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SWOT Project Summary
Kyla Drushka, Luc Rainville, Dimitris Menemenlis
1. Introduction & Objectives
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will provide sea surface height (SSH) observations that will resolve features with wavelengths of 15-100 km, which will allow the full range of mesoscale ocean variability to be measured. A critical step in interpreting the SWOT signal will be to distinguish the mesoscale signals (wavelength > 50 km) from the other signals that will be detected by SWOT (e.g., submesoscale features, internal waves and tides, swell). This is a non- trivial problem, as these processes are not well understood or modeled. A further complication is that SWOT will have a temporal resolution of ~10-20 days, making it difficult to identify the quickly- evolving submesoscale field and internal waves. Tackling this problem requires a better under- standing of ocean dynamics across the range of scales and regimes that SWOT will measure.
In this work, we will use existing in situ data from numerous Seaglider missions in several different regions, along with output from the 1/48° MITgcm numerical simulation, to achieve the following objectives:
Quantify and characterize ocean variability at 15-100 km wavelengths in regions with different dynamical regimes.
Evaluate how mesoscale, sub-mesoscale, and fine-scale processes will be reflected in SWOT sampling.
Develop a sampling strategy for future SWOT validation efforts and for designing integrated regional observational arrays.
Figure 1. (a) Percentage of time a given pixel is located within a coherent mesoscale structure (includes eddies and meanders) based on the altimetry-derived mesoscale eddy database of Chelton et al. (2011) (courtesy of Peter Gaube, APL-UW), demonstrating the strong mesoscale eddy variability in regions such as western boundary currents and the Southern Ocean. Note that only eddies with wavelengths greater than ~100 km are effectively captured. The locations of each of the Seaglider datasets are outlined in black. (b) Individual Seaglider track locations for each of the Seaglider datasets (the SPURS-2 deployments are ongoing, so no tracks are shown).
2. Approach
Gliders are a unique platform from which to sample the spatial and temporal scales that are relevant to SWOT. Seagliders are autonomous underwater vehicles that glide in a sawtooth pattern from the surface down to a maximum of 1000 m depth while collecting profiles of ocean temperature, salinity, pressure, etc. (Eriksen et al., 2001), from which steric height can be computed. Gliders move horizontally at around 0.25 m/s, taking ~4 hours to cover a 4-km lateral distance for a typical 1000-m dive. A single Seaglider can thus cover around 20 km per day. With typical 4-km separation between Seaglider profiles, and 150-300 km transects covered in 8-20 days, the spatio-temporal resolution of the glider data is similar to that of SWOT.
Figure 2. (a) Example of one Seaglider track in the OKMC region. (b) Time series of submesoscale steric height (i.e. mesoscale signal removed) and its components: diurnal mode-1 and non-mode-1 (red thick and thin lines); semidiurnal mode-1 and non-mode-1 (blue lines); inertial (green) and the residual grey), which represents the part of the signal we cannot predict. The RMS steric height for each component is shown on the right-hand-side of the plot. (c) As for b, but for model steric height that has been interpolated to the Seaglider track.
Seaglider data will be used to quantify and characterize 15-100 km SSH variability, specifically due to internal tides and mesoscale eddies. In parallel with the Seaglider analysis, output from the year-long 1/48° MITgcm model will be used to characterize these same features. This will allow us to both validate the model as well as evaluate the impacts and limitations of the Seaglider sampling pattern.
Figure 3: Wavenumber spectra from Seaglider dynamic height (black; from seven 200-km-long transects) and model SSH (blue); both Seaglider and model data are from the OKMC region. Slopes fit to the spectra are noted in the legend and the k−2 slope is shown as a dashed red line for reference. The 25-km wavelength is indicated with a vertical dotted line: at shorter wavelengths, the Seaglider spectra are expected to be contaminated by aliasing from internal tides. The 95% confidence level for the Seaglider data is indicated with a vertical bar.
3. Analysis and Anticipated Results
Objective 1
We make use of existing Seaglider datasets in five regions (Figure 1), all of which have different submesoscale, mesoscale and mean properties. We build on the work by Rainville et al. (2013), who used Seaglider data to estimate the local internal tide phase and amplitude. In each region, we will use Seaglider observations to characterize the steric height signal of internal tides, including their spatial and seasonal variability, depth dependence, and the proportion of the mesoscale SSH signal they comprise. Figure 2 shows an example of the steric height signal from Seaglider mea- surements in the OKMC region, which has been broken into diurnal and semidiurnal internal tidal constituents, inertial variability, and a residual. The model and observations agree remarkably well, indicating that the model can capture steric height variability due to internal tides. Comparisons of the model steric height calculated by integrating potential density from 1000 m versus to the bottom (not shown) reveal that the Seagliders, which only sample to 1000 m, can capture ~80% of the high-frequency variability.
Wavenumber spectra of glider-derived steric height will be used to quantify submesoscale to mesoscale energy. Spectral slopes, as well as their regional and seasonal variability and dependence on the background stratification and velocity field, will be computed from Seaglider data and model output in each region. Figure 3 shows an example of wavenumber spectra from the Seaglider data and from the model output in the same region: as the slopes are similar, if slightly steeper (weaker submesoscale energy) for the model. At wavelengths shorter than 25 km, the Seaglider data are aliased due to the motion of the glider.
Following the analysis of Pelland et al. (2013), Seaglider measurements, in combination with satel- lite altimeter observations, will also be used to quantify the mesoscale eddy field in each region. Specifically, we will identify and characterize individual eddies and develop statistics about their SSH signature and spatio-temporal variability. An example of this is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: (a) SSH and (b) SST extracted from the model simulation (OKMC region). A mesoscale eddy is visible in the SST field (south part of the boxed region in b but it cannot be distinguished in the SSH field, which is dominated by large-scale variability and internal tide signals (visible as curved bands, e.g. in the northeast part of the domain). (c) SSH with internal tides removed: after fitting and removing tidal harmonics to the time series at each pixel, the eddy can be seen as a depression in SSH (i.e., blue shading). (d) Simulated SSH along the SWOT swath, including measurement error and noise, estimated by using the data in a as an input to the SWOT Simulator.
Here, we address the question of what part of the 15-100 km SSH signal SWOT will actually see. We will use statistics gleaned from Objective 1 along with simulated SSH from the SWOT Simulator. We also consider the impacts of the Seaglider sampling on interpreting those data (e.g., Figures 2 and 3). For each of region, we will use the SSH fields extracted from the numerical model as inputs to the SWOT Simulator and will assess the impacts of SWOT sampling on interpreta- tions of wavenumber spectra and the ability to detect mesoscale eddies and internal from SWOT data.
It is anticipated that SWOT will provide an unprecedented view of the ocean, particularly on a regional scale. Longer-term goals of our project are to develop a sampling strategy for future SWOT validation efforts and to develop techniques for integrated regional observational networks involving in situ and SWOT observations as well as other remote sensing measurements.
High-resolution numerical models will play an important role in this approach: our goal is to both make use of and build on numerical models as we learn more about submesoscale-to-mesoscale ocean dynamics, improving the observations and the models in an iterative process. We will assess what processes are not resolved as a result of spatial or temporal gaps in the existing observational and modeling networks (e.g. distinguishing the coherent and incoherent internal tide signals), and what instruments, models, and sampling can be used to obtain that information.
Chelton, D.B., M.G. Schlax, and R.M. Samelson (2011), Global observations of nonlinear mesoscale eddies, Prog. Oceanogr., 91(2), 167–216, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2011.01.002.
Eriksen, C., T. Osse, R. Light, T. Wen, T. Lehman, P. Sabin, J. Ballard, and A. Chiodi (2001), Seaglider: a long-range autonomous underwater vehicle for oceanographic research, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., 26(4), 424–436, doi:10.1109/48.972073.
Pelland, N.A., C.C. Eriksen, and C.M. Lee (2013), Subthermocline Eddies over the Wash- ington Continental Slope as Observed by Seagliders, 2003-09, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 43(10), 2025–2053, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-12-086.1.
Rainville, L., C.M. Lee, D.L. Rudnick, and K.-C. Yang (2013), Propagation of internal tides generated near Luzon Strait: Observations from autonomous gliders, J. Geophys. Res., 118(9), 4125–4138, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20293
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Revisiting England and Wales: Camping in Wales
Posted on May 28, 2017 by tbeartravels
WELSH CAMPSITES
Blaenau-Ffestiniog slate Snowdonia National Park
Caernarfon (Carnarvon)
In the first post of Revisiting England and Wales I related the story of how the manager of one of the official campgrounds where we wanted to stay refused on the grounds that our hire van was not a recognised leisure vehicle. The reason: we could suffocate and the management would be held responsible for our deaths (!!!!). From then on we decided to stealth camp or go into farms and ask the owners if we could camp on their properties. This post and consequent ones describe some of our experiences when stealth and farm camping in England and Wales.
An elderly friend once said saying goodbye is like a little death and this is how it was when we said goodbye to Elisabeth, our host for the week in Dolgellau.
Map of North Wales showing our camps.
Leaving Dolgellau we headed north through Snowdonia to the slate mountains of Blaenau-Ffestiniog where for centuries slate has been mined. Dozens of mines, both underground and open cut, have provided the stone from which all manner of building materials have been fashioned. From mines in the area items such as delicate thin roof slates to thick slabs used in making billiard tables have been extracted.
Mountains created by slate waste. In days gone by 90% of the extracted slate base material was wasted, these days only 10% is wasted.
The mineral we call slate was formed around five hundred million years ago when mud and clay was deposited on an ancient seabed. Intense temperatures and pressure transformed the mud and clay into slate. Slate is not all that hard: 3.0 to 4.0 on the Mohs scale of hardness. Talc is 1.0 and the hardest is diamonds at 10.0.
Slate exposed in a road cutting.
Slate shards at the base of the road cutting. Road cuttings are to me an open page in a book of geology.
As I get older I think, if I had my time over again would I have perused the careers I have. The answer is yes but I would have squeezed the study of geology into my list as well. I expect my interest in geology is a cultural inheritance as my father was a keen rock hound and I remember going out with him as a child collecting rocks and panning for gold.
Slate was used by the Romans in the first century AD when building defences. It wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution (1760-1820/1840) that slate was used seriously as a building medium. At its peak, around the end of the 19th century, slate mines in Wales employed an army of around seventeen thousand men mining shaping and shipping slate all over the world. Back in the late 1940s during my early school years slate was still being used in schools in lieu of paper.
The manufacture of roof slates was a labour intensive operation. Chunks sometimes the size of a large refrigerator were extracted from either underground or from a quarry and broken down into smaller pieces from which the roof slate was split. The split pieces were then trimmed to specific dimensions, the trimming of the edges was done by holding the slate piece against a rotating blade similar to that of an old push lawn mower.
Removing chunks of slate from the mountainside. Image: courtesy of Tom Jones.
Splitting the slate using a paint scraper type of tool and a hammer.
Creative stonemasons found many innovative uses for waste slate. The following photographs show examples.
A modern buck and a doe (or cock and a hen) slate fence. The name refers to the pieces that are vertical on edge.
Stones set vertically in a fence such as above not only made the fence visually pleasing but it also made it difficult for animals or humans to scale. A more modern version for deterring fence jumpers is to place broken glass along the top or string out razor wire.
An attractive and functional slate fence. Each vertical was buried in the ground and wired together near the top.
Portion of a rough-hewn slate roof.
Neatly trimmed slate for sale. At the above quoted price ($18 each) there is approximately $1000 worth of slate in the centre row.
In the early days slates were rough hewn and often only trimmed on one edge and they were referred to as raggies.
Following is a photograph of a beautiful slate roof; the curves over the windows are called eyebrows.
A slate eyebrow roof.
Slate used as dripstones. Dripstones deflect rain running down the chimney away from the roof flashing.
Strategically placed dripstones again deflect water away from the roof/wall junction.
Slate slabs on top of bridge keystones.
Random slate, rock and brick wall.
If the above wall was put on exhibition in an art gallery and called something arty like ‘fragments and elements of past geological eras’ people would marvel at it.
Bev getting a close up of slate headstone art. Not all the headstones here are slate.
Slate garden furniture with slate wine racks in the background.
Slate wine racks.
Slate door jambs, lintel and wind deflectors (vertical slabs either side of the door).
There are substantial deposits of slate in Australia and one is at Mintaro South Australia. As early as 1861 Mintaro slate was described as superior to any from anywhere in the world and since then it has established a name for being a trouble-free construction material for steps, veranda edgings, paving and roofing. Slate from Mintaro has been used in many of Australia’s most distinguished historic buildings.
Bev and I visited Mintaro in the 1980s and all around the district we noted slate had been used for things other than housing construction. A few of the alternative uses included fences, water tanks (large slabs were bolted together) and even toilet seats, although sitting on a slate toilet seat in winter would have been a bone-chilling experience.
Again the day drew in and we drove in search of a camp. A couple of posts back I mentioned Bev likes to make camp earlier than later but tonight it was late as we spent a lot of time searching. In the Snowdonian mountains farms were few and far between. However above Porthmadog we finally found a house with people (Nev & Beccy) fussing outside and when I approached them about a spot to camp they suggested a place by a small lake nearby. Before we went off and set up camp they invited us to stay and join them for a barbecue.
The drive up to Nev and Beccy’s farmhouse.
An old oak tree at the entrance to Nev and Beccy’s house.
Readers who know about moss will immediately realise that for moss to be ever present on a fence such as above the atmosphere must be constantly damp. The average annual rainfall for Snowdonia is in excess of three thousand millimetres (118 inches) per annum. Many believe Wales is not a summer sun destination as the temperatures are too low. In the mountainous regions sunshine doesn’t even reach one thousand annual hours.
The campsite, a disused borrow pit (only flat spot) near Nev and Beccy’s house.
An evening ride on the road near our camp.
View to Porthmadog from our campsite.
The next morning was cold and wet so the prior invitation to join our hosts for breakfast was much appreciated. We stood in the kitchen in front of a large wood burning stove and chatted about Welsh life. Beccy managed a large family earthmoving business and Nev, among other things, was a tattooist. When he signed my concertina book he drew me a Welsh dragon.
Nev’s drawing of a Welsh dragon in my concertina book. The message directly under the dragon ‘Nice to meet you both and to be the first guys to offer you a ‘PANAD’ – cup of tea!
Royal Badge of Wales. Image credit: Sodacam via Wikipedia.
The motto Y DDRAIG GOCH DDYRY CYCHWYN was taken from a 15th century Welsh poem and when translated reads: ‘The Red Dragon Inspires Action’.
Transcendentalist Ralf Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) is quoted as saying: ‘What lies behind you and what lies ahead of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside you’.
The core belief of transcendentalism is in the inherent goodness of people and nature. I think Nev and Beccy had the inherent goodness. In fact, all the farmers we stayed with so far have it.
CARNARVON (CAERNARFON) VIA THE SNOWDON MOUNTAINS WALES
Leaving Nev and Beccy in the rain we headed northwest through the Snowdonia National Park towards Carnarvon (Caernarfon) on the banks of the Menai Strait. When the weather is less than satisfactory I think about sitting in front of an open fire in an English pub with good company, a book and a beer.
Approximate boundary of Snowdonia National Park.
The Snowdonia National Park is not all wilderness as there are many roads, towns and farms within its confines. There are, of course, remote wilderness areas within the park and one location is in the vicinity of Mt Snowdon between Porthmadog and Carnarvon.
The Snowdon group looking from the east. Mt Snowdon is the pointed second from the right. Unfortunately the mountains did not look like this the day we passed by. Image credit: Photo by Chris Dixon via Wikipedia.
The Snowdon group of mountains in the clouds. Note the ‘cock and hen’ fence.
Mt Snowdon is 1085m above sea level and is the third highest mountain in the UK. The mountains that precede it are Ben Nevis 1344m and Carn Eige 1183m, both in Scotland.
The English name Snowdon comes from the Old English snaw dun meaning ‘snow hill’. The slopes of Mt Snowdon receive an annual average of 5100mm (200 inches) of precipitation. Staggering trivia. The first recorded ascent of the mountain was by botanist Thomas Johnson in 1639. However the 18th century traveller, writer and historian Thomas Pennant suggested ‘a triumphal fair upon this our chief of mountains’ was achieved well before the conquest of Wales in1284.
Reincarnation, is there such a thing? The more I read about past lives the more I’m inclined to think there is. Thomas Pennant and I have a very similar biographical background and I therefore ask, ‘Am I a reincarnate of Thomas Pennant?’ Pennant was a traveller and his travels took him to places hitherto unknown at the time. His writings were accompanied by painted and engraved colour plates and he wrote in detail about the peoples’ customs, superstitions and the wildlife he encountered along the way. He was a man with a large circle of friends and he was still busy following his interests into his sixties. He travelled with a servant who helped him with his work. I’m not suggesting Bev is my servant but she travels with me, helps me write, photographs what we see and makes sure I do not wax lyrical too often. This sounds like me (and I look a bit like him too!).
Portrait of Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) by artist Thomas Gainsborough. Image credit: In the public domain via Wikipedia. Photograph by Museum of Cardiff photographer.
Caernarfon’s main attraction is its impressive medieval castle. The castle was built under the direction of King Edward l between1282 and 1287 and was one of many forming part of Edward’s ‘Iron Ring of Castles’. Harlech Castle, forty-five kilometres to the south is part of the ring.
Caernarfon Castle sitting on the banks of the Menai Strait.
Plan view of the castle. Image credit: Cadw, Welsh government environmental service and via Wikipedia.
Records show that the cost to build the castle was between 22 and 30 thousand pounds which, in today’s terms, doesn’t sound all that much but in the 13th century it was a vast amount. A skilled craftsman was paid about 3 pence a day, which was a pittance (before the Norman Conquest in 1066 there were 240 pence to the pound). The total cost for the building exceeded the total tax revenue gathered by the King in one year.
Standing on the waterfront at Caernarfon (Carnarvon) we thought of Carnarvon in Australia and mused over how different they were. Carnarvon Australia is situated at the mouth of the beautifully clear Gascoyne River estuary in Western Australia and the most memorable thing about our visit there was seeing a dugong. Search Carnarvon in Odyssey #1 on the blog for the story and more images.
A dugong in the waters of the Gascoyne River Carnarvon West Australia.
There are no dugongs in the waters around Caernarfon. The closest colony is probably in the waters of the Red Sea. Dugongs are now extinct in the Mediterranean.
Some businesses in the back streets of Carnarvon, as would be expected, rely heavily on the town’s history to attract customers. One particular establishment is the Black Boy Inn.
Front of the Black Boy/Buoy Inn.
The back door of the inn.
A local sitting in the rain outside the inn.
A close up of the sign on the wall of the Black Boy Inn.
Rain is to be expected in Wales. I did look at a couple of free campsites but I was adamant to go off onto the grass, our little van was not a 4WD. After asking around about a spot to camp we were directed to a farm (a registered caravan site). The fee was substantial but that is the way it is in areas of high tourist movements. I asked the farmer if there was a camp shelter or kitchen. No was the reply ‘but there is a hay shed you can get in out of the rain but you will have to muck it out’. Muck is a mixture of hay and cow manure and farmers spread it over fields in fallow. I had no desire to clean out his shed so we erected our annex. We were offered wifi but when I asked for two connections I was informed that ‘a new regulation only allows park owners to allocate one connection per couple since an unhappy recent pedophile event in England’. I said ‘Fair go, sport. Not all Australians are pedophiles’. No amount of pleading convinced the owner to give us two connections.
Caernarfon, although an interesting destination, is not a favorite with us as not only were we refused two Internet connections but I received a parking fine for $75.
In the middle of the town there is a large square and a sign that I interpreted to mean no truck parking turned out to be no parking for cars as well. I returned to the car just as the parking attendant was writing out the fine. I suggested to her the sign was ambiguous, but to no avail. Later I asked a taxi driver about the sign and he replied that ‘there used to be a big sign indicating clearly there is no parking in the square but they took it down because the council was not making enough money’. I must add I also asked two other drivers about parking in the square and they told me the sign referred to trucks only. I wrote a letter to the council asking for an exemption. I enclosed a photograph of the sign and a drawing as to how the sign should be. I lost my appeal and was informed that if I didn’t pay up the van hire company would be required to debit my account when I returned the car. Big brother is on to us.
The ambiguous sign.
Paid parking is big business in Britain. Some parking meters produce the display ticket with the car registration number on it, which eliminates you giving your ticket with time still on it to a driver about to buy a ticket. Some landowners who have a spare corner in a field erect parking meters. Everyone is cashing in. Too many people, too many cars and not enough space leads to meticulous repression of the public.
A land owner’s attempt to keep cars from parking on his land.
A closing comment: Bev and I were parked illegally for a short time in Devonport Tasmania and a parking attendant came to us and told us we were illegally parked but went on to say, ‘I won’t book you because if I did you might not come to our island and we do need mainlanders to come. We need your money’. I suggest the Carnarvon Council think about adopting this approach.
CARNARVON TO OUR MOUNTAIN CAMP IN THE SNOWDONIA NATIONAL PARK
We intended to drive to Holyhead where I wanted to see a geological wonder and that was the anticlines and inclines visible in the cliff face, something every amateur geologist should see. Unfortunately we never made it to the rock formations as the weather turned bad and it would have been no fun being battered by the Irish Sea winds and rain. However we did cross over to Anglesey Island and this meant crossing the Menai Strait.
The Menai Strait (Welsh Afon Menai) separates the Welsh mainland from the Island of Anglesey and even though the waters are nowhere as pristine as the Gascoyne River at Carnarvon in Australia it does not mean it is devoid of marine life. Surprisingly it has a rather remarkable marine ecology brought about due to unusual tidal conditions and its mud and sand bottom. Along the shoreline mussels, clams, whelks and Pacific oysters are cultivated and another important activity is the production of Halen Mon (Anglesey Salt). The strait is also very rich in sponges.
Pacific oysters were imported into Europe some time between 1964 and 1980. These oysters in Australia are declared a noxious species (except for one small area in NSW) because they smother the slower growing Sydney rock oyster, a preferred species for the table.
The strait is bridged in two places and the one bridge I found particularly interesting was Thomas Telford’s iron suspension bridge. The Telford Bridge was opened in 1826. Before the bridge was built cattle raised on Anglesey Island were driven into the water and had to swim across, a dangerous practice, which often resulted in the loss of the cattle.
Bev’s photograph of Telford’s iron suspension bridge
It was hard to find a good photographic aspect so I have borrowed one taken by Mick Knapton.
Mick’s photograph of the bridge downloaded to Wikipedia by sevela.p
Telford (1757-1834) should not be confused with Brunell (1806-1859), another engineer of note. Telford’s nickname was the ‘Colossus of Roads’, a pun on the ‘Colossus of Rhodes’. All reports say he was a jolly man with a hearty laugh and it was a pleasure to be in his society. A pleasure to be in his society: I like how in days gone by writers had the ability to turn a simple comment into a poetic turn of phrase.
A 19th century Australian governor when making an inspection of a newly built road passed a bullock team whose driver was swearing at his bullocks. He wrote: ‘I have never heard such blasphemous execrations uttered forth from human lips upon quadruped objects’.
The Telford Menai suspension bridge that links the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.
Our camp at the end of the day was entirely the opposite to our Carnarvon camp. We stealth camped in the wilds of the Snowdonia National Park.
It was not easy to find a suitable camp in Snowdonia as there are fewer farms due to the nature of the country. As darkness drew in were getting a little desperate, but by chance we found ourselves in the carpark of an outdoor education centre where there was a group of mountain bike riders getting ready for a downhill run. I thought they would know where a suitable camp might be. One of the riders pointed to a narrow gate and told us if we went through and drove to the saddle we would come to a grid and on the left there was a reasonably flat spot where we could camp.
The mountain camp.
The view down the valley from our mountain camp
The view up the valley from our camp.
Preparing a meal at the back of the van in Snowdonia.
Rain drove us into our bed early. It rained all night and I was thinking about our route in and if we had crossed any creeks that may flood and isolate us. Next morning it was still raining heavily and trickling creeks the night before had turned into raging torrents.
Looking from our campsite towards one of the mountain streams after torrential rain. The stone embankment high on the left is the road to Betws-y-Coed, a popular tourist town in the heart of Snowdonia.
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When preparing to travel lay out all your clothes and money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller.
Susan Heller, an author, writer and traveller was instrumental in setting up a group called the Solo Traveller. The above quote first appeared in the New York Times in 1987 and since then it has become the most frequently quoted piece of packing advice.
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Restraint Movie trailer
We’ve got our hands on the first official trailer of Restraint, the upcoming horror thriller movie written and directed by Adam Cushman and starring Dana Ashbrook, John Hensley, Geoffrey Rivas, Caitlyn Folley, Nell Teare, T.J. Yoshizaki, Omar Salazar, Christopher Clay Jones, Shelby Lee Chenard, Gabriella Von Ins, Isabella Celaya, and Rusty Von Ins:
“A young woman who has submerged her violent impulses for years, moves in with her new husband and his daughter. She starts to unravel, becoming obsessed with a book she believes parallels her own life. When she becomes unexpectedly pregnant, her demons emerge and as she loses control, the family is threatened by her sudden plunge into darkness.”
There are also three film posters:
(Click on a poster to enlarge.)
Some things weren’t meant to stay inside.
Still water runs deep, but sooner or later it gushes out with violence!
The film has yet to get an official release date.
Stay tuned with us for more details about the movie Restraint.
16 October 2017 tags: Restraint
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Home / Microsoft / Microsoft unveils Azure Government Secret to help U.S. agencies handle classified data – GeekWire
Microsoft unveils Azure Government Secret to help U.S. agencies handle classified data – GeekWire
The Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. (DoD Photo)
More and more government agencies are realizing the benefits of cloud computing, and Microsoft is poised to unveil several new updates to its cloud services for government customers Tuesday at its Government Cloud Forum.
Microsoft currently operates six cloud computing regions dedicated specifically to government customers, and supports the U.S. Department of Defense with two of those regions. Working with the government requires satisfying a host of security requirements, and a new service called Azure Government Secret will allow other agencies with strict protocols for the handling of classified information to use Azure services, said Tom Keane, head of global infrastructure for Microsoft Azure.
Azure Government Secret builds on the announcement earlier this year that Azure was cleared to serve agencies at Impact Level 5 of the Defense Information System Agency’s cloud security requirements, the second-highest level of classification. But the DoD is not the only government agency that handles sensitive information, and the new service will allow agencies working on topics classified as “Secret” in fields like energy research or law enforcement greater access to cloud computing services like artificial intelligence and translation, Keane said.
The different levels of security authorizations granted to cloud computing providers, as compiled by the Defense Information Systems Agency. (DISA Image)
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of government-backed hacking going on around the world at the moment. Even some of the lesser-known Cabinet-level government agencies have secret data that they’d like to keep within the country, and their budgets don’t always allow them to hire the best infrastructure and security talent, which is where a cloud provider like Microsoft comes in.
The new service will allow those agencies to take advantage of Azure services even when handling classified data. “Customers of Azure Government Secret will gain access to new technologies at scale and pace of innovation they’d experience in a commercial environment,” Keane said.
Microsoft also plans to make a version of its blockchain technology available for government agencies to use, after several agencies expressed interest in evaluating the blockchain — which allows two parties to conduct secure internet transactions via a shared ledger, without the need for a hackable database — in some of their efforts.
Keane thinks government customers might use blockchain technology for licensing services, voter records, of tax management. One specific example: the U.S. Department of State has expressed interest in using blockchain technology as part of helping with recovery efforts around the world, he said.
In 2011, all government agencies were ordered by the Obama administration to think cloud-first when upgrading their technology infrastructure, and despite its fondness for rolling back various initiatives of its predecessor, the policy seems to have continued in the Trump administration.
This has been a boon for cloud infrastructure and software providers, who have all rushed to build services tailored for the unique needs of government customers despite the byzantine process that often accompanies government contracts. Microsoft has been aggressive here thanks to long-standing business (and legal) relationships with government agencies, but Amazon Web Services built a cloud service for the Central Intelligence Agency and says over 2,000 government agencies are using some of its services.
Microsoft also plans to announce a few other new services for government customers at the event, held, of course, in Washington, D.C.
Microsoft 365, the new package of Windows 10, Office 365, and Enterprise Mobilty and Security software introduced at Inspire in June, will be generally available for government users early next year. Microsoft Teams will also be available for government users around that time.
Agencies interested in high-performance computing cloud services will be able to take advantage of Azure’s H-series virtual machines.
Citrix’s VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) will now be available for Azure Government customers.
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Does Ransomware Make Antivirus Obsolete?
July 13, 2016 July 13, 2016 chengrob
Antivirus and whitelisting are the keys to stopping ransomware in its tracks…
By: Rob Cheng, PC Pitstop Founder/CEO
In May 2014, Symantec, the world’s leading antivirus maker, famously said that antivirus is dead. The following month, June 2014, the tech consulting giant Gartner echoed the sentiment, stating that it is impossible to develop a signature for an attack that nobody has seen before. Fast-forward two years, and ransomware is close to becoming a household word, attacking and anonymously extorting ransoms from consumers, businesses and government agencies alike. Is antivirus really dead?
Ransomware payments in 2015 reported to the FBI came to $24m. That number jumped to over $200m in the first quarter of 2016. The ransoms paid are like oxygen to a wildfire. As long as the ransoms paid continue to grow, so will ransomware threats with each iteration gaining in force and sophistication.
The antivirus industry began in the late 1980s as software to fix and clean after a virus attack, a process frequently called remediation. Later, the industry would add real-time protection to block threats from executing, creating a critical and essential layer of security. The real-time protection, however, relied on the same black list (also known as signatures) as the remediation. The unfortunate ramification of this architecture is that real-time protection can only prevent a virus that had been previously detected.
Ransomware encrypts endpoint and network files and after completion demands the ransom. Ransomware makes obsolete the remediation and blacklist approach of the security industry. However, ransomware does not make obsolete antivirus, only this outmoded architecture. Antivirus is not dead. In fact, it is needed more now than ever.
Ransomware is illegal and one of the most profitable businesses on earth. Other popular strains of malware are on the decline, as the cyber terrorists flock to their new goldmine. The current response from the security industry to this rising danger is to backup, detect, respond and pray. The emphasis is on prayer.
Our society is dependent on technology and computing. Ransomware is a threat to how our society functions. We cannot sit back and react to this threat. We must proactively thwart the ransomware threat, or one day it could destroy the technological fabric of our society.
Whitelisting, also known as application controls, is the ideological opposite of blacklisting. Instead of tracking and categorizing the bad applications in the world, the whitelist tracks the good ones. The Google Play Store and the Apple App Store are two popular examples of whitelisting in the real world. It is possible for malware to infiltrate the Play Store or the App Store, but not to the same degree as the ransomware threat in front of us. Not even close.
The potential of whitelisting is enormous. Not only does it stop the ransomware epidemic in its tracks, it also protects against polymorphic viruses and advanced persistent threats such as a spy that wants to infiltrate a particular government agency or high-value enterprise.
Sadly, the state of whitelisting is not mature. Many corporations have implemented whitelisting and later discontinued the effort. Whitelisting in the governmental and enterprise spaces has a poor reputation. The underlying issue can be summarized in two words: false positives. The problem riddling current whitelisting solutions is that they far too frequently identify good programs as bad. The responsibility for resolving the ‘false positive’ issue falls on IT staff and not on the whitelist provider.
The good news is that whitelisting is software that can be improved over time. Right now, we are on version 1.0. When looking at the threats in front of us, and the potential solutions, the ultimate solution is the evolution of the whitelist to commercial grade software with vastly reduced false positives.
In conclusion, antivirus is not dead. To be sure, it is wholly ineffective against modern threats, but just like any software it must adapt to the marketplace and the threats to its existence. The answers lies in abandoning the blacklist approach in favor of the whitelist that has been successfully deployed in many other similar ecosystems.
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African Countries in Capacity Building Efforts to Harness Internet Opportunities
Saruni Maina - January 23, 2017
African countries have intensified efforts to build relevant capacity on the continent to fully exploit opportunities presented by the internet. With the internet permeating...
Tanzania Government Demands Businesses Registered in the Country Use .TZ Domains
Eric Wainaina - June 3, 2016
The Tanzania government through the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) yesterday published a public notice in dailies reminding business entities registered in the country they should...
ICANN opens Africa Engagement Office in Nairobi
Eric Wainaina - May 24, 2016
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has today opened its first African engagement office in Nairobi. The office, located at ICEA...
Republican Presidential Candidate Forgets To Register Personal Domain, Get’s Trolled Hard
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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina announced today that she is running for president and will battle it out with Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and...
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Microsoft purchased Office.Porn and Office.Adult for $99. The company joins others including Taylor Swift, Richard Branson among the long list of celebrities and personalities...
Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, South Africa, 12-13 July 2013
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South Africa’s ZACR Launches Awareness Programme for the .africa Domain
Carlos Ageng'o - May 8, 2013
At the 46th ICANN meeting the ZA Central Registry (ZACR) was awarded the right to operate the .africa registry after it signed and MoU...
African Union Commission selects UniForum SA to administer new dotAFRICA Top Level Domain
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Opinion: Stop stalling and save Mom & Pop
By Kirsten Theodos, co-founder, Take Back NYC
All across the city, we are seeing the character and spirit of our neighborhoods being destroyed by hyper real estate speculation pushing out longtime established small businesses. Amazon cannot be blamed for all of the closings. A year ago, 41-year-old Cornelia Street Café was forced to close because of an exorbitant rent hike.
The Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA) would have saved them by giving commercial tenants rights to renew their leases and negotiate reasonable terms. In a recent interview, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer made clear in her view the SBJSA shouldn’t apply to all commercial leases. Her argument is weak, that the “unintended consequences” of the bill would be including “white shoe law firms” and “financial institutions.”
Even if a business is a hedge fund, it should not be excluded from protection from unscrupulous landlords. Carving out specific types of businesses from the bill is discrimination and would certainly be legally challenged. After years of broken promises to save Mom & Pop, it is unclear why she is back on the small business beat and weighing in on this now.
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Officers honored at community council
Police officers Colin Dowd, Peter Rodriguez, Joe Sgroi, Kevin Fainer and Manny Rodriguez were honored for their work at the 13th precinct’s most recent community council meeting last month. (Photo by Maria Rocha-Buschel)
Five officers at the 13th precinct were honored as cops of the month at the precinct’s last community council meeting before the summer break on Tuesday, June 18. Deputy Inspector Steven Hellman said that crime in the precinct has been steadily decreasing and he said that the community policing program that launched at the precinct last October has helped.
“I attribute that to the cops on patrol and the NCO philosophy that’s driving down crime,” he said, referring to the program that assigns Neighborhood Coordination Officers to different areas in the precinct. “We had a tough year last year but we’ve been doing better.”
The first awards at the meeting went to two officers who work together as NCOs for Sector A, which covers Stuyvesant Town and Gramercy. Officers Peter Rodriguez and Manny Rodriguez caught a man on Avenue C earlier in the month after they suspected him of riding a stolen motorcycle. After the man was arrested, the officers found that he was wanted citywide for stolen motorcycles and had also been arrested for felony assault after molesting his sister.
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[Nick is writing this document as a summary of Tor's TLS annoyances, for the consumption of people who are working on the TLS protocol and would like to help Tor. It's a draft; I don't promise that it's accurate.]
For a few reasons, TLS as it stands is a difficult protocol for Tor to use.
REASON 1: IT IS HARD TO LOOK LIKE OTHER TLS INSTANCES FROM THE POV OF PASSIVE ATTACKS
The first is that TLS exists in a stupendously vast number of externally visible profiles. If you're running a protocol that an external censor would like to detect and block, it is not enough to simply use your TLS library in a sensible way. Instead, you need to pick a popular application that the censor doesn't want to block, and your clients need to emulate its clients, and your servers need to emulate its servers.
I'll go through the history of the stupid ways that Tor has tried to use TLS over the years. This will read like a comedy of errors; please don't judge our missteps too harshly.
Stage 1: (Tor versions 0.0.1 through 0.2.0.19)
What we would really like to do, if we didn't need to worry about censorship, is to have a profile where the client declared a list of ciphersuites using strong ciphers and some kind of ephemeral key agreement mechanism. The server should always send a two-certificate chain, with a longer-term server identity key signing a shorter-term link key. The link key should change on the order of hours to days. The client should either send no certificates, or a similar two-certificate chain, depending on whether it itself is a Tor server or not. We know that our data is all encrypted, and therefore uncompressible, so we don't want to use compression. We have no need for vhost support.
In our X.509 certificates, we really don't need to use any fields besides the public key, the serial number (for correctness), and the validAfter/validUntil fields.
In our earliest versions, we just set the cipher list to what we wanted to use, and disabled the extensions we weren't using. We did ephemeral key agreeement using the 1024-bit DH group specified in RFC RFC2409, section 6.2.
We made some concessions to avoiding fingerprinting during this phase. For example, we removed some fixed strings from our certificates' DNs.
Stage 2: (Tor 0.2.0.20 through 0.2.3.6)
Our particular use of two-certificate chains, our unusual cipher list, and our our funny-looking certs made Tor pretty easy to profile.
So we switched to an approach where we would begin by sending a list of ciphers hacked to match the list sent by Firefox, a server would reply with a single certificate, and then the client would immediately renegotiate. Upon the renegotiation, the server and client would pick the ciphersuites they really wanted to use, and exchange their real certificates.
To avoid the most trivial certificate-based attacks, we began generating bogus domain names (e.g., www.asjdioyzmohodf.net) and sticking them in the commonName part of the certificates.
Because we still needed to support old clients, we had the server detect whether the client was sending a new-style cipher list, and if so, reply using a single cert and expect renegotiation. If the client sent the old cipher list, we'd have to send a two-certs chain and not expect renegotiation.
In retrospect, this approach was ill-conceived for a few reasons. Having the server send different certificates depending on the contents of the ClientHello was hard to implement. (To match firefox, we also needed to feign support for the bogus nonstandard 0xfeff SSL3_RSA_FIPS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, which was hard to do.) Furthermore, it is trivial to detect a renegotiation by looking at record headers [*], and our renegotiations were apparently unusual enough to provoke interest.
When Marsh Ray's attack against renegotiation came out in 2009, and everybody who could possibly turn off renegotiation did so, our use of renegotiation stood out even more, especially since we had to keep doing it even when built with versions of OpenSSL that didn't support RFC 5746. []
In 2011, Iran blocked Tor based on our choice of Diffie-Hellman parameters. In version 0.2.2.22-alpha, we switched to copy the fixed DH parameters from Apache's mod_ssl, since we figured those were probably in more popular use.
[*] At this point, we hadn't actually learned very much about TLS internals: we were treating TLS as an idealized black-block encrypted transport. Obviously, this was a mistake on our part. We honestly hadn't imagined that the protocol would send record types and sizes in the clear, since that's so obviously an unnecessary information leak. When we found out about the renegotiation issues, when the TLS renegotiation MITM bug hit in 2009, and when the BEAST attack hit, we realized we needed to know a lot more about TLS internals to actually use it effectively.
[] Doing so is safe for us: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2009-November/015864.html
Protocol details at https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/130-v2-conn-protocol.txt
Stage 3: (Tor 0.2.3.6 to present)
When we started getting detected and blocked based on our use of renegotiation, we switched to an improved handshake, where the outer TLS handshake is meant to look as simple as possible (one cert of arbitrary type, no renegotiation, any ciphersuite with ephemeral keys is allowed). To get the authentication we need, we do a completely ugly hack and authenticate _within_ the Tor protocol, by exchanging a signature of a MAC of some of the TLS connection parameters, and passing the certs we actually want. This approach allows us to have our original TLS handshake contain (nearly) anything we want it to, and still get the authentication we would actually prefer.
This duplicates TLS functionality, and we wouldn't need to be doing it if we didn't need to blend in with other TLS handshakes.
Protocol details at https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/176-revising-handshake.txt
There are more features that are getting used to distinguish Tor from other TLS traffic. They include:
Our cipher list matches that of a somewhat out-of-date ff.
We don't send the same extensions in the same order as NSS does.
Although our protocol provides support for arbitrary certificates, the software doesn't yet allow you to drop in (say) a CA-signed certificate to present on the wire.
We're hoping to address these in 0.2.4.x.
REASON 2: IT IS HARD TO RESIST ACTIVE PROBING
Most censorious attackers are passive, and seem to be using modified commercial software to detect and block Tor connections. On the other hand, the most sophisticated attacker (i.e, the Great Firewall) is using a hybrid passive/active approach where they notice suspicious TLS connections and then launch connections themselves to see whether there's a Tor node on the other side.
To resist this, we want to move to a circumstance where the client needs to know some secret or other kind of authenticator in order to complete the handshake ... or to even confirm that it isn't talking to a regular webserver. The presentation of this information can't be visible to a passive observer.
SOME OBVIOUS AND NOT-SO-OBVIOUS POINTS:
There are, as near as I can tell, two main classes of censorious adversary: the GFW, and everybody else. Everybody else seems either to rely on commercial censorware, or on home-brewed censorware that's no better than the commercial censorware.
The GFW maintainers seem to genuinely want to block Tor whenever it gets too easy to use to circumvent the firewall, or whenever there's a big politically significant event coming up.
The commercial censorware providers, on the other hand, seem to only care about blocking Tor when their customers complain, and only to the minimal extent necessary. In many cases, they have chosen the simplest-to-change protocol signature that they could possibly have chosen. This pattern of decisions might mean that their engineers disapprove of blocking Tor. More likely, it means that they are keeping their customers on an upgrade treadmill, to ensure that no single version of the software will block next year's version of Tor. Even likelier than that, their engineers are just being lazy, and adopting the simplest solution they can find so they can close the "Tor works" bug and get on to their next task.
We have had remarkable luck adding a trivial superencipherment layer to the TLS stream. Even though this layer could be trivially removed by any adversary who knows what to look for, and has an AES implementation, it's still working okay.
In Tor, every client starts out (or could be made to start out) knowing the public key of the server it wants to connect to. This might be good for something.
We know we're in an arms race. If we get rid of all the protocol signatures expressible in terms of looking for bytes on the connection, we'll still have to care about TCP packet boundaries and timing attacks.
In the long run, to avoid certain performance problems, we are considering moving server<->server communications to a UDP-based protocol, and using TLS-over-TCP only for client<->server communications, and in cases where it's necessary for client . Any such change is, however, a number of years out.
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Itchan Kala: The inner fortress of Khiva
Posted on June 6, 2016 September 20, 2018 by sudhagee
There are places that leave an impression on you after you have visited it. And then there are places which leave an impression on you even before you have visited it. Like Itchan Kala, the inner, fortified town of Khiva, an ancient city on the Silk Route in Central Asia. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Itchan Kala was the first of the sites to be inscribed in the list from Uzbekistan in 1990.
I came across Khiva and Itchan Kala, while researching on places to visit in Uzbekistan. While the photographs of Itchan Kala were uniformly breathtaking, not to mention tempting enough make me want to pack my bags and head there immediately, the descriptions were varied and the reactions mixed — a living fortress, a perfectly preserved medieval fortress, a fort museum, a museum city, former hub of slave trade, lifeless and artificial, a film set, a somewhere else place, over renovated and restored, lifeless, touristy… I found the multitude of opinions and impressions about Itchan Kala even more enticing than the pictures, and couldn’t wait to visit it for myself.
The sun was setting when I arrived on a September day in 2015 in the rather nondescript city of Khiva. It had been a long day of travel from Nukus, exploring the scattered ruins of Khorezem along the way. As my car wove in and out of twisting roads, I kept a lookout for the walled town, already familiar from the numerous pictures I had seen online.
And then, as we drove through a market, the mud walls of a fortress suddenly loomed up. It was the Itchan Kala. I barely had time to recover from that first sight before the car entered the fortress through a gate and stopped outside my hotel. As soon as the registration formalities were completed, I set out to explore the place.
As I walked around the narrow alleys and passed minarets and domed structures, I was almost transported to another era, another time. I say almost because there were other tourists around and Hindi film songs blaring from a souvenir shop (I kid you not !).
It was a leisurely stroll and though I couldn’t see much in the dying light, the interesting silhouettes hinted at exciting discoveries the next day.
The guided walk of the Itchan Kala began near a tiled map of the fortress. Located near the Mohammad Amin Khan Madrassah, the map helped in understanding the layout and spread of the fortress, and also orient oneself to the various monuments located within.
Inessa, my guide and also a local Khivan, was everything that one hopes for in a guide. Though I had read up on Khiva’s history prior to my visit, it was more like events on a timeline. Through human and cultural connections narrated as stories, legends, and local gossip, Inessa brought the historical timeline of Khiva alive.
According to local legend, the city was founded by Shem, son of Noah, who marked out the city’s walls. Archaeological evidence, however, suggests that Khiva has been continuously inhabited only for the last 2500 years old. In its long history, Khiva has seen multiple raids/ invasions/ incursions. Notable among them were the Achaemenids (400 BCE), the Arab forces, who incorporated Khiva into the Samanid Empire (800 CE); Genghis Khan (1220–21), and Nadir Shah of Persia (1727). With the coming of the Arabs, the region’s religion changed from Zoroastrianism to Islam, a process which took a few centuries. This also allowed for many of Zoroastrian elements to remain in Khivan art and architecture, as you will see later on in this post
In between all the invasions, Khiva (and the Khorezem region) flourished. Between the 9th and the 12th centuries, Khiva was an important educational centre for mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, chemistry and medicine. It was also a hub for spiritual and religious studies. It was the time when Al-Khwaresmi and Al-Biruni (who wrote a book on India) lived; their works form part of the world’s cultural and scientific heritage today.
But Khiva’s everlasting notoriety was its association with slave trade in the region. Due to its prime location on the silk route, Khiva was where various routes branched off from. For centuries, Khiva made its fortune from looting or taxing caravans and confiscating goods and humans as well.
Though this was very lucrative for the Khivans, it ultimately drew the attention of the Russians who attempted to invade Khiva thrice. Their first two attempts in 1717 (for Khorezmian gold and to explore a maritime route to India), and in 1840 (to put an end to the slave trade) were in vain. It was third time lucky for the Russians when they finally took over Khiva in 1873. Under their rule, Khiva was promoted to a Soviet Republic in 1922 and incorporated into the Uzbek SSR in 1924. In the decades to come, the Russians played a major part in Itchan Kala’s restoration and preservation.
Mohammed Rakhim Khan was the ruler when the Russians conquered Khiva in 1873 and made him their vassal. Rakhim Khan’s highly respected and trusted Vizier was Islom Hodja (left), a progressive thinker, committed to modernising Khiva. He built the city’s first hospital, its first secular school (which also admitted girls), a post office, and also laid the first railway line (but did not see it being completed). Islam Hodja’s dream of Khiva being connected to the world by telegraph also remained unfilled. He also built the tallest minaret in Khiva — a 57 m tall minaret named after him. I had a direct view of this minaret from my hotel room. 🙂
With its ‘collection’ and concentration of mausoleums, madrassahs, mosques, minarets and palaces — Kunya Ark, Tash Khauli Palace, Mohammad Amin Khan Madrassah, Djuma Mosque, Sheikh Sayd Allauddin’s Mausoleum, Pakhlawan Mahmoud’s Mausoleum — the Itchan Kala is quite a unique site. Most of the structures at the Itchan Kala were built in the 18th and 19th centuries or were overzealously restored and renovated by the Russians. They did this by shifting almost the entire local population out of the fortress. Even today, except for a few local households, which run B&Bs and souvenir stalls, most of the locals live outside the walls of the Itchan Kala.
As Inessa led me through the monuments in Itchan Kala, I noticed a pattern. All the structures were a uniform, mud brick colour that literally blended into one another. To be honest, they weren’t particularly remarkable either. The interiors were a completely different story. I lost count of the number of times I walked through a narrow corridor and entered a courtyard, only to stop in my tracks and stare. And stare once again, after I had started breathing again.
Join me on a short tour of the major sights of Itchan Kala. Clicking on any of the photographs below will open a slide show. You can then use the left or right arrow keys to navigate through the 28 photographs and read the accompanying captions.
A narrow street inside the Itchan Kala
The Islom Hodja Minar stands silhouetted against the evening sky
Reaching to the skies… The Islam Hodja Minar stands tall at 57 m. Built in 1908-1910, the minaret is characterised by bands of blue, dark blue, turquoise and white tiles that alternate with brick work.
The unfinished or incomplete Kalta Minar is the only structure in the Itchan Kala whose surface is entirely covered with glazed tiles and majolica. The minaret was supposed to rise to a height of 80-90 m, but was left incomplete at 29 m !
The Mohammad Amin Khan Madrassah was not just the biggest in Khiva, but in the whole of Central Asia. It was built between 1851-1854 by Mohammad Amin Khan. This madrassah is now a hotel. Note the Kalta Minar on the left.
A balcony connects the two sides of the madrassah — a unique architectural feature. Don’t miss the beautiful tile work on the facade and under the balcony arch.
The square near the entrance to the Kunya Ark or the citadel. Previously, this was used for military parades, battle training, and public executions. These days it is place for souvenir stalls, open air music performances and dining.
Another view of the square outside the Kunya Ark, which was the citadel for the Khan or the ruler of Khiva. It is a city within a city and comprises a reception hall, a summer and winter mosque, harem, mint, stables, workshops, etc.
The Kurinishkhona or reception area of the Kunya Ark. A yurt would be set up on the circular platform and the Khan would receive important dignitaries here.
A closer look tile work on one of the walls in the Kurinishkhona. Look carefully at the paisley patterned tiles at the bottom. One might think that they are the older tiles and brighter coloured tiles higher up the wall are the newer ones. Actually, the reverse is true for during restoration and renovation work carried out, it was discovered that the centuries old method to make create pure white had been lost and only a yellowish white could be produced !
Detail of some gorgeous tiles here. Isn’t it rather hypnotic?
One of the mosques inside the Kunya Ark. Note the tile covered minbar to the right.
Another view of the mosque with its tile covered walls. Arabesque or geometric, they were equally stunning
View of the harem at the Tash Khauli Palace, the main palace of the Khivan Khans. Constructed between 1830 and 1838, the Tash Khauli Palace consists of the harem, the mekhmonkhanas or reception rooms, and the arzkhonas or administrative rooms. Like all other structures, this too was plain on the outside and decorated with wall tiles on the inside.
A Swastika carved onto one of the many pillars in the Tash Khauli Palace. I was quite surprised to see the swastika, and more so at its liberal use as a decorative element. It is only when Inessa, my guide, explained that this symbol was of Zoroastrian origin and considered auspicious that it made sense. The Khivans may have been Muslims, but had not given up entirely on their former religion — Zoroastrianism.
Another Swastika, this time on a door.
If the walls were sumptuously tiled, the ceilings were not left plain either. The wooden ceilings were lavishly painted and decorated too. While the designs are quite similar to the ceramic tiles, the colours used are different — very oriental and perhaps influenced by trade links with China and Tibet.
The Djuma or Friday Mosque is perhaps the oldest structure at the Itchan Kala and perhaps Khiva too. Believed to have been constructed in the 10th century CE, it is rather plain on the outside. but step inside the cool mosque and rows upon rows of wooden columns will stretch out before you. Not all columns are original for most have been replaced over the centuries. Only about 4 of the columns date back to the time the mosque was constructed. And yes, each column is different.
The majolica gravestone of Sheikh Seyid Allauddin, a sufi mystic from the Nakshbandi order. The mausoleum is among the older constructions in the Itchan Kala and dates back to the early decades of the 14th century CE. You can see that the gravestone has inscriptions as well as arabesque and geometrical patterns. What you cannot see in the photographs is that this is a relief structure and has a 3D effect while viewing it.
The grave of Mahmoud Pakhlavan (1247-1326) — poet, mystic, traveler and wrestler. He apparently wrestled his way up to the Multan region, where he lost and had to serve the king. The story goes that he saved the life of the king and was granted freedom and send back to Khiva with a 1000 strong contingent of Multanis who accompanied him and settled down in Khiva. Their descendants are still supposed to live in Khiva. The Mausoleum was constructed in the early parts of the 20th century.
Tiled ceiling in the Mausoleum of Mahmoud Pakhlavan
A panoramic view of some major structures at the Itchan Kala. From Left to Right: The Djuma minaret just makes it into the frame, The blue dome of the Mausoleum of Mahmoud Pakhlawan and the unmistakable Islom Hodja Minaret
The crenulated walls of the Itchan Kala meanders away from the viewer
A pensive Al-Beruni. Wondering if he was thinking about the enigma that was/is India !
The guided walk with Inessa lasted till mid-afternoon, after which I went for a leisurely stroll around Itchan Kala once again. I revisited some of the monuments I had liked, went back to others to photograph them in better light and also went to places that were not part of the guided tour, like an embroidery workshop. I also climbed up to the Itchan Kala wall to watch sunset and get a panoramic view of the town.
Along the way, I got glimpses into the daily life of the locals, stumbled across a wedding photo shoot, interacted with India-loving Khivans, got invited for tea, bought souvenirs… Generally, I had a lot of fun on a very, very nice day. 🙂
Presenting some captures from that relaxed walk in Itchan Kala. Clicking on any of the photographs below will open a slide show. You can then use the left or right arrow keys to navigate through the 9 photographs and their accompanying captions.
A photo shoot of newly weds outside the Islom Hodja Madrassah
Traditional embroidery in progress at the UNESCO-sponsored Suzanni Workshop
A souvenir shop selling musical instruments
A choy khona or a tea house as viewed from the walls of the Itchan Kala
Tiles, tiles and more tiles for sale at a souvenir shop
Paintings for sale !
This one didn’t have any signboard, so don’t know what it was. But it is kinda cute, isn’t it?
A place to relax and stretch your legs when one wants a break from exploring the Itchan Kala
“The Itchan Kala is mighty impressive, isn’t it?”… these clay dolls seem to say 🙂
I left Khiva for Bukhara the next day. And over the weeks and months that have passed since that visit, I have thought about the various perceptions of travellers to Khiva. I can now agree with each of their descriptions of Khiva and add a couple of my own to it — a living fortress, a fort museum, a museum city, lifeless and artificial, a film set, a somewhere else place, over renovated and restored, lifeless, touristy… For me the one word description that best fits Khiva is surreal.
It is also picture postcard perfect. Add to the fact, that locals don’t live there and it seems to exist only for tourists. But what makes it most surreal for me is that it is such a perfect slice of the past, though rather aggressively preserved.
But I’m not complaining, for whatever the reason and however much surreal Khiva and the Itchan Kala may feel to me, it is undoubtedly a jewel and a unique city. A must see for sure.
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zaynti says:
WoW! Is the first word which comes to mind as I read and re-read this post. A very cliche-d term but one which will also give you the image of my eyes popping out and and my mouth open. As I try and absorb all the information you have put together and soak in the beauty of Khiva I am transported to another world, another time.
So happy for myself , and for you, that your blogging days are back again 🙂
sudhagee says:
Thank you, Jayanti. I’m happy that the blogging days are back again – the pressure now is to sustain it and not let lethargy set in for one reason or the other.
And what better way to get back to blogging than with a post from the Uzbekistan Series – beautiful, picture postcard, surreal Khiva. 🙂
Neena Barnes says:
The mud brick colour outer walls and the mesmerising blues – what a contrast? The pictures are truly beautiful and well taken. I found Al-Beruni’s sculpture particularly imposing. And then after these srikiing pictures of the Itchan Kala, the lively pictures of the citizens and tourists- the bridal couple, the shops etc., the detailed information – all combine to make your post fascinating.
Most monuments in Uzbekistan have the mud and blue combination – the shade of blue varies from city to city though as does the pattern and complexity.
Al-Beruni’s sculpture is imposing. It is huge and the backdrop is striking too.
Glad you enjoyed the post, Neena.
Ashutosh says:
Amazing place and such a nice way to describe it with beautiful pictures! Added to a long list of pending places to visit! Thank you!
Hi Ashutosh. So nice to see you here and thanks for the comment.
The trip to Uzbekistan was a childhood dream and a promise to myself come true and It was a trip like no other. Good luck on visiting it soon. 🙂
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Olympic athletes shrug off medical data leaks by hackers
By GRAHAM DUNBAR
Home » Russia » Olympic athletes shrug off medical data leaks by hackers
FILE - This is a Sunday, July 24, 2016 file photo of Britain's Chris Froome, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, celebrates with a glass of champagne during the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France in Paris. Three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome siad Thursday Sept. 15, 2016, has "no issue" with his medical data being leaked, in an alleged criminal attack by Russian hackers on a World Anti-Doping Agency database. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
FILE - This is a Friday, Aug. 12, 2016 file photo of Gold medalist Bradley Wiggins of Britain as he poses on the podium of the Men's team pursuit final at the Rio Olympic Velodrome during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Medical data being leaked, in an alleged criminal attack by Russian hackers on a World Anti-Doping Agency database leaked details of asthma medication used by Bradley Wiggins. "There's nothing new here," a statement issued on behalf of Wiggins said. "Everyone knows Brad suffers from asthma; his medical treatment is BC (British Cycling) and UCI (International Cycling Union) approved."(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)
Sky's Team Christopher Froome of Great Britain holds his trophy on the podium after ending on second place at the Spanish La Vuelta cycling tour that finished in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016. Movistar's Team Nairo Quintna of Colombia win the race. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A screenshot of the Fancy Bears website fancybear.net seen on a computes screen in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Confidential medical data of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and other female U.S. Olympians was hacked from a World Anti-Doping Agency database and posted online Tuesday Sept 13, 2016. WADA said the hackers were a "Russian cyber espionage group" called Fancy Bears. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A screenshot of the Fancy Bears website fancybear.net seen on a computer screen in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Confidential medical data of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and other female U.S. Olympians was hacked from a World Anti-Doping Agency database and posted online Tuesday Sept 13, 2016. WADA said the hackers were a "Russian cyber espionage group" called Fancy Bears. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
By: GRAHAM DUNBAR (AP)
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GENEVA (AP) — A two-time Wimbledon singles champion, two Tour de France winners and an Olympic discus gold medalist had the same answer Thursday to the latest leak by hackers of confidential medical information: so what?
Petra Kvitova, Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Robert Harting — all Rio de Janeiro Olympians last month — reacted with sarcasm and shrugs to the leak from the World Anti-Doping Agency database.
The four athletes said their use of approved medications was already widely reported or they welcomed the openness resulting from an alleged Russian-led cyberattack that WADA believes is revenge for investigations into a state-backed doping program in Russia.
"To say that Petra Kvitova suffers from asthma and uses medication for treatment is the same revelation as saying she's won Wimbledon," a spokesman for the Czech tennis player, Karel Tejkal, said.
German discus thrower Robert Harting, the 2012 Olympic champion, wrote on Twitter that "We don't hide anything. go transparency!"
"I've openly discussed my TUEs (therapeutic use exemptions) with the media and have no issues with the leak which confirms my statements," three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome said.
Kvitova, Harting and Froome were headline names among 25 athletes from eight countries — including 10 from the United States — whose confidential details of using authorized medications spilled into the public domain late Wednesday.
All three competed at the Rio Olympics where Kvitova and Froome won bronze medals.
Also leaked was detail of asthma medication used by Wiggins, another British winner of the Tour de France and winner of a fifth career Olympic gold in Rio.
"There's nothing new here," a statement issued on behalf of Wiggins said. "Everyone knows Brad suffers from asthma; his medical treatment is BC (British Cycling) and UCI (International Cycling Union) approved."
WADA confirmed a second round of leaked data posted online, after medical records of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles and seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams were among four American female Olympians whose data was revealed Tuesday.
All 29 cases revealed records of "Therapeutic Use Exemptions" which allow athletes to use otherwise-banned substances because of a verified medical need. There is no suggestion any of the athletes broke any rules.
The substances identified in the leaks are typically anti-inflammatory medications and treatments for asthma and allergies.
Froome's use of strong anti-inflammatory medication, approved by the UCI for the 2014 Tour de Romandie race in Switzerland, was widely reported two years ago.
"In nine years as a professional I've twice required a TUE for exacerbated asthma, the last time was in 2014," said Froome, who won his third Tour de France title in July. He took a bronze medal in the time trial at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics last month.
The latest round of leaks identified 10 American athletes, five from Germany, five from Britain, and one each from Czech Republic, Denmark, Poland, Romania and Russia.
"I am furious that the hacking group is using such insolent and illegal methods," said Michael Ask, head of Anti-Doping Denmark.
Danish swimmer Pernille Blume, who won gold in Rio de Janeiro in the 50-meter freestyle, had "done nothing wrong," Ask told Denmark TV2 channel. "She has followed the rules and gotten permission to use the asthma medication which she uses — like many other athletes."
Harting was revealed to have permission to use medications during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he finished fourth.
The statement on behalf of Wiggins said the leak was "an attempt to undermine the credibility of WADA and that's something for them to deal with."
WADA said Wednesday that the Russian hacking group known as Fancy Bears had illegally gained access to its Anti-Doping Administration and Management System, or "ADAMS," and said it included confidential medical data.
"To those athletes that have been impacted, we regret that criminals have attempted to smear your reputations in this way; and, assure you that we are receiving intelligence and advice from the highest level law enforcement and IT security agencies that we are putting into action," WADA director general Olivier Niggli said in a statement.
Niggli said WADA had "no doubt that these ongoing attacks are being carried out in retaliation against the agency, and the global anti-doping system," because of independent investigations that exposed state-sponsored doping in Russia.
Russian officials have dismissed the claims as ridiculous.
"How can you prove that the hackers are Russian?" Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said through a translator during a visit to Athens on Wednesday. "You blame Russia for everything. It is very 'in' now."
Last month, hackers obtained a database password for Russian runner Yuliya Stepanova, a whistleblower and key witness for the WADA investigations. She and her husband, a former official with the Russian national anti-doping agency, are now living at an undisclosed location in North America.
The International Olympic Committee said after Tuesday's WADA statement that it "strongly condemns such methods which clearly aim at tarnishing the reputation of clean athletes."
The hackers, who have set up their own website, have not responded to messages seeking comment. Their chosen name, "Fancy Bears," appears to be a tongue-in-cheek reference to a collection of Russia-linked hackers that security researchers have blamed for a recent spate of attacks — and which WADA holds responsible for the current breach.
The group has proclaimed its allegiance to Anonymous, the loose-knit movement of online mischief-makers, and says it hacked WADA to show the world "how Olympic medals are won."
"We'll keep on telling the world about doping in elite sports," the group said Thursday. "Stay tuned for new leaks."
Associated Press writer Raphael Satter in London and Karel Janicek in Prague, Czech Republic, and AP Sports Writers Dennis Passa in Sydney and Rob Harris in Athens, Greece, contributed to this report
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Sunlight Weekly Roundup: Open meeting law violations and broken campaign promises regarding transparency
by Bridget Todd Nov 23, 2011 5:46 pm
According to Galloway Township News, New Jersey’s Galloway Township has failed to release an agenda for the townships meeting their meeting on Tuesday, November 21, 2011. GallowayTwpNews.com emailed township manager Steven Bonanni on Sunday to remind him the agenda had not been released. Bonanni said he was on vacation and that he would follow up with the agenda on Monday morning. The agenda has still not been released. Galloway Township News maintains that Galloway Township has broken the state’s open meeting law that requires the public bodies provide the public with adequate advance notice of all its meetings. For the whole story, check out Harry B. Scheeler’s post at Galloway Township News.
During a campaign speech in 2010, Nevada’s Nye County Treasurer Mike Maher promised citizens he would provide “accurate, timely, financial information so you can be capable of being informed and capable of either supporting a solution to a financial action by your elected officials prior to expenditures being made instead of after an expenditure is being made.” Maher is eight months behind in filing the monthly treasurer’s reports,the verge of having a complaint filed against him in District Court. Nye County Commissioner Joni Eastley maintained that if monthly treasurer reports through Oct. 31 were not produced by the Dec. 6 county commission meeting, she will put an item on the agenda Dec. 20 to file a complaint against Maher. To read more, check out Mark Waite’s post on the Pahrump Valley Times.
An effort to create an online forum that would allow Oregon City’s 10 urban renewal commissioners to publicly discuss agency business came to a quick halt after city officials raised concerns about hosting what amounts to a meeting that never ends. The recommendation from Commissioner Phil Yateswas intended to allow the urban renewal board to share opinions during the lull between its twice-a-month meetings. Commissioners often run short on time at meetings and that’s led at least one member to question the agency’s effectiveness. The process would be transparent and the public could listen in on the conversation any time, Yates said. For more information, check out Steve Mayes’ post at Oregon Live.
A Washington State Court of Appeals recently held that prison inmate Robert Johnson’s public records lawsuit against the State of Washington Department of Corrections was time-barred, and therefore dismissed. In August 2006, Johnson sent a public records request to the Department of Correction’s Public Disclosure Unit requesting information about the Extended Family Visitation policy revision. The DOC told Johnson that the only responsive record was one email documenting approval of the policy change, which Johnson received in early September, 2006. Over the next few months, Johnson submitted a duplicate public records request to various Department of Corrections Public Disclosure officers seeking the same information identified in his original request. After a series of additional requests, the Department sent Johnson a final letter on August 27, 2007, noting that Johnson had already received the sole responsive document, and that his request was considered closed. Over two years later, another requestor, Melinda Carter, sought the same information as Johnson. Carter was provided with nearly substantially more information than Johnson, over 300 pages of documents in response to her request. In December 2009, Johnson filed a Public Records Act (“PRA”) action to compel production of records that the Department of Corrections ostensibly withheld. Johnson contended that the Department of Corrections violated the PRA by only disclosing a single email when he had requested all records pertaining to the Extended Family Visitation policy change. He cited Carter’s request and DOC’s 300-page response as evidence to support his claim. The superior court denied Johnson’s motion and dismissed his PRA action. The Court of Appeals affirmed, finding Johnson’s arguments were time-barred. See Alicia Feichtmeir’s post on the Local Open Government Blog, for more information.
