many teenage hours spent listening to records they couldn't yet afford to buy! We would then finish back in our bedroom with a few of friends where we would either play records in our bedroom or talk about girls or boys at school who we fancied. There would usually be one person at the door keeping an ‘eye out’ for parental intruders while another of the group would waft all trace of the smoke out of the open bedroom window while the wicked weed of a woodbine was passed around.
Friday evenings might be spent plotting with the rest of the gang inside some makeshift woodland den, garden shed or elaborate tree house that it had taken ten of us to build during the six weeks school summer holidays, while the more physically mature or precociously inquisitive adolescent might seek to fill in the gaps in their biological learning by engaging in games such as ‘Truth or Dare’, ‘Kiss and Tell’ or ’Post Man’s Knock.’ In the event of one getting too bored by collecting too many forfeits instead of kisses, the remainder of the evening could be spent swapping stamps, picture cards or comics.
Up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday, the earlier part of the day was devoted to earning enough money from household chores to pay for the cinema ticket and an ice cream at the matinee performance of the day. If you got to the matinee early enough, you’d be able to watch the main feature film twice. If you couldn’t manage to raise the necessary entrance fee, you would arrive late and one of your pals would go to the toilets and allow you free entrance via the fire exit door that he opened. It wasn’t at all unusual to see one person go into the toilet and two come out! The person who got free entrance would then buy the ice cream for his accomplice-in-crime who’d initially made the feigned journey to the toilets. Whether early or late, you could always shout your head off when the film reel broke down, (which it always did), secure in the knowledge that they’d be no adult ushers around to tell you to ‘button it'.
The arrival of Sunday morning for most children would mean their compulsory attendance at church, dressed in posh clothes, fashioned to make you look like ‘a small adult’ in the making. Individual styles of clothes for young people were unheard of before the late 60's. It would take Rock and Roll, Punk Rock, Heavy Metal along with images of Elvis Presley, Johnnie Ray, Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde, Marlon Brando , Mary Quant , Sandy Shaw etc to bring into fashion, clothes designed to mark the differences between teenagers and their parents.
After church on Sunday,there would be the Sunday dinner eaten around the family table.Then, the working-class family either went for a country walk in the fresh air or visited one of the parks that had a bandstand. Entrance was always free and we grew up loving brass bands.There was also the Lido where children and parents could enjoy an open air swim. The families of the gentry and the upper middle classes made their usual visit to see some grand country house or attended the village cricket match as either player,spectator or supporter.
Sunday evenings would be spent preparing for the activities of the week ahead. Shirts would be ironed, socks darned, shoes polished and sandwich filling prepared for Monday’s ‘snap boxes.’ Everyone in the house would be expected to have a full body wash for the start of the new week tomorrow, even if there was insufficient hot water in the cistern to warm the bath water.The use of the bath room was strictly allocated on a hierarchy of wage earner within the household. Dad got the first bath and the warmest, cleanest water, while the bath contents gradually got colder and muckier the farther down the family line one was. More often than not, the youngest bairn in the household got their bath in the kitchen sink!
Five things distinguished the ’working class’ from their ‘middle class’ counterparts:
(1) Whether they voted Conservative or Labour.
(2) Whether they called their loo their ‘toilet’ or ‘lavatory.’
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Building trust to smartly invest in trees in the Philippines: A visit to the Tala-andig tribe
Explaining Smart Tree-Invest somewhere else in Lantapan. Photo: World Agroforestry Centre
By Amy Cruz, originally published at ICRAF’s Agroforestry World Blog
Datu Migketay of the Tala-andig was critical of some aspects of development and research projects. Photo: World Agroforestry Centre/Amy Cruz
Research and development aim to benefit local communities but how should researchers and indigenous people work together in projects? Four researchers from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) met with members of the Tala-andig tribe in Indonesia to discuss solutions. Amy Cruz watched and learned.
The Smart Tree-Invest project under the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry has been generally well-received in Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Yet, team members in the Philippines wanted to know what local communities think of the project. They met representatives from the Tala-andig tribe in Songco, Lantapan in Bukidnon Province in the southern Philippines.
ICRAF’s work in Lantapan is part of the Climate-smart, Tree-based, Co-investment in Adaptation and Mitigation in Asia (Smart Tree-Invest) project, which aims to help communities create local solutions to cope with climate-change risks.
ICRAF had identified the Tala-andig as important custodians of a critical watershed that was increasingly threatened by the impact of climate change. Smart Tree-Invest is funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development. IFAD stresses the importance of participation of marginalized groups, including women, youth and indigenous peoples; and the empowerment of smallholding farmers.
For the Tala-andig, the possibility of a ‘co-investment scheme’—in which all people interested in a watershed work together to ensure its benefits are sustainable—would not only mean an additional source of financial support but is also seen as way of strengthening their culture and introducing it to others.
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Map of Lantapan in Bukidnon province, Philippines. Source: Wikipedia
According to Victorino Saway, known to the Tala-andig as Datu Migketay, ‘The project could be seen as co-investment in the culture of our tribe because it is part of our culture to preserve the environment’.
If a co-investment scheme can preserve the tribe’s culture then the people can in turn contribute to improving environmental conservation.
Yet, the elders remained cautious. Datu Migketay talked about the importance of first building trust between the project team and the tribe. He emphasized how respecting their culture was important for the sustainability of any project.
Different understanding of development
There was often a disjunction, he explained, between some developers and his people because, for example, the tribe’s definition of development differed from the definition used by some of the organizations implementing projects in their area.
He gave the example of cementing roads in their village, which could be considered as a welcome development providing faster access all year round but these same roads also contributed to the fragmentation of their tribe by allowing individuals and families to disperse far from the central group.
Datu Migketay says of such development: “To be honest, I am tired. Tired of projects that only benefit those implementing them: projects that do not have any positive impacts for our people.”
Explaining the benefits Smart Tree-Invest somewhere else in Lantapan. Photo: World Agroforestry Centre
This was not meant to altogether discourage development projects or to say that research in development would not achieve anything. However, if institutions involved in development and research in development, such as ICRAF, wanted to truly improve people’s lives then an open, respectful approach was needed.
Researchers, in particular, should be ready to challenge standardized ways of thinking—even their own—and change inappropriate practices. Putting this to the test, researchers took the first step in growing mutual respect with the Tala-andig by obeying the directive to undergo the ritual.
As a result, the elders allowed researchers to return and conduct a participatory cultural impact assessment with the whole tribe to ensure that everyone, including women and young people, can identify their roles in the project. All members of the tribe shall also further discuss potential benefits and disadvantages of Smart Tree-Invest and decide as a group if they want to continue or not.
And so whether the project will continue with the Tala-andig is in the hands of the tribe themselves. Researchers may be hopeful as, during the special ceremony, the tribal leaders had asked for guidance from their highest god, Magbabaya, and spirits. Afterwards these elders noted that it seemed that Smart Tree-Invest could benefit their people.
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The Geography of Manitoba: Its Land and Its People
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Geography of Canada by Province or Territory: Geography of Alberta, Geography of British Columbia, Geography of Manitoba
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Geography of Manitoba: Red Coat Trail
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Extractions: Manitoba is the easternmost of the three Prairie Provinces. Comparatively level, Manitoba generally ranges from 490-ft./150 m to 980-ft./300 m above sea level. Baldy Mountain is Manitoba's highest point, at 2727 ft./831 m. Agricultural land lies in a triangle, bordering Saskatchewan and the U.S., cutting diagonally across lake Winnipeg. The northern 3/5 of Manitoba is Precambrian Shield. In northernmost Manitoba lies tundra and permafrost (permanently frozen subsoil). All waters in Manitoba flow to Hudson Bay. Before settlement, a large area of southern Manitoba was flood plain or swamp. An extensive system of drainage ditches had to be constructed throughout south central Manitoba to make the region suitable for cultivation.
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Geography. Easternmost of the Prairie Provinces, Manitoba is bounded on the N by Nunavut (with a northeast shoreline on
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Extractions: Encyclopedia Manitoba Easternmost of the Prairie Provinces, Manitoba is bounded on the N by Nunavut (with a northeast shoreline on Hudson Bay), on the E by Ontario, on the S by Minnesota and North Dakota, and on the W by Saskatchewan. The south and central part of Manitoba was once covered by Pleistocene Lake Agassiz ; as its waters receded into Hudson Bay, it left behind numerous lakes (the largest being Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Winnipegosis) and rivers (including the Nelson, Churchill, and Hayes) that flow northeast into the bay. In some places underlying rock formations were swept bare; in others they were covered with rich deposits of black loam. An expanse of almost uninhabited tundra surrounds the port of Churchill. Extending south from Churchill and east from Lake Winnipeg, the topography is that of the Canadian Shield ; limited areas have been cleared for general farming and dairying, and mineral and timber resources have been partly developed. Southern Manitoba is dominated by lakes, with Lake Winnipeg paralleled in the west by Winnipegosis and Manitoba. Most of the province's population is concentrated in the river valleys south of these lakes. To the west and north of the Red River valley, the land rises in an escarpment extending into the plateaus of the Pembina, Turtle, Riding, Duck, and Porcupine mountains. Much of this heavily forested area has been set off as reserves, and the Riding Mt. area is a national park. Winnipeg is the capital and the largest city, accounting for over half of the province's population in its metropolitan area. Other important cities are
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Extractions: Encyclopedia Manitoba Easternmost of the Prairie Provinces, Manitoba is bounded on the N by Nunavut (with a northeast shoreline on Hudson Bay), on the E by Ontario, on the S by Minnesota and North Dakota, and on the W by Saskatchewan. The south and central part of Manitoba was once covered by Pleistocene Lake Agassiz ; as its waters receded into Hudson Bay, it left behind numerous lakes (the largest being Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Winnipegosis) and rivers (including the Nelson, Churchill, and Hayes) that flow northeast into the bay. In some places underlying rock formations were swept bare; in others they were covered with rich deposits of black loam. An expanse of almost uninhabited tundra surrounds the port of Churchill. Extending south from Churchill and east from Lake Winnipeg, the topography is that of the
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Extractions: Encyclopedia Manitoba Easternmost of the Prairie Provinces, Manitoba is bounded on the N by Nunavut (with a northeast shoreline on Hudson Bay), on the E by Ontario, on the S by Minnesota and North Dakota, and on the W by Saskatchewan. The south and central part of Manitoba was once covered by Pleistocene Lake Agassiz ; as its waters receded into Hudson Bay, it left behind numerous lakes (the largest being Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Winnipegosis) and rivers (including the Nelson, Churchill, and Hayes) that flow northeast into the bay. In some places underlying rock formations were swept bare; in others they were covered with rich deposits of black loam. An expanse of almost uninhabited tundra surrounds the port of Churchill. Extending south from Churchill and east from Lake Winnipeg, the topography is that of the Canadian Shield ; limited areas have been cleared for general farming and dairying, and mineral and timber resources have been partly developed. Southern Manitoba is dominated by lakes, with Lake Winnipeg paralleled in the west by Winnipegosis and Manitoba. Most of the province's population is concentrated in the river valleys south of these lakes. To the west and north of the Red River valley, the land rises in an escarpment extending into the plateaus of the Pembina, Turtle, Riding, Duck, and Porcupine mountains. Much of this heavily forested area has been set off as reserves, and the Riding Mt. area is a national park.
manitoba geography. Easternmost of the Prairie Provinces, Manitoba isbounded on the N by Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories
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Extractions: Manitoba: Geography Easternmost of the Prairie Provinces, Manitoba is bounded on the N by Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories (with a northeast shoreline on Hudson Bay), on the E by Ontario, on the S by Minnesota and North Dakota, and on the W by Saskatchewan. Because of its central location it is a major national transportation center. The south and central part of Manitoba was covered by Lake Agassiz in prehistoric times. As its waters receded into Hudson Bay, it left behind numerous lakes (Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Winnipegosis) and rivers (Nelson, Churchill, and Hayes), which flow northeast into the bay. In some places the underlying rock formations were swept bare, and in others they were covered with rich deposits of black loam. Miles of almost uninhabited treeless tundra surround the port of Churchill. Extending S from Churchill and E from Lake Winnipeg, the topography is that of the Canadian Shield; limited areas have been cleared for general farming and dairying, and the mineral and timber resources have been partly developed. The southern part of Manitoba is dominated by lakes, with Lake Winnipeg paralleled in the W by Winnipegosis and Manitoba. Most of the province's population is concentrated in the river valleys S of these lakes. To the W and N of the Red River valley, the land rises in an escarpment extending into the plateaus of the Pembina, Turtle, Riding, Duck, and Porcupine mountains. Much of this heavily forested area has been set off as reserves, and the Riding Mt. area is a national park.
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Henk Rogers Talks Tetris, Tetris, Tetris
April 8, 2006 12:44 PM | Simon Carless
So, Henk Rogers is a very interesting person indeed - the original businessman who licensed Alexey Pajitnov's Tetris for the Game Boy, the co-owner of The Tetris Company, and most recently an ever richer man after his mobile company's sale to Jamdat, and that company's sale to Electronic Arts.
So, we're delighted to see an in-depth interview with Rogers over at Planet GameCube, in which some fascinating details are discussed, including the 'guidelines' for the Tetris franchise: "We have a minimum bar that we create every year, called the Tetris Guideline, and that guideline is the minimum spec for which someone has to create Tetris. And we raise that bar every year. Part of what we do in the guideline, for example, is dictate which buttons do what."
In fact, Rogers is surprisingly clear-headed, even Machiavellian about the whole thing: "We have two kinds of licenses: ones that makes us money, and one that helps move Tetris forward, and Nintendo [for Tetris DS] is one that actually does both. On the ones where the licensee is just in it for the money, we tell them what to do." Lots more great specifics elsewhere in the interview, too.
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In 1972, the Urraco, which had experienced several initial slowdowns, was finally put into production. Almost inevitably, the S version also arrived in October of that year. In this case, the goal was not to enhance the car’s performance but to improve its overall quality, which had been neglected in the haste to start production.
The following year, while waiting for the Countach prototype to be developed to a stage that would enable its production, the Espada was further modified and perfected, and the new series was presented in October 1972. New wheels as well as perfected detailing of the entire body, the dashboard, the central instrument panel and various components characterised this well-made Series III. This last series essentially represented the decisive peak in the evolution of this outstanding four-seater, which is still in great demand among Lamborghini fans around the world. Its production would reach the respectable figure of 1226 units, quite a large number for a carmaker of this size selling at top-level list prices.
The production model of the Countach was codenamed LP 400 because its V12 – positioned longitudinally behind the cockpit – was increased to an ideal displacement of 4 litres (3929 cc). This model debuted at the 1973 Geneva Motor Show.
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THE BIG INTERVIEW: Beyond the Cart
Having ‘retired’ from running their hugely successful company, Oily Cart, Susan Elkin caught up with Tim Webb and Dave Bennett to find out what the future now holds in store.
Hamlet at Leeds Playhouse
Susan Elkin chats to Amy Leach, associate director, about the casting of a female lead and ensuring a contemporary production.
Relaxed Ballet
Birmingham Royal Ballet will be offering its second relaxed performances in early 2019 – a specially adapted production of Beauty and the Beast at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton and Birmingham Hippodrome. Here, dancer Jonathan Payn describes his involvement in the planning of this special production. Please introduce yourself for us: I’m Jonathan Payn, First Soloist […]
Nurturing Young Talent
The Lyric Hammersmith has extended its education outreach work. Susan Elkin went along to find out more.
Proudly Different
Musical Theatre Academy, long since rebranded as TheMTA, is a tiny vocational drama college whose working methods, influence and achievements are out of all proportion to its size. Susan Elkin went to find out how.
EXHIBITION: Razzle Dazzle ‘Em
Graham Hooper takes in a couple of shows looking at the art of distortion and its very practical application
Pause for thought… Christian Knowledge
Susan Elkin puts forward the case for Christian knowledge as an intrinsic part of English lessons
TheatreCraft
Susan Elkin visited TheatreCraft 2018, offering great advice to students looking for careers in the creative industries.
Book Review: Being a Playwright – A Career Guide for Writers
By Chris Foxon & George Turvey Published by Nick Hern Books Iwas delighted when this how-to book landed on my desk. I’m a writer (over 100,000 words a year). I go to the theatre to review several times a week. I’ve long thought I should somehow knit the strands of my life together and write […]
THEATRE REVIEW : Macbeth – National Youth Theatre 2018 Rep Company
The National Youth Theatre Rep Company is a vocational training group of 15 or 16 actors aged 18-25 who present a West End season at the end of their quasi-course. It’s the top tier of NYT’s work. Most participants go straight on to professional work. Abridged to 90 interval-less minutes by Moira Buffini and pithily […]
Having a knees-up
From playing village halls to touring Los Angeles, Kneehigh has come a long way since it began as a schools’ theatre company in the early 80s, yet its Cornish origins run deep and continue to influence its productions. Mark Glover finds out more about this extraordinary touring company.
Thirty-seven years ago, a primary school teacher working in the South Coast of Cornwall gathered a together a group of friends including a supermarket sign-writer, an ex-dancer and a thrash guitar player and set-up the theatre Company. That teacher with a quirky passion for theatre was Mike Shepherd and the company was called Kneehigh.
Born in Cornwall, Shepherd headed to London, pursuing acting opportunities that never quite materialised. He returned to the South West in 1980 and began touring schools with his new outfit, it was here the name Kneehigh from the saying ‘knee high to a grasshopper’ was taken; a nod to the small children they were playing to.
Mike and Kneehigh soon graduated to playing the South West’s strong village-hall circuit performing small-scale shows in rural communities. As ideas flourished the company would out-grow these smaller set-ups; its creative heart, however, would continue to beat from these rural pockets.
A natural progression to mid-sized venues should have followed, however given Cornwall was some years away from a venue of those capacities (The 969-seater Hall for Cornwall re-opened in 1997 with 969 seats) Kneehigh went, quite literally, back to its routes.
Mike began working with the late Bill Mitchell, who would later start Wildworks, putting on shows in the woods, fields and quarries of Cornwall, essentially inventing large-scale outdoor theatre work. Throughout the 90s Kneehigh became renowned for this type of natural theatre.
Then in 2000, Emma Rice joined as an actor and was soon handed the artistic reins. A year later, her bold and grizzly interpretation of The Red Shoes led to shows in the West End and a UK tour. It also affirmed Kneehigh as a touring company as well as Rice’s reputation who would go on to become artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Fast forward to the present day and Kneehigh now play to between 100,000 and 200,000 people nationally and internationally including New York and Los Angeles; it seems a long way from village halls, schools and quarries. Shepherd, at 65 still performs on-stage today and remains Artistic Director.
“People are quite surprised by these figures,” says Charlotte Bond Kneehigh’s General Manager, “We’re still a small company. We have a core staff of 12 but employ freelancers in different capacities for different projects but we think of ourselves a UK company. Our rehearsal space and office are still in Cornwall.”
Cornish influence
In 2014, as an ode to the area, the landscape and its people the Kneehigh Asylum, a portable venue, made its debut in a large remote field. Essentially a large tent, the venue plays around Cornwall for a season each summer. Its malleable structure means the occasion is different for each performance. “We try and re-invent that experience every time we do an Asylum season,” Charlotte explains. “The configuration of the tent will change and the front of house area will change. You’re changing it depending on the show and depending on the audience who you think might come and see that performance.”
This audience connection is core part of Kneehigh’s ethos. Their style of story-telling is very immediate, Brechtian almost. Audiences are exposed to stories that Kneehigh are keen to tell, making each show an important event that often carries with it a message. “We always want to create a sense of event for our audience and we never take that sense of event for granted,” says Rice. “We always try and surprise our audiences which comes from being responsive to the world.”
One such response is Kneehigh’s version of the Tin Drum. Two years ago, Shepherd visited the ‘Jungle’ the refugee holding camp in Calais. Here he worked alongside the Good Chance theatre company, who erected a pop-up venue in the ‘Jungle’ and put on plays for some of the asylum seekers.
Charlotte says that Shepherd’s experience in such an inhuman yet disturbingly real environment shaped his approach to interpreting Grass’ Nazi satire. “The play is very much a response to a real-world that he has experienced. I’d say it’s a call to action rather than an escapist fairy tale.”
All the ingredients
The Tin Drum, like all of Kneehigh’s productions began life as a series of thoughts, brainstorms and ideas cooked up in remote barns and outhouses on the cusp of a small Cornish village called Gorran Haven. Coastal paths splinter off from the settlement, the nearest station is half hour away by car and the majority of visitors are seagulls.
“Our ideas are always seeded in the barns,” Bond says. “It’s a great way of creating that really intense focus that you need to generate and work-up ideas. In London or other urban environments people always have something to do but in Gorran Haven, there’s nowhere to go!”
It’s this controlled yet off-the-cuff approach that really filters through in Kneehigh’s productions, where components such as music, costume and puppetry rise to the surface. Because of this their work appears on many a syllabus bringing requests from teachers and students for insight into the creative process however, as Charlotte says, this formula just doesn’t exist. “I’ve been here for ten years and we’ve always had lots of queries asking how we make the work and we’ve always struggled to respond to them,” she admits. “What we do have is a toolkit; we take an idea and with our toolkit in respond to that idea. We include things like music, lights, costumes and puppetry, so we have a selection of ingredients and we make a creative space and we essentially cook something up.”
Kneehigh’s audiences are often made up of school groups, however pupils scribbling while Mike is performing should be wary: “Mike gets really cross if people are taking notes when he’s acting. He feels that it stops people from interacting with the show and has often taken exercise books off students!”
To counter such incidents and to satisfy intrigued Kneehigh followers, the company produces an online education portal called the Kneehigh Cookbook. The visually driven, interactive mini-site encourages people to discover its many different creative elements such as lighting, production and design but never tells people what to do. “It’s about mixing and matching and trying things out and seeing where stuff takes you,” Charlotte says. “But ultimately it’s about a group of people making something rather than a style sheet.”
The Cookbook came from overwhelming interest in Kneehigh’s output, however there are many people from Cornwall who are unaware of the company, and unaware that theatre is something open to all. Like most parts of the United Kingdom, Cornwall has its share of deprivation. The edges remain wealthy and affluent but it’s the ex-industrial towns in the centre (Cornwall has a rich mining history) where engagement in the arts is very low. It’s here that Kneehigh, working with charities focus their outreach often inviting groups to come and visit the Asylum over the summer period.
At the same time, these areas are often rich in history and offer a wealth of stories from it residents. The Kneehigh Rambles is a typically creative form of community interaction that sees the company’s long-term writer and poet, Anna-Maria Murphy physically walking the lesser-trodden paths of Cornwall, listening to the stories of people that she meets along the way. From this, Anna will re-work the anecdotes, creatively exaggerating them into weird and wonderful yarns that feed into just as weird and wonderful videos that are hosted on the Kneehigh site.
The Rambles extend beyond Cornwall, and given the strong relationship the company have with the West Yorkshire Playhouse and their community engagement programme, Anna was invited to take her note book to the streets of Leeds meeting third generation Irish, members of the Carribean community and a man from Ghana waiting to see if his asylum application was going to be approved. “Sometimes,” Charlotte says, “Anna doesn’t need to exaggerate these stories at all, sometimes they just tell themselves.”
It’s a sentence that seems to sum up Kneehigh. There’s a pride in the lack of formula and rigid approach they take; that sometimes stories, much like the Cornish environment they are cooked up in, will occur naturally and beautifully and be all the better for it. Perhaps it’s an approach we could all think about.
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New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge is currently undergoing a $43 million renovation, with the full refresh of the property's 667 rooms slated for completion this summer.
The first newly built, branded hotel in the famous borough when it opened in 1998, the Brooklyn Marriott launched the renovation project with the Millennial traveler in mind. The first phase – including The Bar (Great Room Lobby), Front Desk and exclusive new M Club Lounge – was unveiled this past summer, redesigning the spaces in a modern, industrial chic style with locally-inspired art and other elements throughout. The second phase, which was completed just recently, included all 44,000 square feet of meeting spaces and the ballroom, the largest in Brooklyn.
For guests who want a real taste of Brooklyn, the hotel is also partnering with local businesses to add new services and amenities. From a culinary perspective, the hotel will work with local purveyors - Brooklyn Roasting Company coffee, Brooklyn Winery, Ovenly pastries, Featherstone bagels, and more.
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A HANDSOME TRIBUTE TO BUDDHIST ANANDA
Ananda College 1886 - 2011
by Tissa Devendra
Although I am not quite an Anandian, I grew up with the values of patriotism and Buddhism that moulded my father, D. T. Devendra, as a young teacher at Ananda during the golden era of its Principal the charismatic Kularatne. Ananda's Old Boys' Association has now honoured their alma mater with this handsome , and amazingly comprehensive, volume of its history, achievements and the role it has played in Sri Lanka's modern history .
Ananda was never just another school from its very beginning as the 'Buddhist English School' when Ceylon was yet a British Colony. Anagarika Dharmapala's vigorous campaigning for a Buddhist resurgence was now inspiring a rising Sinhala mercantile class proud of their ancient Buddhist civilization. Social and commercial advancement was, however, the monopoly of the largely Christian, subaltern class educated in English in Missionary schools. These schools were the only avenue for a modern education by which Buddhists could rise in business or government service.
To the great good fortune of Sinhala Buddhists there arrived in 1880 the American Theosophist Colonel Henry Steele Olcott [whose second name this volume unforgivably misspells- minus the final 'e'] The amazing impact that Olcott had on the Buddhist revival is well recorded in Chapter 2 of this volume .Olcott embraced Buddhism and was acclaimed by the Buddhist public. As a citizen of a modern state he soon realized that the sadly insular Buddhists were in the stranglehold of a Christian educational system geared to the needs of the Colonial government. Olcott understood that what Buddhists lacked was a modern education and the remedy, he identified, was to establish Buddhist English schools on modern lines on par with missionary schools. He set about this tremendous task with characteristic American vigour and 'fathered' the establishment of Buddhist English schools in many important towns. The first of these was the Buddhist English School [later Ananda College] in Colombo in 1886.
Ananda's early history has been well researched in the section The Formative Years. Olcott was very perceptive in ensuring that the first Principals were English or American. The fact that he was a 'white' American would have made the British Colonial government treat him with caution, though irritated with his pro-'native' activities. This factor made Olcott ensure that quite a few of Ananda's early Principals were "European" fellow Theosophists. These gentlemen were an interesting, occasionally eccentric, band but did a great service to place the fledgling Ananda as a modern English Buddhist school, complete with a cricket team. Leadbeater, the first Principal, was followed by Davis, Moore and Fritz Kunz. There was also a lack of educated Sinhala Buddhists prepared to head a new school. The yeoman service done by these early non-national Principals has been well recorded here.
Meanwhile, the Buddhist Theosophical Society [BTS] of leading Buddhists had assumed the management of all Olcott established schools, most importantly Ananda. They noticed that these Theosophist Principals, though good administrators were quietly emphasizing Theosophist beliefs. It was decided, therefore, to ease them out and recruit 100% Buddhists as Principal. This has been the policy right up to the present day, to ensure Ananda's Buddhist heritage. Buultjens and D. B. Jayatilaka were the first Ceylonese Buddhist Principals. Both were scholars and British qualified Barristers, thus, deflecting any doubts of their academic competence to head Ananda. Another Barrister, young P de S. Kularatne took the reins in 1918 - the year the 'Great War' ended and the Golden Age of Ananda began. The Section 'Coming of Health Minister and Co-Cabinet Spokesman Dr. Rajitha Senaratne has gone so far as to drag Lenin, of all late leaders, into the SAITM (South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine) dispute. He tells us that the legendary Bolshevik leader, if alive today, would call university students’ forcible entry into his ministry last week an act of terrorism. Referring to Lenin’s seminal work, Left-wing communism: An Infantile Disorder, the minister has quoted chapter and verse, to drive his point home.
Having cut his teeth on progressive politics as a dental science undergrad, in the 1970s, Dr. Senaratne is quite au fait with socialist ideology. His knowledge of Leninism cannot, therefore, be questioned. The same goes for many other former leftists who are now members of the present capitalist government, parading their knowledge of Marxism and Leninism while practising the very antithesis thereof for political expediency. Even the devil quotes Scripture for his purpose.
So, Minister Senaratne is convinced that what the anti-SAITM students resorted to at his ministry last week was terrorism and the government was right in ordering an STF crackdown. His statement may be read as a warning that the same treatment would be meted out to protesting undergrads in case of a repeat performance. One is intrigued.
The anti-SAITM protesters obviously overstepped their limits and found themselves on the wrong side of the law when they occupied the Health Ministry and caused considerable damage to vehicles and buildings there. They provided the government with an excuse to use force which was disproportionate to the threat they posed. But, why didn’t the grandees of the present dispensation including Senaratne, advocate the use of force to neutralise real terrorism which plagued the country for nearly three decades until May 2009?
It may be recalled that in 2006, Dr. Senaratne, as a prominent member of the Anti-war Front, denounced military action against the LTTE in spite of its savage terrorism. Even after the terrorists had carried out a claymore mine attack on a bus in Kebitigollewa, killing 60 civilians including 15 children, he declared, at an Anti-war Front rally in Colombo, that neither he nor the UNP would ever support the country’s war against the LTTE. He as well as his present ministerial colleague, Dilan Perera, called for continuing negotiations with the Tigers amidst mine attacks on military personnel. Is forcible entry into a ministry a more serious offence than massacring civilians?
The SAITM issue boils down to a chronic failure on the part of the state, under successive governments since Independence, to develop national universities to cater to the increasing demand for higher education. If anyone is to go by Lenin’s teachings, he or she should call for allocating more funds for developing the state-run university system to guarantee the right of each and every student qualifying for university admission to receive higher education so that the question of private universities will not arise at all.
Let the so-called leftists in the present government be asked what punishment Lenin would have prescribed for political crooks for amassing ill-gotten wealth at the expense of the masses and spending public funds to the tune of billions of rupees on super luxury vehicles for them while shirking their legislative responsibilities? The Bolshevik leader would have got them whipped in public and thrown behind bars.
How would Lenin have dealt with politicians and their cronies sponging off the public, selling national assets to foreigners and defending racketeers carrying out bond scams and helping themselves to workers’ savings? He would have got them lined up and shot dead.
Finally, one may wonder what Lenin would have done to pseudo-socialists quoting him selectively to justify the use of violence to advance a capitalist agenda; he may have seriously considered having their teeth pulled out without anaesthesia.
Lenin would backflip in his grave if he knew what is being said and done in his name in this republic which is neither socialist nor democratic.
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Indo-Pacific woman wins- Miss Congeniality 2018
April 19, 2018 Indian Newslink
Auckland, April 19, 2018
When Rukshana Afu was crowned ‘Miss Congeniality 2018’ and declared First Runner-Up at the ‘Mrs India Australia’ Contest held in Gold Coast on April 14, there was not just applause but also agreement from all other contestants, organisers and of course the audience.
For, this young, mother of two, is known for her compassion, ability to make friends and extend her love and care for people in distress.
It was nonetheless a moment of justifiable pride, for there are 26 contestants who were vying for the title, with eleven of them making it to the final.
About the Contest
Organised by Miss India Australia Corporation, the Mrs India Australia Contest is open to women of Indian origin between 19 and 50 years of age.
The Company’s National Director Reena Koak said that the Pageant provides an opportunity for Women to make a difference and let their inner beauty shine.
“Our Pageant has been created to celebrate the outstanding success one has achieved in different phases of life. As such Mrs India Australia Corporation strives to recognise beautiful, successful, and confident and goal-driven women. This glamorous and prestigious event also provides a unique forum for empowering Indian women to be the best,” she said.
About Rukshana Afu
Rukshana is proud of her intercultural and inter-Pacific heritage. Her father (Abdul Ahmed) is a Fijian Muslim from Lautoka, Fiji, while her mother Violeta is a Samoan Christian. She is married to Sione Afu, a Tongan Christian and has two children- ten-year-old Aliyah and four-year-old Isaac.
Supporting people
She pursues the profession of providing support as a ‘Birth and Bereavement Doula’ and Infant Massage Instructor. Earlier, she worked as a Chiropractic Assistant for seven years but works at home and takes bookings for Chiropractic Clinics.
“I have launched an ‘Anti-Bullying and Mental Illness Campaign’ aimed at helping ethnic women. I offer them help to make them feel supported, to speak up, raise awareness among mothers, wives and fulltime workers who struggles daily. I hope to host workshops and retreats for women shortly,” she said.
