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Extreme Horror
Conguise Chronicles: The Rise of the River-Man: An exciting horror action adventure L. S. O'Dea
Available Through May 10 at
Welcome to the Conguise’s Laboratory Level Five....
In a world filled with human-animal hybrids, Guards are bred to serve the Almightys until they’re no longer wanted.
Mutter waits for his execution. It’s inevitable. He was a fighter and he lost. No one wants an ex-fighter. He’s too big, mean and ugly. Death will be the only way he gets out of this cell, but then the unthinkable happens. An Almighty visits in the dead of night and offers him a chance to leave. A chance to live.
All he has to do is obey and Guards were bred to obey.
When Mutter is taken to his new home, something isn’t right. There’s food and a bed but there are sounds and smells from the other cages. Things that move like nothing he’s ever encountered.
For the first time in his life, he’s afraid. Afraid of the creatures that lurk nearby. Afraid of the shots his new master is giving him.
He knows he’s supposed to obey, to always follow their rules but if he doesn’t escape, he’ll become food for one of those things in the other cages. Or worse... turn into one of them.
"A fascinating glimpse into the world of the Lake of Sins." J. Urbanczyk
A WINTER SLEEP Greg F. Gifune
A WINTER SLEEP, the new novel from Greg F. Gifune.
In a haunted hotel on the outskirts of a forgotten town, a bizarre group of tenants guard a horrible secret. A troubled man on the run, with nothing left to lose, drives aimlessly along dark highways in search of redemption. A little boy, brutally attacked and left for dead, realizes the strange power his agony has granted him. An enigmatic homeless man with nightmares he can no longer control, lost in a violent dreamscape only he understands, watches and waits. As a snowstorm traps them all within the walls of the old hotel, where madness and depravity run wild, from the shadows, a new reign of lesser gods begins, and an aberrant evil fights for survival amidst the cold terror of a desolate winter, and the bloody dreams of the hopeless and the damned.
Cover art by Wendy Saber Core.
"One of the best writers of his generation, Gifune is the author everyone should be reading"
--Brian Keene
"Gifune is the best writer of horror and thrillers at work today"
--Christopher Rice
"Gifune is among the finest dark suspense writers of our time"
--Ed Gorman
A Suburban Haunting: An extreme psychological horror Matt Shaw
Critically acclaimed bestselling author, Matt Shaw - #1 bestseller in Horror Fiction with hundreds of 5 star reviews - brings you:
A SUBURBAN HAUNTING
When Craig's uncle passes away, he didn't shed a tear. The pair hadn't spoken for a couple of years now after a family row and - with that in mind - Craig didn't bother to attend the funeral. However, soon after, he is cornered by his uncle's solicitor with some unexpected news. Despite the pair not speaking, Craig had been left his uncle's house. At first Craig believed it to be a generous gift and, perhaps, a way of saying sorry from beyond the grave but he soon realises all is not as it seems and the house is less a gift and more a curse...
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Turning Grace (The Turning Series, Book 1)J.Q. Davis
Available Through March 09 at
Life or death?
It all seems to be the same for Grace…
Grace is a 17-year-old who enjoys all the normal things in life: Her best friend, boys, and school. But when she begins to see and feel physical changes, she worries something might be wrong.
And when she finds herself gnawing down on a neighborhood cat, she realizes something is definitely wrong.
She tries to ignore it and balance her weird, uncontrollable, and increasing appetite for anything raw along with the awkwardness of being an everyday teenager the best she can, but a mysterious doctor soon enters her life.
He claims Grace is half human, half zombie and seems to have all the answers. Maybe even a solution.
The question is...should she trust him?
Clock's WatchMichael Reyes
Clock the Chaos Mage. A stranger out of time, hidden in the folds of shadow. He is the guardian of Coney Island's supernatural borderlands, and the only thing standing between our reality and the demons that thirst to destroy it.
Tales of dark pulp fantasy and horror.
Clock's Watch:
Chaos creatures attempting to breach our world possess the body of a young mother! Can a strange observer stop the threat from beyond, or will it spill out into Coney Island to devour all that's in its path?!
The Black Balloon:
Spending his final days near Coney Island, Stefano Murphy has been noticing a mysterious character: Clock! Will Murphy's past finally catch up with him, or will a demon Clock is hunting get to him first?!
Narrioch:
In his past as guardian of Narrioch, Clock has foiled the plans of powerful entities... The defeat of Mudiret has bought only a brief respite, and Clock soon finds himself the target of its master's wrath!
The Indigo Mushroom:
Extra-dimensional entities have tampered with our universe, an alien mineral intelligence has arrived on Earth, and Clock's buddy Sal has lost his job! Can Clock stop the vanguard of a mechanical invasion?!
The Cut Worm Forgives the Plough:
A lover's tiff between Danny and his girlfriend reaches the next level when Maria is possessed by a demon! Can Clock reconcile the couple or are the blood and bodies strewn on the dance floor just too much!?
Crockett:
Clock hoped to have put the past behind him, his memories hidden as a perk of his job... But when the Indigo Mushroom calls out to him, Clock must confront a demon from his past or be destroyed by it!
Clock's Watch. An anthology of heroic dark fantasy and terror. Illustrations by Sean Bova, Jay Campbell and MV.
FaunaDavid Benton
In the depths of the Amazon rainforest a shaman utters a dire warning foretelling the string of grisly and seemingly unconnected animal attacks that become more and more common around the globe. In a few days time the attacks become a massacre and all life on Earth moves toward a single purpose: the culling of the human race.
"When Mother Nature's angry, she's a bitch! Fauna will have you gripping the edge of your seat from the first page to the last. This is a non-stop eco-thriller and cautionary tale that will leave you looking at your pets with a different eye. This is also the best book I've read all year! Read it now! But maybe lock the doors and windows first."
--John Everson, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and Redemption
"We should have known that decades of messing with Nature would come back to bite us -- with a vengeance... In David Benton's exciting, realistic thriller FAUNA our world has finally decided we're the problem, and it's had enough of us. How would we cope if our apocalypse had fangs and four legs and didn't shamble at all? Reminiscent of Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds" in approach, FAUNA will raise your neck hairs and chill you to the bone."
--W.D. Gagliani, author of Savage Nights and the Nick Lupo Series
"The animal kingdom runs amok in David Benton's wildly entertaining Fauna. Exciting, action-packed and disturbing in all the right ways, this man-versus-beast saga gallops at a fierce pace with bloodthirsty menace. Benton's scenes unfold with a cinematic crispness and intensity that keeps the pages turning. This book will leave bite marks!"
--Brian Pinkerton, author of Anatomy of Evil
"In Fauna, David Benton takes you on a globe-circling thrill ride through a gone-crazy world where the animals have taken charge and want revenge. It's equal parts fantastic escapism and white-knuckle horror--a riveting read from the first page that touches on many of the ways humankind uses things and takes them for granted."
--Christian Larsen, author of The Blackening of Flesh and Losing Touch
"[Benton] combines the visceral brutality of an Ed Lee or Richard Laymon with the globe-trotting skills of James Rollins, resulting in an exciting romp that evokes The Zoo by James Patterson, but with a message."
--Cemetery Dance
Crows (Crows Series Book 1)Grace Harney
Annie Murphy can sometimes tell the future. It's the past she has trouble with.
When her brother's witch-girlfriend goes missing days after an invocation ritual, Annie has every reason to suspect him. But he says he didn't do it, and Annie isn't about to send another innocent man in her family to jail.
When a confrontation with her brother Johnny turns violent, Annie flees into the worst blizzard to hit the area in years. Led by her Sight, she arrives at a rundown inn where she meets Crow. Another powerful psychic--and a witch that can control her namesake birds--Crow seems to be hated, feared, respected and loved, all at the same time. Soon Annie begins to wonder about things. Like why Crow appears to be connected to every suspicious disappearance over the past fifty years in the small town of Raven City. Why Johnny's missing girlfriend might be one of them. Why Crow has walked free every single time. And if Annie doesn't stop her, why she might again.
The Housemates: A Novel of Extreme TerrorIain Rob Wright
TEN DAYS, TWELVE COMPETITORS, TWO MILLION IN CASH. ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH.
What at first appears to be a once in a lifetime opportunity for Damien Banks turns out to be the worst nightmare imaginable. Trapped inside a house with eleven strangers, and a booming voice known only as 'The Landlord', he is forced to compete not only for the money but for his life.
And the life of his best friend and mentor, Harry.
Damien can trust no one, that much is clear, especially now that a list of crimes has appeared on the wall: CHEAT, MURDERER, ABUSER, WHORE, TRAITOR, TRICKSTER, PEDDLER, PREDATOR, CRUSADER, THIEF.
What does the list mean, and who is the Landlord? Only time will tell, but Damien must make sure that he ends up the winner, because all of the losers are dead.
Let the games begin. Are you ready?
Broken Doll (Broken Doll Series Book 1)Zoe Blake
Available Through February 08 at
My last memory is of the accident.
The rancid smell of gasoline and the silence...the deafening silence.
Then there was only darkness...and him.
I am his captive.
His broken doll.
There is no escape.
No hope.
No one is coming to save me.
This is a twisted, dark horror novella. There is no HEA. You have been warned.
The Nightmare Room (The Messy Man Series Book 1)Chris Sorensen
Winner Best Debut Novel, Indie Horror Book Awards
Inquisitr's Best Horror Books of 2018
12 of the Best Scary Audiobooks of 2018, Insider
New York audiobook narrator Peter Larson and his wife Hannah head to his hometown of Maple City to help Peter's ailing father and to put a recent tragedy behind them. Though the small, Midwestern town seems the idyllic place to start afresh, Peter and Hannah will soon learn that evil currents flow beneath its surface.
They move into an old farmhouse on the outskirts of town—a house purchased by Peter's father at auction and kept secret until now—and start to settle into their new life.
But as Peter sets up his recording studio in a small basement room, disturbing things begin to occur—mysterious voices haunt audio tracks, malevolent shadows creep about the house. And when an insidious presence emerges from the woodwork, Peter must face old demons in order to save his family and himself.
Burying the Honeysuckle GirlsEmily Carpenter
Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother's tragic, premature death--and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea's ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She'll find you, I think, but if she doesn't, you find her.
Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn't expect him, or her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she's not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors' lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing history…and the part she's meant to play in it.
Gripping and visceral, this unforgettable debut delves straight into the heart of dark family secrets and into one woman's emotional journey to save herself from a sinister inheritance.
The Woods: A NovelMilo Abrams
Is there something looking back at me? Is there something there waiting for me?
At the edge of the woods behind his father's house, James Callum thinks he sees a monster. His father thinks he's interested in watching the deer, but James is more interested in what's watching him. For a twelve-year-old city boy, the intense openness of the Ohio countryside is like another world. The fields stretch forever, the summer heat is unrelenting, and the thick woods at the edge of the property hide untold secrets.
When no one believes he's seeing a monster, his entire world unravels, leaving the frayed strands of his identity entangled with the mystery of the monster in the woods. With the help of his friends Jack and Owen, James risks his life, family, and friendships to prove the monster is real and uncover the truth behind it.
In THE WOODS, Milo Abrams pierces the veil of curiosity with an almost unbearable build-up of suspense and emotion. Don't go outside. Don't look into the backyard. There's something in the woods.
DOA III: Extreme Horror AnthologyVarious Authors
After six years and more than fifty authors, the Unholy Trinity is complete. This third installment in the DOA series offers thirty stories from the originators of splatterpunk as well as the newest voices in extreme horror.
You'll laugh...you'll cry...you'll vomit
Don't say we didn't warn you.
Stories from Bentley Little -Jack Ketchum & Edward Lee - Shane Mckenzie - Wrath James White - Richard Christian Matheson - Kristopher Triana - T.M. McLean - Sean Eads & Joshua Viola - T. Fox Dunham - John Skipp - Luciano Marano - Ryan Harding - Kristopher Rufty - Daniel I. Russell - LLoyd Kaufman & Lily Hayes Kaufman - David Sandner - Betty Rocksteady - C.M. Saunders - K. Trap Jones - Hal Bodner - Adrian Ludens - C. Cameron Rossi - Alistair Rennie - Airika Sneve - Christoph Weber - Garrett Cook - Eric J. Guignard - Jeff Strand - Jaap Boekestein - John McNee.
Octopus: An Extreme Horror NovelMatt Shaw
H.P Lovecraft left Him sleeping at the bottom of the South Pacific ocean. Now, Matt Shaw attempts to awaken Cthulhu.
With mounting debt, and her career not going in the direction she'd hoped for, Jessica Ann took a modelling job at the Larsen's lavish party.
What should have been an easy evening soon takes a nightmarish turn when she finds herself embroiled in an insane plot to awaken The Old Great One...
Black HannisC. J. Faust
Available Through January 27 at
Are you afraid of the dark? The only thing she fears is the light, so burn them all... but it won't be enough. Monsterizing the fem-dom motif with brutal and brilliant style, C.J. Faust creates a force of evil like nothing you've experienced before.
In the summer following their high school graduation, five American friends head to merry old England for a celebration of their adulthood, and a last chance to spend time together before college and life pull them in separate directions. But the growing pains that come with coming of age, and the challenges of the world these millennials are poised to inherit (issues of seeking acceptance, racial bias, difficult grown-up choices, and the unfortunate fact that time and distance can wear down even the best cemented friendships)--these are small concerns compared to the storm of horror that awaits them.
The boogeyman is not a man at all; and Thatch, Tyrone, Kadara, Nia, and Big-Marc are about to find out for themselves what this means when their vacation of fun, sun, and sex appeal is transformed into a nightmare of supernatural depravity and a desperate struggle to survive.
Part grim fairytale and part coming of age story, Black Hannis is an unflinching visceral nightmare to keep readers squirming till the last page.
The Haunting of Cabin Green: A Modern Gothic Horror NovelApril A. Taylor
One of PopSugar's Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.
One of Inquisitr's Best Horror Books of 2018.
One of Ranker's 2018's Scariest Horror Books.
One of BoredPanda's 7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death.
#1 Amazon Best-Seller in Ghosts, Gothic, U.S. Horror, & LGBT Horror.
"A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn't force myself to put it down." - The Horror Report.
"Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down...with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-twentieth century techniques." - The Inquisitr.
"A haunting tale." - PopSugar.
Welcome to Cabin Green, where the setting is familiar, but the story is completely unexpected. A terrifying slow-burn that combines the literary Gothic prose of Shirley Jackson, Ambrose Bierce, & Thomas Tryon with the "what's really real?" aspects of The Shining. Cabin Green has also been compared to the devastation of Hereditary and the socially progressive, ambiguous approach of Paul Tremblay.
Going to Cabin Green alone after the death of his fiancée was Ben's first mistake. His second mistake was tempting fate by saying, "There's no such thing as an evil building." Now he's caught in a nightmare of his own making deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. Even worse, a family history of mental illness makes it impossible for him to know if the ghosts haunting the cabin are real or all in his head.
This modern Gothic horror story takes the reader directly into Ben's hellish experience. Is he crazy? Is a ghost haunting him? The only way to find out is to make it to the end of this deep, dark thrill ride that's filled with more twists than a roller coaster.
Revised Edition!
TOP VOTE GETTER: Best Horror/Suspense - The Kindle Book Review (TKBR) Reader's Choice Awards 2018.
RUNNER-UP: Best Overall Book of 2018 - TKBR Reader's Choice Awards
SEMIFINALIST TKBR's 2018 Jury Award for Best Horror/Suspense
Content Warning: Contains gore, sex, profanity, & deeply disturbing psychological themes. This isn't a fluffy horror story; it's true, descriptive Gothic horror that's emblematic of the destructive nature of grief & also contains societal/political/religious critiques. For mature readers only.
Inspired by a real-life, spooky green cabin in Northern Michigan that's so well-hidden it can't be found by GPS! This book also contains a disturbing section that was inspired by real-life events.
"A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn't force myself to put it down. Taylor did an excellent and meticulous job creating this story, forming imagery...invoking real emotion on the part of the reader." - The Horror Report
"A breath of fresh air...instilling such a deep, feral fear of the unknown that Shirley Jackson would be proud. Taylor doesn't pull any punches, and she refuses to play it safe, something that the horror genre could use a lot more of." - Mangled Matters
"Sucked me in from the first page... Taylor pulls the rug out from under her readers... a well-structured and integrated climax. I read this book in one sitting... fighting the urge to turn on all the lights." - Connal Bain, Author of Blood Moon Fever
"Unique... the author depicts the grieving process amazingly well. The story is claustrophobic... and what an ending. All of the flashbacks and delusions suddenly make sense... [it's a] sucker punch." - HorrorTalk
"Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down..the crazy whirlwind that ensues is enough to make even the biggest horror fan a bit dizzy...with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-20th century techniques." - Inquisitr
"Filled with so much grief and craziness that I might need therapy." - BoredPanda
"A literary treat...it is written so intelligently that the very plot may leave some who are not well versed in abstract twist endings confused and wanting...very progressive. A modern horror classic." - Amazon Reviewer
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Deadlocked Dollhouse (Locked House Hauntings Book 1)Mixi J Applebottom
A cursed dollhouse. Seven stages until murder. What can this father do?
Mark's always been a bit insecure as a father, his own childhood sucked. He's been terrified he will ruin his perfect daughters. So he buys them presents and hopes he won't screw them up.
They certainly won't forget this dollhouse.
He doesn't know how to stop it, and all he wanted to do was be a good father.He was worried that they'd grow up to hate him, now he's worried they won't grow up at all.
You'll love this terrifying countdown, can he stop himself?
Try Mixi J Applebottom's latest novel.
Caught: Book One of the Oneiros LogM.L.S. Weech
Nothing is at all what it seems, and for four strangers, they'll have to discover why before they're driven over the edge of madness. Within them are the keys to free themselves. They'll need to traverse a landscape of horrors and fettered secrets.
Unknown to these prisoners, another four desperately hunt for their own freedom-a freedom denied them by the tormenting existence of a monster. They will have to rely on all of their talents and each other to defeat the beast.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to all of them, the spider huddles at the center of its web, plucking its many gossamer strands as it waits...ready to pounce.
The Darwin EffectMark Lukens
After six people wake up from suspended animation, they will find out what survival really means.
Six people are awakened from suspended animation on a spaceship in the middle of a three-hundred-year journey to colonize a distant planet. At first they believe MAC, the onboard computer, has malfunctioned. But MAC tells them he was supposed to wake them up . . . it was part of the program.
They can't re-enter suspended animation, there's only enough food for a few months, MAC won't let them communicate with any other ships, and they are too far away to return to Earth.
Cromartie, the unelected leader of their group, tries his best to keep the others calm, but soon they are at each other's throats with panic. After one of them is found murdered, Cromartie and Sanders form an alliance. Cromartie tells Sanders that he thinks he may know the answer to their problems, but after another one of them is found murdered, Cromartie and Sanders must act quickly if they want to survive.
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ColdwaterMichael Hamm
Available Through December 14 at
Jenna and her father Rick, who works for the EPA as an investigator, are summoned to an ancient Tobacco plantation deep in the heart of Louisiana. Little do they realize, that beneath the majestic mansion lies a sinister evil, which has been waiting and festering for over a hundred years. In the gathering darkness, Jenna begins having strange visions of the plantation's sordid past, people who have an intimate connection to Jenna's family. Within days, the blackness begins growing larger and larger, sweltering… forcing demon infested dolls and other ancient horrors to begin roaming the grounds, and eventually into the town of Coldwater.
Captured and tortured by the foul creatures that rule the warrens under the mansion, Jenna escapes and finds that the entire town is covered by a virulent storm that is pummeling the landscape. Along the way she finds unlikely allies in her quest to save her father, who has also been captured by the horrid demons. As she travels deeper into the darkness of the mansion's past, she begins to realize the visions she's having are genetic memory, showing her the terrible and tragic past of a diseased hamlet, and of the twisted family that rules over it.
If she is to survive, she must swallow her fears and trust an enigmatic professor, who lives in the guest houses surrounding Ivy Haven manor. But, as she is to soon learn, there is more to the strange man than meets the eye, and in the end, he may be leading them all to their death.
Mr. SnuffJon Athan
Russell Wheeler, an enforcer-turned-contractor, spirals into a violent tailspin when his daughter is slaughtered for a snuff film. With his limited resources, including his trusty framing hammer and his criminal connections, Russell hunts the people responsible for his daughter's vicious death. He finds himself digging into the pits of hell, delving into a world of unimaginable depravity...
Jon Athan, author of The Harbinger of Vengeance and Sinister Syndromes, invites you to join the lucrative snuff industry. A world of opportunity, lust, riches, and death awaits you...
This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It (John Dies at the End 2)David Wong
From the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes.
You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.
You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection -- the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the "cure" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like.
You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can't see it, because it decides what you see. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends and neighbors get mind-controlling skull spiders? We're all about to find out.
Just stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I'm just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it.
Either way, I won't hold it against you if you're upset. I know that's just the spider talking.
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Dark Matters: 17 Twisted & Disturbing TalesG. Donald Black
Why would a mother murder her four children with a smile on her face? What sinister end awaits the regulars of the local watering hole? When Beverly Havermore rubs elbows with other members of high society, what ghosts from her past come to haunt her? Could a curse be behind the mysterious speech problems plaguing an otherwise healthy Benjamin Anatole?
The answers to these alarming questions can be found in this collection of seventeen nerve-racking, and at times darkly humorous, short stories that are guaranteed to chill the bones of even the most sensible reader. From a man choosing obsessive masturbation over infidelity to a trailer park gossip queen who receives a troubling diagnosis that she can't accept, this diverse assortment of unsettling narratives tells the stories of characters so vivid, you'll swear you've met them in person – and maybe you have.
In G. Donald Black's short fiction debut, he demonstrates why he won't stay an independent author for long. These stories, with their richly crafted characters and twisting plots, will pull you in and take you places you'd never dare to go. So curl up in your favorite chair, turn on the reading lamp, and prepare to have your skin crawl. Enjoy the ride!
The Van: An Extreme Horror StoryTim Miller
Andy and Bridget like to travel. Their windowless van is their home. Speeding across the Texas countryside they pick up hitchhikers and weary travelers who see the pair as a nice couple showing southern hospitality. However, Andy and Bridget are not what they seem. In their plain looking van, there is no telling which town they will pass through or who will they pick up next.
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Madrid sack Lopetegui after miserable run
By Ellsamwise King on October 30, 2018
Real Madrid have sacked manager Julen Lopetegui and put B-team coach Santiago Solari in temporary charge.
The Madrid board is split over Lopetegui’s successor. The president Florentino Perez had wanted former Chelsea manager Antonio Conte but his demands for a two and half year contract and for a team of up to five assistants could make Belgium coach Roberto Martinez a more viable option.
The club are also considering leaving Solari in charge of the first team until next month’s international break before making a permanent appointment.
Conte is not the choice of the current players with captain Sergio Ramos saying: ‘Respect needs to be earned not imposed,’ when he was asked about the appointment of a disciplinarian manager.
Former Everton and Wigan coach Martinez is keen to get back into club management after reaching the World Cup semi-finals with Belgium.
The club are also taking into consideration Conte’s falling out with Eden Hazard who they are interested in signing next summer if he continues to run down his contract.
Conte has won the league in Italy and England but his confrontational style caused problems with Diego Costa and with Hazard who grew tired of being played out of position and then being accused of a lack of commitment.
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Slovaj ZİZEK
Why Hitchcock Is Still Our Contemporary?
There are pieces of classical music which, in our culture, became so deeply associated with their later use in some product of commercial popular culture that it is almost impossible to dissociate them from this use. Since the theme of the second movement of Mozart‟s Piano Concerto No 20 was used in Elvira Madigan, a popular Swedish melodrama, this concert is even now regularly characterized as the “Elvira Madigan” concert even in editions by serious classical music editions like Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft… But what if, instead of exploding in an Adornian rage against such commercialized music fetishism, one makes an exception and openly confesses the guilty pleasure of enjoying a piece of music which is in itself worthless and draws all its interest from the way it was used in a product of popular culture? My favorite candidate is the “Storm Clouds Cantata” from both versions of Alfred Hitchcock‟s The Man Who Knew Too Much.
When, in 1934, Hitchcock was preparing the first version, he hired Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960), an Australian composer, pianist and conductor, to write a piece of music especially for the climactic scene at Royal Albert Hall. (A curious anecdote: on 31 July 1918, Benjamin‟s aircraft was shot down over Germany by the young Hermann Goering, and he spent the remainder of the war as a German prisoner of war.) The music, known as the “Storm Clouds cantata”, on words by D. B. Wyndham-Lewis (called by Auden “that lonely old volcano of the Right”), is also used in the 1956 remake, one of Hitchcock‟s underrated masterpieces. Bernard Herrmann, who was given the option of composing a new cantata, found Benjamin‟s piece to be so well suited to the film that he declined. Herrmann can be seen conducting it during the Royal Albert Hall scene - the sequence runs 12 minutes without any dialogue, from the beginning of Storm Clouds until the climax, when the Doris Day character screams.
Although the Cantata is a rather ridiculous piece of late-Romantic kitsch, it is not as devoid of interest as one may think. Already the words are worth quoting:
There came a whispered terror on the breeze
And the dark forest shook
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And on the trembling trees
Came the nameless fear
And panic overtook each flying creature of the wild
And when they all had fled
Yet stood the trees
Around whose heads
The night birds wheeled and shot away
Finding release
From that which drove them onward like their prey
The storm clouds broke and drowned the dying moon
The storm clouds broke
Is this not a minimal scenario of what Gilles Deleuze called an “abstract” emotion-event: peace full of tension which grows unbearable and is finally released in a violent explosion? One should recall here Hitchcock‟s dream of by-passing the narrative audio-visual medium altogether and provoke emotions in the spectator directly, manipulating through a complex mechanism his emotional neuronal centers. To put it in Platonic terms: Psycho is really not a film about pathological or terrorized persons, but about the “abstract” Idea of Terror which is instantiated in concrete individuals and their misfortunes. In the same way, the music of the “Storm Could Cantata” does not illustrate the words, and even less does it refer to the cinema narrative; on the contrary, it directly renders the emotion-event.
It is in this spirit that the pages on Hitchcock in my Looking Awry should be read: as an attempt to subtract from Hitchcock‟s films all their narrative content and to isolate the intensity of their formal pattern. If we want to do a serious socio-critical reading of Hitchcock, we should discern social mediation already at this purely formal level. So let me add to the analyses contained in the book a new example of how a hidden social mediation sustains formal paradoxes. One of the most revealing, although apparently trivial, features of Alfred Hitchcock studies is the extraordinary amount of factual mistakes – much greater than the (already low) cinema studies standard. These misrepresentations concern narrative elements as well as formal features of a film: how often, when a point is being made through a detailed description of the exchange of subjective (point-of-view) and objective shots and the cuts
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between them, when we take care to check it on video or DVD, we discover with surprise that the description is simply false. And, since the theoretical point of the analysis based on such misperceptions is often very perspicuous, we are tempted to adopt the attitude (falsely) attributed to Hegel: »If facts do not fit theory, so much worse for the facts!« The outstanding cases of such persisting misrepresentations concerns one of the most famous scenes in Vertigo: the magic moment when, in Ernie‟s restaurant, Scottie sees Madeleine for the first time.1 More precisely, the misrepresentation concerns the status of two shots.
After seeing the entrance to Ernie‟s from the outside, there is a cut to Scottie sitting at the bar counter in the front room of the restaurant and looking through a partition into the large room with tables and guests. A long panning shot (without a cut) then takes us back and to the left, giving us an overview of the entire crowded room, the soundtrack reproducing the chatter and clatter of a busy restaurant – we should bear in mind that this, clearly, is not Scottie‟s point-of-view. All of a sudden, our (or, rather, the camera‟s) attention is caught by a focal point of attraction, a fascinum which fixes our gaze, a bright dazzling stain which we soon identify as the naked back of a beautiful woman. The background sound is then drowned out by Hermann‟s passionate music, which accompanies the camera in its gradual approach to the fascinum – we first recognize Elster, Madeleine‟s husband, facing us, and from this fact we deduce that the woman must be Madeleine. After this long shot, there is a cut back to Scottie peeping at Madeleine‟s table, and then another cut to Scottie‟s point-of-view and what he sees (Madeleine covering her back with her jacket and getting ready to leave). After Madeleine and Elster leave their table and approach Scottie on their way out, we get another famous shot. Scottie sees that the couple is getting close and, in order not to betray his mission, he looks away towards the glass across the partition of the bar, just barely peeping over his back. When Madeleine comes close to him and has to stop for a moment (while her husband is settling things with the waiter), we see her mysterious profile (and, the profile is always mysterious – we see only the half, while the other half can be a disgusting, disfigured face - or, as a matter of fact, the »true« common face of Judy, the girl who, as we learn later, is impersonating Madeleine). This fascinating shot is thus again not Scottie‟s point-of-view shot. It is only after Elster rejoins Madeleine, with the couple moving away from Scottie and approaching the exit from the restaurant, that we get, as a counter-shot to the shot of Scottie behind the bar, his point-of-view shot of Madeleine and Elster.
The ambiguity of subjective and objective is crucial here. Precisely insofar as Madeleine‟s profile is not Scottie‟s point-of-view, the shot of her profile is totally subjectivized, depicting not what Scottie effectively sees, but what he imagines, that is, his hallucinatory inner vision (recall how, while we see Madeleine‟s profile, the red background of the restaurant wall seems to get even more intense, almost threatening to explode in red heat turning into a yellow blaze – as if his passion is directly inscribed into the background). No wonder, then, that, although Scottie does not see Madeleine‟s profile, he acts as if he is mysteriously captivated by it, deeply affected by it. What we get in these two shots which are subjectivized without being attributed to a subject is precisely the pure pre-subjective phenomenon. The profile of Madeleine is a pure appearance, permeated with an excessive libidinal investment – in a way, precisely too subjective, too intense, to be assumed by the subject.
We thus get, twice, the same movement from the excess of subjectivity without subject to the standard procedure of what in the cinema theory is called »suture« (the exchange of objective and subjective shots, when we are first shown the person looking and then what he sees). Through such »suturing« the excess is domesticated, clearly located within the subject-object mirror relationship as exemplified by the exchange of objective shot and point-of-view counter-shot. And it is in order to erase the intensity of this subjectless-subjective shot, displaying a kind of acephalous passion, that the large majority of interpreters, from Donald Spoto and Robin Wood onward, strangely insist, in their detailed description of the scene at Ernie‟s, that the two excessive shots render Scottie‟s point-of-view. In this way, the excess is contained, reduced to the level of the standard exchange of objective and subjective shots.
What we encounter in this excess is the gaze as object, free from the strings which attach it to a particular subject. We all know the uncanny moments in our everyday lives when we catch sight of our own image and this image is not looking back at us. I myself remember once trying to inspect a strange growth on the side of my head using a double mirror, when, all of a sudden, I caught a glimpse of my face from the profile. The image replicated all my gestures, but in a weird uncoordinated way.
It is in such weird experiences that one catches the gist of what Lacan called gaze as objet petit a, the part of our image which eludes the mirror-like symmetrical relationship.
When we see ourselves from outside, from this impossible point, the traumatic feature is not that I am objectivized, reduced to an external object for the gaze, but, rather, that it is my gaze itself which is objectivized, which observes me from the outside, which, precisely, means that my gaze is no longer mine, that it is stolen from me... This eccentricity of the objet a has unexpected temporal consequences, which bring us back to Hitchcock: in his admirable text on Vertigo, Jean-Pierre Dupuy deployed a temporal logical paradox:
“An object possesses a property x until the time t; after t, it is not only that the object no longer has the property x; it is that it is not true that it possessed x at any time. The truth-value of the proposition „the object O has the property x at the moment t‟ therefore depends on the moment when this proposition is enunciated.”2
One should note here the precise formulation: it is not that the truth-value of the proposition “the object O has the property x” depends on the time to which this proposition refers even when this time is specified, the truth-value depends on the time when the proposition itself is enounced. Or, to quote the title of Dupuy‟s text, “when I‟ll die, nothing of our love will ever have existed”. Think about marriage and divorce: the most intelligent argument for the right to divorce (proposed, among others, by none other than the young Marx) does not refer to common vulgarities in the style of “like all things, love attachments are also not eternal, they change in the course of time”, etc.; it rather concedes that undissolvability is in the very notion of marriage. The conclusion is that divorce always has a retroactive scope: it does not only mean that marriage is now annulled, but something much more radical – a marriage should be annulled because it never was a true marriage. And the same holds for Soviet Communism: it is clearly insufficient to say that, in the years of Brezhnev “stagnation” it “exhausted its potentials, no longer fitting new times”; what its miserable end demonstrates is that it was a historical deadlock from its very beginning.
How is this circle of changing the past possible without recourse to travel back in time? The solution was already proposed by Bergson: of course one cannot change the past reality/actuality, but what one can change is the virtual dimension of the past – when something radically New emerges, this New retroactively creates its own possibility, its own causes/conditions. A potentiality can be inserted into (or withdrawn from) past reality. Falling in love changes the past: it is as if I ALWAYS-ALREADY loved you, our love was destined, “answer of the real.” My present love causes the past which gave birth to it. The same goes
for LEGAL POWER: here also, synchrony precedes diachrony. In the same way that, once I contingently fall in love, this love was my necessary Fate, once a legal order is here, its contingent origins are erased. Once it IS here, it was always-already here, every story of its origins is a myth, like the Swift story of the origin of language in Gulliver’s Travels: the result is already presupposed.
In Vertigo, it is the opposite that occurs: the past is changed so that it LOSES objet a. What Scottie first experiences in Vertigo is the LOSS of Madeleine, his fatal love; when he recreates Madeleine in Judy and then discovers that the Madeleine he knew already was Judy pretending to be Madeleine, what he discovers is not simply that Judy is a fake (he knew that she is not the true Madeleine, since he recreated a copy of Madeleine out of her), but that, because she is NOT a fake – she IS Madeleine -, Madeleine herself was already a fake – objet a disintegrates, the very loss is lost, we get a “negation of negation.” His discovery CHANGES THE PAST, deprives the lost object of objet a.
Are, then, today‟s ethico-legal neoconservatives not a little bit like Scottie in Hitchcock‟s Vertigo: in wanting to recreate the lost order, to make a new distinguished Madeleine out of today‟s promiscuous and vulgar Judy, they will be sooner or later forced to admit not that it is impossible to restore to life Madeleine (the old traditional mores), but that Madeleine WAS already Judy: the corruption they are fighting in modern permissive, secular, egotist, etc. society was there from the beginning. It is like with Zen Buddhism: those who criticize the Westernized New Age image and practice of Zen, its reduction to a “relaxation technique,” as the betrayal of the authentic Japanese Zen, obliterate the fact that the features they deplore in the Westernized Zen were already there in Japanese “true” Zen: after World War II, Japanese Zen Buddhists immediately started to organize Zen courses for business managers, during the World War II their majority supported Japanese militarism, etc.
In true love, after discovering the truth, Scottie would have accepted Judy as “more Madeleine than Madeleine herself” (he DOES that just before the rise of the mother superior…): here Dupuy should be corrected. Dupuy‟s formula is that Scottie should left Madeleine to her past – true, but what should he have done upon discovering that Judy IS Madeleine? Past Madeleine was an imaginary lure, pretending to be what she was not (Judy played Madeleine). What Judy is doing now in playing Madeleine is TRUE LOVE. In Vertigo, Scottie does NOT love Madeleine – the proof is that he tries to recreate her in Judy,
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changing Judy‟s properties to make her resemble Madeleine. The result like Marx brothers joke: “Everything about you reminds me of you – your lips, hair, arms, legs… everything except you yourself.” A person doesn‟t resemble itself, it IS itself No wonder Vertigo can be read as a variation of the Ravelli-joke from Marx brothers: “You look like Emmanuel Ravelli!” “I AM Emmanuel Ravelli!” “Well, no wonder, then, that you look like him!” No wonder Judy looks like Madeleine – she IS Madeleine… This is why the idea to clone a child to parents who lost him (or her) is an abomination: if the parents are satisfied, their love was not true love - love is not love for the properties of the object, but for the abyssal X, the je ne sais quoi, in the object.
In his Wissen und Gewissen, Viktor Frankl reports on one of his post-WWII patients, a concentration camp survivor who reunited with his wife after the war; however, due to an illness contracted in the camp, she died soon afterwards. The patient fell into total despair, and all Frankl‟s attempts to drag him out of depression failed, till, one day, he told the patient: “Imagine that God would give me the power to create a woman who would have all the features of your dead wife, so that she would be indistinguishable from her – would you ask me to create her?” The patient was silent for a short time, then he stood up, said “No, thanks, doctor!”, shook his hand, left and started to lead a new normal life.3 This patient did what Scottie, who precisely tried to recreate the same woman, wasn‟t able to do: he became aware that, while one can find the same woman as to her positive features, one cannot recreate the unfathomable objet a in her.
There is a science-fiction story, set a couple of hundred years ahead of our time when time travel was already possible, about an art critic who gets so fascinated by the works of a New York painter from our era that he travels back in time to meet him. However, he discovers that the painter is a worthless drunk who even steals from him the time machine and escapes to the future; alone in today‟s world, the art critic paints all the paintings that fascinated him in the future in made him travel into the past. Surprisingly, it was none other than Henry James who already used the same plot: The Sense of the Past, an unfinished manuscript found among James‟ papers and published posthumously in 1917, tells a similar story which uncannily resembles Vertigo, and caused penetrating interpretations by Stephen Spender and Borges. (Dupuy notes that James was friend with H.G.Wells – The Sense of the Past is his version of Wells‟ Time Machine.) After James‟ death this novel was converted into a very successful play Berkeley Square, which was made into a movie in 1933 with Leslie
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Howard as Ralph Pendrel, a young New Yorker who, upon inheriting an 18th century house in London, finds in it a portrait of a remote ancestor, also named Ralph Pendrel. Fascinated by the portrait, he steps across a mysterious threshold and finds himself back in the 18th century. Among the people he meets there is a painter who was the author of the portrait that fascinated him – it is, of course, his own portrait. In his commentary, Borges provided a succinct formulation of the paradox: “The cause is posterior to the effect, the motif of the voyage is one of the consequences of this voyage.” James added a love aspect to the trip into the past: back in the 18th century, Ralph falls in love with Nan, a sister of his (18th century) fiancee Molly. Nan eventually realizes that Ralph is a time-traveler from the future, and she sacrifices her own happiness and help him return to his own time and to Aurora Coyne, a woman who had previously rejected Ralph but would now accept him… This story just psychotically (in the real) mystifies the circle of symbolic economy, in which effect precedes the cause, i.e., retroactively creates it.
And – here is the surprise - exactly the same holds for the legal status of the rebellion against a (legal) power in Kant‟s legal philosophy: the proposition “what the rebels are doing is a crime which deserves to be punished” is true if pronounced when the rebellion is still going on; however, once the rebellion wins and establishes a new legal order, this statement about the legal status of the same past acts no longer holds. Here is Kant‟s answer to the question “Is rebellion a legitimate means for a people to employ in throwing off the yoke of an alleged tyrant?”4:
“The rights of the people are injured; no injustice befalls the tyrant when he is deposed. There can be no doubt on this point. Nevertheless, it is in the highest degree illegitimate for the subjects to seek their rights in this way. If they fail in the struggle and are then subjected to severest punishment, they cannot complain about injustice any more than the tyrant could if they had succeeded. /…/ If the revolt of the people succeeds, what has been said is still quite compatible with the fact that the chief, on retiring to the status of a subject, cannot begin a revolt for his restoration but need not fear being made to account for his earlier administration of the state.”
Does Kant not offer here his own version of what Bernard Williams developed as “moral luck” (or, rather, “legal luck”)? The (not ethical, but legal) status of rebellion is decided retroactively: if a rebellion succeeds and establishes a new legal order, then it brings
about its own circulus vitiosus, i.e., it erases into ontological void its own illegal origins, it enacts the paradox of retroactively grounding itself – Kant states this paradox even more clearly a couple of pages earlier: “If a violent revolution, engendered by a bad constitution, introduces by illegal means a more legal constitution, to lead the people back to the earlier constitution would not be permitted; but, while the revolution lasted, each person who openly or covertly shared in it would have justly incurred the punishment due to those who rebel.”
One cannot be clearer: the legal status of the same act changes with time. What is, while the rebellion goes on, a punishable crime, becomes, after a new legal order is established, its own opposite – more precisely, it simply disappears, as a vanishing mediator which retroactively cancels/erases itself in its result. The same holds for the very beginning, for the emergence of the legal order out of the violent “state of nature” – Kant is fully aware that there is no historical moment of “social contract”: the unity and law of a civil society is imposed onto the people by violence whose agent is not motivated by any moral considerations: “since a uniting cause must supervene upon the variety of particular volitions in order to produce a common will from them, establishing this whole is something no one individual in the group can perform; hence in the practical execution of this idea we can count on nothing but force to establish the juridical condition, on the compulsion of which public law will later be established. We can scarcely hope to find in the legislator a moral intention sufficient to induce him to commit to the general will the establishment of a legal constitution after he has formed the nation from a horde of savages”.
What Kant is struggling with here is nothing other than the paradoxical nature of the political ACT. Recall, from the history of Marxism, Karl Kautsky‟s defense of the multiparty democracy: Kautsky conceived the victory of socialism as the parliamentary victory of the social-democratic party, and even suggested that the appropriate political form of the passage from capitalism to socialism is the parliamentary coalition of progressive bourgeois parties and socialist parties. Lenin saved his utmost acerb irony for those who engage in the endless search for some kind of "guarantee" for the revolution. This guarantee assumes two main forms: either the reified notion of social Necessity (one should not risk the revolution too early; one has to wait for the right moment, when the situation is "mature" with regard to the laws of historical development: "it is too early for the Socialist revolution, the working class is not yet mature”), or the normative (“democratic”) legitimacy (“the majority of the population is not on our side, so the revolution would not really be democratic”) - as Lenin
repeatedly put it, it is as if, before a revolutionary agent risks the seizure of power, it should get the permission from some figure of the big Other – say, organize a referendum which will ascertain that the majority supports the revolution. With Lenin, as with Lacan, the point is that a revolution ne s'autorise que d'elle-meme: one should assume the revolutionary ACT not covered by the big Other - the fear of taking power "prematurely," the search for the guarantee, is the fear of the abyss of the act nicely rendered in the anecdote about the exchange between Lenin and Trotsky just prior to the October Revolution: Lenin said: “What will happen with us if we fail?” Trotsky replied: “And what will happen if we succeed?” Se non e vero e ben trovato…
Even some Lacanians praise democracy as the “institutionalization of the lack in the Other”: the premise of democracy is that no political agent is a priori legitimized to hold power, that the place of power is empty, open up to competition. However, by institutionalizing the lack, democracy neutralizes – normalizes – it, so that the big Other is again here in the guise of the democratic legitimization of our acts – in a democracy, my acts are “covered” as the legitimate acts which carry out the will of the majority. In contrast to this logic, the role of the emancipatory forces is not to passively „reflect“ the opinion of the majority, but to create a new majority – as Trotsky put it, a revolutionary subject should act “not in statically reflecting a majority, but in dynamically creating it.“ Kautsky‟s worry that the Russian working class took power „too early“ implies the positivist vision of history as an „objective“ process which in advance determines the possible coordinates of political interventions; within this horizon, it is unimaginable that a radical political intervention would change these very „objective“ coordinates and thus in a way create the conditions for its own success. An act proper is not just a strategic intervention into a situation, bound by its conditions – it retroactively creates its conditions.
We can see where Kant‟s weakness resides: there is no need to evoke “radical Evil” in the guise of some dark primordial crime – all these obscure fantasies have to be evoked to obfuscate the act itself. The paradox is clear: Kant himself, who put such an accent on the ethical act as autonomous, non-pathological, irreducible to its conditions, is unable to recognize it where it happens, misreading it as its opposite, as the unthinkable “diabolical Evil.” Kant is here one in the series of many conservative (and not only conservative) political thinkers, from Pascal and Joseph de Maistre, who elaborated the notion of illegitimate origins of power, of a „founding crime‟ on which state power is based; to obfuscate this origins, one
should offer to ordinary people “noble lies,” heroic narratives of origins. And the surprise is that a formal analysis of the works of great artists like Hitchcock enables us to disentangle such ideological mystifications.
*Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, European Graduate School, Switzerland.
1 I rely here on Jean-Pierre Esquenazi, Hitchcock et l’aventure de Vertigo, Paris: CNRS Editions 2001, p. 123-126.
2 Jean-Pierre Dupuy, “Quand je mourrai, rien de notre amour n’aura jamais existe,” unpublished manuscript of the intervention at the colloquium Vertigo et la philosophie, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, October 14 2005.
3 Viktor Frankl, Wissen und Gewissen, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1966.
4 Available online at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kant/kant1.htm.
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President Obama, your grandma says hello
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under kenya
Sarah Ogwel Onyango, better known as "Mama Sarah"
Though Kisumu is the third largest city in Kenya, it’s hardly a tourist attraction. It does boast a decent expat community mostly working in NGO and research groups, but for many Mzungu, it’s just a waystation, a stopover for a safari, a watering hole on the trek from Kenya to Uganda.
Not true, however, of the infinitely smaller village of Kogelo, about an hour-and-a-half drive north and west. There, in the shade of a giant tree, in a circle of handmade wooden chairs, an 87-year-old woman plays the role of tourist magnet, pulling thousands of Kenyans and foreigners alike.
Meet Sarah Ogwel Onyango, or as she is better known, Mama Sarah. She is the stepgrandmother to President Barack Obama.
(Mama Sarah doesn’t accept press interviews — a police guard there ensures that the media are kept at bay — so I went purely as a tourist. The pictures and recording (above) are entirely my own, not to be sold for publication.)
I went with a group of friends; we hired a private 11-person van (known as a matatu) for the trip, which turns down bumpy dirty roads and runs past a secondary school named after then-Sen. Obama.
The village — really just a scattered collection of huts, small farms and a market center with a few shops — was typical rural Kenya until its most famous grandson became senator and eventually president.
Mama Sarah’s house now has a satellite dish and television and a water tower and solar panels and police protection. The road still shakes car suspensions and fillings loose, but its wider and better than it was, the locals say.
But one look at the nearby school yards, the fields of cane and maize, the rustic huts with thatched roofs, and you’re hit with the amazing accomplishment this place symbolizes. In two generations, a family line went from herding goats to the U.S. presidency.
The story boiled down is thus: Barack Obama Sr. was raised on the family homestead here and attended a mission school. He excelled in classes so much that he went on to better schools, eventually a nearby university and then a job in Nairobi. He took courses and an exam that got him to Hawaii.
In the United States, he met a woman from Kansas. That woman gave birth to Barack Obama Jr., the Harvard law grad turned community organizer turned senator turned president.
Talk about the immigrant dream.
Tags: barack obama, immigration, kenya, kogelo, mama sarah, photography, tourism, village life
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3 Responses to “President Obama, your grandma says hello”
Did you sarge her?
Charlie Dalton Says:
Is she the one that saw Barack when he was born in Kenya, or was that his real Grandma? Maybe you can ask her the next time you see her. Are you doing any fishing? Send some pics.
Adam Jadhav Says:
Fishing safari was too expensive, unfortunately. But I’ll probably get some time in with a rod in Madagascar.
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Motion for a Resolution tabled by Mr Klepsch and Mr Bertrand on behalf of the Christian-Democratic Group (Group of the European People's Party), Mr Pintat on behalf of the Liberal and Democratic Group and Mr Rippon on behalf of the European Conservative Group with request for urgent debate pursuant to Rule 14 of the Rules of Procedure on the outcome of the Camp David meeting. Working Documents 1979-1979, Document 372/78/rev., October 1978
UNSPECIFIED (1978) Motion for a Resolution tabled by Mr Klepsch and Mr Bertrand on behalf of the Christian-Democratic Group (Group of the European People's Party), Mr Pintat on behalf of the Liberal and Democratic Group and Mr Rippon on behalf of the European Conservative Group with request for urgent debate pursuant to Rule 14 of the Rules of Procedure on the outcome of the Camp David meeting. Working Documents 1979-1979, Document 372/78/rev., October 1978. [EU European Parliament Document]
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Angola Rising
- Dialogue of ministry in Angola; a land rising from past challenges -
Keila: An Original Angola Board Game
Kiela is a mancala game played by Kimbundu speaking people in northern Angola near Grandos Lagos and Alto Zambeze. The name of the game means "puzzle" or "mindsport"
The game plays an important role in the oral literature and it is said to be a game of peace because "it can turn enemies into friends".
The "Instituto Nacional do Património Cultural" reports that the first official tournament was held in 1989 by the SIAC/Fenacult. Later in 1999, the government of Angola instituted the "Prémio Kiela", a tournament which has offered prizes up to 1,500 US$ for the winner. In the early 2000s, the game was supported by the Angolan Ministry of Culture and the province governor Aníbal Rocha.
In 1991, Bernardo Francisco Campos developed the first Kiela software and registered it with the Directorate of Spectacles Property Rights, in Lisbon. Later in 2001, Campos founded an Angolan organization called "Associação para a Promoção do Kiela (Aprokiela)" with the objective to promote Kiela and other cultural values. Campos also trademarked the game in 18 countries, among them South Africa, the European Union, and the USA.
Kiela is played on a board made by four rows of ten holes. Each player controls the two rows on his side of the board.
The initial position depends on the experience and strength of the players:
▪ Beginners start with one seed in each hole of the outer rows and one stone in each of the four right holes of each player's inner row.
Initial Position for Beginners
▪ Advanced players start with two seeds per hole in the same holes as described above.
Initial Position for Advanced Players
▪ Expert players may, at their first turn, rearrange the stones on their side.
Possible Position after Expert Play
At his turn a player takes the contents of one of his holes, which contains two or more seeds, and sows them one by one anti-clockwise into the succeeding holes of his board side.
If the last stone lands in an empty hole, the turn ends.
If the last stone lands in an occupied hole all these stones (the one just landed plus the ones that were already there) are picked up and sown in another lap.
▪ If this occupied hole is in the inner row and the opposite hole of the opponent is occupied, the stones of this hole are captured and the player keeps on sowing with them starting in the hole following the one that allowed him to capture.
▪ If the outer hole of the opponent is also occupied, the player captures also its stones, and then sows the stones of both opponent's holes.
When a player cannot move (i.e., all his holes are empty or contain single stones), he has lost. (From Mancala.wikia.com)
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Angola's Fishing Resurgence
Angola currently produces over 300,000 tons per year of fish and crustaceans, of which some 85% is consumed locally and aims to increase production by 30% in the coming years. One-third of Angola’s animal protein comes from fish and artisan fishing represents 30% of the country’s total fishing activity countrywide.
Despite a clear abundance of fish stocks, there is, as yet, no intense exploitation of the resource and few sizeable fishing vessels are in evidence. Nevertheless, such is the plenitude that Angolan’s fish and shellfish industry is already returning to its former pre-war prosperity.
Fisheries minister Victória de Barros Neto believes Angola has the potential to land much greater catches. The long coastline, normally blessed with hospitably calm seas, is clearly capable of greater sustained development and of providing food resources to meet the population’s demand for a healthier diet. Angola’s coast is 1,600 km long and its exclusive economic zone waters cover 330,000 sq. km.
As part of its effort to boost the fishing industry, Angola will hold its first ever International Fishing and Aquaculture Fair. FIP Angola (Feira Internacional das Pescas e da Aquaculture de Angola) runs from November 27-30. The event claims to promote the quality of fishery products, facilitate the exchange of experience and encourage innovation. Over 15 various countries have signed up to participate in this knowledge-sharing program.
Angola also has a well-developed tradition of sea angling as a sport along its extensive and uncrowded coast. The most accessible type of hobby-fishing involves beach-casting where not only record-sized fish can be captured, but provides a cost-efficient food source.
Game fishing from boats, is conducted by long-established clubs to distances as far as 50km offshore to hunt giant fighting fish such as blue marlins and tarpon.
Some of the largest Atlantic sailfish are caught off Luanda, and a record specimen of 64.6kg was landed off Lobito in March 2014. Angolan holds many of the world line records for sailfish and a Sailfish Classic game fish competition is held in Luanda every year with contestants taking part from around the globe.
Angola’s Ministry of Fisheries is making large investments in long-term structuring, spending $60 million on two fisheries protection and research vessels. These will help fight illegal fishing of protected species while also acting as rescue boats. In order to reinforce Angola’s capacity to control and inspect fisheries, the ministry also acquired scientific research vessel Pensador to study phytoplankton and zooplankton.
Another Ministry of Fisheries initiative announced in June involves using fish waste and fish with low commercial value in the production of animal feed supplements and fertilizer. The effort will also reduce the problem of environmental contamination.
The future looks increasingly bright for Angola’s diet as well as the fish and seafood resources that serve it. (From Sonangol Universo Magazine Sept 2014)
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Members please note there are a number of changes to The Club's opening and closing times during summer; The Garden and Rose Room will however remain open throughout the entire season. Please click here to view all Summer Closing Hours.
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The Birley Clubs
ABOUT DRESS CODE YOUR DOG CLUB RULES THE TEAM HISTORY
A Birley Club
In 2018, Annabel’s opened the doors to its much-anticipated new home, a Grade I listed Georgian mansion house at 46 Berkeley Square. For the first time, Annabel’s now offers an all-day and all-night experience, set across 26,000 square feet, for Members to work, dine and entertain.
The original Annabel's opened in 1963 at 44 Berkeley Square. Over five decades the Club has earned a global reputation founded on superb service, exclusive ambience, first-class cuisine and unparalleled entertainment.
Annabel’s encourages individuality and fabulous party dressing. The Club's Dress Code does not wish to be binding or overly prescriptive, however we do politely ask our Members and their guests to dress for the occasion and be respectful in their choice of smart attire.
Sneakers are permitted, though flip-flops, shorts, gym wear, sportswear, ripped jeans, baseball caps, hooded jumpers, beachwear and revealing outfits are not. After 6pm Gentlemen are required to wear jackets.
Dogs are most welcome on the Ground Floor of the Club until 6pm throughout the week, as long as they are accompanied by their Owner.
Dogs are not allowed on the furniture. Members can contact Reception upon arrival for further information regarding the Club’s Dog Walker.
Club Rules in Brief
Respect the Club as if it were your home
Please refrain from photography within the Club, Members are encouraged to respect the privacy of other Members
Posting to social media should be discreet and not involve or feature other Members and their guests inside The Club.
The Club is both a place of relaxation and business, so please always be considerate of Members indulging in either pursuit
Mobile telephones must be kept on silent
Speaking on the telephone and the use of laptops is permitted in the Mexican and The Elephant Bar during the day until 6pm
Members are encouraged to dress for the occasion and be respectful in their choice of attire
Dinner reservations for more than four guests should be mixed groups of ladies and gentlemen
Always ensure that your guests (and your pet dog, if it accompanies you) behave appropriately – they remain your responsibility
Dogs are only allowed on the Ground Floor, daily until 6pm and are not allowed on the furniture
Children under the age of 18 are allowed in the Club on weekends until 6pm
Members are welcome to bring three guests to the Club without a reservation and are reminded to present their Membership card on entering the Club
Members are reminded to stay with their guests throughout their visit and must not leave guests unattended in The Club, around the Club, or at the Club after you leave.
Valet parking is not available for the time being
Bills cannot be signed to your membership account and must be settled on the day
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HADI AKNIN
Chief Operations Officer, Annabel’s
Following his most recent role as Director of Operations of Sushi Samba at the Heron Tower in London, Hadi joined Annabel’s in April 2018. Hadi has previously worked at Marcus Wearing's Petrus, Gordon Ramsay's Maze, as well as Pont de la Tour and Launceston Place.
JULIEN JOUHANNAUD
Executive Chef, Annabel's
An Alain Ducasse protégée, having been Executive Sous Chef at Bar&Boeuf, Monaco, from 2002-2005 and later Executive Chef at Adour Alain Ducasse St. Regis Hotel in Washington D.C., Julien has since used his culinary skills to travel the world. He has worked in Las Vegas, Singapore and most recently at Le Bilboquet in New York.
Carlos Martínez
Head Chef, The Garden & Rose Room
Spanish chef Carlos has worked at 18 Michelin-starred restaurants throughout Europe. Born in Valencia, for more than six years he worked in Cahors, France, with Claude Marco, a classically-trained chef and former chef at Le Gavroche.
Later, he moved to Fribourg, Switzerland, to work with chef Pierrot Ayer, before heading to the UK to work for Daniel Galmiche at Cliveden House in Berkshire. After nine years at Cliveden House, Carlos spent several years working as executive head chef at The Stafford in London, and head chef at Maze by Gordon Ramsay.
Head Chef, The Nightclub
Canadian-born Ryan hit the London scene in 2012, working first at the Michelin starred L’Atelier de Joel Rubochon before joining Oblix at The Shard in 2013, where he became Head Chef. Ryan joined Annabel’s in 2017.
COKO BECKER
Head Chef, The Mexican
As the former Head Chef of Mexico’s most internationally celebrated restaurant; Pujol, Chef Coko joined Annabel’s as Head Chef of The Mexican where his focus is on creating new and interesting dishes, based on Mexico’s plethora of exceptional ingredients that complement the culinary culture of the Club. The restaurant’s menu is rooted in Mexican flavours and traditions, providing fresh, light and fragrant dishes with an emphasis on colour and simplicity.
CLÉMENT ROBERT
Group Head Sommelier & Wine Buyer
Clément Robert started his wine career from an early age, attending the catering school in Le Touquet. At the age of 18 he moved to Angers to take his sommelier degree. After a spell as trainee Sommelier at a Michelin starred restaurant in the Loire, Clément moved to England in 2006 where he became Assistant Head Sommelier of the Hotel Du Vin Brighton, and then Head Sommelier of the Hotel Du Vin Cambridge. In 2009, he joined Summer Lodge Hotel as Assistant Sommelier to Eric Zwiebel MS and won the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs’ International Young Sommelier of the Year competition, before being named UK Sommelier of the Year in 2013. After working for nearly 5 years as Head Sommelier for Medlar restaurant in Chelsea, In 2015 he took charge of the wine buying for Texture group. Clément passed his MS in 2015.
LUIS SIMOES
Bar Director, The Birley Clubs
Luis joined Annabel's in 2017 straight from his role as opening Bar Concept Director at The Chiltern Firehouse. Prior to that he was Bar and Lounge Manager at The Ritz Hotel.
Bars General Manager, Annabel’s
Award-winning cocktail maestro Frankie arrived in London in 2007, aged 19. By the age of 25 he was working at The Rivoli Bar at The Ritz, making him the youngest ever Bar Manager since the hotel opened in 1906. Portuguese-born Santos joined Annabel's in 2017 from The Chiltern Firehouse, where he worked for three years concluding his time there as Beverage Director.
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"These are all albums that I thought were gone forever. I didn’t think they would ever show up on CD, but they are and I couldn’t be more pleased."
Each of the 10 volumes of "The Signature Series" contains two Anne Murray studio albums on one CD. All tracks have been reproduced in their original LP sequence. Recorded from 1969 to 1987, they have been digitally re-mastered from original sources and have been restored using Sonic Solution’s No-NOISE. Each volume includes a full colour booklet, featuring rare personal and career highlight photos selected by Anne.
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2013 Ford Explorer Sport Review
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I had the chance to test drive the 2013 Ford Explorer Sport — the brand new souped-up, blinged out version of this favorite SUV. And now I want to buy it. Really.
What differentiates the Explorer Sport from the standard Explorer is the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 engine. When I drove it I could feel the impressive horsepower and super-fast acceleration. Its sport suspension and tight handling reminded me of when I have driven a BMW X-5. Open roads when using the six speed SelectShift Paddle Shifters on the steering columns, which allow for the that stick-shift feel, made for a seriously beautiful drive.
The EcoBoost engine also means that although this is a seven-seater, it will receive an EPA-estimated 20 MPG (17 city, 24 highway), which is much more fuel-efficient that other SUVs this size. Although I drove to both Gaithersburg and Baltimore round-trip from our house in Silver Spring, in addition to my usual Montgomery County soccer mom circuit, I did not have to visit the pump all week.
The four wheel drive was the best I have tested. Ford’s Terrain Management System makes transferring from the drive settings easy, even mid-drive. There is normal (front wheel drive for every day), mud/ruts (allows tires to spin as needed), sand (all-wheel drive) and grass/gravel/s now (minimizes wheelslip). A new feature for 2013 is Hill Descent Control for safe maneuvering of off-road downhills. A special button signals the Explorer to maintain a steady speed down the hill, and the driver simply steers.
If you have a trailer, boat or other item you would like to tow, the Explorer Sport is also celebrated for its towing capabilities (which I did not test).
The entire family loved the Explorer Sport’s Remote Start/Automatic Climate Control System. With just a click on the keyless start fob, the cabin temperature was pre-heated to 72 degrees, the heated seats were set to high and the rear defrost/heated mirrors were activated before anyone climbed in. This took “warming up the car” to a whole new leverl! In hot weather conditions, the cabin can be cooled to 72 degrees and the cooled seats set to high before you enter!
As I wrote about in my review of the Ford Escape, I love using SNYC with MyFord Touch to sync my iPhone with the Explorer Sport’s system, and soon my contacts, playlists and addresses were easily accessible on the LCD center touch screen. I used both voice commands and touch to call friends, find locations on the navigation and change radio channels. I also could charge my phone while driving using the USB port.
The Sony audio system’s HD speakers were crystal clear for both local and satellite radio, and I loved the ease of navigating channels from the steering column.
And as a mother of three, the Blind Spot Information System (BLIS) gets my vote for safest invention. A little light comes on the side mirrors if another vehicle is in your blind spot! My second vote goes to the ingenious “back-up camera” (aka the Forward and Reverse Sensing Systems).
This car is seriously beautiful, inside and out. The big 20-inch machined aluminum wheels have painted pockets, the leather-trimmed bucket seats are living room-worthy, the front grille on the Sport has an exclusive Explorer badge that is not featured on the other trims. It comes in White Platinum, Ruby Red, Ingot Silver and Tuxedo Black. It is really, really pretty.
I used to think that with having at least three children (hey, who knows what the next years may bring!), my only car option was a minivan or a massive Suburban-sized SUV. But the Ford Explorer Sport felt just as roomy as my trusty old Honda Odyssey. I was able to load just as many groceries, strollers and children as I needed. And I felt pretty sporty and luxurious while doing it.
The 2013 Ford Explorer Sport was a dream of an SUV, combining luxury and family features. It is now at the top of my list for my next car purchase.
I received a 2013 Ford Explorer Sport to test-drive for seven days and a full tank of gas. No other compensation was received. It was a pleasure to review.
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The Chicago Tribune’s Editorial About Same-Sex Marriage And Swastika Cakes Is Right — Here’s Why
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Chris Caesar
Updated: Dec 8, 2017 @ 18:03
The Chicago Tribune might not know a lot about baking, but it does have a flair for cooking up some enticingly false dichotomies for its readers.
The paper’s editorial board caught some heat this week after running a piece defending a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding, citing his religious objections to the institution. The paper called for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s decision that found the baker’s decision discriminatory under Colorado state law.
“Designing a wedding cake, [the baker’s] attorneys contend, is an expressive activity — and freedom of expression includes the right not to be compelled to express views one doesn’t share,” the editorial read. “In 1978, a New Hampshire motorist didn’t want to display the state’s ‘Live Free or Die’ slogan on his license plate — and established the right to refuse … To be forced to create a cake for a same-sex wedding is a similar burden. Imagine a Jewish baker being required to put a swastika on a cake.”
Leaving aside the, uh, clunky analogy of making a Jewish person bake a swastika cake versus a guy objecting to a lame state motto on his license plate, the editorial got us thinking: what are some other, extremely plausible, very legitimate, not-strawmen scenarios that may emerge if the Supreme Court upholds the Colorado court’s decision?
Jocks having to bake cakes for nerds
Picture this: You, the successful head of a very popular chain of jock bakeries, catering to jock needs and jock interests. A pie that looks like the Barstool Sports logo? You can do that. Cake that looks like a can of Coors Lite? Done. Doughnuts in memory of a good friend who died from hazing? No problemo, my good dude.
Then, suddenly, the kid you used to intimidate into doing your Algebra II homework rolls up to the store. It’s been a few years since high school, and now, he’s successful, too — doing computers or some shit. He’s wearing nice clothes and seems more confident than you remember, resurfacing old — but familiar and unsettling — feelings.
He strolls up to the counter, not recognizing you. Every nerve ending in your body pulsates with rage as El Dorko casually hits you with this: “Hey there. This is kind of a strange request, but, my friend LOVES Star Wars. We thought it might be fun to get him a cake shaped like a lightsaber for his birthday … is that something you could do?”
Back in your glory days, you’d kick this dweeb to the curb — and he’d deserve it! Instead, you have to take his order and bake a laser sword cake like a total bitch. This is the America you want to live in? OK dude.
You having to bake a cake for your crazy ex’s wedding
So, it sounds like you want to force bakeries to make cakes for gay weddings.
OK, well, it just so happens that your ex-girlfriend Danica and her insane new boyfriend Phillipe are getting married after only two months of dating, and in a subconscious display of narcissistic dominance, Danica is demanding that you, her well-intentioned and still-devastated ex, bake an elaborate cake for the festivities.
What’s that? You feel uncomfortable getting involved in organizing a party for the woman who, when you last saw her in person, screamed that you “fuck like shit” and it was good she stopped loving you because her family always hated you anyway?
Hm, sorry to hear this. According to Liberal Logic, I’m afraid you’ll have to bake the cake anyway ^_^
Radiohead having to bake a cake for Coldplay
Can you imagine it? Thom and the boys are hunkered down in the studio, making laser and space noises for their new groundbreaking album, and just hit their stride in the creative process. “Pew, pew,” the space noises go.
Suddenly, an unwanted interruption: a phone call, to Jonny Greenwood’s mobile. Sighing, he answers on speakerphone.
“Hey blokes, this is the manager of Coldplay,” the voice on the other end of the phone says. Greenwood rolls his eyes to the back of his head and makes a mocking self-strangulation gesture to the rest of the band, who quietly laugh.
“We were wondering if it might be possible for you guys to make a giant cake that says, ‘Radiohead <3s Coldplay, Our Favorite Band’ for Chris Martin’s birthday next month,” the manager continues.
“Ummm, first of all, we’re a band,” Greenwood says. “We don’t bake cakes. And we think Coldplay are wankers. We don’t even like that band. Why would we make a cake like that.”
But the manager smiles, knowing he has Radiohead exactly where he wants them.
“Maybe you should check with the U.S. Supreme Court,” he snarls. “We expect the cake by next week.” He hangs up.
Personally? I’d like to hear Radiohead’s new album. But if you liberals think they should be wasting time baking cakes for Chris Martin, be my guest.
Mafia dudes who make their victim bake a cake for their own funeral before burying them alive in cement
Sure, force bakeries to make cakes for gay weddings — what could go wrong?
Well, think about this: You’re a guy who just double-crossed the Mafia, and they’ve driven you out to the middle of nowhere to shoot out your kneecaps and drown you in a block of wet cement. You’re scared. You’re frightened. You’re thinking about what will happen to your family. Suddenly, you’re thrown to your knees onto the dirt. The burlap sack tied over over your face is roughly pulled off. You inhale sharply as the cold forest air hits your face.
“One last thing before we turn your lungs to sidewalk, you piece of shit,” the Mafia dude spits, grabbing your shirt. What could he possibly want, you wonder? He’s so deranged. So unhinged. You look into his eyes and see … nothing.
“Bake me … ” he growls, “Bake me a fucking cake. Bake me your funeral cake. We like to get really weird with dudes who double-cross us, and I bet it will really freak your wife out if we’re like ‘hey, your dead husband made this, dumbass,’ hahaha.”
Folks: wouldn’t you just want to get your own torturous murder over with? Are you honestly going to be at your culinary best in this situation? Do you think your wife really wants to be “freaked out” at your own funeral? Do funerals even have cakes?
You, a Jewish person, having to bake a swastika cake for Nazis
This is something that would for sure happen, and is absolutely the same thing as making a selectively religious baker put two tiny grooms on top of a cake instead of a tiny groom and tiny bride.
As very smart people at important newspapers know, literal Nazis, just like gay people, are a protected class in America who have been historically targeted for discrimination, making this scenario a particularly fair and accurate parallel to the actual question at hand.
Enjoy your swastika cakes, libs — you earned them.
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Sleepaway camp the movie
Sleepaway camp the movie. Sleepaway Camp (1983) 2019-02-11
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Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
Phoebe, now lost, calls back for Angela, who appears behind her and hits her in the head with a log. Angela tells them that she sent her home. Phoebe, distressed, runs off into the woods. A press release announcing the film was sent out several years back, indicating it would enter production in 2008 and be released in 2009. In 2012, that footage was cleaned up and flashbacks from the previous films were added to it, along with newly recorded narration and visual effects. They attempt to swim ashore where Lenny is waiting for them.