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My interview with former Spurs player Andy Rollock:
Posted on June 16, 2019 June 17, 2019 by superhotspur
I caught up with former Spurs player Andy Rollock today to talk about his time as a youth and reserve team player at the ‘ Lilywhites ‘ during the early 1980’s. A left sided forward, Rollock would go onto become a prolific scorer for Spurs at youth team and reserve level and he would also feature for England at schoolboy level. Andy kindly agreed to doing an interview with me about his time at the world famous Tottenham Hotspur.
What are your earliest footballing memories?
Andy: Probably starting about under 10’s I started playing for a team called Craig Park and then I went to play for another team about 11 or 12 in the local league. I then went to play for Eversley, managed by Don Ball who was a great influence on my football career. From there I got scouted to go to quite a few clubs, so at one point I was at Tottenham, QPR and Fulham training pretty much everyday of the week.
What are your earliest memories of your time at Spurs and how did you come about joining the club?
Andy: My earliest memory is probably training on a Tuesday and Thursday night at White Hart Lane. They had two gyms there, one was a smaller gym downstairs and the other was a big gym upstairs. You’d start off in the little gym and then once you got older and better you sort of progressed up to the top floor gym which was the bigger one. I got to join Spurs by being scouted through my Sunday club by Bill Nicholson who was the chief scout at Tottenham at the time, and he scouted me and took me to Spurs. He used to pick me up from school on a Tuesday and a Thursday and take me down to training.
What was the great Bill Nicholson like?
Andy: Bill Nicholson was unbelievable, you’d never think that he had been the manager who’d won the league and the cup for Tottenham and done the double. He was really down to earth and a really decent man and to be honest with you if it wasn’t for Bill I probably wouldn’t have gone to Spurs, but he had a lot of faith in me and made me join the club even though there were other clubs that wanted to sign me. Bill was like a father figure really and he pushed me to go to Tottenham which is where I ended up.
What was your time at the Lilywhites like on the whole?
Andy: I can’t say it was a bad experience because it was probably one of the best experiences of my life. There’s not many kids that get to sign for a club like Tottenham and I’d been there since I was 12 so I was lucky.
Did you have any footballing heroes/inspirations and if so who were they?
Andy: I think at Spurs I’d say Glen Hoddle because he was just an unbelievable player to watch, and to play with him was just second to none really. Also Garth Crooks was somebody who I spent quite a bit of time with and he’d give hints and tips, so I looked up to both Glen and Garth Crooks as well.
Could you describe to me what type of player you were and what positions you played in for Spurs during your time there?
Andy: I was a forward and I used to play on the left wing, I was pretty quick back in the day and I always had an eye for goal, and I used to score quite a few goals. That was the only position I ever played for Tottenham.
What was it like to brush shoulders with some of the legendary players that were around at Spurs at the time?
Andy: It was an unbelievable experience, at the time you don’t realise it but as you get older and move on through the game you realise that you’ve rubbed shoulders with some of the greats, such as Glen Hoddle, Garth Crooks, Steve Archibald and Ricky Villa and Ossie Ardiles, two players who had just won the World Cup. However, back then they were just two players at Tottenham but when you look back now and look at the things that they’ve done in the game you think to yourself that you’ve been in the presence of two legends.
Who were your greatest influences at Spurs?
Andy: I’d say Bill Nicholson because he always had faith in me, and I’d also say youth team coach Peter Shreeves because he always used to look out for me and give me some hints and tips, and he used to try to drive me forward.
Were there any players at Spurs who you would watch closely to try and improve your game or look to learn from?
Andy: Yeah I’d say obviously Glen Hoddle and Ricky Villa who used to play in a similar position to me. So I would watch him in training and I was lucky enough to train with him as well. I’d also say Garth Crooks as well because he was a natural finisher so as far as finishing was concerned I used to learn quite a lot from Garth, so I’d say them two.
Could you talk me through some of your favourite memories of your time at Spurs or ones which particularly standout within your memory?
Andy: I’d say probably the night they won the FA cup against Manchester City, we’d been to Wembley on the Saturday and seen them draw and then we’d seen them on the Wednesday night at Wembley, where Ricky Villa scored a wonder goal. So that was a great memory for me. Personal memory for me was coming off the subs bench against Charlton, I think there was 20 minutes to go and we were losing 2-0, and I scored a hat trick and we won the game so personally that was a good memory for me. Another one was actually training with the first team a couple of times, being on the same pitch as some of the other guys who I’d mentioned before was really special.
What was the greatest moment of your footballing career?
Andy: I’d say when I played for England schoolboys at Wembley against Germany. That game was televised and I scored a goal that day at Wembley, so for me that’s probably the greatest memory for me.
Who was the greatest player that you had the pleasure of sharing a pitch with?
Andy: There’s been a few but I would say just for his pure goalscoring ability it was Terry Gibson. He was an absolute goal machine and I was lucky enough to play with him both in the youth team and the reserves and he was probably one of the best players I ever played with on a pitch to be honest.
Could you talk me through some of your favourite memories of your time in the Tottenham youth team?
Andy: I think the year that we got into the FA youth cup final against West Ham where we played the first leg at Upton Park and the second leg at Tottenham which we won, so I got an FA youth cup medal which was the highlight for me. And also playing at Old Trafford in the FA youth cup against Manchester United was another one and I can still remember it vividly. I’ve played at Wembley three times, but you walk out at Old Trafford and to be fair it’s just something special, it’s an unbelievable stadium.
What prompted you to leave Spurs and could you talk me through your career after you left the Lilywhites?
Andy: Spurs offered me a contract to stay on for a year but I turned it down because I wanted a better contract. I then went to Arsenal for six months and played in their youth team and reserve team but I left them after about six months. After leaving Arsenal I went to Wolves before playing out in Finland for a year and a bit. I then went into non league football where I kind of dropped out of the professional game and I played for Enfield Town and Walthamstow Avenue and I did the non league circuit to be honest.
Who was the toughest player that you ever came up against?
Andy: I would say there’s two players, Nigel Winterburn when he was at Wimbledon and a lad called Keith Stevens who was at Millwall. They were two tough fullbacks who I didn’t get a lot of change out of!
Were there any players at Spurs who you were particularly close to?
Andy: I was close with Allan Cockram and we kind of went through the ranks together and it’s a shame that we lost contact. There was also another lad from Enfield called Steve Cox who I was pretty close with, we used to go to training together because we lived literally round the corner from each other, so I would say that Allan and Steve were the two players who I was closest to at Spurs.
What would your advice be to the young Spurs players of today as they look to break into the first team?
Andy: I would say to them to not take it for granted and to listen to every piece of advice that they are given from coaches and senior players in the game. What got me is that I wanted it too soon and too quick, I thought that I should have been in the first team when I was competing with players who were World Cup winners! Players should believe in their talent but they must listen to people because if you push yourself too far the chances are that you’re going to end up out of the game.
After all these years how do you look back on your time at the Lilywhites and is Spurs a club who you still hold close to your heart?
Andy: Yeah definitely even though I’m not a Spurs supporter but I do hold the club in high esteem, and they’ll always have a piece of my heart. I’m actually proud to say that I played for Tottenham because back then they were one of the big clubs in English football and they are still a big club. So I’m extremely proud that I was able to represent the club and be a part of their history.
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Life After Lock-Up mum sells car and uses holiday savings to pay off son’s drug dealers in five hours after they threaten to shoot her and set house on fire
A MOTHER’S love is unconditional – but after thugs threatened to shoot her and set her house on fire because of her son’s drug debts, mum-of-two Joy has finally had enough.
Scared for the safety of herself and her daughter, the mum-of-two is seen kicking her convict son out of the family home in tonight’s Life after Lock Up, after being forced to sell her car and use her holiday savings to pay off his dealers.
Emotional mum Joy admits she hopes her son Rhys gets sent back to prison
Long-suffering Joy, who has stuck by her son for years – even as he broke into her home twice and stole her partner’s work van – had to scrape together the money in just five hours.
She was forced to sell her car and use her holiday savings to pay the dealers, who had also threatened to set her family’s home on fire if she didn’t cough up the cash.
Now, she sadly admits, she doesn’t want son Rhys back – and even hopes he gets locked up.
“I’ve had to put my car up for sale, then the money that I was saving to go on holiday at the end of the year, I used that,” says the mum, speaking the day after Mother’s Day.
“He’s out of s*** while I’m in it.”
Rhys is seen celebrating his 21st birthday with Joy and his little sister – 18 days later, he was back inside
Joy describes how she had to sell her car and use her holiday savings to pay off her boy’s drug dealers
Joy took Rhys, 20, back in after he was released from prison in Portland, Dorset, having spent 34 of the past 38 months behind bars for drug offences, assaults and other crimes.
But speaking in the Channel 4 programme Life After Lock-Up, which airs tonight, she says she was forced to kick her son out after he got himself ‘into a bit of strife with drug dealers’.
‘It broke my heart all over again’
“It got to the stage where we were threatened by the drug dealers that they were going to set our house on fire, shoot us, hurt us,” says the mum, who also has a young daughter.
“And they gave me five hours to get the money up together and pay them off.”
She adds of Rhys: “Don’t want him back, can’t have him back. It’s just – it broke my heart all over again. Is it wrong for me to say that I hope he goes back inside?”
Rhys is one of eight convicted criminals appearing in the show, which follows the former prisoners’ lives for a year as they deal with life outside bars and try to reintegrate into society.
Rhys, pictured outside court, spent 34 of 38 months behind bars
The young offender is hugged by mum Joy after his court case was adjourned
Every year, more than 70,000 people, like Rhys, are released from prison. They are each given a discharge grant of £46 and a travel pass to get home.
But figures show more than half of inmates will be back behind bars within 12 months of their release, with re-offending estimated to cost UK taxpayers £15 billion a year.
Speaking after his fall-out with his mum, Rhys tells producers: “It’s just me being stupid. Got in a bit of debt. Something happened and I’ve just got to pay it back, basically.”
‘He can’t keep saying sorry, he’s got to show it’
The young offender, who was released with 140 hours of community service, moves in with his new partner, Shanley, and her two children after falling out with his mum.
Speaking from her home, Shanley says: “Obviously I knew the situation with his past and what he’s been involved in and everything else.
“But I wouldn’t have him living here doing criminal activity obviously, I’ve got two children. If I thought he was going to do something stupid I wouldn’t put any faith in him.”
Rhys moves in with new partner Shanley, left, after falling out with his mum
She adds that she knows Rhys appreciates his mum and ‘loves her to bits’.
But she says: “He can’t keep saying sorry, he’s got to show it.”
Later in the programme, nearly four months after Rhys’s release, Shanley accompanies him to court over an assault he carried out on a fellow inmate while locked up.
Rhys says: “I do feel bad for what I’ve done. I’m not gonna hide the fact he deserved a slap.
“He deserved a slap, but he didn’t deserve them injuries.”
Locked up again within days of his 21st
He later attends crown court with Shanley and his mum, who is back supporting him despite their earlier fall-out and everything he’s put her through.
Standing outside the building, Joy says: “The judge could see that he’s been making an effort and decided to adjourn it and for Rhys to prove himself a bit more.”
Rhys later celebrates his 21st birthday – his first one in four years out of prison and a milestone that his worried mum never expected him to reach – with his loved ones.
Rhys, seen posing with Shanley, broke into his mum’s home twice, damaged her partner’s work van and assaulted ‘countless’ people
But within 18 days of the celebration, he’s back inside.
Devastated Joy says: “He was dealing drugs, he wants to make a quick buck and he seems to think that’s the only way to do it. I know Shan was heartbroken.”
‘He seems to think that’s the only way to make a quick buck’
Another ex-offender who appears in episode two of Life After Lock-Up is Jason, 46, who has been in and out of prison since age 13 and is nervous about living on ‘the out’.
He goes shoplifting in the hope he gets caught and sent back to prison.
Showing off his stolen goods to producers, he says: “I have to do something – so I’ll steal.
“Got a CD player, well it’s a portable tele really so I can watch films on it. I got this – a new Superdry top – deodorant, shaving cream, stole a jacket – Ralph Lauren.”
Jason, 46, who has been in and out of prison since age 13, also appears in the programme
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Another ex-offender, Tracey, served eight months for stealing handbags to fund her drug habit
He adds: “If I’m going to get caught, I might as well get caught for something decent.”
Jason, who has a history of severe depression and attempted suicide, has 147 scars on his body.
He recalls how he was just four when his eight-year-old brother died, heroically shoving him out of the way out of a bus after he stopped in the road to try to pick up something shiny.
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“I wish I was dead and he wasn’t because it was my fault,” he tells producers.
He adds: “My dad battered it into me that it was my fault. Nine years I got it for. He put me in a children’s home. I stabbed him in the head first but he put me in a children’s home then.”
Other convicted criminals who appear in the programme include Tracey, who served eight months for stealing handbags to fund her drug habit, and Gemma, who moves back to a Swindon car park and starts selling sex after a six-week prison term for shoplifting and criminal damage.
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More Railroad Record Club Rarities
April 22, 2019 April 23, 2019 David Sadowski 11 Comments
Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern car 100. This car is featured on Railroad Record Club LP #2. Don’s Rail Photos: “100 was built by McGuire-Cummings in 1914. It was built as a second motor to operate behind the 140s as a two car train. The baggage compartment was a kitchen, and the rear end was an open platform observation. The buffet section was replaced with coach seats in 1918. The car was then rebuilt with a control station and baggage compartment in 1928 and the rear platform was enclosed at that time. It was the last interurban left on the WCF&N when it became diesel freight, and it was donated to the Iowa Chapter of the NRHS in 1956. It was moved to Centerville and operated on the Southern Iowa Ry. When the SI cut back its operation and dieselized, the Iowa Chapter transferred the car to the Iowa Terminal RR in 1966. Shortly after it was repainted and put into charter service, it was destroyed in the carbarn fire early November 24, 1967. It had been the only car saved from the WCF&N roundhouse fire on October 31, 1954, when the other two cars of its class burned.”
No one person has been more responsible for preserving the historic artifacts connected with William A. Steventon‘s Railroad Record Club than our good friend Kenneth Gear. A while back, Ken acquired many of the original RRC tape recordings, some of which were never issued.
I have referred before to the RRC output being the “tip of the iceberg,” so to speak, and thanks to Ken, we are beginning to see what the rest of the RRC archive consisted of. While we had already issued some “new” RRC recordings, taken from discs found in the Steventon archive, we have something even more exciting to announce today– newly uncovered audio recordings of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee interurban, the fabled North Shore Line, unheard for perhaps as much as 60 years.
These recordings have been digitized from original RRC tapes that Ken purchased, and are now available for the first time on compact disc. More details about that will be found at the end of this post.
Because we feel it is important for Ken to get back at least some of the substantial investment he has made, in order to preserve these and other historic materials, we are paying Ken a royalty of $5 for each disc sold. Our humble offerings are already reasonably priced, and we don’t make much money from them. On top of that, the Trolley Dodger has, to date, operated at a loss for every year. Our original losses were in excess of $10k per year. This was reduced to $6k in 2017, and we recently did our taxes and are pleased to report that we cut the loss to just $1400 in 2018.
Our goal with this enterprise is historic preservation and education, to provide an archive where people can get, and exchange information about electric railways. In some ways it is the modern equivalent of what my friend Ray DeGroote calls the “intelligence network” of railfans, which has been around since the 1930s or even earlier, just updated for the Internet age.
It used to be that you had to know somebody to be part of this intelligence network, and information was passed from one person to another. Now, it is accessible to anyone and everyone who wants it, via the world wide web.
With that in mind, our goal has always been to break even, in order to make the Trolley Dodger a self-sustaining enterprise.
But we have to give credit where credit is due. Without Kenneth Gear’s personal sacrifices, it’s possible that these materials would have been lost forever, and would have ended up in a dumpster somewhere. You never would even have known they existed.
That’s why I hope you will help support Ken’s gallant efforts by purchasing a copy of this new CD offering.
Because we are not entirely mercenary, Ken is also sharing dozens of classic railfan photos which he purchased as part of the Railroad Record Club archive. Presumably, all or nearly all of these were taken by the late William A. Steventon (1921-1993) himself, as many reflect the areas he lived, worked, and traveled to in his career.
A few of these we already published, but most of these appear here for the first time.
As always, if you can help provide any additional information about these photos, we would love to hear from you.
Altoona and Logan Valley car 74. Don’s Rail Photos: “74 was built by Osgood-Bradley Car Co in 1930.”
This photo was originally misidentified, but actually shows Indianapolis Railways Peter Witt car #132, apparently on a fantrip, probably circa 1950. The streetcar was a Master Unit (that was a Brill trade name), built circa 1932-33, making it one of the last such orders before the PCC era. Master Units were supposed to be a standardized car, but in actuality I believe no two orders were exactly the same.
A Chicago, Aurora & Elgin train street running in Aurora in 1931. The CA&E was relocated off-street here in 1939.
A Capital Transit PCC and bus at Catholic University in the Washington, DC area.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 476, which was featured on Railroad Record Club LP SP-1.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 481.
Des Moines and Central Iowa cars #1701 and 1704 in the scrap line, November 19, 1939.
Des Moines and Central Iowa #1705 in October 1938.
Des Moines and Central Iowa car 1710.
East Broad Top #15 on a rainy day, very likely while Railroad Record Club LP #3 was being recorded.
Evansville and Ohio Valley car #134.
Hagerstown and Frederick #19 in Frederick, MD on May 30, 1939.
The same picture cropped.
A Hagerstown and Frederick work car in Fredercik, MD on May 30, 1939.
Hagerstown and Frederick 164.
Illinois Terminal car 285. Don’s rail Photos: “285 was built by St Louis Car in 1914. It was rebuilt as a parlor car in 1024 and as a coach in December 1928. It was air conditioned in August 1938 and got new seating in December 1952. It was sold for scrap to Hyman Michaels Co. on May 16, 1956.”
An Illinois Terminal local on Caldwell Hill in East Peoria about 1936.
A fuzzy picture of Illinois Power Company loco #1551.
A builder’s photo of Illinois Terminal #207.
Illinois Terminal 1201 at Peoria. Don’s Rail Photos: “1201 was built by McGuire-Cummings in 1910 as an express motor with 20 seats at the rear. In 1919 it was rebuilt with a small baggage section at the front and the trucks were changed from Curtis to Baldwin.”
Indiana Railroad box car #550.
Indiana Railroad loco #752 waiting for loads at a mine scale.
Indiana Railroad lightweight high-speed car #64. Howard Pletcher adds, “Indiana Railroad lightweight high-speed car #64 is at the Fort Wayne passenger terminal.”
The Indiana Railroad passenger terminal in Fort Wayne. (Howard Pletcher Collection)
Indiana Railroad #93 at Anderson, IN on September 4, 1938.
Indiana Railroad box motor #722.
Indiana Railroad lightweight high-speed car #80 on an Indianapolis local. It was built by Pullman in 1931 and scrapped in 1941.
Indiana Railroad car #375. Don’s Rail Photos: “375 was built by St Louis Car Co in 1926 as Indiana Service Corp 375. It was ass1gned to IRR as 375 in 1932 and rebuilt as a RPO-combine in 1935. It was sold to Chicago South Shore & South Bend in 1941 as 503 and used as a straight baggage car. It was rebuilt in 1952 with windows removed and doors changed.”
Indiana Railroad car #446.
Indiana Railroad loco #792.
The same picture, restored.
Indiana Railroad Vigo with rails ripped out.
Indiana Service Corp., looking forward from car at speed on Spy Run Avenue showing car on #6 line, May 22, 1939.
Indiana Service Corporation #820 at Wabash station on August 3, 1936.
Indiana Service Corp View across the Broadway bridge, showing double truck car in distance, August 18, 1940. (But what city is this?) Mike Peters writes: “he ISC city car is in Fort Wayne, a block away from the south end of the Broadway line. The bridge carries Bluffton Road and the ISC interurban to Bluffton over the Saint Marys River. A good map of the Ft. Wayne system can be found in “Fort Wayne’s Trolleys” (George Bradley). ISC did provide service in several smaller cities, but these lines did not survive the 1930’s.”
Interstate car #711, ex-Indiana Public Service Corporation 427, on September 3, 1939.
Interstate car 711 on shop siding west of Greencastle on June 3 1939.
Indiana Railroad lightweight car #94. Don’s Rail Photos: “90 thru 99 were built by Cummings in 1930 as Northern Indiana Ry 350 thru 359. In 1935, they were returned to Cummings, who rebuilt them and sold them to the IRR. They were retired in 1940.”
Indiana Railroad line car 763 at the Muncie station on May 19, 1940.
Indiana Railroad lightweight car 96.
Indiana Railroad lightweight car #90 at New Castle, IN on July 4, 1936. Note the Woolworth’s at right.
Indiana Railroad lightweight car #95 at the Indianapolis terminal.
Indiana Railroad lightweight car #99.
Indiana Railroad #787.
Lake Erie and Northern car #795.
A Lehigh Valley Transit Allentown Limited on the Liberty Bell Route, descending the ramp at Norristown (where LVT shared tracks with the Philadelphia & Western for access to Philadelphia, at least until 1949).
Lehigh Valley Transit lightweight high-speed car 1002, presumably in Allentown PA.
Mason City and Clear Lake car #34 (photo restored).
Mason City and Clear Lake car #34 (unrestored photo).
Mason City and Clear Lake car #106.
Mason City and Clear Lake car #14.
Mason City and Clear Lake steeple cab #52.
Niagara St. Catharines and Toronto Railway yard.
A Niagara St. Catharines and Toronto Railway snow plow.
A Niagara St. Catharines and Toronto Railway trolley.
A nice right-of-way photo with no information, other than the date– March 31, 1936.
Jeff Wien: “TMER&T, route 13: Clybourn Downtown Milwaukee.”
This is a three-car train of Indiana Railroad lightweight high-speeds in multiple-unit service on a fantrip, circa 1938-40.
No information (photo restored).
No information (unrestored photo).
Does ST F Co RR stand for Santa Fe? At any rate, this is car #54 at Farmington, MO.
Salt Lake and Utah loco #101.
Sand Springs Railway (Oklahoma) loco #1001.
Unidentified car and person. Mike Peters: “The photo of 817 and employee would also be Fort Wayne. After passenger operations ceased, this motor was retained for switching the Spy Run power plant and several nearby industries. The roster in “Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Trolleys” (CERA #122) shows the 817 as being retired in 1952.”
Unidentified steeple cab locomotive.
Union Electric Railway loco #80.
Utah Idaho Central #905 in June 1945.
Washington and Old Dominion car #44 and a Railway Express Agency truck in Rosslyn VA.
A Washington and Old Dominion locomotive.
A Washington and Old Dominion RPO (Railway Post Office) on a mail run outside Rosslyn VA.
The Washington and Old Dominion shops.
The CTA DesPlaines Avenue terminal in Forest Park in July 1955. This is an unusal view, looking west from Desplaines Avenue. At left, you can just barely see some streetcar tracks, which were used by West Towns Railways trolleys no later than 1948. That could be a CTA Route 17 bus, and you can also see some Chicago, Aurora & Elgin interurban cars in the station. The CA&E cut back service to here in 1953.
CTA 1775 at Cermak and Kostner on March 21, 1954, about two months before streetcar service ended on Route 21.
CTA 7213 on Route 49 – Western on August 2, 1949. This car would later become the last Chicago streetcar to operate.
North Shore Line 254 “at freight station on “L”structure near Loop – January 27, 1962.”
The North Shore Line shops interior in Milwaukee, September 24, 1961.
Chicago Surface Lines 5258 at Lowe Avenue in the 1940s (not sure of main street, perhaps 79th?).
CTA 6180, a one-man car, picks up passengers at an “L” station in the early 1950s.
CTA 7216, a St. Louis Car Company PCC, is northbound on Route 36 – Broadway in the 1950s. Jeff Wien: “Cars laying over on 119th at Morgan.”
CTA 4362, a Pullman PCC, on Route 8 – Halsted, most likely in the late 1940s. Jeff Wien adds, “Rt. 8 car has just pulled off of Broadway onto Waveland to head south on Halsted to 79th Street loop. Photo ca 1951 when Halsted was operated with PCCs, most Pullmans.”
TRACTION AUDIO, NOW AVAILABLE ON COMPACT DISC:
RRCNSLR
Railroad Record Club – North Shore Line Rarities 1955-1963
Newly rediscovered and digitized after 60 years, most of these audio recordings of Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee interurban trains are previously unheard, and include on-train recordings, run-bys, and switching. Includes both Electroliners, standard cars, and locomotives. Recorded between 1955 and 1963 on the Skokie Valley Route and Mundelein branch. We are donating $5 from the sale of each disc to Kenneth Gear, who saved these and many other original Railroad Record Club master tapes from oblivion.
The Trolley Dodger On the Air
We appeared on WGN radio in Chicago last November, discussing our book Building Chicago’s Subways on the Dave Plier Show. You can hear our 19-minute conversation here.
There were three subway anniversaries in 2018 in Chicago:
More Mystery Photos
July 29, 2016 July 21, 2018 David Sadowski 20 Comments
Tony Manthos: “Birney 93 (very elaborate 3), destination boards read “Willard via Third.” Looks like end of line loop in pretty remote spot.” Frank Hicks: “This is the Jamestown Street Railway in Jamestown, NY. This exact car (this isn’t actually a Birney, it’s a 1926 St. Louis Car Company product*) is currently being restored by a group there.” http://jamestowntrolley.org/trolrest/index.html
Recent Correspondence
Dear Sir:
I have been struggling to identify some trolley-related photos which came in mixed auction lots.
One significant score this morning was interurban 302, which I found to be Jamestown Westfield & NW. Others remain a mystery. Do you think you would have time to take a look at them?
Tony Manthos
Thanks for sharing. We’ll see what our readers think. Likewise, I am sure they would also like to see the pictures that you have identified, including interurban 302.
If you can shed any light on these photos, you can either leave a Comment on this post, or write us directly at:
thetrolleydodger@gmail.com
Tony Manthos: “Here is the photo of no. 128. I am hoping that this is San Diego Elec. Ry. 128 (St. Louis Car Co. 1912). I understand the series had centre doors but they were removed in 1924. I can’t read the signs on the side and front. The car on the right seems to have the same sign, but only the H of the first word is visible. The box-like appendage on the roof seems to be a feature of SD cars. The flame shaped streetlight globes are distinctive. Are they a SD feature? There are 5 trolley cars in the picture, which seems a lot for a relatively quiet street. My big question is this – No. 128 and some others were apparently sold to make private residences around1937, but the California license plate on the auto has a 1948 tag in the corner. I hope you can make sense of this. Many thanks.” Don Ross: “The 128 was Municipal Ry of San Francisco.” Tunnelstation writes: “The cars you think are SD cars are indeed San Francisco Municipal Railway streetcars. The location is on Duboce Street passing the “New” Mint just off of Market street. In the background is where the Sunset Tunnel (built in 1928) is located, which took the Muni cars through the hills to the Inner Sunset District on their way to the Beach and the Pacific Ocean where the “N” Judah Street line ended in a loop.”
James B. Holland writes:
The above is clearly San Francisco on Duboce with Market Street behind the photographer and Church Street the first intersection in the distance. Part way up the hill in the distance the tracks cross the right-sidewalk to enter the Sunset Tunnel (the picture is not clear but it does appear to show the tunnel portal outline itself!). The photographer is facing West which is Outbound. The strong cliff on the right supports the San Francisco Mint.
The Trolleys are on top of the current entrance for the “N” and “J” lines into the Market Street Subway. Indeed, the car coming toward us has “N” in the cube on the roof immediately behind the doors.
The “trestle” photo hints at West Penn but could be most any ‘smaller’ interurban line up and over a mainline RR!
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You … for these excellent emails on trolleys. A native of Pittsburgh, I lived a decade in Zion, IL, following my stint in Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club! This is the latter 1960s and early 1970s! After this I did 3.5+decades in San Francisco but am now in upstate NY!
Duboce and Market today.
Tony Manthos: “There is a vertical diamond lozenge logo on the cab side which looks like it might be a Ft. Dodge, Des Moines & Southern. Looks like edges to it so it could be a plate. Mighty steep grade it’s on. I can’t see any headlights and what’s even stranger, no pole and no wire. If there was a wire would that guy be on the boxcar roof? Has it been converted to battery power or internal combustion?” Don Ross: “The loco seems to be FtDDM&S but it is a little shaky.”
Tony Manthos writes: “Apart from being No.70 with zebra stripes I have nothing else to observe. I’ll rely on your expertise.” Don Ross: “70 was Sand Springs.” http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr2452.htm
Unidentified by Tony Manthos. Don Ross: Don Ross: “Milwaukee Sweeper.” http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr022.htm
Tony Manthos: “All I can see on the sweeper is No.6 under the front middle window.” Don Ross: “I think the other sweeper was Third Avenue Ry.” http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr180.htm Frank Hicks: “Sweeper 6 – this is the Chicago & West Towns.”
Tony Manthos: “As for the trestle, it’s a long shot, just in case you have encountered it before or know the site. The main line underneath is very well maintained. They obviously didn’t want an interurban diamond getting in their way.” Don Ross: “The trestle was Milwaukee at Grafton.” http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr2672.htm On the other hand, Scott Greig says, “The Milwaukee Electric viaduct identified as Grafton is actually the viaduct near Mequon quarry. The view is looking north, from the side of Highway 57.”
Other than the number (1101), Tony Manthos has no information on this car. Don Ross: “1101 was Portland, OR.” http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr328.htm
Tony Manthos: “Interurban 818. The snow tempted me to Denver & Intermountain 818 but I believe it had a center door.” Don Ross: “818 is Denver. The center door was only on one side.” http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr2234.htm
Tony Manthos writes:
I am blown away by the response from your readers. Very many thanks to you and all of them.
I know where to go if I get more of the same.
I had actually already identified the little Jamestown car and have been in correspondence with the guys who are doing the restoration. They kindly sent me a photo similar to mine taken at the same spot and one of the scene today, taken from the same place on the sidewalk. It hasn’t changed much. The loop is paved and the local bus turns on it. They also sent me photos of when they rescued it – it was a fishing shack on a nearby lake and they had to haul it out of thick trees. They found a good space to work on it, in the old depot, and they are doing a first rate job.
Unfortunately a big wrench has been thrown into the works, in the shape of a theatrical company which is going to convert the depot into a theatre venue in honor of Lucille Ball, who was born in Jamestown, and they don’t feel a trolley is compatible. The restoration group is in despair because they have no place to move to and continue the work. I did suggest they spread a rumor that Lucy used to go to school in that trolley but my contact had already tried that and the committee shot it down. I wish I could do something to help them out.
Thanks again and best regards.
Another Mystery Photo
MBTA (Boston) PCC 3147 at an unidentified location in October 1966. Could this be the old Braves Field loop? Tunnelstation writes:”The Boston PCC picture is located at the end of the “C” line near the Chestnut Hill Reservoir off Beacon Street. The scene is the exit from the Reservoir Car yard out to the street which also serves as the end of the line return loop going to Downtown Boston. That is one of the oldest continuous running trolley lines in America and is still in service today using cars built in Japan.” Beacon Street is the MBTA Green Line “C” branch.
The general area of the 1966 photo. That may be the same building at left, with the fire escape.
A contemporary aerial view.
Phil Bergen writes:
The second color Boston photo is indeed the same large building that trolleys loop around at the corner of Beacon Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue.
The only remaining portion of Braves Field that shows on the Sanborn map is the section marked Pavilion A. The stadium has gradually been reduced in size from its baseball configuration. It was the original home field of the AFL Boston (New England) Patriots and later became the property and home field of Boston University. After BU dropped football, it has evolved into a soccer/field hockey/intramural multipurpose field.
A map showing the Braves Field loop in 1916. A portion of this old ballpark still exists.
Steamed Up
We recently came across some interesting photos showing the last days of steam operation on the Brooklyn East District Terminal Railroad, which was a rail-marine terminal that operated until 1983. Small steam engines were used until October 25, 1963. These had been converted from coal to oil in the 1930s. A number of these locos have been preserved.
S. Berliner III writes:
The Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Railroad was a “pocket” railroad, one with no connection to other railroads by land. It had a main pocket yard on the Brooklyn waterfront at Kent Avenue from North 4th Street (the PRR N. 4th St. yard, immediately north of the Domino Sugar plant and the Williamsburgh Bridge, in an area formerly known as Palmer’s Docks), extending north to North 10th Street and east inland only a few blocks, and a small yard directly across Newtown Creek in Queens, Pidgeon Street Terminal, and a third yard, Navy Terminal, down at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York Naval Shipyard), but this latter was strictly for in-yard transfer. It now (Jan 01) appears that there was a second Queens yard. All commerce by rail was via carfloats, barges with rails on them, which were moved by tugboats across or along the East, North (Hudson), and Harlem Rivers to railheads at St. George on Staten Island (B&O) or in the Bronx (EL, NYC, NH) or New Jersey (PRR, CNJ, LV) where connections to the mainland railroads were available. It is also possible that connections with the LIRR via its marine terminals in Bay Ridge or LIC might have given mainland access via the New Haven over the Hell Gate Bridge but I have never seen any indication this was so, nor is the LIRR listed on the BEDT’s Feb 1964 connections list. Historian Tom Flagg advised 19 Jan 01 that there was even a Warren St. Terminal in Jersey City which only lasted from about 1910-1915 until shortly after 1920; its track plan looked much more like a Christmas Tree layout, with a loop, than it did a real railroad. Tom suggests that perhaps that’s why it didn’t last long! Further, he advised that the BEDT became a common carrier in 1940, which certainly changes its status (source: Plowden, April 1961, article on BEDT in Railroad Magazine). Aha, interstate commerce for sure!
Several of these color images were Ektachrome slides that have faded to red over the past 50 or 60 years. Usually, red Ektachromes date to around 1956 or so– the stability of the dyes was eventually improved. The problem is not the red dye layer itself, but the greens and blues that receded, leaving practically nothing but red.
People used to think these were unsalvageable, other than to convert them to black and white. But with today’s digital technology, it is possible to restore many of these classic images to something like their original appearance. To show you what is possible, we are including the “before” versions in addition to the “after.”
PS- If you are interested in knowing what became of the BEDT property after it was abandoned in 1983, go here. There is also a very comprehensive site devoted to the BEDT here.
BEDT 0-6-0 #16 in Brooklyn, NY on October 9, 1982.
The BEDT tug “Invincible” nudges a car float on the Brooklyn side of the East River in June 1956.
You can hear the sounds of steam on the Brooklyn East District Terminal in our CD collection Twilight of Steam, available through our Online Store.
From The New York Times – Oct. 26, 1963:
DIESEL REPLACES LAST IRON HORSE
Buffs Sad, Engineer Happy at Brooklyn Ceremony
By John F. Callahan
The last regularly operating steam locomotive in the East died yesterday.
With a hiss of steam that roared and then faded to a gasping whisper, No. 10 ended a 44-year run in the shuttling yard of the Brooklyn East District Terminal.
Begrimed, and clouded in her own steam from the last of her banked-down boiler fires, the old black, 28-foot six-wheeler looked tired– especially alongside the bright blue, 44-foot diesel electric locomotive that has taken its place.
A few sad facial expressions were noticeable among steam locomotive buffs who were snapping pictures from all angles. But there was an absence of sadness on the part of Joseph Keane, engineer on No. 10.
Too Hot For Comfort
“There’s no use feeling badly,” he remarked. “The diesel is better in every way, and I can’t forget how hot that cab was in the winter, as well as in the sweltering summer. Just step up in there and see for yourself, and mind, the fire is about out.”
Then he was joined in the ventilated cab of the diesel locomotive, where there was an air-cooled supply of drinking water and but three main switch- and engine-throttles, compared with more than 20 knobs, handles, bars and cords, and no drinking water, in old No. 10’s cab.
The terminal is one of three in Brooklyn that transport freight cars on floats between the New Jersey side of the Hudson River and piers along the Brooklyn side of the East River, Brooklyn’s Eastern District’s No. 10 is one of four sister steam locomotives that were replaced yesterday by four diesel electric engines.
Nicholas G. Cutler, a railroad man since 1926 and vice president of operations for the terminal, said he would miss the sound of locomotive steam.
“It was an old-world sound, and it was good to hear on a bitter winter day; it seemed to warm one a bit,” he remarked, looking down into the yard from his second-floor office window at 86 Kent Avenue in the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn.
“Actually, I think we might have kept at least one of the steam engines if we could replace parts, but no iron works make them anymore,” he said. “That factor, plus the economies of operation offered by the diesel, decided us in burying the steam engine.”
It was the same decision that influenced the major railroads to abandon the old Iron Horse beginning in 1925, when the diesel first edged its way onto the nation’s railroad tracks.
In the mid-20s there were about 65,000 steam locomotives, some with as many as 12 wheels, and many of them making, if not beating, the diesel’s speed. As long ago as 1893, old 999 ran at a top speed of 112.5 miles an hour up near Buffalo. A diesel’s maximum today is about 100 miles an hour.
The last steam engine operated by the New York Central was No. 1977. She finished her run in May, 1957, and since then her counterparts have been nostalgic conversation pieces.
Except for a few steam locomotives working in marble quarries in Vermont and on narrow-gauge tracks in outdoor railroad museums and along spurs in some southern states, the Iron Horse is dead in the eastern half of the country, and her plaintive whoooo, hoooo, whoooo has been replaced by the shrilly efficient blast of the staid diesel.
Kenneth Gear adds:
Hi David, I enjoyed the BEDT story in the latest Trolley Dodger and thought I’d share a little info about, and an few photos of 0-6-0T # 16.
Back in the early 1990’s I paid a few visits to the ex-PRR Greenville car float in Jersey City, NJ to photograph the New York Cross Harbor RR’s Alco switchers in action. The NYCH had taken over the operations of the BEDT and a few other remaining waterfront rail lines in New York, as well as the New Jersey side car float.
In 1992 and 1993 the New York Cross Harbor held “Railfan Days”. The railroad welcomed railfans onto the property for tours of the yard and photo ops of the car floats being loaded/unloaded.
I knew the NYCH used ex-BEDT Alco switcher locomotives but I was very surprised to find that 0-6-0T # 16 was still here on the property at Bush Terminal in Brooklyn. The railroad pulled the steamer out of the engine house and spotted it next to Alco S-1 switchers 22 & 25 for both day and night photos! I’ve attached a few photos of #16 that I took that day.
Happily, BEDT 16 is under going a restoration at the Railroad Museum of Long Island. http://rmli.org/RMLI/Restoration.html
Interestingly, cross ferry car float operations continue in this area today via New York New Jersey Rail, LLC, successor to the New York Cross Harbor and earlier railroads. It is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
I asked Kenneth Gear:
The way #16 was painted in the early 1990s is different than how it looked when it last ran in 1963. That would suggest it was repainted at some later date, but by who?
Did the #16 get abandoned later on, and was it vandalized (stripped for brass) before it was saved? Or was it sent to a museum while still in good shape?
He replied:
As I remember it, BEDT sold the # 16 shortly after it was replaced with diesels in 1963 but it never left Brooklyn.
Who repainted it and why I’m not sure but there was some talk of restoration on a tourist Railroad. The New York Cross Harbor RR ceased operations very quickly and management was under suspicion of some legal wrong doing and the whole railroad was abandoned and eventually taken over by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. 16 was still on the property at this time and the Port Authority disposed of the locomotive and it ended up on Long Island.
I found a website with just about everything you would want to know about BEDT 16, Here is the link:
http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/bedt/BEDT16.html
Some info from that website:
BEDT documents dated June 24, 1963 request $7,000 asking price of #16.
Non-BEDT documents (5/90 issue of Semaphore) show #16 was sold to a G. Foster, then resold, then (erroneously) state it was scrapped!
In actuality, #16 had been sold to George Foster, for use in conjunction with BEDT #12 & Ron Ziel’s Sag Harbor & Scuttle Hole operation; but was never removed from the Kent Ave. property and was abandoned in place when BEDT ceased operations in 1983.
It remained there until late 1993, at which time #16 was brought to NY Cross Harbor RR for cosmetic restoration.
From the time of move from Kent Avenue and during restoration in NY Cross Harbor shops, Robert Diamond (of BHRA) claims ownership. Mr. Diamond was kind enough to send a copy of receipt from owner of Kent Avenue property authorizing #16 to be moved by Mr. Diamond and transfers ownership of #16 to Mr. Diamond. According to Mr. Diamond, sometime after restoration and “unveiling” in 1993, NYCH donated #16 without his consent.
According to sources at the Trolley Museum of New York in Kingston, they were supposed to acquire it. Unfortunately, the TMNY could not fund the rigging and move from Brooklyn to Kingston, so #16 was offered by NYCH to Friends of Locomotive 35 in Oyster Bay, which accepted it. However, it was allegedly brought to the RR Museum of Long Island in Riverhead in error, but has remained at that location as their project.
New information states #16 was NOT brought to Riverhead in error, but was sent there intentionally with the knowledge of Friends of Loco #35, as a RR Museum of LI banner was hung on 16 during its move.
A Redder Red Arrow
Here is another example of photo restoration. Fittingly, this is from the Red Arrow Lines (Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company) in 1960 at an unidentified location. Even the Red Arrow wasn’t this red!
Bob adds:
The photo on Red Arrow is at Drexel Hill jct the car is headed towards 69th st coming from Sharon Hill. The tracks in the foreground are the pocket tracks at the jct where they short turn cars behind the photographer are the tracks to Media. All still remains today although the 80 class car is long gone.
Fired Up
On July 24, a lightning bolt hit the long ramp leading to the Chicago Transit Authority’s Medical Center station on the Blue Line, completely destroying a long section of the original late 1950s canopy. It made for some very compelling video:
Fortunately, no one was hurt. CTA service was fully restored by the next morning, after all the debris was removed from the tracks. This station was originally called Damen-Ogden-Paulina, and it’s the Paulina entrance that remains closed.
On the Philly_Traction Yahoo discussion group, Andre Kristopans remarked:
Basically, if you see the video somebody captured from a car on the expressway, the lightning went up the ramp over about 20 seconds, totally destroying, mostly melting, all the aluminum parts of the walkway, walls, railings, with part of the roof falling onto the tracks and causing a massive arc. I have never seen anything even similar to this!
These three pictures have been added to our previous post Night Beat (June 21, 2016):
The North Shore Line terminal in Milwaukee in January 1963.
A North Shore Line train stops at Edison Court in January 1963.
A Toronto subway train in August 1963.
This picture has been added to our post Love For Selle (June 8, 2016):
CTA 3025 is running inbound on Elston on June 30, 1949. (Bob Selle Photo) Neil Arsenty adds, “Although this is the Elston Avenue line, this is actually taken at Milwaukee and Kinzie going southeast. The building behind the streetcar still stands at the Northwest corner.”
Milwaukee and Kinzie today.
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Steam Echoes
Steam Echoes:
First published in 1959, and long out of print, Steam Echoes captures the unforgettable sound drama of steam engines in action. Like Whistles West, it features the recordings of E. P. Ripley, made in the waning days of steam during the 1950s.
The scenes were selected for listening pleasure as well as to create an historical document. They represent the everyday workings of our old steam friends, selected for the most interest, or the most beauty. The series are purposely kept short to preserve their brilliance. They show the steam engine in all four of the ways it may be heard at work– riding in it, on the train behind it, traveling along beside it, and standing at trackside while it goes by, or stops and takes off again.
Railroads featured include Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Canadian National.
Ghost Train:
Ghost Train, first issued in 1962 and also long unavailable, is a Hi-Fi stereo sound panorama of haunting memories, highlighting the final days of steam railroading. Railroads featured include the Grand Trunk Western, Norfolk & Western, Nickel Plate Road, Union Pacific, and the Reading Company. A particular highlight is a special whistle recording, demonstrating the famous “Doppler Effect” in true stereophonic sound.
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Who’s on the May 22 Texas primary runoff ballots?, By Ryan Murphy March 14, 2018
Early voting for the May 22 runoffs begins on May 14 and ends on May 18.
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Sinclair defends itself over uproar after local news anchors read anti-‘false news’ screed, By Mike Snider, [USA TODAY] Published 1:05 p.m. ET April 2, 2018 | Updated 5:21 p.m. ET April 2, 2018
Sinclair Broadcast Group is defending itself against criticism for a recent on-air promotional message many of its local news anchors were asked to read that warned viewers about “false news” on competing media outlets.
Dozens of stations belonging to the nation’s largest broadcaster have aired video promotions in the past few weeks in which their local on-air news hosts voice concerns about “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country.” The anchors then go on to say that many media outlets are publishing “fake stories” and pushing agendas.
The promotion looks unique in each market, but Sinclair’s corporate Hunt Valley, Md.-headquarters scripted and distributed it to its stations. After a video showing overlapping clips of anchors reciting the same script went viral, Democratic lawmakers and media critics condemned the company for thinly veiled editorializing that, they said, promoted President Trump’s attacks on the news media.
Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, tweeted Monday: “Local news stations now required by Sinclair Broadcasting to parrot the talking points of the President, moving America one step closer to its own version of state run media. And another freedom is assailed under this Administration.”
Public Shaming Won’t Stop Sinclair – The local-news broadcaster has ignited public outrage by making its journalists rail against “fake news.” Its viewers won’t care, By April Glaser [com] April 02, 20185:24 PM
“… more people, no matter their political affiliation, watch local news than national or cable news, according to recent data from Pew. Even if CNN and Fox were both talking about this around the clock, a lot of local news fans might still not catch it….”
Sinclair’s top-down approach could eventually come back to haunt it. “What Sinclair does as a business model here is take local control from local stations,” said Christopher Terry, a journalism professor from the University of … It’s the same kind of business model championed by Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) after the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which lifted local limits on how many radio stations a single owner could hold in any one market. Clear Channel bought up radio stations across the country in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and as the company did so, it consolidated local news and music operations, replacing DJs with national playlists and local news with national segments. Radio became homogenized and boring just as the internet was becoming more accessible, and people across the country stopped tuning in as much. In March, iHeartMedia filed for bankruptcy.
Until recently, there was a federal rule that a single television station owner could not own more than one of the top four stations in a single market. One of the main ideas behind such media consolidation rules is that when one company owns too much media in a single area, it has too much control over what people who live in that area know, and that can help determine how people decide to vote or what issues they care about. You might think you’re changing the channel to get a different viewpoint, but if multiple stations are owned by the same company in one market, that might not be the case. In November, Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, worked to loosen that ownership limit when the agency voted to make it easier for one company to own up to two of the top four television stations in a single market. Pai is now being investigated by the FCC’s inspector general for potentially pushing to lift the media ownership rules to benefit Sinclair.
Sinclair is now trying to get federal approval to acquire Tribune Media, which would bump the number of television stations it owns nationally to 215 stations (Sinclair already owns 173 stations and Tribune owns 42). This is the same Sinclair that ordered its affiliate stations in March of 2017 to double the amount of airtime they give to segments by its chief political analyst Boris Epshteyn, a former Trump aide who faithfully parrots the administration’s line.
…Trump is a fan of Sinclair, and tweeted his support of the television conglomerate Monday morning, criticizing other outlets for running stories about the scripted monologue it ordered its local stations read. “Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke,” tweeted Trump….
Trump’s ‘Good Relationship’ With Russia Is Slipping Away – By shuttering a consulate and expelling 60 diplomats in response to the spy poisoning in Britain, he’s taken a remarkably hard line against Putin. By Uri Friedman,[THE ATLANTIC] 3-26-2018 5:20 PM ET
Donald Trump says building a “good relationship” with Russia isn’t about his interests, but America’s. Russia “can help solve problems…
On Monday, however, the U.S.-Russian relationship went from bad to worse. The Trump administration shut down the Russian consulate in Seattle and ordered 60 diplomats to leave the United States in retaliation for the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter with a nerve agent. Canada and several European countries also booted Russian officials, in what the British prime minister has described as the “largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in history.” The United States and its allies have blamed the Russian government for the chemical-weapon attack, which targeted British citizens on British soil.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, [unnamed] Trump administration officials stated that the United States can’t improve relations with Russia while the Kremlin is denying responsibility for the attempted murder, messing with America’s friends, and engaging in a “steady drumbeat of destabilizing and aggressive actions” in the U.S. and around the world. Russian agents “hide behind a veneer of diplomatic immunity while actively engaging in intelligence operations that undermine the country in which they are hosted and the democracies they seek to minimize,” [an unnamed] senior administration official
Now Trump has expelled more Russian officials than his predecessor ever did. In closing the Russian consulate in San Francisco in August and Seattle today, he has wiped out Russia’s diplomatic presence on the West Coast and substantially degraded its covert capabilities in the United States. “This is absolutely [the president’s] decision,” a senior administration official said on Monday, without answering whether Trump has personally discussed the nerve-agent attack with Putin.
[U.S. Congressman Steve] Stockman spent charity funds to collect dirt on political opponent, witness says, By Gabrielle Banks, Houston Chronicle Updated 4:01 pm, Friday, March 23, 2018
Shortly after taking office in 2013, U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman hired a crew of amateur spies to perform political surveillance on a rising star in his own state Republican party, according to witnesses Thursday at the former lawmaker’s federal corruption trial in Houston.
Stockman gave $32,000 in charitable funds to a political operative to conduct surveillance of state Rep. James White, R-Woodville and two other GOP officeholders.
After three months of trailing White at work and leisure, planting a fake intern with surveillance equipment on his staff and combing through public records, the conservative operative and attorney Benjamin Wetmore, testified his crew netted nothing, or “bupkis,” as he put it.
Wetmore was associated with the American Phoenix Foundation, an Austin-based group that claimed in May 2015 to have amassed hundreds of hours of covert video footage of Texas lawmakers with the goal of proving corruption.
Prosecutors in Stockman’s criminal trial contend he funneled thousands of dollars from a charitable donation into one such surveillance operation in hopes of uncovering what Wetmore called “salacious” gossip about White, one of the few African-American Republican lawmakers in Austin and a perceived political rival.
Stockman is charged with 28 criminal counts, including allegations that he illegally converted major charitable donations to pay for personal and political expenses.
ICE Deports U.S. Army Veteran to Mexico After Serving Two Tours in Afghanistan – Emotional Goodbye As Detroit Resident Of 30 Years Deported To Mexico, By Joe Difazio [NEWSWEEK.COM] 3/25/18 at 5:53 PM
Miguel Perez Jr., 39, was brought to the U.S. from Mexico without going through the proper immigration process when he was 8, according to the Chicago Tribune. Perez, who held a green card, attempted to retroactively gain citizenship as a veteran, but was denied due to a felony drug conviction.
Perez mistakenly believed that he automatically became a citizen when he enlisted, according to Slate, a fate that has befallen a number of veterans who have arrived in the U.S. illegally and then joined the military.
Perez joined the Army in 2001 and served until 2004. Upon returning Perez was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder from a Chicago-area Veterans Affairs hospital.
“After the second tour, there was more alcohol and that was also when I tried some drugs,” said Perez last month. “But the addiction really started after I got back to Chicago, when I got back home, because I did not feel very sociable.”
In 2008 Perez was caught attempting to sell two pounds of cocaine to an undercover officer and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Perez was being let off early when he was then transferred to ICE custody for deportation. It was then that Perez learned he had not successfully become a citizen. Perez attempted to become a citizen retroactively, but was denied because he did not show “good moral character,” in the department’s eyes – a main requirement for citizenship.
Illinois’ Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, a veteran herself, and several activists fought to keep Perez in the country, but to no avail.
The United States is finally confronting China’s economic aggression, By Josh Rogin, [The Washington Post , Global Opinions] March 25, 2018
Lost in last week’s coverage of tariffs and trade deficits was the Trump administration’s landmark decision to confront China’s unfair and illegal practices that threaten our economic security. It’s the opening salvo of the key economic battle of the 21st century and part of a worldwide struggle the United States must lead.
The Chinese government’s strategy to amass control of critical technologies while undermining the rules-based trade system built by the United States and its partners will be hard to combat. Exactly how the administration plans to tackle the task remains unclear. But the implications of that long-term project reach far beyond the short-term battle over tariffs or deficits now brewing between Washington and Beijing.
The Trump administration is now basing U.S. policy on a recognition that the massive scale of China’s technology transfer effort cannot be addressed with the usual levers of trade policy. That means the United States and other countries will have to respond with new tools and a new attitude.
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“Technology is probably the most important part of our economy,” U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer said Thursday. “And we concluded that, in fact, China does have a policy of forced technology transfer; of requiring licensing at less than economic value; of state capitalism, wherein they go in and buy technology in the United States in non-economic ways; and then, finally, of cybertheft.”
… A bipartisan commission chaired by retired Adm. Dennis Blair and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman estimated the loss to the U.S. economy due to intellectual property theft overall to be between $225 billion and $600 billion annually. The commission’s 2017 report named China as the “principal IP infringer.”
Toys ‘R’ Us will close or sell all US stores – Toys “R” Us is closing its doors after 70 years in business, by Chris Isidore, Jackie Wattles and Parija Kavilanz [@CNNMoney] March 15, 2018
In a bankruptcy court filing Thursday, Toys “R” Us said it had a horrific holiday season, “well below worst case projections.” It earned just $81 million in pre-tax profit in the fourth quarter, $250 million below the company’s target and a quarter of what it earned a year earlier.
“The company was taken over by private equity giants KKR, Bain Capital and real estate investment company Vornado in 2005. Together they paid $6.6 billion, but saddled the company with $5.3 billion in debt.”
The internet isn’t the only thing killing U.S. retailers, By Aimee Picchi [CBS MoneyWatch] May 12, 2017, 5:00 AM Last Updated May 15, 2017 12:09 PM EDT
Private equity (PE) funds operate by raising money from investors and using the funds to acquire companies that, while distressed, still have value. PE executives then direct management to make strategic and operational changes in order to boost a business’ performance. The goal, buyout firms say, is to turn companies around and eventually sell them for a profit. PE firms make money by collecting fees for managing funds and in taking about 20 percent of the earnings when a business is sold.
But PE firms also tend to fund their acquisitions partly with debt raised by the target company. That can leave already struggling businesses swimming in red ink, hindering their recovery — or pushing them into insolvency.
“When you are in public relations for private equity, you say leveraging up the company imposes discipline, because they have to generate a certain amount of cash to pay the debt,” said Jude Gorman, general counsel at Reorg Research. “It sounds great until you say, ‘But what happens when some sort of secular trend hits and the company doesn’t have the cash to make the loan payment?'”
The result, he noted, are companies like Rue21, which are struggling to juggle their loan repayments while figuring out how to get consumers back in their stores.
Many of the worst-performing retail bonds are backed by private-equity companies, according to Bloomberg News.
Private Equity’s Retail Debt Carnage – Business is bad, covenants are weak and assets are walled off, By Lisa Abramowicz and Shelly Banjo [Bloomberg.com] March 17, 2017
Not all poorly performing retail bonds are created equal. The worst of the bunch have a shared feature: They’re all backed by private-equity companies.
Loss Leaders – Debt of PE-backed retailers has plunged more than those of non-PE owned peers (*= Not PE-owned)
Neiman Marcus, Claire’s, Tailored Brands*, Rue 21, Sears*, Bon-Ton, Petsmart, Toys R Us, Hot Topic, Limited Brands*
[MIKE]: Also, SEARS isn’t PE-owned, But K-Mart (Sears’ acquirer) was.
Uber’s Self-Driving Car Just Killed Somebody. Now What?, By Aarian Marshall [www.wired.com] 03.19.18
At about 10 pm on Sunday evening, a self-driving Uber struck and killed a woman crossing the street in Tempe, Arizona. The crash appears to be the first time a self-driving vehicle has killed someone—and could alter the course of a scantily regulated, poorly understood technology that has the power to save lives and create fortunes.
The Tempe Police Department reports the Volvo XC90 SUV was in autonomous mode when the crash occurred, though the car had a human safety driver behind the wheel to monitor the technology and retake control in the case of an emergency or imminent crash. The woman, Elaine Herzberg, was transported to a local hospital, where she died from her injuries. The police department will complete its full report later today.
Uber, Waymo, and other autonomous vehicle developers like Arizona not just for the sunny weather and calm conditions but for the near total lack of restrictions on how they test: Self-driving vehicles don’t need any sort of special permit, just a standard vehicle registration. And their operators don’t have to share any information about what they’re doing with the authorities.
Thus far, only California demands developers make public specific data on their operations, including descriptions of any crashes, how many miles they drive each year, and how often their human safety operators take control from the robot. Even those numbers are less than helpful in understanding the pace of their work or just how well these things really drive. The state will begin allowing the testing of totally driverless vehicles—without safety drivers for backup—on public roads next month.
…companies … await legislation that would put the federal government firmly in charge of all autonomous vehicle design, construction, and performance, and allow even more testing—as many as 100,000 vehicles per manufacturer—all over the country. The bill, called the Self Drive Act, passed in the House this fall. But the companion Senate bill, the AV Start Act, has been held up by a few senators who wonder whether the young technology needs more aggressive oversight.
… Tempe police report the woman was outside the crosswalk when she was hit and killed.
… human drivers kill just 1.16 people for every 100 million miles driven. Waymo and Uber and all the rest combined are nowhere near covering that kind of distance, and they’ve already killed one.
What is a “Populist”?
From Wikipedia: … a political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against a privileged elite.[1] Critics of populism have described it as a political approach that seeks to disrupt the existing social order by solidifying and mobilizing the animosity of the “commoner” or “the people” against “privileged elites” and the “establishment”.[2] Populists can fall anywhere on the traditional left–right political spectrum of politics and often portray both bourgeois capitalists and socialist organizers as unfairly dominating the political sphere.[3]
Political parties and politicians[4] often use the terms “populist” and “populism” as pejoratives against their opponents. Such a view sees populism as demagogy, merely appearing to empathize with the public through rhetoric or unrealistic proposals in order to increase appeal across the political spectrum.[5]
From Merriam-Webster:
1: a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people; especially, often capitalized : a member of a U.S. political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies
2 : a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people
oxforddictionaries.com:
A person, especially a politician, who strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.
America’s Cultural Revolution, by Catherine Rampell
Last month in Shanghai, Chinese venture capitalist Eric X. Li made a provocative suggestion. The United States, he said, was going through its own “Cultural Revolution.” …
Li said he saw several parallels between the violence and chaos in China decades ago and the animosity coursing through the United States today. In both cases, the countries turned inward, focusing more on defining the soul of their nations than on issues beyond their borders.
He said that both countries were also “torn apart by ideological struggles,” with kinships, friendships and business relationships being severed by political differences.
“Virtually all types of institutions, be it political, educational, or business, are exhausting their internal energy in dealing with contentious, and seemingly irreconcilable, differences in basic identities and values — what it means to be American,” he said in a subsequent email exchange. “In such an environment, identity trumps reason, ideology overwhelms politics, and moral convictions replace intellectual discourse.”
7 Reforms After Trump, by Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) 12/3/17, 19:31
Repeal Shelby v Holder (LEGISLATE: Renew Voting Rights Act)
Repeal Citizens United (LEGISLATE/AMENDMENT: Limit Money in Politics, abolish anonymous money in politics)
Abolish/Revise electoral college (or can it be saved?)
Apply anti-nepotism law to White House (It was WRITTEN for White House [Robert Kennedy serving with JFK])
All declared POTUS candidates must release at least 5 years tax returns and medical physical data. (LEGISLATE/AMENDMENT: for how many years)
Presidents may not self-pardon (AMENDMENT OR LEGISLATION: or pardon executive appointees?)
No “self-funding” of campaigns beyond legal donor limit.
Special counsel has power to indict president
2/3 Senate vote to confirm SCOTUS appointment
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A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.
~humanities
thelily.com
SpaceX - Initial results from investigation into Crew Dragon explosion during engine tests on April 20, 2019
~tech
spacex.com
Women’s Pockets are Inferior.
~misc
pudding.cool
What's the community's opinion on "The Right to be Forgotten?"
~tildes
This is kind of a question for Tildes as well as a discussion topic on Social Media more generally. For context, "The Right to be Forgotten" is an idea being kicked around in international law and...
This is kind of a question for Tildes as well as a discussion topic on Social Media more generally. For context, "The Right to be Forgotten" is an idea being kicked around in international law and human rights circles. It's kind of a corollary to the "right to privacy" and focuses on putting some guardrails around the downsides of having all information about you being archived, searchable, and publicly available forever and ever. It's usually phrased as a sense that people shouldn't be tied down indefinitely by stigmatizing actions they've done in "the past" (which is usually interpreted as long enough ago that you're not the same person anymore).
This manifests in some examples large and small. Felony convictions or drug offenses are a pretty big one. Another public issue was James Gunn getting raked over the coals for homophobic quotes from a long time ago. Even on a smaller scale, I think plenty of young people have some generalized anxiety about embarrassing videos, photos, Facebook statuses, forum posts, etc. that they made when they were young following them around the rest of their lives. For example, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez had people try to shame her for dancing to a Phoenix song in an amateur music video. An even darker version of this happens with people who might be the victims of targeted harassment. Often doxxing happens by people digging through peoples' histories and piecing together clues to figure out who they are or at least narrow down where they're from, where they work, etc.
In the context of Tildes, this would basically be a question of how do we feel about peoples' comment history lingering forever? Do we care about/agree with this "right" in principle and if we do, what should be done about putting it into practice?
The root of the issue is the existence of archives of data about yourself that is 1.) searchable, 2.) publicly viewable, 3.) under someone else's control, 4.) forever. Even if the ability to delete comments exists, it's infeasible for any individual to pore over the reams of data they create about themselves to find the stuff that might be problematic. The solutions would revolve around addressing any one of those numbered items. Unfortunately, hitting any of those has upsides and downsizes. Some examples:
Some people like being able to look back on old contributions and having them get deleted after a period of time (hitting problem #4) would be a bummer unless there is a system to selectively archive stuff you want to save from atrophy, which would be a function/feature that would take a ton of thought and development. What's more, there is no point in just saving your own comment if everyone else's stuff is gone because comments without context are indecipherable. It could work in a more selective way, so rather than a blanket atrophying of posts, but then you have the context issue again. Someone you were having a discussion with might choose to delete their entire comment history and there goes any sense of logic or coherence to your posts.
We could address the searchable bit by automatically or selectively having posts pseudonymed after a period of time. But in a lot of cases a pseudonym won't work. People tend to refer to each other by username at times, and some people have a distinctive enough style that you could probably figure it out if they're well known and long-tenured.
That's just some general food for thought. I'll yield the floor
NaraVara
Why Today’s Amazon Strike Is So Important
jacobinmag.com
Which technical/technological issues or needs do you think should have been sorted out by now?
ask.survey
20 years ago I saw a computer scientist on TV saying that operating systems should come up with a better way to organize and present files, something that took into consideration the files we used...
20 years ago I saw a computer scientist on TV saying that operating systems should come up with a better way to organize and present files, something that took into consideration the files we used the most and the ones we were likely to use again. Not just a recent files menu, but some form of AI prediction that would prepare our desktops with little intervention. This, of course, didn't happen, but I think about it from time to time. I would love to have an AI that would understand my workflow and do a bunch of things for me.
This is obviously way too advanced as an answer to this thread, but I'm curious: what did you expect to already exist in the field of computer science, but simply didn't pan out?
mrbig
Microsoft 365, Google cloud and Apple cloud deemed illegal in Schools of Hesse
(Jul 9 2019)
microsoft.office
germany.law
germany.education
hessen.de
This house was built using 600,000 recycled plastic bottles
(342 words, Jun 25 2019)
~enviro
Judge advises $14m in damages to Jewish woman targeted by neo-Nazi ‘troll storm’
Bianca Devins: Grisly photos of murdered 17-year-old circulated on Instagram, Discord, and 4chan by her suspected killer
usa.ny
Taika Waititi to Direct 'Thor 4'
~movies
hollywoodreporter.com
This Week in Election Night, 2020 (Week 17)
recurring.weekly
good morning, tildes--this is not a test. we are 475 days and dropping away from possibly the biggest election day in recent american history. this week saw a return to normal: we not only have...
good morning, tildes--this is not a test. we are 475 days and dropping away from possibly the biggest election day in recent american history. this week saw a return to normal: we not only have opinion pieces this week, but we also have fundraising and polling numbers, and quite a bit of news both in policy and in punditry.
the usual note: common sense should be able to generally dictate what does and does not get posted in this thread. if it's big news or feels like big news, probably make it its own post instead of lobbing it in here. like the other weekly threads, this one is going to try to focus on things that are still discussion worthy, but wouldn't necessarily make good/unique/non-repetitive discussion starters as their own posts.
