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No loose milk in Punjab after 2022 as it leads to diseases
Rameez Sandhu July 1, 2019 834 Views
Lahore: Muhammad Rafiq, 30, is a retired government servant. A couple of years ago, he drank loose milk from a local milk shop in Lahore and went to hospital directly for the treatment of severe cramps in stomach and diarrhea. A couple of weeks later, he was diagnosed with liver disease. Further medical examination suggested that adulterated milk, he used to drink led to the health hazard.
Rafiq is not the only one. There are thousands of patients suffering from various diseases caused by adulterated milk across Punjab. Punjab Food Authority (PFA), through several researches, also found that the people of Punjab are consuming milk which is worse than the contaminated water available in the province.
Captain (Retd) Muhammad Usman Director PFA, in an interview with Truth Tracker, said that sale and purchase of loose milk would be banned in 2022.
According to economic survey 2015-16 of Pakistan’s annual production of milk in the country is up to 50 billion liters and 75% do not have standard milk.
Usman said that the PFA has got passed a law in Punjab Assembly according to which sale of loose or unpasteurized milk would be banned in 2022. All the dairy farms will be legally bound to sell pasteurized milk in plastic bags and bottles.
He said that according to the international standards, before pasteurization quality of milk should be checked by a certified laboratory. The quality milk should be boiled to 63 degree Celsius for 30 minutes and immediately chilled on 4 degree Celsius. After the pasteurization, milk should be packed in boxes or bottles with labels clearly mentioning the expiry date. Then, it should be delivered to the market in a temperature-maintained vehicle for sale.
According to Usman, if milk is not boiled within few hours, the number of bacteria, already present in the milk increases that makes it undrinkable. So, it should be boiled immediately to make its life span from 4 to 6 hours which can further be increased by storing the boiled milk in a refrigerator.
Discussing the process of adulteration, he said, “The local milkmen mixe various unhealthy chemicals to extend the life of the milk or making the adulterated milk like urea, formalin, hydrogen peroxide, sodium hydroxide, melanin, aluminum sulphate, aluminum compound, and even detergents.” These chemicals cause ulcer, acidity, digestive problems, weakness of bones and cardiovascular diseases.
Similarly to fulfill the demand of the milk, water is mixed and quality is compromised. Apart from this some milkmen administer injections to their cattle to get the maximum quantity of milk. It is dangerous for both the animal and the consumer, Usman said.
He further said PFA has started the campaign to protect people of Punjab from the adulterated milk. “Now it’s the time for dairy farmers to adjust their business accordingly and install pasteurizing plants and maintain cold chains to provide milk to the consumer.” He said right now 10 to 12 pasteurization plants are working but private sector should come forward for the cause because only Lahore needs three thousand plants.
His personal point of view is only private sector or the dairy farmers should come forward and install pasteurization plants individually because if the government helps them, it will be politicized after the government changes.
In his opinion when private sector will invest, it will be more efficient and will help boost economy through creating thousands of job opportunities.
Usman also told that it takes one hour to pasteurize 1000 of liter milk. The cost of local plant is 6 million rupee and imported plant can be purchased in 12.5 million rupees. There will be cameras for surveillance and every batch of milk will be tested and reports will be recorded.
He revealed that PFA has wasted almost half a million liters of adulterated milk during the recent weeks across Punjab. “It is not possible for me and my small team to keep a permanent check on the transportation of the adulterated milk across the province,” said Usman.
Dr Javed Akram, Chairman of the University of Health and Sciences, is also in the favor of pasteurizing plants. But in his opinion, pure milk can also be delivered to the user by maintain cold chains. He told Truth Tracker that hazardous chemicals are added to milk which produce various types of life threatening diseases.
He says the worse thing Is the young buffalos are injected hormones to grow before time and to produce more milk. This milk is used by the children that leads them to reach early puberty.
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Home Breaking-News NAFDAC Probes Galant Bitters
NAFDAC Probes Galant Bitters
Nov 18, 20150
The National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted the general public to the proliferation of methanol-contaminated alcoholic herbal bitters in the Nigerian market therefore, the agency warns Nigerians to be careful on consumption of such products.
According to NAFDAC, “Methanol poisoning causes neurological problems, including visual disturbances, blurred vision, blindness, nerve damage and insomnia. Ingestion of high levels of methanol often causes death.”
Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, told newsmen, in a telephone chat that the agency, after extensive laboratory investigation, has identified ‘killer’ bitters in the Nigeria market and has sent public alert even as it has placed the products on hold.
Last month, a sample of alleged killer bitters, Galant bitters, to NAFDAC and lodged a formal complaint after some concerned Nigerians came to Rutam House alleging that their relatives died after taking the product.
Orhii explained: “We did laboratory test and found that the bitters drink contains high levels of methanol. We are mopping up the drink from the market and we want Nigerians to stay away from the bitters. The bitters were registered as imported product but it looks like somebody is adulterating and faking it somewhere here. We have sent out a public alert.”
The public alert notes: “NAFDAC hereby alerts the general public on the circulation of a possible fake and adulterated drink, Galant bitters, found to be contaminated with high levels of methanol.
“The Galant bitters registered by the agency is manufactured by Rita Food and Drink Limited, 30 Street, 4 Singapore Industrial Park, Thijan An District, Bing Doing Province, Vietnam.
“Methanol poisoning causes neurological problems, including visual disturbances, blurred vision, blindness, nerve damage and insomnia. Ingestion of high levels of methanol often causes death.
“NAFDAC has placed all Galant bitters on hold nationwide and currently conducting an investigation to determine the source of the contamination. Any useful information should be forwarded to the nearest NAFDAC office.
“The general public is hereby advised to desist from the consumption of Galant bitters pending the outcome of the investigation.”
According to Wikipedia, a bitters is traditionally an alcoholic preparation flavoured with botanical matter such that the end result is characterised by a bitter, sour, or bittersweet flavour. Numerous longstanding brands of bitters were originally developed as patent medicines, but are now sold as digestives and cocktail flavourings.
The botanical ingredients used in preparing bitters historically consist of aromatic herbs, bark, roots, and or fruit for their flavour and medicinal properties. Some of the more common ingredients are cascarilla, cassia, gentian, orange peel, and cinchona bark.
Most bitters contain water and alcohol, the latter of which functions as a solvent for botanical extracts as well as a preservative. The alcoholic strength of bitters varies widely across different brands and styles.
Indeed, plant extracts, now popularised as ‘herbal medicines,’ have been shown to prevent, treat, manage and cure several diseases from cough to cancer.
This proven efficacy has resulted in great patronage for any product that comes with the name ‘herbal’. Most companies are capitalising on this window to rip in more profits. From toothpaste to creams, health drinks to bread, the story is same.
The latest craze is herbal bitters.
The manufacturers in an aggressive marketing drive claim they are recipes for indigestion, weight loss, youthfulness, strength among others.
According to a Professor of Phytomedicine at the University of Benin, Edo State, MacDonald Idu, “If you are suffering wound infections and rashes, foods containing bitter principles are the best antidotes, while bitters are also indicated for treating skin disorders, fever, jaundice and loss of appetite.”
Idu said that several bitters components were bactericidal, germicidal and anti viral in their nature, as well anti inflammatory in effect. “Bitter foods are known to elevate the air mass element in your body and reduce the excess amount of ills in other elements. Oriental herbal texts indicate that herbal bitters are very light and cold in their nature and the typical taste is due to the presence of various components like caffeine, alkaloids and a bitter principle called berberine. The extreme dryness of bitters assists your body to get rid of excessive mucus, watery storage particles and help remove pus from the wounds,” he said.
Idu, however, urged caution on the use of packaged herbal bitters. He recommended home-made bitters, a combination of scent leaf, bitter leaf, Telfairia occidentalis leaf (ugu), Gongronema latifolium leaf (utazi in Igbo)) and lime peels blended into a juice and taken first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
“Avoid herbal bitters if you are pregnant or nursing and do not treat children with bitters. You should also avoid or stop taking bitters if you have been diagnosed with the following conditions: kidney disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s disease and chronic gall bladder issues,” Idu said.
He said that bitters could also cause adverse reactions if taken in combination with other drugs like sedatives, antidepressants and tetracycline antibiotics.
“Read the instructions and recommendations on the bottle carefully before you begin treatment and do not exceed the recommended dosage for bitters or any other herbal medication. You should always consult a physician before beginning treatment,” he said.
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Where did new UMC ministers go to seminary?
December 23, 2014 By Special Contributor to UMR 19 Comments
What sort of theological training has shaped the new clergy coming through the United Methodist Church’s pipeline?
I recently obtained some official statistics from the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM) about where United Methodists ordained in the United States last year received their seminary education. This includes a relatively small minority (less than five percent of the total) who received their ministerial education via our denomination’s “Course of Study” rather than the more traditional M.Div.
A couple summary observations are worth highlighting.
Asbury Theological Seminary, an independent evangelical institution in the Methodist tradition, maintains its dominant position. Of the 414 members of the ordination class of 2013, 64 (15.46 percent) went to Asbury, more than seven of our denomination’s thirteen official seminaries (Boston University School of Theology, Claremont, Drew, Gammon, Iliff, the Methodist Theological School of Ohio, and United) combined, continuing a long-time trend on which I have reported earlier. For those of you who like ratios, this means between one-in-seven and one-in-six newly ordained United Methodist ministers are Asburians.
Meanwhile, Claremont School of Theology and Iliff School of Theology, arguably our denomination’s most theologically radicalized seminaries, on which we spend a lot of offering-plate apportionments to prop up each year, only educated 4 (0.97 percent) and 10 (2.42 percent), respectively, of 2013 ordinands.
With 41 alumni entering the ranks of the ordained, Duke Divinity School maintains its position at the top of the UMC seminaries. Compared to a similar study of the ordination class of 2009 (which separately listed those ordained through the Course of Study), Duke saw its numbers fall rather significantly in the intervening four years. Over that same time period, Asbury saw its numbers slightly increase from 61 ordinands in 2009 (14.63 percent of that year’s class).
It is important to keep in mind that due to our denomination’s arduously long ordination process, there is a some inevitable lag time before differences in current student enrollment will be felt when alumni are finally ordained a couple years or more after graduation. Thus, the relatively unimpressive numbers for United Theological Seminary in the 2013 ordination class are probably related to it having been in really bad numerical shape a few years ago. Given how rapidly enrollment has increased since United’s newfound institutional commitment to historic Christian orthodoxy, we can expect much larger numbers of United grads among the ordination classes of the near future.
Winning the contest for the other denomination whose seminaries educate the most United Methodist ordinands is the Presbyterian Church (USA). Of the UMC class of 2013, 25 (6.04 percent) went to one of six PCUSA seminaries. Of course, despite that denomination’s recent hard-left turn, its seminaries are far from being a theological monolith.
Another 13 (3.14 percent) attended either a Southern Baptist or an independent, expressly evangelical – albeit perhaps with an “evangelical left” element – seminary (Ashland, Fuller, George Fox, and Gordon-Conwell).
It is also important to remember that plenty of people survive theological schools of a certain bent without ultimately reflecting the dominant perspective within their alma mater. After all, I’m an evangelical United Methodist who after three years of ultra-liberal Harvard Divinity School was no less theologically conservative than I was when I began.
Which non-UMC seminaries United Methodist seminarians go to is shaped in large part by our denomination’s University Senate. This body regularly decides which non-UMC schools will have their degrees accepted for United Methodist ordination. Over the years, they have removed quite a number of schools from the “approved” list, with such decisions often seeming to be driven by short-sighted institutional protectionism and perhaps theologically liberal biases rather than what is best for our seminarians or the long-term mission of our church. Rather than rushing to eliminate “competitors,” the University Senate would do better to actually look into why so few United Methodist seminarians want to go to liberal denominational seminaries like Boston University School of Theology, despite all the denominational pressure and financial incentives to do so. The University Senate’s removing evangelical Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary from the approved list 16 years ago, despite it being such a major national seminary with many United Methodist ties and an impressive track-record in urban and multi-cultural ministry, was a significant blow against faithfulness and effective ministry within the United Methodist Church. To be fair, we probably did not lose much when liberal seminaries like Andover-Newton were also de-listed.
Quite a number of the ordination class of 2013 attended seminaries not currently approved by the University Senate. I was told earlier by a GBHEM official that if everything else is in order, one’s seminary education at a non-UMC seminary will be accepted as long as that seminary was on the approved list at the time the student was enrolled, regardless of what the University Senate did later.
Without further ado, here are the full statistics for the seminary education of American United Methodism’s ordination class of 2013, with our denomination’s thirteen official seminaries in this country listed first:
School Ordinands % of Total
Duke 41 9.90%
Perkins 38 9.18%
Candler 34 8.21%
Garrett 23 5.56%
Saint Paul 17 4.11%
MTSO 16 3.86%
Wesley 16 3.86%
United 12 2.90%
Drew 11 2.66%
Iliff 10 2.42%
Boston 6 1.45%
Claremont 4 0.97%
Gammon 4 0.97%
Total UMC 232 56.04%
Asbury 64 15.46%
All other schools 118 28.50%
Phillips (DoC) 8 1.93%
Dubuque (PCUSA) 7 1.69%
Memphis Theological Seminary (Cumb) 7 1.69%
Christian Theological Seminary (DoC) 6 1.45%
Hood (AMEZ) 6 1.45%
Ashland 5 1.21%
Austin Presbyterian (PCUSA) 5 1.21%
Erskine (ARPC) 5 1.21%
Palmer (ABC) 5 1.21%
Princeton (PCUSA) 5 1.21%
Union Presbyterian (PCUSA) 5 1.21%
Fuller 4 0.97%
New York Theological Seminary 4 0.97%
Sioux Falls Seminary (NAB) 4 0.97%
Eden (UCC) 3 0.72%
New Brunswick Theological Seminary (RCA) 3 0.72%
Pacific School of Religion (UCC) 3 0.72%
Sewanee (EC) 3 0.72%
Vanderbilt 3 0.72%
Brite (DoC) 2 0.48%
Colgate (ABC) 2 0.48%
Gordon-Conwell 2 0.48%
Lancaster (UCC) 2 0.48%
Louisville Presbyterian (PCUSA) 2 0.48%
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (ELCA) 2 0.48%
Union-NYC 2 0.48%
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (UCC) 2 0.48%
Andrews (SDA) 1 0.24%
Chicago Theological Seminary (UCC) 1 0.24%
Eastern Mennonite (Menn) 1 0.24%
George Fox Evangelical 1 0.24%
Harvard Divinity 1 0.24%
Interdenominational Theological Center 1 0.24%
Moravian Theological Seminary (Mor) 1 0.24%
Northern Baptist (ABC) 1 0.24%
Pittsburgh (PCUSA) 1 0.24%
Southwestern Baptist (SBC) 1 0.24%
Yale 1 0.24%
Grand Total 414 100.00%
Key to abbreviations for denominational affiliations:
ABC = American Baptist Churches USA
AMEZ = African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
ARPC = Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Cumb = Cumberland Presbyterian Church
DoC = Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
EC = Episcopal Church
Menn = Mennonite Church USA
Mor = Moravian Church
NAB = North American Baptists
PCUSA = Presbyterian Church (USA)
RCA = Reformed Church in America
SBC = Southern Baptist
SDA = Seventh-Day Adventist Church
John Lomperis is a special contributor to UMR. This article originally appeared on his blog, found here.
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The United Methodist Reporter wants to encourage lively conversation about The United Methodist Church and our articles in the belief that Christian conversation (what Wesley would call conferencing) is a means of grace. While we support passionate debate, we cannot allow language that demeans or demonizes others, and we reserve the right to delete any comment we believe to be harmful or inappropriate. We encourage all to remember that we are all broken and in need of Christ's grace, and that we all see through the glass darkly until that time we when reach full perfection in love. May your speech here be tempered with love, and reflection of the fruits of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. After all, "There is no law against things like this." (Galatians 5:22-23)
Jim Harnish
Along with the obvious bias of the author, this article also misses one of the most significant factors for choosing a seminary, namely, geography. Particularly for second-career or married persons with families, the opportunity to get their education without relocating often trumps every other consideration. It’s not about “liberal” or “conservative” but about accessibility.
FWIW, here is an article about the University Senate doing some relatively recent “cullings” of seminaries on its approved list, with a rather abrupt lack of consultation. Bishop William Willimon, then a University Senate member, very explicitly described the reasoning as trying to eliminate competition for the sake of corraling students towards official UMC seminaries, rather than the seminaries they would otherwise choose: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/september/19.18.html
Keith A. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Mr. Lomperis, you state that “It is also important to remember that plenty of people survive theological schools of a certain bent without ultimately reflecting the dominant perspective within their alma mater. After all, I’m an evangelical United Methodist who after three years of ultra-liberal Harvard Divinity School was no less theologically conservative than I was when I began.” I cannot tell for sure who your intended audience was in this piece, but I sincerely hope whoever reads your article will not adopt your thinly veiled contempt for theological education, which you suggest must be “survived” with as less impact… Read more »
Mr. Jenkins, please expand on why you think it was a waste of time for Mr. Lomperis to go to Harvard. The implication–which smacks of elitism–seems to be that unless you embrace modern liberalism (as distinct from classical liberalism, which Mr. Lomperis has spoken favorably of), you have not been properly educated.
Well stated, TD. As a person who has attended classes at several universities in several states the liberal bias comes through loud and clear, and it has nothing to do with intelligence but, rather, a culture that has evolved over several decades. Why this is the case would be an interesting PhD dissertation, but it surely has something to do with 60’s draft evaders who stayed in school to avoid military service. Many of them are now tenured profs in their 60’s, having established a university culture that embraces all things liberal and eschews all things traditional.
George Nixon Shuler
There nothing more traditional than liberalism – its founders were the Old Testament patriarchs and Jesus Christ. “Liberally biased” is Faux Newspeak for “based in reality.”
TD wrote: “Theology schools affiliated with universities have been greatly influenced by their secular divisions, obviously, in these times. We all know the drill. Unless you embrace modern liberalism on the college campus today, you’re not legitimate, you’re not a true intellect, you’re not a full fledged member or your discipline ,or a peer equal of your colleagues. In fact, it is intellectually fashionable and academically enhancing to criticize and ridicule traditional Christianity and orthodox Christians. Thus, theology schools on these campuses are under tremendous pressure to conform. Unfortunately, many have conformed and abdicated their duty and mission in order… Read more »
James Capps
A number of years ago the University Senate dropped their accreditation of the Seminary I attended, Lexington Theological Seminary. They were told they didn’t have enough UM students enrolled at the time. I didn’t know that was criteria, they are a fully accredited school and affiliated with the Disciples Of Christ. At least one of our Bishops attended there at the same time I was there (Bishop Lindsay Davis), and they educated many UM’s for many years prior to their losing their status with the Senate.
Riley B. Case
Years ago when I was considering a seminary I was advised by some of the leaders of our conference to go the United Methodist seminary because, among other things, it was “diverse” and “balanced.” It was an interesting understanding of balance. There were professors who theologically and in other ways were extreme left, some were left, some were moderately left, several I would call were centrists. There were no true conservatives, no evangelicals, no fundamentalists, no charismatics. In short there was almost no one who would have sympathy with the kind of parishioners I was serving at the time. The… Read more »
Nathan Mattox
is this an opinion piece? Please UMR, I know it’s a busy time of year but don’t scrape the bottom of the juicy ecumenism barrel without saying what the source was and maybe consider editing out the worldly antagonistic gibberish from an otherwise informative piece. Love, your friendly neighborhood radicalized Claremont grad serving liberal bastions like Waldron, AR, Morris, OK, and Tulsa.
Does anyone know if the number for St. Paul’s reflect both the Kansas City (now Leawood) and Oklahoma City campuses combined?
A very good compendium of UMC seminary trends. This is information people in the pew rarely get. It’s important, especially today, that laity be aware of pastoral training. For example, in contrast to what has been suggested, if you are aware of the different programs and philosophical approaches at Claremont and Iliff Schools of Theology, I think it is reasonable to suggest they are, indeed, the most extreme of the UMC affiliated seminaries. This is the kind of information–e.g., that Claremont is a center for Process Theology–that should be readily available to any UMC member. Also, again in contrast to… Read more »
A few questions. How do I tell if a seminary has been radicalized? Are there signs on campus or something? Maybe they all get their news from MSNBC. Why should I care? If an ordained elder is preaching the doctrine and discipline of The UMC does it matter if he went to Harvard or got his MDiv off the back of a cereal box? Where he has been does not matter much to a pew sitter like me. Where he is taking me is what matters. What is the point of this article?
It depends upon who is using the term. Jesus Christ as portrayed in the Gospels was certainly a “radical” by today’s standards. I’d have to say UM theology School faculty are not exactly firebrands by and large. But you will find few who believe Faux News gives them “the truth,” and that shows they are not idiots.
Jeff Reed
The author clearly has no idea of how schools are added/deleted by the University Senate; some good journalism would go along way to clarifying some of the misconceptions that are presented in the article. Furthermore, the author seems to be making the claim that students are preferring ‘conservative’ seminaries to ‘liberal’ ones (I mean come out and say it, don’t dance around your thesis here!) but fails to consider the admission requirements, geographic location of the school, and a multitude of other factors. News flash, it is more difficult to be admitted to Duke, Emory, or Perkins than it is… Read more »
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For a while now, I've been meaning to bug Ottmar to tell some stories about his songs. See, the majority of his tracks have no vocals, so you're left wondering how and why he named them; here are a few geographically-named tracks about which, as a traveler, I've always been curious:
Milan in September (from Euphoria)
Turkish Night (from Opium)
Sao Paulo (from The Santa Fe Sessions)
Havana Club (also from Euphoria)
Montana Walking (also from Opium)
I know he's done a bunch of traveling, as a teenage vagabond as well as an internationally-acclaimed musician, so I just know there are some fascinating stories behind his music. It's likely that I've missed some in his archive, but it looks like he's started telling us about them:
"Bombay was written in memory of a now defunct ferry from Bombay to Goa, sadly no longer operating according to Steve Hillage with whom I talked about the Goa scene a few years back. Actually, I wrote two songs about that ferry-ride in 1978 after waking up from a dream about the experience in 1993. Morning Arrival in Goa is, of course, the second of the pair, which both appeared for the first time on The Hours between Night + Day
It was a spectacular trip that started around 10 or 11 at night in Bombay harbor and ended in Goa after the sun rose. What a sun rise!!! The sun coming up over the ocean competet with a lighthouse on the coast as the ship reached the harbor in Goa. I had bought a third or fourth class ticket, which entitled me to sleeping on deck. I figured, while being the cheapest option, it was also a sure way to catch the sun rise."
I hope he turns this into a series... (wink wink!)
TiVo, back in the day
It's All About The Customer
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Zarte Siempre
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“Areola?”
Zarte Siempre, five years later in Series 78.
Zarte Siempre holding the Richard Whiteley Memorial Trophy after winning Series 78.
Zarte Siempre was a contestant in Series 69, an octochamp in and the champion of Series 78 and the winner of Championship of Champions XV, with the highest cumulative score over a single series: 1,331. The equal-most televised contestant ever (with Conor Travers), Siempre is a long-time member of Apterous and c4countdown, and is the innovator and former chair of FOCAL. His contributions to the game, wicked sense of humour, dapper attire and consistently high-scoring gameplay make him one of the most popular members of the Countdown community. He is also head of the Meringue Defence League and is directly descended from Genghis Khan and Dann 'Bi Clog' Camiltoes. As of 2018, Siempre holds three Michelin stars - two more than Marcus Wareing.
Siempre made his televised debut on 24 July 2013, delivering a convincing 118 – 76 defeat to Rory Coleman. Four more victories followed, including a top score of 137 (at the time, the eighth highest score ever) before losing at the hands of eventual runner-up Dylan Taylor both in the Countdown contest and the personality stakes, although Siempre's win in their backstage beauty contest offered some consolation as he triumphantly maxed the swimwear round. In his heats, Siempre averaged 109.33 points per game - the highest ever average for a non-octochamp. He didn't make the finals despite scoring 656 points, 48 points higher than the number 8 seed Gemma Church, but he only amassed 5 wins compared to Church's 6. Notably, during his third game, Siempre’s declaration of AREOLA caused non-stop laughter in the studio for 15 minutes. This blooper was televised in an episode of It’ll Be Alright On The Night.
Siempre eventually returned to the programme nearly five years later, in Series 78, for another chance to make the finals. In his first return appearance, on 1 March 2018, he powered past fellow Apterite Philip Aston to end Aston's run in his seventh game. This time, Siempre's octorun was not halted as he racked up seven further victories, all with scores well over a century, including - for the first time ever - a run of three consecutive totals over 125. Siempre's octototal of 967 points made him the standout provisional #1 seed, as well as the second highest scoring octochamp of all time behind only Dylan Taylor himself.
Three months later, in his quarter-final match against Jan Pask, he amassed 124 points and won by 105, the biggest winning margin ever recorded in any finals match. Siempre thus advanced to the semi-finals to take on #4-ranked Phil Davies. This match was extremely close, with Siempre's first-round disallowal of disagreer ☓ meant that Davies maintained the lead through the second commercial break. Ultimately, however, Siempre recovered with two further letters spots to confirm his victory after the final numbers round. He then zoomed off to the green room to change his trousers and enter the grand final dressed as a snooker player, before hysterically laughing at Philip Aston dramatically declaring GAYNESS in his semi-final.
In the ultimate show of the series - a rematch of himself against Aston - Siempre took an early 8-point lead with REPUSHED, but then lost it after having superking x disallowed. The scoreline was 118 - 118 (the highest ever in a Grand Final) going into the crucial conundrum USEDLOGIC. Zarte answered with GLUCOSIDE in 10 seconds to seal victory and setting a new record for the highest score ever achieved in a Grand Final in the process. His “xicount” total accumulated over his 11 shows is a record 1,331 points, breaking Dylan Taylor’s record by 12 points.
Siempre returned to Championship of Champions XV in January 2019, where he faced Paul Erdunast in the first round for a highly-anticipated match between the two highest-scoring “xicounts” of the tournament. The game was decided only by the letters rounds: Siempre took the lead with RELEASOR, but Erdunast levelled the scoreline with his finding of AUTODYNE. But Erdunast fell 8 behind again after his invalid play of noshiest x lost to Siempre’s SHOOTIES. With neither player unravelling the crucial conundrum AMRESTIVE, Siempre won the match with a score of 113 to Erdunast’s 105.
Siempre then faced fellow octochamp Thomas Carey in the last Quarter-final. Here, Siempre showed no sign of slowing in a game with 4 nine-letter words available. Siempre and Carey found LARCENOUS in round 1, but Siempre quickly thundered into a 36-point lead with BLOWSIEST and DIVAGATED beating Carey’s BLOWIEST and DIVAGATE in rounds 4 and 5 respectively to storm to 82 points out of 82, the highest ever score after 6 rounds. Despite Carey clawing back with his play of TIRAMISUS in round 12, Siempre maxed the final letters round, solved the last numbers round and the conundrum to win with a score of 150, the highest ever achieved in the history of Countdown. The players’ combined score of 272 is also the highest ever. His win set up a "threematch" between him and Philip Aston: only the second proper threematch ever, after Natascha Kearsey vs Peter Cashmore. Here, Siempre scored 106 points – his lowest score since returning to the show – but it was enough after Aston had maderiser ☓ disallowed to fall behind yet again. Siempre is the first contestant ever to beat the same player 3 times.
Siempre’s final match was against Series 77 runner-up Bradley Horrocks. Once again, Siempre took the lead with an opening-round spot of HEDARIM and won the third numbers round (this time picking 3 large). Before the final numbers round, Siempre became the fifteenth Champion of Champions, and in doing so joined Harvey Freeman, Nic Brown, Don Reid, Scott Mearns and Graham Nash in an elite band of Grand Slam winners. His cumulative score across his entire run is 2,472 points, more than any other contestant, and he also shares Conor Travers’s record for the most wins (20) on Countdown.
Off-screen
His Co-event career began when he attended CobliviLon in 2012, actually winning 7 games out of 6. However, history has unfortunately and cruelly been amended so that it officially says that he came in 18th place, which is still respectable, especially as he was crouching for the entirety of the tournament.
This was followed up by an appearance at Lincoln in 2013, where he finished in a solid 15th place with 4 wins out of 6. He later went to CO:REA 2013, finishing on 3 wins and 463 points to ensure another top-15 finish. Siempre was also the overall victor in Group B at Countdown in Leamington Spa, winning a magical unicycle and a leprechaun in the process. In the same year, he co-hosted CobliviLon with Amie Bateen.
2014 saw him come runner-up to Series 63 champion Jack Hurst at COLIN X, while in August he won CoMultiLon after the final against James Robinson was cancelled - with Siempre having the most points throughout the day, he was declared the winner. Later that evening, he won the inaugural Apterous Ring Of Fire tournament, having seen off Jamie 'Laverty' McNeill with a reference to Stiliyan Petrov's scrotum. He has since won Countdown in St Albans 2016.
In 2015, he launched his own Co-event in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. In his fourth edition, he introduced 10-letter conundrums for the first time.
His contributions to Apterous have included organising the long-running Aptotude League series and, until 2017, an Apterous version of the Belgian reality television gameshow The Mole, famed for irritating anyone who wanted to play a spot on Saturday Night Apterous.
In 2018, he won the Apterous 10th Birthday Championship.
Siempre competed in the 2018 FOCAL Finals as the #4 seed, and finished in 3rd place, winning 4 out of 7 games.
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5739 24/07/2013 P Rory Coleman 76 – 118 Zarte Siempre Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 130
5740 25/07/2013 P Zarte Siempre 114 – 34 Ian Talbot Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 127
5741 26/07/2013 P Zarte Siempre 103 – 49 Brenda Widger Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 123
5742 29/07/2013 P Zarte Siempre 137 – 41 Michelle Furnell Dan Walker Susie Dent 143
5743 5/08/2013 P Zarte Siempre 103 – 26 Sam Wheeler Dan Walker Susie Dent 124
5744 6/08/2013 P Zarte Siempre 81 – 120 Dylan Taylor Dan Walker Susie Dent 121
6774 1/03/2018 P Philip Aston 97 – 121 Zarte Siempre Myleene Klass Susie Dent 135
6775 2/03/2018 P Zarte Siempre 111 – 64 Keith Howkins Myleene Klass Susie Dent 124
6776 5/03/2018 P Zarte Siempre 118 – 70 Donal Casey Myleene Klass Susie Dent 124
6777 6/03/2018 P Zarte Siempre 128 – 23 Jonathan Stoneman Liz Bonnin Susie Dent 132
6778 7/03/2018 P Zarte Siempre 130 – 62 Patrick Gray Liz Bonnin Susie Dent 144
6779 8/03/2018 P Zarte Siempre 130 – 39 Dave Burch Liz Bonnin Susie Dent 145
6780 9/03/2018 P Zarte Siempre 118 – 29 Steve Shingleton Liz Bonnin Susie Dent 123
6781 12/03/2018 P Zarte Siempre 111 – 65 Anthony Jenkin Liz Bonnin Susie Dent 125
6847 14/06/2018 QF Zarte Siempre 124 – 19 Jan Pask Helen Fospero Susie Dent 133
6851 20/06/2018 SF Zarte Siempre 112 – 88 Phil Davies Helen Fospero Susie Dent 123
6853 22/06/2018 GF Zarte Siempre 128 – 118 Philip Aston Paul Zenon Susie Dent 136
6984 8/01/2019 CP Paul Erdunast 105 – 113 Zarte Siempre Kate Humble Susie Dent 131
6991 17/01/2019 CQF Thomas Carey 122 – 150 Zarte Siempre Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 168
6992 18/01/2019 CSF Philip Aston 73 – 106 Zarte Siempre Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 129
6994 22/01/2019 CGF Zarte Siempre 116 – 83 Bradley Horrocks Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 123
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Mike Farris - The Night The Cumberland Came Alive
2010, Entertainment One Music
Mike Farris first caught the public eye as front man for The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies. He went on to perform with CSW, Peaceful Knievel and Double Trouble (Stevie Ray Vaughan's band) before becoming a practicing Christian and rejecting his former lifestyle. In the time since, Farris has become a highly lauded performer in Gospel music, blending Americana, folk and blues into the mix. His album Salvation In Lights made numerous critics lists in 2007, and Farris has been a regular performer in Nashville and at major festivals ever since. Like so many others, Farris was deeply affected by last year's "thousand year flood" in Nashville and its environs. On October 26, 2010, Farris releases The Night The Cumberland Came Alive", a six song EP that commemorates the event and celebrates the revitalization of the entire area.
Recorded just weeks after the flood, The Night The Cumberland Came Alive boasts an all-star cast of musicians, including Sam Bush; Kenny Vaughan (Marty Stuart); Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor and Gill Landy, The McCrary Sisters, Byron House (Robert Plant) and members of Farris' Roseland Rhythm Revue. The EP opens with the title track. Written about the flood and its aftermath, "The Night The Cumberland Came Alive" is pure pre-war Americana and Gospel and is full of the sort of energy that can only be inspired by great tragedy and triumph. "Wrapped Up, Tangled Up" is a witness song in the Southern Gospel tradition. Farris is amazing on vocals here in a powerful and moving arrangement. "Down On Me" blends blues, folk and gospel in an inspired if somewhat tempered rendition. Farris and Ketch Secor wrote "Dear Lazarus" just days before the EP was recorded. The cut offered here gets a bit busy at times, but was essentially a jam. Exuberance aside, you can hear the magic in the moment of the song. "Mother Earth" is a song of humility in the face of then-recent events, a reminder that people spring forth from the earth and in time owe themselves back to whence they came. Farris closes with "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me", an inspired tune and great close to what must have been a magical experience.
The Night The Cumberland Came Alive reflects the joy and thankfulness of a people who have stared destruction in the face and lived to talk about it. It's a transitive moment and one that is captured in fine form by Mike Farris and friends. This EP is a gift to all humanity, not so much even for the music but because it captures the moment so perfectly and completely. That's not a knock on the songs on The Night The Cumberland Came Alive; the entire EP is a first class listening experience. This one's special.
Learn more about Mike Farris at www.mikefarrismusic.net or www.myspace.com/mikefarrismusic. The Night The Cumberland Came Alive drops on October 26, 2010, but you can pre-order the album on CD or as a Download from Amazon.com. A portion of the proceeds from The Night The Cumberland Came Alive will go toward feeding and clothing the homeless of Nashville.
Labels: Double Trouble, Marty Stuart, Mike Farris, Screamin Cheetah Wheelies, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The McCrary Sisters, The Old Crow Medicine Show
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A few days back I posted a link to my Clash review of the recent Kraftwerk Catalog set. That was the original version, and the one that was published. But I was also asked to produce an album-by-album version to fit in with a larger feature. In truth, I prefer it to the one they went with in the end. Ho hum.
Kraftwerk - The Catalog
You already know Kraftwerk, of course. That’s right, the robot guys. Techno pop and “fahren, fahren, fahren auf der autobahn”. Given that this retrospective box set of Düsseldorf’s finest export has been on the cards for six years now, you could be forgiven for thinking that it might highlight another side of the band with unreleased material. Or, like the Beatles remasters, polish up the old songs and make them sound box fresh and brand new again.
Well it doesn’t. Not even a little.
No, what we have here is a straight up reissue of the canonical Kraftwerk: the eight core albums, including The Mix, but not a trace of their long out of print first three records, or live document Minimum-Maximum. And don’t go expecting any unheard material. This ain’t no Neil Young Archives, son. According to the band this is all they have, and the sole “new” track here is an old remix, slotted into the Techno Pop track listing.
Sure, the remasters are nice, giving everything a deeper, richer sound, but they’re hardly a revelation. If you already own these albums there’s no need to double-dip.
Still, there’s no escaping that this is some of the finest, most evocative and influential electronic music ever recorded. And unlike those mono Beatles sets, you can buy the albums separately. But which ones should you pick?
Autobahn (1974)
Despite what you may have heard, there is more to this album than the title track. There’s the industrial horror of ‘Mitternacht’, and the two parts of ‘Kometenmelodie’ are a clever exercise in light and shade. But really, you’re here for ‘Autobahn’ itself. An unlikely international hit and their most iconic song, it’s compelling for every one of its 22 minutes thanks to that gorgeous melody and Beach Boys aping chorus.
Radio-Activity (1975)
Poor Radio-Activity. Sandwiched between two acknowledged classics, and lacking in any of the hits, it’s always looked like a bit of a slouch in comparison. With shorter tracks and more of a vocal presence than its predecessor, it should be an easier album to love, yet it lacks Autobahn’s joy. Still, the title track is darkly funny and in the album’s electronic whispers, legions of techno artists found their inspiration.
Trans-Europe Express (1977)
Techno overlord Carl Craig once described Kraftwerk as, “so stiff, they were funky”. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the clattering rhythms of this, their finest album. A more diverse record than Autobahn, an album it shares thematic similarities with, it also includes ‘Europe Endless’, a euphoric, open-hearted love letter to the continent and the cynical synthpunk of ‘Showroom Dummies’. Their finest hour.
The Man Machine (1978)
While their previous three albums had proved that Kraftwerk were capable of producing great singles, they hadn’t made an all out pop album – until now. ‘Spacelab’ has a disco groove, which sounds like the missing link between Donna Summer and an old piece of library music, while ‘Neon Lights’ wouldn’t seem out of place on an LCD Soundsystem album. Their most contemporary sounding record, it’s perhaps not as rewarding over the long-term as earlier efforts, but you’ll be too busy dancing to care.
Computer World (1983)
Fans may have been shocked when Wolfgang Flür’s biography revealed that Kraftwerk weren’t really androids, but a gang of horny young men, but it’s obvious here and on The Man Machine. From longing for a “rendezvous” on ‘Computer Love’ to the model about to be taken home, this is sex pop for robot romps.
It’s also the beginning of the end. Computer World is a very good album, but over-familiarity has set in. There’s no shock of the new, as on previous records and this feels like The Man Machine’s poorer cousin.
Techno Pop (1986)
The album formerly known as Electric Café had a troublesome birth, blighted by Ralf Hütter’s nasty cycling accident and with recording dragging out over five years. For the first time Kraftwerk seemed to be struggling for ideas. Sure, ‘Musique Non Stop’ is jolly enough, but did it really need stretching across half the album? Shortly after its release, the Kling Klang studio went into lockdown and members started to drift away. It was the last full Kraftwerk album for fourteen years.
The Mix (1991)
This 1991 disc is the closest Kraftwerk ever got to an official greatest hits package, taking all of their big hitters, except for ‘The Model’ weirdly, and giving them a nineties reinterpretation. Unfortunately, that largely just means adding a tinny house beat. It works on a few of the tracks; ‘Radioactivity’ is transformed into a fairly convincing floor-filler, and ‘Autobahn’ gets to the point in half the time. But for the most part this simply succeeds in making Kraftwerk sound both more dated and conventional than the original tracks.
Tour De France (2003)
For a band who spent so long as innovators, it’s peculiar that their first (and so far only) album this millennium revisits a single from 1983. There are no less than four versions of Tour De France here. It’s nice enough, sure, but hardly in their top flight. Newer songs like ‘Aero Dynamik’ and ‘Vitamin’ are better, sounding how you imagine Kraftwerk. v2.0 should sound – upgraded and more efficiently funky than ever. Still, they’re slim pickings on an over-long and not always compelling record.
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You Must Ask
[by Fred Lynch in Chelsea, Massachusetts]
Continuing on my sketchbook investigation of family history and immigration.
Often when I’m drawing, I think I’m invisible. People usually treat me that way, too. People don’t tend to interact.
Where the O’Connors lived in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1908, no one lives now. At the address is a car repair shop as well as a taxi business, surrounded by a tall chain link fence. The property sits on a street of light industry by the railroad tracks. Visiting, I was immediately interested in drawing the old cab with four flat tires by the entrance. However, the fence was closed and locked. Returning another day, the gate was open, but a nicer taxi blocked the view of the one I wanted to draw. A third time, the lighting was terrible, with the sun behind dark clouds. Being persistent, I returned a fourth time and stepped just inside the now open front gate and sat to draw with pleasure. I had caught my prey.
However, not long after I was settled in, a truck pulled up from across the long parking lot and a gruff voice called out to me.
“Excuse me!” called a man in the truck with what I guessed to be an Eastern European accent.
I popped up and swiftly walked over with my sketchbook to show him what I was up to. I was sure he’d be flattered and interested.
“I’m an artist and I’m making a drawing of this place where my immigrant ancestors lived back in…” I blurted out, into the open passenger-side window.
The man cut me off mid-sentence with an “I don’t care what you are doing.” He made no eye contact, he looked straight ahead out the windshield.
I tried again, “…my family came here long ago and I’m drawing to…”
“This is my property.” He sternly told his steering wheel.
I quickly turned the page of my sketchbook to my drawing of the local church and told him that I was drawing all around the neighborhood. He turned just enough to see the church drawing.
“You must ask.” He said. “You must ask to do things on my property.” It was his place now.
Beginning to feel uncomfortable, I then apologized profusely, and asked politely if could stay, and told him that I meant no harm.
He barely nodded and said “You must ask people.”
I thanked him and he drove back out of the lot. Not once had he looked at my face.
I should have asked.
I drew on with less pleasure, but with just as much interest.
Leaving, I stopped and thought about how my ancestors, according to old maps, would have overlooked a busy industrial railroad across the street back in 1908. I wondered what it was that was across the street now—this nondescript building that attracted such busy traffic by car and by foot. People coming, people going. Three young women passed by, one griping of “false positives.” Searching online, I found that this building is a methedone clinic.
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HomeAuto ComponentsTyresCeatCEAT introduces Securadrive Tyres for Hyundai Verna
CEAT introduces Securadrive Tyres for Hyundai Verna
21st September 2017 Jas Ceat, General, Hyundai, India 0
Comfortable and safe drive at high speed control
National/Mumbai, 21 September 2017: CEAT Limited, a leading Indian tyre manufacturer launches a new range of tyres ‘CEAT Securadrive’, especially designed for Hyundai Verna. These tyres are used for new Hyundai Verna model to ensure safer and comfortable drive at high speeds.
‘CEAT Securadrive’ tyres have wide longitudinal grooves and chamfered shoulder blocks for effective braking, strong grip and control of the vehicle even on wet roads. The computerized optimum pitch noise helps in lowering the vehicle clattering sound. . Additionally, the use of a new generation compound benefits with superior control at higher speeds while ensuring safety of the driver.
In comparison with other benchmarked popular tyres, ‘CEAT Securadrive’ has proven better in two of the critical parameters i.e., dry – brake performance and overall noise. The overall performance has been a level up than the existing leading tyres in the segment.
Commenting on the tyres, Nitish Bajaj, CEAT Vice President -Marketing, said: “It has been a pleasure to be associated with Hyundai Verna, as the vehicle truly tests the limit of the tyre. We are glad to deliver tyres as per Hyundai’s expectations of high power speed while maintaining safety of the passenger and driver on a priority. Our objective has always been to produce best in class solutions for our customers making their travel safer and smarter, and this is one more such effort in the same direction.”
About CEAT Ltd (www.ceat.com):
CEAT, the flagship company of RPG Enterprises, was established in 1958. Today, CEAT is one of India’s leading tyre manufacturers and has strong presence in global markets. CEAT produces over 15 million tyres a year and offers the widest range of tyres to all segments and manufactures world-class radials for: heavy-duty trucks and buses, light commercial vehicles, earthmovers, forklifts, tractors, trailers, cars, motorcycles and scooters as well as auto-rickshaws.
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Mumbai head-quartered RPG Enterprises is one of India’s largest industrial conglomerates. With over 15 companies in its fold, the group has a strong presence across core business sectors such as Infrastructure, Tyre, IT and Specialty. Established in 1979, RPG Enterprises is one of India’s fastest growing business groups with a turnover a turnover in excess of Rs.22,000 crore
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Interesting NFL Stats After Week 4 Part 1 The Strongest MVP Candidates as of NFL Week 6
Interesting NFL Stats After Week 4 Part 2
On October 6, 2015, in Sporting News, by admin
Continuing the interesting NFL stats taken from week 4 in NFL, we see more numbers from victories and scores from players throughout their careers even marking them in a unique statistic as the case of Adam Vinatieri taken a record for different franchises, we conclude week 4 with these stats and more soon to come as we enter week 5 and these records might be broken or added to the already incredible statistic only time will tell, we start:
From the Windy City. Matt Forte gained 91 yards rushing and 64 receiving on Sunday against the Raiders in his 111th game, to help him become the second player in NFL history to reach the 8,000 fastest rushing yards (8,071) and 3,500 receiving yards (3,860). Marshall Faulk did it in 107 games.
100 home wins. In addition to the Broncos victory last Sunday, Peyton Manning (100) joins Brett Favre (113) as the only quarterbacks to reach 100 victories playing at home in their careers.
With a lot of work. The Colts beat the Jaguars in overtime last Sunday to get to his15 in a row victory in Division, tying the 1972-73 Dolphins with the longest streak of divisional wins since 1970.
The 1,000 points club. With the 3 field goals from Adam Vinatieri against the Jaguars he reached 1,004 points in his career as a Colt which together with the 1,158 points he got playing for the Patriots from 1996 to 2005, he becomes the only player in history to get 1,000+ points in 2 different franchises.
Making history in Cincinnati. With the win against the Chiefs, the Bengals were able for the first time ever getting more than 300 yards passing and four rushing touchdowns in the same game. Also Andy Dalton has a quarterback rating of 123.0 so far this season, the highest rating for any quarterback in the history of the Bengals in that span. From Carson Palmer in 2006, they did not have a quarterback rating of 120.0 increased in three consecutive games.
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« Hollywood Bohemians: Transgressive Sexuality and the Selling of the Movieland Dreams, by Brett L. Abrams Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969, by William J. Mann »
“The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood” by Diana McLennan
From the publisher’s book description:
THE GIRLS lifts the veil on the private lives of early Hollywood’s most powerful and uninhibited goddesses…The most unforgettable and immortal women of Hollywood’s golden era thrilled to a hidden world of exciting secrets. In THE GIRLS, Diana McLellan reveals the complex and intimate connections that roiled behind the public personae of Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and the women who loved them. Previously unseen FBI files, private correspondence and a trove of unpublished documents reveal a chain of lesbian affairs that moved from the theater world of New York through the heights of chic society to embed itself in the power structure of the movie business.
Why did Garbo and Dietrich deny knowing each other to the bitter end? THE GIRLS documents how they not only knew one another, but the swoon that started their ill-starred amour. How did Garbo-worshipper Tallulah Bankhead save Dietrich’s career? FBI files make it clear how an intervention with J. Edgar Hoover helped. When was Marlene Dietrich first married? Not when her official biography claimed she was-an early marriage to a sexy, smoky communist was hushed up; THE GIRLS shows how and why.
From the uninhibited appeal of lover-to-the-stars Mercedes de Acosta to the role of Garbo’s lover Salka Viertel in torpedoing her career, from the sapphic world of silent star Alla Nazimova’s Garden of Alla to Rudolph Valentino’s lesbian brides, THE GIRLS explores a rich stew of film, politics, sexuality, psychology and stardom.
Reader reviews on Amazon:
Fascinating Girl-Centric View of Hollywood
I really enjoy reading bios of the stars of Hollywood during its golden era. “The Girls” offers a needed corrective to the male-dominated perspective taken in the usual Hollywood expose. Her focus on Dietrich, Bankhead and Garbo gives the book a continuity to really assess the impact of lesbianism in Hollywood. But the tide also brings in some fascinating silent stars, and many others including Barbara Stanwyck and Marilyn Monroe. The political insights into the HUAC hearings and the studios’ fickleness on the issue of gay love makes this book an essential political history for the period. Ms. McLellan takes no prisoners as she writes the real “All About Eve”.
Who-was-who-with who
This book should find a wide, appreciative audience. It captivates with the three beautiful women gracing the jacket, and sweeps the reader along with a stream of gossipy news. Everyone seems to have a mention, from the major players, (The Girls of the title) to fascinating parentheticals (Nancy Reagan). Film buffs will enjoy the exploration of a long suppressed area of Hollywood history, finding endless anecdotes of film-society life, a who-was-who of lesbian Hollywood. Love-matches are made, vows are broken, dirt is dished, Dietrich betrays Garbo’s intimate secrets, and we are party to it all. Diana McLellan weaves a fascinating tapestry, that entertains and informs. She does far more, however, by probing the motives of women caught in the gears as American society turned down a prudish path, dragging Hollywood moguls along. If it’s hard for lesbian and gay performers to be out in 2000, how must it have been in 1920? McLellan had a difficult task in unearthing deeply buried secrets, but she makes a compelling case that her deductions are correct. Of particular interest is her questioning the claim, made by both Dietrich and Garbo that they had never met, until formally introduced in Hollywood. Stuff and nonsense, says McLellan. Her evidence that the two women not only met, but were lovers, is central to the book’s theme. (One would wish the Fatty Arbuckle scandal had been treated with more skepticism, but that’s a quibble on my part.) This book is better than a night at most movies!
Martin Turnbull | Jul 18, 2013
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Topics: Alla Nazimova, Diana McLennan
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Top 15 Director/Actor Collaborations
There’s a reassurance that instinctually accompanies a fruitful director/actor collaboration. As soon as we hear that one of our favorite directors is once again teaming up with one of our favorite actors, an immediate excitement takes hold. Even if we don’t end up liking their most recent effort, we take solace in the fact that they’ve delivered before, and will surely deliver again.
This is a good time to reiterate the purpose of lists on this site. Every single list on post here is simply my opinion. I would never insist that, for example, the 15 collaborations listed below are the 15 best director/actor collaborations of all time. These are simply my favorite director/actor collaborations. Which, of course, I hope you enjoy. And as there are many others to choose from, please feel free to share your favorite pairs as well!
Note: I’ve only considered collaborations that have produced at least four films. There were too many great three-film collabs, so limiting it to four allowed me to open things up a bit.
15. Quentin Tarantino/Samuel L. Jackson
Why? Because Quentin Tarantino is one of the most uniquely influential screenwriters to ever grace the medium, and Samuel L. Jackson was born to speak his lines. Rufus… he’s the man.
14. Federico Fellini/Marcello Mastroianni
One could argue that the Fellini/Mastroianni collaboration occasionally produced weak results. But the way I see it, few films are more accomplished than La Dolce Vita and 8 ½. Two glorious examples of an actor and director exploring a new vision, and reinventing the wheel in the process.
13. Billy Wilder/Jack Lemmon
Does absurdist comedy get better than Some Like It Hot? Does comedic desperation ever succeed The Apartment? Say what you will about Widler and Lemmon’s later films, their first two (or three, or four) are cinematic staples that will endure forever.
12. Wong Kar-Wai/Tony Leung
I love how Kar-Wai’s films have a way of just washing over me. They’re so poetic and beautiful, and Leung has proven to be the best possible facilitator to execute Kar-Wai’s fluid vision.
11. Paul Thomas Anderson/Philip Seymour Hoffman
I have no words. From the impossibly humorous way in which he shot craps in Hard Eight, to the coldly melancholic manner in which he sang “Slow Boat to China” in The Master, never was Philip Seymour Hoffman as consistently good as he was through Anderson’s lens. Rest well, fine sir.
10. Alfred Hitchcock/Jimmy Stewart
This is career reinvention at its finest. Before his collaboration with Hitch, Jimmy Stewart was the good ol’ boy. The man who fought for us – who rallied our cries and sang our praises. Then Hitch turned him into an obsessive, manipulative, conniving asshole. And I loved every frame of it.
9. John Cassavetes/Gena Rowlands
John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands were married for 35 years, creating a lifetime of love, three children, and seven works of cinematic art. Rowlands’ work in A Woman Under the Influence remains the best female acting performance I’ve ever seen. What trust it must have taken to bring that character to life.
8. John Huston/Humphrey Bogart
How can you possibly pick a favorite? The Maltese Falcon is as potboiler noir as it gets, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre captures madness hauntingly, Key Largo is shamelessly entertaining, and The African Queen is a mix of both Huston and Bogart’s best qualities as artists. A genuinely impeccable collaboration.
7. Jean-Luc Godard/Anna Karina
Godard and Karina were lovers who carried the fire of their tumultuous marriage over to the big screen. A Woman Is a Woman is pop French New Wave at its finest, and Vivre sa vie… forget about it. Seldom has the plight of a woman been better realized on film.
6. Woody Allen/Mia Farrow
Given current events, it seems dangerous to talk about this collaboration today. But no matter the he said-she said family horror that these two suffer through, the 13 films they made together deserved to be remembered. For my money, movies don’t get much better than Another Woman, but as far as Farrow’s acting goes, The Purple Rose of Cairo is her crowning achievement. That final scene. That. Final. Scene.
5. Akira Kurosawa/Toshirō Mifune
Again, how the hell can you pick a favorite? Damn near all of the Kurosawa/Mifune films are classics, but I suppose Seven Samurai is the best evidence of their collaborative strength. The film remains, in a word, astonishing.