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Rukshana Afu being given the Ms Congeniality 2018 Title
Rukshana Afu with Nikhil Goyal, Satinder Benepal (Owner of Haveli Maharaja Restaurant), Sanjida Kabir Borsha and Reena Koak
Rukshana Afu in her ‘Gold’ Themed dress for Round 3 of the Contest
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Sen. David Vitter (R-Louisiana) won't say why he agreed to have disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff host a fundraiser in Washington, D.C.
Vitter, however, admits he knew at the time of the September 9, 2003, event that Abramoff represented gaming tribes. Vitter says he opposes the expansion of gaming.
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Report: Former Norton organization subpoenaed (3/1)
Tribes gave $175K to group founded by Norton (2/28)
Coushatta Tribe sues ex-lobbyists for $32M (11/17)
Vitter 'conned' by group opposing tribe (11/12)
Senate panel asks Coushatta Tribe for tapes (10/27)
Ralph Reed paid $4.1M to oppose tribes (10/26)
Congressman denies knowing of tribe's backing (10/18)
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Coushatta member threatened over recall effort (08/09)
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Coushatta leaders used tribal money to pay lobbyists (4/8)
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Congressman builds opposition to Choctaw tribe (02/19)
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Learn to Love Classical Music. Find Out What Amazing Songs You May Have Been Missing!
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I love almost every genre of music. On my playlist, you’ll find Nine-Inch-Nails, Metallica, Stevie Wonder, Al B. Sure, Martina McBride, Nina Simone, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Nickel Creek, Sugar Hill Gang, Billie Holiday, Depeche Mode, Frank Sinatra, John Legend, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd (of course), Major Lazer (that’s embarrassing, but I love Bubble Butt), Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, Adele, and lots of obscure and some controversial songs. While my list and range are expansive, I have a very special place in my heart for classical music; it’s the heart and soul of today’s rebellious music.
Composers Were Considered Rebels
Beethoven would have been considered a hard-core, heavy metal rock star back in his day. Ravel was kicked out of his music class for producing unconventional sounds. Debussy’s impressionistic music was also considered weird and non-conforming[1]. These composers, and many other famous composers, were not always popular. Many composers were considered socially awkward and were generally misunderstood. Feeling deeply misunderstood is a feeling that many of us could identify with on a universal level at some point in our lives; in our youth, adolescence, or adulthood.
How My Classical Music Obsession Started
My obsession with listening to good classical music probably started from before birth, when my mom was pregnant with me; my parents shared a passion for listening to amazing classical music. My dad played piano and guitar for my mom and she would sing. It was typical for our family to spend Saturday and Sunday mornings listening to classical music blast through my parents’ bedroom stereo. We would all flop on the bed in our pajamas and just melt into the music.
A List of My Favorites
I’ve been asked by many friends, especially younger generations, to provide a list of my favorite classical pieces. I’d like invite you, my friends, to flop onto my virtual Sunday morning bed and take a listen as I share some of my favorite pieces, listed by composer:
Beethoven:
Sonata No. 8 in C minor for Piano, Op. 13, “Sonata Pathetique”
Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op. 37: I. Allegro con brio
Moonlight Sonata
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: 2. Allegretto
Beethoven exudes a desperate, deep brooding sadness in Symphony No. 7. Then he surprises us with extreme, angelic elation in Ode to Joy in his 9th Symphony; you feel so much joy, it brings tears to your eyes and lumps in your throat. Beethoven's music, to me, represents the dynamic range of emotions we feel throughout major life events, such as the birth of a child; the loss of someone close to us; and deep, eternal love.
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto
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Ravel:
Pavane pour une infant defunte – for Piano
Ma Mere L’Oye – for Piano (from Mother Goose Suite)
I love Ravel because he puts the most unusual notes together to form a roller coaster of unconventional, yet beautiful, sounds. I never imagined that such seemingly clashing notes could come together to produce such rich chords. The Pavane pour une infant defunte, for Piano, begins with a somber sadness, explodes with a crying out of pain, then ends with a form of acceptance and peace with whatever fate the composer was handed. I prefer the piano version over the orchestral version because more of the distinct note nuances can be heard in the piano, making your music ride deeper and more fulfilling.
Ravel: Works for Solo Piano (Complete)
Mozart:
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K 488: I. Allego
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K 488: II. Adagio
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, “Elvira Madigan”: II. Andante
Symphony No. 25 in G Minor – K. 183: 1. Allegro con brillo
Most of Mozart's music is light-hearted and frilly, like Bach, except with additional sharps and flats to evoke a slight sense of mystery. My favorite songs that I listed by Mozart are not his typical sound, but I enjoy them because I feel that this is Mozart’s version of reaching inside of himself and pulling out the deepest somber feeling he could muster. His deep pieces sound more contemplative and slightly romantic to me than brooding. Many of his pieces are just plain fun and happy.
Faure:
Pavane Opus 50
Faure transforms us from this world to the next with his Requiem. It's dark, somber, and non-secular with angelic-sounding interjections that woo you through the veil between life and death; these sirens beckon you to join Heaven's choir. My interpretation of the entire Requiem is one of a long journey of one's ascension to the next life. I never tire of listening to this composer.
Fauré: Requiem; Pavane
Rachmaninov:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Rachmaninov is probably best known for his romantic song, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, that was used in the famous movie, 'Somewhere In Time'. However, to me, his Piano Concerto No. 2 trumps all of is other work. This piano concerto starts explosively; you think the pianist is going to break the piano strings. Then we continue our cold and very Russian-sounding journey through Rachmaninov's tough exterior and into his tender soul, where much passion and love reside. When the entire concerto is over, because you won't be able to stop listening once you're pulled in, you're left sighing, feeling humbled and grateful for your life.
Rimsky-Korsakov:
Scheherazade, Op. 35 & Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36
I'm not really a fan of Rimsky-Korsakov's famous Flight of the Bumble Bee; it sort of stresses me out with its insanely erractic, busy notes. If Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee also steered you away from venturing further into his music, you'll be surprised to learn that he has some other compositions that are very different from that stressful piece.
If you like the story of Aladdin, you'll probably love Rimsky-Korsakov's entire Scheherazade compilation, which capture the tales from the literary classic, 1001 Arabian Nights, through music. His work contains sounds of war, raging tempests while sailing at sea, seduction, beauty, betrayal, fear, and passion, just to name a few of the many themes packed into this collection of adventures. You can even read the book that contains the short stories to coincide with the music.
1001 Arabian Nights (Literary Classics)
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Vaughan Williams:
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Fantasia on Greensleeves
The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams gives us a metaphysically awakening experience with his perfectly tuned strings and flutes. The Lark Ascending never fails to leave me feeling like my soul has been purified of all wrong-doing and my maker welcomes me home with open arms.
Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.
Grieg:
Death of Ase (from Peer Gynt)
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Anitra’s Dance
Grieg has a mischievous and adventurous quality to his music. His sounds range from sneakily tip-toeing toward your unaware victims to surprise them, to sweet Gypsy-like melodies, to somber, funeral-esque mourning.
Chopin:
Op. 28, No. 4 in E Minor, Suffocation
Nocturnes, Op. 72: No. 1 in E Minor
These two romantic pieces by Chopin are my absolute favorite songs by this composer. Most of you are likely familiar with the song, Op. 28, No. 4 in E Minor, Suffocation, because it was used in The Notebook movie. If you loved that song, then you'll really love the romantic Nocturnes, Op. 72: No. 1 in E Minor.
Chopin: Nocturne No.19 in E minor, Op.72 No.1
Debussy:
In my opinion, Debussy deserves his own article. He is in a class of his own. Most people know Debussy from the famous Claire de Lune song that begins quietly and slowly starts to sprinkle little droplets of rain. The song builds to a steady shower, climaxes to an all-out deluge that douses us with waterfalls of notes. The song finally ends the way it had begun...with simple little droplets, ending the rain storm. The song, The Snow is Dancing, sounds like swirling snow flurries. One can also hear childlike tauntings interwoven throughout this song...as if the snow teasses the child to come play in its flurry. Debussy never disappoints!
Rodrigo:
Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra – 2. Adagio
Fantasia para un Gentilhombre for Guitar and Small Orchestra: 2. Espanoleta y Fanfare de la Caballeria de Napoles
This traditional old-world, Spanish-style classical guitar is just plain beautiful and simple. Rodrigo's sound is not overly complicated like some of the other more modern Spanish guitar composers. Though Rodrigo remains seemingly humble, his impressive guitar composition skills continue to dazzle the listener still today.
Bach:
Praeludium I (sometimes used to accompany Ave Maria)
Praeludium II
Tocatta and Fugue in D minor
French Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 815, for Piano : I. Allemande
Who doesn't love Tocatta and Fugue...especially around Halloween-time? Bach is a very structured composer who liked to follow the rules and who rarely, if ever, ventured outside of that structure. Bach is the first composer I learned to play piano with; he is a great music teacher and, as a bonus, he's typically easy to play but makes you sound like a great pianist. Bach gives a busy, stacatto feel to many of his works while maintaining a mathematical, scientific structure of harmonizing runs and notes that call and answer each other.
Not All Classical Music is Awesome
I realize that my definition of good classical music is purely subjective and that the reason there exists so many classical pieces and genres is that everyone has different tastes. Beethoven is one of my all-time favorite composers and is a total genius, but, not everything he wrote was amazing. It takes a lot of sifting through the good, the bad, and the ugly to discover which pieces float your boat when you listen to them. To fan the flame of a possible interest in classical music, you may want to start with the movie, Immortal Beloved.
The Great Songs Rarely Get Air Play
Most people I meet don’t really know that super incredible classical music exists. For that, I blame classical radio stations and just a general lack of exposure at home and in schools. I’ve lived in or near big cities on both ends of the coast of the United States and I could probably count on one hand the number of times I have heard a good classical song. In fact, the only time I hear an amazing classical piece is when the radio station is selling a collection of the best classical pieces in the world in order to raise money to continue playing the crappy junk they usually play. This tells me that they knowingly play crap. Don’t they know that if they always played good stuff that they would have more listeners?
Additionally, if you’ve ever added a classical composer station to your favorite music-listening site or app, you probably ended up sifting through songs like Beethoven’s Pathetique (a personal favorite) on a sub-standard instrument, set to sea gull and ocean wave background noises…in between weird new age songs played on electronic instruments…this saddens me. It felt like a mockery of one of my all-time favorite pieces; it’s like hearing your favorite song as elevator music (unless you actually love elevator music). It’s okay to be picky and to critique different recordings of the same song. The quality of recordings, the conductor, and the instruments used can drastically affect the musical impact to the listener.
Introducing Classical Music into Your Life
Do yourself these favors:
Listen to classical music on a really good stereo or with high quality headphones or ear buds.
Attend a local orchestra or concerto; I challenge you to not cry sometime during the performance.
When the hospital hands you the complimentary classical music CD to play for your new baby, don’t throw it away. Give it a listen.
Play classical music while your kids do their homework, while you’re working, while driving, or during your shower.
When we’re passionate about something, we want to share it with the world. I was known to subject many of my poor friends to Bach’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor; I would hand out tapes and ask them to listen. Surprisingly, some of my friends came back and begged me for more pieces. Today, I subject all of the kids that ride in my car to a classical piece or two and many come back asking for more. I’m passing the classical torch on to you.
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SeriouslySerious
Challenge accepted! Thanks for an informative article and I am going to follow your advice and introduce my family to classical music.
2015-11-27 10:20pm PST
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!! I would love to hear what favorites you find!
2015-12-11 7:35pm PST
Marjorie Cliff Picard
I enjoyed your article. I'm a classical music fan and liked your suggestions. I'm going to find a few I didn't know. Thanks!
Stefan Collins
Good article and I agree with the main thrust, but a few youtube clips of some of the pieces would be a worthwhile addition. Youtube is fab for music of all kinds.
Dewines
Monteverdi, although even earlier than Bach, was extremely experimental and created some fabulous harmonies that send shivers down my spine, for example in his Vespers. Other choral spine tinglers are Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Verdi's Requiem and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. I love just about everything by Mahler and Sibelius. And for a fabulous seasonal experience (since this comment is being posted just before Christmas), try Britten's Ceremony of Carols, it's lush!
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St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) Not to be confused with St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510), who also wrote a work titled The Spiritual Dialogue
[The Spiritual Dialogue]
The Spiritual Dialogue (1370)
Various formats (Indexed; HTML, PDF, Text) at Christian Classics Ethereal Library (translated by Algar Thorold; modernized by Harry Plantinga)
Paperback edition (Paulist Press, 1980, 416 pg).
[A-Ap] [Ar-B] [C-Cl] [Co-Cy] [D] [E-Eu] [Ev-F] [G] [H] [I] [J-K] [L] [M-Me] [Mi-N] [O] [P-Po] [Pr-Py] [Q-R] [S-Sn] [So-Sy] [T-To] [Tr-V] [W-Z]
Dá Derga's Hostel, The Destruction of
Dance, After the
Daniel Deronda
Dao De Jing
Dark Night of the Soul, The
Darkness, Heart of
d'Arthur, Le Morte
Daughter, Rappaccini's
Days, The Works and
Dead Souls
Death, On Breathing; On Youth and Old Age, On Life and
Death, The Masque of the Red
Death, Sickness Unto
Death, Thoughts for the Times on War and
Death of Dr. Robert Levet, On the
Death of Esther Johnson (Stella), On the
Death of Ivan Ilych, The
Decameron, The
Decisions, Knowledge and
Declaration of Sentiments, The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, A
Defence of Poetry, A
Degrees of Knowledge, The
Democracy and Education
Demonstration, On Geometrical
Denisovich, One Day in the Life of Ivan
Deronda, Daniel
Descent of Man, The
Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel, The
Development of Psychoanalysis, The Origin and
Development of the Quantum Theory, Origin and
On Diagnosis in Dreams
Dialogue, The Spiritual (St. Catherine of Siena)
Dialogue, The Spiritual (St. Catherine of Genoa)
Dialogue on Oratory
Dialogues, Three
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
Dictionary, Philosophical
Dictionary of the English Language, A
Didache, The)
Dignity of Man, The
Direction of the Mind, Rules for the
Discontent, Winter of our
Discontents, Civilization and its
Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades
Discourse on Metaphysics
Discourse on Method
Discourses (Epictetus)
Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
Disease, On the Sacred
Diseases, On Regimen in Acute
Disobedience, Civil
Dissenters, The Shortest-Way with the
Divine Comedy, The
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Strange Case of
Doctor Robert Levet, On the Death of
Doctor in Spite of Himself, The
Doctrine, Christian
Doll's House, A
Donne, The Life of Dr. John
Doone, Lorna
Dorian Gray, The Picture of
Dorrit, Little
Dove, The Wings of the
Down Below, Fire
Dream", "I Have a
Dream, A Midsummer Night's
Dreams, On (Aristotle)
Dreams, On (Freud)
Dreams, On Diagnosis in (Galen)
Dreams, The Interpretation of (Freud)
Dreams, On Prophesying by (Aristotle)
Dreary Story, A
Duck, The Wild
Dull Story, A
D'Urbervilles, Tess of the
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JOHN NAU AND ANDREW FELTENSTEIN SCORE WITH TWO NEW RELEASES
ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES Currently in Theaters
THE SPOILS OF BABYLON First Episode Debuts Jan 9th on IFC
(January 7, 2014 – Los Angeles, CA) – Composers John Nau and Andrew Feltenstein (Casa de Mi Padre, Bachelorette) announce the release of two new projects, ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES, currently in theaters, and the hilarious six-episode series THE SPOILS OF BABYLON, which begins airing on IFC January 9, 2014.
With the 70's behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), returns to the news desk in 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.' Also back for more are Ron's co-anchor and wife, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), weather man Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), man on the street Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner) - All of whom won't make it easy to stay classy... while taking the nation's first 24-hour news channel by storm.
ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES features original score by Feltenstein and Nau plus 4 songs co-written by the duo with lyrics by the film’s director Adam McKay and star Will Ferrell, including the heartwarming song “Doby”, performed by Ron Burgundy.
“Doby is the a giant metaphor for Ron Burgundy's new understanding of life and love and the importance of all family over job,” said Feltenstein. “Ron kills it and makes the song come to life.”
It was in Venice, CA that John Nau and Andrew Feltenstein would meet, some 14 years ago. Feltenstein was working on songs in a studio while Nau was there to score a film. Becoming fast friends and collaborators they decided to open their own studio, a decision which paid off rather quickly as they secured a ready stream of commercial work. A project for BudTV – a series of short films and sketches for Budweiser -- would lead to them working with Matt Piedmont, an Emmy Award winning writer for Saturday Night Live (SNL) and writer for the popular website Funny or Die. Piedmont would enlist Feltenstein and Nau to compose for his web series The Carpet Brothers, starring SNL alums David Spade and Tim Meadows and Brick Novax’s Diary, a winner of a Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Piedmont would make his leap to feature films with his directorial debut Casa de mi Padre starring another SNL alum, Will Ferrell and written by his Funny or Die collaborator Andrew Steele. Nau and Feltenstein’s film and TV credits also include the films Bachelorette and Kids and Money, and The Big Love Christmas Album. Their upcoming projects King Dork for director Matt Piedmont and the films A Many Splintered Thing and Better Living Through Chemistry.
THE SPOILS OF BABYLON is directed by Matt Piedmont and written by Piedmont and Andrew Steele, frequent collaborators of Feltenstein and Nau. After decades of anticipation, Eric Jonrosh’s best-selling novel is finally getting the television adaptation it deserves. THE SPOILS OF BABYLON —the sweeping, provocative tale of the mighty Morehouse family—premieres on Thursday, January 9 at 10/9c on IFC. Fearing that Hollywood would sully his masterpiece, Eric Jonrosh wrote, directed and financed THE SPOILS OF BABYLON himself. His original, 22-hour version has been faithfully edited into epic TV event, featuring Jessica Alba, Will Ferrell, Jellybean Howie, Val Kilmer, Tobey Maguire, Haley Joel Osment, Tim Robbins, Michael Sheen, Steve Tom and Kristen Wiig with a cameo by David Spade and the voice of Carey Mulligan.
“SPOILS, musically, has everything you want,” said Feltenstein. “Live, impassioned, imperfect and classic. Steve Lawrence sings the theme song and he not only makes the world come to life, he personifies the bravado and, to quote him, the ‘just a tad off-Broadway feel’ of the entire project.”
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AG dept. questions Mahendran on EPF’s bond trading
October 10, 2017 Harshana 0 Comments 26,475 views
The ongoing cross-examination of former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the controversial bond issuance yesterday focused on the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF)’s participation in the secondary market towards the end of Mahendran’s tenure as Governor.
Deputy Solicitor General Milinda Gunatillake, reading from a Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) press release issued on 2 June 2016, recalled that the Monetary Board of CBSL had, noting the large resource needs of the Government, pointed out that: “In the context of Monetary Policy actions, mainly the upward adjustment of the Statutory Reserve Requirement (SRR) at the beginning of the year and the subsequent upward adjustment of the policy interest rates, had resulted in an increase in yield for Treasury bills and Treasury bonds.”
The Monetary Board had recommended 1) to the relevant management team, said Gunatillake, a) to hold pre-bid meetings with all primary dealers to share information on market developments and to have a clearly defined auction calendar, and b) to examine the international best practices with respect to volumes advertised and accepted at public auctions and propose to the Board as to how the Central Bank should adopt such practices.
The Monetary Board had then (2) recommended active participation of the EPF in primary auctions.
Gunatillake suggested that the decision was taken due to constant representations made around November 2015 onward that the EPF had been buying bonds at the secondary market rather than from the primary market – the idea being that the EPF would do better buying directly at the primary market than buying in the secondary market from another primary dealer.
“There were also concerns that the Central Bank was advertising lesser amounts and taking larger amounts, and there was a suggestion that CBSL consider advertising the full amount,” he said.
Mahendran agreed, but said that it had been pointed out this would be disadvantageous to the Government.
Gunatillake said the decision, taken towards the end of Mahendran’s tenure as CBSL Governor, was the result of the Central Bank advertising a particular amount and accepting much larger volumes, and the EPF not bidding at primary auctions or bidding unsuccessfully at primary auctions.
“Yes,” said Mahendran.
“And making good the shortfall in treasury bonds while purchasing them in the secondary market,” said the DSG.
Mahenran disagreed with this notion, explaining that there were definitely complaints that the EPF was buying excessively in the secondary market, an issue that was examined and a report submitted to him by another member of the Monetary Board.
Some lapses had been noted, he said, and the superintendent needed to further monitor the situation in order to come to a substantial conclusion.
“[Monetary Board member] Krishantha Perera took this up with you on a fairly frequent basis at several high level meetings,” said Gunatillake.
He added that Mahendran had, as a consequence, taken the decision (specifically item C in the document) for the EPF to submit bids at reasonable yield rates to primary auctions, and suggested that some of these bids were rejected because their yield rates had been unreasonably high.
Mahendran agreed.
“There was a concern that they must immediately stop or minimise the purchase from the secondary market,” Gunatillake went on to say, adding that this was the reason item C been drafted the way it was.
“There was no decision to stop purchases at the secondary level while I was Governor. Certainly that view was expressed by the member you mentioned, but there was no consensus about that,” said Mahendran.
Explaining the context, the former Governor said the EPF had been facing severe outflows for various reasons, adding that trade in the secondary market would have earned it profits, giving a significant boost to its overall income.
“I don’t agree that that last sentence specified that the secondary trading should be stopped. Certainly that was not the intention when I was Governor,” he said.
However, said Gunatillake, around 12 March 2016, the EPF had, in fact, stopped trading in the secondary market.
The cross-examination continues today.
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LaunchMe is a free, online database that allows St. Louis young professionals to find and engage with young friends groups. Launch St. Louis has long been involved in the nonprofit side of establishing well-run young friends groups, and with LaunchMe, we are making it easier than ever for St. Louis’s young and talented to connect with organizations. It’s time to get involved, St. Louis. And LaunchMe makes it possible.
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When They Meet: Bi-monthly board meetings happening on the second Wednesday of the month Where They Meet: Centene Center for the Arts, 3547 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63103
Young Friends of the Arts (YFA) is an affiliate group of the Arts and Education Council, which builds appreciation, participation and support for the arts and arts education throughout the St. Louis community. YFA mobilizes the next generation of arts patrons to invest in a vibrant region for all through innovative fundraising, special events and…Find Out More
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YPB of Thomas Dunn Learning Center
Where They Meet: Thomas Dunn Learning Center, 3113 GASCONADE ST, SAINT LOUIS, MO 63118
Are you the type to strike a match? If so, Thomas Dunn Learning Center needs you! All of our Executive Leadership roles are filled! YEAH! And we still need you! Come be a firestarter with us! Our Young Professionals Board mission: We promote lifelong learning experiences by engaging our community with Thomas Dunn Learning Center…Find Out More
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Partners in Sustainable Development Int’l.
Where They Meet: Big Club Hall, 5200 Shaw Ave., St. Louis, Missouri 63110
PSDI’s mission is to raise awareness and support to eradicate poverty in rural areas of Bangladesh through an effective holistic model of poverty eradication that includes the poor in their uplift. We have successfully lifted 325,000 of the poorest of the poor out of poverty since we began our work in Bangladesh in 1987. The…Find Out More
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Kids In The Middle
Where They Meet: Kids In The Middle, 2650 S. Hanley Road, St. Louis, MO 63144
Kids In The Middle is a non-profit organization that empowers children, parents and families during and after divorce through counseling, education and support. The Young Professionals Committee of Kids In The Middle supports the agency through volunteer opportunities, community awareness and fundraising. Their main fundraising effort is the annual Swirl, Sip & Savor Tasting Event.…Find Out More
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Young Friends of SouthSide Early Childhood Center
When They Meet: Meetings occur 4 times a year along with committee meetings on an as needed basis Where They Meet: SouthSide Early Childhood Center, 2101 S. Jefferson Ave, St. Louis, MO 63104
SouthSide’s mission is to nurture, educate and inspire children and families in a diverse and inclusive environment, promoting healthy development and a strong foundation for success. Our vision is that children develop a lifelong love of learning, flourish within a supportive family environment and contribute positively to their communities. SouthSide’s YFO is a group of…Find Out More
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Where They Meet: HavenHouse, 12685 Olive Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63141
The HavenHouse Young Professionals Board (YPB) is a group of emerging leaders between the ages of 23 and 35 dedicated to raising community awareness and fundraising for patients and their families traveling to St. Louis to receive medical care. Our Young Professionals Board is central to the visibility of the organization and to building new…Find Out More
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Where They Meet: Youth in Need, 1815 Boone's Lick Road, St. Charles, MO 63301
Youth In Need is a nonprofit child and family services agency that is dedicated to building positive futures for the community’s most vulnerable children, teens and families.Our mission is to build on the strengths of children, youth and families so they find safety, hope and success in life. This is seen through all programs, which…Find Out More
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Greater St. Louis Area Council (BSA) Emerging Leaders Network
When They Meet: Convene on the last Monday of the month, alternating between conference calls and in-person meetings Where They Meet: Urban Chestnut Grove Brewery & Bierhall, 4465 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110
The Emerging Leaders Network is a group of young professionals, ages 25-40, who are passionate about engaging in the greater St. Louis community and mentoring area youth, while also developing their personal and professional networks. Who are we? This diverse group of emerging business men and women represent the various communities and industries in the…Find Out More
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When They Meet: from noon to 1 PM on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, alternates between in-person and conference call along with committee meetings on an as needed basisl Where They Meet: YWCA Metro Office, 3820 West Pine Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108
Our mission: To cultivate a community of young professionals that supports the mission of the YWCA; Eliminating racism, empowering women, while also providing members with opportunities for networking and mentorship. We are a newly formed group and plan to mentor the YWCA’s clients including teen girls, transitional housing women, and parents of children in Head…Find Out More
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Advice from Alumni
Retired CEO of Kraft Foods Group, Inc. Tony Vernon ’78 shared personal and professional lessons that he aquired during his career on Wednesday, April 13 in the Warch Campus Center Cinema. Emphasizing how significantly his personal values contributed to his professional career, he related valuable experiences and memories that helped him achieve his goals.
Vernon started handing out small notebooks with specific techniques of business and family pictures to students to emphasize three personal values he cherished throughout his career: being a good husband, good father and good businessman. Vernon shared that being urged to go to business school by a high school teacher during his teenage years was a huge watershed moment for him to transition into a business career later in life. Despite this, he valued the liberal arts education of Lawrence that helped him cultivate his learning ability and discover other interests he would continue to develop throughout his lifetime.
As he briefly talked about his early trajectory, Vernon recalled an interesting moment that he had to write down his career goals in ten words while he was a student in Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. While everybody else talked about grandiose goals including becoming a great founder of an enterprise like J.P. Morgan or a successful physician, Vernon confidently presented his personal values: being a good father, good husband and good businessman. Many students initially mocked this vision, but the professor complimented his personal goals as the most valuable goals among others. Vernon said he never regretted his decision to live by these principles and believes that this practice encouraged him to ultimately succeed in his career.
Throughout his 23-year career, however, Vernon confessed that he almost abandoned very important value of family at one time. He was then one of the top officials at Johnson & Johnson and busy with traveling all over the country while missing the chance to see his son playing baseball in the field. After he faced several conflicts with his family, he finally made a huge decision: to resign from his high-level position at the firm. Fortunately, his boss dissuaded Vernon from resigning and allowed him to take the spring off so that he could spend time with his family. He did not have to resign after all, and continued to share his valuable memories with his sons and wife. This experience still reminds Vernon of the utmost importance of balancing between family and career so that he could succeed in accomplishing his goals in the long term.
As the practical advice to students interested in business, Vernon suggested one word for the key to success: persistence. “The companies want to see you keep contacting and sending personal emails,” he added. “Don’t take their no’s and keep trying and asking.” While many students feel disappointed if they do not hear any reply from their companies, Vernon advised that it is important to show your passion by persistently trying out and sending the emails to the firms. By not focusing on the failures, he underlined the importance of persistence in the process of realizing one’s dreams.
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Retired CEO of Kraft Foods Group, Inc. Tony Vernon ’78 shared personal and professional lessons that he aquired during his career on Wednesday, April 13 in the Warch Campus Center Cinema. Emphasizing how significantly his personal values contributed to his professional career, he related valuable experiences and memories that helped him achieve his goals. Vernon…
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Bulgaria will be ‘entry point’ for Russian gas link via Turkey
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) prepares to shake hands Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov after a joint press conference in Moscow on May 30.
The second line of the TurkStream gas pipeline, intended to ship Russian gas to southern European countries via Turkey, will be directed to Bulgaria, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov announced on May 30 after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The gas pipeline is part of the Kremlin’s plans to bypass Ukraine, currently the main transit route for Russian gas to Europe, and strengthen its foothold on European gas markets.
The proposed second line of the existing Nord Stream pipeline via the Baltic Sea is also part of these efforts, which would deprive Ukraine of most of its transit revenues.
Russian gas giant Gazprom, which supplies around 34 percent of the European gas market, built the first line of the TurkStream pipeline to Turkey for local gas consumption.
“The second fork of TurkStream will reach Bulgaria and through it Russian gas will come from Russia,” Borissov said on his Facebook page, ending speculation that the pipeline might have headed to Greece.
“I am thankful that we are returning to the gas distribution role that we had in the Balkans,” he said.
The two lines of TurkStream will each have an annual capacity of 15.75 billion cubic meters. Gazprom has completed the first line of TurkStream and Putin said about half of the second line had been built.
Bulgaria would like a portion of the gas to go to its gas hub project at the Black Sea port of Varna, Borissov said.
Sofia’s plans for the hub are backed by the European Commission. They followed the cancellation in 2014 of Gazprom’s South Stream gas pipeline project, which would have shipped Russian gas under the Black Sea via Bulgaria to central Europe.
“Gas will be used through the gas hub in Varna. The market and demand will define the quantities and prices. Our aim is to...be on the map for gas distribution,” Borissov said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also spoke with Putin on May 29 in a phone call, during which they discussed the TurkStream.
Russian state gas giant Gazprom said on May 26 it had signed a protocol with the Turkish government and agreed with Turkish firm Botaş to end an arbitration dispute over the terms of gas supplies.
The protocol concerned the transit leg of the TurkStream, which Gazprom said meant that work to implement it could now begin.
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Marshall (2017)
Starring Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, and James Cromwell. Director Reginald Hudlin's Marshall, is based on an early trial in the career of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. It follows the young lawyer (Chadwick Boseman) to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur (Sterling K. Brown) charged with sexual assault and attempted murder of his white socialite employer (Kate Hudson). Muzzled by a segregationist court, Marshall partners with a courageous young Jewish lawyer, Samuel Friedman (Josh Gad). Together they mount the defense in an environment of racism and Anti-Semitism. The high profile case and the partnership with Friedman served as a template for Marshall's creation of the NAACP legal defense fund. Rated PG-13.
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Swallows and Armenians
Lectures and seminars Thursday 21 March 2019 / 13:00 - 14:00
Date: Thursday 21 March 2019
Type: Lectures and seminars
Faculty: Arts
Artist, curator and writer Karen Babayan takes us on an adventure through the Arthur Ransome Archive in this lunchtime talk.
Discover the unexpected inspiration for Arthur Ransomes well-loved Swallows and Amazons. Through new multi-disciplinary artworks, Karen Babyan explores the relationship between Ransome and the Altounyans, an Anglo-Armenian family from Aleppo, Syria. This ethnically diverse family were part of the genesis for his iconic series of childrens books.
Babayan's work includes an Artists Map-Book commissioned by Leeds University Library Special Collections. She aims to establish the Altounyan-Swallows-Ransome connection and celebrate the contribution of the Altounyan family to the cultural history of the Lake District.
Image: Karen Babayan, Swallows in Aleppo (detail), 2019. Digital print on aluminium.Image credit: use of photograph for artwork by permission of the Guzelian family.
Free, booking required.
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The Best Filipino Flavors in Concha's Garden Cafe
That side of Scout Madriñan, near the corner of Tomas Morato in Quezon City was unusually quiet on a Thursday afternoon. It was 3 PM and the busy lunch period in Concha's Garden Cafe was over. Interrupting the silence in the restaurant was our excitement. We are about to be served the new offerings along with the signature dishes of one of the best Filipino restaurants in QC.
After settling down, the first dish came. It was an interesting serving of Homemade Okoy, one of the most requested dishes according to our server. Before I could even taste it, more food arrived; Baby Squid in Olive Oil, Beef Morcon, Crispy Pata, Chicken Tinola, Crispy Tawilis, and perhaps on the most photogenic plating that day, Homemade Bangus Sardines in Olive Oil. It wasn't just good for the 'gram, it was delicious too!
