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Home Epic Gist Jesus Will Help Us In Aguero’s Absence – Guardiola
Jesus Will Help Us In Aguero’s Absence – Guardiola
Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has said the team can rely on Brazilian striker, Gabriel Jesus, to score goals in Sergio Aguero’s absence.
A thigh injury means Aguero, the Premier League’s leading marksman, who has scored 19 goals this season, will sit out the Cityzens’ clash with Cardiff on Wednesday, FA Cup semi-final tie with Brighton on Saturday and the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final away to Tottenham next Tuesday.
“Tomorrow (Wednesday) Sergio is not able to play,” said Guardiola. “He didn’t train the last two days.
“Hopefully he can on Saturday or next Tuesday. We will see his evolution in the next few days.”
“Gabriel is ready,” said Guardiola. “He is having a good season and it is not always easy to play in this club as a striker in the same position as Sergio.
“He is fighting against one legend and an incredible top player in his best season since we have been at the club.
“When Gabriel played, he played well. Tomorrow he is going to help us and fight and score goals and create space for others.”
Guardiola also lamented the costly error by Tottenham against Liverpool which caused his side to lose their top spot to the Reds.
“When you see that, you say ‘Ah shit’,” he said.
“But after five or ten minutes, you think it’s a nice but terrible challenge.
“Nobody said it would be easy. Nobody. We knew it and I knew it.
“Everybody is excited for what we are going to live in the next weeks.
“Let’s beat Cardiff for the main target to go back top of the league with six games left.
“After that, we live again, Wembley, to achieve the one final (FA Cup) I never experienced in my life in the oldest trophy, and after that the Champions League.”
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Bernard Manyenyeni, Harare Mayor
His Worship Bernard Gabriel Manyenyeni managed to slot us into his busy schedule at the last minute. He’s got a lot on his plate and, as he’s trying to find his feet, he’s frantically juggling his day job at Altfin Life Assurance with his new responsibilities. His day, he tells us, is starting an hour earlier and ends at least three hours later than normal.
The word ‘unenviable’ kept springing to mind as I prepared for this interview. It’s pretty obvious that Manyenyeni’s taking on a city that’s falling apart at the seams. Sitting in the Mayoral parlour, we get on to these issues rather quickly when I ask what he thinks are the biggest challenges facing us as a city.
“Our inability to meet our residents’ expectations to the full extent,” he says immediately. “Particularly water, roads, street lighting, housing…our failure to deal with this is a big challenge for the city. And the community is very sensitive to those shortcomings.”
We agree that some of these are also the most dangerous issues for Harare’s citizens. “We are going to look at everything in terms of priority. Each and every one of those things, and more, requires attention. We are going to see where the low hanging fruit is, where the quick wins are, where can we satisfy our residents more, equitably, quickest.” However he goes on to say, “The issues that are going to be difficult are the issues that have high resource requirement but with an equally high demand. Like water. It’s something that people want fixed over night but it is very much long term in terms of solutions. We are at a station where we are weighed down by a planning deficit. Phase One of Morton Jaffray is 60 years old. In the last 20–25 years we haven’t planned enough for water. People want their water but to rectify the planning deficits of the last 2–3 decades will be a challenge. The solutions cannot be immediate, even with the best will in the world.”
Then he throws in a comment that takes us a little by surprise: “It goes to a situation where we will look to our residents to look for local solutions. In my ward [17 – Mount Pleasant], we have approached a bank to fix all our potholes, the discussions are positive. If we all took it to a local level and said, how can we deal with potholes in Marlborough?…in Highfield?…there would be varying degrees of success.”
He says that it’s not something that residents would ordinarily be expected to do, so he’s sure he’ll face resistance. But, he reckons, there must be innovative ways to deal with the issues that are affecting residents now, at least in the short term.
This is part of the ‘change of mindset’ attitude that he’s been talking about since he came into office. Imploring residents to have a think about the way they live and move in this city and to understand that there are consequences to their actions.
“They must be part of the process, all the way. They must play their part, meet their obligations – bills, management of litter, traffic congestion, etc. – there are things that don’t require resources. You don’t need donor funding to manage a traffic jam. People don’t pay rates so that they can throw their litter for the council to pick up. It is that mindset that must be dealt with. The more they do the right things, the less costly it is for council to fix the rest.”
We ask what led him to become mayor; did his life prepare him for the role? “The road,” he tells us, “is probably less exciting than the decision. I was having a New Year’s Day lunch, and someone, I had never met, turned to me towards the end of the lunch and popped the question – ‘could you be Mayor of Harare?’ – totally out of the blue.” By the time dinner was served, which he had felt compelled to stay for, he had agreed to run.
He thinks his business background will hold him in good stead in this position. “I see Town House being the meeting point of business, politics and community work,” he explains. “Those three meet in Council. And the business and social interactions I have had over the years, built me into very diverse individual. I really relate well across all social strata.”
As councillor for Ward 17, Manyenyeni is aiming to be both a practical and accessible councillor and Mayor for the city. “My office is very accessible and I am already dealing with all manner of people on a variety of issues. I don’t think a resident of this city should find it too difficult to meet their mayor.”
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Hellraiser Boxing News | Boxing By Numbers: The Use Of Stats In Boxing
The Weekend Read. Steve Fearon investigates stats in boxing and whether they're a good thing or can be misleading.
Hellraiser Boxing - The Weekend Read. Steve Fearon investigates stats in boxing and whether they're a good thing or can be misleading.
Boxing By Numbers: The Use Of Stats In Boxing
by Steve Fearon
Let’s talk about Data and Boxing, and how time and time again, the analysis gets things wrong.
Data in Boxing
Having done a bit of work in non-league football, looking at performance analysis, and which measures provide the best indication of positive performance, when I first started looking at transferring my skills to a boxing environment, my instinct was to find a source of quantitative data similar to that provided by football sites like WhoScored, that share detailed figures on pass completion, shot accuracy etc.
However, it became clear very quickly that the only source of within-fight data was Compu-box, and I quickly identified a few issues with their model of working.
First off, they were an aggressively private entity, who released very little info, and guarded their data behind a pay wall, meaning that I would have to pay fight by fight for data, and given the volume of data required, that would not be cheap.
It is also worth noting that I have contacted them previously asking for a larger data source, and a quote and never heard back.
Secondly, when I read about their methodology, I instantly became concerned about how they recorded the fight’s action, with a reliance on 2 human beings hitting a button to signify a landed or missed jab, or a landed or missed power punch.
The fact that they only measured the fight in terms of Jabs and Power Punches seemed extremely limiting, as the aspects of ring coverage and movement, Blocking and Evasion, Punch Speed and Punch Location would all provide a lot useful information, and are effectively ignored.
I also know from having done notation analysis at football matches before that subjectivity quickly becomes an issue, was a cross that veered towards the goal a shot on target? Was a tackle that sends the ball to a team-mate a pass? Is a clearance that becomes a through ball a successful assist?
All of this led me to conclude that initially at least, I would need to zoom out and work with a lower level of detail than I ideally would like.
Fortunately, Boxrec is a much more user friendly and open site, and although it lacks a ‘download raw data function’, it is still a very helpful resource, and allowed me to look at fighters in terms of their record, and the data available.
NB: The one issue to remember however, is that the shorter the boxer’s career, the less useful the data will be, as you need as many points of data as possible to be able to draw a decently strong conclusion, which is a recurring issue in analysing boxer records.
How do we use Fighter Records for anything useful?
So, I had made the decision to use the fighter’s records, as it was the only source of verified data free of bias or subjectivity, but now I had to see what conclusions could be drawn from this data, and how it may be used to indicate future performance.
The Record itself can tell you only some of the story, A win% based on a fighter’s wins, losses and draws tells you the basics about whether a fighter is rising contender, a journeyman or something between, but as we are all aware, promoters have long been savvy about manipulating records so it can’t always be taken at face value, so this is where we need to consider other aspects to mitigate against this concern.
Past Opposition
Verifying a fighter’s record can be done by considering their past opposition, and considering aspects like their oppositions’ win% at the time of the fight, their oppositions number of fights, and their oppositions’ wins and losses by KO, which may indicate their power and their punch resistant to a slightly blunt degree.
It is also possible to map out a fighter’s career by measuring some statistics over time, such as for example, their average opposition’s win%, which I once used to compare Errol Spence’s career to Kell Brook’s, and in doing so, was able to show how much quicker they were moving Spence through the levels than Brook had been.
Stoppage Wins v Stoppage Losses
Another way that we can infer as to a fighter’s ability is to look at their wins by stoppage and losses by stoppage.
Though hardly conclusive, a fighter’s win by KO ratio gives some indication as to the relative power of a fighter, particularly when balanced against the Opposition win% data we have discussed earlier (since some fighters may fight deliberately weaker opponents which could skew their KO%).
Similarly, the losses by KO% can shed some light on a fighter’s punch resistance, and whether they tend to lose based on points or stoppages, and can factor into predictions against a fighter with a high KO%.
Trending improvement and Degradation
Another useful tool can be to compare recent fights to the rest of the fighter’s record to see if there is a different trend or pattern to the career average, thereby indicating a recent change in performance.
For example, quite often a fighter’s win by KO% will drop as their career progresses, as they face better opponents, and that is quite easy to factor in, but it can also drop very sharply indeed once they begin to degrade, meaning that you can sometimes spot a fighter that is on the decline by a sharp drop in power (aka a drop in KO%).
Similarly, you may notice fights going more rounds before stoppages, or a series of inexperienced opponents in succession that can both indicate a declining fighter, or a fighter rebuilding confidence.
What doesn’t the record cover?
The record doesn’t tell you about a fighter’s style, weakness against certain styles, tactical awareness, changes in training, punch accuracy, fitness levels etc so there is an awful lot of data missing from such a top-line analysis.
It also can’t tell you anything about their potential, exact levels of degradation or technical improvements other than in the form of direct results as already discussed, and even then not explicitly.
Examples of when the analysis gets it right
I wrote an article about Usyk v Huck recently, where I proposed that the record of Usyk suggested he would be able to defeat Huck comfortably, based upon the high standard of Usyk’s opponents so far, and Hucks seeming degradation based upon recent results.
“My measures come up with a sort of 60/40 ratio in Usyk’s favour, as despite Huck’s hardiness and tremendous competitive spirit, I feel there are signs in his record that he is starting to decline, and whilst he can still compete at the top level, I believe Usyk is probably the stronger fighter in terms of his development, his momentum, and his condition at this time.
I suspect Usyk will dominate this fight, with crisper work, and win a clear UD, but I really wouldn’t be surprised to see him get the stoppage if Huck doesn’t bring his best”
I had officially gone for an Usyk UD, because there hadn’t been enough pro-level data to draw big conclusions on Usyk’s power yet, and Huck was an experienced fighter who had only been stopped twice, but I had indicated that it was quite possible Usyk would stop him late.
With Huck we had a lot of data for a boxer, as he had 45 fights to draw data from, but with Usyk, we had a short but impressive collection of stats that we couldn’t be sure were sustainable on a career’s basis.
Ultimately what the numbers suggested was that Usyk should win comfortably, and he did, so happy days!
I had also looked at Dorticos v Kudryashov, and concluded that they were evenly matched based upon their records, but had sided with Kudrashov based upon the fact that his past opponents were of a considerably better standard than Dorticos’, and that he had been the more active fighter in recent times.
“In his most recent 10 fights, Dorticos has faced an average win% of 73%, so a bit better than his overall percentage. Kudryashov's last 10 average 85% however, so there still seems to be a large disparity in the level of opposition these fighter have faced, suggesting Kudryashov may have the edge in top tier boxing…I think I am going to stick my neck out, and go with Kudryashov, as I feel Dorticos’ record has a flimsy feel to it, whereas I think we can trust Kudryashov’s as a decent reflection of where he is”
So I couldn’t have been more wrong here…as Dorticos straight up flattened Kudryashov without much trouble.
And this is a good example where the record concealed some useful information.
For example, if two fighters both KO an opponent in the 5th round, record-wise they will show identically in the data.
However, one fighter may have been outboxed, cut and downed before getting the one punch KO, and the other may have already flattened their opponent 3 times in that fight.
Similarly, I have no doubt that Kudryashov fought opponents with a better average record than Dorticos, but it’s a lot hard to prove a fighter’s potential than it is their limitations, and although Dorticos may have been bowling over a lower class of opponents than Kudryashov, that is not to say that his overall ability is not of a better standard ultimately.
Data analysis requires several elements that come up light in boxing, in terms of the available information, and the quality of that information.
Bias is rife, as is subjectivity, as proven in both the Canelo v Golovkin and Parker v Fury fights with regards to the judges scoring.
I would like to conclude with a clumsy and pretentious metaphor if you will indulge me?
Forming a statistical, analysis driven model of a fighter is akin to painting a portrait, where you need an array of brushes, paints and techniques to achieve a realistic, detailed painting.
As it stands, performing quantitative analysis in boxing is akin to painting a portrait using one frayed brush, 3 thickening paints and a canvas made of polystyrene, meaning the end result is a simplified, unfocused version of reality.
It is the job of analysts like myself to try and find solutions and work-arounds and hopefully that is something that will improve with the greater profile of the sport at this time.
(And that is essentially 1700 words on why I got the Dorticos v Kudryashov result so wrong!)
Posted: 29th Sep 2017
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HOW EFFECTIVE AND NECESSARY ARE SANITIZING SOLUTIONS IN RETAIL FOOD OPERATIONS?
Sanitation regulations make a big point about the use of sanitizers in retail food operations, but there are essentially no government studies showing their effectiveness. I would like to report on studies that show that sanitizers really contribute little to the reduction of bacteria on a surface and should not be required.
When I do a typical validation of cleaning a surface, I let hamburger sit at room temperature for 24 hours so that the total plate count is approximately 10,000,000. Then, I smear this over a cutting board, for example, so that there are about 5,000,000 CFU per 8 square inches. Finally, I do a washing test to determine how effective a specific wash process is.
In a typical test, washing cutting boards in a 3-compartment sink, where the sanitizing concentration is 50 ppm fresh chlorine, I start with about 5,000,000 microorganisms per 8 sq. in. I pre-rinse and scrub with a brush and flowing water, and the count is reduced to 5,000 CFU / 8 sq. in. Then, I scrub the cutting board in the detergent sink, and there are about 50 / 8 sq. in.–a safe level. The rinse step may reduce them to about 30 / 8 sq. in. Whether I sanitize or air dry, the final count is about 3 to 5 / 8 sq. in.
When I have taken a fresh sanitizer solution of 50 ppm chlorine and wiped a cutting board that has been purposefully contaminated with raw chicken bacteria or old hamburger, I find that I have reduced the bacteria no more than 10 to 1. Mechanical removal of organisms using a clean rag accounts for most of this reduction. Sanitizers will not penetrate the organic material.
Commonly, when I measure the microorganisms in sanitizer buckets, I find more than 1,000 microorganisms per ml in the buckets. What has happened is that the organics from the food in the wiping rag, and maybe some detergent, have neutralized the sanitizer’s ability to destroy microorganisms on surfaces. The food bacteria on the rag are in the neutralized sanitizer solution. It is common, then, to have the sanitizer rag in this ineffective solution spreading these mostly spoilage bacteria back onto a surface, rather than destroying them.
If one wants to use a sanitizer, one must start with a detergent solution of about one gallon, a rinse solution of a gallon of clean water, and then, the sanitizer needs to be in a squirt bottle, so that the free chlorine remains at full strength all day. The free chlorine, which is what destroys the bacteria, becomes useless very quickly when dirty rags or dirty hands are put into a solution. Remember, there was never any scientific justification for the rag in the sanitizer bucket. That was the opinion of one of the FDA writers of the 1976 FDA food code, Bill Wohlschlager, who decided that he never wanted to smell another sour rag in a foodservice operation. Therefore, he put the rag-in-the-sanitizer-bucket requirement into the code. This is typical of how our food code is written–no scientific foundation for most of the requirements.
Probably one of nicest experiments that points out what is really important in removing bacteria from a food contact surface is a report made for the PMI Food Equipment Group (Hobart) by NSF International (1992) on dishwashing machines. In this study, NSF used a Hobart low-temperature C-64A chemical sanitizer conveyor dishwasher to evaluate the reduction of E. coli on glasses run through the machine. In some of the experiments, the glasses were coated with a mixture of E. coli (ATCC 11229) and skim milk. In other experiments, they were covered with a mixture of the same E. coli, egg, cereal, and spinach.
In the first set of experiments, glasses, previously washed and sanitized, were soiled with E. coli and skim milk suspension, air dried, and run through the dishwasher under five different conditions.
1) In the first test, the wash, rinse, and sanitize compartments were operational, and detergent was used.
2) In the second test, the glasses were run through the wash cycle, and detergent was used.
3) In the third test, the glasses were run through the wash cycle, but no detergent was used.
4) In the fourth test, the glasses were run through the rinse cycle only.
5) In the fifth test, the glasses were sent through the final rinse cycle with sanitizer only.
In the second part of the study, the glasses were also soiled with an egg-cereal-spinach mixture inoculated with E. coli and run through the machine under the same five test conditions.
In the first test with inoculated skim milk on the glasses, using a swabbing technique to evaluate counts on the glasses, the initial count was 12,000,000 bacteria. Under all conditions, the bacteria came out at less than 1 per glass. In the second experiment using glasses with inoculated, dried, skim milk, any of the first four washing methods gave less than 1 E. coli per glass. When only the final rinse (i.e., chemical sanitizing) was used, all of the glasses had high E. coli counts on them, ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 bacteria on a glass. This points out that when removing dried, E. coli-contaminated skim milk from glasses, the final sanitizing rinse only reduces the bacteria by 1,000 per glass, and leaves plenty of pathogens, if they are present, on glasses.
In the experiments done with glasses coated with the egg-cereal-spinach mixture, whereby the glasses had approximately 60,000,000 bacteria per glass prior to washing, after washing in only the first section of the machine, the bacteria were undetectable. After washing without detergent in the first section, the counts ranged from less than 1 to 64 per glass. When the soiled glasses were run through the rinse cycle only, the counts ranged from about 33 to 1,000 per glass. When the glasses were run through the final sanitizer rinse (using 50 ppm chlorine sanitizer), the counts ranged from 1,000,000 to 8,000,000 per glass.
In summary, we have a critical situation regarding the food code in that the industry, historically, has believed that the food code provides scientific fact, when it has actually been written with little scientific validity for many requirements, to include all of the sanitizing requirements. Soap and water do all of the work in terms of removing bacteria–not chlorine / quat sanitizers. FDA personnel have specifically said that they understand this, but they like sanitizers, because they provide an “insurance factor.” Actually, this takes employees’ attention away from the critical control point–the detergent wash and rinse. People need to be taught that sanitizers by themselves do not make food contact surfaces safe. A soap-and-water wash and a clean-water rinse provide the necessary removal of bacteria from surfaces. If a facility wants to use sanitizer, it should not be considered a critical control procedure, but rather, a GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice), and should not be regulated at all. It should be up to the manager to decide if sanitizer is to be used.
In addition, all inspectors need to stop judging microbiological safety based on visual observation. Instead, they should use simple Petrifilm(TM) microbiological test kits to evaluate the actual cleanliness of a surface.
If inspectors do not have a micro-tipped thermocouple, a pH meter, airflow meter to evaluate cooling rates in refrigerators, and a Petrifilm(TM) (or equivalent) microbiological measuring system that they can bring to their unit evaluations, they are wasting everyone’s time, because they have no idea how safe a food control procedure is, especially when they spend, say, two hours once a year at a facility.
HACCP is built on science. We have not been using science, especially with the FDA food code. The USDA, on the other hand, is trying to apply correct scientific information in specifying process performance requirements. This kind of thinking needs to be carried over into FDA, so that nothing is written into the code that is not justified by a published, scientific document that can be retrieved from a library and read. This way, one can find out the justification and necessity for a particular critical control to make food safe in retail food operations.
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British Firm Demos Scalable Process For Creating Hydrocarbon Fuels Solely From Air and Water
February 14, 2013 Kyriaki (Sandy) Venetis
Like so many other things once thought impossible, now making consistent and scalable fuel out of just air and water has become a reality - with huge potential for initially the automotive and then other industries.
Among those at the forefront of this new technology is Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS), a British firm which recently demonstrated a small scale prototype at a carbon capture event held by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MechE).
AFS is currently demonstrating a five liter-a-day small scale, electricity-powered prototype unit that electrolyzes water to make hydrogen that reacts with carbon dioxide to make hydrocarbon fuels.
The company says that, “Any fuel or crude oil-based material can ultimately also be made from synthetic hydrocarbons produced by the AFS process … this includes methanol, gasoline, diesel, lubricants, and waxes as well as plastics and building materials, some of which have other substitutes, but few as useful and versatile as hydrocarbon base”
AFS expects that “the first commercial AFS plant will produce high-spec fuels for blending into motorsport applications” where the company finds the demand for carbon-reduction is particularly strong.
in diesel, fuel cell/hydrogen, motorsport | tagged hydrocarbon fuels
DOE Brings Online 2013 Fuel Economy Guide Providing Millage Data Across Vehicle Models
The 2013 Fuel Economy Guide has come online as a collaborative consumer information effort developed between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Graphic courtesy of blog.theautopartsshop.com.
The guide is a user-friendly website designed for both shoppers and owners to find information about a multitude of vehicles across models and technologies, including best and worst gas millage, maintenance tips, and tax credits on hybrids, electrics, alternative fuel vehicles, and diesel vehicles.
The platform has multiple menus on fuel efficiency, including the successive list of the 2013 Most Fuel Efficient Cars by EPA Size Class (including electric vehicles) & the 2013 Least Fuel Efficient Cars.
On the top of the Most Fuel Efficient list is the 2013 smart fortwo electric drive convertible, Automatic (A1), with a 122 MPGe city, a 93 MPGe highway, and a 107 MPGe combined, with a $0.96 cost to drive 25 miles.
The electric vehicles are measured in MPGe with 33.7 kW-hrs = 1 gallon of gasoline.
For the Least Fuel Efficient, the 2013 Bugatti Veyron, 8.0 L, 16 cyl, Automatic (AM-S7), received top honors. The Veyron performed at a 8 mpg city, a 15 mpg highway, and a 10 mpg combined, with a $9.18 cost to drive 25 miles.
Another noteworthy list on the site is the Top Ten EPA-Rated Fuel Sippers (2013), which includes electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The vehicles are ranked by their combined rating (weighted by 55 percent and 45 percent highway).
