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Bloomfield Bridge
Title: Bloomfield Bridge
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The Bloomfield Bridge carries four lanes of traffic across a steep ravine between the densely populated Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Bloomfield and Polish Hill.
The first Bloomfield Bridge was built in 1914 by the Fort Pitt Bridge Works and was 2,100 feet (640 m) long. It was closed in 1978 and demolished in 1980. The replacement crossing was erected in 1986, after the previous bridge was deemed deficient after years of heavy traffic, including that of popular Pittsburgh Railways streetcar lines until their 1960s conversion to buses. Although the first Bloomfield Bridge was closed in 1978, state funding issues halted work on the construction of a successor until 1984.
On the Bloomfield side of the bridge, connections are made to Liberty Avenue, the commercial heart of the traditionally Italian (and increasingly Asian) neighborhood. On the Polish Hill side, PA 380 can be accessed, which runs toward Downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland, the home of several major universities.
The Bloomfield Bridge spans a large number of railroad tracks, which are portions of lines managed by CSX and Norfolk Southern. The Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway, a bus rapid transit system, also traverses the ravine. Also under the edifice is a community football and baseball field. Originally known as Dean's Field, it is historically significant as the place where Johnny Unitas played semi-pro football before jumpstarting his NFL career. After the 2009 Pittsburgh police shootings, the area was renamed after a fallen officer who resided nearby.[1]
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With undoubtedly the most beautiful campus in London, University of Roehampton sits comfortably within 54 acres of parkland, lakes and woodland, situated only 30 minutes from central London.
Students at Roehampton benefit from its reach heritage in education that stretches back 175 years. This, together with modern teaching facilities, high-quality accommodation and social hubs as well as sporting and leisure facilities provides a supportive community in which to thrive.
Roehampton offers a wealth of courses through 11 schools of its academic departments that include Business School; Dance; Drama, Theatre and Performance; Education; English and Creative Writing; Graduate School; Humanities; Life Sciences; Media, Culture and Language; Psychology; Social Sciences.
At Roehampton employability is a priority and students are preparing for a successful career through modules imbedded in their course of study as well as many projects such as Career Mentoring Scheme, which matches students with experienced professional for career guidance. This and other schemes explain why 92% of Roehampton’s graduates are in work and further study within six months of graduating, one of the best rates in London.
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Why choose the University of Roehampton
A friendly, modern, vibrant learning community with students from across the world and from all types of backgrounds set on a beautiful and historic campus in sout
A friendly, modern, vibrant learning community with students from across the world and from all types of backgrounds set on a beautiful and historic campus in south-west London, University of Roehampton offers a personalized academic experience that will help you become the kind of graduate that employers value: a critical thinker, able to adapt to a changing world and with an ongoing passion for your subject. At Roehampton, you transformed to become the author of your own future, but the university helps you shape it.
Roehampton is a London university that offers traditional campus study experience (54 acres of parkland), the only single campus in London. The University works continuously to improve the student experience, and was shortlisted for a Times Higher Education Award ‘’Most Improved Student Experience‟ in 2013
The university provides personalised teaching with guaranteed small class sizes & exposure to the best modern research in London. Every student has a Personal Tutor for academic advice and access to an Academic Learning Advisor to enhance your academic skills
Roehampton achieved 86% for overall student satisfaction in the 2014 National Student Survey, with 87% students satisfied with their teaching
The University has an international reputation for excellence in teaching. Roehampton has more National Teaching Fellows than any other London university - since its inception in 2004 the University of Roehampton Teaching Fellowship has been awarded to 53 lecturers in recognition of the quality of their teaching and student support
The University is ranked the most research-intensive modern university in the country, according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. The REF also rated the Dance department as the best in the country, while the research in Education and English is ranked 3rd and 4th best in London respectively
Roehampton offers 24 hours library services in 3 floors with 350,000 books, 400 study spaces & learning supports with study skills workshops, IT support and TVR (Television Roehampton)
On-campus accommodation (with 24 hour security) and guaranteed to international students in 18 halls, all rooms single with either shared or en-suite bathrooms
Opportunities to volunteer for over 30 organisations and be involved in community programmes including MOVE, a sports-based social inclusion initiative that aims to engage and support young people into sports and education
Roehampton’s onsite recruitment agency, Unitemps service provides students part-time jobs or temporary jobs on-campus and nearby
The Employability Centre based in the library gives you advice on your career during your studies and after you graduate. A variety of drop-in sessions are available where you can get advice on your CV and find out what volunteering and work experience opportunities there are and brush up you interview technique.
Career skills are central to every one of the university’s academic courses, so no matter what you study, we'll help give you the skills you'll need for the job market. It is no wonder that Roehampton possesses the highest employability rates (92% undergraduate and 98% postgraduate) amongst all modern London universities
Roehampton’s Graduate Mentoring Scheme (GMS) partners students with Roehampton alumni working in a variety of different work sectors both in London and internationally such as authors, journalists, scientists and teachers, helping them get tailored advice in a field in which they are interested and to build their networks.
The University offers a significant range of paid internship opportunities to all of its students and to recent alumni. Supported by its partner, Santander Universities, the internship programme enables SMEs to offer three month part-funded internships to Roehampton students
The university’s Jobshop helps students finding local part-time work and volunteering opportunities. Jobshop is an online vacancy board, offering employers the opportunity to advertise part-time and full-time employment or graduate jobs, volunteering and work experience opportunities
Roehampton hosts events and workshops including recruitment fairs, volunteering fair, employability workshop etc.
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Summer fun in store at park
Volunteers putting final touches on new park near Imlay Township Hall
by Tom Wearing
Old barn falls victim to fire
IMLAY TWP. — Area children will soon have a new place to cavort with their playmates.
Work on the new 13-acre township park on Fairgrounds Road is progressing and should be completed within a matter of weeks.
Spearheaded by a park committee that includes residents John Mulder, Dick Wilson, Nancy Schiller and Terry Gebhardt, the $30,000 project is being paid for through general fund money appropriated by the Imlay Township Board.
Mulder, chairman of the park committee, explained that original funds for a township park came in 1992 through a $36,000 grant from the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources.
That money had been dedicated for the creation of and improvements to the former township park, located on M-53, behind the old VFW hall.
Committee chairman John Mulder tries out one of the play toys at Imlay Township’s newest park.
After the VFW sold the property, the township was informed it would have to build a new park or return the original grant money to the DNR.
In addition to refurbishing the park grounds and creating a public walking trail, the township has purchased six play toys for placement at the site. They include a swing set, merry-go-round, teeter-totter, slide, a climbing net and a climbing dome. The committee, along with Imlay City Lions Club volunteers Gary Upleger, Phil Upleger, Bryan Zender, Terry Bowerman, Tom Lupo, Jim Herr and Chet Rivard, was at work again Saturday, putting some of the finishing touches on the project.
"There's still more to do," said Mulder. "We have to cement under the pavilion and lay the wood chips and pea gravel (for children's safety)."
Mulder predicts the park will be ready for visitors later this summer, assuming the weather cooperates. He credits the assistance of the Lions Club and Imlay City Fire Chief Kip Reaves for having helped move the project along.
"The Lions have been just fantastic," Mulder said. "They took it on as a service project and they've been great.
"Kip (Reaves) has also been helpful," he said, adding that local businesses have offered discounts on materials used for the project.
Although an exact date has yet to be set, Mulder said a grand opening ceremony will take place later this summer to welcome the public and show off the new grounds.
"We hope to continue improving the park as money becomes available," he said. "We're always interested in input from the community."
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but does he have a dick cheney lunchbox?
you may have missed this, like i did, on andrew sullivan's daily dish...since i seem to have trouble finding andrew sullivan on the daily dish anymore. but here he is at his best, slamming fox's chris wallace for his interview with dick cheney:
Now look: there are softball interviews; and then there are interviews like this. It cannot be described as journalism in any fashion. Even as propaganda, which is its point, it doesn't work - because it's far too cloying and supportive of Cheney to be convincing to anyone outside the true-believers. When it comes to Cheney, one of the most incompetent vice-presidents in the country's history, with a record of two grotesquely botched wars, war crimes and a crippling debt, Chris Wallace sounds like a teenage girl interviewing the Jonas Brothers.
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The Wired City
Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age
A vivid, on-the-ground account of the changing face of contemporary journalism
In The Wired City, Dan Kennedy tells the story of the New Haven Independent, a nonprofit community website in Connecticut that is at the leading edge of reinventing local journalism. Through close attention to city government, schools, and neighborhoods, and through an ongoing conversation with its readers, the Independent’s small staff of journalists has created a promising model of how to provide members of the public with the information they need in a self-governing society.
Although the Independent is the principal subject of The Wired City, Kennedy examines a number of other online news projects as well, including nonprofit organizations such as Voice of San Diego and the Connecticut Mirror and for-profit ventures such as the Batavian, Baristanet, and CT News Junkie. Where legacy media such as major city newspapers are cutting back on coverage, entrepreneurs are now moving in to fill at least some of the vacuum.
The Wired City includes the perspectives of journalists, activists, and civic leaders who are actively re-envisioning how journalism can be meaningful in a hyperconnected age of abundant news sources. Kennedy provides deeper context by analyzing the decline of the newspaper industry in recent years and, in the case of those sites choosing such a path, the uneasy relationship between nonprofit status and the First Amendment.
At a time of pessimism over the future of journalism, The Wired City offers hope. What Kennedy documents is not the death of journalism but rather the uncertain and sometimes painful early stages of rebirth.
"This is the first effort that I’m aware of anywhere to do a book-length profile of an emerging genre—the local online news community. . . . Kennedy does a wonderful job of illustrating this story through people, incidents, anecdotes, and then rolling back into the theory and policy implications. The Wired City is important to participatory democracy and community."—Bill Densmore, director, The Media Giraffe Project
"This book is for anyone who cares about the future of timely, useful community information, and how it helps citizens fulfill their most essential role: participation."—Dan Gillmor, author of Mediactive and We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
"A thoughtful and nuanced book, The Wired City is a standout in chronicling one of the best stories I’ve read lately of journalists ‘comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.’"—Callie Crossley, WGBH radio and TV host, and producer of the documentary series Eyes on the Prize
"Kennedy’s book is unlike any you will read on the business model crisis in journalism. For leverage he goes to one place where lower cost, born-on-the-net, nonprofit public service journalism is working: the New Haven Independent. In digging into that case, The Wired City frames the big picture beautifully: Journalism as a practice will go on. But it takes will."— Jay Rosen, blogger at PressThink and author of What Are Journalists For?
"When we as a democratic society are at what Kennedy accurately calls 'a historical moment when nonprofit media—supported by foundations, donations, and, indirectly, taxpayers, since contributions are tax-deductible—are in many cases more stable than for-profit media,' his book offers a valuable window into one possible future. . . . Researching his book, Kennedy concludes, 'left me profoundly optimistic about the future of journalism.' Reading it will do the same for you."—The Huffington Post
"An efficient primer on the new age of journalism . . . Kennedy shrewdly identifies how a late-20th-century notion (public journalism, which listened more than preached) morphed into an early-21st-century phenomenon (the remarkable growth of online readership) to produce an alternative to an early-20th-century idea (the mass circulation newspaper)."—The Boston Globe
"Dan Kennedy's The Wired City is a modest but informative and at times inspiring book about admirable attempts, on a local level, to combat a pestilence that is crippling the well-being of professional journalism."—The Arts Fuse
"The Wired City transcends the exhausting debate over what journalism startups should look like. It gets at a more fundamental point: that news startups, both for-profit and nonprofit, matter."—Columbia Journalism Review
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"The Wired City is accessible and conversational. Kennedy adopts a breezy, personal tone. He writes poignantly of the financial crisis and staff cutbacks in the newspaper industry."—Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Dan Kennedy is assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University and has been a working journalist for nearly forty years. He currently contributes to the Huffington Post and the Nieman Journalism Lab. You can follow his Media Nation blog at http://dankennedy.net.
Please see his interview on WBGH Greater Boston here http://www.wgbhnews.org/post/dan-kennedy-reimagines-journalism-wired-city
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Livestream Connects Talk Radio with Visual Platform
TALKERS | June 6, 2014
Company to play major role at forthcoming Talkers New York 2014
By Mike Kinosian
Managing Editor/West Coast Bureau Chief
LOS ANGELES —Radio’s collective resume is remarkably rich with astounding seminal moments and some breathtaking benchmark events; however, open for conjecture, of course, is the one singularly most important to the medium.
Few can dispute that a 62-minute October 30, 1938 segment would be at – or near – the top of a multitude of related “Top 10” lists.
That was when, without commercial interruption, the CBS Radio Network aired “The Mercury Theater on the Air” adaptation of H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel “The War of the Worlds.” Directed, narrated, and starring Orson Welles, the program suggested that a Martian invasion was in progress.
As much as any other solitary program, this particular stunning piece of radio history was responsible for linking the medium to the term “theater of the mind.”
Exemplary previous roles notwithstanding, radio for literally decades later would be – and is – remembered, revered as the medium that eloquently paints pictures with its vivid audio descriptions.
Numerous authorities on the medium cite that specific Halloween night “The War of the Worlds” broadcast as a monumental turning point and classic case-in-point.
Granted, the domestic landscape was completely different nearly 76 years ago: Almost unthinkable, there was no internet; no 24-hour cable news cycle; or any cell phones. That is precisely why such a stunt – brilliantly and seamlessly pulled off by a ridiculously young Orson Welles (just 23 years old then) – worked to perfection.
At least one disclaimer voiced by announcer Dan Seymour indicated “War” was a hoax, but it most likely went completely unnoticed by those who were sure the show was authentic. It is somewhat reminiscent of what genius voice actor Phil Hendrie has done for years on talk radio. Even though the “secret” is mentioned, some do not grasp that Hendrie performs every role.
All of this falls under the umbrella of peeking behind radio’s curtain.
Old-school partisans staunchly endorse the notion that the medium should protect its mystique.
Those proponents, however, are grossly outnumbered by realists who understand most listeners are perceptive about elements involved in radio broadcasting.
While not the first to install a camera in a radio studio, Howard Stern (arguably) made the most of it, especially when his terrestrial radio show segued to satellite. With no FCC restrictions hanging like an albatross over Stern’s head, audio and video components on his daily morning extravaganza are better able to complement each other.
Salivating Salvation
Abandoning behind-the-scenes radio magic has a critical tangible benefit: It can be the source of what makes virtually any broadcaster salivate these days – non-traditional revenue.
Several talk radio operators have discovered streaming as a way to enhance their bottom-line.
For the past two years, Clayton Rose has been GM of Livestream for news and radio. “I basically run our programs that work with radio and television stations across the country,” he tells TALKERS.
It is nothing particularly earth-shattering as far as television news facilities are concerned – stations have been streaming their newscasts live for a decade. “What we bring to the table is automated online ad insertion into the commercial breaks,” Rose comments. “So, for the first time, television and radio stations are now able to fully monetize their live stream online, just as they do with their newscasts or other programming on-air. We also have a mechanism whereby the newscast will stream live and then will replay until the next live newscast. We are, in essence, creating a 24/7 online news channel.”
Glorious Beginning
Founded in 2007, Livestream debuted with a Cleveland television station. Ironically, its first radio client – signed approximately 15 months ago – is also in “The Comeback City.”
One of those selected to be a “regional replacement” when Stern bolted to satellite radio eight years ago was Shane French, the overseer of “Rover’s Morning Glory.”
Bowing on CBS Radio Cleveland’s WXTM (now sports WKRK “The Fan”) in 2003, “Rover” has been on Clear Channel heritage rocker WMMS “The Buzzard” since 2008.
Having seen first-hand what streaming was doing in the market, “Rover” (French) reasoned that if it worked for a television station, it could do the same for him on his 6:00 am – 11:00 am radio show, so as Rose recollects, “We launched Livestream for radio with ‘Rover’s Morning Glory.’ He was our foray into the radio market and it has been a tremendous success in Cleveland.”
On-track with where company executives thought Livestream would be at this point, Rose expects that by the end of the calendar year, it will have a minimum of 150 television stations under contract. In addition to “Rover,” radio clients include syndicated progressive talk hosts Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, and Mike Malloy, as well as KTRS, St. Louis’ McGraw Milhaven (6:00 am – 10:00 am) and talk programming on Tucson’s KQTH. “That is pretty good penetration for a product that is less than two years old,” Rose maintains. “We are doubling to tripling the amount of video impressions that these stations are seeing online, so there is material revenue impact for the TV stations. It is a 100% increase [for radio clients] because – to begin with – there were never any online spots in the broadcast.”
Simple Setup
Clients will need an encoder – a computer with a video capture card that will provision the live stream. As part of the contract agreement, Livestream provides that integral mechanism and other hardware at no cost. “We pay for all bandwidth associated with consumers viewing the stream,” Rose proclaims. “We do not work on a revenue share, but typically an ‘inventory split’ model. We will sell a portion of the inventory and the programmer can sell a portion of it. If the programmer does not have a sales force, we can help there as well.”
Among items Livestream does not pay for are cameras or the switcher that a radio program would need in this kind of an operation. “We pay for one-half of the solution and the other half is up to the station,” Rose stresses, although the company does sell switchers so if a radio show needs one, “We have a very cost-efficient switcher that will do the job. It will work seamlessly with the Livestream software.”
Onsite installation typically takes about two hours. “We put in our computer; test with provision ads; and then off we go,” Rose notes. “Initially, a client would probably deal with me and once we solidify the business arrangement, we have a support staff to help them.”
Thus far, everyone Livestream has worked with already has had cameras and the switching in place. “This is the last piece that really enables the replay and the ad insertion,” Rose points out. “If someone is beginning totally from scratch, they will have to spend some time and money getting the cameras and the switcher installed.”
Time-Shifting Benefits
Provided a sufficient audience exists, a radio station can expect to generate, in Rose’s estimation, “a large revenue impact” by streaming. “This is incremental money through a new distribution point,” the founder of Bedford Interactive discloses. “For radio or television programmers who have an online audience, this is now a way to monetize.”
From a viewer perspective, there is the advantage of the now quite familiar TiVo (and other DVR) time-shifting principle, with Rose stating, “We are providing a way to view a live program on any internet-enabled device at any time. During the course of a day, a person might not be able to view the stream of a morning drive radio show, but when they get home in the evening, they can ‘watch’ that program just as they would have viewed it ‘live.'”
Rewind capability exists on the replay, but – rather obviously – there is not one for fast-forwarding through commercials. “We are seeing a 20% lift in viewership, which is attributed to the replay of the content,” Rose asserts. “We can look at it based on ‘historicals.’ We can also look at views by day-part and we can see how many people are watching at any given time.”
Feedback received from clients is “positive,” Rose contends because, “The product works. It is stable and it is delivering cash. We would not be doing this if we did not see a material revenue opportunity.”
Some 30 million “unique visitors” arrive on a monthly basis. “Those are folks viewing a live stream either on Livestream.com, or on a producer’s site,” Rose reveals. “The vast majority of the traffic for premium publishers of many of the big players such as all our news stations and organizations including AP, Facebook, and NBA teams will come to their sites.”
World-Wide Operation
Nearly 150 employees comprising Livestream are found in its Brooklyn global headquarters, or satellite offices in Los Angeles, London, Bangalore (India), and Zaporizhia (Ukraine). Software engineers are responsible for building the Livestream technology. “It is a much dispersed work world we live in,” Rose acknowledges. “You find the best people you can, and if they happen to be software engineers in the Ukraine, that is where you set up an office. It is becoming more and more common. Livestream, SKYPE, and other means of technology are making the world a lot smaller than it used to be.”
Former television news producer Rose ran business development for Internet Broadcasting, a company that focuses on helping television stations in their digital initiatives. As part of that 10-year run, he helped in a similar capacity for NBCOlympics.com. “We produced two NBC Olympics sites for athletes in Torino, Italy for the 2006 winter Olympics,” he recounts. “After that, I ended up at A&E for three years in business development. I have always had an interest in news, particularly local news. This opportunity was a perfect fit for me, and what the company is trying to do. I like building businesses – this is an opportunity to build one. I get to dabble in breaking news.”
By clicking the “Livestream News Network” link at the top left of the company’s website, visitors are routed to a map with all Livestream television news – and some of its radio – partners. “There is a default player that is ‘live,’ but when there is breaking news, such as severe weather in the Midwest, we will select one of our stations there for that default player because that is the most interesting live, local news that is taking place,” explains Rose, who holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School. “Livestream has a news strategy as a destination. We have editorial resources that will promote our breaking news events as they happen.”
Excellent Exposure
Listening to radio is the extent of Rose’s connection to the medium, but several other Livestream staffers have a bit of radio experience. “I see radio and television in the same light,” he opines. “Both are premium producers of content on a live basis; that is unique. Not many regularly-programmed, live, premium publishers are out there. The needs of both radio and television in this changing world are to best leverage your core asset, which is content, in new ways. We are reaching new viewers through new technology and have the ability to monetize those viewers.”
This signifies the company’s preliminary endeavor at marketing its product to radio, with Rose conceding that, “It has almost been an inbound initiative of us being reactive. We are now at the point where we think there is enough of a market out there that we are going to be more proactive in reaching out and trying to work with radio programmers to live stream their content.”
Golden opportunity to gain a higher profile among this medium’s executives comes in two weeks (6/20) when Livestream will be front-and-center at “Talkers New York 2014,” where its client, WYD Media’s Thom Hartmann, is the 2014 “Freedom of Speech Award” recipient.
Part of a two-prong plan with that confab includes Livestream chief revenue officer Sam Kimball participating in an 11:30 am session (“Radio: The Big Picture”) moderated by TALKERS publisher Michael Harrison. Others on that star-studded panel are Saga Communications executive vice president Steve Goldstein; Journal Broadcast Group vice president of news/talk programming and VP/GM of Milwaukee Radio Operations Tom Langmyer; The New Normal chief executive officer Tom Leykis; Cumulus Media senior vice president of programming Mike McVay; and Sabo Media chief executive officer Walter Sabo.
Meanwhile, throughout the course of the day-long seminar, company representatives will illustrate to attendees what a standard setup looks like for live-streaming a radio show. “So far and without much effort, we have discovered that there is an interest here in the world of radio,” Rose emphasizes. “We are now interested in reaching out and working with as many potential partners as possible.”
On Friday, June 20, TALKERS managing editor Mike Kinosian will be at Talkers New York 2014. Email him at Kinosian@TALKERS.com.
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Our Opinion: Trust but verify
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un may have been jubilant about his deal with President Donald Trump, reached earlier this summer during their meeting in Singapore.
Kim may have believed that, in exchange for mere promises, he had gained Trump’s unqualified trust.
That would have fit nicely into the North Korean strategy, pursued under Kim, his father, and his grandfather. It has been to claim peaceful intentions while building up Pyongyang’s arsenal relentlessly.
The result, of course, has been a North Korea with both nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. That is an intolerable combination.
At Singapore, Kim pledged to pursue a policy of “denuclearization.” In return, Trump — perhaps too optimistically — said he had achieved something his predecessors did not.
Trump backed away from his strident rhetoric toward Kim. Other actions, such as canceling a joint U.S.-South Korean military exercise, were ordered to lessen tensions. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began engaging in personal negotiations with Kim and his representatives.
For his part, Kim ordered the destruction of an old missile research site.
But then, troubling reports began to surface. U.S. intelligence agencies reported Pyongyang was continuing work on missiles and nuclear devices.
Now, Trump recently told Pompeo to cancel a planned trip to North Korea. Kim has not made acceptable progress on denuclearization, the president explained.
Trump was demonstrating what some of his predecessors did not: impatience.
No one wants a war with North Korea. But allowing Kim to continue his strategy of baiting and switching would do nothing to avert conflict. Trump should continue to use a “trust but verify” strategy against the Kim regime.
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Complaints Standards Authority Update September 2016 (PDF 6
As we reported in our last update, work is progressing on plans for changes to how complaints about social work services are handled, which will come into effect in April 2017. Last week we had the second meeting of our steering group, which brought together social workers, local authority representatives, user group representatives and other key stakeholders. They heard about our progress in this area and provided constructive feedback, with a key focus on the development of a new complaints handling procedure (CHP) for social work services and progress on plans to bring the review of social work complaints to the SPSO.
The new CHP is being developed with significant input from members of a working group and details how complaints about social work services should be handled, with additional information focused on more complex complaints. This work is progressing alongside consultation work on a new customer-facing CHP for social work services. This will give members of the public the information they would need if they ever have reason to complain about social work services.
We are also preparing ourselves for the extension of our jurisdiction in relation to social work complaints. The new powers will allow us to look at actions taken by social workers and consider the merits of social work decisions, not just issues related to how the complaints have been handled. We will be recruiting advisers to assist us with this work, in much the same way we already do for health and other complaints. We will also be reviewing our internal guidance on complaints handling, to ensure it is suitable for social work complaints, once we have made further progress on our fact-finding visits to councils and complaints review committees.
SPSO Training Events
Learning Event
In early March 2017 we will hold a conference in Edinburgh on the theme of Learning and Improvement with a particular emphasis on complaints handling practice and ensuring impactful outcomes. We will publicise details and content soon.
Upcoming course (based in central Edinburgh)
Complaint investigation skills (stage 2 of the model CHP): 1-day open course, Tuesday 29 November
These are open to staff from all sectors. Full course details are available on the SPSO Training Unit website www.valuingcomplaints.org.uk/training-centre/open-courses
For general information, see our flyer: SPSO Training 2016 (PDF, 40KB)
For more information, and to book spaces, please contact training@spso.org.uk
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Facts Sport Facts The Circle FACT: During World Cup 1978 in Argentina, France Football Team had to borrow the jersey from a local club C.A. Kimberley
FACT: During World Cup 1978 in Argentina, France Football Team had to borrow the jersey from a local club C.A. Kimberley
Facts, Sport Facts, The Circle
During the first stage match of World Cup 1978 in Argentina, a miscalculation was made by management of France Football Team, which led the team into panic when suddenly the home team they would face, Hungary, brought the same jersey colour of the France team away jersey they brought, white.
Luckily, a local club nearby from the Stadium Mar del Plata, C.A. Kimberley lent France team jersey shirts, white-green stripes.
It is the only time the France National Team wearing something green.
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Home / Ideal Trips / Magic circle: from the coast to the Andes
The main goal of this trip will be to learn how Peru today is the result of centuries of cultural mixture. Pre-Inkas, Inkas, Spaniards, Africans and Asians have contributed to what we call today Peruvian. We arrive into Lima in the morning, and connect with a one-and-a-half hour flight to Rodriguez Ballon airport, in the city of Arequipa (AQP). A driver will be waiting for us at the airport in order to take us directly to Libertador Arequipa Hotel.
Also known as the White City, Arequipa is the second largest town in the country. Although not as high as Cusco, Arequipa is almost 7,000 feet above sea level, so we recommend a light meal on arrival and as little physical activity as possible for the rest of the day, so we can correctly acclimatize. Overnight at Libertador Arequipa Hotel.
** Flight tickets are not included in any package.
We'll dedicate this morning to a city tour in this town with a privileged weather. We'll see its Colonial architecture, the Cathedral right on the main square and several buildings made with Sillar, a volcanic rock white in color.
We'll finish the tour visiting the Santa Catalina Convent, after which we'll head directly to the airport in order to take a midday flight to Juliaca, closest airport to Puno and Lake Titicaca.
We'll be given a one-hour transfer to Libertador Lake Titicaca Hotel.
Lake Titicaca is slightly shy of 12,000 feet above sea level, so even when we've been acclimatizing to altitude since Arequipa the day before, it's also a good idea not to program anything challenging for when we arrive. Overnight at Libertador Lake Titicaca Hotel.
After an early breakfast we depart for two of the most representative islands on Titicaca Lake. First Uros, within the Titicaca National Reserve and 6.3 miles from Puno. It names the island complex itself and the people who inhabit them. These man-made floating islands are made of reef and their dwellers keep ancient culture and crafts alive around this product. We then continue towards Taquile, an actual solid ground island which offers a great landscape and cultural experience. Travelers can see aspects of these islanders everyday life: housing, food and traditions. Taquile is also famous for its original and colorful weavings, translated into garments known all over the world. Overnight at Libertador Lake Titicaca Hotel.
We'll stop on our way to the airport in order to visit Sillustani, archeological site located 55 miles from Puno, considered one of the largest and most important necropolis in the Americas. Chullpas are large-sized funerary monuments built by the Collas and the Inkas next to Lake Umayo, each more than 36 feet tall. Their architectonic singularity allows this construction to be wider on the top than on the bottom.
we then fly to Cusco, where a driver will be waiting for us at the airport, taking us directly to Tambo del inka, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa at Urubamba, Sacred Valley. The Sacred Valley is halfway between Cusco and Machu Picchu, making this location strategic for travelers. Overnight at Tambo del Inka, Luxury Collection Resort & Spa.
If Cusco was the heart of the Empire, the Sacred Valley bore the arteries that fed its people. Travel through time as you journey through two important Incan archeological complexes: Pisac and Ollantaytambo.
Pisac is 33 kilometers northeast from the city of Cusco, east of the Vilcabamba Mountains. The city’s architecture features a blend of Inca and Spanish, granting it an ancient and modern feel. The main square is a palette of color since local artisans set up their booths there to sell their crafts. You can also walk through the town market and find traditional hand-woven clothing and accessories.
Ollantaytambo is one of the most spectacular sites left by the Incas, mainly because of the massive size of the stones used in its walls and its architectural layout. Archeologists claim it was a military, religious, administrative, and agricultural center. Overnight at Tambo del Inka, Luxury Collection Resort & Spa.
We'll dedicate this day to Machu Picchu. During your visit to this incredible archeological site, recently chosen as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, you will admire the magnificent landscape, temples, prayer houses, andean terraces and the amazing architecture.
The guided tour typically takes around two hours, after which you will have the opportunity to explore the citadel by yourself. We then return to Aguas Calientes, where we will arrange your train back to the hotel.
* The schedules may have some variations, according to availability.
Overnight at Tambo del Inka, Luxury Collection Resort & Spa.
Meeting at the Tambo del Inka Lobby and short walk to the train station.
Departure from Tambo del Inka to Aguas Calientes.
Arrival at Aguas Calientes train station and meet with your guide.
Bus Transfer to Machu Picchu.
Machupicchu visit.
Lunch at Tinkuy Restaurant at Machupicchu Sanctuary Lodge.
Transfer to Aguas Calientes.
Departure from Aguas Calientes to Tambo del Inka.
Arrival at Tambo del Inka, a Luxury Colection Resort & Spa.
This day we'll do the Andean Baroque circuit, starting with the Inka temple of Tipón, specially built to honor water. Its channels transport this element in a fluid and efficient way, up until this day, carving intricate patterns on the rock. We then visit Pikillacta, on the way to the South side of the Valley, and we finish at Andahuaylillas, picturesque town whose little church is called the sistine chapel of the Andes, due to its intricate carvings wooden altar and hand-painted ceilings, all recently restored.
We then go to Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel, where we spend the night.
We'll dedicate this day to learning about the city of Cusco and how it continues being the blend of two cultures for the last 500 years.
Our experience starts at the San Pedro Market, where our guide will show us dozens of elements of an Andean origin and many others with a European source, and how the two combine in order to produce nowadays food, weavings, medicine and so on. We will then walk back to Palacio del Inka, passing by several buildings with Inka foundations and Colonial construction on top, learning about the history of these family houses, alleys and palaces. The tour ends with a private visit to Cuatro Bustos Mansion, with more than 100 certified art pieces which reflect this blend of cultures.
We hop on a bus again in order to visit the Cathedral, Santo Domingo convent and Qoricancha, as well as archeological sites like Sacsayhuaman and Kenko. Overnight at Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel.
This day we'll have the morning at leisure to visit any of the many attractions not in the traditional circuit, or just to walk the magical Cusco streets on our own. By the end of the morning we'll fly back to Lima, where we'll be greeted by a driver who will take us on a 4-hour journey south to Paracas. Hotel Paracas, a Luxury Collection Resort is located adjacent to the Paracas National Reserve, important protected area that boasts fascinating coastal species and unique marine habitats.
We start this day at 8AM, with a visit to Ballestas Islands, where you will be able to spot diverse and abundant coastal fauna. The 2-hour tour in specially designed boats will put you closer to the sounds of sea lions and help you spot Humboldt Penguins, Boobies, Cormorants, Terns and a few other species of birds. On the way to the islands we'll be able to see the Candelabrum, a gigantic and mysterious geoglyph printed on the sand, right along the coast.
The rest of the day will be open for any of the many activities available in the Ica desert, nautical sports at the bay or archeological explorations like a flight over the Nasca lines. Or maybe you'll just want to rest from this very busy itinerary under the ever present Paracas sunshine. Overnight at Hotel Paracas, a Luxury Collection Resort .
On this day we return to Lima. After lunch we complete a city tour that covers Colonial Lima, with its impressive Cathedral and the San Francisco Monastery catacombs; Republican and Modern Lima, ending at the touristic district of Miraflores. Overnight at The Westin Lima, Hotel & Convention Center.
Depending on our international flight schedule, we can have the morning at leisure before heading back to the Lima airport for our flight back to the country of origin.
Magic circle: from the coast to the Andes From US$ 3529
Other ideal trips
Machu Picchu in a long weekend 4 Days 3 Nights
From US$ 1259 View Trip
Highlights of the inka culture 6 Days 5 Nights
Origins of the inkas 8 Days 7 Nights
Two-world encounter 10 Days 9 Nights
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À Ố does elicit the Oohs and Aahs
Theatrical shows that depict scenes from Vietnamese life and culture have, in recent years, become almost as common as TV soaps. The latest to hit the boards at the Saigon Opera House
(No.5, Vol.3, June 2013 Vietnam Heritage Magazine)
Photos: Le Minh
Theatrical shows that depict scenes from Vietnamese life and culture have, in recent years, become almost as common as TV soaps. The latest to hit the boards at the Saigon Opera House goes by the odd title of ‘A O.’ My editor explained that this has a double meaning. Firstly, as in many a language, it means Ah! Oh! - the gasps you make when you see or hear something truly amazing. Many such interjections came from the audience around me when I saw a performance of said show. Secondly, the a and o are the vowel sounds in the Vietnamese words for village and town, indicating you will see not only quaint and beautiful scenes from the Vietnamese countryside, but also the un-romanticised reality of modern urban living.
This show is remarkable in its highly creative and original use of the circus skills of acrobatics, contortionism-and at one point-magic, with superb traditional musical accompaniment. Furthermore, you will be thrilled by the ingenious use of only two types of prop; namely woven baskets of various sizes and bamboo poles twice the height of the average man.
The opening scene is of the scurrying of marine animals on a beach, organised into a brilliantly choreographed dance. You guessed it - those baskets serve as the crustaceans. Several acrobats are under basket boats to form crabs and a single one is under each of smaller baskets, doing back stands to form ‘legs’ in order to act out clams. This is followed by a lively coracle dance with raucous banging of drums and sticks.
The next scene reveals some ingenious scenery which remains in use until the end; a huge compartmentalised cupboard of bamboo as high as the stage will allow. In each section are musicians in traditional raiment. It is a simple but effective way to literally showcase the accompanying orchestra of drum, zither and stringed instrument players. If you have been to the Mekong Delta, you will have surely seen a monkey bridge (cau khi). This is a single bamboo pole with a couple of others attached as railings to cross small stretches of water. Although I know bamboo is very strong material, I with my heavy European frame, have never had the courage to try one of these. Here, dressed as villagers complete with conical hats, the acrobats walk up and down the poles poised at steep angles and then along transversals connected at their summits; a tightrope act using bamboo poles to affect the daily life of a riverside village.
Then there is a dance scene with the spirited rolling of smaller baskets, followed by another involving the twisting and twirling of the long bamboo poles.
Scenes of everyday life ensue. There is a watery scene with someone paddling his coracle and a floating market. The larger baskets are then turned into an island, with the smaller ones used as a circle of stepping stones around it. The versatility is amazing; there is another scene depicting the frenetic activity of a construction site. You may have seen, in real life, builders speedily tossing piles of bricks to others on a higher level, with the man at the top never failing to catch them. This is re-enacted using the baskets.
The quick pace of this show is constant. A fiery performance of rolling wheels is lit by flashing red lighting and stage lightning, affecting a sudden tropical storm. Round frames of the coracles are stacked on top of each other and a contortionist balances herself on top to give a display of her twisted art-amazing! Hot on her heels comes another shellfish dance with a twist of its own at the end, as the acrobats uncannily use their baskets to transform themselves into iconic water ducks with a chorus of quacking. This scene prompted spontaneous applause from the audience. And then, yet another transformation occurred as the baskets were rearranged to make a huge caterpillar.
The magic scene is quite amazing. Basket boats are wheeled quickly across the stage floor. From behind them, the same person seems to appear at different places almost at the same time. If you can figure out how this illusion is achieved, you are a better man than I.
From these idyllic rural scenes, you are suddenly thrown into twenty-first century city life. No more traditional garb, as the troupe now is wearing everyday clothes, and whilst the traditional musicians are still playing, a strident electric guitar is dominant. The cacophony of a street with the shrieking of children is evoked. There are no motorbikes, but tricks on a bicycle serve as a substitute. The dancing now is high-energy hip hop. There are people on a jolting city bus trying to keep their equilibrium. Altogether, it is a sharp reawakening to the stark reality outside the opera house.
The next part is somewhat voyeuristic, as each section of background scenery becomes a block of flats and we can peer into the goings-on of its occupants at evening time. Different scenes happening simultaneously give a comic book effect. Among them, there is a person rhythmically taking a shower. Another is being given a rather painful massage. A man and a woman perform a tortuous dance, of which you may make as you will. One scene that really struck home for me (pardon the pun) was of a neighbour responding in kind to the hammering and banging next door. One detail; the moon high above is, of course, a basket with yellow lighting behind it.
Neither modern nor traditional, the next scene is of cooking in a kitchen with basket boats and bamboo poles cleverly turned into a cauldron. Now, towards the end, as if to atone for the sin of bringing you back to the harsh reality of Saigon life, the tone becomes gentle again. A woman appears from a balcony, Juliet style, and sings a beautiful traditional song. There is a dance scene of a young girl swirling around as a torrent of red flowers rains into a basket boat. Finally, the cast assembles for shouts and not ‘hats off ‘, but the signature baskets being tossed and juggled in the air.
Hopefully, my writing will have got you gasping ‘A O!’ If not, you will just have the see the show for yourself. See it anyway, as this is one hour of full-value entertainment. Everything is first class; music, lighting, dance, illusion, acrobatics and the evocation of both city and village life. I raise my basket in salute to the creators of this thoughtful show and hereby express my deep admiration of the many talents of the performers, whose many hours of practice have resulted in perfection. In sum, a jolly good show indeed!
A O show is performed at the Opera House, 7 Cong Truong Lam Son, D.1, HCMC, at 6 p.m. on 14, 17, 20 and 21 June; and at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on 16, 22 and 30 June. Tickets: VND1,250,000, VND890,000 and VND530,000.
Tickets are selling at the ticket box, Saigon Tourist Information Centre, 45 Le Thanh Ton St, D.1 and 102 Nguyen Hue Blvd., D.1. Email: reservation@aoshowsaigon.com or Tel: (08) 6281-6893.
By Pip de Rouvray
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MD's BLOG - TOO MUCH SNOOKER?
It is constantly documented how the professional snooker scene was struggling before Barry Hearn came in at the start of the decade. The 2009/2010 season had just 6 ranking events; a very sorry state of affairs.
Hearn, almost instantly, gave the players what they wanted, needed and asked for - more playing opportunities and more earning potential. This season there are 19 ranking events and 6 invitationals. A 25 tournament, £10 million professional tour.
However, some critics (whether right or wrong), feel the circuit is now unbalanced, overloaded and bloated.
From the opening day of the German Masters on the 1st February to the last day of the Players Championship on the 12th March, there are 40 consecutive days of action. Some days even have to double up to accommodate. As a counter balance though, the majority of that play is in the UK, with only Berlin and Gibraltar being overseas.
New tournaments have also meant new champions on the circuit; players achieving lifelong career ambitions and dreams.
This season alone Anthony McGill (Indian Open), Liang Wenbo (English Open), Mark King (Northern Ireland Open) and Anthony Hamilton (German Masters) have all won their maiden ranking trophies.These tournaments did not exist when Hearn took over, more evidence of the opportunities players further down the list now have to claim titles. In the previous era they were denied this, and with so much time off in between events, many couldn't be classed or afford to be 'Professional'.
There is an argument that the circuit could be better formatted. Earlier on this season in the British summer months, the opening four events (Latvia, India, China & Germany) were stagnated across June, July and August. Since then there has been something on pretty much every week.
I feel for overseas tournaments it is better to go back-to-back like the International Championship and the China Championship did, rather than UK based events.
Whilst I'm on the subject, some of the crowd attendances for UK events this season have been poor at times. Clearly the demand for TV coverage is still there (people will always watch it on the box), but the amount of empty chairs in venues at certain times is a bit embarrassing in my opinion.
As these new Home Nations events etc hopefully continue to grow in reputation, more people will come to watch. I believe the UK Championship and Champion of Champions were quite full capacity.
But what about another event in the South and/or West? Sheffield, York, Barnsley, Preston, Manchester and Llandudno - all northern venues, will host this season. The Guild Hall in Preston (as good a venue as it is) only housed China Open qualifying a fortnight ago, now it has the World Grand Prix too.
Anyway, I went slightly off topic there.
I decided to look at other professional single player sports circuits/tours. The European Tour in Golf has 47 tournaments currently listed for 2017, whilst the ATP World Tour in Tennis has 68.
Logistically though, I'm not sure I can compare all of these as there are so many different variables involved. Plus you can make the argument that Golf and Tennis are more 'Worldwide' sports with significantly more money in them than snooker.
The format of professional snooker tournaments will always be unique. For example, if you look at the World Championship as a whole (qualifiers and main event) it takes nearly a month to decide.
With 128 players on tour, qualifying / main events take days to sort out - snooker tables also take up room and time to assemble. Ideally you would play an event out in its entirety all at once, but snooker currently can't do that.
Best of 7 frames matches tend to get a lot of stick. With the calendar expanding so much in recent years, the format has had to be condensed. Bof7's don't have mid-session intervals and like the World Grand Prix this week, you can fit in two lots of matches on each table in each session.
Best of 9's you wouldn't be able to. If you wanted that format, you'd probably need two outside tables away from the TV cameras. More players down the ranking list now get coverage as the broadcasters can fit more matches in. For me that is a big positive, and it perhaps makes those less known names more attractive to personal sponsors of theirs.
In conclusion, I would suggest the amount of tournaments on the professional circuit is currently about right, although things could still be scheduled a little bit better in my opinion. Players and fans, like all other sports, do have the option of picking and choosing.
In Barry Hearn I still trust...
Written and published by Michael Day on the 8th February 2017
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Board index » PJ Harvey Forums » Some Bird of Paradise
Pitchfork feature reviews "Dry"
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HowardF
Post subject: Pitchfork feature reviews "Dry"
Not sure why they chose to do this, as it's not an anniversary or anything, but here's an interesting review on "Dry" from Pitchfork, for which they gave a score of 9.2/10.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22131-dry/
ct4spinner
Post subject: Re: Pitchfork feature reviews "Dry"
Better late than never? A good review of my favourite album by PJ.
Location: Slovenia
They're doing this thing where every sunday they feature an album that is deemed "a classic" and hasn't been reviewed yet. It was an interesting read on a boring sunday
diogenesagogo
The reviewer doesn't seem to realise that Oh My Lover is a murder ballad, not a song of subjugation:
"what's that colour
forming around your eyes"
Shadowboxer
diogenesagogo wrote:
Wow, that went over my head too. Makes sense with all the "there's no time"s. The "before you go away, why don't you just say my name" line sounds so much creepier now.
I'll rub it, until it...
TheNightingale
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 12:06 pm
Today they've also featured Rid of Me as their Sunday Review:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/pj ... rid-of-me/
Yes_No_Maybe_So
Post subject: Re: Missed
TheNightingale wrote:
Hmm, not sure if I've ever heard this one before, re: Mary Queen of Scots:
“Missed” is the most conventionally pretty song. In a chorus that escalates as she repeats “No, I missed him,” Harvey could be baring her lonely soul. But the verses channel that quotidian heartbreak through a more vivid and specific story that some have interpreted as alluding to the gruesome tragedy of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Can anyone flesh this one out for me a bit? I don't recall ever reading about theories relating to Mary Queen of Scots before.
My feeling about the lyrical thrust of the song is that it is clearly centered around the Jesus resurrection story. With a foot in both the divine and non-divine human relationship aspects of Mary Magdalene and Jesus. Missing him when he was gone.
Her feelings being expressed in the first verse, if he had indeed been resurrected, i.e., "in a cloud, please come down". Then later, in moments of doubt or skepticism perhaps, wondering where he had gone, i.e, "where (are) you hid?" And in between, Mother Mary accusing Mary Magdalene, i.e., "My son, where's he been? Don't deny it And don't you hide him", to which Magdalene replies, "No, I've missed him".
AineteEkaterini
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:54 pm
Yes_No_Maybe_So wrote:
re: Mary Queen of Scots:
No, I'd not heard that before, although it gets a mention here (https://genius.com/Pj-harvey-missed-lyrics) so it must be current. I think it's most unlikely, and only that line 'Mary lost her head' justifies the connection. I'm sure you're right that the content is really about faith and doubt; not everything fits completely comfortably, but then by the time it's recorded the lyric will have been battered about until the sense isn't entirely clear. And that vagueness is part of PJ's power.
AineteEkaterini wrote:
.... I'm sure you're right that the content is really about faith and doubt; not everything fits completely comfortably, but then by the time it's recorded the lyric will have been battered about until the sense isn't entirely clear. And that vagueness is part of PJ's power.
Totally agree. Snippets of meaning, never fully realized or understood. So you're always left with the question, which keeps the song interesting. A mystery, never quite fully solved.
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Leafs versus Wings: share your memories of playing outdoors in your own “Winter Classics”…
I know the Leafs have signed Phaneuf to a massive new deal, but rather than analyze that (or the Leafs and all their “problems”) to death—we do all that here often enough, eh— I figured we’d do something a bit different.
So today, with the Alumni games behind us and the ‘Winter Classic’ minutes away, I thought I’d invite responses that should evoke warm memories for some of you.
Here is my request: post your memories of playing hockey outdoors as a kid (or more recently, if you’ve had the fortune of having that experience as an adult). When did it happen and where? Was it a blast? Who did you play with? Did you ever play with anyone who went on to become famous (in hockey or other walks of life)? What "position" did you usually play?
For me, playing outdoors remains one of my most cherished childhood memories. I seem to recall playing with friends outdoors until I was about 15 or so. I haven’t had new (or even usable!) skates in years, but would love the chance to play again on a pond somewhere. As a child, I played on “River Canard”, a winding local river that was connected to the nearby Detroit River. (I was born and raised in that small community of River Canard, near LaSalle and just outside of Windsor.)
Playing with my buddies was a treat. Like most kids of that time (early and mid 1960s), there were no outdoor rinks available in our local community until a bit later and so we had to play on the local rivers and ponds, but how great a feeling it was. Making and taking a pass at “full speed” (at least it felt like full speed) while skating with the wind at your back brings back wonderful feelings to this day.
I cherish those memories and sometimes wish I could re-live them. I wore a toque to keep my head warm, also some old elbow pads in case I landed hard on the ice (which happened a lot in those sometimes rough and tumble games) but no other equipment, really. No knee or shin pads most of the time and certainly no shoulder pads. We were out there skating, passing, occasionally running each other over and making plays. The less equipment to slow you down, the better.
When someone showed up who could actually play goal (two neminders was even better), that meant we could finally raise the puck. And if someone owned or had access to any kind of real hockey nets, well, we were in heaven.
One of the mot fun things? Taking turns shovelling the snow with my pals, and creating snow banks that you could knock each other flying into with some great (but clean!) open ice checks. No head shots back then.
Anyway, those are a few of my memories. What about you?
I continue to receive questions about my eBook, "The Maple Leafs of My Youth" and some uplifting feedback as well. Click here to access the links for the various ways you can download the book. (If you visit the iTunes book preview page link, check out the link that says, "View in iBooks" to see the latest "Reader Reviews".) You may enjoy giving yourself a New Years gift that triggers your own Leaf memories--and I would appreciate it, too! If you'd like to connect, contact me at michael@prospectcommunications.com
Willbur December 31, 2013 at 8:14 PM
I remember in grade 2, which would be 78' coming back to school from lunch hour. There was a group of older kids, must have been out of school and they were playing a full on game on the outdoor rink. I stood on a snow bank and watched them for what felt like hours. Finally, I went back to class well over an hour late. I was in a lot of trouble for sure but that was the start of my life long love affair with hockey. I remember playing on that rink when I was younger for hours. By the time I hit peewee I was playing on rep teams and didn't have time anymore but that is where my love of the game developed for sure.
The sad part is I was back in my hometown of Dawson Creek BC just a couple of weeks ago and wanted to show my kids the old neighborhood where I had grown up. We drove by my old school and the outside rink had been torn down and a playground put up in its place. Talked to one of my friends and he was saying that there were no outdoor rinks left in town. Seems to me kids aren't allowed to be kids anymore. Feels like no parent would let their kids just go out by themselves and play for hours on end with no supervision. Kids don't get to just have fun and grow to love the game anymore. Then we wonder why minor hockey is suffering an enrollment crisis as less and less kids play. Seems like a shame to me.
Thanks for sharing that, Willbur. I, too, spent time watching "older kids" play outdoors when I was little. I was in awe of their size and speed on skates. Eventually, I was allowed to play with them.
It's true, as you say- not many youngsters nowadays have the opportunity to play hockey in a safe outdoor environment. A shame, indeed.
I have a few memories you might find interesting. While I did come out to River Canard to play on a few occasions, I also played at Turkey Creek and more often at Stodgell Park where the Firemen used to flood a rink for us. I remember getting frostbite in my feet after one outing and a young fellow taking me to his home nearby where his Mom put my feet in a tub of warm water to thaw them out while my folks could come and take me home.
I also remember a house at the top of Gladstone Rd in Windsor that used to flood a rink in their backyard and let us play on it if we shoveled the snow off it. I never knew the names of the folks because I don't think they had any kids - at least not ones of our age. I used to deliver newspapers on nearby Windermere Rd and carried my stick and skates with my bag of newspapers so I could play after I was done and before I headed home. Great memories!
I also played road hockey against a fellow who was a younger brother of a girl who was part of the group of kids we hung around with, His name was Bob Sneddon and he ended up playing a few games in goal for the California Golden Seals. He was younger than us but we enjoyed playing against him in road hockey as he had an unbelievably good glove hand! I think his Dad had some relationship with the Wings at Olympia and I think he was able to practice or get some tips from Terry Sawchuck. Regardless, he was good!
Incidently, I think his sister Mary ended up marrying Ken Hodge who was a pretty good player for the Bruins.
Pretty much every name (street name, park or person) rings a bell with me, Ed. I used to play baseball at Stodgell Park as a teenager, and I think my older brothers did too. Turkey Creek was just down the road from us, in LaSalle. I think I would play there on occasion myself, though not as regularly as I played with friends on the River Canard.
I do remember Bob Sneddon and that he played for the Seals. Isn't it something to know that you played road hockey against a future NHLer? And any tips from a goaltender like Sawchuk couldn't hurt, eh?
Hodge was a big, strong winger for the Hawks and Bruins in their hey day. (You would also remember him being traded with Espo to the Rangers, I'm sure.)
I appreciate your taking the time to share those old-time memories, Ed, great stuff.
Pete Davies December 31, 2013 at 9:09 PM
First I have to comment on the alumni game. It was so special to see those guys out there again, to see Lanny McDonald rip one home, to see Darryl Sittler skate, heck even to see Mickey Redmond make a nifty cross crease pass for a goal. Most of all, a 59 year old Mike Palmateer, sprawling all over the place as if it were still 1979.
That was me in 1979. Diving around in the dirt, on the asphalt, or even on my back deck, pretending to be Palmateer. Until I would get on the ice, at that point I didn't want to be in net. Those hockey pucks hurt a whole lot more than tennis balls.
I rarely had a pair of skates of my own, but would go out in my boots if I couldn't borrow a pair. I grew up in Haliburton, and the river behind our home would usually freeze just enough on one side to skate on. I don't believe anyone from my age going far in hockey, although I do vividly remember a cocky young man with flowing blonde hair chasing us kids off the tennis court we were using to play street hockey once. Someone told me that guy played junior hockey. I hadn't heard of Bernie Nicholls yet but soon we all would.
I've always found it remarkable that my little hometown has produced not only Nicholls, but Ron Stackhouse, Matt Duchene, and Cody Hodgson got his start there too. But when I remember how kids there played hockey in any way they could, all year round, with such a love for the game, I realize how much the structured city-style organized hockey pales in comparison. Kids from my hometown by and large played out of pure love of th game, not because they were pushed into it. How I wish my sons had the same opportunities!
A very happy New Year to you Michael and all visitors here!
Watching the old timers is always so neat. I remember, many years ago, Gordie Howe and Rocket Richard were part of some kind of event that was on TV. (They didn't call it a Legends game or anything back then). This may have even been before Howe made his WHA comeback in 1974. In any event, they both were sort of allowed to make a "rush" up the ice and score into an empty net. Howe just tapped the puck into the goal; the Rocket rifled one to the top corner.
Isn't Haliburton the home of the one-time "Haliburton Hockey Haven", one of the major hockey "schools" or camps of the '60s (and maybe later)? It must be, or have been, a great hockey town.
Bernie Nicholls became a fine player, for sure, including with the Kings, if I remember correctly. Very skilled guy.
Stackhouse played with the old California Golden Seals (green skates?), did he not, in the early expansion years?
No question kids played for the true love of the game back then. I'm sure many do now, too, but yes, the highly structured, over-coached part of youth hockey has changed the approach. Thanks Pete- and a Happy New Year to you as well.
InTimeFor62 December 31, 2013 at 10:50 PM
The only childhood game on skates that I played outdoors was when our street on Vancouver Island actually 'froze over' and a street hockey contingent of players 'laced 'em up' and played a hybrid game on that ice (that lasted for 2-3 days)... I had one of the two nets, so increasingly played goal from a young age (without the requisite padding).
Later in life (29 or 30), I finally scoured the used equipment sources and picked up enough pieces to cover myself reasonably for some ball hockey games when my (former Junior star) friend moved to Vancouver (where his Junior star brother had moved some years earlier). I also lived with another Junior player whose claim to fame was being the first to break Tim Hunter's nose when they were 12 (any later, and my friend would never have been able to reach his nose - given his 5'5" stature).
In any case, we all set out for an outdoor (cement rink) to play a pick up game that shocked the regulars with our 'prowess' - my closest friend was the first to be inducted into the Canadian Ball Hockey Hall of Fame (having been MVP in a tournament against Joe Sakic!!). Of course, he is also the uncle of Evander Kane (whose brother, Perry, had moved to Vancouver earlier). Quite the 'ringers', eh!
It may not be ice hockey, but it was a lot of fun!
The only time I used those pads on ice, was in Calgary where there was an outdoor rink across the street that hadn't been flooded in years, so a friend and I got access and set it up for his (and the neighbourhood) kids to use... of course, we both joined in for that.
Sadly, I just found out that the city tore it down - guess there weren't enough volunteers to keep it going after we moved...
In any case, it's funny how much happiness all such memories invoke! Thanks for the memories (perhaps you're the Bob Hope of the Hockey world :)
I know Vancouver has a lot different climate than the GTA, InTimeFor62, so it's interesting to hear about your west coast "outdoor" hockey experience. (Sounds like the game you describe involved some guys on skates and some with their ball hockey gear...)
Tim Hunter is a great old name, and of course has a recent Leaf (coaching) connection. He played his best years with the Flames.
I remember your referencing the Kane family before- what a talented family that must be.
Outdoor rinks just don't exists the way they used to, I guess. It's sad to lose that old time connection with the sport. Thanks, InTimeFor62. (And I'm not as funny as Hope, but appreciate the reference to the classic song associated with him!)
My Dad always built a backyard rink and we would lace up after school and supper. This was just outside of Kingston. It was fun to be out after dark with just the back light on, and hard for Mom to get us to come in. Our school., though it was small, had a wonderful large rink with boards but it was gone by 1970.
My husband played in the Church Hockey League with Kenny Linesman and managed to spend more time in the penalty box than Kenny did. I'm not sure who influenced who more but a fight with the coach's son ended his hockey aspirations! C.N.
Michael Langlois January 1, 2014 at 9:08 AM
A backyard rink! That's special. (We had one when I was really, really young, but one or two winters at most.) The feeling of playing at night, as you say, is something you always remember. And a school with an outdoor rink. Again, you don't see that much any more. I do on occasion see a family in our neighbourhood, west of Toronto, who can manage a rink. Lots of work and with the off and on conditions, so hard to maintain.
Linseman was a very well-known NHLer. (I remember him most with the Flyers, but he played elsewhere as I recall, too.) Good of you to share those memories. Thanks C.N.
Pete Cam January 1, 2014 at 12:13 PM
Wonderful topic Michael.
I grew up in Leaside and lived across the street from a public school. The Board of Education erected boards and paid a guy to flood the rink every evening. A non hockey rink was also flooded and I started to learn to skate as a two year old (with double runner skates). As I was growing up I would spend all day Saturday and Sunday afternoons on that rink. I would get home with no feeling in my feet ears and hands. Teams were formed (maybe 10+ per side) and you learned to skate and stickhandle if you wanted to touch the puck more than sporadically.
Later on I attended UTS and we played in a league with Upper Canada College, St. Michaels and De La Salle. Most of our games were played on outdoor artificial rinks. I can remember one game where it was so cold that the skates meeting the ice squeaked adding an eerie backdrop to the match. Many times when it was snowing we had to stop a game and shovel the ice.
in Leaside played with two players (although they were older and probably wouldn't remember me) named Bob Cunningham and Sandy McGregor. Both played for the Guelph Biltmores and the AHL Baltimore Clippers. Both also had a cup of coffee with out the New York Rangers. I cannot but lament that if they had been born 10 years later they both would have had long NHL careers.
I also remember playing against Brian Conacher when he was at UCC. In fact he delivered the hardest check I ever received in hockey.
I lament, along with Wilbur, the disappearance of outdoor rinks. I can't help but feel that something has been lost. A lot of Canadian kids developed skating and puck handling skills playing unorganized shinny on outdoor rinks.
Michael Langlois January 1, 2014 at 12:42 PM
I can so relate to the "no feeling" you cite above, Pete Cam. (I also learned a life lesson at a very early age not to wash your freezing cold hands with hot water! That you don't forget.)
That had to be a blast playing high school age hockey against those other big "name" schools. A different time, so long gone, eh?
Great to hear those wonderful old names- and you are so right, if expansion had hit earlier, more of those players like the individuals you mention would have been NHL regulars.
Brian Conacher had a short but solid career with the Leafs. He certainly was a contributor to that '67 Cup. It sounds like he left a calling card you still remember!
We all bemoan the loss of the outdoor days. I just drove by kids playing on their front yard rink today. Just one young family but it warmed my heart. Thanks Pete- and Happy New Year.
RLMcC January 1, 2014 at 1:34 PM
Michael & Pete
I have often though Pete and I seem to have very similar memories - timing, MLGs, in Atlanta area now.
At UWO, I played for a very good team from Medway Hall Residence, that was made up primarily of private school players from likes of UCC, Ridley, St. Andrews, etc.. We lost in finals to Christ the King College which had a number of players with St. Michaels College experience. Goalie was from UCC (Nipper Norris) who I suspect Pete may have played against.
If Conacher hit Pete, I can imagine it hurt as he was big and fast.
Have a happy New Year
RLMcC January 1, 2014 at 12:39 PM
Hi Michael:
Great stories and nostalgia.
Opportunities to play organized hockey was often not readily available in those good old days. Without outdoor hockey, I don't believe that I would have ever had the opportunity to play at a competitive level through minor hockey, college hockey, industrial league hockey, old timers and coaching. And the good part is, this was all for fun.
When I was in Grade 4, I moved from Toronto to Stoney Creek, Ont. I was totally unprepared to play hockey on the marshes near Lake Ontario. My skating was so poor, that I played goal. At least, I was smart enough to know not to use my boots for goal posts.