4. Werner Herzog/Klaus Kinski
What I love most about the Herzog/Kinksi collaboration is that these two really, genuinely, truly detested one another. Since Kinski’s death, Herzog has been asked countless times why he continued to work with Kinski. Considering the actor’s erratic behavior, why not just cast someone else? “There was no one better,” Herzog often quips. A true testament to the work outweighing the personal bullshit.
3. Ingmar Bergman/Max von Sydow
This collaboration reads like a roll call of perfection. Together, Bergman and von Sydow made a handful of the best films ever committed to celluloid. Their work has been copied, parodied, celebrated and adored for more than half a century, and will continue to do as such. If you’re a fan of von Sydow, I highly recommend watching Shame, Hour of the Wolf and The Passion of Anna in quick succession. It’s basically a trilogy of Max von Sydow slowing going insane. And it is utterly mesmerizing.
2. Martin Scorsese/Robert De Niro
This is the one we all talk about, and for damn good reason. Scorsese and De Niro started at the same time – developing their respective crafts together, from the beginning. Two New York kids who grew up two miles apart and connected at a time when they were both looking to change things. And boy, did they ever.
1. Ingmar Bergman/Liv Ullmann
For me, film collaborations don’t get better than Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann. The films they made together have had such an indelible impact on my life – creatively, artistically, and humanly. The other day, I rewatched the masterful Passion of Anna and was reminded why I love film. The combination of Bergman’s experimental, patient style and Ullmann’s pained innocence is something I find endlessly compelling. And consider this: out of the 10 films they made together, I would rank The Passion of Anna eighth. That leaves a hell of a lot of room for greatness.
On Their Way
Steve McQueen/Michael Fassbender
Give it some time. McQueen and Fassbender will widely be considered one of the inarguable, all-time great film collaborations soon enough.
Fifteen More I Love
John Ford/John Wayne: 21 films
Ingmar Bergman/Bibi Andersson: 13 films
Richard Linklater/Ethan Hawke: 8 films
Wes Anderson/Bill Murray: 7 films
François Truffaut/Jean-Pierre Léaud: 7 films
Joel and Ethan Coen/Steve Buscemi: 6 films
David Lean/Alec Guinness: 6 films
David Mamet/William H. Macy: 6 films
Yasujirō Ozu/Setsuko Hara: 6 films
Steven Soderbergh/George Clooney: 6 films
Lars von Trier/Stellan Skarsgård: 6 films
Pedro Almodóvar/Penélope Cruz: 5 films
Nicole Holofcener/Catherine Keener: 5 films
Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio: 5 films
Spike Lee/Denzel Washington: 4 films
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Very, very glad you mentioned McQueen and Fassbender. They are both talented at what they do and they make great movies together. I also completely agree that Jackson was born to speak Tarantino's lines; Pulp Fiction would not be the same if someone else played Jules.
Alex Withrow April 24, 2014 at 7:18 PM
McQueen and Fassbender were born to make films together. Those three films are masterpieces of the art form. Love them.
Interesting, Paul Calderon was originally cast as Jules in Pulp. And while I'm sure it was awful to recast him at the last second, there is only one Jules, and he is Samuel L.
No problem! I didn't actually know that about Calderon, thanks for pointing that at!
My pleasure! I'm kind of obsessed with that film (it's my 2nd fave of all time), so I'm glad I could throw some trivia your way!
I don't blame you, everything about Pulp Fiction is perfect. Tarantino really nailed the non-linear narrative.
Alex Withrow April 25, 2014 at 10:32 AM
Oh definitely. Hey, are you on Twitter? I love what you're doing at I Saved Latin..., and I'm always looking to stay in touch with cool people!
Rachel April 26, 2014 at 10:38 AM
thank you!!! yeah it's @racheldankt I don't use it much but we should definitely follow each other.
thevoid99 April 24, 2014 at 7:31 PM
That is a great list. Herzog/Kinski is my favorite collaboration so far as I'm sure the McQueen/Fassbender collaboration will be in that list soon. I await for McQueen's next film.
I would love to be in that list once I start my filmmaking career. For me, it would with Scarlett Johansson and Jena Malone. Who would be your dream actor/actress to be your regular collaborator?
maskofgojira April 24, 2014 at 8:03 PM
I'm jumping in on this cause your question is really interesting. My dream collaboration would be with Mads Mikkelsen.
void: thanks man! Few collabs top that Herzog/Kinski pairing. I can't imagine working under those conditions. But if he's the best... then he's the best.
Definitely a great question, void. I love your two picks, and Mask, that is a perfect one as well. For me, I love working with people who "get" my vision of things, and don't question it tirelessly. If I'm dreaming big, I think Michael Fassbender would venture to the dark places that my scripts go. And he'd do it flawlessly. I also think Amy Seimetz would be a great person to collaborate with. On a smaller, more realistic level, Catherine and I have a good thing going on. She's been in every film I've made, if for no other reason than we view the world, in all its complexities, in the same way. The lead of my new film, Wait, is a dude name Micah Parker. We hit it off great during filming, and have already begun working together on two new projects. So he'll definitely be in my future work.
Bring it on Alex/Catherine or Alex/Micah!
Haha, thanks man!
Tokaro April 24, 2014 at 11:11 PM
Ok I have to bite. I want to turn Allison Brie and Aubrey Plaza into the next big art actresses, think Laura Dern and Isabella Rosselini. I also want to work very closely with Michael B. Jordan, Allison Pill and Mads! :D The dreaaammmmmm...
I think Alison Brie is a sensation. Comedy, drama... she has a bite to her that is insatiable. I know she's tied up with her TV obligations, but I would love to see her take on more film roles.
Tokaro April 24, 2014 at 7:47 PM
McQueen and Fassbender, all of this.
Those two better keep on working with one another and keep knocking it out of the park. I'm so happy with what they've done together and I sincerely hope that they continue to work well together. As for Billy Wilder, who I love like the third grandfather I never had, and the great Jack Lemmon, not all of their collaborations are great but they are indelibly theirs.
Thirdly, Martin Scorsese and Bob are pretty big, even when they're flawed, they're perfect if that makes sense. You can tell the immense respect the two have for one another in stills, it's really something.
This post is wonderful, each and everyone of these collaborations is inspiring. I hope to find that actor or actress to share my vision with, one who will endure my madness haha. I would have liked to see David Lynch and Laura Dern on here as well.
I think McQueen and Fass will be at it for a long, long while, and we'll all be better for it. I adore that pairing so much. The clouds aligned on that one.
I feel you on Marty and Bob. The only collab of theirs I don't like (New York, New York) is still something I'm able to appreciate. That film is Busby Berkeley-meets-John Cassavetes and hey, I give 'em all the credit in the world for trying.
Thanks for the kind words about the list, I really appreciate it. Lynch/Dern were here originally, but then I took out all of the three-film collabs. Still, a fantastic pairing.
Brittani Burnham April 24, 2014 at 7:49 PM
That's so true about Jackson being born to say Tarantino's lines. No one says them better. Great list here! So many wonderful collabs.
Thanks! The man really does sling QT speak better than the rest. Every line is perfection.
I just wanna say that I like Jimmy Stewart as a good ol' boy but that last sentence is so true (and definitely made me laugh because of it).
Maybe it's because I just finished up Kurosawa's filmography but the moment I saw the title for this list, his was the first name into my mind (even though it's not the one you have the pic for - they were the second lol). I mean just hell, you want a list of perfection just look at the films you have in Kurosawa and Bergman collabs. One could spend a lifetime learning from those films and still never truly what makes them as powerful as they are (not that I'm discounting the others listed but I'm sure you understand what I'm getting at). Your move McQueen/Fassbender - show us just how many masterpieces you can do in a row!
Haha, but it's true! I really do prefer Hitch Stewart to, say, Capra Stewart, but it's all good either way.
I know exactly what you mean about those Kurosawa and Bergman films. I mean really, for me, movies don't get any better. You made it through Kurosawa's filmography, huh? Damn impressive man. I actually drafted a list of his work yesterday, with plans to crush them out for a director's post. Such a massive undertaking though. But a worthy one. Thankfully, most all of the ones I haven't seen are on Hulu+.
Bring it on, McQueen and Fass!
Yeah it took several weeks of Netflix orders (and then finishing up on Hulu). The only one that took some skill finding was The Quiet Duel, which I actually found strangely haunting even if it isn't the pair's most accomplished work. I look forward your eventual post good sir!
Oh I haven't seen that one yet. It wasn't on Hulu? I'll have to track it down!
MovieNut14 April 24, 2014 at 8:33 PM
Aw, you made me sad that we won't see another Paul Thomas Anderson/Philip Seymour Hoffman collaboration. But I still like the rest of the list as well.
That really is a damn sad thing. But that collaboration will live forever. Pure gold, through and through.
Aditya B April 24, 2014 at 11:08 PM
Ahhh, finally! A best director/actor collaborations list that does not include Tim Burton/Johnny Depp. I am not really familiar with Herzog/Kinski, or their separate films respectively. What do you think would be the best film to start with?
My favourite is Scorsese/De Niro though. What a list of films, just brilliant!
Aditya B April 25, 2014 at 9:15 AM
That's not to mean that I don't like the Burton/Depp pairing. I think their movies from the 1990s are great, but for me anyways, it all started going downhill from Sweeney Todd.
I know it goes against popular consensus to NOT include Burton/Depp here, but frankly, their last several collaborations simply don't work. Both of them have lost their touch, when working together and separately. So, honestly, their collab didn't even come close to making my list. (But, yes, this is said with the utmost respect to Edward Scissorhands, a great film; Ed Wood, one of the best inside-Hollywood films ever; and Sleepy Hollow, perfectly creepy. Their subsequent work does nothing for me.)
Now, Herzog/Kinski is fantastic all the way through. I always think it's best to start at the beginning. Most people will tell you Aguirre is their best film together, and it's hard to argue otherwise. I like their Nosteratu better than he original, and Fitzcarraldo is one of the best films about obsession that I've ever seen. However, the little-seen Woyzeck is my favorite of theirs. A straight character study of a deeply flawed man. They shot it in a few days with a cast/crew of about 11 people. Fantastic effort. Cobra Verde is their most forgettable film. Kinski is great in it, but it's just an okay film.
Aditya B April 25, 2014 at 11:43 AM
Ah that's cool. I think that the only Herzog film I've seen is Grizzly Man, which I LOVED so much, and from what I've heard from other Herzog/Kinski fans, Aguirre is their best, so I will probably start with that. I never knew that they detested each other though, but like you said, if Herzog thought he was the best, he must have been.
They HATED each other, and literally, no joke, tried to kill one another on the set of Fitzcarraldo. After you watch Fitzcarraldo, check out Les Blank's Burden of Dreams directly after. It's a full-length doc about the making of Fitzcarraldo. You won't believe the shit that Kinski pulled while they were filming. It's insane.
That reminds me, have you seen the documentary Herzog made called My Best Fiend? It's very interesting!
Also, Scorsese's facial hair is just amazing.
I love that doc. Interestingly, most of the best stuff in it is actually from the Les Blank doc, Burden of Dreams. Herzog asked Blank's permission to use the footage in My Best Fiend. Still, both are really fine documentaries. And that hug they share in My Best Fiend... my god, it just kills me.
Shane Slater April 25, 2014 at 1:19 AM
Very cool list.
Thanks bud.
Nikhat April 25, 2014 at 3:18 AM
Ooooo fantastic list. So glad to see Woody-Mia there. Mia is definitely still my favourite Woody muse and it sucks that they hate each other so much now.
Also love Godard-Karina, PTA-PSH, WKW-Leung, Tarantino-Jackson, Truffaut-Leaud, Linklater-Hawke. I didn't know Lemmom and Wilder did so many movies together!
My favourite *of course* is Wes Anderson and Bill Murray.
I know they haven't made as many movies together but I love Joe Wright and Keira Knightley as a director-muse pair. She acts the best in his movies and his movies are never prettier than when Knightley is on screen (well, except McAvoy in Atonement). Also Fincher and Pitt though they *really* need to do more movies together.
Last but not the least, I would be lying to myself if I didn't mention Burton-Depp. Yes, it is annoying now but at one point, they were like magic to me.
Thanks Nik! Old Bill Murray was born to be in Wes Anderson's films. The man's plight fits so well within Anderson's world.
I read an interview with Knightley when Anna Karenina came out, and she basically said that she and Wright aren't friends. As people, they have nothing in common and never hang out socially. They like each other well enough, but for them, it's all about the work. I thought that was an interesting dynamic, because I always assumed they were really close.
I think we're going to see less and less of Pitt as an actor. He'll have his larger movies to pay the rent (maybe....), but I think he's killing it as a producer as of late. Still, I would love to see he and Fincher team up again.
I discussed the Burton/Depp collab in an earlier comment, but basically, after their first three GREAT films together, they've really fallen off for me. Damn shame.
Maria @ Trust Dusty April 25, 2014 at 3:49 AM
Really enjoyed this list, and so glad to see McQueen and Fassbender on there - such a brilliant pairing!
Thanks! Those two make gold, don't they? Really appreciate you stopping by and commenting!
Awesome article, you know a lot about great director-actor collaborations. I just saw the 1999 documentary My Best Fiend about Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, and that was interesting, Kinski, he sure is a brilliant, fascinating, but troubled actor.
Your post certainly has wet my appetite to check out more of these films!
Thanks Chris, so glad you like the piece. Kinski... yeah, a very, very troubled man. A few years ago, his daughter said that he sexual assaulted her for like 10 years, which is repugnant. Kind of makes it hard to appreciate his screen talent.
But either way, I hope the post leads you to some great flicks!
If I could identify another "on their way" I would note Michael Shannon and director Jeff Nichols. They've technically done three, I think, although Shannon just had a bit role in Mud. But Take Shelter ... wow.
Oh I love their work. Shotgun Stories is their best work in my opinion. That's such a raw and brutal little film. But Take Shelter is rather brilliant as well.
Mark Walker April 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM
Great list Alex. A fine mention for PT Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They could have done so many more great films together. Such a loss!
For me it's still Scorsese and DeNiro that are tops but another great mention for McQueen and Fassbender
Alex Withrow April 25, 2014 at 12:25 PM
Thanks Mark! PTA/PSH would've gone on for decades. A sad loss indeed. Man, I'm still hoping Marty and Bobby make another film together!
Dan April 25, 2014 at 1:37 PM
Great article Alex. It's great to see these relationships between actors and directors blossom because they clearly bring out the best of each other. Wilder and Lemmon is one I love but De Niro and Scorsese have definitely produced some great work with DiCaprio taking over from where De Niro left off. Interesting that some of Farrow and Allen's best work came out of a period of time where they hated each other!
Thanks Dan! You know, it's actually quite baffling to think that at the very beginning of the Woody/Mia drama, I mean literally when shit was just starting to hit the fan, they put their differences aside and finished filming Husbands and Wives, which is one of Woody's best films. I can't believe Mia agreed to stay on and do it.
Nickolas Inman April 25, 2014 at 6:23 PM
I think we can all agree that Scorsese and DeNiro need to make another film. DeNiro's later career, despite some bright spots, has been pretty sad. And with the exception of The Departed, which I just love, ScorCaprio (a term which I am totally coining right now) isn't really doing much for me, although I've yet to see Aviator, but I hated Gangs of New York and Wolf of Wall Street.
Woody Allen, I don't care what sort of crap he has in his personal life. He's as damn fine a filmmaker as there's ever been. He nails it with Farrow, and I would also like to give a shout-out to his work with Diane Keaton.
Has Mifune even made anything without Kurosawa? Was it even worth watching?
I've been curious about something for a while. Which "Shame" do you prefer: Bergman/Ullman/Von Sydow or McQueen/Fassbender? That'd be one hell of a double feature, I'm sure.
It is waaaayyyyyyyyyy too hard for me to find early Herzog. I just can't find them anywhere. I really liked Bad Lieutenant, Rescue Dawn, and Grizzly Man, and I'm just dying to see Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo. Oh, well. There's a blu-ray collection of those films coming out, so I'm just gonna start saving now.
Anyway, great list, as always. And as a side note, I hope Wait is going well. Can't wait to see it!
Hey man, first off, I really appreciate your kind words of encouragement about Wait. They mean more than you know. So thanks for that.
As for the post: interesting that you don't dig the ScorCaprio (nice one) collab, but hey, we like what we like.
I too love many of Woody Allen's films. He and Farrow made gold together, and Keaton has never been better than through his lens.
Hell in the Pacific. A great film starring only Lee Marvin and Toshirô Mifune as soldiers from opposing sides of the war who get stranded on an island together. Hardly any dialogue, all emotional expression. Brilliant. That is the only good non-Kurosawa film featuring Mifune that I've seen.
The Shame trophy goes to McQueen. I love Bergman's film, but McQueen's has influenced me so deeply. Ah, it's just as good as movies get.
That's a bummer that it's so hard for you to find early Herzog. Where do you live? It's been pretty easy here in the States. But that new box set is killer. So many classics in there.
Thanks again for the comment!
I live in Fremont in the Bay Area! Oh, well. I'll just save up for that box set. I'll also have to check out Hell in the Pacific (Marvin and Mifune, damn, that has to be good. And apparently it was directed by John Boorman, who I feel gets overlooked despite putting out some pretty good work). And feel free to use the word "ScorCaprio" anytime you want. "ScorNiro", too, when appropriate. You've earned it, man.
If you don't mind me butting in, check out films like Samurai Rebellion and Sword of Doom. Both are great Mifune pics done by two underrated Japanese directors.
Nickolas: ha thanks man, I will use ScorCaprio like mad. Hell in the Pacific is my second favorite Boorman film, after Deliverance. I really do like it.
Mask: thanks for the reccos. Glad to hear Mifune had other great roles outside of Kurosawa. Even though he was often quoted as saying he was only good when he was in Kurosawa's films. Weird.
@maskofgojira: I looked up Toshiro Mifune shortly after leaving that comment, and was surprised to see that he made a few films that have actually been on my watch list for a while, like Samurai Rebellion, the Samurai Trilogy, and John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix. I haven't heard of Sword of Doom, but I'll check that out, thanks!
I agree, thanks for all the recos mask!
Chip Lary April 25, 2014 at 7:32 PM
I'd have Kurosawa and Mifune at #1. I was a little surprised that the commonly listed #1 (Scorcese/Deniro) wasn't at the top of this list. I remember you mentioning your love for Bergman in the past, so it's not THAT surprising, I suppose. I would have maybe tossed out a few other suggestions for the 15, but you pretty much covered them in your addendum list.
Good stuff. Can't argue the Kurosawa/Mifune collab. Those two made gold together. Have a favorite film of theirs?
Seven Samurai. I consider it the best non-English language film ever made. Throne of Blood is another five star film for me and easily the best Macbeth adaptation I have ever seen.
Oh wow, high praise. Had no idea you were such a fan. Good stuff man.
Stergios April 25, 2014 at 8:09 PM
I'm so glad you mentioned Steve McQueen's terrific collaboration with Michael Fassbender. I'm sure we have to see a lot more from the two of them in the near future. According to my personal estimation, their collaborations until now have produced some of the greatest film work in the last decade. "Hunger", "Shame" and "12 years a slave" were undeniably all of them modern classics and have revealed a creative trust between them that seems so rare in this day and age. The Martin Scorsese / Robet De Niro collaboration would top my list without any doubt. Every time those two have worked together the result was just mind-blowing. I also have to mention that the Scorsese/DiCaprio pairing is simply astonishing. Especially their last collaboration in "The wolf of Wall Street" was a marvel to watch, an act of almost inceceivable artistic bravery.The François Truffaut/Jean-Pierre Léaud pairing is my second favorite collaboration of all time and, personally, I wouldn't leave the Coen Brothers/Frances McDormand for any reason. Anyway, it's another fantastic list, man. You rock.
Thanks buddy! I fully agree about McQueen - those three films are some of the best I've ever seen. Those two are going to continue achieving greatness for many, many years to come. I love the Coen Brothers/McDormand collab as well, it always produces damn fine results. And I so appreciate the spark that DiCpario has lit in Scorsese. The Wolf of Wall Street is such a dangerous and, yes, brave film, one that could very well end up being my favorite collaboration between the two of them.
Great list - lots of stuff on there I really need to see! (Especially Herzog/Kinski, a partnership I've yet to experience)
Thanks man! I LOVE the Herzog/Kinski films. They're all so unique and great. Hope you dig them!
Nick Prigge April 26, 2014 at 10:15 AM
Pretty comprehensive and accurate list, and just more evidence that your lists always remind me that I'm woefully behind on Bergman's oeuvre.
A couple I might argue for are Errol Flynn & Michael Curtiz, even though Curtiz was really just kind of a hired hand as opposed to an auteur. Still, those two together made some really, really good stuff and a couple PERFECT films, in my opinion. And while it's impossible to argue Q.T. & Jackson, well, I confess that I actually have found more value in Q.T. & Uma. She's his muse. I wish they'd do more together, though I suppose she needs to build stamina to work with him. And I know you included Spike & Denzel in your 15 others, but I wish they'd do more together too.
I need to see more from Flynn/Curtiz, do you have any must see recommendations from them? As for QT/Uma, ah, I love 'em. Only didn't include them here because they've only made 3 films together. And Spike/Denzel, you would really think they'd make more films together. Very strange to me that they haven't. Malcolm X is arguably the best work of their respective careers, and He Got Game is a film that will always hold a special place in my heart. I love their collab.
Tanner Jones April 26, 2014 at 12:03 PM
Great list, man... I knew you would throw some ode to Fassbender in there! ha
I didn't realize that Mia Farrow was in 13 Woody Allen films. That's just crazy!
The only one that I would just have to include is John Goodman and the Coen Brothers, although his roles are usually small. Also, I'm surprised there was no love for Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, even though I'm not a big fan of Burton.
Thanks Tanner! I LOVE Coen Bros/Goodman. Goodman is so damn perfect in their world, from major supporting roles to one scene cameos, the dude always kills.
I honestly didn't even consider Burton/Depp because while I do think they made two great films and one very good film together, I am not a fan of their subsequent work at all. It's nice that they have a partnership with one another, but, for me, it hasn't produced good results in many years.
This list is perfect. And it has reminded me of some films I haven't watched (from Wong Kar-Wai, Kurosawa and Huston, I've watched some of them and loved them, but not all their filmography) and others that I love and should rewatch.
My faves have to be Bergman with both Ullman and Sydow. I remember watching The Seventh Seal and The Magician when I was pretty young and both really impressed me. Specially The Magician, I was so fascinated by Sydow's charismatic persona and his expressions. And when Ullman and him are together on a Bergman film is perfection. Scorsese and De Niro are ones of my all time faves too, they've done impressive things together. Same with Cassavettes + Rowlands, and Godard-Karina. Vivre sa Vie and A woman is a woman are my two favorite films from him, I absolutely adore Karina as Nana and Angela. And I agree with what you've said about Rowlands on A woman under... and Farrow on Purple rose of Cairo. Also Another Woman has to be my favorite Woody Allen film, which has another amazing performance from Rowlands. Another fave duo, Fellini + Marcello. I also love Fellini's work with his wife Giulietta Masina. La Strada, Cabiria, and Giulietta of the spirits are three of my favorite films, along with La Dolce Vita which is one of my top favorites. And Antonioni and Vitti are another couple that did unique things together.
I also love Herzog and Kinski, Samuel L. Jackson and Tarantino, and P.T. Anderson and Seymour Hoffman. And nice that you’ve given a special mention to McQueen + Fassbender, you know I love these two and I can’t wait for more of them together. Truffaut + Léaud are two others that I also like a lot.
And I would have added Chabrol + Isabelle Huppert. They've done terrific things together.
I'm starting to think we may be the same person. Seriously, we like ALL of the same art - film, photography - it's incredible.
I love that you're a fan of Bergman's work. I was pretty late to The Magician, by the time I saw it, I had seen most of Bergman's popular films, but I really enjoyed that film. Sydow is such a force there.
Those are my two favorite Godard films as well. Vivre sa Vie in particular is just remarkable. Kills me. And seriously, the fact that Another Woman is your favorite Woody Allen film is just perfect. We may be two of, I dunno, 15 people who have actually seen that film, but I absolutely adore it.
I'm going to have to seek out some Chabrol/Huppert films, because at this point, if you like them, then I'm almost positive I would like them too!
Thanks so much for the comment!
"I'm starting to think we may be the same person" haha I feel the same. It's actually great to read someone's views on things that I also love, 'cause most of the time it's just me who appreciates them. Like what you've said about Another Woman, I have some friends that like Woody Allen bust just his recent films mostly 'cause they don't know about the old ones. My mother recommended me that film - like most of the films I've seen - and I loved it. The flashbacks and the Gena Rowland's character relation with the one played by Gene Hackman were amazing. And absolutely agree about Vivre sa Vie. Karina's performance is heartbreaking.
Alex Withrow May 1, 2014 at 7:21 PM
I love that your mom recommends such great films to you. That's incredible.
That final flashback with Rowlands and Hackman never fails to bring tears to my eyes. I absolutely adore it. In the tunnel, holding each other. It's perfect.
Wendell Ottley April 27, 2014 at 7:07 PM
Another very nice list. Kind of surprised you didn't have Anderson and Murray. Personally, I would've had to include Spike & Denzel and Almodovar & Cruz and given strong consideration to Scorcese & DiCaprio. That said, I can't really fault the choices you made.
Thanks man. Those are all damn fine picks. Really, there are so many flawless collabs to choose from. Cruz really is the face of Almodovar's best work. Love it.
Eric @ The Warning Sign April 28, 2014 at 11:47 AM
Love this list. I didn't realize Wilder and Lemmon made so many films together. I've only seen their first two, both of which are undisputed classics. Curious to see their other collaborations.
Thanks Eric! Irma la Douce and The Fortune Cookie are both pretty solid, but the final three aren't quite as good. Still, it was always great to see them work together.
Josh April 28, 2014 at 11:51 AM
Fantastic list man! I might bump Allen/Farrow into the top 5 over Herzog/Kinski, but I've only seen Aguirre and Nosferatu. Can't argue with Bergman/Ullmann at #1, though. That's an iconic pairing. Love that you gave McQueen/Fassbender a special mention as well.
Thanks man! So pleased you like the top pick. Those two made pure gold together, didn't they? I just HAD to make some room for McQueen and Fass. Those two have been killing it together.
Jeff Stewart May 2, 2014 at 2:32 PM
Loved to see Lean/Guinness combo up there in consideration, if for nothing else than their work in Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. I remember calling the duo the second best British film collaboration of all-time in a list of my own. Loved Stewart/Hitch, no one ever could play the Hitchcock everyman better, Vertigo being the crown jewel in their collaborations. It's a shame that because of the failed at the B.O the two separated forever, what the two could've done together, such a missed opportunity. De Niro/Scorsese will always be tops in my book, just the sheer range and heights the two of them were able to reach because of each other is inspiring. It all goes to show the major collaborative effort of filmmaking and the professional relationships that can spawn from that.
That's an interesting point about Vertigo. It is a damn shame that the film failed financially, because those two could've continued to make gold together. It's also kind of crazy to think that, at one time, Vertigo was a failure. So bizarre.
John Smith December 15, 2014 at 7:40 AM
I would have put Alec Guines/David Lean instead of Allen/Farrow.
Alex Withrow December 15, 2014 at 11:42 AM
That's a great collab, no doubt.
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Helen Wilson was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in 1954. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and at Hospitalfield Art centre. During this time she was awarded the Robert Hart Bursary and Governor's Prize, Hospitalfield; a Travelling Scholarship (Italy and Yugoslavia); the WO Hutcheson Prize for Drawing; the Postgraduate Studies Award, Glasgow School of Art; and the John and Mabel Craig Award.
Artists David Hockney and Chagall were strong influences during Helen Wilson's time at the Glasgow School of Art. She has always liked the art work Degas and admires Sickert, Giotto and the Italian Masters. Her greatest influence was Scottish artist Charles MacQueen from her days in the Art Department of her school in Paisley.
Helen Wilson is the recipient of numerous art awards. These include: The RGI David Cargill Award; Diploma of the Paisley Art Institute (2005); 1st Prize, Scottish Drawing Competition (2005, 2000 and 1997)); Cyril Gerber Award and Millers Art Prize, Paisley Art Institute (2003); Garrick/Milne Competition, Commissioning Prize: Portrait of David Suchet (2003); Regional Prize: The Discerning Eye Exhibition, London (2003)
Helen Wilson is a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters (RSW). Her paintings are in various private and public art collections including: Glasgow Art Gallery, Kelvingrove, Paisley Museum & Art Gallery, Scottish Arts Council, Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the Royal College of Physicians.
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Albion have recruited from across Europe this summer, bringing in eight foreign players with seven different nationalities as they attempt to build a squad capable of competing in the Premier League following promotion.
Hughton - who is expected to unleash Colombian record-signing Jose Izquierdo on Watford on Saturday - feels it has made more financial sense to look for reinforcements outside England
"Predominately, it's the market - it's certainly not a case of specifically wanting to bring in foreign players over English-based players," the 58-year-old said
"But the market is different and I think what you have to pay for an English player or a player that's playing in the English game, on probably more occasions than not, is more money.
"It's about balancing books and what you can get for your money."
Australian goalkeeper Mathew Ryan, Holland midfielder Davy Propper and winger Izquierdo are the most expensive new arrivals at the Amex Stadium during the past few months
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Chelsea loanee Izzy Brown remains the Seagulls' only domestic-based summer signing, although the chances of Ghana forward Raphael Dwamena joining from FC Zurich ended when he failed a medical
Boss Hughton believes integrating players from different backgrounds into a team is one of the many difficulties of top-flight management and is confident his acquisitions possess the necessary ambition to succeed
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The Winter of 1875
The winter of 1874-‘75 was one long to be remembered on Cape Cod. The cold was extreme and locked tight every harbor along the shore.
No one could remember when the cold had been so intense or lasted so long. This was not the mild Cape winter. It was more like the Arctic regions for the vast expanse of Cape Cod Bay was one solid mass of ice. It stretched from Provincetown across the Bay to Manomet, near Plymouth, a distance of twenty-two miles.
In the neighborhood of Provincetown a fleet of fishing vessels that was unable to reach the harbor became immovably imbedded in the ice floe. A few were set free by the work of a steam cutter, but by far the greater number remained helplessly imprisoned without other change than that brought about by the occasional drift of the ice-floe in the strong gales.
It was a sight long to be remembered. Where before was the expanse of blue water, nothing now could be seen except the white slab, pure as marble, that sealed the harbors tight and solid. All within the eye of the Cape was dead sea.
Flags of distress were displayed in every direction from the masts of crippled vessels that no help could reach. Their hulls, rigging and tapering spars were so ice-encrusted as to look like ships of glass. As many as twenty-five signals of distress were counted at one time from the life-saving station at Provincetown. Some of the unlucky craft were crushed and sunk to the bottom; others were abandoned by their crews, who had eaten their last crust and burned the bulwarks of their vessels for fuel. The remainder were at last released by the breakup of the ice-floe, that only relaxed its grip after having held them fast for a month.
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Women and Men in Love
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Luisa Passerini
Translated from the Italian by Juliet Haydock with Allan Cameron
Previous title: Love and the Idea of Europe
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“…a rich, highly original, and innovative piece of work which curiously achieves a new way of understanding and analyzing trends in European history… Passerini has produced a book which will be of interest to a wide range of historians interested in culture, literature, society, and gender as well as in the history of emotions.” · Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire
"The stories [as told by the author] are extremely interesting and illuminating, covering a quite extraordinary range of material (the scholarly work here alone is quite outstanding) from opera to publishing history to letters to film and fiction as well as archives… There are lots of interesting reflections on, for example, Orientalism and Islam, as well as politics, which provide food for thought in today's world…The volume is very well written and extremely clear, and the footnotes are often as important as the main text." · John Foot, University College London
It has often been assumed that Europeans invented and had the exclusive monopoly over courtly and romantic love, commonly considered to be the highest form of relations between men and women. This view was particularly prevalent between 1770 and the mid-twentieth century, but was challenged in the 1960s when romantic love came to be seen as a universal sentiment that can be found in all cultures in the world. However, there remains the historical problem that the Europeans used this concept of love as a fundamental part of their self-image over a long period (traces of it still remain) and it became very much caught up in the concept of marriage. This book challenges the underlying Eurocentrism of this notion while exploring in a more general sense the connection between identity and emotions.
Luisa Passerini was Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin, and iscurrently External Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor in the Oral History Master Program, Columbia University, New York. She has published widely on the historical relationships between the discourse on Europe and the discourses on love, gender and generation, and on memory and subjectivity. She was coeditor of Women Migrants from East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe (Berghahn Books 2007).
Subject: General Cultural Studies General History Gender Studies
Area: Europe
LC: GT2630 .P3713 2009
BL: YD.2010.a.15601
BISAC: HIS000000 HISTORY/General; HIS010000 HISTORY/Europe/General; HIS010020 HISTORY/Europe/Western
BIC: HBTB Social & cultural history; JHBK5 Sociology: sexual relations
Introduction: Forms of Love and Limits of Europeanness: Intentions and Assumptions
PART I: MALE PORTRAITS
Chapter 1. ‘Free Love and Fraternity between the Federated Peoples of Europe’: Giorgio Quartara, Supporter of European Integration and Feminism
Chapter 2. ‘Love Becomes Entangled with Civilisation’: Leo Ferrero, a Young European
PART II: EUROPE'S ROOTS IN LOVE
Chapter 3. Mediterranean Love
Chapter 4. The Heart of Europe: Love in the Western World by Denis de Rougemont
PART III: CONNECTING JEWISHNESS, EUROPEANNESS AND LOVE
Chapter 5. ‘Between Two Worlds’: Ansky’s Dybbuk in France and Italy
Chapter 6. ‘Notre Mère l’Europe’: Giorgina Levi and Heinz Arian
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ChE/MIE Professor Laura Lewis has won a Fulbright Award in Spain to advance her research in magnetic materials.
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Laura Lewis, Cabot Professor in the College of Engineering at Northeastern, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant for a research project in Spain that will advance her already expansive scholarship in magnetic materials.
Lewis has spent the better part of 30 years researching magnetic materials, which are ubiquitous in society and provide functionality to advanced devices, sensors, and motors of all kinds. Through her research, she has developed novel approaches to creating new materials for magnetic cooling, data storage and super-strong magnets.
With her Fulbright, she will conduct research at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid as part of a project to tailor magnetic microwires for advanced applications. Lewis will perform research there in the summers of 2018 and 2019, collaborating with professor Manuel Vázquez, an expert in magnetic nano- and microwires.
“I’m so grateful to the Fulbright foundation and to Northeastern for allowing me to pursue this research opportunity. Scientists today have a greater responsibility than ever before to reach across cultural and national barriers.”
~Laura Lewis, Cabot Professor in the College of Engineering
Her Fulbright project involves developing magnetic nanowires, with each thread thinner than a human hair. These materials are made from magnetic glass, she said, and the special process used to create them gives them unique properties and an atomic arrangement that is very different from the materials she most commonly works with.
When threaded together, Lewis said, the special properties of these magnetic nanowires make the materials useful for a range of applications. One potential use: being embedded into bridges as remote sensors to monitor the structures’ integrity; another use may be for smart clothing for military personnel.
Lewis is one of more than 1,200 U.S. citizens who will teach, conduct research, and provide expertise abroad for the 2017-18 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. The Fulbright program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to connect researchers in the U.S. and abroad to solve global challenges.
“I’m so grateful to the Fulbright foundation and to Northeastern for allowing me to pursue this research opportunity,” Lewis said. “Scientists today have a greater responsibility than ever before to reach across cultural and national barriers. Science shouldn’t have barriers. We all speak the language of science, and this is an opportunity to continue that dialogue with my colleagues in Europe.”
Chemical Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Faculty, Research, Faculty Awards
Laura H. Lewis
FY20 TIER 1 Award Recipients
25 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY20 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different projects representing up to $900K dollars of investment in research.
21 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY18 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 12 different projects representing $600K dollars of investment in research.
Two COE Teams Named MassChallenge Winners
3DFortify founded by MIE Assistant Professor Randall Erb & PhD student Josh Martin selected as a $50K Gold prize winner and QSM Diagnostics founded by ChE Associate Professor Edgar Goluch awarded silver prize winner in the MassChallenge.
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Town and Village
Cristelli prepares board for her retirement
By Wendy M. Levy/The Commons
NEWFANE—Long-time Town Clerk Gloria Cristelli isn’t seeking re-election this year. After serving eight years as town clerk — and four years as a Selectboard member — Cristelli told The Commons she is looking forward to her retirement.
To make the transition as smooth as possible upon the new town clerk’s election at Town Meeting Day, Cristelli brought a number of items to the Selectboard at their Jan. 30 regular meeting.
One of Cristelli’s major projects during her tenure was getting the town’s records digitized. Otherwise, the paper records, stored in an aging, too-small vault, could be lost should disaster strike the town office building.
As Cristelli told The Commons in December, 2015, if the town records are destroyed, that means no more property records — and no way for the town to determine who owes property tax.
The matter of using records-restoration funds to digitize the town’s records has been a point of contention between Cristelli and the Selectboard. Some Board members have asserted that money cannot be used to pay staff to digitize the town’s records, but other times they have allowed her to dip into the funds.
Cristelli said there were about 18 books left to digitize, and with help from the Assistant Town Clerk and the Vermont Associates employee (whose salary is paid through a grant), she said she is confident they could finish by the end of Cristelli’s term.
“This month is basically proofreading,” Cristelli said.
The records-restoration fund money comes from fees individuals pay when they submit new records to the town. For every $10 coming into the town clerk’s office, $1 goes into the fund to help towns pay for digitizing records.
Board member Marion Dowling spoke in favor of allowing Cristelli to use the funds. Dowling explained her reasoning: Cristelli has fought and worked hard to get these records digitized, and she wants to see her complete the project before she retires.
Dowling’s colleagues agreed, and authorized Cristelli to use the money to work toward finishing the project, as long as she didn’t go over budget.
Cristelli had two suggestions for the Selectboard upon her retirement: Have some overlap, and change the vault combination.
She requested the Selectboard authorize her to stay a day or two after Town Meeting Day to help the new town clerk acclimate to their job. Cristelli pointed out the upcoming Act 46 education structuring vote, noting the work required of the new town clerk regardless of which way the decision goes.
Cristelli strongly urged the Selectboard to get the vault’s combination changed as soon as possible after the election of the new town clerk. She said she didn’t want any suggestion of responsibility should something happen to the contents after her departure.
The Selectboard took no action on the overlap request. Selectboard Chair Todd Lawley said he would ask Administrative Assistant Shannon Meckle to call the locksmith to schedule the change in the vault combination.
Cristelli also submitted to the Selectboard a list of personal items — including desks, tables, cabinets, and benches — she brought to the town office building for her own use, and for the convenience of other employees and the public, that she no longer wants.
She asked the Selectboard if they wanted to purchase the items on the list.
Selectboard Vice-Chair Carol Hatcher asked Cristelli to list prices with each item to help them decide if they wanted to buy them.
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Home Video >
Blu-ray A Boon For Home Video
By Lew Irwin on 01 February 2012
Follow Home Video
It wasn't all gloom and doom for the Home Video industry last year. According to a note to clients from Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne, sales of movies on Blu-ray Discs increased 11 percent, with Blu-ray representing 27 percent of the top titles of the year. The Morgan Stanley note observed that Blu-ray sales for the first time exceeded $2 billion in revenue. "We see growth in high margin Blu-ray sales as a net positive for the industry, and continue to look for Blu-ray and digital distribution to help offset declines in physical DVD sales," Swinburne wrote, while noting that overall DVD declines will exceed Blu-ray gains. "We believe that consumers will continue to migrate to rental transactions (vs. sellthrough), due to the economy, convenience of kiosk and subscription channels, and an overall maturation of physical DVDs," he added.
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Warner Bros No More Direct-to-dvd Movies
Olympics Likely To Bury Other Media
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MOHAMMAD AMIN 3242
VERNON Leon Macklin fired El Jaish to the Qatar League triumph as they posted a 74-65 victory over Al Gharafa last week. The American then exuded confidence that the Armymen would live up to the expectations at the Qatar Cup and Emir’s Cup.
Power forward Macklin was the hero with 38 points as Jaish remained unbeaten in the league, winning their 18th match in a row to claim the title after the 2007-2008 season.
“We played as a team in the tournament. Gharafa were a difficult side, but we played really well in the last quarter,” Macklin told Doha Stadium Plus. “Ours was a team effort. We hope to maintain it in the next two cup competitions.”
The 30-year-old, who played the entire match, scored 28 points and finished with a 100 per cent free-throw record, converting all 10 attempts he made.
Captain Fadi Hani Abilmona and James Davon chipped in with 13 points each for Jaish while Sammy Monroe top-scored for Gharafa with 14.
Gharafa needed a win in the last round to force a title-deciding play-off, but the soldiers were in no mood to relent.
“Gharafa proved to be a hard nut to crack, but I thank the players for their fighting mentality. It was a great win,” said Jaish coach Hatem Mamlouk, who joined the side from Al Arabi just before last season’s Emir’s Cup.
“I also congratulate the club’s Basketball Head Mohammed Al Obaidly. He has been the driving force and worked really hard on building the team for the last 11 years,” added Mamlouk.
Jaish led 19-18 after the first quarter, but Kousay Hatem’s side fought back to take a 41-39 lead in the next.
The Emir’s Cup champions bounced back strongly in the third where they scored 17 against Gharafa’s 11 to take a 56-52 lead going into the last quarter of the match.
“Macklin as usual was excellent. He once again delivered at the right time,” Mamlouk added.
Jaish would be keen to extend their domination in cup competitions as well.
“We’ve a great coach and nothing is impossible with this side. We’ll put up an excellent show as we’re motivated and not over-confident,” said Macklin, who joined Jaish in 2014.
#dspforsport #dsp #qatar #doha #sport #basketball
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FAREWELL, CHAMPION!
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KOUKOL O., KOTLABA F., POUZAR Z.
Taxonomic evaluation of the polypore Daedaleopsis tricolor based on morphology and molecular data.
Daedaleopsis tricolor and D. confragosa were formerly treated either as separate species or as conspecific. D. tricolor may be recognised by the presence of a lamellate hymenophore and mostly dark pileus surface with small network of grains, but its separate status is not supported by its micromorphology. Occurrence of intermediate forms contributes to uncertainty in species delimitation. Although this problem has been known for many years, no study has yet been aimed at a thorough study of both morphological and molecular data. In the present study, we analysed sequences of ITS rDNA, RPB2 and TEF of several typical specimens of D. tricolor and D. confragosa sampled in the Czech Republic in recent years, two specimens of the supposedly closely related D. septentrionalis, and available sequences from GenBank. Our data show that no studied DNA region supports separation of D. tricolor and D. confragosa as distinct species and that D. septentrionalis is supported as a distinct species according to the ITS rDNA and RPB2 genes. We therefore incline to treat D. tricolor as a variety of D. confragosa. Thorough revision of all species hitherto described in Daedaleopsis including Asian species of uncertain identity is recommended.
Keywords: morphological species concept, ITS rDNA, RPB2, TEF, Polyporales, Daedaleopsis
Koukol O., Kotlaba F., Pouzar Z. (2014): Taxonomic evaluation of the polypore Daedaleopsis tricolor based on morphology and molecular data. – Czech Mycology 66(2): 107–119.
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One Buffalo and the Resentment Industry
Alan Bedenko
When I moved to this area in 2001, WNY was economically and politically in peak “old Buffalo” malaise, treading water while the world largely passed it by. Since then, the region’s journey forward has been pretty epic. Old, intractable problems still persist, but the region has made amazing strides in terms of finding its way into the 21st century.
Except for the Peace Bridge. For some reason, we remain stuck on the question of improving access to our well-to-do neighbor.
At the beginning of the aughts, the city of Buffalo was the region’s financial basket case, lumbering towards an inevitable control board’s oversight while suburbia touted the seemingly miraculous financial stability of then-Erie County Executive Joel Giambra’s county government. He cut taxes and maintained services, even taking over the maintenance of city parks from the hurting city.
The 2005 red/green county budget fiasco blew up the county’s charade, revealing that our perception of its comparative fiscal stability was artifice, built with finite tobacco settlement windfalls. The county soon found itself with its own control board, and a region that really couldn’t afford the hit found itself brought to its knees.
Since then, both the city and county have righted their financial ships and things are looking up. Neither Buffalo nor Erie County hold an exclusive monopoly on prudent governance. The specter of 2005 still looms — no one is eager to repeat it.
Regionalism as an idea was killed due to politics — chauvinism, patronage, and racism. We hit rock bottom with two control boards before we could right ourselves, but the state recognized that a strong region is anchored by a strong city.
Erie County remains a segregated place where poverty and minorities are concentrated within distinct parts of the city of Buffalo. There remains a tendency to focus on what divides us, rather than what unites us. Racism still plays a huge role in our political reality, logic gets turned on its head as well-to-do white people play victim, and craven politicians exploit that. It’s us vs. them; we pay our taxes while they get their Obamaphones and welfare and Medicaid and HEAP and SNAP and WIC. It’s downstate’s fault, so they demand secession.
Blame the poor, blame the immigrants, blame African-Americans, blame the city they live in. Here in Erie County, the artificial divide between city and suburb is best used to further inflame already toxic arguments about who pays, and where it goes. Proud city folks denounce the suburbs as homogeneous or racist repositories of boredom whose sprawl is killing everyone. While largely apathetic, suburban voters can easily become inflamed by rhetoric about socialism and redistributive financial policies.
It’s easy to hate the people you think are taking advantage of you. It’s easy to hate the “other” — people who don’t look or live like you. The easy way out is secession. Separation. It’s why we’ll never have a unified countywide school district or a metropolitan form of government to replace our current, corrupt menagerie of taxing districts.
I guess it makes political or strategic sense to divide and conquer, but it’s not leadership. Leadership is taking what divides us and finding common ground. Leadership is about listening to the people and implementing policies that will help as many as possible while doing as little harm as necessary. Leadership is rejecting the easy way out or divisive rhetoric and understanding that a County Executive, for instance, must serve the whole county; not just the ones that will vote for him. Leadership means finding solutions to intractable problems and not blaming the victims.
In a way, that’s what’s so brilliant about Ray Walter’s “fair share tax” plan, which would seek to abolish a 1977 agreement on how the 3% permanent county sales tax is shared. Campaign issues don’t get more obscure or wonkier than this. The pitch is that Erie County’s cities receive more in sales tax revenue per capita than the suburbs. The agreement can be modified wth consent of the parties, or canceled unilaterally with one year’s notice. Mark Poloncarz says that subsequent state control board legislation forbids the county from canceling the contract; Walter disagrees.
If you’re most people, you never even heard of this before. You have no idea who’s right. Nobody cares.
The whole thing has to be dumbed down literally to capture anyone’s attention, but suffice it to say that it makes sense that the county’s three cities receive a larger share of the sales tax revenue because the need is greater. If you want to parse and analyze Walter’s plan to redistribute the cities’ share to the suburbs, re-read Bruce Fisher’s piece from mid-September. There, Fisher noted,
…neither the Erie County executive nor the executive plus the legislature has the power to change the sales tax distribution. All the recipients would have to agree. Then the State of New York would have to agree.
During the debate between Poloncarz and Walter, there was some back-and-forth about Walter’s plan, and far from acknowledging that the scheme is anti-city, Walter would have us believe that cities would benefit. Yet in one breath, Walter argues that the cities are making out like bandits, getting twice per capita what towns get from the 3% sales tax, but in the next, his plan ”spreads prosperity to every corner of the county and does not pit communities against one another.”
Re-formulating the sales tax sharing plan isn’t conservatism; figuring out a way to abolish the sales tax altogether would be conservatism. This is just double hypocrisy: 1. Walter says Poloncarz only helps the communities that vote for him, yet Walter’s signature policy propsal does exactly that; and 2. Walter wants to avoid pitting suburb vs. city by robbing the cities to throw more cash at the suburbs. That’s not going to work. It will accomplish the opposite, and he’s stoking these divisions.
Put it this way: if Walter’s tax plan was fair, the mayors of the three Erie County cities would have lined up to support it. Their silence and absence is deafening. When I asked a Walter partisan on Twitter about this, here is the response:
@buffalopundit You offer them the fair share or nothing. They have to agree or they can only collect 1.5%. #ECDEBATE
— Todd Aldinger (@ToddAldinger) October 14, 2015
Ultimatum. Hostage-taking. How does that meet the goal of “not pit[ting] communities against one another”, as Walter claims? It doesn’t. It’s a noxious idea borne out of a base desire to exploit suburban prejudices and anxieties; to punish the “takers”, who are the most vulnerable and needy in our shared community.
A conservative way to tackle tax equity and poverty and lifting all boats probably exists, but you won’t get it from this Walter campaign. This is the stuff that fuels the local suburban talk radio resentment industry. Setting up a re-do of Empire Zones to spur investment in blighted communities isn’t the problem — access to jobs and credit are the root problems.
By the time the debate was over, the two campaigns’ themes had become quite clear, and the difference between them couldn’t be more stark. Poloncarz was advocating for One Buffalo — the notion that we’re all in this together; that a strong city helps the whole region, and vice-versa. That we can do great things when we work together towards a common goal of making Erie County a better place to live and work. In the last 15 years, we’ve made incredible strides towards that goal — progress that would have seemed unthinkable to you in 2001.
On the other hand, we had a campaign that threatens the cities with ultimata over dramatically reducing their share of the sales tax despite the need for that revenue. Walter’s campaign wants no part of “One Buffalo”, instead very clearly delineating a pure vision of suburban “real” Buffalo versus the crime, blight, and poverty of the inner city. The aspiration isn’t unity, but division. It’s not too dissimilar from how, in the aughts, the suburbs condescended to poor, beleagured Buffalo, while burning through budget-balancing tobacco settlement one-shots.
We can do better in this community than to pit white against black, rich against poor, city against suburb. WNY’s resentment industry is perhaps bigger even than the Medical Campus and SolarCity combined. It’s time it shrank.
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Gibsons' lawyer: The battle isn't over
Dave O’Brien | The Chronicle-Telegram
Published on June 28, 2019 | Updated 9:50 a. m.
Gibson's attorney Lee Plakas is in court during opening statements in Gibson's v. Oberlin College on May 9.
STEVE MANHEIM / CHRONICLE FILE
The lead attorney who won a multimillion-dollar jury award against Oberlin College said Friday that Gibson’s Bakery and the Gibson family will continue their push for a true accounting of the issues at hand in the case.
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi on Thursday reduced the more than $44 million judgment against Oberlin College to $25 million, based on damage caps in Ohio law — an issue one of the lead attorneys for the Gibsons said likely will be resolved by an appeals court.
In an interview, Lee Plakas said he understood Miraldi’s reasoning for not taking on the argument that damage caps, in particular for defamation by libel or slander, are unconstitutional.
Miraldi “recognized it’s the job of the appellate judges to declare the statute in this case unconstitutional,” Plakas said.
The judge also told the attorneys during the trial that it was possible the case might make some new law. Plakas said that’s possible.
Should the college appeal, “we will appeal,” he said. “We are interested and positive in the prospects of having this statute declared unconstitutional.”
The college presented no evidence of racial profiling or discrimination by Gibson’s Bakery at trial, and the Gibson family “wants nothing other than to put this lawsuit behind them and go back to doing what they’ve been doing since 1885,” Plakas said.
Plakas said state law allows jurors to impose the death penalty, but “doesn’t trust a jury of citizens to impose an appropriate lesson on a billion-dollar enterprise” like Oberlin College.
“If you can do it in a death case, you should be able to do it in a civil damages case,” Plakas said. “The whole purpose of punitive damages is to discourage inappropriate conduct. Punitive damages have to bear some relationship to the might and power and resources of the offending party.”
College officials have said in multiple interviews that the issue is about free-speech rights of its students, but the college never was on trial over free speech, one of the lead attorneys for the Gibsons said Friday.
“It’s really disconcerting that the college is doing everything possible to revise history (by saying) it’s about the students and students’ rights,” Plakas said. “Well, that’s not what the case was about.”
Gibson’s Bakery and its owners filed the civil lawsuit against Oberlin College following protests at the bakery in 2016. The demonstrations stemmed from the arrest of three black college students after an incident at the bakery.
A black Oberlin College student tried to buy alcohol with a fake ID and shoplifted two bottles of wine from Gibson’s Bakery in November 2016 was chased out of the store by Allyn D. Gibson, who is white and is the son of owner David Gibson.
Oberlin police responding to the store found Allyn D. Gibson on the ground, being assaulted by the shoplifter and two other black students, who were arrested. They pleaded guilty to misdemeanor crimes in August 2017 and said in court the Gibsons were not racist and within their rights to chase shoplifters.
Oberlin College students protested outside Gibson’s Bakery for two days following the arrests of their peers, leading to the college dropping its daily baked goods order from Gibson’s as students declared the Gibsons racist.