Receiving the top rating on the Top Ten Fuel Sipper list is the 2013 Scion iQ EV (Automatic) with a 138 MPGe city, a 105 MPGe, and a 121 MPGe combined.
Besides the best and worst in fuel economy another great aspect of the web platform is the Top Ten Misconceptions About Fuel Economy, with the top misconception being that, “You have to drive a small car to get good fuel economy.”
The DOE finds that, “Advanced technologies like hybrid drivetrains, diesel engines, direct fuel injection, turbocharging, advanced transmissions, low rolling resistance, tires, and aerodynamic designs are allowing standard-sized vehicles to be very fuel efficient.
“For the 2013 model year, about half of the top ten most efficient vehicles are midsized or large cars and wagons.”
in diesel, electric, fuel cell/hydrogen, hybrids | tagged 2013 DOE Fuel Economy Guide, 2013 Least Fuel Efficient Cars, 2013 Most Fuel Efficient Cars by EPA Size Class, Federal Tax Credits For Alternative Fuel Vehicles, Federal Tax Credits For Diesels, Federal Tax Credits For Electric Vehicles, Federal Tax Credits For Hybrids, Federal Tax Credits For Plug-In Hybrids, Top Ten EPA-Rated Fuel Sippers (2013), Top Ten Misconceptions About Fuel Economy
New Ford Hybrids Showing Record MPGe Rates
The escalating ‘pain at the pump’ over the last few years has proven to be just what the hybrid and electric car industries have needed to increase consumer demand for their vehicles – that, as well as improved performance technologies, and government incentives have also sweeten the deals improving sales.
These trends haven’t gone unnoticed by Ford, which has been working overtime of the last few years to ramp up its hybrid and electric fuel efficiency technologies and drive down its vehicle prices to levels the average consumer can afford – under the $50,000 range.
In the latest news, the 2013 Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid – which was also recently named Green Car of the Year by the Green Car Journal – has been certified by the EPA at up to 108 MPGe city, which according to Ford bests the Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid by five MPGe.
The EPA also certified the Fusion Engeri to deliver up to 92 MPGe highway and a combined 100 MPGe, which Ford estimates “could potentially help save consumers an estimated $6,850 in fuel costs compared with an average new car over the course of five years.”
Two other vehicles in Ford’s electrified lineup – the Focus Electric and the C-MAX Energi – have also received EPA ratings of 100 MPGe or more.
The Focus Electric has an EPA estimated rating of 110 MPGe city, 99 MPGe highway, and 105 MPGe combined.
Falling slightly shorter, but still impressive on performance, the C-MAX Energi has an EPA estimated rating of 108 MPGe city, 92 MPGe highway, and 100 MPGe combined.
Ford said that it has been pushing hard on developing its electrified vehicles based on industry research showing increased consumer demand with “for the first time ever, electrified vehicle sales capturing nearly four percent of the total industry in November.”
Ford has also seen its own electrified sales jump, reporting that the company “achieved its best electrified vehicle sales month ever in November with 7,157 units sold.”
in cars, electric, hybrids | tagged 2013 Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid, C-MAX Energi, C-Max Hybrid, Focus Electric, growth in electrified vehicle sales
Commercial Hybrid Vans Reach 20% Higher Fuel Savings Than Conventionals, Says Energy Report
November 15, 2012 Kyriaki (Sandy) Venetis
As part of a multi-year research project to evaluate and improve alternative fuel technologies in the commercial sector, the U.S. Energy Department in cooperation with the United Parcel Service (UPS) just published a real-world performance study of the company’s hybrid electric delivery vans with impressive double-digit results.
UPS Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Photo courtesy of worktruckonline.com.
The performance study was conducted by a team from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which collected and analyzed in-service fuel economy maintenance, and other vehicle performance data from 11 hybrid and 11 conventional step vans operated by UPS in Minneapolis.
“During the on-road portion of our study, the hybrid vans demonstrated a 13 to 20 percent higher fuel economy than the conventional vans, and up to a 45 percent improvement in ton-miles-per-gallon” said Michael Lammert, NREL project engineer, adding that this wide range in fuel economy was dependent on the drive cycle.
The data collection began in early 2010, culminating in a 18-month evaluation study using 11 model year (MY) 2010 Freightliner P100 hybrid step delivery vans and 11 MY 2010 Freightliner P100 conventional step delivery vans on both urban and highway routes. The two groups switched assignments during the study to provide a more balanced review of the vehicles performance.
Regarding the Minneapolis facility where the evaluations were conducted, the study reported that:
It was not necessary to modify the Minneapolis facility in any way to implement the hybrid vehicles into the fleet.
Drivers were given training on the operation of the hybrids, but no restrictions or special accommodations were made for their use; however, UPS did assign the hybrid vans to urban routes rather than rural routes to make the best use of the hybrid drive train.
The hybrid vans featured hybrid propulsion systems, including: 44 kilowatt electric motors, lithium ion batteries, and regenerative brakes that capture energy normally lost during braking to power the electric motor.
In terms of fueling, the Minneapolis facility has on-site fueling, and the vehicles were fueled by the drivers as needed, using an internal fuel card system. The drivers then logged their fueling events on their electronic tablets, and the records were uploaded to a central database.
For fuel performance, the study found that overall the hybrids demonstrated a greater advantage on the more urban, low speed, high stops-per-mile routes, and a lower advantage on the longer highway routes with less dense delivery zones.
in battery, diesel, grants, hybrids, vans | tagged 2010 Freightliner P100 conventional step delivery vans, 2010 Freightliner P100 hybrid step delivery vans, Energy Department’s Clean Cities program, U.S. Energy Department-UPS collaborative hybrid vehicle study, U.S. Energy Department’s Vehicle Technologies Program, real-world performance study on hybrid commercial vans
Audi R8 e-tron Sets Electric Speed Record on German Track, Comparable To Top Gas Speeds
August 31, 2012 Kyriaki (Sandy) Venetis
The R8 e-tron has set a world record for a production car with an electric drive system on the Nürburgring Nordschlefe, which is one of the toughest, if not the toughest test tracks in the world.
Race driver Markus Winkelhock test drove the high-performance, all-electric-drive sports car around the 20.8 kilometers track in 8:09.099 minutes.
Winkelhock made a statement evaluating the car’s performance saying, “Of course, the R8 e-tron is a production car, not a race car with the assistance of aerodynamics. But with its low center of gravity and rear biased weight distribution, it brings with it a lot of sporty qualities.”
“The torque with which the electric motors propel the car uphill beats everything that I know – even if they hardly make any noise in the process, which at the start was really a completely new experience for me. In places where I really need traction, the torque vectoring – the displacement of the torque between the power wheels – really helps me,” continued Winkelhock.
The R8 e-tron reached speeds on the Nürburgring test close to the top speeds of gas-powered cars. To get an idea, the Gumpert Apollo Sport – powered by a 515 kW (700 hp) Audi V8 gasoline engine – has a record time of 7:11.57, about a minute faster than the R8’s 8:09.099.
The drive system of the R8 that Winkelhock drove will correspond “in every detail” with the production model that will come out on the market at the end of this year, said Audi.
in battery, cars, electric, hybrids | tagged Audi R18 e-tron quattro, Audi R8 LMS ultra, Audi R8 e-tron full-electric production car, Gumpert Apollo Sport, R8 e-tron electric car speed record, R8 e-tron road test on Nürburgring Nordschlefe track, rechargeable lithium-ion battery
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First Lady of The Renaissance
Leonardo's Wordplay
"A Certain Lady from Lombardy is Painted"
Isabella and Leonardo
LEONARDO in FRANCE
MANTUA, ITALY
Understanding The Misnomer "Mona Lisa"
Medici Propaganda
Landscape without Sfumato
Measurements and Pinholes
Raphael's Master Studies of Leonardo
Madonna della Vittoria
Triumph of Virtues
Combat of Love and Chastity
The Allegory of the Coronation of Isabella d'Este
The Reign of Comus
Nicola da Urbino
Allegory of Virtue and Allegory of Vice
Anne Farnsworth
Antique Map of Mantua, Braun and Hogenberg, 1597.
Mantua (EN), Mantova (IT), Mantoue (FR)
Mantua is a UNESCO heritage site. “Important for the value of their architecture and for their prominent role in the dissemination of Renaissance culture. The ideals of the Renaissance, fostered by the Gonzaga family, are present in the towns ‘morphology and architecture.’”
An ancient settlement, Mantua was named for the Greek oracle, Manto. During the Roman Empire, Virgil writes of his homeland, Mantua. “Where silver swans sail down the watery road, and graze the floating herbage of the flood.”
In 1198 a system of dams was created to manage the seasonal flooding of the Mincio River surrounding Mantua. Creating the Saint George Bridge (Ponte di San Giorgio) leading to the Saint George Castle (Castello di San Giorgio), home of Isabella d’Este. This bridge is the prominent man made feature in Leonardo’s painting La Joconde.
Leonardo fascinated with flight was limited by the technology of his day. However, the genius was unencumbered by these physical limitations. Instead Leonardo painted flight. Enabling him to soar over his beloved Italy.
Using the geometry theory he learned, working with Luca Pacioli from 1496-1499 in Milan. Leonardo was able to create an accurate view of flight by applying mathematics. Using a stationary point on the map and altitude. The altitude's right angle can be used to determine the view of surrounding landmarks, by factoring the hypotenuse.
Using this method the distance to natural features in the surrounding landscape can be acquired. Scaling down these distances to fit the perimeters of the portrait, would create an accurate view of flight in the painting. Framing the Marchioness with the lands she governed.
Leonardo painted this portrait, five centuries ahead of its time. The landscape was not eidentifiable until satellite imagery became available. The painting so complex, the viewer could not recognize the polymath brilliance, stored in its brush strokes. Leonardo the visionary, the futurist, the artist, the mathematician, and the inventor, become visible here, in this glorious painting by the timeless master of the Renaissance.
Study of Architecture, Leonardo da Vinci, 1499.
Illustrating the hyotenuse from the altitude of
the watchtower to distance of castle turret.
Bird's Eye View of Val di Chiana, Leonardo da Vinci, 1503.
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2017| October-December | Volume 4 | Issue 4
Online since February 15, 2018
Bleeding control measures during oral and maxillofacial surgical procedures: A systematic review
Ashwini R Akolkar, Deepak G Kulkarni, Khushal D Gangwani, Lakshmi Shetty, Shraddha P Channe, Pallavi H Sarve
October-December 2017, 4(4):79-89
DOI:10.4103/jdrr.jdrr_54_17
Surgical bleeding can be associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality across all surgical areas. Thus, to avoid complications related to excessive bleeding, numerous products have been developed to achieve hemostasis. The thorough knowledge of these hemostatic measures is required for good results. The aim of the study is to compare the different methods to control bleeding in oral and maxillofacial surgery. An extensive systematic literature search was performed in PubMed, Google search using combination of keywords such as bleeding, bleeding control methods, oral surgery, Gelfoam, vasoconstrictors, Chitosan, Floseal, haemcoagulase, Gelatin Sponge, Suturing, and Cautery. The inclusion criteria for the study were articles in English, articles published between January 1, 1990 to June 30, 2016, studies that provide information about bleeding control procedures, complications during head, neck, and face surgery procedures and hemostatic agent and articles based on observational studies and original articles. Exclusion criteria for the study were studies that provided inadequate information, systemic review, research papers, case reports, letters to editor and studies based on animals other than human beings. Total 11 articles were selected for the analysis which included head, face, and neck procedures with/without using bleeding control measures such as pressure application, suturing, cautery, ligation of blood vessel, application of Ankaferd blood stopper, chitosan, Floseal®, thrombin–gelatin matrix (Tissel®)/fibrin glue, Gelfoam, and tranexamic acid. Conventional methods are insufficient to control extensive bleeding. However, newer methods or combinations of these methods are required to achieve adequate hemostasis. All hemostatic measures were not covered in this review.
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Outcome of zinc oxide eugenol paste as an obturating material in primary teeth pulpectomy: A systematic review
Harsha S Nalawade, Gauri S Lele, Hrishikesh Walimbe
The aim of this systematic review is to use the principles of evidence-based dentistry to evaluate the outcome of zinc oxide eugenol (ZOE) paste as an obturating material in primary teeth pulpectomies. Moderate-to-high success rates are reported with ZOE in preserving chronically infected primary teeth. However, it fails to meet many of the criteria for an ideal obturating material. Databases searched were PubMed, EBSCOhost, and Google Scholar. Articles published between January 1, 1993, and June 30, 2016, with in vivo studies for obturating materials in primary teeth pulpectomy with placement of preformed crown, reporting follow-up period of at least 12 months with clinical and radiographic success rates were selected for this review. In total, 122 articles were retrieved. After the removal of duplicates and screening, full-text articles were analyzed; of which eight articles were selected for the systematic review. No significant difference was seen in the outcome of obturating materials used in comparison with ZOE in the included studies. Outcomes of ZOE paste obtained with clinical and radiographic evaluation were similar when compared to the newer combinations of materials available for obturating primary teeth today. More number of randomized controlled clinical trials for primary teeth pulpectomies with at least 12 months follow-up period and placement of crown as final restoration need to be carried out for testing the newer materials in comparison with ZOE to conclude a suitable alternative obturating material.
Research for dissertations: No need any more to dig graves…
Amitav Banerjee
DOI:10.4103/jdrr.jdrr_7_18
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Unusual root canal morphology of mandibular second premolars: A case series and review
Snehal Sonarkar, Rucheet Purba, Gautam Badole, Chetana Makade
October-December 2017, 4(4):107-113
Mandibular second premolars (MSPs) have varied anatomy ranging from 1 to 3 roots and 1–5 canals. Successful endodontic treatment is achieved by proper access opening, cleaning, and shaping and three-dimensional obturation. This case series describes five cases in which MSPs have been diagnosed with aberrant canal system. The Case 1 and 5 has one root with Vertucci's Type V canal configuration. The Case 2 has two roots with two canals, the Case 3 has one root with Vertucci's Type IV canal configuration, whereas the Case 4 has three roots with three canals. This case series also describes a classification for describing the root configuration. The clinical implications of this paper are first to reach at appropriate diagnosis of canal system using diagnostic aids (angulated radiographs and dental operating microscope). Second, to use advanced endodontic instruments for achieving successful endodontic therapy (NiTi rotary instruments).
Health Information in Hospital Waiting Rooms, Can it Act as a Vector in Health Promotion? Survey among Patients Attending Medical and Dental Hospitals
Jaidupally Ramvilas Reddy, Thorikonda Sai Pravallika, Jyothi Maddela, Sheetal Akula
October-December 2017, 4(4):97-100
Introduction: Patient health information materials, such as leaflets and posters are widely used by diverse health organizations and professionals as part of patient education or health promotion efforts and in support of preventive, treatment, and compliance objectives. Patient health information can be used to reinforce the information given previously, or it can serve as references to remind people of information they received earlier. Objectives: The objective of this study is to assess the use of the patient health information materials in the hospital waiting halls by the patient and their perception on these health information materials. Methodology: A questionnaire study was conducted among the patients waiting in general hospitals and dental hospitals of Vikarabad district. A pretested (Cronbach α = 0.81) self-administered questionnaire was developed. Patients waiting in the waiting rooms and aged 18 years and above were included in the survey. Results: A total of 564 participants completed the questionnaires. A total of 141 respondents indicated reading the health information materials present in the waiting rooms. Majority of the participants stated that advertisements in the television will be the best method for promotion of health. More than 50% of the patients face difficulty in understanding the medical terms in the health information material. Conclusions: Study suggests that patients value health information materials in the waiting rooms and they perceive such materials as being helpful in improving health-related management and self-management.
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Comparative evaluation of alkaline phosphatase levels in dental pulp of diabetic and nondiabetic individuals
Pradeep Shetty, Sanjyot Mulay, Monika Chawala, Mubassira Shaikh, Sanket Sawant
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in inflammatory components of alkaline phosphatase in dental pulp of patients with Type II diabetes mellitus and nondiabetic patients. Methodology: The study was carried out among 135 participants of the age group between 45 and 65 years, and participants were divided into three groups (n = 45 in each group) – a control group, diabetic with good glycemic control, and diabetic with poor glycemic contro l. After clinical examination with Russell's Periodontal Index, teeth indicated for extraction were extracted, and dental pulp was extirpated. Levels of alkaline phosphatase were assessed by p-nitro-phenylphosphate-2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol (IFCC) and kinetic assay method. Results: Mean levels of the inflammatory component of alkaline phosphatase level were more in poorly controlled glycemic level group as compared to other two groups, and the difference between the groups was statistically significant (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Inflammatory mediators may have an impact on the pulpal treatment procedures. The results imply that diabetes is a critical factor that has profound effects upon oral tissues, resulting in expression of inflammatory mediators and modifications of structural components of dental pulp.
Twin talons cusp: A case report with review of literature
AH Harini Priya, Natraj Priyadarshini
Talon cusp is one developmental anomaly of tooth that shows varied presentation as mentioned in the literature. The occurrence of talon cusp in the palatal aspect of the maxillary teeth has been the most common of all. These cases tend to occur due to hyperactivity of the enamel organ. The occurrence of this developmental defect in turn can lead to alteration in normal structure and function of the tooth. Hereby, we are reporting a rare occurrence of twin talon's cusp involving the palatal aspect of maxillary central incisor.
The early childhood oral health impact scale (ECOHIS-Marathi)
Nair Shruti, Pradnya Kakodkar, Sahana Hegde Shetiya
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It's the SUNNY SIDE UP trailer !!!!!!!
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THE YARN podcast!
I am beyond excited to be in the inaugural season of the new kid lit podcast series by Colby Sharp and Travis Jonker. It's called ...
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Schedule for Season 1 of “The Yarn”:
Aug. 17: Introduction/”This Season on The Yarn”
Aug. 18: Raina Telgemeier (graphic novel expert)
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Aug. 21: David Saylor (founder/publisher of the Graphix imprint)
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Casa 100k Green Prefab Homes [Italy]
It looks like the 100k House idea has migrated overseas because a similar prototype just popped up in Italy last year. Mario Cucinella Architects has conceived Casa 100k, which is a prototype home for Є100,000 that prioritizes three main elements: style, sustainability, and affordability. It's billed as a low-cost, dream home with zero bills and zero emissions. And as you can see from available renderings, the method of accomplishing such goals is primarily through prefabrication and passive and active design strategies.
By Jetson Green|2009-02-25T23:04:29+00:00February 25th, 2009|Condo, Modern architecture, Prefab|6 Comments
Thin Flats Chasing LEED Platinum
A lot of people in Pennsylvania have been talking about green building, but according to my quick research, no one in the state has received the USGBC's highest certification under the LEED for Homes program yet. But that could change if the stars align for Thin Flats — the developer is seeking LEED-H Platinum for all residences and waiting on Energy Star certification. Thin Flats includes eight, market-rate, up-down units split between four rows. The newly completed project recently received case study treatment by GreenSource Magazine, and from what I've read, observers either love or hate the exterior facade. Personally, I like it, but what do you think?
By Jetson Green|2009-02-25T00:41:20+00:00February 25th, 2009|Condo, LEED, Modern architecture, Nature|12 Comments
Modern Green 1310 Condominiums
The project is The 1310 Condominiums, which is located in Portland, Oregon and one of the houses on the 11xDesign modern homes tour this Saturday. If you're not familiar with the project, you may think it's new construction, but 1310 is actually a conversion of an old apartment complex into five modern condominiums. Designed by Brett Crawford Architecture + Planning for Brett Crawford and Dana Ing Crawford, with Brett Crawford as contractor, the finished project shows that meticulous attention was given to the small details. And all that is paying off for the owners. Three units are sold (with only two remaining one-bedroom units left), and 1310 received both a Built Honor and Sustainability Award from AIA Portland.
By Jetson Green|2009-02-17T08:48:28+00:00February 17th, 2009|Condo, Modern design|1 Comment
Clybourn Point Condos Shine Brightly
Located in Chicago's growing River North district, this mixed use development offers engaging and sustainable design. The concept of mixed use is not new by any means, but is making a strong comeback with the demand for sustainable urban design. Clybourn Point offers ground floor retail and parking, three levels of contemporary condominium living, and a habitable green roof to top it all off.
By Jetson Green|2009-02-05T00:36:10+00:00February 5th, 2009|Condo, Modern architecture|1 Comment
Old 1910 Warehouse Converted to Virginia's First LEED Condos
The Cromley Lofts in Alexandria, Virginia have earned a Gold level certification making them the first condos in Virginia to become LEED certified. These 8 beautiful units are located in The Old Town area of Alexandria in a vintage warehouse building circa 1910 — a fitting example of the environmental benefits of adaptive reuse.
By Jetson Green|2009-01-06T06:04:00+00:00January 6th, 2009|Condo, LEED|5 Comments
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Depression, anxiety and stress among higher secondary school students of Imphal, Manipur
K Sathish Kumar, Brogen Singh Akoijam
DOI:10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_266_15 PMID:28553025
Introduction: Adolescence is a stressful period due to physical, psychological, sexual changes, and the presence of psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, and stress at this stage of life is a matter of concern. Objectives: The objectives of the study were to determine the prevalences of depression, anxiety, and stress among higher secondary school students of Imphal and to determine the association between depression, anxiety, and stress and selected variables such as gender, standard, and religion. Materials and methods: From September 2014 to October 2014, a cross-sectional study was conducted among higher secondary school students of Imphal. The sample size was calculated to be 750. Seven schools were randomly selected, and all the students in that school were enrolled in the study. The study tool used was a questionnaire containing DASS (Depression Anxiety Stress Scale) and sociodemographic characteristics. Results: The prevalences of depression, anxiety, and stress among 830 valid respondents were 19.5%, 24.4%, and 21.1%, respectively. In total, 81.6% of the respondents had at least one of the studied disorders and 34.7% of the respondents had all the three negative states. The prevalences of depression, anxiety, and stress were high among females and were significant for anxiety (P = 0.00) and stress (P = 0.04). The prevalences of depression and stress were significantly higher among 12th standard students with P-values of 0.00 and 0.02. Conclusion: The prevalences of depression, anxiety, and stress were high with anxiety and stress significantly higher among females, whereas prevalences of depression and stress were significantly higher among 12th standard students. More studies are recommended to determine the factors leading to these mental disorders.
