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Brilliance World School Conduct Healthy Diet Activity
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Chandigarh 22nd August:- An activity on healthy diet was held at Brilliance World School, Sec 12 here. Students were encouraged to take to healthy food as against junk food. A short play with comic characters was staged. Most of the lifestyle disorders are somehow or the other connected to our eating habits. Thus to prevent these it is of utmost importance to stick to a healthy diet.
Niranjana Chatterjee, Principal said that it is high time for children to understand the importance of healthy diet and its role in their fitness. The healthy Diet event tried to achieve this objective in a fun way.
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ICICI Lombard Pioneers Use of AI to Automate Health Insurance Claim Approvals
Chandigarh 22nd August:- ICICI Lombard, the leading private sector non-life insurance company in India has launched India’s first Artificial intelligence (AI) based technology to facilitate instant health insurance claims approval. As a result, the traditional cashless claim request which takes an average of 60 minutes of processing has been drastically brought down to a minute using AI.
AI has become one of the mega technology trends being leveraged for the broader digitization of society and the economy, thereby impacting services across the board. ICICI Lombard, a pioneer in adopting new technology to ensure customer centricity, has used AI and machine learning to enhance the most critical aspect of insurance–claims settlement. The company has harnessed Algorithms using Cognitive Computing along with Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) & Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in this tech enabled innovation.
So far, AI has primarily been used in terms of chat bots handling simplistic service requests. Understanding medical diagnosis is a much complex activity for which ICICI Lombard has deployed the AI technology.
ICICI Lombard’s Executive Director Sanjeev Mantri said that the solution is designed keeping in mind medical emergencies. For policy holders, this would mean instant cashless processing of their request; thereby ensuring that they avail immediate treatment that is so important in case of medical exigencies. This solution will make claims processing faster, consistent and convenient for our customers, significantly enhancing their claim experience.
Traditional claims settlement process was a complex and time-consuming task, requiring a lot of technical knowhow and high human dependence. However, the two-step approach under AI, involves automated gathering of data from the claim documents and updating the same in the system. Once the data is uploaded in the system, the AI based technology evaluates the admissibility of the claim. A deep learning module is deployed, which automatically provides the amount to be approved using defined algorithms. The varied medical procedures where AI is being deployed includes Cataract, Maternity, Appendicitis, Hemodialysis and Hysterectomy. The insurer is looking to expand this list over due course of time.
This is not the first time that ICICI Lombard has come up with an innovative solution for its customers. In the past it has introduced several ‘industry first’ solutions such as 'InstaSpect '–India’s first real time claims approval for motor insurance claims using live video inspection and an AI powered interface for customer query management through chat bots (MyRA).
Feature Documentry Admitted ": Striking, Uplifting Journey of Five Decades to Become the First Transgender Student of PU
Chandigarh 22nd August:- To change mindsets and encourage transgenders to be progressive, Chandigarh's Young Director Ojaswwee Sharma have produced and directed "ADMITTED" a Biographic Documentary of 45-year-old Dhananjay, a social activist who enrolled himself for a master’s degree in human rights and duties at Panjab University last to last session.
Dhananjay is first transgender student at PU since the varsity changed its admission form to admit the ‘third gender’ in 2015. Dhananjay, who already holds a master’s degree in social work, graduated from Government College, Sector 46, in the 1990s under the male category.
Ojaswwee Sharma said that even now most of our citizen and even transgender remain secluded , even common people were not even aware of the term transgender. Transgender's could not walk out in the open and talk about their identity. He added that education is the best way to change the outlook of the society. While studying human rights, Dhananjay tried to bring awareness about the transgender community and Ojaswwee dittoed in Admitted.
Ojaswwee Sharma commented further that Transgenders should not suffer or feel inferior. Social acceptance is a must to ensure that they are not looked down upon, mocked or judged. Their body and identity does not match but that gives nobody the right to judge them.
He said that at Punjab University even in Class, Dhananjay was not treated differently by any of his classmates. Sharing Dhananjay's story, Ojaswwee says that his parents used to think that he was a shy boy and would happily help his mother in household chores. He added that his parents married him in the hope that it would transform him into a ‘normal’ man. However Dhananjay thinks and behaves otherwise , Dhananjai is a woman from inside trapped in a wrong body.
Dhananjay is also associated with a community-based organisation Saksham Trust, that has around 3,000 members and works for transgender rights.
He added that he believes transgenders should come forward and get education in colleges and universities like others to progress.
Dhananjay, who was born to a driver, have two children, son (23) and daughter (20). His kids and wife have supported him throughout and always stand by him.
Meanwhile, Delhi University had also introduced an option of choosing the transgender category in its admission form for post-graduate courses. Bangalore University too, had modified its application form to include the category.
Dhananjay is also represented Chandigarh at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) parade in Netherlands in 2016. He has been organising LGBT drive in th koe city for last five years.
Admitted is a A striking, uplifting journey of five decades to become the first Transgender student of Panjab University.
Admitted is a biographical docudrama on the controversial life of Dhananjay Chauhan - the first transgender student of Panjab University – her life journey with thrust on education along with gender identification, dilemmas and expression in personal life.
Who is in the film?
Based on, and featuring Mx. Dhananjay Chauhan, the docudrama has been directed by Ojaswwee Sharma, and is his major roll-out to film festivals this year.
श्री राम मंदिर निर्माण की घोषणा व भूमि पूजन करने पर महंत जनमेजय शरण व दुष्यन्त सिंह को मिली जानलेवा धमकी
Chandigarh 22nd August:- श्री राम मंदिर निर्माण की घोषणा व भूमि पूजन करने पर महंत जनमेजय शरण व दुष्यन्त सिंह को मिली जानलेवा धमकी। गत दिनों प्रभु श्री राम के भव्य मंदिर निर्माण हेतु आयुथया (थाईलैंड) में भूमि पूजन व मंदिर निर्माण की घोषणा करने वाले दिगम्बर अखाड़े के श्री महंत महाराज जनमेजय शरण व सामाजिक एवं सांस्कृतिक कर्मी दुष्यन्त सिंह को अयोध्या स्थित आश्रम में पत्र के माध्यम से धमकाते हुए आगाह किया गया है कि उन्हें इस कार्य के नतीजे भुगतने होंगे। इस धमकी की प्राथमिकी अयोध्या कोतवाली में दर्ज करा दी गयी है।
श्री महंत महाराज जनमेजय शरण व सामाजिक एवं सांस्कृतिक कर्मी दुष्यन्त सिंह इस धमकी से बेहद व्यथित है, उनके अनुसार वे समझ नहीं पा रहे कि इस कार्य से किसी को क्या कष्ट है।
वहीं दुष्यन्त सिंह ने कहा कि ये प्रभु श्रीराम का कार्य है और हम किसी भी व्यक्ति, पार्टी से संबंधित कार्य नही कर रहे ये तो अंतरराष्ट्रीय स्तर पर एक सदभावना का सर्वोच्च प्रयास है, लेकिन फिर भी अगर कोई घटना होती है तो उसका मुंहतोड़ जबाब दिया जाएगा।
Importance of Website for Educational Institutions
Chandigarh 22nd August:- Are you focussed at achieving the best output for your educational institute’s brand building? The trends today show that a website opens many great possibilities for educational institutes. The need for a reliable, attractive and effective web existence is increasing as internet and technology have become a vital part of the education process. Also, most people use internet to research about any institute.So, having a website makes strong impact on the image of your institute by increasing its visibility. It also helps togain instant digital identity and global presence.
CEO of Career Lift Ed-Tech, Nitil Gupta said that educational institutes have a lot to offer when it comes to serving the society. They strive to provide the appropriate education to their students. But most of their efforts go unnoticed because of not being present online. The same can be achieved through a professional web presence. To meet this need we made Edu-CMS, a website specially designed for Educational Institutes, be it coaching institutes, schools, colleges or universities.
He shared further that those days are gone, where the markets were a tale of barter, today the digital growth has expanded the market exponentially and websites are now focussed on not only achieving the optimum lead generation but also on brand building. The shift in focus is not just on overall appeal, but is a combination of expert content, valuable design and quality conversions. These are to be crafted intelligently so that your brand can reach desired business results and help you enlarge and multiply your market brand presence.
There is a need for continuous information sharing for an educational institute –among students, their parents, alumni and all other faculty and professional members. A website lets you communicate effectively. Information can be presented in a way that is highly accessible and easy to use.
A website is an efficient marketing platform that speaks and sets you apart from your competitors. It not only compensates for the optimum conversion of your leads to sales, but also does that in a shorter span of time. Gone are the days when customers need to be given all the information over the phone or through time consuming outdated marketing techniques; with a website you could save resources resulting in the most optimal output!
A website that is unattractive poses many risks. A broken link or outdated and shabby content may affect the overall brand image of the educational institution. All this can be taken care of through a website with content that is error free and provides incredible experience. Career Lift Edu-CMS is one such website which has no frills and is content ready. It is designed keeping in mind the needs of education industry to help institutes stay ahead of changing trends.
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Pimping Fictions
African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing
Justin Gifford, and Matthew Carnicelli
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The first literary and cultural history of African American crime literature, unveiling the untold story of black pulp publishing since the Civil Rights era
Read the Introduction (pdf).
"Lush sex and stark violence colored Black and served up raw by a great Negro writer," promised the cover of Run Man Run, Chester Himes' pioneering novel in the black crime fiction tradition. In Pimping Fictions, Justin Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others. Gifford draws from an impressive array of archival materials to provide a first-of-its-kind literary and cultural history of this distinctive genre. He evaluates the artistic and symbolic representations of pimps, sex-workers, drug dealers, and political revolutionaries in African American crime literature—characters looking to escape the racial containment of prisons and the ghetto. Gifford also explores the struggles of these black writers in the literary marketplace, from the era of white-owned publishing houses like Holloway House—that fed books and magazines like Players to eager black readers—to the contemporary crop of African American women writers reclaiming the genre as their own.
"Pimping Fictions deftly shows the scholarly significance of the early ‘street lit’ authors by decoding their profound artistry while giving insight to the culture that gave it birth." —Ice-T
"Gifford’s groundbreaking study of the 'art and business of black crime literature' is ingenious in its embrace of elements of street literature from historical and literary perspectives along with the culture of the writers who produce it, the commercial enterprises that publish it, and the 'white-controlled spaces' they occupy and must negotiate.... In exploring how these writers, little noticed by academia or mainstream media, negotiate the connection between white-controlled spaces in urban centers, prisons, and publishing, Gifford makes a persuasive case for their importance." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An important book on a little studied subject, Pimping Fictions brings sharp critical attention to the tradition of African-American literary expression inspired by Iceberg Slim. As the first major scholarly consideration of the literature of pimping and hustling, Gifford's book offers both a valuable account of the marketing and publishing factors behind the growth of a new popular genre and keen critical insight into the artistry and innovation that the literature's authors brought to its conventions." —Sean McCann, Wesleyan University
"Gifford aims to inject greater awareness of black crime fiction into the history of African American cultural production, and his analyses of Chester Himes, Robert Beck, Donald Goines, and Players magazine fulfill that ambition. His book clarifies this popular yet understudied topic.... Summing Up: Recommended." —Choice
"Gifford is particularly interested in characters such as pimps, sex workers, drug dealers, hustlers, and criminals as representations of African American resistance to American establishment as well as the harsh living reality of street corners, prisons, and the urban environment. Gifford is equally interested in the role of the publishing industry.... One of the book's strengths exists in touching upon the formation of African-American identities in the late twentieth century. Although Gifford's main focus is in pulp fiction, he also argues that publishing was an effective way to establish African-American culture and identity within the US.... Pimping Fiction is easy to read. While the book can be adopted as an introductory text for understanding a particular African-American writing genre, it can also serve as an extensive case study of a genre contextualized within a specific American and African-American time period and political context." —Journal of American Culture
"Drawing on an expansive archive of pulp paperbacks, prison novels, autobiographies and interviews, this timely study positions black crime fiction within a rich literary and cultural history of black pulp publishing over the past 50 years.... Gifford offers a compelling argument for the significance of black crime fiction as a literary and political response to white-sponsored methods of containment fostered by urban renewal policies, federal housing authorities and mass incarceration, whilst at the same time highlighting the deeply contested position of black pulp writers within the literary marketplace." —Journal of Popular Culture
"Pimping Fictions certainly jump-starts the conversation about why scholars should pay more attention to commercial black fiction, and by extension, the reading preferences of the black masses." —Resources for American Literary Study
"Justin Gifford's new monograph is impressive. He writes about a genre that historically has been both popular and met with strong critical condemnation. While acknowledging the reasoning for the latter, Gifford argues for understanding well why black crime (i.e., pulp) fiction has had and maintains a robust mass readership.... That dialogue is important for recognizing frankly the complicated legacies of our national past and present. For all the ways that forging a coherent cultural community over time has worked to give succor and strength to blacks in America... Gifford argues compellingly for giving critical consideration to black pulp fiction as a complex literary resource for understanding the complexity of racism and its lingering influences in the United States." -Clues: A Journal of Detection
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 “He Jerked His Pistol Free and Fired It at the Pavement”: Chester Himes and the Transformation of American Crime Literature 2 Pimping Fictions: Iceberg Slim and the Invention of Pimp Literature 3 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Donald Goines, Holloway House Publishing Company, and the Radicalization of Black Crime Literature 4 Black in a White Paradise: Utopias and Imagined Solutions in Black Crime Literature 5 “For He Who Is”: Players Magazine and the Reimagining of the American Pimp 6 The Women of Street Literature: Contemporary Black Crime Fiction and the Rise of the Self-Publishing Marketplace Notes Index
Justin Gifford is Associate Professor of English, and he holds the Jean Sanford Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Parker Deprey, All-Maine
Viking’s Parker Deprey named to BDN All-Maine boys basketball second team
Ernie Clark • April 9, 2019
Two teams that dominated the state’s largest classes this winter highlight the 64th annual Bangor Daily News All-Maine Schoolboy Basketball Team.
Class AA state champion Bangor is represented on the elite squad by 2019 Mr. Basketball and Gatorade Player of the Year Matt Fleming, a senior forward who led all vote-getters to head up the first team, and classmate Damien Vance, a senior guard who earned second-team honors.
Fleming was one of three repeat All-Maine first-teamers along with fellow Mr. Basketball finalists Wol Maiwen of Edward Little of Auburn and Ben Onek of Deering of Portland.
Also selected to the first team were senior forward Nick Fiorillo of Scarborough and junior guard Zach Maturo of Bonny Eagle of Standish.
The BDN All-Maine team also features three players from Greely High School in Cumberland Center, which this winter captured its third consecutive Class A state championship while running its record over that span to 63-3, including 12-0 in tourney play.
In second-team honoree Andrew Storey and third-teamers Logan Bagshaw and Zach Brown, the Rangers had a trio that averaged 52 points per game during the regular season and scored 76 percent (203 of 265) of the team’s tournament points.
Other second-team choices were junior forward Parker Deprey of Class B state champion Caribou, senior guard Cooper Wirkala of Oceanside in Rockland, and senior center Andrew Hartel of Cape Elizabeth.
Senior guard-forward Marcus Christopher of Skowhegan, junior guard Bryce Lausier of Hampden Academy and senior center Cam Wood of Class C state champion Winthrop join Bagshaw and Brown on the third team.
The 6-foot, 2-inch Deprey led a youthful Caribou team to the program’s first state championship since 1969, using his court sense and quickness around the basket to lead the Big East Conference in scoring while shooting 63 percent on 2-point shots and 35 percent on 3-pointers.
“Parker’s got such a knack for scoring in so many ways and reads the game very well,” Caribou coach Kyle Corrigan said. “His ability to score makes him a tough cover and opens up opportunities for his teammates.”
Deprey, who also averaged 3.0 assists and 2.1 steals, was a first-team All-Big East selection and was named MVP of the B North tournament after averaging 20.7 points. The forward averaged 19.7 points per game during the regular season and 7.3 rebounds per game.
“Parker is special, a big-time perimeter threat and decent off the dribble as well,” Tardy said. “Clutch shot after clutch shot best defines him.”
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The Celtic Supporters Association
The Celtic Supporters Association was the idea of Willie Fanning whose dream became a reality back in September 1944.
These were dark days on and off the pitch with the Second World War still raging and in comparison to those horrors rather more trivialy Celtic were not providing much joy to its supporters and defeat was a regular experience. Indeed the idea of a supporters association came to 27-year-old Willie while watching the Bhoys get thrashed 6-2 at Hamilton.
Willie decided to write to the Daily Record calling on fellow Celtic fans interested in establishing a supporters club to get in touch. A total of 14 people replied. Consequently a meeting was arranged at St Mark's and St Paul's Hall, Chester Street in Shettleston. The meeting proved to be a success - a provisional committee was installed and Willie was elected as President.
By the time of the second meeting at the A.O.H. Hall in Alexandria Parade in Townhead the word had spread. The hall was packed and car loads of supporters from across Glasgow and beyond eager to attend created a traffic jam along the parade.
A constitution was drawn up which allowed the new organosation to become an amalgamation of supporters clubs. Within 12 months membership had rocketed to 700 and the association had won the official endorsement of Celtic FC who handed over the responsibility of distributing match tickets to affiliated branches of the CSA.
The CSA remains a strong and influential body. Apart from following Celtic in massive numbers it has a social club in Glasgow and its annual Supporters Rally is a highlight in the Celtic calendar.
True to the traditions of Celtic FC the CSA also has a proud and continued ethos of raising funds for charity.
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SHUTTERSPEED - Review: Spectre
The high-water mark of director Sam Mendes’ second 007 film comes before the opening titles. It’s the Day of the Dead, and James Bond is in Mexico City. In a sweeping unbroken take, we follow him from the street to a hotel, into an elevator with a lovely companion, then out the window onto a rooftop. He’s taking a sniper’s position. Soon buildings are exploding. Bond is chasing the baddie through the streets and into a somersaulting helicopter. This is a good old-fashioned James Bond cold open.
It energizes us for Spectre, the 24th and longest film in the franchise. And though it never flies as high as it does in Mexico, its first 90 minutes are magical. Then the filmmakers start leaning on those two most tiresome of modern action film tropes: post-9/11 surveillance fears and childhood trauma.
But let’s focus on what works, first.
I’m a sucker for the classic formula, and Mendes – along with (so many) writers Jez Butterworth, John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade – take steps to incorporate classic elements of the series. Some are superficial: opening with the gun-barrel sequence for the first time in over a decade and reintroducing M’s oak-lined office. More importantly, Bond seems to be having fun. In Q Branch’s workshop, he fiddles with new gadgets while Q (Ben Whishaw) gives him grief. Yes! There are actually gadgets, most excitingly the new Aston Martin. It’s tricked out with defensive features; they’re familiar but judiciously deployed during a fun chase in Rome.
Dave Bautista as Mr. Hinx
Spectre’s other great action sequence is a great barefist brawl on a train. This type of fight is a staple of the series – often staged (as it is here) without scoring – and this one is a rip-snorter, combining fleet choreography with a downright hilarious level of destruction. That fight is with Mr. Hinx, played with hulking swagger by Dave Bautista. Hinx is a fun addition, a silent henchman that’s cobbled together from the best parts of Red Grant and Jaws. He provides a dose of fun super-humanity missing from the Craig pictures.
On the same note, Ralph Fiennes’ M definitely recalls a lither Bernard Lee, and Naomi Harris’s Moneypenny brings back the saucy banter. And whereas Christoph Waltz’s Blofeld leaves a lot to be desired (more on that later) he at least has a genuine lair, not the grim urban sets of many recent villains.
And Daniel Craig is the steady center of the whole thing. It appears he has found the hero-human balance. This time, his Bond gallivants from Mexico City to Morocco like Sean Connery, ogling sports cars and ladies. He’s serious about his mission, but never dour. Craig’s ownership of this role has been one of the great confluences of actor and material in recent film history. To watch Craig as 007 is to feel that Lazenby, Moore, Dalton and Brosnan were all caretaking in anticipation of a true successor to Connery.
Christoph Waltz as Blofeld
It’s a testament to the strength of Daniel Craig’s performance that his 007 remains psychologically coherent even as the tone of Spectre careens from adventurism to a Bourne-ish self-seriousness in the final act.
He’s forced to play off one of the most disappointing villain turns in the series. Christoph Waltz is a fine actor, and perhaps he will redeem his performance as the archetypical but long-absent Ernst Stavro Blofeld if he is given another shot. But this entry is a dud. It doesn’t help that the writers have shoehorned a shared tragedy that unites him with Bond. Or that he prattles like a sulky college freshman. Left with little to latch onto, Waltz only manages an approximation of what we expect his performance to look like: clipped consonants and weary smirks.
Lea Seydoux is saddled with the same issues. She is the daughter of Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), the Blofeld surrogate of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. White is revived here as a repentant paranoiac, mostly disconnected from his previous manifestation. Sedoux is not bad, though. She embodies the flinty reserve of a woman who has spent her life with secretive, dangerous men. She and Craig have two fine scenes together where this standoffishness transforms: first into contempt, then attraction. Yet, her heroine is introduced too late in the game, and the writers seem uncertain of her place in the portentous third act. So, it’s problematic when, seemingly out of nowhere, she and Bond start professing love to each other.
But that’s emblematic of a larger conundrum.
Lea Seydoux as Madeleine Swann
See, today’s James Bond is supposed to be a real character with a backstory and an interior life. His dialogue has subtext, and his objectives extend beyond the mission at hand. This runs in contrast to the traditional 007. There with little to no concern for why Connery wanted to thwart Goldfinger or why Moore pursued Hugo Drax into space. It was all Queen and country. Daniel Craig’s Bond, on the other hand, is trying to heal his broken soul with each mission. Each adventure is a journey into self. In Quantum of Solace, this journey was morose. In Skyfall, it was thrilling.
In Spectre, the gambit is perplexing. Blofeld cannot simply want to conquer the world. No, he must also despise Bond on a psychological level. It’s not enough that he wants to create an international surveillance program that enables him to observe law-enforcement services worldwide; he must also arrange a diabolical mousetrap for Bond.
Yet the true sin of Spectre is not the ham-handedness of its final act: it is the desperate attempt to serialize the preceding three films. The script insists that the whole Quantum organization and Silva (Javier Bardem’s epically unhinged villain in Skyfall) were working in concert for SPECTRE to destroy James Bond. The oddness of this idea diminishes the previous films. After all, Le Chiffre was a financier of terror whose sole concern was cash. Silva was a psychotic with a vendetta against Judi Dench’s M. If Blofeld was commanding these men against 007, he didn’t get his money’s worth.
But perhaps pleasing Bond fans is an impossible task. We were tired of goofiness after Die Another Day, so the producers went grittier with Casino Royale. Then they went too dark with Quantum of Solace. So, they amped up the spectacle and grace with Skyfall. But in Spectre, the essential issue is that Mendes and company found the parts but not the sum. They have the beautiful cinematography, the thrilling stunts, the game cast – but they couldn’t find a purpose in 150 minutes. It’s too bad, for because we’re left with something good-looking but brainless. It asks us to believe a man who only knew Bond for a couple years would form a criminal enterprise to destroy him. That Bond would fall head-over-heels for a woman he shares about ten minutes of screen-time with.
Hell, we’re asked to believe 007 would go to the Alps, and not even clip on a pair of skis.
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TAKING STOCK OF BOND - Moonraker and the Giddy Charm of Roger Moore
In the past few years, we’ve seen a preponderance of action franchises lamely attempting transitions to a younger generation. There was Indiana Jones passing the baton to his son, Shia LaBeouf. Batman willing his lair to Robin in the form of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Both Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne provisionally passed the baton to Jeremy Renner.
How did any of those transitions work?
I bring this up because the fourth Daniel Craig Bond picture has hit theaters. The 007 franchise has definitely been rejuvenated by Craig, (and multiple screenwriters, as well as director Sam Mendes) and these recent films – with their ground level fists-up action and serial format – hew pretty close to the Dark Knight model. Yet with Craig shouting that he’s finished with the role, one could get a little antsy that some studio hack might retire 007 and attempt and concoct a double-0 protégé.
Thing is, though, that won’t happen. It took a full five decades, but Bond is somehow different. Times change; Cold Wars end; so, too, do gender dynamics. James Bond’s essence cannot be altered. Over a half century and many failures, the series had opportunities to badly overcorrect its course, but the producers have always made measured calibrations. Saltzman, Wilson and the Broccolis have always been able to tailor 007 to the time, but they have enough faith in the series to trust its root appeal.
No era of Bond had wider variance in quality than the Roger Moore era. Moore’s casting tenure was a direct reaction to Sean Connery, who had starred in five of the first six films. It’s worth noting that Connery, while a fine actor, is an awful person, but his awfulness informed his Bond. Connery, at the time of playing Bond, had a massive working class Scottish chip on his shoulder, bedded just about every young woman who shared a screen with him, and had no qualms about hitting a woman.
In short, we bought James Bond as a brutal, seductive, chauvinistic operative because the first man to portray him embodied that completely.
So, when the producers needed to permanently recast the role, they went with The Saint, Roger Moore, who clung to 007 for more than a decade. He altered the character’s DNA. He was always closer to your goofy playboy uncle, which paired well with the bourgeois sensibilities of the 70’s and 80’s. I cannot picture Moore’s Bond without a white dinner jacket and flared black tuxedo trousers. His hallmarks: the ingratiating smile and arched eyebrow, cigars, and he tended to twist the arms of duplicitous ladies.
Roger Moore plain straight loved playing the role, which explains why a) he clung to the series long beyond his sell-by date, and b) why he went along with the most egregious indignities Bond ever endured. Yet for folks of my age, Moore was the first James Bond, and his influence on the role is as strong as Connery’s.
So, today I have a mind to dig into the fourth outing by Roger Moore, one that encompasses many of the charms and still more of the flaws of the era. I’m talking 1979’s Moonraker.
The Inception
Roger Moore entered the series with the garish but entertaining Live and Let Die, followed by one of only two 007 box-office flops, The Man with the Golden Gun.
But the series rebounded with one of the finest entries in the franchise: The Spy Who Loved Me. It’s hard to overstate how well The Spy Who Love Me works. It has a clever conceit – that Bond must partner with a Soviet agent to take on a powerful madman – and series of grand action sequences. Its villain is bonkers – a marine-biologist bent on creating a perfect society under the sea – and it introduces one of the series’ most beloved henchmen: Richard Kiel’s silent brute Jaws.
The Spy Who Loved Me was and is fantastic, and its ending credits promised that James Bond would return in For Your Eyes Only.
That was 1977. A funny thing happened the next year: Star Wars was released.
So, the Broccolis called an audible and repurposed Moonraker, an Ian Fleming novel about a nuclear warhead, into the movie that shot James Bond into space. And they went ahead and recycled the entire Spy Who Loved Me plot. Instead of a supervillain planning an underwater utopia, this one plans a space utopia. Instead of a KGB operative, Bond teams up with a CIA operative. Both films open with a breathtaking parachute stunt. Hell, they even brought back Jaws.
The Story, such as it is…
Moonraker’s plot is begins the theft of a space shuttle en route to England. James Bond’s investigation into the crime begins with Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale), the aristocratic director of an aeronautics company. It’s apparent immediately that Drax is up to something: within an hour of meeting 007, Drax sends goons to kill him. Bringing Bond and the black hat together so early in the film leaves a lot of time for action excursions. He finds his way to Venice, Rio de Janeiro and into the Amazon. Then, as promised, into the Earth’s orbit. Explaining why he’s in each location is pointless, except to say he needs to be in Venice for a canal chase and in Brazil for a scene during Carnival.
All well and good: these pictures are supposed to be travelogues. The meandering in Moonraker brings a lot thrills of good and a lot of genuine nonsense.
Drax’s first attempt on Bond’s life, for example, involves an out-of-control centrifugal force machine. The aforementioned Venice canal chase involves a funerary gondola rigged to dispense an assassin’s throwing knives, and the vessel Bond is on is inexplicably retrofitted with axels for land travel. Was this an MI-6 vehicle assigned to Bond? If so, for Christ’s sake, why? Then there’s Drax’s cave grotto with a stone mechanized to dump intruders into the constrictor-hosting water. Was this the only security precaution he took? And what about the Seiko watch 007 is issued, the one that alternately shoots poisoned darts and exploding darts?
Okay, I’m picking nits, but I could pick a lot more. But when this piffle is presented with such style, I can forgive a lot.
Direction and Design
Moonraker was directed by Lewis Gilbert, who had helmed the most extravagant 007 pictures up to that point: You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me. He was comfortable doing spectacle, and Moonraker, I think, is the last film to look like a classic Bond picture. It’s full of buzzing electronics and sleek steel ramps. When Drax is shot from below before infinite monitors showing rocket launches, the effect is quite stirring. When Bond and his sidekick Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) escape a fiery death and bound through Drax’s compound, it looks like we’re back in Dr. No’s laboratory.
The models of hidden space stations and zero-gravity laser battles are impressive, but never enough to suspend disbelief. I might be projecting a modern sensibility on a dated product, but I cannot imagine viewing Moonraker months after the premiere of Star Wars and being terribly impressed.
What does work are the stunt sequences.
In the last entry, I discussed how well integrated the action and plot are in The Living Daylights. I can’t say the same of Moonraker, but there are several fine standalone scenes. The first is a magnificent aerial opening involving James Bond skydiving without a parachute. It was accomplished with stuntmen and cameramen leaping through the sky. It’s totally thrilling – viewed now, in the CGI era – to see a huge stunt accomplished by practical means. Yes, there are plenty of insert shots of Moore in front of a green-screen, but mostly it’s real bodies freefalling.
Not quite as spectacular but still entertaining is a cat-and-mouse chase between Bond and Jaws atop two elevated cable cars over Rio de Janeiro. Richard Kiel’s Jaws is less menacing here than in the previous picture, but he still elevates every action scene he’s in. And this particular sequence ends with Jaws finding love.
Moonraker has surprisingly lovely art direction. Consider this fight within a Vetigo-esque clock tower.
Or this bit that seems like it was pulled from an early Polanski picture.
None of these scenes are really connected to the main plot, but it hardly matters because the plot of Moonraker is tenuous to the point of nonexistence.
The Villain
What can I say about Hugo Drax, the sullen megalomaniac whose aeronautics company is a front for a Darwinist death cult planning to poison the planet?
Well, it’s not an awful idea for a villain. As stated before, it’s essentially the villain from The Spy Who Loved Me. And Drax is played by the wonderfully droll Lonsdale. A luminary of the French New Wave, he’s a great choice for a Bond baddie – in face, 25 years later he played a more coyly frightening character in Munich – but he’s got very little to work with here. In the ostensible source novel, Drax is a bombastic industrialist without a past (something closer to Toby Stevens character in Die Another Day). Screenwriter Christopher Wood embraces the no-past element, but beyond this he turns Drax into a fairly detached tyrant.
Lonsdale, for his part, plays the role solely with his sonorous baritone, chewing on some wonderfully corny lines (“Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him.”). All the while, he maintains sleepy eyes and keeps his hands locked behind his back like a soldier at ease. It’s pretty goofy, like Drax decided to form his space-colony so he could finally have friends for his awful dinner parties. Anyway, he’s still fun, which is more I can say for other elements of Moonraker.
Odds and Unfortunate Ends
I feel a little awful dismissing Lois Chiles out of turn, but Moore’s tenure wasn’t a great time for Bond actresses. There were some that maintained their dignity (Jane Seymour) or stole a couple scenes (Grace Jones), and Maude Adams managed to craft strong, engaging characters in both Octopussy and The Man with the Golden Gun.
For the most part, though, this period marks an unfortunate time. Screenwriters tried to write Bond girls with some modicum of agency, and producers cast woefully ill-equipped actresses to play them. The result was somehow more patronizing than the porcelain dolls and busty bombshells of the Connery pictures. You can’t help but shake your head in defeat watching Barbara Bach try to credibly play a KGB operative or Tanya Roberts, a geologist.
Chiles is better, but her solution to embodying a CIA agent with astronaut training is a throaty monotone and an expression frozen somewhere between a scowl and a smirk. She doesn’t embarrass herself, but she doesn’t do much beyond that.
This was also the beginning of sleepy love ballads filling as Bond Themes. It worked admirably in The Spy Who Loved Me – which has, arguably, the best theme of any film – but from Moonraker to For Your Eyes Only, we had nothing but saccharine lyrics against strings and keyboards. On the plus side, the Moonraker theme is sung by Shirley Bassey, but it’s a real bummer for her final 007 song.
In Summation …
Moonraker was the highest grossing Bond picture in the series until that point. Monetarily, it was Moore’s high-water mark.
Yet Albert Broccoli was prudent enough to see that the film’s slapstick and reliance on absurd spectacle took the franchise in a wayward direction. Two years later, Roger Moore returned in the belated For Your Eyes Only, a stripped down affair involving Greek smugglers and some good old Cold War spy-gaming. It was the right course correction.
Yet there’s a sort of high camp charm to Moonraker. It commits to its goofiness and lets Moore run wild. He’s all one-liners and smirking swagger: There’s not a serious note to him. This isn’t a good film, but I love it more unambiguously than any other bad 007 outing. In fact, I wish the Daniel Craig movies – during this time of deathly series action films – had a little of this unhinged joy.
Stray Observations
This film has pretty much nothing in common with its source novel have, except that there is a character called Hugo Drax. It’s a killer Fleming novel, though, a great mystery set in a remote corner of England. It also has a wonderful early passage detailing what Bond’s job is like when he’s not in the field.
In said novel, the heroine is called Gala Brand. In the film, she’s called Holly Goodhead. Stay classy, screenwriters.
Lonsdale played Hugo Drax. In Quantum of Solace, the wormy French actor Mathieu Amalric played main villain Dominic Greene In the aforementioned Spielberg film Munich, Lonsdale plays Amalric’s father.
I said this is the last Bond picture to look like a classic. That’s probably because it was the last 007 production designed by the estimable Ken Adam. Adam effectively invented the Bond aesthetic in Dr. No and designed the best-looking sets in the series’ run. He also designed Dr. Strangelove and Barry Lyndon.
I mentioned how much less intimidating Jaws is in this film than in The Spy Who Loved Me. In fact, he doesn’t actually kill anyone in Moonraker, and you might scratch you head that at a couple lines of dialogue indicating the he and his paramour survived the space station’s crash into Earth. Evidently, the producers had a mind to include them in For Your Eyes Only but decided later it would be too goofy. Another sensible recalibration.
In my memory, Jaws’ girlfriend has braces. How did they not give her braces?
In the next couple weeks I'll be posting my review of Spectre. It's taken a while to process.
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TAKING STOCK OF BOND - Timothy Dalton, the Dire Bond
Late in the novel Live and Let Die, James Bond and his lady have been stripped naked on the villain’s boat; they’re about to be keel-hauled over razor-sharp corral. Bond has accepted his death, and he begins planning how to minimize the agony he and, more importantly, his lover will face. He decides he will strangle her before she is flayed alive, then use the weight of her body to drown himself.
That’s the tone of Ian Fleming’s novels. There’s plenty of fine dining, luxury vehicles and sex, but there’s also a lot of death and a lot of dread. Being a spy is a serious business, and most agents exit the game without a pulse. Over the first 25 years of the 007 film franchise, that dread sloughed away. The tail end of Roger Moore’s stretch as Bond was marred by head-slapping gadgetry and clown makeup.
When Timothy Dalton came to the role in 1987, he was the backup to a backup. Producers were vocally excited about casting Pierce Brosnan as Moore’s successor, but NBC’s last minute decision to renew Remington Steele made that impossible. Sam Neill screen-tested, and only bickering amongst EON producers kept him out of the role. Dalton, who had been courted briefly in the seventies, eventually got it. The casting of a classically trained thespian who contended with Peter O’Toole and sang Shakespeare was a recalibration from Moore. This new Bond would return to the character Ian Fleming wrote: erudite and, when necessary, brutal.
The conventional knowledge surrounding Timothy Dalton’s tenure is that it was brief for a reason, only lasting two films. He is among the least loved actors who played James Bond. Today, though, I want to focus on his first film The Living Daylights, which I think ranks among the best of the franchise.
The Living Daylights – which borrows its title, though not its narrative, from a Fleming short story – tells a deliberate, straightforward story. British intelligence smuggles a Soviet general (Jeroen Krabbé) out of the Eastern Bloc, only to have him snatched back, ostensibly by a rogue KGB commander (John Rhys-Davies). Bond pursues, enlisting the aid of the general’s cellist girlfriend (Maryam D’Abo), and uncovers a much larger plot involving elicit arms and opium.
This film was a conscious decision to break with the excesses of the Moore era here. In the atrocious A View to a Kill, Moore (nearly 60) beds something like six different women. Dalton only seduces one. Whether this was a reaction to the emergence of AIDS or simply a way to streamline the narratives, it harkens back to the source novels. More broadly, this film distills its plot to the most grounded and effective 007 elements. There is a triple-agent, Cold War intrigue, rogue malefactors and a roving henchman. Even the repeated marking of dead spies with Směrť Špionam comes from the first Fleming novel.
The Heroine
Maryam D’Abo’s Kara Milovy is not the most self-reliant Bond girl, but compared to what came before she’s practically a Navy seal. True, her arc is largely dependent on her being duped into abetting a covert operative (actually, two of them, if you count 007), and she’s way too trusting in the first half of the picture. Yet she has a facility once the action starts: escaping Afghan prisons, flying planes, escaping border agents in a cello case.
It also doesn’t hurt that D’Abo is a decent actress. She doesn’t match the steely archness of Honor Blackman, Maud Adams or Eva Green, but she finds a good balance: blank enough to hold some mystery, but present to the danger and betrayal. Kara’s not built for the spy game, but she does her damnedest. And she doesn’t squeal in delight or fear, which I think sets her apart from many that came before.
The Villains
I’m a fan of any espionage picture that casts a handful of smarmy character actors and dares the audience to find the black hat. Tomas Alfredson’s eerie adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy did this to perfection a couple years back. The Living Daylights proves unusual in the 007 canon by playing this black hat trick.
We get Rhys-Davies as the Soviet spymaster, Krabbé as the defector and Joe Don Baker as a loathsome arms dealer. Krabbé is the lynchpin of the narrative. His fluid allegiance sends Bond over the Iron Curtain several times, and the ever-sniveling actor is great casting. His General Koskov is bumbling as he’s ferried into Western Europe through a gas pipeline, and from then on we’re trying to decide if he’s a fool or only feigning foolishness.
Rhys-Davies, meanwhile, brings his customary sage stoicism to General Pushkin. Early reports from Koskov say Pushkin is mad, but who knows whether that’s true? The truth fluid in this picture. So, Bond’s decision whether to put a bullet in Pushkin’s head is far more morally fraught than anything Moore faced. A queasy-making sequence involving Bond, Pushkin and Pushkin’s mistress in a hotel room feels closer to Munich than to Moonraker.
Then there’s Joe Don Baker, who would later return playing of sweaty CIA sidekick for Pierce Brosnan’s Bond. More than a little bit reminiscent of Oliver North, his arms dealer Whitaker is the least ambiguous of the bunch. For Christ sake, he has wax figures of Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler in his house:
This trio of antagonists creates a narrative dynamic of perilous ambiguity. The Vienna scenes are shot like The Third Man, which is no accident. As in that Graham Greene masterpiece, the motives are secret, the protagonist flawed and the plot elusive. Meanwhile, the world is fraught with omnipresent danger. A silent blond assassin (Andreas Wisniewski) is murdering scores of western operatives, and eventually the Mujahideen in Afghanistan gets into the action. (Not necessarily the best choice from screenwriters Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, but hardly unique in this era).
See, this isn’t a plot to flood Silicon Valley, destroy flora and fauna with brainwashed vixens, or start a colony in space. It’s an oblique Cold War spy game.
The Stunts and the Gadgets
I’m not sure big action scenes have ever been this well-integrated into a Bond plot. There are four major set pieces in The Living Daylights: a truck chase in Gibraltar, a raid on an opulent British estate, the cello-sled chase at the Czech border and a harrowing fight on an airborne cargo plane.
I’d argue that sequence is in the top 10 all-time Bond action scenes. It combines an air stunt, a fistfight, a fraying rope and a ticking time-bomb. Its visuals are seamless, and, most importantly, it tends to multiple plot points at once. The same can be said of the other segments mentioned above. The Gibraltar chase establishes the ostensible KGB targeting of British agents. The raid pulls Koskov out of England, and the cello chase gets Kara across the Iron Curtain. Narrative coherence is a low bar, to be sure, but after the nonsense of the Moore years this level of cogency is commendable.
The same can be said of Q’s gadgets. Despite some unfortunate Q Branch gags early in The Living Daylights, the one trinket 007 takes into the field is pretty neat: a keychain that fires stun gas when triggered by a whistle. The writers also retired Roger Moore’s Alfa Romeos and Lotuses in favor of the classic Aston Martin that had been absent since the 1960s. It was a temporary return to sanity, pulling back from the realm of Inspector Gadget. Unfortunately, the sane spell was fleeting.
As I stated in my introductory post, the formula for a Bond picture is so immutable, it borders on a religious rite. This is primarily because the opening progression almost never changes. You get the gun-barrel introduction (except in the Craig installments), followed by a standalone action sequence (except in Dr. No), which segues into the opening credits.
The credits sequence is its own movie-in-miniature, and the song written for each film is a litmus test. A good Bond film never starts with a bad song. Several bad Bond pictures start with good songs (looking at you, A View to a Kill), but an awful opening is a good canary for bad things to come.
I think a-ha’s title track for The Living Daylights is a great opening theme. It’s sharp and brassy, though it lacks the oft-present horn section. Morten Harket’s strong falsetto marries the dual traditions of 007 vocals, the ragged belting of a Tom Jones and the lilting chanteuse tradition of a Nancy Sinatra. And much like the songs of those two – Thunderball and You Only Live Twice – the lyrics of a-ha’s piece are full of poetical nonsense. In fact, now’s probably the time to listen to it:
See: it’s not overly concerned with the plot, which is a pitfall of the worst of these songs. Conversely, it doesn’t slink back into saccharine love song territory, which has really only worked once. It’s got a catchy beat, some nervy strings, and a veritable Mad Libs of the words we want to hear in a 007 title song. Honestly, if your Bond song includes living and die in the lyrics, you’re mostly covered.
A couple cons: the song consists of, like, seven lines repeated ad infinitum. Not sure we need more than that, but it’s hardly an opus. Also, a-ha’s only major U.S. hit “Take On Me” was two-years old by the time this film premiered; so producers weren’t exactly tapping into the zeitgeist. And the legendary title designer Maurice Binder was not doing his best work here.
Still, I’m a proponent.
I think it’s a shame that Dalton is so often maligned as Bond. He was attempting what Daniel Craig is today, only he was doing it in the golden age of Schwarzenegger and Gibson. America was not buying what he was selling. We wanted our Bond to be more Martin Briggs and less George Smiley.
Perhaps given a few more pictures, the audience would have cottoned to this performance. Unfortunately, Dalton only had the two films: after The Living Daylights came the widely-detested License to Kill. That film, in which 007 goes rogue to take revenge on a Central American drug kingpin who mutilates Felix Leiter, tries hard to capture some Schwarzenegger-ian swagger, but it looks like a TV movie and leans hard on Scarface-derivative violence. It is one of only two Bond films to lose money. The franchise – and within it, Dalton – was sunk after License to Kill.
The next Bond picture would not hit theaters for six years, a hiatus during which it seemed Bond was dead (this was a period during which film franchises were actually allowed to die).
When 007 re-emerged in GoldenEye, he was no longer the Fleming-inflected world-weary assassin that Dalton created. Pierce Brosnan’s interpretation was closer to the better outings by Roger Moore. Well, perhaps that was right for the time. Dalton’s was a fine performance, but it did edge into sullenness. In dramatic scenes, he tends drop his voice into a glottal mutter. I suspect if he kept going, his films might have all started to resemble Quantum of Solace, bleak ruminations on what it is to kill for country, drained of the lust and wry humor.
Anyway, it’s too bad that Timothy Dalton was relegated to the heap. He was the lynchpin of a fine Bond picture, and everyone should check it out.
A few sundry details:
This was the first Bond picture not to feature Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny. She had played the role since Dr. No and left the series with Roger Moore after A View to a Kill. Maxwell died in 2007.
This is the only 007 film to feature a title song by a band or singer from a non-English speaking country.
I'm getting this from IMDb, so take it with a grain of salt, but the two 00-agents who skydive into Gibraltar with Timothy Dalton were evidently cast for their resemblance to Roger Moore and George Lazenby.
This was the last time a Bond film was named after Fleming story until 2006’s Casino Royale.
If you’re keeping score, Dalton was the Welsh Bond. Craig and Moore were English; Connery, Scottish; Lazenby, Australian; and Brosnan, Irish. So, there you go.
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TAKING STOCK OF BOND - The Inheritance
Everybody, shut up! James Bond is coming back this November!
The Bond pictures have run the gamut from Swinging London camp to Lethal Weapon gritty to post-Matrix nonsense. The narrative timeline of James Bond makes almost no sense, though fans have posited possible explanations for the scores of anachronisms and resets in the films. Nothing works perfectly, but we soldier on.
Though we don’t know how good this 24th entry will be, it will have genuine significance. See, in the last several decades, the writers, directors and producers of these films have been stymied by a real-world legal tussle stemming from one authorial misstep. Ian Fleming, author of the postwar source novels, had many flaws – alcoholism, racism, homophobia, misogyny, a Kiplingesque sense of British entitlement – but the one that haunted his legacy the longest was a single act of intellectual theft.
In 1959 – three years before the first official Bond film – Fleming decided to write his own 007 screenplay and enlisted to help of writer Kevin McClory. It was McClory’s idea to create a diabolical international syndicate called SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) and place at its head Bond’s great nemesis: the saturnine genius Ernst Stavro Blofeld. While McClory worked on this script, Fleming published the same story as the novel Thunderball, failing to credit his ostensible partner. McClory filed suit and eventually won the exclusive copyrights to Thunderball, SPECTRE and Blofeld.
When producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltsman engaged Ian Fleming to adapt the 007 novels for the screen, they incorporated SPECTRE but stopped short of outright infringement. In 1965, they set their sights on adapting Thunderball. After bandying with McClory, the producers settled on a ten-year license of his copyrights, which cleared the way for Thunderball and the three celluloid portrayals of Blofeld (most memorably by Donald Pleasance, but later by Telly Savalas and Charles Gray).
After the copyrights reverted back, though, McClory began a decades-long campaign to produce his own rival series of James Bond films. Sony became interested, and in 1983 they successfully released the Never Say Never Again, an unofficial Thunderball remake starring a past-his-sell-by-date Sean Connery. It was moderately successful but failed to launch a pretender franchise.
Kevin McClory died in 2006, and in 2013 his family announced that for the first time in almost forty years, they would allow MGM to use SPECTRE in future Bond projects:
So, in preparation for this exciting new film, I’ll be posting a series of articles discussing some of the lesser known gems in the 007 franchise.
As a companion, too, I want to recommend the fantastic podcast James Bonding with comedians/actors Matt Gourley and Matthew Myra. It is a great, in depth, exploration of each of the movies (as of today, they have two more to go, not counting Spectre). The hosts are animates, goofy, and they truly love the series. But they don’t praise it intemperately, and listening to this podcast has evoked a few realizations in mind:
1. The Bond films hold a disproportionate emotional poignancy for a particular kind of man. I watched every one of the Bond films, through License to Kill, off taped-from-TV cassettes with my father. These films with him is in the same memory bank as fishing at Kentucky Lake on Sunday mornings or scarfing hot dogs at U of L basketball games. At the risk of over-praising a male-dominated familial tradition - something I'll risk a lot in this series - there’s something formative for a boy who first experiences these movies with his father. They are unmistakably masculine, adult and almost liturgical in their recurring formula. For a certain type of man – myself included – this series is an inheritance.
2. No series has the same staying power to endure extreme and sustained periods of awfulness. There are, at present, 23 official James Bond films. Six actors have played the role, as many as have played Batman (if you include Adam West’s one cinematic outing and the forthcoming Ben Affleck … um, effort). If we follow the Batman comparison, the Roger Moore era of 007 is the equivalent of five Batman and Robins in a row, interrupted by two Batman Forevers. Here’s a test: watch From Russia with Love and Skyfall back-to-back and write down your feelings about James Bond. Then watch Moonraker and A View to a Kill and see how your opinion changes. When a Bond movie is bad, it is tragic. Yet, the studios keep shelling out money. No matter how many bumbling Louisiana sheriffs, Tarzan howls or extraneous moon machines are involved, the movie-going public seems to forgive. I forgive, but I struggle to explain why.
3. The James Bond oeuvre has always thrived on its unsavory qualities. Remember how Mad Men, in its first few seasons, inspired all those idiotic think pieces about how America was nostalgic for the un-PC-ness of the early 1960s? Of course that wasn’t true, because the public is discerning enough to register that Don Draper’s existence was vacuous and doomed. Well, that’s not true of 007. Especially in the first ten pictures, the series is replete with unvarnished misogyny and xenophobia, both historically pointed and outright unhinged (what in god’s name is a Mexican screw-off?). Bond embodies our ideal notion of the clandestine service. He’s utterly ruthless, of course (audiences were shocked when Sean Connery gunned down an unarmed traitor in Dr. No) but he’s also a bon vivant, wining and dining and boning his way through the Cold War. We envy him not only his coolness, competency and finesse. We envy that he never has to apologize.
4. The Bond series somehow makes consumerism feel elegant. Sony, Omega, Lincoln, Tom Ford, and on and on and on. The luxury goods connected with James Bond are as much a part of these films as any actor or plot. Consider how the new Aston Martin DB10 was unveiled in the Spectre press event: this car is a performer as important as Monica Bellucci or Dave Bautista. Products have always been a part of this series. In the Live and Let Die, Bond’s digital watch and espresso machine are doted on like gadgets from Q branch. All well and good, because the Bond film itself has become a luxury good, a rung or two above your normal action faire. Its stock is just a bit dearer than the rest.
5. In the end, we love the James Bond films not in spite of but because of their flaws. The two best episodes of James Bonding are ones that contend directly with the failings of the series. One is the Die Another Day entry, which focuses on the least charming movie, one that combines the excesses of early-CGI action films with the laziest impulses of the franchise. This episode resembles Mystery Science Theater 3000, as Myra and Gourley puzzle through such dubious plot points as parasailing away from a space laser and race reassignment surgery. It revels in the completely misguided exercise that somehow thought it would spawn a spinoff franchise. The other must-listen episode is Goldfinger. Myra and Gourley bring in Allie and Georgia to discuss what many consider the best Bond picture. But these women are not sold, having no reserve of good-will for the series. Bond’s retrograde attitudes toward women and minorities, his conspicuous consumption and penchant for blasé cruelties – these repulsed the Bonding guests. And they aren’t wrong. The James Bond film is a celebration of chauvinism, violence and political adventurism. Yet each entry expects the audience to treat it with outright reverence. Yet even as I write those words, I still want to tender 007 that reverence. His adventures shaped me, and perhaps not always rightly. But he is my inheritance, and I’ll keep returning.
In Taking Stock of Bond Tags james bond, ian fleming, kevin mcclory, daniel craig, sean connery, roger moore, thunderball, die another day, goldfinger, spectre, aston martin, formulaic, franchise, 007
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El Chapo trial: Mexican drug lord GUILTY and will NEVER be released
They were are asked to make 53 decisions about whether prosecutors have proven various elements of the 10-count indictment against Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Murderous Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman appeared scared and teary after arriving in NY under ultra-heavy federal guard in January 2017 to face charges, according to video released by the feds Tuesday.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, leaves Brooklyn federal court in NY, after attending the trial of her husband Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, on January 17, 2019.
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CFP International Workshop 'Linking the Mediterran...
Registration open: 'Transforming Scripture' (Oxfor...
Call for Papers (Extended) The Art of Reading in ...
Upcoming ASSC Event
Writing Britain: CxP a reminder
Historical Image Overlays for the St Chad Gospels
UCSB Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies
Romanesque Research Award 2014
Clothing sacred scripture Zurich 9-11 Oct 14
DH Awards 2013: voting open!
11th Annual Marco Symposium at UT, Knoxville - Mar...
CFP International Workshop 'Linking the Mediterranean: Regional and Transregional Interactions (300-800CE)' Vienna 11-13 December 2014
With apologies for any cross-posting:
We intend to host a workshop, on 11 to 13 December 2014, at Austrian Academy, Vienna. True to the nature of a workshop, the format will consist of a discussion of pre-circulated papers.
The political fragmentation of the Roman Empire also meant a reduction in the scope of economic, social and cultural relationships that had developed across different hierarchical levels and between distant places on Roman soil. New social and cultural relationships developed in the polities that followed the Roman Empire. Nonetheless, the survival of regional and interregional interactions assured certain homogeneity in political, cultural and social forms across post-Roman Europe. This phenomenon has been the topic of exciting academic debate in the last decade and different interpretations and methodological approaches have been proposed.
In this workshop, we intend to focus discussion especially on the issue of interactions beyond the local level between 300 and 800 CE in order to assess 1) to what extent these interactions were affected by the end of the Roman Empire as a political entity, and 2) how these connections contributed to lasting patterns that shaped the post-Roman world in social, cultural and political terms. We are interested in both Mediterranean-wide and smaller regional networks and would welcome papers that deal with all the regions of the (former) Roman Empire (including North Africa, Egypt, Syria, etc.) and its periphery (Ireland, Armenia, etc.).
The theme of this workshop has grown out of research undertaken through the ENFLAWE project (‘Episcopal Networks and Fragmentation in Late Antique Western Europe’). Funded by the EU-Marie Curie Actions and hosted at the Division for Byzantine Research (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences-OEAW) this project analyses episcopal interactions in the late fourth and fifth century from a social network approach.
We would like to invite proposals from colleagues for papers on any of the following topics.
Functioning and structure of regional and trans-regional networks (aristocratic, ecclesiastical,
diplomatic, familiar, etc.):
Tensions between individual agency and structural constraint: how did new social
relationships and regional networks affect individuals’ social and political strategies?
Interactions and social capital: how were extra-local networks used for constructing
authority and prestige at the local level and beyond?
Symbolic interactions (secular or episcopal letters, relic distribution, gift exchange, etc.):
Interactions and identity: how effective were these extra-local relationships for constructing and displaying cohesion and belonging?
Cultural mobility: critical evaluation of Greenblatt’s model of mimetic capital and Christopher Gregory’s work on gift and commodity exchange
Changing horizons in the late- and post-Roman World:
Tensions between centre and periphery: did the end of the Roman Empire change the
relationship between centre(s) and periphery/ies?
How did contemporaries conceptualise geographical distance and explain the process of
fragmentation?
https://www.academia.edu/6127735/CfP_Linking_the_Mediterranean_Regional_and_Trans-Regional_Interactions_in_Times_of_Fragmentation_300_-800_CE_
Please feel free to distribute to those who might be interested.
With best wishes from Vienna,
David Natal
Registration open: 'Transforming Scripture' (Oxford, 29-31 May, 2014)
Registration open: 'Transforming Scripture' (Oxford,
29-31 May, 2014)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:28:40 +0000
I am pleased to announce that registration is now open for 'Transforming
Scripture: Biblical translations and adaptations in Old and Middle
English' (Oxford, 29-31 May, 2014).
The conference programme and registration are available via
http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/transforming-scripture-biblical-translations-and-adaptations
If you have any questions about the conference please feel free to email
transforming-scripture@ell.ox.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth Solopova
Faculty of English Language and Literature and Brasenose College, Oxford
Call for Papers (Extended) The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Southern African Society for
22nd International
Biennial Conference
28-31 August 2014, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Keynote Address: Professor Henry Woudhuysen,
Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Deadline for proposals: 14 March 2014
The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines concerned with
Medieval and Renaissance studies.
We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Medieval and Renaissance
studies addressing the conference theme - with the notion of 'reading'
interpreted as broadly as may be desired. We therefore welcome papers on
art and architecture, manuscripts, marginalia, iconicity, drama,
and any other topic in which the act of reading as interpretation is
For information about previous conferences, and the conference venue,
consult the society website:
<http://www.sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com>.
a lecture and seminar
*Joshua Davies*
*(KIng's College, The University of London)*
“‘Visions and Ruins: History, Temporality, and Affect in the
Ruin and St Erkenwald"
*Friday, February 21st*
lunch will be served
*at Columbia University*
754 Schermerhorn Extension
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/schermerhorn_ext.html
ASSC Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University; Dean for the Humanities, New York University; The
Department of English, University of Rhode Island; The Department of
English, Rutgers University; King's College, The University of London;
The Department of English, UC Berkeley.
*With apologies for cross-posting*
This is just a note to remind interested scholars and students about the deadline for abstracts for the Writing Britain conference to be held in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts. Please submit your abstract by Thursday 20 February by following this link https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing_britain/abstract-submission-form/fg_base_view_p3
Alternatively, contact one of the organisers. Please, also do alert students about this event.
The conference is generously sponsored by the Faculty of English and the University of Cambridge and the School of English at the University of Leicester.
We are looking forward to welcoming many of you in Cambridge
Orietta, Richard, Phil and Aidan.
Writing Britain: 500-1500
University of Cambridge, Faculty of English, 30 June - 2 July 2014
Under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts
Writing Britain is a biennial event which aims to draw on a range of approaches and perspectives to exchange ideas about manuscript studies, material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes across the medieval period. The 2014 iteration of the Writing Britain Conference will take place in the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts. Some of the topics which we are keen to explore are literary and non-literary agencies and their significance and/or relevance in the medieval period across British medieval written culture in English, French, Latin, Norse and the Celtic languages. More broadly, we are interested in other questions such as: How did local writers, compilers and readers use writing to inscribe regional identity within broader conventions or, on the other hand, impress 'universal' practices and constructs on local populations? What were the different markets for books? Can we characterize their developments and differences? What new or existing methodologies can be employed to localise texts and books across Britain? What is the role of the Digital Humanities in the study of medieval book culture?
Plenary speakers: Jonathan Wilcox (University of Iowa), Richard Beadle (University of Cambridge) and Simon Horobin (University of Oxford)
We welcome proposals from scholars working on any aspects of British medieval written culture up to 1500. Please visit our conference web site in order to submit an abstract (300 words or fewer) for a twenty-minute paper. Please send your abstract by 20 February 2014. Abstracts from postgraduate students are welcome and graduate rates will be provided.For further information please visit the website where contact details of the organisers will also be available.
Conference website:
www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing_britain
Dr Orietta Da Rold
University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500
Faculty of English
9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP
Fellow of St John´s College
Cambridge, CB2 1TP
od245@cam.ac.uk
From Ansax-net. This is a terrific website: I'm sure many of you will also find it fascinating:
On 2/12/14 7:59 AM, Endres, William F wrote:
I am happy to announce that I now have available for viewing images taken over the last 125 years for nine pages of the 8th-century St Chad Gospels: https://lichfield.as.uky.edu . These images complement the RGB and multispectral images for the complete manuscript on the website and offer a sense for how the manuscript is aging. I've also included a brief discussion of some preliminary findings from the overlays.
All best,
Bill Endres
Division of Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Media
University of California, Santa Barbara Medieval Studies Annual Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 31st, 2014
UC Santa Barbara, HSSB 6020 (McCune Conference Room)
Call for Papers: “Movement and Mobility in the Middle Ages”
Keynote Speaker: Professor William Tronzo, Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego
Recent scholarship within medieval studies increasingly attends to the movements of peoples, objects, and ideas. Such concerns with mobility allow for a range of interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies in understanding how we track not only the transmission of material objects but also movement within seemingly fixed categories such as gender, class, and religion. Discourse on mobility in a medieval context provides a way of viewing the aforementioned categories as fluid, and thus provides rich opportunities for exploration and interpretation. This conference encourages discourse from all fields around the theme of movement in any aspect of the Middle Ages. For instance, how does an examination of the movement of objects, such as relics, challenge notions of regionalism and local identification? How is mobility determined by intersections of class, gender, and ethnicity? How do literature, medical treatises, and archeological finds inform an understanding of bodily movement?
Possible topics for consideration include but are not limited to:
Trade and commercial exchange: the movement of goods and currency
Travel literature and the movement of individuals within cultures
Fragmentation of objects, including the circulation and the transformation of visual
Movement of material texts across borders, geographical space, and languages
Religious movements: conversions, infidels, and apostasy
Movement within dramatic performance: staging travel, social movements, and
Influence of architectural structures on human movement
Physical disability and limitations of movement
Transmission of architectural styles, including landscape design
Ritual movement and processions
Cross dressing and movements across genders
Strategic movement in war campaigns; displacement in response to violence
Pilgrimage routes and the movement of pilgrims
Legally sanctioned movement or restrictions on movement, including banishment
Threshold spaces and movement across boundaries, including from ‘public’ to ‘private’
and from ‘sacred’ to ‘profane’ space
Spread of germs, diseases, and plagues
Social mobility: titles, ranks, and their acquisition; apprenticeships and occupational
Professor William Tronzo (UC San Diego and affiliate of Università degli Studi Roma Tre) has published extensively on the art and architecture of the Mediterranean world from Late Antiquity through the early Renaissance, as well as on problems of theory and method and historiographical issues such as the persistence of Antiquity and the afterlife of the Early Christian tradition in Rome. Although his training is in art history, the intellectual ethos of his work derives from the history of architecture and landscape, as manifest in the spatial imagination of the past. His edited collection, Fragments: An Incomplete History, published in 2009, brought together interdisciplinary scholarship on the motion of physical and narrative fragments. His most recent book, Petrarch’s Two Gardens: Landscape and the Image of Movement, was published in 2013 and received the David R. Coffin award from the Foundation for Landscape Studies. He has held research appointments at the American Academy in Rome, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, CASV A at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, the Huntington, the Clark Art Institute and the Stanford Humanities Center.
This conference is open to graduate students studying the Middle Ages (300-1500) in all disciples, geographical regions, and stages of research.
We welcome 250- to 300- word abstracts for presentations 20 minutes in length. Please submit your name, email, university, and departmental affiliation with your abstract to Shay Hopkins at s_hopkins@umail.ucsb.edu by February 21st,, 2014.
Application deadline: Mar 15, 2014
Romanik-Forschungspreis 2014
Romanesque Research Award 2014 [english version below]
Prix de recherche de l‘Art roman 2014 [Texte en français plus bas]
Internationaler Nachwuchspreis des Europäischen Romanik Zentrums e.V.
für herausragende Forschungsarbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Romanik
gefördert durch die Stiftung der Saalesparkasse, Halle und Herrn Gerhard
Mauch, Ludwigshafen
Ziel der Preisvergabe ist die Nachwuchsförderung, insbesondere die
Auszeichnung junger Wissenschaftler/innen, die auf dem Gebiet der
Romanik (Kunstgeschichte, Archäologie, Geschichte, Kirchen- oder
Rechtsgeschichte) herausragende Forschungsleistungen erbracht haben.
Ausgezeichnet werden noch unveröffentlichte Forschungsarbeiten zur
Romanik (Dissertationen). Der Preis wird an Graduierte vergeben und
besteht aus einem Preisgeld von 2.000 €. Über die Vergabe entscheidet
eine international besetzte Jury, bestehend u.a. aus Mitgliedern des
internationalen Beirats des Europäischen Romanik Zentrums. Die Annahme
des Romanik-Forschungspreises verpflichtet zu einem öffentlichen Vortrag
des Preisträgers.
Bewerbungen (Lebenslauf, Zeugnisse, Publikationsliste) und ein Exemplar
der Forschungsarbeit (incl. Abstract, Gutachten) werden erbeten bis zum
15.03.2014 an den:
Direktor des Instituts Europäisches Romanik Zentrum
Domplatz 7
http://www.romanik-zentrum.eu
The Reseach Award of the European Center of the Romanesque (Europäisches
Romanik Zentrum, ERZ) supports outstanding research works on Romanesque
art and architecture. It is donated by Stiftung Saalesparkasse (Halle)
and Mr Gerhard Mauch (Ludwigshafen).
The award especially aims to promote, honor and encourage graduated
junior researchers contributing to the study of Romanesque art, history,
archaeology, Church history as well as history of the law.
Only unpublished research works will be considered (PhD thesis). The
award is valued at 2000 Euro. The awarding itself is co-judged by
international members of the ERZ's board of advisors. Accepting the
award, the winner is encouraged to give a public lecture at the ERZ.
Until March 15th 2014, the application (CV, certificates, references,
list of publications) as well as one piece of his/her research works
including an abstract and the academic evaluation is to be send at:
Appel d‘offres
Ce prix de recherche international du Centre européen d'art roman
(Europäisches Romanik Zentrum, ERZ) pour des travaux de recherche
exceptionnels dans le domaine de l'art roman est parrainé par la
fondation de la caisse d'épargne „Saalesparkasse“ de la ville de Halle
et par Monsieur Gerhard Mauch de la ville de Ludwigshafen. Le but de
l'attribution du prix est l'encouragement de la jeune génération de
chercheurs, en particulier la distinction de jeunes scientifiques
fournissant des résultats de recherche exceptionnels dans le domaine de
l'art roman (histoire de l'art, archéologie, histoire, histoire de
l'Église et du droit).
Le prix doté de 2.000 € est décerné à des doctorants pour des travaux de
recherche inédits (thèses de doctorat) traitant de l'art roman.
L'attribution est faite par un jury international, composé notamment de
membres du conseil consultatif du centre européen d'art roman. Le
lauréat acceptant le prix de recherche d'art roman s'engage à donner une
conférence publique.
Les candidatures (C.V., certificats, liste des publications) ainsi qu'un
exemplaire du travail de recherche (incl. résumé, expertises) peuvent
être déposées jusqu'au 15 mars 2014 à l'attention du directeur de
l'institut.
Deadline: Feb 25, 2014
International Conference. Zurich, October 9-11 2014
Prof. Dr. David Ganz (University of Zurich)
Prof. Dr. Barbara Schellewald (University of Basel)
In a traditional perspective, book religions are seen as agents of
logocentrism, establishing a sharp dichotomy between scripture and
aesthetics, religion and art. This judgment was based primarily on
dogmatic assumptions and posterior idealizations, however. In the light
of their material, performative and artistic practice, religions of the
book show a surprisingly strong tendency to evolve their
own »aesthetics of inlibration«. Especially in pretypographic
cultures, »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and ornate
forms was a powerful instrument for creating a close relation between
the divine words and their human audience.
The questions this conference aims to address grow from a comparative
and transcultural approach to religious book culture. Whereas
traditional research on book art has focused on single textual
communities within exclusive religious frameworks, we propose to look
beyond these boundaries. Our discussion of various strategies for
clothing sacred scripture shall include objects and practices from all
Abrahamic religions. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam developed
different approaches to the aesthetics of inlibration. By analyzing and
comparing these practices of religious book art, we aim to better
understand their cultural and historical specificity within a broader
spectrum.
To which extent the choice of materials, book formats, and artistic
patterns mark religious difference and shape religious identity is one
of several questions this conference will address. Yet »Clothing« the
book could also produce the contrary effect. Since it was based on
practices of circulation and exchange between different religious
cultures, it could also undermine claims of religious identity and
absolute truth.
Furthermore, addressing questions of materiality and mediality should
not obfuscate the conflicts and tensions that arise at times between
the visual and tactile dimension and the invisible and intangible
dimension of sacred books. In this respect, the activity of adorning
holy scripture appears to be located between two extremes that
characterize the concept of the book. On the one hand, the book is a
visible and tangible container of God’s animate speech, on the other,
the book is a threshold that leads to the invisible and immaterial
realm of God’s holy words.
This conference will explore both sides of the nexus between sacred
scripture and art. How did art shape the religious practice of books,
and how did the central importance of religious books shape the
evolution of artistic practices? The organizers welcome contributions
from a wide range of medievalist research, discussing topics such as:
- the spatial and temporal structure of books. How do books articulate
the process of opening, unfolding, and closing, and how does their
physical or visual structure contrast exterior with interior spaces,
beginnings with endings? How do these elements create different spheres
and times of revelation?
- the performativity of book rituals. Which kind of ritual activities
(in the broadest sense) involve sacred books? How does book art answer
to the dynamics of animating the letter by reading, singing,
displaying, carrying, illuminating and writing or burying books?
- materiality and its transformation. Which materials were chosen for
creating sacred books, which semantic values and transformative forces
were ascribed to them, and in which ways did these materials contribute
to mediate between human and divine spheres?
- ornament and its rejection. Analyzing the art of sacred books can
lead to a more nuanced understanding of ornamental practices. In some
contexts, traditional ornament is rejected in favor of scripture in its
purest form, thus generating a kind of anti-ornamental décor for the
book. So when was ornamentation considered merely a mundane practice?
And which arguments were put forward to propagate ornament as evocation
of divine beauty?
- iconicity and aniconicity of decorated books. Recent scholarship has
underlined analogies between the cult of books and the cult of images.
This approach has opened new avenues of thought for perceiving books as
objects and not just as texts. Some book religions tend to contrast
books with images, however, and treat books as alternative solutions
for worship. How is the clothing of books related to these contrasting
principles of iconicity and aniconicity?
Please send Please send proposals of up to 300 words for 30min papers
and a short CV to:
David Ganz (david.ganz@uzh.ch <mailto:david.ganz@uzh.ch>) and Barbara
Schellewald
(Barbara.Schellewald@unibas.ch <mailto:Barbara.Schellewald@unibas.ch>)
by February 25 2014
It is my pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2013 is open for voting!
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Digital Humanities Awards are a set of entirely open annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the work of the community. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities that they benefit. There is no financial prize associated with these community awards. There were many nominations and the international nominations committee (http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/committee/) reviewed each nomination. We're sorry if your nomination was not included, all decisions are final once voting opens. Please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ for this and other frequently asked questions.
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11th Annual Marco Symposium at UT, Knoxville - March 6-8, 2014
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is pleased to announce the 11th Annual Marco Symposium, “Reconceiving Pre-Modern Spaces,” March 6-8, 2014, on the UT campus.
This year’s Symposium addresses the rich ways in which pre-modern peoples conceived of space: as physical reality, philosophical idea, and topic of artistic expression. The Symposium will be engaged with recent scholarship on landscape, urbanism, geography, cartography, soundscape, and ecocriticism, which all variously acknowledge how realities and readings of space fundamentally shaped the lands, populations, and cultures of late antique, medieval, andrenaissance peoples.
Invited speakers include Benjamin Anderson (Cornell University), Ellen Arnold (Ohio Wesleyan University), Matthew Canepa (University of Minnesota), Megan Cassidy-Welch (Monash University), Margot Fassler (University of Notre Dame), Gregor Kalas (University of Tennessee), Louisa Mackenzie (University of Washington), Craig Monson (Washington University in St. Louis), Ricado Padrón (University of Virginia), and John Wall (North Carolina State University).
Diane Favro, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, will present the keynote address, “Bricks into Marble: Reverse Engineering Augustan Rome,” on March 6 at 7:00 p.m. A reception in Hodges Library will follow.
Please see attached and contact marco@utk.edu or 865-974-1859 for further information.
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Walk along the Walbrook – the City of London’s Lost River
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I first did a version of this walk along the Walbrook back in November 2011, but was keen to return starting nearer to one of the supposed sources and also visit the recently opened London Mithraeum that sits upon the banks for this ancient stream. The route I followed in early December, drew from two principle sources – Nicholas Barton’s classic book, The Lost Rivers of London, and a sketch map of London Under Henry II by Marjourie B. Honeybourne from Norman London – An Essay by Professor F.M Stenton (pub. 1934). Stenton’s essay and the map is informed by a contemporary Norman description of London by William Fitz Stephen.
The route starts at St. Leonard’s Church Shoreditch, and goes past the Shoreditch Holy Well in Bateman’s Row. From here it follows the course of the river down Curtain Road to Blomfield Street where it was partially excavated during Crossrail works. Then we cross London Wall and go through Angel Court where another part of the river was uncovered in the 1970’s. We go behind the Bank of England at Lothbury then follow the buried river down Walbrook to the Temple of Mithras. From here we go down Dowgate Hill to where the Walbrook makes it’s confluence with the Thames near Canon Street Station.