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Cast as as Tony Higgins at Valerie Hartman as Trivia There is a name discrepency with one of the campers. A remake has indeed been rumored and discussed in recent years, though no plans are set in stone. Angela and Peter prank their father by capsizing their boat. While we all anxiously await the arrival of that must-own release, today we whet your appetite for those gory summer camp shenanigans by looking back on five Sleepaway Camp sequels that were planned but never quite happened. The cook, Artie, attempts to Angela, but Ricky catches him, and Ricky and Angela run out. Angela grows so irritated that she murders the trucker.
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I think you can figure out where the story was to go from there! A Pirate Ship Ropes Course! He finds the cabin and enters it and is greeted by Angela, who pours battery acid on his face, hideously mutilating and killing him. Much like at the previous camp, she gleefully tortures and kills anyone who misbehaves or annoys her. Murders are again committed by an unknown person at the camp, but it is revealed that Angela has made a return in another disguise, a male police officer named Sheriff Jerry who uses an due to supposedly having had. Honestly, the second question is one that can only be answered if and when the movie comes out. Is it these religious kooks or Angela being her bad little transsexual psychopathic self again? The film tells the story of a young girl and her cousin who are sent to a summer camp, where a group of killings begins shortly after their arrival. Back at camp, Rob informs T. Later, Angela carries the camper's body toward the abandoned cabin and refers to him as Matt.
That Sleepaway Camp Ending Is Still Horrifying 35 Years Later
Judy seduces Paul, and Angela finds them kissing. Unlike many of its contemporaries, which had adults portraying youth, the cast of Sleepaway Camp was primarily made up of adolescent actors. Series creator Robert Hiltzik now owns the rights to the Sleepaway Camp franchise, which, as of 2013, is to be. Writer and director Robert Hiltzik mines little tension from his story of a youth summer camp besieged by a killer dumping boiling water on pervy camp cooks and stabbing counselors in the shower, Psycho-style. Guests can also feel free to bring their own coolers filled with food, drinks, or anything they want to keep cold. Felissa Rose is marvelous as Angela,especially with her creepy stare. Molly wants to cheer Angela up before she leaves the camp, so she and Sean go to the abandonded cabin to see her.
After the arrival of the teenage campers, several are mysteriously murdered by an unseen killer. Angela then cuts Sean's head off with Judd's machete. Angela drives Mare away from camp and gives her a choice to be good and stay but Mare is so upset that she'd rather just leave, so Angela murders her with a power drill. The film is about psychopathic camp counselor killing undesirable teens at summer camp. It was directed by , the director of the original 1983 film. Full Synopsis One night at , head counselor , a group of boys and enjoy a campfire and tell each other scary stories deep in the woods.
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When campers Kenny and Mike mock Angela, Ricky and his friend Paul fight them. She then travels back to the camp after receiving advice that revisiting might help her overcome her problems. Angela chases after her and after a struggle, Molly pulls the knife out of Angela's pocket and threatens to stab Angela if she tries to come near her. . Image via United Film Distribution Company First, the set-up: The film opens on a father and two children—a boy and a girl—tragically getting run down by a speedboat one summer afternoon, with a sudden eight-year time jump obscuring just who exactly survived the case of water skiing gone horribly wrong. After Martha gained custody of him, she raised Peter as the girl she always wanted, already having a son.
Is The New SLEEPAWAY CAMP Sequel Still Happening?
After Ricky rescues Angela, children fling sand at them. Though Berserk could still happen someday, there has been no progress in the last few years, as far as I know. Angela suddenly appears behind them, knocks Sean out and ties the duo up. She wants to send them home as well but T. One of the unnamed lucky campers survives Angela.
Simpson told , about the project. After campers Billy and Mike throw water balloons at Angela, Billy is stung to death when someone traps him in a bathroom stall and drops a hive in it. Katz has since had the movie set up at Ted Field's Radar Pictures - which had a hand in both the Texas Chain Saw and Amityville Horror remakes - who are riding high on their so there might be money to spare on this smaller project, should it still exist at the company. The purportedly final film in Hiltzik's Sleepaway Camp trilogy, titled Sleepaway Camp Reunion, was also announced to be in the works. However, Mary Anna, a counselor at the camp, recklessly strikes John and one of the children with her speedboat. From what I gather, a supernatural element was to come into play, with either the spirit of Angela possessing one of the teens, or Angela herself coming back from the dead. The following film in the franchise, Return to Sleepaway Camp, was filmed from September to November 2003, but due to supposedly poor , its release was delayed until 2008 in order to have time to improve them.
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Installation view of RYOHEI KAN’s “As You See It” at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2019. All photos by Alexander Christie; courtesy the artist and Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix.
As You See It
Ryohei Kan
Web Review BY Cleo Roberts
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
Japan United Kingdom
Preoccupied with the limits of perceptibility, Ryohei Kan filled his solo show, “As You See It” at London’s Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, with images of seemingly empty white-cube spaces, gesturing to the very environment that the pieces inhabited. By creating these meta-simulations of exhibition spaces, Kan punctured the façades of the gallery, and prompted closer examinations of the surroundings that influence and are shaped by art.
Endless Gallery (2019) is transparent in these aims. Located in the gallery’s basement, the video metamorphosed one of the walls into a portal, leading visitors through multiple virtual, brightly lit galleries. The one-to-one scale walkthrough glides through room after empty room. The experience is made all the more austere by the clipped footsteps that accompany the footage, asserting an unnervingly anonymous presence in the architecture. The effect is the viewer’s anticipation of an encounter with someone or something, as would be the norm in such a space. This play with the viewer’s expectations of a gallery, and its role as a host to works of art, are reinforced by a nearby intervention, Door (2019). Peering into the silver peep-hole of an inconspicuous door, visitors see an endless vista of white corridors, going from the blank gallery to nowhere.
Installation view of RYOHEI KAN’s Endless Gallery, 2019, single-channel video: 2 min 52 sec (looped), at “As You See It,” Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2019.
Installation view of RYOHEI KAN’s Door, 2019, mixed media installation with video: 4 min 29 sec (looped), at “As You See It,” Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2019.
Kan’s photographic works build on this scene. In his “White Cube” (2012– ) series, he captures the immaculate details of a group of interiors. The dim corners of spaces, track lighting, walls void of any adornment besides barely perceptible holes and scuff marks, and polished concrete floors are the images’ sole subjects. These are contrived compositions staged by Kan. He builds meticulous 1:12 scale models based on his collection of internet images and photographs in art books of international galleries, erasing any artwork to reduce the highly specialized architecture to its bare walls. He then photographs these sets, drawing viewers’ attentions to the lack of specificity in the environments.
Installation view of RYOHEI KAN’s White Cube – 6 (left), 2013, and White Cube – 15 (right), 2015, both C-prints, 100 × 150 cm each, from the “White Cube” series (2012– ), at “As You See It,” Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2019.
The artist’s proclivity for mixing the virtual with the real is also evident in Palette (2019). Three sheets of paper, each featuring grids that fade from charcoal gray at the top to white at the bottom, spanned the length and width of one of the gallery’s walls. The squares all have a distinctive pattern evoking the texture of concrete. These are the paper swatches used by Kan to construct his mock galleries. Although pinned to the wall, they embody movement through the markings and cracks that resulted from their use, and much like Map Large White (2017), a dizzying, densely gridded drawing based on an architectural blueprint, they speak of the physical experience of space, reconciling Kan’s inert depictions with circulations of activity. Endless White Cube (2016–19), the video placed next to the drawing, added to the rendering’s dynamism with its forward movement through open door frames, more pristine cuboid rooms, and over glossy linoleum floors. There is both a utopic and dystopic quality to the depicted space, which has no traces of what existed there before, and yet, because of this, is primed for what is to come.
Installation view of RYOHEI KAN’s Palette (left), 2019, triptych of inkjet prints on paper, 335 cm x 112 cm each, and White Cube – 28 (right), 2018, from the “White Cube” series (2012– ), C-print, 60 × 60 cm, at “As You See It,” Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2019.
RYOHEI KAN, Map Small Blue, 2017, blue print, 42 × 42 cm.
In line with architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s concept of “organic architecture,” according to which a space’s meaning is ascribed by those who inhabit it, making a building a living entity, Kan’s concern with “voids” creates room for contemplation. Giving insight into the rarely bare gallery, much like Yves Klein’s installation Le Vide (1958), the minimal exhibition had a confounding and disorientating effect. With the gallery fabric opening out into virtual rooms, the viewer was left grappling and perhaps questioning what they really see or what they should be seeing.
Ryohei Kan’s “As You See It” is on view at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, until May 17, 2019.
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LAKE Production Company launches new brand – with new logo and service charter
LAKE Production Company Limited launched today a new logo and Service Charter, as part of a complete new corporate branding strategy. A rather cool refreshment of its corporate looks ahead of their first National Tangains Music Festival that has been scheduled for 24th December 2017, at the Siaka Steven Mainbowl, Freetown and the 2nd edition of the National Entertainment Awards (NEA) in April 2018.
LAKE Production has launched a new corporate branding strategy, highlighting its mission to become Sierra Leone’s number one premium event management, advertising, public relations, marketing, branding and media production company. The launch is geared towards maintaining its leadership in the media and entertainment business and expanding into new marketing opportunities and digital technologies.
Following a significant and strategic rebranding process, LAKE launched its new Service Charter, reflecting a cohesive new array of branding elements, including a modernized logo.
LAKE’s new corporate branding is the culmination of the transformation which started on the 25th May 2012. After 5 years of building an established and strong brand as a leader in the Sierra Leone entertainment industry, the new generation of senior leadership outlined an updated strategy and defined the company’s mission.
“LAKE’s new corporate branding strategy is built on our rich corporate history as an established industry leader and incorporates the growing opportunities our leadership team is pursuing going forward,” noted Alhaji K. Tarawally, Chief Executive Officer of LAKE Production Company Limited. “Building on our long years of experience, we are leveraging our core capabilities and industry expertise to create significant, business value for the entertainment industry by advancing beyond Event Management to Creative technology, Dissemination & Media booking, Social media strategy & implementation, Resource management, Business consulting, Content Syndication, Measurement & Optimization, Corporate, Political and Celeb Branding.
LAKE’s brand stands for more than organising national entertainment events. Together with our team, customers and entertainment shareholders, LAKE is building a sustainable future for the Media and Entertainment market in Sierra Leone.”
LAKE Production is the only event management company that has the legal and sole ownership franchise to organize and manage the following national entertainment events in Sierra Leone including; National Entertainment Awards (NEA), National Music Awards (NMA), Miss Mano River International Beauty Pageant, Miss Freetown Beauty Contest, National Hip-hop Music Awards and National Music Festivals…All of which are registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission and Office of the Administrator and Registrar General of Sierra Leone.
LAKE Production became a legal entity on the 25th May 2011. But its real beginning can be traced in October 2009 from Premier Media Company Limited where a renowned broadcaster, Alhaji K. Tarawally popularly known as Laj-K, teamed up with a group comprising young Sierra Leoneans from a wide spectrum of the society with the intention of forming a social organisation aimed at hosting shows only. This group included a Lawyer, Journalist, Accountant, Marketer, an Actress, ICT Specialist and Banker, to name a few. Some of the most challenging experiences became the building blocks upon which newer experiences were created.
In its early formative years, LAKE Production was first registered as a Community Based Organization (CBO) with the Freetown City Council. On the 25th May 2012, Laj-K decided to take a step further by registering it as a Business Enterprise under the Administrator and Registrar-General. After successfully organizing three annual National Music Awards, the founder and CEO decided to upgrade the business from a Business Enterprise to a Company Limited by Guarantee, on the 30th March 2017.
LAKE Production Company Limited was established to become the best source of television, music video, photography, design, production and creative thinking—not just in Sierra Leone, but the West Africa sub-region as a whole. After more than seven years of experience in event management, digital technology, marketing, branding, photography, public relations and media production, LAKE’s creator Alhaji K. Tarawally envisioned a company that could leverage all of those experiences in an uncommonly effective way with the primary objectives of enhancing standards, employment, sales and innovation.
The Founder and CEO of LAKE Production Company Limited, Mr. Tarawally is a household name in Sierra Leone with many beautiful personalities that we will continue singing forever, having successfully worked for most of the top media institutions in Sierra Leone during the past 14 years of his media sojourn. Suffice it to say for now that there are three icons that help us explain it all: in the first place, he was the Head of Programme of the biggest Media Empire in Sierra Leone (Television, Radio, Newspaper and Printing Press) – Africa Young Voices for almost three consecutive years, before rising to the position of Head of Monitoring and Quality Control–with a wealth of 14 years’ experience in Mainstream Journalism, Event Management, Marketing, Branding, Public Relations and Communication Consultancy.
Secondly, he is an academic and is presently a lecturer at the Mass Communication Department at the LICCSAL Business College, an affiliate to the University of Sierra Leone – teaching Broadcast Media, Multimedia and Public Relations.
The third icon of Mr. Tarawally is that he is an entrepreneur, having managed retail operations, overseen successful and profitable national events, launched initiatives in ways that have never been previously done, created work that has been honoured with international and national awards.
Creative skill, experience and insight are not characteristics that bloom after a few days or weeks of sunshine and rain. They are constructed, dismantled and discovered through unexpected challenges, unforeseen opportunities and uncommon belief in the abilities that are often only partly tangible but still truly obvious.
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TILLERSON blows up at White House aide over staffing decisions — TRUMP mocks CNN, Pelosi at closed-door fundraiser — SERGIO GOR’s PR hobby — B’DAY: Carl Forti
Filed Under: On The Hill, Trending
Driving the Day
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: SERGIO’S HOBBY — Sergio Gor, Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) prominent communications director, is helping out Fox News’ Eric Bolling with PR for his new book, “The Swamp: Washington’s Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It.” Gor has been helping coordinate interviews with Bolling and accompanying him on some TV interviews for the book. Gor said he is doing this on his own personal time, and Paul gave it his stamp of approval. Gor told us, “I was happy to lend a hand to my friend and former boss Eric Bolling as he launched his new book.”
TODAY is the 10th anniversary of the first iPhone. Walt Mossberg, the renowned tech journalist, said at the time that “It is certainly the most beautiful and most radical smart phone or hand held computer I have ever tested.” http://bit.ly/2tou6DQ
Happy Thursday, and happy almost Fourth-of-July weekend. There’s plenty of palace intrigue, horse trading in the Senate over health care and the deets on how Democrats are plotting to thwart Republicans’ health care legislation.
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— WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE WHITE HOUSE — JOSH DAWSEY, ELIANA JOHNSON and ALEX ISENSTADT: “Tillerson blows up at top White House aide,” by Josh Dawsey, Eliana Johnson and Alex Isenstadt: “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s frustrations with the White House have been building for months. Last Friday, they exploded. The normally laconic Texan unloaded on Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office, for torpedoing proposed nominees to senior State Department posts and for questioning his judgment.
“Tillerson also complained that the White House was leaking damaging information about him to the news media, according to a person familiar with the meeting. Above all, he made clear that he did not want DeStefano’s office to ‘have any role in staffing’ and ‘expressed frustration that anybody would know better’ than he about who should work in his department — particularly after the president had promised him autonomy to make his own decisions and hires, according to a senior White House aide familiar with the conversation.
“The episode stunned other White House officials gathered in chief of staff Reince Priebus’ office, leaving them silent as Tillerson raised his voice. In the room with Tillerson and DeStefano were Priebus, top aide Jared Kushner and Margaret Peterlin, the secretary of state’s chief of staff. The encounter, described by four people familiar with what happened, was so explosive that Kushner approached Peterlin afterward and told her that Tillerson’s outburst was completely unprofessional, according to two of the people familiar with the exchange, and told her that they needed to work out a solution.” http://politi.co/2ukaMVf
— WHAT TRUMP IS HEATED ABOUT: “Trump rips media, mocks Pelosi at closed-door fundraiser,” by Alex Isenstadt: “President Donald Trump, facing dimming approval ratings and a stalled legislative agenda, rolled out his greatest hits on Wednesday evening – ripping into CNN, assailing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and hailing his party’s string of special election wins. Before a rapt audience of 300 supporters, major GOP donors and party leaders attending the first fundraiser of his 2020 reelection campaign at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., the commander in chief returned to his comfort zone.
“Speaking for around 30 minutes at the closed-door event, according to two people present, the president continued to bash a favorite target – the media, and in particular CNN. Trump derided the network for errors and presented himself as a victim of their reporting, which he described as deeply unfair. At one point, the president turned his fire on one of the network’s liberal commentators, Van Jones. With Republican Party benefactors in attendance, the president highlighted the special election victories – especially last week’s for a Georgia congressional seat. The president poked fun at the unsuccessful Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff for not residing in the suburban Atlanta district he was running for. Ossoff, the president joked, raised over $20 million yet couldn’t get an apartment in Atlanta. …
“Then there was Pelosi, who Republicans aggressively tied to Ossoff – and whose future as Democratic leader has been questioned in the wake of the Georgia race. Republicans, Trump joked, needed Pelosi to stay atop her caucus.” http://politi.co/2sjG8PC
— QUICK NOTE: Do you think lambasting the House Democratic leader is a way to get to a bipartisan compromise on health care, infrastructure or, for that matter, anything?
— WHAT’S HAPPENING TO TRUMP’S AGENDA: “Beleaguered health care bill gets new terms in effort to secure votes,” by Jen Haberkorn, Josh Dawsey and Burgess Everett: “Senate Republicans and the White House have agreed to add at least $45 billion to their Obamacare repeal bill to address the opioid crisis and are near agreement on allowing consumers to use Health Savings Account money to pay for their premiums, according to people familiar with the matter. The additions come as Senate Republicans are scrambling to get to 50 votes on their health care legislation. Both additions are expected to help get additional Republicans on board – opioid funding could help win over moderates and HSAs for conservatives. But there is no guarantee the language will do enough to substantially improve the bill’s prospects, Republican sources said.” http://politi.co/2t2J2VL
— THE NEW TIMELINE: “Republican leaders, having already delayed their Obamacare repeal vote until after the Fourth of July recess, want to come to an agreement in principle on the modified bill by the end of this week. After a score from the Congressional Budget Office – which would take up to two weeks – they hope to hold a vote.”
— THE INTRAPARTY SQUABBLING: “Portman and McConnell clash over health bill: If McConnell cannot win Portman’s vote, there’s no way Senate Republicans will be able to repeal Obamacare,” by John Bresnahan and Seung Min Kim: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rob Portman, close allies and typically mild-mannered men, got into a heated exchange over Medicaid at a meeting earlier this week.
“McConnell sided with conservatives eager to dramatically slow the program’s growth, and laid into Portman for opposing it. ‘As OMB director, you backed entitlement reform,’ he said, according to multiple GOP sources in the leadership meeting. Portman was Office of Management and Budget director under President George W. Bush, and McConnell was implying that Portman had changed his stance from when he worked in the White House.
“But Portman, who has backed individual spending caps for Medicaid under the GOP plan but not the slower growth, was having none of it. ‘The leadership has overreached on this bill,’ Portman shot back.” http://politi.co/2sptlpN
— THE FRUSTRATION IS GROWING … — “Republicans frustrated as their to-do list grows: The GOP agenda is stalled, and even more difficult votes loom,” by Rachael Bade and Burgess Everett. http://politi.co/2tojnJA
BEHIND-THE-SCENES — “How the push for a Senate health-care vote fell apart amid GOP tensions,” by WaPo’s Bob Costa, Sean Sullivan, Juliet Eilperin and Kelsey Snell. http://wapo.st/2sTuj0Y
— ON FOX: “As GOP buckles down on health care, conservative media loses interest,” by WaPo’s Dave Weigel: “The network’s prime-time shows, ratings kings of cable news, ignored the health-care story. Fox’s 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. shows began with stories about a sting video that caught a CNN producer dismissing his network’s coverage of Russia and the 2016 election. ‘The Five,’ Fox’s 9 p.m. show, began with the ‘bombshell’ news that President Barack Obama had said — in October 2016 – that it would be ‘impossible’ to rig the election. Nine minutes were spent on the Senate bill before a segue way into the CNN story.” http://wapo.st/2s4UrmU
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THE BIG QUESTION, via AP’S JULIE PACE: “GOP ponders whether Trump helps sell health care”: “It was a platform most politicians can only hope for: A captivated, 6,000-person crowd and more than an hour of live, prime-time television coverage to hype the Republican vision for a new health care system. But when President Donald Trump got around to talking about the Republican plan – about 15 minutes into his speech – he was wildly off message. Instead of preaching party lines about getting the government out of Americans’ health decisions and cutting costs, he declared: ‘Add some money to it!’
“The moment captured a major dilemma for Republicans as they look for ways to jumpstart their stalled health care overhaul. A master salesman, Trump has an inimitable ability to command attention, and that could be used to bolster Americans’ support for Republican efforts and ramp up pressure on wavering lawmakers. But some lawmakers and congressional aides privately bemoan his thin grasp of the bill’s principles, and worry that his difficulty staying on message will do more harm than good. ‘You know, he’s very personable and people like talking to him and he’s very embracing of that, so there will be certain people he’d like to talk to,’ said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. ‘But I’d let Mitch handle it,’ he continued, referring to the lead role Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has played thus far.’” http://apne.ws/2skdVbq
DEPT. OF POLITICAL MALPRACTICE — “Senate Democrats Sought to Work With Trump. Then He Began Governing,” by NYT’s Jennifer Steinhauer: “Rather than taking advantage of his honeymoon phase to pick an issue on which Democrats from conservative states might be amenable – fixing the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, cutting taxes or stiffening immigration laws – Mr. Trump raced toward the most partisan corner of the room, pushing to repeal the health care law with no input from Democrats, in a manner that has proved deeply unpopular. …
“‘I am a moderate from a state Trump won,’ said Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, who is up for re-election next year in a state where Hillary Clinton received just 38 percent of the vote. ‘You’d think they would have called me sometime.’ ‘I am ready to work with President Trump on things like infrastructure. I happen to agree with him on the water rule,’ she added, referring to a regulation that Mr. Trump is seeking to roll back. ‘These are just lower priorities for them, I guess.’” With a Scott Mulhauser cameo http://nyti.ms/2sTU8Ol
TRUMP’S THURSDAY — TRUMP is going to the Department of Energy to “give remarks at the Unleashing American Energy event.” The president and first lady are hosting South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House for a reception and dinner.
NYT IN KENTUCKY, ON A1 — “In McConnell’s Own State, Fear and Confusion Over Health Care Bill,” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg in Whitesburg, Kentucky: “Perhaps nowhere has the health care law had as powerful an impact as in Kentucky, where nearly one in three people now receive coverage through Medicaid, expanded under the legislation. Perhaps no region in Kentucky has benefited as much as Appalachia, the impoverished eastern part of the state, where in some counties more than 60 percent of people are covered by Medicaid.
“And in few places are the political complexities of health care more glaring than in this poor state with crushing medical needs, substantially alleviated by the Affordable Care Act, but where Republican opposition to the law remains almost an article of faith. While some Senate moderates say the Republican bill is too harsh, Rand Paul, Kentucky’s other Republican senator, is among Senate Republicans who say they are opposed to the current bill for a different reason: They believe it does not go far enough to reduce costs.” http://nyti.ms/2t3QTT0
THE RESISTANCE — “Democrats to ‘crank up the outrage’ over Senate Republican health care bill over July 4 break,” by USA Today’s Heidi Przybyla: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to delay a vote on a GOP health care plan is giving Democrats a big opportunity to seize the July 4 recess to dial up the pressure to kill the bill. Several outside progressive groups are planning campaigns over the congressional recess to highlight the stories of real Americans who could lose health care – and targeting vulnerable and moderate Republican senators with paid media, phone calls and protests.” https://usat.ly/2tro4mz
THE STORY OF THE DAY — BOSTON GLOBE’S ANNIE LINSKEY (the pride of Fairfield County) ON REP. SETH MOULTON (D-MASS.) — “Seth Moulton seemed to be in Nancy Pelosi’s fan club. And then he wasn’t” (with a Salem dateline): “Over last Labor Day weekend, when Democrats were under the mistaken belief they would win the White House and Senate, Representative Seth Moulton sat down to pen a note that departed from his renegade brand. Three pages of gushing words to Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, thanking her.
“For everything. For the plum House Armed Services Committee assignment she’d given him (‘people at home are thrilled,’ he enthused). For the chance to sell the Iran nuclear deal on TV (‘the opportunity you gave me to exercise that on a national stage did not go unnoticed,’ he wrote). Even for the intern she’d helped secure (‘I don’t know where we’d be without Dennis – he’s extraordinary!’ Moulton exclaimed).
“‘The bottom line is that I’m proud to be in public service, but I wouldn’t be able to do the job as well without your help,’ he concluded, laying the groundwork for a pitch to win a coveted spot on the House Transportation Committee as well.
“Shortly after he sent the note, the political landscape shifted, and so did Moulton’s tone. After a devastating November election for Democrats left Republicans in control of all branches of government, Moulton became a loud voice opposing Pelosi’s leadership, joining 62 other House insurgents who voted to replace her in November. Last week, as the Democratic Party reeled from another loss in a hard-fought House race in Georgia – giving Democrats an 0-for-4 record in House special elections for Republican-held seats this year – Moulton again joined a band of House members demanding that Pelosi, 77, step aside.
“Loyalties in Washington are fluid, but even by the Capitol’s standards, Moulton’s change in posture is striking. The September note included no hint of the simmering dissatisfaction he said he was feeling at the time. Pelosi, through a spokesman, declined to comment.” http://bit.ly/2tn8tUG
NEW WHITE HOUSE EMAIL BLAST — WEST WING READS. The Trump administration is launching a new email called “West Wing Reads” aimed at sharing stories they like about the Trump presidency. Today is the first edition they are sending out. A White House digital staffer told us: “West Wing Reads was launched to give Americans across the country an inside look into the articles White House staff are reading each day. We focus on sharing stories and perspectives that may have been missed by the mainstream media. These types of articles were among the most popular parts of White House’s 1600 Daily newsletter and we are excited to deliver this content in a dedicated email.” See yesterday’s edition, which featured stories from Breitbart, National Review, the Washington Free Beacon, the Wall Street Journal, the Hill, and the Washington Times http://bit.ly/2t4hhwi
WEST COAST WATCH — “California Republicans don’t want to be caught again without a statewide candidate — but the party is fractured,” by L.A. Times’ Seema Mehta and Phil Willon: “The GOP may be in dire straits in California, but a flurry of recent moves suggests the party of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon is not willing to abandon the 2018 gubernatorial race, as it did four years ago. The big question is if the party will be able to marshal enough support behind a Republican candidate for governor and avoid a repeat of last fall’s Senate campaign, which, thanks to the top-two primary, was fought between two Democratic candidates.
“Several Republicans are in the mix. They include conservative Orange County Assemblyman Travis Allen and Rancho Santa Fe venture capitalist John Cox. Speculation is mounting that former state Assemblyman David Hadley plans to announce a run. There also are furious efforts to recruit San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer into the race, because he is viewed as the strongest possible contender. …
“House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) is concerned about next year’s turnout, and has been working hard trying to convince Faulconer to enter the race and show him he has a path to victory, according to multiple people familiar with McCarthy’s efforts who were not authorized to discuss them. Party Chairman Jim Brulte has made at least one personal appeal to the mayor during a face-to-face visit to San Diego.” http://lat.ms/2tooDgk
VALLEY TALK — “Apple’s Cook Reaped $145 Million Last Year, Most of S&P 500 CEOs,” by Bloomberg’s Laurie Meisler, Alicia Ritcey and Jenn Zhao: “Don’t be fooled by Tim Cook’s 2016 reported pay of $8.75 million, which ranked the Apple Inc. chief executive officer in the bottom third of all CEOs in the S&P 500. Cook, 56, actually took home $145 million, almost all of it from awards granted back in 2011. … Reed Hastings, 56, of Netflix Inc., reaped $106 million last year. Take-home pay for the top 25 S&P 500 CEOs who served in their positions for the last full fiscal year totaled about $1.65 billion.” https://bloom.bg/2u1jqJ2
THE JUICE …
— SPOTTED yesterday at a meeting of business policy experts hosted by the Office of Public Liaison in the West Wing: Michael Gallagher (ESA), Rebecca Oliver (CA Technologies), Kristie Arslan (Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council), John Stanford (Prism Group), Tim Day (U.S. Chamber), Omar Vargas (3M), Chris Myers (Caterpillar), Carolyn Coda (Swiss Re), Diane Rinaldo (SAP) and Brian Wolff (EEI).
— BRENDAN CARR is President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the open Federal Communications Commission seat. “Carr is a familiar face at the FCC, having worked as an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai when he was a commissioner during the Obama years.” http://politi.co/2tmKGUu
— KATHLEEN MELLODY has been named managing director and head of federal affairs for the insurance company The Hartford. She previously served as special assistant to President Barack Obama.
Playbook Reads
PHOTO DU JOUR: President Donald Trump poses with a jersey given to him by members of the World Series champion Chicago Cubs in the Oval Office on June 28. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
ON MAGAZINE STANDS — NEW COVERS …
— TIME: “Game of Thrones: Inside the World’s Most Popular Show” http://bit.ly/2u1zc6W
–THE ECONOMIST: “Trump’s America: A special report on a divided country” http://bit.ly/2s4WJCe
— BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK’s annual Global Tech double issue: It’s “a deep dive into the innovators and innovations around the world—and out of it. The issue includes: Ashlee Vance on the new space revolution [https://bloom.bg/2t4hO0Y]; Drake Bennett on Nokia’s fight to stay relevant [https://bloom.bg/2tnUZrX]; Brad Stone on Tencent’s global problem [https://bloom.bg/2trYkGG]; Vernon Silver on the hackers Russia-proofing Germany’s elections [https://bloom.bg/2spw4iT]; [and] a detailed interactive graphic on the future according to Elon Musk [https://bloom.bg/2u1yTZE].” The full issue https://bloom.bg/2tmPUAc … The cover http://bit.ly/2spnYqL
–THE NATION: “TRUMP AND THE NRA: Arming the culture war has just begun.” The cover shows a “Make America Great Again” hat resting on the ammo clip loaded into a machine gun. http://politi.co/2spUXv2 … The cover story by George Zornick http://bit.ly/2t3RGn5
TRUMP INC. – “Trump’s future business plans may be hiding in plain sight: The Trump Organization has registered and renewed hundreds of domain names – from MarALagoVegas.com to TrumpTowerMoscow.com,” by Isaac Dovere, Madeline Conway and Tyler Fisher: “Publicly available internet directory records analyzed by POLITICO … appear to provide a road map for ventures the president’s company has been considering, though some are in places that are now trouble spots for his presidency: TrumpRussia.com and TrumpUkraine.com were both renewed on June 29, 2016, while DonaldJTrumpSignatureCollectionVenezuela.com, TrumpApparelVenezuela.com, TrumpClothingVenezuela.com, TrumpHomeBathVenezuela.com, TrumpBeddingVenezuela.com and TrumpHomeAccessoriesVenezuela.com were updated on Oct. 14, 2016.” http://politi.co/2spOQqm
THE LATEST ON THE RUSSIA PROBE — “Senate Panel Digs Into 2,000 Financial Documents in Trump Probe,” by Bloomberg’s Steven Dennis and Billy House: “The Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s possible links to Russia is now focused sharply on financial transactions involving the president’s associates – with the committee searching for improprieties in more than 2,000 documents it has received from the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit.
“The Treasury Department turned over the documents to the committee a few days ago after protracted negotiations with the committee, the panel’s vice chairman, Virginia Democrat Mark Warner, told Bloomberg – and only after Senate Democrats threatened to hold up a Treasury nominee until they received the information.” https://bloom.bg/2trlaOD
FOR YOUR RADAR — “U.S. sets new visa rules for 6 mainly Muslim nations, refugees,” by AP’s Matt Lee: “The Trump administration on Wednesday set new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees that require a ‘close’ family or business tie to the United States. The move came after the Supreme Court partially restored President Donald Trump’s executive order that was widely criticized as a ban on Muslims.
“Visas that have already been approved will not be revoked, but instructions issued by the State Department say that new applicants from Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Yemen must prove a relationship with a parent, spouse, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling already in the United States to be eligible. The same requirement, with some exceptions, holds for would-be refugees from all nations who are still awaiting approval for admission to the U.S.” http://apne.ws/2s4bcOX
****** A message from the Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs (CAPD): A new study projects pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) will save Medicare Part D $896 billion over ten years. PBMs drive savings for taxpayers and seniors by negotiating discounts from drug manufacturers; by encouraging the use of lower cost, clinically equivalent drugs; and by providing clinical programs that improve health outcomes. Learn more at affordableprescriptiondrugs.org ******
BUSINESS BURST — “All U.S. Banks Pass ‘Stress Tests,’ in Sign of Financial Health,” by WSJ’s Liz Hoffman and Ryan Tracy: “Big U.S. banks plan to increase dividend payouts and share buybacks to their highest levels in years after the Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved capital plans for all 34 firms taking part in its annual stress tests. The approvals—the first time since the annual tests began in 2011 that all firms got passing grades—reflect a turning point for big financial institutions that have been shackled by tighter regulation since the financial crisis. They could also herald a return to precrisis days when banks were reliable dividend payers and shareholders flocked to them.” http://on.wsj.com/2tm7l3R
THE PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW: Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was drawn to one particular item in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget – the massive cuts to foreign aid. The Trump budget proposed cutting the combined budget of the State Department and USAID by 28 percent, with a big chunk of that expected to come from foreign aid (http://politi.co/2tq4BCW), which makes up less than 1 percent of the U.S.’s budget. Desmond-Hellman says she is concerned that if the cuts came into fruition, it could stymie the progress of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations to eradicate diseases like polio and promote family planning for women.
“The reason I’m concerned is – from where I sit and given the background I have – it is really extraordinary how much progress global health, global development has had as a result of America’s leadership,” the scientist-turned-philanthropic chief told Playbook. “That’s the focus I have, making sure we don’t hamper progress and that we continue with that progress.”
PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY CAN’T COVER GOVERNMENT CUTS: “Globally in 2016, there was $37.6 billion in development assistance for health all over the world. Of that $37.6 billion, the United States provided $12.8 billion and the U.K. contributed $4.1 billion. We’re the largest private philanthropy in the world, we contributed $2.9 billion. … Private philanthropy will never make up for the important contributions that governments — like the government of the United States and the government of the U.K. – provide for that kind of global health and global development assistance.”
FOREIGN AID BENEFITS THE U.S.: “You call it foreign aid and it feels like it goes far away. But one of the things that brought this close to home is the 2014 Ebola outbreak. … The kind of work that organizations like the WHO, the CDC in the U.S. do on pandemic preparedness … is such a good reminder of how much an outbreak anywhere is a health threat everywhere. In 2014 Americans were deeply scared and nervous about Ebola.”
CUTS COULD THREATEN HIV/AIDS FUNDING: “America and PEPFAR [President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief] are literally known around the world. PEPFAR provides life saving medicine – HIV/AIDs therapy – for more than 11 million people who are living with HIV. In countries when PEPFAR has a presence, we actually know between 2004 and 2014, there was a 40 percent drop in political instability. In non-PEPFAR countries, political instability dropped only 3 percent. PEPFAR countries grew three times faster. It’s good for American businesses and it is good for the world economy.”
FRIENDS ON THE HILL: “We’re heartened by members of Congress. A lot of members of Congress have spoken up in their support of these foreign aid programs and many members of Congress have actually seen for themselves how powerful the U.S. is – soft power.”
MEDIAWATCH — “Trump seizes the advantage in war with media: White House staffers were ‘elated’ when they heard that three CNN journalists had resigned over a botched story,” by Hadas Gold: http://politi.co/2toK2G3
— Joseph Lichterman (@ylichterman): “NYT is hiring a pets reporter. Required: ‘Pet ownership experience—dog and/or cat at minimum, other animals a plus’” See the job posting http://bit.ly/2sjVcwD
–“I Have to Ask: The Maggie Haberman Edition” – Slate podcast: “The New York Times White House correspondent on what she has learned covering Trump.” http://slate.me/2ts5V8o
— The Atlantic has named Amy Zegart and Kori Schake as contributing editors. They’ll write about national security and international affairs.
Playbookers
SUNDAY SO FAR – NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.).
SPOTTED: at Boxcar Tavern sitting together last night: Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Angus King (I-Maine), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) … Chris Matthews having dinner last night on the patio at the Monarch steakhouse in Aspen … Speaker Paul Ryan dining at Acadiana last night with lots of security … Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) last night at Harris Teeter in Navy Yard buying white wine … Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Rep. Crist were also spotted at Sonoma on Capitol Hill … Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) driving a red Chevy truck at Second and C St. SE last night … the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. on the 7 p.m. Acela in first class from WAS to NYP.
SPOTTED last night at Global Strategy Group’s annual summer cocktail party at Bar Deco: Rep. Denny Heck (D-Wash.), Adrienne Elrod, Lu, Jenna Kruse, Mike Collins, Robby Mook, Mickey Ibarra, Jason Bresler, Mindy Myers, Paul Kane, Xochitl Hinojosa, Eloy Martinez, Isaac Dovere, Jason Bresler, Rob Jesmer, Patrick McHugh, Clay Schroers, Matt House, Kyle Herrig, Sabrina Singh, Pat Burgwinkle, Scott Mulhauser, Kara Carscaden, Adam Temple, Holly Jackson, Jon Vogel, Navin Nayak, Josh Raymond, Jorge Silva, Ted Mann.
OUT AND ABOUT IN LONDON – The Financial Times last night hosted its annual FT summer party, bringing together more than 400 guests from business, finance, politics and media. Pool report: “In the room filled with flowers from Wild at Heart, the crowd enjoyed Laurent Perrier champagne and canapés surrounded by the restaurant’s signature feature of 218 contemporary paintings and custom FT branding. Guests left with with goody bags that included a FT branded Aspinal journal, Hotel Chocolat treats, FT ‘A World Transformed’ Rubik’s Cubes, Molton Brown toiletries, FT Weekend Summer Menus and a Best of FT Weekend supplement.” Pix http://bit.ly/2t3uYLT
— TRANSITIONS — Brian Darling, former senior communications director and counsel for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), is launching Liberty Government Affairs. http://bit.ly/2t3bl6p … Joel Leftwich is joining Glover Park Group’s government relations practice as a managing director and will be part of GPG Food, the firm’s food and agriculture practice. Leftwich most recently was the Republican majority staff director for Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) on the Senate Agriculture committee. … Amelia Breinig has been hired as press secretary for the U.S. Trade Representative. She previously was deputy press secretary for the Senate Finance Committee. … Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) has named Fritz Brogan as finance chair of his campaign and leadership PAC.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD – Andrew Gray, JPMorgan Chase’s managing director of corporate communications and Misty Martineau on Wednesday welcomed Parker Elizabeth Gray: “Born at 6:31 p.m. this evening weighing 8 lbs 12 oz. Everybody is happy and healthy. We had to deliver in the OR because she came so quickly (about 6 minutes of pushing) hence the cool outfit. Hope that her teenage years go as smoothly.” Pic http://politi.co/2tntqPa
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Carl Forti, political director of American Crossroads super PAC and a founding partner at Black Rock Group, is 45. How he got his start in politics: “Elected politics? Elected senior class president at Fairport High School. Go Red Raiders! National politics? Paul Wilson at Wilson Grand Communications was kind enough to hire me out of college to be a video editor. I started editing TV commercials for GOP candidates and moved up from there.” Read his Playbook Plus Q&A: http://politi.co/2s4q93K
BIRTHDAYS: Macon Phillips … Hanna Trudo, who starts as a staff writer covering national politics for National Journal on July 10 … Andy Duberstein, VP at Sard Verbinnen … Politico senior investigative reporter Josh Meyer (h/t Tim Burger) … Old Dominion University basketball coach Jeff Jones, a.k.a. Mr. Danielle Jones … Ben Jarrett, political analyst at Embassy of Israel … Jennifer Pett, press secretary for Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) … Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is 74 … Rep. Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) is 73 … Microsoft’s Christina Pearson … former Solicitor General Don Verrilli, a partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson, is 6-0 … Emily Spain, legislative director for Sen. Carper … Kaya Singleton, congressional outreach manager at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (h/t Samantha Greene) …
… photojournalist Gabriella Demczuk … Cathy Rought, VP at BerlinRosen … Tamera Luzzatto, former HRC and Rockefeller chief of staff, managing director at Pew Charitable Trusts and Board Chair of the Bach Consort (h/ts Jon Haber) … campaign finance consultant David Wolf … Obama WH alum Brian Gabriel … Amy McDonald (hubby tip: Matt) … Paul Francis Baier, son of Bret and Amy … Tom DeVor … Harry Hartfield … Katie Zirkelbach, principal at Zirkelbach Strategies … Owen Kilmer … Jacob Levine of Houston … Christopher Wenk, executive director of international policy at the U.S. Chamber, is 41 … Bobby Watson is 6-0 … Eric Washburn … Patty McHugh (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Ed Black … Christian Marrone is 42 … William Pinzler is 71 … Bruce Soll is 6-0 … Bridget Luehrsen … actor Gary Busey is 73 … comedian-writer Colin Jost is 35 (h/ts AP)
****** A message from the Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs (CAPD): A new study estimates that Medicare Part D costs would be 58 percent higher without pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs’) clinical tools and price negotiations with drug manufacturers and pharmacies. The study shows PBMs significantly lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries. In fact, PBMs are projected to save Medicare Part D $896 billion over the next decade. Thanks to PBMs, Medicare Part D continues to drive savings and value for taxpayers and beneficiaries, ensuring that more than 39 million American seniors can access the prescription drugs they need. Learn more at affordableprescriptiondrugs.org ******
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APOD Collection: Mercury and Venus Transits
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Post by owlice » Sun May 27, 2012 10:00 pm
Mercury and Venus Transits
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3D Mercury Transit
Composite Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol
Mercury is now visible shortly before dawn, the brightest "star" just above the eastern horizon. But almost two weeks ago Mercury actually crossed the face of the Sun for the second time in the 21st century. Viewed with red/blue glasses, this stereo anaglyph combines space-based images of the Sun and innermost planet in a just-for-fun 3D presentation of the Mercury transit. The solar disk image is from Hinode. (sounds like "hee-no-day", means sunrise). A sun-staring observatory, Hinode was launched from Uchinoura Space Center and viewed the transit from Earth orbit. Superimposed on Mercury's dark silhouette is a detailed image of the planet's rugged surface based on data from the Mariner 10 probe that flew by Mercury in 1974 and 1975.
Hand Drawn Transit
Credit & Copyright: Mark Seibold
The sight of Mercury's tiny round disk drifting slowly across the face of the Sun inspired and entertained many denizens of planet Earth last week. In fact, artist and astronomer Mark Seibold viewed both the 1999 and 2006 transits of the solar system's innermost planet through solar filtered telescopes and composed this rendering of Mercury "hovering in the photosphere" near the edge of an enormous solar disk. The original work is a 23 by 17 inch pastel sketch. While the artist's hand is creatively superimposed, Seibold concentrated on offering an impression of Mercury's silhouette, surrounded by shadings reflecting his visual experience that are not easily captured in photographic exposures. Of course, before the age of cameras drawings were more widely used to record telescopic observations of sunspots and planetary transits.
Mercury's Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun
Credit & Copyright: David Cortner
What's that dot on the Sun? If you look closely, it is almost perfectly round. The dot is the result of an unusual type of solar eclipse that occurred last week. Usually it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. Last week, for the first time in over three years, the planet Mercury took a turn. Like the approach to New Moon before a solar eclipse, the phase of Mercury became a continually thinner crescent as the planet progressed toward an alignment with the Sun. Eventually the phase of Mercury dropped to zero and the dark spot of Mercury crossed our parent star. The situation could technically be labeled a Mercurian annular eclipse with an extraordinarily large ring of fire. From above the cratered planes of the night side of Mercury, the Earth appeared in its fullest phase. Hours later, as Mercury continued in its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again. The next Mercurian solar eclipse will occur in 2016.
Mercury and the Chromosphere
Credit & Copyright: Phil Jones
Enjoying Wednesday's transit of Mercury from Dallas, Texas, astronomer Phil Jones recorded this detailed image of the Sun. Along with a silhouette of the innermost planet, a network of cells and dark filaments can be seen against a bright solar disk with spicules and prominences along the Sun's edge. The composited image was taken through a telescope equiped with an H-alpha filter that narrowly transmits only the red light from hydrogen atoms. Such images emphasize the solar chromosphere, the region of the Sun's atmosphere immediately above its photosphere or normally visible surface. Left of center, the tiny disk of Mercury seems to be imitating a small sunspot that looks a little too round. But in H-alpha pictures, sunspot regions are usually dominated by bright splotches (called plages) on the solar chromosphere.
Simulated Transit of Mercury
Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol
Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, will spend about five hours crossing in front of the Sun today - beginning at 1912 UT (2:12pm EST), November 8. Specially equipped telescopes are highly recommended to safely spot the planet's diminutive silhouette however, as Mercury should appear about 200 times smaller than the enormous solar disk. This simulated view is based on a filtered solar image recorded on November 3rd. It shows active regions and the Mercury transit across the Sun at six positions from lower left to middle right. Depending on your location, the Sun may not be above the horizon during the entire transit, but webcasts of the event are planned - including one using images from the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. This is the second of 14 transits of Mercury during the 21st century. The next similar event will be a transit of Venus in June of 2012.
Space Station, Venus, Sun
Credit & Copyright: Tomas Maruska (SAAD)
On June 8, Venus was not the only celestial object to pass in front of the Sun. A few well-situated photographers caught the International Space Station also crossing the Sun simultaneously. Pictured above is a unique time-lapse image of the unprecedented double transit, a rare event that was visible for less than a second from a narrow band on Earth. The above image is a combination of 12 frames taken 0.033 seconds apart and each themselves lasting only 1/10,000 th of a second. The image was taken from the small village of Stupava in Slovakia. The next time Venus will appear to cross the Sun from Earth will be in 2012.
Transit of Venus Stereogram
Credit: G. Schneider (Steward Obs.), J. Pasachoff (Williams College), TRACE Project, NASA
Venus glides in front of an enormous solar disk in these two frames from the TRACE satellite imaging of the inner planet's 2004 transit. Arranged in a "right/left" stereogram, the frames are intended to be viewed at a comfortable distance from the screen with your eyes gently crossed, allowing the images to merge and produce a pleasing stereo effect. Shown during the ingress (beginning) phase of the transit, the silhouetted portion of the planet appears to float dramatically in front of the Sun's granulated surface. Of course, the dense Cytherian (Venusian) atmosphere also scatters and refracts the intense sunlight. The effect is visible across the portion of the planet still beyond the Sun's edge and viewed against the blackness of space.
A Picturesque Venus Transit
The rare transit of Venus across the face of the Sun earlier this month was one of the better-photographed events in sky history. Both scientific and artistic images have been flooding in from the areas that could see the transit: Europe and much of Asia, Africa, and North America. Scientifically, solar photographers confirmed that the black drop effect is really better related to the viewing clarity of the camera or telescope than the atmosphere of Venus. Artistically, images might be divided into several categories. One type captures the transit in front of a highly detailed Sun. Another category captures a double coincidence such as both Venus and an airplane simultaneously silhouetted, or Venus and the International Space Station in low Earth orbit. A third image type involves a fortuitous arrangement of interesting looking clouds, as shown by example in the above image taken from North Carolina, USA. There the distant orb of giant Venus might have been mistaken, at first glance, for a small but unusually circular cloud.
A Rare Annular Venusian Solar Eclipse
Credit & Copyright: Peter Lawrence
An unusual type of solar eclipse occurred last week. Usually it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. Last week, for the first time in over 100 years, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned with the Sun. Eventually the alignment became perfect and the phase of Venus dropped to zero. The dark spot of Venus crossed our parent star. The situation could technically be labeled a Venusian annular eclipse with an extraordinarily large ring of fire. From above the thick cloud tops of Venus, the Earth appeared in its fullest phase, brighter in the Venusian sky than even Mars appeared from Earth last August. Hours later, as Venus continued in its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again. The next Venusian solar eclipse will occur in 2012.
Venus and the Chromosphere
Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip
Enjoying the 2004 Transit of Venus from Stuttgart, Germany, astronomer Stefan Seip recorded this fascinating, detailed image of the Sun. Revealing a network of cells and dark filaments against a bright solar disk with spicules and prominences along the Sun's limb, his telescopic picture was taken through an H-alpha filter. The filter narrowly transmits only the red light from hydrogen atoms and emphasizes the solar chromosphere -- the region of the Sun's atmosphere immediately above its photosphere or normally visible surface. Here, the dark disk of Venus seems to be imitating a giant sunspot that looks perhaps a little too round. But in H-alpha pictures like this one, sunspot regions are usually dominated by bright splotches (called plages) on the solar chromosphere.
Venus at the Edge
Credit: D. Kiselman, et al. (Inst. for Solar Physics), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
With Venus in transit at the Sun's edge on June 8th, astronomers captured this tantalizing close-up view of the bright solar surface and partially silhouetted disk. Enhanced in the sharp picture, a delicate arc of sunlight refracted through the Venusian atmosphere is also visible outlining the planet's edge against the blackness of space. The arc is part of a luminous ring or atmospheric aureole, first noted and offered as evidence that Venus did posses an atmosphere following observations of the planet's 1761 transit. The image was recorded using the 1-meter Swedish Solar Telescope located on La Palma in the Canary Islands. For the Institute for Solar Physics, Dan Kiselman, Goran Scharmer, Kai Langhans, and Peter Dettori were at the telescope, while Mats Lofdahl produced the final image. Excellent movies of the transit - including one of the emergence of Venus' atmospheric aureole - are available from the Dutch Open Telescope, also observing from La Palma.
Venus Transit at Sunrise
Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College)
Did you see the transit? While some watched by webcast, sky gazers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia were able to witness the complete 6 hour journey of Venus' silhouetted disk across the face of the Sun. As seen from North America, the much heralded Venus Transit of 2004 was nearing its final stages at sunrise yesterday in this telescopic image. The view looks across the Atlantic from Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. In fact, many in eastern North America experienced a dramatic view of a perfect, dark, round Venus against a reddened Sun filtered by banks of low clouds. Ironically, the Sun takes on the appearance of a cloud covered planet itself as Venus marches toward the right through this dreamlike scene.
A Planet Transits the Sun
Credit & Copyright: Ronald F. Dantowitz (The Clay Center)
Today an astronomical event will occur that no living person has ever seen: Venus will cross directly in front of the Sun. A Venus crossing, called a transit, last occurred in 1882 and was front-page news around the world. Today's transit will be visible in its entirety throughout Europe and most of Asia and Africa. The northeastern half of North America will see the Sun rise with the dark dot of Venus already superposed. Never look directly at the Sun, even when Venus is in front. Mercury's closer proximity to the Sun cause it to transit every few years. In fact, the above image mosaic of Mercury crossing the Sun is from two transits ago, in November 1999. Will anyone living see the next Venus transit? Surely yes since it occurs in 2012.
A Mercury Transit Sequence
Credit & Copyright: Dominique Dierick
Earlier this month, the planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun, as seen from Earth. Because the plane of Mercury's orbit is not exactly coincident with the plane of Earth's orbit, Mercury usually appears to pass over or under the Sun. The above time-lapse sequence, superimposed on a single frame, was taken from a balcony in Belgium on May 7 and shows the entire transit. The solar crossing lasted over five hours, so that the above 23 images were taken roughly 15 minutes apart. The north pole of the Sun, the Earth, Mercury's orbit, although all different, all occur in directions slightly above the left of the image. Near the center and on the far right, sunspots are visible.
Mercury Transits the Sun
Credit & Copyright: Thierry Legault
How big is the Sun? The Sun is not only larger than any planet, it is larger than all of the planets put together. The Sun accounts for about 99.9 percent of all the mass in its Solar System. Merely stating the Sun's diameter is about 1,400,000 kilometers does not do it justice. Last week a chance to gain visual size perspective occurred when planet Mercury made a rare crossing in front to Sun. Mercury, a planet over a third of the diameter of our Earth, is the dark dot on the upper right. In comparison to the Sun, Mercury is so small it is initially hard to spot. Also visible on the Sun are dark circular sunspots, bright plages, and dark elongated prominences -- many of which are larger than Mercury. The above contrast-enhanced picture was captured last week from France.
Mercury Spotting
Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA
Can you spot the planet? The diminutive disk of Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, spent about five hours crossing in front of the enormous solar disk yesterday (Wednesday, May 7th), as viewed from the general vicinity of planet Earth. The Sun was above the horizon during the entire transit for observers in Europe, Africa, Asia, or Australia, and the horizon was certainly no problem for the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Seen as a dark spot, Mercury progresses from left to right (top panel to bottom) in these four images from SOHO's extreme ultraviolet camera. The panels' false-colors correspond to different wavelengths in the extreme ultraviolet which highlight regions above the Sun's visible surface. This is the first of 14 transits of Mercury which will occur during the 21st century, but the next similar event will be a transit of Venus in June of 2004. Need help spotting Mercury? Just click on the picture.
Spot The Planet
Credit & Copyright: Rick Scott and Joe Orman
OK, it's a picture of the Sun (duh!), but can you spot the planet? Of course, most of the spots you've spotted are sunspots, as large or larger than planet Earth itself. The sunspots are regions of strong surface magnetic fields which are dark in this picture only because they are relatively cool compared to their surroundings. Over the past few years, the number of sunspots has been steadily increasing as the Sun approaches the maximum in its 11 year activity cycle. But also visible in this photograph from November 15, is planet Mercury. At just over 1/3 Earth's size, Mercury is passing in front of the Sun, its silhouette briefly creating a diminutive dark spot drifting across an enormous solar disk. While "transits" of Mercury do occur 13 times a century, this one was additionally a very rare grazing transit of our Solar System's innermost planet. Spotted Mercury yet? Click on the picture for a hint.
Mercury And The Sun
Credit: Brian Handy (Montana State Univ.), TRACE Project
Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower, skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. Viewed from planet Earth, a transit of Mercury is not all that rare. The last occurred in 1993 and the next will happen in 2003. Enjoying a mercurial transit does require an appropriately filtered telescope, still the event can be dramatic as the diminutive well-done world drifts past the dominating solar disk. This slow loading gif animation is based on images recorded by the earth-orbiting TRACE satellite. The false-color TRACE images were made in ultraviolet light and tend to show the hot gas just above the Sun's visible surface. Mercury's disk is silhouetted against the seething plasma as it follows a trajectory near the edge of the Sun.
X-ray Transit Of Mercury
Credit: ISAS, Yohkoh Project
This sequence of false color X-ray images captures a rare event - the passage or transit of planet Mercury in front of the Sun. Mercury's small disk is silhouetted against the bright background of X-rays from the hot Solar Corona. It appears just to the right of center in the top frame and moves farther right as the sequence progresses toward the bottom. The dark notch is a coronal hole near the Solar South Pole, while a flaring coronal bright point can be seen to the left of the notch in the top frames. The frames were recorded on November 6, 1993 by the Soft X-ray Telescope on board the orbiting Yohkoh satellite. Transits of Mercury (and Venus) were historically used to discover the geometry of the solar system and to map planet Earth itself.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
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House Committee hears testimony on bill that would legalize medical marijuana
By: Jill Ornitz
Links: HB 800
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JEFFERSON CITY - Medical marijuana would become legal in Missouri if a bill heard by a House committee is passed into law.
The House Emerging issues committee heard testimony on a bill that would allow physicians to issue prescriptions for medical marijuana and would set up a proper licensing process for medical marijuana dispenseries.
The committee heard a range of testimony from television personality Montel Williams to Missouri Veterans of Foreign Wars Representative Tom Mundell.
Mundell told the committee his post-traumatic stress disorder improved considerably after he began using marijuana.
"I was on 71 pills a day," Mundell testified. "I was taking 41 in the morning and 30 at night. And I take three now."
Mundell said he would not have discovered the benefits of marijuana if it was not for his wife. He told the committee that while having a PTSD episode in the garden of his home, his wife forced him to smoke a marijuana cigarette which helped him calm down.
Williams uses medical marijuana to treat the symptoms of his multiple sclerosis. He told the committee he tried everything he could to alleviate his pain and medical marijuana was the only thing that worked.
"I'm going to say to you right now, I could care less about anybody who wants to get high," Williams testified. "Your problem, not mine. I'm only concerned about people who need to have relief with medication."
Lawmakers said they were concerned about the potential cost of opening up what they called a certified care center. These care centers, which would serve as dispenseries, would need to be approved by both local and state authorities. Representatives compared this process to starting a franchise and said the bill did not guarantee any sort of refund for care centers that would not be approved.
But Williams said the ability to open certified care centers would stop the cycle of healthcare professionals treating symptoms with unnecessary amounts of medications because of individual reactions.
"You go to the doctor, if the Vicodin makes your stomach upset so they give you a Percocet," Williams said. "Percocet makes your stomach upset, they give you an ultrasound. If that's not strong enough they give you an oxycontin. We chase this, why? Because not all of it works for everyone."
Williams told that consensus shows that medical marijuana works as a treatment option. He testified that access to medical marijuana upheld American ideals.
"I have to ask how dare you deny someone the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?" Williams asked legislators.
Other organizations in favor of legalizing medical marijuana include the Missouri Nurses Association. The National Narcotics Officers Associations' Coalition testified against the legislation.
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GARNet Research Roundup: May 27th 2019
Categories: Durham University, Edinburgh University, Global, Light Signaling, Uncategorized, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, University of York, Warwick University
This bumper edition of the GARNet research roundup begins with a set of papers from the John Innes Centre. Anne Osbourn’s group is involved with two papers; firstly they discover how altering metabolic networks in the Arabidopsis root can cause changes in the associated microbiota. Second they characterise the role of a light-induced transcription factor in Artemisia. Next Caroline Dean’s group leads a global consortium that investigates the role of liquid-liquid phase separation in the formation of nuclear bodies. The final paper from the JIC is from Philippa Borrill and Cristobal Uauy, in which they identify novel transcription factors in wheat.
The fourth paper is led by Peter Etchells at Durham and characterises receptor kinase activity involved in vascular patterning in Arabidopsis.
The next two papers focus on stomatal patterning; firstly Julie Gray’s group at Sheffield looks at the stomatal responses to long-term pathogen infections. The second paper is from Glasgow and describes improvements in the OnGuard2 software, which models the factors controlling stomatal density.
Jose Gutierrez-Marcos is a co-author on a paper that uses FACS/ATAC-seq to define chromatin changes within cells of the shoot apical meristem. Richard Harrison leads the next paper that is also method-focused; describing use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in Strawberry.
Andrew Miller at the University of Edinburgh is the corresponding author of the penultimate paper, which presents a whole-life-cycle, multi-model Framework that links many aspects of the Arabidopsis life cycle. The final paper is Seth Davies’s group at York and investigates the role of sucrose in the control of the circadian clock.
Huang AC, Jiang T, Liu YX, Bai YC, Reed J, Qu B, Goossens A, Nützmann HW, Bai Y, Osbourn A (2019) A specialized metabolic network selectively modulates Arabidopsis root microbiota. Science. doi: 10.1126/science.aau6389
Ancheng Huang and Ting Jiang are first authors on this UK, Chinese and Belgian collaboration led by Anne Osbourn at the John Innes Centre. They reconstitute three biosynthesic pathways in the Arabidopsis roots and show how this affects the associated microbiota.
From https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6440/eaau6389.long
Hao X, Zhong Y, Nützmann HW, Fu X, Yan T, Shen Q, Chen M, Ma Y, Zhao J, Osbourn A, Li L, Tang K (2019) Light-induced artemisinin biosynthesis is regulated by the bZIP transcription factor AaHY5 in Artemisia annua. Plant Cell Physiol. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcz084
Anne Osbourn is a co-author on this Chinese-led study that has identified that the basic leucine zipper transcription factor (TF) AaHY5 regulated of light-induced biosynthesis of artemisinin in Artemisia annua.
Fang X, Wang L, Ishikawa R, Li Y, Fiedler M, Liu F, Calder G, Rowan B, Weigel D, Li P, Dean C (2019) Arabidopsis FLL2 promotes liquid-liquid phase separation of polyadenylation complexes. Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1165-8
Xiaofeng Fang, Liang Wang and Ryo Ishikawa are first authors of this UK, German and Chinese collaboration led by Caroline Dean’s lab at the John Innes Centre. They characterise the molecular factors that are required for the formation of nuclear bodies through liquid-liquid phase separation (PDF). These proteins are the Arabidopsis RNA-binding protein FCA and the coiled-coil protein FLL2.
From https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1165-8
Borrill P, Harrington SA, Simmonds J, Uauy C (2019) Identification of transcription factors regulating senescence in wheat through gene regulatory network modelling. Plant Physiol. doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00380
Philippa Borrill, now a faculty member at the University of Birmingham, conducted this work with Cristobal Uauy at the John Innes Centre. They have developed a range of research tools for use in wheat and this paper describes the identification of novel transcription factors involved in senescence.
Wang N, Bagdassarian KS, Doherty RE, Kroon JT, Connor KA, Wang XY, Wang W, Jermyn IH, Turner SR, Etchells JP (2019) Organ-specific genetic interactions between paralogues of the PXY and ER receptor kinases enforce radial patterning in Arabidopsis vascular tissue. Development. doi: 10.1242/dev.177105
Ning Wang works with Peter Etchells at Durham University where they have characterised the interactions between the receptor kinase gene families that regulate radial patterning in the development of vascular tissue.
From http://dev.biologists.org/content/early/2019/04/30/dev.177105.long
Dutton C, Hõrak H, Hepworth C, Mitchell A, Ton J, Hunt L, Gray JE (2019) Bacterial infection systemically suppresses stomatal density. Plant Cell Environ. doi: 10.1111/pce.13570
Christian Dutton leads this work conducted at the University of Sheffield. They have investigated the longer-term systemic response to the presence of pathogens that involves reducing stomatal density. This process is mediated via salicylic acid signaling and slows disease progression.
From https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pce.13570
Jezek M, Hills A, Blatt MR, Lew VL (2019) A constraint-relaxation-recovery mechanism for stomatal dynamics. Plant Cell Environ. doi: 10.1111/pce.13568
Mareike Jezek leads this work from the University of Glasgow in which they have updated the OnGuard2 modelling software that has demonstrated substantial predictive power to describe stomatal dynamics. Their improvements allow for the development of models that are more similar to in vivo observations.
Frerichs A, Engelhorn J, Altmüller J, Gutierrez-Marcos J, Werr W (2019) Specific chromatin changes mark lateral organ founder cells in the Arabidopsis thaliana inflorescence meristem. J Exp Bot. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erz181
Jose Gutierrez-Marcos from the University of Warwick is a co-author on this German study led by Anneke Frerichs in which they analysed the chromatin state of lateral organ founder cells (LOFCs) in the peripheral zone of the Arabidopsis inflorescence meristem in wildtype and apetala1-1 cauliflower-1 double mutants. Importantly they showed that the combined application of FACS/ATAC-seq is able to detect chromatin changes in a cell-type specific manner.
Wilson FM, Harrison K, Armitage AD, Simkin AJ, Harrison RJ (2019) CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutagenesis of phytoene desaturase in diploid and octoploid strawberry. Plant Methods. doi: 10.1186/s13007-019-0428-6. eCollection 2019
This paper is lead by Fiona Wilson at NIAB-EMR in which they present their methods to undertake gene editing in the challenging experimental system of diploid and octoploid strawberries.
From https://plantmethods.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13007-019-0428-6
Zardilis A, Hume A, Millar AJ (2019) A multi-model framework for the Arabidopsis life cycle. J Exp Bot. doi: 10.1093/jxb/ery394
Argyris Zardilis conducted this modeling-focussed research at University of Edinburgh. The authors present a whole-life-cycle, multi-model Framework that links vegetative, inflorescence as fruit growth as well as seed dormancy in Arabidopsis. This Framework allows the authors to simulate at the population level in various genotype × environment scenarios.
From https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/70/9/2463/5336616
Philippou K, Ronald J, Sánchez-Villarreal A, Davis AM, Davis SJ (2019) Physiological and Genetic Dissection of Sucrose Inputs to the Arabidopsis thaliana Circadian System. Genes (Basel). doi: 10.3390/genes10050334
Koumis Philippou from Seth Davis’ research group the University of York leads this work that investigates the role of sucrose into the function of the circadian clock.
Arabidopsis Research Roundup: January 22nd 2016
Categories: Arabidopsis, bioinformatics, Cambridge University, Essex University, Global, Light Signaling, University of Leeds, University of Southampton, University of York
A mixed selection of research in this UK Arabidopsis Roundup. Firstly a study from Stefan Kepinski and Mark Estelle that adds another layer of understanding to the regulation of the auxin response. Enrique Lopez-Juez leads a study into signaling between the nucleus and chloroplast while Tracey Lawson contributes to an investigation into role of starch metabolism in guard cells. Fran Maathuis and co-worker looks at differences in vacuolar transport between Arabidopsis ecotypes while Alan Marchant is involved in a study of cell wall pectins. Finally William Amos has uses the 1001genomes project to investigate heterozygote instability (HI).
Wang R, Zhang Y, Kieffer M, Yu H, Kepinski S, Estelle M (2016) HSP90 regulates temperature-dependent seedling growth in Arabidopsis by stabilizing the auxin co-receptor F-box protein TIR1. Nat Commun. 5;7:10269. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10269 Open Access
Stefan Kepinski (Leeds) is the UK lead on this collaboration with Mark Estelle from UCSD and it continues their previous work that investigates the much-studied auxin receptor TIR1. Arabidopsis seedlings grown at 29C show auxin-dependent hypocotyl elongation although the molecular mechanism behind this response has remained opaque. In this study they show that in high temperatures TIR1 accumulates in a manner dependent on the molecular chaperone, HSP90. In addition HSP90 and the co-chaperone SGT1 directly interact with TIR1. Inhibition of HSP90 results in degradation of the TIR1 and causes a range of auxin-mediated growth processes at both high and low temperatures. This study adds another level of complexity to the molecular basis of the auxin response.
Hills AC, Khan S, López-Juez E (2015) Chloroplast Biogenesis-Associated Nuclear Genes: Control by Plastid Signals Evolved Prior to Their Regulation as Part of Photomorphogenesis. Front Plant Sci. 10;6:1078. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.01078 Open Access
The work comes exclusively from the lab of Enrique Lopez-Juez at Royal Holloway and investigates at the expression of photosynthesis-associated nuclear genes (PhANGs). This expression is dependent on light as well as plastid-to-nucleus “biogenic” communication signals and causes the assembly of photosynthesis component chloroplasts. The authors investigate the factors that control the activity of the Lhcb promotor in the light and the dark, both in angiosperms and gymnosperms. They propose that suppression of PhANG responses has contributed to the evolution of light-controlled chloroplast biogenesis.
Horrer D, Flütsch S, Pazmino D, Matthews JS, Thalmann M, Nigro A, Leonhardt N, Lawson T, Santelia D (2015) Blue Light Induces a Distinct Starch Degradation Pathway in Guard Cells for Stomatal Opening. Current Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.036
Tracey Lawson (University of Essex) is the UK lead on this UK-French-Swiss study that uses the stomatal guard cell experimental system to investigate the role of carbon metabolism in the response to blue light. Interestingly guard cells differ from other leave tissues in that they contain starch at the end of the night. However this starch store is rapidly degraded within 30minutes of light and is important for stomatal opening and subsequent biomass production. This starch degradation involves action of two enzymes, β-amylase 1 (BAM1) and α-amylase 3 (AMY3) that do not function during night time starch degradation in other tissues. This process is coordinated by blue light signalling and correlates with the activity of a plasma membrane ATPase. This study adds yet another level of our understanding into the mechanism of stomatal opening. See image for a proposed model of this process (from Cell Press).
Hartley TN, Maathuis FJ (2015) Allelic variation in the vacuolar TPK1 channel affects its calcium dependence and may impact on stomatal conductance. FEBS Lett. 90(1):110-7 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.12035
Fran Maathuis (University of York) is the leader on this study that assesses the transport properties of two different vacuolar-localised AtTPK1 alleles identified for a study of natural variation in Arabidopsis. They use patch-clamping the interrogate the difference between these proteins from Lansberg (Ler) and Kas-2 ecotypes, when they showed different levels of Ca(2+) dependence. This coincided with lower water loss in either the presence of absence of ABA and higher Ler AtTPK1 activity at similar cytoplasmic [Ca]. The authors present a model that helps to explain their findings.
Dumont M, Lehner A, Vauzeilles B,, Malassis J, Marchant A, Smyth K, Linclau B, Baron A, Mas Pons J, Anderson CT, Schapman D, Galas L, Mollet JC, Lerouge P (2015) Plant cell wall imaging by metabolic click-mediated labelling of rhamnogalacturonan II using azido 3-deoxy-D-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid. Plant Journal. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13104
The majority of the authors on this Technical Advance are from French institutions but also includes UK plant scientist Alan Marchant (University of Southampton). They investigate the chemistry of Arabidopsis and tobacco cell walls, specifically looking at the incorperation of 3-deoxy-D-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid (Kdo), a monosaccharide that is only found the cell wall pectin rhamnogalacturonan-II (RG-II). They show that RG-II is found in the primary cell wall including within the root elongation zone. Finally they show that monitoring of Kdo is an effective way to study the synthesis and redistribution of RG-II during root growth.