Then, I got lucky, in Grade 7, we moved to Ancaster, Ont. and we lived near the Hamilton Golf & CC and it was not far to the 8th hole pond where I spent many days every year for a number of years. The competition was fierce as the older players needed some of us younger ones in order to have a meaningful game. There was a second larger pond (Jerome's farm) where you graduated to better games. Occasionally, after I started going to high school in Hamilton, there were many games going on at the Hamilton Marsh which fed into Lake Ontario. I played primarily center when I realized how dangerous goalie was.
Upon reaching high school, the norm became playing competitive hockey on artificial ice outdoor rinks which became a major part of my life. I went on to play competitive hockey in Dundas, Ont. My first coach at 15 in a juvenile league of top teams in Hamilton area, was Leo Reise (believe he was Red Kelly's defense partner with Red Wings). He could skate faster backwards than any of us could frontwards.
I was fortunate to play for a little town (Copetown) in the Ontario playdowns each year, which got me into many old arenas in southern & southwest Ontario, many had defining characteristics (e.g. high boards and almost square corners in Port Colborne). One arena where we practiced and played some games was an old barn in Lynden, Ont. This barn arena was built over the top of a pond and they opened the doors to freeze the natural ice. The ice was very good, but you had to be careful of the nails in the boards. Playing in competitive and high school hockey in this area, I played against such players as Pat Quinn, Wayne Rivers and John Miszuk. One player I played with and against, was Bob Myers who became an NHL referee.
Before UWO got into intercollegiate hockey, they built an outdoor artificial rink on campus. Here many of the interfaculty teams were probably equivalent to Junior B. These were tough games to be playing outdoors at night (cold!!!). It was here that I learned I should get a good education as I played against Brian Conacher prior to his going on to the Leafs. It was apparent my skating still left a lot to be desired.
Like many of you, I built a rink in our backyard in Agincourt from which both a son and daughter got a lot of fun from.
It is no accident that some of the best players ever come from small towns and many spent thousands of hours on outdoor rinks just playing, not being over-coached in some "system".
I so enjoy hearing those small-town names, Ralph (RLMcC). Stoney Creek, Ancaster, Dundas, all great communities. Leo Reise was a very big name. What a tremendous opportunity you had to be coached by a long-time NHLer.
Quinn, Rivers and Miszuk would bring back memories for a lot of fans of that era. (And like Pete, above, you had your own interaction with future Leaf Brian Conacher! He was such an intelligent guy, and wrote a couple of must-read books that talked about hockey in Canada...)
Glad to see you were able to create some memories for your own children with an outdoor rink at home, too.
And I fully agree- we have seemingly, sadly, left behind a time when kids played freely on rivers, ponds and outdoor rinks, and learned the skills while having old-fashioned fun- and without the micro-managing coaching approach we have today. Thanks Ralph, and Happy New Year.
In my preteen years I grew up in the community of Don Mills in Toronto. The Heights was a rental community within the larger community and it was there that I learned to skate and play hockey on outdoor rinks. Yes, in the mid 60s we had reliable winter ice in Toronto. The men in the neighborhood blocked off a part of a parking lot which they flooded for us. We spent hour upon hour on that ice, playing into the evening until we were kicked off for the night so the ice could have its evening flood. The Heights had dozens of kids and there was always a game going on. It was those hours of skating and puckhandling that I remember as one of the most enjoyable parts of childhood. I played only a couple of years of organized hockey at the Don Mills arena, but the spark for hockey that was born on that outdoor parking lot rink still is going, more than half a century later. We had a few kids that went on to play at a higher level. Cliff Cox went to university on a hockey scholarship in the states and was drafted by Montreal in the 70s, playing a few years of minor pro. Neil Labbatt also was one of our crew and played with St. Louis.
Michael Langlois January 1, 2014 at 8:14 PM
Don Mills, another great old community. It's funny, Steve, how those of us posting here today have some kinship with our hometowns, or the communities we lived in, in part based on our youth hockey experiences? I'm not sure that sort of life experience, which just kind of happened naturally back then, could ever be recaptured today.
In reference to your old friend drafted by Montreal. I think it's such an achievement even to be drafted, whether you ever play at pro level or not. Thanks for posting, Steve.
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Checking Out - flying the vintage single-seaters
If you take a stroll through the Vintage Wings hangar you will notice the distinctive shape of the Westland Lysander, currently undergoing refurbishment. The crew is making excellent progress with the airframe and systems, and we anticipate first flight some time this summer. So, with the first flight of an invaluable historic aeroplane fast approaching, someone has to learn to fly it. It will be my responsibility and privilege to take that Lysander airborne for the first time in over sixty years. How? Just how do Vintage Wings pilots prepare to conduct a safe first flight on an unfamiliar type? The question arises often when I walk the hangar floor admiring the aeroplanes with another pilot. When the pilot’s gaze falls upon these gorgeous machines, whether Spitfire, Hurricane or the soon-to-fly Lizzie, I am invariably asked “how do you get checked out to fly it?” In this article I shall attempt to answer this question, at least from my personal perspective, sharing a few of the techniques that I have developed in my “day job” as an experimental test pilot.
Typically there is no training course; no handbook or manual that will adequately describe the technique used to fly an historic aeroplane. Most likely the Flight Manual exists. During the war they were called Pilot’s Notes, and consisted of a thin pamphlet of a few dozen pages that recommended some airspeeds and related the whereabouts of the important levers. Nevertheless, those quaint old-fashioned Pilot’s Notes are not sufficient. They tell you, with scant detail, how the aeroplane works. What I need to know is how to work the aeroplane. Alone in the cockpit on that first flight, I must strap in prepared to behave appropriately to the demands made by the machine. I need to know about technique. Will the aeroplane veer sharply on take-off? Will I be able to lift the tail? Should I? How much pressure will be required on the stick? Are the controls sensitive? The collected answers to these questions are typically called “skill”, and are acquired from experience. I don’t have any. What to do?
Last summer, Erdos flew the Vintage Wings of Canada Hurricane IV to Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum - a like-minded organization with lots of experience in warbird operation. They too have a fully restored Westland Lysander built nearby in Toronto at National Steel Car. This Lizzie has not yet flown either, but Rob was invited to do a little cockpit work and even taxi the aircraft. Here he climbs up to what may very well be the highest cockpit in the single-seat category (Single pilot in this case) followed by one of CWHM's aero engineers. Photo: Peter Handley
Rob Erdos learns the intricacies of the Lysander control panel and some tips on engine start from one of Canadian Warplane Heritage's highly experienced aero engineers. Photo: Peter Handley
Personally, the first step in the process is to ask the aeroplane. Seriously. It is an axiom in flight testing that aircraft fly like they look – provided of course that one has learned how to look at them. A careful walk-around can be very revealing: How large are the control surfaces? What is the geometry of the undercarriage? Where is the center of gravity with regard to the undercarriage? In the case of the Lysander, for example, the wheels are mounted generously far ahead of the center of gravity; an understandable configuration intended to minimize nose-over for an aeroplane designed for rough airfields. It reminds me, however, that I should avoid wheel landings lest they produce an embarrassing bounce. The objective of this thorough engineer’s-eye inspection of the aeroplane is to build a mental model of its flying characteristics; a model based upon the geometric properties of the machine in comparison to other better known types. It is a process demanding experience, and that is why test pilots value the opportunity to fly as many different types as possible.
The inspection includes a careful look at the cockpit. At the initial stages I am mainly concerned with spotting the novel and unusual, making mental note of anything that will demand that I behave in a manner at odds with my previous training and habit patterns. It is wise to pay particular attention to systems that have been “improved” or modernized from the original configuration. In my experience, such intended improvements are often the “lumpy bits” that demand the most attention to operate.
Next it is time for homework - lots of homework. The self-check out process involves accumulating everything that has been written on the subject of flying a particular machine. For now, I will set aside the glorious battle histories and tales of daring. I am looking specifically for descriptions by pilots of handling the beast. These can be found in wartime memoirs, contemporary pilot reports from the warbird community, or test pilot’s reports from assessments of captured examples (always a good read).
Of course, I have struck gold if I can talk to a pilot with experience on type. Memory tarnishes with time, so most valuable is a pilot who is currently flying the machine. In my experience, my colleagues in the warbird community have been exceptionally generous in sharing their knowledge, and a cockpit check-out from a qualified pilot is very confidence inspiring. My Rolodex highlights the names of Dave Southwood (Empire Test Pilot’s School), Andy Septhton (Shuttleworth Collection) and John Romaine (Aircraft Restoration Company) as invaluable references. When they talk, I listen. Between them they have flown an amazing variety of aeroplanes, and most importantly they can articulate the process in a cogent and pragmatic manner.
Erdos starts the Bristol Mercury engine and does a little tarmac flying to get a feel for ground handling. The guys at CWHM have been very generous with their expertise and time, allowing Vintage Wings to learn some valuable gen prior to our own engine start-up. The CWH Lysander is scheduled to fly this summer, and Rob has been invited to conduct the first flight and post-restoration test flight program. It is a good example of the cooperation and sharing of knowledge that exists between CWH and VWC. Photo: Peter Handley
This is not to imply that the experiences of the wartime pilots are any less valuable. I recall a conversation with the renowned WWII ace Oscar Boesch while I was preparing to check out on the Me-109. I called him at his home in Toronto to humbly ask if he might assist me. Oscar demurred that it had been over half a century since he last flew an Me-109 and that “it had been on fire at the time” – and then proceeded to give me an astonishing, almost photographic, description of its handling qualities. Rest assured, I listened carefully.
I listen carefully, but critically, when discussing the flying qualities of an aeroplane with other pilots. Opinions often vary widely about how to fly a particular machine; myth and folklore often colouring the boring technical facts. For example, there are, I believe, as many ways to start a Merlin engine as there are individual pilots. (Want to start an argument? Ask a room full of warbird pilots when they engage the magnetos during engine start…). I hear aeroplanes variously described as “squirrely”, “loose”, or “nervous”. The truth is that where flying qualities are concerned pilots may know how to successfully fly the machine, but they often can’t describe the subtle touch and technique that they apply. It comes too naturally to them - that is what makes the really good pilots so good. Perhaps it’s my nature as an engineer, but I don’t just want to know what to do, I also need to understand why. It is my job to interpret each pilot’s descriptions of his flying technique in the context of my own mental model of the aeroplane, and to fit his descriptions into my understanding. I call the process “forensic engineering”.
Even when you've already checked out and had dozens of hours on type, the experiences of other pilots will only add to the body of information a pilot should collect and share. Here Erdos chats with former Hurricane and Spitfire pilot Chris Preston back in 2007. Photo: Peter Handley
Pilots love to share experience. The community is a close-knit one and willing to share information that can lead to safer and more efficient operation of these valuable warbirds. Here Erdos flies his hands around demonstrating a technique to fellow VWoC Spitfire pilot N. Kent Beckham and Lancaster pilot Andy Dobson of CWHM. Photo: Peter Handley
Once checked out, a good pilot never stops learning and adding to his knowledge base. Erdos pilots the Hawker Hurricane in close formation with the Lancaster of CWHM. Each flight is followed by a thorough debriefing to ensure that VWC pilots continue to share their experiences. Photo: Peter Handley
Erdos taxies after another perfect landing at a Vintage Wings Open House event. Rob's experience and skill at flying this historic airplane has allowed him to create tools, build checklists and collect information that in turn can be shared with other Hurricane pilot- in-the-making. Recently, this experience helped get Dave Hewitt of the Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team checked out on type. Photo: Peter Handley
A dream come true. Erdos sits at the controls of a Messerschmitt Bf-109 of the Russell Group - once the most ubiquitous of all single seat fighters, now only this sole aircraft of the type still flies (at the time of the photo). An aircraft of this pedigree and singular rarity deserves a cautious and well worked through training regime before anyone is allowed to take her into the skies.Photo: Via Rob Erdos
If I’m successful I will eventually feel that I understand the unique character of the aeroplane and the elements of technique that will provide safe control. That’s when the work really begins: I write it all down. This takes the form of a detailed “Operations Manual” for a particular aeroplane. The manual is not just for that type of aeroplane, but for a specific serial number, reflecting the exact configuration of parts that Vintage Wings is operating. The completed work is more like a modern flight manual than the original Pilot’s Notes, including limitations, normal and emergency checklists, and detailed descriptions of all the systems. The necessity for rewriting the manual is justified by the fact that the original limitations often presumed that one was taking the aeroplane to war. Much more conservative limitations are relevant to demonstration flying in an invaluable historical treasure. We strive to fly the Vintage Wings aeroplanes such that another lucky pilot will have the same privilege a century from now.
The check-out process does not end with writing the manual. In fact, that’s where it begins. Countless hours will subsequently be spent in the cockpit, rehearsing the procedures to ingrain the correct responses deep into muscle memory. If I have learned one thing as a test pilot, it is that I will become significantly dumber once the engine is started. It’s best to plan on it. It must look silly, but I prepare to fly by sitting in the cockpit and acting out aloud numerous scenarios: normal landings, engine failures, blown tires, spin recoveries. The objective is to reinforce habit patterns, and this can only be done in a real cockpit. Reading a manual only stimulates the imagination. Rehearsal stimulates the muscles, the eyes, and the memory. The rehearsal continues until the tasks are consistently performed the same way each time.
Erdos goes through cockpit drills long before he takes an opportunity to fly the 109. Photo: Via Rob Erdos
All of this preparation presumes, of course, that the pilot has sufficient flying experience and proficiency for the aeroplane that awaits him. There is no substitute for recent flying experience, lots of it. In the days preceding a first flight, I try to fly as often as possible. (This implies that pilots aren’t always trying to fly as often as possible. Okay, you caught me.) Flying training needs to be productive, including practise forced landings, aerobatics and formation experience, ideally in an aeroplane as close as possible in performance and handling to the one awaiting testing. I keep a handbook that outlines a selection of what I term “loading tasks”; simple manoeuvres that can be performed in any aeroplane and are guaranteed to challenge the pilot. For example, I like to perform roll reversals, say from left to right 45° bank, while precisely maintaining heading, altitude and airspeed. Perfecting that manoeuvre is a terrific reminder about the proper use of the rudder pedals. The goal is to ensure that your brain can go at least as fast as the aeroplane that you’re preparing to fly. You can’t be too prepared.
Ultimately, the big day arrives and it is time to strap on the aeroplane and go flying. No amount of preparation can completely alleviate the anxiety associated with the first flight of an invaluable high-performance single-seater. Caution prevails. The objective of any first flight is simple: to insert the aeroplane into the middle of the flight envelope and bring it back again safely. Every task is oriented toward that goal. Subsequent flights will gradually expand the envelope, and every test flight follows a scripted plan. If there is one cardinal rule in flight testing it is to PLAN THE FLIGHT AND FLY THE PLAN. Flight testing can be very unforgiving of improvisation.
Some time this summer the Vintage Wings’ Westland Lysander will return to the sky for the first time in over sixty years. That flight will be the culmination of an extensive effort that is ongoing right now in our hangar. It will be my job to repay the efforts of our volunteers and staff by conducting a safe first flight; a process that takes careful preparation. The Lysander deserves nothing less.
Rob Erdos , a former military pilot, is a senior test pilot with the National Research Council's Flight Research Laboratory in Ottawa. Rob will be giving a presentation in May, 2009 at the Canada Aviation Museum about flying the principle Battle of Britain Fighters - Spitfire, Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109. He is one of only a couple of people in the world qualified to do so. Standby for details.
Second World War Spitfire pilot Louis Geffrion and present day Spit man Erdos talk about the flying qualities of this legendary airplane. It's in quiet moments like this that tiny bits of information are uncovered from someone who has been there which add to the knowledge base that Vintage Wings is committed to building and maintaining through people like Rob Erdos. Photo: Peter Handley
And then it's time to share this knowledge with our friends - the Canadian public. Photo: Peter Handley
Erdos is the Manager of British Types at Vintage Wings. The old saying "It's not broken, it's British" says a lot about the quirkiness and sometimes counter-intuitive operation of the Hurricane, Lysander and other Anglo-designs. Erdos knows that the only way to fly these aircraft for all to enjoy is to understand them as completely and as intimately as possible. Photo: Peter Handley
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W3C10 Symposium
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IPMS Scale Model World 2010
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IPMS Scale Model World Show 2010
This weekend (13th & 14th November) was the premier show for the International Plastic Modellers Society (IPMS) although this show is open to the general public only members of the IPMS may enter the competition. The show takes place at the International Centre in Telford UK and is spread over the Saturday and Sunday as a two day event and is billed as the UK’s largest annual model show and competition. Despite its title and the fact that there would be a lot of plastic kits at this show in the forms of vehicles and aircraft modern day casting methods means that plastic and resin figures from all sides of the hobby could be seen at this particular show.
Having not been to this particular show before one of the reasons for going was to see if it would be worth joining IPMS and entering the competition at a future date. I set off from Wales at around 8am on Saturday morning intending to arrive for around 10:15am as it was only about a 2 hour drive and the show opened to the public at 10am. The drive up was uneventful until after I got off the M54 and headed into Telford itself, the last three quarters of a mile of the journey took over an hour. I thought at first that maybe there had been an accident but it turned out to be a parking problem at the venue itself.
This was to be one of several issues with this show, Parking at the venue was unable to cope and filled up even before the show opened which meant parking attendants pointing people towards the local long and short stay car parks which were also unable to cope. This problem also prevented Traders that had arrived that morning being able to get access to the traders parking area to set up so had obviously been going on long before I joined the tail back of traffic.
After parking the car and walking 15 minutes back to the venue it was close to 11:30am and it was only to join another queue as they only had one person on the desk for people to buy tickets to enter the show, entry to the show was £9 per adult for either day or £14 for both days. Once inside the venue the show is laid out in three halls.
Once past the ticket table there was a large amount of wasted space that could have been utilised a lot better which lead to Hall 3 this is the first hall area and besides the two catering areas the first thing you see is the Spitfire from the RAF Museum and for the cost of £5 you could have the chance to sit in the cockpit and have your photograph taken, there was also a spitfire simulator and the main completion tables, a large area was set aside for a Kit swap area but this seemed to remain empty for the whole time that I was there.
As mentioned earlier the competition is the International Competition for the IPMS and is therefore only open to IPMS members, membership costs £20 per year. The competition area itself is not as big as the area set aside for Euro-Militaire and was laid out like a maze, People were having to queue to enter their models to the competition and I think part of this was due to the parking issues, nobody was allowed into the maze of the competition area except those members of the organisation receiving and placing entries. As soon as the entry deadline was reached the area was closed for judging!
This struck me as being really strange for a two day show as any member of the public or IPMS member only able to get there for the Saturday did not get a chance to look at what was entered or for those that were entering something to have a look at the models prior to judging, judging was still taking place at around 3pm when I left and a lot of people had come to the show got what they wanted and then left again possibly because of the parking issues but also because there was not a lot there to keep people interested for more than a few hours.
Halls 1 and 2 were full of trade and club stands and by full I mean full there seemed to be little in the way of organisation for these i.e. a trade hall and a clubs hall which meant that everything not in Hall 3 were in these two halls with a lot of traders saying that space on/behind their table/stand was very tight. Traders were however kept very busy on the whole and besides the expected hordes of plastic tanks and aeroplanes there were also some historic and Sci-fi/Fantasy traders present who were doing equally well with a total of around 227 tables split between exhibiting clubs and traders. Traders included known traders such as LSA Models, Cammet, MDC, Grey Matter Figures, Victory Miniatures, Bonapartes, Forgeworld, Just Bases and many others.
Some things to note that may interest some people is that Grey Matter Figures had on their stand the large scale Goblin Ninja and Pumpkin Head sculpted by Sean Green but these do not appear on their website yet so I am unable to clarify if Grey Matter has become a distributer for these.
Forgeworld’s Stand was very quiet for the most part, so much so that Mark Bedford was busy painting when I got there...I managed to pick up an Eldar Hornet model no problem and photos of the kit will be posted in a relevant thread at a later date. The fact that they were not that busy also gave me the opportunity to ask about the releases for Warhammer Forge, when I asked this question I was immediately pointed in the direction of Mark Bedford with the words “You need to speak to Mark as he is running that now!” So having a brief chat with Mark revealed that January 2011 should see the first of the releases from Warhammer Forge rolling out, models that have gone to the casts as being complete so far include the chaos toads, chaos ogres, chaos trolls, Theodor Bruckner mounted on a Demigriffon and the engine part of the chaos dwarf steam train with its crew.
Mark has nearly finished the model of Tamurkhan on the toad dragon so that will go off to casting soon probably jst before Xmas and it is also hoped that the book with all the background etc will go to the printers/layout early 2011 with a copy available for the public to look at come the time of the Forgeworld Open Day 2011.
Overall this show had a lot of potential but turned out to have some (to me anyway) serious location and organisation issues that need to be seriously looked at
shanerozzell - 14-11-2010, 06:56 PM
very nice article WG
RogerB - 15-11-2010, 10:18 AM
Thanks WG! Seems like a fair amount of revision is needed regarding the organisation.
They should have had James May's full scale kit Spitfire to go alongside the real one.
seasonman - 15-11-2010, 03:12 PM
Thanks for the heads up it sounds like a lot more organisation is required or was this a new venue for them ? Thank you for taking the time to enlighten us .
War Griffon - 15-11-2010, 04:09 PM
No its not a new venue, I think it is held here every year, this was the first ear I went along though and will be the last unless they sort themselves out.
Captain Sprout - 15-11-2010, 09:23 PM
Nice article WG, sounds like it has a few odd challenges for a long running show. Sounds like its the place to go for FW though you seem to queue anyway heh.
Halestorm - 16-11-2010, 10:38 AM
Nice article, a lot of these shows seem to be really packed in, i have been to a few in school halls and community centers, seems that the organisers underestimate the draw of the miniature modeler :)
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LaCava Links Up With Tiger (*Update)
By Stephanie Wei under Tiger Woods
Joe dumps DJ for Tiger
As if there weren’t enough excitement and surprise in golf on Sunday — while Hunter Mahan and Bill Haas were locked in a duel at the Tour Championship, Butch Harmon revealed on Sky Sports that he had just spoken to his student Dustin Johnson, who told him caddie Joe LaCava decided to leave Johnson for Tiger Woods.
#Butch Harmon, #Caddie Carousel, #Dustin Johnson, #Joe LaCava, #Tiger Woods, #Tour Championship
What Would You Do With the $10M If You Won?
By Stephanie Wei under FedEx Cup
You're going to need a bigger wheelbarrow!
If you asked me, I could list at least five or more things. Oh, you are asking? Okay, well, after I paid off my debt, I’d buy a house for my parents, a house in NYC and the Hamptons (maybe one in St. Barths, too), give a donation to a charity my mom is involved with, and throw a huge party — need me to go on? Because I can. I’ll spare you.
But I asked some of the guys in this week’s field what they would do with the $10 million and a few had trouble coming up with something. Let’s take a look…
#$10 million, #2011 FedExCup, #Tour Championship
Toms Garners Payne Stewart Award
Toms: professional and charitable
David Toms added another accolade to his revival season — the 44-year-old and ’01 PGA champion has snagged his 13th PGA Tour victory at Colonial and notched seven top tens — on Tuesday at East Lake, site of this week’s Tour Championship.
PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem announced Toms as the recipient of the 2011 Payne Stewart Award. Via the press release:
#David Toms, #Payne Stewart Award, #Tim Finchem, #Tour Championship
And We’re Back!
By Stephanie Wei under Announcements
Luke Donald reacts to a missed birdie putt at the Tour Championship
You may have noticed that WUP was having technical difficulties from around midnight to noon on Tuesday. Actually, I know many of you did and I appreciate your concern and the emails letting me know. Thanks for your patience and the problem was fixed as soon as possible. Even though I’m a low-budget website (unlike Big Brother the PGATour.com), these things happen. Anyway, what’s important is that we’re back.
Honestly, this announcement was mostly an excuse to post the above pretty picture from Rob Matre, which he took during the third round of the Tour Championship at East Lake. Take a closer look at the background, more specifically, the back right. Yeah, that’s me. I’m writing something like, “Luke Donald’s birdie putt just burns the edge, he holds putter up in celebration, thinking it’s going to go in. Fail.”
[Photo by Rob Matre]
#East Lake, #Luke Donald, #Rob Matre, #Tour Championship
Jim Furyk: The 11.35 Million-Dollar Man
Just before Jim Furyk stepped up to his two-footer for par on 18, he flipped his dripping wet cap backward. Minutes earlier he nearly holed a bunker shot to cash in the biggest payday in golf.
Furyk had a three-shot lead through 15 holes, but bogeys on 16 and 17 and Luke Donald’s chip-in for birdie on 17 cut it down to one stroke on the final hole. Donald waited in the scoring trailer while Furyk played the last hole. If Furyk bogeyed the long par-3 18th, he would face Donald in a sudden-death playoff for both the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup, not to mention $11.35 million.
#FedEx Cup, #Jim Furyk, #Tour Championship
The Likely FedEx Cup Scenarios for Final Round (as of Rain Delay)
FedEx Cup scenarios as of 1:10pm (rain delay)
Here’s the handout the Tour just passed out of the likely scenarios for the next two hours (which is the time they expec to finish before bad weather returns — if they DQ Kevin Na). I apologize if you can’t read the picture I took of it with my camera, but it doesn’t make that much sense, anyway. All I know is that to win the FedEx Cup, most the leaders have to win the tournament.
But I did find one scenario interesting. Nick Watney is five-under through 13, seven-under for the tournament. At one point, he was 14-under in the last 20 holes and 12-under for the last 18 (score of 58!). He’s one back of the leader, Jim Furyk, at the moment. So, if Watney can stay hot and wins the Tour Championship and Matt Kuchar finishes solo-25th, then it would result in a tie for the FedEx Cup. Kuchar is in the clubhouse in 26th place currently.
A sudden-death playoff would then take place immediately following the conclusion of the final round. Now that would be cool if they faced off for the $10 million.
Otherwise, bo-ring. I’m about to fall asleep, so I’m going to watch in the rain, which should be nice and wet since I didn’t pack a jacket.
#FedEx Cup, #Jim Furyk, #Matt Kuchar, #Nick Watney, #Tour Championship
FedEx Cup Tape-Delayed Final Round Open Rant (Update)
Due to forecasted inclement weather on Sunday, the final round of the Tour Championship will begin at 9am instead of 11:30am. It’s just a little rain and it’s supposed to be the same all day, so I’m not sure why it was necessary to move the tee times up two-and-a-half hours. But the actual issue is that now the final round will be tape delayed on NBC. Yeah, this event that’s been force fed to fans since the first round of Kapalua in January won’t be shown live.
The exciting race to the finish line is here and the Tour decides to push the tee times up because of a little rain? Okay, now I understand that it’s erring on the side of caution considering when the weather gets nasty in the South, it’s nasty. And given that most of the media has to file their stories on the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup before they head to the airport, I guess it’s an altruistic (and rare) move on the part of the Ponte Vedra suits.
Lucky for me, I’m at the tournament and I get to witness all the exciting action live. But for the fans at home, it sucks — and it pretty much validates that the FedEx Cup is a joke. I mean, would this happen during a major? No way. It completely takes away from the oh-so-thrilling excitement on the back nine of a couple guys vying for the $10 million when you already know what happens before you watch it on TV (unless you have self-restraint and you don’t check online).
So, my question is, will you watch the tape-delayed action? And if so, will you look at the results online beforehand? More important, were you planning on watching golf instead of football, anyway? Does anyone even care? Perhaps it’s not such a big deal considering the few die-hard fans that would have tuned in.
*Update: Because of the two-hour rain delay, NBC’s coverage of the Tour Championship was aired live from 3-6EST. Turns out it didn’t matter much since it still received a rating of 1.3, down 61% from last year. (In other words, the weather forced the circumstance, but the intention was to air it on tape, two hours behind.)
Here’s an explanation via email from Ty Votaw, Executive Vice President of the Tour:
Since our decision ultimately resulted in a live finish that came down to the last putt within the live telecast window, I look forward to reading your retraction praising the competition with equal interest.
I would point out that unlike other decisions to air live sports coverage on tape delay to take advantage of time zones or to please broadcast partners, this decision was made solely in order to work around the weather and try to ensure a finish on time, which we did.
[Photo by Kyle Auclair/insidetheropes.com]
#FedEx Cup, #NBC, #Tour Championship
A Breakdown for Which Khaki-Wearing “Semi-Athlete” Will Win $10 Million on Sunday
The PGA Tour is trying really hard to help people understand which wealthy white guy that hits a little white ball around for a living (otherwise known as a “semi-athlete” in the words of Geoff Ogilvy) will walk away at least $10 million richer on Sunday afternoon.
I give an A for effort, but Jim Furyk made a great point — “The first part of the scenario is I have to win, and the rest of it I can’t control. I doubt that I can — I doubt there’s a scenario where I’m going to finish second or worse in the tournament and win the FedExCup, so that’s the only thing I can somewhat control. So the idea really, it makes it very simple, to just go out — if I were in the top 5 and there was all those scenarios and ideas, yeah, you might want to keep an eye, yeah, I have to make sure I finish higher than 6th or whatever it might be. But the situation I’m in coming from 11th, I have to win tomorrow and the idea is just to go out and do the best I can to do that.”
But check out these charts — basically, the contest for the FedEx Cup has been reduced to five players, Jim Furyk, Retief Goosen, Luke Donald, Paul Casey and Charley Hoffman.
#FedEx Cup, #Tour Championship
Talking FedEx Cup With Atlanta Fans
Considering it was college football game day with Georgia Tech playing NC State just a few miles away and Tiger Woods is missing, the turnout for the Tour Championship was rather good (and much better than I expected). The leaderboard starring Jim Furyk, Retief Goosen, Luke Donald, Geoff Ogilvy and Paul Casey doesn’t hurt either. Now if only Georgia Tech alumnus and Atlanta resident (actually, former as of earlier this week), Matt Kuchar, wasn’t four-over and T23, the Tour couldn’t ask for a more ideal situation.
While it’s a great tournament, I’ve been wondering if fans A) care about the other tournament, the FedEx Cup and B) understand the convoluted points system. I was watching the leaders come through 17 green when I struck up conversation with the three most knowledgeable PGA Tour fans on the grounds (and perhaps the most sober).
#East Lake, #FedEx Cup, #Tour Championship
Watney Burns Up East Lake
Nick Watney at some tournament that's not the Tour Championship
After Nick Watney signed for his 63, he looked giddy as he walked over to his fiancee, Amber Uresti, to give her a kiss before making the mandatory media rounds.
Watney was five-over through 36 holes and was playing in the second group on Saturday morning — meaning he was near the bottom of the Tour Championship leaderboard. After a slow start with two bogeys in the first five holes (yep, and he still shot seven-under!), it appeared it was going to be another tough day, but then he made change.
#FedEx Cup, #Nick Watney, #Tour Championship
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Plame retaliation
There is a good article by Peter Bergen on fruitcake Laurie Mylroie, the half of the Gruesome Twosome who is not currently in jail (Judy now has a use for her toothbrush shiv). One paragraph caught my eye:
"Mylroie has also recently taken on the role of defender of Ahmed Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress, who is accused of providing fraudulent information about Iraq's WMD programme and passing intelligence to Iran. In May, in the conservative newspaper the New York Sun, Mylroie described Chalabi as the victim of a 'longstanding grudge' by the CIA."
The fact that they are fighting the CIA has been a long-standing theme of the neocons. The battle between the Bush Administration and the CIA reached its peak when the CIA was officially excluded from National Security Council meetings, a mighty strange decision when you think about it.
Which leads me to three questions about the Plame Game:
Why did Judith Miller discuss the matter with someone in the White House, and then not write about it?
How does Novak continue to slide through this mess without facing any legal problems?
Why would the White House attempt to get revenge on Wilson by the rather clumsy, and potentially dangerous, dirty trick of outing Plame?
Possible answers:
From an article in the Washington Post:
"Sources close to the investigation say there is evidence in some instances that some reporters may have told government officials - not the other way around - that Wilson was married to Plame, a CIA employee."
"It is a felony to knowingly identify a covert CIA operative. But lawyers for some media say they believe Fitzgerald has no evidence that a government official committed that crime."
The theory would be that somebody in the White House was complaining to Miller about the fact that Wilson had embarrassed the White House by raising the Niger matter after the attack on Iraq, and by chance, due to her knowledge of the proliferation beat, Miller then disclosed to this White House official that Wilson was married to an undercover CIA proliferation expert named Plame. The crime in question can only apply to someone "having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent", so Miller's gossip, not being 'authorized access', would not be enough to fit under the statute. It is a nice question whether you can fall back under the statute if you use the gossip to then seek out the kind of 'authorized access' referred to in the statute, but Fitzgerald probably doesn't want to press the point. If Fitzgerald lacks the basis for a prosecution under the statute, he'd have to be going after somebody for perjury (or even treason), and the vehemence with which he is attacking Miller suggests that he really needs Miller's evidence to back up Cooper's evidence in making a perjury charge. Cooper's source gave Cooper a specific waiver to keep Cooper out of jail, something the source could afford to do as long as Miller keeps quiet.
The Novak question is answered if Novak is a CIA asset.
Which leads to the final question. What if the White house was furious with the CIA for setting them up on the Niger matter? After all, it was the CIA which picked Wilson for the job. It was the CIA which complained about Bush's October 2002 speech and had reference to the Iraq-Niger connection removed, and it was the CIA which complained about the 2003 State of the Union speech when the Niger claim mysteriously reappeared. However, the CIA had seen a draft of the State of the Union speech and had said nothing about it. Then, at a time to cause maximum political embarrassment, after the attack on Iraq, Wilson raised the matter again. Is it little wonder that the paranoids in the White House saw this series of events as a CIA dirty trick? That explains the fact that the initial spin was that Plame herself had suggested Wilson. That is probably not true, but it is quite possible that Rove and the others believed it to be true, as part of a CIA plan to undermine the neocon case for an attack on Iraq. When that plan failed, the next step was to use Wilson to embarrass the White House as part of the ongoing war between the CIA and the neocons. Once the White House made its big mistake in going after the CIA through outing Plame, Novak's column, which covers all the elements of the criminal offence, represents the final stage of the CIA attack. By going after Plame, the White House wasn't just attacking Wilson, but making it clear to the CIA that it would not hesitate to attack CIA undercover operations as part of the battle between the neocons and the White House. Looked at this way, what the White House did was much closer to treason - intentional undermining of the 'war on terror' (which must fit into the Patriot Act somewhere) - than mere perjury.
Novak's column led to the discussion of whether a crime had been committed, and ultimately to Fitzgerald's investigation and the Grand Jury. It appears probable that somebody lied in testifying in order to cover up for the outing of Plame, which is funny if you consider that the outing of Plame may not have been a crime (it's always the cover-up that gets them!). The lesson in all this is that you don't ever want to get into a dirty tricks food fight with the CIA, or you might end up covered in pie.
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Tickets available for Bob Knight appearance in Carmel
By kevinkane on January 4, 2012 Current in Carmel
Dominique Ball said Bob Knight is the biggest name in the history of Indiana sports, and that’s why he’s bringing him to Carmel.
Knight – a Hall of Fame basketball coach who won three national championships leading the Indiana Hoosiers – will come to Authentic Sports Collectibles at Carmel City Center Jan. 14. ASC opened Nov. 1 at 715 Hanover Place, and Ball said he has been working on bringing Knight to the store for more than a month.
“I wanted to go big and who’s bigger than Bob Knight?” he said.
The signing is open to members of the public who purchase one of the 500 tickets available. Tickets can be purchased at the store from now until the day of the event, but Ball said waiting until the 14th may leave some without a ticket, as he expects media coverage – including an appearance by Knight on The Bob and Tom Show scheduled for next week – to put the tickets in high demand.
Ball said ASC’s contract with Knight prohibits him from publicly disclosing the price of each ticket but added that, in his experience, attending autograph sessions offers the best prices on signed memorabilia.
“To come witness the guy sign it, that’s the cheapest way to buy it,” he said. “It’s cheaper than buying it retail.”
Attendees are allowed to bring one item per purchased ticket, and Ball said there are very few limitations on what can be presented to Knight to sign. Traditionally, Knight has politely refused to sign two editions of Sports Illustrated covering his firing at IU as well as copies of A Season on the Brink. Aside from that, Ball said, nearly anything is fair game.
“He’ll even sign a chair if you want to bring that,” he said.
Ball said he has many other signings planned for 2012, including appearances by “Mean Joe” Greene, Johnny Bench, Pete Rose, Gale Sayers, Mike Alstott and more. Ball said those seeking more information or to purchase tickets can call him directly at 554-9906.
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DNA on Pizza Crust Led Authorities to Mansion Murder Suspect
By MIKE LEVINE
Authorities searched a Maryland home overnight in the investigation of a deadly mansion murder, going through the trash and removing bags of evidence -- but in the end it was a piece of pizza crust that could lead to the suspect's arrest.
Daron Dylon Wint, 34, was identified on Wednesday as the key suspect in the quadruple slaying and arson attack in Northwest, a section of Washington, D.C. A court issued an arrest warrant for Wint with "murder one while armed," authorities said.
Two sources familiar with the case told ABC News that DNA found on the crust of a Domino's pizza that had been delivered to the house led authorities to identify Wint as the suspect.
Police visited a home in Lanham, Maryland, and removed three bags of items in relation to the investigation.
The pizza's were delivered to the home the night before the fire, which took place last Thursday.
Wint's stepmother, speaking to ABC News, called Wint "hostile."
"He doesn't listen," said the woman, who has not been identified. "You try to tell him and guide him the right way, but he thinks he knows the law ... more than anybody else. He was very argumentative. Everywhere he goes there's an argument ... very arrogant."
Savvas Savopoulos and his wife Amy, their 10-year-old son Phillip and longtime housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa were found dead May 14. According to a source familiar with the case, only the boy was burned to death -- the other victims were doused with gasoline and stabbed.
Police reports show that the victims made a flurry of calls the day of the fire. Additionally, Savopoulos' personal assistant dropped off a package containing $40,000 in cash to the home, the source said.
Bernardo Alfaro, Figuera's husband, told ABC News in an exclusive interview that he became alarmed when his wife didn't come home.
"I didn't hear from her, and every time I call the phone, it just going straight to voicemail," he said.
After Alfaro couldn't reach his wife, he drove to the house, knocked on the door and rang the doorbell. But after Savapolous called him saying he'd call back, Alfaro went home, waiting for a call that never came.
The house was engulfed in flames hours later, authorities said.
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Could Bernie Sanders run against Elizabeth Warren in 2020 presidential race?
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WATCH Bernie Sanders top aide discusses 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders is still considering a second run for president, according to his former campaign manager Jeff Weaver, and he may decide to enter the race even if it means running against another progressive powerhouse, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Warren has also been on Democrats’ short list for the 2020 presidential race to challenge President Trump, and Sanders’ longtime aide dodged questions about whether the two New England senators would really go head-to-head.
“The question is who can beat Trump in 2020, how we can put together the type of coalition from the folks who have taken it over and I think that is what the senator is weighing,” Weaver said during an interview with ABC News.
“I am confident that whoever runs there will be progressive standard-bearer who will be able to galvanize this grassroots energy.”
Weaver added, “Whoever wants to run for president should run."
“I think, the more the merrier,” he said.
Bernie Sanders top aide discusses 2020
Weaver sat down with ABC News to discuss his new book, “How Bernie Won,” in which he urges the Independent Vermont senator to run again in 2020 after detailing the launch and unexpected success of Sanders’ campaign from his perspective.
He argues in the book that the Democratic PArty, as a result of Bill Clinton-era more conservative and centrists policies, had gotten off course and that now, policy positions such as a $15 minimum wage, debt-free public college, and single-payer health care have taken off within the Democratic Party as a result of the senator’s campaign.
Weaver said during the interview that he is not simply interested in “party purity,” but that those progressive policy positions were also smart politics. He posited that Sanders won, what he called, “the geography primary,” beating Hillary Clinton in states in the middle of the country where Democrats have been struggling and that are typically thought to be more conservative.
In his book, Sanders also recounts times his team felt the Democratic Party was actively working against Sanders campaign. He dismisses arguments that Sanders’ run could have hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances, and states repeatedly that the senator would have beaten President Trump in a general election two years ago.
“To the extent our campaign bears any responsibility for Trump’s victory it is that we did not defeat Hillary Clinton,” he writes in the book.
“The polling was consistent that Bernie Sanders was the stronger candidate against virtually every Republican candidate and certainly against Trump,” Weaver told ABC News.
“As an empirical matter,” he added, “She did not win and so Bernie Sanders’s chances of winning empirically were as good as hers or better.”
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“Time Saved” Special Screening at San Francisco Justice Summit
April 24, 2014 / acjpdebug / Leave a comment
We were excited to share an advanced screening of the first episode of our new documentary series called Time Saved at this year’s San Francisco Justice Summit. The Summit is a gathering of criminal defense attorneys, justice advocates, and more, who convene to discuss the most pressing challenges to the public’s rights and liberties in the context of the courts. The event is hosted by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, and this year they featured two of our videos. One was a social biography video we produced for a San Francisco Public Defender client. The video, which was shown during sentencing, helped secure a mitigated sentence, and helped beat a strike prior. We are aired the first pilot episode of Time Saved. The series focuses on how family, community, and attorney collaborations have impacted the outcome of cases. The pilot episode featured the only woman in Santa Clara County who was eligible for resentencing through Proposition 36. The episode will be released to the larger public this summer. Stay posted, and if you have a story or case that you think should be featured, let us know!
Bronx Defenders and the Feng Shui of Public Defense
April 18, 2014 April 20, 2014 / acjpdebug / 1 Comment
Picture from the NY Times.
It’s not often lawyers at a public defender’s office are excited to show you around their building. And that’s usually for good reason – you’ve seen one defender office, you’ve seen them all. A lobby with a bullet proof glass window clients approach to speak to a receptionist, and some cubicles and offices in the back with lawyers and staff.
But at the Bronx Defender’s Office, they want to show you around because they have a new imagination of space design for public defense. Walking through their buildings is like watching a lawyer’s version of MTV cribs. Not that it is blinged out, but that the design – the furniture, the room set-ups, the lack of walls where one is used to seeing them, even the paintings hung of client’s art – sends a message to both clients and attorneys. Continue reading →
Family and ACJP Set Precedent in Stopping ICE Hold for Juvenile in San Mateo County
Rosario came to us at De-Bug last week for assistance regarding her son who had an immigration detainer hold at San Mateo County’s juvenile hall. We helped her create a “mitigation packet” — a package of letters, photos, and history that would be used to tell the fuller story of her son. He had already spent a good 7 months at camp, had an excellent report card, supportive probation officers, and a dedicated mom who kept every single certificate her son earned in school and at camp. In San Mateo County, Probation Chief John Keene stopped the practice of referring juveniles to ICE on a routine basis, except for ‘rare and exceptional cases’ — in which he would have the sole power of deciding whether or not to transfer a youth to ICE custody. This practice came after a four year campaign by the San Mateo County Coalition for Immigrants Rights, which De-Bug is a part of, to reverse this harsh policy. This mitigation packet was to be presented to the Chief to ask him not to enforce an ICE hold on Rosario’s son.
AUDIO: The Life of Officer Involved Shooting Victim Andrea Naharro-Gionet
April 4, 2014 / acjpdebug / Leave a comment
On November 16th, 2013 sixty one year old Andrea Naharro-Gionet was shot and killed by a Santa Clara County Sheriff. Often times in officer involved shootings, the public hears only about the death of the victim, but rarely do they hear about the life lost. In this interview, Andrea’s husband talks about her life, spirit, and meaning in his life. We will keep you posted on the developments of the case. (If Soundcloud embedd does not appear on screen, click link below to hear interview.)
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Delta applies to dam AA’s Beijing direction release deferral
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) has filed Web List Posting an objection with the united states Department of Transportation (DOT) to American Airlines’ request for a year-long stay at the launch of l. A. Int’l-Beijing Capital, China, flights.
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In a filing submitted earlier this month, American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fortress Worth) said it could not satisfy the DOT’s requirement that it initiate the route through March sixteen, 2017, mentioning a lack of slots allotted to it through the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). It, consequently, asked to be granted an extension of both one-year from its authentic March 16, 2017, deadline or within ninety days of Yankee obtaining commercially viable slots at Beijing Capital Worldwide Airport (PEK), whichever occurs first.
But, Delta filed an objection on February 23 in which it accused American of missing seriousness insofar as the route’s release is concerned. It also argued that the asked extension could further deny the traveling public the benefits these “treasured” frequencies entail.
Delta puzzled why American did not premise its commitment to the DOT at the allocation of Beijing slots no matter acknowledging that US carriers face problems in adding routes to China’s largest cities.
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It further claimed that American’s application to apply the vacant Beijing slots changed into filed in haste to its very own unique software in March 2016. It argued that while American states that it had started the method of securing Beijing slots, it only did so properly after the annual IATA slot convention. It, consequently, puzzled how American may want to then justify inquiring for a start-up extension.
“…The instances mentioned via American have been foreseeable, the requested put off is unduly lengthy, and there has been a competitive proceeding in which a competing provider become and stays willing and capable of beginning the provider in a well-timed style,” Delta stated.
Delta, consequently, requested the DOT deny American’s proposed extension, or at least appreciably limit its period, and assign Delta returned-up authority. As an alternative, the DOT was requested to revoke American’s award and re-allocate the frequencies to Delta.
Expats in China Find Fulfillment, Reputation, and Infamy
China’s new open-door coverage and magnificent increase over the last three decades has triggered droves of westerners to take the plunge to the Middle State. The whole wide variety of expatriates currently dwelling in China reached over half 1,000,000 in 2010. Expatriates may be seen in nearly every provincial metropolis in China, Shanghai and Beijing of route website hosting a maximum of them.
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Lifestyles in China for expatriates nowadays is not as tough as in years past. The dwelling widespread in China’s largest cities like Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai is as enjoyable as that of the western cities like NY, London and Paris.
Some expats Discover Chinese language lifestyle puzzling, most consider it captivating. The stable development of society and economy and wealthy task opportunities are all fantastic elements that attract increasingly more expatriates to come live, work and tour in China.
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Expatriates in China are mainly hired inside the records generation, training, and finance sectors. In larger cities, there also are many expatriates who earn a dwelling via beginning their very own western style restaurants and bars. Then there are those who’ve become celebrities of their own rights, both from capitalizing on their western face for television, by blogging approximately modern-day events, or publishing memoirs of their adventures.
Following is a sampling of China’s most top notch expats dwelling there these days, and how they determined their respective fortunes and/or Repute and/or infamy.
1) David “China Bounder” Marriott
David Marriott sparked a cyberspace guy-hunt several years ago after the installation a blog wherein he posted entries boasting of his many and sundry carnal encounters with the girls of Shanghai. Using the alias “ChinaBounder,” Marriott sparked outrage a number of the men of Shanghai with his graphic descriptions of his Achievement with Chinese language women. In his weblog, Chinabounder defined in juicy details how he seduced more than one Chinese women most of whom have been his former college students. The net marketing campaign drew over 17,000 site visitors and Marriot was threatened with murder and castration by way of conservative Chinese language claiming he had blackened their USA’s properly name. But, despite the fact that he became notion to be an English trainer in his Thirties, his cover turned into never completely blown. Now he has determined to reveal his identity in a publicity attempt for his new e-book, Fault Traces on the Face of China: 50 Reasons Why China Can also in no way Be Exquisite.
2) Mark “Dashan” Rowswell
Dashan is the Chinese language degree name adopted by means of Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell, who works as a contract performer in People’s Republic of China. Pretty unknown within the West, Dashan is possibly the most famous Western character in China’s media industry. He occupies a completely unique function as a foreign national who has emerge as a bona fide home celebrity. Dashan can communicate English and Mandarin fluently. He additionally spoke Cantonese in a Ford Business focused at North American Chinese language customers.
3) Richard Burger
Richard Burger is creator of the famous blog The Peking Duck, which has been publishing on account that 2002. The Peking Duck’s posts on hot-button issues generate lively comment threads from all facets of the political spectrum, and the website was once a goal of nationalist Chinese-language blogger trolls who criticized Burger for his views on China, which were often crucial to the government. Burger recently have become an editor on the newly released English version of the global Instances, a Chinese newspaper that has a recognition for leftist, nationalist content material.
4) Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler is great known for his books on China: River Metropolis: Years on the Yangtze, a Kiriyama Prize-prevailing e-book about his stories in years as a Peace Corps volunteer coaching English in China, and Oracle Bones: A Adventure Among China’s past and Present, a collection of journalistic memories he wrote while living in Beijing. at the same time as his memories are ostensibly approximately regular Humans’ lives in China and aren’t inspired by politics, they, however, touch upon political issues or the lives of those who encountered troubles in the course of the Cultural Revolution.
5) Dominic Johnson-Hill
Dominic Johnson-Hill is a former backpacker from the UK who now runs Plastered T-shirts, the startup he based in 2005 which does approximately $800,000 12 months in income. Whilst Dominic first arrived in China, he had little to his call – but the man knew how to hustle. A passionate love for China was given him plenty of media interest. And he made the maximum of every press possibility, such as performing on a famous Chinese Television show wearing at-blouse that featured his store’s cell phone number. Plastered’s iconic fashion brand, which is thought for visualizing creative twists on ordinary factors of Beijing Life, has given that earned the clean going British businessmen movie star status amongst local Beijingers.
6) Mark Kitto
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Mark Kitto, writer of Chasing China (aka “China Cuckoo”), made the Extraordinary bounce from the intense Business chaos of Shanghai and a groundbreaking career as an English language magazine publisher, to running a coffee keep in a beautiful, however isolated mountain village. Five years ago, Mark Kitto became defined as a ‘mini media mogul’ in China however that came to a brutal end after greedy Chinese language investors (with the help of China’s fluid prison gadget) stole his complete media conglomerate far from him. Now Kitto leads a massively extraordinary Existence on a mountain in a tiny Chinese language village referred to as Moganshan together with his Chinese language born wife and young children.
7) Cecilie Gamst Berg
Hong Kong-primarily based Norwegian Cecilie Gamst Berg is the author Blonde Lotus, a girl expat memoir published in English and Norwegian in 2006. She has written for newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong, Norway and Beijing and currently continues two blogs. She currently works for RTHK (Radio tv Hong Kong) making weekly radio packages about Cantonese and, for the remaining years, has been engaged in movie making, putting her Cantonese direction on YouTube as well as making documentaries about Human beings’s each day lives in Hong Kong.
8) Graham Earnshaw
Graham Earnshaw is a CEO and the writer of China Economic Evaluate and Earnshaw Books. He has a varied background, along with a profession as a journalist all through which he served as Beijing bureau leader for each Reuters and the London day by day Telegraph, and Reuters editor for Asia. He has written some of books, including a China travel guide, the translation of a Chinese kung fu novel, published in 2004 by using Oxford College Press, stories of Antique Shanghai, published in 2008, and The First-rate Stroll of China, published in 2010. He plays and writes song and has commercially issued two CDs of his personal songs. He has lived ordinarily in Shanghai in view that 1995 and believes that the destiny of the sector is being created in two places — the Net and China.
9) Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor, author of the Lonely Planet publications to China, Tibet, Japan and Cambodia in the 1990s, and the first capabilities editor on the Taipei Instances, seems again in this era in his debut novel, Harvest Season, a racy, chemical-fueled parable of birthday party tourists who push matters too far in tourism’s modern-day frontier – China. Whilst he falls for the newcomer’s fireplace-dancing Chinese language girlfriend, he turns into entangled in a struggle that pits the drug-addled Westerners towards increasingly more antagonistic locals. A dark exploration of the disrupting results of exchange, globalization and journey, Harvest Season additionally provides a glimpse of a China most folks in no way imagined existed.
10) Tom Carter
journey photographer Tom Carter journeyed for 2 years and 56,000 kilometers throughout the 33 provinces of China, the primary foreigner within the history of China to have ever accomplished so. at some point of his travels, Tom racked up an excellent range of arrests and near-fatalities that have considering the fact that emerge as the stuff of expat legend, turning him right into a popular headliner at speak occasions and literary fairs. His e-book, CHINA: Portrait of a Human beings, has been hailed as the maximum complete images book on present-day China ever published by using an unmarried creator.
11) Rachel DeWoskin
Rachel DeWoskin spent her Nineteen Twenties in China as a representative, creator, and the not likely big name of a nighttime soap opera referred to as “foreign Babes in Beijing.” Her memoir of those years, overseas Babes in Beijing, has been published in six nations and is being developed as a television collection by means of HBO. Her novel Repeat After Me, approximately a younger American ESL trainer, a bothered Chinese language radical, and they’re unexpected My romance, received a Foreward mag e-book of the 12 months award. Her third ebook, the unconventional Massive Lady Small, is drawing close from FSG in 2011.
12) Edwin Maher
Edwin Maher is a new Zealand-born Tv journalist who now works for CCTV Worldwide in Beijing, China. In 2003, China Principal tv sought to make bigger its CCTV Worldwide to be more professional and accessible to Western audiences. CCTV senior executive Jiang Heping approached Maher, already operating in China with CCTV as a voice instruct, to come to be one of the first western anchors for the remodeled network. In January 2010, it changed into introduced that Mayer’s Life story might be adapted into a characteristic film, starring
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Tekken 6 clone cabinet emerges from China
Have you ever played Tekken 6 in an arcade? I have, and my experience taught me two things: firstly my friend is better with the capoeira characters than me, and secondly the cabinet is quite a lovely piece of work. The problem is, there are just too few of them in the world. What are we to do? The answer, possibly, is to get one of these clone cabinets from Guangzhou’s Unique Top Electronic. They’re designed to look quite close to the real thing, though they’re definitely not quite indistinguishable – details such as the red panels underneath the monitor give things away pretty quickly. Still, perhaps not a bad alternative if you’re in the market for such an item – and hey, it’s certainly easy to imagine that the demand is out there.
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Categories: Arcade Cabinets, Tekken
Tags: arcade, Arcade Cabinets, China, Tekken 6
Pre-ATEI buzz – Tekken 6 rumors and BlazBlue tested in Europe
In a build up to ATEI within the next few weeks, Europe has seen a location test of the new fighting game BlazBlue (pictured above), with a big turn-out of players only hampered by the fact that the cabinet used was a hatchet job of a CRT and other parts that gave up the ghost after hordes of players came down to check the game out. It’s good news for Europe that the game is coming to the UK and it should be seen at ATEI but if the effort put into the testing is going to use a converted cabinet instead of a Vewlix or something more official then it is certainly not going to help increase enthusiasm for the game. As Kevin Williams pointed out when he sent us this story: “when a successful opportunity exists for the amusement sector to save at least some credibility – it drops the ball at the last moment.” Location testing could be used to build the hype for the game in addition to seeing how a game will handle in the marketplace but we constantly see opportunities for such a thing passed by, with DJ Max Technicka being a notable exception.For Kevin’s review of the BlazBlue Europe debacle, hit the post break below.
In other fighter news for Europe, rumor has it that Bandai Namco will debut Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion at ATEI. This would be the second time T6 has shown up at ATEI and hopefully this time we won’t see another scene where players are arguing with execs over the game. Stay tuned for more info and discuss it on the forum.
Categories: Location Test, Tekken
Tags: arcade, ATEI, Blazblue, Location Test, rumor, Tekken 6
Street Fighter IV at London's Battle of Destiny
Battle of Destiny is a tournament for the hardcore fighting fans out there – a proving ground in which challengers compete on Hyper Street Fighter 2, Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, Capcom vs SNK 2 and Street Fighter 3: Third Strike. The best players gain paid flights and entry to the Evolution 2008 tournament in Las Vegas. However, the event offers something for everyone as the finished arcade version of Street Fighter IV will be available to play – a first in the UK! If that wasn’t enough, Capcom will also be showing Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix, which will be released on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 later this year.
If you’re interested, the event costs £10 to enter and is taking place in The Rocket Complex at the London Metropolitan University on July 26th and 27th. Casual players pay for venue entry on the day, and if you feel like taking on the dozens of players that have already signed up for the competition, you’ll also need to register your place and bring £10-35 depending on the number of games you’re entering. For more details, visit the Battle of Destiny website.
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Categories: Arcade Competition, Arcade Fun, Arcade Gaming, Console Gaming, fighters, Street Fighter, Street Fighter IV, Tekken, The Stinger Report, Tournament
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Street Fighter IV at London’s Battle of Destiny
GTI Expo 2008 round up with many new games and SF2 the casino game
Sega was not the only company to have an arcade show recently, as the Game Time International Expo 2008 kicked off in Taiwan last week. Thanks to forum user Molloy, he provided us a link to a thread on killercabs.com that featured some pics from the show from a user there named kenji. As always if you want to see the full image, just click on the thumbnails below.
One game that I was particularly interested in was Power Boat by IMOtion. They had a video of the game at ASI (which I have been trying to get a hold of since March) and it definently has changed since then – the cabinet is different and I know that they were working on tweaking the gameplay a little more to make it like HydroThunder. I’m not sure when this will come out but a modern HydroThunder-llike game with a motion base cabinet will probably do well in arcades. Is it me or do these look a little like RaceTV cabinets? Also they have made a new cabinet for Panzer Elite Action. I hope to have some more on Power Boat here shortly.
IGS was there in force, showing off games that I’d love to see them release through American Alpha, their US branch but most likely I’d have to import these games. They had the scrolling fighter Oriental Legend 2 there and Pirate Revenge which we’ve mentioned before. Also Speed Driver 2 was there, one of the few IGS games to use full 3D.
More after the post break including the Street Fighter 2 the Casino game!
Categories: Arcade Exhibitions, Arcade Fun, Arcade Games, Arcade Software, i-Go, Street Fighter, Tecway Development, Tekken
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Tekken 6 on US location via The Stinger Report
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I had mentioned in my ASI reports that I had the opportunity to meet up with Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report during the show and after discussing the show and the industry in general he mentioned that after the show he would be heading down to California to check out one of the few Tekken 6 machines that have been imported into the US from Hong Kong. Now thanks to The Stinger Report we have a look at that machine as well as the popularity surrounding the machine at this particular location called the Super Arcade, which caters to hardcore players and features several games on-site that weren’t released in the US. All photos courtesy of The Stinger Report and are used with permission.
Even though Kevin visited the site on a Monday when people were heading back to school after Spring Break, four players were sitting around the new sit-down Tekken 6 machine, hoarding what they could for themselves. The cabinet is called the A89, or International English cabinet and is incapable of connecting to the internet, thus forgoing the online player rankings and updates because the IC card systems are different. Yet the operator of the site acknowledged that the game was a “phenomenal player magnet” which was further indicated by the fact that players were lining up tokens to denote who was next in line to play (which is a practice that I’ve heard of being done in the early 80’s but not since).
In addition to the HD cabinet on-site the arcade was also selling T6 IC cards for $6 a unit(pictured), such cards being used for saving your own personal data. Super Arcade runs using tokens and charges 2 tokens per play and as a testament to how much the game is being played the coin-mechs had to be cleared of an overflow jam as Kevin sat down to play the game. Again, this was on a Monday during the day – traditionally not a busy time for arcades anywhere.
So there you have it, for an arcade that can afford the game Tekken 6 is repeating the same success that the game is seeing in other parts of the world. Whether more arcades in the US will go through the trouble of importing the game remains to be seen but for those that do this is one game that has proven itself to draw in the players.
(Thanks to MarkMan for a few corrections)
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Namco's Tekken 6 Debaucle
There is no question that 2008 is the year of the fighter for arcades. Japan is seeing a large number of developers creating new fighters and other markets expect to see some of these titles, which includes Namco’s Tekken 6 and Capcom’s Street Fighter IV. Even in the US there is at least one company creating a new fighter for release this year, called Dark Presence (which we will be covering with exclusive info here shortly). So when players heard that one of the most anticipated fighters of the bunch, Tekken 6 would not be coming to the US or the UK, they had good reason to be angry. The Stinger Report has looked into the issue and full details will be revealed in next week’s Stinger Report (which is a free online newsletter). Here is a preview of what to expect.
Namco continues to give reasons for why they are seemingly uninterested in releasing the game in the US and UK. The game is expensive and it will be released on the PS3 in November 2008, thus undermining the arcade version. But players want the arcade version of the game and in some cases the operators do as well.