All of a sudden, the restaurant was filled with the energy of bloggers who were busy devouring over the sumptuous lineup. As if the first batch of dishes were not enough for six people, more came. Added in our already full table were Inihaw na Pusit, Sisig, Beef Salpicao, Pork and Chicken Embotido, Sinampalukang Manok, and the most generous serving of food combo that I have ever seen yet, their signature Grilled Platter. It was overflowing with seafood and meat delights; shrimp, squid, pork, chicken, which were abundantly paired with salted eggs, chopped onions and fresh tomatoes.
I forgot about my prescribed diet. I called for a halt of small meals in that very moment. I normally don't mix different dishes on my plate but because I was at Concha's, I made that afternoon an exemption. I tasted all! And my, oh my, it was an explosion of all kinds of flavors.
There was not enough time to recover. Before I could un-feel the fullness, the server has started asking us for our choices of desserts. Then a familiar face greeted us. Delicious is still a good adjective (LOLs!) but charming would be more appropriate for Alden Richards, who immediately checked our table as if to make sure that there were still some good food left. The boy was charming as usual. What was more recognizable is how he looked at us to see if we were really enjoying the food. That moment, he has made himself a budding restaurateur.
Then he started telling us about his only love affair apart from his on-screen partner Maine Mendoza, his romance with Concha's and how he made himself part owner. It was almost a daily habit for him to come to Concha's for his late lunch after his daily stints in the noontime variety TV show 'Eat Bulaga!'. His favorite is Concha's Signature Laoya (it's like 'Nilaga' but only sweeter and the sauce is more concentrated) and the Homemade Okoy. After months of enjoying the offerings at the restaurant, the young actor agreed to help it expand. Aside from the Tomas Morato branch, Concha's also has restaurants in Cliffhouse in Tagaytay (KM 58 Maharlika East Emilio Aguinaldo Highway), and will open their biggest restaurant soon in Richland Hills Subdivision in Silang, Cavite.
He promises to bring all the flavors of the restaurant from Quezon City to its two provincial branches, taking the same consistency that made the dishes stand out from that of the competing Filipino restaurants. If the three branches aren't really accessible, Alden is ready for opportunities to expand the brand some more. May be more in Metro Manila, he said.
After a quick discussion with your 'Pambansang Bae' (see video below), we capped our late lunch with thirst-quenching Pandan and Lemon Grass Juice, some refreshing fruit juices and a very fine cup of Halo-Halo.
Would I be back in Concha's you ask? Definitely. I'd like to bring the entire family there, with or without Alden Richards. Well, his presence (and his dimples) would be a bonus. :)
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Time to Move on From HK
Marhalim Abas December 13, 2016 Defence Contract, PDRM
SHAH ALAM: Time to move on from Heckler & Koch. In my post in Oct. 21. 2014, I wrote about the MMEA tender for small arms. The tender documents specifically stated that they wanted the HK416 A5s, HK UMPs and CZ pistols.
I am told the numbers are small but its instructive that as the quotation document specifically stated the type and make of the firearm, it disqualified other makes at the starting gate. It is maybe unfair to other dealers but by stating the make and model of the small arms in the official document, MMEA officials probably wanted to ensure that they will get what they wanted in the first place.
I am not sure whether they will succeed with the 416s though, as the government had stated that its partially owned SMEO will supply the assault rifles – the M4s – to all agencies, no matter whom. As even the Paskal has to make do with the M4s – with accessories of course – I do not think MMEA can get away with buying the 416s. That said stranger things had happen before so we have to wait and see
At the launch of the National Special Operations Force (NSOF) in late October, MMEA Special Operations team – Special Task (s) and Rescue (STAR) team – displayed their firearms together with the other units. On show were the Adcor Elite 5.56mm, the Colt CM901, the CZ Scorpion Evo 3 and the Blaser R93 Tactical Rifle.
STAR new firearms on display. The guns on the left are Paskal HKs.
The personnel at the display said the firearms were received last year. When I asked about the tender in 2014, the personnel pleaded ignorance. However checks on the MMEA 2015 Annual Report revealed that the agency had received the Colt, CZ Evo 3 and CZ P-07 pistol, the Adcor and the Denel SS-77 Mark II GPMG under a RM6.5 million program.
KM Perwira, one of the two Bay class patrol boats donated to MMEA by Australia.
It did not state the numbers acquired though it did say that the firearms were distributed to all APPM units including those attached to the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM) while the new GPMGs were meant for two new ships, KM Satria and KM Perwira. Satria and Perwira are the two ex-Bay class patrol boats donated by Australia.
Another view of the STAR firearms. Partly hidden is the Adcor Elite, Colt CM901, CZ Evo and Blaser R93.
I was told recently that MMEA initially did selected the HKs as per the tender documents but later ditched them as the local agent could not get the export license to import them from Germany. Industry sources told me that HK has not been able to export their firearms to Malaysia for some years now and that was the reason, some units had purchased other weapons from other manufacturers like Belgium’ s FN Herstal and Czech Republic’s CZ.
Similarly, SwissArms from Switzerland had relied on its US-based company, SIG Sauer, to market its firearms to Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries though I have not heard of any agencies buying them here lately. I am not sure where the Blasers of the MMEA were sourced from, but its highly likely that it came from the US.
Two VAT69 operators at the 2015 open day. One is armed with a FN Herstal SCAR H for DMR while the other is armed with the Bushmaster Carbine.
Meanwhile, apart from MMEA, PDRM special forces unit, the VAT 69 and UTK, have also faced up to reality and had moved on from HK. As reported previously, both units have adopted FN Herstal SCAR series, and Ferfrans M4s. They also got Colts from SMEO.
VAT 69 has also adopted the RPG-7 as shown at its 2016 Open day.
VAT 69 operators with the RPG-7 with probably the RUAG Ammotec MEP warhead at the 2016 Open Day. PDRM picture.
And it appears, other SF units in Malaysia like Paskal and Paskau have to forget about getting HKs in the near future as the German manufacturer has also given up prospects of selling its weapons to non-NATO countries. Paskal for the record, had the largest HK firearm collection during the NSOF display including the fabled XM8 Carbine.
Paskal range of HK firearms. The XM8 carbine is the one nearest with the HK417 next to it.
Reuters reported on Nov. 28.
German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch will no longer sign contracts to supply countries outside of NATO’s influence because it has become too difficult to obtain government approval for such deals, news agency DPA reported on Monday.
The company, one of the world’s best-known gunmakers, will in future only sell to countries that are democratic and free from corruption and that are members of NATO or NATO members’ partners, DPA said, citing company sources.
It said this change in strategy would rule out deals with countries such as Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Brazil, India or even NATO member Turkey.
HK MP5 sub machine guns are the preferred firearm for Malaysian SF assault teams including the NSOF.
As HK no longer wants to export its guns to most markets, it appears that once the MP5s sub guns in the Malaysian arsenals are rendered unserviceable, I guess we will have to rely on M4s or its derivatives as the primary tactical firearm. If they still want them, we may have to get copies from either Turkey or Pakistan. The CZ Evo submachine gun looked to fragile for assault team duty IMO.
Adcor APMM Blaser Colt Heckler and Koch MP5 STAR
32 Responses to "Time to Move on From HK"
kamal areif says:
If that is Germany’s stance..wouldn’t that rule out the Eurofighter for the MRCA program as germany is among the major contributor to the consortium?
No, I have asked about this on various occasions already. If they had we will not be able to take delivery of the A400M and the Cougars. This apparently limited to small arms only. For example they sell the Taurus to South Korea and there is no problem about selling the Philippines the Sidewinders. HK can no longer sell anything to the Philippines though.
dundun says:
Nah it’s just HK.
We bought stuff from MTU, when rheinmetall have sold tanks, armored vehicles and guns to asian,south american and african markets
On slightly related note, even philippines are looking at getting small arms from pakistan since their effort to get guns from US was blocked
If we look at the IDEAS 2016, we can see plenty of things the pakis can offer. I especially interested with modernization of ZSUs gun that could be cued via visor, similar to helmet cueing systems in attack helos. I think we can upgrade our AAAs using this technology
Also, I’ve watched POF (pakistan ordnance factory) mp5 review on youtube (since they also sell them to gun cray-cray american) and they were praised by basically everyone, even against legitimate HK equivalent product like SP5. No clue why they were advertised and sold as “pistol” in the US though. These are gun that offers almost the same quality (except the magazine build and final finish) as legitimate HK mp5 clones at roughly half the price
The idea of a ZSU is old stuff and making it visor aimed is not helping. It is far behind the later generations of Russian and western radar aimed guns (or gun-missile combinations) which have an anti missile capablility.
Anas Akmal says:
I remember several months ago, I saw a few policemen patrolling KK airport with a very short AR-15 carbine. I’m not so sure whether it’s a bushmaster carbine or ferfrans scw. What i’m trying to say is i’m not very fond of the idea of using a 5.56 short carbine for patrolling in public areas, these guns are often very loud and produces a lot of muzzle flash, not a concern when you’re storming a room full of hostiles but something to take into consideration when you open fire in a place crowded with civilians and shooting requires careful PID. But then again, when a person is trying to save you from terrorists you don’t tend to complain on the obscene amount of noise he is making.
Its likely that the short barreled M16 type you saw were the Bushmaster 9mm sub guns bought at the same time as the carbine 5.56mm variant
Azlan says:
As far back as 7-8 years ago the police received POF made MP-5s. POF even sent a trainer/instructor here. I heard from a good source that a few POF MP-5 also reached PASKAL. At one of the DSA’s POF displayed a gaudy gold plated MP-5 along with MG-3s. Also displayed at DSA on a few occasion were unlicensed Iranian MP-5s. HK I believe stopped producing MP-5s quite a few years ago.
ZSUs, like S-60s, may be old but are very useful for the kind of conflicts were seeing now in the Middle East and Africa. Not all scenarios call for a high tech gun with anti-missile capability. I know if I had a need for an AA gun to be used in the ground role, I’d rather have ZSUs and S-60s rather than more sophisticated and harder to maintain GDFs. The Apache regiment that got mauled at Karbala – 1 downed and many others damaged – suffered at the hands of ZSUs and S-60s. The main alerting device was not radar but cell phones to warn gun crews and switching off the power grid to signal the start of the ambush.
Anas Akmal,
Controllability is an issue when barrels are too short.
Noise and blast are of course greater with a short barrel but the person whose senses are most affected by it will be the shooter!AM
I’m quite positive it’s a 5.56 carbine and not 9mm. Though I might be mistaken on assuming that they are on regular patrol, could be just a pair of policemen (could be UTK personnels) coming to KK for tasking. My last layover there just a few weeks ago, i’ve seen no security police armed thusly. It was a few days prior to a big raid on one of the immigrant slums around Penampang, so maybe the police were on heightened alert. But I digress, perhaps if the police would want to use a 5.56 carbine for public patrol, equipping them with suppressor would be better i suppose, just like those paskau chaps at LIMA.
Meh says:
Do we still have the license to locally produce M4?
AFAIK yes
AM,
“Noise and blast are of course greater with a short barrel but the person whose senses are most affected by it will be the shooter!”
Exactly, but in this case the one who are most at risk from the firearm and the affected senses of the shooter is the unarmed civilians. Weapon recoil is easy to get a hang on, regular trip to the range should do the trick. But opening fire in public space, with civilians running around and the muzzle flash making it difficult to get PID is tricky to say the least. I’m sure our men and women in uniform would be afforded ample training, but equipment that help make things easier would be nice.
Anas,
Maybe but PASKAU and other units use suppressors because they make shooting a gun more ”pleasant” [less recoil] and suppressors, by suppressing the sound of a gun being fired, makes it harder for the shooter to be located.
A few months ago there was talk on the German government placing a ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia.
The only time AA guns are better at engaging ground targets is potentially when engaging high elevation targets in cities and mountains. Still, there are purpose built solutions nowadays ranging from RWS all the way to BMPT type vehicles. At such close range, all types of vehicles are going to be more vulnerable to fire from above.
AA has faster target acquisition compared to other VSHORADS (especially for automated AAs like Oerlikon),with lower minimum range and altitude. Firing hundreds of high exposive, fragmentation, proximity fuse activated rounds it’s hard to miss anything within its reach, with an exception to supersonic low-flying bomber maybe. There’s also the fact that it is good against small tactical UAVs/drones which is prevalent even with the likes of IS and Hezb. It is also basically immune to countermeasures except to maybe a standoff missile going its way
A manpads only has like 17 second engagement window (due to shory spanned battery life) and with one missile costing about $10k upwards (not including things like battery)
Not saying that one platform is better than the other since it’s akin to comparing apples and oranges to begin with. Just saying that both have its strong points and weak points. Dismissing AAs is just senseless considering everyone is investing heavily in them
Nihd says:
Are our army in any plans of replacing or upgrading our aa guns?
And does this no selling to non-nato countries only applies to H&K or also other german companies like rheinmetall?
So far its HK though Rheinmental was also denied the export license for the Leopard MBT to Saudi Arabia.
GAPU was asked to evaluate MR SAMs recently but not sure whether it get anywhere
trafalgar says:
any names marhalim for the MR SAM??
AM – ”The only time AA guns are better at engaging ground targets is potentially when engaging high elevation targets in cities and mountains”
Incorrect. For many armies the use of Triple A was because thy lacked other assets to perform the sustained fire role and to engage targets at a distance. Granted, whether it was Flakvierlings in Stalingrad or Vulcan in Beirut; AA guns were useful because of their high elevation but also because they were an ad hoc effective solution for want of anything better.
AM – ”A manpads only has like 17 second engagement window”
True but that’s why users have spare batteries at hand if the operator takes to long to lock on the target and why operators are trained not to waste time. A concern over Starsreak was that it’s a line of sight SACLOS system but given that it travels at Mach 3/4 the missile will take seconds to hit a target.
AM – ”Dismissing AAs is just senseless considering everyone is investing heavily in them”
Not everyone. It depends on the user. The Brits [to take one example] have no need for Triple A but the Russians and others still do – all depends on doctrine. A question I’ve asked previously is whether GAPU has plans to replace its GDFs with another Triple A mount.
Still sounds risky as hell, considering many AA vehicles are not armoured and more importantly the crews and unit commanders are not trained much in ground combat tactics. But desperate times called for desperate measures in those cases. We should be buying systems for their intended purposes.
One other exception I can think of is in the early stages of the Iraq insurgency the US Army used Avenger vehicles because in addition to the Stingers, the vehicle had a .50 caliber MG with a stabilised mount and magnifiying sight. It was capable of longer ranged accurate fire than a pintle mounted .50 cal. So a non optimised sight was better than iron sights. After that they started adding optics to the pintle mounts and finally the Strykers and armoured HMMWVs came along with their CROWS.
Btw those in your comment are Alex’s comments not mine.
Alex, even in a well developed IADS there is still a use for guns and short ranged systems, because of their mobility and usefulness as gap fillers. They are unpredictable and difficult to detect and target, which complicated matters for anyone planning an offensive air campaign against you. This is especially important where the enemy has air superiority or where neither side has air superiority.
The Russian BMPT Terminator looks very useful for urban work, most certainly drawn from their experiences in Chechnya. Indeed, most AA mounts offer little protection for the crews, which is why there often fire from a distance as opposed to AFVs firing at point blank range at a target.
No doubt Triple A is still useful but it depends on the user, doctrine and requirements. Many countries including Russia and China still maintain Triple A but others don’t. The main problem when buying current current gen Triple A is that the’re not cheap; especially when getting the whole package , i.e. fire control, radar, etc. It’s telling that most NATO armies do not see a need for self propelled Triple A to keep pace with armoured/mechanised formations. Gepard was not replaced by the Heer and the U.S. army seems to have lost interest after Sgt. York was canceled.
Yes I make a mistake referencing the comments, sorry.
How effective Triple A will be really depends on whether they’re controlled by radar and have early warning. Even the most accurate Tripe A manned by the most competent and skillful crew will count for nothing if they have no early warning and are relying solely on Mk 1 eyeballs. Some will dismiss the value of having Triple A and even MANPADs/V-SHORADs on the account that fighters can engage targets at an altitude beyond the reach of Triple A and MANPADs/V-SHORADs using PGMs. According to this theory, the usefulness of Triple A and MANPADs/V-SHORADs nowadays is limited mainly to low firing helicopters and UAS.
The fact remains however that not all circumstances allow for a PGM kill some distance away from the target. Weather, the type of target, terrain, the price tag of PGMs and even ROEs means that fighters still engage targets at low level with dumb bombs and unguided rockets; which is why air arms still maintain stocks of dumb bombs and unguided rockets despite the widespread availability of PGMs and why aircrews still train to use them.
Nihd – ”Are our army in any plans of replacing or upgrading our aa guns?”
There are no upgrades available for the Oerlikon GDF except maybe ”smart” ammo. Skyguard however can be replaced with a newer version or another FCS if the end user decides to. The question of whether GAPU still sees a need for Triple A remains to be seen.
Mim says:
HK is currently under investigation by Bundeswehr due to extremely terrible quality issues. That may be the reason why Germany is halting sales.
No lah, HK is halting export sales as it cannot get export license. Its got to do with human rights issues as stated by several German ministers.
Regardless of the outcome of the G36 issue, the case no grounds to stop HK from making foreign sales. This is not how the law works.
It certainly doesn’t stop HK from exporting but it certainly makes it more difficult to obtain export clearance and places potential sales under scrutiny from the Bundestag. As it is, the EU has looked at an arms embargo on Saudi : something I support seeing what Saudi and its chums in the Gulf [with U.S. support] are doing in Yemen, whilst at the same time crying foul over Syria. The problem with arms bans [like war crimes prosecutions] is that they’re very selective; countries/people which should get banned/prosecuted get away for political reasons.
shed says:
Sorry 4 asking. But who issues the export license? Is it the German goverment or the buyer country? They got problems supplying non nato country with weapons but is happily supplying Israel with state of the art submarine and corvette 4 half the price.
Its the German government
shed,
It has got nothing to do with non NATO but countries that are at war and countries that have human rights issues. Germany paying for the first batch of the IN’s Dolphins and other stuff is compensation for WW2. As Germany is part of the EU is has to adhere to EU regulations regarding arms exports.
Azlan
Weapons are 4 winning wars. If they are not selling any weapons becoz a certain country is at “war” doesnt make sense to me. The human right issue is just an excuse. Its all down to politics. Btw i dont agree with the Saudi action in Yemen .. And with the rulling goverment itself (Saudi that is). What compensation?? 4 god sake WW2 ended 70 years ago. Israel was not even a state back them.
The first two Dolphins delivered in 1998-99 were fully subsidized. The reason for the subsidy could very well be reparation for the Holocaust though some say that it was because Germany had helped Saddam’s Iraq to upgrade its scud missiles which landed on Israel’s doorstep during the first Gulf War; essentially Germany’s mea culpa. The two new Dolphins subsidization however were confirmed to be a Holocaust reparation as part of restitution payments owed to Israel by GDR which amounts to approximately $500 million, of which GDR never paid a cent. It was done through backchannel diplomacy, the official diplomatic statement is that Israel “seeks discount”. However in 2011, Germany did threaten to halt the delivery of INS Tanin and Rahav when Israel government approved the construction of a housing complex in Gilo which is one of the Ring Neighborhoods. The threat also put the deal for the sixth submarine in moot. But by the end 2011, the deal for the sixth sub was greenlit, and instead of Israel paying in full as first proposed, Germany agreed to subsidized 137 million euros of the sub’s cost. Boy, their diplomatic corps do know how to wring German guilt.
It’s just like you said Azlan, these arms bans are very selective and highly political despite the human rights undertone. Just like the US’ support for Saudi’s Yemen campaign, which is beginning to cause domestic resentment in the US. But instead of proposing an arms embargo, the Obama administration is mulling to stop refuelling Saudi jets using its tanker.
shed – ”Weapons are 4 winning wars.”
Depends who you ask : someone else can make a compelling argument that weapons are for ”self defence” or ”deterrence” purposes; slightly different to ”winning wars”.
shed – ”If they are not selling any weapons becoz a certain country is at “war” doesnt make sense to me.”
It depends on the war. If a lawful government is using military means on its own population then human rights concerns or legality questions on the use of these weapons can arise. Myanmar’s use of PC-7s on Karen rebels had previously caused concern in Switzerland. Indonesia’s use of Hawks in Aceh caused similar concerns. A number of TNI-AU Hawks awaiting delivery were damaged by people who broke in the facility.
Similarly, if a country – for no good reason – suddenly attacked a neighbour then similar concerns would arise. Naturally, there are double standards and politics involved such as in the 1990’s when the Bosnians had an arms embargo placed on them and now when Israel [very influential] and Saudi [very rich and influential] get away with what they’re doing. To be fair to the EU, it has looked at an arms embargo on Saudi – the U.S. will be very happy naturally.
The West from time to time complains but ultimately Israel gets away with it. Whenever Israel misbehaves, the U.S. sometimes delays deliveries of stuff but ultimately after all the hue has calmed down; the still gets delivered. Because of public outcry, the U.S, has recently stated that it might ”review” help provided to Saudi but help [logistical, planning and intelligence] nonetheless is still being provided to Saudi and it’s friends in the Gulf. Most of the world, Malaysia included [we are after all kaki bodek with the Gulf Arabs], cries foul over civilian deaths in Syria but is silent about civilian deaths in Yemen caused by oil rich Sunni Arabs.
It’s disgusting actually, rather than help defeat IS in Syria and Iraq; Saudi and the Gulf states are more interested in Iran and aren’t bothered about Iraq because Iraq is led by a dominated Shia government which is close to Iran and want Assad gone because he’s also close to Iran and is an Alawi. People are struggling to get food and other supplies in Mosul but the Arab world – despite all the talk of unity and spending trillions on arms- is doing nothing. No doubt there will be another Arab League meeting soon but like other meetings a lot will be said but nothing will be achieved.
“Granted, whether it was Flakvierlings in Stalingrad or Vulcan in Beirut”
You know, I never knew about the IDF using M113 mounted Vulcans in a ground role in 1982.
But considering the influence the IDF had and continues to have on the SAF, I wonder if it was the inspiration for the SAF adding the 25mm Rafael OWS to their M113s later in the 80s and early 90s.
The SAF fielded other IDF influences as virtual copies in the FH88 howitzer, the 160mm mortars, right down to personal webbing.
It was an ad hoc measure. In Beirut it was found that a lot of stuff didn’t have the needed elevation to hit targets on buildings. Other stuff that comes in very handy in FIBUA are stuff that’s normally not regular issue like ladders, jackhammers, megaphones, etc. Not sure about 160mm mortars but the SAF did have 120mm Soltam mortars.
Something else the SAF picked up from the IDF are are the velcro chest rig mag pouches; first appeared in the 1990’s. The first of course to widely use chest rigs was the SADF which, like others, got the idea from the AK-47 ”Chicom” rigs used by many guerilla/revolutionary groups.
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Azlan,
I have definitely not seen a SAF chest rig. Was it special issue or general issue?
To my knowledge, which in this case I’m fairly certain of, the earliest webbing was a belt with extremely small pouches (definitely not for magazines). Later there was a US M56 style belt webbing (with two mag+grenade pouches and nothing else).
In the 1990s they issued the Israeli webbing http://imgur.com/a/Fn0NA at first to front line troops and later to all. Since troops are streamed after BMT I suppose they changed the time of issue of one’s “permanent” equipment. Around ’04 came the olive drab vest with camelbak compartment. This was uncomfortable because the vest was partially MOLLE yet had a redundant belt hanging from it. Then came the pixellised vest we see today. To my knowledge there was no gap between these three.
The SAF operated Soltam 160mm mortars starting in the 1980s, I don’t know when they were phased out. I have it in an old copy of Pioneer.
Nowadays the 120mm SRAMS mortar is in service but the crews are still trained to hand push the 120mm Soltam mortars for contingencies. 81mm was also in service but I don’t know if it still is.
“Berlin has approved the sale of three more high-tech submarines to Israel, boosting the size of the country’s nuclear-capable submarine fleet to nine, Der Spiegel has reported.
The newsweekly said Germany’s Federal Security Council greenlighted the €1.5-billion deal at a closed meeting on Wednesday, and that Berlin would subsidize a third of the costs.”
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Kennedy Surveying
Registered Project Surveyors based in Ballina on the far North Coast of NSW
EISSI Community and Sustainable Environment
At the 2017 Institute of Surveyors NSW awards Night Kennedy Surveying were awarded a “High Commendation” for the involvement with the installation of a shark barrier at Lennox Head Seven Mile Beach. Under council directions Kennedy Surveying were tasked with coordinating the aerial installation of a shark safety barrier to protect public swimmers and bathers.
The Sir Thomas Mitchell Award
In 2016 Kennedy Surveying were the State’s stand out surveyors winning two categories and securing the Thomas Mitchell Award for the second time.
Winning the Sir Thomas Mitchell Award is a prestigious achievement and securing this award twice has proven Kennedy Surveying’s ability to maintain it’s professionalism and ability to outperform the industry standard.
EISSI Innovation & Commercialisation Award
At the yearly ‘Institute of Surveyors NSW Awards Night‘ Kennedy Surveying were recognised for the application of new technologies for problem solving critical infrastructure hazards on the NSW pacific highway. Using laser scanning technology Kennedy Surveying successfully implemented a three dimensional monitoring solution for rock stability in the Cudgen Tunnel that monitored every square centimetre of the tunnel rock surface.
EISSI Environment & Sustainability Award
The second award received at the 2016 EISSI awards night was for Kennedy Surveying’s Bowraville Off-River Storage Project which aided the construction of a large reservoir to protect the Bowraville Shire from periods of drought. Kennedy Surveying utilised Unmanned Aerial Vehicle surveying technology to periodically map, monitor and model environmental changes to the site.
ASIA PACIFIC SPATIAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Following the success at the EISSI awards, Kennedy Surveying were further recognised outside of Australia and picked up the ASIA PACIFIC spatial excellence award.
2016 has honored Kennedy Surveying with several prestigious industrial awards that has cemented the company’s reputation as a professional and capable consultancy.
for best overall project is awarded to the best project out of all categories at the NSW Awards for Excellence in Surveying and Spatial Information.
Kennedy Surveying was announced the award recipient for our long running association with the Broadwater Biomass Cogeneration Plant project culminating 8 years of survey assistance in design, development and construction.
Kennedy Surveying received first place at the 2008 NSW Awards for Excellence in Surveying and Spatial Information. The entry was based on their association with the Broadwater Biomass Cogeneration Plant.
Lennox Head Chamber of Commerce Professional Services Award
Kennedy Surveying is a strong advocate of community business cohesion and local business professionalism. Director Neil Kennedy has extensive involvement in local business and charitable activities and was awarded the Lennox Head Chamber of Commerce Professional Services Award in 2008 and 2013.
Kennedy Surveying is a member of the following professional associations;
Member Institute of Surveyors-NSW-North Coast Group (ISNSW)
Member of the Association of Consulting Surveyors NSW (ACS)
Member of the Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute (Aust) (MSSSI
Member of the Spatial Information Business Association (SIBA)
Kennedy Surveying has also completed extensive works for local charitable groups, including detail surveys, boundary surveys and planning advice for the Riding for the Disabled Foundation within the Ballina District, construction setout and planning advice for the Lennox Head Surf Club redevelopment, and detail surveys and planning for fundraising events such as the community financing of Club Lennox.
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Pride And Prejudice:Why is the news of the elopement of Lydia and Wickham in Chapter 46 such an important moment and how does it affect what follows in the novel?
when the news arrives of Lydia?s scandalous elopement because just when Elizabeth?s feelings reach a new high point for Darcy, she is hit with the realisation that he may never want to be associated with her again: ?Never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, when all love must be in vain.? However, Darcy does show great concern for Elizabeth when he arrives unexpectedly during her breakdown; an ironic and dramatic moment as he?s almost like her saviour coming to rescue her.
How is marriage presented in the novel "Pride And Prejudice"?
The first marriage we encounter is that of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. Their marriage is an unsuccessful one. Although it was thought that marriage should be for money, a few marriages were based on lust. The Bennet's marriage is an example of this. Mr. Bennet was "captivated by youth and beauty" and therefore married a 'woman of mean understanding'. As the marriage progressed, 'any true affection for her was put to an end very early in the marriage." The relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet is of poor standard. Mr. Bennet is witty and resourceful in comparison to his wife, who is not.
Pride and Prejudice. Mr Collins proposes to both Elizabeth and Charlotte, but their reactions are very different. What does the behaviour of all three characters, during chapters 19, 20 & 22 tell us about the different attitudes to marriage in the early n
which shows her determination that she would not marry for money, but only for true love. Marriage today is seen upon by society as a way to be connected to your 'other half' forever due to your undying love for each other. Many people get married by choice of the heart which is similar to the way Elizabeth saw matrimony back in the 19th century. When Mr Collins proposes to Elizabeth she try's to be nice and reject him in a nice way by saying '"Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me.
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Conclusion analysis
Good conclusions usually refer back to the question or title and address it directly - for example by using key words from the title.
How well do you think these conclusions address the title or question? Answering these questions should help you find out.
Do they use key words from the title or question?
Do they answer the question directly?
Can you work out the question or title just by reading the conclusion?
Describe and compare the different marriages in "Pride and Prejudice". Which one do you think Jane Austen presents as the best and why do you think this?
"Conclusion From all the relationships, I believe that Elizabeth and Darcy have the best. They married for love, not money, not beauty and not security, a marriage vow, To Love and To Hold That is why we marry; we shouldn't marry for money, beauty or security. Out of all these relationships Elizabeth and Darcy are the only two that married for the right reasons. Modern Times We have learnt nothing from history; people still marry for money and beauty. These marriages usually end in divorce and heartbreak. I believe it is a relevant novel for girls and boys to read so they understand some of the situations we see in Pride and Prejudice, it also shows what and how society has changed."
Discuss the significance of the title, 'Pride and Prejudice'.
"In conclusion, I note that Jane Austen has used the two main characters to explain the relevance of the title. Jane Austen, by the end of the novel, has achieved the perfect marriage state, Elizabeth and Darcy complement each other entirely now that each has overcome the strength of first impressions and their own pride and prejudice."
Discuss Jane Austens methods of portraying the character of Mr. Darcy in Pride And Prejudice. Is he a wholly unattractive character?
"In conclusion, I feel that Elizabeth and Darcy is an excellent match. They both misjudged each other, but came through all their problems and worked everything out. This is why I feel both are such a good match. Even though they have many differences, is it not true, that opposites attract?"
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Zharinov, Victor Victorovich
Total publications: 76 (70)
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in Scopus: 34 (34)
Cited articles: 47
Citations in Math-Net.Ru: 188
Citations in MathSciNet: 66
Citations in Web of Science: 90
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Presentations: 21
This page: 5096
Abstract pages: 16946
Full texts: 5732
References: 1509
Doctor of physico-mathematical sciences (1981)
Speciality: 01.01.01 (Real analysis, complex analysis, and functional analysis)
Birth date: 4.01.1942
Keywords: complex analysis, hyperfunctions, integral representations, algebraic and geometric methods in partial differential equations, mathematical methods in quantum theory.
algebraic and geometric methods in partial differential equations, mathematical methods in quantum theory.