Amos W (2015) Heterozygosity increases microsatellite mutation rate. Biol Lett. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0929 Open Access
This study is led by Professor William Amos who is based in the Zoology department at Cambridge. He is not usually a plant science researcher but used the excellent 1001genome project to investigate heterozygote instability (HI) in Arabidopsis. He looked at AC microsatellite sequences from over 1100 genome sequences and used rare alleles as a surrogate for more recent mutations, ultimately showing that rare alleles are more likely to occur at locus-population combinations with higher heterozygosity even when all populations carry exactly the same number of alleles. This shows that local heterozygosity causes more mutations and represents a positive feedback loop.
Arabidopsis Research Roundup: July 20th
Categories: Arabidopsis, Cambridge University, Celebrating Basic Plant Science, CPIB, funding, GARNet, Global, Light Signaling, Liverpool University, NIAB, Round-up, Sainsbury Lab
Tags: Arabidopsis, BBSRC, GARNet, John Innes Centre
There is a bumper crop of publications in high quality journals in this weeks UK Arabidopsis Research Roundup, including manuscripts in PNAS, Nature Communications, PLoS Genetics , PloS One and Plant Physiology. Malcolm Bennett, Alex Webb and Anthony Hall lead a major collaborative effort that links the circadian clock with lateral root formation whilst Ottoline Leyser (SLCU) and Mike Bevan (JIC) participate in a similarly broad consortium in a study linking organ size and MAPK signaling. Liam Dolan’s group from Oxford looks at mechanisms of tip-growth across the plant kingdoms whilst elsewhere three members of faculty at the University of Birmingham are involved in two papers looking at the regulation of meiosis. Finally there are two US-led studies that include significant contributions from UK-based researchers, including Matthew Jones from the University of Essex.
Voß U, Wilson MH, Kenobi K, Gould PD, Robertson FC, Peer WA, Lucas M, Swarup K, Casimiro I, Holman TJ, Wells DM, Péret B, Goh T, Fukaki H, Hodgman TC, Laplaze L, Halliday KJ, Ljung K, Murphy AS, Hall AJ, Webb AA, Bennett MJ (2015) The circadian clock rephases during lateral root organ initiation in Arabidopsis thaliana Nature Communication 6:7641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8641
Once again Malcolm Bennett (CPIB) leads a multi-Institute collaboration that includes Alex Webb (Cambridge) and current GARNet board member Anthony Hall (Liverpool). This is also an extremely international effect with groups from the UK, USA, Sweden, Japan, Spain and France. The science looks at lateral root stems cells and how the circadian clock is rephased during LR emergence. They show that the clock controls auxin levels and auxin-related genes. The conclusion is that the circadian clock acts to gate auxin signalling during LR development to facilitate organ emergence and adds to a growing portfolio of evidence that suggest the circadian clock might act in a cell autonomous manner. Anthony Hall, James Locke and Peter Gould currently have a grant that is looking at this phenomenon in Arabidopsis root cells.
Johnson KL, Ramm S, Kappel C, Ward S, Leyser O, Sakamoto T, Kurata T, Bevan MW, Lenhard M (2015) The Tinkerbell (Tink) Mutation Identifies the Dual-Specificity MAPK Phosphatase INDOLE-3-BUTYRIC ACID-RESPONSE5 (IBR5) as a Novel Regulator of Organ Size in Arabidopsis PLoS One.10(7):e0131103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131103
Ottoline Leyser, Sally Ward (Sainsbury lab, Cambridge) and Mike Bevan (JIC) are the UK contributors to this joint UK-German-Japanese-Australian collaboration. This study follows a screen for plants with reduced organ size and introduces a novel allele of the dual-specificity MAPK phosphatase INDOLE-3-BUTYRIC ACID-RESPONSE5 (IBR5), named Tinkerbell (tink). This mutation reveals that IBR5 is a novel regulator of organ size by changing the growth rate in petals and leaves although this occurs independent of the previously characterised KLU pathway. The authors use microarray data to suggest an additional role for TINK/IBR5 during male gametophyte development. Ultimately they conclude that IBR5 might influence organ size through auxin and TCP growth regulatory pathways.
Tam TH, Catarino B, Dolan L (2015) Conserved regulatory mechanism controls the development of cells with rooting functions in land plants Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1416324112
Liam Dolan’s lab at the University of Oxford is a world leader in the study of root hair development. Previously it has been shown the group XI basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor (LOTUS JAPONICUS ROOTHAIRLESS1-LIKE (LRL) regulates root hair growth in Arabidopsis, Lotus or rice. This study investigates the equivalent proteins in the moss Phycomitrella patens and show that they are involved in an auxin signaling pathway that promotes cell outgrowth albeit via a different set of signaling intermediates. Overall the authors show that a core auxin network that supports cellular ‘tip-growth’ exists throughout land plant lineages even though the specificity of this signaling has diverged over the course of the ~420million years that separates angiosperms and mosses.
Varas J, Sánchez-Morán E, Copenhaver GP, Santos JL, Pradillo M (2015) Analysis of the Relationships between DNA Double-Strand Breaks, Synaptonemal Complex and Crossovers Using the Atfas1-4 Mutant. PLoS Genet.11(7): e1005301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005301
The work led by Monica Pradillo at the University of Madrid includes a contribution from Eugenio Sanchez-Moran from the University of Birmingham. This work focuses on the hetero-trimeric Chromatin Assembly Factor 1 (CAF-1), which is a histone chaperone that assembles acetylated histones H3/H4 onto newly synthesized DNA. In Arabidopsis the CAF1 complex is composed of the FAS1, FAS2 and MSI1 proteins. Atfas1 mutant plants are less fertility, have a higher number of double stranded breaks (DSB) and show a higher gene conversion frequency. The authors investigate how DSBs can influence meiotic recombination and synaptonemal complex (SC) formation by genetic analysis of Atfas1-containing double mutants. Ultimately their experiments provide new insights into the relationships between different recombinase proteins in Arabidopsis. Overall an increase in the number of DSBs does not translate to an increase in the number of crossovers (COs) but instead in a higher GC frequency. The authors provide different theories to explain this mechanism, including the possible existence of CO homeostasis in plants.
Lambing C, Osman K, Nuntasoontorn K, West A, Higgins JD, Copenhaver GP, Yang J, Armstrong SJ, Mechtler K, Roitinger E, Franklin FC (2015) Arabidopsis PCH2 Mediates Meiotic Chromosome Remodeling and Maturation of Crossovers PLoS Genetics 11(7):e1005372 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005372
The University of Birmingham is the lead Instiution in this study that also investigates regulation of meiosis. The groups of Chris Franklin and Sue Armstrong collaborate with US and Austrian partners to study the organization of meiotic chromosomes during prophase I. Using structured illumination microscopy (SIM) they show that dynamic changes in chromosome axis is coincident with synaptonemal complex (SC) formation and depletion of the ASY1 protein, which requires the function of the PCH2 ATPase. Using a pch2 mutant the authors are able to tease apart different aspects of ‘crossover’ (CO) biology and that the pch2 defect occurs precisely during CO maturation, not during designation. In addition, CO distribution is also affected in some chromosome regions showing that failure to deplete ASY1 can result in downstream events that include disruption of CO patterning.
Jones MA, Hu W, Litthauer S, Lagarias JC, Harmer S (2015) A Constitutively Active Allele of Phytochrome B Maintains Circadian Robustness in the Absence of Light Plant Physiology. http://dx.doi.org/pp.00782.2015
Matthew Jones (University of Essex) is the primary author of this work that comes from a collaboration from his time in the lab of Stacey Harmer in UC Davis. Since 2012 Matthew has been a lecturer at the University of Essex where he continues with work of this nature. In this study they introduce a constitutively active allele of the PHYB photoreceptor that is able to phenoopy red-light input into the circadian clock. In these mutants the pace of the clock is insensitive to light-intensity and this response is dependant on its PHYB nuclear localisation. Finally they show that fine tuning of PHYB signalling requires PHYC and overall they conclude that nuclear phytocrome signalling is necessary for sustaining clock function under red light.
Chakravorty D, Gookin TE, Milner M, Yu Y, Assmann SM (2015) Extra-Large G proteins (XLGs) expand the repertoire of subunits in Arabidopsis heterotrimeric G protein signalling Plant Physiol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.15.00251
Sally Assman from Penn State University leads this study that includes a contribution from Matthew Milner who now works at NIAB. The number of proposed G protein subunits is greatly reduced in diploid plant genomes yet this study shows that a family of Arabidopsis GPA-related proteins (XLG1-3) can increase the repertoire of potential G proteins interactions by interacting with beta and gamma subunits. The authors propose they have uncovered a new plant-specific paradigm in cell signaling.
Categories: Arabidopsis, bioinformatics, GARNet, Global, John Innes Centre, Light Signaling, Open Access, plant hormone
Tags: Arabidopsis, BBSRC, bioinformatics, GARNet, John Innes Centre, New Phytologist
A couple of weeks since the last update as it’s been quiet for UK Arabidopsis Research publications. However we now see a variety of publications that address some important questions in different signaling pathways. Firstly a multinational collaboration performs a genome-wide analysis of DELLA binding, followed by two studies looking different aspects of light signaling, specifically the link with the production of protective carotenoids and also with the tight control of protein degradation. Elsewhere there is the description of a systems biology approach developed to aid the definition of signaling pathways in non-model organisms and finally a commentary piece about some work on Arabidopsis Arenosa.
Genome Wide Binding Site Analysis Reveals Transcriptional Coactivation of Cytokinin-Responsive Genes by DELLA Proteins (2015) Marín-de la Rosa N, Pfeiffer A, Hill K, Locascio A, Bhalerao RP, Miskolczi P, Grønlund AL, Wanchoo-Kohli A, Thomas SG, Bennett MJ, Lohmann JU, Blázquez MA, Alabadí D PLoS Genet. 11(7):e1005337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005337
The Centre for Integrative Biology in Nottingham and Rothamstead Plant Science partner with groups from Sweden, Germany, Spain and Saudi Arabia in this truly international collaboration. They investigate the role of DELLA proteins in the relay of environmental cues to multiple transcriptional circuits. The primary experimentation in this study uses ChIP-Seq to analyse the DNA-binding sites of one DELLA protein. Perhaps as expected the DELLA protein binds multiple promotor regions yet with a particular enrichment in regions upstream of cytokinin-regulated genes, where they interact with type-B ARABIDOPSIS RESPONSE REGULATOR (ARR) proteins. The biological relevance of this mechanism is underpinned by the requirement for both DELLAs and B-type ARRs in the control of root growth and photomorphogenesis.
Regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis by shade relies on specific subsets of antagonistic transcription factors and co-factors (2015) Bou-Torrent J, Toledo-Ortiz G, Ortiz-Alcaide M, Cifuentes-Esquivel N, Halliday KJ, Martinez-Garcia JF, Rodriguez-Concepcion M Plant Physiol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.15.00552
Karen Halliday at the University of Edinburgh is part of this UK-Spanish team that studied the regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis via a light signaling module formed by PIF1 and HY5. In shade conditions, PIF proteins signal for a decrease in carotenoid accumulation, thus saving the plant unneeded energy consumption. The PIF1 response focusses on the phytoene synthase (PSY) biosynthetic gene and is antagonised by the PAR1 transcriptional co-factor. However this is not a universal response carried out by known antagonisers of PIF1 function, demonstrating that carotenoid biosynthesis is finely regulated by a precise subset of regulatory proteins.
High-level expression and phosphorylation of phytochrome B modulates flowering time in Arabidopsis (2015) Hajdu A, Ádám É, Sheerin DJ, Dobos O, Bernula P, Hiltbrunner A,, Kozma-Bognár L, Nagy F Plant Journal http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.12926
Professor Ferenc Nagy has dual appointments in Edinburgh and in Hungary and this output results from work performed in Hungary. This study looks at control of flowering via phytochrome B signalling, which has been previously shown to rely on the degradation of the CONSTANS (CO) protein that in turn delays flowering by attenuating FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) expression. Therefore phyB mutants show accelerated flowering, yet this is unexpectedly also true following PHYB overexpression. The novelty of this study comes from showing that PHYB overexpression induces FT without affecting CO transcription but rather acts by causing accumulation of the CO protein, due to an affect on a COP1-ubiquitin ligase complex. This article adds further detail to the already complex relationship between light signaling, the circadian clock, protein degradation and de novo transcription in the control of flowering in Arabidopsis.
Inferring orthologous gene regulatory networks using interspecies data fusion (2015) Penfold CA, Millar JB, Wild DL. Bioinformatics. 31(12):i97-i105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv267
This study was led by David Wild from Warwick Systems Biology Centre. The authors have used two related Bayesian approaches to network inference that allow Gene Regulatory Networks (GRN) to be jointly inferred in, or leveraged between, several related species, for example between Arabidopsis and related crop species. Inferring gene function is achieved with more accuracy when GRNs are compared between species rather than attempting to use stand alone inference. The manuscript uses data from the yeast S.pombe but the broader principles could be applied to other experimental systems.
The High Life: Alpine Dwarfism in Arabidopsis (2015) Bomblies K Plant Physiol. 168(3):767. http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.15.00745
This commentary piece about high altitude growth of Arabidopsis aernosa is the first published work from Kristen Bomblies since she moved her lab to the John Innes Centre from Havard (together with the lab of Levi Yant). Having these two talented young researchers relocate to the UK is be great for UK plant science so I sure everyone in the community wishes them all the best. Watch Kristen talk about her work at a New Phytologist conference from 2014.
Levi Yant also has two postdoctoral posts currently available in his lab.
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89% waning, gibbous Moon
A Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera was used to image the 89%, waning, gibbous Moon. The camera was mounted on a Merlin AZ, auto-tracking mount and set to ISO 100, 1/160s exposure and f/5.9 at maximum zoom (60x). 48 images were captured and the best 43 stacked in Registax 6. Click on the image to get a larger view:
Mare Crisium region
A Philips SPC900NC camera was placed at the prime focus of a 9.25 inch SCT. Overlapping areas were made of the Mare Crisium region and a mosaic was made. Click on the image to get a larger view:
Sunspots in white light with a Bridge Camera
A Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera, fitted with a Baader solar filter, was used to image the Sun. The camera was mounted on a Merlin AZ, auto-tracking mount and set to ISO 100, 1/1000s exposure and f/5.9 at maximum zoom (60x) (Equivalent to 35mm focal length of 1200mm). 48 images were stacked in Registax 5. Click on the image to get a larger view:
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95% waning, gibbous Moon tonight
The Sun with a Bridge Camera
A Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera, fitted with a Baader solar filter, was used to image the Sun. The camera was mounted on a Merlin AZ, auto-tracking mount and set to ISO 100, 1/1300s exposure and f/5.9 at maximum zoom (60x) (Equivalent to 35mm focal length of 1200mm). 51 images were captured and the best 48 stacked in Registax 5. Click on the image to get a larger view:
The Sun in white light and Ca K-line light
A DMK 21 camera was placed at the prime focus of a Coronado Ca K-line solar scope. A 1000 frame AVI was captured using SharpCap 2. The AVI was stacked in Registax 5 to produce the image:
The high magnetic flux regions in the chromosphere can be seen close to the active regions.
Full Harvest Moon
A Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera was used to image the Full Moon. The camera was mounted on a Merlin AZ, auto-tracking mount and set to ISO 100, 1/1000s exposure and f/5.9 at maximum zoom (60x). 36 images were stacked in Registax 5. Click on the image to get a larger view:
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Craters on the Moon
Selected areas of the 98% waxing, gibbous Moon were imaged with a Philips SPC900NC CCD camera, placed at the prime focus of a 9.25 inch SCT on an AVX mount. The AVIs were stacked in Registax 6. Click on an image to get a larger view:
Even close to the Full Moon, there is still lots of detail to be explored at this angle of illumination.
98% waxing, gibbous Moon
A Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera was used to image the 98%, waxing, gibbous Moon. The camera was mounted on a Merlin AZ, auto-tracking mount and set to ISO 100, 1/400s exposure and f/5.9 at maximum zoom (60x). 45 images were captured and the best 41 stacked in Registax 6. Click on the image to get a larger view:
The Sun in Ca K-line light
A DMK21 AS camera was placed at the prime focus of a Coronado Ca K-line solar scope. The scope was placed on a Merlin auto-tracking AZ mount. Four x 500 frame AVIs of overlapping sections of the solar disk were captured and stacked in Registax 5. The four images were combined into a single mosaic of the solar disk. Click on the image to get a larger view:
The bright, chromospheric network is clearly visible in this wavelength of UV light.
Large sunspots on both sides of the equator
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Lumpy Gravy
A Guide to Surviving the First Trumpsgiving
Uncle Roy in that MAGA hat. And oh crap, it’s national anthem time before the NFL game. Ugh. But here’s a guide to avoiding Trump-inspired family feuds.
Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast
Thanksgiving this year could easily become Fight Club! We could see some “Make America Great Again” hats used as catapults to launch food at liberal relatives or those same hats jammed into the toilet after your Trump-loving uncle keeps calling everything you say “fake news.”
Thanksgiving can be stressful in the best of years. You are trapped talking to your uncle who loves the Dallas Cowboys—or worse, the New England Patriots. And then there’s your aunt who keeps wanting to know why you aren’t married and giving her nieces and nephews.
But this year’s Thanksgiving features one new yuuuuge stressor: Donald J. Trump. Despite the fact that it seems like Trump has been sowing havoc in our lives for years, this is actually the first Thanksgiving in the Trump presidency.
So this year instead of awkward discussions about your life choices, you are now trapped at the table with your cousin on your mom’s side who responds to every comment about Trump by saying, “But what about Hillary Clinton…” But it’s not just progressives versus Trumpers. You could be the most progressive household in Brooklyn complete with a vegan turkey (do they exist?) sitting on an organic, fair trade, animal-friendly tablecloth but all of a sudden someone insists that Bernie really got screwed out of the Democratic nomination in 2016. Next thing you know, organic Brussels sprouts in balsamic glaze are flying at each other. And even a family of all Republicans will likely see blowups this year thanks to Trump as the establishment types are now pitted against the Bannon wing (although to be honest, watching Republicans fight each other makes my heart grow more than the Grinch’s when he discovered the joy of Christmas). All you need is someone at the dinner table saying, “Hey, I want more!” to which another person responds, “Did you just endorse Roy Moore?” and suddenly it’s a make America great food fight.
So how can you have a Thanksgiving that is hopefully free from drumsticks thrown in anger? Well, I turned for guidance to a Democratic activist, a Republican strategist, and two psychologists. Their advice may be the one thing that saves you from transforming your Thanksgiving into fight night.
At the outset, it’s vitally important to understand what exactly is at play when a political “discussion” in time of Trump occurs. Dr. Tim Davis, a Boston area psychologist with over 20 years experience counseling people and a part-time lecturer at Harvard Medical School, explained that in today’s political climate people sincerely believe the “stakes are incredibly high.” He added, “there are people who are convinced that the other political party is an existential threat to America.”
Dr. Dawn Obeidallah Davis (yes, my sister), a developmental psychologist who formerly was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School but now tries to help people cope with life through yoga, explained that political discussions nowadays get so heated it actually can trigger the “fight, flight or freeze” response. “People in a political debate can have the same physiological responses complete with increased heart rate, sweating, and a sense of panic,” she noted.
These two mental health pros recommended one of these two approaches for Trumpsgiving:
Agree to not talk politics. Dawn Davis suggested this might be the only option for some. You have to be honest. If you know that a political brawl is going to happen then the best chance to avoid is it a ban of all things politics.
If you need to talk politics, agree to ground rules in advance: Tim Davis suggested agreeing to specific ground rules at the outset such as remaining civil, no personal insults, and no screaming at each other. He also did have one big recommendation: Agree to these rules in advance. If you tell people “stop yelling” out of the blue they may get defensive. But as he noted, if everyone agrees to the rules in advance then collectively these guidelines can be enforced by any person in attendance. For example, if a political discussion is getting too heated observers can say: “But you agreed in advance to no yelling, no personal insults, etc.”
Personally, I would recommend suggestion number two because in the time of Trump it’s almost impossible to avoid politics. We know Trump will tweet something asinine on Thanksgiving, or if you watch the Thanksgiving NFL games that could prompt a political discussion regarding players taking a knee during the national anthem. Plus wouldn’t it be amazing to have a debate with a person who holds different political views that doesn’t end up becoming a shouting match involving the words “libtard” and “Trumpkin”?!
Now let’s turn to advice from political people on how best to stop in fighting within your own political tribe this Thanksgiving:
From the left: Danielle Moodie Mills, a progressive activist and host of SiriusXM radio’s Woke AF, offered this suggestion to progressives who insist on relitigating the 2016 Democratic primary: “Tell them, ‘Look the primary is over and the devil is sitting in the Oval Office.’” Mills also suggested uniting fellow progressives over issues that both sides believe we need to fight Trump on, from health care to the environment to his tax cut for the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.
From the right: Evan Siegfried, a Republican strategist and vocal Trump critic, suggested fellow Republicans who want to avoid heated fights on Thanksgiving should de-escalate the situation by appealing to conservative values and framing issues in way that resonate with those on the right. For example, if a fight erupts Thanksgiving over NFL players kneeling, he suggested that conservatives who disagree frame the issue as, “While I disagree with them using this forum to raise this issue, I love that we live in a country where you are permitted to do that.”
Hopefully these words of wisdom will help your Thanksgiving from morphing from a family gathering into the food fight scene from Animal House. But if all this fails, I’d go with throwing stuffing—it’s easier to mold into ball and it sticks to everything it hits. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Trump: Dem Rep ‘Squad’ Must Apologize to Me, America, Israel
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Mitt Romney's immigration policy may not be a joke, but the name he's given it is. The much-mocked term "self-deportation" was not invented by harsh immigration lawmaker--and Mitt Romney backer--Kris Kobach but instead originated in a 1990s satirical ad responding to a California ballot initiative that attempted to ban illegal immigrants from using public schools and hospitals. Sort of like early Stephen Colberts, a couple of Mexican-American comedians funded a group called "Hispanics Against Liberal Takeover" and made mock news releases and radio ads wherein they pretended to be conservative activists promoting the law. This American Life recalls interviewing HALTO founder Daniel D. Portado--a Mexican-American--back in 1996 about the idea of self-deportation. Portado explained in jest, "We feel that the immigrants are taking too many jobs, are bringing down the quality of life. They're not allowing our young American teenagers the character-building experiences of picking fruit and cleaning hotel beds." Lately, Portado has been using his twitter feed to try to remind America that "self-deportation" was his idea, and it was not a serious one.
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U.S. Hikers' Release Hits New Snag
The judge who has to sign the bail papers so that two American hikers jailed as spies in Iran can be freed can't do it because he has something very important to do: go on a vacation. The lawyers for Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal said the judge won't be back until Tuesday to complete the paperwork on the $1 million bail deal even though a second magistrate already signed the papers. The two hikers have already been in prison for more than two years.
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Skills Development, Social Mobility and Educational Change: A Sociological Analysis of the Effects of the National Policy on Skills Development in India Completed
Area(s) of work: Education
Duration: June 2016 – December 2016
Funder/ Partner: Azim Premji Foundation
Internationally, skills have come to be accepted as the key drivers of economic prosperity and social mobility (Gibb and Walker, 2011; Keep and Mayhew, 2010; Nikson, Warhurst Cullen and Watt, 2003). The new skills discourse is not just a reinstatement of the earlier emphasis on practical or vocational-technical education, but in fact represents the new linkages sought to be established between the individual’s self and body as the site of work, and the global conditions of economic production and development.
Against this context the study proposes to review the outcomes and implications of the National Policy on Skills Development (2009; 2015) and the skills training and education programmes that have resulted from it. Despite the urgency and massive investments made towards this, particularly by the current government, there are few studies that have critically examined its outcomes and effects. The current study attempts to understand what implications do these forms of alternate educational initiatives have for employment, social mobility and security? Specifically, using qualitative approaches, the primary question explored in will be, “How has the National Policy on Skills Development transformed the context of education and work in the country? Has this led to qualitative changes in social conditions and quality of life of disadvantaged groups such as SC/ST youth, Muslims, and women?”
A paper titled ‘Skills Education and Workforce Preparation: Examining the Disconnects between Policy Intentions and Outcomes in India‘ was presented at the 5th Conference of the Regulating for Decent Work Network, International Labour Organisation, Geneva.
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September 20, 2014 / By Franklin Cedric
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I wanted to post this much sooner but better late than never. It had been somewhere around 30 years since I was last in Northland and even then it was only a quick trip up from Auckland to Whangarei and Kerikeri and return on the same day in a mid-1980’s Mitsubishi V3000, which was a bit of a flash set of wheels in its day. Being bought up in Christchurch is no excuse as I have lived in Tauranga for 20 years. It was therefore with eager anticipation I looked forward to returning for a more relaxed few days in ‘the winterless north’.
I have travelled south out of Auckland numerous times feeling smug as I’ve seen the stop/start congestion in the north bound lanes from as far south as the Bombay Hills. On this trip I paid the price for that and soon felt sympathetic to the congestion frustration that is a common occurrence for Aucklanders. The heavy slow traffic continued from the Bombay Hills to Wellsford far north of Auckland. Before that though I thought I’d take a recommended alternative route across the Waikato from Matamata to Morrinsville to Huntly and on to SH 1 to Auckland. Well SH 1 was banked up with stop-start traffic from Huntly to Auckland with road works seemingly stretching forever. At a guess it added another 90 minutes to the trip. I will NEVER take that route again.
In the appropriately named Bay of Islands (there’s 140 of them) we based ourselves at beautiful Paihia. The very first excursion was to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, arguably the most important site in the history of European settlement of New Zealand and seemingly a place associated every Waitangi Day with protest. These historic spectacularly scenic grounds were a tranquil haven on our visit. The whole complex including the Mission House and modern museum are maintained in a beautiful state. It really is a must visit with a guided tour.
Waitangi Treaty House and grounds. Waitangi, Bay of Islands, NZ.
Friendly locals. Waitangi Treaty House, Bay of Islands.
This is the Ngapuhi Tribe’s ceremonial war waka (canoe) Ngatokimatawhaorua. It is the largest canoe in the world at 35 metres long with a dry weight of 6 tonnes and when wet a weight of 12 tonnes. It requires a minimum of 76 paddlers to handle it safely on the water. It was first launched in 1940 and then laid up for 34 years. In 1974 the waka was renovated for Queen Elizabeth’s visit. After the Queen’s voyage she designated Ngatokimatawhaorua ‘Her Majesty’s Ship’ which makes the waka part of her Royal Navy. The waka is launched on 6th February each year as part of Waitangi Day celebrations.
Ngatokimatawhaorua, the largest canoe in the world.
As far a stunning locations go, the site of the Mission House (1822) in the Kerikeri Inlet, is right up there. We were so taken by this location that having spent time there in the morning we returned in the balmy warmth of the evening and sat with a glass of wine and watched as dusk fell over this beautifully tranquil location.
Kerikeri Mission House in autumn evening sunlight.
The most perfect end to a glorious autumn evening on the Kerikeri inlet, Northland.
This was a photography dream. The light was so beautiful. I so recommend a visit here. There is a fantastic cafe and quite stunning restaurant just behind where the photo above was taken.
Last light in the Kerikeri Inlet.
Adjacent to the Mission House is picture perfect St James Church, birthplace of Christianity in New Zealand. It was rattled and moved by a tornado in 1968 but that aside it has existed to give a quiet picturesque witness to the faith it was built to accommodate.
St James Church, Kerikeri Inlet, Northland
Northland is rich in history. This memorial sits in the grounds of Christ Church in Russell. It is New Zealand’s oldest existing church built in 1835. Its beginnings go back to the earliest years of Maori and European contact. The inscription reads in memory of Tamati Waka Nene, Chief of Ngapuhi, the first to welcome the Queen's sovereignty in New Zealand.
Christ Church, Russell.
A highlight of this trip was undoubtedly a day out on the water on a sightseeing trip which extended out to the Cape Brett lighthouse and encompassed the thrilling experience of being shadowed by playful Bottlenose dolphins.
Bottlenose Dolphins in the Bay of Islands, NZ
The stopover for a mid-autumn BBQ lunch on Urupukapuka Island was another standout experience
Lunch stop on stunning Urupukapuka Island, Bay of Islands, NZ.
You can’t go to the far north and not be tempted by the legendary Mangonui Fish & Chip shop sitting right on the wharf at Mangonui in Doubtless Bay. With a dining view like this and ever so tasty seafood, it’s worth it!
Mangonui Fish & Chips. What a taste! What a view!
We barely scratched the surface of ‘the winterless north’. To do it justice would take some weeks. Wish it hadn’t been left for so long to make this visit but hopefully will return again and again to take in much more of both the east and west of the far north and hopefully get right up to Cape Reinga..
Duke of Marlborough Hotel, Russell, Bay of Islands.
Tags: northland, waitangi, kerikeri, bay of islands, bayofislands, new zealand, paihia
August 8, 2017 by Chris Taylor
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CBU instructor fired after demanding sex, moose meat and lobster for better grades
By Halifax Chronicle-Herald A faculty member at Cape Breton University has been terminated for demanding sex, moose meat and lobster from a student who was struggling in his course in exchange for better grades. In an emailed response, university spokeswoman Lenore Parsley didn’t answer questions about the firing, the nature of the offence, details about the employee’s position and whether there had been other complaints about the employee. “Cape Breton University is committed to a safe and respectful campus for all of our community members,” Parsley said. “Any and all complaints follow a formal process, as indicated in our respectful campus policy. “We… …read more
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Sunday 21st May The Boot and Shoe to Calder Vale via Fleetwood
May 24, 2017 / Anne Hutchinson
A goodly number of riders turned up for the start of what was to be an unusual day out, involving a ferry and a bluebell tea! The route to Knott End was straightforward, due to the need to catch a ferry before the tide was too low to permit access to the boat. A good pace was set along the road to Cockerham, before turning off on Crimbles Lane to Moss Edge and from there to Pilling, following Fluke Hall Lane and onto the sea wall. Reserved seating was very welcome and three other rides met us there having made their own way out from Lancaster and Scorton.
After a welcome second breakfast for some, an earlier than expected ferry was available, with the news that a bus pass no longer afforded a reduced fare!! Setting off along the promenade the leader was unaware that before Rossall School their way would be blocked due to updating of the surface, and a detour was made along the road running parallel to the sea wall. The original route was soon rejoined, and from there the roads were in turn very quiet, or much more busy in equal measure, but after ten miles or so, and some fairly complex navigation, the lunch stop was made at Stanah Country Park.
After a convivial half hour, two of the group opted for a road route to Shard Bridge, whilst the rest went ‘off road’ following the Wyre Way to Skippool. The scenery along this section is very unusual and caused much interest for those who hadn’t been this way before. All met up before the bridge to ride across it and then along pleasant lanes through Out Rawcliffe and Nateby to Garstang. At this point one of the group living near Garstang introduced everyone to a canal link which got us safely under the very busy A6. On reaching Dimples Lane, what had been a very flat ride until this point suddenly got very hilly, over Ringing Hill and Sullom Side - almost two miles of steep climbing, but worth the effort as the Bluebell Teas provided by the good folks of Calder Vale were delicious and prepared everyone for the climb through the splendid bluebell woods and up to the school and church.
Harris End Fell then had to be tackled from Oakenclough, but is a much easier proposition in this direction and the riders were soon on the downhill section and on their way back to Galgate and home - 56 enjoyable miles on some roads not often ridden.
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Due to the Rifts in Reality, Lena gets a job offer from Iron Man.
There have been multiple disturbances in the skies in Chinatown today. It had been a relatively stable place since the Infernal attackers boiled over the city, but it appears that it has finally gotten its turn. Flashes of openings, glowing portals, have sprinkled the section of the city: it is as if small rips in the air form, only to close again right away. Many of them are well out of the way of any human: they're up at rooftop level, or even higher.
And then, one of the portals opens, and a round metal object the size of an overlarge bowling ball comes rolling out. It pivots, disoriented and smoking, lights emitting in patterns and holograms. It bounces off a traffic pole (sending the lights into rotation and disarray, with expected traffic problems associated), and ricochets sideways into the side of a brick wall of a drug store. Smoking lightly, it sits there sunk into the wall, with two leg-like prongs wiggling in the air in what would be distress for a living thing. For a technological piece of equipment, it may be something else. It does seem disoriented and distressed, though.
The past few days were something of a ride for Lena. Life went one way before violently jerking off course and going in a different direction. One path was gaining traction, while another was just left in the dark for who knows how long. On nights like this, it calls for something to settle the nerves and spirit - a lemon and blueberry slushie. Nursing the massive cup, the girl's eyes flit to the side once the glow of rips in the sky stand out against the otherwise normal light pollution.
It was nothing, at first, far away and not in danger of anyone. Open and close, she counts off how many split the sky until finally something falls through. Resting her back against a near by building, her eyes follow after the 'thing' as it pinballs around the street, making its finaly stop in a wall. A flit toward bystanders, she turns on her booted heels and makes her way down the stretch of building to find where it had actually stopped.
Still drinking, she cants her head, silent at first and watching it squirm. With a roll of her gloved fingers, she reaches out and gently touches at the flailing limbs.
Most of the bystanders are now absorbed in yelling at each other of a crash and slam of metal due to the pivoted traffic light. So there is plenty of distraction from what caused it.
The robotic ball of limbs doesn't seem entirely aware of the gentle touch, but does arch the limbs back towards the brick to start to leverage itself loose. It is a quarter turn to the left, then right, then a vibration that causes some of the brick to rattle and shower loosely around it. It is working on being unstuck.
A good inspection shows there were three limbs at some point, but one is sheared off, leaving just two. It has some sleek panels and what is likely an access point along the left hind area behind one of the limbs, with a few specific indentations. It looks a little bit alien, just in the caliber of tech.
Suddenly it seems to become aware of Lena, and one of the panels slides open, exposing a lens, which focuses with a robotic zoom-sound.
The way it twitches and fidgets it almost child like. Pet like - some poor little thing stuck and trying to dig its way out. As icy as the girl often was, she can't help but to smile. Another drink down, she sighs and sets her cup on the ground, now with two free hands, she moves them out in an attempt to aid the sphere out of its prison. She'll admire it later.
The exposure of its 'eye', she guesses, gives her pause, and without hesitation, she offers it a cool smile. "Easy there, little thing. I'll help you out of there." She promises, with it being one limb down, using her own fingers would be of aid. Or at least she hopes it will. "Don't shock me or anything." She advises, her hands finally settling around its upper curves and giving it a gentle twist and pull.
The robot clearly considers her. The zoom on the lens, drawing in to see her more clearly, gives it the aspect of a bright blue eye. It draws its legs in to the center helpfully, to get them out of the way and so as not to scratch her, and dutifully waits to be rescued.
With some effort and leverage that the robot lacked on its own, it will come loose slowly at first, then all at once. Automatically the lens closed up to protect itself from potential impact, as it is tugged free into Lena's grasp.
Once loose, the limbs come back out again, and a metallic 'whurr' starts up, as it attempts to hover in place, though if she hangs onto it, it won't pull away nor lift her up.
During the distraction of unburying the drone from the wall, another arrival has made his way over. The ongoing blare of car alarm from the traffic problem drowned out the sounds of his arrival, but he lands on a roof smoothly, and looks down into the alley. Amused, Iron Man looks on for the moment, setting one armored boot on the roof edge, relaxed, elbow and forearm resting on the raised thigh: at ease. He isn't hidden: but most people don't often look up.
"Just a lil more…" she assures the thing, before giving a small grunt and pulling it free. The force, and her boots not being planted that well for once, causes her to cradle it against her chest and stumble back. "Whoops, I got ya!" She assures the creature, giving it more care and consideration than she did with most people. At the shift and hum, she looks down at it and smiles, letting it go, tentively, making sure it wouldn't just fall to the ground.
"Well, you're adorable. Were I a worse human being, I might be tempted to snatch you up for myself." She confesses to it, lingering all the while. That feeling of something, someone perhaps, watching over them, gives the professional criminal pause, her head turning to the side, one and then the other, as her eyes glance sidelong at nothing in particular.
Reclaiming her cup, she returns to drinking, her lips and tongue already stained blue from its dye. Now, she circles it, studying the orb attentively, her finger moving out to gently probe at the lost limb. "Hmm. Easy fix. Clean tech." She murmurs.
Iron Man may have been content to just observe for the moment the little interaction between young woman and the small robot, but the robot picks up on him being present. It suddenly pivots, turning upside-down (well, it had BEEN upside-down: the lens is on the top most properly, not the bottom, limbs somewhat in front like antenna), and makes a series of loud chirps and static sounds upwards at its creator.
"He says you gave him a hand; he likes you," Tony observes in a friendly manner, with a gesture of a few fingers downwards to the robot, casual as always. He has the mask of his helmet down, which makes his voice have a metallic, projected quality through his enhanced speaker. Even so, the voice of Tony Stark is a very recognizable one: he talks on the news or various media ALL. THE. TIME. Hard to escape, really. "I was expecting two of them; just the one here, huh?" Tony asks, head angling as he surveys the local rooftops and alleys, attention on the HUD inside his helmet.
Sighing, the girl turns to find the figure hovering above her, speaking down and about the bot. "Never fails." She mumbles to herself, taking that time to silence herself with another drink from her cup. Watching after the tiny orb, she at least smiles its way when she knows that it likes her. "Only saw the one," she tells Stark. "Grant enterance and all." She explains, slipping one hand into her pocket now as the other holds her drink securely. "I guess if you're here, the mystery of where it came from isn't such a mystery anymore." Begrudgingly, she takes a moment and follows up with a, "I'm a fan of your work."
"It entered well, did it? Takes after me, I suppose," Tony answers flippantly, and drops smoothly to land in the alley, so she's not required to crane her head up at him. "Mystery? Still has one. This one came from last Tuesday. Pretty good mystery."
The robot approaches him, and he taps once, twice, on the indentations, and the drone unfolds like a puzzle-box. Tony casually examines it, flicks a thumb against a damaged section that didn't open as if he could just smack it into turning back on. It works, the part unfolds.
"A fan? Hey, thanks. Me too," Tony says with a flash of sideways sly smile to her. The arrogance is thick, but so is the charisma of the billionaire. The drone chirrrrps agreement supportively like the good little yes-robot it is. Tony finishes his download from it, and the robot closes back up. "Leave your leg in another dimension?" Tony chides it semi privately, similar to a tone someone might use on a pet.
Lena steps back, giving the Iron Man space to do whatever it was he needed to with the orb. Once the ball turns into something akin to a puzzle, she becomes interested once more. A step forward, and then another, she'll soon be standing by the man's side, eyeing down at the little thing, smiling when it 'speaks'. She watches, attentively, though his self-fandom causes her pale eyes to roll. She couldn't get away from it, it seems. "What does it do?" She finally asks.
Tony is a showman, and he smiles a bit as she draws in to look at it. He holds up one armored finger, and makes a few adjustments to the drone, activating the vocal translation for it. "Go ahead and answer her," Tony instructs the robot, motioning across to Lena.
The robot answers in a funny, blunted little robot voice of mixed feedback, "Bwk bwwzz bwwwh," says the drone. "Or not," Tony winces at it, holding a palm to stop it. "More fried than the diagnostic suggested," Tony admits in dismay. And answers her question himself. "Sort version? It's an anchor sensor on these portals; getting more data so that we can stop the universe from falling to pieces like a paper in a shredder."
Tensing up, giddy almost from the idea of the little thing having a voice, Lena waits for it to speak. It does, somewhat, causing her to frown after the fact. Looking inward and against the machine, she hears Tony speak about the portals, anchors, and then lifts her fingers. "Oh, I see it." She murmurs, slipping her hand around the little orb and dropping her drink to the side. Looking around it, she works the sphere open, eye-balling its insides and digging in. "Sorry," she tells the bot, before twisting her pinky in and finding something that clicks into place.
"Ok, little thing. Give it a shot." She requests, waiting to see if it will speak this time. Apparently, the idea of the world folding in on itself was less important than taking care of the orb.
Stark watches with a very raised dark eyebrow, but doesn't interfere with what she's doing. For one thing, he can see quite clearly where she's going with this, since he built the drone and knows where she's reaching. He rests armored hands against his upper hip armor, head tilted, smile vague. If she were going after the data he'd have a different reaction, but this? He's fine to observe.
The robot does peek at Tony before it does any speaking. When it gets a shrug from Tony it tries again. "I am D-77 dash one!" beeps the drone in a fuzzy little robotic way. "Property of STARK industries! I sense and record dimensional phenomenon, and network with other D-77 modules to stabilize ruptures in space!" There is a sort of excitement in the tone, as if it were just so thrilled to convey anything at all, while waggling both of the antenna-like limbs.
"Otherwise known as dimensional-duct-taper," Tony agrees solemnly. "This isn't your first little bot, I can see. Are you often finding drones falling on your head? We can see about a helmet for you, if so. For safety."
Lena practically beams. The puzzle shut up, she hugs the little thing against her chest again. "Christ, you're so cute! Don't tell Jadis I said that, she might get jealous." She whispers the after thought, keeping the bot close at hand. Then she snickers, "Duct Taper. Nice. Can't say I know anything about the dimensional phenomenon, but then again, weird things do seem to happen around the likes of us, regardless of city. Head the Speedster had to deal with his fair share as well."
Turning, she looks toward the Iron Man, not aware of his expression thanks to his golden plate mask. "No, he's the first." She explains, realizing now how she holds it like a child might cling to their favorite plushie. "Ah, sorry, D-77." Releasing it, she allows it to do as it wishes.
The robot circles around Lena two times like a cheerful bee. "Decorum," Tony admonishes it with a soft laugh, and the drone stops. "Yes Mr. Stark," it replies dutifully to the inventor. Instead, it just hovers close to Lena's face, well into her personal bubble, unless she chooses to step back out of the way. The eye moves over her, inspecting. Of course it does: the thing gathers information. Right now it appears to be counting her pores, possibly.
"Always on the lookout for people that want to train or work in tech, though, you have a good instinct with it. Give D-77 a bit of info and apply if you like. D-77, get to the tower within the hour," Tony says. It isn't every day one meets the head of a massive company like Stark Industries, but Tony's used to this. Scouting and hiring talent is a Tuesday for him. Or Wednesday? "/I've/ got another portal trying to eat a building," Tony sighs. He steps back once, flips out a two-finger salute, and blasts off into flight smoothly.
"Mr. Stark is a wonderful employer!" chimes the damaged robot enthusiastically.
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CALIFORNIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES 2019 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
SACRAMENTO – The California Forestry Association (Calforests) today announced its sponsorship of a legislative package that enhances state forest management practices, increases wildfire reduction efforts, and levels the playing field for victims when they seek damages from wildfires.
“California is now home to a year-long wildfire season that demands a proactive approach to forest management, wildfire reduction, and protection of the rights of wildfire victims,” said Rich Gordon, President of Calforests. “The unfortunate reality is that wildfires are no longer a question of if, but rather when and how severe. Our state has been ravaged in recent years and too many lives have been lost. The time is now to make a statement and this legislative package does exactly that.”
Calforests is pleased to serve as a sponsor on the following measures:
SB 515 (Sen. Anna Caballero): Expands the fuels and feedstocks for biomass utilization that are eligible under current requirements to include the footprint of wildfires starting in 2012; biomass diverted from specified higher fire-risk zones; and biomass from CPUC designated sources.
SB 632 (Sen. Cathleen Galgiani): Exempts – for a defined period – from CEQA, actions that are consistent with the draft Program EIR for the Vegetation Treatment Program issued in November of 2017.
AB 1151 (Asm. Tom Daly): Modifies AB 1492 – adopted in 2012 – to clarify that all victims are eligible for the same formula when seeking damages from a fire.
AB 1160 (Asm. Brian Dahle): Creates an exemption for shaded fuel breaks, which significantly help to halt the spread of wildfires.
“We look forward to working closely with the authors who are partnering with us on this legislative package,” said Gordon. “In order to effectively address the state’s wildfire crisis, we must act swiftly and with real intent. We simply cannot afford to do otherwise.”
The California Forestry Association (Calforests) is the statewide trade association that consists of forest owners, forest products producers and forestry professionals committed to sustainable forestry and responsible stewardship of our renewable natural resources through environmentally sound policies and conservation practices. The forest sector is a significant contributor to our state’s environmental and economic well-being. To find out more about Calforests, please visit calforests.org.
CALIFORNIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION NAMES GEORGE GENTRY SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
SACRAMENTO - The California Forestry Association (Calforests) announced the promotion of George Gentry - formerly Vice President of Regulatory Affairs - to Senior Vice President of the association. "Since joining Calforests four years ago, George has immersed himself in the complex and constantly evolving world of California's forestry regulatory structure," said Rich Gordon, President and CEO of Calforests. "With more than 40 years working in the state's forestry sector, George's encyclopedic knowledge has proven to…
CALIFORNIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION RESPONDS TO GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S MAY REVISE
SACRAMENTO – The California Forestry Association (Calforests) today issued the following statement from its President and CEO, Rich Gordon, after Governor Newsom released his May Revise: “Since he came into office, Governor Newsom has regularly discussed the need for greater investment in California’s efforts to combat year-long wildfires. His May Revise is yet another clear indication that he means what he says. “Our industry applauds his proposals to (1) increase funding for the implementation of…
CALIFORNIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION RESPONDS TO GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S PLAN TO CURB CATASTROPHIC WILDFIRES
SACRAMENTO – The California Forestry Association (Calforests) today issued the following statement from its President and CEO, Rich Gordon, following the release of Governor Newsom’s plan to address wildfires in California: “We applaud Governor Newsom for taking a decidedly proactive approach to addressing our state’s wildfire epidemic. The Governor’s plan is both thoughtful and comprehensive and sets the stage for the critical discussions about wildfire preparedness that will take place at the State Capitol over…
SACRAMENTO – The California Forestry Association (Calforests) today announced its sponsorship of a legislative package that enhances state forest management practices, increases wildfire reduction efforts, and levels the playing field for victims when they seek damages from wildfires. “California is now home to a year-long wildfire season that demands a proactive approach to forest management, wildfire reduction, and protection of the rights of wildfire victims,” said Rich Gordon, President of Calforests. “The unfortunate reality is…
California Forestry Association’s Statement on Little Hoover Commission’s Report on Forest Health
California Forestry Association President Rich Gordon released the following statement in regards to the Little Hoover Commission’s report Fire on the Mountain: Rethinking Forest Management in the Sierra Nevada released today. “We support the Little Hoover Commission’s findings that forest health is paramount to all Californians, said Rich Gordon, president and CEO of the California Forestry Association. “Healthy forests provide us with clean air and water; wildlife habitat; clean energy; sustainable wood products and green…
Calforests Annual Meeting: February 28, 2018
Diverse voices respond to increased tree mortality
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Today, the U.S. Forest Service announced that tree mortality in California has killed 129 million trees, up 27 million from this time last year. In response to the increased tree mortality numbers, the California Forest Watershed Alliance released the following statement: “These growing tree mortality numbers are not a surprise given the current state of California’s public forestlands. They are however devastating to the landscape, threatening public resources and local communities. This…
California Forestry Association Hires Former Assembly Member Rich Gordon as New President and CEO
California Forestry Association (Calforests) Chairman Arne Hultgren announced today that former Assemblyman Rich Gordon has been named its new President and CEO, effective July 17, 2017. “We’ve worked with Rich for years and are pleased to have him join our Association. We’re confident his leadership and policy experience will continue to create great policy results for California and for our membership,” said Chairman Hultgren. Gordon brings more than 20 years of public service…
Conservation, Water, Forestry and Rural Communities Agree on Ecologically Sound Forest Management
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Calforests Annual Meeting
Join us for our Annual Meeting at the Westin Verasa, Napa to discuss current and upcoming issues related to California's forests.
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KAYES, Norman Kennedy Kayes - Obituary
KAYES, Norman Kennedy - 5/21/1942 - 10/31/2017
After a valiant and courageous uphill battle with lung cancer, and with his signature humour, Norm took his final journey on Tuesday, October 31st, 2017 surrounded by love and light from near and far.
He is survived by his beloved wife of 32 years, Christine Marie (Kosir), their son Andrew (Michelle), his oldest sons Scott and Neil and his grandson Cameron.
He will be deeply missed by his in-laws Mimi & Ted Kosir, sisters-in-law Susan (Andreas), Laura, Lisa (Rusty), nieces Danielle and Dana, nephew Ryan (Ashley) and his godson Adam.
Sadly missed by his extended Slovenian family and many friends, neighbours and fur-friends in the Rosebank community of Pickering and beyond.
Born Johnston Conway Burns on May 21, 1942, Norm was adopted and loved by Matthew and Margaret Kayes in Paisley, Scotland. His life as an only child changed in his 75th year, when his Burns birth family was discovered in Rothesay, Scotland. He now also leaves behind his Aunt Tillie Gracie, sisters Margaret-Ann Walker and Fiona Coll and their families whom he regrettably never had the opportunity to meet.
At Norm’s request, cremation has taken place.
A Memorial service will be held on Tuesday, November 7th, 2017 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning, at the McEACHNIE FUNERAL HOME, 28 Old Kingston Road, Pickering Village in Ajax. Interment to follow at Holy Cross Cemetery, 8361 Yonge Street, Thornhill.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Scouts Canada or please extend a random act of kindness in his name.
Online condolences may be left in the Guestbook at mceachniefuneral.ca.
“Till we meet again”.
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Negapedia: the battle behind the research.
Internet lists among its highest purposes the collaborative utopia and the sharing, but it also shows in itself the exact opposite: battles, polemics, contrasts, that are nothing more than a reflection of today's society, interests and positions. This is the idea behind the project Negapedia Italia, a website that quantifies and measures the contrasts hidden behind each Wikipedia page.... READ MORE...
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Digimag Journal: Digital Identities, Self Narratives. Out Now
Curated by Silvia Bertolotti and Marco Mancuso, Digimag Journal | Issue 75 "Digital Identities and Self Narratives" gathers 13 contributions from artists, researchers, theorists and curators from all over the world, who suggest critical insights about the role of digital art and technology in the shaping of identity. Digimag Journal new issue is available for free download in PDF, ePUB, MOBI and PRINT ON DEMAND on Digicult Editions.... READ MORE...
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Exploring the Deep Web: a “knowledge vs comfort” dilemma
Many internet posts haven’t any doubt: the so-called Deep Web (DW) is definitely a bad place. Would you like your checking account to become empty? Aren’t you afraid that someone could spy on you? Or, from bad to worse that the police burst into your flat and arrest you like in American crime movie? If you aren’t chasing things like that, you’d rather stay in your daily sandbox made of Google, Facebook and so on... READ MORE...
Immune Nations – The Vaccine Project
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Affect and Social Media #3 | Deadline: 28/02/2017
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Beyond Ignorance. Interview with Tatiana Bazzichelli and Daniela Silvestrin
Among the predictions made by George Orwell in 1984, the dynamics ruling the relationship between people and state forces are something you can’t help but keep ... READ MORE...
A Prehistory of the Cloud by Tung-Hui Hu. MIT Press, 2016
Tung-Hui Hu is a former network engineer and current professor at University of Michigan. In his book A Prehistory of the Cloud, published by MIT Press in September 2015 he examines the gap between the real and the virtual in our idea of the cloud. A system of networks that enables multiple users to share the same pool of computer power... READ MORE...
When Digital Innovation meets Industry: the iMinds’ model
iMinds is a Flemish non-profit organization, that drive digital innovation for society and economy, through strategic and applied research on key digital technologies. Offering to people and organizations active support in research and business development, and also encourages tech entrepreneurs to bring their smart innovations to life... READ MORE...
Digital Social Innovation in the heart of Europe
In the last decades, digital technologies and Internet have massively shaped social innovation. The new challenge for the social sector is nowadays to find a... READ MORE...
The socio-economic impact of the cultural heritage on the communities
It 'obvious change of paradigm occurred in recent years regarding the evaluation of the potential social and economic terms of cultural heritage: the transition from a conception centered on the retention of a value-centered, testified in a clear from Faro Protocol of 2005 - promoted by the Council of Europe... READ MORE...
Carlos Motta: Gender Talents, a web-based project by Creative Capital
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Spreadable Media is the latest book by Henry Jenkins, professor at the University of South California and participatory culture theorist, written together with two digital strategists Sam Ford and Joshua Green.... READ MORE...
[re]vive : Call for Ideas. A contemporary factory of culture
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Roman house, restored view and plan of typical house, 2nd and 1st centuries BCE.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Republican
1. fauces 2. atrium 3. impluvium 4. cubiculum 5. ala 6. tablinum 7. triclinium 8. peristyle.
House of the Mosaic Atrium, Herculaneum, Italy, plan.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman)
1) fauces 2) atrium 3) tablinum (Egyptian oecus) 4) peristyle garden 5) cubiculum 6) triclinium 7) panoramic terrace 8) sitting room.
Roman house, plan and diagram of typical house.
Roman (ancient Italian style)
1. Fauces 2. Atrium 3. Impluvium 4. Cubiculum 5. Tablinum 6. Peristyle 7. Triclinium
Palace of Knossos, Crete, Greece, plan.
Minoan; Late Minoan; Greek (ancient); Prehistoric; Bronze Age
1. West porch 2. Corridor of the procession 3. South propylon 4. Central court 5. "Theater area" 6. North-south corridor 7. Pillar hall 8. Magazines 9. Throne room 10. Palace shrine and lower verandas 11. Stepped porch 12. Grand staircase 13. Light...
Palace of Knossos, Crete, Greece, plan, with key.
Olynthos, Greece, plan, grid layout of streets and housing.
Greek (ancient)
Palace, Vergina, Greece, plan.
Greek (ancient); Hellenistic
Elements included: Veranda; Peristyle / Central court; Corridor; Entrance; Extension to the palace / Peristyle.
House of Julia Felix [Praedia of Julia Felix], Pompeii, Italy, plan showing layout of house.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman); Fourth Style
Layout of the house: 1. Atrium, 2. Vestibule, 3. Corridor, 4. Summer triclinium, 5. Service corridor, 6. Room, 7. Bedroom, 8. Room, 9. Room, 10. Tuscanic atrium, 11. Bedroom, 12. Bedroom, 13. Tablinum, 14. Triclinium, 15. Peristyle and Viridarium,...
House of Menander, Pompeii, Italy, plan showing layout of house.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman); Julio-Claudian; Fourth Style
Layout of the house: 1. Atrium, 2. Ala, 3. Tablinum, 4. Oecus/Green Salon, 5. Peristyle, 6. Oecus, 7. Triclinium, 8. Manager's bedroom.
O'Connor Killam architects.
Allen R. Hite Art Institute; Architectural drawings
Catalog of an exhibition of architectural work of O'Connor and Kilham, presented by the University of Louisville, Allen R. Hite Art Institute, April 5-April 30, 1954.
Medieval cathedral, floorplan.
Elements included are: N transept, S transept, apse, north aisle, south aisle, nave, west end, walls, vaults, piers, columns.
Sears Roebuck building floor plan tracing, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929.
Architectural drawings; Design drawings; Drawings; Buildings; Architecture; Floor plans
A photograph of a copy tracing of the floor plan for the Sears Roebuck Co. building located at 8th and Broadway in Louisville, Ky.
Louisville & Nashville Employes' Magazine
Railroads; Railroad employees; Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
May 1928 issue of the Louisville and Nashville Employes' [sic] Magazine, also known as the L&N Magazine, which featured news about the company and its employees, stories about towns along its routes and industries utilizing its lines, and other...
June 1928 issue of the Louisville and Nashville Employes' [sic] Magazine, also known as the L&N Magazine, which featured news about the company and its employees, stories about towns along its routes and industries utilizing its lines, and other...
December 1928 issue of the Louisville and Nashville Employes' [sic] Magazine, also known as the L&N Magazine, which featured news about the company and its employees, stories about towns along its routes and industries utilizing its lines, and...
April 1929 issue of the Louisville and Nashville Employes' [sic] Magazine, also known as the L&N Magazine, which featured news about the company and its employees, stories about towns along its routes and industries utilizing its lines, and other...
August 1968 issue of the Louisville and Nashville Employes' [sic] Magazine, also known as the L&N Magazine, which featured news about the company and its employees, stories about towns along its routes and industries utilizing its lines, and other...
Railroads; Railroad employees; Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company;
September 1928 issue of the Louisville and Nashville Employes' [sic] Magazine, also known as the L&N Magazine, which featured news about the company and its employees, stories about towns along its routes and industries utilizing its lines, and...
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Home State Publications The state of allied health in North Carolina : a focus on the clinical laboratory sciences...
State of allied health in North Carolina : a focus on the clinical laboratory sciences workforce
The state of allied health in North Carolina : a focus on the clinical laboratory sciences workforce - Page 7
THE STATE OF ALLIED HEALTH IN NORTH CAROLINA:
A FOCUS ON THE CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES WORKFORCE
IV. CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES EDUCATION
North Carolina lacks state licensure or regulations for the minimum educational credential needed to enter
the laboratory sciences workforce and therefore it is possible to work in the field after obtaining various
educational degrees. While some practitioners working in the field have obtained education in another
science field or experience through on- the- job training, many employers prefer or require successful
completion of an accredited clinical laboratory sciences program and/ or certification from one of the
national certifying organizations. The National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences
( NAACLS) accredits both medical technologist and medical laboratory technician programs.
A. Medical Technologists
The path to become a medical technologist typically occurs after completion of a baccalaureate degree from
an accredited MT program. However, some in the field hold degrees in other science disciplines or have
obtained their education and experience through years of on- the- job training. There are four baccalaureate
programs in the UNC System: East Carolina University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Winston- Salem State University and Western Carolina University [ Figure 3].
In addition, there are two schools of medical technology at Wake Forest Baptist University Medical Center
and Carolinas College of Health Sciences, which offer certificate programs and/ or baccalaureate degrees in
collaboration with other public and private universities across the State. East Carolina, Winston- Salem State
and Western Carolina Universities offer articulation programs for MLTs to obtain a baccalaureate degree in
medical technology.
B. Medical Laboratory Technicians
Although some of the medical laboratory technician workforce obtained their education and experience
through on- the- job training or in another science discipline, MLTs typically hold an associate’s degree from
an accredited MLT program, of which there are 12 in North Carolina [ Figure 3]. These programs are all
located in community colleges.
Figure 3. Accredited Laboratory Sciences Educational Programs,
North Carolina, 2004
North Carolina Health
Professions Data
Cecil G. Sheps Center
for Health Services
The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
National Accrediting
Agency for Clinical
Laboratory Sciences:
System; North Carolina
Independent Colleges
and Universities, 2004.
Notes: Collaborative MLT programs exist with Beaufort ( College of the Albemarle and Pitt Community College), Davidson
( Forsyth Technical Community College and Guilford Technical Community College), Southeastern ( Bladen Community College,
Brunswick Community College, Cape Fear Community College and James Sprunt Community College). Collaborative MT
programs exist with Carolinas College of Health Sciences ( Gardner- Webb University, Bennett College and Lenoir Rhyne College),
and Wake Forest University ( Bennett College, Catawba College, Elon University, Gardner- Webb University, High Point University,
Lenoir Rhyne College and Salem College).
Title State of allied health in North Carolina : a focus on the clinical laboratory sciences workforce
Other Title Focus on the clinical laboratory sciences workforce
Contributor Dyson, Susan L.
Council for Allied Health in North Carolina.
North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program.
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
Subjects Allied health personnel--North Carolina
Medical technologists--North Carolina
Description Cover title.; Principle author: Susan L. Dyson--P. [1].; "August 2004."; Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher North Carolina Health Professions Data System, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
Agency-Current University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina (System)
Physical Characteristics 12 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.
Format Reports
Digital Characteristics-A 3 MB; 16 p.
N.C. Public Health Collection
Related Items Also available via the World Wide Web.; http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/hp/labsci04.pdf; http://worldcat.org/oclc/56899583/viewonline
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Title The state of allied health in North Carolina : a focus on the clinical laboratory sciences workforce - Page 7
Full Text THE STATE OF ALLIED HEALTH IN NORTH CAROLINA: A FOCUS ON THE CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES WORKFORCE IV. CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES EDUCATION North Carolina lacks state licensure or regulations for the minimum educational credential needed to enter the laboratory sciences workforce and therefore it is possible to work in the field after obtaining various educational degrees. While some practitioners working in the field have obtained education in another science field or experience through on- the- job training, many employers prefer or require successful completion of an accredited clinical laboratory sciences program and/ or certification from one of the national certifying organizations. The National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences ( NAACLS) accredits both medical technologist and medical laboratory technician programs. A. Medical Technologists The path to become a medical technologist typically occurs after completion of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited MT program. However, some in the field hold degrees in other science disciplines or have obtained their education and experience through years of on- the- job training. There are four baccalaureate programs in the UNC System: East Carolina University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winston- Salem State University and Western Carolina University [ Figure 3]. In addition, there are two schools of medical technology at Wake Forest Baptist University Medical Center and Carolinas College of Health Sciences, which offer certificate programs and/ or baccalaureate degrees in collaboration with other public and private universities across the State. East Carolina, Winston- Salem State and Western Carolina Universities offer articulation programs for MLTs to obtain a baccalaureate degree in medical technology. B. Medical Laboratory Technicians Although some of the medical laboratory technician workforce obtained their education and experience through on- the- job training or in another science discipline, MLTs typically hold an associate’s degree from an accredited MLT program, of which there are 12 in North Carolina [ Figure 3]. These programs are all located in community colleges. 4 Figure 3. Accredited Laboratory Sciences Educational Programs, North Carolina, 2004 Produced by: North Carolina Health Professions Data System, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sources: National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences: North Carolina Community College System; North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, 2004. Notes: Collaborative MLT programs exist with Beaufort ( College of the Albemarle and Pitt Community College), Davidson ( Forsyth Technical Community College and Guilford Technical Community College), Southeastern ( Bladen Community College, Brunswick Community College, Cape Fear Community College and James Sprunt Community College). Collaborative MT programs exist with Carolinas College of Health Sciences ( Gardner- Webb University, Bennett College and Lenoir Rhyne College), and Wake Forest University ( Bennett College, Catawba College, Elon University, Gardner- Webb University, High Point University, Lenoir Rhyne College and Salem College).
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DIGITAL.NEOSKOSMOS.COM THE WEEKEND NEOS KOSMOS | SATURDAY 6 JULY 2019 15 TRAVEL PHOTO: NK ARCHIVE PHOTO: NK ARCHIVE PHOTO: AEGEAN SEA WAYS their ticket has been issued to allow for additional flexibility. NEW FLIGHTS Ryanair announced that it would include two new flights connecting Greece to Hungary and Poland on its schedule. The new routes are from Preveza-Aktio to Budapest every Monday and Kavala to Poznan in Poland every Wednesday. The airline estimates that it will transport 5.6 million passengers in 2019 and support over 4,200 jobs in Greek airports. Ryanair spokesman Chiara Ravara said the new flights would help boost regional tourism in Greece. NEW AIRCRAFT Aegean Airlines is making long-term plans to give the carrier increased flexibility. In an effort to strengthen its position, management discussed the funding of new aircraft delivery with the provider's creditors. Competition with its main rivals in the domestic market (Sky Express, Volotea) has peaked. NEW SERVICES Natives of Hania, Kalamata and Preveza living in London had reason to celebrate this year when British Airways increased its flights from London Heathrow to Greek Airports from two to three per week last month. These remain into effect until early October. NEW EXPRESS TRAIN The wait ended in May as the highly anticipated express train on the Athens-Thessaloniki line was launched. Now, instead of taking five hours to get from one city to the other, passengers will be able to reach their destination in just three hours and 55 minutes. The express trains feature all necessary amenities to ensure a convenient and relaxed trip, including WiFi.The routes will initially be carried out by three TRAINOSE trains coaches, overhauled by EASTY. The ultra-modern express trains will run daily, with two stops – one in Lianokladi and the other in Larissa. NEW E-TICKETS The Greek Ministry of Culture announced an upgraded e-ticket that would include a number of new sites and museums across Greece and improve the overall tourist experience. The sites to be given e-ticket access include Ancient Olympia, the Archaeological Site of Aigai-Vergina, the National Archaeological Museum, Delphi as well as Thessaloniki museums and landmarks, including the Archaeological Museum, the Museum of Byzantine Culture, the Rotonda and the White Tower. Furthermore, visitors to the Acropolis who have purchased tickets online from etickets.tap.gr will be able to gain immediate entry through newly-introduced fast lanes. Ticket machines will be installed at the site for faster access. Compiled by Anastasia Tsirtsakis and Mary Sinanidis
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November 26, 1997 MattLeave a comment
“We have to be able to control what goes into our products. Otherwise, how can we respond to our customers? How can we give good value? How can we add more, more, more, more good stuff at low prices?”
Microsoft veep Steve Ballmer, responding to the Department of Justice’s challenge to his company’s software “integration” practices, Computer Reseller News, 24 November 1997
REALLY, REALLY LATE CAPITALISM
“This is a capitalist country without capital or capitalists.”
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France’s minister of economy, finance and industry, on his native country’s fitful encounter with the financial postmodern, Forbes, December 1997
DATA SMUG
“Information is more than data. Information is a smile, information is a frown, or a nod, it’s a hug, it’s a kiss — it’s lots of things.”
Regis McKenna, high technology’s ur-marketer, News.com, 21 November 1997
THEY SHOT THE SHERIFF
“In traditional media, everyone tends to know the ground rules. But for the Internet, there are no ground rules: It’s a Wild West; it has to be invented.”
Former Wired Digital VP David Weir, displaying some inventiveness of his own in a postlayoff interview, TechWeb, 20 November 1997
LIKE, YOUR MARKET ECONOMY IS SOOO FIVE MINUTES AGO
“If these economies try to revert back to the good old ways, like six months ago or a year ago, they will go deeper into trouble.”
Intel CEO Andy Grove, dishing out advice for the troubled tigers of Asia, San Jose Mercury News, 19 November 1997
ACTUALLY, JOHN-JOHN, IT’S A NETWORK OF NETWORKS
“The Internet to me is one big network.”
Cisco CEO John Chambers, showing his technical mastery of networking, CNET Radio, 18 November 1997
USING YOUR PC WILL BE LIKE SETTING TIME ON A VCR
“The PC is too complex and imposing for many customers. For the market to keep growing, the PC has got to become more appliance-like.”
Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, speaking at Comdex on new directions for the personal computer industry, News.com, 17 November 1997
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Harnessing waste as a resource
By admin April 15, 2015 623
An in depth interview with Féidhlim Harty from FH WETLAND SYSTEMS Ltd. The Council Journal speaks to Mr. Harty regarding his new book as well as how best to use waste as a resource…
Feidhlim, congratulations on the recent publication of your very well-received new book – Septic Tank Options and alternatives. The book has been praised for offering a comprehensive guide to a wide range of sewage treatment options for households and businesses. What general advice can you give to environmentally-conscious homeowners and business owners looking at the best possible green treatment options?
Thank you very much. No matter how small the home or large the business, there are two main environmental deciders when it comes to wastewater treatment options. firstly, how clean will the final effluent be? Secondly, what is the overall energy and resource use, in construction and in operation?
Standard mechanical treatment uses electricity to aerate the effluent for treatment. By contrast, constructed wetlands and reed beds can have zero energy use where the topography is right; i.e. where pumping isn’t necessary. Willow facilities can be carbon negative (mopping up atmospheric carbon) if the harvested coppice-wood is used as fuel to displace heating oil purchases. these can also both produce excellent water quality where correctly designed and built.
When making your decision on a new system, issues such as capital and running costs, system size vs. the space available, aesthetics and the like are additional factors in the choice of system. If your home or business is already on an urban sewer network, there are still things that you can do. Urban sewage treatment systems generally discharge to the local river or the sea after treatment. the cleaner the water entering the sewers, and the less of it, the better the final effluent quality tends to be.
So the important environmental pointers are to conserve water as far as possible to reduce the volume going to sewers, and to limit what goes down the drain. Limit or eliminate bleach use, and keep all noxious substances out of the sewers completely. these include herbicides, pesticides, paints, solvents, oils and fuels and the like.
What are some of the possibilities of using human by-products as a resource, e.g in terms of producing wetland habitats, plantations for firewood etc?
The main focus in this area has generally been towards getting dirty water clean, rather than reframing the issue as a question of resource management. there are many potential “harvests” from what we currently call sewage and sewage treatment. as you mention, wetland habitats are a potential resource for wildlife and also for aesthetic value. There is a constructed wetland in arcata, California that treats the sewage from the town. apparently the maintenance person on-site spends a lot of time renting out binoculars to visitors who come from all over for the birdlife, providing considerable revenue for the town. Firewood is another easy harvest from sewage treatment systems.
Zero discharge willow facilities were developed in Denmark in the mid 1990s and have been used in many counties in Ireland over the past 8 years or so. These are pump fed with septic tank effluent and absorb all nitrates, phosphates and effluent volume. Recent trials have highlighted changes needed in design and construction, making the newer systems more adapted to Irish conditions.