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Improving access to institutional delivery through Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram: Evidence from rural Haryana, North India
Harshal R Salve, Lena Charlette, Ankita Kankaria, Sanjay K Rai, Anand Krishnan, Shashi Kant
DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.205223 PMID:28553021
Background: In India, Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram (JSSK) was launched in the year 2011 to assure cashless institutional delivery to pregnant women, including free transport and diet. Objective: To assess the impact of JSSK on institutional delivery. Materials and Methods: A record review was done at the primary health care facility in Faridabad district of Haryana from August 2010 to March 2013. Focus group discussion/ informal interviews were carried out to get an insight about various factors determining use / non-use of health facilities for delivery. Results: Institutional delivery increased by almost 2.7 times (197 Vs 537) after launch of JSSK (p < 0.001). For institutional deliveries, the most important facilitator as well as barrier was identified as ambulance service under JSSK and pressure by elders in the family respectively. Conclusions: JSSK scheme had a positive impact on institutional deliveries. It should be supported with targeted intervention designed to facilitate appropriate decision-making at family level in order to address barriers to institutional delivery.
Role of community in swachh bharat mission. their knowledge, attitude and practices of sanitary latrine usage in rural areas, Tamil Nadu
R Anuradha, Ruma Dutta, J Dinesh Raja, D Lawrence, J Timsi, P Sivaprakasam
Background: In most developing countries, open defecation is the 'way of life'. This practice is considered as the most serious health and environmental hazard. Prime Minister of India launched the “Swachh Bharat Mission” to accelerate the efforts for achieving universal sanitation coverage and to put focus on sanitation. Objective: To find the knowledge, attitude and practices of sanitary latrines usage in rural area, Tamil Nadu. Materials and Methods: This was a cross sectional study conducted among rural population in Kuthambakkam village, Tamil Nadu. There were a total of 1175 households in Kuthambakkam village. These households were serially numbered and of these a sample of 275 households were selected for the study using simple random sampling technique by lottery method. A structured questionnaire was used to collect information regarding the background characteristics, their knowledge, attitude and practices towards sanitary latrines usage. Descriptive statistics were calculated for background variables, the prevalence of sanitary latrines usage and open air defecation. Association between factors responsible for open air defecation was found by using chi square test. Results: The prevalence of usage of household sanitary latrine and community latrines was 62.5% and 4.3% respectively. The prevalence of open air defecation among the study participants was 33.1%.Significant association was found between low standard of living and open air defecation practice. Conclusions: To solve the problem of underutilization of sanitary latrines, planning and conducting Information Education Communication activities is very essential. Effective political and administrative support is needed to scale up the sanitation program.
Zika virus: Can India win the fight?
Tulika Singh
Zika virus is an emerging arbovirus of public health importance transmitted by Aedes mosquito which also transmits dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever. The disease has been spreading at an alarming rate in Africa, Pacific Islands, and the Americas. Given the expansion of environments where mosquitoes can live and breed, facilitated by urbanization and globalization, there is potential for major urban epidemics of Zika virus disease to occur globally. World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Zika virus disease to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Our failed attempts to control dengue epidemics in the past call for concern and we need to be to prepared to fight Zika virus before it arrives at our doors.
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Challenging times for public health towards attaining sustainable development goals
K Sujatha Rao
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From policy to practice: lessons from Karnataka about implementation of tobacco control laws
Pragati B Hebbar, Upendra Bhojani, John Kennedy, Vishal Rao
Background: Tobacco use accounts for eight to nine lakh adult deaths annually in India. India enacted a national legislation “Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003” (COTPA) to protect health of non-smokers and reduce tobacco consumption. However, even a decade after enacting this law, its implementation remains suboptimal and variable across the Indian states. Karnataka has shown leadership on this front by enacting a state law and implementing COTPA at (sub-) district levels. We, therefore, aim to analyze COTPA implementation processes in Karnataka to understand how COTPA can be effectively implemented. Methods: We developed a case study of COTPA implementation in Karnataka using reports from health, police, education, and transport departments as well as government orders and media reports related to COTPA. We analyzed these data to map and understand the role played by the government agencies in COTPA implementation. We used the proportion of the districts reporting COTPA violations, the number of COTPA violations cases reported, and the proportion of schools reporting compliance with COTPA as proxy measures for COTPA implementation. Results: We found that five government agencies (police, education, health, transport, and urban development) played a major role in COTPA implementation. All the police districts reported COTPA violations with 59,594 cases in a year (April 2013–March 2014). Three of the district anti-tobacco cells and two of the transport divisions reported 1130 and 14,543 cases of COTPA violations, respectively, in the same year. In addition, 84.7% of schools complied with signage requirements of COTPA. COTPA reporting was made part of the reporting systems within health, police, and education departments. The health department created awareness on tobacco harms and COTPA. Conclusions: COTPA implementation in Karnataka was made possible through integrating COTPA implementation within structure/functions of five government agencies.
A ten year audit of maternal mortality: Millennium development still a distant goal
Anshuja Singla, Shalini Rajaram, Sumita Mehta, Gita Radhakrishnan
DOI:10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_30_16 PMID:28553027
Objective: To assess various causes of maternal mortality over a ten year period Design: Retrospective audit of hospital case records Setting: Tertiary care hospital Population: Pregnant women who expired in the premises of GTB Hospital. Materials and Methods: A retrospective audit of case records of maternal deaths was conducted for a ten year period (January 2005 to December 2014). Results: There were a total of 647 maternal deaths out of 1,16,641 live births. Sixty-eight percent (n = 445) of women were aged 21-30 years, while 10.5% (n = 68) were <20 years of age. The most common direct causes of maternal mortality were preeclampsia/eclampsia in 24.4% (n = 158), obstetric hemorrhage in 19.1% (n = 124) and puerperal sepsis in 14.5% (n = 94). With regards to indirect causes, anemia accounted for 15.3% (n = 99) mortality. There was only 1 (0.1%) mortality because of HIV/AIDS. Other notable causes of maternal mortality were infective hepatitis in 7.1% (n = 46). Tuberculosis, that is a disease of tropical countries, accounted for 3.0% (n = 20) of the total deaths. Conclusion: High maternal mortality in GTB hospital can be due to it being a tertiary hospital with referrals from all neighbouring states. Accessible antenatal care can help prevent these maternal deaths. Female education can be of immense help in dealing with the problem and improving the utilization of public health facilities.
Process evaluation of communitisation programme in public sector health facilities, Mokokchung district, Nagaland, 2015
Aonungdok Tushi, Prabhdeep Kaur
Background: Public sector health facilities were poorly managed due to a history of conflict in Nagaland, India. Government of Nagaland introduced “Nagaland Communitisation of Public Institutions and Services Act” in 2002. Main objectives of the evaluation were to review the functioning of Health Center Managing Committees (HCMCs), deliver health services in the institutions managed by HCMC, identify strengths as well as challenges perceived by HCMC members in the rural areas of Mokokchung district, Nagaland. Materials and Methods: The evaluation was made using input, process and output indicators. A doctor, the HCMC Chairman and one member from each of the three community health centers (CHC) and four primary health centers (PHC) were surveyed using a semi-structured questionnaire and an in-depth interview guide. Proportions for quantitative data were computed and key themes from the same were identified. Results: Overall; the infrastructure, equipment and outpatient/inpatient service availability was satisfactory. There was a lack of funds and shortage of doctors, drugs as well as laboratory facilities. HCMCs were in place and carried out administrative activities. HCMCs felt ownership, mobilized community contributions and managed human resources. HCMC members had inadequate funds for their transport and training. They faced challenges in service delivery due to political interference and lack of adequate human, material, financial resources. Conclusions: Communitisation program was operational in the district. HCMC members felt the ownership of health facilities. Administrative, political support and adequate funds from the government are needed for effective functioning of HCMCs and optimal service delivery in public sector facilities.
Nutritional status of preschool children in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and food insecurity, food groups, and nutrient consumption among population
Sathya P Manimunda, Attayuru P Sugunan
Background: Childhood undernutrition is a public health concern in India. But on such a serious issue, there are no data available from the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar (A and N) Islands. Objectives: Present study was designed to know the prevalence of food insecurity, to estimate food group and nutrient intake among the community, and undernutrition and clinical signs of micronutrient deficiency among the preschool children of A and N islands. Materials and Methods: Multistage random sampling was followed to select the households containing children aged 6-59 months. In the selected households' sociodemographic particulars, Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS), among preschoolers the weight and height were recorded along with the documentation of clinical signs of micronutrient deficiency, morbidities suffered over previous fortnight, and measurement of hemoglobin. Diet survey was carried out in every fourth household. Results: A total of 1259 preschoolers residing in 1082 households were examined, HFIAS was measured in 710 households in Andaman group of islands and diet survey was conducted in 290 households. The prevalence of undernutrition was around 27%, stunting was 36%, and anemia was around 81%. Undernutrition and anemia prevalence were significantly low among Nicobarese children. After adjusting for all the determinants, tribal in domicile had favorable outcome [odds ratio (OR): 0.28 (0.18, 0.43)], while below poverty line family had adverse outcome on undernutrition [OR: 1.72 (1.20, 2.46)]. Conclusion: Though the prevalence of undernutrition is relatively low in the islands, but high prevalence of anemia needs to be addressed. Nicobarese children fare better in almost all indicators of nutritional well-being except for stunting.
Summer temperature and spatial variability of all-cause mortality in Surat city, India
SK Rathi, VK Desai, P Jariwala, H Desai, A Naik, A Joseph
Background: Ample information is available on extreme heat associated mortality for few Indian cities, but scant literature is available on effect of temperature on spatial variability of all-cause mortality for coastal cities. Objective: To assess the effect of daily maximum temperature, relative humidity and heat index on spatial variability of all-cause mortality for summer months (March to May) from 2014 to 2015 for the urban population of Surat (coastal) city. Materials and Methods: Retrospective analysis of the all-cause mortality data with temperature and humidity was performed on a total of 9,237 deaths for 184 summer days (2014-2015). Climatic and all-cause mortality data were obtained through Tutiempo website and Surat Municipal Corporation respectively. Bivariate analysis performed through SPSS. Observations: Mean daily mortality was estimated at 50.2 ± 8.5 for the study period with a rise of 20% all-cause mortality at temperature ≥ 40°C and rise of 10% deaths per day during extreme danger level (HI: > 54°C) days. Spatial (Zone wise) analysis revealed rise of 61% all-cause mortality for Southeast and 30% for East zones at temperature ≥ 40°C. Conclusions: All-cause mortality increased on high summer temperature days. Presence of spatial variation in all-cause mortality provided the evidence for high risk zones. Findings may be helpful in designing the interventions at micro level.
A score-based performance assessment of maternal and child health services provided by USHA of Rajkot city
Ankit M Sheth, Anupam Banerjee, Amiruddin M Kadri, Matib Rangoonwala, Dipeshkumar D Zalavadiya, Niravkumar B Joshi
Background: Urban Social Health Activists (USHAs) are the grass root health care workers of urban areas. There are 290 USHAs distributed in various Urban Health Centers (UHCs) of Rajkot city. Objectives: To compare the (i) effectiveness of the training received by the USHAs on their knowledge and counseling skills (ii) knowledge and counseling skills of USHAs on the awareness and utilization of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) care services by their beneficiaries. Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 32 USHAs and 416 beneficiaries served by the same USHAs. 32 USHAs serving in the same field practice area for more than two years were randomly selected. The beneficiaries were those mothers who had a child between 1-2 years age, and who had availed their antenatal and postnatal services in the same area. A scoring system was used to assess the knowledge and counseling skills of the USHAs and the knowledge and utilization of services by their beneficiaries. Results: The utilization of health services was significantly more in the beneficiaries who were serviced by USHAs having comparatively better knowledge (72.7% vs. 35.3%) and counseling skills (62.2% vs. 30.6%). The median score for knowledge (41 vs. 30) and counseling skills (20 vs. 16) of the USHAs was found to be more (P < 0.05) in those who had undertaken induction training. Conclusions: Induction training helped the USHAs to improve their knowledge and counseling skills. Utilization of MCH services was more in those areas served by USHAs having better knowledge and counseling skills.
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Improving perinatal health: Are Indian health policies progressing in the right direction?
Sharad K Singh, Ravinder Kaur, PK Prabhakar, Madhu Gupta, Rajesh Kumar
Background: Strategic investments and policy directives of the Indian Government has demonstrated highest degree of political commitment for maternal and child health care. Objectives: To evaluate the impact of the rise in institutional deliveries in India on perinatal mortality. Methods: Hospital delivery rate and perinatal mortality rate (PNMR), reported by Sample Registration System, Registrar General of India, on a representative sample was used. The correlation between relative change in hospital deliveries and PNMR was examined. Results: In rural areas of India, hospital deliveries have increased during 2005–2013 from 24.4 to 69.7% and PNMR has declined from 40 to 28 per 1000 births. At the state level, there was significant correlation between the rise in hospital delivery rate and decline in PNMR (r 0.4, p 0.04). Conclusions: Decline in perinatal rates can be attributed to India's strategic initiatives in health policy and planning for increasing deliveries in hospitals.
Leprosy: An urgent need to step up surveillance
Sathish Dev, Timsi Jain, P Sivaprakasam, J Dinesh Raja
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Liverpool Futurist
Speed - the Modern Mercury
Liverpool is the last in our series on planning and architecture in the great cities of the North and it has been the most difficult to capture. Certainly Liverpool is the grandest of the Northern cities but it is also the most inscrutable and the most frustrating. Here the disparity between past glory and present reality, between its potential and the banality of the actual outcomes in the built environment, are at their most extreme.
A World City
In many ways Liverpool is less a Northern city than a World city. As Ian Nairn said, comparisons are always with overseas, like Hamburg or Boston. Liverpool used to see itself as the equal of New York and certainly the Liver Building is as thrilling as any of that city’s skyscrapers. But the great transatlantic liners left for Southampton 100 years ago and Liverpool has been in relative decline ever since, although this is belied by the confidence of much of the interwar architecture and, superficially, by its cocky regeneration swagger today.
Engineering and exploitation – a British history lesson
Liverpool’s ‘world city’ inheritance had a lot to do with injustice, not only slavery, which underwrote much of the city’s magnificence, but its economy and society was also based on the humiliating system of casual hiring at the dock gates. In the 1930s Priestley painted a dismal picture of the place: ‘all slums and docks, docks and slums’. But then he was from Yorkshire and admitted he did not understand the city. The relationship of Liverpool to the rest of England does tend to be one of mutual suspicion and hostility. Liverpool has greater affinity with the Celtic nations and is most like Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin. Also it is capital of North Wales. My Auntie Nellie, who rarely left Caernarfonshire, compared Cardiff very unfavourably with Liverpool.
Dock wall drinking fountain
I initially became aware of the city’s architectural greatness in the school library on discovering Quentin Hughes’ seminal ‘Seaport’, published in 1964. Its wonderful, evocative, black and white photographs captured the grandeur but also the decline of a city. That sense of decline was palpable when I first explored Liverpool in the 1970s, despite the gloss of the Beatles and Shankland and Bor’s radical planning surgery, the anticipation of which had excited Nairn. Pevsner however thought the planners and architects had done more harm than the Luftwaffe (Liverpool having been one of the most heavily bombed cities in England). Well Nairn did say it could all go wrong, and it mostly did.
Some things have got better since the 1980s – Albert Dock
Liverpool was viewed with fear and loathing by the Thatcherite government which talked about ‘managed decline’. In the event decline was not managed, just bloody, but Heseltine and Kinnock respectively did something to restore the prospects for the city. Today its centre at least is buzzing. And despite the Blitz and the planners a huge amount of the architecture of the city’s former glory remains to be admired. Which is why the insouciance of the elected Mayor about the quality of the city’s architecture, townscape and environment is so tragic and pitiful. The enterprise and scale of development in the city centre today is extremely impressive; it’s the quality that is the problem. Liverpool is squandering its greatest assets and selling itself cheap.
Some have got worse – Princes Dock; a taste of Liverpool Waters to come
I have to admit that these views are coloured by my experience as a member of the CABE design review for ‘Liverpool Waters’, the monstrous regeneration fantasy that threatens the city’s World Heritage status. It was blindingly obvious that Peel, the promoters, and the Council had no intention of listening to any advice about this hugely significant scheme. And the plans were waved through without an inquiry by Eric Pickles.
Liverpool Lime St – feels like a capital city already
One of the great railway stations
This is opposite Lime St Station - it really is!
Relegation material – St John's Precinct
But this extraordinary disjunction between sublime architecture and urban dross is now a well established feature of Liverpool. You see it immediately on arrival at Lime Street. The great train sheds have recently been nicely renovated and provide an exhilarating entry to the city. Opposite is the gob-smackingly magnificent St George’s Hall, designed in the 1840s in a free Grecian style by the young Harvey Lonsdale Elmes. Gavin Stamp points out the Roman precedent; SPQL – ‘The Senate and the People of Liverpool’ is cast on its great bronze and iron doors. St George’s Hall is world class in the true sense of the term, but immediately adjacent is the St John’s Precinct, completed in 1970. Joseph Sharples in the Pevsner City Guide describes it as ‘a bleak and brutal affair, monolithic, inward looking and awkwardly related to the different levels of surrounding streets. The side facing Lime St and St George’s Place is truly disastrous’. Subsequent alterations have made the complex even more of a dog’s dinner, like swathing the car park in jolly tarpaulin with cartoons of the city’s icons. The only element of any interest is the Beacon tower, like the Euromast in Rotterdam, which dominates much of the city centre.
Save the Futurist
Lime St - it is quintessentially Liverpudlian to sweep this away
Of course the quality of cities is not all about great architecture. As SAVE points out ‘Lime Street is quintessentially Liverpudlian in its great variety and charm’. However the City Council has just granted planning permission to knock down a whole section of the street next to the famous Vines Hotel, including Liverpool’s earliest cinema, the Futurist. This will be replaced by a preposterous monolith of student flats and a hotel above some token shop fronts. What is so depressing is that here planning has been reduced to an absolute charade by the Mayor’s regeneration machine. The Design and Access Statement from architects Broadway Maylan starts off with the ‘World Heritage Context’ and proceeds via mapping the bleeding obvious at great length to the ‘Design Concept Big Idea’, which is to ‘to replicate that sense of place experienced during the rail journey into the city’. Which apparently means evoking those amazing sandstone cuttings at Edge Hill, interpreted here as two overpowering rectangular blocks. The scale is allegedly alright because the horizontal blocks will be slightly lower than the elegant, soaring tower of the Vines. One block will be inscribed with the slogan 'NOT A NATION, A CITY'. They’re having a larf, aren't they? But the Head of Planning ‘ is satisfied that the loss of the (Lime Street) buildings will have no adverse impact on the setting of … listed buildings, conservation areas or the World Heritage site’. What can you say.
Absolute classic – St George's Hall
That leap in the dark – Disraeli's statue
The most imperial townscape outside of London
St George’s Hall and the public buildings on William Brown St, together with St John's Gardens, form one of Britain’s great civic assemblages. Perhaps surprisingly the relationship is not a formal one but rather an irregular space dominated by Wellington atop an impressively tall Doric column. This could be a wonderful space; it has all the components including lovely weathered York stone and setts but although traffic is largely removed the groundspace is still constricted by highway design and needs rethinking as a unified whole.
Uplifting – Central Library's Picton Reading Room
The neoclassical Walker Art Gallery, originally of 1875 but greatly extended, is one of the country’s foremost art galleries, overflowing with goodies. Next to this is the Picton Library of a similar date, with a circular plan based on the British Library, a beautiful space, its form excitingly expressed in the semi circular colonnaded elevation. The adjacent Central Library has been rebuilt behind a classical façade of 1857. The new structure, designed by Austin Smith Lord around an oval atrium, is handsome and functional. The new-build projects above the retained façade in a confident and appropriate way. What is a pity is that the great flight of steps to the former entrance of the library and museum is now redundant, like the National Museum of Scotland, only more of a let down because the steps here are so much grander. The new pavement level entrances for the Library and the Museum, branded the ‘World Museum’, are flagged in an elegant but overly discreet way.
A Concrete Society award winner
St John’s Gardens opposite the Museum and Library retains an amazing collection of statuary to Liverpool’s merchant princes and heroes. There is more of a feel of imperial pomp than you would find in any other provincial city - a wonderful survival. To the west, across a no man’s land of roads fancifully named Old Haymarket, you find the entrance to the original Mersey tunnel with very pretty deco features. Unfortunately the two road tunnels have resulted in a sprawl of feeder roads which entirely kill off this area. However the curving flyovers which wrap around the backs of the museum and library are striking and won the 1975 Concrete Society award. The pedways over Hunter St for once are actually convenient for pedestrians too. The proposals in the ‘City Centre Strategic Investment Framework’ to demolish these structures, supposedly to improve pedestrian links to John Moore’s main campus, are entirely misconceived; the viaducts deserve to be appreciated just as the railway viaducts at Castlefield, for example. The Friends of the Flyover imagine a new future for them as a variant on the High Line. The city should concentrate on taming the ground level mayhem of six lane highways.
Dale Street
As good as anywhere in The City
Dale St leads from this fractured townscape towards Water St and Liverpool’s magnificent commercial office quarter. The scale and quality of the buildings is really impressive and despite considerable rebuilding it remains coherent. On Water St you find that Modernist icon Oriel Chambers, its cast iron structure designed by Peter Ellis in 1864 and ‘one of the most remarkable buildings of its date in Europe’ (Pevsner). Another of his buildings at 16 Cook St is similarly precocious with its extensive use of plate glass in the façade. The striking HSBC building on Dale St, designed in 1971 by Bradshaw, Rowse and Harker, with twenty eight identical faceted windows of reflective glass is ‘a Space Age descendant of Oriel Chambers’ (Pevsner City Guide).
The oldest of the grand Northern Town Halls
India Buildings, designed by Thornley and Rowse in 1923, is thoroughly American in concept and scale, including a public lobby and arcade through the building. Beside John Wood’s elegant Town Hall the vast stripped classical Exchange Buildings, designed in the 1930s but not completed until 1955, look clumsy. Castle St is a wonderful prospect including the old Bank of England and banks by Caröe and Norman Shaw; the vista is terminated by the Town Hall.
Water Street – one of the greatest streets in the country
The view down Water St is of the ever-fascinating, highly eclectic Royal Liver Building, a groundbreaking ferro-concrete skyscraper built in 1908-11. It exudes confidence and indeed hubris, as commercial fortunes were already turning against the city, the liners symbolically leaving at this very date. The other two ‘Graces’, the Cunard Building and the Docks and Harbour Board building are also very fine and dignified, but lack the theatrical excitement of the Liver Building.
The Fourth grace – Rowse's ventilation tower
Err, excuse me, what are you two guys doing here? The Strand.