Main publications:
Zharinov V. V., “Distributivnye struktury i ikh prilozheniya v kompleksnom analize”, Trudy MIAN, 162, 1983, 3–81
Zharinov V. V., Lecture notes on geometrical aspects of partial differential equations, World Scientific, Singapore, 1992
Vladimirov V. S., Zharinov V. V., Uravneniya matematicheskoi fiziki, Nauka, Moskva, 2000
Zharinov V. V., “O kogomologiyakh algebry Geizenberga”, Trudy MIAN, 228, 2000, 61–75
Zharinov V. V., “Kogmologii algebry Li vektornykh polei na pryamoi”, TMF, 128:2 (2001), 147–160
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1. V. V. Zharinov, “Hamiltonian operators with zero-divergence constraints”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 200:1 (2019), 923–937
2. V. V. Zharinov, “On analysis in noncommutative algebras and modules”, Mathematical physics and applications, Collected papers. In commemoration of the 95th anniversary of Academician Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov, Tr. Mat. Inst. Steklova, 306, Steklov Math. Inst. RAS, Moscow, 2019 (to appear)
3. V. V. Zharinov, “Analysis in Algebras and Modules”, Proc. Steklov Inst. Math., 301 (2018), 98–108 (cited: 1)
4. V. V. Zharinov, “Analysis in differential algebras and modules”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 196:1 (2018), 939–956
5. V. V. Zharinov, “Lie–Poisson structures over differential algebras”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 192:3 (2017), 1337–1349 (cited: 2) (cited: 1)
6. V. V. Zharinov, “Hamiltonian operators in differential algebras”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 193:3 (2017), 1725–1736 (cited: 1) (cited: 1)
7. V. V. Zharinov, “Bäcklund transformations”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 189:3 (2016), 1681–1692 (cited: 15) (cited: 7)
8. V. V. Zharinov, “Conservation laws, differential identities, and constraints of partial differential equations”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 185:2 (2015), 1557–1581 (cited: 10) (cited: 6)
9. V. V. Zharinov, “A model of relativistic dynamics”, Proc. Steklov Inst. Math., 285 (2014), 120–131
10. V. V. Zharinov, “Algebraic aspects of gauge theories”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 180:2 (2014), 942–957 (cited: 3) (cited: 2)
11. V. V. Zharinov, “The formal de Rham complex”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 174:2 (2013), 220–235 (cited: 5) (cited: 2) (cited: 2) (cited: 4)
12. V. V. Zharinov, “Cohomologies of spaces of Schwartz test functions”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 170:3 (2012), 263–273 (cited: 2) (cited: 2) (cited: 2) (cited: 2)
13. V. V. Zharinov, “Cohomologies of spaces of Schwartz distributions”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 172:1 (2012), 879–884 (cited: 1) (cited: 1) (cited: 1) (cited: 1)
14. V. V. Zharinov, “Symmetries and conservation laws of difference equations”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 168:2 (2011), 1019–1034
15. V. V. Zharinov, “Evolution systems with constraints in the form of zero-divergence conditions”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 163:1 (2010), 401–413 (cited: 3) (cited: 1) (cited: 1) (cited: 3)
16. V. V. Zharinov, “A differential-difference bicomplex”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 165:2 (2010), 1401–1420 (cited: 1) (cited: 1) (cited: 1) (cited: 1)
17. V. V. Zharinov, “Green's formula for difference operators”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 161:2 (2009), 1445–1450
18. V. V. Zharinov, “Operatsionnoe ischislenie v differentsialnykh algebrakh”, Mezhdunarodnaya konferentsiya po matematicheskoi fizike i ee prilozheniyam, Tezisy dokladov (Samara, 8–13 sentyabrya 2008 g.), 2008, 71–72
19. V. V. Zharinov, “Simmetrii i zakony sokhraneniya evodyutsionnykh sistem na reshetke”, Vtoroe rossiisko-armyanskoe soveschanie po matematicheskoi fizike, kompleksnomu analizu i smezhnym voprosam, Tezisy dokladov (Moskva, MIAN, 5–11 oktyabrya 2008 g.), 2008, 39–40
20. V. V. Zharinov, “Algebraic and geometric foundation of mathematical physics”, Lekts. Kursy NOC, 9, Steklov Math. Inst., RAS, Moscow, 2008, 3–209 , 210 pp.
21. V. V. Zharinov, “Evolution systems on a lattice”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 157:3 (2008), 1694–1706 (cited: 3) (cited: 3) (cited: 3) (cited: 3)
22. V. V. Zharinov, “Bäcklund correspondences for evolution equations in a multidimensional space”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 147:1 (2006), 449–459 (cited: 1) (cited: 1)
23. V. V. Zharinov, “Hochschild Cohomology of the Algebra of Smooth Functions on the Torus”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 144:3 (2005), 1247–1263 (cited: 2) (cited: 2) (cited: 2) (cited: 2)
24. V. V. Zharinov, “Hochschild Cohomologies of the Algebra of Smooth Functions”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 140:3 (2004), 1195–1204 (cited: 2) (cited: 2) (cited: 2)
25. V. V. Zharinov, “Cohomology of a Poisson Algebra”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 136:2 (2003), 1049–1065 (cited: 7) (cited: 7) (cited: 7)
26. V. V. Zharinov, “Cohomologies of the Lie Algebra of Vector Fields on a Line”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 128:2 (2001), 957–968 (cited: 4) (cited: 4) (cited: 4)
27. V. V. Zharinov, “On the Cohomologies of the Heisenberg Algebras”, Proc. Steklov Inst. Math., 228 (2000), 52–66
28. V. S. Vladimirov, V. V. Zharinov, Uravneniya matematicheskoi fiziki, Fizmatlit, M., 2000 , 61 pp.
29. V. V. Zharinov, “On derivations of the Heisenberg algebra”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 118:2 (1999), 129–151
30. V. V. Zharinov, “Operational calculus in differential algebras”, Integral Transform. Spec. Funct., 7:1-2 (1998), 145–158 (cited: 1) (cited: 2)
31. V. V. Zharinov, “Algebraic constructions in generalized functions”, Generalized functions—linear and nonlinear problems (Novi Sad, 1996), Integral Transform. Spec. Funct., 6, no. 1-4, 1998, 347–356 (cited: 3) (cited: 3) (cited: 4)
32. V. V. Zharinov, “Secondary operational calculus”, The International Conference on Secondary Calculus and Cohomological Physics (Moscow, 1997), Diffiety Inst. Russ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Pereslavl' Zalesskiy, 1997 , 12 pp. (electronic)
33. V. V. Zharinov, “On differentiations in differential algebras”, Proceedings of the conference “Different Aspects of Differentiability”, II (Warsaw, 1995), Integral Transform. Spec. Funct., 4, no. 1-2, 1996, 163–180 (cited: 2) (cited: 1) (cited: 2)
34. V. V. Zharinov, “Convolution algebras of sequences”, Different aspects of differentiability (Warsaw, 1993), Dissertationes Math. (Rozprawy Mat.), 340, 1995, 337–342
35. V. S. Vladimirov, V. V. Zharinov, A. G. Sergeev, “Bogolyubov's “edge of the wedge” theorem, its development and applications”, Russian Math. Surveys, 49:5 (1994), 51–65 (cited: 5)
36. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math., 203 (1995), 391–402
37. V. V. Zharinov, “Hyperfunctions and analytic functionals”, CWI Quarterly, 6:4 (1993), 317–333
38. V. V. Zharinov, “On spectral sequences of evolution systems with constraints”, Russian Acad. Sci. Sb. Math., 79:1 (1994), 33–45 (cited: 1)
39. V. V. Zharinov, Lecture notes on geometrical aspects of partial differential equations, Series on Soviet and East European Mathematics, 9, World Scientific Publishing Co. Inc., River Edge, NJ, 1992 , x+360 pp.
40. V. V. Zharinov, “Differential algebras and low-dimensional conservation laws”, Math. USSR-Sb., 71:2 (1992), 319–329 (cited: 4)
41. V. V. Zharinov, “Extrinsic geometry of differential equations and Green's formula”, Math. USSR-Izv., 35:1 (1990), 37–60
42. V. V. Zharinov, “String symmetries and conservation laws”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 81:2 (1989), 1125–1133
43. V. V. Zharinov, “Intrinsic geometry of differential equations”, Lectures in mathematics and its applications, 2, no. 2, Ross. Akad. Nauk, Inst. Mat. im. Steklova, Moscow; Tul'sk. Politekhn. Inst., Tula, 1988, 3–50
44. V. V. Zharinov, “On Bäcklund correspondences”, Math. USSR-Sb., 64:1 (1989), 277–293
45. V. V. Zharinov, “Green's formula for nonlinear systems of partial differential equations”, Soviet Math. Dokl., 36:2 (1988), 314–316
46. V. S. Vladimirov, V. V. Zharinov, “Analytic methods in mathematical physics”, Proc. Steklov Inst. Math., 175 (1988), 117–138
47. V. V. Zharinov, N. G. Marchuk, “Green's formulas and bilinear conservation laws”, Math. Notes, 40:4 (1986), 776–780
48. O. I. Bogoyavlenskii, V. S. Vladimirov, I. V. Volovich, A. K. Gushchin, Yu. N. Drozhzhinov, V. V. Zharinov, V. P. Mikhailov, “Boundary value problems of mathematical physics”, Proc. Steklov Inst. Math., 175 (1988), 65–105
49. V. V. Zharinov, “Conservation laws of evolution systems”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 68:2 (1986), 745–751 (cited: 10) (cited: 20)
50. V. V. Zharinov, “The geometry of analytic jets”, Math. USSR-Sb., 53:2 (1986), 367–383
51. V. V. Zharinov, “Distributive lattices and their applications in complex analysis”, Proc. Steklov Inst. Math., 162 (1985), 1–79
52. V. V. Zharinov (Ed.), Twistors and gauge fields, Mir, Moscow, 1983 , 366 pp.
53. V. V. Zharinov, “Conservation laws for linear systems”, Differ. Equations, 18 (1982), 350–356
54. V. V. Zharinov, “Distributive lattices and the “edge of the wedge” theorem of Bogolyubov”, Generalized functions and their applications in mathematical physics (Moscow, 1980), Akad. Nauk SSSR Vychisl. Tsentr, Moscow, 1981, 237–249
55. V. S. Vladimirov, V. V. Zharinov, “Closed forms associated with linear differential operators”, Generalized functions and their applications in mathematical physics (Moscow, 1980), Akad. Nauk SSSR Vychisl. Tsentr, Moscow, 1981, 135–140
56. V. V. Zharinov, “A generalization of Bogoljubov's “edge of the wedge” theorem”, Sov. Math. Dokl., 24 (1981), 425–429
57. V. V. Zharinov, “On an exact sequence of modules and Bogoljubov's “Edge of the wedge” theorem”, Sov. Math. Dokl., 21 (1980), 357–360
58. V. S. Vladimirov, V. V. Zharinov, “Closed forms associated with linear differential operators”, Differ. Equations, 16 (1980), 534–552
59. V. V. Zharinov, “Fourier ultrahyperfunctions”, Math. USSR-Izv., 16:3 (1981), 479–511
60. V. V. Zharinov, “Quasiasymptotic behavior of Fourier hyperfunctions”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 43:1 (1980), 302–306 (cited: 1) (cited: 1)
61. V. V. Zharinov, “Duality in families of locally convex subspaces”, Sov. Math. Dokl., 20 (1979), 792–794
62. V. V. Zharinov, “Compact families of locally convex topological vector spaces, Fréchet–Schwartz and dual Fréchet–Schwartz spaces”, Russian Math. Surveys, 34:4 (1979), 105–143
63. V. V. Zharinov, “On the lattice of subspaces of the Fourier ultrahyperfunctions”, Math. USSR-Sb., 37:1 (1980), 118–132
64. V. V. Zharinov, “Analytic representations of a class of analytic functionals containing Fourier hyperfunctions”, Math. USSR-Sb., 36:1 (1980), 59–73
65. V. V. Zharinov, “Laplace transformation of Fourier hyperfunctions and related classes of analytic functionals. II”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 37:1 (1978), 843–855 (cited: 2)
66. V. V. Zharinov, “Laplace transformation of Fourier hyperfunctions and related classes of analytic functionals”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 33:3 (1977), 1027–1039 (cited: 6)
67. V. V. Zharinov, “Preobrazovanie Laplasa odnogo klassa obobschennykh funktsii”, prilozhenie II k knige: A. G. Zemanyan, Integralnye preobrazovaniya obobschennykh funktsii, Nauka, M., 1974
68. V. V. Zharinov, “Integral representation of Wightman functions in two-dimensional space-time”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 9:2 (1971), 1101–1107 (cited: 2)
69. V. V. Zharinov, “On the Nakanishi representation”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 6:2 (1971), 108–112
70. V. S. Vladimirov, V. V. Zharinov, “On a representation of the Jost–Lehmann–Dyson type”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 3:3 (1970), 525–536 (cited: 1)
71. V. S. Vladimirov, I. V. Volovich, A. K. Gushchin, Yu. N. Drozhzhinov, V. V. Zharinov, B. I. Zav'yalov, V. A. Il'in, G. I. Marchuk, V. P. Mikhailov, E. I. Moiseev, S. M. Nikol'skii, B. V. Pal'tsev, “Aleksei Alekseevich Dezin (obituary)”, Russian Math. Surveys, 64:3 (2009), 553–560
72. A. A. Logunov, A. A. Slavnov, O. I. Zavialov, O. A. Khrustalev, V. P. Mikhailov, I. V. Volovich, A. K. Gushchin, Yu. N. Drozhzhinov, V. V. Zharinov, B. I. Zavialov, A. G. Sergeev, V. P. Pavlov, I. Ya. Aref'eva, Yu. A. Tserkovnikov, “The 70th birthday of V. S. Vladimirov”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 94:1 (1993), 1–2
73. I. V. Volovich, A. K. Gushchin, A. A. Dezin, Yu. N. Drozhzhinov, V. V. Zharinov, B. I. Zavyalov, V. A. Il'in, V. M. Millionshchikov, V. N. Mikhailov, A. G. Sergeev, “Vladimirov Vasilii Sergeevich (70-th birthday tribute)”, Differential Equations, 29:2 (1993), 305–313
74. S. I. Pokhozhaev, V. V. Zharinov, M. A. Illarionov, V. P. Pikulin, Nelineinyi prikladnoi funktsionalnyi analiz, Ucheb. posobie po krusu vysshaya matematika, Izd-vo MEI, M., 1989 , 77 pp.
75. B. V. Boyarsky, O. A. Oleinik, A. V. Babin, M. I. Vishik, Yu. S. Ilyashenko, V. M. Millionshchikov, D. Serr, V. S. Vladimirov, I. V. Volovich, V. V. Zharinov, G. M. Zaslavsky, R. Z. Sagdeev, D. A. Ysikov, A. A. Chernikov, B. A. Malomed, M. I. Tribel'sky, “Sessions of the Petrovskii Seminar on differential equations and mathematical problems of physics”, Uspekhi Mat. Nauk, 42:3(255) (1987), 221–228
76. V. S. Vladimirov, V. Ya. Gutlyanskii, V. V. Zharinov, Yu. E. Hohlov, “All-Union School on complex methods in mathematical physics”, Uspekhi Mat. Nauk, 40:6(246) (1985), 173–177
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V. V. Zharinov
Seminar of the Department of Mathematical Physics, Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS
2. Гамильтоновы операторы в дифференциальных алгебрах с приложением к эволюционным уравнениям, включая эволюцию со связями
3. Гамильтоновы системы уравнений в частных производных
4. О представлении типа Йоста–Лемана–Дайсона
International Conference of Mathematical Physics dedicated to the memory of academician V. S. Vladimirov
November 9, 2017 16:30
5. Йост-Леман-Дайсон, автомодельность, квазиасимптотика
Conference on Mathematical Physics dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Boris Ivanovich Zavialov
6. О преобразовании Беклунда
7. On the Backlund transformation
The third Russian-Chinese conference on complex analysis, algebra, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics
8. Когомологический анализ уравнений в частных производных (продолжение)
10. Когомологический анализ уравнений в частных производных
11. Об умножении обобщенных функций
12. В. С. Владимиров и приложения обобщенных функций в математической физике
Conference "Mathematical Physics. Vladimirov-90" dedicated to the 90th anniversary of academician V. S. Vladimirov
13. Когомологии основных и ообобщённых функций Шварца (продолжение)
14. Когомологии основных и ообобщённых функций Шварца
15. Законы сохранения низших степеней и дифференциальные тождества
16. Conservation laws of evolution systems with constraints
Steklov Mathematical Institute Seminar
17. Эволюционные системы со связями и законы сохранения низших степеней
18. Комплекс де Рама многомерной целочисленной решетки
19. Соответствие Беклунда для многомерных эволюционных уравнений (продолжение)
20. Соответствие Беклунда для многомерных эволюционных уравнений
21. Cohomology of a Poisson algebra
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V. V. Zharinov, Algebraic and geometric foundation of mathematical physics, Lekts. Kursy NOC, 9, 2008, 210 с.
http://mi.mathnet.ru/book651
V. V. Zharinov, Distributive structures and their applications in complex analysis, Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklov., 162, 1983, 81 с.
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But conservatives constantly tell me the problem isn’t the Court. No, the problem lies in the fact that we just don’t have the right judges. Therefore, I must vote for Republican presidential candidates. The thinking goes that no matter how sketchy he or she may seem when it comes to any given policy, the Republican will at least nominate “good” Supreme Court justices.
Well, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner simultaneously reveals exactly how federal judges view the Constitution and blows this stupid “we need Republicans to get good people on the Court” silliness out of the water.
Here’s what Posner, a Ronald Reagan appointee, thinks of the document he swore an oath to defend and uphold.
And on another note about academia and practical law, I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation (across the centuries—well, just a little more than two centuries, and of course less for many of the amendments). Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century. Which means that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post–Civil War amendments (including the 14th), do not speak to today.”
Did I mention Ronald Reagan nominated this guy?
So, here we have a federal judge, appointed by the gold-standard Republican president, telling the world judges should not even spend mere seconds studying the Constitution – also known as the supreme law of the land. It might be worth mentioning again that this is the document he swore an oath to uphold.
This takes the so-called “living-breathing Constitution” to a whole new level.
It remains unclear what exactly judges should base their opinions on, if not the Constitution. I mean, when you throw out the fundamental law of the land, it doesn’t leave a whole lot. I suppose that it all boils down to the whims, wit and wisdom of the judges themselves.
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I have received permission from the folks at RETRO GAMER magazine to post up the entire unedited interviews I did with our very own webmaster Shawn, as well as SNK Game Lord, CHAD OKADA. Thanks again to those fine fellows for giving me the time, and I hope you guys enjoy their comments!
SHAWN INTERVIEW October 2009:
1) Why did you start neo-geo.com, and why do you continue to support the site today?
The acquisition of the Neo-Geo.com domain name was the catalyst that transformed a personal Neo Geo fan site that into a community site for the fans of the Neo Geo. Having the ideal domain name gave me incredible motivation to get the ball rolling and I believe it gave others the confidence to invest their time into this new project as well. This transition didn’t occur overnight though. Key initial contributors such as Mouse_Master, Bobak, Geddon_jt, DolphinLord, Nick_th_fury, Vincewy and many others played their roles in forging various sections of the site and the forums. Then the community grew as people began accepting NG.com as their home and made their contributions as well.
I continue to support the site because there is still interest out there. It’s a mutual arrangement. As long we have our Neo enthusiasts who are willing to visit and contribute to Neo-Geo.com, and as long as I have sufficient credit on my credit card to pay the bill, then the switch stays on. Of course I’d like to see the site remain up and active forever, for now that path looks clear for years to come.
I'd like to clarify that the NeoStore was never part of the initial plan and it didn't surface until further down the road. It actually took a close friend telling me that dealing in Neo Geo games is what I did for a living, because before then I thought of it purely as my hobby. Simply put, the purpose of this Neo-Geo.com project was driven by our passion for the Neo Geo.
2) In retrospect, do you feel that neo-geo.com and the Neo Store played a role in the continued support of the home cart system after SNK's bankruptcy? How so?
We certainly played our loyal diehard role. It was an era of high uncertain because SNK was completely silent for some time. During this dark period the fans and supporters of the Neo debated the return of SNK and bided our time while their restructuring took place. Although we weren’t fully aware at the time, the remnants of the former SNK was still around and they visited the Neo-Geo.com forums daily from what I was told. I assume they read the site to gauge our Western interest and preferences of their products as well as forage through our wealth of entertaining and constructive posts.
Furthermore, since we didn’t know for sure when or if SNK was returning, there were some very professional unofficial home cartridge productions commissioned by the NeoStore which included unreleased titles such as Strikers 1945 Plus & Ganryu. The runs were very limited in quantity but very high in quality and the initial production sold out on preorder. Fortunately, SNK reopened and we soon received fresh software releases and more official productions.
3) Can you describe the process involved in working with SNK and/or SNK Playmore to negotiate new English home cartridge releases, and any difficulties you experienced?
Of course I was always excited to engage in the prospects of a new home cartridge release and I had a strong desire to see that each release had an English version production in addition to the Japanese. There are some rather interesting negotiations that come to mind. One involves a meeting at SNK USA in Orange County, California that preceded the home cart production of Matrimelee, but I’m afraid I must refrain from disclosing any significant details as such information should probably remain confidential. Sorry!
4) Is there a "typical" customer who contacts you or the NeoStore to purchase Neo Geo home cartridges? In today's day and age, what do you think draws new people into the system?
The most common phrase I hear is, “I remember playing the Neo Geo in the arcades and I always wanted to own the system but just couldn’t afford one at the time.” I fall in that category as well, and many of us do apparently. I think it’s the fact that the Neo Geo home console and games started with such a hefty price tag and that made it rather exclusive to own, but also elusive to us at the same time. That’s a rather potent combination that resulted in an unyielding allurement for many of us. Then there are those who have discovered the Neo Geo through the ports from other systems and want to own the original. Finally, there are those who are secretly from the emulation camp who could no longer bear the guilt and are now supporting to Neo Geo console so that they can finally be at peace with their inner self.
5) How do you see the Neo Geo in terms of its value and collectibility in the market today, now that the system has been unsupported for over 5 years?
Considering that US unemployment is at a quarter century high, global stock markets have crashed, and foreclosures are rampant, it’s refreshing to see that Neo Geo home carts remain as resilient as ever for we have clearly witnessed remarkable and steady returns in the AES market. Look at the final but most recent home cart release, Samurai Shodown 5 Special. Anyone could have bought a new copy of the original unfixed version for $359 and now they are selling for $800 to $900 each. Even the far more common MVS carts are showing renewed strength recently.
6) Why do you feel Neo enthusiasts remain so willing to pay so much money for valuable home cartridges in today's market, when in most cases there is a much cheaper alternative somewhere else to play the games? (ie MVS, emulation, console ports, etc).
Anyone can own a port or download the ROM but to own these games in their original form has enchanting appeal and is very rewarding. These games are art, from the packaging to the very game stored on the SNK boards, and to own Neo Geo home carts is to own a piece of hardcore 2D gaming history. The appeal these LARGE dual board cartridges have is clearly reflected in the prices they command. From a collectability viewpoint, the high quality case and insert is a winning combination because we don’t have to deal with flimsy cardboard boxes that are doomed to rapid decay once opened, such as with Nintendo games.
From the supply side, the home console was never a mainstream system and the games were generally produced in limited quantities, some considerably more limited than others, yet it has its cult following that has managed to provided a solid floor for prices. Like anything else collectible, it generally comes down to the rarity for determining value, and the Neo Geo has quite a list of rare games that remain challenging to acquire.
7) Describe the Neo Geo community. What *is* the Neo Geo community? Why are the fans so notoriously rabid? How do you think the community has affected the longevity of the system and viability of the home console, if at all?
I’m going to quote Bobak’s excellent description from the Neo-Glossary that he created:
“The informal, colorful, and rather anarchic group of gamers and collectors world-wide who share an interest in SNK's Neo Geo and its progeny. They are known for their passion and individualism.”
There always seems to be never ending tension between the gamers vs. collectors. Though I believe you can be both, we all ultimately lean towards one end of the spectrum and that’s the side we tend to support. On top of that, the Neo Geo lineup is heavily weighted with games from the fighting genre, our community consists predominately of males, and perhaps we just don’t have enough estrogen to balance out all the testosterone. At the end of the day, what matters is that we all share our common interest, which is the Neo.
Our community has loyally supported every new Neo Geo release that came our way. The fact that the Neo Geo home cartridge system is the longest supported game system by a manufacturer in video game history should speak loads about how dedicated we have been. I have no doubt that there would be plenty of interest to buy, own, and play any new official home cartridge release from SNKP if we were given the opportunity.
8) Can you share any insight as to SNK Playmore's attitude toward the Neo Geo home console in its final years?
Though SNKP was very professional, their primary interest was the higher quantity production MVS releases and so the home console came second. They realized that the home cart releases had their die hard followers and I’m sure they would have supported us for as long as they continued MVS productions. Sadly, what ended the MVS productions was the nearly instantaneous flood of bootlegs that followed each MVS release. Bootlegs destroyed the profitability for SNKP. Unfortunately, the Neo Geo technology was just too dated and so they could not use an encryption that was sufficient enough to slow the bootleggers effectively. A several month delay would have provided a decent window for legal distribution to function properly but for the final few releases the bootlegs were literally available the very day of an MVS release.
9) What fuels your passion for the Neo Geo these days? What do you think fuels other gamers' interest and passion in the Neo Geo?
I find that participating with other fellow Neo Geo enthusiasts on Neo-Geo.com and through the NeoStore helps keep my interests freshly kindled. Here lately I’ve been heavily focused on the development project for the new NeoStore design that will cater directly to Neo Geo enthusiasts. I went with the same shopping cart system for the backend that President Obama used for his highly successful campaign website and I hired a professional team to handle the web design. So far they have exceeded my best expectations for what I had originally anticipated to be the ideal design. Perhaps the new NeoStore will be live by the time this article is published. Be sure to check it out!
I recently acquired the original snkusa.com domain name which was an exciting acquisition of historical virtual real estate, and it’s now being used as a domain forward to NeoStore.com.
I also remain committed to a never ending quest to upgrade my personal Neo Geo collection which consists mainly of home carts and the NeoStore is my primary gateway for sourcing potential upgrade pieces. In fact, the NeoStore was originally spawned from what was once my personal page for buying and selling home carts for building my collection.
For others, I believe they are driven by their desire to own, play, collect, and to share their experiences and opinions with others, often through the Neo-Geo.com forums.
10) Can you confirm the recent private sale of English Kizuna Encounter and Ultimate 11 home carts for the unprecedented combined price of $55,000, and to what do you attribute this phenomenon?
During September ’09, I was approached by Neo-Geo.com forum member, Wolf, who was seeking both of these extremely rare titles for his collection. He never expected me to be willing to part with my personal copies and so he did not readily make me an offer directly. Instead, TonK, our resident MVS price guide analyst informed Wolf that I have occasionally sold a handful of titles from my collection in the past for offers that were too good to pass up. After a brief period of negotiation, Wolf and I came to an agreement of $55,000 for the pair. In hindsight, I’m rather certain that Wolf would have paid more and then there’s that kick of reality that my collection is now missing my two most prized pieces. However, $55,000 was one of those offers that qualified as too good to pass up.
Wolf says that he wouldn’t sell his Kizuna/U11 pair even for $100,000. He considers them virtually irreplaceable, and perhaps he’s right. I figure that with my resources of operating the NeoStore that I’ll eventually replace these titles, but the quest for top condition has always been the biggest challenge. Condition wise, what Wolf received was rather top notch as he was smiling ear to ear as he inspected them in person. I also have no doubt that the copies I sold to him were 100% SNK original because they were both acquired near the turn of the millennium, a period when Euro Kizuna was selling for $450 to $550 and Euro Ultimate11 sold for $350 to $450.
Today, Euro Kizuna Encounter and Ultimate11 home carts are the rarest and most desirable by the most serious of collectors. It seems that only a single digit quantity of Euro Ultimate11s have surfaced, and perhaps only a handful more of Euro Kizuna copies are floating around. We can only speculate as to why these two titles are so rare, but one theory is that the English version was only released in Europe and in very small quantities.
For additional reference, in November 2008, 8man of the Neo-Geo.com forums acquired Euro Kizuna Encounter and Ultimate 11 home cartridges for a purchase price of $30,000. With this purchase he was able to complete his collection by owning every single home cart.
CHAD OKADA interview October 2009:
1) What were your duties as "SNK GAME LORD" and why do you think SNK created such a position?
SNK originally created this position because the US branch was in need of a person who knew all the aspects of video games. To market the product well, they needed to know the competition and they needed someone who knew video games in a whole from a strategic marketing standpoint and from a gamer standpoint. At the time, the office was still small and in the beginning, I would do many different duties from writing the copy for all documentation including instruction books to helping the assembly line in the production of the NEOGEO consoles to answering the game play hotline. In the early days, I wrote the 16-page brochures that showed up in EGM. These brochures would eventually be the reason for why the hardcore gamers at the time would know of me. These brochures were a brainchild of Kent Russell and our ad agency, the Cunningham group, in which it would be used to show why the NEOGEO was a more powerful system than anything out. It was Kent's idea to give me a moniker and the Cunningham group produced the logo which I still use today. Eventually, I ended up doing PR, helping with Sales and Marketing, and also production of games. Basically, anything except accounting.
2) What was the "energy" like inside of SNK in the period surrounding the launch of the Neo Geo? Can you describe the relationship between SNK of America and SNK Japan in terms of marketing and decision making?
At the launch of the NEOGEO, the office was very small and only had a skeleton crew managing all the duties. Marty Kitazawa and Kent Russell handled the launch and because of the high price decided to go with a quieter launch. The energy was very good, but nothing like you would see in a dot come start up or any start up you'd see nowadays. In the very beginning, Kent Russell handled the marketing and decision making from the US market on the US products. Under the circumstances, he did a great job of advertising and getting the product into the spotlight. All of the controversial decisions were made by him and he is to be commended for doing all he could do to get NEOGEO recognized. Early on, the US branch had all the power on how to market the games in the US and that included what to name the games and how to distribute them. The relationship was good in the beginning, but after realizing the NEOGEO was too expensive, communication to the US turned a little quiet.
3) What was SNK's strategy for marketing the Neo Geo home system to consumers of the time?
It was a difficult product to market. The price was too expensive at that time and would even be considered too expensive for present day. It was $600 for the machine and $200 for each game. Early on, the strategy was too gain attention (not necessarily positive attention) and to market to a consumer that was older, richer, and could afford a premium priced game system. It was thought that we could only sell in places similar to a skymall or sharper image. It was a difficult product to sell because of the price point.
4) Did SNK view the Neo Geo as a direct competitor to consoles of the era, like the Super NES and Sega Genesis?
SNK wanted the NEOGEO to directly compete with Sega Genesis and Super NES. At the time, the NEOGEO was head and shoulders above the competition in the technology aspect. However, the retailers didn't think we could compete. Limited quantities were purchased by Toys R Us and any retailer that supplied Sega Genesis or SNES. Even with the amount of marketing we had out for the NEOGEO at the time, we couldn't get the product into big name chains.
5) How do you recall the reaction from retailers, gamers and the media when the Neo Geo home system was launched?
Gamers obviously went bonkers over it. They loved it. They all wanted it. The media was on SNK's side in the beginning. The hype was excellent. However, the retailers are in it for the business and couldn't see anything at that price point selling to the mainstream. It was too tough a sell and not all video games sold well at the time. Turbo-graphx 16 reminded retailers that not all video games were gold.
6) How did SNK attempt to convince consumers that it was worth it to spend so much money on the console and its games, when the prices were at unprecedented levels?
SNK went after the rich, higher end clients. However, it will always be known that SNK tried to convince consumers that the NEOGEO was exactly the same as the $4K machine in the arcades. And this was the truth.
6) In retrospect, do you view the Neo Geo home system as a success or failure, and why?
This is not an easy question to answer. I poured my heart into SNK and NEOGEO and I would do it again if I had the chance. It is also a difficult question because some great successes came from NEOGEO the including the series of Samurai Shodown, Fatal Fury, and the King of Fighters. SNK could have stayed on as a third party for Nintendo and other consoles and possibly continued their huge success as a third party. It may be possible that the decision to make the NEOGEO over staying a third party that was the reason for the demise of original SNK. But we will never know.
7) Where do you see the Neo Geo home system in the history of home game consoles? What makes the system special in your mind, if anything?
When NEOGEO was released, it was the most respected powerhouse game system out. It was a system that trounced everything out at the time and made everything else look like toys. When Kent Russell's Bigger-Badder-Better slogan was used, it had much weight. Every gamer wanted it and knew it was the best. However, the NEOGEO suffered a painful death. After the Playstation and Saturn were released, the NEOGEO was not the big dog in the park. It was a costly system that seemed old and powerless. The NEOGEO CD's release (which should have been released many years earlier) was too little, too late. The time from being the technological supreme powerhouse to becoming less than 3D seemed very short for the people who had fought in the trenches for NEOGEO. The NEOGEO was special because it was the first video game to have the exact arcade graphics and gameplay in the home. Arcades have pretty much died out now, but when arcades were big, the home systems did not compare to the arcade hardware.
8) To what do you contribute the longevity of the system (i.e., the fact that it was supported until 2004)?
The NEOGEO was supported for a long time because market penetration in the arcades were pretty high due to the low cost of the arcade unit. Many countries outside of the US had NEOGEO's in large use in the arcades or bars or other locations with games. The production of NEOGEO games is the same for home and arcade. The programming and chips are identical. There was no "porting" from the NEOGEO arcade to home console. It was pretty much identical.
9) I once heard a story that you rejected the dog tag logo from the English release of Samurai Shodown 1 due to SNK's decision to censor the game in English. Is this true, and can you tell the story behind this and the origin of the Dog Tag Neo Geo logo?