One of the invaluable features of these systems is that in carbon balance terms if the willow is used for fuel, a single domestic-scale facility will mop up about the same amount of atmospheric carbon over 20 years that a mechanical treatment system will generate in that time in electricity use. Larger scale willow plantations are also in use, and provide an obvious source of electricity. Bord na Mona already co-fire with 30% willows at their edenderry plant in Co. Offaly. By combining fuel growing with sewage treatment we can turn the major challenges of carbon emissions and water pollution into a synergistic solution.
The other fairly obvious harvest from the toilets of the country is the nutrient rich material we fl ush away every day. far from being a step backwards, humanure composting and urine diversion are a very effective way to convert one of the main water pollutants in the country into a safe and productive soil enricher and fertiliser.
Dry toilets are an obvious way to achieve this, but on a larger scale.Scandinavia has been at the forefront of developing faecal separators for use with fl ush toilet infrastructure so that solids are collected and contained for composting, while fl ush water is diverted for treatment. New standard looking toilets divert urine within the toilet bowl and route it to separate storage for reuse as a well balanced N,P,K fertiliser.
With phosphate fertiliser mined from limited reserves and nitrates generated using fossil fuel, reusing humanure and urine is an obvious way to limit our ongoing contribution to climate change and also avoid over-enrichment of watercourses and groundwater from nutrient-rich effluent discharges.
With mandatory inspections having been introduced in 2013, what should homeowners do to ensure their existing (and possibly aging) septic tank systems meet all relevant guidelines?
As the inspection process is currently structured, homeowners can avail of a grant if their system is found wanting. By contrast if they want to upgrade their system voluntarily, then planning permission and investment are both needed. Problems such as ponding or surface water pollution are most noticeable on existing sites that wouldn’t pass the current guidelines for percolation anyway, even with a good degree of treatment beforehand.
Consequently it’s diffi cult to suggest exactly what homeowners should do to pass an inspection before the event. There has recently been an ePa consultation process surrounding these issues, so hopefully we’ll have an easier planning process around voluntary upgrades. this will help homeowners take proactive steps in the right direction. that said, where there are obvious signs of pollution, then it’s important that it isn’t allowed to continue.
Regardless of grants or planning permissions, there is both a legal and moral duty to not cause water pollution. In these instances, talk with a site assessor or environmental consultant about the options available. My book was written with this question in mind, and covers conventional, natural and eco-friendly options available, so if you’re in doubt about how best to proceed it is one place to start.
What in your opinion can councils and local government do to make it easier for environmentally-friendly businesses to operate?
I’m hopeful that the next phase of the national septic tank inspection plan will make upgrading sewage treatment systems a matter for direct agreement with the local authority environment section rather than a full planning permission process. a lot of the infrastructure is already in place at present. generally separation and recycling of solid waste streams is facilitated and encouraged. There’s active pressure on businesses to have high quality effl uent discharges. rising fuel and energy costs are pushing everyone towards conservation for cost reasons if not climate. The decision to behave in an environmentally sustainable manner rests to a great extent with the business rather than local government.
However there are some obvious areas where this is not the case. It can be quite challenging to get planning permission to use innovative forms of sewage management such as composting and urine diversion. The EPA Code of Practice is a valuable document for suitable sites, but can restrict the use of more sustainable methods if followed too rigidly. Willows are a case in point. ecologically and financially we could be ploughing funding into community plantations whereby local councils plant commercial biomass crops on land down-gradient of their sewage treatment plants to make use of residual N and P rather than allowing enrichment of our rivers and at the same time importing fossil fuels for power and heat.
From a climate change perspective, we need to leave c.80% of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground if we are to meet targets already agreed by countries around the world. this won’t be possible if we continually grant planning permission to energy heavy activities. An easy solution in this context is for sewage treatment technologies to be at least carbon neutral, if not carbon negative. this is something that could be achieved in Ireland at the stroke of a pen. Even for conventional systems, the use of willow plantations for nutrient uptake after municipal treatment could move Ireland more towards zero carbon almost overnight. given that the global indicators of environmental health have dipped so seriously low, it’s not so much a question of facilitating ecofriendly businesses, although that is important. It’s becoming a question of making more radical changes in all aspects of business and local government, and prioritising environmental decisions.
What are some of the latest developments in your area of expertise and what do you hope the future holds for your company, FH Wetlands Ltd?
When I started out in business in 1996, my aim at the time was to highlight the cost, wildlife and water quality benefi ts of constructed wetland systems. I couldn’t see why every cash-strapped local authority in the country couldn’t use them to get every river and stream in Ireland clean. Since then, many counties have at least one municipal constructed wetland system working away quietly and unobtrusively, providing free treatment and habitat for local wildlife to boot.
With the publication of the EPA Code of Practice and greater environmental enforcement in the area of business effl uents over the years, wetlands, reed beds, willow systems and other innovative solutions have all become much more commonplace. Yet there is so much work that still needs to be done. I’m very heartened by Swedish developments in source separation technologies, by ongoing Danish work on willow systems and the work on dry toilet technology in Sweden and Finland particularly.
Many ecologically minded clients are planning and installing these different technologies in their new projects and I find that very encouraging and exciting. twenty years ago, my naive plan was to get all of the water in the country clean and then take a holiday! As you can see, I’m not quite there yet… On the plus side there are new exciting projects unfolding every week, and increasingly these are being embraced by local authorities who are hungry for genuine solutions. In this vein, I’ve been running seminars for engineers, architects and local authorities around Ireland on how to apply environmentally sustainable solutions in their work. It’s been very fulfilling to work alongside people willing to seek new solutions.
Finally, on a different subject, what advice do you have for those who want to conserve their water supply and therefore limit wastage as much as possible?
Water charging is probably the single most important step that we have taken towards encouraging greater water conservation. that said, I have concerns over the potential for privatisation of Irish Water, a move that has been reversed in other eu countries, but that is another debate. Personally I’d be a lot happier if our water was still managed by each separate local authority. With charging, savings on an individual home and business level are now immediately tangible. But on a national scale, if all homes and businesses in Dublin adopted even a modest water saving programme, it’s likely that the plans to pipe Shannon water to the capital could be cancelled, with savings both financial and ecological.
In terms of reducing water meter readings, we’re blessed in Ireland with an abundance of rainfall, spread fairly evenly throughout the year. Using some of that in our homes and businesses is a fairly easy measure. On a very basic level we can use rainwater for garden and yard use. One step beyond that is using it for toilet fl ushing, or screen fi ltering it for washing machines. Full rainharvesting systems are now readily available for all potable supply, but add up the costs and savings before committing to the project.
To conserve overall water use there are special tap fittings, low flush toilets, low water dish washers, low delivery shower heads and other saving equipment. these all help to reduce use without any change in lifestyle. Naturally, by taking a bit more care with simple tasks like turning off the tap while brushing teeth and having short showers rather than baths, water savings can become distinctly pronounced. This is all before ever you fix that leaky tap or pipe. If you want more ideas on water conservation, look up any local authority website or wetlandsystems.ie/watertips.html. Council websites in arid climates such as australia are usually very imaginative if you want more ideas.
FH WETLAND SYSTEMS Ltd.
Féidhlim Harty
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Web: www.wetlandsystems.ie
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Gospel Radio Gems (1998)
He Lives In Me (2006)
Help is on the Way (2008)
In Session (2015)
Kept & Protected (1997)
Life is a Story (2017)
Lonely Street (2009)
More Behind the Picture Than the Wall (2007)
Open Carefully, Message Inside (2014)
Roads Well Traveled (2013)
Sing Me a Song About Jesus (2012)
You Gotta Dig a Little Deeper (2005)
For other artists, see the CD Review Archive
For his first recording on Rounder, Doyle Lawson returns to secular songs for the second time this decade, after focusing more on gospel quartet sounds in the 1990s. The group's trademark harmonies are still in place, though they're brought out in the service of songs like a gorgeous remake of Jim Reeves' Nashville Sound hit, "Four Walls."
Other highlights include the title track and a swinging take on a hit from Porter Wagoner," What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen," both of which feature some seriously tongue-twisting choruses that showcase the vocal agility of the group's quartet of singers - Jamie Dailey, Barry Scott, Terry Baucom and Lawson himself. There is even an instrumental tune, the Lawson original, "Rosine," a rarity for a group that is so focused on high quality vocal harmonies.
"When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass," ought to supplant Rhonda Vincent's "Is The Grass Any Bluer," as the genre's theme song this year, with the chorus, "When I'm knee deep In bluegrass, then I'll be satisfied."
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James Harden has 37 points, Rockets rout Thunder, Russell Westbrook 118-87
Author: Julie Sanders Апр 22, 2017,
Апр 22, 2017, 22:44
Harden is the only player ever to score more than 2,000 points, hand out at least 900 dimes and pull down at least 600 boards in a season.
Four extraordinary players top the list of candidates to be named NBA MVP, but the race seems to have narrowed to two, Houston Rockets point guard James Harden and Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook. The Oklahoma City Thunder point guard made history this season as he averaged a triple-double for the entire campaign and broke Oscar Robertson's single-season triple-double record with 42. "Westbrook was pretty much a topic of conversation", Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni said. And regardless, the National Basketball Association has made a decision to string out the announcment even further this year, with all the major awards being given out on June 26 - provided the National Basketball Association offices aren't leakier than the White House.
Bulls at Celtics on Sunday.
Houston finished eight games ahead of Oklahoma City in the Western Conference standings, and they had a better record than any team in the East. Isaiah Thomas is a horrific defender but he'll run circles around Rajon Rondo, who can't in turn punish him on the other end.
(2) Cavaliers vs. (7) Pacers: Paul George has had a fine season in IN, and certainly, the return of Lance Stephenson gives another player for the Pacers to annoy LeBron James with (perhaps by blowing in his ear.Google that for a few great memes). I thought winning is what this is about-period. Cleveland doesn't (or at least hasn't) defended well at all this season, but still, I figure they'll find a way to muddle things up. In the final meeting between the teams, the Rockets led by as many as 25 points in their wire-to-wire 137-125 win.
Giannis Antetokounmpo will make this series interesting by himself, and don't be shocked if a more than a few people pick the Bucks to upset the Raptors. This might be a wash with Parker in the lineup, but instead.Raptors in 5. It'll allow Harden to get his but it'll also allow the Thunder to do an adequate job of shutting down Harden's supporting cast.
The Rockets have been mindful of the minutes their star guard gets.
"I love being here", he said. It often works, but is it easier to game plan for in a seven-game series than on random nights in the regular season schedule?
Yes, Westbrook has shown, contrary to many predictions, there is life in OKC after Kevin Durant. If it doesn't change, they're not going to win the championship.
After a long regular season featuring 286 road games (all stats approximate) and a last couple of weeks that meant literally nothing, the Rockets finally begin the second season tonight.
(2) Spurs vs. (7) Grizzlies: If last season felt like a last hurrah with Tim Duncan retiring, this one was a transformation to Leonard as a two-way mega-star.
Philadelphia went 22 consecutive times from 1950 through 1971. But, funnily enough, I don't see a way he finishes any higher than four and I think that says far more about the other three than it does about him. Ultimately, though, I think Pops steers the ship to another first-round victory.
Westbrook doesn't want to talk about the triple-doubles, but they are a critical component for the Thunder.
According to ESPN, Harden told reporters, "I think that's the most important thing".
While Russ vs. James will get top billing, but the Rockets' aerial attack, Andre Roberson's defense on Harden, Steven Adams vs. Clint Capela and the Westbrook-Patrick Beverly rivalry are all worthy good subplots. All-in-all though, I'll take the shooting skills of Lou Williams, Eric Gordon and Ryan Anderson to take Houston in a barn-burner.
The West's second-seeded San Antonio Spurs look to put recent playoff disappointments behind and open against Memphis.
Paris: One policeman shot dead at Champs-Elysees
May to vow end of European Union free movement into UK
Trump warming to EU trade deal with Britain behind in queue
Assembly votes in favour of change to abortion law
May wins Parliament vote to hold snap elections on June 8
Pep Guardiola: Give me time to turn Man City around'
Attack overshadows last campaign day in French election first round
Champions League: Juventus deny Barcelona another Camp Nou miracle
Samsung to launch S8 and S8+ in India on April 19
Reviewing Individual Broker Targets Of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Volvo to Build First EV in China
Bruins' Game 4 goal: Make life harder for Karlsson
Edmonton Oilers fans invited to flood downtown for playoff rally
Oilers' McLellan faces his former team, the Sharks
Fast & Furious Spin-off with The Rock & Statham is ON!
Philadelphia officer creates portrait to honor Cleveland murder victim
The gunman then pointed a weapon at Godwin, who shielded his face with the plastic bag. "So we forgive Mr. He helped them gain job skills and find employment, said Beech Brook spokeswoman Nancy Kortemeyer.
Hernandez family planning private funeral in Connecticut
Under an obscure MA abatement law, the family could use Hernandez's death to have his conviction in the Odin Lloyd case vacated. A physician retained by Aaron Hernandez's family says an independent autopsy has been performed on the ex-NFL star's body.
One more person arrested in relation to Stockholm attack
Earlier , Swedish police said the man they arrested "resembles the person we earlier have sought after" in the truck attack. Sweden has taken in almost 200,000 refugees and migrants in recent years - more per capita than any other European country.
Taliban kill dozens at army HQ in northern Afghanistan
Afghan soldiers and police "will extend these operations until the terrorists are finished", the ministry said in a statement. The Taliban said four of the attackers had served as soldiers in the corps until recent years and had switched allegiances.
Tony Finau, Bud Cauley tied for lead at Texas Open
Cauley coasted to a three birdie, one bogey effort on day one, but lost 1.138 strokes putting to prevent any further scoring. Cauley, a former NCAA standout at Alabama who's yet to win through six seasons as a pro, shot a 66 in the morning.
Kluber throws 3-hitter, Indians beat White Sox 3-0
Harper went 2 for 4 with the home run, two RBIs, two runs scored and a walk to help the Nationals beat the Mets 4-3 in 11 innings. Indians: 2B Jason Kipnis (sprained right shoulder) was activated from the 10-day disabled list and made his regular-season debut.
National Football League to announce regular-season scheduled on Thursday night
When is the Super Bowl rematch against the Atlanta Falcons at Gillette? The last two games are determined by division standings. Following a bye, the Chiefs travel to NY to play the Giants , followed by a home game against Buffalo.
Thunder survive Rockets, claw back in series
Westbrook was outstanding in recording another triple-double, scoring 32 points, grabbing 13 rebounds and dishing out 11 assists. Russell Westbrook alone took forty-one, yes forty-one shots in this game and missed all of his attempts in the fourth quarter.
Garcia wins hearts and Masters
FOWLER'S FOLD: Rickie Fowler has several top finishes in the majors, which is not to suggest he has finished all that well. Garcia won on what would have been the 60th birthday of Ballesteros, a date seemingly destined for great things from him.
Gatland didn't even know Scots candidates' names, says Lions Legend
Scotland have just two representatives in Stuart Hogg , a likely starter at full-back, and fellow back Tommy Seymour . Billy Vunipola is also selected as one of 22 forwards in total.
Spurs rout Watford 4-0
It is about keeping going and respecting how we play. "We must make an effort to win matches and be prepared if Chelsea neglect". Alli's superb strike kicked things off after 33 minutes, before Dier and Son added to Watford's first-half misery.
BJP's two-day national executive meet begins in Bhubaneswar
The people across the country have faith in the Modi government for its pro-poor schemes and policies ... Arun Jaitley, PM Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and LK Advani at BJP's national executive meeting.
Sathyaraj aka Katappa is causing trouble for 'Baahubali' again. Here's how
He also pointed out that many of Sathyaraj's films have been released since then, including the 2015 film " Baahubali ". He further added, "There will be a Bengaluru bandh on April 28 and also there will be protests across the state".
Trump to sign executive actions that could
Mnuchin would only characterize the White House as "very close" to rolling out its plan. Trump said these executive orders will bring jobs back to the US.
Mourinho fears worst with Ibrahimovic, Rojo injuries
But Southgate said last month that he believes "the best thing" for Rashford's development would be to play in the Under-21 tournament.
Galaxy S8 pre-orders said to exceed S7
Fresno shooter gave police detailed account of slayings
Trump Suggests Terrorism Will Potentially Be Beneficial For Le Pen
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Venezuela officials: 12 dead overnight violence
French start voting in oversea territories for presidential election
Chaffetz Denies Reports He'll Immediately Step Down
Pro-Kannada activists withdraw protest against movie 'Baahubali 2'
Borussia Dortmund angry at UEFA after bus bomb attack
Trump congratulates Erdogan after contentious win
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Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya arrested in London on extradition warrant
Momentum with Spurs for FA Cup semifinal showdown vs Chelsea
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National Question
Marksist Tutum
Raise the flag of socialist struggle against imperialist wars and capitalist exploitation!
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On Sub-imperialism: Regional Power Turkey
Elif Çağlı
The International Unites the Human Race
Revolutionary Marxism: Organised Unity of Theory and Practice
Capitalism at an Impasse
Bloody Dilemmas in Syria
Levent Toprak
Correct Attitude on the Organisational Question
On Reformism
Democracy and Plutocracy
Marxism and Youth
Crises of Capitalism and Revolutionary Situation
From Colonialism to Imperialism
Globalisation: Combined and Uneven Capitalist Development
In the Light of Marxism
The Question of Transition and the Transitional Programme
On the National Question
Marxist Attitude On the Question of European Union
The Question of International
Under present conditions where the working class has no revolutionary international organisation, there is no other way of struggle than to labour and work out revolutionary Marxist solutions and try to carry them over to international platforms. Therefore it is inevitable to get involved in various experiments to solve the question of international organisation of the working class. It must be kept in mind that all great revolutionary advances could be successful thanks to revolutionary class attitude, which means plunging into actual work without being intimidated by difficulties and daring to experiment.
The Question of International.pdf
The Question of International_brochure.pdf
A Brief History of Capitalist Development and Working Class Movement in Turkey
The process of the capitalist development of Turkey is a rather belated process with respect to the West. This historical delay flows from the peculiar socio-economic structure upon which Turkish capitalism developed. For this reason, in order to understand the peculiarities of Turkish capitalism, it is necessary to have an overview of the economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire that forms the historical background of modern Turkey today.
A Brief history.pdf
A Brief history-brochure.pdf
On Bourgeois Workers’ Parties
Although such experiences are pleasing in themselves since they carry forward the mass of the class, they are by no means enough for the working class to break the chains of wage-slavery and achieve freedom. Conditions of emancipation can develop depending on the quality and quantity of the distance taken by workers towards political consciousness and organisation. In this respect, it has a vital importance to make sure that at least the vanguard elements of the class are capable of answering the questions such as “what kind of organisation?” or “what kind of a unity?” in a way to carry forward the struggle.
On Bourgeois Workers Parties.pdf
On Bourgeois Workers Parties-brochure.pdf
The Mass Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa: Leaving the First Phase Behind
The wave of popular uprisings that started in Tunisia and continued with Egypt embracing North Africa and the Middle East has reached a new phase. Though one needs to analyse the situation in Egypt in the aftermath of Mubarak’s overthrow, there is no doubt that the process of mobilisation of millions and Mubarak’s eventual step-down in itself is already a serious source of inspiration in the eyes of other Arab peoples. New upsurges of mass movement that are taking place especially in Yemen, Bahrain and Libya are a demonstration of this fact. Whatever the short term results of this mass wave of revolt it is clear that there is a new era in this region unfolding and that nothing will be the way as they were so far. The social-political struggles to take place in this region in the period ahead and the kind of regimes to be established will be the focus of attention for revolutionaries as well as bourgeois political realm.
An Opportunist’s Approach to the Question of "Marxism and the State" (I-II)
When you look into the various cases of opportunist tendencies within Marxist movement you cannot but see that a common feature of all opportunist tendencies is to turn a deaf ear to revolutionary criticism. Although the opportunists sometimes seem to accept general revolutionary principles when they are squeezed, in effect they keep following their well-trodden opportunist way. Thus opportunism makes upsurges that are generally unavoidable. Giving concrete examples will surely make clear these features of opportunism that we state here very briefly. As a striking example we can take the upsurge of opportunism in the case of the IMT (International Marxist Tendency) lead by Alan Woods.
An Opportunists Approach to the Question of Marxism and the State.pdf
An Opportunists Approach to the Question of Marxism and the State- brochure.pdf
A Dangerous Tendency: Opportunism
The struggle for the creation of the international organization of the working class requires intransigence in principles and flexibility in tactics. Neither opportunism pursuing short term so-called political achievements nor sectarianism unwilling to see and accept anything other than its own small organization can be of any use for this struggle. The reality we face today in the issue of building the revolutionary international organization of the proletariat puts very important responsibilities and tasks over the shoulders of the internationalist communists. Those who are self-confident will continue revolutionary efforts in every field undertaking these responsibilities and tasks. Those who are not intimidated will move forward. All big problems in history have been resolved this way.
A Dangerous Tendency- Opportunism-brochure.pdf
A Dangerous Tendency- Opportunism.pdf
The importance of theoretical struggle on national question springs essentially from the need to take a correct political attitude based on Marxist foundations in the face of the liberation struggle of oppressed nations. Marxism is not an impressionist or positivist philosophy limiting itself only with interpreting the world, but an integral world view which strives to change the world and develops in an inextricably dialectical relationship with revolutionary practice.
On the National Question.pdf
On the National Question_brochure.pdf
Our Basic Positions and Our Platform
Capitalism makes the mankind suffer hell. The reign of a handful capitalists makes billions of people all over the planet suffer in the grip of hunger, poverty and deprivation, unemployment, incredible inequality and injustice, bloody wars, oppression and torture, endless decay and alienation. The only force that can save mankind from this swamp and lead it to socialism is the working class which is said to be “extinct”. The truth is that, the billions who strive to survive through selling their labour force in return for a wage, i.e. the working class, still have nothing to lose but their chains. But they have a world to win!
Platform_en.zip
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There are Answers: If We have Courage
April 2nd, 2018 | Dr. Charlie Self
This is the beginning of a series entitled, “There are Answers: If We Have Courage.” We will examine what many regard as intractable and unsolvable issues. We will fearlessly look at economic justice and the future of work, tax reform, immigration, Middle East policy, human identity, including gender, sexuality and transhumanism, racial tensions, religious freedom, academic and intellectual liberty, political polarization and principled compromise and global/local culture and life.
As always, we will distill insights from as many perspectives as possible – within the bounds of axiomatic principles and critical thinking. Conservatives may balk as the complexities of institutional transformation are evaluated. Liberals will worry that emphases on personal responsibility and certain enduring values will reverse gains in liberty. Good! We need deliverance from narrow ideological agitation propaganda.
In this essay, two issues foundational to all the rest will be examined: 1) the crisis of human identity/nature (anthropology); and 2) the crisis of objective knowledge and truth (epistemology). Without clarity on who we are and what we can know, all dialogue devolves into subjective opinion, with any critical comments deemed intolerant or a microaggression. Without such clarity, human freedom is confined to certain private experiences and life is increasingly controlled by a totalitarian state, since people “need help and cannot care for themselves.”
What does being human mean? Diverse philosophical and religious traditions answer this question in a variety of ways, from accidental evolutionary materialism to bearing the image of God. Are we merely highly evolved animals or divinely-crafted beings called to steward the rest of creation? Is human nature defined by physical processes alone or in there a unique interaction of body and spirit, brain and mind? In addition to our basic identity, are humans (like most of nature) either male or female or is there an almost infinite spectrum of identities?
Regardless of worldview, most people through most of history have not questioned the unique nature of human beings and the basic binary realities of male and female identity, albeit with a variety of opinions of erotic affections and actions.
Going forward, our American and global experiments in ordered liberty rooted in truth and virtue rest on humankind being uniquely endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights and responsibilities. Anything less than this and we devolve into arguments over blood and soil, raw scientism or fantastical speculations on human/machine singularity.
What about our foundations for knowledge? Until a half-century ago in the West, a basic correspondence theory of truth allowed for both cohesiveness and spirited debate, unity of essential facts and diversity of interpretations. No one argued whether certain events actually happened, though their impact and interpretation made for lively discussion. Today, we are told that there is no objective “there” – all we can do is interpret stories and hopefully find some convergence with shared narratives and opinions. Former President Obama’s two (!) pre-presidential autobiographies are perfect examples of ideological fabrication. Why do we need his “composite” portraits of friends and mentors? Why can we not have access to his records and writings? Why? Because history no longer stands on its own – it must serve the purposes of political advocacy. Beyond historical narrative, our epistemic crisis has fueled the same subjectivism for private and public morality, gender confusion and even allowed some to question full freedom of conscience and speech!
The uniqueness of being human and the knowability of the world are essential for grounding all arguments over justice and truth, love and human flourishing. Instead of marginalizing philosophical traditions, we should rediscover the wisdom of ancient texts and the goodness of contemporary research and synthesize these insights, so we can have a basis for social cohesion.
Our future as a nation – indeed as a human race – rests on this.
Tags: courage, human identity, immigration, including gender, justice, liberty, Middle East policy, propaganda, racial tensions, religious freedom, sexuality and transhumanism
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A Letter to Leaders
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Cherry blossoms and ashes
One of my gaming bucket list items is to eventually run a good Asian-themed D&D game. I love the interchange between Western tropes and samurai cinema, the way you can do Shakespeare in feudal Japan (Ran) or draw parallels between American westerns and the movies of Kurosawa (The Magnificent Seven). One of the ideas in my back pocket is to transpose elements of Arthurian myth, like the Grail Quest, or the Excalibur story (more the sword in the stone than the Lady in the Lake), into a D&D campaign set in the far east.
Here’s a simple premise - perhaps during the early medieval period, when native peoples like the Ainu of Japan were being driven out, a massive cataclysm was brought down on the imperial palace as the natives unleashed the fury of their gods, or the primal spirits punished the ruling caste for hubris; the imperial castle was destroyed, the surrounding province was turned into a wasteland, the remnants of the populace in that area are monsters - transformed into goblins, enslaved by demons, hateful shades of the spirit world, it could be any number of things. The legendary sword of the last legitimate shogun is lost beneath the ruins of the old castle (perhaps even stuck in a stone anvil awaiting the next shogun…)
Bam! You have a kind of leaderless chaos in the larger setting, where the remaining noble families vie to make their lord and head the new regent, but they all secretly fear if the sword of truth were recovered, everyone would unite behind the rightful shogun. Small groups that represent the clans and families, essentially parties of adventurers, venture into the forsaken province and scour the ruined castles and dungeons to find clues to the location of the lost sword. Everyone hopes to be worthy of recovering it, thus proving their worth to the emperor back in the new capital; the possessor would be named shogun. It's as if the movie Excalbur has a love-child with The Hidden Fortress and you throw in a hex crawl and megadungeon.
One thing I'm learning in The Black City campaign, I love the ambiguity of competing human encounters, and the scheme here would let the DM populate the forsaken province with bandits, brigands, rival adventuring parties, hostile samurai, enemy ninja, and so forth.
It's essentially a limited sandbox, because one thing I struggle with when thinking about a sandbox game based in a pseudo-historical feudal Japan is whether it would pass 'the tavern test'. The group members are probably servants of a daimyo, and they have autonomy as long as they're doing the larger meta-quest given as a mission by the boss - finding the lost sword of truth. But how much personal liberty did a samurai have during different periods of feudal Japan? How much must credulity be stretched to have a mixed caste party?
I don't even know if a campaign like this even has "taverns", per se: "Ahem, can I have your attention? I am Noboru-san, and my friend the Korobokuru and I would like to hire a pair of ninjas and a Wu-Jen (er, Shugenja) to go with us into the forsaken lands. Are there any ninjas for hire having a drink here?" Pssst: the two guys in the corner dressed in black ninjutsu gi's look interested. No wait, they're just struggling drinking without taking off their masks. Joking aside, the whole premise of The Seven Samurai is hiring guys to defend a village from bandits, which implied a degree of freedom to adventure and places to hire mercenaries, so maybe it's not that far off.
Yeah, so I don't know much (anything) about Japanese medieval society and the social classes, beyond what you see in movies, so I have to plead temporary (but cure-able) ignorance. I'm sure I'll be reading the related Osprey/Turnbull books I recently got. Either way, the limited scope sandbox is a way to finesse a setting with a rigid caste system while giving the players autonomy on the frontier where they can carry out their explorations. The trick is making something that meets the needs of traditional D&D - exploration, solving puzzles, resource planning, tactics, monsters. If I wanted it to be all tea ceremonies and how good is your calligraphy… well, there are already games for that kind of excitement.
I don't have a name yet for this hypothetical setting… chances are it would be done using a BX type game like LOTFP or ACKS, I'd just want to add better unarmed martial arts to fit my preferences (I'm a big fan of judo and the predecessor arts, jujitsu and aikijutsu) and a mechanic to track reputation. Some of that could even be borrowed from AD&D's Oriental Adventures. I really like the modern trend towards "a day in the life…" history books, but haven't read a good one for feudal Japan (yet). I've heard the old FGU game "Bushido" actually did a good job of laying out a setting, so I'll check that out as well. I'm not expecting to do much around this setting soon, there's a bit of background reading and research to do first and I'm doing a ton on the Black City, but it's another one on the radar.
Labels: Oriental Adventures, Spirit Island Campaign, The Junkyard
Roger the GS August 2, 2012 at 4:50 AM
Most of the core books for the various editions of the Legend of the Five Rings RPG have advice for solving the "tavern problem" (it's a fictional setting with an Empire made up of often hostile clans, similar to feudal Japan).
R.J. Thompson August 2, 2012 at 8:38 AM
Have you though about incorporating any thing from "Lord Gwydion's" "Flying Swordsmne" RPG? It's an old school OA style game, every class having some level of martial arts training. It's pretty good. Check it out here, it might give you some ideas at the least:
http://lordgwydion.blogspot.com/p/flying-swordsmen-rpg.html
Brendan August 2, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Japanese history is what I studied as an undergraduate, so let me know if you want some good recommendations for reading. I would say that looking into some native Japanese mythology might be worthwhile rather than transplanting the Arthurian story. There is so much potential in Buddhist and Taoist history and mythology; it is really worth exploring.
For the tavern problem, ronin, travelling monks, etc, work nicely, and are really no different in that sense than knights in medieval Europe.
Flying Swordsmen is more wuxia and Chinese mythology influenced, but as R.J. says it still might be useful (especially for the martial arts).
Beedo August 2, 2012 at 1:54 PM
I'd love to hear a recommendation on some good mythology references.
So far, my reading list will include some military books:
Turnbull's Warriors of Medieval Japan
Turnbull's Stronghold of the Samurai (Japanese Castles)
Some library books:
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan
Some game books, still TBD:
Blood & Honor (a recommendation from Age of Ravens blog)
Brendan August 2, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Stuff by Wm. Theodore de Bary is good (Sources of Japanese Tradition, translated primary source myths with commentary).
The Tale of the Heike, though it might be slow going.
Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows is really short and more philosophy actually, but fantastic for atmosphere.
Anything translated by Helen Craig McCullough.
The Musashi novel by Yoshikawa is a modern popularization, but is set in the waring state period prior to unification and is probably a relatively quick read. History of that period just before Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa would probably be good fodder for adventures if you are interested in strife between warlords.
The World of the Shining Prince is a good book about the Heian period (one of my favorite periods), but that is before the age of samurai.
Read stuff about the warrior monks of Mt. Hiei! That stuff is wild. Turnbull has a book that might touch on that ("Japanese Warrior Monks") but I'm not sure how good it is.
I'm also quite fond of the Onmyoji movies; they are explicit fantasy so that might be good too.
Also the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki are sort of the bibles of Japanese mythology. Philippi does a good translation of Kojiki, but it might be hard to find depending on the quality of your library. I think the Sources of Japanese Tradition has some excerpts.
Irolldice August 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM
I believe that there were historical tavern analogs. They had pretty advanced roads and there was a lot of foot traffic all over the islands. So, there were road side stops all over.
Brendan August 2, 2012 at 10:40 AM
I think Beedo was talking more about the "get the random self-directed party together" problem. The "you all start in a tavern, what do you do?" cliche.
That being said, check out the Tōkaidō, the great road with 53 way stations.
Lovingly illustrated by Hiroshige:
http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/tokaido_hoeido/tokaido_hoeido_01.htm
Yes, it's partially a concern around "how do you get characters of differing social class, some with strong prejudices, working like a traditional D&D party, if they can't all meet up in a tavern and fall in together", and part of it is the specific problem around replacement characters and hiring retainers.
Roger's point above, in Rokugan everyone is basically a samurai or part of the same class of nobility, and the issue is getting these hostile clans to work together - I think it's suggested everyone is John Law (a magistrate).
Here, the overarching mission given by the liege lord would have to provide a reason why a yakuza and samurai and ninja might head off into the wilds together - a mission, and money.
noisms August 3, 2012 at 6:27 AM
Blood & Honor is quite a good game but you won't find much setting detail or info in it.
Bushido is very cool, as is the d20 era game Sengoku. Sengoku is highly recommended for setting stuff.
Trey August 3, 2012 at 8:38 AM
Great minds think alike. I've frequently thought transliterating the Arthurian mythos to a feudal Japan-esque setting would be really cool. There are a lot of parallels to begin with and others that could be enhanced.
By the way, regarding Arthurian myths and feudal Japan, you could do a lot worse than rejigging Pendragon a little bit to fit a Japanese setting.
Somebody started doing this a few years ago with a view to publication, but it never saw print - but he put his notes up online: http://genpei.pbworks.com/w/page/13885659/FrontPage
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Bathos and Absurdity, Black City Game 7
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The Importance of Mechanics
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Funerals: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in the absence of devolved government, if she will consult on the potential merits of introducing a children’s funeral fund in Northern Ireland.
East Londonderry
Mr Gregory Campbell
<p>This is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland, and as such is the responsibility of the Department for Communities (DfC). Information can be requested from the Permanent Secretary at DfC.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>
John Penrose
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Offences against Children: Northern Ireland
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Duncan of Springbank on 20 June (HL Deb, col 835), whether the issues relating to institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland have been resolved; and if so, when legislation will be introduced to provide compensation for the victims and their families.
Lord Lexden
<p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has made it very clear that she is determined to see redress for victims of historical institutional abuse as soon as possible. That is why she asked the NI parties to assist her in critical decisions that needed to be taken with regard to the redress scheme and other matters.</p><p> </p><p>The parties addressed those outstanding issues, and the Executive Office is currently working with the Office of <ins class="ministerial">the</ins> Legislative <del class="ministerial">Council </del> <ins class="ministerial">Counsel</ins> to redraft the legislation in light of the parties’ recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>When the legislation has been revised, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland will consider the best way forward and the next steps as a matter of urgency.</p>
Lord Duncan of Springbank
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Northern Ireland Office: Overtime
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the total amount of unpaid overtime worked by staff in her Department in the last 24 months.
Jon Trickett
<p>The Northern Ireland Office offers a flexible working scheme to all staff, including time off in lieu and paid overtime is available if operationally required. No estimate of the total amount of unpaid overtime worked by staff in the last 24 months has been made.</p>
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Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive Inquiry
To ask Her Majesty's Government when the report of the Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive Inquiry will be published.
<p>Sir Patrick Coghlin is leading the report into the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and has stated that no date has yet been set for publication. As the inquiry was established and is being supported by the Department of Finance, my Noble Friend should direct further queries about the inquiry to the Permanent Secretary of that Department.</p>
Northern Ireland Office: Senior Civil Servants
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer from Lord Duncan of Springbank on 27 June (HL16506), whether they will now answer the question put, namely whether the appointment of Lindy Cameron as a new Director General at the Northern Ireland Office was a Foreign and Commonwealth Office initiative; what discussions they had with the government of the Republic of Ireland prior to that appointment; and whether they will place a non-redacted copy of the mission-statement for that post in the Library of the House.
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
<p>Pursuant to my response of 27 June, the appointment of the Northern Ireland Office’s Director General was a routine civil service appointment approved by the Civil Service Senior Leadership Committee and Cabinet Secretary. It was not a Foreign and Commonwealth Office initiative nor were there, and nor would it have been appropriate to have had, prior discussions about this appointment with the Irish Government.</p><p> </p><p>In line with the procedures for routine civil service appointments there is no ‘mission-statement’; however I will arrange for an unredacted copy of the job description to be placed in the Library of the House.</p>
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Northern Ireland Office: Iron and Steel
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will make it her Department's policy to sign up to the UK Steel Charter.
Nic Dakin
<p>We have discussed the procurement of steel with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which has asked all Government departments to consider guidance on steel procurement and to notify of any upcoming opportunities for industry.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the Government is committed to supporting the steel sector to realise the broader commercial opportunities that are open to it, which could be worth an additional £3.8 billion a year by 2030. We are establishing the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund – backed by up to £315m of investment – to help businesses with high energy use (including steel companies) to cut their bills and transition UK industry to a low carbon future. We are also providing up to £66m through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund to help steel and other foundation industries develop radical new technologies.</p>
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To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether officials in her Department have had discussions with officials in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the UK Steel Charter.
Northern Ireland Office: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether her Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union; and if she will make a statement.
<p>The Northern Ireland Office’s HR services, including payroll, are provided by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ). MOJ does not offer the facility to allow staff to join a Credit Union through payroll deductions.</p><p> </p>
Northern Ireland Office: Brexit
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on her Department's preparations for the UK leaving the EU without an agreement.
Newport West
Ruth Jones
<p>We remain focused on ensuring our smooth and orderly withdrawal from the EU with a deal as soon as possible. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland speaks regularly with Welsh Ministers on issues relating to EU Exit, through the Joint Ministerial Committee on EU Negotiations.</p>
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Northern Ireland Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the economic effect of the suspension of the Northern Ireland Executive on (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the UK.
<p>The Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly have not been suspended.</p><p>They are however not functioning in the ways set out in the 1998 Belfast Agreement.</p><p>This Government has taken the necessary action to ensure good governance and stable public finances in Northern Ireland, which of course is an integral part of the United Kingdom.</p>
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Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on support for farmers after the UK leaves the EU.
Giles Watling
<p>The Secretary of State continues to have regular conversations with ministerial colleagues across Government on all aspects of exiting the EU.</p><p>To provide certainty to farmers and landowners, the Government has pledged to commit the same cash total in funds for farm support until the end of this Parliament. This commitment applies to the whole UK.</p><p>The Agriculture Bill will allow us to break from the Common Agricultural Policy and help our farming sector become more profitable whilst sustaining our precious natural environment.</p><p> </p>
Mr Robin Walker
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Wales Office
Origin Marking: Wales
What recent assessment the Government has made of the economic effect on producers of protected geographical indications for Welsh products.
Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Martyn Day
<p>I recognise the economic and cultural importance of geographical indications to all parts of the United Kingdom. There are 16 current Welsh products covered by the scheme, ranging from Halen Môn sea salt to Welsh lamb.</p><p> </p>
Alun Cairns
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Tourism and Foreign Investment in UK
What recent steps the Government has taken to promote (a) inward tourism and (b) foreign direct investment in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
Michael Fabricant
<p>Last year, over 3000 jobs came to Wales through Foreign Direct Investment, through 57 projects of which 93% were supported by both my department and the Department for International Trade.</p><p>Between 2015 and 2018, the UK attracted more foreign direct investment in capital investment than France and Germany combined.</p>
Kevin Foster
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Glasgow North West
Carol Monaghan
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to (a) reverse the closure of children's centres and (b) publish a strategy for the long-term expansion of the provision of children's centres.
Birmingham, Selly Oak
Steve McCabe
<p>As set out in the government response to recommendation 13 of the Education Select Committee report on tackling disadvantage in the early years, published on 4 April 2019, we are clear that children’s centres have an important role to play in achieving my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education’s social mobility ambition, but it is right for local authorities to decide how to use them as part of the wider system of local services. The government response can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Education/Correspondence/Government-response-to-committee-9th-report-tackling-disadvantage-in-the-early-years-CP-68.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Education/Correspondence/Government-response-to-committee-9th-report-tackling-disadvantage-in-the-early-years-CP-68.pdf</a>, the select committee report can be accessed here: <a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmeduc/1006/1006.pdf" target="_blank">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmeduc/1006/1006.pdf</a>.</p><p>The government’s role is to engage with the sector, find out what works and support local areas to make the right decisions for their communities, which is why we have commissioned the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) to examine research and practice evidence with the aim of developing tools to help local authorities make informed choices about their children’s centre provision. The EIF project is part of the Department for Education’s £8.5 million local government programme, which will inform the next steps, including considering any future consultation, on children’s centres. Funding for the local government programme runs until March 2020, with evidence and learning emerging by its conclusion.</p><p> </p>
Nadhim Zahawi
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Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money has been repaid to the Student Loans Company in each of the last three years.
Upper Bann
David Simpson
<p>Statistics covering student loans, debt and repayment are published annually by the Student Loans Company (SLC). The statistics are published separately for each government administration. Information on repayments by financial year can be found in table 1 of each of the publications:</p><p><a href="https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment.aspx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The next release in the student loans, debt and repayment series is confirmed for 13 June 2019, which will include repayment statistics for the financial year 2018-19.</p>
Chris Skidmore
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Immigration: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196233 and with reference to page 14 of the Memorandum of Understanding between HMRC and the Home Office on the EU Settlement Scheme, what is defined as a genuine business need to access data.
<p>A genuine business need means only staff at the Home Office and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs who require access to the data to carry out their duties will be granted access.</p>
Romsey and Southampton North
Caroline Nokes
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South Eastern Rail Franchise
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has withheld consent for Govia to vary the (a) pay and (b) conditions of Southeastern staff under schedule 15.2 of the franchise agreement in relation to the last twelve or thirteen months of the franchise.
Erith and Thamesmead
Teresa Pearce
<p>Southeastern and the trade unions have agreed pay deals in the last 12 months. Specific details of pay are confidential however Southeastern staff have received an increase of around the level of the Retail Price Index which reflects a real terms increase when compared to the Consumer Price Index and cost of living increases. These pay deals were approved by the Department.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State has made clear that the rail industry should be moving towards using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as the inflation measure for pay agreements.</p>
Harrogate and Knaresborough
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Department for Transport: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the distribution of local recognition awards in the last financial year was by (a) protected characteristic and (b) grades in his core Department.
<p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p>
Hereford and South Herefordshire
Jesse Norman
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of visa applications that have been delayed as a result of his Department's investigations into Life in the United Kingdom testing centres in each of the last three years.
Bristol South
Karin Smyth
<p>Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p>
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Case Title NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Judge Judge Trevor N. McFadden
Plaintiff NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK
Case Description The National Student Legal Defense Network submitted a FOIA request to the Department of Education for records provided by the agency to Navient Corporation, Navient Solutions, or Pioneer Credit Recovery in response to discovery requests issued in connection with litigation brought against the companies by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency acknowledged receipt of the request, but after hearing nothing further from the agency, NSLDN filed suit.
Complaint issues: Failure to respond within statutory time limit, Adequacy - Search, Litigation - Attorney's fees
Defendant U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
2018-08-01 1 COMPLAINT against U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ( Filing fee $ 400 receipt number 0090-5614166) filed by NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Summons, # 3 Summons, # 4 Summons)(McGrath, Daniel) (Entered: 08/01/2018)
2018-08-01 2 LCvR 7.1 CERTIFICATE OF DISCLOSURE of Corporate Affiliations and Financial Interests by NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK (McGrath, Daniel) (Entered: 08/01/2018)
2018-08-01 3 MOTION for Leave to Appear Pro Hac Vice :Attorney Name- Robyn K. Bitner, :Firm- National Student Legal Defense Network, :Address- 1015 15th Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005. Phone No. - 202-734-7495. Filing fee $ 100, receipt number 0090-5614297. Fee Status: Fee Paid. by NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK (Attachments: # 1 Declaration, # 2 Text of Proposed Order)(McGrath, Daniel) (Entered: 08/01/2018)
2018-08-01 Case Assigned to Judge Trevor N. McFadden. (zsth) (Entered: 08/01/2018)
2018-08-01 4 STANDING ORDER Establishing Procedures for Cases Before Judge Trevor N. McFadden. The parties are hereby ORDERED to read and comply with the directives in the attached standing order. Signed by Judge Trevor N. McFadden on 8/1/18. (lctnm1) (Entered: 08/01/2018)
2018-08-01 5 SUMMONS (3) Issued Electronically as to U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, U.S. Attorney and U.S. Attorney General (Attachments: # 1 Notice and Consent)(zsth) (Entered: 08/01/2018)
2018-08-06 MINUTE ORDER granting the 3 Motion for Leave to Appear Pro Hac Vice of Attorney Robyn K. Bitner. Counsel shall promptly register for this Court's CM/ECF system. Signed by Judge Trevor N. McFadden on 8/6/18. (lctnm1) (Entered: 08/06/2018)
2018-08-08 6 NOTICE of Appearance by Rhonda Lisa Campbell on behalf of U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (Campbell, Rhonda) (Entered: 08/08/2018)
2018-08-23 7 RETURN OF SERVICE/AFFIDAVIT of Summons and Complaint Executed as to the United States Attorney. Date of Service Upon United States Attorney on 8/3/2018. ( Answer due for ALL FEDERAL DEFENDANTS by 9/2/2018.), RETURN OF SERVICE/AFFIDAVIT of Summons and Complaint Executed on United States Attorney General. Date of Service Upon United States Attorney General 8/7/2018., RETURN OF SERVICE/AFFIDAVIT of Summons and Complaint Executed. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION served on 8/6/2018 (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Ex A)(McGrath, Daniel) (Entered: 08/23/2018)
2018-09-04 8 ANSWER to Complaint by U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.(Campbell, Rhonda) (Entered: 09/04/2018)
2018-09-05 9 ORDER setting an Initial Scheduling Conference for October 3, 2018 at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 2, before Judge Trevor N. McFadden. See attached Order for additional details. Signed by Judge Trevor N. McFadden on 9/5/18. (lctnm1) (Entered: 09/05/2018)
2018-09-05 Set/Reset Hearings: Initial Scheduling Conference set for 10/3/2018 at 10:00 AM in Courtroom 2, before Judge Trevor N. McFadden. (hmc) (Entered: 09/05/2018)
2018-09-13 10 Joint STATUS REPORT and Motion to Adjourn Conference by NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK. (McGrath, Daniel) (Entered: 09/13/2018)
2018-09-13 MINUTE ORDER granting the parties' 10 Join Motion to Adjourn Conference. The Initial Scheduling Conference currently scheduled for October 3, 2018 is hereby VACATED. The parties shall file a further Joint Status Report by October 17, 2018. SO ORDERED. Signed by Judge Trevor N. McFadden on 9/13/18. (lctnm1) (Entered: 09/13/2018)
2018-09-13 Set/Reset Deadlines: Joint Status Report due by 10/17/2018. (hmc) (Entered: 09/13/2018)
2018-09-13 11 MOTION to Vacate Status Hearing by NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (See Docket Entry 10 to view document). (znmw) (Entered: 09/25/2018)
2018-10-17 12 Joint STATUS REPORT by NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK. (McGrath, Daniel) (Entered: 10/17/2018)
2018-10-18 MINUTE ORDER: Upon consideration of the parties' 12 Joint Status Report, it is hereby ORDERED that the parties shall file a further Joint Status Report by November 16, 2018. SO ORDERED. Signed by Judge Trevor N. McFadden on 10/18/18. (lctnm1) (Entered: 10/18/2018)
2018-11-15 MINUTE ORDER: Upon consideration of the parties' 13 Joint Status Report, it is hereby ORDERED that the parties shall file a further Joint Status Report by December 17, 2018. SO ORDERED. Signed by Judge Trevor N. McFadden on 11/15/18. (lctnm1) (Entered: 11/15/2018)
2018-11-15 14 Joint STATUS REPORT corrected by NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK. (McGrath, Daniel) (Entered: 11/15/2018)
2018-12-14 15 Joint STATUS REPORT by U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. (Campbell, Rhonda) (Entered: 12/14/2018)
2018-12-17 MINUTE ORDER: Upon consideration of the parties' 15 Joint Status Report, it is hereby ORDERED that the parties shall file a further Joint Status Report by February 7, 2019. SO ORDERED. Signed by Judge Trevor N. McFadden on 12/17/18. (lctnm1) (Entered: 12/17/2018)
2018-12-17 Set/Reset Deadlines: Joint Status Report due by 2/7/2019. (hmc) (Entered: 12/17/2018)
2019-02-06 MINUTE ORDER: Upon consideration of the parties' 16 Joint Status Report, it is hereby ORDERED that the parties shall file a further Joint Status Report on or before April 2, 2019. SO ORDERED. Signed by Judge Trevor N. McFadden on 2/6/19. (lctnm1) (Entered: 02/06/2019)
2019-04-01 MINUTE ORDER: Upon consideration of the parties' 17 Joint Status Report, it is hereby ORDERED that a further report shall be filed on or before May 2, 2019. This report shall update the Court on the status of the parties' negotiations and propose a summary judgment briefing schedule if necessary. Signed by Judge Trevor N. McFadden on 4/1/2019. (lctnm3) (Entered: 04/01/2019)
2019-05-02 18 NOTICE of Voluntary Dismissal by NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK (McGrath, Daniel) (Entered: 05/02/2019)
2019-05-02 MINUTE ORDER: Upon consideration of Plaintiff's 18 Notice of Voluntary Dismissal, this matter is DISMISSED pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a). The Clerk of Court is directed to close the case. Signed by Judge Trevor N. McFadden on 5/2/2019. (lctnm1) (Entered: 05/02/2019)
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The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon
The Human Zoo Theatre Company
Genre: Physical Theatre
Venue: Pleasance Dome
Using movement, live music, dance, and a little bit of puppetry The Human Zoo Theatre Company create a fun, intelligent piece of physical theatre.
The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon is physical theatre with a lot of heart using live music, dance, movement, and a little bit of puppetry. Stranded at night in the woods a group of performers perform their show to the ‘non existent audience’. This show is comprised of shorter shows which all follow a celestial pattern written by Luna, the leader of their troop played by artistic director Florence O’ Mahony.
Luna gives a brief introduction to each member of the group, who are dressed in their colourful outfits and sporting the neat whiteface make up, to establish background on each and their personalities. Although the latter is not really necessary as their persona’s are evident in their performances it begins the show nicely.
The performances are very focused, and clearly thoroughly rehearsed. It is full of fun, and witty humour but in a very controlled way. Every aspect is tightly performed and is no way slapstick despite it’s silliness at times, it contains a lot more than that and conveys more than just pure entertainment.
The group of performers feel genuine and relatable and are like a family with O’Mahony playing Luna as the warm, intelligent mother figure to them all while Fleur Rooth as Scarlet is ditzy and is clearly the child of the group who irritates yet is mothered by them all, Rosalind Hoy as Selena has to be the older sister who is strong-willed and feels too cool for them all. Nick Gilbert as Clive with his grumpiness and wisdom is father material while Freddie Crossley as Jack, has the most adorable demeanour and could ether be the son who is often overlooked or the family pet they all take for granted.
There is such warmth and camaraderie between them all that feels so genuine and makes you want to be a member of their odd little group. Each mini show allows each to take the starring role and get equal stage time which each show being rooting amongst the stars in some way giving them a magical feel. The last show with Luna centre stage is where this performance gets its name and provides a sad, sweet ending.
This is a beautifully constructed piece, intelligently written and excellently performed, the stories within the performance are fun but all hold significant meaning while being wonderfully unique. The girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon is a very magical piece of theatre.
Published August 18, 2015 August 19, 2015 by Christine Lawler
http://www.thehumanzootheatrecompany.co.uk/
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Coyne and Thompson look to steal the show
Gabriel J Gonzalez @GabeJGonzalez Tue, Dec 10 2013
ATLANTIC CITY - When light heavyweights Ryan Coyne, 21-1, 9 KOs, and Lionell Thompson, 14-2, 9 KOs, lock horns in their 10-round co-feature bout Saturday night, the two boxers will be fighting for both the win and to steal the nationally televised show. The prime opportunity opens the NBC Sports Network telecast beginning at 8PM, December 14th, from Resorts International Hotel and Casino. The season-ending edition of Fight Night, titled "Road to Redemption", is once again expected to garner big ratings, and the fighters would like nothing more than to grab the event's headlines with everyone watching.
The main event is an anticipated 10-round heavyweight showdown between Amir Mansour, 19-0, 14 KOs, and Kelvin Price, 14-1, 6 KOs. It too is a terrific matchup, but the Coyne-Thompson fight could very well give the spotlight bout a real run for its money. Both Coyne and Thompson have something to prove, and are expected to go all-out when the bell rings, each looking for their own versions of redemption.
The crowd-pleasing Coyne is a St. Louis southpaw who is coming off the only loss of his career. Known as "The Irish Outlaw", Ryan knows that an impressive win over Thompson would simultaneously revive his career momentum and help him crack the 175-pound rankings. Such a victory would also almost certainly keep him fighting on national TV, where he can continue to win fans and build his profile.
Coyne said, "Regarding, Lionell Thompson. I read this morning that he's ready to destroy me and I've been built up and protected. That I'm facing destruction because he's sky high and in tip top shape. Well that's lovely. That's his job. You're supposed to be in shape and riding high... I spent my fall racking up rounds in Germany knocking Marco Huck out of his title defense and even bringing Marcus Oliviera down to our camp to spar for this bout. I don't need to brag about my preparation. I'm a professional." He added, "I just need to defeat him and that is the only thing that matters on Saturday night in Atlantic City."
The outspoken Thompson recently made some noise with his guarantee to knock Coyne out. He says it's a sure thing. So on Saturday, it will be time for the Buffalo, NY native boxer to either put up or shut up. Thompson has impressed many times previously, but is still working to make fans forget his loss to Sergey Kovalev last year. Thompson took the fight with just two weeks' notice and the loss came just three fights before Kovalev became champion. However Thompson wants redemption and he wants to land a rematch with the new champ. Backing up his words in a big way against Coyne might just get him what he wants.
Thompson stated, "I don't know too much about Coyne. I heard he's a tough guy, so I am looking towards a tough fight. I know he's a southpaw. That's ok, for the last 5 months I have been sparring with a lot of southpaws. I plan to keep backing this guy up. We've got some tricks we're going to use Saturday night." He added, "I am in tip top shape. I'm ready to go out there and give an impressive, victorious performance. I'm so excited to be on NBC Sports Network. I just can't wait for the opening bell on Saturday."
Both Coyne and Thompson are determined to make the most of the big opportunity that lies before them this weekend. Winning keeps one on track and moves the victor a step closer to the goal of fighting for the world light heavyweight championship. Both fighters need the "W", and plan to do everything possible to claim it. Having their hand raised is the bottom line, but it wouldn't hurt if while trying to secure this critical victory, Coyne and Thompson put on a fight that steals the show.
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F. Richard
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Lyme Encephalopathy: A Neuropsychological Perspective (1997)
Die ZNS-Symptome der Rotavirusinfektion bei Kindern im Alter unter 2 Jahren (1999)
Social Status and Minority Recruit Performance in the Navy: Some Implications for Affirmative Action Programs / (1977)
Home Sweet Movies: From Tara to Oz and Home Again / (1990)
Braunschweig 1932: Further Evidence on the Support for National Socialism / (1984)
Reply to Commentators / (1984)
Aristotle's Syllogistic: A Medieval View / (1974)
Mary Lavin: "The Shrine and Other Stories" (Book Review) / (1977)
Veröffentlichungen zu Crooijmans, Richard P. M.
1 Hodge, Richard P.. Verrucofortine, a Major Metabolite of Penicillium verrucosum var. Cyclopium, the Fungus That Produces the Mycotoxin Verrucosidin
In: Journal of natural products. - Washington, DC : Soc., ISSN 1520-6025, Vol. 51, No. 1 (1988), p. 66-73
Hodge, Richard P..
Harris, Constance M.. , Harris, Thomas M..
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/np50055a008
2 Szajewski, Richard P.. Rate constants and equilibrium constants for thiol-disulfide interchange reactions involving oxidized glutathione
Szajewski, Richard P..
Whitesides, George M..
3 Smith, Richard P.. The Inductive Effect and Chemical Reactivity. IV. Dipole Moments of Halogen Derivatives of Aliphatic Hydrocarbons1
Smith, Richard P..
Mortensen, Earl M..
4 Wool, Richard P.. Fractal structure of polymer interfaces
In: Macromolecules. - Washington, DC : Soc., ISSN 1520-5835, Vol. 26, No. 19 (1993), p. 5227-5239
Wool, Richard P..
Long, John M..
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ma00071a039
5 Cannell, Richard J. P.. Results of a Large Scale Screen of Microalgae for the Production of Protease Inhibitors
In: Planta medica. - Stuttgart [u.a.] : Thieme Vol. 54, No. 01 (2. 1988), p. 10-14
A large scale investigation of approximately 300 freshwater and 200 marine eukaryotic algal, and 70 freshwater and 10 marine cyanobacterial cultures has been carried out to identify the presence of protease inhibitors. Culture filtrates and methanol extracts of algae were screened, mainly using... mehr
Cannell, Richard J. P..
Kellam, Stephen J., , Owsianka, Ania M., , Walker, John M..
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2006-962319
6 Hodge, Richard P.. Synthesis of 1- and 1,2,2'-deuteriated deoxyribose and incorporation into deoxyribonucleosides
In: The journal of organic chemistry. - [S.l.] : American Chemical Society, ISSN 1520-6904, Vol. 56, No. 4 (1991), p. 1553-1564
Brush, Charles K.. , Harris, Constance M.. , Harris, Thomas M..
7 Honeck, Richard P. Figurative Understanding of Pictures and Sentences
in: Journal of psycholinguistic research., Vol. 10, No. 2 (1981), p. 135
Honeck, Richard P.
Sowry, Brenda M.. , Voegtle, Katherine.
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:h326-1981-010-02-000004
8 Baldwin, Richard P.. Electrochemical behavior of adriamycin at carbon paste electrodes
In: Analytical chemistry. - Columbus, Ohio : American Chemical Society, ISSN 1520-6882, Vol. 53, No. 3 (1981), p. 540-542
Baldwin, Richard P..
Packett, Dianne. , Woodcock, Thomas M..
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac00226a037
9 Beatty, Richard P.. Alkylidene complexes from the reactions of transition-metal dianions with iminium salts: synthesis and spectral characterization of [Mo(CO)5CPh2]
Beatty, Richard P..
Maher, John M.. , Cooper, N. John.
10 Joyce, Richard P.. Synthesis of the aromatic and monosaccharide moieties of staurosporine
Joyce, Richard P..
Gainor, James A.. , Weinreb, Steven M..
11 Bowater, Richard P.. Elevated unconstrained supercoiling of plasmid DNA generated by transcription and translation of the tetracycline resistance gene in eubacteria
Bowater, Richard P..
Chen, Dongrong. , Lilley, David M. J..
12 Van Duyne, Richard P.. Resonance Raman spectroelectrochemistry. 6. Ultraviolet laser excitation of the tetracyanoquinodimethane dianion
Van Duyne, Richard P..
Suchanski, Mary R.. , Lakovits, Joseph M.. , Siedle, Allen R.. , Parks, Keith D.. , Cotton, Therese M..
13 Bagozzi, Richard P. The Construct Validity of the Tripartite Classification of Attitudes
in: Journal of marketing research., Vol. 16, No. 1 (1979), p. 88
MEASURE AND CONSTRUCT VALIDITY STUDIES mehr
Bagozzi, Richard P.
Craig, C. Samuel. , Sternthal, Brian. , Tybout, Alice M..
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:b178-1979-016-01-000013
14 Veregin, Richard P. N.. Free radical polymerization for narrow polydispersity resins: electron spin resonance studies of the kinetics and mechanism. [Erratum to document cited in CA119:160868]
Veregin, Richard P. N..
Georges, Michael K.. , Kazmaier, Peter M.. , Hamer, Gordon K..
15 Veregin, Richard P. N.. Free radical polymerizations for narrow polydispersity resins: electron spin resonance studies of the kinetics and mechanism
16 Beckmann, Richard P.. Assessment of preferential cleavage of an actively transcribed retroviral hybrid gene in murine cells by deoxyribonuclease I, bleomycin, neocarzinostatin, or ionizing radiation
Beckmann, Richard P..
Agostino, Michael J.. , McHugh, Mary M.. , Sigmund, Rita D.. , Beerman, Terry A..
17 Pfeffer, Richard M.. Cambridge Journals Digital Archives [Dig. Serial]
In: The China quarterly. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, ISSN 1468-2648, Vol. 26 (06. 1966), p. 200-202
Pfeffer, Richard M..
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1966.
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives [Dig. Serial]
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000013400
18 Leliaert, Richard M.. Cambridge Journals Digital Archives [Dig. Serial]
In: Church history. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ISSN 1755-2613, Vol. 48, No. 1 (03. 1979), p. 117-118
Leliaert, Richard M..
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3163944
19 Golden, Richard M.. Cambridge Journals Digital Archives [Dig. Serial]
In: Church history. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ISSN 1755-2613, Vol. 52, No. 1 (03. 1983), p. 91-91
Golden, Richard M..
20 Lemert, Richard M.. Chemical complexing agents for enhanced solubilities in supercritical fluid carbon dioxide
In: Industrial & engineering chemistry research. - Columbus, Ohio : American Chemical Society, ISSN 1520-5045, Vol. 30, No. 6 (1991), p. 1222-1231
Lemert, Richard M..
Johnston, Keith P..
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie00054a024
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VIDEO: Set Mo ft. Scott Quinn 'Nightmares'
Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 10:43AM
Australian duo Set Mo teamed up with vocalist Scott Quinn for the song 'Nightmare', and director James Chappell for the video. The video brilliantly encapsulates the hard to describe effects that anxiety can have on our lives. This depiction may not ring true for everyone, but it certainly is an eye opening look. It follows a young chef as his circumstances grow overwhelming. The tune is one that brings to life the essence of what makes Set Mo special while being unafraid to try new things.
Get 'Nightmares' here
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Set Mo - I Belong Here feat. Woodes
Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 1:49PM
This track "I Belong Here" by Set Mo with Woodes is pretty much the ultimate summer time tune. It's got a deep groove that will have you instantly hooked, excited until the end, and ready for so much more goodness from Set Mo. We will keep you posted on that, but in the mean time, press play on this:
Available everywhere here: awal.lnk.to/IBelongHere
www.setmomusic.com
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Set Mo: 'White Dress' (VIP) ft. Deutsch Duke
Friday, June 26, 2015 at 12:47PM
Sydney duo Set Mo got the ultimate cosign from Annie Mac. The dance music impresario gave the 'White Dress' VIP mix the accolade of being part of Free Music Monday. The track is incredibly energetic and uplifting, and you can clearly see why we've been listening to this one all week...
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Lawsuit Funding for Multi Vehicle Truck Accidents Can be Great Help
Home Lawsuit Funding for Multi Vehicle Truck Accidents Can be Great Help
A speeding semi trailer was involved in a multi vehicle accident on the I-39 near Ogle, Illinois last Monday, resulting in one fatality and several people injured, two seriously.
Last Monday’s fatal accident was caused by a semi truck driver. The driver has already been given a citation for failing to reduce speed as he passed into a construction zone just after 3 p.m.
The tractor trailer rear ended a SUV on the southbound section of the highway. The SUV ended up in the ditch at the side of the highway. The truck continued to smash into one vehicle after another before rolling to a halt with the driver himself needing hospital treatment.
The injury tally included the driver of the first SUV, who had to be cut out of the vehicle and flown to hospital in a helicopter. The female driver is still in a serious condition but tragically her husband, who was sitting in the SUV’s passenger seat, was killed. The only other person apart from the truck driver needing medical attention was the passenger of the last auto to be struck. All other vehicle occupants were no doubt severely shaken, but not seriously harmed.
The accident was the second to involve injuries in that part of the I-39 on that day. Just down the road, another car was rear-ended when a woman slowed down in traffic and was hit by a vehicle coming up behind her.
Monday’s accident involving the semi trailer occurs all too often on U.S. roads and the consequences are tragic. These accidents get into the news headlines briefly but the real story begins immediately afterwards, as injured victims battle to get on with their lives and family members grapple with grief and often financial hardship.
Anyone who has been injured in a truck accident or has had a family member killed in such an accident may be able to arrange a pre-settlement loan if they have already engaged a personal injury attorney to help them file a lawsuit in negligence. Accidents involving trucks are some of the worst in the U.S., but it often takes a long time for an investigation to establish who or what was to blame. Driver error is usually the most common cause of truck accidents, but for those personal injury victims hoping to be compensated for their unintended injuries it can be a long, agonizing wait.
Truck accidents often involve long, complex negotiations because injuries are usually very severe. Insurance companies acting on behalf of truck companies are notorious for trying to evade or delay payment if at all possible.
This is just the sort of situation that can be relieved, to some extent, by arranging lawsuit funding.
These financial transactions, also known as lawsuit loans, or pre-settlement funding, are agreements between a reputable lawsuit settlement funding company and a plaintiff in a personal injury lawsuit.
Pre-settlement funding can be arranged to allow victims and their family members cope with financial hardship until they receive their settlement. These lawsuit loans do not need to be paid back until the cash until the case is settled and there are no restrictions on the use of the money whatsoever.
Lawsuit funding is one possible option to help plaintiffs remain financially stable following an automobile accident.
Source: http://www.oglecountynews.com/2014/06/17/fatal-multiple-vehicle-accident-on-i-39/avncvv6/
January 5, 2014 / truck-accident-lawsuit-funding / Tags: pre settlement funding, truck accident lawsuit funding, truck accident lawsuit loan, truck accident settlement funding, truck accident settlement loan
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Mitch Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom
Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom
American Author, Journalist, Screenwriter, Dramatist, Radio and Television Broadcaster and Musician
Author Quotes
You talk, I'll listen.
Giving makes me feel like living.
There's a reason why God limits our days. Why? To make each one precious.
Time,' the Captain said, 'is not what you think.' He sat down next to Eddie. 'Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning... I figure it's like in the Bible, the Adam and Eve deal...Adam's first night on earth? When he lays down to sleep? He thinks it's all over, right? He doesn't know what sleep is. His eyes are closing and he thinks he's leaving this world, right? Only he isn't. He wakes up the next morning and he has a fresh new world to work with, but he has something else, too. He has his yesterday...That's the way I see it, that's what we're getting here, soldier. That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterday.'
We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
What if today were my last day on earth?
When he died, he took part of me with him . I was stuck after that.
Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?
You cannot talk when you first arrive. It helps you to listen.
You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.
Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.
There's a story behind everything? but behind all your stories is always your mother's story? because hers is where yours begins.
Timing is everything. That?s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die. But how do you know it?s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. Exactly
We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.
What in life can love not penetrate?
When he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.
Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here... Death ends life, not a relationship.
You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.
To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.
We must be open to God's miracles.
What is false about hope?
When hope is gone, time is punishment.
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Georg Hegel, fully Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Lewis Carroll, pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
James Baldwin, fully James Arthur Baldwin
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
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✓ Download ↠ The Last Book PartyePUB Author Karen Dukess Î southern africa – groundhogwalking.co.uk
That perfect summer read KirkusA propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980 s New York and the timeless beaches of Cape Cod.In the summer of 1987, 25 year old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low level assistant job, unable to shake the shadow of growing up with her brilliant brother With her professional ambitions floundering, Eve jumps at the chance to attend an early summer gathering at the Cape Cod home of famed New Yorker writer Henry Grey and his poet wife, Tillie Dazzled by the guests and her burgeoning crush on the hosts artistic son, Eve lands a new job as Henry Grey s research assistant and an invitation to Henry and Tillie s exclusive and famed Book Party where attendees dress as literary characters But by the night of the party, Eve discovers uncomfortable truths about her summer entanglements and understands that the literary world she so desperately wanted to be a part of is not at all what it seems.A page turning, coming of age story, written with a lyrical sense of place and a profound appreciation for the sustaining power of books, The Last Book Party shows what happens when youth and experience collide and what it takes to find your own voice. New Download Books The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess – groundhogwalking.co.uk
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marilyn marilyn
This was a very light and easy read for me and so nice to enjoy a book like this between so many thrillers and heavy dramas Twenty five year old Eve Rosen wants to be a writer but lacks confidence, inspiration, and the hard work that can be necessary to write a book She does work in a publishing house as an assistant, hoping everything about writing will rub off on her but actually is getting nowhere with her writing When she misses out on a promotion that should have gone to her, she quits h This was a very light and easy read for me and so nice to enjoy a book like this between so many thrillers and heavy dramas Twenty five year old Eve Rosen wants to be a writer but lacks confidence, inspiration, and the hard work that can be necessary to write a book She does work in a publishing house as an assistant, hoping everything about writing will rub off on her but actually is getting nowhere with her writing When she misses out on a promotion that should have gone to her, she quits her job and takes a summer job as an assistant to famed New Yorker writer Henry Grey Eve has already beenthan just attracted to Henry s son Franny and then once she starts working for Henry, she becomes very attached to him, too There is also Jeremy, a very promising author ...