The Three Graces are quarantined from the commercial quarter by an eight lane highway, excessively wide even by Liverpool’s City Engineer’s standards. This is a pity as The Strand itself contains some excellent buildings especially Tower Building of 1910, steel framed, clad in white glazed terracotta and in a wonderfully eclectic mix of styles. At the other end of the block is Norman Shaw’s superb White Star Line building. Opposite is Rowse’s powerfully ascetic ventilation tower for the Queensway Tunnel. The ‘Strategic Investment Framework’ says that The Strand should be refashioned as a ‘Great Street’ and, given imaginative redesign, it clearly could be that if the dominance of the motor car were to be challenged, which seems unlikely to happen under present management.
Princes Dock; makes you weep
You find another of those amazing Liverpool disjunctions immediately next to the sublime Liver Building - the Princes Dock development. This is just about the shoddiest collection of new buildings you could imagine. The offices and hotels look like they were previously rejected for a Basingstoke business park. Here even Malmaison manages to be crap. Princes Dock is shamed by earlier buildings like the Atlantic Tower Hotel, which perhaps over obviously evokes the form of a liner, and the yellow concrete 1970s Royal and Sun Alliance building with its rugged outlines greatly contributing to the skyline. Behind this AHMM’s Unity Tower at least manages to create an quirky silhouette which makes you smile; other towers jostling the skyline are just cheap, witless and boring ‘bar code’ stuff.
Comparable with Cardiff Bay
Between Princes Dock basin, dead as a Dodo, and a utilitarian strip of landscaping (grass) a flag flutters proclaiming ’Liverpool Waters - A Waterfront for the World’. The images promise more of the same sort of development, only much bigger, on the redundant docks stretching some 2km north. This vast scheme, covering 60 hectares and with outline permission for 1.7million sq. metres of development, claims it will, over 30 years, provide a ‘world class waterfront’ comparable with Boston, Barcelona, Hamburg etc. etc. The difference is that this scheme is the creature of land owners’ speculation, the City’s role being not to shape the new quarter but just not get in the way. How very different from say Hafen City but how typical of public-asset-stripped Britain today.
Basingstoke meets Liverpool
The real problem with Liverpool Waters is not its clusters of towers like novelty sticks of rock, nor the boasted 55 storey ‘Shanghai Tower’ – these are entirely conjectural. The images of the skyline and the impact on the Three Graces as currently promoted by Peel, and shockingly the City Council, are certainly horrific, but then how is this different from what is happening to the skyline of London? In any event this is largely a battle lost, given Princes Dock and other developments nearby which have already badly maimed the prospect of the Three Graces. The real issue is about the hopelessness of the Chapman Taylor masterplan. As CABE said, very diplomatically, ‘the project is hindered by a weakly expressed masterplan and the overarching guidelines are generic and vague’. For what is meant to be a world class destination, there is no convincing concept of the public realm. The connections don’t work as an extension of the existing city centre. There is no public transport provision. What is needed is some joined up town planning and convincing design concepts, not just development speculation. Hamburg built a new U Bahn line to Hafen City. If Liverpool were really ambitious about regeneration it should be recreating the famous Overhead Railway, destroyed in the 1950s, as a unifying element for its waterfront developments. The contrast between the cheapskate and gimcrack Liverpool Waters and Hamburg’s well considered approach to waterfront regeneration can’t help be very depressing. Once these cities were equals.
Waterloo Grain Warehouses
Regent Road and the Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse
Mersey Modernist – ventilator shafts of the Kingsway Tunnel
The walk up Regent Road alongside the great walls to the now redundant docks shows just how isolated ‘Liverpool Waters’ is. Apart from the landmark Victoria Tower few artefacts remain, other than Hartley’s magnificent dock basins themselves, and this is part of the problem – the ‘masterplan’ has too few constraints to create an interesting plan. The 1930s rolling Bascule lifting bridge and the 1854 hydraulic tower for the Stanley Dock provide great visual punctuation in the long street. Stanley Dock, at the end of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, is a wonderful ensemble largely enclosed by the grandest of warehouses. The vast Tobacco Warehouse of 1897, with steel and concrete floors and cast iron columns, is claimed to be the biggest brick structure in the world. Long vacant, the depth of its plan and low ceiling heights make reuse very difficult. However the earlier warehouses on the opposite quay, a simplified form of the famous Albert Dock warehouses, have recently been splendidly converted to the Titanic Hotel. Worth noting too are the ventilator shafts of the Kingsway Tunnel, like a rocket on its launch pad, opposite the massive Waterloo Grain Warehouses, now converted to apartments. Towards Sandhill the 1955 concrete parabolic Tate and Lyle Sugar Silo impresses.
Pier Head Terminal shite
No more Graces
A popular city of popular culture – The Museum of Liverpool
It might have been a good thing if Will Alsop’s infamous ‘cloud’ had materialized rather than the Museum of Liverpool, which was actually built, as Alsop better reflects Liverpool’s often facetious approach to regeneration. Liverpool sacked the architects of the Museum, 3XN and the design was dumbed down. It is disappointing, especially the internal spaces, but is nevertheless a serious building which sits reasonably comfortably between its illustrious neighbours. By contrast the Pier Head Terminal and Beatles Centre thumbs its nose at the stately Cunard Building opposite, just taking the piss, as Owen Hatherley says. It was a worthy winner of the Carbuncle Cup. Broadway Malyan’s abstract shiny black objects next to the Albert Dock, preposterously termed the ‘Fourth Grace’, were shortlisted for the Carbuncle Cup. Apparently the blocks are meant to be like rocks which have fallen from the sky. It is difficult to imagine how this could have been more deadening but bizarrely it has just won a RIBA regional award.
Visitors from all over the world – Albert Dock renewal
Despite his predilection for unelected quangos and business interests at the expense of local democracy, Lord Heseltine should be spared the Inferno because he saved Albert Dock. Pevsner wrote that ‘for sheer punch there is little in the early commercial architecture of Europe to emulate it’, but by the 1980s it was abandoned and threatened with demolition. Its successful restoration is one of the biggest conservation projects ever undertaken. As Joseph Sharples says ‘what solicits admiration, apart from its scale, is the monumental solemnity of the warehouses, the manner in which they have been pared down to a synthesis of austere classicism and technological functionalism’. The warehouses now provide space for the Tate Liverpool, converted by Stirling, the Merseyside Maritime Museum, designed by Brook Carmichael and the International Slavery Museum, as well as shops, hotel, apartments and offices. It has all been done admirably, although there is a tension between the severity of the architecture and the sometimes twee new tourism shops and ubiquitous café-restaurants – an inevitable price unfortunately.
The Arena, right place, wrong design
South of Albert Dock on the site of King’s Dock is the vast new Arena and Exhibition complex, an engine of the service and leisure economy. The very prominent and exposed location calls for something exciting and dramatic which could provide a modern counterpoint to Albert Dock’s scale and precociousness, the sort of thing Rogers and Grimshaw excel at. But what we get is just dull sheds, a poor comparison with Leeds’ new Arena. Worse are the new apartment blocks facing Wapping Dock, which set a new standard for tacky and are an insult to the fine warehouses across the basin.
A Matter of Life and Death - stylish Liverpool One
But from this angle it just looks like any other shopping centre
Albert Dock and the Waterfront are certainly a big draw, thronged with tourists and sightseers on a sunny day. But they are divorced from the city centre by the very wide and unpleasant highway, the continuation of Strand Street. If you manage to cross this barrier you find Liverpool One. This roofless (well almost) shopping centre with real streets was meant to set the template for future retail developments but as with much else things have regressed since it opened in 2008. Undoubtedly Grosvenor’s Liverpool One largely works well in the way it integrates with the older streets, like Church St, and retains some older buildings, wrapping around the C18th Bluecoat Chambers, now converted to an arts venue. The use of different architects for individual blocks is also successful although to some extent the very standardised shop fitting and the line up of usual suspect stores make it all feel rather more samey and homogenized than you had hoped. But Paradise St is a real street and even if the scale of the buildings can be overbearing, details like FAT’s kiosks provide interest. The three levels of South John Street however, partly covered and with exciting, soaring multi level sub-Fritz Lang bridges, is a close relative of internal malls. The John Lewis anchor store provides very little visual interest with blank windows even to Paradise Street. The raw rear edges of the leviathan are pretty damn poor too, but then JLP can call all the shots.
A touch of effort
The leisure and chain restaurant complex at the upper levels is accessed by impressive zig-zag stairs at the top of which, beyond the heaving cafés, is Chavasse Park, small but a real park whose quiet, attractive herbaceous fringes provide a respite from the cacophony. Between the park and the Waterfront is César Pelli’s Park One West apartments: big, horizontal and not very interesting although restrained compared to the array of gaudy pantomime ugly sisters nearby. However the link between Liverpool One and the Waterfront at Albert Dock is one of the most disappointing aspects of the scheme. It just doesn’t seem to have been thought through at all and what could have been a great visual sequence has emerged as a non-place. Despite these reservations, Liverpool One is clearly very successful. It actually achieves what all those artists’ impressions of regeneration schemes promise but usually dismally fail to deliver. It is certainly better than any shopping complex we have visited, except Exeter’s smaller Princess Hay.
The Ropewalks
The tension between independent success and big business
Georgian levels
Liverpool One shot the city up the shopping centre league table but as well as the usual chains and glitzy stuff Liverpool does have an enviable collection of specialist shops, bars, restaurants, music venues and clubs, especially in the Ropewalks. This is the sort of area where independent shops and bars set up and establish a particular identity, but then the chain restaurants and bars move in and it becomes much more ordinary – not gentrification in the London sense exactly, but the same loss of authenticity. Beyond the Ropewalks the Baltic Triangle is now emerging as a somewhat unlikely Boho area of designers and artists where studios, bars and apartments are found alongside industrial workshops and car mechanics.
Industrial-decline chic
Do you know where the creative quarter is?
Again, Liverpool is very popular
Toxteth, scene of the riots 30 years ago, which changed the Government’s inner urban policy, comes as a surprise. Superficially at least much of it, like Princes Avenue, looks extremely pleasant, the sort of housing young Londoners would give their eye teeth for. Which is why the infamous Pathfinder clearances here were so perverse. The ‘Welsh Streets’, still all tinned up, were never slums in a conventional sense, but substantial bay window terraces clearly capable of renovation and surely would have been if the Council had not stuck so doggedly to its misguided policy of rebuilding the inner city in the image of Brookside suburbia, a policy begun by Militant in the 1980s. The city’s intransigence can be summed up in Macbeth’s line ‘I am in blood steeped so far that … returning were as tedious as go o’er’. Eric Pickles’s reprieve of the Welsh Streets was no doubt mischievous but, along with Leadenhall Market, about the only sensible decision he ever made as Secretary of State.
Those infamous Pathfinder clearances
But hope on Granby Street
Nearby, the community renovation project around Granby St, facilitated by the young team of Assemble Architects, is truly heartening and has been nominated for the Turner Prize. As local resident Erika Rushton explained to Olly Wainwright in the Guardian, ‘Toxteth suffered from decades of ‘managed decline’, with life inexorably drained from its streets. An invisible red line was drawn around the area with an unspoken policy of no maintenance and no investment. Once houses start to be boarded up, it sends a signal. Bins weren’t collected, streets weren’t swept and Granby became a no-go area. Labour’s Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders was only one of the most recent of such schemes that have systematically eviscerated the communities here to make way for promised visions that never arrive. Everyone just offered a total solution: every house would be done, with no recognition of what people had crafted into their individual homes, or the value that people had invested in the street with planting and building furniture. Regeneration is always this blunt, abstract, over-professionalised, but Assemble have shown how it can be done differently, by making things that people can see, touch, understand and put together for themselves.’
Not the most impressive campus
What Manchester doesn't have – a huge Georgian inheritance
Toxteth is just a short walk from Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter. It is probably the most extensive and impressive concentration of Georgian terraces outside London, Bath or Edinburgh. This gives the city an important added dimension, lacking in say Manchester. Percy St and Gambier Terrace are probably the finest of the Georgian streets. The expansion of Liverpool University campus unfortunately resulted in much demolition of Georgian terraces and the quality of most of the new university buildings is not that great, the most notable being the Sports Centre where Denis Lasdun deliberately stuck two fingers up to everyone, even managing to annoy Pevsner. Nevertheless the University campus is a pleasant and lively part of the city centre.
I don't think the car park does it justice
Deceptively massive
Elizabeth Frink and twentieth century Gothic
Hope St is a great street. It forms the axis between Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral and the Metropolitan Cathedral. Giles Gilbert Scott’s immense Gothic enterprise was begun in 1904 when, as Joseph Sharples points out, the city was at the height of its prosperity, but it was not completed until 1978, at the city’s nadir. The cathedral sits on a ridge and dominates the view from the river. However it is fairly inaccessible from both the Waterfront and the city centre, and seems almost deliberately set apart from the life of the city. Its interior spaces are awe inspiring and have immense power. Goodhart-Rendel wrote ‘it stands aloof from architectural reality ….. it is a great engine of emotion or nothing’.
Like nothing else in the country
Fibreglass doors by William Mitchell
Impressive but not intriguing
Frederick Gibberd’s Metropolitan Cathedral, built in the 1960s, was the most important Roman Catholic commission of the post war era and ground-breaking in its circular plan and in being constructed in concrete. Its cylindrical tower with pinnacles responds to the Anglican cathedral’s tower and is the most striking aspect of the building. The interior however lacks subtlety, and the abstract windows and artworks feel too overpowering. The great flight of steps up to the entrance was added relatively recently.
Bang on
Herbert James Rowse: one of the best British architects of the interwar period?
Everyman - file under metropolitan world class etc
Hope St contains other great buildings too. The Philharmonic PH is the most lavish of those lavish pubs from the turn of the C20th, especially notable for its urinals. The cubic Philharmonic Hall, designed by Rowse in 1936, draws heavily on Dudok. The foyers and concert hall are purely delightful, with lovely etched glass, incised Art Deco reliefs and other works of the period. The Hall is currently being refurbished and upgraded by Caruso St John. At the top of the street is the rebuilt Everyman Theatre, designed by Haworth Tomkins and Stirling Prize winner in 2014. The RIBA citation says ‘this is a building that breathes quality in its choice of materials, in its lighting and its signage. …. The tour de force is the first floor bar, a piano nobile stretching across the front of the building’. This is a really attractive and democratic building where the care taken in every aspect of design is a joy.
File under provincial, lowest common denominator etc
Liverpool has other interesting theatres too, like the Playhouse with its futuristic extensions at Williamson Square and the Royal Court nearby at Queens Square, which is really a dreadful bus station. Both are in the shadow of the execrable St John’s Centre. The huge challenge for Liverpool is how to reimagine and reshape this area to create a fitting entrance to the city. Given the Lime St story it is difficult to be optimistic that this will ever happen.
Princes Dock - a has-been before it has even begun
It is hard to understand or justify many of the planning and regeneration decisions made by Liverpool in recent decades. The official rationale is always that it is about ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ and it is the case that the city, neglected and distrusted by an absurdly London-centric Government and economic establishment, has had some success in strengthening its economy. But a ‘World city’ has too often been willing to accept the lowest common denominator in its regeneration schemes and so has degraded its unique assets in the process. Why would you want Liverpool Waters to repeat all the mistakes of Princes Dock on a grand scale? Gavin Stamp in ‘Lost Cities’ says ‘the sad conclusion of an architectural history of the city since the second world war can only be that Liverpool is its own worst enemy’. Well with apologies to Ernest Bevin on Aneurin Bevan, ‘not while Whitehall is around it ain’t’.
Such history
Liverpool’s assets are enormous – the river front, Albert Dock, Stanley Dock, the magnificent commercial buildings, the city centre shops and buzz, its theatres and music venues, its fantastic museums and galleries, St George’s Hall, the cathedrals, the Georgian architecture, universities, parks, football clubs. This is a great city. But, unlike arch-rival Manchester, Liverpool doesn’t have a holistic vision of its future. The Mayor sees shiny new development as an end in itself. Liverpool Vision, the Urban Development quango does have some vision beyond counting tower cranes, but it is not very well articulated and its plans are effectively sidelined.
Erm, where's the tram, cycle lane, tree-lined boulevard etc?
What Liverpool desperately needs is not more cheap ‘icons’ but a strategy for creating a high quality public realm and an efficient and effective public transport system. It needs a long term green strategy, like its erstwhile peer Hamburg. The quality of Liverpool’s public realm in most key areas is lamentable. Strand St is unbelievable, Lime St a shambles and about to get worse. By contrast George Ferguson, the elected mayor in Liverpool’s old rival Bristol, is taking a real lead in raising an environmental vision, as is Peter Soulsby in Leicester. His ‘Connecting Leicester’ strategy serves as a model for what Liverpool should be doing.
This is not world class public transport
But then Liverpool, with actually low car ownership, is dominated by the culture of the car, like its sister city Glasgow. This is a difficult psychosis to change because it is all about the aspirations of decision makers. Like all provincial cities deregulation and Whitehall micro-control of capital investment means that public transport is uncoordinated and fragmented. Merseytravel, the ‘Integrated Transport Authority’ is piss poor. There are no maps or timetables at bus stops; even the bus numbers aren’t displayed at stops. Buses are a complicated mystery but I solved one - there are no buses to ‘Liverpool Waters’. Liverpool dismantled its Overhead Railway but it does have two railway lines across the city centre, the Wirral line and the Northern line with four underground stations. But compared with Newcastle’s Metro stations these are mean and cramped, hidden beneath commercial redevelopments, except for Lime St. Trains only run every 15 minutes. In Marseille, the Liverpool of France, super efficient metros run every couple of minutes, and of course are co-ordinated with buses as well as cool new tram lines. This really adds to the quality of your urban experience and the ability to navigate a big city. But Merseyside’s tram project was vetoed by the government in 2009, somewhat ironically by Labour’s present candidate for London Mayor. Divisions between the Merseyside authorities didn’t help.
A big part of the problem of Liverpool's failure of vision is the failure to create a Greater Liverpool, leaving Merseyside politically fractured and fractious, a persistent source of political and economic weakness. Bootle would rather be joined with Southport 20 miles away than with Liverpool, which is on its doorstep. New York, with which Liverpool used to compare itself, was consolidated as a powerful political entity in 1898. Imagine if it had remained a disunited ‘Hudsonside’. Liverpool meanwhile cannot give its name to its conurbation.
Merseytravel seems so limited in its powers and ambition compared to Transport for Greater Manchester.
Colin W said...
'Crown of Glass'Regularly shown as a BBC trade test transmission covers construction of the Met Cathedral lantern https://youtu.be/M-B-8uwf1-M
Steven M said...
I always enjoy visting Liverpool, but as a Geordie I feel that the reason for much of the supposed anomosity between Liverpool and the rest of England or at least other northern cities is because of their habit of claiming that they have the most or the best or the only of pretty much anything you can think of...Georgian, Art Deco, Art Nouveau...it get's boring after a while especially when it's either obviously not true or is completely unproven.
Damien Smith said...
Is this really the last? You've not gone to York, Lancaster or Carlisle?
As a resident of Merseyside, I agree with almost everything you've written. Liverpool's tragedy is the gap between what "could have been" and what is. That said, it is difficult to underestimate the impact of half a century of post-imperial decline. In reality, for most of the postwar period, Liverpool had little alternative but to accept such developments as were offered. What grates is that, now the city is prospering again, its leaders seem to have so little notion of how to make the most of its assets!
City centre trains do actually run every few minutes, they are only every 15 minutes to each of the 8 end destinations. An S Bahn, basically.
This does however bear out a point made, about how poorly this facility is articulated.
Granby4Streets CLT said...
Just to point out - Erika is the chair of Granby 4 Streets not a resident. Assemble simply translated what local people had been asking for decades, the Pathfinder was translated as a demolition programme to the poorest areas by a Lib-Dem council and lastly Michael Hestletine should never be thanked! I'll let the buses to "Liverpool Waters" comment slide, as your an outsider - that would be the ones that don't stop 20 yards opposite Albert Dock (shit side of Lewis')!! Enjoyed the rest though.
A pretty good read and analysis identifying some of Liverpool's best and worst buildings. From the Met Cathedral and the Everyman at one end of the spectrum, to St John's Centre (thank you 60s planners!) and the awful Pier Head terminal at the other. Also a subtle analysis of Liverpool One - far from perfect but I agree, one of the best shopping developments of the last 25 years - also easy to forget how it far better connects the centre with the waterfront than before.
What I agree with less though is saying the city’s problem is a paucity of vision. What is has, compared to places you flag like Manchester, Bristol, Hamburg, Marseilles, even Leicester, is a paucity of cash. Around 75% of the City Council’s spending power is central Government grant, which is rapidly declining, it has a smallish population, low tax base, huge levels of deprivation, low business base, low skills base, limited geographical advantage and relatively low rates of enterprise. The reasons for this are many, a books worth at least, and aren't just down to anything in the last 50 years, but right back to the very things the city was founded on hundreds of years ago (low skilled, Empire-based, global commodities trading)
Your comments on ‘Greater Liverpool’ are also inaccurate. Bootle would not ‘rather be joined with Southport 20 miles away than with Liverpool, which is on its doorstep.’ The boundaries of Sefton Borough, in fact Merseyside, were decided by Whitehall in 1974, not locally, and contained some daft decisions, industrial Liverpool New Towns like Runcorn, Ellsemere Port and Skelmersdale were left out while indeed, Southport in. Something of a fudge at the time, Liverpool very nearly controlled Chester in the original plan! Sefton’s leaders have always been pro-joining together, if any were against it was Wirral and St Helens, put off by Liverpool’s extreme decline in the 1970s and 80s and subsequent poor image. Just as Wigan, definitely not Manchester as any resident will tell you, were more comfortable with associations with Manchester due to its 80s cool – though that had a lot more to do with Tony Wilson than Manc civic leadership. Sure, the smaller Merseyside boundary didn’t help economic growth – but it ignores the range of economic factors outside the city’s control that led to its extreme Post-War decline and collapsing economic, population and tax base – something that Leeds never had to deal with and was far less extreme in Manchester. Anyway, this is all a moot point now we have the Liverpool City Region – which, unlike you suggest, has indeed given its name to its conurbation, just weeks after your article. Though a poor City Region it remains. There’s not much use having ‘visions’ and extra powers of leadership if you can’t afford to cover your own basic services. Ferguson and Leese may indeed have better vision than Anderson, but Bristol’s huge defence (war) industry (7,000 people at the DPA alone) and Manchester’s airport profits and free money from Osborne have more to do with their strength.