Week 15 • Week 16
From Saint Anselm College (MoE +/- 5.2 percent) New Hampshire state poll [PDF warning]:
Biden 21%
Harris 18%
Warren 17%
Buttigieg 12%
Sanders 10%
All others below 5%
Fundraising (Q2, 2019)
(h/t Shane Goldmacher):
Buttigieg $24.8 million
Biden 21.5
Warren 19.1
Sanders 18
Harris 12
Booker 4.5
Klobuchar 3.9
O'Rourke 3.6
Inslee 3
Castro 2.8
Bennet 2.8
Yang 2.8
Gillibrand 2.3
Bullock 2
Moulton 1.9
Gabbard 1.5
Hickenlooper 1.1
de Blasio 1.1
Ryan .9
from POLITICO: Third Democratic primary debate will be in Houston. the third democratic debate series will be held in Houston on Sept. 12 and (potentially) 13. this is a change from the end-of-month dates they've used for june and the coming july debates; note also they will not be having debates in august. the qualifications for this one are being bumped up such that candidates need to receive at least 2 percent in four approved polls and have 130,000 unique donors including at least 400 individual donors in at least 20 states, which makes it pretty likely that there will not be 20 candidates on the stage in september. only 5 people qualify currently.
from USA Today: Penalizing candidates who interrupt, and other changes coming to the Democratic debates. a welcome change for some of you, USA Today reports that "[...]candidates who interrupt "consistently" will be penalized and have time taken away from them" for the july debates which CNN will be hosting, although they note that "CNN did not specify how it defines the level of interruption that would trigger the penalty nor how much time would be deducted." CNN will also be allowing an opening statement for candidates.
from FiveThirtyEight: It Won’t Be Easy For Many Democrats To Make The September Debate. as i mentioned above, it's looking pretty unlikely that 20 democrats will meet the qualifications for the september debates. aside from the five frontrunners (sanders, biden, warren, harris, buttigieg) who have all qualified already, only castro, o'rourke, and yang have hit the donor criteria and only booker has hit the polling criteria. the donor criteria will probably be met by at least 15 candidates, but the polling criteria is going to be a big hurdle for most of the remaining candidates.
from FiveThirtyEight: A Midsummer Overview Of The Democratic Field. FiveThirtyEight puts things a bit more technically: while there are clearly five frontrunners and the rest of the pack, there's reason to believe even the frontrunners are more two clusters of biden, warren, harris and then sanders, buttigieg as of current. everybody else after them of course still has a shot, but it's going to require some agenda setting and, currently, that doesn't look very likely to happen.
from CNN: Kamala Harris soars in our latest 2020 rankings. CNN's rankings by chris cillizza and FiveThirtyEight alum harry enten not surprisingly look basically identical among the frontrunners. for the most part, it seems as though the popular consensus among the punditry has coalesced for the time being--for good reason, to be clear. it will take quite an act or performance to dislodge the front five from their positions.
from POLITICO: Embattled Biden ditches Rose Garden strategy. biden's whole strategy of playing it safe and avoiding gaffes is now out the window, and with it has gone biden's reluctance to draw strong contrasts between himself and other people running. biden has also been increasingly confrontational on his ideas to other candidates, particularly with healthcare which he's recently sparred with bernie sanders over. will the pivot to actually addressing other people work out? who the fuck knows, this is joe biden.
from the Atlantic: Biden Stops Playing It Safe. in the same vein, the Atlantic has a piece here on how biden's best chance is most likely to continue to exploit the healthcare issue, since it's one where he isn't a spectacular fuckup or one where he's open to consistent attack from all sides. biden's record on healthcare is actually moderate, too, which allows him to play to centrist voters without having to explain votes, for the most part.
from POLITICO: Biden unveils health care plan: Affordable Care Act 2.0. oh, he also has a health care plan now which is more of the same and predominantly builds on the existing infrastructure of the PPACA. his issues page on it can be found o'er yonder.
from NBC News: Sanders skips Netroots as Warren strengthens her hold on progressives. bernie sanders was notably absent from the progressive forum and gathering netroots nation this week, primarily because he had other comittments (although there was this whole stupid ordeal about how he wasn't going because markos moulitsas, founder of the daily kos, doesn't like him). sanders, who has been sliding in the polls recently to warren, probably missed out on an opportunity to make his case to the wing of the party he actually needs to win over on some level by not showing up. his base, while significant, remains entirely insufficient to win the nomination of its own.
from Jacobin: Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Is Different. jacobin meanwhile focuses on an underrated aspect of the sanders campaign which has not been focused on very much by the media, this being the campaign's elevation of labor issues. sanders has made the bully pulpit for labor issues one part of his campaign and, incidentally tying into why he didn't show up at netroots nation this week, has often spent time campaiging and organizing at labor disputes like the one trying to prevent the closing of philadelphia's hahnemann university hospital.
from the Atlantic: Harris Gains Momentum With Democrats’ Most Important Voter Base. kamala harris is in a decent position to win the nomination, and it's mostly on the back of her well-covered recent surge after the first debates. a lot of this comes from the fact that she's improved her standing with black women, who are a constituency that at this point cannot be overlooked by any democrat wanting to seriously win the presidential nomination. harris would be relatively formidable if she manages to win over even a significant plurality of black women, especially given her homestate advantage in early, delegate rich california. she still has a ways to go before that comes to fruition, but she is on the right path.
from the Guardian: With her back against the wall, Kamala Harris surged. Will it last?. this sorta-profile of harris so far in the race and the history which has gotten us here is an interesting look into how the more things change, the more things stay the same for harris's political strategy. the somewhat cautious, reserved approach which had previously gotten harris somewhat mixed reviews from the punditry and people at large did a pretty big turnaround after the debates. she still has things to reckon for, of course, but on the whole those things seem less likely to derail her campaign now than they did before.
from CNN: Pete Buttigieg unveils new details of racial justice plan in bid for black voters. pete buttigieg has new policy this week aimed at black voters in what he's calling the douglass plan. the plan, among other things, entails "increasing federal funding for historically black colleges and universities, increasing investments in minority-held depositories and mandating 25% of government contracts go to minority owned businesses." CNN also notes that "The plan would also seek to reduce incarceration by 50% at the state and federal level and abolish private federal prisons." buttigieg also hopes to address racial inequality in the healthcare system with the plan.
From Vox: Pete Buttigieg says Americans should have the right to hide personal details from the internet. buttigieg is also, interestingly, in support of importing the right to be forgotten from the european union. we don't hear very much internet related policy from candidates even as the internet looms larger and larger in both politics and the broader culture wars that are being waged by people, so this is a welcome addition to the vast list of policies that people are going to be parsing through for the inevitable nominee to consider putting in their agenda.
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from CNN: Elizabeth Warren pledges to decriminalize border crossings, reverse Trump administration policies in new immigration plan. warren has some more immigration policy to throw onto the pile (medium link). per CNN:
The proposal would decriminalize crossing the border into the United States without authorization and separate law enforcement from immigration enforcement [...] designate a Justice Department task force to investigate accusations of serious violations -- including medical neglect and physical and sexual assaults of detained immigrants." It would be granted "independent authority to pursue any substantiated criminal allegations." [...] end privately-contracted detention facilities and promises that, if Warren is elected, she would "issue guidance ensuring that detention is only used where it is actually necessary because an individual poses a flight or safety risk." [and] expand legal immigration, raising the refugee cap, and making "it easier for those eligible for citizenship to naturalize." She would also reduce "the family reunification backlog" and provide "a fair and achievable pathway to citizenship."
from CBS News: Amy Klobuchar unveils plan to address medical needs of America's aging population. amy klobuchar has a plan to "provide a cure and treatment options for some of the most aggressive chronic conditions facing the country's elderly population, including Alzheimer's disease, by 2025" and to "strengthen Medicare and Social Security, reduc[e] drug prices, creat[e] personal savings accounts to help Americans save for retirement and ensure paid family leave for all." as part of helping to reduce the strain of an increasingly old population of america. i assume we'll see a few more people with plans of some sort like this, since it's a growing issue and will only continue to be in the future as the boomers begin to die off.
from POLITICO: Inslee knocks Sanders, 2020 rivals over filibuster support. jay inslee wants to nuke the filibuster and does not like people who do not want to nuke the filibuster. this is something a bunch of democrats, not just inslee, want to do because it's probably the only way anything will ever pass the senate again. godspeed, inslee, godspeed.
from the Guardian: Neoliberal pundits want to write off Bernie Sanders again. That's no surprise:
As New York’s Rebecca Traister aptly pointed out in a recent essay, the pundits aren’t keeping up with the politicians: “In all of their hand-wringing,” she writes, “they seem not to have noticed that … assumptions about a safe center are crumbling in the hands of a new generation of political leaders willing to make a stirring case for radical ideas,” like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All.
Is Bernie Sanders down for the count? Probably not. But you definitely shouldn’t take the mainstream media’s word for it.
from the Guardian: Kamala Harris might be surging – but her record will soon catch up with her:
Some political evolutions are genuine, and Harris’s “law-and-order” past wasn’t out of place in the Democratic party at the time. But that old wisdom is now being called into question. It’s hard to imagine that a party tacking to the left in an increasingly polarized country is about to elect a criminal prosecutor as its nominee.
[...] Kamala Harris isn’t just not leftwing enough to be the Democratic party’s nominee, she’s also not bold enough to win a presidential election and bring about the change we desperately need
alyaza
U.S. manufacturing ‘is in recession,’ Fed’s data show
Neuralink, a company looking to create direct computer-brain interfaces will make a presentation today
brain computer interface
@elonmusk: Presentation streaming live from https://t.co/nrsYGNF65K at 8pm Pacific
Twitter: @elonmusk
House votes to condemn Trump’s language as racist.
alexandria ocasio cortez
What’s left of liberalism?: Why the left and right both seem to agree that liberalism has failed us.
theoutline.com
Cancel Qatar: The money for the next men's World Cup would be better invested in the women's game.
(468 words, Jul 7 2019)
~sports
theatlantic.com
Cracking a windshield and earning $10,000 on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program
white hat
samcurry.net
Will California’s New Bot Law Strengthen Democracy?
usa.ca
I couldn’t tell this delicious lab-grown ice cream didn’t come from a cow
(490 words, Jul 11 2019)
~food
lab grown food
6 ways AI is making an impact on video games
~games
hpe.com
Highlights from Facebook's Libra hearing with the Senate Banking Committee
techcrunch.com
NYPD Officer Will Not Face Federal Criminal Charges In Eric Garner's Death
usa.ny.nyc
These community wind farms in Denmark and Scotland are decentralising power to the people
united kingdom.scotland
resilience.org
Apollo 11 in Real Time
(Dec 7 1972)
~science
apolloinrealtime.org
Security reports reveal how Wikileaks founder Julian Assange turned the Ecuadorian embassy into a command post for election meddling
The Economics of Private Jets
YouTube: Wendover Productions
greece.crete
It's time to repaint the Öresund Bridge and it will take 13 years
thelocal.se
MDN (beta) is now built with React
(Jul 12 2019)
mozilla.org
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Scattered Pearls
(2:43, Jan 18 2018)
Virtual Characters Learn To Work Out… and Undergo Surgery (Scalable Muscle-actuated Human Simulation and Control)
YouTube: Two Minute Papers
Sony a7R IV: First Impressions and Real-World Photos
petapixel.com
The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies - New “living drugs”—made from a patient’s own cells—can cure once incurable cancers. But can we afford them?
~health
Full list of games coming to Ubisoft's Uplay+ subscription service revealed
Tetris Effect PC Release (Epic) - July 23
YouTube: Epic Games
Rikers Island Dilemma: Stop Taking Addiction Meds, Or Stay Behind Bars
gothamist.com
~life
china.shanghai
group rental housing
citylab.com
Gotta Catch 'Em All: Understanding How IMSI-Catchers Exploit Cell Networks
(6536 words, Jun 28 2019)
eff.org
K. Flay - Champagne
(2:13, Dec 12 2018)
kfwyre
198X and Our Deeply Personal Relationships with Games
video essay
YouTube: Carolyn Petit
The biggest star at YouTube's VidCon 2019 was TikTok
(1965 words, Jul 12 2019)
Black Screens - Sweeter Than Ever feat. SUN U
(3:56, May 24 2019)
automator404
Summer Catchers - Release Trailer
YouTube: Summer Catchers
Elliðaárdalur Valley – WilkinsonEyre designs biodome complex for Iceland
biodome
What do you think about MBTI theory?
~talk
tumblr.com
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How To Explain the Point of Manners to Modern Kids
Soren Hald—Getty Images
By Carey Wallace
Sometimes it seems like all parents talk to kids about is manners, whether it’s prompting them to remember a “please” or “thank you,” or hurriedly informing them that it’s not polite to point out that their teacher’s new pantsuit is not overly flattering.
Manners can also be a source of conflict: some adults expect to be called “Mr. Smith,” while others offer a breezy “call me Jim!” And when kids aren’t sure what the rules are, manners can be a big source of anxiety.
But when kids understand how to handle themselves, it can give them confidence, says Elaine Swann, a nationally recognized etiquette expert, and the author of Let Crazy Be Crazy: Then Politely Get What You Want, Get Your Point Across, and Gently Put Rude People in Their Place.
That was true for Swann, who moved to the U.S. from Panama as a child, and found the assurance to make her way in a new culture by learning the etiquette.
It’s tempting to just drill elementary school kids on basic rules, Swann says. But it’s more important to help kids of any age understand that manners are about far more than obeying a set of requirements. “Manners are about putting other people at ease,” Swann says. So even at a young age, parents can encourage kids to offer kind words to others with questions like, “What kind of people do you like to be around?” followed by “How can we be more like that?”
By middle school, parents have usually hammered home the message that it’s not O.K. to talk with your mouth full. But Swann says that learning how to hold a conversation at mealtime is actually a far more important aspect of etiquette. Kids will need that skill all their lives, whether they’re interviewing for a job, or meeting prospective in-laws. And they learn best, Swann says, by doing. She encourages families to take every opportunity to sit down for a meal together, and really talk. Questions like “How was your day?” or “What do you think about the recent news?” aren’t just small talk—they’re key training to help kids get comfortable in all social settings.
High school kids can begin to think in terms of what Swann describes as the three core values of manners: respect, honesty, and consideration. A lot has changed since Swann started teaching etiquette 20 years ago, she says, in both culture and technology. But those core values remain the heart of all manners. Teaching kids to make eye contact and put away the phone at mealtimes is important. But it’s even more important, Swann says, to help them focus on what others are thinking and feeling. Parents can help kids think in these terms by asking questions like, “How do you think you would feel in that situation? How would you like to be treated?”
And at any age, Swann says, it’s important for parents to communicate that manners are not “something you turn on and off.” They are a way of life—learning how to be considerate of others, which helps kids feel confident themselves.
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Democrats Have Their Big Four
by Jonathan V. Last
So it turns out Wednesday night really was the kids’ table debate. Because on Thursday night four Democrats demonstrated big-league talent. After this debate, the field has winnowed. It is clear that the nominee is going to be one of four people, all of whom helped themselves enormously.
It was a very big night.
Joe Biden: I watch life debates with Twitter turned off so I was surprised to see people thinking that Biden didn’t do well. This seems kind of crazy to me.
Biden has a commanding lead over the rest of the field. He has a double-digit lead over Donald Trump. He is the vice president to the last Democratic president, who is insanely popular within the party. All of these advantages are built in.
The big question was this: Does Joe Biden still have command of his fastball? And: Is he in this thing to win, or does he expect a coronation?
This debate answered both of those questions. Biden was his old self: Folksy, likable, sharp, tough. He was energetic. He had a command of all of the issues.
And he was incredibly disciplined. He took aim at Donald Trump literally from the first moment he spoke and over and over again he hit two messages: (1) The contrast with Trump and (2) His record as Obama’s wingman.
What did he do? Went after Trump’s “tax cuts for the rich.” Defended private health insurance. Said he “wants to build on Obamacare” and “make sure that everyone does have an option.”
He ran that debate stage like a surgeon at an operating table.
And as for whether or not he’s expecting a coronation, we’ve got that answer, too. The single most significant moment of the night was when Kamala Harris went after him with a stiletto over civil rights and busing.
Biden didn’t apologize, and he didn’t hesitate: He went right back at her, saying that this was “a mischaracterization of my positions across the board” and noting that after law school, he became a public defender, not a prosecutor. It was the only time all night where Harris looked shaken.
Understand this: Biden’s electoral pitch is unorthodox. Most elections are forward-looking. Biden is positing that the Trump experiment is such an aberration that people want a restoration. He literally said this in his closing statement: He wants to “restore the soul of this nation.”
People were swinging for Biden. And he answered the bell.
Biden didn’t win the nomination on Thursday night. But he ratified his position as the frontrunner and put to bed any suspicions that he’s only coasting on name-ID and his place in line.
No matter what happens from here on out, the road to the nomination runs through him.
Kamala Harris: Huge night for her. Harris fulfilled all of the promise she’s held out for Democrats who want to like her.
Harris had moment after moment, and projected a blend of intelligence, strength, and personal warmth greater than anyone on stage save (possibly) Biden.
Like Biden, she came to torch Trump, and she did it effectively, time and again. “Yeah, people in America are working. They’re working two and three jobs.” Her answers on guns and her set-piece about parents sitting in a car outside the ER with a sick kid worrying if they can afford to go inside—were masterful.
Civilians don’t appreciate how hard it is to connect with voters without coming across as fake or cloying. On this score, the Harris who showed up in Miami was the equal of Bill Clinton on his best days.
The only soft spot Harris had all night was her premeditated hit on Biden. She seemed genuinely shocked that he didn’t go into turtle guard and apologize. It made me wonder if she’s used to getting by on her moral authority. If so, she’ll have to lose that crutch, because Trump isn’t going to care about it one bit.
The highest praise I can give for Harris’s performance is this: After watching her for two hours it was simply obvious that she could be elected president next year. That’s a bar that only four Democrats are clearing.
Bernie Sanders: It was a good night for Bernie, too. Though in different ways. Sanders was, as the kids say, on brand. All class-war, all the time. He leaned into everything, apologized for nothing. He is, in a way, the socialist Trump. No matter how improbable something is, he just barrels right through it, drowning everything in a torrent of half-shouts.
Please understand that I don’t view any of this as a weakness. It’s his strength. He’s selling something no one else is selling: very real, very radical, change. He is offering Democrats the chance to do to their party what Trump did to the GOP: Blow it all up. Free college. Single-payer health care. A VAT. He won’t go all the way to packing the Supreme Court but will “rotate judges”—whatever that means.
And I am not convinced that Sanders would necessarily lose to Trump.
Is he a lower-percentage play than Harris or Biden? Almost certainly. But listen to the way he talks about attacking Trump:
“Trump is a phony.”
“Trump is a pathological liar and a racist.”
“He lied to the American people during his campaign.”
“We expose him for the fraud that he is.”
Understand that Bernie’s not talking about virtue signaling here: He’s making a pitch that Trump wasn’t populist enough and that the system is still rigged and that only he can really blow everything up.
I would be surprised if there is not a cohort of Trump voters out there who would respond to this proposition.
But here’s why Sanders did well at the debate: He came to Miami with an Elizabeth Warren problem. She’s rising. Her rise is real. She’s taking from his base of people who want change and see her as a more capable manager for the same brand.
He basically killed that argument.
Think of it this way: Elizabeth Warren is Ant-Man. Super-smart. Lots of great ideas on how to get back the Infinity Stones and reform progressive capitalism. Kind of a neat set of powers.
Bernie is HULK SMASH PUNY CAPITALIST SYSTEM.
He made that contrast completely clear. “How come nothing ever really changes?” Bernie asked in his closing statement. It was an indictment of the entire Democratic party. If that’s the question you’re asking yourself as a voter, then Sanders is your guy.
Pete Buttigieg: So now Beto’s candidacy is officially dead. Mayor Pete curb stomped any chance of Beto emerging as the generational change candidate. He was very, very good.
You know all of those jokes about McKinsey guys? Well, it turns out that there are worse ways to prepare to run for president than doing a stretch in a consulting firm. He was low-key, but obviously both smart and thoughtful.
He framed issues in ways that were full of common sense. If you can refinance your house, why shouldn’t you be able to refinance your student debt? Why should we make college tuition free to rich kids? Why not have “Medicare for All Who Want It”?
Mind you, there are good answers to all of these questions, but when Mayor Pete is talking everything sounds reasonable and logical. He is what people thought Al Gore was, once upon a time in the late 1980s.
But what really impressed me was how he handled the question about the police shooting in South Bend. Here are the very first words he said: “I didn’t get it done.” And then he explained what happened, in a way that conveyed the facts of the case without shading it to make him look better. He stood there and took responsibility.
Now maybe that’s not good enough. Maybe it’s not a reason he should be president. But let me ask you this: How many times in your life have you seen a pol get a hard question like this and then just stand there and take his medicine?
That’s special and Mayor Pete clearly has the goods. Brad Parscale would probably prefer him to Biden or Harris or Bernie, even. But he wouldn’t be over the moon about having to line against him, either.
Then there’s everyone else.
The delta between the Big Four and the rest of the field is so large that I don’t really want to bother with it, but since this is likely to be the last time we see most of them on a debate stage, we might as well do a quick run down:
Eric Swalwell: He’s a heel who thinks he’s a face and is intent on putting himself over by ambushing beloved superstars. In other words, Swalwell is the Honky Tonk Man of the Democratic field.
He went after Mayor Pete without seeming to know anything about how the law in Indiana works. And he went after both Biden and Sanders demanding that they “pass the torch” to him.
Allow me to explain to Eric how generational handovers work: If you have to run around yelling “GIVE ME THE TORCH OLD MAN” then you are not, in fact, one of the leaders of your generation. The leaders are the people that the old timers look at and say, “Yeah. That guy has the goods.”
If you have to insist that you’re generational change, then you’re not.
Michael Bennett: Why was he shouting? What was up with that weird half-accent? Is that a thing they have in Col-o-rah-do?
But more important: Why was this guy, who has less of a chance to be the Democratic nominee than, I dunno, Andrew Yang, talking so much?
Andrew Yang: He spoke precisely four times. Almost certainly had the lowest word-count of the 20 debate candidates. Never tried to interrupt or interject. And didn’t wear a tie.
Basically, he’s my hero.
Yang seems smart and likable and maybe he should run for governor of California. Maybe as a Republican. It could be kind of interesting if the Universal Basic Income became a Republican issue and the California Republican party is there for anyone who wants to rent it.
But I do have one question: If your entire candidacy is about the UBI, then when you’re asked how you would pay for the UBI at a presidential debate, how do you not have a 30-second explanation of what the UBI is and how you would pay for it?
John Hickenlooper: He was like the great Admiral Stockdale. But without the insane heroism, the awesome middle name, and the tremendous charm.
Kirsten Gillibrand: When she says that no one will fight harder for abortion, I believe her.
Marianne Williamson: What a weird, strange woman.
I say that because she obviously had no business being on that stage. And because if you want to further the movement for reparations, it would help not to have an anti-vaxxer as a spokeswoman.
But you have to give her this: She has a very clear-eyed understanding of what politics is right now in America and I wonder if Democrats understand how correct she was when she said this:
“If you think you’re going to beat Donald Trump with all of these plans, you’ve got another thing coming.”
The Democratic nomination isn’t actually about policy differences or ideology. That sort of thing is always subject to change, to events, and even in the best cases, rarely survives first contact with the legislature. No, the 2020 nominating process is about understanding how they’re going to beat Trump. And then having the will to carry it through.
If the Democrats lose sight of this very basic fact, then they will be in a world of trouble.
Jonathan V. Last is executive editor of The Bulwark.
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House Democrats cave, will take up Senate border bill
By Mike Lillis and Scott Wong - 06/27/19 03:07 PM EDT
House Democrats will vote Thursday on a clean Senate-passed bill to address the border crisis, marking a blow to Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiHouse Democrat pushes for censuring Trump in closed-door meeting Trump: I don't have a racist bone in my body Ocasio-Cortez responds to fresh criticism from Trump MORE (D-Calif.) and liberal lawmakers who had demanded additional protections for migrant children.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), a border lawmaker, announced the plan as he emerged from an emergency meeting in Pelosi's office in the Capitol. And other lawmakers said Democratic leaders are already whipping the $4.6 billion Senate proposal.
Pelosi, in making the formal announcement, accused Senate Republicans of bucking the traditional legislative process and vowed to continue the fight for the protection of migrant children.
“We don’t need anyone, especially the U.S. Senate, to tell us what the needs are at the border,” Pelosi wrote in a “Dear Colleague” letter to her troops.
“As we pass the Senate bill, we will do so with a Battle Cry as to how we go forward to protect children in a way that truly honors their dignity and worth.”
Pelosi and her leadership team had initially scheduled a Thursday vote on their amped-up version of the border-funding legislation, which included new safety and care standards for law-enforcers working with migrants — provisions demanded by liberals.
But party leaders faced heavy pressure from more moderate lawmakers — particularly the so-called "front-line" members, who are seen as most vulnerable at the polls next year — to take up the Senate bill immediately.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), a leader of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, told leadership Thursday morning that he had rallied enough moderate Democrats to take down the rule on the amended House bill, a source said. In a phone call Friday, Gottheimer said he did not make any explicit threat about taking down the rule but aggressively pushed for a vote on the Senate bill.
The migrant crisis has dominated news cycles in recent days, amid reports of horrific conditions facing children at border detention centers and the viral release of a photograph depicting a young father and his infant daughter, drowned face-down in the Rio Grande.
The national prominence of the crisis has created new urgency for Congress to act — and magnified lawmaker concerns that a drawn-out impasse heading into the long July 4 recess would prompt an outcry from district voters.
"Children are suffering at the border and we must act now to stop it," tweeted freshman Rep. Ben McAdams (D), who represents a swing-district in Utah.
"The House should vote to approve the Senate version of the bill that addresses the Central American refugee crisis at the border and helps the kids living in unsafe and unacceptable conditions."
Liberals quickly hammered the news that Pelosi had abandoned plans to push for stronger protections for migrant children, with some calling on Democratic leaders to keep Congress in Washington to negotiate a deal more favorable to Democrats.
“We have time. We can stay in town. We can at LEAST add some amendments to this Senate bill,” tweeted the freshman firebrand, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezGeorge Conway calls Trump a 'racist president' in new op-ed House Democrats introduce resolution condemning Trump for 'racist' comments Trump's family separation policy has taken US to 'lowest depth possible,' says former immigration lawyer MORE (D-N.Y.). “But to pass it completely unamended with no House input? That seems a bridge too far.”
And the attacks quickly became personal.
“Since when did the Problem Solvers Caucus become the Child Abuse Caucus?” tweeted Rep. Mark Pocan Mark William PocanOn the USMCA, Pelosi can't take yes for an answer Overnight Defense: House approves 3 billion defense bill | Liberal sweeteners draw progressive votes | Bill includes measure blocking Trump from military action on Iran House approves defense bill after adding liberal sweeteners MORE (D-Wis.), a leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
“Wouldn't they want to at least fight against contractors who run deplorable facilities? Kids are the only ones who could lose today.”
Undermining the leverage of the liberals, however, the Senate passed its bill on Wednesday with the overwhelming support of 84 lawmakers, including a number of liberal Democrats. An earlier version of the House bill had not fared nearly as well, winning support from just 37 Senate Democrats.
"There’s a feeling in the room that the bipartisan Senate vote ... leaves the House will very little room to negotiate,” said a Democratic lawmaker who was in the Pelosi meeting.
The Senate vote also prompted a number of House liberals to lash out at Sen. Charles Schumer Charles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerNYT: Don't make Acosta a political martyr Charities say they never received donations touted by Jeffrey Epstein: report Schumer to donate Epstein campaign contributions to groups fighting sexual violence MORE (D-N.Y.), accusing the Senate minority leader of failing to keep Democrats in line — and eroding the party’s bargaining power in the process.
"We're toast. Schumer f---ed us," a senior Democratic aide told The Hill from inside the meeting in Pelosi's office.
The House vote on the Senate bill was solidified following negotiations between Pelosi and Vice President Pence, who was serving as the White House’s point man in Trump’s absence. In exchange for Pelosi’s agreement to vote on the Senate proposal, Pence promised administrative changes designed to assuage the liberals’ concerns.
It became immediately clear that it didn’t work.
“[The] Senate bill does absolutely nothing to hold a rogue administration accountable for cruelty. It has no provisions to ensure $$ goes to the children or that for-profit agencies are held accountable,” tweeted Rep. Pramila Jayapal Pramila JayapalHouse Democrats seek to move past rifts with minimum wage bill Problem Solvers Caucus co-chair calls Trump comments about progressive congresswomen 'totally unacceptable' Trump's tweets unify a fractured Democratic Party MORE (D-Wash.), another leader of the Progressive Caucus.
“I am a giant no vote on that bill.”
Juliegrace Brufke contributed.
Updated on Friday at 11:39 a.m.
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Free at Noon Flashback: Bones Owens rocks World Cafe Live with new single
March 15th, 2019 | 5:58PM | By Izzy Lopez
Bones Owens XPN Free At Noon Concert | photo by Emily De Hart for WXPN | dehartvisuals.com
“I think we killed all of these amplifiers already,” said Bones Owens at today’s Free at Noon concert. Owens was only two songs in when he checked on two massive amplifiers behind him. The genre-crossing guitarist shrugged and kept on playing. Blown out amps are a small price to pay for rock and roll.
Owens released his album, Make Me No King, in 2017 and his latest single, “Bout Time”, has already been featured on WXPN several times. He is currently on tour with Whiskey Myers and was fresh off a sold out night at Theater of Living Arts when he took the World Cafe Live stage this afternoon. If you’re a fan of Jack White, Kurt Cobain, or any rock icon with sweaty hair, sleeve tats, and amps turned all the way up, you’ll love Bones Owens. Despite mid-day set time, Owens stayed at full volume and completed his late-night show aesthetic with a smoke machine and lighting effects.
As his biography says, Owens doesn’t conform to one genre. His song “White Lines” — the one that killed the amps — is a driving, guitar-heavy beat about racing the clock to see a lover. “Keep It Close” brings down the guitar and brings up the drums while Owens asserts that you have to “keep it close to your heart.” His closing song, “Bout Time”, is the most electric of them all in texture and energy. He even treated the World Cafe crowd to an unreleased song, “Keep on Running.” Throughout the set, Owens switched from shouting to serenading, from guitar to harmonica, and invested his full force in every moment. Owens proved his dynamic range as a performer and rocked the house — if only for thirty minutes.
Hear the complete show in the player below.
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Home India Rahul Gandhi, Harsh Vardhan exchange scorn over killing of tigress
Rahul Gandhi, Harsh Vardhan exchange scorn over killing of tigress
Maneka Gandhi said she is going to take up the matter "very strongly" with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Hitting back at Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s barb at the Centre over the killing of tigress Avni, Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said that no previous government has worked with the kind of “depth and seriousness” as this dispensation has.
The government does not need a certificate from Rahul Gandhi, Vardhan said.
He said a report has been sought by his ministry over the killing of Avni. The Tigress, who is believed to be responsible for the deaths of 13 people in the past two years, was killed on Friday as part of an operation in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district.
Earlier on Monday, Rahul Gandhi tweeted, “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi #Avni.”
“The central government does not need a certificate from Rahul Gandhi. The kind of seriousness, depth, and honesty that the central government works with, I think no other prior government has done it like this,” Vardhan added.
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Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi Sunday lashed out at the BJP-led Maharashtra government over the “ghastly murder” of the man-eating tigress, calling it a “straight case of crime”.
Maneka Gandhi had said she was deeply saddened by the way the tigress was brutally killed.
“It is nothing but a straight case of crime. Despite several requests from many stakeholders, (Sudhir) Mungantiwar, Minister for Forests, Maharashtra, gave orders for the killing,” Maneka said in a series of tweets.
She said she is going to take up the matter “very strongly” with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Animal rights body PETA India said Saturday the killing of a tiger as part of an operation in Maharashtra should be investigated and treated as a wildlife crime and termed it a “dark day” for the nation.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India said Avni, who is survived by her two cubs who are 10 months old, was killed “illegally to satisfy a hunter’s lust for blood”, in contempt of court and in apparent violation of the Wildlife Protection Act.
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The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 North America
Fri. May 12 Vancouver, BC BC Place Stadium
Sun. May 14 Seattle, WA CenturyLink Field
Wed. May 17 San Francisco, CA Levi’s Stadium
Sat. May 20 Los Angeles, CA Rose Bowl
Wed. May 24 Houston, TX NRG Stadium
Fri. May 26 Dallas, TX AT&T Stadium
Sat. June 3 Chicago, IL Soldier Field
Wed. June 7 Pittsburgh, PA Heinz Field
Sat. June 11 Miami, FL Hard Rock Stadium
Wed. June 14 Tampa, FL Raymond James Stadium
Sun. June 18 Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field
Tue. June 20 Washington, DC FedEx Field
Fri. June 23 Toronto, ON Rogers Centre
Sun. June 25 Boston, MA Gillette Stadium
Wed. June 28 E. Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium
Sat. July 1 Cleveland, OH First Energy
The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 Europe
Sat. 8 July London, UK Twickenham Stadium
Wed. 12 July Berlin, DE Olympic Stadium
Sat., 15 July Rome, IT Olympic Stadium
Tue. 18 July Barcelona, ES Olympic Stadium
Sat. 22 July Dublin, IE Croke Park
Tue. 25 July Paris, FR Stade De France
Sat. 29 July Amsterdam, NE Amsterdam Arena
Tue. 1 Aug. Brussels, BE King Baudouin Stadium
It's official! But kind of limited in where the band is going.
Again, they miss me by not coming local. The closes they come to me is Tampa, and that's 10+ hours away which is doable but on a Wednesday? Sorry, I have a family and limited time away from work so per usual U2 makes me choose.
ZOOTV
Looks like 24 shows as of now, easy $100M for the band, could be an easy segue into SOE as well for fall 2017-spring 2018
worried they will do like SOI Tour, add a bunch of shows after the general sale opens. Then you would have bought a ticket for Tampa and they end up playing the ATL.
looks though to be big outdoor venues, lots of seats and lots of GA
having seen U2 30 years ago outdoors... always the possibility of summer rain... not much fun
If you go your way and I go mine
I think I'm going to pass on Tampa and keep my presale code for a possible chance of additional cities (maybe Atlanta)
TheGoalIsSoul
I like the concept of the tour, but I am disappointed about the postponement of SOE. In the interview, Edge basically says they are postponing the tour because the current political climate. What the hell is that? That is a horrible excuse for an album that has now apparently been delayed several times. This seems like a safe fall back tour for the band, and I am still excited about it. I am going to try and snag some Chicago tickets. I too fear the disaster of multiple dates being announced after the fact. This is my first time in years not being a paying fan club member, but I am sure I will do fine. Now, to talk the wife into it!
Decided to bundle a summer family vacation around the Boston show.
http://www.u2station.com
I'm excited as hell to see them again in 2017 and even more happy they're coming here to Pittsburgh. I could literally walk to Heinz Field in about 90 min. from my house (and bike there in about 40 minutes).
I ended up signing up on U2.com to get in on the pre-sale and spent $50 just for the chance to obtain GA tickets. Well, I ended up buying a pair of GA Field tickets for $70 each and furthermore, a friend of mine in Washington DC scored a pair of tickets for him and his wife when I shared the presale code with him so he could see U2 at FedEx Field.
This will be the 7th time I'm going to see U2 live in concert (5 of which were in Pittsburgh, 2 of which were in NYC).
In response to TheGoalIsSoul: I agree with you that this doesn't feel right. I feel the band might be in crisis mode having to resort to a 30th anniversary tour of one of their best-selling albums because "Songs of Experience" couldn't be completed in time due to Trump winning the U.S. election. But then again, if U2 is angry again seeing Trump become the new president, maybe they'll come out with a really vital and vibrant political album, harkening back to the early years such as U2's War. An angry U2 is usually a good U2, no?
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Cures for Uncommon Cold
By Paul Lukas, on October 16th, 2006
Cold weather can make people do funny things, and it was plenty damn cold on Friday in Detroit, where the Tigers and A’s bundled up for Game 3 of the ALCS.
Latino players, like Placido Polanco, are usually the ones who have the most trouble with low-temp games (although at least Polanco didn’t go the full-on ski mask route, like Aramis Ramirez did back in April). On Friday, top honors for cold weather resourcefulness went to Venezuelan native Marco Scutaro, who looked like a Sherpa during infield and batting practice and then — in a true stroke of genius — wore his knit cap over his baseball cap during the game (here’s another view). This move left some readers aghast, but I loved it. Scutaro even made sure the cap’s A’s logo was facing forward, and the cap actually had an MLB logo on the back! Hey, if it was good enough for Jose Theodore, then why not for Scutaro? It’s not like he was pulling a Steve Wallace or a Mark Kelso. (Okay, so that’s a bit of a stretch anyway, but I’ve been looking for an excuse to reference the ProCap.)
But here’s something that’s tough to figure: Despite the frigid conditions on Friday, several of the Tigers were wearing Cool Base jerseys, as you can tell from the telltale underarm gussets visible here on Kenny Rogers, Brandon Inge, and — yes — Placido Polanco.
Theodore and Scutaro get my votes for history’s coolest-looking cold weather maneuvers. Care to nominate someone else? You know what to do.
Research Query: I was in a bar on Saturday, around 6pm, and the Alabama/Miss game was on one of the TVs. No sound, though. I was telling the person on the next barstool all about Alabama’s special Bear Bryant commemorative houndstooth collar pattern when the TV suddenly showed a close-up still shot of someone’s shin, with a $2 bill taped to his sock. Again, the sound was off, so I couldn’t hear what this was about, although my impression was that it had something to do with one of the placekickers. Anyone know the full story here?
Uni Watch News Ticker: Genuinely frightening college football design partnership in the offing here (but I won’t shoot the messenger, who in this case is Ben Trattner). … Paul Hirsch notes that there’s a small bit about Cal’s various uni combos toward the bottom of this page (scroll down to the “Bears play dress-up” section). … Bolivar High in Missouri has yellow decals on one side of their helmets and white uni numbers on the other (plus they appear to be very generous with the merit decals). “I can’t think of another team that has different decals on each side of the helmet,” says Josh Cooper, who brought this anomaly to my attention. I can’t think of one either (and no, the Steelers don’t count, since they simply have no decal on one side). Anyone else? … Latest MLBer with something illegible scribbled under his brim: Braden Looper. … Kansas State has unveiled what appears to be history’s worst basketball uniforms. Further depressing details here. … No comment. … Ditto. … The good news is that the Sabres broke out their alternate throwbacks on Saturday night. The bad news is that the throwbacks now have uni numbers on the chest, just like the Buffaslug jerseys. … Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo began Friday’s game wearing green-and-blue pads that matched Vancouver’s throwback uni. He wasn’t feeling comfortable in that gear, however, so he came out for the second period wearing his regular pads (but still had the retro-colored glove and blocker). Further details in the last three paragraphs of this article. (Big thanks to AJ Brandt.) … Missed most of last night’s Mets/Cards game because I had a prior commitment to see Okkervil River at the Bowery Ballroom, where reader Ryan Armbrust actually recognized me, based solely on the occasional photo of me that’s appeared on this site — a Uni Watch first (unless you count that time Phil Knight crossed over to the other side of the street when he spotted me coming toward him down the sidewalk)! Fortunately, the immense social-geekitude potential embodied in such an encounter was mitigated by the fact that Armbrust was wearing a really cool vintage 49ers T-shirt.
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174 comments to Cures for Uncommon Cold
Scott W | October 16, 2006 at 2:40 am |
whoa, i just refreshed the page to find a new blog! awesome!
I’m too depressed to read about the A’s…even if it IS uni-related.
*tear*
Minna H | October 16, 2006 at 2:51 am |
Scott W., now you know how I, a Twins fan, feel. And damnit, I wanted to be first!
Paul, blue Polanco hoodie beats green Scooty toque every time. Theodore just looks like a weanie in a beanie. With that, I’m going to bed.
[quote comment=”14127″]Scott W., now you know how I, a Twins fan, feel. And damnit, I wanted to be first![/quote]
yeah, and you now know how i felt from 2000-2003. but yeah…losing’s a bitch. the silver lining: at least we get some good Uni Watch conversation catalysts now.
monster | October 16, 2006 at 3:25 am |
The two dollar bill taped to the Alabama kicker’s sock was given to him and signed by a sick child. It replaced a one dollar bill he previously taped there because of his nickname around the locker room.
You guessed it Paul,
Too bad my rebs couldn’t pull one out in overtime.
Jason | October 16, 2006 at 3:46 am |
Those K-State uniforms make me want to run from my computer straight to the bathroom and throw-up. They make Ohio State’s and Kentucky’s jersey’s look good and I never thought I would ever say that.
Matt Bonnett | October 16, 2006 at 7:24 am |
Ok as a Brit i get to see 2 games a week so after seeing the mets last night:
Ditch the black: yep it is far too much, they not only have a black hat with blue bill but an all black hat as well, the black socks dont wash and they are pretty much a black uni with blue trim. Why cant they wear the blue billed hats with the black shirts? that outfit has almost zero blue on it.
Batting hats: the cool-flo ones they wore last night dont match the caps at all, a nice idea with the blue fading to black but why the white outline on the logo?? it should be orange surely, and even then it wont exactly match the caps (something im keen on) because the blue extends around the front.
Undershirts: perez had a blue one, someone else did as well, most had black and im sure someone had a grey one with a black collar, no sync at all.
It smacks of a lack of co-ordination or a lack of “uniformity” as well as too much black.
The fox announcers had a fair bit of uni related items from reyes ironing his bill flat to the fact that both pitchers wore socks up and one of the announcers used to when he played, he said some people might do it for a change of luck.
Gregg | October 16, 2006 at 7:59 am |
It has been mentioned here before that the Mets don’t wear blue at home when it’s cold because their equipment manager (who chooses the uniform of the day) does not like the way the black jackets look with blue hats. Ridiculous. When the Cards were at Shea last week, their blue hats looked harsh paired with their red jackets. THAT clashed. At least the black Mets jackets have that blue piping in the sleeve area.
Oh, and I knew the Mets would wear black on Saturday night, and thus I knew they would lose. They are a .333 team in their black road uniforms: 6 wins, 12 losses. True, Trachsel had pitched a pretty good no decision game against the Nationals on 8/12. But I have this reduced to an algabraic formula: B + T = L (BLACK PLUS TRACH = LOSS).
matt in the nati | October 16, 2006 at 8:10 am |
looks like he will be the only well dress cat in manhattan this year…
i guess purple put them at a disadvantage but that is hideous…
watch the changes pics on the bottom left here and you’ll see a high school team with differing side decal on their helmets
shadoquad | October 16, 2006 at 8:57 am |
Though not STRICTLY uni related, I thought it was funny yesterday in the KC-PIT football game when Polamalu became the first long-haired pro (in my recollection) to be tackled by his long hair jutting out from his helmet in the back. KC running back Larry Johnson tackled him by the flowing mane. People thought he was penalized for it, but he wasn’t. Perfectly legal tackle. My father has been saying for years (usually about RB’s with dreadlocks) that someone oughta tackle them by the hair. Finally happened. Long overdue. Wear your hair up if you don’t want to be tackled by it.
Jeff A | October 16, 2006 at 8:59 am |
What is worse about the Buffalo throwbacks? The added front uni numbers, or the fact that they were wearing their regular uni pants and they didn’t come close to matching.
Kevin | October 16, 2006 at 9:05 am |
I’m sure all of you heard/watched it, but in the second inning last night Joe Buck, McCarver, etc were discussing the fact that Anthony Reyes and Oliver Perez both went with the high socks (although Reyes is the only one with stirrups). While impressive, the only thing I could think was “Yeah, but the Mets are wearing black instead of the much better looking blue.” Then the cameras flashed to Pujols and Belliard and the announcers had something not-as-nice to say about the pajama look.
Dwight | October 16, 2006 at 9:22 am |
About the K-State uni’s – when did men start wearing capri pants?
Ilana Hardesty | October 16, 2006 at 9:23 am |
A non-uni-related question that I’m sure someone can answer for me: What’s with the hankies in the stands at midwestern baseball games? Furthermore, Tigers fans seem to know when to have orange hankies and when to have white ones…any clue as to history of waving hankies?
[quote comment=”14146″]About the K-State uni’s – when did men start wearing capri pants?[/quote]
I meant gauchos. Do they even call them basketball shorts anymore?
Jeff | October 16, 2006 at 9:28 am |
Yes, those K-State Uni’s are awful. It’s like Huggins is trying to bring Cincinati to Manhattan, KS. The “shorts” are capri’s as mentioned above. Awful. Still can’t decide if those are worse than the two-toned purple uniforms the school used to have.
Chris | October 16, 2006 at 9:29 am |
This isn’t the first time a player’s been tackled by his hair. It happened with Ricky Williams a couple of seasons ago, at which point I seem to remember that the league clarified the rules regarding hair tackling: hair was to be considered a part of the uniform, and thus fair game for tackling.
That said: I didn’t see the game itself and only saw the highlights on the Sunday night pregame, where Costas made a comment that the Larry Johnson (the tackler) was penalized for the hair-tackle. This after I was almost certain of the interpretation explained above. Anybody know what the deal is on this? As I wasn’t watching the game, I don’t know what flags were thrown or what sort of penalty was assessed.
Richard | October 16, 2006 at 9:38 am |
[quote comment=”14148″][quote comment=”14146″]About the K-State uni’s – when did men start wearing capri pants?[/quote]
I meant gauchos. Do they even call them basketball shorts anymore?[/quote]
Chris Webber and the Fab 5
[quote comment=”14150″]This isn’t the first time a player’s been tackled by his hair. It happened with Ricky Williams a couple of seasons ago, at which point I seem to remember that the league clarified the rules regarding hair tackling: hair was to be considered a part of the uniform, and thus fair game for tackling.
That said: I didn’t see the game itself and only saw the highlights on the Sunday night pregame, where Costas made a comment that the Larry Johnson (the tackler) was penalized for the hair-tackle. This after I was almost certain of the interpretation explained above. Anybody know what the deal is on this? As I wasn’t watching the game, I don’t know what flags were thrown or what sort of penalty was assessed.[/quote]
The penalty was on unsportsmanlike conduct AFTER the tackle. The tackle itself was legal, and the referee even explained it a few plays later.
Seth H | October 16, 2006 at 9:42 am |
Going back to the “target” goalie sweater issue, I am surprised that no one mentioned the ultimate target sweaters: Team Japan. Here are the sweaters they wore recently Here is a photo of the sweaters on the team:
But the ultimate target sweater is the one they wore during the Nagano olympics.
(Hope the links work. I’ve never posted them before.)
Okay. The links did not work.
I’m just going to post the urls.
Recent sweater: http://www.mshokej2004.cz/www/index.php?action=main&subject=70&sessid=d8c35c61b8fd30ba4bd474bc7bd3c8fb
Recent sweater on players: http://www.gbsc.co.uk/photos/tournaments/senior/worlds/200506/Japan_GB/images/IMG_1098.JPG
Nagano sweater: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/images/oly98/photos/japanhock_020798reu.jpg
Maybe someone who is better at this stuff can turn them into links.
Kim | October 16, 2006 at 9:48 am |
In the Buffalo Sabres picture, is Jagr making that face because he does not approve of the front number and mismatched pants, or because he’s force to play defense?
[quote comment=”14147″]A non-uni-related question that I’m sure someone can answer for me: What’s with the hankies in the stands at midwestern baseball games? Furthermore, Tigers fans seem to know when to have orange hankies and when to have white ones…any clue as to history of waving hankies?
Thanks![/quote]
its not a hankie its a towel and they are given to fans as they enter the stadium… why i have no clue… i guess just to give a visual way to cher on top of making noise…
redhotfro | October 16, 2006 at 9:54 am |
During Saturday nights Mets-Cards game, did anyone else notice that Jeff Suppan changed his hat during the game? At the beginning of the game it looked like his hat was sweat soaked and then later his hat didn’t have the stains?
a arauz | October 16, 2006 at 9:56 am |
In the interest of International Relations with Canada, Scutaro’s knit cap will now be called a TOQUE going forward. You have no idea how irate those Canadians get when we foul up these types of things. We need to mend the fence with our brethren from the North. :)
Riley | October 16, 2006 at 9:57 am |
Loved Scutaro’s toque too, Paul. I still can’t believe the umps let him get away with it, but it wasn’t drastically different from the uni and looked pretty cool.
Ryan | October 16, 2006 at 9:58 am |
The K-State uniforms look tons better in person. I am not sure what the photographer was thinking, allowing the shirts to be untucked and the shorts down to the ankles… At midnight madness on Friday they looked normal in length, and actually looked pretty sharp… This is a really bad picture of a really bad pose. Trust Me.
Riley | October 16, 2006 at 10:00 am |
Should have added. Shame. Shame on you, Paul. It is a toque not a knit hat. This isn’t my Canadian bias showing. New Era even say so.
Andrew F | October 16, 2006 at 10:06 am |
ZERO props to the Sabres for the retro unis. They still used navy helmets, the uni numbers on the front are terrible, and jeeze, spend the few bucks for some pant shells. I know the Rangers did it back in 03-04 with their vintage http://www.newyorkrangers.com/Multimedia/photos/Messier_Mark_action_012004.jpg and the Canucks did it thie year http://www.canucks.com/images/inbydate06/oct1306/luongosit_b.jpg so there’s NO reason why the Sabres had to cheap out and keep the stupid navy ones (the Rangers and Canucks also have 3 helmets, white, royal and navy)
dchis | October 16, 2006 at 10:11 am |
[quote comment=”14152″][quote comment=”14150″]This isn’t the first time a player’s been tackled by his hair. It happened with Ricky Williams a couple of seasons ago, at which point I seem to remember that the league clarified the rules regarding hair tackling: hair was to be considered a part of the uniform, and thus fair game for tackling.
The penalty was on unsportsmanlike conduct AFTER the tackle. The tackle itself was legal, and the referee even explained it a few plays later.[/quote]
After the rule was clearly defined a few years ago Edgerrin James went and cut his hair to the length of his helmet.
Peter Wunsch | October 16, 2006 at 10:12 am |
The NHL requires the referees to measure goalie pads for width before the start of the game. Did they measure both pair of pad on the Canuck goalie?
Re: Buffalo: Is it really a throwback if it isn’t the same as originally designed?
Miguel | October 16, 2006 at 10:13 am |
Maybe Huggins is a big fan of tennis?
AMS | October 16, 2006 at 10:15 am |
I had no problem with the way troy was tackled, but it did seem a bit much that as larry johnson rolled back onto his feet, he then pulled troy up by the hair. The tackle was long over by that point, and it seemed a little excessive.
Better than the tackle, though, was how troy seemed utterly unconcerned with the whole thing, just hopping up without a grimace and running back to the bench. i love that guy.
shadoquad | October 16, 2006 at 10:21 am |
[quote comment=”14168″]I had no problem with the way troy was tackled, but it did seem a bit much that as larry johnson rolled back onto his feet, he then pulled troy up by the hair. The tackle was long over by that point, and it seemed a little excessive.
Better than the tackle, though, was how troy seemed utterly unconcerned with the whole thing, just hopping up without a grimace and running back to the bench. i love that guy.[/quote]
I don’t necessarily think LJ was pulling him up by the hair. I think he was trying to get his fingers unstuck from the curls. Props to Troy on his sportsmanship, though. Guy’s a class act.
Thorold Blair | October 16, 2006 at 10:23 am |
Does Anothony Reyes not look stupid with the perfectly flat brim?
Tricia | October 16, 2006 at 10:24 am |
[quote comment=”14163″]ZERO props to the Sabres for the retro unis. They still used navy helmets, the uni numbers on the front are terrible, and jeeze, spend the few bucks for some pant shells. I know the Rangers did it back in 03-04 with their vintage http://www.newyorkrangers.com/Multimedia/photos/Messier_Mark_action_012004.jpg and the Canucks did it thie year http://www.canucks.com/images/inbydate06/oct1306/luongosit_b.jpg so there’s NO reason why the Sabres had to cheap out and keep the stupid navy ones (the Rangers and Canucks also have 3 helmets, white, royal and navy)[/quote]
New shells and helmets would have improved the Sabres look drastically. Pant shells can’t be that expensive, especially if they are going to wear these jerseys multiple times throughout the season. I think the Leafs also wore brown shells over their blue pants when they wore the St. Pat’s jerseys a few years ago, but I cannot find a picture to confirm.
Mark M | October 16, 2006 at 10:27 am |
There’s a trend with some of the players at my alma mater, Pitt, and their jerseys. Some of the players jerseys are being sewn so that the side piping (or panels what ever the proper term is) on the jerseys is very thin on some players, and normal on others.
Lowell Robinson with thin panel
Mike McGlynn with regular panel
My solution would be to get rid of the panels all together.
http://www.abdcards.com/photos/hockey-photos/pf4227.jpg Crappy pic, but yeah. Despite the fact that it’s not EXACTLY the same, everyone obviously knows it’s a retro/ throwback deal. Get the slug off the helmet, while you’re at it.
Lawrence Kuhnast | October 16, 2006 at 10:29 am |
The good news is that the Sabres broke out their alternate throwbacks on Saturday night. The bad news is that the throwbacks now have uni numbers on the chest, just like the Buffaslug jerseys
BAD, BAD news. They are wearing their Buffalo slug pants with the throwback jerseys. Notice the grey stripe.
[quote comment=”14175″]The good news is that the Sabres broke out their alternate throwbacks on Saturday night. The bad news is that the throwbacks now have uni numbers on the chest, just like the Buffaslug jerseys
BAD, BAD news. They are wearing their Buffalo slug pants with the throwback jerseys. Notice the grey stripe.[/quote]
Yup… hop in the convo of 2 out of the 3 posts above yours
Sean | October 16, 2006 at 10:38 am |
i know most people really love their unis, but michigan had some serious problems on saturday night.
1. in hd, under stadium lighting, their yellow (“maize”) pants were as bright as the oregon unis (these pics don’t do it justice, but anyone else who saw it in hd would agree)
2. the all-navy socks look horrendous
3. yellow piping nike bib
while they do a pretty good job of hiding their swoosh in the collar, they crimes all scream NIKE! and take away from what would otherwise be a very classy look
Banker Bill | October 16, 2006 at 10:59 am |
[quote comment=”14144″]I’m sure all of you heard/watched it, but in the second inning last night Joe Buck, McCarver, etc were discussing the fact that Anthony Reyes and Oliver Perez both went with the high socks (although Reyes is the only one with stirrups). While impressive, the only thing I could think was “Yeah, but the Mets are wearing black instead of the much better looking blue.” Then the cameras flashed to Pujols and Belliard and the announcers had something not-as-nice to say about the pajama look.[/quote]
Since Belliard was brought up, and this is not really uni-related, but it is personal presentation related – Ronnie – ditch the skull cap and cornrows, and for the sake of whatever deity you choose to worship (can’t say God – don’t want to offend!) – KEEP YOUR TONGUE IN YOUR MOUTH – anyone else think he looks like a Komodo Dragon every time they show a close-up – in the batters box, on the bases – constantly licking his lower lip. Disgusting. I don’t want to see that – I usually eat things when I’m watching the game, and my Ben & Jerry’s almost became an integral part of my carpet last night after 4 games of his tongue.
Totally unrelated to anything, but doesn’t the logo creep here http://www.icejerseys.com/images/olympics/sweden_scarf_big.jpg make for a funny looking smily face?
Joe Drennan | October 16, 2006 at 11:18 am |
Breezer shell cover-ups are relativly cheap. I’ve seen them for abotu $20. It’s a small investment that makes a world of difference.
Scutaro’s knit hat over the ball cap is nothing new. When I was in high school in the late 90s that’s the only way we’d wear a knit hat. This was of course before these goofy thigns came along that are simply stupid.
Kenny | October 16, 2006 at 11:19 am |
[quote comment=”14142″]Though not STRICTLY uni related, I thought it was funny yesterday in the KC-PIT football game when Polamalu became the first long-haired pro (in my recollection) to be tackled by his long hair jutting out from his helmet in the back. KC running back Larry Johnson tackled him by the flowing mane. People thought he was penalized for it, but he wasn’t. Perfectly legal tackle. My father has been saying for years (usually about RB’s with dreadlocks) that someone oughta tackle them by the hair. Finally happened. Long overdue. Wear your hair up if you don’t want to be tackled by it.[/quote]
Actually, I think Ricky Williams was tackled by his dreads a couple of years ago
Crimson | October 16, 2006 at 11:20 am |
[quote comment=”14132″]The two dollar bill taped to the Alabama kicker’s sock was given to him and signed by a sick child. It replaced a one dollar bill he previously taped there because of his nickname around the locker room.
Too bad my rebs couldn’t pull one out in overtime.[/quote]
Bama kicker Jamie Christensen was given the nickname “Money” after kicking game winning field goals against Ole Miss, Tennesse, and Texas Tech last season. Roll Tide.
Tim | October 16, 2006 at 11:23 am |
The reason why the K-State shorts look like capris/gauchos is because they are in the “Jordan Style” as explained to me by one of the managers. I guess he likes to design his shorts to look big, baggy, and thuggish. I think it fits with the Huggins philosophy (aka Thuggins).
Although purple is not a favorite color on this board, I still think it is better than black, which is not even a school color. Maybe I can start a Ditch the Black campaign here.
The first thing I thought when I got an early unveiling of them was that the “scratches” looked cheesy because they were iron on and everything else on the uni is sewn on. Reminds me of the Cincinatti Bengals. Thanks Nike.
[quote comment=”14182″][quote comment=”14142″]Though not STRICTLY uni related, I thought it was funny yesterday in the KC-PIT football game when Polamalu became the first long-haired pro (in my recollection) to be tackled by his long hair jutting out from his helmet in the back. KC running back Larry Johnson tackled him by the flowing mane. People thought he was penalized for it, but he wasn’t. Perfectly legal tackle. My father has been saying for years (usually about RB’s with dreadlocks) that someone oughta tackle them by the hair. Finally happened. Long overdue. Wear your hair up if you don’t want to be tackled by it.[/quote]
Actually, I think Ricky Williams was tackled by his dreads a couple of years ago[/quote]
Read Comment #18
Wade | October 16, 2006 at 11:27 am |
Another on note on Alabama’s houndstooth jerseys…
The player nameplates were obviously smaller than their regular nameplates. I wonder if this is a preview for a change to Nike’s slimmer fit jerseys.
[quote comment=”14186″][quote comment=”14182″][quote comment=”14142″]Though not STRICTLY uni related, I thought it was funny yesterday in the KC-PIT football game when Polamalu became the first long-haired pro (in my recollection) to be tackled by his long hair jutting out from his helmet in the back. KC running back Larry Johnson tackled him by the flowing mane. People thought he was penalized for it, but he wasn’t. Perfectly legal tackle. My father has been saying for years (usually about RB’s with dreadlocks) that someone oughta tackle them by the hair. Finally happened. Long overdue. Wear your hair up if you don’t want to be tackled by it.[/quote]
Read Comment #18[/quote]
Yeah, Yeah I saw that after I posted…and as far as the K-State jerseys go, it looks like that’s the way the players decided to wear them for the photo shoot…i can’t see them wearing them like that in a game…i noticed someone said they looked better in person…i like the white jersey and i think the purple would look better if the “stratches” were white or gray instead of black…
Nolan | October 16, 2006 at 11:36 am |
[quote comment=”14181″][quote comment=”14163″]ZERO props to the Sabres for the retro unis. They still used navy helmets, the uni numbers on the front are terrible, and jeeze, spend the few bucks for some pant shells. I know the Rangers did it back in 03-04 with their vintage http://www.newyorkrangers.com/Multimedia/photos/Messier_Mark_action_012004.jpg and the Canucks did it thie year http://www.canucks.com/images/inbydate06/oct1306/luongosit_b.jpg so there’s NO reason why the Sabres had to cheap out and keep the stupid navy ones (the Rangers and Canucks also have 3 helmets, white, royal and navy)[/quote]
Scutaro’s knit hat over the ball cap is nothing new. When I was in high school in the late 90s that’s the only way we’d wear a knit hat. This was of course before these goofy thigns came along that are simply stupid.[/quote]
These are actually sort of an old army throwback. They would wear hats like this under their helmets. So they were around before you guys were doing this.
Richard | October 16, 2006 at 11:46 am |
I just realized that these new K-State jerseys were made by Nike, but there is no swoosh on the jersey front, or on the shorts (that we can see). Very interesting.
[quote comment=”14191″]I just realized that these new K-State jerseys were made by Nike, but there is no swoosh on the jersey front, or on the shorts (that we can see). Very interesting.[/quote]
They are made by Jumpman, Jordan’s brand. His logo which can be found on the headband of the player on the left is normally on the uniform of the shorts on the left leg near the waistband.
Forrest | October 16, 2006 at 11:56 am |
I kept saying that Scutaro was awesome in his toque. I remember a couple years ago rumors of an Avs-Red Wings game in an outdoor stadium. What happened to that?
Matt Bonnett | October 16, 2006 at 12:09 pm |
Its just like watching Brazil…NOT!
My local soccer team Kidderminster Harriers who play in the lowly 5th division had an unscheduled 3rd kit on Saturday, our first is red and our away is blue so when we played a red and blue team we needed an extra set of kit.
Now we for our sins use Nike as our kit supplier and you know what they are like with their templates making everyone look the same…so the third kit turns up and guess what its a rip off of the one Brazil wore in the World Cup!
http://www.theshots.co.uk/khhGallery.ink
Nolan | October 16, 2006 at 12:12 pm |
Are the Tennessee Titans helmets painted a different shade of white than other white helmet teams. Compare this with this It looked to me yesterday that the Titans have a sort of pearlescent look to them. While the Cards, Dolphin, Jets, and Colts look like the stock white plastic.
Anyone know if this is the case. And, are any of the white helmets painted? Or do they just slap the decals on an out of the box white helmet.
matt in the nati | October 16, 2006 at 12:13 pm |
[quote comment=”14195″]Are the Tennessee Titans helmets painted a different shade of white than other white helmet teams. Compare this with this It looked to me yesterday that the Titans have a sort of pearlescent look to them. While the Cards, Dolphin, Jets, and Colts look like the stock white plastic.
Anyone know if this is the case. And, are any of the white helmets painted? Or do they just slap the decals on an out of the box white helmet.[/quote]
why go with yellow? wouldn’t a white “kit” do the trick?
TX Ken | October 16, 2006 at 12:15 pm |
I am sometimes a “look at the brightside” person, and so I have to say that K-State’s shoulder contrast is at least a creative way to get away from the same-ol’ Nike Template shoulder triangles. So I like that, and whatever it takes to get the attention off of the claw-mark crap.
The blue-on-blue titans’ uni makes the pants striping really out of place.
Man-Pris, dude. I think Paul hit them on this blog before.
Dan | October 16, 2006 at 12:19 pm |
I have no problem with Johnson tackling Troy by the hair but then picking him up by it is pretty ridiculous and deserved the penalty. It was blatantly obvious he was doing it on purpose out of anger after getting a good old fashion but whoppin put on’em
jeff | October 16, 2006 at 12:20 pm |
no one has mentioned anthony reyes’s awesome socks from last night. remeniscent of hockey socks. it would have been much cooler if the whole team adopted the socks to match him last night
Jack H. | October 16, 2006 at 12:23 pm |
Hey, Paul, do you know what the rule is on wearing shit other than your game cap on the field? I mean, was what Scutaro did technically legal? I mean, I think it looked cool too, I’m just curious as to weather you’re really allowed to do that.
dchis | October 16, 2006 at 12:24 pm |
Now side-by-side. Not sure if there is a difference. The stadium lights do reflect differently off the white parts of the helmets.
[quote comment=”14201″]no one has mentioned anthony reyes’s awesome socks from last night. remeniscent of hockey socks. it would have been much cooler if the whole team adopted the socks to match him last night[/quote]
these are the socks all cards wear and have worn for a long time… you just don’t see them casue of pj length of thier pants…
[quote comment=”14198″]I am sometimes a “look at the brightside” person, and so I have to say that K-State’s shoulder contrast is at least a creative way to get away from the same-ol’ Nike Template shoulder triangles. So I like that, and whatever it takes to get the attention off of the claw-mark crap.
The blue-on-blue titans’ uni makes the pants striping really out of place.[/quote]
The Titans regular home uniforms are very nice. They are the second best in their division and only because the Colts got rid of the stripes on their socks.
waaaay off topic…but Okkervil River is unbelievable. Will Sheff has one of the best voices in rock today.
Cyrus | October 16, 2006 at 12:35 pm |
Yeah, just adding on to what people have already said.
Bama’s kicker, Jamie Christiensen was given the nickname “money” last year after kicking the winning field goals in numerous games including against Olè Miss and Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl. Because of his nickname, Christiensen taped a 1 dollar bill to his sock last year. This year, a sick child (girl, I believe) wrote something on that 2 dollar bill which Christinesen now tapes to his sock instead of the 1.
Minna H | October 16, 2006 at 12:42 pm |
Wow! A discussion of *sigh* Troy P. and a pic of Rafa? I love this board! By the way, Troy said after the game that he didn’t care if the tackle was by his hair or his ankles,and, yes, the penalty was for taunting after the play.
Scott W., I feel your pain—I truly do. No amount of good uni-materias can make up for getting swept. None.
To reiterate from last night, did the Cardinal Kerchief come first of the waking white items for the Midwest teams? Todd K.? Kenny? Anyone?
Yay, a Monday morning when no one is dissing the Vikings’ unis!
ps. I had a dream last night in which I was talking about this board, the circle on the chest discussion, and the different cups reply. I blame Mike from Queens and his Mr. Fair.
Damn. Even with the preview, I made a mistake. uni-materias = uni-material, but I’m sure you all figured that out.
allenjd | October 16, 2006 at 12:45 pm |
[quote comment=”14139″]looks like he will be the only well dress cat in manhattan this year…
i guess purple put them at a disadvantage but that is hideous…[/quote]
You can’t blame purple. The football uniforms look sharp enough.
todd krevanchi (krvanch) | October 16, 2006 at 12:48 pm |
[quote comment=”14208″]Wow! A discussion of *sigh* Troy P. and a pic of Rafa? I love this board! By the way, Troy said after the game that he didn’t care if the tackle was by his hair or his ankles,and, yes, the penalty was for taunting after the play.
ps. I had a dream last night in which I was talking about this board, the circle on the chest discussion, and the different cups reply. I blame Mike from Queens and his Mr. Fair.[/quote]
im just going to give an assumption that the “grandaddy of ’em all” would be the terrible towel made famous in the 70’s, and still practiced today in pittsburgh,
after that i remember only the twins in 87 with the homer hanky (and that stupid frickin song sung to the beat of hanky panky). after that… good luck. its just another way to have a free giveaway for the fans that be used for jocularity.
Brian from Short Island | October 16, 2006 at 12:57 pm |
Has anyone picked up on the fact that the Jets wear striped socks with their whites now?
dchis | October 16, 2006 at 1:05 pm |
[quote comment=”14211″][quote comment=”14208″]Wow! A discussion of *sigh* Troy P. and a pic of Rafa? I love this board! By the way, Troy said after the game that he didn’t care if the tackle was by his hair or his ankles,and, yes, the penalty was for taunting after the play.
after that i remember only the twins in 87 with the homer hanky (and that stupid frickin song sung to the beat of hanky panky). after that… good luck. its just another way to have a free giveaway for the fans that be used for jocularity.[/quote]
The best fan give-away has got to be the Florida Panthers. They started giving away rubber rats that would be thrown on the ice after every Panther goal. It started on opening night in the 95-96 season when Scott Melanby shot a rat in the clubhouse and killed it against a wall. That night he scored two goals and goalie Jon Vanbiesbrook called it a “rat-trick” and so it was born. They made it to the finals that year and every goal in the playoffs would send thousands of rats onto the ice. The Pittsburgh Penguins goalie tried to hide in the net from all the rats!!!!
