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Michigan in Color: Our sacrifice, our shame
Courtesy of Carlina Duan
Print | E-mail | Letter to the editor
By Carlina Duan, Magazine Editor
When I was eleven, I was called a Chink by three boys at a water park. I was wearing my favorite blue Nike suit, had just gotten my first period a month before, and adored my fish tank of silver guppies, which swam mercilessly back and forth through a sleeve of cool water each night.
I didn’t understand race, and I didn’t understand love.
What I understood was that on Multi-Culti Day in the sixth grade, my mother had made six containers of dumplings for my class. The moisture had condensed on the Tupperware lids in shameful, wet circles; Casey had wrinkled his nose and asked, “What’s that smell?”
What I understood was that I smelled differently. I wasn’t allowed to shave my legs, I didn’t know how to translate “deodorant” into Mandarin, and my favorite meal involved pouring cheddar cheese Goldfish crackers on top of a bowl of rice.
Still, I waved the American flag. Still, I loved comic books and strawberry popsicles. At home, my mother spoke to me in Mandarin and I responded back in English. As an American-born girl of eleven, we had a system. In public, I became the mom — checking out our library books, enunciating English words for her at Kroger’s, translating Mapquest directions so she’d swerve left onto Newport Road. I was the one who taught my mom how to make macaroni and cheese. I told her what to write to my teachers when I was sick and couldn’t come to class. We fell into familiar rhythm. Eventually, she stopped using her Chinese-to-English dictionary and started resorting to me: “You’re the expert,” she’d say, “I don’t know anything.”
At some point along the way, I lost my Chinese.
Chinese, my first language, gradually became my lost language. Born in Seattle to parents who had emigrated from China, I attended preschool in Ann Arbor with almost no knowledge of English. I was placed in a toddler’s ESL class, where we bound picture books in sparkly pink wrapping paper, and I learned the language through flashcards: A IS FOR APPLE, M IS FOR MILK.
At home, then, the rules were softened. As a kid, I’d persuade my mother into buying us “normal” food: vanilla wafers drenched in icing, chicken nuggets, wide hunks of pepper jack cheese. I reprimanded her for braiding my hair with Hello Kitty elastics. All the white girls at my school used simple hair bands of neon blues, pinks. My mother went to Meijer and bought me a jumbo pack of black hair scrunchies the next day. I called my mother a bitch when we fought, mostly out of cruel spite. I knew she wouldn’t understand the curse word. After all, I was the wise, cultured American. She was just the Chinese mom who listened out of love, out of a desire to see her kid not get bullied in a school system that was predominantly white. In retrospect, the games I played as a kid must have been humiliating for my mother: a brilliant woman who’d studied agriculture in college, mastered Japanese, loved butterflies and the smell of lavender perfume.
With my mom, I cultivated a sense of authority that I couldn’t fully grasp in the classroom. Placed next to my all-American friends with mothers who understood that mustard was not a salad dressing, but a condiment; that hot dogs were not literally heated animals with tails; that tampons were more popular than pads … I’d never be the expert.
In school, I was shy. Ate white breads, tossed dumplings in the trash can, raised my hand only when I was sure I could pronounce unknown words exactly right. Played it safe, partly because I was afraid to lose the wicked sense of authority I’d cultivated at home.
Growing up as a minority, I found independence in these mottled, urgent ways. At a water park, at age eleven, being called a Chink was just another new occasion for me to disassemble and learn the English language. To claim it in all its pricking points of ugliness. To be bullied and loved, relentlessly, by the alphabet. Chink, Chigga. Banana. Twinkie. F.O.B. What my Chinese mother could never teach me, I had to learn and seize on my own. What’s more, I felt fiercely protective and embarrassed by her. In the U.S., she was vulnerable, sometimes timid, girlish. Couldn’t hold the language. My job as her American-born daughter was not only to teach, but to also defend.
In middle school, “Yo Mama” jokes infuriated me. My mother was so Chinese she couldn’t eat a hamburger without pinching her nose. She was so Chinese she wore bamboo slippers, pickled sea cucumbers, fried rice. But she was also a badass. Mowed our lawn every week, fixed the broken roof herself. Knit scarves, baked bread. Climbed ladders. Sacrificed her Chinese citizenship for an American passport — not out of duty to the country, but out of duty to my sister and me. “I want to live in the same country as you when I’m older,” she said. At my high school graduation, she recited the Pledge of Allegiance with her left hand over her chest, beaming.
I’ve often been told I’m a part of the “nice” race, the “model minority.” At times, it’s assumed that what I do well, I do because I’m Asian — not because I was raised by one of the strongest, most intelligent women I know. It’s frustrating when I find myself settling into these expectations. Annoying when I find myself hyper-aware when breaking out of them. I am a daughter of immigrant parents, and I am infinitely dimensional, in-love, in-pain, exhausted, roaming. Growing up. Chinese is my blood, and in a way, it defines many of my decisions and my movements through this world. But it does not lay the entire groundwork for what I choose to chase, demolish — what I choose to give, or give up.
At Pizza House last year, I was told half-jokingly, “You’re like our token Asian friend!” Pepperoni circles swam in rainbow grease, and I sizzled. I’m not — and will never be — anybody’s token anything. I’m my mother’s daughter, and I’m my own brain, my own bossy heart. In high school, I was encouraged to pursue a career as an English professor because “You’ve got that whole Asian thing going for you. You stand out!” As a Chinese-American woman, I have been exoticized, categorized and stereotyped by friends, peers, strangers, teachers, co-workers, crushes. My Chinese mother has been called “cute” when she stutters in English. We’ve both been sliced up.
Being angry about racial inequality is easy. Navigating, processing, and articulating race — that’s hard. It’s a project I don’t know how to undertake without stammering, fearful to offend … even as a woman of color, talking about my race feels bulky and terrifying. As a Chinese-American, I feel frequently caught in liminal space, floating in-between myth and a self-inflicted series of rules.
I am frequently asked, “Where are you really from?” and I’m always quick to respond, almost heatedly, “Here.” I was born on American soil. I love this country, with its chocolate creams and dirty politicians and bodies of saltwater. But I am also indebted to my mother, and to her country, which both is and isn’t my own. As my mother’s daughter, I am built with her history of red stamps, her girlhood during the Cultural Revolution, her brick walls. Our sacrifice, our shame. I am American, plus Chinese. That identity is plural, stretched. Beautiful weight. And that love. It’s plural, too.
Michigan in Color is the Daily’s opinion section designated as a space for and by students of color at the University of Michigan. To contribute your voice or find out more about MiC, e-mail michiganincolor@umich.edu.
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Calcichew-D3 Forte Chewable Tablets
Takeda UK Ltd contact details
colecalciferol; cholecalciferol
P: Pharmacy
Last updated on eMC: 02 Nov 2018
What is a Patient Information Leaflet and why is it useful?
The Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) is the leaflet included in the pack with a medicine. It is written for patients and gives information about taking or using a medicine. It is possible that the leaflet in your medicine pack may differ from this version because it may have been updated since your medicine was packaged.
Download Leaflet View the patient leaflet in PDF format
Below is a text only representation of the Patient Information Leaflet. The original can be viewed in PDF format using the link above.
The text only version may be available from RNIB in large print, Braille or audio CD. For further information call RNIB Medicine Leaflet Line on 0800 198 5000. The product code(s) for this leaflet is: PL 16189/0027 .
CALCICHEW*-D3 FORTE 500 mg/400 IU CHEWABLE TABLETS
calcium/colecalciferol
Read all of this leaflet carefully because it contains important information for you.
Always take this medicine exactly as described in this leaflet or as your doctor or pharmacist have told you. Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.
Ask your pharmacist if you need more information or advice.
You must talk to a doctor if you do not feel better or if you feel worse after two weeks.
If you get any side effects talk to your doctor or pharmacist. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. See section 4.
In this leaflet:
1. What Calcichew-D3 Forte is and what it is used for
2. What you need to know before you take Calcichew-D3 Forte
3. How to take Calcichew-D3 Forte
4. Possible side effects
5. How to store Calcichew-D3 Forte
6. Contents of the pack and other information
1. WHAT CALCICHEW- D3 FORTE IS AND WHAT IT IS USED FOR
Calcichew-D3 Forte Chewable Tablets are lemon flavoured chewable tablets containing calcium and vitamin D3 which are both important substances in bone formation. Both are found in the diet and vitamin D is also produced in the skin after exposure to the sun.
Calcichew-D3 Forte is used to treat and prevent vitamin D/calcium deficiency, which may occur when your diet or lifestyle does not provide enough, or when body requirements are increased. This medicine may also be prescribed or recommended for certain bone conditions, for example osteoporosis, or during pregnancy.
2. BEFORE YOU TAKE CALCICHEW- D3 FORTE
Do not take Calcichew- D3 Forte Chewable Tablets if you:
are allergic to calcium, vitamin D, or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6)
have severe kidney problems
have a condition that causes excessive amounts of calcium in your blood or urine (hypercalcaemia or hypercalciuria) e.g.
renal (kidney failure)
cancer that has affected your bones
have excessive amounts of vitamin D in your blood
have kidney stones.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking Calcichew- D3 Forte:
if you have osteoporosis (brittle bones) and are also unable to move around
if you are on long term treatment, especially if you are taking medicines for a heart disorder (cardiac glycosides), or diuretics (used in the treatment of high blood pressure or oedema)
if you have signs of impaired kidney function or a high tendency to kidney stone (calculus) formation
if you have cancer or any other condtions that may have affected your bones
if you have sarcoidosis (an immune system disorder which may cause increased levels of vitamin D in the body).
If you have any of the following conditions your serum calcium or phosphate levels, or urinary calcium excretion must be monitored. Calcichew should be taken under close medical supervision.
sarcoidosis (an immune system disorder which may affect your liver, lungs, skin or lymph nodes)
you are on long-term treatment with Calcichew
you are already taking additional doses of calcium or vitamin D.
If you have increased calcium levels in the blood or develop signs of kidney problems, the dose of Calcichew-D3 Forte should be reduced or the treatment discontinued.
Other medicines and Calcichew- D3 Forte
Please inform your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines.
In particular, the following medicines may interact with Calcichew-D3 Forte chewable tablets:
thiazide diuretics (water tablets); your serum calcium levels should be monitored regularly.
cardiac glycosides (heart medicines); you should be monitored by electrocardiogram (ECG) and your serum calcium levels measured.
tetracycline antibiotics; these should be taken at least two hours before, or four to six hours afterwards. Calcium carbonate may interfere with the absorption of tetracycline preparations if taken at the same time.
levothyroxine (hormone used to treat thyroid deficiency); these should be taken at least four hours before or after taking Calcichew- D3 Forte
quinolone antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, lomefloxacin, norfloxacin, sparfloxacin): the effect of these medicines may be reduced if taken at the same time as calcium. Take quinolone antibiotics two hours before or six hours after taking Calcichew-D3 Forte.
bisphosphonates; should be taken at least one hour before Calcichew-D3 Forte
Calcium salts may decrease the absorption of iron, zinc and strontium ranelate. Consequently iron, zinc or strontium ranelate preparations should be taken at least two hours before or after Calcichew-D3 Forte
Orlistat (used to treat obesity) may disturb the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, e.g. vitamin D3.
If you are taking any of the above-mentioned medicines, your doctor will give you further instructions.
Taking Calcichew-D3 Forte with food and drink
Calcichew-D3 Forte can be taken with or without food and drink.
If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice if you are pregnant or breast-feeding before taking Calcichew-D3 Forte.
If you are pregnant, you may use Calcichew-D3 Forte in case of a calcium and vitamin D deficiency. During pregnancy you should not take more than 2500 mg calcium and 4000 IU vitamin D per day, as overdoses may harm the unborn child.
Calcichew-D3 Forte can be used during breast-feeding. Calcium and vitamin D3 pass into breast milk. This should be considered when giving additional vitamin D to the child.
Calcichew- D3 Forte has no known influence on the ability to drive or use machines.
Calcichew- D3 Forte contains isomalt and sucrose.
Calcichew-D3 Forte contains isomalt (E953) and sucrose (E420): if you have been told by your doctor that you have an intolerance to some sugars, talk to your doctor before taking this medicine. May be harmful to teeth.
3. HOW TO TAKE CALCICHEW- D3 FORTE
Always take Calcichew- D3 Forte Tablets exactly as your doctor has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.
The recommended dose is two tablets a day, preferably one tablet in the morning and one tablet in the evening. The tablet may be chewed or sucked.
Calcichew-D3 Forte chewable tablets are not recommended for use in children
If you take more than you should
If you have taken more Calcichew- D3 Forte than you should, talk to your doctor or pharmacist immediately.
If you forget to take Calcichew- D3 Forte Chewable Tablets
Do not take a double dose to make up for a forgotten tablet.
If you have any further questions on the use of this medicine, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
Stop taking your medicine and see a doctor immediately if you experience:
Loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting
Unusual tiredness or weakness, along with elevated levels of calcium in the blood and kidney impairment
Side effects may include:
Uncommon side effects (may affect less than 1 in 100 people):
excessive amounts of calcium in your blood (hypercalcaemia) or in your urine (hypercalcuria) may occur with large doses
Rare side effects (may affect less than 1 in 1,000 people):
heartburn (dyspepsia)
wind (flatulence)
Very rare side effects (may affect less than 1 in 10,000 people):
Milk alkali syndrome (also called Burnett’s Syndrome and usually only seen when excessive amounts of calcium have been ingested), symptoms are frequent urge to urinate, headache, loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting, unusual tiredness or weakness, along with elevated levels of calcium in the blood and kidney impairment.
Side effects with frequency not known (cannot be estimated from the available data):
Hypersensitivity reactions such as swelling of the face, tongue, lips (angioedema) or swelling of the throat (laryngeal oedema).
If you have impaired renal function, you may be at risk of increased amounts of phosphate in the blood, renal stone formation and increased amounts of calcium in the kidneys.
Reporting of side effects
If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. You can also report side effects directly via the Yellow Card Scheme at: www. yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/. By reporting side effects you can help provide more information on the safety of this medicine.
Keep out of the sight and reach of children.
Store in the original package. Keep container tightly closed to protect from moisture. Do not store above 30°C
Do not use Calcichew- D3 Forte Tablets after the expiry date which is stated on the label after EXP. The expiry date refers to the last date of that month. If the tablets have changed shape or colour do not use.
Do not throw away any medicines via wastewater or household waste. Ask your pharmacist how to throw away medicines you no longer use. These measures will help to protect the environment.
What Calcichew-D3 Forte Chewable Tablets contain
The active ingredients in each tablet are:
1250mg calcium carbonate (equivalent to 500mg calcium)
400IU colecalciferol (equivalent to 10 micrograms vitamin D3)
The other ingredients are: xylitol (E967), povidone, isomalt (E953), fatty acid mono- and di-glycerides, magnesium stearate, lemon flavour, sucralose (E955), sucrose, tocopherol, modified maize starch, medium-chain triglycerides, sodium ascorbate and anhydrous colloidal silica (see also end of Section 2 “Calcichew-D3 Forte contains isomalt and sucrose”).
What Calcichew-D3 Forte look like and contents of the pack
The tablets are round, white, uncoated, convex and lemon flavoured; they may have small specks.
The tablets are packed in white, plastic bottles of 60 and 100 tablets. Not all pack sizes may be marketed.
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This leaflet was last revised in June 2017.
Calcichew-D3 Forte are a combination of calcium and vitamin D designed to keep bones healthy. Calcium is an essential component of bones while vitamin D plays an important role in the absorption of calcium from food.
Requirements for calcium increase with age and, although many people obtain enough calcium from their diet, some people may require a supplement in order that their body has all the calcium it needs to maintain healthy bones. Vitamin D is produced largely from the action of sunlight. Certain foodstuffs do contain vitamin D in reasonable amounts but it is not always possible to obtain all the vitamin D you need from your diet. People who do not get out and about, for instance those who are housebound or people living in nursing and residential homes, may not receive all the vitamin D they need.
People with diets and lifestyles that mean they will obtain less than the recommended intake of calcium and vitamin D are at risk of weakened bones. Prolonged lack of adequate calcium and vitamin D intake can lead to the development of osteoporosis, a condition where bones become weak to a level that minimal trauma (for example, a fall) can result in a fracture, most typically at the hip, spine or wrist.
Calcichew-D3 Forte have been designed to give people whose intakes of calcium and vitamin D are low a boost to the recommended amounts.
Maintaining healthy bones and helping to avoid osteoporosis is an important issue for many people. There are many ways that people can help themselves: regular exercise, a balanced diet with an adequate intake of calcium and vitamin D and, for some people, advice on how to prevent falls which may lead to fracture.
The National Osteoporosis Society (NOS) is a national charity dedicated to improving the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. The NOS offers support to people with osteoporosis and raises awareness of the importance of healthy bones.
If you are concerned about osteoporosis, please contact the National Osteoporosis Society, Camerton, Bath BA2 0PJ. Tel: 01761 471 771, Fax: 01761 471 104 or email: [email protected].
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2018 Mazda CX-3 vs. 2018 Honda Hr-V
Subcompact crossovers exist to give drivers all the amenities of a crossover SUV in a small and agile package. These vehicles bring the safety features, cargo space and all-weather handling abilities into a vehicle that can be easily parked in the most crowded urban environments. They tend to have two personalities – being great daily drivers with tons of technology and comfort features during the week, but also weekend warriors with a penchant for the open road and a cargo bay full of gear.
Undoubtedly aware of the versatility of this class, every manufacturer has a model available. The Mazda CX-3 is recognized for its luxury-SUV styling, high-value features and more-than-adequate performance which allows confident passing and highway-speeds thrill. Being compared to the Mazda CX-3 is Honda’s HR-V, a subcompact that aims to bring the personality and features of their larger CR-V into this smaller class. Let’s see how they match up!
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146 horsepower / 146 lb-ft. torque (Sport FWD) Base model power/torque (higher is better) 141 horsepower / 127 lb-ft. torque (LX FWD)
31 MPG* Combined MPG (lower is better) 28 MPG*
Yes Standard automatic transmission No
6 speakers Speakers in base model (higher is better) 4 speakers
41.7 inches Front-row legroom (higher is better) 41.2 inches
17.4” Turning radius (lower is better) 18.7”
Yes IIHS Top Safety Pick? No
mazda CX-3 Advantages vs. Honda Hr-V
It’s not for no reason that Mazda vehicles continue to win best-in-class awards despite their relatively-limited portfolio. Vehicles like the Mazda CX-3 perfectly embody what makes Mazda cars and SUVs consistent winners – their focus on drivers.
The 2018 Mazda CX-3 delivers a refined and elegant crossover SUV to a class marked by chunky overdesign and bland, flat panels. Its sweeping contours and floating roof are compelling and evocative. Inside, the Mazda CX-3 welcomes drivers with a distinct and sophisticated interior.
While the HR-V is near the top of its class, you have to go to Honda’s luxury line, Acura, to find the handcrafted luxury present throughout the interior and exterior of the Mazda CX-3.
Performance metrics also give a win to Mazda, whose SKYACTIV®-G 2.0L 4-cylinder engine paradoxically delivers more horsepower and torque with better fuel efficiency. You’ll pass more confidently, and get up to highway speeds faster than you will with the anemic 1.8L 4-cylinder engine in the HR-V.
The standard transmission on the 2018 Mazda CX-3 is the brilliant SKYACTIV®-Drive 6-speed automatic transmission which shifts precisely and intelligent. The 2018 HR-V foregoes an automatic transmission in favor of either a 6-speed manual or noisy and imprecise 2-speed CVT. Performance in the Mazda CX-3 is aided by the standard SKYACTIV-VEHICLE DYNAMICS with G-Vectoring Control on the Mazda CX-3.
Finally, the 2018 Mazda CX-3 is a winner of the coveted Top Safety Pick designation from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). With a standard rearview camera and low-speed automatic braking, Smart City Brake Support System, the 2018 Mazda CX-3 is as safe and functional as it is stylish.
While the Honda HR-V is a good subcompact crossover, it can’t match the standard features, performance and safety of the 2018 Mazda CX-3. The thought paid by Mazda to the way drivers will be using this vehicle is evident in every square inch of the CX-3’s engineering and construction.
Contact us for more information on the 2018 Mazda CX-3 or to schedule a test drive. Medlin Mazda in Wilson has the best SUVs for sale at unbeatable prices.
EPA-estimated fuel efficiency. Actual results will vary with road conditions and driving. To be used for comparison purposes only.
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What the Jeremiah 11:11 Bible Verse in 'Us' Means
It was referenced over and over again.
By Ineye Komonibo
Photo Credit: Claudette Barius/UUniversal
If you're reading this, either a) you've watched Us and really need to understand what the heck you just saw, or 2) you haven't watched Us yet but really need to know what you're about to get into. Either way, you're most welcome. Spoilers ahead. The movie left us with a lot of questions—did the Tethered kill everyone? Did the Wilsons make it to Mexico? Adelaide...really, girl?—the answers to which we may only be able to find in the labyrinth that is Jordan Peele's mind. However, we do think we can solve one mystery: the meaning behind Jeremiah 11:11 in Us.
When Us came out this weekend, moviegoers strapped in for what may have been the wildest and strangest ride we've been on in a long, long time. In the film, a family comes faces to face with the "Tethered," their unhinged doppelgängers who have been living underground and planning a violent rebellion for years without the world above knowing about their existence.
We see allusions to Jeremiah 11:11 several times throughout the film. When young Adelaide heads to the super sketch funhouse on the Santa Cruz beach, she passes by a shaggy-haired man holding up a makeshift sign with "Jeremiah 11:11" scribbled across it. Years later, that same man is seen being taken away in an ambulance, the number "11:11" carved into his forehead. His doppelgänger is the culprit, sporting the same scars and blood dripping from his fingers. In another scene, Adelaide tries to put her son Jason to bed but is interrupted when he points out the time on the clock—11:11.
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Peele isn't one to do things just to do them (remember that iconic fruit loops scene in Get Out? The man loves a double meaning!), so we know that the verse kept showing up for a reason. A quick flip through the Bible is the first step to figuring it out:
Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.
Dark, right? The book of Jeremiah follows the life of the prophet Jeremiah, chosen by God to speak to the Israelites living in captivity in Babylon. In this verse, Jeremiah grimly tells the people that something terrible is headed their way as a result of sinning against God, and they won't be able to escape it no matter what they do.
What it means in relation to the film: Red, Adelaide's Tethered, believes herself to be chosen by God to lead the Untethering. As the leader of the rebellion (and the Tethered with the biggest chip on her shoulder), she is responsible for the indoctrination of the doppelgängers against their counterparts up above.
The Untethering, explains Red in the creepiest way possible, is the "disaster they cannot escape," the karma for the government's unnatural science experiment that resulted in the existence of the Tethered as well as for the cruel mistreatment that followed their creation. In this story, Jeremiah 11:11 is a prophesy for America. The day of reckoning has finally arrived.
Case closed. Now...can we talk about that plot twist?
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Seahawks 16, 49ers 3 — End of 3rd…
Seahawks 16, 49ers 3 — End of 3rd quarter
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PUBLISHED: November 27, 2014 at 7:56 pm | UPDATED: July 28, 2018 at 4:32 am
The Seahawks picked up where they left off at halftime, as they emerged from the locker room and cashed in a field goal at the end of their first possession in the third quarter.That placed the 49ers in a 16-0 hole and on the verge of being blown out in front of their home fans and a national TV audience.Again, the 49ers had to feel fortunate about getting off the field having allowed only a field goal. Marshawn Lynch rambled 33 yards to the 49ers 9-yard line and then a few plays later the Seahawks scored an apparent touchdown.However, the Seahawks got flagged for offensive pass interference, which pushed back the Seahawks far enough to where they weren’t able to get out of the hole.The 49ers offense finally showed some like on their one drive of the quarter.A throw back across the grain from Colin Kaepernick to Anquan Boldin to the 49ers to the Seahawks 21-yard line.The Seahawks prevented the 49ers from getting much closer, though Kaepernick missed a wide open Carlos Hyde on a play on which Kaepernick threw to a covered receiver in the end zone.Phil Dawson converted the field-goal attempt after Kaepernick got sacked on third down to cut the lead to 16-3. It’s not much, but at least the 49ers now know that they need to find a way to score two touchdowns in the final quarter.That’s if their defense shuts down the Seahawks the rest of the way. Already the Seahawks are on the move. They face a second-and-6 from their 40-yard line as the fourth quarter begins.
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Recourse of Tenure and Sanitation: Tudor Moroto Paradise Informal Settlement
By Shadrack Mbaka, MuST
Security of land tenure continues to be one of the most contentious issues in the coastal areas of Mombasa, Kwale and Kilifi Counties, over time this has sparked heated debates between slum dwellers with the national government on one side and squatters on the other. Informal settlements are often put up on public (government owned) or private (individual or company owned) lands. In both cases, urban or peri-urban informal settlements are viewed as “illegal urban dwellers,” such descriptive adjectives of the urban poor has triggered urban social and infrastructural exclusions, where then local authorities (now County governments) considered informal settlements to be illegitimate beneficiaries of basic services, adequate housing, clean and appropriate water or sanitation and other human rights.
A huge number of similarities can be drawn between settlements situated on government land and those on private land based on the urban planning principles the category of land. Where an informal settlement is established can present complexities to the living situation of the urban poor.
Tudor Moroto Paradise informal settlement, in Mombasa County is one such settlement; grappling with people issues of tenure and infrastructure. The settlement is located along the shore lines of the Indian Ocean on the main island of Mombasa. Moroto paradise settlement began in 1985 with a handful population, with most of the inhabitants working in nearby industries and beach resorts, a decade later the settlement had expanded downhill to boarder the sea, currently the settlement is approximated to have a population of 12,000 people.
Tudor Moroto Paradise Informal Settlement
Moroto Paradise settlement is classified into three clusters; Tudor Moroto, Simitini and Bandarini. Since the year 2002, residents have continued to face eviction threats from the County government of Mombasa and “self imposed land owners”. The county government of Mombasa in sections of the media has been quoted to have warned residents of the informal settlement at Tudor Creek that they are living in an unsafe area. The County Lands executive Francis Thoya intimated that more than 10,000 people have encroached on the creek along the ocean, famously known as Tudor Moroto, and are living in danger.
Moroto, boarders the sea line
The county government argues that the residents risk being swept away in case of a Tsunami or movement of the tectonic plates, which Mombasa Island seats on. Tectonic plates are pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere consisting of oceanic crust and continental crust.
However, Mzee Shaban one of the founding members of the settlement, argues “Moroto used to be a forest that boarders the sea and with the upbeat of the rural-urban migration necessitated by the search for employment in the coastal town of Mombasa and more so between 1991-2012 the settlement had established, some of the residents have lived in the settlement for the last 30 years and it’s only fair for the government to regularize the land which would lead to an upgrading agenda. We are not violating any environmental laws, what we need is an engagement with government on an alternative”.
Badilisha Maisha savings scheme ( altering our lives), a savings group affiliated to Muungano wa Wanavijiji (Federation of Slum dwellers, Kenya) is currently mobilizing communities in Moroto paradise to address issues of secure tenure, water and sanitation, housing and improved livelihoods. Rashid Mutua, Muungano national leader expressed, “The issues raised by the members of the federation in Moroto paradise are real and require urgent attention of all stakeholders, but for this to happen the federation intends to support the community amalgamate its own settlement data to take forward the negotiation bit”.
Members of the Badilisha Maisha savings group, in one of their bi weekly meetings.
The resilience of the Moroto Community is un rivaled, the community through its own initiative through the Badilisha Maisha savings scheme, as a way of bringing and mobilizing residents together, the group has set its own pace by putting up a social hall/resource centre, that offers the community a comfort of meeting space, the resource centre also intends to serve as a nursery learning centre for kids in the neighborhood to begin nurturing their future.
The only existing sanitation facility in the settlement
These are some of the extreme conditions that Moroto residents are grappling with, especially expressed through the community’s struggles with sanitation. As demonstrated by Mwero Mkala, a resident of Moroto Paradise and a member of the local savings scheme, men, women and children of Moroto depend on one semi-permanent sanitation facility and risk their safety and general health each time they use the toilets in their community. Despite this problem, there is the need to improve the situation in Moroto, communities hesitate to permanently upgrade and build upon the land in fear of being evicted by landowners. This lack of secure tenure allows the situation in Moroto to continue to deteriorate, leaving the residents to endure living conditions that violate their human rights.
The complexity of land ownership and security plays a significant role in slum development and possibilities for upgrading. Through data collection process (enumerations and mapping/profiling), the federation begins unpacking potential solutions and opportunities available to the residents of Moroto, aiding the community as they continue advocating for their land and service rights.
Rashid Mutua, takes a group photo with residents of Moroto, outside their Resource centre
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Remembering Great Apes
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BY KATIE - MYGREENPOD, 15 Oct '18
World-class wildlife photographers unite to present Remembering Great Apes
In celebration of the release of Remembering Great Apes, a stunning book full of powerful images of apes taken by over 70 of the world’s top wildlife photographers – the book’s collaborators are hosting two events in London to help raise vital funds for international wildlife charity Born Free.
From Monday 15 to Saturday 27 October, a free exhibition will take place at La Galleria, Pall Mall. Running from 10.00 to 17.00 each day, the exhibition is an unmissable opportunity for the public to view the exquisite imagery of gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos – from photographers such as Art Wolfe, Brent Stirton, Frans Lanting and Jonathan & Angela Scott – and purchase limited edition prints and copies of the book.
Talk and auction
The main fundraising event will then take place on Thursday 18 October, when the Royal Geographic Society will play host to an incredible conservation talk and auction hosted by Born Free’s consultant, Ian Redmond OBE (tickets from £25).
Sponsored by PhotoGuard, the specialist insurer for amateur and professional photographers, many of the photographers whose work features in Remembering Great Apes will be at the event to sign copies.
The compère for the evening will be Remembering Wildlife founder and photographer Margot Raggett, with guest speakers Ofir Drori, who is founder of wildlife crime investigation unit EAGLE, the wildlife photojournalist Tim Laman, and primatologist Dr Cheryl Knott.
The event will then culminate in an auction of some of the images from the book, as well as a few other unique items, including an original orangutan watercolour by wildlife artist Karen Laurence-Rowe.
£320k for conservation
To date, following the success of Remembering Elephants in 2016 and Remembering Rhinos in 2017, the beautiful photographic books have raised an astonishing £320,000 for Born Free’s vital conservation work.
All profits from the sale of Remembering Great Apes will go towards the charity’s great ape conservation in Africa and Asia.
The Remembering Wildlife series has gained widespread support from a host of celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi, Pierce Brosnan, Kristin Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joanna Lumley, Amanda Holden, Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, and Katherine Jenkins, who all posed with their copy of the book as part of a social media campaign on World Gorilla Day on 24 September 2018.
Click here to find out more about the Remembering Great Apes exhibition.
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Home / FESTIVE PERIOD / Christmas : As Food Stuff Price increases in Osun , Nigerians Are complaining
Christmas : As Food Stuff Price increases in Osun , Nigerians Are complaining
A recent market survey has revealed an increase in the prices of foodstuffs in Osun state as Nigerians groan.
The prices of foodstuff items in the markets have increased ahead of the Christmas and New Year celebrations, according to a market survey carried out by the News Agency of Nigeria in Osogbo on Thursday. Traders interviewed during the survey, however, expressed diverse views on possible reasons for the price increase. Mrs Adejoke Okunowo, a maize distributor at the popular Alekuwodo market, lamented the high cost of transportation for bringing the produce from the northern parts of the country to Osogbo. She said,
“The festive season has affected the cost of maize, hence many consumers are now complaining bitterly during transactions.“If the cost of fuel can be reduced, there will not be any reason for the high cost of transportation and this would affect the cost of the maize generally, as it would be a source of relief to the consumers,’’ she said. Mr Jacob Olabode, a Rice distributor in Aiyebaju market, also lamented about the sudden increase in the price of rice which many average family members now find discomforting. According to Olabode, one module of rice which sold for N500 last month now costs N700 each. “The price of a bag of rice, which was formerly N15, 000 is presently N19, 000 and it may even go up again before Dec. 25.“This has affected my business negatively and I cannot wait for the festive period to be over, so that prices will normalise again,’’ he said. Mrs Aina Adebare, a consumer, complained of the high cost of perishable items in the market, such as: pepper, onions, vegetables and fruits, particularly during festive periods. She, however, urged government at all levels to always give their employees appropriate incentives and bonuses during such periods, to help them to cushion the expected increase in foodstuff prices. -NAN
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Mud and mushrooms at Longshaw
Enjoy this walk, but please take photos instead of picking or damaging the fungi. Experts use a small mirror to photograph the underside of fungi at the same time as the top. We look after Longshaw for all of its wildlife and we want to make sure the fungi spore year after year, and to give as many people as possible the chance to be able to see these weird and wonderful forms.
Longshaw Estate
Difficulty Moderate
Time 1 hour - 2 hours
Distance 1.5 miles (2.4 km)
Map Explorer OL24
Dogs allowed Dog friendly
Longshaw, Burbage and the Eastern Moors Derbyshire
The poisonous Fly Agaric toadstool National Trust Images / John Millar
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Longshaw Visitor Centre
Looking out over the moorland, follow the path right and right again, towards the car park and head up the drive past the den building area. The area of woodland above the dens contains lots of woodland fungi - have a look around and see if you can spot any candle snuff fungus on the ends of logs.
Candlesnuff fungus
The fruiting bodies of candlesnuff fungus have black branches with white tips, and often grow in clusters on decaying hardwood.
Steve Clements
Walk up through the woods taking the first, steep left-hand uphill turn, up past the ice house, to investigate the log-piles and their many fungi. Can you identify any sulphur-tufts or glistening inkcaps?
Glistening inkcaps
The caps have grooves that nearly reach the center. When young, the entire cap surface is coated with a fine layer of reflective cells that make them glisten. They typically grow in dense clusters on rotting wood.
Deeper into the woods, look out for the beautiful amethyst deceiver, often found at the base of tree trunks in this area. Please be careful not to trample the fungi so that they get chance to spore. These purple mushrooms have a cap of 1 - 6cm diameter and are often found near beech trees in woodland areas.
Amethyst Deceiver
The magnificent forms and often vibrant colours of mushrooms and toadstools, brackets and blobs gives them a majestic realm of their own. Neither plant nor animal, they provide inspiration to nature lovers. As more people discover Longshaw's fungi, conserving them becomes more of a challenge.
Dead wood is a fantastic host for many fungi, so keep an eye out for fallen logs as you come through the woods and then out of the gate onto the grassland. Now turn right and keep your eyes peeled for fungal forms as you follow the path along the top of the woods.
Birch Polypore
Birch polypore are common at Longshaw. They can cause the death of birch trees and you'll often see a standing stump with a bracket fungus clearly visible. So in some cases it's the fungus that creates the dead wood as well as the other way round.
This section can be pretty boggy after rainfall. Once you reach the end of the dry stone wall where there's a gate, and just below a small quarry, the route heads right across the grassland down hill. You might want to explore the little quarry for fungi first?
Why Longshaw?
Our rangers leave wood to rot so that fungi and insects can thrive, and our meadows have been managed for centuries in a way that is great for a large range of fungi including some rare waxcaps.
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As you head down the meadow, look out for colourful jewels in the grassland, and feel free to gently touch them to see why they are called waxcaps.
Scarlet Waxcaps
These beautiful forms won't grow in grassland treated by chemicals so they are a good indication of chemical free grounds.
Choose your terrain! The trail heads straight across the grassland but there is a haha to clamber up ahead, so if you'd prefer an easier route turn right along the path and then left after the next gate and alongside the ditch until you rejoin the route. Look out for club fungi and more waxcaps in this grassy area - they are often spotted here.
Yellow Stagshorn Fungus
Yellow stagshorn is a kind of jelly fungus. They can dry out, and come back to life when it rains again.
As you rejoin the main path heading towards the pond, these woodland edges, and those of the wider Longshaw area are ideal habitats for the fairytale Fly Agaric toadstools. Be warned - these are poisonous toadstools.
Fairytale Fly Agaric
The white spots often seen on the Fly Agaric cap are formed as a skin-like layer before the cap opens up to break up to create the spots.
After passing through the dense rhododenrdon woods, and just out of the second gate by the pond, look up to the right! There is a scots pine tree here which for that last couple of hears has hosted a rare sight of a Cauliflower Fungus. Usually spotted near the base of trees, so more easily damaged by animals.
Cauliflower Fungus
It's easy to see where the name derived from, like many other fungal forms. From Dead Man's Fingers to Giant Puffball, the common names are often very memorable.
Head across the parkland to the left of the pond, past the Boggart Bank sign and the log stack, and look out for blushers and other toadstools beneath the trees. Continue heading west past the big bowing oak trees until you reach the wide, grassy path, and turn a sharp right onto this path.
Blushers are large mushrooms, mottling on top, grow in small groups in woodlands (especially near oaks) and fruit from late summer to autumn. The underside of this one has been photographed using a mirror, so the blushing beauty has not been disturbed.
The woods around here are great to explore - look on fallen logs and tree trunks for Chicken of the Woods and other bracket fungi. After the "Boggart Hole", a quarry claimed as a playground by Longshaw's mischievous creatures, head through the gate into the woods and look out for fungi amongst the ground flora.
Chicken of the Woods
Growing in tiered clusters, and bright orange when young, these fungi thrive in broadleaved woodland areas, especially on oak and yew. There are many in the various plantation woods at Longshaw, so if you don't spot this on your walk route then try looking a little further afield.
As you come out of the woods and meet the main path turn right, back up towards the pond and Longshaw Visitor Centre. If you feel like extending your walk, Padley Gorge is nearby and is stunning in the autumn time, with fallen beach and oak leaves amidst the mossy green rocks and tree trunks. To find Padley Gorge, turn left and then cross the main road, and the bridge over the brook and downhill, following the tumbling gorge.
White saddle fungus
White Saddle fungus is very weird-looking – it’s one of the strangest-looking fungi in Longshaw. This one was found in the kitchen garden. It’s quite harmless. We also find Black Saddles at Longshaw.
With the haha on your right hand side, you'll notice some huge, peeling tree trunks. We often leave stable tree trunks standing tall as they provide excellent habitats for invertebrates and fungi, as well as some birds. Take a nosy into this strip of woods and you'll also see the view across Longshaw's meadow.
Longshaw Meadow
While there is lots of open grassland to explore, the meadow in front of the lodge is not open access land, and is looked after especially for its wealth of fungi. Unusual waxcaps such as the Pink Ballerina emerge here, but footfall is kept to a minimum as these fungi like undisturbed ground.
Discover more at Longshaw, Burbage and the Eastern Moors
The route is rough and muddy in places and not suitable for pushchairs. Several gates and some steep short sections. Please keep dogs on leads to prevent disturbance to farm animals and wildlife. Wellies or walking boots advised.
Email: peakdistrict@nationaltrust.org.uk
Website: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/longshaw-and-eastern-moors
Grindleford station 1 mile (1.6km), Hathersage 2 miles (3.2km), Sheffield 7 miles (11.2km)
7.5 miles (12.1km) from Sheffield, next to A6187 Sheffield-Hathersage road
Many rights of way link the villages of Grindleford 2 miles (3.2km) and Hathersage 3 miles (4.8km) to the estate
TM Travel 214 Sheffield to Matlock and 65 Sheffield to Buxton. As well as 272 Sheffield-Castleton, alight Fox House Inn, 2 mins from the estate
Access via the main A1687 and network of local bridleways. Pennine Cycleway National Route 68
The Longshaw Visitor Centre has a tea-room and shop
The public toilets are open 24 hours a day
Hairy wood ants at Longshaw
Spot ants mounds, track them as they cross paths and climb up scots pine trees, where they find the aphids that provide their food source.
Getting to Longshaw by bike - Sustrans cycle map(opens in a new window)
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Home Economy Morocco Seeks to Produce 1 Million Vehicles a Year by 2025
Morocco Seeks to Produce 1 Million Vehicles a Year by 2025
Rabat- Moulay Hafid Elalamy, Minister of Industry, Trade, Investment, and Digital Economy, seems to be optimistic about Morocco’s automotive industry.
Sana Elouazi
Inaugurating the 2018 edition of the Automotive Subcontracting Fair, which took place from April 25-27 in Tangier, the minister set himself the challenge of reaching 1 million vehicles produced each year in Morocco by 2025.
“We are going to exceed MAD 100 billion of export sales which is expected by 2020, but I will take a new bet and raise the bar to MAD 200 billion export with a production capacity of one million vehicles by 2025,” the minister said.
Commenting on the performance and achievements of the sector, Elalamy said that Morocco aspires to make the automotive sector a real vector of development, stating that the automotive industry is the leading export sector with nearly MAD 70 billion of turnover registered in 2017, compared to MAD 40 billion in 2014, marking 44.5 percent of industrial exports.
The minister added that the number of jobs created by the sector between 2014 and 2017 stood at 83,845 new positions, thus contributing to the creation of 29 percent of industrial jobs.
The automobile industry is considered one of the most promising and dynamic sectors in Morocco, greatly increasing Moroccan exports through the help of its human, material, and technical assets and potentials.
Moreover, Morocco has become a favorite investment destination for many of the world’s leading car manufacturers, including the leading French manufacturer Renault, which opened a plant in Tangier in 2012.
In 2015, France’s PSA Peugeot Citroen announced that it will open a manufacturing plant in the city of Kenitra. The direct result of this new plant will be the creation of 4,500 direct jobs and 20,000 indirect jobs by the time the factory becomes operational in 2019.
According to the minister, these investments boost Moroccan exports, contributing to a reduction in Morocco’s trade imbalance.
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Knight throws his way to win in NE Grand Prix meet at Jarrow
Morpeth Harriers' throws specialist Andrew Knight was in form again at the NE Grand Prix meeting at Jarrow.
Knight, who is currently No 2 in the UK rankings for the U17 Men’s 5k Shot Putt, used the heavier 6k shot to produce a best effort of 14.89m, a performance that also sees him ranked as high as seventh in the Under 20 age group, and he is also now leading the regional rankings by 43cm.
Knight was one of 19 athletes in action from his club.
Rounding off the club’s field successes on the night was Ruaridh Lang, who won the U20 men’s discus with 39.96m.
On to the main track event of the night, where 11 athletes lined up in the A race of the Graded 800m, all competing for the Jimmy Hedley Cup, presented in honour of the legendary Jarrow and Hebburn coach, who was the mentor of BBC Commentator, and former World mile record holder Steve Cram in his heyday.
Only a mere 2.50 seconds covered the first seven finishers, where Morpeth’s Kieran Hedley and Alistair Douglass finished in fifth and sixth places, posting times of 1m56.07s and 1m56.33s respectively.
Four athletes from Morpeth lined up in the slightly slower B race. Dean Lonsdale finished fifth in 2m02.36s, and Taylor Glover finished ninth in 2m02.82s. Thomas Innes was 11th and Rowan Bennett 12th.
Morpeth’s Lily Heaton continued her excellent summer form, when finishing third in the 800m D race, posting a new personal best of 2m23.07s.
Another superb Morpeth performer on the night was U20 man Matthew Waterfield, who triumphed in the Graded 100m, an event he was running for the first ever occasion, posting a winning time of 11.58s.
Max Marr finished second in the U15 boys 100m, in 12.56s.
Another personal best performer was Charlie Lane. The U15 finished third in the boys 300m, posting a time of 41.25s.
Six athletes from the club competed in the U13 and U15 age group 1500m events.
In the U15 girls, Rhiannon Hedley posted a time of 5m18.59s, as she finished tenth in her age group.
The U13 boys event saw Bertie Marr finish third in 5m02.82s, an event in which he was running for the very first occasion. Just behind him in fourth place was club colleague Ryan Davies, who posted a new personal best of 5m06.36s.
Another Morpeth 1500m personal best, came from U15 boy Ben Waterfield, who finished fifth in 4m32.98s.
Two other Morpeth Harriers in the event were the two Dylan’s, Gooding and Davies, who finished ninth and tenth in respective times of 4m46.32s, and 4m50.02s.
* Morpeth Harrier Laura Weightman unfortunately finished in a disappointing 12th on her first competitive outing since the Commonwealth Games, at the IAAF Diamond League meeting, held in Eugene, USA on Saturday.
In a fiercely competitive Women’s 1500m, plus an abundance of intense heat, Weightman struggled to get on terms with the leading protagonists, as she posted a time of 4m07.48s, which was certainly some distance adrift from her lifetime best.
* Morpeth Harrier George Lowry won last Friday’s Temple Park 5k Road Race, held at the South Shields Leisure Complex.
He posted a seasons best of 15m14s, winning by a comfortable margin of 71 seconds from Ian Ritchie of Sunderland Police, with Sunderland’s Ian Dixon a further nine seconds adrift in third place.
Another Morpeth Harrier competing in the event was U 17 athlete Daniel Melling, who posted a time of 16m47s, when finishing fifth.
* Morpeth Harriers had three first placers in respective 5k Park Run’s held on Saturday.
Visiting friends in the South, Ian Harding was first across the finish line in Bournemouth, posting a time of 16m10s.
Whilst this was happening, Harding’s Whitley Bay fastest time was being broken by Victoria Park and Tower Hamlet’s Paul Martelletti, who had come the opposite way, also visiting friends.
Martelletti, posted a new course record of 15m21s, finishing ahead of second placed Morpeth Harrier Taylor Glover, who clocked 17m06s.
At Windy Nook, Morpeth’s Mark Snowball marked his day well, by coming home first in a new course best of 18m25s.
Tom Balsdon of Morpeth Harriers was first across the finish line at Newbiggin by the Sea, posting a time of 17m52s.
Meanwhile, a little further up the Northumberland coastline at Druridge Bay, Morpeth Harrier brothers Dylan and Ryan Davies finished third and ninth, with respective personal bests of 18m01s, and 19m44s.
Further inland at Wallsend Rising Sun, Morpeth’s Chris Smith finished second in 17m38s.
* Wednesday was certainly a good night on the roads for Morpeth Harriers, with Ian Hudspith taking the winners title at the annual Clive Cookson 10k Road Race at Monkseaton, and Mark Snowball taking the winners title at the annual George Ogle Memorial Multi Terrain event in the Derwent Valley near Swalwell.
Hudspith crossed the finish line at Monkseaton High School, posting a finishing time of 31m29s. Tyne Bridge’s James Dunce finished seven seconds down on the former International, with another Tyne Bridge Harrier Tom Charlton finishing third in 31m43s.
Posting a time of 32m29s, Morpeth’s Ian Harding finished in fourth place, Morpeth taking second team place behind Tyne Bridge.
Morpeth Harriers had 39 points, courtesy of further supporting runs from Lee Bennett (14th) 34m57s, and Matthew Boyle (20th) 35m50s.
Snowball posted a time of 32m40s, beating Blackhill Bounder Dave Best to the finish line by 16 seconds, with Durham City Harrier Matt Walker finishing third.
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Home / News / Five Special-Edition Dodge Vipers Celebrate End of Production
Five Special-Edition Dodge Vipers Celebrate End of Production
Special editions also created to honor 25th anniversary
Dodge Viper Coupe News
by Words: Conner Golden June 21, 2016
We knew about the Dodge Viper's demise late last year, but with the reveal of five special-edition heritage Vipers, fangs and all, it's starting to sink in. It's clear that Dodge will miss the mad, mad V-10 coupe as much as we will, and to celebrate both the 25-year anniversary and the final year of production for Detroit's supercar, five special-edition Vipers will be available for the 2017 model year.
Leaving with a bang, not a whimper, four of the five heritage models are based on the mighty Viper ACR. Each car wears a color and livery scheme that hearkens back to a significant Viper variant from the past 25 years of production. Each is limited to a small batch of units, and comes with all the requisite badging, placards, and documentation.
First up, in celebration of the stonking 1:28.65 lap at Laguna Seca set by Motor Trend's very own Randy Pobst, the Viper 1:28 Edition ACR comes clothed in signature black with large red stripes running down the center of the car and the massive rear wing. Like the car that set the record, the 1:28 comes equipped to the gills with go-fast bits, including the Extreme Aero Package and the wildly powerful carbon ceramic brakes. Like the rest of the special editions, the 1:28 features special "1:28" badging on the inside door trim, gauge cluster, and a customized car cover. 28 Viper 1:28 Edition ACRs will escape the factory.
If a GTS-R heritage edition didn't make the cut, Viper fans the world over would riot in the streets. Easily one of the most recognizable and popular schemes ever to grace the Viper, the GTS-R Commemorative Edition ACR arrives draped in the requisite blue-on-white paint package. Each GTS-R is equipped with the Extreme Aero pack, carbon ceramic brakes, exterior carbon fiber package, USA flag decals on the B-pillars, custom car cover, and a special red interior. Just like the 1998 Viper GTS-R GTS Championship Edition, just 100 of the 2017 Commemorative edition will arrive on dealer floors.
As before, the Viper VooDoo II Edition ACR wears the Extreme Aero pack, carbon ceramic brakes, and edition-specific badges and colors. In this case, special black and graphite paintwork is poured onto a 2017 ACR. Only 31 units of the VooDoo Edition ACR are available, just like the production run of the 2010 car.
Moving away from the ACR for a brief moment, the Viper Snakeskin Edition GTC features a special Snakeskin Green hue, along with a uniquely patterned body stripe. The Snakeskin is equipped with the Advanced Aerodynamics Package, a black Viper GT-spec interior, special badging, the customer's name above the driver's side door, and a custom car cover. 25 Snakeskin Editions will be made.
Finally, as a sort of "thank you" to the two highest-volume Viper dealers in the U.S., the Dodge Dealer Edition ACR sports both a red and a blue stripe running down each top side of the car. Like the other three special ACRs, the Dodge Dealer Edition carries the Extreme Aero kit, carbon ceramic brakes, and like the Snakeskin Edition, the driver's name above the driver's side door.
For 2017, the "1 of 1" Viper program carries over as well, with a claimed 50 million ways to configure your dream car in a multitude of colors, stripes, interior options, and aero bits.
Take a look at the last special edition Vipers for 2017 and the cars they are based on in the photo gallery below, before the factory goes dark next year.
Source: FCA
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Stepping off the Treadmill: Alternatives to Gear
Category Archives: End Game
Honesty time: I have had enough of gear. The concept of continually acquiring new and better equipment lies at the heart of virtually all MMORPGs, but I’m just sick of it. It’s an easy way for developers to provide a carrot for players to chase, but I don’t think it’s healthy for the genre in the long run, and I for one am simply bored with the whole concept.
Gear as a vertical progression system works well in single-player games because eventually you’ll have the best gear and be done with it. In an MMO, that can never happen. Regular gear resets are a necessity, so gearing becomes a treadmill where you never really get anywhere. Today’s best in slot will be tomorrow’s vendor trash.
It’s also a terribly binary form of progression. Either the item you want drops, or it doesn’t, and your time feels wasted. This can be mitigated with currency systems, where if gear doesn’t drop a currency that can eventually be spent on gear does, but even that only lessens the problem, rather than solving it entirely.
And of course it creates terrible inequality between players. There is inevitably a large power gap between those with the best gear and those without, fostering elitism and excluding many people from content.
It doesn’t have to be this way. There are other alternative progressions systems out there, and while none are perfect, many can avoid the pitfalls of the gear treadmill.
Continued Leveling
In most MMOs, leveling is little more than a time-gate. It’s something you work through before getting to the “real” game, which is usually where the gear treadmill kicks in.
But it doesn’t necessarily need to be that way. Leveling is something that can continue indefinitely, providing players constant, incremental power increases. You can see examples of this in Diablo III’s paragon levels and Elder Scrolls Online’s champion points.
There are some disadvantages to such a scheme. In the long run the constant small stat boosts can add up and begin to create balance issues or other strange behaviors, and as with gear, you risk creating a large divide between the haves and the have-nots, though that can be mitigated with catch-up mechanics.
Endless leveling does have some major positives, though. Because pretty much anything can give XP, leveling is a progression system that offers incredible freedom to the player. Any playstyle can be therefore be meaningfully rewarded. Add global level-scaling as seen in Guild Wars 2 or ESO, and your options become almost limitless.
You can also say goodbye to play sessions where nothing is accomplished because what you wanted didn’t drop. You’re always going to be earning at least some XP. And while it’s still vertical progression, it’s not a treadmill, because the levels you’ve already earned are never made irrelevant. You’re always moving forward.
Non-combat Skills
Not all progression needs to be about helping you kill stuff faster. Progression can instead take the form of various non-combat abilities and buffs. Perhaps players can gain new movement skills, or learn new languages to access quests from isolated NPC races, or gain more incremental buffs to things like movement speed or gold find.
The masteries introduced in Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns expansion are one example of this, and some of ESO’s champion points and Diablo’s paragon levels also offer non-combat improvements.
Horizontal progression such as this is good because it side-steps nearly all of the problems with gear. The gap between veteran and newcomer is largely irrelevant, since both groups maintain roughly the same power level where it most counts. There is no treadmill, as the bonuses you’ve earned are always relevant. Like endless leveling, it’s also a good opportunity to reward all playstyles and make every session rewarding.
The downsides are that non-combat bonuses don’t always have the same “sex appeal” as doing more damage or having more health, and it can be difficult to design non-combat boosts that are useful enough to be appealing but optional enough to not break the game.
Non-combat progression likely works best as a supplement to other systems rather than the core progression model of a game. It can be something to help you achieve your other goals, since not everyone will find it a worthy goal unto itself.
Progression doesn’t even necessarily need to be about gameplay. It can also just be about bringing the flair. There are already plenty of people throughout the MMO community who will pursue gear purely for its looks, rather than its stats. Some wily developer could capitalize on this and put cosmetic progression front and center.
In theory, cosmetic progression was supposed to a key part of Guild Wars 2’s design, though it never seemed to quite work out that way. I don’t think it had enough different looks to choose from, at least at launch, and limiting the transmutation charges needed to a change an item’s appearance was a mistake. If you want to make appearance items a core progression system, it needs to be easy to create, save, and swap outfits at will. Otherwise you encourage people to find one look they like and stick with it forever after.
Star Wars: The Old Republic has a very good outfit system that allows you to save multiple looks and swap between them whenever, wherever. It’s certainly encouraged me to horde a massive amount of cosmetic gear. Also, while it’s not an MMO, Overwatch seems to be doing quite well with a purely cosmetic progression model, so I definitely think it can work.
I think the trick to a really strong cosmetic progression system is to have a wealth of options. Not just the usual gear slots we’re used to, but also visible jewelry, dyes and accessories to modify your clothes, and perhaps unlockable hairstyles or idle animations.
Make it so no two characters ever look alike, so each avatar is a visual record of that player’s accomplishments. Then move it beyond avatars to also include non-combat pets and mount skins. Even spells and abilities could potentially be reskinned, with more unusual effects reserved for the greatest in-game accomplishments.
With some creativity, the potential for cosmetic progression is almost limitless. The only real downside is that, like gear with stats, cosmetics don’t lend themselves to incremental progress very well. You either get the item you want, or you don’t.
Earning Abilities
Another option for horizontal progression is to continually earn new abilities. These abilities are not necessarily more powerful than what you already have, but simply add new options. This is a more niche option, but for me personally, it’s the most appealing form of progression.
The main example of this I can think of was the late, lamented ability wheel of The Secret World, wherein players constantly earned ability points that could then be spent unlocking hundreds of active and passive abilities. Only a few of these abilities could be equipped at a time, making for careful strategic decision-making and allowing for true horizontal progression. Leveling up different jobs on the same character in Final Fantasy XIV could also be considered a version of this progression model, though a very watered down one.
There are a lot of obvious advantages to this. It greatly narrows the gap between the haves and the have-nots because veteran players simply have more options rather than being directly more powerful.
It also eliminates the treadmill issue. Your old abilities are never invalidated. They will always have uses, even if they’re niche.
The downsides are the potential balance issues caused by endlessly adding new abilities and the design challenge in keeping the new abilities meaningful and interesting, but I don’t think those are necessarily unsolvable. TSW may have had cookie cutter builds for certain situations, but there were no builds that dominated every aspect of the game, and almost every ability was useful in at least one or two circumstances.
These new abilities could be earned through traditional XP farming as in TSW and FFXIV, but developers could also get more creative. There could be lengthy quest chains where one learns new abilities from a master, or defeating a powerful boss could grant the player permanent use of one of the boss’s powers.
Ultimately, no one single alternative to gear will work for everyone. It would be best to combine a few to achieve a broad appeal and add depth to the experience.
But really, that’s to be expected. Even games that do rely on gear for vertical progression often include at least some elements of other systems.
What is clear is that the gear treadmill is not the be all and end all of MMORPG progression. Developers like it because it’s easy to design, and players like it because we’ve been conditioned to, but the genre can and should do better. There are alternatives out there. All we need is a developer with the courage to try.
This entry was posted in End Game, General MMOs, MMO Game Design, MMO Opinions and tagged Diablo III, Elder Scrolls Online, Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars 2, Overwatch, Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Secret World on August 24, 2017 by Tyler Bro.
BlizzCon’s WoW Announcements Are Very Encouraging
Back in September, I discussed how I was worried about WoW’s future direction, despite a relatively strong start to the Legion expansion. Now BlizzCon has given us a glimpse of what the future holds for WoW — at least over the next several months — and while my worries haven’t been entirely dispelled, the road ahead is looking quite promising.
BlizzCon offered all sorts of juicy details on Legion’s next major content patch, 7.2, but in addition to the wealth of new content you’d expect from a large WoW patch, there are a few particular changes and additions that stand out as indicative of a change for direction for the better.
Dungeons for all:
One of my biggest complaints about Legion to date is how it’s handled five-man content. Blizzard sold this as an expansion that would finally give dungeons their due after being neglected for years, that they would be a viable alternative to raiding.
Instead, what we’ve gotten is a situation where dungeons are pretty much turning into raids, only with fewer people. Two of the dungeons released at launch, the Arcway and Court of Stars, were limited to mythic difficulty and locked out of the dungeon finder.
Matters escalated with the announcement of the new five-man version of Burning Crusade’s Karazhan, a massive nine-boss mythic-only dungeon. In Karazhan the apparent effort to make dungeons exactly like raids reached its peak. Long, difficult, inaccessible, and time-consuming, Karazhan was intended to be progressed through over many days, and it was essentially out of reach for the sort of casual players who tend to be dungeon fans.
In patch 7.2, however, all this will change. Karazhan will no longer be mythic only, but gain a heroic mode that can be queued for via the dungeon finder. To make it more manageable for those with limited schedules, the dungeon’s heroic version will be divided into two wings that players can tackle separately.
Karazhan isn’t the only dungeon getting love, either. Both Arcway and Court of Stars will become join the dungeon finder, allowing players to queue for groups normally rather than relying on pre-established groups or endure the often toxic environment of player-made PUGs. While I haven’t heard it said in so many words, I assume this means Arcway and Court of Stars will gain heroic modes, while the mythic versions remain non-queue content.
I haven’t heard any news about the attunement quests for Karazhan and the others, but I would assume they’ll no longer be a requirement come 7.2, at least for the heroic modes. It wouldn’t make any sense to make these things so much more accessible in every other way but maintain one major barrier to entry.
There’s also a new dungeon coming in 7.2, the Cathedral of Eternal Night within the Tomb of Sargeras, and it’s stated to be launching with normal, heroic, and mythic difficulties, making it a good choice for players of all stripes.
This is a huge course correction for Blizzard’s dungeon design in Legion, and it’s very encouraging to see. I had despaired of Blizzard’s ability to learn from their mistakes, but here they clearly have, and quickly, too. Of course, 7.2 likely won’t launch for several months yet, but by Blizzard’s glacial standards, this is a remarkably fast change.
Taking flight:
The issue of player flight has been a storm cloud hanging over World of Warcraft since Warlords of Draenor. This endless source of drama has not been entirely resolved by the announcements for 7.2 , but at least progress is being made.
Flight has been confirmed to return in 7.2 for those who have completed both the currently available Broken Isles Pathfinder achievement, and its second half, which will arrive with 7.2.
We don’t know exactly what the second Pathfinder achievement will entail, but it will focus on 7.2’s new outdoor content. I’m expecting it to center on a great deal of rep grinding for the patch’s new faction, Legionfall. Having been pretty burnt out by the Suramar grind, I’m not really looking forward to that.
But at least we now have a clear picture of when we’re getting flying back. They’re not going to just string us along endlessly with vague non-answers as they did back in Warlords of Draenor.
It’s also heartening to know they won’t be waiting until the end of the expansion to give us the use of our flying mounts back — 7.2 has already been confirmed not to be the final major patch.
I still think restricting flight in the first place is a spectacularly wrong-headed move, and I still resent the grind needed to unlock it, but all things considered, things could have been much worse. Blizzard has at least learned there are limits to how far they can stretch our patience.
Solo love:
It’s a small thing, but one other thing I found heartening in the announcements was the news that the new artifact appearances in 7.2 will come not from the group content or even from the new reputation grind, but from challenging solo scenarios tailored to your specialization.
I feel strongly that rewards should be based more on skill than on grinding, so having a prestige reward that is purely skill-based is good news, but what’s even more encouraging is that some love is being shown for solo players.
Soloists have generally not gotten a lot of attention from Blizzard, and even when they do, it’s usually in the form of mindless grinding with poor rewards. That they’re getting something challenging with meaningful rewards is a welcome change of pace.
This further strengthens the impression that the developers are trying to offer something for all playstyles in 7.2, something they’ve traditionally done a very poor job of.
A few months ago I was saying that Blizzard hadn’t learned from their mistakes, that they were still relying on faulty philosophies that would likely lead to another disaster like Warlords of Draenor sooner or later.
Now it’s looking like they might be turning things around after all — at least a little. Their course change on dungeons is very encouraging, and bringing flight back sooner rather than later is… better than the alternative, anyway.
This isn’t quite the mea culpa I’d like to see, but it does show humility and a willingness to change. That’s encouraging.
This entry was posted in End Game, General MMOs, MMO Opinions and tagged World of Warcraft on November 7, 2016 by Tyler Bro.
Crafting Deserves Center Stage Attention
All too many MMORPGs are quick to list crafting and gathering as a key feature, when it’s really little more than an afterthought. Weaponsmithing, armorsmithing, alchemy, fletcher, engineering, cabinet making, pottery, flower picking, ant farming, whatever. These crafting (and gathering) skills are rarely used for more than a stopgap in equipment, some quirky fun items, or for a handful of actually useful consumables. They are secondary minigame for players to indulge in but can almost always be safely ignored. Even more rare is the MMORPG that allows crafting players to devote their entire character to the role. Ultimately, crafting vastly underwhelms players for a variety of reasons.
It’s pretty rare that MMOs integrate crafting so that in order to wear the best equipment, interaction with crafting in some manner is necessary. The problem is that people going out to instanced dungeons or questing expect top tier loot. Even most crafting MMOs cater more towards the adventuring type than those who “stay at home” to build something. And it’s understandable that developers appeal to these types. We as MMO players want the instant gratification of improving our character’s equipment when we successfully dismantle a dungeon’s inhabitants. There’s a few solutions I can think of where crafting can take center stage without ruining the fun of rare and exotic drops. And it would be good for the community as well, something that’s become sorely lacking in recent MMORPG releases.
Here are some thoughts on what developers could do to change the typical MMO anti-crafting mold.
1. Instead of top tier gear as equipment, players receive top tier crafting materials. This gets us away from the bind on equip/pickup in MMORPGs. It encourages players to interact, through the auction house if nothing else. But for the most rare materials to craft the most rare weapons and armor, adventurers would seek out a crafter. That rare piece of adamantium requires a master blacksmith to fully utilize, and that blacksmith might be willing to lower his price to work with such a rare specimen.
Crafting types will also be free in this instance to play a pure crafting role. Adventurers can now provide crafters with rare materials to make their fancy equipment. The crafter buys the raw goods for a price, produces the improved equipment for the masses, and then sells it for some level of profit. It would simulate adventurers risking their lives for smiths and enchanters, who would be compensated fairly. A real economy then develops as players settle into their roles of supply and demand.
2. To maximize gear, crafters are needed to perform upgrades or customize equipment. This allows adventurers to still have their fun in finding fancy loot. They will need to seek out crafters directly rather than playing an auction house game, but I’m a fan of increased interaction in multiplayer games. Certain crafters could be skilled at different types of upgrades or customization. For example, perhaps one path for enhancing equipment is devoted to survivability. That player could add hit points or defense to weapons and armor that players discover. Perhaps the stats people look for is the ability for items to be customized in certain ways, rather than having the stats inherently. The big downside is it might be a pain to find someone to maximize an adventurer’s gear every time new loot drops.
I suppose one solution is that players could sell enhancement kits on the auction house. But where do the resources come from to create these? In that case, I think we end up back with how MMORPGs currently handle things. Crafting would become a secondary profession because there’s not enough of a focus on integrating crafting with the economy that it could stand alone.
3. Equipment degrades over time, but adventurers can find enhancements which can be swapped between equipment. This is sort of a twist on the above two ideas. First, equipment degrades meaning that crafters will also be needed to outfit players. Players could potentially repair weapons and armor, but the durability would still degrade over time. This means that equipment is less special. Otherwise people would get pretty testy over what would feel like “renting” items. That’s not to say that all crafted equipment will be created equally. Rare resources that adventurers could seek out for smiths could still play a part (such as in suggestion #1). However, enhancements that players find would fulfill the primary desire for “phat loot”.
These enhancements could be something like runes that can be swapped between weapons and armor at will. They would have no degradation and would comprise a large portion of the strength of equipment. With these runes, even more customization options are opened up as more than just the base weapon/armor must be taken into account. I think this is probably my favorite option as it builds a healthy dynamic economy where players must interact to optimize results. But while crafting becomes a central cog in the economic engine here, adventuring still has it’s place to reward dungeon delving.
More Than Gear
So far all of the examples I’ve listed deal with equipment – weapons and armor. I think that’s the biggest problem that needs to be fixed with crafting. However, consumables like scrolls and potions need their place too. This is a bit simpler though as I feel there’s no reason not to make them crafted only. Most MMORPGs sell potions or offer them as quest rewards. There’s little reason to interact with others in the case. In my opinion, alchemy and the like should be handled by players and not the game.
Crafting Matters
Crafting creates community, something that I feel is being stripped away from MMOs piece by piece. We keep moving towards a solo oriented world, and I find that not healthy. We need more interaction with people and creating a living, breathing economy is one means towards that end. Yes, this forces interaction between players. Yes, this makes us reliant on others. But symbiosis is a beautiful thing. It’s not something we should be afraid of. On the contrary, it’s something that we should embrace.
Crafting should take center stage instead of being the afterthought it currently is.
This entry was posted in End Game, MMO Opinions, State of MMOs and tagged Crafting on March 4, 2016 by The Bro.
Black Desert Online’s PvP and PvE Cognitive Dissonance
Black Desert Online is set to launch on March 3rd. Considering how many people are tuned into Twitch just to watch other people play, it’s pretty clear the game has some hype. And on paper a lot of it sounds really good. There’s a sandbox element for players to level up via “life skills” like fishing and more typical crafting skills. The open world has no fast travel elements and is set up in a way so cities will always be crowded by new and veteran players alike. There’s not even a level cap so theoretically one could constantly progress and level up in Black Desert Online forever.
It has come under fire somewhat for the lack of a typical end game. I don’t like that end game has become synonymous with high level raids. In all honesty, I don’t like the term end game at all. MMORPGs (like any game) should be fun regardless of where one is in progression. Perhaps the heralded MMORPG action combat in Black Desert Online will truly make for an exciting leveling experience regardless of the activity. But the end game right now is squarely designed around guild vs. guild warfare, castle sieges, and territory conquest. And there seems to be some cognitive dissonance when it comes to that end game because grinding PvE is the only way to get there.
Step 1: Grind all the mobs (PvE)
I have not played Black Desert Online yet, but as I’ve read more about it I was struck by this strange design decision. In order to PvP effectively, one most PvE. And when one is “done” with PvE, primarily PvP remains. And the potentially infinite leveling only compounds this level of cognitive dissonance. Black Desert Online employs a soft level cap of 50, which can be reached in about 20 hours if desired. No problems there. 20 hours is a lengthy tutorial, but there are a lot of skills to pickup and master. After that though, each level will take between 25 to 100+ hours. And the way to get that EXP is through grinding mobs in PvE, even though level 50 is when the heralded PvP is supposed to begin. And it’s important to keep up in levels and gear because otherwise players can become nigh unkillable with too much of a gap. So players who want to legitimately compete in PvP have to engage in an activity other than PvP to do so effectively. It doesn’t really make any sense.
People who enjoy PvE and grinding in Black Desert will be treated to a different problem. While many people may find the combat and leveling experience fun, there is very little to test one’s PvE mettle once the 50 level “tutorial” is finished. Here’s a game where players initially get treated to a care bear experience of an MMORPG with a focus on killing mobs as quickly as possible. And the continuation of that isn’t raids or challenging content as expected, but a handful of world bosses to down from time to time and… lots of PvP. This level of cognitive dissonance in an MMORPG is especially strange because of how hyped up gamers are for Black Desert Online. People who want PvP have to PvE and people who want PvE will eventually run out of combat content without turning to PvP.