Click here to see my video of another walk along one of the ‘Lost rivers of London’ – the Tyburn
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The East-West Passage – Stratford to the City via Bethnal Green
Fresh off the train from Ramsgate into Stratford International I needed to stretch my legs so set off Westwards. Cutting down beside the Copper Box Arena and along the Lea Navigation towpath I crossed onto the Hertford Union Canal – which connects the Lea Navigation to the Regent’s Canal.
I emerged onto Roman Road as the sunset started to light up the blocks of flats above the shops. I follow the ancient London to Norwich route through Globe Town and Bethnal Green to the junction with Shoreditch High Street, itself the Roman Ermine Street striking north through the Hertfordshire countryside and beyond continuing north through Lincoln to York. On the other side of this two millenia old confluence is the narrow lane, Holywell Street associated with the Shoreditch Holy Well and the Holywell Priory, although the site of the Holy well has been reported as being in nearby Bateman’s Row.
I’m sucked into the belly of the Barbican, escaping across the modern A1 North Road and down Long Lane through Smithfield. I always get the shivers passing across the ‘Smooth Field’ as this is where my namesake, John Rogers the Martyr was burnt at the stake on 4th February 1555.
My feet lead me to the road that links me to the place of the my birth, the A40, and where John Rogers the Martyr was vicar at St. Sepulchre. I pay my respects to the great heretic then head for the Central Line at Chancery Lane.
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Article: Twins Daily 2019 Midseason Top 40 Prospects: Recap
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Twins Daily 2019 Top Prospects: #2 Alex Kirilloff
Feb 13 2019 09:31 PM | Cody Christie in Minor Leagues
Roughly a year ago, Alex Kirilloff had to be feeling a little trepidation. Spring training was starting, and the former first round pick had missed all of 2017. Few knew the kind of season Kirilloff was about to embark on.
During last off-season, none of baseball’s national prospect rankings had him in their top 100 lists. Now he is a consensus top-40 prospect. MLB and ESPN’s Keith Law have Kirilloff in their top-12 prospects. This is quite the jump for the former first round pick. What could that mean for the 2019 campaign?
Age: 21 (DOB: 11/9/1997)
2018 Stats (Low-A/High-A): .348/.392/.578, 44 2B, 20 HR, 7 3B, 4-for-7 in stolen base attempts
ETA: 2020
2018 Ranking: 5
National Top 100 Rankings
BA: 31 |MLB: 9 | ESPN: 11 |BP: 39
What’s To Like
Kirilloff can hit. That might be the understatement of the century. He might be the best hitting prospect in the minor leagues not named Vladimir Guerrero Jr. He’s been hitting for his entire life, as his dad runs baseball camps and clinics. He could have shown some rust last season, but he quickly made it known that he would be a force to be reckoned with.
He started the season in Cedar Rapids and hit .333/.391/.607 with 38 extra-base hits in 65 games. Among Midwest League hitters with at least 280 at-bats, his .999 OPS was the highest. Once he was promoted Fort Myers, he continued to hit. In 65 games in the Florida State League, he hit .362/.393/.550 with 33 extra-base hits. He led the Twins system in hits, doubles, and RBI. His 71 total extra-base hits and 296 total bases each led the minor leagues.
At season’s end, the accolades came rolling in. The Twins named him the Twins Minor League Player of the Year and Twins Daily named him the Minor League Hitter of the Year. MiLB.com named him as the Breakout Prospect of the Year. He represented the Twins in MLB’s Futures Game during All-Star Weekend. He was also a midseason and post-season All-Star in the Midwest League.
Kirilloff can spray the ball all over the field. His spray chart from last season is a thing of beauty (see below). Even with a left-handed swing, he has power to the opposite field. In fact, he had more doubles and more home runs to the opposite field than from pulling the ball.
What’s Left To Work On
Kirilloff destroyed the ball last season so there was really no reason for him to try to draw a ton of walks. He is very aggressive at the plate and so his OBP was only slightly higher than his batting average. As he gets closer to the big leagues, hitting against more advanced pitchers could mean that he will need to be more patient. He knows the strike zone well and he will need to continue to prove that at Double- and Triple-A.
His year off following Tommy John surgery might have been a blessing in disguise. For months, he wasn’t able to work on his swing, so he was able to develop his core and the lower half of his body. “It was total body strength,” he told MiLB.com. “I wanted to get all-around stronger. When they make you come in and work out every day, you don’t really have much choice. You’re going to get stronger. Everything happens for a reason, and maybe that was what I needed.”
On the defensive side of the ball, he played some center field in high school, so he has plenty of athletic ability. As he has bulked up in the minors, he has moved to a corner outfield spot. At some point, he might need to move to first base, but he has a good arm and should be able to stick in right field.
OK, that might be a stretch, but his bat could carry him to Minnesota by season’s end. Minnesota could decide to keep him at Fort Myers to start the year, but it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if he started the year in Pensacola. Prospects of his caliber don’t necessarily need time at Triple-A so he could be called up directly from Double-A.
Minnesota’s outfield is full at the moment with Byron Buxton, Max Kepler, and Eddie Rosario. However, an injury or poor play by one of these players could expedite Kirilloff’s timeline. Right now, I think his bat could hold its own at the big league level.
Twins Daily 2019 Top 20 Prospects
20. Jose Miranda, 2B/3B
19. Jorge Alcala, RHP
18. LaMonte Wade, OF
17. Zack Littell, RHP
16. Gilberto Celestino, OF
15. Yunior Severino, 2B
14. Ben Rortvedt, C
13. Ryan Jeffers, C
12. Stephen Gonsalves, LHP
11. Nick Gordon, SS
10. Akil Baddoo, OF
9. Blayne Enlow, RHP
8. Lewis Thorpe, LHP
7. Jhoan Duran, RHP
6. Brent Rooker, 1B/LF
5. Wander Javier, SS
4. Trevor Larnach, OF
3. Brusdar Graterol, RHP
2. Alex Kirilloff, OF
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Sconnie and caninatl04 like this
mikelink45
Feb 13 2019 10:20 PM
Very exciting.Some motivation for Kepler and Buxton.
caninatl04 likes this
nater79a
Well, there won't be much drama as to who the #1 TwinsDaily prospect will be.
I guess the only intrigue is who will get to write up the story....Tom, Cody, Seth or Nick?
ashbury and Seth Stohs like this
A 362/.393/.550 slash line in the FSL...a pitcher's league.Not too shabby.
PseudoSABR, Tibs, SF Twins Fan and 2 others like this
Great article. And yes, Royce was rated as a 65 FV on the Fangraphs top 130 that came out today, so that will be exciting too. A fantastic top two for the Twins.
beckmt
I was more impressed by the comment on Fangraphs that gave Kirloff a 15 - 20% chance to be the next Joey Votto.That is very high praise, now we shall see.I could see him being here if he starts in Pensacola between late 2019 and May 2020.One publication had him moving Kepler to first base or 4th outfielder or trade bait.Can't wait to see how he turns out.
SF Twins Fan
I really hope he starts in AA and just dominates for the first couple of months to earn a promotion. Once he makes it to AAA it’ll only be a matter of time before we get to see him with the Twins.
Mike Sixel
I hope they are aggressive. I believe we are looking at 2021......I hope to be wrong on the timing.
Twins33 and big dog like this
rdehring
The number that blows my mind is 44-doubles in a five month minor league season.Unbelievable!
I think there is a good chance your ETA is wrong.If he has a year at AA anything like last year, we gotta see him by September at the latest.Could be earlier if one of the starting three is out with an injury.
Tibs, nater79a and Original Whizzinator like this
Seth Stohs
If he has two great months, there's a very good chance he never sees AAA.
Steve Lein, SD Buhr, big dog and 6 others like this
Kirilloff doesn't have to be added to the 40-man roster yet after the 2019 season. My thought is that if the Twins are in contention in July, and Kirilloff is playing well, he comes up directly from AA. If they are out of contention, there is no reason to call him up in 2019, and they can call him up 3 weeks into the 2020 season.
ashbury, blindeke, chpettit19 and 5 others like this
Our rankings:
I hope I can remember this off the top of my head:
Seth (2), Nick (2), Tom (2), Cody (2).
ashbury, brvama, Tibs and 5 others like this
If it was Terry Ryan, he would be aggressive. I guess we don't know yet what the MO of this front office is, though they seem to also be quite aggressive.
I will be shocked if it's closer to 2021 than 2019 with zero surprise if it is 2019.
birdwatcher and howieramone2 like this
Hosken Bombo Disco
About another prospect, you said stats are just a piece of the puzzle. Here, you seem to be saying that stats alone will be what figures in his promotion. Can you clarify for us mortals when we're ok to consider stats, and when we're not?
AlwaysinModeration likes this
The Mask of Zoilo
You'll have to remind me when I said stats are just a piece of the puzzle, because that is 100% true and I have probably said that many times.It is especially true in the lower levels.
As for moving up to the big leagues, specifically if it's going to be straight from AA, then the guy really needs to be dominating the level. Now, there are more stats than what their used to be. They will have exit velocity and launch angles and spray charts and barrels and all kinds of stuff to show if a guy is truly hitting as well as his regular stats indicate.
Whereas if we were specifically talking about a player's prospect status based on some numbers in like Elizabethton, the stats specifically aren't as important as the development plan and such.
bluechipper, Hosken Bombo Disco, SF Twins Fan and 2 others like this
18/19 year olds in short season ball, tools and projections mean more than performance. 21/22 year olds in AA, established tools plus performance mean youre ready to go.
ashbury, Steve Lein, birdwatcher and 2 others like this
AlwaysinModeration
Here is what you said, Seth, in the Jhoan Duran forum, when looking at Gonsalves vs Duran:
“Prospect rankings, however, typically have very little to do with the stats, though they do obviously factor in.
And, I would hope people have not given up on Gonsalves at all.
But Duran's upside is top of the rotation starter. That's why I rank him higher. That's'why I have Graterol ranked higher.”
You'll have to remind me when I said stats are just a piece of the puzzle, because that is 100% true and I have probably said that many times. It is especially true in the lower levels.
It seems like there is a big difference between saying stats are “just a piece of the puzzle” and “rankings typically have very little to do with the stats.”
I think your latter statement was just hyperbole and we shouldn’t hold you to it, especially in the broader context of all of the great work you do tracking down and writing up all of the Twins prospects that we all like to follow during the dog days of winter (buy the prospect handbook!).
All that said, I am still a bit perplexed how you feel like you aren’t considering stats that much when you go from ranking Gonsalves #1 in the system after an amazing statistical season in A+/AA, to #2 in the system after an exceedingly good statistical season in AA/AAA, to #11 after a similarly excellent statistical season in AAA with a 24 bad inning promotion to MLB. To me it looks like stats were a pretty big driver for those rankings.
Dman, Hosken Bombo Disco and DannySD like this
And to bring the conversation back to Kiriloff, as this is in the Kiriloff forum, let me point out the glaringly obvious fact that Kiriloff went from last year being unranked nationally but “he’s a great pure hitter” to this year, after an amazing statistical season, ranked in the top 20 nationally.
To me, it looks like it was his stats over the past year that made up 95% of those ranking changes. (94.8%, to be exact.)
gil4 and Hosken Bombo Disco like this
sweetmusicviola16
Is a .333/.381/.525 two month slash line good enough? Or are those go to AAA numbers?
Jham
I'd personally have AK 1 at this point. He's got the pedigree to go with the gaudy numbers. His bat plays more than Lewis's I think.
That said, his Babip was really pretty high last season. He probably needs a few more walks, to turn on a few more pitches, and to turn more of those doubles into HR in order to sustain his momentum. If his value is peaking and we see him as Kepler 2.0, well we've got a lot of tough decisions coming up.
rdehring likes this
Original Whizzinator
I think he said stats become more important as you climb the ladder which would bear out with your Gonsalves example.
tarheeltwinsfan
Stats...smatz...AK is an awesome hitter. Can't wait to see him and the other Twins' prospects and players in 1 week at spring training. I can see it now. I'll be standing by a fence. watching practice. Suddenly a ball comes over the fence. I pick it up and throw a strike to home plate. A coach says: "Hey kid, come here. Where did you get that arm. Let me see you do that again" I throw another strike with movement. He puts me on the mound...same result. Castro is called over. He says he's never seen both speed and movement like this. The radar gun is reading 103. Excuse me TD reader, my office phone is ringing. Maybe it is Thad. I'll get back to this daydream later.
ashbury, Jham, Dave The Dastardly and 2 others like this
Cornholio
So does he get to wear #47, or is that just too obvious?
Steve Lein, gunnarthor, Twins33 and 1 other like this
JLease
His absence from a lot of lists last year is a result of the injury. with no information about his development, a lot of people are going to significantly downgrade a prospect until they get back on the field. It's not a crazy decision either, sort of like giving someone an Incomplete rather than a letter grade. he made some national lists after his first season and now he's surged up the lists.
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By submitting Personal Data through Our Site or Service, You agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, as well as Our Privacy Notice and the Terms of Service, and You expressly consent to the collection, use and disclosure of Your Personal Data in accordance with the Privacy Policy, Privacy Notice, and Terms of Service. If You do not agree, You should discontinue use of the Site and Service immediately.
II. A Note About Children
We do not intentionally gather Personal Data from visitors who are under the age of 13. If a child under 13 submits Personal Data to Valueconsultants.com and We learn that the Personal Data is the information of a child under 13, We will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If You believe that We might have any Personal Data from a child under 13, please contact Us at support@CONTRIB.com immediately.
III. A Note To Users Outside Of the United States
If You are a non-U.S. user of the Site, by accessing the Site and providing us with Personal Data, You acknowledge and agree that Your Personal Data may be processed for the purposes identified in the Privacy Policy. In addition, Your Personal Data may be processed in the country in which it was collected and in other countries, including the United States, where laws regarding processing of Personal Data may be less stringent than the laws in Your country. By providing your data, You consent to such transfer. For further information please consult Our Privacy Notice.
IV. Types Of Data We Collect
"Personal Data" means data that allows someone to identify or contact You, including, for example, Your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, as well as any other non-public information about You that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data. "Anonymous Data" means data that is not associated with or linked to Your Personal Data; Anonymous Data does not, by itself, permit the identification of individual persons. We collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data, as described below.
V. Information You Provide To Us
We may collect Personal Data from You, such as Your first and last name, location, phone number, gender, e-mail and mailing addresses, professional title, company name, employment history, education history, personal summary, and password when You create an account to log in to Our network ("Account"). We retain information on Your behalf, such as files and messages that You store using Your Account.
If You provide Us feedback or contact us via e-mail, We will collect Your name and e-mail address, as well as any other content included in the e-mail, in order to send You a reply.
When You post content (text, images, photographs, messages, comments or any other kind of content that is not Your e-mail address) on Our Site, the information contained in Your posting will be stored on Our servers and other users will be able to see it, along with Your profile photo and any other information that You choose to make public on Your public profile page ("Profile"). The information that You provide in Your Profile will be visible to others, including anonymous visitors who are not users of Our Service.
When You post messages on the message boards of Our Site, the information contained in Your posting will be stored on Our servers and other users will be able to see it. When You participate in one of Our surveys, We may collect additional profile information. We also collect other types of Personal Data that You provide to Us voluntarily, such as Your operating system and version, product registration number, and other requested information if You contact Us via e-mail regarding support for the Site or Service. We may also collect Personal Data at other points on Our Site and Service that state that Personal Data is being collected.
VI. Information You Provide From Facebook And Other Social Networking Sites
If You are not currently registered as a user the Service, and You click on "Sign In" using Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, GitHub, Angellist, or another SNS that We support, You will first be asked to enter Your SNS credentials and then be given the option to register for the Service. In this case, We may receive information from that SNS to make it easier for You to create an Account on the Site. Any information that We collect from Your SNS account may depend on the privacy settings You have with that SNS, so please consult the SNS privacy and data practices.
(a) Information Collected Via Technology
Information Collected by Our Servers. To make Our Site and Service more useful to You, Our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) collect information from You, including Your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol ("IP") address (a number that is automatically assigned to Your computer when You use the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for Your visit. Log Files. As is true of most websites, We gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet service provider ("ISP"), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users" movements around the Site, gather demographic information about Our user base as a whole, and better tailor Our Site and Service to Our users" needs. For example, some of the information may be collected so that when You visit the Site or use Our Service again, it will recognize You and the information could then be used to serve advertisements and other information appropriate to Your interests. Except as noted in this Privacy Policy, We do not link this automatically-collected data to Personal Data. Cookies. Like many online services, We use cookies to collect information. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that a website sends to Your computer"s hard drive while You are viewing the website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once You close Your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on Your computer until You delete them) to provide You with a more personal and interactive user experience. This type of information is collected to make Our Site and Service more useful to You and to tailor the experience with Us to meet Your special interests and needs. Pixel Tags. In addition, We use "Pixel Tags" (also referred to as clear Gifs, Web beacons, or Web bugs). Pixel Tags are tiny graphic images with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, that are used to track online movements of Web users. In contrast to Cookies, which are stored on a user"s computer hard drive, Pixel Tags are embedded invisibly in Web pages. Pixel Tags also allow Us to send e-mail messages in a format users can read, and they tell us whether e-mails have been opened to ensure that We are sending only messages that are of interest to Our users. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to a User. We do not tie the information gathered by Pixel Tags to Our users" Personal Data. Flash LSOs. When We post videos, third parties may use local shared objects, known as "Flash Cookies," to store Your preferences for volume control or to personalize certain video features. Flash Cookies are different from browser Cookies because of the amount and type of data and how the data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by Your browser will not remove Flash Cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash Cookies, click here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html. Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the Site. Google Analytics uses Cookies to collect information such as how often users visit the Site and use Services, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to Our Site. We use the information We get from Google Analytics only to improve Our Site and Service. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to You on the date You visit the Site, rather than Your name or other personally identifying information. We do not combine the information generated through the use of Google Analytics with Your Personal Data. Although Google Analytics plants a persistent Cookie on Your web browser to identify You as a unique user the next time You visit the Site and use Services, the Cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google"s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about Your visits to the Site and use of Services is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
(b) Information Collected From You About Others
If You decide to invite a third party to create an Account, We will collect Your and the third party"s names and e-mail addresses in order to send an e-mail and follow up with the third party. We may maintain this information indefinitely in Our database and may also use this information to help us establish networks of contacts, document relationships, facilitate referrals, and improve Our Services. We may also use this information to show You and other users that You may know each other or have shared contacts. We rely upon You to obtain whatever consents from the third party that may be required by law to allow us to access and upload the third party"s names and e-mail addresses as required above. You or the third party may contact Us at support@CONTRIB.com to request the removal of this information from Our database. The e-mail that is sent to Your friends will come from Your e-mail address so that Your friends know that You want to invite to Our Site and Service.
(c) Information Collected From Address Book and Contact Importing
You may use Our address book and contacts importer to upload Your contacts from other services into Valueconsultants.com. When You import Your contacts, We may indefinitely store the contact information in Our database, including Your contacts' names, e-mails, phone numbers, locations, and relationships to You, subject to applicable law. We do not store any passwords You provide as part of the contact import process. After We import Your contacts, We will use this information to help Us establish networks of contacts, document relationships, facilitate referrals, and improve Our Site and Service. We may also use this information to show You and other users that You may know each other or have shared contacts. We rely upon You to obtain whatever consents from the relevant third parties that may be required by law to allow Us to access and upload the third parties" names, e-mail addresses, and other contact information. You or such a third party may contact Us at support@CONTRIB.com to request the removal of this information from Our database.
(d) Information Collected From Third Party Companies
We may receive Personal and/or Anonymous Data about You from companies that provide Our Service by way of a co-branded or private-labeled website, companies that offer their products and/or services through Our Services, and/or companies that otherwise collect such information. These third party companies may supply Us with Personal Data. We may add this information to the information We have already collected from You via Services in order to improve Services We provide to You.
VII Use Of Your Personal Data
(a) General Use
In general, Personal Data You submit to Us is used either to respond to requests that You make, or to aid Us in serving You better. We use Your Personal Data in the following ways: facilitate the creation of and completion of Your profile for use with the Site and Service; identify You as a User in Our system; provide improved administration of the Site and Service; provide the Site and Service; improve the quality of experience when You interact with the Site and Service; send You a welcome e-mail to verify ownership of the e-mail address provided when Your Account was created; send You administrative e-mail notifications, such as information about pending job offers, security or support and maintenance advisories; respond to Your inquiries related to employment opportunities or other requests; make telephone calls to You, from time to time, as a part of secondary fraud protection or to solicit Your feedback; send You calendar invitations; and send newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials related to the Site or Service and for other marketing purposes of Valueconsultants.com.
(b) User Testimonials And Feedback
We often receive testimonials and comments from users who have had positive experiences with Our Service. We occasionally publish such Content. When We publish this Content, We may identify Our Users by their first and last name and may also indicate their home city. We obtain the User"s consent prior to posting his or her name along with the testimonial. We may post user feedback on the Site from time to time. We will share Your feedback with Your first name and last initial only. If We choose to post Your first and last name along with Your feedback, We will obtain Your consent prior to posting You name with Your feedback. If You make any comments on a blog or forum associated with Services Site, You should be aware that You have no reasonable expectation of privacy and that any Personal Data You submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send You unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information You choose to submit in these blogs and forums.
(c) Creation Of Anonymous Data
We may create Anonymous Data records from Personal Data by excluding information (such as Your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to You. We use this Anonymous Data to analyze request and usage patterns so that We may enhance the content of Service and improve Site navigation. We reserve the right to use Anonymous Data for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Data to third parties in Our sole discretion.
VIII Disclosure Of Your Personal Data
We disclose Your Personal Data as described below and as described elsewhere in this Privacy Statement.
(a) Third Parties Designated By You
When You use the Service, the Personal Data You provide will be shared with the third parties that You designate to receive such information, including other websites, Your friends, relatives and business associates. Depending on the type of access You grant to such third parties, they may also be permitted to edit the information You have provided to Us and to designate others to access and edit such information. You may change Your settings at any time as to who has access to Your information by going to Your account settings and changing Your publishing options.
(b) Third Party Service Providers
We may share Your Personal Data with third party service providers to: provide You with the Service; to conduct quality assurance testing; to facilitate creation of Accounts; to provide technical support; and/or to provide other services to Valueconsultants.com. These third party service providers are required not to use Your Personal Data other than to provide the services requested by Valueconsultants.com.
(c) Affiliates
We may share some or all of Your Personal Data with Our parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control ("Affiliates"), in which case We will require Our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Statement.
(d) Corporate Restructuring
We may share some or all of Your Personal Data in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of Our business or assets. In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, Personal Data may also be transferred as a business asset. If another company acquires Our company, business, or assets, that company will possess the Personal Data collected by Us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding Your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
(e) Social Networking Sites ("SNS")
Our Service may enable You to post content to a SNS. If You choose to do this, We will provide information to such SNS in accordance with Your elections. You acknowledge and agree that You are solely responsible for Your use of those websites and that it is Your responsibility to review the terms of use and privacy policy of the third party provider of such SNS. We will not be responsible or liable for: (i) the availability or accuracy of such SNS; (ii) the content, products or services on or availability of such SNS; or (iii) Your use of any such SNS.
(f) Public Profile
Certain portions of the information You provide to us may also be displayed in Your Profile. As an essential element of the Service, most of the Personal Data You explicitly provide to us when You register or update Your Profile is displayed on Your Profile. In order for Your Profile to be made public, You must go to Your profile settings and then to profile visibility. By default, Your Profile is not for public viewing. Your photos, posts, friends, and other content You post to the Site are also meant for public consumption. We may display this content on the Site and further distribute it to a wider audience through third party sites and services. Once displayed on publicly viewable web pages, that information can be collected and used by others. We cannot control who reads Your postings or what other users may do with the information that You voluntarily post, so it is very important that You do not put Personal Data in Your posts. Once You have posted information publicly, while You will still be able to edit and delete it on the Site, You will not be able to edit or delete such information cached, collected, and stored elsewhere by others (e.g., search engines).
(g) Other Disclosures
Regardless of any choices You make regarding Your Personal Data (as described below), Valueconsultants.com may disclose Personal Data if it believes in good faith that such disclosure is necessary (a) in connection with any legal investigation; (b) to comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on Valueconsultants.com; (c) to protect or defend the rights or property of Valueconsultants.com or users of the Site or Service; and/or (d) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy, or Our Terms of Use.
IX Third Party Websites
Our Site may contain links to third party websites. When You click on a link to any other website or location, You will leave Our Site and go to another site, and another entity may collect Personal Data or Anonymous Data from You. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of Your Personal Data after You click on links to such outside websites. We encourage You to read the privacy policies of every website You visit. The links to third party websites or locations are for Your convenience and do not signify Our recommendation of such third parties or their products, content or websites.
X Your Choices Regarding Information
You have several choices regarding the use of information on Our Service:
(a) Email Communications
We will periodically send You free newsletters and e-mails that directly promote the use of Our Site or Service. When You receive newsletters or promotional communications from us, You may indicate a preference to stop receiving further communications from us and You will have the opportunity to "opt-out" by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the e-mail You receive or by contacting us directly (please see contact information below). Despite Your indicated e-mail preferences, We may send You Service related communications, including notices of any updates to Our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.
(b) Cookies
If You decide at any time that You no longer wish to accept Cookies from Our Site or Service for any of the purposes described above, then You can instruct Your browser, by changing its settings, to stop accepting Cookies or to prompt You before accepting a Cookie from the websites You visit. Consult Your browser"s technical information. If You do not accept Cookies, however, You may not be able to use all portions of the Site or all functionality of the Service. If You have any questions about how to disable or modify Cookies, please let us know at the contact information provided below.
(c) De-linking SNS
If You decide at any time that You no longer wish to have Your SNS account (e.g., Facebook) linked to Your Account, then You may de-link the SNS account in the "preferences" section in Your account settings. You may also manage the sharing of certain Personal Data with us when You connect with us through an SNS, such as through Facebook Connect. Please refer to the privacy settings of the SNS to determine how You may adjust Our permissions and manage the interactivity between the Service and Your social media account or mobile device.
(d) Changing Or Deleting Your Personal Data
You may change any of Your Personal Data in Your Account by editing Your profile within Your Account. You may request deletion of Your Personal Data by us, and We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor Your request, but please note that We may be required to keep such information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case We will comply with Your deletion request only after We have fulfilled such requirements). When We delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in Our archives. We may also retain Your information for fraud or similar purposes.
XI Security Of Your Personal Data
Valueconsultants.com is committed to protecting the security of Your Personal Data. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect Your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We also require You to enter a password to access Your Account information. Please do not disclose Your Account password to unauthorized people. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while Valueconsultants.com uses reasonable efforts to Your Personal Data, Valueconsultants.com cannot guarantee its absolute security.
XII Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason. We will notify You of any changes to Our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy here: http://www.Valueconsultants.com/policypage/privacypolicy?domain=Valueconsultants.com and We will change the "Last Updated" date above. You should consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Continued use of Our Site or Service, following posting of such changes, shall indicate Your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms of such changes. If You do not agree, You should immediately discontinue Your use of the Site or Service.
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Duplicate - City of Brawley
Measure W - Majority Approval Required
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Brawley Utility User's Tax
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Shall the City of Brawley ordinance extending the Utility Users Tax for five years at a rate not to exceed 4%, upon the use of telephone, electricity, gas, water, sewer, trash and cable television utilities, to maintain city services, including, but not limited to, police, fire, administration, library and parks and recreation, and subject to future council action to reduce said percentage, and which is projected to raise $1.9 million per year, be adopted?
What is this proposal?
Measure Details — Official information about this measure
Brawley City Attorney's Impartial Analysis / Imperial County Registrar of Voters
The City of Brawley Utility User’s Tax is a general tax. The revenue generated by the tax is used by the City of Brawley to fund existing municipal services such as police, fire, library, parks and recreation, animal control, planning, building and administration. The existing Utility User’s Tax is scheduled to expire in May of 2018. Continuing the current rate of four percent (4%), the tax provides general fund revenue of approximately $1,900,000 per year, and currently comprises 13.2% of the City of Brawley’s annual general fund budget.
Impartial analysis / Proposal
Brawley City Attorney
In 2013, the voters of the City of Brawley approved the renewal of the City’s four percent (4%) utility user’s tax on persons in the City that use utilities such as landline telephone communication, electricity, natural gas, cable television service, water, sewage and garbage collection.
The tax has been in place since 1991 and is currently set to sunset in May, 2018.
This ballot measure was placed on the ballot by the City Council. The issue before the voters is whether or not to extend the utility user’s tax for an additional period of five years from the scheduled sunset date. The rate and scope of the tax would remain the same.
A majority vote in favor of this measure will mean that the existing utility user’s tax will stay in place for an additional period of five years.
A majority vote against this measure will mean that the existing utility user’s tax will expire in May of 2018. General fund revenue will decrease by approximately fifteen percent, and current service levels provided by the City will have to be reduced accordingly.
s/ William S. Smerdon
Published Arguments — Arguments for and against the ballot measure
Read the proposed legislation
Read the proposed legislation (links outside of votersedge.org)
November election nominees for Brawley council posts announced [MENTIONS MEASURE W] — August 14, 2017 The Desert Review
Brawley Council votes to put Utility Users Tax on November ballot — July 27, 2017 The Desert Review
Council presents sober picture of life absent tax extension — July 26, 2017 The Imperial Valley Press
City of Brawley discusses Utility Users Tax — May 30, 2017 The Desert Review
Utility Users Tax Dominates Brawley Budget Planning Session — March 23, 2017 Calexico Chronicle
Opinions & Analysis (1)
Yes on Measure W
Op-ed - Brawley Measure W - Imperial Valley Press, Karin Morgan October 20, 2017
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Almost 12 million people voted Labour in , handing Attlee a whopping parliamentary seats. It is hardly surprising, then, that has gone down as a milestone in our political history. Indeed, for many on the Left, everything since has been a deep disappointment. In the rose-tinted imagination of the Labour Party, has become a brief, shining episode of collective solidarity and socialist idealism, after which everything has been betrayal and decline. In reality, almost no serious historian would endorse this interpretation. Far from being swept up by socialist enthusiasm, most of the people who voted in the summer of were just as pragmatic as their 21st-century successors. Far from being suffused with Left-wing zeal, most people were largely bored by the election campaign, just as they were in May
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The band’s primary goal is to consistently deliver goosebump-inducing, transcendent live concert experiences for our audiences and ourselves. A subsidiary goal is to write top-flight hook-pop hard rock songs that provide the foundation for achieving the primary goal. The path forward is to take the band concept and first-album songs as a foundation, and experiment with the universe of live show behaviors that are consistent with the band’s artistic vision, and find out which of those behaviors leads to goal achievement.
In the meantime, the band is fully functional with J. In the shorter term, we would like to add at least one guitarist. An alternate live configuration we’re exploring puts Bradley on guitar, so if you’re a drummer who might be a good fit, get in touch.
Since , video games have featured nuclear weapons and nuclear explosions in many shapes, sizes and forms in over video and computer games.
Sorry, but you can’t access this content! Please enter your date of birth to view this video By clicking ‘enter’, you agree to GameSpot’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy enter “We wanted to capture what makes London recognizable and identifiable as London,” asserts Dirty Bomb artist Ben Garnell on developing the setting. In the architecture and even the brickwork there’s a lot of those subtle clues that this is London.
You are playing in London, but it’s a little bit different; it’s not an absolute recreation, and we wanted to put some of our own spin on it. The juxtaposition of old and new is an eye-catching one, only delicately exaggerating what can be seen in the real city today, where twinkling glass towers jostle with neighbouring early Victorian textile factories. Certainly, the art team has done a worthy job, presenting environment design that favours cleanliness and vibrancy over gritty realism.
Indeed, at times Dirty Bomb even hints gently at Sunset Overdrive ‘s garish visual excess. For now, however, Splash Damage’s visual effort doesn’t dazzle with a showcase of technical prowess, but stylistically, it offers a well-considered vision of an imminent dystopia. The game contained within, meanwhile, is an energetic multiplayer-only first-person shooter in the classic form.
The focus in the demo, which enters closed beta on March 26, is entirely on team play; it’s also free-to-play, and these two factors are likely to define Dirty Bomb indefinitely. Splash Damage has created a game that exists under its own enthusiastic momentum, and one that plays fast and slick–at least on the high-end gaming PCs provided at the preview event.
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N engine, its community, and even some games made with the engine include the following tropes: Alphys can summon Mettaton NEO, who explodes and damages enemies when hit. The Creeper is a playable character whose sole ability is to explode on the opponent for extremely massive, often One-Hit Kill damage.
Dirty Bomb – Firestorm Starter Pack game details. Enter a devastated London in style with this addition of new content to the FPS thrill ride of Dirty Bomb. Unleash an army of death-dealing Mercenaries upon your your foes as your command a powerful force of Mercenaries.
There are, in fact, two Zanarkands: The original Zanarkand was a city state whose people wished to enhance their lives using a mix of magic imbued within machina. The city state of Bevelle was militarized and focused on machina. Bevelle believed Zanarkand was planning a war and so Bevelle struck first. During the war Yu Yevon , the leader of Zanarkand and the most powerful summoner in Spira, used this might to fight off the armies of Bevelle.
They were unable to stop Bevelle and Yu Yevon sacrificed the people of Zanarkand, turning them into the fayth needed for the ultimate summoning, to preserve the metropolis in a dream state at the height of its power. Yu Yevon summoned a creature of unspeakable power to defend it, that became to be known as Sin. Yu Yevon gave the creature two objectives: Unable to control Sin’s power, Yu Yevon’s mind became consumed and the newly summoned Sin turned on Zanarkand itself, destroying the metropolis.
Zanarkand’s ruins, 1, years after its destruction.
SHARE Although studying creativity is considered a legitimate scientific discipline nowadays, it is still a very young one. In the early s, a psychologist named J. Guilford was one of the first academic researchers who dared to conduct a study of creativity.
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Blair Naso was destined to be a god of the Manosphere, but instead he gave up his swan song and died. However, you can still read his blog’s archives and buy his poetry books. Even non-feminist women want to absolve themselves of guilt when a relationship tanks. Movies Women are the big market share in the movie industry. Romantic movies are almost exclusively marketed towards them, and even most man movies about action heroes have a romantic subplot.
Even near-homeless in the mountains of China, Bruce Wayne keeps himself groomed. Love is never defined in these films. Instead they just spit words, and the husband gets extra angry, showing him to be the bad guy. Women are almost never blamed for the failure of the relationship in movies.
Dirty Bomb: Stress Tests Scheduled For Steam
Advertising The Charlestown Cougars, a fake women’s high school basketball team assembled for the purpose of Nike commercials. Eastern Animation Dreamkix is about a group of Funny Animals working to overcome their physical disadvantages and personality clashes in order to become a champion soccer team. Pretty notable when your team members include an adorkably determined Dachshund, a surly Scottish sheep, and a chicken who often forgets he’s playing soccer in the first place.
Speaking to Esports Pro at Gamescom, Dirty Bomb’s associate creative director Neil Alphonso said that this is currently a watershed moment for the competitive.
Long ago, the high summoners fought Sin here. The road ends here. Beyond, there’re no towns, no villages. They fall between Macalania and Mt. Gagazet on a summoner ‘s pilgrimage to Zanarkand. The Calm Lands, an expanse of wide plains, is the location where the final battle with Sin was once fought, forming a ravine to its north that has since been dubbed ‘the scar’.
Every minute counts in Land Grab, where teams battle to control territory in an unforgiving cyberspace: The not so simple part? The team with the most territory at the buzzer wins.
SEEKING Vocalist, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums. ABOUT. Dirty Bombshell is an all-originals collaboration between J.D. and Bradley Neil, two lifelong friends with years of .
She switched identities with the original Amanda Clarke, whom she befriended in juvenile detention. After Frank threatens to reveal the secret, Amanda kills him and calls Emily, who takes her to her home in the Hamptons. Although she considers Emily her “sister”, Amanda is uncertain if Emily genuinely cares about her and begins to feel used. After Amanda finds Tyler’s body at the beach, Takeda drives her away and trains her to be an asset for Emily.
In the season 1 finale, Amanda returns heavily pregnant. Uncertain about her baby’s paternity due to a one-night stand after leaving the Hamptons, Amanda asks Emily to ensure that the paternity test names Jack as the father. Although the test reveals the father is indeed Jack, Emily claims to Amanda that she was forced to rig the test.
How to contact WikiLeaks? Tips for Sources After Submitting Contact If you need help using Tor you can contact WikiLeaks for assistance in setting it up using our simple webchat available at: Tips for Sources After Submitting Tor Tor is an encrypted anonymising network that makes it harder to intercept internet communications, or see where communications are coming from or going to.
Tails If you are at high risk and you have the capacity to do so, you can also access the submission system through a secure operating system called Tails. Tails is an operating system launched from a USB stick or a DVD that aim to leaves no traces when the computer is shut down after use and automatically routes your internet traffic through Tor.
FACEIT has a ton of game modes and features. Learn about them here: the tournaments, ranking system, matchmaking, and more!
The stories linked here are simply an archive of monster girl fan fiction and meant for adults. I have credited the stories to the appropriate authors through links right next to the titles. The activities in the stories are in no way necessarily approved of or condemned by me and the community. The author of the MGE, Kenkou Kurosu-sensei has tried to cater to a variety of fetishes and desires through his work, and the fans have also tried to do the same with his creations.
Foster Brother-sister sex, cousin sex, BDSM, fetishes, and several other elements of sexual activities are present in the stories, and they are usually according to how the monster girl is described. There are probably stories of monster girls who kill humans during sex, humans who violently rape monster girls, or those where one faction captures and tortures the other and causes them extreme pain.
Some are monster girls of aeons ago before the DL arrived. I haven’t linked them here, though you can ask in the comments if you really want to read such stuff. One example is the user manyeyedhydra on Literotica.
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She spared no vested interest, including the dominant political parties, from her investigations of corruption in her native island nation. Her reporting including examinations of leaked documents in the Panama Papers scandal. Caruana Galizia, 53, died Monday as she drove near her home on Malta. Two weeks before, she told police she’d received threats. This undated photo shows Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese investigative journalist who exposed her island nation’s links with the so-called Panama Papers.
The Maltese reporter who was killed on Monday, Oct. The Malta Independent via AP Journalism colleagues said Tuesday that the veteran reporter’s resolve to root out wrongdoing only sharpened after someone put flaming tires outside her house more than a decade ago in an apparent attempt to burn it down. In Malta, politics is a passion akin to soccer in other countries. Many residents grow up fiercely loyal to one of the two main political parties, the socialist Labor and conservative Nationalist parties.
Caruana Galizia relentlessly investigated Joseph Muscat, a politician who is now Labor’s prime minister. More recently, she set her sights on the new Nationalist party and opposition leader, Adrian Delia. In deference to her death, Delia dropped libel lawsuits he had pending against Caruana Galizia.
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Hales, Asif see Islamabad through, Karachi Kings eliminated | Cricket
Muhammad Musa celebrates a wicket © Pakistan Super League
Islamabad United 164 for 6 (Hales 41, Delport 38, Talat 32, Asif 24*, Umer 2-16) beat Karachi Kings 161 for 9 (Babar 42, Munro 32, Musa 3-42, Faheem 2-30) by 4 wickets
How the game played out
Karachi Kings may be one of the less prolific sides in this competition’s brief history, but they are the only side to have knocked Islamabad United out of any PSL tournament. That victory came in an Eliminator two years ago. But today, Islamabad United avenged that loss in a scrappy, entertaining game where both sides chugged along like an antique car on a dodgy engine, hurtling along seemingly without control before grinding to a halt at various stages of their innings. The upshot was a four-wicket win for Islamabad, who chased down Karachi’s 161 with three balls to spare.
Despite the loss, the most memorable part of the game was arguably the first six overs. Karachi had courageously won the toss and chosen to bat first in a tournament where that decision is close to sacrilege, and blistered to 50 in just 20 balls as Colin Munro finally began to make good on the talent based on which he was signed. When he feathered an edge to Mohammad Musa, he had smashed 32 runs in a mere 11 balls, and Karachi were motoring along at 17 an over. They would go on to add an eye-watering 78 in the first six, as the boundaries flew like confetti.
Islamabad came back to choke them after the Powerplay ended, and somehow maintained that stranglehold right throughout the innings, with Karachi only just managing to double their Powerplay total, in the end limping to 161 for nine. Most of Islamabad’s bowlers had recovered their figures, and the one who was most expensive – Muhammad Musa – was the highest wicket-taker, having removed Munro, Ingram and Iftikhar Ahmed.
Islamabad’s chase always looked tight, not helped by a slow start and Ronchi’s early departure. Alex Hales and Cameron Delport saw them through the Powerplay, but the nerves wouldn’t have been eased as the asking rate continued to rise in the face of a stellar bowling attack and a world-class spell from Umer Khan. Towards the end, it came down to Islamabad’s own local talent in Faheem Ashraf, Asif Ali and Hussain Talat to manage the asking rate. Mohammad Amir missed his lines once too often, Babar Azam dropped a catch once too frequently and Karachi were simply a few too short in the final overs. It all amounted to Islamabad getting to the finish line just in time, dashing Karachi’s hopes of a title on home soil.
Karachi began to struggle as soon as that whirlwind of a Powerplay came to a close, but the final three overs were especially ruinous to their chances. Positioned at 150 for six with three overs to go, they still had the opportunity to pose a stiff challenge with a brisk finish. Instead, the last three overs saw a mere 11 runs scored.
Star of the day
Pakistan have swooned over the fast bowling gems they may have unearthed this tournament, and bemoaned the lack of exciting local batsmen. But the find of the competition may be 19-year old Umer Khan, perhaps the most promising spinner to come out of the PSL since Shadab Khan. Having impressed ever since he got AB de Villiers out weeks ago, Umer has found a way to get the biggest names of the planet out just when Karachi have required him to. His spell today was one of the spells of the tournament, with the teenager the only bowler to find genuine drift and turn on a flat wicket. He wasn’t afraid of flighting the ball, and found due rewards, finding the outside edges of Delport and Chadwick Walton within three deliveries of each other. He ended up with 4-0-16-2, and if ever a performance deserved not to end up in the losing side, it was his.
The big miss
Ronchi has the highest strike rate in the world off the first 10 balls, but the New Zealand opener was strangely subdued over that period today. Valued around the world because he doesn’t need so much as a warm-up ball to begin attacking the bowlers, Ronchi played out nine deliveries today, unable to get one to the boundary rope. Imad Wasim, Mohammad Amir and Aamer Yamin all executed their plans perfectly, pitching the ball short of a length. It deprived Ronchi of the ability to strike the ball through the line. The change-up came off his ninth ball, with Yamin sending down a wide yorker that Ronchi could only mishit to mid-on. 5 off 9 is an unlikely innings breakdown for the Islamabad talisman, and in a game of exceptionally fine margins, they almost ended up paying for it.
Karachi bow out with today’s defeat, with Islamabad through to the playoff with Peshawar tomorrow. The winner of that contest plays Quetta Gladiators in the final.
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V8 Supercars, Townsville 400 2019: Qualifying results, timings, race 17, standings, latest news, David Reynolds, Scott McLaughlin, Red Bull, Holden
David Reynolds will start Race 17 at the Townsville 400 from pole position after he pipped Chaz Mostert to the top of the timesheets right at the end of the qualifying session.
The Penrite Racing No.9 driver claimed his first pole of the season with a 1:12.106, just 0.112 ahead of Mostert, who himself had looked like he would be the one celebrating at the end of the session.
Scott McLaughlin dropped down to P3 as a result of Reynolds’ run, just ahead of Shane van Gisbergen, who was separated from his Red Bull teammate Jamie Whincup by Will Davison’s Mustang.
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The Red Bulls were off the pace in FP3 but were well in contention after coming out with new tyres and a new set-up, as well.
Lee Holdsworth, Andre Heimgartner, Cameron Waters and Mark Winterbottom rounded out the top 10 for Saturday afternoon’s race.
Only four times has the polesitter won at Townsville in 21 races, but Reynolds will be hoping he can make it five as he and the rest of the field look to bring McLaughlin’s run of five straight victories to an end.
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“I’m so happy, I’m so proud of everyone,” said Reynolds, who ended an eight-straight run of poles for the Mustang.
“The funny thing is I had no radio that last lap, I had no idea.
“I saw the lap time was pretty good when I crossed the line and thought ‘this is alright’.
“Then I got halfway round and I saw ‘pole position, David Reynolds’ and I thought ‘that’s so cool, that’s amazing’.
“I’m just really proud of the boys because in Practice 3 I hit the fence and made them work a bit harder, so I’m repaying them.”
Mostert had had a tough weekend up until qualifying and was “super pumped” to be able to be on the front row for the race alongside Reynolds.
“We’ll take a front-row start at the moment,” he said. “This year has been super tough for one-lap pace and I can say that is the best qualifying car I’ve had all year.
“A lot has changed for us this weekend, Friday running absolutely killed us, but we stuck to our guns.
“I’m just super pumped for Adam. He’s done a lot of hard work and deserves the pole because of how much he’s changed on the car.
“Hopefully it’s still a good race car.”
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Scott McLaughlin has labelled his relationship with David Reynolds as a “good rivalry” despite an ongoing war of words between the pair.
A collision on the first lap at the rain-hit Townsville 400 sent the duo to the rear of the field in Race 18, with McLaughlin recovering to 11th while Reynolds languished down in 20th, some four laps off the pace.
Opinions were split on who did what to who – McLaughlin labelled Reynolds a “desperado” after the attempted overtake, while tensions flared in the pits when Reynolds’ girlfriend “yelled” at McLaughlin.
Reynolds later played down the drama, saying it’s “not interesting” if he just follows the runaway championship leader around.
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McLaughlin started the Sunday race on the front row, but fell to 11th.Source: News Corp Australia
Speaking on his Balls and Bumpers podcast, McLaughlin said the sport is “relishing” the rivalry, but didn’t expect his on-track approach to Reynolds to change.
“Dave says he wants to be friends with everybody and all of that sort of stuff, but he’s competitive, we’re all competitive, we all want to beat each other,” McLaughlin said.
“In this sport you’re going to get to a point where you don’t like someone, you can’t like everyone, that’s just BS… it’s a rivalry, it’s a good rivalry.
“I didn’t need to risk anything. Dave obviously thought he could make an opportunity there which he could have done somewhere else, he had a pretty quick car. But he ruined it for himself.
“I don’t disregard hard racing, I think that is awesome. Him having a go and me and him banging doors, I don’t mind it.
“We certainly won’t be going down the pub and having a beer, that’s for sure.”
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McLaughlin went down to see Reynolds in the Penrite Racing garage twice post-race, the first confrontation seeing the championship leader copping a mouthful “left, right and centre by the whole garage pretty much”.
He denied he had bad blood with Reynolds, who remained adamant McLaughlin moved under brakes.
“Of course he wasn’t happy, which I can understand,” Reynolds said on his own podcast, Below the Bonnet.
“His day hasn’t gone his way, so he’s looking for someone to blame. He’s trying to blame me and I’m saying, ‘I’m trying to blame you, you moved under brakes, you’re not allowed to’.
“I said ‘go have a look at the footage and come back’… then Scott comes and he’s got the footage in his hand and he was trying to tell me he didn’t move, which is complete horses**t.
“It might have been a foot to half a metre… it was all I didn’t need to happen, is someone to move under brakes.
“If he’d come up to me and said ‘I’m so sorry man, I was pulling out to pass [race leader Cameron] Waters’ I would have gone ‘okay, you were trying to make a move and you didn’t see me, completely understandable’.
“But Waters was so far in front of us that that wasn’t a possibility.”
“His day hasn’t gone his way, so he’s looking for someone to blame.”Source: News Corp Australia
Stressing he hadn’t moved under brakes, McLaughlin acknowledged he and Reynolds didn’t see eye-to-eye over the incident.
“I was overly cautious, bit of water, I was worried about the wet lines and all that sort of stuff, backed off a little bit and Dave probably saw an opportunity,” McLaughlin said.
“I’m always going to think I’m in the right and he is going think he is in the right.
“I believe he made a gap, he didn’t actually go for one. It shows when he’s hit my rear wheel there… he hasn’t gone up beside me or anything like that.
“He says I moved, I don’t believe I moved, if anything it was a millimetre, which sometimes when you brake pretty hard, things move around, especially in those conditions.
“Rivalries are good for the sport… this has been a massive talking point for a lot of people.
“For me, I’m still leading the championship, that’s what I’m worried about. Davey’s probably hurt himself more than it’s hurt me.”
Silverstone served up an F1 epic on Sunday with wheel-to-wheel battles throughout an action-packed race. Hamilton took another victory in front of his home fans, while several youngsters caught the eye with some stunning driving. Now, join the driver ratings debate.
Qualified 2nd, Finished 1st
It wasn’t as dominant as his wet-weather showcase in 2008, nor did it require a surge through the field like in 2016. But this year’s victory, a record sixth at the British GP, will certainly live long in the memory for Lewis Hamilton – who has gathered the skills and experience since that first win over a decade ago to master the iconic Silverstone circuit.
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Hamilton rued his qualifying mistake on Saturday but he still only finished 0.006s behind Valtteri Bottas, less than half a metre across a 3.6-mile track, and said he wanted to do something “powerful” in the race. He always seemed to have more grip and control than his Mercedes teammate in the opening stages and, after the two drivers swapped positions twice in an enthralling Lap Four battle, Hamilton stayed right behind the Finn and within DRS range until his pit-stop on Lap 16. Yes, Hamilton did get lucky with the timing of the Safety Car, but judging by his early form, Bottas would have had an immense challenge on his hands to keep the world champion at bay for more than 30 laps.
Hamilton cruised to victory from there, and summed up his pace by setting the fastest lap of the race on the last lap, on worn hard tyres. “This is the greatest single moment any athlete in the world can have, to raise their flag as the number one in their own country,” Lewis said, whose 39-point advantage looks huge at this stage of the season.
Rating out of ten: 9
Race winner Lewis Hamilton and second placed Valtteri Bottas on the podium.Source: Getty Images
Qualified 1st, Finished 2nd
You’ve got to feel for Valtteri Bottas. The Finn has more poles than Hamilton this season – four – but has clinched just one victory from top spot. But while his other defeats to Hamilton came from poor starts and being beaten into Turn One, on Sunday Bottas was on the receiving end of some crushing bad luck.
Hamilton was all over the back of his sister W10 but Bottas out-manoeuvred Hamilton on Lap Four, expertly surging through Stowe after being overtaken, and he then pitted to cover off Ferrari and Red Bull. Bottas, however, was caught out by the Safety Car four laps later, with Hamilton taking his stop and the lead afterwards. Knowing he had to take another stop, Bottas essentially knew his victory chances were up after that and had to make sure he stayed a safe distance ahead of the Ferraris and Red Bulls behind him. But whether he would have held Hamilton off without that Safety Car is still debatable.
Rating out of ten: 8.5
Qualified 3rd, Finished 3rd
Have we just witnessed Charles Leclerc 2.0? That’s not to say that the Monegasque hadn’t already produced some great performances this year, but the lessons he took from losing out to Max Verstappen in Austria – and the fact the stewards saw nothing wrong with the Dutchman’s overtaking move – were clear in his combative race-day performance at Silverstone. In fact, Leclerc described the events of the previous race as “eye-opening”.
Giving Verstappen only the room that was legally required, Leclerc gave as good as he got in battle and, given he lost ground in the Safety Car phase, he deserved to return to the podium when teammate Vettel inadvertently took out Max. No such misjudgements from Ferrari’s younger man, who is showing the four-time world champion up on a consistent basis right now.
Third placed Charles Leclerc celebrates on the podium.Source: Getty Images
Qualified 5th, Finished 4th
This was an important weekend for Pierre Gasly. He still wasn’t the fastest Red Bull driver at Silverstone – and that would still be some going given Max Verstappen’s form right now – but he was closer to the Dutchman than he has been for most of this season and matched his career-best result from Toro Rosso with fourth.
A weekend’s first practice session often turns out to be inconsequential, but for Gasly it seemed to set the tone of his weekend as the Frenchman topped a time sheet for the first time in his Red Bull career. Qualifying fifth, he raced well with Vettel and Leclerc, and team boss Christian Horner believes Silverstone proved a “great confidence builder for him”.
Pierre Gasly’s best weekend of the season so far.Source: Getty Images
A fifth-placed finish equals Max Verstappen’s worst race result of the season, but that doesn’t tell the story of another fantastic weekend for the Dutchman. Verstappen qualified within two tenths of pole on Saturday, the first time Red Bull have done so all year, while he was then involved in an engrossing nip-and-tuck battle with Leclerc. Both drivers displayed sublime wheel-to-wheel skills, but it was Verstappen who the Safety Car benefited more and he looked to be on target for second place when he hunted down Vettel.
However, after overtaking the Ferrari around the outside into Stowe, he was shunted into by Vettel and span off into the gravel. Verstappen was in no way at fault, and while he somehow managed to continue, the Dutchman lost places to Leclerc and Gasly.
“I honestly don’t know how I brought the car to the finish,” Verstappen said, though he has strengthened his stranglehold on third place in the drivers’ standings.
What could have been for Max Verstappen at Silverstone.Source: Getty Images
Qualified 13th, Finished 6th
Fast and opportunistic, Carlos Sainz’s strong run on race days continued by securing sixth place for the second time in three races. Qualifying had proved a disappointment, slipping out in Q2 fighting instability at the rear of his McLaren, but an attacking start and then a timely Safety Car pit stop put him ahead of teammate Norris, with the added bonus of hard tyres which took him to the end. Keeping Ricciardo’s faster Renault behind in the closing laps capped a fine result.
Sunday was far better than Saturday for Carlos Sainz.Source: Getty Images
This was only Renault’s second double points finish of the season but the French team, although still trailing McLaren, do have one major positive for F1 2019: The signing, and form, of Daniel Ricciardo.
Ricciardo is now 9-1 up on Nico Hulkenberg in qualifying for the season as he secured an impressive seventh. Ricciardo lost out on the first lap to Lando Norris in the race but, after initially dropping back following the Safety Car, the Australian showed great wheel-to-wheel skills and was then dogged in his pursuit of Sainz in the closing stages – just missing out on sixth.
It’s a shame not to see Ricciardo fighting at the front of the grid, but consistently scrapping with drivers in the midfield gives the Honey Badger the ultimate platform to shine in attack and defence. It almost suits him.
The Aussies could have used Ricciardo’s confidence in their Cricket World Cup semi.Source: Getty Images
A stealthy drive to eighth place and some more useful points for Kimi Raikkonen, who is keeping Alfa Romeo in the middle of F1’s mid-pack. He was out-qualified by teammate Antonio Giovinazzi as both Alfas just fell the wrong side of the Q2 cut line, but got ahead on the first lap and a pre-Safety Car switch to the hard tyres put him in play for a controlled run to eighth.
Pre-race fun in a 1950’s Alfetta for Kimi Raikkonen.Source: AP
Daniil Kvyat was the big mover on Sunday, rising eight places in the race to secure two valuable points for Toro Rosso. Kvyat says he “extracted everything from the car” but, like some other drivers, the timing of the Safety Car was key to the Russian’s end result – he hadn’t come in for his first stop before Lap 20.
Kvyat overtook a fading Albon in the last 10 laps and then had a “fun” battle with Raikkonen for P8. Still, his qualifying performance, knocked out in Q1 while his teammate reached Q3, was rather alarming.
More points for Daniil Kvyat after a horror qualifying.Source: Getty Images
Qualified 10th, Finished 10th
The final lap of Nico Hulkenberg’s race, when he overtook Alex Albon for 10th and the last point, meant the German ultimately took something away from a largely frustrating afternoon.
“It was just one of those Sundays where all the setbacks added up and cost us,” Hulkenberg said, who lost ground during the pit stops, tangled with Sergio Perez on the restart and then suffered a brief power interruption when his engine went into ‘limp mode’. Still, after a day like that, a point’s a point.
Double points for Renault in Silverstone with Nico Hulkenberg tenth.Source: Getty Images
Outside the points
It was all going so well for Lando Norris at his first home race: Starring in qualifying before brilliantly overtaking Ricciardo on Lap One, Norris looked a good bet to finish ‘best of the rest’ on Sunday. But after being jumped in the pit-stops by Renault and Ricciardo, Norris’ race was then hit with another blow by the Safety Car and, unable to get to the end on the mediums, the young rookie had to stop again on Lap 35.
He overtook Stroll and Albon, but could only manage 11th in the end and was so unlucky to miss out on points. Still, the future is bright for the teenager who now leads Sainz 7-3 in the qualifying head-to-heads.
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Alex Albon was one of the most consistently impressive performers across the Silverstone weekend, so it was a little gutting for the British-born driver not to score any points. Qualifying ninth, ahead of Renault’s Hulkenberg, was a standout Saturday achievement but an electrical issue on his car complicated the team’s Sunday strategy and Albon eventually ran out of grip in the closing laps as his forced one-stopper just fell short.
“I think it’s a weekend to forget,” Lance Stroll said, who struggled for a Racing Point team that are pinning their hopes on a major upgrade in Germany to spark their season. Stroll was knocked out of Q1 again – that’s now 14 sessions and counting – while he hasn’t beaten Perez in qualifying all season. Though he has been very close to Perez recently, that really isn’t a pretty statistic.
Stroll is a strong racer and he gained three places on the first lap, but was never really in contention for points.
He is going to have to wait a little longer before he gets a car to really make an impact at his home Grand Prix, but George Russell played his part in an uplifting weekend on his British GP debut – and was rewarded with well-deserved recognition from the crowd, if not from a concrete result.
“It was great fun out there, driving flat out every single lap around a circuit as cool as this was a special feeling,” Russell said. “Even before the race, seeing all the fans supporting us Brits was amazing.” Fourteenth – ahead of the bruised Vettel – capped another solid weekend.
The wait goes on for Robert Kubica, who has still yet to beat his teammate on a Saturday. His Sunday was just as tough, and the Pole urged his team to “resolve the ongoing problems”. After 10 races at the back of the pack, that might not be a quick fix, Robert.
What a difference a year makes for Sebastian Vettel. Sublime at Silverstone in 2018, he sunk down the order in 2019 after that costly misjudgment behind Max Verstappen.
For whatever reason, Vettel has found the going tough since losing that win in Canada, even though his race had been progressing from sixth on the grid reasonably enough before he careered into the back of that Red Bull. How he now needs a 2018 vs 2019 reverse at home at Hockenheim next time out.
It was a Silverstone shocker for Sebastian Vettel.Source: Getty Images
Sergio Perez felt “P7 was on the cards” at the British GP but says an issue with his steering wheel meant he was powerless to avoid clattering into Hulkenberg at the Safety Car restart. And that ruined his race.
“It’s so disappointing because we deserved a big result in our home race and we had the speed in the car to score points,” the Mexican said.
Antonio Giovinazzi was pretty close to Alfa Romeo teammate Kimi Raikkonen before spinning into the gravel, which caused the Safety Car. The Italian insisted “something went wrong with the car” which the team will investigate.
Romain Grosjean qualified 14th and ahead of Kevin Magnussen, but the two collided on the first lap and retired soon after.
Haas boss Guenther Steiner added: “The best that our drivers could bring to the battle was a shovel – to dig the hole we’re in even deeper.”
You won’t see many more damning quotes that that this season.
This story was originally published on Sky Sports UK.
Lewis Hamilton is not shying away from his decision to ignore team orders to pit in his final sprint to the finish line during Sunday night’s historic British Grand Prix.
Hamilton made history in the race by becoming the first driver to win the iconic British Grand Prix six times.
He was in a class of his own at the end of the race as he cleared the entire field by more than 21 seconds after his one-stop strategy proved to be a genius move and the difference between himself and teammate Valtteri Bottas, who finished second.
Having passed Bottas through the fortune of being able to pit during a safety car, Hamilton streaked away to win by 25 seconds, while Ferrari’s Charles LeClerc was the only driver anywhere near the Mercedes duo, finishing 30 seconds behind the reigning world champion.
Hamilton was asked by team officials to pit in the final laps of the race to put on a new set of tyres in a bid to lock-up the bonus point for the fastest lap of the race.
However, Hamilton shot his team down and refused to come in.
Mercedes then daylight ATM.Source: Getty Images
He said after the race he did not want to take the risk of having his team botch the pit stop and hand victory to Bottas.
In a perfect result for Hamilton, he held onto the fastest lap record despite his deteriorating tyres.
“I had a pitstop window, but there’s the entry of the pitlane, there’s the stop, there’s extra pressure on the mechanics to do the pitstop — not that I doubt them at all, but you just give a chance to it [to go wrong],” he said, according to autosport.com.
“I had saved enough in the tyres, I felt good with the hard tyre, I could keep going. I did have some blistering, so I was kind of conflicted, [thinking] should I stop?
“It would have brought us closer, but there were seven laps left, it’s very hard to catch a 21-second delta at the pace I could still do, so I decided [not to stop].
“It’s rare to go against the team, but I decided today that was the best thing for me.”
Mercdes team boss Toto Wolff said after the race it was a “50-50 decision” that the team was happy to leave up to Hamilton.
RICCIARDO TAKES ONE STEP FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK
Daniel Ricciardo couldn’t take advantage of the DNFs of Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen.Source: Getty Images
Daniel Ricciardo’s Renault team was “satisfied” with its two top-ten finishes despite being unable to take advantage of Sebastian Vettel’s crash with Max Verstappen.
Ricciardo started seventh on the grid and finished the race seventh, despite Verstappen and Vettel taking each other out of the race.
Ricciardo dropped down the grid on the opening lap when Lando Norris got a quick start off the blocks.
The time of the safety car also derailed his pursuit of McLaren’s Carlos Sainz with the Spaniard able to pit during the yellow flag period while Ricciardo’s one stop strategy left him unable to take the same advantage.
Ricciardo threw everything at Sainz in the closing laps, but didn’t have the power to execute a pass.
“All in all, I think it was a good race,” Ricciardo said, according to Renault Sport.
“Initially, I thought my start wasn’t bad but Lando [Norris] just managed to get me after some clean racing. We got him back on the undercut but then the Safety Car played into Carlos’ [Sainz] hands with a free pit-stop and that was a bit frustrating.
“It was unlucky on our part but we hunted him down towards the end but couldn’t mount a real attack to get past. It feels positive to be back in the top ten especially after the last two rounds. Our single-lap and race pace has certainly been a solid turnaround in a short period of time. Looking back to two weeks ago, we’d have taken this result.”
LECLERS PROMISES FIERY RESPONSE
Charles Leclerc says the Austrian GP changed his thinking on what was acceptable in F1 after delivering an impressive and combative drive to the podium in the British GP.
Two weeks on from losing out on victory in a wheel-banging clash with Max Verstappen, an overtake upheld by a post-race investigation, Leclerc spent much of Sunday’s Silverstone race battling the Dutchman again — and this time gave as good as he got.
The 21-year-olds engaged in several rounds of battles, including making contact at Vale, but stewards took no action against any incident.
“That was definitely the most fun I’ve ever had in my Formula 1 car,” said Leclerc, voted Sunday’s driver of the day by fans.
“It’s a short career, only one year and a half, but it was very fun inside the car.
“Austria was quite an eye-opener for me to understand how far we could go and what was accepted. I’m very happy to race like this. Every driver wants to race hard and that’s what we did for most of the race.
“Always borderline but always within the rules and it was very enjoyable.”
Leclerc had run ahead of Verstappen in third behind Mercedes’ drivers in the race’s first stint but by lap 22 was down in sixth after two pit stops in quick succession.
The 21-year-old had pitted on lap 13 for a second set of the medium tyres but, once the Safety Car was called eight laps later for Antonio Giovinazzi’s crash, Ferrari pitted Leclerc again to move him on to the hard tyres, meaning he did not have to stop again.
On lap 36, Leclerc passed Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly in a brilliant around-the-outside move at Village and then was promoted back into third a lap later when Sebastian Vettel lost control of his Ferrari and slammed into the back of Verstappen, sending both cars into the gravel.
“I was a bit unlucky with the Safety Car but a bit lucky with the crash for Max, unfortunately there was also Seb in it,” reflected the 21-year-old.
“Overall I think third was the best we could have done today.”
Leclerc’s fourth successive podium — the best run of his nascent career — now puts him just three points behind Vettel in the championship after the German scored zero points for the first time in 12 months following his crash.
— James Galloway, Sky Sports
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The Great Pirates of the Pacific
I’ve always thought there is something prehistoric about frigatebirds, as something about their shape evokes in my mind the shape I imagine the later pterosaurs would cut in the late Cretaceous skies. This association belies the advanced and highly sophisticated adaptations the family has evolved for a life of wandering, hunting and, yes, piracy on the high seas. I was lucky enough to get a four month window into the lives of one species, the Great Frigatebird, Fregata minor, while working for the USFWS on French Frigate Shoals in the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. The etymological disconnect between the common name (Great) and the specific name (minor) is due to the species originally being described as Pelecanus minor, little pelican. When the species was moved to its own genus the specific name had to stick (due to the rules of such things), thus the great was made small.
The classic shot of a male Great Frigatebird. Actually, the gular sack isn’t fully inflated, but you get the idea.
The Great Frigatebirds vary by sex. The adult male is entirely black (unlike the other species of frigatebird found in the Pacific), whereas the female has a white breast and throat. They also have the inflatable gular sack used to attract a female to their nesting site that is the thing I remember about from the group form the essay I wrote about them when I was eight.
Adult female at rest. Note the red eye-ring, absent in males.
Great Frigatebirds, like other members of the family, have very long lives and reach sexual maturity very slowly. It takes four to six months for chicks to fledge, and us much as 450 days to achieve full independence after fledging, the longest period of parental dependency of any bird. Having become independent they will not achieve full adult plumage until they are between eight and eleven years old. Chicks are hatched naked and helpless, but then develop the first covering of white down.
Chick at downy stage with adult male and a Red-footed Booby.
As the chicks grow older they begin to develop adult-like plumage. The main differences is that the black areas tend to be duller and browner, and the head is white with varying amounts of rust.
This chick is beginning to get juvenile plumage on the face and body but still has a lot of down.
Much less down on this chick. Notice the head is on the whiter end of the rust-white spectrum.
This very nearly fledged chick has a lot more rust on the head and throat. Around fledging you can also notice the prominent wingbar.
At about one and a half years of age the rust begins to fade from the head, noticeably so by the age of two and a half. By the age of three and a half the head is usually entirely white, although females may retain some rust on the breast until they are nine years old.
A white-headed adolescent flanked by two female adults.
The head of this female is beginning to get black feathers, but there is still a tinge of rust on the breast.
Here I think is a male with an increasingly black head, probably around 5 to 6 years old. Notice that the breast is still white.
Next week I’ll return to these stupendous birds to look a little more closely at their lives at Tern and at sea. In the meantime, enjoy some scenery porn.
White-headed juvenile and adult female with almost fledged Black-footed Albatross.
All images taken by author but belong to the USFWS and are therefore in the public domain.
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Duncan Wright is a Wellington-based ornithologist working on the evolution of New Zealand's birds. He's previously poked albatrosses with sticks in Hawaii, provided target practice for gulls in California, chased monkeys up and down hills Uganda, wrestled sharks in the Bahamas and played God with grasshopper genetics in Namibia. He came into studying birds rather later in life, and could quit any time he wants to.
Duncan, this is an absolutely fantastic post!
It taught me stuff, the pictures are fantastic, and you threw in an albatross.
April 20, 2011 10:30:59 am
Arrr, this be a good post.
Pat ODonnell
Very nice set of Pterosaur..I mean Frigatebird photos.
Seagullsteve
May 07, 2011 6:35:10 pm
450 days! Wow, I had no idea. When were you on Tern? I volunteered on Midway in 2009…
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Providing dental health care since 1933
There has been a Dental Surgery at The Willows since the 1930’s and we are proud to be continuing that service for High Wycombe and the surrounding areas.
From black and white photos to hi-tech surgeries
It was Stanley Arthur Jollye who first opened a surgery here and he was known to be very innovative, apparently having the first x-ray machine out of the hospital environment. He also had onsite technicians to make dentures. They were downstairs.
Some of our patients remember Mr Jollye and how the surgery was laid out. The waiting room and reception were downstairs and when it was time for your appointment the receptionist would take you up. There was a ‘gas room’ at the back of the building! Fortunately, that is a part of dentistry now only utilised in a hospital.
Mr Jollye had two other dentists working with him; Mr Duncan and Mr Etheridge.
Lucy took over the practice in 2007 and all of the current staff have been with her since then. It is a close team, creating a ‘family’ atmosphere and often much laughter!
Since 2007 Lucy has been steadily improving the environment and equipment in order to provide the best surroundings for patient and staff comfort and wellbeing.
The Willows was built in the 1850’s and Lucy wishes to keep as much of the original character of the building as possible alongside the modern technological requirements of a dental surgery.
The most recent project was a complete refurbishment of the smaller surgery making it a far nicer space for all.
In the words of our patients:
“Brilliant, she knows exactly what she’s talking about, is professional, and careful.”
“Had a great experience by a very highly professional Dr Lucy and all the staff thank you.”
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Aug 10 Episode #1: Is the Mona Lisa a Fake?
The inaugural episode of the ArtCurious Podcast explores the world's most famous work of art: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. It is iconic, incredible, and unforgettable-- but is the work on view in Paris's Louvre Museum today the real deal? Host Jennifer Dasal uncovers the story of the Mona Lisa from its creation in the 16th century through its 1911 theft and to its current status as untouchable superstar, breaking down the strange stories and rumors swirling around it.
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Council pays temporary officer £1154 a day to avoid risk of "serious reputational damage"
by Lisa Reeves
Wed 17th Apr 2019
Cheshire East is paying a temporary senior officer £1154 a day in order to avoid the risk of "serious reputational damage to the Council".
The Council says that they had an immediate requirement to appoint a Director of Governance and Compliance, which incorporates the Statutory Monitoring Officer role.
Due to the urgency, the Acting Chief Executive Kath O'Dwyer took the decision in consultation with Cabinet members, the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Staffing Committee, the Mayor and the Council's Political Group Leaders.
A report prepared for a meeting of the Council's Staffing Committee to be held on April 25th confirms that the appointee is being paid a daily rate is £995 plus a 16% management fee to the agency. Which means the cost to taxpayers is £1154 per day - £5770 a week.
A new Corporate Services structure came into effect on 1st April 2019 at Cheshire East Council and included a new post of Director of Governance and Compliance. The range of responsibilities of this post differs from that of the previous Director of Legal Services role.
There has been an acting up arrangement in place, with Daniel Dickinson taking on the post of Director of Legal Services since April 2017 due to the absence and subsequent resignation of the previous post-holder. This acting up arrangement ended on 31st March 2019.
In her report for the Staffing Committee, Sara Duncalf, Acting HR Business Partner, wrote "The Director of Governance and Compliance is also the Monitoring Officer and therefore the appointment would normally be made by Council.
"As the next Council meeting does not take place until 22 May, there would have been an unacceptable risk to the Council in being without a Monitoring Officer for the period between 1 April and 22 May 2019. There could also have been serious reputational damage to the Council."
She added "The daily rate for the post is more than that for a permanent appointment. However, it is short-term and the cost will be offset against the salary already budgeted for the post until an appointment is made, and managed within the approved budget for Governance and Compliance."
Here's what readers have had to say so far. Why not add your thoughts below.
Roy West
Wednesday 17th April 2019 at 9:25 pm
Unbelievable! Just another example of the way this current council have been running things; don't forget to vote for a change as soon as possible.
Bob Bracegirdle
Tuesday 23rd April 2019 at 4:02 pm
I wonder how they think we survive on that much every 5 or 6 weeks rather than a day.
Terry Bowes
This Council is appalling!! How can you save a reputation that does not exist. Get rid asap.