The dog tag logo was created by Kent Russell and the Cunningham Group for marketing the product in the US. The eventual logo that was used in the US was the original and only logo used by the Japanese division. After Kent Russell left and the price point proved too much, SNK decided to cut costs by using the same packaging company for both the US and Japan. Instead of using the dog tag logo, Japan opted to use their own logo on the US games. This did not have any connection to the censorship of the game.
10) (this is just to clear up my understanding of the facts) It is common knowledge that the Neo was originally marketed as a rental machine, prior to being sold directly to consumers. How long did this rental program last, and was this Japan only, or also in the US?
The rental machine idea was a japanese idea. In the US, we had approached many rental stores such as blockbuster and had booth's in many video rental trade shows, but sales to rental stores were slow as the price point was also a factor to these customers as well. It seemed like we could win in this market, since the product was too expensive for kids to buy, you would think they would rent it, but because of the price, it was too difficult to charge enough to make money on the product in the long run. The rental stores just couldn't make a profit on rental. The US did everything to sell to all customers and did not look to the rental stores exclusively.
11) You have been in the game industry for many years. How do you look back on your involvement with SNK? What are your feelings about your time there?
My involvement at SNK are definitely some of the best years of my life. The fans were incredible. I have not to this day have met any people as devoted to a video game machine as the people who were fans of the NEOGEO. There was a huge cult following. I experienced both the arcade world and the consumer world and was better for it. Through SNK, I have met some unbelievably talented people and some amazing people including Billy Pitt, Ami Blaire, and David Siller. I could not trade it for anything. I was very fortunate to be part of it.
Kula's Candy
great great read. thanks for sharing
the history behind SNK is incredibly facinating and probably the richest period in time for gaming.
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As always... :-(
Crap they're tearing down the Palace of Auburn Hills. I guess it's I-75 & M-59 now.
Very interesting read and it's great to have the full interviews posted!
Thanks to everyone involved from start to finish
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nice read
In with the real hardware, out with the bootlegs......who is this I wonder?
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cool article thanks
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Just got through reading this for the second time.
Thanks so much for posting it.
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They call me Quiet. But I'm a Riot. Mary-Jo-Lisa. Always the same. That's not my name. That's not my name. That's not my name. That's not my name.
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That was a very interesting read, it was cool to hear from Shawn especially. I can't believe he parted with his Euro Kizuna and Ultimate 11!
They must have been gem mint too.
Thanks for the link to this, TonK!
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Interesting read, thanks! Unbelievable price on those euro homecarts.
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terrific read, thanks!
Man, I miss old SNK.
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You know, it's kinda sad now how little there is to read anymore on the actual Neo.
This was the most interesting thing I have read on here in a few years.
Kinda makes you realize just how long it's been since this joint actually revolved around its original idea.
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Its good to hear a little info now and then, Thanks for posting this.
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showth...t=146188:mr_t:
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading that.
Thank you SNK-P for bringing KOF back to the its roots and away from that weaboo sissy shit.
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55k, holy crap. I'd think that would be so much cooler if wolf brought down a briefcase full of 20's and shawn had an electronic bill counter on hand.
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Good interviews. Nice to relive some of the old SNK glory days. Thanks Shawn for continued upkeep of the forums.
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I have had the fortune to actually handle (with very clean hands) the Kizuna Shawn sold Wolf several years ago ('06). It was in tip-top condition. So much so that we pulled out the insert to take a close look and be sure it was original stock, etc. We were both convinced it was authentic. Really interesting to hear what happened to it.
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Filed under: Other Sports — Tags: feats of strength, history, Mount Everest, obits, Sir Edmund Hilary — Sean @ 5:00 pm
We know the numbers well. They exist in yellowed hardbound books, on the backs of bubblegum cards, in the corners of the mind reserved for more important things. Hank Aaron hit 756 home runs, and Barry Bonds may still be going. Michael Jordan won ten NBA scoring titles and six championships. Jim Brown rumbled for over 12,000 yards in nine seasons and retired only because he didn’t feel like running for 12,000 more. Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single game and it wasn’t even his most remarkable accomplishment of that season. (Of 3,890 minutes the Philadelphia Warriors played that season, Chamberlain was on the court for all but 8 of them.) These are the sporting feats that were collectively ours as fans, athletic magic tricks that made kids marvel and force us to rub our eyes in amazement years later at the ink in the record books. DiMaggio, fifty-six consecutive, Williams at .406. These numbers are spellbinding twofold; one, because they stand towering above their peers’ best attempts, and two because they surge even higher compared to us, the people sitting and watching. My goodness, could any of us even get one hit in a baseball game? It’s almost unthinkable!
Well, here is unthinkable: in 1953, a 33 year old New Zealand beekeeper named Ed Hilary climbed Mount Everest, a 29,029 foot knife carved in ice. He and his sherpa partner, Tenzig Norgay, scaled the mountain with 30 pound gear packs on their backs, hit the summit at 11:30 one May morning, and dropped off some chocolates and crosses on the summit before sliding down later in the day. Oh yeah, he took off his oxygen mask at 29,000 feet and took a few photos, you know, if anyone was interested. Sir Edmund (a knight before he reached the bottom of the mountain) died Thursday at 88, another old man leaving behind a couple kids, a wife, and a few stories. One of his stories goes like this: there once was a man who stood at the North Pole, the South Pole, and the summit of the highest mountain on Earth. It was him; there literally was only once such a man.
Hilary defies our conventions of what makes an athlete brilliant. Here at Nerds on Sports we prefer statistical analysis to attack or defend players and teams. Stats are what make us nerds and very efficient nerds at that. We dabble in quantities. The unquantifiable, however, is far more difficult to report. We view subjectivity the way politicians view slums, out of their element and with a little disdain. Only truly remarkable efforts get our attention. Though the risks are still imminent climbers vault up Everest with the regularity of phone bills. In his time, they did not. They turned around or died. Somehow, Hilary did neither.
Hilary’s, and Norgay’s for that matter, feat defies both geographic sense (a Kiwi the first person to ascend the Nepalese and Tibetan border) and rational thought (who would dare climb Everest in the first place?). In most of sport’s great achievements, the athletes were professionals, they succeeded in grand stadiums in front of thousands and perhaps millions more on television/radio, and they were flanked by trainers and coaches to spur them to victory. Hilary hopped up mountains in his spare time; he considered himself a beekeeper by trade even after his voyage. Hilary made his attempt without a large team or medical support. If he were injured, well, why not ask the dozens of climbers forever stuck on the mountain how that works.
It takes a lot to make Lance Armstrong look like a Texas bike cop, even briefly, but lots is what Edmund Hilary had; lots of nerve, lots of guts, lots of strength, and lots of luck. Climbing a mountain is hard. Hell, climbing a ten floor walkup is tiring, and there are individual steps. His manliness and strength of resolve put Chuck Norris jokes in their rightful place. His decency and graciousness to both the sport of climbing and his numerous admirers stand in stark contrast to the relentless self-promotion cycle of player, television, internet, and Madison Avenue. He used his fame to help the sherpa community of Nepal, sharing his rewards and accolades as brother and friend. Later in life, he publicly criticized the glory hogs aiming for Everest’s plateau at the expense of their own teams and fellow climbers’ safety. By all accounts Hilary wouldn’t want his posthumous praises sung. But then Sir Edmund wasn’t wracked with the insecurity of those stars so desperate to prove their place at the table. His place in history is secure; no other person can summit higher than he, they can only join him on the mountain. The sporting community has lost a giant; the world has lost a decent man. Both groups could use more.
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As Madhya Pradesh reels under power cuts, officials blame bats for woes
This claim has triggered a fresh round of blame game between the Kamal Nath-led Congress government and the opposition BJP.
Published: 22nd June 2019 12:24 PM | Last Updated: 22nd June 2019 12:24 PM | A+A A-
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BHOPAL: As Madhya Pradesh continues to reel under frequent and unscheduled power cuts, officials of the state electricity company are holding bats responsible for the woes, claiming that these flying mammals are causing faults in the supply lines, especially in the state capital.
They say bats hanging on the power supply lines sometimes cause short circuits, which ultimately lead to outages.
The saffron party said instead of giving these kind of excuses, the power utility and the state government should work in a responsible manner, while the ruling Congress said there was no crisis as MP is a power surplus state.
State Energy Minister Priyavrat Singh, however, contended that overloaded power transformers and not bats could be the main reason behind the problem.
Talking to PTI, the minister said, "In a review meeting of Bhopal district (held on June 14), an official of the power company had said that bats are creating faults in the supply lines along the lake (Upper Lake). But I don't think this is a major reason. I pulled up the official, who had said so."
"I told the official to repair the supply lines by insulating them. This work had already been carried out. I asked the officials to consider installation of ultrasonic devices, after due environment clearances, in the areas where bats are creating problems," he added. Singh said there were several others reasons that might be behind the faults in supply lines.
"At some places, a squirrel may create a problem. But These are not the main reasons. The main reason of fault is overloaded power transformers. Maintenance of power supply lines was neglected for years. I asked the officials to carry out proper maintenance of the distribution lines," he said.
Spokesperson of Madhya Pradesh Central Power Distribution Company Ltd, Manoj Dwivedi, said, "The faults in power supply lines in the vicinity of Upper Lake (in Bhopal) were reported due to bats. This largely happens due to short- circuits caused by bats hanging on the power supply lines." The company carries out work of insulation in such cases, he said.
The opposition BJP, however, slammed the state government saying it should act responsibly on the issue. "Bats were there in that area of Bhopal earlier also, but power supply used to be uninterrupted. Instead of giving different kind of excuses, the power company as well as the government should work responsibly. Were the bats born only after the Congress came to power?" state BJP spokesman Rajnish Agrawal said.
The Congress government had earlier said that poor quality of transformers purchased during the previous BJP dispensation was the reason behind the electricity issues.
The Congress, which came back to power in Madhya Pradesh after a gap of 15 years, had also blamed BJP workers and sympathisers in the power companies for creating problems.
During the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in April this year, Chief Minister Kamal Nath had alleged that there was a conspiracy behind the power cuts in the state.
At that time, state Finance Minister Tarun Bhanot had also said that some officials of the power distribution company were working against the ruling Congress, resulting in power outages.
"During the campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections, Nath, in order to hide his government's failure, used to blame the BJP and certain officials for power cuts.
But even after the polls, outages continued in every part of the state despite it being a power surplus state," Agrawal said.
He said inept handling by the Congress government has created this crisis. However, the state Congress hit back saying the BJP has run out of issues and raising a hue and cry over such "non-issues".
"Pre-monsoon maintenance is a routine process and it was happening during the BJP rule as well. The technical faults are being repaired. MP is a power surplus state and there is no crisis. Opposition is spreading lies," state Congress spokesman Pankaj Chaturvedi said.
"Due to factionalism within the BJP, the leaders of that party are trying to outdo each other and levelling false allegations," he said.
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Home BREAKING NEWS Empire State Building lit up for Diwali
Empire State Building lit up for Diwali
The Empire State Building was lit up in orange to commemorate the festival if Diwali on Nov. 7. (Photo By: Peter Ferreira)
The Federation of Indian Associations (FIA-NY/NJ/CT) collaborated with the Empire State Realty Trust on Wednesday, November 7, to light the New York Empire State Building with the orange color for Diwali
“It is a very exciting moment for all of us. We have been trying for the past year and a half to get this opportunity and we finally have. I can’t imagine celebrating Diwali in such a big way,” Srujal Parikh, the president of FIA, told ITV Gold.
Popular Indian singer Jay Sean and Miss America 2014 Nina Devuluri also graced the event.
While both of them were honored to be there, Devuluri said “It has been such an incredible opportunity and when I was Miss America, I remember wanting to be the first South Asian to bring diversity. The idea of cultural competency across the world and across the country, this is just another milestone to have reached in that.”
FIA and the Empire State Realty Trust have been lighting up the Empire State Building for more than two decades, with the colors of the Indian flag for its Independence Day each August.
The illumination of the Empire State Building during Diwali symbolizes another step in taking forward the FIA’s theme of “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,” the world is one family.
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A Success Story of 99 Speedmart Owner
His handicap becomes his forte. A star is born.
Some people blame their circumstances as why they are not successful. But not Lee Thiam Wah.
Unknown to most people, the owner of 99 SpeedMart, dubbed 'The King of MiniMarts' was struck with polio at an early age, and it bound him to the wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Being born into a lower income family, Lee did not enjoy the support and helot that kids with his affliction should have been given. His father was a construction worker, and his mother was a hawker, so he did not lead a luxurious life.
But it was what Lee despite of his circumstances that got the international business community to take notice, earning him an exclusive profile in Forbes magazine.
His parents had to provide for 11 children, so it comes as no surprise that Lee only finished 6 years of school, as they could not afford to send him to school anymore.
But Lee did not use this as a reason for him to be lazy, and just accept his circumstances. After he finished school prematurely, he read books borrowed from neighbors, and sold snacks in a roadside stall to occupy his time.
Lee said that he had to do all this, as a way to help himself.
“I have to help myself. Nobody would hire me due to my physical limitation,” he says.
His never say die attitude was forged by his grandmother, who used to tell him "If you dont work hard, what will you amount to?"
By the time he was 23, he saved RM 5000, which was just enough to start a grocery stall. So he began his retail education.
He said that he learned through experience, more than anything.
“I learned what customers buy. I know all the suppliers and their pricing. And I studied my competitors thoroughly," says Lee.
In 1992, Lee sold the business for RM 88,000. Armed with the money and the know how, he opened a mini mart.
Lee said that he came to this decision because he wants a challenge.
“I wanted the challenge of running a bigger business. If you don’t have scale you can’t compete with Chinese medicine halls on pricing, and you can’t compete with hypermarkets in terms of range.”
In 1999, he changed the mini mart's name to 99 Speedmart.
Initially building his empire in Klang with 175 stores, Lee soon took his business nationwide, even extending his empire to East Malaysia.
By June 2016, 99 Speedmart had launched its 800th outlet in Taman Pahlawan, Melaka.
During the Forbes interview in 2010, it was reported that Lee's business was already rakingi n RM 150 million annually and employs 2000 people in Malaysia.
Recent media reports cite that 99Speedmart now employs over 6000 workers, a fleet of 100 lorries and 6 distribution centers.
Lee Thiam Wah is a real success story, and he has shown to everyone that even physical disability cannot stop pure passion, grit, and perseverance.
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Original Off-Broadway Version (2007) / Lincoln Center Theater
For a 16th century comedia dell'arte acting troupe, is it life, love, ambition or art?
The Glorious Ones, based on the novel by noted author Francine Prose, was hailed by the New York Times as "a valentine to the actor's life--joyfully naughty, with buoyant music by Stephen Flaherty and a bawdy book by Lynn Ahrens."
Both slapstick and serious, the musical tells how the troupe came to be and how it captured the public's adoration with its bawdy comedy, before changing artistic fashion altered its way of life. It follows seven archetypal characters--the charismatic leading man, the sly harlequin, the quack doctor, the old miser, the voluptuous leading lady, the devoted dwarf, and the elegant Moon Woman--as they search for immortality and love. In their search for glory and fame, the characters are thrown out of France by the religious court because of their "lewd" performances. The leading man, Flaminio, struggles with the court's decision and how it it affects his life as a performer.
Smutty, nutty, yet sentimental and deeply moving, The Glorious Ones has "one hand on the crotch, and one hand on the heart."
Pantalone Alone
The Comedy of Love
Madness to Act
Flaminio Scala's Historical Journey to France
Armanda's Tarantella
The World She Writes
Opposite You
My Body Wasn't Why
Flaminio Scala's Ominous Dream
The Moon Woman
The Glorious Ones (Reprise)
Armanda's Sack
Finale: The Comedy of Love
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The Languages of Nation Attitudes and Norms Edited by: Carol Percy, Mary Catherine Davidson
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This collection brings together research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in specific contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives from language studies, lexicography, literature, and cultural studies, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity beyond monolingual citizenship - nativeness, ethnicity, politics, religion, empire. Some chapters focus on traditional instruments of prescriptivism: language academies in Europe; government language planners in southeast Asia; dictionaries and grammars from Early Modern and imperial Britain, republican America, the postcolonial Caribbean, and modern Germany. Other chapters consider the roles of scholars in prescriptivism, as well as the more informal and populist mechanisms of enforcement expressed in newspapers. With a thematic introduction articulating links between its breadth of perspectives, this accessible book should engage everyone concerned with language norms.
A fascinating and significant collection of essays which offers both historical range and geographic scope. Taken as a whole this is a text which provides the latest thinking in relation to the most important questions related to language and the creation of nationhood. Students and researchers of all levels will find much to discuss and reflect upon in this invaluable collection.
- Tony Crowley, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities, Scripps College, USA
This volume is a timely and fitting contribution to the issue of norms, prescriptivism and language attitudes and the role of language in the formation of nations. It is broad in range, covering all facets of the overall topic. In its organisation it is well structured and is well presented by its editors.
- Raymond Hickey, University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany
Author Biography:
Carol Percy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her work on eighteenth-century normative linguistics began with Captain Cook and his editors, and women grammarians. Recent articles provide literary and cultural contexts for popular grammars, and consider prescriptive attitudes in the popular press â?? book reviews and classified advertisements.
Mary Catherine Davidson is Associate Professor of English at Glendon College, York University, Canada. Her book Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) examined multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Her current book project charts the changing status of American English in the representation and reception of dialects and second languages in Hollywood film in the 1940s and 50s.
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Something’s brewing in Dartmouth
NSCC grads open café in Alderney Landing Ferry Terminal
Steven Kendall & Earl Joudrey: NSCC grads and co-owners of Port City Cafe at the Alderney Landing Ferry Terminal in Dartmouth
“Offering a great selection of locally-produced product, locally-sourced product is important to us. We want to know our customers, to say hello and be a part of their day.” ~ Steven Kendall
Port City Coffee is also served at the Old Triangle and at Sailor Bup’s Barbershop in Halifax.
As you walk through the doors of the Alderney Landing Ferry Terminal in Dartmouth, the smell hits you: “Maple. Baked goods. Bacon. Coffee!” Instantly, you need one of everything before you board the boat bound for the Halifax Waterfront.
The dynamic duo behind the glorious cacophony of smells, is none other than barista, and bean baron Earl Joudrey; and biscuit-baking boss Steven Kendall.
Wolfville business given new life by grad
The two NSCC grads (Akerley and Marconi Campuses) founded Port City Café in 2015, after conversation during a chance meeting at a farmers’ market highlighted the similarities between the customer bases of two vendors.
“We’d been talking about what each other’s goals were for our companies, and they were basically the same,” says Earl of the merger of his company—Port City Coffee Co.—and Kendall’s company—Biscuit Cutter Baked Goods. “Customers had begun associating the two because we were side by side, so we decided to merge, become one company and grow.”
“It was my idea,” says Steven.
“It was totally mine,” says Earl.
All about community
Earl and Steven do agree that one of the best parts of opening a café in such a central, lively location is their regular customers. “It’s awesome to know you’re a part of someone's day,” says Earl. “Being able to practically have their order ready as they approach the counter is a great feeling.”
Steven adds, “Offering a great selection of locally-produced product, locally-sourced product is important to us. We want to know our customers, to say hello and be a part of their day.”
Port City Café is geographically located at the center of what many consider an ongoing resurgence in Downtown Dartmouth. As more innovative, vibrant community-minded companies make their mark in the area’s downtown core, Port City Café sees their client base grow. “Dartmouth is an amazing city,” says Earl. “It's a great place to live and a great place to do business.”
It’s a grind
While they certainly have a lot of fun, Earl and Steven admit that owning and operating a business isn’t always easy. “There have certainly been a lot of ups and downs,” says Steven. “We’ve learned a lot, but given our backgrounds and experiences in business, we’ve each been able to bring a lot to this new venture too.”
Both agree their education has played a major role in helping their business do well. “NSCC teaches you to succeed, it prepares you for life—the real world so to say,” says Earl. “Like in business, if you wanted to succeed in the program, you had to work hard and be prepared to jump in.”
With one location up and running, the pair is already considering what’s next. “We have a few things we want to do,” says Steven. Earl adds, “Sooner, rather than later, we'll have another cafe and grow from there.”
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Isles 3, Chicago 2 (OT)
Devon Toews made the Islanders' 50th shot count. Toews' first NHL goal came 1:48 into overtime as the Isles extended their winning streak to five games with a 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks before a near-sellout crowd of 13,454 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Robin Lehner made 19 saves to extend his personal winning streak to six games and lower his NHL-leading GAA to 2.13. Mathew Barzal scored both Isles goals in regulation, giving him seven of the Isles' last 12 goals before Toews' winner.
The Isles are 8-1-0 in their last nine games and have moved nine games over NHL-.500 for the first time since they ended the 2016-17 season with a 41-29-12 record.
Dominik Kahun (6) Brandon Saad, Duncan Keith 03:05 CHI 1,NYI 0
Mathew Barzal (11) Anthony Beauvillier, Johnny Boychuk 06:47 CHI 1,NYI 1
Mathew Barzal (12) Nick Leddy, Anders Lee 18:56 CHI 1,NYI 2 PPG
Patrick Kane (23) Erik Gustafsson, Jonathan Toews 05:01 CHI 2,NYI 2 PPG
Devon Toews (1) Josh Bailey, Brock Nelson 01:48 CHI 2,NYI 3
The Isles have won five straight games for the second time this season; it's only the 2nd time in the last 11 seasons that they have had multiple win streaks of at least five games…Mathew Barzal now has eight goals in the last six games; he drew both Isles power plays (19 on the season) and finished with a career-high 8 shots on goal… Devon Toews' game-winner came in his 5th NHL game; the rookie defenseman had six shots on goal after having only seven in his first four games…The Isles now are four points ahead of last season's pace through 39 games; including shootout winners they have scored 19 fewer goals and allowed 35 fewer goals than last year's first 39 games… The Isles are a season-high nine games over NHL-.500 (22-13-4)… The win keeps the Isles in 9th place in the conference; while they are in 4th place in the Metro they are just one point behind Columbus, two points behind Pittsburgh and three points behind Washington... The Isles had 50 shots on goal; it's their most shots in a game since April 11, 2015 (52 vs. Columbus in the final game of Coliseum Era I)…All 18 Islander skaters had at least one shot on goal…Patrick Kane is one of two American-born players (Keith Tkachuk) with twelve seasons of at least 20 goals…Jonathan Toews assisted on the tying goal to extend his assist streak to five games and set the stage for Devon Toews (no relation) first NHL goal…During the Isles' current 9-game stretch (6-1-2), they have allowed only 16 goals, including only 10 at even-strength.
Howie's Stat
Devon Toews is the 372nd player in Islander history to score a goal.
Devon Toews is the first Islander to score his first NHL goal in overtime at the Coliseum since Radek Martinek in 2001; Thomas Hickey is the only other Islander to score his first NHL goal in overtime. Of the 18 players to do so in the modern era, three are Islanders.
The Isles had 50 shots, following the 48-shot effort vs. Detroit on December 15th. It's the first time since February 24-25, 1990 that the Isles have had at least 48 shots in consecutive Coliseum games. It's also the first time that they have had at least 48 shots twice in a 3-game span of home games since February 26- March 2, 2008.
The Isles outshot Chicago 50-21. It's the first time since October 25, 2008 (+32) that the Isles have outshot the opposition by at least 29 shots.
This is the 13th time in club history that the Isles have had at least 50 shots on goal at home. The Isles are 5-7-1 in those 13 games; the Isles had gone 0-6-1 in the previous seven since defeating Pittsburgh 9-0 on October 14, 1982 – the day they raised the third Cup banner.
Josh Bailey won all 11 face-offs he took. He is the first Islander to do so since Zenon Konopka also went 11-11 on January 6, 2009 in Edmonton.
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Face-off stats have been an official 'real-time" stat since 1997-98. Josh Bailey is the 4th Islander to win at least 11 draws without a loss:
• Dave Scatchard 19-0 1/21/2000 vs. New Jersey
• Frans Nielsen 12-0 11/6/2010 vs. Philadelphia
• Josh Bailey 11-0 tonight
• Zenon Konopka 11-0 1/6/2009 vs Edmonton
Robin Lehner has won six consecutive decisions in a single season for the first time in his career (he closed the 2013-14 season with four straight wins and won the first two games the following season for a 6-game multi-season streak). Lehner has allowed only 10 goals in his last nine games (6-1-2, 1.15 GAA, .959 save percentage).
Most Points Thru 38 Games (Post-Cup Era)
• 53: 2014-15
1. ISLES 104
Nashville 104
2. Nashville 103
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The Isles are 12-5-4 when scoring first and are 10-8-0 when allowing the opening goal.
Isles 14-16-18-2=50
Chicago 3-13-3-2=21
The Islanders are 22-13-4 overall; 10-5-3 at home (3-0-1 on Long Island and 7-5-2 in Brooklyn) and 12-8-1 on the road. The Isles will play 21 games in Uniondale and 20 games in Brooklyn this season.
Chicago is 15-21-7 overall; 8-9-4 at home and 7-12-3 on the road.
Robin Lehner made 19 saves; he improved to 10-6-3 on the season and 1-2-1 in his career against Chicago.
Collin Delia made 47 saves ; he is 3-0-1 on the season and 0-0-1 in his career against the Isles.
The Isles were 1-2 on the power play in 2:21 of PP time; Chicago was 1-2 on the power play in 2:38 of PP time.
Isles: Ryan Pulock (23:50); Chicago: Erik Gustafsson (23:56)
Isles 38,Chicago 20 (66%).
Josh Bailey won 11 of 11 for the Isles; David Kampf won 7 of 11 for Chicago.
Face-offs by period: 1st period 15/19; 2nd period 13/20; 3rd period 10/17; Overtime 0/2
Isles 24 (Matt Martin -6)
Chicago 14 (John Hayden -5)
The Isles blocked 14 shots (Five with 2)
All situations: Isles 72, Chicago 46
5-on-5 Isles 65, Chicago 38
Isles: Mathew Barzal +19
Chicago: Jonathan Toews +6
(Andrew Ladd – IR), (Thomas Hickey- IR), (Jordan Eberle-IR), (Valtteri Filppula- INJ), Ross Johnston, Luca Sbisa,
1. Bryan Trottier 1123 *** 2. Denis Potvin 1060 *** 3. Bob Nystrom 900 *** 4. Clark Gillies 872 ***
1. Billy Smith 304 *** 2. Glenn Resch 157 *** 3. Rick DiPietro 130*** 4. Kelly Hrudey 108***
The Isles lead the season series one game to none (and 2 points to 0). The Isles will visit Chicago on January 22 in the final game before the All-Star Break.
While the Blackhawks are unbeaten at Barclays (Isles 0-2-1 in three games), the Isles are 5-0-1 in the last six games vs. Chicago at the Coliseum. The Isles have won two of three overall from Chicago, with both wins punctuated by big moments for rookie defensemen (Pulock had a 5-point game last January).
The Sound Tigers opened 2019 with a 5-4 shootout loss in Rochester. Tanner Fritz and Matt Gaudreau each had a goal and an assist while Jeremy Smith, the December AHL Goalie of the Month, made 25 saves. Bridgeport is 21-9-4-2 on the season and has earned points in 22 of their last 26 games (17-4-3-2). The Sound Tigers next play on Friday in Syracuse and on Saturday in Binghamton.
Leaders: Goals: Michael Dal Colle 16 ; Assists: Sebastian Aho 21; Points: Dal Colle 28. Goalies: Jeremy Smith 11-5-2 (2.68 GAA); Christopher Gibson 10-4-4 (3.06 GAA)
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5th – ISLANDERS AT ST. LOUIS 8:00PM
[MSG+(Pre-game at 7:30pm), 88.7 WRHU-FM,WRCN 103.9FM, Radio.com]
Go West, Young Men.
The Isles head to St. Louis for a one-game Western Conference road trip as they face the Blues for the first time this season. It's the first time since October 24, 2015 that the Isles will have a one-game road trip to face a Western Conference opponent; that trip was also to St. Louis.
The Isles took three points from St. Louis in a pair of early-season games last season; the Blues won in Brooklyn in a shootout and the Isles won 5-2 in the Midwest
The Isles are 4-1-1 in the last six against the Blues; Thomas Greiss has been in the nets for all four wins.
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MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL UNEXPECTED RESIGNATION
By: Barbara Hansen
Orting Middle School students will have a new principal when they begin classes this fall.
Principal Pat Kelly's last official action came as a surprise to all when he retired suddenly Thursday.
Kelly cited health issues as his reason for leaving the district.
In a letter addressed to Superintendent Michele Curry, Kelly stated that his decision had been a particularly tough one for him. He is proud of what the students at OMS have accomplished and equally as proud of the staff.
Kelly served as OMS principal for six years. During his tenure and the construction of a new middle school, he worked to ensure the design allowed technology across the curriculum. He established a building-wide discipline policy that viewed student behavior as another learning objective and focused on positive rewards.
Kelly also worked toward the establishment of a curriculum for high achieving students that was built into most classrooms that allowed students who were able to work at higher level.
"Most so-called gifted programs are based on pulling students out of the regular classroom," Kelly said in 2005. "But when students from all walks of life and ability levels remain together, they learn to work with all kinds of personalities. That's what they will experience in real life."
Kelly also supported the model of peer role models, and hoped students who were already high achieving would pull some students up with them.
Some parents were critical of Kelly, as well.
At recent school board meetings, parents of special education students said their children were forgotten when they got into middle school. They used outdated text books, teachers showed movies much of the time, and the poor academic environment was supported by the administration.
Curry said the school district will advertise for a new principal as soon as possible.
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Sonali Bendre's husband Goldie Behl treated us to this photo (courtesy GOLDIEBEHL)
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Hrithik Roshan, Sussanne Khan, Sonali Bendre and Goldie Behl just set major squad goals and also brunch goals this Sunday. Their happy faces are proof that the quartet of friends had a gala Sunday bunch. Hrithik and his ex-wife Sussanne took along their twins Hrehaan and Hridhaan to the brunch party while Sonali Bendre and Goldie Behl's son Ranveer accompanied his parents to the meet. Filmmaker Goldie Behl treated us to just a glimpse of the brunch party and captioned his post: "Sundays are for brunchin' with family!" In the photo Hrithik and Sussanne posed together with Sussanne flashing the victory sign. Sonali, who battled cancer, posed with Ranveer while Goldie Behl is all smiles for the happy photo.
So many happy faces will indeed make your day brighter!
Sundays are for brunchin' with family! @[email protected]/jd1Or7JIVL
— goldie behl (@GOLDIEBEHL) March 17, 2019
Hrithik Roshan and Sussanne Khan are part of Sonali Bendre's closest friend circle. Sussanne Khan was one of the first visitors to drop by Sonali's residence after she returned from New York, where she was undergoing treatment for cancer. In January, Sonali Bendre and Goldie Behl joined Hrithik Roshan at his birthday party at a Mumbai restaurant. Sussanne was also there. Hrithik Roshan and Sussanne Khan divorced in 2014 after 17 years of togetherness and 14 years of marriage but have continued to maintain a cordial rapport.
From Hrithik Roshan's birthday party
When Sonali Bendre was in the US for treatment, Sussanne Khan also often flew to the Big Apple to be by her friend's side. "I am extremely grateful to my friends, my pillars of strength, who at a moment's notice, arrived to be with me and help me through this," Sonali Bendre had written on her Friendship's Day post for Sussanne Khan and Gayatri Joshi.
This is me. And in this moment, I am really happy. People give me strange looks when I say that now, but it's true and I'll tell you why. I am now paying attention to every moment, looking for every opportunity to find joy and #SwitchOnTheSunshine. Yes, there are moments of pain and low energy, but I am doing what I like, spending time with people I love, and feeling very loved and happy. I am extremely grateful to my friends, my pillars of strength, who at a moment's notice, arrived to be with me and help me through this. In between their busy schedules they find time to visit, call, message, FaceTime… basically never leaving a moment for me to feel alone. Thank you for showing me what true friendship is. #HappyFriendshipDay, ladies. Blessed to have you all in my life (including the ones not in the picture… You know who you are) @gayatrioberoi @suzkr P.S. Nowadays I spend far less time getting ready because I don't have to fuss over my hair! #BaldIsBeautiful #FindThePositive #OneDayAtATime Picture credit: @hrithikroshan
A post shared by Sonali Bendre (@iamsonalibendre) on Aug 4, 2018 at 10:28pm PDT
Goldie Behl's photo indeed summed up Hrithik Roshan, Sussanne Khan and Sonali Bendre's weekend vibes. Happy Sunday, everyone!
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Last week, Smarty attended a high school STEAM camp in our local community college. She was taking Introduction to Biotechnology in the morning and Chemistry of Cooking in the afternoon.