Because of the heavy grinding nature of leveling up past 50 and the impact that those levels and silver gains have, it seems like there is a limited long term audience for Black Desert Online. Players need to be dedicated enough to repetitively grind monsters and mobs and in doing so, their reward is to wipe the floor with opponents without reprieve. That’s a recipe for disaster for casual players, the lifeblood of any multiplayer game, as they will find they have no real chance to compete individually. There’s safety in numbers though and one’s choice of guild (which seems almost necessary to join to progress) will certainly play a large role in Black Desert Online. Still, an arms race of those who can grind the most likely won’t be appealing to the masses.
Step 2: PvP – your second life
And this mentality of forcing players to engage in both PvE and PvP is fairly unique to Black Desert Online. Other MMORPGs with both PvP and PvE content allow players to focus on either PvE or PvP exclusively. For example, in Wildstar players can gain EXP solely through arena and warzone PvP. And there’s end game challenges for PvE fans to engage in after leveling up.
Mandating players to engage in both PvE and PvP activities as Black Desert Online is doing could be a recipe for disaster. But even if it is a problem, the game still has a lot going for it with top notch combat and a wealth of non-combat activities to engage in. I don’t know that this mix is really going to cause a major issue. But it will take some adjustment because there is going to be a sense of confusion over the relationship between PvE grinding and PvP end game in Black Desert. Regardless, it will be fascinating to watch as casual PvE fans reach the level 50 soft cap and discover what awaits them.
Almost as fascinating as the PvPers who thought they were done grinding after dinging 50.
This entry was posted in End Game, General MMOs and tagged Black Desert Online, PvE, PvP on February 29, 2016 by The Bro.
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Five-Axis VMC's Monitoring System Reduces Downtime
Chevalier Machinery’s UNi5X-400 is a 40-taper, high-speed VMC integrated with a fourth- and fifth-axis table.
Edited by Julia Hider
Associate Editor, Production Machining
Chevalier Machinery’s UNi5X-400 is a 40-taper, high-speed VMC integrated with a fourth- and fifth-axis table. It is designed for high-speed, high-precision and high-productivity machining in the aerospace, medical and moldmaking industries.
The VMC comes with the company’s iMachine Communications System, which connects users to MT-LINKi for performance data, enabling them to anticipate potential issues and prevent downtime. Remote monitoring and service functionality eliminates direct physical contact during inspection. The software identifies and reports productivity lags 24/7.
The two-axis rotary trunnion table with heavy-duty, three-piece, cross-roller bearing provides part good loading and machining capability as well as ±10" A-axis accuracy. The 12,000-rpm (15,000-rpm optional), 25-hp CT-40 spindle features a large-diameter Big Plus spindle design that uses four-piece, P4-Class angular-contact ball bearings to increase spindle rigidity and to maintain accuracy during high-speed machining. The spindle is direct-drive, reducing noise, vibration and thermal expansion. The machine provides fast interpolation, with a high linear speed of 1,417, 1,417, and 1,181 ipm in the X, Y and Z axes.
A heavy-duty Meehanite cast iron structure provides rigidity and stability. It also features an inverted, Y-shaped column with single-piece construction and pre-tensioned Class C3 ballscrews for all three axes. All servomotors are directly coupled to ballscrews, increasing movement sensitivity while reducing backlash.
The VMC has a table load of 220 lbs and can handle workpieces as large as 15.7" × 13.7". The X-, Y-, and Z-axis travels measure 20.5" × 15.8" × 15", respectively. It also has a capacity of 30 tools.
The machine includes a FANUC 0i-MF control for 4+1 applications. The control has a 10.4" color LCD screen and includes linear-circular-helical interpolation and Manual Guide i. A FANUC 31iB-5 control is also available.
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Storage solution helps Take Away the Tears
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Abused and abandoned dogs are being given a second chance thanks to the great work of a local North East charity and one of our storage containers.
Take Away the Tears, a charity set up by Sue Nuttall of North Shields, helps abandoned and neglected dogs mainly living abroad in areas such as Cyprus, Romania and Sri Lanka, live better, cared-for lives.
The charity collects donations of goods, such as dog beds, bedding, food, bowls, leads, collars, coats, treats, toys and cleaning products (mops, hard buckets, steel buckets, squeegees etc), which are then shipped abroad to help the volunteers and employees at municipality dog pounds.
It all started when Sue, dog-lover and canine mum to two dogs already, was moved into action when she saw a Facebook post from a fellow dog charity in Cyprus and saw how badly dogs were being treated overseas. Not long after Sue adopted Maggie, a 2 year old Black Labrador with a hip condition from Cyprus. This led to her adopting more dogs but she still wanted to do more and so set up Take Away the Tears in July 2015 to help.
Sue who lives on a farm, turned to Containers 2000 now part of the Mobile Mini family, when storage was becoming a problem, “Soon my garage and loft were full of donations and food was being eaten by mice and rats.
“I looked into buying a container as I’m luckily enough to have the space but couldn’t find anything anywhere near affordable until I spoke to Containers 2000, who were happy to offer a container on loan at half price.
“When Containers 2000 were sold to Mobile Mini in December 2016, I was concerned that things may change but was pleased to find out that they were more than happy to honour the same arrangement.
“The container has been a life-saver. We can now provide free safe storage for other charitable organisations working in the same field, and the container is currently stacked floor to ceiling with goods waiting to be shipped to both Romania and Cyprus.
“Earlier this year, three pallets worth of goods were shipped to Cyprus to help three dog pounds. Something we couldn’t have done without the extra storage the container provides”.
Mobile Mini’s Branch Manager in Sunderland Simon Gray said, “Community support is really important to us as a company and we’re dedicated to helping local non-for-profit organisations with free container hire, whenever we can”.
Mobile Mini’s Community Involvement Programme offers free of charge storage container hire to non-profit or voluntary organisations. For a worthy cause, all of its 16 branches nationwide can donate up to ten containers each year, free of charge (hire not to exceed six months).
For more information about Take Away the Tears go to http://www.takeawaythetears.co.uk/ or visit their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TakeAwayTheTears/
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Scientology Homophobia
October 10, 2015 By Mike Rinder 458 Comments
Is scientology homophobic?
There has been considerable discussion about this. In today’s world, where it is no longer socially acceptable to be anti-gay, scientology has taken steps to attempt to portray itself as tolerant and welcoming of the LGBT community. But similar to scientology’s claims that disconnection “doesn’t exist” or is simply a “personal choice,” the PR smokescreen hides an ugly and unpleasant reality.
At its heart, scientology IS very homophobic.
Here is the truth as I experienced it, growing up in scientology and then being a senior official in the church for many years.
Let’s start at the beginning, where all else starts in scientology, with Hubbard’s Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health.
This is perhaps the first statement by Hubbard about homosexuality:
The sexual pervert (and by this term dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in Dynamic II such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc. and all down the catalogue of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically. Perversion as an illness has so many manifestations that it must be spread through the entire gamut of classes from (1) to (5) above.
But the concept of the sexual pervert was expanded in his next book, Science of Survival, where homosexuality (sexual perversion and deviation) was placed on his Tone Scale at 1.1 “Covert Hostility.”
1.1 people are the scourge of society according to SOS.
In the book is this infamous passage:
There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the tone scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the tone scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow. Adders are safe bedmates compared to people on the lower bands of the tone scale. Not all the beauty nor the handsomeness nor artificial social value nor property can atone for the vicious damage such people do to sane men and women. The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered. It is not necessary to produce a world of clears in order to have a reasonable and worthwhile social order; it is only necessary to delete those individuals who range from 2.0 down, either by processing them enough to get their tone level above the 2.0 line — a task which, indeed, is not very great, since the amount of processing in many cases might be under fifty hours, although it might also in others be in excess of two hundred — or simply quarantining them from the society. A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.
Though I don’t believe you should read this as a literal admonition to eradicate those “below 2.0” – it does inform scientologists in how to think about such people. According to Hubbard, they should be treated like lepers. They are certainly not “the able” which, according to Hubbard, is who scientology is for.
And let’s not forget that the words of L. Ron Hubbard in the eyes of scientologists may NOT be changed or even queried. Everything he says is accepted unthinkingly as truth. To doubt the veracity of his statements is to put yourself into a “lower condition” and be treated as an “enemy.”
He shortly thereafter published Handbook for Preclears in which he explained homosexuality thusly:
Homosexuality comes from this manifestation and from the manifestation of life continuation for others. A boy whose mother is dominant will try to continue her life from any failure she has. A girl whose father is dominant will try to continue his life from any failure he has. The mother or the father were cause in the child’s eyes. The child elected himself successor to cause. Break this life continuum concept by running sympathy and grief for the dominant parent and then run off the desires to be an effect and their failures and the homosexual is rehabilitated. Homosexuality is about 1.1 on the tone scale. So is general promiscuity.
This is the first reference to “auditing out” homosexuality and perhaps the only place where he specifically states homosexuality is about 1.1 on the Tone Scale.
This is the genus of the concept that homosexuality can be “handled in auditing.” It is no longer considered acceptable to say such a thing, but it is how scientologists view the world. Being below 2.0 on the Tone Scale is non-survival. Auditing will raise you on the Tone Scale and rid you of your “negative emotions” and “irrational behavior” — very specifically including your tendencies towards perversion. I am aware of more than one person who has been given an auditing program to “address their homosexuality.” (Some may argue that this is what the pc or pre-OT “wants handled” and it is not up to the auditor and C/S to determine the morality of such things, but the very fact that this is the “think” — that homosexuality CAN be addressed with auditing — demonstrates it is considered to be an “aberration.”)
For many years, scientology made little or no attempt to defend these fundamental beliefs — because they were not really an issue. But over the last two decades there has been a lot more pressure to accept homosexuality and afford gay people the same rights as everyone else.
Scientology, and scientologists, have sought to change their image on the subject to appear to be “gay friendly.” They will try to explain that it is natural that Hubbard put gays into the 1.1 band as back in the 50’s they could not be “overtly” gay — they had to be “covert” and hide their identities, and thus they were “covert.” But it does not actually explain the entire concept of 1.1 which is covert HOSTILITY and ‘sexual perversion” – rape, child molesting and other things. Homosexuality was labeled a 1.1 trait not because they were hiding, but because they were “perverts” engaged in sex for other reasons than procreation. Nor does it explain why the statements have not been removed from the books like some of his other things (marijuana is safer than alcohol for instance).
There are plenty more references to homosexuality in the scripture of scientology:
HCOB 25 FEB 1960 THE MODEL SESSION
To get the pc over any condition or aberration that he is agonizing to get rid of, find a terminal that adds up to it and run single confront on that terminal.
Example: If the pc is sick, the process would be “What about a sick person could you confront?”
If the person is homo, it’s “What about a homosexual could you confront?”
And of course, the infamous (and still very much used) “Joburg” sec check, including all questions about sexual activities to give a flavor of where homosexuality was placed in the pantheon of bad sex acts:
HCOB 7 APR 1961 JOHANNESBURG CONFESSIONAL
Have you ever raped anyone?
Have you ever been involved in an abortion?
Have you assisted in any abortion?
Have you ever committed adultery?
Have you ever practised Homosexuality?
Have you ever had intercourse with a member of your family?
Have you ever been sexually unfaithful? Have you ever practised Sodomy?
Have you ever consistently made a practice of sexual perversion?
Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another colour?
And the same with a standardized sec check that was published a decade late:
HCOB 24 DEC 72 THE BASIC INTEGRITY LIST
Have you ever practiced homosexuality?
Have you ever been sexually unfaithful?
Have you ever made a practice of sexual perversion?
Hubbard never changed his attitude towards homosexuality. Homosexuals were depicted as degenerate perverts in his last fiction writing Mission Earth.
His attitude about sex in general became even more strident and bizarre in virtually the last HCOB (26 August 1982) he wrote for scientologists which is entitled Pain and Sex. This writing is not presented as figurative, it is intended to be taken literally, and is based on L. Ron Hubbard’s vast knowledge of all things.
Destructive creatures who do not want people big or reaching—since they are terrified of punishment due to their crimes—invented pain and sex to shrink people and cut their alertness, knowingness, power and reach. Thus you see people who are «experiencing» either pain or sex introverting and not producing much.
Pain and sex were the INVENTED tools of degradation. Believe it or not, a being can be so overwhelmed by either, that he or she becomes an addict of it. Priests become flagellants and cut themselves to pieces with self-whipping. Torturers drool over pain. Lovers are very seldom happy. People do the most irrational things when overcharged with sex and prostitutes use it as a knowing stock-in-trade. Combined, pain and sex make up the insane JackThe-Rippers (who killed only prostitutes) and the whole strange body of sex—murder freaks, including Hinckley, and the devotees of late night horror movies.
Under the false data of the psychs (who have been on the track a long time and are the sole cause of decline in this universe) both pain and sex are gaining ground in this society and, coupled with robbery which is a hooded companion of both, may very soon make the land a true jungle of crime. Go into an asylum or a prison and look at the increasing institutional population and know what you are looking at. In the main, there are pain and sex addicts, decadent and degraded and no longer capable.
But, let’s turn to the practice of the church.
You probably recall the church’s support of Proposition 8 in California was the beginning of the end of Paul Haggis in scientology. That in turn led to a piece in the New Yorker, and thanks to Tommy Davis’ deft handling of the matter, to a book by Lawrence Wright and from there the film Going Clear. Paul Haggis discusses these events in the film, but in far more detail in the original Lawrence Wright piece in the New Yorker. It was all about his disgust that the church was supporting a proposition that discriminated against gays.
But what about what goes on behind the facade the church presents to the outside world?
Here, to borrow a favorite expression of an old friend, the cheese becomes more binding.
You are not qualified to join the Sea Org if you are gay. Period.
You are not qualified to join the Sea Org if you have an “extensive history” of “homosexual acts” even if you claim you are not “gay.”
In fact, this is so well known that people have blown off Sea Org recruiters by claiming they are gay. They are dropped like hot potatoes.
Actually, they are dropped if they have “gay thoughts.”
Used to be “I’ve taken LSD” was the instant Get Out Of Jail Free card with SO recruiters, but LSD has fallen out of favor and recruiters figured out how to ask a ton of questions and determine “that wasn’t really LSD you took” in their desperation to get people signed up and routed onto the EPF. Nothing you can do about someone who is gay “well, we have determined the other person was not really male/female”?
Lesbian/Gay (let alone Bi/Trans) are absolute SO non-starters (fortunate for them).
If you are IN the Sea Org and profess to be gay or have “homosexual tendencies” it is a one way ticket to the RPF (or out of the SO altogether). Nora Crest has told her story, there are dozens of similar ones. Again, the concept of sending someone to the RPF for “being gay” is based on the idea they can be “rehabilitated.”
But this is not limited to the Sea Org.
Executive and HCO qualifications in any scientology organization require that you have no history of “perverted 2D activities.” And that most definitely includes “homosexual activities.”
And finally, there is this.
The self-titled ecclesiastical leader of the scientology religion, and the biggest being and bestest scientologist in the whole universe, is viciously homophobic.
David Miscavige relishes denigrating gays, one of his favorite terms of hatred is “faggot.”
For at least 20 years he has accused senior scientology officials (most often Marc Yager and Guillaume Lesevre, but many others too) of being “butt fuckers” and “cocksuckers” and loves to regale his circle of sycophants with extremely graphic and lewd descriptions of the sexual activities they supposedly engage in. He delights in doing this especially when the people themselves are present, and he talks about them to the others gathered around “oohing” and “aahing” as if they were not present. One of his favorite things to say to Marc Yager when he stumbled or mumbled a response was “get Guilluame’s cum out of your mouth and you might be able to talk better.” And of course, there his now infamous “code” he texted me: YSCOHB.
You may wonder if I am exaggerating. Not in the slightest. In fact, in an effort to maintain some decorum, this is a VERY mild version. There are plenty of people who have witnessed this numerous times including Jeff Hawkins, Amy Scobee, Tom DeVocht, Dan Koon, Marc and Claire Headley and a LOT of others.
It is simply impossible for scientology to be tolerant when it’s undisputed leader is perhaps the worst homophobe I have ever met.
PS: I should add that though I grew up with the idea that you should always be wary of 1.1s and the easiest “1.1s” to spot were homosexuals, I have a very different view today . I have quite a number of LGBT friends and they are among the most creative, compassionate and genuinely nice people I know. And they are uniformly oh so NON judgmental about the personal choices of others. Discrimination is a pet peeve of mine I hate it in any form. I grew up in the 60s with the stigma of being a scientologist when it was about like being gay. Funny how I resented being treated differently but had the mindset that others “deserved” it….
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PeaceMaker says
There’s one very simple litmus test to reveal where Scientology really stands: show us the gays.
Where are the gay members, staff and executives?
Since there seem to be absolutely none, what does that tell us about Scientology’s actual policies and practices – and about the claims and statements they try to make?
Alex S. Gabor says
Gays are expelled for their “overts”. Just ask Billy Khan. He was a gay Jewish boy from NYC and a Top Sea Org recruiter for PAC circa 1976-79. He was Declared SP and expelled after being forced to write up all his O/Ws and in them he confessed to visiting hundreds of porn shops where he would give and receive thousands of blow jobs during his three years traveling around the country recruiting naive people by convincing them to sign billion year contracts. He was charged with using his position and church money for personal pleasures. Wonder how many lawyers have similar “high crimes”?
FG says
Unecessary? I admire you Mike for all what you do. Really, your revelations on Miscavige showed me really the scene and helped me to leave the Church. Miscavige is the target. I understand also that Hubbard had some serious flaws, but my God, how can somebody could say that Hubbard wanted to exterminate homosexual? It’s so bloody madly crazy statement.
It’s an opinion? It’s horrible slander based on absolutely no fact.
Ok, it seems that you don’t care, I don’t care too really. But I hate lies, and this is why I hate Miscavige, RTC and all. But to say such a lie on Hubbard give me exactly the same reaction.
It’s not a slander. It’s a fact based on his own words. He wrote it in Diarrhetics. He wrote it in Science of Survival. Didn’t you read Mike’s article?
You take insults to Hubbard personally (which, by the way, is a major psychological problem worthy of a full article). I take threats to eliminate, quietly and without sorrow, me and members of my tribe personally. Hubbard and his works need to be destroyed. Whether or not you join those works is up to you.
John Locke says
Espi, those that defend KNOWN violent criminal’s violent propensities usually have a mind that bends towards criminality…
thetaclear says
Dear FG, I wrote a very detailed and well researched comment about this, but no matter what I do and what I use (whether Android or a computer) , the comment/post never goes through. So, I just stopped bothering. It is a pitty ; it took me a lot of time to write it. It would have presented and explained many angles which were neglected here is this discussion. Perhaps another time.
RogerHornaday says
It is impossible to know what Hubbard WANTED, we can only know what he said.
FG, never mind the ones who fixate so rigidly to those quotes w/out properly evaluating the hostorical/cultural context on which they were created.
LRH is not exactly the saint of my devotion, and is guilty of many, many things, but not of personally mistreating others because of their sexual preferences. If ANYONE here including Mike has an actual instance where they personally witnessed LRH doing that, then I am all ears , and please provide the evidence for that.
The best way to know LRH the man as regards to that is by inspecting his personal C/Ses (Case Supervisor written instructions). I’ve studied them ALL ; the Psychotic Research Cases C/Ses, the Exp DNs C/Ses, and the class 8 course C/Ses. There isn’t not one single example of LRH on those C/Ses where he mistreated in any way, any PC with homosexual tendencies or acts, either by sending them to Ethics or by designing a program to get them “straight”. I know of no example where LRH ever did that.
I know many examples of “attacking the dissenters and critics of Scn, of attacking psychiatry, of using disconnection and fair gaming practices, of being totally authoritarian , of lying, of exaggerating what Scn can actually do for others, of being a self-righteous asshole. But I know of no example where LRH , either personally or through his instructions , attempted to suppress anyone or mistreat him just because he was different in his sexual preferences. In auditing others and C/Sing, LRH stuck to and followed his “Second Dynamic Rule” HCOB/PL , which I don’t know why was ommitted in the quotes presented in Mike’s article.
And I know of no example neither of LRH doing ANYTHING at all to “quietly dispose of” alleged “down-toned” individuals. Zero, nada, zip. That infamous and isolated SOS quote have been used so many times to make a case against LRH while totally neglecting others that contradict it , and while totally neglecting actual ACTIONS , that it is obvious to me that many individuals using it already had decided that LRH was guilty w/out a proper “trial”. I believe in fair trails, not in witch-hunts , not matter if LRH himself was guilty of witch-hunt. That he did it, is no justicication to do it to him if we are to be better than him, and want to became an example for others about what a fair trial consist of.
By 1950 and almost up to 2003 , homosexuality was considered a crime ; period. And probably 95% (or more) of the population (which include MOST of us here) saw it as an aberration and mental disorder. Homosexuality was even a capital offense in many countries around the world.The “Sodomy Laws” that the USA inherited from England since several centuries ago , considered annal sex and oral sex as a crime punishable by jail. The target of such laws was obviously, mainly the homosexual sector.
Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder by the World Health Organization up to 1990 , up to 1973 by the American Psychological. , Association, and up to 1975 by the American Psychiatric Association, but those changes were not brought about by actual research, but by political pressures from many gay activists which even used intimidation and threats towards many psychiatrists in order for them to agree to eliminate homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). But secretly, most psychiatrists and psychologists believed firmly that homosexuality WAS a disorder of personality.
By the late 70s only 3 states had repealed their Sodomy Laws, and it was not until 2003 that all the states had already repealed such laws. But it was a rather slow and long process. It took several decades after the decision to declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder for the society to start having a different viewpoint about homosexuality. Many legal battles were fought, many protests (pacific and not quite pacific) by pro-gay activists ocurred around the globe , and a lot of clinical research was done in order to bring about this new perspective that many now have about homosexuals. WE were ourselves a product of that social evolution, as most of us were misguided in our own beliefs and attitude towards the LGTB community to the point of, specially by men, make a lot of bad jokes about them.
So let’s stop this pretense that we are so civilized now, and can’t possible understand how it is that a man (from the 1950-1980 period) thought about homosexuality as an aberration and perversion ; 95+ % of the population did. W/out trying to offend here, this is even a little hypocritical.
I don’t care if LRH thought that homosexuality was a perversion or an aberration , he was expected to by the indoctrination of his time. What I only care about is, are there specific HCOPLs where LRH classify homosexuality as a crime to be handled per the Justice codes and Ethics system? Is there ANY LRH issue that clearly states that an homosexual individual is to be denied auditing and/or processing until his “situation” is handled ? The answer to those Qs is “NO”. In auditing and C/Sing, “Second Dynamic Rules” HCOPL/HCOB applies and nothing else does.
I know about the SO qualification issue that Mike brought up, but I don’t know if those are based in actual FOs (Flag Orders). Regardless, let’s not forget the time where those issues originated from ; a period where homosexuality was considered a mental illness and was punishable by law through the sodomy laws. So disqualifying high ranking SO executives for homosexual tendencies is not that absurd around that time, and more so with Scn’s Church status. It was, back then, an Out-PR, out-security issue.
It is the same with Sec Checks. If homosexuality was considered an aberration and even a crime back then, then including it as a possible withhold was not that absurd neither. In fact, it was expected, as Sec Checks have NOTHING whatsoever with making anyone “moral” , it is basically about making someone auditable.
I judge others by their actions , not necessarily by what they write if they actually don’t follow it.
What we have here is the misguided “Standard Tech” concept getting in the way, and just plain robotic-fundamentalist Scientologists literally and misguidedly interpreting LRH’s issues. Scn got stuck in time, and never evolved ; never was changed to meet the modern needs and manners. It froze in time due to Standard Tech, and cult(ish) thinking. Any leader worth his name is expected to adapt to the changes /of the society , and to ajust the policies of his institution accordingly. But DM has never been a real leader.
Ann B Watson says
Hi thetaclear, I read your post to FG.Reading it from the viewpoint of facts only that can be proven,I see that I personally have no hard proof that Ron wanted any gays eliminated etc.Or that auditing was used to change their orientation.But I can say Sec Checking made me crazy and less auditable,it did nothing good for me.However on the emotional side which is totally subjective as my experience albeit short and sweet,what Quentin and then Mary Sue went through after Quentin passed was horrible.I do not think Ron cared about how he was perceived ever.He did and said what made sense to him only.He did have a cruel side, but one does not always show that 100% all the time.His policies on blowing The Sea Org and RPF and the Hole and GO/I showed all that side to me.
Love to you and your beautiful Princess.I read all your posts and learn.With Forever Love Peter,Ann.
Thanks for the comm, dear Ann ; I fully understand what you mean, dear. Please see my reply to FG about the subject of Confessionals.They became the tool of degradation for many GO individuals. Confessionals were originally about getting others auditable, but then began to get used to “roll back” alleged “enemy lines” locating who dared to criticize LRH and/or Scn. They also became an imposition from LRH about what ought to represent an overt act. It became (even if it is usually thought of as the opposite) an imposed morality instead of an action of spiritual liberation as it had been used for centuries by Christianity. I explain why in my reply to FG.
It is a pity that Quentin and Mary Sue had to pay the price of being emotionally attached to LRH. I regret that.
Take care dear.
Hi thetaclear, I want to thank you for your reply to me and your post to FG.Read both carefully and I am starting to get an understanding of what sec-checking is and is not.For me,learning this is like plunging into a million year old briar patch.All the tendrils wrap around and scratch my arms and legs,but if I keep going I start to see how I was part of this out-tech use of Tech regarding sec -checking and lists etc.It was used on me,no wonder I am messed up about auditing and meters!Anyway,I greatly appreciate the time you took to reply and if you need me for anything I’m there.Love Peter Always,Ann.
And Hitler never personally mistreated a Jew, TC. It doesn’t matter. Hubbard wrote what he wrote and never retracted or modified it, and his followers are following those words to this day, despite the social changes that have taken place in the last sixty years (it makes me proud to be by birth and residence a citizen of Illinois, which abolished its sodomy laws in 1962, five years before England and Wales and nine years before any other US state). When Hubbard’s language in DMSMH and SoS about LGBTs can be directly compared to what was said about Jews in Mein Kampf, which it can, you have a problem.
If it helps, I feel the same sort of passion about Scientology’s view of psychiatrists. I’m headed over to Mike’s article today on that subject to comment in order to keep this thread on topic.
I am jew and was a scientologist. And I feel offended that you can compare Hubbard and Hitler. Even if he was sometimes misguided Hubbard never advocate to exterminate anyone. Bring me one homosexual who was beaten because of Hubbard. Many members of my family were killed by the nazis, starting with my grand-parents.
But it’s true that Miscavige has something of Dr Goebbels!
If the comparison is apt, I will make the comparison. And it is apt.
Again, did you not read the actual article and the quotes from DMSMH and SoS? Hubbard stated straight out that if people below 2.0 on the Tone Scale cannot be raised up above 2.0 (and that includes LGBTs), they needed to be eliminated. That sure as hell sounds like advocacy of extermination to me, and what’s true for me is true, right?
As for homosexuals who were “beaten”, you’re choosing your words carefully, aren’t you? And “by Hubbard” rather than “because of Hubbard’s teachings”. You’re trying to get your way out of this semantically, and it’s not going to work. Your mental twisting can allow you to disregard the following:
Derek Bloch, who was tormented as a member of the Sea Org because he’s gay. He’s now trying to build a life with no support from family or the fake religion he grew up in.
Michael Pattinson, whose difficulty with being gay was preyed upon by the cult, with constant promises of Auditing The Gay Away all the way to OTVIII. He blew a half million dollars on Scientology’s promise of a Gay Cure. He’s now out and proud, and he’s got a book available, which you probably won’t read because “it’s entheta”.
John McMaster, Clear Number One, ostracized by Hubbard because of his sexuality and his popularity.
And, finally…
Quentin. Hubbard.
(drops the mic)
marildi says
“Hubbard stated straight out that if people below 2.0 on the Tone Scale cannot be raised up above 2.0 (and that includes LGBTs), they needed to be eliminated.”
That is an false statement, Espiando. He said that “it is only necessary to delete those individuals who range from 2.0 down, either by processing them enough to get their tone level above the 2.0 line — a task which, indeed, is not very great, since the amount of processing in many cases might be under fifty hours, although it might also in others be in excess of two hundred — or simply quarantining them from the society.”
Those were the only those two recommendations – process or quarantine. He never used the word “eliminate” – and as you can see from the above sentence, the word “delete” simply meant to quarantine.
Wrong FG. Hubbard DID advocate just that. Just because Hubbard advocates are unable to confront that fact doesn’t change that fact.
You being offended has ZERO bearing on reality.
” And Hitler never personally mistreated a Jew, TC. It doesn’t matter. Hubbard wrote what he wrote and never retracted or modified it, and his followers are following those words to this day, despite the social changes that have taken place in the last sixty years.”
Now, come on Espiando ; Jews were considered below animals by Hitler, and if he never personally interacted with none, it was because for him there were like nothing, and actually an insult to even direct a comm to any of them. These 2 men can’t be compared in any way, shape or form. And he DID retracted about it with his “Second Dynamic Rules” HCOPL where he clearly said that he wasn’t interested in the sexual life of anyone save that it were directly affecting others.
As I said before, there ISN’T any LRH issue in existence where homosexuality falls into any type of crime to be handled in Ethics. There is no such issue. Neither any special auditing or Rundown directed at specifically handling the homosexual to get him/her to change his/her sexual preference. Let’s talk about facts, actual actions, please, and let’s stop fixating on one single point.
And no, the change in perspective has NOT been happening since the last 60 years ; the World Health Organization had homosexuality as a mental disorder until 1990 , only 25 years ago. By the late 70s only 3 states of the Union had repealed their sodomy laws. The social change you refer to is actually quite new, more close to the last 2 decades, definitively not the last 60 years. By the time LRH wrote those misguided issues homosexuality WAS considered a mental disorder and perversion ; PERIOD. That’s a FACT, not my opinion, dear Espi. Judge LRH for his actual crimes. 95+% of the population, including most of us here, shared LRH’s view on homosexuality at that time period. It is not fair and balanced for him to stand trail on that ; we ALL would have to stand trail on that as well.
LRH was misguided and destructive at many things ; I totally agree with that. But what is happening with the Church today are a direct result of fundamentalism and an idiotic literal interpretation of Scn scriptures, made worse by a failure from want-to-be leaders to bring Scn up to modern times.
Thank you your post Theta Clear. It really exactly put the truth there.
Ann, sec check on the very beginning were used to take off the PC’s withold to make sure he can be “in session”.
If you withold something then you have a hard time to be in session.
But very unfortunatly if you take a false read then the PC doesn’t release the charge, he creates a new one.
Auditors, especialy sec checker don’t really want to understand it (while its clearly quoted in any course) But the punishement attitude of homo spiens is bent on the direction to find wrongness. I cannot give you a full course on class 2 technology but the sec checks you received were certainly madly out tech. And if it was on OT eligibility, the concept of OT eligibility itself is antiscientology. It’s inspection before the fact. I suspect that this bulletin in 1982 was not written by Hubbard as it is completely opposed to anything he ever said.
The tech as practiced under Miscavige is highly criminal, its actually black scientology.
You are most welcome, dear FG. I agree, Sec Checks wasn’t about punishment or about getting anyone to become “moral” ; they were about getting others auditable. But on the hands of Hubbard(tomized) , robotic and cult(ish) individuals, it can become a tool of suppression, violation of Human Rights, and even humiliation.
There is an inherent flaw in Confessionals in that their Qs are based on what one man, namely LRH, thinks what a possible transgresion against a moral code is, which is rather arbitrary for one man to decide. This can even act as a wrong indication and an enforcement of reality, as what an overt is or is not, is decided by other-determinism.
Per Standard Tech, if a Sec Check question reads, and the PC is protesty or bewildered about it , one is supposed to check for “False Reads”. But a False Read in this context is a “shouldn’t have read” because the PC wasn’t guilty of committing that specific overt act and yet it read anyway, or the PC might have already gotten off this w/h at previous sessions and it wasn’t acked or accepted in some way (provided that he got it off completely w/out anything having remained undisclosed). A false read doesn’t means in Standard Tech, “it shouldn’t have read because I don’t think that such a question represents an actual overt act, as to me, it is quite all right doing such an act”. This is NOT what a False Read is in Standard Confessional Procedure. If a PC originates the above, rest assure that that confessional question WILL BE taken up to clean it to
F/N.
A “Supress read” or a “”Invalidate read” is an alleged transferred read from the confessional question to that specific button. Once one gets the PC to say what he had to say about that, then the original confessional question is taken up REGARDLESS if what the PC had suppressed or invalidated was that he thought that such a question didn’t represent an actual over from his perspective. He WILL BE harassed by the Security Checker until he confess and own up to that overt by getting off his “justifications” on it with probably (even thought this is not part of the standard HCOB on it , but something that a class VIII might think in doing) ) , “Why wasn’t it an overt ?”.
If any Church auditor accepted as a false read the protest of this PC as to his disagreement with that Sec Check question being an overt, he would probably lose his certs. If anyone on the Field runs it like that, then he might be doing the right thing, but that isn’t covered as LRH’s Standard Tech. If LRH wrote it, then it must have been an overt ; that’s EXACTLY how this is interpreted by PCs in general.
So, we may end up enforcing a reality on the PC, with a wrong indication acting as a wrong item on the list, with its destructive consequences. That is my thesis as to why Confessional Tech became so dangerous for many, lowering their tone level and making them PTS.
For me, Confessional Tech is very useful, but also inherently flawed, capable of being a double sword , as it doesn’t take into account the reality level of the individual. It allegedly does take it into account, as , it is claimed that subjects beyond the reality level of the PC won’t read , but I think (actually KNOW) that a read can be gotten on “this is not an overt to me”. And, “this is not an overt to me” isn’t handled as a False Read. If you or any other auditor has any specific LRH ref that contradict this assertion , then please quote it (with exact date and name) , and I would stand corrected.
So, what do I think would have been the correct way to go about this ?
Well, as a totally untested handling, I would get the PC to list (this won’t be Listing And Nulling) what actions HE (not LRH) considers to be overt acts on a certain area or sector of his life, specifically those sectors or areas where he is currently having difficuly with or has had for a long time. And I would write down the reading items. Then I would work ONLY with such items by convering them to Confessional questions. I would f/n each question, and then I would list again in a new unit of time for what the PC now considers to be overt acts, as by now he might have others things that previously were not overts for him. And I would f/n again each reading items. Somewhere along the line this area of difficulty would be straighten out to a marked degree with a major cog and ability gain on the area. And that’s the time to stop the procedure.
This new approach would always be taking into consideration what the PC himself considers to be an overt act; not what LRH or the auditor, or C/S considers it is. Then the chances for enforced reality, and wrong indications would be minimal.
Anyway, that’s my perspective in this matter. Take care, dear FG.
Excellent developpement TC. You always amaze me with your sharpness, thorough knowledge of the tech, and ability to diffrentiate. Now, the idea that it is not an overt for the PC from his moral code, and that it reads on a protest, I have practiced it.
For exemple, a very classical one, I had a PC always having a wh on masturbation (not from a sec check, simple MWH). I did the false read handling, “Did anyone said you have a wh when you don’t have one?” Reading, Pc cheerful “yes myself !” Basically he himself didn’t see anything wrong with mastrubating… he was happy, it FNed. He actually got the consideration while himself auditing another PC on the WH of mastrubating.
I believe they are layers of moral codes plotted on the time track and on different entities surrounding or connected to the PC. So, to begin with the overt you audit maybe misown. Prior to scientology let say a girl experiment to be lesbian. It’s not she is a lesbian completely, but she tried. She is more or less bisexual. From the viewpoint of Kinsey all human are to a certain degree bisexual, homo tendencies exist at a more or less degree. That’s a “modern” viewpoint which tends to rid a person from guilt regarding sex. She will freely tell about her experience. She doesn’t have a ruin on the subject, more like a win, since she now can have beautiful clitoral orgasm, while with penetration she felt introverted not to have any pleasure, and that boy was a serious WH!
Now, she got in scientology. At some points, doing ruds, she find herself confessing her sex experience like if it was an overt. Because the moral code (especially after 1982) is very regressive. Now, it hit the viewpoint of some relatives, or the general viewpoint prior to Kinsey, or Master and Johnson, the conservative idea about sex.
She has gone into an earlier layer of moral code. It also might be shared at an hypnotic level by some entities. Entities don’t have self determinism. They tend to obey to enough “reality” especially low tone reality. On her folder a “CS” has written that she had homo experience, seen a couple of psychs, her eligibility will be questionnable. At this time, it will be safe to do a “plant check” to make sure she is not illegal PC. And of course, even if she didn’t read the notes of the “CS”, she is under a terrible wrong indication. Why? Because scientology never went to present time. And that is the illness plaguing it. They are stuck around 1960.
Because of this little punk. You have just to look at his hercut to see that little monster is stuck on the cold war. Up to to 1980, scientology was progressing with mainstream of it’s time (except the GO which was stuck on a James Bond and was looking like SPECTRE, with Jane Kember looking like number 2 (and Hubbard like Goldfinger!). But the tech itself was going forward and Not’s was not a tech for idiots.
From 1982, HCOPL about sec checking are reissued. We are back to 1962-1965. Overt given in session become actionnable. It’s the beginning of the end of scientology.
If you read “anatomy of thought” which is data serie 1 in fact, you understand that only basic law counts. But who read this, and who understand it? A subject like data serie evoluting with correct time stream require a certain IQ to be understood.
Like in any fascist state, after Miscavige took over, intelligent people were banned of scientology.
RTC just dig deep to get old tech and altered it for repressing anyone who would discover their coup. Being sec checked was no longer Hubbard tech but Stasi tech. Who could have a win with that?
richelieu jr says
Graceful return to your personal experience at the end, Mike.
You continue to impress.
mark marco says
“It’s what Scientology does with the concept that drives it into condemnation.”
-that’s another touchdown for the all-star player, E S P I
Maxim Zbitnoff says
I did not read all the replies but I was surprised no mention was made of 1967 policy on Second Dynamic Rules (I think that was the title) in which Hubbard said as much that it didn’t matter what your sexual practice was as long as it didn’t interfere with your progress in auditing. That said durring my tenure in the group there was certainly among some a disdain for gays though I think many were more accepting. I remember one event promoting religious freedom and along with speakers from other cults seeking legitimacy there was Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary. Not only was he for religioius freedom but freedom of sexuality for gays and lesbians which got a tepid response from the audience.
Funny that before I was in scientology it made no difference to me how sex was practiced.
Not long ago I was talking to someone who was in a different cult and I asked him why he left. He said he grew up. Bingo, that’s why I left: I had to grow up. As I did more sanity and humanity has been part of my life. The dreams of having the only answer to the dwindling spiral in all the eons no longer could be believed… though it was hard to let go. Nor could the real life playing out of the Emperor’s New Clothes by Clears, OTs and those running show…. they were as wacky as anyone else–some would say moreso.
Mike, I liked your post about charity and generousity in the wog world. I have been amazed at how caring and kind people can be without needing the turn it into a PR event.
Just recalling how when I left scientology in the mid 90s it was quite a shift to realize I did not have to look down on or distance myself from gays, pschiatrists, and “SP”s… that they were just as human and loveable as anybody, fellow travelers on life’s journey. A piece of growing up. Now I like to see the innocence in everyone… evil doers and all… without having to agree or condone.
Hi Maxim Zbitnoff, It is good to meet you.Thank you for your post.Made sense to me and I liked it.Always,Ann.
Chris Thompson says
The irony of studying Hubbard is that his psychosis let him say whatever sounded good to him at the moment. No one positive pronouncement of Hubbard’s corrects or cancels the countering negative things.
Hi Chris Thompson, I think your post about Ron is very true.He did have a knack for saying what would sound amazingly good at the moment.But as you wrote this does not negate or excuse the negative side.Always,Ann.
Chris, you’ve made a very relevant point. Much of scientology gospel is based on things Hubbard said while talking, and I don’t mean where he gave carefully prepared talks which I don’t think he ever did, but talks that could be described as employing a “conversational style”. Those of us less charitable in our judgements would call it, “yammering”. So, yes, he said whatever sounded good at the time and whatever popped into his head as evidenced by the baseless and contradictory products of his compulsion to wax authoritatively. Some of the things he said will not be quoted by his worshippers desirous to avoid “taking things out of context” as it were, wink wink.
Quite correct Roger. Now, I had access to EVERYTHING El Ron ever wrote or spoke because of my location. Unlike some others who keep screeching about taking stuff out of context. LRH’s context about gays is VERY simple and clear. He found through his “research” that they were 1.1 and thus dangerous perverts. He also wrote that they needed to be sidelined or, eliminated.
NOW, before others jump in; NO, he never gained enough power to implement that desire. Per his writings it is what he WANTED. If Herr Schicklgruber had never come to power I’m sure many would look back and defend Mein Kampf & he by stating that while he wrote that stuff, 1) He never actually tried to do it. 2) He was taken out of context.
Hi Roger Hornaday, I loved your post this morning.The way you put Ron into or out of context as it were resonated for me.Especially your point about his conversational style.He was an excellent off the cuff yarn spinner and hypnotist in my humble opinion.XO,Ann.
“He was an excellent off the cuff yarn spinner and hypnotist”
Hi Chris Thompson, Like all your posts,thank you.I remembered when I saw those old faded color Bell & Howell movies of Ron giving a talk at a shopping center in Phoenix,AZ I think.A Sea Org briefing at a house near Temple St,I saw these at least four times.Most interesting and yes he got me from the opening words.He was very skilled at that.Always,Ann.
BlindersOff says
Get ready for Dave’s new and improved RPF – Golden Age of Staff Purge (GASP). With this incredible breakthrough, the Sea Org member once and for all eliminates all sexual urges with the recently discovered FPRD 2D Form, just as LRH intended, unearthed where the Apollo was scrapped in 1984. It turns out the Mimeo Officer was a gay SP and hid these sacred writings in the aft well deck in a desperate attempt to cover up his hidden overts and evil intentions. That person has been removed from the scene (he died). The questions are designed to ferret out the last vestiges of abberant sexual behavior resulting in the guilty SO member cured and on fire to get back on post. The product is a totally neutered, distraction free Sea Org member, fully aligned with command intention and willing to die for Dave.
Hi BlindersOff, You are very good and made my evening.Thank you,Ann.
“GASP” LOL!
I’m very late to this thread and haven’t read the previous posts. That said, DM’s frequent focus on homosexuality tells me he’s intrigued by it, excited by it, and (very likely) involved in it.
Steve Crawford says
Yes, the thought has occurred to me also. Perhaps another reason why he refuses to be audited? That relationship with TC is very, very odd for grown men to have without intimacy
“That relationship with TC is very, very odd for grown men to have without intimacy”
Not true. Maybe you don’t experience this but “grown men” do experience non-sexual intimacy with our same sex friends – regardless of their sexuality. This is what good friendship is all about to me. If we were close friends, I’d be giving you a call “just to chat.”
Easy on the homosexuals, Robin.
Laura Ann says
Thank you for writing this, Mike. It needed to be said. Imo, probably the most evil thing that happens in Scientology, esp. with young S.O. members is the use of sex or lack of to introvert the poor guy or girl into their head so badly, they can’t see or think straight. It is used to control and make people feel like they are bad or deviant when they aren’t. I can’t think of anything worse, esp for young people.
Hi Laura Ann, Good to meet you. What you posted is true for me.Perceptive.I was not young young,but very sensitive and at 22 still innocent,when I joined SO.Because unlike a lot of my generation I wanted to make love not just jump on the pill to have sex and put notches on the bed post.So did Ron’s ambivalence regarding 2D and how that was applied mess me up? Yes very much so.Thank god I never got pregnant in SO.I really would have been in super hot water! So your post makes me hope the young young SO Members somehow see the light.Always,Ann.
Hi Ann, good to meet you too! I’m just seeing your reply and thank you for it. I’m with you on wishing the best for the young people in the SO now.
Hi Laura Ann, Thank you for your reply.I was just thinking all those years ago in Sea Org, if I had gotten pregnant there would have been no decision,I would never not had my child! More precious to me now because I could not have children this life.Did not know then.My reason for never letting my child go are not religious or political.That is my spirit talking.I would never have disconnected from that child.They would have blown with me.I still feel so sad for those still in.I cry for them all.Love,Ann.
Hi Laura Ann,I posted back to you but it went to the great beyond!Let me try again.Thank you for your reply to me and I agree with you.I was thinking all these years later if I had gotten pregnant in Sea Org I would never have had an abortion.That child would have meant the world to me.Having lost a baby in 91 and because of that I could never have children,I know even more strongly that back then,that child would have blown with me.I would never disconnect from him or her.So I feel sad for all the still ins.I cry for them all.Would they could see the light.Love,Ann.
Hot topic. And Helmuts rant made it hotter.
Mike to my knowledge has never negated anyone’s wins. Hubbard stole from the best and there is some very useful philosophy’s and processes that have helped people.
To hold those wins and philosophies ransom as the cherch does is criminal and exploitive.
Mike is a boon to those in, out and never in as he is letting all people know the machinations of this insane organization gone wild.
Perspective is so important. We can have our wins and at this point they have nothing to do with what is happening in Scientology now.
I’m happy I’m out. Without Mike and people like him I would be dead. And I’m hardly a victim. I was a total victim when I was in. That’s the product of Scientology. Self-determined victims.
In the cherch, Self-determinism=Ron and Davey-determinism.
Hi BKmole, Your post rang so true for me.Yes I was a victim of Sea Org goodness gone bad,and yes perhaps I stayed through abuse too long,but as you know it is so hard to let go even when I knew I was drowning.Mike has this innate ability to communicate and connect.And an unbelievably strong Will that keeps him knocking out this blog for all of us to have a safe home to post.Do I know his daily life and hopes and dreams,no those belong to Christie and him and their family always.But I will do my utmost to protect the freedom,from 24/7 slavery in the Cult that we all sharedDo I get under Mike’s skin? oh I am sure I do.Does he get under my skin at times? Hardly ever maybe once or twice.But my point is that is life,the world and I would be dead and my spirit flown if he had not given me the gift of comm on this blog.So he and his are part of me now and we are all”doing something about it here” Love your posts.Ann.
Mike. Things have to be seen through moral code of the time. When Hubbard wrote in 1951 that homosexual were 1,1, the whole fucking universe starting with medicine would consider homosexuality as an illness, and it was illegal, you would risk to be comitted in a psych asylum or put in jail. Turing (there was a movie about this guy who broke the german codes) was, after the war, obliged to be chimically castrated or put in jail for his homosexuality. He suicided. At this time psychiatrist, would emprisonned the hands of boys to make sure they don’t masturbate, and some did clitorisectomy on girls. Those psychs were the dirty son of a bitch that Hubbard described.
When Hubbard say that homosexuality could be audited he is bloody mild for his time, we are in 1951. Up to the 1960, the current treatment for homosexuality was electric shock. They had to withold homosexuality, like witholding to be jew in Europe during WW2.
And homosexual were ashame to be. I knew some guy who went for auditing with the ruin of being homosexual in the 1970. At this time they were treated nicely with auditor codes in and were given auditing (Life repair style with prepcheck). At this time scientology and Hubbard were not homophobic, some scientologist were homophobic being homosapiens of their time. I have known also scientologists racist with black and antisemitics.
In the UK, up to 1967 there was a law saying that you could go to jail if you are homosexual. I have known before 1982 a lot of homosexual in scientology, and there was no discrimination. After many of them were fired. I remember 2 lesbians girls, in 1982 they suddenly were debarred from the course room, if they continued to have an “aberrated 2D”.
Its like scientology was more modern than society before 1980. Then society became more liberal, and scientology regressed in time.
You speak of this little monster of Miscavige (thinking that he is not becoming history and still in power is almost unbearable) Of course he is homophobic like the worst of KKK. How come nobody hasn’t yet broke his little neck?
Scientology is frozen. So books with old codes, old sec check should be warned of.
At the time Hubbard wrote science of survival, homosexuality was considered by society like now pedophily.
But as they cannot think, they cannot revised the viewpoint.
YEs, this is the exact problem. The “universal truths” that L. Ron Hubbard “discovered” are still held to be unalterable scripture. Scientology is frozen in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.
McCarran says
Well, sure as shit, Miscavige will probably come out with what LRH said about not getting involved in sexuality. Same as masturbation. LRH said he didn’t care if you masturbated that he wanted real crimes, real overts. That bitch, DM, will start pushing what LRH said that is opposite to all you are talking about here. How all of this isn’t what he intended. It was you and Marty bla bla bla. Homophobe, Homo”hatred” no more. He always adjusts to public opinion and adjusts to you and Marty (that means just you now-a-days.
He’ll never adjust to Disconnection. That’s the only card to hold control that david miscavige has.
genetru says
Hubbard was not immune from cultural conditioning. The conditioning of his time said that homosexuals, who in my experience are almost always highly cultured and civilized, were bad whereas violent males were and are held up as role models.
To me, if you really want to make a better civilization, you should start by being more civilized than your surrounding culture. Civilizations are tolerant. CofS should stop harassing the hairdressers and interior designers – they make things nice! Instead, concentrate on the eradication of thugs and thuggery! Unfortunately, Hubbard appears to have enjoyed thugs and thuggery.
The homosexuals helped bring about civilization on Earth in Babylon, the most culturally and technically advanced society on Earth at the time. They can do so again if not abused and harassed their whole lives, as has happened with so many I know.
It’s the thugs and barbarians that you have to watch out for, they are violent and cause war etc and tend to kill the homos who in return talk smack about the barbarians lack of taste. One of the problems with barbarians is that they don’t understand that they are barbarians or that it’s bad to be one.
genetru the problem with generalities is that they are usually wrong. There were several high ranking homosexuals in Hitler’s team and they helped start a HUGE war. They were also thugs.
Best if you get further education before you make even more incorrect, sweeping statements.
Exactly John. Homosexuality has nothing to do with career choices – nothing.
Correct Chris. And, unlike what genetru asserts, sexual orientation has NO bearing on the good or evil propensities of a person.
Genetru-
I got your message about tolerance and thank you for the reminder,
that tolerance is a valid measure of the advance of civiization.
Why John can’t find his cork before popping off another invalidation of knowingness is just beyond me,
he just does that, most oftern when he doesn’t know the person well, and I hope you continue to post here whenever you get the notion.
1951 was only six to seven years after the concentration camps were freed. It wasn’t only Jews imprisoned in them. A half million homosexuals were killed by the Nazis in the camps. This was public knowledge. So what does Hubbard do? Acknowledge that the Nazi solution to the “gay problem” was perfectly acceptable. The cultural mores of the time do not matter in this instance and do not excuse Hubbard.
The operative word is “genocide”. He proscribed “convert or die”, just like the Inquisition. Countries in Europe and all of the United States had eliminated the death sentence for sodomy by the middle of the 19th Century; in France, sodomy was and has been legal since 1791 (except for the years they were under Nazi control). Hubbard wanted that reinstated in a Clear Planet.
There is no justification for this. There is no explaining it away as a relic of his time.
Dear Espiando,
What you say comparing Hubbard with nazis concerning homosexual show how ignorant you are of Hubbard writing. Hubbard wanted to audit homosxual in a time were they were electrick shoked, jailed for being homo. Hubbard was much more liberal than the rest of the society. He couldn’t say that it was ok to be homo. It would have been like now saying that after all pedophily is acceptable. So, with his education background, he would conclude it was an abarration and that it could be audited.
You could note that he wrote in the dianetics course in 1969 that it’s a crime to evaluate the aberration of the PC from what you see. Aberration of the PC is what the PC consider being an abarration from his own viewpoint.
Homophobia and many fascist viewpoints started in the church with RTC, and the little punk.
When Hubbard write the Joburg in 1959, he just write the principal trangression aginst the society in South Afrika at the time of Appartheid. “have you ever have sex with a somone of the wrong race?” He said that a withold is a trangression against a moral code in “what is a withold” lecture. He doesn’t mean that he agrees with the code. If you were to sec check an SS, you would ask “have you spared a jew’s life?” and if he did, he would have comitted an overt against his “command intention”.
Sec-check are a matter of code. Today you could ask : “Did you discriminate homosexual?” or “are you an antisemite?” those are clearly overts in our society.
Intelligent scientologists would have revised the Joburg since 30 years! I remember while auditing a grade 2 having done a Joburg. When I asked the question of “wrong race” to the PC he was quite puzzled. He actually had sex with a black girl. But he couldn’t see why it was an overt! But finally he “cogged” that it was probably not ok to have relations with black girls (returning to a probable grand parents viewpoint!) This is how scientologist after being kind of revolutionnary type of people become tuxedo and very very conservative style.
Because bulletins are frozen in time. Abd it is not because they are scientologist, it’s because they understand nothing to scientology. Never listened to class 2 lectures about overt and withold. And certainly never read the Data serie 1 : “Anatomy of thought” where Hubbard tell about the difference between a basic law and a rule. And that only basic law count.
“Command intention” followers of the “COB” and extreme antiscientologists who could compare Hubbard with a nazi share one thing : extreme stupidity.
“Hubbard wanted to audit homosxual in a time were they were electrick shoked, jailed for being homo. ”
FG, you begin your lengthy comment with a false argument which means I needn’t punish myself by reading further. Hubbard wanted to audit homosexuals according to you which made him open-minded, “liberal” as you put it. Yet in his own words which you CONVENIENTLY and blissfully choose to ignore, he called for exterminating them without remorse in case auditing and a few other measures failed to cure them. I can only imagine what further molestations of bad logic await the innocent reader who misguidedly elects to read your entire statement.
Roger, by not reading further, you missed the part where he claims that homophobia in the cult started with Miscavige. This is as hilarious a piece of writing as All About Radiation.
Roger, I assume you never read Hubbard… really never ever he called for exterminating anyone. Ask even to Mike Rinder he was there and studied scientology. What you say is pure non sense. You are a Hubbard hater. Actually you belong to the same specie than Miscavige. Extremists are there to make life horrible to good people.
Roger: “FG, you begin your lengthy comment with a false argument…”
It was clear to me that FG was making a comparison of relative truths, and that would not be a false argument.
In a lecture on one of the Academy levels, Hubbard was talking about the need for communication to be on the reality level of the receiver. One example he gave was how you might respond to an angry man who was ranting and raving – “Put them all up against the wall and shoot ’em!.” The idea was that now you could actually get through to the guy, just because of having acknowledged his feelings.
Perhaps the position Hubbard took in DMSMH was for the purpose of hitting the reality level of the reader – by first acknowledging what the prevalent think was in 1950. BUT he went on to say that processing would more easily handle the situation. I highly doubt he thought society would ever go to such extreme measures as extermination, but that they would agree that homosexuals needed to have their “aberrations” audited. I agree with the idea that Hubbard was a victim of cultural think at the time.
marildi, there isn’t a court in this country will convict me for writing a comment based on what is clear to me as opposed to what is clear to you.
Enough. Thanks.
word is John Locke owns a particle of source
-now that is cred,
credibility to beat the band.
FG: “Because bulletins are frozen in time. And it is not because they are scientologists, it’s because they understand nothing to [about] scientology. Never listened to class 2 lectures about overt and withhold. And certainly never read the Data series 1 : ‘Anatomy of thought’ where Hubbard tells about the difference between a basic law and a rule. And that only basic laws count.”
Precisely. This is probably the biggest reason that so many criticisms are absurd.
There is even policy for how to change policy that has become unworkable or inappropriate.
Correct marildi. HOWEVER, that is ONLY for PLs’ (green on white) NOT books, tapes, HCOB’s, (the tech of the mind, Tone scale, etc.) E.g.,the data on homosexuals vis-a-vis being 1.1 and criminal, needing to be eliminated, etc. is NOT HCO PL’s that can be changed or eliminated. See tech degrades for more on this.
Did you REALLY not know this or, are you just selectively editing your memory?
At this point, with what Mike said in the article, it’s more like grasping at straws for anything, anything, that might absolve L. Ron from ordering genocide of LGBTs if they can’t be converted to nice heteronormatives.
“…that is ONLY for PLs’ (green on white) NOT books, tapes, HCOB’s, (the tech of the mind, Tone scale, etc.)”
John, I guess you’ve forgotten this policy:
“HCO Policy Letters are senior in admin. HCO Bulletins are senior to all other orders in tech.” (from HCO PL 9 Aug 72 “Seniority of Orders”)
Please stop quoting L. Ron Hubbard to make points. Someone will respond with another quote that says the opposite. It’s an endless game. Hair splitting about whether it is acceptable practice in scientology to alter the writings of L. Ron Hubbard is like arguing how many angels fit on the head of a pin. THere isn’t a scientologist in the world that will tell you that it is OK to alter what Ron says. Other than those who have already been declared SP’s for being squirrels. That is the bottom line and you and everyone else here knows it. Please stop wasting bandwidth with this.
There is a lot of truth to what you are saying, Mike, but the fact is that if Miscavige were a social personality, the policies do exist which he could utilize to promote very different practices than what he has chosen to promote.
Observingsandiego says
Marildi – do you know of instances where the policies have been updated to change with the times? (this is a serious question, it could read as a smart ass comment) 😉
Observingsandiego – no, I can’t say that I know of actual policy letters specifically which have been updated to change with the times. But in effect this has been done with, for example, the attitude towards women. In “Science of Survival,” Hubbard projected the 1950’s attitude in the following:
“We have, in the woman who is an ambitious rival of the man in his own activities, a woman who is neglecting the most important mission she may have. A society which looks down upon this mission, and in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation, is a society which is on its way out.” (SOS)
Obviously, this “policy” was changed with regard to women on Scientology staff, as an example, who had equal rights with men to become execs, etc. (Note that they were also allowed to have children and a family. It was Miscavige who changed the policy on family time in the SO and eventually on having children at all.)
The same type of change could be made into policy as regards the 1950 statement about gays.
THis is the last comment on this topic. This dead horse hasn’t just been beaten, it’s turned to dust.
Observingsandiego, in the early ’80’s I got approved a change to a HCO PL. Can’t remember the title but I had added to it a line about making sure an exec giving an order had enough knowledge in the area he was ordering.
FG said, “Its like scientology was more modern than society before 1980. ”
Really? In the US, even in the 50’s, the gov didn’t advocate wiping out homosexuals like LRH did. Sounds like you need to read a LOT more on the subject.
In the seventies, I audited a lot. I had some PCs who were homosexual, never it was an problem, they were going through their grades. At this time it was forbidden to make trouble for a PC about his case. It was forbidden to say to anyone PC was homo, or whatever. The auditor code was sacred. There was actually no direct routing of a PC to ethics. And iron policy destroyed by Miscavige.
Mr Lock, Espiando, Roger H and all, I suppose that you never studied scientology. You speak about a subject you don’t know shit.
I’m amazed Mike that you don’t tell them yourself that Hubbard wanted to exterminate homo is just completely false, it’s a ridiculous statement. Hubbard couldn’t care less weather people were homo or not.
I’m not a fucking cultist. I have always hated them even when Mike and Marty were still in the cult. I have been an ennemy of the cultist aspect of scientology all the time. And I never liked sea org uniform, really never. I actually didn’t like them at all. 15 years ago Marty Rathbun would have declared me SP as IG ethics if I didn’t withold my opinion. I’m a natural born SP for robotic cultist, (and stupid hater).
Hubbard has had some flaws and wrote some bad issus on SP act and all. But never ever he claimed or intend to exterminate anyone. I’m sorry to say that in front the wise Mr Espiando, Lock and Roger H, but Hubbard wanted to help and he did.
I said what I had to say about this very clearly. You should vent in some other direction.
You are getting all worked up over this when it is unnecessary. If you believe others’ opinions are ill-founded and based upon ignorance, then take your own advice. Why be bothered by people who “know shit.”?
I don’t post here much, but I read Mike’s blog daily and have watched in awe as someone I once knee-jerk despised has morphed over the life of this blog into someone I genuinely respect and like. I cannot emphasize enough that it wasn’t just Mike who had to change for this to happen. But that’s another story. This long-ass post is about Hubbs and homosexuality.
I know we’ve been over this topic again and again in the critic community, but for me, I realized it was what got me into this battle with Hubbard’s con in the first place. As a young, gay man in 1978, freshly out to my very accepting family, I was dating a boy we’ll call Jim. He was my age (18) and my parents really liked him. He would hang out with us constantly and never really talked about his family in depth or asked me to come to his home (he still lived with his parents and sister). We dated for a few months and I wondered, as you do when you’re 18, if Jim was “the one.” I was taking a year off between high school and college to work and save money for a summer in Europe, so I came home from work one day and my parents were agitated. My dad asked me to listen to a phone message they’d received from “my little friend.” Whenever my dad referred to any of my friends thusly, they’d usually done something to earn his ire.
The phone message was so weird, I had to listen to it twice to make sure I heard it correctly. Here was my boyfriend, who had spent many a night at our place, telling my parents that I was “very sick,” that in fact our whole family was sick and that it was because I was a homosexual. He continued that only Scientology could help us and that it would “be a shame if this got into the media.”
Now, this was 1978. What was he going to do, put an ad in the Penny Saver? Needless to say, I felt like I’d been hit in the gut with a baseball bat. I tried calling him. No answer. No phone machine. Nada.
I tried for another week. Nothing. I tried our yoga class we went to. Gone. He wasn’t in my circle of high school and theater friends so they couldn’t be of any help. Now, in those days, Jim and I were very into metaphysics and spirituality, but there was never a mention of Hubbard or Scientology. So, being rather in the dark about the church, I bought a copy of Dianetics to see what the hell was going on. Besides being impenetrably dull word-salad, I found that it was impenetrably-dull, homophobic word salad (among other ridiculous things) and a life-long critic was born.
Fast-forward five years (1983), and I run into Jim and his date at a party. He looked like a deer in the car headlights when he saw me. As I approached, he hung his head. I couldn’t tell if he was laughing or crying. Long story short, he told me that his parents had found a letter I had written to him. He had been totally closeted to his Scientologist parents. They stood over him with the local mission holder in attendance, and told him what to say into the answering machine that day ten years before. I was gobsmacked and mostly felt sorry for him. He was never really in the church. He told me his father and mother divorced, she blew and the dad stayed in for a while and quietly left.
At the time I reconnected with Jim, I had moved back to my hometown of San Francisco and worked in a bookstore in the Castro district. Whenever anybody brought a copy of Dianetics up to the counter, I’d have them read a copy I kept below the register with all the crazy, homophobic crap highlighted and bookmarked. They’d stand to the side and I’d watch their faces as they read. In the two years I worked there the reactions varied from laughter to rage, but nobody ever bought a single copy after reading that cray-cray.
Thanks Mike, for all you do. It can’t have been an easy journey, even once you were free of the church. May you reconnect with your children someday soon. And to the rest of our far-flung, disparate community, every story matters. Keep talking.
Thanks for sharing your story with us, Artoo45 ; I am really sorry that you had to go through all that.
Wow, what a story Artoo45! $ just H-A-S to mess with others lives even after the ‘think for yourself’ ‘what is true for you is true’ etc. baloney. Thank you for sharing.
Good People says
Mr Rinder, Two questions for you: 1. Do you think Scientology could be reformed if it had sane, compassionate leadership? 2. Do you think if Scientology continues to contract, Scientologists will try to remove DM from power?
1. I don’t think any organized “church” is ever going to succeed. I don’t think scientology needs to be (or can be) “reformed.” People can use what they find works and abandon that which doesn’t. They can practice the parts of scientology as long as isn’t abusing anyone and it works for them. But I do not believe any organization will ever really work, other than small localized “collective” where people get together to practice what they find workable.
2. No. He (and they) always have some other reason to explain failures (psychs, big pharma, SP, bitter defrocked apostates, the media). As long as he is around and they keep contributing to his campaigns, cause will always be assigned else and he will be the only hope for handling it.
Not that it matters really but it’s that attitude of yours Mike that keeps me frequenting this site. I’d like to see a sane approach to understanding scientology. Trying to eliminate it will only cause problems that will never go away and create an angst against whatever concept of freedom we think we live under and vote for.
But as a large group scientology will forever develop people like miscavige to take it over, same as any organisation that creates a flow of ‘easy’ money. If the mind of man is ever going to understood, it will never come from mainstream either – far too many vested interests keeping the “common folk” in line for that.
Must be quite the time consumer for you to keep this site going – thanks.
You frequent this site all the time. I visit here daily and there’s almost always a comment from you. Maybe Mike understands, from his intimate, inside knowledge as a Scientology executive, that the sane approach is that Hubbs was a con man who cobbled together some things that worked, others that didn’t and still others that he just pulled out of his ass for convenience or maybe because he was simply high as a kite. Just because some aspects of psychology have been ineffective or harmful, it’s been self-correcting. That’s what science does. And because psychology is a soft science, it’s trial and error on the most complicated system in the universe: the human brain. One step at a time.
Scientology? Talk about a system designed to keep common folk in line.
True, what would I know? I was only a front line CL4 auditor and sup for over a decade, working 12 plus hours a day. Mere pittance compared to those who PR for a living.
Was a soldier too, what the hell do I know of about armies and armed conflict? I was only a mere corporal.
I’ve seen/known many executives and have known many officers, a few competent ones but many more who were grossly incompetent. Having rank doesn’t make you an expert no matter how much you’d like to think otherwise. What you do and the results you get are what define you. A negative opinion thrust forward carries the same weight as a positive one unless you have no idea of what you are talking about and then it’s just bs, no matter how it’s dressed.
And concerning bs, there’s no shortage of that concerning scientology, for both sides of the camp.
I think I’m allowed to comment when, where and how I choose, that is correct isn’t it? Or do I need your permission?
And one more point. The most glaring thing about the scientology organisation is that the rot began at the top of the organising board and flowed downhill.
Countless well intentioned people in the lower rank structure were abused, financially punished and ripped away from the families for many, many years before 2007.
I walked out in disgust around 1998 and severed all ties by early 2000.
Where was management when so many staff members were struggling just to keep food on the table? The luxuries of life like new clothes, cars that worked and medical/dental treatment were an impossible dream. We were blamed for not working hard enough and not being whatever the fuck “standard” means while the lies flowed thick and fast from your prised executive strata. I’ve earned the right to say what I like about that organisation and its tech, as many others who’ve paid the price also are free to say whatever they like.
I never fire the first shot in invalidating another of their scientology opinions but as sure as hell, I’ll fire the accurate ones.
I Yawn asked, “Where was management when so many staff members were struggling just to keep food on the table? ”
“Management” was standing around applying LRH pay policy on the matter. THUS, staff members starved.
Hi I Yawnalot,A true and accurate post!When I feel I’ve messed up here or start to falter,I read your posts. Lifts me up every time.Love,Ann.
Shot fired and received… 😉 great post I yawn.
Good people. I hope that your 2 questions could be positively answered but unless COB contract a cancer and die, I don’t see how they will get rid of him. If he was gone, it’s not impossible to think that the church would reform.
We shouldn’t take what Hubbard said so seriously. He would have been the first to admit he didn’t know what he was talking about.
(and the crowd rolls onto the floor in chaotic laughter)
Back on the day I audited a gay guy on Op Pro by Dup when it was the HQS course.
It blew his color blindness ( color blind since age 9) He went home to his gay partner
and told him the news and the gay partner freaked out that Scientology made his Gay partner better.
This destroyed the gay guy who came back to the mission caved in and crying.
After that this person never again came back.
What does being gay have to do with this story? As far as I can tell it is totally irrelevant, unless you are trying to make the point that all gay people “deestroy their partners” or they all hate scientology or what?
Maybe I’ve gave the short form but a true story.
I didnt say it wasn’t true, I just didnt follow the point you were trying to make?
Jose Chung, I don’t believe for one nano-second anybody’s color blindness was cured by auditing. It is my belief you are lying. I’m not saying you ARE lying, only that I BELIEVE you are and I’d be willing to bet a ruinous amount of money on it.
Really happened, true story.
Or the PC was lying and wrote a wonderful success story and the real reason he never returned is because of his outlandish lie about his color blindness being cured and he was afraid of being found out. Whatever it is, something smells funny about that story.
Not sure you can “cure” color blindness with auditing. Outside of this one situation, I’ve never heard of ANYONE curing their color blindness.
Maybe they lost their sight entirely and hence the color part was ‘cured’.
Kemist says
No, it cannot be cured. But in certain cases, it can be corrected with special glasses :
http://www.enchroma.com/
Science. It works.
And it will cost you less than auditing.
AnnB, thanks so much for your very sweet memories of both Quentin and John. They certainly match mine. Quentin gave me the most incredible review session I ever had in all my years. We both laughed like crazy guys all through it. No rote/remote auditing from that guy! I knew John in my NY days. He did a series of radio and tv interviews there which resulted in a LOT of good news for Scn at that time. Cab drivers recognized him as soon as he got in their cabs! He was utterly amazing, almost angelic when he was explaining something to the audience. As well, his output resulted in a wave of new people into the org and missions. Declared? Utter BS!
Hi thegman77, XO Always,Ann.
Hi thegman77, Two lasting memories I have of John’s letters and Quentin.What you posted about John’s angelic presence when explaining points came across very strongly in his letters to me.I really felt that.Quentin and I used to go hang out along the covered walkway that was facing the gardens at The Manor.We would be the only two sitting along the hall,and all he had to do was look at me directly and we both would laugh,it was totally amazing.Never any rote/remote auditing from him ever!Like stardust.Love,Ann.
Someone who is so extremely homophobe like Miscavige, might in fact be very much afraid of being gay himself. Or, maybe more so, fighting his own gay tendencies by exposing them in others very ostentatiously and by boasting about his own ‘performances’ with women, who are just used by him. He might be overcompensating his own ‘failure’.