Minna H | October 16, 2006 at 1:10 pm |
[quote comment=”14211″]
I don’t think the Twins copied the Steelers, but I don’t know for sure. Hold on a sec. Nope. Can’t find anything about the origin, but you brought back good-time memories, Todd, by reminding me of the song. My baby waves the Homer Hanky….
I noticed last night watching the Cards-Mets game how stupid it looks for an entire stadium to be waving white kerchiefs, Twins notwithstanding. Glad to know that the Homer Hanky is older than the Cards Kerchief.
Banker Bill | October 16, 2006 at 1:11 pm |
[quote its just another way to have a free giveaway for the fans that be used for jocularity.[/quote]
If someone waves the towel before the start of the game, is that considered “premature jocularity”?
Tim D | October 16, 2006 at 1:13 pm |
[quote comment=”14138″]It has been mentioned here before that the Mets don’t wear blue at home when it’s cold because their equipment manager (who chooses the uniform of the day) does not like the way the black jackets look with blue hats. Ridiculous. When the Cards were at Shea last week, their blue hats looked harsh paired with their red jackets. THAT clashed. At least the black Mets jackets have that blue piping in the sleeve area.
Oh, and I knew the Mets would wear black on Saturday night, and thus I knew they would lose. They are a .333 team in their black road uniforms: 6 wins, 12 losses. True, Trachsel had pitched a pretty good no decision game against the Nationals on 8/12. But I have this reduced to an algabraic formula: B + T = L (BLACK PLUS TRACH = LOSS).[/quote]
The Cards hats CLASHED with their jackets?…um..sorry but can not disagree more with you. There is plenty of the Dark blue in those jackets to make it look like what it is…the best uniform in MLB.
Matthew | October 16, 2006 at 1:15 pm |
[quote comment=”14215″][quote comment=”14211″]
I noticed last night watching the Cards-Mets game how stupid it looks for an entire stadium to be waving white kerchiefs, Twins notwithstanding. Glad to know that the Homer Hanky is older than the Cards Kerchief.[/quote]
Not sure where and when it originated in baseball, but I’ve seen several teams hand out towels to fans. The Astros did it in the 2001 playoffs and possibly in the 2004 playoffs too. I can’t recall if they did it before or since those years though.
Kenny | October 16, 2006 at 1:17 pm |
Not exactly sure about the towels, because I’ve never really seen them at the games before. I am currently looking into it though. My assumption is they passed them out for the playoffs, but atleast we can say we didn’t copy this off anyone!!
AJ | October 16, 2006 at 1:19 pm |
I know 2 other teams did this earlier in the pre-season, but I haven’t seen this mentioned yet. The Nuggets and Warriors played a pre-season game in Mexico recently and had little Mexican flags on the striping down the sides of their jerseys and also wore special patches on the front. It also appears Carmelo is wearing some kind of padding on his legs, under his socks; it’s also on his left arm, under his sleeve. I’ve noticed it on the arm before, but has he always done this on the legs?
[quote comment=”14221″]I know 2 other teams did this earlier in the pre-season, but I haven’t seen this mentioned yet. The Nuggets and Warriors played a pre-season game in Mexico recently and had little Mexican flags on the striping down the sides of their jerseys and also wore special patches on the front. It also appears Carmelo is wearing some kind of padding on his legs, under his socks; it’s also on his left arm, under his sleeve. I’ve noticed it on the arm before, but has he always done this on the legs?[/quote]
That is bizarre! What the hell is Carmelo wearing there? That’s an odd place for padding, could those be one of those Icy/Hot things?
I also noticed in the pictures that I linked above from the Nuggets/Warriors game that a lot of the players are still wearing the rubber bands on their wrists and sweat bands on places on than the wrists…I think Paul mentioned last week that this won’t be allowed this season. Paul, are the rules not being enforced in the pre-season, or are the players going to be allowed to do this all year?
matt in the nati | October 16, 2006 at 1:24 pm |
i know lots of hockey teams do it… and some give out awfull cheap pom poms
Not exactly sure about the towels, because I’ve never really seen them at the games before. I am currently looking into it though. My assumption is they passed them out for the playoffs, but atleast we can say we didn’t copy this off anyone!![/quote]
Um, you can have that one, Kenny. In fact, every time I see Spiezio, I have the urge to pull out his “beard” one hair at a time. I don’t care if he matches that thing to his uni color—it’s still disturbing.
Oh, and I’m with Banker Bill about Belliard’s tongue–though not the dreds. It’s like watching a car-wreck with that tongue. Can’t look at it, but can’t look away.
Paul | October 16, 2006 at 1:27 pm |
Perhaps K-State was looking to be more scary given that this program has been mired at or near the bottom of the Big XII for some time.
Oh, and I’m with Banker Bill about Belliard’s tongue–though not the dreds. It’s like watching a car-wreck with that tongue. Can’t look at it, but can’t look away.[/quote]
Thank you Minna – agreeing with me and a hockey fan to boot – if I wasn’t married…
then I’d be single!
This was the only thing I could find…it was on the Cardinals website posted on Oct. 7th.
Sense of October
Cardinal Nation was out in full force Saturday afternoon, waving promotional towels, delivering standing ovations for great first-inning defensive plays and chanting “Let’s Go Cardinals” when the Cardinals started a rally and “MVP” for Pujols.
Looks like they passed them out for the playoffs
Teenage FBI | October 16, 2006 at 1:36 pm |
In the 1982 NHL Cambpell Conference Finals between the Black Hawks and the Canucks, Vancouver coach Roger “Captain Video” Neilson waved a white towel on top of a stick in the direction of the referee after what he saw as a number of bad calls against his team.
When the Canucks returned home, thousands of fans turned out with white towels of their own to wave. A tradition was born.
God bless Richard Brodeur.
jesse | October 16, 2006 at 1:40 pm |
I thought the Twins “Homer Hankie†was the original.
[quote comment=”14229″]In the 1982 NHL Cambpell Conference Finals between the Black Hawks and the Canucks, Vancouver coach Roger “Captain Video” Neilson waved a white towel on top of a stick in the direction of the referee after what he saw as a number of bad calls against his team.
God bless Richard Brodeur.[/quote]
I remember that…that’s back to the days of Stan Smyl and Harold Snepsts. They had awful jersey’s though.
Another Roger Neilson tidbit – “Captain Video” used to replace his goaltender with a defenseman on penalty shots so that he could rush out and take the puck away. The NHL mandated that a goaltender HAD to be in the net on a penalty shot because of this. Neilson was pretty forward-thinking – and the hockey world is a little less bright since he passed…and not just becuase of the glow in the dark floral ties he used to wear.
homer hankie
bad link, sorry
Paul Lukas | October 16, 2006 at 1:43 pm |
[quote comment=”14202″]Hey, Paul, do you know what the rule is on wearing shit other than your game cap on the field? I mean, was what Scutaro did technically legal? I mean, I think it looked cool too, I’m just curious as to weather you’re really allowed to do that.[/quote]
It’s not part of the team’s official uni, so technically it was a no-no. Which makes it all the cooler that the umps let him get away with it.
Hell I’ll take it if he keeps hitting like he is…Belliard’s tongue is scary looking, maybe he does it because of the lipper he has in…anyway I don’t wanna see it either, but apparently they don’t mind it
then I’d be single![/quote]
Hate to burst your bubble, Bill, but I am not a hockey fan, though I am–no pun intended–warming up to it. My last ex only liked hockey, so I started watching with him. Then, the Wild made the playoffs, so I caught as much of that as I could. Now, I watch when there’s a game on, but here’s the catch—I don’t have cable. You can guess how much hockey I can watch in that case.
Why don’t I have cable? Because I would watch too much sports, of course! Also, it’s too much to pay for three channels.
Why don’t I have cable? Because I would watch too much sports, of course! Also, it’s too much to pay for three channels.[/quote]
My wife is becoming a fan by osmosis – all those Ranger games have to have an effect somehow – taking her to MSG for the first time this year.
Between Belliard’s tongue and Spiezio’s soul patch – which looks very Satanic to me by the way – the two of them are desecrating one of the classiest unis in all of sports. At least McGwire only stretched the sleeves out.
On a tangent, if a player gets caught on the juice, will Tampa or Houston sign them for the advertising tie-in between Tropicana field or Minute Maid park? Just wondering….
Thank you – I’ll be here all week – please try the veal.
Dwight | October 16, 2006 at 2:00 pm |
All is not lost with stirrups – my son noticed Reyes’s socks before I did and his reaction was Stirrups – with stripes – AWESOME!
Miguel | October 16, 2006 at 2:00 pm |
Carmelo is wearing a protective arm sleeve. This allows players like Dwyane Wade to charge the lane without fear of getting hurt in the NBA Finals. This leads to bogus fouls called against the Mavericks, destroying team morale and leading them to choke and lose. (Not that I’m bitter or anything)
Melo, Bron Bron and Wade also wear the flak jackets and shorts. It goes without saying I think these should be outlawed even before the tights and mid-arm sweatbands.
jeff | October 16, 2006 at 2:01 pm |
just a not on the towels, the florida panthers did it for the 1997 stanley cup (throughout the whole playoffs that year too) the miami dolphins do it for the home openers, and the miami heat have done it in the past as well(but not since adopting their new color themes)
it seems lots of teams do it during the playoffs, only in Pittsburgh did it get the designation and find a truly lasting place on a regular basis
John | October 16, 2006 at 2:02 pm |
Actually the Dolphins also have pearlescent white helmets, but I’m fairly sure the Colts and Jets are plain white shells. I’m not sure about the Cards as I haven’t more than a quick highlight this season – I guess we’ll see them tonight on MNF.
I think the Colts had the pearlescent finish as well for a couple of seasons until they went to the “throwback” darker royal and gray facemasks in 2004.
[quote comment=”14236″][quote comment=”14235″][quote comment=”14227″]
Thank you – I’ll be here all week – please try the veal.[/quote]
You can find out some stuff about the Homer Hanky here.
And from this, it looks like the Terrible Towel came first.
Can’t for sure say if the Hanky’s a copy, but here’s some more support.
[quote comment=”14239″]just a not on the towels, the florida panthers did it for the 1997 stanley cup (throughout the whole playoffs that year too) the miami dolphins do it for the home openers, and the miami heat have done it in the past as well(but not since adopting their new color themes)
it seems lots of teams do it during the playoffs, only in Pittsburgh did it get the designation and find a truly lasting place on a regular basis[/quote]
See post #74. The Panthers made it to the 96 Finals and the Flyers made it in 97.
David | October 16, 2006 at 2:09 pm |
Looks like they passed them out for the playoffs[/quote]
I remember the Padres giving away little towels in the ’98 playoffs, so it’s been around for while.
BCrisp | October 16, 2006 at 2:14 pm |
Texas A&M has its own towels. They’ve been used there since at least 1988. I’m pretty sure we were not the first to wave towels at a game.
12th Man Towel
Chad | October 16, 2006 at 2:16 pm |
Do you know much about glove designs. My favorite design type is this, open back with a single post web with 3 cross-bars, this is the actual glove I own. When I bought it last summer it was the only glove I could find of this type. I wanted to replace the Louisville Slugger glove I’ve had since 3rd grade (I used that glove for a damn long time) but I wanted the same type of glove, and that Akadema glove was the only one I could find. It seems that design has been pretty much replaced by H wed designs, Akadema has since stopped offering the glove I bought too. Do you have any Idea why this is? I’m pretty sure a bunch of major leaguers still use type, I’ll try to find pictures. Wilson makes this glove, but theres no way in hell I’m buying a piece of crap that looks like that.
Further to the Roger Neilson towel story, here’s a nice background piece on the guy in Vancouver who really launched the tradition. A guy named Butts Giraud. You can’t make this stuff up.
http://www.dogsear.com/canucks-fever.htm
Tako | October 16, 2006 at 2:25 pm |
hey, let’s cut the ducks a little slack, it was livestrong day at autzen so EVERYBODY was in all yellow. the coaches had yellow shirts on, they were selling the special edition yellow livestrong oregon hats at the stadium, so at least it was for a good cause. maybe we won’t see them again?
Plain white plastic or thuggish pearl white?
Gabe | October 16, 2006 at 2:47 pm |
Everyone wondering where and when the towel trend started look here . Myron Cope is a God.
Ok. Just to summarize the debate about the ‘waving a piece of linen wildly in the air’ debate, Pittsburgh’s ‘Terrible Towel’ debuted in 1975. Roger Nielson waved the white towel in 1982 (Read the last paragraph under Coachng Legacy. The Twins seem to be the first with the ‘Homer Hanky’ in 1987.
Does anybody know of any mass that waved linen-related things in the air before 1975?
a arauz | October 16, 2006 at 2:51 pm |
[quote comment=”14178″][quote comment=”14144″]I’m sure all of you heard/watched it, but in the second inning last night Joe Buck, McCarver, etc were discussing the fact that Anthony Reyes and Oliver Perez both went with the high socks (although Reyes is the only one with stirrups). While impressive, the only thing I could think was “Yeah, but the Mets are wearing black instead of the much better looking blue.” Then the cameras flashed to Pujols and Belliard and the announcers had something not-as-nice to say about the pajama look.[/quote]
Since Belliard was brought up, and this is not really uni-related, but it is personal presentation related – Ronnie – ditch the skull cap and cornrows, and for the sake of whatever deity you choose to worship (can’t say God – don’t want to offend!) – KEEP YOUR TONGUE IN YOUR MOUTH – anyone else think he looks like a Komodo Dragon every time they show a close-up – in the batters box, on the bases – constantly licking his lower lip. Disgusting. I don’t want to see that – I usually eat things when I’m watching the game, and my Ben & Jerry’s almost became an integral part of my carpet last night after 4 games of his tongue.[/quote]
I’m glad this was brought up, what a disgusting human being. Nice boot @ second to start the killer rally too, uh??
[quote comment=”14255″]Ok. Just to summarize the debate about the ‘waving a piece of linen wildly in the air’ debate, Pittsburgh’s ‘Terrible Towel’ debuted in 1975. Roger Nielson waved the white towel in 1982 (Read the last paragraph under Coachng Legacy. The Twins seem to be the first with the ‘Homer Hanky’ in 1987.
Does anybody know of any mass that waved linen-related things in the air before 1975?[/quote]
lovely recap – not sure if there was any linen waving pre-1975…
What about the NBA. I don’t know of anything post 1993 on towells. I remember the Charlotte Hornets gave away towells in the playoffs that year. I think I still have one in my closet in my parents house.
I believe the French have been waving white flags and surrendering to everything and everyone for years….
Oh…you meant in a sporting environment.
Shane | October 16, 2006 at 3:03 pm |
Oh, Luongo. Keep the green pads, they look awesome with the throwbacks.
Patrick O'Donnell | October 16, 2006 at 3:09 pm |
[quote comment=”14161″]The K-State uniforms look tons better in person. I am not sure what the photographer was thinking, allowing the shirts to be untucked and the shorts down to the ankles… At midnight madness on Friday they looked normal in length, and actually looked pretty sharp… This is a really bad picture of a really bad pose. Trust Me.[/quote]
I have to agree with you. I’m not crazy about them, but they aren’t as bad as that pictures suggests by any means.
[quote comment=”14257″][quote comment=”14255″]Ok. Just to summarize the debate about the ‘waving a piece of linen wildly in the air’ debate, Pittsburgh’s ‘Terrible Towel’ debuted in 1975. Roger Nielson waved the white towel in 1982 (Read the last paragraph under Coachng Legacy. The Twins seem to be the first with the ‘Homer Hanky’ in 1987.
lovely recap – not sure if there was any linen waving pre-1975…[/quote]
Hey, Richard, thanks. I’m guessing that things like that weren’t as well documented back then, either. What did we all do before the internet and the Uni Watch Blog?
What about the NBA. I don’t know of anything post 1993 on towells. I remember the Charlotte Hornets gave away towells in the playoffs that year. I think I still have one in my closet in my parents house.[/quote]
possibly the end-all of this topic
Post 1993, not sure of playoff towels, but the most famous towel waving in basketball, would have to be M.L. Carr and the Celtics of the 80’s.
[quote comment=”14231″][quote comment=”14229″]In the 1982 NHL Cambpell Conference Finals between the Black Hawks and the Canucks, Vancouver coach Roger “Captain Video” Neilson waved a white towel on top of a stick in the direction of the referee after what he saw as a number of bad calls against his team.
Another Roger Neilson tidbit – “Captain Video” used to replace his goaltender with a defenseman on penalty shots so that he could rush out and take the puck away. The NHL mandated that a goaltender HAD to be in the net on a penalty shot because of this. Neilson was pretty forward-thinking – and the hockey world is a little less bright since he passed…and not just becuase of the glow in the dark floral ties he used to wear.[/quote]
Sorry to piggyback on your quote again, BB, but I have to…. RIP, Captain Video. I loved Roger and miss him dearly. The NHL misses that guy greatly.
mnhockeyfan | October 16, 2006 at 3:25 pm |
I dont mean to burst your bubble any, but earlier this season the twins did a give away of Joe Mauer-esque side burns that looked just like that, except they were brown.
Joe | October 16, 2006 at 3:34 pm |
Regarding the Toque/Knit cap, i was always under the impression the toque had a small brim on it. Where as the knit cap didnt
Post 1993, not sure of playoff towels, but the most famous towel waving in basketball, would have to be M.L. Carr and the Celtics of the 80’s.[/quote]
Thank you, Richard, for coming up with the definitive (until someone else finds something else) encapsulation on this topic.
Oh, and mnhockeyfan, I’m trying to forget the Joe Mauer sideburn giveaway. *Shudder*.
Oh, and mnhockeyfan, I’m trying to forget the Joe Mauer sideburn giveaway. *Shudder*.[/quote]
When did teams start giving away facial hair pieces as game give-aways. I remember the Mariners doing this in 95 with Bobby Ayala and his goatee and not necessarily facial hair but with Jay Buhner and his shaved head. Or was it started with the coneheads showing up at games that David Cone would pitch for the Mets??
Azul Army | October 16, 2006 at 4:03 pm |
I know its been said already, but props to Anthony Reyes for wearing the Cards’ socks the way they were meant to be worn. Even my wife said she liked them.
I also saw thosa Alabama jerseys with the houndstooth collar. How classy of a move would it be to make that permanent?
Last thing: I have several football and baseball jerseys. Does anyone know where I can get an Ed Hochuli ref jersey?
[quote comment=”14272″]Does anyone know where I can get an Ed Hochuli ref jersey?[/quote]
You may have to check the back pages of Muscle & Fitness or Mens Health.
I hope you’re a 52 chest with a 30 waist, or it just won’t look right.
[quote comment=”14272″]I know its been said already, but props to Anthony Reyes for wearing the Cards’ socks the way they were meant to be worn. Even my wife said she liked them.
Last thing: I have several football and baseball jerseys. Does anyone know where I can get an Ed Hochuli ref jersey?[/quote]
If you want one of his you might need 40in. BICEPS!!!!
Taylor | October 16, 2006 at 4:12 pm |
[quote comment=”14177″]i know most people really love their unis, but michigan had some serious problems on saturday night.
while they do a pretty good job of hiding their swoosh in the collar, they crimes all scream NIKE! and take away from what would otherwise be a very classy look[/quote]
Those navy Michigan socks look great! More teams should wear a solid sock all the way up to the knee like Nebraska did a few years back. Like UNC should wear navy socks, Ohio State should wear red, Duke should wear royal blue, Oregon should wear, er, (insert your own joke here, guys! :) )
Big Ed | October 16, 2006 at 4:17 pm |
1. Myron Cope is a GOD
2. Ed Hoculi is a GOD (and an attorney!!)
3. Oregon wears yellow and wins….Oregon plays a yellow shod Cal team and loses…coincidence, i think not!! Oregon is the best dressed team in the NCAA…
“Style Lives Here!!”
[quote comment=”14276″]1. Myron Cope is a GOD
“Style Lives Here!!”[/quote]
How can Oregon be the best dressed in the NCAA when they are not even the best dressed in the PAC-10????
Vincent | October 16, 2006 at 4:31 pm |
Oh…you meant in a sporting environment.[/quote]
Mouahahahahahahah…
*breathe*
;):p
[quote comment=”14267″][quote comment=”14220″][quote comment=”14208″]Wow! A discussion of *sigh* Troy P. and a pic of Rafa? I love this board! By the way, Troy said after the game that he didn’t care if the tackle was by his hair or his ankles,and, yes, the penalty was for taunting after the play.
I dont mean to burst your bubble any, but earlier this season the twins did a give away of Joe Mauer-esque side burns that looked just like that, except they were brown.[/quote]
I was referencing the Cardinal red soul patch alone…I know other teams have done it for guys with abnormally large hair…Ben Wallace, Matt Clement
Where can I get the drugs you are quite clearly on? We’ve all debated the merits of various shades of yellow here in the past (e.g. maize v. gold), but Oregon’s yellow uniforms stung my eyes. They should keep wearing the white and green ones from the week before..much nicer.
In all seriousness, Hochuli is, in addition to a being one of the best known officials in the NFL, is also a pretty damn good at what he does. Anyone who saw the end of the Seahawks-Rams game yesterday can attest to that…Linehan completely deflated after that call, but what could he do? He knew Hochuli was right.
girard31 | October 16, 2006 at 5:16 pm |
Am I right on the fatc that Oregon has yet to break out a different color helmet? I’ll bet it’s superstition because they’re doing so well.
Cyrus | October 16, 2006 at 5:31 pm |
I think it’d be great if Bama made that a permanent change to their unis…though Auburn fans will have another reason to say “bama fans keep living in the past”
On a related note, does anyone have a picture of the commemerative caps some Bama players were wearing? I think they were baseball caps with the houndstooth pattern and the Bama “Script A” logo in red on the front middle. A picture or a link to where I can get one would be appreciated =]
[quote comment=”14273″][quote comment=”14272″]Does anyone know where I can get an Ed Hochuli ref jersey?[/quote]
I hope you’re a 52 chest with a 30 waist, or it just won’t look right.[/quote]
Well, how about a 52 inch waist and a 30 chest?
Andy | October 16, 2006 at 6:07 pm |
Missed most of last night’s Mets/Cards game because I had a prior commitment to see Okkervil River
Looks like the guy in the bottom left is having some uni problems on the right leg, from about the knee on down.
Jonathan | October 16, 2006 at 6:17 pm |
[quote comment=”14287″][quote comment=”14273″][quote comment=”14272″]Does anyone know where I can get an Ed Hochuli ref jersey?[/quote]
Well, how about a 52 inch waist and a 30 chest?[/quote]
Um, that would be Bill Parcells (or Eric Mangini)!!
Teebz | October 16, 2006 at 6:55 pm |
The best fan give-away has got to be the Florida Panthers. They started giving away rubber rats that would be thrown on the ice after every Panther goal. It started on opening night in the 95-96 season when Scott Melanby shot a rat in the clubhouse and killed it against a wall. That night he scored two goals and goalie Jon Vanbiesbrook called it a “rat-trick†and so it was born. They made it to the finals that year and every goal in the playoffs would send thousands of rats onto the ice. The Pittsburgh Penguins goalie tried to hide in the net from all the rats!!!!
Ok, just so you know, the NHL banned the Panthers from giving out the plastic rats. Colorado complained during the Finals that year, and the NHL told Florida not to do it again. The promotion, personally, was a waste of time since it took more than 10 minutes to clean them off the ice when the Panthers scored. The was the official reason given for the discontinuation of the promotion.
The Barney Rubble Hairpieces, aka the Buffa-slugs, are on the verge of imploding the entire universe with their cross-promotion of logos and bastardization of jerseys. End the insanity!
Minna, we still gotta get Paul to Minny, not to mention, I gotta get there too. Don’t give up on the dream! Vive Uni Watch!
Daniel | October 16, 2006 at 6:59 pm |
Dude, I love Okkervil River
Micah | October 16, 2006 at 7:13 pm |
Actually, Kansas State’s jerseys are NOT made by Brand Jordan. The only official Jordan schools are North Carolina, Georgetown, Cal, and North Carolina A & T. The reason you can’t see the Swoosh is because the jerseys are untucked, obscuring the logo that is placed on the hip. Nike never places the logo on the jersey itself; that is only on replicas sold to the public.
ACC | October 16, 2006 at 7:22 pm |
[quote comment=”14205″][quote comment=”14198″]I am sometimes a “look at the brightside” person, and so I have to say that K-State’s shoulder contrast is at least a creative way to get away from the same-ol’ Nike Template shoulder triangles. So I like that, and whatever it takes to get the attention off of the claw-mark crap.
The Titans regular home uniforms are very nice. They are the second best in their division and only because the Colts got rid of the stripes on their socks.[/quote]
2nd best to Jaguars?
I like the Titans’ light blue 3rd jersey.
Minna, we still gotta get Paul to Minny, not to mention, I gotta get there too. Don’t give up on the dream! Vive Uni Watch![/quote]
La reve, elle est mort, Teebz. Just kidding. We will get Paul here if I have to drag his skinny ass out here myself. Good to see you, mon ami canadien! Do you think what Scutero wore was a toque as well? I still think stocking cap.
ps. Who canceled tonight’s game when I wasn’t looking?
Wes | October 16, 2006 at 9:11 pm |
see that zebra style nasal strip on Devin Hester?
Matt Bonnett | October 16, 2006 at 9:11 pm |
Cardinals punter wearing a 1 bar helmet, announcers on MNF making fun of it “its sagging” and noting correctly that you cant wear it if you are coming into the league now.
Brinke Guthrie | October 16, 2006 at 10:07 pm |
boy, thats OLD school.
And why are we having to see a JAY Z VIDEO during halftime. Ah, for the old days of Howard VOing the clips.
Big Ed | October 16, 2006 at 10:08 pm |
as discussed before on here…Scott Player wears the single bar in a down position when punting and moves it up to make a “tackle” after the punt is away
Oregon has only wore the green helmet this year so far…i want the all white oufit w/ the white helmet and THEN i want the all yellow outfit w/ the prototype yellow helmet w/ the GHOST FLAMES!!
Cards whuppin the Bears. The only thing the Cards need now are red helmets with black facemasks. (Put a white border around the logo.)
C.J. | October 16, 2006 at 10:32 pm |
While you were checking out the asymmetrical helmet designs on Bolivar’s helmets, did you notice their cool-ass nicknames? They are the Bolivar Liberators, named after South American independence leader Simón Bolivar, known as “El Libertador”.
Miguel | October 16, 2006 at 10:41 pm |
[quote comment=”14330″]The only official Jordan schools are North Carolina, Georgetown, Cal, and North Carolina A & T.[/quote]
St. John’s used to be a part of Team Jordan. (You can almost make it out on the lower left hem here) I guess they got replaced by Georgetown.
Teebz | October 16, 2006 at 11:25 pm |
La reve, elle est mort, Teebz. Just kidding. We will get Paul here if I have to drag his skinny ass out here myself. Good to see you, mon ami canadien! Do you think what Scutero wore was a toque as well? I still think stocking cap.[\quote]
I don’t think threatening Paul’s bottom will encourage him to come to Minny. ;o)
I am down with Scutero’s toque. The problem? It isn’t that cold in Detroit. Those Oakland boys are soft! We play ball into October here, and we only wear toques if it’s snowing. Otherwise, mock turtlenecks, your uniform, your ballcap, and hit the diamonds! No excuses! :o)
What the heck is wrong with me? I’ve screwed up two quotes in the last week! I may have to self-impose a comment ban if I can’t fix this bad habit.
[quote comment=”14345″]What the heck is wrong with me? I’ve screwed up two quotes in the last week! I may have to self-impose a comment ban if I can’t fix this bad habit.[/quote]
Aw, Teebz, don’t do that! We all make mistakes, even me! I wasn’t threatening Paul, merely explaining that I am not afraid to get my hands dirty.
As for cold, we should have the Uni gathering here in January—we’re supposed to have a cold winter this year. About time, I say! It’s barely reached below zero the last three years. You all should come for the Winter Carnival—there will be plenty of interesting ‘unis’ to amuse us. Last time I went, it was only eleven below fahrenheit (minus twenty-four, celsius). We can see the ice palace if they build one this year. We can go ice fishing! Come on, Paul—you know you want to freeze your ass off first thing in the morning!
Paul, I’ll even buy you one of these to keep warm while we fish. What do you say?
DarkAudit | October 17, 2006 at 12:13 am |
WVU goes with the all gold pants, while (forgive me) Syracuse’s away kit is nice and old school.
Paul Lukas | October 17, 2006 at 12:19 am |
[quote comment=”14347″]Paul, I’ll even buy you one of these to keep warm while we fish. What do you say?[/quote]
For the record: I have ice-fished before, in Alaska. As we walked out onto the frozen lake and prepared to drill a hole in the ice, one member of our group asked, “Don’t we get one of those little shacks with a heater and satellite TV and all that?” To which our host, an Alaskan native, replied, “That’s only for pussies in Minnesota.”
I’m gonna duck now.
Minna H | October 17, 2006 at 12:41 am |
[quote comment=”14349″][quote comment=”14347″]Paul, I’ll even buy you one of these to keep warm while we fish. What do you say?[/quote]
I’m gonna duck now.[/quote]
Are you calling Minnesotans PUSSIES!?!?! Them there’s fighting words, Paul! Actually, I think there are two groups of ice fishing people. Them that ‘tent up’ and them that don’t. We got plenty of both.
Uh, did you see the mention of the ice castle? We can also see this: Yum yum. Because really, who doesn’t want to see buxom blondes and brunettes carved out of butter?
Don’t make me come after you, Paul! Or maybe we’ll have to have a Uni Watch party in absentia….
p.s. Did you catch any fish?
Gibby | October 17, 2006 at 12:41 am |
Some notes for those on the left coast. I was watchin’ Sportscentre (no spell check needed, centre is spelt that way in Canada, eh) as they were showing the recently canned Ken Macha. He was wearing the A’s road cap, which green clashed with the playoff Dugout jacket he was wearing. I tried to find a pic with no luck, but did find other examples of different shades of green.
And the East. Some good news from the brawl in Florida on Saturday. FIU is now on the list of teams that can properly wear stripes on their shoulders (all the way around!).
jeff | October 17, 2006 at 12:52 am |
The best fan give-away has got to be the Florida Panthers. They started giving away rubber rats that would be thrown on the ice after every Panther goal. It started on opening night in the 95-96 season when Scott Melanby shot a rat in the clubhouse and killed it against a wall. That night he scored two goals and goalie Jon Vanbiesbrook called it a “rat-trick” and so it was born. They made it to the finals that year and every goal in the playoffs would send thousands of rats onto the ice. The Pittsburgh Penguins goalie tried to hide in the net from all the rats!!!![/quote]
wasn’t it 96-97?
Brian | October 17, 2006 at 1:06 am |
I found an interesting youtube video today. I don’t think I’ve seen it posted here yet, sorry if it has.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOidsq2mRpk&mode=related&search=
Mike from Queens | October 17, 2006 at 1:20 am |
Where in the world is John Ekdahl on the boards? I dont want to have to play a video game to find you…
SCOTT | October 17, 2006 at 1:31 am |
Does anyone know what chinstraps these are? Tyey aren’t the normal adams chin strap like these. They only have two holes, as compared to three.
Also, here is my choice for NFL uni of the year and rookie of the year. 4 TD’s in 5 games for the third to last pick. Just wish we could get that white stripe off the top of the helmets. But nothing is better than the Louisiana state patch on the front VERY CLASSY and well done.
[quote comment=”14356″]Where in the world is John Ekdahl on the boards? I dont want to have to play a video game to find you…[/quote]
San Diego? I was thinking the same thing, Mike. Ek, show thyself!
As for, Mr. from Queens, I blame you and your Mr. Fair for my dream about cups last night. Yeah, I said it earlier, but I wanted to make sure you read it.
Steve-O | October 17, 2006 at 1:41 am |
hey, i just found this great article on the AZ Cardinals’ punter’s one-bar face mask. I love this face mask and think it is one of the coolest designs in history.
one-bar facemask
hey paul, have you seen this website before? has anyone else seen it? new uni-related website
Sorry better pic of Colston and Black Saints jersey .
Tako | October 17, 2006 at 1:50 am |
[quote comment=”14285″]Am I right on the fatc that Oregon has yet to break out a different color helmet? I’ll bet it’s superstition because they’re doing so well.[/quote]
the yellow ones haven’t been approved because the ghost flames are so damn expensive of a paint job.
Buckeye Mike | October 17, 2006 at 2:17 am |
I don’t know if anyone has shown this here before, but I don’t think I have seen this here before, but yet I think I have saw this a time or two.
Anybody here on FACEBOOK?!? Join our group that Alex George created. We’ve only got 7 members as of now, and the more the merrier!
If you’ve got an account, just search for “Uni Watch Enthusiasts”
Join the crowd!
…or lack there of
JBan | October 17, 2006 at 2:48 am |
[quote comment=”14357″]Does anyone know what chinstraps these are? Tyey aren’t the normal adams chin strap like these. They only have two holes, as compared to three.[/quote]
TO and some other Cowboys are wearing new Nike chinstraps. That si what is in the picture.
BurghFan | October 17, 2006 at 5:10 am |
As Myron Cope points out in his autobiography, Double Yoi!, Miami Dolphin fans were waving white handkerchiefs in 1972.
The Terrible Towel is now in a class by itself, and almost never given away, but I’ve seen plenty of teams hand out towels. Two recent examples were the Cavaliers in this spring’s playoffs, and the Chargers handing out blue towels last week when they played the Steelers.
[quote comment=”14330″]Actually, Kansas State’s jerseys are NOT made by Brand Jordan. The only official Jordan schools are North Carolina, Georgetown, Cal, and North Carolina A & T. The reason you can’t see the Swoosh is because the jerseys are untucked, obscuring the logo that is placed on the hip. Nike never places the logo on the jersey itself; that is only on replicas sold to the public.[/quote]
I thought Georgetown was Nike. When did they switch to Jordan?
Does anybody else know any major uni changes in college hoops?
(Cinn. – Jordan to adidas)
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Those houndstooth hats were also given away in the student section, i cant find a link, nor do i have a digital camera, but they are pretty nice even though they are from the evil empire
roger k | October 25, 2006 at 12:50 am |
I was skeptical of the Bryant commemorative jerseys, but they were ok. The cool thing is that the nameplates on back of the jerseys was in the the same font style as they were in 1981, as was the numbers. Back then of course, the jerseys were made by Russell, but that is another story. The realy neat thing would have been if Bama had worn those awesome crimson striped socks popular in the 70’s and 80’s. as a child I had my bama socks and my Knights socks(my hometown school). Great website. also, kudos to Ole Miss for going with no names on the jerseys! great look. And, how come Ole Miss can have an arm stripe go all the way around the pad, sleeve and back under the arm, but the COlts and Lsu can’t? HMMM?
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This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. Along with studying the most important events and personalities, we will consider broader issues such as political and cultural values and methods of historical interpretation.Created by: Wesleyan...
Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century: The Camera Never Lies
This course is a short taster on the topic of the use of Images, Film, and their use in historical interpretation in the 20th century. It is primarily provided for those who have a general interest in history that draws on photojournalism as primary evidence, and films based on historical events...
The History of Medieval Medicine Through Jewish Manuscripts
This mini-course is a general introduction to both to medieval medicine and to the value of using manuscripts. Professor Y. Tzvi Langermann presents a case study that builds from a unique 15th-century volume in which three important medical manuscripts in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew...
Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare
This free course from the University of London explores critical thinking, and the interpretation of texts, through the Shakespeare authorship question. Using doubt about Shakespeare\'s authorship as our playground, we will explore the key concept of authorship attribution, while developing...
Coexistence in Medieval Spain: Jews, Christians, and Muslims
This course explores Jewish, Christian, and Muslim intercultural relations in Iberia from the Visigothic era (6th century CE) until the creation of Queen Isabel I and King Ferdinand II Catholic Spain (late 15th century). We evaluate the many identities of the peninsula known as Christian...
Cosmopolitan Tang: Aristocratic Culture in China
By the Tang period, China was divided into northern and southern dynasties with different rulers and political systems. The north was conquered by relatively unsophisticated barbarians, but in the south, the aristocratic families established a refined appreciation of writing and literature.In...
A Brief History of Human Spaceflight
This course provides a view of the history of spaceflight, from early writings telling of human\'s fascination of space through the early Russian and American space stations. Developed as an interesting and entertaining slice of space history that is accessible to anyone with an interest in human...
A Journey through Western Christianity: from Persecuted Faith to Global Religion (200 - 1650)
This course follows the extraordinary development of Western Christianity from its early persecution under the Roman Empire in the third century to its global expansion with the Jesuits of the early modern world. We explore the dynamic and diverse character of a religion with an enormous cast...
Buddhism Through Its Scriptures
Whether you are new to the study of Buddhism or have been studying it or practicing it for years, this course will provide you with the opportunity to become acquainted with a variety of Buddhist teachings while guiding you to think about them, and yourself, in new ways. Through a combination of...
Gender, Family, and Social Change in Contemporary South Korea
This course examines the transformation of Korean society beginning around the turn of the 20th century to contemporary times. In particular, it explores how shifting categories of masculinity, and by contrast, femininity have impacted upon, and in turn been influenced by social, cultural, and...
Healing with the Arts
Through art projects-including visual arts, dance, writing, and music-along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing With the Arts gives you the tools to heal what you need to heal in your life: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.Created by: University of FloridaLanguage: English...
Indian & Tibetan River of Buddhism
The course begins with a survey of the origins of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent in the mid-first millennium BCE, as well as its transformation in the first millennium CE into the Sanskrit-language-based Mahayana Buddhism(s) that permeated the monastic traditions and flourished in India...
Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones
This course is about what we can learn from examining the human skeleton, and how we can use this knowledge to reconstruct the lives of people who lived in the past. In archaeology and anthropology, human skeletal remains can provide unique insights into the past and the present; insights that...
Russian History: from Lenin to Putin
In this course, Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, explains the events of modern Russian history and introduces its most significant actors-from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin.Created by: University of California, Santa CruzLanguage: English...
Smithsonian’s Objects That Define America
This course, produced with The Great Courses, will look at four key themes in the History of America as presented by Dr. Richard Kurin, Undersecretary for History, Art and Culture at the Smithsonian. American Icons – from the Star Spangled Banner to the Statue of Liberty – how have these bec...
Security & Safety Challenges in a Globalized World
Security and safety challenges rank among the most pressing issues of modern times. Challenges such as, cyber-crime, terrorism, and environmental disasters impact the lives of millions across the globe. These issues also rank high on the agenda of politicians, international organizations and...
The Changing Global Order
How are international power relations changing and how can global peace and stability be maintained? This course familiarizes you with some main theories of international relations, shows how the global order is gradually changing and discusses how selected international and regional...
First Nights - Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and the Birth of Opera
Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo premiered in Mantua in 1607, and continues to be regarded as one of the most important examples of early opera. With L’Orfeo, Monteverdi helped to establish the techniques and traditions that continue to inform the genre of opera to this day...
The French Revolution was one of the most important upheavals in world history. This course examines its origins, course and outcomes. This course is designed for you to work through successfully on your own. However you will not be alone on this journey. Use the resources included in the course...
The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution
The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its innocence. As civilized human beings, we fail to understand how events of such horror could have taken place, and how an idea so inhumanly warped could have spread like wildfire through an entire...
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Magic Carpet In Jordan: 'Aladdin' stars attend private screening in Amman
They looked dazzling among the ancient ruins!
By Leyal Khalife Executive Editor
The two-word phrase "magic carpet" has a special place in the hearts of Disney enthusiasts, specifically Aladdin fans. That's probably why the stars of the upcoming live-action adaptation of Aladdin have ventured out on a Magic Carpet World Tour in anticipation of the film's release.
The countdown to Disney's live-action adaptation of Aladdin has officially begun, and Jordan is getting a taste of it all. This week, the stars of the upcoming film including Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, and director Guy Ritchie landed in Jordan as part of the world tour. Why Jordan? Well, in case you didn't know, parts of the film were shot in the magical Wadi Rum and the city of Aqaba.
A VIP screening of the film, under Royal Patronage and hosted by Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, took place at Abdali Mall Prime Cinema. The stars also participated in a press conference organized by Jordan's Royal Film Commission.
"See Jordan like you've never seen it before"
Jordan is the fourth stop of the Magic Carpet World Tour after Paris, London, and Berlin.
"Jordan did not only provide the amazing landscape needed for such a beautiful story, but also all the support needed to make it a success," said Princess Rym Ali, managing director by interim of the Royal Film Commission in Jordan, in a statement.
The live-action remake is set to be released in Jordan on May 23. Theaters in the United States will screen the film starting May 24.
The stars looked dazzling among the ancient ruins
Will Smith is the king of poses
According to the official press release, the film industry has created close to 95,000 jobs in Jordan. Films such as The Martian, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Star Wars: Rogue One were all shot in Jordan.
Dubai's crown prince hits 8 million followers, and his photos explain why
Young Saudi Snapchat star tragically dies of heart attack
Painting Racism: Egyptian actress under fire for appearing in 'blackface'
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Sun Valley Elementary celebrates grandparents with breakfast
Susan Keenan and her husband, Bob “Pap Pap” Keenan enjoy breakfast with their grandson, Benjamin, 6, a kindergarten student at Sun Valley Elementary School, during the school's first ever Grandparents Day.
Grandparents were the honored guests at Sun Valley Elementary School recently when the school held its first “Grandparents Day.”
The Jan. 24, 2014, breakfast had the halls lined with smiling elementary students holding the hands of, or standing next to, their visiting grandparent.
“We’re going to make this an annual event,” said school principal Dr. Terri Cooper. “We had a phenomenal turnout.”
Cooper said about 300 grandparents came to have breakfast with about 210 students. “It’s an opportunity to get the grandparents out to see the great things we’re doing at Sun Valley Elementary,” she added.
The celebration included two musical selections performed by students. Sun Valley Elementary music teacher Rebecca Vickers led students with the performance of “I Like Wrinkles” and “Sweet Guava Jelly.”
There was also a poetry reading and an opportunity for grandparents to share memorable events in their lives, when they attended school.
Onlookers would have had a hard time deciding who was having more fun, the students or the adults.
“I am so excited to be able to come to school and be ‘Grandma’,” said former Porter Ridge Middle teacher Pam Howe from Indian Trail. “I taught for years and it’s just so good to come back and just be grandma.”
Her granddaughter agreed. “I’m having fun because it’s grandparents’ day and you get to eat with your grandparents,” said 6-year-old kindergarten student Riley Langille. “I’m so glad I get to eat with her (Howe).”
Like most of the other grandparents in attendance, Indian Trail resident Debra Tucker, said she enjoyed spending quality time talking with her granddaughter, Joanna Burns, 8, a third grader at Sun Valley Elementary School.
Cooper said that grandparents traveled from as far away as Georgia and Alabama to be with their grandchildren.
With the huge turnout, Cooper said next year she will look at dividing the breakfast into two events – one for grandparents of kindergarten through second-grade students and the other for grandparents of students in the third through fifth grades.
Written by: Deb Coates Bledsoe, UCPS Communications Coordinator
Posted: Jan 28, 2014 by Deb Coates Bledsoe
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Category: Dallas Stars News
Bye, Val…
So it seems to finally be official. After months of speculating on when (or I guess if) the Stars and Nichushkin would be agreeing on a new contract, the RFA has decided to sign in the KHL this season. CSKA Moscow has reported that they have agreed to a two year deal with Nichushkin. The Stars will retain his rights (at least if he comes back before becoming a UFA).
I’ll admit I personally have mixed feelings about this whole thing. First, I am truly disappointed that Nichushkin is leaving. Despite a less than stellar showing this past season, the guy shows that he has some raw potential. The reports that he doesn’t like playing under Lindy Ruff are disheartening to say the least. Ruff’s patented line blender moves probably didn’t do much to help his development. So while I am sad to see him go, I hope he is able to have more time to develop. He claims he wants to return to the Dallas Stars after his contract expires. Hopefully he does and comes back a better player for it. In the meantime, I think the Stars have ample amounts of talent to fill his spot, between newly acquired Jiri Hudler and the up and coming forwards from the AHL.
So best of luck, Val. Hope to see you again at some point…
September 23, 2016 September 23, 2016 Dallas Stars, hockey, NHL, Val NichushkinLeave a comment
Welcome to Dallas, Jiri Hudler!
Dallas Stars recently confirmed the signing of UFA Jiri Hudler to a one-year, $2 million contract. Hudler had been acquired from the Calgary Flames by the Florida Panthers at the trade deadline.
While unexpected, the 32 year old Hudler is a welcome addition to an already stacked offensive roster. The optimists in us can’t help but wonder if Hudler’s signing is a piece in Nill’s move to acquire a goaltender this off-season. It doesn’t help that Valeri Nichushkin has yet to sign a new contract. Regardless, at this point, with 14 projected forwards going into training camp, decisions will have to be made when it comes to roster spots.
Should make for an interesting time in Cedar Park for the training camp.
August 31, 2016 hockey, Jiri HudlerLeave a comment
Welcome to the Dallas Stars, Dan Hamhuis!
Once again, continuing with the theme of outdated news, we’re taking a moment to welcome our new defenseman, 33 year-old Dan Hamhuis (who Caitlynn may or may not have seen at Market Street buying dinner a couple of weeks ago), who was acquired in free-agency. He is signed to a 2-year contract, earning $3.75 million per season.
This is of course, the same Dan Hamhuis that Dallas reportedly attempted to acquire from the Vancouver Canucks at the trade deadline. So maybe it was always meant to be. Hamhuis had apparently waived his NTC for Dallas, but the deal never went through.
He will add key a veteran presence to the Stars’ young defensive line, maybe even seeing some time on the top pairing with Klingberg.
All in all, this seems like a solid, smart signing by Jim Nill.
July 22, 2016 August 25, 2016 Dallas Stars, Dan Hamhuis, hockeyLeave a comment
Oh hey, no big deal…
Old news at this point, but Jamie Benn signed an 8 year contract extension with the Dallas Stars!
$76 million, or an AAV of $9.5 million. Which falls right between the $8.5 million deal Stamkos received in Tampa Bay, and the $10 million LA’s Anze Kopitar will be receiving.
We’re also being spared the agonizing speculation that Lightning fans were subject to for the past year, since Benn signed his extension a year before he hit free agency.
Now that that particular piece of off-season business is out of the way, we can focus on the important stuff. Like trading for Ben Bishop… (We kid…but for real, please?)
Anyways, here’s to 8 more years of The Captain doing his thing!
July 22, 2016 Dallas Stars, hockey, Jamie BennLeave a comment
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30 wins, zero losses, conference champions
The Winona State softball team lines up along the base line to congratulate junior Alison Nowak on her home run hit against the University of Minnesota Duluth on Friday, April 19 at the Maynard R. Johnson Field.
Nicole Girgen
Sydney Mohr, Features Editor
Winona State University’s softball team is an NSIC Conference Champions after finishing off their season with a perfect conference record of 30-0, and 45-5 for their overall season.
The Warriors wrapped up their regular season playing on Friday, April 26 at Maynard R. Johnson Field against University of Mary, and on Sunday, April 28 against Minot State University.
Two of the four games played this weekend were shutout games, lasting only through the fifth or sixth inning.
The first game against UMary brought in a 5-2 game, with runs being scored by junior Katie Kolb, first-year Kayla Kerkman, senior Lani Van Zyl and junior Alexis Kelsey. Runs were advanced by junior Ali Nowak with an RBI, and Kelsey with a second RBI, all happening within the fifth inning to bring up the score.
Junior Jordyn Kleman brought her winning streak up to 23-1 for the season with the win.
Kerkman mentioned how during these games, the pressure was on to make sure every move was perfect.
“It’s a nerve-racking time,” Kerkman said. “You realize how special it is to be a part of such a big part of history and you don’t want to mess that up, but you know you can always come back from it if you lose.”
Game two brought sophomore Liz Pautz onto the mound, not only to bring her pitching record up to 16-2, but also pitching another shut out.
Pautz struck out 12 batters during the second game.
Van Zyl was a lead scorer for the Warriors throughout this series, as the senior went four-for-four with hitting and managed two more home runs, three walks, four RBIs and five runs scored. Nowak and Kelsey also contributed seven RBIs throughout the games.
Sophomore Ann Smolenski hit a double that brought in two players at the end of the fourth, securing the victory for the Warriors through run-rule victory.
Sophomore Carly Kordich discussed how incredible this time of year can be for the athletes, but also how stressful it is.
“We’re super excited about where the Warriors are headed,” Kordich said. It’s a big time of the year, and we’re trying to keep things rolling and trying to keep the team’s energy up.”
Kerkman noted that it helps that the team gets along extremely well on and off the field, which is a key component to the Warriors’ success.
Sunday’s games sealed the deal for the Warriors, and NSIC history was made, as the Warriors set the record for most NSIC wins in a season.
The Warriors defeated Minot State University 8-0 and 12-1 on Sunday, finally finishing off their regular conference season and bringing Kleman’s record to 24-1 and Pautz’s to 16-2.
The Warriors celebrated their NSIC championship win and their undefeated conference season with cheers that echoed all the way to Lake Winona, and doused head coach Greg Jones in Gatorade.
The Warriors start into the NSIC tournament on Thursday, May 2 at 2 p.m., with opponent TBD.
Tags: athletics, softball, Warrior Softball, Warrior sports, warriors, Winona State, Winona State athletics, Winona State softball, Winona State University, Winona State Warriors
Sydney Mohr is Features Editor and a sports reporter for the Winonan, focusing on Women’s Soccer, Gymnastics, and Softball. She did not have prior experience...
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Nicole Girgen works as photo editor for the Winonan. Before working at the Winonan, Girgen did freelance photography for the Hastings High School Mens...
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Chapter 4 Teaser
The main chamber was littered with coughing individuals, all huddled together under blankets or whatever they had managed to bring with them. It was easy to pick out Tia, her crested black hair a style no one else had. She cradled the wheezing child in her arms, his shaking shoulders in beat with his discomfort.
“Tia!” Jenario was by her side in an instant. “Nickademis has the medicine!”
She was nearly in tears at the sight of him, but said nothing at the answering wheeze of their young son.
“Give him here.” Jenario took Abraham in his arms and cradled in tightly to his chest. The boy let out a series of coughs that shook his father’s shoulders. He stared into Tia’s pleading gaze. “Nick! Hurry!”
“Jen?” Thomas Gracie and Shafari entered the chamber to assess the number of those ill.
“I might be able to raise the heat a bit,” Shafari offered, but Thomas Gracie’s warning glance silenced him from saying anything further.
“They need more than just warmth.” The extra voice perked Tia’s attention toward an unfamiliar figure stepping in between the two men. He sought out Jenario in the crowd and started toward him.
Sensing Tia’s anxiety, especially when noticing those pointed ears, Jenario rested a hand over hers.
“It’s all right,” he said gently. “He helped us gather medicine on the other side.” As the Healer knelt beside him, Jenario introduced him to his fiancée.
Forest green gaze met the pixie-haired woman’s defensive staredown.
“May I?” Providence indicated to take Abraham, but as Jenario was about to hand over his son, Tia slapped a hand over his arm.
“What are you doing?! You already know how I feel about Shafari’s botched-up magic. What makes you think someone else is any different?”
Even without witnessing power, Tia was no fool. Jenario swore she had an hidden sensor to hone in on magic. The outburst, however, put a shade of red across his cheeks. He could sense Shafari’s embarrassment as well. Surely, their visitor would feel the same, but a quick glance revealed a look of understanding.
“If there was a way to make medicine produce itself, there’d be no need for us. But for your son’s sake, please.” Again, he held out his hands to take Abraham. “Time is against him.”
“Just this once, I swear it! Abraham needs all the time he can get.” Jenario dared not move. It was her call now. The glare of worry and betrayal were prominent in those eyes. Reluctantly, she released his arm. Only then did he hand over his son.
It was a bold move, but one he feared if not taken would result in a harsher consequence than defying Tia’s beliefs. He watched her leave in silent anger. This, however, did little to deter the Healer from his task. Providence only briefly followed her departure before centering all concentration on the child.
“I know that feeling.” He placed a hand over Abraham’s chest. A warm glow quickly emitted from beneath the fingers. “Winter does not allow us to connect with Nature’s energy. But I should have a enough to spare. Don’t worry. She’ll come around when she sees her son is well.”
“What of the others?” It was hard to ignore the harsh coughs reverberating off the walls.
“Hopefully, your doctor will have his medicine in time…if he’s skilled,” Providence said.
“The best Mayla had.” Jenario let his focus drift, like the lone flakes that managed to bypass the canvas flap covering the mouth of the cave. He watched them linger in the air until they drifted over one of the campfires and melted away. “They let everything go.”
The sound of someone sucking in a deep breath alerted Jenario back to his son. The wheezing subsided, and for once Abraham opened his eyes and smiled at his father.
“That’s my brave boy,” he whispered down to him. He looked up to the sound of hurried steps. While Thomas Gracie and Shafari helped with keeping the fires going and distributing food, Nickademis came with a tray of medicines he had prepared.
“Nicolas!” The teenager swiftly came to his father’s summon. “These need to be kept warm.”
Jenario noticed how Providence scrutinized every move the doctor’s son made. Though limited in magic, he managed to heat a flask to the desired temperature. It was enough to get over to Jenario’s son and administer the first few drops of dark liquid. Nickademis then hurried to others, repeating the process until there was none left.
“I’ll need more, but this should do for now,” he said to regrouping leaders at the back of the chamber.
Jenario got up to join the others, having taken his son from Providence. The child was squirming to get down as his father watched Nicolas leave with the empty bottles and tray. His gaze finally landed on Tia, who had been watching the entire process from the back. She brushed past the teenager, never acknowledging his help.
“You can already tell a difference.” Jenario could hear Thomas Gracie addressing the others. Providence had joined the group as well, but watched the pixie-haired woman with interest when she crossed the chamber at a brisk pace to take her son.
“I’ll handle it from here,” she said quickly.
“Tia…” But there was no use in arguing. With a sigh, Jenario made his way toward his companions.
“She ought to be more thankful,” Shafari said. “Your son wouldn’t have made it this far without us trying to get supplies. And then with the healing….”
“Tia’s…Tia.” Jenario scratched his spiked-hair in doubt. “She knows what she likes.”
“And what she doesn’t, no doubt.” Providence gradually shifted his focus from the woman to Nickademis. “I’m impressed with what little you had to work with.” He gestured around the room. “This is a large group to handle.”
“I do what I can…under the circumstances.”
“And under the circumstances, we’re running low on firewood,” Thomas Gracie added. “No one’s been out in that storm since our departure.”
“Well, why should they?” Shafari checked for dirt under his nails. Seeing some gritty spots, he tried to pick it out before allowing his fingers to weave through the air in magical demonstration. “That’s why they have us.” His cocky grin put everyone at ease, with Thomas Gracie only shaking his head at his meaning.
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Heart of the Woods – Walkthrough and Official Trailer
If you’re a fan of the yuri genre or are just looking to jump into a VN with heart, Heart of the Woods is the one you wanna go for. It is a fantasy yuri visual novel filled with magic, fairies, and a ghost girl. The game was released on Feb 15, 2019. The game was developed by Studio Élan and published by Sekai Project.
Heart of the Woods is a fantasy yuri visual novel about paranormal investigation, ancient mysteries, and a love between two girls that transcends life and death.
Maddie Raines has had enough. After years of serving as manager, editor, and general business-handler for her best friend Tara’s popular paranormal vlog channel, she’s finally ready to move forward with her own life. But when she agrees to take one last trip with Tara to the mysterious village of Eysenfeld, she’s suddenly swept up in a dangerous supernatural crisis that will change the course of both of their lives forever. A strange young woman named Morgan has promised them undeniable proof of real paranormal phenomena, and what she has to offer eclipses anything they’d ever seen before.
However, out of all the strange occurrences the three of them bear witness to, one in particular captivates Maddie in a way she’s never been before: the ghost of a young woman. This woman is Abigail, the victim of a centuries-old injustice now bound eternally to the forest surrounding Eysenfeld. Drawn to Maddie in a way she can’t explain, Abigail reveals herself to another person for the first time in more than 200 years.
While Tara and Morgan investigate the mysteries surrounding the village itself, Maddie begins to form a bond with Abigail that grows to be more intense than any bond she’s felt before. As she learns the truth about Abigail’s death and imprisonment, she realizes that it falls to her and her friends to break the curse that has ruled over Eysenfeld for centuries. But more importantly than that, it falls to her to finally free the woman she loves.
-Incredible character and CG art from Rosuuri
-Fully original backgrounds and soundtrack
-Approximately 130,000 words with multiple endings
-Ending theme from In Love With A Ghost
-Multiple accessibility options
-Steam trading cards
-Extra features including a music room, CG viewer, and guest art gallery
-At least one really, really gay ghost
Here is the official trailer on YouTube.
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Tragedy is no excuse to overstep
Posted: Monday, June 27, 2016 | Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow.com | Politics
After gunman Omar Mateen opened fire at Pulse, an Orlando bar frequented by homosexuals, June 12th and killed 49 people before he was gunned down by police, the United States reacted by raising the rainbow flag half-staff at American embassies.
Helene Coley Nicholson, president of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship Jamaica, tells OneNewsNow 90 percent of Jamaicans are opposed to the homosexual lifestyle.
"We thought that this awful tragedy that happened in Orlando was being used as an opportunity to again push that agenda," Nicholson states, "and that has been confirmed by the sort of rhetoric that we have seen in the electronic, print, and social media."
But her organization considers the move to be provocative and insensitive.
"Clearly there is the need for the mutual respect of each other's sovereignty, independence, including legislative independence, so that we should be free to pass the laws as we have in a democratic society determined are in the best interests of our country," Nicholson submits.
The Lawyers Christian Fellowship president adds that Jamaica should be free to develop culturally as it sees fit, and she reports that embassy officials have been offensive to Jamaican cultural practices and have undermined Jamaican laws.
Source: OneNewsNow
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Acuant Drives Industry’s Best Identity Verification Solution Into Automotive Sector with Two New Customers
Clutch Technologies and Pony Car Sharing Choose Acuant to Validate Users with Facial Recognition
LOS ANGELES, April 11, 2018 — Acuant, a global provider of identity verification solutions, today announced two new customers in the automotive sector. Atlanta-based Clutch Technologies, a provider of technology that powers subscription access for the automotive industry, and Pony Car Sharing, a European ride sharing service, have both chosen Acuant for identity verification. Additionally, both companies will employ Acuant’s Facial Recognition Match (FRM) to offer a superior customer experience while minimizing theft and fraud.
“Businesses and consumers are increasingly adopting biometrics, and facial recognition in particular, as a preferred form of identity validation and verification,” said Yossi Zekri, CEO of Acuant. “With mobile devices in everyone’s pocket, new models of automotive services such as Clutch and Pony Car can automate and streamline their workflows, enable mobile and remote customer authentication and protect their assets. This is all accomplished while providing a modern and fast customer experience.”
Clutch chose Acuant’s patented technology to authenticate driver’s licenses. As part of the verification process, Acuant extracts biometric and alphanumeric data from IDs and applies 50+ forensic tests instantly. Clutch will also perform facial recognition match to validate users. Acuant FRM is as easy as taking a selfie and comparing it to biometric data contained in the government-issued ID. Results are given in seconds, comparing the face biometrics of a selfie to the image on the ID and include a liveness detection test to prevent fraudsters from using static images by ensuring that a live person is in front of the camera.
Pony Car Sharing chose Acuant to verify members during onboarding, automatically capturing and validating identification information. Identity information will then accurately auto-populate the Pony Car Sharing database. This eliminates manual entry, photocopying and paperwork. Pony Car Sharing will also employ Acuant FRM for stronger authentication. Customers using the Pony Car Sharing app can be remotely authenticated and unlock cars with their mobile phones.
Acuant is an identity verification platform that instantly reduces fraud while providing seamless customer experiences. Solutions include intelligent data capture and auto-fill software, identity document authentication, chip and ePassport authentication with PKI, facial recognition software and expert manual review of documents. Human assisted machine learning powers the largest ID library processing 196+ countries monthly and having completed more than 3 billion transactions worldwide. Acuant mitigates risk and meets regulatory requirements such as KYC and AML, while protecting PII. Partners include start-ups, Fortune 500 and FTSE 350 organizations in all industries. For more information, please visit acuantcorp.com
About Clutch
Clutch’s vehicle subscription platform provides the automotive industry with an innovative and scalable way to enable vehicle subscription access. Clutch’s patent-pending technology creates a new consumer delivery channel by solving the business challenges associated with managing a subscription fleet of vehicles. Clutch’s technology is powering flexible subscription access for dealers and OEMs across the United States. Learn more about Clutch at www.driveclutch.com.
About Pony Car Sharing
Pony Car Sharing is Romania’s first and largest car sharing service. Offering flexible pricing models, cars are parked on the street where users unlock them with mobile phones and can track them in real time on the app.
Malini Gujral
Acuant
marketing@acuantcorp.com
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TCA Press Tour
FX CEO John Landgraf Takes Aim at Netflix’s ‘Not Remotely Accurate’ Ratings Data
‘The truth will ultimately come out, as it always does’
Landgraf's biggest problem with Netflix is what he sees as its objective to obliterate all competitors and set the rules.
FX Networks CEO John Landgraf has never been shy about publicly taking shots at Netflix, but he took things to a new level today at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif.
Landgraf lambasted the streaming service for the selective—and he says, misleading—ratings data that Netflix shared last month. In a letter to shareholders, Netflix said that its new series You and Sex Education were both on track to be viewed by more than 40 million households, respectively, in their first four weeks. (For Netflix, a “view” is when at least 70 percent of one episode is completed by one of its global subscribers; also note that these were estimates, as neither show had been on Netflix for four weeks at that point.)
But those ratings, Landgraf said, are “not remotely accurate” when compared to Nielsen’s average audience per minute metric used by the rest of the TV industry.
According to Nielsen’s SVOD content ratings, which measure U.S. viewership of Netflix content via connected TVs (which represents 70-80 percent of overall viewing), You averaged 8 million U.S. viewers, while Sex Education averaged 3.1 million viewers during its first two weeks.
“Forty million people are not watching every episode of You or Sex Education,” said Landgraf, who claimed that Netflix was “reporting their singles as home runs.”
Given how few of its shows actually reach a massive audience, Netflix’s true batting average when it comes to original programming “would be viewed as unimpressive,” said Landgraf. “Stranger Things is absolutely a home run, but it is also a huge outlier on the Netflix platform.”
The CEO said that Netflix and the other streaming services’ selective approach to sharing ratings metrics might work for now, but as Nielsen and other measurement companies continue to expand their abilities to measure this content, “one way or another, the truth will ultimately come out, as it always does.”
Landgraf said his biggest problem with Netflix is what he sees as its objective to obliterate all competitors and set the rules.
“It’s just not a good thing for society when one person or entity is able to unilaterally make the rules or pronounce the truth,” said Landgraf.
The CEO also took aim at “the rising monopolistic titans of Silicon Valley and what I have called their endless money cannons.”
He explained further, “Silicon Valley’s attitude just really, really bothers me. Look what it’s done to journalism. It started with a free pass on copyright and now it insists it’s divine right is a free pass on copyright.”
FX, meanwhile, has “a laser-focused brand that can still compete effectively” with Netflix’s “insane” output, he said.
Landgraf, who invented the phrase “Peak TV” several years ago, said that 496 scripted series aired last year on broadcast, cable and streaming (not 495, as FX had initially said in December), and that the number will increase in 2019.
“I’m betting we’ll see more robust growth this year, and maybe next year,” said Landgraf, as Apple, Disney, AT&T and NBCUniversal roll out their new streaming services.
Landgraf said he couldn’t talk much yet about Disney, which will become his new corporate parent once it closes its deal to buy 21st Century Fox. However, the more he has gotten to know Disney CEO Bob Iger, “the more optimistic I’ve become about the future of FX,” he said.
Once the Disney deal closes, Landgraf will move over to Disney with the rest of the network, and will serve as chairman of FX Networks and FX Productions, Disney said in October.
Disney would like FX to increase its output, but Landgraf said those efforts will be “measured and focused” and he and his team will maintain the quality of the FX brand.
As the landscape has shifted and streaming is becoming such a large part of the ecosystem, Landgraf said he’s grateful to be joining Disney, which will be launching Disney+ later this year and will also take a controlling stake in Hulu and directing more FX content to that service.
“Not being connected to a major streaming service would be really problematic for us in the long run,” said Landgraf. “It’s going to be tough for channels that don’t have that access.”
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Big Pie ready for more time up forward
Jennifer Phelan Mar 19, 2018 8:00PM
Brennan ban, Jordy back, Cyril ready Monday Footy Feed with Matt Thompson and Nat Edwards
Brodie Grundy set more time up forward this year
Pies vow they won't wilt in the big moments
COLLINGWOOD big man Brodie Grundy is ready to spend more time in the Magpies' revamped forward line but maintains his ruck work will remain his "one wood" this season.
Ruck partner Mason Cox has been shifted into a more permanent role in attack this pre-season with the move of key position player Darcy Moore to the other end of the ground.
Cox showed in the Pies' second JLT Community Series match against the Western Bulldogs his potential to flourish in the role with four goals and as many contested marks.
While Grundy said he had spent more time with the forwards this pre-season in a bid to improve his own goalkicking craft, he expected to play predominantly in the ruck when the Pies' season got underway on Saturday night against Hawthorn.
"You're always looking to add strengths to your bow so that's something I have done," Grundy said on Monday.
"I trained a little bit more forward, but my 'one wood' is still my ruck work and I'll be looking to continuing to add strings to my bow this year in that position and really help drive the midfield going forward.