Carol (Bookaria) Carol (Bookaria)
Absolutely mesmerizing and engaging I loved every page of this novel.This book made me yearn for a place I ve never been to, and a time in the publishing industry I did not liveI was alive at the time, just not there, you know what I meanIt s emotional and easy to read, the pages flew by I did not care as much about the plot as I did about the characters Think late 1980s, New York, Cape Cod, summer, publishing, books, and growing up Romance maybe but this is muchthan that.Absolut Absolutely mesmerizing and engaging I loved every page of this novel.This book made me yearn for a place I ve never been to, and a time in the publishing industry I did not liveI was alive at the time, just not there, you know what I meanIt s emotional and easy to read, the pages flew by I did not care as much about the plot as I did about t...
Dorie - Traveling Sister :) Dorie - Traveling Sister :)
As I was reading this book I continually had the feeling that I ve read this before, heard this before I think this would be a good beach read but there is nothing really fresh or new here I don t even think I would call it a coming of age book because the young woman is out of college and has been working for a while, aged 24 or 25.The novel is about Eve who has been working as an editorial assistant at the New Yorker Magazine She has aspirations of becoming a published writer but doesn t As I was reading this book I continually had the feeling that I ve read this before, heard this before I think this would be a good beach read but there is nothing really fresh or new here I don t even think I would call it a coming of age book because the young woman is out of college and has been working for a while, aged 24 or 25.The novel is about Eve who has been working as an editorial assistant at the New Yorker Magazine She has aspirations of becoming a published writer but doesn t have the self confidence to really put her work out there She becomes increasingly bored with the work and when given a chance at being a summer intern working with Henry Grey as his research assistant, a well known, well regarded author , she decides it would be a good change and a learning experience She learns things alright, but not necessarily that much about th...
Nicole (Read Eat Sleep Repeat) Nicole (Read Eat Sleep Repeat)
4.5, rounding up The Last Book Party is a charming coming of age story that feels both timeless and nostalgic Everyone seemed so confident It was like they were preparing to become the voices of their generation and I was struggling to clear my throat Told through Eve s perspective, the reader is drawn in as she attends the party of an acclaimed writer and introduced to a new world she wasn t previously privy to Eve is in her mid twenties, working a job she doesn t particularly love, and 4.5, rounding up The Last Book Party is a charming coming of age story that feels both timeless and nostalgic Everyone seemed so confident It was like they were preparing to become the voices of their generation and I was struggling to clear my throat Told through Eve s perspective, the reader is drawn in as she attends the party of an acclaimed writer and introduced to a new world she wasn t previously privy to Eve is in her mid twenties, working a job she doesn t particularly love, and aspiring to be a writer but never actually writing any As she struggles to figure out her identity and path in life, becoming accepted in this new world gives her a sense of purpose that she hasn t felt in a while While I didn t nec...
Jamie Brenner Jamie Brenner
As a serious book lover with endless nostalgia for the 1980s, I completely lost myself in this beautiful book It s a joy
Jypsy Jypsy
I was drawn to The Last Book Party because it s a story about books Eve loves book and wants to work in the publishing industry She takes a job as an assistant for a famous writer The job is an eye opener The writer s life is not as great as Eve thought The story portrays a time when Eve is trying to figure out who she is She wants approval from her family, a mistake in my opinion She is lost in her search for identity and makes some bad decisions Live and learn and all that The story i I was drawn to The Last Book Party because it s a story about books Eve loves book and wants to work in the publishing industry She takes a job as an assistant for a famous writer The job is an eye opener The writer s life is not as great as Eve thought The story portrays a time when Eve is trying to figure out who she is She wants approval from her family, a mistake in my opinion She is lost in her search for identity and m...
Literary Soirée Literary Soirée
I absolutely adore this book That cover of course, and the luscious writing, the engaging coming of age story of Eve, a publishing house assistant in the literary garden of 1987 CASHMERE THROWEnveloped me like a cashmere throw, as I lost hours in the tale of this charming twentysomething s transition to assistant to a renown Cape Cod writer The beach, the books, the blow out party thrown by the author and his wife, both artistic luminaries in a storied world LITERARY LOVEMade me long for you I absolutely adore this book That cover of course, and the luscious writing, the engaging coming of age story of Eve, a publishing house assistant in the literary garden of 1987 CASHMERE THROWEnveloped me like a cashmere throw, as I lost hours in the tale of this charming twentysomething s transition to assistant to a renown Cape Cod writer The beach, the books, the blow out party thrown by the author and his wife, both artistic luminaries in a storied world LITERARY LOVEMade me long for youth, a simpler time, a crazed creative tribe despite Eve s complicated relationships and sobering truths learne...
Julia Phillips Julia Phillips
I tore through this novel in a single night Intensely charming, intelligent, sexy, and specific, THE LAST BOOK PARTY immerses us in the incestuous world of the 1980s literary elite, from boozy publicist thrown parties in Manhattan to the writing nooks of a New Yorker staff writer on Cape Cod The novel s narrator, Eve, has all the insecurities and doubts of any 25 year old aspiring writer but doesn t let those stop her from being a compelling, bold, active heroine in charge of her own life Thi I tore through this novel in a single night Intensely charming, intelligent, sexy, and specific, THE LAST BOOK PARTY immerses us in the incestuous world of the 1980s literary elite, from boozy publicist thrown parties in Manhattan to the writing nooks of a New Yorker staff writer on Cape Cod The novel s na...
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Many people automatically assume that transcription is easy, but unless they have done it themselves, they do not realize just how hard and time consuming it can be. I have tried doing it on many occasions. If you’re a faster typer, expect that you will be much slower when you are trying to quickly type up every little thing that another human being says. Unless you have magic hands, you simply will not be able to do it as quickly as you think you will. Typing up a simple, one-hour lecture can take as much as 3 to four hours, and that is only if you know what you are doing. And that does not always include the amount of time it takes to proofread afterward.
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Screen Skills Ireland: Creating a Scene with Mary Kate O’Flanagan
27 Nov 2018 : News Desk
Screen Skills Ireland is seeking participants for its upcoming 2-day training course ‘Creating a Scene’.
The course, which takes place in Dublin in December, will be tutored by Mary Kate O’Flanagan. An award-winning screenwriter and story consultant in the European film and television industry; O’Flanagan teaches screenwriting in The UK and The US, across Europe as well as in Ireland for Screen Training Ireland among others.
O’Flanagan has written six feature-length screenplays, five of which have been optioned and supported by funding from Screen Ireland and a pilot for a television series which won the EATC Prix Europa.
Mary Kate is Ireland’s First Grand Slam Champion Storyteller at The Moth, a title she won at The Abbey Theatre in October 2015. She is also The Grand Slam Champion Storyteller at The Moth in LA, a title she won in January 2017.
This course will provide guidance to writers and creatives on:
The Shapes of Scenes
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The Use of Props and Spaces to Tell a Story
Externalising The Internal Life of Characters
Participant Profile:
Emerging screenwriters, producers and development personnel.
Please apply online at www.screenskillsireland.ie with a current CV by 10:00 on the 3rd of December. Cost €100.
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KIF3A/B: a heterodimeric kinesin superfamily protein that works as a microtubule plus end-directed motor for membrane organelle transport.
H Yamazaki, T Nakata, Y Okada, N Hirokawa
H Yamazaki
T Nakata
N Hirokawa
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.130.6.1387 | Published September 15, 1995
We cloned a new member of the murine brain kinesin superfamily, KIF3B, and found that its amino acid sequence is highly homologous but not identical to KIF3A, which we previously cloned and named KIF3 (47% identical). KIF3B is localized in various organ tissues and developing neurons of mice and accumulates with anterogradely moving membranous organelles after ligation of nerve axons. Immunoprecipitation assay of the brain revealed that KIF3B forms a complex with KIF3A and three other high molecular weight (approximately 100 kD)-associated polypeptides, called the kinesin superfamily-associated protein 3 (KAP3). In vitro reconstruction using baculovirus expression systems showed that KIF3A and KIF3B directly bind with each other in the absence of KAP3. The recombinant KIF3A/B complex (approximately 50-nm rod with two globular heads and a single globular tail) demonstrated plus end-directed microtubule sliding activity in vitro. In addition, we showed that KIF3B itself has motor activity in vitro, by making a complex of wild-type KIF3B and a chimeric motor protein (KIF3B head and KIF3A rod tail). Subcellular fractionation of mouse brain homogenates showed a considerable amount of the native KIF3 complex to be associated with membrane fractions other than synaptic vesicles. Immunoprecipitation by anti-KIF3B antibody-conjugated beads and its electron microscopic study also revealed that KIF3 is associated with membranous organelles. Moreover, we found that the composition of KAP3 is different in the brain and testis. Our findings suggest that KIF3B forms a heterodimer with KIF3A and functions as a new microtubule-based anterograde translocator for membranous organelles, and that KAP3 may determine functional diversity of the KIF3 complex in various kinds of cells in vivo.
The Journal of Cell Biology Sep 1995, 130 (6) 1387-1399; DOI: 10.1083/jcb.130.6.1387
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When old views are discarded
In 1910 Martian canals were not seen as being altogether fictive. They have not made any headlines recently, however. Image courtesy of NASA/ESA.
Our views of reality tend to change with the times. Recently, the journal Nature reported on what Percival Lowell (1855-1916) thought about Mars a century ago.
In 1910 professor Lowell contemplated the melting of the Martian glaciers and the ”canals” on the red planet. According to Lowell, ”Mars is habitable by organisms not essentially different from those with which we are acquainted.” He thought that Martians had solved their water crisis: ”Water is artificially ’engineered’ in such a way that organic existence is rendered possible”.
For a long time, the denizens on the red planet were thought to be real. An imagined Martian invasion of Earth caused widespread panic before the outbreak of World War II.
But scientific (and even popular) views tend to change with the passing of time. We have not heard much about the Martian canals for quite some time.
In 1975 Francis Schaeffer, a well-known Christian philosopher, wrote: ”The history of science, including science in our own day, has often seen great dogmatism about theories which later have been discarded.”
Darwinian evolution and man-made global warming are perhaps two of the hottest potatoes of our time. Both concepts are being defended rather fanatically.
Might it be time to listen to Francis Schaeffer?
100 Years Ago. Nature 463:7281, 617. (4 February 2010).
Schaeffer, Francis A. 1975. No Final Conflict: The Bible Without Error in All That It Affirms. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.
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DOJ cut off Indian voting rights probe in Minnesota
Top Department of Justice political appointees cut off an Indian voting rights inquiry in Minnesota, The Los Angeles Times reports.
In October 2004, former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger raised concerns about a state law that appeared to bar the use of tribal identification cards at the polls. Three months later, he was put on a list of federal prosecutors who were going to be fired by the Bush administration.
"I have come to the conclusion that his expressed concern for Indian voting rights is at least part of the reason that Tom Heffelfinger was placed on the list to be fired," Joseph D. Rich, the former head of the voting section of the Justice Department's civil rights division, told The Times.
Based on Heffelfinger's concerns, Rich started an inquiry into the state's practices. But two political appointees ordered him to limit his contacts, effectively cutting off the probe, Rich said.
The appointees included Hans von Spakovsky, who is now a member of the Federal Elections Commission. He has accused tribes of exploiting a "loophole" in federal law in order to make unlimited campaign contributions.
The National Congress of American Indians and the American Civil Liberties Union eventually filed a lawsuit against the state in order to protect an estimated 32,000 off-reservation tribal members who would be affected by the state law. A federal judge ruled in their favor shortly before the November 2004 election.
Heffelfinger left in February 2006 for personal reasons. He said it was "shameful" that political appointees in Washington targeted him for his focus on Indian issues.
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Indietracks interview #16: Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern
Darren Hayman is best known as the singer-songwriter of the much-loved Hefner. Following the band's split in 2002, Darren is now six albums into an increasingly idiosyncratic career path and writing the best tunes of his career, as showcased on the first two instalments of his "Essex Trilogy" and "January Songs" where he wrote and recorded a song for every day of the month. In the latest incarnation of the Secondary Modern, Darren has gathered together a tight, tough, but soulful folk-rock orchestra reminiscent of a more urban Incredible String Band or an Anglicized Lambchop.
Hello Darren! We're looking forward to welcoming you back to Indietracks this year - your Friday headline set is really going to kick off the festival in style! Without giving too much away, have you got any special surprises planned for your set this year?
The surprise will be if I hold the guitar the right way round. I haven't seen or played with the band for five months as I type this. I suppose the beauty of having 12 albums to draw from for a set means there will always be surprises. It would seem churlish to not play one Hefner song at Indietracks.
We've heard a rumour that you're changing the name of The Secondary Modern - is this true and, if so, why have you decided to change it?
I think this will be the last gig as The Secondary Modern. We are going to become Darren Hayman and the Long parliament for the next record, 'The Violence'. The whole album is about the 17th Century Essex Witch Trials. Secondary Modern just didn't fit.
Plus I like how it will fuck everything up on Songkick.
2011 was an enormously busy year for you, and we're massive fans of The Ship's Piano and the January Songs and Vostok 5 projects. If this isn't too daft a question, how do you stay so prolific? Are there particular "rules" that you always set yourself, for example, as you did with January Songs?
I don't feel particularly prolific. I don't even feel particularly hard working. I think the question is what makes everyone else take so long? It's making words and tunes up. It's fantastic fun.
I have this idea that I've always believed in that you are recording or writing 'A' version of a song not 'THE' version of the song. I think that idea of a perfectly recorded song is the downfall of many bands. People should be ready to fail more often. Failing is fine. It's only music. Make a record. Didn't work? Make another one.
I'm planning on dying at some point in the next 30 or 40 years. I haven't got time to dick about not making records.
I sort of only have 'rules'. Working briefs. It's hard to think of the record by me recently that hasn't had some kind of self imposed restraints or connecting theme.
What are you listening to at the moment? Is it still jazz? :)
Yes, pretty much. It makes me immensely happy. For the first time in ages I'm really excited about buying records and discovering new sub genres. I don't completely understand it or why I like it, which makes me like it even more.
I never thought it would happen, but yes it just makes me happy. I think Rock or Pop people shy away from Jazz because initially it seems so egotistical. But now I think the opposite. I think of jazz as this generous, collaborative genre and pop/rock being all about spotlights and glitter.
Apparently you have an instrumental album coming out called Lido soon, which we're very excited about! Can you tell us a bit more about it? And when will the witch trials album come out?
At the time of writing it looks possible that both might come out this year. The Lido record in August and The Violence in Sept/Oct.
Despite Vostok 5 and Ship's Piano and all these other things, 'The Violence' is really the record I've been working on for about four years.
We’ve heard you're a huge fan of all things steam-train related. For steam train novices - are there any things in particular you would advise people to look out for at the Midland Steam Railway?
Well actually, I'm not a steam fan, I'm a heritage diesel fan. I love DMUs (diesel multiple units) the little green and yellow bus like trains that often work at Indietracks. I love the fact you can see out of the front.
It's a reminder of a time when there was more trust in the world.
What's going to be on your compilation tape as you travel up to Indietracks?
Trying to think what the common delineator is in the band at the moment. I have a nice compilation of Lovers Rock at the moment. Maybe that.
Finally - how is Lego Beluah? Does she still exist?
The life-size Lego model of my dog is nearing completion. She'll be finished any month now.
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The festival has been running since 2007. Bands playing in previous years have included Camera Obscura, Edwyn Collins, Teenage Fanclub, Veronica Falls, The Wedding Present, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Pastels, Allo Darlin', White Town, The Hidden Cameras, Art Brut, Still Corners, The Vaselines, Summer Camp, Emmy The Great, The Primitives, Bis, Slow Club, Jeffrey Lewis, Helen Love, Au Revoir Simone and hundreds more artists from across the globe.
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Milan - Italy
Since 2009 the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana has been operating at the former Manifattura Tabacchi premises, set at the north periphery of Milan but well connected to the city centre. They house the Cineteca Headoffices, the Film Archive with post-production Laboratory and MIC-Museo Interattivo del Cinema. The presence of other realities such as Municipal Film Schools and the Lombardy branch of the Cineteca Nazionale of Rome make this centre a unique audiovisual pole in Milan.
The Cineteca Italiana, founded in Milan in 1947, was the first Italian archive to join FIAF in 1948. Its statutory tasks are collecting, preserving and rescuing the film heritage, disseminating the moving image culture. As from 1996 it is a ‘private Foundation of public interest’. Though mainly financed by the Ministry of Culture, it often depends on private resources to carry out restoration projects etc.
Thanks to the regional funding, a new Archive, equipped with adequate shelving and hardware opened in 2014 in the Manifattura area, on two subgrade storeys of ca 3,000 sq. mt. Its core is a digital restoration and post-production Lab. Besides the Cineteca’s historical 35mm film collections on acetate/polyester, the new vaults also host under the ‘Legal Deposit’ clause all audiovisual products released over the Lombard territory, thereby serving as a regional “collector” for images on film.
As from Fall 2015 the new Archive is made publicly visible to small groups, upon reservation, thus abolishing the traditional barriers between general public and insiders. The Tunnel of Dreams passageway, fitted with panels explaining the passage from analogue to digital, links Archive and Lab; tools such as audio and video stations, stereo earphones, smart glasses (Epson Moverio BT-200) allow the visitor to enjoy Augmented Reality applications and HD or 3D contents.
In this way the Archive guided tour rounds off the visit to the MIC, stretched on 300 sq. mt. next door to the Cineteca headquaters, where the cinema history intertwines with virtuality, and where most updated technologies web 2.0 are based on play and interactivity.
Heritage:
Film stock: over 25,000 titles from all over the world, from any ages, mainly on 35mm support. Nearly 60% are nitrate cellulose films of prominent historical relevance, from the origins to the end of 1950.
Non-film collection: it undergoes constant digitization for access purposes, and consists of:
– ca. 100,000 film stills
– ca. 50,000 film posters
– ca 10,000 among books and magazines, comprising rare items of the Twenties and Thirties
– a number of pre-cinema apparatuses, optical devices, original Lumière cameras, projectors, posters, memorabilia etc.., on display at our MIC Filmmuseum.
Main activities:
– film preservation and restoration. Our film stock, constantly increased by new acquisitions/donations, is preserved according to good practice, restored to be then premiered in festivals, or digitized for access purposes
– educational activities: guided tours and customized itineraries for schools in our Film Museum/Archive, lectures, screenings, workshops etc.
– film programming all year round, in our 3 film theatres; two yearly Festivals respectively on Italian Cinema (since 2003) and on Kid Films (since 2008). An intense communication activity is carried out through newsletters, press releases, our website page, facebook and Twitter
– film exchange and cooperation on a wide range of projects (also European) with other Fiaf and non-Fiaf archives, and cultural institutions throughout the world
– research activity: is carried out by the Cineteca expert archival staff on diverse film stocks from our archive, from the silent films to a corpus of Italian animation cinema which is one of the Cineteca’s highlights
– editorial activity: publication of books, DVDs, booklets etc..
FCI specific interest for archive footage as a creative and educational material
Cineteca Italiana has been participating over the last 15 years to a number of European projects, mostly focusing on the preservation and restoration of the European film heritage: as all the other archives compelled to face the drama of a quick and severe deterioration and decay of film supports, especially the nitrate-based ones, we welcome any action directed towards saving films, and any financial source usable for this end. The first and foremost duty of an archive is actually that of rescuing its heritage from loss or damages caused by time injuries.
Other projects centered on cataloguing and digitizing with the purpose of creating online portals were very useful to fill the gap our archive had been experiencing in past years, where the costs implied in these fundamental activities prevented us from carrying them out as intensely as they would have deserved.
More recently, the Grundtvig Project offered a good opportunity for our archive to provide know-how, training, services, and audiovisual material finalized to the education and learning of adult people living in European houses of detention.
These three examples of different Projects move however along the same direction, and their final goals are in the long run the same: accessibility, sharing, dissemination.
Now the In Living Memory Project – a sort of continuation/extension of the previous Grundtvig – is basically resting on a criteria that most archives would have sort of disliked until not too many years ago: letting the general public, and not only the insiders, step ideally into the most ‘secret’ archive vaults, once sheltered by any means from profane eyes. ‘Access’ seems to be the magic word from which should benefit both archives – which increase their knowledge and insight – and researchers/exploiters – who can use an invaluable material to their own cultural purposes.
Fondazione Cineteca Italiana has been of late making great progresses towards an always increasing accessibility to its archive materials, and of course the digital advent has played in this regard an essential role. This technological asset meets with another key point which has lately become for us a real ‘must’: the educational vocation, that is making any kind of film footage and audiovisual material a tool fit to have an outstanding role in educating, increasing knowledge and know-how, prompting creative ideas on an inventive use of images. The artworks already created, such as e.g. the videoletters including film excerpts (be it fiction, or documentary, or animation) just demonstrate how helpful the archives may be in stimulating a non-formal education process of e.g. disadvantaged people, having thus also a high social value. It will be surely surprising to discover how a historical event may be re-read through one’s own intimate taste and sensibility, and what subtle differences of meaning may be conveyed by a different utilization of the same material. Our Foundation is no less than proud to contribute to this cultural process by opening its archive to those wishing to make good use of it.
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Letter: Daniels Response to the State of the Union
Watching Gov. Mitch Daniels last night deliver his response to the State of the Union, the mind jumped ahead to Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012.
The hunches of my wife and my optometrist have proved out. Barack Obama has won reelection. How, though, did it happen?
In a column written after the South Carolina primary, Pat Buchanan had predicted a replay of 1964 and the San Francisco Cow Palace — a wonderful message but a horrible outcome.
The GOP had split into the Tories (Mitt Romney), the Opportunists (Newt Gingrich) and the Agitated (the Tea Party). Mr. Obama’s coalition of the Extreme and the Confused had held fast.
Most of all, it was clear that the GOP plan hadn’t changed since the Nixon campaigns. It remained . . . well, the same as the Democrat plan.
Irving Kristol had first asked the question back in the 1980s: How could a single political strategy — i.e., to simply win and hold office — serve both Republican and Democrat interests?
Liberals see holding government office as the means and the end. Conservatives put their trust in constitutional principle regardless of who is in office. Those goals are diametric, Kristol argued, so shouldn’t the strategies employed be diametric as well?
What would have been the outcome, for instance, had the GOP organized itself as the party of principle rather than the party of “it’s our turn”?
That, the Daniels’ speech testified, was easier said than done.
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ITP Glossary: Roughing the Passer
September 7, 2016 Leave a commentGlossaryBy ITP Editors
Football is littered with specialized terminology. From punt gunner to climbing the pocket, commentators rarely get to explain everything you need to know before the next play. Inside The Pylon’s glossary was developed to give fans a deeper understanding of the game through clear explanations, as well as image and video examples. Please contact us with any terms or phrases you’d like to know more about.
Roughing the Passer
Roughing the passer is a personal foul penalty called against the defense for unnecessarily hitting the quarterback after he has thrown the ball, and can be called for a late hit, a hit to the head, or a hit below the knees, among other things. A roughing the passer penalty costs the defense 15 yards, and a first down is automatically awarded to the offense. If the referee deems the action to be flagrant the defensive player can be ejected.
The most common situation that roughing the passer is called is for is the late hit. According to the NFL Rulebook, a pass rusher should be called for roughing the passer if they hit the quarterback when they “clearly should have known that the ball had already left the passer’s hand before contact was made.” A pass rusher may make contact with the quarterback after the ball has left his hand “only up through the rusher’s first step after such release (prior to second step hitting the ground).” After this first step the rusher must be trying to avoid contact with the quarterback to avoid a penalty being called.
It is also a penalty if the pass rusher unnecessarily wrestles, throws or drives the quarterback into the ground, regardless of the one step rule. One example of this can be seen from San Francisco 49ers outside linebacker Eli Harold, who throws Denver Broncos quarterback Mark Sanchez to the ground after the hit.
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Roughing the passer can also be called for a high or low hit on the quarterback. A flag will be thrown when a pass rusher uses their helmet / facemask to hit anywhere on the passer’s body. In addition, any contact with the head and neck area of the passer is considered a penalty, regardless of whether or not initial contact began below the head / neck area.
Finally, a pass rusher is prohibited from “forcibly hitting in the knee area or below [on] a passer who has one or both feet on the ground, even if the initial contact is above the knee. It is not a foul if the defender is blocked (or fouled) into the passer and has no opportunity to avoid him.”
Roughing the passer is a penalty that has received considerably more attention in recent years as the league’s emphasis on player safety has increased. The low hit rule was added in response to Bernard Pollard’s hit on Tom Brady in 2008 that caused Brady to miss the entire season with a torn ACL.
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Who Then Do I Vote For?
If president Obama, who endorses the legalization of gay marriage and abortion, is not the one to vote for as a Christian believer, who is then the alternative choice? Does my vote automatically go to his opponent Mitt Romney, who is from the Mormon faith, but who is against same sex marriage, aborting babies, and greatly supports Israel as a nation that is given by God?
Over the past two weeks, both presidential candidates’ parties held their conventions, starting with Mitt Romney’s Republican Party, who were in Tampa, Florida, and had to cancel their first day of convention, because of the treat of a hurricane called Isaac. My first thought was, was this hurricane a sign of God, who wanted get our attention to tell us something? Was God saying that Mitt Romney is His promised son Isaac, who would replace his illegitimate brother Ishmael or Obama as the new president of the United States of America?
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An online auction of a DVD case moulding, case welding and packing line. (Moulds 8 dvd cases with a cycle time of appox 11-12seconds)
Krauss Maffei '600-3500 C3' Plastic injection moulding machine (2002)
Suhling Technik product removal robotic arm (2002)
Suhling Technik pick and place robotic arm with 16 station cooling system (2002)
Heino Ilsemann 'CM-3W' DVD case welding and wrapping machine (2002)
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(a) It is expressly brought to the buyer's attention that, at the time of sale, any item of plant, machinery or equipment contained in the lot(s):
may not necessarily comply with the Health and Safety at Work Etc. Act 1974, Environmental Protection Act 1990 or any other UK and/or EC Acts, Regulations, Directives or their applicable laws or equivalent or similar laws in any relevant jurisdiction or; and
could contain blue or white asbestos, hazardous substances, dangerous chemicals etc. which if not handled correctly during their removal from a site could be in breach of the Health & Safety at Work Etc. Act 1974, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 or any other current legislations covering the use of such substances in a working environment in the UK, the EC, the United States or any other relevant jurisdiction.
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In Nomine Matris premieres in Spain
IN NOMINE MATRIS is the Closing Film at the VII Ciclo de Cine y Flamenco in Sevilla, Spain
Filipino independent movie IN NOMINE MATRIS (In the Name of the Mother) by writer and director Will Fredo has been selected to be the closing film at this year’s VII Ciclo de Cine y Flamenco in Sevilla, Spain. The yearly celebration of Flamenco films at the heart and origins of the dance, Andalusia, Spain, will premiere the movie at its capital in Sevilla this July 4th as the festival’s closing film. Instituto Andaluz Del Flamenco, Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Government of Andalusia with the support of UNESCO and Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla (CICUS) organize the festival.
As critic and columnist Mario Bautista declares, “In Nomine Matris is the first local [Filipino] movie to feature flamenco as part of the story. It could very well be our official introduction to this classical Spanish dance with its elaborate footwork, arm, hand and body movements, sometimes with castanets or a fan.” The movie, produced by HUBO Productions, is the first Filipino film to be presented in the Festival. In Nomine Matris stars 38th Metro Manila Film Festival New Wave Best Actress Liza Diño (also a contender for the Best Actress plum of the forthcoming Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino URIAN Awards) together with Biboy Ramirez, Al Gatmaitan, Tami Monsod, and Clara Ramona (URIAN Best Supporting Actress nominee).
“Kinakabahan ako actually. To show the people of Andalusia (Spain) our movie is a big deal. The place is the heart of Flamenco, they can be really critical about the art form. But for the film festival to invite and appreciate what we tried to do in In Nomine Matris is very humbling,” expresses Fredo. “It’s about time we highlight the thriving topnotch Flamenco artists we have here in the Philippines,” he added. As articulated by Tito Genova Valiente, Chairman of Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, “In Nomine Matris remains one of the most thematically daring and, ultimately, most visually compelling of films produced in this republic. Dance in this film is not merely an expression of a mood; dance in this film pushes the tale to a finish.”
Based on real life events, this heart-stomping and intense drama, In Nomine Matris (In the Name of the Mother) dares to capture the passion of women and their dance. At the same time the narrative pays homage to the Philippines’ Spanish heritage and culture.
In the heart of Metro Manila, Mara (Diño), a young dance protégé, seeks to land the principal part of a dance company that is helming a show named In Nomine Matris. On her quest to land the coveted break, a series of events turned her sense of meaning upside down and is faced with a life-changing decision. She turns to her mentor Mercedes (Ramona) and her mother Ava (Monsod) as she searches for answers in the beautifully loud and endlessly moving world she lives in.
The movie also features Jam Pérez, Maradee De Guzman, Bong Cabrera, Leo Rialp, and Joan Palisoc. Flamenco master Clara Ramona dance-choreographs and world jazz musician Bob Aves scores the film, fusing original Filipiniana and Flamenco movement and music.
In Nomine Matris closes VII Ciclo de Cine y Flamenco
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013 at 2:15 AM
NEWS | Al Gatmaitan, Biboy Ramirez, Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla, CICUS, Cine y Flamenco, Clara Ramona, film, Film Festivals, flamenco, flamenco fusion, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, Ida Tiongson, In Nomine Matris, In the Name of the Mother, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Instituto Andaluz Del Flamenco, Jam Pérez, Liza Diño, Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Government of Andalusia, Philippines, Pinoy Indie, Seville, Spain, Tami Monsod, Will Fredo
IN NOMINE MATRIS (Sa Ngalan ng Ina) GOES NATIONWIDE
IN NOMINE MATRIS opens MAY 8 in SM Mega Mall, SM North, SM Manila, SM Centerpoint, SM Marikina, SM Fairview, SM Southmall, Robinsons Galleria, Star Mall (Metropolis Alabang), Gaisano Cineplex (Cebu), Eden Cinema (Cebu City), and starting MAY 10 in GMALL (Gaisano Davao City). Additional theaters will be announced or check your local theater listings during the release date. TRAILER and SYNOPSIS: http://www.hubo.asia/in-nomine-matris
LOVE vs PASSION, which one would you choose?
IN NOMINE MATRIS (Sa Ngalan ng Ina), a film by HUBO Productions, premiered last December at the 38th Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). Its dramatic premise and visually stimulating dance sequences choreographed by world renowned Flamenco master, Clara Ramona, was the much talked about and biggest hit for the New Wave entries during the festival. The movie bagged in the Festival’s NEW WAVE category the Best Actress award for Liza Diño and the Most Gender SensitiveAward. Due to clamor and demand, the movie will be released in selected Philippine theaters nationwide starting May 8, 2013, right in time for the Mother’s Day week.
Supported by the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, Instituto Cervantes/SPCC, and Trinity Hearts Media, IN NOMINE MATRIS is written and directed by Will Fredo. The movie revolves around Mara, portrayed by beauty queen/actress Liza Diño, a young dance protégé who seeks to land the principal part of a dance company that is about to embark on a tour. On her quest to land the coveted break, a series of events turned her sense of meaning upside down. She is then faced with a life changing decision. She turns to her mentor Mercedes (Clara Ramona) and her mother Ava (Tami Monsod) as she searches for answers in the beautifully loud and endlessly moving world she lives in. Within this premise, director Fredo fuses the sensitivities of the Spanish culture into the Philippine modern setting through a highly tense mix of drama, dance, singing, and poetry.
Dramatic actor Biboy Ramirez and Italy-trained opera singer Al Gatmaitan, who both played Mara’s lovers in the movie, adds the complexity in the movie. The love triangle between the two half-brothers and Diño’s character creates the breath of the story. “Kikiligin at maaawa ka sa pinagdaanan ng dalawang lalaki sa kamay ng character ni Liza, maski ikaw na nanunuod, iisipin mo kung ano ang dapat mong pilliin — passion ba or true love?” quips the director. The movie is not as simple as it appears to be, IN NOMINE MATRIS is not your typical Filipino love story. The filmmaker promises that a lot of people will be able to relate, “lahat naman tayo may mga passion sa buhay, kahit ano pa yan. Araw araw, may mga choices tayong ginagawa, no matter what the consequence diba.” A perfect date movie, IN NOMINE MATRIS might be a good alternative to the high testosterone Hollywood movies coming out this May.
“Not all independent movies get the opportunity to release in wide distribution. Honestly, it is a difficult task. We are encouraged though by the audience reaction and by the support of our partners,” explains Producer Ida Tiongson. Executive Producer Greg Macaraeg enthused, “It is seldom we see an audience cheer and clap in between scenes, especially after each dance or performance. It feels like you’re watching a live show, but it’s on screen.” Medwin Garcia, one of the producers, further shares, “I hear the audience getting involved, invested with the characters. Nakakatuwa panuorin!”
The movie also stars Nepal’s foremost Flamenco dancer, Maradee De Guzman, Flamenco dancer/openmic poet Jam Pérez, award-winning actors Bong Cabrera and actor/director Leo Rialp, first time comedienne theater/TV actress Joan Palisoc, and a group of dancers from various background who trained for more than 3 months to dance Flamenco. World jazz musician Bob Aves created the beautiful music score, a first in Philippine cinema wherein “Kundiman” and Flamenco rhythms were fused together.
IN NOMINE MATRIS will be shown MAY 8 – 14 in SM Mega Mall, SM North, SM Manila, SM Marikina, SM Fairview, SM South Mall, Robinsons Galleria, Robinsons Metroeast. Additional theaters will be announced or check your local theater listings during the release date.
More information about IN NOMINE MATRIS, check movie official website:
http://www.hubo.asia/in-nomine-matris
HUBO Productions is an independent multi-media production company that is known for its core film ventures. The film group is headed by Will Fredo, Gregory Macaraeg, Ida Tiongson, Joan T. Manalang, Medwin Garcia, and George K. Sommerrock. HUBO has ventured its artistic reach in music, theatre, dance, and visual arts. HUBO encourages artistry through practical means, and dedicates its art to stimulate the mind however unconventional and unfamiliar.
Love Life Passion
Monday, April 29th, 2013 at 12:04 AM
NEWS | Al Gatmaitan, Biboy Ramirez, Clara Ramona, Film Festivals, flamenco, flamenco fusion, HUBO, hubo production, In Nomine Matris, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Jam Pérez, Liza Diño, Philippines, Tami Monsod, Will Fredo
IN NOMINE MATRIS SPOTTED
In Nomine Matris at Fitness First
Friday, December 7th, 2012 at 10:51 PM
SNAPSHOTS | Biboy Ramirez, Clara Ramona, film, Film Festivals, flamenco, flamenco fusion, Fringe, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, Ida Tiongson, In Nomine Matris, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Liza Diño, Philippines, Pinoy Indie, Will Fredo
An Actor’s Journey: Excerpts from In Nomine Matris
Liza Diño [photo by Ruben Domingo]
Actress LIZA DIÑO in the raw, as Mara Bonifacio Advento, the protagonist in the movie In Nomine Matris (In the Name of the Mother). She plays a young dance protégé in search for perfection, her real passion, and her true love.
Inspired by Bjork and Marina Abramovic work, transposing excerpts and creating a simplistic collage of lines from the movie In Nomine Matris as a performance piece, director Will Fredo together with long time collaborator Roldan Din, harnesses the rawness of Liza Diño by subjecting the actress in constrained body movements. At the same time, this piece showcases in a playful form the Spanish style monologue coming from the movie’s dramatic narrative. Accompanied by a heartfelt acoustic Flamenco-Filipiniana inspired musical score from Bob Aves, this performance piece will draw you closer to your own personal passion and desires.
“Sometimes, watching the journey of an actress go through cycles of emotion in constrained situations is simply breath taking,” Fredo explains.
Produced by HUBO Productions
Creative Directors: Roldan Din & Will Fredo
Cinematography: Kim Guanzon & Marden Blake
Music: Bob Aves (taken from the movie In Nomine Matris)
Make-Up: Laa Hernando-Guanzon
Production Assistants: Ferdz Din & Zaldy Ilagan
Post Engineer: Will Fredo
This piece is not in the movie. This is simply a creative play used by the artists.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 at 2:26 AM
About the Video Clips, NEWS | Al Gatmaitan, Biboy Ramirez, Clara Ramona, dance, film, Film Festivals, flamenco, flamenco fusion, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, In Nomine Matris, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Jam Pérez, Liza Diño, Performance Piece, Pinoy Indie, Roldan Din, Tami Monsod, Trailer, Will Fredo
Ganap na Babae (Garden of Eve) Breaking Hearts and Record
GANAP NA BABAE in SM CINEMA CDO
“Wow! Talo pa ang Twilight sa haba ng pila sa Active Vista sa SM CDO! Congrats Xavier University!” ~ Leni Velasco posted, Executive Director of DAKILA
“So, apparently, Active Vista is breaking records in SM Cagayan de Oro. SRO screening now and huge crowd still lined up to enter the cinema. Wohooo!” ~ Leni Velasco posted, Executive Director of DAKILA
“Kayo ang Totoong Paraan. The BEST FEATURE FESTIVAL of relevant films. Mahal namin kayo! :)” ~ Emmanuel Dela Cruz posted, Film Director
“Nakakataba ng puso! Directors Sarah Roxas and Ellen Ramos were missed but we’re glad Rica Arevalo went to do the film discussion! Her news brought us joy, ramdam namin ang saya sa Cagayan De Oro. Congratulations to Dakila, Active Vista Film Festival, Xavier University, and to everyone involved in this effort! Sa uulitin!” ~ Will Fredo, Ganap Na Babae Executive Producer
Friday, November 30th, 2012 at 2:47 AM
SNAPSHOTS | Boots Anson-Roa, film, Film Festivals, Ganap na Babae, Garden of Eve, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Jam Pérez, Mercedes Cabral, Rome Mallari, Sue Prado, Will Fredo
Fusing Worlds: A Glimpse at Art Collaboration
Clara Ramona as Mercedes Lagdameo
CLARA RAMONA, a world-renowned Flamenco master, shares her artistry in the movie In Nomine Matris. In this rare footage of deleted scenes from the movie, her character Mercedes Lagdameo pours out her soul, her passion, her frustration as an aging dancer, an embattled teacher, and above of all, as a loving mother.
Filipino music scholars agree that kundiman is uniquely Filipino musical form that taps deep into one’s heart and bring untold emotions. Felipe M. de León Jr. once wrote that kundiman is a “unique musical form expressing intense longing, caring, devotion and oneness with a beloved…its music is soulful and lofty…”
Soleá is one of the foundational styles of flamenco that always incorporates the elements of romantic tragedy, desolation, and death. It affords the dancer both profound emotion and blazing footwork in the unique 12-beat cycle of flamenco music.
What WILL FREDO envisioned for the scene is to narrate the travails of being a mother from a Filipino perspective but express it in a form that is at once foreign and familiar. From this direction what BOB AVES has done is absorb the 12-beat cycle of soleá flamenco music into the lyrical triple time of kundiman. In this way the expressiveness that is distinctively Filipino is overlayed on the aggressiveness and passion that the dance required. This has not been done before, and the result is simply astounding.
The Movie | The Music | The Cast
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 at 8:56 PM
About the Video Clips, NEWS | Al Gatmaitan, Biboy Ramirez, Clara Ramona, dance, film, Film Festivals, flamenco, flamenco dance company, flamenco fusion, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Jam Pérez, kundiman, Liza Diño, Pinoy Indie, solea, Tami Monsod, Will Fredo
In Nomine Matris Dance Company
MERCEDES LAGDAMEO FLAMENCO-FILIPINIANA DANCE COMPANY
BEHIND THE SCENE – MERCEDES LAGDAMEO FLAMENCO-FILIPINIANA DANCE COMPANY
The Reel Dance Company and their Real Persona
Behind the Scene – Director Will Fredo with the Dance Company
The Movie | The Music | The Principal | The Ensemble
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 at 1:14 AM
The Company | Biboy Ramirez, Clara Ramona, dance, dance company, film, Film Festivals, flamenco, flamenco dance company, flamenco fusion, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, In Nomine Matris, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Jam Pérez, Liza Diño, Will Fredo
In Nomine Matris Ensemble Cast
MARADEE ARIELL T. DE GUZMAN (Valerie Espiritu) was a business entrepreneur and dabbled in commercial modelling appearing in various magazines, print and TV advertisements. De Guzman graduated with a BS in Management Engineering from the Ateneo de Manila University. While in the university she involved herself in artistic pursuits like stage musicals, chorale singing, and dancing affording herself to develop as a performer. Her love for dance was rekindled by the fiery art of Flamenco and elegant style of Clasico Español; and is now flourishing under the training of world-renowned Clara Ramona. As a member of Clara Ramona & Co., she has gone on tour around the world including the U.S., Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. She teaches flamenco part-time at the Clara Ramona Centro de Danza Flamenca. Maradee is currently based in Kathmandu, Nepal where she is the spreading the passion of Flamenco by teaching workshops and classes. She is the first to introduce Flamenco Dance to Nepal.
Maradee de Guzman as Valerie Espiritu
JAM PÉREZ (Nikki Atienza) started dancing flamenco at age 11 under the tutelage of Guillermo Gomez, and later trained as a dance scholar of Sofia Zobel-Elizalde. She further trained from and mentored by Clara Ramona, Tatiana Balashova and Emma Estrada. Pérez graduated with a BA in European Languages from University of the Philippines, Diliman, and is currently undertaking law studies at the Ateneo de Manila University. She has tried her hand in modelling and beauty pageant before pursuing acting. Her first audition landed her a part in In Nomine Matris, and in the same year clinched a role in Ganap na Babae. She continues to acting in independent films, and recently seen in PISILof UP Baguio’s Si(n)ing Sine Awards. Shortly after her foray in films, Pérez developed an interest in spoken word poetry and has been performing in several poetry events.
Jam Pérez as Nikki Atienza
BONG CABRERA (Justin Trinidad) is an actor whose appearance in the film Sa Ilalim ng Tulay earned him the Best Actor award from the Cinema One Originals 2011 Film Festival and subsequently earned a nomination in the same category in the Gawad Urian 2012. He was a senior member of the Actors’ Company of Tanghalang Pilipino of CCP from 2004 until 2010 when he was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Fellow. The fellowship brought him to New York where he attended workshops from various theatre companies and studied various acting techniques. Among his exposures were with Suzuki, Viewpoints (SITI Company), Meisner Technique (The Acting Studio, Inc.), Alexander and Voice Technique (NYC Open Center), Contact Improv classes (Movement Research), and ensemble trainings from Universes and Pig Iron Theatre Company. Internationally, Cabrera performed in Tokyo, Shanghai, and Nagoya. He was also among the local actors tapped to appear in the Hollywood film “Bourne Legacy” that was partly shot in Manila. He has also participated in a documentary for National Geographic which had a global airing.
Bong Cabrera as Justin Trinidad
LEO RIALP (Manuel Advento) directs, acts and set designs for stage, television and film. His stage performances as JUDGE BRACH in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, REVEREND BAINES in Henry David Huang’s Golden Child, SHYLOCK in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and GEORGE DILLINGHAM in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love have earned him citations from theater critics. In movies he has acted in In the Name of Love and Crazy for You (both for Star Cinema), in Sa Pagdapo ng Mariposa (HUBO Productions) and many others. In television he was last seen in Channel 5’s telenovela, Sa Ngalan ng Ina. He is the sitting President of the Philippine Association of Theater Designers and Technicians (PATDAT). As a painter and printmaker he has participated in group exhibits and one-man shows in Brazil, Jordan, the United States and the Philippines.
Leo Rialp as Manuel Advento
JOAN PALISOC (Jillbert Sanchez) is an actress and has notably appeared in stage productions like Fuente Ovejuna, Kanser, Katipunan and Birhen ng Caysasay. She eventually began appearing in television productions before venturing into films where she debuted as Luisa in Will Fredo’s Compound. Her acting skills were honed under CCP’s Tanghalang Pilipino, Repertory Philippines and New York’s Stella Adler Studio. She has been traditionally cast in serious and dramatic roles before landing a comic role in In Nomine Matris. Palisoc graduated with BA in Hotel and Restaurant Management from University of Sto. Tomas. Outside of acting, Palisoc is a fashion stylist, event organizer and a teacher. She loves travelling and mountain climbing in her spare time.
Joan Palisoc as Jillbert Sanchez
The Movie | The Music | The Principal | The Company
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 at 12:04 AM
The Ensemble | Biboy Ramirez, Bong Cabrera, Clara Ramona, film, Film Festivals, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, In Nomine Matris, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Jam Pérez, Joan Palisoc, Leo Rialp, Liza Diño, Maradee De Guzman
In Nomine Matris Music Score
Nana, that’s how lullabies are commonly called in Spanish language. In flamenco, it’s a quiet place for womanhood. The chant, the melody, the instrument recall all shades of walking, the rhythmic rocking of the cradle, the passion, the work, the love—all indisputable flamenco content. Bob Aves puts all these elements together and amalgamated them with distinctive Filipino undertones serving a heightened drama and poetic sense.
In Nomine Matris is a film set in Manila. It is about a dancer who wanted to be the principal dancer of a Flamenco dance company based in Manila that is about to embark on an international tour. A series of events, however, threw a wrench on her quest and must now face the question of what matters most in her life.
Flamenco is a form of music, song, and dance from Spain where it traces its origin in the Andalucian region in the southern part of the country. Flamenco has a certain soul, commonly referred to as duende, replete with intensity that is almost fiery in nature. Flamenco music uses three basic counts: binary, ternary and, unique to flamenco, twelve-beat cycle.
Bob Aves [photo by D. Buenaventura]
The drama unfolds in a flamenco beat, music is essential to the underlying structure of the film that is set in the Philippines. Though the Philippines was under the Spanish rule, flamenco never became part of the popular taste. The Spanish influence is undeniable—it is in the food, the dance, the music, the language, in general sensibilities of Filipinos—yet flamenco, in its pure form, remains a foreign element. How does one present something foreign yet in many ways familiar to Filipinos? Faced with this predicament, Bob Aves, the musical scorer of the film, tackled the project to be a presentation of a “the fusion of traditional Philippine music and Flamenco music and bring it to a contemporary style.” Fusing different musical forms is not new to Aves. In the 1990s, he embarked on a quest to rediscover Philippine indigenous music and re-conceived them with different instrumentation and rhythms. His experimentation became a distinctive element in his music, a unique blending that can only come from a deep understanding of the different forms and styles on their own.
In the film In Nomine Matris, the dance is not a simple case of showcasing the actors’ talent, nor is it indulgent. It becomes the rhythm by which the narrative is further told, music naturally become prominent. Aves felt that it is “important to present Flamenco music from our Philippine perspective as our contribution to promote our traditional music in cinema. Since this fusion has never been done before, therefore leaving us with no reference at all, we have to develop the pieces from scratch. We also needed to present this fusion in a very contemporary style therefore incorporating electronic elements, while retaining the aggressiveness and passion that these dances required.”
The music is not used as a background, in which case it would serve to underline the atmosphere, accentuate grief, joy, or any other emotion. The music becomes a character in itself, a very important character. In Aves’s mind, “the music had to have such fluidity to flow in and out from dance to soundtrack mode … and even from dance music becoming the soundtrack and soundtrack becoming the dance music.”
Aves explains that the film has its particular challenges, primarily that it being a weaving of flamenco and a Filipino story, thus he “focused on the elements that were relevant to the Flamenco, like it’s specific steps and rhythmic counts and musical forms, while utilizing the traditional southern gong ensembles to play these rhythms. We also wanted to show the versatility of our gongs in adopting to new environments.” This accounts for the music not only being prominent but also recorded with great attention to detail. The music score contributes to the musical and visual quality and depth of the film. The music is not mere ornaments but rather closely connected with the plot. It functions as a narrative tool that is essential to the film. Some critical scenes were constructed in a highly effective cinematic terms that owes much to the music, an element that is normally considered least cinematic. The scenes would have not been half as effective.
The music in In Nomine Matris is a fine example of a cinematic technique through which complex ideas can be expressed entirely without words, a story is moved forward by aural intimacy. Usually cinematic film employs image rather than sound to achieve a narrative force, the application of music in In Nomine Matris makes it a remarkable cinematic feat.
BOB AVES [ photo by Lucky Booj ]
Roberto ‘Bob’ Aves is a composer, performing artist and a multi-award-winning arranger and producer. Born and raised in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, in central Philippines, he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Composition (1979) from Berklee College of Music in Boston.
In the 1990s, Bob embarked on a quest of rediscovery of Philippine indigenous music, fusing traditional instruments, rhythms and chants, with contemporary music genres. This unique blend of musical style ultimately became the hallmark of Bob’s work, ranging from his musical collaborations with Grace Nono, his Philippine-jazz, music scores for documentaries and independent films and music for theater and dance.
Together, Bob Aves and Grace Nono co-established Tao Music in the 90s, an all-Filipino record label that specializes in the production and publication of traditional and contemporary culture-based titles of Philippine music. Their collaboration in the filed of performance have brought their brand of Filipino world music to international music festivals world wide (2011 Penang World Music Festival, Archa Theater, Prague / “Phil. Sacred Chants”, HK University / Prince Albert Fundraiser for the Filipino Child, Monaco / Festival Asia, Barcelona-Madrid, Spain / Asean-China Summit, Nanning, China/ World Exposition, Aichi, Nagoya, Japan / House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany / Singapore Arts Festival / WOMAD, Yokohama, Japan / Music Village Festival, UK)
Today, Bob Aves continues to push the boundaries of his unique musical style in the development of Philippine Jazz, a groundbreaking integration of the gong culture of the southern Philippines and contemporary jazz. His jazz group has performed in various jazz festivals such as the Phil. International Jazz festival, Penang Int. Jazz festival (Malaysia), Zhujiajiao Water Village Music festival (Shanghai, China), Jarasum Jazz festival (Korea), National Museum of Singapore, among others.
The Movie | The Cast
Sunday, November 25th, 2012 at 6:05 AM
About the Music | Al Gatmaitan, biboy ramier, bob aves, Clara Ramona, dance, Film Festivals, flamenco, flamenco fusion, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, In Nomine Matris, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Jam Pérez, Liza Diño, tami mo
SLUMBER PARTY: A CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS 2012 FILM FESTIVAL ENTRY
CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS 2012
in association with Origin8 Media, HUBO Productions Inc., and Christian Diamzon Pictures
a film by Emman Dela Cruz
Starring Archie Alemania, RK Bagatsing, Sef Cadayona, Markki Stroem
with special participation of
Niño Muhlach, Maey Bautista, Betong Sumaya, and Ms. Venus Raj
2012 CINEMA ONE ORIGINAL FESTIVAL
Nov. 28 to Dec. 9 at Robinsons Galleria
Nov. 29 to Dec. 4 at the EDSA Shangri-La Cineplex
SLUMBER PARTY Official Poster
[ click picture for larger image ]
Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 at 2:11 AM
GRUBSTAKERS, Now Showing, SNAPSHOTS | archie alemania, Cinema One, Cinema One Originals, Emman Dela Cruz, Emmanuel Dela Cruz, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, Ida Tiongson, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, markki stroem, raymond lee, rk bagatsing, sef cadayona, Slumber Party, Venus Raj
GANAP NA BABAE: ACTIVE VISTA FILM FESTIVAL in CAGAYAN DE ORGO
Active Vista Human Rights Film Festival 2012
HUBO Productions, Inc.
GANAP NA BABAE (Garde of Eve)
November 24, 2012 | 10:30AM | SM CAGAYAN DE ORO CINEMA 2
GANAP NA BABAE in ACTIVE VISTA FILM FESTIVAL 2012
[ click poster for larger image ]
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 at 2:51 AM
NEWS | Active Vista, Boots Anson-Roa, Ellen Ramos, film, Film Festivals, Ganap na Babae, Garden of Eve, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, Ida Tiongson, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, International Film Festival Manhattan, Jam Pérez, Mercedes Cabral, Rica Arevalo, Rome Mallari, Sarah Roxas, Sue Prado
In Nomine Matris Principal Cast
LIZA DIÑO (Mara Bonifacio Advento) is a film, tv and stage actress who has appeared in numerous films for both independent and commercial acting studios. Notably, she has appeared in commercial films like Two Timer, Pinay Pie, Xerex, and A Love Story. She landed one of the lead roles in the independent film Compound by HUBO Productions which ignited her lingering interest in indie projects. Her role in Compound earned her the lone acting recognition in the 2011 International Film Festival Manahattan NYC and eventually led to her receiving a Philippine National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ Ani Ng Dangal (Harvest of Honor) Award in 2012. Diño graduated with BA Speech Communication from the Univeristy of the Philippines, Diliman (UP). While at UP, she started venturing into stage acting and appeared in productions mounted by Dulaang UP like Passion of the Christ, Shakespeare’s Winter Tale, and Divinas Palabras. As a student, she joined the 2001 Mutya ng Pilipinas and was crowned as Mutya ng Pilipinas-Tourism and officially represented the country in the Miss Tourism International 2001. After which, she started appearing in television projects primarily as a member of GMA 7 Artist Center. In 2005, a trip to Spain piqued her interest in flamenco, and made her decide to train under Clara Ramona. Together with Ramona, she has performed all over Asia and the US. She migrated to the US in 2008, where she currently divides her time between acting projects and as a line cook for Wolfgang Puck’s Spago restaurant in Beverly Hills.
Liza Diño as Mara Bonifacio Advento
BIBOY RAMIREZ (Daniel Lagdameo) started as a commercial model doing television ads. He got noticed when he did work for Goldilocks bakeshop in 1998. An entertainment magazine columnist discovered him and eventually managed his showbusiness career. In 1999, German “Kuya Germs” Moreno gave him a regular stint in a variety show Bestfriends. From there Ramirez pursued acting by appearing in various television shows. In 2000, Ramirez became part of the original stable of actors of the pioneering teen drama show Clickin GMA Network. Aside from acting in television and commercial advertising, Ramirez is involved in independent films both as a producer and as an actor, and has also appeared in stage productions. Outside of acting, Ramirez is into professional photography and events directing. Biboy just recently wrapped up the TV series “Enchanted Garden” for TV 5 and is now working as a regular at GMA Studio’s latest soap “Cielo de Angelina”.
Biboy Ramirez as Daniel Lagdameo
AL GATMAITAN (Enrique Lagdameo Herrera) has distinguished himself in classical music and theater, having been involved with performing groups such as the Philippine Opera Company, PETA (Philippine Educational Theater Association), Dulaang UP, UP Playwrights, Stages, Maskara, Trumpets, and Tanghalang Pilipino. His initial music training was at the UP College of Music, after which he proceeded to Italy for vocal and acting training as well as language studies. His coach was Italian soprano Maria Francavilla from the Conservatory of Torrefranca ‘Vibo Valentia’, while his language studies led to a diploma in ‘Teaching Italian Language Abroad’ from the Dante Alighieri University for Foreigners in Reggio Calabria. He also obtained a Certificate of Training in Acting and Performing from Spazio Teatro. He capped his stay in Italy with a second place distinction at the Filipino European Pop Song Festival in Reggio Calabria.
Al Gatmaitan as Enrique Lagdameo Herrera
TAMI MONSOD (Ava Bonifacio) is a theatre actress whose credits include Angels in America, Our Country’s Good, All’s Well that Ends Well, How I Learned to Drive, Sacrilege, The Vagina Monologues, and Equus. As a professional stage actress, Tami has worked primarily with New Voice Company under Monique Wilson but has also freelanced with other groups such as Repertory Philippines. Aside from acting, she has also been teaching theatre specializing in writing and directing plays developed from student research and improvisation. This includes Remembering Rezima, Very, Very Dangerous, The Book of Antigone, and, most recently, Indulto, a play about a woman bullfighter. In Nomine Matrismarks her return to acting after giving birth in 2005 and is her film debut. Tami began introductory lessons in flamenco during summer vacations in Spain. She continued in Manila under Emma Estrada and, finally, under Clara Ramona who suggested that she audition for the role of Ava Bonifacio.
CLARA RAMONA (Mercedes Lagdameo) is an esteemed Spanish Filipina-American flamenco artist who has professionally gained recognition in the exclusive and cutthroat world of the complex art form. Despite being a “foreign” artist, for over 15 years she established herself in Madrid, the mecca of flamenco, founding her own dance company, Ballet Español de Clara Ramona, through which she has staged productions of critical acclaim the world over and gaining international recognition for her innovative choreographies. She has also collaborated with flamenco artists of stature such as La Tati, Tomas de Madrid, Miguel Angel and Antonio Alonso for over twenty years. Clara trained as professional ballet dancer and obtained a BFA at the Boston Conservatory of Music and Dance. She pursued further studies in Spanish classical dance and flamenco with masters such as Manolo Vargas and Antonio de Cordoba in Mexico and with Ciro, La Tati, Jose Granero, and Tomas de Madridamong others in Spain. Clara paved the way for flamenco’s blossoming in Asia, conducting workshops in Australia, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan. She is currently based in Hong Kong but spends much time travelling to Manila, Beijing, and other parts of Asia.
The Movie | The Music | The Ensemble | The Company
The Principal | Al Gatmaita, Biboy Ramirez, Clara Ramona, film, Film Festivals, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, In Nomine Matris, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Jam Pérez, Liza Diño, Philippines, Pinoy Indie, Tami Mons
2012 International Film Festival Manhattan Awards Night
The 2nd Annual International Film Festival Manhattan (IFFM) held its Opening Night and Awards Ceremony last November 8 at the Kalayaan Hall of the Philippine Consulate in Manhattan, New York a day after a strong Nor’easter hit the city that is still recovering from the devastation brought about by Hurricane Sandy.
The festival is scheduled to run from November 9th till the 15th with all film screenings at the Quad Cinemas in Manhattan.
IFFM founders Luis Pedron and Gerry Balasta expressed their heartfelt gratitude to everyone who helped them achieve their goal of showcasing and entertaining the diverse films in all genres and scope to equal the diversity of New York.
Here’s a complete list and snapshots from the Opening/Awards Night courtesy of Rex Romero, Fernell Cruz, and blogger Felix Manuel.
International Film Festival Manhattan Awards Night
International Film Festival Manhattan 2012 Award Categories and Winners
2012 Mount Hope Project Awardees:
-“21 and a WakeUp”
– “ABC Nunca Mas”
-“Ganap Na Babae”
-Will Fredo, “The Caregiver”
Best Cinematographer
-“I’ve Only Just Begun.”
-Tara Samuel, “Ruby Booby”
– Jacky Woo, “Haruo”
Independent Achievement Award (Short)
-Crystal Diane Stevens, “Organized Criminal”
Global Achievement in Acting/Independent Achievement Award (Feature)
Film Winners and Nominees:
*Best Short:
“Organized Criminal”
“Just a Joke”
Winner: “Just a Joke”
*Best Music Video:
“Living – Arrested Development”
“The Magic Rabbit 2”
Winner: “”Living – Arrested Development”
*Best US Documentary:
“Oxygen for the Ears Living Jazz”
“The YES Movie”
Winner: “Oxygen for the Ears Living Jazz”
*Best Global Documentary:
“Inori-Prayer Conversation with Something Great”
“ABC Nunca Mas”
Winner: “Inori – Prayer Conversation with Something Great”
*Best US Narrative:
“Theresa is a Mother”
“Musical Chairs”
Winner: “Theresa is a Mother”
*Best Global Narrative:
“Misterioso Asasenito en el Aulas”
Winner: “The Foreigner”
*Most Popular Competition on Facebook Awarded Thurs Nov 15, 2012.
Runner Up:
Counting Happiness
Winner: “Counting Happiness”
2012 IFFM Best Director Will Fredo with Actress Liza Diño
2012 IFFM Best Actress Tara Samuel and her family
2012 IFFM Best Global Narrative “The Foreigner”
2012 IFFM Best Short “Just a Joke” (Italy)
As seen first Nov. 08, 2012 from columnist/blogger Felix Manuel: http://felixmanuel.opmbworldwide.com/post/35389602261/2012-international-film-festival-manhattan-awards [more photos in blog site]
Photo Credits: Rex Romero
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 at 4:31 AM
SNAPSHOTS | Felix Manuel, Film Festival, Gerry Balasta, HUBO, hubo production, IFFM, IFFMNYC, Independent Films, Indie Movies, International Film Festival Manhattan, Liza Diño, Luis Pedron, Pinoy Indie, Will Fredo
A MAJOR MAJOR Announcement: HUBO joins The Slumber Party
HUBO Producer Ida Tiongson with Beauty Queen Venus Raj, Ining Dalmacio,
and Director Emman Dela Cruz [ Click picture for a larger image ]
HUBO Productions signed up its most recent collaboration deal via an agreement to support the production of Origin8 Media’s Slumber Party. HUBO Financial Director and Board Member Ida Ceniza-Tiongson was on hand to seal this deal with Slumber Party director Emmanuel Dela Cruz representing Origin8 Media. Slumber Party received a production grant from Cinema One Originals and is an official selection of the festival to be held this November.
Slumber Party is set on the eve of August 23, 2010, the night when a bus carrying Chinese nationals from Hong Kong are held hostage in Manila, Philippines while Philippine representative Maria Venus Raj is under pressure in the Miss Universe pageant to bring home the coveted crown. Three long time friends throw a sleep over party and do a vigil to once again show their support for the country’s delegate to the most prestigious beauty pageant. Nursing a broken heart from a failed romance, Phillippe is joined by Elle and Jhana to carry him through that night. On what was planned as a light and fun night took a twisted turn when a young frat-boy broke into the house where they were staying. Questions about life, love and friendship arose within the course of the night.
About Origin8 Media
Origin8 Media is founded by eight storytellers that aims to create and produce content that is original, excellent, and meaningful as it is commercially viable. The founders are writers, producers and directors whose collective body of work in the film and television industry includes some of the biggest and memorable hits of the last decade. Work credits of the members of Origin8 in various capacities include Endo, Tanging Ina, KimmyDora, Nasaan Ka Man, Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington, and Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros. Origin8 believes that excellent content and blockbuster success go hand in hand, that critical acclaim and mass appeal are not opposing forces.
About HUBO Productions
HUBO Productions is an independent multi-media production company that is known for its core film ventures. To date, HUBO has released three full-length films, that have been shown in the Philippines and in international film festival circuits. Its fourth release, In Nomine Matris, is going to be screened this December as an official selection of the 38th Metro Manila Film Festival New Wave Feature Film Category. HUBO has ventured its artistic reach in music, theatre, dance, and visual arts. HUBO encourages artistry through practical means, and dedicates its art to stimulate the mind however unconventional and unfamiliar.
HUBO Producer Ida Tiongson (center) with Director Emman Dela Cruz
with the TRIBEK cast of The Slumber Party (l-r) Markki Stroem, Archie Alemania and RK Bagatsing,
Monday, November 12th, 2012 at 5:15 AM
COLLATERAL, NEWS | Bb. Pilipinas, Cinema One, Cinema One Originals, Emman Dela Cruz, HUBO, hubo productions, Ida Tiongson, Indepdent Films, Indie Movies, Miss Universe, Pinoy Indie, Slumber Party, Venus Raj
IN NOMINE MATRIS Official Poster
Starring: Liza Diño, Biboy Ramirez, Al Gatmaitan, with Jam Pérez, Maradee De Guzman, Bong Cabrera, Leo Rialp, Joan Palisoc, introducing Ms. Tami Monsod and Ms. Clara Ramona
Written and Directed by Will Fredo
HUBO Productions in cooperation with Trinity Hearts Media, The Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, Gobierno De España, Ministerio De Cultura, Spanish Program for Cultural Cooperation, Instituto Cervantes Manila presents IN NOMINE MATRIS (In the Name of the Mother).
LOG LINE: A young dance protégé seeks to land the principal part of a dance company but soon found herself at a crossroad, forcing her to face her mentor and her mother as she searches for answers in the beautifully loud and endlessly moving world she lives in.
LONG SYNOPSIS: In the heart of Metro Manila, Mara Bonifacio Advento, a young dance protégé seeks to land the principal part of a dance company about to embark on a tour. On her quest to land the coveted break, a series of events turned her sense of meaning upside down, and is faced with a life changing decision. She turns to her mentor Mercedes Lagdameo and her mother Ava Bonifacio as she searches for answers in the beautifully loud and endlessly moving world she lives in.
Official Symbol
[ click symbol for larger image ]
Metro Manila, in its congested freeways and its busy streets, plays an integral part in creating the rhythm of the revolving lives of the people surrounding our protégé, Mara. Played by award winning actress Liza Diño who recently received an Harvest of Honor Award (Ani ng Dangal) from the Office of the Philippine President, Mara falls in love with Enrique (played by Italy trained opera singer Al Gatmaitan), the son of her mentor Mercedes (Clara Ramona) as she trains to be the principal dancer of the touring show ‘In Nomine Matris’. In the midst of her blossoming desires for a man and her struggles to become the principal dancer, the unrequited love of Enrique’s brother Daniel (played by TV and movie star Biboy Ramirez) towards Mara complicates her dilemma. Forced to make a life changing decision as Mara prepares for the premiere of In Nomine Matris, her mentor challenges her to reach for the top while her mother (played by thespian actor Tami Monsod) inflicts her with a lesson she tries so hard not to follow. In the middle of EDSA, the famous transportation artery where the Philippine revolution transpired, Mara’s fate is handed to her by surprise, forever changes her.
In Nomine Matris (In the Name of the Mother) is a narrative close to the heart of filmmaker, Will Fredo. It is inspired by true events in the lives of real Flamenco performers and its growing popularity in the Philippines. The filmmaker aims to pay homage to the joys and failures of motherhood, to the beat of his matriarchal country, to the Spanish heritage ingrained in our Filipino culture by underscoring Philippine classics and the traces of intense passion of the Spanish sensibility.
The film fuses Philippine dances and Spanish Flamenco rhythms and steps, created and choreographed by world-renowned Flamenco master Miss Clara Ramona. Bob Aves, foremost Filipino world-jazz musician, composed a unique musical score combining Flamenco ‘compas’ and Filipino Kundiman. Aside from the dancing and the music, Fredo pushes the limit by adding Spanish verse opera singing by Al Gatmaitan and a gut wrenching original open-mic poetry performance by artist Jam Pérez. Filipino actors of diverse background lend their talents in giving life to a vision that is both familiar and challenging. These elements contribute to a rare viewing experience.
The Music | The Cast | Director’s Notes
Thursday, September 8th, 2011 at 9:07 PM
About the Movie, In Nomine Matris | Al Gatmaitan, Biboy Ramirez, Bong Cabrera, Clara Ramona, Film Festivals, HUBO, hubo production, hubo productions, In Nomine Matris, In the Name of the Mother, Independent Films, Indie Films, Indie Movies, Jam Pérez, Joan Palisoc, Leo Rialp, Liza Diño, Pinoy Indie, Tami Monsod, Trailer, Will Fredo
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AKB0048: Next Stage 13 Apr.
In the year since the 77th generation understudies joined AKB0048, the Deep Galactic Trade Organization [DGTO] and DES have stepped up their attacks on entertainment.
Anonymous Noise 01 Jul.
Every day, a young girl wearing a mask stands by the beach and sings a nostalgic melody.
Beck - Mongolian Chop Squad 23 Apr.
Tanaka Yukio, better known by his nickname Koyuki is a 14 year old who feels disconnected from life in general.
INTERSTELLA 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem 17 Jul.
This music video is the visual realization of "Discovery", an album by Daft Punk.
K-On! 22 Apr.
Hirasawa Yui, a young, carefree girl entering high school, has her imagination instantly captured when she sees a poster advertising the "Light Music Club." Being the carefree girl that she is, she
K-On! OVA 11 Sep.
Afterschool Teatime performs live on New Year's Eve.
K-ON! Season 2 OVA 11 Sep.
A special episode of K-ON!! released in the ninth volume of Blu-ray and DVD. The girls plan a trip abroad and go to the passport office to apply for passports.
Love Live! The School Idol Movie 28 Jun.
Hot on the heels of the third year students' graduation, μ's is invited to New York in hopes of spreading the joy of school idols to other parts of the world.
Nerima Daikon Brothers 30 Jun.
Hideki, leader of the Nerima Daikon Brothers, has a dream to build a dome in his hometown of Nerima to hold a concert for his band.
Show By Rock!! 08 Jun.
Metropolis of music, MIDICITY. A kitty girl wearing gothic lolita clothing named Cyan is scouted by Maple Arisugawa, the president of a music agency.
Show By Rock!! 2 03 Nov.
Soni-Ani: Super Sonico The Animation 27 Apr.
When Sonico wakes up every morning she sees big things on the horizon, but when she gets up gravity takes hold and she can focus on what is directly ahead of her for the day.
The World God Only Knows OVA 05 Apr.
Chihiro forms a rock band with her friends Elsie, Ayumi and Miyako.
Zillion: Burning Night 15 Feb.
In the peaceful aftermath of the Nozsa wars, the charismatic heroes known as "The White Knights" have changed career paths to becoming music making rockstars.