The Gibsons sued Oberlin College and one of its deans in November 2017. Following a six-week trial that ended earlier this month, a jury found against the college for libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress and interference with business relationships.
Contact Dave O’Brien at 329-7129 or do’brien@chroniclet.com. Follow him at @daveobrienCT on Twitter.
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Related Topics: Gibson's v. Oberlin College, Lee Plakas, Gibson's Bakery, Oberlin College
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Lime recalls its electric scooters as they started to fall apart
Lime’s dream of a greener and better world has many hurdles to face. Lime’s dream of having IT services that are eco-friendly is currently being held up as the electric scooters manufactured by the company are breaking apart, making Lime recall an unspecified number of its vehicles. Lime said that it’s recalling the scooters as they may break after repeated abuse.
Segway Ninebot models which are being recalled have baseboards manufactured by Chinese company Okai. Lime said that “it’s possible for Okai baseboards to crack or break if ridden off a curb at high speed.” Reports have confirmed that these models will be decommissioned. However, the exact number of scooters being recalled hasn’t been confirmed yet.
Users whose scooters broke down have taken to the social media to express their concerns. Instagram and Twitter have been abuzz with posts flooding in. However, it still remains unclear of all the broken scooter’s decks were manufactured by Okai, as the majority of Lime’s fleet are manufactured by other companies.
Lime took immediate action to address the safety concerns of the people. In fact, one of the contractors taking care of charging the vehicles addressed the issue of baseboards cracking. Quick investigations and confirmed reports have led the company to take the final decision of pulling back the scooters.
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Clan Scott
Heritage Trail
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Scott's View, Scottish Borders
The view is reached from a minor road leading south from Earlston off the A68 in the Scottish Borders on the side of Bemersyde Hill and three miles from Melrose was said to be a favourite of the writer Sir Walter Scott. The river Tweed can be seen meandering along below the view point and to the north west along the Tweed valley is Melrose.
On the slopes directly below are the remains of a woodland area and oak trees growing there are the descendants of trees which at one time supplied the wood for coffins made in the area.
It is said that Sir Walter stopped there so frequently that his horse would halt there without being told to do so. When his funeral cortège passed by on its way to Sir Walter burial at Dryburgh Abbey the horse pulling the hearse stopped automatically at the same spot.
On my first visit to the spot some years ago I was concentrating on photographing the view and was most surprised to turn round and be confronted by a huge statue of Sir William Wallace. It was placed there in 1814 so Sir Walter Scott would have seen it (I wonder what he thought of it?). The red sandstone statue rises to 31 feet and was commissioned by David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, a Scottish antiquarian.
The inscription at Wallace's feet reads:
Erected by David Stuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan
GREAT PATRIOT HERO!
ILL REQUITED CHIEF!
MDCCCXIV
Below the statue of Wallace is a representation of a funeral urn inscribed:
Sacred to the memory of Wallace
The peerless Knight of Ellerslie
Who wav'd on Ayr's Romantic shore
The beamy torch of Liberty
And roaming round from Sea to Sea
From Glade obscure of gloomy Rock
His bold companions call'd to free
The Realm from Edward's Iron Yoke.
Sketch of Scott's View
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Stichting Webshop Keurmerk - General Terms and Conditions
These General Terms and Conditions of Stichting Webshop Keurmerk were drafted in consultation with the Consumentenbond [Consumer’s Association] in the context of the Self-regulation Coordination Group [Coördinatiegroep Zelfreguleringsoverleg CZ] of the Socioeconomic Council [Sociaal-ecomische Raad] and come into force on 1 June 2014.
These General Terms and Conditions shall be used by all members of Stichting Webshop Keurmerk (further Webshop Keurmerk) with the exception of financial services as referred to in the Financial Supervision Act [Wet Financieel Toezicht] and in so far as these services are supervised by the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets [Autoriteit Financiële Markten].
Article 2 - The Entrepreneur’s identity
Article 7 - Consumer’s obligations during the reflection period
Article 8 - Exercising the Consumer’s right of withdrawal and the costs
Article 9 - Entrepreneur’s obligation in case of withdrawal
Article 12 - Compliance and extra guaranty
Article 14 - Continuing performance contract: duration, termination and extension
Article 18 - Sector guarantee
Article 19 - Additional or varying provisions
Article 20 - Amendment to the General Terms and Conditions of Webshop Keurmerk
Article 1 – Definitions
In these Terms and Conditions, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. Additional agreement: an agreement in which the Consumer acquires products, digital content and/or services with respect to a distance agreement and these goods, digital content and/or services are delivered by the Entrepreneur or a third party on the basis of an arrangement between this third party and the Entrepreneur;
2. Reflection period: the period during which the Consumer may use his right of withdrawal;
3. Consumer: the natural person who does not act for purposes related to his/her commercial, trade, craft or professional activities;
4. Day: calendar day;
5. Digital content: data produced and delivered in digital form;
6. Continuing performance contract: a contract serving to deliver goods, services and/or digital content in a given period;
7. Sustainable data carrier: any means, including email, that allow the Consumer or the Entrepreneur to store information directed to him/her personally in such a manner that makes future consultation and use possible during a period that matches the purpose for which the information is destined and which makes unaltered reproduction of the stored information possible.
8. Right of withdrawal: the Consumer’s option not to proceed with the distance agreement within the cooling-off period;
9. Entrepreneur: the natural of legal person who is a member of Stichting Webshop Keurmerk and who provides products, (access to) digital content and or services to Consumers at a distance;
10. Distance contract: a contract concluded by the Entrepreneur and the Consumer within the scope of an organised system for distance selling products, digital content and/or services, whereby exclusive or additional use is made of one or more technologies of distance communication up to the conclusion of the contract;
11. Standard form for withdrawal: the European standard form for withdrawal included in Appendix 1;
12. Technology for distance communication: a means to be used for concluding an agreement without the Consumer and the Entrepreneur being together in the same place at the same time.
Article 2 – The Entrepreneur’s identity
Name of Entrepreneur: ClematisOnline; Business address: Verhoevenstraat 77, 3818PL Amersfoort (Netherlands);
Telephone number: 0031-634937599;
Email address: info@clematisonline.co.uk;
Chamber of Commerce number: 32131628;
VAT identification number: NL1936.31.428.B02
If the Entrepreneur’s activity is subject to a relevant licensing regime: information about the supervising authority;
If the Entrepreneur practises a regulated profession:
- the professional association or professional organisation of which he is a member;
- the title of his profession, the place in the EU or in the European Economic Area where it is awarded;
- a reference to the rules of professional practice which are applicable in the Netherlands and information about where and how these rules of professional practice can be accessed.
Article 3 – Applicability
1. These General Terms and Conditions apply to any offer from the Entrepreneur and to any distance contract concluded by the Entrepreneur and the Consumer.
2. Before concluding a distance contract, the Entrepreneur shall make the text of these General Terms and Conditions available free of charge and as soon as possible. If this is reasonably impossible, the Entrepreneur shall indicate in what way the General Terms and conditions can be inspected and that they will be sent free of charge if so requested, before the distant contract is concluded.
3. If the distance contract is concluded electronically, the text of these General Terms and Conditions, in deviation from the previous section and before the distance contract is concluded, may also be supplied to the Consumer electronically in such a way that the Consumer can easily store it on a longterm data carrier. If this is reasonably impossible, it will be specified where the General Terms and Conditions can be viewed electronically and that they will be sent to at the Consumer´s request free of charge, either via electronic means or otherwise, before concluding the distance contract;
4. In the event that specific product or service condition apply in addition to these General Terms and Conditions, the second and third paragraphs shall apply accordingly, and in the event of contradictory terms and conditions, the Consumer may always appeal to the applicable provision that is most favourable to him/her.
Article 4 – The offer
1. If an offer is of limited duration or if certain conditions apply, it shall be explicitly stated in the offer.
2. The offer contains a full and accurate description of the products, digital content and/or services offered. The description is suitably detailed to enable the Consumer to assess the products, or services and/or digital content adequately. If the Entrepreneur makes use of pictures, they are truthful images of the products and/or services provided. Obvious errors or mistakes in the offer do not bind the Entrepreneur.
3. All offers contain such information that it is clear to the Consumer what rights and obligations are attached to accepting the offer.
Article 5 – The contract
1. Subject to the provisions in paragraph 4, the contract becomes valid when the Consumer has accepted the offer and fulfilled the terms and conditions set.
2. If the Consumer accepted the offer via electronic means, the Entrepreneur shall promptly confirm receipt of having accepted the offer via electronic means. As long as the receipt of said acceptance has not been confirmed, the Consumer may repudiate the contract.
3. If the contract is concluded electronically, the Entrepreneur will take appropriate technical and organisational security measures for the electronic data transfer and ensure a safe web environment. If the Consumer can pay electronically, the Entrepreneur shall observe appropriate security measures.
4. The Entrepreneur may, within the limits of the law, gather information about Consumer’s ability to fulfil his payment obligations, and all facts and factors relevant to responsibly concluding the distance contract. If, acting on the results of this investigation, the Entrepreneur has sound reasons for not concluding the contract, he is lawfully entitled to refuse an order or request supported by reasons, or to attach special terms to the implementation.
5. Before delivering the product, the Entrepreneur shall send the following information along with the product, the service or the digital content in writing or in such manner that the Consumer can store it in an accessible manner on a long-term data carrier:
a. the visiting address of the Entrepreneur´s business establishment where the Consumer may get into contact with any complaints;
b. the conditions on which and the manner in which the Consumer may exercise the right of withdrawal, or, as the case may be, clear information about his being exempted from the right of withdrawal;
c. the information corresponding to existing after-sales services and guarantees;
d. The price including all taxes of the product, service or digital content, where applicable the delivery costs and the way of payment, delivery or implementation of the distance contract;
e. the requirements for cancelling the contract if the contract has a duration of more than one year or for an indefinite period of time.
f. the standard form for withdrawal if the Consumer has the right of withdrawal.
6. In case of a continuing performance contract, the stipulation in the previous paragraph only applies to the first delivery.
Article 6 – Right of withdrawal
In case of products:
1. The Consumer can repudiate a purchase contract for a product without giving reasons for a period of reflection of at least 14 days. The Entrepreneur may ask the Consumer about the reason for the withdrawal but cannot force him to state his reason(s).
2. The reflection period referred to in sub-clause 1 starts on the day the product is received by the Consumer or by a third party appointed by him in advance and who is not the carrier, or
a. if the Consumer ordered several products in the same order: the day on which the Consumer or a third party appointed by him received the last product. The Entrepreneur may refuse an order of several products
with different delivery dates provided that he clearly informs the Consumer prior to the order process.
b. in case the delivery of a product consists of several batches or parts: the day on which the Consumer or a third party appointed by him received the last batch or the last part.
c. in case of an agreement about regular delivery of products during a given period: the day on which the Consumer or a third party appointed by him received the first product.
In case of services and digital content that is not delivered on a physical carrier:
3. The Consumer can terminate an agreement for services or an agreement for delivery of digital content that is not delivered on a physical carrier without giving reasons during at least 14 days. The Entrepreneur may ask the Consumer about the reason for the withdrawal but cannot force him to state his reason(s).
4. The reflection period referred to in Article 3 starts on the day following the conclusion of the agreement. Extended reflection period for products, services and digital content that has not been delivered on a physical carrier in case no information is given about the right of withdrawal:
5. If the Entrepreneur has not provided the Consumer with the legally required information about the right of withdrawal or has not provided the standard form for withdrawal, the reflection period expires twelve months after the end of the original reflection period in accordance with the reflection period determined in the previous sub-clauses of this Article.
6. If the Entrepreneur provided the Consumer with the information referred to in the previous article within twelve months after the starting day of the original period of reflection, the period of reflection expires 14 day after the day on which the Consumer received the information.
Article 7 – Consumer’s obligations during the time of reflection
1. During this period, the Consumer shall handle the product and the packaging with care. The Consumer shall only unpack or use the product to the extent necessary for establishing the nature, the characteristics and the effect of the product. The guiding principle is that the Consumer may only handle and inspect the product in the manner in which one is allowed to handle a product in a shop.
2. The Consumer is only liable for the decrease in value of the product that is caused by the way of handling the product which went further than allowed in sub-section 1.
3. The Consumer is not liable for the decrease in value of the product if the Entrepreneur has not provided him with all legal information about the right of withdrawal before concluding the Agreement.
Article 8 – Exercising the Consumer’s right of withdrawal and the costs
1. If the Consumer exercises his right of withdrawal he shall notify the Entrepreneur unambiguously with the standard form for withdrawal within the period of reflection.
2. The Consumer shall return the product or deliver it to (the authorized representative of) the Entrepreneur as soon as possible but within 14 days counting from the day following the notification referred to in sub-clause 1. This need not be done if the entrepreneur offered to collect the product himself. The Consumer observed the period of returning the product in any event if the product is returned before the expiration of the period of reflection.
3. The Consumer shall return the product with all delivered accessories and if reasonably possible in the original state and packing and in conformity with reasonable and clear instructions given by the Entrepreneur.
4. The risk and the burden of proof for the correct and timely exercise of the right of withdrawal fall on the Consumer.
5. The Consumer shall bear the direct costs of returning the product. If the Entrepreneur has not reported that the Consumer has to bear these costs or if the Entrepreneur pointed out that he will bear the costs himself, the Consumer need not pay the cost of returning the product.
6. If the Consumer withdraws after having first explicitly requested that the performance of a service or the supply of gas, water or electricity having not been made ready for sale not be started in a limited volume or given quantity during the period of reflection, the Consumer shall pay the Entrepreneur an amount that is equal to the part of the obligation already performed at the time of withdrawal as compared with the full compliance of the obligation.
7. The Consumer does not bear the costs for performing services for the supply of water, gas or electricity that had not been made ready for sale in a limited volume or quantity, or for the supply of district heating if
a. the Entrepreneur has not provided the Consumer with the statutorily required information about the right of withdrawal, the compensation of costs in case of withdrawal or the standard form for withdrawal, or
b. if the Consumer has not explicitly requested that the performance of the service or the supply of gas, water and electricity or district heating be started during the period of reflection.
8. The Consumer does not bear any cost for the full or partial delivery of digital content not stored on a physical carrier if
a. prior to the delivery, he has not explicitly consented to start performance of the agreement before the end of the period of reflection;
b. he did not acknowledge to lose his right of withdrawal when giving consent; or
c. the Entrepreneur failed to confirm the Consumer’s statement.
9. If the Consumer exercises his right of withdrawal, all additional agreements end by operation of law.
Article 9 – Entrepreneur’s obligations in case of withdrawal
1. If the Entrepreneur makes the notification of withdrawal by electronic means possible, he shall promptly send a return receipt.
2. The Entrepreneur shall reimburse all payments made by the Consumer, including any delivery costs that the Consumer may charge for the returned product, as soon as possible but within 14 days following the day on which the Consumer notified him of the withdrawal. Unless the Entrepreneur offers to collect the product himself, he can wait with paying back until having received the product or until the Consumer proved that he returned the product, whichever occurs first.
3. The Entrepreneur shall make use of the same means of payment that the Consumer used, unless the Consumer consents to another method. The reimbursement is free of charge for the Consumer.
4. If the Consumer opted for a more expensive method of delivery instead of the cheapest standard delivery, the Entrepreneur need not reimburse the additional costs for the more expensive method.
The Entrepreneur can exclude the following products and services from the right of withdrawal but only if the Entrepreneur notified this clearly when making the offer or at any rate in good time before concluding the agreement:
1. Products or services with a price that is subject to fluctuations in the financial market on which the Entrepreneur has no influence and which may occur within the period of withdrawal;
2. Agreements that are concluded during a public auction. A public auction is defined as a selling method whereby the Entrepreneur offers products, digital content and/or services to the Consumer who is personally present or has the possibility to be personally present at the auction under the direction of an auctioneer and whereby the successful bidder is obliged to purchase the products, the digital content and/or the services.
3. Services agreements, after full performance of the service, but only if
a. the performance started with the Consumer’s explicit prior consent; and
b. the Consumer stated that he will lose his right of withdrawal as soon as the Entrepreneur has fully performed the agreement.
4. Services agreements for making accommodation available when a certain period of implementation is provided and other than for residential purposes, goods transports, car rental services and catering;
5. Agreements related to leisure activities when a certain date or period of performance is arranged in the agreement;
6. Products manufactured in accordance with the Consumer’s specifications which are not prefabricated and which are produced on the basis of a Consumer’s individual choice or decision or which are intended for a specific person;
7. Perishable products or products with a limited durability.
8. Sealed products which are for health or hygiene reasons not suitable for being returned and of which the seal was broken;
9. Products which for their nature are irreversibly mixed with other products;
10. Alcoholic drinks of which the price has been agreed upon at the conclusion of the agreement but of which the delivery can take place only after 30 days, and whose real value depends on fluctuations in the market which the Entrepreneur cannot affect.
11. Sealed audio and video recordings and computer programs of which the seals were broken after delivery;
12. Newspapers, periodicals or magazines, with the exception of subscriptions to them;
13. The delivery of digital content other than on a physical carrier, but only if:
a. the performance was started with the Consumer’s explicit prior consent;
b. the Consumer stated that he will lose his right of withdrawal by doing so.
1. The prices of the products and/or services provided shall not be raised during the validity period given in the offer, subject to changes in price due to changes in VAT rates.
2. Contrary to the previous paragraph, the Entrepreneur may offer products or services whose prices are subject to fluctuations in the financial market that are beyond the Entrepreneur’s control, at variable prices. The offer will state the possibility of being subject to fluctuations and the fact that any indicated prices are target prices.
3. Price increases within 3 months after concluding the contract are permitted only if they are the result of new legislation.
4. Price increases from 3 months after concluding the contract are permitted only if the Entrepreneur has stipulated it and
a. they are the result of legal regulations or stipulations, or
b. the Consumer has the authority to cancel the contract before the day on which the price increase starts.
5. All prices indicated in the provision of products or services are including VAT.
Article 12 – Performance of an agreement and extra Guarantee
1. The Entrepreneur guarantees that the products and/or services comply with the contract, with the specifications listed in the offer, with reasonable requirements of usability and/or reliability and with the existing statutory provisions and/or government regulations on the day the contract was concluded. If agreed, the Entrepreneur also guarantees that the product is suitable for other than normal use.
2. An extra guarantee offered by the Entrepreneur, his Supplier, Manufacturer or Importer shall never affect the rights and claims the Consumer may exercise against the Entrepreneur about a failure in the fulfilment of the Entrepreneur’s obligations if the Entrepreneur has failed in the fulfilment of his part of the agreement.
3. ‘Extra guarantee’ is taken to mean each obligation by the Entrepreneur, his Supplier, Importer or Manufacturer in whom he assigns certain rights or claims to the Consumer that go further than he is legally required in case he fails in the compliance with his part of the agreement.
Article 13 – Delivery and execution
1. The Entrepreneur shall exercise the best possible care when booking orders and executing product orders and when assessing requests for the provision of services.
2. The place of delivery is at the address given by the Consumer to the Entrepreneur.
3. With due observance of the stipulations in Article 4 of these General Terms and Conditions, the Entrepreneur shall execute accepted orders with convenient speed but at least within 30 days, unless another delivery period was agreed on. If the delivery has been delayed, or if an order cannot be filled or can be filled only partially, the Consumer shall be informed about this within one month after ordering. In such cases, the Consumer is entitled to repudiate the contract free of charge and with the right to possible compensation.
4. After repudiation in conformity with the preceding paragraph, the Entrepreneur shall return the payment made by the Consumer promptly but at least within 30 days after repudiation.
5. The risk of loss and/or damage to products will be borne by the Entrepreneur until the time of delivery to the Consumer or a representative appointed in advance and made known to the Consumer, unless explicitly agreed otherwise.
Article 14 – Continuing performance agreements: duration, termination and renewal
1. The Consumer may at all times terminate a contract that was concluded for an indefinite time and which extends to the regular delivery of products (including electricity) or services, with due observance of the termination rules and subject to not more than one month’s notice.
2. The Consumer may at all times terminate a contract that was concluded for a specific time and which extends to the regular delivery of products (including electricity) or services at the end of the specific period, with due observance of the termination rules and a subject to not more than one month’s notice.
3. The Consumer can cancel the agreements mentioned in the preceding paragraphs:
- at any time and not be limited to termination at a particular time or in a given period;
- at least in the same way as they were concluded by him;
- at all times with the same notice as the Entrepreneur stipulated for himself.
4. An agreement concluded for a definite period which extends to the regular delivery of products (including electricity) or services may not be automatically extended or renewed for a fixed period.
5. Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, a contract for a definite period which extends to the regular delivery of dailies, newspapers, weekly newspapers and magazines, may tacitly be renewed for specific period of three months at the most if the Consumer can terminate this extended agreement towards the end of the extension with a notice of one month at the most.
6. An agreement concluded for a definite period and which extends to the regular delivery of products or services may only be extended tacitly for an indefinite period if the Consumer can cancel it at any time with a notice of one month. The notice is three months at the most in vase the contract is about a delivery of dailies, newspapers and weeklies and magazines occurring regularly but less than once a month.
7. An agreement with limited duration of regular delivery of trial dailies, newspapers, weeklies and magazines (trial or introductory subscription) is not renewed tacitly and ends automatically after the trial or introductory period.
8. If the duration of a contract is more than one year, the Consumer may terminate the contract at any time after one year with a notice of not more than one month, unless reasonableness and fairness resist the termination before the end of the agreed term.
Article 15 – Payment
1. Unless otherwise stipulated in the agreement or in the additional conditions, the amounts to be paid by the Consumer must be settled within 14 days after the period of reflection, or if there is no period of reflection within 14 days after concluding the agreement. In case of an agreement to provide a service, this period starts on the day that the Consumer received the confirmation of the agreement.
2. When selling products to Consumers, it is not permitted to negotiate an advance payment of more than 50% in the General Terms and Conditions. If an advance payment was agreed, the Consumer may not assert any right regarding the execution of the order in question or the service(s) in question before making the agreed advance payment.
3. The Consumer has the duty to inform the Entrepreneur promptly of possible inaccuracies in the payment details that were given or specified.
4. In case the Consumer has not complied with his payment obligation(s) in time, and the Entrepreneur has pointed out to him that the payment was late and allowed the Consumer a period of 14 days to comply with the payment obligations, the Consumer is to pay the statutory interest on the amount payable and the Entrepreneur is entitled to charge the Consumer with any extrajudicial collection costs. These extrajudicial collection costs amount to no more than 15% for outstanding amounts up to € 2,500, 10% for the following € 2,500 and 5% for the following € 5000, with a minimum of € 40. The Entrepreneur may deviate from the aforementioned amounts and percentages in favour of the Consumer.
Article 16 – Complaints procedure
1. The Entrepreneur shall have a sufficiently notified complaints procedure in place, and shall handle the complaint in accordance with this complaint procedure.
2. Complaints about the performance of the contract shall be submitted fully and clearly described to the Entrepreneur within a reasonable time after the Consumer discovered the defects
3. The complaints submitted to the Entrepreneur shall be replied within a period of 14 days after the date of receipt. Should a complaint require a foreseeable longer time for handling, the Entrepreneur shall respond within 14 days with a notice of receipt and an indication when the Consumer can expect a more detailed reply.
4. A complaint about the Entrepreneur’s product, service or after-sales service can also be submitted to Stichting Webshop Keurmerk with a complaints form given in the Consumer Page of the website www.Stichting Webshop Keurmerk. org. The complaint will then be sent to the Entrepreneur in question and to Stichting Webshop Keurmerk.
5. If the complaint cannot be solved in joint consultation within a reasonable time or within 3 months after submitting the complaint, there will be a dispute that is open to the dispute settlement rules.
1. Contracts between the Entrepreneur and the Consumer to which these General Terms and Conditions apply, are exclusively governed by Dutch law.
2. With due observance of the provisions set out below, the disputes between the Consumer and the Entrepreneur about the formation or the performance of contracts related to products or services that the Entrepreneur must deliver or has already delivered can be submitted by both the Consumer and the Entrepreneur to Geschillencommissie Webshop, Postbus 90600, 2509 LP, The Hague (Den Haag) (www.sgc.nl).
3. A dispute is handled by the Disputes Committee [Geschillencommissie] only if the Consumer submitted his/her complaint to the Entrepreneur within a reasonable period.
4. The dispute must have been submitted in writing to the Geschillencommissie Webshop within three months after arising of the dispute.
5. If the Consumer wishes to submit a dispute to the Geschillencommissie, the Entrepreneur is bound by this choice. When the Entrepreneur wishes to file the dispute to the Geschillencommissie, the Consumer must speak out in writing within five weeks after a written request made by the Entrepreneur whether he so desires or wants the dispute to be dealt with by the competent court. If the Entrepreneur has not heard of the Consumer’s option within the period of five weeks, the Entrepreneur is entitled to submit the dispute to the competent court.
6. The Geschillencommissie’s decision will be made under the conditions as set out in the rules of the Arbitration Commission (http://www.degeschillencommissie.nl/over-onss/decommissies/2701/webshop). A decision made by the Geschillencommissie is a binding advice.
7. The Disputes Committee will not handle a dispute or will discontinue handling it if the Entrepreneur is granted a moratorium, goes bankrupt or actually ended his business activities before the Commission has handled a dispute at the hearing and delivered a final award.
8. If in addition to the Geschillencommissie Webshop another disputes committee recognised by or affiliated with the Stichting Geschillencommissies voor Consumentenzaken (SGC) [Foundation for Consumer Complaints Committees] or the Klachteninstituut Financiële Dienstverlening (Kifid) [Financial Services Complaints Board] is competent, the disputes that are mainly related to sales methods or distance services, the Geschillencommissie Webshop Keurmerk is preferably competent, and for all other disputes, the disputes committee recognised by and affiliated with the SGC or Kifid is competent.
Article 18 –Guarantee by this branch of industry
1. Webshop Keurmerk guarantees that its members follow the binding advice of the Disputes Committee Webshop unless the member decides to send the binding opinion for review to the Court within two months. This guarantee revives if after review by the Court the binding opinion has been confirmed and the judgement has become final. Webshop Keurmerk will pay this amount to the Consumer up to €10,000 per binding opinion. € 10,000 will be paid if the amount exceeds €10,000 per binding advice. As to the remaining amount, Webshop Keurmerk has an obligation to try to ensure that members comply with the binding advice.
2. For the application of this guarantee, it is required that the Consumer submit a written appeal to Webshop Keurmerk and that he assign the claim against the Entrepreneur to the Stichting Webshop Keurmerk. If the claim against the Entrepreneur exceeds €10,000, the Consumer will be offered to assign the claim on for the excess amount to Stichting Webshop Keurmerk, after which this organisation, in its own name and at its own expense, shall try to get payment and fulfilment of these rights to compensate the Consumer.
Article 19 - Additional provisions or derogations
Additional provisions of and/or derogations from these General Terms and Conditions should not be to the Consumer’s detriment and must be put in writing or recorded in such a way that the Consumer can store them in an accessible manner on a long-term data carrier.
Article 20 – Amendments to the General Terms and Conditions of Stichting Webshop Keurmerk
1. These General Terms and Conditions will not be changed other than in consultation with the Consumentenbond (Consumers’ Association).
2. Amendments to these Terms and Conditions are valid only after being published in the appropriate way, provided that in case of appropriate amendments, the provision that is most favourable for the Consumer shall prevail during the validity of an offer.
Address Stichting Webshop Keurmerk:
Willemsparkweg 193, 1071 HA Amsterdam.
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BMW join forces with Daimler to transform mobility services
The BMW Group and Daimler have joined forces in a €1 billion investment to transform mobility services.
In total, the two companies are investing more than €1 billion in 5 joint ventures; REACH NOW for multimodal services, CHARGE NOW for charging, FREE NOW for taxi ridehailing, PARK NOW for parking and SHARE NOW for car-sharing.
Over time, the vision is for the services to be all-electric autonomous fleets that are available on demand and charge and park themselves.
Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of MercedesBenz Cars, said: “By creating an intelligent network of joint ventures, we will be able to shape current and future urban mobility and draw maximum benefit from the opportunities opened up by digitalization, shared services and the increasing mobility needs of our customers. Further cooperations with other providers, including stakes in startups and established players, are also a possible option.”
SHARE NOW is a car sharing service that allows customers to rent and pay by smartphone. The service already has 4 million customers in 31 cities around the world but they want to expand this to incorporate a wider range of models and increase market coverage.
Car-sharing increases vehicle utilisation rates which helps to cut the overall number of cars on the road in urban areas.
CHARGE NOW is a comprehensive charging network which is a key contributor to zero emissions driving. The service will make public charge points quick and easy to locate, use and pay for, both at home and abroad.
BMW is committed to the transition to sustainable mobility. In 2018, they delivered 142,617 electrified BMW and MINI vehicles to customers around the world.
The new mobility portfolio will be easy to access and will cater to customer needs. In addition to this, these ventures are said to be providing up to 1,000 jobs worldwide.
Harald Krüger, Management Board Chairman of BMW AG, said: “We are creating a leading global game changer. The 60 million customers we already have today will benefit from a seamlessly integrated, sustainable ecosystem of car-sharing, ride-hailing, parking, charging and multimodal transport services. We have a clear vision: these five services will merge ever more closely to form a single mobility service portfolio with an all-electric, selfdriving fleet of vehicles that charge and park autonomously and interconnect with the other modes of transport.”
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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1980-1981 - all stages and played matches
Stage Dates Count of played matches
Preliminary Round 20 August 1980 - 3 September 1980 4 matches
Round of 32 16 September 1980 - 1 October 1980 32 matches
Round of 16 22 October 1980 - 5 November 1980 16 matches
Quarter-final 4 March 1981 - 18 March 1981 8 matches
Semi-final 8 April 1981 - 22 April 1981 4 matches
Final 13 May 1981 1 matches
Winner FC Dinamo Tbilisi
Runner-up Carl Zeiss Jena
Semi-finalists SL Benfica and
Common information
Dates 20 August 1980 - 13 May 1981
Teams 34 clubs from 33 countries
Goals scored 176 (2.71 per match)
2.71 per match
List of Participants in UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1980-1981
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LIGHTNING STRIKES
Selfptiled album out on November 18th!
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes! Southern California’s LIGHTNING STRIKES are set to unleash what it is their full-length debut album through PURE LEGEND RECORDS. Originally formed in 1985, LIGHTNING STRIKES were part of the then red hot L.A. metal scene and issued a now highly collectable 7” single, but became a casualty of war when line-up problems beset the band’s first incarnation and let to its early demise.
It would be another quarter century before founding member/drummer Karpis Maksudian decided to pick up the pieces as it were and resurrect the dream. Joined by bassist Cat Tate (SNEW, RED AGAIN), another member of the original LIGHTNING STRIKES line-up, he began working on new material while pulling in a number of A-list players to fulfill his vision. Enter guitarist extraordinaire, Rob Math (LEATHERWOLF, PLAYER) and Brazilian vocalist Nando Fernandes (HANGAR), a recommendation by noted guitarist/producer Roy Z, who became the other two main protagonists in the new LIGHTNING STRIKES. Maksudian also reached out to Derek Sherinian (DREAM THEATER, KISS) to add keyboards and brought in a pair of stellar guest vocalists, Tony Martin of BLACK SABBATH fame, who is heard on ‘Death Valley’ and ‘301 AD Sin of Our Fathers’, as well as Noah, flamboyant frontman for Japanese rockers AVANCHICK, who adds a far Eastern flavor on ‘Kamikaze.’
Mixed by Roy Z (JUDAS PRIEST, BRUCE DICKINSON, HELLOWEEN) and mastered by Maor Appelbaum (HALFORD, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, ANVIL), ‘Lightning Strikes’ provides the listener with a formidable old school heavy rock experience, rooted in the vintage sounds of RAINBOW and DEEP PURPLE (the seldom covered ‘Our Lady’ is LIGHTNING STRIKES’ hat tip to the British masters) and classic 80’s power metal with an epic touch as espoused by Martin era BLACK SABBATH.
SADAUK
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THE EMBODIED
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From Far Away Volume 5
[openbook booknumber=”159116835X”] [rating:4/5]
Transported into a fantastical world of high adventure, a confused and frightened teenager discovers she holds prophetic power that will awaken a new epoch of staggering uncertainty.
But even with such infinite power, Noriko still relies on the help of her faithful companion Izark to protect her. There are enemies lurking everywhere and Noriko needs all the help she can get.
Izark, however, may be the biggest threat of all. Within him lies an evil most unimaginable. When that evil finally reveals itself, Noriko’s spontaneous reaction surprises everyone… including herself!
As if being dumped down into a completely fantastical and strange world that doesn’t speak her language or play by her rules wasn’t bad enough. Noriko faces bigger enemies in this volume and feels more powerless than ever. She can’t help her friends or fight the bad guys, all she can do is be herself. But will that prove to be enough?
A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed’s hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there’s only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.
When young adults leave their hometown and go off to college it can feel like they have left the planet. All of a sudden they are in a whole new town with all new people, there are new rules of engagement and you are suddenly expected to act and think very differently. Worst of all many if not all their friends and family, most importantly the ever-present parents, are now gone and they are on their own. In Beth Revis’ science fiction debut Across the Universe she manages to capture all of this perfectly as we follow Amy and her journey aboard the spaceship Godspeed. Unfortunately it is captured too well and that along with a few other hiccups resulted in this book not turning out as well as I hoped it would.
Let me start this off on a positive note, Revis can write really, really detailed and realistic scenes. The book opens with Amy watching her parents be cryogenically frozen and then experience it herself. I have extreme needle phobia, it took forever to get through those pages. Even people who don’t have needle phobia squirm through that first chapter, it is intense and present and real and that kind of talent in a writer is extremely promising. She captures the small ship, the feeling of being trapped, the abandonment all very well and you experience it along with Amy and that is very powerful.
[openbook booknumber=”1591167701″] [rating:4/5]
A prophecy of doom, passed down from generation to generation, has finally arrived. Manifest in the form of a young teenage girl named Noriko, the awakening promises a new world of frightening uncertainty.
But not everybody lives in fear of this ancient prophecy. Slowly, a group of sympathizers has come together to befriend and protect the vulnerable teenager. One of them, a valorous warrior by the name of Izark, continues to stay by her side despite the gander and complications that lie ahead.
In an attempt to avoid capture, Noriko and her band of allies travel into the White Mist Forest. Danger lurks everywhere, however… especially in this infrequently traveled wildwood!
Wow! Everything in this volume has reached new heights and I really think the series is starting to come into its own. Noriko and Izark find themselves in some pretty precarious situations after they were separated in the previous volume. What happens next was worth having in its own volume. Wow is all I can say without spoiling things, just wow.
With each passing day, Noriko discovers more and more about the strange and chimerical world she now calls home. And the more she learns… the more frightened she gets!
Everyone around her is talking about an ancient prophecy and the awakening that will usher in a new epoch. To some, this foretold era is fraught with uncertainty and danger. To these people, the power of the awakening must be eliminated.
Ever so slowly, Noriko starts to realize that she, somehow, embodies the gift of the awakening. With the help of a valiant hero named Izark, the young teenager has thus far eluded the attention those who wish to destroy her. But secrets are hard to keep… and with one misspoken word, Noriko could seal her very own death!
Picking up the third volume in the From Far Away series I thought I had a pretty good handle on where things were headed. We had a teenage couple set up against some pretty corrupt and evil governmental figures and some sort of magical prophecy bound them together. So I was stunned that within the first five pages Izark left Noriko! Their separation allows them to grow individually as they each go on their own adventures and yet something magical still ties them together. Not to mention that even through the language barrier Noriko is beginning to realize it and just how much danger that puts them both in.
Blood Red Road
Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That’s fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when a monster sandstorm arrives, along with four cloaked horsemen, Saba’s world is shattered. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on an epic quest to get him back.
Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the world outside of desolate Silverlake, Saba is lost without Lugh to guide her. So perhaps the most surprising thing of all is what Saba learns about herself: she’s a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. And she has the power to take down a corrupt society from the inside. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.
I was torn on a lot of this book and I feel very much on the outside because so many people I really respect love this book to absolute pieces. I guess I feel like I am missing something because this book didn’t click with me as it does with many others and so I recommend right off the bat to weigh my words with all the positive reviews given and give this book an honest shot. After all I did finish the book and it’s nearly 500 pages long! Also keep in mind I am reviewing the advance copy of the book which is about 50 pages longer than the final copy that went to press so perhaps much of what I didn’t like ended up on the cutting room floor.
So, Blood Red Road is a unique take on the dystopians that have swept the YA genre for the past several years. The book is written in a “poetically minimal” style which is to say the writing is largely spelled out phonetically in an American southern drawl and there are no quote marks to denote speaking versus action anywhere in the text. The phonetic spelling actually reminded me a lot of reading Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. It had a way of bringing you into the world and seeing it more from the characters point of view just because you have a great understanding of the way they communicated and got their thoughts across. That part I loved. I’m being a total kill joy here but the lack of quote marks on the other hand was just frustrating and made reading it a bit of a slog, especially because I was trying to read parts of it aloud to my husband and it just proved frustrating for both of us without that marker showing where speech ends and action begins. I understand where the need for it stylistically came from, but I think the end result, for a 500 page book, was just overkill.
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Council launches “easier” recycling scheme
by Lene Wold/ December 6, 2011/ Environment, Lewisham/ No Comments/
pic: Joshua Thorpe
Residents can recycle more items than ever before straight from their doorstep after Lewisham Council launched a new scheme.
The recycling scheme was agreed upon by the Council on Monday after a lengthy bidding process, in which a number of waste companies competed to handle recyclables in the borough for the next three years.
Bywaters Ltd, a recycling and resource management service based in Bow, won the contract. Their aim is to make recycling easier by collecting a range of items from residents’ doorsteps.
John Glover, managing director at Bywaters, said: “Bywaters delivers tailored solutions to London Boroughs and will work in partnership with Lewisham to increase overall recycling rates.”
He also told EastLondonLines the Bywaters processing plant has a sophisticated sorting system that can deal with many of the items not previously recyclable in Lewisham.
The Council will receive a share of the income from materials collected, which can later be used in other service areas.
Marlen Rostgard, 24, from Deptford, said the plan was fantastic news for the local area and the environment. She spoke of her excitement that mixed plastics, shredded paper, perfume bottles, aerosols and even clothes all can all go in the same recycling bin.
Councillor Susan Wise, Cabinet Member for Customer Services, said: “The new scheme would make it much easier for people to recycle, and that it was great for pushing up Lewisham’s recycling rates.”
Source: guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/07/household-waste-recycling-by-area?fb=native
Figures show Lewisham recycled 16.85 per cent of its household waste in 2008/09, making it the second worst borough for recycling in England, and the worst of the EastLondonLines boroughs.
The new contract should raise the borough’s rates during the three-year contract. Lewisham Council’s target is to recycle 21 per cent of household waste by 2013/14. Currently the figure stands at 18 per cent.
With collections starting this week, residents in Lewisham are already beginning to fill their recycling bins and boxes.
For any more information about the collections, please email recycle@lewisham.gov.uk or call 020 314 7171.
Training in building skills to combat housing crisis
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Tidemill backtracks on academy status
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The Crystal Skull by Rob MacGregor
Possessed by a myth, a killer will stop at nothing to re-unite two ancient crystal skulls at a momentous date in the Mayan calendar - the Harmonic Convergence. He intends to complete his quest for immortality at whatever cost. But Nicholas Pierce, a private detective, is just as determined to find out who killed his client, the caretaker of one of the skulls. ...
The Fury and the Power by John Farris
Eden Waring has known fear in her life. She is an Avatar, a talented young psychic with the ability to produce at will her doppelganger - her mirror image, who calls herself "Gwen" and possesses remarkable powers beyond even Eden's gifts. Gwen can be invisible to mortal eyes, if she chooses to be, and can even travel back and forth in time. As gifted as Eden and Gwen are, there is an even stronger entity that stalks them, coveting Gwen's unique talents. He is known as Mordant, the Dark Side of God, a being both ageless and deadly, so evil that his soul was split in two by the Caretakers...
The Fury and the Terror by John Farris
The United States is besieged by terrorists who are working from within the White House itself to overthrow the government. They have frightening weapons at their disposal, not the least of which are techniques of mind control undreamed of even a decade ago....
The Dead Past by Tom Piccirilli
Welcome to Felicity Grove…as small as it is peaceful. But somehow Jonathan Kendrick's eccentric grandma Anna always manages to find trouble. This wheel-chair-bound senior citizen is involved. So when the phone rings at 4 AM in Jonathan's New York City apartment, he knows to expect some kind of dilemma. Anna's outdone herself this time. There's a dead body in her trash can....
The Dream of the Broken Horses by William Bayer
One hot summer afternoon a quarter century ago, a wealthy socialite and her young lover, a private school teacher, were gunned down in a cheap hotel room on the outskirts of the Midwestern city of Calista. Now, forensic sketch artist David Weiss has returned to his hometown to cover a routine celebrity murder trial for ABC, and to reconcile his past....
The Fever Kill by Tom Piccirilli
Crease is going back to his quaint, quiet hometown of Hangtree. It's where his father the sheriff met ruin in the face of a scandal involving the death of a kidnapped little girl and her missing ransom. It's where crease was beaten, jailed, and kicked clear of the town line ten years earlier. Now Crease is back. He's been undercover for so long that most days he feels more like a mobster than a cop. He doesn't mind much: the corrupt life is easier to stomach than a wife wh ocan't understand him, a son who hates him, and a half-dozen adopted kids he can't even name anymore. He's also...
The Captors by John Farris
Kidnappers are frequently complex devious people, the detective had warned her. But that wasn't the half of it. What began as a routine kidnapping would end in much more--sins of unspeakable evil and terrifying violence. Who are these strangely sinister captors and who is their wickedly erotic victim? What has been happening to this strange young girl, and what has produced this nerve-fraying nightmare of sheer electric terror? The Captors... "One of the giants of contemporary psychological horror." - Peter Straub...
The Orffyreus Wheel by David Niall Wilson
In 1712, a remarkable man named Johann Bessler unveiled an amazing invention. It was a Perpetuum Mobile – a Perpetual Motion Device – a wheel that spun after being set into motion until it was stopped with no mechanical input. It was capable of sustaining this motion and producing enough energy to complete “work” – meaning, literally, that there was something from nothing. Bessler never revealed his secret. He was hounded, mocked, and chased through a very rough and adventurous life. His secret died with him....
The Prairie Chicken Kill by Bill Crider
That Truman Smith was sitting in a frayed lawn chair reading an old paperback copy of Tobacco Road was not remarkable. And strange as it sounds, it wasn't particularly noteworthy that someone wanted Smith to look into the murder of a prairie chicken; after all, he'd investigated and solved the murder of an alligator, hadn't he?...
The Instant Celebrity by Jonathan Lowe
Imagine a bowling alley bookkeeper winning the first billion dollar Powerball jackpot, and then wanting to hold onto his instant celebrity status longer than just 15 minutes. What does Howard Rosen do? He finances a reality show whose sole purpose is to fool a corrupt Caribbean dictator into dropping his guard so that his private special forces team can make him a hero!...
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Stand by the Queer Community Statement
The Bert Chapman story has gained media attention in a variety of places. LGBTQ readers of a variety of blogs have seen the story. So have readers of various newspapers, listeners of some radio stations, and television watchers.
Unfortunately, some feel the story has to keep growing. This has already haunted Bert Chapman. Maybe he will learn that he is wrong, but I doubt it. Let's not make this haunt the LGBTQ population at Purdue. Bert Chapman posted comments. It has been shown that he was wrong. He has felt the backlash. There is no harassment case, and it should not be made into one. It is an issue, as the local LGBTQ organizations have stated, of free speech versus community standards. Bert Chapman has the right to say what he said. Equally, we have the right and obligation to say that he was wrong. Bert Chapman has heard that he was wrong; that his statements are false, that he is hiding behind false claims. Let's not move this beyond acceptable free speech. Let's not take this into the realms of harassment or anything else. Don't let this move into territory where everybody loses. Purdue has distanced themselves from him, which is all that one can expect.
I just want to make this statement - Bert Chapman posted a blog post on his private blog. What he said in that post was wrong, malicious, and offensive. It was not, however, breaking a Purdue policy. His speech in this sense has to be protected, just as my speech to write this blog post has to be protected. The Purdue community has done what it needed to do - show people that they disagree with Mr. Chapman. The librarians of Purdue did a wonderful move when they made their statement.Let's not devalue a huge gesture like that. People know Mr. Chapman hurt Purdue's image and that what he said was inaccurate. Our job here is no longer to point this out. I worry that now, I will have to defend Mr. Chapman as others go parading against his right to free speech. What then, of my activism? Will it be protected?
If speech is not protected, who is going to get silenced? A fair percentage of the Purdue community still doesn't accept Queer people. Do we want to create backlash against the work that has been done? Purdue is far behind the other Big 10 Universities in LGBTQ issues, do we want to make it worse?
Let's stop while we are ahead. The local LGBTQ organizations, the voice of the Queer community, has made a statement. Let's rally behind that statement, and leave it there. The Queer Student Union has distanced itself from all statements but this one for a reason. Let's not backtrack the work that has been done (or that is being done).
Side note on Progress:
Promising things are happening at Purdue. Gender Identity and Expression may be gaining ground for its addition to the nondiscrimination policy. I am hoping that Genetic Predisposition and Carrier Status, and Political Affiliation, will also make it on to the list of items to be added. Gender Identity is including in federal hate crimes legislation and featured in some way in all Big 10 nondiscrimination policies (except Purdue). Genetic Information is the next obvious area of discrimination, and steps at the federal and state level have been made to protect one from discrimination on this basis - hopefully Purdue will add to that effort. As for Political Affiliation, I think this one speaks for itself in a time like this.
As for the complicated reporting procedures here at Purdue, there may be change coming. Maybe, students will actually understand how to report real incidents of harassment and discrimination. If a solid system could be made that is easier to understand and use, Purdue would have made a HUGE step towards diversity and inclusion.
As for a Director of LGBTQ Affairs, Purdue still remains the Big 10 without one, but the case for one is growing. I won't go into this as it deserves WAY more attention, and I have quite a bit of information to cover on it.
Third Letter to the Exponent Published
Bert Chapman Official Queer Community Statement
Bert Chapman - Growing
Bert Chapman Opinion
Sometimes, lots of things happen! Part III
Sometimes lots of things happen! Part II
Sometimes, lots of things happen! Part I
And then Maine happened.
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You Can Get More Out of Your Older Computer – Here’s How
By George Otte
Is your older computer showing its age? Before disposing of it and spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on a newer model, consider whether your workflow and budget might be better served by keeping it running.
With proper care and maintenance, your computer can outlast its life expectancy by a considerable margin. Start with these straightforward strategies, and do not hesitate to turn to a computer maintenance expert for guidance if you run into any unexpected issues.
Periodically Delete Unwanted Files and Programs
Regular system maintenance includes periodic deletion of unwanted or unnecessary files and programs. This requires an unsentimental, unsparing approach to your system’s contents: Like an old attic, basement, or storage unit, your computer most likely has a significant store of files and programs that you no longer need (or never really needed). Deleting those unnecessary files and programs frees up space and may increase processing speed and performance.
Keep Your Operating Systems and Key Software Up to Date
The latest versions of your operating system platform and key software programs not only contain useful, user-friendly features.
“They may also contain “patches” that address known vulnerabilities, boosting system security.” — George Otte
Un-patched operating systems can be exploited by attackers, with potentially negative consequences.
Use a Reputable Anti-Malware Program and Make Regular Scans
Another way to protect your older computer against malicious attack is to use a reputable, regularly updated anti-malware suite capable of defending against a host of threats. Choose a system that identifies and removes unwanted programs that you may not even be aware of, such as spyware and other forms of grayware.
Use Cloud-Based Storage and External Drives to Reduce the Load on Your System
For a variety of reasons, older computers are more vulnerable to data loss than fresh-out-of-the-box devices. The surest way to protect against unexpected and potentially disruptive data loss is to regularly back up your system’s files to an external location, ideally a secure cloud storage platform and an external hard drive used in conjunction.
Add More RAM
If you wish to extend your computer’s operating life significantly while noticeably improving performance, installing more RAM may be a cost-effective alternative to replacing the device altogether. Speak with a computer expert about the proper amount of RAM to add and the pros and cons of doing so.
Keep Your Computer Clean and Dust-Free
Keeping your computer’s physical casing clean, cool, and well-ventilated may extend its life and improve its performance. Be particularly mindful of excessive dust near fans and ports, as foreign particles may interfere with normal performance.
Protect Data With an Uninterruptible Power Supply and Power Surge Protector
Even if you consistently back up your data to a secure external repository, further protection may be warranted. Use an uninterruptible power supply in conjunction with a surge protector to mitigate the impact of an unexpected loss or surge of power, both of which can damage your system and permanently wipe some or all of its data.
What are you doing to squeeze more mileage out of your older computer? Are you thinking about replacing your old computer with a newer model instead?
George Otte is a Miami-based entrepreneur and executive with more than 15 years of multifaceted business operations experience.
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6 Tips to Keep Your Computer Safe from Attack This Year
Sadly, the digital world is filled with security threats.
These threats take many forms:
Viruses: Just like a biological virus, this type of malware replicates itself inside infected host systems, then moves on to uninfected systems and repeats the process.
Trojans: Trojans mimic seemingly legitimate programs, tricking the victim into downloading or installing the malicious software.
Ransomware: Ransomware programs lock users out of their own systems unless and until they pay a cryptocurrency ransom.
Phishing and Spearphishing: These email- and social media-based attacks mimic seemingly legitimate messages. Usually, the message convinces the user to click a link and enter sensitive information, such as a password or bank account number.
Man-in-the-Middle Attacks: These attacks use a silent intermediary to intercept information sent by the user, including sensitive details such as passwords and financial information.
And these are just the tip of the iceberg. New, novel threats arise just as quickly as cyber security professionals can address them.
In this high-stakes environment, totally failsafe protection is impossible to achieve. A truly motivated, highly capable attacker backed by the full resources of an adversarial nation-state will compromise your computer system if it wishes to do so.
“Fortunately, nation-state attacks rarely target individuals. Corporate users with access to substantial financial reserves or valuable intellectual property are more commonly targeted by such actors.” — George Otte
Follow these six tips to protect your home computer system against unwanted attack or intrusion by those who wish to do you harm.
1. Complete Recommended or Required Updates in Timely Fashion
Do not put off recommended system and software updates longer than necessary. It’s best to address these action items as soon as you become aware of them, as they’re likely to get lost in your to-do pile with undue delay.
2. Keep Your Firewall On
Under normal circumstances, your operating system’s firewall should always be running. Don’t turn it off without first consulting a computer maintenance professional or your operating system’s developer.
3. Don’t Click Suspicious Links in Email, Even If You Know the Sender
Fight phishing and spearphishing attacks by avoiding suspicious links in emails and direct social media messages. Even if you know the sender, it’s always wise to send a separate email to inquire about the link; their account may be compromised.
4. Regularly Back Up Your Data
Use a cloud-based storage system that regularly, automatically backs up your data to a secure location outside your system. Alternatively, use an external hard drive as a backup. This will come in handy if and when your system is compromised by ransomware or otherwise crippled by attackers.
5. Install a Leading Anti-Virus Suite
Use a reputable, up-to-date anti-malware program that automatically scans your system for threats. Supplement these automatic scans with thorough manual scans as well.
6. Use a Virtual Private Network, Especially When Browsing on Public WiFi Networks
Avoid attacks on public WiFi by using a virtual private network (VPN) whenever you’re away from your home network. VPNs encrypt your device’s outbound traffic, obscuring sensitive data from snoopers.
What are you doing to keep your computer safe from attack this year? Have you tried any of the tips on this checklist?
George Otte Miami Businessman
George Otte, Miami entrepreneur with more than a decade of multi-faceted business operations experience. He is the founder and chairman of the Otte Polo Group, a diversified firm that does business internationally.
Entrepreneurship runs in Otte’s blood. He founded his first company, a South Florida computer repair and support service called TSS, in 2002 — when he was just 21 years old. He successfully ran TSS while enrolled in college full-time, building a network of more than 100 clients by 2005.
Otte took the next step in his entrepreneurial journey with the acquisition of Geeks on Site, a comprehensive technical support company, in 2006. Throughout the late 2000s, George Otte built Geeks on Site into a premier coast-to-coast provider of on-site tech support, remote computer repair, and other value-added technology services. Geeks on Site now works with local technicians in more than 150 US metro areas.
As Otte’s business grew, he recognized the need to integrate superior customer service with flexible, on-demand product fulfillment. Staying true to his vision, he launched Responsive Call Center, a geographically diverse call center and telephone answering service that provides a range of live call center and answering solutions for clients in healthcare, legal, property management, general contracting and other industries.