"I suppose the ruck percentage will be horses for courses, Mason has been showing some really good signs forward … I suppose it will be whoever is playing and suited each week, it will chop and change.
"He's going really well there and presenting strongly in the air - that's something that is a real strength for the team.
"For me, I need to be able to go forward and show a little bit and take a few grabs and kick some goals."
With the pre-season drawing to a close, the Pies' attention has turned to their first opponent with Grundy having already started his homework on his expected match-up for Saturday night.
The Hawks beat the Pies by 24 points in round 15 last year in a game where Ben McEvoy pushed Grundy all the way in a hard-fought big man battle.
"I've looked at Ben McEvoy and he played really well against me last year so I've already had a little bit of a look at last year's tape against him," Grundy said.
"I can only really speak for myself, looking at my own opposition, and we'll delve into Hawthorn as a team tomorrow."
Recruits Jaidyn Stephenson and untried ex-Swans rookie Sam Murray could debut for the Pies in the season opener with Jamie Elliott, Daniel Wells, Levi Greenwood and Jordan De Goey sidelined.
Grundy said Stephenson, who has impressed this pre-season with his speed and skills, didn't let on when quizzed on Monday if he'd been given the nod from coach Nathan Buckley.
But he said the No.6 pick from last year's NAB AFL Draft had earned his spot if called upon, as had Murray.
"I'd be rapt if [Stephenson] could get a game this week, he's shown a lot in the pre-season and has a lot of speed and is an exciting character," Grundy said.
"What we've missed in the last couple of years, when I look at Sam Murray, is Ben Sinclair comes to mind - that really speedy good ball use, decision-making sort of player, and [also] with Brayden Maynard to spend more time in the midfield.
"The way we were able to see him play on the weekend was really showcased and highlighted because we think we've sort of lacked that player in the past.
"I think he's going to be a real asset for us."
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Major Developments, Starchitecture, Upper East Side
Rafael Viñoly’s octagonal-cored Upper East Side tower gets new rendering
Posted On Tue, February 20, 2018 By Devin Gannon In Major Developments, Starchitecture, Upper East Side
Rendering of 249 East 62nd Street via Rafael Viñoly Architects
First announced over a year ago and later approved by the city’s Department of Buildings in September, Rafael Viñoly’s residential project planned for 249 East 62nd Street moved forward this week after the architect released a new rendering. As YIMBY reported, the 510-foot building will feature retail and a townhouse at its base, with apartments above it through the 12th floor. The uniqueness of this project’s design lies with its 150-foot-tall octagonally-shaped core, aimed at raising the height of upper-level apartments without counting it toward usable square footage.
Plans for 249 East 62nd Street via NYC DOB
While it includes just 32-occupied floors, the tower measures over 500 feet tall because of the extended middle section of the tower, which spans between floors 13 to 16. This core lifts the remaining apartments from floors 17 through 29, allowing residents on these floors to have impressive skyline views. Floor 15 will boast amenity spaces like a bar, wine tasting area, private dining room, media lounge and a study.
The total construction area will measure over 150,000 square feet, with the residential space taking up over more than 98,000 square feet. Plans call for 83-units averaging 1,200 square feet.
The proposed skyscraper, developed by Real Estate Inverlad, has faced criticism from local residents. Members of the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts filed a challenge in November with the DOB about the height of the project, citing errors in the zoning math. The group argues 249 East 62nd Street is a “tower-on-base building unlike any ever conceived” because the mechanical space (designed for the building’s core) is deducted from the building’s floor area calculation.
Developers have not announced an expected completion date as of yet.
[Via NY YIMBY]
Octagonal ‘periscope’ tower proposed for Rafael Vinoly’s 249 East 62nd Street
Loophole Allows Developers to Build ‘Skyscrapers on Stilts’ to Give Residents Ocean Views
510-foot Rafael Viñoly-designed tower coming to East 62nd Street
Tags : 249 East 62nd Street, Rafael Vinoly
Neighborhoods : Upper East Side
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Cochrane Briefs
Am Fam Physician. 2007 May 1;75(9):1335-1336.
Tramadol Relieves Neuropathic Pain
Is tramadol (Ultram) safe and effective for the treatment of neuropathic pain?
Tramadol is an effective treatment for neuropathic pain. One out of four patients who take the medication achieves at least 50 percent pain relief.
Tramadol is a unique pain reliever that is thought to work via a weak effect on opioid receptors and by limiting reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine, an effect occurring with many antidepressants. This systematic review identified six randomized controlled trials of tramadol for the treatment of neuropathic pain. Four studies (337 total patients) compared tramadol with placebo. All four studies were double-blinded, and three of the four studies (including 302 of the patients) adequately concealed allocation from participants and accounted for patients lost to follow-up.
The review found a clinically significant benefit with tramadol (number needed to treat to achieve at least 50 percent pain relief = 3.8; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.8 to 6.3). One small, unblinded study (21 total patients) found no difference between tramadol and clomipramine (Anafranil). Another study (40 total patients) found no clear difference between tramadol and morphine in patients with cancer-related pain. However, these studies were too small and too poorly designed (i.e., unblinded with many dropouts) to draw firm conclusions.
Between 5 and 15 percent of patients discontinued the study medication because of adverse effects. In the two studies that provided adverse effects data, the combined number needed to harm was 7.7 (95% CI, 4.6 to 20). Although no life-threatening adverse effects were reported, tramadol can lower the seizure threshold and should not be given to patients with a history of seizure. An evidence-based guideline from the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement recommends tramadol as a treatment option for neuropathic pain,1 and an expert panel recommends it as a first-line treatment.2
MARK EBELL, MD, MS
Hollingshead J, et al. Tramadol for neuropathic pain. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006;(3):CD003726.
1. Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement. Assessment and management of acute pain. March 2006. Accessed February 22, 2007, at: http://www.icsi.org/pain_acute/pain__acute__assessment_and_manage-ment_of__3.html.
2. Dworkin RH, Backonja M, Rowbotham MC, Allen RR, Argoff CR, Bennett GJ, et al. Advances in neuropathic pain: diagnosis, mechanisms, and treatment recommendations. Arch Neurol. 2003;60:524–34.
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Demi Lovato Picture 307 - The X Factor Season Two Premiere Screening and Handprint Ceremony
- Demi Lovato
The X Factor Season Two Premiere Screening and Handprint Ceremony
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Pick of the day’s news – Wednesday 8 August 2012
ACL compiles a daily media monitoring service of stories of interest to the Christian constituency relating to children, family, drugs and alcohol, marriage, human rights, religious freedom etc. Visit the ACL’s website each day to see what’s of interest in the news. Please note that selection of the articles does not represent ACL endorsement of the content.
Charities & NFP
Charities fear fallout as winter bites
Karen Collier and Nathan Mawby - Herald Sun
Charities fear a flood of households will need emergency relief to pay winter power bills as higher use, price hikes and the carbon tax bite. St Vincent de Paul Society energy analyst Gavin Dufty said lump sum payments designed to ease the tax pain should be linked to when energy bills arrive rather than delivered in one hit.
Children hide poverty to protect parents, study finds
Adele Horin - Sydney Morning Herald
Children from poor families deny their own needs to protect their parents from blame and social stigma, a new study has shown. They claim not to like joining a sports team or going on a school excursion, which they know their families can't afford. ''Their demands were incredibly modest,'' the nation's leading poverty researcher, Peter Saunders of the University of NSW, said. The study is the first in Australia to hear children's accounts of what it is like growing up poor. Almost 100 young people from 11 to 17 were interviewed, as well as teachers and parents.
High Court dismisses international custody battle
Elizabeth Byrne - ABC
The High Court has dismissed a constitutional challenge in the international custody battle over four sisters. The action was mounted to prevent the girls, who are aged from nine to 15, being returned to Italy under a Family Court order. Chief Justice Robert French told the court the bench could find "no want of procedural fairness" in the matters put before it.
Decision protects kids from far greater hurt
Chris Merritt - The Australian
One of the fundamental concepts underpinning family law has just dodged a bullet. Had the decision gone the other way, children embroiled in break-ups could have carried the additional burden of being independent players in the destruction of their family. They could have been afflicted with the worst of all rights: to instruct lawyers to defeat one of their parents. Even worse, it could have opened the way for children to give evidence against a parent.
Vocational training faces fleecing and cuts
Caro Meldrum-Hanna - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Trade schools around Australia are having the prospect of funding cuts exacerbated by claims that unscrupulous companies are misusing training incentives. If you were shocked by stories of private colleges offering cut-price diplomas to international students, wait for this. Tonight we reveal allegations that young Australians are being exploited by a new wave of training companies. 7.30 has been investigating the booming industry of private apprenticeship training. Companies offer cheap and speedy qualifications to young trainees for a price. There are now more than 5,000 of these providers across Australia funded by both Federal and state governments. It's a multimillion dollar market, but is the system being scammed?
Euthanasia: tackling a 'wicked' policy problem
Scott Prasser - Online Opinion
Euthanasia is a policy issue in Australia that has yet to be seriously tackled let alone resolved. Green Party Senator Bob Brown's private member's bill, Restoring Territory Rights (Voluntary Euthanasia Legislation) Bill 2010, that is still before the Senate, reminds us that while euthanasia is not presently top of the policy agenda, there is still the potential for legislation to be passed in the life of the present Commonwealth Parliament. Senator Brown's bill would give the ACT and NT legislatures the power to legalise euthanasia – whether they would choose to do so or not is another question. It is also still in the realms of possibility that the current Gillard Commonwealth Government could decide to legislate nationally on euthanasia, if it judged such action to be both constitutional and popular and given its dependency on the Greens for survival.
Libs rule out same-sex marriage vote
Rosemary Bolger - The Examiner
Opposition Leader Will Hodgman is set to go down in history as one of the last political leaders to support homophobic discrimination, the Tasmanian Greens said yesterday, after he ruled out a conscience vote on same-sex marriage. Mr Hodgman, who believes marriage should remain between a man and a woman, said all 10 Liberal MHAs were opposed to the proposed legislation anyway.
Gay marriage debate on tricky ground
Many people will have their personal views about why Premier Lara Giddings accelerated the gay marriage issue last weekend. At a time when the Tasmanian community is polarised over the future of forestry and also the proposed Bell Bay pulp mill, it was problematic whether we needed another divisive issue.
Orlando Magic, Amway bycotted for anti-gay marriage donation
Meghan Kiesel - ABC News
After hundreds of thousands of people ate "mor chikin" last week to support the Chick-fil-A CEO's traditional-marriage stance, another prominent company has found itself in the crosshairs of a boycott sparked by its executive's marriage beliefs. The Douglas and Maria DeVos Foundation, financially supported by Amway president Doug DeVos, donated $500,000 to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), an anti-gay marriage group that was one of the leading advocates against same-sex marriage initiatives in eight states.
Gay marriage laws at mercy of independents
Andrew Darby - Fairfax Media
For more than a century an oversized portrait of that conservative paragon, Queen Victoria, has leaned imperiously over members of Tasmania's upper house, the Legislative Council. This is the chamber originally formed of the privileged in the early 19th century to curb a tendency towards democracy. Traditionally Tasmanian voters have elected independent candidates to the house - as is the case now, with 13 of the 15 members being independents. It can still force a lower house to election without going itself.
Fight for the pink dollar
Michelle Pane - The Mercury
Tasmania faces a battle for the coveted "pink dollar" as the ACT considers pursuing same-sex marriage. Marriage equality campaigner Rodney Croome said the value was likely to be hundreds of millions of dollars to the first state or territory to take the plunge. "The race is on," Mr Croome said. "There is a very large amount of money at stake."
Prostitution & Sex Trafficking
Mining boom sex worker wins anti-discrimination case
A sex worker has won an anti-discrimination case against motel owners in a Queensland mining town who refused to rent her a room. The ruling could have wider implications in Queensland, where the mining boom is also fuelling a boom in the sex trade. The Queensland Civil and Administration Tribunal has ruled the owners of Moranbah's Drovers Rest Motel, southwest of Mackay, contravened the Anti-Discrimination Act.
Religious Freedom & Persecution
Malaysia: Action against non-Muslims for spreading their religion to Muslims
The Islamic Religious Council in the states can take action against non-Muslims for trying to spread their faith among Muslims in the country. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharum said this can be done based on existing enactments that prohibit non-Muslims from doing so. "Distribution of reading materials and in the form of audio video is disallowed as it will lead to dissatisfaction of Muslims," he said at Yan Hospital here today. A newspaper reported that two men believed to be foreign tourists tried to spread Christianity as Muslims were preparing to break their fast in Penang on Thursday.
Gunmen kill 19 in church attack in Central Nigeria
IBTimes
Gunmen have attacked a church and killed at least 19 people including the pastor in central Nigeria. Armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, the assailants stormed the church in Kogi state, near the city of Okene, during a service. The joint military force commander in Kogi state, Lt Col Gabriel Olorunyomi, said the gunmen targeted the Deeper Life Bible Church in the town of Otite, near Okene, the AP news agency reports. It is not clear how many people were injured. Witnesses said blood covered the church floor.
NBN Co fails on target rollout
Kevin Morgan - The Australian
Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy's reluctance to share the National Broadband Network's new corporate plan is in sharp contrast to his usual enthusiasm for spruiking the NBN. After sitting on the plan for weeks, he's due to release it tomorrow. His reluctance is understandable given it can only highlight the massive failure to reach any of the initial plan's goals.
Mitt Romney, Chick-fil-A, and Ben & Jerry's
Dennis Prager - Town Hall
The Democratic mayors of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. gave Mitt Romney and the Republican Party the greatest gift possible. They provided the American people with as clear an example of the unbridgeable differences between left and right, between Democrat and Republican, as could be hoped for. A photo of Romney eating both a Chick-fil-A sandwich and Ben & Jerry's ice cream would be worth far more than the proverbial thousand words.
Gabby Douglas vs. secular journalism
Marvin Olasky - World Mag
What do reporters know and when do they report it? It was hard to miss yesterday the Christian beliefs that gave Gabby Douglas the foundation for all the work and concentration that went into her gold medal performance. Interviewed on television directly after her triumph, the gymnast said, “I give all the glory to God. It’s kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to him and the blessings fall down on me.” No major publication apparently quoted her “glory to God” remarks.
Black loans, burnt boats and fast cars
Kate McClymont and Linton Besser - SMH
A spectacular boat explosion, pointed guns, BRW rich listers and secret shareholdings in the British Virgin Islands are just some of the intriguing elements involving former government ministers, investors and controversial coalmining deals worth tens of millions of dollars. The dramatic allegations of corruption against three former Labor ministers - Eddie Obeid, Ian Macdonald and Eric Roozendaal - are now part of an inquiry that will begin on November 1 and run at least until April.
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The Average Salary of Starbucks District Managers
by Luke Roney
Starbucks district managers make an above-average salary.
Coffee giant Starbucks began as a single shop in Seattle more than four decades ago and has grown to a chain with more than 18,000 outlets that span some 62 countries and about 150,000 employees worldwide. Many Starbucks employees have made working for the company a career -- starting as a barista and moving up from there. On the retail side of the Starbucks business, district manager is one of the highest-paying positions an employee can attain.
On average, a Starbucks district manager earns $76,000 a year -- $8,000 more than the average district manager salary across all industries, according to CareerBliss.com, a site that compiles salary information. The overall average salary for all Starbucks employees is $36,000 annually. In addition to salary, Starbucks offers a package of benefits and perks tailored to individual employees. Benefits include health coverage, a 401(k) program and education benefits, among others.
While potentially rewarding financially, being a district manager at Starbucks is a big job. District managers oversee multiple locations, working with store management teams to meet operational and business goals. Another key duty is promoting Starbucks culture, values and mission and mentoring and motivating employees to be their best. A Starbucks district manager is tasked with identifying problems at specific locations and coaching store management on how to solve such problems. In addition, a Starbucks district manager is ultimately responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction.
Starbucks district managers typically have several years of retail experience and a few years of experience being a district manager in another retail setting. Desired skills include management skills, team-building skills, organizational skills and the ability to oversee several stores in a fast-paced retail environment. As far as education goes, district managers should have a high school diploma or GED certificate. In some instances, a college degree in business or a related field may substitute for real-world experience.
According to employee reviews submitted to CareerBliss, Starbucks district managers are generally satisfied with their jobs, although some express dissatisfaction. On average, Starbucks district managers gave high ratings for benefits and work-life balance. Some district managers gave lower rankings for career advancement and senior management. One district manager posted to the website, "I absolutely love the customer service aspect of the job. The challenges of managing and executing on various priorities to achieve common business goals I really enjoy."
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Luke Roney has worked as a writer and editor for about a decade. Recently, he has contributed to sites such as U.S. News On Careers, AOL Jobs, Business Insider and CareerBliss.
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January 4, 1876: the Mississippi legislature of 1876, the first former-Confederate-controlled legislature since the start of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, successfully campaigned on a promise to restore law and order through harsher penalties for “black lawlessness” in the state. They were encouraged by the recent success of convict-leasing pioneer Edmond Richardson in the Yazoo Delta region, who in 1868 had entered into a contract with the state to lease prisoners as labor to rebuild his lost cotton fortune. Many legislators saw the model as a perfect solution: convict leasing would simultaneously provide workers to the state’s labor-starved employers, earn revenue for depleted state coffers that could not otherwise afford to maintain the state prison, and provide a means of controlling the state’s recently-freed and largely impoverished black majority.
One of the new legislature’s first acts was to pass the “Pig Law,” which broadened “grand larceny” – an offense punishable by up to five years in state prison – to include theft of any farm animal or any property valued at ten dollars or more. White legislators knew the law would disproportionately affect the state’s black citizens, many of whom remained unemployed and resorted to robbing farms to feed themselves and their families. Within three years, the number of state convicts tripled, from 272 in 1874 to 1,072 in 1877.
The Mississippi legislature soon also passed the Leasing Law, authorizing state prisoners to be leased to “work outside the penitentiary in building railroads, levees or in any private labor or employment.” The law formally codified the practice of convict leasing, and the legislature soon proceeded to lease more than 1000 of its prisoners – the vast majority of them black – in contracts to employers across the state.
Convicts leased to private employers regularly did hard, dangerous work in appalling conditions, sleeping on bare ground and often wearing nothing more than the tattered clothing in which they arrived. Like masters over slaves, employers had broad authority to whip convicts for offenses such as “slow hoeing,” “sorry planting,” and “being light with cotton.” Those who tried to escape were whipped until blood ran down their legs, and sometimes even had metal spurs riveted to their feet.
Under the lease system, employers also had little incentive care for the convicts; if one dropped dead of disease or exhaustion, a replacement was easily obtained from the local jail. “Before the war we owned the negroes,” one Southern employer explained in 1883. “If a man had a good [slave], he could afford to take care of him; if he was sick, get a doctor . . . But these convicts: we don’t own ‘em. One dies, get another.” In the 1880s, the annual mortality rate for Mississippi’s convict population was sometimes as high as 16 percent. (see Mar 27)
January 4, 1920: Andrew Rube Foster organized the first black baseball league, the Negro National League. (see Jan 23)
Dyer anti-lynching bill
January 4, 1922: debate on the Dyer anti-lynching bill got under way in the House despite a determined filibuster on the part of its Democratic opponents. Three hours were spent in roll-calls demanded by Representative Garrett of Tennessee, the Democratic leader, in a futile attempt to head off discussion. (BH, see Jan 12; Dyer bill, see Jan 26)
Rosewood Florida riots
January 4, 1923: hundreds of white men began the burning of Rosewood, Fla. Within three days, the entire African-American town had been burned to the ground. By the time the violence ended, six African Americans and two whites had died. No one was ever prosecuted. Survivors later recounted that Fannie Taylor had made false accusations against Jesse Hunter to conceal her extramarital affair with a white man. In 1994, the Florida Legislature voted to compensate victims and their families. (BH, see Feb 7; RR see March 19, 1935)
Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
January 4, 2014: Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in 2005 for the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look again at his motion for a new trial. (see Murders for expanded chronology)
Immigration History
January 4, 1904: the Supreme Court, in Gonzales v. Williams, ruled that Puerto Ricans were not aliens and could enter the United States freely; however, the court stopped short of declaring them U.S. citizens. (see February 23, 1904)
US Labor History
January 4, 1933: angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of Iowa’s Farmers Holiday Association threatened to lynch banking representatives and law officials who instituted foreclosure proceedings for the duration of the Great Depression. (see Mar 4)
Dirk De Jonge
January 4, 1937: a member of the Communist Party, Dirk De Jonge had organized a public meeting on July 27, 1934, where he was arrested. He was then convicted of violating the Oregon Criminal Syndicalism statute, which prohibited advocating the overthrow of the government.
In De Jonge v Oregon, The Supreme Court ruled that convicting him for simply conducting a meeting violated the First Amendment.
In retrospect, the decision on this day was an early sign that the Supreme Court was beginning the process of becoming a strong defender of civil liberties, which it did under the “Roosevelt Court” from 1937 to 1945.(see April 26, 1938)
January 4, 1965: the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, held its first “legal” rally after a long series of protests, demonstrations, and arrests in the fall of 1964. See especially October 1, 1964, and December 2, 1964, for two of the most important events in the dramatic struggle in the fall of 1964. The FSM had been sparked by the university’s promise to “strictly enforce” its ban on on-campus recruiting for off-campus political activity on September 16, 1964. The rally on this day was “legal” in the sense that the university had agreed to abandon the policy and respect the free speech rights of students. Folk singer Joan Baez performed at the rally. (FS, see April 26; SA, see Dec 16)(see Student Free Speech Movement for more)
January 4 1948: Burma independent from the United Kingdom. (see Feb 4)
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January 4, 1954: while still working as a truck driver, Elvis Presley went to the Sam Phillips’s Memphis Recording Service in Memphis, TN, to record a song for his mother’s birthday which was many months away. He recorded “It Wouldn’t Be The Same Without You” and “I’ll Never Stand In Your Way.” This was this recording that would lead Phillips to call Presley back to record for his Sun Records label. The receipt is dated Jan. 6, but the date of the recording was Jan. 4 (see Apr 12)
January 4 – 17, 1960: “El Paso” by Marty Robbins #1 Billboard Hot 100. First of three #1 songs in a row in which a person or persons die.
January 4 – 10, 1960: the Soundtrack to South Pacific is the Billboard #1 stereo album.
Kingston Trio
January 4 – February 14, 1960: the Kingston Trio’s Here We Go Again album is Billboard’s #1 mono album.
January 4 – 31, 1964, “There! I’ve Said It Again” by Bobby Vinton #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
January 4, 1967: The Doors release first album, The Doors.
Technological Milestones
Hand-held calculator
January 4, 1972: the first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395).
Color TVs
By the end of 1972: more than half (52.6%) of American households had a color TV set. (see April 3, 1973)
January 4, 2010: Dubai opened the world’s tallest skyscraper, the 2,717-foot Burj Khalifa. It cost $1.5 billion. (see Jan 27)
January 4, 1974: citing executive privilege, Nixon refused to surrender 500 tapes and documents which have been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. (see Watergate for much more)
January 4, 1975: The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. Congress passed the Native American Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act which repudiated the policy of tribal termination that began on August 1, 1953. Termination was a policy by which Native-American tribes were dissolved as independent nations, their status before termination. The policy of termination was intended to help Native-Americans assimilate into the mainstream of American life. President Richard Nixon repudiated the tribal termination policy on July 8, 1970. (next Native Americans see June 26, 1975)
Irish Troubles
January 4, 1976: the Ulster Volunteer Force killed six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day 10 Protestant civilians are murdered in retaliation. (see Troubles for expanded chronology)
Kent State Killings
January 4. 1979: an out-of-court settlement was reached in the civil cases and approved by the Ohio State Controlling Board with a vote of 6-to-1. Shortly after the board announced its decision, the judge in the U.S. District Court in Cleveland dismissed a jury that had been called to hear testimony in a second trial against the state.
The plaintiffs receive $675,000 for injuries received in 1970 and this compensation is accompanied by a statement from the defendants, which reads in part, “In retrospect the tragedy of May 4, 1970, should not have occurred…We deeply regret those events and are profoundly saddened by the deaths of four students and the wounding of nine others which resulted.”
The settlement, according to the plaintiffs, “accomplished to the greatest extent possible under present law” their main objectives, not the least of which was financial support for Dean Kahler, who has been paralyzed.
Also sought by plaintiffs was a statement signed by Rhodes and 27 National Guardsmen who were defendants in the case.
The statement, read in court, said: “In retrospect, the tragedy of May 4, 1970 should not have occurred.” It also noted that students protesting the Cambodian invasion by U.S. troops “may have believed they were right” in continuing their protests in spite of a university ban on rallies and an order for the students to disperse. The statement went on to note that those orders had been upheld as “lawful” by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The statement continued: “Some of the guardsmen on Blanket Hill (the campus area where the violence occurred), fearful and anxious from prior events, may have believed in their own minds that their lives were danger. Hindsight suggests another method would have resolved the confrontation. Better ways must be found to deal with such confrontations.
“We devoutly wish that a means had been found to avoid the May 4 events culminating in the Guard shootings and the irreversible deaths and injuries. We deeply regret those events, and are profoundly saddened by the deaths of four students and wounding of nine others which resulted. We hope that the agreement to end this litigation will help assuage the tragic moments regarding that sad day.”
Settlement of monies were distributed as follows:
Dean Kahler, $350,000
Joseph Lewis, $42,500
Thomas Grace, $37,500
Donald MacKenzie, $27,500
John Cleary, $22,500
Alan Canfora, Douglas Wrentmore, Robert Stamps, James Russell, $15,000 each
Families of the four students slain, $15,000 each
Attorneys fees and expenses, $75,000.
LGBTQ & AIDS
January 4, 1982: at a meeting in his living room in New York City, playwright and gay rights activist Larry Kramer and a small group of friends decided to form the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) organization to address the emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic. When someone said, “We have a gay men’s health crisis,” Kramer reportedly exclaimed, “That’s our name!” (GMHC timeline) (LGBTQ, see Jan 28; AIDS, see Apr 13)
Sexual Abuse of Children
January 4, 2007: the Spokane diocese in Washington agreed to pay at least $48 m as compensation to people abused by priests. (see July 15)
January 4, 2007: the number of women serving in the U.S. Senate reached an all-time high of 16 and Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as Speaker of the House , the first woman ever to hold the post. (NBC News article) (see August 8, 2009)
January 4, 2017: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department had withdrawn federal guidelines that effectively limited prosecutions of businesses and individuals who sold pot in a legal manner under state law, even though the drug remains illegal under federal law. Sessions said future prosecutions would be up to individual U.S. attorneys.
The memo reminded prosecutors that “marijuana activity is a serious crime…[and]that] stricter enforcement by prosecutors will help tackle the growing drug crisis, and thwart violent crime across our country.”
Republican Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, where voters approved recreational marijuana in 2012, and Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, where pot was decriminalized in 2003 and legalized recreationally since 2014, both denounced the Sessions announcement. (next Marijuana, see Jan 11; Justice Department, see April 13, 2018)
January 4, 2017: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposed a sweeping new offshore drilling plan aimed at opening huge swaths of the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans to oil exploration.
The draft plan released includes 25 of 26 offshore planning areas and mafr available for lease roughly 90 percent of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. The administration had identified 47 potential lease sales, including 19 off the coast of Alaska and 12 in the Gulf of Mexico, Zinke told reporters (see Jan 8)
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Seeking Wisdom: Students & Elders in the Sea to Sky
Carswellfilm.ca © Squamish Nation & School District 48, 2017
Director: Ed Carswell
Students from School District 48’s Aboriginal Leadership Group travel throughout the Sea to Sky to interview Elders from both the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations. The teachings empower the students for their 3rd annual 24 Hour Drum event. Elders share stories, poetry, and deep wisdom surrounding issues of language revitalization, reconciliation and forgiveness.
Please note that the organisers of World Community’s annual film festival encourage you to come and view this film during it’s screening. The film-maker will be in attendance, and possibly available for some questions. We recognise that not everyone may be able to attend, and therefore made this film available to you below.
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Firefighter rescues new best friend while battling California wildfire
Posted 9:28 am, August 28, 2018, by WQAD Digital Team and Tribune Media
DRAPER, Utah – The Draper City Fire Department tragically lost a crew member in the Mendocino complex fire in California, but they also gained a new one with four legs.
Draper City Firefighter Patrick Cullen had been battling the Mendocino Complex Fire for about four days when he felt something move in the middle of the night, according to KSTU.
“I thought, 'oh, me and a mountain lion. This will be fun,'” said Cullen.
However, that mountain lion ended up being a German Shepherd.
“There was a mud puddle there that he was pawing at for water, so I gave him some water, a couple bottles of water, and he slept under the engine for the next few hours,” said Cullen.
Right away, Cullen and the other firefighters started brainstorming names.
“A couple of us had mentioned Mendo, and it stuck,” said Cullen.
As much as they loved having the dog around, it wasn't safe to keep Mendo with them while they were on the fire lines.
The Mendocino Animal Shelter tried to find his owner and when nobody came forward, they contacted Cullen.
“A couple of the volunteers from the county offered to meet in Reno,” said Cullen.
Chandra Brouilette was one of those volunteers and she shot their reunion on her phone.
“It was so heartwarming, and Mendo recognized Patrick right away, and there was no doubt that this was truly, truly meant to be,” said Brouilette.
“Especially with things that happened as we finished what we were doing there, he had a little bit more value,” said Cullen.
Cullen is tearfully referring to the loss of battalion chief Matt Burchett, who did meet Mendo before he passed.
“I know he saw him and I know we talked about it,” said Cullen.
The Draper City Fire Department never expected to come home one crew member short, but by gaining one more, their experience in California can be associated with a new beginning.
“This is a happy ending to that story,” said Cullen.
Mendo is not the official firehouse dog for the Draper City Fire Department, but Cullen says he plans to bring him around a lot, hoping he'll bring some comfort to his fellow firefighters.
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How cops could get your data without unlocking your phone
Posted 5:39 pm, November 10, 2017, by CNN Wire
Apple once again is finding itself at the center of a debate around law enforcement and encryption.
On Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein cited the recent Texas mass shooting as an example of why encryption backdoors — or ways to circumvent security and privacy protocols — are necessary.
The tech company said it offered to help the FBI after the agency said it could not unlock the phone of Texas shooter Devin Kelley. He is accused of killing 26 people and then himself at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Sunday.
“Our team immediately reached out to the FBI after learning from their press conference on Tuesday that investigators were trying to access a mobile phone,” Apple said in a statement. “We offered assistance and said we would expedite our response to any legal process they send us.”
A source familiar with the matter confirmed the phone was an iPhone. The FBI declined to comment.
The source told CNN that law enforcement agencies did not contact Apple for help within 48 hours after the shooting. Consequently, investigators may have lost crucial time that could have helped them investigate the shooter’s phone.
The 48-hour window
In theory, law enforcement could have used the shooter’s fingerprint, even if deceased, to unlock the device in the hours following the incident. Researchers have previously shown it’s possible to easily spoof the fingerprint sensor if you have a clay replica of the person’s finger.
The FBI would not need Apple’s assistance to unlock the phone in this manner. If the the agency had called Apple, the company may have suggested this method. However, it’s unclear whether the shooter had Touch ID enabled.
But the fingerprint scanner no longer works if the iPhone hasn’t been unlocked for 48 hours — Apple then requires users to input a passcode. Some Android phones have similar time limits before requiring a passcode to unlock.
Apple has featured the 48-hour time limit since rolling out Touch ID in 2013. Its decision to frequently require the passcode helps people remember the security key. iPhone users must also enter the passcode to do things like update their software.
Related: DOJ grows frustrated with tech firms over encryption
Some security experts have speculated the Texas incident could further the debate on encryption backdoors. California Senator Dianne Feinstein reportedly wants to revisit proposed legislation to require tech firms to share encrypted messages if given a warrant, according to a Politico report.
The encryption issue came to a head in 2015 following the San Bernardino terror attack. Apple CEO Tim Cook very publicly pushed back on the FBI’s order to create software that could unlock one of the shooter’s iPhones.
“In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession,” Cook wrote in a letter.
Ultimately, the FBI found an alternative solution to get the information needed: it paid around $1 million to hack that iPhone. Anyone, including law enforcement, can buy hacking tools to break into phones and computers. But, as witnessed in the case of the iPhone hack, these tools can be expensive.
Security experts believe the Texas shooting case is different. There is no suggestion of co-conspirators and it won’t end up in court, said Nicholas Weaver, lecturer in the computer science department at UC Berkeley.
Weaver said there are other ways for law enforcement to get similar data to what you would get unlocking an iPhone.
For example, law enforcement can compel Apple to provide iCloud backups of information stored on the phone and disable the remote wipe feature. Tech companies such as Facebook and Twitter can also provide chat logs or other information when compelled by law enforcement.
Further, cell phone providers can hand over data related to location and with whom a criminal is exchanging texts. Law enforcement can also get information from message recipients.
Another workaround: If someone backs up a phone to a computer, it’s possible to get the data from the computer instead. Weaver said computers tend to be weaker in terms of preventing analysis without a password.
Apple said the company works with law enforcement every day. Its latest transparency report said law enforcement requests range from asking for information about stolen credit cards to account purchase history.
The report also revealed law enforcement submitted 4,479 device-based requests and 1,692 account requests from Apple during the first half of 2017. The company provided data 80% of the time for device requests and and 84% for account inquiries.
During the same time frame, Twitter received 2,111 account information requests from the U.S. government and turned over at least some information 77% of the time.
“We offer training to thousands of agents so they understand our devices and how they can quickly request information from Apple,” the company said in a statement.
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Bulls Tender Forward JJ Huerena
AMARILLO, TX – The Amarillo Bulls coaching staff knew they were going to lose a lot of their offensive weapons next year to the NCAA and have been hard at work searching for the next crop of young guns to fill the void.
JJ (James Jr.) Huerena becomes the fifth highly skilled forward to tender with the Amarillo Bulls for the 2014-15 season. The Colorado Springs, Colorado native joins Connor Wood, Jesse McIntyre, Elijiah Barriga and Ryan Walker as forwards already part of the future.
Huerena is second on the Rampage in scoring and sixth overall in the Tier 1 Elite League with 14 goals and 21 assists for 35 points in 26 games. Huerena has been a big part of his team scoring with four power play goals and having an additional three game winners.
Bulls Head Coach Dennis Williams said JJ Huerena comes highly recommended by Rampage Head Coach Andrew Sherman.
“Our staff watched JJ at the last super showcase and with us losing players up front due to over age and college, we are looking for the next crop of young guys to come here and compete,” said Williams. “I think one of the things that JJ brings is that high skill set and playmaking ability. He was very high on our list and from what he’s has proven to us already from the year he is having, he’s ready to step in and be an impact hockey player on our team.”
Huerena said one of the big reasons for choosing Amarillo is the first-class organization and the number of NCAA College Commitments.
“I am excited to be joining the Amarillo Bulls organization,” said Huerena. “They have a lot of NCAA college commitments, and I would like to be one of those commitments in the future. The Bulls have a great coaching staff and facility there in Amarillo.”
Huerena said being close to home is also an added bonus.
“I am good friends with Sean (Giles) and Jacob (Weatherly) (both from Colorado who have already tendered), but I am also excited about making new friends when I get there,” he said. “It’s great to play close to home where my parents can drive five or six hours down to Amarillo and catch the games.”
Colorado Rampage Head Coach Andrew Sherman said fans will enjoy watching JJ play.
“JJ is not afraid to go to the hard areas to score goals,” said Sherman. “He’s an elite all around player who has done a nice job for us this year. If you look over the history of the scoring race in the Tier I Elite League there is a relationship between the scoring leaders and playing NCAA Division I hockey.”
JJ Huerena and Jacob Weatherly head to the Bulls next from the Colorado Rampage Under 18 team. Head coach Dennis Williams said he got to know the Rampage organization and Head Coach Andrew Sherman at an Air Force Academy hockey camp this past summer.
Andrew and I were at the camp and we spent time evaluating some of the players and that’s what sparked the dialogue,” Williams explained. “Andrew has vast hockey knowledge and is also a terrific person. I know his players will come in prepared and compete for spots.”
It’s back to work this weekend for the Amarillo Bulls with a pair of games against the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees at the Budweiser Bull Pen in the Amarillo Civic Center. The games are set for Friday and Saturday at 7 pm.
Friday is the People’s Federal Credit Union Bobble Head Night. The first 500 fans through the doors receive a Bobble Head. Saturday’s game will be sponsored by Marble Depot. Tickets are available at the Bulls Office located at 301 South Polk, Civic Center Box Office and all Panhandle Ticket Outlets including United Supermarkets. For further information on Group Rates, Seven Game Flex Packs or Corporate Marketing Partnerships, please call the Bulls Office at 806-242-1122.
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By MELINDA DESLATTEJune 30, 2019
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Legislation promoted as a path to creating state-level health care protections for Louisiana residents if the federal health law is overturned put Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards in a no-win political situation.
If he vetoed the bill championed by Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry, Edwards would be scrapping the only measure that reached his desk to respond to the pending federal litigation threatening the Affordable Care Act. Edwards also would be giving Landry a new way to trash-talk him and accuse him of petty politics in an election year when both the governor and attorney general are on the ballot.
If he signed the bill, Edwards would be handing Landry the ability to claim victory on an issue about which the governor wants to appear proactive. That victory would come after Landry signed Louisiana onto the lawsuit seeking to jettison the federal health overhaul, the court challenge prompting the need for a state-level fix. Plus, Edwards would be signing legislation he described as a “fig leaf” that doesn’t fix anything.
But the governor has taken the position that he always signs or vetoes bills, never allowing them to become law without his signature.
So Edwards signed the Landry-backed bill into law, burying it in a list of bill signings released on a Friday evening — and now he’ll try to work around it, creating a task force to study additional responses to the litigation.
Whether the law, sponsored by Republican Sen. Fred Mills of St. Martin Parish, has any real impact remains to be seen. And it may never be needed, if the federal lawsuit winding its way through the courts isn’t successful.
The law starts Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon’s office working on ways to create a high-risk pool to help Louisiana residents with preexisting conditions access insurance if the federal law is thrown out. But such a creation requires more legislative approvals and doesn’t yet have financing to pay for any plan developed.
Under the law championed by former President Barack Obama, the federal government gives Louisiana consumers hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to help pay for the insurance coverage and preexisting condition protections.
Landry and Donelon say they’re hopeful Congress would help states with financing if those federal subsidies disappear. Edwards notes such promises from Washington haven’t been made.
Meanwhile, the Landry-backed law also wouldn’t help the 460,000 people added to Medicaid who would lose coverage if the Medicaid expansion program authorized under the federal law is scrapped.
The legislation became the latest dust-up between Edwards and Landry, who never shy away from a clash with each other. House Republicans allied with Landry ensured a separate Edwards-backed bill seeking to enact state-level health insurance protections was killed. It, too, had no financing source.
Landry said Edwards’ signing of his bill, which passed with near-unanimous support from lawmakers, was a “historic day.”
“Louisiana has now become the country’s leader in protecting patients with preexisting conditions,” Landry said in a statement.
Edwards had a different take.
“Studying a high-risk pool is not a replacement for the Affordable Care Act,” he said before he made his signing decision. “There is no way that that is a replacement of anything. It is at best a fig leaf designed to prevent embarrassment.”
His spokeswoman Christina Stephens said the governor later signed the bill because it “doesn’t do any harm.”
The Democratic Governors Association didn’t do Edwards any favors in the effort to draw little attention — or compliments — to the bill, however, when it released a Twitter post Tuesday praising Edwards for signing “legislation to protect health insurance coverage for Louisianians if the Affordable Care Act is overturned.”
The organization, supporting Edwards in his bid for a second term, seemed clueless that it was praising a Republican-led effort that the governor tried to kill.
Republicans, including Landry, seized on the tweet, using it as another round of publicity for the legislation’s passage and calling it outrageous Democrats would try to take credit for something Edwards didn’t support.
The Edwards-created task force to study state-level response options if the federal health law is overturned holds its first meeting July 17.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Melinda Deslatte has covered Louisiana politics for The Associated Press since 2000. Follow her at http://twitter.com/melindadeslatte
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Accused lawmaker denies Lee asked him not to seek reelection
By KIMBERLEE KRUESIJuly 10, 2019
FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2018 file photo, Rep. David Byrd speaks about a bill he is sponsoring that will allow school employees to carry guns at the Cordell Hull Building in Nashville, Tenn. Byrd who is accused of sexual misconduct is denying he's been asked by Republican Gov. Bill Lee not to run for reelection next year. The Tennessee Republican lawmaker Byrd texted The Associated Press on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, that Lee had not called him seeking to persuade him from running for a fourth term in the GOP-dominated Statehouse. (George Walker IV/The Tennessean via AP, File)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct denied on Wednesday that he’s been asked by Republican Gov. Bill Lee not to run for reelection next year, but later attempted to retract the statement by describing the conversation as “private.”
Republican Rep. David Byrd initially texted The Associated Press that Lee had not called him seeking to persuade him from running for a fourth two-year term in the GOP-dominated Statehouse.
“No, it’s not true!!” Byrd told the AP.
Byrd, of Waynesboro, was reacting to a news report earlier on Wednesday alleging Lee recently attempted to persuade Byrd not to run in the 2020 election. The report also said Byrd hinted he would consider the governor’s request.
Within an hour of responding to the AP, however, Byrd asked to retract his statement.
“I want to retract my statement,” Byrd said in a text message. “The conversation that we had was private.”
Byrd’s statements were all made on the record. He did not provide any more details about his phone conversation with the governor.
Lee’s office on Wednesday declined to respond to Byrd’s text messages to the AP.
Byrd has attracted increased scrutiny for more than a year after being accused by three women of sexual misconduct three decades ago when he was a high school teacher and coach, but never charged.
That attention has increased in recent months as lawmakers prepare for a special legislative session in August to elect a new House speaker.
A handful of lawmakers and victim advocates are arguing the special session could be used to oust Byrd from his legislative seat. Republican legislative leaders have warned that the process to oust a sitting lawmaker requires certain actions and it may be too hasty to try in August.
Two women alleged Byrd inappropriately touched them. The third said Byrd tried to.
One of the women, Christi Rice, recorded a call to Byrd. The recording had the lawmaker apologizing but he didn’t detail his action and denied anything happened with other students.
Byrd was 28 at the time and working as head coach at Wayne County High School when Rice says he abused her.
He has not outright denied the allegations, but has said he’s truly sorry if he hurt or emotionally upset any of his students.
Byrd has spurned calls to step down and was reelected in 2018 with overwhelming support in his legislative district. He repeatedly refused to answers questions about the allegations.
Lee has previously sidestepped questions surrounding Byrd’s resignation, saying that that decision is up to Byrd. But Lee has said it’s “past time” for Byrd to address the allegations publicly.
Earlier Wednesday, the governor himself backtracked after a video was released showing him promising that Byrd would soon be removed from the Legislature.
Activist Anna Grabowski recorded a video Tuesday showing her shouting questions at the governor as he walked toward an event in Meigs County.
“Will you get the child molester out of the legislature right away, David Byrd, get him out of there?” Grabowski asked Lee.
“That’s going to happen soon,” Lee replied.
Laine Arnold, Lee’s spokeswoman, said the governor thought he was responding to a question regarding House Speaker Glen Casada, who will be stepping down from the leadership position on August following a scandal that included sexually explicit text messages.
″(Lee’s) position on Rep. Byrd continues to be that it is past time for the representative to respond to allegations,” Arnold said in a statement.
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SPECIAL MEETING
The Town Council’s Special Meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m., with Closed Session items first and the remainder of the Regular Meeting immediately following. The meeting will occur in the Council Chambers located at 14955 Dale Evans Parkway in Apple Valley, California.
A. Negotiations with Real Property Negotiator – Property located at 15200 Rancherias Road, Apple Valley; Negotiating Parties: Lana Dugan; Town Negotiator(s): Town Manager or Finance Director or Designee. Negotiations involve both price and terms of payment.
B. Negotiations with Real Property Negotiator – Parcel Number: 441-33-01 located at the northwest corner of Dale Evans Parkway and Thunderbird, Apple Valley; Negotiating Parties: Quan and Pellissier; Town Negotiator(s)--Town Manager and Director of Economic and Community or Designee. Negotiations involve both price and terms.
C. Conference with Legal Counsel-Existing Litigation under Government Code Section 54956.9(a) – Deep Creek Agricultural Association vs. Town of Apple Valley, HDC Group LLC, San Bernardino Superior Court Case No. CIVSS 709146.
D. Conference with Legal Counsel-Existing Litigation under Government Code Section 54956.9(a) – Yolanda Alkawass, et al. (skyline villa) vs. Town of Apple Valley, San Bernardino Superior Court Case No. CIVSS 804723.
E. Personnel Matters – Government Code Section 54957/Public Employee Performance Evaluation. Title: Town Manager.
F. Conference with Legal Counsel – Anticipated Litigation pursuant to subdivision (b) of the Government Code Section 54956.9 (one or more potential cases).
G. Conference with Legal Counsel – Anticipated Litigation
Initiation of litigation pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 54956.9: one case.
1. Presentation from Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt regarding Joint Initiatives and Projects affecting the Town of Apple Valley.
2. Introduction from Apple Valley Fire District Chief Doug Qualls – Laura Whitehead, Emergency Services Officer
3. Certificates of Appreciation – Apple Valley Teen Volunteer Program
4. Commendations to Apple Valley Police Officers and Public Citizen
A. Regular Meeting – Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – Council Chambers
A. Regular Meeting – October 28, 2008
B. Special Meeting – November 12, 2008
3. Accept the Final Map for Parcel Map No. 18790
Move to accept the final map for Parcel Map No. 18790.
4. Release of Securities for Tract map No. 17093-1
Find that the construction of various improvements required for Tract 17093-1 is complete, and approve the 50% reduction of the performance securities.
5. Review and Approve Construction Specifications for the Reconstruction of Various Town Roads, 2008-2009 Project, and Authorize Staff to Proceed with Advertisement for this Project
Review and approve specifications for the reconstruction of various Town Roads 2008-2009 Project and direct staff to proceed with the project.
6. Award Contract for Environmental and Design Services of the Highway 18 and Apple Valley Road Intersection Realignment Project
Award a contract to Dokken Engineering for Environmental Design Services in an amount not to exceed $417,000 subject to “Approval as to Form” by the Town Attorney and “Approval as to Content” by the Town Manager.
7. General Plan Amendment No. 2007-008 And Zone Change No. 2007-005 To Change The Current Land Use Designation From Single-Family Residential (R-SF, 1 DU 0.4 To 0.9 Net Acres) To Medium Density Residential (R-M, Two (2) To Twenty (20) Dwelling Units Per Acre); And A Corresponding Rezoning Classification From Residential Equestrian (R-EQ, 1 DU Per 0.4 To 0.9 Net Acres) To A Residential Multi-Family (R-M, Two (2) To Twenty (20) Dwelling Units Per Acre) Zoning Classification. The Project Is Located At The Southwest Corner Of Ottawa And Nomwaket Roads; APN(S) 3087-401-02, -03, -04, -05.
Adopt Ordinance No. 389.
8. Adopt Ordinance No. 390, An Ordinance Of The Town Council Of The Town Of Apple Valley, California, Amending Title 9 “Development Code” Of The Town Of Apple Valley Municipal Code, By Amending Chapter 9.74 “Signs And Advertising Displays” Of The Development Code As It Relates To Modifying The Regulations For Human-Operated Signage Located Near Access Areas Of Public Safety Facilities Within The Town.
9. A Resolution Of The Town Council Of The Town Of Apple Valley, California, Creating A New Development Code Advisory Committee In Connection With The Comprehensive Update Of The Town’s General Plan, And Prescribing The Functions And Duties Thereof
Adopt Resolution No. 2008-61 creating a new Town of Apple Valley Development Code Advisory Committee in connection with the comprehensive update of the Town’s General Plan and prescribing the functions and duties of said Committee.
10. Towerco II LLC Wireless Site Agreement
That the Town Council approve the transfer of the Lease Agreement from New Cingular to Towerco II LLC, and the Town for the purpose of installing a telecommunication facility at Corwin Park.
11. Amendment To The Professional Services Contract For The Preparation Of An Update To The General Plan, Annexation Plan For Service And A CEQA Compliant Environmental Impact Report For The General Plan And Annexation.
Award the amended professional services contract in the additional amount of $31,050.00 to Terra Nova Planning and Research, Inc., for professional services for the preparation of an update to the General Plan, Annexation Plan for Service and a CEQA-compliant Environmental Impact Report and Specific Plan, subject to "Approval as to Form" by the Town Attorney and "Approval as to Content" by the Town Manager.
12. Resolution Number 2008-62 Of The Town Council Of The Town Of Apple Valley, California, Amending Resolution No. 2002-43, Amending The Conflict Of Interest Code Pursuant To The Political Reform Act By Reference To The Standard Conflict Of Interest Code Set Forth In Section 18730 Of The Regulations Of The Fair Political Practices Commission As Amended
Adopt Resolution Number 2008-62.
13. Five-Year Consolidated Plan Amendment, to Include Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) Funds
That the Town Council approve the proposed amendment to its 2008-2009 Action Plan to incorporate the Neighborhood Stabilization Program; and authorize and direct the Town Manager to execute any necessary contract related documents on behalf of the Town.
14. Commemorative Bricks on Public Property
Creation of a policy that would limit the inscriptions on all commemorative bricks donated for the Mojave Aquatics Coalition to only allow names and/or dates, as well as firmly establishing the process for review of all brick applications including who determines whether or not a brick application is in compliance.
15. Introduce Ordinance No. 391 – An Ordinance of The Town Council of the Town of Apple Valley Amending Chapter 2.60 (Personnel) of Title 2 of the Town of Apple Valley Municipal Code Relating to Compensation of All Town Employees
1. Move to WAIVE reading of Ordinance 391 in its entirety and read by title only.
2. Move to INTRODUCE Ordinance No. 391 amending Chapter 2.60 (Personnel) of Title 2 of The Town of Apple Valley Municipal Code By Amending Section 2.60.070 Relating to Compensation of Town Employees.
16.Proposed Six (6) Month Moratorium Relating to the Town of Apple Valley Sign Code
That the Town Council approve a six month moratorium on the enforcement of the placement of temporary signs on private property of retail business establishments during business hours and authorize the Town Manager to take all necessary steps to implement this action.
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Office Winhov
Student Housing Campus Eindhoven University of Technology / Office Winhov + Office haratori + BDG Architecten
05:00 - 16 March, 2017
© Stefan Müller
Office Winhov, Office haratori, BDG Architecten
De Lismortel, 5612 Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Joost Hovenier, Jan Peter Wingender (Office Winhov), Zeno Vogel (office haratori) met Gerard Jansen (BDG Architecten Ingenieurs)
Office Winhov, Amsterdam with office haratori, Zürich in collaboration with BDG Architecten Almere
BDG Architecten ingenieurs, Almere (The Netherlands)
Hurks Delphi Engineering, Veldhoven (The Netherlands)
Deens Raadgevende Ingenieurs, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
Building physics
Huybrechts Relou, Son (The Netherlands)
Text description provided by the architects. Work began on building the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 1957 based on the urban development plan of S.J. van Embden. His design aimed at creating an idealised factory environment for technical research and study consisting of tall, modern buildings on stilts that were connected with one another and with the laboratories and workshops located in between them by means of aerial walkways. The plan followed the modern ideal of self-contained buildings in a continuous landscape. The rational structure in which the buildings followed a fixed grid pattern was expressed in the curtain walls of the first generation of buildings on the campus. A master plan for the re organisation and expansion of the campus has been drawn up following the original design. It envisages the introduction of accommodation for students and researchers on the north side of the campus on the edge of the green brook valley of the Dommel.
Axonometric
The position and orientation of the wedge-shaped building are aligned with the series of taller buildings on the campus. The building is entirely prefabricated. The load-bearing façade is made of concrete sandwich elements whose continuous grid reflects the façades of the old buildings on the campus. The front side of the wall panel bands are polished, providing a stronger contrast with the closed sections of the wall and giving the grid an autonomous position in the façade composition. Besides the outer walls, the floors, bathrooms and installations are also prefabricated to enable the building to be constructed within a very short time. The wedge-shaped building has been staggered around the central corridor, creating a triple articulation in the end facades. This division into three facilitates a logical distribution of the rooms and group flats. It also gives the building an elegant appearance and a dynamic, asymmetrical look, both on the side facing the campus and on that facing the Dommel.
The building is aligned with the top end of the campus but is otherwise entirely freestanding in the green brook valley of the Dommel. Upon arrival, residents pass through the cycle shed and the collective space, which share the same visual axis with one another and with the surrounding landscape, to reach the lifts on the north side.
The lifts convey them via the two-storey lift lobbies to their rooms on the different floors. There is a collective outdoor area on each floor facing south with a view over the campus. The over-dimensioning of the collective areas makes them suitable for meeting and activities. This creates a series of spaces extending through the building from the university terrain to the individual rooms, giving an explicit added value and liveliness to living on a campus.
Office haratori
BDG Architecten
Projects Built Projects Selected Projects Residential Architecture Housing Educational Architecture Other facilities Dorms EindhovenThe Netherlands
Cite: "Student Housing Campus Eindhoven University of Technology / Office Winhov + Office haratori + BDG Architecten" 16 Mar 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/867228/student-housing-campus-eindhoven-university-of-technology-office-winhov-plus-office-haratori-plus-bdg-architecten/> ISSN 0719-8884
埃因霍温理工大学校园学生公寓 / Office Winhov + Office haratori + BDG Architecten
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Home > Features > Wolves vs Arsenal preview, team news & betting odds
Wolves vs Arsenal preview, team news & betting odds
Arsenal desperately need a win over Wolves at Molineux this evening in order to boost our chances of finishing in the top four.
We failed to take our opportunity to put some real pressure on our rivals after slumping to a hugely disappointing 3-2 defeat at home to Crystal Palace on Sunday afternoon.
However, with Tottenham losing at Man City, Man Utd getting thrashed at Everton and Chelsea being held to a 2-2 draw at home by Burnley, none of our rivals won over the weekend so we got away with it.
Spurs did snatch three points with a late 1-0 win over Brighton last night so they are now four points ahead of Arsenal in third place but if we win our game in hand tonight we can close the gap back to just one point, move up to fourth and move two points clear of Chelsea.
However, defeat to a very dangerous Wolves side at Molineux would leave Arsenal outside the top four and with it all to do if we’re to qualify for the Champions League via the Premier League this season so it’s all to play for.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, Unai Emery was coy over the chances of Granit Xhaka returning from a hip injury but the midfielder has trained this week and is expected to be back in the squad.
Sokratis also returns from a two match ban, however, Aaron Ramsey, Denis Suarez, Danny Welbeck, Hector Bellerin and Rob Holding remain on the sidelines.
Wolves have no new injury concerns to worry about and Leander Dendoncker will be back in contention after missing their draw with Brighton.
Betting tips & odds
This won’t be an easy game to bet on as Arsenal are unpredictable away from home and Wolves have the potential to turn up against the top sides. Our tips for accumulators at the weekend were ruined by Arsenal’s defeat to Palace so we don’t want the same thing happening tonight but I do fancy the Gunners to edge this one.
Wolves have been poor since losing their FA Cup semi-final and have very little left to play for while Arsenal are battling for every point to try and finish in the top four. I do think Wolves will prove to be a stern test but we’ve never lost a Premier League game to them and I don’t see that starting tonight. I’m going for Wolves 1-2 Arsenal.
Arsenal are the narrow 13/8 favourites to win the game with the hosts priced at 15/8 and the draw 5/2. My prediction of a 2-1 Arsenal win can be backed at 17/2 with the bookmakers.
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Thomas Donaldson
10-4-16 figure
A medium scale drawing depicting a seated female figure study in inks, Acrylic and charcoal on 200gms paper.
The ongoing series of figure drawings examines the genres of representation and expression and have been influenced by the work of Francis Bacon, Egon Schiele and the illustrator Ralph Steadman.
The use of fluid mediums such as inks, watercolours and acrylics allows for a certain element of chance within the drawing and are produced quickly using expressive marks and stains, giving them an ‘imperfect’ feel , which in turn gives the work an exciting vitality and energy. Although the drawing is representational and figurative it intend to suggest, rather than depict an accurate observation of the subject.
The drawing is titled and signed on the front and also comes with a certificate of authenticity.
The work will be shipped by DHL, rolled in a strong tube and should arrive within 2-3 days after dispatch.
ink, watercolour, acrylic, pastels
10-4-16 figure (2016)
Drawing by Thomas Donaldson
Drawing on Paper
Subject: Nudes and erotic
This artwork is sold by Thomas Donaldson from Thailand
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Venus Williams Speaker & Booking Information
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Modern Detective
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Memory Man Series, Book 5
By: David Baldacci
Narrated by: Kyf Brewer, Orlagh Cassidy
Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison are visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by an unfamiliar man. But he instantly recognizes the man's name: Meryl Hawkins. He's the first person Decker ever arrested for murder back when he was a young detective. Though a dozen years in prison have left Hawkins unrecognizably aged and terminally ill, one thing hasn't changed: He maintains he never committed the murders. Could it be possible that Decker made a mistake all those years ago?
Like cordwood the bodies stack up...
By shelley on 04-17-19
Series: Amos Decker, Book 5
By: Kate Atkinson
Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network - and back across the path of his old friend Reggie.
Stay with it
By RJ Wiley on 07-06-19
Series: Jackson Brodie Mysteries, Book 5
By: Mary Kay Andrews
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Drue Campbell’s life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn’t seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother’s funeral after a 20-year absence. Worse, he’s remarried - to Drue’s eighth-grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they’re offering her a job. It seems like the job from hell, but the offer is sweetened by the news of her inheritance - her grandparents’ beach bungalow in the sleepy town of Sunset Beach.
I love when a book takes me completely by surprise
By Charlsa on 05-08-19
A DI Amy Winter Thriller, Book 1
By: Caroline Mitchell
Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
DI Amy Winter is hoping to follow in the footsteps of her highly respected police officer father. But when a letter arrives from the prison cell of Lillian Grimes, one half of a notorious husband-and-wife serial-killer team, it contains a revelation that will tear her life apart. Responsible for a string of heinous killings decades ago, Lillian is pure evil. A psychopathic murderer. And Amy’s biological mother. Now, she is ready to reveal the location of three of her victims - but only if Amy plays along with her twisted game.
Riveting Story
By Lia on 12-26-18
Series: A DI Amy Winter Thriller, Book 1
Lethal White
A Cormoran Strike Novel
By: Robert Galbraith
Narrated by: Robert Glenister
When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant, now a partner in the agency - set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London....
🍊🍾🔑🤺🗡🏇🏼💊Only Sorry There’s No Book Five Yet 💵🧯🔦📞♟🎨🐴
By Gretchen SLP on 01-08-19
Series: Cormoran Strike , Book 4
Fortune Furlough
By: Jana DeLeon
Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie are finally off to Florida on the vacation they’ve always talked about. Days filled with white sand, turquoise water, and fruity drinks are the only thing on the agenda. But when Gertie’s “hot date” turns up dead and she’s the number one suspect, they’re forced to hang up their bathing suits and shift to investigating mode.
Another wild ride with the girls!
By karen santiago on 06-13-19
Series: Miss Fortune Mysteries, Book 14
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kyf Brewer
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a tiger by its toe. It's seared into Atlee Pine's memory: the kidnapper's chilling rhyme as he chose between six-year-old Atlee and her twin sister, Mercy. Mercy was taken. Atlee was spared. She never saw Mercy again. Three decades after that terrifying night, Atlee Pine works for the FBI. She's the lone agent assigned to the Shattered Rock, Arizona resident agency, which is responsible for protecting the Grand Canyon. So when one of the Grand Canyon's mules is found stabbed to death at the bottom of the canyon - and its rider missing - Pine is called in to investigate.
Damn, Baldacci is good!
Series: Atlee Pine (unabridged), Book 1
Dark Sacred Night
A Ballard and Bosch Novel
By: Michael Connelly
Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver
Renée Ballard is working the night beat again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out but then checks into the case herself, and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger. Bosch is investigating the death of 15-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally murdered and her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch.
By Paul Beer on 11-16-18
Series: Renée Ballard, Book 2, Harry Bosch, Book 21
Thin Air
Jessica Shaw, Book 1
By: Lisa Gray
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Private investigator Jessica Shaw is used to getting anonymous tips. But after receiving a photo of a three-year-old kidnapped from Los Angeles twenty-five years ago, Jessica is stunned to recognize the little girl as herself. Eager for answers, Jessica heads to LA’s dark underbelly. When she learns that her biological mother was killed the night she was abducted, Jessica’s determined to solve a case the police have forgotten. Meanwhile, veteran LAPD detective Jason Pryce is in the midst of a gruesome investigation into a murdered college student moonlighting as a prostitute.
Dumbest 2 detectives ever to get a book deal.
By squishy on 07-05-19
Veronica Mars: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
By: Rob Thomas, Jennifer Graham
Narrated by: Kristen Bell
The first book in an original mystery series featuring 28-year-old Veronica Mars, back in action after the events of Veronica Mars: The Movie. With the help of old friends - Logan Echolls, Mac Mackenzie, Wallace Fennel, and even Dick Casablancas - Veronica is ready to take on Neptune's darkest cases with her trademark sass and smarts.
Mars Attacks, succeeds!
By Alison on 03-30-14
Series: Veronica Mars Series, Book 1
The Frame-Up
The Golden Arrow Mysteries Series, Book 1
By: Meghan Scott Molin
Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
MG Martin lives and breathes geek culture. She works as a writer for the comic book company she idolized as a kid. But despite her love of hooded vigilantes, MG prefers her comics stay on the page. But when someone in LA starts recreating crime scenes from her favorite comic book, MG is the LAPD’s best - and only - lead. She recognizes the golden arrow left at the scene as the calling card of her favorite comic book hero. The thing is…superheroes aren’t real. Are they? When Detective Kildaire asks for her comic book expertise, MG is more than up for the adventure.
Hit or Miss, Saved by the Narrator
By Dubi on 02-06-19
Series: The Golden Arrow Mysteries, Book 1
Neon Prey
A Prey Novel, Book 29
By: John Sandford
Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan-shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the US Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy - it's his boss they want - but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation. Then, they step onto a dirt trail behind Deese's rural Louisiana cabin and find a jungle full of graves.
Lots of moving parts! Outstanding!!
Series: Lucas Davenport, Book 29
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
Unbelievable debut mystery set in London
By Tracey on 05-26-13
Heart of Barkness
Chet and Bernie Mysteries, Book 9
By: Spencer Quinn
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
Spencer Quinn's Heart of Barkness is the latest in the New York Times best-selling series that the Los Angeles Times called "nothing short of masterful".
Wow, I needed that
By 6catz on 07-03-19
Series: Chet and Bernie Mysteries, Book 9
Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 1
By: Louise Penny
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it’s a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter.
A rare find
By Alex on 01-16-15
Series: Chief Inspector Gamache/Three Pines, Book 1
Following Memory Man, number-one NYT best-selling author David Baldacci returns with his next thriller featuring detective Amos Decker.
Plot holes filled by strong characters
By green ice cream garden on 04-26-16
Almost Midnight
Mike Bowditch Series, Book 10
By: Paul Doiron
Narrated by: Henry Leyva
Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch already has a troubling mystery on his hands: finding the archer who mortally wounded Maine’s only wild wolf. Then he learns his best friend, Billy Cronk, has been released from prison after heroically defending a female guard from a stabbing. Mike comes to believe the assault was orchestrated by a wider criminal conspiracy. When the conspirators pursue Billy's wife and children to a “safe" cabin in the woods, Mike rushes to their defense only to find himself outnumbered, outgunned - and maybe out of options.
Great Series!
Series: Mike Bowditch Series, Book 10
Running Blind
Jack Reacher, Book 4
By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
Across the country women are being murdered by a killer who leaves no evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to a motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, the only thing that links the victims is the man they all knew: Jack Reacher.
narrative distracting
By grdynamite on 11-13-13
Series: Jack Reacher, Book 4
Grave Peril
The Dresden Files, Book 3
By: Jim Butcher
Narrated by: James Marsters
Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden has had a rough couple of weeks. As the only openly practicing professional wizard in the Chicago area, he has squared off against a multitude of supernatural bad guys. Harry has won the day against demons, poltergeists, sorcerers, trolls, vampires, werewolves, and even an evil faerie godmother. You might think nothing could spook him. You would be wrong.
Spike makes good
By Lakejewel on 03-22-10
Series: The Dresden Files, Book 3
Look Alive Twenty-Five
A Stephanie Plum Novel
By: Janet Evanovich
Narrated by: Lorelei King
There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum.
I waited for this???
By karen on 11-14-18
Series: Stephanie Plum, Book 25
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Entry from May 17, 2008
NoDo (Houston’s North of Downtown area)
"NoDo” (north of downtown) is a neighborhood nickname (like New York City’s “SoHo” for “South of Houston Street") first used in Denver, Colorado, dating from about 1992. Omaha also claims a “NoDo,” as does Houston and—to a lesser extent—San Antonio. “NoDo” is pronounced like “no dough” and not “no do.”
Houston’s “NoDo” dates from at least 1998. According to a March 20, 1998 article in the Houston Chronicle, “NoDo” was coined by restaurant owner Cliver Berkman.
About.com: San Antonio
Central Loop - Downtown San Antonio
From Kori Ellis, for About.com
Central Loop Districts and Neighborhoods:
Alamo District
Convention Center District
Historic Civic District
Houston Street District
King William Historic District
La Villita District
Market Square District
NoDo (Northside of Downtown)
River Bend District
SoSo (South of Southtown)
21 September 1992, Denver (CO) Post, pg. 1C:
After “LoDo” and “NoDo” some people are starting to call downtown’s Market Street area “Mo-Do.”
Houston (TX) Chronicle (March 20, 1998)
After the show/Suddenly Houstonians enjoy a full plate of late-night eateries
By CLIFFORD PUGH
What a difference a couple of years make.