Rusty says
This piece was incredible. Thorough and also personal. Thank you.
marie guerin says
A very dear friend of mine was a homosexual. His strict adherence to the Church and loyalty to LRH led him to accept trying to change , or that he had to change . Having to fight the impulse and giving in to the impulse , accepting to try to be changed but not wanting to change , observing that he couldn’t change in spite of believing the tech will make you free , this mad cycle made his life a living hell.
The arrogance of the ignorant can ruin a life and they did , in my views.
Unlike Sunny , he was not declared , but only because he agreed to the madness , and other factors.
What a very sad story. Completely dedicated to Hubbard’s dream and willing to try to turn himself into a heterosexual. marie, I’ll bet “…his life a living hell” was an understatement. From your post I assume he’s still in?
And, Herrrrrrrrrrrrreessssss Johnny! I’m back! You’re stuck with me. You hear that John Locke???
If the spam file had some great wave action and a six-pack on ice waiting for you, you would have never left, and you know that.
Oh, guilty as charged! You know me so well Espi….
Yey! Welcome back from spam land OSD!
Thanks OSD2! Good to be back!
For those missing OSD, it is my fault. I just found him sent to the spam file. Must have been my fat fingers trying to negotiate the iPhone to moderate comments. The little icons are so small and so close together…. (my excuse). You will see a bunch of old comments from OSD appear in a minute, though they may not all show up as “current” they may be buried back in the thread where he posted them. I also found two other inadvertent “spam” comment in there from John Locke and one other.
My apologies.
No need to apologize Mike. I’m just glad you have this blog.
( I thought OSD was just hitting the beach)
Steven Hassan (@CultExpert) says
Love to see more human rights groups get involved decrying the grim reality of Scientology’s denial of many basic human rights! Tax- exemption must be revoked!
Steven Hassan
Dr Hassan, I love your work. I would really love for you to comment on how do you think that this subject of homophobia relates to the subject of cults.
Keep up your excellent work.
Best regards ,
Yep! Truer words were never spoken, Steve. People will be amazed, when this all falls apart for the cult, how much physical brutality was unleashed on their own members, not to mention the mental assault that they deal with daily.
Whatever is happening in your lives, and I know people are disconnected from families who post here. but, knowing what has, and will continue to occur inside this cult, causes me to give eternal thanks to the universe that it’s not happening in my life! I’m just so very thankful to have the incredible life that I have! Living a cult free life is truly a blessing…
Mike, thank you for this post and for your positive, accepting stance on the subject. While the US has made many positive strides in the right direction we are still a cultural backwater in regards to acceptance, far behind any other 1st world country (and even some 2nd and 3rd world countries). Sadly scientology’s views on this subject aren’t far off from not only the Catholic Church, but many Protestant churches as well. I firmly believe that if there is a god, or if you are in a religion that claims to help people – judging someone based on something that isn’t up to them and denying one their basic rights and needs is the real sin, no higher being would ever find fault with acceptance, tolerance and love.
If you believe the late John Boswell, condemnation of homosexuality as something apart from the general regard of non-procreative sexuality as sin didn’t take place until the late 12th Century, when there was a massive social movement toward conformity with the majority view that swept up a lot of minorities and non-empowered peoples, such as Jews and women, in its wake. Before this movement, it was rather live-and-let-live with gay people. St. Peter Damian’s condemnation of homosexuals was actually blown off by the Pope.
In his condemnation of homosexuality, Aquinas actually uses one of the weakest possible arguments available, and seems to be a little ambivalent about that. But society at the time required a population whose duty was to supply the necessary labor that kept feudalism going, and that meant sex had to be channeled to procreation, with clear lines toward the inheritance of property. That’s why the Church made marriage a sacrament in the 13th Century.
Boswell’s final work, his rediscovery to popular attention of Christian ceremonies which were undoubtedly for same-sex marriage, put same-sex marriage on the agenda of gay rights, albeit as a future target, in the 90s. He would have been proud to see some of those rediscovered ceremonies being adapted and used for their proper purpose today.
Agreed ESpi! I knew the ban on homosexuality came much later in the Catholic Church but not the exact details. The marriage ceremony bit is very interesting indeed, I’m glad we are gettin back around to it. 😉
Miss Ellie says
At my mission the “ethics” officer decided to “cure” a guy of being gay. He worked and worked with him to get him “straight” then “ordered” him to have sex with a female friend of his. He did.. she did… they did. He came in carried by two friends of his. He had a complete breakdown and the “ethics” officer could not figure out what went wrong. I have often wondered what happened to the poor guy… I never saw him again after he was carried in. This was in the 70s.
When he was carried in he was crying and physically ill. He looked like hell. I wish I had stood up for him but I was a kid of 14 or so and did not have what it took. None of the other adults did anything that I know of either.
What an evil organization can be created by people wanting to do the “right” things.
Hi Miss Ellie, Good to meet you.Thank you for your powerful post.Yes I saw some of what you posted in Sea Org,but I am so so sorry you had to be 14 and feel helpless in that situation.I really feel for you.Glad you are out now,you are very strong.Love,Ann.
@FBC says
I suspect Helmut’s comment is being misinterpreted. I used to work in Helmut’s business more than a decade ago, and he did not show any sign of homophobia. In fact, he had an openly homosexual office manager who went to the office parties with his same sex domestic partner, and Helmut talked cheerfully with both of them in the party.
Michael Winters says
As an aside, where did LRH say marijuana was safer than alcohol and what text or edition of the book was this deleted from? Curious.
I think it was in DMSMH, the original edition. Not sure how long before it was removed. He may also have said it in other places.
Jonathan Mark says
That may have been the only time Hubbard was ever right about anything.
Thanks, I have the 3rd or 4th printing of the first edition. I will have to check it out.
Easy: http://projectavalon.net/DMSMH.PDF
Right, Mike. It was in the original edition of DMSMH and is also in the newest (“basic books”) edition. I don’t know about the editions in between.
“…alcohol is apparently not physiological in its addictive effect. With the whole range of chemistry to choose stimulants and depressants from, why the government chooses a superiorly aberrative and inferiorly stimulative compound to legalize is a problem for the better mathematicians, possibly these who deal exclusively in tax income problems. Opium is less harmful, marijuana is not only less physically harmful but also better in the action of keeping a neurotic producing, phenobarbital does not dull the senses nearly as much and produces less after effect, ammonium chloride and a host of other stimulants are more productive of results and hardly less severe on the anatomy…Making one drug immoral and another one taxable is a sample of the alcohol engram in society.” (DMSMH)
SarahDB says
Is he speaking from personal experience?
Score one for LRH! That’s something verified he got right. Haha.
Michael, I believe I’ve proved that it is. And let me tell you, son! I put in massive amounts of research time to come to this conclusion. So…question answered.
sashiebgood says
“Not all the beauty nor the handsomeness nor artificial social value nor property can atone for the vicious damage such people do to sane men and women. The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.”
sounds a lot like David Miscavige should be suddenly and abruptly deleted.
Well said sashie. Well said.
Point #1 of Keeping Scientology Working is ‘Having the correct technology’. Since Hubbard’s writings on homosexuality would be considered the correct tech on the subject, I wish to add my comments to a small portion of this policy letter:
“We will not speculate here on why this was so or how I came to rise above the bank. (why not?)
“We are dealing only in facts (really?) and the above is a fact (if you say so) —the group left to its own devices would not have evolved Scientology but with wild dramatizations of the bank called “new ideas” would have wiped it out. (one man’s opinion). Supporting this is the fact that man has never before evolved workable mental technology (how does this support your claim?) and emphasizing it is the vicious technology he did evolve—psychiatry, psychology, surgery, shock treatment, whips, duress, punishment, etc., ad infinitum.” (How is all of psychiatry and psychology vicious? Wasn’t it you who said generalities won’t do?)
Fred says
I’m heterosexual, and as far as I know, most of my friends are and yet none of us are as obsessed with the details of male homosexual activities as the homophobes I’ve noticed on other forums.
It’s almost a cliche, but the evil dwarf’s obsession with body building and near-constant ranting about homosexuality does make you wonder doesn’t it?
The ‘lady’ doth protest too much
Or, as LRH would paraphrase ‘the overt doth squeal in delight when its tiny bottom is squeezed’
I’ve wondered that as well, with all of the books and articles written by people close to dm that speak to his constant degradation of people around him in very homophobic terms… Regardless, LRH set the tone and dm has taken it to another level. Its disgusting all the way around.
Oh, I wonder alright. I do wonder….
But, keep in mind that DLHDM has Tiny Man’s Syndrome. Small Man’s Syndrome would be a step for him.
Schorsch says
You give someone a want, a desire, an urge. Some burning desire to reach for something. Then you say that want is a sin, bad or not right to accomplish. Like eating. You give someone a body that needs food. Then you tell him that eating is bad. Currently they not only tell us that eating is bad, also breathing. CO2 you know. Same with sex. Religion tell us always that sex, eating, breathing whatever is necessary to let a body live is bad or is only acceptable if done right. The right way, at the right time or whatever else is told us to be right.
Ever wondered why especially Religions have so much attention on the right way to eat or not eat at times, have sex or not have sex, the right way to have sex or whatever. They know that one has to eat and do all the other things a body needs. So every one breaks the rules. There is no one on earth with a body existence that can follow all the rules exactly. Even if he tries.
Next step is then to find a way to pull the withholds. It is not so much the punishment that is the bad thing. It is an old formula to make a population OBEY. That is all what that game is about. Make you obey. They do not care of you are gay or hetero. They only want you to break the rules. Do not have too much attention on the different groups with different rules. The objective behind all those groups is to make you obey. Fall to you knees and follow their orders.
Now the sin is to not be tolerant. Then you are marked being bad. Next step is to control not only what you say. The final stage is to control your thoughts and not let yourself think other thoughts then the sanctioned ones. But it is not possible completely control the thoughts and then you may observe yourself having bad thoughts and then you punish yourself. That is the last level of the game. Controlling yourself.
Living in the Sea Org is the blueprint of the living on this planet in the future. I always tried to figure out the meaning of the statement that only Clears and Ots will survive this planet. In the 70ies I had no good reality about that. Now 2015 I have a very good reality about it.
Thank you Schorsch. I heard you Brother.
Oh no, no GP. C’mon now! It’s “I HEAR you Brother.” I mean, sup wit dat?
COSCUZ says
Very well said, Schorsch. Thank you.
Ian says
Thank you as always mike. Powerful words to hear, and they need to be heard. Keep up the good work.
http://time.com/3975630/pope-francis-lgbt-issues/
“1. Pope Francis said that God doesn’t condemn LGBT individuals — Sept. 30, 2013”
Hey, I thought Dave was the Pope.
In his trousers
“Dave’s really a sweetheart once you get to blow him.” – Unidentified Inch Wife
Oh shit! All this time I thought you guys were saying “Dave the Poop!” Man, do have toilet paper on my face or what?
doloras says
LRH himself was of course quite voraciously heterosexual – but then again, it’s rumored he did some forbidden things out in the desert with Jack Parsons, so maybe his behavior with women was “making up for” some deep feelings for men. So maybe he himself was “projecting his own case onto others” in this regard too.
P. O'Neil says
I think you are exactly right. If you’ve read Hubbard’s Affirmations*, you know that he is trying (for pages and pages) to convince himself that (1) Jack is a friend only (but it’s normal for Hubbard to enjoy looking at Jack’s body, because ART) and (2) Hubbard’s wife is very sexually attractive to him and sex with her is eminently satisfying for him. These points go hand-in-hand; it was clear (to me, anyway) that Hubbard was trying to make himself forget about what must have been an overwhelming sexual experience with Jack, and to push his continuing attraction to Jack to the bottom of his psyche by, in effect, “writing over” those feelings with the new “code” of “my only sexual desires are for women” and “my wife is a very desirable woman.” There are hints in the writings that episodic impotence compounded this problem.
Given the mores and morals of the day, it wasn’t unusual for Hubbard to feel guilty for having enjoyed sex with a man; but he reacted to that guilt with the overblown emotional response of a teenager, not a grown man. I think it was the guilty and scared teenager in Hubbard that so emphatically rejected a man’s (i.e., his) sexual attraction to another man and ultimately defined it as aberrant. Easy to see how that guilt was transposed into hatred of homosexuals. And because Hubbard was his “religion”, and vice-versa, hatred of homosexuality became a tenet of the faith of Scientology.
*I think that’s what he called these confessional writings.
I’m disappointed. I got to the end of these comments and no-one from Milestone Two stood up to defend Ron’s scientific understanding that homosexuals are creepy, warped, disgusting, and Scientology can and will cure them of their foul misdeeds. Can I ask: do the fundamentalist-Indies support LRH’s homophobia, or do they try to doublethink that away, too?
Theta Clear says
Most of them , a least the ones I know, don’t support homophobia , fair gaming , SP declares , nor disconnection. They tacitly disagree with all those items, even when they refuse to make public statements against LRH or Scn. Most of them, just want to audit, help others, and go up the Bridge. They are not interested in in anything else. That has been my experience with dozens of them, at least.
Thetaclear
They may not be homophobic, engage in fair gaming, SP declares or disconnection, but their continued SILENCE allows all this to continue.
I agree with you on that 100% , Chee Chalker.
Finally i get it, what an “Indie” is. Took me this long to figure that out- because first I hate lingo-talk, and second I get creeped out by Indies. That short list above? Fair-gaming, disconnection, etc, that is a fairly sinister list. In addition, I can’t help but see the Ethics Formula by LRH as the tool to keep you trapped wherever he feels like it on the Bridge. It is a trap. It is inherently dangerous. To use it, therefore, one must first sacrifice reason, itself, waging that danger for whatever therapy you can milk out of it?
Indies do adhere to this ethics policy, correct? Count me out.
Some do, some don’t. Millstone Two demands absolute adherence to everything Hubbard wrote, so they believe in Ethics. Other Indies don’t.
Ethics was the main reason why the Indie movement of the early 80s diaspora didn’t maintain any cohesion; Bill Robertson and David Mayo hooked up after their expulsions from the cult, but Robertson insisted on applying Ethics Tech and Mayo said absolutely not, so Robertson broke the alliance up. If that hadn’t happened, things would have probably been very different today.
So then maybe I’m confused- I thought that many ‘indies’ we’re just using the tech, i.e. The exercises to help them, not necessarily following everything LRH was saying.
Yes and no, Observingsandiego. Indies are mostly about “Standard Tech” as regards to auditing procedures and auditor training. They DO resent any criticism towards LRH and Scn, and many of them misguidedly think that such a criticism comes from having overts and withholds on LRH and/or Scn itself or things you don’t want others to find out about you. This is based on an article/HCOB (Hubbard Communication Bulletin) tittled “Critics of Scientology”. It is also based on others HCOBs on the subject of “Missed Withholds”. Here is the link for “Critics of Scientology” :
http://www.suppressiveperson.org/sp/archives/278
But even though they resent criticisms towards LRH and/or Scn , they don’t use “Fair Game” , “SP declares” , “Disconnection” , “Harsh Ethics” , or any of that shit. Their emphasis is on getting others up the Bridge and auditor trained w/out any alterations of LRH’s original writings.
Of course, there are always exceptions to the rules, and you also find out here many who are just plain assholes, but assholes are to be found at ANY practice or religion. Most Indies are totally harmless minding their own business. As I said, I know a lot, a lot of them so I have direct experience with them. They do not approve of all the suppressive stuff from the CofS or even from LRH even if they don’t publicly admit it.
Excellent sum up TC
That’s good TC.
It seems to be that you can’t use anything of scientology without being moulded into one camp or the other.
Not all Catholics have to view child abuse as an in-house problem.
I don’t think there will ever be an un-opinionated use of scientology ever allowed in the foreseeable future. Pity, people have such potential to be benevolent.
TC thank you so much for your thoughtful answer! You have become my little indie guide lol. And the world is not in short supply of assholes, anywhere and in every activity. 😉
I was in India once. I believe that’s why they’re known as indies, right?
Welcome back from the dark side OS Dude. What was the weather like where Mike sent you?
Indie 500 is my choice, love those gas fumes!
LMAO! Nice! Mike sent me to a place that was magical! All cults were banned from this place! The waves were tasty & the women? Well…we’ll leave that topic for another day…..
I will say, though, I Yawn, it’s good to be back!
They also believe in inplant station on Mars.
Hey me too, bro! Wow, never thought I’d meet someone who shared the same thoughts about implant stations that I have. I guess this proves that I’m not completely whacked….
Actually, no, they do not.
The Bridge is all kept neatly secret, first things first. The average and the the everyday hard-working scn-gist doesn’t have a clue what is next on The Bridge until he gets there, and that of course doesn’t happen until some (long) time after he or she has emptied his pockets.
Walk into your friendly neighborhood Org or mission and ask about Xenu and you will get genuinely blank faces, or poor souls who think Xenu is something the media made up.
Because what happens in auditing is kept expressly secret… the lie of OT III is also successfully kept under wraps and very distant from the eyes and ears of every Staff who might come into the view of public or media. Protect the Bridge and keep everyone on it. As far as I’m concerned, every word Hubbard ever wrote was meant for this, and only this, purpose.
(oops, ThetaClear comes in here next, but that response is from an earlier comment, and not in reply to what I just wrote above…-mm)
Not necessarily so, Marco. They use Ethics formulas to help themselves and others, but not in any authoritarian way as LRH did. And they mostly use it to help some PC to sort out some life situation so that his auditing runs better. The guys and gals at MS2, for example are quite sensible about Ethics , they tend to be quite balanced in ethics matters. I can’t honestly say that they are LRH-like on that even if they think they are ; they are not. One of them actually surprised me with his incredible willingness for rehabilitation and understanding. I got to confess that he showed more compasion than I did on a giving situation. I actually learned a lot from him.
At South Africa, for example, it was an Indie who changed me forever. It is incredible how a person who wasn’t even OT nor trained could influence in me so much. She saved my life and doesn’t even know it. Waked me up real hard. She cut the comm line, and I don’t even know why, but what she gave me will forever be with me and I am indebted to her for eternity.
Indies are good people, Marco ; many of them are extraordinary beings. Misguided about LRH and Scn, yes, but wasn’t so many of us Ex(es) as well and even for many decades ? I for one, am willing to allow them to see the light and be patient enough to them as that Lady who changed me was with me.
Their basic over of omission is their failure to publicly acknowledge the parts of Scn and LRH that are misguided, suppressive, and that demand a strict adherence to authoritarian dogmas. But they really don’t see it, most of them, as LRH’s hypnotic influence can be quite powerful. A cult is not an easy subject to let go of. I know ; I was there myself.
I hope that the above help you understand Indies better.
Thank you so very much everyone, Peter, you do seem to have a special quality for understanding, thank you.
My concern today revolves around this unavoidable perception of LRH and what his original intentions were beginning the first day after the release of Dianetics. Even with the book itself, which is written in such an orbital fashion, really, like the flight path of an electron around some complex element. Step back from that and ask yourself, could not all of his points have been made in a much simpler and straightforward fashion? Anyone would agree that Dianetics is not an easy read. I go the next step and say it is intentional guidance into the land of confusion, richly embellished with fictional enticements and then reinforced with coersion and forceful manipulation to then keep you trapped while thinking you the reciever of this priveledged technology are walking around on some kind of righteous, higher ground. Your mind goes floating around in the clouds, you feel so good about yourself when you see yourself as a “good” scientologist, the direct result of the founder’s intention, same as feeling bad for having any thought to break away or even just deviate from or so much as question the doctrine, also very much the result of that same, sinister and overtly hidden, intention of LRH.
Excuse me, but I need to talk to my therapist now. But, what I really mean is I need to steer completely clear of this “tech”, this construction of ethics, so-called. The intent to be controlled is far too evident and equally alarming is the intent to keep that intent out of the minds’ eye.
You are most welcome, dear Marco ; and thanks for the validation.
I fully understand your arguments ; I really do. Can’t say that I disagree with any of them.
Scn is very booby-trapped indeed. One needs to learn to filter the truths from the falsities, and that takes some doing and a very trained mind. Scn is definitively not for the weak-minded and cult(ish) individual. Only the real strong can survive it, modify it, and change it for the better. If you can see what you see about it, that can only means that you have already freed yourself from it and that you have a VERY trained mind.
My advice to you is to use it as you see fit (the workable parts) ,or don’t use it at all if you are too upset about it. Just move on. But moving on requires letting go of your past bad experience with it , because if not , it can slowly eat you up w/out you even noticing about it. Just let go, my friend ; relax and let go.
Let go and be free.
Yes, and you are quite right. By my own creed I have to let go, let the entire philosophy known as Scientology fly on by to its own pre-ordained destination, and let myself be free from it, in its entirety.
The attempt to mine the tech for anything valuable is not only fruitless, it is precisely the kind of activity that got me trapped in there in the first place. Those early days found me willing to take one leap of faith after another when encountering the fantastic and the farther-reaching claims Scientology and what it professes to be offering the world. Can truth be found in a pit of mud? To bury my head in the tech again means constantly sorting out what is valid vs what is not, when in the end I truly believe as I said before, the purpose of the Bridge and all the policy (‘tech”) supporting it is simply to keep you trapped.
-Peter-
May we all come to know the understanding you possess, thank you.
Thanks for the validation, dear Marco ; I understand you, I really do.
I had that exact response to the idea of studying LRH all over again when I realized how much I had been fooled by his exaggerated claims. Honestly, I even wanted to burn all my Scn books and lectures as it no longer represented what it once did. But then it hit me that in Science I had also found out how many alleged “discoveries” based on “standard” experimentation, were actually exaggerated claims by “scientists” only wanting to “be right” instead of discovering actual Truth. Quantum Mechanics and Relativity are two of such examples. It would take me a 15-20 pages essay to explain why. I am a student (self-taught) of the history of science and mathematics , a subject that fascinate me even more than philosophy and religion. You wouldn’t believe how many errors and false assumptions many classical experiments have.
So I thought, what the hell, I immersed myself in this field of science which is also booby-trapped and so far have been able to filter the actual laws and workable principles from the mere assumptions and false axioms ; so, I might as well do that with Scn then. What did I have to lose ? It wasn’t like I was going to give up on my dream at ending this birth-death cycle for me ; coming back to play the being human game again was never part of my options ; not if I could avoid it. And Scn has been the subject that has approached that goal the most, even if is very far still from reaching it. So I already had a path ; a very booby-trapped one, yes ; but so was science as well and other religions. I then decided to study that path all over again from a completely different viewpoint, totally free from strict dogmas, fundamentalism, and robotism. And it has worked just fine for me so far. I have modified and altered the Tech as I see fit, and has become the biggest squirrel in existence, even bigger than Mayo and CBR. :-)))
One of these days when I become bored enough , I’ll publish something about it in the Net ; “Squirrel 101 , by Theta Clear”. :-)))
For sure, it will raise the hair of a LOT of KSW supporters.
But I fully understand that Scn can be overwhelming for many that have low tolerance for all the bullshit that it DOES contain. So, find another acceptable path for you. There is always a new path to follow ; that’s what life is all about.
Good post, TC. And if you’re anything like the many students I word cleared, you’ll find that after you’ve studied the materials thoroughly, more of them make sense than you thought. 😉
Thanks Marildi ; I’ve actually throughly studied the materials , many of them 5-10x , for the last 12-15 years , and I have never ever in my track in Scn needed any help from the sup. Actually, it was me who had to be correcting many of them constantly and handling their misguided interference with an obvious F/Ning student. At the end, I just grew tired of it and studied outside of the academy. I was researching the Tech, not trying to accumulate student points. So , not trying to sound pretentious here, but I don’t think that I ever was like any of your students. :-)))
TC – so true about interference from Sups! I’ve observed Sups from missions to orgs to ASHO to Flag – and many of them simply don’t apply full study tech – ironic as that is. They overemphasize parts of it when they should be applying things like “evaluation of information,” etc. This particular area of the history of the organization has a large bearing on its downfall.
But anyway, if you run into difficulty, I could probably dig you out. 😀 :)))))
Peter, I’m not asking for that 15 to 20 page essay on how relativity and quantum mechanics theories are full of false discoveries and exaggerations by scientists using the standard scientific rigor. I only wish for you to give a couple examples of it. It’s the polite thing to do if you’re going to offer an argument that tarnishes the image of science methodology (calling it “booby-trapped”), that it may not shine too brightly in a comparison with scientology. 🙂
Peter as always you are very wise and thoughtful in your responses. We all learn from your experiences and appreciate you sharing your knowledge. 😉
Thanks, dear Observingsandiego ; It feels undeserved, but thanks anyway ; most kind.
RogerHornaday, you will get no real examples of fundamental nature. Because there are none. Hence, the reply you received.
Oh, but he WILL receive it and you as well. Be patient, I always acknowledge and reply to my communications, but some of us actually have fo work to support themselves and don’t have time to be posting at blogs all day. I am not yet in the “ready to receive a pension” bracket.
If they follow KSW then they regard the tone scale and the human evel tech (used in auditing & c/s’ing) as true and they follow the homophobic tech laid out by LRH. That is separate from ethics. It is integral to “programming a case”. That demands recognizing homosexuals as 1.1 and abberated.
“programming a case”
now that is a most interesting phrase. Did LRH use that wording?
Ballsie – to come right out and say that his church would “program” a person.
He was otherwise rather secretive then, about topics such as Scientology’s powers of hypnotizm, or how about tapping the sciences of mass mind control, manipulation and the like…he did use every trick in the book, invented a few new ones such as the eMeter.
I mean, the way I see it,
-LRH was de-programming his followers to get them first to abandon reason and then to adopt his newly fashioned reality. In other words, whether he called it as such or not, he would take an individual, remove his ability to rationalize and begin the process of Scientology, a process that could very well and aptly be described as:
programming a case.
Mark I think that sums it up nicely. Don’t forget to add on reprogramming the ability to rationalize after leaving cos to be able to operate in the real world and you have the whole cycle! 😉
Now hold on…
First, there is the scientific method of comparison.
Then there is the Scientology method of discarding comparison in order to accept only the single source of data, LRH.
Yes, thank goodness for the many paths to the truth.
But I can’t shut up there. I feel a need to scream. Instead I will try to speak concisely and then go quietly on my way, to say:
LRH was a wizard with the basics.
He was a master story-teller, and he could masterfully blur the line between truth and fiction. He loved to keep his audience engaged and before long became the master of mind manipulation and then the master of mind manipulation for larger and larger audiences. This was his life’s journey, defined.
Take a microscope to any part of tech and you will be able to find this connection.
That policy is there either to keep you trapped on the Bridge, or to protect the Bridge itself, as the primary order of business. That is the genius of LRH, that is the genius of his technology. Whatever benefits might be had from it are secondary but if you find them I sincerely hope you haven’t lost your family, your life’s pleasures and your money in the process.
Hey Johnny boy!!! I’m back!!!
Not necessarily, John. Even if they say that they follow KSW, the fact is that most of them don’t in that regard and in my other areas as well. As I said, I personally know a lot of them, and shunning others for their sexual preferences, or “handling” them in session to “modify” their “deviated behavior” , is something I have never seen any of them doing.
It is not true that Indies always stick to KSW ; believe me they do only as regards to auditing procedures and auditor training. Most of them leave Ethics alone unles a real PT situation is affecting a PC, and then they might use Ethics but not in any authoritarian way, but as a team activity with the agreement of the PC. I know the details, John. I know most of the delivery terminals and groups in the Indie field.
TC said, “Not necessarily, John. ”
Yes, ABSOLUTELY. To do otherwise would be to squirrel and be out KSW. LRH would have ordered your SP declare. FOR SURE.
Whatever John ; have it your way.
EX SO AOLA says
I’ll add to this. Yes my experience in the SO was that Ethics Officers and Execs hated gay people and god forbid it came up in auditing. The best you could expect was to be assigned confusion and a non stop harassment. Masturbation was also a massive button for them and you could expect lower conditions and severe loss of any privileges for doing that. I was force fed that fucking pain and sex policy letter over and over.
Scientology today reminds me of Prohibition – the more you try to stop the “offenders” the worse things get for you.
Scientology has the dubious distinction of being the MOST homophobic organization on earth by requiring 100% of their staff to be homophobic and 99% of their public to do the same. The 1% not holding this view are eventually discovered and unceremoniously tossed out.
Before Scientology, I was a practicing Catholic and I had a strong opinion that there was nothing wrong with any homosexuality or sex or love of any type between consenting adults. This was in spite of the Catholic Church’s official position. And, there were many, many Catholics that shared my “liberal” view. Here is Wiki snippet about homophobia and the Catholic church:
“Despite the official position of the Catholic hierarchy on LGBT rights, in some locations, such as North America, Northern and Western Europe, support for LGBT rights (such as same-sex marriage, or protection against discrimination) is stronger among Catholics than among the general population.”
Scientology is never going to change their mind on this subject and they are being “outed” at every corner….
It’s not the most homophobic. I’d grant that to fundamentalist Islam, wherein gays are openly executed, thrown off roofs, etc.
Great post Robert…
Top Notch essay Mike Rinder.
It is vital the world know how utterly and absolutely homophobic Scientology is, while welcoming Gay Money to COUNSEL (audit) the Gay, to *un-gay* him.
In all the time I case supervised this, I never *Ever* saw a gay become *UN-GAY* even after spending high six figures and being made to feel guilty for their sex.
It is the absolute LIES and hypocrisy on the subject of homosexuality that is par for the course of Scientology Inc.
Read their babble of lies and denial
“I don’t want any misunderstanding,” said Tommy Davis, a spokesperson for Scientology. “The church supports civil rights for everybody, regardless of sexual orientation, race, color or creed. We are a minority, too; we understand what it’s like to be persecuted, so to the extent that anything prohibits or inhibits on civil rights, we don’t agree with it.”
http://www.today.com/id/33498755/ns/today-entertainment/t/spokesman-scientologists-arent-anti-gay/#.VhlWVGs-02x
jgg2012 says
California (where many Scientologists live, including most of the celebrities) has outlawed gay cures, based on evidence that sexual orientation is inborn and cannot be “cured”. So, if anyone in Scientology tells someone that they can be cured through auditing, let the California Attorney General know.
Helmut Flasch says
“”” And let’s not forget that the words of L. Ron Hubbard in the eyes of scientologists may NOT be changed or even queried. Everything he says is accepted unthinkingly as truth. To doubt the veracity of his statements is to put yourself into a “lower condition” and be treated as an “enemy.” “”””
The above happens to be a church thing – a thing which week unable and low-tone staff members (just abut all of them including YOU as you are obviously STILL trying to portray that untruth ) ARE saying and using to BE SOMEONE !!!!
Shame on all the students and Pc’s who buy into that. – I never did which why I was an frequent OSA “visitor” since my very first days in Scientology . the phrase – “if he would NOT be so upstat we would declare him on the spot ” was used constantly from around 1990 by them and WSE ,and SMI and ….
just ask your old friend Kurt 🙂
LRH says the opposite and meant it : “if I see someone agreeing with me on everything I see a very sick person ” or ” i am source of the tech – you are source of using it ” or “whats true for you it true for you ”
or even ” I don’t want good boys ,…..
so, some of us actually GOT LRH – You and most of your people commenting just see words and significance and and LOVE to be victims -which happens to be lower than 1.1 and this is a good thing as it makes you only dangerous to yourself .
look, why , – why, are you trying so hard to make EVERYTHING bad ??
why is everyone with a win all of a sudden a sucker ??
well, it does NOT really matter – the only people you appeal to is victims :))
with all my love,
I assume your rambling diatribe is to express your view that you are homophobic? Or is it that you aren’t a homophobe? For a selhF proclaimed master of communication your Non sequitur babble doesn’t seem to have much point other than to call me a “victim”. Wow.
you got it :)))
So you are a proud homophobe?
Do you realize the incredible irony of using quotes from L. Ron Hubbard to explain how you don’t follow what he says?
Penny says
I know a Scientologist in the arts, still, in who works with gays. She doesnt believe all gays are 1.1. There are probably plenty of others.
I agree with Helmut on this ““if I see someone agreeing with me on everything I see a very sick person ” and I would like to thank him for bringing it up. I have read other such references.
For me, this is one of those areas in Scn that needs to really be looked into, but with a nut at the helm that aint likely to happen.
Mike, what you are doing more and more, is getting on the bandwaggon with all the other haters and bringing up the contentious issues, and really, when looked at in proportion to what is very workable in Scientology, it is a minor thing.
Have another look at the Grades processes some time, just the questions, and the potential of what they can do for people who are suffering, is very clear.
In my opinion, this is what should be concentrated on, not this constant harping on the same old outpoints, but it is your blog, to take in whatever direction you desire!
Most humans can’t afford the grades, so your point is mute.
How about zombies? Oh, wait….never mind.
No, this is NOT a “minor thing”. What L. Ron Hubbard said is that “sexual perverts”, including all LGBTs, were either to be forced to conform to the heteronormative or be eliminated. This is part of your precious Tech, Penny.
Here’s a comparative statement, and, yeah, I’m going Full Godwin’s: the autobahns, the Me-109, and the Volkswagen Beetle were absolutely terrific, so let’s just ignore the whole Holocaust thing and recognize the Nazis for the good stuff.
Sieg Hubbard.
Doug says
Penny are you Keeping Scientology working?
I was keeping scientology working for awhile. But I ran out of gas…
GTBO says
It’s also your choice to stay and contribute or troll elsewhere (an outpoint is an outpoint, or didn’t you do the data series? Enough said)
Mike and the others here do fantastic work exposing Scientology for what it truly is. I’ve experienced the worst of it up close and personal, and the sooner it doesn’t exist the better off the world will be.
To be human… what a dilemma?
I see what you are saying Jenny and on the threat of being accused of advocating KSW – I agree that there is some good in scn, especially the grade process but some idiot went out of their way to kill that off and now there are so many supporters from both sides of the fence that all the hard work in that direction is now complete and it can now be considered a done – the grades are not available.
This blog has developed a life of its own and the winds of change and the effort to create an affect makes it just like all the rest.
You are a brave girl for speaking your mind, but scientology in both its organisational mindset and those that oppose it will never agree that you have that right to view it with a positive attitude concerning its application without severe control or condemnation, especially in an open internet forum.
Good luck to you.
Penny, not “Jenny”, sorry about that.
You’re ‘senior moments’ are showing….
Penny, if I see a person agreeing with everything I say, I do NOT see a sick person. I see a very intelligent person who I definitely want to be friends with. I’m surprised you don’t feel the same way since you use the term, “hater” in reference to those who disagree with you.
And Penny called us all trolls a while back. LOL.
We are not Mike, Penny. We are us,
and I’d appreciate it if you would take what I say as my own origination and not something as something you have categorized in your mind as “what Mike has allowed past his moderation”.
Might I just suggest, just suggest that we stop
acking/replying anything more that this man Helmut comment about ? We are “giving attention” to someone not worth any.
Just my humble opinion for everybody.
Peter, let’s wait up on the Ignore 101 routine. Alanzo and Jane are dropping knowledge bombs on him, and there’s nothing I love more than some good fireworks and potential blackmail material. Let’s see who else knows him from their previous lives.
Yeah, sounds like fun !
Well said Mike, ESpi and TC. Honestly his statement speaks for itself.
Hey! What are you guys talking about?
i’m lost too OSD.
funny, i was under the impression i had just thrown a pretty good sized cherry bomb into the hornets’ nest. Smart buggers, did you see Espi?
Hm. I mean, hum.
-As long as miss penny gets me. But you know what? I take it back. If i could just take down my note to penny and let her say whatever she wants, i think i would just to delete… i think something ThetaClear said is getting under my skin…
Hi mark marco, When a siprit is as sensitive and sweet as you,running after throwing a cherry bomb in the hornets’ nest is most appropriate! As for Penny I am sure she has an answer for us always,but I may not pick up the thread.Stardust,Ann.
Lol well OSD and mark, my statement saying well said applys to way up at the top, helmet ranting his nonsense. The other comment mostly got added before me. But they are good as well, I can go with the flow. 😉
Yeah, but, Mark? You didn’t smoke what I did. I was dazed and confused. You always have your wits about you.
And OSD2? That’s what I love about you! Can go with the flow!
my stuff is only available by prescription
Haha thanks OSD, and mark, OSD is here in ca, it’s alllllllll by prescription…
poor man
Hi Helmut!!
It’s Allen Stanfield, the guy who stopped you from attacking that dentist, your own client, for not wanting his staff to put their names on the OCA tests you’d handed out to them.
I’ll never forget you standing up during that meeting with the veins popping out of your neck, pointing at the dentist and screaming at him and his staff, “You VEELL not change the PROGRAHM!! You VEELL NOT CHANGE THE PROGRAHM!!!”
Shoo Doggy!! You sure were hot to apply KSW that day on people who had no idea what you were talking about!
You fired me that day for defying you in front of your client. But I had no choice, you were embarrassing me by being so crazy. I was new in LA at that time. I thought you were just an aberration in the level of cray-cray of LA Scientologists. Unfortunately, I was wrong.
You were actually one of the saner ones.
Good to see you posting here, Helmoot!
Thank you Allen, well said. 😉
basketballjane says
Helmut, SHAME on you. Shame. I remember you from my course room. I don’t know where you get off on being on a high horse about yourself or the tech. You could barely meter at all and were NOT a good auditor. Sorry to be harsh but it is true. Why don’t you try applying “LOOK DON’T LISTEN” and actually find out about LRH and the “tech” that you love so much. Also Being a bigot is SOOOOOOOO 1995. Trying coming up to present time.
Bartender I wanna buy this woman a drink.
Looks like Helmut might need a helmet.
Methinks he already has one… It’s made out of tinfoil.
He’d be right at home in Hemet.
Helmut is wearing a tinfoil helmet in Hemet.
Mike and Blinders….take this show on the road!
Hi BlindersOff,Thank you,your post is golden! Ann.
basketballjane, COB can barely meter either — but he is an upstat and so this excuses all things.
As to Shelly Miscavige, COB barely meet her either.
“Never trust a religious leader in a tuxedo.” – Ancient Chinese saying
“Never trust a religious leader that talks about implant stations – OSD saying
“…of another person’s perspective against ourselves.”
-mm
hgc10 says
Helmut, let me get this straight. Hubbard talked out of both sides of his mouth so that you could plausibly deny that he meant what he meant. You can deny that Hubbard demands that you apply the tech exactly standardly has he laid it out just because he made seemingly contradictory statements about self-determination. You can deny that “what’s true is what’s true for you” means and always meant that what’s allowably true for you is only that which is in agreement with Hubbard.
You can do all the pathetic hand-waving you want about the motives of Hubbard’s detractors, but the plain words of the master are indelible to history. Address that, if you dare. Is homosexuality sexual deviancy? How about bigamy, while we’re at it?
Contradictory statements about self-determination are not a problem if they are true for you.
We in RTC can have, in fact we must have, contradictory statements about self-determination. We in RTC are the elite .00001% of beings on the planet and yet we live the Hole and poop in a bucket.
This is true.
Living in a hole and shitting in a bucket is the next phase in the Paleo Diet, isn’t it?
Goodness ESpi, don’t give anyone any ideas. I do not need a bunch of crazy people running around telling me about their new ‘diet’!
statpush says
As you know, LRH wrote and said many, many things. And it is not unusual to find contradictions. What do you do when you encounter these contradictions?
It is all well and good to cherry-pick a quote from a lecture in the 50s, when LRH was feeling magnanimous, and say “See…this is Scientology.” It was only when the dust settled did we actually know what Scientology really was. Per LRH, standard tech is contained in HCO PLs and HCO Bs – period.
Whether you are card-carrying IAS member or an independent Scientologist, I think you’ll agree, that to call yourself a Scientologist you would be practising standard tech, no?
And per KSW #1, arguably the single most important policy letter written by Hubbard, you are expected to apply standard tech – exactly, without alteration. So, really there is no provisions for independent thought, or opportunities to reject pieces you don’t agree with – regardless if you are upstat or not.
So, what’s it going to be Helmut? Are you or are you not a Scientologist?
I am not a Scientologist. However, I was for 30 years.
I find it interesting that you chose to use the word victim, effectively a derogatory Scn term, to describe Mike and the posters on this blog. If you spent some time on this blog you would discover that most of the comments are expressions of viewpoints and opinions, and occasionally someone will recount some personal experience with the church where harm was done. If you label these folks as victims you are really missing the point.
That said, do not be discouraged in posting more often. “Being a victim” is not a prerequisite.
Thank you statpush, for so accurately describing what I encounter here, on this blog. And what I love about it.
Per LRH, standard tech is contained in HCO PLs and HCO Bs – period.
Also, the tapes, films and his books. And per references in THOSE items of standard tech everything Mike lists about LRH and his tech being homophobic is there. Why did you not list THOSE statpush? Is it because you lacked that data?
Not at all, John. Those references that Mike cited become part of standard tech, since they are directly referenced by HCOBs and PLs. If you recall, course checksheets are HCO PLs, which include specific books and lectures.
NOt really worth arguing over. Lectures are on courses too. And the briefing course, Class VIII course and Student Hat are just checksheets around lectures…. There is no distinction made between “tech” in lectures and “tech” in HCOB’s and books. Scientologists are just as convinced about the 3 barriers to study, described in those lectures as they are about anything described in HCOB’s.
But who cares really? It’s a dispute about nothing.
I certainly don’t care. ……what are we talking about again?
Haha, OSD we are all talking about YOU! 😉 😉 😉
Awwwwwwww…thanks, OSD2! You’re the best! Unless of course you’re making fun of me as my parents used to do…..
I would never make fun OSD! Shame on your parents!
Scientology is standard like Standard Oil.
You MUST be heterosexual, but you must not have sex that produces a child !
We are “pro-family” so long as Sea Org members do not have children !
If you do have a child, we demand that it get recruited for Sea Org Slave Labor.
And if you to whistle blow we will ensure your child disconnects from you and that a hate page full of lies is created about you !
This is how pro-family we are, we are the most pro-family Church on earth !
So, the only permitted sex is infertile intercourse? In other words…failed sex. 🙂
I only have two words to add to that thought …
“Fuck that!”
What are trying to say, statpush? I mean, what’s up wit dat? I’ve had lots of failed sex. You get use to it…..
Karen you always hit on all cylinders.
For proof of Thai very well written article you can see my blog for info on how I was treated I. The Sea Org and On the RPF for kissing another woman and liking it. This is one of the most evil aspects of Scientology. Their obsession with sex, who’s doing it, what are they doing and with whom. And their emphasis on “handling” gay people. 20 years later I am still figuring myself out.
Sorry terrible typos from my phone. This not Thai. In not I.
Why wouldn’t we take Hubbard at his word? Dispose of them quietly without sorrow. Can’t really interpret that any other way than fix my kind or exterminate us. Seems absolutely clear to me. What a fucking humanitarian.
Well, as far as I know there has never been any instance of anyone taking this literally. So I guess that is pretty empirical evidence that nobody in 60 plus years has done so.
If I decide to get my pasty skin some sun and take a trip down to Barbados, I can get 25 years at hard labor if myself and another consenting gentleman decide to have some more private types of pleasure. They say that they don’t enforce the law, but it’s on the books and can be used. So I think it’s prudent of me to avoid Rhianna’s homeland until such time as change comes.
I can’t do anything about it since I’m not a citizen of Barbados. Nor can I do anything about the large Abrahamic religions, since changing their doctrine is the (no pun intended) moral equivalent of turning an filled-up oil tanker. But Scientology is something we can do something about, especially the Indies. Some of the Indies are aware that they’re on the wrong side of history and have changed (Dror Center, for instance). Some, though, are in the business of showing off how on-KSW they are compared to the cult. I have to assume that they’d want to slap a pink triangle on me and send me off to a concentration camp after they couldn’t Audit The Gay Away from me.
A Clear Planet has no colors of the rainbow.
Frodis73 says
I wish I could upvote this Espi!!
I reckon the use of ‘declares’ as they are performed by the Cof$ is a pretty damn good dramatization of getting rid of people, especially the finger pointing, no paperwork – “you’re declared!” It kills off families and other loyalties. In another time, this cult would degenerate to do the unthinkable without remorse.
I know of two SO who did take the “Pain and Sex” bulleting literally instead of figuratively. When the “Pain and Sex” bulletin came out, he took it to mean sex was bad and they shouldn’t be doing it. So he convinced his wife after she read the bulletin and they made a pact that they would not have sex any longer even though they were married. They wanted to “do what Ron said.” So he went so long without sex that he became impotent. He told me himself after he left the SO that he couldn’t get it up.
So he ended up leaving the SO and his wife stayed. HCO convinced her to disconnect from and divorce him, so she did. A few years after he was out of the SO he remarried. He convinced this woman that the “Pain and Sex” bulletin meant they would not be having sex. She agreed. After their wedding they went on a honeymoon. My friend asked me, “What do two celibates actually DO on a honeymoon?”
So if you couple that the no masturbating rule that the dwarf enforces, this guy had a real PTP.
That’s what happens when you allow another to be source in your life.
I had a source in my life once. But he kept everything for himself. He’s a selfish source.
Ketchup is my favourite, or maybe hollandaise, pends how I feel or what’s on the table. Shelfish sauce? – haven’t tried that one.
Mike, In response to your last comment. You can’t count on dogma being interpreted the same in the future. That’s part of the problem with dogma. Compounding the situation: Scientology has never been fully safe pointed, in order to implement all of its IDEALS.
Fair comment.
Excellent point and part of “why” for me. Thank Xenu they have never been able to gain that kind of power.
We in the Church of Scientology have isolated the “gay problem” to CC Int in Hollywood.
CC Int is the Rhodesia of Scientology so to speak.
While it is true that LGBT are 1.1’s we would of course never say this publicly. Our code word is “CC Int publics.”
If someone is LGBT outside of Hollywood, we in RTC prefer they remain closeted because, frankly, COB is squeamish about the whole… you know… the whole gay thing — except of course for the tight jeans and bicep-enhancing t-shirts he prefers to wear when hanging around with BFF Tom Cruise.
Finally, anyone making jokes about COB’s communicator Lou having short hair and looking like a boy will be beaten and sent to the RPF’s RPF’s RPF for all of eternity.
Lou isn’t a man?
You were warned about J&D on this topic! Off to the RPF’s RPF for all of eternity with you!
You promise?
Seriously? Lou IS NOT A MAN? Where’s that bottle of Jack….
Lou is doing a doubt formula on it.
I so very glad that she’s taking responsibility for not being a man. I was really worried there for awhile…..
SadStateofAffairs says
Yes, Scientology is deeply and severely homophobic, both in philosophy and practice. But it is worse still. From all I have seen and experienced, Miscavige is deeply anti-sexual, period. The only acceptable sex, really, is monogamous, heterosexual, missionary-position-only sex and then only minimally as required for procreation. Everything else has become “perverted”, 1.1, unethical and worthy of punishment and denunciation. SO members have become so paranoid that, even some years ago when I was in the SO, some would ask if it was OK to have oral sex (NO! – perverted!) or even if it was OK to have sex in the doggy position.
Once when I was in the RPF, I had to sec check, on video, with videos sent to Snr C/S Int office, a poor guy who was a network head in a PAC Org, and who was RPFed based on speculation that he might be gay and have some sort of gay attraction to his org’s ED, which thus caused him to be reasonable about alleged destructive post actions of the ED. This was all BS and he had no such thing going on, but still he had to stay in the RPF and do the whole program anyways.
whenever I meet or hear of anyone who’s *aggressively hetero* I really wonder about them. most people secure in their sexuality and who haven’t been twisted up inside by an upbringing that focused on sex (how to, who with, proper position etc) do not need to scream from the rooftops how straight they are (or gay they are or whatever iteration). I was raised no religion, and surrounded by people of all stripes and no real emphasis was placed on the specifics of sex aside from that I should be happy w who I was with, should be safe as far as diseases, and if i ever felt threatened or at risk of injury “kick ’em In the nuts” in the immortal words of my father. to me, this emphasis on proper sex, regarding position especially, is very weird and creepy. Particularly if it comes in the form of a religious leader or parent telling people this. EW!
whether or not DM is a very repressed homosexual or not is not really the issue. whatever his preference is, I’m sure it’s surrounded by the aura of power and domination and is probably uncomfortable as hell for his partner. and he probably likes it that way. gross.
Well, all I know is I would never sleep with Dave.
I would reckon that to be in bed with miscavige… (perish the thought) would result that sleeping would be the last thing you would consider doing.
How do you come up with such scenarios? Watch too much free to air TV perhaps?
From an episode of Desperate Inchwives.
LOL – very good!
What if Dave gave you a million dollars?
I may be a slut, but I’m not a whore, and I don’t do pity fucks. Not even for that kind of cash.
I’m with you there. But I bet part of the reason he won’t let Shelly out of whatever hole he has her in is because if she ever came to tell her story everyone would hear about his proclivities. And when Lou falls out of favor (not if, WHEN ) she’ll be locked up too. I bet he likes to do it on the old man’S desk in the offices they have set up for him when he comes back.
Haha sashie, under a pic of LRH? Horrible mental image.
Too funny, Espi!
My only other thought is that THANK GOD Miscavige has never had children. That’s the one saving grace of whatever his sex life is like, he’s followed the SO directive. It does make me wonder how many abortions Shelly/Lou were/are being forced to have. Or since he doesn’t seem to have a drop of human feeling, maybe he can’t even get it up. 😉
A die hard Kool – aid drinker will have more
chains to pull than Marley’s ghost.
David Miscavige is NO LEADER of any kind,
he is an example of the worst of the worst
in any category or subject.
Naturally he gets his cookies off on sex stories
of SCN celebrities and top management while guzzling scotch.
Leahs book is available in Hardcover on amazon—TROUBLEMAKER
I would read that to form an opinion, tell all your family, friends.
Crepuscule says
There seems no reason not to take L. Ron Hubbard literally when he talks about the disposal, without sorrow, of those deemed to be at 1.1 on his arbitrary Tone Scale. In the context of his wider Scientology writings, particularly those concerning the imposition of totalitarianism upon wog world, a literal interpretation seems the most accurate. And then there’s the whole “Word Clearing” aspect. Unless. a person agrees with each of Scientology’s “teachings”, they are required to go over and over the material, word-by-word (which is the very definition of “literal”) looking for their MUs until such time as agreement is reached.
For those with something of a grave-yard humour, there are plenty of lulz to be had when considering Dianetics and the “facts” contained therein. For example, lets not forget how L. Ron Hubbard’s “modern science” details how “sexual perverts”, including homosexuals, are created. According to Dr Hubbard . . .
. . . To make a pervert is, rather, something on the order of kicking a baby’s head in, running over him with a steamroller, cutting him in half with a rusty knife, boiling him in Lysol, and all the while with crazy people screaming the most horrifying and unprintable things at him . . .
. . . although it is, surprise surprise, I’m left a little confused. Is Dr Hubbard here referring to the person committing or receiving such abuse as the one more likely to become the “pervert’? Seems more likely that the author is the pervert, if you ask me.
Kuato Lives says
Exactly. Maybe it is bc I’ve never been a Scientologist but I have read Dianetics. Know your enemy. Anyway, the thing that immediately struck me about the book was how much it revealed about Hubbard and his sick, deranged mind.
Re your last question, it is the one who is receiving the abuse that is going to become the pervert. Because of all the engrams received during said abuse you see. Yes, makes total sense. smh
mwesten says
I was explaining OTIII to my MD earlier this week and he reckons he’s slept with Xenu. A five in a bed romp, no less. He was curious as what the Co$’ reaction would be if that ever came up in auditing?
Two levels of response. 1) From the “Case Supervisor” view, whatever the patient (PC or preclear) says in session about their “case” (false memories they dream up) is to be respected and allowed and NOT ivalidated. 2) Disgraceful admissions are filed in Office of Special Affairs for future legal and not to subtle blackmailing on the member to keep them from future speaking out in any way.
As an ex member, I urge the MD, to read the few sentences in Marty Rathbun’s 3rd book, where Rathbun tells of the Hubbard “Farsec” past space civilization race of psychiatrists from whom your MD obviously was one in that MD’s past lives!
Would the response be the same if someone said they were LRH in a past life during auditing?
If a man who invents the Fair Game policy, R2-45, a Chinese Communist style thought reform hard labor camp called the RPF, etc etc talks about the societal benefits of the sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale and eliminating them quietly and without sorrow then you’re God damn right I’m going to take him literally. Scientologists, indie and corporate would be wise to as well.
Can you imagine the hell Hubbard and his minions would of unleashed on S Africa had he been successful in his take over of that country? Just think about the suffering he managed to inflict on thousands all over the Western democratic world thanks to the religious protections he hid behind. Now imagine if Hubbard and his alter ego, Scientology, were completely unrestrained by civilized law and were answerable to no one. Chilling isn’t it?
Thanks anyway Mike, I will take Hubbard’s statements in SoS as literal admonitions. If I was a Scientologist, doing anything else would make me a squirrel wouldn’t it?
Lisa Tighe says
When people ask me if Scientologists are homophobic, I tell them no – they’re homo-hateful. I know it’s the same thing, but homo-hateful is a more truthful statement in my experience. And it’s not just the top management. His “leadership” has trickled down the ranks as demonstrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U67YN16v-po
The question asked is too simplistic. But, the answer lies in the technology. Per the Scientology technology, homosexuals are dangerous, covertly hostile criminal types that ideally, would be at LEAST segregated from pro survival people. At worst, liquidated.
THAT is what the technology and philosophy of Scientology demands.
One can decide from that if scn is homophobic…
ANYONE who has studied scn enough to comment who denies the above is an apologist for a criminal philosophy and the criminal LRH.
Church logic:
1. Homosexuality is about 1.1 on the tone scale
2. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple is gay
3. Don’t support this organization as their leader is a pervert
Scientology, the only game where everyone spins.
The hallmark of most of scientology is ‘judgmental’, making conclusions about someone based on something hubbard wrote and then taking it as a ‘that is the way it is’.
Now, if you strictly follow hubbard’s write ups you have also the criminal mind, which states you accuse others of what you are doing. So, why miscavige keeps accusing others of homosexuality? Maybe he should answer the question himself.
There were fads of Hubbard’s leniency, or Hubbard’s understanding “case supervision” “tech” (Hubbard’s pseudo-therapy/exorcism views and writings and techniques to rid people of their mental/spiritual faults) view of everyone, include the LBGT people who DID absolutely join as pc/patients/spiritual seekers and who even rose to high ranks, approved for their high positions even by Hubbard himself (John McMasters, and people’s whose names aren’t known but who held top jobs like Commodore’s Staff Captain, FSO Qual Sec, Class 12 FSO auditor are three high positions I later learned were all LBGT personnel that Hubbard knew and authorized for their high positions). Under Hubbard’s full “case supervisor” “tech” thinking, anyone’s “case” would be dealt with using Hubbard’s auditing (pseudo-therapy/exorcism) and he thus allowed people around him near the top, to possess even these LBGT “case” inclinations.
Gimpy says
Homophobia is endemic to scn, being in the local org was like being back at school with the constant references to fags and homos. Clearly the policy has filtered down through the entire organization. I wouldn’t say that all homosexuals I’ve met have been great people but there is certainly a balance just like the rest of society. One of my best friends at college was blatantly gay but also one of the most talented and fun people I have met.
It just isn’t funny.
In fact, it is very revealing how Hubbard categorizes the human form, to the point of being able to say very un-human things like, “the sudden and abrubt deletion of all individuals…”.
(how did I forget reading that, like 40 years ago?…really, I reccollect now, but, how did I forget?)
This church keeps on proving itself to be worse than the imaginable.
Seriously, indeed. No joke appropriate inserted here, instead I just gotta quote Mac:
What, extermination of individuals he doesn’t like??? What could be wrong with that? Stalin, hitler, pol pot, Etc, look how great it worked out for them… The are very well regarded figures in history.
Didn’t someone issue certain blankets infected with disease to the Indians. Plus after Custer got his… the Indian problem became a military issue rather than a political one, no more treaties. Settling problems down with eliminating the complainers is well practiced in history. The disappearance of the Tasmanian aboriginal for example is a particularly disgusting use of that kind of response to a problem.
Scientology didn’t invent it, he just wrote it down on paper.
Ooooh I did forget Andrew Jackson. Ever notice in the older history books (like up until 10 or so years ago) all battles the American military won were ‘battles’ and if the Indians won it was a ‘massacre’. That was some nice pr work. Thank god dm isn’t in charge of a military or a country.
Oh yeah! Andrew Jackson. The Indian Removal Act was passed under his presidency.
When one looks at what really happened in history and some of the solutions decided upon by “civilised” leaders, it makes one wonder just what the word civilised actually means. I think it means to be superiorly organised and/or better weapons. Same brutality goes on but also better at hiding it.
You’re right PR has many uses. But miscavige in charge of troops? Can’t think with that.
I shudder to imagine if was. Then we’d be discussing actual extermination and war crimes rather than crimes against humanity. Hey there’s something nice we can say about him – he hasn’t ordered any deaths. That we know of. Sheez.
There have been great Instagram posts re Columbus Day going around (speaking of IRA), my fav so far has been – since it’s Columbus Day does that mean I can go into someone’s house and tell them to leave, that it’s mine now? (Paraphrased) and ‘does that mean I can just walk into a store and take what I what?(also paraphrased). Hahaha!
I yawn I went back to check the source for the Columbus Day quotes and someecards Colombia say search turns up a ton of them. Almost as funny as you guys all are on this blog! http://www.someecards.com/ecards/columbus-day/
Oh, man, I hope this never gets back to John Travolta. What would he think? And, yes, I can corroborate Mike’s comments about DM’s homophobia.
Do you think there is any way that John Travolta could be influenced today, but any of his non Scientology friends, to help snap John out of John’s comfy celebrity berth cacooned still in the Scientology “star” celebrity ranks?
Mr Koon, You were a very influential terminal in my Scientology life(way above DM). I think you would do many people a great service by being a little more communicative. With all due reapect Sir.
Potpie says
“It is not necessary to produce a world of clears in order to have a reasonable and worthwhile social order; it is only necessary to delete those individuals who range from 2.0 down, either by processing them enough to get their tone level above the 2.0 line…….or simply quarantining them from the society”.
Is Hubbard saying the goal of clearing the planet is really not needed? Is he saying it would be much easier to kill off all those who are below the tone level of 2.0 than to try to clear every person on earth?
Or moving all below 2.0 to some god forsaken place on earth where they would never come close to society at large? Oh yes we could audit them….I wonder which avenue Hubbard would personally choose if no money was involved? After all he did seem to like the idea of killing off all the lepers.
He [Hubbard] did like that idea, didn’t he? He was like giving praise to the dictator rounding up the beggars and lepers…
– in order to do what, throw them all in a hole?
No, worse.
mreppen says
I pretty much agree with everything said here. However having been in the Sea Org for nearly 25 years there were from my experiences a fair amount of gays and lesbians that were SO members. Some of them even worked fairly closely with LRH, Mike I’m sure you can recall some of whom I’m referring to.
It was common knowledge that LRH’s steward at the base was gay. Who cared? He was devoted to LRH.
They were really some of the best, sadly most dedicated to Hubbard, and they were hopeful that the techniques (pseudo-therapy/exorcism) would relieve themselves, so that doubly stuck/sticks them hopefully to the techniques and wished for results.
There was a former “Commodore’s Staff Captain” old boss post of the Commodore’s Staff Aides 1-7 in the pre WDC pre Exec Strata top management setup, there was a former Class 12, former FSO Qual Sec, I knew of.
But I had no idea back when I was an underling that they were LGBT, and when I did hear of some public, like Michael Pattinson being gay, his book is online and well worth reading for the failure of Hubbard’s techniques to dent a person’s LGBTness, I always liked and respected all concerned simply on the strength of their personalities and behavior which I admired and respected for their playing by the then rules.
Outside LBGT strategist thinking people ought advise John Travolta, I think, on how to come out, and come out of Scientology, I think they’d likely be the best at helping the deeply stuck in LBGT Scientologists the best with advice, I think today.
People have been there done that more freely and their advice will always be better. I wonder what Haggis’ daughters think of how John Travolta ought to “come out” all the way out of Scientology.
beloved gay steward equals double-speak
Really? Damn! I always thought it was triple-speak! I learn something new everyday…
Toot TO OT says
Is Pat Parodi still in?
I remember he was “handled” (rumors were that he was gay, all because of the way he dressed in flamboyant colors).
That was in 1987-88, ASHO and AOLA.
It is nauseating how awful this group is. Way to go L. Ron Hubbard. Way to pick up the ball and run with it King Rat you big bully a-hole.
This type of reporting fuels my courage to tell people one-on-one about what happened to me, my sister, my family – to push people to read Going Clear, see the movie, ask me questions…I’m an open book to everyone that knows me about what happened just to little ol’ me. I was about as important as the copyright symbol at the bottom of the org board but I saw more than people realize from a completely different point of view. I’m no celebrity, I’m not famous and I did not hold an important post really.
HIP HIP HORRAY for exposing the facts. Thank you Mike.
Oh Yes Pat Parodi is still ding his Liabilir=ty for wearing a ponytail. But no he is not gay.
Private says
I once got a phone call from a Sea Org recruiter and she asked me a bunch of questions. One of them was if I was gay. I am gay but I said no and asked why and she kind of hesitated on what to say and then said “We… just want the best people… you understand?” I’m sure that was part of a list of requirements to joining the Sea Org that she was reading off of. The other questions were about psych drugs, SPs, things like that. So yeah, Scientology is definitely homophobic.
So much for present time and scientologists – those two things just don’t go together.
But the next paragraph below says it all for me – the one thing that is constant in life is change. If you can’t think with and adopt change with a piece of information as you get older, you have no right forcing it on another, well said Mike:
Interesting that I remember in a Nov 1952 tape Hubbard said about the Axioms and Logics, “I give you data for data’s sake and my opinion of the data is literally worthless to you…”
Is that right, well… WTF happened???
I don’t think I’ve heard that tape but my guess would be that he was saying “It doesn’t matter what my opinion of this [data] is – it’s true, period.” This IS one of the key traps that keeps people “in”. He says over and over in different ways that he isn’t just inventing stuff or dreaming it up on the hoof (perish the thought), no, as “Source” – he is the conduit of divine truth and that therefore everything He says is sacrosanct, ergo it must be taken literally and applied precisely etc etc. Once you buy into that thought process, it’s hard to untangle yourself from it. All cults have this in common to some degree, although some are more overtly of the “because ____ Guru says it’s true, and since he is a derivative of God, therefore it’s true”. Hubbard didn’t claim to be God, (Buddha maybe) but he DID very cleverly position himself as some on who had a unique and unquestionable link to natural universal truth.
Once one realizes Ron’s positioning as source is a method of control to engender compliance, the whole thing starts to unravel.
If I recall correctly there were 4 tapes in that series called the Perception of Truth in the marketing of it. Just before he wrote Scn 8-8008 and then went to Philly to do the PDC (good God, how do I remember such things?)
I found the data “interesting and logical” I liked it but you are right, there’s a repeating trap in there throughout all the tech if you are not careful of “trust me,” I’m source. Around that time or just before on the Professional Course, you had to know the Logics & Axioms verbatim to make the grade and pass the course. That is some mighty potent ‘mind grooming.’
It just strikes me as amazing that as soon as that data got anywhere near group application it subtly changed character to something hypocritical to its own aims. I do think the SO was Hubbard’s biggest stuff up, or maybe it was intended to introduce a military type, yes sir, no sir scenario above, beyond and around the technology and its application.
Military think is a type of successful implant, very useful at times and increases your chance of surviving conflict. It’s proudly patriotic in the right circumstances but as to a religion, well… the proof is in the pudding – it resulted in a cult! run by a particularly nasty & moronic asshole.
Sex is a great example of how Hubbard took away the proper context of sex, and created another context, to thoroughly confuse the Scientologist and make them unable to understand and appreciate their own existence.
If we are thetans, and MAN IS NOT AN ANIMAL!!!, then engaging in any sexual activity is “aberrated” and a part of the “downward spiral”. This is the perverted context that Hubbard gave Scientologists to understand human sexuality with.
But if we are human beings, which are animals, then like every other multi-celled living thing on Earth, besides earthworms and a few other species, we engage in sexual reproduction. And why do we engage in sexual reproduction? For 4rth dynamic reasons – the furtherance of the species.
See? Hubbard couldn’t even get the proper dynamic right for “2nd dynamic activity”.
And just as every biological expression within any species, there are variations of sex and human sexuality – all very natural. And “good”. And human.
One way to make a person misunderstand themselves and unable to use good judgment, or just become a crazy fucking loon who can’t understand and confront their own existence and thus, much easier to control, is to hide or pervert the context in which that person actually exists.
On the subject of the species of human beings, L Ron Hubbard was one of the most perverted people I have ever come across.
If Hubbard knew the proper context of sexuality in human existence, then he was evil to change it on Scientologists and to use it against them.
If Hubbard truly believed the contradictory mess that he wrote about human sexuality in Scientology, then he was crazy.
Crazy or Evil: Take your pick.
I’ll go with: Hubbard had no idea what he was talking about regarding human biology, DC-8 engines or anything else AND he was crazy evil.
That’s another thing! Why did Xenu’s planes that carried, what, 13 trillion frozen aliens to earth, have wings on them?
They weren’t aliens! No more than the British convicts were to colonised America or Australia. Leaves me Quakering in my boots, all this alien talk!
Hey! You leave my quakering Quakers out of this!
When you say, “British convicts,” are you talking about the English? Because they rounded up massive amounts of Irish too.
Because without wings, his space-flying DC-8s would be giant flying penises. Talk about an engram.
I yawn they were aliens, ILLEGAL aliens. Problem solved!
Oh, those type of aliens! Pay ’em some welfare, give them free medical and welcome them on board.
Espi then what does that make the volcanoes? Haha.
A HUGE pimple waiting to be popped? Hey, I took a shot…
FOTFLMAO!!!! Now that’s some funny shit, Espi!
Giant Flying Penises!!! Whew! That’s an image I don’t need in my head! And Espi, you’re right! That would make one hellava engram!
Right on, Al. What a confused mess he created. First you lay out the dynamics, and tell people Scn can help you survive better across the dynamics – including the second dynamic. To a normal person that would mean: great marriage, great sex and wonderful children. Then you tell them the true origins of Sex and how its all an evil trap. WTF??
Hubbard’s ideal “human” must have been a doll body or a eunuch 🙂
For nearly 40 years he claimed to produce superhumans or homo novis. Obviously that never happened. Instead, he developed a doctrine which made “being human” an undesirable condition.
I keep wishing pollyannishly, that John Travolta could somehow secretly read “Going Clear…” and particularly start first watching the HBO documentary “Going Clear….”
Seeing Spanky in tears, I think would get through to John.
John would have so many friends really come out, were John to come out!
John Travolta really could be the person to really tidal wave swell back upon Scientology, if he were to mentally unravel somehow.
Maybe a crowd funded Billboard, in Hollywood, addressing the top Scientology celebrities to please just watch the documentary, and read the book!
Haha well we can change the cover, change the author to LRH, and presto! They can read it. Maybe they’d learn enough before putting it down that they’d decide to leave. 😉
“…to make them unable to appreciate their own existence…”
My god, Alanzo, i think you nailed it again.
KA says
The more ‘overts’ (sins) you create, the more ‘guilt’ you have with which to manipulate people. The threat of using this ‘overts’ against a person (humiliation, black PRing, Comm Evs etc) is also used to introvert and to have the person in a more malleable state.
Besides that, I think that Hubbard was dramatizing his own issues and forcing his own case on others.
Visitor says
Actually, even eartworms have sex.
I agree KA.
Scientology is entirely the reflection of the LRH alter-ego, in living color.
Sex for an earthworm is a form of mutual masterbation, which in scn terms means at least a long stretch Liability formula, except of course for the leader-worm.
ForLease says
Mike, this post deserves a sticky or a front page reference. It’s an excellent summation for reporters and the world at large as to the intolerance of the COS.
agreed – another Rinder classic.
Sunny says
If those fools ever want to say Scientology is not anti-gay, I have a Comm Ev issue and SP declare (in my hand) that I received for kissing a girl (I am a female). It is the only reason I was SP declared.
Yes, Mary, shit is indeed Holy! Just like Toledo, OH. mackerel, fuck, cow & moley…
Wow Sunny. Incredible.
Have you ever published it online? Would you be happy to, if not?
Well, she just did.
And I love her for it.
Mwestern you can find her story over on tony ortega’s blog, the underground bunker… 😉
A few years ago there was a picture of John Travolta kissing a man. Why wasn’t he declared?
Go figure? Right?
I was a Sea Org member, a trained C/S (OT Elig C/S for ASHO), GAT Flag trained Class VI and OT V. I guess all that combined I should have not had any such tendencies? (year was 2004)
And JT has, over the years, from his celeb status, brought people in and so they overlook that? Only a guess.
My only conclusion is some people are more equal than other people.
Hubbard would agree with that. He knew of no equal to his knowledge, but he says others are wiser but stated he has travelled more road, whatever the fuck that really means?Although you can do precious little about it except maybe earn more money or perhaps worship violence, there will always be a pecking order, always!
I think there is some good gear in amongst this auditing business, but I don’t pitch myself against others, never have since I left the church but I cringe when I see groups or people rip each other apart to make a point about a technology they themselves can’t, aren’t experienced in or don’t know how to apply. I scratch my head with, why bother in such a game?