Responsive Call Center now has a network of six independent answering businesses operating six different facilities throughout the U.S. and Latin America. As he pursues his vision of building Responsive Call Center into the United States’ top privately held call center and telephone answering service company, Otte continues to look for acquisition opportunities throughout the country.
Shortly after Responsive Call Center was established, George Otte turned his attention to product fulfillment and acquired Fort Myers-based Phase V, a fulfillment and shipping operations center with a diversified portfolio of customers, including work which dates back to the early 1980s.
Under Otte’s expert guidance, Phase V has grown into Florida’s top fulfillment company. Its diverse capabilities include warehousing, flexible order processing and fulfillment, direct mail, and contact services. Otte is committed to expanding Phase V’s innovative fulfillment and business support model to business clients in every corner of the United States and is actively seeking acquisition targets to support his goal.
Both Responsive Call Center and Phase V work with businesses of all sizes, from sole proprietors and small startups that can’t afford in-house fulfillment and answering capabilities to enterprise firms that trust Otte’s companies to provide impeccable service under the most challenging conditions.
George Otte was born in the Lima, Peru area. He moved to Florida with his family at age seven and enjoyed what he calls a “fairly typical American childhood.” Though he has some distant relations in Peru, Florida is home to Otte’s immediate family, business and social networks — and Otte himself. Although he devotes the vast majority of his time to overseeing his successful business ventures, Otte does find some time to relax. His hobbies include boating and fishing in the waters off Miami, spending time at the gym, and traveling to out-of-the-way destinations in Europe and Latin America.
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Making a Brass Band Documentary Pt. I: The Walk
Published on 31st March 2014 by kajsa
"Making a Brass Band Documentary Pt. I: The Walk"
Making a Brass Band documentary
Pt. I: The Walk
“Do you want to make a documentary about a brass band composition?”
“Uhhhm…Tell me more.”
She did. And I agreed.
That’s the ultranonspecific way that I got involved with this project. With a skeptical hesitance which was quickly overturned by the delightful enthusiasm and amazing track record of Louise Snape, the professional puller off-er of Sheffield based arts platform ‘Hand Of’. She caught me at a good time because I was looking for a distinctly local project to turn my attention to. After making two snowboard films in my first two years at university, I needed a break from the snow in my final year. I wanted something local, something different.
The documentary would be about the making of an original brass band composition to be written for and performed by Sheffield University Brass Band…with a twist. The uniqueness of the composition would be in the addition of electronic elements during the performance. The composer in question was Joe Snape. As part of the composition, he’d had the ludicrous idea to walk the twenty six miles between Sheffield and Grimethorpe (home to Britain’s most famous brass band), to get inspiration for his piece. As if that wasn’t enough, all of this was to be done in a day with the added challenge of having to make Grimethorpe Brass Band’s evening rehearsal. All done with a tuba strapped to his chest and recording the sounds along the way. A heroic undertaking with romantic motivations and just enough silliness to make it wonderful. I was in love with the concept and licking my lips at the great camera food on offer.
Fast forward a few months and we’re sat in Lou’s kitchen, HQ for the shoot and it was the first time meeting the fabled Joe. It felt weird to be going into a project requiring the intimacy of following someone so closely but with the added curveball that I’d never met them before. It wasn’t through wanton laze though; with Joe’s crazy travel diary which included musical trips to Tokyo and San Francisco, there was simply no other time before the shoot. I had no doubt however, that anyone capable of cooking up a concept like this would be on the higher end of the interesting scale. And that’s the thing with a project like this, you need a character that interests you personally enough as a filmmaker to follow and tell their story about. People tend to look at the quantitative aspects, such as the gear and tech, when they consider the production of a good movie. But the qualitative feel of relationships is number one, be it between crew members, directors and actors or anyone else involved. As soon as Joe sat down, with his thick round glasses and bizarre blue beanie hat I knew we had a character with an aesthetic at the very least. This was followed rapidly by excellent conversations about film and music and the mutual interest and personality was there too. I was officially excited and just knew that Joe would make an excellent subject.
And so this merry crew of four set off. Myself as camera holder, Joe as tuba carrier, Lou as the organizer and Christina (Lou’s colleague) as driver and map expert. Day one was devoted to travelling and mapping the route. Everyone else did the hard work of planning and I was afforded that lovely freedom of solitude with my own camera-related thoughts in the back seat of the car. I did have one important objective for the day though and that was to film an interview with Joe prior to the walk. I floated the idea out early but he didn’t like the sound of it, questioning his ability to sit and talk about things to a camera. I might have known that Joe was a great character but of course, he didn’t and as the day of route planning jaded him and the light faded as we returned, he grew less and less enthusiastic. Especially with an early start on the horizon for the walk/filming tomorrow. But I knew that I needed this interview to project his personality to the audience, for them to get to know him as a person rather than just a visual thing plodding along with a tuba. It was crucial. Eventually, Joe agreed. He had that new-interview-subject-smell initially as he wobbled over words, but it didn’t take long before he opened up and eased into his natural self. The interview was a joy, throwing up moments of humour and moments of insight. I wasn’t satisfied though and kept prodding and probing for another hour until I got the killer line I was looking for. A line that would prove to be the heartbeat of the film. I knew it as soon as he’d said it and that moment was precisely when the interview ended. Magic captured, mission accomplished. And so, off we slunk to bed, to rest up and embark on the real thing at silly o’clock in the morrow.
We set off from home at half past hell (5am) to shoot at Pye Bank in the dark, capturing the lovely view of Sheffield below us. This was the one part of the film that Joe could be my ragdoll, so I moved him around and put him where I wanted, knowing this would be the all-important introduction of the film. The rest of the footage was committed to being completely natural and capturing the reality of the walk. Fifteen minutes of puppetry and filming later and he was off, walking into the receding darkness. As he walked, I was driven to checkpoints just ahead of him to grab shots of him coming towards, passing and walking away from camera. Frame up, shoot, jump back into the car and repeat. My challenge for the day was making what was essentially the same content, a walking man, look interesting with a variety of different shot types. A challenge indeed but one that I loved because it made me try a whole host of different shots to try and keep it fresh.
In addition to framing up the tuba-laden Joe, I set about capturing the unique character of each place, independent of Joe’s presence. I want the audience to engage with the walk and the scenery itself in the hope that it makes them feel closer to the walk and Joe’s task. After all, it was a very long day of walking and witnessing for Joe, so I want to be able to deliver the joys of the scenary as best I can. In that way, I suppose that the landscape is in and of itself it’s own character. The big question for Joe was how the walk sounded and so, my own was how it looked. He’ll be creating a piece of music to inspire a particular feeling in his audience derived directly from his walk and I’ll be supplementing that with how he felt personally in harvesting these feels. Inceptiony, right?
Of course, the day threw up plenty of stories with many physical and emotional obstacles to overcome along the way, but I’ll save them for another blog. Already quite the adventure, this is only the first part of our film. The next few weeks will be devoted to figuring out what else we need and how to tie it in with our brassy walk in order to take the documentary to the next level. Rest assured, I’ll be sure to keep you up to date with Joe’s journey & mine.
For now, enjoy the trailer!
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Review of Protecting the Quarterback by Kristina Knight! #BookReview #HarlequinSuperromance @HarlequinBooks #ProtectingTheQuarterback @AuthorKristina #HarlequinMyRewards
Title: Protecting the Quarterback
Series: not applicable
This is more than just a game…to her
Sports broadcaster Brooks Smith has always been more involved with the game than the players. But after she shares the spotlight at an awards ceremony with tabloid sensation Jonas Nash, one night of letting her guard down around the infamous quarterback spirals into many heated days and nights together when she gets assigned to the story of the year
The hottest player in professional football is hiding a secret that could end his career for good. Now Brooks is caught on the sidelines between the job she loves and the man she is falling in love with.
“Jonas.” Her quiet voice snapped him back to the parking lot. “Why don’t you not take me home?”
His stomach muscles tightened as the words slipped from her lips in that slow drawl.
She nodded, and he knew he wouldn’t take her home, not just yet.
When he was behind the wheel, Brooks took his hand in hers and turned her face to watch the buildings passing by. The sun was beginning to set when he pulled into the parking lot of the condo where he’d spent the first few years of his contract with the team. Several other players lived there during the season, but the place was mostly a ghost town now. He parked in his designated spot and then somehow they were inside the glass-and-chrome decorated living room.
Memorabilia lined the walls and a low, white couch sat behind a glass-topped coffee table. He cringed. It was too perfect. Too planned out.
Too much like the other times he’d brought a woman here. Maybe he should have taken her to a hotel. There was still time, he could—
“Wow,” she said, drawing her index finger over the smooth surface of a table lined with photographs of him during games or at press conferences. God, he’d been such a schmuck with the decorating of this place. “This is not what I expected.”
“My interior designer has very specific tastes,” he said lamely. Definitely, definitely should have taken her anywhere but this condo.
She presented herself as the girl next door, but there was a little bit of siren in her now, which made his heartbeat kick up a notch. Brooks made her way around the room and he couldn’t take his eyes off her as she moved. Slowly and sinuously. Taking in everything around her. This was a different Brooks than the woman he thought he’d known over the past week. That woman was businesslike most of the time. The moments she let her guard down, like when she talked to the kids without that microphone in tow, though, she was irresistible. Impossible not to watch or wonder about. It was one of those moments that made him ask her out for dinner. That dinner had led them here.
Jonas met her at the kitchen counter, put his hands on her hips and turned her to face him.
“It was a date,” he said and bent his head so he could taste her lips. She was sweet, as he’d imagined so many times over the past few days. She wound her arms around his neck and slanted her mouth, giving him better access to the sweetness that was Brooks. He squeezed his hands around her waist and she shivered. “It was always a date,” he said again and began walking her down the hallway to the bedroom.
I really live under a rock. Truly and it’s sad. I’ve heard nothing but awesome things about Ms. Knight and her books. Try her since you like contemporary. You will love her writing style. Her characters are real and relatable people said. What are you waiting for? I can honestly tell that it took Ms. Knight to email me to see if I would review her latest Harlequin. Oh yes, you see she has written several Superromance books and NO, I didn’t even read those. *hangs head in shame*
Well, I have to say that I start listening to the peeps that know my reading habits better that I do sometimes. Ms. Knight delivers a story that is completely relatable. True to life characters and a storyline that isn’t contrived but noteworthy in that sometimes lines are crossed in the sports world.
Brooks is the girl that I wish I could talk to about football. Growing up in Oklahoma and Texas, football is king and you learn at the knee the sport. The teams to cheer for, the teams to hate forever, coaches, sportscasters, etc. I never wanted to be in the sports world but my dad made sure that I could read a box score for any sport and be able to hold my own in a conversion with a man. She reminded me a little bit of the character Sheryl Yoast from the movie Remember the Titans. Go ahead…look it up on IMDB. I’ll wait…She is determined, smart, sexy and completely thrown when she falls for the quarterback. Never expecting to have to choose between her career and love, she is at a crossroads.
Jonas isn’t your typical alpha athlete either. You want to hug him and tell him that everything will work out in the end. Don’t worry about it. He has the most to lose in the story and it shows great character growth that he is willing to do that for Brooks and for the team. Most importantly, though, he does it for himself. If I had one itsy bitsy thing…I would have liked to have seen an appearance from his mother. I’m weird and when you read the story, you might agree with me. My heart broke for him in regards to that thread.
Why should you read this story? Well, the characters for one. Relatable, very smart and strong characters. Jonas and Brooks are sometimes too smart for each other but they need each other in the end. Never forgetting themselves in the process of falling in love with each other. The football scenes and references. Ms. Knight knows her stuff and you know that sitting on the couch with her on Sunday would be a hoot. Plus, again…someone I could talk to; besides my hubby (when he’s not yelling).
Even if you don’t like football or its just a stupid sport, do yourself a favor and pick Ms. Knight’s latest. You can’t go wrong. Again…did I mention football players? 🙂
Wish I could give it more!
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Once upon a time, Kristina Knight spent her days running from car crash to fire to meetings with local police–no, she wasn’t a troublemaker, she was a journalist. Her career took her all over the United States, writing about everything from a serial killer’s capture to the National Finals Rodeo. Along the way, she found her very own Knight in Shining Cowboy Boots and an abiding love for romance novels. And just like the characters from her favorite books, she’s living her own happily ever after.
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Kristina Knight says:
I’m so glad you enjoyed the book!! Sundays here *are* a hoot – even though RadioMan is a Bengals fan! lol
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Keith Jarrett's home
Albums by Keith Jarrett
Arbour Zena
Book of Ways
Celestial Hawk
Concerts (Bregenz)
Concerts Bremen/lausanne
Dark Intervals
Eyes of the Heart
Facing You
G. I. Gurdjieff: Sacred Hymns
Handel: Suites for Keyboard
Hymns / Spheres (24Bit96Khz Reissue)
Invocations / The Moth and the Flame
J. S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I, BWV 846-869
J. S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch II, BWV 870-893
J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
J. S. Bach: The French Suites, BWV 812-817
Luminessence
My Song
Nude Ants
Paris / London - Testament
Paris / London - Testament (24BIT96KHZ)
Paris Concert
Selected Recordings
The Köln Concert
The Köln Concert(24BIT96KHZ)
The Melody At Night, With You
The Survivors' Suite
Vienna Concert
La Scala, Pt. 1 La Scala, Pt. 1 44:52 Add € 1.50
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Artist: Keith Jarrett
Performer: Keith Jarrett
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Over the Rainbow Over the Rainbow 6:02 Add € 1.50
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Composer: Harold Arlen
Keith Jarrett - piano
Recorded February 1995
In his first solo concert recording in five years, Keith Jarrett once again makes history. The La Scala concert was the first recital ever given by an improvising musician in the world's most famous opera house. The concert - an instant press sensation - comprises two moving sets of solo improvisation, and Jarrett's most loved encore: the classic tune "Over the Rainbow."
About Keith Jarrett:
Over the past 40 years, Keith Jarrett has come to be recognized as one of the most creative musicians of our times - universally acclaimed as an improviser of unsurpassed genius; a master of jazz piano; a classical keyboardist of great depth; and as a composer who has written hundreds of pieces for his various jazz groups, plus extended works for orchestra, soloist, and chamber ensemble.
Born May 8, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Keith Jarrett began playing the piano at age 3 and undertook classical music studies throughout his youth; performing as a child in programs at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and at Madison Square Garden. He undertook formal composition studies at age 15, before moving to Boston to briefly study at the Berklee College of Music. While still in his late teens, arrangements were made to study composition in Paris with the great pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, but then canceled at the last moment in favor of moving to New York in 1964 to ...
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Extra Dessert Delights Orange Crème Pop
Flavor : Summer is upon us (finally), and what says summer more than Orange Crème Pops? As a Jersey shore native, that orange cream flavor strikes a particularly nostalgic chord in me, harkening back to long summer days and dripping Kohr’s Custard cones and orange sodas. I was really excited when I heard the Dessert Delights line had extended its expertise to one of the most delicious of desserts, but I have to say I’m a little let down here. Mint Chocolate Chip was such a pleasant surprise, a long-lasting, actually satisfying low-calorie treat, that I really expected Orange Crème Pop to knock my socks off. At first I was like, “Whoa!” But then I was all, “Meh.” It starts out really strong, a tangy burst on the tip of your tongue and then a flood of creamy flavor, like that first bite into your ice pop before it starts to melt in the heat, but it instantly faded into a nutra-sweet-esque, dull orange flavor that actually grossed me out after a while. Not impressed.
Texture : The texture falls a little short, especially for Extra. It gets pretty tough very quickly, and the pieces seem smaller than other Extra varieties. Again, not impressed.
Presentation : The package is consistent with the other Dessert Delights, pretty simply showcasing the dessert it claims it represents. Not too much to report here, although I’m not sure I would associate actual orange slices with that delicious crème pop, it’s an entity unto itself.
Overall : It’s ok. I guess if you just want the flavor of the pop without the actual pop, go ahead and buy it, it’s worth a try. But personally, I’m going to get my butt down to the boardwalk and get me some swirly orange and cream custard in a waffle cone, with rainbow sprinkles. Mmmm…
Rating: ooo (three gumballs )
June 15, 2011 gum-alert
Mentos Pure Fresh Cooler Lemonade
Flavor: This one’s really quite spot-on lemony. It’s tart and sour, with even a little bit of rind-like bitterness thrown in. At times it might be a little TOO much for the taste buds – once or twice I’ve had to ditch the piece because I wasn’t feeling it. Also of note is the teeniest bit of minty-menthol. Normally this doesn’t work all that well in citrus flacors, but this one works great. The only thing I have to take a small issue with here is the -ade part of the equation. Lemonade is sour and tart, yes, but it’s also refreshingly sweet. This gum is really too sour to be called “Lemonade.” If I was bought a lemonade on the boardwalk and it tasted like this, I’d give it back for another scoop of sugar, for sure. They should have just called this gum “Cooler Lemon.”
Texture: It’s the predictable mentos gum texture we’ve grown to love. Nice initial crunch fading into an easy-to-chew wad. Prolonged chews will get slightly waxy, but not in a bad way.
Presentation: We’ve discussed the mentos tube and its pros and cons before. It’s nice packaging, and the graphics are holographic minimalist. mentos doesn’t need to slap a lemon on the label, they want to feature the product itself. I love the shiny, metallic printing – very eye-catching.
Overall: Another nice showing from mentos. Solid chew, nice true flavor. This one’s recommended as a summertime treat.
Mentos UP2U Mandarin Strawberry and Spearmint
Flavor: Oh my goodness, there’s just so much to talk about here. A recurring theme in gum marketing is the combination of fruity and minty, as seen in such varieties as Stride Shift and Orbit Maui Melon Mint. Something about them always seems to come up short, though, and I think that’s true in this case as well. UP2U gives gum chewers the “choice” between two flavors, which is novel, I guess, in the same way that it’s cool that the candy Nerds always packs two flavors in one box. But for me, this presents an immediate predicament– what if I don’t like one of the flavors? Then I am forever spending twice the money for half the amount of gum, and I’m way less likely to do so when there are so many other great gums on the shelf. In my conversations on gum, I’ve discovered that there really aren’t too many people who equally prefer fruity and minty gum, usually it’s way more swayed to one side or the other. That said, if you are a fruity gum lover, this might be the gum for you, as the spearmint isn’t very minty at all. It has almost a melony taste to it, which I attribute possibly to the packaging and its being subjected to fruity fumes until the time of purchase. It is minty, but I don’t taste any of the standard spearmint flavors here. It’s just a sweet mint, basically, reminiscent of Trident Layers Cool Mint + Melon Fresco. The Mandarin Strawberry doesn’t taste anything like mandarin to me, really. I detect strawberry, maybe a little melon, definitely no mandarin, but maybe I’m just missing it. The flavor in each could last a little longer, admittedly.
Texture : For their first venture into stick gums (as opposed to the classic mentos pellet), they do a pretty good job. The initial bite leaves something to be desired, it’s maybe a little rubbery and lacking that nice softness that happens at the start of stick gum, but all-in-all it’s a standup, consistent chew that doesn’t get hard or sticky or fall apart in your mouth. Well done.
Presentation : The first day I had this gum I avoided saying the name out loud as I couldn’t really figure out what it meant (ok, ok, maybe I’m not the sharpest tack in the box). But something about the label makes me want to read the letters and numbers aloud. I still find myself calling it “That you-pee-two-you or whatever gum” even though I know now that it’s a clever way of writing “Up to you.” (Maybe I’m not hip enough to really grasp the text-language here.) It’s a neat way to package it, opening from the side rather than the top (as seen in other gums of this shape) and closing with an over-the-top flap. I don’t have any real problem with the new packaging except that I predict the two sides will separate when the pack is being beaten up in my bag, since it’s only connected by one short side. The packaging is peppered with clever little phrases like “Emperor Lothar I” and “Times change and we with time,” which adds to that hip young thing that’s trending in gum these days (and which I don’t really understand).
Overall : Both varieties of gum are delightful, and I surprisingly did enjoy both flavors, so I would consider buying this again. I think, though, that I would much rather buy two packs (or three or four or five) of all different varieties to keep in my purse in case I want a choice. I just think mentos is trying a little too hard here; they could have made waves by simply releasing their first stick-shaped gum in lots of delicious, dual-colored pieces. Instead it’s their first stick-ed gum, a dual-flavor pack, a new type of packaging, a crazy clever logo… I just need a moment to digest all this newness here. I’m torn on the rating here, so I’m going to break the rules and give a half-gumball…
Rating : oooc (three-and-a-half gumballs)
June 4, 2011 gum-alert
Choward’s Scented Gum
Flavor: An odd combination of licorice and clove, Choward’s Scented Gum doesn’t claim to have any flavor at all. There’s no mention on the packaging of how it’s supposed to taste, other than a boldfaced claim, “A delicious chewing gum.” I’m taking issue with Choward’s here, because if there’s one thing this gum is NOT, it’s “delicious.”
Texture: Starts off super tough, like it’s stale. I had to proceed carefully with this one for fear that I might pop my crown or lift a filling. Once it softens, the mass of the wad diminishes to a size so small, one would need at least three, if not four pieces to sustain a decent chew. Size aside, it’s sticky and tough, you can’t crack it or pop it.
Presentation: What presentation? It’s as if Choward’s Scented Gum has traveled through time to come to us in its original 1930’s packaging. No graphics, no colors, nothing but the aforementioned “delicious” claim and a tagline of “Fragrance that Refreshes after Eating, Smoking or Drinking.” Fragrance that refreshes? How, exactly, does fragrance refresh? Flavor, yes… a refreshing sensation , sure… but fragrance?
Overall: Choward’s has been making candy and gum since the 1930s. They have stood the test of time, obviously, as they have remained virtually unchanged since their inception. I, personally, don’t get it. This gum is disgusting in every way. Borderline unchewable. It’s worth it to note here that this gum should not be confused with Choward’s Violets – also pictured above. This gum is not Violet flavored, despite the somewhat confusing packaging similarities. Although there are some people (my mom and BFF included) that are fans of the Violets mints, I cannot recommend them, either.
Rating: o (one gumball)
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Delhi half marathon goes ahead despite smog, health warnings
November 19 2017 13:01:00
NEW DELHI – Agence France-Presse
Tens of thousands of runners braved smoggy conditions for the Delhi half marathon on Nov. 19 despite dire health warnings from doctors who wanted the race postponed in the heavily-polluted capital.
Around 35,000 people registered for the race in the Indian city after more than a week of hazardous pollution levels that forced schools shut for several days.
The U.S. embassy website Sunday showed levels of the smallest and most harmful airborne pollutants reached 189 -- nearly eight times the World Health Organization’s safe maximum.
Some runners wore face masks as they jogged through the visible morning haze and complained of side effects from the polluted conditions.
“My eyes are burning, my throat is dry. I have a running nose,” said Rohit Mohan, a 30-year-old runner from the southern city of Bangalore who was among those donning a mask.
“It’s been terrible since I landed here yesterday.”
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) had asked the Delhi High Court to postpone the event after a spike in pollution levels that it described as a public health emergency.
However, on Nov. 16 the court said it was satisfied by the organizers’ reassurances that they were doing everything they could to mitigate concerns, and the race was given the green light.
The medical association says running in severe pollution can trigger asthma attacks, worsen lung conditions and increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Most participants -- the large majority of whom were local, amateur runners -- seemed unfazed and ran without masks, ignoring the warnings.
“I know pollution is bad and it can affect my health but I am still participating,” said Sitam, who like many Indians goes by one name.
“I want to send a message to the government to do something for fitness enthusiasts and ensure a pollution free environment for them.”
A 2014 World Health Organization survey found Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital.
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For Teen Vogue, bashing Israel is trendy
By Charles Dunst
(JTS) Once a must-read for young fashonistas, Teen Vogue in 2016 expanded its coverage, shifting the magazine more aggressively into “covering politics, feminism, identity and activism” from an apparently liberal lens.
Now, among articles on makeup, celebrities and clothing trends, Teen Vogue would like to give Israel a progressive makeover.
The July 16 “Do Better” column by Lincoln Anthony Blades compares the policing of minority communities in the United States and Israel, and not in a flattering way.
“The recent history of police violence enacted on unarmed black and brown citizens by American law enforcement mirrors the recent history of Israel treating Palestinians as violent insurgents,” Blades wrote. “American law enforcement and Israeli military and law enforcement share more than similar modes of policing; they share responsibility for what many perceive are numerous human rights abuses and civil rights violations.”
Conflating the security and policing situations of the two countries — and sometimes blaming Israel for aggressive policing by American law enforcement who have attended counterterrorism seminars in Israel — has become a common trope on the left. So have comparisons of social justice protesters here and Palestinian protesters in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. It’s the comparison made by upstart New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who in an interview with Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept likened Palestinians killed by Israeli forces as they tried to breach the Gaza border fence with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri Black Lives Matter protests or the West Virginia teacher strikes.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other Jewish groups have long rejected the comparison, saying Palestinian protesters often use violence, and the Gaza protests in particular were orchestrated by Hamas, the terrorist group that controls the strip and has pledged Israel’s destruction.
In his piece, Blades notes that American police have taken part in the counterterrorism training in Israel. But neither Blades nor others who have invoked the training have provided evidence that such training has influenced how U.S. police deal with minorities. The ADL, which hosts many of the counterterrorism programs, points out that it is one of the nation’s leaders in offering training about implicit bias and diversity in law enforcement.
In February, Karen Bekker of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) wrote an article titled “Intersectionality is making Teen Vogue’s editors stupid” saying that the magazine is “pushing a one-sided Palestinians narrative to its teen readers.”
“It’s clear from reading their coverage that Teen Vogue’s editors and writers know very little about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the many complex issues involved,” Bekker wrote. “In discussing the topic in December of 2016, the magazine relied on far-left, anti-Israel academic Stephen Zunes, who has elsewhere – absurdly – called the First Intifada ‘non-violent’ and who falsely told Teen Vogue’s readers that there are ‘Jewish-only highways.’”
That article apparently referred to a road near the West Bank settlement of Efrat, which has been closed to Palestinian cars and pedestrians since a May 2001 terrorist killing of two Jewish women.
“Despite employing writers with no expertise in the area, the magazine has determinedly pursued an anti-Israel agenda,” Bekker said.
Other Teen Vogue articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — they include “A Letter to Gigi Hadid from Palestinian Youth”; “I Am a Jewish Teen and I Support the Palestinian Cause”; and “At Cannes, Attendees Are Raising Awareness About Palestinian Protester Deaths”– also reflect a left-wing commitment to “intersectionality,” which links support for marginalized groups like women, African-Americans and the LGBTQ community to the Palestinian cause.
KC Johnson, a history professor at Brooklyn College, former Fulbright instructor at Tel Aviv University and regular Washington Post contributor, said intersectionality ignores Israel’s relatively tolerant record on those issues.
“There’s a lot of evidence that defining liberalism through an intersectional lens has had the effect of casting Israel as an ‘oppressor’ and thus a nation worthy of condemnation,” Johnson told JTA earlier this month, “even as its actual policies on issues associated with intersectionality are infinitely better than those of its neighbors.”
Felicity Jones on playing Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she was the ‘Notorious RBG’
"In Brief" week ending 7/6
42 lives lost forever
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Falavigna, G., Ippoliti, R. (2017). The Localization of Pharmaceutical Clinical Research in Europe. Hospital Practices and Research, 2(2), 29-35. doi: 10.15171/hpr.2017.09
Greta Falavigna; Roberto Ippoliti. "The Localization of Pharmaceutical Clinical Research in Europe". Hospital Practices and Research, 2, 2, 2017, 29-35. doi: 10.15171/hpr.2017.09
Falavigna, G., Ippoliti, R. (2017). 'The Localization of Pharmaceutical Clinical Research in Europe', Hospital Practices and Research, 2(2), pp. 29-35. doi: 10.15171/hpr.2017.09
Falavigna, G., Ippoliti, R. The Localization of Pharmaceutical Clinical Research in Europe. Hospital Practices and Research, 2017; 2(2): 29-35. doi: 10.15171/hpr.2017.09
The Localization of Pharmaceutical Clinical Research in Europe
Article 2, Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 2017, Page 29-35 PDF (518.63 K)
Greta Falavigna 1; Roberto Ippoliti 2
1Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth, National Research Council of Italy, Moncalieri, Italy
2Department of Management, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Receive Date: 08 February 2017, Revise Date: 20 February 2017, Accept Date: 22 February 2017
Background: Clinical research is a specific phase of the production process in the pharmaceutical industry in which companies test candidate drugs on patients in order to collect clinical evidence about safety and effectiveness.
Objective: This paper is an operational research which aimed to support the hypothesis that pharmaceutical clinical research is like any other production process which could be localized where the cost is most competitive. In other words, this work aimed to demonstrate that the localization process of this specific phase of the pharmaceutical industry’s R&D is based on the price of clinical evidence.
Methods: Considering Europe and taking panel data into account, an efficiency frontier through data envelopment analysis (DEA) was estimated. The efficiency of countries in maximizing the number of innovative medical treatments, given their available resources was estimated. Afterwards, focusing on European macro-regions, authors analyzed whether a significant concentration of clinical research exists.
Results: Results suggest that, taking the expected principal investigators’ fee into account, Southeastern Europe and Central Eastern Europe are the most attractive macro-regions for the pharmaceutical industry’s foreign direct investments in clinical research.
Conclusion: The results of the proposed operational research cannot reject the suggested evolution of the pharmaceutical industry’s clinical research. In other words, results confirm the localization process of the testing phase in East Europe, where the expected principal investigators’ fee is more competitive.
Clinical research; Pharmaceutical industry; Medical institution
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Federation of Family History Societies AGM and General Meeting 2015
Federation of Family History Societies
Annual General Meeting & General Meeting
Please be advised that the AGM & GM will be held on Saturday 21st March 2015 at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (Portsmouth), HM Naval Base (PP66), Portsmouth, PO1 3NH
The meeting will commence at 1.30pm promptly. Attendees will have free entry to the Museum and four galleries from 10.00am. There will be an opportunity to purchase at a special discounted rate of £12.50 (usually £26.00) a ticket which will give entry to other attractions on site. Further detailsregarding the pre booking of these tickets will be circulated nearer the time. If you or your society representative plan to spend an additional day in Portsmouth you may like to consider this.
The Royal Marine Hotel which is located close to the site offers competitive rates.
Philippa McCray
LE17 9BJ
Email:admin@ffhs.org.uk
www.ffhs.org.uk
Petition to open historic registers
From Steve Benson
There is a petition on line to make historic BMD registers available. The organiser Guy Etchells is asking us to seek support from our membership.
Have a look at the petition and see what you think.
It needs a lot more signatures if it is going to succeed - only 5729 have signed up as at today. It needs at least 100,000 before 25/03/15 to cause any Parliamentary action.
Would you like to help ?
Steve Benson
Responsible department: Home Office
We ask that historic birth marriage & death registers be open to public inspection at county record offices or the National Archives
Until 1973 registers of BMD held at superintendent registrar’s offices were open to public inspection
Today’s technology available allows the registers to be digitized and made available as facsimile copies protecting the original from damage
Commercial concerns are willing to scan the registers and make them available online under licence at no cost to the public purse
A new accurate index of BMDs could be compiled by volunteers thereby complying with the 1836 legislation for the first time in 177 years.
The benefits include taking pressure off Superintendent Registrars and the GRO enabling them to concentrate on the core task of recording & administering current registrations.
Revenue would be created for the County Record Offices or the National Archives swelling the government coffers. All at no cost to the taxpayer or government.
Number of signatures:
Created by: Guy Etchells
Closing: 25/03/2015 09:15
Heraldic Study Day
Lancashire Heraldry Group
In association with the Cheshire,
Scottish, Yorkshire, and other Heraldry Societies.
Thursday – 2nd October 2014. 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
at Hemsley House Masonic Hall, The Crescent, Salford. M5 4PE (opposite Salford University and Art Gallery)
Study Day Organiser:
Canon A. D. Walkden, 2 Butterlands, Preston, Lancashire. PR1 5TJ
Tel: 01772 792224 e-mail: derrickwalkden@btinternet.com
10.00 – 10.50 am Registration and refreshments
10.50 – 11.00 am Welcome and Introduction
11.00 – 12.00 noon ANDREW GRAY’s topic is:
“Family History in pictures -How hatchments uncover family history & legends”
12.00. noon Comfort Break.
12.10 – 12.55 pm STEPHEN SLATER, speaks to: “The Heraldic Funeral”
1.00 pm Lunch
2.10 pm – 2.55 pm TONY CONSADINE’s title is: “A Sign of refreshment”
2.55 pm Comfort Break.
3.05 – 3.50 pm LESLIE HODGSON, concludes with: “The Scottish National War Memorial: the Heraldry therein”
3.50 pm Closing Remarks,
Refreshments and Farewells.
We hope to have some books on sale from our societies, and a friendly raffle
Life on the Home Front in North West England
In this unique DVD to mark the centenary of the First World War, the North West Film Archive opens its vaults to share compelling footage of life on the home front in North West England.
From industrial toil in the years leading up to the outbreak of war, to key events during the hostilities - join BAFTA nominated actor Maxine Peake on this fascinating journey into the past.
Drawing on rare archive footage we feature amongst others, the Accrington Pals, the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Cheshire Regiment as they prepare for active service on the Western Front.
We discover the early days of aviation, and German Prisoners of War being marched through the streets of Lancashire. From troop inspections in Preston and Blackpool, to the subsequent victory parades in Whalley and Haslingden and the unveiling of war memorials from Egremont to Altrincham.
Presenting evocative footage filmed across the North West a century ago - don’t miss this special opportunity to experience how we lived our lives during one of the darkest periods of our history.
65 minutes, with subtitles for the hard of hearing.
Available at the MLFHS Family History Online Bookshop - http://tinyurl.com/WW1DVD
Cost - £10
Maps on Ancestry
England’s Ordnance Survey began in 1791 in an effort to produce detailed maps of areas in southern England for military uses. Though it took the better part of a century, the Survey eventually mapped the entire country, and the maps were published between 1805 and 1874.
In the meantime, the rapid expansion of railroads and urbanization had changed the face of the country, and maps were being put to greater civilian uses. New surveys led to new maps, including the Revised New Series Map, which took advantage of new printing techniques and colour.
You can search for places or browse these maps here:http://ancstry.me/1ghuUPB
DIOCESE OF LANCASTER COLLABORATES WITH LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY SECURING PRESERVATION OF TALBOT LIBRARY FOR THE NORTH WEST
Press Release from the Catholic Diocese of Lancaster
The highly acclaimed collection of some 50,000 books comprising the Talbot Library in Preston has been given a new lease of life following the announcement today by the Bishop of Lancaster, The Rt Rev Michael Campbell, that an agreement had been reached between the Lancaster Diocesan Trustees and Liverpool Hope University, whose Council is chaired by Monsignor John Devine, whereby the Talbot Library will be transferred on permanent loan to the University.
The library will be preserved there on permanent loan alongside three other excellent collections of theological works, making this the leading collection of Catholic literature in the northwest.
Following the closure of the Talbot Library in December 2013 a number of parties expressed interest in acquiring the library and were given access to the contents which include an extensive collection of early printed books (1500 – 1800), a collection by G K Chesterton and a complete collection on John Henry Newman.
Following an independent appraisal by Sotheby’s who identified a number of books of historic and cultural importance it was recommended that the Diocese ensures that the Library be kept intact.
The Bishop of Lancaster and Trustees of the Diocese are delighted that as a result of the acceptance of the offer from Liverpool Hope University, the Talbot Library will retain its identity within the North West of England in temperature-controlled, British Museum standards conditions, which the University has established for its other valuable works. These conditions are ideal for the long-term preservation of the books.
It also provides easy access for its users and especially students of religious studies based at Liverpool Hope University and throughout the North West. Liverpool Hope University with its highly rated Theology Department is especially committed to encouraging scholars and others in the North West, especially those with long- standing links to the Talbot Library or are interested Catholic history and theology, to have access to these rich resources.
A separate Trust Fund will also be established between the Diocese and the University for the long-term preservation of the Talbot Library.
Further information is available from:
Mr Stephen Moore, Trustee, Diocese of Lancaster email: stephenmoorebh@aol.com
Professor Fr. Peter McGrail, Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies,
Liverpool Hope University - MCGRAIP@hope.ac.uk
Getting to grips with World War 1
Where: Lancashire Infantry Museum
When: Saturday 21st June
What part did your ancestors play in the First World War?
How did the war affect your community?
How has the war been remembered?
Would you like to know more about family medals or souvenirs from the war?
Don’t know where to begin?
Whether you are a seasoned campaigner or a new recruit, this event is designed to help you to find out more about the war and how it affected your family and community. Experts from Preston’s museums, archives and historical societies will be on hand to show you how you can use their resources to understand the war and its effects. Guides to family history and local sources can help you get started on researching the war or advise on more detailed study. A representative from the Heritage Lottery Fund will talk about how to access funding for WW1-related community projects. If you have any items dating from WW1 and would like to know more, bring them along for some guidance (not valuations).
Organisations represented include: Lancashire Infantry Museum, Lancashire Community History Team, The Heritage Lottery Fund, Lancashire Archives, UCLan, Preston Historical Society, Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society, Preston Remembers, Museum of Lancashire.
Manchester Library Rebirth
Visitors to the newly refurbished Manchester Central Library at St Peters Square, M2 5DP are greeted with state-of-the-art facilities in a totally transformed environment.
The library building was first opened in 1934 and presents an imposing classical façade. A four-year, £50 million renovation and extension scheme was completed in March. This has resulted in a complex that caters for all ages and makes far more efficient use of space. Whereas 70% of the old library was off-limits to the public, that figure in now reversed so that 70% is open for public use.
The extensive range of materials that you can consult include many to grasp the attention of family historians. A guide to the family history resources awaiting you includes advice on where to start and links to other relevant sites, as well as details of the types of information that can be accessed within the library itself.
Open six days a week, the new facilities are doing much to attract a new generation of library users. Readers familiar with the previous arrangements are astonished at the scale of the improvements made.
If you live in the Manchester area or your family came from there, why not go along and see for yourself?
Website :- http://www.manchester.gov.uk/centrallibrary
An introduction to Title Deeds with Dr Alan Crosby
The Friends of Lancashire Archives are organizing a workshop ‘An Introduction to Title Deeds’ with Dr Alan Crosby on 4 August at Lancashire Archives.
Dr Crosby will give an insight into this complex area providing background information on the legal terminology surrounding title deeds before analysing real examples from the archives. This is an ideal opportunity for both local and family historians who wish to further their research skills.
1.00 – 2.15 To have and to hold: an extremely rapid introduction
to the arcane mysteries of English land law 1150-1750
2.15 – 2.45 Tea and coffee
2.45 – 4.00 Practical examples and workshop session: looking at the documents
Fee: Friends of Lancashire Archives Members £10 Non-members £10.50
Library of the Society of Friends - Online Quaker Records
http://www.quaker.org.uk/search-catalogue
What’s included in the catalogue?Archive collectionThe online catalogue currently holds:
archives of Britain Yearly Meeting committees, although those of Friends Service Council and Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee await completion
archives of the former London and Middlesex General Meeting and its constituent monthly and local meetings
archives of some Quaker organisations that are not part of Britain Yearly Meeting, for example, Friends Ambulance Unit and Friends Temperance and Moral Welfare Union
over 1,000 manuscript collections and personal papers of Quakers and Quaker families, such as the diaries of Elizabeth Fry
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EDITORIAL: Stop Hurting Women as a Campaign Strategy
The Centers for Disease Control reports that Mississippi had the highest rate of unintended pregnancies in the country at 62 percent in 2010. And while that number has likely decreased some since then, unintended pregnancy rates are higher in low-income women and women of color.
By Editorial Board Wednesday, March 14, 2018 11:51 a.m. CDT
If only Mississippi lawmakers cared about low-income women and women of color as much as they do about unborn fetuses. Predominately white and male legislators voted to send a 15-week abortion ban to Gov. Phil Bryant's desk last week in the name of "protecting life" of both the mother and the unborn child.
The majority of women who seek and receive abortions in the state are black women, 2016 data from the Department of Health shows. Doctors in Mississippi performed fewer than 3,000 abortions in 2016. More than 4,000 Mississippi women received abortions in 2016, however, meaning many are likely crossing state lines to seek access to abortion services. About 74 percent of Mississippi women who received an abortion in 2016 were black.
Why? The Centers for Disease Control reports that Mississippi had the highest rate of unintended pregnancies in the country at 62 percent in 2010. And while that number has likely decreased some since then, unintended pregnancy rates are higher in low-income women and women of color. A 2010 study that looked at disparities in family planning found national trends consistent with what happens in Mississippi: Women of color are left behind, especially in the face of an unintended pregnancy.
"Women with unintended pregnancies that are continued to term are more likely to receive inadequate or delayed prenatal care and have poorer health outcomes such as infant low birth weight, infant mortality, and maternal mortality and morbidity," the study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology says.
The black infant mortality rate in Mississippi is 70 percent higher than it is for white infants. Couple these statistics with a lack of access to health care and inadequate sex education. Mississippi only allows school districts to teach abstinence-only or abstinence-plus sex education. Abstinence-only curriculum, by state law, cannot have "any demonstration of how condoms or other contraceptives are applied." Abstinence-plus sex education can include discussions of contraceptives as long as that discussion includes the "risks and failure rates."
The Department of Health, which offers family-planning services, was forced to close two-thirds of its regional offices in 2017 in Batesville, Greenwood, Starkville, Meridian, McComb and Hattiesburg due to budget cuts by lawmakers. The lack of education, contraceptive availability (or affordability), health care and stringent abortion laws lead to a state with not only a high rate of unintended pregnancies but also a laundry list of adverse health outcomes for black women. They deserve better.
Democratic women in the Senate and House tried to add amendments to help women pay for child care if they aren't allowed to get an abortion. White Republicans rejected that and an exception for rape and incest. Constituents need to hold lawmakers accountable who are more interested in scoring political points than they are about ensuring women, especially black women, are protected.
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Mughal Muesli’s Heady Blend
Based in New York City and featuring two graduates of Seattle’s legendary Roosevelt High School jazz program, the trio Mughal Muesli returned to the West Coast for a tour supporting their debut album Imperial Cereal. We’re tracking down carpenters now because they nearly blew the roof off the place.
Live in our studios, Mughal Muesli performed three new compositions that ebbed and flowed with intense grooves, aggressive and muscular sax and bass, and exotic melodies that reflected their musical passions.
https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kplu/audio/2018/01/mughal_muesli_01.mp3
Dancing phrases of Northern India balance with a love of baroque European compositions and the freedom of avant-garde jazz. The three say that each member of the band brings in songs and ideas, but the sound of this band lies in the equal contributions of all.
We knew to expect great things from our Seattle natives, Xavier Del Castillo on sax and bassist Mat Muntz have been playing together for nearly a decade now. The studio audience was equally thrilled by the unique sounds produced by Mughal Muesli’s drummer, Chilean native Vicente Hansen.
He explained that he’d “stacked” cymbals to create a dark, messy sound on one, while nearly deadening the other. His tiny high-hat cymbals came free with Vicente’s childhood drum kit, and he’s pounded them into a uniquely grown-up pair that helps to define the band’s sound.
Such an intense mix of skills and influences pushes miles beyond mainstream jazz and sets Mughal Muesli apart in a Big Apple crowded with cutting-edge music.
A Tribute To Artie Shaw On Piano Jazz
Halie Loren: Third Time’s A Charmer
Too Much Of A Good Thing? Jane Ira Bloom’s Beautiful Ballads
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Our first Malawi project, in 2009, was building swing sets for the children at the centers, and was among the most enjoyable. We soon discovered that there are two species of timbers available in Malawi: one fairly soft with difficulty holding screws. The other is Blue Gum, which is extremely hard, strong, and difficult to drill. Blue Gum was the only reasonable choice for the swings.
The first year we constructed swings at MOH’s Katondo and Chimwang’ombe centers, and in 2010 we returned to construct two more swing sets at Matapila and Khwamba. Most children had never seen a swing, let alone been on one, but it didn’t take more than the first push before they were screaming with glee and swinging as high as they could go. It was such a joy to bring such fun to children as an escape from the myriad difficulties they otherwise face.
The first couple years we brought handtools: brace and bit, handsaws. With no electricity in the villages for power tools, battery operated tools would have been ideal. But our American battery chargers, designed for 110 vAC @ 60 Hz, wouldn't accommodate the 220 VAC @ 50 Hz at our lodge rooms. We later found a source for European chargers compatible with "Malawian electricity", and working became much easier!
The response to our swings was overwhelming, as great crowds of kids suddenly gathered to experience them. Facing so many other developmental challenges, we moved on and away from building swing sets, but I look back with a bit of sadness that we haven’t found the time to build more of them.
Amazingly now 10 years later, three out of the four swingsets we built are still in very active use: the Katondo swing unfortunately was destroyed by termites. This year we plan to obtain a cost estimate from a welding fabricator in Lilongwe to replicate our swing design from steel pipe. The wood plans we used, however, are included in the technical section of this website, should any group wish to pick up the project.
Buying bluegum timbers at the wood market in Lilongwe
Bluegum is incredibly hard. After breaking a drill bit on the very first hole, we quickly discovered that the only way to drill is while dribbling water (madzi) onto the bit as a lubricant and coolant. Soon calls for madzi! madzi! came over and over!
The swing project initiated a spirit of comraderie between ourselves and the local folks that has lasted since then, and began the concept of "more of them", and "less of us", that is the fundamental we employ today in Malawi Visions.
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and now . . . .
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SRK Consulting | December 1, 2017 | 12:00 am
01 December 2017 – Johannesburg: With Africa still low on the global mining risk rankings, explorers and developers being drawn back into the continent by the commodity price recovery would be wise to step carefully – on the strength of quality studies and plans informed by experienced local professionals.
According to the latest World Risk Report from Mining Journal, “Africa narrowly avoided the wooden spoon as the riskiest major region.” The continent’s average score was 48 – compared with the leading scores of 80 for Canada and 74 for the United States; Asia was one point behind Africa, on 47. Morocco was the only African jurisdiction to reach 60 points on the scale.
SRK Consulting partner and principal consultant Andrew van Zyl said in addition to the myriad technical risks associated with mining, there are related issues to consider such as famine, water shortages, population growth, agricultural production and climate change.
“There are even risks emerging from the influence of social media that are capable of affecting a mining company’s reputation among a wider group of stakeholders and the public,” said Van Zyl. “These broader risks can threaten a mine’s social licence to operate – even though they are not really within the power of the company to solve on its own.”
He highlighted, however, that low-risk destinations for mining were not necessarily the places that would deliver the best return on investment – especially since most of the world’s more developed regions were also well explored.
“Many African countries remain highly prospective due to low levels of past exploration, which is what continues to draw the attention of explorers and mining investors,” he said. “The idea is not to avoid the risks that these countries present, but to identify them fully and manage them well.”
The authors of the World Risk Report would agree, reminding readers that “a low-risk environment for mining does not make it a good place to invest” – while adding that they would not consider any jurisdiction “uninvestable”. Rather, they said, “some places just require better risk management skills.”
Among the universal challenges facing African mines is productivity and competitiveness, said Marcin Wertz, SRK partner and principal mining engineer.
“Fast moving trends in mechanisation and automation are driving productivity and will doubtless lead to fewer people on mines, but will also require new skill-sets in which traditional engineering disciplines will be augmented by computer-related skills,” said Wertz. “More onerous regulations will also mean that mine managers spend more of their time on compliance and stakeholder-related issues.”
Potential for community-related conflict is one of the areas receiving closer attention as the impacts of climate change start being felt in various parts of Africa, said Van Zyl.
“Senegal and Niger, for instance, have experienced temperature increases that affect food security and fuel the process of desertification ,” he said. “There are more famines than ever before, and we are seeing more instability related to acts of terror; high migration levels also reflect the extent of disruption among communities in many parts of Africa.”
These factors will impact on all economic sectors including mining – often because mines are ‘islands of wealth’ in environments characterised by poverty.
“Starting and running a successful exploration or mining project in Africa means working with partners who combine local knowledge with a depth of specialised technical expertise – from the management team to the advisors,” he said. “Their skills and insights must take the operation beyond compliance and into a longer-term model of sustainability built on solid stakeholder engagement and shared value.”
Applying this philosophy to all stages of the mining cycle, SRK is now strengthening its exploration offering with the launch at the 2018 African Mining Indaba of SRK Exploration Services in southern Africa.
SRK’s Andrew van Zyl, partner and principal consultant and Marcin Wertz, partner and principal mining engineer.
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General => Save for Half Podcast => Topic started by: DMMike on December 21, 2018, 09:39:06 PM
Title: Save For Half episode # 14: "Privateers & Gentlemen by FGU"
Post by: DMMike on December 21, 2018, 09:39:06 PM
Save For Half episode # 14: "Privateers & Gentlemen by FGU"
Ahoy there, ye landlubbers! It’s the Halfling crew of the SS SFH here to cut yer jib and keel yer haul...with the role playing game "Privateers & Gentlemen"! Published in 1982, this box set from Fantasy Games Unlimited has sailing ships, mutinous crews, rotten boroughs....but surprisingly few pirates? We delve into the books with the assistance of (brevet) DM Mark from the Tabletop Radio Hour podcast. He's knowledgeable, informative, and most importantly has read the Heart of Oak miniatures rules the ship combat is based on in the RPG!
No cabin boys were harmed in the making of this podcast, not even with belaying pins!
It's all here at: http://saveforhalf.com/
Links mentioned in this show:
Fantasy Games Unlimited - Privateers & Gentlemen
https://www.fantasygamesunlimited.net/product-category/pg/
Heart of Oak miniatures rules on DTRPGDTRPG
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/736/Age-of-Fighting-Sail-Heart-of-Oak?it=1
Privateers & Gentlemen on BoardGameGeek
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7779/heart-oak-naval-miniatures-rules-age-fighting-sail
Privateers & Gentlemen on DTRPG
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/82553/Privateers-and-Gentlemen?src=hottest_filtered
Saucer Seekers
http://entireprizeenterprises.com/saucerseekers/
Tabletop Radio Hour
https://tabletopradiohour.wordpress.com/
zortic
http://entireprizeenterprises.com/zortic/
Don’t forget to drop us an email at saveforhalfpodcast(at)gmail.com to give your opinions of the show!
Be sure to check out our forums at:
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Title: Re: Save For Half episode # 14: "Privateers & Gentlemen by FGU"
Post by: Angry Monk on December 31, 2018, 11:20:24 AM
Well, scupper my jibs, I'll load that up on the ol' podcast player and give it an ear. Happy new year!
Post by: DadsAngry on January 02, 2019, 08:09:31 AM
I'm guessing the Save for Half group was not aware of Skull & Crossbones, published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1980. This was their pirate game. I've never seen it in person. I only know of its existence thanks to the website RPG Geek. It's extremely hard to find and expensive when it does come up in the marketplace. From the images and the brief description on RPG Geek, it sounds a lot like Privateers & Gentlemen. It's a combination RPG and hex-based board game with ship-to-ship combat rules. I've included a link to the listing on RPG geek below.
I'm glad one of your saves was the mention of the rules for homosexuality. I found it's inclusion when I read it to be very strange for an RPG written in the early 80s. What was more surprising is I think this might have been the first time that homosexuality was not treated as a mental disorder or a character flaw, as in the first printing of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rolemaster, and GURPS. It was rather just stated without any negativity attached to it.
Keep up the great work. Your coverage of these forgotten games that came in a box is great to listen to.
DadsAngry
Skull & Crossbones
https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/45030/skull-crossbones
Post by: DadsAngry on March 07, 2019, 12:41:36 PM
Walter Jon Williams the author of Privateers & Gentlemen is also the author of the novel Hardwire, the inspiration for R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk. He also was one of the original test players of Cyberpunk.
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The next morning we went out to explore the various D-Day landing sites along the French coast. A stretch of 75 miles of Norman coast is full of museums, monuments, cemeteries, and remnants from the battles that took place here in 1944. It all stands as a tribute to the incredible bravery of the American, British, and Canadian troops that successfully carried out the largest military operation in history.
Our first stop was near the town of Arromanches to see Port Winston Churchhill, the massive artificial harbor the Allies constructed after the landings.
On 7 June 1944, the day after D-Day, 17 old boats sailed across the channel from England and were deliberately sunk here forming an initial barrier. Then, 500 tugboats tugged over 100 football field sized cement blocks and sunk them atop the boats. This created a four mile long breakwater from which engineers set up 7 floating steel piers with extendable legs that were linked to the shore with 4 mile-long floating made of concrete pontoons. This allowed 54,000 vehicles, 326,000 troops, and 110,000 tons of goods to land on the coast within just 6 days of D-Day. You can still see remnants of this contraption today:
The port was in-between Omaha and Gold beaches between the British and American sectors.
The sun was rising over the observation platform when we first pulled up.