You may be right that Liverpool doesn’t have a holistic vision for itself. But I don’t think Manchester does either, otherwise there wouldn’t be protests about the closure of Rouge Studios, more bog-standard flats thrown up on Pomona, historic parts of its rail infrastructure demolished for a new track. What Manchester has is more money and power than Liverpool.
Anderson has many faults and his own PR dept to puff himself up, but I genuinely don’t think he sees ‘shiny new development as an end in itself.’ He backed Liverpool Waters because he sees the success of Peel’s Salford Quays, from abandoned bankrupt dockland to a huge economic centre and residential quarter in 30 years. It’s a bit ugly, sure. But how many people work their now, especially after MediaCityUK, it must be something in the region of 10,000 – 20,000, many of them in quality jobs. When you have a huge level of need in your population and few jobs, I can see why economics often trump aesthetics as much as it leaves a bitter taste in aesthetes mouths. Liverpool needs a MediaCity type game changer. As to if Liverpool Waters will ever actually be built now, well, that’s another story, I have my doubts.
I find it interesting you compare Liverpool Waters negatively to HafenCity. After all, that’s just another large-scale, capitalist, mixed-use dockland development. Maybe it’s masterplanned better, but it’s on the exact same gentrifying spectrum. And Hamburg has a LOT more money to throw around and isn’t as reliant on external investment as Liverpool by a long stretch.
What you say about Liverpool selling itself short ignores the brutal truth that a city in Liverpool’s situation. (I’ll repeat it: 75% of the City Council’s spending power is central Government grant, which is rapidly declining, it has a smallish population, low tax base, huge levels of deprivation, low business base, low skills base, limited geographical advantage and relatively low rates of enterprise) which means it often doesn’t much have a choice. Quality developers and architects aren’t often interested due to the low rates of return due to the low land and property values. The city’s many decaying historic listed buildings represent a huge expense to restore to the correct codes and offer little rate of return – despite this the Council has worked hard to restore a huge number of buildings in the last twenty years, near the city centre at least. To do much more would mean cutting essential services to its deprived population – it’s a double bind. Liverpool’s ‘unique assets’ may be great – but not if there’s no use for them or money around to restore them. Pseuds like Gavin Stamp are quick to moan, patronise, point the finger, yet slow to write cheques or suggest money be diverted from London’s huge heritage and cultural funding. Sure the arena is average – but imagine what could have been done for the £75 million the Govt has just handed over to M’Chester for ‘The Factory’ – with no bidding process.
A note also on: ‘if the Council had not stuck so doggedly to its misguided policy of rebuilding the inner city in the image of Brookside suburbia, a policy begun by Militant in the 1980s’ Demolitions of terraces were a huge issue. But quite a few of these ‘inner city suburbs’ were actually built on awful 60s tower blocks and these 80s houses were well built and popular with residents and remain so – I have relatives in one of them – and I think its very telling how many critics hate them while rubbing their thighs at once-again-fashionable Brutalist visions which remain despised by so many of the people who had to live in them. The Eldonian Village is also ‘suburban’ but an exemplar community development.
Liverpool has no shortage of people with nice suggestions and never did. I doubt you’d find a single person in the city who’d disagree with you about re-building ‘the Overhead’. But, the question I always ask is, where is the money going to come from when, for example, Merseytravel has to beg central Government for cash just for a few new stations? Or to restore the roofless Futurist? In fact where will the money come from for any visions? The tax base? No. Local business? No. The Government? Hell no! The EU? Yes well much of Liverpool’s regeneration was backed by this, but this has been reduced with the Eastern Bloc joining and with the Govt forcibly turning some of Liverpool’s money to Scotland and Northern Ireland to keep them on side against EU advice…Liverpool is full of ideas, short of funds.
Vision, ‘quality’ etc, is sadly often expensive. What happened in Granby is great, but even that required half a million quid from an outside investor. Could that be translated to hundreds of acres of derelict dockland without billions coming from somewhere as yet unidentified? And what would those who control those billions want in return? With Barcelona or Hamburg’s tax and business base, the city could do a lot better. It’s not easy. I think the Council do what they can, most of the time anyway. But sentiment won’t restore our listed buildings and wishful thinking won’t keep the libraries open or even the street lights on. Liverpool needs jobs. And it doesn’t have too much choice in how it gets them. Yes, a tragedy, but also a reality, if we ever answer that question, the successors to Herbert Rowse might get their break. But I don’t think there’s an easy answer – and I’ve been thinking about it for twenty years.
LunarMan said...
"extensive and impressive concentration of Georgian terraces outside London, Bath or Edinburgh"
You've surely missed Brighton out of that list, and maybe a few others too. Impressive article though, perhaps you could bring some of your insights down to our little metropolis down on the south coast?
Liverpool always wants to see itself as a 'City of Change and Challenge' and destroys its heritage without a blush.
Just to update, the Futurist is now gone - forever.
Tried to add the photo of the hole in Lime Street in its honour but cannot do this.
Anyway it has definitely gone.
What future for the Roscoe Head?
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Bradfield College is spread over 200 hectares of ground, near the charming and picturesque village with the same name in Berkshire County. Founded in 1850 by Thomas Stevens, the college has established itself over the years as one of the main private boarding schools in southern England.
The campus holds school buildings, dorms, dining room, chapel, theater, medical center, design and arts center, an impressive sports basement,etc. The latest acquisitions of the college are the music school, the textile center, the photo studio and a recently built soccer field that can be used all year round. A modern school complex where the chemistry laboratory, physics and biology laboratory will be is under construction, which will ensure excellent conditions for study, to exchange ideas and practical experimental work. Activities in the field of design and information technologies take place in rooms equipped with the latest generation equipment and computer programs that use scientific and modern teaching methods. Visits and meetings with representatives in the field of business and services, universities and other higher education organizations are often organized.
Bradfield College has several dorms with individual and double rooms, many of which have private bathroom, and the rest with a washbasin. Boys and girls in the high school are housed in separate buildings, each with a library, computer room and well-equipped kitchens. Younger students live in comfortable rooms and have shared halls for individual training and recreation, while older students are accommodated in individual or double rooms and have a greater freedom, as their school activities are implicitly more numerous.
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The school has three choirs, a symphonic orchestra, a string ensemble, a jazz and swing band, groups of flute and saxophone, who regularly perform concerts both in college and outside. The music club organizes master classes and hosts famous performers. Under the auspices of the Duke of Edinburgh, various competitions are organized, which encourages students to participate in individual and collective activities. The various sections of the Volunteer Cadets Club (CCF) offer exciting activities that harmoniously develop the physical and mental traits of the students. Throughout the year, students have the opportunity to travel and visit new places, interesting natural, historical and cultural attractions.
Bradfield has a rich sports base: two outdoor football pitches, hockey grounds on the grass, cricket, golf, track of athletics, covered and heated swimming pool, tennis and squash courts, that is often used by professional competitors. The main sports for boys are football and cricket, and for girls - netball and lacrosse. In the sports center of 1300 square meters there are eight multifunctional terrains and a gymnasium with the necessary equipment, where students can practice:
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LifeCycle Rides: Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua
Isla de Ometepe is an island formed from the lava of two volcanos in Lake Nicaragua in the Republic of Nicaragua. In the shape of an hourglass, it is the largest island in Lake Nicaragua and has exquisite views of the two volcanoes that birthed it- Concepción and Maderas. With newly paved roads between the local towns, Ometepe has become an explorers dream for cyclists, both local and transient.
LifeCycle Biking got an opportunity to explore the island while traveling through Central America.
Off road terrain common in Ometepe
In order to get to Ometepe, we took an hour long ferry from San Jorge to the dock at Moyogalpa. From there, we were shuttled to our lodging quarters at the earth-based, intentional, communal living retreat, Inanitah- situated atop a steep incline, about 45 minutes (driving) from Moyogalpa. At Inanitah- we camped on on their grounds, ate 3-4 vegetarian meals daily, explored meditation, yoga, & wellness workshops; and participated in ongoing learning opportunities for growth and expansion.
Camping at Inanitah
Inanitah residents guided us along the island biking terrain. With the two volcanoes, dry and wet forests, and stop overs at warm lake shores and petroglyph sites, it is a mountain biking paradise. Limited paved roads make road cycling difficult as the roads tend to be the main connections between cities and have high traffic volumes. However, the trucks make room for riders and we experienced welcoming horns and thumbs up's along the way.
Bikes were available for daily rental at various locations across the island and some hotel and hostels have bikes that visitors can use.
Our stops along biking routes included small villages and “comedores” where typical Nicaraguan meals of rice, beans, tortillas, fried cheese & eggs with either chicken, beef, or pork were served. Fresh fruit juices and coconut water were easily accessible and enjoyed roadside.
Los Cocos Comedore
With the recent re-pavement of the road between Moyogalpa and Altagracia, it is the route used by most cyclists. The cities are around 15 miles (24 kilometers) apart and it takes about an hour and a half to travel the route. The road to the Maderas Volcano is still unpaved and requires more time and effort to get to that side of the island. Biking around the Concepción Volcano is also possible, but cyclists will hit some dirt roads after Altagracia.
With the frequent altitude changes and the Nicaraguan temperatures, cycling on Ometepe can be tough- but also amazingly rewarding.
The sunset views were some of the most amazing we had ever seen.
Breathtaking sunsets next to the Volcano
On Ometepe, the local community is embracing the tourism influx and we felt genuine generosity and hospitality from the residents, both transplant and native.
The scenery was unlike any other and a ferry ride back to San Jorge left us missing the simplistic pleasures and rough routes of Ometepe.
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Beautiful Wolf? (56 Pics)
Tagged animals, arctic wolf, art, big bad wolf, bizarre, black wolf, Canis lupus, Eurasian wolf, folklore, gray wolf, howl, lycan, nature, red wolf, werewolf, wolf, wolf pup, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
Fear of the wolf –the predator–is woven into folklore, fairy tales, mythology, music, and art to depict wolves as villains. From the Brothers Grimm to present-day sci fi, wolves are infamous for gobbling up people, for huffing and puffing and blowing down houses, and for one of the most famous storybook scenes when the big bad wolf said to Little Red Riding Hood, “Ah the better to see you with, my dear. The better to hear you with, my dear. The better to eat you with, my dear.” But the big bad wolf reputation is totally undeserved as wolves rarely attack humans. Yet untold scores of wolves have been ruthlessly hunted, shot, poisoned or trapped because of how much humans fear these fascinating and beautiful animals. At one point, wolves had been hunted to near extinction. Now their numbers have rebounded due to conservation. Did you know that wolves don’t truly bark or howl at the moon, or that you have a better chance of being struck by lightning that being attacked by a wolf? [56 Photos]
Wolves have long been feared, made infamous by the Brothers Grimm in fairy tales, Aesop’s Fables, and legends aplenty from ancient times. But for all their spine-tingling howls, wolves almost never attack humans. Photo #1 by Tambako the Jaguar
Wolf hunting in snowy Netherlands. The gray wolf (Canis lupus) is the most common type of wolf and the largest member of the wild “dog” family. Photo #2 by Chris Muiden
This leaping wolf looks like a playful dog, but like dogs, wolves are very social animals; they are affectionate, loyal and very intelligent. Photo #3 by Valerie
Wolves have 42 teeth but do little chewing. Just the same, a wolf can consume nearly 20 pounds of prey per feeding. Photo #4 by Tambako the Jaguar
While this wolf is alert but resting, wolves can run at speeds of 35 – 40 mph. Average trotting speed is 7 – 9 mph which they can keep up for hours, sometimes covering 55 miles in one night. In packs, wolves hunt in territories of up to 600 square miles. Photo #5 by Gary Kramer / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Wolf as seen at Castel Rigone, Umbria, Italy. The photographer wrote, “Wolf is the Symbol of Fiery Protection.” Photo #6 by Massimo Valiani
The photographer called this “Waiting for Little Red Riding Hood!” Wolves live in packs. The smartest and strongest male of the pack is the “alpha,” the leader. There is also female “alpha” in a pack. A wolf’s nose is so sensitive that it can smell its prey from more than a mile away. Photo #7 by Valerie
Wolves howl “to assemble the pack (usually before and after hunts), to pass on an alarm (particularly at a den site), to locate each other during a storm or unfamiliar territory and to communicate across great distances. Howling consists of a fundamental frequency which may lie between 150 and 780 Hz, and consists of up to 12 harmonically related overtones. The pitch usually remains constant or varies smoothly, and may change direction as many as four or five times.” Photo #8 by Tambako the Jaguar
Wolf howling on glacial erratic at Little America Flats. If you’d like, you can go hear examples of a wolf’s lonesome howl, a pup’s howl, a confrontational howl, or a chorus of wolves in a spine-tingling howl. In addition to howling, wolves also bark, yap, whine, and growl. On a calm night, a wolf can be heard howling from as far as 120 miles away. While wolves may howl more during the moonlight, they do not howl at the moon. Photo #9 by Jim Peaco
Once upon a time, the gray wolf was the world’s most widely distributed mammal, living north of 15°N latitude in North America and 12°N in Eurasia. Photo #10 by Böhringer Friedrich
Red wolf up close and personal. Some scientists consider the red wolf to be a wolf/coyote hybrid rather than a unique species. Photo #11 by Valerie
Pile o’wolves, three arctic wolf pups. The average litter size is 4 – 6 pups which are normally born from April through June. The entire wolf pack takes part in caring for the young. If the mother goes hunting, then another pack member “baby-sits” the wolf pups. Photo #12 by Tambako the Jaguar
Where’s the 3 little pigs? Photo #13 by Tambako the Jaguar
It would suck to live in a zoo with no privacy, huh? Mated pairs usually stay together for life, but if one of the wolves dies, instead of howling at the moon, a wolf will quickly find a new mate. Photo #14 by Mariomassone
This shot was captured in the Lower Post Indian Reserve, British Columbia, CA. The photographer wrote, “Wolf who is making Lower Post part of his territory. It wasn’t shy at all and studied me as I was standing about 3 meters away.” Photo #15 by Bruce McKay
Eastern Wolf (Canis lupus lycaon) in the Lüneburg Heath wildlife park, Germany. Photo #16 by Quartl
Wolf trailing a beer at Yellowstone. NPS says of the wolves of Yellowstone, “At the end of 2011, at least 98 wolves in 10 packs (8 breeding pairs), with 2 loners occupied Yellowstone National Park (YNP).” Photo #17 by Doug Smith / NPS
Northern Rocky Mountains wolf (gray wolf) in the snow. According to Wikipedia, “This subspecies generally weighs 70–135 pounds (32–61 kg), making it one of the largest subspecies of the gray wolf in existence. It is a lighter colored animal than its southern brethren, the Southern Rocky Mountains Wolf, with a coat that includes far more white and less black. In general, the subspecies favors lighter colors, with black mixing in among them.” Photo #18 by Tracy Brooks / USFWS
At about 4 weeks old, a wolf pup will leave the den — yet still sticks close by in case of danger. At around 7 – 8 months old, a pup will start running and traveling with the pack, as it learns how to hunt. Photo #19 by Tambako the Jaguar
Wolves in Yellowstone circling buffalo. According to YNP, “Project staff detected 343 kills (definite, probable, and possible combined) made by wolves in 2011, including 267 elk (78%), 15 bison (4%), 18 deer (5%), 1 moose (<1%), 2 pronghorn (<1%), 2 bighorn sheep (<1%), 2 badgers (< 1%), 1 jackrabbit (<1%), 14 coyotes (4%), 1 raven (< 1%), 7 wolves (2%), and 13 unknown prey (4%). The composition of elk kills was 27% calves, 3% yearlings, 44% cows, 18% bulls, 3% adults of unknown sex, and 6% of unknown sex and age.Bison kills included 5 calves, 1 yearling, 2 cows, 6 bulls, and 1 unknown sex adult." Photo #20 by Doug Smith / NPS
The predator — Wolf eyes. Although wolves rarely attack humans, people have long feared the wolf. That fear is woven into folklore, fairy tales, mythology and art which depict wolves as villains. Untold scores of wolves have been ruthlessly hunted, shot, poisoned or trapped because of it. Photo #21 by Scott Flaherty
Big bad wolf and Little Red Riding Hood, a European fairy tale that has been adapted many times, but was first published in 1697 which goes to show the fear of the wolf goes way back. Upper left: Little Red Riding Hood by Jessie Willcox Smith in 1911; Upper right: Wolf – Timberwolf — noted with “The people are afraid of wolves in wildlife in Germany”; Middle Right: Rare New Jersey Black Wolf. Bottom right: Le petit chaperon rouge & le loup, illustration de Little Red Riding Hood and big bad grandmother wolf as depicted in the 1800s by illustrator by Gustave Doré. Bottom left: Black Wolf – Bow Valley, Banff. Illustration #22 by Jessie Willcox Smith (1863 – 1935), Photo #23 by Malik Braun, #24 by nosha, #25 by Vince O’Sullivan, Illustration #26 by Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
An Eurasian (gray) wolf is a large-sized, large-brained carnivore. This is “an example of the ‘northern’ wolf clade” which inhabits North America, Europe and northern Asia. Photo #27 by Gunnar Ries Amphibol
Dakota, a grey wolf at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust, howling on top of a snowy hill. Photo #28 by Retron
Iberian Wolves. The photographer explained, “In the image we can clearly see the white stripes in the snouts and the black marks in the front legs, two of the characteristics of the sub” species of Canis lupus. Photo #29 by Juan José González Vega
A wolf nurses her pups outside their den at Yellowstone National Park. Photo #30 by Doug Smith / NPS
Wolf (Canis lupus) trailing a brown Bear in Juraparc, Vallorbe, Vaud, Switzerland. Photo #31 by Micha L. Rieser
Momma wolf with pups. Defenders of Wildlife writes, “Pups are born blind and defenseless. The pack cares for the pups until they mature at about 10 months of age.” Photo #32 by Golo
Yellowstone National Park — The Agate wolf pack is in a stand off with a bull elk. When in packs, wolves generally hunt large, hoofed animals including moose, white-tailed deer, mule deer, caribou, elk, bison, and mountain goats. Photo #33 by Doug Smith NPS
Gray wolves and bones. The photographer noted, “My, what big teeth you have!” Photo #34 by Steve Jurvetson
“The better to eat you with, my dear,” said grandmother wolf. Eurasian wolf at Kolmården, Sweden. It is thought that European Wolves evolved around 150,000 years ago, which is about the same time as wolves in North American. A gray wolf usually weighs between 60 and 135 pounds (27 and 60 kilograms). Photo #35 by Daniel Mott
Arctic Wolf at Lakota Wolf Preserve, Columbia , NJ, USA. The arctic wolf is considered to be a medium-sized wolf. Photo #36 by RickyNJ
Wild wolves in Juraparc, Vallorbe, Vaud, Switzerland. Photo #37 by Micha L. Rieser
This small “desert adapted” Arabian wolf is in a defensive posture. Aggressive or self-assertive wolves are characterised by slow, deliberate movements as well as high body posture and raised hackles. Photo #38 by Amos Hachmon
Face to Face — Lycans about to fight? Since ancient Greek mythology, humans have feared werewolves, Lycans. It has been suggested that werewolves were used to explain serial killings. Photo #39 by Valerie (ucumari)
Told in tales of Greek mythology, written tales of Lycaon were recorded in 2 BC. Top right: 1858 Lithography of George Sand’s rustic Legend, Paris, Library of Decorative Arts. Bottom right: Werewolf gargoyle of Notre-Dame Cathedral of the Annunciation of Moulins. Photo #40 by Wolfgirlmichelle, 1858 Illustration #41 by Paris, bibli.des Arts décoratifs, Illustration #42 by Rodrigo Ferrarezi, Photo #43 by Vassil
The photographer snapped this “White wolf in the wild.” Photo #44 by Shannon Kringen
Wolf Resting in Front of Den. At around one month old, pups emerge from the den. When a gray wolf pup is born, it only weighs about one pound. Photo #45 by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Awww, big wolf hug at the Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands. Photo #46 by Sander van der Wel
Wolves of Yellowstone dug in and bedded down in the snowy forest. Photo #47 by Doug Smith / NPS
Wolves have huge paws, so an adult could have a paw print of about 5 inches long by 4 inches wide (13 centimeters long x 10 centimeters wide). Here are wolf tracks in the sand and a lone wolf in the wild flowers. Photo #48 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Photo #49 by Bierre
North Pole, a wolf called “Brutus” is howling: Brutus, a wolf being studied by USGS scientists who note, he “separates from his pack mates and appears to be heading back to the den. He stops at the head of the fiord and howls for 2-3 minutes. The scientists track his progress with binoculars past the river where they cannot go. They suspect that his mate has returned to the den, and that Brutus will join her there.” Photo #50 by Environment and Natural Resources Government of the Northwest Territories / USGS
Brutus the North Pole Wolf — Mother carries errant pup back to den. Photo #51 by David Mech / USGS
Top left: From Norse mythology, Tyr and Fenrir illustrated in 1911 for Our Fathers’ Godsaga. Top right: Scary Raven at the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary. The photographer wrote, “Remember, this is the same animal who goes out into the public to meet children. Raven is wonderful with the public, but with the other animals at the sanctuary, he is still a wolf.” Bottom left: Brussels statue of She-wolf feeding Romulus and Remus from mythology.1911 Illustration #52 by John Bauer / Viktor Rydberg, Photo #53 by Allison Bailey, #54 by Missvain
The Kill: Two wolves chowing down on what used to be a deer. Did you know: “You stand a better chance of being struck by lightning than being killed by a wolf.” Photo #55 by Patrick Bell
Long live the big, bad, beautiful, snarling wolf. The Defenders of Wildlife state, “There are an estimated 7,000 to 11,200 gray wolves in Alaska and more than 5,000 in the lower 48 states. Around the world there are an estimated 200,000 in 57 countries, compared to up to 2 million in earlier times.” Photo #56 by Mind Virus via reddit
22 Responses to “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Beautiful Wolf? (56 Pics)”
Sharon Whipps says:
I want to thank you for putting the photo’s of the Wolfs and the information that was shared. I totally enjoy them. I love Wolves and would love to see them in person one day.
Thanks again for putting these up.
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David Howell says:
The world needs wolves. Master hunters, conservative killers who cull the weak, old and infirm from herds, and so very SMART! Throughout history, we’ve done them every disservice we could imagine, yet still they persist, albeit with our newly enlightened attitude that they’re a necessary part of the environments they roam.
GREAT pictures! This is truly one of the finest web sites for simply stunning images I’ve ever found.