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Double Victories For Gangi Jnr At FWT Opener
With two victories already secured during 2013 competition to date, Anthony Gangi Jr. would prove to be hard to beat during the opening weekend of the Florida Winter Tour (FWT). Heading to the Palm Beach International Raceway (PBIR) in Jupiter, Florida for the first Formula Kart weekend of the FWT, Gangi Jr. would rise to the occasion against 40+ competitors in the Vortex TaG Cadet category. After a win in the final FWT round last year, as well as a third place finish in the overall points to start a stellar 2012 season, the GT7 Motorsports/Tony Kart pilot picked up right where he left off for the start of 2013 action.
Above: Anthony Gangi Jr. celebrates victory at the Palm Beach International Raceway
pic - Cody Schindel, INTL-KartingMedia.com
Taking on a revamped circuit at the PBIR karting facility, along with a new racing format for the Formula Kart weekend, Gangi Jr. would be nearly perfect throughout the first of six FWT events for the 11-year-old. Starting with qualifying for Saturday's round one, Gangi Jr. managed a fifth place result and would start the new double heat race format from the inside of row three.
The two heat races would see Gangi Jr. rise to the top, as he edged his nearest competitor for the victory in race one and then broke away with a two second win for heat two. Gangi Jr. would also be credited with fast lap honors in both. The two wins earned Gangi Jr. pole position for the final, and the Brookville, New York resident proved to be the class of the field during the 14 lap main. Leading every lap, Gangi Jr. cruised to more than a seven second victory to start his 2013 Florida Winter Tour campaign off right.
Back on track Sunday for round two, Gangi Jr. would lead the way in qualifying to earn the coveted pole position. Keeping up his momentum, Gangi Jr. then went on to score yet another heat race victory during the first wheel-to-wheel action of the day. The young gun missed out on the day's sweep however, coming a mere 0.012 seconds shy of the second heat victory. Again starting the final from the pole position, Gangi Jr. was able to take his second final victory and yet another fastest race lap honor along with command of the overall TaG Cadet points after two of six rounds.
Anthony Gangi Jr. would like to thank Chris Perez, his tuner and driving coach, Daniel Lambert (Disco Dan) for his always-great power and for their hard work and long hours. Additionally, Gangi Jr. would like to thank Sargeant Motorsports for all their help and support along with sponsors Millwork Solutions, Holeshot Drive Systems and PKT Axles.
Up next for the up-and-coming pilot is another weekend at the PBIR facility, this time for the opening weekend of the Rotax divisions. After a convincing weekend in the TaG class, Gangi Jr. will certainly be one to watch as he guns for more race wins and the overall championship in the Rotax Mini Max class. Live video, timing and scoring, as well as audience interaction is available for each Florida Winter Tour weekend via the FWT Live! Broadcast page: http://floridawintertour.com/fwtlive/2013
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Category Archives: Environment
Four Seasons Hotel São Paulo, Nações Unidas, opens with 250 rooms
Rising amid the leafy green spaces along the Pinheiros river in southern Sao Paulo is a new beacon of world class luxury and five star service: the all-new Four Seasons Hotel São Paulo at Nações Unidas. Part of Parque da Cidade, the largest master planned, mixed use complex currently under development in the city, Four Seasons will join Fortune 500 companies in creating a new centre of commerce and culture in “the Capital of South America.” The 29-storey Four Seasons tower will include 16 floors of hotel space encompassing more than 250 guest accommodations, two dining and drinking destinations, a luxurious spa, unique indoor-outdoor pool and flexible function spaces for hosting business meetings, weddings and social events. The building will also be home to 84 Four Seasons Private Residences. Located on the Avenida Nações Unidas (Avenue United Nations), Four Seasons places business travellers just steps from corporate offices, plus shopping, entertainment and South America’s best medical facilities. The domestic Congonhas-São Paulo Airport is just 15 minutes away, and São Paulo International Airport is about one hour by car. Four Seasons Hotel São Paulo at Nações Unidas is the first Four Seasons location in Brazil, joining sister properties in Bogota, Buenos Aires and Costa Rica as part of the company’s growing Central and South American portfolio.
AVANI launches a new campaign, giving insight into local culture, cool hotspots and travel tips
Aiming to introduce the brand to new customers, AVANI Hotels & Resorts adopted an outreach marketing strategy to engage with travellers, instead of marketing at them. The campaign, named AVANIme, is a wired-in experience for modern explorers, giving insight into local culture, cool hotspots and travel tips about urban cities and in some cases, off-the-beaten track destinations. Alejandro Bernabe, Vice President AVANI Hotels & Resorts said: “We understand that travel isn’t only about where you stay. It’s also about experiencing the destination and AVANI aims to help travellers navigate cities like the locals and who better to show them the inside scoop than a hometown celebrity.” A series of #24HRSWITHME Youtube videos are being filmed with local well known personalities. The first video featuring Thai-American model, actress and entertainer, Cindy Bishop, best known for hosting Asia’s Next Top Model, was shot at AVANI Riverside Bangkok Hotel and in and around Bangkok. The video features Siam Discovery – a lifestyle concept mall, the avant garde Erawan Museum, the reclining Buddha at Wat Pho and an insider’s peak of Chinatown’s gin bars, hole-in-the-wall speakeasies and fantastic street food. AVANI has also invited other celebrities such as Lisbon Fado Singer, Cuca Roseta to share her favourite city hangouts on #24HRSWITHME. Other cities to be featured will be Auckland, New Zealand and Gold Coast, Australia. “Social media plays an integral role in the travel process. From reading blog reviews of where to stay, to checking in on Facebook and posting envy inducing images on Instagram – our guests are wired in before, during and after their vacation. We hope that AVANIme brings us closer to travellers, allowing us to serve their needs better and …
Hotel Indigo to open in Japan with 100 rooms
IHG ANA Hotels Group Japan, the joint venture between InterContinental Hotels Group and ANA, signed an agreement with GHS K.K. and Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. to launch IHG’s popular boutique brand Hotel Indigo in Japan. The first property Hotel Indigo Hakone Gora is scheduled to open in 2019, and will be a place where guests and locals alike can gather and enjoy the rich culture and history of Gora, with its famous, pastel coloured hot springs surrounded by majestic, green mountains and the charms of nature that change with the seasons. The Hotel Indigo brand is built around the authentic local neighbourhood story concept, so Gora is the ideal location for the first Hotel Indigo in Japan. The hot springs of Hakone first opened in the Nara period, approximately 1,200 years ago, and has been frequented by countless travellers and prominent figures from around the world who come to relax and treat themselves in its soothing waters. Hans Heijligers, Chief Executive Officer, IHG ANA Hotels Group Japan comments: “We are very excited to bring Hotel Indigo to Japan. One of Japan’s leading hot spring destinations, Hakone really is the perfect first location: with its stunning beauty around scenic Lake Ashi and its captivating history and museums, it exudes a local story which is what Hotel Indigo is all about. Just 90 minutes from the heart of Tokyo, Hotel Indigo Hakone Gora will add a new dimension to the neighbourhood that will resonate with Japanese and international travellers alike.” As the world’s first branded boutique hotel, every Hotel Indigo property is unique, and the local neighbourhood is reflected in the architecture and design, choice of artwork and the restaurant menus, …
Four Points By Sheraton Sonmarg Resort to open on August 1, 2019
Four Points By Sheraton Sonmarg Resort will open on August 1, 2019. The two stylish meeting rooms and majestic mountain surroundings will provide the ideal setting. The retreat’s spacious accommodations are surrounded by mountain views and manicured grounds in the heart of Sonmarg’s city centre. The hotel will open with 53 room. The Resort will inspire the best with everything you need, just the way you like.
Adrian Oyekanmi is the new Senior VP, Global Strategic Sourcing, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group
Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the most dynamic hotel groups in the world, today announced the appointment of Adrian Oyekanmi as Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Sourcing. Adrian will report to Iñigo Capell, Executive Vice President & Global Chief Resources Officer. Adrian joined Carlson in April 2017 as Vice President, Global Strategic Sourcing. Since then, he has worked to develop and implement a comprehensive strategic sourcing strategy build to improve value proposition for the entire hotel portfolio and its owners, focusing on cost reductions and promoting the company’s responsible business practices. Effective November 13, 2017, Adrian’s role becomes global and includes The Rezidor Hotel Group’s portfolio across Europe, the Middle East & Africa, in addition to Carlson’s portfolio in the USA and Asia Pacific. He will be responsible for building and developing relationships with key strategic vendors, oversee contract negotiation, vendor compliance and accountability across Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group globally. Adrian and his international sourcing and procurement team will support the varied needs of Carlson Rezidor’s hotels, owners and corporate offices. “I am very pleased with the appointment of Adrian Oyekanmi as Carlson Rezidor’s new Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Sourcing. Adrian’s extensive experience in the hospitality industry and within Carlson Hotels will be invaluable on our mission to continually improve the guest experience and bring value to our owners and investors globally,” said Iñigo Capell, Carlson Rezidor’s Executive Vice President & Global Chief Resources Officer. Bringing vast experience of the hospitality industry, Adrian initially joined Carlson Hotels from Starwood Hotels & Resorts. His last role there was as Vice President of Supply Chain, which saw him drive $100m in annual savings and implement an award-winning procure-to-pay platform across …
IHG partners with SAMHI to expand Holiday Inn Express portfolio in India
InterContinental Hotels Group has partnered with SAMHI to rebrand approximately 2000 rooms (operating and under construction) within its India hotel portfolio, to Holiday Inn Express hotels. The recently signed portfolio comprises 14 hotels, including ten open hotels across key cities such as Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai. The additional four hotels are under construction. The signing sees IHG grow its pipeline by 41 hotels, positioning IHG as one of the largest players in India’s growing midscale hotel market. All hotels in the portfolio will be closed while they are being refurbished and upgraded with the latest design directives, to ensure the portfolio is fully representative of the Holiday Inn Express brand globally. The hotels will feature the next-generation design, several additional public areas and feature brand hallmarks to enhance guest service delivery. Commenting on the announcement, Sudeep Jain, Vice President, Development, South West Asia, IHG said: “It is with great pride and excitement that we are announcing our partnership with SAMHI for conversion of their existing mid-market hotel portfolio in India to Holiday Inn Express. This is a significant move towards establishing IHG as a leading player in the midscale hotel segment in India, while we continue to build on our upscale and luxury offering in the country with InterContinental Hotels & Resorts and Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts.” Jain added: “With this signing, we now have close to 60 hotels open and in the pipeline, across the Holiday Inn Brand Family. SAMHI is keen to accelerate Holiday Inn Express’ highly efficient operating model and engage the brand’s growing familiarity in the country. Holiday Inn Express is the rest and go hotel brand that delivers a …
Ascott expands in China with its third property in Shenzhen with 182 apartments
The Ascott Limited (Ascott), is expanding its presence in China with the opening of its third property in Shenzhen.Tan Tze Shang, Ascott’s Managing Director for China, said: “Known as the new Silicon Valley, Shenzhen is one of the world’s top innovation hubs and home to high-tech companies from all over the world, including new-tech giants such as Huawei, ZTE and Tencent. With the addition of Ascott Raffles City Shenzhen, Ascott now has more than 900 units across five serviced residences in one of China’s most competitive cities with high demand for accommodation. Out of the five properties, three are in operation while two more will open next year. Given its strategic location connecting prominent financial centres, proximity to transportation networks and being part of an integrated development under the iconic Raffles City brand, Ascott Raffles City Shenzhen offers business executives and leisure travellers the convenience of a one-stop work, retail and recreational destination.” In China, three other properties which are part of the Raffles City-branded integrated developments include Ascott Raffles City Beijing and Ascott Raffles City Chengdu, both of which are already operational, as well as Ascott Raffles City Hangzhou which is slated to open in 3Q 2018. He added: “China is Ascott’s fastest-growing and largest market, with more than 18,000 units in over 100 properties across 29 Chinese cities. Its increasing attractiveness for foreign investment and growing domestic business travel market has fuelled a strong demand for international-class serviced residences. The Chinese market makes up Ascott’s top customers at our properties globally with revenue surging by 35% year-on-year.” “Besides forming strategic alliances with property developers and capital partners, we also partnered new economy leaders such as Tujia and Alibaba’s …
AVANI Metropolis Auckland Residences opens with 65 residences
The introduction of residences to AVANI Hotels & Resorts’ portfolio redefines hospitality as it appeals to both leisure and business travellers looking for an international upscale hotel experience served in a private apartment. Now open, AVANI Metropolis Residences offer a stylish city retreat with 65 contemporary, upscale residences available in one and two bedroom configurations. Guests can enjoy all the comforts of home in the heart of Auckland, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. AVANI Metropolis Auckland Residences take urban living to a new level, featuring an open plan well equipped kitchen, lounge and dining room, laundry facilities, complimentary WiFi, grocery delivery services and a thoughtful selection of high-tech comforts. Several residences also boast private balconies. When it comes to recharging, relaxing and working out, AVANI Metropolis Auckland Residences has a superb range of leisure facilities including, a 22 metre heated indoor swimming pool & Jacuzzi, sauna and high-class fitness centre. Guests will also have access to AVANI’s signature ‘Forget Me Not’ amenities, a service designed to take the stress out of leaving any essentials behind. From yoga mats to GHD hair straighteners, international power adaptors, and sewing and dental kits. Located on Kitchener Street, AVANI Metropolis Auckland Residences connects guests with Auckland’s myriad attractions and experiences; from where to find home-grown fashion labels, to the best eateries and mixologists, AVANI has all its guests covered. Auckland is a melting pot of cultures and cuisines. Epicureans will be in heaven whilst dining at one of the many speakeasies and “hatted’ restaurants. Gourmet markets are another stand out feature of the city. Head to the lively La Cigale French Market in nearby Britomart Street on Saturday or Sunday …
Wyndham launches dual-brand concept in Miami with 445 rooms
Wyndham Hotel Group has announced the signing of the largest hotel development in the Brickell district of Miami to its managed hotel portfolio: a new 445-room, dual-branded hotel leveraging a never-before-seen combination of the Wyndham Grand and TRYP by Wyndham brands. The combination of brands celebrates Miami’s distinct spirit – both the upper-upscale Wyndham Grand brand and select-service, lifestyle TRYP by Wyndham brands embrace the charm and character of the local destination – incorporating Miami style into each brand’s’unique elements and enabling travelers to stay the way they want in one of the most diverse cities in the world. Owned by Brazilian developer Galwan and designed by award-winning firm Aquitechtonica, the agreement comprises 445 guest rooms in Miami’s trendy Brickell neighborhood. The hotel, expected to open in late 2019, is the first U.S. development for Galwan, one of the largest residential and hotel developers in Brazil. “With nearly 16 million visitors last year and projected increases for the years ahead, Miami continues to be one of the world’s most coveted travel destinations with a style all its own,” said Mark Kukulski, president of Wyndham Hotel Group’s management organization. “By combining our most worldly, destination-centric brands, we’re offering travelers a taste of Wyndham Hotel Group, Miami-style – with chic shared spaces, trendy dining options and their choice of brand experience via TRYP by Wyndham’s lifestyle flair or Wyndham Grand’s easy elegance.” Two Brands, One Destination Today, nearly 400 dual-branded hotels are open or under construction in the U.S. That number is projected to grow at a rapid pace over the next several years as travelers seek personalized experiences – the choice of brands allows guests to customize their trip without sacrificing …
AVANI opens its first property in Thailand’s seaside town of Hua Hin with 196 rooms
AVANI Hua Hin Resort & Villas opens its doors on southern Thailand’s Gulf Coast. Hua Hin is known as a popular getaway for Bangkok residents and is historically a favourite with the Thai Royal family. Surrounded by lush gardens and facing on to a large lagoon pool, the 196 guest rooms, suites and villas offer comfortable and relaxing accommodation. Superior and Deluxe Guest Rooms feature a private balcony and Villas and Suites have either a plunge pool or Jacuzzi and gazebo. Bathtubs and separate walk-in showers make for indulgent moments, while the outdoor rainforest shower in select suites encourages guests to stay in touch with nature. The eleven One-Bedroom and two Two-Bedroom Lagoon Pool Villas have direct access to the main pool and are ideal for a group of friends or a large family wanting to be part of the resort action, but also having a private space to enjoy each other’s company. Reserve all villas to secure ultra-exclusivity for your wedding party or family for a special occasion. Culinary experiences celebrate authentic Thai dishes, rustic Italian flavours and international fare with an emphasis on fresh local produce. The all-day dining restaurant Staas serves international favourites and local dishes and delicious coastal Italian cuisine can be enjoyed at Brezza. A hotspot highlight of the resort will be the opening the Jazz Lounge on New Year’s Eve. The Tapas and Mezze menu, great cocktails and live music will appeal guests and visitors. An oasis of pampering awaits at AVANISPA, where trained therapists administer indulgent modern treatments to restore body, mind and spirit. The spa features nine treatment rooms including two couple’s treatment rooms and an authentic Hammam where guests can enjoy …
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Another awkward moment
Moderator: ArcWolf
Re: Another awkward moment
I just found out today that my grandmother was a teenaged mother after I went on and on about how bad it is for some woman who get pregnant that young. She had my aunt when she was 16, my other aunt when she was 17, my mother when she was 18 and my uncle when she was 28. She also told me she got married when she was 19 and my now late grandfather was 23. Meaning he was 20 and she was 16 when they first had children.
That means that not only was my grandmother a teenaged parent, but both my two aunts were illegitimate. I was basically telling my mother that her mother was bad for getting pregnant young. >_________<
That awkward moment when you realize that none of your friends know it's your birthday because your Facebook settings weren't set up to display it.
MrNeonShot
Douglas ;3;
This user is probably dead here. You can find me on Skype by the same username to see if I'm not actually dead.
Location: Homeless, USA
Sorry to hear that Doug...
That awkward moment when a 5th asks for help on his math involving division homework at the library, and you can't help him out. When his 7th grader brother already couldn't help him, and me and another high school'er had to work together to help this poor kid out...
Currently traveling across the United States. Still up for any conversations though.
I'm sorry to hear about what happened to you Doug. I NEVER get any well-wishes from online people on my birthday so don't feel too bad.
hypernovatic
Location: Dreamland
I was in Video Game Design one day and we had a free day where someone brought a PS2 and we were playing it. My class has three Andrews in it (I am one of them) so my friends call me Dust. One of my newer friends didn't realize this so he called me Waluigi. (I love Waluigi) And one of my other friends said most everyone calls me Dust. Nick (the newer friend) said he didn't want to call me that cause it sounded like a furry name. I stayed silent for a moment and told him I was a furry. It was very awkward.
FEAR THE HALLOWEEN BAT
hypernovatic Wrote:
I think he only associates the name with furries because of that one indie game.
Though that does seem rather awkward ^^
Location: Pacific Southwest, warmer than the midwest...
I mean, I don't even know when your birthday is and I don't actively search those things out because that gets creepy pretty quickly.
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That awkward moment when people behind you in class are sharing their failing grades with each other and you chime in and say you got a 95.
That awkward moment when you discover things about people you didn't know or really need to know.
That awkward moment where because you only got 5 1/2 hours of sleep due to reasons, you forget where your class is.
That awkward moment when you spill your drink of apple and blackcurrant juice all over your desk and then you grab the cup and stand it up so fast that the juice flies out all over you and the wall.
What a sticky situation.
69eist
Location: On your mind.
That awkward where my classmates talk about furries are a bad thing and I couldn't help but feel speechless.
My Personas
Remember the past to understand the present. That way, we can look forward to the future.
CosmicCoyote
Location: Rocky Mntns.
That awkward moment when you finally recognize where something's from, but can't talk about it because acknowledging it would be very embarrassing.
"...kindness is its own reward. Paid in ice cream."
RP chars:
Redwall: Rhys Greenbrier
17th CF: Alasdair 'Alec' Ogilvy
How about sending an e-mail to the wrong person? That is what I did.
That awkward moment when the cashier gives you your change and someone's false eyelashes are stuck to the $5 bill.
So gross.
Therolyn
Location: In the merry olde land of Oz!
That awkward moment when you realize you have locked your wallet and key in your own home.
Werebilby For the Period of Easter - Please fellow Australians do not forget our little guy, the bilby
Did you have to call a locksmith to get inside?
Furryface18
Location: On the Yellow Brick Road in Kansas.
Well I like just survived a near death experience. Was walking up the stairs at school and my shoe got stuck under a step and almost broke my face. So that was great.
There's no place like home...except the Housepets home page.
That awkward moment where your parents want to see Zootopia. X3
Roarin
Location: Agloe, New York
GameCobra Wrote:
That's also kinda awesome in a way too XP.
That awkward moment when you realize you've been staring at someone the whole time you've been spacing out...
"Sleep is due to me... And I have a dream to live."
Book Log: Aurora Rising - Amie Kaufman/Jay Kristoff
Ref Ref!
Fortunately, I always have a spare key which I leave with a trusted relative. I had to wait however until late to get hold of it.
That awkward moment when you realize an idea you had that seemed good, was actually bad.
RashallVetkay
Therolyn Wrote:
On a scale of 1 to invade Russia in the winter how bad is your idea?
That awkward moment when you want to read/write, yet you can't bring yourself to do it.
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
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Steam ID: Rashall (same avatar picture as here on the forums)
TwoManyTwos
I like the sound of the bagpipes.
Rise, my army of mangos, and ruin their cleanliness!
That awkward moment when you're sitting in the common room and you can see fire brigade tape at the building just outside the room and you can hear radios and a fire engine and you're worried it's a bomb threat or a chemical leak since there's no smoke.
Fortunately I caught one of the fire brigade people and it turns out it's just a training exercise so I'm safe!
That awkward moment when your whole family, friends and coworkers' ideology is opposite of yours but you can't say anything because you'd end up homeless, friendless and jobless.
NoSoyFurry Wrote:
Ugh, I hear that.
FancyHat
Location: Somewhere in the Southern US...Would prefer Scotland.
That awkward moment when you and your family goes fishing, only for TWO game wardens to mistake a 13 year old family member for a 16 year old and doesn't believe anyone who tries and tell them otherwise..
2 hours..2 HOURS of talking to those guys until finally one of us had enough of it and pulled up the dang birth certificate on a phone... Only for them to fine ANOTHER person for not having their fishing license WITH them..Not the fact that it was invalid(Which it wasn't -_-), but because they didn't have it on their person...
"Crimes?" "Crimes."
Devil Skirrl
If you're legally obligated to carry the license, then that's what you have to do and there are repercussions if you don't.
rickgriffin Wrote:
Diss is literally the Devil
Here you just need to own a license to be honest. You don't need to have it on you, as most game wardens ask your name and they look up the license.
AnimeNerd88
Location: Hope's Peak Academy (SEND HELP!)
You want an awkward moment? I'll give you an awkward moment.
MY ENTIRE LIFE.
Just kidding. In seriousness, as 4-H member that sold chickens, I usually have to do a demonstration for the rest of the club to see so that I can actually sell the chickens at the fair. So, since one of my favorite foods are burritos, my mom has the brilliant idea to have me make tortillas. We get an easy recipe, she buys a tortilla press so that they can actually be flat, and we even get a few made to hand out at the meeting. We think it's all gonna go great and that everyone would think it was really awesome. So, when we get to the meeting, everything was going well. Other kids were doing their demonstrations and all of theirs were going fine. Then it's my turn to start, and it goes well. Until my brain seems to glitch out and, rather than stir the batter-y stuff with the fork like I was supposed to, I just skip several steps and shove my hands into the container. My mom says that it still could've worked out, that I could still made the tortillas, but apparently what I did was the second mistake. The first mistake was made by my mom. Now, the water that was in the container was supposed to be a little warm, but she accidentally made it so that it was a lot warmer, making it so that the batter-y substance was way too gooey to be made into tortillas. So, for what I think was about a minute or two, I was just standing up there trying to make commentary on the situation and trying to communicate to my mom that I needed help. Lucky for me, she finally took the hint and grabbed the pre-made tortillas and started handing them out. It seemed they all forgot about my screw up then, cause when they got their hands on those tortillas, that's all they were asking about. So, I was embarrassed as all heck, but they had it count as a legitimate demonstration, so it all worked out in the end.
Let's give it everything we've got! Get ready, because it's Punishment Time!
-Monokuma
What? Even if I like dark topics, I can't resist cuteness.
That awkward moment when you're on the wrong road and don't realise because it's dark so you drive about 20km/12 miles further than you needed to.
Where I wanted to go:
Where I accidentally went:
I've got a couple sports ones. One funny, one scary.
Funny: I was in a swimming class and we were on little kayaks in the pool. I was doing fairly well, and I had a decent control. That is until I leaned back slightly and capsized the boat. Not in a normal way either where it rolls to the side, I somehow managed to get the boat to tilt vertically with the front in the air before it slid into the water like a cartoon boat sinking.
Scary: I was on an easy level mountain biking trail with my dad and sister. The trail went by a ledge that dropped into a river. At one point, the trail got REALLY narrow, and dad recommended we walk our bikes through it. I didn't listen, and sure enough I hit a rock with my tire and tumbled down the ledge, hitting my back on the rocks below. I was stiff and cut up, but otherwise fine. What was scary was that I looked at my helmet and there was a big gash in it as if I hit it on a rock or stump. Always wear your helmet, people!
Yikes! I hope you're okay after that fall, Cyber!
It was weird for a little bit. I remember everything looked blindingly yellow.
It happened a long time ago. I'm fine now.
That's good. ^^
Here's another awkward moment of mine. I live in a flat attached to the main house of the property I'm on. I was about to get into the shower when I heard a knock on my door. I wrapped my towel around me and opened the door expecting to see the landlord with some mail since I see that most days. But this time it was the real estate agent with a family of people wanting to look through the flat since the landlord is selling the property. I'd had no warning that the real estate agent was coming that day. Was slightly awkward for everyone.
That awkward moment when you think you ordered 6 bars of soap for the shelf at your shop but you didn't realise that they come in double packs which are sold in cartons of 12 so you end up with 144 bars of soap instead of 6.
Hlaoroo Wrote:
hehehe Nice one, Brent!
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1988-1989 Australia v West Indies - Test Series
West Indies Won Series 3-1
Player of Series: C E L Ambrose
Date Match Ground / Location Result
18/11/1988 1st Test: Australia v West Indies Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane West Indies won by 9 wickets
02/12/1988 2nd Test: Australia v West Indies WACA Ground, Perth West Indies won by 169 runs
24/12/1988 3rd Test: Australia v West Indies Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne West Indies won by 285 runs
26/01/1989 4th Test: Australia v West Indies Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Australia won by 7 wickets
03/02/1989 5th Test: Australia v West Indies Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Match drawn
Batting and Bowling Analysis for Series
Series Records and Statistics Menu
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Common Formula CN
Stoichiometric Formula CN
Name Cyano radical
Inchi InChI=1S/CN/c1-2
InchiKey JEVCWSUVFOYBFI-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Search all reactions with CN
total 2.884 Calculations Bibliography Woon, D. E. et al. ;2009;Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ;185,273-288
Origin: Bibliography
Reference: Woon, D. E. et al. ;2009;Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ;185,273-288
1.45 Measurements Database : NIST COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY COMPARISON AND BENCHMARK DATABASE
Value (D): 1.45
0 435.4 ±2 Reviews and Evaluations Database : Burcat
298 438.68 ±2 Reviews and Evaluations Database : Burcat
298 440.29 ±5 Measurements Database : CCCBDB (http://cccbdb.nist.gov/)
0 437 ±5 Measurements Database : CCCBDB (http://cccbdb.nist.gov/)
Value (kJ.mol-1) : 435.4 ±2
Value (kJ.mol-1) : 438.68 ±2
Value (kJ.mol-1) : 437 ±5
2800 ±840 0 0 0.00E+0 1 Calculations Bibliography Wakelam, V. et al. ;2017;ArXiv e-prints;, H2O To estimate the unknown binding energies (for most of the radicals for example), we have developed a model founded on the stabilization energy of the complex between the various species and one water molecule. Then, we assume that the binding energy of the species with ASW is proportional to the energy of interaction between this species and one water molecule. To determine the proportionality coefficients, we fit the dependency of the experimental binding energies versus the calculated energies of the complexes for 16 stable molecules. Uncertainties in ED is estimated to be 30%. The preexponential factor is to be computed using the Hasegawa et al. (1992) approximation.
1600 0 0 0.00E+0 1 Estimation Database : OSU H2O This binding energy was listed in the original OSU gas-grain code from Eric Herbst group in 2006. Energy of C+N The pre-exponential factor is not given. It can be computed using the formula given in Hasegawa et al. (1992).
Emean (K): 2800 ±840
Reference: Wakelam, V. et al. ;2017;ArXiv e-prints;,
Description: To estimate the unknown binding energies (for most of the radicals for example), we have developed a model founded on the stabilization energy of the complex between the various species and one water molecule. Then, we assume that the binding energy of the species with ASW is proportional to the energy of interaction between this species and one water molecule. To determine the proportionality coefficients, we fit the dependency of the experimental binding energies versus the calculated energies of the complexes for 16 stable molecules. Uncertainties in ED is estimated to be 30%. The preexponential factor is to be computed using the Hasegawa et al. (1992) approximation.
Description: This binding energy was listed in the original OSU gas-grain code from Eric Herbst group in 2006. Energy of C+N The pre-exponential factor is not given. It can be computed using the formula given in Hasegawa et al. (1992).
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Mondo TV inks publishing deal for Heidi Bienvenida
Mondo TV Iberoamerica and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial will launch more than 10 books inspired by live-action series Heidi, Beinvenida a Casa.
Mondo TV Iberoamerica has inked a multi-territory publishing agreement with Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial for its property Heidi Bienvenida.
The two-year licensing agreement will see the Penguin Random House International imprint launch more than 10 titles inspired by Mondo TV Iberoamerica’s first live-action series, entitled Heidi, Bienvenida a Casa.
The books will be published in Spanish for the Latin American market and will be available in Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. The first titles will launch in March.
Heidi, Bienvenida a Casa reinterprets the classic children’s novel Heidi. Written by Marcela Citterio and co-produced with Alianzaz Producciones, the comedy-drama currently airs on Nickelodeon across Latin America and also launched on TV Azteca’s A+ channel in Mexico. The series recently launched in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Russia and Israel, and will bow in additional territories including Peru and El Salvador beginning in 2018. The Heidi Bienvenida property will soon expand with Heidi Bienvenida al Show, and a third series–to follow by the end of 2018–has been announced.
The agreement with Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial comes as Mondo TV Iberoamerica continues to establish licensing partnerships for Heidi Bienvenida. Additional licensees include Panini, which inked a global agreement to produce books, stickers and magazines inspired by the brand.
Heidi Bienvenida, Mondo TV, Nickelodeon, Penguin Random House
Elizabeth Foster is Kidscreen's Copy Chief & Special Reports Editor. Contact Elizabeth at efoster@brunico.com
NPD: Licensed titles comprise 28% of US kids book sales
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Mr. Kristian Alexander is the founding Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Kindred Spirits Orchestra, the founding Music Director of the International Music Academy and the founding Artistic Director of Markham Contemporary Music Festival. Mr. Kristian Alexander conducted in major concert halls in Europe, Africa and Canada: Sony Centre for the performing arts, Roy Thompson Hall, Ettore Mazzoleni Hall and the CBC Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, Lieder Halle in Stuttgart, Cairo Opera House, as well as Bulgaria Hall and the National Palace of culture in Sofia. Mr. Alexander conducted Internationale Bach-Collegium and Gächinger Kantorei in Stuttgart, the National tele-radio orchestra of Moldova, Lutosławski Philharmonic Orchestra and Malawski Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland, the Mozarteum Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, the Opéra de Montréal Orchestra, Cairo Symphony Orchestra…
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Mary J Blige Has Two Homes Foreclosed On
Mary J Blige has two homes foreclosed on. Eddie Murphy is doing a movie for Netflix. Anthony Bourdain has taken his own life. I talked a lot about mental health and suicide here. Anthony Bourdain and the Task of Hanging On The conversation covered #TonysTea on this live stream but the topic of mental health… Read more »
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Spurs are yet to concede a point or even a goal at their new arena since it opened last month, several months later than expected.
However Snodgrass, currently West Ham's leading assist maker this season, is determined to change all that when West Ham provide the next opposition this coming weekend.
"It’s one where the fans will want to go and win, the players will want to go and win and, as a club, you want to go and win and end the season on a high," Snodgrass told whufc.com.
"If we can emulate the level of performance we have produced in the last few weeks, we’ll be right in the mix to get three points.
"If you’re not motivated for this, there’s no point in turning up. There is so much at stake with the rivalry. That’s the game you want to get three points and bragging rights from, whilst finishing the season on a high."
West Ham face Tottenham this Saturday lunchtime (12.30pm), with the match being broadcast live by Sky Sports for the benefit of those unable to attend.
North London domination?
West Ham will be seeking to secure a memorable double when visiting Tottenham's new home this weekend.
The Hammers became the first visiting team to win at The Emirates 12 years ago this month courtesy of a Bobby Zamora strike, whilst Rob Green performed miracles at the opposite end of the pitch to keep Arsenal at bay in a 1-0 win (see below).
Can Manuel Pellegrini's team also become the first visiting team to win at the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium?
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Kershaw 6 Innings + Offense 7 HRs = 21-5 Total Domination Over Brewers
August 2, 2018 August 2, 2018 Oscar Martinez
The Dodgers, newly restored in first place after beating the Brewers in extra innings last night, returned to battle Milwaukee again, and this time with a recently rejuvenated Clayton Kershaw on the mound.
After a lethargic past few days, the Dodgers offense roared back to life tonight, starting things off with a Joc Pederson home run in the first inning. Manny Machado go the boys on the board again in the second with a single, a stolen base, and a dash home on a Milwaukee error.
The big Dodgers fireworks came in the third inning, when Cody Bellinger bounced a long fly ball off the RF foul pole for a grand slam. Then Yasiel Puig took the first pitch of the seventh and blasted it into the Dodgers’ bullpen, putting the boys ahead 7-1.
Meanwhile, Kershaw was cruising, despite giving up a first inning run. In the fifth, he gave up a solo HR to Christian Yelich.
Turned out that was just a gnat on the Dodgers’ shoulder, as Brian Dozier blasted a three-run HR in the bottom of the fifth (his second home run in as many nights). The boys were up 10-2 with half a game to go.
Justin Turner, fresh off the disabled list, got in on the action as well. He went deep to centerfield for a solo homerun of his own in the sixth. That put the Dodgers up 11-2, and gave them a home run cycle, with a solo, two and three-run home runs, and a grand slam.
Kershaw was done after 98 pitches and six innt. Eric Goeddel came in for the seventh. With two out, he gave up a couple of singles and a three run home run, to bring the Brewers closer at 12-7.
Just another gnat. After a couple of doubles by Max Muncy and YasielPuig scored a run, Joc Pederson hit his second home run of the night – this one good for three more runs. The Dodgers were up 16-5 and the Brewers went to a position player pitcher.
Perez came in with his 70 mph and the Brewers really fell apart. Errors and mispays in the outfield led to a couple more runs. Yasiel Puig mashed his second home run of the night, and when the inning was over, the Dodgers had scored nine runs and were up 21-5.
Pedro Baez mopped up in the ninth, and the Dodgers sent the Brewers off to Colorado as the answer to the trivia question: “Who were the opponents when the Dodgers set a Dodger Stadium record of 21 runs scored?” (18 hits and 7 home runs.)
Next up: The Astros. The laughing will now stop. Game faces on.
Oscar Martinez
I was born in the shadow of Dodger Stadium and immediately drenched in Dodger Blue. Chavez Ravine is my baseball cathedral, Vin Scully was the golden voice of summer all my life, and Tommy Lasorda remains the greatest Dodgers manager ever. My favorite things are coffee, beer, and the Dodgers beating the Giants. I also blog about my baseball card hobby at All Trade Bait, All the Time.
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Huge win. Hopefully this sets Bellinger off. Turner being back is very important as it moved Taylor to CF.
In other welcome news, Ryu went four innings in a rehab start.
Also, can there no doubt that Baez is probably one of the best, if not the best, reliever in the majors, and maybe in major league history, when there is absolutely no pressure whatsoever. I don’t remember him giving up a single run or even walking anybody (he had no walks in 2 innings tonight) when the game is out of reach either way. He’s just (head-scratchingly) amazing.
True Blue, Thru n Thru says:
So far so good, the exchange of ForShyte for NotShyte has been a real shot in the arm. NotShyte has already surpassed, in two games, what ForShyte did in two seasons (or so it seems), NotShyte is a streaky dude, ride the streak and enjoy, hopefully he can stay streaky for a long long time.
Goeddel, uhh never mind.
Live by the bomb, die by the bomb (that’s still a big problem, a very big problem)
And this is what the “all” looks like. We’ve seen it before. 21 is a bit of a surprise, but pulverizing opposing pitching is something we’ve seen before.
I posted Dozier’s second half splits from ‘16 and ‘17 yesterday. If he can do that again? Yoiks. He looks like a good fit here.
Axford activation means somebody goes. I commission Goeddel to AAA.
Baez is an enigma to me. He has terrific stuff but still gets way too much of the plate with it. Looking at the pitch fx charts on fangraphs is very interesting. His ERA has always been below league average, his velocity is down this year, still mid 90s, but his spray chart suggests he throws too many, about 20%, center cut. His 5×5 chart shows the target he hits most often, out of 25 over and around the plate, is right down the middle. This guy has command issues. How to fix that? Hellifino. Ask Honeycutt. If he could work the edges successfully he would be the 8th inning guy.
Baez is just Mr. Reliable. Reliably great when there’s no pressure. Reliably awful when the pressure is on.
Here’s what I recommend for Baez.
Line up half a step to the right against left handed batters, and line up half a step to the left against right handers. Wear a pair of those flip down sunglasses, except that the shades are real ink black. Against lefties flip one left side down, against lefties keep the right side down, so you always have a skewed perspective of the plate. Then Baez go do what he does best: throwing it as straight as ever, and he will end up painting the corners. Instead of right down the middle.
It might work right? Can it? Should it?
It is mental with Baez that is obvious!
What is not apparent is why the Dodgers have not had him go to a good sport’s psychologist, in the off season.
Why do you think Roberts went out to talk to Baez a few times, to give him confidence, because it is mental.
Since he throws it right down the middle, he should use a Hershiser two seamer. Thumb under forefinger, it dives to the right, thumb under middle finger it dives to the left. Aim it center cut and no way it ends up there. I threw that in the Redwood Empire League as a 50 year old. Only hit about 70 with it, but it induced a lot of ground balls. Baez would be chucking that at about 92. Good luck with that. Give me one afternoon with him and I could teach it to him. Make it a morning session so I can hit the beach in the afternoon. Surf’s up dudes!
It’s a good team.
If you discount or omit the first month, it’s a better than good team.
Are they playing at the Red Sox level? No. Could they? Perhaps if one squints and things break right.
By it’s a year driven by fiscal constraints. Still this type of baseball is not the greatest to me, watching smart plans come together is rewarding though.
Dodgers, despite recent trades, still at 8 in MLB minor league system rankings.
I’m squinting. Don’t see it.
Wait, there it is! Dodgers win Games 2 and 4, 10-6 and 8-5. They get shut out in Games 1 and 3.
I am glad you pointed that out!
That is quite a stretch, we’re are the numbers that prove that, never mind, there is not a thing to support that!
I am not sure we are even the best team in the National League yet.
Yeah, I may be too hopeful.
Your right, living and dying by bombs, is not a recipe for success, because if they are facing top pitching, or they are facing a pitcher having a real good game, they won’t get it done.
I give Cody a lot of credit last night, because after he hit that grand slam, and the game got out of hand, he wasn’t trying to pull everything out of the stadium like a couple players were.
It was good to see him take that ball to left, after his grand slam.
I don’t know that this was total domination either, because the starter the Dodgers was facing, was a pitcher they have seen many times, when he was on the Padres.
And I don’t think the Brewers manager, put his best relief core in that game after a while.
Yeah, we Mercy Rule’d ‘em by the 6th. I think they were looking for the exit at that point.
Houston will present a different challenge.
I think we see a different starting line up tonight!
I can’t even imagine us facing the Yankees pen, let alone, beating them, in a short series.
But it may be the Astros and the Red Sox, that are harder to beat, because they know how to score more then one way.
I think what’s most heartening is the potential depth in the lineup.
Last year was, for all intents and purpose, a lineup really driven by the top four hitters. Bellinger, Taylor, Turner and Seager.
This year is much broader. With Pederson more consistent and with Grandal (when he’s locked in (which is infuriating, but already discussed ad infinitum)) not to mention Muncy and Puig (to varying degrees.)
I’m most interested to see how the bullpen develops with so many starting pitchers redeployed.
Let’s see what they do against Verlander to night, and the Astros in this next series, before we make baseless comments, that can’t be proved.
And even only one series win over the Astros, wouldn’t prove that!
Like I already said, they had seen a lot of that former Padre’s starter, and the Brewers manager didn’t use his top relief pitchers, that the Dodgers didn’t score much on, in the two previous games.
We have only won two games, after losing three games in a row, and we were almost no hit.
Totally agree on the baseless comments.
Not so sure I agree with the “let’s just wait until the games are played and then we can address what happened!” attitude that is creeping in there. Observations can always be made before the full season has been played.
Kinda hard to observe what hasn’t happened yet. But it’s true….. every day is judgment day.
Everyone has a right to make observations, but you are the only one here, that must have numbers or said evidence, if someone makes an observation, not me.
And sometimes people’s emotions get into these observations, and that is just part of being human.
BIG challenge.
If NotShyte keeps this up, he will be hard to get out of the line-up (however I’m sure Roberts will find a way to cool him down, he’s genius at that [that’s for package]).
So now Turner is back, NotShyte so far looks solid for 2B, Joc has been batting a lot of leadoff and hitting is much improved, Muncy has been raking most of the season, Bellinger has been sucking, Taylor is coming on (finally), Manny is a Mannyac, Puig has come back strong, Kemp still a force, so who sits?
It is just hard for me to get over excited about two games, when I have watched this offense barely get a runner past second at times, and just recently.
And I don’t agree that a team should only have one way to score runs.
And sometimes I think a game like we had last night, can sometimes not be best for a team like the Dodgers, that doesn’t have many players that don’t change their approach, when it is needed.
Because after Cody hit that grand slam last night, the pitchers the Brewers put in the game, were more like batting practice pitchers, then most pitchers this team will face, from game to game.
And even if these pitchers were better then that, they were probably just putting the innings in, at that point.
And that is why I thought what Cody did by hitting the ball oppo, to leftfield, was a good thing.
Because he could have just tried to pull every pitch he got out, after he hit that grand slam, to try to hit everything out of the park, like some players, were doing.
To me that was only one game, and we didn’t win the previous game handedly, either.
I like Roberts, but I kind of wish we had Alex Cora for our manager, because he has his team doing everything on offense, from stealing bases, to promoting a productive offense, and using all the tools he can, to have the team score runs.
Because we know the players will still hit HRs, that is a given.
And Cora is just doing what the Astros did, to make their team better.
And Bluto is right, the post season can be a crap shoot, but that would be a funnier way, to watch the game.
And I think that is a stronger way, to attack good pitching.
I think both managers are doing what it is their respective players are good at. Roberts has been handed squirrels. Cora has been handed baseball players. That may be an oversimplification, but it may be the least complicated answer too.
Altuve is out on the DL and so as Corera, and Springer might not play either, so that is a bummer.
But I am sure Verlander will give them a good challenge.
It will be interesting to see what we do when we face the Rockies, and the Dbacks again.
I heard the Dbacks had a pretty good pen, now.
Just checked and Vegas says the game will end in a tie. 7 1/2 runs. I’ll take the winner and the over.
Dbacks pen is pretty good. So is the team. We’re better.
The only thing that surprises me with this line up, is that Muncy is in the line up again tonight.
He was two for thirty, with at least 15 strike outs, during this streak, up until last night.
I feel bad for the guy, but he truly looks like pitchers are dominating him up at the plate now.
And you know I don’t think much about what any of players did at the plate, after Cody broke the game open.
But maybe last night, bought him more time, but I am pretty surprised he is in the line up tonight.
I can see Dozier with a night off, from all the travel, but I thought he would be a fixture in this line up.
I like when Cody is at first, and I think he does better at the plate when he plays first, and he saves a lot of throws for our guys in the infield too.
Although you know I think he is a good defensive centerfielder too, but I thought Taylor would be in center, I think that is are best defensive line up.
Because Taylor is not as good at second, as he is at short, it must be he is so use to the left side of the infield.
Getting Machado and Dozier changed everything in the infield. Taylor in center makes sense.
Roberts must feel Muncy has what it takes to rediscover his mojo. It would be easy enough to disappear him. I guess I actually like the move. Hope it works out for him. I won’t be surprised either way it goes. Muncy can’t possibly be .967 OPS hitter – right?
package206 says:
Good question on Muncie. Guess it is another outstanding lineup from Dummy. Why is he in tonight against JV?
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised about Muncy, how many players on this team has been given so many chances.
I like Muncy, but after Roberts sit him and played Dozier, I thought it might change.
And he is not the only hitter on this team I am not sure about, and you can tell he is thankful for every chance he has been given, unlike others.
But I think he is really going to have to hit and keep hitting, because I think our best defensive line up has Cody at first, to make all our other infielders look better.
I think maybe Taylor might start hitting better, without the big responsibility of playing shortstop too.
Cody and Taylor are the best athletes on this team, and that shows up in their War numbers.
Puig is a good athlete too, but Cody and Taylor, are more controlled with their moves.
We need to get Kemp and Puig, hitting to the right side more, where their power really stands out.
I agree with that MJ. I thought Muncy would be a good trade piece at the deadline. He hit like Harper for a while, but I didn’t think that would last. Sell high. But, he’s still here so…. go Max.
I remember you saying that from the beginning, and you have been far more right then anyone, this year.
But your like me, you will always root for an underdog, and you don’t necessary need to be right, because you don’t have an ego issue, like some guys do.
I just call them as I see them MJ.
Kemp really slumping.
Wood grinding it out.
Dodgers only need 20 runs and 6 Homers to equal previous output.
Could happen
And I see the luckiest pop up HR and run, I have ever seen.
We are very lucky to have that one run.
But Verlander is a freak, because he often gains velocity as he pitches.
Didn’t see anything.
Saw in boxscore that the Astros scored on an error, so it all evens out.
The teams are pretty darn even, no?
Maybe, but remember they don’t have Altuve or Correa in this line up.
If you didn’t notice that in the boxscore.
They have the velocity and the height of HRs and some of the hits, in that game day feed on Dodger com, if you are not aware of that.
And videos of some of the plays, and hits.
They don’t have Altuve or Correa. The Dodgers basically don’t have Muncy or Kemp, they are struggling so badly.
Yes, love those stats. And exit velocity. Pederson’s HR doesn’t look that bad. Great exit velocity, good angle and distance. I think? Maybe? Who cares! It’s a HR! Pederson!
Anyone see the ump show in the Boston/NYY game?
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Malibu Music Awards & Festival 2012
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Over 27 miles of participating restaurants featuring live music
The Malibu Music Festival part will begin Monday evening September 17 through Friday September 22 at local restaurants in Malibu introducing new talent to the community, in addition to known guest appearances. The week will culminate with the Malibu Music Awards on September 22, 2012.
A map will be available at local businesses which will include a complete list of all participating restaurants, such as Geoffrey’s, Charlie’s, Dukes, Malibu Inn, Sunset Restaurant & Beach Bar, Kristy’s, Moonshadows, Spruzzo’s, Savory, Guido’s, Beau Rivage, Grom, Café Habana, Chocolate Box Cafe, Tra di Noi, and Malibu Country Mart, indicating the dates, times and locations of festival activities. For more information visit the website at http://www.malibumusicawards.com
MALIBU MUSIC AWARDS
SEPTEMBER 22, 2012 – 7:30 – 10:00 pm – Malibu Civic Theater
Tickets $50.00 General (click to purchase), $75.00 VIP (click to purchase)
The 2012 Malibu Music Awards invites you to join them and the Malibu Community VIP’s and Celebrities on Saturday September 22, 2012 for the 2012 Annual Malibu Music Awards & Festival in celebration of the success, achievements and accomplishments of those who have made a significant contribution to the music industry and the discovery of emerging new talent and upcoming stars.
Before the show, from 6:00pm to 7:30pm, there will be a reception honoring Seth Riggs recipient of Malibu Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, Pentatonix recipients of Vocal Group of the Year and all the very talented musicians participating in the 2012 Malibu Music Awards.
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Saturday’s Snapshot (surat al-sabat): لقطة السبت
The original fan dancers:
Two lady ostriches, fluffing their feathers…
And then settling down for a chat:
Continue Reading · on September 7, 2013 in Abu Dhabi, environment, surat al-sabt saturday snapshot, Travel
We went on safari last week.
And now I have to pause for a minute because I still can’t believe that I am someone who can say “I went on safari last week.”
There among the wildebeests, the giraffes, and baboons, Caleb turned nine.
NINE.
The baby is nine. His last year in single digits looms just as my last year of “forty-something” heads into its final stretch.
While we were traveling I posted something from the archives about Caleb turning six, which at the time, seemed ancient. Of course, my turning forty once seemed worthy of note, too. Looking back, six ain’t got nothin’ on nine—and forty ain’t got nuthin’ on what’s looming ahead.
On safari, we saw a full complement of amazingness:
a cheetah “cub” whose mother can barely be seen hiding in the bush to the left
the scariest animal in the savannah (seriously): hippo
mama lion dragging what’s left of a zebra to her cubs
Caleb loved it all, snapped pictures endlessly, thumbed intently through our guidebook of Eastern African Mammals, asked our guide Daniel about eighty gazillion questions.
Ask Caleb the best part of the safari, though and he will say without hesitation: ants.
Safari ants.
On our last morning drive out into the Mara, as we jounced along a rutted trail near Oloololo Escarpment, Daniel, who must surely count an eagle or a hawk among his ancestors because his eyes are so sharp, pulled over suddenly and cut the engine on the jeep. By now we know that an engine going silent often signals that Something Interesting is afoot, but this time, the interest really was afoot.
A thick line of ants marched across the road and in response to the inevitable question, apparently they were going across the road to get to a new anthill somewhere in the tall grass.
Caleb and Daniel climbed out of the truck so Daniel could show him the big-headed worker ants carrying ant eggs, the soldier ants guarding them and then—the coolest thing ever, according to Caleb—the tunnel that the worker ants make to hide themselves from predators. The ants build a tunnel out of their own bodies, dried grass, and dirt:
the dark line is ants, the slightly lighter line is the tunnel
Caleb loved the safari ants even more than the termite mounds, which pock the landscape in every size from tiny ankle-high piles of dirt to towers that surround trees and reach even further underground than above-ground, like bug-built icebergs.
termite queens lay an egg every three seconds
Ants play a starring role in the epic that Caleb has been writing in fits and starts over the past year, although this epic is currently on hold in favor of the “Star Wars” based novel he’s begun, called “Hyper Space Hero.” Here is the sound of Caleb at work:
[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/mannahattamamma/caleb-writing[/soundcloud]
Today Caleb announced that he planned to be a genetic engineer so he could create clones; last month he wanted to work for the CIA. He’s pretty sure that whatever his day job will be, he’s going to be an author.
Unlike his older brother, Caleb isn’t as sure of his many talents; he doesn’t notice that his report card is every bit as good as his brother’s. Caleb is sure that he’s not popular, and I worry that because of his imagination, his voracious reading habit, and his fascination with Star Wars arcana, other kids might think he’s childish, or, you know, weird, and that would be too bad, because then I’d have to kill them. I am hoping that this will be the year Caleb finds a soul mate.
I don’t know what my Caleb is going to be when he grows up but I confess to wishing that he’d grow up just a little more slowly…because at nine, the baby…
is now a boy: trying on hats at City Hat on Bleeker
Continue Reading · on August 29, 2013 in family, growing up, Kids, Parenting, Travel
I have a piece in the Travel and Leisure online magazine this week, explaining that “family travel” and “family safari” doesn’t mean that you’re going to end up feeding your kids to the animals. Click here to read the piece, and please pass along the link to friends!
Continue Reading · on August 31, 2012 in expat, family, Kids, Travel
Out of Africa II: The Search for Carnage
On our safari drives through Amboseli and the Masai Mara, it seemed as if we were in a beautifully tended wild-life park. In the Mara, fields of tall grass ripple into the hills and umbrella-shaped acacia trees dot the horizon, and in Amboseli, on a clear day, the snowy tip of Kilimanjaro creates a postcard-perfect background for grazing elephants. We frequently felt like we were roaming through some artist’s rendering of “Africa,” rather than a real place. This sense of being in a sanitized preserve, rather than in the wild, was heightened by the fact that the animals don’t even blink at the safari jeeps puttering along, as quietly as a jeep in low gear can go.
At one point, however, when Caleb looked as if he were going to climb out of the jeep to get a closer look (probably at poop), the guide warned him back in by saying that in the jeep we were safe, but if we were to climb out? We’d be…meat.
That put a different spin on things.
Meat. The entire ecosystem revolves around food: looking for it, finding it, trying not to be it. We weren’t in a sanitized, idealized wildlife park at all; we were voyeurs at the table, watching the literal enactment of eat-or-be-eaten (in contrast to the metaphoric version of this struggle, which I lived through in high school, usually at the bottom of the food chain).
Liam and Caleb loved the thought that they’d become “lion sausage” if they fell out of the jeep; it thrilled their blood-thirsty little souls, which had been fed, inadvertently, by watching back-to-back episodes of “Planet Earth” in preparation for our trip. A word to the wise: remember that the money shots of those programs–the leopard taking down an antelope, a crocodile feeding frenzy–take days, weeks, months, even years to capture on film. Liam and Caleb, with visions of National Geographic specials dancing in their heads, were waiting for the Big Kill.
Safari brochures don’t talk about carnage; they talk about seeing “the Big Five” – elephant, rhino, lion, Cape buffalo, leopard – but the Big Five got this title during the days when you went on walking safari to kill things, and these five creatures were the ones you’d better drop with one shot, or suffer mortal consequences. Ironically, of course, of these five, only two are carnivores, but any of them could kill you with one well-placed swipe of a paw, foot, or horn.
Looks just like ol’Bessie down on the farm, doesn’t she? Just your standard, 2000lb Cape buffalo. Our guide turned off the jeep and we sat in silence, listening to them whuffle and chew – utterly peaceful, as if we were in a cow pasture in Wisconsin.
But unlike the Bessies of the animal world, buffalo are so big and so mean that they have very few natural predators, although if several lionesses team up, they might be able to bring down an infirm buffalo. Lions, of course, have no natural predators either, but I learned that the whole King of the Jungle thing is, like so many things having to do with men, more style than substance. Adult male lions are crappy hunters (too slow and those huge heads, with all that flashy David Lee Roth-esque hair, makes it impossible for them to leap after their prey); they steal food from other hunters; they spend most of the day asleep in the bushes. Basically, they’re just glamorous scavengers.
But they start out as just the cutest little things you’ve seen this side of a youtube kitten video:
Watching this lion cub frolic in the grass with its plaything added to my sense of being in some sort of Disneyfied nature preserve, and then I realized that the “toy” this cub was tossing around was…meat. A hunk of meat, probably from a warthog, judging from the skin still attached to the bloody chunk. (Warthogs, said our guide, are the original lion sausage: a dead adult warthog will provide a nice lunch for a lioness and her cubs.) This cub kept its hunkahunka bloody meat all to itself, fending off its siblings with growls and bites.
Hippos aren’t listed in the Big Five but they should be: according to our guides, hippos are the most dangerous creatures in the jungle.If a hippo decides to chase you, you’re pretty much toast: they move astonishingly quickly despite their bulk. Hippos spend the day in the river, clustered in their familial herds, and each family has its own section of the river. Woe betide the hippo who wanders into the wrong section of the river:
This hippo was killed by the equivalent of friendly fire: other hippos. And yes, that is a vulture on its back. Lunch al fresco. Or al hippo, actually.
Eat or be eaten, right? It’s the basic dialectic of life. It always seems a bit unfair, though, when the eater is a carnivore and the eaten is not. Like apples and oranges, or, in this instance, gazelles and cheetahs.
Thomson’s gazelle:
Beautiful, right? Incredibly delicate and agile; it leaps along through the grass and usually grazes alongside zebras, topis, elands, and all the other grass-eaters–all of which are bigger than the Tommies.
Consider also, the cheetah:
Beautiful, right? Incredibly delicate and agile; it slides through the grass and tries to kill the Tommies. One amazing day in the Mara, we pulled alongside this cheetah and sat in the jeep almost not breathing for fear of disturbing whatever plan the cheetah had. Perched on an abandoned termite hill, the cheetah’s tiny head swiveled this way, that way, this way…and then it glided into the tall grass and almost disappeared (that dramatic coat becomes nothing more than sun-dappled grass, once the cheetah gets low to the ground). For about twenty minutes, we watched in amazement as the cheetah moved through the grass, ever closer to an unsuspecting herd of topi and Tommies. It got closer and closer, moving so slowly that it almost didn’t disturb the tall grass. And then? It literally streaked through the grass towards the Tommie it had singled out from the crowd:
That little Tommie leaping with all its might?
Cheetah lunch.
At the end of the cheetah’s hunt, I almost wanted to applaud. The odds against the cat bringing down the gazelle seemed impossible: for almost a half-hour, it had stalked the herd, which at any moment might have gotten a whiff of eau de cheetah and bolted, or might have decided that it was time to head to the river for a drink. Pure random luck had allowed that cheetah to catch that gazelle.
And then I felt bad for the gazelle.
Our guide said, “you know, photographers wait for days to see a hunt like this. You’re very lucky.”
“That was awesome,” said my darling eight-year-old lion sausage. “Now can we see a crocodile bring down a zebra?”
See what I mean? The animals are never sated. It’s not a park at all. It’s a jungle out there, people, a jungle.
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2016 Royal Tour Itinerary
The itinerary for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's
homecoming has been released:
Sept. 24: Victoria
Sept. 25: Vancouver
Sept. 26: Bella Bella
Sept. 27: Victoria, Kelowna, Whitehorse
Sept. 28: Whitehorse, Carcross
Sept. 30: Haida Gwaii
Oct. 1: Victoria
While Victoria will be visited multiple times by the Duke and
Duchess several smaller communities will also be in the
spotlight. The residents of the small community of Bella Bella
is excited to be hosting members of the Royal Family.
Bella Bella is home to the Heiltsuk tribe. Heiltsuk Hereditary
Chief Harvey Humchitt has spoken about the excitement in
Bella Bella and how the royal visit is a chance to highlight the
community's success.
The Department of Canadian Heritage has stated that First
Nations culture and the beauty of British Columbia is the
theme of this royal tour. I'd say the first part is the more
important of the two. This is a chance for Canada's First
Nations and two of Canada's future kings to start building on
a relationship that has long been central to Canada. Once
more Canada will welcome home members of our Royal
Family. Further details about events in each community will
be released as time goes on.
Royal Tour Announced for 2016
Governor General David
Johnston has announced
that the Duke & Duchess
of Cambridge will be
coming home to Canada
in the autumn of this year
for a royal tour. They will
be visiting British Columbia
and the Yukon territory.
This will be William and Kate's second tour of Canada. Their
first royal tour in 2011 was a great success and has been
attributed with increasing interest in the monarchy among a
younger demographic.
The Department of Canadian Heritage will release a detailed
itinerary at a later date. This will be an excellent opportunity
for Canadians to get to know their future king and queen.
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Striking miners killed by security forces in South Africa
Earlier today at least seven striking miners have been gunned down and killed by security forces at South African platinum mine. The killings are the latest in a long line of deaths during a strike that is complicated by a bitter and violent inter-union dispute over membership numbers.
Yesterday, South African police ordered thousands of striking miners to leave the vicinity of the Lonmin Marikana platinum mine or face being forcibly removed. Up to 3,000 police officers, an elite paramilitary unit, supported by horses and helicopters, confronted the miners and delivered their ultimatum.
Just before the police attacked the strikers, a spokesman said that:
“Today is unfortunately D-day. It is an illegal gathering. We’ve tried to negotiate and we’ll try again but if that fails, we’ll obviously have to go to a tactical phase”.
The president of AMCU responded by saying:
“There will be bloodshed if the police move in. We are going nowhere. If need be, we are prepared to die here”
Within the last week, ten people, including two policemen, have been killed in a violent turf war, (which is running alongside the strike), between two ‘rival’ trade unions.
The dispute is over membership, and is between the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Workers (AMCU) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and has been on-going for around eight months.
The NUM is viewed as ‘moderate’ and no longer looking after its member’s needs, whereas AMCU are supposedly more militant and ready to confront the bosses. AMCU are alleged to be using ‘strong arm’ tactics in order to get members to change affiliation.
Apart from the temporary inconvenience of lost production, the bosses must be absolutely delighted that working people prefer to fight each other rather than the real enemy.
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I hadn't seen this (stupid me!) before I posted a new thread with the same topic. If moderators agree, please delete my redundant post.
I've always been convinced, lamentably, that the only thing that changed in SA since the fall of apartheid was the complexion of the oppressors.
Here's a very disturbing video of the massacre. I wonder how they'll spin that?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/aug/16/south-african-police-miners-lonmin?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
Edit: here's the Guardian write up. I guess it's all about union rivalries! http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/16/south-african-police-shoot-striking-miners
A protest has been called for today outside the South African parliament in Cape Town by a libertarian left collective.
The New York Times quotes head of the pro-ANC union as endorsing the police action! http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/world/africa/south-african-police-fire-on-striking-miners.html?_r=1
3pm protest at Parliament against police's senseless massacre of 18 Marikana strikers!
oin us at 15h00 at parliament today (17th of August) to protest the police and the mining bosses who have colluded in the massacre of 18 miners in broad daylight!
See facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/277176292386858/
Thursday the 16th of August 2012 will go down in South African history as the new Sharpeville. 18 dead because police and the South African government cannot handle an independent union movement.
We are in solidarity with the workers of Marikana against the bosses and the police and those who support the bosses and police.
To protest this massacre and all other forms of police violence, we will gather at parliament on Friday the 17th of August at 3pm. Please bring signs.
Proof of massacre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImqAVon92VM
* Remember Hector Peterson!
* Remember Andries Tatane!
* Remember Hangberg!
* Remember Occupy Rondebosch Common!
* Remember the miners of Aurora killed by security!
From Khayelitsha to Marikana, hands of our right to protest!
From Aurora to Implats to Lonmin, bosses and their police must keep their hands off our people!
This is a non-political party rally. Politicians and police are not welcome!
Down with police brutality everywhere! Down with oppression from mine bosses!
Kureigo-San
Miserable homepage today.
Mail and Guardian: 'Police Minister says more than 30 people were killed'
(though this report seems to be spinning the story to suggest the police could have been fired on first.)
From a report written before yesterday's massacre:
About 3 000 workers have been meeting on the koppie on the edge of Nkanini, an informal settlement adjacent to Karee shaft one in Lonmin’s Western Platinum mine since Sunday.
On Wednesday workers met again, with early news reports announcing planned negotiations between the police and the striking workers. However, the planned disarmament talks descended into a stalemate with workers alleging that the police Casspir contained NUM leaders as the police spoke in fanakalo.
"Which policeman knows fanakalo?" scoffed one worker's representatives, who would not give his name. Relations between striking workers and the NUM have severely broken down, with most workers saying they were fed up with years of broken promises.
While the violent strike has been blamed on clashes between NUM and Amcu, the striking workers said they were a united force currently with no allegiances to a particular union. Amcu, however, has been recruiting aggressively at the plant but was currently below the threshold necessary to enter the two bargaining units at the mine.
By late Wednesday afternoon, negotiations had seemingly been abandoned, with workers taking to spirited song and reiterating their demands of R12 500 minimum salary and request to speak to Lonmin CEO Ian Farmer.
Worker representatives said they were not willing to go to the mine premises as they feared arrest and gunfire, after two miners were killed on Saturday, allegedly by NUM snipers. NUM has distanced itself from the violence, pointing the finger at Amcu instead. Ten people have been reported dead since the strike began on Friday.
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Mail and Guardian: Lonmin crisis: A tinderbox of discontent
Mail and Guardian: Amcu blames NUM, politics for Lonmin massacre
Business Report: SACP calls for arrest of Amcu leaders
miningmx: The rise and rise of Amcu
Abahlali baseMjondolo: Solidarity with mine workers at Marikana Platinum
EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION in solidarity with South African miners - Saturday 4pm
woooo
interestingly platinum is a fairly rare metal, used for jewellery but also for catalictic converters for 'green cars' ... it is also extremely highly priced for a metal of its sort... speculation is that platinum has peaked... somehow the resource conflict ties under the profit motive and the need to attack workers who want part of that profit....
a large and important compile of analysis and news and updates etc on this struggle below.
The Marikana Massacre: Award-winning Lonmin, assisted by World Bank,
Thanks to Lonmin's exploitative practices (paying just $500/month for extremely dangerous rock-drilling), its cooptation of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), and the African National Congress government's perpetual willingness to send in murderous forces of law and order to defend capital against labour, communities and environment, an estimated 34 of the men in the photo below are now dead and another 78 are injured. (Last week, ten other mineworkers, two police and two security guards were killed in circumstances that aren't yet clear.)
There are a great many details about the background context and the incident, though much more information is needed, particularly to understand why the undisciplined police opened fire with automatic weapons for at least three minutes. No police offers report being wounded in this one-sided massacre, so claims that 'the miners shot first' aren't credible, at this stage of what is publicly known.
No journalists so far have seemed to notice the Washington fingerprints on these corpses. Along with other major Lonmin partners and shareholders, the World Bank and its International Finance Corporation - always ready to promote disastrous extractive-industry projects - bear responsibility. In purely financial terms, they've done well; notwithstanding a little disruption to the share price and bad PR for the company, their interest repayments on a reported $100 million loan made in 2007 (due to expire in 2014), their profits and their dividend flow on at least $15 million in equity investments (and as much as $50 million, as full details are not available) will be protected. After all, Lonmin had ordered the striking mineworkers back on the job yesterday on threat of being fired, and since they have the official (now unpopular minority) sweetheart union on board against the majority of the workforce, telling the workers they couldn't have higher wages, those labourers who do now return will get paid the standard pittance. The platinum price rises quickly when there are supply interruptions of this sort, so in sales terms, they will not lose out on the down days. The Bank loan and investment were allegedly to address the huge socio-environmental damages done by this mining operation... and thus the World Bank gets repaid because workers' wages have been so low, and the communities nearby remain horrific slums.
* Details are here: http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/spiwebsite1.nsf/0/f79e1c278b21ebc2852576ba000e2919?opendocument
* South Africa's most dishonest, greenwashing bank, Nedbank, awarded Lonmin and the World Bank its top prize in the socio-economic category of the Green Mining Awards (sic), a few years ago: http://www.gbn.co.za/articles/dailynews/139.html
* The World Bank was especially delighted with Lonmin's 'gender equity' work: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/NewsletterPage6.pdf?cid=PREM_GAPNewsEN_A_E
* Another World Bank role was whitewashing the historic capture of land by white settlers, for Lonmin "has established community resettlement policies which comply with the World Bank Operation Directives on Resettlement of Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Property. There were no resettlements of communities and no grievances lodged relating to resettlements. In terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994, the Company is in the process of addressing several land claims lodged against it before 2011. The resolution of these claims is being managed within the legislative framework of the regional Land Claims Commission and Land Claims Court."
* The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) reports: The mine has had a troubled history with the communities and its workers. A stakeholder perception survey commissioned by Lonmin in 2005 shortly after it acquired the mine and before IFC's investment showed that most respondents regarded the mine with "negativity combined with mistrust, suspicion and in some cases hatred." In fact, the conflict between the unions, which is thought to have sparked the violence this week, was visible even seven years ago. The survey reported a history of mistrust between all three unions. Participants reported union favoritism and discrimination at the mine and urged Lonmin to "treat people equally, regardless of race, job level or union affiliation."Despite criticism from communities and NGOs that industrial mining projects often result in serious human rights violations and little economic development, the IFC continues to justify its investments as a "key source of jobs, economic opportunities, investments, revenues to government, energy and other benefits for local economies." In documents disclosed on the Lonmin deal, IFC asserted that, "This investment is expected to have beneficial results for the workforce and surrounding communities." Indeed, IFC documents state that Lonmin "supports the protection of human life and dignity within their sphere of influence by subscribing to the principles laid down in the United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights." And yet despite attesting to a close working relationship with the South African police force on matters of security, a statement made yesterday by Lonmin chairman Roger Phillimore characterized the violence as "clearly a public order rather than a labor relations associated matter."... In addition to seeking a full investigation into the violence and what led to it, CIEL has called on World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, to revisit the Bank's investment in this project in light of recent events, specifically, and its approach to lending in the extractive industries more generally. - http://ciel.org/Law_Communities/Lonmin_17Aug2012.html -
What is the broader context? Lonmin's 'accumulation by dispossession' as simplest historical/contemporary explanation, and also most variegated: A British prime minister, Edward Heath, observed in 1973 that a businessman, a truly horrible savage called “Tiny” Rowland, represented “the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.” The description was fitting because Rowland was a perambulating piece of filth who had indulged in bribery, tax-dodging, and the general range of ingenious whizz-kid schemes designed to make viciously unscrupulous people rich and keep them that way. - http://www.counterpunch.org/2008/10/03/the-unacceptable-face-of-capitalism/
Flashpoints:
- Earlier on Thursday, Lonmin said in a statement that striking workers would be fired if they did not appear at their shifts on Friday.