I had been feeling so sad and guilty, for lack of a better word, for being alive at this time and was really struggling coming to terms with all of the people who had died while I walked around without ever really knowing war and that kind of pain and sadness. Then, just a few minutes into our very first stop, a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky.
I felt like it was a sign from above and instantly felt peace. It was a very moving experience.
Our next stop was to see the Longues-sur-Mer German Gun Battery. These 4 casemates (3 with intact guns) built 300 yards inland were arranged in a semi-circle to maximize firing range. These are the only original coastal artillery guns remaining in place in the D-Day area.
This battery was an important part of Hitler's "Atlantic Wall" defense made up of 15,000 structures stretching from the Pyrenees in the south to Norway in the north.
These guns could hit targets up to 12 miles(!) away with considerable accuracy.
7 soldiers managed each bunker and we able to fire 6 times a minute using shells that weighed 40 pounds.
Camouflage netting covered these concrete casemates so Allied bombers couldn't locate them before the D-Day assault.
Looking along the barrel of one of the intact guns.
Along with the 4 gun casemates there was one observation bunker located right along the coastline cliff.
Field telephones with underground wire ran from this observation post to the guns located further inland to direct fire.
The gorgeous coastal path Sentier du Littoral.
There were no "off-limits" places at these sites. You were free to climb around, in, on, and over all the bunkers.
You could see the remnants of the Port Winston harbor from this area.
Next on our itinerary was a visit to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. Flags of all the Allied countries we on display in the museum.
The visitor's center and museum is excellent with a superb exhibit and touching memorials.
Outside the museum you first come to the striking memorial. The statue represents "the spirit of American youth" and giant reliefs of the Battle of Normandy and the Battle of Europe flank it.
Behind the memorial is a semicircular garden with the names of the over 1,500 soldiers who were never found.
And then, crowning a bluff just above Omaha Beach, stand 9,387 brilliant white Crosses and Stars of David commemorating the brave men who gave their lives for European freedom.
Before coming on this trip, Chris made me watch Saving Private Ryan so I would better appreciate the sites we were going to see. While it made me sick to my stomach and I couldn't sleep for two nights, I am glad I watched it. The movie was based on the story of the four Niland brothers, 3 of whom were thought to be killed within about a week of each other. While one of the three presumed dead was actually a POW and survived the war, two of the brothers are buried side by side here.
The area is peaceful and beautiful today. These men deserve such a place to rest in peace.
This is the second WWII American cemetery we have visited while living here. In June of last year we visited the Luxembourg American Cemetery over Memorial Day weekend.
Unknown soldier.
Just down the hill from the memorial and cemetery is the actual site of Omaha Beach. If you've seen Saving Private Ryan, the grueling 25 minute opening scene was depicting the landings at this very place.
Omaha Beach witnessed by far the most intense battles of any along the D-Day beaches. The hills above the beach were heavily fortified. A single German machine gun could fire 1,200 rounds a minute. It's amazing anyone survived. Around 4,000 soldiers were killed or wounded on D-Day at Omaha Beach.
A local artist made this striking metal sculpture that sits in the waves in honor of the forces who liberated Normandy, France, and the rest of Europe.
Standing on Omaha Beach. We picked up a small handful of sand to take with us.
We then drove right along the coast towards our next stop, Pointe du Hoc.
This place is where the intense bombing that preceded the D-Day landings is best experienced. The area commemorates the place where US Army Rangers scaled sheer cliffs to disable an important German gun battery.
When you enter the actual site, the bomb craters that remain leave the area looking like the surface of the moon.
On the morning of June 6, 1944, 225 hand-picked Rangers assaulted the cliffs below this point. They used ladders taken from London fire departments to get up the first section then fired rockets to position their grappling hooks and climbing ropes and climbed those. Only a third of the Rangers survived but the assault was successful and they disabled all the German guns, even the ones that had been moved 1km inland.
This point of land was the most heavily fortified area of the German defenses. It held six anti-ship guns capable of firing on both Omaha and Utah Beaches. In preparation for the assault, the Allies bombed this area repeatedly starting in April of 1944 dropping over 1,500 tons of bombs on this one area leading up to 6 June. Even with all of that, only about 5 percent of the bunkers were destroyed because they were well camouflaged and had incredibly thick, dense, reinforced walls.
Here's another shot from above of Pointe du Hoc.
The entire area is open for you to explore.
The kids and Chris hiked down into some of the craters.
At the very point of the Pointe stands a memorial to the brave Rangers who fought and died here. It symbolizes the Ranger dagger planted firmly in the ground.
The view from the area reminded us of the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.
The observation bunker below the memorial dagger.
Flag flying over the visitor's center at Pointe du Hoc.
Our family at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial on Tuesday October 18th 2016.
I'm glad we were able to experience these incredible, important places. Hopefully we can come back when our kids are older so they can appreciate what happened here. We then continued on our journey and headed to Amboise in the Loire Valley.
Julie Tucker-Wolek November 6, 2016 at 6:33 AM
Wow! What a humbling experience this must have been for all of you! Loving that the rainbow appeared and brought you peace!!!
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A memorable event . . . A photo of the 1919 Oamaru peace parade from the JM Brown collection. PHOTO: WAITAKI DISTRICT ARCHIVE/105019
On July 19, 1919, the Oamaru community celebrated peace.
The Forrester Gallery is celebrating the centenary of the 1919 Oamaru peace parade and recapturing its spirit by lining the main street with peace flags and holding a holiday programme all about peace.
The end of World War 1 is generally recognised as being Armistice Day on November 11, 1918.
But the Treaty of Versailles was not signed until June 28, 1919, and many communities waited for their soldiers to return home and the Spanish Flu epidemic to recede before celebrating.
The Oamaru Mail (21.07.1919) described the local peace parade as “a memorable event”.
Flags were placed on poles at every alternate tree in Thames St, from Ribble St south, and buildings along the main street were “decked for the occasion”. The Oamaru Railway Station was also brightly adorned with red, white and blue ribbons.
“The combined effect of the street and shop decorations was distinctly fine, and credit is due both to the Decorations Committee and to the people of the town for the loyal and wholesome way in which their appeal was seconded, even private residences showing their patriotic enthusiasm,” the Oamaru Mail reads.
People of all ages turned out to participate in the procession and other events.
“The great two-chain-wide street was thronged by a surging, but exceedingly well-conducted crowd.
“The whole community combined to make the celebration of peace worth of the greatest event in the history of the world and the result was a pronounced success.”
Forrester Gallery, North Otago Museum and Waitaki District Archives director Jane Macknight said she had always loved the photographs of the Oamaru peace parade.
“We thought about ways to share these images with the public, and came up with the idea for the street flags,” Ms Macknight said.
“We have created colourful flags invoking the rainbow metaphor and diverse symbols of peace, together with images from the 1919 peace parades.
“People look so joyful and went to so much effort to create their costumes and floats.
“We are lucky to have these images in the Waitaki District Archive as part of the JM Brown collection. Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher said the flags would be a nice “injection of colour into the winter days of Oamaru”.
Celebrating peace . . . Forrester Gallery, North Otago Museum and Waitaki District Archives director Jane Macknight holds samples of the peace flags. PHOTO: REBECCA RYAN
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OECD Recommendation on Public Service Leadership and Capability
The OECD Recommendation on Public Service Leadership and Capability outlines 14 key principles to help governments ensure that their public services are fit for purpose for today’s policy challenges, and capable of taking their public sectors into the future.
Recommandation du Conseil sur le leadership et les aptitudes de la fonction publique
OECD Public Employment and Management Unit
7-January-2019
Follow-up Report on CompraNet Reform
This report follows up on the implementation of the 14 short-term recommendations included in the Roadmap of the OECD Review Mexico's e-Procurement System: Redesigning CompraNet through stakeholder engagement.
Informe de Seguimiento sobre la Reforma de CompraNet en México
Follow up Report on the OECD Integrity Review of Mexico
This report follows up on the implementation of the Action Plan agreed upon between the OECD and the Ministry of Public Administration (SFP) in the OECD Integrity Review of Mexico: Taking a Stronger Stance Against Corruption. It provides a roadmap for key actors in Mexico’s public integrity system to advance the implementation of the National Anticorruption System (NACS).
Informe de seguimiento del Estudio de la OCDE sobre integridad en México
Recommendation of the Council on Regulatory Policy and Governance
This Recommendation sets out the current thinking on how to effectively implement regulatory policy in countries, based on over a decade of OECD experience. "This Recommendation is the first comprehensive international statement on regulatory policy since the crisis", says Angel Gurría.
Performance assessment reviews of Mexico’s energy regulators
Body of work on the regulatory governance of Mexico’s energy sector
Misuse of Small Parcels for Trade in Counterfeit Goods - Facts and Trends
This study examines the potential for the misuse of small parcels for trade in counterfeit and pirated goods. It presents the legal and economic contexts of the operation of express and postal services. It also looks at the available data on volumes of small consignments, via postal and courier streams, in the context of seizures of counterfeit and pirated goods. Furthermore it analyses the links between the observed dynamics in markets for small parcels and the available information on misuse of this service by traffickers in counterfeit and pirated goods.
7-December-2018
ASEAN-OECD Good Regulatory Practice Network
The mission of GRPN is to assist ASEAN Member States in strengthening the implementation of good regulatory practice.
Forum on Regulatory Reform Responses to Economic Challenges
Understanding the Drivers of Trust in Government Institutions in Korea
The erosion of public trust challenges government’s capacity to implement policies and carry out reforms. While Korea has achieved and maintained rapid economic growth and development, and performs comparatively well in several existing measures of the quality of public administration, trust in government institutions is relatively low. This pioneering case study presents a measurement and policy framework of the drivers of institutional trust and explores some policy avenues Korea could take to restore trust in public institutions.
Promoting the Digital Transformation of African Portuguese-Speaking Countries and Timor-Leste
The public sectors of African Portuguese-speaking countries and Timor-Leste (PALOP-TL) have made significant progress in mobilising digital technologies to promote internal efficiency, simplify government procedures and improve the delivery of public services. Nevertheless, fully harnessing these technologies to improve growth, opportunities for income and employment, and public service delivery requires a more profound shift from efficiency-driven to citizen-driven approaches. This cross-country review of the digital transformation of the public sectors in Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste reviews progress towards digital government and suggests strategies for enabling more effective, collaborative and sustainable digital government policies and approaches in PALOP-TL countries. These recommendations address three main areas: digital solutions for the delivery of core government functions, foundations for a digital government transformation, and digital services for citizens and businesses.
Promovendo a Transformação Digital dos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa e Timor-Leste (PALOP-TL)
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Jimmie "the kid" Donaldson
Jimmie “The Kid” Donaldson
“Anything is possible.” That is what Jimmie D. Donaldson
believed about life. He was a creative man, a perpetual inventor, who seemed to
be able to find a solution for any difficulty confronting him. He had faith in
his ability to find those solutions. Jimmie thoroughly enjoyed understanding how
things worked. He possessed an inquisitive, confident, and rational nature
matched with a versatile and agile mind. Jimmie was a person who believed that
he could achieve whatever he set out to do.
His parents were Samuel J. and Anna Chastine Donaldson. Jimmie was born
and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He showed his ingenuity even as a
child. When he was confronted with a problem, Jimmie could develop an
imaginative solution, and he derived satisfaction from knowing he had that
ability. This same talent for finding solutions had a positive bearing on Jimmie's family relationships.
Jimmie was raised with three siblings. He had two older brothers and one older
sister. When a difficult situation or dilemma arose within the family, Jimmie
was always there to help figure out a solution for making things work.
Endowed with an appetite for knowing how his world worked,
Jimmie enjoyed school, especially when the learning experience involved
dissecting and probing the unknown. Jimmie was adept at scrutinizing different
possibilities and designing innovative solutions. He enjoyed some courses more
than others, having favorite classes and teachers. In addition to performing his
studies, during his high school years, Jimmy was a Lightweight Golden Gloves
Champion.
Because he was a quick thinker and adept at picking up on new
things, Jimmie performed well in college. He was always on a quest for knowledge
and he relished the experience. Theories intrigued him, and he was good at
solving complex problems. He always wanted to understand rather than judge. The
U. S. Navy sent Jimmy to electronics school at Northwestern University.
Jimmie found love when he met Jeanne. They were married on February 14, 1946 at their Methodist
church in Chicago, Illinois.
Jimmie was adept at devising original and creative ways to enhance
and improve the marriage partnership. Jimmie was seldom a critical person, but
rather the one who was able to bring out the best in others. Jimmie was an
entertaining conversationalist who was quick to respond to his spouse's needs.
He was a vibrant personality and he enjoyed verbally sparring with Jeanne. In
fact, those who knew him often remarked that Jimmie loved to argue for
argument's sake. He was very perceptive in recognizing others' feelings,
especially regarding Jeanne's.
Jimmie's remarkable talent for being inventive influenced his
relationship with his children. He would create original, clever and fun games
for his kids and had a knack for finding ways to make everyday events, even
chores, enjoyable to them. Jimmie and Jeanne were blessed with two children, a
daughter, Minette and a son, Curtis. They were also blessed with nine
grandchildren, Aaron (Jennifer), Eric (Lisa), Shawn (Andrea), Jacob, Amanda,
Megan, Kenneth, Nathaniel and Allison; and four great grandchildren; Ewan,
Andrew, Eva, and Zachary.
Someone who was quick to laugh, Jimmie found it easy to spend lots of time with his
children, but he was never overbearing or guilty of pushing himself on them.
As a born inventor, Jimmie was definitely in his element in
his work place. He could easily create new and innovative systems, and
incorporate those changes to bring a fresh approach to any work situation.
Jimmie was a focused worker with a strong drive for achievement. He could assess
all of the options before him and, using his analytical skills, could
comfortably find answers that no one else had even considered. His personal
initiative inspired those around him. Jimmie was always good at getting a
project started and then, at the appropriate time, handing it on to a colleague.
His primary occupation was a Journeyman Electrician. He was a member of the IBEW
Local # 134 for 55 years. Jimmie always made an effort to be a team player,
doing what needed was necessary in order to get the job done.
Jimmie's “never say die”attitude and his ability to face any
challenge no matter how difficult it might be were tremendous assets that Jimmie
carried with him into the military. Jimmie was a veteran of the U. S. Navy,
Jimmie saw action for 10 major invasions aboard LST 269. He achieved the rank of
Radioman Second Class.
Jimmie's passion for finding a better way to do things
was often an end in itself for him. In fact, that interest by itself became
something of a hobby for this perpetual problem solver. Since Jimmie was always
searching for new and unusual activities, he developed many interests and
leisure pursuits. Some of the things he became an “expert” in might come as a
surprise to those who knew him, but most friends and family understood that
Jimmie simply couldn't be limited to just a few activities or ideas.
His favorite pursuits were many and varied. Jimmy was involved in motorcycles, once
owning a Harley and then several other motorcycles. He also liked sailing and
stained glass. Jimmy worked his own leather craft, and gardened, albeit in his
own style. He was an award winning member of the Vintage Chevy Club of America.
Jimmy became active in any club he joined. Jimmy may say that one of his best
accomplishments was that he was a founding member of the Chicago Colts Fast Draw
Association. Jimmy was also an active member of the Oak Park Sportsman's
Jimmie was continually concerned with the status of local, national and even world affairs.
His keen interest and strong values led him to become active in his community. In addition to his many
interests around the country, Jimmy also served in his own neighborhood, being
active in the Canters Homeowners Association.
With all of his talents, his ingenuity, his solutions and
inventiveness, it is no surprise that Jimmie received public recognition for his
competence. With the drive and ability to meet any challenge, Jimmie accumulated
a long list of achievements throughout his life. Some of his most prestigious
awards included his Golden Gloves Championship, his vintage Chevy awards, and
his many shooting championships.
Having the opportunity to visit and explore a new place always intrigued Jimmie.
Traveling and going away on vacations offered yet another opportunity for Jimmie
to expand his ever-growing inventory of knowledge. Jimmy & Jeanne traveled
to and through all 50 states. Favorite vacations included Hawaii and Hemlock
Islandon Magician Lake in Dowagiac, Michigan.
Jimmie passed away on May 22, 2009 at home, surrounded by members of
his family. Jimmie fought a brave battle against cancer. He is survived by his
daughter, Minette (Don) Baker and son Curtis (Tammy) Donaldson; and their
children Aaron (Jennifer), Eric (Lisa), Shawn (Andrea), Jacob, Amanda, Megan,
Kenneth, Nathaniel and Allison. Jimmy was also very proud of his
great-grandchildren Ewan, Andrew, Eva and Zachary.
During his lifetime, nothing appeared impossible to Jimmie. He met
the words “it can't be done” with the enthusiastic challenge of a “wanna bet”
attitude. Jimmie was able to recognize the possibilities a new idea held, even
when those around him could not. For Jimmie, the traditional way of doing things
fell short of his expectations, especially if there were original and untested
methods for handling a challenge. For Jimmie D. Donaldson, the fun of living his
life could be found in the challenge.
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NetSuite unveils next wave of global capabilities for Netsuite OpenAir—empowering best in class professional services operations
Improved User Experience, Real-Time Business Insights, Efficient Resource Utilisation & International Capabilities Enable Global Growth
London—11 October 2016—NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced the latest Professional Services Automation (PSA) enhancements to NetSuite OpenAir, featuring new flexible international functionality to help global professional services organisations easily expand into new regions. Advances include intuitive and intelligent reporting, powerful budgeting, and an enhanced user experience. This new release is a huge step forward for Professional Services Automation, bringing unprecedented benefits to professional services organisations of all kinds, enabling them to optimise resource capacity, maximise profitability, and arming them with robust and flexible international capabilities to get operations up and running quickly in new markets.
Professional services organisations often face the challenge of dealing with siloed information while trying to maximise the efficient use of staff. Traditionally, these organisations have relied upon Excel spreadsheets or on-premise reporting tools that require IT involvement to get relevant data that was often too outdated to make critical business decisions. Meanwhile, budgeting, which is a critical factor in the success of a professional services business, has become even more complicated with the emergence of subscription, usage and hybrid pricing models that can include both services and products. Other software solutions in the market can’t account for this complexity and instead force businesses to store financial data in multiple systems and spreadsheets or require complex integrations. Professional services organisations need a system that not only manages the complexities of the industry today, but is also flexible and scalable enough to adapt to change.
NetSuite OpenAir is the best-in-class professional services automation software designed for organisations of all sizes including both service-based companies, and services divisions within product companies such as a hardware or software company. NetSuite OpenAir can be easily integrated with any ERP and CRM instances that are already in place in these companies, or as a module of the overall NetSuite solution. NetSuite OpenAir gives professional services organisations the ability to run their core business operations including project management, resource optimisation, project accounting, time and expense management, and billing and revenue recognition. Delivering end-to-end automation and visibility, NetSuite OpenAir helps professional services organisations gain real-time insights, increase project profitability, maximise billable resource utilisation and make informed, data-driven decisions.
The new NetSuite OpenAir features announced in the latest release include:
New, Flexible International Capabilities for Global Services Organisations
Professional services organisations seeking to expand internationally or simply take on projects abroad, confront significant challenges in recognising revenue in accordance with foreign regulations and accounting for foreign currencies. With this latest release, NetSuite OpenAir supports the management of project accounting for international and global-delivery businesses. Key features for international services businesses in the latest enhancement include:
A new performance console that introduces a rules engine and algorithm for automatically adjusting auto-billing and auto-revenue recognition settings on completed projects.
Greater foreign exchange currency decimal precision, allowing customers to more easily integrate with other ERP systems when billing or recognising revenue in foreign currencies.
New project accounting functionality around advanced revenue recognition, including the Balanced Income vs. Forecast (IvF) rule, a key requirement for some of the most advanced global and international customers, allowing for forecasted and actual revenue amounts to be rebalanced automatically each fiscal period to ensure the most accurate method of recognising project based revenue.
“With the latest improvements around auto-billing and auto-revenue, as well as support for the new IvF rules, OpenAir is a key platform that will allow us to grow and expand internationally,” said Mark Skinner, VP Business Integration at Valtech, an International Digital Agency with offices in 13 countries. “The breadth of the solution allows us to manage our expansion into new markets around the world.”
Intuitive and Intelligent Reporting
For years, services organisations have struggled with reporting tools that are either too complex for front-line employees to build their own reports or lack the sophistication for in-depth analysis. NetSuite OpenAir’s new reporting capabilities feature an intuitive, user-friendly and flexible interface that leverages an intelligent algorithm that ranks data across key criteria. This enables users to run business-critical reports on the fly. No longer will services executives need to turn to IT to assemble complex reports based on siloed data. Instead, NetSuite OpenAir gives them real-time visibility into the organisation to maximise resources and adapt to business changes.
“The new NetSuite OpenAir reporting interface makes creating reports an absolute breeze,” said Rick Lucas, Director of Professional Services Operations at Softchoice, a leading provider of IT solutions and managed services. “The ability to drag and drop components and watch the results populate in front of your eyes is a game changer. But the best part is the new ranking algorithm where in the past, we would have to hunt for that elusive report buried in our saved report list at month end. Now, it bubbles to the top, making our period-end reporting process so much quicker and easier.”
Powerful Advanced Budgeting
Historically, services businesses have had to track projects and staff in separate systems from finance and budgeting, creating significant challenges in tracking profitability. NetSuite OpenAir’s new Advanced Budgeting module supports both cost-based and billing-based budgets with an efficient budget grid to allow for simple, quick financial entry; while Optimistic vs. Pessimistic comparisons and color-coded performance indicators enable financial teams to get more control and visibility than ever before. Armed with deep, real-time insights into staffing, performance and budget status, finance executives can conduct better planning and budget allocation for improved resource management, ultimately leading to increased profitability. The latest NetSuite OpenAir enhancements include new budgeting functionality in a simple-to-use interface, featuring:
Workflow controls, giving finance leaders the control to approve and lock down figures, which can dramatically improving confidence in the data.
Configurable cost categories, allowing teams to enter cost categories that are unique to their industry and business (e.g. buying servers for a software company, outsourcing creative work or a prototype for an advertising agency) in a single repository.
Automated expense and time/labor entries, dramatically simplifying one of the most cumbersome services processes.
“We needed a budgeting tool that was powerful enough to give us the financial controls we require, with a user-friendly interface that enabled us to maintain our project costs without extensive overhead,” said Bhagi Gohil, VP of Strategic Initiatives at American Express Global Business Travel. “The latest budgeting enhancements in NetSuite OpenAir fit the task perfectly—we’re now getting more accurate tracking and visibility into our project budgets and can instantly identify discrepancies through the automated color-coding.”
Enhanced User Interface
With the latest release, NetSuite OpenAir has again improved the user experience, allowing business users to work faster and get the job done more efficiently. The updated QuickView capability provides key data on projects and people without the need to search or click through multiple tabs or applications. This can enable faster, better decision making as important underlying information is pushed to users with the appropriate context.
“Professional services organisations need a system that not only manages the complexities of the industry today, but is flexible and scalable enough to adapt to changes in the future without the need for massive customisations or new implementations,” said Paul Farrell, SVP of Product Marketing. “With far more professional services organisations using OpenAir than any other solution on the market, we are committed to investing in its growth in order to meet our customer’s evolving needs and remain the leading provider of solutions to the professional services market.”
In addition to NetSuite OpenAir, NetSuite also offers NetSuite Services Resource Planning (SRP) for companies that require ERP, CRM and PSA functionality within one single system. For more information about these two products, please visit www.netsuite.com/psa.
In 1998, NetSuite pioneered the Cloud Computing revolution, establishing the world’s first company dedicated to delivering business applications over the Internet. Today, NetSuite provides a suite of cloud-based financials / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and omnichannel commerce software that runs the business of more than 30,000 companies, organisations, and subsidiaries in more than 100 countries. For more information about NetSuite, please visit www.netsuite.com.sg.
Follow NetSuite’s Cloud blog, NetSuite’s Facebook page and @NetSuiteAPAC Twitter handle for real-time updates.
For more information about NetSuite please visit www.netsuite.com.sg.
NOTE: NetSuite and the NetSuite logo are service marks of NetSuite Inc. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
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Elegiac Pantomime: Arnaud Maggs After Nadar (2014)
“Elegiac Pantomime: Arnaud Maggs After Nadar,” Canadian Art 31:1, (Spring 2014), 84-89.
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Elegiac Pantomime: Arnaud Maggs After Nadar
One of the most remarkable codas to a career is the great Canadian artist Arnaud Maggs’s After Nadar. I say coda since this was his last work, and one made by the artist knowing that he was about to die: an end-work, therefore. After Nadar is remarkable for being so unexpected … and going against expectation. As such, the two series retain a problematic status, if one can say this of works of such charm and equanimity. They are remarkable because they are seemingly so antithetical to Maggs’s whole enterprise, opposed to his whole oeuvre. Remarkable because after a lifetime of works of strict, almost puritanical, taciturnity where the artist was hardly visible behind the objectivity of the apparatus and conceptual framework of presentation, the artist put himself on display—moreover performed a pantomime.
What was Maggs telling us? Of course, this work is equally taciturn because Maggs is not telling us anything, only miming it. Miming not only a pose, he mimics a photograph as well. In doing so, he simultaneously reproduces a series of Nadar photographs; he copies Nadar’s posing of his subject; and he imitates its subject’s actions.
Maggs’s title (After Nadar) is a convention of artwork in the style of another. Prodding the title, we can ask, who, or perhaps rather what, was Maggs after? He comes in time after Nadar, but also after Nadar capturing his subject Jean-Charles Deburau in his image, Nadar capturing Pierrot, too, in the role Deburau played. Maggs doubles this image, but so doing puts three artists in play: not just Nadar and Maggs (after Nadar), but Nadar, Deburau, and Maggs. Identification is double and triple, because Nadar himself, setting up the original scenario, also identified, like many other French Romantics, with the Pierrot character: the subject before him that he comes after—in pursuit of, that is. Not to mention that Pierrot comes after himself in that Jean-Charles Deburau reprises the character made famous by his deceased father Baptiste Deburau, coming later to step into papa’s costume and roles.
“After” can hardly be taken as a simple preposition here—or accepted with equanimity. After After Nadar, the same can be said of Maggs’s work as a whole: it is not as straightforward as we thought. We might stop to ask ourselves, in this language of “after,” who is hunting/haunting, imitating/honouring whom here? It’s like a pantomime unfolding before us. Shh!
In spite of Sophie Hackett stating that the “series title, After Nadar, seems straightforward,” the game is afoot; the hunt is on.
Let me explain the set up first, the historical set up that is. It is disputed whether in 1854 – 55 Nadar or his younger brother, Adrien Tournachon, photographed Deburau in his characterization of Pierrot. (For convenience, I will designate Nadar as the author.) Nonetheless, the photographs were exhibited at the 1855 Exposition Universelle and published as an advertising portfolio for the Nadar studio. The series is now incomplete. Pierrot is posed in stock attitudes of surprise, pain, listening, imploring, thieving, or gratifying himself, etc. But the most astonishing image is of Pierrot “photographing” an out-of-frame Nadar, sliding a photographic plate into a box camera, and indicating with his hand to his sitter: “look into the lens.”
Pictured on the cover of the 1995 Metropolitan Museum of Art Nadar book, this is the iconic image Maggs fell upon by accident in 2011. Surprisingly, our artist was not familiar with it since he claims, “Nadar was off my radar.” Nonetheless, it quickly—and quietly—worked its magic.
Maggs repeated the series, but with differences. To Pierrot’s appearance, he restored the ruff that Deburau père et fils had abandoned; he applied dark lipstick, eyebrows, and a beauty mole to the wan makeup, giving his face a doll-like look, as Sophie Hackett notes in her excellent essay on this work, but also lending the mask an allure of seduction. His are not stock gestures, however, but impersonations where Maggs uses props to signify his own history. In this succinct autobiography, he offers a jocular view on his professional and personal lives.
On the professional side, we see Maggs/Pierrot as an archivist of his own production, facing tottering stacks of archival photo boxes, sizing up his history, and holding in his hand an image of his earlier “other”: one of his stock self-portraits from thirty years previous. Or in Pierrot the Storyteller, we see Maggs/Pierrot reading from a pile of antique journals, the type he collected and, supplanting his earlier portraits, serially reproduced as if their rescued, battered and stained pages were worthy of portraiture, too. To this story we need listen as carefully as Pierrot in Nadar’s Pierrot listening. Or we see him gleefully carrying off an oversize Bauchet film box, the type used for advertising products in camera shops, as if the empty box was a wonderful find. The attitude is exactly that of Nadar’s Pierrot the thief sneaking off with a bag of money!
On the personal side, we catch Maggs/Pierrot the musician, sweetly withdrawn in his own world, playing a harmonica. Or in love, carrying roses. Or as a proud collector, clutching in his hands eight commonplace French enamel pitchers: his collecting was as serial as his photography. Surely the most poignant is Pierrot Receives a Letter, which reprises Nadar’s Pierrot with envelope. In the latter, Pierrot sneaks a peek into someone else’s mail: the envelope is addressed to Adrien Tournachon Nadar Jeune. In Maggs’s image, Pierrot stares ominously transfixed at a letter gripped in his two hands. We can’t see the addressee, but it is one of those black-edged envelopes, the mourning stationary that signalled death notices, a nineteenth-century collection from which Maggs’s created his Notification series in 1996. There is an exquisitely controlled irony to this image, given Maggs’s foreboding knowledge of his own death: in the pratfall world of Pierrot, Pierrot is receiving his own death notice. Peering into this envelope would make all the other attendant props of this series oblique memento mori.
Of the marvelous Nadar photograph of Pierrot catching up with the latest fad and exposing a photograph, and a photographer in turn, one author has stated, “Pierrot’s plate-holder presumably contains an undeveloped portrait of Nadar at work, just as the plate Nadar pulled from his camera held the image we see” symmetrically of Pierrot. I would rather think that, with his eyes contemplatively turned down, Pierrot is imagining the image in the plate he is holding: himself! Posing, he performs an image of himself; he is both subject and producer. Much like an impressionable photographic plate, mime was, as Mallarmé put it, “white as a yet unwritten page.” Deburau points to a silent “performance” we eventually see. And the miming magic of photography delivers the image, which Maggs received more than a hundred and fifty years later.
In the same vein then, Maggs does not just conveniently copy Nadar, adding his own flourish after the master. Rather, he initiates another performance, a mime more complex than meets the eye. Likewise, in his self-portrait, he doesn’t gesture “hold still” but “pay attention.” We should carefully attend to what he is showing as well as beware of his staged tricks, because the exposure is a wink that the image itself cannot make.
Much like Nadar, who was a man of shifting identities before settling into photographer, Maggs dramatically re-invented himself in and as his last artistic statement. And in re-inventing himself, he invites us to revisit his past work and look at it anew.
The second After Nadar series, Pierrot Turning, does exactly that. Pierrot doesn’t play a trick on the camera as much as the camera plays a trick on him: pirouetting him 360° and, in the process, draining the expression from him. Just as in Maggs’s earlier 1983 Self-Portrait, Pierrot is shown in rotation, the Paris police having caught up with him: hung silent, sans glee, in a grid of twelve clinical images—the complete mug shot. Thus Pierrot made a straight-jacketed appearance in Maggs’s last exhibition, an exhibition Maggs himself curated at the Ryerson Image Centre. Was Pierrot surreptitiously snuck into the white cube as a pratfall joker? Miming Maggs (after Maggs the artist, that is, having re-invented himself as a curator), was Pierrot indeed the curator here: in this last performance, Pierrot the Curator?
It’s amusing to think that the revolving shots might be a pantomime all along. I’m thinking of the unspoken relation of this photographic carrousel to pantomime, etymologically speaking. Is it a coincidence that the “panto” of pantomime, meaning all or universal, is related to “pantothen,” meaning from every side? Doesn’t Pierrot here force us to re-think Maggs’s early work, from every angle: his systematic portrait series, for instance, Maggs’s own 1983 Self-Portrait? Clearly, there is a dialogue in this “dumb show,” as Pierrot the Archivist hinted by Maggs looking back judgmentally at his old self.
I’m sure Maggs did not intend to undermine a lifetime of work through a pantomimic performance. Yet could it be that the factualist was a fictionalist all along?
This adaptable adventurer was not afraid of change: to move to design jobs in Toronto, New York, and Milan; to give up his skill set to switch professions to fashion photographer; or, indeed, midlife to become an artist. Nor was he afraid to set off in blind pursuit of Joseph Beuys with no necessary expectation of success. He caught Beuys’s scent in New York through the German artist’s Guggenheim 1979 retrospective, tracked him to Düsseldorf, and stalked his quarry until that stoic stone-faced artist relented to be photographed in two hundred profile and frontal views. While patiently waiting for this performance, Maggs netted the charismatic artist’s students in a serial presentation unlike any other class photo (Kunstakademie).
Nor was Maggs afraid to make it up as he went along. The iconic Beuys photograph was not a preordained image. One presumes that its strict armature derives from Beuys’s fellow Düsseldorf photographers, the objectivist Bechers, but Maggs’s systematic profiling actually was based, before knowledge of them, on the schemas of nineteenth-century French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon. Beuys’s portrait was an intuitive amalgam of Bertillon and poached Carl Andre, whose 100 steel plate sculpture Maggs had seen in Düsseldorf while waiting to photograph Beuys.
The Beuys portrait was made the same year as Maggs’s monumental study of influential photographer André Kertész, then 86. Maggs was after Beuys, but not in the way he was after Kertész. One he pursued; the other was an inheritance. Yet a preceding legacy pursues a following practitioner. Three decades later, coincidentally at 86, Maggs came after himself to self-curate an epitaphic exhibition he did not live to see. Perhaps his selection of four works for this artistic summation was the lens through which he wanted us to experience his legacy: an equal balance of the systematic and the idiosyncratic. For Pierrot was not the only joker in the pack. At Ryerson, Pierrot Turning was counterpoint both to Kunstakademie and André Kertész, 144 Views. But Pierrot teamed up there with another troupe of tricksters, that other oddity in the Maggs’s portfolio: his Dada Portraits. A whirligig duo, together these works turned our point of view of Maggs around.
The 2010 Dada Portraits were the result of one of Maggs’s happy flea market finds but treated unlike any other of his paper ephemera trouvailles. Instead of typically documenting the pages of these nineteenth-century French carpenter handbooks, he reads these “found objects” differently—but not for traces of their stories. Now he makes one up instead. (Is this why Maggs is grinning in Pierrot the Storyteller?) Through merely naming them he configures a series of portraits from the abstractions of the drawings’ exploded lines. Profiles render dada men such as Duchamp, Ernst, and Man Ray; frontal views depict dada women such as Täuber, Höch, or Wigman. Turning from the dervish dance of this dada colloquy, suddenly one sees their graphic structure haunting the surrounding “conventional” portraits at Ryerson, whose gird-like solidity dissolves into ghostly demarcations. All that is solid melts into air to be recomposed in a new understanding of the ephemerality of Maggs’s enterprise. In a grand liberating gesture at the end of his career, Maggs went from taking photographs, to naming them, to miming them. In the process, he evolved into that mime artist Mallarmé wrote about, who “sets up a medium, a pure medium, of fiction.” Only here, the medium remained photography.
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Jasperse wins in a landslide, alcohol-by-the-drink passes
Created on Wednesday, 07 November 2018 09:54 | Published on Wednesday, 07 November 2018 09:54 | Written by Dan Pool
Incumbent State Rep. Rick Jasperse won in a landslide Tuesday, taking more than 86 percent of the ballots in Pickens and a similar heavy margin district-wide over gun control advocate Lee Shiver.
Jasperse (R) thanked his supporters, saying he works hard everyday for his constituents and this affirms his efforts.
“People here showed they like the Republican leadership for Georgia and what we have done, record low unemployment and fully funded education among other things,” he said.
Expecting the loss, Shiver sent a letter to the editor ahead of press time for a statement. It appears in this week’s Progress.
In the only local issue, Pickens voters approved Sunday sales of alcohol by the drink for areas outside the city limits of Jasper. In all 8,202 favored the Sunday sales, 4,703 were opposed. Sunday sales are already legal inside Jasper city limits.
Across the board, Pickens continued its trend of heavily favoring GOP candidates with Brian Kemp taking almost 85 percent of the vote in the governor’s race here.
Pickens saw a record turnout for a mid-term with
13,387 people casting ballots, a 63 percent turnout.
Early voting saw 7,135 votes cast.
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Apex Clearing Wins "Best Wealth Management Company" at 2018 FinTech Breakthrough Awards
2018 FinTech Breakthrough Awards Recognize Outstanding Financial Services and Technology Products and Companies
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“Apex Clearing is leading the charge in digitally transforming the wealth management paradigm, helping its customers eliminate outdated, manual processes with a digital platform that is dramatically improving the retail investing space globally.”
LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) May 02, 2018
FinTech Breakthrough, an independent organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global FinTech market, today announced that it has named Apex Clearing as winner of the “Best Wealth Management Company” award in the international 2018 FinTech Breakthrough Awards program. Apex Clearing is a custodian and clearing firm that’s powering the future of digital wealth management.
“Wealth management is a space where consumers now demand a seamless digital experience with their institutions and advisors,” said James Johnson, Managing Director, FinTech Breakthrough. “Apex Clearing is leading the charge in digitally transforming the wealth management paradigm, helping its customers eliminate outdated, manual processes with a digital platform that is dramatically improving the retail investing space globally.”
The FinTech Breakthrough Awards is the premier awards program founded to recognize the FinTech innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including Personal Finance, Lending, Payments, Investments, RegTech, InsurTech and many more. The 2018 FinTech Breakthrough Awards program attracted more than 3,000 nominations from across the globe.
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Review Cars 3: Driven to Win
Pixar’s Cars movies are widely regarded as some of their weaker works, but they probably have the most straightforward path to gamification. Cars 3: Driven to Win is a simple arcade racer, featuring characters and locations from the films, and it’s almost exactly what you’d expect. However, the amount of variety and fun on offer...
Fri 21st Jul 2017
Start your engines and gear up for the ultimate racing experience in the all new video game, Cars 3: Driven to Win inspired by Disney•Pixar’s film, Cars 3. Play with over 20 customizable characters including Lightning McQueen, Jackson Storm, Cruz Ramirez and the next generation of racers in over 20 tracks set in iconic locations from the film such as Radiator Springs. Train and advance your abilities in 6 game modes and challenge your family and friends in the Battle Race to become the Ultimate Champion. On the road to becoming a Hall of Fame Driver, training and skill will give you an edge in a race that anyone can win.
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Joint venture sells office building in Clark for $10.525M
Clark | Nov 13, 2018 at 11:20 am
Mountain Development Corp./Bukiet Building and Management Co.
Mountain Development and Bukiet Building and Management Co. have recently sold 67 Walnut Ave. in Clark for $10.525 million.
Mountain Development Corp. and joint venture partner Bukiet Building and Management Co. LLC announced they have recently sold a office building in Clark for $10.525 million.
The multitenanted, 76,000-square-foot, five-story office building was sold to a private investor, the pair said.
MDC and Bukiet purchased the asset in 2015 and since have completed a series of capital improvements including a new roof, parking lot, elevators, HVAC updates and a new cafe.
“Over a three-year period, 67 Walnut Avenue’s occupancy increased from 75 percent to nearly 100 percent,” Michael Bukiet, vice president at Bukiet Building, said. “This leasing momentum is a testament to the quality of the asset, as well as MDC’s expertise in coordinating a successful capital improvement strategy.”
Fahri Ozturk, Rick Lechtman, Ben Sgambati and Alan Cafiero of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the deal. David Zimmel of Zimmel Associates further assisted in the deal by consulting for the seller.
“Strong demand for office space in proximity to transit and with upgraded amenities are driving more real estate investors to acquire properties in suburban locales,” Ozturk, vice president of Marcus & Millichap, said. “These assets continue to be a highly sought-after investment type in our region. In the case of 67 Walnut Avenue, we experienced a substantial amount of interest from a range of potential buyers.”
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Russo, Forsgate complete $42.5M purchase of Kingsland site from NJSEA
Meadowlands | Jun 17, 2019 at 3:15 am
Russo Development/Forsgate Industrial Partners
An aerial shot of the Kingsland Tract, a 718-acre former landfill site spanning Lyndhurst, Rutherford and North Arlington.
Russo Development and Forsgate Industrial Partners jointly announced Friday they have completed the $42.5 million purchase of the Kingsland Tract, a 718-acre former landfill site spanning Lyndhurst, Rutherford and North Arlington, from the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority.
The site, Russo and Forsgate said, will be built into the Kingsland Meadowlands, a logistics and e-commerce development for up to six buildings totaling more than 3 million square feet of industrial space.
Kingsland Meadowlands is slated for completion in late 2021, the developers said.
“The Meadowlands submarket is one of the strongest industrial/warehouse markets in the United States, and the opportunity to build this project in such an outstanding location is a great accomplishment for not only our companies, but for the region that we have helped develop over the course of more than 100 years of combined history,” Edward Russo, CEO of Russo Development, said.
Tom Sullivan, senior vice president at CBRE Inc., represented NJSEA in the sale and marketing of the property.
“The sale of the Kingsland Tract is the culmination of many years of complex work by the NJSEA staff, the municipalities and the developers,” Vincent Prieto, CEO and president of NJSEA, said. “We look forward to a new generation of contributions to the Meadowlands Community from this esteemed property.”
Jim Kirkos, president of the Meadowlands Chamber, said the chamber welcomes the redevelop as an opportunity to reinvent the property.
“We are very grateful that two of the most formative developers in our region, Russo Development and Forsgate Industrial Partners, were given the opportunity to reinvent this critically important piece of property,” says Jim Kirkos, president of the Meadowlands Chamber. “The Kingsland Meadowlands plan is consistent with the business culture of the region and will be a welcome addition to a market hungry for logistics capacity. The golf course resort previously envisioned for this site could never have created the economic activity and career opportunities appropriate for the Meadowlands’ highly skilled employment pool.”
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In New Hampshire, Frank Guinta Soldiers On Amid Controversy
Posted Aug 26, 2015 5:00 AM
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Guinta speaks during a business roundtable discussion on cyber security at Jenaly Technology in Portsmouth, N.H. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Embattled GOP Rep. Frank C. Guinta may be one of the most vulnerable congressional incumbents in the country, but you wouldn’t know it if you spent time with the Republican congressman in his district.
Instead of hiding out, Guinta's had an active August recess, hosting town halls and visiting businesses in his southeastern New Hampshire-based 1st District as if the controversy swirling around him over campaign violations did not exist.
On this misty Tuesday afternoon in Portsmouth, a popular tourist destination on the Granite State's stretch of Atlantic coastline, Guinta met with about a dozen constituents at an IT security company for a roundtable on cybersecurity issues. It was the third stop Guinta made that day, and not the last one on his schedule.
Guinta listened to concerns from the crowd of business owners, who were worried that regulations designed to help protect customers' personal financial and medical information online were too complicated to comply with, and opened small-business owners up to costly litigation.
He told stories of his own woes in protecting his own personal data, including saying his information was in the massive Office of Personnel Management hack earlier this year.
Guinta told CQ Roll Call he tried to do "about five events a day," during the recess. "Today we’ll hit five or six."
While Guinta was at ease discussing policy with constituents, the two-term Republican was always going to have one of the one of the toughest re-election battles in the country — even before news broke in May that Guinta had violated Federal Election Commission rules in his first congressional bid in 2010 for accepting an illegal $350,000 loan from his parents. The FEC fined him $15,000 and ordered the money be returned, though Guinta maintains he did nothing wrong.
Guinta's 1st District seat is one of the few remaining swing seats in the country, having changed hands three times in four election cycles. President Barack Obama carried the district twice, each time by single-digit margins.
Guinta speaks to CQ Roll Call after an event in Portsmouth, N.H. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
But since the May scandal broke, a number of members of his own party, including GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte, called for Guinta's resignation, likely hoping a less controversial candidate would emerge. The Union Leader, a conservative newspaper in the state, published a six-word editorial following the scandal that merely said, "Frank Guinta is a damned liar."
In an interview with CQ Roll Call after the event, Guinta said he plans to run for re-election in 2016.
He added that months after the news of the violation came to light, constituents don't bring the FEC issue up, and he's not worried it will hurt his chances next fall.
"What I focus on is what I control, which is how I represent the people," Guinta told CQ Roll Call after the roundtable. "I don’t deal with the political side. I just let the political side take care of itself and I think that’s the best way to serve."
Outside the technology company, Guinta ran into a Sharon Lovejoy, a constituent who was excited to see him. The two posed for a photo before Guinta hopped in a car to head to another event.
Lovejoy, a Realtor who was married to the late state Sen. George Lovejoy , said she supports Guinta for re-election.
"I don't think he’s a dishonest man," Lovejoy said.
But operatives on both sides of the aisle say the FEC troubles exacerbate Guinta's vulnerabilities.
Many say his fundraising is likely to dry up, making it challenging to communicate with voters.
And the FEC troubles are ready-made for attack ads questioning his ethics that his opponents could blast on the airwaves.
"He’s very much into, 'It’s in the past; it’s over,' and it’s odd," Kathy Sullivan, a former chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, told CQ Roll Call in a phone interview. "Many of the Republicans have said he should resign. Newspapers unanimously have said he should resign, and it’s obviously a story that won’t go away. I would anticipate that in a primary it's going to be an issue. And, if for some reason he passes a primary, it’ll obviously be an issue in the general."
At the moment, Guinta faces a primary from former University of New Hampshire Business School Dean Dan Innis. Innis ran against Guinta in a primary in 2014 and came up eight points short — a small margin given Innis had never run for office before.
But others are considering entering the primary, too, including state Rep. Pam Tucker, a tea party-aligned state legislator who flirted with a congressional bid for this district last cycle. A crowded primary could aid Guinta's chances, creating a possibility that the anti-Guinta vote would get splintered by a large field.
"I wouldn’t be surprised if more people get in that race," one New Hampshire GOP operative said. "It'll be like an open seat."
If Guinta survives the primary, he'll be a top Democratic target and would likely face the Democrat he's traded this seat with every cycle since 2010: former Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter.
Shea-Porter filed the paperwork for a comeback bid earlier this month. And she'd almost certainly use the argument that Guinta unfairly maligned her in their 2014 race, when he called her a liar in a campaign ad for suggesting the FEC was still investigating Guinta's campaign finances.
Shea-Porter's campaign did not return multiple requests to meet with CQ Roll Call during a four-day trip in New Hampshire.
And Guinta said he'd look forward to a race against the foe he's faced three times before.
"It wouldn’t be a race without me and Carol in it," Guinta joked.
New Hampshire's 1st District is rated a Tossup by the Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report /Roll Call.
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Morgan Brown ‘17- Eyes fall upon the floor of a crowded stadium. Chills of anticipation sweep through the room, telling everyone that it’s competition day. The Romeo High School robotics team, the Byting Bulldogs, prepare their robot, confirming that each part works as planned. Cheers erupt throughout the audience as the robot performs, and the team celebrates completing another challenge.
These moments are what Sam Hein ‘17 embraces.
With the start of a new robotics season, Hein hopes to be part of a winning team; wanting to experience the glory of the team’s 2013 State Championship victory, which he was not a part of. Meetings during the competitive season occur every day, giving the team the opportunity to perfect their project, revealed on January 9th, 2016.
An essential part of the team since his freshman year, Hein excels in electrical work, spending his time wiring the robots.
“When the time comes to do electrical work, I do that,” Hein said. “But mostly I do what I can to help out with everyone else.”
With numerous friends on the team, his favorite teacher, Mr. Gardner, as his leader, and a current part time job related to his future career, robotics provides him with a unique extracurricular activity, and some perception of his desired future. Hein wishes to be an engineer, and the robotics program arranged a job at Cross The Road Electronics for him to wire circuit boards, allowing him to improve his skills.
“The program has really helped me come out of my shell and it is a great learning experience,” Hein said. “It has helped me explore future career options.”
Hein not only enhanced his socialization and electrical skills, but also his diligence and time management. With two AP classes and a heavy work schedule, it proves difficult to balance these activities.
With a tiny bit of spare time before and after robotics meetings, Hein manages to squeeze in hours of homework, keeping his grades up while still having fun.
Since 2013, the Byting Bulldogs have yet to snag another Championship victory, however, with Hein’s advanced engineering skills and ability to boost the spirit of his teammates, he rests with the confidence that his team will prevail in the coming year.
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This Week At The Theatre: Greeking Out OR: Tragedies… Trage-deez Nuts!
March 10, 2015 Casey Moriarty Live 1
I’m honestly not trying to work towards any sort of theme during my weekends at the theater, but this weekend the shows I saw were once again of a singular bent: that being the Greek Tragedies of that old pervy bastard Sophocles. In each case, the plays I saw were updated to bring a quasi-modern feel to them.
The first was The Electra Project at the University of California, Irvine. If I hadn’t read the program, I would have thought this show was a lot less pretentious than I do. It is pompously referred to as an “anthropological experiment” on their website and writer Guy Zimmerman is douche-tastically called the “Dramaturg” by the bleeding font in the program. But I suppose I don’t want to call this kettle too black and so I shall digress.
Electra blood choking her own mother in this delightful lighthearted romp
The show is directed by Mihai Maniutiu – apologies for not being able to figure out the Romanian characters – and it combines the classic story of Electra (here bravely played by Leslie Lank) with ancient Romanian folk music performed by The IZA Group, creating an interesting result. As you enter the theatre the cast is already lying on the stage, clad in homeless rags and wrapped in blankets awaiting the beginning of the show; it officially starts when Electra’s mother Clytemnestra (Caitlin Brook) enters and places a curse upon her son Orestes by doing unspeakable things to a rocking horse. Off to a good start, then.
Theatre as an art form should make strong use of imagery, and this play does: several images stick with you from the show including that rocking horse, full of knives; yet another vivid and memorable moment is that of a body, riddled with stab wounds being loaded onto a shopping cart; and another is the ragged cast circling around the redheaded Electra and painting the likeness of an axe onto her naked back. When it comes to symbolism, this play delivers. The use of the Romanian folk music to create an atmosphere is also a good one and the costumes are evocative in a way that Chapman’s Hamlet only wishes they were. The set is sparse: only a giant pendulum constantly swinging in the background prevents this show from being an entirely black box affair.
The Electra Project feels incredibly short; indeed, it only runs about seventy minutes. Goddammit, UCI, your plays cost a lot of money and so does your parking, you owe me more than seventy fucking minutes. Nevertheless, the fact that I’m lamenting that the play was too short must be a good sign; I was left wanting more even if I felt a bit cheated and thought there must be more story to tell. This was all the more notable since the most interesting member of the cast, Kevin Shewey as Aegisthus, appears for only a few minutes, dancing around and spitting like a champion whilst delivering his lines, before having the absolute crap stabbed out of him. Yes, that’s it! Stab more motherfuckers! I paid to see stabbings, dammit, this is Ancient Greece and I’ve played God of War- Oh, the play’s over? Shit. Onto the next one, then!
The next one, which I attended Sunday night, was another reworking of Sophocles: The San Diego Rep’s production of Oedipus El Rey, a modern-day adaptation of Oedipus Rex set in the Mexican barrios. Here, young Oedipus (or Patos Malos as he’s often called, a sort-of translation of his name from Ancient Greek into Spanish) is a gangbanger freshly released from prison, eager to prove himself on the bustling streets of Los Angeles. The Chorus are portrayed by Oedipus’ fellow inmates, who also appear under masks in a dream sequence as a bunch of prophetic Mexican owls and in various other roles throughout the show.
This show features some hardcore nudity during the scene where Oedipus unknowingly “makes pork with” (as Jack and Billy would say) his mother Jocasta. The main thought on my mind for this – other than “BOOBIESBOOBIESOHMYGODBOOBIES,” of course – was that these actors were incredibly brave. The lad playing Oedipus, Lakin Valdez, who also fights and dances in this show, has some serious acting chops as well as balls (and I have seen both displayed onstage).
Having recently viewed a more traditional version of the story for my Theatre Appreciation class, one of the thoughts that ran through my mind was curiosity regarding the Sphinx, the monster whose riddle Oedipus solves in order to save Thebes and get himself crowned king. How would they do this on a modern stage? I wondered if “Sphinx,” or the Esfinge as it’s known in the barrio, would be a nickname for a troublesome, riddling drug dealer that Oedipus must defeat or something – but instead, it appears as a genuine monster in one of his dreams, played as a three headed creature by three members of el Coro. I guess that’s cool, but since he doesn’t actually defeat a Sphinx, we lose the aspect of the tragedy that sees him beloved by his people, and the overly arrogant ambitious Patos Malos is now much more a victim of extreme hamartia rather than being a mostly good man simply cursed by fate. Not that this is a bad interpretation, mind you, but it does make for a show that’s sometimes more Scarface than Sophocles.