Adrian Scott
Sadly, As the letter I published last week shows: They are a law unto themselves. They really are an absolutely useless shower. "Governance and compliance" to what ?? The Government has no control, the LGA doesn't care and we can't stop them spending on whatever they feel appropriate any time of the day or week. Did the Mayor and Council's Political Group Leaders have a voice? did they object ? or were they just told "We're doing this and you have no say !!!??
Nick Speakman
...and despite this being just one of the calamities this Tory Council has had, involving all sorts of indiscretions, they'll no doubt walk to a majority Tory council again on May 2nd. *sigh*
Neil Hamilton was proof you can put any old crook in a suit and elect them 'round here as long as they have a blue rosette on their lapel.
Do not vote Conservative at the elections in early May!
Tony Haluradivth
Friday 26th April 2019 at 9:46 am
How much of this "governance" will change with a new political order ? Naught is my guess. These civil servants just run rings around the stupid politicians. Yes give the current incumbents a good "drubbing" by all means next month, however we cannot vote out the likes of Hazel O'Dwyer as SHE is a Civil Servant ( notwithstanding her profligacy, and sheer talent for incompetence and wasting our money). There needs to be a root and branch "clear out" of senior local goverment civil servants, as their ranks have been infected by corruption and dishonesty (as per my last post about these characters resigning just before criminal investigations and moving on to another Council position in another area). If only these officials were up for election too. They do not care about disgrace and reputation they are merely the "players" and perpetrators of a nice, lucrative racket ......Where are the "Sweeney" these days when you need them?
Alan Brough
Friday 26th April 2019 at 12:06 pm
We need more Councillors like Craig Browne who are willing to challenge the status quo.
Too many have been partially or wholly compliant in some of the more questionable activities of CE Council - I'm thinking about things such as Lyme Green, CoSocious, Core-Fit, the falsification of air quality data....to name but a few of the many issues that have kept Private Eye magazine's "Rotten Boroughs" section busy for a long while.
CE Council can only be a hairs-breadth away from being taken into "special measures" and I would venture that, were it not a Conservative controlled council, it would have been called to account in the same way as Northampton Council.
CE Council needs more conscience-led councillors like Craig Browne to break the stranglehold that the Conservative block vote has us locked in.
It looks increasingly likely that Wilmslow will follow Alderley Edge's lead and return more Independent Councillors next week.......fingers crossed!
Jonathan Follows
Friday 26th April 2019 at 7:56 pm
I believe that a "Chief Executive Officer" (Kath O'Dwyer, by the way, Tony) is a job which should not exist in any council, the title should be "Hired Help" and the salary commensurate with the real job. As it is, it's just our elected representatives wasting our money in yet another way. For sure, they need to appoint some people to run the council but not with such an exalted title and inflated salary. The job also confuses responsibilities because it's the elected councillors who bear the responsibility, not the hired help. The track record of CEC's high level appointments is not good, inasmuch as we're able to see the truth through the obfuscation.
A legal officer might be a necessity, although my experience with lawyers in the public sector (not local government) is that they existed to stop you doing your job properly.
Wednesday 1st May 2019 at 9:22 am
Yes Jonathan, it sounds like you are spot on there ;)
David Isherwood
Friday 3rd May 2019 at 10:06 pm
Jonathan Follows - you are quite right. Too many in politics have forgotten that they are there as elected representatives
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First strike and you’re out
More nuclear threats from Russia
For someone who knows Russia, no news about, or especially from, that country is really news.
Yet one understands our media milliners’ need to flog old hats as scoops – same old, same old isn’t an approach likely to sell many newspapers.
However, sexing news up shouldn’t mean misleading the public, which line is alas overstepped much too often. Witness the title and opening paragraph of today’s Times article Russia Rewrites Nuclear Rule Book to Fire First.
And then: “President Putin would have the power to launch nuclear first strikes under plans approved by the Russian parliament.”
Amazing how many flagrant falsehoods a mere two sentences can contain.
A virginal reader coming to this item cold would be within his right to form at least two conclusions. First, that first strikes hadn’t been part of Russia’s strategic doctrine until this momentous decision. Second, that without the parliament’s approval Putin wouldn’t be able to launch one.
In the reverse order, Russia has no parliament in the sense in which a virginal Times reader understands the term, a sovereign legislative body passing all laws and holding the executive to account.
The Duma is neither sovereign nor legislative; it neither passes any laws nor holds anyone to account. Just like the Supreme Soviet was in the USSR, it’s a rubberstamping body created to dupe the uninitiated into believing that Russia is ruled by law.
Unlike the Supreme Soviet, it has the additional function of providing parliamentary immunity for international criminals, such as Alexei Lugovoi who murdered Alexander Litvinenko in what may be described as a nuclear first strike on Britain.
To eliminate that falsehood, the headline should have simply said “Putin may launch nuclear first strikes if he feels like it.”
That would have been a move in the right direction, but the other falsehood would still have remained. For the Soviet, and then Russian, military doctrine has always been based on an offensive first strike, with nuclear weapons if necessary.
And renouncing that possibility within the framework of various treaties has always been nothing but an exercise in deception, what the Russians call disinformation.
Every disarmament treaty either the USSR or its successor has ever signed has been a ruse designed to gain strategic advantage. The entire resources of that evil regime have always been dedicated to cheating on every such agreement, from SALT I and II to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed in the halcyon days of perestroika.
To its credit, the Trump administration didn’t get intoxicated on the heady brew of disinformation. Where the previous administrations were too cowardly to point at the ace sticking out of the cardsharp’s sleeve, the Trump lot did just that by announcing their decision to pull out of the INF.
They correctly stated that the Russians were deploying the very weapons banned by the agreement, which logically rendered it null and void.
Like the thief who screams “Stop thief!” louder than anyone else, the Russians upped the volume of their nuclear threats which already was deafening. An American withdrawal “wouldn’t be left without an answer from our side”, threatened the Botox Boy.
He then narrowed his fish eyes and gave the Russians the good news. In case of a nuclear holocaust they’d go straight to heaven, presumably bypassing purgatory.
The Botox Boy didn’t specify the number of virgins gagging for the righteous up there, but he did say that Russia’s enemies would go to hell without even enough time to repent their sins.
Having thus taken a page out of Islam’s book, Putin then explained under what conditions he’d push the button for a nuclear first strike. Russia, he said, would retaliate with nuclear weapons if attacked with “hypersonic and non-nuclear strategic weapons”.
Allow me to translate from disinformation into English. If NATO resists Russia’s aggression against Eastern Europe, specifically the Baltics, the Botox Boy will unleash hell.
For an F-22 fighter-bomber firing an air-to-ground missile at a Russian tank column advancing on Estonia may be construed to fall under the Botox Boy’s description of strategic weapons.
In case the meaning got lost in translation, the Russian government confirmed that the announcement should be taken as a warning to Eastern European countries hosting NATO bases.
“These countries should understand that we won’t simply look at that through our fingers – we will react,” said the Russian defence spokesman.
But the existence of those bases is in itself a reaction – to a growing Russian threat. All NATO installations in that region are strictly defensive, including that particular burr under Russia’s blanket, the nuclear shield in Romania.
Russia’s announcement is tantamount to a demand for the unilateral disarmament of Eastern Europe, starting with the three Baltic members of NATO.
Should NATO accede, it would have only two possible responses to a Russian aggression: an all-out strategic nuclear strike or surrender. Both would be catastrophic; neither is acceptable.
The Russians are screaming that NATO bases in Eastern Europe present a threat to them. I’d say they’re no more threatening than the shotgun I might keep under my bed. It’ll only ever get fired if my family is under attack. My good neighbours have nothing to fear from either barrel.
By his own admission, in his youth the Botox Boy was a “common street thug”. That he remains, in every word he utters and every action he takes.
Take it from someone who had to grow up surrounded by Russian street thugs: overwhelming force is the only language they understand. One either outbullies the bully or falls victim to him.
I do hope NATO follows the first course, preparing, should the need arise, to thwart the thug with a punch on the nose. As part of such preparations, let’s abandon the silly pretence that we’re dealing with a legitimate country complete with parliaments, courts and generally good intentions.
Putin’s Russia is a criminal organisation functioning according to the laws of the mean streets. It should be dealt with as such.
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Palmaria palmata (Linnaeus) F.Weber & D.Mohr
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Dulse harvester Wanda Vantassel (Fundy Dulse) on the shore on Digby Neck, Nova Scotia (with permission).. 02 Jun 2012. David J. Garbary. © David J. Garbary.
Silver Strand, Galway Bay, Ireland; spermatangial sori. 05 Apr 2012. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Silver Strand, Galway Bay, Ireland; spermatangial plant. 05 Apr 2012. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; small plants starting to form tetrasporangial sori . 29 Mar 2012. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mikeguiry@me.com).
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; regenerating and starting to form tetrasporangial sori . 29 Mar 2012. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mikeguiry@me.com).
Digby Neck, Nova Scotia; dulse harvesting site being monitored. 21 Feb 2012. Andrea Flynn. © Andrea Flynn.
Collected near Roscoff (F), December 1984. 29 Dec 2011. Elmar Wosnitza. © Christine Wosnitza.
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Palmaria palmata (Linnaeus) F.Weber & D.Mohr Finavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower-shore rocks on Fucus serratus; ecotype known as var. sobolifera
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Palmaria palmata (Linnaeus) F.Weber & D.Mohr 1805: 256, 259, 299, 300
Published in: [Weber, F. & Mohr, D.M.H.] (1805). Einige Worte über unsre bisherigen, hauptsächlich carpologischen Zergliederungen von kryptogamischen Seegewächsen. Beiträge zur Naturkunde 1: 204-329.
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The type species (lectotype) of the genus Palmaria is Ceramium palmatum (Linnaeus) Stackhouse.
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This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Fucus palmatus Linnaeus
Type information
Type locality: ""Ad oras atlantica"" (Linnaeus 1753: 1162). Lectotype: L 910.184.2889 (Irvine & Guiry 1983: 68). Notes: Linnaeus's description was taken from Van Royen (1740) and a lectotype has been selected from his herbarium (which Linnaeus examined).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), lobed or divided in the manner of an outspread hand with the sinuses between the lobes pointing to the place of attachment (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus palmatus Linnaeus 1753
Ulva palmata (Linnaeus) Withering 1796
Ceramium palmatum (Linnaeus) Stackhouse 1797
Delesseria palmata (Linnaeus) J.V.Lamouroux 1813
Sarcophylla palmata (Linnaeus) Stackhouse 1816
Halymenia palmata (Linnaeus) C.Agardh 1817
Sphaerococcus palmatus (Linnaeus) Wahlenberg 1826
Rhodymenia palmata (Linnaeus) Greville 1830
Isomenia palmata (Linnaeus) Pylaie 1830
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus ovinus Gunnerus 1766
Fucus dulcis S.G.Gmelin 1768
Ulva delicatula Gunnerus 1772
Ulva caprina Gunnerus 1772
Fucus bullatus O.F.Müller 1777
Fucus foliaceus Strøm 1788
Fucus soboliferus M.Vahl 1792
Fucus caprinus Vahl 1794
Fucus delicatulus (Gunnerus) Vahl 1797
Fucus rubens Esper 1799
Fucus sarniensis Mertens 1806
Fucus sarniensis var. tenuissimus Turner 1808
Palmaria expansa Stackhouse 1809
Palmaria lanceolata Stackhouse 1809
Fucus palmatus var. marginifer Turner 1809
Palmaria olivacea Stackhouse 1809
Fucus palmatus var. laciniatus Wahlenberg 1812
Delesseria sobolifera (M.Vahl) J.V.Lamouroux 1813
Delesseria lacera J.V.Lamouroux 1813
Fucus lacerus J.V.Lamouroux 1813
Sarcophylla marginifera (Turner) Stackhouse 1816
Sarcophylla olivacea (Stackhouse) Stackhouse 1816
Hymenophylla sobolifera (M.Vahl) Stackhouse 1816
Halymenia palmata var. marginifera (Turner) C.Agardh 1817
Halymenia palmata var. laciniata (Wahlenberg) C.Agardh 1817
Halymenia sobolifera (M.Vahl) C.Agardh 1817
Halymenia palmata var. simplex C.Agardh 1817
Sphaerococcus sarniensis (Mertens) C.Agardh 1817
Ulva sobolifera (M.Vahl) Lyngbye 1819
Ulva palmata var. laciniata (Wahlenberg) Lyngbye 1819
Ulva palmata var. marginifera (Turner) Lyngbye 1819
Ulva palmata var. simplex (C.Agardh) Lyngbye 1819
Halymenia palmata var. concatenata C.Agardh 1822
Halymenia palmata var. sarniensis (Mertens) C.Agardh 1822
Halymenia palmata var. delicatula (Gunnerus) C.Agardh 1822
Halymenia lacera (J.V.Lamouroux) J.V.Lamouroux 1824
Fucus rubescens Sommerfelt 1826
Rhodymenia palmata var. sarniensis (Mertens) Greville 1830
Rhodymenia sobolifera (M.Vahl) Greville 1830
Halymenia sarniensis (Mertens) Duby 1830
Rhodymenia palmata var. concatenata (C.Agardh) Liebmann 1839
Sphaerococcus soboliferus (M.Vahl) Kützing 1843
Sphaerococcus palmatus var. prolifer Kützing 1843
Sphaerococcus palmatus var. marginifer (Turner) Kützing 1845
Rhodymenia palmata var. simplex (C.Agardh) Harvey 1849
Rhodymenia palmata var. marginifera (Turner) Harvey 1849
Rhodymenia palmata var. sobolifera (M.Vahl) Harvey 1849
Sphaerococcus palmatus var. concatenatus (C.Agardh) Kützing 1849
Sphaerococcus palmatus var. pinnatus Kützing 1849
Sphaerococcus palmatus var. celicatulus Kützing 1849
Callophyllis soboliferus (M.Vahl) Kützing 1849
Palmaria expansa var. marginifera (Turner) Ruprecht 1850
Rhodymenia palmata f. sobolifera (M.Vahl) J.Agardh 1851
Rhodymenia palmata f. prolifera (Kützing) Kjellman 1883
Rhodymenia palmata f. angustifolia Kjellman 1883
Rhodymenia palmata f. typica Kjellman 1883
Rhodymenia palmata f. microphylla J.Agardh 1883
Rhodymenia palmata f. sarniensis (Mertens) Kjellman 1883
Rhodymenia palmata var. laciniata Holmes & Batters 1890
Rhodymenia palmata f. flabellata Rosenvinge 1893
Rhodymenia palmata var. latifolia Rosenvinge 1893
Rhodymenia palmata f. quercifolia Rosenvinge 1893
Rhodymenia palmata f. caespitosa Simmons 1897
Rhodymenia palmata f. marginifera (Turner) Batters 1902
Rhodymenia palmata f. simplex (C.Agardh) Batters 1902
Rhodymenia palmata var. murmanica A.D.Zinova 1950
Nomenclatural notes
Initially this binomial was ascribed to Stackhouse (1801) and later to Kuntze (1891), but the earliest valid use of the name is that of Weber & Mohr (1805) (fide Athanasiadis 22 March 2010, e-mail). - (15 Jul 2010) - M.D. Guiry
Taxonomic notes
Morton (1994) includes "Palmaria palmata var. sobolifera" from Northern Ireland, a combination that has not been validated; this entity (formerly Rhodymenia palmata var. sobolifera) is currently considered to be included in the type variety.
Distributional notes
Probably confined to the North Atlantic. Reports from India and the Philippines and elsewhere are incorrect. Reports from the Pacific, particularly Japan, probably refer to other species of the genus. The occurrence of this cold water species in the Gulf of Guinea is also unlikely (John et al., 2004).
This is a common red seaweed found between the tides on rocky shores and is named for its resemblance to the palm of the human hand (Latin, palma). In Ireland, Scotland and England, it is known as Dillisk or Dulse. In Irish, two names are used: Creathnach (feminine) and Duileasc (masculine). These names actually express different forms of what appears to be a single biological entity. Creathnach is a smaller, narrower form that generally grows on small mussels on wave-swept shores, and is sometimes known as "Shell-dulse" in English; this form is more popular in many places. Duilleasc, on the other hand, is used for a larger, broader form that grows directly on rocks or on kelp.
The use of dulse is known in Ireland since at least the twelfth century when it was mentioned in a poem describing the duties of monks:
Seal ag buain duilisg do charraig,
seal ag aclaidh,
seal ag tabhairt bhídh do bhoctaibh,
seal i gcaracair.
A while gathering dillisk from the rock,
a while fishing,
a while giving food to the poor,
a while in a cell.
Regulations governing the collection of dulse were introduced in Iceland in the thirteenth century, and the Icelandic sagas (eleventh century onwards) describe one of the heroes being given dulse in milk to lull him into sleep prior to being killed.
Dulse is good to eat, but generally only after being dried. In a fresh state it is leathery and unpalatable. After sun-drying and proper storage, it is a very pleasant plant to chew. It has very little fat and only a small amount of proteins and cellulose, but is very rich in trace elements and vitamins, particularly vitamin A. Dulse contains large amount of several unusual carbohydrates including an unusual short-chained one, floridoside, and this can form up to 30% of the dry weight. This may account for its palatability.
Scotland, Norway, Iceland and eastern Canada all produce small amounts of dulse for human consumption. In Ireland about 20 dry tonnes are sold each year, mainly in the west and north-east. It is particularly popular in the working class areas on north Belfast where its use is likely to have come, along with the name 'dulse' from Scotland. At present natural dulse is in short supply.
All sorts of claims are made for dulse. According to a herbal published in Dublin in 1726 (Threlkeld's Synopsis stirpium hibernicarum
, as Fucus palmam humanam referens):
"But in Dublin men chew it like Tobacco when dry, carrying it in their Pockets for that end, which destroys worms, and gives a Relish to Beer, as Anchoves and Olives to Wine; it is commended against Women's longing."
The matter of it being a vermifuge may be due to the kainic acid content. Dulse used to be sold in the Galway Egg and Butter Market and was reputed to be an good remedy for a hangover; it is still occasionally sold in vegetable and fishmonger shops in Galway. Nowadays, dulse is often used in chowders and fish dishes, as a condiment, and even in desserts and bread.
General environment
This is a marine species.
(as Palmaria palmata (Linnaeus) F.Weber & D.Mohr)
Breton: Tellesk (Madlener 1977).
English: Dillisk, Dillesk, Crannogh, Water Leaf, Sheep Dulse (Madlener 1977), Dried dulse (McConnaughey 1985), Dulse (Lembi & Waaland 1988), Shelldulse (Anon. 2000).
French: Goéman à Vache (Madlener 1977).
Gaeilge: Duileasc, Creathnach (Anon. 2000).
Icelandic: Saccha, Sol (Madlener 1977).
Japanese: Darusu (Madlener 1977).
Norwegian: Sou Sol (Madlener 1977).
Portuguese: Botelho-comprido (Oliveira, 1990).
(as Rhodymenia palmata (Linnaeus) Greville)
English: Sea grass (Brennan 1950), American dulse (Kirby 1953), Dillisc, Sheep's weed (Duddington 1966), Horse seaweed, Sea devil (Ohmi 1968), Dulse (Anonymous 1978), Dillisk (Rhoads & Zunic 1978).
French: Goémon à vaches (Boisvert 1984).
Gaeilge: Creannach (Brennan 1950), Duileasc, Creathnach (Anonymous 1978).
Common names used in commerce, often for edible algae
grannogh; dillisk; main de mer {Fr}; handed fucus {Eng}; "fucus, handed"
Reddish brown, membranous or leathery, flattened fronds, 50-300 (-1000) mm long, arising from a discoid base, usually with a small stipe expanding gradually to form simple or dichotomously and palmately divided fronds, often with characteristic marginal leaflets. Blade very variable in shape, having broadly ovate to narrowly linear segments.
Marine. On rock, mussels and epiphytic on several algae, intertidal (at all levels but particularly near low water) and shallow subtidal , especially on upper part of Laminaria hyperborea stipes (to a depth of 5 m), widely distributed, abundant. Undivided or sparingly divided forms occur on mussels on exposed shores and sometimes in the subtidal (to 20 m in exceptionally clear water); plants growing on exposed shores, known in Ireland as Creathnach, are considered to be more palatable than the leathery plants of the lower intertidal of semi-exposed shores, which are usually dried and sold as Dillisk or Dilleasc; these forms may ultimately prove to be a separate entity. A very finely dissected form grows epiphytically on rocks, pedbbles and Fucus serrratus in the sheltered parts of semi-exposed shores where silt or fine sand accumulates; this is sometimes known as the "var. sobolifera" or "var. sarniensis" and is much less common than the other forms.
Key characteristics
The palmate branching with its finger-like extensions is very characterstic; most plants have marginal proliferations at the base. Young plants can be less leathery and may be thin and slippery.
The finely-divided forms are sometimes misidentified as Gracilaria multipartita, the latter is, however, much thicker, and recognisably fleshy.
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Surat's prized officer: Municipal commissioner S Aparna makes Surtis proud
INSURGENCY was at peak in trouble-torn North Eastern state of Nagaland in late 1980s. A government rule dictated unmarried woman IAS officers to abandon Nagaland, forcing young S Aparna, a 1988 batch IAS officer to unwillingly leave that cadre and chose Gujarat instead. Twenty years down the line she has remained single, but for the people of the port city of Surat, she has become a change-agent crafting happier lives for thousands of families living in the diamond city. Surat's municipal commissioner Aparna along with the city's Mayor got a rare distinction when Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh gave away the best JNNURM city award to Surat in a function held in New Delhi on Thursday. (See picture here) For Aparna, who hails from Tamil Nadu, it was the result of relentless effort to make a meaningful change in the city's infrastructure from drain water system to construction of roads and flyovers in addition to making a smart balance sheet for the city, and putting in place a good financial mechanism. An M Phil in zoology and MBA from an Australian university, Aparna wants to experiment with Surat's raising of resources through capital market by issuing bond even though there is no pressing need for the cash-rich city to raise any money now. Though she suffered a minor setback over her reported comment on North Indians living in the city a few months ago, she is recognised as one of the most efficient officers the state is banking upon. She feels the job of a municipal commissioner is masculine in nature though she is enjoying every bit of the tough assignment. After all, the only other known woman city commissioner is 1994 batch Orissa cadre IAS officer Aparajita Sarangi who had a very successful innings as Bhubaneswar municipal commissioner from May 2006 to July 2009. For Aparna, what matters after Surat being selected as the best among 63 mission cities in the country is the happiness of every Surti. "There is a lot of euphoria in the city!" she exclaims. Mayor of Ahmedabad Kanaji Thakore and municipal commissioner I P Gautam also recieved a prize as Ahmedabad was adjusted the best city for Mass Transit Project BRTS. Greater Mumbai received the best mega city award, DMRC got the best environment friendly transit system award. Best basic services for urban poor city award was given to Vishakhapatnam. Surat also bagged most inclusive approach award, and best mission city award in earmarking of development land for poor was received by Chandigarh.
Prize for railway official or outsider! Any railway official or outsider who helps in averting rail accidents is being suitably awarded by the Zonal Railways. In 2008-09, 907 such persons were awarded. During the current fiscal up to October, 479 such people were awarded. The information was given by the minister of state for railways K H Muniyappa in a written reply in Lok Sabha on Thursday.
Labels: 1988 batch, Aparajita Sarangi, I P Gautam, Orissa cadre, S Aparna
What about PCMC?Neville Bhasin
Best practices always deserve wide dissemination-- the awards are a sound initiative to that end.the demoralised lot of our babus may get some much needed vitamin if they are keeping the eyes and ears open.
Congratulations to you Respected Madam, It is better here to communicate than office.
OUR HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND YOUR PANEL FOR THE GRAND AND WONDERFUL "SUROTSAV" PROGRAMME !!!!
She is truly a remarkable figure and Surat deserves this award!
Tarun Shah November 20, 2011 at 9:33 PM
You should have been entrusted the Education Department.....
M'm,
You should have been entrusted for the Department of Education....
You should have been entrusted for the Deptt. of Education...
A VERY VERY BIG THANX TO U TO MAKE SURAT A GLOBLE CITY....U R MY NSPIRATION!!!
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Fla. teen pleads not guilty in school shooting
A teen charged with fatally shooting a friend at a south Florida high school has pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge.
Teah Wimberly entered a written plea Thursday. She will be tried as an adult. If convicted, the 15-year-old could be sentenced to a maximum of life in prison.
Authorities say Wimberly and 15-year-old Amanda Collette were longtime friends who had recently stopped speaking before Wimberly shot her at Dillard High School in November. She then ran to a nearby restaurant, called police and confessed.
Her lawyer has said Wimberly may need medication after a psychological evaluation found she had mental health issues.
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Break through the sky! US allies will buy 146 Russian T-90 tanks
Recently, a video of a desert test conducted by a Russian-made T-90MS main battle tank in Kuwait was exposed. According to a report by the Tass news agency in September 2017, Kuwait has reached an agreement with Russia to purchase 146 T-90MS tanks to replace the old M-84 tanks. As one of the traditional Middle Eastern allies of the United States, it is rare for Kuwait to purchase so many Russian tanks at one time.
T-90MS tanks are fired in Kuwait and the military personnel view the target dynamic map.
T-90MS is a modernized and improved version of the T-90S foreign trade tank launched by the Russian Ural Machinery Vehicle Factory (UVZ) in 2012. A number of new technologies, especially in the fire control, sighting and protection systems, have been greatly improved, and the combat performance has been improved compared with the T-90S. The picture shows a number of technical improvements of the T-90MS.
Multi-view model drawing of the T-90MS tank.
Russian data shows that the T-90MS improvement project includes the replacement of the new "Karina" fire control system, which can be more than "Pine-U" The channel gunner sight, the "Eagle Eye" captain, and the sight sights are interconnected. The "Pine-U" sight can provide laser guidance for gun-launched missiles, while the "Eagle Eye" sight can identify 5000 meters in the daytime. The enemy tanks inside (3,300 meters in bad weather) also added an automatic tracking system, and the fire control level and night shooting accuracy have been greatly improved compared with the traditional Russian tanks.
Other improvements include the replacement of the 2A46M-5 new 125mm smoothbore gun, using the 3BK29 shelled rear wing stabilized armor-piercing projectile (APFSDS) at 2000 meters The maximum armor thickness of the distance is up to 800 mm RHA (rolled pressure uniform armor), and the T05BV1 remote weapon station (equipped with a 7.62 mm universal machine gun for anti-infantry operations). The picture shows the T-90MS turret weapon system. .
T-90MS shows the dynamics of the 2A46M-5 slick gun and maneuver display.
T-90MS 2A46M-5 new 125mm smoothbore gun close-up.
Remote Weapon Station (RCWS) is rare on Russian tanks, meaning that occupants can directly shoot machine guns in the car, which can greatly enhance urban warfare. The survivability of the occupants, the T-90MS RCWS also uses a machine gun and a weekly vision sight integrated design, and later the T-14 "Amata" tank also draws on similar designs. The firepower range of the RCWS machine gun is also shown.
For the high temperature environment of the desert, the T-90MS is also equipped with a V-92S2F diesel engine with a power of 1130 hp (V-84MS for the T-90 tank) The diesel engine power is only 840 hp), even in the desert off-road environment, it can maintain a speed of 60 kilometers per hour (high-power diesel engine also means more power for car air conditioners and electronic equipment).
If the dynamic map shows that there is still a tidbit during the test, T-90MS tries to help a Kuwaiti military vehicle that is anchored in the desert to get out of trouble. Pull the traction rope off.
In addition to the desert off-road test, the T-90MS also conducted day and night live ammunition shooting tests (to overcome the adverse effects of thermal disturbances in high temperature environments in the desert). Its excellent shooting accuracy has been recognized by the Kuwaiti military.
Russian personnel accompanied the Kuwaiti military personnel to check the target of the T-90MS tank breakdown.
The Kuwaiti Army is also equipped with 218 US M1A2 tanks (not equipped with depleted uranium additional armor). After the delivery of the Russian T-90MS tank, the country The Army will become one of the few armored units in the Middle East that are equipped with US and Russian main battle tanks. It is still necessary to wait and see which tanks will be better. The picture shows the US Army M1A2 tank currently in service at the Kuwait Army.
In the anti-exhibition, Russian defense enterprise model and T-90MS tank photo map.
T-90MS tanks participating in the desert test.
The picture shows the various armor-piercing projectiles and high-explosive ammunition equipped with the T-90MS.
Russian personnel will load the shells into the T-90MS tank.
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Amy Johnson Festival – the moths are flying!
You’ve seen the tantalising glimpses of moth design; they’ve been up and flying all summer, and now my creation, Earth Moth-er, has been photographed in her natural habitat!
Located at Hull Truck Theatre, 50 Ferensway, Hull.
© Images copyright Ian S and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
I’m now in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery!
This was THE most fantastic commission as part of the Big Read… King Edwards Schools Foundation had sponsored the Book Bench featured in the photo, and Denis Ramplin, their Director of Communications & Marketing contacted me to see if I could paint a mannequin for their bench. He’d been inspired to track me down after he met our Happy Hospit-owl, produced by me on behalf of Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity… so he knew I like a crowd!
Many stories are featured on here, and rumour has it that there’ll be a competition to name him. We’ll see.
He’ll always be ‘Mannakin Skywalker’ to me!
The work will be on display in Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery until 13th September 2016, when it will be moved to King Edward VI Schools Learning Hub at Birmingham Airport.
Amy Johnson Festival
As part of the Amy Johnson Festival, artists were asked to submit designs to decorate fibreglass moths which would form a sculpture trail around the city. Like The Big Hoot, but with owls’ prey really. I love these projects, and was delighted when ‘Earth Mother’ gained a sponsor – a local, family owned travel company. I’ve just finished my moth, and the journey back to Bromsgrove.
More about the festival here.
Anyway, we have been asked not to reveal too much of the moths prior to the launch on July 1st, so here are some tantalising glimpses:
Illustration for book cover
To illustrate a novel about a dysfunctional relationship…
Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
Drawing and painting so you can see what they’re meant to be!
Every now and then, it’s fun to do work which is purely representational. No messing about with stylisation, composition, the emotional quality of colours an’ all that – just telling it like it is. So here are some Socialist Realist seagulls, looking forward to the Brave New World:
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November 24th-Action from Rizal!
This coming weekend is a big one with Asian boxing, especially on Saturday where we get a host of big fights. Friday however is a much quieter day with significantly less action of note.
Rizal, Philippines
The only confirmed card for the day is taking place in Rizal and will be a card with a number of noteworthy names in action.
In one of the headline bouts fans will see Rogelio Jun Doliguez (22-4-2, 16) take on Landy Cris Leon (10-16-4, 4). The 26 year old Doliguez will be heavily favoured here, despite being 3-3 in his last 6, and he is with out a doubt the more talented and proven fighter, despite his current lack of form. As for Leon he has actually lost his last 3, but is showing a new found grit, have not suffered a stoppage loss in over 2 years, after having had 10 through his career so far. Loen's determination might see him survive the distance with Doliguez, but it's hard to see him scoring the upset here.
A much more attractive looking bout will see Renz Rosia (15-3, 7) take on Renoel Pael (21-7-1, 11) in what looks like a bit of a 50-50 bout. Aged 29 Rosia is a man with some inconsistent form. He's lost 2 of his last 3, and 4 of his last 5, but has mixed against very good opponents, such as Moruti Mthalane, Giemel Magramo and Makazole Tete. Pael is also struggling for form, and has lost his last 3, and 6 of his last 8, but has never been stopped and is much better than those numbers suggest. This could be a genuinely intriguing contest.
One other bout of note here will see unbeaten Malaysian Aiman Abubakar (6-0, 2) look to extend his unbeaten record as he takes on Germaine Dela Rosa (4-8-2, 1). The Malaysian is slowly stepping up, and this will be his first 8 rounder, but it's hard to see what Dela Rosa has to offer in terms of competition.
October 6th-History to be made in Japan!
This coming Friday is a relatively low key day of fights,but there is some interesting action in Japan, Australia and the Philippines.
In Japan we will see history being made this coming Friday as Tomomi Takano (10-2, 7) and Miyo Yoshida (7-1) trade blows in the Inaugural JBC Female title fight, with the two fighting for the newly recognised Japanese Female Bantamweight title. Takano is a former world title challenger, and will be favoured by many given her experience and natural size advantages, but Yoshida know this will be a huge opportunity and the bout could be a really thrilling fight, and the perfect way to kick off the new title.
In Victoria we'll see Filipino Czar Amonsot (34-3-3-1, 22) defending his “Interim” WBA Oceania Light Welterweight title against unbeaten Paraguayan Carlos Manuel Portillo (18-0, 14). Amonsot will be fighting for the first time since a No Contest with Martin Enrique Escobar back in July, when a headclash left Amonsot unable to continue in the second round. As for Portillo this will be his first bout outside of Paraguay.
Western Australia, Australia
Staying in Australia, there will be a number of Thai journeymen involved on a card in Western Australia. The show isn't a big one, but it's clear the Thai's, of which there are 4 of them, have been brought in to lose, and only to lose.
In the Philippines fans will get a card that appears to have been delayed from late September. The card has an interesting main event between two fighters who are known better for putting up great efforts in losses, rather than their ability to win, but should put on a really good bout against each other.
That main event will see the criminally over-looked Vergil Puton (16-8, 8) battle against Eduardo Mancito (15-6-2, 9). Of the two men Puton is the better known, and has given problems to the likes of JR Magboo, Ye Joon Kim, Shuya Masaki and Ibrahim Balla, proving his ability as an “opponent”, who comes to win but just falls short. As for Mancito he has suffered losses to Thong Sithluangphophun, Jelbirt Gomera, Alberto Guevara, Tomas Rojas and Rey Vargas. This should be a really fun, competitive and exciting fight, but we suspect Puton will take home the win.
In a supporting bout on this card fans will see Malaysian prospect Aiman Abubakar (5-0, 2) face off with Nestor Junio (1-9-2), in what should be a straight forward win for the unbeaten man.
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HAYWARD, Calif. & CHANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--C3Nano, Inc. (“C3Nano”), the leader in silver nanowire-based transparent conductive technologies for the touch sensor, display, and flexible electronics industry, today announced the grand opening of its mass production factory in Changzhou, China.
Built in partnership with the National High-Tech District of Changzhou, China, the 14,373 square foot facility will serve as C3Nano’s Asian manufacturing center and headquarters in China. C3Nano China will focus on the manufacturing of its ActiveGrid™ family of performance-leading transparent conductive inks and films. The state-of-the-art facility will also house C3Nano’s Asia customer service operations, supply chain and R&D.
Mr. Wang Yuwei, Vice Director of Administrative Committee of Changzhou National High-Tech District, stated, “We are delighted to work with C3Nano and their management team to support the manufacturing of this very critical product for the global display industry in the Changzhou National High-Tech District. We look forward to a successful partnership.”
The December 2018 grand opening of the facility is critical in supporting the growing demand for flexible touch sensors and OLED displays, which serve as vital components in the next generation of flexible phones and other mobile devices sold worldwide. C3Nano, with its best-in-class transparent conductive films, has recently been selected as the key supply source for one of the world’s next-generation flexible displays, and is widely recognized as, the leading supplier in this key industrial space.
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Darrin Low
Who We Are Now
We feel damn lucky the fires didn't reach Healdsburg but hearing the words ‘we were blessed’ the other day, though well intended, was disconcerting. There is no blessing, that I can see now, for Sonoma County, where everything good is interconnected. The food and wine we produce, and the communities and economic networks that form around them fuel our lives and our projects. Many friendships have grown out of these connections, which also extend to Mendocino and Napa Counties.
Another word I am prickly upon hearing is 'entitled', which before the fires you would still hear all the time in conjunction with the words 'lifestyle' and 'wine country'. When you work at our end of hospitality where what is grown outside our windows takes long careful hours to prepare, cook and present to the world, you may feel grateful, but never entitled. The thing about exquisite plates of food is that they disappear in minutes, and you need to start gathering and making them again. It's humbling, which it turns out is a good thing.
The generosity we’ve watched spread across the county since October 9th may not be endemic to human nature, much as we’d like to hope, but it clearly resides at the heart of our North Bay culture. If the fire is ever to be remembered someday as having an upside, this will be it. We have been reminded, in these times of great distrust, that we are indeed a generous community, one with shared goals we want to protect, others we are proud to nurture.
Every little bit will help in the months ahead. We are pleased to contribute over $10,000 from our Somm's Table fundraiser this weekend, but it's just the beginning. We hope to work next with Wells Guthrie (of Copain) and the ever stronger worker-focused network of CorizonHealdsburg. In early December we will join other chefs, restaurants, and wineries for a Rise Up Sonoma group fundraiser. Stay tuned.
But back to Saturday Night. It was a joy to be able to welcome Arnaud Weyrich of Roederer Estate and Darrin Low of Domaine Anderson after weeks of missed calls and frenetic half conversations as we expanded what had been scheduled as an intimate Somm's Table spotlight series dinner into a larger North Bay Fire Relief Fundraiser. It was harvest - and we were all still reeling from the fires - but both wineries were on board, donating all the sparkling and wine. The menu subtly referenced Roederer and Domaine wines - rehydrating dried fruits for the marmalade, poaching the quince - in classic Fancher style. For a complete list of purveyors who donated 100% to the dinner, please see below. The Gallery Bar kitchen team, guided by sous chef Andrew Wycoff, has been incredible these past few weeks, keeping the doors open while helping Chef coordinate feeding those in need who were temporarily re-located to Healdsburg from their lost homes and schools. The extraordinary spirit of our staff is not a surprise, but we want to say grace.
Here is the Roederer/Domaine menu. We resume the spotlight series December 8, with Eric Sussman of Radio Coteau. Join Us!
Barndiva's Chef Ryan Fancher with our Sommelier Alexis Iaconis; Winemakers Arnaud Weyrich and Darrin Low of Roederer Estate & Domaine Anderson.
All of us at Barndiva wish to thank:
Adrian Hoffman at 4 Star Seafood
Kim Huynh at Hobbs Applewood Smoked Meats
Sheila Angerer at Angerer Farms
Issac Cermak at Red Bird Bakery
Bonnie Z at Dragonfly Floral
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And a special shout out to Katrina at Abstract Loren for the powerful artwork (weheartsonomacounty, top image) she has donated to the City of Healdsburg,
...and to everyone who supports #sonomastrong.
Chef takes a bow.
Zeni soil from Roederer's Philo Vineyard is part of on ongoing and interactive display in The Somm's Table in Studio Barndiva.
The 2003 L'ermitage was an unexpected gift- Merci Arnaud!
Dia de los Muertos, Plaza de Healdsburg
It was a wonderful day on Sunday as we celebrated the living by honoring the dead. Live music, Baile Folklorico, pozole, traditional alters. Drums and dress up, kids and dogs.
Many Healdsburg restaurants and businesses participated in the Dia de los Muertos celebrations this year. All proceeds from food and drink went in support of The Healdsburg/Windsor Fire Departments/Cal Fire First Responders and CorizonHealdsburg. Corizon is a vital bilingual community support organization which Ari and Dawnelise Rosen, of Campo Fina, were instrumental in starting through their non-profit, Scopa Has A Dream, two years ago. To find out how you can get involved contact Leticia@corazonhealdsburg.org.
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Mats Andersson: Prayer
Seeing the sun rise in a clear sky over Healdsburg Wednesday morning, two feelings prevailed. The first was immense relief that we were safe. The second was sorrow, knowing what so many of our friends - neighbors and patrons - must be going through.
Over a decade ago we lost all our family possessions when our beloved farmhouse on the Greenwood Ridge in Philo burnt to the ground. We were never in physical danger and we had a place to shelter, an empty flat with a few beds on the second floor of a barn on Center Street we were in the final stages of building. We were devastated, but not in the way so many across Sonoma, Mendocino and Napa Counties are now, some having lost whole communities, and in the most tragic circumstances, family members.
We never intended to open a restaurant in the barn when we lost our home on the ridge. The journey toward what our life has become today was born from the impulse to just keep moving. 'Barndiva' came at a moment in our lives when all we really wanted to do was dive headlong under a bed of grief. But we threw ourselves into creating a life and a business in Healdsburg which slowly came into shape. It didn’t come swiftly; there was a period of stunned disbelief, then a very dark time. It was the indelible beauty of this landscape and the kindness of strangers who seemed open to all our crazy ideas that slowly dragged us back into the light. We could never replace what we lost, but the people and community Barndiva brought into our lives saved us.
From the beginning, because it was the local community which welcomed and bolstered us, it was the local community we were primarily focused on serving. To be sure, we have embraced and been sustained by tourism - but the focus has never been about fostering a line between neighbor and stranger. A truly viable notion of sustainability is one which supports local farms and purveyors, invests heavily in a local work force that prepares and serves food and drink to our tables. But it offers the same dining experience to anyone who passes through our doors. So many of the calls of concern we received the past week have been from couples who were married on our property who hold Healdsburg and Sonoma County close to their hearts. Its health is important to them too. Sonoma County doesn’t just rely upon hospitality as an industry, it thrives because being hospitable is character, and (in the best instances) passion driven.
We have a long road ahead toward recovery of our emotional and economic equilibrium. Even as we welcome the world back, it's clear the immediate needs of this community are paramount - it will require all of us, using our best skills, to bring back what so many have lost. So we don’t lose them.
We are a small family business that has, as its first responsibility, keeping our incredibly dedicated work force employed. We will be here, with all the love and talent Ryan Fancher puts into our food, cooking our hearts out. We look forward to welcoming you soon.
We want to extend heartfelt and awe-struck gratitude to the many brave first responders who put their lives on the line in Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino. A special shout out to Supervisor James Gore and State Senator Mike McGuire for their immediate and laser focused help when and where it was needed most. To all our elected representatives across the North Bay who are stepping up, Thank You.
Eat, Drink, Gather!
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(SG) SPAMUNDERLORD: Chapter III: World's Fall: Faldidit
Would you support Iridium's rebellion if he becomes an animal person of some sort?
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Kilojoule Proton
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Re: (SG) CROSSOVERLORD
« Reply #2205 on: November 12, 2018, 12:46:21 pm »
Quote from: blueturtle1134 on November 11, 2018, 09:11:29 pm
Re-asking for opinions on the Rebels problem. I will be jumping to it soon. You currently are voting for grab Fansworth and run to the coast to escape. Please confirm that this is what you want.
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blueturtle1134
Quote from: Madman198237 on November 12, 2018, 10:04:51 am
We need to completely rewrite that plan and also have a new vote on it given our new information.
Then start. You have 18 hours before I take your earlier vote.
Quote from: omada on October 31, 2017, 06:57:12 pm
At least we killed the boy and hurt an old man.
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Also known as the Chroniqler
Mumble to ourselves, pretending to do some mental arithmetic about where the Secondborn is and how long it will take him to get here, and conclude: “We’ve likely got several hours before that bastard gets here, but when he does, this whole place is getting torn apart. We need to get this place evacuated. We can tell them there’s a... hurricane coming. Maybe a tsunami, or an earthquake. If anything, it’s an underestimate of the destruction...”
Quote from: blueturtle1134 (to Rockeater) on June 01, 2018, 10:48:03 am
Is your role just to +1 whatever Glass says.
Quote from: Madman198237 on April 16, 2019, 10:12:54 pm
Yep, as ever, I bestow upon Glass the expected +1
Quote from: King Zultan on December 15, 2018, 06:15:48 am
I'm gonna say we go with whatever Glass's idea is.
Quote from: Glass on November 12, 2018, 09:20:43 pm
Okay, I should actually post something to get you guys moving again. All votes locked on the OOTS crossover thing, it’s time to roll things!
In the spirit of D&D all the following will be d20 rolls with bonuses added on. This means that your rolls will be more variable and your bonuses slightly less effective for the duration of this crossover, which makes sense because you’re operating in unknown territory and a fairly chaotic situation in a universe that doesn’t play by your rules.
Probably worth repeating your stats here:
+1 military
+2 scientific
+1 informational
-1 political
BONUS: Scientific designs get one die automatically 4
BONUS: D7s are rolled on anything relating to Wenton Celling
Fingerprint scanners on military base doors
Uplifted dogs
Lobotomized child soldiers called “Cherubs”
Plans for a shield against Andantesite wormhole disruption, although power-intensive and requiring a lot of Andantesite
Large, cracked Andantesite shard, ready to link
Radio-frequency Andantesite disruptor - 14.03 hour working time
Loading of wormhole onto SFN Pylos planned, to follow Magellan back home
Hammerspace parrot
Venomous implants for dogs
Hammerspace disruption masers, although in control of Padelheb Fansworth
Plot points to be resolved:
T. Levin inspecting Tommy DeMarco’s memory removal, then leaving for America
Interrogating captured rebels
Order of the Stick
Padelheb’s remaining supporters
Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)
Roll d20+1 (military) for defending the gate room. This roll determines:
How close the enemy gets to the gate.
Below 4: You manage to lose the Throne Room. The goblins are right at the gate and about to invade your world.
Between 5 and 6: At some point, the enemy manages to take the Gate and enter Argentina. They are fought off, of course, but it’s gonna be hard to cover up.
Between 7 and 10: You defend the Throne Room, although there are temporary breaches. As a result, the goblins get a chance to see the Gate, but never hold it for a real length of time.
Above 11: You keep them from even entering the Throne Room.
How many losses you take on your side. (Around 50 soldiers in all were sent to help)
Below 3 = All the nameless mooks you sent to reinforce has been wiped out
Between 4 and 8 = You sustain heavy losses, around 75% of your force. It’s going to be hard to justify so many deaths.
Between 9 and 12 = Losses moderate, around 50%.
Above 12 = Almost no casualties, you hold the Gate without anyone dying.
Result: 10 + 1 = 11 → Doing fine.
Roll three times d20+1 (military) for raids on the enemy. Three rolls are made for three different scenarios that expedition teams find themselves in. There are overlapping regions on this thing because multiple problems can show up at once in this kind of confrontation.
Below 6 = TPK. Either the entire group dies or gets captured, depending on whether it also falls into the below category. This group just vanishes, you don’t see any report.
Between 4 and 8 = Some members of the group get captured. Many of the details about the Gate and your world are determined from interrogating them. (Overrides roll below)
Between 7 and 10 = Some members of the group are injured.
Between 9 and 10 = The group is pinned down at some location. They can’t move, either due to injuries, enemy patrols, or both. You can think up a way to rescue them.
Between 8 and 14 = The group manages to free some prisoners. Depending on what other scenarios they get into these refugees may escape safely, or not.
Between 12 and 18 = The group finds a target of some strategic value to the goblins; you can probably attack it.
17 up = Group encounters Xykon and, as per your choice, attempts to attack him.
Result: Concealed, you don’t know what happened to everyone
Roll a random number from 1 to the max of above rolls for how much notice the enemy gets of you. That is, the better you guys do, the more likely Xykon and Redcloak (mostly Redcloak) realizes that there’s outside help coming in.
Below 5 = Nothing’s suspected. There’s no noticeable deviation from the original timeline, and they don’t notice anything
Between 6 and 12 = It’s clear to them that something is up. They can’t quite put a finger on it, but
Between 13 and 17 = They’ve seen the Gate and how your equipment is vastly different from anything in their world; they have a pretty good idea of what’s going on here.
Above 18 = They guessed what’s going on.
Of course, this can be overridden by the “captured” thing above.
Result: Concealed, you don’t know what they know
I’m actually going to cut back to the rebels now, because everything that you proposed is going to take some time to do.
Celling rounded the corner and walked across the street. The rebels, the unknown woman, and the child introduced as Boonering's heir following a few steps behind. They met Fansworth around midway across the dirt and gravel path. Behind Fansworth walked a regiment of his men, holding rifles and marching in formation.
The rebels lag behind, apparently discussing something amongst themselves. Then Anna Drimoxi steps forward so that she's walking right next to Celling and whispers over his shoulder. "I've got something to tell you."
What?" Celling asks.
"We were bluffing," Anna admits, continuing to walk forcefully across the street. "We don't know how to reactivate the Key of Taloc. The Children of the Shrubbery, and Mary Boonering - she's over there, she's J. V. Boonering's mother - they're sure that anyone with the same male lineage and zodiac sign as Fredrik Boonering will be able to activate it, but we... have our reasons to doubt that."
Celling mutters curses under his breath. He'd known this was coming, of curse - the players Up There had informed him of what they'd found through alternate communication channels - but it was annoying to see it confirmed and he had to put up an impression of being surprised anyways. "Why the hell did you say you could, then?"
"We were bluffing," Anna repeats. "We wanted to get our friends back."
"That's something I've been meaning to ask you," Celling says. "How did you know that Samael Drimoxi and Andrew Calvin were still alive?"
"Julia Seyllin told us after we freed her from Goonswarm," Anna says. "Said she'd heard some things that the Mittani had picked up, and combined with her own powers
Celling nods and turns back to look into the distance, seemingly satisfied by this. "So back to the matter at hand. We have no way whatsoever of stopping the Secondborn-"
"No way we know will work. The Boonering child may well be able to reactivate it, but we can't be sure."
"-no sure way of stopping the Secondborn. Darn it." Celling says. By now they've arrived at the middle of the road and both Celling and Fansworth's groups stop. Fansworth salutes half heartedly. "What's the plan, Celling?"
Well? What is it?
Celling steps closer to Fansworth, leans over his shoulder, and lowers his voice so that only Fansworth can hear. “Fansworth, about that stuff I told the rebels - how much did you hear?”
Fansworth thinks for a while, staring off into the distance. “After we’re done? With this? With the Secondborn and the Rebels, and after we’re in a safe spot? You’re going to tell me everything you know about this Narrative and the Story or whatever,” he finally whispers back, seriously. “You mention that Quill is trying to give you psychic powers and then you dump this load of mystical spiritual woo about how the world is an illusion on the rebels? Something bigger’s going on, and I want to know what it is.
Do you tell Fansworth about the Fourth Wall?
Quote from: Kilojoule Proton on November 12, 2018, 09:22:04 pm
I'll take this if no other ideas.
« Last Edit: November 12, 2018, 10:27:46 pm by blueturtle1134 »
Of course we’ll tell him about it. After we’re mostly much done with the current nonsense, and we’re definitely in a safe spot.
In my humble opinion, +1
Let's quack to death
Re: (SG) SPAMOVERLORD: Chapter III: World's Fall: Stations of the Plot
of course, we used our white card of talking about the fourth wall and used it on the most of people on the same time, I think it's safe now
Competent reader (any know lenguage)
Novice english wordsmith
Dabbling english speaker (rusty)
He is short, with a small and failed beard
He likes wood, spears, ducks for their nobility, and rabbits for their weak hearts and funny reproduction rate.
he has a hard time to focus, and values, err almost everything, he dreams of mastering a skill.
Note: we’ll say it’s a hurricane coming.
Madman198237
+1 to everything Glass says
Quote from: Chiefwaffles on May 07, 2017, 08:21:49 pm
We shall make the highest quality of quality quantities of soldiers with quantities of quality.
Quote from: Madman198237 on November 14, 2018, 01:21:50 pm
I’m not sure if I should keep the current quote from Blue or make this my sig.
Just add mine (and anyone else's) underneath blue's.
Fair enough. Gimme a moment.
EDIT: There we go. I removed the Orbiter and Ema’s-waitlist-RTD; I didn’t have enough space with them in.
« Last Edit: November 14, 2018, 01:38:01 pm by Glass »
Celling looks up into space for a minute. “Alright, he was last seen igniting the Pillar. He’s probably pretty far from here. Given that for all we know he still has to travel at normal human speed, he’s not going to be here for a few hours. When he does, though, based on our predictions, this is gonna be bad. His psychic abilities are… city-leveling at the least. The danger zone’s going to be measured in miles.”
“So what do we do?” asks Fansworth.
“Say there’s going to be a natural disaster,” Celling says. “A hurricane, or a tsunami, or something.”
“Isn’t that going to cause mass panic?” Jacob asks. “Lots of people are going to run from it. It could cause a lot of unnecessary harm.”
“I mean, we’re not really lying,” Celling reasons. “The Secondborn’s going to be a threat as big as anything we can warn the people of - at the least.”
They’re sitting in the room outside the main telegram headquarters for the Montevideo area. Celling’s sent the message along that a tsunami is approaching within the next five hours, and he’s now explaining to Fansworth, safely out of earshot of the rebels.
"Simply put," Celling says, "this world is not real. It's an illusion created by-"
"Is this some kind of religious thing?" Fansworth asks skeptically.
"No, it's not," says Celling, walking around Fansworth. "It's scientific - it's rooted in observation and logical deduction. This world is not real. Through correlation of events, we are able to find that this world exists as a fictional story - a child's game - within another one."
"Literary agent hypothesis?" Fansworth asks. "Actually? Seriously? You think this is all a story?" Fansworth picks up a stone from the road and squeezes it between his fingers, as if affirming that it is solid.. "This is real. This is the world that we live in. What you are saying makes no sense."
"This all looks real because the people writing this right now decide that it looks real," Celling says.
"That's insane. You're saying that what I just said - what I just did - it's just words on a page?" Fansworth asks, dropping the rock. It falls on the ground with a dull thud. "That's nonsense. That's ridiculous."
"It's provable, if you know where to look," Celling insists. "Have you noticed that the rebels always seem to get away? How our shots just miraculously miss while theirs always hit? That against all probability the universe is moving towards a grand design based on tropes and cliches of fantasy novel plots?"
“That’s all circumstantial,” Fansworth says. “You can’t just blame the fundamental nature of the universe every time you have a run of bad luck.”
“Oh yeah?” Celling asks. “What’s the current date.”
Oh crap.
“What’s the current date?” Celling asks again. “Day, month, and year. What day of the week is it? How many days has it been since Padelheb took power? What is the current time? Which event is our calendar system based upon?”
Wait uh… if it was three days two days ago and… but it had to be the beginning of summer… which is winter because southern hemisphere so-
“I am asking this RIGHT NOW!” Celling says, turning around on one foot and shouting to the sky, as if not talking to Fansworth, but something far higher and invisible. “What I’m asking for is LITERALLY the time of day. Every schoolboy knows this. This is something that everyone should be able to get quickly. Or at least look up within minute.”
He turns back to Fansworth. “But you can’t, can you? You’re drawing a blank. Ask why you’re doing that. It’s because you’re looking into a hole in reality itself. Because you’re looking at a blank area, not just zero, but undefined. Undefined by who? By the person that defines things, of course. Don’t let it go! Think on it! Now, you see-”
Fansworth sees.
He sees the patterns. The tropes and cliches, the plotlines, winding through every particle of the universe. He sees the medium, stretching up like a spiral into the sky and not-sky, winding through invisible dimensions - methods of measurement that simply aren’t there to uninitiated eyes. He sees the real world, looming high above, tugging on the strings of this one. He sees the forums, all the words and players, arguing endlessly, battering out the text that makes up his reality. He sees the written and unwritten rules that it all works by, the webs of convention and stats and dice and quotas. He sees the infinity of the Internet, dense, interconnected, a veritable sea of ideas, a near-infinite mass of information of any sort. He sees the Plot, wrapped around the world and squeezing it on to its final destination, eyes watching everywhere on the Earth. Wordlessly, he asks if this is real. Instantly, he knows that it is.
Fansworth’s mouth hangs agape for half a second before he closes it. “I’d probably say something in shock, but I don’t want to give him the satisfaction.”
“Screw you too!” says Fansworth disdainfully. “What kind of a GM are you? What kind of GM explicitly works against the players?”
“You see it too, then?” Celling asks.
“Yeah, I got it all,” Fansworth replies. “So Goonswarm and Padelheb…”
“Expies. Carbon copies of characters in other media. My friends up above-” Celling gestures over his shoulder as if they’re actually there, “say that they’re pretty bad people in their home universes.”
“And the parrot-”
“Can access a universe of pure suspension of disbelief.”
“And the Secondborn-”
“They have fought him before. In another world. He held godlike power there, and managed to escape here.”
They are interrupted by a random intern at the station poking his head into the room. “Excuse me, sirs,” he says sheepishly. “I just came from the broadcast room.”
“Is the message out?” asks Celling.
“Yes, all other stations have been notified that a major hurricane is on the way and evacuations are beginning,” he says. He steps into the middle of the room and stands there, fidgeting his hands. “But, sir… I don’t think anyone else noticed, but I know a bit of meteorology and… there’s no way we could have detected a hurricane. Based off known cyclonic systems, they move way faster than our fastest boats or trains. So what’s really going on here?”
“Smart kid,” Fansworth says. “Have you told anyone else about this?”
“Uh, no sir,” the intern replies.
How do you deal with this?
A: “Alright, we better tell you the truth. We’re expecting a terrorist attack somewhere in the city. Weapon of Mass Destruction level. We’ve got to get everyone out without much panicking.” (tell the truth, or at least most of it)
B: “You’re right, we couldn’t detect it via conventional means. Erin Quill was testing methods of advance hurricane prediction and found that one was inbound.” (come up with technobabble to justify it)
C: “This is a state secret and we can’t tell you the full story, but we’ve got a plenty good reason to be doing this. You have to keep quiet about what you’ve found. Don’t tell anyone else, or we’ll know.” (Straight up tell him that it must be kept a secret)
D: “Good. Fewer loose ends to wrap up. You’re coming with us.” (Jail or otherwise silence the kid)
A+C, include D if he doesn’t seem inclined to keep it secret.
The C part is mostly about putting emphasis on the fact that he can’t share any of it because of what would happen.
If we have to do D, he won’t be harmed; we just need him to be not able to spread the word. We’ll still evacuate him, but with people that already know (I.e. the people that work for us) rather than with normal civilians.
EDIT: Potentially tell him about the Secondborn. You guys figure that out; I’m not sure.
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Walk #775: Merthyr Tydfil to Treforest
P20077068239 The River Taf in Merthyr Tydfil. P20077068242 The old railway trackbed to the south of Merthyr Tydfil.
County Mid Glamorgan
Start Location Merthyr Tydfil Railway Station
End Location Treforest Industrial Estate station
Description This was a pleasant walk following the Taff Trail southwards from Merthyr Tydfil.
Pack Today I carried my 30-litre Karrimor rucksack, filled with waterproofs, a book and other odds and ends.
Condition My feet are really aching after this walk, but aside from this I have no significant problems.
Weather today was a mixture of sunshine and clooud, and there was not muc breeze to keep me cool on what was a warm day.
OS map Landranger number 160 (Brecon Beacons), Landranger number 170 (Vale of Glamorgan, Rhondda & Porthcawl) and Landranger number 171 (Cardiff & Newport, Pontypool)
P20077068251 Flowers by the path. P20077068258 The pretty humped bridge over the River Taf.
P20077068263 Heading south along the old railway line. P20077068272 The River Taf.
P20077068280 A footbridge by the River Taf. P20077068281 The River Taf heading south into Pontypridd.
P20077068295 The path leading down to the road from the old railway line.
I had planned to have three days off work to go walking, mainly in order to complete walks on a couple of the dates that I have yet to walk on. Three days were not really enough to do any of the trails that I wanted to do, so I dusted off plans to walk in South Wales and booked a campsite to the north of Merthyr Tydfil. This morning I set off early for the long drive westwards; this was not too long or harrowing, but despite the early start it was still late in the morning by the time I pulled off the main road and descended into the centre of Merthyr Tydfil.
My first problem was where to park. I had completed a walk from Brecon five years earlier and the entire area had changed from my memory, with a large Tesco superstore having been built right by the station (there is a chance that it was there when I had been here in 2001, but have forgotten about it). The car park at the superstore would not allow me to park all day, and a couple of other car parks were short-stay only, and the next one I tried just uphill from the station was long stay but full. Fortunately I was in luck, and just as I was turning round to exit the strip car park a couple of motorcyclists turned up and I managed to get in their slot with some difficulty.
As I had been sitting down all morning I ensured that I did some stretches as I got my kit together, and walked slowly down towards the station. It was tempting to nip into the Tescos to buy some provisions, but instead I walked on to the station to start the walk.
The purpose of this walk was to connect Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff using the Taff Trail, although the distance was too great for me to do in one day. It proved easy to find the bridge over the river and the Taf Trail, and I started following the trail southwards along the western bank of the river. Initially there were signs of old railways in the area; the path climbed up onto an old railway embankment for a period before dropping down to pass under a large bridge.
Underfoot there was tarmac, and as the path continued southwards I was annoyed to find that this was continuing to be the case as I was wearing my boots and my feet were soon starting to get tired. The path continued on, passing a pub as it entered the outskirts of Pentrebach, sometimes running on quiet roads and at others on paths. Nearby the busy A470(T) main road was audible but rarely visible, and south of the village a spur road passed overhead on a high bridge.
To the east on the other side of the valley there were high hills with some pleasant-looking crags, and I wondered how different the skyline and views would have looked forty years before at the height of the mining and industry in this Welsh valley. The thoughts entertained me as I followed the path southwards, although aside from this the Taf Trail was proving to be fairly boring, with a pedestrian path underfoot. The path passed through Aberfan, site of the mining disaster in 1966 when a colliery spoil heap slumped into the town, covering a school and killing 144 people. As I understand it the great terrible mass of coal waste would have passed over the railway embankment that I was walking along, an extremely sobering thought.
The path got worse as the path headed steeply uphill along a track to pass under the A470(T), before turning to follow the western side of the road downhill. This was a noisy and unpleasant stretch, with trees and woodland to the right and the main road plunging down to the left. It was therefore a relief after about a mile when the track plunged back under the road and headed down a rough, rutted track to reach a beautiful hump-backed bridge over the Taf.
On the other side of the bridge a surfaced road headed uphill steeply, before the Trail headed off to the right along a track. This was a much better walk through woods, and at a couple of points there were the remains of old railway abutments high overhead, part of the arch springing still in place. These viaducts must have been magnificent when they were in place, striding high over the river. Despite the fact that we were essentially in a town the area was quiet and secluded as it headed along a wide loop in the river.
The path crossed the river on a small bridge once and continued on before crossing it once again, to continue heading southwards along the eastern bank of the river. Occasionally there were some good views to be had as a road was followed, and suddenly a large road viaduct passed overhead. This was actually two separate bridge built side-by-side; stretched between them was some netting that was filled with rubbish that had been thrown out of cars.
In Abercynon a road was joined, which crossed over the dual carriageway before heading south. It was not a particularly pleasant walk, and it was a relief when the the trail recrossed the dual carriageway on a bridge and entered a little industrial estate. The rest of the path south into Pontyprid was pleasant enough as it skirted the river before eventually entering the town. This seemed to me to be an archetypal Welsh Valley village, with close rows of stone houses set below a steep hillside.
In Pontypridd the path followed roads back to the A470(T) dual carriageway and across it at a not particularly pleasant roundabout. Here I left the official route slightly and climbed uphill along a steep road, before joining another road that headed back to the Taf Trail. This road ended by a large cemetery, and I was disheartened to find that the path past this was closed. For a moment I considered getting past the barriers, but I could see further on that the path was essentially blocked by fallen fencing panels.
Not wanting to turn back I pressed on through the cemetery, looking at some of the impressive and pretty memorials before asking a workman about the path. He told me that it was closed to allow it to be converted into a cycle path, and that I could get out on the other side of the cemetery. This proved to be the case, and soon I was heading south once more along another old railway embankment. My feet had really been suffering under the hard surfaces that I had been walking on all day, and I could hardly wait for the walk to end as I walked on along the old line.
Eventually I reached the point where I would drop down to Upper Boat, and I was alarmed to see that the embankment was well above the road that I needed to be on, and separated from it by some rough, overgrown land. I plodded on, and was relieved to find a path that angled away down the slope to reach a road, from where I could access the roundabout near a superstore.
Upper Boat was a short walk further on, and although the pub was tempting I crossed the river and continued on, climbing uphill slightly and crossing an old railway bridge before following a narrow road to Treforest Station. I arrived in time for the train that I had wanted to catch, but the train was late and I therefore arrived back at Merthyr Tydfil station later than I had wanted. I had not taken any food with me on the trip, so I nipped into the Tesco store by the station to buy some food before starting the drive up to the campsite that I had booked myself into.
This proved easy to find, and was in a pleasant location near the Llwyn-on Reservoir. After booking myself in with the owner I drove across the wet grass to the spot that I had been allocated, and with tired legs slowly put my tent up. To my left were other campers with tents that dwarfed my Westwind tent, and we chatted for a while as it started to spit with rain. I was too tired to drive anywhere for a meal, and instead I tucked into some of the snacks that I had bought and read as I waited for it to get dark. The day had very much been a positional walk, one done to connect up other walks, but despite this it had been an interesting and thought-provoking stroll.
On another note, Wikipedia refers to 'Trefforest', while the OS maps refer to 'Treforest', with only one 'f'. I have no idea which is correct, but please accept my appologies for using the two spellings interchangeably.
This walk follows the Taff Trail from Merthyr Tydfil south to Treforest in Upper Boat. For most of the way the path follows an old railway line, an dis well signposted and easy to follow, even when it diverts off the line in Pontypridd and near Cilfynydd.
I started the walk at Merthyr Tydfil station, which meant I had to join the taff Trail. Leave the station and join the A4102, and follow it southwards to a roundabout. Carefully cross this, and then follow the signposts to a bridge over the River Taff. Ont he other side of this turn left to join the Taff Trail.
Follow this southwards for about 16 miles. At ST106875 near Upper Boat leave the trail, and walk down to a nearby road by a supermaket, Follow this road southwards until it reaches a large roundabout under the A47(T). Take a minor road, Gwaelod-Y-Garth Road, as it crossed the River Taff and then heads southwestwards. After a short distance the road curves to the left to head southeastwards. Trefforest railway station is a short distance away down this road.
Merthyr Tydfil Railway Station Aberfan 4.3 318 364
Aberfan Quakers Yard 4.0 640 804
Quakers Yard Pontypridd 5.1 466 594
Pontypridd Treforest Industrial Estate station 4.1 469 541
This makes a total distance of 17.5 miles, with 1893 feet of ascent and 2303 feet of descent.
There are fairly regular trains from Treforest Industrial Estate station back to Merthy Tydfil, changing at Pontypridd on the way. Note that Treforest Industrial Estate station is shut on Sundays.
I spent the night at the campsite at Grawen Farm, Cwm Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan CF48 2HS, phone (01685) 723740. This was a very nice campsite situated ideally for the Brecon Beacons and the Welsh Valleys - highly recommended.
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Does Luck Matter More Than Skill?
January 2nd, 2013 · 55 comments
Luck Over Skill?
The most provocative business title I’ve read recently is Frans Johansson’s The Click Moment. In this book, Johansson argues the following:
For activities with clear fixed rules — such as sports, chess, and music — the only way to succeed is to put in more deliberate practice than your peers. Johansson uses Serena Williams as a key example: her dad started her practicing tennis absurdly hard at an absurdly young age.
For activities with rapidly evolving rules — such as business start-ups or book writing — success comes when you change the rules to a new configuration that catches the zeitgeist just right. Johansson uses Stephanie Meyers, author of the Twilight series, as a key example. Meyers, in Johansson’s estimation, is not a good writer. Her first Twilight book reads more like fan fiction than a professionally-scribed genre novel. She had not, in other words, spent much time in a state of deliberate practice. But this didn’t matter. Something about her new take on vampire tales hit the cultural moment just right and earned her extraordinary renown. The lesson, according to Johansson, is that luck plays the central role in success for these activities. If you want to do something remarkable,therefore, you have to keep trying new things — placing, what he calls, purposeful bets — hoping to stumble into an idea that catches on.
Here’s the obvious follow-up question for Study Hacks readers: how do these ideas square with my skill-driven philosophy of building a remarkable life?
Schwarzenegger’s Serendipity
I gained insight into this question from another book I read recently (and found surprisingly engrossing): Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new autobiography, Total Recall.
At a high-level, Schwarzenegger’s story seems to validate Johansson’s serendipity-fueled vision of success. The young bodybuilder’s ascent in movies required several lucky breaks:
being brought to LA — of all possible cities — to train in Joe Weider’s Gold’s Gym;
meeting a writer, Charles Gaines, who was writing about the bodybuilding subculture at the time, and who helped introduce Schwarzenegger to many important players in Hollywood; and
starting to take acting seriously just as the the 1980s action movie trend generated a sudden need for larger than life characters who knew how to film a movie.
There was no way Schwarzenegger could have planned this rise to stardom. Serendipity played a big role.
But does this mean that deliberate practice and the striving to become so good they can’t ignore you is not so important? Schwarzenegger would disagree. Throughout his autobiography, he kept emphasizing that you “have to do the reps” — a reference to the unavoidable importance of putting in the hard work required to do something well.
When you dive deeper into his story, you notice that this dedication to skill-building plays a supporting role behind all of his lucky breaks:
he was brought to LA because he was the most promising bodybuilder of his generation, a status he achieved by starting his serious training at least two years earlier than most elite competitors, and adding a new level of intensity to his workouts;
when he arrived in America, he hustled: starting at least four different businesses (real estate, mail order, seminars and construction), taking night classes, and shadowing Joe Wieder on international business trips. His smarts and ambition is what helped him gain access to Charles Gaines’s circle of influential friends; and
when he began acting, he worked really hard at it. He took classes and trained intensely for small roles throughout the 70s, eventually winning a Golden Globe for “Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture” for 1976’s Stay Hungry. In other words, Schwarzenegger wasn’t picked out of nowhere to star in 1982’s Conan the Barbarian (his big break). He was, at that point, a world famous bodybuilder who could act and was well-known in Hollywood circles. From this perspective, he was the obvious choice for the role.
The Serendipity Equation
The combination of The Click Moment and Total Recall has helped me developed a more nuanced understanding of how skill and luck interplay in the quest to do something remarkable. Being a math geek, I find that equations help me better capture the relative importance of different factors, and with this in mind, I came up with the following:
<success of a project> = <project potential> x <serendipitous factors>,
where <project potential> is a measure of the rareness and value of your relevant skills, and the value of the serendipitous factors is drawn from something like an exponential distribution.
In this equation, there are two variables.
The first is the potential of the project. The more rare and valuable your skills, generally speaking, the more potential you have for the project to succeed. This is something you control.
The second variable captures serendipity. You cannot predict or control this factor, but you can expect that really big values are really rare (hence the approximation to an exponential distribution).
This equation helps explain examples like Stephanie Meyer. Her project potential was low because she did not have much skill as a writer. But her serendipity factor was huge, swamping her low potential.
At the same time, the equation tells us that Meyer’s example is not a generally replicatable strategy. The huge serendipity factor she enjoyed is rare. You could launch 1000 low potential projects in your lifetime and never encounter anything close.
Objectively, the best strategy for success, given this equation, is to combine a commitment to increase your project potential as much as possible (by sharpening your rare and valuable skills), with a commitment to keep launching a steady stream of such projects and seeing them through to completion, increasing your chances of encountering high (though perhaps not Meyer’s-level) serendipity.
Without serendipity, your skill alone might not create the results you crave. At the same time, however, without a high project potential to multiply, the type of serendipity you can realistically expect to encounter if you try enough things, also won’t generate these results. You need both.
If you believe that something like this equation is true, then this approach of becoming as good as possible while trying many different projects, maximizes your expected success.
Indeed, we can call this the Schwarzenegger Strategy, as it does a good job of describing his path to stardom. Looking back at his story, notice that he tried to maximize the potential in every project he pursued (always “putting in the reps”). But he also pursued a lot of projects, maximizing the chances that he would occasionally complete one with high serendipity. His breaks, as described above, all required both rare and valuable skills, and luck. And each such project was surrounded in his life by other projects in which things did not turn out so well.
Summary: You cannot count on luck or skill to generate remarkable outcomes in isolation. The most consistent path to meaningful accomplishment seems to be a combination of the two. Pick a small number of things and become so good they can’t ignore you. Along the way, however, keep taking your growing skill out for a spin, launching related projects, one after another, carefully studying the outcomes to see if you stumbled into something big.