The last time we looked around for restaurants that stayed up late to serve Houstonians after a concert, movie or arts performance, only a handful fit the bill.
But that was before a mini-explosion of new restaurants that cater to the after-theater crowd altered the late-night scene.
Many of the new eateries are located within walking distance of the downtown Theater District. Some restaurateurs are touting the area that stretches from Bayou Place to Market Square and encompasses the Theater District as NODO (North Downtown).
But there are also some new late-night options as well as some reliable old dining standards in ODO (our abbreviation for Outside Downtown).
Clive’s the Grille, 517 Louisiana, offers a late-night menu and live jazz from 9:30 p.m. until 1:30 a.m. every Friday and Saturday. The menu includes tapas, steak, chicken sandwiches, crab cakes, pasta, soups and salads.
Owner Clive Berkman inaugurated the late-night menu and added a jazz combo a few weeks ago to capitalize on the increased downtown activity. He also coined the phrase NODO for the area and brought in street musicians to play for tips.
Houston (TX) Chronicle (June 7, 1998)
Downtown developers can look to Denver for inspiration
By RALPH BIVINS
DENVER - The LoDo section of downtown Denver - where old buildings have been transformed into lofts, hotels and restaurants - is having an influence on the rebirth of downtown Houston.
The pattern established in Denver could be repeated in Houston in more ways than just bricks and mortar - it could change the vocabulary of Houstonians.
Just as Denver residents have named their lower downtown district “LoDo,” Houstonians have begun to call part of downtown Houston “NoDo.”
NoDo - pronounced like “no dough” - stands for “North Downtown.”
NoDo includes the oldest parts of Houston and turn-of-the-century buildings along Buffalo Bayou. The Bayou Lofts, Hogg Palace Lofts and the Rice Hotel are located in Houston’s NoDo.
The boundaries of NoDo aren’t on any official map, but it’s basically everything north of Capitol and south of Buffalo Bayou.
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There is no Deep Ellum (DALLAS), 6th Street (AUSTIN), South of Market (SAN FRANCISCO), NoDo-Market Square (HOUSTON) or Rush Street (CHICAGO).
I’ll take Houston’s NoDo District for nighttime hanging out over the 3rd Street Prom. most evenings out of the year.
Houston (TX) Chronicle (September 10, 1998)
We love the new restaurants and clubs popping up downtown. But do we really have to refer to them as NoDo, for North Downtown? Sounds like someone who’s short of cash. We get it, it’s a takeoff on SoHo. But that’s so wannabe. Houston has its own style.
New York (NY) Times
AMERICAN CITIES; Downtown Houston Gets a Makeover
By RICK LYMAN
‘’Most of the people who haven’t been downtown for a year almost don’t recognize it,’’ said Rasheed Rafaey, owner of Tasca, one of the popular new restaurants in the northern end of downtown, which is known, inevitably, as NoDo. ‘’You had zero street traffic a year and a half ago after 6 P.M.’’
Houston (TX) Press
No EF-ing Way
An “EastDo” diehard goes to the (name)plate against the Astros
By Bob Burtman
The top of the Web home page now reads, “Welcome to the EastDo Fan Club.” (EastDo, short for “east downtown,” follows in the abbreviating tradition of the famed SoHo district of New York, and Denver’s NoDo.)
Dress to Be Repressed
Fashion Fascism
With new crowds discovering NoDo (north downtown) each week, these clubs seem to be holding on to their otherworldly hipness via dress codes.
Same As It Never Was
A former Nightfly wanders north downtown Houston one last time
As told to Craig D. Lindsey
Published: February 9, 2006
Anyone who read my columns back then will remember I had a bitch of a time doing this, especially as I often ventured to that brutally trendy part of town known as north downtown Houston (or NoDo, for all you Envy/002/PaperCity readers).
30 March 2006, Denver (CO) Post, “SoCo? NoDo? RiNo? They ain’t LoDo” by Elana Ashanti, pg. F1:
There’s also “NoDo,” for north downtown. That term surfaced almost two decades ago, before the city broke ground on Coors Field.
CNN.com - Travel
Houston City Guide
POSTED: 9:01 a.m. EDT, October 4, 2006
BE SEEN: The heart of hip Houston is the area around Market Square, known as NoDo (North of Downtown), where Manhattan-wannabes can be found living in converted lofts, sipping coffees and hanging out in bars and galleries.
A Modest Proposal: Train the Homeless to Be Better at Being Homeless
Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 01:51:26 PM
Robb Walsh says:
You are on to something here, John.
But wait a minute, what part of town should be homeless headquarters? San Francisco’s homeless inhabit the Tenderloin. New York has Bowery bums. Seattle has Skid Row.
To be a world-class homeless city, I think Houston needs to get a world class urban planner to design a world class homeless district, give it a colorful name, and get a world class detective novelist (Kinky?) to make it famous.
To get the ball rolling, I’ll throw out a suggestion—What about changing the spelling of North of downtown’s nickname from Nodo to No-Dough?
Posted at: February 29, 2008 9:01 PM
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2007 Ch. Beychevelle, St Julien
Red | Ready, but will keep | Chateau Beychevelle | Code: 92 | 2007 | France > Bordeaux > St Julien | Cab.Sauvignon Blend | Medium-Full Bodied, Dry | 13.0 % alcohol
For so long I have considered Beychevelle to be a tried and tested, does what it says on the tin, kind of a Claret. Maybe even, good but a touch boring! Over the last few years this couldn't be further from the truth and the 2007 is undoubtedly one of the wines of the commune. A quintessential St Julien that offers a fantastic crunchy freshness to the fruit that is so characteristic of the vintage. This wine represents great value, and now I can honestly say Beychevelle is an exciting wine to look out for!
Hong Kong Fine Wine Team With its stunning château and Versailles-like vista stretching to the Gironde, Beychevelle has produced a stylish 2007 that perfectly matches its surroundings. It is incredibly harmonious and elegant while the seductive, velvety texture merely adds to its appeal. The honest, affable Philippe Blanc has produced an extremely attractive 2007 with a rich, dried fruit nose, a creamy palate with generous blackberries, coffee and exotic spice and a long damson finish. Surprisingly concentrated for 2007 this will be delicious after five years but will age as gracefully as always.
Simon Staples -Fine Wine Director- July 2008
Scores and Reviews
The Wine Advocate
16.5/100
The Wine Advocate - Tasted at BI Wine & Spirits' 10-Years-On tasting, the 2007 Beychevelle has a more vigorous bouquet compared directly against the 2007 Talbot: dusky black fruit, sage and a hint of espresso. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, more mature than I was expecting with a soft but cohesive, meaty/dried blood finish that has a sense of rusticity, ferrous on the aftertaste. Drink now and over the next 10-12 years. Tasted February 2017.
Neal Martin - 30/06/2017
Jancis - "Serious, savoury nose. Real lift. A refreshing drink! Some light tannins are pretty chewy but not green. Not a big wine but a well balanced one." Jancis Robinson - www.jancisrobinson.com - Apr 08
Decanter - Good deep colour, fragrant and floral fruit (peonies) on the nose, nicely extracted and shows the elegance of Saint-Julien, not great length nor fruit, but good wine.
Château Beychevelle is a 4ème Cru Classé St-Julien wine property that boasts one of the most impressive châteaux in the whole of the Médoc. Its label depicts a beautiful galley with a large sail, as a consequence of its ownership in the 16th century by the Duc d`Eperon, Admiral of France at the time. The expression "Baisse-Vaille", meaning "lower sails", later evolved into the name Beychevelle. Today the property is owned by Grands Millésimesde France.
Beychevelle's 85 hectares of vineyards are located in the far south of the St-Julien appellation, just outside the hamlet of St-Julien-Beychevelle. The wine is typically a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot. It is matured in oak barrels (50-60% new) for 18 months. It is renowned for its suppleness, smoothness and its rich, and sometimes chocolatey character.
The best examples from the best Beychevelle vintages are powerful and concentrated, with oodles of almost sweet, ultra-ripe Cabernet fruit, and can age effortlessly.
Cab.Sauvignon Blend
Cabernet Sauvignon lends itself particularly well in blends with Merlot. This is actually the archetypal Bordeaux blend, though in different proportions in the sub-regions and sometimes topped up with Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot.
In the Médoc and Graves the percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend can range from 95% (Mouton-Rothschild) to as low as 40%. It is particularly suited to the dry, warm, free- draining, gravel-rich soils and is responsible for the redolent cassis characteristics as well as the depth of colour, tannic structure and pronounced acidity of Médoc wines. However 100% Cabernet Sauvignon wines can be slightly hollow-tasting in the middle palate and Merlot with its generous, fleshy fruit flavours acts as a perfect foil by filling in this cavity.
In St-Emilion and Pomerol, the blends are Merlot dominated as Cabernet Sauvignon can struggle to ripen there - when it is included, it adds structure and body to the wine. Sassicaia is the most famous Bordeaux blend in Italy and has spawned many imitations, whereby the blend is now firmly established in the New World and particularly in California and Australia.
St Julien is the smallest of the "Big Four" Médoc communes. Although, without any First Growths, St Julien is recognised to be the most consistent of the main communes, with several châteaux turning out impressive wines year after year.
St Julien itself is much more of a village than Pauillac and almost all of the notable properties lie to its south. Its most northerly château is Ch. Léoville Las Cases (whose vineyards actually adjoin those of Latour in Pauillac) but, further south, suitable vineyard land gives way to arable farming and livestock until the Margaux appellation is reached.
The soil is gravelly and finer than that of Pauillac, and without the iron content which gives Pauillac its stature. The homogeneous soils in the vineyards (which extend over a relatively small area of just over 700 hectares) give the commune a unified character.
The wines can be assessed as much by texture as flavour, and there is a sleek, wholesome character to the best. Elegance, harmony and perfect balance and weight, with hints of cassis and cedar, are what epitomise classic St Julien wines. At their very best they combine Margaux’s elegance and refinement with Pauillac’s power and substance.
Ch. Léoville Las Cases produces arguably the most sought-after St Julien, and in any reassessment of the 1855 Classification it would almost certainly warrant being elevated to First Growth status.
Recommended Châteaux: Ch. Léoville Las Cases, Ch.Léoville Barton, Ch Léoville Poyferré, Ch. Ducru-Beaucaillou, Ch Langoa Barton, Ch Gruaud Larose, Ch. Branaire-Ducru, Ch. Beychevelle
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Co Down
Football team for children with Down Syndrome is starting in Co Down
The club are looking for young players to join the team
Sheena McStravick
A new football team specifically for children with Down Syndrome is launching in Co Down .
With the assistance of local club Ards Rangers, a new team called Ards Rangers DS Superstars has been established.
The club are keen to spread the word to get as many young people with Down Syndrome to join.
Kids aged been 11 and 16 are urged to get involved and come along to the training sessions which will be taking place in the next few weeks.
If you're interested in the team or know someone who might be, contact Ian Scott on 07825 812 697 or Michael on 07929150566.
New sports club for children with special needs opens in Belfast
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West BelfastCharity walk to remember West Belfast footballer Eamon O'ConnorThe five-day walk will start at Corpus Christi Parish on Wednesday morning, July 17
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Adams man facing charges after alleged knife threat at North Adams Walmart
Posted Tuesday, November 6, 2018 4:03 pm
By Adam Shanks, The Berkshire Eagle
NORTH ADAMS — An Adams resident is facing assault charges for allegedly threatening a man with a knife last month at the Walmart in North Adams.
Christian Richardson, 18, of Commercial Street, allegedly used a knife from a store shelf to provoke a fight shortly after 4:30 p.m. Oct. 2. The man told police Richardson had threatened him in the past.
Security footage shows Richardson lunge at the man once with the knife and again after dropping the knife, according to the criminal complaint filed by North Adams Police Officer Kevin Stant.
A witness, who was in line at the register, told police he tried to shield his children from Richardson.
Security footage showed bystanders under duress and fleeing from the area, the report said.
Richardson had just left the building's south entrance when police arrived and arrested him without incident.
He pleaded not guilty in Northern Berkshire District Court on Monday to single counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, wanton destruction of property under $1,200, threatening to commit a crime, disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct, subsequent offense.
Judge Laurie MacLeod released Richardson on personal recognizance, with the condition that he not contact the victim.
Richardson is next scheduled to appear Nov. 26 for a pretrial hearing.
Adam Shanks can be reached at ashanks@berkshireeagle.com, at @EagleAdamShanks on Twitter, or 413-629-4517.
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Bionic Aims to Replace Excel With New Digital Media Planner
Scottsdale, AZ – December 2, 2012 – Bionic Advertising Systems today unveiled a new system for automating digital media planning workflow at advertising agencies at the iMedia Agency Summit conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. The new system is called Digital Media Planner.
According to NextMark’s research, it costs agencies more than $40,000 per campaign in labor costs to create and execute a digital media plan and executing a digital media plan involves a tedious 42-step process. One of the main reasons for the high cost is the use of Microsoft Excel and manual processes. It’s a process that’s ripe for automation. The promises of workflow automation are to save time, eliminate mistakes, reduce transaction costs, increase agency profitability, and increase employee morale.
However, purpose-built workflow automation systems have so far failed to gain widespread adoption among advertising agencies. A survey of 65 digital media executives at the conference revealed that 80% (52 of the 65) still use Microsoft Excel and manual processes to create media plans while only 20% use a workflow system. The four main reasons for failed adoption of workflow system alternatives to Excel cited are: too cumbersome, too limited in functionality, too expensive, and not integrated.
Bionic is aiming to replace Excel in the digital media planning process with its new Digital Media Planner system. The Planner is designed for independent digital advertising agencies, but can be used by agencies of all types and sizes. The system is accessed through the web as cloud-based software running on an enterprise-class SAS-70, Sarbanes-Oxley compliant platform.
Joe Pych, CEO of Bionic, unveiled the Digital Media Planner system and demonstrated the its main features at the conference including: importing from comScore Key Measures output; accessing advertising program details such as placements, inventory, rates, and audience profile via its data cards; creating a media plan using an intuitive spreadsheet interface; and exporting to Google’s DFA Ad Server. Mr. Pych indicated the system is available for free.
“Our goal for is to make digital media planning easy,” said Mr. Pych. “It seems like fighting windmills, but it’s about time someone replaced Excel because it causes so many problems and widespread unhappiness among digital media planners.”
Initial reactions to the Planner among conference attendees were positive. “My media planners are going to hug me for bringing this back to them!,” said Melissa Hodgdon, Vice President, Media Director of Engauge.
More information about Bionic’s Digital Media Planner is available at https://www.bionic-ads.com/planner/.
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Craig Wright to offer ‘extraordinary proof’ he is the creator of Bitcoin
By cinerama May 4, 2016 October 31st, 2018 Bitcoin Business, Where In The World Is Satoshi Nakamoto
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Craig Wright claims he will post more proof he is the father of Bitcoin, known as Satoshi Nakamoto.
The search for the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the father of Bitcoin, continues.
After Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright publicly revealed himself as Nakamoto on Monday, showing cryptographic proof of his identity to media publications including the Economist and the BBC, as well as several prominent people form the Bitcoin community, an enormous cloud of doubt overshadowed his claims.
Many Bitcoin enthusiasts and experts pointed to possible proof of Wright's fraud, including inconsistencies, errors and possible intentional deceit in the blog post published on Wright's site after the reveal.
Now, Wright has written another blog post, in which he claims he will offer "extraordinary proof" he is, indeed, Satoshi Nakamoto.
In the post, Wright says he will publicly provide cryptographic proof he is Nakamoto, this time by moving some of the bitcoins known to be owned by Nakamoto (another way to prove the same thing would be to sign a message with a cryptographic key known to be owned by Nakamoto, which Wright reportedly did in front of chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, Gavin Andresen, and some of the Economist's staff, but not publicly).
Wright further claims that even spending Nakamoto's bitcoins wouldn't be enough proof he is Nakamoto (he is right — it only proves he has access to Nakamoto's cryptographic key, not that he actually is that person), so he plans to offer even better proof.
"I can prove access to the early keys and I can and will do so by moving bitcoin, but this should be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for such an extraordinary claim," Wright wrote.
This proof will consist of "independently verifiable documents and evidence addressing some of the false allegations that have been levelled, and transferring bitcoin from an early block."
Wright plans to do all this "in the coming days," but notes that some will doubt his identity as Nakamoto even after he provides this proof.
"This is the nature of belief and swimming against this current would be futile."
Satoshi Nakamoto — a person or a group of people who created Bitcoin in 2008 — has, according to available data, never been seen publicly. He only communicated with early Bitcoin developers and adopters electronically, prior to disappearing in 2010. He is known to own the first-ever mined bitcoins; his total stash is roughly one million bitcoins, or some $449 million in today's value.
Many Bitcoin enthusiasts and experts pointed to possible proof of Wright’s fraud, including inconsistencies, errors and possible intentional deceit in the blog post published on Wright’s site after the reveal.
Now, Wright has written another blog post , in which he claims he will offer "extraordinary proof" he is, indeed, Satoshi Nakamoto.
In the post, Wright says he will publicly provide cryptographic proof he is Nakamoto, this time by moving some of the bitcoins known to be owned by Nakamoto (another way to prove the same thing would be to sign a message with a cryptographic key known to be owned by Nakamoto, which Wright reportedly did in front of chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, Gavin Andresen, and some of the Economist ‘s staff, but not publicly).
Wright further claims that even spending Nakamoto’s bitcoins wouldn’t be enough proof he is Nakamoto (he is right — it only proves he has access to Nakamoto’s cryptographic key, not that he actually is that person), so he plans to offer even better proof.
This proof will consist of "independently verifiable documents and evidence addressing some of the false allegations that have been levelled, and transferring […]
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19-3011 Economists
Conduct research, prepare reports, or formulate plans to address economic problems related to the production and distribution of goods and services or monetary and fiscal policy. May collect and process economic and statistical data using sampling techniques and econometric methods. Excludes "Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists" (13-1161).
18,650 3.5 % $55.78 $116,020 1.7 %
Annual Wage (2) $58,130 $77,270 $104,340 $141,780 $182,560
Federal Executive Branch (OES Designation) 4,220 0.21 $59.41 $123,570
Scientific Research and Development Services 3,790 0.56 $58.66 $122,010
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services 2,750 0.19 $64.00 $133,130
State Government, excluding schools and hospitals (OES Designation) 1,730 0.08 $34.86 $72,510
Local Government, excluding schools and hospitals (OES Designation) 1,150 0.02 $42.14 $87,650
Monetary Authorities-Central Bank 440 2.40 $62.97 $130,980
Grantmaking and Giving Services 530 0.37 $53.96 $112,240
Legal Services (8) (8) $109.91 $228,620
Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 300 0.04 $63.33 $131,730
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities 320 0.03 $60.60 $126,050
District of Columbia 6,380 8.95 69.45 $64.55 $134,260
California 1,430 0.08 0.65 $59.82 $124,430
Virginia 1,230 0.32 2.48 $60.62 $126,080
Massachusetts 1,150 0.32 2.51 $56.57 $117,680
Texas 830 0.07 0.53 $51.19 $106,480
Alaska 100 0.30 2.37 $41.33 $85,970
Maryland 700 0.26 2.03 $56.19 $116,870
New York 750 0.08 0.62 $61.31 $127,520
Ohio 140 0.03 0.20 $60.33 $125,490
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 7,950 2.54 19.68 $63.91 $132,940
Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH 1,130 0.41 3.17 $56.38 $117,280
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 690 0.07 0.56 $64.73 $134,640
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA 390 0.16 1.24 $65.27 $135,760
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 360 0.06 0.45 $63.15 $131,350
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 340 0.07 0.57 $52.07 $108,300
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 340 0.10 0.74 $54.33 $113,000
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA 290 0.11 0.85 $55.65 $115,750
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 260 0.09 0.71 $47.32 $98,430
Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA 220 0.68 5.26 $34.16 $71,060
College Station-Bryan, TX 60 0.53 4.12 $32.16 $66,880
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC 150 0.48 3.75 $38.48 $80,040
Trenton, NJ 110 0.46 3.56 (8) (8)
Urban Honolulu, HI 150 0.32 2.49 $48.18 $100,220
Burlington-South Burlington, VT 40 0.29 2.25 $47.30 $98,380
Anchorage, AK 50 0.28 2.14 $40.49 $84,220
Boulder, CO 50 0.27 2.11 $51.83 $107,810
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 120 0.10 0.81 $72.99 $151,820
Cleveland-Elyria, OH 70 0.07 0.56 $67.74 $140,900
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA 150 0.10 0.78 $60.52 $125,880
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX 150 0.05 0.38 $59.13 $122,990
Bakersfield, CA (8) (8) (8) $58.00 $120,640
Southwest Montana nonmetropolitan area 50 0.34 2.64 $37.97 $78,980
Central New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area 40 0.38 2.96 $32.23 $67,040
Alaska nonmetropolitan area (8) (8) (8) $41.61 $86,560
Northwest Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area (8) (8) (8) $35.04 $72,890
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Occupational Employment and Wages in Birmingham-Hoover — May 2018
Workers in the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $22.83 in May 2018, about 9 percent below the nationwide average of $24.98, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Regional Commissioner Janet S. Rankin noted that, after testing for statistical significance, 19 of the 22 major occupational groups had average wages in the local area that were significantly lower than their respective national averages, including legal; arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media; and personal care and service.
When compared to the nationwide distribution, local employment was more highly concentrated in 6 of the 22 occupational groups, including healthcare practitioners and technical; sales and related; and office and administrative support. Conversely, 12 groups had employment shares significantly below their national representation, including education, training, and library; personal care and service; and management. (See table A and box note at end of release.)
Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area, and measures of statistical significance, May 2018
Major occupational group
Percent difference (1)
Total, all occupations
100.0 100.0 $24.98 $22.83* -9
5.3 4.5* 58.44 56.49* -3
Business and financial operations
Computer and mathematical
3.0 2.4* 44.01 38.58* -12
Life, physical, and social science
Community and social service
0.8 0.8 52.25 43.82* -16
Education, training, and library
6.1 4.8* 27.22 26.39 -3
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
Healthcare practitioners and technical
Food preparation and serving related
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
Sales and related
10.0 11.7* 20.09 19.74 -2
Office and administrative support
15.1 16.1* 18.75 17.86* -5
Farming, fishing, and forestry
0.3 0.1* 14.49 16.86 16
Construction and extraction
Installation, maintenance, and repair
Transportation and material moving
7.1 7.2 18.41 16.75* -9
(1) A positive percent difference measures how much the mean wage in the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area is above the national mean wage, while a negative difference reflects a lower wage.
* The mean hourly wage or percent share of employment is significantly different from the national average of all areas at the 90-percent confidence level.
One occupational group—healthcare practitioners and technical—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Birmingham-Hoover had 42,910 jobs in healthcare practitioners and technical, accounting for 8.4 percent of local area employment, significantly higher than the 6.0-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $33.41, significantly below the national wage of $39.42.
Some of the larger detailed occupations within the healthcare practitioners and technical group included registered nurses (17,270); licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses (2,870); and pharmacy technicians (2,050). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were general dentists, and family and general practitioners, with mean hourly wages of $97.57 and $94.82, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were psychiatric technicians ($13.46) and pharmacy technicians ($14.23). (Detailed data for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_13820.htm.)
Location quotients allow us to explore the occupational make-up of a metropolitan area by comparing the composition of jobs in an area relative to the national average. (See table 1.) For example, a location quotient of 2.0 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it does nationally. In the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in many of the occupations within the healthcare practitioners and technical group. For instance, psychiatric technicians were employed at 2.2 times the national rate in Birmingham, and nurse practitioners, at 1.9 times the U.S. average. On the other hand, speech-language pathologists had a location quotient of 1.0 in Birmingham, indicating that this particular occupation’s local and national employment shares were similar.
These statistics are from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey, a federal-state cooperative program between BLS and State Workforce Agencies, in this case, the Alabama Department of Labor.
Area Changes to the May 2018 Occupational Employment Statistics (OES)
OES continues to publish data for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas that cover the full geography of the United States. However, the level of detail available has decreased.
OES no longer publishes data for metropolitan divisions. Data for the 11 large metropolitan areas that contain divisions are now available at the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) or New England City and Town Area (NECTA) level only.
In addition, some smaller nonmetropolitan areas have been combined to form larger nonmetropolitan areas. The May 2018 OES estimates contain data for 134 nonmetropolitan areas, compared with 167 nonmetropolitan areas in the May 2017 estimates.
More information on these area changes is available at www.bls.gov/oes/areas_2018.htm.
Implementing the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System
The OES program plans to begin implementing the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system with the May 2019 estimates, to be released by early April of 2020. Because each set of OES estimates is produced by combining three years of survey data, estimates for May 2019 and May 2020 will be based on a combination of survey data collected under the 2010 SOC and data collected under the 2018 SOC, and will use a hybrid of the two classification systems. The May 2021 OES estimates, to be released by early April of 2022, will be the first set of estimates based fully on the 2018 SOC. For more information, please see www.bls.gov/oes/soc_2018.htm.
The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey is a semiannual survey measuring occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States. The OES data available from BLS include cross-industry occupational employment and wage estimates for the nation; over 580 areas, including states and the District of Columbia, metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), nonmetropolitan areas, and territories; national industry-specific estimates at the NAICS sector, 3-digit, most 4-digit, and selected 5- and 6-digit industry levels, and national estimates by ownership across all industries and for schools and hospitals. OES data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm.
The OES survey is a cooperative effort between BLS and the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs). BLS funds the survey and provides the procedures and technical support, while the State Workforce Agencies collect most of the data. OES estimates are constructed from a sample of about 1.2 million establishments. Each year, two semiannual panels of approximately 180,000 to 200,000 sampled establishments are contacted, one panel in May and the other in November. Responses are obtained by mail, Internet or other electronic means, email, telephone, or personal visit. The May 2018 estimates are based on responses from six semiannual panels collected over a 3-year period: May 2018, November 2017, May 2017, November 2016, May 2016, and November 2015. The unweighted sample employment of 83 million across all six semiannual panels represents approximately 58 percent of total national employment. The overall national response rate for the six panels, based on the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is 71 percent based on establishments and 68 percent based on weighted sampled employment. The sample in the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area included 3,421 establishments with a response rate of 71 percent. For more information about OES concepts and methodology, go to www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_tec.htm.
A value that is statistically different from another does not necessarily mean that the difference has economic or practical significance. Statistical significance is concerned with the ability to make confident statements about a universe based on a sample. It is entirely possible that a large difference between two values is not significantly different statistically, while a small difference is, since both the size and heterogeneity of the sample affect the relative error of the data being tested.
The May 2018 OES estimates are based on the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system and the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Information about the 2010 SOC is available on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/soc and information about the 2017 NAICS is available at www.bls.gov/bls/naics.htm.
Metropolitan area definitions
The substate area data published in this release reflect the standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
The Birmingham-Hoover, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair, and Walker Counties.
OES data are available on our regional web page at www.bls.gov/regions/southeast. Answers to frequently asked questions about the OES data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/oes_ques.htm. Detailed technical information about the OES survey is available in our Survey Methods and Reliability Statement on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/oes/current/methods_statement.pdf.
Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (800) 877-8339.
Table 1. Employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey, by occupation, Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area, May 2018
Mean wages
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations
42,910 1.4 $33.41 $69,490
60 0.5 30.79 64,050
Dentists, general
340 0.9 97.57 202,950
Dietitians and nutritionists
270 1.2 25.08 52,170
(5) (5) 54.09 112,510
1,530 1.4 58.16 120,970
Family and general practitioners
Obstetricians and gynecologists
Pediatricians, general
30 0.4 102.50 213,200
280 2.3 (6) (6)
Physicians and surgeons, all other
2,190 1.6 (5) (5)
1,030 1.3 42.69 88,790
Radiation therapists
Recreational therapists
Respiratory therapists
17,270 1.7 29.77 61,920
Nurse anesthetists
Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
Diagnostic medical sonographers
Nuclear medicine technologists
Radiologic technologists
Magnetic resonance imaging technologists
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
Pharmacy technicians
Psychiatric technicians
Veterinary technologists and technicians
Ophthalmic medical technicians
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
Medical records and health information technicians
Opticians, dispensing
Health technologists and technicians, all other
Occupational health and safety specialists
Occupational health and safety technicians
90 1.0 (7) 33,800
Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Birmingham-Hoover, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_13820.htm.
(4) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.
Last Modified Date: Thursday, June 27, 2019
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Bobbins: Label Love-Sonia Rykiel
Label Love is a new segment of my Fashionable History series here on the blog. I'm excited about it since I do a lot of research on the vintage labels I find and have so many designers that inspire me! What a wonderful way for me to share them with you! To kickstart this blog series is one of my absolute favorites; Sonia Rykiel.
Sonia Rykiel was known as the "Queen of Knitwear". As someone who loves and lives in knits and who knits I have always gravitated to her collections. However, I feel that she gave me so much more than just her famous knits. She offered style with ease and an undeniable and seemingly effortless Parisienne chic. Often mimicked but completely her own. The news of her passing last week at the age of 86 saddened me. I hope this tribute does more than educate. I aim for it to show how her work and aesthetic still shines today.
In 1961, Sonia was pregnant and couldn't find any decent maternity clothes that accentuated her figure. So she made herself a sweater dress which started her foray into fashion. By 1968, she opened her first store on Paris' arty Left Bank. At that time fashion was starting to loosen up. Her British contemporary, Mary Quant, was designing mini skirts and freedom in movement and attitude was in the air. Sonia designed clothes that women could wear to work and still be stylish. Just like Coco Chanel in the 1930's Sonia focused on knits with a gamine, boyish silhouette while still undeniably feminine.
1963. Francoise Hardy wearing a Rykiel sweater.
Sonia's line took off in the 1970's. Perfect for every day and perfect timing for the Ready to Wear revolution. Sonia reinvented knitwear to be flattering and special.
Models in Rykiel. Early Seventies.
By the 1980s she, as most designers of her time, expanded her line to many product lines including fragrances, lingerie, cosmetics etc. By the 1990s she was global. Never a designer to shy away from affordable lines and collaborations she did collections with Les 3 Suisses, La Redoute, and not that long ago H&M. She felt it was important to reach everyone. In the mid-nineties her daughter Nathalie became Artistic Director. In 2009 Sonia retired. She was awarded the Legion of Honor by two French Presidents.
1990s. Helena Christensen in a Sonia Rykiel ad. Reminiscent of 1930s Coco Chanel.
Disco lurex
Slogan sweaters
Sporty and fun
Exposed seams
Sonia's first slogan sweater read "Sensuous". That sums up Sonia, perfectly.
In Label Love, Fashionable History, Bobbins Tags sonia rykiel, label love, bobbins and bombshells, fashion, fashion history, francoise hardy, knitwear
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Measles is a natural cancer killer
Bryan Hubbard
April 12th 2019 in Cancer, Clinic (multi-discipline)
Health authorities may want to think twice about eradicating measles: researchers are discovering that the virus can fight cancer, and in one case dissolved a golf ball-sized tumor in just 36 hours.
The virus makes cancer cells join together and explode, explains Mayo Clinic researcher Dr Angela Dispenzieri. It also stimulates the immune system to detect any recurring cancer cells and 'mops them up'.
Although it's been recognised for a long time that measles and other viruses are natural cancer fighters—it's known as virotherapy—the dose seems to be an important factor. Dispenzieri and her Mayo colleagues engineered, or genetically modified, the measles virus strain, and gave it in a dose strong enough to vaccinate 10 million people to a woman with end-stage multiple myeloma.
Virotherapy was a last-resort therapy as the 49-year-old woman had endured every type of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants without success.
A response was immediate. Within five minutes, the doctors say she developed a splitting headache and a temperature of 105 degrees F. before she started vomiting and shaking. A tumor the size of a golf ball had disappeared inside 36 hours, and all signs of cancer had disappeared from her body within two weeks.
"I think we succeeded because we pushed the dose higher than others have pushed it," said Mayo researcher Dr Stephen Russell. "The amount of virus that's in the bloodstream really is the driver of how much gets into the tumors."
Researchers at University College London agree that virotherapy could be a promising way forward in the fight against cancer. In a study titled 'Measles to the Rescue', the researchers say that "virotherapeutic agents are likely to become serious contenders in cancer treatment", and that the vaccine strain of measles virus holds special hope.
(Sources: Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2014; 789: 926-33; Viruses, 2016; 8: 294)
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Going Beyond: Redefining Artificial Intelligence in a Modern Era
By Shazir Mucklai
I’ve been keeping track of small business technology trends for five years. I’ve used automation, data analysis, and consumer applications to help increase productivity because nowadays, it’s almost impossible to follow all the new technology updates. Plenty of companies are racing to create the next self-driving car or talking smart speaker. And it’s hard to keep track of trendy blockchain companies that launch almost daily.
However, one artificial intelligence (AI) might just be the biggest technological breakthrough in this era. We’ve heard about chatbots and machine learning, but one organization is charting its own course as it takes AI to the next level: Beyond Limits. It’s an appropriate name, since the company is producing AI that just might have a bigger effect in the world than conventional AI approaches you may have heard of. After all, there’s no other AI company on earth whose technology has been to Mars – helping the Rover navigate 150 million miles away – and deep underground, helping visualize 15,000 feet below the earth’s surface for energy exploration.
The company’s technology is an evolutionary leap beyond conventional “machine” AI to a human-like ability to perceive, understand, correlate, learn, teach, and reason to solve problems that can’t be addressed by conventional AI solutions. The company’s solutions can handle situations where data is nonexistent, missing, damaged, or unreliable, and yet decisions still need to be made. This means Beyond Limits can solve problems that conventional machine learning or deep learning approaches alone cannot. Unlike “black box” machine learning solutions that cannot explain their results, Beyond Limits redefines AI because its technology provides clear explanations of its cognitive reasoning in transparent, evidence-based audit trails.
Redefining Intelligence
I’ve seen robots make decisions and solve simple problems. You probably see them too, but don’t realize it. Every day, technology helps people spellcheck sentences, categorize emails, and predict traffic. However, Beyond Limits is producing AI software solutions with something new: cognitive intelligence. These advanced systems mimic functions of the human brain to think like you or me. This AI foster situational awareness, hypotheses generation, and human-like reasoning to make informed decisions. Unlike some AI companies that focus on playing games or serving ads, Beyond Limits blends deep learning and machine learning techniques together with symbolic AIs that emulate human intuition. The company’s goal is to create automated solutions that can truly think like humans and magnify human capabilities to help companies stay competitive or transform their business for the future.
Because of the company’s close ties to Caltech and JPL, Beyond Limits has a deep well of specialized software that can be applied to solve complex problems. So if a major container port needs AI to plan and schedule all the traffic in and out of the harbor, or manage their fleet of robotic cranes, Beyond Limits can apply the same scheduling technology that powered autonomous Rover operations on Mars.
“Our AI can work with unknown or missing data and figure out hypothetical scenarios and fill in the missing pieces — much like humans with experience do,” said AJ Abdallat, Beyond Limits CEO. “Exploring space is about being able to handle the unknown. Real-world, industrial-grade AI needs to do the same to handle business issues at scale, across different industries — that’s exactly what we’re doing at Beyond Limits.”
Beyond Disruption to Transformation
I’ve seen firsthand how AI can dramatically change businesses for the better. Its impact is becoming evident as it helps transform niche market segments and global industries alike — including energy production, logistics, and finance.
Beyond Limits has partnered with BP to help transform the energy industry. BP Ventures, the investment wing of the energy leader, signaled its faith in Beyond Limits with a $20 million Series B in the company in 2017. BP plans on using cognitive computing to optimize the way the company manages reservoirs and produces oil and gas.
Large enterprises aren’t the only ones that benefit from AI. Complex AI systems aren’t simple products like packaged software applications. Most solutions are custom-engineered to solve particular problems, mainly for large enterprises. As a result, AI may not be purchased directly by small or medium business owners, and may in fact be invisible to most people. For example, AI helps me and many other filter spam, automate messages, and track costs. More advanced AI might help me make complex decisions about spending, strategy, and hiring. It’s easy to overlook these minor tasks, but behind the scenes they are producing results that help people and companies in many ways.
When things work better, everyone benefits.
I’ve talked before about how technology helps my business run smoothly. Automating social media saves me 25 hours a week. Blockchain ensures my workers get paid on time. As nice as these are, one can only imagine how AI might help accelerate my company.
When AI helps major container ports work more efficiently, unloading container ships in a more timely fashion, small and medium businesses get their shipments on time, the entire value chain is more reliable, and everyone saves money.
When AI helps energy companies wring new production out of mature subsurface reservoirs, or identifies accurately where to drill, the cost of energy production drops, so oil and gas cost less, benefiting everyone who delivers goods, heats or cools their business.
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PC Games > Hidden Object Games > Nightmare on the Pacific
Nightmare on the Pacific
The Brooks family boarded the Neptune hoping for a relaxing family vacation, but what they got was an incredible adventure! After the cruise ship encounters an incredible storm, it's left sinking in the Pacific Ocean with everyone on board! Live through a Nightmare on the Pacific in this exciting Hidden Object game. Put survival first and help the Brooks family make it out of the Neptune alive!
Breathtaking adventure
Fantastic action
Survive a cruise ship disaster
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Nightmare on the Pacific is rated 3.4 out of 5 by 32.
Rated 5 out of 5 by planetankh from Like Being in a Movie! For me, a good balance between HO & adventure. I like both but enjoy HOS more. Graphics & sound excellent -like an animated movie. Searches & games not too hard but I had to use hints & help a few times. Has voiceover so no reading dialogue -which for me in most games is predictable, dull & just slows the game down. This story, sound & graphics made feel the intensity of the situation & I actually felt the urgency of the task at hand! I enjoyed the trial & bought the game immediately.
Rated 5 out of 5 by LuvBFG56 from Fast pace is a great change of pace! Not going to list a lot of specifics as there are usually enough detailed reviews written before I get around to playing a game (have a back log). Just wanted to say in general this was F.U.N. 2 P.L.A.Y. and since I bought it on sale...it was a real steal for the $$ leaving me not a bit bothered that the game was on the shorter side. One of the first games I've played from start to finish in one sitting in a very-very long time...thoroughly enjoyed it and hope you do as well!
Rated 5 out of 5 by TULIP55 from Very realistic! Great visual game-realistic scenes and mounting sense of urgency-bring me more of these!
Rated 5 out of 5 by Scobeaux from Very Enjoyable I really enjoyed this game. There was a real sense of urgency imparted by the graphics and the plot. The voice acting was exceptionally good. The background noises (no music) were sufficiently creepy and were not annoying. The hidden object scenes were tougher than the average but that makes it more fun for me. The mini-games were actually somewhat on point and not too hard. The places where you had to use your inventory on the various rooms were more creative than usual, not just "find the key for the proper lock." Yes, maybe it is a bit silly to be playing slot machine games while the ship is going down, but by and large this game was well above average and I recommend it.
Rated 5 out of 5 by ltk49 from Nightmare on the Pacific It was exciting without being too gory.
Rated 5 out of 5 by tilmalene from Entertaining Great game, lots of fun, bright realistic locations and grafic
Rated 4 out of 5 by arnold1049 from MOM TO THE RESCUE I played using the normal mode, which was the hardest mode available. Even then practically everything that required some kind of action showed sparkles. I can't imagine how the casual mode could be any easier. So the game doesn't require a lot of effort to play. The storyline is good, particularly the beginning. A ship is sinking in the middle of a hurricane and the rescue helicopters have been able to remove everyone but a mother looking for her family. You play the mother. The helicopters cannot return until the hurricane abates. The graphics are very good, giving the scenes a look of reality. The hint button only works in the HOS, which are junk piles. Once or twice an item was hard enough to find that I used a hint. A skip button is available for the minigames. I only found one during the hour demo and it was not too difficult. There are two achievements; collector and rescuer. The collector involves finding family belongings that can be anywhere in the ship. I believe the rescuer achievement comes into play when you are able to find your family members. There is a journal and a map. The map is drawn like a child would, kind of cute. It is very informational but is not a jump map. The journal also has a childish feel. Something different was the small pictures of the locations still requiring action that open at the top of the screen. By rolling your mouse over the picture, it tells you what you have left to do at that location. However, you still cannot jump to that location through these pictures. Between the map and these pictures, it is fairly easy to figure out where to go next. There is the typical inventory. Some items are found in the locations, others, apparently the majority, are found in the HOS. There seemed to be a little too much back and forth for my taste, but it wasn't a deal breaker. The good storyline will probably make this a coupon purchase for me.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Brooke_Lyn from Intense From the First Scene! Not a Bad Game At All! It’s been awhile since I played this but from memory you won’t get much! Ha! I didn't put it in my “JUNK” file, it’s in my “Play Again” file so it must have redeeming qualities! It’s a very fast paced game from the start with a Map showing your tasks! You play a Mom/Wife looking for your 2 children and Husband all lost in different parts of the huge Cruise ship “Neptune” that is sinking fast! Some things are silly, like you wouldn't stop and play a Slot machine in the Casino when your looking urgently for your missing family.. Well, I wouldn't anyway LOL. Besides the occasional “Why did they put that in here” it’s a pretty intense game that makes your pulse race and you feel like you have to hurry up or else your all doomed!! You need to think it out when at times nothing makes sense. I was stuck a few times and had to close out and look at the Walkthrough. The “Aquarium” fish puzzle is one that comes to mind and how to climb out the window and up the side rails! Musical score is excellent and other sound effects such as your sons screams for help and you coughing and sputtering like you really went under water! The creaking breaking ship were well done as was the Coast Guard and visual helicopter! Graphics were very clear and realistic looking! Then there is that pause and reflect time when you can’t help but think, If I was a Mom on a family cruise, no way would I have MacGyver like skills! Example: When she finds her Son the water’s rising fast so she has to shut of the main valve.. How would she know how to do that? There is a lot of that in here but the over-all game is more like your in a disaster movie you’re the star and will prevail as a hero!
Rated 4 out of 5 by bluesycat from Pretty good game, not for me This is based on the demo only. I managed about 40 minutes of it before stepping out. Pros: Terrific graphics and sound effects Ambience feels just like a sinking ocean liner. Good enough to create the kind of anxiety and fear one would experience on a sinking ship. Cons: Ambience feels just like a sinking ocean liner. My stress and fear levels were very high from trying to navigate this game. So I decided to stop. HOS are too difficult and too distracting. I like my HOs to flow right along, and some objects I couldn't find even with the hint. Neutral: Navigation is difficult, but I think that goes with the theme of the game. I recommend the game, but not if you're afraid of the water, tight spaces or death in general.
Rated 4 out of 5 by DLongo from Another Fun Hidden Object Game. This game was one of my original daily deal purchases and I did not regret it. While the graphics and sound were not as good as those in later games (like Escape from Ravenhearst), it kept me interested throughout. The puzzles required some thought and the hidden object scenes were good. The ending was as simple as you would expect...but I play more for the gameplay than the storyline. It seems that most of these games are simplistic as far as plots go.....
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The Brooks family boarded the Neptune hoping for a relaxing family vacation, but what they got was an incredible adventure!
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U21 GAME VENUE & TIME CHANGE
Adam Tighe
Brighton & Hove Albion's under-21 league fixture at home to Middlesbrough has been moved to an earlier kick-off time of 2pm on Monday 26th January.
The game has also changed venue and will now be played at the American Express Elite Football Performance Centre instead of Culver Road.
There is a limited 100 tickets available to season ticket holders only and they are available on a strictly first come first serve basis.
ALBION & IPSWICH FIVE-A-SIDE TEAM
HOLLA: TEAM SPIRIT IS KEY
PREVIEW: ALBION V IPSWICH
GALLERY: BRENTFORD
VOTE FOR 2014 GOAL OF THE YEAR
Season ticket holders must apply for their ticket online or via the Albion Booking Line on 0844 327 1901.
Once purchased, supporters must collect their paper ticket from the Amex in order to gain access to the match.
There will be food and drink available to purchase on the day and gates open at 1.30pm. Fans are also advised that parking is limited at the training ground.
ALBION V IPSWICH
WEDNESDAY 21ST JANUARY, KICK-OFF 7.45PM
ALBION V ARSENAL
SUNDAY 25TH JANUARY, KICK-OFF 4PM
ALBION V NOTTINGHAM FOREST
SATURDAY 7TH FEBRUARY, KICK-OFF 3PM
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If the BTSH Teams Attended A Bachelorette Party Week 9 Previews – Part 2
By Isaac On June 20, 2019 · Add Comment
As we near the halfway point of the season let’s take a look at where teams are standing and what they need moving forward into the summer stretch of the season.
Fresh Kills at LBS, Inc.
Where are they? Currently sitting at fourth in their division and ninth overall in the league with a questionable goal differential of +5 goals.
What do they need? Besides Frank, more Tom and Nicole with a lot of what they did in two of their last three games.
Where are they? Currently sitting atop the league and their division with an unbeaten record and a solid goal differential of +12 goals.
What do they need? Good question. They are the most balanced team in the league, but if we had to nitpick we’d say consistent attendance heading into the summer stretch.
Prediction: This is hands down the Game of the Early Games and as unfathomable as it seems, Fresh Kills will finish the first half the season with four loses. 3-2 LBS.
LBS could definitely use these two goobers.
Gremlins at Sky Fighters
Where are they? Currently sitting at third in their division and thirteenth overall in the league with a jaw dropping goal differential of -3 goals.
What do they need? Jamie back in net is the obvious answer that comes to mind, however, after competing for the scoring title last year Erich has barely registered a pulse this season. So, hitting him with a defibrillator wouldn’t hurt.
Where are they? Right where they want to be sitting at fifth in their division and eighteenth overall in the league with a workable goal differential of -9 goals.
What do they need? Time and patience. This team nearly handed LBS, Inc. a loss earlier this season and we’ve witnessed flashes of scary good form from them this season. Stay tuned.
Prediction: The Sky Fighters match up well against the Gremlins and with the game tied late in the second half Walker scores an own goal while failing to defend a Caroline shot, 4-3 Sky Fighters.
What The Puck at Denim Demons
Where are they? Currently sitting at fourth in their division and fifteenth overall in the league with an unkind goal differential of 0.
What do they need? How about the hockey gods to stop dumping on them. Orange Crush has lost more close games this season than any other team and can’t seem to buy an ounce of luck.
Where are they? Currently sitting at first in their division and sixth overall in the league with an eye popping goal differential of +10 goals.
What do they need? Neil back in action and to channel some of that early season success. After starting the season 3-0-0 they have since gone 0-1-3.
Prediction: Eric and the Pucks sweat out juice as they hand the Demons another OTL, 5-4.
Back in the #winning column, bitches.
Rehabs at Filthier
Where are they? Currently sitting at second in their division and fourth overall in the league with an impressive goal differential of a +14 goals.
What do they need? Ramirez back in the lineup on a more regular basis. So much of the Habs power is derived from his energy in net.
Where are they? Currently sitting at third in their division and fifth overall in the league with a goal differential of a meager +9 goals.
What do they need? For starters, how about a soul. These emotionless bastards are ruthless and relentless in their pursuit of goals and causing goalie injuries.
Prediction: Filthier has been on a tear lately and really feeling themselves, however, they do struggle against defensive minded opponents and will fall in this one 3-1.
The Rehabs choice of net-minders lately has been, um, well, questionable.
Poutine Machine at Instant Karma
Pous
Where are they? Last seen entertaining the neighbors in Atlantic City with hockey ball passing drills at midnight. In the league? Currently sitting at second in their division and twelfth overall in the league with a side-eye goal differential of 0.
What do they need? Defensively sound, check. Strong goalie play, check. Tight fore-checking, check. Speed and tenacity, check. Sportsmanship, Bueller?
Where are they? Currently sitting at first in their division and eighth overall in the league with a nothing-to-see-here goal differential of 0.
What do they need? Consistent play from the blueline and someone other than Derek’s biceps to put biscuits in the basket.
Prediction: A rematch of last year’s playoff game (that resulted in a ref hanging up his whistle) which ends in the same result with Jerome doing fancy footwork in the shootout, 2-1.
Week 10 Preview
Who Dunnit?!
Around the League – Week 5
The BTSH Hall of Fame
Week 15 – Game Previews
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Boko Haram unleashes its third attack in a week on a key Nigerian city
Feb. 1, 2015, 8:10 AM
A truck is seen carrying a boat, as people flee the violence from Boko Haram in the north east of Nigeria, January 31, 2015.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists attacked Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria from four fronts overnight with the crescendo of warfare — booming cannon and whooshing rockets — continuing Sunday, witnesses said.
Some civilians in the besieged city of 2 million, crowded with another 200,000 refugees from the fighting, are being killed by stray grenades and bombs dropped from a Nigerian Air Force fighter jet, witnesses said.
For weeks Boko Haram has been closing in on Maiduguri, the birthplace of the extremists, and if it were able to plant its Islamic State-style flag there, even briefly, it would be a morale booster as the group loses ground in remoter areas, said Jacob Zenn, author of a book about the insurgents.
Its third attack in a week on Maiduguri comes as Chadian forces launch a winning offensive, acting on an African Union directive for Nigeria's neighbors to help fight the spreading Islamic uprising by Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram extremists.
International outrage has grown over increasingly ferocious attacks that culminated in the slaughter of hundreds of civilians in Baga on Jan. 3.
A Chadian jet fighter supported by ground troops bombed the extremists out of Gamboru and Kolfata on Saturday and from Malumfatori on Thursday, witnesses said.
Chadian troops in Kolfata were "dancing around their country's flag and chanting," farmer Awami Kolobe said, quoting refugees who returned across the border from Cameroon. The towns had been under the sway of Boko Haram for months. Gamboru is about 140 kilometers (85 miles) northeast of Maiduguri, and Baga is another 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Gamboru, on Lake Chad, where Nigeria's borders converge with Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
African leaders at a summit Saturday authorized the creation of a 7,500-strong multinational force to fight Boko Haram.
It comes as Nigerians prepare for a closely contested Feb. 14 presidential election. Boko Haram denounces democracy.
In Maiduguri, a senior army officer said the militants were "everywhere," attacking from all four roads leading into the city. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to reporters.
All exits are blocked. The international airport has been closed since the insurgents in December 2013 launched a major attack.
Witnesses said a Nigerian jet dropped a bomb that hit several civilians near Giwa barracks. Ahmadu Marima said troops shot and killed five young men from a civilian self-defense group in his Abujantalakawa suburb, mistaking them for insurgents.
An elderly man and his granddaughter died when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded in their front garden, injuring a second girl, Marima said.
The government declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states in May 2013 after Boko Haram took control of dozens of villages and towns. Troops quickly drove the insurgents out but since then, ill-equipped and demoralized, have been losing ground.
In August, Boko Haram declared an Islamic caliphate and now holds about 130 towns and villages.
The uprising killed about 10,000 people last year, compared to about 2,000 in the first four years, according to the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
Associated Press writer Michelle Faul contributed to this report from Dakar, Senegal.
This article was written by HARUNA UMAR from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.
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Synlogic Reports Positive Interim Phase 1/2a Data Demonstrating Safety, Tolerability and Proof-of-Mechanism in Healthy Volunteers for SYNB1618, in Development for the Management of Phenylketonuria (PKU)
– Data demonstrate statistically significant dose-dependent effects on SYNB1618 activity-associated biomarkers, supporting further development of SYNB1618 –
– SYNB1618 dose established for treatment arm of ongoing Phase 1/2a study in patients with PKU; top-line data expected in mid-2019 –
– Company to hold conference call and webcast today, September 4, at 8:00 a.m. ET–
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synlogic, Inc., (Nasdaq:SYBX) a clinical stage company applying synthetic biology to probiotics to develop novel, living medicines, today announced positive interim clinical data from the healthy volunteer (HV) arm of its ongoing Phase 1/2a study of SYNB1618 in HVs and patients with PKU. The first part of this trial, which evaluated SYNB1618 versus placebo (PBO) in single- (SAD) and multiple-ascending dose (MAD) cohorts of HVs, successfully met the study’s primary objectives, to demonstrate safety and tolerability of SYNB1618 in HVs and to identify a suitable dose to evaluate in patients with PKU. Consistent with preclinical studies, the Phase 1/2a clinical data demonstrated that oral administration of SYNB1618 resulted in significant dose-dependent production of biomarkers specifically associated with SYNB1618 activity, demonstrating proof-of-mechanism.
"The significant dose-dependent production of SYNB1618-specific biomarkers in healthy volunteers is an exciting first step towards delivering a potential therapy for patients with PKU,” said Aoife Brennan, M.B., B.Ch., Synlogic’s interim president and chief executive officer and chief medical officer. "We have identified a dose for the next phase of our ongoing trial in patients with PKU and we look forward to expanding on these interim results when we report top-line data from the patient treatment arm of this trial in mid-2019. Importantly, the data also demonstrate the potential for our Synthetic Biotic platform to address conditions in which an engineered living medicine can be designed to perform a specific metabolic function within the gastrointestinal tract."
Synlogic’s Synthetic Biotic platform leverages the tools and principles of synthetic biology to engineer a strain of probiotic bacteria (E. coli Nissle) to perform or deliver specific functions lost or damaged due to disease. SYNB1618, in development for the management of PKU, is designed to function in the gastrointestinal tract (GI) and has been engineered to consume phenylalanine (Phe), an essential amino acid that can accumulate to harmful levels in patients with PKU with severe consequences. SYNB1618 metabolizes Phe to harmless compounds including trans-cinnamic acid (TCA) in the blood which is further metabolized in the liver and excreted as hippurate (HA) in the urine. TCA and HA,therefore, represent specific biomarkers of SYNB1618 activity as demonstrated by Synlogic’s preclinical data that were recently published in Nature Biotechnology.
Phase 1/2a Trial Design
Synlogic’s Phase 1/2a trial is a randomized, double-blind, PBO-controlled study of orally administered SYNB1618, evaluating ascending doses administered on a single day and multiple ascending doses administered over seven days. The primary objective of the study was to assess safety and tolerability of SYNB1618 in HVs and to establish a suitable dose to evaluate in patients with PKU, with secondary objectives to characterize the microbial kinetics of SYNB1618 in feces, as measured by qPCR, and GI tolerability, assessed by GI-related adverse events. Exploratory endpoints were designed to evaluate the pharmacodynamic effects of SYNB1618, including previously identified biomarkers related to SYNB1618 activity, TCA in plasma and HA in urine.
In the SAD portion of this study, six cohorts of four HVs received a single dose of SYNB1618 ranging from 1x1010 to 5x1011 CFU or PBO (3 treated:1 PBO). In the MAD portion of this study, four cohorts of eight HVs received either SYNB1618 at doses of up to 1x1011 CFU TID or PBO (6 treated:2 PBO), for seven days. During the treatment part of the study, subjects were housed in a clinical unit and provided a defined diet. The activity of SYNB1618 was evaluated in fasted subjects in both the SAD and MAD cohorts after administration of a standardized breakfast drink containing a defined amount of protein. At one dose level in the SAD portion of the study, solid food containing an equivalent amount of protein was substituted for the liquid meal. In addition, a labeled Phe tracer (D5-Phe) was orally administered. Blood and urine were collected over a subsequent six-hour period and several metabolites were measured including Phe and SYNB1618-specific biomarkers of Phe metabolism, TCA in blood and HA in urine. This was conducted in the SAD cohorts on the day of dosing and in the MAD cohorts on Day -1 (baseline) and Day 7 (the last day of dosing).
SAD Phase 1 Results:
In the SAD portion of this study, which included a total of 24 subjects, the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) was 2 x 1011 CFU. There were no drug-related significant adverse events (SAEs) reported. All AEs were mild-to-moderate in severity; of the moderately severe AEs, nausea and vomiting were the most common. A statistically significant dose-dependent increase in both plasma TCA and urinary HA was observed in SYNB1618 treated subjects but not in those treated with PBO. Production of metabolites from Phe administered as a free amino acid was similar to Phe administered as whole protein. In addition, production of metabolites was similar whether the protein was administered as a liquid or as a solid meal.
MAD Phase 1 Results:
In the MAD portion of this study, which included a total of 32 subjects, HV were administered PBO or SYNB1618 at doses of up to 1x1011 CFU TID for seven days. No drug-related SAEs were reported. All AEs were mild to moderate and observed in both the SYNB1618-treated and PBO groups. Of the moderately severe AEs, nausea and vomiting were the most common; only one subject in the highest dose cohort discontinued dosing. As observed in the SAD portion of the study, a statistically significant dose-dependent increase in plasma TCA and urinary HA was observed in SYNB1618-treated subjects but not in those treated with PBO. In HVs, who all have normal Phe metabolism, there was no impact on blood Phe levels. All HVs enrolled in the study have cleared SYNB1618 from their GI tracts.
SYNB1618 Clinical Development Plans and Upcoming Milestones
Synlogic’s ongoing Phase 1/2a trial of SYNB1618 will advance in patients with PKU, who will be administered 7x1010 CFU of SYNB1618. Synlogic expects to report top-line data from the patient treatment arm of this study in mid-2019 and plans to present final data from this clinical trial, including data from both HVs and patients, at an appropriate medical meeting. More information about Synlogic’s Phase 1/2a clinical trial in healthy adult volunteers and patients with PKU can be found at https://clinicaltrials.gov under the study ID NCT03516487. In addition, Synlogic will continue to optimize manufacturing process development and formulation of SYNB1618 in preparation for later stage clinical studies.
Conference Call & Webcast Information
Synlogic will host a conference call and live webcast at 8:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. To access the live webcast, please visit the “Event Calendar” page within the Investors and Media section of the Synlogic website at https://investor.synlogictx.com/. Alternatively, investors may listen to the call by dialing +1 (844) 815-2882 from locations in the United States or +1 (213) 660-0926 from outside the United States. The conference ID number is 1584778. A replay of the call will be available for seven days post the event, investors may listen to the call by dialing +1 (855) 859-2056 from locations in the United States or +1 (404) 537-3406 from outside the United States. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Synlogic website for 90 days following the call.
About Phenylketonuria (PKU)
PKU is caused by a defect in the gene encoding phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH), a liver enzyme that metabolizes Phe. Phe is an essential amino acid that enters the body as a component of dietary protein and can be toxic if it accumulates in the blood and brain. Current disease management of PKU involves strict dietary protein restriction with the consumption of Phe-free protein supplements. Life-long Phe control is challenging due to the highly restrictive nature of the diet and patients typically experience worsening neurological function depending on the severity of their genetic mutation and their treatment compliance. PKU is diagnosed at birth, and the National PKU Alliance estimates that there are currently approximately 16,500 people living with the disorder in the U.S.
About Synlogic
Synlogic is pioneering the development of a novel class of living medicines, Synthetic Biotic medicines, based on its proprietary drug development platform. Synlogic leverages the tools and principles of synthetic biology to genetically engineer probiotic microbes to perform or deliver critical functions missing or damaged due to disease. The company’s two lead programs, SYNB1020 and SYNB1618, target hyperammonemia as a result of liver damage or genetic disease, and PKU, respectively. When delivered orally, Synthetic Biotic medicines can act from the gut to compensate for the dysfunctional metabolic pathway and have a systemic effect, with the potential to significantly improve symptoms of disease for affected patients. In addition, the company is leveraging the broad potential of its platform to create Synthetic Biotic medicines for the treatment of more common diseases, including liver disease, inflammatory and immune disorders, and cancer. Synlogic is collaborating with AbbVie to develop Synthetic Biotic-based treatments for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). For more information, please visit www.synlogictx.com.
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” that involve substantial risks and uncertainties for purposes of the safe harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding Synlogic’s plans and expectations for the development of SYNB1618. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release regarding strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenue, projected expenses, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. In addition, when or if used in this press release, the words “may,” “could,” “should,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “predict” and similar expressions and their variants, as they relate to Synlogic may identify forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements, include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the potential of Synlogic’s platform to develop therapeutics to address a wide range of diseases including: cancer, inborn errors of metabolism, liver disease, and inflammatory and immune disorders; the future clinical development of Synthetic Biotic medicines; the approach Synlogic is taking to discover and develop novel therapeutics using synthetic biology; and the expected timing of Synlogic’s clinical trials and availability of clinical trial data. Actual results could differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement as a result of various factors, including: the uncertainties inherent in the preclinical development process; the ability of Synlogic to protect its intellectual property rights; and legislative, regulatory, political and economic developments, as well as those risks identified under the heading “Risk Factors” in Synlogic’s filings with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release reflect Synlogic’s current views with respect to future events. Synlogic anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause its views to change. However, while Synlogic may elect to update these forward-looking statements in the future, Synlogic specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Synlogic’s view as of any date subsequent to the date hereof.
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Lisa M Guiterman, 301-217-9353
lisa.guiterman@gmail.com
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Synlogic Reports Positive Interim Data Demonstrating Safety, Tolerability and Proof-of-Mechanism in Healthy Volunteers for SYNB1618 for PKU
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8 Photo Stories That Will Challenge Your View Of The World
Here are some of the most interesting and powerful photo stories from across the internet.
By Gabriel H. Sanchez
Gabriel H. Sanchez BuzzFeed News Photo Essay Editor
Posted on July 13, 2019, at 11:59 a.m. ET
This week's photo stories explore the shifting landscape of America — both culturally and literally. We begin with highlights from New York City's ticker-tape parade in honor of the legendary US women's soccer team that took home victory at the FIFA Women's World Cup. Photographs by Adair Freeman Rutledge and Frances F. Denny show how new generations are celebrating their centuries-old heritage, while Nate Gowdy's playful portraits capture the rich diversity of the American experience today.
Following last week's magnitude-7.1 earthquake in Southern California, BuzzFeed News dives into the archives to recount the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake and the precautions that have since been implemented to boost California's readiness for the next “Big One." We end on a gallery of fun and rare summer-themed pictures that show how famous faces from history have cooled off in the season's heat.
These are some of the photo stories from across the internet that caught our eye and kept us thinking.
“24 Photos From the Victory Parade Honoring the Badass US Women’s Soccer Team” — BuzzFeed News
“These Striking Portraits Show the Lives of Witches in America Today” — BuzzFeed News
Frances F. Denny / ClampArt, New York City
“The Dress Hasn’t Changed, but the Girls Have” — NPR
Adair Freeman Rutledge
“14 Pictures That Perfectly Capture the American Experience” — BuzzFeed News
Nate Gowdy
“These Pictures Show What a Major Earthquake Looks Like in LA” — BuzzFeed News
Joe Sohm / Getty Images
“These 6 Women Shaped Photojournalism During LIFE’s Heyday” — Artsy
Hansel Mieth
“25 Iconic Summer Photos Guaranteed to Cool You Off” — BuzzFeed News
Aaron Rapoport / Getty Images
“23 of the Most Powerful Photos of this Week” — BuzzFeed News
Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty Images
Gabriel H. Sanchez is the photo essay editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York City.
Contact Gabriel H. Sanchez at gabriel.sanchez@buzzfeed.com.
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The power to the Atlanta airport’s Concourse B went out shortly after 5 a.m. and was being restored as of 11:45 a.m., the newspaper reported. The cause had not been determined.
See Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite on stage in Los Angeles
Tropical Storm Barry floods block road to coastal Louisiana towns
By Taylor Dolven and
Bianca Padró Ocasio
The Port Authority of Puerto Rico announced Tuesday afternoon that the Miami-based cruise corporation had canceled its San Juan port visit. A spokesman for Royal Caribbean confirmed that the ship will be docking in Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands, instead.
Did Florida’s CFO break law by revealing sex harassment complaint? Police look at case.
Wildlife sighting in Florida village prompts warning: ‘Coyotes may not be into selfies’
Man collapses after diving a sunken shipwreck in the Florida Keys
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Honouring the Hopkins: Why Katie Hopkins is a British Icon
October 9, 2017 Michael Lee Leave a Comment
Love her or hate her, Katie Hopkins has a voice and quite frankly is not afraid to speak her mind. Despite anyone resembling a Jeremy Corbyn fan claiming to be offended by her vast array of fiery opinions.
There is nothing more British than fish and chips, the Queens’s speech and Brexit, and quite frankly there is no one that oozes red, white and blue cool Britannia from her veins more than Katie Hopkins. Katie represents everything that is great about Britain.
Educated, articulate, patriotic, cultured, and unapologetic of her pride in being British, she stands up for what she believes in, despite political correctness and hypersensitivity. She has described herself as a “conduit for truth” declaring what other people think in the comfort of their own home, but are too scared to say in a public forum. She is the voice of the voiceless and is unrepentant about her provocative views, she’s leading the way against the intolerant left, and for that she is to be admired and bowed down upon.
So despite being a British hero, why is there always something resembling apocalyptic mass hysteria whenever Hopkins opens her gob? Why do grown men tremble in her sheer presence, and why are people so utterly outraged of a mere opinion in a supposedly open-minded and tolerant western society?
Well, to understand the root cause of people’s fear and anxiety over the Hopkins, one would need to understand who Katie actually is and how this English rose blossomed into our very own crown jewel.
Katie studied economics at the University of Exeter and completed military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. She participated in the Sovereign’s Parade but unfortunately was unable to take up commission due to an epileptic seizure. Katie has also worked as a global brand consultant for the Met Office. So to say this ‘rent-a-gob’ as her critics would like to unpleasantly label her is unqualified and undeserving to voice such profound opinions is clearly just left-wing prejudice based on her critical observer’s inability to digest her quick-witted and intellectual perceptive.
Having first risen to fame as a memorable candidate on BBC reality TV show ‘The Apprentice’ Katie, even during her early days on the small screen showed that she had bigger testicles then most of the men she shared the boardroom with, after telling Lord Alan Sugar a firm and clear “NO!”.
The Irish Post
An appearance on ITV’s ‘I’m A Celebrity’ closely followed, however, it wasn’t until her notorious and now legendary appearance on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ that really made her the icon that she is today. It was on that show in which she left squeaky clean hosts Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby open mouthed and flabbergasted with her view that she judges children by their first names, explaining that forenames represent class and behaviour, to the extent that “no middle-class mother should let their children play with kids called Chardonnay.”