Oedipus and some MILF
As I attended on a preview night, the production I saw was plagued with technical difficulties, most notably the damn microphones that the actors wore. I have used those exact microphones in productions I have been in, and they… well, dear reader, they just suck. They create feedback loops, interference, loud crackling I thought were thunder sound effects, and are generally an all-around disaster. I question why, in a relatively small theater such as the Lyceum is, such microphones are needed at all. When Oedipus’ flew off of his head, I could still hear him just fine; after all, these are actors who are trained to make themselves heard, in a building designed to carry sound. Lose the mikes, I say, and it will make your play better and your lives easier. Besides the microphone debacle, there was the moment where Jocasta’s brother Creon attempts to take up the mantle of King and is immediately shot. After a second-long delay, blood flew out of his body and, from the looks of it, into the audience (who audibly gasped). I’m not sure if this was intentional, but it brought to mind my viewing of Re-Animator: The Musical and what I’ve heard of its predecessor Evil Dead: The Musical (which I hope to see in Vegas soon) with their over-the-top gore requiring a splash zone for the audience. I’m not sure it’s appropriate for this show.
One thing I will heap praise on is the program for this show: it features information about the cast and crew as well as facts regarding the story of Oedipus and the American prison system; for example, did you know that up to eighty percent of imprisoned gang members will return to prison? Well, now you do. Apparently also twenty-three percent of Americans admits to having at least one tattoo (although I’m not sure why this is relevant, I have at least one tattoo and I am not in a gang; the FBI has informed me that Primitive Screwheads needs more members and to do more shit before we are considered one). Anyway, I thought the quality of the program was noteworthy considering so many programs suck ass – like the ones on Broadway are just lazy shite. Seriously, fuck Broadway programs.
Anyway, to summarize, I quite enjoyed the show despite the technical hiccups, and especially the performance of its lead; it is a worthy update for this classic tale. Also, the Lyceum validates parking, so take heed, other theatres (coughUCIcough). I’m glad to see Greek Tragedy is still alive, even if all of these actors together could not equal Denis O’Hare doing this by himself.
Thank you for reading the bizarre ramblings of this mad theatre nerd; I hope to return next week with more. Stay tuned!
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ENGLISH ELECTRIC (PART ONE)
Big Big Train
Crossover Prog
4.17 | 1003 ratings | 48 reviews | 47% 5 stars
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Studio Album, released in 2012
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. The First Rebreather (8.32)
2. Uncle Jack (3.49)
3. Winchester From St Giles' Hill (7.16)
4. Judas Unrepentant (7.18)
5. Summoned By Bells (9.17)
6. Upton Heath (5.39)
7. A Boy In Darkness (8.03)
8. Hedgerow (8.52)
Total Time: 58:44
Bonus tracks on 2012 double-LP edition:
9. Kingmaker
10. Victorian Brickwork
Line-up / Musicians
- David Longdon / lead & backing vocals (1-10), flute (1-8), vibes (1), tambourine (1,2,6-8,10), banjo & melodica (2), accordion (2,5), keyboards (2,4-6,8,9), electric (4,6) & acoustic (2,4,6) guitars, mandolin (4,6,8), birds & bees sounds (2), whistling (8), glockenspiel & Theremin (9), percussion (9)
- Dave Gregory / guitar (1-4,6-10), banjo (5), Mellotron (8,10), string arrangements (1,3), voice of The Court Usher (4)
- Andy Poole / acoustic guitar (3,4), keyboards (7,8,10), mandolin (5), backing vocals (1-5,7,8), baritone bee sound (2), bass (9,10), bass pedals (9), producer
- Greg Spawton / bass (1,3,4,6-8,10), electric (1,5,9,10) & acoustic (3-5) guitars, backing vocals (1-5,7,8), Moog (1), mandolin (2), keyboards (7-10)
- Nick D'Virgilio / drums (1-10), backing vocals (4,7,8,10)
- Daniel Steinhardt / guitar (3,8)
- Andy Tillison / organ (1,4,6,9), piano & Moog (1), keyboards (1,4,6,9)
- Danny Manners / piano (3,4,7,8), organ (3), double bass (2,4-7)
- Dave Desmond / trombone & brass arrangements (7,8,10)
- Ben Godfrey / cornet (7,8), trumpet & piccolo trumpet (8)
- Jan Jaap Langereis / recorder (7)
- Jonathan Truscott / tuba (7,8,10)
- John Storey / euphonium (7,8)
- Rich Evans / cornet (10)
- Nick Stones / French horn (10)
- Rachel Hall / violin (2,4,5,8), string arrangements (5)
- Sue Bowran / violin (6)
- Eleanor Gilchrist / violin (1,3)
- Geraldine Berreen / violin (1,3,6)
- Teresa Whipple / viola (1,3,6)
- Abigail Trundle / cello (1,3,5-7)
- Jon Foyle / cello (10)
- Martin Orford / backing vocals (8)
- Violet Adams / soprano bee sound (2), backing vocals (5,7,8)
- Lily Adams / soprano bee sound (2), backing vocals (5,7,8)
- Verity Joy / backing vocals (5,7,8)
- Louis Philippe / string arrangements (6)
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Artwork: Andy Poole with Matt Sefton (photo)
CD Giant Electric Pea - GEPCD1043 (2012, UK)
2xLP Plane Groovy - PLG010 (2012, UK) With 2 bonus tracks
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Review by kev rowland
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Crossover Team
Approximately 20 years ago a postman made a delivery to my house. In itself there is nothing unusual in that concept, but the difference here was that inside the envelope was a demo tape from a Dorset band. They had been given my details by Stu Nicholson who I had recently been in contact with, so they decided to send me the tape to see what I thought of it. Needless to say that band were Big Big Train, and the tape was 'From The River To The Sea', and it was the first piece of music ever sent to me to review. Since then I have listened to countless thousands of CDs, but Big Big Train were the very first so I have always had something of a soft spot for them. Although it must be said that not only was I not a huge fan of one of their releases back in the day, but I also had the misfortune to run into Greg Spawton in a pub in Winchester not long after I had formed that opinion.
The reason for that was I felt that they no longer sounded like BBT and that they had allowed outside guests and influences to take over the album, but looking back now it is obvious that it was an important step in allowing the band to grow musically. And boy have they changed now. There have been one or two line-up changes over the years but Greg (now on bass/keys) and Andy Poole (keys/production) have been there from the beginning, and singer David Longdon (plus mandolin, keys, flute etc) who joined in 2009 has been a real find. It is these three that have written all of the songs, but since 2010 they have been joined by guitarist Dave Gregory and some drummer called Nick D'Virgilio. Yes, the ex-Spock's Beard and current Mystery sticksman is also a key member of this band.
So when my copy turned up from the band the other day you can guess how excited I was. One word screams out all of the time that this is playing, and that is "Maturity". The band have changed immensely since those early days and have produced an album that is huge and the reason for that is the control that pervades everything that is happening. I was playing this while out in one of the paddocks and I was trying to think who it reminded me of, and the closest I can come to is Marillion combined with Chris Rea but that has much more to do with the way they have approached the construction and composition as opposed to the musical direction.
Many people will say that this isn't a prog album, but so what? That really depends on your personal definition of prog, but given the use of additional guests and instruments where else doe sit really fit? On a personal level, when I heard the flute I immediately asked myself if Martin Orford (IQ/Jadis) had become involved in the music scene again as I know that he had contributed to past BBT albums. Well, I was wrong about the flute as that is by David but Widge does provide some backing vocals - it was a huge loss to not only UK prog but to music as a whole when he decided not to continue so hopefully there will be more to come.
This is a part one album, with the second to follow in March, and to be honest I can hardly wait. To my old jaded ears this is stunning ? and when I received that cassette all those years ago I could never have imagined that one day I would be listening to anything as powerful as this. This is essential for any lover of good music. www.bigbigtrain.com
(This review was sourced from a pre release copy provided by the band - ADMIN EDIT)
Posted Sunday, August 26, 2012 | Review this album | Report (Review #810452)
Review by BrufordFreak
COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator
Without a doubt Dave Longdon is the new shining star of modern progressive rock; his vocal, composition, and flute contributions to Big Big Train have taken this band to a whole new level, a level that may imprint BBT into the Prog Hall of Fame--one of the few modern bands to achieve a standing right among the masters of the 1970s. Also, while I was not convinced of Dave Gregory's 'fitting in' based upon his previous BBT contributions, on this album everything, everybody is clicking. Amazing song compositions with fresh and diverse stylistic presentations topped by the amazing--did I say "amazing"? I meant, "incomparable"- -vocals of Dave Longdon. And this time the lyrics and vocal passion fit with the music. I LOVE these lyrics. Everything component of every song seems woven into a magical tapestry worthy of adorning the walls of kings! With The Underfall Yard we saw a lot of glimpses but not everything with the "newcomers" (D'Virgilio, Gregory, and Longdon) had gelled yet.
"The First Rebreather" (10/10) is an amazing opener which reminds me of the way "Dance on a Volcano" or "A Musical Box" opened their respective albums, the former for Nick D'Virgilio's display of Phil Collins-like drumming (Phil at his absolute best) and the latter for the changing dynamics and essential individual contributions to the whole-group masterpiece. Amazing story, lyrics and singing! Wonderful weaving of al the instrumentalists AND the vocal arrangements. A perfect song! (though the nod to GENESIS is quite obvious.)
"Uncle Jack" (9/10) Off-beat like a STEVE HACKETT song (or, a little bit like "I Know What I Like [In Your Wardrobe]"), this is, to me, refreshing for its celebration of an average Joe (again like "I Know What I Like"). I bit like a carry over from The Underfall Yard, but still a mature, masterful blend of everyone's talents. Plus, banjo!
"Winchester from St. Giles' Hill" (11/10) was my instant favorite. Now I can't decide between it and all of the other 10s! A beautiful song from it's opening notes and accompaniment. Incredible vocal melodies and vocal arrangements. I love Dave Gregory's jazzy (almost PAUL WELLER-like) guitar. Amazing chorus. WOW! What power and feeling! Then to soften with those guitar strums and mellotron. The bass playing just kills me. This is a funky jazzed up prog MASTERPIECE! And then the MICHEL LE GRAND/JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL almost- classical section in the middle! Followed by an awesome guitar solo which brings us back first to the funk rhythm and then to the AMAZING story, vocal, vocal arrangement. I'm undone! TOO beautiful for words . . .
***** Each year I give a 11 our of 10 rating and this, ladies and gentlement, is that song.; the one song that transcends my expectations for the potential for human creativity.
"Judas Unrepentant" (8/10) unfortunately begins with a bit of a Genesis "Illegal Alien" feel to it. Luckily the chorus and bridges diverge quite a bit. The mellow, almost classical section beginning at the 3:30 mark is a welcome, even masterful, diversion. When the main song theme returns it with a wonderful symphonic crescendo of sound. Nice little organ solo to cover the return to the original "Alien" beat/sound. An light, upbeat, fast-paced yet somehow heavy and complex song. Fascinating!
"Summoned by Bells" (9/10) begins with a pretty Tony Banks/Anthony Phillips piano arpeggio before establishing itself as something else, quite, with cello, doo-wap b-vox, recorders, and even the kitchen sink thrown in. (Just kidding!) Have I mentioned how noticeable and creative--even melodic--is the bass work on this album? Wonderful. And replete with so many unexpected flourishes and techniques. And NIck D'Virgilio really makes his mastery known without going over the top or without having to be mixed too forward in the production mix. This song provides a perfect example of how Dave Gregory's guitar work fits perfectly whereas on previous albums it may not have worked, may even have stood out a bit too much. On this one every strum, arpeggio and strum fits perfectly. Absolutely stunned and LOVE the delicate, emotional outro with its gorgeous horns and heart-wrenching Fripp-like guitar solo.
"Upton Hill" (9/10) reminds me of a perfect PREFAB SPROUT or DREAM ACADEMY song-- quirky yet drop-dead gorgeous. Prominently featured flute, cello, accordian, female b-vox and banjo help provide this one with its own unique feel.
The first 1:36 of "A Boy in Darkness" (10/10) has a very KATE BUSH and TEARS FOR FEARS feel to it. Until the very TEARS FOR FEARS breakout at 1:36. Later, the almost jazzy top-speed instrumental section in the middle is filled with great drumming, great guitar, flute, strings, percussives, and organ is one of the highlights of the album. Breathtakeing. And then the segue back into the vocal sections is so masterful. Absolutely brilliant! Fripp guitar soloing beneath Longdon's powerful singing. The final minute is a crescendo of power and emotion with Gregory and D'Virgilio leading the way. Love the oscillating organ to-fade.
"Hedgerow" (10/10) has an amazing XTC/BYRDS/ANT PHILLIPS/BEATLES feel, musically (thanks, Dave Gregory!), topped with some jaw-droppingly astounding vocal arrangements. Slow guitar arpeggios over which a solo viola/violin dirges propels the song into emotional depths of amazing proportions. Top this off with Nick D'Virgilio's stupendous drumming and you have the best crossover prog song of the year. The lyrics are the coup de grace?they bring me to my knees! I am not worthy! Especially the repeating flower names sung by the background singers! What an end to an amazing album?an album of a quality and consistency that I thought I'd never hear! Move aside Echolyn, Marillion, Astra, TFK, and even Anglagard.
Hail! to the new kings of the hill!
Congratulations Andy and Greg: Your passion, vision, and perseverance has paid off! This is the best music album I've heard from 2012. It may be (dare I say or even think it?) a perfect album. So many, many times as I listen to this album am I just astounded at the instrumental, compositional, incidental and lead sound, and textural shifts that occur--and frequently-- within each song?not to mention the unparalleled vocal arrangements. (I beg of you: Has ANY album EVER put forth such astounding vocal arrangements??) These five gentlemen are truly master music craftsmen. No: Master music artisans. This album is, to me, akin to a Sistine Chapel, a Taj Mahal, a Monet, a Beethoven's 9th.
Posted Friday, September 14, 2012 | Review this album | Report (Review #820841)
This is the second album by this particular Big Big Train lineup after The Underfall Yard, but the improvement over that one is substantial; whilst the Train had been chugging away on the UK scene for quite some years, for many listeners this is the album that put them on the map. Trimming back the stable of guest musicians substantially and offering a spruced-up sound which combines progressive rock song structures and compositional techniques to a somewhat broader aesthetic than most prog, the album manages to be simultaneously quite accessible and at the same time still a nostalgic journey through Genesis-derived symphonic landscapes.
Founder member Greg Spawton's guitar work on this is what enables much of this diversity, particularly in the way he brings in influences which most prog guitarists tend to overlook. For instance, his performance on Uncle Jack begins in a folky style with just a whiff of bluegrass to it, but as the song progresses and complexities pile up it ends up gradually mutating into something much more unusual. David Longdon's one of those prog vocalists who likes to mimic Peter Gabriel, but at least he's actually quite good at it, his performance sounding absolutely natural and not forced at all.
The traces of Spock's Beard I could hear on The Underfall Yard are well and truly gone - as, indeed, is any obvious imitation of past prog bands beyond the obvious Genesis pastoralisms. This album was, at the time, one of my biggest surprises of the year - having been none too impressed by the band's back catalogue, I really hadn't planned on giving them another go, but the high praise given to this one made me feel compelled to relent on that and I was at first markedly impressed.
However, with the passage of time the spark of English Electric has rather faded for me. It's not so much a case of familiarity breeding contempt - if anything, I have relistened to it much less than I expected to. It's more a matter of Big Big Train's schtick wearing thin. This soppy nostalgia for a golden age that never really was - the eternal illusion that grumpy middle-aged men are prone to that society had it more or less right back when they were 6 and it's been downhill ever since - is something that I have an increasing lack of patience for, and the artistic aesthetic it inspires feels increasingly shallow and vapid. It is certainly competently executed here, but precisely because it's a hollow reflection on faded glory rather than something genuinely "progressive" in the sense of doing something new with the collection of old motifs it brings together, I suspect its star will wane sooner rather than later.
Review by ProgShine
COLLABORATOR Errors & Omissions Team
There's some bands that hardly fail, you can actually see their love and their effort on making the best music possible. And that's the case of BIG BIG TRAIN.
I'm not a BIG BIG TRAIN longer fan, I've discovered them when they were about to release the magnificent The Underfall Yard (2009) and they were giving away the epic track that carried the name of the album. I was so immediatelly amazed by that song and that sound and that band that I went straight to their website and bought a bundle with The Underfall Yard (2009) and their previous The Difference Machine (2007).
When I've heard they were working on a new album, and that would be a 2 part project called 'English Electric' I was already happy just by heard that.
I am now listening English Electric (Part One) (2012) for the first time. And they just can't fail. Their music is full of emotion, charged with a sentiment that you hardly can see in any other band, specially in Progressive Rock.
They work slowly on their records and make sure every little piece is right on place. The sounds of instruments specially, is SO good to hear an album that actually have real drums sounds, a bass sound that's not equal to the other 100 albums released in this month, pianos and not cheap keyboards, flutes, the list go on and on...
It's rich in every aspect it's grande not being too pompous, it's emotional, makes me shiver, and the most important thing, it makes you want to listen again and again.
The band knows the music they're doing is good, only bands that know they have a great material to offer makes their album available to listen on Bandcamp (bigbigtrain.bandcamp.com/album/english-electric-part-one).
And you know why they do that? Cause they know that if you listen, you'll buy, something inside you tells that you need to have it. And that's actually what happens, everytime.
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2012 | Review this album | Report (Review #830915)
Review by AtomicCrimsonRush
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Symphonic Team
Big Big Train excel on their best release to date "English Electric Part One". The fact that this is a first part obviously means there is soon to be released a sequel and if it is as fabulous as this release we are in for a real treat. From the very beginning I was taken on a journey of melodic and innovative musicianship with beautiful rivers of flute and uplifting guitar solos, along with swathes of keyboards and crystalline ambience. Each track is diverse from the one preceding and makes this a very entertaining hour of music. The songs are accessible enough for the average music listener but have inspired musicianship that lift the compositions out of the ordinary and into the more progressive side of music. The flute is absolutely stunning and the grinding organ punctuates the atmospheres with a retro 70s feel.
Songs like the wonderful 'Judas Unrepentant' have the 70s sound and yet remain modern enough to fit into the current music scene comfortably. There is an uplifting soundscape on such songs, and the band leave room for quiet passages of flute played with aplomb by the incomparable David Longdon, and the string section by Ken Brake is mesmirising tranquillity. This track is one of the greatest pieces of music I have heard in years, and even features strong organ soloing, and meanders into quiet textures allowing it to lift again into the main bright melody. The vocals of Longdon are always clean and easy on the ears, sounding somewhat like Peter Gabriel in places, a clear influence.
The opening track 'The First Rebreather' is also masterfully composed with lengthy solos and a soul stirring melody, reminiscent of Genesis, with creative shifting time sigs. Surprisingly after this prog sound the following track 'Uncle Jack' is a diversion into Cotton Eye Joe banjo and hoedown musical shapes. It seems to work though as it is so unique to the album and shows the band having fun with their creativity. Another diversion on this album is the ballad 'Upton Heath' that is acoustically driven and has a beautiful Celtic folk flavour of accordion sounds and a strong multi harmony of voices throughout. The violins and flute are a nice touch and enhance the folk textures on this very accessible track.
On the flip side of the band's style 'Summoned by Bells' is a 9 minute romp with cascading flute and guitar picking and violins that melt into the icy atmospheres. It has a dreamy feel, especially in the verses and at times a heavier guitar riff from Greg Spawton breaks through to keep things interesting. The electric piano is quite bluesy, and there is a section sounding like Genesis as it moves into a new time sig. Andy Poole on keyboards and bass keeps a consistent rhythm and the steady tempo from percussionist Nick D'Virgilio is always reliable. Spawton has a chance to launch into a lead guitar solo that is well accomplished striking against the tempo. The meter slows down with nice keys and a horn section that augments the atmosphere. This section is very relaxing and moves along at a measured pace as an extended coda and the lead solo is tasteful; an excellent progressive track.
'A Boy In Darkness' is an 8 minute track with some odd melodies and shifting signatures. It begins with elongated musical bars that sound ethereal along with the haunting harmonies. It has a darker feel purposefully due to the thematic content. It is delightfully unique on the album, with more chilling atmospheres, and an overall sense of foreboding. These atmospheres are augmented by sustained violins and reflective vocals echoed by multi harmonies. The keyboard effects have an esoteric quality, echoing with distant bells, wind effects and dissonant notes. The Hammond organ sound crunches gloriously into the song and is joined by violin serrations and heavy guitars. The flute joins in and lifts the atmosphere but it still feels appropriately off kilter and disjointed. A tremolo bar wavers on the guitar and then a low ominous drone is heard. This is followed by a peaceful passage of lonely violin and Longdon's vocals return with reflective lyrics. Overall this is another of the masterpieces of the album.
'Winchester From St Giles' Hill' is another case in point that focuses on varying musical styles. 'Hedgerow' closes the album with another lengthy piece at about 9 minutes, and sounds totally different to the other tracks, beginning with a folk tinged melody and ending with pastoral tones with multi layered majestic harmonies.
Overall this is another great album from Big Big Train who are slowly gaining a solid reputation and wider acceptance on a worldwide scale. They are capable of incredible music and the compositions are infectious and accessible for the FM radio market. "English Electric Part One" is packed with brilliance, and no doubt part two will be followed up soon, and hopefully as consistent in quality as this magnificent release.
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | Review this album | Report (Review #832216)
Review by lazland
I have waited a long time, with many, many listens, before reviewing this, the latest release by Big Big Train, which, if the reviews and ratings on this site are to be believed, is one of the finest prog rock releases of all time. Indeed, only one reviewer has given it anything less than five star masterpiece rating.
I gave that to the exceptional The Underfall Yard, but quite a bit of that was for deeply personal reasons. I was really looking forward to this, and was delighted when it plopped through the door last month.
Let me say straight away that this album contains some of the finest progressive rock I have heard this, or, indeed, in many a year. At its best, which is on most of it, it has the feel of much of what drew me to the genre in the first place, that wonderful English pastoral sound. The Genesis comparisons are, perhaps, rather obvious, but, to these ears and mind, it is more in the fact that a track such as Uncle Jack is so marvellously quirky and, well, English in the Genesis or Python sense.
The utter highlight of the album, and a very strong contender for track of this decade thus far, is Judas Unrepentant. In fact, as I will explain later in this review, it was only at this stage of the album that I really sat up and took notice on first listen. The harmonies, staggeringly strong vocals by David Longdon (who is surely becoming one of our finest), the fusion of classic and modern progressive soundscapes, particularly on keyboards, make this ridiculously enjoyable and strong. Everything flows easily into each separate movement, and that flute solo.....well, Gabriel has his natural successor in Longdon. The use of strings and woodwind is also exceptional. A symphonic masterpiece, no more, no less.
Of course, much of this here is a paeon to a fast disappearing English countryside, much as Selling England was to a disappearing society. The gorgeous Upton Heath is a smooth, very beautiful, example, and, if you close your eyes and use your imagination, you can see yourself walking on the Dorset heathland. It is a brave band, indeed, who make so much use of traditional orchestra instruments, and, again, this lot do it with such aplomb in a gentle, folk prog, setting. I also admire deeply here, and elsewhere, the choral vocals.
Another trick this lot manage so well is the sudden change of mood. So, we go from a beautiful walk to something altogether more sinister and menacing on A Boy In Darkness. Doom laden in its low key sounds, you jump when the chorus simply explodes with a sinister symphonic energy. This all supports some of the most intelligent lyrics you can imagine, because the subject matter is a report into conditions in a 19th century colliery, and the exploitation and deaths of young boys "sent down the pit". This is social commentary translated into musical darkness at its best, and, again, it reaffirms the band's position to me as the natural successors to Genesis in this era. To call them some kind of neo-prog tribute is both lazy and, actually, plain wrong. They are much more than that.
And, from this, we are taken to the delightful, cheery, bouncy, almost pop psychedelic joy that is the album's closer, Hedgerow. Of course, the subject matter is easily deduced, but the effect on the aural senses is one of sheer joy, almost an orgasm for the ears and mind. The singing is quite incredible, and the pace of the band never falls below that of relentless foot tapping, especially the guitars, and the strings are used to great effect again. The reprise of the vocal harmonies at the denouement has you almost weeping with the sheer joy of life and all around us.
So, with such praise, why do I rate this album as an excellent one, out of step with those colleagues who rate it a masterpiece? It is simply because, as joyful as the tracks I have written about above are, I actually find this to be too inconsistent to merit the full five stars. Take the opener, The First Rebreather, as a good example. There are bursts of that Longdon voice (which I first fell in love with on Martin Orford's great The Old Road), there is some stunning guitar work, especially, but I find this strangely inconsistent as a track, or, I don't know, maybe trying to be a little bit too clever, because the shifts in time signatures I find to be confusing and, frankly, unnecessary. When it is good, it is very good (and the bass playing is especially good), but it is not only confusing, I also find, after some thirty odd listens now, it to be rather dull in parts, and find myself losing my attention in places. You never have that on a masterpiece.
I also feel the same way about Winchester From Giles Hill. It starts off beautifully with deep flute, some lilting vocal harmonies and a jazzy feel on rhythm, but, I don't know, I find it very difficult to keep going throughout the track. The main vocal section sounds strained, and parts of it are, well, dull again. The strained comment also applies to parts of the otherwise sublime Summoned by Bells, which does feature some lovely brass in fusion with haunting guitar at the close.
I hope I have put across here adequately the fact that this is an excellent work, with a great deal to commend itself to fans of progressive rock. 90% of it is simply to die for. This lineup will, I earnestly hope, continue to bring us joy for many years to come. I especially welcome the participation of Dave Gregory, probably the finest musician to come out of the New Wave era. I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending it to those who are thinking about buying it. It is excellent. It just ain't a masterpiece. Bet you the next one is, though!
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2012 | Review this album | Report (Review #853506)
Review by tszirmay
Coincidence that I get two distinct albums that both feature Nick D'Virgilio on drums in my recent purchase cart? Nah, the man is a massive talent, turning Mystery's latest offering "The World is a Game" into a propulsive affair the simply devastates. He has also serviced some of the finest prog musicians anywhere, look it up if need be.
Big Big Train has leaped over countless summits in arriving to "English Electric", starting with the promising "Gathering Speed" then the massive "The Difference Machine"(a personal favorite) and then, the critically acclaimed "The Underfall Yard". Truth is Greg Spawton is an accomplished composer, a stellar guitarist and multi-instrumentalist and has surrounded himself with trusty longtime collaborator Andy Poole, as well as bringing in on the preceding opus, the evocative David Longdon on vocals to replace Sean Filkins , no slouch on the mike, him! Here we have the legendary Andy Tillison of The Tangent fame on assorted keys(never has he played better !) as well as the aforementioned Nick D'Virgilio. It is to be noted that Dave Gregory officiates on guitar, he of XTC fame and one of the most solid performers of the 80s still active today.. . "The First Rebreather" kicks off this one in style, very English and very prog , the arrangement has all the hallmarks of classic symphonic prog and easily rekindling fond reminiscence of Collins-era Genesis, without the commercial pop veneer. Andy Poole lays down some mean bass motifs that pulsate with glorified diversity and all the adornments are perfect, from mellifluous flute, played by David Longdon who positively shines on the microphone, a sensational vocalist and an emotive spirit. Lots of strings on this one, so tighten your symphonic belt, replete with a buzzing guitar solo like you have never heard before! Torrential gusts of power and substance are elevated by some stellar production, showcasing the whole as well as the parts and maintaining that blissy buzz.
"Uncle Jack" is more playful; featuring some stunning choir work (severe nods to Gentle Giant, here) as well something Ant Phillips could come up with when not fondling his beloved 12 string acoustic. A strong medieval tone ruminates gently, a countrified air, silky percussion and breezy vocals and choirs adorn the rolling green lea , birds chirping elatedly. Some banjo skiffling along for the ride. Quite an original sounding premise and a treat for the weary.
Back to classic sympho-prog with "Winchester from St Giles' Hill" owner of a massive atmosphere, very smooth and laid back (think ELP's "Take a Pebble") but equally armed with a poignant chorus that reaches Marillionesque proportions. Splashes of flute and strings fortify the strong classical feel. Please notice the shuffling drums and the grandiose chorus, a genius vehicle led by a stunning vocal from Dave Longdon , who really impresses immensely. Scintillating prog, this! We then have Tillison showing up on piano like a true ivory master that he is. Ridiculously seductive, almost scary, its that good. A Spawton guitar duel with D'Virgilio on drums is an earful only surpassed by the huge chorus ending this monumental track, a real classic.
Some commentators have already anointed "Judas Repentant" as the firecracker composition on this winning release and one can quickly see the merit of such lofty praise. Big Big sound, a wider scope of harmonious delirium, some rapid fire playing, especially those damn drums, clobbering everything in its way, burly, hard and devastating. The anthemic qualities are hyper-evident, the majestic flute playing with the mellotron cascades. Unexpected strings sweep into the mix, heightening the passion as Longdon plaintively sings on, raging and dramatic, keys whirring wildly (check out that genius organ solo from Andy Tillison, whew! Deadly). A manic tour de force outro finishes the deal.
"Summoned by Bells" is the proverbial ballad, dexterous piano and voice driven with some clever off-beat gilding, very close to Collins-era Genesis (even mentioning "rooftops". Yeah, right! Coincidence! Nah!), with Banksian keyboard washes and typical voice work. "Come on now" indeed! A corkscrew guitar solo (Dave Gregory?) scorches like a molten flame- thrower and then, suddenly a serene passage that is dreamily psychedelic, daring to import some serious trombone infiltration! Yes you read it correctly = TROMBONE! Ballsy move!
"Upton Heath" is very British, with mandolins, banjo, double-bass and accordion leading the way, in folky style of ensemble playing, again rekindling hints of Penguin Café Orchestra and Anthony Phillips , as well as some clear Canterbury school influences. The main difference is the soul voice of Dave Longdon, adding desperate warmth to the pastoral surroundings, the magical flute being the main culprit.
"A Boy in Darkness"as the title implies, is a more somber affair, the pleading vocal seemingly well ahead the pack, astutely orchestrated with crafty symphonics and a gruesome chorus. The contrasts are deep and dark, the instrumental sections brutal and corrosive (Dave Gregory in particular), the voice parts decisive and arresting. Heavy stuff!
"Hedgerow" sounds more like XTC; clearly Gregory is a huge influence, as this is Brit-pop with obtuse prog flavorings, hints of the Byrds, Bread and the Beatles. Yet, the instrumental part goes totally in another direction, deeply symphonic, with huge swells of emotion, flute, violin and keys are its purveyor. The main theme is thunderous. And then back to the beginning but louder. A brainy dollop of exalted prog.
There is just way too much to like, an opus that has the incredible Longdon voice, mind blowing guitar work from Gregory, jaw dropping keys work from Tillison, a rhythm section as powerful as one could hope for, D'Virgilio especially. Killer arrangements, original songs and daring adventure.
4.5 Anglais electriques
Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2012 | Review this album | Report (Review #864075)
Review by admireArt
Hey guys! Once there was a Brit-prog band named GENESIS , if you like BBT you´ll flip upside down with them. Some of the band members are still around. Maybe you have heard of one of them Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Phill Collins and Peter Gabriel; back then he was the vocalist and main composer of that ensemble. He absorved all the mystic ghosts that haunt his birthland; which by the way was England. Trumpets, kings and all that [&*!#]; brought to modern times. Intelligent surreal stories with the famous conspiracy-like voice, in "off" (the same as Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson; it runs in the "Brits", blood) and the music compositions, if not overwhelming, were very original in language and structure. .... It was not their virtuosity neither, ( of course they were no punk-rockers!) it had to do with the creative rush of breaking-ground for the first time, that kind of rare and unique rush. BBT; however well trained in their instruments as they are, fall in the the everlasting conflict of any composer who still hasn't found his own language; being both: original and sublime. Problem is, that the original parts are not original and the sublime is not their own. I dislike imitators, tributers or whatever you want to call the kind, that sounds like someone else, who was there before, in time. Without any kind of regards whatsoever; or the now famous "my influences" cheap-talk. I don´t think there is a creative shortage in composition (to me that´s what prog is all about) as to praise this kind,(seriously!). Wake up!! and listen to GENESIS first albums. In that direction you may also encounter another band; their name is or was (no one still knows) King Crimson start easy, go for the "Lizard" album. Don´t settle for less this will make BBT (if lucky) find their own route. Remember: "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"; it still does and it will be like that, it seems for a long time. 2 PA stars
Posted Wednesday, January 2, 2013 | Review this album | Report (Review #886465)
Review by richardh
Probably should win some award for the most over hyped album of the year. Now there is no doubt that this group know exactlly what they are doing and the tehcnical level of the playing backs thats up. They also avoid the usual late seventies Genesis clone approach that so many neo prog bands seem to be into and that perhaps gets them extra brownie points. However I've listened to this at least 5 times and I'm still struggling to be that gripped or excited by it. There are some nice bits and bits and moments of inspiration but in general it comes across just a bit too much 'prog by numbers'.
The opening track is probably my favourite on the album. They have a real hook going for the first few minutes and could have fallen into the trap of trying to repeat it too much but instead allow the music to find its natural flow. The end track is also excellent and reaches a good emotional peak. What I have a problem with is the most of the middle bit that doesn't seem to have either the musical content or direction to impress me. I just don't get what its supposed to be. Its all a bit bland and lacking to my ears.Its not cliched though and I guess the fact you can't relate it that easily to other bands has lead to a fair amount of gushing praise. But for me I'm just not feeling it
Neverthless it is an ambitious effort and they have used a good variety of musical instruments to add additional spice. Quite nice middle of the road neo syphonic prog album. Best check it out and make up your own mind.
Posted Saturday, January 5, 2013 | Review this album | Report (Review #888016)
BIB BIG TRAIN haven't made an album yet that I wasn't impressed with. This is the fourth recording i've purchased by this band and to my ears they are a modern day GENESIS. Not that I think of them everytime I hear their music because I don't, but it's that very English sound that is done so well. The lyrics are always meaningful and seem to be able to touch my heart. Like the last studio album they have lots of guests on board, in fact more this time including Andy Tillison and Martin Orford (I thought he was retired).
"The First Rebreather" might be the best track i've heard from this band, and for me the most GENESIS sounding as well. The guitar playing over top as the vocals come in is priceless ! Check out the flute and then the bass and drums join in. So good. Nice flute solo before 3 minutes and then a guitar solo 5 minutes in. The emotion is felt when the vocals return with passion. Gulp. That opening guitar is back. Man this is just so good. One of the best tracks of 2012 for me. I should mention as well that Andy Tillison guests on this song playing organ, piano, moog and keyboards. "Uncle Jack" is certainly different with the opening banjo. Vocals join in quickly in this catchy tune. Again this just feels good. Mandolin in this one as well as some female backing vocals. "Winchester From St. Giles' Hill" is a beautiful song and the keyboards after 2 minutes reminds me of Banks. Check out the flute a minute later when the vocals stop. I really like the guitar before 5 1/2 minutes as the organ and drums start to impress before the vocals return. Andy Tillison is back on "Judas Unrepentant" playing organ and keyboards. Nice intro before the vocals join in. We get that late as well after 5 1/2 minutes. Such meaningful lyrics here. Good song.
"Summoned By Bells" is the longest track at just under 9 1/2 minutes. Vocals and piano lead early before the violin joins in. Flute 2 minutes in and the backing vocals before 2 1/2 minutes are a nice touch. Mellotron a minute later. Great sound 6 minutes in with the organ, guitar and drums standing out. Nice to hear horns late as well. A very enjoyable tune. "Upton Heath" is a mellow tune with acoustic guitar, light drums, reserved vocals and more. Banjo and mandolin also make appearances on this one. My least favourite song on here. "A Boy In Darkness" is an emotional track considering the lyrics. And the title of the track certainly has a lot of meaning in light of those words. Andy is back guesting on keyboards and organ. Check out the flute and bass after 4 minutes. Amazing track ! "Hedgerow" is such an uplifting song ! I can just imagine someone who has worked underground for so long getting some time off and being blown away by nature and sunshine. I can just picture him dancing around and we can hear his dog as he calls him as they wander the fields. Love the instrumental section that follows with that mournful violin. The vocals return including Martin Orford's backing vocals. The horns remind me of THE BEATLES.
Yeah this deserves the hype and it's not surprising to see this album on so many top 10 lists for 2012.
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2013 | Review this album | Report (Review #902773)
Review by fuxi
Hurray, Phil Collins rides again - more energically than ever!
Joking apart, this is yet another enjoyable BBT collection, very much in the vein of its great predecessor, the UNDERFALL YARD. The ingredients are the same. Most of the music is expertly performed and full of yearning. The band seem to mourn the passing of an Old England in which "heavy industry" still counted for something. They denounce some of the social cruelties of that same Old England; they express longing for the landscapes and cities of their youth, and now they've reached middle age, they feel great sadness, since what's left of those landscapes will soon leave these men behind...
That, at least, is the impression I get from ENGLISH ELECTRIC (PART ONE). The great question is, of course, if Part Two will be different in mood. Until we find out (at the time of writing, the wait can't be long any more) we may ask ourselves to what extent Big Big Train achieve their musical ambitions. In my opinion, the first six tracks of this album are gripping from start to finish (which makes for a first-rate 42-minute album, just as inspiring as all those classics you remember from the 1970s), but thereafter the quality of the music rapidly deteriorates: on "A Boy in Darkness" David Longdon's voice really started to grate (OK, I know it's not MEANT to be an upbeat track, but still...) and during "Hedgerow" (a pointless, over-long singalong) I couldn't wait to switch the album off.
I was glad we were offered some wonderfully exciting keyboard solos from the great Andy Tillison this time. I only wish Dave Gregory were given more chances to shine on electric guitar! Whenever Gregory does appear, my heart leaps half a mile. FINAL VERDICT: Strongly recommended, but not what I'd call a flawless masterpiece.
Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2013 | Review this album | Report (Review #913340)
Review by EatThatPhonebook
Straightforward, But Right On Track.
"English Electric Part One" is Big Big Train's eight album, released in 2012. The title implies, obviously, a Part Two, released in 2013. Even more so than the predecessor "The Underfall Yard", this newer release was immensely praised by Prog Rock aficionados, and has even been considered by some to be one of the greatest albums of the genre of the decade. Although this last statement is a bit exaggerated, "English Electric Part One" is most definitely the greatest Prog Rock album of 2012, proving that Big Big Train has officially matured as a group.
The music on the album is for many, very reminiscent of old Symphonic Prog groups, more in particular Genesis: that is especially because of the vast array of instrumentation that is used on this album, especially keyboards. But there's a lot of clean and acoustic guitar, flutes, strings, horns, and so on. It's definitely the most lush release so far from Big Big Train. The previous albums however also had an astonishing amount of varied instrumentation. The brand new improvements that really surprise are the outstanding songwriting skills this band proves to have, as they are able to consistently write beautiful, gorgeously crafted songs, that hit almost all of the right spots. Another massive improvement of theirs is the structuring of the songs: if in earlier albums, their tracks at times felt a little messy and over- blown in length and flow, now they sound in order, perfectly structured and well-balanced.
The album itself shows not only a great and diverse palette when it comes to instrumentation; Every song, basically, has a unique trait that makes it distinguishable over the rest of them, and that is a quality that is hard to pull of in one album and impressive when successful, considering the structuring problems the band had with "The Underfall Yard". A song like "Uncle Jack" has a predominant banjo, while "Judas Unrepented" has much more organ/keyboards, "Upton Heath" meanwhile has a very memorable and beautiful choir section in the chorus.
"English Electric Part One" is a sweet, gentle, melancholic piece of work, strengthened by fantastic musicianship, including the charismatic, lyrical vocals that weave in each track all of the different melodies beautifully. It's diverse, catchy, lush, and challenging: four qualities that are more than enough for a Prog Rock album to work.
Review by Ivan_Melgar_M
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Symphonic Prog Specialist
Good but could have been great
After reading all the ravishing reviews about this band and album decided to pay a couple of bucks in a well- known site and download it, won't say that wasted my money, because the English Electric (Part One) has outstanding individual performances, a good sound and a few interesting passages, but overall I find it generic, lack of personality and extremely boring.
YES vocal references and some GENESIS influenced passages are not enough to save this album from oblivion, let's be honest, I can't find a single memorable song. So, in my opinion the problem is not in the sound (which is high quality), virtuosity of the musicians (can't be denied), but in the tedious Alternative/Indie/Crossover/Prog related compositions, that bored me after a few minutes.
The album is opened by The First Rebreather and the first thing I notice is the vocals, being that seem like a blend of Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Fish (Not bad at all) and then at the mark of 1:29, a passage that reminds me too much of Los Endos. But to be honest I like the track, it has brilliance, strength and versatility, even though that the word originality is not in their dictionary. The best song of the album, only weakened by that Gabrielish flute passage that sounds nothing like Peter Gabriel's flute.
After a promising opener, I was starting to sing that all the praises were justified, but reality hit me hard when I listened Uncle Jack, some sort of comedy relief in the style of ELP songs like The Sheriff & Jeremy Bender, but without the freshness and audacity of the famous power trio, and to make it worst, the fantastic vocal work of The First Rebreather isn't remotely repeated here?Well played but absolutely forgettable.
Winchester From St Giles' Hill is a pretty musical piece but absolutely anodyne, the intentions are good, the piano passages are delightful, but the composition is absolutely tame and predictable, sorry, but I fell asleep for a couple of seconds when listening this song the first time. Sometimes a beautiful tune is not enough.
Judas Unrepentant intro takes me back to the late 70's when Rick Wakeman was experimenting with new synths and the infamous Birotron, which was great in albums like Criminal Record, but absolutely dated today. At least in the vocal parts they give signs of life and seem to find an own sound?..Well, until they start with the gabrielish flute and the late Genesis Mellotron Choirs.
Summoned By Bells is a song of contrasts, the first five minutes are really repetitive and boring in the style of Phil Collins, but suddenly they allow themselves create one of the most brilliant moments in the album, with jazzy leanings and powerful guitar, drums and keys interplay, but when they are sounding great, fall again into some tedious Kenny G like ending section that really turns me down. Just when they dared to be ambitious and vibrant, ruined it all with a depressive closing section, and to make it worst is followed by another forgettable track as Upton Heath that works as a Valium (Please guys stop using sections so reminiscent of Los Endos & Squonk, especially when so watered).
A Boy In Darkness is another uneven song, the first couple of minutes are absolutely soporiferous , but when I was ready to press the skip button, the song changed dramatically, at last they dared to unleash themselves, here we can listen everything, from heavy guitar solos to Ian Anderson / Thijs Van Leer influenced flutes, dramatic violin and some first class Psyche/Folk Prog that really impressed me, simply frantic and vibrant, this is what this guys need to do.
The album is closed by Hedgerow, another exiting song that combines the naïve sound of 60's British Invasion, Psychedelic touches and excellent vocal work, seems as they reserved the best for the end.
Well, now comes the rating part that I hate so much. Until the fifth minute of Summoned By Bells I was decided to give English Electric (Part One) two weak stars, butv then everything changed, they left the safe play and took risks, ending the album in a very high level. It's a pity I have to go with only 3 stars, because this release has some impressive music, but it's so uneven that can't go higher.}
I'm 100% sure that if this guys dare to take risks, they are able to give us a couple of essential masterpieces, but we'll have to wait and have faith..The skills are there, what they need is the decision.
Posted Thursday, October 24, 2013 | Review this album | Report (Review #1065756)
Review by m2thek
Ever since the release of The Underfall Yard, a question I asked myself fairly often was 'Is the modern incarnation of Big Big Train one of my favorite bands, or is this just one of my favorite albums?' Far Skies Deep Time certainly pushed me in one direction, and fortunately with the release of English Electric Part 1 I can definitively pick a side and say, yes, they are one of my favorite bands. While the album manages to be both better in almost every way, yet not quite as good as TUY, its addition solidifies Longdon-era Big Big Train as a great modern symphonic band.
Avoiding that last comparison to TUY for now, let's talk about what Big Big Train's overall sound is like. They are listed here as Crossover, but they are now obviously Symphonic. There is a strong balance between structured, melodic instrumental passages with powerfully sung ones. Instrumentally there is also a good balance between guitar and keyboard (as well as other eclectic instruments) which all take the lead about the same amount. While the music found within the songs is great, I think the most important thing about this band is that they are very concerned with crafting their albums as complete pieces, and English Electric is no different: you'll find repeated musical and lyrical themes, the songs are structured in a logical way in regards to mood and length, and the albums as a whole are kept to reasonable lengths. Another important aspect of Big Big Train's music is their lyrical content. Lately they've been interested in telling real world stories through their music, and EE takes this to the extreme with each song telling the tale of a noted Englishman, whether they were socially famous or just important to one of the band members.
So, how has this changed since the last album? Surprisingly a lot. TUY was critically and commercially Big Big Train's most successful album so it's very refreshing to see them treat their new material so differently. Most importantly, EE is sonically miles ahead of TUY. If I could find one complaint about the previous album it's that while all of the songs were great, there was a lack of diversity. Taking a look at how the first four songs start out, it's like they made a specific point to be as diverse as possible: a gloomy guitar line starts the first song, warm banjo strumming the second, pastoral flute and piano the third, and furious organ and guitar to start the fourth. The choice of instruments has also been expanded; as mentioned, the banjo makes an appearance, as well as multiple flute and violin passages. There is a return of the brass band from TUY as well as the addition of a few female vocal harmonies. Judging EE on these textural elements alone, it is expertly made and it would be challenging to find a contemporary album that could stand up to it. The quality of the production is also stellar, and even at the conclusion of the album where 1,000 things are going on you can hear everything perfectly.
The only area that I find TUY overshadowing this album is in the composition. English Electric is a more adventurous album in terms of song structures compared to its somewhat formulaic predecessor, and because of this, it is hit or miss. About half of the songs here are spectacular and the emotional climaxes, when they pay off, are really hard hitting and even surpass some on TUY. However, some of the songs in the middle section drag on a bit , some of the stylistic choices can be a little boring, and the only attempt to recreate a passage from the previous album (the ethereal brass coda of 'Victorian Brickwork') falls pretty flat in comparison. While the songs can be a little inconsistent, a really special note must be made for the closer, 'Hedgerow,' which contains one of the most beautiful musical moments I've ever heard which is only so effective because of the seven songs that come before it.
Even though the sum of the individual songs doesn't have the same success of the last album, English Electric Part One is still a great overall package. The wonderful thing about the album is that it is clear that the whole piece was the main focus and you're really rewarded for listening from start to finish. Furthermore I'd go so far as to call it one of my favorite arranged albums ever and I could listen to the instrumental diversity all day (and have in fact repeated the closer on multiple occasions). A year later it's clear that this is one of 2012's best, and comes in as a close second for Big Big Train's best album. Simply put, this is must-hear material and we can only hope that their next main album continues the band's masterful approach to composing albums as a whole.
Posted Thursday, January 2, 2014 | Review this album | Report (Review #1105473)
Review by Tarcisio Moura
Sometimes you really strike gold at PA! I discovered this band through this site and I must say I´m quite impressed. Well, the much praised The Underfall yard did not exactly won me over. it was clear that the band was good, but there was something missing yet at that point. Actually the CD sounded a little overworked too. But when I heard the following EP Far Skies Deep Time, I knew they had nailed it! It was the perfect combination of great songwriting, perfect arrangements and excellent songwriting, coupled with outstanding performances. That did the trick. So I was quite anxious to hear what would come next.
English Electric (Part One) is basicly everything I had hoped for: great symphonic prog rock which mixes very well simple, nice melodies with complex arrangements and inspired performances of all involved. The comparisons with Gabriel-era Genesis are not a coincidence. Not only is this band highly influenced by that band, but they also found the right formula that made Genesis the classic band they were (all the elements mentioned before). Still, Big Big Train does not copy Genesis, that of the same matter dutch band Odyssice captured so well 70´s Camel spirit without really sounding like a cover band. That´s the difference: BBT (and Odyssice) produce a familiar style of music, but they do too have a personality of their own all along. That´s very rare.
Of course the album would have never worked if they hadn´t have the excellent songwriting hability to match their obvious terrific technique. There are absolute no fillers, with all the tunes being very well done both in terms of writing and, specially, of performances. It´s so hard to see an album where every instrument, every voice, every note fits in so smoothly (another Genesis trait during their heydey). There are no fillers nor highlights, all the tracks do stand on their own, although the opener The First Rarebreather may be a personal favorite. Certainly BBT finally reached a maturity rarely seen nowadays. Since singer and multi intrumentist David Longdon joined the fold they have been getting better and better with each release. And his flute playing is certainly one of the most interesting features of this record
Ok, some people will cringe upon hearing this CD, claiming the music has nothing original (meaning zanny), that they play too "safe" (nothing to shock you) and break no new ground (even at the expense of the music itself). I wll disagree, since they are quite original on their own way. It´s quite accessible, I admit it, but still it takes several spins to fully grasp its full richness. And the music is beautiful, skillfully played and imaginatively arranged. To me this is good enough. Wrap it up with an excellent production work and you´ll have one of the most stunning works I´ve heard in a long, long time.
I´m really anxious to get English Electric (Part Two).
Rating: 4,5 stars. Highly recommended!!
Posted Thursday, January 23, 2014 | Review this album | Report (Review #1118390)
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Awesome! First released as separate albums, and only later combined into the 'full power' double-CD set, the first volume of English Electric (EE) is by far the best. For the full-power version, they moved songs around, including putting some of these ones on CD2, so if you have the full-power ve ... (read more)
Report this review (#1743139) | Posted by Walkscore | Thursday, July 13, 2017 | Review Permanlink
OK, well this is a well produced album with some good music on it. Unfortunately, and as others have mentioned, all I thought about was early Genesis, brought up to date in terms of production values anyway. Even the conceit is based on that pastoral idea of lost England, using the old railway e ... (read more)
Report this review (#1453548) | Posted by BillyWhizz | Sunday, August 16, 2015 | Review Permanlink
I recently highlighted Big Big Train on a community radio station show, which prompted hours of listening and research about this band and, in particular, their last three studio albums: The Underfall Yard and English Electric Parts I and II, partly because when I do radio shows, I prefer to give so ... (read more)
Report this review (#1077802) | Posted by zwordser | Saturday, November 16, 2013 | Review Permanlink
After having finally gotten around to Big Big Train's well received 2 part concept album English Electric, I can safely say the praise has been overly effusive. The albums aren't bad, but that's about it. There is absolutely nothing captivating about them. Sure they're well preformed and crisply ... (read more)
Report this review (#1060947) | Posted by R-A-N-M-A | Wednesday, October 16, 2013 | Review Permanlink
I agree with many of the points people make when giving Big Big Train's upteenth album the highest mark - lush instrumentation, employing almost every live instrument at disposal of folk and rock musicians (lutes, flutes...), strong dramatic vocals (one of the best, in my opinion, among the Gene ... (read more)
Report this review (#1021005) | Posted by Progrussia | Tuesday, August 20, 2013 | Review Permanlink
"English Electric Part One" is Big Big Train's seventh studio record and it was released last year 2012. It is ranked as the third best record from 2012 and I won't blame the other listeners. From the very start I put the record on I liked it and it also grows in my ears. Since then they have ... (read more)
Report this review (#973819) | Posted by DrömmarenAdrian | Saturday, June 8, 2013 | Review Permanlink
The first track (Rebreather) will remind you of 'Dancing with the moonlit knight', such is its quality. Then there's track 7 (A boy in darkness), which, ordinarily, would be a fine, fine album finale. In fact though, it's followed by the exceptional 'Hedgerow' which has a chorus that'll grab ... (read more)
Report this review (#949121) | Posted by sussexbowler | Thursday, April 25, 2013 | Review Permanlink
As a lover of (nearly) all eras of Genesis, I have been a huge fan of Big Big Train ever since David Longdon joined the band in 2009. When The underfall Yard was released late that same year, I listened to it countless times. When hearing of the pending release of English Electric Part One, I was ... (read more)
Report this review (#933266) | Posted by lukatherfan | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | Review Permanlink
I have listened to this long enough to finally give my review: And it's a no-brainer. ENGLISH ELECTRIC (part 1), is everything people have been saying it is- a wonderful slice of English, Genesis- like prog. Great melodies, skillful instrumental playing, nice lyrics, and a very fine singer. My pe ... (read more)
Report this review (#932656) | Posted by mohaveman | Monday, March 18, 2013 | Review Permanlink
Big Big Train's Third Consecutive Masterpiece I am having an unhealthily fast growth of love with this band. In a matter of months I had come to own over half of their discography. I love Big Big Train so much because of their maturity and focused, pervasive artistic vision in addition to the ... (read more)
Report this review (#928427) | Posted by Quote | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 | Review Permanlink
I have made a number of honest attempts to "educate" myself into liking this band (and this album). But, no serendipity has not materialized. It's time to say something :) There are way too many bands, making way too much music that is (IMO) unoriginal and unremarkable in; life is to short to ... (read more)
Report this review (#922025) | Posted by Argonaught | Sunday, March 3, 2013 | Review Permanlink
This is it. It is hard to describe what makes this CD so good. It almost has this spiritual/ transcendent quality to it. While Big Big Train's The Underfall Yard is good and so is English Electric Part 2, this CD goes beyond those to be something more. There are not throw away songs here. They ... (read more)
Report this review (#896713) | Posted by stefano | Sunday, January 20, 2013 | Review Permanlink
Tons and tons of 5 Star ratings for this Big Big Train output! Nr 3 Album of 2012 currently on the PA! What am I not getting here? Lets say it right away. The English Electric Part 1 is not a bad album. It has actually three quite exciting pieces on it: The First Rebreather (sounding very Ge ... (read more)
Report this review (#893406) | Posted by King Manuel | Sunday, January 13, 2013 | Review Permanlink
Although the music of this band is slightly better, the approach of this band reminds me of neo-prog bands like Unitopia, Magenta, Glass Hammer etc (kind of infamous for me). Big Big Train are focused especially on impersonating of Genesis branch of progressive rock. I miss genuine excitement in t ... (read more)
Report this review (#885485) | Posted by stewe | Tuesday, January 1, 2013 | Review Permanlink
Really cool album from start to finish! Music arrangement of the highest quality,already looking forward to part two! Considering the vast improvement from "The Underfall Yard"(which was itself a masterpiece), I'm waiting to see what will part 2 be like! Solid start through "The first rebreath ... (read more)
Report this review (#884866) | Posted by siegese7en | Monday, December 31, 2012 | Review Permanlink
Is this just another Genesis rip off? Not! While you might think that this is just another Genesis sound- alike, it is definitely not. It certainly does have some elements that are reminiscent of Genesis, and the lead vocal does have a lot in common with Peter Gabriel. Actually, I find more o ... (read more)
Report this review (#884751) | Posted by TechnicallySpeaking | Sunday, December 30, 2012 | Review Permanlink
BIG BIG TRAIN: English Electric (Part One) 4/5 Line up:- Andy Poole / bass, keyboards - Greg Spawton / guitars, keyboards, bass - David Longdon / vocals, flute, glockenspiel - Nick D'Virgilio / drums Additional musicians: - Rob Aubrey / mixing, mastering - Ken Brake / string section, ... (read more)
Report this review (#864972) | Posted by Gandalff | Friday, November 23, 2012 | Review Permanlink
Being a huge fan of Big Big Train's 'Underfall Yard', I eagerly awaited the release of 'English Electric Part 1' and I have not been disappointed. I consider this release to be the prog album of the year which is a grand statement considering all the quality prog released in 2012. The album begi ... (read more)
Report this review (#862477) | Posted by TomLucas | Monday, November 19, 2012 | Review Permanlink
Being new to Big Big Train I was a bit weary on whether to get this album. Listening to a sample I thought it was just another Genesis clone, but after seeing the high reviews I gave in and got it. Needless to say I was extremely surprised. Their music obviously has a large Genesis component, yet s ... (read more)
Report this review (#853552) | Posted by Mr. Mustard | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | Review Permanlink
Big Big Train have been around since 1990 playing their own brand of very English Progressive Rock. The current line-up, consisting of Nick D'Virgilio, Dave Gregory, David Longdon, Andy Poole and Gregory Spawton are producing the best material of this lengthy career and, in my opinion, the som ... (read more)
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Home » News » Brand » Labelled With Minimalistic Grandeur, The Label Life, Mumbai
Labelled With Minimalistic Grandeur, The Label Life, Mumbai
By Satarupa Chakraborty | September 27, 2018
Embarking on brick-and-mortar journey, online fashion and lifestyle brand The Label Life’s first store in Mumbai, designed by Delhi-based 02 June Design Studios, combines the brand’s minimalistic ethos and the city’s architectural heritage in less than 800 sq ft!