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For more examples and tactics regarding this idea of launching exploratory projects in the search of breakthroughs, see chapters 13 and 14 of SO GOOD. For more on building rare and valuable skills, see chapter 7.
55 thoughts on “Does Luck Matter More Than Skill?”
Rohan Rajiv says:
Little bets seem to be the under lying thread..
Arseny says:
Great point! Luck is extremely important, but in most cases luck itself is a skill, and a trainable one.
I once saw a billboard that read “luck is when preparation meets opportunity”. Opportunity doesn’t lead to success if you’re not in a position to take advantage of it. That’s where “being so good they can’t ignore you” comes into play. It prepares you to take advantage of the opportunities that come your way.
Josh Earl says:
Great post. Most people base their business ventures on the serendipity factor and overlook “doing the reps.”
I’d add, however, that it’s often possible to increase your odds of finding a project with high serendipity potential by looking for unmet demands. Perhaps Meyers picked up on an interest in vampires among a demographic that had been overlooked by other authors in the genre. If that’s the case, the question wasn’t whether she’d succeed, but what the magnitude of her success would be.
The better you know your market, the less luck comes into play.
Nitin says:
I agree. Success involves work of the right quality being at the right place at the right time, and so, we should aim not only to be good at what we do, but also to try and maximize our susceptibility to good fortune with respect to our goals. Louis Pasteur once said “Luck favours the prepared mind.”
… But is it just a matter of putting your eggs in different baskets? I insist it is more of a question of being receptive to opportunities, as well, which is not a trivial matter. It takes a rather creative mind to recognize opportunities when they arise.
This is an interesting article I found which deals with luck and attitude in everyday life, and whether it’s valid or not, it convinced me of one thing — taking advantage of luck in your particular field has a lot to do with having a keen awareness of exactly where you are with respect to project potential, and KEEPING IT IN MIND when you’re away involved in something else. The ‘keeping it in mind’ part is as important as the ‘involved in something else’ part (otherwise it’s not luck). I seriously doubt Arnold would’ve got anywhere if he was focussed enough on his bodybuilding to never leave the gym, or even if he forgot completely that he was a bodybuilder when he was away. He had to have a subroutine running somewhere in some corner of his mind, waiting to seize the opportunity when it came.
I’m not quite clear on how this interacts with deliberate practice and its emphasis on focus. I’m sure that relation is something worth thinking about and studying.
Dale Davidson says:
Great post Cal. I’d like to throw in a strategy advocated by Nassim Taleb, author of the Black Swan and Antifragile.
He advocates applying a “barbell strategy” to many areas of your life. This entails being very conservative in many areas of your life mixed in with some high risk, potentially high payout activities.
For investments, this means placing the vast majority of your capital in cash or cash like instruments, say 90% of your assets. The last 10%, the 10% you could lose without too much pain, should be placed in high risk ventures (start-ups, biotech, investments with very high risk but virtually unbounded payouts). This way you preserve much of your capital while still being able to capture huge gains.
For exercise, he highly recommends doing low stress activities like walking 90% of the time with the occasional very heavy weight lifting or sprints thrown in.
It’s a way to take advantage of black swan events and randomness, a condition that he calls being anti-fragile.
I imagine it applies to a career in the sense that the conservative, safe end of the barbell would largely amount to skill building and mastery. Get very good at things that you know you’ll get some reward for.
On the “risky” or serendipitous end, you should do things like start projects, connect with people in different industries, etc. These things aren’t very risky but could have potentially unlimited payouts.
I also believe that the more mastery you develop, the more people will want to be around you. You will be able to take advantage of the “halo effect” which will lead to even more opportunities that could lead to huge payouts.
I think the supplement to your Career Craftsmen manifesto would be “make sure you put yourself in a position to get lucky.” I think 99% of this luck will arise from being exposed to people that you wouldn’t normally meet.
It seems that the success of a project “for activities with rapidly evolving rules” requires a few things of the project launcher.
Find out what “putting in the reps” means with respect to your field
Use deliberate practice to become “so good they can’t ignore you”
After surpassing the beginner skill level in a field, don’t solely focus on deliberately practicing to acquire skills. Take time out on a consistent basis to put your skills to work and create something.
In terms of So Good They Can’t Ignore You, the last step listed above would be dropping a cow into the world, and letting the world decide if the cow is going to be purple or brown.
I like the argument that we may not be able to guarantee success on a project, but we can maximize the potential for our projects to succeed…and this is a nontrivial task. Great post.
CarlosFM says:
Don’t depend on biographies too much. They will naturally try to find a linear thread (the culmination appearing inevitable) in what was surely a more chaotic and tentative life.
The biggest weakness of planning is the plan (or what left out).
That said, enjoying your blog.
Aahnold had his first leading man role back way back in 1969 — the cheesy “Hercules in New York.” OK, so they dubbed his voice, but he was the lead. He had a second leading man role in 1979 — “The Villain”, which is still worth watching.
Have you read The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb? Right along with this post. There are cemeteries full of Arnolds who put in all the time and hard work, if not more, and simply weren’t lucky enough to become superstars. We don’t hear their story because they aren’t lucky because statically most people aren’t.
Paul Tune says:
Cal, Michael Mauboussin studied this to a certain extend, albeit from an investment point of view. In his white paper “Untangling Skill and Luck”, he discusses domains where deliberate practice leads to the greatest probability of success, while other areas are highly dependent on luck, with most domains lying somewhere in the middle e.g. investing. Liked his work because it’s backed up by numbers. That being said, he suggests that skill and the process of achieving an outcome highly matters, as it does help in overall improvements.
jlcollinsnh says:
outstanding article and analysis of the luck v. effort balance. something I’ve wrestled with but never defined quite so well.
I’ll be adding a link to this post in my own on the subject. Bravo!
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Let’s not forget another serendipitous factor for Arnold, he was born with superior muscle building genetics. Sure he had developed an amazing work ethic to support his natural gifts, but in the end great athletes are both BORN and MADE.
http://www.sportsscientists.com/2012/03/10000-hours-vs-training-debate-no.html
Jeb says:
He took steroids like every bob. Add cheating to luck and reps.
dmfdmf says:
I don’t recall who said it but I once read that one mark of genius like Newton or Einstein was being able to see better than others which problem is “ripe” for solving. Of course this is only obvious in retrospect, once the genius has shown the way. Also, of course, the genius must also develop the skills to actually solve the problem. Work on a problem too soon or beyond your potential and you die in obscurity. Work on a problem too late and you’ll either be scooped by someone else or your results will be seen as mundane and/or obvious (nothing inherently wrong with that as that is the fate of us non-geniuses). So in a sense serendipity is somewhat self created too.
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Sara Martin says:
This question reminds me of your writing about the “impact instinct.” Impact is a function of how your work is received by other people. For a project to have impact, it has to be packaged and positioned so the outside world can connect it to serendipitous opportunities you could never anticipate or arrange.
In other words, your project has to be communicated. Marketed. People who do the reps and produce something valuable have to take one more step towards impact and luck. They have to act like a homing device – broadcasting their work out to the world like soundwaves until they locate their targets (or their targets locate them).
Nan Watts says:
Thank you for this post. It is timely for me as I begin a new year.
Chet Frame says:
This same question is worked through by Taleb in, “The Black Swan.” CarlosFM’s point above about linearity of histpry is another concept that Taleb dissects. Good post!
I forgot to mention that I was glad to find your book. It offers valuable perspectives for my work. I have shared it with colleagues, friends and my kids who are in college and creating their lives post college.
Brett Warner says:
I don’t think it’s any surprise that there’s a great degree of luck in any endeavor. I think the problem is that most people never put in the hours so that if luck strikes they can capitalize on it.
Using your twilight example is great, I’ve seen writers that have been trying to write a novel or at least talk about writing a novel over a time span of years with still nothing in their names. She actually got something out there. Now your odds of achieving her success are extremely slim, but if you don’t finish the book your odds are zero.
I’ve started reading a lot of biographies lately and it seems like the majority of the people that truly make it do have some great strokes of luck, but they also do a hell of a lot more than the average person does.
Elizabeth Saunders-Time Coach says:
Excellent post Cal-
I completely agree with your point that we should focus on maximizing project potential because that is the one factor in our control. It’s more or less the spark and the serendipitous factors are the fuel that determine whether the project ignites.
I think this also leads to a really important point about learning things from successful people. I believe that others can teach you how to maximize the project potential but can not guarantee you will achieve their same level of success.
To your brilliance!
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
Kirn says:
Cal – I broadly agree with you but I think the idea that Stephanie Meyers is a bad writer but just got really lucky is too simple. Isn’t it more likely that her writing is *skilled in certain ways*, different from literature, that made it so ripe to take off with a teenage audience? If it’s really just fan fiction, well, fan fiction has a very different aim than literature – it’s often wish-fulfillment and allows readers to place themselves in the story. I think it fits better with your previous thoughts around this topic to assume that writing this kind of fiction is its own skill and that Meyers is actually superb at it, even if she’s a bad writer by literary standards. Clearly luck played a big part, but if you had predicted at the exact same time she did that a vampire teen romance novel would be a smash hit, could you have rivaled her impact by writing your own? If I’m wrong, what other examples are there of someone having almost no skill at their chosen pursuit but just getting really, really lucky – and are we maybe just failing to see the true skills of those people?
qznc says:
I like to compare this to Poker. Obviously skill plays a big role in Poker. Nevertheless, in a 10-player poker game, the most skilled player maybe has a 15% winning chance. It is only over time that skill pays off.
For another variant, in the startup community the saying goes “overnight success takes years”. There are nice stories of overnight successes, but they usually have put in years of hard work before.
So how do you explain Timothy Ferriss’ book reaching the NYT bestseller list and doing better financially than yours? I’ve read them both, your is full of much, much more valuable advice. Ferriss’ is a regurgitation of all the crap he’s published in his two previous useless books(except for the dieting advice which he just culled from Rob King and Loren Cordain’s paleo method books). I’ve never used a thing from Ferriss’ books whereas I’ve used and achieved a ton of stuff with concrete results to show from your work. And yet, Ferriss is the marketing hype genius par excellence. He also seems to want to plug into the zeitgeist thing more aggressively since food and culinary arts are so topical right now –what is even more ludicrous about his book is that he claims the learning strategies he expounds can help you become 90th percentile in any endeavour you choose in less than a year! Seems Ferris has found the true secret: hype and marketing trump skill, deliberate practice and luck.
Rare says:
Trust in Allah and tie your camel.
I guess the essential thing that you need to pay attention here is that you need to create opportunities. No matter how good or bad your skill is, just let other people see and evaluate it. Schwarzenegger and Meyer could’ve fared the same if they did not at least try to “launch 1000 [whatever] potential” projects.
Ryan Tiong says:
To Raj,
Marketing is a skill and Tim Ferriss is VERY skilled at that. He has also honed his writing skill, teaching , management (he has a team of researchers etc), his rolodex, and etc etc.
Of course, I should say that i don’t know him from Adam. however, I am a student of marketing.
J Dilla says:
I’m curious as to whether placing small bets in a wide variety of pursuits, as did Schwarzenegger, would detract from the singular, specialized focus necessary to becoming ‘so good they can’t ignore you’ in a single domain. For example, while Arnold focused on bodybuilding and acting, it seemed he cast his net quite wide in terms of the types of business ventures he pursued (real estate, construction, etc.). You cited his ‘smarts’ and ‘hustle’ in this regard. How should one go about deliberately practicing those skills? Thanks, I’m a big fan of the book.
Prasanna says:
Luck = Prepared State + opportunity. Prepared state is being prepared for utilizing an opportunity, which obviously needs deliberate practice , focus etc which is being said in your blog.
weak stream says:
I think the way to look at this is that “luck” is not something that is possible to pursue. You can’t ‘try’ to find a dollar on the sidewalk. Therefore ‘luck’ is the element to ignore completely. Arnold and Steve Martin weren’t trying to get lucky. They were developing ideas they thought were unique and then getting as much exposure to their idea as possible. American Idol tries to push this ‘lucky break’ idea by convincing people that all they need to do is sing in the shower for six months then ingratiate themselves to a ‘panel’ and that’s it. A lottery mentality. But if you can’t find a way to get exposure to your ideas directly then, yeah, luck will be the only way. It is so extremely rare that it happens like this that luck should be a concept we all ignore. People that really have something unique will ‘find a way’ to get exposure.
Mike Cane says:
It still seems to me that people are constantly “discovering” everything that Max Gunther wrote about in the 1970s in books like The Luck Factor and How to Get Lucky. The words are different, but the concepts are the same.
In my opinion, arguably your best post since I started reading last year—really resonated with me. Bravo!
Artin says:
It takes a lot of hard work to be “lucky”.
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Wade says:
Great post. I recommend reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success. It touches on these same key points and gives many examples of how being in the right place at the right time with the right skill set has developed some of our biggest business leaders and sports stars.
I think serendipity plays a big role in your successes. But skill, hones your senses into recognizing these once in a lifetime opportunities.
It’s not ‘rediscovering’ some other guy said before. It’s rephrasing it in as many ways as possible so that the larger population can understand it. At the end of the day, it’s the same thing, but understood from a different perspective – it’s progress!
Scott Donnelly says:
Fantastic post, very insightful. I’d add to the “Many Pies” aspect of the Schwarzenegger Strategy, the “Fail Fast” mantra , as exemplified Here.
@Josh Earl:
“it’s often possible to increase your odds of finding a project with high serendipity potential by looking for…”
There’s your first mistake. I Think you’ve slightly misunderstood the concept of serendipity.
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Love that part.
Thank you for pointing me to this book! I interviewed the author for Psychology Today.
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Luck – yes I have it – but, funny thing….the more I practice, the luckier I seem to get.
Hmm.. You’ve encouraged me to read up on Schwarznegger’s autobiography. The guy has actually had quite an incredible life when you actually think about it!
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Great Article. Arnold put in his reps and got very lucky….And he put in his reps. Opportunity is tough to embrace without the hard work. You have influence over the hard work.
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argyletryit says:
Yes I believe luck really plays an important role in our life. But we need to test different thing and find our luck. Luck comes from hardwork and determination. Just like the movie Rocky, I believe Stallone believe that he will be lucky someday and find a better deal.
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1–5: The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) developed five Choosing Wisely® recommendations through a multi-step process that included input from ACEP members, an expert panel of emergency physicians and the ACEP Board of Directors. In 2012, ACEP appointed a task force to address cost effective emergency care. The Cost Effective Care Task Force conducted a survey that was open to all ACEP members asking for strategies to reduce cost and improve value in emergency medicine. The task force received over 200 individual suggestions, which were grouped into a set of strategies. A technical expert panel, including representatives from all aspects of emergency medicine practice, reviewed and prioritized the recommendations using a modified Delphi technique. The panel prioritized the strategies using multiple rounds of voting based on contribution to cost reduction, benefit to patients and actionability by emergency physicians. A literature review including data on cost was assembled for the highest-rated strategies. Strategies were further refined and a final list of strategies that received majority support of the panelists was created. Five of these were ultimately selected by the Board of Directors to be included in Choosing Wisely®.
6–10: The entire ACEP membership (30,000+) was surveyed and given an opportunity to provide input on what in their view would be cost effective and improve the quality of patient care. A Delphi panel of emergency physicians was convened and the list was winnowed using the Delphi process to the top twelve. To be included in the top twelve, there must be research to demonstrate cost effectiveness and improvement of patient care if implemented with reason, caution and explanation to the patient. Also of importance was the consideration that the recommendations would be or are also in concert with some of the other specialties participating in the Choosing Wisely® campaign.
ACEP’s disclosure and conflict of interest policy can be found at www.acep.org.
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Climb 50 x 50
The Diamond – Long’s Peak
The Casual Route (5.10a) by Dan
Sevve and I had been hiking for a little more than three hours and I was fairly certain I had underestimated our objective to climb the Casual Route on Colorado’s iconic Long’s Peak. Especially since we hadn’t even began climbing.
By the time we had reached the Boulder Field, I had fallen back at least 200 feet behind Sevve, who was appearing to gain momentum, rather than lose it. With each step I felt as though I had concrete blocks on my feet. I sounded like Darth Vader, my breathing so labored I wished I had picked some other route to kick off my big “Project” to climb 50 inspiring rock climbs before I reached the ripe old age of 50. But as we reached Chasm View, which sits on the shoulder of Colorado’s famed big wall, the Diamond, I was greeted with spectacular views of alpine granite. The morning sun had cast a soft orange glow over the massive wall, and my heart was no longer pounding out of my chest.
The explosion of massive rock fall released from the opposite side of the Diamond headwall moving quickly down a massive snow gulley.
In an effort to keep moving, we threaded the rappels, and committed to our initial descent on to Broadway Ledge, which we would traverse across to locate and begin our way up the Casual Route (5.10a). As we pulled rope after the first rappel, a golf ball-sized rock that was caught under the rope let loose and we yelled “ROCK” simultaneously. In the same instant, the explosion of massive rock fall released from the opposite side of the Diamond headwall moving quickly down a massive snow gulley. A car-sized block, which had been perched high above on some glacial melt, was careening down the gulley directly toward the approach trail near the North Chimneys (where most climbers cue up to begin their way up the wall). After exploding into several pieces and coming to rest in the talus field below us, silence returned to the mountains. Sevve and I looked at each other in disbelief, swallowed hard, and continued to Broadway Ledge as the weight of our objective had just become more real.
Sevve and I had met more than a year earlier at a local crag in Minnesota. He is a quality dude. Week after week, we would run into one another and his hardcore posse of climbing partners. Soon thereafter, Sevve, his wife Andrea, and their crew welcomed me into the midst of the colorful cast of characters. Eventually though, the fall climbing season came to a close and the Minnesota winter forced us indoors to climb on artificial walls and plastic holds. When we weren’t climbing at the gym, Sevve and I would connect on the ski trails and talk about where we were going to climb in 2013.
The following spring, Sevve joined my wife Bronwyn, 5-year-old son Rhys, and a small group of friends, on a sport climbing trip to Smith Rock, Oregon. During our trip at Smith, we talked extensively about climbing projects and I let Sevve in on my goal to climb 50 inspiring rock climbs by my 50th birthday. The idea was still in its infancy, and I wasn’t sure what people would think of it. But Sevve loved it and fired off so many ideas that it fueled my dream into making it a reality. At the top of my list of climbs “to do” was Colorado’s legendary Casual Route up the Diamond of Long’s Peak. Sevve had honed his free climbing skills while working as a Park Ranger while living and working in Yosemite National Park. He had tackled many of the classic lines in the Valley and established several first ascents in the backcountry of the Sierras. Once Sevve heard of my plans to tackle the Diamond he was fired up. With his pending move to Colorado, and my family’s road trip plans to return to Estes Park that summer, it was the perfect storm to kick off the mother of all projects — Climb 50×50.
Four months later, Sevve and I were standing in the Long’s Peak Trailhead parking lot under a clear and starry sky. It was 2:00 a.m. and we were ready to embark on an epic day. Over the next four hours, we hiked in the dark past what seemed like hundreds of headlamps, most of which were headed up the famous Key Hole hikers’ route to the summit of Long’s Peak. We moved quickly with a goal to be at the rappel anchors at Chasm View by no later than sunrise.
The summit of Long’s Peak clocks in at roughly 14,259 feet and the actual climbing (by starting from Broadway Ledge) covers roughly 900-plus vertical feet up some of the best alpine granite east of the Colorado River. Our goal was to trade leads, go light and fast, and tag the summit by lunch time, with enough wiggle room to rappel the route back to Chasm View where we left our packs.
In the mountains, seldom does anything go as planned. I have learned over the years that you constantly have to adapt to the changing environment. Sometimes it is the result of other unexpected climbing parties vying for the same route, and other times it is underestimating what you have signed up for. While the Casual Route is not technically challenging, it is complicated by the 8-mile approach and increasing altitude during the ascent. Once on route, you are executing climbing moves at 13,000 feet, which for a flatlander like me, was no small challenge. Our psyche was high, however, and we enjoyed incredible crack climbing with some of the best weather we could have asked for. We swapped leads and kept moving higher up the route. By noon, we were nearing the end of the technical climbing, but still remained about 400 feet below the summit. After a short traversing pitch to climber’s left, you are deposited on a large ledge and presented with a long section of 4th and 5th class (unroped, but safe) scrambling for the remainder of the route.
After untying, I moved sluggishly up the talus to the summit register as the weather continued to deteriorate. The storms we had been watching in the distance all day long had finally decided to engulf the Diamond. With the fear of being caught in a lightning storm, we tagged the summit, documented our ascent with a few quick photos and scrapped our idea to rappel back to Chasm View. Instead, we opted for the well marked Keyhole hiker’s route back down to the Boulder Field, a good two hour hike back down the mountain to somewhat easier ground. Sevve graciously retrieved our packs from Chasm View while I wondered into the bivy site of the Boulder Field to regale our summit victory to some fellow peak baggers that were camped and awaiting a planned ascent the next morning.
Sevve rejoined me in the Boulder Field and we began the long, winding descent back down below tree line and to the trailhead to retrieve our car. We arrived in the parking lot 19 hours later, exhausted but successful in tackling the first of my 50×50 Project! We lingered in the parking lot, eating trail mix and staring at the night sky once again.
As we pulled into our reserved campsite, my son Rhys had succumbed to sleep, wanting to wait for his Dad, but too tired to make it. My amazing wife Bronwyn greeted me with hugs and congratulations, mostly happy that I had returned from what had turned out to be a very big day.
This is what I love about climbing. It gives me the opportunity to push myself into the unknown.
I have hesitated to publish my first climb and unveil the path to climbing 50 inspiring rock climbs to the greater climbing community for fear I won’t be able to “send” my Project (which translates in climber speak to successfully completing a route from bottom to top, without failing). But this is what I love about climbing. It gives me the opportunity to push myself into the unknown. I always say that “more will be revealed” and this journey is not unlike so many others in life. So the push for 50 big sends is on and I hope you will follow me as I start ticking them off the list.
Off belay.
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Edinburgh to get 16,000 affordable new homes
Housing Association representatives with Housing Leader Councillor Cammy Day, Health, Social Care and Housing Convener, Councillor Ricky Henderson, the City of Edinburgh Council Chief Executive Andrew Kerr, Council Leader Councillor Andrew Burns, Deputy Leader Councillor Sandy Howat.
Edinburgh is set for a major housing boost after the Council’s plan to build thousands of new homes was matched by partner housing associations.
Six Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) have pledged to match the City of Edinburgh Council’s plan to build 8,000 homes, which will bring an incredible 16,000 affordable and low cost homes to the Capital over the next decade. Representatives joined senior Council officials at the City Chambers yesterday (Thursday January 28) to officially back their commitment to the partnership.
The housing associations, which are not-for-profit, are: Castle Rock Edinvar, Dunedin Canmore, Hillcrest, Home Group, the Link Group, and Port of Leith. They met Council Leader Councillor Andrew Burns, Depute Leader Sandy Howat, Chief Executive Andrew Kerr, Health, Social Care and Housing Convener Councillor Ricky Henderson, and Housing Leader, Councillor Cammy Day.
Councillor Day said:
We all know about the acute shortage of affordable homes in the capital; a shortage that’s pushing house prices out of the reach of those on low to middle incomes, increasing rents in the private sector and creating a cost of living crisis that’s putting real pressure on people across Edinburgh. This fantastic joint commitment will see the Council and its partners build on their current successes and accelerate house building to provide the increase in affordable homes that Edinburgh so desperately needs.
This joint commitment won’t just deliver 16,000 homes – we expect it to generate benefits to the local and national economy of around £4bn, create over 3,000 jobs and bring in additional council tax revenue to help fund the delivery of essential services for the people of Edinburgh.
Reducing the cost of living for tenants and building more affordable homes are key priorities for the Council.
The signed pledge.
Alister Steele, from Castle Rock Edinvar, said:
Housing associations operating in Edinburgh are pleased to match the Council’s pledge and commit to delivering 8,000 much needed affordable homes in Edinburgh. As part of Places for People, Castle Rock Edinvar is already committed to developing 1,000 New Homes for Edinburgh. Extending our contribution in collaboration with fellow housing associations and the City of Edinburgh Council allows us all to make a significant contribution to the housing supply, wellbeing and economic growth in the city.
Ewan Fraser, Chief Executive of Dunedin Canmore, which is part of Scotland’s largest housing care and property management organisation, Wheatley Group, said:
We are absolutely determined to play our part, working with the City Council and other housing associations, in tackling the acute shortage of affordable housing in Edinburgh.
The plans unveiled today represent an outstanding example of partnership working and we are delighted to announce that as part of our commitment to maintaining and improving communities across the city, we will build at least 1,000 good-quality, energy-efficient homes in the capital over the next decade.
Almost 150 households bid for every Council and housing association home available to let in Edinburgh, and the city’s population is set to grow by up to 30% over the next 20 years.
The Council was already committed to delivering 3,000 affordable and low cost homes on 22 sites in the city, including investing over £100 million on lending to 9 Limited Liability Partnerships set up through the Government’s National Housing Trust (NHT) initiative.
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COAL: 1974 AMC Matador Oleg Cassini – Copper and Rust
(ED: Welcome Jim Grey, who is starting a new Saturday COAL series today)
During my 1970s kidhood, lots of dads on my block had two-door cars. Moms, on the other hand, were relegated to the four-doors and the wagons. My dad certainly followed that trend. He said that he drove them because he didn’t want his two young boys to open the rear doors while he was flying down the highway, but I think that was a ruse. No, Dad just wanted to look cool.
Or what passed for cool to him, at any rate. He brought me home from the hospital in a pale yellow 1966 Ford Galaxie 500.
Next he owned a 1971 Chevy Impala Sport Coupe, midnight blue with a white vinyl top. My chief memory of that car, after the time I shut my younger brother’s fingers in the door, is that Dad spent as much time under its hood as driving it. That may be why he got rid of it so soon, and bought the coolest car our family ever had.
Dad rolled up in a 1974 AMC Oleg Cassini Matador. I swear our Matador had a white vinyl roof, but photos all over the Internet show this car with a copper roof. I was ten; memories do grow dim. Whatever, the vinyl topped a swoopy white coupe. Up front, its copper-trimmed grille matched the copper-colored insets for the coffee-can headlights. Tail lights out back were large, round, and low-slung. A copper-colored trim strip led to the car’s tail, where four large, round, low-slung tail lights dominated, separated by a wide copper-colored inset panel for the license plate. Every exterior detail was unconventional and cool, from the giant federally-mandated bumpers that seemed to float apart from the body to the turbine-style wheel covers that were trimmed in copper.
Suddenly, Dad’s past Fords and Chevys were mundane and mediocre. Wildly styled Matador coupes stood out anyway, but Oleg Cassini Matadors went beyond. Our car got noticed everywhere.
My brother and I spent a lot of time in the Matador’s back seat, of course. Despite all the glass, the mostly black interior made it pretty dark back there. The seat fabric had a broad, slightly nubby weave. Copper buttons festooned with the Oleg Cassini crest rested in the center of each tuft. In the summer, that black interior sweltered our family; our Matador lacked air conditioning. And those buttons got red hot in the sun, branding Oleg Cassini’s mark into my legs south of my shorts.
Shortly after Dad brought the Matador home, rust began to appear along every seam. I grew up in northern Indiana, not far enough from Lake Michigan; winters were hard and roads were salted six months of the year. It’s funny now to think about how normal it was then to see a little rust on cars, even those just a few years old. But oxidation cancer soon racked our Matador’s body, and our distinctive and youthful car increasingly looked like a beater. When a large hole formed aft of the driver’s door, Dad decided to do something about it. To start, he issued my brother and I sheets of wet-or-dry sandpaper and buckets full of water, and told us to get sanding. I’m sure that this unpleasant memory suffers from both the impatience of youth and the exaggeration of thirty-plus years of telling this story, but I swear we spent weeks sanding that car every day after school and on the weekends. When Dad, the perfectionist, was finally satisfied we’d erased every bit of surface rust, he had the hole cut out and new sheet metal welded and faired in. Then finally he had the whole car repainted. The copper-colored rub strips along the body’s swoopy hipline didn’t survive; the car always looked naked without them.
Within a year or so of the repaint, rust began to appear again. Dad declared that he’d had enough. He was also building a business making custom furniture and wanted a vehicle that could haul lumber as well as his family. So one dark day in 1980 I came home and found he’d sold the Matador for a van. I was in a funk for weeks. But I didn’t know that van would become the first thing I’d ever drive, and so would have its own special place in my automotive history. Its story is next.
Posted December 1, 2012 at 10:31 AM
OMG! I remember those! Yeah, it wasn’t the most attractive car. Big and goofy looking. Like most AMC’s. But if I see one at a car show, I go right for it because you don’t EVER see them anymore, because of the rust issue. But it’s usually surrounded by other enthusiasts wondering how it survived. Great story Jim!
Thanks Irene! 🙂 In the ’70s this was just different enough to attract a lot of attention. Some of the comments weren’t positive, but overall it was well received. It’s interesting what designs wear well over the years and which don’t; this one didn’t, really — it continues to appeal to me only because of my good memories of our car.
suzulight
I look, and I look, and I look, and still can’t picture ANYONE looking cool in that car. The ’66 Galaxie, on the other hand…
Eric VanBuren
I never understood why AMC did these cars. The most confusing thing was the choice of the name. Why would you attach the Matador name, previously associated with blocky, dowdy sedans on such a swoopy coupe? It isn’t like the Matador name was some storied portion of the AMC brand, nor that successful. I kind of understand GM’s attaching the Cutlass name to largely unrelated cars as it was the best selling car in the US at one point. The other thing I don’t understand is why given their financial situation why they justified tooling up for this car, given the curves and all the tooling couldn’t have been cheap so why spend so much for what couldn’t be more than a niche car for a niche manufacturer?
Overall they are interesting though. There is a customized one running around here, the bumpers have been removed and roll pans made to fill in. It also has what has to be custom made fender skirts too.
I bet riding around in the back of one of these was like an oven in sunny weather due to all that sloping curved glass. I am surprised that one with the Cassini package left the factory without AC, seems like if the customer is going to spend the extra bucks for the fancy trim they would want creature comforts to go with it.
Stéphane Dumas
Posted December 1, 2012 at 12:07 PM
Keith Kaucher once imagined how the Matador should had been http://www.popularhotrodding.com/features/1209phr_muscle_cars_that_shouldve_been/photo_01.html as well as other “what if?” on this article from Popular Hot Rodding
Also, another idea then AMC should had taken is to recycle the Javalin name to use for the Matador coupe (while the sedan and wagon kept the Matador name) just like Mercury did with the Cougar going from pony-car to personnal luxury-car.
Meanwhile in Mexico, the AMC alias VAM in Mexico didn’t used the Rebel and Matador monickers and continued to be called Classic. For 1974-75, the Mexican Classic coupe got the AMX version who was the counterpart of the Matador X. http://www.flickr.com/photos/32167597@N06/3011784200/
I agree the Javelin name would have suited this car much better.
The Javelin was still in production when the first of these cars was built, though.
Dr Lemming
While a mid size seems entirely too big for a Javelin — even compared to the milk cow 1971-73 Mustangs — AMC could easily have retired the compact Javelin body a year earlier. In 1974 the Javelin was in its seventh and final year of production. Sales had been weak since an over-the-top 1971 reskinning. In addition, the 1973 arrival of the Hornet X hatchback raised questions as to why AMC needed a bloated pony car anymore.
AMC was simply trying to match the Big 3’s mid size coupes, plain and simple. When ’74 Matador was ‘locked in’, it was about 1970-72 and the Personal Lux coupes hadn’t taken off just yet. They couldn’t afford to re-tool for ‘formal’ Matadors, as Mopar did with ’75 Cordoba.
They bet that the muscle car era fastback bodies would continue to sell good into the 70’s*, and no ‘gas crisis’ was in anyones nightmares in 1971. Also, AMC was aiming for NASCAR acceptance also, and wanted “Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday”.
So while the idea of matching the competition and competing in profitable bigger cars was good business, the execution and timing wasn’t.
*GM’s Colonnade fastbacks were concieved in 1969-70, and were meant to debut in fall 1971. They also were meant to be continuation of muscle cars.
NoChryslers
Save for the reclining seats, this car had few redeeming qualities. I will give AMC credit for offering a relatively luxurious feature on mid-level cars like intermediates and compacts.
I’ve seen a few Oleg Cassini Matadors – the color scheme was attractive, even if the rest of the car was not.
IIRC, this Matador had the Nash-style lay-flat front seats. We had to push the front seats all the way forward, but the seatbacks then would lie down horizontally and touch the edge of the back seat bottoms.
AMC had some clever ideas at one time before it all went bad.
caljn
I want that Ford. Now. And the ’71 Impala has a handsome, confident stance. The Matador is just goofy looking. IIRC, it was designed to “stand out” and draw attention to the brand and inject much need life into a fading company.
Our neighbors had one in a bright green with, I believe, a GM 250 6cyl. She would hop in, start it up, race the engine and take off. It would invariably pop, or backfire, half way down the street.
AMC did not buy GM 250 6cyls, they had their own 258 6cyl, by the time this one came around they were buying their automatic transmissions from Chrysler though.
“I believe it was a GM 6”
Never assume anything with car buffs, you’ll get checked right away. And most car people should know that AMC made their own 6’s for decades.
Wow, what a car. I also remember when these came out. I came of automotive conciousness in the early 1960s, and that was a style or look that has been my “home” ever since. These really seemed “out there”, and worse, I had no idea who “Oleg Cassini” was, and thought he must be a real oddball with a name like that. All I knew was that I really missed the 73 Matador/Ambassador 2 door hardtop.
Poor AMC – maybe this car could have sold around 1969 when everyone was going all Coke bottle, but by 1974 the formal look was back with a vengeance, and these things were just, well, not stylish.
Not many of our Dads went from a Ford to a Chevy to an AMC – you certainly had some variety in your childhood. Also, I am surprised that one of the top-line Cassini models would come without air. In my hometown of Fort Wayne (what – 50 miles east?) most everyone I knew was getting air conditioned cars by then. My mother test drove a 74 LeMans without it, but since getting it in her 72 Cutlass, there was no way she was going back.
It is great to read your story, and I look forward to the next installment.
I remember feeling exactly the same way about the Cassini name when Dad brought the car home! Even when he explained, it didn’t help me understand.
Dad is really a Ford man. He bought his seventh last week. But he’s also charmed by the unusual, and the AMC certainly fit that bill.
My family’s cars lacked air conditioning until the 80s. We didn’t get a color TV until 1977, so we were just constitutionally behind the times on amenities.
Tim B
I fail to see how a 66 Galaxie 2 dr ht or a 71 Impala coupe would pale in comparison to one of these. Everyone has their guilty pleasures, to each his own! LOL
One of my big disappointments so far is not finding one of the Matador coupes on the streets. I live in hope.
It was a very surprising car when it came out. I actually like it for both its campy appeal, as well as for some authentic qualities. Dick Teague’s designs always had some redeeming features, and so did this one.
Most of all, I like the way he handled the 5-mph bumpers by just sticking them out in the air on their two mounting posts, rather then trying to fair them in with all that crappy cheap plastic everyone else did. It’s hard to see from the pictures in this post, but they looked like they were kind of free-floating, and thus they didn’t require the body sculpting to have to conform to the bumpers.
Obviously, the Matador coupe was ill-conceived arriving just at the moment when sporty coupes were out, and formal broughamy coupes were all the rage. AMC could ill-afford that kind of mistake.
The Matador Coupe and Pacer were both disasters, and probably crippled AMC more than anything else, forcing it into the arms of Renault. Very bad product decisions.
It has a similar appeal as the ’50 Stude coupes, and certainly invites customization.
Here’s how it should have looked.
Looks good, they just need to fill in the holes for the bumper brackets with some fog lights or fill them in completely.
Dougd
Hey,not bad. Filling the wheel wells helps a lot too.
As a TR4 owner I always thought the Matador coupe had a family resemblance, and looked like the TR4’s drunken uncle.
You got me laughing there with the drunken uncle comment, I can see it.
Now I can’t look at the front end of one of these without thinking of it this way. I wonder what Giovanni Michelotti thought of these cars…
XR7Matt
You know, this and Stéphane Dumas’ post gave me an interesting thought. It’s entirely possible the Matador coupe was conceived to be much more of a 71 Charger than a 73 Monte Carlo. Take away the bumpers, the vinyl top and clean it up like the example, it completely changes the look. Now take away the big single headlights and…
Yes; it’s just that the market was moving away from that just then. Typical for AMC, they were three years behind.
Now that really screams Javelin to me.
rudiger
C’mon, it was 1974. For a domestic 2-door intermediate, after a Buick GranSport, Dodge Charger, or Plymouth Satellite Sebring, what else was there? The AMC is certainly better than the rest of the GM ‘colonnades’ or Ford’s intermediate coupes.
In that context, the Matador coupe isn’t so bad.
CJinSD
I remember really liking these when they were current. I was very young, but I was already obsessed with car spotting. It really ticked me off when I saw one being used as the sacrificial car at a donate a buck and swing a sledge hammer at a car charity event when I was about ten years old.
My parents told me that two doors were safer for little kids too. We had a ’66 Dodge Coronet 440 2 door hardtop and a ’71 Valiant Scamp until I was 8 years old. Then the Dodge was replaced by a 4-door Horizon, suggesting that either I was old enough to be trusted to keep my door closed and locked, or that my mother was tired of folding seats forward to let my sister and I out.
Airman193SOS
As someone who is a sucker for AMC’s eccentricities, I find this car appallingly ugly and yet infinitely desirable at the same time. There is truly no angle that makes this car look good. I want one.
dman63
I rode in one a few times back in the late ’70’s. A friend’s mother up the street had a black one, and I thought it was kind of a weird looking car, considering that she had owned much nicer cars before that one. Plus, she was only about five feet tall, and she hunched herself over the steering wheel with the seat hitched forward. I remember that it rusted out in a few years (hey, it’s Canada) and they ditched it for a Pinto wagon. I’d take the ’71 Impala or the ’66 Ford over the Matador any day. We had a ’73 Impala Custom coupe in the same shade of blue with the white vinyl top. Great car, but it rusted out within a few years. We kept it on the road until 1980. In the James Bond movie “Live And Let Die”, one of the characters is driving around in the identical car.
silverkris
Actually, the James Bond movie with the AMC cars is “The Man with the Golden Gun”, set in Thailand.
“Live and Let Die”, made one year earlier (1973) featured then-current model Chevrolets and a Cadillac pimpmobile, kind of like Superfly. That movie seemed to be a spoof on blaxsploitation films, which were very popular at the time – when one of the villains (Yaphet Kotto?) tells his henchmen to go “waste that honky” [Bond].
As Paul discusses above, for the time this wasn’t such a bad design (at least without the over-broughamed, two-toned opera window treatment).
I’d argue that the problem was that the Matador coupe — much like the Marlin and original Toronado — was a size too big. The basic design would have looked great as a pony car, particularly in comparison to the toylike Mustang II. Think Hornet hatchback with higher-grade features such as frameless door glass and free-floating bumpers.
I don’t get why AMC tried to revive its dismal sales in the mid-sized class with a fastback sporty coupe that didn’t lend itself to a luxury notchback, let alone a sedan/wagon variant. Was it primarily because Roy Chapin was determined to compete in NASCAR? He seemed to have a fixation on low-volume coupes that had no hope of returning an adequate profit for their considerable investment.
According to the article in Wikipedia, AMC originaly had plans to bring out a 4-door and wagon version based on the coupe’s design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Matador
At this website devoted to Matador, there a scan showing a drawing of the proposed sedan and wagon http://www.matadorcoupe.com/images/CoupeProto.jpg
The sedan looks Studebakeresque, and the wagon faintly resembles a Colonnade wagon.
Chopped it
NZ Skyliner
Nice job – I like it. Mind you, I can fully appreciate why only one or two people would. But I’m glad I’m one of them! 🙂
Tom Klockau
Well, at least two, I like it! The notchback roof really changes the look.
Good thing they didn’t bother. The sketches that have surfaced remind me of the awkwardness of the 1953-55 Studebaker sedans. The coupe’s design was too distinctive to translate well into a sedan, wagon or luxury coupe.
That’s mostly because the 53-up Studebaker sedans were major facelifts of the earlier sedan bodies, and not all-new like the coupes and hardtops were.
The 1953 Studebaker sedans also had an all-new body. Studebaker introduced two all-new bodies for 1953 – the Starliner/Starlight coupes, and the regular sedans.
The sedan doesn’t look bad – certainly not any worse than the Matador sedan AMC did sell for 1974 and beyond. That car was looking very tired by 1974, and the bulging nose certainly didn’t help.
Whether sales would have been high enough to justify the tooling is another question. Intermediate sales boomed in the 1970s, but it was primarly the coupe or personal luxury versions that sold well. The intermediate sedans weren’t strong sellers – even among the GM Colonnade cars.
Good call on the Matador coupe being a latter-day Marlin. In fact, I’m sure it had exactly the same mission as the Marlin, to fill the void of not having an AMC ponycar. By 1974, the ponycar market was in a death spiral, with the only remaining traditional-sized players still having decent sales being the GM f-bodies. Ford wisely (for the time) had shifted the Mustang to the Pinto platform. There just wasn’t a big enough slice of the now diminutive pie left for the now too big, thirsty, and expensive ponycars from Chrysler or AMC.
Chrysler would score a big hit the next year by moving upmarket with the Cordoba. Poor AMC gave it their best shot with the Matador coupe which, ironically, sold just about as well as the similiarly unorthodox styled Marlin less than a decade before.
I always imagined the Matador as a Monte Carlo/Grand Prix pretender, which is sort of where the Marlin could have kinda ended up.
Exactly. The thing is, AMC had been burned (badly) by the Marlin, weren’t willing (or didn’t have the resources) to take any more chances on it, and ‘ponyed-up’ (bad pun) to the ponycar market with the Javelin, instead.
But what if AMC had just skipped the ponycar market, altogether, and continued with an intermediate, personal luxury car in 1968, beating Delorean’s wildly successful 1969 Grand Prix to the market by a full year?
IOW, a Rebel-based Javelin which essentially looked like what would eventually become the Matador coupe. Without the federal 5-mph bumpers, could the styling have worked in 1968?
Standard Matador coupes are okay. However, I never liked the Barcelona version brought out in ’77.
The two-tone brown/cream paint and padded opera window made it look horribly pimped-out.
The mother of a friend of mine owned one. We called it the “Barfelona.”
Rustin Peace
My father owned a ’74 Matador coupe as well. I believe his was copper all over and not of the Oleg Cassini variety. I’ll have to ask him more but he doesn’t talk too much about this car. He traded it in for a Chevette at some point before he got his Plymouth Voyager in ’84.
I recall at the time that this style was intended for NASCAR … in those days reasonably stock bodies were required, and AMC, with Roger Penske and Mark Donohue, then Bobby Allison, was making a big push into stock car racing. They started with the previous model, really just a 2 door version of the sedan, then introduced the more aerodynamic coupe-unique body for 1974. I don’t think Donohue ever raced this version, but Bobby Allison was quite competitive with it. Although the Penske Javelins had been competitive in SCCA TransAm roadracing, the cost of fielding a NASCAR team and the unique tooling for this bodystyle probably didn’t help AMC’s finances …
I wanted one of these back then, just because they were…umm…different.
alfasaab99
Zackman, is the real reason you wanted one of these back then is because the rear windows rolled down unlike those of the…uhhh…competition?
They only rolled down about 2/3 of the way, though. First car I ever rode in where the back windows didn’t go all the way down.
Still, they rolled down unlike the rear windows of colonnade coupes.
Man, you guys know me only too well!
Busted and guilty as charged!
nwflvr
I seem to recall that I read somewhere Roy Chapin wanted a more streamlined vehicle that could compete in NASCAR; one of the segments of “Ate up with Motor” on the Matador stated that Mark Donahue named the previous version of the Matador “the flying brick” because of its blocky appearance. For what it’s worth, I remember “Car and Driver” called the Matador coupe the most attractive car for 1974. Obviously they jumped the shark on that pronouncement, as 1974 saw the public go after the “formal look ‘popularized by European auto manufactures such as Mercedes. Had the Matador appeared in the go-go sixties, it would have probably sold well.. In the 70’s AMC always made the wrong decisions, first the Matador and then the Pacer which crippled the company and eventually forced it into a disasterous merger with Renault.
In that era, Chrysler seemed to pick up on a style 3 years after GM. The GM intermediates went coke-bottle in 1968, and the Mopar B body did the same in 1971. When AMC found itself following Chrysler by 3 years, this would almost guarantee being 180 degrees off of the currently prevailing styling cycle.
Junqueboi
Love the color combo on the Impala. The Matador coupes are just too weird for me to call them ugly & for awhile, I thought it would be neat to have one until sometime around 1990 or so. At that time I was 18-20 years old & working at my father’s scrapyard.
One day this rollback drove across the scale with a very clean light green Matador coupe. The Matador looked to be a 2-3 year old car by its condition: the paint was a little dull & the only damage on the entire car was a broken RR quarter window. I ran up to the truck, hopped up on the bed & checked out the interior: it was perfect. It was a typical 70’s dealer-ordered vehicle, green bench seat interior, A/C, AM radio, 304, and it had those nice finned wheelcovers.
I then ran off to continue doing whatever I was doing out in the yard, wondering why someone would bring such a nice car across the scale, especially a rare car like the Matador. I usually unloaded the cars with the crane & figured I’d just get the guy to roll it off the back of his truck in some inconspicuous spot hoping my father wouldn’t throw a fit.
However, another car had pulled in behind the rollback & an older couple had walked up to the window & were talking with whoever was inside working the scale — probably my father or ex-psycho-stepmother. I stayed out in the yard throwing metal around/picking my nose/etc.& watched my father walk out to the crane & pick the car off the rollback — oh it was terrible seeing the roof crumple up & all remaining windows pop — I never got used to that (foreign cars excluded). Anyway, he then takes this big weight we used to smash stuff & proceeds to drop it on the car repeatedly, totally destroying it. All this time the couple was standing outside watching him do it. I was getting pretty angry at this point.
He throws the remains back on the tin pile & the couple left after collecting the $125 or so. I asked him later what the deal was with that car & he told me the owner of the Matador broke out the RR window, ran a dryer hose the opening, cranked the car up and killed himself in it a few days earlier. The couple that followed the rollback in was the man’s parents who asked my father to make sure that they never saw that car on the road again.
I was sad to see such a neat car be destroyed initially and after thinking about the man’s parents standing there trying to get what little closure they could get as my father flattened their late son’s car, I had to go find a cool corner & cry awhile. I couldn’t wait until its remains left the yard.
Sounds like the inspiration for Christine…
Sad story (both the car and the kid). The worst thing is that I knew somebody whose spouse killed themself in a semi-similar manner. Creepy, weird, eerie, odd, and near-frightening. Wow.
That’s incredibly sad and tragic, but it’s a great story and well told.
very emotional story
Waaaaay better than a similar vintage “Big-Gulp Brougham” Torino and probably neck and neck opinion-wise with a similar vintage colonnade.
The finned wheel covers on these always reminded me of the metal tins on frozen pot pies. They still do.
In at least 1975, you could also get the Cassini Matador in black. I kind of like it!
Dick Teague; the Matadors stylist, often complained “if it had the name Cutlass Supreme on it, we would have sold a million of them”
FromaBuick6
No, because, in addition to the badge appeal, the Olds had the right styling for the times. The Matador did not, as AMC had the right idea, but badly misjudged the where market tastes were headed.
This car might have done better if a) It had debuted around 1970 and b) American Motors hadn’t so badly ruined its reputation in the ’60s.
That said, the personal luxury coupe segment was a tricky one. GM owned the market at the time, so all of their entries naturally did decent, but the Olds really hit the sweet spot in terms of badge, styling and price, while the Monte Carlo benefited greatly from being almost as cheap as a stripped Malibu, along with the massive Chevy dealer network. Meanwhile, Ford and Mopar succeed only when they moved premium nameplates downmarket (Thunderbird and Chrysler). AMC had no panache, no premium nameplate to bastardize, a small dealer network and the wrong styling, so their entry was an unsurprising failure.
Agree, the Cutlass Supreme was never a fastback after 1970. Olds fastback Cutlass did OK. But, overall GM’s Colonnade fastbacks faded in sales from 1973-77. Even added ‘formal’ windows on Malibu and LeMans base coupes. But they didnt sell as well as CS.
I love the styling, no idea why. Very unusual and unique, it works for me!
johnh875
The other thing that made the Matador Coupe a poor move by AMC was the short shelf life of such a distinctive design.
Nice work Jim, interesting to read about cars we never saw here.
I really love these ! However they look best with sporty trims to me, even if the Oleg Cassini interior is super cool
My Dad loved his 2 door ‘commuter’ cars, starting with used 65 Mustang, I6, 3 speed manual on the floor.
Favorite was after the Stang, a ’70 Monte Carlo, got used in summer ’73. We took it on road trips, all 6 of us, when our ’68 Plymouth wagon was starting to fade.
He had GM coupes until switched to Buick Century/LaCrosse sedans in 2000’s. Last one was a 1988 Cutlass Supreme Classic, the last RWD.
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C.K. Wilde
Currency Collage
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Alternating Currency: The currency collages of C. K. Wilde / July 10, 2014 by C.K.WILDE
Alternating Currency: The currency collages of C. K. Wilde
Why cut up money? The original precedent for the idea of currency collage came from Marshall Weber’s seminal show in San Francisco “The United States of Americana” in 1990. In 1995 the concept of money collage was introduced to me in college in a class on non-static forms. Marshall Weber’s collages used real dollar bills as manifest socio-economic semiotic critiques. The elegant collages of Walter Hamaday inspired me to engage in collage as a serious artistic practice. The Progressive magazine commissioned me to illustrate a story on P.A.C.s in 1997; I made a collage of a pachyderm made from dollars bills in response. I made certain that the art director of the Progressive knew about Marshall Weber’s Dollar collages; Weber’s “Buckskin” (what is that?) was reproduced in the magazine as well. I was commissioned to make several more money collages for the magazine, including the collage “Alternating Currency.”
“Alternating Currency” was the first currency collage I made with currency from all over the world. The piece was a critical reconfiguration of the system of capitalism, and the cult of personality propaganda that banknotes represent. The material used and its handling necessitated deep reflection on the use of symbolic capitaol as a system of inter-human relations. More than a superficial use of money as the material for just any image, the money collages necessitated a problematization of banknotes as a semiotic detournemeant. Banknotes are (?)encoded into self-reflexive, critical, multi-valent images. The detournement (repetition?) of these symbols allows for the revelations of a hidden narrative through the reconfiguration of the symbolic tool of oppression. Revealed is the transcript of the powerless, the poor, the victims of the system of Global Capitalism. Thus Cutting up money is a disruption of the narrative of power. Collage as becomes a way to take an iconic critical stance through the reconfiguration of currency and its’ adjutant symbols of power.
Collage as a medium has a holographic transparency unlike any other medium: The process of the making of the image is present in the material handling dialectics of the object. The viewer “sees” how the collage was made in the very materials used. Materiality is the message as much as the image it represents; interlocked are the signs and symbols along with the physical manipulations necessary to create the image, the object, and the cognitive, philosophical constructions in collage. If a picture is worth a thousand words, than a picture made out of money is worth another thousand at least. Portmanteau like the money carries not only the associations of the maker, but the viewer as well. Jazz changed music, collage changed art. It is an art practice that presupposes a viewer, an “Other”. The viewers completes the work in their body and mind with the act of perception and cognition.
My collages have referenced subjects ranging from space exploration, to mythology, religion, slavery, ecology, the history of warfare, the history of money, and art history. For instance, the collage “Quixotic Ambition” referenced Picasso’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, petroleum production, and warfare. The windmills were replaced with oil derricks, and the figure of Don Quixote replaced with a mounted German soldier from WWI1 occupying Holland. A visual rebus of meanings, redolent with symbolic readings, this piece is about nationalism and the untenable nature of our human desire for control. A compression of historical references into the flat plane of collaged banknote images telescopes the viewer’s associations with the artist’s work.
The process of researching all these subjects has created a feedback loop: one idea begets a hundred more. I use banknotes from all eras and nationalities - from failed states and occupying army currencies, to our own ubiquitous and quotidian U.S. dollar bill. Currency collage can be seen as nostalgia for a time when the symbol of powers’ symbol (money) was still manifest in the physical world. My fetishization of paper money comes from my childhood. I traveled to Europe often to visit my relatives. When I returned, I often still had money from the places where I traveled. An attempt to buy candy with Deutsche Marks in the U.S. brought into sharp relief the inherent contradictions of nationalism and international travel. Are we not one people on our one planet? I thought. Why is this money powerful only in one context, useless in another? This probleamatization of value has had profound effects on me. [Seeing my mother work three jobs to pay the bills made me realize that the Good and Just don’t always find reward in Power.] Always of an entrepreneurial bent as a child, I began dog walking services, erected lemonade stands, and even harvested wild onions to sell to my neighbors - all invented values for services rendered, all an attempt to find parity with the complex world of the marketplace.[too personal]
The ironies of commodifying my dissent through collaged currency are legion. In order tTo live to make more of these collages, I need money, so I sell the collages. The fact that the very symbolic manifestation of power has been rendered “useless” as currency to create another form of currency is an alchemy of sorts. That the wealthy use my visual critiques of the very system of power that supports our lives as decoration for their lavish homes; myth art as a political icon or talisman of their political awareness, is a wild thicket of ironies. To try to an articulate all this is very painful; I must confront my own willingness to forget my complicity to suffering in the world in order to maintain this esoteric practice of art making art. Is it ultimately untenable philosophically untenable to justify the production of art objects in a world so troubled? I convince myself that the world needs my work as much as I need it, that by making this work I am participating in the global dialectic of humanity. [The reality is, however, that I am involved in one of the last great cartels, the art world. A place for the wealthy to “hide” their assets, to dodge taxes, and to celebrate their influence.] Art in this context becomes another symbol of disconnection, of an all but hermetic world with it’s own rules and associations. I am a maker of luxury goods that critique the system, which allows for those goods to be consumed. The painstaking collage work that I do is my life’s blood manifest, and yet for some it is just like a car, or watch, or vacation home in that it is just another symbol of accrued wealth and power. Whither beauty and truth? Ask a poor man what truth is and he will say hunger, ask a rich man he will say power, I say Art: older than money or war.[ Externalities of commodity and value are merely expressive modalities of exchange.] In an alternating current of energy, we make our life manifest in our works: [our mind moving matter, our eye a prism for light. We change as we exchange, we are a DNA collage and record of our own making.] Humans are Art, not Money or War. There is a war on in the marketplace of ideas: Which side are you on?
Some thoughts on currency collage / July 10, 2014 by C.K.WILDE
Collage reveals the process in the product. When the material utilized in the construction of images carries portmanteau meanings through signifiers on the surface of the source material, the artifact reveals cultural codification in the image and the signs used to construct it. The material qualities of money for collage are phenomenal: great paper, the best printing, patina of use on the bills, variety of color and texture, and a plethora of icons and symbols to reconfigure and recontextualize. These icons are the symbols of power, of politics, of freedom or slavery, and of war. It is interesting to note the first coinage in the west was minted by Athens to pay the armada builders in preparation for war with Sparta.
It is not illegal to cut up money, as long as one does not try to pass it back into the system. Cutting up money is a transgressive act, a way of cutting up the contract with the system of capitalism. To use it to make art is a subversion of the tools of domination. This act is a symbolic rejection of an entire system of relations that makes enemies of neighbors, and sets up hierarchies of power based on creating artificial dependency on capital as a system of valuation. Soon cash as we know it will be obsolete, an archaic remnant of power made manifest. In this age of rootless multinational corporations, power increasingly has no address, and manifests itself only in systems of domination.
It is ironic that I must destroy currency to create beauty. What nautilus spiral shell lens bends our experience into beauty or suffering? Max Ernst supposedly said “ Since I was a child I have had the sense that the world was disordered and that I had to intimately re-order it …” A sentiment that has deep resonance for me. I identify as well with Wilhelm Worringer's words "Creation in order to subdue the torment of perception." Between these thoughts I believe there is an answer to the question of beauty. In the torrent of information that we live in, beauty is the oasis of the senses: the place of focus, of silence, of emptiness, of mindfulness and of compassion.
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Albertsons, Tom Thumb want to own the last mile to your house with new D-FW delivery service
Filed under Retail at Oct 2016
Tom Thumb is launching an online grocery shopping service on Wednesday.
Unlike some services in the on-demand economy, Tom Thumb wants to be in charge of the whole process, including the last mile to your door. That's where many services end up disappointing customers.
The longtime Dallas grocery brand is using its stores to fulfill orders. It has a new fleet of trucks with refrigerated and frozen sections to make deliveries.
Boise-based Albertsons Cos., which owns Tom Thumb, believes that shoppers want the convenience of home delivery, said Dennis Bassler, president of Albertsons' southern division located in Dallas.
"We've made online shopping extremely efficient," Bassler said in a news release.
While the service is being run by Tom Thumb stores, Albertsons customers who are members of the Just for U loyalty program the two store brands share will get the same coupons and offers online.
In the past year, the Dallas area has attracted a bounty of online grocery services.
A year ago, Wal-Mart started offering curbside pickup service here. Kroger followed with its ClickList in July. AmazonFresh launched here earlier this month.
In June, Google Express started local operations with Costco and others. Central Market partnered with Shipt to offer online shopping for its Dallas-area shoppers. Also San Francisco-based Instacart started serving parts of Dallas with its grocery delivery service with partners Whole Foods Market, Central Market, Kroger, Tom Thumb, Petco, Spec's and Total Wine & More.
Tom Thumb's service is accessible on tomthumb.com and its app for both Apple and Android mobile devices. There's a minimum order of $49.
On Thursday, Tom Thumb updated the fees it will charge for delivery:
Same-day deliveries are possible if placed by 8:30 a.m., and next-day deliveries can be made as late as 3 a.m. The service operates 7 days a week.
Tom Thumb has hired additional people to operate the service, and designated fulfillment stores are scattered throughout North Texas, said spokeswoman Connie Yates. She declined to say which stores and how many people were hired.
"Our customers have been asking for us to offer the service," Yates said. "We know that millennials expect it and people with aging parents like it because they can fill orders for them."
In other markets, Albertsons also has opted to run the online service in-house, Yates said.
In North Texas, the company operates 48 Albertsons and 58 Tom Thumb stores.
Albertsons completed the purchase of Tom Thumb's former parent company Safeway in early 2015. Combined sales of $58.7 billion last year make it the fourth largest U.S. grocer behind Wal-Mart, Kroger and Costco.
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From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Royal Gardens Kew
March 29/64.
Dear Darwin
I am delighted to hear of the blessed 52 hours immunity from Sickness,1 & am buoyed up with the hope of soon being able to run down & seeing you, which I am able to do at any time—but not till you can entirely stand seeing me for a few minutes.
I have heard nothing of Scott’s leaving the Edh. Bot Gardens—2 his election for L.S. cannot come in I believe till next year, as we elect only one a year, when the time comes I will let you know & ask you for half a dozen lines apropos addressed to the Council.3
It is all settled that Jn. Smith of Sion shall succeed Jn. Smith of Kew4—but the lazy Treasury have not yet settled the pension for old Smith, which they have had 3 months to think over. They propose to give the new man £180, rising by 10 annually to £250 & house.— We have seen a good deal of him & are vastly pleased with him— My only fear is his breaking down— he is one of those thorough characters who will neglect nothing & try too much at once.
I go to Isle of Wight tomorrow with Charlie to meet Tyndall & return on Saturday, my chief object is to take Charlie away whilst Willie comes home for the rest his holiday.—5 We had to send the poor boy off on arrival last week to St. Albans to a friend to take care of him! I was near seeing your boys on Sunday, at old Wards with whom I dined, & who would have asked the boys but they had gone home.6 I must ask your Willy7 to come to me when we are settled again.
I think Huxley had much better have let the Anthropologicals alone— it was a vicious undignified response of his, which did him harm.8 I entirely agree about old Jukes, I quite warmed to his letter & his side.9 Falconer is one of the 2 classes of Scotchmen that Crawfurd distinguishes as “Scotsman”—& “d——d Scotsman”—10 There are two most curiously antagonistic sides to his character. I cannot approve either his or Prestwiches conduct to themselves or or one-another or to Lyell—nor can I accord to Falconer the credit he demands as a great discoverer in this bone cave affair—nor to Prestwich the credit F. gives him of being a great philosophic Geologist—11 I suppose you have seen Prestwichs resume of his R. Inst. lecture—12 I utterly disbelieve his whole theory of River & Ice being the causes— the total length of these wonderful rivers which, according to him, covered many hundreds of square miles with 30–60 ft of deposits, at elevations of 1–300 ft. above the present river bottoms,—& which transported tons of sandstone on ice, was 50 miles13—& he quotes my note on the floods of the Soane in corroboration—not reflecting that the Soane drains a county equal to all France & is fed by tropical rains, & that it does not give rise to similar deposits either.14 Then all his reasoning anent man & the Quaternary period is weak as water—neither absolutely false, nor well made out.15 I agree with you as to Prestwich’s value as a geological observer &c methodizer of difficult strata &c but doubt at his powers of abstract reasoning & generalization—16 I think his Loess is a myth, & feel confident that the deposits of the Somme valley are comparable as to origin & age with those of the Norfolk coast—& that a tidal ocean in a glacial period had most to do with them both.17 But these Cave discoveries half way up the Rock of: Gibraltar18 must modify extensively all our views of the outline & condition of Europe during the early period of man’s history: & it now becomes most important to know what was its configuration before 30 feet of deposits were heaped up over the works of man & spread over so large an area of N. France. that the existing rivers terraced the valleys as we now find them I quite believe, but not that they first spread this enormous deposit over both the hills & valleys.
I know nothing of Blyth nor where he intends to take up his quarters.— unfortunately he drinks.19
Owens Lecture is published but I have not seen it,20 I will enquire about it.
Siphomeris is a synonym of Lecontea—Rubiaceæ the species is a nondescript.21
Thanks many for A Grays letter— how doucely he takes the changed aspect of affairs.22
I am very glad that you have had Jenners opinion, he seems to be an extraordinarily able man— glad enough I am that he finds nothing organic the matter—23
As to Veitch we find him the closest-fisted fellow we have anything to do with—24 he sends to us for any plant he & the trade have not in cultivation, & sells it at enormous prices & professing to give us in exchange—he sends the shabbiest morsels imaginable— if he sends a plant to be figured in Bot Mag. he mutilates it lest we should grow it!—25 My Father treated his son when he went to Japan,26 like his own, got him an autograph circular from Lord John Russell to the powers that be27—& gave him private letters to all his correspondents: besides giving him Botanical outfit &c.—but he has not had the grace even to call on my father since his return, nor given him a dried plant for his collection or live one for the Garden or pine-cone for the Museum.— Yet he perpetually sends me plants to name! I am very glad that the father treats you better than us, his is the only firm of nurserymen who we do not get on with.
I surely told you that Vanilla climbs by rootlets alone.28 I do not think that it even twists its shoots—but will look.
I will look to Nepenthes if I can.29 You have it I suppose.
We are all pretty well—& have no news— I like the Reader much, but am hard up for a weekly political paper, I gave up the London Review when it began to snuffle to the low X,30 & look to the Spectator, which I now abominate; it is as unfair as the Athenæum unscrupulous as the Times & wrong as the Saturday—31 We have no paper like the old Spectator in Rintouls time.32
I have letters from Hector talking of the “glacier origin of all the W. Coast valleys.”33 I think Jukes & Ramsay carry glacial action much too far.34
Did I tell you that the Pinus peuce found on one solitary mountain of Western Macedonia being the famous P. excelsa of Himalaya35—the most wonderful case of an outlier on record—as the P. excelsa is not found W. of Affghanistan.
I wish you would tell me if ever you happen to know of Godfrey Wedgwood coming to Town, I want his help to decipher some dates of my wedgwood— his father has been excessively kind, & I dread trespassing on his kindness36
Ever yr affec | J D Hooker
1.2 which … time— 1.3] double scored pencil
2.1 his election … a year, 2.2] double scored pencil; scoring deleted, pencil
5.19 but doubt … generalization 5.20] double scored pencil
8.1 Siphomeris … nondescript] scored pencil
8.1 Lecontea] underl pencil
See letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 10.
Hooker refers to John Scott’s departure from his employment at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 11, and letter from John Scott, 28 March 1864 and nn. 18–20).
See letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 12. Hooker was mistaken about the election of one associate member a year to the Linnean Society (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864], n. 3). Neither CD nor Hooker proposed Scott for the associateship (see letter to John Scott, 9 February [1864] and n. 9).
Hooker refers to John Smith (1821–88), gardener at Syon House, and to John Smith (1798–1888), the incumbent curator at Kew. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 13. For information on the elder Smith’s retirement, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 and n. 7.
The references are to two of Hooker’s sons, Charles Paget and William Henslow Hooker; Charles had been infected with ringworm while at school (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864). Hooker also refers to John Tyndall.
Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, a physician and botanist, had retired to Clapham Rise, near the school in Clapham that George Howard, Francis, and Leonard Darwin were attending (DNB). CD’s sons went home for Easter Sunday, which fell on 27 March in 1864 (see letter from H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [16 March 1864] and n. 3).
William Erasmus Darwin was CD’s eldest son.
Hooker refers to Thomas Henry Huxley’s arguments with James Hunt and Charles Carter Blake, president and honorary secretary, respectively, of the Anthropological Society of London (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 18). Huxley’s response to their letters is in the 12 March 1864 issue of the Reader, pp. 334–5.
Joseph Beete Jukes had written letters to the Reader on the glacial formation of lakes in response to Hugh Falconer’s 27 January speech on the subject at the Royal Geographical Society (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and nn. 18 and 19).
Hooker refers to John Crawfurd. See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 January 1863] and n. 9.
In 1863, Falconer and Joseph Prestwich had criticised Charles Lyell’s Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863a) for not giving sufficient credit to them for their field investigations into human antiquity, particularly in the excavation of artefacts from Pleistocene deposits in Brixham Cave in Devon; in his letter in the Athenæum, 4 April 1863, pp. 459–60, Falconer defended Prestwich’s work, claiming that Prestwich was responsible for determining the precise geological ages of quaternary deposits in England and France (see also letter from Joseph Prestwich in the Athenæum, 25 April 1863, p. 555, and letter from Hugh Falconer in the Athenæum, 2 May 1863, p. 586). There was much discussion in CD’s 1863 correspondence regarding the controversy (see Correspondence vol. 11); like Hooker, CD had been disappointed by Falconer’s conduct regarding C. Lyell 1863a (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 April [1863] and nn. 7–10). See also Bynum 1984 and Wilson 1996.
Prestwich gave a lecture at the Royal Institution on 26 February 1864, entitled: ‘On the Quaternary flint implements of Abbeville, Amiens, Hoxne, &c., their geological position and history’. A résumé of the lecture was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Prestwich 1864).
Prestwich argued that Quaternary gravels of the Somme river valley, which included fossil animals, had been deposited by periodic river-flooding and the associated action of river ice (Prestwich 1864, pp. 218–20; see also Prestwich 1862, pp. 286–98). Two reports given to the Geological Society meeting of 24 February 1864 supported Prestwich’s argument (see the Reader, 12 March 1864, p. 335).
Prestwich mentioned Hooker’s information on the Soane river in Prestwich 1864, p. 219. In 1848, Hooker had travelled in the Soane river valley as part of his journey in the Himalayas (see J. D. Hooker 1854, 1: 32–54); the information on the river that Prestwich referred to is in J. D. Hooker 1854, 1: 38. The Soane river is now known as the Son or Sone; it is 475 miles long, flowing north-west and then north-east into the Ganges river in north-east central India.
See Prestwich 1864, pp. 216–17 and 221–2, for his discussion of the flint implements thought to have been fashioned by early humans; the implements had been discovered in some of the Somme and Oise river valley deposits in France.
No written comment from CD to Hooker about Prestwich has been found, but see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Edward Sabine, 23 April [1856], and Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Joseph Prestwich, 12 March [1860].
Prestwich argued that the topmost layer of loess was a deposit of the old river during floods, while Hooker believed it was the condition of beds exposed to the air (see Prestwich 1864, pp. 216, 219, and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 23 October 1863). In 1863, Hooker had noticed the similarity of the deposits in France to terrain in Norfolk, a county in eastern England, after he had spent time in both regions (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters from J. D. Hooker, 23 October 1863 and nn. 4–7, and [1 or 3 November 1863] and nn. 8–12).
In a letter in the 30 January 1864 issue of the Reader, pp. 140–1, George Busk reported on an extensive limestone cave that had been discovered in 1862 during excavations for additions to a military prison on Windmill Hill, Gibraltar. The cave contained fossil bones of extinct animals, including humans; Busk and Falconer were still examining the specimens at the Royal College of Surgeons in January 1864 (see also the report by Busk in the 23 July 1864 issue of the Reader, pp. 109–10, Busk 1864, Busk and Falconer 1865, and Falconer 1868, 2: 554–63).
CD had asked Hooker if Edward Blyth was living in Ireland (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 20). For Blyth’s drinking habits, see Brandon-Jones 1997, pp. 172–3 n.
CD had asked Hooker about Richard Owen’s Exeter Hall lecture (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 21).
See letter from Asa Gray, 16 February 1864 and n. 7; CD had enclosed this letter with his letter to Hooker of 26[–7] March [1864].
CD had mentioned his visit from William Jenner in his letter to Hooker of 26[–7] March [1864].
For CD’s dealings with James Veitch (1815–69), see his letter to Hooker of 26[–7] March [1864] and nn. 5 and 6.
Hooker refers to Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, which was subtitled ‘Comprising the plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew and of other botanical establishments in Great Britain’. The magazine was edited by William Jackson Hooker, the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hooker refers to his father, William Jackson Hooker. John Gould Veitch, the son of the nurseryman James Veitch (1815–69), travelled to Japan in 1860 (Coats 1969, pp. 69–71).
William Jackson Hooker was acquainted with John Russell and had enlisted his support for the establishment of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1839, when Russell was home secretary (R. Desmond 1995, pp. 152–3, 156, 222).
See letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 9.
For CD’s comments on the Reader, see his letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 17. Several years earlier, Hooker and CD had favoured the London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Society (see Correspondence vol. 9, second letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [April 1861], and letters to J. D. Hooker, 18 [May 1861] and 19 June [1861]). Hooker refers to a party of the Church of England that held evangelical theological views. For other assessments of the London Review, see Ellegard 1990, p. 377, and North 1997, pp. 3020–1.
Hooker refers to the Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art.
Robert Stephen Rintoul founded the liberal journal Spectator in 1828; he sold it in 1858, and it was sold again in 1861. Under its new owners, the Spectator championed the north in the American Civil War, opposed CD’s theory, and took a stronger interest in religious questions (see Sullivan ed. 1984, pp. 391–8, and Ellegard 1990, pp. 381–2).
In 1863, James Hector explored the west coast of Otago province, New Zealand, and discovered an overland route between the west and east coasts (Hector 1864a, DNZB); he published an account of the expedition in Hector 1864a. Hector’s letters to Hooker are in the Library and Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174). See also Yaldwyn and Hobbs eds. 1998.
Hooker refers to Joseph Beete Jukes and to Andrew Crombie Ramsay (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 19, and n. 9, above).
Hooker told CD about the discovery of Pinus excelsa in Macedonia in his letter of 5 February 1864.
Godfrey Wedgwood was the eldest son of Francis Wedgwood (Emma Darwin’s brother) and a partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm (Freeman 1978). Hooker, a collector of Wedgwood ware, was especially interested in medallions (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 January 1863, and L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: 77–9).
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
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Making the Case for Research Data Management
By Angus Whyte (DCC) and Jonathan Tedds (University of Leicester)
Published: 1 September 2011
This briefing paper aims to help managers in research institutions build support for developing new services for research data management. It also gives a brief snapshot of the JISC-led programmes on Managing Research Data and Shared Services and the Cloud.