Smarty really enjoyed the camp even though she lamented that the week felt too much like a school week - waking up with an alarm clock to make it to camp by 9 am, coming home even later than on school days (the camp ended at 4 pm and we were home by 5 pm) and having little time to herself. At least there was no homework! Smarty loved being able to work in a real chemistry and bioengineering labs - even though she was frustrated with limitations a chem lab presented for a cooking class - like making rice and pasta on hot plates that would not bring water to a boiling temperature. She felt that she learned a lot in bioengineering, but she was somewhat disappointed with chemistry portion of her chemistry of cooking class. According to her, there was very little that she did not know already in chemistry material presented in class. But what she was mostly disappointed about was, as usual, her camp mates.
Coming fresh from Yunasa camp, Smarty was looking forward to meeting "other students like her" (she herself is uncomfortable using the "G-word"). She knew that other students will be older, since the class was for rising 9th graders and up, but she did not have any problems connecting to older kids at Yunasa. However, she came from the camp on the first day looking glum and saying that she did not see anyone who she could see as her friend or even a temporary buddy. For once, many kids came to the camp with friends (a big advantage for Yunasa when everyone is new to each other except repeat campers). Second, according to Smarty, girls were talking about "music and makeup" and not about science. And they refused to engage with class the way Smarty engages with class - answering and asking questions, raising their hands, etc. Smarty told me with frustration, "I cannot believe I am the only one who knows that cellular respiration produces carbon dioxide and water. I learned this in the fourth grade! I don't understand why they are in the science class when they don't seem to be interested in science". I pointed out to her gently that maybe her enthusiasm and extensive knowledge is a bit intimidating to other students and she replied, "Why should I be sorry? When I am in a science class, I want to learn more and to ask questions and not just to sit there being bored! I know that there are other kids like me somewhere, it's just there are not too many of them."
What I loved about this exchange is Smarty's intense passion about wanting to be who she is even if it sets her apart from the "norm". So many girls at her age desire to fit in. So far I don't see it in her. She just wants to be true to herself, and I think this quality should be cherished rather than squashed. I do hope that she will eventually meet more of her true peers on her journey to adulthood. One thing that I hope that she will consider doing for the next summer is to try and apply to COSMOS program on one of California UC campuses. Granted, it's a long program (4 weeks!), but it could really give her a taste of college life, introduce her to real research projects and let her meet new friends, since COSMOS is quite selective. If not, perhaps she will consider some other selective programs where she is more likely to meet other driven kids like her and make friends. In the meantime, she will have one more chance for new connections this summer - when she goes to AI and machine learning camp in August. We will see how that camp plays out - in the meantime, she can email with her friends from Yunasa camp.
Do your kids feel different from the "norm" and how do they deal?
Perhaps, K and Smarty can take a class together. I asked K the question and she said, "Cellular respiration produces carbon dioxide, water, and ATP." I told K that Smarty felt different from her peers and she said her school has plenty of kids who are engaged and tries their best in class. Smarty must have gotten mixed up with kids who didn't want to be at a science camp. Perhaps, we can visit a science museum together. We like the Tech Museum if you are up for it.
Also, she would more likely find peers by signing up for CTY or Duke Tip camps. Hope she gets the CDB scholarship so she can meet more peers in a gifted school rather than accelerate all on her own.
My daughter is quite proud to be different, and quite happily mentions it every chance she gets.
This can be a problem because she tends to look down on the people she considers "normal," which I'm trying to get her to change. That's a work in progress.
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Article of the week : Twin productions!
For this 'Article of the week,' I'll go over something I've been wanting to do for a long time but I've been putting aside because of the blog's limitations. Articles bigger than a simple post are difficult to editorialize in the blog's familiar daily format. Hence, the reason for these 'Article of the week.'
In this article, I'll go over what I call 'Twin productions' as they are movies that are identical in many ways, often utilizing the same cast, or the same crew, or the same sets, sometimes costumes, music but with a totally different story and / or setting. These are not sequels or part of a series. The stories are different even if the rest is pretty much the same. Some of these films were shot back to back but many of them were shot at the same time. Some actors have stated that they worked on two different productions at the same time which confused them, certainly with the language barrier.
Since there are even more titles than those listed here, this is part 1.
SWORD OF THE EMPIRE (1964) and FIRE OVER ROME (1965)
Twin productions both starring Lang Jeffries and released at the end of the PEPLUM craze. Both films were produced by Giorgio Marzelli. Some big sets and costumes can be seen in both productions. The supporting cast are different, as are the directors but both films feel and look the same. SWORD OF THE EMPIRE was released first even though it included scenes from the soon to be released FIRE OVER ROME (this is not the first time this has happened)! Both films are difficult to come by. I recently uploaded a Fan Dub of FIRE OVER ROME at PEPLUM TV channel and I recently got hold of the ever elusive English version of SWORD OF THE EMPIRE, which I need to do a watchable Fan Dub with it. Though very similar, both movies are easy to differentiate from each other.
WAR GODS OF BABYLON (1962) and SLAVE QUEEN OF BABYLON (1963)
One of the few set of 'Twin productions' that's radically different except for sets, costumes and music. The rest are totally different: different directors, different cast. Sergio Spina is credited for both stories but even the screenwriters are different. But if you watch them back to back, you'd swear they were the same films since they used the same sets and costumes. There is a 'trompe-l'oeil' effect going on with these two titles. Top image below is from WAR GODS OF BABYLON and the other is from SLAVE QUEEN OF BABYLON.
THIEF OF BAGHAD (1961) and THE WONDERS OF ALADDIN (1961)
Steve Reeves was set to star in THE WONDERS OF ALADDIN after making THIEF OF BAGHDAD but last minute changes were made and Donald O'Connor was used instead. Both films were co-produced by TITANUS and LUX Film, a French production company. How does one go from Steve Reeves to Donald O'Connor? Both films were released the same year but THIEF OF BAGHDAD was released earlier in the year. Though the productions do look alike, for me it's almost impossible to confuse these titles with each other: one has Steve Reeves, the other doesn't.
THE SECRET SEVEN (1963) and THE SPARTAN GLADIATORS (1964)
These two Tony Russell movies were directed by Alberto De Martino, almost the same cast with Russel co-starring with Helga Liné, Livio Lorenzon, Massimo Serato, etc. Same writers, same sets, same locations. It's easy for me to figure out the difference between these two films: SPARTAN is more colourful and has more sets while SECRET SEVEN is mostly shot outside. Also, some actors, like Pietro Capana and Howard Ross are in SPARTAN GLADIATORS and not in SECRET SEVEN. Even if they are alike, these two movies don't confuse me.
HERCULES AGAINST THE TYRANTS OF BABYLON (1964) and GOLIATH AND THE CONQUEST OF DAMASCUS (1965)
Both of these Peter Lupus movies used scenes from SODOM & GOMORRAH (1962). There is some major confusion in regards to both of them. Both were directed by Domenico Paolella. Same lead cast, same sets, same locations. The only way for me to truly set them apart is Pietro Torrisi's role in GOLIATH is much bigger and he's a 'good' guy. Also, in TYRANTS, there the destruction of Babylon (with destruction scenes from the SODOM movie). Though I like both films, I personally prefer HERCULES AGAINST THE TYRANTS. Their similarities don't automatically translate into both being good on the same level.
SAMSON (1961) and FURY OF HERCULES (1962)
These two Brad Harris movies couldn't look more alike. Major confusion with these 'Twin productions.' The only thing that really sets them apart is the fact that SAMSON is so much better than FURY OF HERCULES. The other thing which set both movies apart is Alan Steel's role is less important in FURY. But aside from these discrepancies, both films are virtually identical. Same cast, same director, same sets, same costumes, including Brad Harris' muscle tunic, almost same 'Feats of strength.' Personally speaking it would have been much better if they just had made a sequel to the superior SAMSON instead of making it a Hercules film in name only. To make matters even worse, German distributors switched the titles : what was initially SAMSON became HERCULES and what was FURY OF HERCULES became SAMSON. Why? I don't know.
Above: Brad in SAMSON. Below: Brad in FURY OF HERCULES. See the difference? Me neither.
HERCULES AGAINST THE MONGOLS (1963) and HERCULES AGAINST THE BARBARIANS (1964)
The best 'Twin productions' listed here. These films utilized footage from THE MONGOLS (1960) and were most likely conceived with this in mind. Mark Forest played Maciste (renamed Hercules for US market). HERCULES AGAINST THE MONGOLS was made and released first. Both films were directed by Domenico Paolella and the cast are virtually identical with the exception being that Nadir Moretti and Maria Grazia Spina star in MONGOLS only, while Gloria Milland stars in BARBARIANS only. But identical as they are, they couldn't be more different: HERCULES AGAINST THE MONGOLS is a fast paced, straight forward action film while HERCULES AGAINST THE BARBARIANS is more like a moody, dark romantic fairy tale, with evil lurking at every corner.
I hope you enjoyed this Article of the week. There'll be more such articles this year. There should also be a part 2 of this 'Twin productions' topic in the near future.
Note : I created a new 'permanent page' where all 'Articles of the week' for 2018 will be posted.
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Brrrodie the Westie said...
LOVE THIS STUFF, thanks for posting
Thank you for this article. In fact I would rather watch any of these twin productions again than watch Hercules against Moloch or Hercules the Avenger (due to their excess usage of footage from other films).
Also Goliath and rebel slave and hero of babylon with Gordon Scott, Siege of Syracuse and Sappho with Tina Louise and Seven slaves against rome,revenge of gladiators,seven rebel gladiator starring Roger Browne
PEPLUM Cinema said...
I wouldn't necessarily consider SAPPHO and SIEGE OF SYRACUSE as 'Twin Productions' even though both films star Tina Louise and directed by Pietro Francisci. SAPPHO was produced by Columbia pictures and SIEGE by Paramount. Very little from one film ended up in the other film (costumes, sets). The only similarities are director, female star and composer (Lavagnino) and longtime Francisci screenwriter, Ennio de Concini. It's sorta in a grey area.
But SIEGE OF SYRACUSE is a twin production with another film. Can you guess it?
orsh549 said...
I just watched SPARTAN GLADIATORS, and noticed that most of the cast was the same. I liked this movie very much, and I thought it was more of a sequel. I also agree with that SAMSON is much better then FURY OF HERCULES, especially since I have pristine dvd of SAMSON while FURY OF HERCULES is a washed out copy.
The 'Twin Production' to SIEGE OF SYRACUSE is COLOSSUS AND THE AMAZON QUEEN
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I did a Fan Dub of FURY OF HERCULES and will upload it soon to PEPLUM TV, if everything work with Youtube
Warrior Empress and Siege of Syracuse weren't produced by Columbia and Paramount, they were released by them in the U.S. Few of the Sword and Sandal movies were backed by U.S. film studio money. Joseph E. Levine did invest in many of Reeves' films but he was an independent producer. An exception to this is
Esther and the King which is essentially a 20th Century-Fox movie produced in Italy.
When WARRIOR EMPRESS had a press conference announcing the start o the film, with Tina Louise and Kerwin Matthews present along with Pietro Francisci, Columbia was already signed to distribute it. Kerwin had success with THE 7TH VOYAGES OF SINBAD, a Columbia film.
Hollywood studios didn't finance the movies but by guaranteeing US distribution, financing for these projects was easy and the reason the budgets of these films were higher than previous productions. This included HERCULES, SAMSON and ULYSSES for MGM.
Francisci's WARRIOR EMPRESS, SIEGE OF SYRACUSE and HERCULES, SAMSON & ULYSSES weren't made just like that then sold to US studios after they were completed. They were made with the advance knowledge that these films would be guaranteed US distribution by these specific Hollywood studios. So yes they had some backing from Hollywood, unlike HERCULES which was done without any backing and its US distribution rights purchased by Levine after HERCULES was completed.
The MGM movies had an Italian unit headed by producer Joseph Fryd and, yes, MGM money was put into those movies. It wasn't the same with Columbia. Kerwin Mathews was in Europe making Three Worlds of Gulliver and Columbia agreed to loan him to the company making Warrior Empress in exchange for the U.S. distribution rights. Mathews told me this himself.
Richard Svensson said...
British Hammer studios also did some twin productions to save money, most notably (I think) Dracula, Prince of Darkness and Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The sets and parts of the cast are identical, and to my amusement, the set of Dracula's castle / the royal Palace also appeared in an episode of The Persuaders, starring peplum stars Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. My first thought that went into my head when I saw that was "That's Dracula's castle!"
Cool to know about Kerwin and Columbia / WARRIOR EMPRESs
Richard, yes, Hammer is comparable to PEPLUM films.
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Book Festival 2018
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Even though 2018 seems like it’s far into the future, it’s practically tomorrow when it comes to the Ohioana Book Festival. Yes, we have begun planning for our 2018 event and we are once again reaching out to qualifying authors.
The festival will be held on Saturday April 14, 2018, and we’re returning to the Sheraton Columbus Capitol Square. The 2017 event was great fun for all and we pride ourselves on taking care of our authors and providing a first-class experience for our visitors. It’s a great space for book lovers!
The 2018 application is due by October 31. We look forward to hearing from old friends and new to make the 2018 event the best yet!
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The Ohioana Library has announced the winners of the 2017 Ohioana Awards, including seven book awards and the Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant.
First given in 1942, the Ohioana Book Awards are the second oldest, and among the most prestigious, state literary prizes in the nation. Nearly every major writer from Ohio in the past 75 years has been honored, from James Thurber to Toni Morrison. The 2017 winners are:
Fiction: Marisa Silver, Little Nothing
Nonfiction: Douglas Brinkley, Rightful Heritage – Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
Poetry: Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Haint
About Ohio/Ohioan: J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy – A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature: Sally Derby, Jump Back, Paul – The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Juvenile Literature: C.F. Payne, Miss Mary Reporting
Reader’s Choice: Tiffany McDaniel, The Summer That Melted Everything
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“It was tough for judges to make a decision,” said Ohioana Executive Director David Weaver. “This year’s thirty finalists included winners of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Newbery Medal, and the Pushcart Prize; a Guggenheim Fellow; two U.S. Children’s Poet Laureates; CNN’s Presidential Historian; and five authors whose titles made either the New York Times or Amazon 2016 year-end “best” list. It was truly an outstanding year for Ohio authors and books.”
In addition to the book awards, Ohioana announced Ashley Bethard as the 28th winner of the Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, a competitive prize for Ohio writers age 30 or younger who have not yet published a book. The grant, named for Ohioana’s second director and endowed by his family, has helped launch a number of notable literary careers, including Anthony Doerr. Doerr won the grant in 2000 at age 26 and has gone on to become one of America’s leading contemporary authors, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for All the Light We Cannot See.
The Ohioana Awards will be presented Friday, October 6, in the Atrium of Ohio’s historic Statehouse in Columbus. Tickets for event, which include a pre-awards reception, will go on sale August 25.
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Sneak Peek: Beautiful Mistake by Vi Keeland
BEAUTIFUL MISTAKE
Author: Vi Keeland
Reading Level: New Adult
Released: July 17, 2017
The first time I met Caine West was in a bar.
He noticed me looking his way and mistakenly read my scowling as checking him out.
When he attempted to talk to me, I set him straight—telling him what I thought of his lying, cheating, egomaniacal ass.
You see, the gorgeous jerk had wined and dined my best friend--smooth talking her into his bed, all along failing to mention that he was married.
He deserved every bit of my tongue-lashing and more for what he'd done.
Especially when that lazy smile graced his perfect face in response to my rant.
Only it turned out, the man I'd just told off wasn't the right guy.
Oops. My mistake. Embarrassed, I slunk out without an apology.
I was never going to see the handsome stranger again anyway, right?
That’s what I thought…until I walked into class the next morning.
Well, hello Professor West, I’m your new teaching assistant.
I’ll be working under you…figuratively speaking.
Although the literal interpretation might not be such a bad thing—working under Professor West.
This was going to be interesting…
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The class was completely empty. I wasn’t even sure he knew I was still in my seat. If he did, he was good at ignoring me as he packed up his laptop.
“Contrary to the rumors you’ve probably heard, I don’t bite.”
I jumped when he spoke. Now that the lecture hall was no longer filled with students, the acoustics of the large space bounced his deep voice all over the walls.
I stood and began my walk of shame down to the front of the classroom. There was no doubt I owed the man an apology, even if he wasn’t a professor—a professor who would be my new boss for at least the next fifteen weeks. I wanted to kick myself in the ass for not apologizing last night before I left the bar. Now it would seem like I was only doing it because of the situation I was in.
Which was true, don’t get me wrong, but I didn’t want it to seem that way.
I took a deep breath. “I’m so sorry about last night.”
His face was unreadable. “I figured you might be, right about now.”
“I obviously thought you were someone else.”
“So I assumed. You thought I was the asshole. The one with the big dick, was it?”
I shut my eyes. For the last ninety minutes, I’d replayed the entire exchange from last night over and over in my head. I thought I’d remembered everything I said, but apparently I hadn’t. When I reopened my eyes, Professor West was still watching me. His stare was pretty damn intense.
I started to babble. “My friend Ava went out with this guy Owen for a month or so. He was full of shit from day one, but she didn’t see it. Actually walked up to her when she was leaving work one night and said, ‘Do you mind if I walk you home? My mother always told me to follow my dreams.’ She fell for it, the entire act, from the first day. Then one Saturday, he was supposedly out of town on business, and she was across town running errands for her mother. She took a shortcut through Madison Square Park on her way back from the grocery store and ran into him. He was with his wife and kids.”
“And you thought I was him, apparently?”
I nodded. “She came in during my shift and started drinking Long Island iced teas. When Owen walked in, she pointed to where he was standing and said he was the one in the blue shirt.”
“And we were both wearing blue shirts, I take it?”
I couldn’t help but smile, thinking of Ava last night. “Actually, no. Ava’s not much of a drinker. Turned out she was more sloshed than I thought. Owen’s shirt was brown—not even black that could be mistaken as navy or something.”
I saw Professor West’s lip twitch.
“Anyway, I’m really sorry. I barely gave you a chance to speak, and then when I realized what had happened, I was so mortified I didn’t even stop to apologize.”
“I accept your apology for last night. Even though you shouldn’t be approaching a man in the hallway to tell him off alone, your intentions were admirable.”
I should have shut up and been grateful he’d accepted my apology. Should have. “Why can’t I approach a man in the hallway?”
He leveled me with a stare. “Because you’re five foot nothing in a loud bar, and no one would have heard you if I’d dragged you into the men’s room and locked the door.”
I folded my arms over my chest. “I can take care of myself.”
“I didn’t say you couldn’t. I said you shouldn’t put yourself in those situations.”
“But you insinuated that I couldn’t by making that statement.”
He zipped his leather bag closed. “Ms. Martin, I just accepted your apology for calling me an asshole last night. Would you like me to retract that acceptance?”
God, I really was an idiot. Being around this man seemed to turn me into a psychopath. “No. I’m sorry. I acted like a jerk, and I’d like to start over, if that’s possible.”
He nodded. “Everything prior to this morning is forgotten.”
“But this morning is not. I won’t accept lateness. Don’t let it happen again.”
I swallowed. “It won’t.”
He lifted his worn, brown leather laptop bag over one shoulder. “Meet me here at five tomorrow. We’ll go over the syllabus and the classes you’ll teach, as well as my grading rubric.”
That was smack in the middle of my shift, but I’d figure something out. “Okay.”
“Are you done for the day?”
“I am. I actually have to get to work. I’m covering Ava’s shift because she isn’t feeling too well after last night. We both work at O’Leary’s.”
“You waitress there?”
“Waitress, bartend, occasionally tell off patrons.”
That earned me a full smile from Professor West. God, he should do that more often. No, forget that. He definitely shouldn’t.
“I’ll walk out with you.”
We walked through the halls together and out to the parking lot. When we arrived at my car, I stopped. “This is me. So…five o’clock tomorrow?”
Professor West looked at my beat-up old Subaru. “You’re parked in a spot reserved for the Provost. You got a parking ticket.” He squinted. “Actually, it looks like you have two parking tickets. Was your inspection expired or something?”
Crap. “Umm…no. I keep an extra ticket in the glove compartment and stick it on my windshield when I’m forced to park illegally.”
His brows shot up. “Inventive.”
“Obviously it doesn’t always work.”
“Obviously.”
“They need more parking. When you’re late, it’s impossible to find a spot.”
He studied me. “Lateness is a frequent occurrence for you, I take it?”
“Unfortunately, it is.”
“Then I should clarify something I said earlier.”
“Oh, no, that’s not necessary. I won’t be late for your class.”
He took a step closer and leaned in. “I’m glad to hear that, Ms. Martin. But that’s not what needs clarification.”
I swallowed. God, he smells good.
“Earlier I told you I didn’t bite students.” He smiled, and I felt the wickedness from it shoot down to some interesting places. “I don’t. But I make no promises about not biting feisty TAs.”
We hope you enjoyed this extended preview!
Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times Bestselling author. With more than 1.5 million books sold, her titles have appeared in over eighty Bestseller lists and are currently translated in sixteen languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.
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Ali Justice July 12, 2017 at 10:21 AM
This one looks and sounds fantastic! Might just have to add a new book to my ever growing tbr list.
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Sea-captain Stephen Elliott finds more than he suspected when he’s drawn into Zoe Clifford’s search for the truth behind faded photographs and a WW1 diary.
Why did Liam Elliott serve with the Australian forces – and who was Georgina Duncannon? As the secrets of two generations of star-crossed lovers come to light, time slips into the past, taking us from York to Australia, Gallipoli and the Somme, and revealing the seductive power of a piercing, impossible affair.
Joining a ship bound for the war-torn Middle East, Stephen is faced with some disturbing parallels between then and now, just as Zoe, alone in London, is discovering the agony of distance, love and loss.
Liam’s haunting presence touches them both, but it takes a near-tragedy to make the message clear: only in the present can the past be healed…
Inspired by a real WW1 diary, and revisiting characters introduced in her bestselling novel, Louisa Elliott’, Ann Victoria Roberts uncovers Louisa’s legacy to later generations.
‘A thoroughly satisfying historical novel that bridges the decades with grace and skill…’ Kirkus Reviews
‘A splendid piece of storytelling about the loss of innocence and a love which endures…’ Publishing News
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A Child of Two Worlds - Belonging to Neither, Dangerous to Both.
All Kisaki really wants is to belong *somewhere*, but there are few places half demons can safely call home. Raised in isolation within the celestial palace, she longs to escape and explore the strange planet below - Earth. So when an opportunity presents itself, she takes it, inadvertently stealing her mother’s greatest treasure in the process – the Blade of Heaven.
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Kisaki's head rocked to the side from the blow and she tasted blood.
She staggered back several steps but managed not to fall.
All at once, the world seemed to be moving in slow motion. Pain from the hit, the coppery taste of her own blood, her friend screaming her name, and the huffing laughter of the human who had dared lay a hand upon her – all of it happening simultaneously.
It was the first time Kisaki had ever been struck. She'd often read about such punishments, and much worse, in her studies, but had never experienced it herself. She'd expected it to hurt, and it did. What she didn't expect, however, was the cold logic that descended upon her mind, nor how the world seemed to grey out around her.
He didn't hit me that hard, did he?
Before her eyes, the world seemed to change. The sounds around her faded away and she was suddenly no longer in an alleyway. Instead, she stood in a large room. A man was there with her. He was wearing drab green clothes and seemed to be yelling at her for some reason. For a moment, she feared that she'd somehow accidentally activated her last crystal, abandoning the brown-haired boy as well as Tamiko and Shitoro. But then she realized something was wrong about what she was seeing. The man's lips were moving, but she couldn't hear his words. In fact, she couldn't hear anything.
Her body raced forward, seemingly with a mind all its own. Kisaki could only watch as her fist shot out, but it was all wrong. The hand and arm attached to her was much larger and coarser than her own.
None of this mattered to the yelling man, though. He grabbed hold of her and then she was airborne, flying over his shoulder to land roughly on the wooden floor where she...
Just as quickly as the vision had come, it faded away and Kisaki was back where she'd been, tasting her own blood as color returned to the world and sounds started up again.
The world was still moving way too slowly, but that cold logic in her mind demanded that she use the time to study the foes around her. She became acutely aware of everything about them – their size, their weight, the way they moved, how quickly they did so. All of it registered in her senses within the space of a split second, locking itself into her memory with perfect clarity as if she'd spent months, maybe years, studying nothing but these humans.
With that clarity came understanding. She realized how sloppy the attack against her had been. It was a miracle she'd been struck at all, probably more a result of her outrage than any real attempt on his part. If anything, she didn't feel anger against him so much as embarrassment for herself. Such a blow was easily countered. Everything that these men...
No. Warriors were men. These were boys, peasants, children – warriors in their minds only.
It was time to teach them the error of their ways.
Time sped up again to its normal pace, but still that cold logic remained. She stepped forward again. The male who slapped her saw her coming. He looked surprised for a moment before covering it up with a veneer of arrogance.
"Want some more, bitch? Good, because I'm serving it up all day."
This time, he balled his fists, but it didn't matter. Kisaki somehow understood what he was going to do, perhaps even before he did.
She raised an arm and easily blocked the punch. Her attacker's eyes opened wide in surprise. Then, just as quickly, she threw a blow of her own, an open-handed shot to his throat. It caught him dead on, as she knew it would, and he doubled over, gasping for breath.
As he did, she brought a knee up into his jaw. She heard teeth crack and then he dropped to the ground. Unlike when he'd shoved her, though, it didn't appear he would be getting back to his feet nearly as quickly.
Kisaki had barely a moment to be amazed at what she'd done. She'd never been allowed to study fighting or weaponry, no matter how much she had begged. Her mother had forbidden it, and Shitoro wasn't the type to go against her wishes.
But then the moment was over, as the other boy next to Robbie rushed at her. This one was short, but thickly built. He moved as one who knew what he was doing. Not a warrior, but perhaps one in training.
None of that mattered. Kisaki analyzed his moves in the time it took him to pass Robbie and came up with a counter strategy.
She feinted to the right, but he seemed to anticipate that, which was precisely what she expected him to do. She cut hard left, sidestepping him. As he passed by, she shoved him from behind, using his own momentum to propel him into a pile of refuse along the side of the alleyway.
Rough hands grabbed her from behind in a bear hug, lifting her from the ground. Blast! She'd forgotten about the pony-tailed one, Jack. Perhaps sensing she was a greater threat than her friends, he'd come up from behind her unawares as she battled the other two.
"The hell?" he cried. "You some kind of ninja?"
Kisaki allowed herself the ghost of a smile. Ninja had been mentioned in her studies. They were said to be masters of stealth and combat arts. It was something she'd never considered herself to be, but she was currently too distracted to disagree with him at that moment. Instead, as way of response, she threw her head back, catching him on the nose with a satisfying crunch.
He screamed and let go, allowing her to throw a kick back into his leg, which dropped him to one knee.
She immediately realized that these three had been little more than the warmup. The real fight lay before her. Robbie and his two remaining friends had disengaged from the brown-haired boy. She now had their undivided attention. The first two, mere minions, wore uncertain looks upon their faces. Their leader Robbie, however, looked sure of himself, a fact attested to by his wide grin.
He had a confidence about him that suggested he didn't expect to lose. Robbie had the look of one who was used to having the advantage. Indeed, he was larger than most of the humans she'd met, including fully grown males such as Mr. Yoshida. For all intents and purposes, Kisaki should have been terrified of him. But she wasn't. She didn't know what was happening to her, but whatever it was, she reveled in it.
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Herb Rush and Steve Parker won the 8th Illinois Air National Guard Family Support Bass Tournament at Lake Springfield, June 26. Photo courtesy of Ed Skube.
Bass tournament raises $1,000 for National Guard families
The State Journal-Register
Steve Parker and Herb Rush took first place in the 8th Annual Illinois Air National Guard Family Support Group Bass Tournament held June 26 on Lake Springfield.
The tournament is a benefit for families of National Guard members on deployment.
More than $1,000 was raised for the Family Readiness Support Group.
Parker and Rush weighed 13.88 pounds, just ahead of second place finishers Paul Leonard and Bill Woolridge with 13.19 pounds.
Brian Denk and Kelley Stufflebeam were third with 12.98 pounds.
Thirty-two boats participated.
The Family Readiness and Support Group formed to provide help, training and assistance to family of National Guard troops, and to help with issues that arise during deployment.
Parker, who organizes bass tournaments on Lake Springfield, is a 30-year member of the Illinois Air National Guard.
Second tournament to be held in Jacksonvile
The Second Air National Guard Family Support Open Buddy Bass Tournament will be held on Lake Jacksonville Aug. 28.
Hours are 6 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
The entry fee is $130 per boat ($25 goes to family support).
There is a 30-boat limit on Lake Jacksonville.
For more information, call Steve Parker at 741-4255 or e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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A case of two stories
Pinoy Big Blogger
Little Brown Brothers
You know you’re on to something if you make it to a collage (’tis me directly in front of ye olde fireplace). This image is in All Things Beautiful, who has a massive update on the debates sparked by the launch of Open Source Media. Her caption: [Pajamas] Open Source Media Launch, Left to Right: Jeff Goldstein, Ed Driscoll, Glenn Reynolds, Larry Kudlow, Jane Hall, Roger L. Simon, Manuel L. Quezon, Michelle Malkin, Claudia Rosette, Charles Johnson, Clifford May, Michael Barone and Eugene Volokh.
Ah, all things little brown brother like, beginning with Rudyard Kipling’s exhortation to Americans to Take Up The White Man’s Burden, to William Howard Taft’s proclamation of “The Philippines for the Filipinos” and incidentally, that the Filipinos were the little brown brothers of Americans; to the phrase being celebrated in modern art and in modern poetry, made the title of influential books, and there is even a Wikipedia article that says,
The term was coined by William Howard Taft, the first Governor-General of the Philippines (1901-1904) and later the 27th President of the United States.
The term wasn’t intended to be derogative, nor an ethnic slur; instead, in the words of historian Creighton Miller, it is a reflection of “paternialist racism”, shared also by Theodore Roosevelt.[1]
Taft told Predisedent McKinley that “our little brown brothers” would need “fifty or one hundred years” of close supervision “to develop anything resembling anglo-Saxon political principles and skills.” “Fillipinos are moved by similar considerations to those which move other men.”[2]
Indeed, Taft’s comments were enlightened for his times, and he went up against many other American imperialists to pitch for an eventual autonomy for Filipinos. The ones who hooted down Taft’s phrase were not the Filipinos, but Taft’s fellow Americans, the kind who liked to sing:
“The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga.” Click above to listen. It’s from the World War II film, “They Were Expendable,” and was meant to foster sympathy for the Philippine cause. John Wayne is among the singers. Taft himself was considered, as far as American colonial officials go, a friend of the Philippines.
Now the reactions of Dean Jorge Bocobo to a recent Inquirer editorial have been vehement. He calls it racist, and cowardly (because, it is an unsigned editorial: which is to ignore the nature of an unsigned editorial as the collective position of a paper; though he does more properly object to its tone and content, and to what he considers a violation of the paper’s own ethics, which he has every right to do as a reader). He says it inspires the lust of a lynch mob.
(William Howard Taft, from the Michigan Historical Collection)
However, it seems to me this comment gets the context of the editorial’s title best. There really isn’t any countering possible to DJB’s position, which is internationalist, and comes from a perspective that cherishes two nationalities, and views nationalism as outmoded. My personal view is that the problem isn’t the Americans, who do what they can to defend their own. The problem is with Philippine officials more concerned with being obsequious to Americans instead of their obligations to one of their own.
DJB on November 19, 2005 at 5:05 pm
MLQ3,
Thank you for this. It is far better than I could have wished for, or deserved, for using up so much of your bandwidth without so much as a Hat Tip to a gracious Host.
Perhaps two points of subtle nuance needs to be restated clearly:
1. The editorial was racist, not because they were calling Sec. Gonzales a “little brown brother” — (for how could that have a racial content?). It was racist because they were using the term “little brown brother” to remind Filipinos that at one time racism was a major mental illness of Americans and by such reminder, PDI was inciting the lust for revenge and implanting hatred in Filipinos for the American servicemen as living symbols of that past prejudice.
2. You have called me an internationalist, for which again I must graciously thank you, since you might have caved in to a common urge, also incited by such cretinous thinking as displayed by PDI, and called me a running dog of U.S. imperialism or some such choice epithet. Still you are both right and wrong. I do cherish both Filipino and American nationalities, but I wish you would not force upon me two nationalisms when you have already correctly appraised my feeling that one nationalism is outmoded. I would prefer to think that it is not the two nationalism that I cherish, for I am a globalist, and so it is their one HUMANITY that I truly cherish and will defend against all attacks by mean spirited, and demoralized people.