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Beautiful animals! (Possibly the most beautiful creature on the face of this planet!)
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Bobby Smith says:
I can’t believe that congress has approved hunting these magnificent creatures. As an apex predator, we need wolves for the balance of our ecosystem. It’s bad enough that they put a bounty on their heads and wiped out several of the species so many years ago. It’s cruel and insensitive. I don’t want to tell my children one day about how majestic wolves WERE. Anyone who believes the myths about wolves should go out, into the
wild, to Yellowstone, etc. and witness these animals in their habitat and observe their behavior and social hierarchy.If they did, they would have a different opinion about wolves. It is an amazing experience, that was a milestone in my life I will never forget.
I love wolves!!!!!!!!
Not trying to brag but I probley know like every fact about wolves.
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Luna’s Whispers feels like a complete cinematic experience with the timely fade-outs, the fitting blurring of a character to make emphasis on another character, the realistic portrayal of the artwork, the philosophy behind the supernatural psychological horror drama. Likewise, Sam is a very believable and relatable protagonist. He’s imperfect and struggles coping with his germaphobia and the consequential anxiety, but that is not all he is as the readers come to know throughout the story. He has accumulated major traumas. He genuinely cares for his loved ones in his own way. In spite of everything, he learns to exercise control and free will, especially when faced with a trying dilemma. Should he do the right thing? Is the right thing ethical?
Exquisite Corpse by Pénélope Bagieu
Zoe’s life sucks. She works as a booth babe during product promotion events where men constantly grope her, and lives with a boyfriend who only works odd jobs and uses her and farts. Her luck changes when she eats her tabbouleh at lunchtime in a park of an apartment complex. She sees a man looking at her from his window and smiles at him. She gets an urge to go to the bathroom and, seeing that his apartment is the only one on his floor, buzzes him. She soon learns that Thomas is a well-renowned author—to everyone except her. But why are his window curtains always closed? Why doesn’t he ever go outside? Read how interestingly and surprisingly his secret unravels.
Exquisite Corpse is a very entertaining and hilarious read. I especially laughed out loud when Zoe was doing her business with an open door talking to Thomas like there’s nothing to it. And when Thomas responds with such pride and panache that critics consider his books ‘modern-day fables,’ Zoe is unimpressed—“Oh, fables. Like for kids. Cool.” Bagieu’s graphic novel is fast-paced and has three plot twists that no reader can possibly predict beforehand.
I also like the ode and reference to the surrealists’ technique of collaborative writing—in which one writer passes their work to the next revealing only the end of their writing as inspirational cue or giving them a specific writing rule to follow such as “The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun.”—in the title. It’s also very symbolic to Bagieu’s story.
Wytches Volume 1 by Scott Snyder
There’s two types of witches in the earthly realm. Wytches—ancient tall gruesome forest-dwelling humanoid creatures who grant wishes to those who pledge them people, especially fresh, delicious blood of an infant. And Witches—regular-looking humans who have associated themselves with Wytches by pledging their loved ones and being granted wishes—health, beauty, immortality, whatever not. When you’re not running from the Wytches, you should be hiding from the Witches who can be just about anybody whether it’s your parent, your neighbor, or your friend; you can’t trust anyone.
Scott Snyder and Jock, the artist, created a world that is so nightmarish and terrifying yet so human and fragile. Where people with fears and vulnerabilities look the enemy in the eye and say, “You can haunt and terrorize me all you want, but you will never have me.” Or on the contrary, they break down and become puppets of evil. Because feeling love is not enough when fear and want overpower them. But sometimes love is the driving force that keeps one going or that surrenders oneself to save another.
Two peculiarities that make this first arc stand out and so intriguing to explore. The artwork is absolutely stunning and chilling. Each panel underwent an intricate coloring process from a bare image to a composite by adding flat dark colors to the inks, enhancing them by giving them more three-dimensionality, incorporating filters such as zip, paper, and varying spatters. The spatters had been painted manually with watercolor and liquid acrylic on paper then scanned and layered in Photoshop. Also the concept that witches can walk among us as our fellow humans and friends and can pledge us at any moment sends shivers down my spine. It makes me think of It Follows by David Robert Mitchell—something I would never wish to experience in real life.
Nadia Gerassimenko is a Media Relations Manager for Yeti Culture, Freelancer in editorial services, and Assistant Editor at Luna Luna Magazine by day, a moonchild and poet by night. Nadia self-published her first poetry collection Moonchild Dreams (2015) and hopes to republish it traditionally. She's currently working on her second chapbook a chair, a monologue. Visit her at tepidautumn.net or tweet her at @tepidautumn.
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Glenn Beck Analyzes U.S. Consulate Attack in Benghazi, Libya (Part 1 of 2 - Connecting the dots)
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The pushback on Benghazi - Dec. 03, 2014 - 4:41 - Reaction from the 'Special Report' All-Star panel
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WATCH the FULL 60 Minutes piece on Benghazi – “We’re here to kill Americans, not Libyans” - Clare Lopez — March 11, 2014
Benghazi and the Politicization of Intelligence - Clare Lopez — March 11, 2014
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Mercedes-Benz C-Class / Mercedes-Benz C-Class Owners Manual / Wheels and tires / Tire labeling / DOT, Tire Identification Number (TIN)
U.S. tire regulations prescribe that every manufacturer of new tires or retreader has to imprint a TIN in or on the sidewall of each tire produced.
The TIN is a unique identification number. The TIN enables the tire manufacturers to inform purchasers of recalls and other safetyrelevant matters. It makes it possible for the purchaser to easily identify the affected tires.
The TIN is made up of manufacturer identification code 2, tire size 3, tire type code 4 and manufacturing date 5.
Tire data is vehicle-specific and may deviate from the data in the example.
DOT (Department of Transportation): tire symbol 1 indicates that the tire complies with the requirements of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Manufacturer identification code: manufacturer identification code 2 provides details on the tire manufacturer. New tires have a code with two symbols. Retreaded tires have a code with four symbols.
Further information about retreaded tires.
Tire size: identifier 3 describes the tire size.
Tire type code: tire type code 4 can be used by the manufacturer as a code to describe specific characteristics of the tire.
Date of manufacture: date of manufacture 5 provides information about the age of a tire. The first and second positions represent the week of manufacture, starting with "01" for the first calendar week. Positions three and four represent the year of manufacture.
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Bishop~Davidson - Bio
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"Jazzbo Acoustic Folk With Tabasco"
Bishop *Davidson
With nearly 14 years on the road as an acoustic enchantress, MJ Bishop did not feel a pressing need to hook up with yet another songwriter and begin booking afresh as a brand new duo. Neither did WT Davidson – comfortably ensconced in Nashville and resting on his laurels (cuts by Ray Charles, Crystal Gayle, and Michael Johnson, et al.) – feel particularly inclined to leave his cozy perch for a brand new batch of venues and an entirely new adventure in writing and playing. Yet, after meeting in a smoky backroom song circle in Nashville, the two seemed almost incapable of continuing the status quo, and found themselves drawn together. MJ’s evocative, yearning Americana, influenced by everyone from Hank Williams to Patty Griffin, meets WT’s often quirky, jazz/blues-infused sensibility with an engaging sparkle that produces an entirely new entity and musical starting point. When performing their pre-existing repertoire, new tempos, new grooves, and energy emerge. When collaborating on new songs, both find themselves writing, singing and playing in ways which they previously hadn’t conceived.
On stage, Bishop~Davidson produce what Hunter Allen describes as “a great sound and a great vibe.” MJ and WT have experienced a serendipitous meeting which is yielding more than a new act to take on the road – it’s a new way of approaching their craft, something hard to pin down, yet sensed by an audience with real delight. They really like playing together, and every show is a new chance at that spontaneous chemistry that makes music worth playing, and worth hearing.
MJ hails from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and, after spending 30 years in Seattle, moved to Nashville in the spring of 2010 to further hone her songwriting skills and begin work on her fourth album. She continues to write in the Americana vein, her music being laced with the sweet, familiar melodies of folk. WT was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa, where he cut his teeth playing at the Mill and the Sanctuary while still in high school. His influences include a great deal of traditional jazz artists like Jack Teagarden and Fats Waller, bluesmen like Bill Broonzy, the older and more soulful country of the Merles – Travis and Haggard, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, and a raft of Motown and Stax records and of course a lasting Beatles problem. After moving to Nashville in 1974, WT has had cuts by Ray Charles, Crystal Gayle, Michael Johnson, Gary Stewart and Ray Stevens, to name a few.
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Some celebs bash Caitlyn Jenner’s debut with ‘science project’ meme
06/06/15 10:37 AM Updated 06/06/15 05:11 PM
By Adam Howard
Despite widespread support for Caitlyn Jenner’s debut on the cover of Vanity Fair this past week, there has been some ugly invective spewed about her on social media.
Rapper Snoop Dogg has been in hot water with fans for comparing Jenner to a “science project” this week in an Instagram post. The hip-hop star argued that charitable activity in Africa by singer Akon was getting overshadowed by coverage of the transgender reality TV star.
Still, despite intense criticism other celebrities have shared Snoop Dogg’s post, including Cleveland Cavaliers star J.R. Smith. Even controversial R&B singer Chris Brown, a friend of Jenner’s daughters, re-posted and then deleted the meme, drawing condemnation from Kylie Jenner. “State what you want about the world without bashing others. Leave a positive impact,” she tweeted on Friday. Talk show host Wendy Williams also recently made fun of Jenner’s cover story. Meanwhile, Tom Cruise’s son Connor was indignant about news that Jenner would receive an Arthur Ashe courage award at this year’s EPSYs.
“Really?? Winning the AA award for courage?? Ashton is gonna come out and yell PUNK’D,” Cruise wrote Wednesday in a post that was later deleted. “Don’t get me wrong. Do what you feel like doing and don’t let anyone stop you. But everyone is taking this way too seriously…There are so many more important things that should be talked about…And SO MANY MORE IMPORTANT PEOPLE that actually deserve an award.”
And then there’s singer Drake Bell who tweeted, ”Sorry … still calling you Bruce,” in reaction to the Jenner story.
Bell later apologized for his comments – which were similar to those made by hip-hop producer Timbaland – but Snoop Dogg appears to be unaffected by the backlash. He recently posted another insensitive picture Friday on Instagram, mocking the members of the transgender community who aren’t as wealthy as Jenner.
These comments failed to acknowledge the disproportionate amount of bullying, violence and discrimination the trans community faces and the positive impact Jenner’s revelations may have. “Forty-one percent of trans people have at least made a suicide attempt,” wrote a Snoop Dogg fan in response to his tweet. “Seeing Caitlyn do what she’s done can be inspiring, especially since mainstream media doesn’t cover issues like this in a positive light a majority of the time. That is why she matters.”
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Get Ready, Nathan Sykes Is Heading To Wembley For Capital FM's Summertime Ball!
The singer is set to play to 80,000 fans at this summer's highly anticipated event!
Nathan Sykes has joined the huge line-up for Capital FM’s Summertime Ball with Vodafone, which will take at Wembley Stadium on June 6.
This ‘Kiss Me Quick’ singer, who’s debut solo single is out later this month, will join a whole host of big names including One Direction, Ariana Grande, Avicii and most recently, LunchMoney Lewis.
The former Wanted star, who has just returned from his sell out UK tour, is set to play to more than 80,000 people when he takes to the stage at Wembley this summer.
Kelly Clarkson, Flo Rida, Olly Murs, Jason Derulo, Carly Rae Jepsen, Jess Glynne and Meghan Trainor are also among the names confirmed for this year’s big summer bash which Capital FM are calling their most ‘insane’ line-up ever.
Capital’s Summertime Ball will take place on June 6 at Wembley Stadium, check out the video for ‘Kiss Me Quick’ below…
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Home BREAKING NEWS Renee Mehrra is President of Indo American Press Club
Renee Mehrra is President of Indo American Press Club
Renee Mehrra, President, Indo American Press Club, with Assemblyman David Weprin, at the Indian Consulate in New York, on April 10.
NEW YORK – Well-known TV journalist, as well as social and political activist, Renee Mehrra, is the new President of the Indo American Press Club (IAPC).
Mehrra, in her acceptance speech at the Indian Consulate in New York, on April 10, said: “Media has a responsibility to lead society and culture in a positive way and we are fortunate to do work that makes a tangible difference in the lives of our vibrant community.”
Mehrra said she would like to see more women of color in US media for a more inclusive democracy.
Mehrra has been associated with ITV for over three decades as a reporter and anchor. As community activist, she is a former New York City Commissioner for Human Rights and is Adviser, Women’s Cabinet, New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Minority Affairs.
Community leaders who attended the meet, where the Consul General of India Sandeep Chakravorty also spoke, included Assemblyman David Weprin, Dr. Neeta Jain, Democratic District leader from 25th Assembly District; Shiv Dass, President, Jackson Heights Merchants Association; and businessman Darshan Singh Bagga.
Malini Shah, Community Liaison for Councilman Paul Vallone gave a citation to Mehrra as did a representative from New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office. Governor Andrew Cuomo and Congressman Joseph Crowley sent congratulatory messages.
A four-year-old girl, Merryn Augustine, gave a Bharatanatyam performance, at the meet.
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Second Opinion: The World Ends With You -Final Remix- (Switch)
by Daan Koopman - October 10, 2018, 6:17 am PDT
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This version of the Reaper’s Game simply isn’t the way to play.
The World Ends With You is one of my favorite games ever made. I've played it countless times on both the Nintendo DS and iPad (dubbed Solo Remix). From start to finish, TWEWY remains one of the freshest games I've played in a long time. It shows that when push comes to shove, Square Enix can push the bar for what a RPG is. Imagine my surprise when the Final Remix of the game got announced; I was thrilled. That cheerfulness wasn't sadly forever as The World Ends With You -Final Remix- is my biggest disappointment of these past ten months.
Let's start with the positives. The story and their characters are still fantastic. The location choice of Tokyo is intriguing next to the normal Square Enix fare. Neku, Shiki and the other characters showcase some excellent writing with a nice build to the proceedings. Every little piece is leading up to something bigger and provides a satisfying pay-off in almost every scenario. It helps that the stakes of the Reaper's Game feels like a big threat. You have to finish the mission at hand or face deletion. It is one of the more exciting plots ever put in a game.
The presentation compliments the unrelenting feeling of the game. You explore the dark alleyways of Tokyo, all while finding clues or monsters to fight. The stylish look of the characters and world has translated greatly to the Nintendo Switch. In some regards, they sharpened the edges of Solo Remix, which looked fantastic in its own right. The World Ends With You -Final Remix- feels like manga brought to life, and I couldn't be more pleased about that. This is paired with an overhaul of the entire soundtrack, and all the tracks sound fantastic. You can opt to go for the original versions, but the composers have done a great job keeping the feel of the music in tact.
The World Ends With You, as far as gameplay is concerned, hasn't changed all that much. As Neku, you still play through three weeks of chapters, which are further segregated in the days of the week. The days see you fighting Noise characters that block your path, scanning the environment for details or going through area to area. As this is a RPG, the fighting is critically important. This is done with the pin system. Within your inventory, you will select certain pins that will provide attacks to perform. These attacks will level as you continue to use them, and some work better on certain Noise. It is a simple yet elegant way to stay ahead of the curve, and I always found the system fun to tinker with.
However, Final Remix isn't the way to play The World Ends With You. The controls in this version are incredibly disappointing. No matter if you play either on a television or on the go, I didn't think they work well. On the television (or in tabletop), you will have to use a Joy-Con pointer. There have been good pointer implementations in the past, but Final Remix is definitely not one of them. The position drifts way too many times for it to be fun, and you really struggle to keep the game in check. At the end of the game, my most used button was the Y-button so I could calibrate the controls over and over again. The calibrating pains only grew due to the fact that you have to make swipe motions to make certain attacks work. Inherently, there isn't anything wrong with that, but it required such a specific way of doing it.
The handheld controls are a little weird. You can't use buttons of the Joy-Con together with the touchscreen, because that would've made sense. Instead, it is touchscreen controls only, just like the iPad version. While this works in a vacuum, the real estate you have now is a bit cramped. Solo Remix gave you the freedom to walk about, and see how you want to approach situations. The tiny touchscreen on the Nintendo Switch makes you lose focus as you happen to block your sight more than once. It is not a bad way to play it as they are accurate, but at point, why not play Solo Remix? That is honestly my question here.
Well, you might say ''because it has changes'', but that is only true in the grand scheme of things. There are some new pins and an updated look, which is what mostly impressed me. The added co-op suffers from the problems with the Joy-Con controls, and overall tweaks haven't been made. A few objectives are still as annoying they ever were and Square Enix wasn't in the mood to fix these. The new content promised was the biggest bummer of the entire thing. It simply wasn't the thing most fans were hoping for and, without giving anything away, it ends with another teaser. It is down right disappointing.
The World Ends With You -Final Remix- left me super bummed out. This was the game I was looking forward to all year, and all I'm left with is a soggy sandwich. That sandwich is eatable and even somewhat enjoyable, but not the thing you were truly hoping for. The ''Another 7 Days'' many have been waiting for isn't here, the controls are really disappointing and there hasn't been many significant changes. In that sense, I feel more strongly about recommending Solo Remix and playing it on an iPad. You will get a better experience as a whole.
Characters and setting still great
Gameplay structure works
Looks and sounds fantastic on Switch
Not many changes made
The controls are somewhat bad
Very little new stuff
Box Art (3)
Genre RPG
Developer Jupiter
Release Oct 12, 2018
Rating Teen
Rating 12+
The World Ends With You: Final Remix [Switch]
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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age by James Crabtree
I picked this book based on rave reviews and strong recommendations in certain websites. I wasn’t aware who James Crabtree was until I bought the book and checked out his super-strong credentials. This topic on Billionaire’s ruling India could have been picked by none other than the author himself. Written during an expat stint in India, while living in the most posh neighborhood in the rich city of Mumbai, he certainly was a “star”journalist and it was obvious from the interviews he managed to get from otherwise reluctant super-rich billionaires of India who don’t see any reason to be chatty with journalists of all people.
This book has grammatical mistakes in certain places. Not good coming from a powerhouse journalist and publishing house. James Crabtree starts with a dramatic Bollywood entry – a story of a crashed Aston Martin, and of course enough hints to show who was behind the wheels and the subsequent cover up by Asia’s richest man and business family. Everything else about the book is a drag on the reader. The author showcases the wealthy, describing their physical features (especially being fascinated by the puny little form of the billionaires of India as if that somehow mattered!?) and of course talking at length about their lifestyle. The little information he shares about what these billionaires did to create controversy, be it the exorbitant bank loans or favors from politicians, is just restricted to already available standard newspaper information. There is nothing investigative about an author who comes from an investigative journalistic creed. Maybe he was also bitten by the Indian bug of passive, judgmental, biased, superstar-image-conscious religion of journalism in India!?
The book is however entertaining to read as James Crabtree is still a good writer. If he wasn’t a “foreigner”in Indian shores, his understanding of the highly complicated economic-socio-political landscape of India would have been just stuff that could be huffed and puffed away. It is certainly impressive to see how the author has learnt so much about the dynamics of power play in India although I wouldn’t neglect the immense help he got for it from people he has acknowledged towards the end credits. But, what was he chasing beyond saying that Billionaires could ruin the fabric of the country? His long prose on the dangers to liberal democracy, cronyism and rising social divide are as old as the young nation- India. With nothing much to offer than just saying that banks were blind to giving loans after the economic reforms of 1991, no names of bank officers or politicians or bureaucratic babus revealed, it is at best a run of the mill emotional saga just like a boring Bollywood super hit movie.
In order to possibly compensate for this lost soul in the book, the author turns his attention with the usual libertarian flair of being on both sides of the fence while attacking the target on the right side of their personal wrong, and launches a two chapter attack on the ruling BJP party (since 2014), almost attacks the Congress party (left of center party) and more particularly on the Indian PM, Narendra Modi. It is easy for even a high school dropout to call out the vagaries of the politician, pracharack and prime minister that Mr. Narendra Modi effortlessly keeps switching between on the Indian landscape. Depending on how much you love or hate him, you can pick your choices from the vast buffet of choices he offers. The author is obviously baffled by this thin character and thick skin of India’s politicians. He chooses to see more of it in the PM and worries at end towards the fact that not much has been happening for the good of the country. Good for him, but the author also knows that India is a land where a day for Lord Brahma is the equivalent of a thousand years. What you can achieve as a nation in five years comes with timelines that don’t have an end date.
The author loses the plot the moment he becomes political in his commentary. What is this Billionaire Raj beyond a few businesses exploiting the situation? This is in no way as draconian and massively stupid as the socialist license raj of the past (and present) that was actually a political axe that landed blunt blows on the head of every Indian for more than sixty years. James Crabtree was inspired to call his book after the license raj (which he is also critical of) but the Billionaire raj is in no way a transition of the political movement in India that governs its people. It is a bad side effect and the author is quick to reveal that it almost ended and got killed once Narendra Modi came to power.
Overall, this book could have been a better potboiler. What about all the billionaire politicians in the spectrum of political parties in India and their “business-regulation” influence? This is by far more dangerous and exposing this link beyond a few references does a disservice to this genuine threat that the country faces. Even here, the author chooses safe names to reveal like mining baron Janardhan Reddy and others. Maybe the expat within him wanted an amicable exit from the country he seemed to love much without ruffling too many feathers.
Two stars for the impressive effort of James Crabtree to tackle a subject that others care not to talk much about. He does come out as honest in his opinions. But, that in itself doesn’t make this a bold effort to expose anything in India as some people have claimed the book does. Summarizing news reports of others and having inconclusive interviews with India’s billionaire businessmen doesn’t cut it. The country needs more journalists who are not verbal spatting goons of the billionaire raj. Maybe this book was meant for them to come out of their safe houses? Only time will tell.
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Our friendly club caters for swimmers from stage 6 onwards of the ASA Learn to Swim Pathway. The club has a wide range of abilities from beginners to national standard, including junior life saving and integrated disabled swimmers. We enter galas of varying levels and take part in the National Arena Swimming League, North Midlands Championships, County Championships, North West Region Championships and the ASA National Championships.
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Born Hertfordshire, 22 October 1953.
English tenor.
Peter Bronder worked as an electrical engineer before training in London with Joy Mammen at the Royal Academy of Music 1979-84. He then spent the year 1984-85 at the National Opera Studio.