Please cite as: Whyte, A., Tedds, J. (2011). ‘Making the Case for Research Data Management’. DCC Briefing Papers. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Available online: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers
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Building the Services
Identifying Benefits and Challenges
Creating the Environment
Sources for Further Reading
Introduction - Doing More with Less
Higher Education research managers need to coordinate an ever-broader range of research outputs and outcomes. In this briefing we show how institutions have taken a lead in establishing research data policies and services that will support them. We show how these are giving measurable improvements in research capability, and in the institutions’ ability to respond to policy-makers and regulators. Institutions require coherent frameworks to establish the organisation, resources and technology capable of generating these benefits. This in itself presents challenges in achieving coherent change across the many disparate components within an institution. The pressure to do so with fewer resources means that JISC-led initiatives like the Managing Research Data programme and the Shared Services and the Cloud Programme come at an opportune time.
The prospects for sharing resources to gain efficiencies and more effective collaboration are extending beyond established areas such as IT Services, Library and Research Support. Just as academics are producing digital research assets in greater volume and variety, data management services are joining computation as resources that can be pooled more effectively. Benefits may also be found by considering other parts of the research cycle that can be served through repository services already established to manage research articles.
Tools, services and standards are emerging to help researchers manage their research assets, and to make more widely available the evidence including raw and processed data that underpins their research articles. Effective management is providing institutions with new ways to find synergies across research groups, producing new knowledge by engaging a broader range of stakeholders, and enabling wider reuse of data in teaching and learning, commercial exploitation and policy development.
Measuring the Benefits
37% Projected saving in staff time from moving Oxford University Classics Dept database to centralised virtual service [38]
69% Increase in citations for clinical trial publications associated with making their microarray datasets publicly available [14]
500% Growth in datasets downloaded from Economic and Social Data Service 2003-2008 [36]
One-day delay cut to 5 minutes Estimated time saving for crystallography researchers to access results from Diamond synchrotron, by deploying digital processing pipeline & metadata capture system [38]
(See sources of further information)
Researchers’ needs are likely to span the related areas of research data management, curation, and preservation. Research data management concerns the organisation of data, from its entry to the research cycle through to the dissemination and archiving of valuable results. It aims to ensure reliable verification of results, and permits new and innovative research built on existing information. Preservation is about ensuring that what is handed over to a repository or publisher remains fit for secondary use in the longer term (e.g. 10 years post-project). Curation connects first use to secondary use. It is about ensuring that project results are fit to archive, and that valued research assets remain fit for reuse. This briefing focuses on research data management, its drivers and benefits found. We locate these in the JISC Managing Research Data programme, and take a snapshot of the experiences of one institution, the University of Leicester.
There has been a decisive shift towards greater oversight of the research process motivated by the driving principle of data as a public good. This shift is seen in the concerns of policy-makers, and in changes in legislation and its implementation. The needs are being addressed through coordinated action by funders including the UK Research Councils, charities and JISC, with significant responsibilities falling to HEIs and individual researchers.
Research integrity is a key issue for policy-makers. The House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology concluded in 2011 “…employers must take responsibility for the integrity of their employees’ research”. They also call for regulatory oversight to ensure funders and institutions fulfil their responsibilities [1]. Data management is a means to assure research integrity, and the UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) states in its Code of Practice:
Organisations should have in place procedures, resources (including physical space) and administrative support to assist researchers in the accurate and efficient collection of data and its storage in a secure and accessible form. Researchers should consider how data will be gathered, analysed and managed, and how and in what form relevant data will eventually be made available to others, at an early stage of the design of the project [2].
Legislative Change and Regulatory Compliance
A related point is that effective data management can mitigate risks to institutional reputation. These may surface as researchers balance requirements for disclosure and confidentiality. Measures to comply with Data Protection and Freedom of Information legislation need constant monitoring, given rulings by the Information Commissioners Office on the withholding of research data requested through FOI, for example. Partly in response to the Independent Climate Change Emails Review in 2010 JISC developed new guidance for researchers in responding to FOI requests for research data [3]. Dr Malcolm Read, executive secretary of JISC, said at the time: “…We need to move away from a culture of secrecy and towards a world where researchers can benefit from sharing expertise throughout the research lifecycle” [4].
To foster good practice, Research Councils UK has coordinated a statement of Common Principles on Data Policy (see box below) asserting that “..making research data available to users is a core part of the Research Councils’ remit”.
The DCC tracks and summarises funder policies, including Research Councils and some major charities [5]. The EPSRC, for example now requires research organisations to preserve data securely for at least 10 years, and “… ensure that effective data curation is provided throughout the full data lifecycle, with ‘data curation’ and ‘data lifecycle’ being as defined by the Digital Curation Centre” [6].
The increasing UK activity in this area parallels significant international effort, especially across Europe, the US, and Australasia [7]. In the US, the National Science Foundation has mandated Data Management Plans as a condition for funding, and the European Commission is to require these plans for projects funded in its 8th Framework programme from 2014.
Summary of Research Councils UK
- Common Principles on Data Policy
Public good: Publicly funded research data are produced in
the public interest should be made openly available with few
Planning for preservation: Institutional and project specific data
management policies and plans needed to ensure valued data
remains usable
Discovery: Metadata should be available and discoverable;
Published results should indicate how to access supporting data
Confidentiality: Research organisation policies and practices
to ensure legal, ethical and commercial constraints assessed;
research process not damaged by inappropriate release
First use: Provision for a period of exclusive use, to enable
research teams to publish results
Recognition: Data users should acknowledge data sources and
terms & conditions of access
Public funding: Investment is appropriate and must be efficient
and cost-effective.
(Full text at: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/DataPolicy.aspx)
Research is Global and more 'Data Intensive'
Funders expect UK research to be international in scope. The Royal Society has reported that over a third of all articles published in international journals are internationally collaborative, up from a quarter 15 years ago [8]. Researchers need data management tools and services to work this way. Research data is itself often seen as a form of infrastructure, as it is the basis for ‘data intensive’ research; a trend spreading from fields such as genomics and astronomy across many domains. As the European Commission Riding the Wave report points out, this trend calls for ‘collaborative research data frameworks’ [9]. These should help develop the emerging pan-European collaborative research data infrastructure, and avoid isolating the islands of good practice.
Institutional Policy Responses
In response to these drivers, some UK Universities have started to develop policies on research data management [10]. Oxford University published its Commitment to Research Data Management in 2010 [11]. The University of Edinburgh’s adoption of the UKRIO Code of Practice for Research was an important stepping-stone to its Research Data Management Policy, announced in 2011 [12]. The policies do the following:
Identify areas of responsibility for the institution and for researchers
Commit the university to develop appropriate guidelines, training and support, including mechanisms and services for storage and backup
Support deployment of data repositories and/ or mechanisms for registering metadata about research data
Recognise that management and curation of research data requires cooperation and coordination with research funders, and with existing national and international providers of data services and subject-based repositories
It is worth noting that these policies build on earlier work supported by the JISC Digital Repositories and Preservation programme in the projects EIDCSR and DataShare respectively. Other institutions are likely to similarly develop policies to fit their specific needs and contexts. There remain open questions about exactly who is responsible and when at each point within the complex research ecosystem [13].
Further incentives for change are the Research Excellence Framework, and the Research Councils’ coordinated monitoring of research outputs and outcomes. Datasets have yet to make a mark in research assessment terms compared with the traditional article. This is likely to change with evidence that making data related to an article publicly available correlates with higher citation rates, at least in fields that have built the necessary repositories, standards and collaborative culture [14]. These include astronomy, where the number of research papers based on second use of data from the Hubble Space Telescope has now overtaken those based on the initially proposed use [15].
The development of standards and mechanisms for citing data, e.g. Datacite [16], and for identifying contributors e.g. ORCID [17], will also help datasets gain more recognition as outputs in their own right. Standards-compliant research information systems will provide mechanisms to track dataset usage and enable this to be rewarded [18]. The requirements to do that will be grounded in evidence of the benefits. As the remainder of the briefing shows, the benefits of having data in a reusable form are the opportunities it creates – for services to lay the foundation for new research, create material for teaching and learning, improve engagement with the community and business, and inform policy or product development.
Building the Services: a Snapshot of Activity
The HEFCE and JISC conducted a feasibility study for a UK Research Data Service [19], which identified the need for a shared approach across institutions to help them build research data management skills, capability and organisation. This is being supported through the Shared Services and the Cloud and Managing Research Data programmes, including a coordinated approach to delivering training, tools and good practice through the Digital Curation Centre. The Managing Research Data (MRD) Programmes have already pump-primed initiatives to build services in a number of universities.
The programme’s first phase (2009-2011) included initiatives with a broad institutional remit, and others focusing on specific disciplines and cross-disciplinary requirements. These projects have delivered innovative outputs to complement the capabilities being established through JISC Advance, JANET and the National Grid Service. Many of the project outputs have been designed to be reusable or adaptable. The
JISC website [20] and an ‘InfoKit’ [21] expand on the following examples.
Data management planning approaches
The DCC’s tool DMPonline [22] helps project teams create data management plans before and during research projects. The DMP-ESRC Project produced a set of Data Management Recommendations for Research Centres and Programmes [23] also useful for planning in research groups and departments in other disciplines. The ERIM Project examined issues at the University of Bath’s Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IDMRC) and produced a Draft Data Management Plan [24]. The HALOGEN Project at the University of Leicester showed how central IT Services could support research projects, identify potential cost efficiencies and promote collaboration across departments and disciplines (see next section).
Best practice support and guidance
The Incremental Project has produced template web pages for providing support and guidance for managing research data, as implemented at the University of Cambridge [25] and the University of Glasgow [26].
Research data management platforms
The ADMIRAL Project [27] at Oxford University developed a pilot data management infrastructure for life science researchers. Their two-tier approach first supports researchers’ local data management, and secondly offers an easy and secure route for archiving annotated datasets to an institutional repository. The FISHnet Project [28] developed a platform for research data curation and sharing in freshwater biology. The platform features a ‘Traffic Light System for Data’ and the FISHNet server-side technology stack, and will be hosted by the Freshwater Biological Association. The I2S2 Project [29] implemented its Information Model using the ICAT Lite ‘personal workbench for managing data flows’. This allows the user to manage data, to capture provenance information and to “commit data” for long-term storage.
The Sudamih project at Oxford University [30] developed infrastructure to support humanities researchers in the form of a ‘database-as-a-service’ platform. Working initially with researchers in the life-sciences at the University of Manchester, the MaDAM Project [31] provided a platform to meet their requirements. These projects both sought to generalise the tools to other research groups and disciplines.
Requirement analyses and case studies
The Institutional Data Management Blueprint project examined research data management challenges across a number of departments at the University of Southampton to produce its Findings Report [32].
Requirements were also extensively documented in other projects including Sudamih, Incremental, and MaDAM, in some cases also providing gap analyses, followed by case studies to collect experiences from the piloting of the tools that were developed.
The JISC MRD programme in 2009-11 funded a variety of projects to develop training materials [20]. These address a range of disciplinary needs including archaeology, health studies, humanities research, performance and visual arts, psychology, microscopy, social anthropology, social science, and geoscience.
Identifying Benefits and Organisational Challenges
Identifying the benefits achievable and the case for sustainability was an over-arching theme of the Managing Research Data programme. Benefits were analysed through a series of case studies by consultants Charles Beagrie Ltd. The results add to the evidence base for a managed approach to research data, e.g. from case studies identifying benefits of making research more open [33].
Demand for services is growing, as shown by a joint study by the JISC and Research Information Network (RIN) which has identified rapid growth in usage of directly funded national data centres. Research efficiency was the most widely supported benefit of these, with researchers mentioning ways in which the centres had saved them time, money and effort [34]. Case studies have also highlighted the scale of the challenges presented by the complexity and diversity of researchers’ practices [35]. Engagement of researchers and research outputs with the wider community and business is an increasing focus for HEIs and Government . There is a need for long and medium-term planning to address the complexities involved.
The MRD cost-benefit studies have gauged the effects of focused interventions to develop systems and processes for researchers, identifying possible metrics (see table). However, the field is characterised by short-term projects, and as the report points out, data repositories require a critical mass of data and users. This will depend on the maturity of the domains involved and their data management: “Many benefits will only emerge over a longer timescale. Longer-term effects tend to arise from a complex combination of developments and circumstances, which can be difficult or impossible to disentangle and attribute to use of a single data repository, dataset, or researchdata management project” [36].
Metrics for Institutions
New research grant income
Research dataset publications generated
Improvement in citation impact from articles with publicly available data
Improvements in benchmark results
Cost efficiencies for services or depts
Re-use of infrastructure in new projects
Metrics for Research Support Services
Take-up in user community for services
Data deposits with a repository
Downloads of datasets held
Activity based costing methods
Datasets created/maintained
Metrics for Researchers/Research Teams
Grant income/success rates
Visibility of research through data citation
Improvement in routine back-up of data
Reduction in lead time for data requests
Time saved on data mgmt/ grant proposals
Effectiveness of research tool/software
Metrics for Scholarly Communication
Citations to datasets, research articles
Citations to data management methods
Datasets with enhanced metadata
Reuse of data in teaching & learning
Increase in user communities
Service level agreements for nationally importan datasets
Table 1. Potential Assessment Matrics (Adapted from: Beagrie, 2011 [34])
Creating the Environment: Experiences in one Institution
The University of Leicester (UoL) believes effective management of research data is a critical success factor. Key to this is requirements gathering to support research data management planning, which in turn needs coordination of research and IT expertise which may be in other departments or central service, and may be external.
UoL has already taken strategic actions to support its researchers’ data management needs and promote long-term preservation and dissemination of the data they produce. In 2011 it approved an ambitious IT Strategy giving its central IT Service a clear mandate to provide comprehensive information management services. This aims to underpin all aspects of the University’s mission, including its research, in the most cost-effective manner possible [37]. The document responds to funding bodies’announcements regarding principles that must be adopted for managing research data. In particular, it sets the direction for radical change in the funding model for IT research infrastructure, to enable sustainable access to data in the long-term.
Within the central IT Service, UoL created a ‘Research Computing Services’ (RCS) team (in 2008) whose aim is to support researchers’ needs. This is now staffed with seven IT professionals, all with research backgrounds. The team launched a new High Performance Computing (HPC) facility in 2010 and has gone on to pilot various server and database hosting services on a ‘local cloud’ of virtualised infrastructure. For example, the ALICE HPC system reduced genomic sequence processing time by a factor of 60, so work that took 35 hours now takes 35 minutes.
The University was a Pathfinder for the UK Research Data Service (UKRDS). This provided an excellent opportunity to engage a wide range of researchers in requirements gathering, and to generate enthusiasm for solving data management challenges at Leicester. Through this initiative the role of ‘Research Liaison Manager’ was established and pioneered nationally. Staff in the role have built effective relationships with a wide range of research teams and central services and helped identify, define and prototype the services that researchers need at institutional level. The role demonstrated the importance of a significant research background to understand the needs of researchers, as well as familiarity with research IT.
The JISC MRD funded interdisciplinary project HALOGEN (History, Archaeology, Linguistics, Onomastics and GENetics) proved to be a good template for effective partnership with the research community (www.le.ac.uk/halogen). The project identified the data management needs of researchers involved and the organisational requirements. In doing so it established the institution’s best practice for storage and management of diverse cross-disciplinary research data. HALOGEN covered all phases of the project life cycle through to the implementation of a practical, cost effective solution for data access, sharing, curation and preservation. This exploited the University’s assets in IT Services and other centres of excellence in terms of hardware, software, storage and technical expertise.
Direct benefits of the HALOGEN work can be summarised as:
Enabling new research opportunities and stimulating new collaborations
Improved scholarly communication and access to data
Verification, re-purposing and reuse of data and methodologies
Increasing research productivity and protecting returns on earlier investments
Increasing the skills base of individuals
The researchers involved have consequently won £1.3m over 5 years for a Leverhulme Trust interdisciplinary research theme called Diasporas to exploit the HALOGEN database for new research across genetics, arts and humanities.
HALOGEN was a key driver for developing a Database Hosting Service, which provides a common infrastructure for hosting research applications. This uses the open source ‘LAMP’ stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) running on VMware Virtual Machines. This is being deployed for the shared cloud-based service BRISSkit (www.le.ac.uk/BRISSkit). This service will host and combine biomedical research datasets across the University and NHS research teams working with tissue samples and anonymised patient data. The infrastructure is designed so it can be replicated either locally or in externally hosted cloud services brokered by JANET, testing their potential to contain costs. The University expects to show that cloud services can be securely exploited without exposing the organisation to significant risk. The local NHS Trust has successfully renewed its NHS Biomedical Research Unit status with the explicit intention of exploiting such infrastructure.
Institutional planning has been agreed within the University’s governance structure through the establishment of a new Research Computing Management Group. The IT Research Liaison Manager and PVC Research and Enterprise have been key actors. This has brought high-level support for developing a keen institutional understanding of cultural issues and constraints on exploiting cloud-based services; including those to be delivered, and others as they become available nationally or internationally.
The University’s governing Council has highlighted the need to ensure the integrity of its research data, particularly where that data is sensitive. It was thus crucial to map sensitive and confidential data holdings across the institution, to develop policy and prioritise where intervention and support is needed most urgently. As a result, flags have been embedded in the central grant costing system to trigger support requests for researchers if (i) they might use, reuse or generate sensitive data and (ii) they require help in planning and costing of research IT in a funding proposal.
Leicester has also extensively piloted DCC-developed tools. In developing its policies and procedures, the University has collaborated with other institutions and the DCC to help implement the emerging national frameworks. This has helped identify the timeline for institutional development in Table 2 below.
Near term (up to a year) Medium term (1-3 years) Long term (>3 years)
Get key players from across institution together: Identify
objectives for Research Data Management (RDM) Establish a formal University wide Committee to develop
& ratify policies on RDM; disseminate benefits & cost
savings RDM is embedded across
faculties & central services, subject to periodic review, ensuring information flow and support is co-ordinated
Raise awareness and make use of existing general training
materials e.g. DCC101 Design and pilot
institution-wide and
discipline-specific training drawing upon local support and guidance Roll out institution-wide and discipline-specific training to all new staff & students. Periodic review and update of materials
Identify and benchmark
existing central provision for RDM, including research
information systems, grant costing & staff support services Appraise RDM provision & conduct gap analysis to
develop business case. Benchmark levels of maturity of RDM infrastructure & support RDM service in place and
involving all stakeholders.
Periodic benchmarking and target setting
Identify, disseminate and develop current exemplars to conduct basic audit of RDM.
Seek quick wins with high profile academic champions Develop portfolio of projects to reuse infrastructure, build RDM capacity in further key groups RDM and Policies developed at faculty level; Key academic groups are engaged; central services in widespread use across the institution
Draw on external expertise, build links with potential partners Formalise links to external partners & stakeholders where
necessary RDM effectively integrated with shared UK and international services; quality assurance in place
Table 2: A suggested timeline for institutional development
We can expect to see growth both in services and the range of providers, as pan-European and global ‘research data infrastructures’ develop. UK Higher Education is building skills and capability in research data management as a key component of the UK’s e-infrastructure for research and innovation. Institutions can consider how to incorporate a timeline like that shown in Table 2 into their strategy. Data management and curation activities will increasingly be supported ‘in the cloud’ where services will be provided on a ‘Software-as-a-Service’ (SaaS) basis.
Complementing the Managing Research Data Programme, the JISC and HEFCE Shared Services and the Cloud Programme is providing shared infrastructure for research data management [38]. This includes core virtual server infrastructure (a ‘cloud’) to offer cost effective data management and storage services to HE institutions, to be managed through JANET and Eduserv. SaaS applications to meet common requirements for research data services are being developed, some based on prototypes from the MRD programme. These include the Leicester University BRISSkit service mentioned above, and the ViDaaS ‘database-as-a-service’ developed at Oxford. In addition, SRF developed at Southampton will provide electronic lab data management and collaborations tools. Dataflow developed at Oxford provides an integrated set of tools to manage data within projects and then to store it for the longer term, simplifying the set up of Sword compliant data repositories and the submission of data to them. The Shared Services and the Cloud programme is also developing services for administration in conjunction with JISC Advance. These include SaaS applications for research management, electronic resource management, and secure distribution of documents.
The JISC-supported Digital Curation Centre cuts across both programmes. It is working with institutions to grow and sustain their ‘human infrastructure’ in this area. This is primarily by holding awareness-raising roadshow events, and providing tailored support to managers in individual universities. The latter work includes coordinating training provision, and benchmarking current provision to help managers establish requirements and develop the required capabilities. The DCC tool CARDIO (Collaborative Assessment of Research Data Infrastructure and Objectives) is a benchmarking tool for data management and curation strategy development, for use at the departmental or research group level [39]. It draws on a model for assessing institutions’ level of preparedness on three aspects; technology, resources and organisation; the latter providing a useful checklist of areas of responsibility (see box).
Organisational responsibilities for research data
Sharing / Access to Research Data
Preservation and continuity of research data
Internal audit of research activities
Monitoring and feedback of publication
Metadata management
IPR and rights management
From Anne R. Kenney and Nancy Y. McGovern, “The Three-legged
Stool: Institutional Response to Digital Preservation (ppt)”, II
Convocatoria del Coloquio de marzo, Cuba, March, 2005.
The DCC will also continue to develop tools and provide these on a SaaS basis, including the DMPonline tool for data management planning. These tools will be further developed to sustain planning, implementation and self-assessment at project level, research group, and institutional levels.
Institutional policy development is required as a basis for coordinated action on data management. The objective is no different from that of research itself; to benefit science, scholarship and provide wider social and economic impacts. Technology is making it feasible to provide a more transparent research record, a record that both science and society demand in the interest of reproducibility and openness. A strong case for managing and curating research data can be made, as a means to assure research integrity and to provide improvements in research efficiency and in the effectiveness of institutional support.
Case studies have illustrated the types of benefit to be gained. More work is needed to follow up the work begun on developing and applying metrics to assess the impacts. Researchers and organisations need methods to identify and monitor how data management contributes to specific research trajectories. But it is already clear that Institutions need effective processes and procedures if their researchers are to deal with technical and regulatory changes in scholarly communication. The first priority for researchers is typically more clarity on roles and responsibilities and the support available.
Thank you for very useful comments from Simon Hodson, Joy Davidson and Sarah Jones. The briefing was also informed by discussion with Mary Visser, Kevin Schurer (University of Leicester), Adam Huffman (University of Manchester), John Milner (JISC), Kevin Ashley (DCC), Neil Beagrie and at the MRD Programme Workshop on 28-9 March 2011, Aston Business School, Birmingham with input from Laura Molloy, Janez Stebe, James Wilson, Grant Young, Catharine Ward, Kellie Snow, Mansur Darlington, Stephen Gray, Liz Lyon, Stephane Goldstein, Mikkel Christoffersen, and Alex Ball.
House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology. Eighth Report: Peer Review in Scientific Publications. Published 28 July 2011 Available from: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmsctech/856/...
UK Research Integrity Office ‘Code of Practice for Research’, 2009. (p.17) Available from: http://www.ukrio.org/what-we-do/code-of-practice-for-research/
FOI and Research Data: Questions and Answers. 2010. Available from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2010/foiresearchdata...
‘New advice for universities in light of the Climate Change Emails Review’ JISC news release July 2010. Available from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2010/07/opendata.aspx
Digital Curation Centre. ‘An Overview of Funders’ Data Policies’ 2011. Available from: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/overview-funders-data-po...
EPSRC Policy Framework on Research Data: Expectations. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. 2011. Available from: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/Pages/expectations.aspx
Pryor, G. Ed. Managing Research Data. Facet Publishing. London. 2011
The Royal Society. Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st century. RS Policy document 03/11 Issued: March 2011 DES2096 [Internet]. Available from http://royalsociety.org/policy/reports/knowledge-networks-nations
Wood J, Andersson T, Bachem A, Best C, Genova F, Lopez DR, et al. Riding the wave: How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data. 2010
DCC ‘UK Institutional Data Policies’. 2011. Available at: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/institutional-data-policies
Oxford University ‘Commitment to Research Data Management’. 2010 Available from: http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/datamanagement/
University of Edinburgh ‘Research Data Policy’. 2011. Available from: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/polic...
Tedds, J. ‘Researchers: don’t fight the data management battle alone’ Research Fortnight Blogs. Available at: http://exquisitelife.researchresearch.com/exquisite_life/2011/02/researc...
Piwowar H, Day R, Fridsma D. ‘Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate’. PLoS ONE. 2007;23.:e308.
Hubble Space Telescope Publication Statistics April 2011. Available at: http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/bibliography/pubstat.html
Datacite. ‘What is Datacite’. 2010. Available from: http://www.datacite.org/whatisdatacite
ORCID Open Researcher & Contributor ID. 2011. Available from: http://orcid.org/
Beyond Impact Project. Beyond Impact Workshop Report. 2011. Available from: http://beyond-impact.org/
UKRDS Final Feasibility Study Report. 2010. Available at: http://www.ukrds.ac.uk/resources/
A Guide to Outputs from the JISC Managing Research Data Programme, 2009-11. Available from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/outputs.aspx
JISC InfoNet. ‘Managing Research Data’ InfoKit. 2011. Available at: http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/research/managing-data
DMPonline. Available from http://www.dcc.ac.uk/dmponline
ESRC Recommendations. Available at http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/media/257765/ukda_datamanagementrecommenda...
IDMC Data Management Plan. Available from: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/22200/1/erim6rep101015mjd10.pdf
Support for Managing Research Data at the University of Cambridge. Available at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dataman/
Data Management Support at the University of Glasgow. Available at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/datamanagement/
ADMIRAL Project. Available at: http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/ADMIRAL
FISHnet Project. Available at: http://www.fishnetonline.org/home
I2S2 Pilot Implementation. Available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/I2S2/documents/I2S2-WP3-D3.2-Implementat...
SUDAMIH Requirements Report. Available at: http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk
MADAM Requirements and Gap Analysis Report. Available at: http://www.merc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/MaDAM_Landscape_Review-v1.1-FI...
IDMB Initial Findings Report. Available at: http://www.southamptondata.org/1/post/2010/12/idmb-initial-findingsrepor...
Research Information Network. Open to All? Case Studies of openness in research 2010. Available from: http://www.rin.ac.uk/ourwork/data-management-and-curation/open-science-c...
Research Information Network Data Centres Study. 2011 (forthcoming).
Lyon L, Rusbridge C, Neilson C, Whyte A. Disciplinary Approaches to Sharing, Curation, Reuse and Preservation: DCC SCARP Final Report. Digital Curation Centre; 2010. Available from:http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/scarp/SCARP-FinalReport-Final-SENT.pdf
Beagrie, N. Benefits from the Infrastructure Projects in the JISC Managing Research Data Programme. Charles Beagrie Ltd, 2011
University of Leicester. IT services Strategic Planning. 2011. Available at: http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/itservices/about/strategy
HEFCE Shared Services and the Cloud Programme. Available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/umf.aspx
Collaborative Assessment of Research Data Infrastructure and Objectives (CARDIO). 2011. Available from: http://cardio.dcc.ac.uk/
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Flushable Wipes vs. Sewer Systems
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What Are Flushable Wipes?
Flushable wipes, also known as non-woven wipes, have many purposes and have become increasingly popular over the past few years, creating a global issue. The $1.4 billion wipes market is expected to grow to $2.7 billion by 2020 according to Smithers Quality Assessments, an accredited quality, environmental and safety management systems certification body serving, industrial, commercial, government and service businesses. Flushable wipes can be used for personal hygiene, removing makeup, household cleaning and for other various sanitary measures. The majority of wipes consist of a combination of non-woven cotton and rayon fibers, as well as plastic resins polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene. The fibers are spun into a tangled mat and then compressed, along with binders and other materials to make a sheet. Cleaning products, preservatives and other chemicals may then be added to the sheet.
How Are Flushable Wipes Tested?
The INDA (United States Industry Association) and EDANA (Europe’s Industry Association) commonly perform the slosh-box test to determine whether or not a wipe is flushable. The slosh-box test was developed by INDA and EDANA with input from members of the water treatment industry. In the slosh-box test, a single wipe is placed in an oscillating box containing two liters of tap water for three hours. When the three hours are complete, the contents of the box are rinsed through a 12.5mm perforated plate sieve. For the wipe to be considered flushable at least 25% of the initial dry mass must pass through the sieve.
It is important to note that the slosh-box test is behavior based. Should more than one wipe be flushed at a time or too many wipes be flushed in specific period of time, the wipes will likely not break down properly. Additionally, this test is not required for a product to be labeled as flushable, any company that is not a member of the INDA or EDANA is not required to submit to the slosh-box test.
Impact on Sewer Systems
The resins that are added to flushable wipes in combination with the non-woven cotton and rayon fibers are manmade and these resins add to the solid sludge layer that collects at the bottom of septic tanks. Most flushable wipes are too thick and strong for sewer systems due to the need for the wipes to maintain their consistency when soaked in their packaging. Toilet paper pulls apart and deteriorates when put into water, yet flushable wipes do not biodegrade quickly enough to avoid pipe clogging due to the durable materials used and turn into a soggy, solid mass that descends to the sewers. Once the resins are stuck, they create blockage for other items like diapers and feminine hygiene products to catch onto creating fatbergs.
Fatbergs Around The World
Fatbergs are large rock-like mounds of fat, diapers, and hygiene products including flushable wipes. Within the past few years alone, London, England has invested hundreds of man hours and millions of dollars to repair and fix sewage blockages due to flushable wipes. In 2017, a 250-meter-long fatberg weighing 130 tons was found blocking a sewer, according to BBC. This particular fatberg took eight workers three weeks to break up the mass. To accomplish this, high-pressure hoses were used to transfer the pieces into tankers that were then taken to a recycling site. The city of New York spent approximately $18 million over five years on fatbergs alone, according to National Geographic.
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Born: 24th April 1970, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Test Career Batting and Fielding (1994/95-2000/01)
Australia 20 19 3 305 71* 19.06 0 2 52.31 9
Test Career Bowling (1994/95-2000/01)
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Australia 4129 153 1942 75 5-30 25.89 3 0 55.05 2.82
First-Class Career Batting and Fielding (1989/90-2002/03)
Overall 114 137 38 1458 71* 14.72 0 4 46.76 55
First-Class Career Bowling (1989/90-2002/03)
Overall 23409 1006 10721 379 7-90 28.28 13 1 61.76 2.74
ODI Career Batting and Fielding (1993/94-2001)
Australia 88 31 18 152 29 11.69 0 0 68.77 14
ODI Career Bowling (1993/94-2001)
Australia 4619 62 3402 134 5-36 25.38 4 1 34.47 4.41
List A Career Batting and Fielding (1988/89-2002/03)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct
Overall 153 59 31 320 29 11.42 0 0 26
List A Career Bowling (1988/89-2002/03)
Overall 7980 121 5576 219 5-24 25.46 6 2 36.43 4.19
Under-19 Test Career Batting and Fielding (1990)
Australia Young Cricketers 3 5 2 59 22* 19.66 0 0 2
Under-19 Test Career Bowling (1990)
Australia Young Cricketers 546 19 268 18 5-60 14.88 1 0 30.33 2.94
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As part of National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has launched Family Checkup, an online resource that equips parents with research-based skills to help keep their children drug-free.
NIDA-funded research has shown the critical role parents play in preventing their children from using drugs. Family Checkup poses questions for parents to consider as they interact with their children; highlighting parenting skills that are important in preventing the initiation and progression of drug use among youth. The resource incorporates video examples that show parents how-to and how-not-to emulate each skill with their own children. The tools were developed by the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon. Check out Family Checkup here.
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These booklets of information are distributed free of charge to hospitals, medical offices and the agencies serving the intellectual disabilities community in our six county service area. We are also happy to provide the booklet to members of the public upon request. They contain accurate and up to date information about resources in our community for families who are expecting or have just had a new baby with Down syndrome. They also include a referral form for the healthcare provider to complete and return to our office when a pack is distributed. This information is available in English and Spanish.
For more information, please call the office at (559) 228-0411 or send us an e-mail at info@dsacc.org
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Every new baby with Down syndrome who visits our office with a parent, family member or guardian is presented with a beautiful hand crocheted baby blanket created by one of our dedicated volunteers. In addition, they are provided with two books, Babies with Down Syndrome and Gifts. The gift bag also includes a beginner sign language book and a binder designed to help organize healthcare information for the new baby. These gifts are available in English and Spanish.
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Held monthly on the First Thursday in Visalia. This is a time for parents with children, typically under five, to get together and share stories, resources and simply be in a place with their children where they don’t have to explain themselves! An attempt is made to schedule a speaker at each meeting who gives an informal talk about issues relating to Down syndrome.
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This group of parents is trained to tell their story to different audiences ranging from new parents to students to healthcare providers. All of the parents are informed about the laws in place for people with disabilities and local and national resources available in many areas. They do not refer or provide recommendations, but are trained solely for support. Family experience and perspective are relayed in an attempt to help their audience understand what it is like to live with and raise a child with Down syndrome. This group also presents to healthcare providers and educators who may not have experience with families living with a loved one who has a disability. Their talks are geared for their audiences and are designed to provide support and give insight regarding life with a person with Down syndrome. PRO also acts as community liaisons to healthcare facilities whose staff members utilize various components of our New Parent Program. They are available to keep the facility supplied with appropriate materials and support families who are referred by staff.
Are you looking for a chance to be more involved? We would love to have your help as a PRO Member. If you have a child with Down syndrome and would like to help other parents, please call us to sign up for our training. Or maybe you’re a new parent of a child with Down syndrome and would like to talk with one of our experienced parents. We want to hear from you too and meet your family! For more information, please call the office at (559) 228-0411 or send us an e-mail at pd@dsacc.org
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This new (all ages) group offers emotional support, insight, and understanding to parents of children with special needs. The group will meet the first Wednesday of every month from 6-8 pm at the DSACC office, 1491 W Shaw Avenue Fresno, CA 93711. Meetings will be led by Carolyn Tellalian, LCSW and an occasional guest speaker. Childcare can be provided if notified at least 5 days in advance of meeting.
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This new (all ages) group offers emotional support, insight, and understanding to parents of children with special needs. The group will meet the second Wednesday of every month from 6-8 pm at the DSACC office, 1491 W Shaw Avenue Fresno, CA 93711. Childcare can be provided if notified at least 5 days in advance of meeting.
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New Melbourne City coach Erick Mombaerts says he will bring an attractive style of play to the club.
Recently-installed Melbourne Victory coach Marco Kurz knows success is expected, not hoped for, at the storied A-League club.
But he has asked fans to be patient as the Victory embark on a new era.
Kurz was unveiled to the media at a function at Crown Casino in Melbourne on Wednesday where he spoke of his excitement at securing the plum job after a two-year spell in charge of Adelaide United.
He spoke of his delight at the opportunity to coach a big club and understands that comes with big expectations.
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Marco Kurz has succeeded Kevin Muscat as the new manager of Melbourne Victory.
German-born Marco Kurz says he's honoured to be appointed as the new coach of A-League powerhouse Melbourne Victory.
Kurz, who replaces the departed Kevin Muscat, joins Victory after his contract with Adelaide United wasn't renewed after two seasons in South Australia.
"It's an honour to be named as head coach of Melbourne Victory, a big club with a strong history, passionate fan base and true drive for success," Kurz said in a statement on Friday.
"I have got to know Melbourne Victory from afar...
The first competitive match of Robbie Fowler's Brisbane Roar reign will be an FFA Cup clash away at A-League champions Sydney FC.
The Liverpool legend, who is embarking on the first full-time head coaching role of his storied career, will take the Roar to face Steve Corica's Sky Blues in a round-of-32 clash after the pair were drawn together on Wednesday.
It will be Fowler's first big challenge at the helm of the new-look Roar who have shipped out 16 players following their disastrous 2018-19 A-League...
Kevin Muscat bows out of Melbourne Victory with loss to Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Kevin Muscat's reign at Melbourne Victory is over, the club legend taking leave from his coaching tenure with a 3-1 loss to Sanfrecce Hirosima in the AFC Champions League.
On an eerie night at AAMI Park, the A-League powerhouses said farewell to Muscat, captain Carl Valeri and marquee Keisuke Honda.
There was plenty of love from the crowd of 6,053, which sang and cheered for their departing trio. But in keeping with Victory's unfortunate campaign in Asia, they were undone by two world-class goals.
Melbourne Victory have never known life without Kevin Muscat but soon will after the four-time A-League champion agreed an exit from the club.
Muscat, the club's foundation captain and longest serving coach, has decided the time is right to leave the A-League powerhouse and will depart after Wednesday's AFC Champions League match with Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
That inconsequential game is now transformed into an era-ending occasion, with Muscat, captain Carl Valeri and marquee Keisuke Honda to sign off.
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Apple iPhone White Model to Arrive ‘Later On in the Year’, Says Orange UK
August 18, 2010, By Sanjeev Ramachandran
When will it finally come? Talking of Apple’s white iPhone 4 model, we have been treated to a waiting game ever since we first heard about it. The latest is that the phone’s carrier in the UK – Orange UK – has gone to the Press to say that the white model will be “available later on in the year.” If you would remember, you had earlier heard that the model would be coming at the “end of the year.” Let us try and see this as an updated release date!
Reports quoting Orange UK said that the carrier has already told The Inquirer something like that. End of the year or later on in the year, we just would want the phone to come to our midst as soon as possible. Orange UK has said told customers that it would like to state that the Apple iPhone white model will be available later this year. Now that doesn’t mean we have a final date. This also means the wait continues.
The white model was expected to arrive during July, but, as you all know, that never happened. The delay had led Apple and the carrier networks to stay clear of any specific date. May be Apple is looking at bringing in a flawless device. The company wouldn’t want any criticism on antenna design, screen performance or sensor issues. So it would be better for the company to wait till a flawless piece is ready for roll out. Let us also wait.
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Mom wants it RAW
With very few exceptions, I have been flying home each year to celebrate the Parental Units' anniversary. Usually this involves the three of us at a fine dining restaurant, where I also pop open a bottle of wine from their anniversary vintage. We've been doing this for a number of years now, and we've basically been rotating through three restaurants over time.
This year, however, mom had different ideas. I was honestly surprised when she told me that she wanted to go to RAW. Now, I do really like the food I've had at RAW, and of course being one of Andre Chiang's restaurant gives it a huge halo - making it one of the toughest places in town to score a table. So it's natural that mom would be curious about the food. But I never considered taking mom there simply because they only do tasting menus, and that's waaay too much food to stuff into mom's stomach. As much as she loves to eat, she only ever manages to do maybe 3 dishes at dinner, so it's always been à la carte for her.
But she wasn't gonna change her mind, and she wanted to invite a few friends along. So... knowing how tough it is to score a table - and with dad being put on the waiting list - I asked for help. I was ever so grateful that the favor came through, and we got ourselves one of the chef's tables for tonight.
We had a pretty interesting crowd tonight... The eight of us ranged from early 20s to late 80s, and I figured the average age was about 65. A couple of us have very small appetites, so the youngest member was obligated to help put away some of the food. And there was plenty of food to be had!
Taro, peanut, coriander - we start with a plate of pretty-lookin' finger food. On top of the crispy spring roll wrapper was a layer of taro mousse with peanut butter, with diced taro bits mixed in. Sprinkled with powdered peanut butter brittle from Yilan (宜蘭), and garnished with baby coriander.
Inhaled in two bites. Pretty tasty. I gotta say that I didn't taste much of the taro, because the peanut flavors from the powder just overpowered everything. Not that I'm complaining, because I just loooove the combination of sweet and savory flavors... and that richness and fragrance from roasted peanuts.
"Green tomato", green curry, green strawberry - we've got different types of tomatoes along with thin slices of crunchy, unripe strawberries - which have become trendy in the last couple of years. Topped with a scoop of green curry sorbet which delivered a liiittle kick, and served with gazpacho foam providing some acidity. Hidden in the pile were also cubes of watermelon that have been curiously marinated to deliver a pretty interesting sweetness. I suspected it was some kind of honey that showed lots of floral notes, but forgot to ask for confirmation. The dish was apparently inspired by tomatoes with ginger sauce (薑汁蕃茄) sometimes served in the southern part of the island. Very refreshing and certainly whets one's appetite. One of mom's favorite of the evening.
I normally would open up a bottle of wine for the occasion, and did bring along a bottle from my cellar, but the old fogeys at the table didn't want to drink. I asked for an introduction on the house "juices (果汁)", and it turns out they weren't the simple and boring kind. I took this one made with housemade elderflower jam, lemon juice, and soda. Nice acidity with carbonation, and floral notes. A refreshing drink.
Lobster, scallion, dried fish - the baby Green Dragon (青龍) lobster from Keelung (基隆) was served with a satay sauce (沙爹醬) made with crispy flounder (鯿魚酥) and dried mullet roe (烏魚子), as well as roasted Sanxing scallions (三星蔥) from Yilan. The flavors were very Asian and reminiscent of the classic dish of lobsters stir-fried with ginger and scallions, although I thought the sauce was more shacha (沙茶醬) than satay. The seasoning here was a little on the heavy side, but not as salty as I had feared - although it was already beyond mom's tolerance. Those translucent, paper-thin cabbage chips were kinda on the oily side, but damn delicious.
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Corn, Manchego, popcorn - corn soup with corn custard, toasted corn, popcorn, some shaved French summer truffle, and a sprinkle of curry-flavored powdered popcorn as the final touch.
Sweet, savory, creamy, crunchy, and toasty.
"Boudin noir", magao, apple kimchi - now THIS was interesting... Taiwanese are well-known for their love of the local delicacy pig's blood pudding (豬血糕), and the French have their boudin noir. The traditional spices which go into the French preparation have been replaced by mountain litsea (馬告) from Taiwan.
The boudin comes with thin strands of pickles, wrapped in paper and tied at one end - which was meant to be twisted by the diner. The twisting motion pushes the boudin out from the tube. The fragrance of the mountain litsea was pretty faint, and was rather undetectable once some of the apple sauce made with Kougyoku (紅玉) apples from Aomori Prefecture (青森県) in Japan. Still very delicious, though!
Osmanthus, peas, seafood rillette - a hodgepodge of sugar snap peas, sea urchin from Hokkaido, cod from Greenland, king crab, onsen egg (温泉玉子) yolk, croûtons, and osmanthus sauce spooned on top. There's the natural sweetness from the peas, sea urchin, and crab, as well as some sugar from the osmanthus sauce. The cod and egg yolk provided the salty flavors. You've got creamy from the sea urchin and egg yolk, crunchy from the peas, and some softness from the cod. All in all, I thought it was a dish that worked well for me... although mom was expecting a little more.
Pot au feu, Taiwan beef, aioli - a very interesting interpretation of the classic pot-au-feu. Both slices of sirloin and chunks of beef cheeks are served, with white water snowflake (水蓮), shredded celery, four different types of carrots, and slices of roasted pork on top as "salad"... with some aioli. Pretty good, and the beef cheeks were of course very tender. Mom really liked the veggies.
After we were done, the Staub cocotte bearing the veggies and stock was brought out, and I had myself some of the delicious - if slightly full-flavored - broth.
Taiwanese pineapple cake - a specialty of RAW and an extra course compliments of Chef Alain. Served chilled with sour pineapple filling in the middle, and a little dab of lemon gel on top.
Bean curd, barley, brown sugar - very, very cool presentation. On the right is a quenelle of muscovado ice cream resting on top of some Job's tears (薏仁) cooked in soy milk. I thought the flavors of muscovado was a little on the weak side.
The tart on the left came with a custard made with yogurt and sweet bean curd (豆花), whose texture reminded me of panna cotta. Rows of boiled peanuts and black soy beans (黑豆) were neatly arranged on top. Loved both the delicate flavors as well as the beautiful presentation.
Petits fours - to finish, we were served a drink and something sweet to nibble on.
The financier was made with dried lychees from Changhua (彰化), along with some candied ginger. Very nice.
Cha yen - apparently meant to be an offering to guests from Sudarampai "Pam" - Andre's Thai wife - but curiously served warm instead of on ice.
This was a very, very happy meal for us. Overall, I thought the collection of the dishes was even better than my last visit almost a year ago. Mom was also very happy, since this meal was much, much better than the one they had a couple of nights ago at L'Atelier de Patrick - at roughly the same price point. Many thanks for Chef Alain Huang for taking such good care of us, and of course many thanks to the friend who helped me secure the table so I could make mom happy.
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Steven Price
Conducted by:
Orchestrated by:
David Butterworth
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Buy it... if you seek a continuation of Steven Price's sound design-first, orchestral romanticism-second equation from the acclaimed Gravity, a risk that produces one of the most challenging listening experiences in years.
Avoid it... if you expect any sense of authenticity to the period depicted in this film, because Price's sole focus, and one that needs appropriately questioned, was on the brutal emotional impact of the grisly film.
FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #1,525
WRITTEN 12/21/14
Fury: (Steven Price) Let us not waste any time before declaring David Ayer's 2014 movie Fury to be an extraordinarily unpleasant experience all around. That was his goal. In his attempt to expose the "real" atmosphere of World War II in its final days, Ayer pushed the actors to their breaking point, encouraging them to fight with each other and forcing them to live, sleep, and defecate in a vintage tank so that they could adequately prepare for their roles. Lovely! There is nothing romantic or glamorous about this depiction of an American tank crew's push into Germany in the final days of the war, Fury clearly attempting to be for this war what the classic Platoon was for the Vietnam War. Critics largely praised this grim portrayal, one in which body mutilation and grisly deaths are common and graphic, and audiences rewarded the film with solid box office returns. The score for Fury is something of a point of controversy because of its absolutely relentless, modern style of addressing a film that otherwise attempted to convey the war, its people, and its machines in as authentic a fashion as possible. The assignment went to young British composer Steven Price, former assistant to the great Trevor Jones before his own career blossomed in 2013 with a pair of assignments that included Gravity, which won him both the BAFTA and Academy Award. As a programmer and sound effects master, Price's handling of the claustrophobic environment of space and its own set of horrors led directly to his hiring on Fury. What few people were prepared to hear in the 2014 film, however, was largely a continuation of the score for Gravity in terms of attitude and style, the composer choosing a very modern approach to the film. There is no doubt that listeners will either love the balls with which Price has tackled Fury or abhor his disgraceful diminishment of the authenticity of the film because of his choice to handle the project like just another opportunity for uniquely beefed-up sound design. Taking the middle ground, appreciating his attempt to throw sonic mud at the film to enhance its already horrific character, is probably the most logical response. But to say that his often totally unlistenable score is the best approach for a film like this may be narrow-minded, for Platoon proved that you could make the same point about the horrors of war by intentionally juxtaposing the wretched visuals with incredibly beautiful music, puncturing the romanticism in a different manner. At the very least, Price has created an interesting conversation point, and one must be commended for taking a chance. Not surprisingly, it didn't take long for Fury's score to earn some awards nominations.
From a pragmatic viewpoint, Fury is a nearly intolerable and inappropriate score. If Ayers sought absolute authenticity in his film, then why are all the same sound effects and frightful electronic manipulations from Gravity in this score? With the synthetic pulses, grating effects, hazy atmospheric droning, and otherwise a slew of non-organic elements dominating the orchestral presence in this score, it's difficult to see how anyone can label it as authentic to the era. Its supporters will argue that Price succeeds in the emotional response, but that's a different conversation. You can produce a very alienating and distressing score for an era by plundering within its own instrumental expectations. Price does not attempt such a move. The emotional element, on the other hand, is the remaining way to view this score, and in this regard, he succeeds very well. The work is an exceedingly painful listening experience, one that cannot be recommended on album for anyone but those most enthused by the downbeat topic. Price does shift well between the vaguely comforting melodic material for the surviving character and the brutish pounding of the war sequences. A cue such as "Machine" illustrates this dichotomy well, Price in this cue (and a few others) allowing the human soul to reassert itself through the otherwise oppressed romantic infusions of piano, cello, and tonal meanderings that serve as respites from the relentless remainder. For the atmosphere of war, the electronic elements are truly hideous and unnecessary; imagine what Elliot Goldenthal could have done more organically to achieve the same effect. To his credit, Price applies voices effectively in this score, balancing deep male chants with floating female solos as the Germans (represented by the chants) and civilians (the other vocals) come into conflict. A cue such as "Still in the Fight" is a good example of Price's wavering commitment to his sound design, the brutal opening half followed by what could be described as romantic strings and voice mustering the will to continue fighting. It is at moments like this that his thematic material is basically effective, but don't be surprised if you find the melodies in this score to be buried in such a secondary role that you cannot grasp on to them. One of the most disappointing aspects of this score is how Price feels the need to regurgitate the orgasmic sense of relief that explodes in the final cue. As in Gravity, you encounter a tonal expression of Hans Zimmer-inspired thematic simplicity, aided again by glorious voice, to close out a score in a manner no way befitting the grim journey that brought the listener to that point. It's a cheap way to conclude a score that went so far to bludgeon you. There will be many deserved accolades for the risks this score takes, but it remains one of the most strategically questionable and challenging listening experiences of the year. *** @Amazon.com: CD or Download
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1. April, 1945 (0:31) MP3 (254K) WMA (204K) Real Audio (179K)
11. Tiger Battle (0:30) MP3 (254K) WMA (202K) Real Audio (179K)
16. Still in This Fight (0:30) MP3 (254K) WMA (202K) Real Audio (179K)
19. Norman (0:30) MP3 (254K) WMA (202K) Real Audio (179K)
1. April, 1945 (4:15)
2. The War is Not Over (1:48)
3. Fury Drives Into Camp (1:51)
4. Refugees (2:42)
5. Ambush (2:07)
6. The Beetfield (7:59)
7. Airfight (3:05)
8. The Town Square (2:18)
9. The Apartment (0:59)
10. Emma (2:36)
11. Tiger Battle (6:18)
12. On the Lookout (3:04)
13. This is My Home (3:43)
14. Machine (3:22)
15. Crossroads (8:06)
16. Still in This Fight (3:39)
17. I'm Scared Too (3:46)
18. Wardaddy (2:39)
19. Norman (2:51)
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Final Fantasy Network » News » Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm RebornLetter From the Producer Live #6
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Letter From the Producer Live #6
April 4th, 2013 by Tony Garsow
Good morning, early birds! Today is the date for Letter From the Producer Live numero seis. Expect an appearance from Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn director/producer Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida and community manager Toshio “Molbol” Murouchi, as they update us on the status of the game as well as details about the ongoing beta testing. Of course, there’s always a few new reveals for the game’s content — so please look forward to it!
If you’ll be up early this morning or are staying up through the night, you can catch up on the Live Letters by clicking here.
The stream is scheduled to begin at 4:00am Pacific, and you can submit questions to the team by tweeting them here. When the YouTube stream becomes available we will embed it in this post.
We will also be providing translations of the questions answered in the stream in this post, so make sure to check back as the show progresses. After the show concludes, we’ll rehost the live letter when it’s first available.
Q1: What kind of bonuses will players receive by utilizing housing?
A1: By setting up items known as towers at your house, you and your free company members can receive bonuses to things like EXP, the rate in which you acquire gil, and other benefits.
Q2: Will you be able to buy and sell the rights to the land for housing in your bazaar?
A2: Yes. You will also be able to trade them.
Q3: Is it possible to have multiple houses? For example, your main residence is located in Limsa Lominsa, but you have a vacation home in Gridania or Ul’dah.
A3: It really depends on multiple factors, like lag and such, but as long as there are no problems we would like to make it possible to possess multiple houses.
Q4: Could you show us an image of an arcanist or summoner using their skills? (Just a peek!)
A4: We’re planning to release new information right before the start of Beta Test phase 3, so please wait until then.
Q5: In the previous Letter from the Producer Live you mentioned that summoner would make it in time for launch, but will it be possible to play as an arcanist in the open Beta Test?
A5: I don’t believe it will be ready in time for Open Beta; however, we would like to introduce them with a video.
Q6: Are you planning to implement great swords?
A6: We would like to introduce great swords when we implement a new class or job.
Q7: Compared to primal weapons and relic weapons, how strong are you planning to make the weapons from Crystal Tower and the Great Labyrinth of Bahamut?
A7: The way we’ve set it up is so you can use the weapons you obtained through the primal battles to then challenge the Crystal Tower, and then use the weapons you obtain from Crystal Tower to challenge the Great Labyrinth of Bahamut. With that said, the weapons and armor would follow strength in that order. Since there are a lot of primal weapons, we are also creating armor.
Q8: Will you be eliminating open dungeons like Castrum Novum from 1.0 where you could enter without having to make a party?
A8: The things we are calling dungeons will all be instanced dungeons, but that doesn’t mean that all of the dungeons that existed in version 1.0 will be turned into instances. There will be things such as FATE that take place in them.
Q9: Are there any plans for us to be able to go to areas from FINAL FANTASY XIV 1.0 that we were unable to go to such as “Paglth’an?”
A9: There will be some locations you will be able to go to. In addition, even if it doesn’t make it in time for the launch, we’re thinking about adding these new areas in upcoming patches!
Q10: In regards to the weather in A Realm Reborn, what kind of weather will there be? Also, could you tell us any details about how the weather will affect the game?
A10: We’ve prepared sunny, cloudy, clear, rainy, and special weather for each region (for example sand storms and blizzards). We also plan on having weather largely affect fishing.
Q11: Can you show us the weather from a higher point-of-view?
A11: [Yoshida showed off a bit of the weather in-game]
Q12: Could you please tell us the difference between jobs and classes in A Realm Reborn?
A12: Compared to 1.0, we will be placing jobs above classes in terms of their ranking, however, classes will still remain better suited for times that you are leveling up solo, while jobs will be better suited for party content.
Q13: Are there any spots you would like us to pay attention to while in Limsa Lominsa?
A13: The open terraces, for instance. In addition, I would like everyone to enjoy the open atmosphere. It has a much different feel to it compared to the other main cities. We also made changes to the city so it’s easier to move from one location to another (including warp points).
Q14: How many instanced dungeons will there be at launch?
A14: Including the bigger ones, we will be implementing around 16-18 instanced dungeons.
Q15: Will there be a system that will forecast the weather?
A15: That’s something that would be nice to have so we’ll be sure to let the lead know!
Q16: In the previous broadcast, you mentioned that the materia system would be largely changing, but could you tell us some details on this?
A16: The equipment in A Realm Reborn will have sockets, and you will be able to place materia into these sockets without failure. We are calling any attempts to add further materia beyond the set number of sockets “forbidden,” (what we referred to as multiple melding) but if you fail at this in A Realm Reborn you will not lose your equipment. We will also be addressing this so imbalances do not arise with gear that has been melded with multiple materia in version 1.0. We will let you know further information as we move toward release.
Q17: Will we be able to enter instanced dungeons with our chocobo buddy?
A17: We would like everyone to challenge the dungeons with players at launch so you won’t be able to enter the dungeons with your chocobo buddy. However, we do have plans to release the restriction in stages. Please stay tuned!
Q18: You mentioned that there would be tank, caster, and other roles for the chocobo buddy system, but could you tell us some details about the system?
A18: Ultimately feature-wise, the player has the Armoury system and the chocobo’s level will match their master’s level. As the chocobo continues to grow you will be able to acquire points, which you can then use to obtain skills. If you obtain attack-related skills, you can gear more towards an attacker role, while if you focus more on healing skills, your chocobo will become a healer. It will be possible to change their role anytime you wish. One more thing… Up until now we have shown a bunch of different chocobo equipment, but we’d like you to choose what you equip based on how you want your chocobo to look. By setting parameters to chocobo armor, we felt everyone would be equipping the same armor, so we decided to get rid of stats for their armor completely. We’d like you to pick the armor you like the best.
Q19: What’s happened to the arcanist guild?
A19: [Showed the arcanist guild area on the stream]
Q20: Will we be able to craft furniture for housing?
A20: Yes, we have plans for you to be able to craft many, many items. Stay tuned!
Q21: Would you be able to provide us with more information on the ARR Collector’s Edition?
A21: The Collector’s Edition may come with some in-game items… Don’t worry, we do have plans to do something for the 1.0 players that have purchased the original Collector’s Edition!
Q22: Will there be changes to the relic weapon quest in A Realm Reborn? Also, if there are changes and we were in the middle of the quest in 1.0, will we be able to continue?
A22: We are planning to make some simple changes to the content, but your progress status will be saved and we’ll be making sure the efforts you made are not wasted.
Q23: During the previous Producer Letter Live, you showed us artwork for the upcoming PvP gear and some of the artwork had the open face. Will we be able lift the visor for the warrior artifact helmet or put on the hood up for the white mage artifact armor?
A23: You will be able to lift the visor for the warrior helmet, but unfortunately, you won’t be able to put on the hood for the white mage armor.
Q24: Will it be possible to customize or add color to magitek armor?
A24: We are creating them so that they can be customized and colored. We are also thinking about implementing content involving playing with both chocobos and magitek.
Q25: Will we be able to listen to the music that we heard at the start of of the show when you showed the magitek armor in-game?
A25: Generally, the in-game music is created based on the scene. However, with this particular music, Music Director Soken went all out and created it strictly from the images that were released on the blog. Soken mentioned that he has no regrets creating the music! Since the music wasn’t something that we requested, we’ll try to use it if we can find a good fit for it.
Q26: Can the duty finder be used for 4v4 or 8v8 PvP colosseum and other content?
A26: There will be a matching system that can be used.
Q27: How will the primal fights change in ARR?
A27: They will be basically be the same as the fights in version 1.0. However, we will be making some minor tweaks based on the new battle system and the primals will have a larger role in the main scenario.
Q28: Do you plan on adding any random elements to dungeons, such as where monsters and treasure chests spawn, paths, and puzzles?
A28: Currently we are not planning on this, but I don’t believe it is out of the question.
Q29: You have shown us many rewards that we will be able to obtain in ARR. How will crafted gear impact the game?
A29: In ARR, every gear is assigned with an item level. These item levels are also tied with the difficulty of each instanced dungeon. For example, let’s say you challenge a higher-level instanced dungeon without meeting the item level requirement. Players will be able to able to fill the missing item level via crafted items. Also, players will be able to unlock new crafting recipes by completing content. We’ll make sure the crafters will be able to shine in many aspects of the game!
Q30: Will it be possible to watch PvP as a spectator without actually participating?
A30: We are planning to have it so you can view the camera of the players PvPing, but we’re just barely progressing with this, so we will be looking into this as a feature to be released in the future. On a separate note, in order to record in-game content and upload it, we need copyright permission. However, considering the current trends, gameplay videos are quite popular, and we were able to clear all the authority issues with the cooperation of all the related individuals including the songs and voices. Of course, materials cannot be used if they are not A Realm Reborn-related, and when it comes to A Realm Reborn materials, they cannot be used just any way. However, after launch, we’d like to aim at allowing you to have fun and make official gameplay videos. We will be sure to inform you all of details moving forward.
*Since there is a NDA in place, this will not be possible during the Beta Test.
Q31: Will we be able to change the appearance of our characters during the beta phase? Or is this something we can only do at the launch of ARR?
A31: The one-time appearance change will be available only for the launch of ARR.
Q32: When are you planning to switch the Lodestone to the ARR version?
A32: We will most likely switch over to the ARR version some time between phase 3 to phase 4 of the Beta Test.
Q33: What’s the status of Legacy players wishing to add their names to credits?
A33: We will be releasing the sign-up page next week so please stay tuned!
Q34: How much of an impact will the selected guardian have on our characters? Will it be minimal similar to 1.0?
A34: Yes, the impact will be very minimal.
Q35: Could you provide more details on how we will be able to move items between characters on the same account?
A35: While you will be able to move items between different characters on the same account, the feature will be unavailable at the launch of ARR. We will monitor the situation and release the feature once we feel that it’s okay to release.
Q36: Will trains, boats, and airships run on a set schedule? Also, will we be able to see Eorzea from the sky when we ride on airships?
A36: It will basically be the same as it was in 1.0, so unfortunately it will not be possible to view Eorzea from the air.
Q37: Will there be a feature where we can try on equipment?
A37: We are planning for this; however, it will not make it in time for launch, so it will be some time after.
Q38: Since we will be able to change our genders with the launch of ARR, are there any plans for us to be able to exchange the “fire resistant” gear based on the new gender?
A38: We’re currently looking into how we would like to address this.
Q39: Do you plan on making a guild finder (LS finder) type of feature where you can search for an LS that fits your goals?
A39: The feature you are asking has already been implemented on the Lodestone, so we would first like you to utilize that.
Q40: Will you be implementing a feature where you can directly research monsters and item stats from in-game?
A40: No. However, we are looking into a smart phone app, so we’d like you to research it from that.
Q41: In 1.0, the battle music changed based on what area you were in. Are there any plans to do something similar in ARR?
A41: In ARR, each area is tied to a certain musical instrument. While the battle music will be the same, it will have a different feel to it because of the different musical instruments it will be played on.
Q42: For Beta Test phase 3 you’ll be introducing PS3, as well as Ul’dah and Limsa Lominsa, but are there other elements that will be added?
A42: We are planning to add free companies, guildhests, expanding FATE, early stages of the main story, and more dungeons.
Q43: Could you tell us any new information about the specs for the Armoury (Referred to as the “Armoury Board” previously)?
A43: I thought about if there was anything I could tell you, but basically I had to decide between ease of understanding and convenience, and since I decided on convenience the explanation is going to get quite difficult. To give you a simple idea, it’s like a single macro switch. We’d like you all to try it out in Beta Test phase 3, so please be sure to try it out.
Q44: Are there any plans to implement open world content other than FATE?
A44: While FATE will be the only open world content, there are plenty of aspects of FATE that we have not released. Please stay tuned!
Q45: Could you show us any other limit breaks other than the meteor?
A45: While the limit break system will be available from phase 3 of the Beta Test, we’re currently working on a FF-like trailer to highlight the limit break system. Please stay tuned!
Q46: Could you show us how Coerthas and Mor Dhona look in ARR?
A46: Both Coerthas and Mor Dhona will be high-level areas in ARR. You will be able to feel the destruction of the Seventh Umbral Era and the presence of the empire. In addition, the weather will change drastically as you get closer to Ishgard. You will also be able to find dragons within the dungeons. We are planning to release a trailer in the future so please stay tuned!
Q47: It was mentioned before that we could design linkshell and free company crests by putting together different segments, but can you show us what kind of options there will be?
A47: [Showed an image of the various crests]
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Omedon
Thank you SO MUCH for covering this! Also:
This is a genius way to approach this implementation! As a highly casual player who often plays in a duo, the idea of dungeons “eventually” being accessible to two people and their chocobos is highly attractive and more than fair that it not be immediate!
gmoyajp
yes we get a sign up sheet sometime next week for legacy members and all of this news am so hype!
AgitoXIII
Best interview I’ve seen in a while on this game. I cannont not wait for ARR. FF game of 2013 imo. This game is going to be great!
GOGO FFXIV!!!
I hope they redesign the cities in ARR well cus they look horrible and bland in the original game. I mean they were god awful
Tsukiru
Thanalan and La Noscea are looking amazing, and I’m looking forward to exploring those areas much more than I have all of the Black Shroud thus far.
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BUSINESS | Kathimerini English Edition Ethnarhou Makariou Avenue & 2, Falireos Street
BUSINESS 07.11.2018
Katseli law extension to be shelved
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While the government appears to be considering extending the protection of debtors’ main residence in some form, this is not likely to be in the context of existing legislation which expires at the end of the year.
Meanwhile, talks with creditors on the possibility of a fresh repayment plan for up to 120 installments have frozen.
Just over 10 weeks before the expiry of the law named after the former economy minister who introduced it, Louka Katseli, Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Yiannis Dragasakis appeared on Tuesday unwilling to commit to the possibility of the law being extended into 2019, even if stricter inclusion criteria were introduced.
One of the proposals the minister made was for banks themselves to grant a haircut on mortgages, thereby preventing borrowers from having to take recourse to justice.
“The Katseli law was the product of a crisis situation. What we need for the future is a law that would offer protection to those in need as does this one, but will also concern a post-crisis situation,” Dragasakis said.
Asked whether the law will be extended, he pointed to changes introduced in the summer, placing particular emphasis on the lifting of bank secrecy.
Although this development cannot be considered definitive, it indicates the government’s position in talks with creditors in the coming months.
These negotiations also include the issue of pension cuts, as well as the extension of the 120-tranche payment plan for debtors who cannot enter the extrajudicial settlement mechanism.
Talks between the government and its creditors on extending the law allowing a 120-installment payment plan, as Athens desires, will resume in December.
For the time being, the negotiations have stumbled on the question of expanding the out-of-court mechanism to include salaried workers, pensioners, unemployed, self-employed professionals and businesses that have shut down, after the proposal was rejected by the creditors’ technical experts.
On a staff level Athens was reportedly told that there is no need for new extraordinary measures, as the flow of revenues into state coffers has been showing a significant improvement.
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Vol 20 No 17
The politician who can't be bought
Michael Mullins
Newly-elected Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie is basing his quest for power on ethical conduct. There’s nothing new in this. As we have been reminded many times, former prime minister Kevin Rudd promised to address climate change because it is ‘the greatest moral challenge of our generation’. His failure to do this cost him his job and his party majority government.
Wilkie’s point of difference appears to be that he quickly follows his words with action. In 2003 he resigned from his job at the Office of National Assessments and blew the whistle because he believed the Howard Government was deceiving the Australian people. He said it was falsely claiming that intelligence reports supported claims Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Faced with a difficult decision last week, he did not disappoint those who welcome bold principled action. Tony Abbott offered $1 billion to build a new hospital in Hobart, as part of an attempt to gain his support. Instead Wilkie opted for $340 million from Jullia Gillard, which was only enough to renovate the existing hospital. He considered Abbott’s offer an extreme example of pork-barrelling. Gillard’s winning $340 million was much more equitable, as it formed part of a $1.7 billion package spread over a range of hospitals around the country.
Wilkie said afterwards that it was ‘quite intoxicating’ to have been offered that amount of money, but ‘I’m smarter than that. We need to make sure this is not just an instance of pork barrelling.’
Many other politicians would have just taken the money, and indeed Wilkie has some explaining to do to his electorate after turning down a brand new $1 billion hospital. But as we know from the electoral backlash Rudd suffered after retreating from the climate change moral challenge, voters do care about matters of principle. Wilkie has also made it clear that he cares about the treatment of asylum seekers and wants to see an emissions trading scheme, so it’s quite likely we could see action on those fronts.
His role is more that of an agitator rather than a leader. Although the imminent decision of the three country independents could return him to obscurity, it’s just possible that he could prompt Abbott, Gillard and others to adopt a form of leadership that gives all of us ownership of the difficult decisions that face us as a nation. It is in the nature of many Australians to want a better world, and they’ve been let down by leaders on many fronts. As John Menadue said recently in a paper for the Centre for Policy Development:
‘We don’t need charismatic or authoritarian leaders to make the ‘right’ decisions for us. We need adaptive leaders who can help us all support necessary but hard decisions. We need leaders of such quality across our whole community who can appeal to the better angels of our nature.’
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How can one be ethical if they support abortion?
Trent | 06 September 2010
I agree, we definitely need principled leaders who can first be 'better angels of our nature' in thought and action and who will then touch the 'better angel' in whole communities when "walking the talk" is obvious and lived. Our leaders need too to be agitators so the comfortable are afflicted and are forced to overcome apathy and act for the sake of all peoples.
Deirdre Penhale | 06 September 2010
The same way Thomas Aquinas was I guess Trent.They have (for whatever reason) not come to see it for what it really is.
Seems to me that those of us who have seen this carry have some responsibility for not having convinced them-especially those who are demonstrably trying to be ethical.
margaret | 06 September 2010
Ethical...ethical ! First Wilkie, a number os times, mentioning the word and now Mullins !! there is a Spanish proverb that goes...' when your neighbour tells you how honest (read ethical) he is, go out and start counting your sheep'. Wilkie will do a McKew and be gone next election having all the time knew that he was going to vote for a government that was on the skids ! In the next 48 hours, we will see how 'ethical' the three remaining Independents are when they decide between the party that the electorates doesn't want, Labor, and the party most closely aligned to their voting preferences. These independents are no more than blackmailers and deserve to be trounced at the 2013 elections.
philip | 06 September 2010
My understanding of ethical is that one sticks by one's principles. On that basis, Wilkie is an ethical man. I don't like his stance on abortion but that doesn't make him unethical.
Erik H | 06 September 2010
Ethics realtes to morals and abortion is immoral. Sticking to one's belief in abortion does not make one ethical !!!
The Liberals seem so good at making up catchy and meaningless grabs that they've even infected out colleague, Philip.
The proposition that the Independents must 'decide between the party that the electorates doesn't want, Labor...' and the other party (which by implication the electorate does want) is not supported by logic or the principles of electoral law. The most that can be drawn from a Hung Parliament is that both parties have made 'the electorate' unhappy. The oft repeated mantra that the electorate have somehow rejected Labor may be following Abbott's lead, but it is wrong. If the electorate didn't want Labor they would have voted in the Coalition. That simple. But actually they didn't. So the proposition that they didn't want Labor is, quite simply, meaningless political propaganda.
Marion Barker | 06 September 2010
Thank you Michael, I am sick and tired denigrating, slandering, Wilkie! one supposedly incisive analysis, by 'an experienced analyst 'form the ABC, described him as 'a rug salesman' incorporating all that is shady, shoddy and shameless in such people.
Many years ago such 'agit-prop' had some humour, now it is just smut, written people who are helpless, hapless and hopeless
Thank you again for bringing reality to the current political analysis by the 'ABC INterpretive Dance BandicooT'
John McQualter | 06 September 2010
My sense of Wilkie is that he knew who he was going to support before he talked to Abbott. He then played one of the games people play ... called "set you up and knock you down." I believe that his request to Abbott for money for the Hobart Hospital was obviously insincere ... he just wanted some reason to justify what he had already decided.
So the sanctimonious "shock horror" expression and sucking-in of breath at Abbott's pork barrelling, having given no indication of that at his conference with Abbott, was in no way convincing. Of course, the Labor Party, as another political party, would not dream of porkbarrelling ...! So I guess Andrew Wilkie understands which party is more ethical.
If Wilkie loses his seat next time round, I believe it will be well-deserved.
Robert Rennick | 06 September 2010
It's far too soon to be writing such an assessment of a man that we barely know, especially in the role of politician. I understand that we are all seeking honourable politicians to admire, its a laudable quest. However we should give them time to deliver before we assess their ethical base I would have thought.
Carol | 06 September 2010
I can't believe i'm hearing this! He just waited for some dirt so he could look good making a decision he'd already decided on. And why did he blab all the details?
Scary stuff that anyone thinks he's ethical..
Michael | 06 September 2010
What do you want? Sainthood for Andrew Wilkie? Please get real and have a good look and tell me if you can trust him!
Beat Odermatt | 07 September 2010
No one is ethical if we judge them on every single decision they make, so singling out abortion as something that makes Wilkie unethical is hardly fair. What about his outspokenness on Iraq? That was gutsy and ethical. On the balance of issues, he is clearly more ethical than many other pollies.
Having said that, there are quite a few people who believe that his revealing the details of Abbott's $1billion offer was not ethical as it betrayed the details of a private conversation. Not sure what I think of that yet.
Nils | 07 September 2010
Ethics are just groups of ideas agreed to by groups of persons who believe that they are are true and agree to abide by them.
On the other side Morals are concerned with what is true and what is false, there are no each way bets.
When the Greens follow their fully informed consciences then they may happily do so despite the fact that these may be morally wrong.
We should aim to teach MORALS and not ethics in our schools, universities etc.
Peter | 09 September 2010
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Let's see if we can't meet up with a couple of RWTH-Alumni in Karlsruhe. That was the Alumni team's motto on the occasion of this year's annual conference of the “alumni-clubs.net” parent organization in the Baden metropolis for inviting former graduates living there to attend a first meet-up.