My citizenship is HUMANITY. My republic is the whole world. There is no turning back. No more than if anyone said we should break up into Tagalog, Pampango and Ilocano tribes. Some may try, as PDI, but if we do not evolve, we shall surely PERISH.
My Respects,
Dean Jorge Bocobo
karl on November 19, 2005 at 5:21 pm
Nice start of the commenting exchange of ideas
to bad nothing can top it but no one said that commenting is… top this you creep
what is the opposite of thesis ,antithesis but what is the term when you agree? I don’t know is it subservience
,obedience..hell no for there is someone higher…
I always liked this globalism
I even heard in school about think global act local….
potayto potato
how can you just think it but do something else
maybe that is the problem for some
they do not do what’s on their mind because they always have to please someone…..
Figured out my question to self….
When something nags you and you can’t recall what lesson in school you’ver heard that from…
Always go back to Sesamee Street….
That’s called Cooperation!
Carl on November 19, 2005 at 6:53 pm
I agree with the Dean 100%. The Inquirer was making references to Gonzalez being a brown “Uncle Tom”. It is abhorrent when any person, institution or organization resorts to blanket accusations against any race or nation. They should deal with the issues as they come, calmly and in clinical fashion. Xenophobia is the hallmark of people with inferiority complex. That is what is so disgusting about the Communist movement.
Filipinos with an internationalist outlook are the Filipinos of tomorrow. They are multicultural and are at home anywhere in the world. They have no inferiority complex and will find ways to succeed, never mind if the previous generations made a mess of their homeland.
mlq3 on November 19, 2005 at 7:28 pm
What’s interesting is that even as there are people who look outward and forward, there are many others looking inwards. Even as, for example, Dan is looking at the Philippines of tomorrow, there are those who want to partition the Philippines or who doubt that there should continue to be one, and point to their dying local languages as the reason why.
By the way, for those who think that the present government in the U.S. is rotten, go to the Google web page. Type in the word failure and press the “I feel lucky” button. Democrats should get a good laugh out of the result.
In the previous blogs someone if the University of Asia and the Pacific has invited you about love of the Philippines …Cant recall exactly its a Nov. 30 event….
If ever it is worth it would you mention it even in passing in your future blogs…
I keep on remembering the India , Israel balikbayans and our Alis bayans
and that joke I said that the Filipinos are coming! Watch out …
If the jews are in the Us bureacracy as in some comments the Chief of staff of Karl Rove is a Fil Am
lets not focus on the chef although we remain proud of her
and that if inventors are unwanted here that they would rather move out I hope they partner themselves with enterprising domestic workers and the works and expand our global supply chain
of course beyond our lifetime..the war on terror would end
when something happens that will unite us….Hopefully not a tsunami…
Here’s a curious story regarding stretching the limits of nationalism. It happened in Mexico. Maybe we are more Latin than Asian, after all. Here’s the story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_on_bi_ge/mexico_soda_nationalism
My dad wrote something for the National Defense College on essays on National Interests
For those who may have to drop by the NDCP one reson or the other you want to have a look at it…
Don’t worry his writing style is very unlike mine and I hope it is worth your while….
the author is Plaridel C. Garcia
Title: Essays on National Interests
karl on November 20, 2005 at 2:14 am
Read the article Tocayo
I always thought we have the largest soft drink drinkers…
but I was not taking the point of view of an
internationalist…..
Nick Nichols on November 20, 2005 at 2:20 am
In his first reply comment above, Manolo made, I believe, a very subtle reference to principles manifested quite well in David Matrinez’ recent book A Country of Our Own – Partitioning the Philippines.
I am half-way through it and I must say it is affecting my thinking on this matter .
footvoter on November 20, 2005 at 6:48 am
visited the Country of Our Own website. found it rather ironic that in the sample chapter, the author quotes quite liberally from the founding fathers of Imperial Manila (Rizal, Mabini) to advance his own aims. kind of makes me wonder though, just how prevalent is his viewpoint? and if it’s more widespread than we thought, is federalism enough to take the wind out of their sails? partition seems rather extreme, and it’s not as if Manila has been sending pukka sahibs to run roughshod over the colonies.
Carl on November 20, 2005 at 8:38 am
I think that in the cyber age, and also because we have to develop quicker responses, the concept of “Imperial Manila” will become irrelevant.
There will ultimately be much more autonomy and flexibility for the provinces. For example, Cebu could establish links (trade, travel, commerce and even diplomatic)with Hong Kong or Tokyo without having to go through Manila. Mindanao could establish direct links with Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and even Australia.
The pattern of evolution points to a less Manila-centric Philippines. Which makes sense, because centralized bureaucracies are a thing of the past. This was, to some extent, experimented with during the term of Fidel Ramos when he established the East Asean Growth Area, linking Mindanao with Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. The idea was to link these areas for trade, tourism and industry. Travellers from Mindanao, for example, could fly directly to Singapore and, from there, go to the U.S., Europe or Australia without having to pass through Manila. Shipping would likewise be linked with Singapore or Jakarta, bypassing Manila. Progress was made, albeit slowly. But this was neglected during the terms of Estrada and GMA.
We do not know what Rizal or Mabini may or may not say regarding the evolution of the Philippine government into its present form. However, it was young idealists from Manila during the 1950’s, like Raul Manglapus, who led the first popular denunciation of the overconcentration of wealth and power in Manila. Their concept of “decentralization” may have been ahead of their time, but I believe it took deep roots in the provinces.
it is a good thing i was raised tyo have free thoughts
but I see things from every vantage point…
I mentioned national interest becaue my father always asked me what I want because it seems that I never run out of problems…
By a fresk of events he was assigned by the Strategic Studies board to delve into the National Intersests
which only until a few minutes ago is just like that
What does out country want? What is our National Interest…
its too bad I dont have a soft copy I could have shared or highlighted tidbits about it
but the bottomline is it is figuring out what does the country really want
i cant remember how we yes we finished it because it seemed like it is impossible….
With the new things I am learning here everyday
There really is no finish to that book
maybe a first chapter out of ad infinitum
Read the country of our own
about the may 2007 though would be postponed till all lobby groups are out of our midsts
shall I go back to it again
Northrail,NAIA3,MRTS,Eastern luzon corridor,Enrile’s company logging ceteris ceteris
and yes the Bataan Nuclear Powerplant
karl on November 20, 2005 at 11:08 am
The National Interest project was for the strategic Studies have a problem statement
problem definition
but it seems that we still don’t know the problem and will never know till kingdom come
so the problem statement always gets skipped and will ghet back to you… lets propose solutuions first and recommend
and conclude…
as long as there are alternative courses of action that would do
I just see the picture of 90 % of all written papers
submitted to institutions
djuara on November 20, 2005 at 11:56 am
art bell a syndicated media personality in the u.s.a. looks on filipinos as non asians and even goes to the extent in writing that filipinos have not contributed anything significant…this guy is pure racist, perhaps dean bocobo can address and put his “citizenship of humanity” into use on this issue.
mlq3, nice picture on all things nice and beautiful.. finally, i did get to see michelle malkin, pinay na pinay talaga very typical, ordinary, just like one of those faces
one gets to see on a sunday when most domestic helpers get their day off.
i do agree however on the issue on our leaders concern towards nationalism is that most of our leaders today are less/ not concerned with their obligations to one of their own and their country’s interest.
Am still waiting for the sunday edition entertainment part
as far as I am concerned that is my interest
i am one with the nation
only the interesting matters
what national interest
karl on November 20, 2005 at 12:29 pm
antay ako ng antay iclick ko lang pala link All things beautiful solved na pala
absolut on November 21, 2005 at 12:30 am
David Martinez-that asshole it trying to rewrite history. He says English should be National Language. What’s wrong with Tagalog? He’s a Tagalog hater that’s why. He points out that Malay is used in Indonesia even though the Javanese are the majority population. But he couldn’t accept that Tagalog should be used even though Cebuano’s are the majority population in the Philippines. Why??? Because he thinks Tagalog was an “imposed” language even in the face of actual historical facts that Tagalog has been the Lingua Franca in the Philippines even in the 16th century just as Malay has been the Lingua Franca of Indonesia, Brunei, and Malaysia. From Blair and Robertson:
“It must be noted that there are in this island many races and kinds of people, such as the Camarines, Camintanes, Tagalos, Panpangas, Sanbales, Ilocos, Cagayanes, and many others. They differ noticeably not only in language and in physical characteristics, but also in disposition and customs. But the Tagala dialect, that of Manila and the surrounding country, is a common language. It is spoken and
understood everywhere, not only by the above-mentioned natives of the island of Luzon, but by the natives of all the islands. From this fact those who know something concerning the past of these people infer that the other nations of the archipelago have long carried on trade
and commerce with Manila. Because the island is the center of an infinite number of nations and barbarous people, some heathens and some Mahometans; and because of its nearness to and trade with the rich and powerful kingdoms of Japon and China, as well as for other reasons that might be mentioned, Manila is considered of greater importance in this governmental district than can here be indicated.”
-The PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 1493-1898 Volume XVIII  1617- 1620 page 101
David Martinez also doesn’t realize the context of why a local language was chosen instead of English as the National Language in 1935. The reason for this is that we our nationalists were a couple of years into having an independent Philippines. It wouldn’t have been prudent to make the language of the former colonialist the national language. So they chose Tagalog, which is reasonable considering that Tagalog has been the historical lingua franca of the island as seen above and that the Tagalogs are the groups who had a modicum of success in kicking out the Spaniards, not the Cebuanos.
He points out that Singapore uses English as National Language, but that was in the 1960’s-a full 20 years after we chose Tagalog. Times were different. And Singapore has a trilingual language policy. For the most part Filipinos have been trilingual since the coming of the non-Malay colonialist, being able to speak the local language, Tagalog, and the non-Malay colonialist language. Now he wants to do away with Tagalog. Such hatred and jealousy. Such talangaka mentality. Strip away Tagalog coz his cebuano language is not the national language. Who’s the groups that kicked out the Spaniards? The Tagalogs! Which language has been spoken for hundreds of years before the imposition of the national language in the 1935? Tagalog! Keep trilingualism in the Philippines! don’t believe the lies of David Martinez!
Correction, it wasn’t the Tagalogs who kicked the Spanish colonizers out. The Tagalogs were on the ropes. It was the Americans who kicked the Spanish out and made a treaty with them. And Aguinaldo accepted P800,000 as bribe money from the Americans to keep his mouth shut.
maybe just maybe what he meant was that even if the Treaty of Paris is a fact..The Filipinos that were recorded in history books to make a stand where The Cavitenos, The Batanguenos,Bulacenos,From Tondo who made a semblance enough for them to be called heroes. Which must never be taken away from them….no matter what we know about the treaty of Paris…
It is not denial…that is not taking away the fact that we have our national heroes…
Carl,
Are we supposed to forget that there are still those who died for this country notwithstanding the fact that the Treaty really was the reason for the Spanish getting out not only in the Philippines but also in Mexico and the Latin Americas……
Just stating facts. It wasn’t the Tagalogs who ousted the Spanish colonizers. They were too busy killing each other off (Aguinaldo vs. Bonifacio, read mlq3’s column today in the Inquirer). It was the Americans who ousted the Spanish and the proof of it is the treaty, otherwise why sign a treaty with a force that had already been ousted?
And, as a matter of fact, Gen. Aniceto Lacson and his rag-tag band of militia did manage to get the Spanish forces in Negros Island to surrender. So it was in the Visayas where the locals did prevail against the Spanish.
This is not to diminish the heroes who died for the country, especially Jose Rizal, but to put things in perspective.
absolut on November 21, 2005 at 5:42 pm
“It was the Americans who ousted the Spanish and the proof of it is the treaty, otherwise why sign a treaty with a force that had already been ousted?”
Didn’t they interfe in the revolution? I wouldn’t call bribing Spain with 20,000,000 and staging a mock battle as “kicking out” the enemy. That was bribery pure and simple. And I wonder why 500,000 Filipinos died after the bribers bought the islands? Can you enlighten me Carl as to why they died?
Putting these things in perspective, this was more reason why the framers of the 1935 constitution didn’t want the language of the butchers to be the national language. And if our politicians then didn’t want English, what’s the most logical language to chooose from these 80 plus languages? Wouldn’t it be Tagalog, the lingua franca for of the islands for more than 300 years and the language of the group that organized the Katipunan, sent the Ilustrados to Europe, inspired the other ethnic groups to rise up against the Spanish colonial government?
Thanks for another daily dose of knowledge…..
As I said I always get two sides of the coin .
I know this is already irrelevant but I would like to correct my self for mentioning Mexico
was only trying to relate it somehow with your shared article on softdrinks….
Spanish american war was due to the the effect of cuban unrest on American investment,and provoked by the blowing up of USS maine in Havana harbour,the USA declared war on Spain. Spain was forced to give up the Philippine,Guam and Puerto Rico. Cuba became independent lo so they say..only Fidel castro achieved that so called independence……..
Just don’t want you to forget our heroes though like Gregorio del Pilar..whom I always see because he has a painting here in my houe….(Tirad Pass):)
Thanks to MLQ3
we never forget to look back …..
even when the Filipinos coverup the whole world…..
Again not being a contrabida
on hatred,integration and separation……
what happened to USSR and Yugoslavia when they were integrated then separated…
what’s happening in Palestine for the past 5000 years
my so called war on terror theory the crusades only happened during 1095…
though the crusades went westward
palestine still wants seccession
and as I say what goes around comes around
The Mindnaso Seccession is still in our midsts
How I wish that the ideals of JDB would be seen in our lifetime
Did you follow the wire tapping on ANC where a partylist rep was being interpelated by a non tagalog speaking cong or vise versa what did cong say…..
Speak in English I don’t understand Tagalog
just a penny for your thoughts
Tagalog was the lingua franca of the islands for over 300 years? That’s news, perhaps history is being revised. As a matter of fact, the Philippines, as we know it, is a creation of the colonizers. Pre-colonial Philippines was composed of self-sustaining communities, quite independent of each other. They had different languages and cultures. When the Spaniards came, the Catholic religion became their common link (it may well have been Islam if not for the Spanish intervention). Mindanao and Palawan, historically and culturally, make a better fit with Borneo and Malaysia. But the colonizers had the power and they willed these islands to be a part of the Philippines. And so it was. The Visayans also had their own language and culture. During the Spanish period, it was Spanish that was the common language, not Tagalog. And during the American period, English was the language. As a matter of fact, Cebuano, as a first language, is spoken by more people than Tagalog.
I am not putting down Tagalog. But it does no good to be jingoistic about the Tagalog language and culture either. Besides, it would be healthy and polite to respect the regional cultures and dialects, too.
Again I point out to historical accounts of the Spanish friars who noticed that Tagalog is a lingua franca in the philippines. You can check out the link for yourself:
“It must be noted that there are in this island many races and kinds of people, such as the Camarines, Camintanes, Tagalos, Panpangas, Sanbales, Ilocos, Cagayanes, and many others. They differ noticeably not only in language and in physical characteristics, but also in disposition and customs. But the Tagala dialect, that of Manila and the surrounding country, is a common language. It is spoken and
and commerce with Manila. Because the island is the center of an infinite number of nations and barbarous people, some heathens and some Mahometans; and because of its nearness to and trade with the rich and powerful kingdoms of Japon and China, as well as for other reasons that might be mentioned, Manila is considered of greater importance in this governmental district than can here be indicated.â€Â
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=philamer;cc=philamer;q1=and%20because%20of%20its%20nearness%20to%20and%20trade%20with%20the%20rich%20and%20powerful%20kingdoms%20of%20Japon;rgn=full%20text;idno=AFK2830.0001.018;didno=AFK2830.0001.018;view=image;seq=00000105
“what did cong say…..Speak in English I don’t understand Tagalog”
Just because one congressman in denial “claims” he doesnt’ speak tagalog makes tagalog not a lingua franca? check it: the 6’o clock news in tagalog. the soaps are tagalog. the movies are in tagalog. whenever i go to north, central, and south of the philippines and speak to bus drivers, magbabalot, tindera, peddlers, hotel receptionists, peddlers, etc. etc. it’s in tagalog. overseas when i speak to ilocanos, pampangos, cebuanos, ilonggos, and even second generation immigrant kids it’s in tagalog.
the lingua franca is tagalog. those that who say it’s not are either in denial or have an agenda.
as to why it’s the tagalogs who sparked the revolution, it’s because they had the most oppressed middle class in the 19th century. when the dominicans started to steal the lands of the elite in manila, the parents sent their kids to petition the spanish government to kick out the friars but keep the spanish autonomy on philippines. rizal is the epitorme of this class (his family lost their land to dominicans). but in europe they learnt about the enlightenment and revolution. i’m not saying they’re superior, i’m just saying their circumstances (the oppression of their middle class) gave them more impetus to kick out the spaniards.
“Pre-colonial Philippines was composed of self-sustaining communities, quite independent of each other. They had different languages and cultures. When the Spaniards came, the Catholic religion became their common link (it may well have been Islam if not for the Spanish intervention). Mindanao and Palawan, historically and culturally, make a better fit with Borneo and Malaysia.”
I think the picture you paint is missing in some parts or is an incorrect theory. i suggest you check out laura lee junker’s “raiding, trading and feasting, the political economy of philippine chiefdoms”. it has the most reasonable interpretation of pre-hispanic philippines. she based her theories on early 16th to 17th century spanish accounts as well as archieological artefacts. the barangay communities were had more relationships and economic and political ties than you think.
Absolut was just asking to spark thoughts
I am right…I sense that the two of you have points that are principled and with conviction….
I love intelligent exchanges pero soetimes I resirt to elementary school thinking kasi minsan mas madali sapol agad
but concerning the topics above I had excellent two side of the coin from both of you….
I am not moderating anything..I just enjoy intelligent views..
One friar’s account doesn’t history make. The next thing we know, revisionists will be claiming Lapu-Lapu spoke Tagalog, along with Francisco Dagohoy and Diego Silang. And the fact is that Tagalog is imposed on the rest of the country-as a subject in schools, which many chafe at. It is not being in denial not to be able to speak Tagalog. The fact is that a large number of Filipinos cannot speak it fluently.
Strangely, Tagalogs were not known to be a seafaring people. Perhaps Tausug may have been more plausible as a lingua franca, but not Tagalog.
As for trade and interaction between the tribes, it was the Moslems from Mindanao that were the more aggressive seafarers. They roamed the islands, but were notorious for being plunderers.
As for the ilustrados, Lopez Jaena was Ilonggo and the Luna brothers were Ilocano. So there was representation from other regions. But the fact remains that the Katipuneros were too bitterly focused on internal rivalries to be effective as a revolutionary force. In the end, there was simply a switch of colonizers and the remnants of the Katipunan, including Manuel L. Quezon, were coopted by the Americans.
Interestingly, among the fiercest to resist the Americans were the people of Samar. It was in Samar where many Filipinos were killed, as it was turned by the Americans into a “howling wilderness”.
Again, this is not to belittle the Tagalogs, who are a noble people. But let us not forget the nobility and the pride of the other regions as well.
“One friar’s account doesn’t history make…Tagalogs were not known to be a seafaring people. Perhaps Tausug may have been more plausible as a lingua franca, but not Tagalog.”
Between a first hand 16th century account and your baseless opinion 400 years later, I’m sorry, but I’m inclined to believe the first hand account.
It’s still only one account and cannot be established as fact. And there is no logic for its being so. How many accounts were proven to be erroneous or fake? The fact is, the Bangsamoro were more ubiquitous all over the archipelago than were the Tagalogs.
And the fact is that the Philippines is an artificial country that was put together by the Spanish and American colonizers. It never came together on its own. Because of force of circumstances, it is a country, but not a nation. And Manila’s elite rode on the coattails of the colonizers in order to effect the internal colonization of the Philippines.
absolut on November 25, 2005 at 5:14 am
So the demarcation was passed on from the Spanish design? Do you want to go back to the pre-hispanic form? The prehispanic form was that you can’t even go to the next Barangay without paying a tribute. Otherwise they’ll kill you with an arrowhead.
The demarcation was not even by ethnic affiliation as David Martinez would have you believe. The demarcation is by clan. Even fellow Tagalogs or Cebuanos or Kapampangans clans were having turf wars within their ethnic groups.
You really want to replace a Philippines, where people are allowed to travel freely and since the dawn of Spanish era intermarriages and migration between ethnic lines has occured, with a model delineating our country by ethnic geography? That’s retrogressive my friend. I wanna be able to travel freely to Ilocos where my grandparents on my mother side came from, to Pampanga where my father’s father came from, and to Bohol where my father’s mother came from.
Don’t believe the lies of David Martinez. Think of the implications of his racist agenda.
“The fact is, the Bangsamoro were more ubiquitous all over the archipelago than were the Tagalogs.”
So what? The Tagalogs didn’t have to travel to the rest of the archipelago. The rest of the archipelago went to Manila to trade. Why? Because the Tagalog Rajahs were able to win the concession for distribution of luxury Chinese goods. They were able to do this by dispatching trade mission to China. The Chinese and Japanese then set up trading posts in Manila (parts of which became Binondo). The other Rajah’s of the islands, seeking luxury goods like China wear, then dispatched their traders to Manila to trade, including the Bangsamoro.
The area in Manila Bay was a strategic trading post for the rest of Luzon. Because the goods from Pangasinan, Ilocos, Cordillera, and Kapampangans where distributed via the Abra-Pampanga River link which emptied on Manila Bay. If there’s something superior about the Tagalogs, it’s that they were able to occupy this crucial port territory.
Read all about it in Lauara Lee Junker’s Rading, Trading, and Feasting, the Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms.
And guess why did the Spanish prioritize Manila instead of Cebu? Because that’s where all the crucial and voluminous trade with China passes through!
“…and because of its nearness to and trade with the rich and powerful kingdoms of Japon and China, as well as for other reasons that might be mentioned, Manila is considered of greater importance in this governmental district than can here be indicated.â€Â
That’s what the galleon trade was all about my friend. Spanish silver flowed into china and chinese goods went to the galleons on to Mexico. The Kapampangans served as the shipbuilders for the Spaniards. When the Spaniards failed to pay the Kapampangans, (because of numerous shipwrecks of the galleons) what did the Kapampangans do? Woodcutters revolt of 1661-1662!
So tagalog was a stock in trade of merchants, particularly those plying the Manila route. So what? It’s similar to Chabacano being spoken by those presently engaged in the barter trade, be they Maranaos, Maguindanaos or Tausogs. It still represents a tiny fraction of society at that time. The fact remains tagalog was not spoken by most inhabitants of these islands. Today it is, admittedly, widely understood due to its imposition in schools and because the media and entertainment industry is established in Manila (The magnet effect of an overcentralized government and bureaucracy causes business and industry to be concentrated in the capital). But Tagalog is still not the first language of most Filipinos despite all the efforts to impose it.
Re the galleon trade, it only confirms the fact that centralized governance from Manila was a colonial legacy. It was not just proximity to japan and China, but the fact that Manila Bay could be more easily secured from marauders or invaders. Basically, the same centralized arrangement persists.
And the fact remains that places like Mindanao do not fit in naturally with the rest of the country. The Philippines, as we know it, is not a coming together of different nations. It was a creation, or even an imposition, by colonial forces. Because the bonds that tie the country are artificially imposed, the bonds are weak. The only solution is to give the regions greater self-determination.
“Re the galleon trade, it only confirms the fact that centralized governance from Manila was a colonial legacy.”
But the centralized Spanish governance from Manila was a legacy of the fact the Manila has been the center of trade this side of the South East Asian archipelago possibly for hundreds of years before the Spaniards came.
“The Philippines, as we know it, is not a coming together of different nations. It was a creation, or even an imposition, by colonial forces. Because the bonds that tie the country are artificially imposed, the bonds are weak.”
But the coming together of the different ethnic groups, this was not the doing of Spaniards. In fact, it was the conquistas and the subsequent Spanish governors’ policy to divide and rule the formerly economically homogenous ethnic groups. It was also the policy of Friars that Filipinos not be taught the Spanish or any common language, again to divide and rule.
To follow David Martinez’s racist policy is colonial. The Philippines was not brought together by the Spaniards. We were divided during their time. It was the hatred of this arrangement that made our forefathers come together, not the will of the Spaniards.
And like it or not, there are now a class of Filipinos with multiple ethnic backgrounds, such as myself, who will be opposed to this division of ethnic groups. Our problems don’t stem from the fact that ethnic groups are unmotivated because they’re a part of something “artificial”. Our problem is corruption, my compatriot. Dividing the nation won’t solve corruption. When you kill corruption, or make inroads into reducing it, you’ll find that people will stop thinking along ethnic lines, such as Malaysia does. Philippines and Indonesia will always be ethnically divided because they’re both very, very, corrupt.
Jin on March 1, 2006 at 3:33 am
The Philippines is a artifcial country! Why do you think its made of 7,107 islands? And also have huge amount of languages(171). The history books of the philippines are written by filipinos who study in AMERICA.
I just don’t get it when historian say the spaniards “discover the philippines” when fact the spaniards were the ones that created the modern day philippines(islas Filipinas).
Tagalogs had their own Civilization
Cebuanos had their own Civilization
so did the other groups.
“Tagalogs are the groups who had a modicum of success in kicking out the Spaniards, not the Cebuanos.” LMAO
Negros and Bohol were independent before the KKK even started their revolution. Unfortunely these islands were made into a province of the philippines. These two islands were more succesfull compared to those from luzon.
Francisco Dagohoy and army holds the distinction of having led the longest revolt in the Philippines (1744-1829).
Cebu had its own revolt…
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Wisdom teeth surgery puts some teens and young adults on a path to opioid abuse
By Tribune News Service
For older teenagers and young adults, the extraction of wisdom teeth is a painful rite of passage. A new study suggests that it’s probably made more perilous by the narcotic pain pills that patients frequently carry home after the common surgical procedure.
The study offers new evidence of how readily — and innocently — a potentially fatal addiction to opioids can take hold. It also shows how important it is that dentists rethink their approach to treating their patients’ postoperative discomfort.
In a group of about 15,000 people whose first prescriptions for opioid painkillers came from a dentist or dental surgeon, researchers found that about 7 percent filled another opioid prescription 90 to 365 days later.
And in the year after their dental procedures, nearly 6 percent of patients who left their dentist’s offices prescriptions for opioids had a “health care encounter” — a hospitalization or trip to the emergency room, a physician consultation, or a session with an addiction specialist — in which a diagnosis of opioid abuse was documented.
That’s more than 10 times the rate at which a comparison group of patients who did not receive prescriptions for opioid painkillers got that diagnosis. Patients in both groups were 16 to 25 years old, and all were treated by dentists in 2015. Researchers then were able to track the patients for at least a year.
Compared with the study’s boys and young men, girls and young women were more likely to continue using narcotic pain relievers after getting their wisdom teeth out, and they were much more likely to abuse the drugs.
The typical prescription capable of setting such havoc into motion was a pack of about 20 pills of an opioid narcotic such as OxyContin, Vicodin or Percocet.
Published this week in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, the research comes as opioid drugs are killing 115 Americans a day. Although fatalities are also caused by street drugs such as heroin and, increasingly, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, as many as 80 percent of those addicted to heroin say they started by abusing medications that were prescribed for legitimate purposes.
That in turn has called attention to the medical profession’s prescribing practices and its role in the public health crisis. In 2016, as the epidemic of overdose deaths continued its steep rise, those in the medical and dental professions prescribed enough painkillers to medicate every American daily for close to a month.
Although many of the pills are prescribed to manage the agony of patients with excruciating pain, physicians and dentists still prescribe opioids to patients whose pain could be treated more safely, and just as effectively, with nonnarcotic drugs.
The new study also calls into question the wisdom of routinely extracting wisdom teeth, which tend to push through rear-most gums in late adolescence or early adulthood, often crowding other teeth or becoming impacted.
Study author Alan R. Schroeder, a Stanford University pediatrician with an interest in “safely doing less,” said the benefits of wisdom-tooth extraction have not been rigorously studied or demonstrated. Nor, he said, have its risks.
Studying the risk of opioid addiction or abuse, at least, seemed like a good place to start, he said.
The surgical removal of wisdom teeth comes with such potential downsides as dry sockets, gum pain and nerve damage, and risks associated with the anesthesia used during those procedures.
And then there are the drugs. Dental surgeons have been among the most liberal prescribers of opioid painkillers, and they’re also heavy prescribers of antibiotics. Those medications can come with side effects, and over-prescription is believed to foster the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections.
Schroeder said the dearth of research about wisdom-tooth extraction makes its frequency hard to judge. And that, in turn, forced Schroeder and his co-authors to make an assumption in their study.
Dental insurance databases are scarce and many wisdom tooth extractions are paid for out of pocket. But given the age of most of the patients leaving a dentist’s office with an opioid prescription, Schroeder and his co-authors figured that the most likely cause was wisdom-tooth surgery (a third-molar extraction in dental parlance). The authors’ conclusion that opiate abuse is a possible risk of wisdom-tooth removal rests on this assumption.
But when you consider how many young people have their wisdom teeth removed, and how routinely dentists send their patients home with prescriptions for narcotic pain relief, the implications are pretty alarming.
An unpublished 1999 study by the American Dental Assn. and cited by the authors estimated that there are about 5 million such extractions a year. By 2009, another study had concluded that dentists were the leading source of opioid prescriptions for children and adolescents ages 10 to 19, accounting for close to one-third of opioid prescriptions in this age group.
The American Dental Association promised that its members will reduce their opioid prescribing. In a statement released in March, association president Joseph P. Crowley called on dentists to “double down on their efforts” to write fewer prescriptions for opioids to treat dental pain, to lower the doses that are prescribed, and to shorten the duration of prescriptions — all measures known to reduce addiction risk. The association has also supported state legislation to limit opioid prescriptions’ dosage and duration, and to track medical professionals’ prescribing practices.
“The dental profession deserves credit for trying to tackle this,” Schroeder said. “It’s easy to point the finger at dentists — over time, they have contributed a fair amount of the opioid exposure. But they really have made efforts to limit that in recent years.”
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Ridge Racer's Hairpin Curve
April 10, 2012 / Ray Barnholt
In the past week or so I've been playing Ridge Racer Unbounded, a game I've been interested in for the better part of the year. When it was first revealed, It was shockingly amusing to see almost no one share my measured interest, and instead spew a lot of angry kneejerk responses -- mainly just repeating "fuck Namco" -- as if the company had made some bold proclamation that they wouldn't make any more Ridge Racer games except this one. I wrote about this episode in SCROLL 02's end-of-issue editorial to frame a larger point about pre-entitled people getting their panties in a twist over a game they just found out about and won't get to play for at least a year. But now it's almost a year later, Unbounded is finally out, and the reviews from critics and impressions from folks online are largely positive, or at best, not very mean.
I'll admit that the initial anger towards Unbounded was, to a degree, understandable. Word of it came just a little while after Capcom announced their Devil May Cry reboot, which went with a different kind of hero and a general tonal shift that didn't meet anyone's expectation. The pervading view was (and, er, still is) that Japanese giants are scrambling to keep up with the West by tossing their beloved franchises to Americans and Europeans who hang a little too long onto the word "reimagining." And so the collective gamer mood swings continue every quarter, all based on childish fears that someone new will come into their club and squeeze them out. Yet for every blatant molestation of a dormant series, there's a perfectly respectful treatment that everyone can agree on.
For me, Unbounded sits somewhere in between. Besides some music tracks borrowed from older Ridge Racer games, Unbounded is not a Ridge Racer game in the least. But even to an understanding guy like me, it's still kind of uncomfortable. The graphics are bleak, the cars are generic, the shoehorned "story" is never heard of past the intro movie, and the physics feel too realistic, focused on a drift button that immediately gets you swingin' along the road. Even if you nail that mechanic, the game's challenges are needlessly difficult from the get-go, almost devoid of the curve Ridge Racer games usually have, with cutthroat AI opponents that can toss you off the track even before lap one gets started. A course editor is a welcome addition, but when the developer-made courses are obviously cut from the same cloth, with the same road shapes dressed with the same patterns of buildings, the main campaign loses a bit of its appeal. Compared to its immediate competition -- Burnout, Split/Second -- it's just average. So why worry?
But is it actually fair to compare Unbounded to the rest of Ridge Racer? Given that it's obviously supposed to be something else, does that mean it automatically fails at being the original something just because it has its name on it? I don't think so.