What followed next was a national outcry of angry and disgust as benefit claiming parents and breast-feeding single mum’s took to their Twitter accounts and expressed their annoyance, in 120 characters or less at how someone could have the audacity to judge their precious little ‘Princess’ or ‘Shaniqua’.
But it wasn’t just poorly named children who felt the wrath of the Hopkins. In her crusade against fatties and obesity everywhere, Katie deliberately gained and lost weight over the course of several months, in an attempt to show that obese people can diet successfully. Her progress was carefully documented on her show ‘My Fat Story’ for TLC which had an audience figure of 10 million. Hopkins gained and successfully lost 3 stone (42 lb; 19 kg) over the course of the show, proving that she can put her money where her mouth is (or should that be McDonald’s Big Mac where her mouth is) and demonstrate that fat people are seemingly just lazy lards of blob.
Katie had proved her point, but there was more to come. A stint on Channel 5 ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ showcased a more ‘softer’ side to the hardened and acid tongued Katie Hopkins’ public persona that she had become notoriously known for, and as a result came 2nd place, losing to eventual winner and fellow tabloid favourite and fellow Katie, Katie Price.
Once someone that the British public loved to hate, Katie now had become loved and adored, and even though she originally had difficulty adjusting to the compliments, the British public saw her for who she really was, a passionately opinionated woman who would not back down, despite the barrage of detesters who still had issues with a strong woman with a voice.
Since then, Katie Hopkins has cemented her place as a household name through a string of statements, interviews and newspaper columns. As a result, her name is never far from the headlines, or the social media trending topics. She even acquired her own TV chat show ‘If Katie ruled the world’ in which her and fellow celebrity quests described the ideal world as seen through the eyes and rules of Hopkins.
Just imagine, a world with Katie Hopkins as our glorified leader, it’s almost as glorious as Trump being the supreme leader of the free world.
Racist, Homophobic, xenophobic, fascist, islamophobic, all have been thrown at Katie, left, right and centre, yet she flicks them off with her perfectly manicured nails, because sticks and stones can’t break her bones and labels certainly don’t faze her. Despite the outlandish claims that could be further from the truth, the racist allegations continued to come in full force, where it got to the point of absolute ridiculousness when Katie was called in for questioning by the police following claims she was ‘Inciting racial hatred’ in her much loved yet sadly now defunct Sun newspaper column, in which she compared migrants to “cockroaches.”
Once again the left wing mafia took to Twitter in hordes to express their anger and dismay. Katie was heavily criticised for the piece, with the Metropolitan Police confirming they investigated and questioned Hopkins over the article, but thankfully common sense prevailed and she was not arrested. Apparently the Metropolitan Police had more pressing matters to contend to that day, what with knife and acid crimes on the rise, Iraqi refugees raping children in swimming pools due to ‘sexual emergencies’, and Islamic terrorism spreading onto UK streets and schools, it seems the views of an English tax paying mum were not deemed as ‘criminal’ despite what the left desperately tried to portray.
So what has happened to free speech? Espousing controversial social, political or religious views? Don’t bother, unless you are prepared to have the dazzling array of labels aggressively thrown at you. Of course, free speech is often precisely about pissing off other people, challenging social taboos or political values, but in the western world we now seemingly all have to play along, confirm and be nice to each other/ So much for individuality, eh?
Behind the controversial headlines and soundbites, Katie revealed a heart-breaking and painful fear, a fear of dying and leaving her children motherless as she prepared to undergo gruelling brain surgery in a bid to reduce the amount of seizures she suffered due to epilepsy. The mum-of-three underwent a gruelling twelve-hour surgery to have a part of her brain removed. Though in true Katie wit and defiance she took to Twitter soon after the operation to announce to her over 800k followers, that “Even 12 hours in surgery and the removal of part of my brain have not shut me up.”
Yep, Katie definitely had not changed, and we wouldn’t want her to, either.
At the end of the day our Katie isn’t offensive, the words she sprouts are merely just one individual opinion and is speculative, people merely just choose to take offense from what she says to make up for their own shortcomings and insecurities.
She is straight talking, knows her stuff, strong minded, intelligent and is not sorry for simply speaking her mind, and quite frankly why should she be? Katie stands firmly by what comes out of her mouth and appears unfazed to those that simply want to “shut her up” and deprive her of her right to have her say.
So who is Katie Hopkins? Is she the human incarnation of Marmite? Is she a pantomime baddie? Is she a ruthless, bigoted, racist xenophobe that hates everyone and everything? Or is she just a strongly outspoken woman who chooses to use straight facts over tear jerking emotion?
Katie Hopkins represents everything that is great about Britain. She embodies pride, class, determination which is complete with that distinctive British quirkiness and with her slightly eccentric waving hand movements when expressing her opinions with great passion, she truly is everything great about little England.
She provokes discussion and challenges reformist thinking and at the end of the day, she says the things that everyone else is thinking behind closed doors, but is far too afraid to say. Her balls are bigger than any shifty politician or shady prime minster and quite frankly her honesty is refreshing in a world that tries so hard to be politically correct and halal.
Long live the Queen.
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WATCH: Ian McKellen Steps In for Patrick Stewart to Help a Man Propose
Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen have one of the most epic bromances. Seriously, these two besties are always together, and couldn't have a more adorable friendship. Case in point: McKellen stood in for BFF Stewart when one man asked him to help to propose.
Brett Lotriet Best, a film director, wanted to propose to his boyfriend Khalid Shawwa, who also happens to be a huge Star Trek fan, with the help of Patrick Stewart, the famed Captain Picard. While Stewart was unfortunately unavailable, he sent bestie Ian McKellen in his stead, and the result is pretty amazing.
The whole video features Best holding up a series of notes and questions written out on a posters — with a super-cute clip of his boyfriend, Khalid, singing to him in between. He mentions Shawwa's love for Captain Picard, and that he needed the captain's help to ask a very important question.
"There is a question I wanted to ask, but I had to be sure," Best explains on one of his handwritten signs. "We all know how you feel about Star Trek's Captain Picard. So I searched the galaxy for Patrick Stewart and finally asked his best friend for help!"
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Then, McKellen enters the screen holding a clipboard that reads, "Mookie — will you marry me?" while simultaneously explaining: "Khalid, I've got bad news for you — it's good news as well — but the bad news is, Patrick Stewart is married. I married him. Well, no, I was the minister at the wedding. He's not available."
"The good news is that Brett is available," McKellen adorably continued. "So, think it over, do the right thing."
Fittingly, Best closed out the video with a sign that read, "I would like to explore the universe with you."
Thanks to Twitter, Best confirmed that his answer was a yes! Congrats the happy couple!
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Songs Of The Week 2015
The 5 Biggest New Songs Of This Week (16th January 2015)
16 January 2015, 11:36 | Updated: 29 March 2017, 11:48
Featuring a big DJ Mustard remix of Beyoncé, Ciara's new song 'I Bet' and a Melissa Steel and WizKid collaboration.
Plenty of new music has dropped this week to keep your ears busy, but we've rounded up the best of the best, the five tracks that you shouldn't end your week without hearing.
Featuring DJ Mustard's brand new remix of Beyoncé's '7/11' and Ciara's comeback song 'I Bet,' which hears her call out ex-fiancé Future, hit play on the songs to know about this week.
Ciara - 'I Bet'
'I Bet,' the first single of Ciara's upcoming new album 'Jackie,' hears Ciara finally speak out about her break-up with ex-fiancé Future. The heartfelt song hears Ciara sing ""I bet you start loving me soon as I start loving somebody else."
Beyoncé - '7/11 (DJ Mustard Remix)'
Beyoncé's '7/11' has just had new life breathed into it by the the producer of the moment DJ Mustard. The track's new electro-inspired beat makes it even more club-ready than it already was.
Melissa Steel Feat. WizKid - 'Burning Down'
Melissa Steel has premiered a brand new song online. The 'Kisses For Breakfast' singer has teamed up with one of the biggest names in Afrobeats, WizKid, for new track 'Burning Down.'
Ne-Yo - 'Who's Taking You Home'
Ne-Yo continues his roll of premiering new songs from his forthcoming album 'Non-Fiction' ahead of its release at the end of January. The latest is a David Guetta team-up on 'Who's Taking You Home.'
Trey Songz - 'Slow Motion'
Trey Songz seductive new slow jam hears Thim sing about taking a woman back to the crib for a night of 'taking things slow.'
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The rain at the weekend was very much appreciated by the ducks at Randolphs Farm. The ponds had dropped to a level where we had begun to be concerned for their welfare. Now they are well topped up and should keep them happy for the time being.
This is a fairly stressful time of year for the fish as the new intake of ducks arrived a few weeks ago. They seem to take a sadistic pleasure in dive bombing the poor unsuspecting inhabitants of the ponds and compete for feed and open water. So with the water level having risen over the weekend I am hopeful they will be feeling a little safer.
We managed to get the last of the wheat safely gathered in late on Friday night. And the straw which I had sold was being baled directly behind the combine and was also off the fields and under cover before the predicted rain arrived during the night.
I suspect the rain has done more good than harm as it will encourage the grass to grow and could well hasten on the ripening of crops which are still some weeks away from being fit to harvest. The subsequent strong sun has already dried things up, and will encourage fields which have been stubble cultivated to germinate annual weeds, black grass and remaining grain from the crops. All of which will help to ensure we have a clean seed bed when planting next year’s crop.
The costs of the police operation in Balcombe where they are attempting to keep the peace, has escalated as predicted. The Sussex Police Commissioner is asking the government to help out with the costs as she suggests this is a national not local problem. She may be right but had the police been less willing to humour the interloping protestors when they first arrived and sent them packing as they should have done, things would not have got into such an expensive mess.
It is all very well advocating that people have ‘rights’ and should be allowed to voice their opinions and concerns. But when you have outsiders such as the green witch of Brighton using this local issue as a personal soap box, so she can be sure to get arrested and hit the headlines, I think both the police and the ‘rights’ of those involved have lost the plot.
Nasa’s robotic explorer celebrated its first anniversary on Mars this month. There are differing views as to whether a manned mission in the future will be feasible within the scientific space research world, which give an insight into the harsh conditions on the Red Planet.
The cosmologist Stephen Hawkins sees the establishing of an outpost there not just as a challenge but as essential to mankind’s survival. He said “The human race shouldn’t have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet,” he added, “If nuclear proliferation, climate change, shrinking resources, a growing population, or a visit by hostile aliens threaten humans on Earth, a colony on Mars could serve as a lifeboat.” He believes that we will eventually establish self-sustaining colonies on Mars and other bodies in the solar system.
So far there is no budget for a manned mission, let alone the technology to land humans safely and bring them back. But Nasa is working on a plan. Earth and Mars are 34.8 million miles apart and it would take a manned spacecraft six to eight months to get there. The astronauts would need very tough protection against cancer inducing space radiation and they would need to take a vast amount of water, provisions, equipment and fuel.
As the atmospheric pressure in just 1 per cent of Earth’s, this makes it difficult to slow down a 40 metric ton spaceship which is hurtling towards the surface at 13,000 MPH. If they did survive the landing, zero gravity, exposure to radiation and fine dust on the surface containing highly chlorinated salts which cause respiratory problems and thyroid damage, the chances of not being able to re-launch and return to Earth are considerable.
However, no doubt these obstacles will be overcome in due course. And the good news is that farming will be a priority as food production is of course essential. I am happy to supple a short list of potential farmers who should be encouraged to partake in the adventure.
It is a pity that the ability to populate Mars or any other planet is still just a distant pipe dream. In years gone by our forefathers were able to send rogues, criminals and undesirables to the Colonies including Australia or just lock them up in a selection of austere prisons here in the UK.
Today Australia no longer welcomes our castoffs and our prisons are so full that it is being suggested that most criminals should be allowed to roam the streets even if convicted of aggravated burglary. One does have to wonder how this will prevent or deter reoffending. I would hazard a guess the criminals don’t believe their luck.
There is great activity out in the countryside as it comes alive with combine harvesters moving slowly through the now golden fields of corn. Ours is still firmly sitting in the barn as we wait patiently for the grain to drop to the optimum of level of 14 percent moisture which will ensure we can store it indefinitely and will not incur penalties when it leaves the farm.
We shall certainly get going sometime this week but so far the wheat is not quite where we want it and as the forecasters are predicting increasingly hot dry weather towards the latter part of the week, the pressure is off for the time being.
I am delighted to hear that crops are yielding better than expected which is encouraging. If we can also get the grain cut and into the barn in a condition which will not require drying, that will be an additional bonus. As the prices remain relatively low we don’t want to incur cost for drying.
A non-farming chum observed last week that as he drove across Sussex he was shocked by how much land was uncultivated this year. This is as a direct result of the harsh long wet winter and spring when many farmers decided to leave fields fallow rather than risk planting crops late into cold wet ground too late.
The fields now empty of cultivated crops are unsightly and mostly full of weeds, and as my friend observed, a reminder that without farmers looking after the countryside it would all end up a fine old mess.
It is all very well the environmentalists preaching that naturalisation of the countryside is their aim but I don’t actually believe that they have a clue as to what the result would be if we all packed up and stopped farming.
What they really want is managed landscapes which is what farmers do. At the same time we create the landscape which is so greatly admired and loved, be it grazed hill sides, green pastures for livestock or mile upon mile of arable crops, all of which help to feed the nation.
I think most of us were confused last week by the complaints from certain sectors that it is mostly black, Asians and Eastern Europeans who are stopped and questioned as to their legitimate immigration status. It seems those who complained that they consider this to be unfair and racist obviously have not grasped that the UK’s natural population are Anglo Saxon.
When later in the week the latest figures emerged which show our little island accepted more immigrants than any other European country in 2012 one has to question the logic and the effectiveness of the UK Border Agency which has been referred to as “laughably incompetent”.
The extraordinary high birth rate which now soars above the numbers dying is in some quarters being laughably put down to older ‘British’ women now deciding to start a family. Those who are capable or reading reports know the truth according to statistics is that we are about to reach the time when the majority of babies born in the UK will be to non-Anglo Saxon immigrant families.
It is undeniable that many sectors of our communities would not and could not function without the services of workers who in many cases came to Great Britain decades ago, some second and third generation. It is also abundantly clear that if it were not for seasonal workers vegetables, soft fruit and top fruit crops would not be harvested. It is all very well for the politicians shouting that British jobs should go to British people but until these very same politicians get behind Ian Duncan-Smith’s efforts to reform our crazy welfare system which rewards lazy, incompetent and dishonest British scroungers, businesses across the country will have to bring in migrant workers. And recruit better educated talented youngsters from abroad until Michael Gove can turn round the State education system which rewards bad teaching, no- achievers and manages to humiliate hard work and achievement.
However, it is now well over due that the incompetent Border Agency gets a grip of the situation and recruits border guards who should be positioned at every port, airport and London railways station, who have been trained in a similar way as the Home Guard when the UK was at War. Unless someone can immediately prove their legitimacy they should be locked up and immediately deported for as sure as eggs is eggs they have no rights to be here.
Tony Blair is responsible for much of today’s problems, what a pity we can’t off load him to one of the countries which seem totally unaware of his incompetence, dishonesty, and blatant manipulation of our immigration laws which he had hoped would keep him in power indefinitely. Before 1997 the numbers were bad but since then totally unacceptable. I think we can safely put the blame at his door that in 2010 alone, more migrants came to Britain than in all the years between 1066 and 1950 put together. How shocking is that?
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The crops have enjoyed the recent rain and are looking increasingly well. I had to choose the field of wheat and barley which I considered to be the best on the farm last week for the judging of cereal crops for the Hurstpierpoint Ploughing Match crops competition.
Farmers show off crops in a way that normal people show their off their children or pets. Well, we have nurtured them with just as much care and attention and seen them through difficult seasons, tendered to their every need and fought off predatory weeds trying to crowd them out, diseases and pests.
We are competing with our neighbours and however much we like our fellow farmers, well most of them, we dearly would like to be seen to have grown a better crop than they have!
Time will tell but although I was able to show two nice clean fields with the cereals looking healthy and strong, the crop is predictably light so I doubt we shall be gaining any silverware, nor will we be breaking any records with the yield.
I am not particularly excited at the prospect of eating ‘Test-Tube’ meat. The airwaves are alive with discussions on this subject. By Wednesday a so far unnamed celebrity will have sampled the very first ‘Test-Tube’ burger. This morsel which was said to have probably cost in excess of £200,000, not because some fancy chef will have cooked the thing to perfection, but because Prof Mark Post, a doctor and scientist at the University of Maastricht has developed what he believes is the very first synthesised meat product created in a lab from cultured tissue.
This ‘delicious, mouth-watering’ burger was produced by taking skeletal-muscle stem cells from a cow, sheep or chicken, grown them in vitro producing thin sheets of muscle by stimulating it with electricity. The little strips of meat were then woven together to create a lump of meat or burger.
I find it interesting that some of the people who believe eating genetically modified food is like’ dining with the devil’, but are prepared to eat a laboratory experiment of synthetic material, in place of meat from a healthy animal.
One has to question why all the fuss about eating horse meat? I would have thought it has to be infinitely preferable to ‘Test-Tube’ meat.
Prof Post has based his research and created this product by taking animal tissue and using it to grow meat in a vat. However in Silicon valley, California, a geneticist called Pat Brown is making meat out of plants using vegetable or fungal protein.
His plan is to create cheap, fake meat burgers which he believes hungry Americans will buy. The theory is that this will cause the world’s livestock industry to collapse, and pastures will be abandoned or given over to crops.
The purpose of all this is the concern that the ever growing population and increasing world-wide demand for meat as living standards improve. This could result in an expanding livestock agricultural industry which is no longer sustainable as farm animals compete for the food which otherwise could feed the growing population.
A recent UN report concluded that the demand for meat world-wide is in fact slowing, so perhaps these assumptions should be questioned.
I expect the ‘Test-Tube’ burger may catch on with those who are prepared to eat anything including processed foods, the contents of which are generally unknown and often dodgy.
However, there will always be a market for genuine free range meat but in time it could become increasingly expensive, and be stigmatised by animal rights activists who will try and stop the consumption of meat from a beast which has been reared and slaughtered for the purpose.
Fortunately there are still a majority who have healthy appetites and recognise that quality natural food is best. But sadly as it is all too plain to see as you walk down any high street where there are far too many fat people who already live on an unhealthy diet of processed food.
Yes there are people starving around the world where food is scarce. There is also too much food which is unhealthy and cheap which is causing an even more serious health epidemic.
I am not sure lab produced food is the answer to addressing this problem, the distribution of healthy food should be priority.
We shall no doubt hear much more on this subject and a verdict is awaited on the taste and quality of this beetroot coloured, caramel and saffron flavoured burger. The very thought is enough to turn a good carnivore into a vegetarian – God forbid!
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Audi R8 goes Rear-Wheel Drive with RWS version
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All R8s are quattros, right? Not anymore, Audi's introduced its supercar with rear-wheel drive. What's special about it?
It's called the Audi R8 V10 RWS and it's limited to just 999 units. Both coupe and spyder convertible derivatives will be made available. Visually, it's different to the standard Audi R8 with the addition of matte black detailing, but the real difference lies in the rear-wheel drive setup.
It's a radical departure from the strict "we are quattro" ethos which Audi has adhered to with its sportscars and ex-Lambo boss Stephan Winkelmann, CEO of Audi Sport said, "a limited-edition special model for customers with an appreciation for driving enjoyment, the R8 V10 RWS is an absolutely exclusive offer. With its mid-mounted V10 engine and rear-wheel drive, it brings the driving concept of our R8 LMS racing car to the streets."
Power comes from a 397 kW and 540 Nm naturally-aspirated V10 engine. It'll sprint to 100 kph in a claimed 3.7 seconds for the coupe, while the spyder is 0.1 seconds slower. Both derivatives can achieve top speeds in excess of 300 kph.
For the driving purists, the rear-wheel drive setup now means that some drifting action is now possible. If the driver selects Dynamic mode, controlled drifts are possible with the electronic stability control (ESC) only stepping in at the limit. Deliveries of the R8 RWS will commence at the beginning of 2018. At this stage, it's unknown if the Audi R8 RWS is confirmed for South African introduction, however.
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Oct 27 vs TB W 7-1 0 2 2 +1 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:28 3:35 1:57
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Nov 21 vs LV L 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 2 22:05 1:53 1:11
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Nov 25 vs CGY L 6-1 0 0 0 -2 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:26 3:03 2:04
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Dec 13 @ BUF L 3-1 0 0 0 -3 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:48 0:19 0:00
Dec 14 @ NYR W 4-3 (OT) 0 1 1 +1 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 2 17:24 0:40 2:24
Dec 16 @ CAR L 3-0 0 0 0 -2 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:23 1:27 2:20
Dec 18 vs NYI L 3-1 0 1 1 -1 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:24 0:56 0:35
Dec 20 vs MON L 2-1 0 0 0 0 3 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24:08 2:20 2:29
Dec 22 vs COL W 6-4 0 1 1 +2 3 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23:51 1:34 4:51
Dec 23 @ SJ W 4-3 (SO) 0 0 0 +1 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25:03 1:23 5:15
Dec 27 @ LA L 2-1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:09 0:32 2:02
Dec 29 @ ANA W 5-4 (OT) 0 0 0 +2 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:11 0:57 2:22
Dec 30 vs LV L 5-1 0 0 0 -4 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:42 2:41 1:56
December Totals 1 4 5 0 21 4.8 0 0 0 0 0 2 318:47 22:56 32:25
Jan 4 vs NJ L 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 -2 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:17 2:11 2:23
Jan 6 vs NYR W 5-0 0 1 1 +1 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:22 2:12 0:45
Jan 10 @ VAN W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:34 1:01 0:39
Jan 12 @ EDM W 3-2 0 0 0 +1 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:54 0:58 0:37
Jan 13 @ CGY L 7-1 0 1 1 -4 0 0.0 0 1 0 0 0 0 19:30 1:59 0:40
Jan 16 vs SJ W 6-3 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:04 2:29 0:38
Jan 18 vs PIT L 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:34 1:17 2:23
Jan 20 @ TOR W 4-2 0 1 1 +1 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:08 3:37 0:47
Jan 22 @ OTT W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:05 0:31 0:47
Jan 23 @ MON L 2-1 0 0 0 -1 5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23:53 5:03 0:55
January Totals 0 3 3 -4 10 0.0 0 1 0 0 0 0 207:21 21:18 10:34
Feb 2 @ SJ L 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:35 3:00 0:38
Feb 4 @ DAL L 5-4 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:22 0:55 1:06
Feb 5 @ NSH L 5-2 0 1 1 0 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:14 1:11 0:37
Feb 7 vs CLB L 4-2 0 0 0 -1 3 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23:21 1:35 1:37
Feb 9 vs DAL W 3-2 1 1 2 0 2 50.0 1 1 0 0 0 0 22:01 1:43 2:08
Feb 12 @ LV W 5-2 0 0 0 +1 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:41 1:17 0:26
Feb 14 vs STL L 4-0 0 0 0 -1 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:05 3:15 1:20
Feb 16 vs TOR W 2-0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25:37 1:16 3:20
Feb 18 @ CGY L 5-2 0 0 0 -3 4 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 2 23:38 1:29 0:52
Feb 19 @ EDM W 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 3 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:00 3:11 0:41
Feb 21 @ VAN W 3-2 (OT) 0 1 1 +1 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 2 21:07 1:14 0:55
Feb 24 vs WPG W 4-1 0 2 2 +2 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:30 1:50 2:51
Feb 26 vs FLA W 4-3 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24:56 2:26 0:35
Feb 28 vs VAN W 5-2 0 0 0 +1 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 2 25:06 3:55 2:28
February Totals 1 5 6 -3 24 4.2 1 1 0 0 0 6 308:13 28:17 19:34
Mar 2 vs DET W 3-1 0 0 0 +2 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:07 2:11 0:14
Mar 5 vs ANA L 3-1 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:58 0:51 2:25
Mar 7 vs CGY W 2-0 0 0 0 +1 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:48 1:39 0:44
Mar 9 vs LA W 4-2 0 1 1 0 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:25 2:23 0:32
Mar 11 @ CHI L 7-1 0 0 0 -4 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:31 2:15 0:32
Mar 12 @ STL W 3-1 0 0 0 +2 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:12 0:54 0:47
Mar 14 vs ANA W 6-1 0 2 2 +1 0 0.0 0 2 0 0 0 2 19:07 2:29 2:21
Mar 16 vs EDM L 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 +1 4 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19:47 3:04 0:53
Mar 18 @ TB L 4-1 0 0 0 -1 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:18 1:16 0:36
Mar 21 @ FLA L 4-2 0 0 0 -1 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:10 1:06 1:25
Mar 23 @ NJ L 2-1 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:38 1:19 3:31
Mar 24 @ NYI L 2-0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:30 1:30 0:59
Mar 26 vs CHI W 1-0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:46 0:49 0:18
Mar 29 @ COL L 3-2 (SO) 0 1 1 +1 3 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:51 2:20 0:42
Mar 31 vs MIN W 4-0 0 0 0 +1 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:35 2:29 1:42
March Totals 0 4 4 +3 18 0.0 0 2 0 0 0 4 311:43 26:35 17:41
Apr 2 vs LA L 3-1 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:15 3:02 0:33
Apr 4 @ LV W 4-1 0 0 0 +2 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:18 0:16 0:07
Apr 6 vs WPG L 4-2 0 0 0 +1 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:07 1:07 0:58
April Totals 0 0 0 +3 5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60:40 4:25 1:38
2018-19 Regular Season Totals 3 24 27 -7 102 2.9 1 6 0 2 0 16 1582:05 140:20 118:57
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Avenal State Prison Donates 515 Cell Phones to Soldiers
Donation made in honor of ten-year September 11th anniversary
AVENAL, CA. — In recognition of the ten-year anniversary of September 11th, Avenal State Prison (ASP) donated 515 cell phones to the Cell Phones for Soldiers program.
“The job of our troops is never-ending.” ASP Warden James Hartley said. “They remain in foreign lands as peacekeepers, guarding those who wish to realize the liberties of freedom. Our servicemen continue to be removed from their family units and limited in their abilities to maintain their family ties. As such, Avenal State Prison wants to support the troops by giving them the opportunity to hear that precious and familiar voice when they call home.”
The phones collected came from staff donations as well as those recovered during contraband searches. Approximately 450 of the donated cell phones were recovered either in drops outside the prison that were intended for inmates, or in the inmate housing units where no suspects could be tied to the cell phones.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has seen a rise in the use of contraband cell phones. Cell phone use by inmates poses a security risk as it circumvents the monitoring process and compromises security in prisons. So far this year, 9,935 contraband cell phones have been discovered in CDCR’s prisons and Conservation Camps.
Cell Phones for Soldiers collects cell phones, recycles them and uses the profits to purchase pre-paid calling cards for the soldiers in far away areas so that they may call home to their parents, children or spouses. The phones are sent to ReCellular, which pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for each donated phone – enough to provide an hour of talk time to soldiers abroad.
Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded in 2004 by teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist from Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since then, the registered 501c3 non-profit organization has, to date, collected 7.5 million cell phones, which they have turned into 90 million prepaid calling card minutes distributed to soldiers serving overseas.
ASP opened in January 1987, the facility covers 640 acres and is designated as a low-medium security institution to provide housing for approximately 5,700 general population inmates. The prison employs 1,629 people and provides academic classes, vocational instruction, a substance abuse program and work programs to include a Prison Industries Authority plant.
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Ivana Chýlková
Voices of the marginalized
How did EU policies affect the poorest
Authors: Jiří Silný, Khondoker Shakhawat Ali, Paulin Polepole, Tomáš Tožička, Zuzana Uhde
Published by EDUCON, Prague, 2015
In this report GCAP has brought together constituents from four countries, across three continents to reflect on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) implementation and the role of the European Union (EU). Representatives of Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nicarague, and Zambia share their analysis and discussions with people from affected communities. It is clear that many problems and challenges persist, particularly in terms of ensuring the inclusion of the most marginalized and socially-excluded individuals and communities.
Bangladesh TV – news report of Bangladeshi TV was shoot by mystification author Filip Remunda for Czechia against Poverty campaign
A TV report of Bangladesh TV linking OP Prostejov fall and collapse of the textile factory Rana Plaza in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which was published less than a month ago by Deník Referendum and within short time gathered 110,000 visits on YouTube channel, was created by Czech documentary director Filip Remunda for international campaigns action/ 2015 and Czechia against Poverty as part of activities of the European Year for Development 2015 (EYD2015).
Within the context of actions for eradication of extreme poverty is one of the goals to highlight the global context of the unsatisfactory state of human rights in textile production in the countries of the global South, where daily wage of 1 EUR is not rare. Also it points out how it is connected with decline of traditional textile production in Europe. During EYD2015 campaign will further highlight the need to establish standards to ensure decent living and working conditions in all corners of the planet.
Tomáš Tožička from Czechia against Poverty campaign says to this: "Why we have chosen way of mystifying campaign? We want to show that we can be connected across continents by events that seem to be far away. And this is exactly role of medias and news to deliver to us such information. However, since the news are becoming more and more banal and stereotyped, exaggeration and humor is an appropriate form how to hold up a mirror to them as well as to bring relevant information into the public space. Our clips TV Botswana and now Bangladesh TV show that we are successful in our effort."
Petr Mares from NGO NaZemi adds: "One of the consequences of so-called "optimizing production costs" is a massive displacement of clothing production to developing countries. The vast majority of clothing companies that have moved their production does not meet safety or working conditions level. They care mainly about speed of delivery and profit. No wonder then that the factory collapse, though for different reasons. In Bangladesh it is due to totally unsatisfactory technical condition of factories and irresponsibility of their owners, in Prostejov probably thanks to often mentioned competitiveness. It is simply the result of irresponsible behavior of corporations and because their resignation to sustainable production. Employees of apparel factories all over the world are basically in the same boat, under the pressure of the invisible hand of the market to which can not face alone."
The spot was shot by director Filip Remunda in collaboration with prominent Czech filmmakers and artists. Co-writer is Matouš Outrata (eg. the editor of films Muži v říji, Long Live the Family! or cycle Czech Century). Production work took Martin Kořínek, who worked on the movies Dark Blue World or Lovers and murderers, music is composed by Tomáš Kelar from group MidiLidi and TV Bangladesh corporate graphic design and logo was created by Lukáš Francl.
"Just before blasting OP Prostejov buildings I was considering that the picture of the demolition of our largest textile factory could inspire documentary movie about tunneling practices of Czech thieves who are twenty-five years disguise themselves as managers. Finally, I have decided to invest such mighty picture in Bangladesh TV spot. From my point of view, it is a friendly mystification. All of my creative efforts were directed to the resulting shape what most resembled the television broadcast from Bangladesh. All other information in the spot are true. The role of special reporter is even played by Nadirah Mujumdar, the first Bangladeshi TV reporter - a woman. All interviewed former employees OP Prostejov, including Prostejov councilor and former MP Pavel Smetana, are real characters who in the spot speak for themselves," adds Remunda.
full press release, 370 kB
World and European Union against Poverty. Action/2015.
On January 15, 2015 began a worldwide campaign action/2015 aimed at fighting against poverty. It focuses primarily on the support of ending the Millennium Development Goals accepted by all UN Member States in the year 2000. In addition it wants to draw public attention to the ongoing negotiations on a new program aimed at fight against poverty, which should be agreed by the United Nations this year. The so-called Sustainable Development Goals should combine fight against poverty with environmental protection.
In the context of ending programs to fighting with poverty and preparation of Sustainable Development Goals, the European Union announced on January 9, at the opening of the Latvian Presidency of the EU, year 2015 the first "European Year for Development" (EYD2015). Jean-Claude Juncker in his opening speech reminded the basic motto of the EYD 2015: "Our world, our dignity, our future."
"It is alarming that there are still tendencies to confuse support of export of large companies and transnational corporations for development cooperation," says on the topic Tomas Tožička from Czechia against Poverty.
Campaign action/2015 presents several demands whose fulfillment will lead to dignified life for all inhabitants of the planet and to the fulfillment of their fundamental rights. These are mainly the following topics:
Ensure responsibility of governments: Human rights and the social protection.
Ensure responsibility of the private sector: Tax fairness and real social responsibility.
Ensure responsibility of polluters: Climate Justice.
Ensure responsibility through participation of the citizens in decision-making.
Unfortunately, so far it seems that the current negotiations are under pressure from transnational companies. Tomáš Tožička from Czechia against Poverty campaign warns: "Large and transnational companies have in recent years recognized that funds intended to fight against poverty can be a source of easy profits. They try to convince the governments that if they receive money instead of the previous implementers, it will be better for the poor people. Past experience so far, however, indicate the contrary. Transnational companies still do not respect nor its own commitments and there is no reason to think that the public financial support will change that."
The Czechia against Poverty campaign is preparing dozens of events on the occasion of the European Year for Development 2015.
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Every year in the world are dying of malaria up to three million people, while over 90 % of them are from the African continent.
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
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Logica slashes 700 UK jobs
CGI wastes no time in wielding the axe at recent acquisition
By Antony Savvas
Logica is slashing around 700 UK jobs following its acquisition by Canadian firm CGI earlier this summer.
Logica began a two-year restructuring programme last December in response to poor market conditions and company results. Some 1,300 jobs were targeted across the company’s international operations, with 450 of them set to be axed in the UK.
Now, less than a month after the Logica purchase was completed, it is being reported that CGI is cutting 700 jobs at Logica in the UK covering corporate and back office functions, including technical staff and project managers, to help slash running costs.
It is not clear whether these 700 job losses are in addition to or include the the 450 announced last December. The 700 jobs to go represent around 10 percent of the current Logica UK headcount.
Richard Holway, founder of analyst firm TechMarketView, said, "Logica and CGI in Europe make margins around half of those CGI makes outside of Europe. So, in some respects, it is hardly surprising that costs will be cut."
He added, "On the other hand, this is yet another in a long list of examples of what happens when UK companies are taken over by those HQed outside the UK. The hidden costs to the UK economy are huge and rarely exposed."
As well as immediate jobs losses, said Holway, the cost to the UK economy is usually less entry level/graduate staff being taken on in the UK and less corporate taxes being paid in the UK.
Tim Gregory, the new UK president of CGI, faced a "number of challenges" warned TechMarketView last month.
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Thornton May: Why would IT want to be a 'device Santa Claus'?
Thornton A. May (Computerworld (US))
As a futurist, I pay attention to what people pay attention to. As an anthropologist, I listen to the stories people are telling and are being told. As a Computerworld opinion columnist, I am fascinated by the inverse: What aren'twe paying attention to, and what stories are not being told? Right now, the essentially unremarked blind spot of the IT industry is that the way we buy technology has changed -- right down to the question of who does the buying.
Our industry is obsessed with the next big thing. It is what subscription research firms get paid big money for. It is what vendor slide decks are stuffed full of. "What are we buying now?" and "What should we be buying next?" form the master narrative of our ecosystem. But when the AIIM Executive Leadership Council recently convened in London, it examined the hypothesis that the questions of who buys and how they buy may be as important as the question of what we buy in shaping the future of IT. Our conclusion: Evolving IT buying behaviors deserve much more rigorous management attention.
Meanwhile, at the IT Leadership Academy, we asked a group of IT executives to think about the history and the future of IT purchase behaviors.
Tribal elders (IT executives who remember the age of punch cards and DEC VAXes) observed that each new technology (mainframes, minicomputers, PCs) progressed through a series of stages: initiation, contagion, formalization/control and maturity. Some of them contend that these patterns will continue to repeat. They look at the loss of control many organizations are experiencing with today's disruptive technologies -- mnemonically rendered as the SMAC stack (social, mobile, analytics/big data and cloud) -- and hypothesize that this is merely the contagion pattern repeating itself. This subset of executives believes that after a time, a semblance of centralized control over IT purchases will re-exert itself. We termed this group "The Pendulum Will Swing Backers."
Another group, the "Power to the People" contingent, sees evidence of evolutionary trends that will keep us from repeating that history. They point out that we've seen the focal point of buying shift from the IT department to the line of business, and they are not freaked out that today buying power seems to be moving to the individual.
Why, they wonder, does IT want to be in the technology provisioning business? Do we want to be "the store" that all departments come to for their digital kits? As Barbra Cooper, the recently retired CIO at Toyota Motor Sales USA, remarked, being a "device Santa Claus" is not truly strategic. IT can keep on fighting to be included in every purchase decision in the company, she said, but it will turn out to be a fight without end. The better long-term strategy (that is, looking out five years) is to educate business people about how to buy technology. As Cooper reasoned, "The people coming into the company are tech-savvy. They have a corporate purchase card. It is nothing for some guy in marketing to get himself a piece of the cloud. As a CIO, you don't have a clue until it is too late."
The danger is that most business people are not educated enough to buy non-toxically. That's why Cooper stresses education, with a set of rules: "Here is the sandbox. Here are the rules you have to play by. And when you go outside those rules, here are the consequences."
Thornton A. May is author of The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics and executive director of the IT Leadership Academy at Florida State College in Jacksonville. You can contact him at thorntonamay@aol.com or follow him on Twitter ( @deanitla).
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Theater Articles
Star Power Ignited: March On and Off Broadway
February 26, 2019 - by Griffin Miller, Theatre Editor
THEATER QUARTER UPDATE
Broadway’s version of March Madness is clocking in with an intoxicating influx of comedies, dramas, and musicals—bringing with them a wave of award-winning celebrities. So for stage savants (and those who just want an insider’s look at New York theater’s new arrivals) here’s the lowdown on Broadway this March!
Ephraim Sykes, Jeremy Pope, Jawan M. Jackson, James Harkness, and Derrick Baskin in Ain’t Too Proud. Photo by Matthew Murphy.
The first two shows to kick off the March preview scene—both on Feb. 28—are the musical Ain’t Too Proud–The Life and Times of The Temptations, and the Shakespearean drama King Lear.
Ain’t Too Proud, showcasing the music and personal lives of the Temptations, moved to Broadway following record-breaking runs at both the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and D.C.’s Kennedy Center. Add to this a book by Kennedy Prize–winning playwright Dominique Morisseau, direction by Tony winner Des McAnuff, and choreography by Olivier Award winner Sergio Trujillo, and we may well be looking at a runaway hit.
Meanwhile, Lear comes to life with two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson in the title role. Jackson, who picked up a Best Actress Tony last season for Three Tall Women, heads this open-gender production co-starring two-time Olivier Award winner and Golden Globe recipient Ruth Wilson (Showtime’s The Affair); Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans); and multiple Obie winner Elizabeth Marvel.
Next up is Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, arriving at the Booth Theatre on March 5th with a trio of Broadway’s most celebrated performers: three-time Tony winner Nathan Lane (The Producers) two-time Tony winner Andrea Martin (Pippin); and Tony-nominee Kristine Nielsen (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike). And should you be wondering, Gary…(by Pulitzer Prize finalist Taylor Mac), is poised to set a precedent for comedic hocus pocus as it takes place in the aftermath of Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy.
The high-flying Be More Chill opens at the Lyceum. Photo by Maria Baranova.
Already living up to its Off-Broadway hype (it played to sell-out crowds at the Pershing Square Signature Center last summer), the new Broadway musical Be More Chill’s official opening takes place March 10th. Joining Broadway’s other high school-centric musicals like Mean Girls, The Prom, and Dear Evan Hansen, Be More Chill’s buzz is especially intense thanks to its beyond-avid teen/young adult following on social media. Besides its cult cachet, the production gets bonus points for landing on the Great White Way original cast intact.
Another show that’s moved up from Off-Broadway is What the Constitution Means to Me, a personal, much acclaimed (and extended) play by writer/performer Heidi Schreck, known for her script work on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie and her Obie-winning acting turn in Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation. WTCMTM’s first preview takes place on March 14th for a limited 12-week run. A day later, a revival of Pulitzer winner Lanford Wilson’s Burn This begins previews with a must-see cast led by Golden Globe winner Keri Russell (Felicity; The Americans) and Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman), followed on March 16th by Tony nominee Lucas Hnath’s latest, Hillary and Clinton, starring Tony and Emmy winners Laurie Metcalf (Three Tall Women; Roseanne) and John Lithgow (Sweet Smell of Success; 3rd Rock from the Sun). Notably, this new play reunites playwright Hnath and Metcalf, who picked up her first Tony in his Broadway debut work, A Doll’s House, Part 2.
From 2016 when it planted its Off-Broadway roots to its London run earlier this year, Hadestown is a stunning musical entry to this season of sizzle (previewing March 22). Culled from mythology by Anaïs Mitchell (book and score) and director Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812), it boasts an impressive cast that includes Reeve Carney (Dorian Gray in Showtime’s Penny Dreadful); Obie and Emmy winning theater legend Andre de Shields (The Wiz; Ain’t Misbehavin’); and the ever-formidable Patrick Page (Saint Joan; Elementary), who played the villainous Green Goblin to Carney’s Spider-Man on Broadway.
The original set of Oklahoma! Photo by Teddy Wolff.
It sent critics into rave mode when it took over St. Ann’s Warehouse last fall, and now director Daniel Fish’s inspired, gritty take on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! is set to do the same on Broadway (March 19th through September 1st). “What an incredible moment to be producing on Broadway, in the middle of this wonderfully eclectic season spurred by an audience that is hungry for bold, daring work,” said producer Eva Price. “Daniel Fish’s timeless and timely revival of this classic speaks so vividly to the place we as Americans are living in today.”
The end of the month brings two highly awaited film-to-Broadway musicals: Beetlejuice, helmed by Tony nominees Alex Brightman (School of Rock), Kerry Butler (Xanadu) and Rob McClure (Chaplin: The Musical); and Tootsie, starring Tony nominee Santino Fontana (Cinderella; Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) alongside Tony winner Michael McGrath (Nice Work If You Can Get It) and Tony nominees Sara Stiles (Hand to God), Reg Rogers (Holiday). Beetlejuice launches March 28th and Tootsie March 29th.
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Michigan football coaches excited about Anthony Campanile's coaching, recruiting abilities
Jim Harbaugh discusses new defensive coach on 'Attack Each Day' podcast
By Derick Hutchinson
Posted: 9:21 AM, January 18, 2019 Updated: 9:21 AM, January 18, 2019
Boston College defensive backs coach Anthony Campanile during the Spring Game on April 22, 2017, at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hull, Massachusetts. (Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The Michigan football program made a splash last week when it hired Josh Gattis as its new offensive coordinator, but Jim Harbaugh is also excited about a hire he made on the defensive side of the ball.
Harbaugh brought Boston College defensive backs coach Anthony Campanile to Ann Arbor days after Greg Mattison and Al Washington left Michigan staff for Ohio State.
Harbaugh said the younger coaches on his staff knew of Anthony Campanile because of his coaching and recruiting prowess.
"The younger coaches on the staff -- Chris Partridge, Jay Harbaugh -- they really know a lot of the younger coaches," Harbaugh said. "Not always, as an older coach, do you know all the younger coaches out there. They were saying the same thing about Anthony Campanile. 'This is the guy, coach, that you need to go after.' So I trusted them. Chris and Anthony coached together in New Jersey."
Campanile will join Michigan's defensive staff, though his specific role hasn't been disclosed.
"Anthony -- when I looked at his resume online, you could see it -- offensive coordinator at Don Bosco (Prep in Ramsey, New Jersey) and also defensive coordinator at Don Bosco," Harbaugh said. "Then he gets hired at Rutgers in an off-the-field type of analyst role, but very quickly, within that year, the next year, he was coaching offense on the wide receivers. I think he might have even coached a little defense there, then went to Boston College -- again, gets hired to coach, and the next year he's up to co-defensive coordinator."
Harbaugh expects Campanile to be a strong recruiter for Michigan, as he's regarded as an up-and-coming coach in college football.
"When you meet him, he's one of those guys who's just a gift of personality and charisma, and great that way," Harbaugh said. "After we hired him, I was getting texts from about a half-dozen coaches that said, 'You hired a great coach.' I trust Christ Partrige and Jay Harbaugh, and I'm glad that I did."
Even Don Brown, Michigan's 63-year-old defensive coordinator, had heard of his new, 36-year-old assistant on the recruiting trail.
Like Campanile, Brown came to Michigan from Boston College, though they never crossed paths because Brown left at the end of 2015 and Campanile left Rutgers for Boston College in January 2016.
"Don Brown was really aware of Anthony Campanile because he said, 'Coach, everybody I recruit on the East Coast, this guy's in every school. He's recruiting them all and he's winning on some of them,'" Harbaugh said. "Great to have him on our staff."
"Today, we are a much better program than we were 10 days ago, in my judgment," said Jack Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh's father. "Seeing the personalities in the program, and to see our young people, how they walk in that door today and that smile on their face and their excitement to get to that weight room. We are a better football team right now than we were, and we will just get better."
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Planning priorities
The growth of wireless connectivity is being fuelled by the need for mobile working: the ability to work on a mobile device...
Andy Thompson
The growth of wireless connectivity is being fuelled by the need for mobile working: the ability to work on a mobile device without being tied to a desk, to stay connected while moving between rooms or buildings, and to work from cafes, airport lounges and so on.
However, when accessing corporate data over a wireless network, security should never be sacrificed. Wi-Fi access has been regarded as insecure in the past, but now this is not strictly the case. If Wi-Fi is given due care and attention when deployed, it can be as secure as a cabled network, if not more so.
In recent years there have been a number of advances in Wi-Fi security:
The initial Wired Equivalent Privacy protocol that used static keys was quickly found to be lacking and relatively easy to compromise
End-to-end virtual private networks can be implemented over Wi-Fi
Wireless Protected Access (WPA), which utilises Temporal Key Integrity Protocol to constantly change encryption keys and IEEE 802.1x for authentication
The revised and standardised version of the WPA protocol, WPA2, is expected later this year.
The security measures a firm should deploy depend greatly on the data that needs securing and the service that will be provided. Wi-Fi is just a transport medium between end-stations and, in that sense, is no different to the internet.
Many businesses now have the security in place to provide employees with access to corporate resources over the internet via appropriate authentication, authorisation and encryption, so why not deploy these products in a Wi-Fi environment?
Wi-Fi can be implemented so that connectivity into the corporate infrastructure is through IPsec VPN concentrators, or SSL VPN gateways with strong authentication. In this way the user, whether using Wi-Fi at home, in the office or from one of the growing number of wireless internet service provider hotspots around the country, can access a corporate desktop with a common look and feel.
Before buying Wi-Fi products, make sure that current and future requirements are fully understood first. Do the products include seamless roaming between access points, buildings and subnets, between cable connections, Wi-Fi and GPRS?
All these options need to be considered before designing a Wi-Fi system and plans for security must be made at the start. Be aware of interoperability issues with cards, access points and authentication servers and plan these into the strategy.
As the market continues to mature and standards are ratified and adopted, the interoperability barriers will come down and the choice will increase. For now, however, it is probably advisable to buy from the market leader.
Wireless security still has too much of a general lack of focus to ensure a totally secure deployment, but the answer is to spend more time finding out what is available, rather than eagerly rushing to deploy new technology.
Andy Thompson is head of security services at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. He will be speaking at the Infosecurity Europe 2004 show
This was last published in April 2004
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Greenpeace demands greater transparency from AWS over datacentre energy use habits
Greenpeace claims the cloud and internet service provider community is improving on sustainability, but AWS could afford to do more
Caroline Donnelly
Senior Editor, UK
Amazon Web Services (AWS) needs to be more open and transparent about where it sources the energy used to power its cloud datacentres from, claims Greenpeace.
The environmental lobbyists made the claim in its 2017 Clicking Clean report, which marks a continuation of Greenpeace’s ongoing efforts to monitor the renewable energy usage habits of the world’s biggest cloud and internet service providers.
Each company featured in the report has its environmental performance graded from A to F, with Greenpeace basing its judgements on the information each firm makes publicly available about their sustainability habits.
Since the publication of the first report in 2009, Greenpeace said it has seen a “significant increase” in the prioritisation of renewable energy use among cloud and internet service providers.
“The race to build a renewably-powered internet started with digital platform leaders, such as Facebook, Apple and Google, who made 100% renewable commitments four years ago and have now been joined by nearly 20 internet companies, including global cloud and colocation companies who had previously been lagging far behind,” said the report.
The report pinpoints Microsoft as an example of such a company, with Greenpeace complimenting the cloud giant on its renewed commitment to increasing the use of green energy by its datacentres. As a result, Microsoft’s grade has been changed from a C (in the previous two reports) to a B.
This is on the back of the company making a public commitment to ensure that 50% of its datacentres will be directly powered by renewable energy by 2018, up from 44% in January 2017.
“While this shift in focus in Microsoft’s policy is welcome, a much greater sense of urgency on the implementation side is needed given the rapid expansion of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure currently underway,” the report stated.
Google gets an A
Google’s commitment to becoming a 100% renewably powered company by 2017 saw it secure an A grade in the report, with Greenpeace hailing the “clear articulation of the principles” it follows to improve its sustainability practices.
“Google has improved on synchronising its plans for expansion with the ability to make progress on its renewable energy goals. This is evidenced by recent expansions in the United States, South America and the EU, all of which have been matched with a strategy to deliver enough renewable energy to match their electricity demand,” said the report.
AWS, however, was cited as a company that – despite taking some positive action on renewable energy use – could stand to do a whole lot more, given its reliance on datacentres located in areas where dirty energy use is rife. As a result, it received a C grade.
“AWS took some important steps in the past year, including promising leadership in supporting the clean energy policy. But given AWS’s continued lack of transparency, and its rapid growth in Virginia and other markets largely served by dirty energy, it remains unclear whether the AWS cloud is actually on a path to becoming renewably powered,” said the report.
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The report goes on to accuse AWS of refusing to disclose basic information about the energy performance of its datacentres and the environmental impact of its operations.
This, in turn, can make life difficult for customers who want to keep tabs on the sustainability of their supply chains.
“For customers of AWS and many other data center operators, it remains difficult if not impossible for the companies to benchmark the footprint of their online operations because their suppliers do not disclose critical energy data, or what is provided is done so only under a non-disclosure agreement, significantly limiting usefulness,” said the report.
For these reasons, Greenpeace described AWS as lagging behind its cloud contemporaries when it came to sustainable energy use, before calling on Netflix – one of its biggest customers – to use its sway to encourage Amazon to clean up its act.
“Amazon continues to talk a good game on renewables, but it is keeping its customers in the dark on energy decisions. This is concerning, particularly as Amazon expands into markets served by dirty energy,” said Gary Cook, senior IT analyst for Greenpeace USA.
“Like Apple, Facebook and Google, Netflix is one of the biggest drivers of the online world and has a critical say in how it is powered. Netflix must embrace the responsibility to make sure its growth is powered by renewables, not fossil fuels, and it must show its leadership here.”
Computer Weekly contacted AWS for a reaction to Greenpeace’s claims, but had received no response at the time of publication.
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MWC: LiMo's Linux-based mobile OS stack gains ground
A number of new mobile devices unveiled this week at Mobile World Congress are part of the trend toward Linux-powered mobility, incorporating the open-source software stack from the LiMo Foundation.
John Cox February 18, 2009
LG Electronics, Panasonic and Samsung all demonstrated mobile handsets using the LiMo stack. Samsung for example showed a LiMo version of its Omnia touch phone, unveiled last summer with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.
LG too showed a LiMo-ised version of an earlier a Windows Mobile phone released last year: originally called LG Incite but with the LiMo stack apparently now the Atos-L. It too, was originally released last year with Windows Mobile 6.1.
In addition, a handful of companies, including Samsung and LG, showcased new software development and UI tool kits designed for LiMo.
Production phones probably won't be available until later in 2009.
A full listing of the various Mobile World Congress LiMo demonstrations can be found on the foundation's Web site.
The consortium also announced that it has finalised Release 2 of the LiMo software stack and reference implementations are now available to its members. About 30 mobile handsets based on Release 1, completed just last year, are currently available.
Six new companies have joined the foundation, covering mobile operators, chipmakers, and software vendors, including Opera Software, Marvell Semiconductor, and CassioHitachi Mobile Communications. There are 15 founding or core members, another 39 associate members.
The additions are evidence that support is consolidating around LiMo as a main platform for mobile devices. The group was strengthened last year when the Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) folded its work and members into the foundation.
LiMo is built on a Linux kernel, but the group's focus has been on aggressively fleshing that out with a set of middleware frameworks for such functions as security, messaging, multimedia, database, application management, along with a set of APIs to make these services accessible for third-party applications.
The platform is a rival to Android form the Open Handset Alliance, as well as Symbian, now itself an open-source project.
LiMo R2 improved device management, security, and Web features, says Andrew Shikiar, director of global marketing for the foundation. The newly announced SDKs will give developers tools for building R2-based applications.
The foundation also announced support for the Bondi (bohn-die) specification from the Open Mobile Terminal Platform project, a standardisation effort by mobile operators. Bondi's focus is to create easy to use, standard interfaces that give Web services access to specific features of a mobile handset.
With Bondi implemented in a mobile software stack, developers don't have to juggle different interfaces for different devices to make use of a camera, for example.
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2020 Deforestation Targets Lead to Positive Outcomes--Even If We're Behind Schedule
Learn|Forests
Mark Tercek, Chief Executive Officer, The Nature Conservancy
This article originally ran in the Nature Conservancy's Global Insights.
Another year down, another year closer to the 2020 deadline of the New York Declaration on Forests. In 2014, more than 50 companies, including household names like Unilever, Cargill, Nestle and Walmart, signed the declaration, committing to eliminate deforestation in four key commodities by 2020: beef, soy, palm oil, and pulp and paper. This enormous undertaking is a stepping stone to the even bigger goal of eliminating deforestation in all supply chains by 2030.
The 2020 goal isn’t going to happen, but that’s okay. I’m here to tell companies: don’t despair.
I understand the angst that some corporate leaders may be feeling. From their standpoint, there’s only a year left before failure to meet the 2020 deadline—and before NGOs come after them for dropping the ball.
But I see things a little differently. Companies have much to be applauded for—as long as they have a solid plan in place to further ramp up progress toward their commitments.
The 2020 deforestation goals represent the first serious attempt to implement deforestation commitments. Companies made timebound plans and pulled business units in key producing countries into cross-company planning on deforestation (often for the first time). These companies gained a much better sense of their deforestation footprints, which allowed them to prioritize strategies and resources. For example, many companies decided to focus on palm oil in Indonesia, soy in Brazil, and cocoa in Cote D’Ivoire. None of that would have happened without the urgency created by the 2020 commitments.
Meanwhile, NGOs mobilized in two key areas: tools and transparency.
Santarém, Pará, Brazil Fernando Pallaro is one of the soy farmers working with TNC to implement strategies to control deforestation and promote the responsible production of soy and beef. © Palani Mohan/Cargill Inc.
Implementing massive deforestation commitments requires sophisticated tracking and monitoring technology. But until recently, these tools didn’t exist. So the World Resources Institute developed Global Forest Watch, the first monitoring platform that tracked forest loss on a global scale. It spun off Global Forest Watch Pro, which allows companies to zero in on specific supply chains in specific places. The Stockholm Environment Institute and Global Canopy Program developed TRASE, a tracking tool that allows companies to see where certain commodities are going, and which destinations are linked to deforestation in areas of origin. This is a key first step to understanding a company’s deforestation footprint and targeting actions to improve it.
Within origination countries, NGOs and companies have collaborated as never before to produce innovative tools to help implement commitments. TNC worked with the soy sector in Brazil to produce Agroideal, for example, which helps market actors identify cleared land that is environmentally suitable and economically viable for soy expansion. This relieves pressure to cut down native habitat in the Cerrado, Brazil’s vast and incredibly biodiverse savanna.
The second component is transparency. When the companies first made these deforestation commitments, they lacked the clarity they needed to implement them. For example, what definitions should they use for key terms like forests, deforestation and conversion? What are the best monitoring options? What are expectations and standards around transparency, verification, supply chain management? In response, environmental NGOs—like TNC, Rainforest Alliance and Greenpeace, and others—banded together and established the Accountability Framework to fill the information gap and produce guidance for companies, much of which has already been road-tested with businesses around the world.
Brazilian Cerrado TNC works in strategic municipalities, like Lucas do Rio Verde-Mato Grosso, to implement strategies to control deforestation and promote sustainable agriculture. © Rafael Araujo
These business operation changes, new technologies and working coalitions would likely not have happened without the 2020 commitments. They generated urgency and unlocked critical funding. Now it’s up to companies to develop credible plans to follow through on their 2030 deforestation commitments. That’s what NGOs are looking for now.
So what does a credible plan look like? Benchmark against the Accountability Framework; cross-check planning against it; take advantage of tools like Global Forest Watch and Agroideal; and be sure to work with supply chain partners and governments. It takes a village to get this important work done.
I’m optimistic about 2019, but I’m also a realist. I know the challenges. Both NGOs and companies need to do much more on beef, which alone accounts for half of deforestation globally. We need to bring emerging market actors, especially China, into the conversation. We need to be much more inventive on mobilizing capital to help farmers as they transition to zero deforestation and zero conversion production.
And since deforestation and land conversion account for about 15% of global carbon emissions, we need to do all this very quickly—before time runs out on the opportunity to control climate change.
But the 2020 deforestation commitments—and the results we’re seeing today—demonstrate that we are moving forward. As the climate change agenda and deforestation agendas start to converge, I hope to see even more aggressive action in this space—from companies and NGOs alike. We’re in a great place to get started. Let’s get to work.
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Palumbo Shipyards refits vessels for several operators
Grandi Navi Veloci’s Azzuurra headed to Palumbo Shipyards this year for maintenance work (Image: Palumbo Shipyards)
Palumbo Shipyards has carried out refit and maintenance projects for several ferry operators and cruise companies in the first few months of 2019.
The group has performed many repair projects and installed several ballast water management and scrubber systems since the start of the year, including on ferries belonging to Tirrenia, Moby, Grandi Navi Veloci, Superfast Ferries, Jadrolinija, Grimaldi, Hellenic Seaways, Stena Line and many more.
In addition, the group’s Malta shipyard installed an Ecospray open-loop scrubber system onboard Minoan Lines’ ro-pax ferry Knossos Palace. It also carried out extensive dry dock works such as lugging and cladding and converting existing spaces. Above deck, the yard also updated the ship’s electrical, lighting and safety systems.
Palumbo’s newly acquired Viktor Lenac shipyard in Croatia has also carried out important projects this year, including maintenance on a Stena Line ferry. The team completed all the main engine works, renewed 10 tons of steel, carried out blasting and paint work, installed a scrubber, and performed ramp works and extensive mechanical tasks.
With so many successful projects under its belt, Palumbo has secured many more jobs for the rest of the year, including projects from cruise operators like Australia-based Scenic, which is currently building its expedition ship, Scenic Eclipse.
Palumbo Group is also investing to ensure that its yards can work on LNG-powered ships, which are becoming more common in the passenger shipping and wider marine industries. Plus, it has renewed its collaboration with ABB, which will provide local and efficient assistance on turbochargers during ship refits.
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Growlers In The Arm
I thought at first I was looking at a boat, a big, white cabin cruiser in the distance, anchored at the base of more green mountains. Then it was closer, our first iceberg, and it was otherworldly.
By Michael Robertson
Del Viento- icebergs
I didn't get as close as it appears, these things can turn-turtle without notice.Windy Robertson
I know, just frozen water, but massive, sculpted blocks of the stuff floating where we sailed, was magical.
As we entered Tracy Arm—a winding, narrow, 30-mile fjord off Holkham Bay—ice was everywhere. The icebergs and bergy bits were easy to spot, but the smaller growlers demanded hours with one of us at the helm, hand steering, and the other on the bow, focusing ahead.
Like our trip up the Princess Louisa Inlet to Chatterbox Falls, the steep, glacier-carved mountains were streaked with waterfalls thousands of feet up. Fifty feet from shore, the water was 300 feet deep; in the middle of the half-mile-wide channel, it is over 1,000 feet. Yet the color of the water, a milky turquoise from meltwater, belied the depth.
Between Petersburg and Tracy Arm, we anchored two nights in Sandborn Canal. We took our dinghy on a five-mile cruise up a shallow inlet looking for bears. No joy on the bears, but lots of joy. It was unbelievably still and quiet--it felt like we could have been on the moon.
About twenty miles up, we turned left into an intersecting fjord that led to North Sawyer Glacier. Rock wall shot straight up from the water to two-thousand feet, bare and displaying the patterned scars from unimaginable forces. Then, around the corner, a glacier like we’d seen only in pictures, rendered in jagged, bunched spires of cool blues and whites.
A deep boom and CRACK! sounded over the kunk-kunk-kunk of our engine to announce the white cloud of ice we’d already seen. Then, with a splash, a new iceberg pitched and rolled in the cold water at the base of the glacier, finding its equilibrium. We floated in-place for an hour, taking pictures and taking it all in.
The South Sawyer Glacier is larger and known to be more active (meaning it calves more icebergs). This was evident as we approached; the channel was almost completely clogged. Two hours later, moving forward at less than half-a-knot, we were within a quarter mile of the face, but the size of the thing and the landscape that framed it, interrupted the scale of everything, making it seem like we were within a hundred yards.
For all the reading I’ve done about high-latitude cruising, I’m embarrassed to say I always imagined growlers—much of what we picked our way through—and even bergy bits, were not a big deal, something you could simply motor through, pushing them out of the way with the hull as slowly blazed a trail. But seeing 50- to 500-pound growlers in the water ahead, having poked at them with the boat hook and rammed them with the Portland Pudgy, I realized they are a big deal. In our days in Tracy Arm, I came to see anything bigger than a softball as a floating boulder, a landmine to our fiberglass hull.
And for me that highlights one of the main reasons we travel: to see, touch, and hear things for ourselves. So far, it’s been illuminating and more dazzling than anything I imagined.
--MR
The Thorne Bay market was closed. Unfortunately, that meant powdered milk (the girls call it "fake milk") for cereal in the morning. Fortunately, none of us had to shed our cork boots or handguns.
This is the last-known picture of our clan before we'd see our first iceberg. This is good-weather summertime cruising in Southeast Alaska. The girls are reading and learning on the bow, Windy's relaxing in her favorite hot-pink bean bag.
I__n our twenties, we traded our boat for a house and our freedom for careers. In our thirties, we slumbered through the American dream. In our forties, we woke and traded our house for a boat and our careers for freedom. And here we are. Follow along at http://www.logofdelviento.blogspot.com/
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John Stumbo Video Blog No. 24
This month’s video blog features a condensed, 30-minute version of John’s Wednesday morning address to Alliance Council 2015. Be sure to watch his entire address to Alliance Council.
As a Christ-centered, Acts 1–8 family, we sense that we’re a part of something significant, lasting, monumental . . . Amen? We are part of the eternal Kingdom of Christ that is violently opposed but undeniably advancing, attacked but unstoppable. You watch the news—blood-thirsty, power-hungry, ravaging forces trample cities. Kidnaping, women-raping, child-enslaving, church-burning, Christian- beheading marauders fill the streets, fueled with hatred. Is it not an increasingly dangerous time to be a follower of Christ in much of this world?
Simultaneously do you not feel a “for-a-such-a-time-as-this” stirring? For such a time as this, The Alliance was called into existence! For such a time as this, you and I were called into service. For such a time as this, the Spirit is empowering us—for such a time as this. The Spirit we have been given is powerful for times such as these. The Word with which we have been entrusted is relevant for times such as these.
Do you agree with me that for such a time as this God brought us into being? I believe with all my heart that we are one of—not the only one—but we are one of God’s appointed end-times families that He is using to complete the Great Commission, to fulfill the prophecies of Daniel, and to welcome the return of the Christ. How then shall we live?
So as a Christ-centered, Acts 1:8 family, what is—who is—God calling us to be, and what is He calling us to do? As I have waited on God for months on that answer, the first word simply and most powerfully is this: love. As a Christ-centered, Act 1:8 family, together we will love.
Now, I’ll confess that when I first sensed God wanted me to make this my lead point, my response was, “Really? After two years of being president, at my first opportunity to address the Council assembly for a vision-casting moment I’m going to stand before them and say, ‘We’re going to love.’” It felt like a “Duh—of course we are supposed to love. Tell me something we don’t know, Mr. President.” I guess what I wanted was something that made me feel stronger as a leader. I wanted to say, “We’re not only going to take that hill—we’re going to move the whole mountain. YAHHH!” That’s what leaders do, right?
Well, we will climb a few hills together, and in faith we will move a few mountains. But if we have not love (First Corinthians 13 if you don’t recognize that)—if we have not love, we have nothing. We’ve accomplished nothing. If we do move mountains but don’t do so in a loving manner, it’s meaningless. If we show incredible dedication and sacrifice but it flows out of something other than love, something like arrogance or needing to prove something or impressing others or being driven by shame or making a name for ourselves, if sacrifice grows out of anything other than love, in God’s estimation we’ve gained nothing. So I guess we better start here, huh?
And if we’re not convinced yet, please consider what we already know—the Scripture consistently gives priority to love. The greatest commandment is love. The greatest of these is love. Love is the most excellent way. They will know you are my disciples by your love. The fulfillment of the Law is love. You get the point. You know this already, but I’m bringing this to you simply because I’m commissioned to call us to a higher level of understanding and to a deeper level of experience. So, let me ask you: Is your church a loving church? Church leader, do you love your congregation? International worker, district superintendent, college personnel, National Office staff—do we really love the people we minister to and with? Really—praise God! It’s disingenuous to guide our people through a conversation on being loving as a community if we as leaders don’t love the people God has called us to lead. It’s not mine to judge, it’s not, but once in a while I drive away or fly out of a town where I have been with an Alliance church and I’m thinking this: Pastor, I know you—worship pastor, youth pastor, elder—I know you preach to those people and lead those people and have meetings with those people and have potlucks and picnics with those people and I know that you worship with those people, but do you love those people? I was with you a whole weekend and I’m not convinced. (Not mine to judge, not mine to judge.) I go back then and ask the question of my own self.