The arcade version of the game is coming to the US but not through official channels. At least two companies (one is not even an arcade operator but runs a manga shop) have gone through these unofficial channels to pick the game up, despite it’s hefty price tag. But even then Namco is looking at blocking imports of the game, dedicated or as a kit to the US. Of course these actions will not appease players in the least – the fact of the matter is that the game is earning very well in Japan and in London when the game was a huge success when it showed up at the Trocadero for a short time. The game has been released in several other territories including Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea and everywhere it has been released it has broke records earnings. But as Namco lost money on Tekken 5 and they understand that most operator’s aren’t going to foot the $15,000 bill for the game (no matter how popular the game is, that is difficult to get a decent ROI) that will be the PS3 within mere months of the arcade release.
So will we get a straight answer from Namco anytime soon? It looks like ASI will tell us for sure, so stay tuned to Arcade Heroes or sign up for The Stinger Report newsletter.
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To Shake the Sleeping Self
By Jedidiah Jenkins
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 127 Ratings)
New York Times bestseller | “Thrilling, tender, utterly absorbing . . . Every chapter shimmered with truth.” —Cheryl Strayed
From travel writer Jedidiah Jenkins comes a long-awaited memoir of adventure, struggle, and lessons learned while bicycling the 14,000 miles from Oregon to Patagonia.
On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent the next sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and profound reflections on life soon attracted hundreds of thousands of followers and got him featured by National Geographic and The Paris Review.
In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates the adventure that started it all: the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world, and the internal journey that prompted it. As he traverses cities, mountains, and inner boundaries, Jenkins grapples with the questions of what it means to be an adult, his struggle to reconcile his sexual identity with his conservative Christian upbringing, and his belief in travel as a way to "wake us up" to life back home.
A soul-stirring read for the wanderer in each of us, To Shake the Sleeping Self is an unforgettable reflection on adventure, identity, and a life lived without regret.
Disappointed. It felt like a Judy Bloom book for young boys.
By Vagabonding Pictures
I felt like this book was an exercise in missed opportunities. I wanted to meet the local people, hear the foreign dialects, and taste the delicious chicken soup with the chicken feet hanging out. I felt this was a first trip abroad with a very entitled monolingual boy who was struggling with his faith and sexuality. His lack of discipline in learning the language cut him off from so much adventure,knowledge, excitement and love. So many unanswered questions. Did he feel secret attraction to Crosby? Was he tempted ? Had they had a drunken romp in the tent? Was that the real source of tension? Did his travel partner resent being depicted as a grifter and shallow drug addict? Is Jedidiah really that cheap and obsessed with money? I wanted to hear details about the quaint towns and the generous hosts. I felt like the book was the constant whining of a comfort deprived narcissistic rich kid. I wanted to witness the grandeur and beauty of The Motorcycle Diaries. None of that. This book was disappointing at best.
By kidzbopkidd!
Really enjoyed this book. Well written, inspiring, and makes you reflect and think about what is really important in life. Highly recommend.
This book is truly a gift
By Cait H..
Jed has a way with words and is able to provide a perspective that makes you feel like you are really on the journey with him. He understands what a gift traveling, meeting people, and seeing the good in the world really is. He forces you to think deeper, want to do better, and explore what the world has to offer.
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Just the Facts: unless we shake off the incessant demands made by unions, environmentalist groups, illegal aliens, and the attendant political corruption that accompanies them, you can kiss our nation bon voyage
Add to that the demands made in exchange for the campaign funding by the BIG ENVIRONMENTALISTS such as Tom Steyer and others like him along with the attendant BIG POLITICAL CORRUPTION and you can see the negative damage occurring to not only our state but across our country- primarily in places where liberals have complete control- thanks to the far-left liberal scum bent on ruining our country.
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San Luis Obispo, CA, 11-24-2018 Saturday: I will admit that at times, I am still stunned by what ultra-leftists say, especially when they want to leap onto the ‘criticize President Trump bandwagon.’ President Trump came to California this past weekend and toured the devastated fire areas in northern California as well as in the southern part of the state. The President made some comments about maintaining the forests and it comes out that he means that the wardens of the state’s forests should go out and ‘rake the leaves.’
Look, I understand that the President does not always use ‘correct language’ but the majority of folks over age 50 understand what he is talking about that without committed efforts to thin our forests, remove the dead trees, the brush, and other sources of fuel that lead to out-of-control wildfires, they are going to reoccur repeatedly along with the property destruction and the gruesome loss of life.
I spoke of this earlier in the week, noting that our politicians, almost all Democrats, are beholden to the massive campaign donations from various environmentalist groups. As money is the mother’s milk of politics, these donations are essential to Democrats win elections and to win reelection. It is what it is, yet, it must stop if we are ever to save our state.
I think one of the BIG ENVIRONMENTALISTS seriously considers running against President Trump in 2020, which means that sometime early next year, dingbat Tom Steyer is going to leap into the race along with possibly Jerry Brown AND Gavin Newsom, the outgoing and incoming governors, respectively.
Now, everyone should remember Tom Steyer from his putting infomercials on various TV talent shows such as NBC’s The Voice in which, the cold fish called for the impeachment of the President. He urged viewers to sign his petition demanding the impeachment of Number 45 and then for some unknown reason, the infomercials disappeared and the BIG GREEN guy went silent. Perhaps no one responded.
Then again, I imagine he did get responses, probably far too many responses but then, what does one expect when the last two generations of young folks are indoctrinated, monotonous robots staggering around, Frankenstein-like, trembling in fear that by the time they reach age 60- IF they reach age 60– the planet is going to be no more.
Don’t laugh, that is what far too many young people believe nowadays. If we as parents, do not deprogram our children or grandchildren upon their arrival home from school every single day, they will become little oil-slobbering robots, all doing the bidding of the immoral scum that continue frightening them that unless you act NOW, the world as you know it will be lost.
Now, I have said, I do believe Climate Change-Global Warming does exist and that it is indeed, humanmade. People are responsible for what happened in Paradise, California, just as they are down the coast in Malibu.
Thanks to the money of far-left environmentalists such as soon-to-be candidate for the nomination of the Democratic Party, Tom Steyer, the environmental laws restricting what Californians can and cannot do, no one is able to clean out the forests, rid them of dead and dying trees, remove the underbrush, and prevent future forest fires while protecting the wildlife liberals claim to want to protect.
Back in 2015, I shared with you my concept of the Four Horsemen of the American Apocalypse in which (1) BIG UNIONS (2) BIG ENVIRONMENTALISM (3) BIG ILLEGAL ALIENS and (4) BIG POLITICAL CORRUPTION bear total responsibility for WHY the country is in the state that it is in and it is not because of Donald Trump.
You see, here in California, we are collapsing under the weight of promises made by one Democratic administration after another to continue funding CalPERS and other statewide employee retirement and benefit programs, legacy costs which are bankrupting the purported “Eighth largest economy in the world.”
You see, we have a Ponzi scheme of sorts, one in which, the state eagerly welcomes and embraces BIG ILLEGAL ALIENS (which I see as a singular group) because the taxes yanked from the noncitizens’ pockets is what keeps the entire Ponzi scheme from imploding upon itself.
The Four Horsemen of the American Apocalypse are alive and well and just as dangerous when I first outlined them back on May 18, 2015. If we cannot shake off the demands of the AFL-CIO, state and federal employees’ retirement and health care programs, as well as stop the incessant demands of the environmentalists, halt the flow of illegals, and stamp down on the corruption eating our country alike, there will be no hope for our country.
Friends, thank you for joining me today; please, rejoin me tomorrow, same time, same place, for my final post of the year. Then, Chef Olaf will be in to do his second week of the year. Welcome all of them and finish up with me tomorrow.
Murph MacDougal
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Above, you see the caricature created for me by Bakersfield street artist, the amazing Simone. We have gone this route because of increasing threats against the blog and its members. I began my career as a young chef in the kitchen back in 1975, earlier than that. I apprenticed underneath my father and spent six years working for him in his British-Irish restaurant in Fresno, California. I later moved to Frazier Park, California, and spent quite a few years working in the area and that is where I met Stinkbug. Anyhow, I am now working at a country club over on the coast near San Luis Obispo. Please note: this is my pen name and any photos of me are simply outdated photos adopted for maintaining my privacy.
Chef Murph MacDougal writes from San Luis Obispo, California.
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11-24-2018 Saturday—Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXXIII: “Unless we shake off the incessant demands made by unions, environmentalist groups, illegal aliens, and the attendant political corruption that accompanies them, you can kiss our nation bon voyage” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
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President Zachary Taylor; Vice President Alben W. Barkley; “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely-Hearts Club Band” by the Beatles, Blondie featuring Clem Burke, KISS featuring Eric Carr, Lynyrd Skynyrd featuring Bob Burns and Queen featuring Freddie Mercury:
496: Anastasias II succeeds Gelasius I as Catholic Pope.
642: Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
1655: English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell bans Anglicans from practicing their faith.
1784: Future 12th president of the United States 1849-1850—Whig Zachary Taylor—is born on this date.
1805: The Lewis and Clark Expedition reach the Pacific Ocean, the first Americans to cross the continent to the west coast of North America.
1835: The Texas Provisional Government authorizes the Texas Rangers, a mounted police force.
1859: British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of the Species,” which explained the “Theory of Evolution” through natural selection.
1862: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed General Joseph E. Johnston to command the Department of the West during the Civil War.
1863: The Civil War Battle of Lookout Mountain began in Tennessee, which resulted in Union forces taking the mountain from the Confederates.
1871: The National Rifle Association organizes in New York City; part of the reason for its founding is to put firearms into the hands of former slaves in the South so they can protect themselves and their families from the KKK.
1874: Joseph F. Glidden received a patent for barbed wire.
1877: Future 35th vice-president of the United States, 1949-1953, Democrat Alben W. Barkley—is born on this date.
1903: Clyde J. Coleman received a patent for an electric self-starter motor for automobiles.
1922: Free State forces executed Irish nationalist and author Erskine Childers in Dublin. Meanwhile, the Italian government authorizes dictatorial powers for Benito Mussolini for the term of ‘one year.’
1939: British Overseas Airways Corp. (BOAC) was formally established.
1940: In Warsaw, Poland, the Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in which, some 350,000 people underwent confinement. Over the next three years, starvation, disease, and deportations to concentration camps thinned the population to 70,000.
1941: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. California, unanimously struck down a law prohibiting people from bringing impoverished non-residents into the state. Meanwhile, Commonwealth Indian troops attack Afrika Korps positions at Sidi Omar in North Africa.
1942: German Field Marshal Eric von Manstein arrives at Starobelsk to seek a way to relieve the trapped Germans at Stalingrad.
1944: During World War II, U.S. bombers based on Saipan attacked Tokyo in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes.
1947: A group of writers, producers and directors that the world would come to know as the “Hollywood 10,” underwent citation for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry. Meanwhile, “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck underwent publication for the first time.
1948: Ireland votes for independence from Great Britain.
1950: The musical, “Guys and Dolls,” based on the writings of Damon Runyon and featuring songs by Frank Loesser opened on Broadway. Elsewhere, U.S. and United Nations troops begin counterattack against North Korean forces with the hope of ending the Korean War by Christmas. Next, future drummer with the rock band, Blondie, 1975-82 / 1997-present, Clem Burke, is born on this date. Finally, Bob Burns—future drummer with the Southern rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd 1967-1974—is born in the United States on this date.
1954: France sends an additional 20,000 troops to bolster their North African colony of Algeria.
1963: Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television.
1966: The Beatles begin their recording sessions for the “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely-Hearts Club Band” album.
1969: Apollo 12 splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after returning from the moon. Meanwhile, U.S. Army superiors ordered Lt. William L. Calley to undergo courts martial for his role in the deaths of Vietnamese civilians at the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
1971: A hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper,” (but who became popularly known as “D. B. Cooper”) parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over the Pacific Northwest after receiving $200,000 in ransom—to this day, his fate remains unknown.
1974: Scientists in Ethiopia discovered the bone fragments of a 3.2 million-year-old hominid; they named the skeletal remains, “Lucy.”
1982: Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. a Kenyan government economist and father of future President Barack Obama lost his life in an automobile accident in Nairobi; he was 46.
1983: In exchange for six Israeli POWS, the Israelis release 4,500 Palestinian and Lebanese terrorists to the PLO.
1985: Egyptian Special Forces troops storm a hijacked Boeing jetliner on the island of Malta, which results in 60 deaths including the hijackers.
1987: The United States and the Soviet Union agreed on terms to scrap short-and medium-range missiles. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty the following month.
1989: Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu was unanimously reelected Communist Party chief. However, within a month, a popular uprising overthrew his government and executed both him and his wife, Elena, on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, in Czechoslovakia, the hardline government resigned after more than a week of protests its communist policies.
1991: Rock singer Freddie Mercury died in London at age 45 of AIDS-related pneumonia. Meanwhile, longtime drummer with the rock band, KISS, 1980-1991, Eric Carr, lost his battle with heart cancer on this date.
1992: In China, a domestic airliner crash killed 141 people.
1993: Congress gave its final approval to the Brady handgun control bill. Elsewhere, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both 11 years of age, suffered conviction for murdering 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool, England. Both received sentences of ‘indefinite detention.’
1995: In Ireland, voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment, which legalized divorce on this date.
1996: Rusty Wallace won the first NASCAR event held in Japan on this date.
2000: The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into the bitter overtime struggle for the White House, agreeing to consider George W. Bush’s appeal against the hand recounting of ballots in Florida.
2003: President Bush signed a $401.3 billion defense authorization bill. The president then traveled to Fort Carson, Colorado, where he paid tribute to the sacrifices of U.S. troops in Iraq. Elsewhere, a jury in Virginia Beach, Virginia, sentenced John Allen Muhammad to death for the Washington, D.C.-area Beltway-sniper shootings.
2010: To secure a financial bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, Ireland presents the two bodies a plan for a 15-billion-euro austerity plan.
2011: The government of India announces a relaxation of rules regarding foreign-owned businesses such as Wal-Mart and TESCO, so they can operate within its borders.
2012: Sniveling and whining Palestinian leaders announce they are going to exhume the body of Yasser Arafat, who died of suspected poisoning in 2004. Meanwhile, in Dublin, Ireland, a protest estimated to contain 10,000 or more people took place demanding an end to austerity measures the country sought back in 2010.
2013: The government of Angola’s Ministry for Justice and Human Rights denies that it is closing mosques and has banned Islam from within its borders to stop the spread of Islamist extremism. They say the mosques are closing because the leaders of Islam have not gone through the legal process of getting their religion approved by the government. Why can we not do this in the United States of America?
2014: A grand jury in St. Louis County, Missouri, announces that Officer Darren Wilson will NOT face charges in the shooting death of Michael Brown because he had attacked the officer and would not comply with his demands to surrender. The announcement causes widespread protests and riots ensue throughout the city of Ferguson where the incident occurred.
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THE BLOG POSTS OF CHEF MURPH MACDOUGAL 2011-2018:
04-14-2011 Th: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part XV: The Murph arrives for her First Day at the New Blog and Lo and Behold what does she present to the Readership on her First Day: Southern-Style Pecan Pie, good enough for the Obama White House!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
06-08-2011 W: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part XVII: Butterscotch Cream Pie and Fresh Whipped Cream” by Murph MacDougal.
06-21-2011 T: “Pasta Specialties, Part I: Lasagna—Self-proclaimed Household Champ shares Recipe” by Murph MacDougal.
07-11-2011 T: “Hawaiian and Polynesian Recipes, Part VII: Sweet’n’Sour Pork—cooked in the Traditional Way: Pan-fried and covered with a Red Sweet’n’Sour Sauce” by Murph MacDougal.
08-22-2011 M: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part XXIX: Old-Fashioned Puddings and Custards, Part III—Croissant Pudding with Pumpkin” by Murph MacDougal.
08-23-2011 T: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part XXX: Boysenberry Pie and Pie Dough—a Wonderful Summertime Treat!” by Murph MacDougal.
08-24-2011 W: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part XXXI: Chocolate-Amaretto Mousse—a Tasty Treat from long ago that’s still Good Today!” by Murph MacDougal.
08-25-2011 Th: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part XXXII: White Chocolate Mousse—another Light and Fluffy Mousse for your dining Delight!” by Murph MacDougal.
08-26-2011 F: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part XXXIII: Peach Melba—the Classic Dessert as created by the Great French Chef Auguste Escoffier” by Murph MacDougal.
08-27-2011 S: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part XXXIV: Cherries Jubilee—another Classic Dessert created by the Great French Chef Auguste Escoffier” by Murph MacDougal.
08-28-2011 Su: “Fabulous Bakery Desserts, Part XXXV: Peaches an’ l’ Opera—a Final Classic Dessert created by the Great French Chef Auguste Escoffier” by Murph MacDougal.
01-30-2012 M: “Beverages, Part II: Bailey’s Shake, Blushing Maiden, Lucky Lady, and Morgan’s Red Rouge—four Tasty Beverages to enliven your winter” by Murph MacDougal.
01-31-2012 T: “Beverages, Part III: Four More Alcoholic Beverages to make your winter tolerable—Barracuda, Icebreaker, Purple Gecko, and Tropical Iceberg” by Murph MacDougal.
02-01-2012 W: “Beverages, Part IV: Four More Tasty Beverages that will make your winter extremely Warm—Champagne Punch, Coffee Pot Punch, Murph’s Hawaiian Punch, and Winter Cheer” by Murph MacDougal.
02-02-2012 Th: “Beverages, Part V: Today’s Installment of the Beverage Recipes’ Series features Four Mixed Drinks—the Bakersfield Zombie, the Bushwhacker, the Moonraker, and Murph’s Classic Fizz” by Murph MacDougal.
02-03-2012 F: “Beverages, Part VI: The Murph returns with Four More Fabulous Adult Beverages—Bailey’s French Dream, Coconut-Almond Margarita, Murph’s Old-Fashioned, and Ramos Gin Fizz—all deliciously Good” by Murph MacDougal.
02-04-2012 S: “Beverages, Part VII: Saturday’s the Day for Classic Bar Drinks: Classic Tequila Sunrise, Cosmopolitan Martini, Murph’s Brandy Alexander, and Murph’s Mother-of-a-Bloody Mary—all Certified Classics” by Murph MacDougal.
02-05-2012 Su: “Beverages, Part VIII: Sunday is the Day for a Milk Shake Seminar—in February? Yes! Anytime of the Year is Right for making Milk Shakes” by Murph MacDougal.
07-09-2012 M: “Pasta Specialties, Part XVIII: Delicious Linguine alla Genovese is on the Menu for Today: Cream, Pesto, and Jumbo Prawns—what could be Better?” by Murph MacDougal.
07-10-2012 T: “Pasta Specialties, Part XIX: Spaghettini alla Campagnola—shredded Italian-style Beef in a Creamy Marinara Sauce with Garlic and Mushrooms—Exquisite!” by Murph MacDougal.
07-11-2012 W: “Pasta Specialties, Part XX: Ravioli alla Taormínese—the Best Ravioli Dish of All-Time!” by Murph MacDougal.
07-12-2012 Th: “Pasta Specialties, Part XXI: Murph’s Linguine alla Puttanesca—a Vegetarian’s Delight!” by Murph MacDougal.
07-13-2012 F: “Pasta Specialties, Part XXII: Pennette con Pollo e Gorgonzola—one of the Best Italian Dishes of Modern Times” by Murph MacDougal.
07-14-2012 S: “Pasta Specialties, Part XXIII: Linguine alla Pescatore—Tomato Linguine tossed with Marinara Sauce, Lobster, Mussels, Clams, Prawns, and Scallops is too Good to be True!” by Murph MacDougal.
07-15-2012 Su: “Pasta Specialties, Part XXIV: Spaghettini al Pomodoro—a Great Way to end the Week-long Series on Pasta—tender Spaghettini tossed with Garlic, Tomatoes, and Olive Oil” by Murph MacDougal.
02-25-2013 M: “The Salad Chef Speaks, Part XXIX: Chef MacDougal enters the Frey Today by spending an Entire Week doing some of the Best Salads in the AICP-END Recipe Book; today, it’s her Avocado-Tomato Salad, perfect for Spring” by Murph MacDougal.
02-26-2013 T: “The Salad Chef Speaks, Part XXX: Our Libertarian Blogger continues what she started Yesterday: more amazing and delicious Salads, what with her Delightful Kiwi Salad on today’s Menu!” by Murph MacDougal.
02-27-2013 W: “The Salad Chef Speaks, Part XXXI: Today’s Salad is a Glittering Jewel of Delightful Tastes, a Delicious Cherry-based Fruit Salad, Perfect for either a Side Salad or an Entrée-Sized Gourmet Trist!” by Murph MacDougal.
02-28-2013 Th: “The Salad Chef Speaks, Part XXXII: The Salad for Today is another Stellar Example of the Marriage between Fruits—Exquisite Salads” by Murph MacDougal.
03-01-2013 F: “The Salad Chef Speaks, Part XXXIII: while it might not yet be summer, nevertheless, Chef MacDougal comes up with the Perfect Summer Salad—perfect for May Onwards” by Murph MacDougal.
03-02-2013 S: “The Salad Chef Speaks, Part XXXIV: The Murph pulls a Treat out of her Chef’s Hat in Honor of the Firing of Radio Talk Show Host, Ralph Bailey, Jr.—Strawberry Salads!” by Murph MacDougal.
03-03-2013 Su: “The Salad Chef Speaks, Part XXXV: Today marks the Final Installment of the Salad Chef (until the Next Time, of course) which means, the Murph saved the Best for Last: Tropical Salads I!” by Murph MacDougal.
09-23-2013 M: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part LIV: Murph discusses the Problems posed by Obamacare and then teaches the Readership how to make an Institutional-Sized Batch of Bleu Cheese Dressing—important to Maintain Repeat Business!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
09-24-2013 T: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part LV: after discussing all of the Outrages throughout the State of California, the Murph teaches the Readership how to make an Institutional-Sized Batch of French Dressing—utterly Delicious!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
09-25-2013 W: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part LVI: after discussing the Values of Libertarianism, the Murph shows the Readership how to make Ranch Dressing from Scratch—Stunningly Delicious!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
09-26-2013 Th: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part LVII: Murph discusses the Recent Shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, Miley Cyrus as a Slut, and then teaches the Readership how to make an Institutional-Sized Batch of Russian Dressing—Primo!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
09-27-2013 F: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part LVIII: Murph discusses California’s Insane Desire to destroy itself and then shows the Readership how to make an Institutional-Sized Batch of Thousand Island Dressing PLUS Driver’s Licenses for Illegal Aliens—utter Insanity!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
09-28-2013 S: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part LIX: Obamacare is the Main Topic for Today before Chef Murph shows us how to make an Institutional-Sized Batch of Vinegar and Oil Dressing—too Good to be True!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
09-29-2013 Su: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part LX: according to Murph, the Time has come to form Either a Third Party or to rejuvenate the Republicans by ridding the RINOs in Next Year’s Election and then it’s off to Green Goddess Dressing in an Institutional Size—Boo Yeah!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
04-28-2014 M: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Six: A Recent Episode of CBS’ ‘The Good Wife’ prompts the Murph to discuss the Lack of Privacy Americans have and How a Third Party might restore the Freedoms Americans enjoyed in the Past by forcing the other Two Parties to play Fair” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
04-29-2014 T: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Seven: Murph discusses the Embarrassment of having Harry Reid in the U.S. Senate, his Irrational Insults towards Cliven Bundy, and WHY this November is ‘it’—this is a Must-Win Election for the Country as Otherwise, Obama will find a Way by which, to remain in Office Forever!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
04-30-2014 W: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Eight: Today’s Topic is an Expose of the Rising Costs of Obamacare, how this is NOT what the Founders intended for the American People, and how Libertarian Principles and Policies can save the Day—but First, we must Neuter Barack Obama!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-01-2014 Th: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Nine: Murph ‘celebrates’ May Day with the Best of Them by going after the Leftists, the Unionists, the Democrats, the Radicals, and the Communist-Socialists including the Administration of President Barack Obama!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-02-2014 F: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Ten: Murph looks at the Conflict of Democrats-Republicans and shares Ideas as to how we can overturn it; she also presents something never seen here, Libertarian Political Cartoons—join us for an exhilarating Day!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-03-2014 S: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Eleven: intending to make it Short, Murph goes Long as she goes after the Communists and the Socialists presently ruling the Country—like Obama and Holder—then goes into some More Libertarian Party Cartoons!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-04-2014 Su: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Twelve: The Week concludes with more Libertarian Party Cartoons, a Brief Discussion of the Middle Eastern Process, and of course, Islamic and Democratic Extremists—all in Jest—please, don’t kill me!” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-18-2015 M: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXVI: Chef Murph is pleased to be back and begins discussing some of the Problems we see afflicting the United States and asks a pertinent question: WHY did Barack Obama squander his chance to help the country?” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-19-2015 T: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXVII: Murph begins the Discussion as to WHY Race is such a Problem in America, who is behind using it to further their Agenda and how we might be able to fix it, Part I” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-20-2015 W: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXVIII: Murph begins the Discussion as to WHY Race is such a Problem in America, who is behind using it to further their Agenda and how we might be able to fix it, Part II” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-21-2015 Th: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXIX: Murph begins the Discussion as to WHY Race is such a Problem in America, who is behind using it to further their Agenda and how we might be able to fix it, Part III:” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-22-2015 F: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXX: Murph discusses the Benefits of being a Libertarian and hopes that if the GOP screws Rand Paul in winning the Party’s Presidential Nomination that he will come over to the Libertarian Party” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-23-2015 S: “Political Topics and Essays, Part CDLXX: Murph continues the Discussion of the Benefits of coming to the ‘Libertarian Side’ and leaving the Twin Terrors of the Two-Sided Coin featuring the GOP on one Side and the Dems on the Other—had enough, yet?” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
05-24-2015 Su: “Weekend Session, Part I: Murph shares the First Batch of “Albums of the Day at Pinterest” with the Readership featuring Many Great Bands of the Recent Past” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
04-04-2016 M: “Wisconsin could be the deciding Contest that will tell us whether Donald Trump is meant to continue or if this is the beginning of the End for the Billionaire while on the other Side, Bernie is going to smoke Hillary like a Cuban Cigar” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCX
04-05-016 T: “Since when do Unborn Children lack ‘Rights’ of any Kind? Hillary Clinton is EVIL while Donald Trump managed to anger BOTH Sides of the Abortion Aisle, which tells me he lacks the ability to be President” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCXI
04-06-2016 W: “Ain’t it Funny that the Obama-backed Gay Storm Troopers NEVER seem to go after Muslim Business Owners, ONLY after Christians because the Obamaists despise and hate Christianity and want to see it wiped off the Face of the Earth” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCXII
04-07-2016 Th: “Murph bids Merle Haggard Farewell and talks about the Difference between Musicians from HIS Era and the Ones we now see running amuck across the Rock-and-Roll and Country Music Worlds” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCXIII
04-08-2016 F: “I am beginning to think Bernie Sanders is going to beat Hillary Clinton to become the First Jewish and Senior Citizen to win the White House in the History of the United States by knocking out the First Wannabe Female President” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCXIV
04-09-2016 S: “Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Followers appear like the Losers following the ‘Teachings’ of the Crackpot Church of Scientology—let’s build up the Libertarian Party so we can vanquish the other Two” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCXV
04-10-2016 Su: “The Rolling Stones- Gimmie Shelter Album Hiatus Day Number One” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Hiatus Week 2016 Part I
04-11-2016 M: “Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan of Joujouka Album, Hiatus Day #2 and Murph explains WHY we are on Hiatus this Week—what was going to change other than Donald Trump squalling and bawling his Eyes out!” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Hiatus Week 2016 Part II
04-12-2016 T: “The Rolling Stones “Hot Rocks 1964-1971” Album, Hiatus Day #3 while Murph continues to blast the Big Crybaby Donald Trump—can we not elect a Libertarian sometime soon?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Hiatus Week 2016 Part III
04-13-2016 W: “The Rolling Stones “Sticky Fingers” Album, Hiatus Day #4 and the Big Question as to WHY we do not have a STRONGER Libertarian Party—WHY NOT?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Hiatus Week 2016 Part IV
04-14-2016 Th: “More Rolling Stones Albums for you today as well as another Beverly Carrick Original Artwork on yet another Hiatus Day” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Hiatus Week 2016 Part V
04-15-2016 F: “Last Night, we watched a Major Boxing Match between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, one that could VERY WELL decide the Campaign—Bernie may have delivered a Knock-Out Punch” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Hiatus Week 2016 Part VI
04-16-2016 S: “If Donald Trump has not yet grown Old for you, I suspect he will once you reacquaint yourselves with “All the King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren, Trump clearly resembles the Mythical Willie Stark” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Hiatus Week 2016 Part VII
04-17-2016 Su: “I finally keep my Promise and present the Final Batch of Moody Blues (and its Members) so next Week, we can return to doing the Politics with which, we have been discussing now for a Long Time” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Hiatus Week 2016 Part VIII
09-26-2016 M: “As Rod Stewart once sang, ‘Tonight’s the Night’ for the BIG DEBATE and my Heart tells me that Trump is going to mop the Floor with Hillary’s Hairpiece” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXVIII
09-27-2016 T: “Round One of a Three-Round Fight occurred Last Night and Kellyanne Conway is going to have to get her Candidate to do Debate Prep for the NEXT Two or face losing the Race” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXIX
09-28-2016 W: “The Presidential Debate on Monday Night was—in MY Opinion—one of the Worst Debates I have ever seen; I suspect Voters will decide more on the Vice-Presidential Debate than on the Main Card” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXX
09-29-2016 Th: “What was up with Hillary Clinton and her prearranged Signals with Lester Holt on Last Monday Night’s Presidential Debate and WHY does anyone pay attention to that Idiot, Howard Dean?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXXI
09-30-2016 F: “While California continues its decline into the Garbage Can, more and more Voters living here on ALL Sides of the Aisle agree that voting for Donald Trump is the ONLY Thing that makes Sense” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXXII
10-01-2016 S: “Enough with Ho-Bag, Alicia Machado, Donald, we have Bigger Fish to Fry and that is to get back on Track and to begin the Final Push to win the White House on November 08!” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXXIII
10-02-2016 Su: “Murph shares her Thoughts on the Massive Mosque across the Streets from the Kern County Fair Grounds and ponders when will its Occupants begin the demand for the Hogs to disappear and the Pork Foods to vanish?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part DCCCLXXIV
06-05-2017 M: “If someone did to President Obama what the mope Kathy Griffin did to President Trump, that poor person would be doing tough time in prison—still!” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCIV
06-06-2017 T: “Would our nation be capable of launching a D-Day-style invasion as we did 73 years ago today to destroy the Islamist menace threatening our world today or would political correctness deter us from doing so” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCV
06-07-2017 W: “One would think President Trump set the world ablaze when he did the right thing and pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord—thank God” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCVI
06-08-2017 Th: “My 94-year-old daddy—who fought in Korea in the 1950s—wonders whether the USA would be able to accomplish the same victories it did during the wars of the last century with today’s leftist attitudes” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCVII
06-09-2017 F: “If we, the civilized world, condemned Nazi Dr. Joseph Mengele and pursued him until he died from a stroke in Brazil, how can we permit Planned Parenthood to continue doing the same unspeakable acts?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCVIII
06-10-2017 S: “If the American people want to punish the REAL CULPRIT, they need to leave President Trump alone and pursue former President Barack Obama—he is the man running the magic lantern show” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCIX
06-11-2017 Su: “The Democrat Party—and their media cronies—now are the party of McCarthyism, they are hellbent on finding Russians lurking in every closet when they most likely are the ones behind the hacking scheme” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCX
11-27-2017 M: “How the mighty in Hollywood and in Politics have fallen and continue to fall—it’s about frigging time” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCLXXVII
11-28-2017 T: “Why should I worry about 40-year-old accusations against Judge Roy Moore when the Dems cannot bring themselves to demanding the resignations of Al Franken and John Conyers?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCLXXVIII
11-29-2017 W: “I await the looming avalanche of sexual dirt waiting to smother still more lying liberal Democrats such as illegal alien-loving Luis Gutierrez among others” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCLXXIX
11-30-2017 Th: “The putrid pus ruling NOKO decided once again to launch yet another intercontinental ballistic missile deep into space before tumbling back down to earth near Japan—what are we going to do?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCLXXX
12-01-2017 F: “Round and round it goes, where it stops NOBODY knows as one leftist media personality after another loses his job over sexual misconduct and abuse allegations—ouch!” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCLXXXI
12-02-2017 S: “Just over a year later, President Donald J. Trump continues kicking butt and taking numbers and all the Democrats and liberals can do is to bawl like the crybabies they are” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCLXXXII
12-03-2017 Su: “Young folks continue learning the truth about how the people they thought were GOOD are in essence, truly BAD and how they cover up for one another at the expense of the victims” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCCLXXXIII
06-04-2018 M: “IF YOU do not want homeless bums accosting you on the streets of San Luis Obispo and elsewhere across the state of California, go to the polls tomorrow and vote Republican” by Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCDLX
06-05-2018 T: “Although a ‘Libertarian,’ the only hope we have of saving California is if we ALL vote for the GOP in today’s primary elections” by Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCDLXI
06-06-2018 W: “If there WAS Russian collusion in the 2016 Presidential Election, it was on behalf of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats as those ties go all the way back to the Vietnam War and the Antiwar Movement” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCDLXII
06-07-2018 Th: “As the results of Tuesday’s California Jungle Primary Races comes in, it appears as though cracks in the heretofore untouchable Democratic Blue Wall are growing in size” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCDLXIII
06-08-2018 F: “While much work remains to be done between here and November, there are growing signs that the death grip the Democrats have on California is beginning to loosen” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCDLXIV
06-09-2018 S: “Liberalism believes in freedom of speech whereas progressivism believes in stifling it unless it conforms to their ideas- once again, Google Blogger stands accused of ghosting our two blogs” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCDLXV
06-10-2018 Su: “If the Singapore Summit 2018 between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un bears fruit, we stand to snuff out one of two major hotspots around the world leaving only Iran with which to deal” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MCDLXVI
11-19-2018 M: “I would have thought California would have arrived at the tipping point by now but apparently not: Gavin Newsom is our governor” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXVIII
11-20-2018 T: “If we had an unassailable national voting system complete with voter ID, most Americans would feel more secure in knowing that every eligible vote counts- here’s how we do it” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXIX
11-21-2018 W: “Is it time for Nancy Pelosi to step down from leadership and to give someone else such as Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio an opportunity to be both a first and to reach across the aisle?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXX
11-22-2018 Th: “Climate change exists and it is manmade; made by the liberal politicians and their environmentalist backers who deplete our fresh water resources and will not manage our forests as they should” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXXI
11-23-2018 F: “In the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party, who will win: newcomer “Baby Evita” and others like her or the old guard such as Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and James Clyburn?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXXII
11-24-2018 S: “Unless we shake off the incessant demands made by unions, environmentalist groups, illegal aliens, and the attendant political corruption that accompanies them, you can kiss our nation bon voyage” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXXIII
11-25-2018 Su:
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05-20-2015 W: “Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part Thirty-Eight: Murph shares her thoughts about what it means to be a Strong Feminine Role Model in the way Beverly Carrick was and her Memory still can be” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part XLVII
04-06-2016 W: “Beverly was a Great Artist and a very opinionated Woman, one who grew up during World War II and who recognized Fascism when she saw it: Barack Obama is a wannabe Dictator and that is WHY this Election is so damned Important!” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part XCII
04-13-2016 W: “Beverly Carrick Paintings during Hiatus Week” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part XCIII
09-28-2016 W: “We have arrived at the END of the Numbered Series as painted by America’s Greatest Artist, Beverly J. Carrick, and we welcome everyone to join us in celebrating her amazing Talents” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part CXVI
06-07-2017 W: “Today’s selection of Beverly Carrick original artworks features different genres of her classic deserts, visions that will ignite your soul, heart, and mind afire with their beauty” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part CLII
11-29-2017 W: “Thanks to increased optimism nationwide, optimism caused by Donald J. Trump, business is booming here on the coast and nothing says, “I love you” more than the gift of Beverly Carrick fine art” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part CLXXVII
06-06-2018 W: “The secondary blog with its Beverly Carrick artworks is like finding an oasis in the middle of the desert where one can spend hours recuperating so they can return to the fray- join me” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part CCIV
11-21-2018 W: “Fine Art is what separates us from the unwashed, violence-riven Third World mobs seeking to invade our country so why not buy some Beverly Carrick originals?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part CCXXVIII
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Hearing Loss on the Rise in Young Adults
There’s no denying the importance of hearing; it’s one of our five senses. It connects us to friends and family. It allows us to learn, listen, and love others.
But it’s something that, for many, is in danger.
For a long time, experts have focused on the hearing loss of older people.
“For people over 65, I think its about five out of 10 that will have hearing loss. By the time we get to 80, about 8 out of 10 will have hearing loss,” Hearing Instrument Specialist Todd Beyer said.
And while the numbers are startling, experts are now shifting their focus to a different generation at risk.
The younger generation
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates around 17 percent of 12 to 19-year-olds show evidence of noise-induced hearing loss in one or both ears.
A big reason for those numbers is due to technology.
“One of the big concerns is with younger people and their ear buds. Because they put that ear bud right down tight in their ear and it holds the sound pressure in the ear canal, it will tend to do more damage,” Beyer said.
Beyer recommends never listening to your music above half volume. He also says if you can hear the music of the person sitting next to you, it’s being played too loud.
Hearing loss with jobs
Depending on your job or hobby, you may be at more risk for hearing loss as well.
Beyer says “any kind of manufacturing: farmers particularly, dentists because of the drills, truck drivers with the window” all may experience hearing loss.
Those who snowmobile, ride motorcycles, mow their lawn, use wood-working equipment, shoot guns or play music can all damage their hearing as well.
“Growing up, when I was downstairs, my mom and dad they’d always bring down earplugs they’d use for mowing the lawn,” said drum instructor Erik Juvonen. “They were always worried about my hearing.”
Juvonen has been protecting his hearing for years; as a band drummer, he knows he’s at a higher risk for losing his hearing.
While teaching 6 to 12-year-olds how to play the drums, Juvonen also makes sure his students’ ears are protected.
“A lot of their hearing — a lot of their body — is still developing, and their ears are connected to their brain, which can’t be good at such a young age” Juvonen said.
Juvonen uses electric drum sets so he can monitor the volume of the drums and keep the volume at an appropriate level.
Tips to help protect your ears
Beyer recommends being aware of how long you’re around loud noises. He says it’s not always about the volume, but the length of time.
For example, listening to loud music for two to three hours, rather than 30 minutes, can make a huge difference.
He also recommends starting early, and protecting your ears with earplugs whenever you’re around loud noises.
If you’re not proactive, hearing loss is hard to catch before it’s too late.
“For the person experiencing it, it changes so gradually usually they never notice,” Beyer said. “To them, it seems the same as yesterday, or last month, or last year.”
The long-term effects of hearing loss
For people who don’t treat their hearing loss, the damage can be incredibly extensive.
“It leads to isolation, depression, anxiety just because when they’re not comfortable with people” Beyer said. “There’s nothing worse than being in a room full of people laughing when you don’t know what they are laughing about.”
Beyer says researchers already know Alzheimer’s, dementia and hearing loss are connected. Now, he says, they are working to prove that hearing loss could possibly cause the two.
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The church was built in 1819 in village Cârtojani de Jos or Vida-Cârtojani, on property of freeholders. About its age speak some inscriptions preserved on the walls of the church and on a stone cross placed in front of it.
These inscriptions clear de role played by priest John and priestess Manda, on raising this sanctuary in 1819. Their names Their names and of their nation appear on an icon of the church dating from 1830. Priest Ion’ s father, Ion Toader sin Cosoi that on the cross appears with the nickname boegiu, dedicated to church the patron icon, on an unknown date.
A stage in church history appears less known , when the exterior was clad in masonry, and then was painted with icons. Also then it was brought a porch with four masonry pillars in front of the entrance and the wall of the porch and the nave was replaced with a wall. At this stage the inscription on on the right of entrance was covered, that i why the putting on masonry can not be dated with the rise of the church in 1819. It can be assumed that this important stage occurred in the 19th century before 1883 when the parish church function was taken over by a church wall.
In the 20th century, the church functioned as a cemetery chapel until 1940 when it was decommissioned by the earthquake. It was affected by the 1977 earthquake and 2005 floods.Being in a state of ruin, was rebuilt almost entirely in 2007-2008 in a form more or less similar to the original. t may be noted that only a small part of the original wood was reinstated in the church structure, and it was partly used in places where it was not used in the initial state. The construction lost its old proportions regarding the elevation, the wooden structure being lifted high above the old eaves, with two rows of planks, the difference can be noticed in previous images of the renovations and in comparaison with the remaining masonry on the south side. Another significant change occurred in front of the entrance, where the addition of a wooden porch was not related to the history of ancient habitation. The entry was almost totally rebuilt, missing the horizontal piece feature over the entrance, on which the carved rope on the two side pillars continued.
The church from Videle-Cârtojanca it is one of the few remaining wooden churches in the South Muntenia. Has smalldimensions, a planimetry narrower porch than the nave, a special pocket for the anaphora on the north side of the altar and a few artistic elements that hightlight it..
From west to th east the church is divided into four traditional: open veranda of recent date, porch, nave and altar. The altar is narrower and polygonal finished in five sides. On the northern side the altar has a small niche for anaphora visible from outside by extending the nave wall twoards east. The transition from the porch to the nave is established on the site of secondary wall pillars. Iconostasis retains the original beams decorated with rope over the three doors down the aisle. Low vault reproduce the early curve shape. The rooms are lit by a small number of windows, greatly increased in a later stage.The original structure was built from planks of wood shaped crepe bonded with spigots. The beams were concluded at the ends in smooth loops, church dovetail.
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Anthropological Literature on Disc, 1984-1993. (ISBN 0-8161-1656-3). G.K. Hall-Macmillan, 866 Third Ave., New York, NY 10022; orders are now handled through Simon & Schuster at (800)223-2336. For order information, you may also contact the G.K. Hall representative for this product at (212)702-6789. The cost of the initial purchase of this product, which represents citations appearing in Anthropological Literature from 1984 through 1992, is $995.00, and the cost of annual updates will be $695.00 (an update has not yet been issued in CD-ROM format). There is no discount for institutions which purchase the print index, and there is no additional charge for networking the product. The index is compiled and edited at the Tozzer Library (formerly the Peabody Museum Library) of Harvard University, on whose collection it is based. Questions about the Anthropological Literature database, including this CD-ROM version, may be directed to Julia A. Hendon, Editor, at Tozzer (617)495-2292; e-mail: JHENDON@HUSC4.HARVARD.EDU.
The May 1994 issue of ANSS Currents (Vol. 9, no. 1, p 6.) featured a description of Anthropological Literature on Disc by Julia Hendon (“Electronic Access to Anthropological Literature“) and an earlier issue (Vol. 7, no. 1, May 1992, pp. 5-7) carried a detailed review of the print version of Anthropological Literature by David Carpenter. While this article will contain certain pertinent information from those two former articles, it will focus primarily on the search software and record structure of the CD-ROM product.
The initial disc of Anthropological Literature on Disc (AL on Disc), which represents the content of Volumes 6(1984)-14(1992) of the print version of Anthropological Literature, will be updated annually. The print index is updated quarterly, as is the online version of the database available to subscribers to the Research Libraries Group’s CitaDel service. The cost of a subscription of the AL database through the CitaDel service varies by size of institution and number of products to which the institution subscribes.
This first issue of the CD-ROM product contains over 83,000 bibliographic records for articles from journals, edited monographs, and edited volumes in monographic series. Annual updates are expected to contain approximately 8,000 records from an estimated 450 journals and other publications (this estimate is based on a count of recent annual lists of periodicals indexed, which appear in the final issue of AL each year, and does not accurately describe the total number of journal titles covered regularly but not annually). The search software is user-friendly and menu-driven, and allows for the searching of specific fields, or for keyword searching across all fields.
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Thesaurus: There is no single, comprehensive thesaurus for terms employed in AL on Disc. According to Julia Hendon, subject headings employed from 1984-1986 (Vols. 6-8) were “based on a system developed by the Peabody Museum Library.” The print list of these headings, Tozzer Library Index to Anthropological Subject Headings (2nd rev. ed., Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981), contains information on subject hierarchy. Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH) have been used beginning with Volume 9 (1987). However, as David Carpenter noted, AL “creates additional subject terms…as supplemental headings.” Therefore, no single source of controlled vocabulary is available for consultation; the multi-volume LCSH is not adequate for locating the exact subject headings assigned, and does not correspond to those employed in Volumes 6-8 at all. The subject index of a print issue of AL is a good indicator of viable subject headings currently in use, but 1)only those headings employed in that particular issue will appear in that list and 2)not all libraries will have both the print and the CD-ROM versions of the index.
Printed User Guides: G.K. Hall’s CD Searcher 2.0, an 18-page booklet with instructions on set-up and use of all G.K. Hall CD-ROM products, accompanies AL on Disc. There is no printed documentation specific to AL on Disc.
User Assistance:
Online: Instruction on individual screens is very straightforward, and help can be obtained through pressing the F1 key at any time. An opening screen invites the user to enter terms, to browse the indexes or to press A for “More on Anthropological Literature.” Typing A leads to a series of brief but clear help “chapters,” which have information on hardware requirements, basic searching and displaying, searching and browsing indexes, using search tags (field tags), printing, sorting, and saving results to a disk. The final “chapter” is on “speed keys,” which are function keys for various operations.
Telephone: G.K. Hall’s CD Searcher 2.0 booklet lists G.K. Hall Technical Support at (800) 592-8057. Users may also call the Help Desk of Tozzer Library’s AL operation at (617) 232-0412.
Scope and Coverage:
AL on Disc is one of the most comprehensive indexes available for anthropological and archaeological literature. The initial disc represents Vols. 6-14 (1984-1992) of the print version of the index. The CD-ROM product will receive annual updates; the quarterly print issues of the index can serve as updates to the annual CD-ROM issues. AL on Disc contains 83,000 bibliographic citations to articles from journals, edited monographs, and edited volumes in monographic series from the collection of the Tozzer Library. Until 1992 (with Vol. 3, no. 4) Tozzer did not index reviews (for books, films, etc.), so the CD-ROM disc does not contain such citations. The Tozzer collection reflects a broad definition of anthropology as an interdisciplinary field. Citations to literature on biological and linguistic anthropology and archaeology, frequently absent from social science indexes covering cultural anthropology, are included in AL. Journals based primarily in another discipline, such as the American Journal of Sociology, tend not to be part of Tozzer’s collection, and are therefore absent in AL. In recent years, AL has extracted articles from approximately 450 journals each year (this figure represents a decrease from previous years). Coverage of particular journals is sometimes uneven: in a given year, a whole volume of a journal may not receive indexing, while several years of another journal may be indexed in that same year. This is explained, at least in part, by the fact that issues may be received on an irregular basis by Tozzer. A much more serious problem is that issues are sometimes missed. For example, issues of the Annual Review of Anthropology for 1986, 1988, 1990, and 1991 are not indexed in this database.
Geographic coverage is international in scope, and Julia Hendon has estimated that “almost half of the articles indexed are not in English.”
Document Availability:
Photocopies of any article listed in AL may be obtained by contacting the interlibrary loan service of Tozzer Library.
Record Structure and Retrieval Software:
Record structure: Searchable fields include author, article title, source publication (containing standard information such as place of publication, publisher, ISSN or ISBN, volume and issue numbers, and date of publication), subject, notes (which denote presence of summaries of the content in other languages), author added entries (which are listed in the author index and retrieved in a standard author search), and “Anyword”. There is no separate date field. Years (e.g., 1990) can be entered as keywords, but such a keyword search will retrieve items that are about that time period as well as published during that time period. Also, there is no field that denotes language of publication.
Retrieval software: There are two basic searching modes: direct command, using prescribed syntax, and browse mode. In the browse mode, one can select one of the eight indexes, which correspond to the searchable fields listed above. Keyword searching is possible in either mode; in the browse mode, one can do single-word or bound-phrase keyword searching within the “Anyword” index. The opening menu leads one into the direct command mode, offering information on the browse mode as one of the searching “tips.” From any of the indexes, a term can be selected to appear at the search prompt, where a search can be initiated by pressing the enter key. The author index is especially useful for searching, because it displays variant forms of the author names in this database. Another informative index is the source index, where one can see a list of all publications indexed (this type of index is absent in the software of many bibliographic database systems, such as SilverPlatter’s SPIRS software, which offers one basic index for browsing and searching).
The direct command mode is the most precise, efficient way to search a given author, journal title, or known, exact subject heading. The three standard Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT may be used. Truncation is effected with an asterisk, and a question mark within a word allows for any letter in that space (e.g., wom?n retrieves either woman or women). The syntax and punctuation in the direct command mode are inflexible, but context-sensitive help screens can be summoned at any point in the search.
While the search system is straightforward and flexible, inexplicable errors occasionally occur. For example, in one instance, a search statement in direct command mode retrieved a different number of citations when entered at different times (the search statements were entered the same day on the same equipment).
Subject searching:
Articles have from two to ten subject headings, which “typically focus on ethnic group, place, time period, and topic” (Julia Hendon). These headings can be searched as character strings (e.g., su=”medical anthropology–kenya”). Because the controlled vocabulary changed in 1987, it is most productive to search for subjects by keyword, although lists of the base subject headings are available for consultation (see “Thesaurus” section, above). A keyword search will explore all content fields, such as title, subject heading, and source publication fields, but cannot be limited to a single field. (The fact that a keyword search automatically searches the source publication field does reduce efficiency to some extent, but that is preferable to searching a precise subject heading that was employed for only part of the time the database covers.)
Summary of Positive Aspects:
With Anthropological Literature on Disc, Tozzer and G.K. Hall have expanded Tozzer’s already vast contribution to our access to documentation in anthropology. AL on Disc is the first index in CD-ROM format devoted to anthropology, and represents a sizeable portion of one of the world’s finest collections of anthropological literature. The CD-ROM allows automated searching of almost a decade of serial publications. The search software is user-friendly and very flexible. Keyword searching facilitates the retrieval of relevant citations. The availability of a browsable subject index certainly goes a long way to reducing problems caused by this split subject system.
Recommendations for Improvement:
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Raniere’s lawyers respond to prosecutors’ objection to their motion to seal names of co signers for Raniere’s bail bond
Blame it on the Frank Report.
Or on NXIVM laundered money.
Last month, Keith Raniere’s lawyers made a motion to seal [keep secret from the public] names of friends of Raniere’s who want to sign as guarantors of his bail bond. The prosecution promptly responded opposing Raniere’s request.
Today, Raniere’s attorneys countered the prosecution’s reply with a reply of their own.
Raniere’s reply comes in the form of a letter to Judge Nicholas Garaufis and says in part, “The government relies primarily on two cases – United States v. Alcantra, 396 F.3d 189 (2d Cir. 2005) and United States v. John Doe, 63 F.3d 121 (2d Cir. 1995), both involving the closure of entire proceedings – to support the position that the requested limited sealing in this case is inappropriate. However, a closer reading of these decisions shows they are distinct from the present matter on two grounds: first, because the sealing sought here is limited to the identities of potential bond co-signers, and second, because our initial submission sets forth the basis on which these co-signers are reasonably afraid of serious repercussions from participating in this court process through the signing of a bond on behalf of the defendant Keith Raniere….”
Raniere’s lawyers go on to try to distinguish between the cases cited by the prosecution and Raniere’s circumstances. They do not, however, cite any cases to support their own unprecedented position.
In their initial motion to seal, Raniere’s lawyers seem to base the need for secrecy for Raniere’s co guarantors largely on this blog – the Frank Report. The lack of precedent cited by such a distinguished group of attorneys suggests they could not find any.
This request to close the criminal courts from public view and from the press may be precedent in the 240-plus year history of the USA.
The fact that this motion is based largely on a sole “journalist” makes this an extremely interesting issue – at least to me – since I am that “journalist.” If the motion to seal is granted, maybe it can be called the “Parlato Fear Factor Rule.” In the future, whenever potential co-signers of bonds are so afraid of what some one person, a journalist, a blogger, or even a rambling writing idiot — or a group of persons – or the entire collective worldwide media might write about them – then the defendant can cite precedent in USA v. Raniere to argue they have the right to keep the names secret.
Mob bosses, drug cartel leaders and others who, like Raniere, have little-to-no-chance of being freed on bail anyway – can cite the Raniere precedent [or the Parlato Fear Factor] to allow their confederates to post bail or present evidence or anything else that can be cooked up – all beyond the pale of public scrutiny.
Sounds logical.
While the Raniere team cites zero precedent, they do reiterate a “four-step process” which courts are expected to “follow in deciding a motion for closure.” The first one is that ‘the district court must determine, in specific findings made on the record, if there is a substantial probability of prejudice to a compelling interest of the defendant, government or a third party.’…
The first step is plainly a challenge for defendant Raniere. “Specific findings” require, I think, more than conclusory allegations on the part of the defendant. They would require “specific findings.” That might require an evidentiary hearing — where evidence is offered to the court – that cosigners are in some kind of danger or risk that outweighs the public’s right to know who they are.
The Raniere team further states “… the defendant’s constitutional and statutory right to [try to make bail] is prejudiced by the fact that people who ordinarily would be willing to co-sign a bond for Raniere’s release are not willing to do so for fear of reprisal if their names are made public.”
This is an admission on the part of Raniere’s defense team that Raniere’s friends will only post bail if their names are secret. What then are their fears?
The defense team writes the basis “for these people to fear reprisal [are] … There has been wide-spread hacking and misappropriation of NXIVM’s database by individuals and at least one news organization…This means that the hackers may be in possession of the potential co-signer’s … name, address, dates of birth and other identity data…[and] There have been several instances where the home addresses of NXIVM supporters have been published or posted on the internet solely as a means of harassment and intimidation…”
What is the proof for this? Neither the initial Raniere motion nor Raniere’s latest reply offers evidence of widespread hacking. The Raniere team uses the words “computer hackers” as in plural, but there was only one person who pled guilty to computer trespassing – John Tighe. He is in prison on other charges. Who are the other hackers?
Is it those who were charged or sued for computer trespassing by NXIVM – Joe O’Hara, Toni Natalie, Barbara Bouchey, James Odato and Suzanna Andrews? No, it can’t be them, since the cases against them were dismissed. Forget the fact that alleged computer hacker Clare Bronfman seemed to have perjured herself to make the dhsrge in the first place: the cases were all dismissed. They are, therefore, innocent of charges of computer hacking. So where is the evidence of computer hackers – plural?
As for the allegation that NXIVM supporters’ addresses have been published, “solely as a means of harassment and intimidation” where is the evidence for this?
I cannot speak for anyone else, but I am pretty sure the Raniere team is referring to me. I have published some NXIVM members addresses, [along with online pictures readily available of their homes.] I have not done this to harass or intimidate, but to expose to the public the lavish homes and possible fruits of ill-gotten gains of NXIVM members.
For instance, I published the home address and pictures found on the internet of the mansion of Loreta Garza. Where did she get the money to buy it? She was Nancy Salzman’s personal assistant? How is it that she now has a lavish home? Was it purchased with laundered money?
I published the address of the sex lair [he called it his “library”] of Keith Raniere where he coerced women into sex slavery – and Allison Mack’s address, where women were brutally branded.
I published the Albany address of Ludwika Paleta – the famous Mexican actress – who purchased a home near Raniere and had cars with dark tinted windows meeting her and mysteriously following her at all hours – alarming neighbors.
I published Dr. Brandon Porter’s home address because sources told me there was laundered money of Mack’s used to purchase it. Some of the properties were purchased in shell corporations later named by the prosecution. Alex Betancourt bought several homes in the Albany area with a suspected shell company.
I was also first to publish Raniere’s address, where he was hiding in Mexico – that some believe may have been a clue to his whereabouts that led ultimately to his arrest in Mexico.
There is good reason for the public to be aware of the many real estate transactions that occurred by NXIVM – and its members – and their over 100 shell companies – purchased quite possibly with laundered money.
All of the addresses of NXIVM members I published, however, are a matter of public record – including the owners’ names. None of the addresses or names were published to intimidate or harass but rather to uncover and expose potential crimes – which is well within the boundaries of investigative journalism.
I wonder if the real reason Raniere and his friends want their names kept secret is that the assets they are about to pledge were purchased with laundered money? These secret friends may be co-conspirators. If any of them are on the NXIVM stripe path – they might be willing to lose their assets, knowing that Sara Bronfman will reimburse them – perhaps in Mexico.
Raniere’s friends may not only be co-conspirators, they may also be coerced into co-signing on his bail bond.
They might have given Raniere collateral and are frightened about its release. They may be afraid to cosign and afraid not to cosign for Raniere. Who knows they may actually be hoping the judge denies the motion and they are spared from being intimidated into pledging collateral for Raniere.
Sources have told me in the past that they wanted to get out of NXIVM and escape Raniere but they were afraid to let Bronfman-Raniere find out. Some of these may be the secret friends of Raniere.
Raniere’s defense teams reference me – not by name – but as a “journalist” [in quotation marks] in their papers today. [In the previous submission they named me some 42 times]. I suspect the quotation marks surrounding the word “journalist” was done to cast a shadow on my authenticity, credentials or veracity. I will let my record on Frank Report stand for itself. I doubt anyone writing about this criminal enterprise has been as accurate as I have.
In any event, Raniere’s defense team writes, “There have been numerous instances where a ‘journalist’ states that a certain person is about to be indicted, or is being investigated, based on purported inside law enforcement sources. … Such a defamatory publication would be devastating to a business-person, and no reasonable person would put him or herself in that position.”
This is half-truth. The true part is I accurately predicted that Raniere, Mack, Bronfman, the two Salzman’s and even hapless Kathy Russell would be arrested – prior to their arrests. Every one of my predictions on indictments is 100 percent accurate.
Raniere’s team adds, “The court may not dictate what may be reported, nor can the court order the computer hackers to return the stolen personal and identity data they currently possess. The only option available is the highly limited sealing we have requested.”
This is not true, based on the defense team’s admission. There is a less extraordinary remedy than closing the courtroom. If it is defamatory to predict someone will be indicted – then the ‘victim’ can sue for defamation by libel.
Overall this Raniere motion presents an interesting and novel argument for precedent and opens the door to many more narrowly tailored closures of federal courtrooms based on keeping the press or a particular “journalist” from reporting inconvenient facts.
Meanwhile, Pretrial Supervision has determined Raniere is a flight risk. The prosecution opposes his release under any circumstances. If Raniere gets out, with millions backing him, and facing almost life imprisonment if convicted, he may indeed flee.
If a judge released him on bail – and he escapes – the man who brands and blackmails women – the accused pedophile and master of intimidation of women – what will the judge say? Having ruled in opposition to Pretrial Supervision recommendation, the prosecution, and even alleged victims [who filed a letter with the court opposing his release] and the judge releases Raniere anyway – how will he explain it?
What if Raniere does not escape, but someone harms him in his private home detention – say Carlos Salinas’ assassins?
What if, while Raniere is being attacked by his enemies in his proposed private mansion – other people are hurt?
Even if they seal the courtroom and create a precedent for so doing – will it avail Raniere anything anyway?
Who would be willing to sign off on his release?
Will El Chapo next make a motion for a bail package and ask that his bail bond guarantors be kept secret?
Maybe it will be Carlos Salinas who will secretly put up money for El Chapo or maybe Raniere.
No wonder they want it secret.
Two-faced lawyers are so entertaining says:
Raniere’s defense teams references me – not by name – but as a “journalist” [in quotation marks] in their papers today. [In the previous submission they named me some 42 times]. I suspect the quotation marks surrounding the word “journalist” was done to cast a shadow on my authenticity, credentials or veracity. I will let my record on Frank Report stand for itself. I doubt anyone writing about this criminal enterprise has been as accurate as I have.