Ridge Racer fans get a lot of guff, usually indirectly, in reviews of recent sequels that call the games samey, too traditional, and other well-worn platitudes. And like other "threatened" fans of things, they have a standard set of defenses, and one of the main ones is the claim that RR games are just simple and proud arcade racers like always, and that the games themselves have always been just fine. I agree with that, but that's because I love arcade racers, so of course I'm going to recognize and deal with sameyness, because I still want the fun that I know I can rely on.
But I'm also starkly aware that Ridge Racer games have not been putting butts in seats. Since the PlayStation 2, they've only come once a generation, right at the beginning, and then never on the same system again (except Ridge Racers 2 on PSP). At the PS2 launch in Japan, Ridge Racer V was pretty much the best game you could get (and Tekken Tag), because the rest of the lineup was unanimously decided to be crap. With the Western PS2 launch, that wasn't so much the case, because then you had SSX, Madden, and several more worth caring about. It was even less the case when the PSP arrived: most people talked up Lumines, Wipeout and Metal Gear Acid. And now even less so with the PS Vita, where people are drawn in by Uncharted, Wipeout (again), Lumines (again), Rayman, Marvel, and the 20-or-so other launch games. And it's extra precarious, too, because the newest Ridge Racer has been widely panned for having no real single-player modes, not running at 60 fps, and relying on paid add-ons to pad out what's otherwise a husk of a game. That may be expected and even work with Ridge Racer Accelerated on iOS, but could Namco not foresee RR Vita averaging two out of five stars on the PlayStation Store user ratings?
Nevertheless, when "fans" voice their opinion about Unbounded -- and I put that word in quotes only because I can't prove exactly how loyal everyone's been to the series over the years -- the underlying question is, why put the words "Ridge Racer" on it in the first place? The answer doesn't really require a communications degree. Ridge Racer, despite a glacial slide into irrelevancy, is still a brand a lot of gamers recognize. If you like racing games and were big into the PS1, this is a given, and you don't need to play any new ones to remember the name. This is what Namco banks on, and they still make Ridge Racer games, so it makes business sense.
And if they wanted to sign on Bugbear to make a racing game, what reasonable choice did they have but to include the brand of their only active racing franchise? Frankly, this isn't 2004, when everybody was trying to make their own Gran Turismo. Capcom and Konami had theirs, but Namco had the most, and kept throwing in racing games with wild abandon. Ridge Racer! MotoGP! Alpine Racer! Street Racing Syndicate! Not to mention R: Racing Evolution, a sort-of-not-really Ridge Racer spin-off that tried to be more like a sim, but ended up so thorougly boring that it evolved itself into the bargain bin. And that was the one they really tried to push -- ports on every console, ads all over the place, and almost no payoff.
Since then, the playing field has leveled out, and that's just made it even harder to get a foot in. Racing games, at least on this side of the world, are a two-course meal at this point: You play either Gran Turismo or Forza, and those wanting something less realistic are playing Need for Speed, or more often than not, Real Racing HD. With an ever-dimming spotlight for racers that aren't simulations or at least have real cars in them, if you were a Namco executive, you'd probably start looking for workable options elsewhere, too.
Basically, Ridge Racer is the Dynasty Warriors of racing games. They're both around for system launches, their sequels rarely have any sweeping changes, and they both have a marginalized sect of loyal fans that grumble amongst themselves when a big website predictably gives new installments a bad review. But they're both still around, with no clear end in sight. I don't see Unbounded changing that whether it succeeds or fails, especially when Ridge Racer's lack of change has only made it more unique. The hyper-stylish cars plastered with names of Xevious enemies, the gorgeous track designs, and the insanely unrealistic drifting are what's remembered most, not another game where you break stuff. You should probably get used to paying $5 for new cars, though.
tags / racing, namco, ridge racer
July 01, 2011 / Ray Barnholt
Did you happen to see the news last week about Charlotte Toci, the Bandai Namco Europe community manager (or "junior community manager," apparently) who wrote some posts on Facebook responding to a fan asking about the PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia, and if BN would still localize it and bring it out (Vesperia on PS3 has a new character and other stuff left out of the original Xbox 360 version)? Toci said no, and that it was because Microsoft paid for the game's 360 exclusivity outside Japan. The original post was actually from April, but didn't get wide attention until recently. Here's Exhibit A:
Again, the original post was from April, but that's not the funny part; it's the fact that when it resurfaced on forums and the like, it floated for a week. A week! That's like a year in nerd rage reckoning. More than enough time to verbally crucify Toci, Bandai Namco, Microsoft, Sony, and whoever else the delightful Tales fanbase wanted to peg. Meanwhile, BN said nothing; Toci said nothing; nerds continued flogging. Why? Who really knows. Maybe nobody pinged BN (or enough); maybe most people just saw it as BS and let it blow over. After all, Vesperia PS3 is two years old, and the ship had likely sailed regardless of the method.
So it wasn't until a week after its resurfacing, when enough people had made a fuss of it, when Toci admitted she was not being totally authoratative, and apologized:
A few months ago I replied to a fan who asked me why Tales of Vesperia wasn’t localized in Europe on my Facebook page. I replied that it was because of a Microsoft exclusivity, thinking that that was the reason why, even though I didn’t have any official information on that.
I was wrong to do so, and sadly my reply was relayed on many websites, thus sharing a false information to fans around the web.
I would like to send my sincere apologies to all the Tales Series fans I have wrongly informed, and Microsoft & Namco Bandai for any damage that might have been caused with this.
As ridiculous as it is, I won't say Toci should be condemned or fired or never trusted again -- that's dumb, and it's not always the best way to get a point across. With any luck, her lesson has been learned, and she can continue her job. And it's not like her saying otherwise about Vesperia would completely reverse any hatred directed at Namco regarding Tales games anyway (yeah guys, keep calling them "Scamco," that's bound to get you what you want).
It is, however, a misfire when a company gets someone to be a friendly voice that more or less does speak for the company, then unexpectedly breaks off the leash, and everybody just stands there. So, the most troubling part of this to me isn't how long the misinformation was out there; rather, it's the thought process of someone at the front gates of a company in an industry they clearly don't have the right idea of. If Toci really believed that Namco was paid off to keep Vesperia on 360 outside Japan -- enough to say so confidently in a public venue without checking with anyone -- then I start to wonder what inspired that. What if it was predicated on the more ignorant views of the video game industry, where people ceaselessly presume the entire business is founded on one big unending cycle of bribes? Would you want that to be the voice of your company?
But I get that sometimes, for some companies, they're not looking for a "voice." For them, a community manager is tantamount to an intern with a salary; a peppy guy or gal who doesn't need years of industry experience but can still properly promote the products and draw people in. Meanwhile, the comparative "grown-ups" continue producing the games or handling the "real" PR. And even then, sometimes the company doesn't know what to do with them -- but hey, everyone else has a community manager, and we need a Facebook page and a Twitter account, so get on it.
I think that community staff, Junior or not, should be more than just contest-givers; they should be internal journalists of sorts. Of sorts -- ideally, they're hired to help humanize the company, to learn about it, and be as reasonable as possible to fans (or non-fans), and if a good question comes up that they don't know the real answer to -- like if Tales of Vesperia on PS3 is ever coming out -- they should be inspired, allowed and welcomed to send a query straight to the top and get the best possible answer, even if it's going to piss fans off. Again, that's my ideal, but if you have the wiggle room to hire more than one of them, how about exercising twice the potential? For what it's worth, Toci originally gave a nice, human response, which is respectable -- but imagine how much more respectable if it was truthful.
Then again, with this particular situation and subject matter, sometimes the biggest problem isn't on the inside...
tags / tales of, namco, rpg
Arcade Games That Time Forgot: Dancing Eyes
June 20, 2011 / Ray Barnholt
This article originally appeared on GamePro.com.
Arcade Games That Time Forgot is a feature about weird, brilliant, kooky, terrible, or just interesting arcade games. Why just arcade games? Because while arcades gave us plenty of amazing games that are now classic franchises, it wasn't unlike the PC market, where any ol' group of people could make and distribute them, and with that sort of freedom, crazy ideas had a better chance of making it through. And for better or worse, quite a few did.
Dancing Eyes (Namco, 1996)
Gratuitous titillation seems to be the M.O. of the Japanese game industry these days, at least if you go by the stereotypes. But there's a touch of truth to it, as the number of ways you can ogle cartoon girls in games is larger than ever. But when it came to out-and-out pandering, Namco was ahead of the pack. In 1996, using their expertise in 3D polygonal graphics, they produced the arcade action game Dancing Eyes (no relation to the Gary Stewart song... probably).
Namco recently announced a remake of Dancing Eyes, which is, so far, a Japan-only game for the PS3. But there's perhaps no better time for it to appear, given what I said at the start. In it, you control a cute little monkey, running along a grid that's laid over some surface that needs to be broken away, be it a schoolgirl's uniform, a magician's box, or a tree stump with mischievous twins inside.
Most of the time, though, it's going to be women whom you must disrobe by clearing the panels on the grid. You do this by holding the action button to set down a peg, then run along the grid trying to complete a whole shape while avoiding the enemies honing in on you. You don't have to connect the ends -- as long as you complete a whole shape, you can watch it get cleared away. Your "reward" for beating the stage is to (typically) watch the model prance around in her skivvies or otherwise play around with the "set" she's on.
On the surface, Dancing Eyes is not original -- plenty of other girlie arcade games, like the Gals Panic series, employed a variation of Qix's gameplay to get the player to slowly reveal a picture of a scantily-clad woman. But Dancing Eyes was the only such game to use real-time polygons, and Namco used that to their advantage by letting you walk all around the model as you cleared the grid. And in some cases, you can see the girls "breathing" as they patiently stand there waiting for their clothes to be destroyed. Yeah, well... that's worth a multi-page psychology paper right there, but nonetheless, it was one of the game's unique selling points. In the context of 1996, the game also looks amazing. It makes you wonder what kind of HD embarrassment the remake will bring!
Despite the groan-worthy sexism going on, Dancing Eyes doesn't really take itself seriously. As soon as the third stage, the game starts taking an absurd turn as it introduces cows and aliens. It shows that if you take out the suggestive material, you can still have a fairly fun game on your hands. Of course, it wouldn't have nearly the same appeal, would it? And it wouldn't be getting so much attention, both back then and now with the announcement of the remake. And as a matter of fact, there's plenty of eye candy for everybody...
See? It's inclusive, and totally realistic, to boot!
categories / game
tags / arcade, arcade games that time forgot, namco
Arcade Games That Time Forgot: Mirai Ninja
Mirai Ninja (Namco, 1988)
I kind of like Mirai Ninja (lit. "Future Ninja"). The thing is, there isn't a ton about it that's actually likeable. On the surface, it's basically Namco's take on Taito's The Legend of Kage: You got your ninja guy, he moves real fast, he jumps real high, and the game has really spacious levels. But this one is set in the future, after all, so it's automatically more badass. It makes ancient history look like ancient history! And in every respect, the game is so unabashedly '80s it's hard to hate. For starters, the music is fitting with the theme, and could have easily been from your favorite sci-fi anime. That's thanks to Namco's master maestro Shinji Hosoe, who did the music for almost every late '80s-early '90s Namco game you can think of, and is still kicking around the industry.
I mentioned anime, but the funny thing about Mirai Ninja is that it's a movie game. Namco wasn't known for their movie games back then, but this is different because Namco actually had a stake in producing the live-action film of the same name. It was released in the US as "Cyber Ninja" (the game never showed up), and it's, um... interesting? Click that link and note the giant walking mecha houses in the intro, which also show up in the game. It's nothing if not faithful!
But Mirai Ninja is still a movie game, and so in accordance with the unwritten law, it's not that great compared to other great arcade games that year. Again, it's basically Legend of Kage, complete with deceptive difficulty: You can pretty much sprint through the first few levels without taking much damage, but then the game starts throwing more enemies at you at once, and makes bosses even bigger assholes. Naturally, this would be easy to deal with under normal conditions, but by default, you only get one life, and continuing puts you back at the beginning of the stage. Come on, Namco, did you expect everyone to love everything about Mirai Ninja that they'd see the movie dozens of times and play the game dozens more regardless of how much it beat their brow?
Still, I like Mirai Ninja. It's not friendly, it's not super original, but what it lacks in unoriginal gameplay it pays back in absurd character and level design that sometimes does feel like an over-the-top Japanese action movie. Go figure.
Arcade Games That Time Forgot: Pistol Daimyo's Adventure
May 11, 2011 / Ray Barnholt
Pistol Daimyo's Adventure (Namco, 1990)
Namco is credited with pushing arcade shoot-em-ups forward with Galaga and Xevious, though they rarely stepped out of those two universes afterward, except Dragon Spirit and Dragon Saber, which aren't too mechanically different from Xevious anyway. For the most part, they let other companies concentrate on that genre while they went ahead and tried to innovate in others. Namco's straight-up shooters were more about looking different than being completely different.
Enter Pistol Daimyo. It was one of Namco's few horizontal shooters (Ordyne being among them), and was not at all serious. The cartoony style lampooned many tropes from Japanese history and mythology and simply turned it into an absurd shooting game. It wasn't the first "wacky" shooting game, since the aforementioned Ordyne and Konami's Parodius came years before, and it definitely doesn't seem like something that Namco was putting a lot of marketing muscle behind. This seems more or less like a passion project (or at worst, a goof-off time-filler) for the team that made it.
Pistol Daimyo's Adventure is notable for a few things. OK, it's notable for one thing: you play as a daimyo with a giant gun fused to his head, and who flies around by rapidly flapping fans he's holding with his feet. His origin is a mystery, but few would want to question a guy with a gun on his head. Technically, Pistol Daimyo's Adventure is a spin-off of Bravoman, as the Daimyo first appeared as a boss character in that game. He's been redrawn and refitted here, as his "Adventure" takes place in his home world of Feudal Japan But Crazier (my nomenclature).
Indeed, this take on ancient Japan certainly paints an odd picture of the nation. You'll be fighting angry frogs, throngs of ninjas, giant whales, entire battleships, and more as Pistol Daimyo slowly floats along the countryside. If nothing else, it looks consistent; it's not so absurd as to throw digitized people or large sexy women in your face like Parodius or PuLiRuLa does. It's just a big damn fun cartoon.
But the true defining characteristic of Pistol Daimyo (the game) is that it's unrelentingly difficult. For something that looks like it's meant for kids, it starts bringing the hurt from the get-go. And since this was before the days of bullet-blanketing shooters like DoDonPachi, the difficulty doesn't come from the volume of bad things coming at you as it does the speed and the volume. Most of the enemies are made with their own movement patterns, so there's lots of grouping of enemies who jump or fly or run in their own ways, leaving you with few "outs." Quick reaction time is important, but if you've been playing too many recent shooters, where most of the time you're making incremental movements to avoid waves of bullets you can clearly see coming, then you might need some readjusting. Regardless, for a clever shooter that's as challenging as it is baffling, simply look down the barrel of Pistol Daimyo.
tags / arcade, arcade games that time forgot, namco, shooter
3D Galaga's LD Callback
February 09, 2011 / Ray Barnholt
Namco recently revealed both halves of their upcoming Nintendo 3DS title Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions. The Pac-Man game, Pac-Man Tilt, is a kooky platformer with gyro sensor gameplay, lots of wild colors (apparently every new Pac-Man game needs to look like a VHS-era CGI acid trip), but no 3D support, probably to lessen the motion sickness factor.
I find the other game, Galaga 3D Impact, to be a bit more interesting. It's a first-person on-rails shooter in yet another interpretation of the Galaga universe, and thankfully does support 3D, because they gotta milk the full potential of that. Why they went with Galaga for this I don't know, but one look at screenshots has me thinking how cool a 3DS version of a similarly-themed Namco game like Starblade, Solvalou or Cyber Sled would be. It's inevitable... right? But besides that, Galaga 3D Impact is more immediately reminscent of a different Namco game, one more or less forgotten: Galaxian3.
Originally a theme park ride in 1990, Galaxian3 accepted six players who sat in front of a superwide display where two LaserDisc players/projectors played the on-rails shooter while the six players moved their blaster sights around and shot everything that moved. The theme park version -- an attraction at Namco's Wonder Eggs park -- was naturally huge, and had the rockin'-and-rollin' seats typical of such "theater games." Around 1994, Namco slightly shrunk it down into their "Theater 6" system, a smaller, relatively more portable setup for large-scale arcades that didn't have the moving seats (I don't think).
The look of the game these days is pretty cheesy, featuring low-poly CGI overlaid with low-poly enemy characters, but in the early '90s, it was impressive enough, and pretty illustrative of Namco's perfectionism. They really wanted this to be as much like a movie as possible, and they were already at the forefront with other polygonal arcade games. They knew this was the future.
Oddly enough, Galaxian3 was ported to the PlayStation in 1996, more than half a decade after its original appearance. It's not a fantastic port, as it supports four players instead of six, and the video is cropped and compressed to the PS1 standard. Above all, it's just batty -- how many console versions of theme park rides can you think of?
If you haven't heard of Galaxian3 before, rest assured that LD arcade game enthusiasts have, and have been preparing the game for emulation, if not outright buying and assembling the theaters for their own use.
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Forum Index » Discussion » Votes & Polls » Do you support the Naxals?
Do you support the Naxals?
Do you support the Naxalite rebels in India? Why or Why not?
Fellow Comrade
Yes. If nothing else, the Naxals serve to destabilise the present right wing and reactionary Indian government. I wish them well and hope they don't make the same mistakes Mao made.
Mabool
Ideology: Trotskyism
I wonder how anybody could answer no to this. Of course I do. I dunno if they're going to have a proletarian revolution, but they're still the most progressive force in India.
"Don't know why i'm still surprised with this shit anyway." - Loz
Whitten
How could they be the most progressive force in India? They don't have a working class programme.
They're peasant terrorists who emerged in opposition to industrialisation.
In as far as they support the development of industrial capitalism the Congress Party is more progressive than them.
The moment one accepts the notion of 'totalitarianism', one is firmly locked within the liberal-democratic horizon. - Slavoj Žižek
newsovietunion
Ideology: Democratic Socialism
Mabool wrote:
Some dislike the Naxals because they kill peasants and CPI(M) members.
I don't think that is a scientific reason to reject them since the CPI(M) allows peasants to die by the hands of the state which they participate in.
Red Brigade
Whitten wrote:
Industrialization does not help the people and peasants of India. Especially the indigenous people of India. The CPI(M) have sold out to the capitalists, so supporting the Naxalites seems like the best choice.
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Dagoth Ur
Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 10 Sep 2006, 22:05
No industrialization is absolutely necessary to the workers of India being able to stand up for themselves. A massive peasantry is a hindrance if anything. The Naxalites murder communists not because they're corrupt or have "bought into capitalism" but because what the CPI(M) proposes would destroy the base of the Naxalites. They [Naxals] are terrorists posing as communists.
That said voted Other because we're weak enough to support even people of this sort to a certain degree.
If the CPI(M) don't seem to care about the people of India. They definitely did not care about the people of Nandigram.
Industrialization does not help the people and peasants of India.
Interesting wording, "the people and peasants." The peasants are specifically that class of people in society who have not had capitalist relations brough to them yet, so it's almost true by definition that they are not the beneficiaries of industrialisation. All the more cruel that the Naxalites should seek to deprive them of its fruits, to prevent their assimilation into capitalism.
On the contrary, industrialisation has greatly improve the lives of many workers and the middle classes. Those proletarians in India able to find stable employment enjoy many of the same luxuries that we have in the west.
Has it improved their lives enough? No, of course not.
But even if we conceded the claim that industrialisation had been of no help, the Marxist answer to this is industrialisation under workers' ownership and control (so that they may also own the benefits), not to oppose industrialisation.
The Naxals should re-examine the revolution they claim their inspiration from and dust off their books, whatever happened to the Great Leap Forwards, comrades?
Especially the indigenous people of India.
The who now? When did indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of India enter this?
The CPI(M) have sold out to the capitalists, so supporting the Naxalites seems like the best choice.
The Jacobins supported the capitalists, so we should support King Louis?
Why should we support peasant reactionaries just because they're anti-capitalist.
Erichs_Pastry_Chef
Embalmed
Yes, because it's lulzy to read the stories where up to a hundred policemen die when the cops try to invade their territory. Hilarity, endless hilarity!
"Phil Spector is haunting Europe" -Dr. Karl H. Marx
Villages and forests of the indigenous Adivasis people are destroyed to build mine's, refineries, and factories. The Adivasis are sent to camps to live in, they are promised jobs but they never get them.
Cultofpersonality
Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 May 2013, 19:04
Ideology: Maoist
My answer is yes.
George1
i think its clearly a secessionist movement not leftist-communist
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Ready, set, cheer
Tentative steps turned into confident strides as young cheer enthusiasts walked into the Multi-Activity Court Gym in the Wade King Student Recreation Center.
Western’s cheer team held a youth clinic open to children and young teens in kindergarten through eighth grade Saturday, Feb. 4. The event included a cheer performance at the women’s basketball game later that evening.
Cheer team members help participants practice their routine in the Wade King Student Recreation Center Saturday, Feb. 4. // Photo by Alex Powell
The participants performed at halftime, showing off the cheers and dances they learned earlier in the day.
Nicole Keller, the cheer adviser for Western’s cheer team, who used to cheerleader and coach, said the cheer clinic has evolved over the years. The annual clinic has been going on since the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, said Steve Brummel, the associate athletics director for facilities and operations.
Keller said the team used to travel to different elementary, middle and high schools to do the
event and now hosts it on Western’s campus.
“It’s education and it’s giving youth in our community an opportunity to get physically active and engaged in something,” Keller said. “It just gives them another outlet to find some passion and excitement in physical activity.”
Keller said the clinic is a great way to educate the community about Western’s athletic department and the opportunity athletics can bring and how much Western values its student athletes.
“Sometimes when we’re doing, doing and doing we forget the aspects we so much enjoy. Through children’s eyes we get that opportunity to see the excitement of how amazing what we do is. I think we need that fresh set of eyes to speak to the child inside of all of us.”
Nicole Keller
“The leadership skills and the multitasking skills you learn as a student athlete is such a critical part of becoming a successful adult and community member,” Keller said.
Allowing the kids to see they can achieve any sports dream they have and showing them how to live a healthy life is what this clinic is striving to teach, Keller said.
“The youth inspire us,” Keller said. “Sometimes when we’re doing, doing and doing we forget the aspects we so much enjoy. Through children’s eyes we get that opportunity to see the excitement of how amazing what we do is. I think we need that fresh set of eyes to speak to the child inside of all of us.”
Giving children another outlet to begin learning how to stay well; whether it’s physically, spiritually or mentally well is also what Keller hopes to emulate from the community. Whatcom County has put a big emphasis on wellness to combat the obesity epidemic, Keller said.
Junior Rachel McCrady, a business marketing major, is one of the team’s co-captain. She can relate to how the kids feel because growing up, she used to participate in cheerleading clinics as well. McCrady said it has come full circle for her, being in the spot she once looked up to.
Participants in the cheer clinic perform at halftime during a women’s basketball game Saturday, Feb. 4. // Photo by Harrison Amelang
McCrady also spoke about the halftime performance the kids get to do and how much it means to them and the team.
“They get to come down on the court with us and perform,” McCrady said. “All their parents get to see them and they get their own little poms, face tattoos and bows during halftime. They love it and it’s a huge setting for them. It’s fun for the little kids to come down with us and perform together.”.
The other co-captain is senior Alexa Lowry, a recreation major. She said getting to expose the kids to meeting other people with the same interests and seeing every cheer start to click for them is great.
“I think it’s really fun to get them interacting with other people that have the same interests versus just being in school and being around their friends,” Lowry said. “Getting to be around people that want to do the exact same thing as you do is so much fun.”
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Zee Talkies to Bring Short Films in "Talkies Lighthouse" TV Show to Maharashtra Audiences
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By Joyline Rego
Mumbai, January 6 (Washington Bangla Radio) - For the first time ever on television, Zee Talkies is all set to bring the short film format to the audience of Maharashtra with Talkies Lighthouse. The TV show will include a series of handpicked short films, wrapped in an entertaining format of 90 minutes to be telecast on the channel, starting January 10, 2016.
Marathi TV Channel Zee Talkies Unveils Brand New Look
The short films will be showcased by lead actors Lalit Prabhakar, a well-known television and theatre actor, and Neha Mahajan from the ‘Coffee aani Barach Kahi’ fame.
Speaking about Talkies Lighthouse, Bavesh Janavlekar, Business Head, Zee Talkies, said, this is the first ever initiative in the Marathi entertainment arena, and one that has been packaged differently. "The output of Marathi films has accelerated in the last 2-3 years. We believe that there is a lot of talent which is unexposed due to lack of opportunities. There are aspiring film makers who have limited access to the audiences even though with a good product in hand. Until now, we were only focusing on films and film-related events, and this is the first time we are exploring an innovative approach to launch short films in a show wrapped around entertainment."
Positioning itself as a purely film entertainment channel, Zee Talkies with this initiative seeks to provide budding actors and directors an opportunity to show their talent with Talkies Lighthouse. With an aim to connect with the youth through the rising trend of short films, Zee Talkies Lighthouse is a unique initiative that brings talent to the limelight.
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Alter Bridge Return With New Album And Tour
It has been three years since Alter Bridge’s last studio album, ABIII, was released in the US, but it is clear their fans have been waiting for them to return. Now the rock juggernaut band comprised of Myles Kennedy on vocals, Mark Tremonti on guitar, Brian Marshall on bass and Scott Phillips on drums return with their fourth album, Fortress slated for release on October 8th via EMI Label Services. The latest record builds upon the sound that Alter Bridge has been known for with their uncompromised vocal melodies, untouchable dueling guitar work and pounding rhythm section. The album was produced by long-time Alter Bridge producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette, known for his work with Falling In Reverse, Story Of The Year and Incubus to name a few.
"When we started pre-production on this album, we pushed ourselves harder and further than we ever have previously in order to make the most out of every individual arrangement. We wanted this album to be our most unpredictable and exciting one yet. From the early feedback we have received, it looks like we have achieved what we set out to do," exclaims Tremonti.
From the opening acoustic guitar work on “Cry Of Achilles” through the other 12 songs on Fortress, it is clear Alter Bridge are back to reclaim their place as one of hard rock's marquee bands. The band showcases some of their heaviest material ever in tracks like "Bleed It Dry" and "Farther Than The Sun," but also shows their signature softer side with songs like “All Ends Well" and the epic title track "Fortress." Fortress is 13 tracks of unapologetic, searing hard rock that Alter Bridge has come to be synonymous with around the globe.
Alter Bridge recently announced their only US show in 2013 in Orlando, FL on October 4th at the House of Blues. Tickets for this show will go on-sale on Friday, July 26 and can be purchased at ticketmaster.com. The band then heads over to Europe where they will begin an extensive headlining world tour that will run from October 16th through November 16 and will feature Shinedown and Halestorm joining the band on select dates. Alter Bridge will also make a triumphant return to Wembley Arena in London on October 18th, a venue they sold out on ABIII and documented with the CD/DVD, Alter Bridge Live At Wembley.
DATE CITY, STATE VENUE
Oct 4th Orlando, FL House of Blues (Only US show in 2013)
Oct 16th Nottingham, UK Arena
Oct 17th Birmingham, UK NIA
Oct 18th London, UK Wembley Arena
Oct 20th Cardiff, UK Arena
Oct 21st Glasgow, UK Hydro
Oct 22nd Manchester, UK Arena
Oct 24th Paris, FRA Zenith
Oct 25th Brussels, BEL AB
Oct 27th Berlin, GER Huxleys
Oct 28th Copenhagen, DEN Vega
Oct 29th Stockholm, SWE Arenan
Nov 3rd Amsterdam, HOL Heineken Music Hall
Nov 4th Dusseldorf, GER Mitsbishi Electric Halle
Nov 5th Wiesbaden, GER Schlachthof
Nov 7th Vienna, AUS Gasometer
Nov 8th Munich, GER Zenith
Nov 9th Zurich, SWI Hallenstadion
Nov 11th Rome, ITA Atlantico
Nov 12th Milan, ITA Mediolanum
Nov 14th Barcelona, SPA Razzmatazz 2
Nov 15th Madrid, SPA Arena
Nov 16th Lisbon, POR Coliseum
Tags: Alter Bridge
Jason Fisher July 24, 2013
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Posted: Thursday, June 22, 2017 12:00 am
By Lauren Clem, Staff Reporter
PROVIDENCE — St. Patrick Church was a scene of great emotion on Saturday, June 10, as graduates of St. Patrick Academy processed into the church for the final time as the Class of 2017.
Pastor Father James Ruggieri offered the invocation, and Principal Bruce Daigle welcomed all those gathered for the graduation exercises. The commencement address was offered by the newly-ordained Father Jean Joseph Brice, who encouraged the graduates to spend at least 15 minutes per day in silence before the Lord as they moved on to their colleges and careers.
“Your generation and my generation is facing a dictatorship of noise,” he said. “Silence is the remedy against that.”
Faith also featured prominently in the speeches of Salutatorian Nelly Durand and Valedictorian Naleen Camara, both of whom offered heartfelt addresses to their classmates and families. Durand extended her gratitude to her mother for raising her as a Catholic and serving as her role model, while Camara, a practicing Muslim, said the spirituality of her classmates and her senior year World Religions class encouraged her to further explore her own faith.
“Seeing the dedication others had to their faith inspired me to mimic their actions and decide to do something about my relationship with God,” she said.
The school’s highest honors were awarded during the ceremony, including the NACEPF Leadership Award, presented to Nelly Durand, the St. Patrick Award, presented to Naleen Camara, and the St. Francis of Assisi Award, presented for the first time this year to Nayeli Soriano.
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The RPG Player's Ultimate Dream
Imagine that you liked to play swords and sorcery role playing games when you were a kid and that for some reason you still enjoy them as an adult. What could be more fun than to finally make the big time by having your own TV show where other people watch you play a Dungeons and Dragons game along with video intercut of you dressed up in costume acting our your heroic battles!
Dungeon Majesty delivers exactly that thrill. It's a TV show based in Southern California that captures four young women, playing an elf, wizard, druid, and barbarian, caught weekly in mortal combat with the powers of darkness.
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Estimates panel wants GDP norms changed
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The report of the committee headed by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi could not be adopted on Thursday after protests from fellow BJP MPs.
The current manner in which GDP is measured needs an overhaul as it provides an incomplete estimation of economic activity, a report by the Estimates Committee of Parliament pointed out in a draft report reviewed by The Hindu.
The report of the committee headed by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi could not be adopted on Thursday after protests from fellow BJP MPs. The current GDP and Gross Value Added measures have also been questioned by Opposition leaders and economists alike. The Opposition even accused the Narendra Modi government of fudging the figures.
The committee noted that the GDP calculation doesn’t measure the depletion of natural resources, a point several economists including former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian have pointed out.
The report said the current measure of GDP did not incorporate the economic contributions of women in running households and maintaining accounts, nor did it have any measure of whether an increase in GDP resulted in an increase in happiness.
“The Chief Economic Advisor [Arvind Subramanian], in this context, has candidly expressed before the Committee that GDP, the most frequently used indicator for measuring growth of the economy, has many deficiencies and it has been elevated and given sanctity that, may be, it does not deserve,” it said.
“The detailed examination [by the Committee] reveal that there are several inadequacies in the extant GDP measuring mechanism, most noticeable being depletion of natural resources not being taken into consideration while deriving GDP,” it added.
“Whereas any rise in GDP growth requires utilisation of natural resources, their utilisation and depletion is not taken into account while measuring GDP.”
The committee noted that while NITI Aayog had acknowledged that efforts must be made to ensure that GDP growth is combined with sustainability, it had so far not suggested any ways to achieve this.
“The Committee, therefore, strongly recommends to evolve indicators/parameters to gauge the environmental resource decay and replenishment efforts made to compensate the loss and also to capture these aspects in measuring GDP and other economic parameters,” the report said.
It highlighted that the current GDP measure, while accounting for increases in production, did not take into account other factors of economic activity such as the change in quality of the output due to improvements in technology, or how advances like artificial intelligence will impact employment.
“Another factor which is not taken into account while arriving at GDP…is the tremendous work done by women in India as housewives which include keeping the household accounts, saving money, attending to the smallest of the kids to the oldest of the house, managing all day-to-day household chores like cooking, fetching water and fuel, etc,” the report said.
It noted that there was no mechanism to measure whether increase in GDP added to happiness, specifically, whether leisure helped in increasing GDP or vice versa.
“The Committee strongly recommends the government to have mechanisms by coming up with new measures of GDP estimation and statistical measurement of other socio-economic factors,” the report said.
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