Love is not on the option, if-I-get-around-to-it list. It’s foundational to the church. It’s foundational to our leadership. We must not degenerate into a veneer of “nice” as an organization. We must love, and the only way we will do so is through connectivity with Christ. A piece of great news here: We don’t have to generate this love. As a Spirit-filled person, He loves through us with the love of Jesus. I’m not calling you to stir up or squeeze out an ounce of love for anybody. I’m calling us to connect with Christ; remain in Him, and He loves through us. May your lack of love only be a source of driving you deeper into your relationship with Jesus, not into a place of condemnation or handwringing or whatever.
Bosnia experienced floods last year as some of our own nation is right now. As often happens in situations like these, our Alliance team ministered and found open doors of opportunity to share the love of Christ; and Kathy Eikost from the team there wrote this in one of her prayer letters: “In one area the floods were severe because a vital levee gave way in four places. The swollen, raging river burst through and flooded vulnerable towns and farmland. Manmade walls had been built to protect the low areas but this year those walls were tested and failed. Why? Over the years people had been stealing sand from the barriers for their private use. Home construction projects seemed more important than a high river bank—after all, the river hadn’t flooded in 120 years! Why would we worry about it now?
“I was praying for Bosnia the other day,” Kathy writes. “I had this picture in my mind. I started to ask the Lord to flood Bosnia with His love and blessing in the same way that the river had flooded the farms and towns. The Lord interrupted me mid-prayer. (Don’t you love it when it becomes a conversation, two- way?) He said, ‘The flood happened because people stole the sand away and weakened the wall. I want you to steal sand away from the barriers Bosnians have put up around their hearts. Every time you show My love, you steal sand.’” Ah! “‘The flood will come—the flood will come when the walls have weakened to the point of breaking.’” Alliance family, steal some sand! Weaken the barriers, weaken the barriers—barriers built by anger, built by wounds, built by fear. By our loving acts, prepare the way for a flood of the love of God to sweep them into His Kingdom. God, make us a sand-stealing family of love! Let the flood come.
As a Christ-centered, Acts 1:8 family, together we will proclaim. Jesus is described in John 1 as being full of grace and truth. I see the grace and truth interplay between these two words of love and proclaim. Let’s talk about proclaim. Like you, I’ve watched the pendulum swing back and forth in some expressions of the church, preaching styles being one of them.
Preaching: Styles and methods come and go. That’s fine. But I fear that in recent decades in some sectors of the church, the pendulum has swung far to the side of popular appeal preaching. In an effort to become relevant, sometimes we forgot about revelation. However, if Alliance pulpits lose the authority of God’s Word, we’ve lost the heart of this movement. If Alliance pastors fail—then all communicators in The Alliance, all communicators of all forms in The Alliance—if we fail to dwell in the text, reading, studying, reflecting, listening for the voice of the Spirit, if as Alliance communicators we cease to dwell in the Word, we’ve lost our voice. We have nothing to say. We join the babble of radio talk-show and daytime television.
Proclaim. Teaching leaders—worship, youth, lay, Sunday school—get into the Word and stay in the Word. Relate and illustrate as best fits your context but if there is no text that has been breathed into your soul, you’re not ready to stand before the assembly. The same is true for me. The president doesn’t get a pass from studying the Scriptures. I need to be a student of the Word. Saints died to preserve this Word for us. Nations still today ban this Word as too dangerous to be allowed among its citizens. What are we doing being flippant about it? May its familiarity and its availability to us not create passivity among us! Are you in agreement?
A second pendulum swing we probably observed is the trend to show the gospel with our lives or speak it with our lips. And here the famous line—“At all points preach Christ; when necessary use words”—comes to mind. You may disagree. (We already said that was legal.) For decades past the evangelical church was so afraid of the social gospel trend that we failed to do much good in the world. We held millions of church services while neglecting to feed millions of hungry people. We could have done the former without neglecting the latter. Some great things happened in those church services—I was part of half a million of them—but you had to be present to experience them and to partake in the potluck dinner.
Today, happily, the evangelical church—The Alliance included—has discovered life outside of our walls. We still have great church services, better than ever in some ways, but the church is increasingly seeing itself as a transformative member of the community, not an isolated fortress from the community. And I’m glad about that. By the way, if your church isn’t there yet, just go home and think about this simple fact, OK? Those walls enclosing our church building are to keep us warm in the winter, not isolated from society. Every Alliance church should have consistent, quality presentation of the gospel where people have opportunity to respond with a well-thought, Bible-based discipleship plan to follow. Ben Stewart is one of our millennial leaders in The Alliance. He said to me, “Our generation is losing the need and ability to articulate faith.” Some of us need to learn to show the gospel better, others of us need to learn to tell it more effectively, all of us would do well to take this word seriously: proclaim.
Let me give a word of encouragement. Your church may not have the hottest program in town or the hottest band in town or the latest whatever in town, but you can love and you can find ways to lovingly show and tell the gospel.
So as a Christ-centered, Acts 1: 8 family, together we will love, together we will proclaim, and as a Christ-centered, Acts 1: 8 family together we will reach. Now I know that The Alliance has been reaching people for all our history. I’m not calling us to something new, but again I’m calling us to greater clarity and greater engagement with what we do. I’m going to speak of reach in three ways: reaching people on the move, people of all ages, and people lacking access. You’re going to hear those three a lot of times in the months and years to come.
How is it that in these latter times there is such an upheaval of the human race? A reshuffling of the populations of the planet is taking place. How is it that so many people find themselves so far from home and all that’s familiar? Our message to people of the Diaspora, people on the move, people who don’t find themselves in their place of their original homeland—our message to the people of the Diaspora is: God has moved you that you might find Him.
“Reach” is a people view of the world rather than a border view. We’re moving in an era of Alliance thought where we are thinking less about boundaries, borders, nations, states and more about peoples wherever they may be found. This will shape much of our strategy in the years to come. Please don’t see this through international eyes only—see this through global eyes, global. The whole globe, as you know, is being shaped by the movements of people; and as new residents arrive in your town, please have eyes to see them. Please hear God’s heart in passages like Deuteronomy 10: “You are to love those who are foreigners.”
People of all ages. Alliance family, I want you to hear me say this: Too often the Alliance family has looked right over the top of wheelchairs and anybody under four-and-a-half-feet tall. Certain sectors of any society can become invisible. The disabled, children, are just two examples. You can add to that list of invisibles immigrants, international students, the incarcerated, returning citizens—those inmates that were just released, for whom some of them the sentences are just beginning—the deaf community. I’m calling the sub point “people of all ages” for simplicity, but in so doing I’m challenging us to lift our eyes and lower our eyes to truly see who is around us.
People lacking access. We have heard about some of this throughout our missionary education and missionary emphasis materials, but we’re going to keep drilling in on this theme. Harry Turner served as C&MA president starting in ’54. He astutely observed in his first Council report (quote), “In our foreign work, we have too long and too often measured our success in missionary endeavor by statistical record of converts and baptisms. The proper criterion of success is: What have we done to plant an indigenous church?”
We want to have conversions and baptisms, but the ultimate goal of those conversions and baptisms is representatives before the throne in heaven that have come thorough a local church that is owned by the local people. This is what we do; this is The Alliance. The Alliance builds a church and we have done so for 128 years, doing it in hard places. Time after time God has used us to build the Church where it never before existed, but there are still 4,075 peoples with limited or no access to the gospel and few if any churches among them. Right now we’re currently working with 70 of these peoples and we have a heart, not the resources—yet—but we have a heart to do more.
Here is the simplest way I can explain lack of access. In the United States if you were to find someone to tell you about a relationship with Jesus, somebody who had a personal relationship with Christ, you would have to knock on a door every 15 minutes for about an hour and a half before you could find somebody—statistically varies from one region of the country to the other—who could tell you about Jesus. In post-Christian Europe you’d have to knock on a door every 15 minutes for a day and a half. However, in places like North Africa where we have teams, you would have to knock on a door every 15 minutes, 8 hours a day, 365 days a year for 3 years before you could find somebody who is a Christ follower. This is what we mean when we talk about people lacking access. Quite likely there is no church in their city, the Bible has not yet been translated or if it has may not be legal, the opportunity to hear about Christ is almost nonexistent unless someone Romans-10 style comes from the outside to share. Unless they meet a foreigner who knows Jesus, they won’t meet anyone who knows Jesus.
And as a Christ-centered, Acts 1:8 family, together we will launch. In order to reach, we must do better at launch. What kind of launching am I talking about? What kind of launching should we pray about? May God allow us to launch, and here is where I’m not trying to be comprehensive at all but let’s just start a list going, OK?
What do we need within The Christian and Missionary Alliance? Well, we need to launch new waves of church planters. Lord of the harvest, raise them up, raise them up—more men and women who are passionate about new expressions of the church, new advances of the Kingdom.
New waves of greenhouse churches. What are those? Well, any church can contribute towards a church plant in some way. And just as a greenhouse is a place for new growth, we’re calling every Alliance church to in some way be part of church planting.
New waves of multicultural churches, new waves of “threshold” churches. Hundreds of Alliance churches have closed in the last decade. Often those churches spent months or years at a threshold, but they were in denial about it. Rather than making hard decisions or taking faith-filled risks to boldly reenter the dream—the calling—that God had originally called them to do—rather than reentering, they walked out of the house, the door closed behind them never to open again, and another closed church. Alliance family, let’s close fewer churches in the next decade please.
New waves of college and seminary students.
We must launch new avenues for women to use their gifting. I am not calling for a change in polity; I’m saying that within our polity there’s more room for greater female engagement. This often requires men who are currently in leadership to be a lead blocker, so to speak, to open space for them. Are we just trying to lead a middle-class, white boys’ club or are we trying to lead the Alliance family? This is so ironic that a family is a place where the contributions of both genders are needed. Are we not arguing that at the Supreme Court right now on that matter—that a family is a place where the contribution of both genders are needed? That’s not just a societal issue about marriage—that’s a family issue of The Alliance.
May God allow us to launch new waves of musicians, poets, and artists. Here’s what I think: Evangelicalism still hasn’t fully recovered from some of the unnecessary elements of the Protestant Reformation. I’m glad for the Protestant Reformation, but there’s some unnecessary ramifications of that 500-year-old event. May our sisters and brothers with creative gifting increasingly find open doors for their contributions to shape us. Our God is a creative being, His nature is to create, and in creating us in His image He gave us a creative soul. And He gave some of you the ability to get that soul out onto a keyboard or onto a palette or into a turn of a phrase. Musicians, poets, artists are a great gift to us as they express that creative soul. They help us be more honest—expressing ourselves, knowing ourselves, facing ourselves. With splashes of sound and crashes of words and dashes of color, the creatives stimulate us, anger us, and enlarge us.
May God allow us to launch new waves of strategically minded donors. Money is not the fuel of missions —the Holy Spirit is—but workers well trained, willing, called, vetted, equipped, and commissioned are worthy of being supported.
New expressions of multigenerational ministry. Let’s shift children’s and youth ministry from to and for them to with and through them.
May God allow us to launch new expressions of lay ministry. Church leader, think less about how to make your people happy and more about how to make them heroes.
May God allow us to launch new waves of international workers. I’m going to show us tomorrow lots of charts and grafts, and one of them is going to be a very sobering one from me. It’s just a line on a chart, but the simple fact is today in Alliance history we are sending fewer international workers than when I was a young man entering into the ministry. We have more churches today who are sending fewer workers. And that is not the legacy that I want to pass on to my daughter and sons, an Alliance that is less of a sending organization than the ministry that I received from my father. I as your president want to lead us in a reversal of the trend of how many international workers we are able to send.
I have a very sad list in my drawer. I received it in one of my first months of becoming president. It is a list of the places where we currently have international workers but our teams suffer from a lack of critical mass. If one more missionary goes home, one more international worker has to come home for some reason, we are vulnerable to actually be able to continue the team in these places because we’re operating so lightly staffed. Before we can, I can, in good conscience call us to the next places of the world, or the next peoples of the world, we need to strengthen the places of the world where we already are. Help us do that. First Corinthians 15: “Then the end will come, when he (Jesus) hands over the kingdom [of God] to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.” As one of our young leaders, Tim Meier, says, “This is not a human endeavor we are undertaking. We are in the midst of a great God story.”
He raised up The Alliance, God raised up The Alliance to be one of his end-time families to bring about the completion of the Great Commission. Team, family, brothers and sisters in Christ, delegates to the Council of The Christian and Missionary Alliance, let’s rise to who we are. Let’s be all that He has called us to be. Let’s not falter, let’s not get discouraged, let’s not bicker; yeah, let’s debate, let’s discuss, let’s decide if these are good or bad or what needs to go forward, but let’s together as a family be all that God raised us up to be until Jesus returns.
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Workers in Christ
As workers for God’s Kingdom, our identity is in Jesus and not in the things we accomplish. Our call is to and from Christ, and it’s a ministry we were not meant to do alone.
Power Block: Power of Position. Power of Religion. Power of an insider. Power of numbers. - Luke 18 & 19
February's video blog from John Stumbo continues the conversation on power. Follow along with him as he unpacks passages from Luke chapters 18 and 19. This month, John is including a downloadable companion chart to aid in personal reflection and study.
A Look Ahead at Council 2015 - An invitation and advance look at what the Alliance family will experience in May.
This conference will be of greater value than most any other conference you could go to in the next couple years.
Willingness to Do the Hard Things
God has raised up the global Alliance family to be on the front edge of what He is doing in this world. This month, John is including a downloadable version of the Amicus Curiae Brief for your convenience.
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Jordan Christopher hosts this audio day-in-review interview of delegates and guests at Alliance Council 2015.
Where Are We? Where Are We Going? Condensed Version of Thursday Morning Address
This month’s video blog features a condensed version of John’s Thursday morning address to Alliance Council 2015. Be sure to watch his entire address to Alliance Council.
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Join the Alliance family on May 26–31, as we gather to worship our risen King, experience His renewing power, and celebrate what He is doing in our midst.
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Dr. Mitch Kim shares the authority of God's Word in our lives around the theme PROCLAIM.
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John shares his excitement about the energy and passion witnessed at LIFE 2016 in Kansas City among the 5,000 students and volunteers attending. Hundreds made decisions to follow Christ. John challenges Alliance leaders to make a way for these young people to launch into ministry. The video concludes with a montage of scenes from LIFE.
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Our C&MA Heritage
Watch as C&MA President John Stumbo invites pastors and workers to the same passion that stirred Simpson's heart “the remedy for our spiritual situation in New York is the repentance of professing Christians, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the revival of evangelistic work in the Christian Church.”
The Church - Revelation 1
John challenges pastors to move beyond perfunctory leadership to the high and holy calling of leading His Church.
Obeying God = True Success
Big Ideas Core Values - Session 4
"I could buy a doll with this money, but it would remind me of how I could have fed kids just like me."
Salem Clothes Drive
For twenty-five years, Salem Alliance Church has provided an annual clothing giveaway for its community. 'We represent a caring Christ,' explains Pastor John Stumbo. 'And if people don't see a caring Christ in the church, where are they going to see Him?' Produced in 2004.
When the Big One Hits - Luke 13:2-3
When disaster strikes, what kind of people should we be? U.S. Alliance President John Stumbo shares "preparedness training for the soul," while "ministering when the flood is still in somebody else’s backyard."
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Perverting Communication
By TechWell Contributor - December 6, 2005
When the United States landed a man on the moon, my wife and I use to engage our friends in fun debates on whether Neil Armstrong really stepped onto the surface of the moon or did he descend onto a huge sound stage just north of Phoenix, AZ. As farfetched as that argument is, in many cases, upper management in many software development organizations are being led to believe that their Eagle has landed at Tranquillity Base when it fact their project is “Lost in Space.” Much of that information is coming from the Configuration Management System (CMS).
The CMS has the job of retaining all essential project information: requirements, design, code, test plans, test data, test results, review reports, project management information, architectural data, and user documentation. It is designed to prevent physical destruction of information such as altering of reports; unrecorded changes to requirements, code, or tracking data; unauthorized entries in data fields; or physical failure of media. Without a functioning CMS, management cannot rely on the accuracy of any information. However, the CMS continues to be undermined in numerous ways that lead to the destruction of the information infrastructure.
We continue to destroy the CMS by passive behavior. We claim critical success that an organization doesn’t object directly to the having a software configuration system, but do very little when they fail to use it or fail to use it correctly. Consider the bug-tracking database, which is part of the CMS. It is supposed to report each error found in testing. Those errors are suppose to remain open until the error is tracked down and repaired. Successful managers rely on statistics from the bug-tracking database to monitor project progress and decide about product release. Such statistical information, however, loses its usefulness if errors and their handling are reported accurately, but passive corruption of this database takes place such as these many forms:
Developers remove error reports claiming that they are not really errors, giving specious reasons like “that particular build wasn’t done correctly,” which is another interesting fact in and of itself.
Managers remove error reports claiming, “We are not supposed to be testing that yet,” which gives their managers an overly optimistic sense of progress.
Testers file incomplete error reports, omitting such valuable information as the original cause of an error, which would help management detect those areas that need additional support or training.
My biggest gripe however is the perversion of the CMS’s value of making information available to all who might need it, while protecting information from corruption by those who have no authority to change it. We have taken the CMS’s ability to restrict access and applied it to restricting the reading of the information. Doing so, the whole purpose of the CMS is undermined.
I contend you never know who needs to know what. For a development organization to be successful, information must flow freely. But managers become territorial and say that certain data “is relevant to their group only.” Maintaining morale and keeping a blameless atmosphere are laudable goals, but if these goals can be reached only by dismantling the information infrastructure, the project is a lost cause.
How do we get out of this mess? First of all, understand that the CMS is not just some technician’s tool, but a management tool that underlies all communication and control. It belongs to you so manage it, which means the CMS group should report to upper management, not to project management. Second, set and enforce a policy of complete and open information at all times and resist plausible sounding arguments for hiding information that is in the CMS. Third, manage your people without competition because competition leads to the desire to hide information from management.
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Family Vacation Wisdom: On Safari in Africa, Bring Separate Tents
by Tom Brown
If you're bringing the family on a safari in Africa, your best bet is to bring a separate camping tent for everyone says Condé Nast Traveler copy editor Tom Brown.
Two words: separate tents.
I don't need much in the way of creature comforts, and neither does anyone in my family, especially on a vacation in Africa. What could be more objectionable than a bush safari camp with a swimming pool? Nothing: At this moment I can think of nothing more inappropriate, let alone more of an environmental offense. Ditto haute cuisine and hot water. But separate tents: That's the way we survived each other during a camping trip in Zimbabwe and Botswana.
This is a lesson learned during a previous trip with my brother and father with only two tents between us. Despite switching and every once in a while getting to sleep alone, it wasn't enough. It wasn't just the snoring (we're all getting on in years, and our snoring is getting louder), but the simple freedom of sleeping or waking as one chooses. With separate tents, my brother and I could sneak out like kids, as we did once, for a variously thrilling and terrifying full-night's trek under a full moon through Botswana's Savuti wilderness.
Sleeping alone in Africa reached its zenith on Botswana's Makgadikgadi Pan, where tents were not even necessary, and we just wandered off with our sleeping rolls to plop down as we pleased in the desolate salty moonscape.
That's my family travel advice: separate tents or no tents at all. —Tom Brown, Copy Editor
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Gallery: Jacobsville neighborhood Super Fund Site lead cleanup through the years
This time last year the dilapidated Evansville Plating Works obstructed the view of these homes along Indiana Street. With the help of the EPA, the site was cleaned up, including removal of many tons of toxic dirt. Now, covered in straw and recently seeded with grass, neighbors are hopeful for a cleaner, safer place to live March 8, 2004. DENNY SIMMONS / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES
Tamara Graham, 7, sits on the lap of her father Tony Graham as Vanderburgh County Health Department Medical technicians Kelly England and Sue Jansen, right, prepare to draw blood for a lead test Friday, March 12, 2004. The father and daughter live in the Jacobsville Neighborhood that was recently added to the Super Fund National Priority List. It is recommended that children living in the area have their blood tested once a year. BOB GWALTNEY / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES, Bob Gwaltney
The Evansville Plating Works building is on it's way down with the help of CMC Incorporated employees using track hoes Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 2, 2003. The clean-up is expected to take about six weeks according to Environmental Protection Agency on-site manager Kevin Turner. DENNY SIMMONS / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES
The Evansville Plating Works building is on it's way down with the help of CMC Incorporated employees using track hoes Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 2, 2003. DENNY SIMMONS / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES
Jacobsville is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Evansville and one of the most polluted neighborhoods in the nation. Because of extremely high levels of lead in the soil, a 45 block portion of the neighborhood has been added to the Super Fund National Priority List by the U.S. EPA. It is recommended that children living in the area have their blood tested once a year. Picture was made March 12, 2004. BOB GWALTNEY / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES, Bob Gwaltney
An Environmental Tech for Earth Tech removes and replaces lead-contaminated soil in the yard of a home on Lafayette Avenue in the Jacobsville Neighborhood on Wednesday morning, Nov. 28, 2007. In the neighborhood, 34 properties have already been cleaned up and environmental officials are anticipating being clean up double that number. ERIN McCRACKEN / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES, Evansville Courier & Press
Nine-year-old Trinity Pickerill gets a hand from neighbors Rodney Pepper, left, and Jay Oldham, to fix a flat on his bike in their Jacobsville neighborhood Monday afternoon, March 8, 2004. The neighborhood has been named a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency. DENNY SIMMONS / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES
An Environmental Tech for Earth Tech removes and replaces contaminated soil in the yard of a home on the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Michigan Street in the Jacobsville Neighborhood on Wednesday morning, Nov. 28, 2007. In the neighborhood, 34 properties have already been cleaned up and environmental officials are anticipating being clean up double that number. ERIN McCRACKEN / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES, Evansville Courier & Press
A dual-press conference in a vacant lot at the corner of Garfield and West Michigan streets announced the beginning of a lead-contamination clean-up in the Jacobsville neighborhood as well as a new housing project to serve area homeless veterans Tuesday afternoon, April 6, 2010. DENNY SIMMONS / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES, Courier & Press
Workers from Environmental Restoration clean up contaminated soil in the 300 block of East Virginia Street on the Jacobsville Superfund site in Evansville Thursday, May 1, 2007. The company is also seeking to hire people to work in the Gulf to cleanup the beach once the oil spill hits land. JASON CLARK / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES, The Evansville Courier & Press
Jacob Angermeier, left, sprays down freshly dumped dirt as Dennis Dunn levels it out in the backyard of a Franklin Street residence Thursday afternoon, Aug. 26, 2010. The Environmental Restoration group is doing the Jacobsville neighborhood contaminated dirt clean-up using both their regular workers and local workers. DENNY SIMMONS / COURIER & PRESS ARCHIVES, Courier & Press
The Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination Site's cleanup focus areas, called operable unit locations. The area in between labeled TBD (to be determined) is now part of OU2 South. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Workers replace contaminated soil outside of a house on the 400 block of Southeast First Street, which is located in the Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination Superfund Site's OU2 South focus area, in Evansville, Thursday, June 27, 2019. The program started in 2010 with around 2,450 properties cleaned up to date. Around 400 properties are expected to be cleaned up during the 2019 construction season. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
A worker pours fresh soil into wheelbarrows that will replace contaminated soil outside of a house on the 400 block of Southeast First Street, which is located in the Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination Superfund site, in Evansville, Ind., Thursday, June 27, 2019. The program started in 2010 with around 2,450 properties cleaned up to date. Around 400 properties are expected to be cleaned up during the 2019 construction season. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
A worker wheels fresh soil to a yard on the 400 block of Southeast First Street after digging up the contaminated soil in Evansville, Thursday, June 27, 2019. The residential area is one of around 400 properties located in the Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination Superfund Site's focus area that is expected to be cleaned up during the 2019 construction season. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Workers spread new soil after digging up contaminated soil outside of a house on the 400 block of Southeast First Street, which is located in the Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination Superfund Site's OU2 South focus area, in Evansville, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Around 400 properties are expected to be cleaned up during the 2019 construction season. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
A worker spreads fresh soil after digging up contaminated soil outside of a house on the 400 block of Southeast First Street, which is located in the Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination Superfund Site's OU2 South focus area, in Evansville, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Around 400 properties are expected to be cleaned up during the 2019 construction season. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
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Stay Hungry: Great cheese, wine tasting and more in this week's food news
We're bringing you Tri-State restaurant happenings and food news you need to know. Check out this weekly feature to keep up to date on the latest.
Stay Hungry: Great cheese, wine tasting and more in this week's food news We're bringing you Tri-State restaurant happenings and food news you need to know. Check out this weekly feature to keep up to date on the latest. Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/entertainment/2019/06/21/stay-hungry-cheese-wine-food-trucks/1482467001/
Aimee Blume, Evansville Courier & Press Published 6:00 a.m. CT June 21, 2019 | Updated 10:40 a.m. CT June 21, 2019
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — We're bringing you Tri-State restaurant happenings and food news you need to know. Check out this weekly feature to keep up to date on the latest.
The Coyote Mexican Restaurant in Henderson has added mojitos made with lime and fresh mint to the menu. Enjoy one with your meal of Tex-Mex favorites and many Mexican-inspired seafood dishes such as shrimp-stuffed poblano peppers, fish tacos and grilled mahi-mahi.
The Coyote — 104 N. Water Street in Henderson. Phone: 270-212-0979
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Enjoy a cool, fresh mojito on the patio at the Coyote Mexican Restaurant in Henderson. (Photo: Aimee Blume)
The Happy Go Asian Market at 4305 Morgan Ave. will have their grand opening on June 28. We can't wait to see what kind of exotic goodies are inside.
Happy Go Asian Market 4305 Morgan Ave
The Kennel Club Fine Dining of Evansville has, as of June 11, closed its doors after nearly 90 years as a private dining club on Evansville's North Side. Board members said the closure was a financial decision.
Mo’s House will host a Tea Dance Disco Party on June 30 from 4-7 p.m. Enjoy special cocktails, costumes and if you like bring a dish or dessert to share.
Mo’s House – 1114 Parrett St. Phone: 812-401-3800
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The Newburgh Town Council has voted to allow food trucks to park in Newburgh in five designated zones from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays and 5-9 p.m. Wednesdays. Food trucks will be able to serve by mid-July.
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A big meaty burger from Prime Time Pub and Grill in Newburgh. (Photo: Aimee Blume)
Prime Time Pub and Grill in Newburgh is now offering online ordering, catering and delivery service. Delivery is free on orders over $25 and $3 for orders less than $25. Delivery within a five-mile radius, which includes the Women’s Hospital at Deaconess Gateway. Prime Time is known for big creative burgers, prime rib, steaks, appetizers and much more.
Prime Time Pub and Grill — 8177 Bell Oaks Drive in Newburgh. Phone: 812-490-0655
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Schnucks groceries have again upscaled their cheese selection, now offering a very sophisticated variety of regional cheeses based on classic European styles. Find aged and fresh goat cheeses from Baetje Farms in Missouri, washed rind cheeses from Tulip Tree Creamery in Indianapolis, aged sheep cheeses from Green Dirt Farm in Missouri and (finally) European-inspired cheeses from Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese in Kentucky, among others. Cheese selections vary by store.
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Schnucks has added more sophisticated Midwestern cheeses to their deli line-up. Please eat them, I can't do it all. (Photo: Aimee Blume)
Music in the park is at Vann Park on June 27 from 6-8 p.m. Look for live music, lots of food trucks and beer. Bring your own blankets and chairs for sitting. Admission is free.
Vann Park – 1550 Vann Ave.
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The Wine Down in Newburgh. (Photo: Aimee Blume)
The Wine Down will be hosting a special wine tasting June 27 from 6-9 p.m. It will feature six of the staff’s favorite wines and one Champagne. Cost is $25.40 per person, which includes sales tax and gratuity.
The Wine Down — 8666 Ruffian Lane in Newburgh. Phone: 812-490-0066
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Catalunya: Marquez, Lorenzo talk FP3 encounter
Neil Morrison
Marc Marquez was incensed when he found team-mate Jorge Lorenzo riding slowly on the racing line in FP3; says his reaction was because he was unsure if he had passed into Q2.
Marc Marquez has revealed he “understood” team-mate Jorge Lorenzo’s explanation as to why the Majorcan was riding slowly on the racing line in MotoGP FP3 and said his own reaction was down to him "riding with 180bpm.”
The reigning world champion was incensed when, late into the morning session, he had to slow around turn three due to Lorenzo’s touring. Cameras soon caught him gesticulating angrily in his team-mate's direction. “I was so angry,” he admitted.
But Lorenzo’s apology seemed to clear the air. Marquez explained that once he “was calmer” and the fear of dropping outside the all-important top ten had subsided, he could see the #99’s point of view.
Marquez also noted how he was twice penalised in 2018 for similar actions to Lorenzo’s in FP3. He then pointed out how neither his team-mate, nor Joan Mir, who blocked the reigning world champion at one point during the Mugello weekend, were punished.
Speaking to Spanish journalists after Saturday’s press conference, Marquez, said, “He [Lorenzo] apologised to me, because he was in the middle of turn three. While people can say it's only free practice, it was the third one, in which the last laps are like qualifying.
“I was so angry because I knew that my lap was the one to enter Q2 directly. In the end I finished ninth, the worst classification of the year.
“It’s clear that last year I was twice in the middle of the track and on both occasions I was penalised. At Mugello I came across [Joan] Mir, we touched and everything and then at the end of FP3 it happened again with Lorenzo. But this happens... When it does everyone has to be judged equally. There is no difference.
"He simply apologised. Logically [after the session finished] I was calmer and I understood, because no rider waits in the middle of the track – or at least I hope they don’t.
“But logically I knew he didn’t know I was there. But the reaction is because I was riding with 180bpm [heartbeats per minute], and I wasn’t sure if I was going straight into Q2.”
When Lorenzo was asked about the incident, he explained, “For what happened with Marc we see many times in MotoGP all the riders are very focussed to make the fastest lap that we can do.
“You need to go faster in all the practices, you are putting all the concentration and if you cannot keep going it’s difficult to go off the line because you don’t have so many options sometimes.
“You go completely outside the track, or you sometimes you just need to enter on the line. You don’t have chances. In FP3 I did my fast lap, I tried to do another lap but I didn’t make the line in the first corner, I went outside the track.
“Finally I had to go back onto the line. I didn’t know Marc was there. I just knew that [Miguel] Oliveira was there because I overtook him on the straight. It just happened.”
Having qualified tenth, eight places behind Marquez, Lorenzo believes Sunday’s race at the Circuit of Barcelona represents a chance to score his first top ten finish with Honda MotoGP machinery.
“We’ve been working to make me feel comfortable,” said the 32-year old. “We didn’t make a giant step forward but small modifications make me more comfortable on the bike.
“I can ride a bit more aggressive with slightly more speed and consistency. Still we miss quite a bit to be closer to the fastest. I think we are having probably the most consistent weekend in all the championship.
“Everything is possible in the race. A lot will depend on the start, on the pace, on the tyres. But I think a realistic goal for tomorrow is to try and finish in the top ten for the first time.
“Our pace is still not to be in the top five. Everything can happen. We can have some crashes tomorrow but realistically I think my goal should be finishing inside the top ten for the first time.”
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Mid-Atlantic Employees Make “Power Packs” for Local Schools
Many children in Fairfax County schools near our Northern Virginia headquarters are eligible for free and reduced lunch. School administrators worry these children might go hungry over the weekend, so on Friday, October 12, CRC CARES members volunteered with an organization focused on addressing that issue. Mid-Atlantic employees partnered with Food For Others to support their P3 program – assembling “Power Packs” of non-perishable foods for the school children to take home over the weekend.
Through our construction company’s #CBGGives initiative, employees from various offices spent the day sorting and assembling more than 300 Power Packs for three local schools.
Food and fuel are important for learning. The Power Packs help students stay healthy and arrive at school ready to learn.
With the help from other community entities, Food for Others is positioned to distribute over 70,000 packs in 2018/2019 to 28 Fairfax County elementary schools. For more information about the program and Food for Others, please visit their website.
Fourteenth Annual CARES Charity Golf Tournament Benefits Local Nonprofits
CBG Building Company, CRC Companies, and Clark Construction Group hosted the 14th annual CARES Open charity golf tournament at Maderas Golf Club. This year’s event raised a record-setting $361,000 to benefit organizations such as Gigi’s Playhouse, The Honor Foundation, the Youth Assistance Coalition (YAC), and other community-serving groups. This event marks over four million dollars raised for deserving causes since the inaugural 2005 tournament.
Eighty sponsors including subcontractors, industry partners, and consultants partnered with tournament hosts to put on a successful day for more than 250 golfers. One of the tournament’s primary beneficiaries, YAC, takes a community approach to address youth homelessness in the area.
“From all of us at YAC we cannot thank you enough for your kindness and generosity. Your donation has helped give us the courage to take the next step and move forward with an office and meeting room for our youth,” said Heather Fitzgerald, executive director and founder of YAC. “While we will still be on the streets each day looking for and helping our youth, this office will give us a home base. Again, thank you is not enough.”
Gigi’s Playhouse, an educational, therapeutic, and career-building center for individuals with Down Syndrome, was also a primary recipient of the tournament.
“GiGi's Playhouse San Diego is incredibly grateful for your generous donation and support. It will have a significant and lasting impact as we continue to expand opportunities for individuals with Down Syndrome in San Diego County,” said Karen Falk, president of Gigi’s Playhouse San Diego. “With your support, we will be able to expand the programs and services we offer at our Down Syndrome Achievement Center.”
The event supported The Honor Foundation, a transition institute for Navy SEALS and the U.S. Special Operations Community. The organization empowers men and women to tap into their maximum potential during and after their service careers. Hosts were honored to have a few active Navy SEALS in attendance of the 2018 tournament as players honored and celebrated Veterans Day.
“Our Employer Partners play a significant role in pushing our Mission forward -- believing what we believe to their core,” said Joe Musselman, CEO and founder of The Honor Foundation. “Thank you to CRC CARES and Clark Construction for recognizing the leadership and talent our Fellows and Alumni can bring to the workforce.”
As with the tournament’s tradition, net proceeds from the event will continue to benefit other charitable groups throughout the year. The 14-year tournament has supported more than 120 charities made possible by generous industry partners.
CRC CARES About Ending Hunger with the Capital Area Food Bank
On Thursday, July 12, CRC CARES members volunteered at the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, DC. Team members sorted and packaged 672 boxes of supplemental groceries for senior citizens in need in the Washington metropolitan area; CRC CARES also donated $1,000 to the cause, which will feed an additional 200 families.
CRC CARES arranged items like corn cereal, milk, apple juice, canned tomatoes, applesauce, and peas into the boxes assembly-line style. The boxes were then sent to a separate part of the distribution center and packaged with perishable food like fruit and cheese before they were sent off to their respective recipients.
The supplemental groceries like the ones CRC CARES packed will serve over 10,000 senior citizens through the Grocery Plus and Senior Brown Bag programs. The Capital Area Food Bank also has similar programs for the 2,500 children in-need called the Weekend Bag program; it helps ensure they will not be hungry over the weekend when school meals are not available.
The Capital Area Food Bank, which is a member of Feeding America, is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger. They have partnered with 444 community organizations within DC, Maryland, and Virginia to help combat hunger and its related problems like chronic undernutrition, heart disease, and obesity. With the efforts of the Capital Area Food Bank, its 444 partners, and the efforts of its volunteers, 540,000 people in the DC-area gain access to good, healthy food each year.
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Dec 14, 2018 Mid-Atlantic Employees Make “Power Packs” for Local Schools
Nov 9, 2018 Fourteenth Annual CARES Charity Golf Tournament Benefits Local Nonprofits
Jul 19, 2018 CRC CARES About Ending Hunger with the Capital Area Food Bank
Jul 6, 2018 CRC Gives Back to Community with City Blossoms
Dec 12, 2017 CRC Arlington Office Food Drive Helps to Feed Families in Need
Nov 13, 2017 CRC CARES Hosts Record-Setting 2017 Charity Golf Tournament
Sep 8, 2017 Assisting Victims of Hurricane Harvey
Aug 7, 2017 Kicking for a Cause with Bridges to Independence
Jul 13, 2017 Building Up Community Green Spaces with City Blossoms DC
Jun 30, 2017 2017 JDRF Real Estate Games Recap
Nov 14, 2016 CRC CARES Hosts 12th Annual Charity Golf Tournament
Aug 8, 2016 CRC CARES Kicks for a Cause in the 2016 Safe at Home Kickball Tournament
Aug 1, 2016 Gardening for a Good Cause with DC City Blossoms
Jun 6, 2016 CRC CARES Member AJ Caputo Speaks at H.D. Cooke Elementary School Career Day
Mar 4, 2016 Spotlight: Chula's Mission
Jan 28, 2016 Spotlight: Project Northstar
Dec 14, 2015 CRC CARES Donates Hundreds of Cans to AFAC
Dec 1, 2015 CRC CARES Members Grow Mustaches to Raise Awareness about Men’s Health Issues
Nov 30, 2015 CRC CARES Participates in NVFS's Operation Turkey Drive
Nov 14, 2015 2015 Charity Golf Tournament Recap
Aug 3, 2015 CRC CARES Participates in the 2015 Safe at Home Kickball Tournament
Jun 5, 2015 CRC CARES Participates in the 2015 JDRF Real Estate Games
Apr 17, 2015 CRC CARES Hosts School Supply Drive for Inter-Mac
Mar 20, 2015 CRC CARES Serves Lunch at DC's 'So Others Might Eat' Kitchen
Dec 23, 2014 Holiday Toy Drive Benefiting Arlington Pediatric Center
Dec 1, 2014 CRC CARES Raises Money for Movember
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Apr 7, 2014 Building Better Communities with Habitat for Humanity
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Catalog > Photo & Video > Fundamentals > Fundamentals Of Dslr Filmmaking > Camera Basics Part 2
Fundamentals of DSLR Filmmaking
Camera Basics Part 2
Let's look at it. So you set the ISO. Now there's some rules for ISO and the cameras, these rules change daily because cameras are changing daily. So when I say like, oh shoot the lowest ISO possible and try to stay below 2500 that's just good because if you guys ever seen noise in video? It's bad, okay I got two clips to show you. To kind of emphasize my problems with kind of ISO and noise in general. So the first clip here is just a ISO comparison. So here's 160, I want you to pay attention to the shadow areas. Here's 320, pay attention to this shadow area and you look at the noise, it starts to dance around, just right here. 640 and as it gets up and up in ISO, you're going to start to see more of this start to posterize and more would start to break apart. 2500 is my cap. You start to see it dance around. As you get to 5000, it starts to get more and this is at a deep aperture and we're still getting a throw in the background, right, what I said earlier. 10000, see that start to br...
eak apart even more and then now we're at 12800. Okay, so the purpose of showing you this, isn't to kind of say, oh well Canon versus Nikon. No, it's not that. I'm just showing you that as you increase that ISO there's like there's a tolerance point where it just starts to break apart. There's things you can do in post to mitigate some of that noise but in reality if you just kind of stick below 2500, capture your image in exposure using a meter. I'll talk about light meters later but using a meter and actually getting the proper exposure, you're going to do your best to mitigate that noise because there's always going to be noise in an image because we're amplifying the signal. We're amplifying, we're taking the sensor, we're juicing it up with steroids to be more sensitive to light. There's gonna be a measure of noise that shows up in the image at any ISO above like 160. But here's the problem, is if we don't get a proper exposure and we don't do what we're supposed to with the meter and we don't focus on best practices. I bumped this exposure up about a third in post. It's the same footage, the exact same footage but even at 160, I bumped it and the tolerance, the image starts to break apart a little bit. So all this is meant to show you, we're going to run the clips through, all this meant to show you is that the file that's coming out of this camera, even though it's a gorgeous file, has very little wiggle room. There is next to no wiggle room when you start to bump the image with a curve. We've all done in Photoshop, you load up an image, command M or Apple M, you pull the middle the curve, and you pull it out, right? And it bumps up your mid-tones and it makes it look alright, you do that to video and it starts to do this. It makes it worse. So you've got to be really precise with your exposures. Now, I picked the absolute worst shooting condition to show you this because there's a lot of shadows, there's a lot of blacks and there's a lot of stuff where this noise can show up in. If I was at a higher ISO and it was well lit and it was outside, the noise would be less. It would still be there but it wouldn't nearly be as noticeable. Okay, so there's like there's there certain frameworks that you have to operate in. Okay, any questions? How are you in the chatroom? We have some questions about shutter speed, do you want to get through this and then-- No, let's go back. Okay, so let's ask those while we're-- Yeah. All right, so question came in from MBE who said, when shooting video and thinking about the shutter speed, does camera shake come into play like it does with a still image? So that's funny that you asked that. So typically, some of the beginning tips and best practices for beginning shooters is to shoot a wide-angle lens, shoot a faster shutter speed because it helps hide some of the the camera shake when you're actually hand-holding or kind of shooting video. It's not that it hides it or that it's better, it's just if you're shooting a faster shutter speed and your hand holding, because the footage is jumping around a little bit more, it just makes it look like it's all part of the footage. So if I'm shooting like at a 50th of a second and I think I'm going back to answer the question, does camera shake, I think the root of the question is, does camera shake affect my footage? And camera shake affects your footage insofar as much as you want your footage to look handheld. That's how camera shake affects your footage because here's the thing, if I'm at a really, really long lens and I'm at a 50th of a second or at 125th of a second, if I flick the front of that lens, it's still going to shake. And it's still going to affect my image and it's going to look like it wasn't on a tripod. So camera shake is only going to affect you insofar as much as you want your footage look a certain way. If I'm on a tripod and I flick that lens and it starts to shake, it's going to be, it's going to take me out of the experience, right? If I'm handheld and I'm camera shaking then they kind of played into each other a little bit. So pick the support, pick the look, and then determine if camera shake is going to affect that look. I love it, we've got one from Wayne Paris, so in video mode looking specifically the 70 and 5D Mark II but i think it's more of a generic question. Does the aperture still affect the amount of light to the sensor or is that just adjusting depth of field, in other words can i still shoot at f/8 in low-light or does it have to be wide open for proper exposure at that point? So aperture will always affect exposure. We'll always let more light in and sacrifice depth of field, if you depth of field, you need more light. So aperture in terms of our cameras for video still works the exact same way as it does for still. So let's make-believe I'm in an event and I need f/8. If I don't have enough light to work f/8, I've got to use, either bump my ISO or use the widest aperture I can get away with. Or add more light, you know, that's why you see guys who are doing events always have like an on-camera LED or an on-camera light so that they can actually do and show whatever they're capturing and a proper exposure, in a proper ISO. Okay, but yeah that's a good question. I didn't reiterate that but aperture in motion, works the exactly the same as it does in photography in the sense that it creates depth of the field but also limits the amount of light that hits your sensor based upon what F-stop you pick. Another one, any else? Absolutely okay this is a specific question from Savin G who said, I love 150th shutter and frame rate but I work at a motor sports venue, how can I get a cinema look and capture a hundred-mile-an-hour cars? I saw somebody else also asking one about like horses riding by so, shooting action. So you can keep your action at 24 frames a second. So first let's roll back the conversation. For beginners, I want you to capture your action at 24 frames a second and I want you to jump your shutter speed, if you're capturing action, to 125th or 250th. Once you get used to that, what you're going to notice is that the action that's happening is going to look crisper, it's going to look more actiony. There's still gonna be a level of motion blur to it, which is still pleasing. Eventually what you're going to do is once you get used to the process of capturing that motion, you're going to jump your frame rate up. You're gonna shoot a faster frame rate and a faster shutter speed and then you're going to be able to work with that footage a certain way, you're going to do some cross conversion of frame rates and get the footage that you want. But to start, shooting 24, fast shutter speed, 125th, 250th. Which will probably, if you're outdoors, be really good for you because you won't be using, I'll talk about in a second. You probably won't have like a variable ND or to kind of dump your exposure down a little bit so that's going to help you a lot outside. So you're probably to be it like, if you've got 250th you'll probably be at ISO 160 or 200, be around f/16. So that's good because as things are moving quickly and you don't have time to focus, you want that forgiveness of depth of field and given that action is all about the action, they don't really care if it's like, oh pretty depth of field type stuff. So you're really kind of set doing f/ and then jumping to like a 200 ISO or 160 ISO and you'll get some pretty good stuff that way. So I just want to reiterate for people, we are getting a lot of like camera specific questions and we're talking more about the generics of shutter speed, of aperture, of ISO, which are all applicable to all cameras. Now how you change those, what dial you change or what button you press, might be different on your individual camera and that you'll need to refer to your manual for. We're not gonna be able to cover everything in this class but we are talking about the generics, which are awesome. One question here from Robin, so specifically said the 7D has a crop factor, which you said will be better in a low-light situation so I can shoot wide open but my 5D Mark III sensor is better. So how do you kind of make that judgment between what's better for any particular situation. My friends who speak Espanol say, (speaking in foreign language) so you kind of gotta weigh your options a little bit. If you need a wide-angle, go with the wide camera and shoot higher ISO. If you want the exposure latitude, go with the newer camera. If you want the depth of field and you're going to be unpredictable, go with a crop camera. These are things that you kind of learn out as you're working but these are things that I'm glad to share with you. If I'm outside at an event at night and I don't know what's going on, think concert. I will go with a crop camera because I don't know what my depth of field is going to be. However, if I'm just doing pop-up interviews at a reception where I've got my camera on a monopod, it's going to be me to you, I got a light, record. That's a 5D shot, it's going to be a better picture. You kind of just ebb and flow with your surroundings. However, if I'm at a reception, I'm on a dance floor and I need depth of field, I'll go 70D, crop sensor. But if I'm on the dance floor, low light, and I need wide, full-frame. So there's a couple things that you can do there based on your camera choice and here's the thing guys. I haven't even talked about buying anything. I want you to focus on your camera first. There are too many people out there that buy a camera and buy all this other equipment, we'll talk about tools and equipment, that's great, that's later. Right now we're talking about the camera, learn your camera. Everyone in this room, everyone at home, should know how to set a custom white balance. If you don't you should learn, like by tomorrow. (laughs) It's really important, especially you're shooting multiple camera. The little things that you do in your camera really matter because when we shoot a video inside of our DSLRs, it's worse than shooting a JPEG. I shot digital photography when it was just JPEG, where the concept of photographing in RAW was a wrinkle in some engineer's eye at Adobe. And when we shot JPEG, we had to get it right because there was no room for change. What JPEG does is, it takes a picture and inside the camera, the camera decides well you're not going to see this, you're not going to see this, I'm going to wrap this up in a dot JPEG file and give it to you. It takes all that information, synthesizes it, add some sharpening, compression, and gives it out to you. All right, now what H.264 inside of these video cameras do is it takes like ten pounds of stuff, shoves it into a five-pound bag, and then gives it to you so that when you actually open it up, that ten pounds of stuff flies out but you can't do anything with it. There's no room for change at all. All right, so when we say getting it right, learning our camera is really, really important and I'm happy to talk to you about like scenarios like this because I think it's so important for us to identify a scenario and identify the correct tool so you get the right result. Custom white balance. This is something that we always used to do in photography and then RAW came along and then that just left. Like it exited like yesterday's trash, like it just disappeared. Okay, just like light meters. But here's the thing, I believe in not only having things always be accurate but I have it in being correct. So use a target guys, don't use a white shirt, don't use a white wall, who knows what that tone of white is on that wall. Who knows what tone of white my shirt would be if it was white. Don't white balance off the bride's white dress because what, if it's off-white, she's gonna get really pissed because then that turns that off-white into white in your video and she's like that's not my dress. There's a reason you use a target and there's a reason these things exist. It's because it matters, all right. So here's an example, custom white balance. Kelvin white balance, auto white balance. So I profiled this model this morning so we can kind of, sort of trust it. Okay, so custom white balance is a process to do inside your camera. For Canons it's a really quick process. For Nikons it's an easy process and they actually have a broader range of features too. Kelvin white balance, so you all know Kelvin, you switch to Kelvin in your camera and you can dial in, I'll show you that later. And then auto white balance is the last possible thing you will ever want to do because it will change during the shot. What auto white balance does is a pre-programmed value for white inside of the camera and as you're kind of filming, it will identify what it thinks needs to be white. And as you go from one thing to the next, if it feels like it needs to change it's white balance to kind of make that one value white again, it's going to change. Or it will change between clips, which is the worst because then you're sitting there in editing, you don't know how to grade, you just started using premiere, and you're like, okay what do I do? I can't just color pick it, it doesn't work the same in Premiere. Okay so here's the thing, do it right, do it right to start. So when you set a custom white balance all you do is you're going to get a reading off of that target, you're going to take a still frame of that target, just make sure it's full frame. And you actually don't even need, you don't even need it to be like in focus. So then you're going to go ahead and access your menus, you're going to pick your custom white balance image, set it, and then set the camera itself to custom white balance. Okay, now what you're going to get a chance to do is at this point, just be able to to set the white balance for that lighting condition inside of your camera and then here's the thing is. you're going to need to change it. You're going to need to change it, every time the lighting situation changes. And at this point here I want to make sure that I stop because this is crazy. This is custom, this is Kelvin, this is auto. This is the background, it wasn't lit so it should go somewhere into this value. This is too red, this is too blue, this is just right. You guys feel me? Okay, make sense? Cool. All right, so let's see here. So remember to change it when the lighting changes. You want to use a target too. So pop quiz, I'm inside under fluorescent lighting. I go out and do a custom white balance inside. If I go outside, I gotta set another custom white balance. Now go inside into a reception hall where the lights yellow, another custom white balance. Outside in the shade, another custom white balance. So Canon, it's one file per. In Nikon, I can actually assign different white value targets so that I can actually pick the value that I want for that lighting condition. So that's one major difference between Canon and Nikon. It's just so easy to set in Canon that it doesn't matter, just carry a target. So why specifically like a target like this? This is from X-Rite, it's a ColorChecker Passport Now I'm a photographer, guys. I don't deny that I'm a photographer. I went and shot some video yesterday and what I do at the end of the day? I shot some stills, it's always going to be a part of me. So I want to pick tools in terms of like, most of my tools, I wanna make tools that I can use both in photography and in still. So this is just a great tool for still as well because there's a plugin for Lightroom, it lets me kind of normalize my color across different cameras. It's a great tool and then in terms of this, it allows me for video to get the right white balance and it's a neutral white. If you look at it, it's not white white, which is crazy. It's a neutral white that allows me to actually have a more accurate color balance. So before I move on to focus and that sort of thing, how we doing? Good? It's a lot of thick material so I want to make sure we have a second to digest it before you kind of move on. Any questions in the room? Just about that white balance target, I mean it looks like what did you have, like a ColorChecker Passport there? Yeah, X-Rite ColorChecker Passport. I'm sorry, could you say it one more time? It's an X-Rite ColorChecker Passport. Beautiful and if people don't have one of those, I mean can they just use a white piece of paper? So, I'm such a, no. (laughs) I want to say, I want to say no but I know people are gonna do it and here's the thing right. You don't know what that value of white that that paper is. Okay and I used it as an example before so if I set my custom white balance to a white paper and then I try to go capture some footage of a bride who has an off-white dress, that white balance off that white paper could either make that dress look bluer or redder depending upon what the value of that white is. Because essentially when you're setting a custom white balance, you're telling the camera I want you to use this value for neutral white. And then it shifts all of the colors based upon your definition of neutral white so that's bad, if you're not using the right white. So yeah okay sure, use a white piece of paper. Some people might not notice but there will always be that one person that will notice and they will make your life a living hell because they're like, my dress doesn't look like that! That's the way it captured, it doesn't look like that. I cannot tell you when I was a photographer, how many times I had to reprint stuff because we weren't color managed properly. It's gonna be the same way, you know. Do it right, get it right in camera, do the work properly, you won't waste time. Because here's the thing is in post, when you get to post that's an entirely different animal and I'm not trying to scare anybody, I'm just saying you got to take things off in chunks you can manage and the more work you do correctly in the production side, it makes your life so much better in post. One final question, basically the question was, and I don't know if you just answered this. Couple people are asking if you have to fill the entire frame? So with the target, you fill the entire frame. I'd say 80%, 75 to 80% of the frame needs to be filled and it doesn't have to be in focus. You just want to put the target, so if I'm going to white balance for the light that's casting on me right now. I would probably put the target here, I wouldn't put it here right because that's not facing towards the light. I'd face it towards the light, right here, capture the target, and it doesn't need to be in focus and then I can reference this image in my camera for that. Want to take one final one about white balance? Okay Peter would like to know, what are you doing a multi-camera shoot with GoPros or other cameras without in-camera adjustments? Okay so without any camera adjustments, you're still going to want to capture the target because you can reference the target as a white point inside of post. And if you have an ability to capture a target that's got color chips on it, this is going to be off topic, but when you guys take your three day course later on editing, you're going to learn about something called vectorscope and RGB Parade. And vectorscopes and RGB parade, when you have color chips and a proper white balance card, will allow you to gauge the the levels of your forms and where your vectorscopes are sitting only in post. So it's a really, really great tool in post, you just got to capture the targets to start. All right, so this last thing on cameras, I think is one of the one things that people struggle with most. So the videos that I've shown you all today so far, how was the focus on them? Okay, right? So that should tell you something because when I first started, a lot of the things when I first started we made and we didn't really know how to focus well. I wasn't really well practiced yet. There's a certain forgiveness and tolerance when it comes to motion about things being in focus. If I'm static and I'm talking, I better be in focus but if I'm moving there's an element of blur to the image, right? There's an element of blur. So if I'm moving from left to right and you're panning me and you're close enough, chances are no one's gonna notice. But when I stop, I better be in focus. So here's the thing. I used to say I never want autofocus in cameras, I now say I want the choice whether or not I use autofocus because when I have the choice to use autofocus, I get to do this. I get to direct your eye without telling you or showing you where you're going to be. (upbeat music) Just by using critical focus and using a shallow depth the field, I can direct your eye. Really dial it in and use that as a storytelling element. Autofocus is cool because if I want to track somebody, I can track somebody and all kind of good stuff but there's still a place for manual focus. Here's the thing, most of the stuff that we've seen in cinema and Hollywood is manual focus. Some dudes sitting there with a little tool focusing and they're probably one of the highest-paid guys on site I would bet 'cause they always gotta be right. Victor, are we going to get into critical focus, can we just touch on how-- We can talk about that right now. The importance of that in video at some point. Yeah we talk about it right now. When it comes to focusing right, so there's a couple best practices that I like to use. Beginners shoot wide, 17-24. Okay, shoot wide. It doesn't really matter. I'm going to get skewered for this so my disclaimer is it's, don't skewer me. But if you're shooting wide, you can kind of shoot wide open and not necessarily worry so much about depth of field because of the way the physics of the lens work. So if you guys try this at home, put a 17mm on, put it at a four, five, six. There's something called hyper focal and there's something called infinity, and hyper focal is the point at which your subject is in focus and things behind your subject remain in acceptable focus to infinity. And infinity is like when everything at a distance is in focus regardless of where you're at. So if you learn to manage hyper focal and understand what infinity is on each of your lenses at each aperture, you'll be much better able and prepared to do what's called distance focusing. Where if I'm right here to my computer I can be like, okay well I can be at like five, six, and roughly set my lens to here and I'm good. Photographers before autofocus, photographers before the advent of motorized autofocus came in, they used to do distance focusing all the time. They go, it's like six feet, done. Okay and they pick their aperture and they just do it. So when I first started learning, that's what I do is I start with my wide-angle lenses and I learned how to do that distance focusing and kind of just managing my distance and understanding that. Shooting wide, getting used to actually handling the camera. As I got further and further into like longer lenses, typically when I'm on a longer lens, I'm on some kind of support. I'm on a monopod or I'm on a tripod. I'm never holding at hand holding a long lens because it just, it bounces around too much for my taste. So with stuff like this, you notice when I started to do that focus pull, so this movement here that we started is called a focus pull. (upbeat music) That's on a tripod and that's actually just turning the barrel of the focus to get that point. Now all this stuff, all the rest of the clips, I call that focusing to a point meaning I set my focus to that point and I had the action either get into frame or have the action happen in front of it. So what you'll see me do a lot, if you ever watch me shoot, is I'll have my talent and I'll be like, okay Stephanie you're going to step on that and when you step on that I need you to stop there. So I'll pre-focus, here. Have her go off frame and then when she walks in, she's already in focus. So you think about your brides, you think about your grooms, carry some gaff tape, colored gaff tape or whatever it is, mark it out, get far back, tell them to hit that point, you know you're in focus. That's kind of like some tips and tricks that I've used and I continually use throughout what I've done in video. And you know, it's easy if you practice, right? So we talk about focus, you know you got like, think about manual focus, it's an asset and it takes practice. And I'm not going to lie to you but for example there are some things you can do, like this shot, remember the shot? The camera was here. Stuck it in there, put a fisheye in, support it with a granola bar or whatever it was, but we measured from there. So there's a little indicator here and we call that the focal plane indicator. That's where your image is being actually created. All right, so what you do is you can take a tape measure, measure from that to your subject. So you put your tape measure there, measure out to your subject, and then you set the distance on your lens. When you set the distance on your lens, that just guarantees that you're in focus. That's a technique they still do in Hollywood. You see guys running out with 50 foot tapes, doing that. It's still practical, it's still a thing people do. So it's not out of the room of discussion, especially like if you're running a low budget and you've got a camera up and you don't have a monitor, you just boom, set it, and you know you're in focus. It works, we did it for that shot. Now there's an in-camera functionality that involves using buttons, it's a standby option. So you can zoom in on the camera, push couple buttons and that kind of stuff, and it really helps you get to a point where, all right, I can see my subject and I'm in focus and then I record and it goes away. All right now I'm going to do a kind of a side comment. If you enjoy hacking your cameras, there are firmwares out there that make that feature available. Magic lantern is one of them, I don't use that firmware hack because it scares me but some people some people do.
If you own a DSLR camera, you already own a powerful filmmaking tool. Ready to learn how to use it? Join CreativeLive and Victor Ha for course that will cover the core principles of capturing video with your DSLR.
Through hands-on demos - including how to create compelling video interviews - Victor will guide you through the core techniques of DSLR filmmaking. You’ll learn how to apply the compositional skills of still photography to taking video. You’ll also learn about how to navigate the video-capturing features of your DSLR, choose the right gear for your filmmaking needs, and incorporate audio into your shoots. From framing shots to producing simple projects to spatial relationships, the skills you gain in this course will leave you ready and inspired to create high-quality, engaging film projects.
Class Introduction
Shooting for the Edit Part 1
Preferred Camera Settings with Q&A
A Video a Day
180 Degree Rule
Thinking in Sequences
Movement with Monopods
Movement with Video Tripods
Movement with Sliders
Breaking into Video with Hybrid Portraits
The Portrait Film
The Hybrid Wedding and Wedding Film
The Corporate Profile
Basics of Sound
Microphones and Their Differences
Picking the Right Microphone
Double System Sound
Hi-Hats and Low-Hats
Handheld Stabilization with Q&A
Lensbaby, Copters and 4K
Using Your Current Photographic Tools for Video
DSLR Filmmaking Tools Part 1
Ambient Light Part 1
Soundtracks for Dummies Part 1
One Light Setup
Two and Three Light Setup
Lighting Q&A
Corporate Profile Pre-Production
Storyboarding, Shot List, and Gear List
Callsheet, Crew, and Sound
Victor van Dijk
This course was quite a treat! I had been learning piecemeal about DSLR Filmmaking but never had the opportunity to follow a course that ties it all together. And my namesake Victor is ex-cel-lent!!! Fundamentals of DSLR Filmmaking is a very very clear (I would almost say, lucid!), carefully, comprehensively tied together course teaching all you need and wanted to know about DSLR Filmmaking. Massive PLUS is that the course is first and before all NOT about the nitty-gritty technical details and numbers, but all about the basics of what filmmaking REALLY is all about. And yes, technique and gear are part of that but not for their own sake. And Victor shares that it's all about fun, and telling your story your way in the way that you like. I truly admire Victor's carefully planned and laid out path, in my opinion he planned the course exactly and meticulously like he would a full-blown movie production. And he is very open and honest and not belittling at all. He is really passionate, compassionate and 'infectious' with his happy happy mood :-)! I HIGHLY recommend this course for anyone wanting to properly and thoroughly learn the ins and outs of filmmaking, with a strong focus on using a DSLR.
Penny Foster
This is a very well constructed course by Victor Ha, who is very easy to watch, and very knowledgeable about using the DSLR for more than just taking pictures. For a Wedding Photographer like me, who wants to add some moving images into a slideshow for my client, this course was perfect. Victor shows us that, with the equipment you already own as a working professional photographer, you can get started into video RIGHT NOW, with baby steps. This is not a course on video editing, so if you need that tuition look elsewhere, BUT, Victor shows us how to set our cameras up for success right from the start, so that when we are at the editing stage, the footage is in the perfect state possible to produce excellently exposed, perfectly colour balanced material. He goes over the use of a light meter for capturing video, and how essential it is to get the exposure right 'in camera', so this is certainly a Fundamental DSLR Filmmaking course, for anyone who is already using their DSLR for stills, but who is interested in adding something else to their skill set. Victor is so enthusiastic in his teaching style, and this is a course I will keep coming back to time after time.
Excellent overview on how to think as a storyteller with DSLR video. Great breakdown and really accessible examples- fun video on the making of a peanut butter sandwich- which inspire and make it feel like the video beast can be conquered. This course is packed with great ideas on not only figuring out to how to make the switch from still to motion, but also creative inspiration on how to begin thinking cinematically. Well worth the price. Great course!
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Nation Current Affairs 06 Jan 2017 China docked advance ...
Nation, Current Affairs
China docked advanced nuclear submarine in Karachi harbour: report
Published Jan 6, 2017, 3:15 pm IST
Updated Jan 6, 2017, 3:50 pm IST
Indian nuclear experts say that the submarine could be the powerful Chinese Type 093 'Shang' class, very tough to detect.
The image can be accessed by clicking on the historical imagery icon on Google Earth and scrolling back to May, 2016. (Photo: Twitter @rajfortyseven)
New Delhi: A Google Earth image has shown a Chinese nuclear submarine docked in Karachi harbour in May 2016, in an indication that Beijing might be scrutinizing Indian warships' movements far more closely than earlier.
According to a report in NDTV, the image, spotted first by a satellite imagery expert on Twitter (@rajfortyseven) appears to show a Chinese Navy Type 091 'Han' class fast-attack submarine, the first class of nuclear powered submarines deployed by China.
The image can be accessed by clicking on the historical imagery icon on Google Earth and scrolling back to May, 2016, said the report.
However, Indian nuclear experts say that the docked submarine could be the even more powerful Chinese Type 093 'Shang' class, far quieter and tougher to detect and equipped with newer weapons and advanced technology, including a nuclear reactor.
Nuclear-powered submarines, unlike conventional submarines, have an unlimited range of operations since their nuclear reactors rarely require to be refueled. The submarines, armed with torpedoes and cruise missiles, can be deployed underwater for extended durations where they are difficult to track, said the report.
Indian Navy officials have been convinced for many years that the presence of Chinese nuclear submarines in the Indian Ocean is part of a choreographed exercise to expand Beijing's military presence in the region.
Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said in December, "As far as People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ships and submarines are concerned, the Indian Navy keeps a close eye and monitor their movements. We launch surveillance missions in the form of aircraft and ships to keep a track of them."
Tags: google earth, chinese nuclear submarine, karachi harbour, indian navy
Location: India, Delhi, New Delhi
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Mad Hatter's Tea Cups
More in Fantasyland
Fantasyland attractions
1 Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant
2 La Galerie de la Belle au Bois Dormant
3 La Tanière du Dragon
4 "it's a small world"
5 Peter Pan's Flight
6 Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains
7 Les Voyages de Pinocchio
8 Dumbo the Flying Elephant
9 Le Carrousel de Lancelot
10 Mad Hatter's Tea Cups
11 Alice's Curious Labyrinth
12 Le Pays des Contes de Fées
13 Casey Jr. - Le Petit Train du Cirque
14 Disneyland Railroad Station
15 Meet Mickey Mouse
16 Princess Pavilion
17 Le Théâtre du Château
Fantasyland map
Disneyland Park map
Don't be late, this is a very important date!
In celebration of another happy unbirthday, the merry Mad Hatter cordially invites you to one of his infamous tea parties...
With eccentric decorations, zippy music and colourful, spinning tea cups spiralling around and around the garden, this is one party invite you simply must accept!
Spin through a mad unbirthday party with the Mad Hatter in Wonderland.
Up to 4 party guests per tea cup, 18 tea cups
The Paris version of Disneyland's classic Mad Tea Party is the only version to feature the stunning petal-shaped glass roof and extravagant surrounding gardens.
This was one of the opening day attractions at Disneyland in California on 17th July 1955. Known as the Mad Tea Party, it was moved and redesigned slightly as part of the New Fantasyland project in 1983. Unlike the later Florida, Tokyo and Hong Kong versions, the original features no shelter from the rain and so becomes unable to operate in inclement weather.
The concept for the Mad Hatter's Tea Cups was originally much more outrageous, with early 1950s plans calling for the Mad Hatter's dinner table to be featured in the centre of the ride and various lanterns and decorations all around. With later versions of the attraction, some of these ideas were finally incorporated, such as the colourful Japanese garden lanterns seen here.
These truly mad Tea Cups measure no less than 1.8 metres in diameter!
The best time to ride is during Extra Magic Hours or just after, when the park first opens its gates.
Alternatively, ride after nightfall if possible for an even wilder spin as the Japanese lanterns illuminate and the lights of Fantasyland spiral around your tea cup!
May not be suitable for sufferers of motion sickness or dizziness.
Due to the centrifugal force caused by the rotation of the teacups, this attraction is not suitable for those who may find it difficult to hold themselves upright.
Transfer required. Must be accompanied in order to assist in transfer to the ride vehicles, which have limited legroom and access only via a small opening.
Crush's Coaster
Alice's Curious Labyrinth
Le Carrousel de Lancelot
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