Here are the names of some so-called “lawyers” who claim that it is damaging to a person’s professional reputation to be associated with the “ethicist” Keith Raniere, even though they themselves are happy to be associated with this so-called “ethicist”:
1. Marc Agnifilo “Esquire”
2. Paul DerOhannesian “Esquire”
3. Danielle R. Smith “Esquire”
4. Jacob Kaplan “Esquire”
5. Teny R. Geragos “Esquire”
Isn’t it interesting that so-called “lawyer” #1 (Marc Agnifilo) brings his daughter into court with him and she apparently has no fear of public condemnation of being associated with “ethicist” Keith Raniere? Now, why in the world would this so-called “lawyer” bring his daughter into court with him if being associated with Keith Raniere is such a terrible burden to bear? Does this so-called two-faced “lawyer” actually not believe the ridiculous garbage that he writes?
The answer is that these so-called “lawyers” are happy to be associated with Keith Raniere because their little cash register rings a bell every time someone posts a comment on this blog. I would guess that just this one little comment made their cash registers ring the bell to the tune of $5,000. These “lawyers” are laughing all the way to the bank.
Great analysis – much appreciated!
Frank Parlato I think you are brilliant!! Keep it up Amigo!!
Awesome post, Frank! Way to set the facts straight.
The second most stupid thing Raniere did was let you go. The most stupid was going after you with lies.
Genius, alright.
appeti says:
So well stated!
Nunya says:
Awesome Frank!
Jarhead says:
Realistically, Raniere isn’t that big a deal to seal the names. He’s no “el chapo” or John Gotti. Other than being a bunch of fringe goofballs, albeit criminal; nobody really cares about this other than people involved, family members of nxivm, or folks who are simply intrigued by cult behavior. 99% of people don’t know, nor give a shit, about Keith Raniere.
They are criminals that need prosecuted, in my opinion.
Tha hackers are FBI agents.
The lawyers have come to believe in Keith’s innocence. They are doing the right thing and will likely win this motion. Keith is suffering but he has superhuman ability to accept pain. But he is unwell and is suffering and you would be too if you were in MDC. It is no place even for a hardened criminal. Keith teaches the path of a noble civilization and a of compassion. He is suffering for all of us. We must right these bad prison conditions. We must -for his sake.
G O F U C K Y O U R S E L F
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
F.D.C. Willard says:
Someone with superhuman ability to accept pain should not be affected by a few month of federal prison. There are people in prison for years or even decades and they live through it. This should be an easy thing for him.
On top of that it frees his days and he can do something noble or productive like writing a book or inventing stuff. Just think of Nelson Mandela who became the President of South Africa after his sentence.
As a firm believer you should let this play out as the justice always wins in the end. So do not worry Pea Onyourself.
Not as harsh, but please I respectfully request for you to go hang yourself. Just hurry up and die please.
“The lawyers have come to believe in Keith’s innocence.”
Pea: The lawyers will believe whatever you pay them to believe.
In that sense the criminal defense lawyers in this case are bigger prostitutes than Raniere and Mack’s sex slaves.
The lawyers merely have better table manners and bigger vocabularies.
We all know Keith is a sacrificial lamb. Even those who most criticize him are his In Spirit. He will be acquitted. Frank Parlato will fail and falter and likely die from his wicked karma just as he deserves and Keith will forgive him just as Jesus forgave Judas. Keith told us Frank is Goebels in his past life.
I like lambchops, and so does the FBI/DOJ.
Evidently, since vanguard believes in reincarnation; this confinement shouldn’t be too big a problem for him or any nxivm folks. Maybe things will be better in the next life for you.
Pea:
Could you tell us what was in the milky white potion that Vanguard gave Pam
Cafritz before she died?
Who else in NXIVM was in on giving Pam that potion to help “cure” Pam of her cancer?
Was Pam too gentle on the sex slaves and that is why Raniere and his cohorts arranged for Pam to pass away and the slave master Allison would take over the harem?
Pea, while we’re at it could you tell us what the relationship between Allison Mack, Kim Constable and the children’s pre-school Rainbow Cultural Gardens is?
Were Sara, Kim and Allison using the pre-school to traffic in sex slaves?
Why did Kim purge her Instagram accounts of pictures with Allison Mack?
P.S. I have the pictures.
mint sauce says:
will we roast him on a spit?
will we bake him in pit?
will we boil him in a can?
will we fry him in a pan?
sacrificial lamb she wrote
but all we smell is sweaty goat.
Just Sayin' says:
You can’t really have it both ways.
He can’t be a sacrificial lamb AND be acquitted.
Another week’s billables. Cha-ching !
Parlato Fear Factor says:
“Parlato Fear Factor” ruling — this whole post — is hilarious! No chance the motion will be granted? Shucks. Guess the next Vanguard escape plan will have to be more like El Chapo’s first one — that would have worked if not for that Mexican soap star seductress and Sean Penn. Maybe Keith needs a love letter 💌
Strzok’s ‘Fingerprints’ Are on Comey’s Letter About the Weiner Laptop
Will half brother Matthew Bronfman visit Clare in NYC?
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Crunch or grind?
Even in a recession, there's money to be made in coffee and a lot of support to get started, finds Andrew Williams
With a glut of food-to-go and sandwich outlets offering special coffee deals, such as recessionary £1 coffees linked to meal deal promotions, as seen in the likes of Pret, Upper Crust and Coffee Republic, focus is shifting from pushing premium coffees to just making sure consumers stay hooked on their daily coffee fix. This poses the question: if you are about to buy coffee equipment, should you go for cheaper filter or instant options or stay true to the premium ground espresso machines?
Following the success of the coffee chains, it's easy to overlook that the most commonly drunk format in the UK is filter. "Filter coffee still accounts for 70% of all coffee sold in the UK, but thanks in part to the SCAE's Gold Cup programme, we are seeing renewed interest in filter coffee service," notes Chris York, sales director for Marco in the UK.
Paul Meikle-Janney, managing director of coffee expert Coffee Community, believes filter could be set for a retro revival. The reason it fell out of favour, he says, was because it was served so poorly and merchandised badly. "Too little coffee was used to achieve a rich flavour and then, once made, it was left to stew on a hot plate," he says. "It's what people tend to want when they stare at a large menu in an espresso bar and then shout in desperation, 'But I just want a coffee'. Filter coffee has been cast into the shade by espresso in recent years but this should not be the case. Indeed, it is one of the best ways of enjoying single-origin coffee grown on one particular estate."
Made properly from freshly ground beans, and served quickly, filter coffee can be a "wonderful drink", he says. It offers a cost-effective route into coffee and would only cost a couple of hundred pounds to set up. Many coffee suppliers will even provide the equipment free on loan.
Even instant coffees are making a comeback in some quarters. "Affordable coffee solutions are becoming an increasingly attractive proposition as operators look at offering more cost-effective options to their customers in line with market shift," says Martin Lines, marketing director for Nestlé Professional. He says Starbucks' recent 'Via' launch of take-home instant coffees has added credibility to instant coffee. Plus, the point-of-sale support and loyalty promotions from big brands like Nescafé can help to boost impulse purchases, he adds.
However, compromising on quality won't do you any favours on the high street, says Meikle-Janney. After all, high-quality coffee can cost little more than the poor. "In these hard economic times the appeal of a product with a 1,000% mark-up that is commonly, even addictively, drunk by a large population should be attractive to most retailers," he says. "Coffee offers huge opportunities. It can be the perfect complementary product to offer a bakery or café retailer's existing customers and may attract new customers as well."
In fact, latest figures from market research firm him! show that both chain and independent coffee shop visits are still in growth this year, while sandwich shop visits are declining, suggesting that coffee quality is not being sacrificed by consumers (see graph below).
So are cheap coffees worth doing? Max Jenvey of food-to-go consultant Oxxygen thinks you would do well to focus on cross-category promotions to improve customers' average spend. "Research shows we can achieve as much as a 40% increase on a combination purchase such as coffee and pastry," he notes. "By offering both categories together, we can also increase frequency of customer visits from 1.5 to 3+ times per week."
Rather than offer price promotions on coffee, he suggests increasing the range of cup sizes to encourage trading-up. "Coffee and bakery are both still in growth of up to 14% and, in today's credit-crunched society, customers are still prepared to part with their hard-earned cash on a regular basis," he stresses.
=== Costing it out ===
A quality espresso blend may only cost you £2-£3 more per kilo of beans than cheap coffee, writes Coffee Community's Paul Meikle-Janney. If each kilo makes about 125 espressos, it only means about 2p extra per cup. Or, to put it another way, a cheap espresso could cost you 6p to make and a quality one 8p.
If you then take the time to learn how to make it well, your customers will notice and return for more, but you still need to get them to buy it in the first place. To do this you need to demonstrate your "coffee credentials".
This can be done through good point-of-sale, such as a blackboard menu that's more than just a list of drinks; write some details about your blend - where it comes from, what it tastes like. You could also sell retail size bags of your coffee.
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4th Jul 19 - 3 Min Read
Industrial or Collaborative Robotics? Bauromat Can Help You Decide
As a systems integrator we not in the industry to sell dozens and dozens of robots. We're in automation because we see it as a platform to help companies improve their productivity and grow.
We would never sell a robot just because a customer said 'we need automation' There's a process and we're happy to provide full consoltations with customers, offering them the opportunity to sit down with our dedicated sales team and talk through each step of their manufacturing process.
This always brings us to a conversation about robots and the difference between industrial robots and collaborative robots (cobots), and which should be used.
Usually, and depending on the application, one is better suited than the other - luckily this is a discussion that we can have with you.
So, what are three key differences between the two:
Industrial robots come in all shapes and sizes, suited for applications from precision handling to heavy duty welding and everything in between, whereas collaborative robots are much more uniform in size. This is due to their collaborative nature where the robots can only being fully utilized in a select few applications working alongisde humans.
As cobots as used for smaller and less intense applications, they are also less durable than industrial robots. Industrial robots are designed to run extremley quick during production hours for upwards of 10-12 years. Collabortive robots on the other hand are needed for less intense work and are therefore less durable. Tasked with the correct job, the slower moving cobot can last many years, just don't expect it to be producing high volumes day-after-day - they aren't built for that.
Both size and durability of robots make both industrial and collaborative robots suited to different applications. You'd couldn't expect a collaborative robot to be producing high volumes 12-hours a day, just as much as you wouldn't see an industrial robot working alongside humans in a medical lab. Both robots are built for purpose; industrial robots are ideal in industry where everything from welding to machining takes place, while collaboratives work safely alongside humans in everything from assembly, machine tending and packaging.
Confusing isn't it? There's huge differences between the two types of robots, but each has its own benefits depending on the job you're looking at automating. Luckily, Bauromat UK Limited is here to help, even offering a free consultation customers in order to help them get their head around the automation process and what robot they should need.
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George Zimmerman Evidence Dump #2 – A Deeper Dive
Posted on July 24, 2012 by "No Longer Mass Emailing"
Yes, this posting should have gone up within a week of evidence dump #2 being released — I’m a little behind. I’ve yet to thoroughly review the jailhouse calls but I’m publishing this posting now to preface an upcoming posting. Thank you CommonSenseForChange for the assist — especially regarding Zimmerman’s ex-fiancee’!
All pages cited are from this document…
http://www.news4jax.com/blob/view/-/15490330/data/1/-/kligxm/-/Zimmerman-documents.pdf
Page 29: Witness 2 said the shadows were running from left to right. W2 lives east of the path. So, the running motion she described is from south to north. Note — Gilbreath ambiguously mentioned shadows running as evidence during bond hearing 1. This witness statement is horrible for the defense and seems to coordinate well with DeeDee’s statement and this map…
https://bcclist.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-map-911-call-timing-v-2.jpg
Page 78: Zimmerman said he followed Trayvon. He doesn’t mention trying to obtain an address. Like the video reenactment, I speculate that during the trial there will be absolutely no admission of Zimmerman trying to do anything but get an address for the dispatcher.
Page 78: Osterman mentioned Zimmerman cried for help to 3 different neighbors and then Trayvon covered his mouth seconds before the shot was fired. I didn’t hear any breaks in the screams for help until after the shot was fired. I know this has been mentioned before — even during bond hearing 2 — but I had never seen evidence suggesting exactly when Zimmerman’s mouth was supposedly covered.
Page 79: Osterman stated he accompanied Zimmerman to the video reenactment because Zimmerman didn’t understand the process. I guess a near associates degree in criminal justice doesn’t teach you much these days, eh?
Page 79: The 5th and 6th paragraphs confuse me. Is that still a statement from Osterman?
In the 5th paragraph, a list of burglaries are cited. In the 6th paragraph, is Osterman saying Zimmerman never mentioned any burglaries or home invasions to him? If so, which one is it?
In the 6th paragraph, is Osterman saying Zimmerman never actively patrolled the neighborhood? Statements on pages 108, 109, and 111 would disagree. Which one is it?
Page 89: Like Manalo, the name of Zimmerman’s bro in law (Wilson) wasn’t redacted. There’s likely nothing of value there…I just made a note.
Page 95: Who is the community management point of contact? What beef did Zimmerman have with him/her?
Page 99: The 2nd paragraph is weird. Who interrupts to ask if the neighborhood watch was registered with the police? Whoever this witness is, they must be familiar with neighborhood watch programs and law enforcement.
Page 99: Zimmerman again (2nd time) says he followed Trayvon. He doesn’t mention trying to obtain an address. As mentioned above, I speculate that during the trial there will be absolutely no admission of Zimmerman trying to do anything but get an address for the dispatcher.
Page 106: Did Zimmerman really ask somebody why they were outside (smoking a cigarette)? That gets your ass kicked in a lot of neighborhoods. It would be interesting to know this person’s stature and/or ethnicity. The statement was taken from a female. The person Zimmerman questioned about being outside was a male. I’m guessing they were boyfriend/girlfriend? Regardless, per paragraph 6, it looks like the male didn’t want to divulge more info about the incident to the FBI. Balls of steel.
Page 110: The only other person besides Osterman and the individual on page 135 to say Zimmerman didn’t actively patrol the neighborhood. Statements on pages 108, 109, and 111 would disagree. Which one is it?
Note: Both individuals on page 110 and 135 serve the RTL HOA in some official capacity. Both make it clear nobody from Neighborhood Watch patrolled the community. That apparently isn’t true per 108, 109, and 111. Why are these two individuals insistent that nobody patrolled the neighborhood?
Page 113: Who did Zimmerman “stare” down? It would be interesting to know this person’s stature and/or ethnicity.
Page 118: Undoubtedly Joe Oliver. The female mentioned in paragraph 3 is…? Sondra?
Page 128: Undoubtedly Taaffe. Mostly black teens crossed through the open area? And, some of them smoked blunts? And, most ignored him while talking on their cellphones?
Trayvon was possibly smoking a cigar (per the 7/11 video, Trayvon seemingly got denied a cigar and possibly had the 3 guys seen after he leaves the store buy an extra one for him) and talking on his cellphone while walking through the open area near Taaffe’s. Coincidence that Taaffe would add random ass things about blunts/cellphones to his FBI statement?
Page 137: Zimmerman again (3rd time) says he followed Trayvon. He doesn’t mention trying to obtain an address. Like the video reenactment and as mentioned a few times above, I speculate that during the trial there will be absolutely no admission of Zimmerman trying to do anything but get an address for the dispatcher.
Page 141: Zimmerman’s ex-fiancee’ said he smacked her in the mouth. They got into an argument which escalated into a pushing match. Zimmerman kicked her dog in the stomach and the ex-fiancee’ moved out the next day. Though Shellie has already lied under oath, she mentioned Zimmerman didn’t show aggression (paraphrasing) of any type during their relationship. Did such aggression get “cured” before Shellie and he met?
Page 141: Zimmerman was caught by his ex-fiancee’ lying on the bed with his teenage neighbor playing with her baby. Has anybody spoken to the former teenage neighbor especially given Witness 9’s statement?
Page 141: Zimmerman’s ex-fiancee’ caught him stalking her at a new residence. The ex-fiancee’ called Zimmerman and asked him where he was, but he lied and said he was elsewhere. The ex-fiancee’ told Zimmerman that she saw him leaving her residence. Zimmerman asked if he could come talk to her about a sick grandmother. So, Zimmerman was lying and manipulating then — what stops him from doing so now?
Page 142: Zimmerman refused to leave his ex-fiancee’ new place of residence and asked if he could sleep on the couch. Zimmerman snatched her cell phone and put it in his pocket. The ex-fiancee’s dog bit Zimmerman on the face and she was able to retrieve her phone and call the police. Zimmerman ran before the police arrived. Zimmerman’s ex-fiancee’ filed an injunction against him on the advice of a responding officer. Did such aggression get “cured” before he met Shellie?
Page 143: Zimmerman turned off his mother’s electricity, locked the box to it and departed leaving his mother with no electricity. This was done because Zimmerman’s mother and ex-fiancee’ got into an argument. Did such aggression (against his mother!) get “cured” before he met Shellie?
Page 144: Zimmerman has a bad temper according to his ex-fiancee’. She thought this may have been a side effect of Zimmerman’s use of Accutane. In Zimmerman’s medical report the day after the shooting, the drug Vyvanse is mentioned to cause mood swings in Zimmerman. Was his bad temper and mood swings “cured” before he met Shellie?
Page 144: Zimmerman’s ex-fiancee’ says Zimmerman would exhibit “road rage” while driving. Did Zimmerman’s “road rage” get cured before he met Shellie?
Page 182 and 183: Officer Smith seems rather unprofessional. Those transmissions were sent via government supplied devices, right? Is he currently active, on leave, or terminated after these messages came to light?
Speaking of Officer Smith (and more to come within the next few days)…
Page 10: Sergeant McCoy notes a gun lying on the front seat of Officer Smith’s car.
Page 23: Officer Smith removes the gun from Zimmerman’s holster at the police station after Zimmerman went to the bathroom and possibly washed his hands (plus what else?).
Which statement is correct? Was Zimmerman’s gun already secured at the scene or was it secured at the police department?
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Nichols chooses lighter Caulfield option
April 2, 2019 5:48 pm. by AAP
Trainer Shane Nichols has chosen the lighter of two Caulfield options for Streets Of Avalon.
Trainer Shane Nichols has selected the shorter of two options for last-start winner Streets Of Avalon.
Nichols has the gelding nominated for the Listed Anniversary Vase (1400m) and a handicap over 1200m with weights favouring the shorter journey.
“The preference would have been to run with 54 (kg) in the Listed race but he now rates 101 and he’s got 59 and no claim,” Nichols said.
“So we’ll run in the 1200-metre race with 60 kilos, less three kilos for (apprentice) Michael Poy.”
Streets Of Avalon’s rating leapt following his win in the Hareeba Stakes at Mornington on March 23 after he started his preparation at 81.
“It’s a remarkable thing for a horse like him to continually improve through his four-year-old year and who knows, if he improves again, where he’ll end up,” Nichols said.
“It’s been a great ride but the handicapper is starting to catch up with him now.”
Nichols hopes to return to stakes level with Streets Of Avalon at his next start which could be in the Group Three Victoria Handicap (1400m) at Caulfield on April 20.
“He’s a genuine Listed, Group Three class horse in the handicaps where he can get in down in the weights,” Nichols said.
“Hopefully something wants to keep away from the wet tracks in Sydney and will come down and help us out.
“Races like the Toorak Handicap, they’re probably too strong for him, but down a grade or so, that might suit him.”
Nichols said Streets Of Avalon was likely to have a short break and get ready for a trip to Brisbane for the back end of the winter carnival.
Stablemate Tahitian Dancer, also a winner at Mornington on March 23, is Sydney-bound for her next start.
The filly is entered for the P J Bell Stakes at Randwick on Saturday but could be saved for the South Pacific Classic the following week.
“She’s really come on since her first-up win,” Nichols said.
“She worked the Sydney way on the (Mornington) course proper this morning which was outstanding.
“She’s chasing the softer tracks and is a chance of showing up in Sydney whether it’s this week or the week after.”
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At Paseo 2017, Monsters Are Art
A Monster Design Challenge is underway in schools across Taos County, New Mexico. The competition is calling for artistic visualizations of environmental and personal “monsters” by youth aged 12 to 20.
September 12, 2017 –A Monster Design Challenge is underway in schools across Taos County, New Mexico. Sponsored by The Paseo Project and implemented by STEMarts Lab, the competition is calling for artistic visualizations of environmental and personal “monsters” by youth aged 12 to 20. It will culminate in a community projection performance during the Paseo Party on the Plaza on September 23, from 7:00 to 11:00pm.
Motomichi in front of a monster projection in another city.
The concept for the challenge grew out of the work of Motomichi Nakamura, the lead artist for the Paseo Project’s 2017 new media art event. The call for entries has gone out to Taos County middle and high school students and is based on Motomichi’s Tiny People and Giant Monster series in which he incorporates the monster theme as a mythological character to explore environmental issues. Winners of the challenge will have their monsters projected on buildings around the plaza, alongside the artist’s work, and all entries will be showcased on the Paseo Project website.
Students at Anansi Charter School. Photo courtesy of STEMarts Lab.
To date, the Paseo Monster Design Challenge has registered over 500 students in Taos County. Nineteen middle and high schools and educational institutions are involved, including all public and charter schools. Each school has chosen a unique medium and style for its monster designs – which will manifest as acequia monsters, climate change and e-waste creatures, and even monsters of addiction. Jody McNicholas, art teacher at Rocky Mountain Youth Learning Lab, says her students will work with duct tape on canvas to create symbolic monsters of addiction. “The archetype of the addict combined with the archetype of the monster has some far-reaching possibilities!”
Motomichi says, “My idea for PASEO is that the various monsters will come visit Taos from various places just for the night and play around. Also, I always like the idea that the digital projection doesn’t leave any physical trace after the installation, which kind of reminds me of ghosts, spirits or mythical creatures.” The artist works in various media including, painting, sculpture, animation, as well as projection mapping. His work has been exhibited globally in museums and galleries.
Richard Archuleta at Pueblo Day School by Megan Bowers
Taos Pueblo Day School student
Agnes Chavez, director of STEMarts@ThePaseo, Paseo Project’s educational program, describes the Monster Design Challenge. “The challenge is an online platform that allows all Taos County school teachers the opportunity to explore Motomichi’s work and theme and guide their students in a unique monster design. We believe that the challenge and potential of STEAM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math – education in the future is for all students to have access to the latest technologies and 21st century thinking. The Paseo is the perfect platform for teachers and students to use these tools to play, explore and imagine a better world. It has been amazing to see the creative responses coming out of each school.”
Monster Design Challenge entries from Rocky Mountain Youth Lab and Taos Middle School
About the Paseo Project
The Paseo Project is a 501c-3 nonprofit whose mission is to transform art through community and community through art. The Paseo Party on the Plaza is the Paseo Project’s fourth annual fall outdoor art event. It is again part of Taos Fall Arts Festival’s opening weekend events.
The Paseo Party on the Plaza at a Glance
Saturday, September 23, 2017, 7:00 to 11:00pm
Historic Taos Plaza, a free event
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This event is sponsored by The Town of Taos, Taos County Lodgers Tax, the Lor Foundation, Taos Community Foundation, and many generous private donors. STEMarts@ThePaseo is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding is provided by the Martin Foundation, the Nina E. Nilssen Scholarship Fund, US Bank, and Americorps VISTA.
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Gazprom HQ in Moscow has confirmed the good news for Turkmenistan.
By bne IntelliNews April 16, 2019
Russia has resumed importing natural gas from Turkmenistan following a three-year break, Gazprom confirmed on April 16.
Turkmen news website Orient broke the news on April 15 citing an industry source, and RFE/RL the following day cited Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov as acknowledging that "supplies are taking place" and state natural gas company Turkmengaz as stating that shipments had started.
Should the imports prove to be of a sizable volume, they could turn out to be something of a breakthrough for the remote country’s long-embattled economy. Economic turmoil in the tightly controlled nation of 5.7mn last year led to reports of passport-controlled bread rationing and caused the regime led by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov to scrap a quarter-century-long practice of providing free natural gas, electricity, and water to citizens in order to save money.
The price and volumes of the gas consignments, which appear to have been resumed under an existing 25-year contract between Turkmenistan and gas giant Gazprom, have not been disclosed.
Woes began with 2014 price collapse
Hydrocarbon-export-dependent Turkmenistan’s woes when it comes to Russia ending imports of its gas, which greatly exacerbated the country’s difficulties in obtaining enough hard currency, began with the collapse in world oil and gas prices in 2014. In 2015, Gazprom announced its intention to cut imports of Turkmen gas to 4bn cubic metres per year, down from the 10bn level that it had been importing since 2010. Then, at the beginning of 2016, it stopped taking shipments altogether after price disputes. That left Turkmenistan with only China as a major gas customer.
By taking relatively cheap imports of Turkmen gas, Russia used to boost its own potential for more exports of its own gas to Europe.
Gazprom initiated an international arbitration case against the natural gas prices charged by Turkmengaz in 2015. That arbitration case is still ongoing.
Until it was displaced by China at the beginning of the decade, Russia was the number one importer of Turkmen gas. Negotiations on restarting Turkmen gas exports started at the beginning of this year.
Moscow and Ashgabat in August 2018 signed the Caspian Sea Convention, which included preliminary plans for Russia to restart imports of gas from Turkmenistan, which sits on the world’s fourth largest gas reserves.
Turkmenistan has attempted to keep northern Iran as a substantial customer for its gas, but since the start of 2017 Ashgabat and Tehran have been engaged in a row over historical gas debts that the Iranians allegedly owe. That dispute has also gone to international arbitration.
China last year imported approximately 40bn cubic metres of Turkmen gas via the Central Asia-China pipeline.
Gazprom plans to start gas sales to China in 2019, gradually increasing flows to 38bn cubic metres per year from east Siberia.
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Suicide of Coca Cola Turkmenistan boss may further demoralise investors
Grim times for Coke in Turkmenistan.
By Kanat Shaku in Almaty February 26, 2019
The general manager of Coca-Cola Turkmenistan, Goktug Gozutok, a Turkish national, committed suicide last week, multiple media outlets in Central Asia and Turkey have reported.
Some reports attempted to analyse Gozutok’s death as connected to Turkmenistan’s ongoing budgetary and currency crises, claiming that Istanbul-parented Coca-Cola Iceсek Turkmenistan was facing financial problems. Other reports, including one on Eurasianet, said western companies were unlikely to suffer from Turkmenistan’s woes. Regardless of the background behind it, Gozutok’s death is likely to further demoralise foreign investors and foreign companies looking to operate in the country.
Gozutok hurled himself out of a window at the Oguzkent hotel in Ashgabat. The hotel, where a room costs upwards of $250, is sometimes used by Turkmen government officials to host diplomatic talks—the authorities apparently view Oguzkent as a source of pride. The tragedy may thus also prove to be something of a hindrance to the natural gas-rich nation's PR efforts with official visitors to the Turkmen capital.
Companies going unpaid
Last year, reports emerged that foreign companies operating in Turkmenistan had not been receiving payments for the past 4-5 years. In February 2018, Turkish company, Polimeks, claiming it had not been paid, decided to halt the construction of a toll road from the Turkmen capital Ashgabat to the Caspian port city of Turkmenbashi.
A Coca-Cola Iceсek spokeswoman told AFP in November 2017 that Coca-Cola Turkmenistan was facing hard currency conversion issues, but did not indicate any plans to leave the market. The opposition-run chrono-tm.org news website reported in the same month that the soft drinks producer and distributor had halted production and was on the verge of shutting down its operations altogether.
Turkmenistan Coca-Cola Bottlers also faces problems when it comes to importing ingredients needed for soft drinks production as well as pressure from local businesses, the news report from 2017 said.
It appears that Turkish companies were more likely to feel the sting of Turkmenistan’s economic troubles than other western companies, however. Eurasianet cited an example of Paris-headquartered Thales Group, which recently won a contract to fit out a new provincial airport in Lebap Region, as being “presumably confident” of payment from the government.
Coca-Cola Turkmenistan has been operating in the country since 1998. As of February 2009, Turkmenistan Coca-Cola Bottlers became an operating subsidiary of Coca-Cola Icecek. The company has been annually producing approximately 88mn bottles.
No money to spare
Most ordinary Turkmen citizens likely have not had the opportunity to spare money for Coca-Cola soft drinks in the past couple of years. Opposition-run news websites have reported on shortages of basic goods including food in the Central Asian nation caused by the ex-Soviet state’s drained budget. Passport-based bread rationing has reportedly become a feature of daily life for many.
On top of that, stretched government finances have prompted Turkmen public sector agencies and organisations to cut their workforces and send remaining employees on unpaid leave. Buying soft drinks is rather a secondary concern under such conditions.
Turkmenistan’s economic troubles largely stem from the years of reduced oil and gas prices that began in 2014. The loss of Russia as a gas customer has also hit the country hard.
IMF-recommended reforms
There is some indication that Turkmenistan is moving to introduce some relatively significant economic and business reforms based on recommendations from the IMF, but the pace and scope of reforms already put in place has not been reassuring.
Striking an optimistic note, the IMF mission that visited Ashgabat late last year concluded that Turkmenistan’s indicators of economic growth “remain broadly stable”. The growing hydrocarbon prices have helped the country improve its trade and fiscal balances, and there were identifiable rising exports of natural gas and petrochemicals, it added.
Turkmen growth could potentially receive another boost in 2019 if Russian state gas giant Gazprom lives up to its announcement in October that it will resume importing Turkmen natural gas from early 2019.
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BEYOND THE PASS
Telling the Story of Hospitality
Pared Pro-file: Evan Eisen
by: Jamie Li
Pared is empowering people who have never been empowered in the industry. It brings it back to a true meritocracy.
Evan grew up in the San Francisco area and like many, stumbled into a career in the restaurant industry. He started off as a server at a Cheesecake Factory where he met the kitchen manager who used to work at the Michelin-starred Cortez. With no experience he was able to get an internship at Cortez as a line cook and the next twelve years of his life would be spent in kitchens around the country. After Cortez, Evan spent a year and a half cooking at Aqua with prominent San Francisco chefs Ron Boyd and Kim Alter. He moved to New York where he cooked at Michelin-starred Public in Soho and three-starred Jean Georges. From New York he moved down to Florida where he was exec chef at Voodka Brasserie and DBA Cafe in Fort Lauderdale. Most recently he returned to San Francisco with his wife and was the executive sous chef at Wayfare Tavern.
After sweating in hot kitchens over the past dozen years, Evan had heard about Pared through the grapevine. He’s seen it all, from running breakfast as line cook in a hotel and putting out 300 omelettes to being in an elite kitchen where everyone spoke French. He took accounting classes to learn how to run a restaurant kitchen P&L and is very aware of the challenges of finding and keeping good cooks. At first he was skeptical about Pared when he signed up, but now he’s a believer and proponent of the platform.
“It’s the first time in 12 years that I’ve ever had the opportunity to be entrepreneurial about my career. I finally get to spend time with my wife who is a kindergarten teacher. I’ve never in my adult life had the freedom to do what I’m doing right now. Pared gives me the ability to network and see what opportunities are out there. ”
Now he’s hosting pop-ups and meeting other talented cooks on Pared gigs that he hopes to work with in the future. “The benefit of the temp-based model is that even if you’re not working at a Michelin-rated restaurant, you might see or learn something valuable that becomes part of your toolset during your many gigs. You never know who you’re going to meet.” He’s even met dishwashers who love washing dishes on Pared, which he never thought would happen. “You’re creating enthusiasm for a job that doesn’t incite enthusiasm!”
With Chef Tyler Florence at Wayfare Tavern
On a recent gig with a prominent San Francisco catering company, he found himself brainstorming with the executive chef how to prepare scrambled eggs for 1,200 people. “I never imagined that I would be having a theoretical conversation on cooking eggs with an executive catering chef as a temp worker, but he recognized my experience and skill set.”
I’ve never in my adult life had the freedom to do what I’m doing right now.
Evan now has the flexibility and freedom to pick up gigs and earn income when he wants to, but also to take time off to work on projects like his pop-up event with Feastly which he plans to use Pared to staff for. For young cooks, Evan feels like it’s a great way to cut your teeth in the industry and learn or sharpen skills at the various gigs and restaurants. Although he doesn’t plan on ever working in a traditional kitchen again, he does enjoy picking up the occasional line cook gig for fun. Now that he knows he can count on Pared as a stream of income, he can actually see it being fun to cook on the line again.
“Pared has been the single largest turning point in my career since getting an entremetier job at Aqua in my 20’s. Just like Aqua changed my entire view of what it looks like to be a legit cook, Pared has changed my whole perspective about the value of my skills and what I can do with them.”
Update: Evan has since started his own sushi catering business called Makaseru after being inspired by the caterers he worked with on Pared!
Chef Evan making fresh pasta
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Redblacks QB Dominique Davis one of CFL's Top Performers for week
Tim Baines, Postmedia
Ottawa Redblacks quarterback Dominique Davis has been chosen as one of the Shaw CFL Week 2 Top Performers.
After leading his team to a win in Calgary in Week 1, Davis completed 30-of-39 pass attempts for 354 yards and three touchdowns in a 44-41 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders Thursday night. Davis also added 43 rushing yards on five carries.
Also named Top Performers were Hamilton Tiger-Cats running back Sean Thomas Erlington (with 165 yards on the ground and in the air) and former Redblacks receiver Greg Ellingson (now with Edmonton), who had nine catches for 174 yards and two touchdowns. It was his 21st 100-plus-yard game in a seven-year CFL career.
THE END AROUND: The Redblacks are on a bye and don’t play this week. Next game is July 5 at home against Winnipeg. The Redblacks have moved up a spot in the Nissan Titan CFL Power Rankings, to No. 5. Ahead of them, in order, are Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Hamilton … Former Redblacks offensive lineman J’Micheal Deane has signed with the Eskimos.
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McKayla is Not Impressed
January 28, 2013 by Tom
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Following a 2nd place finish in the 2012 Summer Olympics, McKayla Maroney expressed a moment of disappointment, inspiring countless McKayla is Not Impressed macros. This set comes with both her silver and the team gold, for which she was reported to be mildly impressed.
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Mr. Miyagi
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Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) is the legendary karate teacher of Daniel LaRusso in the American martial arts series The Karate Kid. He is known for his unconventional methods of teaching karate using chores, such as when he orders Daniel to wax his car. Despite his age, Miyagi shows prowess many times, such as his ability to catch a fly with chopsticks.
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If you’re not into wearing color and you like to be the “weird girl” then Allison Reynolds’ look is the one for you. The key is to wear clothes that are a little too big for you and to make sure you carry a giant purse full of nonsensical stuff. We will leave it up to you whether or not you want to go all the way and include the dandruff.
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Who didn’t want to be Jem during the 1980’s? The second Jerrica Benton touched her holographic earrings Syngergy transformed her into the dazzling rock star, Jem. Between running a foster program for teens, driving a sweet Rolls Royce, and romancing Rio it’s surprising that Jem found time for belting out tunes. But she and the Holograms managed to outperform the Misfits in every episode. And she did it wearing a lot of pink.
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In Adventures in Babysitting, Dawson (Vincent D’Onofrio) is a mechanic who looks a lot like Thor, and not only to Sara, who idolizes the Norse superhero. He may even be the Norse superhero. But that doesn’t mean he’ll give you a $5 discount on your car repair.
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Robbie Hart wanted to be a rock star but life decided otherwise. Instead of ripped jeans and a leather jacket, he wound up donning a suit and tie as a professional wedding singer. Failed career or not, he was still able to get the girl and impress Billy Idol.
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Cantankerous, but lovable Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell) is a former naval aviator who now serves as Dr. Samuel Beckett’s assistant, guide and best friend in Quantum Leap. When he’s not helping Sam leap from time period to time period in an attempt to get him back home, you’ll find him enjoying his favorite cigar and checking out the local hotties.
Cyndi Lauper is a singer-songwriter who reached stardom with hit singles “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Time After Time”. Her dazzling colorful fashion, which ruled the MTV airwaves, is quintessential 80s style.
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Spatial isolation and genetic differentiation in naturally fragmented plant populations of the Swiss Alps
Kuss, Patrick; Pluess, Andrea R.; Aegisdottir, Hafdís Hanna; Stöcklin, Jürg (2008). Spatial isolation and genetic differentiation in naturally fragmented plant populations of the Swiss Alps. Journal of Plant Ecology, 1(3), pp. 149-159. Oxford: Oxford University Press 10.1093/jpe/rtn009
Aims The effect Of anthropogenic landscape fragmentation on the genetic diversity and adaptive potential of plant populations is a major issue in conservation biology. However, little is known about the partitioning of genetic diversity in alpine species, which occur in naturally fragmented habitats. Here, we, investigate molecular patterns of three alpine plants (Epilobium fleischeri, Geum reptans and Campanula thyrsoides) across Switzerland and ask whether Spatial isolation has led to high levels of populations differentiation, increasing over distance, and a decrease of within-population variability. We further hypothesize that file contrasting potential for long-distance dispersal (LDD) of Seed in these Species will considerably influence and explain diversity partitioning. Methods For each study species, we Sampled 20-23 individuals from each of 20-32 populations across entire Switzerland. We applied Random Amplified Polymorphic Dimorphism markers to assess genetic diversity within (Nei's expected heterozygosity, H-e; percentage of polymorphic hands, P-P) and among (analysis of molecular variance, Phi(st)) populations and correlated population size and altitude with within-populalion diversity. Spatial patterns of genetic relatedness were investigated using Mantel tests and standardized major axis regression as well as unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean cluster analyses and Monmonier's algorithm. To avoid known biases, We standardized the numbers of populations, individuals and markers using multiple random reductions. We modelled LDD with a high alpine wind data set using the terminal velocity and height of seed release as key parameters. Additionally, we assessed a number of important life-history traits and factors that potentially influence genetic diversity partitioning (e.g. breeding system, longevity and population size). Important findings For all three species, We found a significant isolation-by-distance relationship but only a moderately high differentiation among populations (Phi(st): 22.7, 48 and 16.8%, for E. fleischeri, G. reptans and C. thyrsoides, respectively). Within-population diversity (H-c: 0.19-0.21, P-p: 62-75%) was not reduced in comparison to known results from lowland species and even small populations with < 50 reproductive individuals contained high levels of genetic diversity. We further found no indication that a high long-distance seed dispersal potential enhances genetic connectivity among populations. Gene flow seems to have a strong stochastic component causing large dissimilarity between population pairs irrespective of the spatial distance. Our results suggest that other life-history traits, especially the breeding System, may play an important role in genetic diversity partitioning. We conclude that spatial isolation in the alpine environment has a strong influence on population relatedness but that a number of factors can considerably influence the strength of this relationship.
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS)
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Plant Ecology
Kuss, Patrick
500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany)
Peter Alfred von Ballmoos-Haas
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Chile 40 Years On
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Chile 40 Years On is a UK based network set up in order to raise awareness of the coup in Chile with the following aims:
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NIBIRU | ELENIN | BROWN DWARF STAR | PLANET X: Sept-Oct-Nov 2011…and beyond
02/26/13: C2C – Planet X (Nibiru) Update [Skip to 0:39:20]
12/18/11: #73 Nibiru & Elenin Events
10/10/11: #66 Dwarf Star, etc. update
10/01/11: The Sun & Elenin (Gravitational tunnel…)
9/28-29/11: Canary Islands Volcano Watch (over 8,000 earthquakes since mid July 2011)
09/28/11: “Coma of Elenin undone…Oct. & Nov. we will see meteors and solar activity causing volcanism…and disrupting communications.” Dwarf Star redirected by CG…New Society…
9/28/11: “An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) over the United States could end modern life in America overnight. Whether caused by an enemy attack (a nuclear device detonated above the atmosphere) or by a natural phenomenon (a geomagnetic storm), an EMP can cause entire regions of the country to lose electricity—permanently.” Click here to read the entire article.
9/17-18/11: Object(s) in Antarctica Captured on Timelapse Webcam
9/25/11: Terral’s Elenin Dwarf Star Update–Solar flares, power grids, communications grids, weakening magnetosphere…
9/24/11: Super Sun blast and the massive power outage in 90% of Chile, South America http://www.eutimes.net/2011/09/super-sun-blast-fears-put-russian-nuke-plants-in-lockdown/
WHO’S IN DENVER ON SEPT 27, 2011? –Site of the largest “deep underground military base” (DUMB), said to be a 5-mile radius underground city (two miles less than the size of San Francisco)
– Barack Obama, U.S. President
– Bill Gates, Former CEO of Microsoft on ACEEE conference
– Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator (i.e. Head of NASA)
– FEMA, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, NASA, etc.
WHO’S ON LEAVE FROM LATE SEPT TO MID OCT?
– The British Parliament (Sept. 15 – Oct. 10)
– Congress Recess (Sept. 25 – Oct. 2 )
– The Pope (Sept. 24 – mid Oct.)
– United Nations (Sept. 23 – Oct. 10)
– Germany’s President on leave (Sept. 25 – mid Oct.)
– High ranking generals posting reports of the U.S. being on “DEFCON 1” – highest level emergency that we have (Sept. 27, 2011 lock down by Alexey Maslov)
BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT:
Jesse Ventura’s show regarding the new Denver airport:
Archive: Art Bell’s 1997 audio interview with Dr. Malachi Martin (author of 16 books, holds three PhDs, Professor at the Vatican’s Pontifical Biblical Institute, Catholic priest, spoke 10 languages, died 1999). Talks briefly about how the Vatican “muscled its way onto Mt. Graham in Arizona” to build an international observatory (re: “Vatican’s intense interest now in astronomy because of the content of some of the secret revelations they claim were made in this century about the near future involving the stars, involving astronomical data.”) Fast forward to 8:24 on video.
Other source re: Vatican, UFOs, Aliens, etc.: http://www.thelivingmoon.com/49ufo_files/03files2/Monsignor_Corrado%20_Balducci.html
NASA page for Mt. Graham Observatory: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/index.cfm?mission=LBTI
09/22/11: Andromedan update of Elenin, Brown Dwarf Star and Sun gravitational tunnel, massive solar flare/CME activity in Oct/Nov, floods, change in earth’s axis, magnetic poles repositioning, government/ military activity and rocket Juno’s real intention, space junk
09/20/11: Planet X, Consciousness and Comet Elenin. Coast-to-Coast interview with author Doug Elwell (Videos 2, 3 & 4) Go to start time 9:11 to skip through the introductory discussion
09/15/11: For those who believe in the Galactic Community coming to our assistance with their advanced technologies to deactivate nuclear reactors, reduce the number of debris following ELENIN, and redirect the DWARF STAR trajectory to avoid entering the inner solar system, view the following two videos from a said Andromedan source: 09/14/11:
09/14/11: According to amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo (from Australia) in the article “Comet Elenin is Now Fading Away” by Nancy Atkinson, ELENIN has broken up and did not survive perihelion. That said, however, in the past 24 hours, there were FOUR M6+ quakes (Cuba, Japan, New Zealand, and Alaska). It is fair to say if ELENIN no longer poses a threat, there may well be another body approaching our solar system (the much talked about brown dwarf star perhaps–as discussed by Professor James McCanney) which is causing the seismic, volcanic, and flooding activity on Earth. We advise that one still take precaution during the dates for alignment (3-way Sept 26th and 6-way Sept 27th). [Image – Comet Elenin on Sept. 14, 2011. It is now almost indiscernible. Image and annotated chart by Michael Mattiazzo:]
But as a rebuttal, see post refuting these claims:
Six-Way Astronomical Alignment for Wed., Sept. 27, 2011. Click image to enlarge. NOTE the new alignment (the JPL/NASA in the left corner is flipped for a better view of the ecliptic): MERCURY-SUN-ELENIN-MOON-EARTH-URANUS; however, SUN-ELENIN-EARTH will still align on Sept. 26, 2011.
09/10/11: Debris from Comet Elenin (destruction)
09/08/11: Elenin Changes Path..9-8-2011. 5 Way Alignment 9-27 (Explained)
Summary of Recent Events on Earth
09/08/11: Anomaly of Multiple Solar X Flares. Note: the day after COTC:TOL posted this video
9/9/11: three U.S. states (CA-NM-AZ) and parts of the country of Mexico experienced a major power outage.
09/07/11: Unknown Object Entering Inner Solar System (Not Elenin)
09/05/11: (in Auckland, NZ)…Space junk or something else…
09/03/11: Comet Elenin Blasted and Breaking Apart
09/02/11: Professor James McCanney (Believes ELENIN is a non-threat, tiny object; but believes there could be “something else” coming toward Earth.)
09/02/11: Sun’s gravity and Elenin’s trajectory.
09/02/11: Brown Dwarf star following Elenin? (Note: the music is a little dramatic).
09/02/11: Yellowstone Caldera activity (Super Volcano). Click the following link to monitor Yellowstone Caldera activity: http://mbmgquake.mtech.edu/earthworm/wavef_disp/current/welcome.html
09/01/11: COTC:TOL cannot confirm the source or content of this video. Please watch with discretion: Elenin Followed by Brown Dwarf Star and Mini Solar System
09/01/11: Elenin viewed from NASA Stereo B-H
Earthquakes – last seven days 09/07/11-09/01/11. Visit USGS site to monitor seismic activity: WORLD or Only USA Click image to enlarge:
Infrared image comparison of Elenin (or some other brown dwarf star following Elenin). Click to view: http://bit.ly/nm1lEv
08/31/11: ELENIN Caught in Explosion Near Jupiter, Breaks in Two.
08/30/11: Sanni Ceto on Veritas Radio (Pleiadians and Zetas redirect Elenin which they say is not a comet but a remote controlled Reptilian spacecraft. Ceto added that the Pleiadians and Zeta’s will not allow Elenin, or the squadron of alleged ships that are following Elenin, to impact our planet.
08/28/11: CNN Slowly Leaks Out Brown Dwarf Star…
Recent earthquakes, floods/tides/storms, volcanoes, etc. correlated (or caused) by astronomical magnetic forces aligned or moving close to earth.
07/29/11: “…Nibiru / Planet X Radio Interview with Hubble Telescope Observer” (We apologize in advance for the dramatic religious doomsday flair of this Hubble Telescope Observer. )
Use the NASA orbit diagram (i.e. trajectory simulator) for ELENIN. You can fast forward, rewind dates on the trajectory and zoom in/out of the solar system as well as swivel the angles: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C%2F2010+X1&orb=1
(Note: Elenin’s dark blue trajectory signifies its location in the southern hemisphere. Light blue shows it moving into the northern hemisphere.)
ORIGINAL POST (SOME VARIATION)
1) This was the projected orbit of ELENIN around our sun with dates:
Official NASA report filed by the so called “Leonid Elenin” for Elenin #11133
Click link below to view:
http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/11133.gcn3
2) Vibrational harmonics creates an amplification of energy. A white paper was written to prove that an alignment of celestial bodies was directly correlated with (and is the causation of) major seismic activity on our planet. Source: “Astronomical Alignments as the Cause of ~M6+ Seismicity” by Mensur Omerbashich (Cornell University Library: http://lanl.arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+elenin/0/1/0/all/0/1 or download direct pdf: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1104/1104.2036.pdf )
3) ALIGNMENTS: The last three major earthquakes occurred when there was a direct alignment of celestial bodies: Use NASA’s orbital simulator program for ELENIN (above link). It gives you exact dates:
(A) SUN-EARTH-ELENIN: March 11, 2011 – Japan 8.9 magnitude
(B) EARTH-SUN-ELENIN: September 4, 2010 – Christchurch, New Zealand 7.1 magnitude
(C) SUN-EARTH-ELENIN: February 27, 2010 – Chile 8.8 magnitude
PAST Astronomical Alignments Triggering M6+ Earthquakes in 2010:
(D) MERCURY-VENUS-EARTH: Oct. 25, 2010 – Indonesia M7.7
(E) MARS-MERCURY-EARTH: Nov. 20, 2010 – Tokyo M6.9
(F) SUN-MERCURY-EARTH: Dec. 20, 2010 – Iran M6.5
(G) EARTH-SUN-MARS: Jan. 26, 2011 – Sumatra, Indonesia M6.1
(H) EARTH-SUN-MERCURY-MARS: Feb. 22, 2011 – Canterbury, NZ M6.3
(I) MARS-MERCURY-VENUS-EARTH: May 13, 2011 – Costa Rica M6.0
NASA Elenin 2011 Comet – Planetary Alignments with Comet Elenin Causing Big Earthquakes
Past Alignments Date Location Magnitude
Elenin – Earth – Sun Feb 20 2008 Indonesia 7.4
Elenin – Earth – Neptune May 12 2008 China 7.9
Elenin – Earth – Sun Feb 18 2009 Kermadec Islands 7
Elenin – Earth -Jupiter May 18 2009 Los Angeles, US 4.7
Elenin – Mercury- Earth July 15 2009 New Zealand 7.8
Elenin – Mercury – Earth Aug 09 2009 Japan 7.1
Elenin – Sun – Earth Sept 09 2009 Sunola islands 8.1
Elenin – Earth – Venus Feb 18 2010 China/RU/N.Korea 6.9
Elenin – Earth-Sun Feb 25 2010 China 5.2
Elenin – Earth-Sun Feb 26 2010 Japan 7
Elenin – Earth- Sun Feb 27 2010 Chile 8.8 [Earth knocked off axis]
Elenin – Earth- Sun Feb 27 2010 Argentina 6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury Mar 04 2010 Taiwan 6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury Mar 04 2010 Vanuatu 6.5
Elenin – Earth – Mercury Mar 05 2010 Chile 6.6
Elenin – Earth – Mercury Mar 05 2010 Indonesia 6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury Mar 08 2010 Turkey 6.1
Elenin – Earth – Neptune May 05 2010 Indonesia 6.6
Elenin – Earth – Neptune May 06 2010 Chile 6.2
Elenin – Earth – Neptune May 14 2010 Algeria 5.2
Elenin – Earth – Jupiter Jan 03 2011 Chile 7
Elenin – Earth – Sun March 11 2011 Japan 8.9 [Earth knocked off axis]
4) 2011 TIMELINE
(H) The next alignment is Sept. 26, 2011, but this time ELENIN will come between the EARTH & SUN (not on the outer edge) and Mercury will also align: MERCURY-SUN-ELENIN-EARTH. It is possible ELENIN will block the sun for 3 days (considering its size). See below (NASA STEREO-B spacecraft simulator): Fastforward to Sept. 26, 2011 to watch the sun disappear.
Oct. 16-18: ELENIN crosses Earth’s orbit (closest position to us at 22 million miles).
(I) VENUS-EARTH-JUPITER: Oct. 16, 2011
(J) SUN-EARTH-JUPITER: Oct 25, 2011
Nov. 2-7: Earth crosses ELENIN’s orbit (tail of debris)
(K) VENUS-MERCURY-EARTH-ELENIN: Nov. 9-11, 2011
(L) SUN-EARTH-ELENIN: Nov. 24-26, 2011
(M) SUN-MERCURY-EARTH: Dec. 4, 2011
(N) EARTH-VENUS-ELENIN: Apr. 11, 2012
(O) EARTH-VENUS-SUN-MERCURY: May 30, 2012
NASA Future Elenin Alignments:
Future Alignments Date Note
Aug 31 2011 Comet Elenin will become visible by the naked eye
Elenin- Mercury – Mars Sept 06 2011
Sept 10 2011 Comet Elenin will come to closest to the Sun
Mercury – Sun – Elenin – Earth Sept 25 2011
Sept 26 2011 Elenin’s minimum angle to the Sun will be 1.9º.
Oct 8 2011 Elenin will make its closest apparent pass in the night sky to Comet 45P/Honda
Oct 11 2011 Elenin 0.246au from Earth; that’s a quarter of the distance to the sun.
Oct 17 2011 Elenin closet to earth 0.232au
Oct 20 2011 Elenin will enter Earth orbit and we will experience a gravitational pull.
Nov 02 2011 Earth will enter Elenins tail/ previous path
Venus – Earth- Elenin – Mercury Nov 11 2011
Sun – Mercury – Earth – Elenin Dec 04 2011
Mars – Elenin – Jupiter Dec 25 2011
Last Alignment
Elenin – Earth – Sun Dec 21 2012
5) ELENIN can only be seen in the southern hemisphere. The Neumayer Station in Antarctica was built to observe and monitor this cluster. Video footage from Neumayer is attached below. By August 31, 2011, ELENIN will be visible to the naked eye (southern hemisphere).
From the Neumayer-Station in Antarctica (Near the South Pole):
http://www.awi.de/en/infrastructure/stations/neumayer_station/
http://www.awi.de/NM_WebCam/
Coverage in August 15, 2011
Neumayer Anomalies and Global Earthquake activities in July 2011
BROWN DWARF | PLANET X | NIBIRU
6) Some say ELENIN (or the brown dwarf star following ELENIN) is a mini solar system of six planets with its own small sun (or red star). The largest planet is said to be larger than Jupiter at 16x the size of Earth. This planet has been referred to as the “10th planet” in our solar system (or Planet X). It’s also known as “Nibiru”. Nibiru is said to have a 3,600-YEAR orbit around our sun. (See “Washington Post” article toward the end of this post.)
What is a brown dwarf star?
by Gary Vey for Viewzone (from his article, “Spanish Astronomers Claim Dwarf Sun Beyond Pluto“):
All matter attracts other matter. A larger mass will attract smaller masses towards it. In space this results in growing clouds of matter that tend to clump together and attract more matter. Since most of the matter in space is gaseous, these clouds eventually get so dense that they collapse into dense gaseous spheres. When they do this there is usually some “left over” matter that forms a ring around the sphere.
If there is enough matter in a sphere of hydrogen, for example, it can cause so much compression at the shpere’s core that the hydrogen atoms begin to fuse together and a fusion-reaction ignites a new born star. In this reaction two hydrogen atoms join together to form one helium atom and release extra energy as radiation.
Scientists believe that the minimum mass needed to ignite a sun is about 13 times the known mass of the planet Jupiter — written as “13MJ.” If the mass is lower than this, the pressure in the core is not enough to ignite and the sphere will be hot ball of gas called a “brown dwarf.”
As a new star spins, the disk surrounding it gradually cools and the matter forms heavier elements like metals and minerals. These “rocks” eventually clump together and form solid spheres called planets.
Sometimes a solid sphere will attract some of the gas that is in the disk and this will result in a gaseous giant, like Jupiter and Saturn, which has a solid core but a thick gaseous atmosphere. These “gas giant” planets can be very massive but, because of their solid cores, they will never ignite and become stars.
This Brown Dwarf
This newly discovered “brown dwarf” is believed to have formed from the same condensed matter that gave birth to our Sun. It is believed that, after the large planets formed around the Sun, they pushed it to the edge of the Solar system where it formed a sphere about 1.9MJ — well below the mass needed to ignite it as a “sun.”
Nemesis The theory of a companion sun is not new. It has often been described as Nemesis, after the Greek figure in mythology.The mythological Nemesis was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris, vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess. The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word meaning “to give what is due”.Nemesis is now often used as a term to describe one’s worst enemy, normally someone or something that is the exact opposite of oneself but is also somehow similar. For example, Professor Moriarty is frequently described as the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes.”Opposite yet similar” is the perfect description for a companion to our Sun. But the name Nemesis also implies a sinister nature. Will this new Nemesis be beneficial or harmful to our lives?
Many suns that we observe in the galaxy are part of binary systems or double stars. There is debate about how two suns form from a single condensed cloud of matter. Some believe that they both form at the same time; others believe they split following the creation of one huge sun.
Sometimes both spheres are capable of fusion and both suns shine brightly, encircling each other around an imaginary point call the barycenter. Sometimes only one sun attains 13MJ and ignites, while its smaller companion, the brown dwarf, glows dimly and radiates heat. Astronomers usually can only see the brightest of the two, but because they both circle around a common barycenter, the wobble reveals the mass of the unseen companion.
We are close to our Sun and within its gravitational influence. So as we are travel through space, it appears to us that the G1.9 is moving in an elipse between our furthest planetoid, Pluto, and the edge of our Solar system, near the Oort Cloud.
The newly discovered brown dwarf is reported to be located just about 60 to 66 AU (1 AU=the distance from the Sun to Earth) from us (its parigee), currently in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. Because of periodic gravitational disturbances in areas of space further out, specifically in the Oort Cloud, the Spanish group of astronomers believe G1.9 travels in an elliptical orbit extending possibly hundreds of AU beyond the furthest known planets (its apogee). Its position just beyond Pluto suggests it is at its closest approach to the Sun and Earth.
Space appears relatively free of debris [see image above] inside the planetary orbits. This is because the gravitational pull of each planet (a large mass) effectively collects the interplanetary debris (small mass). But there are exceptions.
Belts of DebrisBetween Mars and Jupiter you will see a ring of debris called The Asteroid Belt. It is believed that a planet once orbited in this area before it was pulverized by some type of impact. Many theorists believe this was caused by a rogue planet that entered the Solar System — again hinting at the existence of some unknown member of our planetary system. Beyond the furthest planetoid, Pluto, there is a large ring of debris called the Kuiper Belt. While the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (termed “ices”), such as methane, ammonia and water.As we get to the edge of the Solar System we enter another debris zone, the Oort Cloud. The Oort is not a band of debris but rather a spherical shell that surrounds the Solar System and extends out to the edge of the Sun’s gravitational field. This region is thought to contain frozen clumps of water, methane, ethane, carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide. It’s also the birth place of comets. However, the discovery of the object 1996-PW, an asteroid in an orbit more typical of a long-period comet, suggests that the cloud may also be home to rocky objects.Debris “fly-paper”Jupiter and Saturn are extremely massive and have such strong gravity that they attract meteors and comets entering the planetary zone of our Solar System. They protect smaller planets like our Earth from impacts, acting like a fly-paper for meteors, comets and asteroids.In August of 2009, Jupiter captured a large asteroid that entered the planetary zone unexpectedly, despite the efforts of astronomers to track these dangerous objects. It is believed that this asteroid was perturbed by the trajectory of G1.9, which until now, was not recognized and accounted for.Note: The dark spot [ top right] in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter where the asteroid impact was.
Size comparison of Earth relative to Jupiter, Brown Dwarf, Low Mass Star and the Sun (as revealed on CNN, see under Elenin Updates #19 above).
Google Sky Cover Up:
If you want to see Google sky’s blockage of the celestial cluster in question (taken in 2007), just open up your Google Earth, switch to sky view and enter the following coordinates: (once you do, be sure you zoom out significantly to see that Google blocked out the image). COORDINATES: 5h 53m 27s, -6 10′ 58 (Original image is below, before Google covered it up.)
August Status: Cover up. It is blocking the second solar system from their website tracker.
Zecharia Sitchin & The Sumerians [re: Planet X]
“Our interest in Planet-X was first triggered by the writings of Zecharia Sitchin, whose translations and interpretations of the oldest known civilization, the Sumerians, gave us a cosmology that included what he called “The Twelfth Planet.”
Sitchin’s work with ancient texts, specifically the Enumma Elish, is brilliant. The cosmology includes an extra, as yet undiscovered planet, which is similar to the descriptions used by NASA and the Starviewer Team. This planet is in an eliptical orbit with a “year” equal to an amazing 3600 earth years. This long orbit is why the planet — called Nibiru by the ancients — has eluded observation with current telescopes and satellites.
Embedded with the cosmology of the Sumerians is the description of an alien race of beings who came to our planet to mine precious minerals and who genetically altered our species. This latter bit of the tale in the Sumerian writing has caused the cosmology to be thrown out along with the aliens. But it does not negate the cosmology.
There is indeed something “out there” that approximates Planet-X, Nibiru, a brown dwarf… It has been proven but not seen. Readers can explore the mathematical models that demonstrate the disruptions in the Oort Cloud, comets and our Sun in a previous article on viewzone.
At the present time we seem to be experiencing an unusually quiet period of what was supposed to be the most violent 11-year solar cycle in history. According to the theory of barycenters, this must be due to the gravitational effects of some massive body in our Solar System, preventing the usual disruptions associated with the 11+ year orbits of Jupiter.
Recent unpredicted asteroid activity suggests that something is perturbing the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.” – Source: http://viewzone2.com/browndwarf2.html
Observatory in Hawaii coverage of the second sun:
LONG PLAY VIDEOS:
The Quickening from Keith Wyatt on Vimeo:
A seminar presented by Alex Retrov and Krystal Alexander-Hille will wake you up to the truth behind the 2012:
Aug 23, 2011 Marshall Masters on “Comet Elenin Forecast for 9/2011 to 1/2012 and the Hopi Blue Star Kachina”
“Possibly as Large as Jupiter; Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered”
By Thomas O’Toole, Washington Post, Staff Writer
Friday, December 30, 1983 ; Page A1
A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite.
So mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby “protostar” that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever gets through.
“All I can tell you is that we don’t know what it is,” Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS chief scientist for California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology, said in an interview.
The most fascinating explanation of this mystery body, which is so cold it casts no light and has never been seen by optical telescopes on Earth or in space, is that it is a giant gaseous planet as large as Jupiter and as close to Earth as 50 trillion miles. While that may seem like a great distance in earthbound terms, it is a stone’s throw in cosmological terms, so close in fact that it would be the nearest heavenly body to Earth beyond the outermost planet Pluto.
“If it is really that close, it would be a part of our solar system,” said Dr. James Houck of Cornell University’s Center for Radio Physics and Space Research and a member of the IRAS science team. “If it is that close, I don’t know how the world’s planetary scientists would even begin to classify it.”
The mystery body was seen twice by the infrared satellite as it scanned the northern sky from last January to November, when the satellite ran out of the supercold helium that allowed its telescope to see the coldest bodies in the heavens. The second observation took place six months after the first and suggested the mystery body had not moved from its spot in the sky near the western edge of the constellation Orion in that time.
“This suggests it’s not a comet because a comet would not be as large as the one we’ve observed and a comet would probably have moved,” Houck said. “A planet may have moved if it were as close as 50 trillion miles but it could still be a more distant planet and not have moved in six months time.”
Whatever it is, Houck said, the mystery body is so cold its temperature is no more than 40 degrees above “absolute” zero, which is 456 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. The telescope aboard IRAS is cooled so low and is so sensitive it can “see” objects in the heavens that are only 20 degrees above absolute zero.
When IRAS scientists first saw the mystery body and calculated that it could be as close as 50 trillion miles, there was some speculation that it might be moving toward Earth.
“It’s not incoming mail,” Cal Tech’s Neugebauer said. “I want to douse that idea with as much cold water as I can.”
Then, what is it? What if it is as large as Jupiter and so close to the sun it would be part of the solar system? Conceivably, it could be the 10th planet astronomers have searched for in vain. It also might be a Jupiter-like star that started out to become a star eons ago but never got hot enough like the sun to become a star.
While they cannot disprove that notion, Neugebauer and Houck are so bedeviled by it that they do not want to accept it. Neugebauer and Houck “hope” the mystery body is a distant galaxy either so young that its stars have not begun to shine or so surrounded by dust that its starlight cannot penetrate the shroud.
“I believe it’s one of these dark, young galaxies that we have never been able to observe before,” Neugebauer said.
“If it is, then it is a major step forward in our understanding of the size of the universe, how the universe formed and how it continues to form as time goes on.”
The next step in pinpointing what the mystery body is, Neuegebauer said, is to search for it with the world’s largest optical telescopes. Already, the 100-inch diameter telescope at Cerro del Tololo in Chile has begun its search and the 200-inch telescope at Palomar Mountain in California has earmarked several nights next year to look for it. If the body is close enough and emits even a hint of light, the Palomar telescope should find it since the infrared satellite has pinpointed its position.
(ITEM 123)December 31, 1983, Saturday, Final Edition
(ITEM 127)The distance from earth of a mysterious object in space was reported incorrectly in some editions yesterday. The correct figure is 50 billion miles.
Articles appear as they were originally printed in The Washington Post and may not include subsequent corrections.
“New York Times” Article
Transcribed (easy reading) version below actual copy of article at the link below:
Article Name: Clues Get Warm in the Search for Planet X
Released in: The New York Times
Release Date: Sunday, January 30, 1983
Writer: John Noble Wilford
http://www.redxpro.com/articles/nyt_1_30_1983.html
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Prodita Sabarini, The Jakarta Post, Denpasar
The foul smell of piling garbage at the largest landfill in Bali, the Suwung landfill, has been a source of disgust for the Balinese.
Thanks to technology, however, people on the island-province can now look forward to making use of their waste.
Home to household waste from four areas of Bali - Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan - the landfill receives as much as 800 tons of waste per day.
As two third of the waste is organic, it releases methane gas -- the source of the "foul smell" and is one of the greenhouse gasses that contributes to global warming - to the atmosphere.
The Bali administration, working with PT Navigat Organic Energy Indonesia (NOEI), set up an integrated waste management system at Suwung by building its first biogas plant.
The plant would capture methane gasses and turn it into energy in the form of electricity. The plant will also help rehabilitate the landfill site.
"By August 2008 the facility would be able to produce two megawatts for public use," PT NOEI spokesperson Bernt Bakken said Sunday.
The facility was launched by the Bali Governor Made Dewa Beratha on Dec. 13, sporting the momentum of the United Nations Climate Change Conference that ended on Dec. 15.
It is the first project in Bali carried out under the United Nation's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) -- a carbon trade scheme that enables a group of developed countries and countries in transition, which are binding for emission cuts to earn emission reduction credits by promoting sustainable development in developing countries.
Indonesia has 11 projects under the carbon trade scheme registered at the CDM executive board so far, with only two of them approved by the board.
The biogas plant project would reduce around 123,423 tons per year of the amount of methane gasses released to the atmosphere, cutting the greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming.
Bakken said from 2010, the facility would produce 10 Megawatts of electricity.
State Electricity Company (PLN) has signed an agreement to buy power from the biogas plant.
PT NOEI uses a Jenbacher machine, distributed by GE Energy. GE Energy country executive Gatot Prawiro said waste-to-energy conversion was a good solution to provide energy in areas that has no access to the national power grid.
Bali is still dependent on Java for power supply, with 130 Megawatts of the 439 Megawatts needed to power Bali comes from the Paiton Power Plant in East Java.
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New F1 season
DamoNorthStand
March 2012 edited March 2012 in Other Football and Sports
Bouncing back off the Senna movie thread, anyone on here tuning in for the Oz GP this weekend (either live or delayed)?
Think it could be a classic season - seemingly (from testing at least) Red Bull and Mclaren are close enough to give Lewis and Jenson a shout,and Lotus and Mercedes look quick. Never mind having Vettel, Hamilton, Alonso, Button, Raikonnen and Schumacher all on the same grid. Personally think Hamilton will bounce back and run Vettel close. Any views?
Ketman
Hopefully McLaren have closed the gap to Red Bull. Also hope Ferrari are as hopeless as they seem to be in pre season testing, cannot stand them. Agree it should be an exciting season & have purchased Sky Sports so I do not miss a race might even stay up tonight to watch Practice session 1 at 1.00am.
Rothko
You can see just how much money Sky have thrown at F1, almost like there are £10 notes making up the set
Saga Lout
In theory it should be interesting. I think there will be a record number of previous champions taking part this year. However, will it live up to the hype or be another series of boring processions?
Karim_myBagheri
as long as i get to see alonso being miserable throughout the season I'll be happy.
I just hope that it's more exciting than the last few seasons where there's been one dominant car and then a big gap to everything else.
/yawn
Chirpy Red
F1= ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
A few of my friends say ZZZZZZzzzzz about F1. For me snooker, golf etc are classic ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz. The scream of an F1 engine in the flesh is about as thrilling as you can get for me (along with CAFC winning of course). Each to their own.
But this thread is about F1 not golf or snooker so a large ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz is required.
Am really more into MotoGP but will be interested to see how Sky present F1. All the off-track arguing and wrangling does get tiresome though.
last season was like that but the season before was very close. I think 4 drivers went into the last race with a chance of winning.
F1 has become much better in the last few years and most races are pretty exciting with lots of overtakes.
I don't mind it really. I like listening to the early morning ones from the other side of the world in bed on the radio as I drift in and out. Certainly a glamorous sport and I'd go to one if I had the invite.....
The overtaking I saw last season though was just down to the movable rear wing and that seemed to provide such a boost to straightline speed it was almost impossible not to overtake when you had it. That was only mildly more exciting than not overtaking at all. Not sure if they've done anything this year to moderate the effects of that system?
philcafc
Doesn't do anything for me I'm afraid. Can't understand why the bbc want to stop covering the likes of the grand national which attracts big ratings but continues to throw money at f1
Been to the opener at Melbourne twice before, 2004 + 2010. Absolutley awesome event to be at! 10 x better than watching on TV. The speed is completley un-inmaginable until you see it first hand.
Think that this year will be a very close one between Hamilton and Vettel, with a few others thrown in for good measure.
MrOneLung
was not so much the speed I found impressive, more how quickly they slowed down.
F1 is the second biggest TV sport in the UK after football. Grand National is tiny in terms of TV viewing.
Rubbish!
The Grand National drew 8.8 million viewers last year. F1 averages under 5 mil.
But there are 20 races.....
The tracks where it was too easy to overtake I imagine that they will shorten the time the rear wing flap can be open.
DRS (the flappy thing in the wing), KERS (boost) and even the tyres are all designed to create overtaking opertunities but the drivers still have to make it happen. The aerodynamics are designed to make the cars fast due to high downforce but it becomes very difficult for another car to follow closely and then subsequently overtake. The way I see it is that the overtaking aids just help the drivers to overcome the problems caused by the overall design of the cars.
I'd guess a that lot of people who say F1 is boring either are basing their opinion on races from a 5 to 10 years ago or don't actually like motor racing anyway!
BigRedEvil
Looking forward to it, although I don't normally really get into it the first few races due to the times of the races.
Disappointed BBC have lost half their coverage though, the team of Brundle/DC/Humphries and Jordan was brilliant
Yes thats exactly it. In terms of cumulative viewing, F1 is second only to football in the UK and worldwide.
I work in advertising and presented this to a client last week who was looking at partnering with the Sky Sports F1 channel.
The biggest races - such as when Hamilton won the title, will attract c10-11m viewers, Canada is also always a big one as it is in peak time on Sunday evening and will be around the 7-8m mark.
Other than the Grand National - horse racing is tiny on TV.
Markive
Clashes with Mothers Day!!
And there is no SKy F1 Channel at my mothers house! Boo I say!
Respect the views of others but having been at cheltenham all week you get far more excitment here than you ever would watching f1
Deadred
Each to their own but I have never watched it and don't intend to start now. Can't see how it is a proper sport. Fastest car normally wins so what's the point?
alanscoachdriver
Looking forward to it immensely.
Will be at Montreal GP in June and taking in a NASCR race the week before as a warm up.
Good chance I will be at Le Mans the week after Montreal and will be at Brands for the BTCC on April 1st as well.
Motor Sport almost as good as football.
But you said the "Grand National is tiny in terms of TV viewing" - your words - and you were wrong, it's huge. End of chat.
Sparrows_Lane_Muzz
Yet more TV I won't be able to watch thanks to Murdoch and his goal of stamping on people who refuse to pay £50 a month to watch sport. Just at least trade us back the Cricket or some football games.
I was starting to enjoy F1 as well..
If you ever get the chance to go to a grand prix, do it....amazing atmosphere, the cars are so quick (they look like they are crawling when doing 70mph in the pits).....and the skill of the drivers is immense....
Great weekends entertainment....
I'm really looking forward to skys coverage, should really improve the viewing experience
You wouldn't have had any F1 on telly if it wasn't for Sky coming in to rescue the BBC deal
To be honest I didn't know much about the ins and outs of the deal and why, so probably should have stayed out of this thread.
But surely there was no way F1 wouldn't be shown on TV if it wasn't for Sky coming to the rescue and saving the day? It would be disastrous for F1 if it wasn't on TV full stop and by being on BBC it would surely have been OK just with a few less millions?
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Animal Welfare Hoaxing – the role of social media and the impacts on those involved
Posted on January 1, 2014 by viewfromthemalvernhills
During the Christmas period I have had more time to scan various forms of social media for some of the things that interest me, including animal welfare. Over the past week, I have watched as a completely bizarre situation has played out which has demonstrated, not only the power of social media, but the risks of this power, especially when it is combined with emotive subjects such as animals being at risk of harm and ill treatment.
Being interestedi in animals and their impact on human mental health, including animal hoarding and rescuing I am concerned that a new abuse of both animals and people concerned for their welfare is developing through the form of social media.
One social media animal welfare hoax
Before Christmas a new page suddenly appeared on Facebook for a group purporting to be involved in reuniting lost equines and their owners. The focus quickly changed to animal welfare concerns and the group’s administrators began to describe a ‘rescue’ that was being planned in a county some two and a half hours drive away from them and that a ‘team’ was being sent out that night. A rescue of a number of horses had been previously undertaken in the identified locality the year before, during flooding, and was widely reported in the media.
The Facebook group administrators continued to describe the ‘rescue’, undertaken by their ‘team’, throughout the night via their page, including concerns that the river in that area was rising following recent and continuing heavy rain. They reported that they had removed four horses, two others had been euthanized on site by ‘their vets’ and another young horse had been hit by a car and had also been euthanized due to the injuries it sustained.
At least one Facebook user went out to assist with the ‘rescue’ but was unable to find anyone within the area. They went alone. It was early morning in winter. It was dark and there were no lights, no other vehicles and no noise to indicate activity in the area. They could view the location from above via a bypass. They repeatedly messaged the ‘rescuers’ to ask where they were but received no information. Another group of horses, tethered on a river bank, very close to the alleged ongoing ‘rescue’ location were also reported as being in danger on the same Facebook group page. The individual looking to assist the ‘rescue’ spent some time with the tethered animals, alone, to ensure their safety. Eventually the individual left the scene as a notice had been posted in the Facebook group stating their primary concern was the loose horses, and that ‘everything was in hand’.
As the ‘rescue’ was being reported, the Facebook page lit up with concerned comments, some coming from the USA, and the administrators asked for donations to be given via a PayPal account for the care, including vets’ bills, of the animals that they stated were now in their possession. A few people, some of them local to the situation, started asking questions including requests for the police incident number to be posted in case anyone had any information about the RTA in which the young horse was fatally injured. People asked for photos of the animals ‘rescued’ and for details of how they were doing and what veterinary treatment they were receiving. The administrators set up a post for concerned followers to provide names for the saved horses.
A good number of people gave accurate and helpful advice regarding the law under the Animal Welfare Act (2006), the setting up and running a charity and how to liaise with other welfare agencies. There were offers of expertise and equipment, including night vision goggles by a local animal activists.
All offers of help were turned down with statements by the administrators that they knew what they were doing and that the ‘public’ where to keep away. The administrators were able to be vague about details as they had not been at the site, rather their ‘team’ had been. They stated that they were awaiting details from them and could not answer questions until they had received information themselves. Those asking for information were viewed as hostile and accusatory by the two administrators of the group and they immediately took any very genuine and reasonable questions as allegations that they had been ‘stealing’.
The group suddenly changed from an open to a closed group and people were removed for asking challenging questions. Another horse welfare Facebook community voiced their concerns about people donating money to the ‘rescuing’ group and were swiftly vilified with derogatory comments and language.
Donations were suddenly retuned to donors by the administrators, but some just immediately re donated again, believing that what was being reported was real and altruistic.
Then came a statement that, due to the level of questioning by individuals on the group page the four surviving ‘rescued’ horses had been passed on to another horse charity. It was hinted that they had gone to a well known and reputable equine charity, whose welfare department, when I checked with them, confirmed that they knew nothing about this situation and had certainly not taken in any horses from these individuals.
Several locals visited and gave daily reports of the tethered horses on the river bank that were in less than ideal conditions but in good health, continued to be safe from the river and were being checked, fed and watered daily by their owner. The RSPCA were also aware of these animals.
In another post, several days later, it was suddenly announced that the two administrators would be driving to the area to ‘have a look’ at the horses on the river bank themselves. When they eventually set off (it was now dark) their horse box broke down ‘somewhere on the motorway’, the RAC ‘could not attend until the next day’ and then the driver’s phone ‘died’. There were immediate offers of help, one from a woman who was prepared to go out and look for the horse box located ‘somewhere on the motorway’ on a late and dark winter evening. Others offered to drive them to the location, some hours away.
Eventually, with some skilled probing by some group members, one of the administrators began to admit that the ‘rescue’ had never taken place and that it was all a hoax. They claimed that the other administrator had not told them the truth and they, like the others following the group, had been misled and that they knew nothing. They eventually closed the Facebook group down and opened another similarly named page. Some followers continued to support them as they felt that the administrator was an injured, well meaning but naive innocent party.
How might animal welfare social media hoaxes fit with some forms of animal rescuing / hoarding?
Having written several papers on animal hoarding for professional journals (accepted for and pending publication), these recent events have made me reflect on whether the use of social media is now an inevitable extension or platform for the animal ‘rescuing’ behaviours that have been identified within animal hoarding. It struck me that the events of the hoax described above had dynamics and behaviours that were similar if not identical to what occurs in certain types of animal hoarding situations where hoarders claim to be rescuing animals.
The different types of animal hoarders / rescuers
Generally, with animal hoarding, one tends to think of single, socially isolated, usually female individuals who keep large numbers of smaller domestic animals such as cats or dogs in appalling conditions. However the limited work that has been undertaken on animal hoarding, mostly in America, has identified three main suggested types of animal hoarding behaviour (see page 20 http://vet.tufts.edu/hoarding/pubs/AngellReport.pdf).
Whilst the first type of ‘Overwhelmed Carer’ animal hoarder may go some way to fitting the stereotype understood by the general public there are two other main types identified by (Patronek, Loar and Nathanson 2006) – ‘rescuer hoarders’ and ‘exploiter hoarders’. Individuals fitting in to these two groups are more difficult to identify as hoarders and they are very likely to generate support from others.
Rescuer hoarders tend to actively seek out more animals to take in, stating that they are working to avoid any animals dying or being killed. Exploitative hoarders are likely to be persuasive, engaging and believable but lacking in either any empathy for animals and humans or remorse for the impact of their actions. They can be very skilled in persuading supporters and others that they are in fact the victims of the situation and are the ones being persecuted. Animal hoarders/ rescuers can also be very adept in giving plausible explanations that can fool even agencies and animal welfare organisations.
Supporters of animal hoarders /rescuers are often passionate and will fiercely defend what they perceive as the good work being done by well-meaning individuals. Any questioning the motives of the ‘rescuers’, no matter how gently or neutrally will be seen as outrageous affronts.
In all types of animal hoarding / rescuing repeat offending almost always occurs. When agencies become involved and intervene hoarders tend to move on and will very quickly start the same behaviours, often within days or weeks.
The abuse of animals, of people, of trust
Basically these second two categories of animal hoarding behaviour are clouded by a smoke screen of animal ‘rescuing’ but are actually driven by individuals seeking to meet their own needs using calculating and callous methods. Their actions may be driven to gain power (over animals and people), notoriety, public recognition, monetary or material gain, other more personally driven reasons or perhaps a combination of these.
There is a recognised correlation between animal abuse and human abuse and this is very often the case in animal hoarding cases. In the recent Facebook case described above, I would suggest that people were abused. Followers’ trust was abused by deceit. There was the request for donations (monetary and material) to support animals that did not exist. Concerned and very caring individuals put themselves at risk as they went out in bad weather conditions, alone and in the dark in to the countryside and on to flooding land. Others possibly went to look for a broken down lorry ‘somewhere’ on a motorway, again in the dark.
Social media is an amazing arena that allows people to swiftly gain information and support, make connections, develop networks, speak to others and help a huge variety of causes. However it can also be used to dupe large numbers of very well meaning people in to giving time, energy, support, resources and money. Emotive subjects, such as animal welfare are prime pickings for a certain type of individual. These individuals would have traditionally operated with perhaps a smaller group of supporters over a larger timeframe in a particular geographical area. Social media allows these types of exploitation to occur very rapidly and to draw in large numbers of people believing that an ‘emergency’ is unfolding and that they must do their best to help.
Sadly, many of the individuals involved, when they realise that they have been taken in blame themselves for allowing it to happen and are probably much less likely to offer help in the future. There is a well recognised animal welfare crisis that is ongoing in the UK, and elsewhere in the world, and unfortunately that crisis is likely to be made worse by a small number of individuals who prey upon animals and people and who can now use social media as a swift, effective and anonymous method to do this.
I hope that this blog can be seen by some of the people taken in by the hoax described here, that they will be able to realise that this type of behaviour can fool many people and that is, unfortunately, not rare. I hope that those kind and generous people can continue to offer their time, energy, help, knowledge, funding and support to people who genuinely work for the good of animals, and of other humans.
Animal Welfare Act 2006 HMSO
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/45/contents (Last accessed February 1 2013).
Patronek G, Loar L, Nathanson J (Eds) (2006) Animal Hoarding: structuring interdisciplinary responses to help people, animals and communities at risk. http://vet.tufts.edu/hoarding/pubs/AngellReport.pdf (Last accessed Janaury 1 2014).
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8 thoughts on “Animal Welfare Hoaxing – the role of social media and the impacts on those involved”
sue ewing says:
This only hurts animals and people in need. Shame on the scammers. We are blessed to actually have people who cannot turn their head, but feel the need to help those in trouble, Animal or human
DogAmbulist says:
Reblogged this on Seriously? and commented:
Reblogging this because it strikes a chord with a lot of so called dog rescues that I know of! This is a serious problem nowadays. It’s all too easy to tell people you are a ‘rescue’ and post random pictures of dogs that may or may not be looking for rescue spaces or homes. Sadly, it has led to a lot or genuine people no longer crossposting or trying to help as they have been stung before.
Tree Chambers says:
I was the person who initially posted on Facebook about the horses – having been down on the river bank by chance, finding the 3 tethered horses with water lapping near their heels and then seeing the others paddling in a field by the causway, I contacted the RSPCA as we were due a high tide. I posted on FB in the hope that people would watch the situation and call for help should the water continue rise. Incidentally, when I visited the horses only 1 had water, my husband and I got water for the other 2.
I am devastated about what this woman has done – my Christmas was ruined by this woman’s lies, I spent most of it in tears because of the things this woman said had happened.
Pam Ewing says:
A person who scams using people is far more damaging than one who has the heart to help animals in need. Animals are innocent and can not defend themselves from human errors.
The issues surrounding unregulated fund-raising on social media are complicated and not simple to address. We appreciate that in certain situations, such as wildly fluctuating income, registering as a charity may not be feasible. In the UK, for example, to register with the UK Charities Commission a platform of £5000 p.a. in received donations needs to be attained.. However, it does need to be accepted by unregistered charities and individuals fund-raising, due to many scams feeding off the backs of animal lovers, that suspicions are easily aroused and the onus falls on them to be completely transparent in their dealings with the public. Many social media fund-raiser donations are paid via PayPal where there is no evidence of the amounts raised and absolutely no accountability if running totals are not published by the people asking for money. Surely the first duty to donors is to publish these figures frequently on fund-raising FB pages with evidence of expenditure? When people asking for donations choose to ignore good and courteous practice it is impossible to discern if it is because of gross arrogance, laziness or downright attempts to con.
viewfromthemalvernhills says:
Thank you for your well thought out and articulated reply. You make very good points about the responsibilities to doners and the need for transparency.
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Discover Part-Time Writers Podcast
Part-Time Writers Podcast
Author: CM Raymond and LE Barbant
© This content is the property of CM Raymond and LE Barbant
Ever wonder if you could go full-time as a fiction or non-fiction author? Follow along with CM Raymond and LE Barbant in their outrageous attempt to become self-sustaining authors in twelve months through independent publishing.
s2e18: Grab Bag: Character Driven Stories & Authors with Character
My mom used to say, "shit in, shit out." Well, not really. But it's a helpful anecdote to begin these show notes.The boys in blazers are back in the bat cave and they've got lots to discuss. But despite their complete lack of organization, the conversation centered around the idea of stories that are driven by compelling characters, and ways in which they are trying to become more compelling characters themselves. Central to that task is the formation of healthy habits.Chris relies on shame to keep himself in check. Lee is trying out a new app called Habitica to see if he can hack his way into more healthy/productive living. As usual, it's an experiment that is more likely to fail then succeed.Tell us, what are your favorite character driven stories? What healthy habits do you stick to, and what should the guys try?Subscribe on iTunesListen Now Here
S2E17: The Fab Collab Blab
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Writing can serve many purposes for many people. For the Part-Time Writers, it was a chance to flex some creative muscles and hopefully make some money. But while they're making all the money, they also want to try some other things. Specifically, non fiction. They've been talking for awhile about writing a book on their experience with collaboration: the benefits and hidden costs, the perfect moments and the pitfalls. And last night, in a drunken brainstorming session, they committed to doing it. This episode gives them a chance to flesh out their intention behind the project, but it also asks some questions of those of you who are following along with the journey. What do you want to know about collaboration?What would make this book valuable to you?Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, Email, Letter, Can and String, Carrier Pigeon, Morse Code, etc.Don't forget about our Uncle Vinny, and his Awesome Book Promotion!Listen Now HereSubscribe on iTunes
S2E16: If I Were King: (Starting a publishing company for indies)
Let's do a little dreaming together.Say you've figured out this whole indie author thing. You know how to write books that sell. You've got a small corral of committed fans. You've been able to scratch out a living without that pesky day job. But you want more. More freedom. More exposure. More money. Maybe you should start an indie publishing company? (emphasis on the maybe)Chris and Lee decide to piece together what they're learning about working within Michael's company, and put together a business plan for a new hypothetical publishing company. So...if you were starting an indie publishing company, what should you do? Go grab PT Hylton's Storm Callers which is releasing RIGHT NOW!Don't forget about our Uncle Vinny, and his Awesome Book Promotion!Listen Now HereSubscribe on iTunes
S2E15: Platform for the Future
Things are going well for our intrepid part time writers. Lee has his days full juggling Baby Barbant (he makes a special cameo on the show) and Chris is traveling the world like all cool professors do. The Age of Magic is cruising right a long with a couple big releases planned, and with a huge milestone just around the corner.But...Curiosity, cupidity, and a smidge of confusion leave them asking questions about the future. They are happily playing on top of a mountain, but there are other peaks to summit, and it's always worth asking the question: what can we do now to prepare us for an unknown future?Short answer: they have no effing clue. But it has something to do with platforms???As always, the boys are imperfect guides, but we're in this together. So drop us a line and let them know what the hell they should be doing to improve their business!Listen Now HereSubscribe on iTunes
S2E14: When I wore a younger man's clothes
Ever wish you could go back in time? What advice would you give to your younger selves?Since Chris and Lee are now super successful authors, they decide to wind back the clock and talk about what they wish they knew back when they started. If you're just jumping in to writing, this episode actually gives some OK advice (compared to their other episodes). And if you're an old campaigner when it comes to the author biz, why don't you jump onto the Part-Time Writers Podcast Facebook page and give advice to your younger selves!Subscribe on iTunesListener Right Here, Right NowSign up for news on Chris and Lee's releases.
S2E13: Rapid Release Madness and Other Important Things
The boys are back together and working their tails off. Listen along as they debrief the affects of releasing Revolution, Book Four in the Rise of Magic. Some fun things came out with this release... and they even have some questions for you!Subscribe on iTunesListener Right Here, Right NowSign up for news on Chris and Lee's releases.
S3E12: PT Hylton and the Age of Magic
This week the boys welcome PT Hylton back to the show. Years ago (in internet time... it was really just a month or so) PT was on with Justin Sloan and Brandon Barr to talk about world building in the Age of Magic.If you haven't checked that one out, you should.Now, PT's book, Storm Raiders, is on the cusp of release and we have him on to talk about process, craft, and everything that Chris and Lee did to drive him crazy in the process.Check out PT's work here.Subscribe on iTunesListener Right Here, Right NowSign up for news on Chris and Lee's releases.
S2E11: Summer Plans and Making a Network
The boys mention what they weren't going to talk about and then talk about it...Listen in on their conversation about building a network and finding readers before you publish.Then they converse about summer plans and strategies, just before realizing that by the next time they get together, Lee will likely be a dad... Not nearly as exciting as a book launch but pretty cool.Subscribe on iTunesListener Right Here, Right NowSign up for news on Chris and Lee's releases.
S2E10: Craft: Onward and Upward
A few weeks ago, the boys had a fruitful conversation about lessons learned while writing in the Kurtherian Universe. They decided to revisit that topic from a different angle: lessons that they've yet to learn.The series is going well, but instead of resting on their laurels, they want to figure out which habits and practices they can employ now that will help them hone their writer and business skills--without throwing a wrench into their production schedule.Here's a list of some of the learning materials they've started to study:Aaron Sorkin's Master Classhttps://www.masterclass.com/classes/aaron-sorkin-teaches-screenwriting?utm_source=Paid&utm_medium=AdWords&utm_term=Aq-Prospecting&utm_content=Search&utm_campaign=ASLessons from the Screen PlayGone Girlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF3lFPW4E1oLet the boys know which skills you're working on, and which resources they should check out!Listen Online Here:http://media.blubrry.com/part_time_writers/archive.org/download/CraftSeason2/s2e10%20New%20Year%20Craft.mp3
S2E9: What we're taking with us!
The boys admit they've learned a lot from writing in the Kurtherian Gambit Universe. And who wouldn't?But as they consider their normal sad bastard fiction, they wonder: What will they take with them?It's a fun show with lots of laughs. Join in.Oh... Don't forget good people... Rebellion: Rise of Magic, Book 3 is coming at you live on 4/20.Subscribe on iTunesListener Right Here, Right NowSign up for news on Chris and Lee's releases.
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Discover The Specktators Podcast
The Specktators Podcast
Author: The Specktators, LLC
© The Specktators, LLC
Packy, Q, Daggs, and Moe-T sit down every week to talk about life, music, technology, sports, and more. Tune in every week to get an inside look at life at The Specktators Collective music label.
To ask a question on the next podcast, call 1-260-337-8599 or tweet a video to @TheSpecktators on Twitter.
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#72 | Equal Pay for Women's Soccer?
he boys discuss ASAP Rocky being arrested in Sweden, the viral videos going around that feature people tampering with food and other items in grocery stores, NBA free agency, Dreamville's "Revenge of the Dreamers," whether or not it is hard for big business to evolve in the social media age, the US Women's soccer World Cup win and the equal pay controversy, and more.
#71 | That's Not Eminem
Happy 4th! The guys discuss the recent NBA happenings, the newest music drop from Rick Ross, the Dreamville documentary, Joe Budden's "Pull Up" interview with Russ, Logic's "Homicide" video, Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun beef, Spotify ending their direct upload option, and more.
#70 | I Don't Wanna Go Outside
Apollo takes Daggs' seat in this episode as the guys discuss the XXL freshman list, how the online world has changed throughout the years, the first episode of Steph Curry's new show, "Holey Moley," Logic renaming his label and signing a new artist, the NBA draft results, Apollo's upcoming project "i don't wanna go outside," and more.
#69 | Moe-T Is A Father
After a week hiatus, the boys discuss the birth of Moe-T's daughter, buying a golf simulator, the US Open, DJ Khaled suing Billboard, Drake's new records, Steph Curry's new TV show, "Holey Moley," the upcoming NBA Draft, LaVar Ball's inappropriate remark to Molly Qerim, how short is too short for a track, and more.
#68 | Is Another Adpocalypse Coming?
The guys discuss the new Denzel Curry album, Andre Drummond making music, Anthony Joshua and his panic attack rumors, the NBA Finals, Jay-Z being a billionaire, Jon Bellion's in studio videos, the Mac Miller documentary getting canceled, the #VoxAdpocalypse on YouTube, new iOS 13 announcements and more.
#67 | Features We Need on iOS 13
Slow news week, so the boys discuss songs of the Summer, the new Logic and Joyner Lucas record "ISIS," what team the TV series, "Hard Knocks," will follow next, the NBA Finals, sports video games, when to start a fight, how drunk is too drunk when performing, the new HBO mini-series, "Chernobyl," wishlist for iOS 13 features, and more.
#66 | I'm Sorry Your Dragon Show Ended Badly
The guys speak on all of the new music that dropped recently, including DJ Khaled's new album and Cal Scruby's new album, the Game of Thrones season finale, Magic Johnson on First Take, and more.
#65 | Is Logic Too Corny Now?
The boys discuss the Rolling Loud active shooter reports, DJ Khaled's upcoming album, Drake's new jet, Logic's new album, 'Confessions of A Dangerous Mind,' the NBA lottery, Tiger Woods roasting John Daly for using golf cart at PGA Championship, and more.
#64 | Icky
In this episode the boys discuss whether or not Steph Curry is overrated, Logic and Eminem's newest record, "Homicide," Joyner Lucas's newest song, "Devil's Work," Instagram testing out hiding likes on their platform, and more.
#63 | Debating About Debates
Daggs is back from Vegas and the boys discuss the most recent episode of Game Of Thrones, the new trailer for the Sonic movie, Schoolboy Q's newest album, "CrasH Talk," the recent Yolkfest show in Lansing, Michigan, the upcoming Logic & Eminem single, Jame Harden's eye injury, the NFL Draft, the relationship between artists or athletes and critics, and more.
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Author: Randy Gener
CultureofOneWorld.org is a NYC-based production, event and media project devoted to U.S. news, foreign diplomacy, cultural issues, innovative art projects and journalism in the public interest. Learn more about the proprietor at MediaKit.RandyGener.org
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Henry David Thoreau’s views of 19th-century media resonate today
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Her Famous Directing Mentor Pushed Her to Write
U.K. and SOUTH AFRICA | Imagine being mentored by one of the world’s greatest theater directors. Sir Peter Hall — the late, great titan of the British stage — embarked on his cycle of the Rolex Mentor Protégé Arts Initiative with a logical, coherent plan. His agenda for the year 2004 included several of his specialties: among them Shakespeare (As You Like It, which he directed for the first time in his career), Harold Pinter (a revival of Betrayal, of which he directed the premiere in 1978
Kanye West’s fuck you fabrics at NY fashion week
Kanye West instructed these models to stand and nothing at his Madison Square Garden fashion showNEW YORK CITY | It was fashion as performance fart. Kanye West is a loud brat, and his new ready-to-wear collection was neither bizarre nor ruinous. It was worse; it was boring and flat. The models were ordered — commanded! (see the timely tweet pic below or on @skylarbergl‘s Twitter account) — to give blank poses. His people passed around a List of 38 rules to follow. “No whisper,” “No smile,”
GEORGE CLOONEY | His Traumatic Brain Injury made him think of committing suicide
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8 STORIES OF SURVIVAL | Can the injured brain heal itself?
Here are 8 stories of surviving brain injury. Regular people are presently coping with head injuries, concussions and clinical efforts to combat both traumatic and acquired brain injuries. This special edition consists of a selection of 8 real-life stories about fostering new dreams where once there were none.
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In recent years, bias-related crimes have surged 30% across NY State against people of color, ethnic minorities and LGBT people.
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Posts Tagged ‘existential’
Chess, Death, Insanity, and Eternity: Examining Existential Questions From Seventh Seal and Ordet
A knight wakes up on a beach and does his morning prayers, seeking God, but is greeted instead by Death, a grim hooded figure with a pale white face. The knight – later referred to as Antonius – immediately recognizes Death as an acquaintance, or almost a friend of a friend. The purposes of this meeting are one-sided. Death is here to claim a soul, but the knight has no desire to be claimed. Antonius challenges Death to a game of chess, a game that parallels the life-or-death circumstances of their situation. Interesting even that Antonius relies on the combined efforts of the Knight and Bishop pieces; also reflective of his real-world strategy as he – a knight – seeks out aid from the Church to defeat the devil. But in both these attempts, Antonius is bested by Death. It is a well-established maxim that you can’t cheat death, but no one ever considered that Death could cheat you.
But is Death an absolute end? Ordet would challenge that assertion. The one thing that Antonius truly struggles with – faith – is taken for granted by the families in Ordet. And it is this faith that conquers death and brings one character back into the realm of the living. Each of these films focuses on the attitudes of those people left behind, alive, striving to comprehend the need for life to end. I do not think these films regret that death exists at all, but that such an event as the ceasing of life can occur without any explanation or apology.
Neither of these films would ever succeed in color. But especially The Seventh Seal. The bleak look of the world and default paleness of the characters’ faces adds a mythic quality to the allegory. The chess pieces have two colors: white and black. These are the same two colors that the world of The Seventh Seal exists in. Because its appearance is so different from our own, it makes those familiar elements seem all the more truthful: specifically the Knight’s search for meaning. His common questions of eternal existence are met with silence; either deliberate or accidental, the film makes no statement.
It is the mystery that frightens our Knight. He begs for answers from anyone who may offer knowledge of such things. He stares into the eyes of a young girl while she burns at the stake, and asks, “What is it that she sees?” Is it Heaven? Hell? The Devil? Or possibly the absence of all of those things; an emptiness that is more awful to behold than any post-mortem torture. Even as Antonius doubts the meaning of his own life, he still finds some reason to wrestle with Death for authority over his own soul.
The question of existential emptiness is something that all characters in these films must deal with. In Ordet, the Atheist brother must find a new meaning to his own life after his wife dies. In Seventh Seal, mobs of people punish themselves in an effort to throw God’s punishment off of them. The Knight’s minstrel scorns their actions, but Antonius himself offers no mockery. He admires that they believe in something, when he struggles to have any conclusions of faith. He does not admire what they believe, but that they believe. The same relationship is pointed at in a conversation between the Minstrel and a wood-cutter named Plog, in which the Minstrel gives some unrehearsed advice about life and women, to which Plog replies, “I admire you. You believe your own drivel.” The Minstrel counters by saying, “no I just like giving advice.”
Does the Minstrel express an attitude unfound in the rest of the world’s wisdom? Or is this a statement that precisely describes the nature of worldly wisdom – unconfirmed answers given because the advisor enjoys giving advice? Until the final 5 minutes of Ordet, we may have associated that attitude with the seemingly insane Johannes, or even the old religious men, Peter and Mikkel. Those characters that should know the answers that everyone else pretends to know, are either keeping their secrets (Death) or mistaken for having none (Johannes).
What is the strategy of Death? And are his deeds nefarious? Would he ever have agreed to a game of chess, had he not been confident of his ability to win? And if Antonius had won, would Death have left him forever, making his already unsatisfying life an eternal journey to answer’s end? Bergman as a filmmaker has chosen to withhold these answers, representing the pursuit of answers as being all that life has to offer us. Dryer offers the surprising affirmation that miracles can happen, but when underscored with quotations from scripture, we are given a condition: miracles are dependent upon human faith, and therefore, we can participate in God’s work within our own lives.
This is what the Knight Antonius lacks, a willingness to submit to the Eternal Unknown, thereby allowing its super-natural affect on his own, known, natural life. Seventh Seal concludes with a dance of death, celebrating the end of life. Ordet ends with a funeral, pointed with the announcement of a marriage, and ended with the dead being brought to life. In each of these is resolution. But it is only in the experience the characters’ have by discovering themselves at the end of their lives, that they can feel at peace with their own cosmic insignificance.
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Say you’ve been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of your assailant’s car. As luck would have it, you’ve got a cell phone in your back pocket. You dial 911 Emergency and, through frightened sobs, explain your dilemma.
What do you expect of the voice on the other end? That it’s officious and soothing, and it asks the right questions, such as “What’s your location?” and “Can you give me a description of your abductor?”
What you don’t want is inane small talk. “What’s your birth sign? Capricorn? I’m a Capricorn … What’s your favorite movie? ‘Bridesmaids’? Hey, that’s mine, too!”
After rattling off the standard who/what/where queries, Halle Berry’s 911 operator in “The Call” gets around to those sillier questions, all in an effort to calm the PR (person reporting). Berry’s Jordan Turner is good at her job, but she’s lost her confidence and ability to focus because of an earlier distress call that came to a bad resolution (read violent death for the voice on the other end).
Jordan aims to do better this time and save poor Casey (Abigail Breslin), the girl in the trunk. She has Casey kick out a tail light, leave a trail of white paint on the highway … rifle through the pockets of her ever-less-fortunate trunk-mate.
Directed by indie talent Brad Anderson ‒ this is his first feature since the overlooked “Trans-Siberian” (2008) ‒ this claustrophobic little thriller starts out with promise but soon falls prey to idiotic plotting. It winds up as a lesser variation on “Silence of the Lambs” (like Buffalo Bill, the man behind the abductions has gender issues). How many times do we have to yell, “Hey, he’s not dead, stupid!”
At times, “The Call” feels like a promotional tool for LAPD’s 911 Communications. Anderson via Jordan gives us a tour of the facility and walks us through the do’s and don’ts when fielding a call. True to its nickname, “the hive” is abuzz with activity. Like air-traffic controllers, these operators are under migraine-inducing pressure and, from time to time, must decompress in the “Quiet Room.”
Unfortunately, for the sake of third-act thrills, most of what we learn about 911 operators is contradicted later on. It’s important to focus when you’re on the floor, we’re told. And yet Jordan spends much of her time gossiping and, during breaks, making out with her cop boyfriend (Morris Chestnut). We’re also told that operators can’t expect closure; they seldom learn about the fate of the caller. Here, however, the heroine, via her boyfriend, knows everything that’s going on in the field. If you’re going to establish ground rules, guys, abide by them.
Berry, sporting a Little Annie ‘do, is fine in what had to have been a tricky assignment. Talk about a sedentary role! For much of the film she’s tied to her workstation, staring at a pulsating computer screen, looking either very determined or very guilt-ridden. Breslin and Eklund are better as the blonde in the trunk and her muttering captor. Like some of the best villains, Eklund is scary because he never seems to be in control. Which means things escalate pretty quickly. Look for Michael Imperiolo of “The Sopranos” in a small but crucial role. All we can say is: You’re a real sport, Michael.
THE CALL ✮✮ With Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Morris Chestnut, Michael Eklund. Directed by Brad Anderson; scripted by Richard D’Ovidio. 95 min. Rated R (for violence, gruesome makeup effects)
5 Responses to “The Call ✮✮”
Correction: Brad Anderson also made the flawed but fascinatingly enigmatic “Vanishing on 7th Street” in 2010, so this is NOT his first film since 2008. Cheers!
Glenn Lovell Says:
Obviously not familiar with it; thanks for setting me straight.
I think all those TV credits confused me.
06/06/2013 at 11:17 PM | Reply
You might want to see “Vanishing on 7th Street”. It’ s a psychological horror involving the world’s end in which darkness is equated with death; it ultimately doesn’t make any sense but it’s fun to try to puzzle it out.
I like “The Call.” It is a return to the thrillers of the ’80’s and ’90’s which were often very good; it has good characterizations and a fair number of shocks and real suspense,. Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin are both beautiful and the villain is heinous and the audience gets to shout helpful advice to the characters. I like it better than any of the official horror films so far this year. Your review was fine other than that error, though.
“The Call” is a great example of how police should respond to an abduction. Response time and description is critical. I was pulled in with anxiety over the outcome and it kept me at the edge of my set.
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Cinzia D'Ambrosi
HATE HURTS PROJECT
The People's Estates
Samantha is a London homeless, 35 year old single mum with three children aged 11, 9 and an infant of 5 months. She was renting privately until a few months ago when her landlord without much notice gave her an eviction notice that made her homeless. The council of Newham accepted her homeless status in June 2013,but did not perform its legal duty until February 2014. Prior of this date and to this day, she has relied on friends and family for a place to sleep in. Last February, the council offered an emergency hotel room in Birmingham. For Samantha this would have meant losing her part time work, up-rooting her children from school and losing all the support from her family and friends. On these basis she refused to go. The council offered then a hotel room in Ilford. In her words, "she had to run away. It was filthy to the point that the bed had unwashed and stained covers, broken wardrobe and mould everywhere. The kitchen containing a single stove was serving 23 families. It had no fridge and no cupboards and dirty." Shocked she went straight to the council to denounce the place. Admittedly, they sent her to another emergency hotel room, again in Ilford. Equally rotten, she took photo as evidence which have enabled her to put a case forward into review. However, months later she is still living an unsettled life causing her and her children anguish.
Samantha, hidden homeless, Hidden Homelessness: The Other Half
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We’ll investigate ‘serious cases’ , not hearsay – Amidu
by Marian Ansah
Ghana's Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu
2019 Yale Young African Scholars program kicks off in Ghana July 25
The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, says his office will only prosecute serious cases of alleged corruption due to the limited resources available to his office.
[contextly_sidebar id=”oy2TZDqQLserzs6JVcXQflzSl9MyplRS”]He was however quick to add that his office will not spare corrupt officials since it will devise measures to deal with minor offenses.
“I can assure you that every petition that has come to this office since I assumed office had been responded to. There are however some people who will just read the news and say ‘this person said this, investigate it’…This office cannot investigate hear-say. So petitioners should be people who must have personal knowledge of the facts. I know you cannot have resources to prosecute everybody who commits a crime so you make sure you prosecute only the very serious ones so it can deter people from continuing to commit crime because you have to look at the resources you are spending and then the other areas, so we will prosecute serious corruption offenses.”
Mr. Amidu said he and his team might agree to accept reparations, adding that the public should not be emotional in those instances.
He asked the public to give his office time to do its working, adding that “I can assure them that under our watch, nobody will interfere with our work. We will be as independent as possible, subject only to the rule of law and due process. We will treat crime as a crime regardless of party political considerations, whatever associations and ethnic affiliation, crime will be a crime.”
Speaking to Metro TV, Martin Amidu also said “what they are expecting now is money” to entirely run their operations.
Office of Special Prosecutor
The Office of the Special Prosecutor has been tasked to investigate and prosecute specific categories of cases and allegations of corruption and other criminal wrongdoing, including those involving alleged violations of the Public Procurement Act, 2003 (Act 663) and cases implicating public officers and politically-exposed persons.
The office has also been mandated to trace and recover the proceeds of corruption.
The Special Prosecutor’s office is expected to be independent of the Executive, which observers believe will allow it to deal with corruption-related issues which have plagued governance adequately.
Nana Addo swears in Office of the Special Prosecutor board
On Thursday, President Nana Akufo-Addo swore in a nine-member governing board to oversee the work of the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
Per the Act establishing the Office of Special Prosecutor, the office becomes fully operational when there is a Governing Board to direct affairs.
The board is made up of representatives of the Office of the Special Prosecutor, the Ghana Police Service, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO), and the National Security Minister.
The members include the CID Boss, DCOP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah; the EOCO rep, Charles Nana Antwi; representatives from civil society, Linda Ofori Kwafo and Addai Wereko Tawiah; Kofi Wiredu Boakye, Charles Ayamadu, and Kwaku Domfeh.
The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, and his deputy, Cynthia Lamptey, are also members of the board.
Parliament passed a law in November in 2017, to establish the Office of the Special Prosecutor as a specialized agency to investigate specific cases of corruption involving public officers, politically-exposed persons, as well as individuals in the private sector implicated in corrupt practices. The office is empowered by law to prosecute offenders on the authority of the Attorney-General.
By: Marian Ansah/citinewsroom.com/Ghana
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CoActiv Medical
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A pioneer in the PC industry, Ed Heere designed, sourced and imported one of the first IBM-compatible computer systems in early 1983, less than two years after IBM’s introduction of the personal computer.
Heere went on to found a range of successful computer consulting companies, including AMSYS Computer and other firms in general computer consulting, programming, website development, contractual IT staffing and radiology IT. As head of CoActiv Medical®, he helped a range of hospital radiology departments and freestanding imaging centers convert to a digital environment successfully, efficiently and cost-effectively.
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Capitalizing on AMSYS’ in-depth experience in healthcare IT, CoActiv Medical was formed in 2003 to develop, market, install and service digital radiography software and systems. EXAM-PACS® was introduced at RSNA 2003.
A Range of Successful Companies
Starting in 1987, Heere served as president and more recently also CEO of AMSYS Computer Inc., a business he founded in Ridgefield, CT. AMSYS provides consulting and system implementation in networking and internet services to the healthcare, legal, accounting, manufacturing and general business communities.
In 1997, Ed formed CoActiv Solution Providers, LLC to offer custom programming and website development for business and industry.
In 2000, his business portfolio grew to include AMSYS Consulting, LLC, a professional IT staffing firm, which became a significant provider of contractual, full-time and temp-to-permanent IT professionals to corporate clients nationwide. AMSYS’ varied expertise includes providing staffing for client-server and Internet related systems, Web-based applications, database development and more.
Background and Achievements
Prior to 1987, Heere was Vice President of Marketing and Product Development for Berkey, Inc., a NYSE listed company that manufactured, imported and distributed imaging, electronic, video and photographic products. He gained extensive experience developing, sourcing and marketing products from Europe and the Far East.
Heere graduated from Albright College (Reading, PA) in 1970 and served there as an instructor from 1973 to 1976.
Heere served as Chapter Chairman of the Western Connecticut Chapter of the American Red Cross. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Girl Scout Council of Southwestern Connecticut. Additionally, for many years, he was the Director of the Danbury Area Computing Society.
Ed Heere has been featured and quoted in a wide range of industry publications, including Radiology Today, RT Image, Advance, Imaging Technology News, Imaging Economics, and Diagnostic Imaging. For a complete collection of articles featuring CoActiv Medical, see our Industry Reviews.
Speeches, Interviews & Presentations
Ed Heere was frequently in demand to speak, present, and be interviewed on computer technology, entrepreneurship and medical technology. He was a long time presenter at RSNA, the Planetree annual conference, the Business Entrepreneur Series sponsored by The Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce, and his alma mater, Albright College in Reading, PA.
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In December 1860, the United States was on the brink of civil war. South Carolina’s legislature had already passed an ordnance of secession and other states would soon follow suit.
The nation’s capital Washington, D.C. was in a perilous position. Surrounded by secessionist Virginia and ambivalent Maryland, the undefended city would soon find itself within quick marching distance of Confederate armies. In 1860, the U.S. Army was busy fighting natives out West.
Worse, many city residents — in particular, the family and friends of U.S. legislators from southern states — were “actively disloyal,” in the words of historian Philip Van Doren Stern.
Indeed, it’s possible that only the quick actions of the District’s emergency inspector-general and his spies saved the capital from becoming a Confederate city. Stern recounts this fascinating tale and others in his all-but-forgotten 1959 book Secret Missions of the Civil War.
In late 1860, there was only a handful of regular Army troops in D.C. — and no single commander whose job it was to oversee the District’s defenses. On Dec. 31, U.S. Army commander-in-chief Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, whose headquarters were in New York City, was in Washington at Pres. James Buchanan’s behest.
Scott happened to cross paths with a former subordinate of his — an officer named Charles Stone, a 36-year-old graduate of West Point and a veteran of the Mexican War. Scott asked Stone how many D.C. residents were loyal to the United States.
“General, it is my belief that two-thirds of the fighting stock of this population would sustain the government in defending itself,” Stone answered, according to Stone’s own first-person account, which Century Magazine published in 1883 and Stern reprinted in his own tome 76 years later.
Scott immediately granted Stone a promotion to colonel and appointed him inspector-general of Washington, D.C. His job would be to rally the loyal two-thirds of the citizenry — and guard against the disloyal remainder.
The job would be a difficult one. And it would grow more difficult in March, when president-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived for his inauguration.
Initially lacking full-time troops of his own, Stone assessed the ranks of the District’s volunteer militias. Rather than discovering a reserve of potential allies, in the volunteer troops Stone found one of the greatest threats to D.C.
There were three militias — the Potomac Light Infantry, the National Rifles and the National Guard Battalion, together numbering around a thousand men or so.
Stone met the commander of the National Rifles, a captain named Schaeffer, by chance in front of the Metropolitan Hotel on Jan. 2. Schaeffer — a former U.S. Army lieutenant and an “excellent drill-master,” according to Stone — was not aware of Stone’s recent appointment as D.C. inspector-general. And Stone did not volunteer that information at first.
Instead, the colonel let the militia captain run his mouth about his intentions for his volunteer company. Schaeffer announced he would soon deploy his militiamen to the border with Maryland “to help keep the Yankees from coming down to coerce the South!”
“It must be admitted that this was not a very cheerful beginning,” Stone recalled.
The colonel inspected the National Rifles and found the 100-man unit capable of “accurate and rapid drill.” He also discovered that the militiamen possessed the latest U.S. Army rifles and howitzers.
Inquiring at the office of the Army chief of ordnance, Stone discovered that Schaeffer had been drawing federal weaponry for his men on the basis of a written order by a former — and by then deceased — U.S. secretary of war.
Stone quickly convinced the new secretary of war to rescind the order, and also persuaded the secretary to give Stone the authority to vet all new Army officer-commissions and arms-distribution in D.C.
The colonel sent a member of his staff to pose as a National Rifles recruit — a spy, in effect. The agent reported that the militia was growing quickly. “Its ranks received constant accessions, including the most openly declared secessionists and even members of Congress from the states proposing to secede,” Stone wrote.
The National Rifles reportedly intended to seize the Treasury Department on behalf of a “provisional” government — in other words, the Confederacy.
Schaeffer “began to prepare for action,” even requiring his men to take their weapons home with them at night so they could be ready to fight on short notice. A Confederate army was forming inside the U.S. capital.
Stone briefed Scott, who ordered the colonel to suppress the militia but avoid violence. “We are now in such a state that a dogfight might cause the gutters of the capital to run with blood,” Scott warned.
Charles Stone
Schaeffer soon discovered that his supply of Army weaponry had ended. “He entered my office one day with the air of an injured man,” Stone recalled. The militia captain threatened to draw weapons by force from the D.C. armory, which had just two enlisted men as guards.
Stone bluffed. “I assure you that if you do, you shall be fired on by 150 soldiers as you come out of the armory.” In fact, Army reinforcements were on their way to D.C. from West Point, but had yet to arrive.
As Schaeffer slunk out of Stone’s office, Stone quickly sent men with an order to retrieve the howitzers in the National Rifles’ possession, as the guns “formed no part of the proper armament of a company of riflemen.” Still believing Stone had 150 men under his command, Schaeffer let the howitzers go.
Stone moved to rid the District of the disloyal militia commander. When Schaeffer called at Stone’s office to acknowledge handing over the guns, Stone feigned friendliness … and offered Schaeffer a major’s commission in the regular Army, which would presumably allow the militia officer to legally draw arms for his men.
“He was much pleased,” Stone wrote. But then Stone pointed out that a commission required an oath of loyalty to the United States.
Schaeffer hesitated. “In ordinary times, I would not mind taking it,” the captain said of the oath. “But in these times …”
So Stone withdrew the offer. Apparently sensing that Stone had outmaneuvered him, Schaeffer soon departed Washington, D.C. — taking many of his militiamen with him. Stone promptly assigned loyal officers to command the National Rifles’ remnants.
New York militia in Washington, D.C. in 1861
Meanwhile, a new militia was forming up in the District — the National Volunteers. Its chief organizer was one Doctor B, “of well-known secession tendencies,” according to Stone.
Stone planted a New York detective in Doctor B’s new volunteer battalion. The spy reported the minutiae of the militia’s formation, including an internal debate over what uniform to wear and which buttons.
Unsurprisingly, the National Volunteers settled on gray denim and buttons from Maryland — an ensemble closely resembling the eventual Confederate uniform.
Doctor B’s battalion soon had 360 men, but Stone and his staff didn’t know all their names. In order to requisition weapons from the federal armory, the battalion would need to submit a roster of at least 100 men. Stone saw his chance to identify some key secessionists.
The colonel welcomed Doctor B into his office and accepted the roster. “Doctor B, I am very happy to have obtained this list, and I wish you good morning,” Stone said.
Surely there was a hard glint in the colonel’s eyes.
“The gallant doctor evidently understood me,” Stone wrote. “He smiled, bowed and left the office, to which he never returned.” Doctor B left D.C. and later joined the Confederacy. The National Volunteers dissolved.
Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration in March 1861
By now it was spring. Stone had thwarted secessionists’ attempts to organize Confederate militias inside the District. Army regulars had arrived to protect key institutions and pro-Union volunteers were forming some 30 militia companies of their own.
One last duty remained — to safeguard Lincoln’s inauguration on March 4. Stone sent three detectives to Baltimore to investigate rumors of an assassination plot. Convinced the threat was real, Stone and other federal authorities conspired to bring Lincoln through Baltimore and into D.C. a day ahead of his published itinerary.
Stone posted troops in windows overlooking Lincoln’s route through the District as well as all around — and even under — the platform where the new president would take his oath. He seeded the gathering crowd with plainclothes policemen.
Army cavalry surrounded Lincoln’s carriage as it rolled through the capital. Stone rode among the horses, surreptitiously kicking the animals with his spurs to agitate them, “so that it would have been very difficult for even a very good rifle shot to get an aim at one of the inmates of the carriage between the dancing horses.”
Lincoln took his oath without incident. The Civil War began on April 12 when Confederate troops bombarded the Union’s Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
This article originally appeared on Dec. 2, 2014.
This piece was originally published by War Is Boring
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PR Predictions For This Year’s Super Bowl Matchup
by: Marijane Funess in: Crenshaw Communications, media relations, News, PR Fish Bowl
This week’s “Golden Anniversary” of the Super Bowl is also predictable PR gold. The fans and the media have two great heroes to root for and the differences couldn’t be more stark. Cam Newton, the 26-year-old wunderkind for the Carolina Panthers in only its second Super Bowl outing will be up against beloved veteran Peyton Manning, who, at 39, leads the legendary Denver Broncos for what could be his last Super Bowl. Newton, only the sixth African-American QB in the league, faces Manning, part of an unmatched NFL player dynasty.
We aren’t predicting any PR winners here today. Instead, we’re counting the ways feature reporters on various beats will cover the rivalry.
The health angle. It may be vanilla, but the healthy aging story just writes itself. Peyton Manning is turning 40, which is remarkable for a quarterback. It’s also the age range featured in health and medical articles about ailments from arthritis to erectile dysfunction. February is Heart Month, so naturally writers can use Manning as a poster boy for stories targeted to the 40-plus set about healthy diet or prevention. Or not….apparently Newton’s “childish” eating habits (lots of sugary cereal) will make him the topic of health food “makeover” articles from Dr. Oz to Joy Bauer.
The fashion factor. The style showdown has already begun, and it may be hotter than the game itself. Cam recently appeared in jungle print courtesy of Versace, while Manning sported a conservative blue Zegna suit. The contrast alone is enough to send fashion bloggers into a frenzy of wondering who wore what better. Will the Newton zebra pants send the company into overdrive (a la Princess Kate and Michelle Obama), will it “break the internet” like Rhianna’s yellow Met Ball cape, or simply make HuffPo and GQ worst-dressed lists?
The business pitch. A natural-born promoter, the $30-million-a-year Manning has sweet deals with huge sponsors like DirecTV, MasterCard, Gatorade, and Kraft. He’s also a savvy businessman who has invested in sports-related startups like Seat Geeks and Whistle Sports. While today it may look like Newton’s business investments run towards those $850 Versace pants, pundits will likely line up to advise him on where to park his millions. We bet on articles about sexy start-ups and sound stalwarts that fit the Newton “brand.”
A star is born. Industry-watchers say Manning’s “second act” is acting due to his natural star quality. Whatever the outcome of Sunday’s game, there will be lots for marketing and entertainment press to ponder when it comes to his future, given the tradition of sports stars showing up on camera in other careers. Although it’s too soon to see whether Cam Newton has the star stuff, some would argue that his on-field antics predict a dramatic future.
We’ll be watching the game and counting the stories that result from this made-for-the-media matchup.
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Society Goals
Fitbit for a better community
Building a better community is hard work. While it would be great if we could build an equitable society with a snap of finger, it is not that easy. Society Goals tries to do the next best thing and encourage people to make small commitments every day to improve their local community. If everyone were to do one small thing every day, then we can make meaningful strides towards the goal of a better society for all.
Society Goals is a Facebook Messenger bot that encourages people to do things every day to improve their local community. Society Goals has three initial categories: one good deed a day, engaging with your community, and Plogging aka picking up litter while jogging. Users are encouraged to sign up for a daily goal and record the days they reached their goals.
Society Goals records how many days in row a user does his/her goal. The idea is that users will see their streaks and will not want to break the chain.
Society Goals is a bot built on top of Facebook Messenger using node.js. Amazon Rekognition is used for image analysis. Wit.ai is used for natural language processing for texts a user will send in the message field and texts found in images. Amazon DynamoDB is used to handle sessions.
Challenges I ran into
Occasionally wit.ai would take a long time to build the language model typically after a bunch of changes were made to the wit.ai app. However, this was not a big deal since it was an opportunity to think about the UX of the bot as a whole and create buttons to help users along their journey in the bot.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
First time doing animation in React, granted it is pretty basic at this stage. Also, my first time using wit.ai.