I personally think there’s value in your ability to CS & audit. Many will disagree but they play a game I’m not interested in playing. I’ve been in many a situation where the person beside me is willing to share their last cigarette or their last swig of water and that is amazing affinity. I didn’t like being in such crap situation but shit, boy, was I alive. Same sort of scenario in the auditing chair, it’s a good game to get right. Pity the Bridge was bobby trapped in the OT band.
Please don’t invalidate your abilities, especially because of some group consensuses. Having someone slap you on the back and consider you a friend is an wonderful experience, but it’s a rare commodity.
Scientology as a group activity just can’t seem to help itself, it just fucks things up! And this subject of sexual preference – geezers, what a minefield!
John T is WAY more equal than any other every-day scn-gist.
The only rich and famous actor more equal than him would have to be Tom, thanks to his lovey-dovey special love-triangle he’s got going with the leaders, L. Ron and the overlord of human self-love personified, David Miscavige. Just doesn’t get more equal than that.
You should declare them back to even out the flows. 😉
Hey Mike lets not gloss over this little beauty from the joberg. It appears its an overt for a white man to sleep with a black woman or vice versa. So homosexual hate AND racism. This line from the joburg deserves its own post. And just in case anyone reading this thinks its jot true it is 100 percent accurate. Ibwas there in the sea org. Mike is quoting hubbard 100 percent.
So thats in a confessional! Which means its an overt.
When I was asked that question on Grade II I told my auditor “No, but I’ve always wanted to.” 🙂
Hi Dave, I know also about The Sea Org and being with another race while in.Crazy isn’t it? “The most Ethical Team on the Planet” Ha,I take my Spirit back forever! Always,Ann
Hi statpush,Now this post is Classic! Thank you for a laugh! Ann.
Oh NO! I’m a bad, bad, very bad boy.
Isn’t a yes answer just the pits!
I need to be punished… really punished… mmmm?
Hahahahahahahaha. Well I yawn, we can arrange a spanking for you, or maybe some serious RPF duties…
o yawn stop stop dont o please…you’re driving me out of my mmmmind-mm
Whew! Where do I start! Maybe with the awesome Mabel who put me up in her place in Harare when CLO UK wouldn’t send me any money to stay in Zimbabwe to keep the Org doors open?
“Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another colour? So that’s in a confessional! Which means its an overt.”
No, it means the PC CONSIDERS it an overt. The whole idea of a confessional is to relieve the pc of what he is withholding because that will lessen his responsibility and his reach. Yes, confessionals have been used for other purposes, but that was not there original intent.
Should be “…THEIR original intent.”
Yeah, except that question is suggestive, and within the context of a sec check can prompt a feeling a guilt that maybe wasn’t there in the first place.
Kind of sick , in my book.
No argument with the beneficial aspect of a confessional.
Yeah, there are no questions about having good intentions or helping people.
Someone over at ESMB did a great expose once on the fact Hubbard never researched for and deployed a process for above 2 on the tone scale while developing processes to handle the R6 bank. It’s all about being opposed and what not. The other flow about being happy about things and game-man-ship was apparently ignored for the negative. I suppose havingness was the closest thing to good times.
It’s all too serious… another aspect of the dual nature of scientology, don’t be serious and lightness of organisation etc. sort of caved the whole thing in.
Well questions like that would be good dirt for the file now would they. Sigh.
Oops wouldn’t.
Marie, that shouldn’t be a problem if there’s no executive C/S’ing or pressure from Ethics or OSA. Actual reads and false reads can be differentiated by an auditor who knows what s/he is doing.
Right you are about the beneficial aspect.
So, in other words, you’re justifying sec checking. The last person to justify religious interrogation was Tomas de Torquemada. First the e-meter, then, if something reads, the thumb screws, with a nice session on the rack for afters.
Why don’t you stop before you totally ruin your reputation?
Espiando, I was talking about confessionals, which came before sec checks. Confessionals were originally intended for the sole purpose of relieving a person of his own emotional charge and guilt. They were for the benefit of the pc, and that was all there was to it. At the end of the confessional, the auditor stated to the pc what was called the “Proclamation of Forgiveness” – and there were no reports sent to Ethics. No “handling” was necessary as the pc had been forgiven.
As a person raised Catholic, it would be hypocritical of me to condemn the Sacrament of Confession per se. It’s what Scientology does with the concept that drives it into condemnation. The notes from those confessionals still exist in the PC folder, and we’ve all seen what they’ve done with those. However, I know that you condemn the use of PC folder information for Dead Agent purposes, so I’m definitely not accusing you of being part of this abominable practice.
tl;dr: Confession is good for the soul, but it’s not necessarily good for the thetan.
Well said, Espiando. 🙂
The SO members I was around were the most homophobic people I witnessed anywhere in the world that I’ve been.
Intolerant, vicious, “holier than thou”. What were probably well intentioned individuals have been totally perverted by a brain washing, vindictive so called religion.
Hi GBTO, Yes that was definitely pervasive throughout the SO.Those of us that started to see behind and beyond the veil,were punished always.Vicious is a good starting point for that mind set.Love,Ann.
Ann, No matter the punishment, you DID see beyond the veil and are a better person than most! Happy Sunday. 😉
Hi Observinginsandiego, Thany you for my good Sunday wish.Your posts are balanced and refreshing.Always Love,Ann.
Leslie Bates says
My question for today is how did LRH view Ayn Rand and Objectivism. I simply cannot imagine an Objectivist picking up the can and thus appearing anywhere on a tone scale.
If I recall correctly, Ayn Rand was either declared or shunned by Hubbard, at least when I was around in the middle 60s.
Ms. B. Haven says
All I can add to this revealingly accurate post is my own experience. I got into the cult in the mid 70’s at a mid-sized mission in a very conservative part of the USA. There were a couple of openly gay public taking courses. They seemed to be tolerated fairly well because they had money and were contributing to the ‘stats’. But, they were constantly ridiculed behind their backs. I believe that would be about 1.1 on Hubbard’s tone scale. That was the public. As for staff, on of the EDs had some history of homosexual acts that were somewhat generally known about. When the ‘coup of 82’ came along, he was one of the few who stood up to the storm troopers (Finance Police) and was removed from post promptly. Sadly, he got ‘handled’ somewhere along the line and as far as I know is still in as a public member and did some OT levels. I guess those ‘handlings’ that he received must have cured him. Riiiiiiiight… Only 50 to 200 or so hours to ‘handle’ this perversion? I would bet big money that this guy had easily that many hours in sec checks alone.
Slightly off topic, I have to add that people of color received the same ridicule behind their backs. The mission was a very white bread sort of place. Again, anyone was ‘welcome’ if they had money, but there was always the covert whispering behind their backs if they were different in some way. The ridicule always came from staff, not other public. Staff, even at the mission level, always exuded an air of superiority because they were more ‘on purpose’ than the mere public that contributed to their meager pay check.
Well at least the church is equal opportunity when it comes to hating everyone, gotta give them that. Thanks for sharing your experience ms. b! 😉
Hi Ms B.Haven,Your post said it all! Yes staff and Sea Orgers could really throw that Superiority around! Did that myself for awhile!But that was not me,in my soul,so I stepped aside and let those who wanted to keep the superiority thing going,have at it.I just wanted to fulfill what I thought was my mission back then.Clear the planet and put Ethics in on the Universe!Am I ever grateful I fled the cult!Always, Ann.
And then, in a flaming example of the First Law of Scientology Contradictions where for Every Bit of Policy and Tech there is an Equal and Opposite bit of Policy and Tech we have “2nd Dynamics Rules” where L Ron Hubbard, the author of all that idiocy about sex above, also writes this in HCO PL of 11 August 1967:
“It has never been any part of my plans to regulate or attempt to regulate the private lives of individuals.
“Whenever this has occurred, it has not resulted in any improved condition.”
“I have no concern about the second dynamic activities of Scientologists save only where they bring suffering to others and so impede our forward progress.
“Therefore: ALL FORMER RULES, REGULATIONS AND POLICIES RELATING TO THE SECOND DYNAMIC ACTIVITIES OF STUDENTS, PRECLEARS, STAFF AND SCIENTOLOGISTS ARE CANCELLED.”
Scientology: where plausible deniability works not only for the press and the police, but for the inside of your own mind, as well, if you find yourself needing to defend indefensible yet again.
Yes, great point.
douwebeerda says
That seems like a sensible policy but can people use this in Scientology or the Sea Org or will they stil be disciriminated against in practise in Scientology and/or the Sea Org?
One thing for sure all of this tells you, that a world run by david miscavige with these writings of LRH will be a world where no one is below 2.0. Or else.
it is a small bubble, isn’t it?
Geezers! Little kids would run away from that one. What a horrible concept, ” a world run by david miscavige… ” arragh!
Great post Mike. I always found lrh’s writings on homosexuality to be hateful, ‘reactive’ and bigoted.
Commenting on a side not you made: I prefer alcohol way more than marijuana. But I would be the first to say, marijuana is way safer than alcohol. When I was “in”, I definitely didn’t see this pot datum being applied.
I think there is still a lot of debate on the pot vs. alcohol debate (I am against neither).
Today’s marijuana is much stronger (purer, if you will) than the pot you and I (well, me anyway) smoked in college.
And, I believe that it is a gateway drug to stronger stuff. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of any addict who said ‘I started with heroin’ (though I am sure there are a few who did).
I have two teens and two pre-teens, so I have been to more meetings and read more studies on addiction than I have ever wanted to, not to mention my own research outside of what I have learned through the schools.
Sorry, did not mean to derail the conversation into a pot v. booze discussion. Both have their place and it’s unfortunate they are abused, but every recent study/report I have read indicates pot is not necessarily a ‘safe’ alternative to alcohol.
Though it sure is fun…..and something David Miscavige desperately needs to try
As a sober opiate addict, I would say alcohol is they gateway drug. In my experience and for many people I know.
Important information today, thank you 🙂
Ah, drugs, sex and rock and roll…
Stairway to heaven from Fantasy Island.
Stories of Miscavige’s abuse abound and I struggle to give to give them credence.
What am I missing? Why don’t any of the stories read like the following?
“A semi-literate gay dwarf with a lisp attacked me yesterday.”
“Really mate? That’s fucking hilarious. What did you do?”
“I slappped it silly, sat it on my lap and made it pretend to be a ventriloquist’s dummy. Check out the video clip of the Xenu mini-Me impersonation I made it do on YouTube.”
Because if you punched the dwarf back, yes, you’d break the dwarf, but the dwarf’s 20 goons standing around would then break you, and you’d be condemned (as you believe) to eternity in pain, fear and darkness. That’s that Ben Carson nonsense: “why didn’t they just rush the shooter? Why didn’t the Jews stand up to Hitler?” It’s victim-blaming, the purpose of which is to give you an excuse not to emphasise.
vinaire says
Is David Miscavige a closet homosexual? Is it the frustration with his own condition that makes him viciously homophobic?
I don’t know vinair. As LRH was viciously homophobic many SO execs are. DM is one of many in that regard.
Thanks, Mike, for taking the time to assemble all this damning information and to put it forward so clearly and forcefully. I think this essay will stand as the final word on the institutional homophobia of this organization.
As for Dave Miscavige, I suspect that personal anecdotes about his vile character will continue to accumulate as he continues to slide into impotent rage and, increasingly, irrelevance.
How can Scnists claim to hold the keys to a happy marriage and the raising of children, when their founder’s written words and the group’s policy and behavior on the second dynamic are so thoroughly twisted?
Serious, while reading Hubbard’s Pain and Sex, it is clear the old man had issues on the subject. One thing you can say, he isn’t covertly hostile on the second dynamic – he’s overtly hostile! Oddly enough, a Scnist would find that an improvement, since it is higher on the Tone Scale.
Could it be that having a healthy, active second dynamic, one that the individual enjoys spending time creating, is seen as a potential threat to the Almighty Third Dynamic?
One quickly learns that the Third Dynamic is THE most important dynamic. And there really is only one Third Dynamic, that of the church of Scientology. Vying for top dynamic position is the 9th dynamic, money. Unfortunately, any Third Dynamic is composed of a bunch of First Dynamics (you know, aberees, broken straws, DBs). But, Scn can “fix” them, provided they turn over their money and wear the mental straitjacket.
So, if we walk the straight and narrow, do what Hubbard and the church says, then maybe…just maybe, one day…
We can all be like Ron.
I always found it most odd that Clear #1, John Macmaster, was clearly gay. As was Hubbard’s son, Quentin. They were also two of the most gentle and kind human beings I ever met. I can only wonder at how Hubbard dealt with that internally.
It’s a tough job making up your own religion with all that religion’s rules to satisfy all of the cultural fad whims going on to satisfy all your cult clients, over top your own prejudices.
Ron the cult leader founder had his work cut out for himself!
When Ron said he failed at the whole thing, when he admitted that to Sarge Steven Pfauth, at the Creston Ranch a month or two before LRH died, that to me, is the big lesson picture of Scientology.
It’s just not anyone’s business to create a cult at all in the first place!
Going getting drunk after Ron admits failure, is a moment of enlightenment hindsight that makes Lawrence Wright’s book a must read for the Scientology celebrities.
Hi Chuck Beatty, A terrific post!Very true and the last paragraph was so vibrant.Would that the celebs,whales and Sea Orgers over the planet could really see that! Love,Ann.
Hi thegman77,Very good to see your post here.I have read all the posts to Mike’s powerful post,which was not available to me until this AM.Something blocked it,so I came to yours and here I am.I had some wonderful letters to and from John McMaster in 74.I was frightened that I could not last in the Sea Org having only DMSMH as my guide.But now I know that book had already set my hook! But John was so good to me with encouragement and support.It mattered not one iota whether he was gay or not.And Quentin was so very sweet and gentle and Funny! Could he make me laugh! I see now that when I signed that billion year contract,I signed my spirit or thetan as one will,I bound my soul to Ron’s as a soul slave.I was not free,I would never be free again,until I blew and even then nightmares will come now too.My own way of looking now,is much more simple.Is the person I am comming with a pure soul or a black soul? Yes it is hard to know and I got really tripped up with this with GO/Intel,but my heart tells me to trust what I know instinctively about some one.Ron/David it is all about their command and control pain and suffering they both dole those out via the tech that always works absolutely.So Indies and all I grant you your viewpoint.But once you have been thrown on the Sea Org fire or shoved under the Sea Org bus for being loving and sensitive and kind,you will feel differently forever after.All love to you,Ann.
Where was John McMaster in 74?
Hi Mike,Well if I can un-mix my mind,knowing how I screw stuff up,he may have passed in 74. But the John who wrote me and because I had gotten some old old time Dianetics people to write me,he wrote about early Ron.I believe he wrote me from South Africa.Don’t shoot,I’m just a lowly messenger! Plus I know there can be duplicates or doppelgängers,amongst the persons I wrote to.Love,Ann.
Terrific post, Mike.
Twisted policy bred by the man’s twisted behavior.
Then walks in MacCavige, the dick.
Sorry, Mike, that you had to describe his vulgar attacks and antics. Sure, it demostrates his sick
-nesses.
But, and who was the young beauty here that said, incredibly, a word of compassion for the man?
Aquamarine, if memory serves, said there was a way he could still, maybe, earn a pass.
Alanzo, now I remember. How beautiful is that?
But to stir up the hatred, the utter total repugnancy for the noun/person, well, I fear it just lends him, the dude, more power than he deserves.
After all, the more accurate measure would name him a zero, a solid zero. Sure, you can go lower, but what’s the point?
Once you start hurting people you are a zero.
If you take pleasure in it then your end is literally written in stone, and it will not be pleasant.
It is unavoidable.
And therefore nothing to be getting the girls upset over. I am reassured every time I see this Dave guy pull another boner. All the credit for every evil deed this church is responsible for can be rightly attributed to him.
So he gets mad and ugly when you call him out on it.
Mad and ugly is what school kids can do, giving it their best.
Which is all the power and juice this so-called leader can give, demonstrate to the universe.
You and me are are ten or even a hundred times the power.
If you take pleasure in watching his demise I invite you. It is happening. And I agree, it is indeed a beautiful day. Glad to say the beauty of it has nothing to do with a ignorant man who fell down and ate his way through the ground to where he is now, a place much like the place he will be buried in, the worm. I just said that to end this on a up-note. True-mm
Hi mark marco, Your post is shining today.Thank you.Ann.
thanks Ann. i actually threw that in extra just for you, (choke) i feel like a crook stealing a smile from you so easy, but wait it gets worse-
no control and the anti panic button went out and i have little choice but to write again
[insert blushing smile here, please]
Hi mark marco, How can I not smile light to you and love you all at once? Because you are golden and your posts are those I will always seek out.You are stuck with me! Stardust, Ann.
all those names are wrong, crap, i sabatoge my cred
it is all love in the end,
equal to the love you make
Wayne Borean aka The Mad Hatter says
Thanks Mike for a great explanation.
markthehungarian says
“get Guilluame’s cum out of your mouth and you might be able to talk better.”
That’s True Leadership right there. So Pope-like. Hah ahhaha hahahah .
What a fucking psycho!
I mean, what an exceptional ecclesiastical leader.
That comment is disturbing for so many reasons….I continue to be amazed that someone has not stood up and smacked Miscavige in the mouth.
The amount of self restraint is impressive.
A concrete bunker, bullet proof glass, 24/7 security, a 45 under the pillow. That self restraint isn’t exactly 100% self. That little twerp knows exactly what will happen to him if he lets his guard down. It’s pretty much just him and his security at Int now anyway from what I can make out. Anyone with any gumption was disposed of sometime ago.
Hi Chee Chalker, I was looking for your post and here it is! Made me happy to find you.I agree 100% with your post.David Miscavige seems to delight in engaging his SO Slaves in all sorts of bs and constant taunting and make wrong.I have wondered too what it would take for someone to say Enough! But David is no fool by surrounding himself with his private security force.Also I surmise the SO is so worn down and out by him they can’t see straight.And he knows that.Really a terrible “leader” of the cult.All Love,Ann.
He is a scared, homophobic little boy, playing in his fort with his toys.
thanks for saying that
i thought i was just imagining the whole thing…
Sneaky Little Phuq says
While that may be true, there is the other side to the coin; this scared little boy, by whatever means, has managed to hold oversight on a burgeoning real estate empire and as such, don’t think for a moment that he has not already locked in multiple safety-net locations in various far away lands.
Heck, good chance he is already operating form one of them (the new X?).
While you all ponder that, chew well and then swallow this; at some point, and here is my written prediction, Tiny Boots will eventually and quite intentionally leak to the kool-aid crew that due to the extreme expansion, the kick-back from the SP’s is so extreme that he has had to get fabian, as in “at times of war the fleet is at sea, whereabouts unknown”. The remaining sheeple will literally drop to their knees at the action-hero like maneuvers of dear leader, and then we will see them all pull out all the remaining hidden money that the cherch had not yet gotten. All the while, the rest of us, the media, and the world will see that he fled with everything and yet the still-ins will see it as a strategic move to protect the expansion.
Am I new here?
Nope. Do a whole bunch of you know who I am? Yup 🙂
Just been UTR for….years…still-in, taking copious notes, and here is one for tiny boots: the enemy is IN YOUR CAMP LITTLE BITCH, I’LL BE IN THE ORG ON COURSE TODAY, BETTER GO SEC CHECK EVERYBODY, AT LEAST ONE OF THEM IS A sneaky little phuq…!
Plausible scenario that.
I’m kind of hoping he does a Sultan Griss type thing and simply fucks it all up.
Or made found in a ditch beaten to death… but Christmas isn’t for awhile yet.
Stay hid, oh strange one, still attached.
I yawn, Christmas can come early sometimes… Keep the hope alive. Lol
Oh rest assured, nothing would make me happier but for Tiny Boots, this play would stretch his status out longer, let him overtly gather his booty and clear it to a safe location, undisclosed of course, and he could literally still be SOB even after having raided the coffers and strip-mined the parishioner base; if he goes that route, ya gotta tip your cap to the deviousness of the little snake!
Haha you get them sneaky!
Well I figured early on that staying hidden behind enemy lines would be more fruitful in the direction of imploding it than one more guy “out” and just getting 3-P’ed into the ground. Plus, I am taken LRH advise, he says words to the effect of filling a file cabinet with all the dirt, etc. Well, gathering all the dirt is much easier from within…good times ahead if they even make the mistake of coming for me or anyone who I have granted allegiance to…
Hi Sneaky Little Phug, You are most clever.Power to you.Ann.
Now, OSD2, I’m not scared and I’m not homophobic. But, his fort and toys are something I’d like to have! I mean, c’mon! A fort and toys? It just doesn’t get any better…
Id like his fort and his toys too for that matter!
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This Is How Women Get Stranded In Unhealthy Relationships
By Kelly Gonsalves Contributing Sex & Relationships Editor
Image by Alex Tan / Death to the Stock Photo
The idea of "unconditional devotion" is in many ways a beautiful one—and one I've personally bought into for most of my life and still somewhat align myself with today. To love someone without conditions, without prerequisites, without concern for what they give you in return, and in spite of all their faults, flaws, mistakes, and hurtful altercations to come. It's the stuff our entire Western conceptualization of love is based around these days, as well as the movie narratives featuring grandiose displays of passion and sacrifice.
But for all the beauty and intimacy that can come from forging a bond based on unconditional devotion, that type of commitment can also be what keeps people trapped in otherwise unhappy relationships—particularly women.
How women get stranded in relationships that no longer serve them.
When you've committed to loving your partner no matter what they do, it makes it easy and acceptable to put up with unsavory behavior even when it goes too far—or to go along with an unsatisfying relationship that may not hurt but still drains, numbs, or simply doesn't quite feel right.
Women, in particular, receive tacit encouragement to make their relationships work, even those that are flawed, harmful, or simply not serving them. This happens in two specific ways:
Women have been taught to prioritize having successful relationships.
In most cultures, women are raised to place more importance on having successful relationships than men are. It's the reason every heroine in a movie needs a male love interest, why professional women are asked questions about "having it all" when men aren't, why women not married by age 30 are called "leftover women" in some parts of China—the list of examples goes on and on.
"Women have a harder time ending relationships in general than men do—and yes, that's absolutely because of socialization," Kara Loewentheil, master confidence coach and host of the UnF*ck Your Brain podcast, tells mbg. "Women are socialized to believe that their value comes from male approval and that being in a romantic relationship is their highest aim and goal in life. Even women who are raised with feminist values and who care about their career and personal happiness are still growing up in a culture where romantic 'success' is constantly portrayed as a woman's highest calling and fulfillment."
In her book Hard to Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up, journalist Kelli María Korducki outlines the social, economic, and political historical events that led to women finally being able to not only choose the relationships they wanted to be in but also leave unsatisfactory ones freely. Although women are no longer tied to unhappy relationships because of a lack of property rights or moneymaking power today, Korducki points out that the advent of love marriage as a replacement for economic marriages didn't necessarily free women from the pressure to find a husband. The social ostracization inherent in "spinsterhood" was still too great.
"With the emergence of a companionate, affectionate marriage ideal came increased social pressure for women to endeavor upon the project of cheerful domesticity," Korducki writes. "Marriage and the family became recoded as arenas for women's spiritual actualization, the locus for pure fulfillment as opposed to a plane of existence largely grounded in duty. In a sense, post-Enlightenment wifehood took on the set of signifiers we still see reinforced by a certain style of mommy blog and lifestyle Instagram account in the 21st century."
Today, women experiencing a breakup are still often seen as personal failures (see: the whole hoopla over Jennifer Aniston "losing" Brad Pitt to Angelina Jolie back in the day). Add that to the myth of how rare a "good man" is to find, Loewentheil points out, and it's not surprising that women might be reluctant to leave a relationship they've already secured.
"Of course a woman is going to be more inclined to stay in a relationship that isn't really what she wants because the alternative she sees is feeling lonely, used up, not good enough, invalidated, and having to start the process all over again," Loewentheil says. "The real tragedy is that in encouraging women to believe that happiness and worth come from their romantic relationships, we actually end up creating a situation where so many of them stay in unhappy relationships because they would rather be with someone than no one."
Women are raised with more empathy and caretaking intuition.
Women tend to be more empathetic than men, and genes don't explain much of it. As a society, we expect girls and women to be more understanding toward other people's feelings, have better people skills, and be better caretakers—it's why girls are encouraged to speak softly, be more accommodating, participate in kitchen and household tasks, and play with baby dolls and toy kitchens.
These emotional skills are key to having better self-awareness, healthier relationships, and more compassion for others throughout your life, of course—but that empathy can also sometimes backfire. Research shows people are more likely to stay in unhappy relationships when they feel the other person needs the relationship, and because of the way they're raised, women are all the more likely to be hypersensitive to their partner's needs and to prioritize their partner's happiness above their own.
It's not hard to see why this socialization might lead to a lot of women sticking it out in relationships that don't really bring them much personal happiness.
"Empathetic people are great at explaining other people's crappy behavior away," psychotherapist and executive coach Perpetua Neo explains. "In unhealthy relationships, sometimes the other party pays lip service, saying they'll change. And as the nurturer, we want to help them change. Except that keeping them accountable is what gets us sucked in."
How to know when your devotion is holding you back.
Are you staying in your relationship because it's one worth fighting for—or because you feel a subconscious pressure to make it work, even if it's not really want you want? It's a tough question to answer because it involves deeply interrogating the roots of your beliefs around love, how you were raised to view relationships, and the true nature of your bond with your partner.
Here are a few ways to help you reflect and recognize when it's really time to leave:
1. Consider where you learned your style of commitment.
We all learn how to love from somewhere or someone, Neo says: "Who were your models of unconditional devotion? For instance, if Mom and Dad are extremely devoted to each other, it may be because they both deserve it! They both may be the types who make things work and love and respect each other." Can you say the same for your partner?
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2. Ditch the belief that your partner needs to be full-on toxic before you have a reason to leave.
"It isn't about whether someone is 'full-on toxic' or not. They exist on a spectrum," Neo explains. "It isn't about whether you sometimes exhibit toxic behaviors; we all do."
Here's the real question you need to ask yourself, according to Neo: Is this person good to me and for me?
You don't need a reason to leave. If you want to leave, that's reason enough.
3. Ask yourself this: Is your partner as invested in you as you are in them?
Even if you're still investing energy in the relationship, it's important to recognize whether you're getting that same investment back from your partner, clinical sexologist and sex therapist Cyndi Darnell tells mbg. This is especially important for highly empathetic women who feel deep devotion to their partner. Is your level of devotion matched and returned to you? If it's not, you need to be able to release yourself from the commitment you've self-created.
"If your partner has already given up on you, it's hard to give them up too," Darnell says. "It's important to remember relationships are a choice, not an obligation."
4. Make lists and write letters. Lots of them.
Contrary to lessons you may have taken away from Ross and Rachel's relationship on Friends, Darnell is a big proponent of making lists to help you weigh your decision to stay or leave. "Write a pros and cons list. Literally," she recommends. "Reflect on the contents of the list and ask yourself, Is this worth it? Write the reasons why and why not. Write a letter to yourself defending the relationship. Then write another prosecuting it."
Pay attention to your gut—the physical sensations inside you—as you go through this process. As you make a case for both possible paths forward, Darnell says the answer may just come to you: "Check in with your body—which process resonated more? The body holds deep wisdom in these situations."
5. Get some distance.
Darnell recommends taking some time to separate yourself from the situation. "Imagine it was a friend telling you their story," she suggests. "What advice would you give your friend? Sometimes it's more effective when we take ourselves out of the equation a little bit."
6. Get real.
Here are a few powerful questions Loewentheil recommends asking yourself:
"If I knew there was plenty of love out there for me, and I could meet someone else, would I stay in this relationship?"
"If I knew I could be happy as a single person, would I stay in this relationship?"
"What feelings and thoughts am I afraid I would have if I left this relationship? Do I want to believe those thoughts? Am I willing to have those feelings in order to experience what might be on the other side?"
"If I knew I could feel good about myself however my partner acted, would I stay in this relationship?"
"What thoughts and feelings am I wishing I would magically think and have if I had a different partner?"
"What all these questions have in common is that they are ways of asking your brain to separate your thoughts and feelings from your circumstances," she explains. "No relationship causes your feelings or actually validates you or means anything about you. All of that is caused by your thoughts. So asking questions like these can help illuminate why you are staying in a relationship or why you are leaving it to make sure that you aren't making these decisions based on wanting someone else to deliver validation, confidence, or worth to you—because they never can or will."
#toxic relationships #dating #empowerment #breakup #soul mates
Kelly Gonsalves Contributing Sex & Relationships Editor
Kelly Gonsalves is a sex writer and editor with a focus on how sexuality intersects with identity, wellness, and power. Her work has appeared at Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Vice, Bustle,...
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Cruel owner filmed repeatedly punching pet Alsatian in shocking scenes of abuse as pooch cries out in pain
Owner Dariusz Jakimowicz has been banned from keeping all animals for five years after a neighbour reported the sadistic act
Scarlet Howes
A man has been banned from keeping all animals for five years after he was caught on camera brutally beating his pet Alsatian following an RSPCA prosecution.
The harrowing footage shows Dariusz Jakimowicz, 34, repeatedly punching his German Shepherd dog Zeus in the body and the face.
Captured by his neighbour on her mobile phone from her bedroom window, Jakimowicz can be seen coaxing the dog out of his kennel before hitting the abused pooch while he cowers in front of a large hole in a garden fence.
The dad-of-two appeared at Luton Magistrates’ Court Tuesday, when he admitted causing unnecessary suffering to Zeus, by inflicting physical abuse and blunt force trauma.
Magistrates gave Jakimowicz a 12 week custodial sentence, which was suspended for 12 months, and 100 hours of unpaid work, in addition to his five year animal ban. He must also pay £626.80 in costs.
The court heard that Jakimowicz was witnessed punching Zeus at least 10 times in the body and face on one occasion in August last year.
Jakimowicz coaxes the dog out so he can viciously beat him (Image: RSPCA)
The vile dad-of-two yet again attacking his German Shepherd (Image: RSPCA)
RSPCA inspector Mel Fisher said: “He was punching Zeus so hard that he was shaking and rubbing his fist afterwards because it hurt his hand. He admitted in interview that he did this because he lost his temper.
"Thankfully Zeus wasn’t left with any long-lasting injuries from this incident.
“Additionally, he was using a pinch collar to walk Zeus, which is a horrific medieval-looking training device which pinches the dog’s skin when they pull on the lead. Wearing this collar would have caused Zeus pain while walking. It is certainly not a training method which is recommended.”
The dad-of-two appeared at Luton Magistrates’ Court Tuesday (Image: SWNS)
Zeus wasn’t left with any long-lasting injuries from this incident (Image: RSPCA)
Zeus, now aged one, is currently in the RSPCA’s care.
Inspector Fisher said: “Zeus was only a few months old when he came into our care. He has had a horrible start to his life, but he is now thriving. He is a beautiful dog - he is the Brad Pitt of the German Shepherd world.”
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By Ralph D. Russo | The Associated Press March 16, 2019 10:03 PM
NEW YORK — Villanova became the first team to win three consecutive Big East Tournaments, beating Seton Hall 74-72 on Saturday night behind seniors Eric Paschall and Phil Booth and key contributions from freshman Saddiq Bey.
Seton Hall star Myles Powell, guarded closely by Booth, missed a 3-pointer in the closing seconds that could have won it. Booth was called for traveling as he tried to corral the rebound, however, and the Pirates got one more chance with 0.4 seconds left. Anthony Nelson's long inbounds lob bounced off the backboard and was slapped away by the Wildcats, who got to party on the Madison Square Garden floor yet again.
"This one is special, very special. This team has taught me so much," Booth said during the postgame ceremonies at center court. "These young dudes are like a fresh breath of air for me, being around them."
The 25th-ranked and top-seeded Wildcats (25-9) were in the Big East final for a fifth straight year, and have won four of the last five championships. The only loss during that span was to Seton Hall in 2016, and Powell and the third-seeded Pirates (20-13) gave Villanova all it could handle once again.
"Can't thank Phil and Eric for their leadership enough," Wildcats coach Jay Wright said. "They've been great examples of what a Villanova basketball player is their whole career."
Powell scored 25 points to cap a spectacular three days in Manhattan for the high-scoring guard.
Paschall had 17 points and eight rebounds, and Booth scored 16 and was selected most outstanding player of the 40th Big East Tournament.
Bey, who Villanova fans hope will lead the next wave of championship teams, had 16 points and 10 rebounds.
"Our team loves playing here in the Garden," Wright said.
Villanova had a chance to seal it in the final 30 seconds but Paschall was called for a charge when he lowered his shoulder into Myles Cale with 24 seconds left. Powell quickly scored inside at the other end to cut the Wildcats' lead to 73-72 with 15.5 seconds left.
The Pirates sent Paschall to the line with 13.7 seconds remaining and he made the first and missed the second. Seton Hall rebounded and called a timeout to set up a final play with 8.9 seconds left.
Seton Hall: Nelson scored 12 points off the bench for the scrappy Pirates, but other than Powell, they had a hard time finding offense. They did force 14 turnovers. They'll go as far as Powell and a tough defense will take them in the NCAAs.
Villanova: The Wildcats also got key contributions from sophomores Jermaine Samuels (12 points, seven rebounds, three assists and two steals) and Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree (six points and seven rebounds). The inexperienced players have provided inconsistent production much of the season, and if Wright's team is going to make another deep run in the NCAA Tournament, the Wildcats will need more games like this one from the young guys.
"Things were rocky right until the last second of this game," Wright said. "It's been a rocky season."
Seton Hall: The Pirates are headed to their fourth straight NCAA Tournament, matching a school best (1991-94).
Villanova: The defending national champions will be in the NCAA Tournament for the seventh straight season, but will probably be seeded worse than a 2 for the first time since 2013. Villanova also won the 2016 national title.
Tags: Phil Booth, eric paschall, Seton Hall basketball, Jay Wright, Villanova Wildcats, Big East Tournament, Villanova basketball
Edwards leads Purdue to rout of reigning champ Villanova
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By The Associated Press March 23, 2019 11:05 PM
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Carsen Edwards had a career night, scoring 42 points as Purdue knocked reigning national champion Villanova out of the NCAA Tournament Saturday night in an 87-61 rout.
Matt Haarms added 18 points and nine rebounds for the third-seeded Boilermakers (25-9), who advanced to their third straight Sweet 16.
Eric Paschall had 19 for Villanova (26-10), which saw its quest for a third national title in the last four seasons end during the tournament's first weekend. Fellow senior Phil Booth scored 15 points, putting him over 1,500 for his career.
Edwards has battled a sore back and had been in a recent shooting slump, making just 7 of 23 shots from the field in Purdue's first-round win over Old Dominion. He found the bottom of the net early and often against `Nova, making 12 of his 21 shots, including nine of 16 from behind the arc.
Purdue shot 54 percent while holding Villanova to just 20 baskets on 58 shots (34 percent).
Purdue jumped out early, building a 13-point lead thanks to Edwards' outside shooting and Haarms' work down low.
The 7-foot-3 Dutchman towered over the shorter Wildcats, who didn't start anyone over 6-8. He had Purdue's first four points on a dunk and a put-back. Edwards hit five of his nine first-half shots, all of which came from three-point range.
Purdue had nine three-point baskets in the first half and a dunk by Haarms put the Boilermakers up 43-24 at intermission.
Another dunk from the Dutchman extended the lead to 35 in the second half. Villanova chipped away but the sixth seeded Big East champions did not have weapons to make it a game.
Defending champion Villanova shows its experience in NCAA Tournament first-round win over Saint Mary's
By The Associated Press March 22, 2019 12:45 AM
HARTFORD, Conn. — Villanova got off to a slow start in defense of its NCAA championship against a determined, defensive-minded Saint Mary's team that came in confident after a season-defining win.
But the Wildcats, a No. 6 seed in this NCAA Tournament after an up-and-down season, have one thing no team in the field of 64 has: a pair of leaders who have won two national titles.
NPhil Booth scored 20 points, fellow senior Eric Paschell added 14 and Villanova held off 11th-seeded Saint Mary's 61-57 on Thursday night.
"We're growing, our young guys are growing, but we have two seniors who do everything for us, on and off the court," coach Jay Wright said. "We're just so lucky to have them."
Sophomore Jermaine Sameuls added 12 points for the Wildcats (26-9), who led for almost 33 minutes, but never by more than eight points.
"The tempo was excruciating," Wright said. "We felt going in we were going to have to grind with them."
The Gaels used the same slow pace to upset Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference Tournament, and it gave them a chance against Villanova (26-9) in a tense opening-round matchup.
Jordan Ford and Malik Fitts each had 13 points for Saint Mary's (22-12). Ford's basket in the lane after a few nifty moves got the Gaels within six points at 61-55 with 34 seconds left.
After Paschell missed a foul shot on the other end, Fitts cut the deficit to four points with a leaner in the lane. The Gaels had two more chances in the final seconds, but Fitts hit the rim on a 3-point attempt and Villanova freshman Saddiq Bey stole the ball from Ford in the final seconds to seal the win.
"We had a few games this year where we put the press on and were able to get back in the game," said Ford. "And if we get a few of those loose balls, or maybe make a three when we were down four, I think it's a different game."
Saint Mary's led 30-28 at the half, but Booth scored the first five points after intermission during a 12-3 run that put the Wildcats up 40-33. He had 12 points and five of his six assists in the second half.
"We weren't doing that bad, actually," Booth said. "It was more that they were playing very well and we were trying to match how they were bringing it. I think we just had to take it to another level, because they were playing at a high level."
Villanova: The defending champions are in the tournament for the 14th time in 15 seasons and improved to 14-1 since 2016.
Saint Mary's: The Gaels are 4-6 in opening-round games in the NCAA Tournament and 5-10 overall. Saint Mary's has advanced to the Sweet 16 once in the modern era when it beat the Wildcats in 2010. There's a reminder of that run in the hallway outside the locker room that the players see as they walk out to practice each day in McKeon Pavilion.
Empty arena
The game tipped to a relatively empty arena, but it wasn't because nobody had bought tickets.
Fans of the Wildcats, many of whom made the 4-hour drive from Philadelphia to Hartford, Connecticut, were lined up along with Gaels fans behind metal detectors as security emptied the arena from the afternoon session.
"You worry about those things, you know?" Wright said. "We have a lot of guys in the NCAA Tournament for the first time thinking, `This is the NCAA Tournament?' There's no one in the stands."
By halftime, the 16,000-seat XL Center was nearing capacity, but some frustrated fans were sill filing in.
From distance
The game was billed as a battle between one of the nation's top 3-point shooting teams in Villanova against some of the nation's best perimeter defenders. In the end, the Wildcats finished 8 of 20 from behind the arc, while Saint Mary's was 8 of 22.
The taller Gaels won the rebounding battle 33-29 and 10-5 on the offensive end. The Wildcats didn't have an offensive board until the second half and that led to an 11-4 advantage for Saint Mary's in second-chance points. Wright said this year's team was hurt by the transfer of 6-foot-9 Dylan Painter, but is going to have to find a way against taller opponents.
Villanova will play No. 3 seed Purdue in the second round Saturday.
Tags: Saint Mary's basketball, 2019 NCAA Tournament, Villanova basketball
Edwards leads Purdue to rout of reigning champ Villanova Defending champion Villanova shows its experience in NCAA Tournament first-round win over Saint Mary's Villanova's X-factors, chances at history in 2019 NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament: Villanova draws Saint Mary's in South Region matchup Villanova beats Seton Hall to become first team to win three consecutive Big East Tournament titles Villanova rallies past Xavier for OT win, advances to 5th straight Big East championship game No surprise, Villanova delivers in crunch time to beat Providence, advance in Big East Tournament No. 23 Villanova stunned by Seton Hall in regular-season finale In his final game at Wells Fargo Center, Phil Booth drops 28 to lead Villanova past Butler Jermaine Samuels scores 29 points as Villanova snaps losing streak with win over No. 10 Marquette Villanova's Big East title hopes on the line tonight against Marquette No. 17 Villanova stumbles to 3rd straight loss, falls to Xavier No. 13 Villanova blows second-half lead to St. John's Eric Paschall, Phil Booth lead No. 13 Villanova past Providence No. 14 Villanova comes up short at buzzer vs. No. 10 Marquette No. 14 Villanova tops Creighton in OT for 10-0 Big East mark Collin Gillespie's career game carries No. 14 Villanova past Georgetown Impressive coaching from Jay Wright proves essential for Villanova Phil Booth drains 7 3-pointers as No. 18 Villanova blows out Seton Hall Hot-shooting Villanova beats Xavier for sixth straight win
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Fake GSM base station trick targets iPhones
Demonstration given at Black Hat DC Conference
By Ellen Messmer
Senior Editor, Network World, Network World | PT
While his Black Hat DC Conference demonstration was not flawless, a University of Luxembourg student on Wednesday did show that it's possible to trick iPhone users into joining a fake GSM network.
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Ralf-Philipp Weinmann showed how to cobble together a laptop using open-source software OpenBTS and other low-cost gear to create a fake GSM transmitter base station to locate iPhones in order to send their owners a message. A number of iPhone users in the room expressed surprise that they had gotten a message asking them to join the network.
Weinmann, who is researching vulnerabilities in cellular networks, said that with the right equipment, the range for the rogue GSM station he built can be 35 kilometers.
"You want to get phones not just used by the teenage crowd but executives," said Weinmann, adding that it is possible to "have complete control of the phone." Part of the reason these fake GSM network attacks are possible is because the code base used in smartphones such as the iPhone, which is Infineon-based, goes back to the 1990s. A little sleuthing allowed Weinmann to discover vulnerabilities that can be exploited. For instance, he got help by finding that an Italian company that went bankrupt in the 1990s put up some code for GSM stacks in Sourceforge for four years before taking it down.
Weinmann's attack would allow him to take advantage of iPhones lured into his rogue base station to "enable and disable auto-answer on the iPhone" he said, or with an attack payload to record the audio on the iPhone, store it in RAM and then transmit the data that was sniffed.
Weinmann said he doesn't want to encourage data theft, but he does want to get carriers and vendors to improve security in the wireless networks. He adds that technology such as femtocells could be used to replace the OpenBTS software, which would only amplify the types of attacks he's investigating.
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http://news.mit.edu - April 18, 2019
TESS discovers its first Earth-sized planet
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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered its first Earth-sized exoplanet. The planet, named HD 21749c, is the smallest world outside our solar system that TESS has identified yet.
In a paper published today in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters, an MIT-led team of astronomers reports that the new planet orbits the star HD 21749 — a very nearby star, just 52 light years from Earth. The star also hosts a second planet — HD 21749b — a warm “sub-Neptune” with a longer, 36-day orbit, which the team reported previously and now details further in the current paper.
The new Earth-sized planet is likely a rocky though uninhabitable world, as it circles its star in just 7.8 days — a relatively tight orbit that would generate surface temperatures on the planet of up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
The discovery of this Earth-sized world is nevertheless exciting, as it demonstrates TESS’ ability to pick out small planets around nearby stars. In the near future, the TESS team expects the probe should reveal even colder planets, with conditions more suitable for hosting life.
“For stars that are very close by and very bright, we expected to find up to a couple dozen Earth-sized planets,” says lead author and TESS member Diana Dragomir, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. “And here we are — this would be our first one, and it’s a milestone for TESS. It sets the path for finding smaller planets around even smaller stars, and those planets may potentially be habitable.”
TESS has been hunting for planets beyond our solar system since it launched on April 18, 2018. The satellite is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission that is led and operated by MIT, and is designed to observe nearly the entire sky, in overlapping, month-long patches, or “sectors,” as it orbits the Earth. As it circles our own planet, TESS focuses its four cameras outward to monitor the nearest, brightest stars in the sky, looking for any periodic dips in starlight that could indicate the presence of an exoplanet as it passes in front of its host star.
Over its two-year mission, TESS aims to identify for the astronomy community at least 50 small, rocky planets, along with estimates of their masses. To date, the mission has discovered 10 planets smaller than Neptune, four of their masses which have been estimated, including π Men b, a planet twice the size of Earth, with a six-day orbit around its star; LHS 3844b, a hot, rocky world that’s slightly bigger than Earth and circles its star in a blistering 11 hours; and TOI 125b and c — two “sub-Neptunes” that orbit the same star, both within about a week. All four of these planets were identified from data obtained during TESS’ first two observing sectors — a good indication, the team writes in its paper, that “many more are to be found.”
Dragomir picked out this newest, Earth-sized planet from the first four sectors of TESS observations. When these data became available, in the form of light curves, or intensities of starlight, she fed them into a software code to look for interesting, periodic signals. The code first identified a possible transit that the team later confirmed as the warm sub-Neptune they announced earlier this year.
As is usually the case with small planets, where there’s one, there are likely to be more, and Dragomir and her colleagues decided to comb through the same observations again to see if they could spot any other small worlds hiding in the data.
“We know these planets often come in families,” Dragomir says. “So we searched all the data again, and this small signal came up.”
The team identified a small dip in the light from HD 21749, that occurred every 7.8 days. Ultimately, the researchers identified 11 such periodic dips, or transits, and determined that the star’s light was being momentarily blocked by a planet about the size of the Earth.
While this is the first Earth-sized planet discovered by TESS, other Earth-sized exoplanets have been discovered in the past, mainly by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a since-retired telescope that monitored more than 530,000 stars. In the end, the Kepler mission detected 2,662 planets, many of which were Earth-sized, and a handful of those were deemed to be within their star’s habitable zone — where a balance of conditions could be suitable for hosting life.
However, Kepler observed stars that are many leagues further away than those that are monitored by TESS. Therefore, Dragomir says that following up on any of Kepler’s far-flung, Earth-sized planets would be much harder than studying planets orbiting TESS’ much closer, brighter stars.
“Because TESS monitors stars that are much closer and brighter, we can measure the mass of this planet in the very near future, whereas for Kepler’s Earth-sized planets, that was out of the question,” Dragomir says. “So this new TESS discovery could lead to the first mass measurement of an Earth-sized planet. And we’re excited about what that mass could be. Will it be Earth’s mass? Or heavier? We don’t really know.”
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The new seven-storey Atura Adelaide Airport hotel, to be managed by the Event Hospitality and Entertainment consortium, is scheduled to open this month [NOTE SUBS: September]. The consortium includes QT Hotels and Resorts, Rydges Hotels and Resorts, Atura Hotels, Thredbo Resort and Event Cinemas. It will offer direct walkway links with the airport’s domestic and international check-in areas, and feature 165 guestrooms, Hangar Bar & Grill, a business centre, eight flexible function and meeting spaces, on-site gym, plus a port-cochere for guest drop-off and collection. Atura’s signature, free-flowing communal spaces will be a key design feature of the hotel and integrate seamlessly with the airport plaza and terminal, with spaces accessible to all travellers not just hotel guests. It will have 24-hour reception and free wi-fi. Phone 08 7099 3300 or visit www.aturahotels.com Crystalbrook Collection, will welcome guests at its first Australian resort, the five-star Riley, in Cairns, on November 6. To celebrate, the hotel is offering a range of opening specials: — Pre-pay your Riley stay and pay from $209 per night and receive a complimentary upgrade. — ‘Laze and Graze’. Spend the night and enjoy a full buffet breakfast for two at Paper Crane, valet parking and late check-out from $339 per room per night. — Pay for two, stay three. Book any Urban, Resort or Sea room for two nights and the third night is on the house. Expect a nod to environmentalism, in-room Apple iPads complete with healthy-living apps, Staycast by Google Chromecast for video streaming, access to hundreds of complimentary movies and box sets, and Nespresso machines with recyclable pods. Visit www.crystalbrookcollection.com/riley for booking and conditions. Falls Creek, Victoria’s largest alpine resort, is having its best back-to-back snow seasons in a decade, and with over two metres of snow cover, there’s going to be some superb September skiing and snowboarding. Falls Creek Country Club has specials offering discounts of 50 per cent and more throughout the month and guests are also entitled to a 50 per cent discount on snow-equipment rental. For example, pay from $1555 for five nights in a two-bedroom deluxe apartment, a saving of over $2200 on high-season rates. These apartments have a full kitchen, drying cupboard for clothing and boots and an individually controlled hydronic panel heater. Most bathrooms have spa baths with a shower over the bath, and all linen, towels and swimming pool towels are provided. Phone 03 5758 3391 or visit www.fallscreekcountryclub.com.au Antarctica Flights is offering a range of sightseeing excursions over the icy continent this year and next: ex Sydney on November 18, ex Hobart on November 25, ex Melbourne on December 31 and February 10, ex Perth on January 26, ex Brisbane on November 10 next year and ex Adelaide on November 24 next year. A privately chartered Qantas 747 will spend up to four hours over the ice on a 12-hour round trip, descending as low as 10,000 feet. Complimentary drinks and will be served, and prices start from $1199 per person. While not quite out of this world, the flights do take you out of the country … but passports are not required. Phone 1800 633 449 or visit www.antarcticaflights.com.au MGallery has opened Legacy Yen Tu, a wellness sanctuary located on the sacred Yen Tu mountain, situated near the UNESCO World Heritage site of Halong Bay. The destination is part of Vietnam’s historical golden era and dates back more than 750 years. Legacy Yen Tu MGallery has been built using ancient methodologies to emulate a peaceful way of life, and the rooms feature the signature wooden-inked slab traditionally used for calligraphy, and an outdoor patio living area. Legend has it that a hermit monk An Ky Sinh travelled to Yen Tu mountain in search of medicinal herbs during the pre-Buddhism times some two thousand years ago, and since then, the mountain has been regarded as a divine and sacred place. Guests can savour authentic Vietnamese cuisine at the hotel’s Tho Quang restaurant or an evening wine-down at Thien Tra Lobby Bar which overlooks the picturesque mountain views. Visit www.accorhotels.com Manitoba’s Winnipeg, with its eclectic art scene, foodie hub, and welcoming, progressive locals, is fast becoming known as Canada’s cultural capital. If you want act like a genuine Pegger in this uber-cool city, one of the things to do is to hang out at The Forks. For thousands of years, The Forks National Historic Site was the meeting place for Indigenous people, and today it remains the heart of Winnipeg, where locals and visitors can connect and make the most of this nine-acre hub of shopping, dining and entertainment. The Forks is located where the Red and Assiniboine rivers converge. Take a seat at one of the communal tables at The Common and discover how friendly Prairie folk really are, as you talk over a craft beer and platter filled with locally produced delicacies. Air Canada offers daily direct flights to Vancouver from Sydney and Brisbane, with direct flights from Melbourne available three times per week, with connecting services to Winnipeg. Alternatively, VIA Rail, the national Canadian rail service, runs from Vancouver to Winnipeg. The two-day journey spans British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan before reaching the Manitoba, the heart of Canada. Visit www.travelmanitoba.com
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September 11 2018 - 9:05AM
Six highlights in your travel week | 11 Sept
The Atura Adelaide Airport hotel … direct walkways to check-in areas.
The new seven-storey Atura Adelaide Airport hotel, to be managed by the Event Hospitality and Entertainment consortium, is scheduled to open this month [NOTE SUBS: September].
The consortium includes QT Hotels and Resorts, Rydges Hotels and Resorts, Atura Hotels, Thredbo Resort and Event Cinemas.
It will offer direct walkway links with the airport’s domestic and international check-in areas, and feature 165 guestrooms, Hangar Bar & Grill, a business centre, eight flexible function and meeting spaces, on-site gym, plus a port-cochere for guest drop-off and collection.
Atura’s signature, free-flowing communal spaces will be a key design feature of the hotel and integrate seamlessly with the airport plaza and terminal, with spaces accessible to all travellers not just hotel guests.
It will have 24-hour reception and free wi-fi.
Phone 08 7099 3300 or visit www.aturahotels.com
Riley, in Cairns … a range of opening specials.
Crystalbrook Collection, will welcome guests at its first Australian resort, the five-star Riley, in Cairns, on November 6.
To celebrate, the hotel is offering a range of opening specials:
— Pre-pay your Riley stay and pay from $209 per night and receive a complimentary upgrade.
— ‘Laze and Graze’. Spend the night and enjoy a full buffet breakfast for two at Paper Crane, valet parking and late check-out from $339 per room per night.
— Pay for two, stay three. Book any Urban, Resort or Sea room for two nights and the third night is on the house.
Expect a nod to environmentalism, in-room Apple iPads complete with healthy-living apps, Staycast by Google Chromecast for video streaming, access to hundreds of complimentary movies and box sets, and Nespresso machines with recyclable pods.
Visit www.crystalbrookcollection.com/riley for booking and conditions.
Falls Creek Country Club … specials offering discounts of 50 per cent and more throughout September.
Falls Creek, Victoria’s largest alpine resort, is having its best back-to-back snow seasons in a decade, and with over two metres of snow cover, there’s going to be some superb September skiing and snowboarding.
Falls Creek Country Club has specials offering discounts of 50 per cent and more throughout the month and guests are also entitled to a 50 per cent discount on snow-equipment rental.
For example, pay from $1555 for five nights in a two-bedroom deluxe apartment, a saving of over $2200 on high-season rates.
These apartments have a full kitchen, drying cupboard for clothing and boots and an individually controlled hydronic panel heater. Most bathrooms have spa baths with a shower over the bath, and all linen, towels and swimming pool towels are provided.
Phone 03 5758 3391 or visit www.fallscreekcountryclub.com.au
Sightseeing over Antarctica … a humbling experience.
Antarctica Flights is offering a range of sightseeing excursions over the icy continent this year and next: ex Sydney on November 18, ex Hobart on November 25, ex Melbourne on December 31 and February 10, ex Perth on January 26, ex Brisbane on November 10 next year and ex Adelaide on November 24 next year.
A privately chartered Qantas 747 will spend up to four hours over the ice on a 12-hour round trip, descending as low as 10,000 feet.
Complimentary drinks and will be served, and prices start from $1199 per person.
While not quite out of this world, the flights do take you out of the country … but passports are not required.
Phone 1800 633 449 or visit www.antarcticaflights.com.au
Legacy Yen Tu … built using ancient methodologies to emulate a peaceful way of life
MGallery has opened Legacy Yen Tu, a wellness sanctuary located on the sacred Yen Tu mountain, situated near the UNESCO World Heritage site of Halong Bay.
The destination is part of Vietnam’s historical golden era and dates back more than 750 years.
Legacy Yen Tu MGallery has been built using ancient methodologies to emulate a peaceful way of life, and the rooms feature the signature wooden-inked slab traditionally used for calligraphy, and an outdoor patio living area.
Legend has it that a hermit monk An Ky Sinh travelled to Yen Tu mountain in search of medicinal herbs during the pre-Buddhism times some two thousand years ago, and since then, the mountain has been regarded as a divine and sacred place.
Guests can savour authentic Vietnamese cuisine at the hotel’s Tho Quang restaurant or an evening wine-down at Thien Tra Lobby Bar which overlooks the picturesque mountain views.
Visit www.accorhotels.com
Winnipeg … Hang out at The Forks to look like a genuine Pegger.
Manitoba’s Winnipeg, with its eclectic art scene, foodie hub, and welcoming, progressive locals, is fast becoming known as Canada’s cultural capital.
If you want act like a genuine Pegger in this uber-cool city, one of the things to do is to hang out at The Forks.
For thousands of years, The Forks National Historic Site was the meeting place for Indigenous people, and today it remains the heart of Winnipeg, where locals and visitors can connect and make the most of this nine-acre hub of shopping, dining and entertainment.
The Forks is located where the Red and Assiniboine rivers converge.
Take a seat at one of the communal tables at The Common and discover how friendly Prairie folk really are, as you talk over a craft beer and platter filled with locally produced delicacies.
Air Canada offers daily direct flights to Vancouver from Sydney and Brisbane, with direct flights from Melbourne available three times per week, with connecting services to Winnipeg.
Alternatively, VIA Rail, the national Canadian rail service, runs from Vancouver to Winnipeg. The two-day journey spans British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan before reaching the Manitoba, the heart of Canada.
Visit www.travelmanitoba.com
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Take a look at this line of of legends for Rhyl's bumper day of soul this summer
Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, The Edwin Starr Band and Precious Wilson join Rhyl's free event Seaside Soul
Jimmy James will join the line-up for the return of Seaside Soul
AFTER three years the soul is returning to Rhyl's summer headline event.
Following the success of Seaside Soul in 2016, thousands are expected to head to Rhyl events arena for the soul themed music on Sunday, August 18.
The town's annual free event, Seaside Soul is organised by Denbighshire County Council and supported by Rhyl Town Council celebrates the music of some iconic bands.
Rhyl mayor cllr Ellie Chard said: “Arena Fest will bring a bumper day of soul music to Rhyl.
"With another great line-up of bands and DJs, the event promises to have something for everyone and Rhyl’s seafront is definitely the place to be this summer with events galore.
"Rhyl Town Council is delighted to be supporting another soulful Sunday and we look forward to welcoming residents and visitors to the events’ arena.”
This year’s event will feature live entertainment from Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, The Edwin Starr Band ‘The Team’ featuring Angelo Starr, Precious Wilson and Midnight Soul Supremes as well as guest DJ’s.
Headliner Jimmy James is best known as the lead singer of Jamaica band The Vagabonds whose 1966 album The New Religion is now legendary and for his recording of Neil Diamond’s Red Red Wine in 1969 - taken from the Vagabonds’ second album Open Up Your Soul - which was the band's first hit record.
Joining James is American singer, musician and record producer Angelo Starr - the younger brother of the late soul singer Edwin Starr - who has stepped up to front his brother’s touring band The Team.
Precious Wilson started out as a backing singer for the all-male group Eruption and in 1977 which became the backing band of Boney M and their hits I Can’t Stand the Rain and One Way Ticket.
Leader of Denbighshire, Councillor Hugh Evans OBE, who is Lead Member for the Economy, said: “This is one of the summer’s headline events in Rhyl and music fans are in for a real treat.
“The summer programme of events attracts thousands of visitors to the town, making a significant contribution to the local economy and we are sure that Summer Soul will be a sensational show”.
For further information please contact Rhyl Tourist Information Centre on 01745 355068.
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NSWRL NEWS
NSW Women Claim Interstate Challenge
Simon Masterton (Twitter: @OiSimmo)
Sun 23 Jul 2017, 06:00 PM
A Jessica Sergis-inspired Harvey Norman NSW Women's side has made history at WIN Stadium, with a maiden home win and back-to-back victories in the 2017 Harvey Norman Interstate Challenge.
A big Wollongong crowd witnessed a great display of Women's Rugby League - and Sergis cross for three tries - as NSW ran out 22-6 victors.
While the home side was hurt early in the second half by an injury to experienced fullback Sam Bremner, they gathered themselves nicely to claim momentum soon after, keeping their opposition scoreless for the final 40 minutes. Despite an apparent dominance of the NSW left edge early in proceedings, all five tries came in the opposite corner, with debutant and the side's youngest player Sergis scoring a hat-trick. Halfback Maddie Studdon also played an outstanding game to steer her side to victory, while the forward back was equally dominant.
A bruising hit on Isabelle Kelly ensured a fiery start to the clash and soon after it looked to be Queensland's Heather Ballinger to open the scoring, but the prop forward was held up in some heroic NSW defence.
Kelly responded with a 50-metre break and almost found Nakia Davis-Welsh on her outside, but couldn't quite get her side on the board. The ball was spread right and after a wayward Caitlin Moran kick, Jessica Sergis found the try line to start her debut in style. The attempted conversion was missed by Moran and the home side led 4-0 early.
It soon became clear that the NSW left-edge attack was going to cause all sorts of problems for Queensland, with Kezie Apps making another break before Davis-Welsh followed minutes later. The winger, who looked certain to score, fell just short - but with a significant overlap on the right-hand side, Sergis once again finished the job. Her second came off the back of a Maddie Studdon kick and with Moran's conversion sneaking over the crossbar, NSW enjoyed a 10-0 lead.
Queensland continued to look dangerous in attack and it took a brutal Ruan Sims tackle to stem the momentum; the NSW skipper was put on report for the shot on Karina Brown, however, giving the visitors more time on their opposition's line. They were forced into touch shortly after and NSW palmed off a real threat.
The women in maroon wouldn't be held out forever and with their next major attacking raid, Jenni-Sue Hoepper came up with a try. The centre took a ball from Steph Hancock to get her side on the board and Chelsea Baker converted, reducing the NSW lead to four points.
Some missed opportunities from the NSW Women - who continued to spent a lot of time down their left edge - would prevent them from adding to their tally in the first half. Some positive signs for NSW gave them a 10-6 lead at half-time.
Handling errors crept into the game early in the second stanza and with possession turned over multiple times, neither side was able to break the deadlock. NSW suffered a hit early in the second half with a devastating injury to Bremner, who left the field with an ankle complaint, forcing Moran to the custodian role and a reshuffle in the back line. Just five minutes later the sky blues managed to get on the board once again, however, thanks to yet another perfectly-placed bomb from Studdon. This time Corban McGregor was the beneficiary to take scores to 14-6.
Almost immediately, things turned from bad to worse for Queensland, with the right-hand side once again adding points. Vanessa Foliaki took a nice ball from Moran to score another and while the conversion attempt fell short once again, NSW enjoyed a healthy 18-6 advantage.
Momentum had well and truly swung in favour of NSW and it was now the right edge which was bringing the most joy to the local fans in attack. It seemed only a matter of time until Sergis brought up her hat-trick and she did so by running in the team's fifth, with the 19-year-old taking scores to 22-6.
A packed hill at WIN Stadium watched on as the Harvey Norman NSW Women played out the rest of the game, tasting interstate glory for a second consecutive time with a 22-6 victory.
NSW 22 (Jessica Sergis 2, Corban McGregor, Vanessa Foliaki tries; Caitlin Moran goal) def Queensland 6 (Jenni-Sue Hoepper try; Chelsea Baker goal)
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Judge suing city for $1M after fall on wet courthouse floor
By ELIZABETH HAYS
| DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER |
It's the mother of all slip-and-fall cases.
A politically connected Brooklyn judge plans to file a $1 million lawsuit against the city after slipping on a just-mopped floor in his own courthouse, the Daily News has learned.
Supreme Court Justice Jack Battaglia - who hears civil cases and earns $136,000 a year - is even targeting the courthouse cleaning lady who wielded the mop, according to legal papers.
The judge fractured his knee in the Nov. 9, 2007, tumble outside room 452 and was forced to undergo surgery and physical therapy.
In his Jan. 31 notice of claim, Battaglia accuses the city of "negligently using a mop bucket and wringer" and "negligently using a mop and soapy water" to create a "dangerous and hazardous traplike condition."
"It's a bizarre irony that a judge who often makes settlements is himself now seeking compensation from the city," said Dick Dadey, who leads the government watchdog group Citizens Union.
"Everyone is entitled to equal justice, but I hope he's not using his intimate knowledge of the system to maximize his claim."
A courthouse insider took aim at Battaglia's decision to include the janitor responsible for the puddle - identified in court papers only as "Joanna Doe (an Employee of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services)."
"That's pretty petty," he said. "I don't think suing the janitor makes his lawsuit any stronger."
As a result of the claim, city lawyers have asked Battaglia, who routinely heard similar cases against the city, to remove himself from all cases involving the city, courthouse sources said.
City lawyers said they could not discuss the case.
Battaglia, who is the brother of Brooklyn Democratic boss Vito Lopez's girlfriend, did not return a call for comment. Lopez also couldn't be reached.
Battaglia is represented in the case by Borchert, Genovesi, LaSpina & Landicino - which includes Brooklyn Democratic Party lawyer Carl Landicino.
His lawyers did not return calls for comment.
An accident report attached to the claim notes that Battaglia was "unable to stand up after the fall" and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
In the claim, Battaglia also charges he "has been limited in his ability to flex his knee, has difficulty walking and is required to use a cane."
Political observers had mixed reactions to Battaglia's claim.
"If the city in some way was negligent, the fact that he is a judge shouldn't preclude him from suing," said Doug Muzzio, a professor of political science at Baruch College. "If he's got a case, he's got a case."
Political strategist Hank Sheinkopf noted that judges across the state last week filed a lawsuit to get a long-awaited pay raise, which he believes they deserve.
"But isn't breaking one's leg going a little too far?" he joked.
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Middle East|Must Haves: Cellphones Top Iraqi Cool List
Must Haves: Cellphones Top Iraqi Cool List
By DAMIEN CAVE AUG. 8, 2006
Iraqis use their cellphones often to reassure their families that they are safe. They also use their phones to take and send pictures after a bombing. Credit Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 7 — The cool kids in Iraq all want an Apache, the cellphone they’ve named after an American military helicopter. Next on the scale of hipness comes a Humvee, followed by the Afendi, a Turkish word for dapper, and a sturdy, rounded Nokia known as the Allawi — a reference to the stocky former prime minister, Ayad Allawi.
Even more telling are the text messages and images that Iraqis share over their phones. From all over the city, Baghdad cellphones practically shout commentary about Saddam Hussein, failed reconstruction and violence, always the violence. One of the most popular messages making the rounds appears onscreen with the image of a skeleton.
“Your call cannot be completed,” it says, “because the subscriber has been bombed or kidnapped.”
Cellphones have long been considered status symbols in developing countries, Iraq included. But in an environment where hanging out is potentially life threatening, cellphones are also a window into dreams and terrors, the macabre local sense of humor and Iraqis’ resilience amid the swells of violence.
The business here is booming. According to figures published last month by the State Department, there are now 7.1 million cellphone subscribers in Iraq, up from 1.4 million two years ago. In an economy where jobs can be as scarce as rain, billboards for phones are among the only advertisements updated regularly in the capital.
Some Iraqis report spending as much as $800 on phones like the Humvee, and from the rooftops of Sadr City, the poor Shiite district where trash lines the streets, visible cellphone towers outnumber minarets 15 to 2.
It is the relentless violence — which now claims dozens of Iraqis every day — that seems to have fertilized the industry’s growth. Insurgents use phones to communicate and to detonate bombs, while Iraqis of all sects rely on their phones to avoid danger.
Jabar Satar Salaum, 50, the owner of a cellphone store on a busy street in the middle-class Shiite area of Karada, said he used his phone (a Nokia that is a step up from the Allawi) mostly to tell his wife that he was safe. On the ride to and from work across Baghdad, he said he called every few minutes.
“I call to tell her I am leaving,” he said. “I call to tell what district I am in when I am driving, or if the roads are blocked by checkpoints, I call to tell her that as well.”
Four of the eight stores on Mr. Salaum’s block sell cellphones, and most have window displays where each phone is covered in plastic.
Between customers, his sons, Amjad, 17, and Muhammad, 15, said that cellphones were desirable not just because they were cool but also because they provided one of the country’s only safe forms of teenage self-expression.
In May, a tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts. Cellphones, in contrast, have attracted little religious outrage.
“For young people, buying phones is a habit,” Amjad said. “Everybody buys different phones all the time. Whenever something new comes out, they have to have it.”
He reached into his jeans and pulled out his newest acquisition, an orange Sony Ericsson that sells for about $300. It was protected by a hard, clear plastic case. On the wall to his left hung a poster of Nokia phones, showing images and model numbers displayed like the Popsicles on an ice cream truck.
“I’ve had all of these,” he said. How many exactly? “At least 20,” he said. “Every one.”
The nicknames for phones, he and other Iraqis said, are a mnemonic device derived in part from their shapes. The Allawi, a Nokia 3660, is broad and has a rounded bottom, resembling the physique of the former prime minister; the Apache is a Nokia flip-phone with a bottom that swivels, like a rotor blade.
The prices the phones command are rather high for Iraq, of course. But with a booming aftermarket in cellphones, people can sell their old ones for nearly the original price and move up to a fancier model. Service is relatively cheap, with most people relying on $10 and $20 prepaid cards rather than the more expensive monthly plans.
And the powerful are as vulnerable to consumer culture as the young are. Brig. Gen. Jaleel Khalaf Shwayel of the Iraqi Army said that he buys a new phone every few weeks. During a recent interview at his office about deteriorating security in Baghdad, he spent several minutes wiping off his latest purchase, a titanium Nokia 8800 that he said he bought for $800.
Brig. Gen. Jaleel Khalaf Shwayel of the Iraqi Army owns three cellphones and says he often upgrades. Credit Max Becherer/Polaris, for The New York Times
He said he kept up on the latest styles through glossy technology magazines from the United Arab Emirates, setting him apart from the insurgents who use cheap phones to detonate roadside bombs. His phone, or phones (he has three), also help him keep in touch with the areas his soldiers patrol.
“I give my cellphone number to people in the neighborhoods, and I receive calls every day,” he said. A day earlier, he said two tips came in.
“In the el-Adil district, I received a call that people there had put mines in the road,” he said. “I gave an order to investigate, and we discovered it was right.
“Someone else told me about some bandits in a BMW. When we went to arrest them, we found R.P.G.’s,” he said, referring to rocket-propelled grenades.
For human rights workers in Iraq, cellphones play a darker role. Omar al-Jabouri, who heads the human rights office for the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party, said he often received pictures of men tortured or killed by death squads, many of them taken with the cellphones of witnesses or the victims’ relatives. At bombings, Iraqis are often seen recording the carnage in pictures or short videos.
But mostly, people here use their cellphones for commiserating, searching for laughs among the tears or trying to knock the powerful off their pedestals. Over the past year, American soldiers, Saddam Hussein and the current Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani, have all been the subjects of humorous clips passed from phone to phone.
“In Iraq, there is such an accumulation of frustration,” said Fauwzya al-Attiya, a sociologist at Baghdad University. “If an Iraqi does not embrace humor in his life, he’s finished.”