Be it 1 million social media followers or style tips coming from Bollywood’s stylish ladies Malaika Arora, Bipasha Basu and Sussanne Khan – the Label Life has always created a quintessential space in modern urban women’s wardrobes. What looked like a natural procession, like any other celebrated online fashion brand, was its debut in brick-and-mortar space.
In less than 800sq ft, at Mumbai’s popular locale Bandra, the ‘The Label Life’ store reflects the brand’s ethos of “elevated essentials” split across two floors. Minimalism thus plays a crucial role in the entire scheme and chain of thoughts which led to the final design outcome to bring about a space that breathes freshness and is bathed in a glow of warmth and good vibes. The subtle overlay of ‘Art Deco’ styling over the minimalist concept, was a nudge towards the brand’s home city, Mumbai.
The store is enveloped in a white lacquered glass cladded façade, with chamfered arches opening up the store’s interiors to the high street. The reflective finish paired with the simplicity of the design makes the store stand out bold and confident at the corner of the busy crossroad.
Black and white mosaic tile bed plays the stepping stone inside the store. The entire space has been rendered in white, giving it a soft and bright ambience, coupled with a muted oak textured flooring, which adds warmth to the overall space. The arched grille that mirrors the opening on the longer façade is another visual treat, owing to its simplicity and neutrality in terms of design essence and is a minimal take on the Deco-Saracenic style. The ground floor showcases the apparel, accessories and shoes. All the display units for the apparels are finished in a mirror gold coating which perfectly complements the soft look of the bare space and amplifies the store’s visuals.
Devansh Das, architect from 02 June Design Studios, said, “The shoe display section was a rather tough nut to crack. The very sight of this element had to mesmerize and leave customers spell bound. The semi-circular arch, a timeless design feature, coupled with the edge-lit marble back and glass shelves, did exactly that and imparted an intense visual impact to the store. It was hence nick named ‘The Dream Shoe wall’.”
The basement houses a pair of lavish changing rooms, complemented with a cosy lounge that also showcases the home décor products from the brand’s inventory. The double-spiral staircase in satin white finish paired with the marble treads, gives it the visual qualities equivalent to a sculpture. The balusters are another design element that draw inspiration from the city’s colonial past and serve it up in a contemporary vocabulary. The changing rooms are equipped with massive gold rimmed mirrors which replicate the chamfered arches on the façade as well as the entrances to the changing rooms themselves. The basement walls receive another dose of Art Deco styling, with patterns made with mouldings, giving the space a contemporary chic feel
Preeta Sukhtankar, Founder & CEO, The Label Life
"E-commerce has made buying more efficient, but discovery less meaningful. Our engagement with customers through pop-ins countrywide since 2016 has inspired and empowered us to believe in the much debated brick and mortar strategy. This breadth of human connection and celebration of personal choice is essential to who we are, and something we want to further develop through varied platforms and all our customer touchpoints. So here we are, launching our first store.
Sankalp Sahu, Founder, 02June Design Studios
The city’s architectural heritage was considered for developing the brand’s spatial character, due to its visual appeal and notability. However, defining the balance between Art Deco and minimalism was challenging, as we dabbled with elements invoking nostalgia yet needed to create something that was unique and contemporary.
Design: 02June Design Studio
Store fixtures: Yash Interiors
Lighting Fixtures: Gardler Lighting India Pvt Ltd
Sound Systems: Bosch
Tags : The Label Life 02June Design Studios
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Sicily that's amore / Culture / Scicli
Discover some of the most beautiful monuments of the Baroque Sicily. Live local celebrations of the Patroni (Saints of the town), or attend local & international art festivals.
Scicli sits in a gorge just a few miles from the long sandy beaches of Sampieri and Donnalucata and is overlooked by the towering rocky mass of the Church of San Matteo.
Conquered by the Arabs in 864, it became a royal city under the Normans. Totally rebuilt in pure Sicilian Baroque style after the 1693 earthquake, it presents today an impressive quantity of 17th century palaces that have made Scicli a masterpiece of the human creative genius of the late baroque period. Since 2002, the city is on the list of the Unesco World Heritage Sites.
The city is also notable for its religious parades that include “Presepe” (nativity scenes) enacted in the caves surrounding the city at Christmas time. These caves, known as the Chiarafura caves, were dug out in the tuff cliffs, and some were inhabited by the local poor as recently as 1958!
At Easter, the city celebrates with the “Uomo Vivo” parade, with a long religious procession through the city.
A decorated horse parade takes place in March, from Scicli to the neighbouring town of Donnalucata: la Cavalcata of San Giuseppe.
And the most spectacular religious festival, the La Madonna dei Milici occurs in May, commemorating the appearance of the Madonna on a white horse holding aloft a sword as she fights the saracens, two of which are under the horse hooves, She is described as “probably… the only armed Holy Virgin in the world.”
Scicli, in case you were wondering, is pronounced shi-kli!
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Church of Santa Maria della Croce and San Matteo
Back to the past: « A rutta ri Ron Carmulu »
Palazzo Spadaro
The Office of Commisario Montalbano
Pastry shop Basile
The Taranta Sicily Fest end of August
Palazzo Beneventano
Antony Blunt, British art historian…and spy, defines it as the most beautiful baroque palace of Sicily « of a pale yellow gold colour which in the sunlight gives it an indescribable opulence ». The enchanting Palazzo Beneventano is one of the Baroque monuments of the 17th century most original and more representative of the province. The canted facades of the building are exactly symmetrical, and at the intersection of the ledge running along the roof are two Moorish heads topped by the crest of the Beneventano family.
Il Gioia
Celebration of Easter, or “Uomu Vivu”. It’s so difficult to describe it to someone who never saw the jubilation of the crowd, chanting “Evviva” and “Gio-gio-gio-gioooia!”, under petals of flowers raining from the balconies when the statue passes along. Beyond the religious content of the celebration there is also the strong historical and folk tradition that brings together so many Sicilians.
La cavalcata di San Giuseppe
It started during Middle Age, as a drama to call for good harvests. It gradually got assimilated with Christianity to become a religious celebration in the honour of the Saint Patron of the town. The riders wear trousers and waistcoats of black velvet, white embroidered shirts, multicolour belts, red scarves, boots and pipes made of cane.
The choice of visits will depend on the season and the events taking place in Scicli.
8 stunning days to discover the real Sicilian culture!
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We Must All Be Fulani – By Fredrick Nwabufo
on May 24, 2019 at 11:27 am
Conspiracy theories are the palm oil of Nigeria’s politics. They give taste to falsehood, tension, fear and unrest. And often, they are ignorantly eaten, regurgitated and spewed by the unwary.
On December 11, 2013, former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote a caustic missive entitled, ‘Before it is too late’, searing former President Jonathan and his administration. He alleged that Jonathan was “clannish” and that he was promoting an Ijaw agenda. He also alleged that the immediate past president was arming militants, and that he had pencilled down 1000 people for crucifixion. Obasanjo surmised that Jonathan was training a special killer squad like that of Abacha which would dispatch political opponents to the place yonder.
Hear him:
“…Allegation of keeping over 1000 people on political watch-list rather than criminal or security watch-list and training snipers and other armed personnel secretly and clandestinely acquiring weapons to match for political purposes like Abacha and training them where Abacha trained his own killers….”
“Mr President would always remember that he was elected to maintain security for all Nigerians and protect them. And no one should prepare to kill or maim Nigerians for personal or political ambition or interest of anyone.”
Obasanjo’s conspiracy theory turned out to be a hoax of cataclysmic proportions. But it became evident that he conjured this ruse from his pouch of tricks for political reasons, and that it was deployed in the desperation to get Jonathan out of office.
Now, the former president says there is a subterranean plot to “Fulanise and Islamise” the whole of Nigeria. But is it not curious that he levelled similar allegations of promoting ethnicity and arming militants against the Jonathan administration?
One thing is clear, Nigeria is a deeply fractured country; so fractured that the ethnic group of the leadership and other nationalities will always be at one another’s jugular. In fact, there will always be recriminations and accusations of ethnic dominance for as long as the present unwieldy structure is propped up.
As a matter of fact, fears of ethnic dominance are as old as Nigeria’s politics. It was one of the reasons for the 1966 coup; it was one of the reasons for the pogroms in the north; it was one of the reasons for the civil war, and it is the reason for the groundswell of conspiracy theories today.
If tomorrow, there is a president of Igbo extraction; naturally, there will be accusations of “Igbonisation and Christianisation” of the whole country and institutions. This is how divided Nigeria is.
However, there have been crimes – kidnapping and banditry – perpetrated by some persons of Fulani extraction across the country. But sadly, this criminality has been shaded as the “invasion and expansionism agenda of the Fulani”. Really, what has given voice to this flawed theory is the ethnicity of the current leadership of the country.
I think, it is injudicious to link these criminals to a grand plot of ethnic colonisation hatched by the government. However, I must admit, these suggestions have been enabled by the poor handling of the security challenge by the leadership.
By and large, as I said in my interview on Newsday on BBC World News Service, London, in January, the Fulani common folk have been largely abandoned on the fringes of society for so long. Some of them are without knowledge of government or any institution. How do we integrate them into society? How do we make them functional members of society? We cannot keep ignoring and stereotyping them? We must think Fulani and understand that all Nigerians matter. We will only kindle the fire if we keep spinning theories of hate and fear.
The Fulani herder who takes his cattle on a stroll in the field is not your enemy; your enemy are those who pit you against the herder, but sit in the national assembly raking in millions without making laws that will make the country workable.
Fredrick is a media personality. Twitter @FredrickNwabufo
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Jimmy Wilford is the Executive Director of SAYWHAT. He has been providing leadership to the institution since its inception in 2003. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Human and Social Sciences with a major in Development Studies (UNISA), a Master in Public Policy and Governance (Africa University) and a Master of Science in Global Health (Maastricht University-Netherlands). He has gone through various in-house leadership training meant to sharpen his leadership responsibilities. He is also a leadership coach.
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Vimbai Yvonne Mlambo is the SAYWHAT Programs Manager. She joined SAYWHAT as a student and was the first elected National Coordinating Committee Chairperson. She was the first Gender Officer of SAYWHAT. She holds a Diploma in Education, Bachelor of Arts Degree in Gender Studies and a Master in Development Studies. Over the years she has accumulated vast experience as a programmer and then as Programs Manager. She has been the Acting SAYWHAT Executive Director from September 2016 to August 2017. She is also a Young African Leadership Academy 2017 fellow.
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Dorcas Zamuchiya SAYWHAT Senior Program Officer and responsible for the Gender Department. In the absence of the Programs Manager, she acts in that capacity. She joined SAYWHAT when she was a student, first as an under-graduate trainee and later returned as a Gender Officer. She holds Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Development studies. She has passion in young women’s rights programming in the areas of gender and SRH. Under the Gender department she has coordinated various projects with the team she works with. She is currently under-going the African Women Development Fund (Executive) Leadership mentorship.
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Zerdias Mudarikiri is SAYWHAT Finance Officer. He first joined the institution as an under-graduate intern and later rejoined as an Assistant Finance Officer. He later assumed the Finance Officer Position. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Banking and Finance from Great Zimbabwe University. Currently he is studying towards a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) with University of Zimbabwe. Over the years, he has undergone various in-house trainings on grants management.
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Sendisa is a senior programs Officer at SAYWHAT, responsible for the SRHR Department. Sendisa has dynamic and diverse competencies in HIV communication and counselling and health systems. He has been exposed to a broad range of skills that include Rights based Management, project in changing environments (prince 2) and leadership development courses. He has been the Acting Programs Manager for SAYWHAT for the period September 2016 to August 2017. He is one of the longest serving member of the secretariat and an oasis of institutional memory. Since inception, he has been an influence to critical programming through his creative writing and thinking skills.
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Mazinki Nontsikelelo
Assistant Administrator / nono@saywhat.org.zw
Nontsikelelo Mazinki is SAYWHAT Assistant Administrator responsible for Human Resource Management. She holds a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Human Resource Management. She is an emerging HR Practitioner and has been accumulating experience since she joined SAYWHAT. She continues to under-go various in-house training in administration within the institution. She is the one responsible with the SAYWHAT recruitments and training of as well as HR management issues.
Munyonho Leo
Manicaland Provincial Coordinator / leo@saywhat.org.zw
Leo Munyonho is a SAYWHAT provincial coordinator. His offices are at Mutare Teachers College and Great Zimbabwe University. Having graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Hotel and Tourism Degree from Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT), Leo defied all odds and decided to do development focusing on SRHR issues. He joined SAYWHAT as a student while at CUT and later as an Intern. Leo has gone through various capacity development in implementing various projects in Manicaland. He is a Master trainer in various community development models and has been successfully led the mobilization of young people from the apostolic sects in Marange and other communities to access SRHR services.
Dongo Spiwe
Executive Assistant to the Convener / spiwe@saywhat.org.zw
Spiwe Dongo is the Executive Assistant to the Convener of the Southern African Regional Students and Youth Conference (SARSYC). She is responsible with the coordination of the SAYWHAT regional platform – she is the lead person is connecting the tertiary students in the region. She holds a Bachelor of Science Honors Degree in Rural and Urban Planning and a Master’s Degree in Social Ecology with the University of Zimbabwe. She is currently studying for a post Graduate Diploma in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights with Lund University. She also sits on the African Union Youth Advisory Board, representing SAYWHAT.
Semwayo George
Graphic Designer / george@saywhat.org.zw
George Semwayo is SAYWHAT in-house graphic designer. He is responsible for the Website and IEC materials in-house deisgning. He recently joined and he is the first to assume such a responsibility. He holds a National Diploma in design for print. Since joining SAYWHAT, he has been responsible with the Website-outlook and the IEC materials deisgn. He is currently going through in-house skills development in story-telling using videos. He is also responsible with in-house video editing and publishing.
Mukonda Rachael
Information & Advocacy Graduate Intern / rachael@saywhat.org.zw
Rachael Mukonda recently joined SAYWHAT as the Graduate Information and Advocacy Intern. She recently graduated from National University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor of Science Degree Honours in Journalism and Media Studies. Since she joined, she has been driving the Information and Advocacy department of SAYWHAT. She is responsible for the content management of the Social Media, website and external communications.
Ngwenya Nkosilomusa
Bulawayo Province Graduate Intern / nkosi@saywhat.org.zw
Nkosilomusa initially joined SAYWHAT as an under-graduate intern and returned as a graduate intern to continue to build his capacity and skills. He holds Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Development Studies with Lupane State University. He has broad and vast experiences in working with partners in the SRH and HIV field covering the province of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. Successfully supported projects in the province such as the Big Sister Young Sister project (DREAMS) One Campus project and REAPS project. Since he joined the institution as a under-graduate and post graduate, he has been driving the implementation of various project beyond Bulawayo District.
Maduku Grace Nyasha
Midlands Province Graduate Intern / nyasha@saywhat.org.zw
Grace Nyasha Maduku is a Graduate-Intern responsible for Midlands office at Midlands State University. Grace has been part of SAYWHAT as a student at MSU. She joined secretariat recently as a graduate-intern to assist with the implementation of the DREAMS project in Gweru District. She holds a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Development Studies. Since she joined SAYWHAT, has been the Midlands office contact person in the Resource Center.
Mabuto Rumbidzai
Harare Provincial Coordinator / rumbi@saywhat.org.zw
Rumbidzai Mabuto is currently the Harare Provincial Coordinator responsible for responsible for Harare Province. She holds a Bachelor of Science Honors Degree in Development Studies. She has demonstrated great capacity in programming and report writing. She continues to go through in-house training’s to aid her work.
Chiedza Gadzirai
Finance Assistant / chiedza@saywhat.org.zw
Chiedza is the SAYWHAT Finance Assistance. She studied Bachelors in Accountancy Honours Degree from Bindura University. She has an Executive Certificate in Project Management from the University of Zimbabwe and is currently studying towards an MBA in Public Management at National University of Science and Technology. Chiedza had a passion in women leadership from the time she was SRC Vice President during her time at college, then Secretary for International Relations in the Zimbabwe National Students Union and Africa Representative in the World Youth Movement for Democracy. Chiedza was an Atlas Corps Fellow in 2014 and served at the United States Global Leadership Coalition in Washington, D.C.
Chiro Simbilisio
Masvingo Province Graduate Intern / simplicio@saywhat.org.zw
Simbilisio is a young energetic man who holds a Honors in Bachelor of Social Science degree in Sociology at Great Zimbabwe University. Simbilisio was a Peer educator at GZU and informed peers through drama and poetry. He participated in the ASRH program in Masvingo Zaka district under Integrated Support Program. Advocated for Behavior Change program with Regai Dzive Shiri.
Nhema Tsitsi
Graduate Intern / tsitsi@saywhat.org.zw
Tsitsi holds a Bachelor of Science Honors Degree in Social Work from Bindura University of Science Education. She is passionate about young women achieving and enjoying their full sexual and reproductive health rights. She was part of the SAYWHAT peer educators’ network at Bindura University and also the spokesperson of the LCC. She is one of the Web-for-Life SRHR Defenders Fellowship Alumni. She is also a trained CONDOMIZE Project Peer educator. She is currently the Zimbabwe Coordinator of International Youth Alliance for Youth Family Planning (IYAFP) for 2018. Under the Gender Department, she will be driving the active participation of young women under the Web-For-Life Movement.
Mutsa Kozah
Regional Work Graduate Intern / mutsa@saywhat.org.zw
Mutsa Kozah is a vibrant young lady who is passionate about the field of Social Development, and has a keen interest in gender, human rights and marginalized groups. She recently completed a Bachelor of Science Honors Degree in Sociology and Gender Development Studies at the Women’s University in Africa; after transferring credits in Social Work and Psychology from the University of Cape Town. She is a Regional Work Graduate Intern. Her responsibilities include supporting the regional work program team and the Southern African Regional Students and Youth Conference on sexual and Reproductive Health.
Gugulethu Ncube
Programs Asst Information / gugulethu@saywhat.org.zw
Gugulethu Ncube is the Program Assistant Under-graduate Intern in the Information department. He is currently studying towards a Bachelor of Science Degree Honours in Journalism and Media Studies and is in his third year of his studies. He joined SAYWHAT in November 2018 as part of his work related training required by his studies with the National University of Science and Technology. He will go back in August 2019 for his final year.
Makura Cleopatra Sheilla
Graduate Intern / cleopatra@saywhat.org.zw
Cleopatra is an graduate intern from the University of Zimbabwe. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. She was the National Coordinating Committee (NCC) Chairperson 2017-18. She joined the secretariat and currently manages the organisation structures. She is very passionate with young people in particular young women inclusion in development discussions.
Lineah Maposa
Graduate Intern Gender Depart / lineah@saywhat.org.zw
Lineah is a holder of a Bachelor of Social Sciences Honours in Sociology and Gender Development Studies from Women’s University in Africa. I am currently doing an Executive Certificate in Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation with the University of Zimbabwe. I trained as a peer educator with Deseret Zimbabwe in 2007 and Inerela Zimbabwe in 2010. I am passionate about young women empowerment so that they know and enjoy their sexual and reproductive health rights.
Karigambi Trycourse
Logistics / trycourse@saywhat.org.zw
Trycourse Karigambi is a part of the Administration Team responsible for all the logistics. He is also responsible for transporting programs officers and stakeholders to and from various programing stations. He has been with the institution for more than 7 years. Over the years he has gained vast experience that has been valuable in program planning and implementation. He is also responsible with the management of the transport fleet.
Susan Chitongo
Finance Intern / susan@saywhat.org.zw
Susan Mufaro Chitongo is the Finance Under-graduate Intern currently studying towards a Bachelor of Accountancy Honors Degree with Bindura University of Science Education, she is in her third year of her studies. She joined SAYWHAT in August 2018 as part of on-job training required of her studies and will go back in September 2019 for her final year.
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#BookReview | #TheCourier by Kjell Ola Dahl | #BlogTour | @OrendaBooks | @ko_dahl
‘Ester can see part of her father’s face through the bars on the window. The hairline, the fringe over his forehead and the top of his glasses. That is when he sees her. They exchange looks. His hand grasps a bar on the door window. She closes her eyes and regrets that she has seen this. She wishes she had spared him the humiliation….’
[ About the Book ]
In Oslo in 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden whilst the rest of her family is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero, Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, Ester’s childhood friend. A relationship develops between them, but ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire.
And yet, twenty-five years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter Turid. But where has he been, and what is the real reason for his return? Ester stumbles across information that forces her to look closely at her past, and to revisit her war-time training to stay alive…
Written with Dahl’s trademark characterization and elegant plotting, The Courier sees one of Norway’s most critically acclaimed authors at his best, as he takes on one of the most horrifying periods of modern history.
[ My Thoughts ]
It’s always a pleasure to be on tour with a novel from the Orenda publishing powerhouse and today I join Kjell Ola Dahl with my review of his latest release The Courier.
The Courier will be published in paperback on 21st March 2019 (available now in ebook format) and is described as ‘a stunning and compelling wartime thriller with its sophisticated storytelling and elegant prose….exploring one of Norway’s darkest periods of history from the Godfather of Nordic Noir’ With wonderful translation by Don Bartlett, The Courier is a thriller that has been compared to the work of John Le Carré, a fitting analogy I would think…..
The Courier is a novel that takes the reader on a journey beyond the final days of the Second World War and into the following decades. After treaties were signed and hands shaken, the impact of the previous years did not just fade into the distance. The aftermath of the brutalities inflicted rippled throughout the generations and still do today. Although The Courier is a book of fiction, many historical references are based on actual facts. I was completely unaware as to the extent of Norway’s involvement in the Second World War, a country that was never really mentioned when we studied this period in school, so I was fascinated to read about it here and to look beyond the novel. (always the sign of a good read when I’m enthused to do my own research)
In 2012 the then Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, apologised for the role his country played in deporting its own Jews as Europe marked Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“Norwegians carried out the arrests, Norwegians drove the trucks and it happened in Norway….. It is time for us to acknowledge that Norwegian policemen, civil servants and other Norwegians took part in the arrest and deportation of Jews.” – BBC News 27.01.12 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16761558
It is with this in mind that Kjell Ola Dahl departs from his favoured police procedural/psychological thriller genre and brings us this book filled with the horrors and mistrust of an era, a book that rivals many espionage style reads currently (and historically) on the shelves.
It’s 1942 and Ester had lived a comfortable life with her mother and father in Oslo. But Ester was frustrated by the increasing influence of the Nazi regime and was willing to do her bit for the resistance. Ester received an urgent message that her father was targeted as part of a Jewish roundup but Ester was too late to warn him and had to stand and watch as he was taken away. Ester had no where to run and, fearing for her own safety, she approached her childhood friend, Åse and her husband, Gerhard Falkum, a heroic member of the resistance, for help.
Ester made her escape into Sweden, where she continued to assist refugees escaping the terror of the Nazis, but always with an underlying hope that her family were safe. She crossed paths with Gerhard Falkum, a man in the shadows, frustrated with his inability to do more but also in hiding after being accused of murdering his wife, Ester’s friend, Åse. But after a mysterious fire which takes Gerhard’s life, Ester is left alone and afraid. As the war came to it’s inevitable conclusion, Ester remained in Sweden, the place she called home.
Twenty-five years pass and Ester’s world is suddenly faced with upheavel, as Gerhard makes an astonishing reappearance, looking to re-establish a relationship with his long-lost daughter, Turid.
What follows is a game of cat and mouse as Ester is unexpectedly reacquainted with people from her past, from that life of secrecy that she had left behind. But can you ever escape the hidden dangers of your past?
Kjell Ola Dahl builds the suspense throughout, seamlessly shifting between the decades, as the layers are slowly peeled back. The true character of each participant is revealed as the story exposes the depths of secrecy and classified information that was long hidden, never expected to see the light of day again.
The Courier is a tension-filled thriller wrapped around interchanging timelines. It has a strong plot that both entertains and informs, capturing the imagination of the reader from the opening pages. The Courier is a spy novel, it’s a historical guide, it’s a mystery, all fantastically translated by Don Bartlett, bringing the writings of Kjell Ola Dahl to a much wider and very appreciative new audience of readers across the globe.
I am a huge fan of historical fiction, so it was an absolute treat for me to have the opportunity to read The Courier. A highly compelling read, packed with suspense and intrigue. Highly entertaining!!
[ Bio ]
One of the fathers of the Nordic Noir genre, Kjell Ola Dahl was born in
1958 in Gjøvik. He made his debut in 1993, and has since published
eleven novels, the most prominent of which is a series of police
procedurals cum psychological thrillers featuring investigators
Gunnarstranda and Frølich.
In 2000 he won the Riverton Prize for The Last Fix and he won both the prestigious Brage and Riverton Prizes for The Courier in 2015.
His work has been published in 14 countries, and he lives in Oslo.
Twitter ~ @ko_dahl
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nickimags
Fantastic review sounds like a great read!
Nicki thank you! I love a good spy book so this really fitted the bill for me.
Jill Doyle
Great review Mairead. I bought myself a copy last night and got it signed. Good job I’ve got a holiday and a reading retreat planned. So many books and too little time.
Thanks Jill 🙂 I know…how many books CAN we read……. There must be a way… Enjoy. X
Fantastic review Mairead. I’ve been reading a lot of positive reviews on this one.
Lynne thank you!. It’s a great read. Has a bit of everything really..
Anne Cater
Massive thanks for this Blog Tour support x
Always a pleasure Anne. Xx
6th March 2019 at 12:40 pm
Wow, this sounds like a great book. I like reading about WWII from different angles, views and heritages. There is always something new to dicover. Great review
Scarlett thank you so much! I really appreciate your comments. I agree about discovering new angles…such a depth of history to that period.
Sounds fascinating!
It really is Luccia. I love when a book sends me off doing my own bit of research…
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Gov. Mark Dayton vetoes tax, spending bills
Republicans say vetoes have major consequences.
By Jessie Van Berkel Star Tribune
May 23, 2018 — 9:36pm
Gov. Mark Dayton on Wednesday vetoed two measures that together comprised much of the work of this year’s Legislature, leaving the DFL governor few accomplishments for his last year in office and Republican leaders with little to show for three months of work.
Dayton’s vetoes killed tax cuts for the two lowest income brackets and Minnesota businesses, along with a state-federal tax code alignment intended to prevent major filing headaches for Minnesotans next year. Also dead is additional money for public schools and for treatment and prevention programs meant to address the opioid-addiction epidemic.
The DFL governor had warned GOP legislative leaders in the final days of session that the vetoes were likely. Legislators passed the bills anyway and publicly asked him to reconsider. With just over seven months left in office, Dayton’s relationship with the Republicans who control the Legislature may have reached an all-time low.
“This session was not about working out agreements with me,” Dayton said Wednesday. “It wasn’t even about working out the best interest of the people of Minnesota. It was about the House Republicans cozying up to the moneyed special interests.”
Republicans were even more withering in response.
“This session wasn’t a failure. Our governor was a failure,” said House Speaker Kurt Daudt, R-Crown. Sen. Roger Chamberlain, R-Lino Lakes, chairman of the Senate Taxes Committee, said in a news release that Dayton “behaved like a toddler — emotional, impulsive and unreasonable.”
Republicans noted that the tax bill Dayton vetoed would have meant savings for many Minnesotans and shielded others from the tax increases that are expected to result from last year’s major changes to the federal tax code.
Dayton said the Legislature’s tax bill would benefit multinational corporations at the expense of families.
In the final weeks of the session, Dayton’s main focus was securing $138 million in additional funding for school districts, some of which are facing budget gaps. Lawmakers instead voted to allow schools to access $225 million mostly from existing state accounts that support teacher training and community education.
“It’s not new money,” Dayton said of the Republican plan. “It’s just robbing from one pot and putting it into another.”
The tax plan and the nearly 1,000-page spending and policy bill that Dayton vetoed did include measures the governor supported. It would have dedicated $16 million to opioid-addiction treatment and prevention, and it included money to fix the state’s problematic vehicle licensing and registration system. It included some small changes to state regulation of elder-care facilities following stories of abuse, although critics called the measures toothless. It would have allowed the Minnesota secretary of state to access more than $6 million in federal money for election cybersecurity.
Dayton said some of those provisions reflected the undue influence of special interests. The money for opioid treatment came from the state’s general fund, despite support by Dayton and legislators from both parties for a new tax or fee on pharmaceutical companies.
The elder-care provisions were weaker than advocates wanted and faced pushback from the nursing home industry. Dayton also criticized Republican leaders’ unwillingness to consider new restrictions on gun sales such as background checks, which according to a recent Star Tribune Minnesota Poll are broadly supported by Minnesotans.
The vetoes also bring consequences such as a 7 percent cut for disability services. Dozens showed up at the Capitol in response on Wednesday, including Julie Weaver and her son Charles. He has a new job that he loves at Anoka County, Julie Weaver said, and she fears he could now lose it.
“Instead of helping get more people with disabilities employed, I can’t see any way a 7 percent cut is going to help,” she said. “We have to keep fighting.”
The number of disparate policy and spending proposals crammed into the voluminous spending bill angered Dayton. He found 117 items he opposed in it. Legislators attempted to work through those concerns in the final days of the session and said they removed more than half the items Dayton found objectionable.
But Dayton suggested a political motive by House Republicans, who are defending their majority in this November’s election.
“They wanted to be at an impasse,” Dayton said. “They wanted to go out and blame on me everything people rightfully wanted and should have received.”
Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-Nisswa, said lawmakers added so many items in part because they were short on time but also to entice Dayton to pass it.
“In the end this time, nobody got what they wanted and Minnesota is the one that suffers,” Gazelka said.
Dayton has not yet made a decision on a public works infrastructure borrowing bill. It’s backed by $825 million in general obligation bonds and another $675 million from other accounts. It would fund repairs and construction of local roads, water systems and college and university buildings, and it includes money for school safety measures. To the frustration of DFL lawmakers, it does not include transit projects.
Dayton said again Wednesday that he would not call a special session to try to revive the tax or spending plans. But Dayton and Gazelka said they might be open to a special session after the November election, to try again to at least align the state tax code and its federal counterpart in hopes of easing the burden on filers next year.
Revenue Commissioner Cynthia Bauerly said Wednesday her office will update the tax filing system to accommodate the differences between state and federal tax laws. She said they will make sure taxpayers and others have the information and services they need to file.
Jessie Van Berkel writes about Minnesota government and politics at the Star Tribune. She previously covered St. Paul City Hall and local government in the south metro.
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Take Stock > News > Hensons Foodservice Unveils Salt Beef Sausage
Hensons Foodservice Unveils Salt Beef Sausage
Hensons Foodservice has launched a new and exciting product to satisfy demand for high quality, easy to prepare dishes.
The London-based catering butcher has incorporated its most popular product – its own salt beef – into a gourmet sausage.
Made with farm-assured salt beef and uncured beef, it has a very high meat content – 83 per cent – and a fat content of only 15 per cent. The sausage comes as a 6oz Cumberland-style ring as well as traditional linked 4s, 6s and 8s. Andrew Brook, Managing Director of Hensons, which is based around the corner from London’s famous Smithfield meat market, comments: “The salt beef sausage was born from a need for new and interesting, high-end products. Street food and pop up stalls have become increasingly popular over the past few years as people look for quality food on the go. Our aim is to introduce the sausage, a totally unique product, which incorporates traditional British fare, to this
new and emerging market.
“Salt beef and other popular British dishes are making a comeback as the country looks back to its food heritage. The salt beef sausage incorporates all of this history into a new form giving our customers the edge in the world of gourmet food on the go.
“We believe that our sausage satisfies the demand in the market, as it is easily prepared and tastes great with dill pickles and mustard in a hot-dog roll or burger bun. The combination of sharp and sweet flavours complement the meaty taste and firm texture.” The 6oz rings come in packs of 8 and the links are in 1.5kg packs.
For further information and to order, telephone Hensons on 020 7609 2299 or email sales@hensons.lls.com.
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Kubo Della-Piana, Connie
CONNIE KUBO DELLA-PIANA is Program Director of the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA.
Sources of Influence on the Problem of a Validity Evidence Gap for Education Achievement Tests
Gabriel Della-Piana, Connie Kubo Della-Piana & Michael K. Gardner - 2015
The authors build on previous scholarship describing signs that appropriate validity evidence for education achievement measures is either not gathered, not reported, or not accessible for independent review. The consequences are troubling for valid interpretation of test scores for evaluation of individuals, groups, or programs. Six potential sources of influence on the validity evidence gap for valid interpretation and use of test scores are explored: (a) the influence of demands on the test user for interpretation of test scores; (b) the challenges of professional standards in assigning responsibility for providing validity evidence and argument; (c) law and regulatory practices constraining validity evidence gathering; (d) technology constraints and opportunities on kinds of validity evidence gathered and accessible; and (e) effects of the new education industry on testing. The paper concludes with suggestions for developing case studies in responsible gathering of test validity evidence in the problematic contexts outlined, with the intent to promote dialogue on responding to the challenges of the influences on the validity evidence gap.
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Jewel Changi Airport's Canopy Park attractions now open to public
The final phases of Jewel Changi Airport, its Canopy Park and the Changi Experience Studio, opened to the public on Monday.
The Canopy Park attractions on the top level of Jewel include two mazes designed by British designer Adrian Fisher — the Mirror Maze and Hedge Maze, which cover 500sqm combined, and contain look-out platforms. The park also contains the 250m-long, three-storey-high, suspended Manulife Sky Nets which allow visitors to bounce their way through Jewel’s Canopy level. Other key attractions include the Discovery Slides, which is an art sculpture, playscape and a viewing gallery simultaneously, and The Canopy Bridge, which – with its a glass panel flooring suspended 23 metres above ground – provides visitors with a breath-taking view of the HSBC Rain Vortex and Shiseido Forest Valley that opened last month.
These attractions are interspersed between interactive garden spaces like the Foggy Bowls - a playing area enveloped in cloud – Topiary Walk - where visitors can come face to face with a herd of topiary animals – and Petal Garden, a 220sqm seasonal floral display.
Additionally, there is a communal event space called Cloud9 Piazza, as well as eight food and beverage outlets including Burger & Lobster and Tiger Street Lab.
Airport visitors can also visit the Changi Experience Studio, an aviation-themed attraction offering digital experiences on level four of Jewel. Managed by the Changi Airport Group (CAG), the studio uses a simple cardboard Travel Guide, which possesses state-of-the-art infrared and radio technology, to guide children and adults through interactive games, projection storytelling, immersive shows and gallery exhibits relating to the airport’s rich history.
Ms Hung Jean, chief executive officer, Jewel Changi Airport Devt, said: “We’ve been delighted and overwhelmed by the positive response from travellers and Singaporeans alike since Jewel Changi Airport’s initial opening in April.
“Jewel has already made a big impression, so we’re thrilled future visitors to Changi Airport can now also try out some - or all - of the exciting activities and attractions that both the Canopy Park and Changi Experience Studio have to offer.”
Tickets for the Canopy Park attractions and admission to the Changi Experience Studio can be purchased via www.jewelchangiairport.com. The Canopy Park entrance fee is SGD 5 (approximately £2.80), with access to selected attractions ranging from SGD 8 to 22 (approximately £4.60 to £12.60), while the Changi Experience Studio’s entrance fee is SGD 25 for adults (approximately £14.50) and SGD 17 for children (approximately £9.80).
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Fountains Of Dissent
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In 1932, the quiet Italian town of Ridona's sanitation works were unexpectedly re-routed to its system of ancient mannerist public fountains. For five days the public squares were abandoned as they became displays to the residents very public ablutions.
It remains undocumented what triggered this malicious action but there were speculations of a dispute between the town's Mayor and its fountain engineers who were unhappy with the prevailing right wing local government policies.
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Despite the inconvenience however, tourists from surrounding areas came to the small town in such vast numbers to see the vulgar displays that the Mayor decided to continue the activity in a select few fountains in a square away from market stalls, and prevailing winds. During festivals the local community had even come to agree a timetable of food choices known for their unique coloring after effects - bringing added spectacle to the fountains unsightly appearance.
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Historically it is not uncommon for towns and cities to become well known for the notorious reputations they gather through time. The favors of respected towns are more easily waylaid than one would imagine, and likewise many a wayward town's reputation has been restored after long distant atrocities slip from the collective memory, either with the passage of time or through deliberated plotting. In the years before the birth of the independent tourist guide, it is after all often mayors and town fathers that more often than not would set the agenda for what posterity would curate.
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Many of the first tourist guides found themselves persecuted and manhandled or worse tricked with an illusionary presentation of town life that would return to normality after they had left. Tourist guide writers were forced to go to such lengths to review a location unnoticed that they became many of the earliest adopters of crude cosmetic surgery to reshape their appearance convincingly. Despite elaborate tourist guide tracking services that were engaged in by cities and towns it became harder and harder to follow their movements. It was only then that the first true tourist guides emerged. The first identikits were doubtless those designed to annotate the characteristics of the average tourist guide.
It is unlikely in any case that Ridona's tourist guide will mention what became of that rebellious water engineer, whose remains to this day permanently flow around the city's water system as punishment.
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Outrageous Fortune ends with highest ratings (graph)
By regan
The final episode of Outrageous Fortune last night drew the series’ biggest ever audience with more than 725,000 Kiwis tuning in to see what would become of Cheryl and her Wests.
In the 5+ demographics, Outrageous Fortune took an 18.1 rating and a 40.8 share while in TV3’s current target demographic of 18-49, it was a 24.8 rating and a whopping 51.5% share.
Overall, the sixth and final season of Outrageous Fortune was also the best rating with a 27% increase on last season with the average audience per episode over the half million mark.
Check out our ratings graphic for all six seasons after the jump.
(High res versions of the following graphic are available on request)
Regan is one of the co-founders of Throng Media.
If they're on, I'm usually watching Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, 24, Battlestar Galactica, The X Factor, Survivor, House of Cards, Mad Men and the NRL.
AaronB
with those numbers it’s a shame it’s finishing after only 6 seasons. would be kinda cool to see some sort of spin off, maybe based on the ‘tool guys’????
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Its fantastic to see an NZ drama go out on a high for a change, but because of its popularity now wasnt obtaining more funding an issue for any future series?
Nice graph. Really nice graph.
Final series of 3's Outrageous Fortune launches with highest ratings ever
An Outrageous ratings Fortune for TV3
Last night's episode of Outrageous Fortune, TV3's biggest audience ever
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← New Article Calls for Removal of Electronic Cigarettes from Market With No Data to Substantiate Benefits of their Removal
Massachusetts Call to Action on E-Cigarette Tax Bill →
TOP 9 LIES TOLD BY US E-CIGARETTE COMPANIES
July 26th, 2012 | Current Issues, Electronic Cigarettes, Regulations: FDA etc., Snus, Snuff & Alternative Products in US Markets, Tobacco Harm Reduction | E-Cig Observer
Tobacco retailers and distributors have been regaling me with stories about their interactions with e-cigarette companies and brokers the past three years or so. As a result of these tales, I have put together a top nine list of the biggest lies told by e-cigarette interests to key members of the retail tobacco and smoking alternative supply chain.
1. We have our own patents. (OK- let’s see them- but don’t bother unless they’re US patents!!)
2. We don’t infringe on anybody else’s patents. (OK- let’s see the legal opinion and it better not be an opinion by your wife’s cousin who went to law school somewhere in the Caribbean. But, when all is said and done- only the courts will determine whether or not a product infringes.)
3. We will indemnify you in the case of litigation. (OK- just what does that mean? Will you cover the costs of litigation? Will you cover the cost of a settlement? Will you cover the cost of an adverse judgment? Do you expect to be in business three years from now when all of this legal and regulatory confusion is finally decided, provided it gets a speedy disposition?)
4. Our products are made in the US. (Where in the US? Can I see the factory? Are you making them here or just assembling them? [By the way, just because you get your nicotine from Dow Chemical doesn’t mean it was processed in the US.])
5. We guarantee our product. (What the hell do you guarantee? That it will sell? Do you guarantee its quality or safety, its shelf life? That it doesn’t infringe. That it won’t get banned by the FDA? I can’t get you to replace the defects I have already sent back to you!)
6. Consumers prefer our taste over all other e-cigs. (OK- let’s set up a focus group and prove it.)
7. Our products are FDA approved. (Right, in what parallel universe did some other FDA approve your product and nobody else’s product?)
8. We’re OK with the FDA because we don’t sell flavors. (There is no prohibition against flavors for e-cigs- THEY ARE CURRENTLY NON-REGULATED TOBACCO PRODUCTS! Whether you make and sell flavors today has no relevance as to whether you’re OK with the FDA.)
8. Dragonite/Ruyan- they’re the guys in China with the US patents- called us to tell us that our product does not infringe. (Right- because that’s what they do- Dragonite has its lawyers examine all e-cigs sold in the US, sue those that infringe and call the ones that don’t to assure them that they have nothing to worry about. See earlier comment about a parallel universe.)
9. Our batteries are safe. (No they’re not- not as long as they’re cheap small, powerful lithium batteries in a “disposable” product. Ever replaced your cell phone battery? $50-$60 bucks at the low end and they have been known to blow up. What do you think your $0.60 battery is likely to do under extreme conditions?)
This list is not meant to be an indictment of e-cigarettes, but an indictment of some of the clueless, deceptive folks who import them and then use any means necessary to get them placed at retail. Since first writing this, I have been besieged by e-mails informing me of other lies. So stay tuned for part two sometime in the future.
#1 Jason Healy on 07.27.12 at 2:21 PM
Very short and sweet, no opinion just pure facts. Love it and amazed someone hasn’t done it early, well done guys.
#2 Ssdf@sdf.com on 07.27.12 at 3:35 PM
I think the funnier facts are the so called “premium brands” when they all sell the same thing.
The list includes ten (not 9) purported lies (as two items are listed as number 8).
I’ve only heard several of these claims being made, but then again I rarely deal with e-cig sales reps, who (like sales reps for other products) often rely upon trashing their competition while making inaccurate and exaggerated claims about their own products).
Much of this will be irrelevant, however, if the FDA proposes (as it has repeatedly stated its intent to do) and then gives final approval to a “deeming” regulation that would apply Chapter IX of the FSPTCA to e-cigarettes (and other currently unreguled tobacco products).
Section 910 would ban the sale of all e-cigarette products that weren’t being sold in the US before February 15, 2007.
The non-face-to-face sales transaction regulations now being developed by the FDA could effectively ban all internet and mail order sales of e-cigs, and only their sale in brick-and-morter stores.
Section 911 would make it a federal felony for an e-cig manufacturer to truthfully claim that e-cigarettes
“are less hazardous alternatives to cigarettes” or even to truthfully claim they “are smokefree” or “don’t emit smoke”, because doing so would be an unapproved MRTP claim.
Other regulations in Chapter IX would significantly increase the price of e-cigarettes and create an e-cigarette oligopoly whereby several companies (who can most cost effectively comply with FDA regs) would replace the hundreds e-cigarette companies that now compete in market.
But instead of joining forces to expose and oppose these unwarranted, irrational and devastating “deeming” regulations, many e-cigarette companies have been instead endorsing and/or urging FDA to propose even more devastating and unwarranted regulations on e-cigarettes, including banning flavorings, banning additional forms of marketing, and having FDA conduct youth access sting operations against e-cig companies (despite no evidence that e-cigarettes are marketed to youth, and no evidence that youth are using e-cigarettes.
Bill, you are absolutely spot on. But, as the post exposes, many of these companies can’t be trusted. The industry requires some real leaders with real financial, legal and regulatory resources to step up, because the bad actors out there are not serving the best interests of the supply chain, the industry or the consumer. Lorillard’s entry into the fray is going to be good for all involved.
#5 Sambo on 07.28.12 at 10:10 AM
The entire e-cig industry is in its infancy and unregulated at this stage. Any and all claims for self promotion are fair game. Bigger lies have been told by the pharma, liquor and cigarette manufacturers. Don’t take offense at some schmuck trying to further his own business interests and making claims based on his level of intelligence. Laugh it off, live and let live! On a more serious note Lorillard forced blu to settle with Ruyan before buying them and has already prompted Ruyan’s lawsuits against the top 10. Lorillard’s entry will seperate the boys from the men and create the ” e-cigarette oligopoly” Bill refers to.
#6 LOU on 07.29.12 at 5:44 PM
Great comments Bill. Thank you. Jason appreciate your support of our blog’s openness to all to post relevancy!
Ecigs are Big Tobacco’s wet dream. Keeping people smoking where they normally cant so they can enjoy that first cowboy killer after work. Plus Ecigs make health claims Big Tobacco would get thrown in jail saying.
If I was running Altria I’d kiss every big player in that industry on the lips.
#8 Ray Story on 07.30.12 at 1:32 PM
The article was clear and factual. These new laws they speak about have actually been in the works for a long time. The TVECA has been talking and stressing to its members about age verification for a long time. Some people and brands want to use this as “today’s news”. By using a government approved age verification system, like Veratad, for non face to face transactions have been the TVECA’s goal for the last 2 years. The companies that now try to adhere to some regulation have been getting away without it for too long. Health claims have also been made daily by all these companies that don’t have a clue about this industry. Big tobacco nor big pharma will never just sit on the side lines and allow this to continue. An industry without regulation has no direction. As to financial, regulatory, and legal expertise, the TVECA has been a leader in these fields.
The TVECA.
#9 Sweetness on 08.01.12 at 12:36 AM
I think there are other ones that could be added. One that concerns me is the fact that many claim that e-cigarettes are safe. I don’t see now one can say that since long term use has not been achieved yet. I’m not denying the product is a leading offering that is of reduced harm but.just hate hearing this blind allegiance.
ecigs will be regulated by the fda, the price will rise, the states and the feds will tax them, and Dragonite will sue them. Right now this is a fad and it will take a few years for all that happen so sell away, but these will not be the golden eggs everyone thinks they are right now
#11 Bill Godshall on 08.13.12 at 3:52 PM
I once again strongly suggest that TVECA actually read and understand the regulations in Chapter IX of the Tobacco Control Act before endorsing those regulations (as the only way the FDA can ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors is to propose and subsequenty approve a “deeming” regulation that would apply Chapter IX regulations to e-cigarettes, and to also propose amending the 1996 Rule in Chapter IX, which currently only applies to cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, to also apply to e-cigarettes).
Seems like the TVECA has endorsed potentially forthcoming FDA regulations that would effectively ban the sale of products sold by TVECA members.
Perhaps Ray Story can explain that.
#12 Sweetness on 08.18.12 at 1:05 PM
Was thinking about this thought. Our ecigarette taste closest to the real thing. Well here’s an ashtray there buddy why not suck on that a bit. I would be wanting to say this thing really has a great taste and it works and it is refreshing also.
Bill, why can’t ecigs make the claim they are a safer alternative to cigarettes? Since you seem to know everything, maybe you can explain it to everyone here.
Bill? Bill? you there?
#15 SamboEciger on 09.18.12 at 10:12 AM
@OTP Kid. Here’s why the ecig industry cannot claim to be a safer alternative.
A few of them claimed to be a safer alternative in their early days, and had to stop, as the FDA wanted to regulate the product as a drug. Which meant all ecigs off the market till they run clinical trials costing millions of “buckaroos”. NJOY fought back in court and Judge Leon passed judgement against the FDA, but granted them the right to treat ecigs as a tobaccco product. So now the ecig industry can merrily chug along until FDA finds the time to start the regulation process. As far as your comment that this industry” is a fad”, many have stated this in the past, but the “consumer” who makes or breaks an industry is buying ecigs and helping double annual revenues. If you have not already done so, start vaping and help the ecig industry grow.
We will see how ecigs do when flavors are banned, taxes are imposed, and regualtory measures are implememted. In the meantime, it would be nice if we had less ecig sales people on the blog trying to sell their wares and more industry folks that knew what they were talking about on here.
#17 SamboEciger on 09.19.12 at 11:23 PM
@OTP Kid.
“Great comments Bill. Thank you. Jason appreciate your support of our blog’s openness to all to post relevancy.” This was a post on 7.29.12 by Lou who writes this blog.
FYI, Bill is a big supporter of Ecigs and was the one you were badgering for a response. And Jason is the CEO of blu ecigs.
What industry are you a part of?
As a parting comment I read a report by a reputable research company stating ” Ecigs revenues may exceed Cigarette revenues by the year 2020.” Maybe you should cross over to the Ecig industry.
#18 Ray Story on 09.20.12 at 4:34 AM
Reply to Sambo: On the history of the e-cig. Njoy was the first to try and claim a safer & healthier alternative that’s why their cartridges were sold in pill bottles. It was Smoking Everywhere that defeated the FDA and Njoy enjoined in that litigation on the FDA appeal and they changed their opinion. The TVECA is still changing laws and educating the public worldwide and making e-cigs legal as an alternative to conventional tobacco products.
The FDA will have to rely on industry leaders and special committees to set standards for e-cigarettes. Until then, it will be difficult to regulate this product more precisely with out defined parameters. We hope that all e-cigarette importers and manufacturers adhere to basic tobacco rules which will help the overall industry evolve. Age verification, advertising as well as child proof packaging are among the things to watch.
TVECA
@ Ray Story
Thanks for the post. The FDA has banned flavors in Cigarettes. Safe to assume they would adopt similar parameters for Ecigs?
The answer to OTP Kid’s inquiry is that e-cigarette companies can now (since they aren’t regulated by Chapter IX of the FSPTCA) truthfully their products are less hazardous than cigarettes without violating Section 911 of the FSPTCA.