How to use wit.ai, how to do basic animation in React, and AC/DC probably has the best songs to listen to while writing code.
What's next for Society Goals
Get rid of some bugs that I am aware of (squish squish), expand all the animations, and release the bot to a beta group. The goal is to go through the Facebook review process so Society Goals can be released to the general public in December. The December launch date was chosen so as to encourage people to make New Year’s resolutions to improve their local communities. Also add more goal categories with help from our users and non-profits on we can build a more equitable society.
Since only the judges can access my current project, I have released a tutorial on how to analyze images using AWS Lambda and Amazon Rekognition and then send the text detected from Amazon Rekognition to wit.ai to detect any entities.
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CHAPTER 1 OF 3! The first of three interconnected special issues featuring the FANTASTIC FOUR, the SILVER SURFER and the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY! Introducing PRODIGAL, a strange alien being who has crash-landed in the Savage Land. When he becomes worshipped by a race of swamp-dwelling barbarians, Ka-Zar and Shanna call upon the Fantastic Four to aid them in stopping the barbarians’ plans to conquer the entirety of their world. Join Prodigal on his lengthy journey to try to return home to settle old scores.
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Peebles Corporation Counters in NY Supreme Court That Jilted Partner Fibbed on Resume
By Terence Cullen February 26, 2016 6:43 pm
108 Leonard Street, or 346 Broadway.
Be careful the next time you lie on your resume. It might just come up in court.
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Peebles Corporation is hitting back at the one-time consultant it hired to arrange its purchase of 346 Broadway between Catherine Lane and Leonard Street in the Civic Center, according to counterclaims filed in New York State Supreme Court earlier this month, which argued the adviser lied about his credentials and failed to generate business.
Daniel Hoeg and The Hoeg Corporation sued Peebles Corporation last year, alleging that the developer originally agreed to partner with the plaintiff to redevelop the city-owned property. Mr. Hoeg argued that the company then stiffed him once the New York City Economic Development Corporation sold the building to Peebles Corporation, headed by developer and potential mayoral candidate Don Peebles, which then partnered with Elad Group to refurbish the property, as Commercial Observer previously reported.
Peebles Corporation eventually bought the building in late-2013 in a deal with the EDC for $160 million, and is currently developing it with Elad. The developer secured a $334 million construction loan in January from Bank of America for the building, which has an alternate address of 108 Leonard Street, as CO previously reported.
In a Feb. 12 counterclaim, Peebles Corporation attorney Barry Friedberg, who declined to comment further today, wrote that Mr. Hoeg in fact had lied about his credentials in 2012 when he reached out to Peebles Corporation about finding development opportunities in New York City. Mr. Hoeg sent in resume information that was “substantially falsified and/or inaccurate” when he entered a retainer agreement with the company to serve as a consultant, according to the 17-page document.
Once the Miami- and New York-based Peebles Corporation hired Mr. Hoeg as a consultant for $5,000 per month, he was tasked with finding development opportunities for the company in the Big Apple. Among those were the Civic Center project, as well as properties in Harlem, according to the filing. But nothing came north of Central Park for Peebles Corporation, and Mr. Hoeg made “certain critical mistakes” when negotiating the deal to buy 346 Broadway, for which he’s now being accused of breach of contract.
And on top of it all, Mr. Hoeg’s suit is being countered for breach of confidentiality when he filed the suit against Peebles Corporation last year, in which the complaint contained private materials regarding deals—including a 2012 letter to then-EDC President Seth Pinsky from Messrs. Peebles and Hoeg stating they were in a joint venture. (Mr. Pinsky wasn’t named in the initial suit or the counter suit.)
Mr. Hoeg claimed in the complaint that his company had formed a joint venture with Peebles Corporation in 2012 to redevelop properties in New York City, as CO reported last year. The deal called for Peebles Corporation taking 75 percent of any profits from the redevelopment of 346 Broadway, and The Hoeg Corporation assuming the remaining 25 percent.
Mr. Friedberg, who did not return Commercial Observer’s requests for comment today, emailed CO in September 2015 that it was ludicrous that Peebles Corporation would give that big of a cut to someone he said served as a consultant.
Howard J. Smith, an attorney for Mr. Hoeg and The Hoeg Corporation, did not immediately return a request for comment. Mr. Peebles was not immediately available for comment.
Keywords: 108 Leonard Street, Bank of America, Barry Friedberg, Daniel Hoeg, Don Peebles, Elad Group, New York City Economic Development Corporation, Peebles Corporation, Seth Pinsky, The Hoeg Corporation
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Re: IPv6 support on Virgin media
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@davefiddes writes:
From all of the evidence VM are publicly serious about deploying IPv6 for the first time. Given the size of the UK VM deployment is going to be approximately what they have already deployed across Europe it's not surprising that we're going last but it seems almost certain that we're about to go.
I hope you're right, davefiddes!
Don't be too harsh on the pessimists though. I expect that they just don't want to get burned by Virgin again. Bleak precedent is certainly on their side, so I think their caution is understandable, after this very long and painful wait.
I choose to be optimistic about it once more, inline with what I'm seeing on APNIC stats.
I really want us to get beyond the phase of fighting ISPs for IPv6 and into the war against Internet sites who haven't yet started a transition. Provision of native IPv6 nationwide by UK ISPs is a necessary precondition for this next phase.
Morgaine.
"If it only does IPv4, it is broken." -- George Michaelson, APNIC.
davefiddes
Yes. Long way to go on getting services, protocols and content providers IPv6 enabled. It's just not part of everyday engineering practice yet.
EE Limited (Mobile Network Operator) reaches 2 million daily on IPv6 - APNIC
It was only 6 weeks ago that I was congratulating UK mobile network operator EE Limited for reaching the 1 million mark on daily IPv6 usage as counted by APNIC. Today (22 Dec 2018) they're already zooming past 2 million (2,011,738)! These folks have warp drive engaged --- it's the highest rate of IPv6 growth in the UK at the present time.
Well done EE! :-)
Good news indeed. According to the update at the IPv6 Council meeting it's been down to the deployment of iOS 12. This seems to have 464XLAT support for tethering which was the last piece of the IPv6-only puzzle EE needed (apps have been IPv6-only capable for some time now).
That's very interesting, thank you davefiddes! It's also a bit unfortunate for EE though if they are so dependent on a single 3rd party handset provider.
Thinking about Virgin's forthcoming IPv6 service, I can't help wondering what IPv6 usage counts Virgin will be clocking up on the day that IPv6 is released. APNIC gives us a number of stats in addition to IPv6 counts, and one of the more important ones is total usage count (which APNIC labels as "Users"), meaning the sum of IPv4 and IPv6 counts. If we plot (Total_Users*100/IPv6_Users) we get a very interesting graph of percentage IPv6 normalized to the size of an ISP's population:
From this we see that Sky's bumpy IPv6 curve straightens out beautifully quite close to 90%, so it's clear that Sky's service is almost completely IPv6-based now and the fluctuations in IPv6 counts just reflect the varying size of their customer base. It also reveals how badly BT's IPv6 usage is impacted by not being able to run IPv6 on their older Home Home 5, which is still their most widespread CPE. This problem is probably what's denying IPv6 to some 60% of BT's customer base.
And so, it makes me wonder what to expect on the graphs when Virgin takes the curtain. If VM rolls out IPv6 to Hub 3.0 and all later equipment then I think Virgin is going to be really high up on both graphs alongside Sky, leaving BT and EE far behind. The normalized percentage graph will tell us how widely Virgin's CPEs can accept IPv6-capable firmware.
It's going to be very interesting.
There's a typo in my preceding message 705: I'm not not plotting "(Total_Users * 100 / IPv6_Users)" as I wrote, but "(IPv6_Users * 100 / Total_Users)", since the intention is to normalize the IPv6 counts to ISP populations. IPv6_Users is always smaller than the combined (IPv4 + IPv6) count so the percentage we plot is always less than 100%, and would only reach 100% if the usage of IPv4 were to drop to zero.
Sunday update --- the strong and highly linear upward trend in IPv6 counts continues:
I can't think of any new angle to the stats, so I'll just say ....
♫♫♫ Merry Xmas to all of the community's exceedingly patient IPv6 followers and contributors. ♫♫♫
TonyJr
@Morgaine wrote:
I would say that it is like being on on the way up on a new roller coaster at somewhere like alton towers. I hope the ride will be better than anticipated ;-).
Merry Christmas to you and everybody else here, too.
louis-m
https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/v6pop?c=GB
Sat 5/1/19 = 16564 (estimated)
CarlTSpeak
Wise owl
Cool. Network, apart from CPE, has been ready for nearly a year now. Trials on the 'private' cable network, the 10. addresses being moved to IPv6, have been a thing for a while. Great to see prefixes starting to be advertised .
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The Short End of the Stick
By Roger S. Conrad on Aug. 31, 2014
Perhaps those dastardly short sellers aren’t so smart after all.
Hedgeye Risk Management made waves last spring and summer with their attention-seeking campaign against Linn Energy LLC (NSDQ: LINE), which the research outfit described as “the best short in oil and gas today” and assigned a “fair value” of $8.10 per unit.
This coordinated smear campaign included plenty of jabs on social media and several articles in Barron’s, a publication widely read by individual investors.
Linn Energy’s subsequent disclosure that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had launched an informal investigation into the oil and gas producer ostensibly validated Hedgeye’s argument and sent investors rushing for the exit.
Linn Energy’s stock tumbled to $20.35 per unit at the height of investors’ panic. However, the completion of the firm’s complex acquisition of Berry Petroleum—a groundbreaking deal that marked the first time an upstream master limited partnership (MLP) acquired a C corporation— ultimately boosted the market’s confidence in the stock.
Emboldened by this initial success, Hedgeye Risk Management expanded its short call to other upstream MLPs, namely Breitburn Energy Partners LP (NSDQ: BBEP), which the research firm labeled “Linn junior.”
And let’s not forget Hedgeye Risk Management’s repeated attacks on Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMP), which the attention-seeking newsletter publisher called “a house of cards on the verge of collapse.”
But how have these attention-grabbing short calls fared?
Although LinnCo LLC (NSDQ: LNCO) has remained underwater since Hedgeye Risk Management’s short call in March 2013, the other MLPs that the firm has criticized have delivered an average return of 20 percent. That is, short sellers would have lost money.
In fairness, Hedgeye Risk Management issued these calls via press releases to the popular media; one would hope that the firm’s paying customers received timely entry and exit dates for these positions.
However, Hedgeye Risk Management’s aggressively low valuations of these stocks and dire warnings of significant downside led unsophisticated investors to believe that these names were headed for a freefall. Fortunately, the total returns posted by these stocks suggest that rationality won out over hyperbole.
Of course, these unsavory media campaigns gained Hedgeye Risk Management invaluable attention and, one would imagine, an influx of new subscribers.
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Hedgeye Risk Management leveled serious charges against these MLPs, including misleading accounting that masked unsustainable business practices.
One reason that these arguments resonated with retail investors: The research firm backed their sensationalist assertions with numbers from the companies’ financial statements—a place far too many investors don’t go.
Some dismissed Hedgeye Risk Management’s work as that of inexperienced upstarts. We took their charges seriously and went to work to see if their claims held water.
What we found was nuanced. And in fact, some of the research firm’s points were worth following up. Ultimately, however, we maintained our ratings on all these publicly traded partnerships—Energy & Income Advisor covers every energy-focused MLP—and regarded Hedgeye Risk Management’s warnings as overblown.
Shortsighted
Short sellers who blindly followed Hedgeye Risk Management’s advice weren’t the only investors to take a major hit by betting against the wrong dividend-paying stocks this year.
In a number of instances, short interest reached levels that suggested a great deal of dumb money had followed the crowd—at which point the risk of a short squeeze can make these stocks a contrarian buy.
Part of this strategy is simple mathematics. The only way short sellers can close their positions is by buying stock; if good news prompts enough short sellers buy at the same time, the volume squeezes the stock price higher.
Successful short sellers make their money by placing bets before the stampeding herds. The dumb money, on the other hand, usually piles in after the stock has already fallen.
At that point, the consensus expectations for these companies are often at their nadir; unless the target is in real trouble, the low bar makes it easier for these names to surprise to the upside, triggering a short squeeze.
This strategy has worked wonders this year in Conrad’s Utility Investor, where several of our contrarian bets have delivered big gains for investors. In each case, these names were on their way to overcoming real challenges; we bet that improving results eventually would help these beaten-down stocks to turn the corner.
Take regional telecoms, a heavily shorted industry at the start of 2014.
A wave of dividend cuts in recent years had lowered expectations for these names. However, investors who blindly piled into this trade failed to recognize that the catalysts behind these dividend cuts largely had run their course and that business results had started to turn the corner.
The subsequent short squeeze enabled us to book an almost 53 percent gain on Windstream Holdings (NSDQ: WIN) over a 10-month holding period. And not all of this gain came from the embattled telecom’s plan to spin off some of its network assets as a real estate investment trust (REIT). Prior to this announcement, we were sitting on a roughly 35 percent gain.
Aggressive Income Portfolio holding Consolidated Communications (NSDQ: CNSL) has also rallied more than 50 percent since last August, while Frontier Communications Corp (NSDQ: FTR) is up more than 44 percent.
But the short sellers remain persistent. Short interest in Windstream Holdings stands at 10.6 percent, while the percentage of Frontier Communications’ float that’s held by traders betting against the stock hovers around 15 percent.
In other words, short sellers remain convinced that regional telecoms’ dividends will prove unsustainable in the face of seemingly inexorable declines in revenue. However, recent results suggest that broadband sales have started to catch up to the rate of customer attrition in traditional business lines.
Other short sellers bet that the Federal Reserve’s push to end quantitative easing and eventually raise interest rates will hit these dividend-paying stocks.
A strong first half of the year, coupled with concerns about rising interest rates, has bolstered short interest in many utility stocks.
Short interest in Consolidated Edison (NYSE: ED), for example, has climbed to almost 7 percent, or more than eight days of its average trading volume.
In recent years, watching Consolidated Edison’s stock has been a good cure for insomnia. And the company’s solid second-quarter results suggest that the firm will continue to grow its earnings and raise its dividend by investing in the utility network that serves the New York City area.
I’ve never been a big fan of the stock, mainly because there are better values elsewhere. That being said, Consolidated Edison is now the 11th most shorted stock in the S&P 500, despite no signs of risk to its underlying business. Short interest has also climbed in a number of other power companies.
The utility sector’s most heavily shorted nameremains Hawaiian Electric Industries (NYSE: HE), with bets that the stock will lose value standing at more than 22 percent of its float.
But recent developments suggest that short sellers could feel the squeeze in coming quarters.
The company posted solid second-quarter results, while Moody’s Investors Service affirmed the credit rating of its American Savings Bank unit at A3, citing the financial institution’s “long-standing strong asset quality performance, a sizeable core deposit base and a solid capital position.”
This week, the utility announced an ambitious plan tying its future to increasing use of renewable energy and reducing the state’s dependence on imported oil for generating electricity. Regulators are expected to issue a ruling on this proposal by the end of the year. But the plan appears to be in line with regulators’ goals and would ensure the company’s financial future.
The huge short position against Hawaiian Electric Industries reflects a bet that the company will fail to reach an amicable deal with regulators, forcing the utility to slash its dividend.
The utility’s solution of promoting rooftop solar and investing heavily in improvements to its power grid isn’t transferable to any other state. Approval of Hawaiian Electric Industries’ proposal would deal a severe blow to the bear case against the stock and could trigger a serious short squeeze.
When will the shorts be right? When the bull market starts to wind down, short sellers will book gains even on stocks without deteriorating fundamentals. And the profits on names that face real challenges will be sizable.
One stock in my Utility Report Card that appears ripe for a fall: SolarCity Corp (NSDQ: SCTY), a company that has posted huge revenue growth—and widening losses. Meanwhile, the competition in rooftop solar continues to intensify.
Although the stock has pulled back more than 20 percent from its 52-week high, this momentum-driven name still trades at almost 28 times sales.
At this point, short interest in SolarCity has reached 23.6 percent of its float. Until investors’ passion for solar cools off, these bets against the stock create the potential for a major short squeeze. In this case, the bet path is to steer clear of this overhyped name.
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Now Boris takes on Cameron over HS2
By Paul Goodman
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First it was a referendum on Lisbon.
Then top rate tax.
Then Crossrail.
Then an amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Then the Government's housing benefit plans, which he said could lead to "Kosovo-style social cleansing in London".
Then new anti-strike laws.
Then Greece leaving the Euro.
Then Ken Clarke's plans for "soft sentences".And now he's making a new push on HS2.
The Sunday Telegraph reports that Boris Johnson has snubbed the project as "perverse" and "inadequate" in a letter to anti-HS2 campaigners. The letter says:
"While I have expressed support for a high speed rail network in the past (and continue to support it in principle) my support is conditional on a number of specific criteria and on the need to make the new railway work well for London.
"The proposal now being consulted on does not reflect these conditions and is inadequate for a number of reasons."
"It is perverse that a section of the route through Greater London, clearly affecting large numbers of people, has been subject to so little environmental mitigation.
"I am seeking substantial changes in design of the route to ensure these impacts are properly addressed, preferably by tunneling the whole route through London."Without such changes I cannot support the current proposal."
Boris complains that the planned HS2 station at Old Oak Common won't be properly "plugged in" to London's transport infrastructuree, and wants new underground rail capacity between Euston and Victoria if the scheme is to go ahead. It is reported elsewhere that the Government believes his recommendations on the latter point are vague.
This isn't the first time that Boris has been reported to oppose HS2 in its current form. Matthew Barrett noted his opposition on this site in May while the AV referendum and local elections were raging outside London. But the Sunday Telegraph's reporting ramps the story up and gives it a new sense of projection in the national media.
Never forget that there's a double aspect to most of Boris's interventions.
They're a challenge to George Osborne. The Mayor is engaged in a long chess game against the Chancellor for the Conservative leadership succession. Events may overtake it. But it will be played out until next May's poll at least, and his intervention on HS2 must be seen in this context. The Telegraph remains the paper of choice for party members. So Boris's take on HS2 will be noted this morning over breakfast by activists - especially in Buckinghamshire, where another Association revolted over the issue this week. It will do the Mayor no harm at all.
They're helpful to David Cameron. This may seem an odd take on events, given the media trouble that some of Boris's pronouncements have caused - especially over Europe. But the Prime Minister is desparate for a Boris win next year as the springboard for his own planned 2015 campaign. An independent voice is far more likely to triumph than a Cameron echo. Who could more distinctively provide such differentiation than Boris? The Prime Minister and the Mayor need each other. They're like two men negotiating a desert while shackled to each other.
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Col Earl T. Williams (ret) is turning 100 years old on March 10th, and we are hosting his 100th Birthday celebration on March 8th, 2019 at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside, CA.
The celebration starts at 11:00 am until 4:00 pm.
Ramona’s food truck will be serving lunch from 12:00 – 1:30 (Tacos and drink $10)
Birthday cake will be served
The Bradford Exchange is presenting Col Williams box #1 of 1941 tribute to Col. Williams service in WWII.
What makes Col. Williams unique?
Stationed at March Field April 1940 – August 1941
Was on a B-17 that arrived over Hawaii on December 7th, 1941 (radar that picked up the attacking force assumed it was the 12 B-17’s coming from California).
Was on the FIRST US piloted plane shot down in WWII
Wounded in the air on December 7, 1941, and (Never Received the Purple Heart)*
Completed 55 Missions in the South Pacific
33 years of service and retired as Colonel
Actual 100th Birthday March 10th
*Earl was treated for a minor head wound the morning of the attack, and because of the absolute chaos, records were not kept on the morning of December 7, 1941. Earl’s co-pilot took Earl to the hospital to be treated and wrote a letter stating the fact. I have been working with Earl for two years to correct the wrong that was done nearly 78 years ago. I am hoping that Col. Williams will receive his Purple Heart very soon, and hopefully on or near his 100th Birthday.
I am asking for your help to promote this fantastic story and Earl’s 100th. I would love to have everybody attend the celebration, however, if they cannot please send Col. Williams a birthday card to the museum. My goal is for Earl to receive 1941 birthday cards. Mail to address below:
Col. Earl T. Williams, March Field AIR Museum, 22550 Van Buren Blvd. 22550 Van Buren Blvd. Riverside, CA 92518
March 8th, 2019 11:00-4:00 We are celebrating Col. Williams 100th Birthday on March 8th at March Field Air Museum only because Earl has a special on his actual 100th Birthday.
March 10th, 2019 noon Col Williams will be out at Palm Springs Air Museum taking a ride a P-51 (The only WWII airplane Earl has never been in) The flight is scheduled for noon.
March 17th, 2019, Col. Williams will also be honored at the California Speedway for the Auto Club 400 in the opening ceremonies. We will have his complete stories on our webpage (www.b17archaeology.com) We are also going to have a drawing to win a WWII practice bomb signed by nearly 100 veterans ranging from all Theaters during WWII to present active military heroes. For anyone to be entered into the drawing for the signed bomb, you need to go to the webpage and sign up.
Memorial day 2019, The drawing for the signed bomb, which Col. Williams himself will draw the winner.
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Complexity of FFT derivation
I am confused regarding the complexity of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). The Discrete Fourier Transform is:
$$\qquad X\left [ k \right ]=\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}x[n]W_{N}^{kn}\quad \text{where}\quad W_{N}=e^{\frac{-j2\pi}{N}}\tag{1}$$
The first step in deriving the FFT is to express $(1)$ as the sum of even and odd inputs
$$\qquad X[k]=\sum_{n\ \rm even}x[n]W_{N}^{nk}\ +\ \sum_{n\ \rm odd}x[n]W_{N}^{nk}\tag{2}$$
And after many other derivations the final equation $(3)$ is obtained as
$$\qquad X[k]=\sum_{r=0}^{N/2-1}x[2r]W_{N/2}^{rk}\ +W_{N}^{k}\ \sum_{r=0}^{N/2-1}x[2r+1]W_{N/2}^{rk}\tag{3}$$
Equation $(3)$ consists of $2$ length $N/2$ FFTs, which is more computationally efficient than performing one big length $N$ FFT.
My question is: isn't equation $(2)$ also $2$ length $N/2$ FFTs? In other words, why all the bother about deriving equation $(3)$? Isn't equation $(2)$ already more computationally efficient than equation $(1)$? Or perhaps I'm missing something?
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Karl HaeblerKarl Haebler
Remember that the Cooley–Tukey algorithm seeks to calculate the original DFT recursively, partitioning each DFT into two of half the length in each recursion step. Therefore, it is necessary to express the DFT of length $N$ as two DFTs of length $N/2$.
The notation you used may be the cause of your confusion. Let me avoid using $W_N$. The second equation you wrote is then:
$$ X[k]= \sum_{m=0}^{\frac N 2 -1}x[2m]e^{-\frac{j2\pi}{N}(2m)k} + \sum_{m=0}^{\frac N 2 -1}x[2m+1]e^{-\frac{j2\pi}{N}(2m+1)k} \qquad(2) $$
The third one would be:
$$ X[k]= \sum_{m=0}^{\frac N 2 -1}x[2m]e^{-\frac{j2\pi}{N/2}mk} + e^{-\frac{j2\pi}{N}k} \sum_{m=0}^{\frac N 2 -1}x[2m+1]e^{-\frac{j2\pi}{N/2}mk} \qquad(3) $$
This way it's easier to see that in $(2)$ you do not have two DFTs. The second summation has the factor $(2m+1)$ in the exponential, which is different from the definition of DFT. If you factor it out, leading to that $\left(e^{-\frac{j2\pi}{N}k}\right)$ multiplying the second summation in $(3)$, then you have two DFTs: the one corresponding to the even-indexed part and the one corresponding to the odd-indexed one. That's why that additional step is made.
TenderoTendero
No, Equation (2) is not the sum of 2 FFTs (of lengths $N/2$) as you claim, and it is not computationally more efficient. The canonical way of evaluating Equation (1) is via Horner's method:
$$X[k] = (((\cdots (x[N-1]\cdot\omega + x[N-2])\cdot\omega + x[N-3])\cdot\omega + \ldots)\cdot\omega + x[0]\tag{a}$$
where $\omega = W_N^k$ which requires $N-1$ multiplications and $N$ additions: lather, rinse, and repeat for for other values of $k$. Equation (2) just splits this Horner's rule computation into two parts with no change in complexity. That is, we compute $\sum_{n\ even}x[n]W_{N}^{nk}$ as $$(((\cdots (x[N-1]\cdot\Omega + x[N-3])\cdot\Omega + x[N-5])\cdot\Omega + \ldots)\cdot\Omega + x[0]\tag{b}$$ where $\Omega = \omega^2$ and $\sum_{n\ odd}x[n]W_{N}^{nk}$ as $$(((\cdots (x[N-2]\cdot\Omega + x[N-4])\cdot\Omega + x[N-6])\cdot\Omega + \ldots)\cdot\Omega + x[1])\cdot\omega.\tag{c}$$ Each computation requires $N/2$ multiplications and $N/2$ additions with no savings in computation over the standard brute-force Horner's method applied to a vector of length $N$ in $(a)$.
Equation (3), however, is the core of the FFT butterfly; the two sums in Equation (3) are DFTs of two shorter length sequences. Define \begin{align}x_{\text{even}}[k] &= x[2k], &k = 0, 1, \ldots, N/2-1,\\ x_{\text{odd}}[k] &= x[2k+1], &k = 0, 1, \ldots, N/2-1, \end{align} and let the DFTs of these shorter sequences be denoted by $X_{\text{even}}[k]$ and $X_{\text{odd}}[k]$ respectively. Then the computation of Equation (1) has been re-written in Equation (3) as $$X[k] = X_{\text{even}}[k] + W_N^kX_{\text{odd}}[k] \tag{**}$$ which requires one multiplication and one addition per bin. Note that $k$ varies from $0$ to $N-1$ in $(**)$, and the shorter DFTs in $(**)$ are assumed to be periodic functions of period $N/2$ (where's rb-j when I need him?) But, now note that $X_{\text{even}}[k]$ and $X_{\text{odd}}[k]$ are DFTs of length $N/2$, and so, if $N/2$ is an even number (hint: this means that $N$ is a multiple of $4$), we can use the idea behind $(**)$ to express $X_{\text{even}}[k]$ as $$X_{\text{even}}[k] = X_{\text{even, even}}[k] + W_{N/2}^kX_{\text{even, odd}}[k]$$ and $X_{\text{odd}}[k]$ as $$X_{\text{odd}}[k] = X_{\text{odd, even}}[k] + W_{N/2}^kX_{\text{odd, odd}}[k]$$ that is, both DFTs of length $N/2$ have been expressed in terms of 2 DFTs of length $N/4$, and so on. If $N = 2^m$, we can proceed in this way to where we have $N/2$ DFTs of length $2$ that we compute using one multiplication and addition per DFT bin. So, $N$ multiplications and additions total to compute these $N/2$ DFTs. (Purists whining that a length $2$ DFT needs only one addition and one subtraction are kindly requested to go jump in the lake!). Next, we combine these $N/2$ DFTs of length $2$ into $N/4$ DFTs of length $4$ using one multiplication and one addition per DFT bin for a total of $N$ multiplications and additions to do the combination. Next, we combine these $N/4$ DFTs of length $4$ into $N/8$ DFTs of length $8$ using one multiplication and one addition per DFT bin for a total of $N$ multiplications and additions to do the combination..... Ultimately, we arrive at $(**)$. This iterative procedure for computing the DFT of length $N$ is (one of the many versions of) the FFT algorithm for computing the Discrete Fourier transform. It has $m=\log_2N$ stages requiring $N$ multiplications and $N$ additions at each stage for a total of $Nm = N\log_2N$ multiplications and additions. In contrast, the use of Horner's rule would need $N(N-1)$ multiplications and $N^2$ additions. Hence the soubriquet FAST for this kind of algorithm.
Purists who have survived their jumps into the lake can now start their cacophony about radix-2 versus radix-4 versus radix-8 transforms and the exact number of multiplications and additions needed for implementing an FFT algorithm.
Dilip SarwateDilip Sarwate
A DFT is equivalent to multiplying by a square matrix. Multiplying by a matrix double in size requires, not double the multiplies, but quadruple. And 4 is bigger than 2
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Home Business Enterprise Ireland’s €500,000 Competitive Start Fund for Graduate Entrepreneurs opens for applications
Enterprise Ireland’s €500,000 Competitive Start Fund for Graduate Entrepreneurs opens for applications
Ben Nallen
South East BIC will host a free-to-attend CSF Application Support Day on 17 April in Waterford
Enterprise Ireland’s Competitive Start Fund (CSF) for recent graduates opens for applications today, Tuesday 10 April 2018. The €500,000 fund will provide up to €50,000 in equity funding for up to 10 successful applicants. The fund closes to applications at 3pm on Tuesday, 24 April 2018.
The purpose of the Competitive Start Fund is to accelerate the growth of start-up companies that have the capability to succeed in global markets and the graduate entrepreneurship call specifically is to encourage entrepreneurship among graduates.
In partnership with Enterprise Ireland, South East BIC will host a free-to-attend CSF Application Support Day on 17 April in Waterford. Prospective applicants for the CSF for graduate entrepreneurs can enquire here: www.southeastbic.ie
The CSF is part of Enterprise Ireland’s strategy for increasing the number and quality of High Potential Start-Up companies (HPSUs) that have the potential to employ more than 10 people and achieve €1 million in export sales within three years. Applications from final year students and graduates with a third-level qualification within the last three years are invited to apply.
Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD said: “We have a pool of talented and ambitious entrepreneurs in this country, who are still in university or recently graduated, and are making valuable contributions to the economy through their start-ups. For these entrepreneurs, supports like Enterprise Ireland’s Competitive Start Fund are vital. Together with crucial funding, the initiative provides valuable business support and networking opportunities to innovative entrepreneurs and companies at the start of their journey, and provides a platform from which they can progress their business.”
Commenting on the announcement, Sarita Johnston, Department Manager, HPSU Start, Enterprise Ireland, said: “A key priority for Enterprise Ireland is to help Irish entrepreneurs and companies with global ambition to start and grow their businesses internationally. Entrepreneurship can be embarked upon at different stages of life and there are real opportunities right now in Ireland for graduates to travel the exciting journey of starting a high potential business. Graduate entrepreneurs can sometimes be overlooked; however, we understand the value in their ideas and their businesses to the start-up ecosystem. This CSF call is a kick-start for innovative early stage companies led by graduates to get off the ground while receiving a critical funding boost of up to €50,000.”
In addition to written online applications, companies will be asked to prepare an online video pitch. Full details on the Competitive Start Fund for Graduate Entrepreneurs, including the application form and eligibility criteria, can be accessed on the Enterprise Ireland website: www.enterprise-ireland.com/graduatecsf
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Sevilla confirmed preseason tour of Tanzania May 23
BENJAMIN BEN
THE management of Spanish club Sevilla FC confirmed over the weekend about the club’s preseason tour in Tanzania which will see them playing against either Young Africans or Simba SC.
Sevilla is set to play the friendly game on March 23rd at the 60,000 capacity National Stadium in Dar es Salaam and will be the second major European club to step into the country.
English Premier League side Everton FC landed in Tanzania in 2017 and played against Kenyan team Gor Mahia at the same venue at the end of SportPesa Super Cup which attracted eight teams from Tanzania and Kenya.
Through their official website page, Director of La Liga’s International Development Oscar Mayo wrote: “As a global competition, La Liga must be close to its fans. It is a great opportunity for everyone that Tanzania fans can see a great club from Spain.”
The visit of Sevilla who have so far clinched La Liga title once and won the UEFA Europa League five times has been accelerated by SportPesa which seeks to expand the Spanish brand worldwide.
Speaking recently in Dodoma about the tour, SportPesa Tanzania Director of Administration and Compliance Abbas Tarimba said Sevilla’s tour is a clear indication that they are dedicated to improve football standards in the country.
“La Liga is one of the decorated leagues in the world hence this is the opportunity for our clubs and their management to learn more things on how they excel in their domestic league,” he said.
He added that SportPesa continues to expand its wings across the world as such, they saw it beneficial to trap a Spain based club.
He also said they will continue to bring various big football clubs into the country for the local teams to learn from them.
Furthermore, Abbas said the arrival of big clubs helps to sell the nation globally and enables other teams to know that Tanzania is a great destination for them to conduct their preseason tours.
On his part, Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) General Secretary Kidao Wilfred commended SportPesa Tanzania for facilitating the visit of Sevilla saying that spirit is healthy for the development of football in the country.
“This will be an opportunity for our teams and management of the clubs to learn many things ranging from administration and how they excel in their league,” he said.
He continued: “Preparation for Sevilla tour is unfolding well and we will ensure that the game expected to be played is arranged according to international levels.
TFF will proceed to work hand in hand with SportPesa for the benefit of football development countrywide.”
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The Irrawaddy Burma Election 2010
ELECTORAL LAWS
Philippines: Flawed Burma Vote Will Damage Asean
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, November 02, 2010
HANOI— The Philippines says the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will be undermined if next month's elections in military-ruled Burma are a sham.
Voter List Fraud Exposed
By THE IRRAWADDY Tuesday, November 02, 2010
RANGOON — Reports are emerging from Arakan State and Shan State that voter lists for the Nov. 7 general election have been tampered with, setting the stage for massive ballot-stuffing on election day.
Roundtable: Election Will Not Help Ethnic Groups
By SAW YAN NAING Tuesday, November 02, 2010
In a roundtable discussion held at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, representatives of Burma's ethnic groups who are living in exile agreed
Voters 'Urged to Cast Advance Ballots'
By HTET AUNG Friday, October 29, 2010
Burmese voters are under increasing pressure from local authorities and members of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) to cast advance ballots before the upcoming election, according to a letter of complaint sent to the Election Commission by the chairman of the Democratic Party (Myanmar) (DPM).
Poll a Showdown between Dead Strongman and Living One
By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR / IPS WRITER Friday, October 29, 2010
The ghost of military-ruled Burma’s first strongman, Ne Win, has returned to haunt the current junta leader, Than Shwe, as the country heads for its first general election in two decades on Nov. 7.
The Malaise Below the Surface
By MARTIN KOVAN Thursday, October 28, 2010
RANGOON — In downtown Rangoon, less than two weeks before the Nov. 7 election, life appears much as usual. People lounge and relax in roadside tea-shops, children run and play among vehicles and the detritus of roadworks, monks – and nuns, in miraculously clean, pink tunics with tan shoulder robes and brown umbrellas –
Two Junta Soldiers Die, 3 Injured in Karen Ambush
By LAWI WENG Thursday, October 28, 2010
Two Burmese soldiers were killed and three were injured during two attacks on an Election Commission convoy by Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) troops near Three Pagodas Pass. The convoy was transporting ballot boxes from Kyar Inn Seik Gyi, according to Karen sources.
Than Shwe Plans No Retirement from Power
By WAI MOE Thursday, October 28, 2010
Though junta supremo Snr-Gen Than Shwe's plans for his post-election role still remain uncertain after state-run media described him as the commander in chief during the week, observers say at least two ways remain for him to retain control of the country in the next 10 years.
Election T-shirt War Hots Up in Burma
By KO HTWE Wednesday, October 27, 2010
As Burma's election campaign hots up, the competing political parties are dressing down—donning T-shirts emblazoned with slogans and party logos.
Philippines Calls Burma Elections 'Farce'
By MARGIE MASON / AP WRITER Wednesday, October 27, 2010
HANOI — World leaders are expected to launch a last-ditch plea this week for free and fair elections in military-run Burma, but at least one neighboring Southeast Asian country has already dismissed the upcoming polls as a "farce."
"Once her [Aung San Suu Kyi's] sentence expires in November, and that notion is not disputed, it is our understanding that she will have served her sentence."
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Aaron “Woody” Wood to release NEW Album at Highland Brewing on Saturday, April 2nd
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The skinny white boy from the mountains of Western North Carolina carries around more soul in his restless bones and battered guitar than most of use could ever dream of. With a background as diverse as his music, Aaron “Woody” Wood converges elements from all walks of life to create music that we all can connect with. Aaron Wood is thrilled to announce the release of his new self-titled album at Highland Brewing on Saturday, April 2nd. The album is result of the first successful kickstarter campaign in Asheville and has been a year and a half in the making.
The album is being released by J-Woo Records and was produced at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC by Roger Alan Nichols and engineered by Nichols and Jon Ashley; the run-time is 41 minutes. Along with Aaron Wood on guitar and vocals the album features Mike Rhodes on drums, Tony Black and Matt Gentling on bass, Ryan Burns on organ and piano, Debrissa McKinney on backing vocals, The Asheville Horns (Ben Hovey, Derrick Johnson, and Greg Hollowell), Jon Ashley on piano and rhodes, Artimus Pyle on percussion, and a song with cellist Paul Leech.
The release party is an early show that starts at 9pm and features the music from the album. Aaron performs along with Tony Black (Bass), Mike Rhodes (Drums), Josh Blake (Guitar), Kellin Watson (Vocals), Debrissa McKinney (Vocals), Ryan Burns (Keys), and The Asheville Horns. Aaron will be performing with a custom built amp and pedals at the show which are provided by event sponsor Suspect Device Audio.
LaZoom Bus is offering free shuttle service from downtown in front of the Emerald Lounge (the location of the after dance party) to the newly opened Highland Brewing tasting room which is located in East Asheville off of Old Charlotte Highway. In order to make reservations, just text “LaZoom” to 411669, then wait for your confirmation within 5 days. Make your reservations early to ensure that you get your seat!
The shuttle service is free for patrons thanks to event sponsors Suspect Device Audio and Text Ripple. Along with the shuttle reservations, Text Ripple also is offering a way for fans to get a free poster, koozie or free button. Just be one of the first 150 people to text “Woody” to 411699 and your free merch can be claimed at the CD Release show.
The band will be making it around town late-night for an after-dance-party at the Emerald Lounge from 12-2am to play Motown and Soul covers. This after party is free for people who attended the CD release party at Highlands; otherwise it’s $5.
Hopping around town for his album release and showing off his many styles is fitting for Aaron Wood who leaves a great legacy in the Southern region. As a professional musician, Aaron was a pivotal member of The Blue Rags, with whom he had success with national media coverage (MTV) and international tours. He has also recorded and preformed with a slew of New Orleans and Western North Carolinas finest musicians in what was a blending of New Orleans Jazz and Bluegrass. The Blue Brass sessions featured members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Larry Keel, Trombone Shorty and many others.
One look at the long list of artists he has shared the stage with exemplifies his diversity, not to mention respect from his musical peers. From Jimmy Martin to Leon Russel, R.L. Burnside to Warren Haynes, Sara Evans to Carlos Santana, Aaron has played and learned from some of those who have helped shaped music into what it is today.
Aaron delivers his music with all the soul, power, and energy that have made him renowned as a musicians musician. Roots legend, Corey Harris calls him “a master”, and Donald Harrison, New Orleans Jazz great, calls him “his musical brother.” We hope that you can join us for the the album release of Aaron Wood!
Aaron Wood CD Release Party
Highland Brewing
Saturday April 2nd
21+, Doors at 8:30; Show at 9
Tickets $10 in advance; $12 at the door
12 Old Charlotte Hwy
www.highlandbrewing.com
Tickets available online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/166037
Facebook event http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130793460326088
www.aaronwoodmusic.com
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ERIC CHURCH’S “DESPERATE MAN” MUSIC VIDEO TO PREMIERE EXCLUSIVELY ON AMAZON MUSIC MONDAY, JULY 16
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Eric Church, a two-time CMA Album of the Year winner, has a well-known reputation for always bringing his music to the people. With 2015’s Mr. Misunderstood, he went as far as overnighting fans copies of his surprise release. So this time around, after announcing new music is coming in a video message speaking directly to fans yesterday, Church is set to exclusively debut the “Desperate Man” music video via Amazon Music in the U.S. on Monday, July 16 ahead of his forthcoming October 5 Desperate Man album release.
The cinematic and high-flying video directed by Reid Long and John Peets captures Church executing his mission to fight for what’s right. Ray Wylie Hubbard, who co-wrote “Desperate Man” with Church, guests in the video. For its release, Amazon Music, a service that has supported Church's music and provides a strong connection to his fans on a global scale, offered to premiere the music video for the title track “Desperate Man.”
“Excitement for new music from my favorite artists is a feeling I can remember from my formative years. The unknown and the possibilities of the anticipation are one of the true joys of music,” shares the North Carolina native. “Well, even though how we discover songs from our favorite performers may have evolved, the feeling remains the same.”
The music video for Church’s “Desperate Man” will be live for 48 hours exclusively at www.amazon.com/adlp/ericchurchdesperateman starting Monday, July 16 at 12:01am PT/2:01a.m. CT/3:01am ET. Beginning today, fans can also stream the single on Amazon Music. To learn more about Amazon Music, visit: www.amazon.com/unlimited.
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Eddie Redmayne will play Cravath name partner in movie about Thomas Edison patent battle
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Actor Eddie Redmayne has signed on to play influential lawyer Paul Cravath—who became a name partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore—in a historical film about a battle over the patent for the light bulb.
Cravath had provided legal advice to George Westinghouse in his 1880s patent battle with Thomas Edison, Law.com (sub. req.) reports. Author and screenwriter Graham Moore used Cravath to tell his patent law story in The Last Days of Night, a book he is now adapting as a screenplay.
Law.com calls Moore’s book “a legal and scientific thriller” that portrays the shaping of the patent system. Cravath’s work in the case raised his profile before his joined the firm he later came to dominate, Cravath presiding partner Allen Parker told Law.com.
Moore visited Cravath, Swaine & Moore, but he was not allowed to see letters written between Cravath and Westinghouse. He was told the letters were protected by attorney-client privilege, even though Cravath died in 1940.
Moore also discussed the book with NPR and the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.). Cravath was only 26 and 18 months out of Columbia Law School when Westinghouse hired him.
Cravath “has never really had a client before, much less tried a case,” Moore tells NPR. “And now he’s the lead litigator on this unfathomably large lawsuit. He’s in way over his head, and this kind of opened up the whole story for me. What if we tell the story of kind of the great scientific rivalry of the 19th century, all from the perspective of this earnest, ambitious, hungry young attorney who’s just moved to New York to make good?” [Source]
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Why African governments are to blame for low education standards in Africa
February 24, 2018 at 05:54 am | News
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has blamed African governments for the poor state of education in Africa.
Last year, the cultural organization insisted that African governments must be held individually responsible for the sluggish development of the continent’s education sector.
According to UNESCO’s regional director Gwang-Chol Chang, the underperforming schools and teachers in Africa are just victims of the dysfunctional education system across the continent.
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Chang also noted that sub-Saharan Africa continues to record the slowest development in terms of global education objectives, with at least 33 million children not going to school and one in four youths not being able to read or write.
“Accountability should start with the government,” Chang was quoted by Reuters.
Failures by African Governments
In his remarks, Chang noted that most of the schools in West and Central Africa are still using European-inspired school curriculums, which are locally irrelevant and inadaptable. He argues that these “foreign” curriculums have left graduates ill-equipped for the job market.
These problems exist because of lack of proper government regulations that would facilitate the formulation of school curriculums that are relevant to local students. Unabated corruption and inflated school fees are also major impediments to a better education sector in Africa.
While most African governments are often strapped for funds, looting of public resources and misplaced priorities have made it difficult for education institutions to get the number of resources they require to improve their standards.
Governments have also fallen short of developing policies that will ensure the education sector in Africa is allocated enough resources to facilitate proper learning in schools.
According to Teopista Birungi Mayanja, the Coordinator of the Africa Network Campaign on the Education for All movement, the continued sidelining of important stakeholders like the civil society, trade unions and commissions in decision-making is also largely to blame for the pitiful standards in the African education sector.
“Unless governments allow all these voices at the table, they will never come up with a credible plan,” Mayanja told Reuters.
African governments have also been blamed for not training enough school teachers to meet the universally recommended teacher to student ratio. In fact, UNESCO notes that the percentage of trained primary school teachers in Ghana and Niger has reduced since 2000.
With the universal free education program, which has allowed children from poor families in Africa to access free education, the number of pupils attending school has risen significantly, leaving many schools overcrowded.
And without enough teachers to teach them, the students are not assured of quality education. It is therefore up to respective African governments to ensure these issues are addressed without further ado.
African leaders must also be alive to the fact that quality education is the most essential foundation for meaningful development in any country around the world.
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Felling of over 1,000 trees for a temporary helipad for PM Modi's visit: No, it's a fake news
Posted on 2019-01-15 09:55:48 by FactHunt Admin Tweet
The media reports that thousands of fully grown trees were cut is false as only 40 shrubs and saplings were removed and six trees were pruned.
On 13th January, The Hindu reported that over a 1,000 trees have been felled to make a temporary helipad for the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the western Odisha town of Balangir.
The Hindu reports:
Under the urban plantation programme, saplings were planted on 2.25 hectares controlled by the Indian Railways in 2016. As a vacant land was required for the helipad, authorities had to clear 1.25 hectares.
The State forest department had conducted a preliminary inquiry into the tree felling. “The allegation of tree felling is true. No prior permission was sought from us for it,” said Samir Kumar Satpathy, Balangir Divisional Forest Officer.
On 14th Jan, The week published a report by PTI that two days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Balangir district, a row erupted over the alleged cutting of trees to prepare a temporary helipad for the visit. As per the report:
"Following the direction of the DFO, a team will visit the site in order to ascertain the number of trees felled in the area," said Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) Babaji Charan Raul. Since the area happens to be under the jurisdiction of the Railways, an official of the East Coast Railways (ECoR) said they are also conducting an inquiry into the matter.
This report was carried by many media houses like Scroll, The Quint, The Logical Indian, National Herald, India Times.
A local media Kalinga TV has reported that about 3,000 trees were fell.
Times of India Bhubaneshwar reported that no trees were in fact felled to make the temporary helipad but only small shrubs were cut down. It reported that East Coast Railway spokesperson had asserted that no trees were felled and that a January 7 video prior to helipad making shows there was no big tree on the spot.
You can watch the video here:
The enquiry done by Railways reveals only Shrubs and few saplings have been removed for PM helipad, no big tree cut. However, leaves/branches of few trees on Railway land had to be pruned to give full and proper space for helicopter movements. As per reports, all concerned authorities were a part of all discussions and in greater administrative interest, few plants and shrubs had to be removed.
As per TOI, Railway will estimate the total loss of plants and replant more than two times of saplings lost. Initial estimates say not more than 40 shrubs and saplings removed. About 6 trees on Railway land have been pruned.
The videos and photos show poor quality of maintenance of plantation.
The media reports that thousands of fully grown trees were cut is clearly false as only 40 shrubs and saplings were removed and six trees were pruned.
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Hot Two Shares to Ponder On: Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR), Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR)
Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR)
Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) closed at $5.1 on the last trading session with an decrease of -3.41%, whereas, it previously closed at $5.28. The company has a market capitalization of $562.58 Million. The company traded shares of 668626 on the trading day while its three month average volume stands at 730.42 Million.
Now to discuss some of the Earning per Share estimates and growth estimates, shares of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) produced diluted EPS of -2.3. The EPS estimate for next year as estimated by analysts is at 0.98 while EPS for next quarter is estimated at 0.21. Earnings per Share growth for this year is reported at -226.7, while the analysts estimated the EPS growth for next year at 0.98% and Earnings growth for next 5 years stands at 0% as estimated by the analysts. While Annual EPS Growth rate for past five years as reported by the company is at 0%.
Some important ratios are also vital to discuss the performance of the company and its shares. The P/E or Price to Earnings ratio of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) is at 0 while the forward p/e is at 5.21. The P/S or Price to Sales ratio of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) stands at 0.26 and Price to Book or P/B for the most recent quarter stands at 0.63. The Price to Free Cash Flow ratio or P/FCF is reported at 0. The quick ratio and the current ratio of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) are reported at 1.1 and 2.2 respectively. The Return on Assets ROA, Return On Earnings ROE and ROI Return On Investment for Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) stands at -9.3, -24.4 and -7.7 respectively
The trailing twelve month Revenue of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) is reported at 2.21 Billion with income of -244000000. The outstanding shares of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) are 110.31 Million. The institutional Ownership of the shares of 45.8 stands at 0.80%, this figure is decreased -1.87 in the last six months. The insider ownership for the shares of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) is ticked at 0.2%, the figure is rose 0% in the last six months.
Some other important financial aspects to be discussed here for Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) is the Mean Target Price estimated by the analysts which stands at 8.44. The 52 week high of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) is placed at 18.06 and 52 week low is standing at 3.59.
Performance wise the shares of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) rose up 7.37% for the week, it also rise 0.99% for the monthly performance, while for the quarter it went up -4.14%. The shares increase 28.14% for the half year and flew up for the Year-To-Date performance. The shares of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE:VNTR) shrinked -71.52% for the yearly performance.
Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR)
Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) closed at $108.06 on the last trading session with an increase of 0.01%, whereas, it previously closed at $108.05. The company has a market capitalization of $13.77 Billion. The company traded shares of 913029 on the trading day while its three month average volume stands at 848.13 Million.
Now to discuss some of the Earning per Share estimates and growth estimates, shares of Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) produced diluted EPS of 3.11. The EPS estimate for next year as estimated by analysts is at 3.2 while EPS for next quarter is estimated at 0.75. Earnings per Share growth for this year is reported at -15.9, while the analysts estimated the EPS growth for next year at 3.2% and Earnings growth for next 5 years stands at 6% as estimated by the analysts. While Annual EPS Growth rate for past five years as reported by the company is at 15.2%.
Some important ratios are also vital to discuss the performance of the company and its shares. The P/E or Price to Earnings ratio of Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) is at 34.8 while the forward p/e is at 33.78. The P/S or Price to Sales ratio of Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) stands at 11.26 and Price to Book or P/B for the most recent quarter stands at 5.76. The Price to Free Cash Flow ratio or P/FCF is reported at 0. The quick ratio and the current ratio of Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) are reported at 0 and 0 respectively. The Return on Assets ROA, Return On Earnings ROE and ROI Return On Investment for Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) stands at 0, 0 and 8 respectively
The trailing twelve month Revenue of Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) is reported at 1.22 Billion with income of 421.1 Million. The outstanding shares of Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) are 127.44 Million. The institutional Ownership of the shares of 0 stands at 0.80%, this figure is increased 1.52 in the last six months. The insider ownership for the shares of Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) is ticked at 1.5%, the figure is plummeted -7.32% in the last six months.
Some other important financial aspects to be discussed here for Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) is the Mean Target Price estimated by the analysts which stands at 103. The 52 week high of Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) is placed at 110.79 and 52 week low is standing at 83.70.
Performance wise the shares of Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) fell down -1.3% for the week, it also rise 1.44% for the monthly performance, while for the quarter it went down 8.3%. The shares increase 11.06% for the half year and flew up for the Year-To-Date performance. The shares of Extra Space Storage Inc (NYSE:EXR) grew 11.45% for the yearly performance.
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William A. Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Professor of African and African American Studies and Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society and Affiliate of Center for Child and Family Policy
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He has served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke. Previously he served as director of the Institute of African American Research, director of the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, director of the Undergraduate Honors Program in economics, and director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina.
Darity’s research focuses on inequality by race, class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, the history of economics, and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment.
He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2011-2012) at Stanford, a fellow at the National Humanities Center (1989-90) and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors (1984). He received the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award in 2012 from the National Economic Association, the organization's highest honor. He is a past president of the National Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association. He also has taught at Grinnell College, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Texas at Austin, Simmons College and Claremont-McKenna College.
He has served as Editor in Chief of the latest edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, (Macmillan Reference, 2008) and as an Associate Editor of the new edition of the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (2013).
His most recent books are Economics, Economists, and Expectations: Microfoundations to Macroapplications (2004) (co-authored with Warren Young and Robert Leeson) and a volume co-edited with Ashwini Deshpande titled Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity (2003) both published by Routledge. He has published or edited 12 books and published more than 210 articles in professional journals.
Darity lives with his family in Durham, N.C. where he plays harmonica in a local blues band, occasionally coaches youth sports, and especially enjoys reading science fiction and speculative fiction. (On leave, 2015-2016)
Office Location: 238 Sanford Inst Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Web Page: https://socialequity.duke.edu/
AAAS 102.01, INTRO AFR-AMER STUDIES Synopsis
Friedl Bdg 240, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
(also cross-listed as LIT 102.01)
PUBPOL 645S.01, GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH Synopsis
Rubenstein 151, Tu 10:05 AM-12:35 PM
(also cross-listed as AAAS 642S.01, ECON 541S.01, POLSCI 642S.01, RIGHTS 642S.01, SOCIOL 642S.01)
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1978
B.A. Brown University 1974
Research Interests: Stratification Economics
Current projects: skin shade, labor market and marriage market outcomes, , caste and race, , job tenure versus work experience, , disconnected youth, , ethnic diversity, ethnic conflict, and economic development
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Craigie, T-A; Myers, SL; Darity, WA, Racial Differences in the Effect of Marriageable Males on Female Family Headship., Journal of Demographic Economics, vol. 84 no. 3 (September, 2018), pp. 231-256 [doi] [abs]
McMillian, MM; Fuller, S; Hill, Z; Duch, K; Darity, WA, Can Class-Based Substitute for Race-Based Student Assignment Plans? Evidence From Wake County, North Carolina, Urban Education, vol. 53 no. 7 (September, 2018), pp. 843-874, SAGE Publications [doi] [abs]
De La Cruz-Viesca, M; Ong, PM; Coman-Don, A; Darity, WA; Hamilton, D, Fifty years after the Kerner Commission report: Place, housing, and racial wealth inequality in Los Angeles, Rsf: the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 4 no. 6 (September, 2018), pp. 160-184, Russell Sage Foundation [doi] [abs]
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MASTER ZANE – The Rogue Aristocrat (A Victorian romance.)
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This Tuesday, I am pleased to be able to bring you the awesome, Maggie Carpenter, and her latest hot spanking novel, Master Zane – The Rogue Aristocrat!
It is Mayfair, in London, 1890, and Zane De’Ville, a French aristocrat and infamous womanizer, finds himself taking care of a beautiful young lady who doesn’t remember anything, but after a short time he starts to doubt the legitimacy of her amnesia.
It is imperative he finds out who she is and where she lives. Staying alone in a gentleman’s home is questionable at best, and given his scandalous reputation, if the news got out it could ruin her.
Flora is going to marry the man of her choice! That’s what she’s told her father, but he insists she marry a German prince fifteen years her senior. Totally frustrated she sneaks away to hide with a close friend until he sees sense.
She believes she’s safe, but he suddenly bursts into the house. Determined not to be found she runs off a second time, but straight into a storm. As she dashes through the driving rain she collides with a man and tumbles to the ground. Totally dazed she lifts her head, and finds herself gazing into the warmest brown eyes she’s ever seen…then everything goes black.
Master Zane: The French Aristocrat introduces a memorable Victorian gentleman and wilful young noblewoman in this sizzling love story. How does a French Casanova fall under Cupid’s spell? Click here and pick up your copy of this spellbinding romance today.
Maggie Carpenter won the Spanking Romance Reviews Award for Best Victorian Romance in 2015 (His Willful Bride) and 2016 (The Wanton Widow,) so she knows a thing or two about writing sexy Victorian spankings! 🙂
Whet your appetite with this sexy little snippet…
A scream suddenly pierced the quiet night. It was high-pitched and sounded like a woman on the street in front of the house. Dropping the newspaper he raced to the window, and to his horror he saw Flora dressed in one of his long coats fighting with a man wearing a cape. They were both slipping on the snowy pavement, and sprinting from the room he dashed out the front door, but as he hurried down the steps he was confronted with his third surprise of the night. The man was laying on the ground, curled up and groaning.
“Perhaps now you’ll think twice about attacking ladies on the street, you cad!” she barked. “I hope my knee leaves you disabled.”
“FLORA!”
Spinning around she stared up at Zane with wide shocked eyes, and as he moved quickly but carefully down the slippery steps, she tried frantically to think an excuse for being there.
“Mon dieu!” he exclaimed grabbing her elbow. “Are you all right? What are you doing out here?”
“I, uh…”
“Get inside, get inside right now,” he said sharply, his fingers gripping her arm as he helped her up the steps. “You have a great deal of explaining to do, young lady.”
“That man, he tried to attack me,” she said breathlessly as they made it inside.
“I don’t care about that man!” he said sternly as he locked the door.
“But I got the better of him. A friend showed me what to do,” she continued as he quickly removed the coat and hustled her towards the hallway. “I brought my knee up and—”
“It is obvious what you did and I’m sure he’s very sorry he crossed your path, but as I said he is the last thing on my mind.”
Though Flora could understand why he was being short with her, she had no idea why he was hurrying her through the house, and as they turned down a hallway with which she was unfamiliar she tried to wrestle her arm away from his grasp.
“You are a very foolish young woman,” he scolded, tightening his grip.
“I was just—what is this?”
He had come to a stop in front of an arched door. It looked solid and old, and didn’t fit with the house’s overall decor.
“This is my special room,” he declared, lifting an urn on a nearby pedestal and withdrawing a key. “You have an overdue appointment.”
“Appointment? What are you talking about?”
Ignoring her question he unlocked the door and bustled her into the room, hitting a switch on the wall as he did. Dim light flooded the space, and releasing her, he closed the door and locked it behind them.
Panting and bewildered Flora scanned her surroundings. The room had no windows, there was a four post bed in the corner, several chairs, a couch, and oddly, chains and ropes were hanging from the ceiling.
“I don’t understand. Where are we?”
“It’s completely soundproof in here so you’ll be able to scream all you want.”
“Scream?” she muttered, a sudden chill rippling through her. “What do you mean? What are you going to do to me?”
“I’m going to spank you!”
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https://asubmissivespeaks.wordpress.com
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Home » News » Selective metal recovery from Fe-rich industrial residues
Selective metal recovery from Fe-rich industrial residues
Within the EU H2020 SOCRATES project, a process was developed by the SOLVOMET Group within SIM² KU Leuven to selectively recover lead and zinc from Fe-rich industrial residues (i.e. jarosite residue of the zinc industry) using ionic liquids Aliquat 336 ([A336][Cl]) and Cyphos IL 101 ([C101][Cl]). The work is published in the Journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. (Leuven, 4/03/2019)
What is jarosite?
About 8 million tonnes of metallic zinc is produced annually via hydrometallurgical processes. One of the processes produces jarosite; about 6.6 million tonne of jarosite is produced annually. The main metal component of jarosite is iron but it also contains some lead, zinc and valuable metals such as indium and germanium.
Due to the high production rate and large generated volumes, jarosite not only requires a lot of space for storage, but a large amount of valuable metals are lost with it and thus never return back to the value chain. Therefore, by developing a process to recover the economically important metals, we could reduce the amount of waste and also turn this waste stream into a valuable product.
New process to recover selectively recover lead and zinc from jarosite
Selectivity is a major challenge in extractive metallurgy of industrial process residues. Conventional hydrometallurgical processes leach all the metals including iron, which results in a leach liquor with very small concentrations of economically important metals compared that of iron. Moreover, a lot of acid is required to leach all the iron into the solution. In this work, a solvometallurgical approach was investigated for the selective leaching of lead and zinc from jarosite.
Solvometallurgy uses organic solvents rather than water in order to reduce energy, acid and water consumption and to improve selectivity and reactivity. The screening of different solvometallurgical lixiviants showed that the presence of chloride anions in the lixiviant was crucial for leaching of lead.
The ionic liquids Aliquat 336 ([A336][Cl]) and Cyphos IL 101 ([C101][Cl]), after equilibration with HCl, leached more lead and zinc compared to the other lixiviants. [A336][Cl] and [C101][Cl] equilibrated with 0.5 mol L−1 HCl, were selected for the optimisation study due to their higher selectivity towards lead and zinc and lower co-dissolution of iron, compared to the same ionic liquids equilibrated with a higher concentration of HCl.
At optimised leaching conditions, the metal/iron mass ratio increased from 1/4 for Pb/Fe, and from 1/7 for Zn/Fe in the initial jarosite, to over 2/1 and 1/2, in the leachate, respectively. The dissolved metals were recovered by selective precipitation-stripping with an aqueous ammonia solution. Finally, the corresponding flowsheets were developed for the recovery of zinc and lead for both [A336][Cl] and [C101][Cl].*Upscaling this process and rendering it economical is, however, still a huge challenge (which is beyond the scope of the SOCRATES project which focuses on lower TRL levels.)