These days, some of the most popular clips poke fun at Islamist radicals. In one amateur video, a masked man, pictured at dusk with a knife, threatens to behead a fish because “all the fish did not come out of the sea.” With an exclamation of “God is great,” he bends over and slices off the fish’s head, laying it on top of the scaly body.
Another video captures young men trying to decapitate a victim with a fake, dull knife and failing; like Hans and Franz, the muscle-bound weightlifters famously mocked on Saturday Night Live, the supposed killers are all talk, dense and incompetent.
Electricity and gas are also popular topics. One doctored photograph claims to offer an explanation for why Iraqis still have only a few hours of electricity a day: Two transformer towers are flipping a wire in circles like a jump-rope while a third tower bounces up and down.
And in another video, a young, bearded Iraqi dances with abandon after successfully refilling his propane gas cylinder. With a spiraling Arabic song as the soundtrack, he wriggles and smiles, shaking the cylinder over his head like a trophy. He also kisses it.
Clips from official sources and those adapted from television, both Western and Arabic, are also shared. Some Sunnis are currently passing around video outtakes of the militant Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr talking casually to advisers or friends that they believe make him look foolish (in part because he criticizes people who are “Afendi,” well-dressed and flashing their cellphones).
Everyone seems to enjoy laughing at Mr. Hussein. His propaganda has literally become a joke: a 2003 broadcast from Iraq’s state-run station, just before the war, shows a gaggle of soldiers with machine guns dancing and singing along with Khasim al-Sultan, an Iraqi pop star.
“If you want the stars, we will reach out for the stars,” the men sing, offering a pledge to Mr. Hussein. “We will wipe America from the map!”
Firas al-Taie, 19, after showing the clip, laughed and tried to explain why Iraqis find the segment entertaining.
“It’s not matching the reality,” he said, in halting English. “They said this thing and then something else happened.”
Like many young Iraqis, he said that his cellphone was his most cherished possession. He said several of his uncles in Jordan pooled together the roughly $300 he needed for the phone of his choice last summer after he graduated from high school.
Asked how his middle-class family could justify such an expense, Mr. Taie, an engineering student at Baghdad University, said it was all a matter of the violence and Iraq’s relentless state of alert.
“It’s important,” he said. “You have to have a cellphone. If I go to the college, or anyplace really, my parents call me like 100 times to see if I’m safe.”
He said he doubted the need would let up anytime soon.
Reporting for this article was contributed by Ali Adeeb, Omar al-Neami and Khalid W. Hassan from Baghdad, and Margot Williams from New York.
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Cloudy skies early, then off and on rain showers overnight. Low around 70F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%..
Cloudy skies early, then off and on rain showers overnight. Low around 70F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%.
Lawyers and the family of the late Yingying Zhang enter court on Monday morning in Peoria.
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PEORIA — U.S. Department of Justice attorney James Nelson gave the opening statement for the prosecution, starting with the last line from Ms. Zhang’s journal: “Life is too short to be ordinary.”
“She had no way of knowing how short her life would be,” he said. Describing her life as extraordinary, he said, “Yingying was far more than just an international scholar,” adding “she was a devoted and loving daughter” and “she was the hope of her family.”
Nelson said her father still has difficulty looking at photos of her, and once she was an adult, was like a sister with her mother, talking all the time.
He said she had a beautiful voice and loved to sing, “but on June 9, 2017, that beautiful voice fell silent.”
Calling for the death penalty, Nelson said it was “not an ordinary crime. It was cold, calculated, cruel and months in the making.”
He went through the government’s eight aggravating factors, including that he planned it, it was cruel, that she spoke poor English and was likely to trust a police officer, and that she was small and the ideal size of a victim.
Also, the attorney said Christensen obstructed the investigation by cleaning the crime scene and hiding her body. “There will be no proper burial in China. There will be no closure. You will see the anguish.”
He said this crime “deserves an extraordinary penalty” and asked the jury to sentence Christensen to death.
For the defense, court-appointed attorney Julie Brain gave the opening, saying Christensen “will die in prison, alone, with strangers.”
“The only question that remains is when his death occurs — at the end of his natural life or at a date the government chooses,” she said.
She described Christensen as someone who struggled his whole life with mental health issues — night terrors, walking in his sleep, debilitating migraines.
When he was 15, she said he was home sick when his father found him running on the porch barefoot in January, then down the driveway into the side of a van.
When he was tested, no drugs were found, and when he came to, he said he was disturbed by what happened, she said.
His grades plummeted, but he got into a technical college, and eventually into the University of Wisconsin, then Illinois.
But he struggled at UI, too, as the demands increased.
She said he sought mental health treatment, but didn’t get the help he needed.
While she said the crime is “his fault,” “this is not a case that deserves the death penalty.”
“He is not a serial killer,” she said, refuting Christensen’s claim of 13 victims.
Said he’s shown no signs of dangerousness in two years in jail.
She encouraged jurors to make a moral decision, to keep an open mind, and to sentence him to life in prison without the possibility of release.
PEORIA — The parties went through the preliminary jury instructions that will be read this afternoon. There were plenty of disagreements and issues to be determined later, but still on track to start at 1:30 p.m.
The defense wants to argue that if just one juror isn’t for death, then Christensen will get life. The defense said many courts allow this, and that if they can’t, jurors could unnecessarily change their mind because they’re worried about having a hung jury.
Judge Shadid said for the preliminary instruction, he’ll tell them to try to reach unanimous decsion either way. He will decide later about final jury instructions.
They went over the defense’s list of 54 mitigating factors, or reasons Christensen shouldn’t receive death penalty, which range from his alcoholic mother to no criminal history to allegedly not receiving proper care at the UI Counseling Center.
Shadid generally allowed these, even ones about Christensen’s prior mental health issues, despite the defense dropping their mental-health defense. He said he was being very lax.
However, Shadid warned the defense to be careful about connecting a previous diagnosis with Christensen’s mental health on June 9, 2017, when he kidnapped and killed Ms. Zhang.
Defense said they also have texts showing Christensen was suffering from the same symptoms he had previously sought help for leading up to June 9.
Jury returns at 1:30 for opening statements.
PEORIA — Monday morning’s pre-sentencing hearing was to clear up what evidence will be allowed during the sentencing phase of convicted murdered Brendt Christensen.
Christensen appeared, dressed in gray button-down shirt and dark dress pants. His dad was also present.
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Judge James Shadid recommended some language for a stipulation about the plea negotiations so that lawyers don’t have to testify.
Shadid also said he will allow seven videos of Yingying Zhang’s friends from China describing her and what her loss means to them, as well as a video of Ms. Zhang singing.
Defense said they only received these videos recently, and not the trimmed-down versions that will be played.
Prosecution said they’ll be 10-20 minutes long each, and that they’ve cut out portions of the friends talking about Christensen’s punishment.
Shadid said he’ll allow video of Ms. Zhang’s mother to be played, which the prosecution said was recorded Saturday.
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The judge also said he’d allow clips of Christensen making jail calls, which the prosecution said show him asserting his innocence, claiming the government didn’t find anything and that the case is political. Prosecution wants to use these to show lack of remorse.
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Attorneys for the government, which is seeking the death penalty, and for the defense, which is advocating for a life sentence for the convicted kidnapper and killer, both made their opening statements Monday to the same jury that rendered the verdict.
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Mum gets jail term after children left alone overnight
by Sarah Barnham
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Sarah began writing in 2014 and for The Observer in 2015. She left the region in 2017 for a reporting stint at the Sunshine Coast and returned to her hometown one year later. From day one she has had a keen interest in police, court and crime reporting.
16th Apr 2019 4:00 PM | Updated: 6:57 PM
A MOTHER-of-four has been served with a jail term after she left her children unattended overnight and disappeared for more than 12 hours.
The woman told the court this week it was a "miscommunication" when she hung up on her concerned neighbour and was unable to be contacted throughout the night, even by Calliope Police Station officers.
The woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of her children, pleaded guilty in Gladstone Magistrates Court to one count of leaving a child under 12 unattended.
The court was told on November 4 the woman's children, aged 11, 8 and 6 were playing with her neighbour's child when they decided to go swimming.
The adult neighbour told the children to ask permission from the woman before getting in the pool.
The children went home to ask but their mother wasn't home.
The court was told after the neighbour tried to call the woman several times, she eventually answered the phone.
The court was told the neighbour said to the woman she could not leave her children unsupervised.
The woman hung up on her neighbour and could not be reached even when police officers tried to contact her.
About 11pm the woman was reported missing.
At 11.30am the following day the woman turned up at the Calliope Police Station.
The court was told the woman drove to Bundaberg but did not have enough fuel to return home.
The woman told police she turned off her phone.
She told police she thought her children were going sleepover at the neighbour's house.
Police prosecutor Senior Constable Balan Selvadurai said the woman's offending was "abhorrent" and showed an "absolute disregard".
"She has left her children unsupervised, not for a short period of time but for almost a whole day," he said.
Defence lawyer Jun Pepito said the woman claimed there had been a miscommunication between her and the neighbour.
Magistrate Athol Kennedy sentenced the woman to four months jail with immediate parole release.
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Green cars account for 17.1% of new car registrations in Norway, the highest in the world
Bill Introduced in Lok Sabha to Amend Motor Vehicles Act to Provide Higher Penalties for Violations
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Almost 26,000 zero emission cars -- all of them electric except for nine hydrogen vehicles -- were registered last year in the Scandinavian country, out of a total of 150,700 private new cars.
Updated:January 7, 2016, 2:14 PM IST
The first Tesla Model S arriving in Norway in 2013 ©Tesla
Oslo: Zero emission cars accounted for 17.1 per cent of new car registrations last year in Norway, the industry said on Wednesday, the highest market share for clean vehicles anywhere in the world.
"Never has the market share of electric cars been as high as in 2015," Christina Bu of the Norwegian Association for Electric Cars said.
Almost 26,000 zero emission cars -- all of them electric except for nine hydrogen vehicles -- were registered last year in the Scandinavian country, out of a total of 150,700 private new cars, the Information Council for Road Traffic said.
The most sold models were the electric version of Volkswagen's Golf, the Tesla S, Nissan's Leaf, the BMW i3 and the Renault Zoe.
In 2014, zero emission cars made up 12.5 per cent of the Norwegian market.
The Scandinavian country is cementing its role as a pioneer in the field. By comparison, in neighbouring Sweden green cars represented four percent of new car registrations last year, while in France they accounted for just 0.9 per cent.
Norway offers numerous incentives to encourage buyers to opt for green cars: while regular cars are heavily taxed, green car owners benefit from tax exemptions, and, under certain conditions, the use of collective transport lanes and free parking.
Authorities plan however to very gradually reduce some of benefits, controversial due to their high cost.
"The choice of a zero emission car has to remain profitable. The electric car market is still not viable without subsidies," insisted Christina Bu.
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Home sports Wimbledon can’t really disguise change when it’s a £70m roof | Matthew...
Wimbledon can’t really disguise change when it’s a £70m roof | Matthew Engel
The crumbling porch at the entrance of that once fine edifice, the United Kingdom, is held up by a series of Corinthian columns: the monarchy, the great public schools, the ancient universities …
They have much in common. A rich patina of tradition suffuses everything they do. They all run their own operations skilfully; and they have the knack of creating an image of constancy while continually updating themselves, a process assisted by having vast reserves of money.
The All England Lawn Tennis Club is more an offshoot of the establishment than an integral part of it. But it is perhaps the most perfect example of this genre. And here we are again: summertime and all that. God’s in his heaven, Sue Barker’s on the telly, all’s right with the world and everything is as it always was.
Except in those cases where it isn’t. This year there have been two major innovations at Wimbledon. One is the new roof on No 1 Court: 70m quids’ worth of new clobber. It has not been in use yet; indeed the BBC – and it is very much its fortnight – is predicting there will be no rain between now and the men’s final.
But the roof is THERE. And somehow it feels more intrusive in repose than its 10-year-old Centre Court sister. It broods above this formerly charming tennis court like some mega-piece of industrial machinery. I began to feel we were in the innards of a nuclear power station, possibly with Homer Simpson in the umpire’s chair pushing buttons at random.
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This reverie was abetted by the presence on court of the Romanian Simona Halep, who accompanies every shot with the noise that might represent the death throes of a strangled gazelle. Or maybe an alarm proclaiming that the reactor core was going into meltdown.
One can see that the Centre Court roof was a worthwhile investment to guard the tournament against really bad weather. But the extra one feels like a luxury item. By my reckoning £70m could build about 1,750 tennis courts across the UK. But there is one further characteristic that links this array of successful British institutions: a ruthless focus on their self-interest.
What is the new format?
The All English Lawn Tennis Club announced in October 2018 that it would introduce a final-set tie-break when the score reached 12-12. It means an end to the drama of matches such as the record John Isner v Nicolas Mahut match in 2010, which ended 70-68 as they battled to win by the old rule of two games ahead in the final set.
Why did they make the change?
After the dramatic 26-24 semi-final final set between Kevin Anderson and Isner last year, with the whole match lasting 6hr 36min, Anderson struggled in the final, losing 6–2, 6–2, 7–6 to Novak Djokovic. After talking to players and reviewing match data Wimbledon decided to make the change. There were also scheduling complexities – the women’s final between Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber was delayed by more than two hours when the other men’s semi-final was pushed into Saturday as a result of the Anderson‑Isner match.
How do the majors compare?
Wimbledon singles matches will still be able to go longer than those at the US and Australian Opens, with the latter this year joining the New York event in going to a tie-break at 6-6, as in any other set. However, Wimbledon will use the standard first-to-seven tie-break, while Melbourne opted for the first-to-10 format, used in doubles in place of a final set (as with Andy Murray’s recent Queen’s semi-final victory alongside Feliciano López). France are still holding on to the traditional rules, meaning they can, in theory, go on indefinitely in singles matches (doubles matches employ a final-set tie‑break). Benoît Paire and Pierre-Hughes Herbert won 11-9 in the fifth at Roland Garros last month, playing 4 hours 33 minutes.
Has the decision been received well?
Anderson, who suggested changes in his post-match interview, has welcomed it as “a good compromise”. Greg Rusedski, though, believes all tie-breaks should be triggered at 6-6. He said: “It creates more drama and players will be less tired for the next round.”
But weren’t the epic matches part of the Wimbledon fairytale?
Even Andy Murray admitted it was a struggle to sit through Isner‑Anderson. In fact, only 15 singles matches have gone past 12-12 in the final set at Wimbledon in the past two decades. But under the new rule we would have been denied such classics as Roger Federer v Andy Roddick in the 2009 final, when Federer won the final set 16-14.
The other change may also not be needed this fortnight. The ludicrous matches last year between giant men with giant serves finally forced Wimbledon into accepting last-set tie-breaks. They decided not to resort to them at 6-6, as in the other sets, but only at 12-12, by which point the crowd’s enthusiasm is starting to morph towards exasperation. Since the turn of this century, only 14 singles matches (only one of those in the women’s event) have ever got that far.
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It seemed like a good compromise, dealing with extreme situations without bringing great gladiatorial battles to a premature end. It also appears as though Wimbledon tennis has now lost the distinction it shared with baseball of being theoretically interminable. Baseball remains like that: if the scores stay level, the contest keeps going. And maybe the tennis could still be the same. Anyone who watched John Isner (6ft 10in) and Kevin Anderson (6ft 8in) in their semi-final last year could imagine them continuing a tie-break to infinity by dive‑bombing each other without dropping a service point.
There was a newcomer to their ranks this year, the 21-year-old American Reilly Opelka, winner of the boys’ singles in 2015. He was tall then. He is now officially 6ft 11in, apparently the tallest tennis professional of all time.
Reilly Opelka during his match against Cedrik-Marcel Stebe. Photograph: Matthias Hangst/Getty Images
He beat a somewhat smaller German in straight sets, playing good all-round tennis rather than relying on an impossible serve. This was on Court seven, which is like playing tennis on the concourse at Euston. The world passed by, many pausing just long enough to point to Opelka and gasp. I squeezed on to one of the few benches and found myself next to the Opelka family, none that tall but very friendly. “Has his height been a plus or a minus?” I wondered. “Both,” said his uncle Frank. “For years he’s had people coming up to him and saying: ‘What basketball team do you play for?’ He just wanted it to stop.” Let’s hope he now makes himself famous for his tennis.
But after last year, there might just be a certain prejudice against the Brobdingnagians. Anderson, 26-24 winner over Isner a year ago, was shunted out on to No 3 Court at 11am on day one. Considering he was not just last year’s runner-up but is also the No 4 seed, that seemed rather insulting.
Fourth seed is a position normally occupied by the grand chieftain of the Murray clan. And when the hell did he last play on No 3 Court?
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Prison service chief condemns bonfire including names of murdered officers
The bonfire in the Bogside in Londonderry
Michael McHugh
The head of the Prison Service in Northern Ireland has condemned the "disgraceful" decision to light a bonfire emblazoned with the names of murdered officers.
MORE: Condemnation after murdered officers’ names burned on Bogside bonfire
The names of Ronan Kerr, David Black, Adrian Ismay and Stephen Carroll
The pyre, set alight on Wednesday evening in the Bogside area of Londonderry, included references to late police officers Ronan Kerr and Stephen Carroll and prison officers David Black and Adrian Ismay.
Three petrol bombs were also thrown at police near the city's walls which overlook the Bogside.
A 35-year-old man was arrested and charged with making, possessing and throwing a petrol bomb and is due to appear in court next month.
Fires are lit at this time of year to mark the anniversary of the introduction of internment of republican suspects without trial in 1971 and police are treating the incident as a hate crime.
Prison Service director-general Ronnie Armour, in a message to staff, said: "Using the names of our murdered friends and colleagues, and those of PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) colleagues, in this way has caused great hurt and distress to their families, to the Prison Service, and the wider community."
David Black, 52, was killed by dissident republicans opposed to the peace process during a motorway drive-by shooting in Co Armagh in 2012.
His son Kyle said Wednesday evening's bonfire-makers were disgusting.
Mr Armour also disclosed messages of support received from Londonderry, or Derry as many refer to it.
One said: "Please accept my sincere apologies for the most disgraceful, hurtful and hate-filled scenes that we witnessed last night at the bonfire in the Bogside.
"I know that I speak for the vast, vast majority of people from this wonderful city when I say that this is not in our name and we stand with the families of Ronan, Stephen, Adrian and David at this most distressing time.
"Please pass on my thoughts to the families of Adrian, David and all your fellow officers."
Mr Armour said Mr Black and Mr Ismay served the entire community with commitment, integrity and dignity.
He added: "As a service we will continue to serve all the people of Northern Ireland with professionalism."
Poppy wreaths were also put on the bonfire.
PSNI Chief Inspector Paul McCracken said: "We are treating this as a hate crime and we are seeking to identify those responsible, and I would ask anyone with information that can help identify the perpetrators to contact us."
Sinn Fein has condemned the "display of hate", saying it had "absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with republicanism", while DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson decried the "inhumane and pure evil" placing of the men's names on the bonfire.
Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said he was "appalled and saddened".
Kyle Black criticised those involved.
He wrote on Twitter: "Absolutely disgusting! The people responsible for these vile actions have absolutely nothing to offer our society. #somuchforrespectandequality
"My dad, along with the other brave men named, served their community with dignity and respect.
"This in complete contrast to those responsible for this. Absolutely sickened."
The bonfire was also draped in Union flags, British Army flags and a Donald Trump election sign.
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Wooden Boulder
July 28, 2012 in nature, public sculpture, sculpture, video
"He (David Nash) first carved a rough sphere... and intended to take this back to his studio. However, access was up a long steep track and at 400 kg and a metre wide, this 'boulder' was dangerous to move downhill. So instead Nash used a nearby stream, where rocky banks would contain the momentum of its descent.
However, a little way down the bank, the boulder became wedged in a waterfall. Nash had no option but to leave it there. It looked good in the streaming water, and so Nash began photographing it... the journey of Wooden Boulder had begun.
The following March heavy rainfall shifted Wooden Boulder into the pool below. Still with the intention of moving it to his studio, Nash hauled it out of the stream and rolled it down the next waterfall to the pool below, where it remained for eight years. It became obvious that the Wooden Boulder belonged to the stream; over the next 24 years it moved nine times during storms, eventually floating into the River Dwyryd estuary. Nash says of Wooden Boulder, 'It is important to the narrative of this "free-range"; sculpture that its material formed and grew on the hill over two centuries. I did not take the wood up the hill. The narrative, like the material, grew organically.'
Text quoted from the Kew Gardens website
Here is a video of Nash talking about Wooden Boulder and another work
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LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY
Murphy calls for ‘all hands on deck’ approach to opioid fight
BY David Cruz, Senior Correspondent | January 23, 2019, 5PM EST
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Standing side-by-side with members of his cabinet, from health to labor to law enforcement, Gov. Murphy announced his administration’s effort in the battle against the opioid abuse epidemic specifically, but against substance abuse disorder, more generally. The strategy begins with getting all hands on deck, he said, because progress has been slow.
“Last year saw a 15 percent increase over 2017 in deaths. 2017 itself saw a 24 percent increase over 2016, and we should take very little solace just because the percentage went down. Each and everyone of those are God’s children, and they’re gone forever.”
Even as the level of opioid prescriptions continues to go down – 39 percent according to Murphy – the explosion of fentanyl use among those with substance abuse disorder has made the challenge even more difficult. But a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step, and the governor says that journey has begun.
“First of all, we are removing Medicaid — something called Medicaid prior authorization requirements. Enough of you know what that means because you’re applauding. For those of you watching at home who may not know what that means, it’s essentially a key insurance barrier that has been gummed up inside of our Medicaid reality, so we’re removing that for Medicaid, specifically for medication-assisted treatment,” Murphy said.
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) means the use of approved medications, traditional therapy and counseling. Murphy’s plan now adds medical marijuana in conjunction with the MAT regimen.
Other efforts include making Narcan more widely available, allowing MAT in prisons, making clean syringes more available and expanding educational, employment and support programs for expectant mothers. But law enforcement also has played a critical role, according to Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
“We put a trafficker behind bars after we caught him with more than 30 pounds — 30 pounds of fentanyl that had been shipped from China to Camden. Enough fentanyl for 5 million lethal doses. Enough to kill more than half the population of New Jersey and enough to kill the entire population of Camden 60 times over,” said Grewal.
It’s that kind of uphill struggle. Demand keeping pace with supply, and while stopping some of that supply helps, stemming the demand is where the victory will ultimately come. And, as the governor attempted to illustrate today, it will take a village: an entire state government and a medical community to play their roles.
Senior Correspondent David Cruz is an award-winning journalist with a 25-year career in television, radio and newspapers. He began as a correspondent on North Hudson News, a nightly newscast covering Hudson County. Read Full Bio
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Spotlight On: Affordable housing
BY Michael Hill, Correspondent | June 3, 2019, 5PM EST
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An NJ Spotlight forum put the spotlight on the quest to make progress on the decadeslong battle of building affordable housing in the Garden State.
“The very premise for the original Mt. Laurel litigation and the doctrine to move poor people out of the poverty-stricken urban areas and into the suburbs has literally been turned upside down,” said Peter Reinhart, director of the Kislak Real Estate Institute at Monmouth University.
Reinhart says Generation X and millennials’ appetite for city life and access to mass transportation have removed places such as Jersey City from the “poor-city” list when the Mount Laurel lawsuit began five decades ago. There were some unintended consequences.
“There’s now this system of displacement happening as a result of gentrification where now a place in Jersey City like Greenville where the rent was $700 a month 10 years ago. The rent is now $2,000 a month,” said Housing and Community Development Network Board Chairman John Restrepo.
Fair Share Housing Executive Director Kevin Walsh says 283 towns have reached settlements to zone for affordable housing after the courts took over the direction of the issue, making the state Council on Affordable Housing — or COAH — ineffective.
“The local self-interest of politicians rarely involves how can we in overwhelming white municipalities near Newark provide opportunities for people who are living in entrenched conditions of racial and economic apartheid. The conversation doesn’t voluntarily happen,” Walsh said.
Walsh and Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi have clashed over affordable housing. Schepisi says even though COAH was dysfunctional, it had a place.
“I’m one of the people advocating that we actually put COAH back in place because that was better than what we’re doing now. And as a member of the Legislature, I respectfully disagree with Kevin saying that this is something that we should have the courts continually be doing. I’m a legislator. We are here to make the laws for the state of New Jersey. We have abdicated our responsibility and our jobs as elected officials,” she said.
One developer took on the question of incentives — tax credits and subsidies — to build.
“And the reason I think New Jersey has to focus on the cash and not the density is because there is a fallacy in the basis that the developer pays for the affordable housing. The developer does not pay for the affordable housing. The market-rate buyer pays for the affordable housing. And so we’ve made, on both ends of the scale, our market rate too expensive because we are adding the cost and the cost burden of providing the affordables in the inclusionary,” said Christiana Foglio, founder and CEO of Community Investment Strategies.
The Murphy administration has $60 million in the budget for it in the next fiscal year. But after hearing the discussion, housing advocates expressed a lot of concern about the $60 million in the budget and whether lawmakers will approve it.
“I think that there are enough legislators in both chambers and a governor who’s publicly committed to preserving the Affordable Housing Trust Fund that at the end of the day everyone will do the right thing. But we are going to stay vigilant,” said Staci Berger, president and CEO of the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey.
“The $60 million is not a give. It’s a promise not to take,” Foglio said.
In the midst of the long political battle, many towns are rezoning sites for affordable housing, and landowners and developers are making concessions to get it done. Builder K. Hovnanian says Arbors at Monroe is one example.
The development has 48 Route 33-facing low and moderate rent units. Behind them are 186 single-family town houses worth $500,000+. Fair Share Housing says it exemplifies towns, advocates and developers’ relentlessness in New Jersey providing affordable housing.
Michael Hill is a 2018 National Fellow of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. Hill is an award-winning news anchor and reporter with stints in New York, Dallas, New Orleans and beyond. He’s covered some of the world’s most memorable events over the last three decades. Hill’s interest in covering news runs the gamut and he feels right at home discovering and re-discovering his native New Jersey. Read Full Bio
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NKAR Travels & Tours (Pvt.) Ltd,
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Elephant Tours Sri Lanka
Wildlife tours by Nkar Travel House get you close with some of the country’s most iconic creatures. We offer ethical elephant experiences combined with numerous exciting activities. Explore the best places to go in order to make the best out of incredible elephant tours in Sri Lanka. Your time spent with gentle jumbos will be a once in a lifetime experience.
On arrival at the Bandaranaike International Airport, you will get your first taste of warm Sri Lankan hospitality; Representative from Nkar Travel House will welcome you and transfer to Negombo.
Check-in to the hotel and relax.
Overnight stay at Hotel in Negombo.
Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Sigiriya.
In the evening climb Sigiriya Rock Fortress.
Climb the 5th century Sigiriya rock fortress which is a world heritage site, built by King Kashyapa (477-495 AD). The ‘Lion Rock’ is a citadel of unusual beauty rising 200 meters from the scrub jungle. The rock was the innermost stronghold of the 70 hectare fortified town. A moat, rampart, and extensive gardens including the renowned water gardens ring the base of the rock. The world-renowned frescoes of the ‘Heavenly Maidens’ of Sigiriya, which are in a sheltered pocket of the rock approached by a spiral stairway. These frescoes are painted in earth pigments on plaster.
Overnight stay at Hotel in Sigiriya.
Hiriwadunna
Minneriya
Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Hiriwadunna village.
Village Lunch with trekking at Hiriwadunna
Take a ride in a bullock cart swaying from side to side on an unpaved trail, enjoy a nature walk through a scrub jungle, wade through a local stream with low hanging branches, cross a lake in an ‘oruwa’, the traditional mode of over water transport, spend time with a farmer harvesting crops under his guidance and taste authentic village cuisine prepared by the farmer’s family with freshly picked produce and local herbs cooked in clay pots over an open heart fueled by firewood.
In the afternoon do safari in Minneriya National Park
Minneriya Park is a national park in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka. The park is a dry season feeding ground for the elephant population. Sri Lankan Leopard and Sloth bear which are rare and endangered species also inhabit this area. The park was declared as a wild life sanctuary in order to protect the watershed of Minneriya tank and the wildlife of the surrounding area. The tank is historically important for the country as it was built by King Mahasen in the 3rd century AD.
Your overnight stay will be at a unique place which is called as Elephant Watch Hut in Habarana. From the name itself gives the meaning of the location and is surrounded from the forest where you will get the chance of seeing wild elephants in the night time depending on your luck. You will be accommodated in a Tree House and from the Top you will get a 360° view of the surrounding jungle. You will get a once in a life time experience of seeing a Wild Elephant close to your Tree House and also you will enjoy a Sri Lankan themed Dinner and breakfast at this unique property.
Overnight stay at Elephant Watch Hut in Habarana
Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Ampara.
Arrive in Ampara and in the evening visit Gal oya National park where you will have the chance to witness Elephant Swimming.
The Gal oya National Park is Sri Lanka’s most untouched national park which was established in 1954. The largest reservoir in Sri Lanka, the Senanayake Samudraya is encompassed by the Gal oya National Park. This is the only wild life park in Sri Lanka where safaris are undertaken by boat. It gives a rare opportunity for visitors to see wild animals drink water from the edge of the lake and forage along the shore. Wild elephants can be seen throughout the year and the highlight is seeing the elephants swim from island to island. The Sri Lankan axis deer, grey headed fish eagle and thousands of birds can be seen here.
Overnight stay at Hotel in Ampara.
Mahiyanganaya
Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Mahiyanganaya.
Check-in to the hotel and relax. Evening visit the Mahiyangana Temple
Mahiyangana is situated in the Uva Province of Sri Lanka. This town is dominated by Buddhists. It is believed that Lord Buddha’s first visit to Sri Lanka was to this city and an ancient Buddhist Temple named Mahiyangana Maha Viharaya was built on this site by the rulers at that time. The Mahaweli river flows through this city and majority of people in this area are paddy farmers which is also the main activity that provides economy. Sri Lankan aborigines are also found in the forest of north east part of Mahiyangana.
Overnight stay at Hotel in Mahiyangana
Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Kandy
Kandy the popular charming hill capital of Sri Lanka is surrounded by hills, valleys, rivers, lakes and waterfalls. It is the cultural center of the island and a UNESCO heritage city. The sacred tooth relic of Lord Buddha is enshrined at the Dalada Maligawa, the temple of the tooth. While in Kandy, a visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens is a must where you can see around 4000 species of plants. The arts and crafts center in Kandy, the main Buddhist monasteries Malwatta and Asgiriya Monasteries are places that must be visited. Kandy is a great place for souvenir shopping and to learn about its rich culture and history.
In the evening visit Kandy Temple of the tooth relic and witness cultural show
Overnight stay at Hotel in Kandy
Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Millennium Elephant Foundation
“Spend the day with an Elephant”. You will be walking along with an Elephant and will be given information about the foundation and elephants. And then you will get the chance of bathing the same Elephant in the river and also you can visit the Elephant Dung paper factory nearby.
After spending the time with the Elephant return back to Kandy
Breakfast at hotel and transfer to Peradeniya Railway station to enjoy a scenic Train Ride to Ella through the Tea Plantations and Mountain Range.
Arrive in Ella and check-in to the hotel.
Overnight stay at Hotel in Ella.
Udawalawa
Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Udawalawa.
Arrive in Udawalawa and do safari in Udawalawa National Park
Udawalawe Park is situated in the border of the Sabaragamuwa and Uva Provinces of Sri Lanka. This park was opened to provide sanctuary to the wild animals displaced by construction of a reservoir. This is the best place to see wild elephants all through the year. Orphaned calves and adolescents are looked after until they are ready to be released to natural habitat by the ‘Udawalawe Elephant Transfer Home’ located within the Park. In addition to other animals, leopards, fishing and jungle cats could also be sighted on some days.
Overnight stay at a Camp site in Udawalawa
Breakfast at the hotel and in the morning visit the Eth Athuru Sevana Elephant Orphanage.
In the evening do another safari in Udawalawa National Park
Later enjoy a BBQ Dinner at the Camp site.
Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Colombo.
Arrive in Colombo and check-in to the hotel.
Evening short city tour of Colombo.
Overnight stay at Hotel in Colombo.
Welcome the guests at the Airport by a Nkar Travel House Representative
Accommodation on double sharing on Bed and breakfast basis at hotels
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor add ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic to Nightmare Before Christmas line-up
Matt Wilkinson Jun 3, 2010 3:15 pm BST
Weird Al Yankovic at the 34th Annual American Music Awards, Los Angeles, CA, November 21, 2006. Credit: PA Photos
December festival also features Deerhoof, Mike Watt and Scout Niblett
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Josephine Foster and White Magic have been added to the Godspeed You Black Emperor-curated ATP festival this December.
They join the likes of Deerhoof, Scout Niblett and Mike Watt on the bill for The Nightmare Before Christmas event, which runs from December 3-5. The festival takes place at Butlins in Minehead.
The full line-up, so far, for ATP’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is:
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
Black Dice
Francisco Lopez
Scout Niblett
Rangda
Nomeansno
Josephine Foster (Solo)
Daniel Higgs (Lungfish)
Boban I Marko Markovic Orchestra
To check the availability of ATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
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Wild World Cup weather: If it rains, Black Caps 'win'
12 Jun, 2019 10:49am 3 minutes to read
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2019 Cricket World Cup: The surprising truth behind Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor's Black Caps runout dramas
12 Jun, 2019 11:00am
Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson running between the wickets during the World Cup warmup game against India. Photo / Getty
By: Niall Anderson
niall.anderson@nzherald.co.nz
By Niall Anderson in Nottingham
"Absolutely shocking together, these two," exclaimed Brendon McCullum, as Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor survived a major runout scare in the Black Caps' World Cup win over Bangladesh.
"They're just dreadful when they run together," chipped in Mike Hesson, after it was deemed that Bangladesh wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim had knocked the bails off before the ball had arrived, gifting Williamson a significant let-off.
Surprisingly strong – and refreshingly honest - comments considering McCullum and Hesson's long relationships with the players involved, and comments seemingly backed by evidence, especially when the duo barely avoided another run-out when Williamson was saved by an off-target Afghanistan throw in Taunton.
But, as the nerves of New Zealand cricket fans intensify and hands start to wring ahead of the big Cup clashes ahead, a question remained unanswered.
Are Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor actually that bad at running between the wickets?
It's fair to say Ross Taylor is not among the world's best practitioners at running between the wickets. The Black Caps veteran has been run out 29 times in his career, tied with Daniel Vettori and Stephen Fleming for the most by a New Zealander, and behind only Shoaib Malik among active players.
Some of that is purely to do with longevity – the more opportunities you have to bat, the more chances you have to be run out – but Taylor has racked up his fair share of mix-ups over the years.
Ross Taylor being run out by the West Indies' Sunil Narine. Photo / Getty
Some of his most high-profile moments have often come in tandem with Williamson, which makes logical sense. The pair have shared the crease together for just under 10,000 balls across all formats – by far the most prolific partnership in New Zealand cricket history.
And a partnership which, in one-day international cricket, hasn't ended in a run-out in the last two years.
Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor's partnership has been vanquished via a run-out four times in ODIs.
That's four times in 63 partnerships, but cut it down even more and you get a statistic of four run-outs in 4092 balls – an average of one run-out every 1023 balls.
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It hardly sounds like a rate to be concerned about, but to put it in further context, it is prudent to compare the pairing to other experienced combinations.
Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson are at the crease more than any other New Zealand partnership. Photo / Getty
In ODI history, only 14 partnerships have combined for more runs than Williamson and Taylor - and the Kiwi duo stack up well when it comes to running between the wickets.
Williamson and Taylor rank 10th out of the 15 most productive partnerships in ODI history, with several pairings being twice as frequent as the Kiwi duo in causing chaos at the crease.
So, what's with the perception?
Confirmation bias can be a curious thing in sport. Often when the general consensus is formed on a particular player, it can be hard to budge.
If you're inclined to believe a player is reckless, the logic follows that you'll be more likely to notice the reckless moments, and forget any disproving evidence; favouring information that confirms your previously existing beliefs.
That could partially be what is at play with Williamson and Taylor. If the general consensus is that the pair are poor together between the wickets, it is more likely to be noticed, and commented upon, than any running issues between, say, Taylor and Tom Latham. It also compounds upon the fact that Williamson and Taylor spend significantly more time at the crease than any other combination, so any foibles are more noticeable.
Test match analysis provides a similar story. Add their test record to the ODI statistics, and the pair have been run out seven times in 9337 balls – a rate of one run-out every 1334 balls, which still compares favourably to other great partnerships, even when taking into account the reduced rates of runouts in the test arena.
Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson's partnership has ended in a runout three times in tests. Photo / Photosport
So, if the pair are not causing run-outs at a particularly noteworthy rate, why is it a hot button topic?
Perhaps it is a fallacy founded in the fact that New Zealand fans watching are simply more nervous with the pair at the crease; aware of how vital the two batsmen are to the Black Caps' chances of winning any game, and disappointed whenever they don't reach their usual high standards.
Consider it fan anxiety, but – at least in the ODI format – the nerves seem to be largely misplaced.
World Cup hysteria is nothing new – and some ardent viewers of the 2015 tournament might not be surprised to learn that Williamson isn't even Taylor's worst partner when it comes to ODI run-outs.
Come on down Martin Guptill, whose partnership with Taylor has been ended via run-out on five occasions – at an average of one run-out every 494 balls.
Three of those came during the 2015 World Cup, including, most famously, in the semifinal against South Africa.
"I got a couple away. I was on 30-odd and Ross has hit one straight to point and called me through," recalled Guptill in the Herald's oral history of the semifinal victory .
"We had about three run outs between us in that World Cup. We're usually pretty good together between the wickets. I'm putting them all down as his fault too," he grinned.
But, with Guptill and Taylor spending less time together as a partnership than Williamson and Taylor, there's little fretting about their reliability between the wickets.
Black Caps coach Gary Stead has heard the criticism.
He acknowledged that the Bangladesh drama was far from ideal, but was quick to downplay any concerns about the pair running wild.
Simply, Stead doesn't believe he needs to dish out much advice to try and stem any potential problems later down the World Cup road.
Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson compare favourably to other potent partnerships. Photo / Photosport
"Ross and Kane have played a lot of cricket together, and I know they've been talking about how they deal with it. I'm not sure me sticking my nose in there or doing anything different is actually going to help the situation. I think it's just them communicating well when they're in the middle."
Taylor, too, has no problems with communicating with his skipper out in the middle.
"It's part and parcel of cricket. I always do love batting with Kane."
There is, of course, still the very real chance that Williamson and Taylor are involved in another running shambles during the World Cup - but the statistics say it shouldn't be on top of New Zealand fans' list of Cup concerns.
Let's leave the last word for Stead, who – when quizzed about the issue after the Bangladesh game – provided an answer that all New Zealand cricket fans could surely agree on.
"I hope I don't see that again."
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Prince William in Jordan: The Duke of Cambridge meets Crown Prince of Jordan during royal tour of the Middle East, including Israel visit – all the details including it's historical importance and why Kate Middleton isn’t attending
PRINCE William visited Jordan and met with the Crown Prince of Jordan during his royal tour of the Middle East.
Prince William is currently on a royal tour of the Middle East (Image: Getty)
Prince William left Kate Middleton and children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis in London for his official royal tour of the Middle East.
The Duke Of Cambridge is visiting Jordan, as well as the Israel and the Palestinian territories during his tour, which will last five days.
Recently, Prince Harry’s brother made the news as he sat down with the Crown Prince of Jordan, Crown Prince Al-Hussein bin Abdullah II in Amman, to watch the World Cup game between England and Panama.
But why is Prince William visiting to Middle East? What is he doing there and why is Kate Middleton not joining him? Here’s all the details from the royal tour:
Prince William watched the World Cup with the Crown Prince of Jordan during his visit (Image: Twitter/Kensington Palace)
Prince William was welcomed by the Crown Prince (Image: Getty)
Why is Prince William visiting the Middle East?
Prince William arrived in Amman, Jordan on the June 24.
Kensington Palace tweeted at the time: “Over the next five days The Duke will visit Jordan, Israel, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories – and is looking forward to building a real and enduring relationship with the people of the region.”
As the Duke left the plane after landing in Marka Military Airport, he was joined by the Crown Prince of Jordan.
Prince William spent the day with Syrian refugee children (Image: Getty)
What will Prince William be doing in the Middle East?
During his time in the Middle East, Prince William will be visiting many projects and charities in the area.
This includes meeting Syrian refugee children at the Unicef Jordan’s Makani programme.
Later in the trip, the Prince will also visit Israel and the Palestinian territories, becoming the first royal to do so in 70 years.
Prince William will also visit Israel and the Palestinian territories (Image: Getty)
Kate Middleton is believed to be staying home with Prince George and Princess Charlotte, as well as newborn Prince Louis (Image: Getty)
Why is Kate Middleton not with Prince William?
Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton will be absent during the trip.
It’s believed this is to take care of their children, the youngest only being born two months ago.
Meaning Prince Louis is too young for a tour of this scale.
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I am Jackie Robinson
By Brad Meltzer
Illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos
Read by Donte Bonner and Various
Part of Ordinary People Change the World
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This New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series by Brad Meltzer has an inspiring message: We can all be heroes.
Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. But he lived at a time before the Civil Rights Movement, when the rules weren’t fair to African Americans. Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn’t allowed on the best teams just because of the color of his skin. Jackie knew that sports were best when everyone, of every color, played together. He became the first black player in Major League Baseball, and his bravery changed African-American history and led the way to equality in all sports in America.
This engaging series is the perfect way to bring American history to life for young children, providing them with the right role models, supplemementing Common Core learning in the classroom, and best of all, inspiring them to strive and dream.
This New York Times Bestselling biography series by Brad Meltzer has an inspiring message: We can all be heroes.
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About Brad Meltzer
Brad Meltzer is the author of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World series for children, as well as six New York Times bestselling thrillers for adults: The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, The Zero Game,… More about Brad Meltzer
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EXCL Government likely to miss multi-million pound housebuilding target, minister admits
Emilio Casalicchio
A multi-million pound government housing project that has failed to build a single home has not been “an enormous success,” a Tory minister has admitted.
Housing Minister Kit Malthouse
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Kit Malthouse all-but confirmed the pledge, originally made in the 2015 Conservative manifesto, to build 200,000 ‘Starter Homes’ by 2020 will not be met.
In an interview with PoliticsHome, he said the target “would be a challenge for me to hit,” adding: “As they say on Gavin and Stacey, I’m not going to lie to you.”
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NFB: starter homes are a non-starter
In 2016 the Government announced a £1.2bn fund to build the homes that would be sold exclusively to first time buyers at a 20% discount on market value.
Last May it emerged ministers had spent £250m of the cash buying land, but were yet to build a single house through the scheme.
Asked this week how many had since been built, Housing Minister Mr Malthouse admitted: “At the moment, none.”
He added: “It’s a policy which has proven more difficult than we anticipated to get out of the door, but there is significant work going on to try to land it alongside some of the other effectively discounted sale products we are looking at.”
He went on: “We are working on Starter Homes to see where we can get to, but if you are trying to pin me on the fact that we haven’t had enormous success with this so far then you are right.”
PoliticsHome understands the already-purchased land is being used to build houses through other schemes.
Mr Malthouse said despite the failure on Starter Homes it would be wrong to be “pessimistic” about the Government hitting its target of building 300,000 houses a year.
“There is an urgent moral duty to get out there and build these houses,” he explained.
“And so while people are naturally pessimistic about these things, I’m not short of money, we’ve got a new planning system which is streamlined, we’ve got lots of land coming on, credit is cheap, demand is strong.”
He added: “If there were ever a time to build 300,000 houses now is it.”
But Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey told PoliticsHome: “The Conservatives promised a big new programme of Starter Homes for first-time buyers over four years ago, so it's an astonishing admission of failure that not a single one has yet been built.
"Labour would back first-time buyers, with new FirstBuy homes at a cost linked to a third of local incomes as part of a radical plan for a million low-cost homes to rent and buy."
BREXIT DELAY
Elsewhere, Mr Malthouse took a veiled swipe at Theresa May after she promised MPs a vote on delaying Brexit if her deal is rejected but they refuse a no-deal EU departure.
“It seemed to be not brilliant timing from a negotiation point of view,” he said of the announcement.
“It would strike me, as in any negotiation, fundamentally you have to keep all your options on the table. So I would have preferred to keep the element of no deal on the table.”
Mr Malthouse refused to be drawn on whether he would vote against an extension to the Article 50 Brexit negotiation process if the vote comes up next week.
But he warned: “An extension will have to have a purpose. If the purpose is we’ve inked a deal and we need an extension because we need to document it that would seem reasonable.”
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LESS IS MORE. Schlachtwerk’s Featherweight Kawasaki W650
Posted on April 10, 2017 by Andrew in Scrambler, Tracker. 31 comments
Nitrous oxide. Turbos. Superchargers. We’re as guilty as the next guy and or gal for drooling over flashy go-faster parts that make good headlines and get those website clicks a-clicking. But there’s a much more traditional approach to speed that doesn’t involve mega bucks and a team of rocket scientists. It’s what bikers have done since the dawn of time. Drop weight, increase capacity and work on the heads. And for Schlachtwerk’s Tommy Thöring, it’s just this approach that turned out this little gem. Meet his Kawasaki W740 he calls ‘No Fat’.
This is Tommy’s first attempt at a W650, and it’s one that happened more organically than you may expect. That’s because Tom was both making the bike for himself and because he’d committed to build something that was lighter than light. As he was after an everyday ride, he’d set his mind on something tracker-ish that would take pretty much zero effort to bomb around on Frankfurt’s crowded city streets.
“I bought the bike at the end of the summer in 2011, after selling my Ducati Hypermotard S. After a short trial period, I realised that i’d waited far too long to make the purchase. The bike was pretty much perfect for me: the size, the look, the character. Add it all together and it was a really great package. But I still wanted to make it lighter.”
The W740 is his personal ride, and also the one that he tries new ideas on. And aside from it being his daily bike, he sometimes will plan get-aways on it in the Swiss mountains where he spends the day riding the area’s famous, serpentine roads.
“He sometimes will plan get-aways in the Swiss mountains, where he spends the day riding the area’s famous, serpentine roads.
“The build was a long-term process. It took maybe three years of slow, considered evolution. To start with, I changed the rims, exhaust and the fenders. After living with those mods for a while, I updated the seat an added a new exhaust. Lastly, I exchanged the tank for a Kawasaki z200 unit.” And that’s just the big-ticket items.
Now for the specifics. The Kawasaki has bespoke CNC machined triples with a new set of LSL ‘bars, a Magura HC1 brake cylinder and a Suzuki DRZ400 clutch lever. There’s also the ubiquitous Motogadget Mini speedo.
Up front, there’s stock forks but with new Wilbers springs inside. And to match, there’s also a new set of custom Wilbers rear shocks. The front hub is stock and has been laced to a 2.5 x 8″ rim shod with a 110/80 18 Pirelli KT60 tyre that’s undergone a tubeless conversion. Tommy calls the headlight a ‘Japanese-style’ unit.
In the back, there’s new rear indicators behind the shocks and an 18mm brake light integrated into the freshly cleaned frame. The seat is Schlachtwerk’s own, and was made using a carbon fibre plate. A tray underneath holds all the electrics and the battery. And while the rear swinger is an uber light Kawasaki KFX400 unit, pretty much everything else here is from the house of KTM. This includes the brake and hub. Attached to it is a 4.25 x 18″ rim with a 150/70 18 Pirelli MT90.
The increased capacity, 740cc engine with ported head now spits out a dyno-proven 65HP and has been treated to new K&N filters and a pro carb re-jetting. And let’s not forget the tracker’s house-made 2-into-1 exhaust system, which no doubt helps things along. More weight was saved with the removal of the starter components, a modified rotor and no more engine sound insulation.
Do I see some carbon fibre in there?
Tommy noted there were a few major challenges he had to tackle during the bike’s creation. He now knows first hand just how hard it is to find a secondhand Kawasaki KFX400 swing arm in Germany. “Bloody hard,” he says. And naturally, the welds on the exhaust took a lot of time and fuss to get looking just so. But interestingly, his efforts to find the perfect footrest position which would also work with the bike’s kickstart lever was the real challenge here.
Motogadget magic
“What do I like about it?” Tommy asks rhetorically? “The look, how it rides, the fact that it’s the only one in existence, and I am proud of my work, too. This is one of the lightest bikes I have ever built, but I still have an idea to shed another 7kg.” How, you ask? “Over a few beers with a friend of mine, we hatched a plan to build the tracker a completely new frame from chromoly.” Chromoly? Finally, that BMX revival I’ve been waiting for my whole life is here. Someone call Nicole Kidman.
Tommy grinds down the welds on his new exhaust
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Salomon’s snowboard binding made with DSM’s bio-based PA
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Salomon's snowboard binding made with DSM's bio-based PA
Royal DSM, a materials science company based in the Netherlands, announced that Amer Sports has chosen its EcoPAXX polyamide (PA) 410 to produce Salomon’s snowboard bindings.
Amer Sports is one of the largest manufacturers of sporting equipment in the world, with international brands that include Atomic and Salomon. In 2014, it will debut a new range of high-end Salomon bindings for snowboards that for the first time are made from DSM’s EcoPaXX bio-based PA 410, which until now have been made with PA 6 or PA 66.
As said, the new series has improved sustainability and equal or better performance, most importantly at low temperatures.
“The EcoPaXX bindings have been on test in real-life conditions at Salomon for a year, and have performed extremely well,” says Henri Rançon, Advanced R&D Manager for snowboard bindings and boots at Salomon. “They suffered no damage at all, so we are very confident EcoPaXX is the right material for the job.”
EcoPaXX is 70% derived from renewable castor beans coming from tropical areas in countries like India, China and Brazil. The material is certified 100% carbon neutral from cradle to gate, according to DSM.
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US laboratory develops simplified process of transforming algae into oil
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E3 2016 – The Golf Club 2 and Troll & I Announced for PS4, Xbox One & PC
Jason DunningFriday, June 17, 2016
At E3 2016 this week, publisher Maximum Games announced that both The Golf Club 2 and Troll & I are coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in early 2017.
With Maximum Games saying it “will continue to expand upon all of the highly acclaimed qualities the original is well-known for,” The Golf Club 2 is aiming to be the most accessible golf game so far. It will include a new Career Mode, more multiplayer game modes and the ability to play non-friends, more course design options, improved graphics, a new swing mechanic, and more.
As for Troll & I, it’s a third-person action adventure game where you control Otto, a young boy forced to escape his destroyed village, and his companion, a Troll. Using the Troll’s strength and Otto’s combat skills, you go on a quest to defeat the hunters threatening your homeland.
Looking at some of Maximum Games’ previously announced titles, both Mark McMorris Infinite Air and Road Rage are scheduled for a fall 2016 release on PS4, Xbox One, and PC:
Mark McMorris Infinite Air
Infinite Air is the first open-world, physics-based snowboarding video game built in partnership and close collaboration with top pro-snowboarder Mark McMorris. Infinite Air infuses the hyper-realistic experience of snowboarding with the thrill of achieving massive air in real-world competitions such as Slopestyle and Halfpipe. Players will explore a vast backcountry and compete against friends, building and riding their own terrain parks and carving first tracks in pristine powder. Featuring procedural mountain generation and a full feature editor, creationists can dive into the near infinite options to create and share their ultimate runs!
Road Rage boasts heavy melee-based combat racing that promises a pure adrenaline motorcycle ride for all. Featuring 42 story-based missions, players must take the helm as Ace, the newest member of the outlaw motorcycle club controlling underground crime in the city of Ashen. There are absolutely no limits in Road Rage: ride through a vastly open-world environment, play 11 distinct characters, customize your bikes and weapons, and rise to the top of the motorcycle clan!
Loading Human: Chapter One, meanwhile, will release in October 2016 for PS4 and Oculus Rift. Designed for virtual reality, it’s a futuristic, sci-fi episocidc adventure set in the 22nd century. In the first chapter, you play as Prometheus, a scientist summoned by his dying father to retrieve the Quintessence, the most powerful energy source in the universe.
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True Confessions: I Like Thomas Organ Vox Amps
R.G. Keen
OK, I admit it. I like the way the old ‘60s Thomas Organ Vox amplifiers sound. True, they are not tube amps like the AC30, but they have a sound of their own that is distinctive and ear-pleasing. Even today they have a dedicated following.
Except for some bad guesses on Thomas Organ’s part, the American Vox amps might have been much more popular and stayed popular for a longer period than they were. There were some ground-breaking technical items inside the Thomas Vox amps that deserve more notice than they got. Among these are:
A distortion channel inside the amp
There may have been earlier amplifiers with internal distortion channels, but I have not found them. The Beatle, Royal Guardsman, and Viscount/Buckingham amps all had a built-in distortion that was essentially a silicon Fuzz Face. It’s a decent sounding distortion, which suffered from only being available as a footswitch option and having no external controls.
Midrange Boosting
The nasal MRB sound was built into the amp, and again only accessible from the footswitch. It’s a neat British-invasion kind of sound that was the forerunner to the wah circuit, also introduced by Vox.
Tremolo and Reverb
The Thomas Organ Vox tremolo and reverb have incredible depth when set up properly and not suffering from aging capacitors. The tremolo has no detectable thumping; the reverb is one of the surfiest I’ve ever heard.
A "remote pedalboard"
This gave the guitarist the ability to control the effects from a five-switch foot-pedal.
A soft-clipping power amplifier
A little-noticed feature of the bigger Thomas Vox amps is the soft limiter ahead of the power amp circuit. The amps with the limiter circuit have an overdriven sound somewhere between solid state and tube amp overdrive.
This limiter soft-clips before the power amp. As a result, you hear the soft-clipper, never the harsh clipping of the power amp, under any overdrive conditions. This removes most of the harsh sound we have come to expect from solid state amps. Soft clipping has become a feature of some highly regarded super-hi-fi amps in the decades since the ‘60s, but this is the earliest instance of it I’ve seen.
I am certain that the designers put the limiter in to protect the power amp from failure by being overdriven, but in doing so they made the sound much better than it would otherwise have been.
Trolleys for moving the amps Thomas Organ followed the lead of the British AC100 and AC30 head-and-cabinet model in making a steel tubing trolley for moving their amps. This was not only a nice styling touch; the speaker cab for the Royal Guardsman and Beatle could be back-breakingly heavy. Some means of moving these things around easily were almost mandatory.
A few of Thomas Organ’s bad guesses:
Trolleys instead of more-portable amps Despite being a great idea, the trolleys weren’t implemented very well, and weren’t built to stand up to road use. As a practical matter, the trolleys were usually discarded.
One-amp-per-band
Although it seems odd from today’s perspective, The Beatle, Royal Guardsman, Buckingham and Viscount all have multiple input channels, intended for two guitars and a bass if the labels are to be believed. They thought a band would buy one amp, and everyone would run a cable to the same amplifier.
This led to some strange design ideas, like the reverb being assignable to one of three channels instead of something that applied across the whole amp. If you view this in the light of being a primitive mixer design halfway implemented, it makes some sense. But people stopped sharing amps very quickly in the ‘60s, so the design was outmoded pretty much before it got started.
Designs only an accountant could love
The Thomas Vox line carries the imprint of a heavy business hand. The very first Thomas Organ Vox amps were tube based, but they quickly revamped them into solid state with an obviously advertising-oriented lineup. There is a nice gradation of both physical size and number of features as you progress from the smaller, simpler and less expensive amps to the Super Beatle. However, the internal designs are only adequate in terms of heat removal, wire routing, general reliability and serviceability.
That last item is what has made Thomas Vox amplifiers so rare today. Amp techs had to charge so much money to repair these things that owners got disgusted and just tossed them into the landfill. That’s a shame, because in many ways the mixing of guitar amp with organ technology produced many things that have come to be standard today – remote foot switching of multiple effects, a distortion channel, a midrange boost, and a soft-clipping output stage that is only now being recognized for what it was.
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Panelist Point of View
by the Office of Communications
Oct. 7, 2018 11 a.m.
Suman Sureshbabu, Graduate Class of 2007, associate director, The Rockefeller Foundation
As part of Princeton’s coverage of “She Roars,” we invited a few speakers to give us a deeper glimpse into the issues and insights they will share on their panels. We especially wanted to feature presenters who are helping to lead the smaller, more intimate conversations.
Suman Sureshbabu
Photo courtesy of Suman Sureshbabu
Below, Suman Sureshbabu, Graduate Class of 2007, shares some of the perspectives she will cover on the "Global Rights of Girls and Women" panel, as well as her hopes for what she will gain during this extraordinary gathering of Princeton alumnae. Suman is giving the “She Roars” audience — both Tigers on campus and those following from afar — the opportunity to connect more deeply with the discussions that will be sparked at “She Roars” and carry forward into the future.
If you had told me when I graduated from college 15 years ago that I would one day be leading work in the power sector — there is absolutely no way I would have believed you. I come from a family of engineers, but couldn’t imagine myself focusing on the seemingly dry subject of infrastructure. I began my career excited by the microfinance sector, particularly the power of loans to change women’s economic and social status. But it became quickly apparent that loans aren’t always enough. For real change to happen, women needed to politically organize and demand their fair share from government. When I joined The Rockefeller Foundation, I continued to focus on these issues. My introduction to the Power team was serendipitous — I joined to provide additional support while a colleague was on maternity leave.
For decades, the power sector has been dominated by a “if you build it, they will come” mentality. This, combined with complex global macro trends, has left African and Asian utilities in shambles. As a result, roughly 600 million people in Africa are without access to power and billions more globally are under-electrified. With the drop in solar prices, there is new momentum around designing the “utility of the future” — a concept that brings together traditional utility players with new off-grid actors to create a networked approach to power systems. Some rural areas can now be electrified faster and cheaper with off-grid technologies than with traditional grid extension. More importantly, we see improved outcomes — better customer service, quality and reliability. Recently, focus has turned to demand stimulation, directly supporting consumers to translate power into income. Examples include marrying power systems with irrigation and cold storage technologies.
We are witnessing the start of a revolution in how infrastructure is conceived of and built — more sustainable, customer-centric, decentralized, and with an explicit focus on boosting demand and usage. We know that access to power is essential for advancing women’s equality — but if we don’t approach this work with an explicit focus on women, they will continue to be left out. Focusing on women might mean actively recruiting female farmers to join a newly electrified irrigation scheme or prioritizing lighting a maternity ward first. Women should lead new energy businesses while training and employing other women, plan infrastructure and advocate for policy change, and use electricity to launch and grow new enterprises, but these examples are more often outliers than the norm. There are people working on this — Allison Archambault from EarthSpark International is promoting feminist approaches to electrification. Rose Mutiso has launched The Mawazo Institute, an organization that promotes African women to produce original research and translate research into policy.
The problem is that electrification is based on viable business models, and the profit motive for focusing on women is often absent — but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. There is a huge opportunity to plan and execute infrastructure in a way that tackles gender inequity, but too often gender isn’t even part of the conversation when considering how to scale up energy access.
As I come back to campus, I would say to my fellow participants and current students — in any field —think about the way you can shine a spotlight on women and girls. It is essential for fighting inequality, and the only way to continue our march toward equality.
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Lib Dems, Issue 1500
WHILE the Tory leadership thoroughbreds gallop towards the final furlong (shurely knackers’ yard? – Ed) there has been less attention paid to the other contest, to lead the Lib Dems. Although Jo Swinson was the early favourite, the result is likely to be closer than expected after a surprisingly strong showing in hustings by Sir Ed Davey.
However, Sir Ed’s campaign has struggled with his various flip-flops over nuclear policy. Before the coalition, he was described in an academic journal as “the architect of the previous anti-nuclear Liberal-Democrat policy” from his days as a backroom policy wonk in the 1990s.
Accusations of hypocrisy
Yet as the coalition’s energy and climate change secretary in 2012-5, it was he who gave the go-ahead for the first new nuclear reactors in a generation, and even as late as 2016, after losing his seat, Davey was still defending his pro-nuclear record and insisting he secured “a good deal” on reactors. Davey has now drawn further accusations of hypocrisy, as he tours the country assuring the Lib Dems’ avowedly anti-nuclear membership he now opposes nuclear energy again.
Meanwhile, Swinson has difficulties with her own record. She has made little secret of her desire to have the party’s whip withdrawn from Lord Rennard over long-standing sexual harassment allegations (which he continues to deny, highlighting a “no further action” recommendation from the Met). After she told the New European that he “shows no remorse, no contrition for what happened and he remains a Lib Dem peer”, the paper speculated that Rennard might take legal action against the party to stop it banishing him.
Why is Swinson now so keen to be seen as proactive in this area? Could it be anything to do with the allegations of one of Rennard’s accusers, former Lib Dem candidate Dr Alison Smith? Back in 2007, Smith took her Rennard allegations to the party’s chief whip, Paul Burstow – and to Jo Swinson, then the party’s women and equalities spokesperson. “It very quickly became quite Kafkaesque,” Smith later recalled. “They were saying, ‘No one wants to make a formal complaint’, and I was saying, ‘I’ll make a formal complaint’, and they were saying, ‘That’s a shame because no one wants to make a formal complaint.’”
Both candidates look and sound decidedly “establishment” – Sir Ed with his knighthood, Swinson with her CBE – and both are to be found defending their voting records in coalition. Lib Dem members are left wondering if it’s much of a choice.
To read all these stories in full, please buy issue 1500 of Private Eye - you can subscribe here and have the magazine delivered to your home every fortnight.
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SAJ OF HONOUR
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FYSH LINGERS
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FREEPORTS IN A STORM
Why freeports, favoured by both candidates in the Tory leadership contest, are a byword for tax dodging and asset concealment.
PETROFAC PRIZE
UK Export Finance gives a big financial guarantee to Petrofac – under investigation by the SFO for bribery and corruption and run by a Tory donor.
WELSH WAILS
Labour’s Carwyn Jones, former first minister of Wales, suffers a memory lapse over his party’s problems with anti-Semitism in the principality.
TORY ‘A LISTER’
Edward Lister, who runs Boris Johnson’s ‘transition team’, is reappointed to a public post at Homes England – a job he first secured after reassuring MPs he wasn’t ‘involved in frontline politics’.
The lobbyists who campaigned for Brexit, sold their insights to the highest corporate bidders… and now work on the Johnson leadership campaign.
WHO THE PIPER PAYS…
Why lobbying firm Crosby Textor Fullbrook has been giving financial support to Boris Johnson when it’s normally the Tories who pay the lobbyists.
The Juncker regime is winding down, but it still wants to do a sweetheart deal with Morocco in return for help controlling migration from Africa.
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Poss Undated Settlement 200m N of Old Pasture Farm
Plan of a possible settlement, Hampton Lucy
The possible site of a settlement. Enclosures, linear features and a trackway are all visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. Although the site is undated, it may be Roman. It is situated 700m north east of Alveston.
1 Complex cropmark site. Site no 66 in survey.
3 Trackway with associated enclosures on two sides shows on aerial photographs. This is closely associated with two subrectangular enclosures (PRN 959) and although undated could be of Roman date.
5 Scheduled as Warwickshire Monument No 145.
6 Scheduling information.
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The second of two possible sites for the Early Medieval Dodda's Ford, a shallow part of the river where animals, people and vehicles would have crossed. It is referred to in a 10th century charter. The site lies 500 m north of Alveston.
Neolithic or Bronze Age ring ditch
Two possible ring ditches, which date to the Neolithic and Bronze Age, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are located 900m north west of Charlecote House.
Site of Possible Mill at Hampton Lucy
A watermill was recorded at Hampton Lucy in the Domesday survey, and later documents refer to up to four mills. The present mill on a site, which may date back to the Medieval period, is still in use and is situated just above the bridge.
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Possible Medieval crop mark enclosure
Linear features and an enclosure are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. Ridge and furrow is also visible, suggesting that the enclosure may be of Medieval date. The site lies under the A46, 80m north east of the intersection with the rail bridge near Leek Wootton.
Undated linear feature
An undated linear feature is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is located 500m north east of Wimpstone.
An undated linear feature which is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is located 700m west of the race course, Stratford upon Avon.
Undated cropmarks
A rectangular enclosure and two linear features, one extending from a corner of the enclosure. All three features are of unknown date but are visible as crop marks on aerial photographs. They lie 600m south of Alvecote.
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The site of a possible shrunken village at Langley of Medieval date. The remains of a hollow way are visible as an earthwork.
Site of Charlecote DMV (Old Town site)
The site of the Medieval deserted settlement at Charlecote. Remains of the settlement are visible as earthworks which include three house platforms and a hollow way. It is located 150m south east of Charlecote Park House.
Undated trackway called Tutbury Lane
Tutbury Lane, a trackway of unknown date. The trackway is mentioned in documentary sources and is visible as an earthwork. It runs from north from Bretford, towards Brinklow and eventually Tutbury. The name comes from links between Tutbury priory and the area.
Undated trackway
A linear feature is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It has been interpretted as a trackway of unknown date running towards a Roman villa. It is located 750m north west of King John's castle, Kineton.
Linear features and enclosures 500m SE of Potash Farm
Linear features and enclosures, of unknown date, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are situated 500m south east of Potash Farm.
Possible Linear Features 550m N of Lower Binton
A possible linear feature is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is of unknown date. The feature is located 550m north of Lower Binton.
Undated cropmark enclosure, Dunnington
An enclosure which is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs and is undated. It is located 700m north of Dunnington.
Cropmark, Coton Park, Rugby
The site of an enclosure of unknown date. It is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The enclosure is situated 500m south west of Icehouse Spinney.
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Undated linear cropmark
A linear feature, possibly of Prehistoric date. It is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The linear feature is located to the east of Edge Hill Wood.
Possible Cropmarks off the Birdingbury Road
Linear features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are of unknown date and are situated 400m east of Marton.
Crop mark linear features in Combe Fields Parish
A group of linear crop marks can be seen on aerial photographs on either side of the Combe Abbey 12 O' Clock Ride 600m to the south of the B4027.
A linear feature which shows up on aerial photographs as a cropmark. The date of this linear feature is unknown. Its location is 1km north east of Clifford Chambers.
Poss Extent of Medieval Settlement, Monks Kirby
The possible extent of the Medieval settlement at Monks Kirby. It was planned, partly as a result of the market charter given to the monks by Henry III in 1266. The extent of the settlement is suggested by documentary evidence and is partially visible as an earthwork.
Site of Poss Roman Settlement 500m W of Pypes Mill
Two Roman timber beam slots and fragments of pottery were found during an excavation. A V-shaped ditch of unknown date was also found. The features suggest that this might be the site of a Roman settlement. It was located 1km north west of Stoneleigh.
Roman Farmstead Site at Lark Stoke
The possible site of a Roman settlement is indicated by a dense scatter of pottery. The site is located in the area of Lark Stoke.
Site of Roman Settlement at Tiddington
The site of a Roman settlement. Described as a large village. Archaeological work has uncovered occupation debris, and shown that most of the buildings were of timber. A cemetery existed at the western edge. The site lies to the west of Tiddington village.
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Plant & Equipment, Case Studies, Crushing, Mobile Plant, Screens & Feeders, Processing
The fixed plant arrangement at Blackhead Quarry, on the seaward side of Green Island, near Dunedin.
Blackhead Quarries: Improving plant flexibility, energy, efficiency and safety
Posted May 07, 2018 |
A Kiwi extractive operator has, in collaboration with a multinational supplier and its distributor, upgraded mobile and fixed plant across its operations. Personnel at Blackhead Quarries explain why local expertise and supplies are critical to maintaining continuous production.
Established in 1986, Blackhead Quarries is a joint venture between Palmer & Son (founded in 1880) and Fulton Hogan, and operates a number of quarries in the region surrounding Dunedin, on New Zealand’s South Island. Opened in the 1950s, the company’s Blackhead quarry, at Blackhead on the seaward side of Green Island, produces 300,000 tonnes per year.
The company also operates quarries at Logan Point, in Dunedin and Balclutha, plus the Walton Park sand plant in Fairfield.
MIMICO's Garth Taylor (left) and Balclutha Quarry manager Craig Upston with the LT106 jaw crusher.
The Balclutha Quarry, about 80km south-west of Dunedin, is the largest producer of quality aggregates in the South Otago area and supplies about 30 different products.
With a population of about 130,000 people, Dunedin is the second largest city of New Zealand’s South Island and the principle city of the Otago region, with the harbour and the hills surrounding it being the remnants of an extinct volcano. It has a diverse economy, but the city’s most important activity centres around tertiary education – Dunedin is home to the University of Otago, New Zealand’s oldest university (established in 1869), and the Otago Polytechnic.
While primary industries are the main economic drivers of New Zealand’s economy, in recent years the Otago region has experienced a large increase in tourism. As a result, local government authorities have increased their expenditure on infrastructure, driving strong demand for quarry products.
Future investment
Until recently, Blackhead Quarries’ Balclutha Quarry operated a fixed crushing plant that required rock to be transported up to 5km from its primary sources to the ageing facility.
In the interest of improving operational flexibility and safety, the company decided to invest in a new mobile crushing and screening plant for its Balclutha operations. Blackhead Quarries has extensive experience with Metso equipment, having bought its first Lokotrack mobile impact crusher in 2005. With its latest acquisition, Blackhead now operates the largest fleet of Metso mobile crushing and screening equipment in New Zealand.
But the company’s relationship with Metso and MIMICO, Metso’s dealer in New Zealand, dates back a lot further. Much of the equipment in the company’s original fixed plants includes Nordberg, Allis Chalmers and Barmac machines that can all be traced back to Metso origins.