What e-cigarette companies cannot legally claim is that their products provide therapeutic benefits, which is why they cannot legally claim (without receiving a warning letter from FDA) that they cure a disease or even that they are smoking cessation aids (as the FDA currently views nicotine dependence as a disorder, although I think even that claim could survive a legal challenge against FDA, which no e-cig company has chosen to do yet).
Regarding Ray Story’s posting, SE withdrew its lawsuit against the FDA during the summer of 2010 after the FDA appealed the case to the DC Court of Appeals.
NJOY continued the litigation, and won the case against FDA.
I strongly urge all e-cigarette companies to carefully read every clause of Chapter IX of the FSPTCA before commenting on the FDA’s stated intent of proposing/approving a “deeming” regulation (to apply Chapter IX to e-cigarettes).
Any competent e-cigarette company lawyer (and even incompetent lawyers) would strongly advice their e-cigarette company clients to strongly oppose this deeming regulation because it would decimate the e-cigarette industry.
#21 Ray Story on 09.20.12 at 4:49 PM
This must all be a dream BILL.
Walt Linscott, Lead Counsel for Smoking Everywhere
Smoking Everywhere, Inc. is pleased with the ruling issued today that its electronic cigarette should be legally viewed as a tobacco product. Smoking Everywhere has maintained that the appropriate marketplace for its electronic cigarette is the tobacco product marketplace not the “drug” marketplace as FDA has asserted. Smoking Everywhere’s electronic cigarette is designed to compete with traditional burned tobacco products. FDA has gone to great lengths to improperly cast the electronic cigarette into the drug marketplace but Judge Leon’s ruling properly focuses the review to the proper legal area. As the Judge stated in his ruling, “This case appears to be yet another example of FDA’s aggressive efforts to regulate recreational tobacco products as drugs or devices . . .[and] [u]nfortunately, its tenacious drive to maximize its regulatory power has resulted in its advocacy of an interpretation of the relevant law that I find, at first blush, to be unreasonable and unacceptable.”
Smoking Everywhere, Inc. believes its electronic cigarette plays an important role in bringing an alternative to the use of smoked tobacco by providing the effect of a traditional cigarette without the more than 4000 toxic and harmful compounds found in cigarette smoke. The company is hopeful that with the issuance of this ruling, the focus on the risk of its product can now properly turn to a comparison of its electronic cigarette to the appropriate tobacco product benchmark, the smoke producing lit cigarette.
Please note that the statement by Walt Linscott (posted by Ray Story) was issued back in January, 2010 when Judge Leon issued his ruling.
But as Ray and Walt both know, SE withdrew from its lawsuit against the FDA in the summer of 2010 after SE didn’t pay its legal bill, was sued by Walt Linscott’s lawfirm Thompson Hines, and hired new legal counsel.
#23 Sweetness on 09.27.12 at 12:20 AM
Ok here is a great new lie that is being touted. We reinvented the ecig and its revolutionary. Wonder what these guys are smoking.at times. It’s all a vapor screen to confuse the unintelligent. Actually this irritates the hell out of me. These folks just keep lying.
#24 Mark Del Monte on 01.10.13 at 8:50 PM
As opposed to the Big Tobacco and Big Pharma industries that never lied to us right ? I should have know these would be the responses I would find on a tobacco website. Amazing isn’t it that if these deeming regulations were to pass in effect banning E Cigarettes designed after 2007 and banning all online sales, we would be left with only the E Cigarettes sold in Gas Stations. Oh and lets see those brands consist of Blu Cigs (owned by big tobacco) and Njoy which is independently owned but rumored to possibly be bought by a tobacco company.
#25 AJ on 04.06.13 at 4:54 AM
You left out that traditional cigarettes cause cancer, lung disease, breast cancer & heart disease to name a few to not only the smoker but anyone around them. You should be praising anyone that in any big or small way try to sell and market a product that is clearly a safer alternative to those death sticks. Keep things in perspective. If your 16 year old child came home with a cigarette in their mouth, wouldn’t you rather it be an ecig? Seriously, whatever ecig bug bit you don’t let it impair or cloud your judgment. Ecigs maybe are not perfect but in many ways a robust start to oust one of the most nastiest plagues of disease this world has ever known. If you ever spent one minute around someone dying from cigarette smoking disease you would perhaps see things for what they really are.
#26 Robert Weiss on 05.10.13 at 10:29 AM
We at http://econsumerspot.com believe electronic cigarettes to be the future of smoking. The health benefits of eCigarettes outweigh any of the possible risks alleged by some authorities and politicians against ecigs. For smokers trying to give up conventional cigarettes they appear to be a safe and viable alternative.
#27 Jason Candri on 09.15.13 at 2:48 AM
Tobacco companies appear to be entering the ecig market themselves now. British American Tobacco for example has launched VYPE and has a big marketing drive in the UK at the moment.
#28 Jim on 10.27.13 at 12:12 PM
Yea the kiddies will try ecigs but if ecigs were banned they would go straight for tobacco cigs and that’s where it all begins ….the addiction.
I work at a university and noticed a drop in tobacco smokers and more ecig vapers. So I asked a few students “why the ecig?” ……..Most said safer than smoking without the worry of getting hooked ……..because they’re buying the “zero” nicotine strength.
Yes young people will experiment but the ecig could be an answer to help preventing a dangerous addiction, at least in my UN-scientific observations this seems to be happening
#29 Lea on 03.11.14 at 1:27 PM
In # 9 (should be 10) you compare the retail price of a cell phone battery at about 1600 to 2000 mah to the manufacturing price of a tiny 200 mah battery? No e-cig batteries sell for $0.60 and no cell phone battery costs $50 to manufacture. That’s like comparing the price of a car on a car lot to the cost of manufacturing an engine.
By reading your “lies”, I assume you own a gas station and have distributors trying to sell you disposable brands. Whatever. I own an e-cig store. I don’t sell those. If you don’t like it, then don’t sell them. Your rant is less about e-cigs and more about the distributors of the disposble brands.
PS – in my store, all the ingredients I buy to produce the e-liquid are GRAS (generally regarded as safe) by the FDA are approved for sale without regulation by the FDA and are all USP (US Pharma) grade approved. I have done much research before opening my store and the FDA that approved all 4 ingredients is in this universe.
#30 Dave Lindsay on 07.06.14 at 1:36 PM
E-Cigarettes save lives. End of Story ! I clear $1200 a week as a Union Electrician, and make the same amount per week selling a Top Brand e-cigarette ! My biggest customers are Trades People who want to QUIT Smoking Tobacco !
From Alberta(OILberta) Canada !
And I forgot, NOT one unsatisfied customer. I have to work with these guys, don’t forget!
#32 Dave Lindsay on 07.06.14 at 10:52 PM
I quit smoking TOBACCO on Feb. 26, 2014 and started vaping. Feel much better and wallet is FATTER !
#33 Really on 11.22.14 at 12:40 AM
Blow me. Remember the yellow bird in the garage?
#34 Dave Lindsay on 11.22.14 at 4:08 AM
Ha Ha Ha Ha !
The Tobacco Industry is RUNNING SCARED !
Too Bad, So Sad !
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Globally recognized for spearheading the Human Origins Revolution, he currently resides in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, with his wife Linda Smith. Working on his next book, he has been speaking worldwide with author events, interviews, lectures and conferences.
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My life and ambitions
Ever wonder how we got ourselves into this bottom feeder existence we call civilization? What is the covenant of Gaia? How do our extraterrestrial visitors play into this? What is their actual significance and who are the Corporate Titans of Orion? What is the connection with the Moorish Legacy and the Masonic Agenda? What is the true nature of our existence on this planet? How are the Sasquatch, the Krists and the Temple of Solomon relevant to our destiny in the modern world? Why are academic and religious perceptions of history so completely inaccurate? Why are we the constant target of human degradation? These questions and many more will be explored and answered by author and international speaker Richard Smith at your next event. Contact him today for a book signing or speaking engagement.
A brief history of my life
The things I could never live without
Love, *** (and lots of it), a beautiful view of the mountains, a walk along the beach to watch the waves roll in, reading, writing, art, film, lecturing, money (and lots of it), world travel, global revolutions and spiritual revelations.
My favourite books, TV, music, movies and food
Lord of the Rings, 2001, Alien, Prometheus, Gravity, The Matrix, Star Wars, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes, Michael Moore, George Carlin, Lewis Black, Eddie Griffin, Katt Williams, Gabriel Iglesias, Robin Williams, Italian food, Seafood, Mexican food
The coolest places I've visited
Adirondack Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, Smoky Mountains, Sandia Mountains, Roan Mountain in Tennessee, Clearwater Beach in Florida, Inn of the Mountain Gods in Ruidoso, the Buffalo Thunder Casino and Resort in Santa Fe, Sedona and the infamous Bradshaw Ranch in Arizona, Searsport along Route 1 in Maine, Nova Scotia in Canada, the famous Butterfly Museum in Florida, the giant glass pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee, Walt Disney World in Orlando, Orient Point on Long Island, New York, as well as anything north of Northern State Parkway on Long Island -- it's all beautiful up there where the rich people live.
In my free time I like to...
Write, paint, work out at the gym, work on my web site, watch movies, broadcast my radio show, manage my web design business -- I have plenty to keep me occupied. There is no such thing as free time for me.
Remember. Illuminate the mind. Cleanse the body. Liberate the spirit. Change your perspective.
"This world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles." - Harlan Ellison
Personal Mantra:
Those who preach about chaos will die by chaos and those who stand against an empty fear will live to see tomorrow for the meek shall inherit the land.
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India Nearly Doubled Its Solar Power Capacity In 2013
by John G Johnston on 01/21/2014
in Business, Politics, Technology
India nearly doubled its cumulative solar energy capacity to 2.18 gigawatts last year. The very populous nation added just over 1 gigawatt of solar power to its power grid in 2013. This is part of India’s goal to reach 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity by 2017, and doubling that to 20 gigawatts by 2022.
As part of the upcoming solar development, India is planning to build the world’s biggest solar power plant, in Rajasthan in the northwest of the country. India is hoping to set a worldwide trend of building large-scale solar power plants.
In terms of overall renewable energy capacity, India has grown its capacity from 4 gigawatts to 27 gigawatts during the past decade. Wind power accounts for around two-thirds of that capacity, which hydro and biomass making up about about 5 gigawatts combined.
It’s certainly encouraging to see signs of fast renewable energy development in India, and big plans for more, because demand for electricity is growing and more than half of the country’s electricity capacity still comes from coal-fired power plants. Imports of coal reached an all-time high last year.
However, in a good sign for the future, as Think Progress has pointed out, even Coal India (the largest coal company in the world) has started investing in solar power plants to cut costs. Even some fossil fuel giants are seeing the benefits of starting to move toward renewable energy.
Image: State of Gujarat, Gujarat solar park
Via Think Progress
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'''''Dragon Warrior''''', called '''''Dragon Quest''''' in Japan, is a role-playing game for the [[NES]] developed by [[Chunsoft]] and published by [[Enix]] in 1986.
My mother bought us Dragon Warrior and [[River City Ransom]] at a garage sale, and I found both games to be a lot of fun. Although, by today's standards, Dragon Warrior is a pretty dull game.
My mother bought us Dragon Warrior and [[River City Ransom]] at a garage sale, and I found both games to be a lot of fun. Although, by today's standards, Dragon Warrior is a pretty dull game. I spent a lot of time playing this at my cousin's house, and I remember my aunt, who is very religious, being very concerned about the game having a warlock in it.
==Status==
* There player sprite graphic changes when he's holding a sword, shield, and the princess. A nice touch.
* Showing the evil Charlock Castle surrounded by swamp in the distance is a nice way of letting the player imagine how awful it's going to be. Although, it create a plot hole: why doesn't Alefgard have boats?
* The ending fight is really great, and, despite it's age, the game has an enjoyable cut-scene.
===Bad===
* The save-the-princess trope wasn't quite as bad at the time, but it's embarrassing now. Especially since you have to literally carry Gwaelin all the way back to the castle causing her to professes her love to you (which she gives to you as a telepathic item). Interestingly, you can actually beat the game without rescuing her!
* Even with only a handful of items, several of them are useless like the Fighter's Ring, Cursed Belt, and Necklace of Death.
* The ending represent the only real role-playing element in the game, and it's pretty predictable.
===Ugly===
Dragon Warrior - NES - Map - Alefgard - Poster.jpg|Map poster.
Dragon Warrior - NES - Map - Monsters - Poster.jpg|Monster guide poster.
==Box Art==
Dragon Warrior - NES - Japan.jpg|The original Japanese box art really fits the game. with it's cartoonish style. The MSX port used the same art.
Dragon Warrior - NES - USA.jpg|The North American box art is much more heroic and grown up, and while Erdrick's descendant is spot on, the dragon's head looks more like an insect. Over all, I prefer the American box art.
Dragon Warrior, called Dragon Quest in Japan, is a role-playing game for the NES developed by Chunsoft and published by Enix in 1986.
My mother bought us Dragon Warrior and River City Ransom at a garage sale, and I found both games to be a lot of fun. Although, by today's standards, Dragon Warrior is a pretty dull game. I spent a lot of time playing this at my cousin's house, and I remember my aunt, who is very religious, being very concerned about the game having a warlock in it.
3 Documentation
4 Box Art
I have beat the NES game and maxed out my stats.
Overall: 4/10
The monster graphics are fantastic.
Even with the game's rather poor audio driver, the music is quite good. Enix was wise to hire a professional composer.
There player sprite graphic changes when he's holding a sword, shield, and the princess. A nice touch.
Showing the evil Charlock Castle surrounded by swamp in the distance is a nice way of letting the player imagine how awful it's going to be. Although, it create a plot hole: why doesn't Alefgard have boats?
The ending fight is really great, and, despite it's age, the game has an enjoyable cut-scene.
There isn't much to do in the game. If grinding wasn't necessary, you could talk to every NPC, collect every items, traverse every map, and beat the game in about an hour.
The combat is very basic. You can only attack, run, or cast one of six spells. Although, I tend to prefer this over games where combat is a convoluted mess of options.
The save-the-princess trope wasn't quite as bad at the time, but it's embarrassing now. Especially since you have to literally carry Gwaelin all the way back to the castle causing her to professes her love to you (which she gives to you as a telepathic item). Interestingly, you can actually beat the game without rescuing her!
Even with only a handful of items, several of them are useless like the Fighter's Ring, Cursed Belt, and Necklace of Death.
The ending represent the only real role-playing element in the game, and it's pretty predictable.
The game is painfully grind heavy. The designers would need to make enemies give about 10 times the experience they do to make the game bearable by today's standards.
Japanese manual.
Japanese manual (translated).
Adventure Guide.
Map poster.
Monster guide poster.
The original Japanese box art really fits the game. with it's cartoonish style. The MSX port used the same art.
The North American box art is much more heroic and grown up, and while Erdrick's descendant is spot on, the dragon's head looks more like an insect. Over all, I prefer the American box art.
Alefgard.
Alefgard, with labels.
Monsters.
Tantegel Castle.
Brecconary.
Erdrick's Cave.
Garinham.
Garin's Grave.
Swamp Cave.
Mountain Cave.
Kol.
Rimuldar.
Shrines.
Hauksness.
Cantlin.
Charlock Castle.
Alefgard, Original Japanese version.
Alefgard, MSX version.
mobygames.com/game/dragon-warrior - MobyGames.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest_(video_game) - Wikipedia.
vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Dragon_Warrior_(NES) - Music.
thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/index.php/Dragon_Warrior - NES Hacker Database.
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Bollywood Singer & Indian Idol Winner SREERAMA CHANDRA and Bhangra King JAZZY B to sizzle the audiences at VIBRANT BRAMPTON! | The Asian Connections Newspaper
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Bollywood Singer & Indian Idol Winner SREERAMA CHANDRA and Bhangra King JAZZY B to sizzle the audiences at VIBRANT BRAMPTON!
Posted in Community, Featured
Brampton, ON (July 9, 2019) – Downtown Brampton is once again all set to come alive to the sights and sounds of South Asian culture with Vibrant Brampton on July 27 and 28. Organized by the non-profit group Arts and Culture Initiative of South Asia (ACISA,) the 4th annual Vibrant Brampton will bring a fun-filled two-day festival to Rose Theatre and Garden Square on July 27 & 28 respectively.
An amalgamation of culture and diversity in Ontario, Vibrant Brampton promotes local talent and includes an exciting line-up of budding artists and well-known names in the entertainment industry that appeals to all – young and the young-at-heart.
“Vibrant Brampton aims to promote cross-cultural understanding with the hope of bringing a diverse community together in celebration of life, culture, art and tradition, says Svetlana Lazareva, Director Multicultural Relations.
The two-day festival will kick off on July 27th at Rose Theatre with SREERAMA CHANDRA Live-in concert along with several other artists performing including Indigenous arts showcase by award winning Canadian artist David R. Maracle and several other artists from different genres promising to make you sway to the diverse music and myriad performances. The Live-in concert at the Rose Theatre is a ticketed event starting from just $10. Tickets are available atwww.vibrantbrampton.ca
July 28th outdoor festival at the Garden Square is a free event and promises to bring an eclectic mix of programming that will include South Asian as well as artists from different ethnic backgrounds. The highlight of the outdoor festival is a live performance by the King of Bhangra – JAZZY B, along with his band of musicians, which will make the crowd dance and sing to hundreds of his foot tapping numbers.
Some of this year’s noted performances include acts from award winners Brampton Music Theatre, A New DAEI Group, Pan Fantasy Steel band and Neo House of Movement.
Canadian Bollywood rock band Lakhia Bros 2.0. is set to debut at the festival. Bollywood dance acts by Jadoo Entertainment & Linjo Brothers, traditional Chinese dragon dance by Lian Hua Arts, classical Indian dances by Mudra School of Arts, Shivanjali Dance Academy, Spandan Kala, and Sampradaya Dance. Canadian Pakistani music group R&B United, Bangladeshi dance by Nritto Kala Kendra and Guinness world record holder Punjabi bhangra and gidha (Punjabi folk dances) group, Nachdi Jawani are some of the 200 plus local performers at this year’s festival.
“Dance to the beats of Bollywood or sway to the diverse music from rest of the world or get a taste of the mouth-watering cuisines from South Asia, Mexico, Middle-East and North America or buy a souvenir, it will be a day to remember”, says Ricky Bajaj, Founder & President of the non-profit festival.
ACISA’s mandate is to promote the diversity of South Asian art forms; break cultural barriers; imbibe the evolving cultural values of Canada; and communicate and share the philosophy of diversity” as quoted by board Chair, Sandeep Prabhakar.
The non-profit group, ACISA also hosts annual Visual Arts of South Asia (V.A.S.A) arts festival –www.vasaartsfestival.cafor visual art lovers and META Brampton- www.metabrampton.ca, a unique digital music & media festival catering to the millennials.
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Posts Tagged ‘Russell Crowe’
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RUBBER DUCKIE OF THE HIGH SEAS
November 14th, 2003 | by Tom
(13 votes, average: 8.38 out of 10)
In case you’re not grabbing the reference in today’s comic, I’m spoofing Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
[There was more to this blog post because I believe this was my 200th comic, but data was lost when we moved the site into WordPress in Jan. 2009 – Tom]
└ Tags: anniversary, Captain Aubrey, HMS Surprise, Master and Commander, Mister Quackers, rubber duckie, Russell Crowe
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TASTY FISTBISCUITS
June 3rd, 2005 | by Tom
(1 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)
I wish I could claim the idea to re-interpret Cinderella Man as Fistbiscuit was totally my own, but I’ll be honest and admit that I gleamed the moniker from early reviews of the movie. If you’re scouring the internet today gathering up your own reviews, you’re more than likely to come across it.
I guess that’s why I decided to steer things in a totally absurd direction with today’s comic. That, and because the idea of an exceptionally salty snack cracker called “Fistbuscuits” was utterly hilarious to me. Should I put it on a shirt? Maybe I should start a band with Mitch Clem and we can call ourselves “The Fistbiscuits.”
What do you suppose the producers of the film expect when it comes to parallels to Seabiscuit? There are only so many underdogs of the depression era you can capture to celluloid before people start making comparisons.
If nothing else, The Great Depression must have been just as bad as Grandpa described – if not worse – if the downtrodden citizenry of the country was willing to slap the label “NATIONAL HERO” onto anyone who could scrounge up the most marginal of success.
“He won a horse race! HERO!”
“He won a boxing match! HERO!”
Either things were really, really bad standing in those soup lines, or people of the 1930’s had exceptionally low standards.
I’m excited to see Cinderella Man partially based on all of the good press it’s been getting. But also because I’m a fan of boxing movies and the clich
└ Tags: Cinderella Man, Fistbuscuit, random, Russell Crowe, Seabiscuit, snack cracker, sodium, Toby Maguire, zing
June 6th, 2005 | by Tom
I don’t know if today’s Webcomics List incentive sketch is misogynistic, but when the last panel of your comic is a guy with boxing gloves on and Betty Boop standing next to him… well, you can draw your own conclusions.
At any rate, Theater Hopper shot up the charts last Friday and has taken a firm grip on the number two slot. Should we see what happens if we shoot for Number 1?
For the record, Theater Hopper does not advocate physical violence against animated characters from the 1930’s.
For more fun with Betty Boop, check out this gallery site featuring the artwork of Michael Paulus. He took the renderings of popular animated characters and drew their skeletal structures based on their overlying anatomy. It’s creepy and educational all at the same time!
Cami and I saw Cinderella Man over the weekend and I have less to say about it than I thought I would. The movie was serviceable and entertaining. The boxing scenes are particularly powerful. And despite it’s near two and half hour running time, it moves along at a pretty good clip.
I will, however, contend that a sub-plot involving Jim Braddock’s dockworker friend and lightweight political activist Mike Wilson could have been jettisoned completely. The only reason it was included in the film was to give Ren
└ Tags: Betty Boop, Cinderella Man, Jim Braddock, performance, Renee Zellweger, Russell Crowe
WHEN’S LUNCH?
September 10th, 2007 | by Tom
Today’s comic is based on a real-life conversation over 3:10 to Yuma. I had made plans to see the film late Friday night after we put Henry down to sleep. Cami had no interest in the film and asked half-heartedly, “So, when does ’21 to Chalupa’ start?”
I can understand if she was confused. After all 3:10 to Yuma is a western and a chalupa is… well, kind of Tex-Mex? Odds are she was just yanking my chain. Either way, it was too cute not to include in the comic. Of course, Cami getting the titles to movies wrong isn’t anything new.
Incidentally, the little double-barrell pose I put Cami in for the second panel is now my new favorite rendition of her.
So, anyway. What did I think of 3:10 to Yuma? I’d have to say overall that I liked it, but I had a few problems with the ending that left a slightly bitter taste in my mouth. You know how it is with endings. You could watch a two-hour suck-fest, but if the ending is killer that’s all you end up talking about. The opposite holds true. You can watch the best movie on two-legs, but if the ending falls flat, it’s going to leave an unfavorable impression. At the movies, last impressions count for a lot. That’s certainly the case with 3:10 to Yuma.
The move does more than a few things right. The casting is top notch. Russell Crowe and Christian Bale deliver excellent performances, as always. But the supporting cast is just as good. Peter Fonda as a Pinkerton agent Crowe’s character shoots in the gut after a stagecoach robbery is all flinty determination. Ben Foster as Crowe’s mad dog right hand gun commands the screen with scrappy, stylish authority. They even put Luke WIlson to good use in a brief cameo. All of the performances save for Logan Lerman as Bale’s impatient, hateful son hit all of the right notes.
The fact that the movie is a western is almost beside the point. The horses and the dust, the saloons and the bar maids are all dressing for what otherwise would have worked as effectively as a modern-day police procedural. The plot is simple: Russell Crowe plays the outlaw Ben Wade. He and his gang knock over an armored stagecoach. Later, while celebrating in town, Wade missteps by staying too long to bed the local bar maid. Now it’s up to an unlikely group of men to transport him to the nearest railroad station to put him on a train to a nearby prision – the 3:10 to Yuma. Bale’s Dan Evans is a rancher who lost his leg in the Civil War. He needs money to help pay off the last of his mortgage and protect his way of life. For him, the journey is as much about money and ensuring his family’s survival as it is reclaiming the dignity taken from him.
Any of this could have been easily updated to the present day. Where the movie shines is in the psychological conflict between Wade and his captors. When Crowe and Bale match wits on screen, it’s electric.
Things come down to the wire as Wade’s gang catches up to the group as they wait for the train to arrive. But as members of the posse peel away under the threat of certain death, only Bale sticks to his convictions. He has much more to lose than just his life. As the train approaches and captor and prisioner race toward the train, Crowe’s character beings to show signs of respect to the tenacious Bale.
Unfortunately, it’s at this part that the movie begins to fall apart for me. Obviously I won’t spoil the ending for you. But there are decisions that Crowe’s character makes that feels inconsistent with all of the behavior he exhibited in the first two hours. The end of the movie felt thrown together to me or at least not as well thought out as the rest of it. When it ends, it just ends. And not in a way that makes you think. Unless their goal was to make you think “Did they run out of film? Did the reel break?”
Based on the performances, it’s hard to discount 3:10 to Yuma for it’s short comings. I enjoyed the film and would encourage others to see it. I guess there were just too many times during the last act where I felt I was being tweaked and it stuck with me. I certainly don’t think that the people who have claimed 3:10 to Yuma as the best western since Unforgiven know what they’re talking about. But if you’re looking for a few sharp action pieces, this film has it. If you want a little psychological drama thrown in for shading, it’s got that, too. And most of all, it’s got great performances. So see it and judge for youself.
We’ll be talking about 3:10 to Yuma tonight on The Triple Feature talkcast over at TalkShoe. We broadcast live at 9:00 CST, so be there will bells on. We’ll also be talking about Shoot ‘Em Up – another movie I saw this weekend (and one I’ll have a comic for on Wednesday). Who knows what else will come up.
So be sure to tune in live! We’ll see you then!
└ Tags: 3:1o to Yuma, Chalupa, Christian Bale, hungry, lunch, Russell Crowe, Taco Bell
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Review: Tennessee Deep Cuts
The Tennessee Williams canon of work is stellar but the same few plays seem to continually receive life. When the deep cuts get an opportunity to return to the stage, it's appreciated. In Nu.ance Theatre's latest production, directors John DeSotelle and Judith Feingold offer two Williams' one acts, This Property is Condemned and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen. Is there a reason why these plays remain seldom produced? Are they difficult? Are they just not that good? Nu.ance Theatre goes on a mission to prove their worth despite getting the label of unactable.
First up is the youthful two-hander, This Property is Condemned. In This Property is Condemned, a young girl and boy meet on the railroad tracks and discovery the troubles of poverty and loneliness. Orphaned Willie, a broken belle, walks the tracks with her damaged doll when innocent school-skipping Tom and his kite find her. What ensues is the discovery of Willie's awful life, being thrust into adolescence alone and her ensuing reputation. Emily Desotelle as Willie takes on a mini Blanche type role, decked out with debutante attire and of course, pearls. The majority of the piece focused on Willie giving Alex Scully's Tom little to do but help propel Willie's tale forward. Desottelle has a youthful charm to her so some of Willie’s exclamations are jarring. But that’s the story that Williams’ wrote. Simplicity is key in You-Shin Chen’s scenic design. With a stunning piece of art that captures the lights wonderfully and the imagination of a long train track, the less is more approach allowed for the astute focus. Jude Hinojosa was able to capture the essence of the South in Willie but something seemed off in Tom’s attire.
On a fitting night when the rain and thunder pours down on a muggy New York summer eve, Talk to Me Like the Rain, and Let Me Listen gets a natural soundtrack against the scene. Talk to Me is certainly a showcase of Williams' poetic style. The piece follows a couple who are disconnected in time and place. The piece is virtually broken into two distinct monologues, one for Man and one for Woman. When the other is not speaking, the other is isolated to either the bed or the chair. Due to the nature of the piece, a trouble arises. A natural divide by both character and actor. Poetic monologues can sometimes be difficult to find the truth against the naturalistic scene. Annie R. Such as Woman found some stunning moments in her silence but her wordy address was a bit repetitive. Erik Endlsey as Man lost authenticity due to the dialect. Such's voice came natural, Endsley’s was a bit forced. Chen’s design for this one act was simple as well but added the layer of marvel. The other added difficulty the piece provided was the barrier caused by the rain effect. At first, it offered a stunning visual. As it continued on throughout, occasionally picking up tempo, it caused a bit of a distraction. With the monotony of language and southing sound of rained, it’s easy to check out. And with the rain in between the actors and audience, the disconnection theme continues. Rather than a wall, perhaps a simple window with the rain streaming down could have done the trick.
Nu.ance Theatre’s resurrection of the Williams’ one acts is noble and fitting to be paired with one another. They both offer further proof of the brilliance that is Tennessee Williams. The attraction is the language, not the wow factor. It was proven in This Property is Condemned. When the wow got in the way, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, it diminished the beauty.
Posted by Michael Block at 12:26 PM
Labels: Condemned, NuAnce Theatre, Review
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NBA LIVE 19 - Game Update 1.15 Now Available
Game update 1.15 is now available for NBA LIVE 19.
This update adds in the Nike City Edition uniforms, addressed the ability of defensive players to properly contest shots based on position, fixed mentality trait and Icon issues, and more.
Continue on to see the full list of disclosed additions within this game update. ...
A new game update (1.07) is now available for NBA LIVE 19 and features several items highly requested by the community.
Some of the highlights of this update include player editing within Franchise Mode, the ability to shootaround with your created player on your ONE Court, additional signature shots, increased Stamina effects, and much more.
Not included in the patch notes is that if your player becomes too tired, they will not be able to get a perfect 'green release' shot.
Continue on to see the full patch notes courtesy EA SPORTS. ...
Just one day after the release of game update 1.05, game update 1.05 is now available for NBA LIVE 19.
This update tunes the defensive shot impact when contested, added offensive and defensive stat tracking to the Live Run leaderboard, addressed numerous stability issues, and more. Additional updates are still expected over the next week or so based on tweets from some ...
Game update 1.04 is now available for NBA LIVE 19 and comes in at over 4.3 GB in size.
Gameplay improevements include improved defensive positioning to cover to Roller off screens (noted as still a work in progress), improved transition defense & switching, as well as addressing 'warpy' players as they go towards the rim.
Other areas of focus include Court Battles rule updates, online matchmaking updates, online leaderboard updates, player likeness updates, additional commentary, as well as additional bug fixes.
Additional updates are expected for NBA LIVE 19 over the next week or so according to Producer Mike Mahar. The patch notes shared on Reddit state that additional WNBA facescans are coming soon.
Continue on to read the full 1.04 update patch notes. ...
NBA LIVE 19 Blog Talks One-on-One Improvements
EA SPORTS has released a new blog detailing the one-on-one off-ball controls in NBA LIVE 19. These moves can beneficial when playing off-ball in modes such as The One and LIVE Run to help you to be a better off-ball defender and offensively get open for a wide-open shot or to attack the rim.
NBA LIVE 19 is now available on EA Access and will be officially released on Friday.
Continue on to see the moves explained the blog in a convenient table to help you learn and utilize them in-game. ...
NBA LIVE 19 - Court Battles
At the NBA LIVE 19 Launch Party, EA SPORTS revealed the big new feature coming to the title this year, Court Battles.
In Court Battles, users will take their created court and build one squad to defend it and another attacking unit they will play with to try and 'claim' other courts. Users can set their own rules and handicap for their court in an effort to make it more difficult for others to win there and 'claim' it.
Continue on to see the reveal trailer and excerpts of the official blog detailing the mode. ...
NBA LIVE 19 Launch Party to Unveil Court Battles
Friday night, EA SPORTS will be hosting an invite only Launch Party for NBA LIVE 19 from Goya Studios in Hollywood, CA. During this event there will be a Celebrity 3v3 Tournament and Dunk Contest. However, the highlight of the night will be the reveal of a new game feature, Court Battles.
Hosted by Devin Booker and featuring musical guests Nipsey Hussle and Nav, the party will take place from 6-11 PM PT with at least some of the event livestreamed. The Court Battles reveal will take place at 9 PM PT. ...
NBA LIVE 19 Companion App Now Available
The NBA LIVE Companion App has now been updated for NBA LIVE 19. This means GameFace HD scans taken with the app will import into the demo (available Friday) and retail versions of NBA LIVE 19.
Click the proper link to get the app: Google Play - Apple Store
Users can scan their face, including the ability to rotate and view results, along with editing basic player info such as name, hometown, and desired NBA team.
Continue on to see a quick video on how to get the best facescan possible. ...
EA SPORTS Announces NBA LIVE 19 Soundtrack
EA SPORTS has announced the 20 songs that will comprise the NBA LIVE 19 soundtrack.
Artists on the soundtrack include J. Cole, Migos, Nipsey Hussle, Big Sean, Thutmose, Jay Critch, and Rico Nasty. Click here to listen to the soundtrack on Spotify.
According to the blog, there 'might' be updates to the soundtrack throughout the season. Continue on to see the soundtrack listing. ...
NBA Live 19 Demo Details, Coming August 24
Details on the content of the upcoming NBA LIVE 19 demo have been revealed via the EA Help website.
The Rise (opening chapters of The One), Live Events, Practice Mode, and Drills will be the highlights of the demo. Once users complete two games of The Rise they will be able to play NBA (Golden State vs. Boston) or WNBA (Los Angeles vs. Minnesota) games. Breaking from the last two years, the demo will not contain Live Run. Two modes that have yet to be discussed pre-release will also be excluded, Franchise Mode and Ultimate Team. H2H and Court Battles (a new feature yet to be detailed) will also not be in the demo.
The EA SPORTS NBA LIVE Companion (FaceScan) App is expected to be available before the release of the demo. Users can then import a scan for their created player and get them to as high as Level 20 in the demo.
The official EA SPORTS NBA Twitter account says that the demo will be available for all at 12 AM ET Friday. What do you think of the demo's format? Is there too much locked? Unlocked? What would you change? Continue on to see the full details of the LIVE 19 demo. ...
NBA LIVE 19 Adds Court Creator
NBA LIVE 19 will feature a Court Creator feature for users to personalize and customize 'The One Court.' This court will be used for Drills, Shootaround, and Scrimmage, among other features.
While users will not be able to upload custom images, there will be a significant amount of customization options including name, location, floor material, court graphics, floor paint, court text, equipment colors, and more. Full-court graphics will include designs of NBA/WNBA players and designs from artists.
Continue on to see the Court Creator trailer and click here to read the blog from Designer Lawrence Forrester. ...
NBA LIVE 19 Adds Female Create-a-Player
Building off of the WNBA being included in last year's title, EA SPORTS has announced that NBA LIVE 19 has added the ability for users to create a female player that can be used in all game modes except for The One. Not only will users be able to scan a female face via the GameFaceHD app, but the game will offer in-game clothing and items for both males and females, including some specific to just the ladies.
Females players will be able to progress their players as high as their male counterparts so they can hold their own and prove themselves on the sticks - not hindered by a ratings cap. However, WNBA players will still have their realistic rating levels.
Continue on to see the announcement trailer and to learn about the female player types users can choose upon creation. ...
NBA LIVE 19 Offers Pre-Order Discount for Returning Players
EA SPORTS has announced that those who own NBA LIVE 18 will be able to pre-order NBA LIVE 19 for 33% off, making it cost just $40. These pre-orders must be done digitally on PSN or XBL in-game on NBA LIVE 18 via an in-game menu panel. Community members have also noticed that EA Access (XB1) users can get an additional discount, making the XB1 version cost approximately $36.
Everyone who pre-orders the game will receive 'The One Edition' which includes the following cover athlete Joel Embiid signature items: Squad Player, Jersey, Gold Shoes, Gold Basketball, Signature Celebration, Customized Court. These items can be seen below:
It is unclear at this time if all purchasers of the game, regardless of timeframe, will receive these items. At this time, EA has only stated that pre-orders will. ...
NBA LIVE 19 Cover Athlete is Joel Embiid
Revealed during the 2018 NBA Awards, the Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid will be the NBA LIVE 19 cover athlete.
Embiid made the All-Star Team for the first time in 2018 and also led the 76ers to their first playoff appearance since 2012. He is known for his memorable social media presence, not afraid to take jabs at others in the league.
Continue on to read the full press release from EA SPORTS. ...
NBA Live 18 - Game Update 1.11 Adds All-Star Content & More
NBA Live 18 game update 1.11 is now available and adds in 2018 All-Star Game content, gameplay tuning, playstyle improvements, updated rosters, All-Star content to Ultimate Team, as well as some player likeness updates.
The updated player likenesses are not mentioned in the patch notes, but screenshots and social media posts from developers and community members have highlighted visual improvements and changes to players such as LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Lonzo Ball, D'Angelo Russell, and Rip Hamilton. It also updates the Bucks with new head coach Joe Prunty.
Also, NBA LIVE 18 is currently available for PS Plus members (PS4) for just $4.49 through 2/20/18.
Continue on to read the patch notes from EA SPORTS and to see images from this content and roster update. ...
Coming in at 1.5 GB, the patch notes focus on improving online latency, LIVE Run lobbies, as well as bug fixes.
Unlocked as part of the update but not included in the patch notes are the 'City' uniforms for New York and Toronto.
Continue on to see the patch notes courtesy EA SPORTS. ...
NBA LIVE 18 - Game Update 1.08 Adds Player Editing
Perhaps the most requested community request for NBA LIVE dating back to the previous console generation, roster editing has been added to NBA LIVE 18 as part of game update 1.08.
Available in the front-end menu, users can edit ratings, accessories, bio, contract info and more for each existing player. Users can also create up to 135 created players, edit players in the free agent pool, make roster moves such as trading and cutting players, and import a roster file into Franchise Mode.
Some limitations of the feature include an inability to share roster files with others, edit player names, have rosters larger than 15 players, along with no roster editing once within Franchise Mode.
Several new modes and features have been added to NBA LIVE 18 post-release. Previous game update 1.07 added a 3v3 mode within Live Run.
Continue on to check out the roster editing blog and video from EA SPORTS. ...
NBA LIVE 18 Game Update 1.06 is now available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
This update adds Xbox One X support, general stability fixes, and #LIVESTRIKE. No information or details have been released on #LIVESTRIKE at this time.
Continue on to see the brief patch notes released by EA SPORTS. ...
Game update 1.05 is now available for NBA LIVE 18. The update provides tuning to several gameplay aspects while adding in a new lobby for The League games and new First Take videos in The League as the user approaches the All-Star Game and Playoffs, among other improvements and additions.
The update also provides updated face scans/appearances for players such as Carmelo Anthony, Josh Jackson, Kevin Love, Malik Monk, and Frank Ntilikina.
Continue on to read the patch notes from EA SPORTS as well as to view images of updated player likenesses included in the update. ...
NBA LIVE Mobile - Season Two Update
While the official start for season two of NBA LIVE Mobile is still weeks away, EA SPORTS will be unveiling some of the upcoming season two programs alongside the start of the 2017-18 NBA season.
On NBA Opening Night - October 17 - an eleven-challenge event will be available for users to earn collectibles that can be used for a King of the Court pack, which guarantees a 94+ OVR player. New events will be added each day until the new season launches.
Continue on for the full blog from EA SPORTS discussing the upcoming second season of NBA LIVE Mobile. ...
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Scarlett Johansson – Canadian Immigrant?
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In the movie “The Proposal” Ryan Reynolds plays an American who works for a Canadian (Sandra Bullock) working illegally in the USA who needed an immigrant visa, and ended up proposing to Ryan Reynolds in order to become an American immigrant.
In real life, Ryan Reynolds is a Canadian who married an American. Likely Ryan Reynolds is the American immigrant, although Scarlett Johansson is eligible to become a Canadian immigrant, and if so, she will be a famous Canadian immigrant, but then why would she bother?
Ryan Reynolds was born in British Columbia, Canada and was reportedly dating Alanis Morissette, a Canadian singer for 4 years, before their breakup in 2007.
Two years ago, Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johannsen sealed their marriage with a 3 carat diamond ring with a value of $30,000. on Dec. 15, 2010, an announcement was made about the couple’s decision to divorce.
Photo above shows the 3 carat diamond engagement ring on Scarlet Johansson’s finger.
What made the divorce more touching is that the couple was married in Tofino, British Columbia at the Clayuquot Wilderness Resort, a very exclusive retreat in Vancouver Island, which is only reachable by boat.
In addition to the Canadian connection, both Scarlet Johansson and Ryan Reynolds are low key personalities, which are distinctly “Canadian” characteristics.
Canadians are polite and are known to leave their celebrities in peace. Celebrities can be safe wandering around town in their hats and sunglasses acting like ordinary Canadians.
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Director Peter Strickland
Written By Peter Strickland
Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Gwendoline Christie, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Caroline Catz, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram, Hayley Squires
Release 28 JUL (UK) Certificate 15
Matt Looker
For a film that is so focused on the feel of a material and the brush of fabric on skin, writer-director Peter Strickland seems determined to make his story as intangible as possible. In essence, it’s about a haunted dress. It’s often creepy, frequently thought-provoking and sometimes actually quite hilarious, but it is still, at its centre, a film about a really, really sinister frock. That said, it’s never actually scary. There are no jumps or shocks. This is a ghost story that wants you thinking about touching cloth without ever making you do so.
While other recent surreal horror movies focus on eerie tones and moods - Suspiria And Mandy come to mind, possibly because those are the last films I’ve seen that very broadly sit in this same sub-genre - they do still usually track a certain degree of progress. There’s a hint of plot that helps you cling to a narrative. Here though, the semblance of story that exists takes a backseat to style and convention, and Strickland somehow manages to pack a lot into the film but also a whole lot of nothing.
Literally nothing to see here.
There’s kitchen-sink drama in single mum Sheila competing for her son’s affection with antagonistic girlfriend Gwen (played by Game Of Thrones’ and Star Wars’ Gwendoline Christie, whose previous credits clearly account for her name appearing at the top of some promotional materials despite relatively little screen-time). There’s also the hint of an otherworldly witches coven operating out of a retro department store (hello, Croydon!) that provides the film’s most satisfying moments of true cult horror. And then there’s a comedy duo in Julian Barratt and Steve Oram, two overly familiar bank managers who appear to take pride in wanting to know personal details about everybody in their community.
It feels as though the film has accidentally explored a different tangent
The broad range of characters and set-up certainly aren’t a hindrance to the film’s achievements. If anything it all adds to the intrigue surrounding a plot that constantly feels deliberately just out of reach. Without giving too much away though - partly for fear of spoilers and partly because it’s frankly impossible - In Fabric suffers from one major flaw. It’s one that, even while the film’s appeal so clearly depends on audience tastes, seems to be an objective error of judgement.
At about the halfway point, Strickland’s narrative loses its way, switching its primary focus from being on the dress to following the day-to-day life of a new character who gets introduced halfway through. It all stitches together at the end for a rather satisfyingly chaotic and twisted climax, but there’s certainly approximately 20 minutes in the middle of the film where it feels as though the film has accidentally explored a different tangent.
"Come back, evil evening gown! We miss you!"
So, I guess what I’m saying is, I have no problem with bizarre, ethereal films that look to invoke an atmosphere rather than tell a specific story. And I have certainly no problem for such a film to be based around some very menacing clothing, because the importance we place on clothing and the emotional values we often attribute to them are definitely interesting concepts worthy of exploring.
But for Strickland to have chosen this subject matter, and to have placed such emphasis in particular on the tactility of textiles, it’s seems a huge shame that, for a very brief moment along the way, he somehow managed to lose his thread.
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Gone With the Wind: Four Total Homeruns in Breezy Double Header
It's one thing to get the wind knocked out of you, it's another to have it knocked into you.
It was a cool and breezy day at Ridgewood field for Saturday's double header. The games were originally scheduled for Douglas but the field was taken. Following a dry week weather wise, Ridgewood was playable. The only issue was a giant puddle behind home plate.
But the weather was no doubt a factor in the contest with wind gusts surpassing 30mph. The wind had a significant impact on team defenses but the wind was also carrying out towards the outfield. That, coupled with Ridgewood being a small field than Douglas, resulted in 4 total homeruns between the two games.
In game 1, it was the Crushers hosting the Playaz. But it was the Crushers who were crushed. The Playaz topped the Crushers 30-16 led by 4 RBI by Anthony Reese, Tony Lopez and Mike DeWitte. In fact, every member of the 13 player squad had at least one RBI except for one player. Every player came around to score at least once. Dewitte in addition to his 4 RBI had 3 doubles while going 4-5 with 2 runs scored. A mercy rule almost ended the game early but the Crushers kept the game close enough to go the full 7 innings. The Playaz had 7 total extra base hits.
The Crushers certainly did not lack offense though scoring 16 runs. Scott Raes, Tim DeBroeck and Rich Hoxie all had a homerun in the game. Hoxie led the team with 4 RBI. Raes, DeBroeck, Anthony Sandoval and DJ Jarvis all had a pair of RBI. Unfortunately despite the 3 homeruns, it was not enough to top the overwhelmingly strong Playaz offense.
The Playaz moved to 4-3 on the year. The Crushers moved to 3-3. Game 1 featured 27 total players; the Playaz with 13 and the Crushers with 14. Every single player in game 1 for both teams had at least one hit.
In game 2 the wind did not die down, though the sun disappeared making conditions a bit cooler. Nine players left after game 1 leaving game 2 with an even 9 on 9. The Phenoms took on the High Rollers and the Phenoms continued to struggle moving to 1-5 on the year and falling to the High Rollers 21-3 in five innings due to the mercy rule.
The High Rollers came out on all cylinders with 7 total extra base hits including a homerun by Jared Hurlbut. Hurlbut finished the game 5-5 with 5 RBI and 3 runs scored. Dewitte, Tim DeBroeck and Derek Rotz all had a pair of RBI in the contest. Rotz also tripled in the game.
The offense (and defense) for the Phenoms was sluggish. The team combined for just 9 total hits and 3 runs scored. Four out of the nine players came away with no hits.
The High Rollers improved to 2-3 with the win.
Another pair of games is slated for Sunday afternoon at Douglas Park at 11:30am. The High Rollers are set to take on the Goonies in game 1. The Gremlins will play at the Crushers in game 2. Another cool breezy day is forecasted for Sunday with highs topping out under 60 and wind gusts potentially reaching 20mph. The wind will be less powerful on Sunday than they were for Saturday. It should be another clear day however.
UPDATE: **Read a recap of Sunday's games here**
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TALES FROM KYRGYZSTAN Vol. 2- CORPORATE “ONE TALK”
Posted on Thursday, 1st August - 2013 , in ANALOGIES & STORIES and OPINIONS and ADVICE & TIPS and INSIGHTS, by Dr Garry Richards OAM FAIM
Wanna do a great job of buggering up your management? Read on!
(Compulsory pre-reading: Chapter 1)
The Soviet Empire of the 20th Century had a vast and powerful influence and was focused and single-minded in its plans for its global corporation. Great stuff…but it disappeared!
How can such a huge empire collapse so dramatically? Well here’s an insightful lesson from the Kyrgyzstan Soviet Republic.
During the Soviet era it wasn’t a bad thing to be Russian in Kyrgyzstan…The leadership of the 75% Kyrgyz people and some other bits (Tajiks etc.) was overwhelmingly Russian and Russian values and plans and thinking prevailed.
Management got drawn from people who thought like a Russian. Which of course was most of the Russians and a few Honorary Russians (i.e. adaptable Kyrgyz who thought like Russians). – hmmm delete the word Russian and insert your own word for companies you have seen where managers only promote people who think like the managers themselves…It’s very familiar!
Well, after a while all thinking is the same…Everything was done the same: Architecture, systems, etc. are just endlessly the same… So if those systems and designs and materials are poor – then it’s poor everywhere. (See Chapter 1)
It had to end. And it did. The USSR collapsed. And the independent Kyrgyz Republic was created…stuffed to the gills with Russian stuff.Inevitably the Kyrgyz wanted to pull the strings and the Russians started departing… From 20% down to current 6%. But so did anyone with any sort of management experience (even bad ones). In other words… All the ‘one talks’ walked!
Inevitably the Kyrgyz wanted to pull the strings and the Russians started departing… From 20% down to current 6%. But so did anyone with any sort of management experience (even bad ones). In other words… All the ‘one talks’ walked!
What happens to a company when the corporate history or a cadre of senior management all leaves at once? And leaves behind a wreckage of poor management? The double whammy! Corporate decay and struggling new management…nice eh?
The double whammy! Corporate decay and struggling new management…nice eh?
Once again…It’s a Kyrgyzstan example, but we can still see such things in Australia.
Beware of a one-talk culture in management.
Mass departures of management (even if low quality) can leave vacuums of knowledge and skills that can lead to dysfunction.
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Colfax appoints new executive vice president of Colfax Americas
15 July 2010 | Roisin Reidy
Roller was most recently senior vice president and general manager of Colfax Americas.
In his new expanded role, Roller will be responsible for Colfax operations in the Americas, as well as the global oil & gas and Colfax Defense Solutions organisations. He will also expand the two-screw pump business and drive global sourcing.
Clay Kiefaber, president and CEO of Colfax, said: “Bill is a proven leader with a successful track record of delivering strong performance. Under his direction, sales and operating profits of the Colfax Americas group have grown significantly. His implementation of the Colfax Business System is evident in the results, and he is committed to further leveraging the Colfax Business System throughout Colfax. His experience will be invaluable in executing our strategies.”
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Main » 2019 » January » 11 » New GSMA Intelligence Research Reveals Consumer Views on 5G and the Future of Devices
New GSMA Intelligence Research Reveals Consumer Views on 5G and the Future of Devices
What to expect from the 5G era? Faster speeds and 5G smartphones? – Yes,
Innovative Services and AR/VR? – Maybe
LAS VEGAS -Thursday 10 January 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GSMA Intelligence, the research and consulting arm of the GSMA, has published the initial results of its latest Consumer Survey, providing a wealth of insight on consumer technology adoption trends set to shape the industry over the coming years. The new data forms the basis of two new GSMA Intelligence reports published at CES 2019. ‘The Future of Devices’ focuses on the global adoption and changing uses of smartphones into the 5G era, plus the growing popularity of smart speakers and other emerging consumer device categories, while ‘5G’s Great Expectations’ examines what consumers are anticipating from the first wave of 5G network and device launches.
“We are at the start of a new era of consumer devices that is being driven by advances in immersive reality and AI, creating a strong consumer appetite for products such as smart speakers and an important new battleground for the major tech players,” said Peter Jarich, Head of GSMA Intelligence. “And while smartphones remain the dominant consumer technology, device vendors and operators are looking to 5G to unlock a new chapter in the smartphone growth story – even though our research suggests there is still work to do to convince consumers of the benefits of the move to 5G.”
Among the key findings from the 2018 GSMA Intelligence Consumer Survey:
The smartphone is now a nearly ubiquitous consumer technology; almost 90 per cent of consumers in developed countries own a smartphone, with an average of 2.5 smartphones in every US household
Alongside the smartphone, the range of connected devices (and therefore internet access channels) is now greater than ever. The average US and UK household, for example, now owns six connected devices – from TVs to consoles to emerging categories such as smart speakers
Smart speaker ownership rates have nearly doubled in developed countries over the last 12 months. For example, 16 per cent of US households now own a smart speaker, compared to 9 per cent a year earlier. Amazon and Google continue to dominate this sector, together accounting for 85 per cent of sales units worldwide
Despite the early hype, adoption rates of VR headsets in developed markets have remained flat year-on-year at around 6 per cent of households and have even dropped in some key markets such as the UK. AR applications in fashion, gaming and various enterprise sectors are more advanced at this stage
More than half of consumers in developed countries (54 per cent) expect 5G networks to deliver faster speeds, suggesting that early 5G promotional activity will focus on network speed as a key differentiator (versus 4G) – but it is not clear if consumers will pay a premium for faster speeds
Only one in four consumers (25 per cent) expect 5G to deliver ‘innovative new services’, and only 20 per cent believe 5G will usher in a new era of devices
GSMA Intelligence’s annual Consumer Survey covers 36,000 respondents across 34 key markets, using a blend of online and face-to-face sampling methodologies. The 2018 edition of the Consumer Survey forms the basis for the two new GSMA Intelligence reports published this week, which are available to accredited members of the press on request.
GSMA Intelligence @ #CES2019
GSMA Intelligence is at #CES2019: find us at the GSMA IoT stand: Booth 2210, Westgate
Our senior analysts will be available on-site for one-to-one media interviews during the week. We are able to provide expert commentary across a range of industry topics, and discuss all the key announcements and developments. Please contact us at: media@gsmaintelligence.com
The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting more than 750 operators with over 350 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry sectors. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress Shanghai, Mobile World Congress Americas and the Mobile 360 Series of conferences.
For more information, please visit the GSMA corporate website at www.gsma.com. Follow the GSMA on Twitter: @GSMA
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