Graphical abstract: [C101][Cl] and [A336][Cl] equilibrated with 0.5 mol L−1 HCl showed good leaching efficiency and selectivity for lead and zinc from iron-rich jarosite residue.
Full reference of the paper
Thupten Palden, Mercedes Regadío, Bieke Onghena and Koen Binnemans, Selective Metal Recovery from Jarosite Residue by Leaching with Acid-Equilibrated Ionic Liquids and Precipitation-Stripping, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019, 7, 4239-4246. Download here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/ipdf/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05938
This research received funding from the European Commission’s H2020 – Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) − Innovative Training Networks within the SOCRATES project under the grant agreement no. 721385 (Project website: http://etn-socrates.eu).
Bio Thupten Palden
Thupten Palden obtained his BSc in chemistry from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. Later, he continued his MSc in nanomaterial science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After completing the masters, he worked in a Dutch chemical company called DSM in the Netherlands for two years. On January 2017 he started his Phd at KU Leuven under the supervision of Prof. Koen Binnemans (cf. SOLVOMET Group and Industrial Service Centre). He is one of the early stage researcher of EU funded SOCRATES project.
*Upscaling this process and rendering it economical is, however, still a huge challenge (which is beyond the scope of the SOCRATES project which focuses on lower TRL levels.). This challenge is very similar to the challenges faced by other flow sheets in the domain of metal recovery from low-grade residues.
DINU GIORGIAN
This project has received funding from the European Union’s EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under Grant Agreement No 812580.
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Way to Go Dr. Rick Wilson
Evans on Marketing, October 18, 2013
October 18, 2013 Evans on Marketing Consumers and Their Behavior, Distribution, Marketing Communications, Privacy, Identity Theft, and Ethical Issues experiential marketing, promotion 2
A public congratulations to Hofstra colleague Dr. Rick Wilson.
Check this out: Marketing Prof Works on $2.2 Mil Grant to Educate Commuters about Climate Change
2 Replies to “Way to Go Dr. Rick Wilson”
Tory Broytman says:
Dr. Rick Wilson’s climate campaign is extremely impressive and inspirational. What I liked most after reading the article is that he is not a scientist, but a marketing professor. His contributions, though not scientific, were very useful because he is very successful in the marketing field. His is an expertise advertising and he used this speciality to come up with a fun character named Ozzie the Ostrich. Ozzie’s best quality is that he represents the average person who would be reading these advertisements on the subway. I think the campaign is an interactive, captivating way to reach out to the public. Congrats Dr. Wilson!
Brooke Sameyah says:
Dr. RIck Wilson’s ad campaign spreading awareness of climate change is extremely impressive. Commuters on a subway are representative of every age group, therefore making the subway a great spot for an ad like that. It’s also very inspiring because he’s not even a scientist. It just goes to show that you can apply any skill you have to make a difference in a completely different industry. I’m proud to be a Hofstra student in a time like this!
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Some careers are ideal for problem solvers
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Biotechnology, Plant Diseases
MISSISSIPPI STATE – Clarissa Balbalian’s job presents a new mystery every day.
“If you are analytical and like solving mysteries, this is the perfect job,” said Balbalian, the manager of Mississippi State University’s plant diagnostic lab. “I like working with people and helping them find solutions to their problems, too.”
Balbalian studied biology at Longwood University in Virginia, and then earned her master’s degree in forest pathology at West Virginia University.
“Plant pathology is a great way to be involved in agriculture,” she said. “I’ve always enjoyed the outdoors and been analytical. After considering careers in health-care fields, I decided plant health seemed less stressful.”
Balbalian said the plant-pathology field is wide open with many career opportunities in private industry or government agencies. Pathologists find jobs working domestically and internationally, addressing issues such as food safety and world hunger. Some of the most common opportunities are in academic and state and federal government positions.
“We are approaching a shortage as experienced pathologists retire from agencies such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service,” she said.
Maria Tomaso-Peterson, associate research professor in MSU’s Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, said it takes a “trained eye” to pinpoint plant problems. She attributed the growing shortage of plant pathologists to a trend toward technical proficiency and away from hands-on abilities.
“Applied pathologists are a dying breed, but what motivates them is the desire to solve puzzles. We are always looking for solutions to make things better,” she said.
Balbalian shared an unusual sample of grass fungus submitted to her lab with Tomaso-Peterson and other researchers. The pathologists were able to identify and document a new disease in centipedegrass. By identifying the fungus that causes centipede anthracnose, pathologists are one important step closer to developing treatments.
“Pathologists first seek to determine what is causing the problem. Sometimes it is a living organism, and sometimes it will be something else, such as a chemical or environmental issue. It helps to have someone with a trained eye to discern disease symptoms from other factors,” Tomaso-Peterson said.
“There is definitely a curiosity aspect behind the work of a plant pathologist,” she said. “That is what Clarissa has -- a lot of curiosity.”
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Post-Race Statistics of the 2014 Bahrain GP
Bore-rain? Not this time, the Bahrain GP was surprisingly exciting and action packed, especially after the safety car period.
Post-race Statistics of the Malaysian GP
Buckets of rain! Many safety cars! Cars sliding off everywhere! None of that happened this year, a fairly dry Malaysian GP with just a damp start. Sebastian Vettel won from pole position for the 20th time, behind just Ayrton Senna (29 wins from pole) and Michael Schumacher (39 wins from pole). Webber won’t be pleased however, he could have won his 10th race at his 200th Grand Prix had Vettel followed orders.
Post-race Statistics of the Brazilian GP
Wow, what a race that was, had a little bit of everything, we even had Kimi Räikkönen getting lost off track. Nico Hülkenberg led a race for the first ever time, looking good for a win, a podium at least until he made a mistake at turn 1 forcing Lewis Hamilton to retire and getting a drive through for himself.
Post-race Statistics of the United States GP
A pretty good first race at the Circuit of the Americas, with some clever tactics from Ferrari before the race start to get both Alonso and Massa on the clean side of the grid. Red Bull suffered from their third alternator failure of the season, it previous failed at Valencia and Monza.
Post-race Statistics of the Abu Dhabi GP
A surprisingly action packed Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, a race that previously has only been won from the front row. Pole position doesn't seem to be a good place to be in Abu Dhabi either, in 2009 Hamilton started on pole and retired on lap 19, in 2011 Vettel on pole, retired on lap 1 after a puncture and now again in 2012 with Hamilton on pole, retired on lap 19, again.
Post-race Statistics of the Indian GP
Another not so exciting Indian Grand Prix, yet again with Sebastian Vettel starting on pole and then leading every single lap. After winning the race Vettel now has over 1000 points, a total of 1013, behind only Fernando Alonso (1313 points) and Michael Schumacher (1560 points).
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Angel's Carol Time: 03:20
Very pleased to introduce a wonderful Christmas movie with a great melody and choral performance of the works of one of the most popular British composer John Rutter. Enjoy!
Amir & Amira Time: 04:17
This is a bit mystical story of two wooden puppets in their teens that encounter the brunt of a strict traditional education.
Amelia Time: 01:58
Trying to cross the Pacific ocean, a pilot is trapped in the midst of a violent storm... This story is inspired by the life of Amelia Earhart, first woman to ever cross the Atlantic ocean by plane.
Amazonia Time: 05:00
In the dangerous world of the Amazon Rainforest, finding a meal proves to be an impossible task for a little treefrog named Bounce. His luck changes when he meets Biggy, a blue-bellied treefrog who takes him under his guidance and shows him the ways of the jungle in this animated journey set to Beethoven's Symphony No.8.
Alma Time: 05:30
Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter. P.S. In October 2010, it was announced that DreamWorks Animation is developing an animated feature film based on "Alma". In November 2011, it was reported that the studio has hired Megan Holley, a...
Aleksandr Time: 05:28
Aleksandr the knitter has long forgotten why he lives suspended above the clouds with his village that survives the cold thanks to its knitting. Until he falls and has to face the unknown and what lives below...
Ahco On The Road Time: 08:27
Inspired by a nature documentary, "Ahco on The Road" is the story of a baby elephant ('Ahco') who is on a journey to find her way back home after being separated from her mother.
Aki Time: 03:38
The girl was late for the train and have to wait on the platform, but the expectation is violated evil dark ghost...
Azúl Time: 08:19
A small group of cruise-ship revellers find themselves alone on a tropic island. Forced inland, their exploration reveals the mystery that lies at it heart...
Azarkant Time: 08:26
In the future, a team of astronauts are sent on a ten year journey to a distant planet to find new life. On their way, they encounter a large, abandoned spaceship that is drifting in the orbit of a mysterious planet. They board the ship with anticipation of the great discoveries to uncover inside. However, they do not know what terrible secret this spacecraft keeps — a nightmarish threat...
Adam and Dog Time: 15:00
This is a retelling of Adam and Eve's story (as found in the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis) from Dog's point of view. Dog is shown in the Garden of Eden, exploring its environment and encountering various animals. Its doggy nature is revealed in various scenes from territory marking to barking at a passing mastodon to attempting to befriend a lemur. One day in the savanna,...
Adam Time: 02:26
18+ In the beginning of them She created us.
Autonomous Time: 04:03
A sci-fi short film tells about the barren world of wreckage and autonomous weapons. Started out as a proof of concept for a bigger story. Following the journey of F.R.E.D the recon droid`s last order. Done as a free time project during 2 years by a team of 2 people based in Estonia.
Autocracy Time: 04:00
If applaud rough lie, then everyone will have to pay a very high price...
Aurora Time: 03:31
This touching film about a distressed father who is separated from his daughter in an accident and must overcome the reality of the tempest to reach her.
Abiogenesis Time: 04:23
In this breathtaking science fiction spectacle, a strange mechanical device lands on a desolate world and uses the planet to undergo a startling transformation, that has profound implications for an entire galaxy.
WHO DO YOU CALL A FREAK HERE?
Throughout the history people are fascinated by freaks. Scared, disgusted, but still fascinated. And it is no surprise that we see freaks on the big screen. “Frankenstein”, “Freaks”, “The elephant man” so on and so forth… It is such a vivid way of...
Виктор - 01.12.2014 20:07
бедные фиолетовые няшки :(
Yodes - 20.08.2015 13:14
все так круто, но нет завершенности.
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Carpenter Bees vs Honey Bees: How to Tell These Bugs Apart
1 Differences in Appearance
3 Differences in Beh avior
4 Differences in Stingers
To get rid of the bees terrorizing your home, you have to be able to tell them apart. And in the case of carpenter bees vs honey bees, you’ll have no problem identifying one from the other. That’s because each of them is unique both in appearance and behavior.
Carpenter bees are bigger than honey bees. CC Image courtesy of Ysmad on Wikipedia and Pixabay
Differences in Appearance
Carpenter bees come in many shapes and colors while virtually all species of honey bees carry out a signature look that’s always been known to them.
Honey bees (Apis) have a trademark black and yellow stripe. They have yellow hair covering most of their bodies, but those are usually less visible on their black legs. These bees also have elongated abdomens that carry those aforementioned stripes.
Carpenter bees (Xylocopa) can also come in black and yellow. So if they fly right by you or if they’re far away, they can sometimes be mistaken as honey bees or bumblebees. However, you should remember that these bugs are bigger than honey bees and smaller than fuzzy bumblebees.
Wood-loving carpenter bees don’t have stripes, and each species has different patterns and colors. Some have metallic black abdomens that give off a blue-green sheen and visible yellow thoraxes with a little black dot in the middle. Others are black all over while there are a few that look very exotic, sporting glossy metallic blue exoskeletons or fuzzy orange bodies with big green eyes.
Differences in Beh avior
What really sets these two insects apart is their behavior. One bee follows a clear social system while the other usually lives alone.
Honey bees are known for being part of a huge group, a colony that’s made out of thousands of workers and one queen. They live together inside a hive that’s mostly made up of infertile females, each designated to be part of a working force with a specific task like guarding, nursing and foraging. Meanwhile, the only fertile member of the hive, the queen, is mainly responsible for birthing more of their kind. With their complex way of living, they can last even through winter.
Carpenter bees are completely different. They’re mostly solitary, non-hive dwelling bees that make up for a vast majority of the bee kingdom. Each female carpenter bee finds wood that she can drill into and make chambers for her young. She feeds them all by herself until they’re old enough to chew through their chambers and reproduce.
That’s the usual case. But carpenter bees can sometimes live with a group. We mentioned “mostly” in our previous paragraph because there are instances that carpenter bees can live following a simple social structure.
When quite a number of females bore into the same wood to build their nests, they can make a community of bees made up of mothers and daughters with no queen, just everyone living together in one place.
Differences in Stingers
Finally, the last major difference between the bees are their stingers.
When it comes to self-defense, only the females of both bee groups have stingers. However, honey bees have a more fatal way of fighting for themselves. They are the only bees that usually die after they sting. That’s because their stingers are curved and have microscopic barbs carved into them. A stinger of this design attaches itself to an animal’s skin very tightly, mostly rendering the honey bee unable to escape. It then ends up ripping its abdomen apart because its stinger is deeply connected to many of its organs inside the abdomen.
A carpenter bee, on the other hand, has a more convenient stinger. It’s straighter and smoother, so the bee is capable of stinging multiple times without harming itself. You can see this type of stinger in many insects like bumblebees and hornets.
So in the case of carpenter bees vs honey bees, the major differences mostly come from their behavior and how we humans see both insects. Honey bees are generally loved by the public because of their honey and wax. And on the other end of the spectrum, the carpenter bees are hated because of their destructive tendencies towards wood.
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Economy, Business And Markets
India Set to Implement Chabahar Project
The decks have been cleared for India to lease and develop the strategically important Iranian port of Chabahar. This will provide an alternative route for India to trade with Afghanistan and Central Asia, bypassing Pakistan.
The obstructions that the India-Iran agreement on the port had run into, after it was announced in May, got sorted last week during Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s visit, said India’s Road Transport and Highways Union Minister Nitin Gadkari.
“The prime minister has spoken to the Iran government…. and 8 to 10 days ago the Iranian foreign minister came and met me… we have solved the problem,” Gadkari said without divulging details. Under the memorandum of understanding, Chabahar Port will be used to ship crude oil and urea, greatly reducing transportation costs for importing these two commodities. The port is to be developed via a special purpose vehicle, which will be owned by the two sides with an investment of around $85 million. A multi-purpose cargo and container terminal is to be developed at the port, Indian daily newspaper The Hindu reported.
India’s presence in Chabahar will offset the Chinese presence in the Pakistani port of Gwadar. It also takes advantage of the centuries-old connection with Iran, especially at a time when Iran’s economic sanctions are expected to be lifted, thanks to the nuclear deal it signed with the West. Weeks ahead of signing the MoU, the Iranian government had leased the port for upgradation to a private company, Aria Banader. This put a question mark on the Indo-Iranian deal and caused alarm in Indian quarters as the agreement with Aria Banader had taken place in March, while the MoU was signed in May between Gadkari and Iran’s Minister for Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi.
Tehran has offered a proposal to Delhi to help build over 500-km-rail link from Chabahar to Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province. Zahedan is connected to the main Iranian rail network and the proposed rail link when concluded will join Chabahar with North-South Transport Corridor and provide access to Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and beyond.
The project opens up a sea of opportunities for India and Indian Premier Narendra Modi pushed the idea during his July visit to Central Asia with an eye on realizing untapped economic partnership with the Eurasian region, including Russia and Central Asia.
Russia, Iran and India signed the agreement for the project in 2002, which uses ship, rail, and road for moving freight among India, Russia, Iran, Europe and Central Asia. The route primarily involves moving freight from India, Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia and would reduce time by half for cargo movement from India to Europe through this corridor instead of the Suez Canal route. Current time taken for cargo from western India to Europe is nearly 40 days.
Dry runs of the two routes in the project were conducted in 2014, the first was Mumbai to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, via the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas and the second was Mumbai to Astrakhan in Russia via Bandar Abbas, Tehran and Bandar Anzali located in the north of Iran.
Iran Banks on Transit Hub Potential for Global Engagement
Dry Run for India-Iran-Russia Transport Project
Gadkari Visit Signals India Committed to Strong Ties
Chabahar Port Development Feather in India’s Cap
Iran Signs $3.2b FDI Agreements for Chabahar
Indian Commerce and Industry Minister: (KICKER) New Delhi to Trade With Tehran in Accordance With Int'l Laws
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Prince Hamza Awards Roya TV at LEGO League Arabia
Under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein the FIRST LEGO League Arabia was organized by the King Hussein Foundation’s Jubilee Center for Excellence in Education, in cooperation with the Arab Robotics Association, and the participation of 103 teams from the Arab world.
Prince Hamzah crowned the winning team and awarded the participants at the closing ceremony on Sunday evening where Roya TV, who sponsored the event, was granted an award received by GM Engineer Fares Sayegh.
The tournament aims to integrate learning into practical life and engage students in finding practical solutions to the challenges facing the world, focusing on developing skills of scientific research and creative thinking among students in a stimulating learning environment in order to discover, develop and follow up on abilities and talents.
Qatar appoints Sheikh Saud Al Thani as ambassador ....
Qatar appoints Sheikh Saud Al Thani as ....
Royal Decree appoints new ambassador to ....
17 suspects arrested on drug-related ....
Razzaz: Government in the service of ....
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Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2017/September
< Wiktionary:Beer parlour
discussion rooms: Tea room • Etym. scr. • Info desk • Beer parlour • Grease pit ← August 2017 · September 2017 · October 2017 → · (current)
1 September LexiSession: peace
2 Addition to WT:Wikidata policy
3 Old Kurdish?
4 Proposal: install mw:Extension:PageNotice
5 French Wiktionary August news
6 Egyptian hieroglyphics
7 User:TNMPChannel
8 Translingual terms listed under descendants
9 (literary or dialectal)
10 203.220.198.195 (talk)
11 Adding accents to Italian headwords
12 angstrom
13 WM language guides
14 Draft strategy direction. Version #2
15 Merge Proto-Nuclear Polynesian and Proto-Eastern Polynesian into Proto-Polynesian
16 Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
17 "Morphologically from the root" IP editor
18 Proposed first use of Wikidata: categorising planets
19 Split RfD by English/non-English as we have with RfV
20 Upcoming Wiki Science Competition
21 Wiktionary User Group
22 Help review PulauKakatua19 (talk • contribs)'s entries
23 Gfarnab (talk • contribs) back at it again
24 Wiktionary:Votes/cu-2017-09/User:SemperBlotto for checkuser
25 Parentheses in IPA
26 Braille entries
27 Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2017-09/User:Aryamanarora for admin
28 Denoting long aspiration
29 Dinajpuria
30 Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2017-09/User:Justinrleung for admin
31 Should sense ids be distinct across pages?
32 Modern Greek terms spelt with Latin characters
33 Project Grant proposal for Lingua Libre
34 Little gnomes at work?
35 Category:en:Automotive
36 Wikimedia Movement Strategy phase 2, and a goodbye
37 Language userboxes: by country/region?
38 Desinence as a POS
September LexiSession: peace[edit]
An origami for peace!
The monthly suggested collective task is to make peace. September 21 is the International Day of Peace and October 2 the International Day of Non-Violence so it may be good to reinforce our content related to this topic.
By the way, Lexisession is a collaborative experiment without any guide or direction. You're free to participate however you like and to suggest next month's topic. If you participate, please let us know here or on Meta, to keep track on the evolution of LexiSession, because we started a year ago. I hope there will be some people interested in making some contributions! My plan is to try to draft a thesaurus on this topic, but to pick good illustrations can be a nice challenge too Noé 10:37, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Hey, the International Day of Peace is today. I'm quite happy to make some publicity about the new thesaurus about peace in French! Noé 13:41, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Addition to WT:Wikidata policy[edit]
I propose to add a 5th case in which pre-approval isn't necessary: in existing and in-use templates/modules, where the use of Wikidata does not have any effect on the output. This would allow us to do things like tracking and stuff, for testing and to explore potential new uses and the effects. —Rua (mew) 14:41, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
To repeat what I said in Wiktionary talk:Wikidata#A first experiment, I support adding this 5th exception. I think it's consistent with the spirit of the other exceptions, to allow the possibility to access Wikidata without affecting the actual content presented to readers. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 21:49, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
I've been bold and added it to the Wikidata policy page, since nobody else has shown an interest in this discussion. —Rua (mew) 19:03, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Old Kurdish?[edit]
Please forgive my ignorance, but what is the generally accepted name for the parent form of all the Kurdish sublects? Old Kurdish? Proto-Kurdish? Is "Old Kurdish" attested and/or reconstructable?
Also, I noticed we have quite a few entries with the language code ku. Do these need to be sorted out and moved to their respect lect codes or are these entries with identical orthography across all three lects? --Victar (talk) 20:55, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
We have discussed this before, although I'm not sure where. @-sche might have a link handy. Our entries in ku are nearly all Kurmanji in Latin script, although we also have a specific code for Kurmanji. I think we would be best off committing to a single approach, and use a modified version of {{fa-regional}} to link between dialects. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 21:15, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Pinging @Calak, who seems to be knowledgeable in all of the Kurdish dialects. —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 02:42, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
Proto-Kurdish is attested.
I always use ku code when a word is common in all of the Kurdish dialects. For example the common word for "goat" in Kurdish is "bizin"; why should we separate dialects and write "bizin" four times?! ku code means Kurdish language with all its dialects.--Calak (talk) 09:03, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
Because it can get confusing where there's Southern Kurdish one place and Kurdish another, and it's doubly confusing once someone has set computers at the job and there's just raw lists of which entries have Souther Kurdish translations and which don't, without any note of Kurdish in the vicinity.--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:52, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Proposal: install mw:Extension:PageNotice[edit]
This extension makes it possible to add headers to pages. It would mean we no longer need to add {{reconstructed}} to every reconstruction page. —Rua (mew) 12:19, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
French Wiktionary August news[edit]
Hey! August issue of Wiktionary Actualités just came out in English!
What's up in French Wiktionary? And in the other Wiktionaries? What is a Magic Link? Is there statistics somewhere? German words that may exists? Videos? Details on tantum categories? Nice paintings from French artists? Clowns? Yes, all of this can be find in August Actualités!
As usual, it is translated in English by non-native speakers, in less than a day, and it is not perfect, but it can be improved by readers (wiki-spirit). We are very happy to celebrate a year of English translations! Twelves issues! That's not bad considering that we do not received any money for this publication and we are not supported by any user group or chapter. It is only written by the community, and it was eleven participants for this issue! We all stay eager to receive your opinion on our publication! Noé 21:24, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
Egyptian hieroglyphics[edit]
Why are you using the html tag for Egyptian hieroglyphics instead of the unicode characters? While looking at Help:WikiHiero syntax I read that the unicode characters only are partially supported so I guess that's why (found the page while writing). What are the things missing for it to be fully supported and when might those "missings" be added or fixed? This turned out to be a more "I don't know anything" question than meant... sorry 'bout that.Jonteemil (talk) 23:34, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
You answered your own question: Unicode can't support all of what we want to show. WikiHiero not only displays the characters correctly, it also does so regardless of whether the reader's computer can support special fonts (hint: most can't) and allows for flexibility in stacking, which lets us show how the language's native speakers chose to organise hieroglyphs spatially. Moreover, Egyptian dictionaries are conventionally organised by romanisation. There is no expectation that Unicode will ever fix this, which is unsurprising given that it is a long-extinct language with no use community, so our current solution is the best way to handle Egyptian going forward. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 23:45, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
Actually, positioning hieroglyphs properly might be in the works. —suzukaze (t・c) 07:16, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
Fingers crossed! — Ungoliant (falai) 17:54, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Oh, I hadn't seen this version. That's interesting, although I'm not sure it weighs out the other concerns. (E.g. that Egyptian spelling is so erratic that if people search by hieroglyph, we'd have to create entries for all the plentiful alternative spellings (and arrangements that aren't even truly alternative spellings, but have different Unicode control characters) because they'd never be able to guess what spellings we'd lemmatised. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 18:02, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
User:TNMPChannel[edit]
Discussion moved from Wiktionary:Tea room/2017/September#User:TNMPChannel.
I just blocked them for three days for creating an entry in Vietnamese- a language they don't claim to know- by plagiarizing the definitions (without attribution) from a Chinese entry that shares the same character. This is not just dishonest, it's a copyright violation and a violation of our Creative Commons license.
It's also part of a pattern of poor judgement that I've been concerned about for a while: indiscriminate mass creation of articles from a single source without checking for attestability. Creating entries, then immediately rfding them (within minutes). Submitting one of their new entries to rfc because no one else had intervened to fix it yet. Moving a category without understanding enough about our categories to have a clue whether it was a good idea (it definitely wasn't). In general, doing stuff without knowing what they were doing, then expecting others to fix it.
I may be wrong, but to me this all looks like a child who's too young to understand the implications of what they're doing, and is used to grownups stepping in and fixing things. If not, then something is really, really wrong.
At any rate, we need to decide what to do about this- I've only blocked them for three days, and they will have read this by then. Wikis aren't all that good at dealing with contributors who sincerely believe they're helping, but don't know what they're doing. What do you think we should do? Chuck Entz (talk) 05:55, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
I think he/she should be unblocked for now. The first reminder or warning to the user about making errors in unfamiliar languages was by Justin on their talk page at 03:54, 3 September 2017 (UTC), and they haven't made similar edits after the message. From I observed in their Chinese edits: he/she seems to be quite unfamiliar with our formatting system, though I can see they are trying to improve, and I have also received 'thanks' for my subsequent edits to their created entries. The entries have been quite useful too. It's not very often that we get new users who are native in E/SE Asian languages, so I'm more inclined to fix their new edits than discourage them. Of course, if it persists despite explanation and warning, then blocking would be indicated. Wyang (talk) 06:01, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
The plagiarism part merits at least a day. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:16, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
Sure. However, I suspect (or hope) that it may just be part of their cluelessness, rather than malicious disruption or infringement. I do hope that they could return, to help with Chinese idioms and Malay entries. Wyang (talk) 08:12, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
I find their constant page moves very worrying. They seem to misunderstand how everything works here. Maybe time should be taken to explain what's wrong on their talk page. —suzukaze (t・c) 06:02, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
About 2.5 hours ago this user placed {{unblock|I promise I won't do it again.}} at User_talk:TNMPChannel#Unblock. I think we need some specific, extensive acknowledgement of what won't be done again. (Also something in the documentation that requests a complete confession or allocution before the user is entitled to the request being considered.) DCDuring (talk) 12:25, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
Also, please check if it's not an Awesomemeeos sock. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 12:53, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
Completely different. Awesomemeeos gets all the technicalities perfect but has trouble with basic common sense. This person can't get either right. Awesomemeeos simply doesn't have the self-awareness and self-restraint to pull off an impersonation like this- for one thing, they're compulsive about upgrading templates. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:32, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
Translingual terms listed under descendants[edit]
Prompted by this seemingly innocent kerfuffle, it makes me wonder if it is I who am in the wrong, or if I'm onto something. Should translingual terms be listed as descendants? I would say no, because they're mainly taxonomic terms made up of Latin terms, not natural descendants. --Robbie SWE (talk) 17:49, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Would you support the taxonomic terms being listed as ==Latin== instead of ==Translingual==? DTLHS (talk) 17:59, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Hmm, I'm kind of slow today. Mind giving me an example? --Robbie SWE (talk) 18:02, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Since you say that they are "taxonomic terms made up of Latin terms" and favor derived terms instead of descendants, it would be consistent to just call them Latin instead of "Translingual". DTLHS (talk) 18:04, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
But we already have translingual taxonomic terms. The examples I was given were bombyx#Descendants, accipiter#Descendants, aequoreus#Descendants and alauda#Descendants. I don't believe they should be listed as descendants. --Robbie SWE (talk) 18:19, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
You do not understand. If you want them to be derived terms why do you still want to call them "Translingual"? DTLHS (talk) 18:23, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
I don't want them there at all - for instance, Bombyx shouldn't be under descendants nor should it be under derived terms at bombyx. --Robbie SWE (talk) 18:47, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Why shouldn't there be some link in the Latin section to the taxonomic term that is derived or descended from it? Why would we omit the connection? DCDuring (talk) 22:17, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
@DCDuring, I understand what you mean. The reason why I would opt for not listing them under descendants at all is because tanslingual isn't a language per se. According to our guidelines – [l]ist terms in other languages that have borrowed or inherited the word. The etymology of these terms should then link back to the page. – I don't think that translingual terms fall under this category. I looked through this category and a vast majority of them are not listed under descendants in their original Latin entries. --Robbie SWE (talk) 08:30, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
@Robbie SWE: In the case of CJKV characters clearly we are dealing with a script, not a language. In the case of other Translingual items we are dealing with items that are used in multiple languages. If we don't have Translingual descent shown for taxonomic names, then in principle we should show the taxonomic name as a descendant in each language in which the taxonomic name is used. This seems silly at best. DCDuring (talk) 14:34, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
"Should translingual terms be listed as descendants?"
By common practice it's done that way and so you were "in the wrong". This know is with a "should" and another question and topic. So what possibilities are there?
Don't list translingual descendants at all.
--- This probably is not a good choice.
List them as derived terms.
--- By WT:ELE#Derived terms that would only be possible if translingual terms would be mislabelled Latin or if Latin would be mislabeled translingual or if both would be merged into a single pseudo-language 'Translingualolatin' (or whatever the name would be). This probably is not a good choice either.
List translingual terms as descendants.
--- Why not? I can't think of any contra reasons. Pro reasons: In a translingual entry it would also be for example "From Latin TERM", and descendant is descriptive.
List translingual terms at see also.
--- This does also depend on the question of what can be listed at see also, and apparently there are different views about it. If different-language terms can be listed at see also: Why not? The only reasons I could think of would be that descendants (maybe cp. descendant#Noun) sounds fitting and is more descriptive and informative. On the other hand, as some translingual terms come with {{taxlink}} and link to the English wikispecies project and not to wiktionary, this would also be an acceptable choice.
-84.161.41.93 02:52, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
{{taxlink}} "temporarily" links to Wikispecies (in all uses), with the hope that there will be a Translingual Wiktionary entry (unless it is decided that taxonomic names are Latin). The "See also" heading is for items that have no more specific heading, but in the past has been used for (true) external links and WM project links as well as for alternative forms, "coordinate terms", hyponyms, hypernyms, meronyms, etc. Placing the items now under "See also" under proper headings would be an excellent cleanup project (Augean stables?), but most of us are in pursuit of bright shiny objects. DCDuring (talk) 03:59, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
(literary or dialectal)[edit]
故此 is tagged as (literary or dialectal). I'd like to know whether, as the order of it seems to mean, 'literary' refers to Mandarin only, or also in the unspecified dialects implied by the tag. Is this way of inferring to be systematically unsderstood for any such tags appearing in other entries for any other language? --Backinstadiums (talk) 21:06, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
As it is the entry is not comprehensible. @Wyang, what dialects are included in "dialectal"? DTLHS (talk) 05:17, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
Wiktionary:About Chinese#Key points: "Terms are defined in relation to Modern Standard Written Chinese. ... Senses limited to the literary language, certain dialects or regions should be marked accordingly." I changed the tag to "formal or Min Dong". I think the headers in our entries should link to the "About" pages somewhere, so that people are directed to a page which explains how a language is documented in entries on Wiktionary, also a page where people can leave their questions or feedback, or voice their interest in joining the editing team. Wyang (talk) 12:13, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wyang: Isn't it uncommon for term to be use in either formal registers or dialectal ones? --Backinstadiums (talk) 06:41, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
Not necessarily, especially if the reason for the disuse in the modern standard register is an innovation, which happens often in Chinese. Wyang (talk) 06:44, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wyang: Could you please add some examples of such innovations for words used frequently in the language? thanks in advance. --Backinstadiums (talk) 14:58, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Much of the variation in basic vocabulary (Appendix:Sino-Tibetan Swadesh lists) is due to innovations in the northern varieties of Chinese. Some examples include: 口 (“mouth”) (later displaced by 嘴), 食 (“to eat”) (by 吃), 飲 (“to drink”) (by 喝), 犬 (“dog”) (by 狗), 企 (“to stand”) (by 站), 渠 (“he/she”) (by 他). Apart from this kind of simple monosyllabic supplantation, another reason for the innovations is the process of polysyllabification, which occurred especially in the northern varieties out of the need for disambiguation, as a compensatory mechanism after the loss of many phonetic contrasts (e.g. tone) through sound changes. Examples include 石 → 石頭, 種 (“seed”) → 種子. Wyang (talk) 04:30, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wyang: Hi again, thank you for your examples but none is tagged as either "literary", "dialectal" or "literary or dialectal". Could we isolate the entries which have the tag "literary or dialectal", and then check which ones developed as innovation? --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:30, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
They don't have to be tagged. It's implied in the {{zh-dial}} boxes on those entries. Wyang (talk) 10:42, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wyang: Do you mean having {{lb|zh|Min Dong}} link to the about page? — Eru·tuon 07:52, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
Not really, having <h2>Chinese</h2> link to the about page rather, in the style of fr:chinoise or something similar. Wyang (talk) 08:02, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
I suppose that could be done with JavaScript. Or with templates, if we decided to allow templates in headers like the French Wiktionary (less likely). — Eru·tuon 08:49, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
203.220.198.195 (talk)[edit]
Please someone block this. Wyang (talk) 04:40, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wyang: Done, simply because I trust you. I want a reason, though — I looked over a few edits and they seemed fine, though I don't know any Uyghur. (Also, for future reference, this sort of thing can go at WT:VIP.) —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 05:39, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Hmm, is it just because it's an Australian who already knows how all our templates work? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 05:46, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Works for me. It's not necessarily the quality of the initial batch of edits, but the camel's nose that will lead to high volumes of hard-to-check edits later on. Notice, for instance, their edits on {{Template:kk-decl-noun}} which "coincidentally" continues edits by another IP, 61.69.238.79 (talk • contribs • whois • deleted contribs • nuke • edit filter log • block • block log • active blocks • global blocks) back in July.
(Before E/C) @Wyang Hi. What edits are wrong? I have only checked some, haven't seen anything bad.
--Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 05:40, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
@Atitarev you don't find it odd that an IP pops up out of nowhere and starts out by rewriting all the inflection templates- in both Kazakh and Uyghur? Chuck Entz (talk) 07:28, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
@Chuck Entz: Yes, it's suspicious, it could be a formally blocked editor but I didn't know that this is a reason for blocking, though and none was given. Who was it, anyway? --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 07:37, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
AwesomeMeeos, of course. I'm starting to go through Category:Noun inflection-table templates by language. In the Adyghe subcategory, for instance you'll find edits by 203.63.135.236 (talk • contribs • whois • deleted contribs • nuke • edit filter log • block • block log • active blocks • global blocks). Chuck Entz (talk) 07:57, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
He's quite inventive, LOL. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 08:11, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Adding accents to Italian headwords[edit]
I'm currently learning Italian and started to work on our Italian entries. I noticed that we don't display accents for irregularly stressed words. cavolo and diavolo for example are listed in other Italian dictionaries as càvolo and diàvolo (e.g. Treccani), because they don't follow the common stres pattern (next to last syllable). My suggestion is to add a headword parameter to those entries, {{it-noun|m|head=diàvolo}}. Or would that be confusing? Explicit parameter? Better alternatives? – Jberkel (talk) 09:04, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
The problem is that sometimes the accent is actually written, and there's no way for someone to tell the difference. —Rua (mew) 11:28, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
I have included the accent in the hyphenation as a possible solution: diavolo. --Vriullop (talk) 12:12, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Hm, maybe that's a solution then, I think the information should go somewhere, and the pronunciation section is a good place. It's interesting that they don't bother using accents, even in ambiguous cases (e.g. pesca). – Jberkel (talk) 15:12, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Theoretically, the "correct" solution would be to include an IPA pronunciation with a stress mark. But I like the accent in the hyphenation idea too. --WikiTiki89 18:06, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
angstrom[edit]
This person keeps reverting my OED-sourced proper pronunciation of angstrom. Apparently he or she thinks that proper pronunciations must meet his personal litmus test of notability or whatever. Wiktionary exists for many reasons, one being a place where readers from Wikipedia can come to get the specifics of a word, an important part of that being proper pronunciations. I added this information for the specific reason of avoiding the continuation of ever-recurring arguments about the pronunciation of this word over at Wikipedia. The proper pronunciations of words and the common do not always overlap in many cases. Their argument seems to be that [œ] does not exist in English, but a quick look over at Open-mid front rounded vowel can tell you that's not the case. In any case it is a Swedish loanword, and you can observe this vowel in the pronunciation of the the Swedish version. I made sure to display the pronunciation I added [phonetically] rather than /phonemically/, and I did not mess with or remove the existing common phonemic English pronunciations, so I really don't see what the big deal is. I don't just pull this stuff out of my ass; I am well-versed in the relevant term and how IPA works. This information, while a bit obscure, could still potentially help someone. Don't get me wrong; any other day I'm all for excising superfluous crap from reference sources, but this is not one of those cases. It looks to me to be yet another age-old case of what we called “barracks lawyers” in the Army. Pariah24 (talk) 12:48, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
I would expect that pronunciation by English speakers would rarely be the same as "correct" or common pronunciation by Swedish speakers, especially for a word fully absorbed into English. At [[ångström]] we have the Swedish pronunciation. DCDuring (talk) 14:51, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
@Pariah24 The problem I have is that you don't state which accent says IPA(key): [ˈɔːŋstɹœm]. The LPD and CEPD, the most respected pronunciation dictionaries of English list only the pronunciations with IPA(key): /ə/ and IPA(key): /ʌ/. We're both aware that there's no *IPA(key): /œ/ phoneme in English, at least in most accents. Can you prove that accents that use IPA(key): [œː] for the NURSE vowel (or GOAT vowel, in the case of South African English) would use that vowel in 'angstrom'? I find that highly unlikely and so that argument just doesn't hold up without additional sources that would prove that. Mr KEBAB (talk) 15:10, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
@DCDuring We do, I added it there a few days ago per the LPD, which provides the Swedish IPA alongside RP and GA transcriptions. Mr KEBAB (talk) 15:10, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
The established practice on Wiktionary is to only put English pronunciations in an English entry. If no English speaker actually says the word angstrom with the pronunciation [ˈɔːŋstrœm], then that pronunciation should not be listed in the English entry. So the way to resolve this dispute is to find evidence that an English speaker says [ˈɔːŋstrœm], and to put that pronunciation in the proper context (is it rare, is it used by English speakers who also speak Swedish?). — Eru·tuon 17:48, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
I didn't notice that the pronunciation came from the OED. It is given as phonemic there: /ˈɔːŋstrœm/. On the one hand, I respect the OED; on the other, Wiktionary encourages verification of information taken from other sources, so it would be good to find out what they based this transcription on and whether it would meet our standards even if the OED didn't say it, and put it in proper perspective (that is, as above, who actually uses this pronunciation?). — Eru·tuon 18:02, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
screenshot for the plebs :) Pariah24 (talk) 03:29, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Given its relative obscurity I think most would agree that finding a sample in the wild of a pronunciation of this term is pretty unfeasible. OED has never steered me wrong. If this were Wikipedia I wouldn't have even bothered with this nitpicky silliness, but it's a dictionary for pete's sake, and I always lean on the side of too much information is better than not enough, provided the source isn't questionable. I'm not over here deleting anything, I'm just adding. Pariah24 (talk)
This doesn't look like a query for an obscure word to me. —suzukaze (t・c) 03:48, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
After all, there are many sources that say "X is a word that means Y" out there in the world, in particular other dictionaries. But they don't actually prove that people use a word, they just say they do, which really isn't sufficient. It wouldn't be the first time that dictionaries make up words that nobody has ever used!
—Wiktionary:Wiktionary for Wikipedians
—suzukaze (t・c) 03:40, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Blockquoting, really? Pariah24 (talk) 03:43, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
If you want to play this game, here's a link for you. Pariah24 (talk) 03:47, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Alright, you can have another too. —suzukaze (t・c) 03:50, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
I, too, suspect this is a dictionary invention and I think it should not be in the entry without proof of actual use. Incidentally, I have a background in science (in the US), where normal use was /ˈæŋstɹəm/ or /ˈæŋstɹɑm/ (the latter of which I note is not in the entry). —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 03:52, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Not trying to offend but your anecdotal experience with a physics term can not possibly be comprehensive enough to be used as a valid argument for inclusion into a worldwide dictionary project. The only plausible way to attack my view that I see is to question the validity of OED and claim they would just put made-up bullshit into their dictionary, which is what you appear to be doing. Everything I know about OED from years of using it goes against this view. This is all getting really pedantic if you ask me. Sometimes it seems like all the worst parts of Wikipedia are magnified here. Pariah24 (talk) 04:24, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
If I understand the screenshot above correctly, the OED's entry for angstrom hasn't been updated since 1933. Nobody is saying that they insert made up bullshit into their entries. But their information may be outdated. DTLHS (talk) 04:28, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Sadly, it may be bullshit. The OED makes things up a lot more than any of us would like, I'm afraid; you'll see that they're a frequent offender over at Appendix:English dictionary-only terms (a list of terms found in dictionaries that were never actually used enough to enter Wiktionary). —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 04:31, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
If it needs to be removed based on this rationale I don't have a problem with it. I only have a problem with "hey guy I'm here to police you because I don't think you know what you're talking about." I'm rarely on the other side of these situations, because I almost never remove the content of others unless it obviously needs to go. Pariah24 (talk) 04:35, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
@Pariah24 Here we go again with misrepresenting what I say. I'm not interested in policing you (though you seem to strongly believe that, which isn't correct) but in the quality of Wiktionary. I removed that information and added sourced pronunciations (or sourced already existing ones, whatever it was) because I could see that the IPA was incomplete, it didn't say which accent says IPA(key): [ɔːŋstrœm] and I knew for a fact that neither RP nor GA speakers use IPA(key): [œ] in loanwords, not to mention native words. Do I really have to repeat myself over and over again? It seems like I do. I'm tired of you twisting my words and lying about my actions. Mr KEBAB (talk) 18:11, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
It's especially aggravating when you're someone who has already gone through pains to use good sources. Pariah24 (talk) 04:39, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
@DTLHS: The last quotation in the entry is from 1957, and the small text under the definition mentions a redefinition of the meter in 1960, so they must have updated at least those parts of the entry since 1933. — Eru·tuon 05:03, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Nobody likes to say this, but we rely heavily on original research (for English at least) and generally don't give a shit what secondary sources say. Which is why you will encounter so much hostility if you try to support something based on what a dictionary says. DTLHS (talk) 04:40, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
I honestly never noticed the little update warnings off to the right, so thanks for that. Clearly my attention to detail needs some work. Pariah24 (talk) 04:47, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
However on a second look it does say Previous version OED2 (1989). I think it just means it was first published in 1933. Pariah24 (talk) 04:53, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
@DTLHS That's clearly not the case here. I sourced the IPA on angstrom, it's not OR. Mr KEBAB (talk) 18:11, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
FWIW, there have been other cases where dictionaries prescribe a pronunciation that we can't find in use; bon appétit is one. If more dictionaries than just the OED prescribed the pronunciation mentioned here (and if they were consistent, e.g. in saying it was an RP pronunciation), then it might be appropriate to add a note like the one in bon appétit. - -sche (discuss) 04:20, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
Isn't it ALWAYS true that a term originating in a FL will sometimes be pronounced by a limited number of English speakers as it is in the FL. Those who pronounce it as in the FL would be limited to those who knew the FL or were repeatedly "corrected". If the pronunciation is not fairly common, why should it be included? DCDuring (talk) 05:03, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
WM language guides[edit]
Following is text extracted from a message posted on many WM mailing lists:
Many wikis in the Wikimedia world give editors suggestions about the correct usage of each respective language: orthography, register, punctuation, and so on.
I started a page to list of such language guides: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_guides
I added a bunch of links to Hebrew there because that's my home wiki. I also added a few pages that I could find for Catalan, Indonesian, Russian, and Bosnian.
Please add your languages there! Surely there are dozens and dozens of missing links there.
Before you ask: The linked page explains why Wikidata is not very convenient for maintaining such a list, but if you think that you can put this nicely in Wikidata, be bold.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni
Note that this is not the same as article style guides. I would think folks here would be interested. Potentially English usage guides would be a valuable resource and link target for us. Perhaps some of our usage notes and other material would be useful material for such usage guides in many languages. DCDuring (talk) 14:43, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Erm, it appears that these are, in fact, just style guides... —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 18:32, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
I think the glass is about 1/4 full. At least, Croatian, Hebrew, Indonesian, and Polish include grammar and/or common spelling errors. Afrikaans has something on translation errors. DCDuring (talk) 20:03, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Draft strategy direction. Version #2[edit]
In 2017, we initiated a broad discussion to form a strategic direction that will unite and inspire Wikimedians. This direction will be the foundation on which we will build clear plans and set priorities. More than 80 communities and groups discussed and gave feedback[strategy 1][strategy 2][strategy 3]. We researched readers and consulted more than 150 experts[strategy 4]. We looked at future trends that will affect our mission, and gathered feedback from partners and donors.
A group of community volunteers and representatives from the strategy team synthesized this feedback into an early version of the strategic direction that the broader movement can review and discuss.
The second version of the direction is ready. Again, please read, share, and discuss on the talk page on Meta. Based on your feedback, the drafting group will refine and finalize the direction.
^ Cycle 1 synthesis report
^ New Voices synthesis report
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 10:12, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Merge Proto-Nuclear Polynesian and Proto-Eastern Polynesian into Proto-Polynesian[edit]
The Austronesian languages suffer from what you might call matryoshka grouping: each group has a branch which then branches further, which then branches further, and so on. You end up with a lot of branches which don't have very significant differences, and a lot of different proto-language entries with very similar content. It's made more complicated by the fact that some of the branches are less well established than others. To reduce this somewhat, I propose merging Proto-Nuclear Polynesian poz-pnp-pro and Proto-Eastern Polynesian poz-pep-pro into Proto-Polynesian poz-pol-pro. The differences between them are very small; each group is separated from its parent by only one or two sound changes, the sound changes of individual languages are often more substantial than those separating the proto-languages. See *matuqa for example. Rapa Nui and Hawaiian are both in the Eastern Polynesian group, yet the former preserves the Proto-Polynesian form unchanged while the latter significantly changes it. Having separate entries for Proto-Polynesian *aka, Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *aka and Proto-Eastern Polynesian *aka is quite pointless. —Rua (mew) 22:47, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
So for some more background, what are the sound changes that supposedly differentiate PNP from PP, and PEP from PNP? --WikiTiki89 22:54, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
See w:Proto-Polynesian language. Nuclear has loss of *h and merging of *l and *r. Eastern also has *s > *h and partial loss of *q. —Rua (mew) 23:31, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Oppose. We have terms that can be reconstructed to PNP but not to PPn. Why on earth would you make it impossible to enter reconstructible terms? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 23:53, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Same reason we did it for Proto-Germanic or Proto-Uralic. —Rua (mew) 00:00, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
So what do you do with words reconstructible to Proto-West-Germanic but not to Proto-Germanic? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 04:29, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
We reconstruct them for Proto-Germanic. Many linguists don't even believe in Proto-West-Germanic. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 09:47, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
To clarify, we put the reconstruction in a Proto-Germanic entry and give it a context label of "West Germanic". --WikiTiki89 16:47, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
Oppose. There are two factors that differentiate Polynesian languages from Indo-European and other Eurasian language families.
Polynesian phonotactics are extremely adverse to consonant change: in any Polynesian language I'm familiar with, there's no such thing as a consonant cluster- every syllable begins with either a vowel or a single consonant followed by a vowel, and there are simply no final consonants. That means that any consonant change that does happen is really significant.
Millions of square miles of open ocean. It is physically possible to walk from the Scandinavian Peninsula all the way to India, but not from Samoa to Hawaii. Proto-Germanic spread over a wide area, but contact between dialect areas prevented it from splitting up into separate branches, for the most part. There are Polynesian island groups such as the Hawaiian Islands and Rapa Nui where there has been a colonization event or two, but no other contact with the outside world- ever. There are parts of Polynesia where island groups are close enough to allow periodic contact, but there are also plenty of island groups where other peoples were a subject of oral history, but never actually encountered until the Europeans showed up. There again, patterns of sound changes are probably reflective of actual population movements, not of areal influence or borrowing- you can't have areal influences if people within an area have never had any contact with each other. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:36, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
I don't get what your point is. You seem to be saying that we should group languages based on how different they theoretically could be rather than how different they actually are. To me it seems that what we need is to determine whether there actually are fundamental enough differences between PP, PNP, and PEP that it would be infeasible to treat them under a single langauge. I don't personally have an answer to this, nor do I have any evidence to share, but let's not base this on theory. --WikiTiki89 02:40, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
Support at minimum for inherited terms. Multiplication of entries like Proto-Polynesian *wai, Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wai and Proto-Eastern Polynesian *wai is useless. These are nothing more than a waste of effort that makes things harder to maintain. Trying to document every possible reconstructed proto-language as if they were attested natural languages is not a part of Wiktionary's mission; it is w:scope creep and should be avoided.
— I could agree either way on items that actually are reconstructible only for a smaller group of languages, though, such as Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nui. Having these under their proper proto-language categories etc. is more exact; but on the other hand, keeping around two "tiers" of proto-languages seems more complicated than is really necessary, since the context label (dialect label would be more exact) approach works for almost all needs. --Tropylium (talk) 20:48, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned[edit]
There are over eight thousand entries in this category. Does anyone know what we are supposed to do with them? SemperBlotto (talk) 19:27, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
It is a project of TheDaveRoss. Maybe he can tell you. DTLHS (talk) 19:28, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
The cleaning means changing {{quote-text}} to one of the specific quote templates, it is not at all urgent. - TheDaveRoss 19:57, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
"Morphologically from the root" IP editor[edit]
There seem to be a variety of IP users editing Arabic entries and, among other things, adding the text "morphologically from the root x". See for instance this and this and this and this. As you can see, there are several different IP addresses, but to me their editing style looks the same, particularly the tagline above in the etymology sections, so they might be a single very high-tech person who knows how to mess with IP addresses, or a conspiracy of people. Sometimes the edits are okay, aside from formatting (no newlines between sections, and second-level reference sections, for instance). Often they're replacing specific definitions or etymologies with generic morphological ones (with the above tagline), or replacing Arabic templates with generic ones. With the last example, أَعْلَى (ʾaʿlā), they've radically reformatted the entry in an unconventional fashion, with pronunciation sections above etymology sections that share that pronunciation. It makes sense, but it's something that needs discussion (and there's the deletion of valuable etymological material). On the whole, their edits are full of various things that need to be corrected.
Anyway, I don't know what to do about this. At least the tagline gives some way to find their edits. I'll leave it at that. — Eru·tuon 10:06, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Proposed first use of Wikidata: categorising planets[edit]
A while ago, {{senseid}} was added to entries with Wikidata ids, but with no actual Wikidata access, it was mostly a formality. Now that Wikidata access has been enabled, I've done some experimenting in Module:senseid, detailed at Wiktionary talk:Wikidata#A first experiment. The experiment was meant to find out how to use Wikidata information to categorise entries. Categorising entries this way offers the advantage that we don't have to think about which categories something belongs in. As long as the data is present on Wikidata, and the appropriate IDs are added to entries on Wiktionary, the categories can be added automatically. Think of it as an {{auto cat}} for individual senses: just plop in the Wikidata ID and the template will figure out what needs to be done. This method can only work for "set" categories, which contain things belonging to a particular set, usually indicated in Wikidata with the "instance of" property. It doesn't work for categories that contain terms related to a particular thing/topic. Semantic relatedness is lexical data, which is not currently present in Wikidata. Thus, we'll still have to manually add "topic" categories like Category:Astronomy.
Because of the rule that uses of Wikidata should be approved first, I did this experiment by using tracking categories to stand in for actual topical categories. My finding was that in general it works quite well, but Wikidata handles certain things idiosyncratically which our modules need to take into account when "translating" the information. For example, many things that are combined into one category on Wiktionary have several different Wikidata entities, such as our Category:Planets of the Solar System, which has three corresponding Wikidata entities, outer planet (Q30014), inner planet (Q3504248) and planet of the Solar System (Q17362350). Wikidata makes frequent use of subclassing; writing code on our end to resolve sub/parent classes may help in these cases. Taxonomic data is also handled differently, with special taxonomic properties rather than the generic "subclass of" and "instance of" properties.
I would like to take a first step towards making it actually do something with the data. This needs to be approved in a discussion, so I hereby propose modifying Module:senseid/{{senseid}} to automatically place an entry into a language-specific Category:Planets of the Solar System, if it is given a Wikidata ID (Q followed by numbers) and if Wikidata indicates that the entity for this ID is a planet of the solar system. I'm choosing planets specifically because it's a very small set with exactly 8 known members, and the Wikidata data is known to be complete. This makes it easy to spot any problems if they arise. Extending the system for more categories is very easy; if you approve of doing it for more categories than just planets right from the start, please state so. —Rua (mew) 18:54, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
I entirely approve and I especially like this example because it is something small and restrained (unlike e.g. adding it to every entry on a species) and it does include some possibly contentious data--i.e. the status of Pluto (which is not contentious to astronomers but is the sort of thing that could have actual individuals editing back-and-forth about it). —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:47, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
What benefit does this add? The members of the category are unlikely to change much over time, and if we did this it would require that every page which is not a planet checks to see if it is a planet, which seems like a lot of overhead. - TheDaveRoss 12:54, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
@TheDaveRoss: Your question answers itself: since this is a very small and stable use case, it will allow us to see in the wild how Wikidata integration would work. That is the value. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:53, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
@Koavf: I don't disagree that this would be a good test, if it were the type of thing that I thought Wikidata was well suited for. I do not think that this is an example of a good use of Wikidata, however. If you have a small, class of objects you label the objects rather than querying all objects to see if they belong to that class. If you have a very large class, or one which changes often, then you query. - TheDaveRoss 11:39, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
It's not expensive at all to check this. All you need to do is retrieve the "instance of" property of the entity, and then check the IDs that you get for matches. IDs are just strings, so it's basic string matching, which is very fast. —Rua (mew) 15:48, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
It is expensive due to the volume, not the task. - TheDaveRoss 17:37, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Yes, but structured data will vastly decrease overhead in the long term. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:41, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Only if we were currently using any overhead at all for this sort of thing, which we are not. I agree that judicious use of Wikidata will decrease overhead. - TheDaveRoss 17:46, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Categorizing things is overhead. Someone has to actually do it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:23, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
I too question the utility of this. The inline markup is unaesthetic, cryptic and really seems out of place, and it offers practically no additional benefit to the current categorisation system. Furthermore, it rests on the assumption that words in various languages are direct equivalents of one another; they are not, for most words in a language. Sure, Venus may be translated as 太白星 and listing it in the translations table at Venus is acceptable, but the words are far from being the same, really. There are several names for Venus in Chinese, each with a nuance in meaning, and the same situation exists for nearly every other planet and star. Wyang (talk) 13:38, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
If 太白星 doesn't mean Venus, then why does the definition say Venus? Subtle nuances in meanings should be included in entries. But in this case it's simple: either it refers to that same ball of rock floating around the sun, or it doesn't. —Rua (mew) 14:17, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
It means Venus, but only in a Chinese astronomy, astrology, or Taoist context. It is already indicated with the label in the entry. It is the Grand White Star in traditional Chinese astronomy/folk religion, governed by the Grand White Star Lord. It is conveniently translated as Venus, but its definition really should be elaborated on in the future. Venus in modern Western astronomy and in the context of Taoist Wu Xing (five elements) is called 金星, Venus in Chinese astronomy and astrology is called 太白(星), Venus in the context of Taoist mythology is called 太白金星, Venus seen in the morning is called 啟明(星), Venus seen in the evening is called 長庚(星), etc. The nuances in most of the vocabulary in a language are simply too significant to allow a bijective map to another language, even for a simple term like Venus, especially if the two languages developed from cultures which historically had very few contacts. The principle of trying to map all words of a language to specific pre-defined semantic concepts, for the purpose of classification, is methodologically problematic. Wyang (talk) 23:09, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wyang: Of course. But has an article named something on the planet *second-*closest to the Sun. What is that named? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:29, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
@Koavf: You can't just say "of course" and wave that off. It's similar in Hindi: अरुण (aruṇ, “Uranus in astrology”), युरेनस (yurenas, “Uranus the planet”). Some Hindi purists also use अरुण for the planet. btw the closest planet to the sun is actually Mercury. That's not the main problem with this though, the real problem is the markup will become even more opaque and hidden from the casual editor. People wonder why we don't get many new editors, it's because it takes months to learn how to use all of our templates. —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 23:57, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
@Aryamanarora: I'm not suggesting that the problem is simple or trivial: I'm suggesting that it's very complicated but that this is a good first step. Do you have a better solution? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:06, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
If I did I would have to know enough Lua to implement it. —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 00:08, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
@Aryamanarora: I'm not asking if you know the technical means (God knows I don't!), just what in principle would work better. Do you have any thoughts? I'd be happy to know what would work better even in a hypothetical sense. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:26, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
I don't understand what you mean. Wyang (talk) 23:34, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wyang: zh:w:金星 corresponds to en:w:Venus, so wouldn't that be the best word to use? Also, it's not a problem to use this senseid on more than one entry. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:06, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
Well, it is a problem to try to assign foreign words to specific semantic labels in English: e.g. Venus on Wikidata, and try to systematically generate categories based on these crude equivalents. Like I said above, the best word to use depends on context. Very rarely do words in Chinese match with senses of a word in English exactly. Wyang (talk) 00:14, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wyang: Then have both words in the category. That solves the problem. If one English word is a cognate*equivalent* to two words in another language, that's okay. (Or three or vice versa, etc.) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:13, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
They can be both put in the same category, or any category, with the current categorisation system, without having to resort to such rigid equivalence sets. The current method is also superior in usability and aesthetics. P.S. See definitions of cognate. Wyang (talk) 04:05, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wyang: It is not superior in usability because it can be exported across languages. With over 100 Wiktionaries and no less 6,500 languages, using structured data to do any part of the work is far more usable. If the method of categorization that MediaWiki uses is superior, why did we ever launch Wikidata in the first place? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:23, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
Pronunciation is templatisable, inflection is templatisable, entry layout is templatisable, but semantics is not templatisable or structurisable. Every sense of every word in a language corresponds to a semantic field or domain, and in the hypothetical 3D representation of human perception and cognition, it is a sphere in space, which spatially centres on the core, fundamental meaning of the term. What we are trying to do when we translate foreign words into English on Wiktionary is to find existing English terms with spatially close semantic areas to the source words; that's why definitions for Chinese words on Wiktionary are usually given with two or three English equivalents. Giving these multiple equivalents allows the reader to imagine the semantic area for the foreign term by superimposing the various English terms. As such, semantics across languages is not structured, and attempts to structurise it will only result in confusion and chaos. If languages were strict bijective mappings of words and grammar from one to another, machine translation would be a lot easier. Sure, it may work for water (in most languages), since the semantic fields for words for water are mostly spatially close, but it will fail for river, fluid, syrup. Wyang (talk) 04:46, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wyang: So are you opposed to the notion of categorizing these terms? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:20, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
I'm opposed to the notion of mapping senses of foreign words onto specific, pre-defined English semantic labels, and blindly achieve categorisation via those labels, as if the labels themselves are equivalent to the senses of the foreign words. Wyang (talk) 23:26, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
The Wikidata items aren't meant to encompass entire senses. They encompass referents of senses. Chinese may have different words for Venus, all with various nuances, but they all refer to the same ball of rock in space. The context in which they are used isn't relevant, that's a matter for context labels and usage notes. All that matters is that they fundamentally are different terms for that same ball of rock. So can you give concrete examples? Which terms refer to the planet and which don't? —Rua (mew) 23:45, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
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They differ on a lexical level and these nuances will be reflected in their categories. The category of Category:zh:Planets of the Solar System is perfect as it is now. There is no need to dump all tens of synonyms of Venus, plus the names of all other planets in traditional Chinese astronomy into this category; these words, which are largely limited to traditional Chinese astronomy, should go into Category:zh:Planets of the Solar System in Chinese astronomy, or at least Category:zh:Stars and planets in Chinese astronomy (the reason the entry has the {{lb|zh|Chinese star}} label). One can easily adjust the categorisation in whatever way is most appropriate now. Putting an unattractive senseid next to the sense simply takes away this freedom and flexibility. Another example is the senseid at happiness, linked to Q8 on Wikidata which has 幸福 (xingfu) listed as the Chinese equivalent. This is unfortunate as xingfu is probably one of the hardest Chinese words to translate into English. Although it is typically glossed as happy; happiness, its connotations are hard to describe and not insignificant. English "I am very happy" and Chinese "我很幸福" have vastly different meanings. It would be quite silly to let the meaning conveyed by happiness blindly dictate the categories of the foreign words. Wyang (talk) 02:12, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
I opppose this, in particular the {{senseid|zh|Q313}} noise added to 太白星. Wiki markup should be free from identifier noise; it should be pleasant to edit directly. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:53, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
It's not possible to use Wikidata without identifiers. —Rua (mew) 14:11, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
I support using Wikidata to categorize planets. One alternative idea might be using something like {{senseid|zh|Venus}} instead of {{senseid|zh|Q313}} with a data module that recognizes that "Venus" means "Q313". --Daniel Carrero (talk) 14:35, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
I strongly oppose creating a module which maps strings to Wikidata identifiers. The Lua errors are rampant enough without going down that path. - TheDaveRoss 15:02, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
I'm not a fan of it either. In any case, the senseids themselves aren't a part of this proposal. This proposal is only about modifying {{senseid}} to use them for categorising. Having Wikidata IDs on entries is beneficial even if others decide they don't want {{senseid}} to categorise. —Rua (mew) 15:08, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Sure, I take back the idea of mapping things like "Venus" = "Q313". I prefer using "Q313" anyway, that was just an alternative idea. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 21:26, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
I strongly agree with Wyang, especially his point regarding the fact that Chinese has multiple names for Venus, each with its own connotations. --WikiTiki89 21:19, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Is there any Chinese name for Venus that shouldn't get categorized in Category:zh:Planets of the Solar System? This is a categorization proposal, so I'd like to know how the nuances of each name affect categorization. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 21:26, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Oppose per Dan Polansky and Wyang. —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 21:22, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
d:User:Amgine for a very old commentary on wikidata, which aligns with Wyang's opposition. Feel free to expand if you can. - Amgine/ t·e 01:54, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Split RfD by English/non-English as we have with RfV[edit]
I propose that we split Wiktionary:Requests for deletion into Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/English and Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/Non-English, just as we have done with Wiktionary:Requests for verification. RfD is presently over 425K, and although I can't say offhand what proportion is non-English, I would estimate it at somewhere over one third. As with RfV discussions, examination of English and non-English entries, of course, requires different skill sets, and a different set of editors are typically attracted to each kind of discussion. bd2412 T 02:04, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
When I proposed the split of RFV, I considered this as well but ultimately rejected it. The fact is that if you don't know at least a little Japanese, you just can't be of any use in gathering Japanese quotations or assessing whether they're uses. However, anyone who understands how the SOP concept works can look at a Japanese word broken into its component parts and, once shown that 茶色の葉 is 茶色 (ちゃいろ) (chairo, “brown colour”) + の (no, “possessive connector”) + 葉 (は) (ha, “leaf”), and since it means "brown leaf", it would be inappropriate to have a Wiktionary entry for that. That's why everyone can contribute at RFD, and why we should focus on clearing up the backlog by making judgement calls on whether a consensus has been reached rather than splitting the page. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 03:58, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Just as an academic question, doesn't RfD address issues other than SOP-ness? bd2412 T 01:28, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Yes, but much less commonly. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 03:53, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Support, WT:RFD is too large already. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 21:37, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Support --Backinstadiums (talk) 07:04, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Support and I also believe scriptio continua languages and some other language groups require CFI different from English. BTW, @Metaknowledge: Japanese idiomatic terms may get a possessive particle の, e.g. 木 (こ)の葉 (は) (konoha) or 木 (き)の葉 (は) (kinoha). The 2nd one looks especially like SoP ("leaf of the tree"") but both terms are considered idiomatic. Languages such as Korean or Arabic, etc. (both use spaces between) may have non-words written together, with no spaces between them, such as clitic prepositions, pronouns, etc. (Arabic) - فَقَالَ (faqāla, “and (he) said”) = فَ + قَالَ, غُرْفَتِي (ḡurfatī, “my room”) = غرفة + ي, particles and copulas (Korean) - 한국어로 (han-gugeoro, “in Korean”) = 한국어 + 로, 학생입니다 (haksaeng-imnida, “(someone) is a student”) = 학생 + 입니다. I do agree, however, that one can take part in discussions without a thorough knowledge of a given language but one has to learn fast and listen to arguments of native speakers or advanced learners. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 07:44, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Support. — Ungoliant (falai) 12:52, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Support. --Canonicalization (talk) 13:19, 21 September 2017 (UTC)7
Support. --Robbie SWE (talk) 18:18, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2017/April#Splitting_WT:RFV
Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2017/May#WT:RFV_is_now_split
I don't see any particular need. RFD is nowhere near as huge as RFV was when we split. --WikiTiki89 18:19, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
I think the relative sizes of both pages have fluctuated and crossed over one another from time to time. bd2412 T 19:59, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
As I see it, there are two negatives to consider: first, of course, is the burden of working with a large page, but the other one hasn't been mentioned yet: splitting by language means requiring a language code in the {{rfd}} template and cleaning things up when people post to the wrong page. This represents yet another way that those who don't know the finer points of our templates can get tripped up while doing basic tasks. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:24, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Since the nominations are not transclusions, would we really need a language parameter? I would think that we could just have two different templates, one for English, one for everything else. bd2412 T 15:16, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Done. Discussion results:
7 supports (counting the OP) + 0 opposes, or maybe 3 opposes (nobody actually voted oppose but there are three oppose-ish comments)
support count is from 70% to 100% (the latter is if you count the 3 non-opposes as abstentions or non-votes) as per above, either way it passes
we had 2 months, 1 week and 1 day to discuss this (technically the discussion is never over, this is not a formal vote)
Breakdown:
I split the page as follows: Wiktionary:Requests for deletion (disambiguation page), Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/English and Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/Non-English.