Blackhead Quarries general manager Tony Hunter.
Tony Hunter, the general manager of Blackhead Quarries, has been involved in the industry for more than 30 years and is a fifth generation descendant of one of the company’s founders. Hunter has overall operational responsibility for all the company’s quarries.
He said being near the sea, the Blackhead quarry’s fixed plant, which had been in place for more than three decades, was suffering from extensive corrosion issues. Management was worried about the safety of fixed walkways and the quarry’s 23 conveyors.
“Five years ago, we decided it was best to build a whole new plant at Blackhead with only nine conveyors and no walkways,” he said.
In doing so, a Nordberg C100 jaw crusher, a cone crusher and Barmac 9600 crusher were relocated.
The new plant is fully automated and was designed to keep the amount of structural steel work to a minimum, which led to the elimination of walkways.
“For maintenance we use cherry pickers, which give better access to the equipment than walkways and, in our opinion, are much safer for our maintenance staff,” he said.
Reliable wear part supply
Gavin Hartley, the quarry manager at Blackhead Quarry, has 10 years’ experience with the company. Hartley, who is a past president of the Institute of Quarrying New Zealand, describes his job as “making stones as cheaply and efficiently as possible” while ensuring his staff is safe.
Blackhead Quarry site manager Gavin Hartley.
“Staff compatibility and continuity are very important, as is giving our people the right tools for the job,” he said.
The Blackhead Quarry produces a full range of quarry products, including base courses (for roadbase), sealing chip, asphalt dust and railway ballast. Rock quarried in the Otago area is a heavy, fine-grained rock that is hard, brittle and abrasive.
According to Hartley, the jaws and liners typically have a duration of about 3500 hours, and Barmac tips only about 500 hours. “Bucket teeth can last anything from 800 to 2000 hours,” he said. Therefore, reliable, local supply of wear and spare parts is
Importance of local support
“Here in New Zealand we are a long way from Finland, or other countries where rock crushers are manufactured,” Hunter said. ”It’s important that we can get ready access to the support we need, because a crushing equipment failure can stop our production.”
Blackhead Quarries' Logan Point Quarry, with the city of Dunedin in the background.
Garth Taylor, the crushing and screening business manager at MIMICO, agreed.
“New Zealand is a small country and Dunedin is a small community,” he said. “If Blackhead Quarries has two LT106 jaw crushers, they only need one set of spare parts. They have two of New Zealand’s 12 LT1213 impact crushers. The significant population of Metso machines in New Zealand means that we keep a comprehensive range of spare parts to support our customers.”
While there are now more brands of crusher available in the New Zealand market than ever, Hunter likes to work with organisations that support the local quarrying industry.
“The large number of Metso crushers in New Zealand means that there’s good support locally,” he said. “Wear parts are one thing, but these technically advanced machines can be stopped by the failure of a small component like a sensor.
The LT106 in action at Balclutha Quarry.
“While we perform most of the maintenance ourselves, it is good to have local technical support. MIMICO provides all that we need and we have a great relationship.”
Blackhead Quarries experienced the benefits of crushing and screening at the quarry face when it introduced its first mobile crusher in 2005. The company has been growing its fleet of Metso Lokotrack mobile equipment ever since, gradually reducing its reliance on fixed plant.
“You can’t bust a rock without energy and even though it is fuel-efficient, the mobile plant uses a lot of diesel – the machines have quite large motors to move them around, as well as for processing rock,” Hunter said.
“With our move to mobile equipment and reduction in the number of trucks, our diesel usage has remained about the same, but we no longer consume electricity in our fixed plants – so overall, our energy costs have gone down in the order of $[NZD]100,000 ($AUD94,700) per annum.”
According to Hunter, the reduction in truck usage has also delivered significant benefits in terms of staffing levels, site safety and maintenance costs.
Upston and Taylor discuss the performance of Balclutha Quarry's mobile plant.
Blackhead Quarries now owns 10 Lokotracks across its sites, and is the largest user of these machines in New Zealand.
“Our Lokotrack fleet has become very important to our business,” Hunter said. “Our original LT1213 unit was the first one in New Zealand and is still operating – and now we have more across our quarries. They are the core of our mobile fleet.
“We bought our first Lokotrack because, at the time, it was the best machine for the job. There weren’t as many options on the market as there are today. While we are always evaluating alternatives, we keep choosing Metso because of the strength of the back-up available through MIMICO, the great track record and reliability of Metso equipment, and the quality of product we can produce with Metso machines.”
Going mobile at Balclutha
The company’s most recent addition to its Lokotrack fleet took place in 2017 at its Balclutha Quarry, which mostly produces road and construction materials, plus manufactured sand.
A significant part of the quarry’s production also feeds the concrete plant next door. The quarry’s demand tends to be seasonal – the Clutha District Council, for example, has an annual road sealing season, and there are periodic maintenance gravel contracts.
Balclutha Quarry's fixed plant at ground level.
Craig Upston, quarry manager at the Balclutha Quarry, is a veteran of the industry. Having been with the company for 25 years, he is a third generation employee.
“The shape of the product is critical for our customers – if we don’t get it right it will be rejected,” he said. “Our Barmac crusher helps us to achieve consistent product shape and quality.”
The Metso Barmac vertical impact crusher uses an autogenous (rock on rock) crushing method. Its adjustable rotor speed and feed rate give operators precise control of the grade and shape of the final product.
From Upston’s perspective, moving from fixed to mobile plant was a matter of future- proofing the quarry.
“We were planning to replace our older Barmac with a new one, and because the market for Balclutha’s product has a lot of ups and downs, being able to move the crusher around to different sites creates better business flexibility,” he said.
The quarry was opened some distance from the town of Balclutha, but with the growth of the town bringing suburbia closer, dust has become more of an issue. By eliminating the fixed plant that was close to the road and moving to Lokotrack machines, quarry staff can choose where crushing occurs. The reduction of truck movement and decommissioning of the fixed plant has made it much easier for the company to manage dust.
The fixed plant at Blackhead Quarry produces a full range of quarry products for the Otago region.
At first Upston proposed putting a new Barmac on tracks, then adding a tracked cone and jaw crusher in another five years.
As it turns out, the company’s management loved the idea and acquired all three Lokotrack versions in the same year.
Upston’s first exposure to Metso crushers was the Nordberg GP300, when Blackhead Quarries took over from Fulton Hogan in 2003.
“We already had a lot of Metso gear and had a great run with the crushers, so it made sense to keep on dealing with the same company”, he said.
“As we were happy with the Metso equipment that we already owned, it was a no-brainer.”
The decision to move to tracked equipment was driven by the need to quarry without access to electricity. Additionally, if the quarry had to relocate, it would be easy to move the equipment.
“If you bolt it to the ground there is no flexibility,” Upston said. “All the mobile plant is self-powered. We don’t have any three-phase power at the new quarry face, so mobile, diesel-powered crushing and screening is the only way to go.”
Reduced reliance on fixed plant
In July 2017 MIMICO supplied a Metso Lokotrack LT106 mobile jaw crusher along with an LT200HP mobile cone crusher and an ST3.5 mobile screen for the Balclutha Quarry.
Upston (left) and Taylor converse as the ST3.5 operates in the background.
An additional ST3.5 and an LT7150 mobile Barmac VSI (impact) crusher were supplied in October.
At a time of increasing infrastructure expenditure in the growing Otago region, being able to produce large quantities of quality aggregate in a more flexible way allows the company to be highly responsive to market fluctuations, which is important for Blackhead’s future success.
The company also deploys some of its Lokotrack mobile crushers and screens in contract crushing operations around the Dunedin area and is now looking to purchase another LT106 for a new job that will deliver 500,000 tonnes of aggregate for a major road building project.
Technology aside, Hunter sees his people as the company’s greatest asset. “There are all those buzzwords people use like safety, productivity and profitability, but it all comes down to people,” he said.
“We have a 25-year club here, comprising more than a quarter of our staff, which means a lot of experience.”
The Blackhead Quarries business is like a big family that has existed for five generations, and Hunter wants it to continue to succeed for future generations.
“It’s an intergenerational thing we have here, and as much as we get covered in dirt and dust, it’s a lot of fun and a very good life.”
Lokotrack mobile equipment at Balclutha Quarry.
In a world where concern for the environment means people look at mining and quarrying with an increasingly critical eye, Hunter has a positive outlook.
“This is a simple business. You can’t have a city without stones, and so we are lucky to be a mature company in a mature local economy that will always need infrastructure,” he said. “In buying the Lokotrack equipment, I am trying to set the company on a good path for whatever may happen over the next 10 to 15 years to come and beyond.”
Source: Metso Australia
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Coca-cola places CO2 coolers in House of Representatives
Introduction is part of soft drink maker’s bid to cut its carbon footprint at each step in the manufacturing, distribution and sales processes
The House of Representatives will be among the first locations in the US to test new climate-friendly, HFC-free, energy-efficient Coca-Cola coolers.
Four beverage coolers will be installed at the House of Representatives in the coming weeks, and up to 1,800 Coca-Cola coolers and vending machines will be deployed throughout the U.S. and Canada later this year. These include 1,400 climate-friendly coolers and vending machines that will be deployed at the venues during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
The new climate-friendly Coca-Cola coolers use carbon dioxide (CO2) and HFC-free insulation.
The coolers include an intelligent energy management system (EMS-55) that cuts energy use by an average of 26 per cent, Coca Cola claims.
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Kensho Miyoshi
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Foundation work: exploration into the aesthetic qualities of physical movement through creation and observation of kinetic artefacts, Kensho Miyoshi 2015/16
Objects in Motion: Designing Kinesthetic Empathy
The physical movements of designed objects not only have utilitarian purposes but also make us experience the diverse sensations of motion. A look at a curtain waving in the calm wind can make viewers feel light and relaxed as if they themselves are waving in the air. By seeing ticket barriers creaking and moving at an awkward speed, one can somewhat imagine how it would feel like if their bodies moved in such a manner despite them never being barriers. Such imaginative projection of one’s own embodied sensation to observed movements is called ‘kinesthetic empathy’, which has recently been studied in relation to human movement, i.e. audience’s experience of dance and theatre performances. However, the question of how kinesthetic empathy works with the movements of designed objects that are usually non-anthropomorphic and functional is yet unexplored. Nevertheless, it has the potential to open up new opportunities for designers to explore the aesthetics of products’ physical behaviour. By addressing this question, this research investigates the nature of kinesthetic empathy in the context of design and develops a framework that supports designers’ aesthetic consideration of the element of movement. Inspired by multiple fields of knowledge such as embodied cognition, ecological theory of perception, tacit knowledge and mirror neuron theory, the practical research applies methods of reflective practice, phenomenological research and participatory design research.
Professor Miles Pennington
Professor Michael Hohl
Nakajima Foundation
Innovation Design Engineering, 2015–2019
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Kensho Miyoshi is a designer and researcher with a background in aerospace engineering. He holds BEng (2013) and MEng (2015) degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo, where he explored the interactivity of indoor aerial robots which can navigate without the aid of external sensors or computation resources. His practice also includes several art and design works which embrace the element of physical movement as the core of its aesthetics. Kensho received Super Creator Certification from the Information Technology Promotion Agency and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan in 2014. His works have been presented at conferences and exhibitions such as SIGGRAPH and Milan Design Week. For his doctoral research, he develops the pervasive interest underlying his prior works in both technological and creative domains and concentrates on the aesthetic and empathic potential of motion in the context of design.
MEng Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo, 2015; BEng Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo, 2013
Creator, MITOH Program (Explanatory IT Human Resources Program), Tokyo, 2013–2014
An exhibit of art and life 2017, Nifrel, Osaka, 2017-2018; Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2016; Tokyo Design Week in Milan 2015, Padiglione Visconti, Milano, 2015; PUWANTS In-store exhibition, Factotum Gallery, Tokyo, 2014; THE MIRROR: Hold the Mirror up to Nature, Nagoya Shokokaikan, Tokyo, 2014; Parallel Nature, Furusato Museum of Art, Toyama, 2014; A' Design Award Winners Exhibition, Broletto di Como, Como, 2014; The 15th iiiExhibition, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 2013; The 15th iiiExhibition Extra, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 2013
Contemporary Arts Grant, Terumo Foundation for Life Sciences and Arts, 2018; Arts and Cuture Grant, Nomura Foundation, 2018; Arts and Cuture Grant, Nomura Foundation, 2017; Arts and Cuture Grant, Nomura Foundation, 2016; Jury Selection in Entertainment Division, 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, 2014; Graduation Works Support Program for Milano Salone 2015, Japan Design Associations NPO, 2014; Bronze Award, A’ Design Award and Competition, 2014; Super Creator Certification, The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan + Information Promotion Technology Agency, 2014; Visiting Researcher Support Grant, International Information Science Foundation (Japan), 2014
K. Miyoshi. (2018). Where Kinesthetic Empathy meets Kinetic Design. In Proceedings of MOCO’18, Genoa, Italy, June 28-30, 2018, 4 pages.; Miyoshi, K., Konomura, R., & Hori, K. (2014, July). Above Your Hand: direct and natural interaction with aerial robot. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Emerging Technologies (p. 8). ACM.; Miyoshi, K., Konomura, R., & Hori, K. (2014, September). Entertainment multi-rotor robot that realises direct and multimodal interaction. In Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference on HCI 2014 (pp. 218-221). BCS
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How the Calorie Content in Food Is Determined
Amy Gorin, MS, RDN
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Wondering why your favorite yogurt has 100 calories while that muffin tops 400 of them? Learn the science behind calorie counts.
You hear about calories all the time. But what are they really? A calorie is technically the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water 1 °C, per Merriam-Webster. Confused? No worries. In plain speak, calories provide energy in the food you consume—and when you exercise, you burn calories as fuel.
How many calories should you eat in a day? “Your calorie needs depend on a lot of factors—including your gender, age, activity levels, whether you’re pregnant or nursing, and more,” says Samantha Cassetty, MS, RD, a weight-loss expert in New York City. “You can also factor in whether you want to lose weight, gain weight, or stay steady.” In a nutshell: The smaller you are, the fewer calories you require. This is how many calories are in a pound.
“Generally speaking, men need more calories than women because of their larger body sizes and greater muscle mass,” explains Cassetty. “Men need up to 3,000 calories, while most women need in the range of 1,600 to 2,000 calories per day.” This range is not at all set in stone, and you can always find a registered dietitian in your area at eatright.org who can help you come up with individualized calorie needs based on your specific needs. Whatever you do, don’t eat below 1,200 calories a day unless you’re working with a medical professional—and even then, you won’t want to stay at that total for long. “It would be really difficult to meet your nutrient needs at 1,200 calories, and you might have a hard time feeling satisfied with that few calories,” notes Cassetty.
Here’s the history of the calorie
Believe it or not, the term “calorie” wasn’t a mainstay in American vocabulary until the late 1880s. This was when Wilbur O. Atwater defined the calorie as we know it, in Century magazine. The word became better known with the publication of the “1894 USDA Farmer’s Bulletin.” This publication introduced the first American food database that would be used in the emerging field of dietetics. From then on out, the concept of the calorie was discussed in articles and books—a conversation that continues today, especially when it comes to weight management.
How do manufacturers calculate calorie counts?
Two methods are most commonly used by food manufacturers. One is the 4-4-9 method, which outlines that a protein or carbohydrate contains four calories per gram and fat has nine calories per gram. Take a packet of instant oatmeal, for example, that has 5 grams of protein, 27 grams of carbs, and 3 grams of fat. Based on the 4-4-9 method, this food would contain 155 calories.
Another method commonly used is the system that Atwater created. This method takes into account the amount of energy available from specific foods. For instance, in corn grits, a gram of protein has 2.73 calories, a gram of carbohydrates has 4.03 calories, and a gram of fat has 8.37 grams. In an egg, on the other hand, a gram of protein has 4.36 calories, while a gram of carbohydrates has 3.68 calories and a gram of fat has 9.02 calories.
What about carbohydrates that aren’t digested?
When it comes to non-digestible carbs, a third method for determining calories may be used. This is the 4-4-9 method, adjusted with a factor of two calories per gram—versus four calories per gram—used for soluble non-digestible carbohydrates.
Yet another method is utilized when sugar alcohols come into the picture. General calorie factors are assigned for specific sugar alcohols. For instance, isomalt and lactitol have two calories per gram, while sorbitol has 2.6 calories per gram. Erythritol has 0 calories per gram.
Other methods are used, too
A technique called bomb calorimetry may also be used to assess the number of calories in food. This is a process that involves burning the food to see how much heat it releases. This heat is then directly converted to calories.
Calories are rounded up
On a food’s nutrition label, calories are typically rounded. When a food contains up to 50 calories per serving, the number of calories is rounded to the nearest five-calorie increment. And when food has more than 50 calories per serving, it may be rounded in ten-calorie increments.
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Zero-calorie foods rarely contain zero calories
If a food has less than five calories per serving, its nutrition label may list zero calories, notes the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations. For example, a food with two calories per serving will be noted as having zero calories.
Inaccuracy is allowed
“Declared nutrient values get a 20 percent tolerance for regulatory compliance because it is unlikely that every analyzed batch will have the exact same values,” notes Lauren Swann, MS, RD, a nutrition strategist in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
Calorie counts do differ
Researchers looked at food label accuracy for common snack foods, in a study in Obesity. They tested candy bars, chips, cereal bars, pastries, cookies, crackers, ice cream, nuts, nut mixes, and yogurt using bomb calorimetry. What they found: The measured calorie amounts surpassed the ones listed on nutrition labels by an average of 8 percent. Most products tested were within the 20 percent margin of error allowed by the FDA.
The Atwater system is not perfect
Atwater factors for nuts especially may be inaccurate. In a study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers found that Atwater factors for almonds were overestimated by 32 percent. When using the Atwater factor for almonds, the nut is determined to have 168 to 170 calories per ounce. However, the study authors found that almonds actually contain 129 calories per ounce. In another study in Food & Function, researchers found that how almonds are processed affects how many calories are actually absorbed. For instance, 25 percent fewer calories from whole unroasted almonds are absorbed than what’s listed on the nutrition label. For whole roasted almonds, 19 percent fewer calories are absorbed, and 17 percent fewer calories from chopped roasted almonds are absorbed. Interestingly, this amount does not differ for almond butter.
Calories may be listed differently on imported foods
Eating food from another country? The nutrition label may look different. In Europe, calories are rounded to the nearest calorie. In Canada, if a food contains less than five calories, it’s rounded to the nearest calorie—unless it meets “free of energy” requirements and is labeled with zero calories.
Are calories the end all of food decisions?
Absolutely not. “It’s important for people to know there is far more to nutrition than the caloric value of a food,” says Maya Feller, RD, a registered dietitian in Brooklyn, New York. “In fact, when thinking about important aspects of food, calories are not always on the top of that list. Going the low-calorie route can leave many people feeling deprived and unsatisfied.”
Cassetty agrees. “I’m less concerned about the calories of a particular food and more concerned about the quality of the food itself,” she says. “Multiple studies have linked overly processed food to weight and health problems. So if you’re just looking at calories, you’re not getting the full picture of a food’s impact on your health or weight.” Get an insider look at healthy food decisions when nutritionists reveal their top healthy-eating secrets.
So what should you look at instead?
“It’s not necessary to focus on calories if you get a few things right,” says Cassetty. “Eat mostly whole foods, embrace generous portions of veggies, and cut way back on overly processed snack foods, refined grains, and foods and drinks with added sugars.” And consider whipping up some of your own easy, healthy meals. Try a vanilla smoothie made with Greek yogurt and plant-based ingredients for breakfast, and go with a Mediterranean vegetable salad for lunch or dinner. Homemade almond butter protein balls make a great snack or dessert! Also, give these 15 grilling recipes under 400 calories a try!
Amy Gorin is a freelance writer and owner of Amy Gorin Nutrition in the New York City area. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest.
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WATCH: Nikki Bella Responds to Rumors Of John Cena Breakup Being a “Publicity Stunt”
By Nick Paglino on May 17, 2018 WWE
With The Bella Twins and John Cena recently appearing on shows like The “Today” Show and the NBC Upfronts this week to promote the new season of “Total Bellas”, speculation has been abundant that the breakup between Cena and Nikki Bella is merely a work intended to hype the new season of the reality show.
Nikki Bella recently spoke with ET Canada and had the following to say regarding backlash from fans who believe the Cena breakup was merely a “Total Bellas” publicity stunt:
“I think sometimes people don’t realize how you could affect them,” said Nikki. “It’s kind of like when we try to talk to cyber bullies, and tell them you have no idea how you’re affecting people.
I’m a human being. I’m a human being that literally went through a breakup, and everyone’s been through a breakup and think of how we feel. So, mine has just been blown up and now people also are telling me I’m faking it, so you’re now saying that my heartache is fake and that makes it even harder.”
Bella goes on to note that her and John Cena are still in communication, and she is excited for Total Divas this Sunday because it will help end the speculation regarding her relationship with John Cena.
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Kitty Kat Fan Club
Dreamy Little You (2019)
Reviewer Maximillian Power
Kitty Kat Fan Club describe themselves as an “indie/twee pop punk collective featuring Mike Park, members of Just Friends, Hard Girls, Stick up kid and more.” I’d be lying to you if I told you I know what “twee” means, but otherwise the description is reasonably accurate. Kitty Kat Fan Club seem to be another band chasing the 90’s dream-pop sound with an obvious inflection of cutesy cat inspired pop-punk. It is a sound that will appeal to a certain crowd, but in reality the results of Dreamy Little You are mixed.
The musicianship throughout Dreamy Little You is undeniably solid – the members of Kitty Kat Fan Club know what they are doing. The instrumentation and harmonies are well written. The guitar leads and synth are well placed and thought out, and the production can stand up to the best of the contemporary dream pop crowd. My problem with Dreamy Little You really comes down to content and substance.
The first and biggest problem is that all of the songs bleed into each other. The power pop ballad style songs are catchy, but I legitimately cannot tell where one song ends and another begins. Along with the similarity of the music, the lyrics are equally similar, which further confuse the tracks. Speaking of lyrics, my second issue is the superficiality of the lyrics themselves. Is the vocalist singing about cats? Are the relationships being discussed about cats? After several listens of the record front to back – I am still not sure. The vocals provide catchy melodies, but the lyrics themselves are reasonably ambiguous to a degree that I’m not sure if we are treading on gimmick territory or tired indie rock love tropes. Either way, I find it difficult to remain engaged for any length of time.
Despite my complaints, there are things to like within Dreamy Little You. The song structures are sound and there is an obvious amount of talent on display throughout the record. For fans of the genre, particularly of bands such as Turnover, Tiger’s Jaw, and Soccer Mommy you will likely enjoy Dreamy Little You quite a lot. While I love the aforementioned bands, as well as cats, I have had enough quality within the genre to feel satisfied without needing a cat themed addition to my record collection.
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Triple J’s Ben Harvey and Liam Stapleton shake up Perth breakfast radio
Linda Parri || The West Australian Wednesday, July 10, 2019 02:00AM
A pair of 20-something comedians have shaken up the Perth breakfast radio landscape.
Triple J’s cheeky breakfast team of Ben Harvey and Liam Stapleton are the second most listened to breakfast radio show in Perth, with 11.8 per cent of the audience share.
They sit only behind Nova 93.7, which has 14.2 per cent of the Perth breakfast audience share, according to the Gfk radio ratings released yesterday.
Stapleton sounds very similar to radio legend Hamish Blake, with listeners struggling to tell the pair apart.
Harvey and Stapleton met at Adelaide community radio station Fresh 92.7 before taking over as co-hosts of the nationwide Triple J Breakfast show at the beginning of 2017.
The prolific pranksters were last year pulled off air by their boss, Triple J content director Lachlan Macara, after they prank called him just after 6am during their weekly segment, The Wednesday Morning Wake-up Call, with the deafening chorus of Bring Me To Life by Evanescence.
They followed that up a week later by breaking into his home and waking him up with a live bagpipe player.
Macara yesterday joked that he wouldn’t tell the duo of their success in the Perth market.
“I won’t tell them how well they are doing in Perth obviously because they’ll get big heads,” he told The West Australian.
Macara said the pair were “super relatable”.
Ben and Liam hold the No.2 spot in breakfast radio in Perth. Picture: @benandliam/ Instagram
“I would like to think a lot of people in WA can hear a bit of themselves when they listen to the boys,” Macara said.
“And when Ben and Liam are broadcasting each day, they’re thinking about what young Australians give a s... about all around Australia.
“We are always thinking about the Perth market when we are thinking about the sort of content we cover, the bands we are supporting from those areas that may have come up through Triple J unearthed and the talent that we speak to.”
The ratings result is a massive coup for Triple J breakfast, which had only 7.8 per cent of the Perth breakfast audience share this time last year.
What was once a two-horse race has become a three-horse race in the cut-throat breakfast radio wars.
MIX 94.5’s The Big Breakfast with Clairsy, Matt and Kymba plummeted in the GFK radio results, losing a 1.6 per cent audience share to make them the third most listened to show.
The MIX 94.5 breakfast team are sure to be looking over their shoulders, with new rivals Fred Botica and Lisa Shaw kicking off Botica’s Bunch for Breakfast at 96FM this week.
Botica and Shaw were the most successful breakfast team in Perth radio history, together winning more than 100 consecutive surveys when they worked at MIX 94.5 from 1992 to 2014.
And with 96FM’s new program director Dan Underhill poached from rival Nova 93.7 last week, their competitors will be kept on their toes.
Nova 93.7 breakfast team Nathan, Nat and Shaun, who recently signed five-year contracts, are Perth’s most listened to breakfast show with 14.2 per cent of the audience share, gaining 1.1 per cent.
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Rediff.com » Cricket » Will Kohli bat at No 4 in World Cup?
Will Kohli bat at No 4 in World Cup?
'Maybe Rayudu, or someone else, could bat at number three, and Kohli comes in at number four'
IMAGE: Shastri is mulling over to send skipper Virat Kohli to bat at No 4. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images
India coach Ravi Shastri is mulling to send skipper Virat Kohli to bat at No 4 to protect him in bowling-friendly conditions during the World Cup in England.
Shastri said Kohli at number 4 can make the batting unit more stronger.
"The good thing about this Indian top-three is we can separate them, if conditions and situations demand. Someone like Virat Kohli can go to number four, and we can put a good number three to bring more balance to the batting line-up," Shastri told Cricbuzz.
"That's flexibility for you, and for big tournaments like the World Cup, you have to be flexible to see what's the best balance for the side. So we will decide that (accordingly in England).
"We will assess that on seeing conditions there in England. You don't want to be 18-3 or 16-4 in a big tournament. I don't care about bilateral ODIs, but why should I lose my best batsman early in a World Cup match (if the conditions are bowler friendly)?" he added.
Ambati Rayudu showed his prowess with a match-winning 90 at the Hamilton ODI and Shastri said he can be an option at number three.
"Yes, maybe Rayudu, or someone else, could bat at number three, and Kohli comes in at number four. We wouldn't want to disturb the opening combination. Separating the top-three could make the batting stronger.
Shastri said Rayudu's innings eased his worries to an extent and his unorthodox style of batting can be an X factor for the team.
"... the one quality Rayudu has, he can be very unorthodox. With the way he bats, he can be an x-factor for us. He will play shots that are unconventional at times, but they can be very effective," he said.
"The more he plays like this (like at Wellington), the more he will realise he can do that to the opposition."
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Trump tours border, repeats threat to declare national emergency
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Migrant child becomes 2nd to die in US custody in December
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Brazil's 200-yr-old museum gutted in huge fire
The 200-year-old National Museum located in Rio de Janeiro was engulfed in a massive fire on Sunday evening (local time), destroying centuries-old artefacts. IMAGE: A 200-year-old museum in Brazil......
Sakshi stuns World champion Olli to enter final
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10 killed as fire sweeps through Flamengo soccer training centre in Rio
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Refugee team to take part at Tokyo 2020 Olympics: IOC
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Rio Tinto on Tuesday flagged a cost blowout of up to $1.9 billion and a delay of up to 30 months at its Oyu Tolgoi underground copper mine in... ...
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Brazil mourns bossa nova founder João Gilberto as he is buried in Rio
Brazilians said goodbye to legendary musician João Gilberto, a founder of bossa nova, ahead of his funeral on Monday afternoon, with an outpouring... ...
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July 11, 2019 / 11:36 AM / 4 days ago
S&P 500, Dow climb as health insurers, financials gain
Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow and S&P 500 rose on Thursday to close at record highs as health insurers gained after the Trump administration scrapped a plan designed to rein in prescription drug prices, while financial shares climbed with bond yields.
A 5.5% gain in UnitedHealth Group Inc (UNH.N) helped the Dow close above 27,000 points for the first time. Cigna Corp (CI.N) surged 9.2%.
The abandoned proposal would have required health insurers to pass on billions of dollars in rebates they receive from drugmakers to Medicare patients.
On the flip side, drugmakers such as Merck & Co Inc (MRK.N) and Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) dropped following the news, and the Nasdaq biotech index .NBI was down 1.5%. Merck ended down 4.5% while Pfizer was down 2.5%. The S&P 500 healthcare index .SPXHC ended flat.
The S&P 500 traded above 3,000 for a second day in a row but again failed to close above that milestone, suggesting investor cautiousness.
“The fact that it has not been able to get through it and stay above that level has been a big psychological negative,” said Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles.
Helping to support stocks were comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, which supported investor expectations for an interest-rate cut.
In his first day of testimony before Congress on Wednesday, Powell confirmed the U.S. economy was still under threat from disappointing factory activity, tame inflation and a simmering trade war and said the Fed stood ready to “act as appropriate.” Powell testified before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday.
U.S. benchmark bond yields rose, and the S&P 500 financial index .SPSY gained 0.6%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 227.88 points, or 0.85%, to 27,088.08, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 6.84 points, or 0.23%, to 2,999.91 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 6.49 points, or 0.08%, to 8,196.04.
Iron Mountain (IRM.N) slumped after Bank of America Merrill Lynch downgraded the document storage company’s shares to “underperform,” citing recent declines in recycled paper pricing.
A Labor Department report showed U.S. underlying consumer prices rose by the most in nearly 1-1/2 years in June, but that was unlikely to change expectations the Fed would cut rates this month.
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., July 1, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.04-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.25-to-1 ratio favored decliners.
The S&P 500 posted 48 new 52-week highs and 4 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 77 new highs and 54 new lows.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 6.17 billion shares.
Additional reporting by Medha Singh and Manas Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta, Maju Samuel and Jonathan Oatis
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Sweet career advice for Rockford School District students: It's OK to fail
Mary Kaull
Kathy Pomerene, the owner of Sugarjones bakery, received 100 hand-written thank you notes after she spoke with students at Rolling Green Elementary School. Pomerene was surprised. And not just because of how many notes there were or how quickly they arrived, less than a week after she spoke in the Rockford Public Schools. She was […]
Kathy Pomerene, the owner of Sugarjones bakery, received 100 hand-written thank you notes after she spoke with students at Rolling Green Elementary School.
Pomerene was surprised. And not just because of how many notes there were or how quickly they arrived, less than a week after she spoke in the Rockford Public Schools. She was surprised at what so many of the students said: Thank you for telling us it's OK to fail.
Rolling Green art teacher Rae Carbaugh asked Pomerene to speak April 27 to three classes. Pomerene talked about the role of art in cake decorating. She talked about what led her to owning a bakery after earning a biology degree and 'changing my mind 500 times' since she graduated from West High School in 1989.
She talked about her fascination with the way the world works, the science of baking, having to get up at 2 in the morning and how her field is unforgiving of mistakes. If a recipe goes wrong, you can't undo it. 'You can't fix it if it's broken,' she said.
Still, Pomerene has a motto. 'Fail spectacularly,' she said.
Cake baking began as a hobby for Pomerene and grew into a business out of her home. Sugarjones moved to its first location on Rural Street in December 2011 and then, four years later, to State and Fairview. There are now two stores; one on Riverside Boulevard in Rockford and one in Hoffman Estates. She also owns Sugarcones ice cream shop at the bakery's former location on Rural.
Pomerene said she speaks every year to Rock Valley College students about business entrepreneurship. The questions at Rolling Green, however, were strictly about the cakes: Can you make a Corvette? A Statue of Liberty? A T-Rex? A zombie?
About a dozen pieces of Rolling Green student artwork (cakes, naturally) are hanging at the Sugarjones State and Fairview location. Next up: Pomerene will speak May 13 at Johnson Elementary School as part of the school's Career Day.
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2018 Michael P. Recht, MD, New York, NY
2017 Jonathan B. Kruskal, MD, PhD, Boston, MA
2016 Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, Salt Lake City, UT
2015 James H. Thrall, MD, Boston, MA
2014 David C. Levin, MD, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Damian E. Dupuy, MD, Centerville, MA
2012 Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD, Indianapolis, IN
2012 Leonard Berlin, MD, Wilmette, IL
2011 Jeffrey R. Petrella, MD, Chapel Hill, NC
2010 Christian J. Herold, MD, Vienna, Austria
2009 Daniel C. Sullivan, MD, Durham, NC
2008 Elizabeth G. McFarland, MD, Chesterfield, MO
2007 Lawrence W. Bassett, MD, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Kerry M. Link, MD, Winston-Salem, NC
2005 William R. Brody, MD, PhD, Baltimore, MD
2004 Harry K. Genant, MD, San Francisco, CA
2003 Donald L. Resnick, MD, San Diego, CA
2002 Valerie P. Jackson, MD, Indianapolis, IN
2001 Clyde A. Helms, MD, Durham, NC
2000 Gary J. Becker, MD, Miami, FL
1999 Barry B. Goldberg, MD, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Giles W. Stevenson, MD, Hamilton, ON
1997 Stanley S. Siegelman, MD, Baltimore, MD
1996 Steven E. Harms, MD, Little Rock, AR
1995 William R. Lees, MD, London, United Kingdom
1994 Theresa C. McLoud, MD, Boston, MA
1993 George D. Lundberg, MD, Chicago, IL
1992 Theodore E. Keats, MD, Charlottesville, VA
1991 Nestor L. Muller, MD, PhD, Vancouver, BC
1990 Anthony V. Proto, MD, Richmond, VA
1989 Reed P. Rice, MD, Durham, NC
1988 Leonard E. Swischuk, MD, Galveston, TX
1987 William J. Casarella, MD, Atlanta, GA
1986 Morton A. Meyers, MD, Stony Brook, NY
1985 David G. Bragg, MD, Salt Lake City, UT
1984 Donald Resnick, MD, San Diego, CA
1983 Harry Z. Mellins, MD, Boston, MA
1982 David E. Kuhl, MD, Los Angeles, CA
1981 E. Robert Heitzman, MD, Syracuse, NY
1980 Edward B. Singleton, MD, Houston, TX
1979 Harold G. Jacobson, MD, Bronx, NY
1978 William J. Tuddenham, MD, Philadelphia, PA
1977 Robert D. Moseley Jr, MD, Albuquerque, NM
1976 Robert G. Fraser, MD, Birmingham, AL
1975 Gerald D. Dodd Jr, MD, Houston, TX
1974 Milton Elkin, MD, Bronx, NY
1973 Richard H. Marshak, MD, New York, NY
1972 Donald S. Childs Jr, MD, Rochester, MN
1971 A.R. Margulis, MD, San Francisco, CA
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1966 Reynold F. Brown, MD, San Francisco, CA
1965 Russell H. Morgan, MD, Baltimore, MD
1964 Vincent P. Collins, MD, LLB, Houston, TX
1963 John A. Evans, MD, New York, NY
1962 Lauriston S. Taylor, ScD, Washington, DC
1961 Laurence L. Robbins, MD, Boston, MA
1960 Warren H. Cole, MD, Chicago, IL
1959 Chester M. Jones, MD, Boston, MA
1958 Owen H. Wangensteen, MD, Minneapolis, MN
1957 L. Henry Garland, MD, San Francisco, CA
1956 Lowell S. Goin, MD, Los Angeles, CA
1955 Axel N. Arenson, MD, St. Louis, MO
1954 Barton R. Young, MD, Philadelphia, PA
1953 Roger A. Harvey, MD, Chicago, IL
1952 Richard H. Chamberlain, MD, Philadelphia, PA
1951 Robert S. Stone, MD, San Francisco, CA
1950 Wendell G. Scott, MD, St. Louis, MO
1949 John D. Camp, MD, Rochester, MN
1948 Merrill C. Sosman, MD, Boston, MA
1947 Douglas Quick, MD, New York, NY
1946 Robert R. Newell, MD, San Francisco, CA
1944 Lawrence Reynolds, MD, Detroit, MI
1942 Eugene P. Pendergrass, MD, Philadelphia, PA
1941 W. Edward Chamberlain, MD, Philadelphia, PA
1940 Ross Golden, MD, New York, NY
1939 Francis C. Wood, MD, New York, NY
1938 William C. MacCarty, Sr, MD, Rochester, MN
1937 George W. Holmes, MD, Boston, MA
1936 James T. Case, MD, Chicago, IL
1935 Arthur C. Christie, MD, Washington, DC
1934 Byrl R. Kirklin, MD, Rochester, MN
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Nene Valley Harley Davidson Owners Group members organise a small ride to the National Memorial Arboretum’s Remembrance Day event and formulate ideas for a stand-alone ride.
After much planning the first Ride To The Wall took place from Tamworth Service Station to the NMA with an overwhelming 1,100 motorcycles of all types attending. Participants paid a fee and in return received a commemorative pin and year bar.
A committee of volunteers was formed and the core values quickly established along with the principles of donating all monies raised to the NMA.
A cheque for £10,300 is presented to Charles Bagot Jewitt, chief executive of the NMA.
On-line pre-registration for the event was launched along with a range of merchandise. The start point was changed to Drayton Manor Park in order to accommodate the anticipated increase on numbers of those attending.
The second Ride To The Wall took place with some 2,939 motorcycles of all types pre-registered resulting on a cheque for £29,600 being presented to Charles Bagot Jewitt, chief executive of the NMA.
The first Saturday of October was set as the date of Ride To The Wall for this and future years. The event followed the same format as 2009 departing from Drayton Manor Park with 3,300 motorcycles attending.
A cheque for £52,750 was accepted by HRH Duke of Kent on behalf of the NMA during his visit there.
Ride To The Wall becomes a registered charity.
For the fourth Ride To The Wall a number of new start points were introduced in order to relieve pressure on the numbers at Drayton Manor Park. 3,610 motorcycles participate in this successful step forward in RTTW’s development.
The presentation of the cheque for £55,250, accepted by Pte. Johnson Beharry VC on behalf of the NMA, takes place as part of their celebration of Armed Forces Day.
5th anniversary Ride To The Wall takes place with 4,400 motorcycles registered.
Ride To The Wall are awarded The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service (the MBE for voluntary groups) in the Queen's Birthday honours list.
Read more about the award here.
The presentation of the cheque for £70,389, accepted by Cpl. Johnson Beharry VC on behalf of the NMA, takes place as part of the their celebration of Armed Forces Day.
Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service presented to two Ride To The Wall volunteers by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire at a ceremony at the NMA.
The sixth Ride To The Wall takes place with 5,200 motorcycles participating and an estimated 20,000 people attending the event itself. Ride To The Wall becomes the NMA’s biggest single event and their largest financial contributor.
A cheque for £82,750 is accepted on behalf of the NMA by Mrs. Pearl Thrumble and the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
The sixth Ride To The Wall takes place with an estimated 4,300 motorcycles participating and an estimated 20,000 people attending the event itself. This was lower than in previous years but the weather was particularly inclement. Ride To The Wall remains the NMA's biggest single event and their largest financial contributor.
A cheque for £90,500 is accepted on behalf of the NMA by Colin Kemp, a trustee of the NMA, and the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire. This brought the total donated since 2008 to a remarkable £408,500.00.
The seventh Ride To The Wall takes place with 7,100 motorcycles participating and an estimated 20,000 people attending the event itself.
Ride To The Wall featured on a special BBC1 Songs of Praise Remembrance programme.
A cheque for £107,500 is presented by our two patrons, Major General Lamont Kirkland (rtd) and Air Commodore Simon Richardson (rtd), and Wilf Taylor, our oldest 'waller'. The cheque is accepted on behalf of the NMA by Colin Kemp, a trustee of the NMA. This brought the total donated since 2008 to a remarkable £512,000.
The ninth Ride To The Wall takes place and, despite it being the wettest year yet, some 6,700 bikes participated.
On 17th December, many 'Wallers' attended a Christmas lunch together at the NMA. This was then followed by the annual NMA Carol concert.
End of sponsored walk. Martin ended his 5 day sponsored walk from St Georges Barracks, London to the NMA.
Armed Forces Day. A cheque for £121,200 was presented by the Patrons to Sarah Montgomery on the steps of the AFM. This brings the total donated, since 2008, to a staggering £633,200.
The tenth Ride To The Wall takes place. Over 6500 bikes participated and the weather was much kinder.
Many 'Wallers' again attend a Christmas lunch at the NMA. Before the annual Carol Concert starts Martin presents the NMA with a cheque for £6,412.97, being the amount raised from his sponsored walk earlier in the year.
Armed Forces Day. Once again a cheque was presented to the NMA on behalf of Ride to the Wall. Monies raised from RTTW 2017 allowed us to present a cheque for £150,000 bringing the total raised to date to just short of £790,000.
The 11th year of the ride saw over 5000 bikes in attendance. Numbers were down from the previous year due to inclement weather, but this did not deter an amazing turn out and the ongoing support for Ride to the Wall.
The annual RTTW Christmas lunch was attended by a record number, 127 including 3 Chelsea pensioners, and was held in the new 'ASPECTS' building at the NMA.
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An updated revision ("Rev. H") of the second volume of the CMH-17 compendium contains statistically-based data for polymer matrix composites that meets specific CMH-17 population sampling and data documentation requirements, covering material systems of general interest. Selected historical data from previous versions of the handbook that do not meet current data sampling, test methodology, or documentation requirements, but are still of potential interest to industry are also included in this volume. Seventeen new data sets with complete documentation and publicly available specifications were added in the new Revision H of the Composites Materials Handbook, Vol.2. The new data sets include carbon fiber and glass fiber composites. The Composite Materials Handbook, CMH-17, is a six-volume engineering reference tool that contains over 1,000 records of the latest test data for polymer matrix, metal matrix, ceramic matrix, and structural sandwich composites.
Composite Materials Handbook Volume 5 - Revision A
The fifth volume of this six-volume compendium publishes technical guidance and properties on ceramic matrix composite material systems. The selected guidance on technical topics related to this class of composites includes material selection, processing, characterization, testing, data reduction, design, analysis, quality control, application, case histories, and lessons learned of typical ceramic matrix composite materials. Volume 5, which covers ceramic matrix composites, supersedes MIL-HDBK-17-5 of June 17, 2002. The Composite Materials Handbook, referred to by industry groups as CMH-17, is an engineering reference tool that contains over 1,000 records of the latest test data for polymer matrix, metal matrix, ceramic matrix, and structural sandwich composites. CMH-17 provides information and guidance necessary to design and fabricate end items from composite materials.
Composite Materials Handbook, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
Polymer Matrix, Metal Matrix, and Structural Sandwich Composites 6-Volume Set: • Volume 1: Guidelines for Characterization of Structural Materials • Volume 2: Materials Properties • Volume 3: Materials Usage, Design, and Analysis • Volume 4: Metal Matrix Composites • Volume 5: Ceramic Matrix Composites • Volume 6: Structural Sandwich Composites This 6-volume set includes critical properties of composite materials that meet specific data requirements, as well as guidelines for design, analysis, material selection, manufacturing, quality control, and repair. This newly-updated engineering reference tool, part of the Composite Materials Handbook (CMH-17), also contains the latest test data for polymer matrix composites and metal matrix composites, as well as essential material relating to sandwich composites and ceramic matrix composites used in military and commercial vehicles.
Data Acquisition from HD Vehicles Using J1939 CAN Bus
Modern vehicles have electronic control units (ECUs) to control various subsystems such as the engine, brakes, steering, air conditioning, and infotainment. These ECUs (or simply ‘controllers’) are networked together to share information, and output directly measured and calculated data to each other. This in-vehicle network is a data goldmine for improved maintenance, measuring vehicle performance and its subsystems, fleet management, warranty and legal issues, reliability, durability, and accident reconstruction. The focus of Data Acquisition from HD Vehicles Using J1939 CAN Bus is to guide the reader on how to acquire and correctly interpret data from the in-vehicle network of heavy-duty (HD) vehicles. The reader will learn how to convert messages to scaled engineering parameters, and how to determine the available parameters on HD vehicles, along with their accuracy and update rate. Written by two specialists in this field, Richard (Rick) P. Walter and Eric P.
Design and the Reliability Factor
Sophisticated infotainment systems, lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, and blind-spot monitoring are increasingly common in cars today. The proliferation of automotive electronics and other “smart” features has increased the market for automotive semiconductor devices and the number of sensors per vehicle. Yet, more chips and greater functionality translate to further networking/communications activity within the car, and that raises the prospect of potentially serious errors.
Design for Additive Manufacturing: Concepts and Considerations for the Aerospace Industry
In the coming decades, the growth in AM will likely be driven by production parts that leverage this increase in design freedom to manufacture parts of higher performance and improved material utilization. Contrary to popular opinion, however, AM processes do have their constraints and limitations - not everything can be manufactured with AM, and even when it is feasible, not everything should. Design for Additive Manufacturing: Concepts and Considerations for the Aerospace Industry, edited by Dr. Dhruv Bhate, is a collection of ten seminal SAE International technical papers, which cover AM from the perspective of the appropriateness (should) and feasibility (can) of using AM for manufacturing of parts and tooling. Although AM technologies have been around for three decades, many in the industry believe that we are merely at the beginning of the revolution in the design-driven aspects of this technology.
Engineering Wireless-Based Software Systems and Applications
This comprehensive resource gives you a thorough understanding of the software engineering processes and methods you need to tackle the complexities of building software for wireless systems. It covers system architecture, mobile client design, and development principles, as well as analysis and testing techniques. The book gives you clear guidelines that enable you to confront design trade-offs so you can meet user and system requirements. You get in-depth tutorials on mobile technologies, mobile supporting platforms, wireless networking, wireless security, and wireless multimedia. The book offers you a solid understanding of networking theories and concepts, helping you master the technical intricacies of 2 - 4G cellular networks, wireless LANs, and wireless personal area networks. You find an in-depth examination of security issues and solutions that are critical to building reliable and safe software.
Fatigue and Durability of Metals at High Temperatures
From concept to application, Fatigue and Durability of Metals at High Temperatures describes the method of strain-range partitioning for analyzing time-dependent fatigue. Creep (time-dependent) deformation is first introduced for monotonic and cyclic loading. Multiple chapters then discuss strain-range partitioning in details for multi-axial loading conditions and how different loading permutations can lead to different micro-mechanistic effects. The total-strain method of strain-range partitioning (SRP) is described, which is a methodology that sees use in several industries.
Fatigue and Durability of Structural Materials
This book explains how mechanical material behavior relates to the design of structural machine components. The major emphasis is on fatigue and failure behavior using engineering models that have been developed to predict, in advance of service, acceptable fatigue and other durability-related lifetimes. Information covers broad classes of materials used for high-performance structural applications such as aerospace components, automobiles, and power generation systems. Coverage focuses on metallic materials but also addresses unique capabilities of important nonmetals.
Fundamentals of Engineering High-Performance Actuator Systems
Actuators are the key to allowing machines to become more sophisticated and perform complex tasks that were previously done by humans, providing motion in a safe, controlled manner. As defined in this book, actuator design is a subset of mechanical design. It involves engineering the mechanical components necessary to make a product move as desired. Fundamentals of Engineering High-Performance Actuator Systems, by Ken Hummel, was written as a text to supplement actuator design courses, and a reference to engineers involved in the design of high-performance actuator systems. It highlights the design approach and features what should be considered when moving a payload at precision levels and/or speeds that are not as important in low-performance applications.
Fundamentals of Short-Range FM Radar
Here’s a unique new resource that offers you a solid understanding of the fundamental theory, operation principles and applications of short-range frequency modulated continuous wave (FM CW) radar. You learn how to choose the structural scheme of short-range FM radar, and determine the optimal algorithm of useful signal processing necessary for ensuring the technical characteristic of radar. Moreover, this practical reference shows you how to ensure the minimum level of radar signal parasitic amplitude, calculate modulation signal distortion, and compensate for nonlinear distortion. For the first time in any book, you find detailed coverage of the theory and calculations of autodyne radar, helping you avoid typical mistakes with your work in this area. Other critical discussions include the parameters of UHF unit output signals and the principles of regime optimization.
Green Technologies and the Mobility Industry
This book features 20 SAE technical papers, originally published in 2009 and 2010, which showcase how the mobility industry is developing greener products and staying responsive - if not ahead of - new standards and legal requirements. These papers were selected by SAE International's 2010 President Dr. Andrew Brown Jr., Executive Director and Chief Technologist for Delphi Corporation. Authored by international experts from both industry and academia, they cover a wide range of cutting-edge subjects including powertrain electrification, alternative fuels, new emissions standards and remediation strategies, nanotechnology, sustainability, in-vehicle networking, and how various countries are also stepping up to the "green challenge".
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Insurer improves efficiency, reduces costs
Aegon modernizes its SAS platform for better data security, data quality
Life insurance, pensions, and investments company AEGON modernized its SAS platform to create a powerful new environment, with enhanced capabilities ranging from data quality and information security to analytics and business intelligence.
"SAS has been re-established as a key analysis tool," says Charlie Ewing, Business Solutions Manager, Finance Business Solutions. Historic initiatives included SAS/IntrNet® software “to handle high volumes of standard inquiries” and PC-based SAS to take use out to desktops. “This remained the status quo for years”, Ewing says, “while IT closely focused on our core policy administration systems.”
SAS lets us work faster and smarter. More and more people are requesting access: SAS is a fundamental building block for what we want to achieve as the business moves forward.
Charlie Ewing
Finance Business Solutions
“We wanted a sea change in how the system was used, in SAS capabilities and in how the hundreds of users worked, in different areas and at different levels,” says Ewing. “We took ownership of SAS and laid out a vision and road map to move to a new and more powerful platform, to better achieve our strategic goals while taking all our users with us.”
The result was a new architecture that has delivered efficiency gains and significant costs savings.
Faster, stronger, better: a new SAS® platform
"SAS had been treated as an 'informal' tool in many respects but was actually used for important purposes," says Ross McEwan, now Head of Finance Methodology and the chief sponsor of the SAS modernization. "As soon as our sponsorship, ownership and governance of SAS came in, we were able to re-align the use of SAS and looked to deliver value."
AEGON engaged with SAS to define the new infrastructure. SAS® Professional Services, including a Technical Account Manager, helped drive implementation and technical delivery. Ewing says, "In the last few years the appetite for managing risk far more accurately, to better understand the business and so take the right decisions, has grown. We wanted to produce far higher quality outputs, to get rid of the 'noise' and inefficiencies, and create one single, accurate view of the business. In doing so, we can not only work more efficiently, quickly and accurately, we've also addressed information security, data protection and quality issues. SAS ticks all those boxes."
Solutions implemented as part of AEGON's new SAS Insurance Analytics Architecture (IAA), founded on SAS® Enterprise BI Server, included SAS® Data Integration and SAS® Enterprise Guide®.
Measurable success
According to Ewing, users soon came to rely on the new infrastructure because of its massively improved capabilities. Some job running times improved by a factor of 50 or 60 times "because we re-engineered, had better data control and a stronger computational engine. We also saw a large reduction in mainframe usage, around nine percent, thanks to SAS. Because the mainframe runs at 100 percent most of the day, anything taken off it is beneficial, providing more power for policy administration. This improved service ultimately benefits end customers,
"Policy Lists, a key SAS-based application that previously ran on SAS/IntrNet, is an inquiry tool used throughout the business to create lists of policies under a particular scheme or specific agent. This application would only work part time as it was running out of capacity on the mainframe, so it was one of the first we moved," says Ewing. "Then, it had 350 users. After three months it had 700, because people saw the improvements in quality of service, the speed and efficiency." From being a tool that had "fallen into disrepair and disuse because it was running on a system that was no longer efficient" it went back to being "an absolute core capability used for policy inquiries".
Internal research into efficiency gains among the 700 users revealed significant benefits. "If we make staff just one percent more efficient that's the equivalent of seven full-time people, which means more than £200,000 of financial benefit," says Ewing. "We discovered we were achieving significantly more than one percent and we started to create value as soon as we went live." He adds, "While payback is obviously very important, we also have a huge personal satisfaction that we've delivered something that's had such a fundamental impact on how people work, helping their jobs become easier so they can work more accurately and efficiently."
Ross McEwan adds, "We want to work our assets hard — including SAS. This will mean using SAS even more heavily to support our work around capital calculations and Solvency II. The solvency work we're doing wasn't planned for the system, but SAS supports our ability to meet demand. In fact, without SAS we'd have severe issues addressing some of those requirements."
Meanwhile, the Business Intelligence Competency Centre (BICC) in Finance Business Solutions, already a center of excellence for finance and risk analytics, is busy using the architecture to support other teams including customer insight and a customer transformation program. Ewing says when the migration was planned, he worked on the basis of the new infrastructure supporting 300 PC users and 400 mainframe users. "There are now over 1,000 active users because of the real benefits people see, the real efficiency gains, and new levels of analytics impossible before. SAS lets us work faster and smarter. More and more people are requesting access. We've given people an appetite to use SAS to do more — and SAS is a fundamental building block for what we want to achieve as the business moves forward."
Modernize a SAS platform to better support a successful business: drive a "sea change" in systems and culture to ensure higher quality outputs, create a single view of the business, enable staff to work more efficiently, quickly and accurately, and address information security, data protection and data quality issues.
SAS® Data Integration
Job running times improved up to 60 times.
Mainframe use reduced by 9% providing more power for policy administration and better customer service.
Financial benefits run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
New opportunities to use SAS for calculations and Solvency II work.
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Home News Scottsdale November GO bond ballot question appears imminent
Scottsdale November GO bond ballot question appears imminent
Mar 29th, 2018 · by Terrance Thornton · Comments:
Residents can make public comments during city council meetings at City Hall, 3939 N. Drinkwater Blvd. (Independent Newsmedia/Josh Martinez)
Its name is bond — Scottsdale general obligation bond.
Scottsdale City Council appears poised to pursue a $350 million general obligation bond measure next election day — Tuesday, Nov. 6 — on the heels of an hours-long discussion earlier this week. The pursuit, city officials say, is a culmination of understanding the dire straits of local infrastructure in certain pockets of the municipality.
There are 118 Scottsdale infrastructure projects city leaders have identified carrying an estimated cost of $810 million, but elected leaders readily admit municipal needs exceed existing funding sources and mechanisms.
In summer 2017 three members of Scottsdale City Council were tapped to lead an internal subcommittee to better understand both the infrastructural needs of the day and — more importantly — how to raise dollars and cents for municipal projects.
The Scottsdale Capital Improvement Plan Subcommittee is charged with presenting the larger governing body with both a recommendation for a list of priority projects to address infrastructure needs this coming fiscal year and marching orders for the next five years.
On Tuesday, March 27 those recommendations were fine-tuned and potential funding mechanisms were discussed at length at City Hall, 3939 N. Drinkwater Blvd.
Scottsdale City Council members Virginia Korte, Guy Phillips and David Smith serve as liaison between the governing body and the CIP subcommittee, which is also comprised of Scottsdale department leadership.
Infrastructure needs top the list of priorities for elected leaders of Scottsdale. (File photo)
The brass tax
Scottsdale City Engineer Dave Lipinski introduced Scottsdale City Council to the current state of affairs regarding capital improvement projects identified and the price tag for those projects.
In addition, much of the initial conversation defined what can and cannot be funded through a general obligation bond, a sales tax increase remedy or a combination of the two.
“There has been some changes from when this process started,” he said of the fluid nature of developing a CIP list for public examination. “In total, after the requests within the CIP; if those are moved forward, it leaves 160 projects and a total of $639 million in unfunded requests — that is where we start today with the different scenarios.”
Mr. Lipinski explained to council city staff has developed three different funding scenarios to address infrastructure development needs identified by local leaders. They are:
A series of sales tax incremental increases totaling .1 percent, .2 percent and .3 percent;
A $350 million general obligation bond sent to voters this November; and
A hybrid funding approach whereas the city would institute a .1 percent increase to the local sales tax rate and pursue a $350 million general obligation bond measure.
Much of the conversation revolving around various sales tax changes — today the rate is 1.65 percent of which .3 percent is dedicated to land acquisition for the McDowell Sonoran Preserve — and the prospect of abolishment of the tax on food.
City leaders speculate the sales tax on food accumulates about $12 million annually.
Scottsdale City Council in March 2016 voted to take 1.1 percent of the 1.65 percent retail sales tax assessed on all grocery sales within city limits and funnel those dollars into the capital improvements budget forecast.
A defined path to funding
One member of council brought his own PowerPoint presentation to illustrate his approach to generate funding to help pay for failing infrastructure.
Guy Phillips
“When I was first asked to be in this subcommittee, my first reaction was they want me on this subcommittee to convince me we need to go for bonds,” he said at the onset of his comments. “And I thought, well if that’s the case, good luck, but I said I am willing to learn and see what happens. Personally, I have learned a lot.”
Mr. Phillips offered the idea of a series of stepped-up sales tax increases for a three-year period and then, the potential for a general obligation measure coming after fiscal year 2020.
“I wanted to think of the best ways to go about things,” he said pointing out his reticent thoughts on the pursuit of a bond program. “(Last time we discussed this) when council was 6 to 1 for bonds, I felt like I was on a sinking ship. I think we need to think about this strategically — it’s more about talking about how we go about doing it.”
Mr. Phillips says he wants to take a segmented approach to funding public infrastructure projects.
“Residents are equally divided on how to be taxed,” he said.
“Not all taxes are created equally, I believe bond uses should be for the big projects that will never get done without a bond. That makes sense. With that in mind Scottsdale has the lowest sales tax rate in the state. If you take out the Preserve, which is a bonded tax, by the way, on a sales tax — if you take that away, we are at 1.3 (percent), which is the lowest in the state.”
Mr. Phillips explained to council, through a public records request, between 2008 and 2012 a total of 14 Scottsdale residents lost their homes due to property tax-lien foreclosures.
“Resident can lose their homes. The tax never stops. You can say it’s only $37 a year, and yeah you can say that, that’s not that much, but it is over the life of the bond. Property tax sometimes gets to the point where people just can’t afford it. Sales tax is a good solution, in my opinion,” he said.
“I am asking for a modest increase in the local sales tax.”
Mr. Smith, who also served on the CIP council subcommittee, say he found value in Mr. Phillips’ presentation, but points out a bond program is the right fit for the needs of the municipality.
“Obviously, I have a great deal of symphony for any proposal that talks about getting rid of any of the inequities in our sales tax,” Mr. Smith said following Mr. Phillips’ presentation.
“Particularly, the inequity of charging (a tax) for the food purchased at the grocery store. I obviously applaud anything that says ‘let’s get rid of that one way or another.’ I prefer the (general obligation) bond very simply because it is tied to the projects.”
Mr. Smith also points out, as it was discovered a few weeks earlier by City Treasurer Jeff Nichols, bond debt in Scottsdale will be paid off in coming years allowing for the potential of limited costs for home owners.
“It won’t increase the property taxes of people; we can honestly tell them that,” Mr. Smith said. “It won’t go up for any reason — in all likelihood it will go down. So, I think it is a compelling story to tell the people.”
For Mr. Smith the time for action is now.
“We have, in my judgment of course, waited too long already,” he said. “I am anxious to go to the voters. It is a progressive tax. I do favor the general obligation bond. It gives us the lowest cost. It gives us the best way to fund the projects, but I am sympathetic to the idea, I will call it: tax reforms.”
Scottsdale City Council is expected to see a general obligation bond proposal defined with projects and associated costs in April with a formal measure emerging in May, according to Mr. Nichols, the city treasurer.
“I have not wavered from my support for (general obligation) bonds,” Scottsdale Vice Mayor Virginia Korte said during the study session discussion.
Virginia Korte
“I go back to 1989 when we were able to pass about a $330 million GO bond measure and being co-chair of the campaign, I remember how the city and leaders rallied around that bond and we were able to build senior centers and build the new stadium, which is now an old stadium.”
Ms. Korte says the needs are there and the public realization seems to be materializing as well.
“We did some really good quality things with that vote — and we can do it again,” she said.
“The GO bonds are the most transparent of any funding source. Projects are defined; there is a beginning and end to that tax. The cost of debt is the lowest of any funding source.”
Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane says he too supports the pursuit of an exploration of a bonding program for the city of Scottsdale.
“My primary concern and, frankly advocacy for general obligation bonds, is we do pay off our debt,” he explained. “It’s not we are sitting on something and refuse to pay it, as sometimes we are accused of. It is always being paid off as a matter of course by the revenue streams that are assigned.”
Furthermore, Mr. Lane contends when the bond is done, the debt is paid in full.
“General obligation bonds are a selection by the public to be taxed — they automatically sunset,” he said. “Once it’s done it is done.”
Independent Newsmedia Arizona Managing Editor Terrance Thornton can be contacted at tthornton@newszap.com
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British Steel
Scunthorpe British Steel pensioners to return to Baths Hall for second pension roadshow
It follows a well-attended roadshow at the venue back in October
Nick Cole
Hundreds of disappointed British Steel pensioners in Scunthorpe are to get a second chance to ask questions about the future of their investments.
For representatives of the Pension Protection Fund and the British Steel Scheme’s trustee board are to return to the town’s Baths hall on November 20 for a repeat road show.
Their return to Scunthorpe comes less than four weeks after the first presentation at the Baths which attracted packed houses to the three two-hour sessions on October 24.
Packed houses for British Steel Pension Fund roadshow event in Scunthorpe
But this time the sessions will be limited to two, starting at 2pm and 7pm.
Pensioners pictured leaving the Baths Hall, Scunthorpe following a meeting to explain the new British Steel Pension Scheme options.
Shaun Leckey, the Scunthorpe spokesman for the 4,500-strong British Steel Pension Members action group, said: ”It’s because of the overwhelming attendance at the other meetings.
"Many members were unable to attend because all the meetings were fully booked.
"So they have had to put on extra meetings in other areas of the country.
What will the weather be like on Bonfire Night in Scunthorpe?
“It does show the massive effect it’s having on steel communities around Britain."
But time is fast running out for the estimated 20,000 stake-holders, who have been given until December 11 to decide where to invest their money.
They can either choose to put thejr stakes in the hands of the Pension Protection Fund or invest in a new trustee-run scheme set up with the help of cash from Tata Steel UK.
Both schemes are due to come info effect from March 1, 2018.
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Article Type All PC Game News PC Game Hardware Features
F1 2019 getting off to an earlier start
By Alice O'Connor • 4 months ago • 8
Because reasons, Codemasters tend to release their Formula One games near the end of the racing season they're simulating, which is weird. Wouldn't it be better if motorheads could themselves play through all the tracks ahead of their Grand Prix? Or maybe even race alongside it, listening to the actual team's racing radio? Wearing a full fireproof racing suit in their house? Shouting for their…
Tagged with Codemasters, Formula One, F1 2018, F1 2019.
Feature: GPUs and HDR explained
What graphics card do I need for HDR and what PC games support it?
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HDR on PC continues to be a bit of a mess these days, but provided you haven't been put off by the astronomical prices of the [block id="604469" title="Best gaming monitor"]s for HDR or, indeed, the ongoing debacle surrounding Windows 10 support for it, then the next step on your path to high dynamic range glory is to get an HDR compatible graphics card. Below, you'll find a…
Tagged with AMD, AMD FreeSync 2, feature, graphics card, graphics cards, Hardware, HDR, Nvidia, Nvidia G-Sync HDR, Agents of Mayhem, Anthem, Ark: Survival Evolved, Assassin's Creed III, Assassin's Creed Origins, Battlefield 1, Battlefield V, Call of Duty: WW2, Crackdown 3, Dark and Light, Destiny 2, Devil May Cry 5, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition, F1 2017, F1 2018, Far Cry 5, Far Cry: New Dawn, Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition, Fortnite, Fortnite Battle Royale, Forza Motorsport 7, Halo Wars 2, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Heroes of Hammerwatch, Hitman, Hitman 2, Injustice 2, Jump Force, Madden NFL 19, Mass Effect Andromeda, Metro Exodus, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Monster Hunter: World, Nex Machina, Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, Obduction, Paragon, PES 2019, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Shadow Warrior 2, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Strange Brigade, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet, TerraTech, The Elder Scrolls Online, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, X-Plane 11.
Feature: Everyone is dreadful
Steam Charts: Morbidly Repetitive Edition
By John Walker • 11 months ago • 30
Thank God you're here. Listen, I don't want to over-hype things, but this might be the most essential and life-changing article you ever read. Because if you only click through to read this, you will LITERALLY find out the top ten (nine) grossing games on Steam last week, and seriously, if you bought one of them, you will feel so bloody validated.
Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dying Light, F1 2018, Frostpunk, Grand Theft Auto V, Graveyard Keeper, Monster Hunter: World, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.
Chain, keep us together: F1 2018 released
By Alice O'Connor • 11 months ago • 11
Codemasters have returned once again to damn your love and damn your lies with their latest annual adaptation of Formula One racing. F1 2018 is out now, bringing new features for career mode including deciding how to behave in TV interviews, a return to the French Grand Prix at Circuit Paul Ricard, and the usual dose of extra graphical fanciness and tweaks to driving and…
Tagged with Codemasters, Formula One, F1 2018.
F1 2018 racing out in August
By Alice O'Connor • 1 year ago • 8
Codemasters today announced that F1 2018, the latest annual sequel in their series of competitive pootling games based piss-takingly loosely on the popular Top Gear segment 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car', will launch on August 24th. This year's game will bring an old feature back to Career mode, add more classic cars, and... other stuff. Codies aren't saying yet. They're not even showing screenshots…
Tagged with Formula One, Codemasters, F1 2017, F1 2018.
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Your Reaction: What did you think of Bizet's Carmen live in cinemas?
Barrie Kosky's Royal Opera production was relayed live around the world.
By Chris Shipman (Head of Brand Engagement and Social Media)
6 March 2018 at 10.38pm | 197 Comments
Anna Goryachova as Carmen in Carmen, The Royal Opera Season 2017/18 © ROH 2017. Photograph by Bill Cooper.
50 Shades of Bizet #ROHCarmen
— Anna Ellis (@annaellis_net) March 6, 2018
#ROHCarmen - Best production of Carmen ever. Goryachova is the best Carmen ever. Wonderful.
— John Canmore (@JohnCanmore) March 6, 2018
#ROHcarmen love the singing and music, the staging, no, why mess with the original?
— ????travelprincess99???? (@ruth_clark) March 6, 2018
I don’t know what show the critics in London saw... but this #ROHcarmen is phenomenal!!!
— Suzanne Frost (@suz_frost) March 6, 2018
Anna Goryachova as Carmen, Aigul Akhmetshina as Mercédès and Jacquelyn Stucker as Frasquita in Carmen, The Royal Opera Season 2017/18 © ROH 2017. Photograph by Bill Cooper.
That was lit #ROHcarmen
— Joe Brammer (@Joe_Brammer) March 6, 2018
#ROHcarmen Has to be the worst production of Carmen I have seen. For only the second time in my life I walked out at the interval of an opera. An absolute deplorable production.
— John Sumnall (@rjs1yorkshire) March 6, 2018
Thoroughly enjoyed the cinema streaming tonight in cineworld Birmingham! Particularly impressed by Frasquita, Escamillo, Micaëla and the stunning dancers!! ❤️#ROHcarmen
— Jess Webber (@JessWebber3) March 6, 2018
#ROHcarmen brilliant production - it's very difficult to pull off an unusual take so well @RoyalOperaHouse #eshereveryman
— Zoë (@zoe_design2017) March 6, 2018
Francesco Meli as Don José and Anna Goryachova as Carmen in Carmen, The Royal Opera Season 2017/18 © ROH 2017. Photograph by Bill Cooper.
That was just fabulous. Funny, intelligent, full of drama and surprises... and what a cast! Thank you all @TheRoyalOpera ! #ROHCarmen
— ???? Eliiiiise ???? (@EliseVDB1) March 6, 2018
What a choreographic opera!!! Marvellous singers, direction, conductor, dancers, everybody Great #Carmen @RoyalOperaHouse #ROHcarmen @versiondigital
— Cristina Marinero (@crismarinero) March 6, 2018
#ROHcarmen AWESOME production! I will not stop talking about this at work tomorrow @MovementUnit @combinedmover ????
— Deb Connor (@deb_connor) March 6, 2018
Magnificent performance! Amazing show! Gorgeous! My most sincere congratulations to @TheRoyalOpera and @BarrieKosky for such a worderful masterpiece! Anna Goryachova, brava!!
Thank you very much from Seville, the city of Carmen! #ROHcarmen #Carmen #Bizet #Seville @RoyalOperaHouse
— Francisco Carrellán (@FranCarrellan) March 6, 2018
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6 March 2018 at 10.38pm
This article has been categorised Opera and tagged by Barrie Kosky, Carmen, cinema, Production, review, your reaction
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Teresa Shipley responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:08pm Reply
Amazing, an absolute blockbuster of a production. Superb singing, exciting dancing and the whole beautifully executed to produce a performance that I will never forget. #royaloperahouse
Penny Murchison responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:14pm Reply
Brilliant priduction, shame we had a break in transmission in Herne Bay, but luckly only for 19 mins.