His professional debut, in 1985, was with Glyndebourne Touring Opera as Remendado. He returned to that company in 2003 for the title role in Idomeneo, which was seen in Edinburgh. With the Royal Opera he sang from 1986 as Arturo Lucia di Lammermoor, First Prisoner Fidelio, Major-domo Der Rosenkavalier, Youth Die Frau ohne Schatten, Cassio, Pedrillo, Andrès Wozzeck, Sellem The Rake's Progress, First Jew Salome and Trabuco La forza del destino. His first appearance with ENO in 1989 was as Vanya Kátya Kabanová, returning as Andrès, Shepherd Oedipus Rex, Count Almaviva The Barber of Seville, Italian Tenor Der Rosenkavalier, Alfred Die Fledermaus and Jailer Il prigioniero. His debut at the Glyndebourne Festival was as Mr Upfold Albert Herring in 1991, returning for Tito La clemenza di Tito. With Opera North he sang the Captain Wozzeck, Prunier La rondine and Alessandro Il re pastore.
With Welsh National he was Principal Tenor for several seasons, his repertoire ranging through Gluck (Pylade), Mozart (Ferrando, Tamino), Rossini (Almaviva), Donizetti (Edgardo), Bellini (Elvino, Arturo), Berlioz (Iopas), Verdi (Alfredo, Cassio, Dr Caius), Tchaikovsky (Lensky), Puccini (Rodolfo), Johann Strauss (Alfred Die Fledermaus) and Richard Strauss (Narraboth). His interpretation of Dr Caius was also seen when that famous Falstaff production, directed by Peter Stein, was toured to Milan, New York, Tokyo and the 1993 Edinburgh Festival.
In Scotland he worked with Scottish Opera in 1993 as Rodolfo. He returned to the company as Leicester Maria Stuarda (1994), Dancing Master Ariadne auf Naxos (1998), Loge Das Rheingold (2000, 2003), Italian Tenor Der Rosenkavalier (2002) and Huon Oberon in concert at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival. At the 1996 Festival he also sang Pylade in a performance of Iphigénie en Tauride that accompanied the Pina Bausch dance company's widely-praised interpretation of the work.
He made a number of guest appearances abroad, including Netherlands Opera (Ernesto) and Brussels (Pedrillo). In Spain he worked at Madrid (Valzacchi Der Rosenkavalier, Herod) and Seville (title role Der Zwerg). Appearances in Germany ranged from Frankfurt (Herod, Zwerg), to Munich (Narraboth, Mazal Excursions of Mr Brouček), Stuttgart (Loge) and Berlin (Laca, Zwerg). He sang Erik Flying Dutchman in both Paris and Rouen. At La Scala, Milan he appeared as Valzacchi and Herod. He also sang in the USA: San Francisco (Pedrillo), New York Met (Dr Caius), and Mime in Siegfried with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Sources: the singer's own website, supplemented by Who's Who in British Opera (Nicky Adam 1993) and by programmes.
Rodolfo a poet
Bohème 1993
Caius Dr Caius, a Frenchman
Falstaff 1993
Roberto di Leicester Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Maria Stuarda 1994
Scottish Opera Collection 1996
Pylade friend to Oreste
Iphigenia in Tauris 1996
Dancing Master
Ariadne on Naxos 1998
Loge god of fire and cunning
Rheingold 2000
Rosenkavalier 2002
Idomeneo King of Crete
Idomeneo, Re di Creta 2003
Sir Huon of Bordeaux Duke of Guienne
Oberon 2004
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Quarterly National Accounts, Q1 2018 (flash estimate), INE
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The Portuguese Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 2.1% in volume in the first quarter 2018, compared with the same period of 2017 (2.4% in the previous quarter). Net external demand registered a more negative contribution to GDP year-on-year change rate, as Exports of Goods and Services decelerated more pronouncedly than Imports of Goods and Services. The positive contribution of domestic demand remained unchanged, reflecting the slight slowdown of private consumption, while Investment registered a minor acceleration due to the behaviour of Change in Inventories, reflecting the negative base effect recorded in the first quarter 2017.
In comparison with the fourth quarter of 2017, GDP increased 0.4% in real terms (0.7% in the previous quarter). The contribution of net external demand to quarter-on-quarter GDP change rate was negative, after being positive in the previous quarter, as a result of the higher increase in Imports of Goods and Services than in Exports of Goods and Services. The positive domestic demand contribution increased in the first quarter, due to the acceleration of Gross Fixed Capital Formation and private consumption.
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Phillies' offense remains hot, Hoskins drives in four in win
Patrick Gordon, Managing Editor Saturday, April 06, 2019 Philadelphia Baseball, Phillies
By Patrick Gordon, Managing Editor , Saturday, April 06, 2019 Labels: Philadelphia Baseball, Phillies No comments
The Phillies offense continued to impress on Friday, easily handling the Twins in the opener of a three-game set at Citizens Bank Park, 10-4. Minnesota starter Jake Odorizzi was chased in the opening frame, having recorded just two outs.
The Phillies put up a five spot to open the contest and cruised from there on out.
"We've grinded down pitchers," said Phils manager Gabe Kapler. "We've gotten big hits. But it's the deep counts. It's the walks. It's the great at-bats that have carried us thus far. Even when we've had some guys who haven't gotten hits at the end of those at-bats. We talked about it last year, it's an even deeper lineup that does the same thing."
Rhys Hoskins led the offense for Philadelphia, finishing 3-for-4 with four RBIs. Maikel Franco drove in a pair and doubled in the winning effort. His OPS of 1.537 leads the Phillies.
The first half of the contest was played in a steady rain.
"It was really rough out there," Kapler said. "It was cold. And it was just a consistent wet. I know the outfielders were having some trouble seeing the ball."
In addition to timely hits by Franco and Hoskins, the offense as a whole worked nine walks and forced Minnesota hurlers to toss 192 pitches, a mark significantly higher than the average in a ballgame.
“The story tonight is 192 pitches,” Kapler added. “The league average is 140-ish. That's what we've done the entire season."
Nick Pivetta surrendered four runs - three earned - on nine hits over five innings. He looked better than he did in his first performance last week, but he's still not yet where he wants to be.
“I thought Pivetta came out in very, very tough conditions and gave us a pretty gutsy performance,” Kapler said. “It's not his best. There's still some hard contact. It's almost like his stuff is so good that we're only going to be satisfied when we see a consistent six- or seven-inning performance where he misses a lot of bats and induces a lot of weak contact. That's what he's capable of. That's what we kind of expect from him. So we're looking for that.”
The two clubs resume their three-game set on Saturday with Jake Arrieta facing Michael Pineda.
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DESPERATELY SEEKING A PIANIST
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The popular conception of an adequate accompanist (that is, of a quiet modest individual of undoubted sobriety, neat but not gaudy, seen but not heard, an affable automaton, obediently following the soloist and oozing with sympathy and discretion from every pore) was one that could not be reconciled with the nature of the work I had to do.
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* The singer ‘Soaringvoice’, who was satisfied with the services of the pianist ‘Tenfingeratyourservice’ during the concert on 5 March, kept his contact details and enlisted his services again for a second concert without going through the agency.
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Episode 12 - Epilogue of Fun Facts
It's always nice when these things write themselves and, to be honest, just watch this excellent video at the AV Club to hear Ben Folds talk about "The Luckiest" in great detail. If you'd like to see Ben Folds do a full performance of the song, here he is playing on the Queen Latifah show.
Did you know "The Luckiest" was supposed to be on the soundtrack of not one, but two movies? It finally made it into "About Time", a movie that I vaguely remember the poster of. But it did lead to this nice clip from the director talking about "The Luckiest".
Unrelated to Ben Folds, I found myself going down the rabbit hole of WatchMojo Top 10 videos including cheesiest songs of the 00s and songs that make you cry. I didn't see Ben on either list.
Labels: Ben Folds, episode 12
Episode 15 - Der Erlkönig
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Episode 13 - Hands Down
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Episode 12 - The Luckiest
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What’s New in PowerPoint 2013?
July 10, 2019 July 10, 2019 by pando
Microsoft has as of late exhibited its new Office suite which incorporates the eagerly awaited PowerPoint 2013. An official discharge date hasn’t yet been declared despite the fact that it is probably going to be right off the bat in 2013. It is at present conceivable to download and assess a preliminary adaptation of the new programming as a feature of the Office 2013 programming pack. fishbone diagram powerpoint
The primary things you see about the most recent PowerPoint form is the new begin menu and ‘Metro’ styling. The new begin screen has been totally updated and gives snappy access to late documents and layouts. The Metro plan language is Microsoft’s typography-based structure language initially made for use in Windows Phone 7. The key standard of Metro is to concentrate on the substance of the applications, depending more on typography and less on illustrations. In general, the progressions give the impression of a smooth uncluttered interface that is quick and instinctive.
Office 2013 is intended to just keep running on Windows 7 or 8 (Windows 8 is expected for discharge in late 2012), implying that it won’t take a shot at Windows XP or Vista. Albeit just 5 years of age, the piece of the pie of Vista is insignificant, XP is presently more than 10 years of age, yet is as yet utilized in a great deal of business situations. Current appraisals of PCs running XP and Vista are 51%, so some may scrutinize the rationale of discharging programming that won’t keep running on most of current PCs.
Formats have been improved for the new form and are presently accessible in a 16:9 perspective proportion, which mirrors the components of most current PC screens. It is additionally conceivable to make subject variations by picking an elective shading plan to current formats, anybody utilizing such a layout would consequently have the correct hues set up for slide components.
A major improvement for the most recent rendition of PowerPoint is the presentation of touch control support. There are currently numerous tablet gadgets available, the most notable of these being Apple’s iPad which is bolstered by this new form of Microsoft PowerPoint. The lace is bigger, taking into account contact control, contact route has been presented with swipe and squeeze signals enabling clients to control slides in a quick and instinctive way.
Cloud coordination is another significant new expansion to this version of PowerPoint. Working together with others is made less complex with the capacity to place and track remarks alongside content you’re examining. Introductions are spared online to SkyDrive or SharePoint as a matter of course and it’s conceivable to cooperate on a similar introduction by utilizing the PowerPoint Web App. The capacity to embed video, sound or pictures legitimately into introductions from a hunt in the implanted Bing internet searcher offers access to a tremendous scope of eminence free sight and sound things.
Taking everything into account, Powerpoint 2013 will be fundamental for clients needing to make introductions with contact screen tablet gadgets, in spite of the fact that the absence of help for more established working frameworks may put a few people off. The capacity to reinforcement, team up and source a wide scope of media in the cloud includes incredible new usefulness that puts this form beside its antecedents.
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2010 February Archive | Patrick Chan
Chan greeted by `surreal' Games welcome
VANCOUVER–Such is Patrick Chan's Olympic studliness that photographers were dispatched to the airport Monday afternoon to snap-document his arrival. And the poor Games rookie hasn't even laced up his skates yet. "It's almost surreal," Chan told reporters at the airport reception. "It's the first time I've been nervous coming off a plane because I knew what was coming up. It's really cool to be here." Read More....
Figure Skating – Chan's master-plan theatre
Toronto, Canada (Sports Network) - Canadians hope that Patrick Chan makes The Music of the Night when the country's top figure skater takes to the Pacific Coliseum in search of gold. The three-time national champion heads to the Vancouver Winter Games with the weight of the country on his shoulders. Read More...
Welcome to Patrick's Revamped Site
We're heading into the Olympics and what better timing to clean up Patrick's site than the week before the big "O"? We've added a video player so you can now see all the videos that we do with Patrick right at his website (among other places as well). Leave a comment if you have any ideas or features that you would like to see on his site! Or just send some cheer this way. Whatever works! :) I haven't had the chance to see or talk to Patrick a lot lately but that should change next...
Chan plans an amazing program
Forget about the expectations and the pressures of performing on home soil. Or that no other Canadian male before him has won an Olympic gold medal in figure skating. Or the burden of being fresh off a calf injury that had him side-lined for the Grand Prix season. Disregard the fact he's adopted a new coach, Lori Nichols, to replace Don Laws mere weeks before Olympic kick off. Read More...
Patrick kicks off Harry Rosen Spring Campaign
Patrick Chan, Canada's youngest national figure skating champion and World Silver Medalist, appears in his first fashion photo shoot when he is featured in the iconic Harry Rosen advertising campaign nationally the week of Monday, February 8th. "We are thrilled to feature an athlete of Patrick's calibre in our campaign this season as he embodies the values and ideals of confidence and leadership that we promote," stated Larry Rosen, CEO and Chairman of Harry Rosen Inc. "We salute Patrick for his hard work and determination and wish him luck as he continues to represent our country. Patrick's incomparable...
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Review: Just Cause 3
Posted by Eric G on December 31st, 2015 | 3 Comments | Tags: Avalanche , Just Cause 3 , Square-Enix
Just Cause 2 was my favorite game of 2010. That’s saying a lot considering Heavy Rain and a handful of stellar PSN titles came out that same year. Suffice it to say I have been awaiting the release of Just Cause 3 with bated breath for five years now. I have fond memories of the ridiculousness inherent in JC2 and practically wet myself when the wing suit was announced for JC3. I booted the game up my first morning home from surgery. My first note reads “really lengthy initial loading time.” I was willing to forgive that initial snag seeing as how the game was probably loading a massive sandbox for me to dump dozens of hours into. The slow rendition of Prodigy’s “Firestarter” that plays over the opening credits got my hype receptors firing once more, but it wouldn’t be too long before I started to grow weary of playing the game altogether.
The loading that I overlooked at first started happening more and more often. Before cutscenes, after cutscenes, before challenges, while logging into Square’s online servers, and more. At this point, around 20-30 hours in, I might have spent more time watching Just Cause 3‘s loading screens than playing some of the smaller indie games that have released on the PlayStation Network. When you start the game up from the XMB, the title screen depicts Rico taking a load off in a beach chair, a glass of whiskey in his hand and a towel over his shoulder. It’s a stylish intro, but pressing the X button brings up a gallery-image loading screen for about a minute or so before bringing up another title screen with options like “Continue”, “Start New Game”, “Login to Square Enix Account”, etc. Rico is leaning on a fancy car, and if you select “Continue”, the game simply, seamlessly starts. Rico stands up and you’re in the fictional world of Medici, ready to liberate the crap out of some settlements and dethrone the heck out of a tyrannical dictator. This is how the entire game should feel. It’s so slick that it’s almost able to be overlooked, but I have a feeling the rest of the game wants to perform like that. I can’t speak to if/how it performs on other platforms, but the PS4 version loads constantly.
In between loading screens, there’s a fun open-world game that improves upon Just Cause 2‘s formula in a few important areas. The most notable narrative upgrade is the fact that it actually feels like you’re liberating settlements in this game as opposed to just blowing stuff into submission in JC2. There are propaganda speakers, vans, projectors, and billboards that cry to be taken out by the heroic Rico Rodriguez and Co. The random encounters are also a nice touch that don’t pop up often enough to become too much of a distraction from the main scripted events. For instance, there may be a guy stranded near his car, out of gas an in need of a hand. With some spiffy grappling tethers, you can pull that car right over to a gas station and complete the encounter in under two minutes. The other major changes from the second to the third installment of the franchise are the addition of the wing suit and the gear mod challenge system.
The wing suit is fantastic. If you haven’t played Just Cause 2, its main schtick was that you can get around really fast by using a grappling hook and a parachute. That travel mechanic is still rock solid in JC3, and the wing suit only adds another swift trick to Rico’s arsenal. It takes a bit of getting used to at first but controls just fine with some practice, which leads me to the challenge system. There were challenges in JC2, but in this game they unlock gears that are used to purchase mods. The mods are in line with the challenges that unlock them, so for instance you unlock a Nitrous Boost by completing a few race challenges. I never had a problem with the challenges in JC2. As a matter of fact, I thought they were a welcome distraction from the main campaign and from the late-game monotony of destroying towns ad infinitum. I think the challenges in this game are great, especially because now they have leaderboards and meaningful content (the mods) tied to them. However, loading screens strike again. When you start a challenge, you may wait upwards of a minute or more for it to actually begin. That’s longer than it’ll take to faceplant into the ground near a particularly tricky ring in a wing suit challenge. As much as I wanted to get better at using the wing suit, I didn’t want to have to wait a full minute to retry a challenge a few times. The very fact that you are rewarded for perfecting these challenges means that you’ll probably have to retry them several times. With the loading buffer in between each try, I quickly learned to care less about a grapple hook or flare upgrade if the challenge proved too difficult to 5-star.
Some attributes of Just Cause 3 are outlandishly cool. The draw-in distance is fairly impressive and the sheer size of the map is bonkers. There are nifty AI interactions, too. For instance, you can pick up any rebel by honking your horn near him/her. The rebel will jump in the car and fight with you wherever you go. You can even stunt on the car (jump out and stand on top of it) and the rebel will take the wheel and drive to a waypoint that you’ve set. Guess where I learned that sweet trick? Not in a mission, but on a loading screen… Loading times are a bit less if you play in offline mode, but part of this game’s next-gen charm is that it’s constantly tracking and comparing your accomplishments with those of your friends, similar to what Need for Speed: Rivals did a few years back. Maybe the game loads less on PC. If that’s the case, then by all means, get that version of it. Otherwise, make sure you have a device by you or something else to do while playing it on PS4. Might I suggest Lara Croft: Go?
A copy of this game was provided for review purposes. For more info on our review policy click here.
Developer: Avalanche Studios
Publisher: Square Enix
Platforms: PS4
Release Date: December 2015
Price: $59.99, £44.99
Genre: Explosions, Open World, Sandbox
Ratings: Mature, PEGI 18
Blowing stuff up.
Wing suit.
Waiting to blow stuff up.
Waiting to complete challenges.
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Follow: waltershapiro@ymail.com
Running for re-election the Trump way — with half the country against you
President’s Orlando kick-off could be the high point of his re-election campaign
Posted Jun 18, 2019 6:55 AM
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President Donald Trump kicks off his re-election campaign, officially, in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday night. Despite a healthy economy, he has his challenges ahead of him in seeking a second term, Shapiro writes. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)
OPINION — When Donald Trump declares his candidacy for a second term Tuesday night in Orlando, the line of supporters fighting to get in will stretch from Disney World to the Everglades.
Many people are already saying that Trump is such a favorite for re-election that all 23 Democrats will withdraw after they make fools of themselves criticizing the Greatest Economy in World History during next week’s debates. Already, there is a huge movement to repeal the 22nd Amendment so Donald J. Trump can be anointed as President for Life.
Sorry about that, I got caught up in Trumpian hyperbole. And have I told you that Trump Steaks are the best in the world?
In truth — despite Tuesday’s expected explosion of hoopla and hokum — the current omens are not looking propitious for the 45th president. Everywhere Trump turns, there are slights and dangers.
Do you think that Trump failed to notice that Vladimir Putin spent the weekend in Tajikistan with Chinese leader Xi Jinping? Not only did they celebrate Xi’s birthday with gifts, but Putin also continued his recent lovefest by again calling his Chinese compatriot his “dear friend.”
Trump and Vlad were supposed to be BFFs. Now Putin is stepping out on Trump with the leader of a country that won’t even play fair with trade. No wonder Trump whined in his interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “Nobody’s ever been treated badly like me.”
The ABC interview was a rare foray for Trump outside the safe space provided by Fox News. Rather than attracting attention for the novelty of Trump being interviewed by someone tougher than Sean Hannity, the Sunday night broadcast attracted meager ratings, finishing third in its time slot.
Trump, of course, will blame the ratings on the mainstream media and its loss of credibility over purported “fake news.” Or maybe the president will conclude that viewers were turned off and tuned out after hearing Mick Mulvaney, the White House chief of staff, coughing in the background.
But the ABC ratings may be symptomatic of a larger malaise facing Trump — he has become predictable and boring.
He is the Johnny One Note of politics, with his range limited to high-decibel insults and overly capitalized tweets. Trump’s targets may change, but the bombast and the shameless lying remain constant.
As a weak leader on the international stage, Trump constantly risks losing control of events. His murderous pen pal in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un, retains the ability to humiliate Trump by resuming nuclear testing or provocatively launching a few long-range ballistic missiles over the Pacific.
Iran lurks as the true threat to Trump, the one spot on the globe where America could blunder into a major war with devastating geopolitical, humanitarian and political consequences.
Trump doesn’t understand much about international affairs (aside from promoting his golf resorts), but he does grasp that the unnecessary Iraq War had devastating consequences for George W. Bush. Trump’s problem is that he fired all the senior Cabinet members, like Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who shared his sense of caution about another Middle Eastern war.
So Trump is now facing a possible military confrontation with Iran in the Strait of Hormuz with no safety net: his top advisers (John Bolton, the national security adviser, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo) are so hawkish that they make Dick Cheney look like a peacenik. And Trump’s penchant for leaving Cabinet posts vacant so that acting officials can dance on a string means that the Pentagon is effectively leaderless.
For all the pyrotechnics about immigration, Trump’s re-election campaign is based on a strong economy and a soaring stock market. With the unemployment rate at 3.6 percent, any president would be entitled like Trump to crow about the economy without crediting his predecessor.
The problem is that, with the best economy since 9/11, Trump’s approval rating is mired in the low 40-percent range. While you can cherry-pick individual polls (as Trump does with abandon), the averages compiled by RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight show only small variations over the past year. And what has remained unchanged is that more than 50 percent of the voters disapprove of Trump’s performance in office, despite the economy.
Yes, you can be elected president while losing the popular vote, as both George W. Bush and Trump himself have demonstrated in this century. But political consultants are not normally in the habit of advising clients to begin their re-election campaigns with half the electorate in unyielding opposition.
Trump, with his keen survival instincts, must sense his time of troubles. That may explain why the president unexpectedly announced to Stephanopoulos that he would be unveiling a new health care plan within two months that will be “less expensive than Obamacare by a lot.”
In all likelihood, that health care plan is as elusive as the secret deal with Mexico that will solve the border crisis. But now Trump faces two unappealing choices — trying to defy history by competing with the Democrats on health care or admitting once again that his policy pronouncements have all the substance of a barstool blowhard.
If you follow only a few details about 2020 politics, these are the facts that should lodge in your brain.
Winning campaigns do not fire most of their pollsters 17 months before the election, as Trump just did. And most leaked polls in presidential politics do not show the candidate who paid for the surveys losing by double digits in key states.
So let Trump revel in the Fantasyland of his Orlando rally Tuesday night. It could be the high point of his re-election campaign.
Walter Shapiro has covered the last 10 presidential campaigns. He is also a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU and a lecturer in political science at Yale. Follow him on Twitter @MrWalterShapiro.