Copyright: RWTH/dih First RWTH Alumni Meet-Up in Karlsruhe on May 10
On the eve of the conference, Dietrich Hunold from the alumni team was able to personally welcome 12 alumni at the “Carls Wirtshaus.” The RWTH alumni now living in Karlsruhe showed great interest in what has been happening at their alma mater. What is going on now with the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering, the WZL, after one of the machine halls was destroyed in a fire last year? How is the Campus Melaten coming along? Is the new lecture hall complex in operation? Two younger graduates still fondly remembered the Graduation Celebration at the Aachen Dressage Stadium with its great atmosphere. Needless to say, there was a lot to talk about. Even though the attending alumni stemmed from highly diverse faculties or academic fields – mechanical engineering, architecture, natural sciences, psychology – and age groups, common ground was quickly found. At the end, every one was on the same page that this meet-up should not just be a one-time event. Thus, a second meeting of RWTH alumni is already being planned for the coming fall. Exact times and further details will be announced in a timely fashion via the usual electronic alumni media.
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As Alec Baldwin Was Slammed For Saying Cocksucker A Left Wing Cocksucker Was Praised For His Hate Speech
by Arthur Foxake
The Daily Stirrer has always condemned political hypocrisy, particularly that of the 'liberal' left because of the way they use self righteousness to hide their bullying and hatred of those who hold a different opinion. A recent example of a vile and sexist attack on a right wing female politician by a typical double standard deploying left wing media scumsucker is a fine example of why the left cannot be trusted anywhere near power.
Alec Baldwin Was Slammed For Saying Cocksucker A Left Wing Cocksucker Was Praised For His Hate Speech
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It was back in November 2013 that reputedly outspoken and foul mouthed actor Alec Baldwin was unfortunate to be the target of hate attacks so typical of the 'liberal' left for using a homophobic word. I blogged it at the time but prompted by the illiberal antics of the 'liberal' left I have decided to spread it around a bit. Alec Baldwin's sin was that he called a paparazzi photographer who had been harassing his family a cocksucker. Now I have never thought of cocksucker as a homophobic word because I have known plenty of females to whom the word could be applied. And while cocksucker does reference a particular sex act it can also be used in a metaphorical sense to indicate a worthless person, in the same way as wanker is used in Britain and Australia.
Strangely the criticism of Alec Baldwin, a liberal and an Obama supporter has been muted even though the word he used has been described as being "as bad as calling a black person a nigger."
Really? I wonder what these limp wristed wusses would make of some of the more colourful descriptives common in Britain, Fudge Packer, brown hatter and Turd Burglar spring to mind.
Meanwhile uberleftie and badger felcher and all round gobshite Martin Bashir has scraped the bottom of the proverbial barrel after launching a tirade against Sarah Palin ("America's resident dunce") that has to be seen to be believed. And you're warned: it is stomach churning. The beloved liberal journalist used his afternoon TV show to deliver his views of a comparison Palin made between national debt and slavery. His analysis starts crudely and rudely enough, but it ends with a truly shocking suggestion that someone defecate in the former governor's mouth to teach her a lesson. I'm not making this up. Look:
Quote: "Given her well-established reputation as a world class idiot, it’s hardly surprising that [Palin] should choose to mention slavery in a way that is abominable to anyone who knows anything about its barbaric history. So here’s an example. One of the most comprehensive first-person accounts of slavery comes from the personal diary of a man called Thomas Thistlewood, who kept copious notes for 39 years.
Thistlewood was the son of a tenant farmer, who arrived on the island of Jamaica in April 1750, and assumed the position of overseer at a major plantation. What is most shocking about Thistlewood’s diary is not simply the fact that he assumes the right to own and possess other human beings, but is the sheer cruelty and brutality of his regime. In 1756, he records that a slave named Darby ‘catched eating kanes; had him well flogged and pickled, then made Hector, another slave, s-h-i-t in his mouth.’ This became known as ‘Darby’s Dose,’ a punishment invented by Thistlewood that spoke only of inhumanity. And he mentions a similar incident in 1756, his time in relation to a man he refers to as Punch. ‘Flogged Punch well, and then washed and rubbed salt pickle, lime juice and bird pepper. Made Negro Joe piss in his eyes and mouth'. I could go on, but you get the point. When Mrs. Palin invokes slavery, she doesn’t just prove her rank ignorance. She confirms if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, she would be the outstanding candidate. "If anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, she would be the outstanding candidate."
Wow. There's a popular myth that all the hate in US politics comes from the Right. Here's proof that there's plenty on the Left, too. Sarah Palin is wrong to compare debt to slavery (although it's a link that the Founding Fathers of the USA would have sympathised with). Wrong because it's grossly insensitive, and wrong because it does indeed overlook the uniquely cruel and immoral nature of the slavery system. But Bashir is just as wrong to drag the debate to this level. He is also wrong to single out a unique and cruel punishment devised by one depraved individual as being typical of all in the slave economy. Many slave owners treaded their property quite well, they were businessment andwould want to protect their investment. I know it is not fashionable to say this but we have to consider the treatment of slaves in comparision to the standards of two hundred and fifty years ago, not the modern justice system.
Floggings were a standard punishment for petty crimes, transportation to penal colonies for several years (to work as slave labour) was the tariff for stealing a loaf of bread or snaring a couple of rabbits or pigeons and any theft above the value of five shillings (about a week's wages for an agricultural or factory worker) was punishable by hanging. The past is a different country etc.
If any Fox News pundit had said the same about Hillary Clinton, they'd be called sexist, evil, politically incorrect and dragged off the air within seconds and demonized by the left for ever more. But, as Damian Thompson points out, liberals (as American Fascists insist on calling themselves) all too often play by different rules. It appears that, to some liberals, the very word "slavery" belongs exclusively to black people. Well unfortunately we know that is wrong, over the centuries far more Sub Saharan Africans were slaves to wealthy and powerful people in Arabia, Assyria, Persia and even China that were taken to the Americas. There are even records of prrates from north Africa raiding the southern coasts of Britain and Ireland to take back young people to be sold in the slave markets where they were highly prized for their pale skins. (Look up the Baltimore raid - that's not Baltimore USA but a small village in Ireland that was completely depopulated, they young and saleable being taken captive, the old simply slaughtered. ( Sack of Baltimore use that phrase or Baltimore Ireland pirates to search for more info.)
What Bashir was getting his knickers in a twist about then was that Palin something that he did not like, which is not tolerable, while it is perfectly OK for him to say something that the majority of sane people would find a million times more offensive? I guess you have to be a pseudo - liberal, crypto - fascist to understand such bizarro world logic.
Such double standards are utterly typically of the soft left and unfortunately is largely responsible for threads on controversial topics becoming a playground for infantile professional offence takers from the left who scream about tolerance but launch flash - mob hate attacks on those who do not hold the same opinion.
In deliberately missing Palin's quite obvious point which, had it been made by a leftie talking about wage "slavery" would have been greeted with so much whooping and yelling from the left they might have spilled their Chokka-mokka-krappi-lattes.
The most utterly pathetic comment on my UK blog was from the idiot who made the totally ridiculous claim that far from being an example of left wing misogyny this is just one person making one remark about one woman. That opinion is complete and utter bullshit and the poster claiming it knows it to be so. But then dishonesty and hypocrisy characterise the left's attitude to this debate as it does to so many others. This isn't one person making one remark about one woman. It is yet another example of a left wing liberal media commentator using their position in the bully pulpit to pour abuse and scorn on women they disapprove of.
Sarah Palin has been the subject of so much hatred and abuse by so many thousands of swivel eyed lefties who scream about equality but love woman -haters like Bashir (remember his demolition of Princess Diana,) and, true to their mob mentality, readily support the calls for her to be gang raped? The abuse has not been confined to Sarah Palin either. The abuse has been poured onto each and every one of her children including a baby with special needs FFS. What kind of low life sewer rats are we dealing with? Palin is a smart operator however, much smarter politically than the left giver her credit for, and smarter than that dark skinned, crack addicted, closeted bisexual incompetent the left love to love (but perhaps not smarter than his autocue.) Note that she started her slavery comment by saying 'I guess this could be racist,' thus ensuring a hate storm that would get her maximum publicity and up her fees on the after dinner speaking circuit. What's funny is the left, who like to claim a monopoly on intelligence, fell for it hook, line and sinker. Schmucks.
It would be bad enough, i.e. totally unacceptable behaviour in a civilised nation, if it was only one person, Sarah Palin, and her family but it is not. It is almost every single time any woman "of the right" pops her head above the parapet. Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, Marsha Blackburn, Michele Bachmann, Laura Ingraham, Frances Rice, Star Parker, Ann Coulter, Michele Malkin, Amy Kremer, Debbie Lee, Selena Owens, (OK, I hasd some help from American friends in compiling that list,) Margaret Thatcher, Madeline Philips, Esther McVeigh, Edwina Currie and Nadine Dorries, all of whom are women and all of whom have been savagely abused, not just by now almost extinct species of working class, fire - breathing socialist knuckledraggers (who are actually far to well mannered to behave so badly, but by paid media commentators. These people who are always so quick to yell racism if anyone happens to mention that Barack Obama has not been a very good President have even heaped racial abuse on mixed race Michele Malkin.
American readers were probably not aware of the terrifying abuse and rape threats directed at the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's daughters after his libertarian conservative Australian Liberal Party defeated the hapless Australian Labour Party government in the last elections. Here's a balanced report of the hate campaign against Mr. Abbott's daughters from the left leaning Independent Newspaper) They are not as outspoken as I, but highlight leftist hate in the same way)
Where were these oh so righteous liberals then? Why was there no wailing and gnashing of teeth about the abuse of the Mises Abbott? Was Bashir busy calling for restraint and reminding his fellow travellers that Mr. Abbots young daughters are not active in politics in any way other than supporting their Dad, and that even the Mafia are honourable enough to keep the wives and children of those who cross them out of the bloodshed. It's time we stood up to these fascist scum, reclaimed the word liberal and returned to it its true meaning.
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Calls To Suspend New Labour MP Before She Is Sworn In …
The Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) today called for the party whip be withdrawn from Lisa Forbes who was elected MP for Peterborough in a by election last night, before she has even been sworn into Parliament. The Jewish Labour Movement want Ms. Forbes investigated and possibly kicked out of the party over her alleged anti – Semitism.
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Politically Unbiased(!) BBC Launches Left Wing Attack On Donald Trump For Illegal Immigrants Stance
We have mentioned that the terms of publicly funded broadcaster The BBC's charter requires that it be completely fair and non partisan in its political civerage. In recent years however, the BBC's bias towards the politics of the left has become blatant. Furthermore, while BBC bosses try to preach a politically correct message via their comedies and dramas, commercial stations are making better quality programmes.
Politically Unbiased BBC Launches Left Wing Attack On Donald Trump For Illegal Immigrants Stance
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Social Science Degrees Make Great Leaders? More Junk Science.
We've had junk science on climate change, genetically modified seeds, many types of medicines and social engineering. The junkiest of junk science however is always commissioned by public service organisations and is aimed at convincing the public that our public servants are doing a good job. Fortunately the public are not as gullible as our leaders suppose.
Labour Scourge Of Tax Avoiders Is A Tax Dodger? WTF is going on?
We have often made points about the hypocroisy of the left, particularly those lefties, but surely Margaret Hodge (nee Oppenheim - the diamond people) is the undisputed champ of left wing hypocrites. As a senior Labour MP Margaret was always eager to condemn tax avoidance. Unfortunately like most self righteous Labour millionaires she did not practice what she preached.
Millie Tant, Tatchell's Transphobia and Germain Greer's Big Hairy Smelly Vagina
The well of hypocrisy from which the left, champions of freedom, democracy, equality and free speech in their own estimation, draw their dishonest, self rightoeus views on the world is bottomless, it will never run dry. How else could it have continued to flow during this latest two-faced display of authoritarianism from the lovers of all minoities even when those minoritites hate each other. It is the multual hatred of minorities however that is fragmenting the left.
Aid Organisations Using Ebola to Line Their Own Pockets
Just a couple of days ago The Dily Stirrer was slamming charities managers for using our money to line their own pockets. Now in a devastating attack on the charity sector, a Liberian official accuses charities of exploiiting ebola for gain.
Red Cross To Be Renamed Red Swastika?
The Red Cross is getting some well deserved stick after sacking 71 year old Brian Barkley, a volunteer for over twenty years. His crime was to have an opinion that differed from the politically correct dogma espoused by the self righteous, self interested left wing troughers who line their pockets via generous expenses and salaries for running the charity.
Tony Benn's inheritance tax dodge - another leftie hyocrite exposed
Remember the patron saint of loony lefties, Saint Anthony of Wedgewood - Benn, previously known as Viscount Stansgate? Agreeable sort of bloke, pip smokers, great speaker, utterly daft opinions as one would expect from an aristocrat who is so deluded he thinks he understands the working class?
Taxi Customers In Heywood / Rochdale Ask For 'Local' Drivers
A taxi company in the child-sex scandal hit town Heywood, is now offering customers option of requesting white-only cab drivers, after two former 'Asian' drivers were imprisoned for their roles in the sexual exploitation gang.
Birmingham Child Abuse Scandal Set To Break - Will Dwarf Rotherham, Rochdale
Hot on the heels of child sex abuse scandals in Rotherham and Rochdale, another, bigger scandal is set to erupt in brimingham and the West Midlands. Gangs made up of predominantly Pakistani men, using the same modus operandi as the South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester abuse rings, targeted young girls and boys from broken home who were unfortunate enought to find themselves in the care of the local authority. Once groomed the children were raped and prostituted
Sex Gangs Operating In The Child Care System - Why Didn't People Come Forward.
The predicable response from many politicians since the Rotherham Child Care sex scandal blew up in the faces of the smug, self serving establishment has been to feign surprise and say, "But why didn't people come forward sooner?" The fact is that as we saw in the Jimmy Savile scandal, people were coming forward, people were voicing suspicions and they were insulted, ridiculed and humiliated.
Nato heads of state will meet in Newport, Wales, to discuss the alliance's future.
This won't be a standard summit. Nato is in crisis. Faced with an increasingly unstable situation in Ukraine where the neo - Nazi government installed by the USA / NATO and the EU gets loonier by the day, NATO, The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is being presented by mainstream media as in need of a new strategy to deal with what's described as increasing Russian aggression in eastern Europe. This is in addition to their needing a new strategy to deal with the threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Is It Lack Of Diversity That Makes Lefties Stupid?
Quite a while ago now I wrote a post titled "Is It Lack Of Diversity That Drives Left wing Hate?" It contained these lines: There's an old joke; Q: "Why do teenagers only listen to other teenagers?" A: "Because they're stupid." - Q: "Why are teenagers stupid?" A: Because they only listen to other teenagers." Substitute leftie, liberal, radical or progressive for teenager and that just about sums up the political 'left'
Such Nice People Live On The Left Of The Political Spectrum Left wing politics, once the politics of freedom, individualism and self - determination has increasingly over the past few decades become the politics of hate, envy, bitterness, hypocrisy and authoritarianism. Left wing politics has now developed a level of intolerance for those who challenge its idiotic assumptions or moral superiority, it appears to be charging headlong towards fascism.
Shock; horror. Human Barbie Doll has her own opinions
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Whether Tom Chivers Is A Science Writer, A Hack Journalist Or A Cunt Is A Matter Of Semantics
More political propaganda from the loose bowelled left (they pump verbal diorrhea at us all the time) concerning whether it is a 'hate crime' to decline to address transgender males as "she". Once again in something that is a personal matter, the self styled metrosexual elite have elected themselves as guardians of politically correct morality and are trying to impose their emotionally retarded views on all of us.
Gay and same sex marriage: The Bigotry And Intolerance Of Those Who Describe Themselves As The Liberal Left With same sex marriage made legal in Britain we face the same kind of witch hunts against businesses that do not want to deal with beareded queens in bridal gowns as the liberal bigots and gay nazis are launching in the USA. As many of us new media common sense merchants predicted, once the principle was accepted in law, nobody would be allowed to opt out of supporting these bullies.
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The left's self confidence has had a hint of desperation about it for a long time. From their constant whines about the sexism, racism and homophobia of the working class who happen to be the party's core constituency to the substitution of smearing UKIP for policies in the european Election this is a party of arrested adolescents throwing a hissy fit because people are laughing at them.
Why Do Those On The Political Left Assume They Have A Monopoly On Goodness And Truth
Political philosophy: As politics and society become more binary and polarise so that according to a self sppoined elite there are only two possible points of view on any issue, public debate is stifled and the polarised left and right end up attacking the other's right to free speech. It has nothing to do with liberal democracy
Homosexuality: As a liberal society we have a duty to tolderate, not celebrate.
Even though the government has accepted a very limited definition of same sex marriage the gay lobby keeps raving on about the greates non issue of all time. But in a free society should we be subjected to bullying if we do not show enough enthusiasm for homosexual and lesbian relationships? When did indifference become a hate crime?
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£140,000 Scheme To Replace Traffic Lights At Two Junctions In Beverley
Traffic lights at two major junctions in Beverley are to be replaced as part of a £140,000 upgrade scheme.
Work is due to begin on Monday 15 July at the junction of New Walkergate with Morton Lane and Walkergate to install the brand new energy-saving lights.
Jane Williams Launches Hair Room After Decades Of Working in Beverley
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Events will begin with a parade through the streets to Beverley Minster, under the guidance of the Defence School of Transport, starting at 10.30am.
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A new independent business, Feet First has opened in Beverley on Walkergate selling affordable shoes, a concept inspired by lack of choice in the town.
Business owner, Marcos Dinsdale now says he wants to put his best foot forward and is hoping the business will prove to be a popular addition to the town.
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A £995,000 scheme to improve roads in the Beverley area has now been completed.
A number of busy roads and mini roundabouts in Beverley’s town centre, as well as a road in Leconfield, were resurfaced as part of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council project.
Final Phase Of Beverley Road Improvement Scheme To Begin
The final phase of the £995,000 road improvement scheme for Beverley’s town centre is due to begin on Monday 30 July.
A number of roads and roundabouts have already been resurfaced in Beverley as part of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council project – and next week work will start on resurfacing a section of parking bays on Norwood.
Slight Change To Bus Routes During Beverley Road Works
Bus users in Beverley are being reminded that certain services at certain times will be subject to slight changes to their routes during weeknights.
The local authority currently has a project to resurface the roads around Beverley with the latest phase of works causing some disruption to public transport.
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The next phase of the £995,000 road improvement scheme for Beverley’s town centre will get underway on Friday 1 June.
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council project will see the resurfacing of a number of roads and mini roundabouts in Beverley which have become worn.
Major Road Improvement Scheme For Beverley Town Centre To Begin In May
A major road improvement scheme for the Beverley area costing £995,000 will get underway next month.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s project will see the resurfacing of a number of town centre roads in Beverley, plus one in Leconfield, which are all currently showing signs of wear.
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Thousands of spectators are expected to line the race route in the East Riding as the peloton races through the area, taking in a number of towns and villages including Tour de Yorkshire debutants Howden and Hornsea.
Beverley Indian Restaurant Fined £600 For Failing To Produce Waste Documents
An Indian restaurant in Beverley has been fined £600 for failing to produce information about its waste disposal arrangements to the council.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council brought the prosecution against Rumi’s restaurant in Walkergate, Beverley, after the business ignored the authority’s requests to see its paperwork.
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The event, organised by the Hull Thursday Road Club and EY Events, will be aired on Eurosport TV and starts from 6pm on Friday, 21 July.
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Sunday will see the Christmas Lights in Beverley turned on as organisers of the event look to get back to the back to real meaning of Christmas.
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Jeremy - Running Out Of Chances
With Jared Jeffries expected back next week, JLin has just a few games to get any PT. Once JJ is back and if they're no other injuries, Jeremy will likely be put on the inactive list.
sTiLLiRiSe21 January 6, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Send him to the d league that way at least we can see him play!!
Forget inactive roster, release him and become a free agent in DL. Then when a team has an injury and needs a PG, they can pick Lin up immediately.
Agreed with "real-dsb." The bulls may lose CJ Watson indefinitely. It'd be a great opportunity for some PT behind Rose. And guarding Rose in practice everyday will help his D reach another level.
ABC Baller January 6, 2012 at 3:10 PM
The intention from the beginning was to have Lin fill up a roster spot for the Knicks, or as insurance in case another guard is injured. When Kenyon Martin becomes available as a free agent in March, Jeremy will be waived. They made that clear from the beginning. He was not meant to contribute or play any meaningful minutes.
As fans, we are expecting too much, and not seeing the big picture. The NBA does not see any potential in Jeremy Lin as a player. That is reflected in his low salary and non-guaranteed status.
He can definitely improve his game. Just like Chauncey Billups, who went from a nobody scrub to the MVP of the 2004 finals. But it took him many years to get there.
"like Chauncey Billups, who went from a nobody scrub to the MVP of the 2004 finals."
Billups wasn't exactly a nobody scrub. He was the 3rd overall pick of the 1997 draft, and he started at PG as a rookie. It did take him many years to get from starting PG to all-star level, though.
That supports the point that for NBA execs, it's all about their sunk cost/investment. Look at the former Knicks starting PG Charlie Ward. In his first year, he stunk. His per-36-min stats: 3.3 ast, 6.5 to, 1.6 stl, 21% fg. If he was an undrafted player, there's no way they'd bring him back the following year. Compare that to Lin's rookie year per-36-mins: 5.3 ast, 2.3 to, 4.2 stl, 39% fg.
But because Lin was undrafted, he was cut after his first year. Meanwhile, despite mediocre stats his entire career, Charlie Ward eventually became the starting PG for the Knicks for 5 years! If Lin were in Ward's position as a 1st round draft pick, Lin could have accomplished that too. But since he wasn't drafted, then Lin needs the right situation to come along (like a Kurt Warner).
Everyone needs to calm down. I saw Lin's time against the Kings off NBA League Pass, it wasn't that bad. It wasn't his best but it was far from the horrific choke job that so many comments here assert or exagerrate. In limited minutes he had a nice rebound and steal, he also had an assist and should have had two. I don't think he actually charged on that play after he stole the ball. When he got tied up he won that jump ball so it didn't hurt the team. The worst play was when he first got on the court and tried to break the defenders going left. I think he had it in his head to dispel the scouting report about him only going right.
I'm not saying he played good, it was just a raw performance. I wouldn't say he played poorly though. And Isiah Thomas simply played well, Jeremy Lin didn't get completely beat on any defensive play, Thomas is just ridiculously fast and the Knicks play poor team defense.
[That supports the point that for NBA execs, it's all about their sunk cost/investment. Look at the former Knicks starting PG Charlie Ward. In his first year, he stunk. His per-36-min stats: 3.3 ast, 6.5 to, 1.6 stl, 21% fg. If he was an undrafted player, there's no way they'd bring him back the following year. Compare that to Lin's rookie year per-36-mins: 5.3 ast, 2.3 to, 4.2 stl, 39% fg.
But because Lin was undrafted, he was cut after his first year. Meanwhile, despite mediocre stats his entire career, Charlie Ward eventually became the starting PG for the Knicks for 5 years! If Lin were in Ward's position as a 1st round draft pick, Lin could have accomplished that too. But since he wasn't drafted, then Lin needs the right situation to come along (like a Kurt Warner).]
I agree but this is really short sighted thinking from NBA teams. Some of those bench players really hurt their teams and it's worth it to eat that money to get better minutes from other players. In the NFL teams eat salary cap cuts all the time to field the best possible team regardless of salary.
I think Jeremy Lin, or his agent, need to be loud and aggressive right now. It's clear they won't play him and with Iman back, Jeffries back soon, and Kenyon Martin down the road, he's wasting his time here. He should force his way out of NY if he can, even through threats or other tactics, so that he can be available for teams like the Spurs who have a clear need.
tigerfan January 6, 2012 at 5:58 PM
I agree that JL was never meant to get heavy minutes, but considering how god awful Douglas and especially Bibby have been, it's unfair and unwise to not have played Lin ~10mpg early on. Just see what he can do, for pete's sake.
Anyway, it's all about the coach. A GM can see potential in JL, but he can't make the coach play him. D'Antoni is a clod; Smart played favorites. McHale was the ideal coach for Lin...a smart guy and great player who really appreciated JL's skills and effort. Unfortunately, the Rockets were unable to trade Dragic in the failed Gasol deal. So there was simply no room for JL and Dragic and Flynn (who by the way is barely playing at all).
Houston is really where I want JL to end up. Heck, even the Rockets online community appreciated him.
Yi made his debut tonight in the D-League playing for the Texas Legends. The game is still live.
http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/20120106/TEXAUS/gameinfo.html?ls=gt2hp2021100120
This is not a Yi fan site. Just because you're a fan of Lin doesn't mean you're a fan of Yi.
The reason JL has such a strong following isn't just his ethnicity, but things like his college background (Harvard) and the fact that he makes exciting plays on offense AND defense.
Looks like Toney got the hook today after a poor performance. 12 mins, 0/5 fg, 0 ast, 3 to, team low -12 plus/minus. Well, if this keeps up, Toney might end up in D'Antoni's doghouse, which means Bibby would be the starting PG, and maybe Lin has a chance for a few mins. But Bibby was -11 plus/minus today. LOL, if your 2 PGs are -12 and -11 in a game that your team won, that's not a good sign.
My ideal team for Lin is still Dallas. 38-year old Kidd just injured his back, so he'll be out at least 1 game, and who knows if it'll flare up again throughout the season. Dallas doesn't even have a real backup PG. Supposedly Beaubois is the backup PG, but I don't feel he's got PG skills (career 1.3 A/TO), and he's regressed each year, even in scoring.
ABC Baller January 7, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Looking back at 2010, Jeremy's agent really did a disservice to him by signing with the Warriors. The Mavs were willing to invest in his development and his future.
But he made a decision to jump into the NBA immediately, even if he wasn't ready, with a Warriors team that didn't have a role for him. Short term glory over a long term career.
btw. Warriors Coach Mark Jackson reaalllllyyy likes Charles Jenkins enough to start vs. Lakers. He had 2 points, 1 rebound, and 1 foul in 10 minutes. He even started over the veterans, Nate Robinson and Ish Smith (DNP). Mark Jackson playing favorites again.
lka789 January 7, 2012 at 12:03 PM
We have all seen the potential of Robinson and Smith - career backups at best. I wouldn't think twice to give my own pick every opportunity to get better. Robinson ended up playing 31 minutes; winning still is the bottom line.
Schumpert is starting in place of TD tonight.
5 minutes to go in the 4th quarter and the Knicks are up on the Pistons 94-69. Where's Lin ?
It doesn't look like they will play him at all. In fact it would probably be bad for the team, because Lin is not expected to stay long term, they would rather use those minutes on a player they are comitted to like Reynaldo Balkman, Bill Walker, etc.
Let's look at the positives of Jeremy playing any minutes for the Knicks:
1. Less wear and tear on his body. Unlike a heavy minutes player like Kobe or Monta Ellis, he'll stay healthy and have less injuries because he didn't play a lot of minutes early in his career. Maybe he can be playing basketball longer and not have to retire early like Brandon Roy (Knee issues).
2. He's still practicing with the team and working out in the Knicks state of the art facilities. All for free. So while he's not getting valuable playing time, he is improving in small increments through training.
3. He's still getting paid a decent salary. Maybe not as much as an NBA veteran, or 1st round draft pick, but he is being paid each day he is a Knick player. $800,000 contract, distributed among the 65 games of the shortened season... that's about $12,300 per game for sitting on the bench.
Let's not obsess over this. Some of us have watched the entire game, or checked box scores every 20 seconds looking for a silver lining. There isn't.
Basketball is historically a Black dominated sport, and will continue to be as long as fans don't care. Look at how quickly Golden State fans have already written off Jeremy Lin as useless, and are crazy about rookie guard Charles Jenkins.
Jeremy Lin is intentionally being left out of the basketball court because of his color, and deeply rooted perceptions about Asian athletes. The Knicks do not see any potential in him, and he does not fit on the team's long term plans.
Let's just stop watching watching it so closely. Find another sport or hobby to take interest in.
hugh January 7, 2012 at 7:12 PM
I thought you post was intelligent up until you brought Lin's asian heritage into the equation ABC. I know as fans were supposed to believe the best in Jeremy, but in reality, at the moment, and at the very best, he's a sub-par 2nd string point guard. The fact he's getting no playing time has nothing to do with his race and more to do with his skill level. I hope Lin takes it as encouragement and keeps working hard!
lazy January 7, 2012 at 7:18 PM
Agree with hugh. You don't give up just because of adversity. Jeremy Lin has already done a great amount to motivate and inspire Asian-American kids. Who knows what the next generation of athletes can accomplish?
It's clear to me the Knicks don't have any plans for him when they only play him 4 minutes in a 20+ point blowout win. Was a four quarter audition too much to ask for when you're leading by 30 points?
Regardless, Jeremy looked A LOT better tonight. Was active and had a nice drive. Played good help defense on the perimeter. Padded his free throw shooting.
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C Dub January 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Hey ABC Baller, in this same thread, you stated the following:
"The intention from the beginning was to have Lin fill up a roster spot for the Knicks, or as insurance in case another guard is injured. When Kenyon Martin becomes available as a free agent in March, Jeremy will be waived. They made that clear from the beginning. He was not meant to contribute or play any meaningful minutes."
The Knicks consider JLin the end of the bench guard. You can't tune into Knicks games thinking they'd suddenly give him rotation time, especially now that Shumpert is back and Bibby is stroking it well from downtown. Shumpert looks like the real deal though. The kid could be an all star in a few years.
Back to Lin... I agree with what Donnie Nelson said last year that he needed 2 years of seasoning before he's ready for the NBA. He has improved his jumper over the summer, granted it's not battle-tested yet. I think he needs to continue working on his PG skills and decision making, whether that happens on the NBA level, d-league, or europe.
lka789 January 7, 2012 at 9:04 PM
If Jeremy hadn't done so badly in that 4 minutes he played in the Sac games, in my opinion, he would have gotten a few minutes each game after that. Don't forget he got a minute or two in his first two games, then the third game he got 4 minutes against Sac. Then nothing until tonight.
When the Knicks picked him up, they were short handed and certainly wanted to see if he could fill their need. And D'Antoni did give him opportunities, it's just that he was not able to capitalize. Can't expect D'Antoni to hand him significant minutes right off the bat because Jeremy was and is still largely unproven. Like I said in a previous thread, that Sac game set him back a few games. Hopefully he gets some PT in the next game, however little is better than nothing. His PT is a factor of how well he performs on the court, period. We need to be a little more subjective.
...objective that is.
coach41 January 7, 2012 at 11:04 PM
Let's not cry racism when none exists. I'm all for Jeremy getting a chance but let's take a step back. When he came to Harvard, he wasn't a starter and came off the bench his freshman year. I tracked Jeremy throughout his Harvard career and he had some bad games his freshman year. As a sophomore, he came a started and did reasonably well but still had some bad games.
My point is that I feel Jeremy needs time to adjust to the speed / athleticism of the NBA. Jeremy has shown he can hang in the D-League so that isn't an issue. I think Jeremy CAN do well and it would be great if he could do it while playing. But since he's not, he'll have to do his best while at practice.
ABC Baller January 7, 2012 at 11:11 PM
C Dub said...
"The Knicks consider JLin the end of the bench guard. You can't tune into Knicks games thinking they'd suddenly give him rotation time, especially now that Shumpert is back and Bibby is stroking it well from downtown. Shumpert looks like the real deal though. The kid could be an all star in a few years."
Shumpert came back 3 days ago. What about the games when he was out ?
Lin did not play in his absence.
Bibby has only been shooting well for the past 2 games, before yesterday he was 3 for 16 from the field, and 1 for 10 from three point range.
When he was bricking so many shots, why didn't D'Antoni pull him out, and put in Lin ?
When a player is shooting 18% and struggling to play defense ..... Why didn't they put in Lin, if he was intended to be a backup ?
This Knicks do not plan to keep or develop Jeremy Lin .... they signed him to be a temp, a roster filler. Read the article.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/999225-knicks-rumors-addition-of-jeremy-lin-is-a-sign-kenyon-martin-is-big-apple-bound
Video of Jeremy's first FG as a Knick vs Pistons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI5UD0Cb2bU
lka789 January 8, 2012 at 1:04 AM
ABC, tonight's game is your answer, Jeremy played off the ball the whole time. Obviously D'Antoni doesn't trust him with the ball. He's had 3 TO's in the last 8 minutes played, that's a whopping 15 TO's per 40 minutes! They wanted a PG but JLin hasn't shown it, not yet.
On the other hand, Bibby has been a pretty good PG in the NBA for years. Nobody doubts his ability to handle the rock.
"Basketball is historically a Black dominated sport, and will continue to be as long as fans don't care."
Basketball was historically a white dominated sport. Only since probably the 70s did blacks become the majority in the NBA.
"Jeremy Lin is intentionally being left out of the basketball court because of his color, and deeply rooted perceptions about Asian athletes."
Assuming that you're a real fan and not a troll, let's drop the racism card. It only makes Lin fans look bad. Were Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian left off the court because they were Asian? You probably feel that Lin has the skills to play in the NBA, and is not being given the opportunity to prove it. Well, that happens to undrafted black players too. When you're an undrafted player, you also need to have right situation/break come up.
KHuang January 8, 2012 at 6:27 PM
Call me crazy, but Lin is not the only undrafted NBA player who I want to stick in the league.
I am also a huge fan of Lin's Dallas and Houston teammate/roommate Omar Samhan. Like Lin who I think is going to be a terrific NBA guard, Samhan is a guy that I feel is equally as capable as Lin of becoming a fine winning NBA player. Samhan has gotten less chances than Lin has, though Samhan did outplay DeMarcus Cousins and Jordan Hill in summer league 2010. I think Samhan could be doing more for an NBA team than any big man in the 2010 draft is doing. I root for Samhan just as hard as I do Lin, though Lin has had more NBA chances.
Samhan and Lin have been linked since their prep days. I want them both to succeed in the NBA.
I like Samhan too, he was pretty good at Saint Mary's. He's got size at 6'11", but he's not really athletic, and doesn't have many post moves. He does have a decent midrange jumper. He's playing in Euroleague, which is actually a very good place for players to get valuable experience.
Hopefully he can get into better shape over there and come back slimmer, stronger, and faster. Euroleague also trains players to become better shooters because the game is played differently from the perimeter.
There are many options for undrafted players: D-League, Euro league, Israeli League, China ... etc.
Whereas before it was NBA or bust.
KHuang January 8, 2012 at 11:59 PM
To me, Samhan is marvelously athletic.
He doesn't appear quick, yet he has tested as being a very fast runner. Also Samhan has footwork and post moves similar to Kevin McHale. Besides, the guy led his wimpy little St Mary team into the NCAA tournament and averaged 30 on national TV!
I don't see Samhan struggling to get up and down the court because of poor conditioning. He may look pudgy and not ripped, but Samhan doesn't get pushed around or outjumped. It's no different from how people initially said Jeremy Lin lacked NBA athleticism even though he basically ran circles around Kemba Walker in college and more than kept up with John Wall in summer league. Besides, Kevin Love is killing every PF out there and he doesn't look like an athletic freak.
I think that Samhan is ready right now to play in the NBA. He can come play for my Suns where he'd destroy our backup bust center Robin Lopez who I feel has no game and was drafted only because he had the same haircut as Anderson Varajeo.
I agree, Samhan has been overlooked. Probably because he played for a school that wasn't very well known for basketball. If he went to Duke, Georgetown, or Pitt ... then he definitely would have been drafted.
The only other good player who came out of St. Mary's was point guard Patty Mills ... who had a lot to do with the team's success and gave Samhan's some open looks.
KHuang January 10, 2012 at 7:56 AM
In basketball and especially the NBA, there is a perception that a guy has to "look" a certain way to succeed. That's how guys like 6'8" 250 scrubs like Kentucky's Daniel Orton (2 ppg and 2 rpg in his one year in college) get drafted in the 1st round while proven players like Samhan and Lin go undrafted that same year.
Looks, especially nowadays, are becoming more important to so-called talent evaluators. People think that if the looks are there, the ability will be too. In truth, it usually is the reverse. There are a lot of guys being drafted that have the looks but have no game.
Both Samhan and Lin have game. Lin is getting his NBA chance and is up and down, sort of like John Wall in Washington who is on the verge of a meltdown. Samhan would be up and down too, sort of like Derrick Favors who hasn't done anything in the NBA or DeMarcus Cousins who has proven that he can kill his coaches while shooting poorly.
By the way, I like Enes Kanter's game. With his unrefined post moves ans decent foot speed, he is a poor man's Omar Samhan.
Jeremy Lin, by the way, has had a better NBA and D league career than his Mavs teammate Dominique Jones who was drafted in the 1st round. Come to think of it, Lin might be more highly regarded than Wes Johnson who was taken #4 the year Lin went undrafted. Also, Lin seems to be more valued than Knicks 2nd rd pick Andy Rautins who I think was taken before All Rookie selection Landry Fields.
If I were an Samhan, Lin, and 2nd round pick Landry Fields would be more effective on an NBA court than any combination of the other names I just mentioned.
lka789 January 10, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Samhan is a "marvelously athletic" and has "post moves similar to Kevin McHale"! Really? The HOF'mer McHale? The McHale Sir Charles said had the best post moves ever out of that position?
And, Enes Kanter, a lotto pick, "is a poor man's Omar Samhan", an undrafted D-league! Sorry! You have lost all credibility. This thread is spiraling down out of control.
KHuang January 10, 2012 at 7:25 PM
Kanter isn't exactly tearing up the NBA. His lack of production is consistent with his lack of proven experience. Who's to say Samhan couldn't do better?
Samhan is no Kevin McHale, but he claims to pattern his game after the Celtics great. Besides, Samhan as a college player scored quite a few points and was named Defensive player of the year in his conference. That indicates that Samhan is not a mere defensive sieve.
Just because a guy can run and jump doesn't mean that he has the syrength to hold position. Nor does it mean that he can score in the post. A guy's speed in the 100 yd dash doesn't mean that he'll switch on defense fast enough
Take a look at Kevin Love. He is shorter than Samhan and looks unimposing, yet he is scoring 26 and averaging 15. Most people call him unathletic, but I see his strong base, his quick feet, his good balance, and his soft skilled hands.
Just because a guy like Samhan or Jeremy Lin goes undrafted doesn't mmean they can't play. There are many undrafted players who become good NBA players. Besides, I pointed out a bunch of guys who were drafted before Samhan and those guys have not played well in the NBA.
lka789 January 11, 2012 at 12:20 AM
Now it's Kevin Love! Lots of guys have Love's size but can't rebound and shoot like Love can. KL was a stud in high school, was a stud the first day he walked in Pauley, and he's a stud and all star now. Putting Samhan in the same sentence with all these GREAT players is just plain wrong. He has to go league first, don't you think? It's like you're saying all the GMs, coaches and scouts in the NBA are idiots.
I'm not saying that NBA people are idiots, though even you'd have to agree that picking guys like Olowokandi #1 or Milicic #2 or Kwame Brown #1 doesn't look so good.
Besides, guys like Anthony Morrow and Wesley Matthews came out of nowhere as undrafted free agents. Who's to say that there aren't other undiscovered players like Lin and possibly Samhan that can contribute?
There are busts in big men but there ain't any big man surprises, I mean Wes Matthews type surprises. Even the ones you mentioned are top picks and have been in the NBA since day one except the Candy man who was ROY and retired in 2007. Milicic and Brown are considered busts being top 1,2 pick but still are serviceable centers at NBA level.
All the undrafted surprises are mostly athletic specimen in G/F postions.
True. But occasionally undrafted big men like Ben Wallace, Joel Anthony, Anthony Mason, Brad Miller, and Greg Stiesma slip through. I still think Samhan could play in the NBA too, though he has a lot to work on.
Whitman January 11, 2012 at 8:55 PM
KHuang said:
"Just because a guy can run and jump doesn't mean that he has the syrength to hold position. Nor does it mean that he can score in the post. A guy's speed in the 100 yd dash doesn't mean that he'll switch on defense fast enough
Take a look at Kevin Love. He is shorter than Samhan and looks unimposing, yet he is scoring 26 and averaging 15. Most people call him unathletic, but I see his strong base, his quick feet, his good balance, and his soft skilled hands."
Being a big post player requires a different skill set than being a guard. Centers and Power forwards don't need to be very athletic, because most of their game is in close quarters within the paint. Having good footwork, technique, and body positioning, is more important than running fast or jumping high. In that way, being a low post player is sort of like a martial arts skill: Wrestling, Judo, Boxing.
That's why so many athletic big men like Patrick O'Bryant and Kwame Brown fail, while slower guys like Chris Kaman and Kevin Love succeed. A lot of it is mental strategy and skill.
However, being a point guard in the NBA requires more athleticism, speed, agility, and shooting from outside the arc. And because, naturally, there are way more 6'-3" tall basketball players out there than 7'-0" players. So there is more competition for that position. Jeremy has a much more difficult path to become a point guard in the NBA.
Yes, there is a lot of PG competition.
When Lin went undrafted, the knocks against him were that he was too unathletic to keep uo with NBA athletes, that he could not shoot from outside, and that he could not compete at the NBA level after Harvard. We here at Jeremylin.net knew that he could succeed in the NBA if given the chance.
Lin can play above the rim, he can grab rebounds in traffic, he can get blocks on NBA players, and he can beat NBA defenders off the dribble (including Tayshaun Prince whose ankles Lin broke). Those plays take NBA athleticism, and that's why Jeremy Lin will keep gwtting NBA chances. Contrast that to a guy like Jonny Flynn who was drafted #5 and has proven that he cannot do any of those things. Only a guaranteed contract is keeping Flynn (and many other NBA players) on a roster ahead of Lin.
The irony is that the knocks against Lin's athleticism have proven to be utterly false. If anything, it's Lin's athleticism that is keeping him in the NBA. If he can learn the NBA game, Lin will prove that we and guys like Donnie Nelson and Joe Lacob were right about him being an NBA player after all.
The more Lin bounces around the NBA, the more he will learn the NBA game. I believe that it is only a matter of time before he gets offered a guaranteed contract.
Whitman January 12, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Lin is undrafted with a non-guaranteed contract. Teams see him as expendable, and not worth very much except as a cheap way to fill up a roster spot.
A drafted player, will get playing time no matter what. Because the team has invested a lot of money and a lottery pick on him. Even if he messes up, they will keep playing him. Lin on the other hand, must make zero mistakes.
Like when the Warriors coach waived Jeremy in favor of their new 2nd round pick Charles Jenkins. He thought that Charles must be better because he looks more athletic, and came from a slightly tougher college conference than the Ivy league (Colonial Athletic). But as we see he hasn't produced much when given 10 minutes as a starter. And when he was matched up against Jeremy when the Knicks were in town, he couldn't stop JLin from blowing past him, while JLin had no trouble stopping his drive to the hoop. More athletic ? A better Point guard ? I don't think so.
Look at Jimmer Fredette, a 1st round pick and "The future" franchise player of the Sacramento Kings. He was the top scorer in the NCAA. But his skills haven't translated to the NBA. He can't defend NBA level guards, doesn't drive the lane, or make good passes. Not to say that he can't get better, but he couldn't meet the high expectations in a very competitive and physical sport.
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UN Security Council calls for probe in Yemen bus attack
kogonuso August 10, 2018 middle east,
The UN Security Council on Friday called for a "credible" probe after an air strike by a Saudi-led coalition that killed at least 29 children, whose remains and clothing were left strewn across a market in northern Yemen.
The coalition itself, following calls from the UN and United States, announced an investigation into Thursday's strike.
In New York, Britain's Ambassador Karen Pierce, whose country holds the Security Council presidency, told reporters after a closed-door meeting on Yemen that "if any investigation that is held is not credible, the council will obviously want to review that".
The raid that hit the bus in Dahyan market in the Huthi rebel stronghold of Saada also injured at least 48 others, including 30 children, according to the International Committee for the Red Cross.
An AFP photographer at the scene said the bus transporting the children had been turned into a mass of twisted metal, and that the remains of victims and personal items were still scattered across the ground on Friday.
"There are remains everywhere, we are still trying to confirm identies," Yahya Shayem, a health official in Saada, told AFP.
The coalition, which has been fighting Yemen's rebels since 2015, claimed the bus was carrying "Huthi combatants".
It initially said the coalition had carried out a "legitimate military action", targeting a bus in response to a deadly missile attack on Saudi Arabia on Wednesday by Huthi rebels.
At a press conference in Dahyan on Friday, Huthi health minister Taha al-Mutawakel put the death toll from the "horrible crime" at 51 people, including 40 children.
"This toll is not final... a lot of people are missing and the remains are still scattered around the crime scene and nearby," he said.
The Red Cross could not immediately confirm the new figures.
- Children 'excited' for trip -
At the time of the attack, the children were on a bus heading back to school "from a picnic", the Save the Children charity said, quoting its staff.
One of the children's teachers told AFP the pupils had eagerly awaited the journey.
"The mothers told me that their children did not sleep for two days because they are were too excited to take part in this trip," said Yahya Hussein.
The Huthis' Islamic affairs ministry said the children were from a Koranic school.
In the wake of international criticism, the coalition said it would open an investigation.
The decision followed reports about "a passenger bus which suffered collateral damage in this operation", a senior coalition official said, quoted by the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
The Security Council met behind closed doors on Friday to discuss the attack, at the request of five countries which are non-permanent council members.
"We have seen the images of children who died," Dutch Deputy Ambassador Lise Gregoire-van Haaren told reporters. "What is essential at this moment in time is to have a credible and independent investigation."
UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, Lise Grande, deplored the death of the children as "heart-breaking".
"The costs of this terrible war rise higher and higher," Grande said of the Yemen conflict.
- Rebel missile attacks -
The coalition, which also includes the United Arab Emirates, intervened in 2015 in Yemen to try to restore the government after the rebels drove it out of the capital Sanaa.
Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki on Thursday said claims by aid organisations that children were inside the bus were "misleading", and that "the elements inside the bus were Huthi combatants".
Saudi Arabia shot down a missile fired by the Huthis on Wednesday, with debris killing a Yemeni man and wounding 11 others, the coalition said.
The missile was fired from the rebel-held Yemeni province of Amran towards the Saudi city of Jizan, the coalition said.
On Friday, the coalition said it intercepted and destroyed two more ballistic missiles fired by the Huthis from Saada towards Jizan. No damage or injuries were reported.
The war in impoverished Yemen has left nearly 10,000 people dead and unleashed what the UN describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths told the Security Council last week "a political solution" to Yemen's war was "available" and that the warring sides would be invited to talks on September 6 in Geneva.
UN-brokered negotiations on Yemen broke down in 2016 amid demands for a rebel withdrawal from key cities and power-sharing with the Saudi-backed government.
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Let's say you need to sneak out of the office for a few minutes. When you leave your PC, your screensaver will kick in after a few minutes so anyone who walks by your cubicle will know you haven't been around. You don't want the boss to notice, do you? So, here's how to create a free screensaver that displays spreadsheets and other company-related files or images, so it looks like you just stepped away!
Here's what you need to do.
The first step is to pick one document, spreadsheet, or anything that you'd like displayed on your screen when you're not around.
Better yet — choose more than one spreadsheet and have the screensaver cycle through it every few minutes so it looks like you've returned to your desk and now you're working on something else!
After you've selected your document/file of choice, you need a way to turn it into an image file, such as a .jpg. .bmp., .tif, and so forth. The easiest way to do this is to download one of the hundreds of "screen capture" programs available on the Internet. All these let you press a predetermined series of keys (called a hotkey) to take a snapshot of what's on your computer screen. It then saves it as an image file to your hard drive.
Screen capturing programs include the popular HyperSnap DX, Screen Capture, or the free Screen Hunter Free. You can find a whole bunch of these programs by going to http://www.download.com and typing "capture" or "screen capture" in the search window. Some imaging programs such as JASC's Paint Shop Pro also have a built-in screen capturing function.
After you've taken a snapshot of a Word file or spreadsheet, drag and drop it/them into your My Pictures folder using Windows Explorer. It is found inside your My Documents subfolder, usually found in the Documents and Settings folder.
Copy or move the image of your spreadsheet program or any other work-related file into your My Pictures folder. This is the first step to creating this sneaky screensaver.
After this is completed, go to your desktop (the screen you see when Windows first boots up) and anywhere on the background/wallpaper, right-click and select Properties. This brings up the Display Properties dialog box. Now, select the third tab, Screen Saver.
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Index Engines Seeks to Help Enterprises Purge 'Legacy Data'
Posted on April 10, 2012 By Kenneth Corbin
As the volume of corporate data continues its exponential rise, enterprises are faced with the daunting task of continually upgrading and expanding their storage infrastructures.
But is more storage really the answer?
Index Engines, a privately held firm based in New Jersey, argues that it is not, and as such it partners with enterprises to implement a policy-based data-management framework that can help eliminate "legacy data."
"Adding additional storage to keep up with this growth has been the standard response to this challenge," said Jim McGann, vice president of information discovery at Index Engines. "[C]orporate compliance and legal teams are rebelling against this trend. They understand that keeping a copy of all user data and email forever is no longer a viable option."
McGann cited an estimate from the market research firm Gartner that user data is soaring by 80 percent each year, but because of a variety of risk factors, such as lawsuits and regulatory oversight, "legacy user data has become a liability."
"As organizations develop policies to protect themselves from liability and risk, they must then execute them against their large enterprise storage environments," McGann said. "Index Engines is architected to implement these policies against hundreds of terabytes -- even petabytes -- of user content."
The company's discovery platform offers a holistic view of online and offline data assets, and it indexes online data in concert with native support for the applicable enterprise storage protocols.
Legacy data is often found in offsite storage vaults in the form of old backup tapes. Residing on those tapes are snapshots of corporate networks that Index Engines' Octane product can access and manage independent of the original backup software. This frequently results in the remediation of 90 percent of the data in accordance with the policies the company has developed with its customers.
Index Engines' aggressive approach to data management and what it calls "defensible deletion" can be a tough sell for enterprises with legal and IT departments that have a long tradition of complete retention.
"Many organizations have lived with a policy of 'save everything,'" McGann said. "Transitioning from this environment to one where only relevant data is archived, and useless data purged is challenging. This process requires IT organizations to work hand in hand with legal and compliance teams to update and implement information management strategies."
To help bolster its case, Index Engines has enlisted the services of compliance and legal advisory firms that can help clients develop new information-governance policies and guide them through their implementation. The firm has also released data-mapping technology that organizations can use to get a holistic view of their data assets that can inform the new management and deletion policies.
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Looking ahead, Index Engines is planning to introduce new analytical functions to help legal and compliance teams sift through a company's storage environment to automate the processing and review of information related to litigation. Additionally, Index Engines is planning to improve its archiving technology to enhance and streamline policy management and long-term preservation of files and email.
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Folic Acid and Birth Defects p. 195
VS Salvi
Factors Influencing the Selection of Surgical Specialty among Pakistani Medical Graduates p. 197
BI Avan, SA Raza, H Hamza, S Khokhar, F Awan
CONTEXT: The delineation between selection of surgery and non-surgery residency programmes could provide a pragmatic view of the influences on medical graduates’ careers. This would also help coordinators and educators of residency programmes in surgery to further understand the dynamics of specialty selection. AIMS: To identify the different factors that influence the graduates to select surgical specialties in Pakistan. SETTINGS AND DESIGNS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 4 teaching hospitals of Karachi between July 1999 and January 2001. SUBJECTS and METHODS: A total of 455 residents in 1-5 years of residency programmes were contacted. Three hundred and forty-one residents consented to the interview. Residents who were registered both with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (CPSP) and the Post Graduate Medical Education (PGME) office of the selected hospitals were included in this study. STATISTICAL METHOD USED: Logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: Final multivariate analysis identified 4 factors that remained significantly associated with the selection of surgical specialty: deriving gratification from direct patient care (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 5.79; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.24, 26.99), procedure-based medical practice (aOR = 2.85; 95% CI: 1.23, 6.61), nature of clinical problems (aOR = 3.39; 95% CI: 1.47, 7.84), and lack of consideration of stress during professional work (aOR = 2.27, 95%CI: 1.25, 4.13). CONCLUSIONS: Direct patient care is perceived to be an integral part of surgery residency and immediate patient outcome is a positive influence in selecting surgical specialty. The inclination towards surgery appeared to be determined by the type of procedures and technical skills involved in its practice. The nature of clinical problems is an important determinant of the choice of specialty. Stress was not perceived to be an important influencing factor for those who decided to select surgical specialties.
Topiramate in the Treatment of Myoclonic-Astatic Epilepsy in Children: A Retrospective Hospital Audit p. 202
S Jayawant, SE Libretto
BACKGROUND: Myoclonic-Astatic Epilepsy (MAE) usually starts before five years of age and is associated with very frequent seizures and is highly resistant to treatment. AIM: To investigate the outcome of adjunctive topiramate (TPM) therapy in children with a diagnosis of MAE syndrome. Subjects AND METHODS: In an outpatient setting, case notes of 27 children who received TPM were retrieved and analysed. RESULTS: Records of 6 children with MAE, who were experiencing 2-8 atonic seizures daily before starting TPM were studied. Improvement was noted after addition of TPM (mean dose at steady-state 7.4±2.5mg/kg/day) to the regimen of 1-3 anti-epileptic drugs they were receiving concurrently. All but one child improved following the titration period: one had 50-80% improvement in the frequency of atonic seizures and three had over 80% improvement. However, one child who showed over 80% improvement and was free of atonic seizures, later developed increased frequency of other seizure types. In one child there was no significant improvement. Improvement has been sustained for over 6 months in three patients and over 4 months in one; three have continued TPM. TPM was stopped in three patients (reduction in seizure control/no improvement). CONCLUSIONS: This study supports the efficacy of TPM in controlling atonic seizures in MAE and indicates that it should be considered as an add-on drug in the management of this ‘difficult-to-treat’ epileptic syndrome.
Estimation of Subjective Stress in Acute Myocardial Infarction p. 207
A Chockalingam, S Venkatesan, S Dorairajan, C Moorthy, V Chockalingam, T Subramaniam
BACKGROUND and AIMS: Mental stress is considered to be a precipitating factor in acute coronary events. We aimed to assess the association of subjective or ‘perceived’ mental stress with the occurrence of acute coronary events. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: Prospective case-control survey was carried out in a referral teaching hospital. subjects & METHODS: Consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction and ST elevation on electrocardiogram who were admitted to the Coronary Care Unit of a referral teaching hospital were enrolled in the study as cases. Controls were unmatched and were enrolled from amongst patients with coronary artery disease who did not have recent acute coronary events. Subjective Stress Functional Classification (SS-FC) for the preceding 2-4 weeks was assessed and assigned four grades from I to IV as follows: I - baseline, II - more than usual but not affecting daily routine, III - significantly high stress affecting daily routine and IV - worst stress in life. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Proportions of different characteristics were compared using chi-square test with Yates continuity correction. Student’s unpaired t test was applied for mean age. ‘p’ value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: SS-FC could be reliably (99%) and easily assessed. Eighty (53%) of the total 150 patients with acute MI reported ‘high’ levels of stress (stress class III and IV). This is in contrast to only 30 (20%) of 150 healthy controls reporting high stress for the same period (p value < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Patients with acute myocardial infarction report a higher subjective mental stress during 2 to 4 weeks preceding the acute coronary event.
Effect of Epidural Morphine on Minimum Alveolar Concentration of Isoflurane in Humans p. 211
L Kashyap, DK Pawar, HL Kaul, VK Mohan, SN Dwivedi
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The anaesthetic potency of volatile anaesthetic agents is measured by the minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) required to suppress response in 50% of subjects. We studied the effect of epidural morphine on MAC of isoflurane in humans. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: A prospective single-blind study designed to study the effect of epidural morphine on MAC of isoflurane. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Forty-eight patients were randomly divided into two groups – Group I patients received 3 mg morphine in 10 ml saline, and Group II patients received 10 ml saline epidurally. Anaesthesia was induced with isoflurane in oxygen and nitrous oxide. Later nitrous oxide was discontinued and MAC of isoflurane determined using modified Dixon’s method of sequential sampling. RESULTS: Epidural morphine resulted in a significant reduction in MAC of isoflurane, 0.98 vs. 1.14 in control group (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Epidural administration of 3 mg morphine in 10 ml saline decreased the MAC of isoflurane.
Duodenal Tuberculosis: Radiological Features on Barium Studies and their Clinical Correlation in 28 Cases p. 214
GE Chavhan, R Ramakantan
BACKGROUND: A retrospective analysis of 28 cases of duodenal tuberculosis (TB) was done to evaluate radiological findings and their value in the diagnosis of the disease. subjects AND METHODS: Upper gastrointestinal and small bowel series of 28 patients with duodenal tuberculosis were analysed for radiological findings. The diagnosis of duodenal TB was confirmed by surgery and biopsy in 18, on the basis of radiological findings and response to treatment in 9, and on the basis of findings on upper gastrointestinal scopy and biopsy in 1 patient. RESULTS: The study included 28 patients (14 males, 14 females). The mean age was 32.1 (range 5-65). Twenty-three (82.2%) patients presented with obstructive symptoms while five manifested with dyspeptic symptoms. Of the latter, 4 had ulcerations in the third and fourth parts of the duodenum. In the remaining patient, the mucosa of the duodenum could not be clearly visualised. Two patients had extrinsic impression at the D2-D3 and D3-D4 segments. In 23 patients with obstructive symptoms, 18 demonstrated luminal narrowing of varying degrees and 5 had a sharp band-like cut-off at the third part of the duodenum. Of the 18 patients with luminal narrowing, 13 had extrinsic compression, 12 had proximal dilatation and 14 had ulcerations mainly in the second and third parts of the duodenum. Biliary involvement was seen in 3 patients without any signs or symptoms directly referable to the biliary involvement. CONCLUSION: Though duodenal TB lacks specific radiological features, barium studies help to localise and define the area of narrowing and ulcerations and help to confirm the presence of lymph nodes causing compression of the duodenum.
Prognostic Implications of White Cell Differential Count and White Cell Morphology in Malaria p. 218
UM Jadhav, R Singhvi, R Shah
BACKGROUND: Malaria is of immense importance amongst the tropical diseases in India. There is a need to develop newer diagnostic aids and research is necessary to identify new prognostic markers for prediction of the course and complications. AIMS: To evaluate the white cell differential count and morphology in Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum malaria and study their prognostic utility. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Two hundred and sixty-four adult patients in the age range of 20 to 65 years presenting to the hospital over a period of 4 months with clinical features of malaria and a positive peripheral smear examination were studied. RESULTS: No statistically significant difference was noted in the white blood cell (WBC) count and neutrophil count in P.vivax versus P. falciparum malaria. Band cells were more frequently noted in P. falciparum malaria than in P.vivax malaria (p < 0.0001). Toxic granulation of the neutrophils was noted in 9.5% of the patients and exclusively in P. falciparum malaria. Presence of toxic granulation of the polymorphs in subjects with P. falciparum malaria was significantly associated with anaemia (p=0.019), jaundice, cerebral involvement, adult respiratory distress syndromes, renal dysfunction and death (p < 0.0001 for all these parameters). CONCLUSION: Band cells were seen in P. vivax and P. falciparum malaria, although in higher numbers in P. falciparum malaria. Toxic granulation of the neutrophils was noted only in the presence of P. falciparum malaria in this study and correlated with severity.
Cancer Risk and Diet in India p. 222
R Sinha, DE Anderson, SS McDonald, P Greenwald
India is a developing country with one of the most diverse populations and diets in the world. Cancer rates in India are lower than those seen in Western countries, but are rising with increasing migration of rural population to the cities, increase in life expectancy and changes in lifestyles. In India, rates for oral and oesophageal cancers are some of the highest in the world. In contrast, the rates for colorectal, prostate, and lung cancers are one of the lowest. Studies of Indian immigrants in Western societies indicate that rates of cancer and other chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease and diabetes, increase dramatically after a generation in the adopted country. Change of diet is among the factors that may be responsible for the changing disease rates. Diet in India encompasses diversity unknown to most other countries, with many dietary patterns emanating from cultural and religious teachings that have existed for thousands of years. Very little is known, however, about the role of the Indian diet in causation of cancer or its role, if any, in prevention of cancer, although more attention is being focused on certain aspects of the Indian diet, such as vegetarianism, spices, and food additives. Of particular interest for cancer prevention is the role of turmeric (curcumin), an ingredient in common Indian curry spice. Researchers also have investigated cumin, chilies, kalakhar, Amrita Bindu, and various plant seeds for their apparent cancer preventive properties. Few prospective studies, however, have been conducted to investigate the role of Indian diet and its various components in prevention of cancer. From a public health perspective, there is an increasing need to develop cancer prevention programs responsive to the unique diets and cultural practices of the people of India.
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Antioxidant Micronutrients in the Prevention of Age-related Diseases p. 229
MC Polidori
The role and functions of antioxidant micronutrients such as ascorbate (vitamin C), a-tocopherol (vitamin E) and carotenoids that are provided through the diet in aging and in the prevention of age-related diseases are discussed in the present work. In general, a healthy lifestyle involving regular exercise and avoidance of tobacco or alcohol abuse are the key to the prevention of several age-related diseases including cardiovascular diseases, dementia and cancer. A balanced and regular nutrition with at least five portions of fruit and vegetables per day is a critical constituent of such a healthy lifestyle.
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Can We Prevent Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease? p. 236
NP Kedar
Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Alzheimer’s (AD) are major progressive neurological disorders, the risk of which increases with advancing age (65 years and over). In familial cases, however, early onset of disease (about 35 years) is observed. In spite of extensive basic and clinical research on PD and AD, no preventive or long-term effective treatment strategies are available. Several studies have indicated that oxidative stress is a major risk factor for the initiation and progression of sporadic PD and AD. Even a-synuclein and b-amyloid fragments that are associated with the PD and AD, respectively, mediate part of their action via oxidative stress. Therefore, reducing oxidative stress appears to be a rational choice for the prevention and reduction in the rate of progression of these neurological disorders. This review provides a brief description of the epidemiology and pathogenesis of PD and AD, and the scientific rationale for the use of multiple antioxidants in the prevention of these neurological diseases.
Primary Giant Cell Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of the Kidney with Staghorn Calculi p. 246
CH Chen, PS Lee, WJ Han, KH Shen
Malignant fibrous histiocytomas (MFH) as primary renal tumours are rare, with less than 50 cases described in the literature. We report a case of primary renal MFH of giant cell type in a 56-year-old man, who presented with bilateral dull flank pain, intermittent gross haematuria and body weight loss (6 kg in 3 months). Intravenous urography, computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance image (MRI) showed right ureteral stones with mild hydronephrosis, and a solid mass at the lower pole of the left kidney associated with staghorn calculi, as well as tumour thrombi in the left renal vein and inferior vena cava. Left radical nephrectomy and evacuation of tumour thrombi from the left renal vein and inferior vena cava were performed. Histopathologic examination revealed malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of giant cell type. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of primary renal MFH associated with staghorn calculi.
Distal Tibial Transphyseal Osteotomy for Ankle Varus Deformity in an Operated Case of Clubfoot p. 249
VN Trivedi, AR Bacha
Ankle varus deformity arises due to a number of congenital and acquired causes leading to significant functional debility in the patients, especially children. We report a less commonly used technique, the transphyseal osteotomy of distal tibia, for the correction of varus deformity of the ankle joint in a thirteen-year-old boy. Full correction of the deformity could be achieved using this technique. The patient is fully functional with normal gait. No recurrence was detected at follow-up visit 26 months later.
Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma in a Patient with Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis p. 252
JM Calvo-Romero
Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis (HUV) is known to be associated with malignancies. Urticarial vasculitis has been linked to lymphomas, but to our knowledge, the association of HUV and non-Hodgkin lymphoma has not been described so far. A patient with HUV who developed 10 years later a diffuse large B cell lymphoma is reported here.
Atrial Flutter following a Wasp Sting p. 254
BA Fisher, TF Antonios
Wasp stings have been associated with a wide variety of local and systemic reactions including, rarely, tachyarrhythmias. We discuss a case of atrial flutter occurring in a 64-year-old man following a single sting in the absence of anaphylaxis. The pathogenesis is discussed and the literature reviewed.
Clinical Photography: A Guide for the Clinician p. 256
JR Nayler
Clinicians might not always have available the services of a professional medical photographer, but if a standardised approach is followed those who take their own clinical photographs can achieve acceptable results. This article offers guidance to the clinician on consistent lighting, exposure, patient positioning, linear scale, perspective, depth of field, and background. Advice is given on equipment and materials, including digital and conventional cameras, flash (strobe), films, and processing choices. Consistency of approach is emphasised – it is not acceptable to use photographic tricks to enhance the appearance of clinical outcomes. Rather, care should be taken to ensure that the only changes among clinical photographs taken over time are in the patient. Photographs should be stored and presented appropriately for their use and images for publication should be prepared according to the instructions to authors. Digital images for publication should be sized appropriately for the final reproduction size.
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Angiomyolipoma of Kidney as a Part of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex p. 278
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Bronchopulmonary Sequestration p. 280
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The Heart of Structural Development: The Functional Basis of the Location and Morphology of the Human Vascular Pump p. 282
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Gabapentin and Propofol for Treatment of Status Epilepticus in Acute Intermittent Porphyria p. 285
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Transient Segmental Spinal Myoclonus due to Spinal Anaesthesia with Bupivacaine p. 286
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Drug-Eluting Intra-Coronary Stents: Have We Got the Magic Bullet? p. 291
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Decision threatens to erode First Amendment protections
By Adriana Lafaille and Patricia A. DeJuneas
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BOSTON - In a troubling ruling, a federal District Court judge in Massachusetts held that Richard Hartfield uttered "fighting words" when he "demean[ed]" a transit officer's "status and authority" in a July 2012 encounter at Boston's Dudley Station.
The parties' recent settlement will prevent the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from reviewing the decision. But the ruling is not only wrong; it is dangerous. By inviting police to silence the voices of those who protest police action, the decision threatens to erode the First Amendment's protections, and to do so in a way that disparately affects the communities of color that are most directly impacted by police misconduct.
Hartfield spoke his alleged "fighting words" around 8 a.m. at Boston's Dudley Square bus terminal. Approached by an MBTA transit officer about whether he planned to board a bus, Hartfield asked, "Why are you harassing me?" He reportedly told the officer, "You're not even a real cop"; "My uncle is a Boston cop. You don't know who you're messing with"; and "You're going to lose your job."
After being arrested for trespassing, Hartfield brought a civil suit against the officer and the MBTA. Hartfield v. MBTA, et al., No. 14-cv-14225.
But in a terse opinion, Judge Richard G. Stearns concluded that Hartfield's challenge to the officer constituted "fighting words" not protected by the First Amendment. He thus granted summary judgment to the officer and the MBTA on Hartfield's First Amendment retaliation claim.
Hartfield's words were no doubt disrespectful. But it is hard to see how they amounted to fighting words - i.e., words that are so personally abusive that they are inherently likely to provoke violence. With good reason, the MBTA had not even made that argument to the District Court. And the agency wisely opted to settle rather than defend the ruling at the 1st Circuit.
After all, provocative and offensive speech - including speech critical of police officers - is protected by the First Amendment. As the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451, 462-63 (1987), "The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."
It is true that the fighting words exception was first articulated in a case involving a challenge to police. In Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568, 574 (1942), the court held that a man who had called the city marshal a "damn racketeer" and a "damn Fascist" had used "epithets likely to provoke the average person to retaliation."
But that was 1942, four months after the United States entered World War II. An angry crowd had gathered, and the marshal had been warned that a riot was underway. No similar threat of violence was alleged in Hartfield's case.
Although Stearns' First Amendment analysis stopped in 1942, the fighting words doctrine has since been substantially narrowed. To the extent Chaplinsky suggested insolence toward an officer constitutes fighting words, later decisions have said, in effect, Chaplinsky be damned!
The Supreme Court explained in Houston that "the First Amendment protects a significant amount of verbal criticism and challenge directed at police officers." It has struck down laws criminalizing all "opprobrious" speech toward police officers or all intentional verbal interruptions of police activity.
Following suit, federal courts of appeals have repeatedly recognized the extremely narrow scope of the fighting words doctrine. In Hartfield's case, Stearns broke with those precedents in applying the fighting words doctrine to mere disrespect.
What is more, although the Supreme Court has not expressly applied the fighting words doctrine differently when the speech involves police officers, its decisions make clear that the doctrine must apply especially narrowly (if at all) when speech is directed at officers instead of civilians. That is so for two reasons.
First, our First Amendment cases require police officers to have a thick skin. Even ordinary Americans are expected to tolerate a significant amount of offensive speech - just ask the father of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder or the Holocaust survivors in Skokie. Still more restraint is expected of police officers, who the state trains and arms with guns. As the 1st Circuit explained while upholding the right to record the police in Glik v. Cunniffe, 655 F.3d 78, 84 (1st Cir. 2011), officers must "endure significant burdens caused by citizens' exercise of their First Amendment rights."
Second, the First Amendment holds special regard for speech criticizing police officers and other public officials in the performance of their duties. For example, officers must satisfy the stringent actual malice standard of New York Times v. Sullivan before bringing civil defamation suits. That is because, as recent tragic events have shown, the conduct of police officers is inherently a matter of public concern.
In fact, the same officer that Hartfield sued was also recorded - in a separate incident at the Dudley Square station - pulling out his firearm and beating an ACLU client who was suspected of shoplifting a bar of soap. Meanwhile, in another ACLU case, the MBTA is defending a lawsuit in which video captured two Dudley Square station officers assaulting a passenger who had called 911 to express concern for the safety of a woman who one of the officers had just shoved.
That is why the Hartfield ruling is not only wrong, but deeply troubling. Allowing police to silence those who criticize them will not erode all Americans' First Amendment rights equally. It will disproportionately threaten the rights of the black and brown people who are most frequently the targets of police abuses and are in the forefront of protesting against those abuses.
As shown by the many protests in response to shootings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minnesota, the cry for police reform in communities of color is urgent. It is a matter of life and death. And it should not be silenced.
As prominently explained by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her recent dissent in Utah v. Strieff, U.S. courts have already given the police extraordinary power over the lives and bodies of black and brown people. The courts, too, have created broad immunities that frequently shield officers from accountability for violating people's rights. These court-bestowed powers have contributed to injustice and tragedy.
Giving the police additional authority to silence the protests of those most directly impacted is wrong. And our courts should play no more part in that.
Adriana Lafaille is a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. Patricia A. DeJuneas is a partner at Sibbison & DeJuneas in Boston where she specializes in criminal and civil appeals.
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ISIS Cell Nabbed Ahead of Morocco, France Attacks
French and Franco-Moroccan arrested as they planned attacks on banks and international companies, pushed ISIS propaganda.
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Morocco said Thursday it has arrested two jihadists who were planning to attack banks and multinational companies in the North African country and in France.
An interior ministry statement said the Frenchman and Franco-Moroccan arrested on Monday had also been planning to join the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group.
It said they used the Internet to urge "individual terrorist acts in Morocco and France," citing preliminary results from the investigation.
Both men had been motivated by the actions of Mohammed Merah, a French-Algerian national killed by French police in March 2012 after murdering seven people, including a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse.
The ministry statement said the arrested dual national had taken out several loans with French and Moroccan banks to finance their activities.
It said the pair were arrested in Kenitra in the north as they "were busy rallying the ranks of the terrorist organisation called Daesh," the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State organization.
The detainees, identified only by their initials, were "involved in jihadist activism" by translating and disseminating press releases and video recordings of "IS (Islamic State) terrorism," the MAP news agency said.
It added that an "extremist of Algerian origin" was also arrested on Monday in the northern city of Fez, and that he "planned to join his wife," a Moroccan who had already joined ISIS.
AFP contributed to this report.
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Driverless cars: Is the North West ready for the autonomous revolution?
Posted by Lawrence Saunders in Hot Topics Feb, 20 2019 11:54 am
Electric car ownership continues to rise and the government is hoping to have self-driving vehicles on UK roads by 2021.