Still we thoroughly enjoyed it.
But when can get get AD for blind customers?
My husband misses all the action.
Jane Combes responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:15pm Reply
Carmen was wonderful production, though I thought the stage setting was somewhat spartan and chorus would have been better served with more lighting, and apart from Carmen superb costume at the entrance there was a distinct lack of colour in the costumes . Especially liked the humour at the finale to break the spell of all that drama and emotion .
Carol responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:17pm Reply
Absolutely fabulous .. My first time of actually watching in the cinema .. I love love loved it .. Well done everyone xxx
Melanie Ruse responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:18pm Reply
Absolutely amazing. What a creative performance, loved the dance the staging but none of it detracted from the superb voices.
Michael Gowers responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:23pm Reply
Mmmmmarvellous, minimal set, fabulous voices, rearranged perfectly, def go see
David Godfrey responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:25pm Reply
No atmosphere. No passion.No scenery.No connection between the characters.
Michaels and the orchestra were great. Why portray Carmen as a. Cold ice maiden?
Elsie Richardson responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:33pm Reply
Thoroughly enjoyed this exciting new production - singers and dancers incredible. Just one query: why, oh why the gorilla suit? Can anyone please explain?
Damian Whiteley responded on 8 March 2018 at 1:21am
The gorilla suit is presumably a reference to Marlene Dietrich in the film Blonde Venus.
Patricia Muirhead responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:38pm Reply
Excellent Production. Very clever, and innovative. Still fabulous Bizet.
Ines Hempel responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:40pm Reply
who were the dancers in this production of Carmen?
Angry Allan responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:52pm Reply
I can't believe this performance was allowed to be screened in my local theatre , I'm left amazed at the greyness of this slaughter of the original . Presenting Carmen as a Gorilla was not clever. I wasn't sure weather to laugh cry or retire to the bar ! Please ban this fool from directing any more beautiful opera , I was disgusted at the time but laughed all the way home .Not what I'd hoped for .
Susan Reid-Povall responded on 8 March 2018 at 11:14am
I have never seen Carmen before so have nothing to compare it with but I agree with a lot of what you say. In particular the 'mix' of dance styles and constant jigging about of the chorus seemed unnecessary and just for the sake of doing something different. And HOW the stage set passed Health and Safety I just don't know. The singing was superb, though.
Judith H, Edinburgh responded on 12 March 2018 at 12:26pm
I totally agree with Angry Allan. The production was a self indulgent and immature one. I am not against the idea of experimenting with opera, but neither am I stupid - requiring breaks in the story to explain what is going on (after all this is one of the best known operas, isn't it? - and there are sub titles.) I would have loved to have heard the singing rather than feet pattering up and down the set. There are references to colour but where was it? Carmen appearing in a gorilla suit? I also thought is was not well cast. Walked out at the interval. Thank goodness for the Met.
Susie Mc responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:57pm Reply
Wow I absolutely loved it. I have seen the classic Carmen many times but loved this brave interpretation. The simple static set and mainly black costumes pulled all the focus back to the music words and magnificent voices of the cast. The dancers were mesmerising and the lack of synchronicity with the movement of the chorus was genius. The Gorilla suit moment was quite surprising and could have been a huge distraction but I interpreted that as her strength independence and wildness. Bravo loved it thank you for a brilliant evening
Mary M O'Sullivan responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:42am
I agree with everything that Susie said Carmen was brilliant this coming from a traditionalist. One thing just like Otello the stage is to dark please pay the electric bill. Thanks to ROH for the live relays to Cinemas of Opera's and Ballet's - I attend them all. Due to sever weather conditions Winters Tale Ballet was not shown in Mahon Point Cinema Cork last Wednesday hoping it can be relayed later in the year.
Thanks again to ROH
Mary M O'Sullivan
Blanca Saez de Jauregui responded on 6 March 2018 at 11:59pm Reply
Brave and daring production. Fantastic in every aspect. I enjoyed every minute. Sincere congratulations to whole team!!!
Tish Dunleavy responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:05am Reply
Amazing production of Carmen tonight seen live at the Cinema in Carrick On Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Ireland. Loved every bit of it
Anne Keating responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:07am Reply
It’s midnight and I’m wide awake and reliving the performance of Carmen at Everyman, Gerrards Cross.earlier. What an incredible version. I’d read a review last week and wasn’t expecting to enjoy it. Was I wrong! Every bit as good as being in the theatre too. Well done Barrie Kosky and ROH.
Bravo to all the member of ROH London! Superb production of Carmen. Really loved it. The dancers were fantastic too and Barry was so wise to insist of the movements by the cast were out of sync to avoid boring the audience! Well done.......
Jo responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:10am Reply
First ever Opera for me, absolutely fabulous. Thoroughly enjoyed it and delighted to recommend this performance
Martin Hendriks responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:12am Reply
geweldige opera ! wat een spectakel heb gennoten !
Frank Cadam responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:14am Reply
Stunning performance...really amazing...well done everyone
The narration a little bit distracting !..
Christine Mitchell responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:20am Reply
Absolutely fantastic, watched it at the Curzon Cinema in Knutsford. So much going on and the music and singing were stunning.
Tina Clements responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:32am Reply
No can't agree . Open to different productions but music played second fiddle to poor staging and awful lighting. Excellent singers lost in a production that lacked cohesion
Patricia Brattle responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:30pm
I agree with you Tina........I really tried to like it but found it full of unnecessary gimmicks and distractions
Alyson George responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:55am Reply
Phenomenal! Best Carmen I have ever seen! Just brilliant imagining. Fantastic performances.. stunning choreography (especially the 6 x 'Triple Threat' dancers.. just speechless!
And Carmen herself... perfect!
Marian Tindale responded on 7 March 2018 at 1:13am Reply
Really enjoyed this production-fresh, engaging and thought-provoking. Excellent performances from singers and dancers; ROH Chorus excelled themselves.
Mrs Giulia Breakwell responded on 7 March 2018 at 2:21am Reply
I only stayed for half an hour!
I disliked the set, the lack of colour, the ridiculous outfit Carmen was wearing and the fact that it seemed more like a modern ballet than a scene where you could sit back and be transported and uplifted by beautiful costumes and the wonderful music.
Joseph Maguire responded on 28 March 2018 at 12:29pm
I wouldn't blame you. Thinking for ticket for Carmen? No!!!
Frederick Artesani responded on 7 March 2018 at 3:55am Reply
A daring gamble that should become a classic in its own right. Against my prejudices and aprehensiones I absolutely loved it. This production actually enhances the musical score by making the music itself take shape on stage: through choreography, through light, through body language. Psychological portraits are drawn with depth under the apparent light touch of cabaret. Just one fixed set of stairs... and it works! All the magic of Carmen unfolds: love, power play, desire, transgression, obsession, manipulation. Unthinkable scenes (Escamillo’s star appearance, the interplay between the admiring lusty men and the cigarrette makers, Carmen’s first appearance) dig deep into the text and make you think after the initial shock. Such a clever and unique staging. Some innovations at the ROH (Don Giovanni, Macbeth) I have resented... but this is a thumbs up!
David Garman responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:08am Reply
A triumph, fantastic.evey segment especially the chorus. Having read the reviews I was prepared to be disappointed I wasn’t not for a sing moment.
Russell Miller responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:14am Reply
I hated it; couldn't wait to leave at the interval. And what was that gorilla all about? Absurd.
Jill Bourchier responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:30am Reply
Absolutely loved not! Musical theatre at its best - please, please let us have an Encore production as I would absolutely love to watch it again - or a filmed version, perhaps?
Anna Goryachova outplayed any other Carmens that I've seen - brilliant.
Jill Bourchier responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:33am
Sorry, typing error!! Absolutely loved IT not 'not' !!!
roger aves responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:34am Reply
#ROHCarmen Sorry #rohcarmen sorry don't like the modern twist and no sets
It's drab
whats with the gorilla? and the madonna frock at then end #hetripped
and the munchkins from wind in the willows on acid?
Great artists and music though
Verity Saunders responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:40am Reply
Brilliant - absolutely loved it.
David Grindley responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:42am Reply
The beauty of the cinema is that you get a close up of the performers and their facial expressions.
Sound quality is good.
Very good performance and interpretation of Carmen.
Martin Byrne responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:47am Reply
What a wonderful,surprising, terrific production. Outstanding performances all round. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Pat Worthington responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:53am Reply
Love live streaming of theatre that many of us could never experience in person - great singing but gimmicky muddled production – cast sometimes clearly uncomfortable negotiating steep stairway, Carmen’s cloak a definite trip hazard and some members of my audience made a break for freedom in the interval – quite a few empty seats in the second half
Roger Simpson responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:57am Reply
A most remarkable imaginative performance.
Congratulations to the Director and the ROH
Judith Turner responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:05am Reply
After a good nights sleep and with my objective hat on, and a dash of soul searching I did enjoy it. It would appeal to the younger newcomer and in the hope of encouraging this genre. I missed the colour red! Not sure about the Gorilla!!!.
Carmen was outstanding.
Sue woodhousr responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:07am Reply
Thoroughly enjoyed last nights performance streamed to the odeon cinema Trowbridge.
Different to the traditional version, although lacking the vibrant colour I’m used to, the performance more than made up for the sets.
I lean towards ballet rather than opera but found this version of Carmen kept me enthralled.
There is one costume that was quite honestly unnecessary but I won’t spoil the surprise.
Brilliant night
Maria responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:08am Reply
The performers were excellent, loved the chorus, and the dancing, but hated the set - felt the stairs hampered rather than enhanced, flattened the action and took the heart out of the music.
Carole Gennings responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:14am Reply
We also walked out in the interval worst production of Carmen seen by us
It was worst opera. It's sink and down in the drain.
Rosa Somerville responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:21am Reply
I have never seen a Carmen so well acted, sung and danced. the score really sparkled. The unusual staging and brilliant dancing made me really listen and enjoy Bizet's lyrical and imaginative scoring for the orchestra. the narration and the characterisation brought out the relationships clearly. And only one cigarette! Yet we were in Seville.Five stars. I'd love to see it again.
Lydia Thomas responded on 7 March 2018 at 5:15pm
I have watched this opera numerous times over the past 50 years, this one was wonderful, it was ALIVE the use of the staircase was inspired, thank you to all concerned. Watched by me in Spain in a packed cinema.
Lesley Glover responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:23pm
Agree with Betty's comments, especially about being ready to embrace new experiences. So lucky to have these wonderful live screenings, with close ups, thank you ROH for all the ballet too. Fabulous, surprising production which I enjoyed so much. Narration inspired, AG, 2 female co stars, dancers, chorus and orchestra outstanding. Thank you to all
Derek Keilty responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:26am Reply
My first time seeing Carmen and I thought it was absolutely fantastic. The singers, dancers, chorus were all amazing and Anna was superb as Carmen.
Tony Deacon responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:31am Reply
An interesting production, for sure. Can anyone tell me what the gorilla suit was all about -or did I dream that bit? I found some of the movement (the hand flapping of the factory girls) rather distracting, even tiresome.
I can't agree with Barry Kosky's comment that traditional Carmen stagings of 'outside the cigarette factory' and 'in the mountains' are kitsch. That's where the story is set!
Luxmi responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:33am Reply
We were at the ROH for Saturday's performance, having looked forward to it for months. We had seats in the box to the left of the stage. The stage set was dull and very disappointing. Most of the 'action' took place to the far left of stage so we didn't see about 70% of the important scenes... including the final murder scene! Extremely annoying. It was probably better to watch it at the cinema, although, overall I hated the production so would probably not bother. The orchestra, children and dancers were the only saving grace, the rest mediocre to dire. I didn't understand the need for the gorilla suit!
Sandra Martin responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:34am Reply
Carmen was my first experience of a professional opera. I loved the whole performance. At times I was holding my breath at the wonder of it all. The set in some ways was simple but wow it worked so well. Everyone involved was fabulous. Thank you Royal Opera. I saw this production at cinema in Edinburgh.
C Harvey responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:36am Reply
Dreadful set.Performance lacked colour and passion. No fire No joy. Walked out at Interval.
Bob Anderson responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:49am
At least the director was consistent. The gorilla scene was awful, and it just continued in like vein. I hate to be critical of a guy doing his job, but this production sucked, for me, all enjoyment out of the opera.
Helene responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:40am Reply
I wanted to like this production but I ddn’t. I think Barrie Kosky presented us with something that was not quite “Cabaret” and certainly not “Carmen”. The result was that it ended up being less than the sum of it’s parts and far too long.
Absolutely loved this production. Musical theatre at its very best - please, please let us have an Encore showing as I would absolutely love to watch it again Anya Goryachova was supreme - the best Carmen that I've ever seen - many, man thanks.
Ally Stirk responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:50am Reply
Loved it - so different. Great staging.
Peter Marten responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:51am Reply
Anna Goryachova's voice has a magnificent quality. Praise stops there. Whereas previously streamed operas from the Met were met with full houses and enthusiastic responses, the audience for Carmen was sparse and a number of these left during the performance. A shame - probably the worst production of Carmen I have experienced - a Producer's vanity transcending Bizet's work.
Margaret Cummins responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:25pm
Agree with this comment. Several people left our cinema too - only to be expected when they expected colour and some sort of backdrop. Production went on too long but was somewhat saved by last 20 minutes. Will do more research before going to next opera at the cinema.
Susan Morris responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:41pm
I so agree with you. Decent singing, appalling production - and I saw the first night live.
Carolyn Purchon responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:52am Reply
Fabulous way to reach a wider audience. Loved the authentic production. Outstanding performance by all with humour and drama.
Natalie Mylozis responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:52am Reply
Brilliant performance, first time watching a live opera on the screen...almost felt like we were there at the Royal Opera House.
Sadly it was through the misfortune of my Grandmother being unwell and not being able to attend, that I received the tickets. I'm hoping there is a recording available on DVD, which I could give them, could anyone advise me please as to where I could purchase one?
Sue Austin responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:53am Reply
What a magical interpretation of Carmen I loved it. So lively and enthralling the cast were having a ball. The singing was beautiful and the stark staging worked so well. The opera is what we come to see not all the backdrop. Brava!
Sally Harnett responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:55am Reply
No convincing stage design, all grey and black with too few spots of colour, too little stage lighting, very odd rushing up and down the silly steps, but very enjoyable music. Sorry, only 3 out 10 for this, so disappointing compared with the many Carmens I've seen, both amateur and professional.
Iris responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:56am Reply
Best production of Carmen I have ever seen! Congratulations!
Joseph Maguire responded on 8 March 2018 at 12:24pm
That Carmen's opera is sink and sulk. Down in the drain!!!
Diana Walsh responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:58am Reply
There is only one word to describe this production of Carmen - sensational!
Chris Bradley responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:59am Reply
That is the first time I have seen Carmen without being excited by it. It seemed to go on for ever. The main problem was the set which consisted of a huge staircase that filled the stage. This made it look two dimensional and it appeared that the performers were walking on stage doing their bit and walking off. There was no story. The singers and orchestra were great, the production not.
Andy Beech responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:06am Reply
I have seen ten productions of Carmen since 1994. This was exciting - brilliant -exhilarating - wonderful. Will it ever be bettered? Probably not in my life time.
Thank you ROH for broadcasting this fabulous production of my favourite opera.
Sarah-Jane Burt responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:07am Reply
A very different production of Carmen. Enjoyed it immensely however I did miss the "colour" I am used to in the costumes.
Took my 11 year old. I think she would have enjoyed more "traditional" Carmen better.
That said the performers did an amazing job.
MARTA GARCIA GARRALON responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:12am Reply
Didn't like at all. The essence of the opera has been lost. This wasn't Merimé"s thoughts but something that tries to be modern and does not really hit. A pity
Bettydboy responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:19am Reply
Musicians, singers and dancers all brilliant but staging and lighting rather suspect. I would have preferred a more traditional approach with much more colour in set and costume. 7/10.
Brenda Blissett responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:20am Reply
CHEAP. Awful production. Boring black flat pack stairs the whole evening.
Ann Heaton responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:27am Reply
The scenery was virtually non existent. Pity because the singing was superb. The gorrilla absurb.
Susan Makinson responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:38am Reply
I was disappointed and somewhat mistified as to why we needed a narrator , gorilla suit ,painted faces , long train , and dull costumes .The steps were an accident waiting to happen .
Rolf Richardson responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:58am Reply
Every director wants to put his personal imprint on a production and Barrie Kosky certainly did that. Not sure that I was totally sold on the huge staircase idea, but it was certainly different. I liked the spoken French dialogue (with subtitles) rather than the recitative. Carmen was superb, Jose and Michaela excellent, Escamillo one of the poorest I've seen. Chorus were magnificent and the orchestra had a drive and intensity that reminded me of the glory days of Solti - can't give
higher praise that that.
Philippa responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:59am Reply
Too much ludicrous gyrating around in the first two acts, all distracting and detracting from the and singing which is so beautiful that it does not require such unecessary enhancement. As for the ridiculous gorilla costume what can one say? So irritating that I almost walked out. The final act was more impressive and the fabulous dancing with capes did actully enhance the music and was appropriate unlike the earlier gyrations.
John O'Connor responded on 7 March 2018 at 10:04am Reply
Left before the interval - it was simply boring. Dancing (while good) was irrelevant to the plot and distracted. As I tweeted earlier, you need to take a lesson from the Met Opera which has just scored a winner with its current new production of Tosca replacing a production that was universally panned. Suspect this Carmen will go the same way and need to be replaced soon.
MarthaF responded on 7 March 2018 at 10:09am Reply
Fabulous evening - but it really was spoiled by showing us all the highlights of the show right at the beginning in an introduction doc. - especially the fabulous marriage gown. Let us discover Carmen on our terms not yours. I don't understand why arts broadcasting presents at the pace of the slowest viewer - otherwise loved it!
Eric Bennison responded on 7 March 2018 at 10:21am Reply
Went to Macclesfield Cinema to see this production. It may appeal to younger people,but I thought it terrible and left in the interval. Why mess with a perfect story and those poor cast having to run up and down those steps. Carmen was out of breath just before one of the arias. And the Gorilla suit beggers belief. Amen.
Howard D Richards responded on 7 March 2018 at 10:22am Reply
A refreshing production that the cast loved and enjoyed and reflected passion, high emotion and humour to the audience. Congratulation to all at the ROH. Take no notice of the old farts that don't like change.
Harriet Lennox responded on 8 March 2018 at 10:00am
Gratuitous insults do not give credibility to your point of view.
Raggett David responded on 7 March 2018 at 10:29am Reply
Decided to sleep on it all and see how I felt this morning. I think my friend had it right when he said that it was like a school play when everybody has to have their moment on stage regardless of relevance to the main story.
Love innovation and new approaches, love Busby Berkely, Michael Jackson and Weimar cabaret but all dragged in by the scruff of their collective throats. A bit too 'kids let loose in a sweetshop'. Chorus absolutely outstanding, AG a mesmeric Carmen.
Lynn B responded on 7 March 2018 at 10:36am Reply
Absolutely amazing experience. The staging/lack of colour in costumes ensured that the focus was on the beautiful singing and fantastic dancing. Very unusual and daring slant on a classic opera which worked perfectly. Brilliant.
Derek Moore responded on 7 March 2018 at 10:49am Reply
Didnt like the production at all,or the narration,which for me interfered with the flow of the music. The opera was treated as a comic opera,it isnt it is a tragic opera,all in all I found it a very dissapointing evening and I hope it does not remain too long in the company repertoire since I dont wish to see it again irrespective of who may be singing in future.
B Brown responded on 7 March 2018 at 10:54am Reply
Terrible production. Music was great and singers excellent but it was ruined by Kosky's love of stupid irrelevant gimmicks. When seeing past productions of Carmen I have never thought that what was lacking were black eyes, black scenery, steps, and gorillas.
Maria responded on 6 August 2018 at 10:00am
The singing was fantastic and, had I closed my eyes through the entire time, it would have been great!.
I fail to understand how the concept of 'Carmen' could have been construed so mistakenly.
Very sad and disappointing.
Stan Howlett responded on 7 March 2018 at 10:58am Reply
My first 'Carmen'. !! Stunning, brilliant, a future classic production. I expected a more 'Spanish' spectacular but was intrigued by this production. It kept me riveted to my seat never the less. Only disappointment for me was the slightly portly and effeminate portrayal of Escamillo in the first act, Maybe the sound wasn't up to scratch at my cinema.
Never the less a brilliant performance from the whole Company
Ian Chard responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:02am Reply
I usually prefer productions of plays operas etc in period but I must say that this production of Carmen was fascinating and relevant (except for the gorilla suit) to modern times. I am sure that a newcomer to opera would not be put off. Having said all this the whole thing was sustained by the mesmeric performance of Carmen by Anna Goryachova. Her acting and expressive clues added layers to the text. I saw it on screen and that helped hugely because her facial expressions could be clearly seen. I am not sure that I would have enjoyed it so much in the opera house sitting at a distance. An outstanding success!
Melinda Hammond responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:03am Reply
Well, it certainly provides plenty to talk about. A patchy production. Some moments of brilliance, some pure farce. One or two made me cringe
vanessa responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:07am Reply
worst production i have ever seen... this is nothing like the real carmen . if you wanted to play around and change things, don't call it carmen . very dissapointed and also nearly walked out in the interval.
Anna S responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:12am Reply
You first know you are in trouble when Carmen pops up on a staircase in a gorilla costume. There ensues a fragmented tale with not a trace of any real sexual attraction between the lovers; just a collection of pretentious set pieces on monochrome sets. I voted with my brain and went to sleep. I feel it was a valid response to a truly terrible piece of direction.
Jane Donoghue responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:14am Reply
Carmen was FABULOUS. We all know the story but this telling of it It was so unexpected that I found myself really listening to the words as if for the first time. I hope school children will get to see it. Wonderful
Madeleine Winship responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:15am Reply
I watched it at the Odeon in Kingston. I enjoyed it but missed the atmosphere of a live performance. NoOne clapped except me!
They certainly didnt spend much on sets or costumes did they. And the noise from people bounding up and down those bloody stairs drove me mad. But the singing, acting and dancing were superb! Especially from Anna Goryachova as Carmen and Francesco Meli as Don Jose.
MarianneV responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:20am Reply
Really enjoyed this production that was staged in Frankfurt for the first time in 2016 as the opera commique version of Carmen
Agree with the sparse staging, lighting but the essence was Carmen's story so easy to follow including the narrations in between.
Bravo to Anna, you superstar, and all other soloists, the best, so versatile and funny esp at the end, Anna/Carmen had the last naughty laugh. Thank you ROH to let those of us who enjoyed the cinema streaming experience great close ups of actors, dancers, chorus et al.
Please release DVD soon...
I wouldn't buy dvd as soon!!! It was worst opera
Mary Whalley responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:27am Reply
I'm sorry but I was really disappointed. The music was wonderful, but I really didn't like the staging and actually thought all those stairs could be an accident waiting to happen. Carmen should be colourful ("red & orange") and not so dark that half the time we couldn't see what was going on. I do realise that one can't have the same old production all the time, but this was just not right.
Paul Moore responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:29am Reply
AG sensational. Chorus too. The power of the original opera burst through what must be a practical joke. Setting Carmen on the stairs! Painting some faces white. A gorilla suit. Dark and black black black everywhere. I suppose it saved on costly sets.
The old Monty Python sketches kept coming to mind.
Norman Smalldridge responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:39am Reply
I saw the ROH Carmen in the cinema last night. It was the worst performance imaginable. The puerile attempt by Barrie Kosky to inject comedy into the opera by infantile writhing, grimmacing and maniacal laughter totally destroyed any drama in an opera which is about seduction, love, infatuation, disappointment and tragedy. The appearance of Carmen in a gorilla costume in what should be her first entrance was inexplicable and destroyed the succeeding habanera which is one of the highlights of the opera. The dialogue was distracting, destroying any flow in the action, the additional music was rightly discarded by Bizet as unnecessary and substandard, the constant clattering over the staircase masked the music, the staircase was visibly dangerous (Escamillo stumbled and nearly fell down on his first entrance - totally destroying its dramatic impact). The singing of the cast was largely acceptable when they were able to overcome the restrictions imposed by the staging.The whole concept was totally misguided and was solely about Barrie Kosky and he was able to destroy a great work of art by his moronic interpretation. The only saving grace is that I didn't pay £175 for ticket! I have better hopes for Macbeth as Antonio Pappano is conducting and I feel sure that he would not tolerate any such nonsense (the conductor seemed totally superfluous in Carmen)..
F.Pyne responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:40am Reply
Billed as the first verismo opera the producer knocked all the verismo out of it. And those bloody steps were soooo noisy ! Great singing, great chorus and orchestra is great; ( great but mostly unnecessary dancing). At the end do we really care - are we moved? No no no.
Chris Brandon responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:52am Reply
Love the idea of streaming to our local school but what a disappointment. The luvvies trying to be too clever. Set was drab and the dreadful staircase took over and diminished the performance, detracting from the wonderful music. First act so slow and boring, don't think Bizet would have liked it.
Michael Slocombe responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:24pm Reply
So loved this interpretation. Always good to take another slant on things. It was a ballet/opera and so stunning. Ignore the naysayers and keep up the good work.
Lynn C responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:32pm Reply
First time I've seen Carmen, and I LOVED it! The staging was fantastic, why do we need elaborate sets to use our imaginations? The use of lighting to highlight main actors at the top of the stairs made them look like they were floating.
I adored every minute, it has made me hungry to see another version.
Carole Parsons responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:34pm Reply
I really disliked this production - it was colourless, the set was boring and inappropriate. We are regular opera goers but this was the first time we have gone home in the interval. We had no desire to sit through the last act.
Jan Visscher responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:42pm Reply
It was magnificant!
We saw it in our cinema in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands
laura responded on 7 March 2018 at 12:44pm Reply
pure adrenaline .
Valerie swarbrick responded on 7 March 2018 at 1:07pm Reply
Absolutely fantastic loved every minute Anna is truly amazing. Saw this at Bolton cinema as a live performance.
Michael Wadsworth responded on 7 March 2018 at 1:09pm Reply
My wife and son, with a party, saw this the other day from the Amphitheatre. They left at the interval because it was all too dark to watch from that distance. Then we saw it in the cinema last night. Absolutely magnificent: Barrie Kosky's clever production is the best I have ever seen. Conclusion: it works brilliantly provided you're near enough. And Goryachova is wonderful.
GSE responded on 7 March 2018 at 1:11pm Reply
The singing and the music were exceptional (I was fortunate to be at the ROH last night) ! however the setting and choreography was for me too different to be Carmen. Where were the tobacco girls, the toreadors, the smugglers, soldiers and the passion of old Spain ? One of the joys of most of the major ROH productions, whether opera or ballet, are the wonderful sets and costumes. With this huge imposing staircase it feels that this could become the uniform set for all productions. With a good voiceover explaining I am sure we can recreate in our imaginations Bohemian Paris, 19th century Rome or Moscow as required but isn't part of the joy for this to be done by the set and the costumes rather then a voice over ? Pleased I went but personally prefer the more traditional version. AG was though a most fabulous Carmen and the chorus were tremendous.
Michael Hutton responded on 7 March 2018 at 1:19pm Reply
Its interesting to read all the various comments.My wife and I watched in the Corn Exchange Newbury. Music and singing on the whole was fantastic. The crazy staircase spoiled the story for us.The chorus at times were so busy it distracted from the story and music. Why mess with such a beautiful opera and what happened to Spain ? Maureen & Michael Hutton.
Sue Elliott responded on 7 March 2018 at 1:43pm Reply
Loved it. A wonderful fresh take on Carmen which I have seen many times in the last 55 years. A Carmen for our times.
Sue P responded on 7 March 2018 at 1:43pm Reply
Went with three friends. We were all hugely disappointed. Several people walked out and lots were heard commenting in the negative. The set was exceptionally boring, just a staircase, no colour in the costumes and was not the production we were hoping to see. Had we known we would have not have gone.
Jennifer Rich responded on 7 March 2018 at 1:46pm Reply
Would have been great for radio !!! The singing , chorus & orchestra all superb . The gloomy dull lighting , modern bland costumes & stark set of just a staircase thoroughly spoilt it for me.
The weird dancing & contrived fidgetng of the chorus seemed totally inappropriate . It was a complete distraction from the plot & the extreme beauty of the music ..
Henrietta Varley responded on 7 March 2018 at 2:04pm Reply
Only stayed for the first two Acts. Liked the set, thought the costumes were DULL, what was that gorilla outfit in aid of? Curate’s egg.
Pamela responded on 7 March 2018 at 2:06pm Reply
OK if you want pantomime in opera. Singers did not perform their best due to having to run up and down the steps. There were no subtitles in the Odeon, Epsom - not good with a narration in French - they gave everyone their money back, although I would have liked this just for the rubbish production - too dark, no colour, no scenery, not a sign of anything spanish.. Evening was saved by the brilliant everlasting music.
Joseph Chadbourn (Cinema Account Officer) responded on 9 March 2018 at 12:06pm
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear that there were no subtitles at the live screening of Carmen on Tuesday.
There were no problems with the subtitles leaving the ROH that evening.
We will follow-up with the cinema in question in the hope of resolving this for future broadcasts.
ROH Cinema
David Hooper responded on 7 March 2018 at 2:17pm Reply
Absolutely appalling. Badly staged and generally tacky. I have never seen so many people walk out mainly because they could not face another hour of such a lamentable production. In 50 years of going to the opera I had never walked out of an opera before
Brian Luker responded on 7 March 2018 at 2:36pm Reply
Seen at Wells cinema. Great music, singing and that was Bizet. But where was the colour that was one of the aspects of Spanish life that so intrigued European artists of this period. All drab. The rest - well that was interesting at best (the dance) and silly at worst (the gorilla). And the commentary was surely not needed - the singing and recitative explains what and where. But the awful thing was the advertising and the chat. The first was about 7 minutes - repeating all the previews the cinema had already played and then luvvies chatting. After the interval 10 minutes of more advertising and luvvies chatting just trying to demonstrate how clever they are. So that was over quarter of an hour wasted and sense of continuity second to third acts broken. Went to see and hear opera. Cut out the rubbish please.
Jay Maloney responded on 7 March 2018 at 2:37pm Reply
Came away thinking "not nearly good enough ROH". All main singers seemed to be miscast. Voices although ok were not up to or appropriate for the roles assigned. Set was as dull and boring as the cast. Chorus, orchestra and conducting however was as always excellent.
Stephen Swinbank responded on 7 March 2018 at 2:41pm Reply
My first experience of Carmen but have seen many other Operas and at the Cinema too. The simplicity of the ROH Set together with the subtle lighting all contributed to emphasise the beauty of the drama.
A Bull-Fight I would kill to see again!
Mike Claire responded on 7 March 2018 at 2:44pm Reply
I'm lucky in that I don't go to the theatre with preconceived opinions. I'm always open to suggestion and differences. This Carmen knocks your socks off. I'm just a little disappointed that when I go to see another production it won't seem as good. Absolutely everything about this performance was riveting. ( Well, maybe not the gorilla - confused )
Judi Krattiger responded on 7 March 2018 at 3:22pm Reply
I found the first act costumes too sombre - some contrast to the darkbackground would have been better. Second act was superb. I also liked the "compere" - different to the singers usually speaking the lines. Dancers were excellent too.
Jeannie responded on 7 March 2018 at 3:43pm Reply
Generally excellent, with some reservations. The single set staging lent itself to some wonderful symmetries and group movement. The lack of colour generally was ok for the filmed version, but would be, I suspect, disappointing live. The voiceover from Merimee's novel was a good touch & well read. Use of so much dance & movement, not just from the dancers, was generally good with some lamentable exceptions ( e.g. The 3 dancers behind Escamillo in his opening aria). A superb Carmen, as a singer actress and dancer. It's worst fault was to undermine the entire tragedy with a cute post-modern ending 2 minutes that erased the entire buildup the last act.
Robert Stevenson responded on 7 March 2018 at 4:11pm Reply
Just awful. Never realised the Royal Opera house were only able to afford a grim dark staircase for the backdrop. Dismal black dull clothing. Just awful. No more live streamed opera for me. Will watch Swan Lake. Though Think Bolshoi can be relied on not to allow a bunch of conceited luvvie lunatics to ruin a great opera.
Jennifer Miles responded on 7 March 2018 at 4:34pm Reply
There are not enough superlatives for this magic performance. We absolutely loved it with the seemingly simple but powerful setting. Highly emotive, sexy, and entertaining. Would like to see some more of Barrie K's work. From a cinema (High Wycombe) perspective it worked brilliantly as we were up close, and enjoyed all the chat, narration etc. Unhappy to read some of the negative comments - can't see that they were at the same show.
Sue P responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:15pm
We were at High Wycombe. Did you not notice the number of people who did not come back after the interval?
Nick responded on 7 March 2018 at 4:52pm Reply
Saw iI on screen in Skipton. Loved it but lose the stupid gorilla suit. The chorus were fantastic in all they did and the four main singers were very good, especially Carmen. I liked all the movement and energy with moments of stillness at key points. Sadly we lost the picture for the last couple of minutes.
Betty Brammer responded on 7 March 2018 at 5:02pm Reply
Loved it. Watched it at Nant Garw Cardiff where daughter and I have been to all this season's operas and enjoyed them all. The first 10 mins of Carmen were unexpected and intriguing enough to capture our imagination after that we sat back and revelled in the music, singing, and surprises.along the way. Congrats to them all and thanks for the opportunity to be there. I am 90 this year, you should always be ready to embrace new experiences and beautiful music
Jan G responded on 7 March 2018 at 5:16pm Reply
Lack of colour ,staircase,gorilla outfit and over the top laughing spoiled my first Carmen but loved the music and dancing
Laura Lowes responded on 7 March 2018 at 5:17pm Reply
Overlong, dismal and underwhelming. We left at the interval. My first “Carmen” and I was disappointed but I will try again. A gorilla suit? What a conceit! Foolish nonsense.
Jackie responded on 7 March 2018 at 5:24pm Reply
Watched the performance at Cineworld in Bolton. My first time seeing Carmen so I had nothing to compare this production with.
Did I enjoy it - Yes I did, but only some of it.
I persevered to the end despite the length of the performance. The set was very basic, very dark and very loud with all the feet. I did expect more colour and for it to be more spectacular. The lady who played Carmen was very expressive and I enjoyed the way she portrayed her character until the second part... I was disappointed with the male voices as they seemed to get lost in the production sometimes. I enjoyed the dancing, though, I did think some of it didn’t seem to fit in the story. The train at the end was distracting especially as Carmen physically dragged it across the stage, I found myself watching hoping that they didn’t fall over it.
The one thing that I really couldn’t understand was the ‘Gorilla’ costume, was it meant to represent something because if it did I clearly missed it.
Glad I went to see it for the experience. I will, however, find a different version to watch and see how it compares. Modernising something so well known wasn’t without risk and I can see why it seemed to get a lot of negative comments. Life doesn’t stand still, but perhaps don’t mess too much with something that has always worked before.
Lis Smith responded on 7 March 2018 at 5:38pm Reply
Watched it in Kingsbridge, Devon. Not too sure at the beginning but then got lost in the performances and loved the completely new direction of the production. Carmen is one of my favourite operas and I loved the new slant and the commentary was useful for my friend who was seeing only her second opera. Well done for having the courage to do something different.
Roger Harris responded on 7 March 2018 at 6:21pm Reply
After reading the critics we were dreading seeing this, but were completely bowled over by a stunning interpretation that made us look at the opera anew. Loved Anna Goryachova - can she come back soon and all praise to the chorus who were fantastic in everything they did. I went with a party of 5, 4 liked it and 1 hated it!
Dawn Folley responded on 7 March 2018 at 6:48pm Reply
Being a complete a novice, I had nothing to judge this Carmen by. I thought it was beautiful. Carmen, herself mesmerising. The voices superb.Watched this in my local cinema in France, thank you, ROH for the opportunity. Would like, one day, to see a traditional version, but that can wait
Christina Hickson responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:14pm Reply
I was so looking forward to seeing Carmen - I love Bizet's music. I imagined the gypsies dancing with their colourful dresses and Carmen outshining them all with her beauty and charisma. But no - only a dark staircase, an irritating commentary telling me what was going on, clowns posing as smugglers with even the champion bullfighter Escamillo making very little impact on the stage. The man in front of us left after about half an hour. We left in the interval convinced it was not going to get any better. Will think twice before paying to see another ROH cinema showing.
Chaz Stoll responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:26pm Reply
Hiya - disappointed...
especially of Goryachova in a gorilla suit - that was the low point for me - dreadful!
Great voices, but over reliant on "Cabaret" - I have seen it twice before and both were better. It was avante garde for the sake of it.
The gorilla suit was embarrassing - cutting edge? I think not.
Amanda J MacKenzie responded on 7 March 2018 at 7:51pm Reply
The singing was superb. However I found the Football Stadium set quite tedious. Were the gypsey girls taking part in the ‘MeToo’ protest? Why all the black dresses? Especially when Carmen is singing about colourful costumes. It seems perverse. The gorilla suit was a disaster. The clowns in the quintet were aggravating, and detracted from the brilliance of the singing. Have a look at ‘Carmen Jones’ for how to stage the cafe scene. The ROH dancers gave a mediocre performance, with no life to it, even though they are clearly good dancers. What a waste. The matador dance was good, though.
I was hoping this Carmen might stab Don Jose. Oh well, one can dream.
Dan responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:15pm Reply
I will run away from anything this director touches/destroys again. He should be showing his pieces of art at Tate Modern and similar venues and leave opera and its magic alone.
- an insult to Bizet
- an insult to music and its beauty
- an insult to opera an its magic
Ridiculous. Shameful.
ROH insulting Bizet, music, opera and loyal customers.
One can argue that Rigoletto nakedness is too much, about Lucia split stage... That's all right. This is the most horrendous thing i might expect from the ROH.
There was a time i would say ROH is the best thing in London. There will always be Koskys out there, only ROH is liable of giving them stage though.
Now more than ever i think i had better buy a DVD from the Met or alla Scala, and enjoy some quality at home.
Thank you for making it so clear.
Mikey responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:18pm Reply
What a pile of tosh. Hated what I saw and left at the first opportunity (after Act 1), what a relief to get out of the cinema. The narration was intrusive and inappropriate. Singers out of breath coping with stairs. a gorilla suit - what was that all about! Long interludes of supposed Cabaret were tedious. No story to draw you in and totally sexless characterisations, Carmen is supposed to be one of the most sensuous characters in opera but there was nothing enticing about her.
Worst Carmen ever
George Atkinson responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:22pm Reply
This was an almost four hours of my life that cannot be replaced..thought of leaving cinema at the interval. Why not show it in black and white to make it even more dismal...the What's On and Daily Mail critics were right about this one.
One elderly lady in the audience suggested it might be OK if you kept your eyes closed!!
The only parts I enjoyed were the playing of the orchestra and the excellent chorus singing.
Dan responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:32pm
What the elderly woman meant is if you actually manage to get asleep... Remember the jumping and clapping noise?
I refunded my ticket and saw it finally from a local cinema in Spain (yes, that country Kosky seems to dislike that much).... Even the quality sound dropped at the cinema with that clapping... Not even the perfect view the cinema gives you helped... I cannot imagine this live...
Encie responded on 7 March 2018 at 8:35pm Reply
I was left subdued...
Why do this to Carmen?
Why the gorilla suit?
Why was the staging so dull?
Fliss Foster responded on 7 March 2018 at 9:43pm Reply
Why fix what wasn’t broken?! Carmen isc left in tatters, having lost her way at the hands of and the‘progressives’ and ‘contemporaries’ indulging Koskie’s ego.
Carmen now has an identity crisis: monochrome seductress? Opera/cabaret show? Contemporary ballet/broadway musical?
That ROH unleashed Koskie onto one of opera’s most enduring characters escapes me. And the gorilla outfit? A cheap trick to stun and capture attention. Err, the music and singing does that all on its own. No cheap tricks, glitz and frenzied activity required. Mr Koskie: please exit stage left directly to Broadway and don’t come back!!
Mike Flannery responded on 7 March 2018 at 10:38pm Reply
Before I attended the opera (16th March), someone said Carmen...wonderful. You can't go wrong with Carmen. Unfortunately, my friend was wrong. To paraphrase the wonderful Thelma Barlow's comment in dinner ladies about the spitting scene in the film Titanic, "after the gorilla, the blade couldn't come quick enough" I'm all for new takes on old favourites, but how do you manage to take all the passion out of this opera? I found myself not really caring what happened to any of them. If that was the director's intention, then he succeeded. But if he wanted me to feel the heat of the passion that drove Don Jose to throw everything he cared about in his away for this one girl, then he failed. Not too sure about the half-dressed dancing matelots in the mountains when the narrator/surtitles are telling us its freezing cold! Overall, I'm not sure what Mr Kosky wanted me to take away from this, other than a feeling of bewilderment.
Maggie smith responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:03pm Reply
Best Carmen I have ever seen..I loved every minute and wanted to see it again..the whole place was mesmerised...I am so grateful that this was live screened ..I would never have been able to go to London at the moment......the whole cast were fab and I loved the unusual interpretation...well done
Sorry - 16th February
Kenneth Maule responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:21pm Reply
Music and singing very good, but the direction was truly awful; gloomy set, weird flight of steps which tripped several of the cast. In fact the steps were used throughout EXCEPT when they would have been useful ie: in the bull-arena. Gorilla suit was a random, irrelevant distraction, as were the twitching finger movements of the (St. Vitus) dance crew. The death of Carmen was like a furtive murder when it should have been a dramatic parallel to the killing of the bull by the matador.
Shawna Paxton responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:29pm Reply
So disappointed by this production! If I wanted to see a load of people thundering up & down stairs I could have waited in Oxford Circus tube station for a couple of hours & saved myself 20 quid! Thank goodness I didn't buy tickets at the Opera House.
The music & singing were wonderful but ruined by the dark set, if you can call it that, & costumes. Carmen should be full of colour & flamboyance. So many people left at the interval. I stuck it out till the end but thought the whole thing was pretentious. What on earth were the gorilla suit, the Marcel Marceau mimes & the hysterical laughing all about?
Sorry, this is a case of the emperor's new clothes scenario, I am not against change or innovation ( I love Mathew Bourne's very different ballets) but I thought it was dreadful. Never want to see that version again.
The scheme of live cinema screenings is fantastic. A wonderful opportunity to see opera & ballet at reasonble prices. I have enjoyed every other one I've seen & look forward to the next one.
Mrs Lesley D Pearson responded on 7 March 2018 at 11:29pm Reply
Opera has been a passion since I reached woman hood and lived and worked in London. Carmen is one of my very favourite opera's and have seen it performed live at the Royal Opera House. I cannot tell you how thrilled I was to learn that I could experience the excitement of another version in this way and locally in my home town.
I was mesmerized. It felt as though I was being lifted up and I was so excited. At one point I got so involved that I had tears running down my face.
A marvellous performance and I so want to than every member of the cast for making my evening one that I will never forget.
Pat Blades responded on 8 March 2018 at 12:06am Reply
Just back from the live stream at Haslemere Hall , Carmen was one of the first LPs I ever bought , have seen lots of versions and loved this one . Original choreography , great costumes and orchestration , the set minimalistic but didn't distract as sometimes happens . A great performance .
Tzctroh responded on 8 March 2018 at 12:25am Reply
What saddens me the most is the newcomers that think they watched Carmen.
Janet Burr responded on 8 March 2018 at 12:30am Reply
That staircase is an accident waiting to happen. What will happen when a singer falls from top to bottom ? How on earth did it get passed ‘ ‘elf and safety ‘ ? The orchestra and the music was the best part of this production.
N Sakati responded on 8 March 2018 at 12:52am Reply
Change #ROHCarmen to #ROHKosky
What a waste of time and money; was desperately waiting for the first interval to leave and not come back for more dose of black on black on black!
Do they have gorillas in Spain?
You are lucky, so far, no one has broken a leg on those silly black steep steps! Did you check with Health And Safety? Instead of closing my eyes and just enjoying the music, I was distracted worrying someone might fall and get hurt!
Hearing "red and orange dresses" just made me angry, where were they?
Are you sure the same black steps and black dresses would be used in Macbeth?
How could black steps and black dresses be suitable to 'comedy' and clowns?
Great Failure!
Great Disappointment!
James &Renee Roxburgh responded on 8 March 2018 at 1:14am Reply
My wife and I enjoy Opera and ballet,and have just watched Winters Tale and Tosca,both streamed from the Royal Opera House and both excellent. Carmen was something we were looking forward to,but it was truly awful. We will avoid any production with this director. We too noticed Escamillos trip on the hideous steps surprised the fast entrant wasn't a fatality !
No colour,too many distracting bodies wearing clothes they seemed to have brought from home. The gorilla suit--- what can we say ?
Ian Mckillop responded on 8 March 2018 at 5:45am Reply
Positively the worst production of Carmen I have ever witnessed. A perfect example of how a Director's egotistical 'whim' and selfish 'dictate' can ruin a classic! ROH should be ashamed of itself!
My guests, who were first time Opera Goers, were simply horrified!
Kate responded on 8 March 2018 at 11:13am Reply
I’m deeply disappointed!!!
The new production of Carmen was something I was looking forward to months.
I’ve attended many great Opers in the last year, most recently Rigoletto and have always been an admirer of this art form.
Carmen has been one of my favourite Operas for many years. Having seen different performances all over the world, I was especially delighted to see that Carmen was returning to the ROH.
Being part of the rehearsal for Carmen, I regret evening spending the money for this ticket.
I’m not quite sure, who decided to add pantomimes, this inexcusable makeup and dance styles from the 20s to this once great Opera but this is just ridiculous. The desperate attempt to win new audiences with this new and open “style” is all good and well, but let’s be honest, it’s just embarrassing. Not just for the ROH but for Bizet as well.
The Role of Carmen should have been sung by a person who resembles the idea of Carmen at least a bit and was, let’s be honest, completely miscast. The voiceover lets me believe that I’m too stupid to understand this opera and had to be told what to think and what would happen next. Is this how it’s going to be in the future? People telling us there though over a microphone instead of actual acting and performing the Opera. Is it already too late to expect a little dignity in the Opera? I guess I was wrong in believing that the ROH could stand the test of time. Well, not by letting this production on the stage. Please, please focus more on quality than in ticket selling. Take an example form our friends in Paris. This new and exceptional production of Carmen could have been a great opportunity, bringing Carmen in the 21st century. And now dressing them in neon colours and pretending this is a Cabaret and not an Opera?!?
Never leaving a performance before the Curtain Call, I left this performance heartbroken, selling my front row ticket for the premiere of Carmen.
I have never been this disappointed in the ROH and a performance of a great Opera.
At least the Orchester was, as always, exceptionally good.
Joseph Maguire responded on 8 March 2018 at 12:20pm Reply
I can't wait to see Carmen. The music of the opera is wonderful but the new production is awful. I have seen Carmen in the Royal Opera House. Twice!! Play in 19th century but in 20th century!!! Please, bring the old production. I am very bitter disappointed. Do you think will I support for the awful opera of new production? No!!! One of the worst opera, I even seen!!!! Very, very disappointed.
james brereton responded on 8 March 2018 at 1:42pm Reply
being a lover of dated hackneyed opera spectacle which tells the story colourfully and seamlessly I was disappointed in the drab awkward set for Carmen with its resounding dangerous wooden steps, breaks to listen to dialogue, unrealistic costume and gimmicks but loved the singing dancing and orchestra. Innovators beware of extremes.
John White responded on 8 March 2018 at 3:05pm Reply
Had I 'watched' with my eyes closed I would have enjoyed the splendid singing and orchestra. Unfortunately, the set defied belief, the choreography was meaningless street/ break dance, and the costumes bizarre. In all, a far cry from the vibrant passion of flamenco Spain. The first and final insults to Bizet, Carmens'first entrance and final exit. What a travesty of such a well loved opera
andrew haigh responded on 8 March 2018 at 4:52pm Reply
Bravo for the singing - fabulous Carmen - the dancing, the orchestra. The semi-narration worked well. But - I thought Spain, flamenco etc was all about life and colour, not tired, dingy "costumes" that looked like they had spent forty years in a dungeon with moths and grime. As for the staircase - well, I suppose it was cheap to produce. I love real-life gorillas, but Carmen's entry - and exit - was bizarre and pathetic. A travesty of what should have been a great evening... and an insult to a great cast.
Anne Hallowes responded on 8 March 2018 at 7:12pm Reply
We watched the opera which was relayed to our village hall. We were appalled at the staging on a staircase which we had to imagine initially as being outside a tobacco factory in Seville, then a tavern, then in the mountains and finally outside the bull ring. The costumes were totally inappropriate and added to the blandness of the production. Extremely disappointed in the lack of vibrancy and the noise from the staircase detracted from the performance. The jiggling about of the chorus at the insistence of Barrie Kosky was bizarre. The singing was excellent, but otherwise extremely disappointed and not to be repeated.
NC responded on 8 March 2018 at 10:53pm Reply
Passionless, colourless and soulless! Singing and orchestra aside, Barrie Kosky has ruined what should have been a fabulous night at the opera.
Bizet died an early death and if he hadn't, this performance certainly would have killed him!
Marta responded on 9 March 2018 at 1:06pm Reply
For me, from Spain, also the best Carmen I have ever seen. I loved it. And I have seen this opera a lot of times. Wonderful, divine... And Anna Goryachova simply marvellous...
I think Barrie Kosky is a genious!!
Thanks a lot for this special opera.
Jo responded on 9 March 2018 at 4:51pm Reply
Agree with the majority, a long boring production with no colour, no feel of Spain, way too much unnecessary dancing which seriously detracted from the story. There was no chemistry at all between the two leads. The story was fragmented and could not be discerned and I hated the stairs. What a complete annihilation of a brilliant, passionate story. No characters, great singing by the chorus but rubbished by the choreography. It should have an exceedingly short run.
Blossom Lane responded on 9 March 2018 at 7:34pm Reply
Comparing the Carmen I saw many years ago with this modern performance I absolutely loved it and was awed by the dancers. It is very much a Carmen production of our time.
Lynne Spon-Smith responded on 9 March 2018 at 8:26pm Reply
Wonderful and wacky, can't understand the negative comments, open your minds, it's fun to see different interpretations. Singing was superb and use of staircase was mind blowing, the skill of the company was amazing. The only thing though, can someone explain gorilla suit!!
Jo H responded on 9 March 2018 at 9:11pm Reply
Carmen is wild passion, heat & heartbreak.
The cast gave their all, but I was left feeling chilled. I wanted Seville, but got a staircase & a gorilla??? I wanted tradition but got a chaotic, so called, "modern" interpretation. I shared this screening with a friend who had never experienced "Carmen", we were left feeling underwhelmed. I have recommended he watch "Carmen Jones".
Giulia Breakwell responded on 10 March 2018 at 4:45am Reply
I see I was not alone in disliking the latest production of Carmen.Opera should transport you into the realms of beauty, mystery and wonderful music, not drag you down into the depths of greyness and depression !
Richard Hall responded on 10 March 2018 at 9:47am Reply
We haven't come out talking about an opera production so much before. We liked the concept and there were many moments of utter brilliance but it was all very dark on the screening, was it this dark in the auditorium? A great Carmen who can act, well conducted, your (very good) chorus set a new standard for what they can do, maintaining great singing with all that movement. The children were also very good both in singing and movement (and their exuberance was well used in the production).
Not a routine night at all.
Jane Johnston responded on 10 March 2018 at 10:17am Reply
This is a sort of Euro Carmen. Let’s take the Spain out of Spain. What a shame. I had so looked forward to seeing my first live production of Carmen at the Royal Opera House and ended up just feeling sorry for the fabulously talented performers having to work for a director who managed to remove all the passion and colour from this wonderful opera. Quite an achievement.
Helen Hutchins responded on 10 March 2018 at 8:09pm Reply
Loved the singing and the orchestra but disappointed in the production as a whole. What happened to the colour and flamboyance which I expect with Carmen. The first half was very long with the extra music included plus the voice over. The appearance of Carmen in a monkey suit was ludicrous. The staircase constrained the cast. How did it pass health and safety standards? The clatter of shoes on the staircase was irritating to say the least. Would not come to another performance of this production which was not worthy of the opera house.
Rex Butters responded on 11 March 2018 at 8:15pm Reply
Brilliant choreography, masterly lighting, wonderful singing, fine orchestra, Anna Goryachova a quite splendid Carmen.
The whole production challenged the watcher to think.
One puzzle was the gorilla suit-Why?
Robert responded on 11 March 2018 at 10:41pm Reply
Have seen it today in a german cinema. It was absolutly fantastic and beautiful!
I have seen it only once before, but I think especially the danciong perfomances were somethimng that made this play quite unique.
KAREN JAMES responded on 12 March 2018 at 9:35am Reply
I was so looking forward to seeing my first opera. I thought I would try this live screening first which was cheaper than spending a lot of money on a ticket and travel to the ROH. Glad I did because I walked out when Carmen came on in a Gorilla costume, so I didn't last long. Dreadful and very disappointed. Opera is supposed to be about colour, costumes, the fantastic settings. This was completely missing. I also did not like the leading lady playing Carmen, she kept making th most awful faces when singing.
Eleanor Hulme responded on 13 March 2018 at 8:49am
O agree with a lot of what you say . Didn't like the dancers ...ok have some dance but all that frenetic jerking? Same for micro manag ed set scenes when chorus too was juggling about. Colour is essential. The made up end of Carmen coming alive was ridiculous ..reduced the whole thing to a comedic prank . I must go to a proper Carmen soon to Get some sweat Heat And Dust Ie Passion !!!!
Annabel Letham responded on 12 March 2018 at 1:10pm Reply
My first ever opera viewed from Coín in Andalucia, Spain. We were told to expect a different interpretation, so I wasn't disappointed. On the contrary it was riveting. I felt I had to participate by concentrating and focusing on every movement, gesture and note; and Hey the gorilla broke the tension and made me laugh! Anna Goryachova's expressions were superb; so loved her face at the end. A wonderful thought provoking experience. (If you were prepared to allow yourself to do that)
Chiaki Ohashi responded on 12 March 2018 at 3:50pm Reply
we have entered an era of extremity in the history of opera. an era where we witness a unique & unprecedented combination of extreme talent and effort delivered by the cast and the extreme level of disobedience to the composer delivered by the production, which demands that the audience possess an extreme degree of patience, tolerance and commitment to distinguish the two
HILDE MORRIS responded on 12 March 2018 at 4:04pm Reply
I'm very familiar with Carmen but this version quite blew me away...can't get it out of my head, so much to think about! And wonderful dance as well as amazing singing. The only thing I did not get was the gorilla suit....THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUCH A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE!
Patricia Laurence responded on 12 March 2018 at 4:09pm Reply
Oddly enough, I finally enjoyed the cinema screening of Carmen on 11 March because its inadequacies, crazy repetitive choreography and the jeopardy of the potential hazardousness of the set became funny. I spent most of the last act laughing to myself. ( I did close my eyes and just try listening but started to fall asleep so I had to watch in order to stay awake.) It was so deliciously awful, incongruous and pointless. It was, however, physically painful to sit there for 4 hours.
It appears to be full of unintended consequences - a King/Queen Kong appearance at the top of the stairs that then deflates to allow disembodied hands to remove the hands and feet of the gorilla/ Carmen. This is no mysterious femme fatale a la Garbo or ironic Cabaret knock off but an image that made me think of endangered animals. Initially, I could not tell who was Don Jose because he had no charisma on stage or musically. I have no idea why he and Carmen fall for each other as they were equally passionless. The effectiveness of rope trick was hindered by it becoming detached so the meaning of the staging takes on a life of its own which became symbolic of the whole production.
Escamillo was delightfully upholstered in dreadful 1970s black and white material with dirty pink stockings and is then passed around like an large, unwieldy sofa by the chorus line dancers. The fact that there appeared to be no spark between him and Carmen was fully understandable in these circumstances. His final appearance in what looks like gold draylon with the matador hat, which anyway always looks faintly ridiculous, took on a Micky Mouse aspect for me.
Micaela's dress would have been appropriate for an underdeveloped and over protected 11 year old. It just looked tatty but it too becomes amusing after a while as did her operatic gesturing and facial expressions because they are visually so absurd in the context of an unconventional staging.
Carmen's impressive train looked as though it was breathing in a macabre, science fiction way. The effort she had to employ to drag it around was admirable if somewhat distracting and when Don Jose tripped over it, it was a climatic point for me. The murder was anti-climatic and when Carmen uncurled and came back to life, the final shrug was a relief because I realised it was over and I would not have to pretend that this was in anyway meaningful. At this point, I could at least laugh at myself as well as the cast, the chorus and minor characters of which had stoically persevered through the production with meaningless gestures, climbing up and down the stairs, "Dad dancing" and self-titilating lasciviousness.
I did not love it, I did not hate it. It was a quasi trauma and hopefully this debrief will enable me to put it behind me.
Terry McIntee responded on 12 March 2018 at 8:17pm Reply
Great singing, brilliant acting, but, oh dear! What a dreadful production! Where was the colour? Where the Spanish vibrancy? The wonderful cast worked so hard for this . . this travesty!
Roger Taylor responded on 12 March 2018 at 11:55pm Reply
We have just come from a screening of Carmen in Swansea. As usual for ROH the standard of of singing by lead cast members, particularly Anna Goryachova and Francesco Meli, chorus and orchestral playing were superb. However we did not like the production. Although updated settings often work well, Carmen is very much a verismo opera with a tragic ending, and to translate it into the genre of a West End musical semi-comedy setting we thought was in appropriate. The dancing styles were random and frequently off-putting.
ROBERT COCORACCHIO responded on 13 March 2018 at 9:40am Reply
We attended last nights performance and unreservedly believe that this production is the worst we have ever seen at ROH. Absolutely and shockingly deplorable. The cast performed as they were instructed and did their best, and out of respect to them we waited until the interval until we left. We certainly were not alone.
Our first glimpse of our sultry tempestuous heroine Carmen sets the tone for the whole performance. She appears from the unbearable heat of the cigarette factory for her break in, wait for it ...a gorilla suit. Witty? Innovative? Wonderful? No just plain malevolent,disjointed and disrespectful garbage.
The characters were deliberately neutralized and there was simply no chemistry between our main protagonists. The set , choreography, and costumes were all substandard. We would still feel cheated even if we were given our money back.
First and definitely last Kosky
Terry Johnson responded on 13 March 2018 at 10:10am Reply
Please ROH, never employ this director again. What an insult to Bizet!
Penny Shaw responded on 13 March 2018 at 3:18pm Reply
Loved every minute of it (except the gorilla suit!). There was all the passion you'd expect from the wanton gypsy girl. Goryachova was perfect with her mannerisms, facial expressions, seductive walk.
The chorus were amazing, and appeared to be really enjoying themselves. Loved the way the dancers intermingled then appeared for their own numbers.
The set allowed the cast to melt in and out of view, disappear over the top, sneak in from the sides - very effective.
Congratulations to the director for being so imaginative and daring.
Thanks also to all the cast, chorus and orchestra for what was, to my mind, a stunning performance.
Elspeth responded on 17 March 2018 at 11:30am Reply
I loved it, as did my brother. I liked the way the choreography replaced set and props, the style of movement was mesmerising. The portrayal of Carmen was up to date and rang true.
I didn't get that much from a couple of the male characters, though. And the lighting could have been used to bring colour and emotion to some scenes. Gorilla suit was not necessary, for me, but was memorable and interesting.
Overall, highly recommended.
Joseph Maguire responded on 26 March 2018 at 1:03pm Reply
More ticket for Carmen!!!!! No!!! No!!! I wouldn't buy a ticket in the future!!! Pull the plug!!! The worst opera in Royal Opera House!!!!! Don't sell DVD of Carmen!!!
Dan responded on 31 March 2018 at 2:03pm Reply
Awful, where is Royal House reputation after this, even repeating it? Not only once again, but twice in summer 2019???? What are people going to think Carmen is in London?????
There is no need, see Macbeth, Rigiletto, etc..theatre is full anyway, all happy, quality.
I saw this horrendous production from Spain (yes, that country that is so much hated by this Kosky... Please don't go there, we do not want you either after this), and not even for curiosity would assist live, had enough unpleasant clapping and laughing noises at the cinema, cannot imagine this nonsense live.
Would you imagine this joke at La Scala, Milan? I don't think my Italian colleagues would shut up seeing this for instance. Fortunately for them nobody seems to boo here even when Bizet is raped open at nowhere else than at the ROH; I now now this is a place where you can either get the best as in today's Macbeth or the biggest of the craps and insults to audience.
I will not be assisting of course, anyway it will be full as usual with happy customers (newcomers.. People who have not seen even 10 operas in their days) as if it was a musical since those don't now what opera is yet.
I will instead spend the money on a Met or La Scala DVD, didn't hear they lost their taste and respect as it has obviously happened in London and it will be repeated twice...
Alice responded on 4 April 2018 at 1:04pm Reply
I frequently attend ROH, bringing friends and family, and we often enjoy new ideas and concepts that ROH comes up with, giving us food for thought.
But I will never, and I mean never ever, pay to see anything by this director again. He is blacklisted. This is supposed to be Carmen! What a tremendous disappointment.
Please don't do this again.
John responded on 5 April 2018 at 10:56am Reply
Cinema relay of Carmen was the most disappointing production I have seen - staging poor and music and singing did not come over. First time I have ever walked out in the interval.
By comparison, the Mcbeath relay, with less musical appeal, was magnificent
Pat responded on 8 April 2018 at 1:20am Reply
In my opinion, the opera is much more enjoyable with subtitles which translate the
lyrics/verbalizations into the primary
language of the viewing audience. For much of the opera, I had no idea why they were doing what they were doing. Please use
subtitles!
Chris Shipman (Head of Brand Engagement and Social Media) responded on 16 April 2018 at 11:49am
We transmit subtitles to all cinema relays - it may be that the cinema you were watching from experienced technical difficulties.
Can you let us know where you were watching from so that we can review this?
Deeya Pavelle responded on 8 April 2018 at 3:20pm Reply
this was NOT Carmen.
Joseph Maguire responded on 19 April 2018 at 12:08pm Reply
Dear Chris Shipman,
I am very disappointed since after I saw Carman. Worst! WORST OPEAR!!!!. It's sink and down in the drain. Tell Berrire Kosky, "Pack your bag and go!!!" Had the ticket had been cancel?? 100? 1000?? I can't wait to see "Manon on 10th? of May.
Carole Jones responded on 17 August 2018 at 8:38pm Reply
Having just seen Anna Goryachova as Carmen in a fantastic new production by the Argentinean producer Hugo de Ana in Verona (August 2018) I realise how badly she was served by Barrie Kosky’s appalling production. I totally agree that there can be changes in the era in which the production is set. This new one In Verona is set in Spain, a century later, in the 1930’s and provides a vibrant new interpretation of Carmen while still maintaining the atmosphere of the visceral, carnal Spain as described by Merimee in the novel on which Bizet’s opera is based.
Given the benefits of the acoustics and ability to reproduce fantastic sound in The ROH my expectation was that Anna Goryachova’s performance would be infinitely better on such a stage. Not so! Her performance was truly inspirational in Verona in this vivid and bold production. An earlier comment suggested that Carmen in the ROH was miscast, not so it was all about poor direction and production. In Verona I couldn’t believe I was watching the same artist, she was absolutely amazing in both her dramatic and vocal portrayal of Carmen. I feel sad that people who have never experienced performances of Carmen before were subjected to this appalling, tedious display of arrogant directorship.
Desie responded on 18 December 2018 at 2:30pm Reply
I can't understand how most of the negative comments (including mine) have somehow disappeared!?
This a joke - people deserve to know how BAD this production is!
Chris Shipman (Head of Brand Engagement and Social Media) responded on 18 December 2018 at 3:25pm
Hi Desie,
All posts conforming to our community standards - including critical ones - have been released from moderation and posted. None have been removed, but do let us know if there are specific posts you can no longer see
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Legislation to Protect Robert Mueller Still Not on Senate Agenda, McConnell Says
Senate majority leader says President Donald Trump will let the Russia investigation run its course
Posted Nov 9, 2018 11:29 AM
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Letters in Amy McGrath campaign launch video were postmarked the same day Harry Reid still has a few punches left No new legislative momentum after election security briefings
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate does not need to take up legislation to protect the Russia probe. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that legislation to shield special counsel Robert S. Mueller III from being fired is still not on the Senate agenda.
“It’s not going to come up because it isn’t necessary,” the Kentucky Republican told reporters.
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a retiring Republican, had said Thursday that he would be making another unanimous consent request along with Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons trying to get a bill to provide a degree of protection to Mueller.
Watch: McConnell Does Not Intend to Bring Mueller Protection Bill to Senate Floor
The new urgency from some senators came as a result of President Donald Trump dismissing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, putting Matthew G Whitaker into the role of acting attorney general. It appears that Whitaker is now overseeing the Russia probe.
But McConnell emphasized his view that congressional action is not required to protect the integrity of Mueller’s work.
“It’s not necessary. The Mueller investigation is not under threat,” McConnell said Friday at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. “The president’s said repeatedly he’s not going to dismiss the Mueller investigation. He’s said repeatedly it’s going to be allowed to finish. That also happens to be my view.”
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McConnell said the Senate would begin work processing the nomination of a new attorney general as soon as a name is sent over for advice and consent.
“The president decides who serves in the cabinet. They serve at his pleasure. He’s decided to make a change, and we’ll take a look at who he sends up,” said McConnell.
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Part satire, part shockumentary,Borat gets high-fives almost all-around for being offensive in the funniest possible way. Jagshemash!
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Journalist Borat Sagdiyev leaves his native Kazakhstan to travel to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backward behavior generates strong reactions around him, exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture. In some cases, Borat's interview subjects embrace his outrageous views on race and sex by agreeing with him, while others attempt to offer a patriotic lesson in Western values.
R (for pervasive strong crude and sexual content including graphic nudity, and language.)
Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, Todd Phillips, Larry Charles
Aug 4, 2006 wide
as Borat Sagdiyev
as Azamat
Luenell
as Luenell
Pat Haggerty
as Pat Haggerty
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The backlash just proves how deep a nerve the faux Kazakh journalist has hit.
Nov 1, 2007 | Full Review…
David Ansen
Borat is a serious work of social criticism. But it's also the funniest movie I've ever seen.
Nov 22, 2006 | Rating: A
The theory of comedy here is that you can get away with almost anything if you manage to make your target audience feel superior to the human beings being mocked on the screen.
Andrew Sarris
I did find this to be one of the more inventive, aggressively offensive and insanely tasteless comedies in many a year. And yeah, that's a thumbs-up.
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
Borat is so gut-bustingly funny it should carry a health warning.
Tom Charity
Cohen's genius lies in combining the chameleon-like virtuosity of Peter Sellers with the balls-out fearlessness of the Jackass crew.
Nov 3, 2006 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Nathan Rabin
A gut-busting, uncompromising, totally outrageous film that takes the comedy of embarrassment to new, unprecedented levels.
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Matthew Lucas
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Offensive? Yes, but I haven't laughed this hard since the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy.
Jan 4, 2018 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Joel Siegel
For better or for worse, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is unique, an important movie, a multiplex comedy that doubles as a conceptual art epic.
Jun 8, 2016 | Full Review…
Nick Pinkerton
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Borat... is a not only a very good comedy but is also an interesting sociological experiment as to how numerous individuals in the USA would respond to a man such as Borat, and often the reactions are interesting and vastly entertaining.
Jul 6, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Frequently uproarious and occasionally side-splitting -- but it's very hit-or-miss, prone to stretches of unnecessary crudeness and flat one-liners.
Sep 19, 2009 | Rating: 65/100 | Full Review…
Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt
Often functions hilariously as an exposé of squirming American tolerance shading into condescension toward the rest of the world
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Audience Reviews for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
This IS my single favorite comedy movie of all time. Sacha Baron Cohen has always been really great with his mockumentary characters like Ali G and of course, Borat. But this movie truly shows the range of his fabulous writing and dialogue and his incredibly acting skills that open the door for other fun cameos like Pamela Anderson, who he is incredibly in love with. This is one of the best movies that Cohen has ever made and it is also one of those films that is always worth watching again.
Lasse G Super Reviewer
It's crude, offensive, satirical and emphatic in the funniest of ways. Sacha Baron Cohen is brilliant as Borat. This mockumentary of a cross-country trip around America from the eyes of a joyous tourist explores the truthful and boasting culture of American society. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a pushy film that is highlighted by the characterization of its main character and morality of the trek across a nation. 3.5/5
Eugene B Super Reviewer
Disgusting. It isn't funny to be made to feel uncomfortable for other people for 83 minutes unless you have a serious personality flaw.
Christian C Super Reviewer
Mixes seamlessly live unconfortable interviews with an actual plot with outrageous offensive results that are absolutly genius on making a point but are also there just for giggles. There's a joke at every corner and pretty much every single one is pure gold. Definently one of the most important and funny comedies on the 00s.