- "Today is unfortunately D-day," police spokesman Dennis Adriao was quoted as saying.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/08/2012816141649568598.html
Video (eTV) of massacre: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/video-of-miners-shot-by-south-african-police/
Rudimentary class analysis (from a surprising source): http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/video-of-miners-shot-by-south-african-police/
Ms. Polgreen, The Times’s Johannesburg bureau chief, reports that “the strike has pitted the country’s largest mine workers union, which is closely allied with the governing A.N.C., against a radical upstart union demanding sharp increases in pay and faster action to improve the grim living and working standards for miners.” The conflict between the traditional union, the National Union of Mineworkers, and the newer and more radical union, the Association of Mine Workers and Construction Union, contributed to violence around the strike earlier this week. Ten people died, including two police officers and three security officers.
Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen From the miners I spoke to there was a deep sense that NUM has simply become part of the power elite. #Lonmin
16 Aug 12 In the clash between NUM and AMCU are we seeing South Africa's future? Complacent power tied to biz interests vs impatient upstarts? #Lonmin
Misinfo from Pretoria on police tactics:
Police to use water cannon rather than rubber bullets
Sapa | 06 August, 2012 11:32
Water cannons will be used instead of rubber bullets to prevent deaths during protests, police say.
"The Andries Tatane incident in Ficksburg was unfortunate. We do not want a repeat of that," spokesman Zweli Mnisi said.
Tatane was killed, allegedly by police using rubber bullets, during a service delivery protest in Ficksburg last year.
The use of rubber bullets during protests would be stopped, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Sunday at the Mpumalanga safety and security summit.
This was contained in the white paper on safety and security.
The use of rubber bullets had been under discussion for the past two years, Mnisi said. The use of water cannons was a start, but citizens had to act responsibly during protests.
"The issue of training also becomes crucial.... That is why we do not just send any police officer to man a protest."
Mnisi said the police procured various items, such as water cannons, before the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
Reproduction-of-labour-power context:
Platinum miners ‘will pay for their sins’
Daily Maverick
André Janse van Vuuren | Tue, 14 Aug 2012
LONMIN and the other major platinum producers of North West will bear the brunt of more violent community protests for as long as discontent over employment, poor service delivery and the harmful social consequences of mining in these areas are not addressed. This is according to the Bench Marks Foundation, which on Tuesday released the findings of its Policy Gap 6 study. The study is a follow-up investigation into a controversial 2007 report which showed that despite the value extracted from platinum mining, local communities were facing harmful social, economic and environmental impacts as a consequence. According to the latest study, the situation has not changed and mining companies have yet to assume their responsibility for the negative consequences of their mining activities. The North West University’s David van Wyk, researcher and author of the report, said a likely cause for the unwillingness of both mining companies and the various spheres of Government to address these issues was what he called “political pollution”; a situation where prominent politicians and their families were sitting on the boards of mining companies, serving the interests of shareholders rather than the communities. The study focused on the activities of the six major mining group operating in North West – Anglo American Platinum, Lonmin, Impala Platinum, Xstrata, Aquarius Platinum and Royal Bafokeng Platinum – making recommendations for each one on how they should negate the impacts of mining in the areas where they operate. Lonmin, currently the subject of major labour violence that has so far claimed the lives of at least nine people, has been fingered for its employees’ poor residential conditions. “This can be seen in the proliferation of shacks and informal settlements, the rapid deterioration of formal infra-structure and housing in Marikana itself, and the fact that a section of the township constructed by Lonmin did not have electricity for more than a month during the time of our last visit,” the report read. “At the RDP township we found broken-down drainage systems spilling directly into the river at three different points.” The report also said the Foundation was concerned about the appearance of bilharzia warning signs next to surface water streams in Marikana. “The presence of bilharzia in the surface water in the Bojanala District is a direct consequence of informal settlement, a major cause of which is the housing policies of mining companies, and failure to maintain and repair sewage and drainage systems by local government.” Lonmin was also singled out over its use of local chiefs or councillors as recruitment officers, where especially prospective female workers have to offer sex or money in return for employment. The report also highlighted the cracks in community upliftment plans. For example, it said, all the mines surveyed contributed to the construction of classroom blocks and in some cases, to feeding schemes. However, said the Foundation’s Executive Director, John Capel, this was often done in a haphazard manner, without careful planning and consultation and often with no follow-up funding. “The actual needs of the community and the resources available to continue the project are hardly ever taken into consideration, leading to numerous failed investments,” Capel said. He said at the Lonmin supported school in Marikana, the research team found several blocks of old asbestos classrooms still in existence. The report also quotes an example of a computer centre that was built by Amplats. “Although a wonderful initiative, the mine did not check whether there would be funding for a teacher,” it read. “The school has a fully equipped computer centre that cannot be used as the Department of Education considers the employment of a computer teacher at the school to be an unfunded mandate.”
Immediate intra-labour conflict (warning - a blame-the-victim angle in parts):
Lonmin crisis: A tinderbox of discontent
17 Aug 2012 01:00 - Kwanele Sosibo
Violence has become the modus operandi of such strikes in South Africa and Lonmin is no exception, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
It was only late on Wednesday afternoon, with the sun disappearing behind the koppie where about 3 000 striking Lonmin workers had set up camp that any telling action transpired.
A media circus had been perched all day on the open veld to the west of the Nkanini informal settlement, where some of the workers live in appalling conditions. The journalists, right behind the 30 vehicle police laager arranged about 150m from the miners, had their eyes trained on the "action" while their cars faced the opposite direction, ready for flight should the need arise.
Wednesday, however, presented no violence in the week-long strike on one of Lonmin's three mining operations. With disarmament negotiations collapsing earlier in the day and the miners now expressing their defiance through spirited song, the air was that of a colonial era military standoff – guns versus spears – and yet one could not shake the feeling that the day was being wasted by empty posturing on both sides.
Then, at about 5.30pm, a convoy of cars bearing National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) president Senzeni Zokwana arrived and parked near the centre of the police laager. Zokwana and some minders were whisked into an armoured police vehicle and driven a hundred or so metres to address his "constituency" from within the Nyala. After pleading with the unreceptive workers to return to work and refusing to step out of the Nyala, Zokwana hurriedly left the scene, tail firmly tucked between his legs.
The arrival of rival Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) president Joseph Mathunjwa, merely minutes later, was a contrasting affair. Flanked by two colleagues, Mathunjwa initially refused to go into the Nyala (a point he repeatedly stressed during his sunset address), preferring to make a meal of it by trekking to the assembled crowd on foot.
He was persuaded against the stunt by the police and task-force operatives. While he could have been in some danger, more importantly, it would have been too obvious a signal of the changing guard at Lonmin, even for the journalists fenced off behind a human barrier of tactical response teams from various policing precincts.
Favourable conditions
Mathunjwa's address was a lesson in crowd control, peppered with slogans and choice phrases signifying allegiance. "You are not germs, you are people just like us," he shouted in imperfect Xhosa via an address system to a gradually warming response. "No one is going to get fired … but I must let you know that police have declared this a security zone."
Mathunjwa said that it was a disgrace that 18 years into democracy, workers were still earning R4 000 a month. He asked workers to trust him to help broker favourable conditions for a return to work, before calling on the workers' leaders to air grievances. Within 45 minutes, with dusk yielding to night, Mathunjwa was kept clear of journalists and zipped away.
Once again, the assembled workers had spoken. Just as at Implats, where the NUM's embarrassment was neutered by Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi, the writing was on the wall for the NUM at Lonmin.
Earlier in the day, workers boasted of how undaunted they were by the police presence. On Tuesday afternoon, five hippos had posted close to the koppie, brandishing tear gas canisters and weapons in front of dancing workers, they said. Clad in brown slacks and a green and black tracksuit jacket, a young, clean-shaven Xhosa-speaking spokesperson who identified himself as Nzuza said: "We didn't run, so they left."
Nzuza said a helicopter, which had been circling around the gathered workers, also lowered its orbit to reveal armed soldiers before flying off. On Wednesday, he told journalists: "The police said they want to give us feedback from management but there's nothing they are coming with. They want to arrest us as leaders so this [strike] can end. We want the employer to come here. [Lonmin CEO] Ian Farmer must come. [Vice-president human capital and external affairs Barnard] Mokwena is just a messenger."
Nzuza told journalists that the men were not assembled under a specific union banner and that the strike might have been started by rock-drill operators, but "all of Lonmin" was represented. His fellow spokesperson, a taller man carrying two spears with a lime green quilt draped around his back claimed Wednesday's negotiations with police broke down because the workers realised that "NUM members were in the hippos, those very same people who killed us" on Saturday. "Which policemen can speak fanakalo?" he asked.
Retaliation campaign
The miners, speaking via peer representation, said they had been congregating on the "mountain" since Sunday after shots were allegedly fired at them on Saturday at the nearby Wonderkop hostel allegedly "by snipers in red National Union of Mineworkers T-shirts", killing two workers.
They have since embarked on a retaliation campaign they say, with casualties including policemen and security guards. A man found lying in crucifixion position on the edge of the koppie on Tuesday with his head split open and stab wounds to the torso, had apparently committed the cardinal sin of "fishing for information". His lifeless body was left on display the entire day as a warning to non strikers.
Police spokesperson Dennis Adriao said: "From the police's side, we want to reach an amicable end to this situation. We need the workers to disarm and disperse. We have spoken to the workers. We have spoken to union leaders, workers and mine management. If there are no results today, we'll be forced to act."
On Thursday evening, the police carried out their threat, killing several workers in addition to the 10 casualties earlier in week, which included two policemen.
The unprotected strike began late last week, with about 3000 rock-drill operators congregating on Friday and allegedly intimidating employees. They have since set their salary demands at R12 500 a month, for the lowest of workers, which includes rock-drill operators and their assistants.
As was the case at Implats in February, a public blame game ensued between the NUM and Amcu. Mathunjwa, squeezing in a final word during an SAFM broadcast on Wednesday morning, told general secretary of the NUM, Frans Baleni: "Don't resort to violence when you lose members. Freedom of association. In 1994 we voted for that freedom." The NUM, meanwhile, has maintained that the violence is part of an intimidation strategy. "Eastern Platinum is ready to work," Baleni said earlier in the programme. "I met workers yesterday, 5 000 of them … Let all the killers be arrested, even if they are NUM members."
Most of the striking workers return to Wonderkop hostel after their daily meetings at the koppie. At a press conference at Lonmin a day earlier, Baleni said: "As our members are alleging, all violence is emanating from this desperately small union. All arrests emanate from this particular union. Confirmation of that will soon come."
Lonmin's Mokwena said that Amcu had 21% membership across the bargaining units. However, this looks likely to rise as the NUM has continued to bleed members among mineworkers. Trying to find workers openly aligned to the NUM is a tall order at Wonderkop due to disaffection and intimidation.
Lonmin stated on Thursday afternoon: "The striking rock-drill operators remain armed and away from work. This is illegal under the Labour Relations Act. Consequently, and in keeping with the terms of a court order granted to Lonmin on August 11 2012, the illegal strikers have today [Thursday August 16] been issued with a final ultimatum to return to work by their next shift on Friday August 17 or face dismissal… As a result of the disruption, Lonmin has so far lost six days of mined production, representing approximately 300 000 tons of ore, or 15 000 Platinum-equivalent ounces."
Crispen Chinguno, a PhD candidate at the Wits school of social science who spent the past year studying patterns of violence in platinum mines in the Rustenburg area, said violence had become routine in strikes in the region.
"Workers feel that it adds both positive and negative value," he said. "At Implats, where workers were also demanding a salary adjustment outside of a bargaining agreement (R9 000), they ended up getting more than R8 000. The strike was illegal, some were dismissed, but most of them got their jobs back. From that perspective, the workers feel the use of violence is working for them. The negative aspects are some job losses, injuries and death." Chinguno believes that as is already happening, the pattern could replicate in other mines. Deaths have recently occurred at Aquarius Platinum's Kroondal mine.
The high level of shop-floor disgruntlement with established unions like the NUM opens the door for other unions who promise workers better quality representation. This is often described, as it is by the NUM, for example, as violent, opportunistic and unethical recruitment.
Chinguno, whose research took him to Aquarius, Implats, Lonmin and Anglo Platinum believes that a further explanation for the violence is the fact that workers have become more fragmented than before. Some are residing in informal settlements outside of the mines, some still live in hostels and some black workers occupy more skilled positions than others. Violence is used as a way of enforcing solidarity.
Chinguno said Amcu's position was that of the NUM 30 years ago, an upstart union stepping in to fill a void of disgruntlement. While Amcu cannot be directly linked to the violence, he said interviews with high-level Amcu leaders revealed that they understood violence as the workers' strategy of entrenching a majority.
Background on miners' grievances: Greg Marinovich
Beyond the chaos at Marikana: The search for the real issues
17 August 2012 02:00 (South Africa)
Violent clashes between police and striking miners have left between seven and 18 people dead at the last count. But the miners – specifically, the rock drillers – are determined to stay on their outcrop until they are heard. But it’s more than a strike, writes GREG MARINOVICH – it’s becoming a war.
Several thousand men cover the orange outcrop of igneous rock like a single organism, spilling onto the dry thorn-veld below.
They are wrapped in blankets; their spears and fighting sticks protruding menacingly as they chant songs of war.
Ten men have died around this strange geological redoubt; two of them policemen. The violent showdown between these miners and their multinational employer, the platinum giant Lonmin, shows no sign of abating.
The hill is encircled by riot police in more than a dozen armoured Nyalas that surround the hill called Wonderkop. Further down the rutted road, more than a hundred policemen from the tactical unit and a private security firm eat their supper from plastic containers. They are dressed in bulletproof vests and are armed to the teeth.
It looks like war. It is a war. A war of survival, certainly for the miners, and perhaps for the future of Rustenburg’s platinum mines too.
A few of the miners carry indecipherable cardboard signs with their demands. A man emerges from the shuffling, chanting body of men, ostensibly asking for a cigarette. Another joins him and we speak about who they are and what they want. All of Lonmin’s mine employees are out here, one claims. People of all nations and all job descriptions are here. All they want is for the lowest paid miners to get a decent wage. The rock drillers at Lonmin earn R4,000 a month, a scarred man tells me, no matter how long they have worked at the mine. They demand R12,500.
This is a massive increase of over 300%. Not surprisingly, mine management has balked, in addition to the fact that they are locked into a wage agreement that only expires next year. But surely this is the negotiating territory of the union, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), part of the massive and powerful Cosatu umbrella, which represents them in a closed shop situation. Lonmin needs a good August to meet its annual production figures in a market where the shine has most definitely gone off platinum. But its share price has dropped precipitously on the back of the strike.
Why has it all gone so wrong?
Let’s step back here. The strike was called by the rock drillers. These are the men who work right down at the rock face, who have to work with a 25kg drill that vibrates wildly for the duration of an eight-hour shift. When there is a rock fall, it is generally the drillers who are the victims, who lose fingers or lives. It is the most dangerous job in the business. They regard themselves as men amongst men. It is a sub-culture of machismo.
Throughout the underground mining industry in South Africa, the rock drillers are BaSotho from Lesotho. It is their badge of pride that they do the dirtiest, most difficult job; yet one just two platinum mines, Lonmin and Impala Platinum (Implats), it is AmaMpondo and the related lBmvana (both sub-groups of the Xhosa) who dominate.
It is no coincidence that a bitter seventeen-week strike at Implats was also led by the Mpondo/Xhosa drillers. The striking miners I spoke to said that the Implats drillers had also been earning just R4,000 a month, but now they are at R9,500.
Imagine earning R4,000 a month to risk your life deep underground for a metal that powers rich people’s cars and bejewels fingers that have never laboured. The collection of essays “In Praise of Idleness” by Bertrand Russell articulates the logic of our labours: “First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.”
A mining insider well acquainted with the platinum sector mused on the situation, on the mindset of the drillers. “Even though I belong to a union, they underrepresent my needs. My concerns are not adequately voiced, and I have no influence. Decisions never seem to benefit me.
“I am constantly violated; and have to work under subjective violence. Despite my strength, I am powerless.”
And so a familiar cycle begins – voices begin to murmur, “If we were not doing this dirty work, would any other the other better paid people in the links of mine labour be able to do theirs? If we stop; it all stops.
“If neither the union nor the employer will listen, we will make them. We will apply objective violence until they are forced to listen to our grievances…”
Hence the strike, and the walkout and the killings and the forceful police reaction that left two of their number dead and another in hospital. The miners are prepared to suffer violence until management is forced to come and talk to them. They will wait at their altar-like outcrop until they feel that they have found their lost power.
So why does the union that represents miners at Lonmin, and before that at Implats, appear not to represent this driller sub-culture?
When the 320,000-strong NUM had its election for General Secretary in 2007, the Platinum sector put forward the NUM stalwart Archie Phalane as its nominee. He would run against Frans Baleni. At the congress, just before the vote, Phalane was told he could not contest the election as he was an employee of the union, and the rules stated that he had to be an elected official*. His supporters cried foul, and conspiracies abounded, but Baleni ran unopposed.
It seems straightforward enough, yet Phalane and his platinum sector supporters were seen to be sympathetic to the cause of ousted president Thabo Mbeki, and Baleni is supportive of current African National Congress leader and President Jacob Zuma. The union was behind Zuma, finish en klaar.
There was a resentment of NUM among their platinum sector members for some years, and so when, in May 2010, a NUM vice president, Piet Mathosa, came to persuade his members at Lonmin that management’s offer was a fair one, even though it fell well short of their demands, they did not respond well. A rock was thrown at him, injuring his eye so badly that he lost it, and spent weeks in hospital.
That could partly explain why NUM president Senzeni Zokwana, who refused to leave the safety of a police armoured vehicle to address the miners, was shouted down when he tried to persuade the Lonmin strikers to return to work. Which is also why the words of the AMCU official were greeted with cheers in the darkness of early evening in the straggly bush below Wonderkop. Or all of those miners were AMCU members already… No-one was saying – with good reason, as rumours of death threats swirled. That the majority of drillers are either foreign (from Lesotho) or rural, poorly educated men whose elected officials are usually smart young men from the district, whom they are slow to trust, has added to the volatile mix.
When we asked NUM what their version of the situation was, a new story emerged. On Thursday morning, Zokwana and Baleni painted an unflattering picture of both the rock drillers and AMCU. The general secretary confirmed that these men were indeed largely the least educated and literate of the employed workforce in the mines. They tend to come from the Eastern Cape and the mountains of Lesotho because the “township boys” don’t want to do the back-breaking work of rock drilling.
According to Zokwana, these uneducated rock drillers are always vulnerable to scam artists targeting the platinum industry in Limpopo and North West. He said that in some mines their retirement and death benefits as well as provident fund contributions were targeted. In Lonmin’s operations, these guys have taken the guise of a union that promises them R12,500 – which NUM adamantly says is unachievable for a rock driller.
Baleni also said that the AMCU organisers operating at the troubled Marikana mine were all expelled former leaders in NUM.
“NUM exercises discipline. It happens all the time that we expel members who form their own union. After a while, it disappears. The unique thing in this situation is the use of violence,” he said.
It is indeed a complicated business, with the platinum members of NUM having asserted their independence of their union; it was fertile ground for an upstart like AMCU to exploit this weakness, to make promises that they were unlikely to be able to deliver on. A dangerous ploy – the rock drillers seem to answer to nothing but themselves. The hard men of the underworld are determined to stay on the surface in their struggle to earn a living wage.
On Thursday afternoon, when police tried to move the miners off Wonderkop, there were clashes, apparently including shots fired at the police. The tactical unit of the police then retaliated with force which went beyond policing and into the realm of revenge. Journalists say between five and eighteen miners are dead, and many wounded.
More blood now stains the outcrop, as another sunset deepens the orange rock to red. DM
Battle looms over NUM leadership on IOL .
More labour context - Terry Bell reports prior to massacre:
No angels in bloody SA mine clashes
The ongoing tension and violence at South Africa’s Lonmin platinum mine is a much more complex and messy business than a simple turf war between unions in the Rustenburg region of the country. With various agendas in play, there is now a growing call from both trade unionists and mine officials for a throroughgoing commission of inquiry into the bloody clashes that have resulted in at least ten deaths over the past week alone.
Some of the present bitterness can be traced to a decision by the Imapala Platinum (Implats) management earlier this year to “derecognise” the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). The union was given three months’ notice that it would cease to be recognised for the purposes of negotiation because its membership had fallen below the 50 per cent plus one mark of the workforce. This is the “threshold agreement” adhered to by unions and management.
NUM promptly launched an urgent court application to halt this process, claiming that the figures used by Implats were incorrect. NUM also conceded that some members had defected to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), but said they had done so because of violence and intimidation. Amcu denied the charge and claimed to have gained a majority of union members, certainly at one Implats shaft.
This led to accusations from NUM that the mining house was embarking on a process to rid the mines of union recognition and were using Amcu to do so. However, accusations by NUM that Amcu is a recent creation “of the Chamber of Mines” are clearly off the mark. Amcu was formed more than a decade ago in the Mpumalanga coal fields by disgruntled NUM members. It is affiliated to the smaller National Council of Trade Unions (Nactu) federation.
Perhaps ironically, a “verification exercise” to establish union membership levels at Implats — agreed at tripartite talks between unions and management — is scheduled to start on Monday. However, Amcu has apparently now withdrawn from the exercise. Lonmin is not involved and continues to recognise NUM.
Thr clashes at Lonmin seem to have started following the awarding by management of a R700 bonus to one section of the workforce. Others demanded that their income also be topped up — and a wildcat strike erupted.
Amcu, keen to make headway against the long entrenched NUM ,appears to have given a degree of support to the protesting miners, signing many of them up in the process. Who first attacked whom, who fired th first shots and in what circumstances is still unclear. But at least ten people ae dead.
At this stage, all that seems clear is that there are no angels in this; no clear good guys and bad guys. As a result, there is a growing realisation that, for the good of the industry and the labour movement, the details of this literally bloody business must be comprehensively exposed.
More on class fractionation and NUM-as-labour-aristocracy:
Mine unions' rivalry has been brewing under the surface
BY CAROL PATON, 14 JUNE 2012, 00:00 | Business Day
IMPALA Platinum is a company being led down an uncertain path by its workforce. Gone is the certainty that came with a predictable labour relations framework and a trade union that took on the role of translating collective decisions to workers.
Now, there is the Association of Mining and Construction Union (Amcu): a trade union with a populist flavour and a new leadership that is fast establishing a foothold in the platinum industry. Within the next few months, when all the legal verification processes have been completed, it is pretty clear that Amcu will - at the very least - share organisational rights with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) at Impala's mine.
Yet until three months ago, Amcu did not have a single member at Impala. Today, it claims 11000 and is still counting.
It has been tempting for observers to explain Amcu's rise by NUM's failings. This is not accurate. NUM is a successful union that has negotiated well for its members. Amcu's rapid growth also cannot be explained by its organisational brilliance.
Instead, what has brought about the change are dynamics that have been brewing under the surface for some time: first, the growing social distance between the NUM leadership and its members, due more than anything to the union's success; and second, the populist mobilisation of poor and working people fed up with low incomes and wealth disparities, that is a growing tendency in politics.
Some anecdotes from recent weeks capture both.
Jeffrey Thanzi is the NUM branch chairman of Impala North. When he recently accompanied management on a corporate social investment jaunt to one of its key labour-supplying areas in the Eastern Cape, he was pictured in the Impala News along with an article about the project. Since Mthatha is his home base, talk among the workforce was that he was so privileged that management had bought him a farm and 50 head of cattle.
After a similar visit to Taung, another labour supply area for the mine, the story went around that he had computer training schools in the area, which he had acquired from company money.
Rumours were also whipped up about other NUM leaders. Colin Monapule, the branch secretary of Impala South, who is also a trustee on the board of Impala's employee share ownership scheme, was almost lynched when workers spotted him in town wearing the white suit that his wife had bought him for their wedding. The suit must have been purchased with their shares, they claimed, which shrank rather than grew in price (as was promised five years ago when the scheme was launched) due to the fall in the platinum price. This was evidence that it was Mr Monapule who had eaten their money.
That such stories can be considered plausible by the workforce speaks volumes of the distrust that has developed between NUM members and leaders, who - although they do not own farms or generally wear flashy suits - are in much smaller ways, the elite of the workforce.
Union officials tend to be more articulate in English, sit in offices, have access to union resources such as cars on weekends, get time off work for union business, are wooed by service providers who would like to gain access to the large membership data bases they hold, and are easily identifiable by management for promotion. Unlike the rest of the workforce - which is largely illiterate - NUM branch leaders have better skills, which are developed through union work.
Says Sibongile Sigadla, one of the emerging leaders of Amcu at Impala: "The NUM leaders have got no truth. They are always on the side of the official - the people who already have many things. They have got a nice life. They can never come to us. It is difficult for them to come to us and say what is the problem?"
While the gulf between workers and their leaders grew insidiously over the years due to the privileges accorded to NUM officials, the sudden upheaval and revolt against it has its roots in last year's wage negotiation.
In those talks, which took place between NUM, the majority union, and management and were settled in October, an across the board increase was agreed of between 9% and 10%.
Impala executive director Paul Dunne says that during the talks management put a proposal on the table that rock drill operators - who are more skilled and who were at risk of resigning for better jobs - be given a higher increment. "We recognised that we were out of step with the rest of the industry both in job grading and in pay. It would have been pre-emptive to stop them from leaving. But that suggestion never found its way into the final agreement."
Mr Dunne says it is because the NUM rejected it. Sidwell Dokolwana, the NUM's provincial secretary, says it was never seriously on the table.
Either way, two months later, shortly before the December break, Impala management unilaterally decided to award qualified miners - among the most skilled of underground workers - an additional 16% adjustment. This was to stop a succession of resignations of miners leaving for better pay. The NUM was outraged that the wage agreement had been unilaterally overridden. And, when workers heard of the adjustment, awarded only to the better-paid among them, they were seething.
Says an underground winch-driver who did not want to give his name: "When you work underground you are a team. If there is no winch-driver, then there is no production. We are all contributing to this company. If someone gets an increase and you don't, then you feel bad."
Rock-drill operators, possibly having got wind of management's proposal during wage negotiations, led the strike, followed by the rest of the workforce. This was the strike that was largely responsible for SA's plummeting mining output in the first quarter of the year.
The country's platinum output dropped 46%. The loss to Impala was about R2bn. It was during this strike that the workers of Impala first made it clear that they no longer wanted the NUM to represent them.
Unfortunately for the NUM, the branch chairmen of both Impala North and South were qualified miners. Both therefore qualified for the 16% increase.
This was evidence, says Mr Sigadla, "that NUM negotiates only for itself. We saw the adjustment that the miners got. NUM are on the side of those who already have everything."
To make their rejection of the NUM clear, "workers have given back the keys for the NUM office to management" he says, meaning workers have closed the union offices by force. An attempt by NUM members to re-open them ended in a shooting incident and ever since the offices have remained closed.
Mr Sigadla is now one of what management describe as the "emerging leadership".
He lives in a one-roomed shack in the sprawling informal settlement near Impala number one shaft. Platinum has caused the explosion of this area over the past 15 years from dusty veld into an chaotic industrial hub, teeming with machinery, trucks, trains, taxis and people.
A rock-drill operator, and having been a shaft steward for NUM for many years, Mr Sigadla was elected one of the "Five Madoda", or top five leaders, at Impala. He is fiercely impatient for change and deeply unhappy at what he views as the paltry wage settlements the NUM has settled for time and again. Not only that, but NUM officials, he says, do as they please on the mine, even carrying firearms into restricted areas with impunity.
They have also, he says made promises that workers would get huge amounts of money through the share ownership scheme, which have not materialised.
Instead, when the scheme finally matured in December, workers who had been expecting tens of thousands of rands got only about R2000 each.
Populist stirrings among the workforce are now for a demand of 16% across the board and for the materialisation of their vanished share money.
Mr Sigadla is impatient with union leadership who tell him to go through procedures and follow the union constitution.
It has only been former African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema, who visited Impala workers at the height of their strike, who sympathised with workers' impatience and urged the NUM to fire their local leadership.
"The NUM takes a long time to do everything. They have got many processes and procedures. They tell you to use the union constitution. But with Amcu, they just fight for the workers."
It is these words exactly, that Amcu "will fight for the workers" without being burdened by the responsibility of being a partner to management or a partner to government, that Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa is frequently heard to say.
Mr Mathunjwa is also a former NUM leader, who fell out with the union and particularly its then general secretary Gwede Mantashe, back in 1998. Based in Witbank and encouraged by workers at the colliery where he had worked, he has built up a presence for Amcu at a handful of coal mines in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Witbank. The union was registered with the Department of Labour in 2001.
But large scale success has come with the platinum mines, where he has tied up a recognition agreement with Lonmin at Karee mine and with Murray & Roberts at Aquarius. Amcu is now looking to the Klerksdorp goldfields and has already received a letter warning it to stay out of hostels.
Mr Mathunjwa says his new-found success is the result of a wave of populism stirring in mining communities.
"It is about the history of how workers were treated. If workers were misrepresented for 15 or 20 years, you can imagine the anger and frustration. We are facing a situation not of our creation. If you're reaching the end of your working life and you're still earning R3000 then you will think, what the hell is going on?"
A perspective from capital-in-general (Business Day columnist):
Lonmin shootings will change SA labour relationsBY RON DERBY, 17 AUGUST 2012,
THE emergence of a rival union in the platinum space must be the most worrying event in the 30-year history of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). The union is one of the biggest and certainly most politically powerful under the blanket of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, representing close to a fifth of its entire membership and has an important place in the African National Congress (ANC) alliance.Given the importance of mining in the South African economy, support from the union is integral to the ruling faction in the ANC. It is this political role on which its leaders may have placed too much focus because of populist nationalisation rhetoric as well as the succession battle, to the detriment of its core mandate.Straying from that focus on the interests of its workers has opened up space on its shop floors for a rival union, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu). This happens as the situation remains dire for miners in the platinum sector as prices for the metal remain weak and costs keep rising because of poor management and other factors.The NUM lays the blame for the unfolding violence in North West on mining houses for making unilateral salary adjustments that undermine existing wage agreements. Amcu may have been opportunistic in using those grievances from the disparities in pay to muscle in, but where has the NUM been? The union should have been alert and ready to react to the grievances.You’ve got to think the union, which once had held sway over the entire mining industry, has taken its eyes off the ball in a big way. After the warning shots at Impala Platinum, the world’s second-biggest miner, the battle is playing out at Lonmin, the third biggest.For the first time in the course of the Lonmin dispute, which has caused a number of fatalities, platinum prices have responded. In late afternoon trade, it had its biggest percentage gain in a month.Anglo American Platinum, the world’s biggest miner, could well be the next explosion point in this festering battle. The NUM has warned that the turf war could spread to other mineral segments too.The 30-year old NUM monopoly has certainly been challenged and it looks likely that it will continue to be unless its leadership gets focused on the matters at hand, instead of who occupies Luthuli House and the Union Buildings.The deaths of the Lonmin workers yesterday have changed labour relations in the mining industry forever. Miners and the government may have to invite another party to the negotiating table, further complicating an already complicated mining regime.***
Financial capital prepares to panic:
Mine violence puts South Africa’s structural flaws in the spotlight, warns S&PBY EVAN PICKWORTH, 16 AUGUST CONTINUING union-related violence in South Africa’s platinum sector highlights structural issues afflicting the country that "we’ve always been concerned about", Konrad Reuss, South Africa MD of rating agency Standard & Poor’s, said on Thursday.The agency revised South Africa’s sovereign outlook to negative earlier in the year, and Mr Reuss said the rating should be "resolved" within the next two years as he needed more guidance over the next 12-15 months.But, he said issues such as the e-toll debacle currently before the courts, nationalisation talk ahead of the African National Congress’s elective conference in December, and bloody union clashes at Lonmin’s Marikana mine negatively affected market perceptions."The external perception of South Africa is definitely not healthy," he said. "There is no near-term resolution to the outlook statement."The external environment, weaker fiscal parameters, and debt "going in the wrong direction" remained concerns, Mr Reuss said.He added: "In the South African context, it does not hinge on something specific."***
Alibi?
Lonmin CEO is sick
August 17 2012 at 06:00am
By Sapa
As the country reeled in shock at the deaths of Lonmin mine workers in Marikana on Thursday, the company released a statement saying its CEO was ill.
“It is with regret that the company must announce that Ian Farmer, the chief executive officer, has been diagnosed with a serious illness and is presently in hospital.
“The board, on behalf of the entire company, wishes him a full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with Ian and his family at this difficult time,” Lonmin said in a statement.
It said the day-to-day running of the business would taken by over executive committee member Roger Phillimor.
Solidarity resistance:
-----Original Message----- From: Take Back the Commons <us@takethecommons.org> Sender: supporters-bounces@takethecommons.org Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:45:51 Subject: 3pm protest at Parliament against police's senseless massacre of 18 Marikana strikers!
Join us at 15h00 at parliament today (17th of August) to protest the police and the mining bosses who have colluded in the massacre of 18 miners in broad daylight!
From Khayelitsha to Marikana, hands of our right to protest! From Aurora to Implats to Lonmin, bosses and their police must keep their hands off our people!
i saw this in the paper this morning, of course the way it was reported in The Times was despicably biased toward the employer, which i found quite upsetting that they would defend the shooting of 18 workers by police protecting the employer's adoption of a barbed wire barricade, and then claiming it to be 'a public order matter and not a labour relations matter'.
There's some more background in these old threads about a strike at another platinum mine earlier this year:
Armageddon at Implat's wildcat strike? Mine eruptions escalate in South Africa
Report on the recent South African miners' strike
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23lonmin
SA's biggest mines strike was led by Ramaphosa (1987). 360k struck. 50k fired. 11 died. 400 jailed. Cyril is on #Lonmin board. Irony.
The death toll is now 34 dead and 78 injured. Are there any protests planned outside the South African embassy? This is shocking stuff. Some solidarity actions would be appropriate.
gypsy wrote:
Protest today but not at the embassy:
wojtek wrote:
A comment on that facebook page:
Can't make today but will be protesting with others outside south african embassy at 1pm on Monday..........join us if you can
South African anarchist statement on the Marikana Massacre
Joint statement on the Marikana Massacre issued by the Tokologo Anarchist Collective, Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front and Inkululeko Wits Anarchist Collective...
It's great to see this statement (ZACF, et al), I've shared it with others via social media and seems to be making the rounds pretty well. I'd love however to see some deeper analysis come from our SA comrades. I've had very limited success finding much background on the AMCU for example.
From what I can tell it seems to have been a split from the NUM and I saw a quote from one of its officers that it distinguishes itself as "apolitical and anticommunist," a contradictory statement if ever there was one. Should this be read as meaning their politics are simply in opposition to the SACP, or as it might be read by someone from the US as being generally anti-left ("anticommunism" is a term with its own particular history here).
The other significant point that needs some clarifying I think is the interplay between inter-union rivalries, and then the actual relationships on the ground among the rank-and-file workers. From what I've read it seems as though the conflict that climaxed with the massacre began as a wildcat action. Is this at all accurate?
From the Mail and Guardian:
Get back to work, or else, Lonmin warns
Lonmin tensions continue to boil
Mr. Jolly
"An unconscious member is as dangerous as an Enemy"
During the miners' strike in Britain in 1984 the BBC played a pivotal role in its daily propaganda war against the workers. This was exemplified in its constantly repeated report on the "Battle for Orgreave", where the BBC, knowingly and deliberately, turned reality on its head and showed the miners taking on the police first and then the police responding. What happened was that the police launched a vicious, unprovoked attack and the miners responded. It took the BBC over twenty years to come out with a mealy-mouthed "apology" for this stalinist-type inversion. Of course it didn't apologise for the rest of its lies.
They are up to their old tricks again joining in a propaganda war against miners and workers in South Africa. Its first televised reports of the killings in Marikana were silent - you couldn't hear the fusillade of gunshots. It wasn't until I saw a report including the sound of the firing about 3 days later on English-language Chinese CCTV that the full horror of the event hit home. The deliberately sanitized BBC version has given way to the broadcaster now linking a police response to an attack on the police.
The context for the Marikana strike is Chinese-style increasing social protests and strikes that have been going on in South Africa for at least two years now. Even after this massacre they show no sign of abating. The Guardian reported yesterday that 500 miners from the Royal Bafokeng platinum mine walked out on a wildcat and picketed out other miners. I don't know much about the "breakaway" AMCU but it's been around for ten years and The Independent reports on Tuesday the allegation "that the AMCU receives funding from the mining giant BHP Billington as part of efforts by the industry to break the NUM's dominace".
There are still sincere people, militants, who believe that the ANC was somehow an advance for the working class in South Africa. If nothing else this event should help them to see the real role played by the black bourgeoisie and its unions.
Most of the miners shot at the mine were hit in the back. Strikes are still going on according to other reports.
http://rt.com/news/south-africa-marikana-police-autopsies-strikes-693/
It gets better:
In a bizarre twist, the National Prosecuting Authority has charged the 259 arrested Marikana miners with the murder of their 34 colleagues, shot dead by the police.
Frank Lesenyego, the NPA's regional spokesman, yesterday confirmed that the miners had been charged with murder and not public violence as previously stated.
Asked to clarify the confusion - after police commissioner Riah Phiyega had earlier confirmed that the miners died after police shot at them with live ammunition - Lesenyego said: "It's technical but, in legal [terms], when people attack or confront [the police] and a shooting takes place which results in fatalities ... suspects arrested, irrespective of whether they shot police members or the police shot them, are charged with murder."
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/08/29/miners-face-murder-rap
BBC says 270 today
A prosecuting authority spokesman told the BBC that 270 workers would be tried under the "common purpose" doctrine.
They were in the crowd which confronted the police, who opened fire, sparking a national outcry.
Police have not been charged because a commission of inquiry would investigate their actions, the spokesman said.
Six of the 270 workers remain in hospital, after being wounded in the 16 August shooting.
The other 264 workers are appearing in the Garankuwa magistrates court near the capital, Pretoria.
During a visit to the mine after the killings, President Jacob Zuma told workers he "felt their pain" and promised a speedy and thorough investigation of the killings.
Joseph Kay
So the 6 in hospital are charged with... shooting themselves? Law is a strange thing (I assume this is under an equivalent of the 'transferred malice' doctrine in English law, though the textbook example of that is shooting at cops while pulling a hostage in front of you; if the hostage gets shot by cops you're charged with murder).
By extension, the 34 not wounded but killed, given the common cause argument, are equally guilty of murdering themselves. The logic is inescapable. In which case there is no remaining crime the police can be charged with. Case closed.
But it's OK, cos Zuma "feels your pain".
So what we really have here is a case of a violent mob murdering itself, and psychologically scarring the brave forces of order in the process, without whom the mob would have murdered itself with impunity.
Clear case of sedition. Those miners murdered themselves to undermine the authority of the state and to stir up resentment against the forces of order and the government. To follow the logic properly, the survivors should be charged with treason as well as murder.
Or to put it in Daily Mail headline-ese: "Fascist miners commit mass murder in attempt to overthrow democracy and undermine rule of law".
Jacob Zuma is 70.
i stubbed my toe earlier, hopefully this Zuma will also feel my pain.
srsly though, this whole thing is disgusting, its incredibly upsetting that police would use live rounds and kill not just one or two but THIRTY FOUR strikers. fucking outrageous, that is the definition of a massacre. can you imagine having that many shot dead? thats not just a couple stray shots, but rounds and rounds, reloading as they go, shooting to kill not disable. i cant even get my head round that they are now trying to prosecute the miners. south africa is fucked up, they should have mass riots on their hands after something like this
Between Your Teeth
article suggesting that the majority of miners were not shot in the initial confrontation (captured on video) but were executed at close range and run over by military vehicles shortly after this.
http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-08-30-the-murder-fields-of-marikana-the-cold-murder-fields-of-marikana
caveat: i am not trained in forensics
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AHIMA celebrates its 85th anniversary this year. Many current healthcare associations were founded after the Joint Commission was founded in 1951. AHIMA, however, was founded in 1928 when 35 members of the Club of Record Clerks met at the Hospital Standardization Conference sponsored by th....
Strategic Initiatives Embrace HIM’s Future
The health information management (HIM) profession will continue to see constant and increasing change in 2013. While HIM professionals continue to work to define and evolve their roles and career pathways, AHIMA has been working on the best ways to support and lead the change. As part of....
Let’s Place Patients Front and Center
As HIM professionals, one of our key responsibilities is to provide patients with access to their health information. A poll conducted by Wolters Kluwer Health in November 2012 focused on the consumerization of healthcare. The poll asked whether consumers really want more control of their....
Believe in HIM, and Yourself
During the past year Patty Thierry Sheridan, AHIMA’s past president, spoke eloquently about the power of dreaming big dreams. I am going to build on those ideas this year by talking about the importance of believing.
It is important that you believe in yourself, believe....
Definition of the Health Record for Legal Purposes
Author: Amatayakul, Margret; Brandt, Mary D.; Callahan-Dennis, Jill; Didear, Kay; Frawley, Kathleen A.; Grant, Karen G.; Murphy, Gretchen; Okamoto, Carole; Fuller, Sandra R.; Smith, Cheryl M.; Dougherty, Michelle
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State Health Privacy Regulation--the Latest Controversy
Author: Frawley, Kathleen A.; Asmonga, Donald D.
One of the most confusing, complex, and controversial aspects of the health information confidentiality debate is the issue of federal preemption of state laws, regulations, and statutes. Some organizations, like AHIMA, support complete preemption of state laws to provide for a uniform....
Federal Legislation on Confidentiality: Possibility or Insurmountable Challenge?
HIM professionals know that keeping health information secure and confidential is one of their most important charges. History concurs. Here's an overview of the confidentiality debate and a look at the future.
For the past 70 years, the American Health Information Management Assoc....
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Un-Productive
Los Angeles,CA
I had high expectations for Saturday and I fell short of the mark that I set for myself. I got lazy in the late afternoon and didn't push myself like I did the day before. I'm still on schedule with the re-writes but I missed an opportunity to stay ahead of schedule.
On Saturday morning, I met Bob for brunch at O'Groats. He had never been before and has been slowly adapting to life in LA. He's been here for over a month now and Nicky and I had to give him some background on earthquake kits. I told Bob to pick up a bunch of bottled water and a flashlight. That's like 90% of it. The rest is common sense.
I devoured my 2x2x2 breakfast at O'Groats, especially the chocolate chip pancakes.
On Saturday night, Nicky finally set up her new DVD player which she acquired for free by playing online poker. She accumulated enough frequent player points to earn a Sony DVD player. At least she got something for her addiction. Me? I played a shitload of online poker in the first half of 2009. I had enough points to buy a 120G classic video iPod. I got it for the massive amount of space to store music and I still have plenty of points leftover for a couple of bar stools. I know that Daddy and Derek wanted those.
After we set up the DVD player, we watched a couple of old Phish DVDs. The IT festival DVD featured commentary by an inebriated Trey Anasastio who was deep into his oxycontin phase at that point. You could see him scratching at random times, which got me all antsy. I started scratching and craved the same drug that he was abusing five years ago when the documentary about the IT festival was recorded.
Anyway, after we set up the DVD player, the cable went out when I accidentally pulled the plug out of the power strip. I plugged it back in and expected everything to be OK, except that this morning when we woke up, the cable service is fucked up. Poor Nicky has to spend her Sunday morning in customer service hell trying to pinpoint the exact problem even though everything appears to be normal.
Last night I had a horrible batch of insomnia. I guess I got too much sleep last week. I didn't want to get up when I didn't, but I had too much on my plate scheduled for today. So I forced myself to get up and start the day. Hopefully, a homemade batch of freshly brewed Earl Grey iced tea will do the trick.
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Ywriter for developmental editing
I am a student again – of sorts
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Sample of Writing
Although I am not as yet published, having hidden behind editing others work so to avoiding dealing with my own novel editing, I thought it would be prudent to share a sample of my writing. Both of these stories have been written and edited by myself in response to the Coursera creative writing courses I undertook.
*** For this assignment we had to give our character an object they greatly desired, and then give them a disease that would kill them within 24 hours. They then had to choose between the object and an antidote – all in 400 words. ***
Alysia took a deep breath, putting the cramps in her belly down to nerves. It was time. Her days of servicing the sexual desires of repulsive, sweaty men were over. Her wrist would soon adorn the object of her desire—a silver bangle—plain in design, yet it would allow her to pass the barriers of her confinement. She would be free to leave the brothel—free to return to Earth.
A creak disturbed her. She spun around, glaring at the old woman in the doorway. ‘Did you want something, Shonia?’
Shonia gestured to the suitcase on the bed. ‘I don’t know why you bothered. You won’t be leaving.’
‘Odiah has nothing to tempt me with. I’m going home.’
‘Of course you—’
‘Today!’
Alysia shoved past her, ignoring the callous laughter. It was no secret that not a single woman had left Odiah’s employ. Rumour said he offered the women a prize they couldn’t refuse. Despite repaying their debt, they continued to serve him, at least until time addled their bodies.
That would not be Alysia’s fate. She yearned for home and had saved hard. Besides, she had been foolish to enter into a bargain with Odiah the first time. Little more than a child, barely surviving on Ruined Earth, she exchanged her freedom for a warm bed and three meals a day. She hadn’t known she would whore to earn them, and on a faraway planet too.
Odiah’s quarters were exquisite but too hot. He pulled the bangle from his pocket. ‘You’re a talented whore, Alysia. Let me make you an—’
‘I’ve more than repaid your kindness.’ She snatched the bangle, turned too quickly and stumbled.
‘You’ve not heard the value of my offer yet.’
Her legs weakened, and she thudded to the floor.
‘Are you unwell, Alysia?’
‘I’m… fine.’
‘For now, perhaps.’
He placed a vial before her. She whimpered as pain tore through her belly.
‘An antidote.’ He smiled. ‘For the poison you consumed last night.’
Odiah reached for the bangle. She yanked her arm away, gritted her teeth. ‘I’m… going home.’
‘Of course.’ He stepped back, gestured to the door. ‘Enjoy your freedom. You should have a few more hours to live.’
The pain in her belly intensified. With a trembling hand, she removed the bangle, exchanging it for a warm bed and three meals a day—at least until time ravaged her body.
*** Our assignment for this task was to write 1,000 words with ten lines of rising action and incorporating five structural elements: action, background, dialogue, climax, and an ending ***
Harry scrabbled through a tunnel of boulders inch by precious inch. The air was thick with dust and he could scarcely breathe but had to go on. Nearly ten thousand people populated the underground sanctuary and they were relying on him to find a way out. He wasn’t the first to scout but was confident no one had gone further. He hadn’t seen any markers since entering the tunnel. He could have taken a wrong turn of course.
“You haven’t taken a wrong turn,” he said through gritted teeth, spat out a mouthful of dust and gained another inch. There was a single route out of the sanctuary, through a long-forgotten door marked exit, an old word meaning ‘freedom,’ according to Davidson, the leader of the insurgents.
The first part of the journey had been easy. The door had opened onto a wide open tunnel with a spiral staircase. He’d walked until his strength left him, dropping to the stone floor with near-exhaustion.
It was several hours after he’d rested before he reached the wall, a plate of thick metal, once whole, but now buckled and broken. Large rocks protruded through the tears, evidence of Earth’s trauma. He surveyed the area as he ate his last protein bar. The earlier scouts were right. There was no obvious way out, but then he saw it, a narrow space where the rocks didn’t quite reach the ceiling—a space wide enough for a child his size to crawl through.
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was slow-going. His mother would be beside herself with anguish by now, and the Authority must surely have noticed his absence. If he turned back, he was going to be in big trouble.
Harry pushed on. He wriggled into the gap ahead. The ceiling pressed his back, the rocks his underside. If the gap lessened further, he would have to concede defeat.
His head torch flickered. He froze, holding his breath. The spare batteries were in his trouser pocket but he had no way of reaching them. He shuffled forward, jamming his elbow in his haste. Tears sprung and panic took hold. “Please…” he whimpered. “Don’t let me die… not here.” An image of his long-dead father came to mind. What would he think of his snivelling? Harry should have been sitting in the safety of the schoolrooms, worshipping the glory of the Council of Twelve, condemning the dark history of the world above, not trying to reach it.
He took a deep breath, calmed himself, and wrenched his elbow free. It was badly cut and his sobs grew louder. He choked and cried and cursed his ancestors for surviving in the pits of the earth, condemning him to a life of near starvation and despair under the brutal rule of the twelve. They’d killed his father for openly challenging them, and many others besides. Harry tried to follow the rules, but as the son of an insurgent, he suffered regular sessions with the disciplinarian, a brute of a man who enjoyed beating the rebellion out of children.
“Bastard!” Harry said, spitting a mouthful of dust out.
The light in his head torch fluttered and pinged. Harry closed his eyes and continued. There was no way he was going back to a living hell. He’d rather die.
Hours passed. Harry took his time, pushing forward an inch at a time. Finding he could breathe a little easier, and with less pressure on his back and chest, he opened his eyes. In the far distance, a speck of light glistened. Enthusiasm gripped him. He shuffled forward and without light or warning, the ground disappeared. He lost his balance, tumbled out of the tunnel, and landed heavily on a stone floor.
He replaced his batteries and shone it around. He was on another staircase. Rocks littered the tunnel but weren’t as compact as the ones he had crawled over.
Harry broke into a jog. Air tickled his face—fresh, sweet smelling air. Tears dampened his face and he let his tears come. There was no shame in crying for joy. He imagined finding help for his people; doing what his father and the other insurgents couldn’t—freeing them from the Council of Twelve’s control.
Travis approached the figure on the rock warily but shouldered his laser rifle when he realised it was a child. A skinny, filthy, ragged looking boy. He wore plain clothing, not the military regale the general insisted on. A frown deepened Travis’s brow. He reached down, grabbed the boy’s arm and yanked him to his feet. “Trying to run from your duty, are you?”
The boy stared back at him with bleary eyes, his mouth hung open.
Travis marched to the well-trodden mountain path, dragging the boy behind him. “Where’d you think you could run to? Look around,” he said, gesturing to the ocean below. “There’s nowhere else to go. This is it!”
The boy pulled his arm free. He took a step back and started jabbering in a tongue Travis had never heard before. He held up his arm and the boy quietened.
“I don’t know what you’re playing at, boy. I don’t care. You’re the general’s problem, not mine,” he said, pointing to the walled fortress below. The boy followed his gaze, nodded, and then smiled. He uttered another absurd sounding word and raced ahead.
Travis shook his head. Whatever the boy’s game, whether he’d run from the fortress or a hidden dwelling, the general would put a gun in his hand soon enough. He was in desperate need of soldiers.
He sighed heavily. Between the Afflicted—primitive humans with a lust for blood—and the continually rising ocean, their chances of survival were slim. Even if he found every last human on the mountain ranges, they would still number less than five-hundred. Mankind was a dying breed. The general was just too pigheaded to admit it.
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Giving Robots More Nimble Grasp
Giving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Aug. 4, 2015
Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed: Equipped with large pincers or claws, they are designed to perform simple maneuvers, such as grabbing an object, and placing it somewhere else in an assembly line. More complex movements, such as adjusting the grasp on an object, are still out of reach for many industrial robots.
Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: using the environment as a helping hand. The team, led by Alberto Rodriguez, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and graduate student Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, has developed a model that predicts the force with which a robotic gripper needs to push against various fixtures in the environment in order to adjust its grasp on an object.
For instance, if a robotic gripper aims to pick up a pencil at its midpoint, but instead grabs hold of the eraser end, it could use the environment to adjust its grasp. Instead of releasing the pencil and trying again, Rodriguez’s model enables a robot to loosen its grip slightly, and push the pencil against a nearby wall, just enough to slide the robot’s gripper closer to the pencil’s midpoint.
Partnering robots with the environment to improve dexterity is an approach Rodriguez calls “extrinsic dexterity” — as opposed to the intrinsic dexterity of, say, the human hand. To adjust one’s grip on a pencil in a similar fashion, a person, using one hand, could simply spider-crawl her fingers towards the center of the pencil. But programming such intrinsic dexterity in a robotic hand is extremely tricky, significantly raising a robot’s cost.
With Rodriguez’s new approach, existing robots in manufacturing, medicine, disaster response, and other gripper-based applications may interact with the environment, in a cost-effective way, to perform more complex maneuvers.
“Chasing the human hand is still a very valid direction [in robotics],” Rodriguez says. “But if you cannot afford having a $100,000 hand that is very complex to use, this [method] brings some dexterity to very simple grippers.”
Rodriguez and Chavan-Dafle will present a paper detailing their new approach in September at the International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems.
Giving robotics a push
Rodriguez is currently exploring multiple ways in which the environment may be exploited to increase the dexterity of simple robotic grippers. In ongoing work, his group is looking for ways in which a robot might use gravity to toss and catch an object, as well as how surfaces like a tabletop may help a robot roll an object between its fingers.
In this most recent paper, the group investigates an approach to extrinsic dexterity called “prehensile pushing” — exploiting fixtures in the environment to manipulate a grasped object.
“We’re sort of outsourcing that dexterity that you don’t have in the gripper to the environment and the arm,” Rodriguez explains. “Instead of dexterity that’s intrinsic to the hand, it’s extrinsic, in the environment.”
The researchers developed a model that describes the forceful interaction between a gripper, a grasped object, and different types of external fixtures such as corners, edges, or surfaces. To predict how an object may move as a gripper pushes it against a given fixture, the researchers designed the model to take into account various factors, including the frictional forces between the gripper and the object, and between the object and the environment, as well as the object’s mass, inertia, and shape.
“Exploiting the environment”
In its current iteration, the model predicts the force a gripper must exert, on the object and the environment, to maneuver the object to a desired orientation. For instance, how tight should a robot grip a bar, and how hard must it push that bar against a point, to rotate the bar 45 degrees?
Rodriguez and Chavan-Dafle tested the model’s predictions against actual experiments, using a simple two-fingered gripper to manipulate a short rod, either rolling, pivoting, or sliding it against three fixtures: a point, a line, and a plane. The team measured the forces the robot exerted to maneuver the rod into the desired orientations, and compared the experimental forces with the model’s predicted forces.
“The agreement was pretty good,” Rodriguez says. “We’ve validated the model. Now we’re working on the planning side, to see how to plan motions to generate certain trajectories. One of the things we want to ask in the future is: How do you engineer fixtures in the environment so that a robot’s motions are more reliable, and can be executed faster?”
Ultimately, Rodriguez sees extrinsic dexterity as an inexpensive way to make simple robots more nimble for a variety of uses: A surgical robot may push a scalpel against an operating table to adjust its grip, while a forensic robot in the field may angle a piece of evidence against a nearby rock to better examine it.
“Exploiting the environment is, and will be, important for robots and the research community,” Rodriguez says. “Any applications where you have limitations in terms of payload or cost or complexity, areas like manufacturing, or surgery, or field operations, or even space exploration — whenever you have a gripper that is not dexterous like a human hand, this [method] gives you some of that dexterity.”
This research was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation.
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Predicting CPR genomes in metagenomic bins
and Tom O. Delmont
Distribution of bacterial single-copy genes in CPR
Training a classifier to predict CPR genomes
An E. coli genome
A published CPR genome
Screening an entire anvi’o project
Final Words (tl;dr)
The study Hug et al. published last week puts the genomic discoveries Banfield group made during the last years into a striking contex with a beautiful title, “A new view of the tree of life”:
The significance of this tree has been covered broadly by many, including Ed Yong, and Carl Zimmer, so I will save you from another attempt that will definitely not match to their’s.
Briefly, the tree includes a total of 3,083 genomes, 1,011 of which are the unusual genomes authors identified from various environments using assembly-based shotgun metagenomics and binning. The phylogenetic inference in the figure is based on 16 ribosomal proteins from each organism, and so on.
A large fraction of the genomes in Hug et al.’s study comes from another publication from the Banfield group which appeared in Nature less than a year ago: Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria. This study describes 797 tiny genomes, most of which lack various pathways, which makes them very hard to cultivate, and contain quirky ribosomal operons, which renders 16S rRNA gene-based surveys unable to detect them. In their paper Brown et al. describes this group of more than 35 new phyla as the “candidate phyla radiation” (CPR). I will mostly focus on these genomes in this post, to make a point about the rest of CPR.
The use of bacterial single-copy genes is quite a common technique to get a ballpark estimation of how much of a genome is captured in a metagenomic bin. They are quite useful. In fact, they can even be used to estimate the number of bacterial genomes in an assembly. Instead of 51 single-copy genes the Banfield group normally uses, the 2015 Brown et al. study employs 43 bacterial single-copy genes to estimate the level of completeness of their CPR genomes since they already knew some genes were absent in CPR genomes. Here I re-analyzed these 797 genomes by extending the number of single-copy genes to 139, by using Campbell et al.’s bacterial single-copy gene collection (details of which is in the supplementary table 2, and we have them nicely organized in our codebase). To create this collection, Campbell et al. analyzed the occurrence of protein families in 1,516 complete bacterial genomes distributed around bacterial tree of life, and identified protein families that occurred only once in at least 90% of all genomes. For the bacterial life we knew about, it works beautifully well. But how well are these genes represented in Brown et al’s collection?
Here is an anvi’o figure to answer that question visually:
In this figure, each radial layer represents one of the 797 genomes, each tip of the tree represents a bacterial single-copy gene, and each black bar indicates whether a given single-copy gene was present (based on HMM profile matches beyond model noise cut-off identified by Campbell et al.).
The good news: This display agrees with Brown et al.’s findings. The not-yet-good-or-bad news: it also extends the list of single-copy genes CPR genomes lack.
The taxonomy Brown et al. identified has a pretty striking signal with respect to how certain groups of genomes lack certain bacterial single-copy genes completely: a small set of ribosmal proteins does contain enough signal for a phylogenetic analysis to organize genomes in a manner that is coherent with the rest of the genome. This is a simple, but very convincing boost in confidence. Because if one thinks careful enough, they may realize that it may not have been the case at all.
I find this even more striking: these single-copy genes occur in more than 90% percent of bacterial genomes, yet patterns emerge from their presence/absence across CPR genomes. The non-uniform presence/absence patterns of these core genes between groups of CPR genomes suggests an even richer level of diversity in this clade we had not seen before… What we have seen so far is probably the tip of the iceberg.
OK. Can this information be useful?
Clearly these genomes represent quite a large fraction of the diversity of life on the planet (“comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria”, as the authors put it). Then, people who do metagenomic binning must have been recovering them, too.
That being said, their small size and low completion scores in general do not make them “interesting” targets in the conventional sense of the word, making them easy to discard as poorly identified bacterial genomes from metagenomic binning results unless the researcher has not been looking for them specifically. Nevertheless, probably they were hidden in plain sight, even for researchers who are dedicated to characterize bacterial life in their system beyond 16S surveys or annotation of short metagenomic reads.
If there was a way to recognize CPR genomes rapidly, maybe it would have been useful to understand the extent of their distribution among metagenomic bins, and help people to focus on the ones that look interesting. And this is exactly what we will explore here using those single-copy gene patterns.
Essentially we want to say “if these single-copy genes are lacking from a genome, and those single-copy genes are present, then it may be a CPR genome”. Sounds straightforward enough. But then things are always noisy, and metagenomic bins are often incomplete and/or contaminated at least initially, hence you can’t go far with absolute presence and absence counts. Then you would have to look at ratios and percentages of those group of genes to each other, and eventually end up having to come up with biologically irrelevant cut-offs. Although we microbial ecologists are pretty awesome at not losing sleep over making meaningless cutoffs as pillars of our science, we also know one should avoid cut-offs whenever they can. One of the better ways to approach to problems of this sort is to train a ‘classifier’. Here I confess that I wrote this entire paragraph to find a way to lead you to this video: a very friendly 7 minutes to understand the concept behind classification in machine learning from Google, in case you are not familiar with the concept, and tired of not being familiar with it.
OK. I used the data you see in the anvi’o figure above to train a random forest classifier using scikit learn library. The logic is very simple: tell the computer about the distribution of single-copy genes across known CPR genomes, and ask whether it thinks an unknown genome may be coming from CPR or not. In fact, I added a learning module in anvi’o to be able to do these kinds of things in a much rapid manner in the future, so beware! I also implemented two draft scripts, anvi-script-gen-CPR-classifier for the training part, and anvi-script-predict-CPR-genomes for the prediction part.
Everything here uses anvi’o v2 branch, which is not officially released yet, but you can install and use directly from the GitHub master repository.
Now using the first programs, along with the Brown_et_al-CPR-Campbell_et_al_BSCG.txt file, I can create a classifier:
$ anvi-script-gen-CPR-classifier Brown_et_al-CPR-Campbell_et_al_BSCG.txt -o cpr-bscg.classifier
RF Train .....................................: 2391 observations with 139 features grouped into 2 classes.
Classifier output ............................: cpr-bscg.classifier
We have a classifier! So far so good. But does it classify?
Let’s start with something we all know that is not coming from CPR: E. coli (this one, to be specific).
First, the standard steps of generating an anvi’o contigs database from a given FASTA file of contigs, and populating HMM search results in it:
$ anvi-gen-contigs-database -f E_coli-K12-MG1655.fa -o E_coli-K12-MG1655.db -n 'E._coli'
$ anvi-run-hmms -c E_coli-K12-MG1655.db
Then, the moment of truth:
$ anvi-script-predict-CPR-genomes cpr-bscg.classifier -c E_coli-K12-MG1655.db
Genome in "E_coli-K12-MG1655.db"
E_coli-K12-MG1655 ............................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 4,641,652, Completion: 100%)
But of course, this is a complete genome (as anvi’o also predicts and states it in its output: Completion: 100%), and we know genomes from CPR miss a lot of single-copy genes. Would the classifier work if it was not as complete? Here I create another FASTA file with only the first half of the genome:
$ head -n `wc -l E_coli-K12-MG1655.fa | awk '{print $1 / 2}'` E_coli-K12-MG1655.fa > E_coli-K12-MG1655-half.fa
$ wc -l E_coli-K12-MG1655.fa
58022 E_coli-K12-MG1655.fa
$ wc -l E_coli-K12-MG1655-half.fa
29011 E_coli-K12-MG1655-half.fa
Then repeat the process on this incomplete genome:
$ anvi-gen-contigs-database -f E_coli-K12-MG1655-half.fa -o E_coli-K12-MG1655-half.db -n 'Half of an E. coli'
$ anvi-run-hmms -c E_coli-K12-MG1655-half.db
$ anvi-script-predict-CPR-genomes cpr-bscg.classifier -c Genomes_NCBI/E_coli-K12-MG1655-half.db --min-percent-completion 0
Genome in "E_coli-K12-MG1655-half.db"
E_coli-K12-MG1655-half .......................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 97%, Size: 2,239,920, Completion: 30%)
Although the genome is now only 30% complete, the classifier says it is not a CPR genome with 97% confidence.
Good job, classifier. You may have just proven yourself to be not an absolute joke. For now.
How about a known CPR genome? For this, I decided to use one of the genomes (this one, to be specific) Daan Speth and his colleagues released from a wastewater treatment system in their recent publication. Their genomes were not used in Brown et al.’s study, therefore I did not use them to train the classifier. Another group with another set of genomes; the best test case:
$ wget http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/wgs/?download=LMZU01.1.fsa_nt.gz -O LMZU01.1.fsa_nt.gz
$ gzip -d LMZU01.1.fsa_nt.gz
$ anvi-script-remove-short-contigs-from-fasta LMZU01.1.fsa_nt --simplify-names -o OP11-2.fa -l 0
$ anvi-gen-contigs-database -f OP11-2.fa -o OP11-2.db -n 'OP11'
$ anvi-run-hmms -c OP11-2.db
The moment of truth:
$ anvi-script-predict-CPR-genomes cpr-bscg.classifier -c Genomes_Speth/OP11-2.db
Genome in "OP11-2.db"
OP11-2 .......................................: CPR (Confidence: 94%, Size: 906,719, Completion: 66%)
It classifies a genome it has never seen before as CPR. So far so good!
But then I thought that it would be more fair to classify all genomes listed in the Table 1 (I guess you already figured that I am doing these experiments as I write this post). I know that only the last five genomes in this table represent CPR genomes, and the test is to identify them properly. Just for future references, I wrote this little script to download and characterize all genomes with the accession numbers listed in Table 1:
wget http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/wgs/?download="$1"01.1.fsa_nt.gz -O "$1"01.1.fsa_nt.gz
gzip -d "$1"01.1.fsa_nt.gz
anvi-script-remove-short-contigs-from-fasta "$1"01.1.fsa_nt --simplify-names -o $2.fa -l 0
anvi-gen-contigs-database -f $2.fa -o $2.db -n "$2"
anvi-run-hmms -c $2.db
Which I called this way for each genome from within another script:
$ ./download.sh JZEK Planctomycetes_AMX
And then classified each contigs database (the following list is in the same order with Table 1):
Planctomycetes_AMX ...........................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 92%, Size: 3,895,767, Completion: 93%)
Proteobacteria_AOB ...........................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 2,610,123, Completion: 99%)
Nitrospirae_NOB ..............................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 3,754,263, Completion: 91%)
Chlorobi_CHB1 ................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 2,470,583, Completion: 96%)
Chlorobi_CHB2 ................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 98%, Size: 3,266,728, Completion: 95%)
Bacteroidetes_BCD1 ...........................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 3,578,419, Completion: 98%)
Bacteroidetes_BCD4 ...........................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 98%, Size: 2,188,196, Completion: 86%)
Chloroflexi_CFX1 .............................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 4,220,390, Completion: 99%)
Omnitophica_OP3 ..............................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 4,052,939, Completion: 94%)
Acidobacteria_ACD ............................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 2,971,784, Completion: 96%)
Armatimonadetes_ATM ..........................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 94%, Size: 2,571,275, Completion: 82%)
Parcubacteria_OD1 ............................: CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 904,903, Completion: 77%)
WS6_WS6-1 ....................................: CPR (Confidence: 94%, Size: 1,459,386, Completion: 78%)
Microgenomates_OP11-1 ........................: CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 957,550, Completion: 64%)
Microgenomates_OP11-2 ........................: CPR (Confidence: 94%, Size: 906,719, Completion: 66%)
Knowing nothing about a genome except its sequence, we seem to be able to predict whether it is a member of CPR.
Of course it is easy to screen individual genomes, or genomes well curated and finalized to perfection. But how about draft metagenomic bins? Since here in our lab we are obsessed with convenience, we made sure we will be able to screen any anvi’o bin collection rapildly with this new approach.
There is a work-in-progress project we are working on together with Ryan Bartelme and Ryan Newton. Just a week ago we had analyzed 1.4 Gb assembly generated from shotgun samples coming from a biofilter Ryan and Ryan have been studying in Milwaukee. Refining the initial CONCOCT bins with anvi’o had generated 253 bins with varius levels of completion. I thought these results would be a great test case.
This is how I screened the entire collection of bins in this analysis for CPR genomes (this is a severely cut output, I removed many many 90%+ complete and large draft genome bins from it to keep a smaller subset):
$ anvi-script-predict-CPR-genomes cpr-bscg.classifier -c CONTIGS.db -p PROFILE.db -C CONCOCT_REFINED
Contigs DB ...................................: Initialized: CONTIGS.db (v. 5)
Classifier ...................................: Initialized with 139 features grouped into 2 classes.
Num samples to classify ......................: 253.
Bins in collection "CONCOCT_REFINED"
Bin_1_23_4 ...................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 92%, Size: 1,140,608, Completion: 29%)
Bin_21_1 .....................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 3,090,091, Completion: 97%)
Bin_24_3 .....................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 95%, Size: 1,612,607, Completion: 40%)
Bin_1_13 .....................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 98%, Size: 1,983,086, Completion: 86%)
Bin_1_14 .....................................: CPR (Confidence: 95%, Size: 1,527,872, Completion: 91%)
Bin_1_4 ......................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 100%, Size: 2,198,357, Completion: 92%)
Bin_16_17 ....................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 92%, Size: 1,576,216, Completion: 28%)
Bin_22_5 .....................................: CPR (Confidence: 81%, Size: 703,984, Completion: 55%)
Bin_19_7 .....................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 84%, Size: 635,704, Completion: 53%)
Bin_3_9 ......................................: CPR (Confidence: 95%, Size: 1,097,163, Completion: 14%)
Bin_8_8 ......................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 84%, Size: 803,246, Completion: 17%)
Bin_16_13_2 ..................................: CPR (Confidence: 91%, Size: 996,627, Completion: 39%)
Bin_16_10 ....................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 80%, Size: 645,981, Completion: 10%)
Bin_6_12 .....................................: CPR (Confidence: 88%, Size: 796,309, Completion: 32%)
Bin_16_1_6_1 .................................: NOT CPR (Confidence: 95%, Size: 1,486,735, Completion: 57%)
From 253 bins, the classifier identified 6 likely CPR bins.