So how is the North West coping with the EV (electric vehicle) evolution and what can be done to ensure the region is ready for the onset of driverless transportation?
Words by Lawrence Saunders
19 November 2017: Chancellor Phillip Hammond tells the public they should expect to see driverless cars on UK roads by 2021.
His subsequent Budget included hundreds of millions of pounds for more electric charge points, 5G mobile networks and artificial intelligence, as well as a pledge to legislate for autonomous driving without a human at the wheel.
Some 15 months on, will residents in the North West be enjoying driver-free journeys in less than two years time?
Almost certainly not, but that doesn’t mean the notion is as far away as some may think.
Our American counterparts are, of course, a lot further along in this field, with Google and Uber’s similarly determined pursuits of commercialised autonomous travel much publicised.
Last December self-driving technology firm Waymo, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, launched its autonomous taxi programme to users in Phoenix, Arizona.
‘Early riders’ who took part in Waymo’s test schemes have been able to hail driverless cabs through an application on their mobile phones ever since.
Although a similar service here in the North West might be a way off yet, the wider region is starting to get serious about connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs).
Most recently the draft release of Transport for the North’s (TfN) Strategic Transport Plan (STP) featured several nods to the next generation.
The document confirmed TfN’s support for government policies and proposals to meet the UK’s legislated emission reduction targets, including a commitment to working with the private sector to support research and development of CAVs.
The STP, which outlined a £70 billion investment blueprint to revamp the North’s roads and rail network, also indicated plans to invest in EV charging points.
“AV will almost certainly be electric, so the North West should be thinking about how to ensure there is sufficient charging infrastructure across the region.”
Many commentators agree that if CAVs are to become commonplace on UK roads, easy access to electric charge points will be essential.
“AV (autonomous vehicles) will almost certainly be electric, so the North West should be thinking about how to ensure there is sufficient charging infrastructure across the region,” says Richard Threlfall, partner and global head of infrastructure at KPMG International.
“This will be particularly challenging in high density residential areas where on-street parking is the only option.”
According to the latest figures from electric charging point platform Zap-Map, only 7% of the 19,375 public connectors in the UK are located here in the North West.
The Greater Manchester Electric Vehicle scheme – the metropolitan area’s public electric vehicle charging network – boasts more than 300 of these with a further 48 rapid charging points set to be installed by September.
Meanwhile in the Liverpool City Region, Merseytravel’s EV public charging network, Recharge, has installed a total of 27 posts since 2014, and handed out grants for 26 workplace posts.
The executive body says it’s hopeful of further funding for the project this year to continue providing charging points throughout the area.
Equally critical to the widespread roll out of CAVs as EV charging points is dependable access to communications systems that offer both high data capacity and extensive coverage.
A fully autonomous vehicle navigating UK roads will require human-like reflexes and the ability to collect huge amounts of data on the fly.
It’s the opinion of many experts that this would mean nationwide super-fast 5G – the fifth generation of mobile networks.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport commissioned consultancy firm Atkins in August 2018 to carry out a 5G feasibility study exploring the benefits of increased investment in upgrading the connectivity of UK roads.
Electric rail being installed in Sweden as part of eRoadArlanda project
Whilst a possible increase in the number of EV charging points and a mobile network viability report are steps in the right direction, North West roads aren’t likely to be flooded with CAVs anytime soon.
“It would be possible for the region to set itself at the forefront of the technology by investing now in particular corridors,” says Threlfall.
“[The corridors] could be covered by a combination of fibre optic cabling and short-range (DSRC) communications, perhaps with a view to establishing an AV truck corridor, for example, from the Port of Liverpool to the M6 motorway.”
Threlfall’s route would link-up neatly with the M6/M74 corridor which runs between Manchester and Glasgow, identified last year as the most commercially valuable stretch for driverless lorries in the UK.
According to transport information firm Inrix, haulage companies could boost profits by employing autonomous HGVs on the cross-border route because of its long distance and comparatively low levels of congestion.
Jonathan Moss, partner, global head of transport sector and head of marine and trade at multinational law firm DWF, expects driverless lorries will become more of a reality in the next five to 10 years.
“We’re in the midst of a new industrial revolution,” he says.
“There will be increasing electrification of roads and the focus on driverless and autonomous vehicles will be very difficult to ignore.
“The technological advancement is here and is sophisticated, but what’s holding infrastructure back is the laws which surround its implication.”
Moss, who spoke at the 2018 International Business Festival in Liverpool on the findings of DWF’s global transport technology report ‘Delivering the Goods’, concedes that the UK has a way to go before its roads are ready to facilitate a real automotive revolution.
“The technological advancement is here, but what’s holding infrastructure back is the laws which surround its implication.”
“We’re behind the curve,” he adds, highlighting a stretch of road outside of Stockholm where vehicles can be recharged as they move, as the benchmark.
Approximately 2km of electric rail has been installed between the Arlanda Cargo Terminal and the Rosersberg logistics area as part of the eRoadArlanda project.
Opened in April 2018, the electrified road, which is the first of its kind, functions by transferring energy from a rail in the road to vehicles via a movable arm.
Whilst our own futuristic highway is still a way off here in the North West, tests involving driverless vehicles will be taking place in the region later this year.
As part of Project Synergy, two types of autonomous examples will be trialled in Greater Manchester.
A trio of Pods on Demand (POD) will ship four to six passengers between the transport interchange and entrance to Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport.
Initially mobility groups will be consulted with to determine whether the vehicles would offer an improvement on their current travel options when accessing the airport.
Alongside the PODs trial, three electric sports cars will be tested between Stockport railway station and the airport.
With the vehicles operating autonomously in a convoy formation, the test will aim to determine whether ‘platooning’ could have a positive impact on congestion and energy/fuel use.
Taking place with partners including Westfield Technology Group, Conigital Ltd and Manchester Airport, the trials will begin in December and run through to January 2020.
“If people aren’t driving the vehicles they’ve got time to buy duty free or if they’re running late – check in for their flight,” explains John Paddington, senior project manager at Conigital, which is providing some of the supporting software for Project Synergy including a fleet management system and GEMMA – a virtual concierge for partially sighted and disabled users.
“We’re particularly targeting airports, hospitals and business parks because we see places like that as the early adopters,” he adds.
“They are more controlled [than open roads] and although it’s not necessarily easier, they are more manageable situations.”
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A leading Manchester Orangeman and member of Earl of Roden LOL 184, was William Touchstone, who was born at Bandon, Co Cork on 17 August 1822 of Yorkshire parents. He came to Manchester at an early age and was brought up in the Church of England, before he joined the Methodist Church for a number of years, and then the Wesleyan Reform Movement, but he returned to the Church of England becoming a worker in the parish of Blackley where Rev W R Keeling was the rector. Touchstone became a temperance worker and was one of the founders of the Church of England Temperance Society, an organisation that he remained connected to throughout his life, and for a number of years he was the chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Temperance Association. He was one of the founders, and for seven years the chairman, of the Constitutional Association, and was also a leading member of the Warehousemen and Clerks’ Provident Association. He was also the secretary and lecturer of the Northern Church Defence Association. He became Grand Secretary of the Loyal Orange Institution of England.
In November 1907 it was said of him ‘Despite his great age, his services are in such demand that he has not a single Sunday at liberty for the next twelve months. Recently at an Orange gathering he spoke for eighty-six minutes with considerable fluency and power’.
On 16 December 1912 William Touchstone died aged ninety. He had been living at 52 Johnson Street, Cheetham and was buried in Harpurhey Cemetery. (Cemetery plan.) An obituary wrote: ‘In Mr Touchstone Manchester has lost one of her best-known citizens and the Conservative party one of its most enthusiastic members … Full of zeal, primarily for the Tory and Orange cause … It is curious that Mr Touchstone joined the Church of England from the Wesleyan body and (himself a loyal Orangeman) received the Temperance pledge 73 years ago from the famous Irish temperance apostle Father Matthew … The movement led by Mr Gladstone against the Irish Church brought Mr Touchstone to the front as a spirited defender of the Church interest. His connection with the Loyal Orange Institution strengthened his ardour in the cause, and his energy and earnestness were recognised by that institution in his appointment as Deputy Grand Master. In this and other offices in connection with the order he retained the thorough support of the lodges. To the Church of England and particularly to the Evangelical or Low Church part of it, Mr Touchstone was ardently attached … He was also a leader of the Orange party in Manchester … and as such was a determined opponent of Home Rule for Ireland … One of his most cherished recollections was of the prominent place he occupied in connection with the visit of Mr Disraeli to the Pomona Gardens and the Free Trade Hall in April 1872’ . A lodge was formed in his memory, Touchstone Temperance LOL 754, which in 1928 was meeting in Hulme Street Schools.
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After a public hearing the tribunal issued a notice on 28/6/13 that: 'Mr Ian Stewart Brady continues to suffer from a mental disorder which is of a nature and degree which makes it appropriate for him to continue to receive medical treatment and that it is necessary for his health and safety and for the protection of other persons that he should receive such treatment in hospital and that appropriate medical treatment is available for him.' The full reasons, dated 11/12/13, were published on 24/1/14: (1) When deciding to hold a public hearing the tribunal had concluded that it was not satisfied that Ian Brady suffered from schizophrenia but, in reaching the opposite conclusion when considering the detention criteria, it did not consider itself bound by its previous finding of fact. (2) The tribunal set out at length the reasons for concluding that the detention criteria were met in this case.
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The Tribunal has concluded that Mr Ian Stewart Brady continues to suffer from a mental disorder which is of a nature and degree which makes it appropriate for him to continue to receive medical treatment and that it is necessary for his health and safety and for the protection of other persons that he should receive such treatment in hospital and that appropriate medical treatment is available for him.
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How could a small deer-like artiodactyl be related to the largest animal ever?
Indohyus, meaning "India's pig" is thought to be the oldest relative of whales. Discovered in Eocene deposits of the Himalayas, this small animal was once thought to be a distant relative of pigs. The original fossils were discovered by Ranga Rao in 1971 in the Dehra Dun region of India. As a side note, George Harrison recorded a song about this area.
Rao died before completely describing the fossil material and it seemed the secerets of "India's pig" were buried along with him. But in 2007, Rao's widow gave the fossils to legendary anatomist Dr. Hans Thewissen to analyze.
By accidentally breaking the cranium, Dr. Thewissen discovered Indohyus had the same ear bones as do all modern and extinct whales. This meant that the racoon-sized Indohyus was in the whale family tree. It is rare fossil discoveries like this that have lead scientists to piece together the whale evolutionary lineage. The fact so many rare cetacean fossils have been found in the right place at the right time is unique in the history of evolutionary discoveries. Further analysis of Indohyus revealed it was actually thick boned (osteosclerotic), which also meant it was fully aquatic. Perhaps this allowed the animal to leap in the water to evade predators, much like modern chevrotains do.
Understanding that Indohyus could've been nocturnal, much like chevrotains, I wanted to create a night scene for this reconstruction. After making a few quick drawings, I decided on this pose (Fig. 2) because it showed off the most notable anatomical features of the animal: The long face and long hoofed limbs. Additionally, it presented an opportunity to showcase a bit of inferred behavior.
Fig. 2 Graphite, oil, & ballpoint pen on paper.
Once I had the right pose drawn out, I scanned the drawing and layered digital fur(Fig. 3). Once I had the whole animal textured, it was time to work on the background.
Fig. 3 Fur texture detail
I began with a perspective layout matching the rough drawing (Fig4). This would serve as the foundation for forest texture (Fig. 5).
Fig. 4 Digital layout in Adobe Photoshop.
Fig. 5 Background texturing process
It was then a matter of compositing Indohyus into the background. This part was a little bit tricky because I had to match the light source and darken appropriate areas. Too much dark would obscure the fur details and too little contrast would remove visual emphasis. After experimenting with a few levels, I settled on a balanced look.
I wasn't too satisfied with the red tint because it didn't convey the colors of night. I changed the hue and felt it was a more proper fit for the scene.
Fig. 7 Indohyus in its new home
Bajpai, S; Thewissen, JG; Sahni, A (November 2009). "The origin and early evolution of whales: macroevolution documented on the Indian subcontinent". J Biosci. 34 (5): 673–86. doi:10.1007/s12038-009-0060-0. OCLC 565869881. PMID 20009264
Rao, A Ranga (1971). "New mammals from Murree (Kalakot Zone) of the Himalayan foot hills near Kalakot, Jammu and Kashmir state, India". Journal of the Geological Society of India. 12 (2): 124–34.
Sample, Ian. "How Bambi Evolved into Moby-Dick." The Guardian.com. N.p., 19 Dec. 2007. Web. <https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/dec/19/whale.deer?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront>.
When Whales Walked
Fig. 1 Graphite, ballpoint pen and oil on paper.
Ambulocetus natans was an early whale ancestor capable of moving on land and underwater. Named from an almost complete skeleton from Pakistan, A. natans was sea lion-sized and likely ambushed its prey. Since it did not have a tail fluke, this amphibious cetacean ancestor used its prominent hind limbs as oars to propel itself underwater. Its dense limb bones(osteosclerotic) tells us that it moved well in estuarine habitats, but was probably clumsy on land. Its face was long, and crocodile-like, with eyes set dorsally and probably fed by drowning larger prey.
It was an important discovery in piecing together the cetacean family tree, as it showed how whales went from "land-lubbers" to blubber-laden fully aquatic ecomorphs.
How do we know it was a whale? The one feature that consistently unites whales and their kin are the ear bones (auditory bullae) and A. natans is no exception. Analysis of its ear reveals that Ambulocetus heard well underwater.
I wanted to show Ambulocetus in its element using the latest science. I began with a rough gesture drawing (Fig. 1) to which I then added digital textures in Photoshop. To understand the surface anatomy better, I created a muscle reconstruction (Fig. 2).
Fig. 2 Color pencil & ballpoint pen on paper; digital colorization in Adobe Photoshop.
Understanding of the musculature allowed me to work out lighting over the forms better. Although the coat pattern of Ambulocetus is speculative, I was inspired to use facial markings similar to those of modern whales. Lastly, I wanted to add very contrasted lighting for two reasons: 1.) to simulate the soft shadows seen in murky underwater photographs 2.) represent the former "mystery" of whale evolution and consequent "light" of discovery brought about by Ambulocetus.
Fig. 3 The finished piece: Ambulocetus takes a lungfish prey
Kemp, T. S. (2005). The Origin and Evolution of Mammals (PDF). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850760-7. OCLC 232311794. Retrieved June 2016.
Konami Ando, Shin-ichi Fujiwara, Farewell to life on land – thoracic strength as a new indicator to determine paleoecology in secondary aquatic mammals.
Thewissen et al. 2009, Ambulocetidae: the First Marine Cetaceans.
Afrotherian Systematics
Early sketch for Afrotherian Systematics
Once upon a time, (like pre-nineties) it was thought mammal orders were neatly compartmentalized groupings with clearly distinct ancestries. For example, it was common scientific belief all anteater-like mammals were related, all carnivorous mammals were a lineage, all hoofed mammals were another and so on, with not many complications to this pattern. However, new findings from evolutionary genetics have thrown a massive monkey wrench to the neat and tidy traditionalist taxonomic frame of Linnean Classification. These molecular studies sometimes conflict with morphology perspectives, as in the case of whale evolution, but overall provide crucial insights where gaps in the fossil record exist. Afrotheria is one such revolutionary idea emerging from this flurry of new evolutionary research, but with increasing data in support, becomes more solidified in the standard evolutionary framework.
Afrotheria: What Moles, Shrews, Elephants and Elephant Shrews Share
Afrotheria is an unique and ancient superorder of placental mammals first proposed in the late 1990's (Stanhope et al). It is also one of the oldest lineages of mammals to diverge. Chronological divergence estimates by Nishihara et.al using DNA transposable elements data indicate the three major supercohorts (Afrotheria, Boreotheria and Xenarthra) diverged nearly simultaneously in the Middle Cretaceous, right in the time of the non-avian dinosaurs.
Fig. 1 -A phylogenetic view of Afrotheria
Afrotheria consists of the basal members Ocepeia and Hyopsodontidae, and two clades, Afroinsectiphilia and Paengulata. Ocepeia is a hyrax-like mammal recently discovered in North Africa, and thought to be close to the ancestor of all Afrotherians while hyopsodontids were once part of that legendary “waste-basket” taxon Condylarthra. Hyopsodontids are thought to have been generalist early hoofed-mammals and thought to be omnivorous. Some like Hyopsodus were partially fossorial and one study even proposes a use of terrestrial echolocation by this taxon.
Fig. 2- Representative Afrotherians Vol. 1: 1. The Bibymalagasian Plesiorycteropus 2. The Ptolemaiid Ptolemaia 3. The Afredentate (?) Eurotamandua 4. The Embrythopod Arsinoitherium 5. The Desmostylian Paleoparadoxia
Fig. 3- Representative Afrotherians Vol. 2 : 5. Just another aardvark, Orycteropus 6. The golden mole, Chrysochloris 7. The tenrec Tenrec 8. The Macroscelid Rhyncocyon and 9. the hyrax Procavia.
Afroinsectiphilia carries the orders Macroscelidae (Elephant shrews), Afosoricida(moles, tenrecs and "regular" shrews) and Tubulidentata (Aardvarks), with possible inclusion of the extinct orders Bibymalagasia (Plesiorycteropus, enigmatic Malagasy mammal), Ptolemaiida and Afredentata (the infamous Eurotamandua). Something to note: African golden moles, under this premise, are not closely related to other moles and are similar due to convergent evolution. Additionally, the placement of Eurotamandua within Afrotheria is still highly controversial, and I have not found much information on this. Previously classified as an anteater, then pangolin, the relationships of Eurotamandua are still subject to change even though we have a complete skeleton in great preservation state. The inclusion of Bibymalagasia, Ptolemaiida and Afredentata is still tentative and subject to further evidence. As an interesting side note, affinities between Afrotherians and South American hoofed mammals known as Meridungulates have been considered (Agnolin et al.) based on vertebral count, knee anatomy and tooth replacement patterns. Now this makes sense (remember how Africa and S.America fit together perfectly?) but I'd like to see more research on this topic. God, how I'd love to see more research on this topic.
Paengulata group together orders Hyracoidea(Hyraxes), Proboscidae (Elephants and allies), Sirenia (Sea Cows) and the extinct Desmostylia and Embrithopoda (see fig. 2). Suffice it to say right now that Desmostylians are another highly intriguing group of large hoofed mammals that had amphibious anatomy, protruding incisors, and so many other neat anatomical feature. To put a modern analogy, think something like a beach hippo, but totally different. Bizarrely, Cooper et al have even proposed that Desmostylians are tentative perissodactyls. Embrithopods are another fascinating group that resemble a rhinoceros on steroids, although both lineages are not closely related.
Back to Ocepeia. Within Afrotheria Ocepeia is reconstructed as more closely related to insectivore-like Afroinsectiphilians (i.e., aardvarks, sengis, tenrecs, and golden moles) than to Paenungulates. One of the highly interesting features of the Ocepeia skull is the “character mosaic” nature of it; it represents the first known “transitional fossil between insectivore-like and ungulate-like Afrotherians”. The family Ocepeiidae supports the idea Afrotheria evolved in the either the earliest Tertiary or latest Cretaceous, making it one of the oldest lineages of mammals. This simultaneously knocks down hypotheses rooting the individual afrotherian lineages in Condylarth lineages of Paleogene Laurasia.
As previously mentioned, research into Afrotherian systematics is dismembering Condylarthra, and another group libreated in this taxonomic carnage is the family Hyopsodontidae, consisting of a few not-very specialized small taxa. The idea of Hyopsodontidaeas stem Afrotherians is rather new. Randolphe et al have proposed Eocene paenungulates and elephant-shrews are to be related to some Early Tertiary Euramerican ‘hyopsodontid condylarths. Like Ocepeia, these creatures evolved right after the KT boundry, when there was a wealthof niches available for mammals to exploit. The relationship between Ocepeia and hypsodontids awaits further fossil elucidation, but it does appear they are both close to the ancestor of all Afrotherians. The study also reports of cranial and dental evidence of Eocene stem hyrax and macroscelid from North Africa supporting Afrotheria. The publication was a seminal milestone in understanding the relationships of this amazing assortment of animals. Another interesting tidbit thrown out by the paper is that of possible Ptolemaiida affinities with Tubulidentata.
Bibymalagsia is the order that has only one member currently, the The ‘Malagasy aardvark’ (Plesiorycteropus). Found in Madagascar, this mysterious creature (the other more mysterious taxon right off the top of my head is Necrolestes from South America) was written off as “just another aardvark (Orycteropus), but bigger” until Buckley released a comprehensive study on the taxon. A complete skull has not been recovered, with only cranial fragments providing the only information on that region but with sufficient post-cranial material to work with. Buckley has challenged Plesiorycteropus's affinities with Tubulidentates on the grounds that similarities with Orycteropus are based on convergence, not shared ancestry: both genera show adaptations for digging lifestyles. Plesiorycteropus’s skeletal anatomy shows diagnostic traits of several different eutherian mammalorders as well and thus cannot be placed in any existing taxon. The Buckley paper also includes the first ever molecular data for the genus, “obtained from the bone protein collagen (I), which places the ‘Malagasy aardvark’ as more closely related to tenrecs than aardvarks. More specifically, Plesiorycteropus was recovered within the order Tenrecoidea (golden moles and tenrecs) within Afrotheria, suggesting that the taxonomic order ‘Bibymalagasia’ is obsolete.” This indeed means Plesiorycteropus is not just “another big aardvark” buta very large semi-mole insectivorous lipotyphyan. Holy shit! For the time being, though, the existence of Bibymalagasia as a taxon remains as we await new findings.
Agnolin, F. L., & Chimento, N. R. (2011). Afrotherian affinities for endemic South American “ungulates”. Mammalian Biology-Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, 76(2), 101-108.
Buckley, M. 2013: A molecular phylogeny of Plesiorycteropus reassigns the extinct mammalian order ‘Bibymalagasia’. PLoS ONE, 8(3): e59614. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059614
Cooper, L. N.; Seiffert, E. R.; Clementz, M.; Madar, S. I.; Bajpai, S.; Hussain, S. T.; Thewissen, J. G. M. (2014-10-08). "Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan Are Stem Perissodactyls". PLoS ONE 9 (10): e109232. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109232
Gheerbrant, Emmanuel; Amaghzaz, Mbarek; Bouya, Baadi; Goussard, Florent; Letenneur, Charlène; (2014). "Ocepeia (Middle Paleocene of Morocco): The Oldest Skull of an Afrotherian Mammal". PLoS ONE 9 (2): e89739. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089739
Horovitz, Inés, Gerhard Storch, and Thomas Martin (2005). "Ankle structure in Eocene pholidotan mammal Eomanis krebsi and its taxonomic implications". Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 50 (3): 545–548
Nishihara, H.; Maruyama, S.; Okada, N. (2009). "Retroposon analysis and recent geological data suggest near-simultaneous divergence of the three superorders of mammals". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (13): 5235. doi:10.1073/pnas.0809297106
Rodolphe Tabuce et al. (2007) Early Tertiary mammals from North Africa reinforce the molecular Afrotheria clade.
Seiffert, Erik R.; (2007). "A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence".BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7:224doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-224
Stanhope, M. J.; Waddell, V. G.; Madsen, O.; de Jong, W.; Hedges, S. B.; Cleven, G. C.; Kao, D.; Springer, M. S. (1998). "Molecular evidence for multiple origins of Insectivora and for a new order of endemic African insectivore mammals". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (17): 9967–9972. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.17.9967. PMC 21445. PMID 9707584
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By Sheyla
Polar Bear Pets A Dog In The Scariest (Most Touching) Footage You’ll Ever See.
When you love your friend it’s hard to contain your emotions. Sometimes you just want to tell the individual what he or she means to you, other times you just want to give them a warm hug, a cuddle, or a pat on the head.
Animals are no different, they show their affection whether it’s through licking, cleaning, or simply picking lice off their loved ones. They use the body language and mannerism that comes with their species, very rarely do they exhibit human idiosyncrasies.
David de Meulles, a tour-guide in northern Manitoba, Canada, and his clients were treated to very human-like display of affection in the cold and snowy landscape. de Muelles called it a “once-in-a-lifetime thing.” Luckily for everyone, he captured this event on video which has gone viral with over two million views.
A polar bear was seen sitting beside a dog overlooking the water in Manitoba.
David de Meulles / YouTube
The polar bear sniffs and gets closer to his new friend, the canine seems pretty unfazed by it all.
And just when you think it doesn't get cuter than watching the two animals bond, the bear reaches out with its massive paws to pet the dog.
He does this more than once while his buddy accepts the affection.
"I've known the bears to have somewhat friendly behaviour with the dogs, but for a bear to pet like a human would pet a dog is just mind-blowing," de Meulles told CBC News.
Watch this polar bear pet a dog like it's no big deal.
Source: David de Meulles
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Seth, Nala and Gordis
She lost her beloved Mom to cancer,
and her husband in a tragic car accident,
but even as a single mom with 3 young children facing
an unknown like never before,
she continued to care with a passion and commitment
for all those around her that needed help.
And no matter how rough the day may have been,
she knew that Seth, Nala and Gordis
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a good day.
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"UNEQUIVOCALLY & Surprisingly the MOST EFFECTIVE GRIEF SUPPORT Change Agent
for Our Family was a mixed breed puppy named Dusty...
After the traumatic death of my parents within a couple of years of each other,
life stopped, and while I went back to work after the funeral and continue to move forward as I was expected to, the truth was that it was anything but forward.
I threw myself into my work, and hoped the long hours would help to get me back on track.
While I was very productive and efficient, I was still not moving forward when I got home after work - There, life was still at a standstill since their death.
Then came Dusty,
a little mixed breed dog that wasn't quite potty trained when we got him.
I had heard of the healing power of pets, and while I love dogs and cats - I was too focused on the unimaginable loss to even consider how they could be of help in my grief journey.
I was wrong,
totally wrong.
Within the first day of bringing Dusty into our lives, my grief journey was never the same.
Grief is still there,
but there is something about Dusty that has forced me to focus and smile on the moment,
on now, and
to start seeing the steps forward from here."
My ever dearest Boni died 2 weeks ago and
we've been for 18 years together, she has cancer.
At first, she is a fighter because of not showing her suffering even her vet told me that she is brave and she keeps on fighting on the pain. Our 18 years together will end up in her cremation. It is painful and I do not know where will I start again. I decided to give her arrangement with the help of Pet cremation.
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Her aggressive cancer and very painful hospice at home was a very difficult time for the whole family. The pain of those memories still rises weekly, but they keep marching forward as a family because that's what their award winning teacher daughter, sister and aunt would have wanted from them, so they get thru it as a family.
A few years after their loss, Sanchi came along, and life changed again.
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Saudi Prince Agrees to Step Up Anti-Terror 'Pressure' with India
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Indian leader Narendra Modi vowed Wednesday to increase pressure on countries that fuel terrorism.
Neither mentioned a target, but their accord came as Modi has stepped up warnings to Pakistan following a suicide attack in Kashmir that left at least 40 paramilitaries dead.
Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, constantly accuses Iran of involvement in militant strikes.
Modi again slammed the "barbaric attack" last week as he said: "To tackle this menace effectively, we agreed that there is a need to increase all possible pressure on countries supporting terrorism in any way.
"It is extremely important to eliminate the terror infrastructure and stop support to terrorists and their supporters."
Prince Mohammed, who arrived in Delhi from a two-day visit to Pakistan as the cross-frontier tensions heightened, had offered to help the neighbours end the showdown over the bombing.
"Terrorism and extremism is a common concern for India and Saudi Arabia," the crown prince said after talks with Modi.
"I want to state that we are ready to cooperate with India, including through intelligence sharing," he added.
The crown prince, on his first major tour since the storm over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October, signed joint accords with Modi on industry and culture, but announced no major deals.
In Pakistan, the Saudi prince announced $20 billion of investment for the Muslim country.
Prince Mohammed was expected to go on to China later Wednesday.
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Home Conventions Star Wars Celebration VI:…
Star Wars Celebration VI: Clone Wars Season Five Premiere Event!
My love of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is not a well guarded secret. As a series, the Clone Wars continues to get better and better with each passing season and magically manages to deliver the same action and storytelling nuance that made the Star Wars of old the legend that it is today. I was lucky enough to attend the Clone Wars season five premiere and subsequent press conference at Star Wars Celebration VI, and even got a few bags of force infused popcorn to munch on while we watched! It really did taste better than regular popcorn.
The Event: I realized as I was sitting down that I hadn’t had the opportunity to see the Clone Wars on the “big screen” since it originally appeared in theaters in 2008. To be honest, I had the same “wiggly feelings” that I felt way back in 1999 when I lined up to see Phantom Menace for the first time. Seeing Star Wars with the community, in any of its incarnations, is always a goose bump inducing experience. Arriving early, I sat down in an isle seat and soon realized a lot of familiar faces were sitting right next to me. Cast members Dee Bradly Baker, Clare Grant, Sam Witwer, Ashley Eckstien (check out our now classic interview), and Seth Green just happened to plop down in my row ,making the experience of watching them on screen even more incredible. I attend a lot of conventions, but when things like this happen I still turn into a nerdy fanboy.
The Cast: If you’ve never seen the cast of The Clone Wars perform live, you’re really missing out. It was at Clone Wars panel two years ago that I really started to admire the craft of voice acting. Seeing the cast speak about their characters, as well as their love of all things Star Wars, really solidified the fact that the Clone Wars cast and crew are one big happy family . Sam Witwer returns this season as the shattered and broken Darth Maul, who is nothing like focused and deadly badass that we all remember. Sam briefly spoke with supervising director Dave Feloni about the intricacies of Maul and how, much like Vader, hatred kept his character from dying after a catastrophic series of injuries. If you haven’t heard, Sam is also a huge fan of all things Star Wars and probably knows more about the universe than you or I. It’s almost scary. I have a feeling that It’s going to be really hard for Feloni to kill Darth Maul all over again.
Sam Witwer stars as the newly resurrected Darth Maul and returns the fan favorite to the spotlight.
Season Five (spoiler free): Season five begins with Darth Maul, and his hulking brother Savage Opress, waging a campaign of terror on the outer rim of the galaxy. Their plan is to force the Jedi into action, and pick them apart one by one. The season five premiere is jam packed with incredible action set pieces and features some of the series best lightsaber duels that I have yet to see … period. While Maul and Opress steal the show, Obi Wan Kenobi proves without a doubt that he’s one of the best brawlers in the galaxy, and at one point had the audience cheering. Visually, the show looks better than ever, and it’s incredible to see how far its come since season one. On multiple occasions I forgot that I was watching an animated television series, as the shadows, character animation, and backgrounds are now cinema quality. With mutiple dismemberments, death, carnage, and even some pirates, the season five premiere was simply awesome. Season 5 will premiere on September 29th, as the show moves from Friday nights to Saturday mornings at 9:30am.
We have plenty more coming your way from Star Wars: Celebration VI ! Make sure to follow us @NerdAppropriate for updates.
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PAX East 2014: Invisible Inc. – Now you see it
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Oconee County Observations
News and comments about developments in Oconee County, Georgia
John Barrow Tells Oconee County Democrats He Is Proud Of Endorsements From County Republicans
***People Notice***
John Barrow, running as a Democrat for Georgia Secretary of State, told Oconee County Democrats last week that he was proud of his endorsements from Republicans, including from Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry and from former Oconee County Commission Chair Melvin Davis.
“Believe me, to have someone like Scott and Melvin on there is an eye opener for folks who know the score,” Barrow said of his list of endorsements.
The more general point, Barrow said, is that it is important for political leaders to listen to people who have views different from their own.
“I think that is just as true for Democrats as it is for Republicans,” Barrow said.
Barrow was the featured speaker at the Oconee County Democratic Committee meeting on Tuesday night, where he followed Lisa Lott, a candidate running in the nonpartisan election on May 22 for judge of the Superior Court for the Western Judicial Circuit, made up of Clarke and Oconee counties.
Lott said she was challenging Regina Quick, appointed by Governor Nathan Deal to the judgship in August of last year, because she felt voters, not elected officials, should pick the Superior Court judge.
Barrow On Office
Barrow, an Athens native, represented Georgia from the 12th District in the U.S. House of Representatives for five terms following his first election in 2004. He was defeated in 2014.
Barrow was a Scholar in Residence at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs for the 2015 to 2016 academic year.
In his comments to the 29 persons attending the meeting last Tuesday (Feb. 20), Barrow was very critical of the operation of the Office of Secretary of State under Brian Kemp, who is stepping down to run for Governor, saying the Office is not providing needed services to workers, businesses and consumers in the state.
“It is an office that has been neglected for far too long as a result of a kind of cronyism that comes from folks saying I won’t tell the voters what a lousy job you’re doing if you won’t tell the voters what a lousy job I’m doing,” Barrow said.
Paper Ballots
The most prominent issue facing the Office, Barrow said, is the result of the state’s using voting machines that leave no record other than what is recorded on the voting machine chip.
“We’ve got to overhaul our election technology and infrastructure and entire approach toward voting,” Barrow said.
“I think we need to go back to new and improved versions of paper ballots where the voters actually make their choice and their choice is counted with technology but it doesn’t depend on technology for its interpretation,” he said.
“If I had the authority, the office, we’d be doing that tomorrow,” Barrow said, “because the authority exists right now to do that.”
Barrow said Democrats should not tolerate any voter fraud. “We ought to make sure that everybody can prove who they are.”
“We don’t think in general that it happens hardly at all,” Barrow said of voter fraud. “But you shouldn’t be taking the position that it can.”
“We are making it too hard for people to register,” Barrow said. “It ought to be as easy for everybody to register as it is for anybody to register.”
“For too many people and for too long the Secretary of State’s Office has been a hindrance to registration,” Barrow said. “It ought to be more of a help.”
Endorsement List
Barrow has been promoting his list of endorsements, and Dan Matthews, a member of Watkinsville City Council and active Democrat, told Barrow he had a “very pointed question.”
“You came out with an endorsement sheet with 300-some odd officials in the state of Georgia. You had Scott Berry and Melvin Davis. Why didn’t you talk to me? Why didn’t you talk to Deborah Gonzalez? Why didn’t you talk to Jonathan Wallace?
"I’m dead serious about that,” Matthews said.
Barrow laughed and acknowledged he didn’t talk to Matthews.
Gonzalez And Wallace
Barrow said he did talk to both Gonzalez and Wallace, Democrats who represent Oconee County in the General Assembly. All other county office holders are Republicans.
“You can ask them what their problems were in trying to resolve their relationships with some of the other candidates in the primary,” Barrow said. “They will tell you. It would be presumption for me to say. But I did talk with them both.”
Other Democratic candidates for Secretary of State are former state Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler from DeKalb County and former Rockdale Tax Commissioner R.J. Hadley, who spoke to Oconee County Democrats last year.
Republicans in the race are Alpharetta Mayor David Bell Isle, Ken Brown, who owns a sales and business development company in Atlanta, state Reps. Buzz Brockway from Lawrenceville, Brad Raffensperger from Johns Creek, and state Sen. Josh McKoon from Columbus.
Raffensperger spoke to Oconee County Republicans last month.
Lott On Judicial Race
Lott told the Democrats that she is pleased the race for the Superior Court judgship is nonpartisan and that she is seeking the support of both Democrats and Republicans.
Lisa Lott
Lott said she decided to seek the office when Gov. Nathan Deal appointed Quick, a Republican then representing Georgia House District 117, to replace retiring Superior Court Judge David Sweat.
“I am a fervent believer in local control,” she said. “And I am so tired of Atlanta appointing every single one of our Superior Court judges.”
The last time the Western Judicial Circuit had a Superior Court Judge not first appointed by the governor was when Sweat was elected in 2002, Lott said.
Lott On Qualifications
Lott said she is qualified for the office because she has been a practicing attorney for almost 25 years, has been a prosecutor, and is currently the chief assistant in the Public Defender’s Office.
Lott said she has been in the Public Defender’s Office, which serves Clarke and Oconee counties, for almost 18 years.
“I have been immersed in the community in Clarke and Oconee County at the ground level,” Lott said. “Nothing surprises me.”
“I really feel like a good judge for our community should know the community, should know the community that he or she serves,” Lott said.
The video below is of the entire Feb. 20 meeting of the Oconee County Democratic Committee, which took place in the first floor meeting room at the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce, 55 Nancy Drive, Watkinsville.
Ann Stoneburner, vice-chair of the Oconee Democratic Committee, presided at the meeting.
Stoneburner began her introduction of Barrow at 22:01 in the video.
Lott began her comments at 1:58 in the video.
The video contains the business meeting, during which each of those present gave a personal introduction.
OCO: Oconee Democrats 2 20 2018 from Lee Becker on Vimeo.
Posted by Lee Becker at 11:57 PM
“Believe me, to have someone like Scott and Melvin on there is an eye opener for folks who know the score"
John Barrow, It's 2018, not 2008. A Melvin endorsement?? "For folks who know the score"??
Barrow has been in politics for three decades. How about gracefully stepping aside for the next generation of leadership, those with some fresh ideas?
Zippity said...
Yes, I agree anonymous.
Xardox said...
Nice long glowing article concerning Democrats.
I see nowhere in the article any attempt to check the facts behind the so-called "endorsements" by the two Republicans so quoted.
It is my understanding that both men have clarified these statements from Mr. Barrow attributed to Davis and Berry.
Mr. Barrow is a refreshingly reasonable Liberal floating in the leftist Democrat agenda of today.
Mr. Barrow not talking to Dan Matthews shows good judgment.
Lee Becker said...
Xardox,
I did check the list. The initial list was released in early August. All of the links to it were broken. I contacted the Barrow campaign and asked for the current list to make sure it contained Berry's and Davis' names. I received that list before I posted the story. The link to the list is in the post.
I did not contact Berry and Davis to ask them why they allowed their names to be on the list. Their names are on the list.
The video of the entire meeting is provided as a check on how I summarized what took place at the meeting.
I should have added this to the comment above. Barrow acknowledged he had not talked to Dan Matthews in advance. He called Matthews a friend, and said there were many friends he did not contact for the list. He laughed at the question (not at Matthews), as I wrote, but he treated the question seriously and responded.
I considered not using your comment because of the last line. I decided to use it to clarify what I had done in getting access to the list.
As I write often, I appreciate all comments but ask that they not be personal. There is substance to your comments, and then there is the personal. I admit that the personal is mixed with a comment on strategy, which tipped me toward publication.
I ask you to drop the personal and I also ask you to use your name. You have used your name in the past, and I would prefer you switch back to your name rather than use Xardox.
I prefer that all writers of comments use their real names and have stated that frequently.
I see three "Anonymous" and one "Zippity."
Xardox is a frequent commentator and that nom de plume is old.
Believe I'll stick with it. You know who I am.
I accept all criticism here or via other mechanisms.
If I am wrong, I have no problem admitting that
and have done so, into the microphone, when appropriate.
And I do regret that last line you mentioned.
It was rude, crude, and uncalled-for.
I apologize.
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Woman With A Camera
Nydia Tisdale went to Burt's Farm in Dawsonville to record the speeches by political candidates for her website AboutForsyth.com.
A summary of what happened next is available here.
This is Tisdale's video recording of the event. The last four minutes are the most important--and hardest to watch.
Here is an MSNBC report in which Tisdale explains what happened and where things stand with her arrest.
And here is a report by Brian Pritchard of FetchYourNews, who was present and shot some photographs of what happened as well as made an audio recording.
Paul J. Deutschmann Award
The Association for Education in Journalism named me the 2013 recipient of the Paul J. Deutschmann Excellence in Research Award at the association's annual conference on Aug. 10, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
A video clip from a special session at the conference for the the Deutschmann Award is available on the Oconee County Observations Vimeo Site.
Outstanding Contributor Award
The Oconee County Democratic Committee honored me on June 20 as one of 15 individuals making a contribution to the quality of life in Oconee County.
Dan Matthews, chairman of the Committee, cited Oconee County Observations in making the award.
Others honored included potters Kathy and Jerry Chappelle, Courtney Gale from the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, Peggy Holcomb, Oconee County director of tourism, Chuck Horton, former county commissioner, Melissa Steele, a local artist and blogger, and Vinnie Williams, owner and publisher of The Oconee Enterprise.
The Committee also honored the Jeannette Rankin Foundation.
Doctor Honoris Causa
I was given the Doctor Honoris Causa by the Senate of the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration on Dec. 4, 2012, in Bucharest, Romania. The Athens Banner-Herald wrote a story about the award.
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REVIEW: Coheed & Cambria Continue to Enlighten at Hollywood Palladium
March 25, 2016 by Jessica Klausing
By Jessica Klausing
Claudio Sanchez
photo by Jessica Klausing
Who doesn’t love them some Sci fy/Fantasy inspired music?
Coheed and Cambria played to an ecstatic crowd at the Hollywood Palladium on Tuesday. Fans waited in line for over five hours just to ensure a good spot in front of the progressive rockers. The night kicked off with three opening bands: Silver Snakes, I The Mighty, and Glassjaw.
Silver Snakes
Silver Snakes took the stage first. These guys reminded me of an early Deftones garage band. It felt like a time warp back to my middle school years in the early 2000s. The aggressive rhythm section fused with the gut bellowing choruses gave off an immaturity vibe. Alex Estrada can fill a room with his half growl, half scream vocals though! The sound was pretty decent if screamo is your thing.
I The Mighty
I The Mighty was the next act to follow. The venue was already starting to get packed at this time. These guys were my favorite openers of the night. This quartet hyped up the crowd with their ambitious energy. Lead singer Brent Walsch encouraged plenty of pushing and shoving. Much to security displeasure, he invited fans to try to jump over the barrier to get onstage. Of course, nobody tried this in fear of getting kicked out. Walsch admitted to being a huge Coheed fan by showing off his band inspired key tattoo.
By the time Glassjaw came out, fans were already going berserk. You would have thought that these guys were the main headliners. The band showed off their esteemed brand of hardcore metal and experimental rock. Many of the fans were proudly singing along to “Tip Your Bartender” and their latest “New White Extremity.” Lead singer Daryl Palumbo was bouncing around like a jackrabbit throughout the entire set.
Claudio Sanchez performs "Ghost"
At 09:30PM, Claudio Sanchez and his unruly mane took the stage with lead guitarist Travis Stever. The duo opened with the acoustic “Ghost,” as blinding fluorescent lights shone down upon Sanchez. Fans cheered and eagerly pushed forward in an attempt to get closer to the stage. The seasoned rockers kept on with the graceful pace of the song. Those calming vocals and delicate guitar strumming were only just building up the anticipation ready to burst in the venue.
Josh Eppard
As soon as drummer Josh Eppard and bassist Zach Cooper took stage-- all hell broke loose! The band launched right into “In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3” to bring the pace back up. Jumping, pushing, thrashing, dancing, crowd surfing are just a taste of many antics to expect at Coheed shows.
One notable highlight was the excessive crowd surfing action during “No World Tomorrow.” Fans were flying towards the stage as if it were the end of times. This writer even received a minor injury from a soaring super fan.
Travis Stever
The band toured in favor of their newest album, The Color Before the Sun. Half of the set list consisted of the brand new songs.
“Blood Red Summer,” “Island,” and “Everything Evil” followed the band’s traditional progressive rock flow. Sanchez has a one-of-a kind falsetto that just commands the attention in the room. His band mates are rock solid technical musicians. I can easily see why devoted fans would want to wait in line for hours.
Coheed and Cambria perform at the Hollywood Palladium
Coheed really stands out because of their unique ability to create something different. It is not too often you hear space agey synthesizers in today’s music. Sanchez captivated our imaginations with his powerful storytelling based off of his science fiction comics, The Amory Wars.
“The Favor House Atlantic” and “Here to Mars” were examples of this artistic imagery. Coheed really gets the point across with a mesmerizing LED light show. The lights were constantly changing colors and spinning out in different directions. It was a trippy experience!
“Peace to the Mountain” slowed things down with its calm, reflective message. “I learned to keep quiet/How to keep my distance/Afraid to let strangers in/How to keep my secrets.”
The band closed out the night with their biggest hit, “Welcome Home.” Sanchez shredded shamelessly on his double neck guitar while fans wailed out the “woahs.” This powerhouse metal ballad was the perfect note to send fans off.
2. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
3. Blood Red Summer
5. Everything Evil
6. Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant
7. A Favor House Atlantic
8. Here to Mars
9. The Hard Sell
10. No World Tomorrow
11. Atlas
12. The Audience
13. Peace to the Mountain
14. You Got Spirit, Kid
15. Eraser
16. Welcome Home
March 25, 2016 /Jessica Klausing
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PROMO Blitz: The Deadliest Fever by June Trop #excerpt #historical #mystery
A Miriam Bat Isaac Mystery in Ancient Alexandria
Date Published: April 2018
Miriam bat Isaac, a budding alchemist and amateur sleuth in first-century CE Alexandria, is concerned when she learns that the threads of gold in the Great Synagogue's Torah mantle have been damaged. She takes the mantle to Judah, a renowned jeweler and the unrequited love of her life. He repairs the threads and assures her that the stones in the mantle are still genuine. Like Miriam, he is astonished that someone would damage the threads but leave the gems behind.
Shortly before, the Jewish community of Alexandria welcomed their visiting sage and his family, who had just arrived from Ephesus on the Thalia. Also on the ship were the perpetrators of an audacious jewelry heist. And shortly after, the captain of the Thalia is found dead in a sleazy waterfront inn.
Can Miriam discover the connections among the jewel heist, the death of the sea captain, and the desecration of the Torah mantle before the deadliest fever claims its victim? Not without help from the bite of a rabid bat.
Other Books in the Miriam bat Isaac Mysteries in Ancient Alexandria Mystery Series:
The Deadliest Lie
A Miriam bat Isaac Mysteries in Ancient Alexandria, Book One
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books
Published: October 2013
She's a brilliant alchemist-with a talent for solving mysteries.
Miriam bat Isaac is a budding scholar in first-century CE Alexandria, though her dreams seem doomed. Who in her household or among her fathers Shabbat guests stole the scrolls containing the Alchemical League's valuable formulas? Perhaps the thief was even her frantic father, on the cusp of financial ruin, eager for Miriam to end her dalliance with a handsome jeweler and marry into an honorable and wealthy family. Or her rebellious brother, intent on raising money to travel to Capua so he can enroll in the Roman Empires most renowned gladiator school. Or her faint-hearted fiancé, who begrudges her preoccupation with alchemy and yearns for their forthcoming marriage?
And how did the thief manage to steal them? Miriam is not only faced with a baffling puzzle, but, to recover the scrolls, she must stalk the culprit through the sinister alleys of Alexandrias claustrophobic underbelly. The Romans who keep a harsh watch over her Jewish community are trouble enough.
Miriam is based on the true personage of Maria Hebrea, the legendary founder of Western alchemy, who developed the concepts and apparatus alchemists and chemists would use for 1500 years.
June Trop (Zuckerman) has had over forty years of experience as an award-winning teacher and educator. Now associate professor emerita at the State University of New York at New Paltz, she spends her time breathlessly following her intrepid protagonist, Miriam bat Isaac, who is back in the underbelly of Alexandria, once again searching for a murderer in The Deadliest Sport while worrying about her brother.
The Deadliest Hate
A Miriam bat Isaac Mysteries in Ancient Alexandria, Book Two
The Roman Empire may be the least of her enemies.
A secret alchemical recipe to transmute copper into gold surfaces in first-century CE Caesarea. As soon as Miriam sets out to trace the leak, Judean terrorists target her for assassination. Eluding the assassins while protecting a secret of her own, she discovers that she, herself, is responsible for the leak. Moreover she is powerless to stop its spread throughout the Empire and beyond.
But who is really trying to kill Miriam? Is it a case of mistaken identity, or is her late-fiancé’s ex-scribe, now an assistant to the Procurator of Judea, seeking to avenge an old grudge? Or is her heartthrob’s half-brother, a Judean patriot who inherited his mother’s mania, afraid Miriam knows too much?
And how did the recipe find its way from Alexandria to Caesarea anyway?
The Deadliest Sport
A Miriam bat Isaac Mysteries in Ancient Alexandria, Book Three
Miriam bat Isaac, a budding alchemist in first-century CE Alexandria, welcomes her twin brother Binyamin home to fight his last gladiatorial bout in Alexandria. But when he demands his share of the family money so he can build a school for gladiators in Alexandria, Miriam explains that he forsook his share when he took the gladiatorial oath. When she refuses to loan him the money for what she feels is a shady, and dangerous, enterprise, Binyamin becomes furious. Soon after, the will of Amram, Miriam's elderly charge, turns up missing, Amram becomes seriously ill, and the clerk of the public records house is murdered. Could Binyamin really be behind this monstrous scheme? If not he, who could be responsible? And is Miriam slated to be the next victim?
May 1, Thursday, Almost Midnight:
He waited, listening to the darkness flow into the sanctuary. With the thick drapes blocking the flare of torches lining the Canopic Way, the only light scratching the air was the meager glow of the eternal flame, the ner tamid of Alexandria’s Great Synagogue.
The coolness of the night had already begun to assert itself. Just a little longer, he told himself as his fist closed around the open edges of his long black robe. A few minutes later, as his other hand pulled back the hood over his head, he emerged from his hiding place, his body taut, his legs tingling from having stood in place for so long.
Stretching his cramped muscles, he approached the front of the Torah Ark. His fingers trembled with excitement, his eyes shining with greed as he drew open the parokhet, the curtain that screened the Ark.
“Like a bride’s veil,” he said to himself, amused by the analogy.
With a self-congratulatory nod and a tight satisfied smile, he pulled open the ornate bronze doors and carried the Torah to the Reader’s Table. For a few moments, he gazed at the coveted prize adorning the Torah mantle, three peerless jewels, each set into the bowl of one of the three vessels embroidered in gold on the mantle.
He didn’t need much light. His eyes were already accustomed to the darkness, and his hands had performed this procedure many times before. Taking a few deep breaths to calm the twitch at the corner of his mouth, he removed a slim wooden box from the goatskin pouch attached to his belt, took out his tools, and lined them up on the table: his silver pick, plyers, tweezers, snips, and a double-handled vial of olive oil. Then he undressed the Torah and positioned the mantle so the jewels caught the narrow strip of light from the ner tamid.
Oh, Lord! Even in the thinnest light, they spew out their fire!
Half-frightened, worried that he’d uttered the words aloud, he released only a feather of breath.
But hearing no echo, his jaw softened.
He was safe.
Then, hunching over the table, balancing his forearms against the edge, he took hold of the pick and laid his hands on the mantle.
He tried to loosen the center stone, the emerald. The setting was tight. Very tight. He tried again, this time after placing a droplet of oil on each prong.
This is going to take a while.
He shifted his weight and continued.
The silence was absolute save for the occasional sputter of the ner tamid and the distant rumble of hooves on the Canopic Way’s granite pavement.
Until he heard loudening footfalls ringing out against the tessellated floor, waking the echoes in the corridor’s coffered ceiling.
A crease of light swept under the sanctuary’s ceiling-high, bejeweled double doors.
He froze and held his breath, as fear prickled down his spine, until the clicking heels receded into the silence. He blinked slowly and released an unbidden sigh. Just the watchman on his rounds. He won’t come in here. He locked the doors to the sanctuary and all the outside doors to the Synagogue hours ago and won’t open them again until dawn.
His fingers worked through the night. Despite the chill, rivulets of sweat trickled down his back and collected under his belt. He straightened up now and then, rolled his shoulders back, and cocked his head as he admired his work.
His mouth curved into a triumphant smile.
Beads of saliva clung to his lips.
By now a pearly grayness was seeping under the doors. He could see the darkness dissolving. Objects in the sanctuary were reclaiming their color and shape.
He mentally ticked off the remaining tasks: Dress the Torah. Put it back in the Ark. Tuck my prize and the tools into the box. Slide it back into my pouch. Slip out as soon as the watchman unlocks the doors but before what’s-his-name…Gershon, that’s it, Gershon ben Israel…comes in to check the sacred—
Oh, Lord, what on Earth is that squeaking sound? Surely not a bird.
A sharp-toothed, leathery-winged bat shot out of nowhere, swooped across the sanctuary, and, wheeling around the bemah, took a dive, and nipped the crown of the man’s head before disappearing with a shrill screech behind the Ark.
His thin howl—part gasp, scream, and strangled sob—tore through the sanctuary.
Then he heard a pair of boots smacking the tiles.
I gotta get out of here! Where’s the—
Dressing it quickly, he shoved the Torah into the Ark, throwing everything else into his pouch.
Except the vial.
The vial. Oops!
Oil everywhere.
Oh, Lord! Not now.
A hasty wipe with the sleeve of his robe.
The rising volume of hammering footsteps.
Now two sets—one close, the other farther away but catching up. Their volume swelled as they turned a corner.
Must be Gershon trailing the watchman.
The jangle of keys. The ping of the latch as the watchman unlocked the doors.
No place to hide. And, Lord, all this blood gushing from my head.
“No, Daniel, no!” Gershon shouted. “The other way. Hurry! The scream came from the library.”
June Trop and her twin sister Gail wrote their first story, "The Steam Shavel [sic]," when they were six years old growing up in rural New Jersey. They sold it to their brother Everett for two cents.
"I don't remember how I spent my share," June says. "You could buy a fistful of candy for a penny in those days, but ever since then, I wanted to be a writer."
As an award-winning middle school science teacher, June used storytelling to capture her students' imagination and interest in scientific concepts. Years later as a professor of teacher education, she focused her research on the practical knowledge teachers construct and communicate through storytelling. Her first book, From Lesson Plans to Power Struggles (Corwin Press, 2009), is based on the stories new teachers told about their first classroom experiences.
Now associate professor emerita at the State University of New York at New Paltz, she devotes her time to writing The Miriam bat Isaac Mystery Series. Her heroine is based on the personage of Maria Hebrea, the legendary founder of Western alchemy, who developed the concepts and apparatus alchemists and chemists would use for 1500 years.
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Specialty Coffee House
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Located in Mansfield, Ohio's historic Carousel District, Relax, It's Just Coffee is a purveyor of specialty coffees, fine teas, and house-made breads and baked goods.
Relax, It’s Just Coffee... A genuine neighborhood coffee shop providing an "all access atmosphere" where coffee geeks, business leaders, artists, students, and neighbors can come together to work, create, RELAX, socialize, and unwind. Our objective is not to just sell coffee (though we are happy to do just that!), but to use the "coffee shop experience" to cultivate a community united by its love of coffee, tea, local art, and live entertainment.
With an extraordinary staff, welcoming environment, and high-quality, house-made baked goods, we aim to become an essential part of your everyday life. Whether you're looking for great coffee, interesting company, or extraordinary art and music, you'll find it here.
in the Carousel District
M-F 7a–7p
Sa 7a–7p
Su 9a–5p
We LOVE coffee.
Some like it steaming hot, others love it cold. To some it’s the main event, to others it’s the foreplay that starts the day or the postcoital tonic that caps a fine dining experience. For us, it’s a way of life that sometimes borders on obsession. We drink coffee before coming to work, in a coffee house. We plan trips based on potential coffee experiences. We approach a new roastery with a glazed look of insatiable desire.
Yep, we are deep in the throes of a mad, passionate love affair. But, alas, we are not singular, selfish lovers. Indeed, we carry the emerging banner of polyamorousness: we love many coffees and seek to share this love with many people. On any given day we will be brewing single origin coffees from some of best roasters on the planet, including our very own Relax Roasting Co., and every day you'll find our legendary house blend and house espresso. So stop in, let us share the love!
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Co-located with Relax, It's Just Coffee, the Blackbird Bakery offers a variety house-made breads and baked goods, baked fresh every day.
Desra Wells started Blackbird Bakery in 2012 after gathering years of experience in the restaurant and bakery industries. She wanted to slow things down a bit, give customers a taste of the quality, uniquely satisfying products that can emerge when you combine the best ingredients with passion and craftsmanship. Blackbird makes real, honest, hand-crafted breads, pastries, and sweets. We support and nurture relationships with our local community and are proud to be a part of Mansfield's emerging, vibrant food community.
Blackbird's roots can be found in mom's recipes. Made-from-scratch baking was the way Mom did everything, and the way we continue to do it every day. We strive to create a blend of nostalgic American favorites along with an artistic flair for unexpected flavors and beautiful presentation.
Desra --and her friend and partner in crime, Suzy Beeson-- like the idea of not getting too big, instead remaining focused on quality, passion, and community. Desra and Suzy complement each other's skill sets in creativity, technique and production methods.
"Without music, life would be a mistake." Friedrich Nietzsche
It really didn't surprise us to learn that you're not actually allowed to open an independent coffee shop unless you can quote Nietzsche. It did surprise us, however, to see how quickly that college philosophy came back to us!
Seriously though, music --especially original, independent music-- is integral to everything we do at Relax. It drives our days, punctuates our events, and fills our souls. Our shop is among the premier venues for local, regional, and national independent artists moving through north central Ohio. So if you feel as passionately about independent music as we do, keep an eye on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter feeds, for regular updates on upcoming shows.
"Art doesn't transform, it just plain forms." Lichtenstein
Since the arrival of coffee on the continent some 400 years ago, coffee and art have been inseparably linked; the Renaissance was, after all, fueled in part by the emergence of the coffee house. As such, a coffee house without art is like a bar without tequila... You might visit on occasion, but you'll never be inspired enough to join the bad monkeys in the creation of chaos.
At Relax, the art helps to create the atmosphere, the coffee creates the mood. If you think that you've got a collection of original works that should be seen on our walls, send us some images of your work through the ol' electronic mail... We will take a look!
Image by Riley Kemerling
419.522.1521 105 North Main ST, Mansfield, OH 44902 info@relaxitsjustcoffee.com
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By Maegan Tintari Dogwood Tavern, life & family April 26, 2018
Dogwood Tavern Restroom Renovation // Before and After
Now that Dogwood Tavern is finally open (THANK THE GOOD LORD) I can give you little insight into the renovation process, and I’m beginning with the restrooms. Why you ask? Because it’s the easiest place to start 🙂
We signed the lease on the building and it was finalized around November 2016 and by December, we had already begun renovating. The building is ancient, has been added onto about a million times and was in far worse condition than we could have ever imagined.
We took on the project ourselves. Yes, the three of us decided we were going to do all the work ourselves. But what began as just a few repairs and fix-its and a minor facelift, turned into a full blown renovation, because honestly, we had no other choice. Each time we tackled one problem, it left us with ten more to fix, and it was truly a nightmare and a money pit. But somehow, we did it, we made it work, the three of us and a few random helpers along the way, and I already find myself missing it, as horrible as it became, especially in the end days, we did it all ourselves and I’m proud of that.
While my two business partners worked at breaking out walls and creating new walls and sanding all the wood in the place, the original restrooms were one of the first projects I tackled, because well, it was one of the only things I could do at the time. I wanted to be as hands on as they were and the restrooms were the easiest place for me to start.
Restroom Hallway Before/After…
You can see here that the original interior had chalky textured walls and dark stained woodworking and beams throughout. We lightened everything up to give it a rustic modern feel and the restrooms had to be consistent with our theme.
We sanded all the wood down to the raw and stained it a few times with different aging stains until we found one that worked. We also had the walls smooth coated and we painted them a light gray.
We originally thought we’d wallpaper the bathrooms with this gorgeous tree lined wallpaper, and I even collaborated with Wallpaper Direct to do so, but as I stripped layer after layer of paper (since the ’70s) off the walls, it became very clear that if we wanted to repaper, we’d also have to re-drywall, and that was an expense we did not want to take on.
With the walls in disrepair, our only option for a commercial restroom was floor to ceiling FRP (fiberglass reinforced plastic wall sheets -because I had no idea what it was either). And technically, if we did repaper the walls, we would have had to go halfway up with the FRP anyway to meet health requirements, which I wasn’t entirely happy about.
Once we decided that white would be the cleanest option, we had to figure out how to create a rustic modern look that was consistent with the rest of our design throughout while making sure it met certain standards. I knew we’d take the wood flooring that is throughout the space into the restrooms as well, so it was really just about figuring out how to create countertops and stalls to complete the look.
I found this photo for inspiration…
* See my Dogwood Tavern Inspiration Board on Pinterest and my Dogwood Tavern mood board post for more.
One of my business partners, Chad, is an electrical engineer, but he can pretty much fix and/or build anything. Once we had the inspiration, he custom built the cabinet/countertops for both restrooms as well as the stalls, welding the metal pieces together and fitting the wood slats in to match. He installed the bowl sinks (which I still think should be turned 180degrees so the “hole” is on the opposite side) but he insisted on doing it his way 😉 It was a complete collaboration though and we all worked together on creating the look.
Below is a quick visual breakdown of the restrooms before and after.
Our main sources for materials were Peterman Lumber and Home Depot and I found all the mirrors vintage, and ripped the frames off of them and we hung them directly on the walls. The agate door pulls are from West Elm – I had two left over from my house 😉
Ladies Room B E F O R E…
As you can see, it was a gem 😉
It had two toilets with one stall that had a door and the second stall which had a bent rod with a shower curtain hanging around it. The area was so small that when you bent over to sit down, your head would stick out from the curtain.
What I didn’t realize until now is that we kept a similar mirror shape! It was by complete accident really, but I wish I had that original mirror because I would have used it!
Ultimately we ripped everything out and since the space was so small, ended up keeping only one toilet and creating a longer/larger countertop with a second little mirror for makeup retouches.
Ladies Room A F T E R…
The space is so small, it’s difficult to get a full shot of the space.
I’m really happy with the way they turned out though, and I try to get a selfie a few nights a week when I’m there and remember. You can see them on my Instagram stories/highlights.
Men’s Room B E F O R E…
Another gem!
Also covered in about 4-5 different layers of wallpaper spanning the decades, the men’s room also had the bonus of rotted walls and flooring around the urinal and toilet. There was wallpaper covering an old plastic covered wall, which was broken, so we ripped it out, along with everything else.
Also note: THIS wood wine box lid was conveniently covering a hole in the wall above the urinal.
Men’s Room A F T E R…
Unfortunately this is the only full shot I have of the men’s room as of now… but we kept the toilet and the urinal, adding a half wall next to a shorter countertop cabinet for a little privacy. It has one large mirror above the sink and ceiling lanterns vs the wall lanterns that are in the women’s room.
While both restrooms are a bit different, there are obviously consistent details, which you can see below.
Consistent details in both…
Because these two existing restrooms were so small, we had to build an entirely new restroom that was handicap accessible. It took us a year to get the permits for it, which held up construction, but now we technically have three brand new restrooms consistent with the design of our entire space.
Stay tuned for more Dogwood renovation posts, I’m just getting started 😉
Happy Thursday Lovecats!
* Find all my Dogwood Tavern posts here
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Such a huge difference from before ! You did a beautiful job on the finishes !
Thank you! I think they look much better in person as well. It’s so hard to capture the space! Thank you so much! xo
Awesome renovation. The rustic feel of the place is really beautiful. Nice work
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Home al-Shabab Ethiopia Jacob Juma Kenya News Ethiopia is Supporting al-Shabab to Destabilize Kenya: Kenyan Businessman
Ethiopia is Supporting al-Shabab to Destabilize Kenya: Kenyan Businessman
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Prominent Kenynan businessman Jacob Juma accused Ethiopia on Sunday of supporting the terrorist group al-Shabab to destabilize Kenya.
"Uhuru [Kenyan President] needs to ask African Union & UN to investigate Ethiopia on its secret supply of arms and support to Al-Shabaab. Ethiopia is a suspect." Said Juma via Twitter.
"Jubilee government must deal with Ethiopia and Kenyan Somalis to end terrorism in our country. Ethiopia supplies Al-Shabaab with guns and intel."
Juma believes Ethiopia wants to control the Horn of Africa by using the terrorist group to destabilize Kenya's stability and its vibrant economy.
Juma maybe right. Eritreans have long suspected the Ethiopian regime of seeking to undermine Kenya's economic position in the region so as to present itself as the more stable and viable option for Western companies.
Despite 6 million Somalis living in Ethiopia and its invasion and occupation of Somalia, not a single Al-Shabaab attack has been carried out within Ethiopia, adding more suspicion that the terrorist group maybe working with the Ethiopian dictatorship.
Ethiopia is Supporting al-Shabab to Destabilize Kenya: Kenyan Businessman Reviewed by Admin on 2:33 PM Rating: 5
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cane libero April 6, 2015 at 3:01 PM
Dear Jacob juma, i agree with you that ethiopian junta is destabilizing more the volatile region of horn africa but I think your government has to withdraw its military from Somalia..
B.Adal April 6, 2015 at 3:05 PM
Hell-O! Kenya & Woyane:
This is what they call "The chickens come home to roost".
You are free to blame anyone you want, the fact remains Woyane, Kenya and Uganda are the reason Somalia is a failed state. Your actions will be the reason your people will living in hell for sometime to come.
When "shit hit the fun" you finally started pointing your dirty fingers away from Eritrea and to the main source of hate, woyane.
Good luck to your poif people.
It might be a little too late.
Indeed it makes sense, why would Al-Shabaabe continue to retaliating against Kenya but not Ethiopia. On the other hand however, isn't the US/Ethiopia master/poodle relationship based on the laters willingness to fight US proxy war against Al-Shabaab? If indeed the accusation is true, Ethiopia surely is playing with fire by double crossing its main pay master and donor.
Agree with you. All Kenya has to do is withdraw its forces and problem is solved. They have no business in Somalia.
erty April 6, 2015 at 3:28 PM
Yea, right. Dream on. Just copy and paste, create fictional stories hoping to move the stinky stick Eritrea is using to destabilize the region can be blamed on someone. You guys are becoming pathetic. Your writings and reasoning are so ridiculous that can't even influence or cheat a two year old child. Every time when something tragic happens to the people in the region, you guys don't even show any apathy but think about how to spin the situation to gain some political advantage over Ethiopia. You are so predictable. You don't even have the sanity to differentiate what situation worth political gamble, you just throw it out there , to see if it sticks. What a desperate move!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lesson sweet heart, the accusation steams from a Kenya not Eritrea.
A Kenyan of Eritrean stooge. I could have waited to say something of this magnitude until someone in the official level in the Kenyan government say something than reporting a crude and a layman statement as a viable information. What he said is as good as anything we say to each other on the street everyday. If you make an opinion based on a casual conversation to influence polices and change a long standing terrorist pattern of an organization based on this kind of information that is as low as it gets for me and credential and credibility has no meaning for those who rely on such kind of information to inform the public and invoke critical thinking as a media out let. My understand of some of the websites is that they just throw something controversial out there so that people visiting the sites can go up. Other wise, I cant make any sense out of this article. Sorry, Bro.
TESFALDETABRAHA April 6, 2015 at 3:48 PM
NOW evry one know the lie & propoganda againstERITREA eritrea gets sunction for things it dont do this is shaim to UN
Ethiopia started fighting Islamic insurgency in 1985. USA did not come to the seen until 1995. Ethiopia is fighting its own war, not proxy war. USA is giving assistance to Ethiopia the fight against Islamic insurgence so that doesn't spill over . Islamic insurgence has been a problem for the region for a long time before USA was drawn into it after September 11. Please, read and gather information before commenting. That will help us learn a lot from each other. Information is power, If you don't have it seek it.
So you believe at face value so long as it comes 'at official level' and discount everything else, do you? How naive I suppose you were shaking your fist at your TV demanding Nato obliterate Iraq when the Bush administration feed you a lie about Saddam Hussain and it weapon of mass detraction? How naive!
Wrong, Wrong......Wrong at so may levels, I don't know where to start.
US involvement in Somalia did not start post 9/11. You know the story of Black Hawk Down, when US Military A-patch helicopter was destroyed by Somalia insurgentce. It happened in October 3 1993. See how clueless you are?
forto sawa April 6, 2015 at 4:34 PM
Exactly my thoughts! Thx brother D.
Before September 11 Ethiopia and USA were doing their thing, Cooperation among nation to fight terrorism started after Sep. 11. USA understood terrorism is a global problem that needs to be tackled collectively that is when they started a global coalition to fight terrorism. In 1985 Mengistu was fighting Islamic insurgence in east south of the country and asked the USA government for help, help was denied to Ethiopia until terrorists started to knock on door step of USA. The USA raid on Somalia in October 1993 was not coordinated with Ethiopia, USA bombed Sudan in 1998 from a ship. USA took action unilaterally to fight elements of terrorism but global alliance took place after September 11 incident. Remember the infamous quote "You are with us or against us." I did not say USA did not start fighting terrorism until September 11 but the cooperation between Ethiopia and USA to fight terrorism took shape after September 11 incident. I am just trying to help you stop barking, before you hurt yourself.
wedinakfa April 6, 2015 at 4:53 PM
you have tried your best but this guy with ZERO IQ he is ADGI as his father the Woyane.
That's when they say a mind is a terrible thing to waste!
Would you please stop insulting my ADGI, he has IQ >63.
Erty@ April 6, 2015 at 5:05 PM
Thank you the master of "IQ", but I would thank you more if you can explain how "IQ' is measured and the parameters used to get information about a person's "IQ" . Or are you just trying to portrait how intelligent you are by using the word "IQ" in the wrong place to the wrong people in every comment you post? what is your IQ? Get a life!!!!!!!
Wrong again, Gezzze, You really are clueless
In 1985 as a sociallist Mengistu was an staunch ally to the Soviet Union and had nothing to do with the Capitalist United states. Where did you get your education Erty? The dedebit University of Tigria? Please stop embarrassing yourself, enough already.
Adgi has limited intelligence, I couldn't say the same about this individual.
simba April 6, 2015 at 5:36 PM
I am glad to hear this accusation by a Kenyan. It is never to late. Kenyan authorities should wake up an open their eyes and see who is stabilizing our region. It is now or never to stop this evil intentions of the Ethiopian regime. As long as the weyanne regime is ruling Ethiopia, our region will never be in peace. It is a wake up call for our Kenyan Kenyans.
Erty well look at your self, you are the best measurement for IQ, needless to search among 80million ppl. LOL
1985 Mikel Gorbachove come to power. The soviet union was about to collapse. Help coming to Mengistu from USSR was slowing down. He was walking a very tight rope and he was trying to mend relation with USA but he was rejected so many times. Even though mengistu was an ally of the old soviet union he was also looking for new relations ships to survive the demise of the soviet collapse that is when he was looking for new friends in every excuse way possible. USA had a good reason to say no because the government was on its knee from political pressure and insurgence to fall apart, it took only few years for that to happen.
Abadit Haile April 6, 2015 at 6:50 PM
The west never cares for the president Kenyata, and they will do what it takes for him not rule Kenya no more than one term.
Al Shabab, Boca Haram, Isis....... all share the same finger print,and they all created by the west.
My friend, Murphy's law says when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging! Now you are telling us Mengistu for-saw the fall of Soviet union before the Soviets themselves?
'84 was "we are the world" and "do they know it's christmas" that's Ethiopians. Thank Galdoff and reminisce how he saved millions.
As to the either or Bush jr's rhetoric, it was just that and the majic word has no shape or form therefore its use is left to interpretation- can be used against anyone at any time at whim. The case of Andy and the many bloggers and "journalists" that are languishing in inferior woyane prisoners.
Your aramba na kobo accusations of the Somali insurgency of the eighties as an act of terrorism is sinister to say the least.
Ogbazghi Amare April 6, 2015 at 9:20 PM
Simba, Ethiopia is owned by the west what ever Ethiopia does, it is because it has to answer to the higher authority. Al Shabab,Bokaharam,ISIS,are owned and created by the higher authority. This factions are created to destroy and create havoc in the area.The west don't like Kenyata crime of this nature will go on.