Francisco G Super Reviewer
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The Department of Defense and the U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) provide guidelines to military installations to actively engage in reducing energy usage, create energy efficient and energy savings plans, and when possible, look for alternative sources of energy (e.g., solar, wind). In most cases, energy savings are dependent on the replacement of older non-efficient equipment with new and more efficient devices which often require unavailable resources.
When the Fort Myer team was presented by the utility company Dominion with the concept of Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR), Fort Myer decided to apply this research project to its power grids. The principle behind the CVR project is to reduce the voltage at the points of consumption to a safe minimum level thereby decreasing waste energy. The analysis of utility billings over a two-year period indicates a minimum annual reduction of 3% in energy consumption (measured in kilowatt hours). This cost reduction is especially significant for installations that have a high rate of electric commodity.
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The Department of Defense (DoD) continues to be the largest federal consumer of energy and needs to reduce its energy consumption. Supplying energy to DoD buildings is a significant portion of the DoD budget. Current energy conservation methods principally require changes in human behavior or require significant investment in new technology. Changing human behavior has proved challenging, oftentimes unsustainable, and requires significant increasing investments in technology development. Effecting these changes is difficult in the current fiscal environment. Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) is an automated system-level voltage reduction technology that optimizes voltage to continuously reduce energy consumption for devices connected to the distribution system. MicroCVR builds off the same electrical principles and effectively performs the same function at the building level but improves performance by using high-speed voltage regulation and appliance level monitoring. Combining these two technologies is an innovative, state-of-the-art approach which has not been made commercially available yet. Dominion Energy showed that the installation’s electrical distribution systems can reduce annual energy between 3-5%, work with high variation loads caused by renewable generation, improve reliability, and enhance and secure critical facility loads.
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Irish scientists use CRISPR to unlock potential soft tissue cancer treatment
by Colm Gorey
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Using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, TCD scientists have discovered a potential therapy for one of the most common soft tissue cancers.
CRISPR as a technology has had its ups and downs over the past few years, with some hailing it as the answer to overcoming a number of life-threatening, hereditary conditions such as Huntington’s disease, while others suggest that most of us may have an immunity against its effects.
Now, the latest news from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) reveals that CRISPR has been used to develop a potential new treatment for synovial sarcoma, one of the most common soft tissue cancers in teenagers and young adults.
Current survival rates for the soft tissue cancer are quite low, at less than 50pc. Publishing the findings in eLife, the lead author of the study, Dr Gerard Brien, and the rest of his team believe this discovery could significantly improve a person’s chances.
Using CRISPR to screen for vulnerabilities in the genetics of the cancer, the scientists identified a protein called BRD9 as being essential for the survival of synovial sarcoma tumours. With this knowledge, they then worked on developing a range of new drugs designed to target this protein.
So far, pre-clinical trials in mice showed that the most refined drug was able to block tumour progression, whereas current treatments seriously weaken a synovial sarcoma patient.
Doesn’t harm normal cells
For years, the biggest hurdle to stopping the cancer in its tracks was our lack of knowledge about the genetic abnormality found in 100pc of patients who develop it. This mutation creates a harmful protein (SS18-SSX), with scientists believing that impeding the protein would lead to an ideal therapy. However, it is only now that one has been developed.
Brien explained that BRD9 ‘tricks’ the cells into eliminating the SS18-SSX on which they rely, which in turn leads to their death.
“We also found that our new drug primarily impacts cellular processes important in synovial sarcoma, but not normal cells,” he said. “This is very important, because it should result in less unwanted side effects in patients. We now hope these promising findings will lead to clinical trials of this new drug in patients in the near future.”
This news comes not long after a team from Virginia Tech in the US revealed it developed a new drug that could halt the spread of a fast-moving brain cancer called glioblastoma.
Related: medicine, research, Trinity College Dublin, genetics
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Race on to determine the next ‘dream-girl’
October 28, 2011 by The Editor Leave a Comment
Ever since Tamil cinema came into existence, heroines are always looked upon as ‘dream-girls’ by their fans and the movie-goers. The status of the so-called ‘dream-girl’, though, doesn’t last for more than a decade; one of the top heroines continues to occupy the slot which gets vacated when the particular heroine becomes ‘older’ or falls out of favour with the heroes, producers and directors.
More often than not, the heroines who are able to act as well as maintain a slim frame tend to become ‘dream-girls’. Right from the days of Khushboo in the nineties and then Simran and Jyothika till today’s generation of heroines in Nayantara and Tamannaa, some heroine gets slotted in the ‘dream-girl’ status by her ardent fans.
Heroines starring opposite leading heroes and in highly successful movies automatically become the most sought-after ones. Among the present crop of heroines, those who vie for the ‘unofficial’ status of a ‘dream-girl’ include the likes Anushka, Hansika motwani, Richa Gangopadhyay and Amala Paul, not to discount the likes of Tamannaa and the ageing yet pretty-looking Trisha.
Those in the reckoning like Anushka, Amala Paul and Hansika Motwani have only a handful of films on hand and have some way to go to be considered a full-fledged Tamil heroine. As such, the slot of ‘dream-girl’ still remains vacant as of now and it remains to be seen as to who would occupy this coveted position in Kollywood in the near future!
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Personal & Social Education
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Ms A. Hine (Head of Social Sciences) alice.hine@southfieldsacademy.com
Mr A. Samuels (Teacher i/c Personal, Social & Health Education) adrian.samuels@southfieldsacademy.com
Course Content/Unit titles:
Units covered include puberty, discrimination, options and careers, choices and risk (alcohol, smoking, drugs, personal safety).
Skills learnt include:
Group work, communication, independent learning and study skills, literacy, peer/self-assessment, presentation, numeracy, problem solving, ICT, self-management and other employability skills.
End of unit assessments in class.
Watch the news and/or read a newspaper every week. Students may also be given research based homework by their class teacher.
How parents can help:
Encourage students to watch the news and read a newspaper every week.
General Studies, Personal, Social & Careers
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This course seeks to build on the skills and knowledge gained by the students in their Key Stage Three course. The emphasis in the work is the development of the individuals, both personally and as a member of society. Students also examine those issues important in the development of citizenship and harmony within the local and wider community. Throughout the course students will develop their own self-esteem and be able to make informed decisions in regard to:
Sexually transmitted diseases / AIDS
CVs and applying for jobs
Preparation for work experience
Progress file
Crime and community
Personal finance and economic wellbeing
Issues from different religious perspectives
In conjunction to the PSE / Citizenship / RE component of the Year 10 course, students study a number of integrated careers units of work (work, college and training). These focus upon career paths, the construction of a CV and extensive preparation for students’ two week block of work experience. Students also study the benefits of going to university.
Citizenship Studies
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GCSE Citizenship studies is taught through active learning which involves activities such as debates, mock trials, role plays and games to engage students in the learning process. It is made up of five different themes which you will study over three years. In addition to these themes you will be taught Citizenship skills, processes and methods that will enable you to make a difference and become an active part of the world around you.
The course content is divided into five themes:
Living together in the UK - migration, identity, diversity, rights, duties
Democracy at work in the UK - electoral systems, MPs, government, scrutiny, law making, devolution, public finances
Law and Justice - rationale, affects, justice system, crime, forms of punishment
Power and Influence - action; how citizens, governments & media exercise power; forms of government
Taking Citizenship action - Students must work in groups (2+) In-depth critical investigation with a citizenship outcome outside the classroom, featuring skills of research and enquiry, interpretation of evidence, planning and collaboration, problem-solving, advocacy, campaigning and evaluation
There will also be a number of extra-curricular activities and trips to enhance the overall learning experience of students who take part in this course including places such The Houses of Parliament and the Royal Courts of Justice. There are also external visitors from members of the House of Lords to Local Magistrates.
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This is a vocational subject which will help you develop the skills, knowledge and understanding you will need to further study or work in Health and Social Care related jobs (e.g. Healthcare, child care, social work, nursing etc.).
You will study a broad and interesting range of units in Health and Social Care, these include:-
Core units: (both will be studied)
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Optional and specialist units: (one unit will be studied)
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Sociology is ‘the study of society’
What sociology is and how sociologists do research
You will examine what makes people behave and how we learn to be members of society
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You will study the role of the family, schools and the police in society.
Topics include; the family, education, crime and deviance, social inequality, sociological methods.
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Post Up: Monta Goes Off
by SLAM Staff October 28, 2010
by Adam Figman | @afigman
The first full set of of regular season games didn’t disappoint. Let’s dive right in.
New York 98, Toronto 93
A new era of New York basketball begins with a W. The Knicks were ahead for most of this one (they led by 16 early but squandered the lead before halftime), and they closed out the fourth behind a slew of Amar’e Stoudemire buckets. STAT finished with 19 and 10. Wilson Chandler was great, dropping 22 on 10 of 18 from the field and playing tough second half D on Andrea Bargnani, who was held to 22 after putting in 18 through the first two quarters. Five Knicks scored in double figures, though at times their offensive and defensive chemistry looked off—a problem they’ll need to fix if they’re to have a chance against the next few opponents (Celtics, Blazers, Magic, Bulls).
New Jersey 101, Detroit 98
A pretty good night for NY-area hoops teams, huh? Like the Knicks, the Nets also got a win, something that took them 19 games to do last season. Brook Lopez and Devin Harris had 25 and 22, respectively, and my favorite fantasy sleeper Anthony Morrow drilled a trey with 26 seconds to go that put New Jersey ahead for good. Derrick Favors might be a project, but he showed some potential, scoring 8 points and grabbing 7 boards in the first half before a quiet second one. Not that I don’t love sitting here and writing The Post Up, but something tells me I’d rather be at Mikhail Prokhorov’s post-game celebration (jet skis on the reg, I assume) at the moment. No Piston scored more than 14, which pretty much sums this one up.
Cleveland 95, Boston 87
Presumably fatigued from last night’s battle against the Heat, the Celtics fell to an energetic Cavs team carried all night by The Q’s raucous crowd. With Mo Williams sidelined with a groin injury, J.J. Hickson scored 22 on 8-11 shooting and Daniel Gibson dropped a cool 16. Rajon Rondo led Boston in scoring (a problem in itself) with 18, while the rest of the C’s were too quiet (or too tired) as the game slipped away in the final minutes.
Sleep well, Cleveland.
(Sorry, I had to. Moving on.)
Miami 97, Philadelphia 87
LeBron James and Co. rebounded nicely to last night’s mess with a much-needed first W over the 76ers in Philly. LBJ put up 16-6-7, while Dwyane Wade led the team in scoring (30) and James Jones filled the lost Mike Miller role well nicely with 20 points and 6 threes. In his debut game, Evan Turner came off the bench, showed some promise and scored 16 (in that order, I imagine). Lou Williams and Thaddeus Young both put in 15, and the latter threw down one of the nastiest dunks I’ve seen in, well, minutes, but I watch a lot of hoops. The Sixers host the Hawks on Friday.
Dallas 101, Charlotte 86
The League’s most consistent duo of Dirk Nowitzki (28 points, 13 boards) and Jason Kidd (12 points, 18 assists) did what they do, jumping out to a 16-0 lead in the first and then flying ahead in the third after the Bobcats clawed back. Tyrus Thomas (!) led Charlotte with 22, and Gerald Wallace scored 16 and grabbed 9 boards. After 13 meetings, the Mavs are still undefeated against the ‘Cats.
Atlanta 119, Memphis 104
With Marc Gasol sidelined (right ankle sprain) and Zach Randolph missing the second half with a back injury, the Grizz just couldn’t keep up with the Hawks last night. Joe Johnson led Atlanta with 22, while Zaza Pachulia dropped 17 and made me scream “ZAZA!” six times.
San Antonio 122, Indiana 109
The Spurs won, and won comfortably, so I guess I should lead off with them, but some of these Pacers’ stats are jumping off the page so I’m going there first. Roy Hibbert went for 28 and 9 and finally seems to be coming around, Danny Granger looked healthy as ever and put in 26, and the newly-acquired Darren Collison scored 19 and dished 7 assists. But yeah, the Spurs won, and Tim Duncan (23 points), Manu Ginobili (22) and Tony Parker (20) were all solid. Still unsure why people keep underrating their chances to hit the Western Conference Finals this season.
Oklahoma City 106, Chicago 95
The night’s first nationally televised game was a good one, as Kevin Durant scored 30 and Russell Westbrook put together a great stat line (28-10-6) and, somehow, did this (to which I had to respond with this). Derrick Rose was also incredible, dropping 28 with some crazy reverse lay-ups, while Joakim Noah (18 and 19) was a beast, though it wasn’t enough. Through one, OKC looks ready to live up to the hype.
Sacramento 117, Minnesota 116
No ‘Reke, no problem. With Tyreke Evans fulfilling a one-game suspension for getting his NASCAR on over the summer, the Kings still held on late in Minnesota. Francisco Garcia and Carl Landry each scored 22, and rookie big man DeMarcus Cousins went for 14 and 8 in his debut. Luke Ridnour led the TWolves with 20.
Denver 110, Utah 88
Despite all the offseason, off-the-court nonsense, the Nuggets came out firing last night. Carmelo Anthony and Arron Afflalo had 23 and 22, respectively, and Shelden Williams (!!!) grabbed 16 rebounds. The Jazz just didn’t bring it on the offensive end (Deron Williams‘ 17 points led the team), and pretty simply, they’ll need to shoot better—38.6% won’t cut it against the West’s best.
New Orleans 95, Milwaukee 91
A comeback game, of sorts. For the Hornets, the return of Chris Paul, who dropped 16 points and 17 dimes and led the team to a strong first win. For the Bucks, the return of Andrew Bogut, whose 15 points and 15 boards automatically means Milwaukee will be a force in the East this season. New Orleans ended the third quarter with an 11-0 run, but couldn’t officially put Bucks away until the final minute of play. Brandon Jennings was alright (15 points, 10 assists), but CP3 got the better of him this time. Excited to see how each of these squads progresses over the couple of months.
Golden State 132, Houston 128
Monta Ellis went off. OFF. In what was unquestionably the best shooting night of his career, he scored 46 points on only 24 shots from the field, with 3 rebounds and 2 steals just because. Stephen Curry (23 pts, 12 assists) and David Lee (16 pts, 15 boards) both went for double-doubles, but this was Monta’s night, and everyone in Oracle Arena knew it. For the Rockets, Luis Scola managed 36 points and 16 rebounds, while Kevin Martin went 17-17 from the line as he dropped in 28. For you late-night League Passers, GSW might become a must-watch, as every one of their games has the potential to be a 260-total-point shootout.
Portland 98, Los Angeles Clippers 88
Welcome to the L, Blake Griffin. Strong first game for the forward, with 20 points and 14 rebounds, but LAC wasn’t able to match the Blazers’ output. All five Portland starters scored in double figures, led by Brandon Roy, who had 22 and a pair of buzzer beaters to end both of the first two quarters.
Performance of the night: Monta Ellis: 46 points, 18-24 FGM-A, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals.
Moment of the night: Blake Griffin making himself known in the game’s first few minutes with a series of ridiculous put-back slams. Your move, Mr. Wall.
Alright, SLAM Fam. I’m shot. Tonight’s a little lighter, with only two games—Magic v. Wizards and Suns v. Jazz. I’ll be back Friday.
And sleep well have a great day, Cleveland.
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Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller—A Perfect Storm on land—that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one states and destroying entire towns.
April 27, 2011 was the climax of a three-day superstorm that unleashed terror from Arkansas to New York. Entire communities were flattened, whole neighborhoods erased. Tornadoes left scars across the land so wide they could be seen from space. But from terrible destruction emerged everyday heroes—neighbors and strangers who rescued each other from hell on earth.
“Armchair storm chasers will find much to savor in this grippingly detailed, real-time chronicle of nature gone awry” (Kirkus Reviews) set in Alabama, the heart of Dixie Alley where there are more tornado fatalities than anywhere else in the US. With powerful emotion and captivating detail, journalist Kim Cross expertly weaves together science and heartrending human stories. For some, it’s a story of survival; for others it’s the story of their last hours.
Cross’s immersive reporting and dramatic storytelling catapult you to the center of the very worst hit areas, where thousands of ordinary people witnessed the sky falling around them. Yet from the disaster rises a redemptive message that’s just as real: in times of trouble, the things that tear our world apart reveal what holds us together.
Jason Willis
Kim Cross
Kim Cross is an editor-at-large for Southern Living and a feature writer who has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of American Travel Writers, and the Media Industry Newsletter. Her writing has appeared in Outside, Cooking Light, Bicycling, Runner’s World, The Tampa Bay Times, The Birmingham News, The Anniston Star, USA TODAY, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, and CNN.com. She lives in Alabama.
Publisher: Atria Books (March 2015)
“The writerly brilliance—the terse dark poetry—of this debut book explodes from every page. Yet Kim Cross is too much of a writer to let mere masterful writing suffice. She has enlisted her sentences in the service of her tremendous reportorial mission: to recover and make sense of the thousands of fragmentary incidents, images, voices, and glimpses of human character ennobled by loss and imminent death—the sum and substance of the most catastrophic mass-tornado attack in recorded American history. This young writer has done the impossible: she has out-written apocalypse. A new star has appeared in our literary sky.”
– Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-author of Flags of Our Fathers
“Turn off your cellphone. Call in sick. Tell your family whatever you need to tell them, because you’re going to have to have eight hours of uninterrupted time once you begin Kim Cross’s book. Her verbs pulsate, her narrative web sucks you in. Mostly, Cross makes you care about the people in What Stands in a Storm, their quirks and aspirations. You won’t look at a coiling sky the same way after reading this powerhouse debut.”
– Beth Macy, New York Times-bestselling author of Factory Man
"A splendid reporter, and even better writer, Kim Cross has taken a catastrophic 'act of God' that seemed to beggar description as well as explanation and rendered it as shimmering molecules of feeling and meaning. An outstanding debut."
– Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Carry Me Home
“Disaster has a soul, and it is deeply, desperately, bravely human. What Stands in a Storm is the human spirit. Kim Cross has brought the real people behind the headlines vividly to life in these stirring pages. She is an amazing writer, a great reporter with a novelist's gifts for character and scene.”
– Lee Smith, author of Guests on Earth
“Cross takes us up close to a force of nature with a poetic, soul-searing narrative that keeps you turning page after page. She shows the resilience of people who time after devastating time learn about survival as well as death. Perhaps the most important lesson of all is that we can turn bad things into something positive. This book is one of the good things.”
– Charlayne Hunter-Gault
"Amid so much terror and pain and death, there is an overflowing of life here, gathered together in a blessing of uncommon decency and indelible beauty. If you want to know what shape your heart's in, read this book and learn, through Kim Cross's extraordinary reportage and artistry, that stories are as much a gift as life itself. Stories, in fact, are our afterlife."
– Bob Shacochis, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
"Whether you live in tornado country of not, everyone should read this book! Kim Cross goes behind the newsreels and shows us the devastating impact that one group of superstorms had on the people of Alabama in April of 2011 and what happened long after the newsreels stopped and moved on to cover another story. Heartbreaking and heroic."
– Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
"What Stands in a Storm" is a dramatic and carefully reconstructed account of nature's unexpected and explosive power and the strength of humans to bond together in its destructive wake."
– Peter Stark, author of Astoria and The Last Empty Places
“Armchair storm chasers will find much to savor in this grippingly detailed, real-time chronicle of nature gone awry.”
– Kirkus Reviews
“A powerful book, unforgettable in its recreation of a horror that swallowed entire communities. Kim Cross brings to life the soul-searing experience of people standing prostrate as a monstrous storm tears their lives to shreds. But there joy in this horror. She shows us how ordinary people in the worst-hit areas discovered what they and their communities were made of as the sky fell around them.”
– Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump
"Gripping chronicle...Detail-oriented reporting anchors a novelist's flair for drama. Horrifying depictions of the monster storms...make other accounts...tame by comparison."
– Publishers Weekly
"A searing testament not only to the raw ferocity ofnature's destructive power, but also to the no less awesome power of humanbeings—and human narrative—to transcend destruction and to emerge, on its farside, shattered yet strangely complete. Kim Cross is gifted, whirlwind of awriter who weaves coherence, meaning, and yes, even beauty from chaos."
– Kevin Fedarko, author of The Emerald Mile
"In total effect, the book resembles not only the best recent models of storm reporting, but a nearly 70-year-old masterpiece that covered an entirely different sort of disaster: John Hersey's Hiroshima."
– Knoxville News-Sentinel
"Stories of those caught in tornado outbreak churn with power... Powerful new book recreates a three-day nightmare... At the core of What Stands in a Storm are the people, brave and noble in unimaginable situations, eager to help in the post-storm war zone, aching with loss when the depths of destruction are finally measured."
– Dallas Morning News
"What Stands in a Storm has every chance of being a best-seller. Cross’s book reminds one of Sebastian Junger’s 1997 blockbuster, “The Perfect Storm,” in which Junger described to his reader the atmospheric conditions that combined to create the giant nor’easter, and then personalized the meteorology by telling of the fate of the crew of the “Andrea Gail” ... Cross does a splendid job of educating her readers about tornadoes, the sometimes dangerous myths and lifesaving scientific truths, and brings the story home emotionally with a superb job of reporting on individuals caught in climatic catastrophe. In his foreword, Rick Bragg rightly praises Cross’ meticulous re-creation 'of the drumbeat of horrors of that terrible day.'”
– Don Noble, Tuscaloosa News
“Kim Cross made me cry. Or rather her book did. What Stands in a Storm is subtitled “Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South’s Tornado Alley,” but I read it in hours, gripped from the very beginning… What a powerful and poignant book.”
– Nancy Pate, On a Clear Day I Could Read Forever
"Kim Cross could teach of few novelists about how to tell a gripping, spell-binding, heart-wrenching tale... Painstakingly pieced together from interviews with survivors and meteorologists, news reports, public records, and even social media accounts, Storm is a superlative piece of journalism that also is written in such a masterful way that it rivals high fiction in its use of language, plot and suspense."
– Jim Ewing, Clarion-Ledger
"Cross weaves these disparate storylines together, building a tapestry of loss and survival out of the chaos of the storms’ coming and going. The narrative remaining is so seamless, it’s easy to forget it took her 'more than a year of research and one-hundred-plus hours of interviews with responders, meteorologists, survivors and the families of those who died' to put together."
– Anniston Star
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Former Political Prisoner David McKay will Confront FBI Informant Brandon Darby at Lincoln Center Documentary Premiere
Sparrow in activism, events
[NEW YORK, NY] Journalists and activists are invited to a free special advance screening of and discussion of INFORMANT, the documentary portrait of of Brandon Darby, former radical activist turned FBI informant, Wednesday, September 11, 7:30pm, at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Amphitheater, 144 W. 65th St., in NYC. This is the first time that Darby (in person) and David McKay (via Skype), will discuss the complete story of Brandon’s role as an FBI informant and the series of events that led to McKay’s imprisonment. The discussion will be moderated by NPR contributor Michael May.
In 2005, Darby became an overnight hero when he traveled to Katrina-devastated New Orleans and braved toxic floodwaters to rescue a stranded friend. Soon after, he co-founded Common Ground, a successful grassroots relief organization. But over the next few years, he began hiding a shocking secret. After two young protestors, David McKay and Bradley Crowder, were arrested at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Darby revealed he had been instrumental in their indictment as an FBI informant. Today, having renounced his radical past, he is a tea-party darling who writes regularly for the right-leaning website Breitbart.com.
The only film with access to Darby since his public confession, INFORMANT meticulously constructs a picture of his life – before and after the many death threats he has received – through interviews and tense reenactments starring Darby himself. Darby’s version of events is accompanied – and often contradicted – by evidence from acquaintances and expert commentators, posing complicated questions about trust and the nature of reality. As David Hanners of St. Paul Pioneer Press suggests, “When you interview people about Brandon Darby, you realize that everyone has a different idea of who he is.”
In addition to trying to unlock the mystery of Brandon Darby, INFORMANT offers a powerful insider look at the hidden use of informants in contemporary America – an especially timely issue in light of the recent leaks about government surveillance.
WHERE: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Amphitheater, 144 W. 65th St., New York
WHEN: Wednesday, September 11, 7:30pm
RSVP REQUIRED: email informantscreening@gmail.com
First come, First served, Admission not guaranteed*
Written by Sparrow in activism, events on Sep 11, 2013
Tagged austin, brandon darby, david mckay, documentary, entrapment, FBI, informant, lincoln center, texas.
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REVIEW: 'Archie' #9 by Mark Waid, Veronica Fish, Andre Szymanowicz, and Jen Vaughn
★★★★★ (5/5)
Mark Waid has had a pretty storied career. An award-winning career with work on books like The Flash, Kingdom Come, Superman: Birthright, and Captain America. Yet, his crowning achievement in comics just might be the revitalized, updated, and relatable world of 'Archie.' I'm not sure how a man his age can make this teen dramedy both classically slapstick funny and heartachingly poignant. Waid obviously has a youthful soul to capture the innocent fun side of 'Archie' with the emotional roller coaster that is young love.
With Archie banned from the Lodge estate and other properties, he's had to entertain Veronica at his family's home. Suffice it to say, normal middle-class living is quite the culture shock for Veronica who's accustomed to butlers, yachts, and fine silverware. She tries to adjust and sincerely understand the simple lives of the 99% but Archie feels guilty that she has to "slum it" with him. Archie's sweet mother gives Veronica the vote of confidence to make herself at home. And does she ever, even buying a humongous television that nearly brings Archie's dad to tears of joy.
Yet, despite the butler and personal chef, living in the lap of luxury just isn't for the Andrews family. Veronica's world and Archie's world clash and it could be driving a wedge between them. This leads to a scene between Archie and Betty that will break your heart. Again, Waid hits the right notes mixing comedy and over-the-top hijinks with emotional moments that seem shallow but actually cut deep.
Veronica Fish is a marvel. The reason the story has such an impact is the way Fish can convey the range of emotions in these characters. The unbrideled joy in Veronica's face and body language is infectious when she gets permission to make over the Andrews home. On the other end of the spectrum, the soul-crushing look she reacts with later on will demand sympathy for Veronica you never knew you could muster. And then there's Betty, that's all I'll say but Waid's words and Fish's visuals are the ying and yang of comic book dreams.
This might seem like an afterthought but Andre Szymanowicz and Jen Vaughn truly do an amazing job with the colors. They keep the focus on the characters with bolder deeper hues while background are lighter by comparison or no background at all.
'Archie' is not just great for an Archies Comic, not just great for an all-ages book, but a great comic book period. Waid adds layers to well-known characters and Fish infuses them with personality and passion. Archie's love life has never been this involving and authentic before. In an industry that can make fans cynical and frustrated, 'Archie' has staked its corner of the world where comics are still a joy to read.
Andre Szymanowicz Archie Archie Comics comic books Jen Vaughn Mark Waid reviews Veronica Fish
Labels: Andre Szymanowicz Archie Archie Comics comic books Jen Vaughn Mark Waid reviews Veronica Fish
"sympathy for Veronica you never knew you could muster"--only for the Veronica in this reboot because Waid made her such a screaming bitch. I always liked her before that. And what happened to Sayid?
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Home > Stockport House Prices > Hazel Drive
Sold House Prices in Hazel Drive
This page displays sold house prices for Hazel Drive in Stockport.
Hazel Drive in Poynton, Stockport . Properties on Hazel Drive typically have values around £250,000 - £350,000, but larger detached houses can command upwards of £400,000.
4 Hazel Drive, Poynton SK12 1PX
£152,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 23rd May 2003
£84,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 8th January 1999
10 Hazel Drive, Poynton SK12 1PX
£87,250 Terraced house, Freehold 22nd October 1996
£325,000 Detached house, Freehold 17th August 2015
£170,000 Terraced house, Freehold 11th October 2002
£235,000 Detached house, Freehold 16th November 2006
£270,000 Detached house, Freehold 1st March 2007
£365,250 Detached house, Freehold 23rd August 2007
£190,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 12th May 2011
23 Hazel Drive, Poynton SK12 1PZ
£206,000 Detached house, Freehold 28th June 2002
£295,000 Detached house, Freehold 17th December 2010
£158,000 Detached house, Freehold 14th May 1999
£79,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 12th December 1995
£189,850 Semi-detached house, Freehold 28th August 2009
£185,000 Detached house, Freehold 1st July 2002
£250,000 Detached house, Freehold 18th March 2004
£73,500 Semi-detached house, Freehold 21st February 1997
£250,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 21st September 2005
£185,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 2nd September 2005
£214,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 21st February 2007
£176,500 Detached house, Freehold 21st July 2000
£109,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 22nd September 2000
£121,500 Semi-detached house, Freehold 1st October 2001
£77,000 Detached house, Freehold 21st December 1995
£245,000 Detached house, Freehold 13th February 2006
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Constellation Brands, Inc.
Symbol U : STZ
Tony Romo Joins Team Corona Extra ® as Newest Hotline Operator
2018-08-21 08:00 ET - News Release
CHICAGO, Aug. 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Corona Extra® has drafted former star quarterback and current football analyst Tony Romo as the operator and face of the fan-favorite Corona Hotline, which returns for its second year this football season.
Corona Hotline's Newest Operator, Tony Romo
Featuring a new number, 1-844-9-Corona, fans can call the Corona Hotline all season long to tap into Romo’s renowned powers of prediction, hear gameday reflections and enter for a chance to win prizes such as Corona gear or poolside seats in Las Vegas for the Big Game.
“I am thrilled to join the team and man the Corona Hotline,” said Romo. “Between fantasy match-ups and waiting each week for your favorite team’s game, football brings a lot of excitement. I am ready to help fans deal with the highs and lows of this football season, so they can kick back and enjoy with friends and family.”
Starting on Tuesday, August 21st, Romo will take center stage in Corona Extra’s Fall campaign – a complete 360-marketing effort including TV advertising, retail programming, and social/digital promotion all centered around the Corona Hotline.
“Football is back, and that means the Corona Hotline is, too,” said Ann Legan, Vice President of Brand Marketing, Corona. “Tony has such a dynamic, fun-loving persona, and when paired with his incredible knowledge of football, he’s a perfect fit to help fans find their ‘Gameday Beach’.”
As always, Corona encourages consumers to enjoy its products and relax responsibly.
About Corona Extra
Corona Extra is a pilsner-style lager with a golden hue that was first brewed in Mexico in 1925. The refreshing flavor and carefree attitude of Corona have made it the #1 imported beer in the U.S. and the #5 beer brand overall. 2016 was a record-breaking sales year for the brand. Corona has been helping consumers “Find their Beach” in the U.S. since 1981. Corona Extra is exclusively brewed, imported and marketed by Constellation Brands for the U.S. market.
About Constellation Brands
Constellation Brands (NYSE:STZ) (NYSE:STZ.B), a Fortune 500® company, is a leading international producer and marketer of beer, wine and spirits with operations in the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, Italy and Canada. Constellation is the No. 3 beer company in the U.S. with high-end, iconic imported brands such as Corona Extra, Corona Light, Modelo Especial, Modelo Negra and Pacifico. The company’s beer portfolio also includes Ballast Point, one of the most awarded craft brewers in the U.S. In addition, Constellation is the world leader in premium wine, selling great brands that people love, including Robert Mondavi, Clos du Bois, Kim Crawford, Meiomi, Mark West, Franciscan Estate, Ruffino and The Prisoner. The company’s premium spirits brands include SVEDKA Vodka, Casa Noble Tequila and High West Whiskey.
Based in Victor, N.Y., the company believes that industry leadership involves a commitment to brand building, our trade partners, the environment, our investors and to consumers around the world who choose our products when celebrating big moments or enjoying quiet ones. Founded in 1945, Constellation has grown to become a significant player in the beverage alcohol industry with more than 100 brands in its portfolio; about 40 wineries, breweries and distilleries; and approximately 10,000 talented employees. We express our company vision: to elevate life with every glass raised. To learn more, follow us on Twitter @cbrands and visit www.cbrands.com.
Stephanie McGuane
stephanie.mcguane@cbrands.com
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Home / Discipline e prodotti / Urologia / Banca dati bibliografica / blog / Banca dati bibliografica / Abid N et al, 2015: Decreased Radiation Exposure and Increased Efficacy in Extracorporeal Lithotripsy Using A New Ultrasound Stone Locking System.
Abid N et al, 2015: Decreased Radiation Exposure and Increased Efficacy in Extracorporeal Lithotripsy Using A New Ultrasound Stone Locking System.
Hans-Göran Tiselius
Mercoledì, 27 Gennaio 2016
Abid N, Ravier E, Promeyrat X, Codas R, Fassi Fehri H, Crouzet S, Martin X.
Urology and Transplantation Surgery, CHU Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot , Lyon, France.
PURPOSE: To compare fluoroscopy duration, radiation dose, and efficacy of two ultrasound stone localization systems during extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) treatment.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Monocentric prospective data were obtained from patients consecutively treated for renal stones using the Sonolith® i-sys (EDAP TMS) lithotripter, with fluoroscopy combined with ultrasound localization using an "outline" Automatic Ultrasound Positioning Support (AUPS) (group A), or the "free-line" Visio-Track (VT) (EDAP-TMS) hand-held three-dimensional ultrasound stone locking system (group B). Efficacy rate was defined as the within-groups proportion stone free or with partial stone fragmentation not needing additional procedures. Statistical analysis used Pearson chi-square tests for categoric variables, nonparametric Mann-Whitney tests for continuous variables, and linear regression for operator learning curve with VT. Continuous variables were reported as median (range) values.
RESULTS: Patients in group A (n=73) and group B (n=81) were comparable in baseline characteristics (age, kidney stone size, others) and in SWL application (duration, number of shocks, energy [Joules]). During SWL, the median (range) duration (seconds) of radiation exposure was 159.5 (0-690) in group A and 3.5 (0-478) in group B (P<0.001) and irradiation dose (mGy.cm2), 10598 (0-54843) in group A and 163 (0-13926) in group B (P<0.001). Fluoroscopy time significantly decreased with operator experience using VT. The efficacy rate was 54.5% in group A and 79.5% in group B (P=0.001).
CONCLUSION: VT significantly reduced fluoroscopy use during SWL and the duration and dose of patient exposure to ionizing radiation. Stone treatment efficacy was significantly greater with VT mainly because of a better real-time monitoring of the stone.
J Endourol. 2015 Aug 21. [Epub ahead of print]
Hans-Göran Tiselius il Mercoledì, 27 Gennaio 2016 11:39
Patients with urolithiasis, undoubtedly, are at risk of being exposed to excessive doses of radiation. This might be a consequence of repeated need of imaging procedures due to recurrent stone formation, but also due to fluoroscopy during different stone removal procedures. This problem has been repeatedly emphasized and was recently subject to a review article in Journal of Urology [1].
In this regard SWL is associated with a potential risk of exposing patients to high radiation doses, particularly since the collimators not always are used in an optimal way to reduce the field of radiation.
Most lithotripters are also equipped with ultrasound devices in order to provide a possibility to reduce radiation and to enable identification of radiolucent stones. The use of ultrasound is, however, not commonly used. Most urologists consider fluoroscopy easier to handle and interpret. One reason for this view is that, so far, few ultrasound systems have been particularly user friendly.
In the present article two ultrasound localization systems were compared. The authors were particularly satisfied with Visio-Track hand held three dimensional ultrasound stone locking system. Only with this device was it possible for the authors to significantly reduce average fluoroscopy radiation doses from 10 598 mGycm2 (with Sonolith i-sys) to 163 mGycm2. There was, however, a relatively wide range of radiation as a result of the necessary learning curve.
Another advantage emphasized by the authors was the better treatment result with Visio- Track. If this device only is compatible with EDAP/Sonolith is not fully understood, but this is reasonably the case. Nevertheless this invention seems to be a useful achievement in making SWL both safer and more efficient than with fluoroscopy only.
1.Chen TT, Wang C, Ferrandino MN, Scales CD, Yoshizumi TT, Preminger GM, Lipkin ME.
Radiation Exposure during the Evaluation and Management of Nephrolithiasis.
J Urol. 2015 Oct;194(4):878-85. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2015.04.118. Epub 2015 Jun 6. Review
Patients with urolithiasis, undoubtedly, are at risk of being exposed to excessive doses of radiation. This might be a consequence of repeated need of imaging procedures due to recurrent stone formation, but also due to fluoroscopy during different stone removal procedures. This problem has been repeatedly emphasized and was recently subject to a review article in Journal of Urology [1]. In this regard SWL is associated with a potential risk of exposing patients to high radiation doses, particularly since the collimators not always are used in an optimal way to reduce the field of radiation. Most lithotripters are also equipped with ultrasound devices in order to provide a possibility to reduce radiation and to enable identification of radiolucent stones. The use of ultrasound is, however, not commonly used. Most urologists consider fluoroscopy easier to handle and interpret. One reason for this view is that, so far, few ultrasound systems have been particularly user friendly. In the present article two ultrasound localization systems were compared. The authors were particularly satisfied with Visio-Track hand held three dimensional ultrasound stone locking system. Only with this device was it possible for the authors to significantly reduce average fluoroscopy radiation doses from 10 598 mGycm2 (with Sonolith i-sys) to 163 mGycm2. There was, however, a relatively wide range of radiation as a result of the necessary learning curve. Another advantage emphasized by the authors was the better treatment result with Visio- Track. If this device only is compatible with EDAP/Sonolith is not fully understood, but this is reasonably the case. Nevertheless this invention seems to be a useful achievement in making SWL both safer and more efficient than with fluoroscopy only. Reference 1.Chen TT, Wang C, Ferrandino MN, Scales CD, Yoshizumi TT, Preminger GM, Lipkin ME. Radiation Exposure during the Evaluation and Management of Nephrolithiasis. J Urol. 2015 Oct;194(4):878-85. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2015.04.118. Epub 2015 Jun 6. Review
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Car service app Uber and the storm it has driven into
Emil Michael, senior vice-president for business, Uber
Ben Smith, editor-in-chief, Buzzfeed
Nov 20, 2014, 1:10 pm SGT
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Jalelah Abu Baker
jalmsab@sph.com.sg
The latest news on Uber here is that riders in Singapore will be able to listen to their preferred music through the company's tie-up with digital music service company Spotify.
But elsewhere, news on Uber has been nothing like music to the the ears. Chief executive of the international car service Travis Kalanick practically gave a speech through a series of 14 tweets on Nov 18. He was responding to a wave of criticism this week from remarks that one of his top lieutenants, Emil Michael, made about snooping on journalists. Here's a timeline of the controversy in every sordid detail, and more.
The main characters:
Travis Kalanick, chief executive, Uber
Sarah Lacy, editor, Silicon Valley website PandoDaily
Friday night, Nov 14, Manhattan, New York: Mr Ben Smith, editor-in-chief at social news and entertainment website Buzzfeed is at a dinner hosted by Mr Ian Osborne, a former adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron and consultant to Uber.
Monday, Nov 17: Mr Smith writes an article titled "Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists". In it, he reproduces comments made over dinner by Mr Emil Michael, Uber's senior vice-president for business. Mr Michael reportedly outlined a plan to spend US$1 million to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists to "fight back against the press". "They'd look into your personal lives, your families," and give the media a taste of its own medicine," he reportedly said. He was apparently not happy with media critics of the company.
Mr Michael, it seems was particularly focused on one journalist, Sarah Lacy, the editor of the Silicon Valley website PandoDaily, who wrote about Uber in a bad light, and said that she deleted the app. Mr Smith said that during that dinner, Mr Michael apparently said that women are far more likely to get assaulted by taxi drivers than Uber drivers. Mr Michael thought Ms Lacy should be held "personally responsible" for any woman who followed her lead in deleting Uber and was then sexually assaulted. He singled out Ms Lacy as a subject of such dirt-digging. Mr Michael at no point suggested that Uber has actually hired opposition researchers, or that it plans to. In the same article, Mr Smith reveals that the general manager of Uber New York City Josh Mohrer accessed the profile of a BuzzFeed News reporter, Johana Bhuiyan, without her permission.
Shortly after the article was published, in a statement through Uber spokesman Nairi Hourdajian, Mr Michael said: "The remarks attributed to me at a private dinner - borne out of frustration during an informal debate over what I feel is sensationalistic media coverage of the company I am proud to work for - do not reflect my actual views and have no relation to the company's views or approach. They were wrong no matter the circumstance and I regret them."
Ms Hourdajian also said on what Mr Michael apparently suggested on digging dirt: "Any such activity would be clear violations of our privacy and data access policies. Access to and use of data is permitted only for legitimate business purposes. These policies apply to all employees. We regularly monitor and audit that access."
Tuesday, Nov 18: Mr Kalanick issues a public apology in a series of tweets:
1/ Emil's comments at the recent dinner party were terrible and do not represent the company.
— travis kalanick (@travisk) November 18, 2014
2/ His remarks showed a lack of leadership, a lack of humanity, and a departure from our values and ideals
3/ His duties here at Uber do not involve communications strategy or plans and are not representative in any way of the company approach
4/ Instead, we should lead by inspiring our riders, our drivers and the public at large.
5/ We should tell the stories of progress and appeal to people’s hearts and minds
6/ We must be open and vulnerable enough to show people the positive principles that are the core of Uber’s culture
7/ We must tell the stories of progress Uber has brought to cities and show the our constituents that we are principled and mean well
8/ The burden is on us to show that, and until Emil’s comments we felt we were making positive steps along those lines
9/ But I will personally commit to our riders, partners and the public that we are up to the challenge
10/ We are up to the challenge to show that Uber is and will continue to be a positive member of the community
11/ And furthermore, I will do everything in my power towards the goal of earning that trust.
12/ I believe that folks who make mistakes can learn from them – myself included.
13/ and that also goes for Emil ..
13/ and last, I want to apologize to @sarahcuda
Tuesday, Nov 18: Buzzfeed reveals details on incident where reporter was tracked. It said that Ms Bhuiyan, the reporter, arrived at Uber's New York headquarters in Long Island City for an interview with Mr Mohrer. "There you are," he said, holding his iPhone and gesturing at it. "I was tracking you." He also showed her logs from her previous Uber journeys.
Tuesday, Nov 18: Uber says that it is investigating its top New York executive for tracking a BuzzFeed News reporter without her permission in violation of what the transit giant says has long been its privacy policy.
Tuesday, Nov 18: Uber publishes its privacy policy for the first time, though it said the policy had always been in effect. It says it has strict policies against looking at the personal travel data of people, including journalists, who use the service.
Wednesday, Nov 19: US politician Al Franken goes after the company in a letter pressing Mr Kalanick to explain its privacy policies.
This is just the storm the company which has outposts in 200 cities sped in November. It comes barely a month after another died down.
Oct 22: The Uber office in France got flak for likening its female drivers to hookers. The French office came up with a promotion was to deal Uber riders with "hot chick" drivers as they make their way across the city. It was Uber's tie-up with a brand called Avions de chasse, which showcases pictures of skimpily-dressed models on its website. This was the trigger factor for Ms Lacy from PandoDaily to delete her Uber account.
Oct 3: Another invasion of privacy from 2011 surfaced. At the the launch party of Uber Chicago, attendees were given information on the real-time movements of 30 Uber users in New York. One of the attendees, tech socialite Julia Allison, recognized entrepreneur Peter Sims, from the list and contacted him, asking whether he was in an Uber car at a specific location. Mr Sims blogged about it, and eventually quit Uber.
Aug 12: Uber's competitor in the United States, Lyft, said that 177 Uber employees ordered and canceled more than 5,000 rides from October 2013. Uber also received a wave of criticism over the tactic. This came after Uber had already made itself a reputation for using aggressive and questionable business tactics.
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‘I Will Never Conform To No Amount Of Money’ – Tech N9ne Says In Interview
Victor Sandoval
Tech N9ne’s illustrious career has made it so the Kansas City King can look back on plenty of memorable highlights that many artists will never experience. On the flipside, it has also provided some low points and in a brand new exclusive interview with Out Of The Blue, Tech N9ne opened up about the struggles he still faces.
Speaking from his tour bus, Tech N9ne sat down with Out Of The Blue for an eye-opening interview that focused on his lengthy career, his favorite moments in music, and the one problem that still seems to follow him:
“I’m still overcoming it, it’s starting to break now, (it’s) my people thinking I’m a devil worshiper because I paint my face and I don’t know how, because I have red spiked hair? They not coming to my shows, but now that BET put me on the cypher and Wayne put me on The Carter 4 and Andre 3000, everyone like, ‘Woah he can rap!’ But I don’t sound like a devil worshiper.”
Tech also went on to share his feelings on the new digital age and opened up about his views on Twitter. Always willing to give more, this interview demonstrates why fans feel so close to Tech N9ne.
Click here to read the full interview.
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The Skansen Baltic Sea Knowledge Centre, the Baltic Sea Science Centre, has been inaugurated by HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. Researchers at Stockholm University have a central role in this effort to raise awareness of challenges in the Baltic – and stir the desire to do something about them.
HRH Crown Princess Victoria opens the doors at the inauguration of the Baltic Sea Science Centre.
Photo: Henrik Hamrén
On 11 April, HRH Crown Princess Victoria inaugurated the Baltic Sea Science Centre (BSSC) at Skansen, the open-air museum in Stockholm. For a long time, the Crown Princess has been greatly involved in the fate of the Baltic. During a private walking tour she was impressed by how the BSSC exhibition combines knowledge about the Baltic Sea with explanations of what concrete actions we can take to help the Baltic recover.
“We need to know ourselves and feel responsibility,” the Crown Princess concluded before she opened the doors to the waiting visitors.
The major initiative to build an educational centre began five years ago when the BalticSea2020 Foundation came up with a request to Skansen to finance an investment in information about the threats to the Baltic Sea. A central prerequisite for this cooperation was to ensure the advance of knowledge and the link to research. Stockholm University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) were chosen as partners.
The sea, the climate and the environment a priority for Stockholm University
The president of Stockholm University, Astrid Söderbergh Widding took part in a preview a couple of days before and noted in her speech that the sea, the climate and the environment are prioritised topics for the university. She stressed that the Academy must interact and collaborate in order to reach a wide audience with research results and increase involvement in the challenges to the Baltic Sea.
“The BSSC will serve as an important arena for this activity," she said.
Aquariums with different habitats
In the aquarium tunnel the large fishes swim just above your head. Photo: Lisa Bergqvist
The first thing that visitors encounter when they enter the entrance doors are the big aquariums. Here you can see fish that live near the coast, but also aquariums with schooling fish as well as larger predatory fish such as cod, salmon and sea trout, which live further out in deeper waters. On the ground floor there are also several smaller aquariums showing the different sea habitats along the coast. It is also easy to become fascinated by the aquariums with jellyfish floating through the water, or the aquarium tunnel where the large predatory fish swim just above your head.
In the exhibition section you can see how human life and the sea are interdependent. Here you can see what lies beneath the surface and along the beaches and coastline of the Baltic Sea. There are also areas for teaching with a laboratory and a room for showing films. Researchers at the universities participate in several of the films.
Knowledge counsel with researchers
To ensure that the material in the exhibitions is based on facts and is linked to the research, there is a knowledge counsel that includes researchers from Stockholm University and SLU. This counsel will continue to be the scientific link.
At the BSSC, even climatic changes will be highlighted, as well as three biggest challenges to the Baltic Sea: environmental toxins, fishing and eutrophication. The exhibition also shows how our choices in everyday life affect the Baltic Sea.
“We think it is important to bring home the message that the Baltic Sea is not a dead sea. There are a lot of positive changes that are already taking place, and things can even become better. However, it is also important that as humans we also take responsibility for everything we do that affects the sea,” says Linda Kumblad, researcher at the Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre and coordinator for Stockholm University’s work at BSSC and in the Swedish Knowledge Counsel.
Read more on The Baltic Sea Science Centre.
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Effects on peatland permafrost by climate change Britta Sannel, Associate Professor in Physical Geography.
The challenges that lie ahead after leg 1, SWERUS-C3 Örjan Gustafsson, professor in Biogeochemistry Stockholm University.
From permafrost thawing to the venting of greenhouse gases Martin Jakobsson, Professor at the Department for Geological Sciences.
Rotation in Barrow, Swerus-C3 Leg 2 The second leg, which starts from Barrow, is led by Martin Jakobsson, Professor at the Department for Geological Sciences (IGV), Stockholm University.
Collapsing Ice Martin Jakobsson, Professor at the Department for Geological Sciences.
Storglaciären- the end-of-year account At Tarfala Research Station, we carry out the the world's most detailed study of how a glacier changes. In this film we follow the work in September, just before the first snow falls.
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Catholic leaders visit Vanni
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 22 September 1999, 11:56 GMT]
The Catholic Bishops of Jaffna, Mannar and Batticaloa who are visiting the Vanni region are planning to meet senior leaders of the Liberation Tigers to discuss the island's ongoing conflict, sources said.
Sources said that they may meet V.Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers.
Rt.Rev.Thomas Soundaranayagam the Bishop of Jaffna, Rt.Rev.Kingsley Swampillai Bishop of Batticaloa and Rt.Rev.Rayappu Joseph Bishop of Mannar went to the Vanni on Monday.
They visited Puthukudiyiruppu and other parts of the Vanni to see the condition of civilians there.
22 civilians were killed and 41 wounded in Puthukukiyiruppu during an air raid by Sri Lanka Air Force jets last week.
The religious leaders met the relatives of the victims and visited the injured at the Puthukudiyiruppu hospital, according to the Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio last night.
The radio further said the priests had consoled the victims and had told them that they will let know the world what had happened and inform concerned parties about the real ground situation in the Vanni.
The Bishops condemned the killing of innocent civilians, the radio added.
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Mitt Romney handily wins U.S. Senate seat from Utah
Republican Utah Senate candidate Mitt Romney greets supporters who gathered to await election results in Orem, Utah, today.
SALT LAKE CITY >> Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney handily won a U.S. Senate seat in his adopted home state of Utah today after a campaign where he backed off his once-fierce criticism of President Donald Trump.
He will replace longtime Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, who is retiring after more than 40 years.
Romney was the heavy favorite to win the seat in conservative Utah, where he holds near-celebrity status as the first Mormon presidential nominee from a major party.
He defeated Democrat Jenny Wilson, a member of the Salt Lake County council.
Romney denounced Trump as a “fraud” and a “phony” during the 2016 campaign, but has since changed his tone, saying he approves of many Trump policies and predicting he will win another term. Trump, for his part, has endorsed Romney’s Senate run.
But Romney has also pledged to continue to speak out if Trump does something significant that is “divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions.” Last week, he pushed back against Trump’s depiction of the media as an “enemy of the people.”
Romney, 71, moved after his failed 2012 presidential run to Utah, where he’s also known for running the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. His past criticism of Trump wasn’t a serious liability in Utah, where many voters are wary of the president.
With polls heavily in his favor, Romney has been campaigning for other Republican candidates in Utah and Arizona.
The former Massachusetts governor argued during the Utah campaign that his political profile would be a boon to Utah’s standing in Washington.
He won a primary against a state lawmaker in a landslide in June before turning to face Wilson in the general election.
Wilson, 53, has a political pedigree as the daughter of a former mayor and worked with Romney at the 2002 Olympics, but she had an uphill climb since the race began. The last Democrat Utah sent to the U.S. Senate was Frank Moss, who was defeated by Hatch in 1976.
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Home > Cybersecurity and Cyberwar > Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Fred Kaplan
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Fred Kaplan
By Stewart Baker on June 28, 2016 Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies
Was Iran’s cyberattack that bricked vast numbers of Saudi Aramco computers justified by a similar attack on the National Iranian Oil Company a few months’ earlier? Does NSA have the ability to “replay” and attribute North Korean attacks on companies like Sony? And how do the last six NSA directors stack up against each other? Those and other questions are answered by our guest for episode 122, Fred Kaplan, author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War.
In the news roundup, we explore British corollary of the Pottery Barn Rule: “You Brexit, you owns it.” As the UK and the EU struggle to deal with fallout from the historic UK vote, all the incentives seem to be in place for the EU to do what it does best: vindicate the worst instincts of the European elite. In the name of deterring other departures, the EU is unlikely to offer the UK much in the way of concessions. On data protection, for example, Maury Shenk points out that the UK will likely have to keep its current law — and adapt to the new regulation — just to avoid a claim that British privacy law is inadequate.
In other news, DHS has released final guidelines for protecting privacy while sharing cyber threat information; I think they’re pretty good.
Michael Vatis and I also puzzle over the dicta adopted in a recent EDVA opinion that the utter insecurity of personal computers leaves users without a reasonable expectation of privacy and allows the FBI to use hackers’ tools without a warrant. I love it when a district court stakes out territory that makes even me feel like a civil libertarian.
The FTC drops a heavy fine on inMobi. Michael points out the much heavier weaponry that COPPA allows the Commission to deploy in privacy cases that involve children. But we have trouble mustering much sympathy for inMobi.
Finally, we’re still trolling for listener feedback on whether we should go to the trouble of trying to arrange CLE credit for listening to the podcast. Based on reaction so far, we won’t. So if you’d like to get CLE credit for the podcast, it’s time to send your vote to CyberlawPodcast@Steptoe.com.
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New Highways Self Help scheme empowers Suffolk people to do more in their community
'Highways Community Self Help’ is designed to support and empower towns and parish councils in Suffolk to carry out minor maintenance tasks in their area.
The much-anticipated scheme has been developed in partnership with town and parishes across Suffolk after it was recognised that many of these councils were willing to carry out additional works to maintain and improve the look of their communities such as sign cleaning, hedge cutting, fingerpost painting.
Highways has committed £100k to the scheme in its first year, taken from the £9.67million additional funding allocated to Suffolk Highways by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, in the Budget last October; the investment will help fund training, personal protective gear; such as gloves, hi-viz and safety glasses and any needed tools.
The types of works that town and parish councils are keen to undertake include:
Sign cleaning
Fingerpost cleaning/painting/repair
Tree pruning/branch removal
Hedge cutting/pruning
Siding out of footways, or paths (widen back to original/full width)
Grass verge cutting
Weed killing/weed removal
Towns and parishes across Suffolk will be able to carry out these tasks and more through one or more of the following four options:
Buying in services from contractors
Using your own trained employee(s)
Using volunteers to undertake work
Buying additional services from Suffolk Highways
Councillor Mary Evans, Suffolk County Council’s Cabinet Member responsible for Highways, Transport and Rural Affairs, said:
“Community Self Help is a further stepping-stone in our bid to work closely with towns and villages throughout Suffolk to achieve even more for our highways across the county
“I am very pleased to be launching such a long-awaited scheme and am delighted to see the interest we have had in it so far.
“This new scheme allows us to work with town and parish councils across the county who have a great sense of community spirit and pride. The scheme will empower them to undertake minor maintenance tasks on their public spaces about which they care so deeply."
Towns and parishes which are interested in joining Community Self Help are encouraged to visit: www.suffolk.gov.uk/communityselfhelp for more details.
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Kimo Hollinger, late 1960s. Photo: Bob Kemp
What The Hell Is A Waterman?
by Brad Melekian
Dissecting one of surfing's most loaded labels.
If over the past, say, decade, you haven’t had occasion to visibly wince at the dramatic over- and/or mis- use of the phrase “waterman,” you’re probably not paying attention. The word is everywhere: In publications both mainstream and surf-specific, in marketing campaigns (especially in marketing campaigns), in fawning descriptions of people, in films and the subjects of films—“waterman” has been having itself a nice little moment.
And yet it’s a strange moment, if only because it’s entirely unclear what drove this most recent resurgence, even less clear who or what we are actually attempting to describe when we call someone a waterman in 2016, unclear-er still what vague-yet-vaunted praise the phrase is meant to convey, and perhaps most unclear of all how and why, over the past ten years, “waterman” has become the aspirational descriptor for oceangoers everywhere. So casually deployed is the phrase today that it often seems as though anyone who so much as paddles a Saturday afternoon mile or straps on a handplane for a post-work womp is being fed a carrot from the culture at large to self-identify.
Fair enough. It’s a proud title, after all, and one that expands our ocean-going identities beyond a simple act. A “surfer” just surfs and a “fisherman” just catches fish, but a “waterman,” or so we tell ourselves, is someone more, something more, even if we can’t quite say what that something is.
So extolling is the phrase that despite its dilution, it hasn’t lost its cultural resonance. Trying to divine a consensus definition of what, precisely, makes a waterman is a fool’s errand—10 people, 11 answers, etcetera, but there’s no doubt that the word is our culture’s highest honorific, as close as we get to standing up and saluting. The question is why?
It’s entirely unclear who or what we are actually attempting to describe when we call someone a waterman in 2016, unclear-er still what vague-yet-vaunted praise the phrase is meant to convey.
Ambiguous by nature—two nouns unceremoniously slammed together—the word’s vagueness serves several masters. Writ large, it conjures an ethos and a set of practices, with a quick nod of the head in the direction of history and heritage, sure. But in 2016, it’s equally safe to say (and perhaps more important to acknowledge) that the term has come to show remarkable utility as a buzzword for brands, a trite (if savvy and effective) imprimatur for marketing departments worldwide looking to co-opt a lifestyle and make a tidy profit in the offing.
Which means that in our current era the only unimpeachable truth is that the word is heavily fraught. Examine the conversation online, for instance, and it should take fewer than ten minutes for you to realize that you’ve entered an ideological and self-serious morass driven by a tremendous amount of good old-fashioned, chest-inflated, surf-cultural dick swinging. All of which seems to fall along two distinct, telling and predictable lines of ideological fault: 1) Self-appointed, earnest traditionalists, standing in judgment, steadily doling out salt-encrusted jeremiads against perceived carpetbaggers, and 2) Said carpetbaggers, shamelessly shilling all manner of product (but mostly just stand-up paddleboards) by the Matson container, fists placed steadily beneath ever-rotating hands, hocking product via the appropriation of the word itself and the creation of carefully curated promotional materials comprised almost entirely of suggestively gritty and tough-nosed oceanic imagery. Miles are paddled. Bodies are hardened by water. Etcetera is etcetera-d. And for a low introductory fee, this, too, can be yours.
It’s all more than a bit silly, of course, the type of thing that a real waterman—whoever that turns out to be—wouldn’t have the time of day for. Which brings us to the question at hand.
Too many hagiographic words have been spilled on the subject of what a waterman is to warrant rehashing, but turn to the literature and you’ll inevitably find purists saber-rattling with phantoms, disturbingly obsessed with an is/is not dichotomy that almost certainly does not exist. To point out examples would be mean-spirited, but they are many, and the only thematic consistency among them seems to be an irrational compulsion to apply a set of arbitrary parameters on what and who, precisely, a “waterman” is (cue the phrase “all conditions”) and—more pointedly—a similarly irrational compulsion to put a set of parameters on what and who a waterman is not (basically anyone this side of Molokai). This parsing of who does and does not get to come to the club meetings is the worst parts of surf culture laid bare—exclusive, elitist, insular, self-important, but also understandable, if only because it’s sourced in an anger at perceived interlopers trading on and profiting from some otherwise authentic thing.
This parsing of who does and does not get to come to the club meetings is the worst parts of surf culture laid bare—exclusive, elitist, insular, self-important, but also understandable, if only because it’s sourced in an anger at perceived interlopers trading on and profiting from some otherwise authentic thing.
As for those interlopers? They all seem to mine the same tired clichés, but take away the Tumblr, Command-Z the Instagram filters, Force Quit the Photoshop, and what you’re left with is a cynical play directed at, but grounded in no reality for, the broadly-painted and equally faceless “end consumer.” It’s target marketing, pure and simple, and the dispersing of daydreams to folks who need them. To look at the websites, the ads, the magazines, and the glossy brochures is to become convinced that underwater rock-running is a tremendously popular activity with your workaday surfer. It is to believe that the watery majority of us out there are pulling in our nightly meal via handline and outrigger canoe. It’s a sham, is what it is—the whole distasteful thing. An entirely aesthetic promise being peddled to that ever-growing percentage of coastal-dwelling folks for whom the ocean may as well be a 24 Hour Fitness, good for 60 minutes of pre-work lung-pumping before the knotting of double windsors and the filing of briefs.
That’s no slight—not on ties, not on jobs, and certainly not on people long on responsibility and short on spare time looking for something aspirational to hang on to. But while there’s nothing wrong with being inspired by the optics of a decidedly beautiful culture, daydreams are daydreams precisely because they have a tendency not to manifest—and they certainly don’t do so with the swipe of a Gold Card. Dropping 10 grand on a chronographic dive watch doesn’t make you a waterman any more than buying a Waterman pen makes you a writer. And that carbon-fiber paddle in the garage will, at day’s dusty and sundried end, still just be a paddle in the garage if you don’t know what to do with it.
So yes, waterman in its current iteration is fraught, but fraught perhaps for the best of reasons. Surf culture, ocean culture, may be given to the cynical and the idealistic in equal measure, but the phrase—when used accurately and sincerely—has over the years come to represent a sort of common ground. Perhaps this is because when we talk about what it means to be a waterman we are not actually talking about a set of skills, but rather something far more prosaic. Perhaps we are talking, in our most unapologetically Deepak- and Oprah-infused terms, about our highest aims, the best parts of what life on the water can offer, the things we have always valued most as a culture—commitment, devotion, understanding, awareness, competence, self-reliance, respect.
Which is kind of the point. That such an inherently subjective label has for so long been discussed along vague moral and ethical lines is telling. Lost in the attempts to quantify and make an objective definition of what a waterman is—the checking of boxes and attempts to pin down—is the fact that the activities themselves are just the lemon next to the proverbial pie. The activities themselves—the spearfishing and freediving, the surfing and paddleboarding—are, in fact, just byproducts of an ethos, and it’s the ethos that we respect.
When we call someone a waterman, maybe what we’re really saying is that that person is entirely and uncommonly devoted—to their core, in a subculture already rife with uncommon devotion—to the raw, edge-of-nature wilderness experience that the ocean can offer.
On some level, we probably all know this to be true. But of course in our actual discussions we almost always ignore such intangible and considered realities in favor of a simpleminded and wrongheaded devolution into a cataloging of skill and adeptness. And this reduces our highest honorific to something like a trip to the local DMV—show your proficiency, get certified. When we talk about what makes a waterman, that is, our tone might shift to the reverent, but our talk shifts to the taking of stock. In our rush to answer an elementary question—“What do you have to do to be a waterman?”—we forget that what one has to do ignores the question of who one has to be.
Which means we’re missing the point. Surely there are hundreds of watermen and women out there gleefully flying under the radar, even in a modern era that would seem to render such dedication passé (more on which in a moment), but think of today’s unimpeachables—Brian Keaulana, say, or Mark Healey, or Dave Kalama, or the late Rell Sunn—and you’ll find that you’re thinking of men and women who not only know or knew how to do certain things in the ocean with incredible skill, but men and women who knew why they were doing these things, and dedicated their lives to existing in deep harmony and accordance with that profound sense of purpose.
When we call someone a waterman, maybe what we’re really saying is that that person is entirely and uncommonly devoted—to their core, in a subculture already rife with uncommon devotion—to a coastal life lived in its totality, to the raw, edge-of-nature wilderness experience that the ocean can offer, and to the possibility that such devotion can lead to a better existence not just as a person in the ocean, but as a person in search of a meaningful life.
All of which is as embarrassingly earnest, overwrought, and clichéd, as it is undeniably accurate. And therein lies the problem.
This essay appears in TSJ 25.2. To read more from this issue, pick up a copy on newsstands or subscribe.
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The Stakes of Democracy in South-East Asia (RLE Modern East and South East Asia)
ByH. J. van Mook
Edition 1st Edition
eBook Published 10 April 2015
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
SubjectsArea Studies, Politics & International Relations
van Mook, H. J. (1950). The Stakes of Democracy in South-East Asia (RLE Modern East and South East Asia). London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315697758
Will national independence bring to the peoples of South East Asia liberty and democracy? Or will it mean corrupt government, factional strife and insolvency? Or will it mean eventual absorption by totalitarian communism? In this book, first published in 1950, the author analyses these questions, using the case history of Indonesia since 1940, in which he played a leading role, to illustrate his points. He gives an outline of the history of South East Asia, its domination by the West and its convulsion by war and nationalism. The seven nations of South East Asia – Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Indo-China, Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines – have a great deal in common: except for Siam, they are all struggling through the formative years of nationhood; except for Ceylon, they were all occupied and pillaged by Japan during the War. They are of great value to other nations as a source of raw materials and foodstuffs. Their political and economic structure is of vital importance, both to themselves and to us and unless their new nationalism can be strengthened, the free world may lose a valuable asset to its economy and an ally against totalitarianism in Asia.
chapter |11 pages
part 1|96 pages
The Foundations of Southeast Asia
The Origins of Southeast Asia
Invasion from the West
Imperialism at the Flood
The Birth of Nationalism in Southeast Asia
Two Colonial Cases
part 2|105 pages
War and Revolution
Invasion from, the North
Transient Empire
An Unforeseen Peace
The Nationalist Revolt
The Future of Southeast Asia
United Nations and Divided Counsels
The Bad Conscience of the West
chapter 12|9 pages
The Economic Mainspring
Capitalist Adventurers and Communist Agitators
Voluntary Association in Southeast Asia
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We are currently developing the next generation of nano-mechanical assays. The team in made up of 5 researchers (Physics, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, Nanoscale Science) under the guidance of Martin Hegner is currently developing the next generation of in vitro-diagnostic nano-mechanical assays. With several national and international collaborations we are involved in a multi-disciplinary team effort with the goal of developing specialized devices and assays for a rich variety of applications. We are committed to changing the world through discoveries and development of new technologies. Our efforts begin where the imaginative mind meets the experienced. We are excited about what future technology can offer society.
Prof. Martin Hegner
CRANN - The Naughton Institute
E-mail: martin.hegner@tcd.ie
Welcome to the nanomechanics laboratory at Trinity College Dublin. As the leader of this group I welcome you to visit our website, correspond with members of our group and discuss your technical interests with us. Our laboratory is focused on the dynamics and kinetics of interacting biomolecules, the mechanics of protein imported to mitochondria membranes, the kinetics of molecular motors under external strain and the nanomechanical action at ribosomal complexes during translation.
We use state-of-the-art optical tweezers to explore fundamental biological molecular processes such as ribosome translation. These experiments provide unprecedented insights at single biomolecule level, fundamental for subsequent understanding of e.g. protein folding, gene regulation or drug effects. We leverage our leading position in the field of bionanomechanical cantilever array sensors to develop rapid and label‐free sensing platforms for small miRNA biomarker molecules from serum, and immunogenic – vaccine and haemostasis diagnostics. These research projects are pursued with partners from industry, hospitals and specialized research institutions. Nanoscale scientific approaches deliver innovative, fast, sensitive assays for basic and applied research. A next generation of young interdisciplinary scientists is trained and educated to address major societal challenges related to healthcare.
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Toronto at SF Giants: Injury Report
Wednesday May 15, 2019 3:45 pm - San Francisco, CA
Odds: San Francisco by 1.5, Total Points: 7.5
Matchup Menu: TOR @ SF
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Toronto Injuries
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 3B 7/15 Rest QUESTIONABLE Guerrero Jr. is not expected to participate in Monday's series opener against the Red Sox due to a day of rest.
Ken Giles RP 7/15 Elbow DOUBTFUL Giles sat out the previous game due to nerve inflammation in his right elbow, and he will not be available against the Red Sox on Monday.
Edwin Jackson SP 7/14 Back QUESTIONABLE Jackson has been activated from the 10-day injured list where he was recovering from a lower-back strain. It is uncertain when he will be penciled in for his next scheduled start.
Clayton Richard SP 7/14 Back 10-DAY IL Richard has landed on the 10-day injured list with a left lat strain, and a timeline for return has yet to be announced.
Ryan Borucki SP 7/10 Elbow 60-DAY IL Borucki has been moved to the 60-day injured list with left elbow soreness. He is expected to be out of commission until at least the latter portion of July.
Clay Buchholz SP 7/10 Shoulder 60-DAY IL Buchholz has been shifted to the 60-day injured list with a Grade 2 teres major strain in his right shoulder. He is likely to be away from the starting rotation until at least the latter part of July.
Ryan Tepera RP 6/22 Elbow 60-DAY IL Tepera has been transferred to the 60-day injured list while recovering from surgery to remove bone spurs from his right elbow. He is not expected to return until the beginning of August.
Elvis Luciano RP 6/17 Elbow 60-DAY IL Luciano has been transferred to the 60-day injured list with a right elbow sprain. A timetable for return has yet to be established.
Devon Travis 2B 5/18 Knee 60-DAY IL Travis is on the 60-day injured list while recovering from surgery to repair a minor meniscus tear in his left knee. There is currently no timetable for return.
Matt Shoemaker SP 5/15 Knee 60-DAY IL Shoemaker has been transferred to the 60-day injured list with a torn ACL in his left knee and is expected to miss the remainder of the season.
SF Giants Injuries
Buster Posey C 7/15 Rest QUESTIONABLE Posey is not expected to be available for Game 2 of Monday's doubleheader against the Rockies as he is to be rested.
Evan Longoria 3B 7/15 Foot 10-DAY IL Longoria has landed on the 10-day injured list due to a strained plantar fascia in his left foot. A timetable for return has yet to be established.
Travis Bergen RP 7/12 Shoulder 10-DAY IL Bergen has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a left shoulder strain and is likely to be away from the team until at least the latter part of July.
Nick Vincent RP 7/9 Pectoral 60-DAY IL Vincent has been transferred to the 10-day injured list with a right pectoral strain, and he is expected to be sidelined until at least the end of July.
Johnny Cueto SP 4/30 Elbow 60-DAY IL Cueto is on the 60-day injured list while recovering from Tommy John surgery, but he is aiming to return sometime in September.
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