I created the shortcuts WT:RFDE, WT:RFD:en and WT:RFDN (based on the RFV ones: WT:RFVE, WT:RFV:en and WT:RFVN).
I edited Template:rfd to automatically link entries to the right page ("English" or "Non-English") based on the language code, just like Template:rfv.
I edited Template:rfd to make the language code mandatory or else you get a module error, just like Template:rfv. (see note below)
Note about point 4: Both Template:rfv and Template:rfd currently need the langcode or else you get a module error, but this does NOT have to be the case. I personally prefer the langcode mandatory, yes, so I'm happy with this situation, but if people disagree with this, we can simply make the langcode optional again. The only problem is that without the langcode the templates can't automatically redirect to the right page, but they still can point to the disambiguation pages by default: WT:RFV and WT:RFD.
Both Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2017/April#Splitting_WT:RFV and Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2017/May#WT:RFV_is_now_split say nothing (unless I'm mistaken) about the mandatory langcode. The mandatory langcode in both rfv and rfd was never the result of a consensus in a discussion or vote, and presumably can easily be confirmed or overturned in future discussions or votes. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 13:43, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
The main problem at the moment is that having the main rfd page on one's watchlist doesn't automatically put the new pages on one's watchlist. That means anyone who's offwiki until the change to the main rfd page goes off the edge will be unaware of anything going on with the new pages. You should check how @Rua's been doing it with the monthly subpages. I believe it involves copying the main page to the new page, then recreating the main page from scratch. I believe you could delete the new pages, copy the main page over it, then do a history merge by restoring the revisions you want to to keep to the history of the new page, then undo to the revision just before the deletion. I haven't done this kind of thing enough to be sure it will work as advertised, so it might be good to have backups of the wikitext, just in case.
As for he langcode, my pet peeve with the rfv template is that it defaults to non-English with no langcode, but it makes more sense to default to English- I don't remember the last time I cleaned up an rfv module error in a non-English section, but I've done several English ones. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:59, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
I should probably post the script I use to make new monthly pages at the end of each year, so that others can do it if I ever don't. What would be a good place to put it? —Rua (mew) 21:15, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
I sure don't like it. I must have seen this discussion, though, and I don't remember why I did not post anything; I guess I feel tired of opposing all the changes that I do not like. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:05, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Upcoming Wiki Science Competition[edit]
Did you hear about the Wiki Science competition, starting in November?
The competition will focus on images, but it might evolve in the near future, so users of other content platforms should take a look at it.
I've informed the village pump on commons, since there will be an intense workflow of technical uploaded by newbies, that will require some better categorization and translation of descriptions here and there. More importantly, images can be used for the articles on specific platforms. I think about some of your users who created and take care of many technical and scientific entries and are still currently active, such as User:SemperBlotto
I give you some details.
In 2015, limiting to Europe, we got thousands of entries, we can expect two or three times more this year. In the case of Italy for example we will send emails to many professional mailing lists, and other national wikimedia chapters will use their social media too to inform the public.
We have finished with Ivo Kruusamägi of WM Estonia to prepare some of the juries. I did my best to gather, besides people with a strong scientific background, also some expert wikipedians (because I ask first on wikipedia) here and there to take a look to the files on commons and not just the quality of the images. I have also informed users on English wikipedia, English wikiveristy and will do the same on some other wikimedia platforms in the following weeks.
The final international jury is made of expert researchers, usually with interest in photography, but no strong knowledge of the details of any wikimedia platforms. The main goal was to enlarge the network of "friends" of wikimedia platforms. Some national juries should have enough expert wikimedians and wikipedians probably, I guess because of the presence of active national chapter in their set up, so someone might take care of some the uploads at least improving some description and/or using them diorectly. Sometimes, suggesting technical entries to be created too.
More in general, gathering users besides wikipedians will probbaly help us to include more platforms for the competitions.
Now that I am sure that we have enough "scientists" here and there and from different fields, maybe we can see if we can also gathers specifically expert wikimedia users, whatever their background. Example simple teachers and not researchers that can evaluate the quality of the images for more specific uses.
For the countries without juries, there is the possibility of creating a second-level jury to select images from the rest of the world to the experts of the final jury. For such second-level jury I have found some names, but the numbers of entries could be really high, so maybe that's where we can look for more standard wikimedia users.
if you are a citizen of a country with a national jury you could also join them directly (rumor has it, more will appear). I don't know the details in many cases, if they need more jurors or they are fine.
Anyone interested?--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:59, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
I am not interested to be part of a jury but I though it is very interesting that you knock here. Pictures made with a Wikipedia uses perspectives are quite different than pictures usable in Wiktionary. Here we also need to illustrate verbs and actions for tools (not only the tool itself) and more. I'll be very enthusiastic to integrate pictures from this competition in wiktionaries if they fit our needs! Noé 07:36, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
With thousands of uploads, statistically someone could fit some needs also here... Noé I am happy if more people take a look, this should give better feedbacks for the future when the competition will be bigger and we can make it more specific to the needs of some wikiplatform. For example edit-a-thons. In the meantime, I have found another juror on frwikipedia, I am close enough to finalize the second-level jury. I am "sad" noone replied form wikiversity yet.--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:56, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
Cool. Maybe you can try to ping the French Wikiversity, if some French Wikipedians can assist you Noé 13:24, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
Wiktionary User Group[edit]
The Tremendous Wiktionary User Group is a coalition of users of Wiktionaries aimed to create a common platform to share ideas and documents. It is also a way to be a lobby at Wikimedia Foundation to make it acknowledge the needs of our projects in term of technical improvements. .
This User Group is completing a revolution, a first year of existence! We are writing our first Annual Report (due September 26th). It's time to look at what was made during the year and to frame the future axis of action. There is 42 affiliates now but the group can include much more people. I invite you to read our works and to see if you want to participate in our actions. The more visible one is LexiSession but there is much more to do, including promotional material (leaflet, banners, stickers, etc.), inter-wiktionarian collaborations (on templates, Wikidata, policies and guidelines) and meet-ups! There is no fees nor admission processes, it's open to everyone who like Wiktionary and want to do more about this project. Your ideas and initiatives are welcome!
Thank you for your attention, I hope to see you soon Noé 08:14, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
Help review PulauKakatua19 (talk • contribs)'s entries[edit]
This user is editing in way too many languages for them to possibly understand all of them. I have checked and fixed all of the recent edits in Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, but someone acquainted with Indonesian, Malay, and now Korean should check the rest. Atitarev (talk • contribs) warned them on their talk page about Russian a while ago too. —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 01:00, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
I will check their Chinese, Korean and Malay ones. Wyang (talk) 01:11, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Gfarnab (talk • contribs) back at it again[edit]
e.g. A recent error at 適. Someone please block them. Wyang (talk) 01:13, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Wiktionary:Votes/cu-2017-09/User:SemperBlotto for checkuser[edit]
Could someone add this to Wiktionary:Votes/Active? Thanks. --2A02:2788:A4:F44:AC35:948A:635A:9569 18:16, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Before any such thing (I don't even think anons can create votes to start with), have you at least asked @SemperBlotto if he's interested? --Robbie SWE (talk) 18:21, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
No, he isn't. SemperBlotto (talk) 20:17, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
That's what I suspected. The vote is therefore useless and will be deleted. --Robbie SWE (talk) 20:19, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Parentheses in IPA[edit]
I really wish people would stop inserting these back into pronunciations. The only acceptable IPA use of parentheses is in w:ExtIPA, and those are subscript parentheses to represent partial devoicing. In fact, I've searched through various linguistics databases and can't find much evidence even of non-IPA uses, except their occasional use to denote silent articulation. Obviously this doesn't apply to the case which Wiktionary editors are most commonly trying to use parentheses (optional articulation of ⟨ɹ⟩). It may be helpful, but it's wrong. The entry should show either both possible pronunciations separately or a more specific phonetic pronunciation. If people are going to keep using them, then Wiktionary as a whole needs to stop claiming they are using IPA's system, and admit they have their own in-house system. It's rather disrespectful to the creators of a standard to cherrypick what you wish to use. If the IPA thought parenthesis were really that important, don't you think they would have standardized them by now? Pariah24 (talk) 20:31, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Of course, IPA is disrespectful to the creators of the Latin alphabet, by the way they cherrypick that alphabet. Phonetic alphabets are used in great variation throughout the world, including many, many minor variants on IPA. And our use of parenthesis has precedence; we have for crater /ˈkɹeɪ.tə(ɹ)/, and Keynon and Knott's A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English (1953) has (among others) ˈkɹetə(r--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:52, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
@Pariah24 It's not wrong. Peter Ladefoged transcribes the unstressed form of the as [(ð)ə] in broad phonetic transcription in the Handbook of the IPA (chapter 'American English'). Just because something is not officially endorsed (and I'm not so sure of that, have you tried asking the IPA itself?) it doesn't mean that it's wrong or that it shouldn't be used. Unless I'm missing something?
You're also a bit inconsistent in your edits. In martyr, you transcribed the AuE pronunciation /ˈmɑːtəɹ/, /ˈmɑːtə/, [ˈmäːtə], [ˈmäːɾə]. The order was wrong, as the pronunciation with the final /ɹ/ is marked and used only immediately before vowels, not the other way around. Also, the way the final [ɹ] is omitted in phonetic transcriptions suggests that it's there phonemically but not phonetically, which is of course completely wrong (if anything, again, it's the other way around). I've fixed that for you. Mr KEBAB (talk) 07:39, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Braille entries[edit]
Should we reformat Braille entries like this?--2001:DA8:201:3512:BC46:AD88:D9A7:3939 16:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
(@Daniel Carrero —suzukaze (t・c) 00:47, 23 September 2017 (UTC))
Mostly support. My opinion is this:
I would suggest, in normal letter entries like a and also Braille letter entries like ⠁ (which is Braille for "a") deleting all Latin script sections like Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, etc. because they clutter the entry and are basically infinite. The Translingual section can explain the Latin script letters.
But, in Braille entries like the aforementioned ⠁, I would support keeping separate sections for Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, etc. and other non-Latin script entries as opposed to keeping them all in the Translingual section.
I would also support using proper categorization like Category:Arabic letters in Braille script (current redlink), with the written language and script. I would suggest using Category:Arabic letters in Arabic script (self-explanatory) for the normal alphabet.
--Daniel Carrero (talk) 03:41, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
@Daniel Carrero: I agree. --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:04, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2017-09/User:Aryamanarora for admin[edit]
User:Aryamanarora has been nominated for adminship. Please voice your opinion on the page. Thanks! Wyang (talk) 13:56, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
Denoting long aspiration[edit]
In Northern Sami, there's a set of preaspirated consonants, but these consonants can be lengthened as well. When they are long, it is the preaspiration that lengthens rather than the occlusion itself. Usually, I've seen the preaspiration transcribed with just the letter h, e.g. hp, so that long preaspiration then becomes a matter of writing hːp. The few Northern Sami transcriptions that we have, and those on Wikipedia, use the superscript ʰ instead. I prefer the superscript, but writing ʰːp is probably less than ideal. I've written ʰpː instead in these occasions, but it doesn't really reflect the phonetic reality that it's the aspiration that lengthens. Any ideas? —Rua (mew) 18:29, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
How about hhp? — Eru·tuon 19:09, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
That's more or less equivalent to hːp. I would prefer to avoid h because there's also an actual phoneme /h/, and it's not part of these preaspirated consonants. /hːp/ is one phoneme, so I'd like it if the transcription reflected that. —Rua (mew) 19:14, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
You call it "less than ideal", but from your description I don't see much choice beside ʰːp, unless it's ʰʰp. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 14:37, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Yeah. I just hoped someone would think of something I hadn't thought of yet. @Tropylium any ideas? —Rua (mew) 15:14, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
In phonetic transcription there should be no problem with [hːp]. Phonetically there is no difference between [ʰ] and [h]. Even phonemically /hːp/ might be feasible. It is not universally agreed that these are unitary consonants; some analyses do consider them clusters /h/+/p/, in part precisely because it's the aspiration that lengthens and not the closure (similar to how the long counterpart of clusters such as /sk/ is /sːk/). In any case there is no contrast between /hp/ versus /ʰp/. --Tropylium (talk) 19:24, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Ok, I'll just go with /hːp/ then. Thank you. —Rua (mew) 19:50, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
I would have picked /ʰʰp/, but it doesn't matter too much. --WikiTiki89 18:30, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Dinajpuria[edit]
Do we have a language code for this under a different name? Used on জাৰ, নিগনি, translation at winter @Sagir Ahmed Msa, Aryamanarora. DTLHS (talk) 19:11, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
Also "Mymensinghiya", used on light. DTLHS (talk) 19:16, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
AFAIK both of these are Bengali dialects... Sagir probably knows better than me. —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 20:11, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
@Aryamanarora: nope, there's no code for these languages. Yes these are considered as Bengali dialects just like Sylheti, Chittagonian, Rajbongsi etc (Wiktionary has code for these). Chakma and Rohingya (both are very closely related to Chittagonian) are not considered as Bengali dialects probably because their native speakers are not considered as Bengali people. But these languages are not actual dialects. Some of these are more closely related to other languages than standard Bengali. Similar for Assamese dialects (I mentioned Kamrupi language in মেকুৰী, which is considered as an Assamese dialect). I think just like Sylheti, Chittagonian etc, these languages should also have codes. They have different phonology, grammar even origins. The Dinajpuria and Mymensinghia words are not present in Rarhi-Nadia (standard Bengali), these are also closer to Rajbongsi and Sylheti respectively. Please check
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Bengali dialects
samples.
— User:Sagir Ahmed Msa
@Sagir Ahmed Msa: Is grammar significantly different in these lects from Rarhi-Nadia? I'll admit I know little about Eastern Indo-Aryan, it's just ISO is usually generous with codes (e.g. a bunch of Hindi lects are given codes when they are often considered to be dialects). If we did add a code, bn-dnj etc. would be fine right? —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 17:14, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
@Aryamanarora: yes you can make codes with "bn-" since they are generally considered as Bengali dialects.
-- Sagir
@Aryamanarora The code would be inc-dnj (see Wiktionary:Languages#Language_codes). DTLHS (talk) 19:10, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
@DTLHS: Whoops, typo on my part. But why not bn- since they are often considered Bengali dialects? That's probably not supposed to be argued about here though. —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 19:12, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Bengali is not a language family. DTLHS (talk) 19:15, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Yes, I understand that now. So could inc-dnj (Dinajpuria) and inc-mym (Mymensinghiya) both with script Beng and ancestor inc-mgd? —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 19:18, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
I am concerned that there is no information about these languages / dialects online- not even mentions of the language names. Since they would be WT:LDLs, what references would be used to support entries? DTLHS (talk) 19:21, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
@DTLHS: [1] seems promising, and attests to the lack of mutual intelligibility between these dialects... But I am not sure whether they deserve codes. Would {{lb|bn|...}} not suffice @Sagir Ahmed Msa? —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 19:27, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
@Aryamanarora, Aryaman:
Here are some examples: Unfortunately i couldn't find Mymensinghiya tenses, so I'm comparing with Dhakaya, they are closely related to each other and Mymensinghiya is more distinct from Standard Bengali than Dhakaiya.
English :
I am doing.
I was doing.
I will do.
I will be doing.
Dhakaiya :
Ami kôri.
Ami kôrtasi.
Ami kôrsi/kôrsilam.
Ami kôrtasilam.
Ami kôrmu.
Ami kôrtê thakum.
Bengali:
Ami kôrchi.
Ami kôrêchi.
Ami kôrchilam.
Ami kôrbo.
Ami kôrtê thakbo.
Assamese:
Môi kôrû.
Môi kôri asû. (kôri = kôrat)
Môi kôrisû/kôrisilû.
Môi kôri asilû.
Môi kôrim.
Môi kôri thakim. (kôri = kôrat)
Rangpuri/Rajbongsi/Kamata:
Muĩ kôrû.
Muĩ kôrûsû.
Muĩ kôrsinû. (And kôrsû?)
Muĩ kôrûsinû.
Muĩ kôrim.
Muĩ kôrtê thakim.
Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2017-09/User:Justinrleung for admin[edit]
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Should sense ids be distinct across pages?[edit]
Israel and State of Israel have the same sense id. I can’t imagine that this will cause any problem, since a sense id will presumably always accompany a pagename, or do we want to ensure universal uniqueness? — Ungoliant (falai) 13:43, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
In principle, it might take pagename + etymology + PoS + senseid to guarantee uniqueness in English, at least if the senseid is poorly chosen (eg, noun and verb spelled the same each used by itself in two different senseids for different PoSes). In the absence of etymology, pronunciation might be required. In some FLs gender might needed. I wonder what requirements exist in other languages. This seems messy.
Do we have anyone running comprehensive checks for this kind of thing against the XML dumps? For example, I use {{sense|genus}} under synonyms, hypernyms, and hyponyms header in taxonomic entries, but I sometimes need to differentiate by taxonomic family, order, etc. to ensure uniqueness. Have I always done so? I haven't been checking for that. DCDuring (talk) 17:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Doesn't the same kind of problem exist to a vastly greater extent in FL sections where definitions consist of a single polysemic English word, with no disambiguating gloss? DCDuring (talk) 17:06, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Yes, it does. That’s a major problem with our FL content. Our definitions in certain languages (Italian and Spanish come to mind) are still too poor to be used as my primary source of information. — Ungoliant (falai) 17:19, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
I try to fix these for Dutch whenever I spot them, but it's an uphill battle. Finding them is difficult enough. —Rua (mew) 18:05, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
(edit conflict) The only thing that has to be unique is the combination of page name, language, and sense id. Sense ids appear in a link to an entry that contains the entry name, the language name, and the bit of sense id text; they are not used without a language name or as a substitute for a page name. So they do not need to be unique across pages; if they were, they would probably be too long or unintuitive. I think they should be as short as possible, because they have to be plugged into the |id= parameter of link templates. (However, I just searched and discovered a very long sense id for radical in English: linguistics: portion of a character that provides an indication of its meaning. Oh well.) — Eru·tuon 18:12, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Can we agree that senseids must be unique within a language section? — Ungoliant (falai) 16:38, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
They wouldn't work if they weren't. --WikiTiki89 16:46, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Sounds like a good rule. DCDuring (talk) 18:06, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Yes, that is a restatement of what I meant by "the combination of page name, language, and sense id must be unique". It may not have been very clear. — Eru·tuon 18:47, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Modern Greek terms spelt with Latin characters[edit]
@Xoristzatziki has just speedied the Greek entry at marketing (marketing). I assume the reason is that the word is not written in Greek letters. Since the entry in question was reviewed by experienced editor Saltmarsh, and since marketing is trivially attestable in running text, I think its inclusibility should be at least discussed. — Ungoliant (falai) 16:26, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Yes - and I thought hard about it at the time. I have frequently considered raising the subject here (TLDR generally stops me). As an ageing Englishman I can feel annoyed at myironic language being mangled by others (I heard an Englishman say "crawfish" on the radio this morning - I'm sorry, we say "crayfish"), ; I can also understand @Xoristzatziki's anger when the same thing is happening to his language. Greek web pages (the first supermarket site I look at has "FRANCHISE" and "CLUB CARD" (and "SUPER MARKET"). When I go to Greece I feel sad that packaging and billboards are similarly invaded. A quick look at my w:Babiniotis Dictionary shows the Latin script "status quo" (we have it as an English term as well as Latin) and other Latin terms, only a few English terms (I only find NATO in the time available). To pick an easy example - "weekend" is common in Greek text (the Academie francaise fought against it for years) have entries for 5 other languages, and it even declines in Polish! But perhaps marketing is better than μάρκετινγκ ? — Saltmarsh. 06:15, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
There is no such term Modern Greek terms spelt with Latin characters. Please do not try to alter a language out of nothing. If you think Greeklish should be a new language in wiktionary, make a propose. --Xoristzatziki (talk) 16:33, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
As a descriptive dictionary, if a word is used in texts by Greek speakers it can be included. @Saltmarsh DTLHS (talk) 16:42, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
In that sense all English words should contain a Greek section... And sections for all other languages also... Or only Greeks and Cypriots use in texts signs and words from English? Chinese do not do it? --Xoristzatziki (talk) 16:54, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Category:Chinese terms written in multiple scripts, Category:Chinese terms written in foreign scripts. DTLHS (talk) 16:59, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
This is something else. Please do not confuse us. We are talking about the usage of real English words. Not for terms that cannot be otherwise identified (σ鍵). There is not a single English word in the above mentioned category although ex. fast-food is written, as stand alone word, in more Chinese restaurants around the world than marketing is written in Greek "googloid" texts. --Xoristzatziki (talk) 17:08, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Look at the second category (Category:Chinese terms written in foreign scripts), especially band, size, and friend. --WikiTiki89 17:26, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
@Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV Could you link some examples of "marketing" being used in Greek texts? DTLHS (talk) 17:11, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
google books:"το marketing". Compare with google books:"το μάρκετινγκ". --WikiTiki89 17:26, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
[2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. Some of them also use μάρκετινγκ elsewhere in the text. — Ungoliant (falai) 17:30, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Apart of all that I could agree in such a "descriptive"(!?) way, if all languages had the same confronting. marketing should include every language for which google returns that word if specific language is asked. And, any way, I will not revert such Greeklish entries if the dominant status of volunteers in Wiktionary is to create such "Modern Greek terms spelt with Latin characters".--Xoristzatziki (talk) 17:18, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
@Wikitiki89, @Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV one thing is sure. You do not know how google works (and especially their department of sales together with google books). Otherwise you should come with true results. Mentioning counts relative to the time they where written, to whom they are addressed, how many are duplicating or copying or attesting other books etc. etc. --Xoristzatziki (talk) 17:39, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
It's true that relative numbers of Google Books hits aren't that useful. One thing I noticed is that one hit displayed on the results page for the "το μάρκετινγκ" search has "το Marketing" highlighted as the search term- you have to wonder if there's some bleed-through between languages in their search algorithms. That said, such things are beside the point when it comes to CFI: there are enough viewable hits to satisfy CFI- if they really are using the term to convey meaning in Greek. The latter is the tricky part. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:03, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Based on User:DTLHS's idea of "descriptive dictionary" and the whole above conversation, assuming I can provide enough sources written in English as main language (electronic or printed) which have 羊 or 未 inside the text is it safe to assume that this an indication to add to these terms an English section? (I have in my hands at least two such books) --Xoristzatziki (talk) 05:34, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
Do the Chinese characters in your texts convey meaning (Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclusion#Conveying_meaning)? Are they being used as English words and not just mentioned as Chinese characters? It can be hard to answer these questions for a non-native speaker, which is why I don't know if the Greek quotes linked above would qualify. DTLHS (talk) 05:46, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
The "Conveying_meaning" does not mention at all the script. Only mentions words in the same script (which should be considered as "only words in the same script" and not the opposite). The fact that many people who speak a second language prefer to pronounce some words in the way they are pronounced in that second language does not make the pronunciation of these words part of the pronunciation of first language. Such as the "USA" pronunciation of words from enough people living in London does not make that pronunciation British. A book targeted to specific group might contain anything that the target group can identify. A book containing emoticons might have emoticons inside sentences used not as example but as a full sentence. That does not mean the emoticons are part of a specific language. (Or they are now? Can you spell File:Fxemoji u1F602.svg in English or in any other spoken language? Or we are not interest in pronunciation from that point forward? Just "a printed icon" of "example" is enough? Should we start converting any word to picture and stop writing it here but include it as picture?) --Xoristzatziki (talk) 09:25, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
Yes, if enough people in London pronounce something some way, that pronunciation is British. That's what "descriptive" means. Cross-lingual pronunciations are complex, but again, descriptive means that the pronunciation of a word is many times going to be foreignized. I wouldn't say it was safe to assume that 羊 is part of English, but there would certainly be an argument if it was used in running text, particularly if it was treated as an English word. There's also complexities here; English absorbs all sorts of random accents in rare words, like ʔAllāt, or Greek letters, in cases like γ-globulin, and odd characters like ℝ-order tree. But scripts outside Greek rarely get used; ℵ₀ is an odd example, and Cyrillic occasionally leaks through, like СССР, but I'd be very surprised by Chinese characters. I'd expect Greek to be a similar spot; Latin getting mixed in sometimes, with other scripts being rare.--Prosfilaes (talk) 10:02, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
As a native reader of Chinese characters, I agree with User:Xoristzatziki 100% here. If native speakers do not treat these words as their language, do not include these so-called "attestable" words in the comprehensive monolingual or bilingual reference dictionaries they produce, there is really no point in including them. The native speakers (not language regulators) have the best Sprachgefühl regarding what is their language, what is sum of parts in their language, what part of speech a word is (for analytic languages), and often the script is a formidable barrier to something being considered 'their language'; it is a very bad idea to argue against the perception of native speakers, and say this is your language when they are native in it. I'm sure native English speakers would be similarly concerned if a user starts to mass-create "English" entries of a similar nature, even if it is just Latin-script perro ([9], [10], [11], [12]). It is just the case that English is the overwhelming exporter of these uses in other languages, but all languages have principles as to what can be considered part of their language and what can not; not all words a Chinese person says or writes when they speak Chinese is Chinese ― they can mix a lot of English, Malay, Japanese, etc. words in, depending on where they are and how much Chinese/other languages they know. Likewise, Latin-script marketing in running Greek text is just not Greek. Wyang (talk) 11:11, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
I am totally with Xoristzatziki and Wyang on this one. Imagine a published dictionary where marketing is marked as a Greek, Russian, Armenian, etc. word. We have, unfortunately allowed some Latin script words enter CAT:Chinese terms written in foreign scripts, they are mostly slang and, very few are standard Chinese (Mandarin) and, unlike Greek, Russian and other alphabet-based or phonetic languages, there is no Chinese script to render those words phonetically. Most of these terms wouldn't pass if they were in a respected published dictionary. I'd like to mention again that a language, such as Chinese needs a separate CFI for various reasons. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 13:26, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
You may want to RFD the contents of Category:Greek terms written in Latin script. — Ungoliant (falai) 13:35, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
Gone. There wasn't even an attempt to provide citations for those. As far as I am concerned, they are all against our policies and the common sense. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 13:47, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
There goes ain't and fuck, which weren't English words in the comprehensive monolingual or bilingual reference dictionaries of English for a long time. It also strands "English" words that aren't English anymore, that are being used in ways that no native speaker of English would use the word. I don't know about marketing, but this is not a simple case.
Also, we're a descriptive dictionary. The "correct" writing style frequently differs from the writing style in actual use. If digging around in the newsgroups, we find a few million words of Latin-script Greek, then of course we should record that.--Prosfilaes (talk) 01:20, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
These are different cases: one (ain't, fuck) where the words are deemed nonstandard or vulgar by dictionary makers, and the other where the words are rejected outright by native speakers as simply being foreign words mixed into speech or writing, much like the example of this perro above. We certainly should not include a few million words of Latin-script Greek; that will only lead us to become a laughing stock, and lead to complete dismissal by Greek speakers. Wyang (talk) 05:46, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
It's not different cases; they're both cases where dictionary writers consider a word not a word, because it's not proper. I wasn't talking about native speakers; I was responding to where you were talking about words considered inappropriate to include by dictionary makers.
What other corpuses should we ignore? All that Hebrew-script German Jargon? Scots (the very existence of the Scots Wikipedia seems to get a lot of mockery)? Should we delete Category:Macedonian language because that might cause complete dismissal by Greek speakers? If we have a corpus of several million words, we should record it.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:14, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
I'm speechless... You are insisting ain't/fuck and marketing in Greek are of the same nature, so ― I was able to find ain't in many English dictionaries: Marriam-Webster, Oxford Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary, Collins Dictionary, MacMillan Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English; can you find a Greek dictionary that includes the Latin-script word marketing as a Greek word? We've already got a native Greek speaker complaining that we are butchering their language, why? Because non-native speakers and non-speakers are dictating their language, often in a self-assumed manner, as if we know what is best for their language. We are sometimes trapped in the mindset of our own rules, so trapped that we have lost touch with reality, with common sense. Show a native Greek speaker the texts containing marketing and ask them what this is, and they would unanimously tell you this is an English word mixed into a Greek text, and the author is trying to show off that they are professional, up-to-date with the lingo and superior with their knowledge. Ask them what μάρκετινγκ is, and they will tell you it is a Greek word borrowed from English. Yet, we decide for the Greeks, ruling that marketing is their language, as well as several million more Latin-script 'Greek' words. Of course this is going to lead to displeasure, dismissal, and ridicule amongst the Greeks, the native help from whom we desperately and paradoxically need here. Wyang (talk) 09:10, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
The issue boils down to having criteria that allows us to draw a line between “Y-language word used in language X” and “loanword from language Y that has been borrowed into X”. This is not as self-evident as some here seem to think, and consulting n people will yield n different opinions as to which words are the former and which are the latter.
Since no one is arguing for the deletion of μάρκετινγκ, it seems that you want the use script as a criterion, which is not at all unreasonable, but do discuss it rather than removing the entries without explanation. — Ungoliant (falai) 11:54, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
There's nothing to discuss here, really. No need to create votes and policies for the obvious, natural and universally accepted rules - languages are written in native scripts, romanisation and words in other scripts are not words in those languages. People who imagine that Greek or any other language written in non-Roman script language can be written in scripts other than the native should be the ones seeking approvals, not the ones who protect the sanity and quality of this dictionary. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 12:31, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Apparently you have to teach that to Nikos, who created the Greek entry at marketing (marketing) (and to the Greeks who keep using marketing in their books). — Ungoliant (falai) 12:38, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Nikosks (talk • contribs) was the user who created the section in 2016. They only had two edits, spaced less than twenty minutes apart, one on management, and one on marketing, both edits involving the addition of a Greek section. Looking at their edits at the time (edit to management and edit to marketing), this may be the case of an innocent newbie mistake after all: they thought the Greek sections on these entries can be used to hold translations. Wyang (talk) 12:54, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
I doubt the user even knew Greek. Both terms were created as masculines but they are neuters - both μάνατζμεντ (mánatzment) and μάρκετινγκ (márketingk). We often have this type of entries made by clueless users. A while ago [[ghar]] was created with a definition something like "This is a Hindi word for "house". (The history is now overwritten, as the entry was deleted.) The correct entry is, of course, at घर (ghar). --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 04:57, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
It's pretty obvious that these are English words being used in Greek text (probably for convenience), not integral Greek words. —Aryaman (मुझसे बात करो) 15:44, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
Another possibility is code switching. People who are bilingual sometimes switch between languages because different languages have different associations: using one's native language for personal, emotional topics, using another language to evoke a certain style, or yet another to show one is up on the latest in a field dominated by speakers of that language. This would probably be the latter: if the field of internet marketing is dominated by English-speakers, one might throw in an occasional bit of English internet marketing terminology to give the appearance of being well-versed in that type of thing. We don't see as much of that in English nowadays because English speakers are less bilingual and don't care as much about other languages, but there are specialized areas such as religions like Islam or Catholicism based in other languages or academic fields where you can see it, and it was once common for educated people to throw in the occasional Greek, Latin or French term in ordinary conversation. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:22, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
FWIW, I found back in 2011 that both ἄρχων and Москва were citable in running English text. The latter was deleted per RFD, but if we decide to keep marketing (marketing) et al, it would be easy to cite a bunch more like ἄρχων. IMO, it's better to analyse it as code-switching. We consider the presence/absence of italic script when trying to determine if a Latin-script foreign-language phrase or term has been borrowed into English or only mentioned, and it seems appropriate to me to consider the presence/absence of native script similarly. - -sche (discuss) 19:15, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Project Grant proposal for Lingua Libre[edit]
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Lingua Libre is an opensource platform created to ease mass recording of word pronounciations into clean, well cut and well normalized audio files. Given a clean words list, recording productivity can reach up to 1000 audio recordings per hour, i.e. ten times faster than the best method described on Help:Audio pronunciations and without requiring any technical skills.
It's currently supported by a team of (mostly French, including French Wiktionary administrators) volunteers. Even if the core recording tool is fully functional and very efficient, it currently suffers from a very poor integration with the Wikimedia projects. To accelerate the development of this tool and overcome these problems, we have submitted a Project Grant proposal. If you're interested by this project, take a look at the proposal, on meta: ⇒ meta:Grants:Project/0x010C/LinguaLibre. Don't hesitate to ask questions on it if you feel there are ambiguous points, or to endorse the project if you wish to see it coming true!
Furthermore, if you want the English Wiktionary to benefit from these audio recordings (through a bot, or some other way), please get in touch with me! — 0x010C ~talk~ 17:21, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Little gnomes at work?[edit]
Who was the little gnome that removed the arrow symbol from references? I kind of miss it, and there is a gap where it should be. The way watched pages (such as pages one has created) are presented has also changed. DonnanZ (talk) 12:09, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
I don't recall seeing such an arrow, but it sounds like it may have been added by a gadget, which may have been broken by the recent updates to the site software, or the fact that the "References" header has been changed to something else in many entries, or the recent cleanup of old gadgets. Sorry I can't be of any more help than that. - -sche (discuss) 19:24, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
It's back again, and has been for a while. All is well again. DonnanZ (talk) 21:08, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
Category:en:Automotive[edit]
The name of this category is a bit strange. Aren't we supposed to use only nouns? --Barytonesis (talk) 19:39, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
There is also Category:en:Nautical using an adjective. But I prefer "Automotive" to Category:en:Auto parts. DonnanZ (talk) 08:54, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Wikimedia Movement Strategy phase 2, and a goodbye[edit]
As phase one of the Wikimedia movement strategy process nears its close with the strategic direction being finalized, my contractor role as a coordinator is ending too. I am returning to my normal role as a volunteer (Tar Lócesilion) and wanted to thank you all for your participation in the process.
The strategic direction should be finalized on Meta late this weekend. The planning and designing of phase 2 of the strategy process will start in November. The next phase will again offer many opportunities to participate and discuss the future of our movement, and will focus on roles, resources, and responsibilities.
Thank you, SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 21:55, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Language userboxes: by country/region?[edit]
I don't need it, but I just wondered: can our language userboxes support specific country/region, e.g. British English, or Swiss German? (And if not, should they?) Equinox ◑ 21:55, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Do you mean the Babel boxes? Mine says "This user is a native speaker of British English". DonnanZ (talk) 11:59, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
Desinence as a POS[edit]
I suggest adding desinence (inflectional ending) as a POS header/category, I think it would be good to differentiate them from suffix in general. Crom daba (talk) 23:37, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
I think "desinence" is a very obscure term that most people wouldn't know. What about just "inflectional suffix"? DTLHS (talk) 23:48, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
I thought it was that lovey-dovey feeling. 20 seconds of brain-searching later, I realise I was thinking of limerence. Equinox ◑ 00:07, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
(edit conflict) In principle, that sounds nice, but desinence is a lousy name (how many people know what it is without looking it up), and the Indo-European languages we're used to are deceptively simple when it comes to the types and hierarchy of affixes. For instance, Bantu languages show number with prefixes in many cases, and, as you know, agglutinative languages throw in all kinds of things represented by separate words of various parts of speech, with the lines separating inflection, derivation and syntax getting thoroughly tangled. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:02, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
We call them suffixes, but for many languages we do distinguish between inflectional and derivational suffixes (e.g. CAT:Irish inflectional suffixes and CAT:Irish derivational suffixes). Note that not all inflectional affixes are suffixes, e.g. Maltese ni-, ti-, ji- (and their equivalents in other Semitic languages) are prefixes, i.e. endings that are actually "beginnings". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:07, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
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Damnation Code is a 2015 supernatural thriller by screenwriter William Massa and produced by the intensely-successful small press publishing platform Critical Mass Publishing. It stars Mark Talon, a Delta Force Operator who has spent nearly a decade as a career soldier fighting America’s enemies abroad becoming entangled in the fight against a techno-savvy supernatural death cult after his reporter girlfriend is ritualistically murdered for getting too close to their operations. This book is the first in the Occult Assassin series, of which there are currently six titles (4 main entries and 2 side-books).
This novel is the perfect blend of genre and off-genre elements that proves Massa is a gifted, intelligent author. He knows exactly how to manipulate the reader — in a good way — using the tropes and recognizable storytelling elements of familiar genres. That’s what nobody ever tells young writers: tropes aren’t a bad thing. Tropes are just elements that recur over and over again in a particular type of literature. As humans we’re very good at noticing these patterns, and using them to predict what will happen next. A smart author — like Massa — will use these tropes to subconsciously set up expectations in the reader’s mind, only to subvert them at a critical moment. And without digging too deep into spoilers, that’s what happens here.
Part of what I think makes the independent market so great is that it much quicker adapting to — and subverting — the problems with genre. Because of turnaround time getting sales numbers back and quarterly market research, traditionally published books can take a long to pivot if the whims of readers change. They also tend to like things “in their box”: romance is romance, thrillers are thrillers, occult is occult, and never-shall-they-mix. Massa subverts all that in a way I often respect and have tried to emulate, taking a intensely supernatural story and first framing it in a natural, grounded world. And in doing so, he takes the groundedness of a contemporary war novel and mixes it with the thrills of a psychological and supernatural thriller, set in the three-act story structure of a classic superhero tale. It is these intricate, inter-woven mesh that makes Messa’s script unpredictable and exhilarating to read.
By ‘superhero’ I don’t mean capes and cowls either. I don’t mean the aesthetic, I mean the formulae. Formulae, like trope, isn’t a bad thing if used creatively, and Massa’s mastery of structure undoubtedly comes from his his history as a screenwriter. Throughout the novel the well-versed eye can see the elements of graphic-novel style at play: the prose starts methodical and aggressively normal in the first chapter, hammering in the “realness” of the world so the reader is unprepared for the insanity that follows. We’re then introduced to a far-too-storybook romance with a perfect female lead, Michelle. After she’s taken, Talon slowly — over the course of this first adventure –accumulates his supporting cast: there’s his billionaire benefactor Casa, his tech-expert / Microchip / Moneypenny Becky, and his link to the police force, Serrone. All these elements are great. they are worked in organically. You can recognize them for what they are only after they are in place, never before, giving the reader multiple “oh I figured it out” moments as they go through the prose.
In a lot of ways, Mark Talon owes a lot to The Punisher, and the mention of “Microchip” above was intentional in that regard. This book can be summed up — if need be — as “what if the Punisher’s family had been killed by Cultists, not by criminals?” The story they progresses from there as you would expect. In boiling it down to a simple analogy I feel as though I’m not giving Massa or Mark Talon their credit: this book is a thrilling read with an interesting — if not unfamiliar — premise. And let’s not forget, both Christopher Golden and Rick Remender have tried the ‘mystical Punisher’ trick before to lackluster results, so it’s to great credit that I say Massa has made this book one of my favorites I’ve read in 2016.
I love taking the Freudian method of dream analysis and applying it to literature. Quick/Dirty rundown: you take the part of the book that bothered you the most, then spin the analysis so that that is what the book is about. At least, what it’s about for you.
A few things early on competed — or at least, I thought they would compete — for the role of “what bothered me most” about Damnation Code, but what finally stood out is that one of the big action set-pieces of the novel took place in a heavily recognizable — and named — Apple Store.
Now it’s not that there was a real-world product prominently featured that bothered me: longtime readers will know I’m a huge fan of K-Mart Realism. The choice to use the real Apple Store — and to call it the Apple Store, is a decidedly bold one. Most authors would have gone for those annoying slight alterations, calling it The Pear Store or something like that. Although the brand-name-recognition, and its repetition, is what made it stand out for me, I think what bothered me is what it must represent: in the novel, The Apple Store was used as the meeting place for the new-age techno death-cultists and their leader, Zagan. In picking that place — such a prominent, real-world location — for the meeting of a group of fanatically-obsessed followers paints a picture of what this novel is about: not one man versus the occult, but the old guard versus new-generation hipsters.
There’s evidence to support this as well. On page 30, Talon experiences PTSD-like symptoms after the death of Michelle, while Zagan’s cultists are able to commit atrocious acts without such drawbacks: a metaphor for a more violently-jaded current generation, possibly. On page 68, Talon sees what he describes as his ‘worst fear’ come to bear: not that Michelle died, but that she died because of her job and he couldn’t protect her, pointing to a previous-generation family dynamic with the man as the protector, as well as hinting at a deep-seeded fear of women entering the workplace. And, perhaps most blatantly, on page 73 when Talon is told his coffee is $4.00 he thinks to himself: “What is happening to this country?”
Evidence for the opposition regarding Zagan’s cult exists in plenty as well. There is the aforementioned Apple Store connection, but also the presence of tech-savvy elements from social media, binary tattoos, and Matrix references. All this adds up to a book that is, for me, about a morally-upright ‘Greatest Generation’ coming to odds (and to terms) with the rise of a new generation whose differences unsettle and scare him. Will his ideals survive? Well, that would be telling.
Everyone needs to pick up Damnation Code. It is an amazingly well-written masterpiece of modern fiction, combining elements of everything that is hot in the market right now in a way that will make it still fresh and exciting twenty years from now. I’ll be picking up its sequel, Apocalypse Soldier, soon as well.
Occult Assassin 1: Damnation Code is available now in print and eBook formats.
‘Other Indie’ is a recurring series of articles on Engen Books in which authors highlight the best in independent publishing, in the hopes of helping readers break through the cluster of books they may not be sure about in an age when anyone can publish via digital formats. Engen Books is an independent small-press publishing company based in St. John’s Newfoundland and is proud to highlight the talent of independent authors not our own. Damnation Code is © 2015 William Massa. This review is © 2016 Matthew LeDrew. ‘Other Indie’ banner photo credit: Steve Lake.
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JSE-listed Redefine International's hotel arm, the Redefine BDL Hotel Group, plans to have 100 hotels in its management portfolio in two years' time, strengthening its position as the largest hotel manager in the UK.
The group said yesterday it had added 22 hotels with an average annual combined turnover in excess of £200m a year, to its 48hotel portfolio. It would not disclose the value of the contract. It is looking to secure contracts to manage another 30 hotels within the next two years.
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Greetings Citizens, Yesterday’s post brought up a number of questions and comments about Lifetime Insurance. In an effort to clarify and smooth the transition to the new website and to make LTI as fair as possible for all interested groups, we have made some refinements to the system. To begin, we would like to clarify who does and does not have Lifetime Insurance. We have created a useful chart for your reference. The new site will divide users into three groups: [*]“Original Backers” – Backers who pledged before November 26th, 2012. [*]“Veteran Backers” – Backers who pledged between November 26th, 2012 and the launch of the new website. [*]“Backers” – Backers who will have only pledged after the new site launches. The exact date and time of the new website launch will be announced later this month. Do I / Can I have Lifetime Insurance? The following table indicates the ways in which LTI will apply to each of the user groups listed above when the new website goes live. Expanded explanations are available on roll-over: When the new site launches, everyone will be able to exchange (or “melt”) their current items for credits as many times as they would like for other packages. After a ship is flown in the game, it is flagged as ‘used’ and can not be exchanged for credits on the website, it can only be traded in the game itself. Gifted ships are melted at their original price in order to prevent Original Backers from pledging for lower cost versions of packages and then trading them in at the current price. In the future, packages will include Standard Hull Insurance which must be renewed after a set period (currently between 1 and 6 months depending on the package) instead of Lifetime Insurance. We want to be absolutely clear that Standard Hull Insurance, which offers the same exact protection, is available to all players in the game. Players simply need to continue to renew it with credits earned in-game. LTI is intended to make this more convenient for our early backers, not to unbalance the game in any way. Insurance does not negate the cost of repairing, rearming or docking your ship. It protects your hull in its current condition and does not allow you to explode a beaten up ship to exchange for a fresh one at no cost. [*]Lifetime Insurance * [*]Replaces your ship hull in the event of destruction or theft. [*]Hull is replaced with an identical model in equivalent condition. [*]Effective indefinitely with no additional in-game fee. Standard Hull Insurance * [*]Replaces your ship hull in the event of destruction or theft. [*]Hull is replaced with an identical model in equivalent condition. [*]Effective for a set period of time: currently one, three or six months. [*]Must be renewed with in-game credits once expired. * Insurance claims may be denied in cases of proven fraud.
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Preventing EXP stealing (battle access restrictions)
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Post by fmct » 18 May 2005, 12:05
One thing that happens in RO (or at least used to happen) and drove newbies away was exp stealing. The problem is as follows:
Everyone can hit a monster, even when someone is already fighting with it. When newbies are fighting a monster for EXP, another player can stab it, kill it faster (be it for being more levelled up or from the monster being weak from the battle) and get EXP points he doesn't deserve.
In Final Fantasy XI that problem is taken care of, and I think that's a solution worth considering for this game:
When a player/party hits a monster the first time, every other player/party won't be able to get in the battle. If the battle gets too hard, they can drop the restriction (call for help) so that any other player around can help them.
I've been told in IRC that EXP points for a battle are gained on a ratio basis (the one that hits the most get the most points). But I think that lost EXP points are still lost EXP points, and the problem will grow when more players join (something I could suffer in RO some years ago).
Oh, and something like this should be thought about item dropping. I've already seen many precious items I fought for being taken by a random player. Perhaps going directly into the inventory, with a dialog asking in case it's full?
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Post by Rarara » 19 May 2005, 04:53
That might be a problematic issue, but I'm not sure if it's important enough to designs a combat system around it. The easiest solution imho would be to give experience based on damage dealth, and transfer the items dropped to the one who did the most damage. Since you can't split an item, that's the only way I can see to resolve the problem.
But still, I think we should live with it. It's a rather small problem that needs a complex re-writing of the battle system. It's probably not worth the time to fix =D
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Post by Bear » 19 May 2005, 05:14
easiest solution imho would be to give experience based on damage dealth, and transfer the items dropped to the one who did the most damage.
Think of it this way, when your a level 1/1 fighting for ur life against a maggot trying to Level up, a Level 6 comes and kills off your maggot after you only dealing 10dmg, he gets all te items because he got the most damage on the maggot, and same for exp, so basicaly he stole everything u were supposed to have.
But yea, people can live with it, it happens all the time in RO, most we can do is let people report this behavior to the admins/GMs, WITH proof ofcourse*screenshot*
Rarara wrote: That might be a problematic issue, but I'm not sure if it's important enough to designs a combat system around it.
I'm not sure on how your implementation works, but combat privileges could be implemented by adding a property to the monster, ID (of a party or player) that in the case of being NULL means the monster is free for combat, and else only can be attacked by members with said ID.
Rarara wrote: The easiest solution imho would be to give experience based on damage dealth, and transfer the items dropped to the one who did the most damage. Since you can't split an item, that's the only way I can see to resolve the problem.
That could work for assigning objects to people in a party that defeated a monster. I think in FFXI the objects gained by a party are auctioned among its members, so the one who pays the most wins it (if there are several members interested). Not sure if it was like that, I'll ask this weekend my friend that is an addict to that game
Rarara wrote: But still, I think we should live with it. It's a rather small problem that needs a complex re-writing of the battle system. It's probably not worth the time to fix =D
It looks simple right now, but when the game gets crowded you can expect many people playing dirty and just lurking for distracted players to steal their objects gained in battle.
I know many people that were annoyed enough to leave RO forever and look for other games to play.
And I don't think telling the admins everytime it happens it's a nice solution. It's something expected to happen a lot, and will keep them too busy on an issue that can be solved with some tweaks to the code (now that the server is being written is the best time to look at these issues).
I know it'd be nice to stop item theft/wounded monster theft. But even if it can be a nuisance, fixing it could make a lot of server pressure. Trying to make a game perfect isn't always good, but if it can be fixed easely, YAY!
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Post by Talaroc » 20 May 2005, 05:14
It'd be more than "nice." It's necessary, else people will leave to play a better-made game.
Well, that's entirely up to you developers. I was just saying that it might not be worth the trouble, but I can't know how exactly hard it is to take care of the problem. I do know however that a lot of popular mmorpgs have this problem, so I wouldn't call it necessary to solve it. Plus, unless The Mana World is absolutly perfect, people are bound to leave for other things =(
Anyway, let's talk more about the problem. The easy measures to take, I think, are to give a fraction of experience each time you hit a monster and to make dropped items transfered directly to the inventory. A large part of the problem would be gone, but not all of it.
Making it so that a fight can't be barged in by interlopers is good, but there are complications. If attacking a monster makes it exclusive to you, then people could run and hit all the monsters once, and herd them. Then you wouldn't have anybody to fight. To fix that, then players should only be able to have a few exclusive monsters at a time.
In that direction, it of course would be better to know who's monster is whom . Placing the name of the player above the monster would do the job, and maybe placing the name of the team if it's an alliance of players. Those who don't have that name or aren't part of that alliance would do no damage, I guess. On the other hand, if it's a party then it'll have to manage itself fairly. FF11's system seems alright in that sense.
Rarara wrote: I know it'd be nice to stop item theft/wounded monster theft. But even if it can be a nuisance, fixing it could make a lot of server pressure.
I think that leaving objects around on the map, and monsters switching targets everytime they are hit, are actually making more server pressure. Also can be a bit hard on the client. RO suffered slowdowns on my machine whenever some moffo dropped a lot of their insanely large inventory.
Rarara wrote: Making it so that a fight can't be barged in by interlopers is good, but there are complications. If attacking a monster makes it exclusive to you, then people could run and hit all the monsters once, and herd them. Then you wouldn't have anybody to fight. To fix that, then players should only be able to have a few exclusive monsters at a time.
That's a nice solution. Anyway, consider that herding many monsters will result on the player dying a quick, stupid death. But better make sure.
Rarara wrote: In that direction, it of course would be better to know who's monster is whom Razz. Placing the name of the player above the monster would do the job, and maybe placing the name of the team if it's an alliance of players. Those who don't have that name or aren't part of that alliance would do no damage, I guess. On the other hand, if it's a party then it'll have to manage itself fairly.
The monster could blink to red if its already involved in a fight with other people, and if an outsider still tries to attack the monster, some warning could appear on the chat: "Monster X is already picked up by player/party Y".
I don't know how the current party system is implemented, but I guess the EXP points gained by a party in a battle are shared among its members depending on their participation in the fight and level.
P.S.: Consider that all these measures can make the game a more pleasant experience for newbies.
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Post by ElvenProgrammer » 20 May 2005, 17:35
Well I think it's not a good idea to prevent people from joining other battles, it's like limiting freedom in my opinion. The only alternate solution is to give the same items and exp points to everyone who joins the fighte, but this will make the game very unbalanced and easy. I think the best solution is to live with it as someone said, as when you go to school and older people steal money for lunch from you
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Elven Programmer wrote: Well I think it's not a good idea to prevent people from joining other battles, it's like limiting freedom in my opinion.
If someone wants to fight monsters, there should always be sceneries with spare victims around. But I fail to see how getting into a battle you are not wanted in in the first place is a commendable freedom.
Elven Programmer wrote: I think the best solution is to live with it as someone said, as when you go to school and older people steal money for lunch from you
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Post by Kyokai » 21 May 2005, 17:45
I'd have to agree with Elven that, especially in an action MMORPG, not being able to fight a monster takes away a large level of immersion and eralism from the player (not that it has to be extremely realistic, but when is the last time you couldn't hit someone because another guy had hit him first?) Maybe that's a bad example, but the point remains the same.
That aside, experience splitting isn't a problem, because experience is skill based, and grows based on the actions you take, not how many monsters you kill or how strong they are. (You hit something with your sword, your sword skill goes up 1 point, regardless of the target's level.) As for items, I propose that they are dropped on the ground, but cannot be picked up by players who weren't the first to engage the monster (at least not for 1 minute or so).
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Post by Pajarico » 21 May 2005, 18:12
I understand that the stealing of items or EXP is annoying but i think that is better to keep the player free, without limitations. Let me explain: if you want to be an asshole and be around another players who are fighting with a monster, just to give the last hit and get the points, it shouldn't be anything preventing you to do so; is better to let people to do whatever they want. You can be a good boy and not steal.
Maybe we can add a penalization for every stealing (this was discused on another thread) - only for EXP or items stealed in that context, it shouldn't apply in another context because it could limit some quests.
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That aside, experience splitting isn't a problem, because experience is skill based, and grows based on the actions you take, not how many monsters you kill or how strong they are. (You hit something with your sword, your sword skill goes up 1 point, regardless of the target's level.)
Personaly i disagree with this method, people would take advantage of the *any monster regardless of level* fact and just keep killing low level monsters to level up their weapons. that is what i think.
Bear wrote: Personaly i disagree with this method, people would take advantage of the *any monster regardless of level* fact and just keep killing low level monsters to level up their weapons. that is what i think.
It'd be possible to fix that by making the weapon experience gained relative to the monster's strength. One way is to give a certain level to all monsters, so that one has to hit a monster who's level is equal or above the level of weapon skill to make it go up.
Another option is to have the sword skills goes up based on the experience given by a monster. So when you hit a monster, half experience gained always goes to the character's experience used for levels, and half always goes to the method used for doing the damages. If it was a sword, sword skill goes up; if it was a spell, spell skill goes up. I'm using the damage = experience formula because it sounds fairer. If the exp was given upon death, then one could level his skills by fighting with what he's good at and then switch to his low-level skill to do the finishing blow
But it would be interesting if you could kill low level monsters to level your weapon skills faster. It'd be like practicing with dummies. You'd choose to specialise more with a weapon and be less generally strong because you'd get less experience. In the end you could be a low-level weakling that is a sword genius
Kyokai wrote: (not that it has to be extremely realistic, but when is the last time you couldn't hit someone because another guy had hit him first?)
In FFXI it happens the whole time, and people don't have problems with it. Solo players have an easier time around with no messy people, and parties use "pullers" (people who provoke a monster in the zone and bring it to the party for fighting).
I think that suggesting realism equals player inmersion in an MMORPG is wrong. The less rules a multiplayer game has, the more prone it's to be swamped by cheaters. When talking about free games, the problem gets worse.
Kyokai wrote: As for items, I propose that they are dropped on the ground, but cannot be picked up by players who weren't the first to engage the monster (at least not for 1 minute or so).
I like that solution, but I still prefer the object going directly to the inventory (problems to immediately pick the item up arise in zones crowded by aggressive monsters). The player could still drop the item to the floor or trade it if he doesn't need/want it.
That's a problem fixed long ago in other RPGs. As Rarara said, you must fight monsters with a minimum level relative to yours or you won't get experience.
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