To go just a little futher, I decided to focus on Bin_1_14:
Here I ask anvi’o to bring me back all sequences from this bin that match Campbell et al. HMM profiles:
The program anvi-get-dna-sequences-for-hmm-hits is renamed to anvi-get-sequences-for-hmm-hits after anvi’o v2.1.0.
$ anvi-get-dna-sequences-for-hmm-hits -c CONTIGS.db -p PROFILE.db -C CONCOCT -b Bin_1_14 --hmm-source Campbell_et_al -o Bin_1_14.fa
Init .........................................: 71 splits in 1 bin(s)
Result .......................................: 129 genes for 1 source(s)
Output .......................................: Bin_1_14-genes.fa
The result is a FASTA file with every sequence matching to HMM profiles from Campbell et al.’s collection, and here is the RecA from that file, a phylogenetically relevant marker that may tell us what this genome bin is really from:
>RecA___7bd46ef7|bin_id:Bin_1_14|source:Campbell_et_al|e_value:6e-165|contig:k99_9268241|start:168214|stop:169330|length:1116
ATGTCGACTCTCACCGAAAAACAGAAAGCTGTAGAACTCGCGCTTTCACAAATCGAAAGAAACTTTGGCAAAGGTGCCATCATGAAACTTGGTGAATCTCAAAAGGTTGCTATCGAAACA
ATCCCTACAGGCTGTATGTCACTTGATATCGCTATCGGAGGTGGTATCCCACGTGGACGTATTATCGAAATCTTTGGACCAGAAAGCTCTGGTAAAACAACTCTCACACTTCATATCGTT
GCCCAGGCTCAAAAAATGGGCGGACAGGCAGCATTCATCGACGCTGAACACGCACTTGACCCTGAATACGCACGCAAAATCGGTGTAGATATCGATAACCTCTTAGTTTCACAGCCAGAC
AGCGGTGAACAGGCACTGGAAATTACCGAGGCGCTCGTACGTAGCAACGCAGTAGACGTAATCGTGGTGGATTCCGTAGCAGCACTCACCCCACGCGCAGAAATCGAAGGTGAAATGGGT
GACTCACACATGGGCTTACAGGCTCGTCTTATGAGCCAGGCTCTTCGTAAACTCACCAGCACCATCAGCAAATCCAAAACCACCGTCATCTTTATCAATCAGCTCCGTATGAAAATCGGT
GTAATGTTTGGTAATCCGGAAACAACAACAGGTGGTAATGCTCTTAAATTCTACGCATCTGTTCGTATGGATATCCGCAGCATCGGTAAAATCGAAGAGGGTACGGGTGAAACAAAAGAG
GTAATCGGTAATCGCGTTCGTGTAAAAGTAGTAAAAAATAAAATCGCTCCTCCATTCAAAATGGCTGAGTTCGACATCATGTATAACCGAGGTATCTCCTACACAGGTGATCTTATCGAT
CTCTCAACAAAATACGAAATCACCAGAAAGAGCGGAGCCTTCTATACATATAAAGATCTCAAACTTGGCCAAGGTCGCGAAAATGCCAAAGAGTTCCTTTCAACAAATGAAAAAGTTCTC
CGAGCTATGGAAAAAGATGTGCTTGAATATGTAGCCAACGCAAAAAAAGCTGAAGAAGTAAAAAACGAAAACTATATTCAACAGCAACAACCTCAGCAACCAAAGGCAGTTCCAGTAGCC
GCTAAAGCAGCCAAGTCAGCAAAAGATGAAGACTAA
And voilà, top hits from blastx are coming from bacteria from CPR (I removed two hypothetical hits from this list):
Query cove
E value
Ident
recA protein [Candidatus Peregrinibacteria bacterium GW2011_GWA2_47_7] 406 406 88% 2e-136 77% KKU79484.1
recombinase A, recombination protein RecA [Candidatus Peregrinibacteria bacterium GW2011_GWF2_39_17] 404 404 89% 8e-136 76% KKR09265.1
recombinase A, recombination protein RecA [Candidatus Peregrinibacteria bacterium GW2011_GWF2_43_17] 390 390 86% 3e-130 77% KKT02090.1
recA protein [Candidatus Peregrinibacteria bacterium GW2011_GWA2_43_8] 390 390 86% 3e-130 77% KKT19438.1
Protein RecA [Candidatus Peregrinibacteria bacterium GW2011_GWA2_38_36] 388 388 90% 2e-129 73% KKQ71843.1
Protein RecA [Candidatus Peregrinibacteria bacterium GW2011_GWA2_33_10] 387 387 88% 6e-129 75% KKP37897.1
recA protein, recombination protein RecA [Candidatus Peregrinibacteria bacterium GW2011_GWF2_38_29] 382 382 84% 2e-127 77% KKQ68511.1
I could have gone further (because I am not good at knowing when to stop), but I realized I should leave the rest of the fun to Ryan Bartelme to explore these bins deeper.
I am not going into the details here right now, but if you did your metagenomic binning using another tool, you still can use anvi’o to do what is described here by generating a contigs database for your FASTA file, and using anvi-import-collection program to create a collection in it, and link contig names to bin IDs.
Tom, again, was very supportive of my decision to write this, and I thank him for making sure my expectations are set properly:
Blogs are blogs, Meren .. people don't even read papers.
Tom O. Delmont
I understand if you just clicked a link to get here and jumped to the end because you are as busy as the scientist next to you. So here are a couple of points I made in this post:
The phylogeny of CPR genomes shows something extraordinary. They are truly unusual, and deserve all the buzz.
What we have seen so far is likely the tip of the iceberg, and it is safe to assume we will see much more soon.
It seems we can predict CPR genomes among draft genome bins from shotgun metagenomes almost instantly using single-copy genes.
They are not specific to systems Banfield studied, and their recovery is not limited to her group. Daan Speth and his colleagues have found them. I saw on Twitter that Jen Biddle has found them, too. Although we didn’t know it before, our new classifier showed us that Ryan Bartelme and Ryan Newton’s biofilter has them as well! Now everyone knows that they do exist, more people will be looking for them. I think more light will be shed on these new clades pretty fast, and we will be humbled even further by the extent of diversity life managed to create on this planet.
These are definitely exciting times.
If you have a list of genomes you are curious to see how anvi’o would classify, but you don’t have time / interest to explore it yourelf, feel free to send me an e-mail. I will ask you to give me FASTA files, and return you back predictions.
From the discovery of a bacterium that is capable of complete nitrification to the first description of switching of viral lifestyles based on the success of the target host, microbiology has been making a great use of assembly-based shotgun metagenomics. The discovery, and the placement of some CPR genomes on the tree of life is another ground breaking discovery that took place just within the last months.
This is a good moment to stop and think about the relevance, and importance of assembly-based metagenomic approaches to the most important questions we can go after.
Predicting CPR genomes in metagenomic bins was published on April 17, 2016 and last modified on April 17, 2016 .
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The number of deaths in 2017 is 109 791 and the crude mortality rate - 15.5‰. Compared to the previous year the number of deaths increases by 2 211.
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The most preferred names for new-born boys in 2017 are Aleksandar, Georgi and Martin, and for new-born girls - Viktoria, Maria and Nikol.
The largest number of Bulgarians celebrate a name day on Tsvetnitsa (Palm Day), Ivanovden (The day of St. Ioan) and Arhangelovden (Michaelmas day).
The leading names by regions for men are Georgi, Ivan and Dimitar, and for women - Maria, Ivanka and Elena.
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As of 31 December 2016 the population of Bulgaria is 7 101 859 persons or 1.4% of the EU population. Compared to 2015, the population of the country decreases by 51 925 persons.
There are 64 984 live born children in 2016. The number of live births decreases by 966 children compared to the previous year.
The number of dead persons is 107 580 and the crude mortality rate - 15.1‰. Compared to the previous year the number of dead people decreases by 2 537.
Population2016_en_722R06L.pdf
Thursday, 5 January 2017 - 11:00
Aleksandar and Viktoria are the most preferred names for new-born babies in Bulgaria in 2016.
Life expectancy at birth of the Bulgarian population calculated for the period 2013 - 2015 is 74.5 years
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If you’re planning to attend ISaloni 2017 make sure to visit the 5 Best Galleries and Museums in Milan!
ISaloni 2017 is upon us bringing together the world’s top professionals in the interior design industry for an authentic forum of ideas, creativity, technology, innovation and culture. Taking place in capital of fashion and design that is Milan today we decided to give you a little tour on what’s really important to see and visit while you’re there.
Milan being the biggest industrial city in Italy, is a magnetic point for designers, artists, photographers and models. It’s the kind of city you want to be in when looking for some inspiration. The city is filled with unique design stores, museums, vintage markets and incredible architecture, you just need to make sure you have enough time to see it.
To help you out on this adventure, today we selected the 5 Best Galleries and Museums in Milan, which we consider to be out of this world and thought you could have interest as well. Take a look!
Galleria Carla Sozzani
The gallery is located in a former industrial building, typical of the Milanese architecture. Since its opening, Galleria Carla Sozzani has established itself as one of the most important photography galleries in Italy. Over 200 exhibitions have been shown at the presence of famous photographers, often presenting works that had never been shown in Italy before: Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz, Bruce Weber, Bert Stern, Sarah Moon, Paolo Roversi, David Bailey, Hiro, David LaChapelle, amongst others.
PAC’s exhibitions are often a source of interest and debate in Milan because they highlight issues of great social importance (for example Regina José Galindo’s 2014 “Estoy Viva” show addressed the female condition, while the 2013 “Rise and Fall of Apartheid” exhibition gave insight into life before, during and after apartheid).
The Museo del Novecento was established on 6 December 2010 with the goal of spreading knowledge of 20th century art and offering a more comprehensive insight into the collections that the city of Milan has inherited over time. Beside its core exhibition activity, the Museum is active in the conservation, investigation and promotion of 20th century Italian cultural and artistic heritage with the final aim of reaching an ever wider audience.
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If you love art, design and getting out of the city centre, you’ll love Hangar Bicocca. Housed in a converted industrial building in an up-and-coming area outside the city centre, Hangar Bicocca attracts artsy types with its cutting edge exhibitions and workshops. This place is famous for its site-specific installations (similar to those at London’s Tate Modern) that over the years have included giant balloons and rooms set at -30 °C.
Mudec
In line with constant efforts on the part of the municipal authorities to preserve the memory of the economic and social processes that have shaped the city’s identity, the Milan City Council took steps in 1990 to buy the old Ansaldo industrial plant at Porta Genova and use it for cultural services. The disused factories, authentic monuments of industrial archaeology, have been converted into studios, workshops and new creative spaces.
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Dataran Pemuda Merdeka Butterworth (Padang Bandaran MPSP)
Dataran Pemuda Merdeka, Seberang Perai or originally known as British Recreation Club (BRC) is close to the locals' heart. The place recorded various historical and nostalgic events. Here is where struggle for the independence started in Seberang Perai. Former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah's father, late Dato Haji Ahmad Badawi among those who fought for the independence here.
Address: Jalan Raja Uda, Butterworth, 12300, Penang, MALAYSIA
Dato Koyah Shrine
Dato Koyah Shrine, or Keramat Dato Koyah, is a shrine to a Muslim saint along Transfer Road in George Town. He arrived in Penang from the Malabar coast in southern India (in present-day Karnataka and Kerala), where he was a mendicant, wandering from place to place, teaching, healing the sick, until one day, an incident happened that forced him to flee. Dato Koyah arrived in Penang some time in the early 19th century.
Address: Jalan Dato Kayoh, George Town, 10050, Penang, MALAYSIA
Dharmikarama Burmese Temple
The Dhammikarama Burmese Buddhist Temple in Burmah Lane, Pulau Tikus, George Town, is the only Burmese Buddhist temple to be built in Penang. Originally known as the Nandy Molah Burmese Temple, the Dhammikarama Temple was built in 1803.
Address: 24, Lorong Burma, George Town, 10250, Penang, MALAYSIA
Double Role
Up until 1909 the police doubled as George Town's firefighters.
Address: Lebuh Chulia, George Town, 10200, Penang, MALAYSIA
Dr. Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall
The Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall is located at Macalister Road, George Town. It is housed within the Penang Philomatic Union building. The Penang branch of the Philomatic Union was established through the efforts of Goh Say Eng, who also founded the Penang branch of Tung Meng Hooi. It was originally housed at the Li Teik Seah Building at 152 Carnarvon Street.
Address: 20, Lorong Susu, George Town, 10400, Penang, MALAYSIA
Dr. Sun Yat Sen's Penang Base (120 Armenian Street)
The Sun Yat Sen Museum is a privately managed museum at 120 Armenian Street, in George Town. It occupies the shophouse where Dr Sun Yat Sen had his base while in Penang. From the outside, the Sun Yat Sen Museum may appear stark when compared to the ornate architecture of the clan temples down the street.
Address: 120 Armenian Street, George Town, 10200, Penang, MALAYSIA
Also known as "Chicken Alley". This lane was once used by poulterers.
Address: Lorong Che An (Near Lebuh Pantai), George Town, 10200, Penang, MALAYSIA
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Author Guest Post-James Jackson
Please welcome James M. Jackson to the blog. He authors the Seamus McCree series consisting of five novels and one novella. Jim splits his time between the deep woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Georgia’s Lowcountry. He claims the moves between locations are weather-related, but others suggest they may have more to do with not overstaying his welcome. He is the past president of the 700+ member Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime.
REVIEWS FOR THE AUTHOR
Reviews are the balm and bane of writers these days. With so few newspapers providing reviews, many readers have come to rely on reader reviews on websites like Goodreads or Amazon. Best-selling authors can rely on enough of their fans to post reviews; the rest of us must rely on the kindness of strangers to post enough reviews to attract a new reader’s attention. (Thank you to all readers who do post reviews.)
Some authors claim not to read their reviews. I’m not so self-assured; I read them all. And I read them for books I’m considering as well. One thing I have noticed is that many of the “bad” reviews are from people who don’t like the kind of book the author writes.
It’s a shame for a reader to waste limited reading time on a book they are unlikely to enjoy. I’ve put together 10 Reasons Why You Should (or Shouldn’t) Read My Book
* If you like page-turners with plots that twist and turn, Empty
Promises is your kind of book.
* If you like hot romance on the page – not so much.
* If you like suspense and thriller novels, Empty Promises will suit your fancy.
* If you prefer cozy mysteries with food and crafts on the side – this is not that.
* If you like complex characters with strengths and weaknesses, Empty Promises has them.
* If you like your heroes to take names and pound the bad guys to dust, this may not be for you. Seamus prefers to use brain over brawn, although he’ll use force when he must.
* If you enjoy amateur sleuth stories set in real locations, Seamus turns amateur sleuth and Empty Promises is set in the wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
* If dragons or zombies or other magical/mystical creatures are your preference, the closest this book comes is a granddaughter who likes fairies and stuffed animals.
* If you want a knee-slapping hoot – I don’t write them.
* But if you enjoy a bit of wry humor, touching scenes with the grandkid and her dog, Empty Promises has them, too.
The best way to know if you’ll enjoy a book is to read an excerpt. To check out Empty Promises, you can download and read the first four chapters of Empty Promises (click here), or if you prefer reading a series from the beginning, here are the first four chapters of Ant Farm (Seamus McCree #1) (click here).
You can find information about Jim and his books at https://jamesmjackson.com. You can follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads and/or Amazon.
You can order paperback versions of his books from your favorite physical or online bookstore (or from his website if you’d like them autographed). You can find his Kindle books here
THANK You Mr. Jackson for the glimpse into your book, I'm sure there are readers who will be interested.
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Review - A Brush with Shadows
This is one of the few series I have followed since the very first book: The Anatomist's Wife (click here) . I have also reviewed #2 Mortal Arts (click here) , #3 A Grave Matter (click here), #4 A Study in Death (click here), #5 As Death Draws Near (click here), and was honored to interview the author (click here), and have a guest post (click here). Now for the next book in this riveting historical mystery series.
Series: 6th in Lady Darby Mystery series
Mystery Sub-genre: Historical Detective Mystery
Main Character: Lady Kiera Darby, an accomplished artist, widow now re-married, and social outcast
Setting: 1831, Scottish Moors
Obtained Through: Publisher (Netgalley) for honest opinion
From the Cover: "Sebastian Gage returns home to battle the ghosts of his past and prevent them from destroying his future with Kiera in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series.
July 1831. It's been fifteen years since Sebastian Gage has set foot in Langstone Manor. Though he has shared little with his wife, Lady Kiera Darby, about his past, she knows that he planned never to return to the place of so many unhappy childhood memories. But when an urgent letter from his grandfather reaches them in Dublin, Ireland, and begs Gage to visit, Kiera convinces him to go.
All is not well at Langstone Manor. Gage's grandfather, the Viscount Tavistock, is gravely ill, and Gage's cousin Alfred has suddenly vanished. He wandered out into the moors and never returned. The Viscount is convinced someone or something other than the natural hazards of the moors is to blame for Alfred's disappearance. And when Alfred's brother Rory goes missing, Kiera and Gage must concede he may be right. Now, they must face the ghosts of Gage's past, discover the truth behind the local superstitions, and see beyond the tricks being played by their very own eyes to expose what has happened to Gage's family before the moors claim yet another victim..."
Lady Kiera Darby finds a challenge when living with Gage's mother's family while investigating the heir's disappearance. They are an unpleasant lot, privileged, condescending, judgmental and so on. She gets a good picture of how they tormented her husband during childhood.
Sebastian Gage struggles with the baggage from his childhood from this cruel family plus questions regarding his mother's death years prior.
Bree, Kiera's personal maid and Anderley, Gage's rough spoken valet are the only people they can trust. Gage's Grandfather, Aunt, and cousins Alfred and Rory are all contentious and incredibly secretive.
The setting of the Scottish Moors provided a gothic setting that created the best atmospheric stage I can remember in a novel (better than Hounds of Baskerville even).
The plot quickly turns complicated with the secretive nature of the family and many developments and aspects to Alfred's disappearance. The pacing kept me reading into the night. The climax was edge-of-your-seat thrills - just how I love it. The wrap-up provides satisfaction on many levels for Sebastion, Kiera, and the reader.
This case, with all of its personal issues, is the most emotionally straining for Kiera and Sebastian. They are seriously challenged so early in their marriage and it shows what they are both made of. I loved the depiction of the moors, highlighting the stark beauty and lethal hazards. There was love and hate, privilege and isolation, and bitter family dynamics. This book would be excellent for a book club to discuss the layers of plot, characters, theme, and the use of gothic elements. I believe this is my favorite of the Lady Darby mysteries thus far.
Labels: historical amateur sleuth review, historical detective, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Moors.
Calling Bloggers & Reviewers
For all you book bloggers or reviewers in the audience, NAILED - the second novel in the Resort to Murder Mystery series, is available through Netgalley.
Reviews from those who have read it so far:
"It will keep you hooked from beginning to end." Shelly H,
"A real page turner! It's a very well written book that keeps you hooked from the beginning till the last page.
Strongly recommended." Anna Maria G
"A very well plotted mystery set in a resort in Vail, Colorado. ...The book kept me engaged from the beginning right to the end and surprising reveal. There were no slow or boring times in this story. It kept flowing at a very good pace." Sabine F
Please check it out here: (click here).
I am happy to coordinate a giveaway &/or guest post as well.
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Author Guest Post - Paty Jager
Please welcome Paty Jager to the blog. She is an award-winning author of 32 novels, 6 novellas, and numerous anthologies of murder mystery and western romance. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. This is what Mysteries Etc says about her Shandra Higheagle mystery series: “Mystery, romance, small town, and Native American heritage combine to make a compelling read.”
Dreams, Clues, and Murder
Avery, thank you for having me on your blog.
For those who don’t know me, I’m Paty Jager. I write murder mysteries and western romance. I grew up in the NE corner of Oregon where the Chief Joseph band of the Nez Perce wintered and summered before they were driven to Montana, and ultimately, surrendered to the Army. Growing up in the area I was frustrated that the history of the county wasn’t taught in the schools. Especially, how the Nez Perce tried to hang onto the land they loved. And then to only see them in the county once a year during the Chief Joseph Day’s Rodeo and Parade, seemed insulting to me. I’m not sure how they felt.
Because the non-treaty Nez Perce (the ones who refused to go on the reservation and fled to Montana) were thought to be a bad influence on the treaty Nez Perce, they weren’t allowed to set foot in the Wallowa country. In fact, after their surrender, they were taken clear to Oklahoma where they became ill and many died. Those that survived the 7 years of incarceration in Oklahoma were allowed to return to the Pacific Northwest but not to the Lapwai Idaho Reservation where the treaty Nez Perce resided. They were sent to the Umatilla and Colville reservations to live with tribes they had battled with before and who had scouted for the army to find them.
I’m happy to say these days, there is a powwow held every July in Wallowa and the Nez Perce have purchased land in the county where they have fish naturalizing ponds and hatcheries.
The reason I write about the Nez Perce is because of the injustice I feel they endured. And the vision of a Nez Perce warrior I saw on the mountain behind my family’s home one summer day as I rode my horse through the trees.
My main character in my mystery series is Shandra Higheagle. I made her half Nez Perce and half White. Her Nez Perce father died when she was four. Her mother remarried a man who didn’t care for Native Americans and forbid her to talk of her father’s family or visit them. While the stepfather didn’t adopt her, he made her use his last name in school.
When Shandra went on to college, she used her legal name of Higheagle and studied art, becoming a potter. She hadn’t thought much about it being a part of her heritage until she is called to the reservation where her grandmother and the rest of her family lives for her grandmother’s funeral. During the funeral and the Seven Drums Ceremony, Shandra discovers her family is interested in bringing her back into their lives.
After the funeral, when Shandra returns to Huckleberry, she becomes a suspect in a murder. Her grandmother begins showing up in Shandra’s dreams, giving her clues that could help her solve the murder.
All amateur sleuths need a sidekick who is in law enforcement. That is where Weippe County Detective Ryan Greer comes in. In book one, Double Duplicity, he realizes she isn’t the murderer even though she is found with the body. And when he catches her where she shouldn’t
be, looking for a clue, she tells him about her dreams. To her surprise, he believes in them more than she does.
Their relationship builds throughout the series with a wedding on the horizon.
While most of the books are set in and around Huckleberry Ski Resort and Shandra’s ranch on Huckleberry Mountain, there are also trips to the Colville Reservation in Washington where Shandra helps her family discover the truth when there are murders there.
Shandra not only has Detective Greer on her side, but she has a big, furry, cowardly lion of a dog, a cantankerous woman who came with the ranch like a stray cat, and a slew of unique and quirky friends who live in Huckleberry.
I use Shandra’s grandmother coming to her in dreams as the mysticism in my series. Everyone knows of dream catchers. The are many different versions of how this web within a hoop works. Some say it catches the good dreams and they slide down the feathers to the person sleeping under it and lets the bad dreams escape through the hole in the middle. Others say it captures the good ideas that make a person or people stronger and allows the bad ideas to pass on through. I used this concept along with that of the visions or vision quests, which are important to all tribes as well, and the fact the Nez Perce have long believed in the Seven Drums and Dreamer religion. It is a following that Chief Joseph and many in his band believed in.
Putting all this information I’d gathered about the Native American cultures, dreams, and visions, I came up with the premise of the deceased grandmother coming to my character in dreams to help her solve murders. You can get the first book of the Shandra Higheagle Mystery series, Double Duplicity, free as an ebook at all ebook vendors. Books 1-5 are available in ebook, print, and audio. My narrator is working on book 6. My current book, book 10, Artful Murder, is available in ebook and print.
Artful Murder by Paty Jager
Book ten in the Shandra Higheagle Mystery Series
Secrets… Scandal… Murder…
An autistic boy and his brother need potter Shandra Higheagle’s help when a teacher’s body is found after a confrontation with the older brother. Shandra knows the boy is innocent. Digging into the teacher’s life, she and Ryan turn up scandal.
Detective Ryan Greer has believed in Shandra’s dreams in the past, but she can’t always be right. When his investigation uncovers a principal on the take, females being harassed, and parents kept in the dark, he discovers more suspects than the brothers. Shandra’s time at the school is coming to an end, and the killer has struck again.
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THANK You Ms Jager for the insight into your series.
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Attention Book Bloggers
You can get the second book in my Resort to Murder mystery series, NAILED, on Netgalley (click here). I would be delighted and honored if any book bloggers in the audience would read and review the book. Please contact me as well if you would like to do a giveaway on your blog.
NAILED:
Julienne is snow bound in the middle of the Rocky Mountains with a killer striking at will. This wasn't covered in Resort Management training.
Julienne LaMere gets to attend a Resort Management conference at a prestigious ski resort in the Colorado Mountains. What should be an enjoyable getaway attending workshops by day and shopping and enjoying the resort by night comes to a screeching halt when a loud-mouthed guest is murdered plus the roads and town shut down for an epic blizzard.
In addition to attending the conference, dodging a smitten teen boy, and seeking clues among the gossiping - and increasingly tense - guests, her best friend’s heart has warmed to an unlikely man and may get broken. As if her mind isn’t already fully occupied, Julienne and her new boyfriend Mason are skiing down troubled slopes in their relationship. Will Julienne put the scant clues together and unveil the culprit before a murderer gets away?
NAILED review in King's River Life!
I am so excited and grateful for the wonderful review of NAILED in King's River Life Magazine (click here.) The article also contains a chance to win a copy of my book, so head on over there.
Since I am so excited about the review, I am including a snippet here: "The essence of a “page turner” with a plethora of rich characters to support her amateur investigation, not-so-smooth romantic entanglements, and some perilous moments. Julienne is proving to be a favorite cozy character: vulnerable, but strong..."
Thank you so much King's River Life and reviewer Kathleen Costa.
http://kingsriverlife.com/04/21/nailed-by-avery-daniels/
Labels: Book Blogger review opportunity, King's River Life review., Netgalley, Resort to Murder Mystery
Author Guest Post - Christina Hoag
Please welcome fellow author Christina Hoag. She is a former journalist who has had her laptop searched by Colombian guerrillas, phone tapped in Venezuela, was suspected of drug trafficking in Guyana, hid under a car to evade Guatemalan soldiers, and posed as a nun to get inside a Caracas jail. She has interviewed gang members, bank robbers, thieves and thugs in prisons, shantytowns and slums, not to forget billionaires and presidents, some of whom fall into the previous categories. Now she writes about such characters in her fiction.
Christina’s noir crime novel Skin of Tattoos was a finalist for
the 2017 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for suspense, while her YA thriller Girl on the Brink was named one of Suspense Magazine’s Best of 2016 for young adults. She also co-authored Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence, which is being used in several universities.
She's a former staff writer for the Miami Herald and Associated Press, and wrote from Latin America for Time, Business Week, New York Times, Financial Times, Times of London, Houston Chronicle and other news outlets.
Why I Write Dark
Yes, I write dark stuff and always have. It’s simply what
comes out when I sit down at the computer. Gangs and dating violence are the topics of my two novels. I’ve written short stories about homelessness, prostitutes and assorted other gritty topics.
People have occasionally asked me why I’m drawn to the seamy side of life. I think it’s mainly attributable to my career in journalism, which has exposed me to many things that middle-class people never get to witness or experience within the normal realms of their lives. My fiction is an attempt to process those things, to take them a step further than the facts to explore the whys behind them or to simply expose different realities than the one I am used to because I find them intensely interesting.
So while I’m not afraid of venturing beyond the confines of my comfort zone, I admit it can be at times dangerous territory. I have to push myself. Violence and inhumanity are ever easy to write, but they are an inherent part of human nature. And what are writers if not chroniclers and interpreters of the human condition? I think it helps having written about acts of violence for many years as a newspaper reporter. I’m just used to writing about such stuff. Still, at times it gets to me.
My YA novel “Girl on the Brink” is about a girl who gets involved with the wrong guy, and it’s loosely based on my own experience. I had to amp up the conflict by including overt, dramatic acts of abuse. I wrote that book fairly quickly, especially those sections. I just wanted to get through it. My novel “Skin of Tattoos,” about a gang member who attempts to go straight but gets wrapped up in a rival conflict with a fellow homie, I probably downplayed the amount of violence that is normally in that type of lifestyle because I wanted my protagonist to be somewhat sympathetic.
I may have limits though. Having lived in Latin America for ten years, I am interested in narcoviolence in Mexico and other countries. It’s a topic I’d like to tackle and I think it’s an important one, but I know I’m going to have to steel myself to write about it with the level of detail required in a novel. The nature of that world is exceptionally grisly. Do I really want to go there? I haven’t decided yet. It may be too dark, even for me.
For more about Christina, check out www.christinahoag.com
Thank you Ms. Hoag for joining me today and sharing about your two novels.
Review-Of Books and Bagpipes
I'm making my way through my TBR pile. From the author of multiple mystery series, Country Cooking School, Farmer's Market, Dangerous Type series comes the second in a new series comes The Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series. I reviewed the debut book in the series, The Cracked Spine (click here). Now let's look at the critical second book.
Copyright: April 2017 (Minotaur) 317 pgs
Series: 2nd in Scottish Bookshop Mystery series
Mystery Sub-genre: Cozy Mystery
Main Character: Delaney Nichols, Expat and new employee at The Cracked Spine
Setting: Modern, Edinburgh Scotland
Cover blurb: "Delaney Nichols has settled so comfortably into her new life in Edinburgh that she truly feels it’s become more home than her once beloved Kansas. Her job at the Cracked Spine, a bookshop that specializes in rare manuscripts as well as other sundry valuable historical objects, is everything she had dreamed, with her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, entrusting her more and more with bigger jobs. Her latest task includes a trip to Castle Doune, a castle not far out of Edinburgh, to retrieve a hard-to-find edition of an old Scottish comic, an “Oor Wullie,” in a cloak and dagger transaction that Edwin has orchestrated.
While taking in the sights of the distant Highlands from the castle’s ramparts, Delaney is startled when she spots a sandal-clad foot at the other end of the roof. Unfortunately, the foot’s owner is very much dead and, based on the William Wallace costume he’s wearing, perfectly matches the description of the man who was supposed to bring the Oor Wullie. As Delaney rushes to call off some approaching tourists and find the police, she comes across the Oor Wullie, its pages torn and fluttering around a side wall of the castle. Instinct tells her to take the pages and hide them under her jacket. It’s not until she returns to the Cracked Spine that she realizes just how complicated this story is and endeavors to untangle the tricky plot of why someone wanted this man dead, all before getting herself booked for murder."
Delaney Nichols is a few months into her transatlantic relocation. She has made new friends and settled into her job - feeling her co-workers are members of her new family including: her boss, Edwin MacAlister, who is still just as secretive as before, Rosie and 19-year old Hamlet. Tom is the bartender from across the street and the romantic interest. Elias is a cab-driver who is also Delaney's landlord.
Castle Doune is a great atmospheric location to find a body. All of the locations in and around Edinburgh are used to great effect. The plot is murky throughout with no clear motive and thus suspects are pure guesswork which allows for twists as the reader is along for the ride. The only semi-clear aspect is that it all has to do with Delaney's boss and his college days with two close friends. The pacing was maintained with ongoing clues dribbled out. The killer reveal was tense, my favorite. The wrapup goes through the many twists and explains the nuances.
I enjoy this series and its basic premise. Delaney is a fun main character and this book had many twists. The motive was a surprise for me. This is probably not a mystery you can figure out ahead since the final pieces about the motive only surface at the killer reveal. Elias and his over-protectiveness is getting a little too much since he and his wife are just friends and landlords. The subplot of the romance with bartender Tom is so lukewarm and without chemistry that I barely remember their interactions. Some may appreciate the romance taking such a backseat. I appreciate how I feel so immersed in Scotland throughout the story.
Rating: Excellent - Loved it! Buy it now and put this author on your watch list
Labels: amateur sleuth book review, Cozy book review, Scotland mystery
Author Guest Post - Marni Graff
Please welcome Marni Graff, the award-winning author of The Nora Tierney English Mysteries and The Trudy Genova Manhattan Mysteries. I always enjoy learning more about the settings and how they are used in the story and this one has a well known location.
Setting Inspiration
Although I’ve lived in rural North Carolina for the past 21 years, I’m a native New Yorker. The allure and glitz of Manhattan is never far from my memories of my favorite nursing position years ago as a medical consultant for a movie studio, which inspired my second series, The Trudy Genova Manhattan Mysteries.
Trudy now has that job and the first book in the series, Death Unscripted, took place on the set of soap opera filmed for the internet in the studio where I worked with the cast and crew of One Life to Live. When I decided the next mystery would revolve around Trudy’s work on a television movie, I needed a gothic building for the setting that would evoke that sense of mystery just by its very presence.
What better building to choose for Death of an Heiress than
the famed Dakota, the late 19th-century Victorian-Gothic apartment building, rumored to have its own ghost, that was the brainchild of Singer Sewing Machine magnate Edward Clark. On West 72nd and Central Park West, most people think of the Upper West Side luxury apartment building as the place where John Lennon lived and died, and in fact, Yoko Ono still lives there. With its 15-foot ceilings, elaborately carved mahogany woodwork and mantels, parquet flooring, and iron and marble staircases, there is always a waiting list for tenants. A special storage room exists for storing the original doors and fireplaces if a modern tenant wants to renovate to a contemporary design.
The Dakota’s luxurious apartments have never been empty. Lauren Bacall lived there for 53 years until her death, and it has been the home to many of the rich and famous, who include Rudolf Nureyev, the Steinway family, Rosemary Clooney, Boris Karloff, Gilda Radner, Judy Garland and Carson McCullers. Its cooperative board is even more famous for those it would not allow to live at The Dakota, such as Billy Joel, Madonna, Carly Simon, Alex Rodriquez and Cher. No reasons are given, just a rejection on those applications.
Small wonder then, that when the floor plan of what used to be the home of Leonard Bernstein came into my possession, I decided this would be the perfect setting for where Trudy’s movie would be filmed. Trudy’s assignment is ostensibly first aid for the cast and crew, but the producers want her to watch over their star, in the early stages of a difficult pregnancy. When the actress disappears near the end of shooting and the male lead is found dead in the gorgeous paneled dining room, Trudy finds herself involved in the investigations.
The Dakota was used in the filming of Rosemary’s Baby, but only the exteriors were shot there in the large courtyard and coach entrance. A sound stage had to be built that mocked up the interior of the apartment where Rosemary lived, because in reality, The Dakota won’t allow any inside filming. Of course, in Trudy’s world, they will.
Ms. Graff also writes a crime review blog at www.auntiemwrites.com. Her books can be found at www.bridlepathpress.com and on Amazon, in trade paperback, Kindle and Audible.
THANK You Ms. Graff for that writeup about the famous Dakota featured in your novel.
Review - Flowers and Foul Play
Amanda Flower's is the bestselling author of the Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries, Living History Museum Mysteries, India Hayes Mysteries, Magical Bookshop Mysteries (Crime and Poetry-click here, second book Prose and Cons-click here), and the new Magic Garden Mysteries. It is the debut book of the new Magic Garden Series I'm reviewing here.
Author: Amanda Flowers
Copyright: May 2018 (Crooked Lane Books) 320 pgs
Series: 1st in Magic Garden Mystery series
Mystery Sub-genre: Cozy Mystery with magical touches
Main Character: Fiona Knox, recently single and jobless American in Scotland.
Setting: Modern, Duncreigan Scotland
Obtained Through: Publisher for honest opinion - Netgalley
From the cover: "Florist Fiona Knox’s life isn’t smelling so sweet these days. Her fiancé left her for their cake decorator. Then, her flower shop wilted after a chain florist opened next door. So when her godfather, Ian MacCallister, leaves her a cottage in Scotland, Fiona jumps on the next plane to Edinburgh. Ian, after all, is the one who taught her to love flowers. But when Ian’s elderly caretaker Hamish MacGregor shows her to the cottage upon her arrival, she finds the once resplendent grounds of Duncreigan in a dreadful shambles―with a dead body in the garden.
Minutes into her arrival, Fiona is already being questioned by the handsome Chief Inspector Neil Craig and getting her passport seized. But it’s Craig’s fixation on Uncle Ian’s loyal caretaker, Hamish, as a prime suspect, that really makes her worried. As Fiona strolls the town, she quickly realizes there are a whole bouquet of suspects much more likely to have killed Alastair Croft, the dead lawyer who seems to have had more enemies than friends.
Now it’s up to Fiona to clear Hamish’s name before it’s too late."
Fiona Knox, still hurting from her unfaithful fiance and the closing of her florist shop, is confused and trying to do right by the memory of her Uncle Ian's legacy. To her credit, she doesn't run from the situation before her when so many things challenge and test her. Hamish, the rustic and down-to-earth caretaker of the property is a great character I enjoyed getting to know. Chief Inspector Neil Craig, is the standard police love interest - but neither he nor Fiona are quick trust one another. I like Inspector Craig's character. There are several townspeople to fill out the cast. There are a few charming animal characters including a mischievous blue-eyed fox, a cat who adopts Fiona named Ivanhoe, and Hamish's companion red squirrel, Duncan, who add delightful magical touches.
Duncreigan, the property Fiona inherited is a great setting and key to the story. The magical garden reminded me of The Secret Garden in the classic novel. The closest town and its people plus with the imposing cliffs complete the half magical and half secretive atmosphere.
The plot is wonderfully layered and kept my interest. The killer reveal is my favorite - nice and tense. The wrapup was complete and leaves it open for the next adventure. The story telling is smooth and light. I enjoyed Fiona, who comes across as genuine and vulnerable yet strong. I love the magical touches. I appreciate that the potential romance may be a slow burn from early indications.
Labels: amateur sleuth book review, cozy paranormal review, Scotland mystery
Author Guest Post - Sandra Cody
Please welcome Sandra Cody, the author of Jennie Connors series. The Peace Morrow books are set in a picture-perfect small town just north of Philadelphia. The town, Doylestown, is real, but the the stories are totally fictitious. Much of the action takes place in a museum of antique tools and folk art. The stories center around family and examine the ways in which destiny is shaped by secrets. Peace is a young woman searching for her identity - and a history she may be better off not knowing.
The Birth Of A New Series?
It’s funny how books come to be written. An Uncertain Path took me by surprise. In a previous book, Love and Not Destroy, I introduced Peace Morrow, a young woman who had been abandoned as an infant. Her quest to learn her history was a subplot to the main mystery in that book. By the end of the book, she knows who her biological parents are. So ... that question was answered, that goal achieved. End of story. Not quite.
Deep into my next book (part of my Jennie Connors series and totally unrelated to Peace Morrow’s story), I found myself wondering how Peace was dealing with this information. Was she happy with her discovery? Disappointed? If I didn’t write a sequel, Peace would never get to know her newly-discovered family. I felt like I was abandoning her again. I couldn’t do that. Long story short, what I thought was the end was actually a beginning. Problem was, I had no idea what was coming next. So I began what was An Uncertain Path - for both me and my protagonist.
The book is set in a real town, the town where I’ve lived for more than half my life. Part of the fun of releasing the first book was the reaction of friends and neighbors who live here. They loved reading about a fictional character walking along their streets, stopping in their favorite bookstore, or having dinner in a restaurant they know well. More to the point, I discovered they were also curious about what happened next in Peace’s life. She was real to them! There aren’t many things that make a writer as happy as that.
I also discovered that people who’d never seen my town
loved it too. They wanted to know more about it. I kept that in mind as I wrote An Uncertain Path. In fact, the name was inspired by one of our landmarks. A few yards from our library, there’s a labyrinth with a story deserving of its own novel. Its construction was inspired by a woman grieving the loss of her beloved adopted daughter. It’s not really like the story of Peace Morrow, but certain elements of the two resonate. Yes, the labyrinth and an abbreviated version of its origin are included in the book.
And, again, the people who live here love seeing part of their real-life history portrayed in fiction and people who live elsewhere are curious about it. My setting had become a character - in this case, a setting/character that was ready-made for me. All I had to do was pay attention to the streets I walk every day, the stores where I shop, the restaurants where I eat. These things, while not part of the plot, give texture to a story and help a reader suspend disbelief so they believe in your plot.
In case you’re curious, I’m now deep into another Jennie Connors book and wonder what’s next in Peace Morrow’s life. Has another series been born? AN UNCERTAIN PATH - amzn.to/2vhDkz4
Thank You Ms. Cody for that peek into Peace Morrow's creation and evolution. It is a compliment that a character grabs the reader's interest so much.
Sandra's links:
Website: http://www.sandracareycody.com
Blog: http://www.birthofanovel.wordpress.com
Amazon Author Page: http://amzn.to/18bIfTI
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/xfU969
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandracody
Labels: author guest post, Pennsylvania mystery
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The Lives of Others (2006)
Tagged: Anti-socialism, Search & seizure
An East German Stasi agent becomes obsessed with the lives of a young couple he has been assigned to surveil. [ The Lives of Others credits: Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck/ 137 min/ Drama, Thriller, Foreign/ Anti-socialism, Search & Seizure/ German]
“The Lives of Others is that rare thing: a best foreign language Oscar-winner that fully deserves its prize. Beautifully acted, and making equal demands on our intelligence and on our hearts, it is a significant act of historical reckoning…”
“[Director] von Donnersmarck…demonstrates astonishing visual and narrative rigor. Even more remarkably, he is able to reach back into the totalitarian past and over the Berlin Wall into the grim, brutal absurdity of the late, unlamented German Democratic Republic, and lay bare the anxious, cruel psychology of socialism as it once existed.”
“Brilliant thriller.”
More Films About: Anti-Socialism
More Films About: Search & Seizure
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NAB 2018: Immersing Fans in Sports Broadcasting
April 30, 2018 Home, Media Sectors, Media Topics, TechnologyNAB 2018, Sports BroadcastModernMediaMix
Sports have always been a major cornerstone of America’s favorite past time. It’s one of the best forms of entertainment and engagement for millions of people. There were a number of sports exhibitors at this years NAB Show: Sportradar, FOX Sports, Neilson eSports, NBC Sports Digital & Playmaker Media, Glory Sports International, Fan Controlled Football League, and more. They were all there to demonstrate their upcoming tech in the online sports industry.
Not only has the world of sports been changing greatly, but the way we deliver and showcase this content has revamped the way we become immersed in the game. Here are some of the things we got to experience and hear at the NAB Show!
Watching sports has always brought up-close action directly to fans. This has all been done with new tech, trends, production quality, non-stop sports coverage, social media, etc. Loyal fans demand only the best quality video, anywhere, at anytime. This has set new challenges for online sports agencies and how they deliver content. It has to set the new bar for quality entertainment and action that all fans can really get immersed in.
At the session “Speed, Position, Power – Connecting Today’s Sports Fans with Data” a panelist from Sportradar discussed the importance of small details that can be delivered to the audience in ways that make huge impacts on the way we watch sports. Not only data that we get from the action of the plays, but the action happening behind the scenes and in between plays. They showcased their website design and how it could take tremendous amounts of data and compress it to the point where fans have easy access to what they want to see from their favorite sports team.
Many announcements of new ways of delivering sports content were made through the week at NAB. But there was one whole brand new way to actually be part of the sports team. Fan Controlled Football League (FCFL) announced that will officially launch early of 2019 with their newest partner, Twitch. It’s the very first of its kind of interactive sports game platform.
Real football teams ran by the fans. They control the plays, roster, and earn fan tokens throughout season. All of this is done in real time using the Twitch platform. “This is the closest you can get to managing your own football team. For the first time ever, fans actually control what they want to see.” This new type of sports platform will become the next big leap forward for the world of sports and the way we engage with it.
So next time you sit down with the bag of chips on the couch and tune into the sports channel, be ready for some of the newest advancements in the world of sports entertainment. Between the content that is being delivered, the data being researched, or even the way fans play the game, sports will continue to be one of America’s most enjoyable pastimes.
-Nick Langel
Just Brand It: Nike Does It Best
February 16, 2016 Advertising, Home, Media Planning, Media Sectors, Media Topics, Social MediaAdvertising, Media Promotion, Nike, Sports BroadcastModernMediaMix
It’s a Saturday Morning in your favorite college town. You wake up, put on your socks, shorts, and favorite team’s jersey. You turn the TV onto ESPN’s College Game Day before putting on your jacket and heading out to tailgate. More than likely, your day has been consumed with one major brand. Nike is everywhere in our lives, whether it be the socks you wear or the commercials you see on TV. Nike has become a part of everyday life, especially if you have anything to do with the sporting world.
Nike Incorporated is a clothing, footwear, sportswear, and equipment supplier Originally based in the United States. It is the world’s leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel. It’s headquartered are located near Beaverton, Oregon and has 44,00 employers world wide. Originally it was founded as Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight on January 25, 1964.
Celebrity endorsements are huge in the sports clothing branding world. Nike uses stars like LeBron James and Tiger Woods for customers and children to look up to. Nike has Hundreds of millions of dollars poured into their celebrities to sport their brand within everything they do on and off the field or court. LeBron alone signed a lifetime $500 Million contract for the brand at the end of 2015.
Nike also uses inner laziness as the enemy, and challenges you to “Just Do It.” They brand themselves via platforms through social media, sports networks, and the sports teams themselves. When reaching the everyday person, Nike wants to make them feel like the best athlete they can be. And to be the best, they have to wear the best and get outside, and get fit.
One of Nike’s most recent advertising developments targets young adults. To promote the Nike SLAM brand, they presented “Nike Pictures” where they made a full short film following kids trying to figure out who their favorite NBA stars are by living with them. They showed 30 second commercials on television for two months, driving people to watch the entire film on the Nike Slam website.
Nike has come a long way since the 60’s. The Iconic Nike Swoosh can be found everywhere. By using information gathered through everyday experiences from their customers, Nike brands itself through heroism and finding an internal fear inside their customers. Though on the surface it seems like two opposite strategies of branding, it works enough to put them in the Forbes top brands in the country.
–Austin Hansen
ESPN Cuts Costs–Will Sports Fans Cut The Cord?
November 12, 2015 Home, Media Distribution, Media Sectors, Media Topics, TelevisionDisney, ESPN, Media Distribution, Sports BroadcastModernMediaMix
The ‘Worldwide Leader in Sports,’ ESPN, is headed toward a future that will feature its cable channels unbundled from the current cable/telco model. At least that’s what a large majority of millennials assume…
The financial model that encompasses ESPN’s array of content and its marketability has evolved immensely in just the past decade. While ESPN is the ‘Worldwide Leader’ when it comes to cutting-edge ideas, content production, timely and breaking sports reporting, marketing, and acquisition of talented media personalities — all which are critical to viewership in the sports medium — they are not viewed as the ‘Worldwide Leader’ when it comes to their offerings that can be categorized as ‘cord cut content.’
ESPN COST CUTTING = INEVITABLE UNBUNDLING?
Recently ESPN has been receiving attention for a reason it would prefer not to, cost-cutting.
Just last month, the ‘Worldwide Leader’ laid off 300 employees, and while those layoffs were dressed by Disney and ESPN President John Skipper as a consequence of rising rights costs — specifically their nine-year $24 billion dollar deal with the NBA — multiple sources made sure to indicate that the impact of ‘cord-cutting’ cannot go overlooked either.
Along with laying off 300 employees ESPN has also received more attention for its cost-cutting by parting ways with a number of their highly-recognizable/highly-paid personalities. Most notably their former mid-morning shock-jock Colin Cowherd, former Grantland.com editor-in-chief Bill Simmons, as well as the provocative host of ‘Olbermann,’ Keith Olbermann. All of whom had long, respected, and storied ESPN careers before their dismissal this past summer.
Former ESPN Ombudsman Robert Lipsyte wrote about the shutting down of Simmons’ former passion project, Grantland, at TheNation.com and provided an insider’s perspective into the dynamics that revolved around its closing.
While there are multiple sources that have indicated the impact of ‘cord-cutting’ for ESPN, there is quite possibly no voice (or in this case, written word), short of their President John Skipper that could have come from a more respectable and profound voice than that of their former ombudsman Lipsyte (since dismissing Lipsyte in December of 2014 ESPN has not hired a replacement).
In his article for TheNation.com Lipsyte remarked;
“ESPN is currently besieged by the rising cost of buying the rights to show sports events, the declining profits in audience fees and advertising revenue as people cut their cable cords, and Disney-ordered budget cuts.” (Lipsyte, The Nation, Nov. 2015)
ESPN’S SHARE OF YOUR CABLE BILL…
To fully understand the impact of ‘cord-cutting’ on the ‘Worldwide Leader’ it is critical to know the share of consumer’s cable bill that ESPN currently occupies. According to a digitaltrends.com article from July, which cites a Wall Street Journal report, cable providers are by far paying more to offer their subscribers ESPN than any other network. $6.04 is the going rate for ESPN within a cable bundle, $4.56 more than the next closest cable network, TNT.
This gross cost burden to cable companies bundles, along with an emergence of options to view the Worldwide Leader without ‘the cord,’ has made the conversations about ESPN ‘cutting their cord’ plentiful and consistent. However, pontifications — predominantly from millennials — have gone as far to assume that ESPN will have no other choice than to ‘cut their cord’ sooner than later if they wish to remain feasible in today’s climate of sports content offerings. This line of thinking is not completely incorrect, however, it is reckless to assume that a cable channel with as much, and sometimes more, exposure and ratings than the likes of ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC would suddenly feel inclined to completely ‘cut their cord’ and depart from traditional cable.
Disney CEO Bob Iger has acknowledged dropping cable subscription numbers for ESPN, and even went as far to tell CNBC’s Squawk Box that he sees ESPN as a media property that could eventually be sold a la carte, much like HBO, but, that will not happen in the next five years.
Iger went on to say while appearing on the popular CNBC show;
“Technology is the most disruptive force that so-called traditional media … is facing.” [But] we decided to view technology as a friend, not a foe, to bring better customer experiences across all of our businesses from making media look crisper on HD televisions to mobile and online viewing apps to enhanced attractions at theme parks.” (Iger, CNBC’s Squawk Box, July 2015)
ESPN’S FUTURE… DESTINED TO ‘UNBUNDLE?’ (SPECULATION & ANALYSIS)
When evaluating comments by Disney CEO Bob Iger and ESPN President John Skipper, along with taking into consideration their continually strong cable ratings in relation to their competitors I find it hard to believe the train of thought that predominately comes from my millennial peers that ESPN is destined to ‘cut their cord’ or die.
In my mind, the proof is in the pudding that there will always be ESPN channels available to cable subscribers as long as there is cable television. ESPN has made tremendous strides in their digital platform offerings, enough so that consumers that prefer to not have traditional cable can get their fill of sports content through ‘Watch ESPN,’ the ESPN mobile app, ESPN.com and other digital offerings from the Worldwide Leader.
Could there be a ESPN app available for purchase for those without a cable subscription in a half-decade, similar to Time Warner’s HBO Now endeavor? Sure. For the reasons I hashed out in this blog such as the rising costs of content rights and the gradual decline of cable subscribers. That said, indications are clear that the Worldwide Leader is still a ways off from needing to ‘cut their cord’ to sustain and thrive in today’s ever-changing media climate.
–Cole Bair
Concussion: Brave New Whistleblower or Anticlimactic Copout?
October 18, 2015 Film, Home, Media Industries, Media Sectors, Media TopicsFilm, NFL, Sony, Sports BroadcastModernMediaMix
Let’s get you up to speed. Concussion is Sony Pictures’ new feature film coming out this Christmas featuring Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who discovers Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in the brains of two NFL players.
The trailer has already sparked interest into the story that has Will Smith like you’ve never seen him. Based on a true story, this film looks to be a hit as it showcases the controversial topic of the NFL’s safety protocol, and the controversy doesn’t stop there.
The preview reveals Dr. Omalu’s fight against National Football League executives to “tell the truth” when it comes to his recent findings. It even shows instances of Dr. Omalu being threatened and stalked by suspicious figures in attempt to coerce him into covering up his life’s work. This is juicy stuff in an era where many already question the NFL’s safety protocol when it comes to concussion prevention and treatment.
This film is expected to provide a great opportunity for us to take a deep look at how Sunday’s new devotion has put profit above anything else. After watching the captivating trailer, one would believe this film is opening the closet door to reveal what skeletons the NFL has been hiding. Or maybe at one point they were going to do that. And chickened out. You see, this is where things get sticky.
According to an article written by Ken Belson, Sony Pictures has “found itself softening some points it might have made against the multibillion-dollar sports enterprise that controls the nation’s most-watched game.” The article cites dozens of emails that surfaced by hackers between Sony executives, representatives of Will Smith, and the film’s director, Peter Landesman.
Said emails involved discussion of “how to avoid antagonizing the NFL by altering the script and marketing the film more as a whistle-blower story rather than a condemnation of football or the league.” But wait, there’s more; another email stated that certain “unflattering moments for the NFL” were either altered or removed from the film entirely. Could these signs point to Sony’s fear of uncovering their own bogeyman?
Concussion’s director, Landesman, quickly came to the defense of Sony in a statement to the Associated Press stating that the movie, “never once compromised the integrity and power of the real story.” Instead, he claims that scenes were only altered in order to tell the story as accurately as possible; as well as to prevent lawsuits against the filmmakers for fabrication. He stated that cuts were only made to make the story, “better, richer, and fairer.”
Ironically enough, it may seem that the NFL has bullied Sony into softening up a film about the NFL bullying doctors. Sensing a trend here? Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves now, as every story has two sides that deserve to be heard.
The NFL has released a recent report in order to have their voice added to the mix. Essentially, this report is “a robust resource on the steps the NFL continues to take to protect players through rule changes, advanced sideline technology, expanded medical resources, investing in protective equipment, a commitment to the wellness of retired players, and a focus on the overall youth sports safety.” The report defends the League’s stance with facts about its’ lowered concussion rates, increased player safety regulations, and growing culture of safety within the game.
The NFL Senior Vice President of Health and Safety Policy, Jeff Miller, said he would willingly work with Sony to raise awareness of safety issues. This invitation may not seem so warm after all considering Sony vetoed Landesman’s attempt to reach out to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for a meeting.
Three conclusions can be drawn from this mess.
The Ending: Sony altered and deleted a few scenes, as most movies do during the editing phase. They did so to keep the story compelling throughout and to avoid any lawsuits against the creative team for fabricating any exaggeration and will be delivering an accurate, bold product come December.
Alternate Ending #1: Sony released an exaggerated preview to hype the film before it releases during the peak of the NFL season and Oscar season. Sony is worried about the new Star Wars film and is taking extreme measures to save the anticlimactic film which will be seen by millions as a letdown.
Alternate Ending #2: Sony wanted to create a film that takes action against the NFL and inspires viewers demand fairness but they ultimately cracked under the pressure of the billionaire owners and executives. The NFL successfully salvages their image once again through scare tactics.
Which ending is the most accurate? You will only be able to determine for yourself this Christmas.
-Jason Vizzini
The Future of the Megacast
October 18, 2015 Home, Media Industries, Media Sectors, Media Topics, TelevisionESPN, Megacast, Sports BroadcastModernMediaMix
You watched that megacast of the College Football championship game the last two years right? Pretty cool huh? TWELVE WAYS to watch a single game on all the different ESPN channels!
Or was it over the top? It could definitely have been too much. We just need the regular traditional broadcast, with two announcers and a sideline reporter, right? Well whatever you think, we will dive into the answers right here.
So, this is what the CFB championship game looked like the last two years. This was really the first broadcast of its kind. It was very cool to see ESPN pioneering something like this that no network had ever tried before. And it was successful. The championship game delivered the largest viewing audience in cable history. At just under 35 million viewers, it topped the previous record by just under 5 million viewers! To go deeper into the numbers, you can check out this link, here.
Now, with the major success of this megacast, it begs the question, will other major sporting events move to a megacast? It’s a very interesting question.
When you think about major sporting events like the Super Bowl, for example, a lot of money that is made from the game is the advertising. For the 2015 Super Bowl, a thirty-second ad went for $4.5 million.
This graph only goes up to 2013, but as you can see from the 2015 numbers above, the price just keeps skyrocketing.
So would it be a good idea for a network to go to something like this and spread out the advertising over multiple channels? It certainly looks that way. If the game got moved over to multiple different channels for a variety of different viewing experiences the network could possibly make even more money from advertising. The network would still be able to charge companies a great amount for their main broadcast and tell the companies that it still still their “A” package and it will have the most viewership.
They could also get companies that maybe aren’t quite willing to pay an amount like $4.5 million and say, and for a slightly lower price, they could have a thirty second ad on a different channel with the game. Obviously the traditional broadcast is going to have the highest viewership because that would be the one that all the viewers are comfortable with. But I’m sure there would be quite a few people curious about the other broadcasts available for the game, and be checking those out.
And moving away from the Super Bowl, I would also be curious to see if the MLB with the World Series, or the NBA with the NBA Finals, would contemplate moving to a megacast. The problems that arise with these games are a little bit different than the problems with advertising and the Super Bowl.
The biggest problem would be that these are both seven game series. Because they are seven game series, it would cost the network a lot more money and man-hours to have several different broadcasts of the games. The numbers on the left side of this article tell the story. Those numbers right there basically prove how insane of a thought it would be to produce multiple games as megacasts.
All in all I think it would be something very cool to see. More broadcasts of the biggest games of the year? Yes please. So let me know what you think. Could they do it? Would it be smart to do it? I know I hope so.
–Elliott Eggleston
When Will We Get 4K? The Bigger Picture
October 17, 2015 Home, Media Industries, Media Sectors, Media Topics, Television4K, Sports BroadcastModernMediaMix
We have both 4K cameras and 4K televisions, so what’s wrong with this picture? The problem lies within our broadcasting/streaming infrastructure. This problem is bandwidth. With 4K video we have a file size that is around 4 times the size of a standard high definition image and that creates a problem when trying to stream video over our inefficient infrastructure.
In order to gain a better understanding of 4K it is important to look at some of the benefits and challenges of this new technology from the perspective of content creators and consumers. By analyzing 4K from these two perspectives we can begin to understand the benefits and challenges of this upgraded resolution as well as the explanation to why we’re not ready for it yet.
Ok, so if we can’t view content 4K due to our lack of a strong bandwidth, then what’s the point of 4K? This brings me to some of the benefits from the perspective of content creators. Shooting video in 4K leads to so many more opportunities in the post-production process of a video.
First, shooting in 4K produces an image with higher dynamic range ( HDR) which gives the video better contrast, better color, and overall, a sharper and more detailed image. This in itself allows for maximum flexibility during the post-production process in terms of color correction/grading which is very common in broadcast and cinematic content.
Second, since we broadcast and stream video content in 1920 x 1080 (High Definition) this means that content creators have the option of zooming in and reframing shots in post-production since they have an image that is 4096 x 2160 which is able to be downscaled to fit into the 1920 x 1080 frame. This results in a sharper image and allows for consumers to be closer to their TVs with limited loss in quality.
One of the most common uses of 4K and zooming is in sports broadcasts. A lot of sports broadcasts use 4K as a way to show replays in a higher quality than the standard HD that we are used to. We are able to see a zoomed in version of a specific detail in a replay and still view it in 1080p because of the extra pixels offered to us through the use of 4K.
In terms of the benefits to the consumers regarding 4K it’s pretty simple: better image quality. Once 4K becomes a standardized resolution, we will have a better, more cinematic viewing experience from the increase in pixels. The great news is that these 4K TVs are priced similarly to standard HDTVs, so they are definitely an option for the consumer wanting to purchase a new TV. Unfortunately, there isn’t much content to view in 4K unless you record it yourself, so it is essentially a waiting game until the issue with bandwidth usage is addressed.
Although 4K faces some challenges, the media industry is working to develop more efficient codecs like H.265 to decrease the amount of bandwidth required by 4K video to allow for the streaming of high quality content. Still, although it won’t happen anytime soon, broadcasting in 4K is inevitable.
After learning about the benefits and challenges of this new technology from the perspective of content creators and consumers, what impact do you think 4K will have on the television and film industry?
–Kyle Stoutenberg
Mark Lazarus and His Quest for NBC’s Sports Domination
March 26, 2015 Home, Media Management, Media Sectors, Media Topics, TelevisionNBC, Sports BroadcastModernMediaMix
In the sports world, there is no doubt that ESPN leads in sports programming. While Fox Sports just recently launched their competition for ESPN with Fox Sports 1, NBC has had a little bit of a head start to compete with the sports media giant. The NBC Sports Group is headed by Mark Lazarus. Before he was president of NBC Sports, Lazarus was the President of Sports and entertainment at Turner Sports. In 2011, Lazarus took over for longtime Chairman Dick Ebersol, who resigned due to arguments with upper management.
During his brief tenure at NBC Sports, Lazarus has already accomplished many successful things. In the sports world that we live in, the National Football League dominates everything. Lazarus helped extend NBC’s Sunday Night Football contract for nine years up until 2020. Lazarus and NBC only had to pay $950 million each year. Lazarus also helped extend NBC’s Olympics deal until 2020 for $4.38 billion.
While those two contracts have come easy to Lazarus, there are still plenty of challenges that he faces if he wishes to put up a fight against ESPN. One sport that Lazarus has put at the forefront of NBC Sports is hockey. After the NHL had its lockout in 2004, ESPN dropped its hockey coverage, and NBC took over in 2006.
In January of 2012, Lazarus helped rebrand the Versus Network into the NBC Sports Network. Today, the NHL is slowly digging itself out of a hole when it comes to ratings. On opening night of this year, the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins combined for 956,000 viewers. That was the most watched opening night game since 1993, and was the highest watched program on NBCSN ever. Lazarus has a plan in place to return the NHL to its glory, and it looks like it is in motion.
The second sport that Lazarus is trying to help dig out of a hole is NASCAR. From 2001-2006, NBC shared its NASCAR television rights with FOX. At the end of their contract, NASCAR’s popularity was at its highest. However, in the eight years that NBC has been out of the game, NASCAR has seen its ratings drop. Now, Lazarus and NBC are back after they signed a 10 year/$4.4 billion deal.
Starting this year, NBC will once again split the NASCAR coverage with FOX, as NBC will take over when the series returns to Daytona in July. NBC has already started their return to NASCAR with their daily NASCAR news show “NASCAR America.” Lazarus has also made some great hires along the way, as he signed former FOX play by play man Rick Allen, former race winning crew chief Steve Letarte, and 21 time race winner Jeff Burton. I can tell by some of the NASCAR personalities that were hired that Lazarus wants NBC’s return to NASCAR to be a huge success.
While the ratings for the NHL and NASCAR are still above water, Lazarus’ biggest challenge will no doubt about be NBC’s new deal with boxing. It is no secret that boxing is long past its glory days. From the battles between Ali and Frazier, to the superstars of Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis, boxing certainly has been a thing of the past.
To try and resurrect boxing, Lazarus and boxing will be carrying their first fights in almost 30 years as “Premier Boxing Champions” comes to NBC. PBC is where not only some of boxing’s best battle, but also some of the up and coming stars. While the boxing talent alone may not give NBC its ratings, Lazarus is hoping that having storied voices Al Michaels and Marv Albert, as well as boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard, will be enough to start to revive boxing.
After one week, PBC gives some hope to the future of boxing. “Premier Boxing Champions” had 3.4 million viewers, which translated to a 2.5 overnight rating. That was most viewers for a boxing event on cable television since 1998. PBC also won the 18-49 age demographic, which is the age range that the UFC has lived on. While it is just a small sample, Lazarus looks like he might be the one that can save boxing.
The task for Lazarus is not small by any means. To compete with ESPN will take a lot of time, but if he is able to bring back the popularity to the NHL, NASCAR, and boxing, I don’t see why he can’t bring a challenge to ESPN.
Here are a few questions for you: Do you think this strategy by Lazarus will be enough to challenge ESPN? In what ways could you see this potentially backfiring on Lazarus? If you were Lazarus, would you do anything different?
– Andy McConnell
Jason Whitlock: Controversial columnist and radio commentator chosen to lead ESPN’s ‘Black Grantland’
March 26, 2015 Home, Media Management, Media Sectors, Media Topics, TelevisionESPN, Sports BroadcastModernMediaMix
To the dismay of some of his peers Jason Whitlock will (hopefully) be to ESPN’s new web venture, theundefeated.com, what Bill Simmons is to web-hit grantland.com. The web page pictured below was launched on February 12th. It is the homepage of ESPN’s new web venture theundefeated.com. The website that former Fox, AOL Sports and FoxSports.com columnist Jason Whitlock was chosen to lead. This homepage arrives 17 months after Whitlock was brought back to ‘The Mothership (ESPN)’ (as former employee Dan Patrick routinely calls the sports conglomerate) and states in regards to its launch, “coming summer 2015.”
Along with some notable stops as a columnist, Whitlock has held employment for years as a radio commentator, and in both his written and spoken words there is a permanent record of the never-ending narrative of the intersection of race, culture, and sports.
According to Whitlock, “Through the lens of sports, The Undefeated will be the premier platform for intelligent analysis and celebration of black culture and the African-American struggle for equality. The Undefeated will challenge, engage and advocate for people of color in a manner consistent with the black-press pioneers, such as Sam Lacy, who led the charge for Jackie Robinson’s civil rights-sparking baseball career.”
As a former columnist and radio commentator, Jason Whitlock has understandably built a reputation for himself that isn’t without controversy. When he departed ESPN.com’s ‘Page 2’ column for AOL Sports, Whitlock had been unafraid for some time to call it like he saw it, even if that meant consequences. On his way out the door at ESPN Whitlock defined fellow ‘Sports Reporters’ co-host Mike Lupica as ‘an insecure, mean-spirited busybody,’ and Scoop Jackson — an african-american ESPN.com writer, as a “clown.” Whitlock added that Jackson’s ‘ghetto posturing’ in his articles that published on ESPN.com were ‘an insult to black intelligence.” In 2007, after radio shock jock Don Imus made racially insensitive remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team Whitlock made it a point to quell the media backlash in regards to Imus’ comments, saying the shock jock’s remarks were ‘insignificant’ among other vivacious hot-takes in regards to black culture.
Needless to say, the network known for employing fans—ESPN—knew they had quite possibly one of, if not the most preeminent voice of sports and black culture under their umbrella. Well, not until Whitlock made those remarks about colleagues Mike Lupica and Scoop Jackson. ESPN does not take too kindly to in-fighting and the company completely pulled the plug on Whitlock in his 2006 move to AOL Sports, after initially displaying the want to keep Whitlock doing television appearances on their networks.
Not quite a year after joining AOL Sports Whitlock made the move to Fox Sports in August of 2007. What is now the infamous (at least in Fox Sports 1’s eyes) ‘move before the move’ back to ESPN. After writing—with much success—about the intersection of sports and African-American culture for Fox Sports for five years, Whitlock did not show interest in playing an eminent role in the new Fox Sports 1 television network by upping his TV appearances, fearing his writing would fall off as a result.
That’s when the call came from ESPN President John Skipper.
With ESPN fully aware of the burgeoning Fox Sports 1 television channel an arms-race of talent-seeking/acquiring broke out between the two networks. And as soon as Whitlock lost his clear view of a future at Fox Sports, ESPN president John Skipper was able to woo the longtime columnist back to the Worldwide Leader with the promise of his very own website.
Bill Simmons, a former ESPN.com Page 2 columnist himself has a successful ESPN website grantland.com, therefore it’s only right that Whitlock get his, right? Wrong. Well, at least to some it is wrong. Namely Greg Howard of Deadspin.com who wrote a scathing expose—or so he thought—of the longtime race/culture/sports columnist.
Whitlock was reported to be in some stage of discussions with Hoard when a Deadspin article, entitled ‘Can Jason Whitlock Save ESPN’s “Black Grantland” from himself,’ was released. Some of that article reading verbatim; “At least a dozen of Whitlock’s black colleagues have “accused him of attacking black culture generally and young black men and women specifically for personal profit and career advancement,” Howard reported. “What struck me was how many of them outright referred to Whitlock as an ‘Uncle Tom,’” wrote Howard, who had been in talks to work for black Grantland before his prospective mentor accused him of betrayal.
As capitalnewyork.com’s Nicole Levy pointed out, Whitlock characterized the majority of Howard’s article as a “total fabrication and lie, provable by the writer’s emails, text messages and phone messages” to him.
Nonetheless, in spite of the critics who point out Whitlock’s shortcomings, or ESPN’s dragging of their feet to launch the site (now 18 months after Whitlock’s hiring) the ‘Worldwide Leader’ likely has another web juggernaut on their hands. While Stephen A. Smith is considered the sports industry leader of the radio and sports television talk show discussion of african-american culture and sports — Jason Whitlock undoubtedly leads the in-print discussion of african-american culture and sports. And if Jesse Washington’s 9,000 word piece on Charles Barkley’s Alabama upbringing, entitled ‘Up From Leeds,’ is an indication of what’s to come at theundefeated.com, that ‘likely web juggernaut,’ will be a ‘can’t-miss web juggernaut.’
So what are your thoughts on the new partnership between ESPN and Jason Whitlock? Is Whitlock the right guy for “Black Grantland?”
– Cole Bair
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