Expert April 6, 2015 at 9:32 PM
US anti-terrorism effort did start post 9/11. USA entered Somalia in early December 1992 are part of a joint military task force known as Operation Restore Hope. At the time, there were no terrorists organizations even operating in Somalia. The city of Mogadishu itself was divided up between Ali Mahdi, who controlled the northern part of the city, and Mohamend Farah Aidid, who controlled the southern part of the city. It was clan warfare at the time, terrorism had nothing to do with it. The EPLF use to have an office in Mogadishu in a part of the city known as Bermuda by the camel meat market on the way to the sea port. Even at the time Bin Laden was working in Mogadishu with the Islamic Red Cross movement.
Sorry Daniel with all due respect, Kenya does have the right to have its forces in Somalia. Even before the Westgate tragedy, there had been the earlier bombing of the USA Embassyin Nairobi and attacks on hotels in Mombassa. Kenya's tourist trade was at stake.
Fact is that the Eritrean Government earlier supported the ICU and key members that split to form Al Shabaab. Do you guys not remember 2006-2009 when a number of our hotels in Asmara were full of Somalis and they maintained an office on the road to the airport? Defecting members of the ICU became the key members of Al Shabaab. Given that said, the Eritrean Government has over recent years scaled back support to Somali groups that are opposed to the UN supported TFG Government. And with Ethiopia, they militarily occupy 50 kilometers of Somalia land on the other side of the Ethiopian border, effectively expanding the border of Ethiopia. Somalis still try to attack Ethiopia but most of the action is these days taking place in Somalia where Ethiopia is illegally camping.
Actually Menghistu was at a time interested in mending fences with the USA but the USA had already jumped borders and were supporting Somalia.
I believe that Menghistu seen the end of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s when he started to arrange for felashas to be traded with Israel for cluster bombs.
Erty April 6, 2015 at 10:09 PM
The time line is not that important but ethiopia's interst in somalia is not driven by proxy war to serve USA, but ethiopia figthing some islamists. Thank you, expert, for clarfing some of the time line, if you get someone who gets. Mengstunever took of his eyes of USA, but US for the most part pushed Mengstu away and he become a USSR satellite, with out going through some details , this is the fact
Lalmba April 6, 2015 at 11:08 PM
Absolutely! Kenya has brought the problem on itself. It doesn't have any business to be in a sovereign country like Ethiopia foolishly is doing. I am TOTALLY against what Al Shabab does and its principles. But, for Kenya and any other country meddling in Somalia is UNACCEPTABLE.
iihabeshasuperheroii April 6, 2015 at 11:17 PM
Dear Erty
Please don't waste your time arguing with Eritreans. A homeless can only shit on someone else's lawn and that's Eritreans for the past 15 yeas
LibiTigray April 6, 2015 at 11:45 PM
Weyin, 99% what you read here is supported by credible evidence. However, the accusations and claims that come from your weyane have no credible evidence. In fact most of it is fabricated and PHOTOSHOPPED!! I know it is a desperate situation for your organisation and it really is a bitter pill to swallow, but it is what it is hon.. If I was in your shoes I would probably have said the same thing and denied everything I would have even Photoshopped the bombing of Bisha by the airforce and also Massawa, even Dahlak, except I would not find the latest picture of the up and coming pearl of Red Sea.
Daniel April 7, 2015 at 12:03 AM
"US anti-terrorism effort" KKKKKKK.......
You are priceless if not pathetic.
erty April 7, 2015 at 12:07 AM
Thanks, i get it.
Are you telling us, the only reason AL-Shabaab hasn't attached Ethiopia's heartland as of yet is because it couldn't infiltrate it's borders?
The question I like to ask is, what kind of drug are you on pal?
MEMMH´R April 7, 2015 at 12:21 AM
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hawi55 April 7, 2015 at 1:09 AM
I'm pretty sure the west is privy to who funds them and its their partners or soon to be xpartners house of saud. It's all over the media outlets that are not western., the finger is pointing to the saudi's and the young defense minister their is in over his head in my opinion. He doesn't understand the subtleties of covert warfare like his father.
jart April 7, 2015 at 4:39 AM
KEBIT!!IN ONE PARAGRAPH YOU JUMPED FROM MURPHYS LAW TO THE SOVIETS, BOB GELDOFS WE ARE THE WORLD;BUSHS WITH US OR AGAINST US ,ANDYS IMPRISONMENT.ARE YOU TRYING TO SHOW OFF? OR AS USUAL BELITTLE ETHIOPIA. WHAT IS NEXT? WE HAVE MENDED OUR DIFFERENCE WITH THE SUDAN,DJIBOUTI WILL SOON FEDERATE WITH ETHIOPIA.KENYA AND ETHIOPIA HAVE THE BEST RELATIONS,SOMALIA YOU HOPEFULLY KNOW HAS OPEN BORDERS AND TRADE IS BOOMING .SOUTHERN SOMALIA GOVERNMENT TO GOV RELATIONS HAS NEVER BEEN CLOSE.Mr EXPERT GO BACK TO SAWA FOR RETRAINING, RECURRENT TRAINING...YOU NEED ONE.
Expert April 7, 2015 at 4:40 AM
Hi Daniel. That is not what I said. Please do not put words in my mouth and please keep your rudeness to yourself. Not only Al Shabab but other groups, mainly those from the Lower Juba alliance, have penetrated Ethiopia's heartland. The Ethiopian Government quickly clamps down on stories and little comes out in the media. Some of the hotels in Addis Ababa have been targeted and there are constant security problems in the Somalia region of Ethiopia. There is a curfew in Jijiga with body checks at checkpoints at certain hours of the evening.
US anti-terrorism efforts for the HoA are now based in Djibouti along with other nations deployments. However, I do know that the USA has a drone base in Arba MInch. It is supposed to be a secret but everyone knows about it. It runs raids on Somalia frequently.
forto sawa April 7, 2015 at 5:10 AM
To be precise when carter came, that was the End. Mengistu was working on his exit..
Mikhael Mihretaeb April 7, 2015 at 5:34 AM
Crime committed by weyane is always covered by the united snakes of america!
Not only weyane, but all the united snakes of america puppets.
Erena April 7, 2015 at 5:38 AM
Expert- that is in no way a justification for Kenya to go all the way and invade Somalia. If what you said is true, Kenya should have focused in securing peace and stability within its borders, not outside. This crossing borders, invading a sovereign nation in the name of fighting terrorism is bogus and is just a tool the west use to manipulate puppet leaders and control areas. Kenya should consider getting out from Somalia.
LibiTigray April 7, 2015 at 5:42 AM
Awzi elehelka tsuwa..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2YCcvyJD0
Patriot April 7, 2015 at 6:01 AM
Where are you now living? America like Hawi55. Go back to Eritrea and slave away in national service you coward hypocrites.
Cane, the Kenyan government is the most corrupted in Africa. Very easy to bribe anyone in Kenya, even the high ranking officials,so Alshabab can do whatever they want to do.
And the bad thing is that Eritreans are allowing the weyene to shit on their land and hold it. We need to take it back by force! We need a government with ball not one that is only trying to hold onto power until they die.
cane libero April 7, 2015 at 7:25 AM
Mikhael àrekey ruhus bealat fasika neàkan nebieteseben b hafeshawi qe a ne kullu hezbena..
The same to you Cane!!!!!!.
Alec you April 7, 2015 at 8:59 AM
Ethiopia started fighting Islamic insurgency in 1985. hahahaha.....
Porco! what is there to show off? your ethiop is a text book example when it comes to man made calamities. from kara kore to dedebit what has been recurrent is the never satisfied empty stomachs of your citizens. BTW you are multiplying by millions therefore a somber functional strategy is an order. Your click "alley dog" was boosting by 2025 you are planning to import outside labour; but can I ask you an honest question? we are roughly 6 million and you at 96, so in what logic do you arrive at such conclusion? or is it as your the majesty put it, when asked what is the number of your population? his highness replied in a straight face 500. The rest of you did not amount to be count worthy. I see the same pattern here; woyane thinks it is the only one to be counted for, or at least for your logic to work that is the way forward,
Also my brother MEMMH'R has put it in the language you understand but still is a dimbeet a dimwit like you?
Kenya receives financial aid for its presence in Somalia and thats why, the Kenyan government was banging the drums of war at that time. but, When u put gasoline on fire it's only going to get bigger and then it will consume everything in its way. and now kenya is trying to change its tone...wen the fight comes to its country and destroying its people, but not to the woyane-tigray b/c they are the supporters of the terrorist group al-Shabab to destabilize the whole east Africa.
Kenya receives financial aid for its presence in Somalia and thats why, the Kenyan government sends its forces in Somalia. The things people do for money!!....
Mikhael Mihretaeb April 7, 2015 at 10:18 AM
No, thanks God. If I were in the united snakes of America, they would have sent me to Guantanamo bay prison for free speech or might have abused me like they had done in Abu Ghraib prison.
I'm not a boot liker like you. There is a cleaning job in the White House, go and apply it!!!!
Good luck for the future, I hop everything's works out well for you!!!!
What patriot?
You are race traitor !
jart April 7, 2015 at 10:29 AM
KEBTI. ....ANOTHER SIX MILLION DIASPORA. .THE SUN NEVER SETS FOOT ON AN ERITREAN,LIKE THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE BRITS. FORGOT!!!!!!!!!!! ANOTHER 6K IN UGANDA AND RWANDA ARRIVING SOON.
THE TWEET...YES. FULL STORY ...OFF COURSE TO CAUSE PUBLIC OUTCRY ...HOW MUCH WAS HE PAID? LIKE DOLCE ,THE WESTERN LADY?
Eri Denkel April 7, 2015 at 2:50 PM
Finally we get the Truth but we are more interesting to know the hall truth adding to this very interesting topic Kenyans are very wise and intelligent the refused the Woyane lies about Eritrea supporting Al-Shabab without providing a single evidence just only envy.hatred,selfishness ,evil minded,venom ...etc what can we say also the are HASSADAAT you know Kenyans are business oriented people just go to Nairobi and see by yourself blessed with a long coastal beach on the Indian Ocean next to Somalia finally this SATAN EVIL regime is caught red handed (Do u remember those foreign terrorists caught in Somalia and sent to Ethiopia which set them free !!!!
Let us wait & see please follow up with these very important topic and bring us up to date information.
sahle April 7, 2015 at 11:30 PM
Dear Hon. Jacob Juma...you never cared or paid attention to Eritreans early alarm bell warnings? It's good now you've realized whom you've been dealing with...the rest is up to you and your government.
Absolutely right...
sahle April 8, 2015 at 4:37 AM
I wonder how you call yourself Expert? Kenya should have tightened the boarder...not invade other sovereign country..See now...what happened by sending their troops to Somalia? They have not solved the problem...in fact it's getting worst...more threats are coming...
Lisa Buckley April 8, 2015 at 5:39 AM
!!! How I Get My Husband Back With The Help Of Dr.Ukaka !!!
“LOVE is the key to LIFE”. That was the word from Dr Ukaka when I consulted his powerful Love Temple. I married the wrong man; I realized that after four years of our unfruitful marriage. Everything was going from Best to Worst in our life, no child, I got demoted from work after our marriage, my husband was sacked a year after. His application for new job in various offices was constantly declined even though he was qualified enough. I was made to take care of my family with the low income I earn get that wasn’t enough to pay our rent. We keep praying a seeking for help from some people, my friends laugh at me behind because I was advised not to get married yet.It was one Thursday night that my husband woke me up and told me that has thought enough about our crisis, he said that our crisis is not ordinary and it’s beyond our spiritual level. He suggested we should consult Dr Ukaka from testimonies he showed me online about how he has been helping families. I was afraid, I don’t like evil or spell but I supported him to contact him if he can help us. We consulted him via freedomlovespell@hotmail.com and he replied positively after 20munites with congratulating email that he can help us but he will need our pure heart and trusts in his work if he will cast the spell on us and purify our life. We agreed to his terms. He cast the spell and told us to expect results within 5days. I waited for three days nothing happened, so I started having doubt and blaming my husband for emailing Dr Ukaka. It was on the fifth day that my husband was called for an interview and he got a well-paying work, I was prompted to a higher position. I missed my period on the 5th day and it was confirmed that I am with a baby. Things have really changed for us for good and we now have our own house and cars. I will never forget what Dr Ukaka told us “LOVE is the key to LIFE”, this word keep me going. People that laughed at us are coming close for help and I am delighted to welcome them because my family is now blessed. Dr Ukaka is a savior and man that keep to his word even when I doubted his powers at the end of the spell. Thank you great Dr Ukaka and your Oracle for helping us via freedomlovespell@hotmail.com and I will keep spreading this message to people in need of help. also contact him for help.website address: freedomlovespelltemple.yolasite.com ;)
“LOVE is the key to LIFE”. That was the word from Dr Ukaka when I consulted his powerful Love Temple. I married the wrong man; I realized that after four years of our unfruitful marriage. Everything was going from Best to Worst in our life, no child, I got demoted from work after our marriage, my husband was sacked a year after. His application for new job in various offices was constantly declined even though he was qualified enough. I was made to take care of my family with the low income I earn get that wasn’t enough to pay our rent. We keep praying a seeking for help from some people, my friends laugh at me behind because I was advised not to get married yet.It was one Thursday night that my husband woke me up and told me that has thought enough about our crisis, he said that our crisis is not ordinary and it’s beyond our spiritual level. He suggested we should consult Dr Ukaka from testimonies he showed me online about how he has been helping families. I was afraid, I don’t like evil or spell but I supported him to contact him if he can help us. We consulted him via freedomlovespell@hotmail.com and he replied positively after 20munites with congratulating email that he can help us but he will need our pure heart and trusts in his work if he will cast the spell on us and purify our life. We agreed to his terms. He cast the spell and told us to expect results within 5days. I waited for three days nothing happened, so I started having doubt and blaming my husband for emailing Dr Ukaka. It was on the fifth day that my husband was called for an interview and he got a well-paying work, I was prompted to a higher position. I missed my period on the 5th day and it was confirmed that I am with a baby. Things have really changed for us for good and we now have our own house and cars. I will never forget what Dr Ukaka told us “LOVE is the key to LIFE”, this word keep me going. People that laughed at us are coming close for help and I am delighted to welcome them because my family is now blessed. Dr Ukaka is a savior and man that keep to his word even when I doubted his powers at the end of the spell. Thank you great Dr Ukaka and your Oracle for helping us via freedomlovespell@hotmail.com and I will keep spreading this message to people in need of help. also contact him for help.website address: freedomlovespelltemple.yolasite.com ;).
“LOVE is the key to LIFE”. That was the word from Dr Ukaka when I consulted his powerful Love Temple. I married the wrong man; I realized that after four years of our unfruitful marriage. Everything was going from Best to Worst in our life, no child, I got demoted from work after our marriage, my husband was sacked a year after. His application for new job in various offices was constantly declined even though he was qualified enough. I was made to take care of my family with the low income I earn get that wasn’t enough to pay our rent. We keep praying a seeking for help from some people, my friends laugh at me behind because I was advised not to get married yet.It was one Thursday night that my husband woke me up and told me that has thought enough about our crisis, he said that our crisis is not ordinary and it’s beyond our spiritual level. He suggested we should consult Dr Ukaka from testimonies he showed me online about how he has been helping families. I was afraid, I don’t like evil or spell but I supported him to contact him if he can help us. We consulted him via freedomlovespell@hotmail.com and he replied positively after 20munites with congratulating email that he can help us but he will need our pure heart and trusts in his work if he will cast the spell on us and purify our life. We agreed to his terms. He cast the spell and told us to expect results within 5days. I waited for three days nothing happened, so I started having doubt and blaming my husband for emailing Dr Ukaka. It was on the fifth day that my husband was called for an interview and he got a well-paying work, I was prompted to a higher position. I missed my period on the 5th day and it was confirmed that I am with a baby. Things have really changed for us for good and we now have our own house and cars. I will never forget what Dr Ukaka told us “LOVE is the key to LIFE”, this word keep me going. People that laughed at us are coming close for help and I am delighted to welcome them because my family is now blessed. Dr Ukaka is a savior and man that keep to his word even when I doubted his powers at the end of the spell. Thank you great Dr Ukaka and your Oracle for helping us via freedomlovespell@hotmail.com and I will keep spreading this message to people in need of help. also contact him for help.website address: freedomlovespelltemple.yolasite.com ;),
sanjaw sewbela April 11, 2015 at 3:17 PM
I am afraid that the silence we Ethiopians are making on our gov'ts invasion one day the pay back of Somalis on our country will be deadly and destroying us.
Ethiopia is responsible for de-esatabilizing the whole Eastern Africa by the Aid of the West.
Dhaba April 12, 2015 at 6:38 PM
Daniel the all-knowing, take a break! You do not need to the past of Ethiopians while there are more pressing problems north and east of Ethiopians
Daniel April 12, 2015 at 8:48 PM
Dehab the Dedeb,
Read my first reply To Erty and you will see it wasn't me who started Ethiopia past history. I was merely correcting Ert'y assertion. And for the record Ethiopia pressing problem is of no concern to me.
ca April 14, 2015 at 3:51 AM
What ze fuck wrong wiz u men! U have zese ego zat's eats u inside! I will not make zese dialog wiz u! grow up!
james mack October 11, 2015 at 1:37 AM
My Wife divorce me for no reason, Thanks to Dr Dr.jarto for bringing back my wife,and brought great joy to my family once again, My name is Perez Mark. i live in USA Washington Dc, I`m happily married to a lovely and caring wife,with two kids A very big problem occurred in my family seven months ago,between me and my wife so terrible that she took the case to court for a divorce she said that she never wanted to stay with me again,and that she did not love me anymore So she packed out of my house and made me and my children passed through severe pain. I tried all my possible means to get her back,after much begging,but all to no avail and she confirmed it that she has made her decision,and she never wanted to see me again. So on one evening,as i was coming back from work,i met an old friend of mine who asked of my wife So i explained every thing to her,so she told me that the only way i can get my wife back,is to visit a spell caster,because it has really worked for her too So i never believed in spell,but i had no other choice,than to follow her advice. Then she gave me the email address of the spell caster whom she visited.(Dr.jartospellcaster@gmail.com}, So the next morning,i sent a mail to the address she gave to me,and the spell caster assured me that i will get my wife back the next day what an amazing statement!! I never believed,so he spoke with me,and told me everything that i need to do. Then the next morning, So surprisingly, my wife who did not call me for the past seven {7}months,gave me a call to inform me that she was coming back So Amazing!! So that was how she came back that same day,with lots of love and joy,and she apologized for her mistake,and for the pain she caused me and my children. Then from that day,our relationship was now stronger than how it were before,by the help of a spell caster . So, i will advice you out there to kindly visit the same web site: http://Dr.jartosp.blogspot.co.uk/,if you are in any condition like this,or you have any problem related to "bringing your ex back. So thanks to Dr Dr.jarto for bringing back my wife,and brought great joy to my family once again. { Dr.jartospellcaster@gmail.com }, Thanks you Dr Dr.jarto, i will always be testifying about your good work.This spell is a 100% Guarantee for your situation.
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PTJ 173 News: Heaving Las Vegas
January 7, 2016 J.D. Biersdorfer Leave a comment
If it’s early January, you know there’s going to be a warm blast of hot air coming from Nevada no matter what the actual weather forecast. Yes, it’s time for the Consumer Electronics Expo out in Las Vegas! The show is underway this week and the product announcements are popping out left and right. Creations like the OMbra, a $150 brassiere with fitness tracker tech built right inside have already snagged headlines. Wearables in general are a big trend this year, as are even more gadgets for your smart home. The Ford Motor Company is adding Apple’s CarPlay and Android Auto to its 2017 models, newer, faster drones are on the way, virtual reality gear is finally here and many more products will be sporting a USB-C port in the future. Some journalists are finding this year’s crop of tech to be a tad underwhelming, though.
Bored with the current alphabet soup of 802.11 flavors? This week, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced 802.11ah, a new low-power, long-range variation that operates in the frequency bands below one gigahertz. It’s designed to work with smart home, connected car and fitness and medical wearables. This new Wi-Fi also comes with a trendy nickname: Wi-Fi HaLow. (Can Wi-Fi JLaw be next?)
Microsoft, ever so excited to get people moved off older versions of its operating systems, announced on one of its blogs this week that Windows 10 is now active on more than 200 million devices worldwide. Still, when it comes to computer adoption, Windows 10 hasn’t quite nudged the needle past 10 percent mark. Net Applications, which measures these things, reports that Windows 10 is now on 9.96 percent of machines out there. Windows 7 continues to lead the PC pack, nabbing just under 56 percent of usage. As one might have predicted, a Microsoft marketing exec is already expressing concern over Windows 7’s future and sounding that old “use it at your own risk” warning. Bloggers have called FUD Factory on that one and point out that Microsoft itself is supporting Windows 7 until 2020. (Oh, and Microsoft also found time over the holidays to release a new iOS called Microsoft Selfie designed to make your quick bits of photographic narcissism look better.)
Speaking of things that aren’t what they appear to be, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has tested out T-Mobile’s Binge On service. After the EEF looked a little deeper and found that T—Mobile was actually “optimizing” ALL video streams, even those from non-Binge On participants. The EFF is now calling ion the FCC to take a look into this service, which could be more accurately called Throttle On.
Some analysts are predicting a rough 2016 for Apple, citing a somewhat boring year of products in 2015 — the year that saw the Apple Watch, a revamped Apple TV and a great big iPad. Then again, remember that Apple has $206 billion in cash on hand and is expected to do $77 billion in sales this quarter. Apple does not care about you, analysts.
In the Department of Scary News, security blogger Brian Krebs has a recent post about how some companies don’t properly verify the identifies of their customers for things like password resets. He bolsters his argument with the story of how his own PayPal account got hacked.
Could a power outage in Ukraine last month have been the latest shot fired into the Internet of Things in the creeping cyberwar? Kalev Leetaru, a guest contributor over on the Forbes website seems to think so. He describes an incident that took place in late December where several cities in Western Ukraine lost power for about six hours and very sophisticated malware was found on the computer systems of the power company.
Twitter has plans for the first quarter of 2016 and is said to be working on a feature that gives users a 10,000 character limit for tweets, up from the current 140 characters. No specific launch date has been set and Twitter is not confirming anything. Some have already noticed that Direct Messages have a 10K character limit as well, so perhaps it’s not a totally new thing from inside Twitter HQ.
Mark Zuckerberg, boss of Facebook, has some goals for the New Year. As stated on his own Facebook page, this year’s personal challenge is to build his own voice-controlled artificial intelligence powered software assistant to run his home. “You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man,” Mr. Zuckerberg writes. We’ll check back on this one at the end of the year.
Also in challenges, Dean Kamen’s FIRST organization is kicking off the year in robot-building. More than 350 New York City high school students are set to participate in the regional FIRST Robotics Competition next week in Brooklyn and Manhattan, with the regional contest due for March at the Jacob K. Javits Center (which New Yorkers can now get to easily by SUBWAY after all these years.)
And finally, the DriveSavers company has been called upon by many to rescue digital data from crashed hard drives and other unfortunate incidents, and the engineering team there has now been credited with excavating text files from 200 old 5.25-inch floppy disks that belonged to the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Although DriveSavers said it got about 95 percent of the text back, one thing it couldn’t talk about was the content of the files, which was subject to privacy agreements with Roddenberry’s family. But let’s keep an eye out for some “recently discovered” Roddenberry scripts in the next new months.
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Movie Room Reviews does an Interview with Actor / Producer Paul J. Alessi
View Interview Online at: http://movieroomreviews.com/paul-j-alessi/interview-paul-j-alessi-91271
MRR- Hey Paul, you are a pretty multi-talented on and off camera these days. You have acted in movies like A Guy Named Murphy, Morphine, and Knuckle Draggers which you also produced. Recently, you played a mechanic in the film Born to Race can you tell us a little about the film and your role?
Paul- Born To Race is a teen street racing film and I play an evil pit crew mechanic that tries to help the bad guy win a drag race competition. If you’re into cars, you should check this movie out. It was made by “car guys” for “car guys”, the filmmakers worked really hard to make it as authentic as possible.
MRR- In 2009 you played Kyle in Knuckle Draggers and won “Best Actor” at the ReelHeART International Film Festival. What was it about this role that garnered so much attention from the audience? Do you feel it was your best work?
Paul- Knuckle Draggers grabbed the audience’s attention because it is a movie based on truth. There’s no gimmick, no over the top comedy, just truth about relationships. My character Kyle comes off as the “chauvinistic, pig headed, macho type” but in actuality he is only putting on this “show” to cover up the pain from his divorce. Do I feel it was my best work? That’s a tough question, taking on a leading part and producing the film was a huge challenge. As actors we are always most critical of our own performances because we always want to do our best, I am proud to say that I feel I did a solid job with both acting and producing in KD.
MRR- You decided to start producing and in 2006 you did the films Alison and Ten ‘til Noon. What made you want to start producing and how has it affected your acting career?
Paul- After working on a few projects as an actor and helping out on set I found that I was doing what a producer would do and I enjoyed it. A few friends kept encouraging me to start producing so I figured why not, this way I could work with my friends and know that I was making good quality projects.
MRR- You list Mark Wahlberg, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Edward Norton and Vince Vaughn as your biggest inspirations. What is it about these guys and their performances that you find so influential?
Paul- I feel that these actors have been able to develop solid careers in a competitive and forever changing business and I admire that each in their own way have been able to grow and succeed on both sides of the camera.
MRR- I read that you have been working on a web series with Judd Nelson, Traci Lords and Alexis Arquette. What is that all about and where can people check that out at?
Paul- Here and Now is a comedy about a guy in a mid life crisis who yearns to be young again, you can check it out on itunes.
MRR- It looks like you have a big upcoming role in the film Chapo with Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead) and are working on Lost on Purpose with Jane Kaczmarek (Malcom in the Middle). Is it hard to switch from being in front of the camera to behind the camera on a daily basis and has it given you more appreciation for all the different jobs people have on the set?
Paul- Being on both sides of the camera has definitely made me appreciate all of the jobs that go into making a script come to life. Switching my acting hat to producing hat can be a handful. When we have a decent budget that allows me to bring more crew on to help lighten my load, it makes a huge difference but in the indie world that’s not always the case. The bottom line is doing both jobs is not an easy task, so big budget, low budget, sleep or no sleep, I just do whatever it takes to make it happen.
MRR- I see that you are a big hockey fan and being from Detroit I know how thrilling going to a game can be. Did you ever have any dreams of becoming a professional hockey player and if so, for what team?
Paul- YES I sure did have dreams about being a professional hockey player and without a doubt I wanted to play for the New York Rangers, I bleed Blue. I spent every summer at the Providence College Hockey School in Rhode Island till I was 16 years old. I was what you would call a “Rink Rat” I was on the ice as much as possible. At the prime of my training I broke my lower back, which took me out of the competitive game. I still play in an adult hockey league.
MRR- Paul, what can people look forward to seeing from you in the future and where can they go to keep up with what you are up to?
Paul- I am attached to produce the upcoming MMA drama MICKEY KELLEY with director/actor Sean Patrick Flanery.
My website is:
http://www.pauljalessi.com
http://www.imdb.me/pauljalessi
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Whenever I get time I love to spend it with people in the frontline of our public services. It really helps me understand how things work and what the challenges are.
Doing a shift with a team of frontline officers was brilliant, I learned so much. This is a team who join up all the work in communities striving to prevent crime happening and supporting people moving away from criminal activity. But they are also out on our streets patrolling and keeping us safe.
Whilst our police are doing a brilliant job in very challenging circumstances, officer numbers have fallen to their lowest level in 30 years, and the police have recorded the highest crime rises in a decade. Under the Tories, over 21,000 police officers and 6,700 community support officers have been axed, despite a promise to protect the frontline.
The Labour Party takes the issue of community safety extremely seriously, and in our 2017 manifesto we committed to hiring 10,000 officers to rebuild the links between the police and the communities they protect. We also pledged to properly fund local authorities so they can invest in things like youth services which help to address the underlying causes of crime.
We are committed to promoting a more joined up approach across the public sector, ensuring the police work in close cooperation with local authorities, health and social services. In order to deliver stronger, safer communities.
While I was out with the Police we were popping in and out of communities, stopping at one point at the sight of someone peering through a ground floor window (as it turned out they had just rented the place but not moved in yet and wanted to have a look!)
The final stop was at a homeless night shelter in Hove where the support staff were working closely with the police to tackle street begging which is not only affecting our community but also posing huge problems for many of the people begging too.
By adding to police officer numbers and prioritising the frontline, we would enable officers to adopt measures which prevent crime as part of neighbourhood policing, for example focusing on repeat offending, victimisation or problems in crime hotspots.
My Labour colleagues and I are doing everything we can to raise these issues in Parliament. Labour’s Shadow Police Minister Louise Haigh MP led a debate in Parliament on police funding, emphasising that “the police are increasingly unable to respond to the basic tasks that we ask of them, to tackle crime in our communities,” we call on the Government to take steps to increase officer numbers.
Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott MP also spoke during the debate, urging Ministers to “address the real concerns among policemen and women and in communities about this Government’s failure to fund policing properly.” If you are interested, you can read the full debate here:
Please rest assured that myself and my Labour colleagues will continue doing all we can to put pressure on the Government to take action and make the safety of our communities a priority.
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March 26, 2018 / Roby Brown
During SXSW 2018, the HBO series "Westworld" came to life in a three-day immersive activation. I visited Sweetwater to see how this level of immersion could translate into themed entertainment. My first two posts list eight Lessons from SXSWestworld. Read the first post here and the second one here.
In this final post, I'll focus on some of the things that I thought were missing from my SXSWestworld experience. As a whole, this experience was a home run. There were only a few things that made me step out of the role of a guest and put on the themed entertainment creator hat. It's hard to lose yourself in the immersion as you're simultaneously thinking of how everything works and analyzing on the fly. These four observations may not have been necessary or practical for the short shelf life of SXSWestworld. With that in mind, consider these four points as you design an immersive themed entertainment experience.
WHAT WAS MISSING FROM SXSWESTWORLD?
1) PERIL
Guests flock to thrill rides because they bring us a near-death experience. Think of the boulder rolling towards us in the Indiana Jones Adventure or the Dementors in Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. Coasters feature danger before the thrills. Iron Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas lifts out of your seat as you plummet 171 feet at an 81-degree angle. Thrill rides give us peril just before pulling us back to safety.
"Westworld" is a show where things go wrong. While the in-park guests and Delos employees are supposed to be free from danger, the hosts have other plans. The constant threat of peril looms throughout the show. SXSWestworld was a peril-free experience. Some of the hosts shot foul language at us, but we were never in harm's way.
If our rides and attractions give us a near-death experience, we should consider ways for our immersive lands to do the same.
What would peril look at the SXSWestworld activation? Imagine that a Delos employee grabs your arm and forcefully shoves you inside a doorway. After walking through a dark hallway, you find yourself inside the office of Dr. Robert Ford — the park’s creator. After being forced to sit down, another Delos employee interrogates you about your experience. Who have you talked with? What have you seen? The conversation takes a turn, and you start to wonder if YOU are a host. After getting nowhere, the interrogator dismisses you back to Westworld.
Small moments like this — ones that take you off to the side of the full show — can be a way to inject a sense of peril into the experience. Granted, in a theme park full of families, this can be tricky to achieve. Forcing a family member away from a group won’t fly. Can you soften the moment of peril? Can you deliver the peril in a side conversation? Make it global — the fate of the Rebellion is in your hands! There’s peril, but you’re not directly in danger. Finding a way to raise the stakes for your guests will pay off with a thrilling experience.
2) STRONG GUEST-TO-GUEST INTERACTION
Interacting with the hosts at SXSWestworld was the principal attraction of the experience. It's exciting to be chatting with the actors as they send you off to find clues. At the same time, if guests are only interacting with actors, then the illusion of immersion can disappear. When guests only seek out actors when they need clues or help, then the actors become nothing more than a checkmark on a list of "things to do." Encouraging guest-to-guest interaction opens up many opportunities for immersive storytelling.
The SXSWestworld activation had a guest-to-guest interaction tactic that attempted to get strangers together. Outside of the Sweetwater jail, wanted posters — each one featuring faces of guests wandering the park —were posted. If you returned a “wanted” individual to the on-duty deputy, you received a reward.
It’s one thing to be bold enough to speak to an actor wandering the town. It’s another thing to find a stranger and convince them to come with you. What's in it for them? Speaking for myself, I wasn’t up for approaching strangers for a reward. I can see how that kind of thing works better with a group. It’s much easier to hand over a family member or friend.
The guest-to-guest interaction that I was more than happy to participate in happened organically. Two girls noticed that Colin was wandering around with his canvas painting. They approached him and said that they found another person with a similar picture. That woman was having no luck in finding answers. The two girls thought that showing the paintings TOGETHER would spark a reaction from a host.
Ultimately, It didn’t work. It's possible that a specific host needed to see the pictures. While the poster paring didn't pay off, I enjoyed seeing that the task was a genuine way to get connect people. Rather than adversaries, we were working together. It was less awkward to approach someone seeking a common goal, rather than turning them in for a one-sided reward.
If your themed entertainment experience is seeking ways to get strangers together, consider ways for them to pair up that have a shared reward. The bandit/reward scenario may work for close-knit groups or bold extroverts, but it’s a slippery slope. If my wife found herself on a wanted poster, there was NO WAY she’d be going with a stranger (or me). There’s a risk of posting a picture of someone that doesn’t want to be involved, and being singled out could ruin their day. Consider clue-based connections, where you need to find someone wearing a particular necklace or piece of clothing. Knowing that theme parks are large places where people hop between lands, you may need to add more connection opportunities in case the necklace you need spends all their time in Tomorrowland.
Speaking of the wanted poster ruining someone's day — Austin resident Elijah Wood found himself on one of the wanted posters. I was a few feet from Elijah as he saw his face on the poster… and immediately ran away.
3) MANAGEABLE AMOUNT OF CHARACTER INTERACTIONS
The Westworld activation featured 50+ actors. This large cast was full of — as far as we know — 50 different backstories, agendas and stories that each of them could share.
The focus of the SXSWestworld experience was on the actors. There were no attractions, shows, or shops to distract us. We were there for conversations. When I arrived, I was intimated by the number of characters wandering around. Where do I start? Who is the principal individual? Visitors could choose to spend 90-minutes following one character. What if that character does not reveal what the visitor wants or expects them to reveal? It's wonderful to have a choice, but for some people, it can be overwhelming.
It’s likely that the experience was designed for us to experience SOME of the characters and SOME of the show scenes that took place at the different locations. In a themed entertainment space — full of distractions — some people may not even notice the characters. In SXSWestworld, they were designed to be around every corner. You did not need to travel far to interact.
For a limited time experience, 50 characters was a good amount of people to make the town feel populated. For bigger themed lands, the amount of characters depends on the story you want to tell and the ease of initiating those interactions. Are 25 characters in the soon to be packed Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge too many or not enough? Would anyone bother talking to 50 people? Do the guests need to interact with everyone, or will the game clues be passed out by key actors? Your cast can’t be window dressing — they look pretty, but don’t add anything. Seek to have a clearly defined story and populate it with an appropriate but not an overwhelming number of actors.
Attractions have a test and adjust period — immersive experiences should do the same. Start with 30 players and examine if that is too much or too little. Cycle through guest feedback and see if interaction fatigue sets in. Will two Hogwarts Professors work fine rather than three? Obviously, there are budgetary reasons that will define your cast. No matter your cast size, make sure that they populate your word with enough personality and purpose to make each guest interaction memorable.
4) MULTIPLE NARRATIVES
The SXSWestworld experience was designed as a three-day experience. The project team worked for months writing, designing, building and casting this limited-time experience. The singular narrative and 90-minute show wowed fans, visitors and media around the country. There's no doubt that SXSWestworld could have run for weeks and it would still receive rave reviews. At the same time, would the Sweetwater show still feel fresh a month later? Would your conversation with the outlaw still sparkle? If you solved the riddles and knew the answers, would the experience be appealing?
A three-day experience and a massive themed entertainment land are different animals. People visit them in very different ways. The Annual Passholder has different experiences and expectations than the family that visits every five years.
No matter the experience, wonder fatigue will set it. People know the jokes the Jungle Cruise skipper will say before they say it. With an immersive themed entertainment land, sticking with one narrative from day one will inevitably cause the novelty to disappear quickly. If my son has uncovered the secrets of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge during his first trip, why would he chat with a smuggler on his second visit? You will sail past the island if you've already discovered the treasure.
Swapping out show scenes, ride audio and effects inside attraction is an expensive undertaking. Keeping an interactive narrative fresh OR completely changing your story would be a significantly less costly undertaking. In an ideal setting, you create two or three immersive stories while you're building your land. When it's time to open up, you have three set stories that can be swapped out daily.
Let's say Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge has three narratives:
A) Rescue Mission
B) Find the First Order Spy
C) Complete the Jedi Quest
All three of these would — ideally — use the same characters and special activations or interactions that were built with the land. Guests would be more inclined to interact with the actors if there was variety. Guests would never know what narrative was "Running" on the day they visit — unless they initiated a conversation. Each quest would share the same interactions or show scenes or sets, but they would be used differently. You'd need to talk to the BB-8 unit instead of the R2 unit — depending on the narrative. The smuggler that you thought was a spy for the Rebels turns out to be a First Order sympathizer.
Broadways shows run for years with the same familiar songs, lines and dances. Immersive experiences require tweaking so that the interaction is changing and stays fresh. If you don't tend to your narrative and refuse to adjust, then your actors will disappear. They will become a show without an audience. Just another photo opportunity instead of something really special.
I hope you enjoyed my recaps from SXSWestworld. Do you have any additional thoughts to add? Do you feel that these lessons can be applied to themed entertainment? Let me know in the comments below.
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Lessons from SXSWestworld - Part Two
During SXSW 2018, the HBO series "Westworld" came to life in a three-day immersive activation. I visited Sweetwater to see how this level of immersion could translate into themed entertainment. Read the first post, which contains my first four Lessons from SXSWestworld here.
5) ARE YOU BUILDING AN OPEN-ENDED OR CLOSED QUEST?
As a show, “Westworld” is more than happy to give you plot twists, double takes and supply you with answers that only lead to more questions. One of the key plot features of the first season featured a character, the Man in Black, searching for something called “The Maze.” There was no doubt that the SXSW Westworld activation would send guests searching for clues about the show’s new season.
I approached my visit to Sweetwater as if the town was one big scavenger hunt. I’d seen guests posting clues and tips from previous days. I went on Sunday, the final day, so there was plenty of information on social media that pointed out what to see and do. The one thing I hadn’t seen is a post on anyone “solving” the mystery. Was there a mystery to be uncovered in Sweetwater?
On my visit, I found secret locations, participated in a chase for coins and assisted my pal Colin’s quest to make sense of the painting he’d dug up. We left Sweetwater without a definitive conclusion as to what the mystery of the town was. Did we miss something? The answer could be this = there was no conclusion to be found.
Human nature drives us to tie things together. To find patterns that lead to a resolution. Why would we spend time searching for things that lead nowhere? I have no idea if there was a conclusion to the Westworld activation. It’s possible that the reward of the experience was the chase. The wands in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter allow you cast different spells. What happens when you complete them all? Nothing. You have the satisfaction of knowing that you did it.
For themed entertainment spaces, it makes sense to choose one or the other — open-ended activities with no resolutions OR closed quests that can begin and wrap up in a day. For theme parks, it may make sense to be explicit with the quest — find a pilot, rescue a rebel — since the theme park visitor will have other diversions — rides, other lands, dining and such.
Closed quests bring closure and a euphoric high. This could help parents who may have to deal with a compete meltdown if their daughter has to leave without rescuing a rebel or solving the big puzzle.
Open-ended quests can still provide value and allow the theater of the mind to play a role in wondering what the assembled clues or artifacts mean. In IP-based locations, clues from upcoming movies can be placed inside the land. Guests will need to see the movie in order to understand the full meaning of what they found.
Regardless of the quest, designers of immersive themed entertainment lands should include an element that can help gameplay. That element is....
6) ESTABLISH A RESOURCE CHARACTER
He would never admit it, but Colin was getting sick of showing his horse painting to people.
Roped into excavating the gravesite of Dolores Abernathy, Colin dug up a rolled up painting. Curious to know if it would reveal a clue, he started showing it to people around town. None of the hosts he showed it to recognized it. It wasn’t until he showed it to the town sheriff did he learn that the painting belonged to Dolores. The sheriff quickly accused Colin of murdering Delores! Dun dun duuuun! Colin was able to talk his way out of that encounter. While we knew WHO painted the picture, we didn’t understand WHY it was significant to the SXSWestworld experience.
With the townsfolk of Sweetwater leading him nowhere, Colin turned to one of the Delos Incorporated employees that wander around the park. To Colin’s surprise — or relief — she told him that there was nothing special behind the painting. Another group showed her a drawing of a person that they found in their post office envelope. The same response — nothing special about it.
There was a strange sense of relief knowing that someone was revealing this information. While the Delos employee stayed true to her character, she was very helpful and honest in that we were not going to dig any deeper.
The Delos actor's commitment to the role never wavered. When presented with one of the mysterious table name cards some guests found in the hats, she said the meaning of those would be revealed on April 22nd. April 22nd is the date the new season of "Westworld" begins. She never said words such as “show” “premiere” or “episode”. She was still “in character” and let us know that we didn’t need to go nuts looking for answers.
We don’t know if the Delos person was lying to us or was breaking character. It’s possible that she was a kind of Dungeon Master or Game Keeper — someone who knows the rules, can provide cues and be a rescue of sorts. Whatever she was, her actions helped us reset our expectations and enjoy our day.
If you’re designing an immersive experience for a theme park, consider designating one of your players as a Resource Character. This is a character that delivers information that is stripped away of clues, riddles and mystery. When one of your guests reaches a frustration point, they are directed to the Resource Character for some straight talk.
The Resource Character is AWAYS in-world. They act as a temporary mentor and guide. Their role is to give the guest a clear path towards the next point in the adventure. They would be a last resort — someone to assist a parent with a child on meltdown alert. Think of the Resource Character as a cheat code. They help you clear one hurdle, but may not help with the next one.
7) CREATE A COSPLAY-FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT
Cosplay. Dapper Day. Disney Bound. Today’s theme park guests are decked out in clever outfits that are tributes to their favorite characters, films and attractions. While dressing in costumes is still restricted to children, teens and adults don’t think twice about themed threads. Bounding is the way to go.
With the Westworld activation taking place in Texas during the annual SXSW conference, there was already a large number of folks in Austin wearing cowboy boots and pearl snaps. It’s hard to know how many people dressed up in Western garb just for their visit to Westworld. While the majority of people were in conference clothing, you could tell that some people went out of their way to dress up for their visit to Sweetwater. I put on a pearl snap shirt, grabbed a bandana and put on my less-dressy jeans for the occasion. Colin brought his hat, red western shirt and bolo tie. We looked nothing like the actors, but we enjoyed playing along with the activation.
The Westworld activation shows that cosplay is not limited to theme parks or comic conventions. No matter what your IP is, fans will find a way to dress in a way that fits into the world. Embrace how your fans are dressing up to play along. Can you find a way to recognize and reward those that dress up? Will young children in Jedi robes be called to play a role in a secret mission? Will that adult in a Han Solo-ish outfit be questioned for smuggling? Consider what your guests will be wearing and tailor interactions around those outfits.
8) AUTHENTIC EMOTION IN A FICTIONAL SPACE
Anger. Joy. Surprise. Love. Lust. These emotions were on full display by the visitors to Sweetwater. Actions by hosts — passing on knowledge or innuendo-loaded conversations with a prostitute — stirred up genuine emotions, thoughts and feelings.
Themed entertainment experiences, such as theme parks, are shunned as fake, false and devoid of authenticity. The irony is that these spaces are places where genuine emotions are often stirred up. Children smile with joy in meeting a character and adults shed tears when they see Hogwarts for the first time. These actions are as genuine as those we experience in the “real world”.
For me, the success of the Westworld activation at SXSW was not that it presented a fully realized world based on an HBO show. Every guest going in knew that these were actors and not robotic hosts (bummer). The success was that the experience and narrative evoked emotional responses from many of the guests, myself included. When emotions are activated, we become invested in the experience. We do things that we may not do back in the real world — walk up to a rifle-bearing woman and ask about their life story or team up with strangers to complete a quest. By stirring up authentic emotions in a fictional space, the Westworld activation drew guests into the experience in a way that many of them probably were not expecting. Activate emotions, and you have created an unforgettable experience.
For theme parks, the same kind of emotional activations already exist. The challenge lies in having meaningful encounters with characters that we don't know. We recognize Mickey, Shrek and SpongeBob. None of the key Westworld characters were represented at the activation. New land-specific characters — Hogwarts Wizard, Rebel Spy — need to create quick connections without the benefit of recognition. The characters that interact with guests must stir those same emotions and reactions. Otherwise, the experience will feel like a facade.
Check back on Monday, March 26 for part three, where I’ll talk about some things that SXSWestworld was missing. Were you able to experience at SXSW? How was your visit to Sweetwater? Did you uncover any secrets? Let me know in the comments below!
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Lessons From SXSWestworld - Part One
For three days in March, the future of themed entertainment sat forty minutes outside of Austin, Texas. Populated with drunks, criminals, law enforcement, prostitutes and preachers, this destination was the location for affluent individuals who paid handsomely for an experience unlike anything else in the world. Every desire was at their fingertips. The setting was elaborate and pleasant, but it refused to keep its secrets buried.
March 20, 2018 / Roby Brown/ 2 Comments
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Seeing the person beneath the skin
By Jessie Moniz
Published Oct 3, 2009 at 12:01 am (Updated Feb 10, 2011 at 5:10 pm)
It's 82 degrees Fahrenheit outside and Diana Gilbert is wearing a wool sweater.
Mrs. Gilbert is a senior letters of credit administrator at Butterfield Bank. She is also one of three known people on the Island with a rare condition: ichthyosis.
The Royal Gazette met with Mrs. Gilbert, 34, and two other people with ichthyosis — Agina Smith, 13, and Laura Ashton, 23 — as Ichthyosis Awareness Week kicked off yesterday.
Agina Smith, 13, Laura Ashton and Diana Gilbert who all suffer from the rare condition Ichthyosis.
All forms of ichthyosis include dry, rough, scaly skin. Some forms are present at birth, others appear later in childhood.
One million Americans suffer from it and certain types are more prevalent than others. It also varies in severity.
Some types simply look like dry skin and can be treated with lotions from the drugstore, while other forms, such as lamellar ichthyosis, which Miss Ashton has, have more severe symptoms.
The scaling can be very painful. It can restrict the body's range of movement, pull so tightly around the face that the eyelids turn outward, cause deep cracks or fissures at the joints, adversely affect hearing and more.
A genetic abnormality is present in all types of the condition, but the abnormal gene has not yet been identified for all forms of ichthyosis. It is diagnosed mainly through skin biopsies and blood tests.
"Feeling cold is a common symptom among people with all types of ichthyosis," said Miss Ashton.
She works as an analyst in the risk management department at ACE Tempest Life Re.
"I've heard at conferences on ichthyosis that we may be cold a lot because our skin doesn't properly keep heat inside of our bodies but lets it out too much," she said.
Despite their skin not trapping heat very well, many people with ichthyosis are also prone to overheating because the scales on their skin don't allow sweat to properly exit their pores.
"Now that I have reduced scales on my skin, thanks to the oral synthetic retinoid [vitamin A] treatment I have taken since the age of 14, I do sweat a bit more than when I was a child and so am less prone to overheating," said Miss Ashton. "It can be hard in the summer, when everyone else wants the air conditioner on high."
Mrs. Gilbert said they wanted to raise awareness of ichthyosis on the Island.
"We wanted to get the word out," she said. "One of our goals is to one day have a place where people can come and talk about their skin.
"Not just ichthyosis, but for people with any skin condition, including burns. It is important that people not feel alone."
Mrs. Gilbert has Netherton syndrome, whose characteristics include red skin and short, fragile hair.
Miss Ashton said it was unusual for three people to have it within a small population.
"It can be genetic,' said Mrs. Ashton. "In my family, my parents are both carriers for the gene and didn't know it."
Mrs. Gilbert and her husband James have a six-year-old daughter, D'Jae, who does not suffer from ichthyosis. They are expecting another baby in April.
Whitney Institute student Agina had symptoms of ichthyosis from birth, but her mother, Tonya Smith, had a hard time getting a diagnosis.
"I noticed there was something wrong a week after she was born," said Mrs. Smith. "She broke out in scabs all over her body. She was born with a head full of hair which she gradually lost as her skin started flaking more. Ever since she was born there was something wrong."
Unfortunately, many doctors dismissed Agina's condition, at first, chalking it up to a rash or eczema.
She was finally diagnosed with ichthyosis vulgaris at eight years old through a skin biopsy on her back.
"Then we had treatments which actually did something," said Mrs. Smith.
Ichthyosis vulgaris is characterised by polygonal, flat, whitish scales on the skin that might be darker in certain areas of the body. There are also markings on palms and soles, and often scaling around hair follicles.
Mrs. Gilbert said the skin condition tends to be hereditary. Her grandmother suffered from eczema later in life, and in an earlier generation a baby with symptoms of ichthyosis didn't survive to childhood.
Babies with certain types of ichthyosis, such as Netherton syndrome or lamellar ichthyosis, often suffer from skin infections.
Miss Ashton was a 'collodion baby' when she was born. "It is like a whole layer of skin that encases pretty much the entire body," said Miss Ashton. "It looks really weird. They were very concerned and they kept me in the hospital for about three months to try to prevent infection. After that I went to a hospital in Boston."
She said it helped her parents to know what it was, early on. And it also helped that soon after she was born, they befriended Mrs. Gilbert.
Everyone affected loses flakes of skin, which can be a source of embarrassment.
"All people shed microscopic skin cells constantly, but the difference with us is that ours collects then comes off in larger pieces," said Miss Ashton. "It's been described as a 'traffic jam' of skin cells."
She said the condition can take an emotional toll.
"What takes its toll is the teasing when we're younger from peers," said Miss Ashton. "There is the ostracisation by people who think we're contagious or who think our 'un-coolness' is contagious.
"There is the intense staring, the recoiling from other people. We are trying so hard to be seen for our personality rather than our skin."
She said sometimes people with ichthyosis suffer from the feeling that they are untouchable and unlovable.
"The loneliness, and the feeling of being trapped in our skin, causes much anguish and is exhausting," she said.
The disorder can be particularly difficult for teenagers like Agina.
"A lot of people at school tease me, but I do have a couple of friends who have my back," said Agina. "I try to ignore most of the things.
"I am hoping it will get easier as I get older. Still going out and having people stare at me is hard."
She enjoys dancing, and crocheting. "I am a computer freak, and I like to watch television," she said.
Agina wants to be a pastry chef when she grows up.
"I want to thank my church family at New Testament Church of God Miracle Temple and to thank those who have shown themselves as true friends."
Miss Ashton said it is important for people with ichthyosis to have support from friends and family.
"We find our strength in our families and friends who love us no matter what. We also take strength from those colleagues and strangers who treat us like anyone else."
But she said ultimately, they find strength in themselves.
She said the group hoped that by educating the public about their skin condition they would heighten the community's sensitivity not just to people with ichthyosis, but to anyone who stood out.
"One of my close friends has told me that by knowing me and understanding what I deal with, she is more sensitive to people with all types of physical differences," said Miss Ashton. "For example, she remembers not to stare at these people because she knows, from me, how such a simple act can really hurt their feelings."
For more information contact Miss Ashton at l.ashton@gmail.com">laura.l.ashton@gmail.com, Mrs. Gilbert at preciousdjae2003@hotmail.com or 232-7706 or Mrs. Smith at tonyawsmith@hotmail.com.
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Trophy tour: Chris Harris, picturedin action for the Black Caps against South Africa at Eden Park in 2004. Photo: NZ Herald.
Former New Zealand one-day cricketing great Chris Harris is surprised Queenstown wasn’t allocated a Cricket World Cup fixture this summer.
Harris, who played in four world cups, is accompanying the Cricket World Cup trophy to Queenstown today as part of a 22-stop national trophy tour.
NZ and Australia host the tournament next February and March.
Calling the Queenstown Events Centre’s “one of the most picturesque grounds in the world”, he says doesn’t know why it’s not hosting a game.
Harris is delighted Black Cap Corey Anderson broke the world record for the fastest international one-day century on New Year’s Day this year when he scored 100 off 36 balls against the West Indies.
“It’s a special town so it was only fitting that something so special in the world of cricket happened there.
“What other ground would you want it to happen on?”
Renowned for his lively fielding close to the wicket, Harris says this area of the game is even more important nowadays.
“There’s going to be bits of fielding this World Cup which are going to help win a team the trophy.
“The great thing is you’ve got five or six world-class fielders in this current Black Caps side.”
With five or six fast bowlers who can bowl 140kmh, probably four or five batters ranking in the world’s top 30, powerful players like Anderson and good slow-bowling options, the Black Caps have all bases covered for this World Cup, Harris says.
The trophy will be at the Events Centre today from 7.30am-11.30am and at The Octagon in Dunedin on Wednesday from 6am till 9am.
The tour includes an interactive exhibition on the tournament’s history and cricket skills challenges.
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Let me just say that I was pleasantly surprised with the film Ruslan.
I have been terribly disappointed with recent Seagal releases such as Against the Dark and Kill Switch. My brief comments on these films here demonstrate how unhappy I was with them.
This latest outing is a good flick, not just a good Seagal film. Yes, I agree with others about the tight filming of the fight scenes, but they were far superior to his latest outings. There was minimum use of a stunt double and they did have some real tension in them.
As for Seagal, he looked fitter than he has in a long time and clearly put energy into both the film and post production dubbing. Early scenes found me struggling to understand him, but this improved as the film progressed.
I enjoyed Ruslan very much and urge each of you to have a look.
Yes, it has its limitations, but is one of Seagal's best DTV pictures yet.
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Great seagal character
First of all: I liked a lot the movie...steven is always inspiring.
The darkness of his character is awesome, the tattoos, his atittude...cool.
The fights are good, despite the annoying way of filming them so close, the weird editing and the nervous movements of the camera in the most of fights.
However, if u watched the fights twice you could see his fantastic arms movements and amazing skills, ´though i must say that some fights from urban justice, pistol whipped or the hammer bones destruction of kill switch impressed me a little bit more than the ruslan ones.
Nevertheless, i said again the fights are cool and ruslan is really a dangerous and scary guy.
The russian accent is a necessary effort to the ruslan character, i think seagal tried to do his best and he achieved a decent goal.
I really appreciate that the stunts & stand-ins are lightly noticed or saw.
I think that jeff king, his director of photography or both of them are clearly the best with the lighting on the latest dtv seagal movies, as we could see in kill switch before.i love to watch seagal well lighted up.doesn´t you?
The music is poor, 'though the accordion pieces in some russian scenes are not bad....but doesn´t good either.
To this point i must say driven to kill, pistol whipped and urban justice are my favourite dtv seagal movies so far, and i rate all of them with 4 of 5 stars to being video releases.('though i think many of his dtv flics have any good moment, line or fight that a fan can enjoy)
without any doubt driven to kill is one of his best, a good job.i don´t know if the schedule time/principal photography was longer, or if the budget was bigger, but seagal is greater indeed.i think his russian tattoed character is the main attractive of the film.superb.
About the comments i´ve read about if it is or it isn´t his best movie since exit wounds....well...pistol whipped, urban justice, into the sun, belly of the beast and mercenary for justice have impressive things/moments too...so...
One of his best, yeah.probably the best seagal character since exit wounds...i do think so.yeah
but...in my humble opinion ,to say is the best movie since exit wounds it´s only the first impression caused by an understandable first emotion of a good new release than a real review.it´s logical, right now there´s a lack of perspective to say rightly statements.we´ll see in a couple of months.
Don e. Fauntleroy, roel reine, mink, siu-tung chin, anthony hickox(forgetting the dubbing) and don michael paul tried to do his best with annoying producers and dealing with really harsh situations, and we should admit their merit and worth as a matter of fact.
Because of them and their hard work seagal has finally redeemed his career.
Whatever...in short, cool film, seagal is great at 58, there's no doubt about it!, with a pretty good character, good lighting and picture atmosphere and good enough script and lines:
"everybody wants to be a tough guy, but nobody wants the consequences"-ruslan(or something like that, good and true)
congratulations mr.seagal and the whole crew.good work !!
And thank u very much steven seagal for your ´´only whole man army movies´´.nobody can beat u either at the kitchen nor the action-packed movies.
I completely agree with you review latino...
At first some members were saying this was a poor film... as I respect everyone's right to their opinion, I believe they were being very selfish and not giving the credit he deserves. After all these crap DTV releases like Kill Switch, Today You Die, Submerged, etc... he finally makes a quality DTV release, a release with more effort and outstanding fight scenes, a DTV release you know Seagal put time into. Urban Justice, Pistol Whipped, Shadowman, Mercenary For Justice and Into The Sun are his best DTV releases in my opinion... but Driven To Kill is my favorite.
It's my favorite because Seagal is playing a character he's never played before, everyone always complains about substance in Seagal's character playing, with Driven To Kill he plays an ex Russian mafiaoso member.
This DTV has some of the best hand to hand combat fight scenes in a DTV release since Mercenary For Justice and Urban Justice. In my opinion this has the best fight scenes out of all his DTV release.
Yes there are some flaws in the film, the unconsistent voice dubbing in the beginning of the film. The close up of the fight scenes, the corny Russian music during every fight. The split second body doubles during the fights and stand in doubles during some dialouge... But none the less this is his best DTV release so far.
Seagal is finally putting more effort in his films so we need to give him the credit he deserves.
latinojazz;197474 said:
Good idea, poor execution.
After the debacle that was Kill Switch, I held little hope for Ruslan. After all, it was directed and produced by the same people.
After about thirty minutes of Ruslan, I was completely at ease. The movie was quite good. Sure, it wasn't perfect -- the horrible polka music whenever Ruslan had a fight got on my nerves -- but at least it was coherent and featured an aggressive and worthy performance from Seagal.
At about the forty minute mark, things became a little unstuck. For starters, the movie all of a sudden started to show its low budget roots. When Ruslan is kicking the crap out of the guy in the slum tennement, Stephan is watching him...and lets the bad guys whom he thinks murdered his fiance wander past RIGHT BEHIND HIM! Ruslan doesn't even notice???? It comes off as weak and it looks stupid on screen. Surely a badass like Ruslan would have seen them and turned them into mincemeat???
The red herrings were stupid too. It was pretty obvious who was behind it all and who was innocent, so why bother to draw it out?
And the sub plot with the cops was stupid. And what was the point in having them in the damn movie anyway? They did NOTHING!
After about an hour, the body double starts to become noticable too. Real noticeable. Especially at the end when he starts running around with the machine gun. You can tell it's not Seagal. And some of the shots with the body double weren't needed anyway.
But the worst part is the direction. Why do modiern day directors feel the need to speed up the film then slow it down. The part where Ruslan is talking to the Hot Asian doctor is the worst. All of a sudden the film WHOOSHES down the hall, then WHOOSHES back to her -- for no reason other than the director went crazy on the Avid editing machine.
Then there's the end. After shooting the crap out of an entire hospital, Ruslan just walks away scott free. I know the police were sympathetic to his cause, but they're still cops. They're gonna nail his ass for weapons charges and reckless endangerment.
And the very final scene. Who were they kidding? And who decided to put it in? Having killed his enemies, Ruslan is a happy man. His honor has been restored. That should have been the ending.
INSTEAD....
We get the opening scenes of the film, flipped over so they look different with his daughter's voice on the phone. I get why they did it, to show he was back in his daughter's life, but surely having her wake up from the coma, see her dad and smile, and have him say something like "I'm not going anywhere, baby." would have been better???
I know this sounds like I'm picking things apart, but it's such a shame with this film. The fights are good. The violence is good. Seagal is good. The story and script were good.
The shabby, and overly stupid direction and post production tinkering destroyed it.
Please, no more films with Jeff King.
gunslinger;197540 said:
When Ruslan is kicking the crap out of the guy in the slum tennement, Stephan is watching him...and lets the bad guys whom he thinks murdered his fiance wander past RIGHT BEHIND HIM! Ruslan doesn't even notice???? It comes off as weak and it looks stupid on screen. Surely a badass like Ruslan would have seen them and turned them into mincemeat???
That was clearly behind the wall, Ruslan didn't see them. They also said not one word and were very calm, and Ruslan had to do to kick informations out of the ass from the gangster.
I thought the direction was quite good, and the showdown exciting, I also liked the ideas from the director there.
But I agree Jeff King should learn how to shoot a fight scene. Probably he should watch Pistol Whipped in that case.
Surely it's not a "really" good movie, but way better than stuff like KS, AF, FOF, BD or TF.
to be fair UJ has the same ending ie seagal just walks through all the cops and nobody says anything but TBH it doesent bother me that much
i agree with a direction thing though and jeff king does look like hes a bit lost directing a seagal flick when maybe he would be better directing TV shows
overall though DTK is IMO seagals best film since 2001 and with better PV it could have got a release in theaters
I agree with you some what on this film...
However I want to state this, after all these terrible Seagal films especially the debacle with Kill Switch, we got two decent films. Pistol Whipped was a sold film, I felt it was a little boring, but it was a decent film. Urban Justice had such a cliche low budget film but the action and fights were awesome.
Then we get Kill Switch and we are back to the trash DTV films.
Driven To Kill from many members have mixed reviews. They don't know how to view it. I liked the film. Yes there were some lows, but the film was a good film. The action and fights were great. Some of the best if you really look back on all his DTV releases, I honestly feel Pistol Whipped, Urban Justice and Driven To Kill are his three strongest films along with Into The Sun.
Driven To Kill by all means is a good film and we have to give Seagal credit. Instead of pointing out all the little messes in this movie, we should appreciate this one. Even though I am one to point out all the voice dubbing, doubles when I write my reviews... I have a change of heart. Seagal tried and put alot of effort in this film and some members are not giving him the credit he deserves. Just compare Driven To Kill with Today You Die, or Kill Switch, or Out Of Reach, or Submerged, etc... Driven To Kill is a strong film.
If you want to talk about body doubles or voice dubbing talk about Belly Of The Beast or Submerged or Kill Switch, but Driven To Kill was a strong film. The action was great, the hand to hand was amazing. But I feel many members are now nitt picking. After complaining about all the crap dtv releases, now I feel many members are trying to find a fault for this film.
agree with that
some people expect US or OFJ but well never see seagal in films like that again
....EVER
i came to terms with that a few years back and as lkong has he makes solid STV action films ill be happy
other actions stars are the same as iif you go to vam damme forum people on there dont like JCVD the movie has they want action that van damme did back in films like maximum risk but again that wont happen
I would like to see a Seagal movie from Roel Reine again but with a bigger budget (20-25 million).
But first let's see how Keoni Waxman did his job!
Dmoj
This movie was crap, what a let down. The dubbing was almost throughout the whole movie and Seagal isnt in any better shape here than in any of his last 5 movies(just look at him in the t-shirt). He still had plenty of doubles here and it is simply done for him because he is so out of shape. After this I have litltle hope for The keeper and On the Run, lets just hope there will be a sequel to Taken which was probably this best action movie made this year so far
the director is a hack..he doesn't know how to director or give some syle and flair to his scenes(roel reine)..i loved the film but someone should fire the editor(along with the one from Attack Force,kill switch and foreigner), the director and the location manager..except from the bar,the mansion and a little bit from the hospital the movie screamed cheap..but it did have amazing fights and steven tried hard to give it his best..
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I absolutely LOVE this movie! Lots of great action, including some of the most gruesome novelty deaths in seagal's career since the nasty ones in Under Siege (see: armpit stab). Definitely one of the best dtv Seagal films ever, just behind Urban Justice and Pistol Whipped.
I did kinda chuckle tho how Steven's russian accent was absent in afew scenes.
Completely disagree with you... actually I am kind of upset because you are not giving the credit Seagal deserves.
The dubbing was only in the beginning of the movie.
The fights were brutal and what every Seagal fan wants to see.
Seagal looked great.
You really are overlooking the film, as a fan to see such a good action movie and his own fans not giving him the credit, upsets me.
This film was neither great or bad, that's why many fans say either it's the best in years or the worst.
But this film is not getting the credit it deserves, why should Seagal make any more films at all. He is trying now as he stated why his previous films were so bad because they were re-writing and re shooting his script and scenes without his consent, he fired them and does not work with those studio heads any more. Finally when Seagal does put in the effort, his fans are bitching about it. It's never enough, this film was a great film and it deserves credit. Seagal is finally trying to put more effort and fans are not appeciating it.
Dmoj;197550 said:
Master Of Disaster
Are you sure you're talking about DTK? In the parking garage and hospital (end battle) Seagal is definitely in a much better shape then in any of his DTV movies. Dubbing is only a couple of sentences, the rest is all Seagals voice. There were some doubles, but that is in every single movie. There are not many "stars" that will come to a set just to run across the screen to be seen from the back. I first thought in some fights scenes there was a double, but looking at it frame by frame you could sometimes see Seagals face in the last frame or so and it is Seagal (pleasant surprise). I've talked with a few people (no Seagal fans) who have seen the movie on my request (and don't know about all the criticism we fans have given in the past about dubbing and doubles) and asked them about the doubles and dubbing in the movie. They didn't notice any of it!!
We are all too focused on this and fail to just simply enjoy the movie and look at it with a clear mind.
Stallone, Lundgren, Statham, Schwarzenegger, Norris, Vandamme all use or have used doubles in all action movies. Watch their movies like you did Seagals movies and you will notice them just as much as in Seagals movies.
Every movie should be watched with an open mind and without any prejudice.
Don't go looking for the "flaws" of a movie, watch it to enjoy yourself. If you then didn't enjoy yourself, then you can complain.
he was not dubbed that much....maybe a bit in the first 10 minutes
Kotegashi;197558 said:
Schwarzenegger used loads of doubles even in his heyday
I thought this movie was one of his best DTV releases to date.as mentioned above,who doesnt use doubles nowadays.more importantly,seagal seemed more interested in this film and more involved.trying a russian accent,running in a scene,doing (some) of his own fights etc.when you compare to past films such as black dawn or attack force you can see that driven to kill is a step in the right direction!hopefully the keeper and on the run will steps even further in the right direction!
Just finished watching it for the second time and have to admit I judged it too much on the first viewing. It was a really good movie compared to most of what he has done in the past. Im not a critic and should not make comments about movies if im not the one envolved with them. I hope that his next few movies will continue to get better and will still continue to rent them when they come out. I guess I had such high expextations for this film that it changed the way I looked at it the first time. And I also recently saw Taken and just could'nt help thinking why that couldn't have been Seagal's return to the big screen with that movie(although I do think Liam did a great job).
cos taken had 3 times the budget and a better crew in france and better director
you have to take ruslan for what it was a STV action film and in that sense its a good film
here's two new reviews..
faily positive
http://http://www.beyondhollywood.com/driven-to-kill-2009-movie-review/
fairly negative
http://http://www.scoopy.com/driventokill.htm
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February 15, 2017 / Jericho Cerrona
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Common, Laurence Fishburne, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby Rose, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane
Director: Chad Stahelski
Running time: 2 hours 2 minutes
There's a playful moment around the halfway mark in John Wick: Chapter 2 in which the titular anti-hero (Keanu Reeves, oozing stilted charisma) is engaging in some brutal hand-to-hand combat with a high ranking bodyguard (Common) before falling through the glass door of an International Hotel for assassins. As in the first film, there are rules against violence inside such an establishment, and so the two combatants take a breather by having a drink at the bar. This interlude, in which the two battered and bruised men exchange clipped pleasantries through blood-clenched teeth, is an indication of the tone director Chad Stahelski (a former stunt coordinator who also helmed the first film) is going for. Essentially, John Wick: Chapter 2 is a comic book fantasy in which an indestructible superhero goes on a rampage within a universe formulated by tokens, markers, and fluorescent tube-lit art galleries. It's also breathtakingly made; barreling through a series of thrilling sequences staged and choreographed by people who what they're doing, only pausing occasionally so that Wick can brood over his dead wife, pet his dog, and have a glass of bourbon.
Things start off in earnest right where the original left off, with Wick infiltrating a Russian warehouse run by a mobster (Peter Stormare, muggingly wildly), whose in possession of our hero's stolen car. The opening action set-piece is a doozy; full of crashing vehicles, flailing bodies, and Keanu going full Neo with some skull-crushing/leg-breaking martial arts moves. Wick gets repeatedly struck by speeding cars, instantly gets back up to throw punches, and of course, takes out a stream of henchmen without so much as a hobbled limp. The absolute ludicrousness of the action here creates a giddy sensation, made all the more palpable by Stahelski's use of wide angle shots so that we can clearly understand the geographical mahem, and aided immensely by Reeve's weathered everyman quality.
Whereas the original film's tale of vengeance was triggered by the killing of a puppy and the stealing of a beloved muscle car, John Wick: Chapter 2 doesn't require that kind of streamlined vigilante thrust. Instead, Wick is pushed back into the life of hired killing by Italian mobster Santino (Riccardo Scamarcio), who orders a hit on his sister so that he can assume control of the Camorra. Despite Wick's initial refusal to participate, he's left without a choice since he owes Santino (visualized by the use of a token marker), which sets into motion a series of violent encounters, double crosses, and the inevitable high body count left in the wake of Wick's wrath. If the original had to do the business of setting up Wick as a man tormented by his wife's death and longing to retire, the sequel has the advantage of simply cutting right to the meat of the escalating plot. Though there are a few stray instances where Reeves looks despondently while clutching a tattered photo of his deceased wife, John Wick: Chapter 2 thankfully gives such "character moments" short shrift. Instead, it fully leans into the goofy mythology of the network of assassins; adding more layers to the clandestine Hotel from the first picture by revealing that there are essentially sleeper cell establishments all over the globe. When Wick travels to Rome to carry out the hit on Santino's sister, for example, he's given the five-star treatment; including a map of the catacombs, tailored suits, and a hardware upgrade that feels like something out of a James Bond movie.
However, for all his stealth-like precision, Bond would never dare get blood-spattered brain matter all over his finely cut suit, and it's here where the character of John Wick is born out of the violent comic book/video game ethos rather than the classic dashing hero model. The kill shot ratio in which Wick blasts hordes of nameless bad guys in the face with an assortment of handguns is staggering, but like video game violence, the effect is numbing rather than shocking. What keeps the action scenes from becoming repetitive, through, are touches like that aforementioned moment between Reeves and Common in the bar. In another scene, the two exchange polite gunfire with silencers from across the room at a crowded train station, so as not to be noticed by the throng of oblivious bystanders. It's absurdist touches like these, interconnected with the more hyper-violent stretches where Wick simply lays waste to all who dare challenge him, that make the film so consistently engaging.
In terms of plot, John Wick: Chapter 2 really doesn't have one. In terms of acting and character, Reeves brings a believable coiled physicality to the fight scenes and a stoic gaze to the moments where he must engage in transactional dialogue, but he's more or less a blank canvas for highly controlled destruction. There are a few grace notes; a tender moment where Wick holds the hand of a dying mark, the way his relationship with Hotel "manager" Winston (Ian McShane), borders on paternal, but honestly, this is all background texture for what fans have paid to see. By increasing the production values with elaborate set design and more colorful cinematography; complete with a stunning final set-piece inside a revolving room of mirrors which plays like a deranged riff on The Lady from Shanghai, and one has the rare sequel which actually makes good on the original's promise.
Hong Kong action films have always led the way in terms of balletic choreography and inventive direction, but John Wick: Chapter 2 comes very close to approximating that style of filmmaking, which doesn't usually get a chance to shine stateside in a marketplace clogged with incomprehensible, shaky-cam action drivel. During the third act, when Wick intones "Whoever comes, I'll kill them. I'll kill them all," in that patented Keanu monotone, our response is just a step ahead of Winston's, who stands grinning with recognition before muttering "Of course you will." If John Wick: Chapter 3 has as much style, conviction, and silly mythologizing as this one, then we are in for yet another grisly ballet of retirement deferred.
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