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Where the Galaxy Watch falls brief remains in its third-party app support and also reliance on Samsung software program and also services. There just aren't much third-party apps readily available for it, and the third-party watchfaces, though abundant, aren't great. If you use the Galaxy Watch with a phone that's not made by Samsung, you'll also have to mount various applications on your phone to enable every one of its functions, which is annoying.But in addition to Complete Price Guide To Watches Online .
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those problems, the Galaxy Watch is around as great as it gets for Android users.For years Samsung's Gear collection of smartwatches have been controling the market for all the ideal reasons. This is what happens when you take clever advertising as well as Complete Price Guide To Watches Onlineamazing items in order to integrate them together. The Equipment S3 is absolutely one of my much-loved smartwatches.Right out of package, you can inform that the S3 is a leading smartwatch;
launched previously this year, the S3 concentrates on every little thing that was right in the previous variations, and also adds also much more functions than before. Certain, I know it sets you back relatively greater than some of the other alternatives on the listing, but it is okay.Starting off, the build high quality is incredibly pleasing, with premium high quality products made use of throughout the building and construction. The watch absolutely seems like a style statement as high as it feels like a premium smartwatch.Unlike some of the various other smartwatches in the market, the Gear S3 does not operate on Android Put on, rather, it runs on Samsung's very own OS called Tizen. Before my review, I had my questions about this OS as it is still something brand-new, and also unknown to me.Luckily, upon utilizing the expect a week, I can say that the OS is appealing, nonetheless, the severe absence of applications may maintain some individuals away. Samsung lately pushed Complete Price Guide To Watches Online
an updated to this watch, allowing you to conserve offline Spotify playlists onto the 4GB of storage.This attribute makes my life simple because I no more need to rely upon my data link to listen to the music whenever I am outdoors. The Equipment S3 has an animated always-on display, and unlike a few of the other watches I make use of on a common basis, this is one gorgeous display, thanks to Samsung.Another excellent thing that I such as regarding the Gear S3 is the fact that it comes filled with task trackers of all kinds, as well as while numerous individuals might really feel cynical regarding it, especially when you consider the quantity of authorizations it calls for. It really is not that large of a problem to be honest.The Equipment S3 likewise supplies a wonderful, instinctive user interface that is among the most effective I have actually seen in any kind of smartwatch.
All of these excellent attributes incorporate as well as make this a leading smartwatch. I do have some problems that are essential to be listing out.For beginners, the watch looks big on your wrist; now that is something that totally depends on just how your wrists are. This is a subjective issue of course, but I still think it is crucial to point it out. An additional point that was a disappointment was the sheer absence of proper apps. Complete Price Guide To Watches Online
That is mainly because of the fact that Tizen is still a smartwatch OS that is creating, and also ending up being much better. If you are okay with these minor aggravations, after that I can inform you that the Samsung Equipment S3 is absolutely among the very best smartwatches 2017. Designer smartwatches are capturing on, yet the majority of options available most likely originated from Fossil Team's rankings-- as well as
one of the finest amongst them is the outstanding Skagen Falster 2. It's a unisex watch that is available in a unisex size, although it's definitely among the extra manly coatings in the Fossil Team line-up. Slim and also light, the Skagen challenges those that complain that smartwatches are as well beefy, packing a complete 1.19-inch OLED touchscreen. In regards to dimension, the situation has been shrunk to 40mm, which as little as any smartwatch out there-- and it's very light also. At 0.8 mm thick it's no Daniel Wellington, but it's as comfy as any type of full-screen Use OS look out there.
It takes a conventional 20mm band, so you can practically choose anything from the analogue watch globe to pimp out your smartwatch.There are downsides for a tech point of view. It utilized older Qualcomm modern technology so battery life is bogged down around a single day's use and we did notice some performance concerns. If you're looking for style initially and also technology second-- and there is definitely nothing incorrect with that-- the Skagen Falster 2 is well worth your time.Fossil Team might be holding the umbrella over a number of style homes generating smartwatches, but that doesn't indicate it's not completing in the field itself. And with its fourth-generation smartwatches, it's generated perhaps one of the most eye-catching smartwatch on the marketplace, from a style perspective.Sharing some resemblances with the older Michael Kors Accessibility Sofie (our previous finest fashion watch pick ), the Fossil Q Venture Human Resources desires to stick out, as well as followers of an extra elegant watch will probably find it a much better fit than those that such as to keep their wrist wear understated.Fossil is still keeping screen resolution and also various other specifications under covers, but we do know this generation(that includes the guys's Fossil Q Explorist HR)is one of the most feature-packed we've seen from the firm.
Structure on the layout improvements of the third-gen tools, which saw the level tyre got rid of and also a slimmer type aspect, the Q Endeavor Human Resources now additionally harbours some serious tech under the bezel.There's currently a heart price screen, as the name recommends, for tracking beats throughout the day and also throughout workout, a GPS keep track of to keep up with your exercises, and an NFC chip to enable Google Pay. Contribute to that the capability to take this undersea up
to 50 metres, all on the top of the refreshed Use OS, as well as it all rounds out as an extremely full smartwatch experience.One of our top smartwatch choices for females along with the Fossil Q Venture is Michael Kors'Access Path. The apple iphone and Android-friendly work on Google's Use OS and improves the previous generation Michael Kors smartwatches, going large on looks once again.Its 41mm situation houses a charming 1.19-inch 390 x 390 AMOLED touchscreen display screen.
There's your option of stainless steel and leather bands, and also it's likewise offered in a slightly extra pricey Ceramic model.On the functions front, the Path brings built-in GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, a heart rate display, a swimproof layout and also Google Pay to enable contactless payments.
It's possibly not finest fit to opt for a kept up, yet if you care concerning taking advantage of Google's health and fitness tracking attributes, it greater than does the job.Google's Wear OS obviously runs the software program show so you're likewise getting notice support, Google Assistant, the capability to transfer music to your watch as well as customisable watch encounters.
There's custom Michael Kors watch faces there as well to better compliment that elegant watch body.Battery life is the Put on OS smartwatch standard, so you can anticipate to get you through a day and perhaps a little added. Bottom line, you'll require to bill it every day.If you're not intending to obtain sweaty with it and also you're looking for a
seriously fine-looking smartwatch, the Path definitely fits the bill.Luxury smartwatches are a thing and a few of them are in fact really excellent. It began with Tag Heuer's smartwatches after that the likes of Louis Vuitton signed up with the connected celebration also. Now Montblanc wants in.Features such as heart price monitors, and also wide variety of
various other sensing units have actually made their way right into the smartwatches, enabling them to really change the wearable experience into something better, as well as functional at the very same time.Since the market at this point is filled up with smartwatches of all sorts, we took it on ourselves to take an appearance at the finest smartwatches you can purchase, yet initially, we are mosting likely to be taking a look at several of the vital details regarding the smartwatches.Its first smartwatch was underwhelming but, in its 2nd coming, the Top 2 is a watch that supplies on design and on features.
Montblanc has actually designed its 2nd generation watch on its 1858 collection offering sleek original watch encounters, a high quality building and an excellent 1.2-inch, 390 x 390 resolution touchscreen display.Google's Wear OS runs the show, but Montblanc handles to leave its mark with added apps and those watch encounters we stated to aid points really feel even more distinct.
It's currently loaded with more hardware features including built-in GPS, a heart price screen as well as a totally water resistant style to include any kind of added layer of durability.This is likewise one of the very first Put on OS smartwatches to work on Qualcomm's brand-new smartwatch tech that uses performance enhancements across
the board consisting of battery life. You're not going to obtain a week from it, yet it should make it through the day and also possibly a little extra.The brand-new fitness attributes may not be best, but it behaves for the informal health club goer
. When you're not sweating it out, it'll rest there looking beautiful.The majority of smartwatches in our listing have been full-screen gadgets, but
the Withings Steel HR comes close to things a little in different ways-- yet is still an effective connected watch in a bundle that weighs simply 49g. The analogue display shows the moment on the main dial (with a month of battery life )and progress towards your step objective on the second dial-- however there's a lot a lot more taking place than this.The Withings Steel HR has a 24/7 heart rate display that will certainly maintain tabs on VO2 Max and it will certainly pair with a smart device to track outside workouts by means of GPS, although the technology isn't constructed into the watch itself. It's additionally swimproof to 50m and also isn't too shabby in
the swimming pool either, tracking laps as well as sizes What's more, Withings Wellness Mate app is among the very best out there for maintaining tabs on all your various health and wellness data.The remainder of the smartwatch field is largely comprised of variations of Put on OS tools that run Google's real smartwatch platform.
The issue with a lot of these tools is they really feel a minimum of a generation(or even more)behind where Apple as well as Samsung are at with wearables. They have less functions, even worse battery life, as well as usually thick, awkward layouts. Based upon our experience, the Use OS enjoys that get on the very best are ones made by Fossil as well as its secure of brand names (such as Skagen), which are offered in a variety of designs and also sizes.It's no slouch as a connected watch either, and will notify you to notices on your smartphone making use of vibrations and also the tiny OLED screen develop right into the bezel.
This is capable of supplying fairly crude as well as quick informs, but
can show you when a message/call/calendar notifies are coming through making use of quick icons.It's a removed back smartwatch experience however one that's loaded right into an elegant, comfortable and also small hybrid that doesn't make as numerous concessions as you would certainly think.Huawei is still going with its Watch 2, yet in 2018 returned to the table
with something entirely various. The Huawei Watch GT packs a big collection of features yet in addition to a custom operating system-- those are words we normally utter with a substantial amount of trepidation, but the Watch GT uses 2 weeks of battery life, which is a compelling sell.And it doesn't cut corners on tech. Huawei has actually crammed in a 1.39-inch, 454 x 454 AMOLED display. Which is among the finest we've had fun with, comfortably matching up with the vibrancy and sharpness located on the Galaxy Watch and Apple Watch Collection 4. Lite OS might remove several of the much deeper elements formerly found in Huawei smartwatches, it's still an outstanding task tracker with heart price tracking as well as rest tracking.Sports tracking on the basic
is good, but there is one complaint we do have: information can not be shown third-party applications. Every one of your information can just live inside of Huawei's companion Health app. We likewise found the heart price information to delay means behind achieved sporting activities tracking rivals.Huawei makes large guarantees in the battery department: up to two weeks with normal usage, a total day of GPS tracking and also up to a month with functions like always-on display screen and GENERAL PRACTITIONER transformed off. And also it delivers. Despite continuous heart price tracking switched on, we have actually only had to bill the Watch GT as soon as throughout our 3 weeks of use.There's now new Huawei Watch GT Active as well as Classy editions that uses a less flashy look but features every one of the same features adding a brand-new Triathlon monitoring mode. For those seeking Pebble-esque durability, however agree to pass up the glamour and lure of a totally developed os as well as all the applications and also beauty-- the Huawei Watch GT is an intriguing choice. And also with its fourth-generation smartwatches, it's produced perhaps the most appealing smartwatch on the market, from a style perspective.Sharing some resemblances with the older Michael Kors Accessibility Sofie (our previous ideal style watch pick ), the Fossil Q Endeavor Human Resources desires to stand out, as well as fans of a much more elegant watch will most likely discover it a much better fit than those that such as to keep their wrist wear understated.Fossil is still keeping screen resolution and also various other specs under covers, however we do understand this generation(which includes the males's Fossil Q Explorist Human Resources)is the most feature-packed we've seen from the business. There's custom Michael Kors enjoy faces there also to better praise that elegant watch body.Battery life is the Use OS smartwatch standard, so you can expect to obtain you with a day and perhaps a little extra. Now Montblanc wants in.Features such as heart rate screens, and also huge selection of
other sensing units have made their method right into the smartwatches, permitting them to really change the wearable experience right into something better, and also flexible at the very same time.Since the market at this point is filled with smartwatches of all sorts, we took it on ourselves to take an appearance at the finest smartwatches you can acquire, however first, we are going to be looking at some of the crucial details regarding the smartwatches.Its initial smartwatch was underwhelming however, in its second coming, the Summit 2 is a watch that supplies on layout and on features.Montblanc has modelled its 2nd generation watch on its 1858 collection offering smooth initial watch faces, a high grade building and a leading notch 1.2-inch, 390 x 390 resolution touchscreen display.Google's Use OS runs the show, yet Montblanc takes care of to leave its mark with added apps as well as those watch encounters we pointed out to aid things really feel even more one-of-a-kind. Which is amongst the best we've played with, pleasantly matching up with the vibrancy as well as intensity located on the Galaxy Watch and also Apple Watch Collection 4. Even with continual heart rate monitoring turned on, we have actually just had to bill the Watch GT when throughout our 3 weeks of use.There's now brand-new Huawei Watch GT Elegant and active versions that supplies a less stylish look but comes with all of the very same features including a new Triathlon tracking setting.
Having a miniature computer system strapped around your wrist is no longer a pipeline desire. The Apple Watch and also other options from prominent manufacturers, like Fitbit, Samsung, LG, and Fossil, have actually been gunning to craft the most effective smartwatch. Now a couple of years elder, the smartwatch market supplies more than ever before, whether you're after a certain design, iphone and Android phone compatibility, or just a number of features.Smartwatches remain in impolite
health and wellness however when it involves the very best smartwatch in 2019, it's undoubtedly the Apple Watch Collection 4. However it comes with a price, and there are so many leading smartwatches at less costly rates as well as with just as great fitness features.Whether you're searching for a wonderful smartwatch for health and fitness tracking, running or a just taking notifications and also calls-- there are lots of fantastic choices for every budget. What's even more, smartwatches are getting more trendy too.Today's ideal smartwatch offers f you've got an Android phone, the Apple Watch won't function at all, and
the best choice below is Samsung
's Galaxy Watch. The Galaxy Watch does deal with both apples iphone and Android tools, yet it's ideal with an Android phone, as well as specifically, one made by Samsung.The Galaxy Watch has most all of the attributes you would certainly anticipate on a contemporary smartwatch: GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, touchscreen, multi-day battery life, voice control, mobile settlements, as well as heart rate monitoring. It has a circular face that's easy to check out indoors and out, as well as has a really beneficial always-on setting that makes it simple to see the moment at a glance.We're approximately 4 years into the Great Modern Smartwatch Experiment, which implies we've discovered what smartwatches can be helpful for
(health and fitness tracking, alerts )and also what they are certainly not good for(replacing your smartphone totally). If you're in the market for a smartwatch, whether that's because you have actually never ever possessed one before as well as wonder regarding them or you're wanting to update your older-generation model, you can anticipate today's smartwatches to last a bit longer between costs, be a little faster to complete things, and possibly do a number of new techniques you weren't expecting.But the best smartwatch is still very a lot a servant to a mobile phone, and also also if you pay out for an LTE-connected design and pay a service strategy charge for it, it's not going
to release you completely. Because of that, we do not think LTE smartwatches are an excellent buy for the majority of people-- it's much much easier as well as cheaper to simply keep your phone with you as well as utilize your watch as a kind of push-button control for the phone in your pocket or bag.Which smartwatch you choose is going to be based completely on what phone you possess, so our choices are damaged down right into the most effective option for iPhone customers as well as the finest one for Android owners.The Apple Watch Collection 4 is as close to smartwatch perfection as we've seen to date-- it's a effective and functional wearable that can offer a big range of functions. While those seeking a simple smartwatch could locate the Collection 4's significant selection of physical fitness, health and also linked functions to be overkill, it's able to morph in between health and fitness tracker, sporting activities watch as well as major wellness tool at will, making it a serious group pleaser.Apple's latest View enhancement gives us one of the most significant style modification since the initial, bringing brand-new 40mm and 44mm sizes (in comparison to 38mm and also 42mm). That implies even more room to flaunt all the most recent software program attributes introduced in watchOS 5. It has just the same core physical fitness and also sporting activities monitoring as the Series 3, including built-in GENERAL PRACTITIONERS
for tracking of exterior workouts and a swimproof layout. Physical fitness tracking evaluation may delay Fitbit, but Apple's unique objectives-- symbolized by the closing of Relocate, Stand and Calorie rings-- is still an effective incentive. There's still no indigenous rest monitoring
here, however this can be done via a third event app.The headline functions are the brand-new ECG screen that opens the ability for major heart wellness monitoring. It's been FDA removed, so the attribute can be made use of to detect heart rhythm abnormalities. It's now available outside of the US with Apple including 19 more nations that can examine in on their heart health and wellness from the new Watch. You additionally do not need to do that by hand, and the Apple Watch continuously monitors for reduced
and also raised heart rates, as well as AFib. There's likewise a brand-new fall discovery setting that can allow individuals access Siri to call emergency solutions or an emergency contact.If you are searching for an excellent smartwatch that does not cost a lot of money, the S928 Sports Watch could be a terrific alternative. It is among the cheapest smartwatch on my checklist, and while I am generally determined when it involves testing such products, it fascinated me to the core.The watch is created rather merely, as well as rather than having an expensive display or high resolution, it makes use of a straightforward, single screen. Truthfully, I do incline that at all, smartwatches are everything about being simplistic in my opinion, and also the S928 Sports Watch does a fantastic task at that.Where it lacks a screen, the S928 Sports Watch makes up by supplying some of the finest attributes that you can desire in a smartwatch. In order to make things much easier for the viewers, I am detailing down the functions below.Heart Rate Monitor: The watch features a heart rate display that is able to give actual time heart price updates.GPS: The S928 Sports Watch additionally come with a constructed in 3D accelerometer +gyroscope3D, enabling the users to be able to track every relocation they make throughout their workout regime.Outdoor Data: The watch is likewise with the ability of maintaining a document of the outdoor data, indicating that you get live updates on exactly how the climate problem is outdoors. Enabling you to be able to intend your exercise carefully.These are several of the sophisticated or standard attributes that remain in the watch. While they might not look sufficient, it is essential to know that these attributes function throughout the entire community of the
watch, permitting these sensing units to take complete control of the situation.The smartwatch can be controlled via an application that is offered on both iOS and also Android. Truthfully, the app is as standard as it can get, and also can make use of a little bit
extra gloss. There are a few even more points that I did not comprehend regarding the watch; you can not transform the moment style to 12 hrs if you want to.In enhancement to that, the watch itself only sustains English as a language, while the app itself has 12 languages in overall. This disparity can be a concern for individuals who don't have English as their primary language, and although 12 languages behave to have, they are just enough.The good idea below is that the app is being constantly updated by the developer, so I can assume that added
languages will be added at some point in the future. Very same goes for the watch as the firmware can be updated when released.All in all, the S928 is a respectable smartwatch for Android, it is economical, functions as it is intended to, as well as does not come with unnecessary features that can drain pipes the battery. I would certainly state that this smartwatch comes with the bare basics, and definitely has a market amongst the giants.Sure, the lack of advanced attributes, as well as languages is startling, but you also require to take cost right into factor to consider when you are reviewing a product.Although smartwatches have existed for a long, long period of time, their foray right into the mainstream is only recent. With firms like Samsung, Apple, Asus, Huawei, and also several others are burning the midnight oil to enhance the watches, as well as absolutely make the experience a great deal better.Amidst all this, there lies the consumer attitude that still believes that the typical, analog watches are means, way much better as they are crafted with excellent precision, along with perfection. This has actually led to many disputes just how smartwatches should not exist, or are taken into consideration scourge of the wrist watch concept.Still, for individuals who in fact like their watches show all the required details that comes
to their phone, all linked into one community really consider smartwatches to be very beneficial, and also adhering to that right into the marketplace, the smartwatch industry at this moment is creating a different entity for itself.The Collection 4 comes loading LTE once again so you can take it out sans iPhone and still make/receive telephone calls, get messages and also all other notifications you would certainly on your phone. A new speaker also makes Siri chats as well as call audio louder as well as clearer.Battery life is
the major gripe still, as well as for all the enhancements, Apple can still only offer 24-48 hours-- which for several just isn't great enough.The Fitbit Versa is the business's 2nd smartwatch and also, along with a modification in design instructions, it's most importantly offered at an extra affordable rate than the Apple Watch-- it can commonly be gotten for around$179.99. And don't forget-Fitbit has revealed the Versa Lite Edition(a lot more on that below)which appear at $159. The Fitbit Versa is available in a host of different finishes and with a large collection of bands to blend the appearance. And many thanks to the runaway success of the smartwatch, there's a dynamic market of bands to choose from.The Versa provides every one of the exact same health and fitness and sports tracking includes you would certainly anticipate from the Fitbit ecosystem, though the big omission below is the lack of GPS. If you intend to track trips and also runs, you'll require to take your smart device with you, and also the watch can piggyback your phone's data.
For several this will not be a huge issue, however as significant joggers it's a level of complication we such as to avoid.Fitbit OS 2.0 brings a new-look UI that provides much more insights right into your everyday information and also quick reply assistance for Android phone customers(iOS assistance coming at a later date). You can still download and install applications as well as a whole great deal of watch encounters, pay from your wrist using Fitbit Pay, as well as use Fitbit Train. The brand-new ladies's health and wellness monitoring has actually additionally been introduced for the initial time, which is likewise readily available for the
Ionic, too.But it's battery life that really has the power to oblige customers, as well as the eye-catching rate. You can get five days on a solitary charge, which means less trouble on weekend breaks away, and also simpler rest tracking.Fitbit had such excellent success with the initial
Versa that it determined to make a cheaper variation that strips out a few of the smartwatch features.The Lite is almost identical to the first Versa in looks, save for now just a single physical button on guard body, which suggests you'll be counting much more on the touchscreen display screen to browse the Versa Lite. In our experience, we really did not miss the second button as well much.In regards to the attribute that are lost, you do not get an integrated songs gamer or swim tracking (it's still water-proof though). You do get an optical heart price display and also all the typical health and fitness tracking and sporting activities tracking functions along with app-based attributes like females's wellness tracking. There's likewise no much longer Wi-Fi, with Fitbit presenting a brand-new and easier method to update your smartwatch via step-by-step background downloads.Sports and health and fitness monitoring performance is not that various from what we discovered on the very first Versa.
Sleep tracking is still a standout function, while the heart price screen still often tends to falter for high intensity workouts. As a core smartwatch experience it's good, yet it still does not have in comparison to its closest rivals.
Specifically in the application department. If you love watch encounters however, you're well offered here.Thankfully you still obtain the same four-day plus battery life, which can certainly extend to five days depending upon usage. That's still much better than what Apple and Google's Wear OS watches can summon up right now.If you suched as the Versa, yet favor to spend a little much less, the Versa Lite Version is fitting choice. The swim monitoring is a frustrating noninclusion a lot more so than the music player, but if you can live without monitoring your pool sessions it's still a terrific smartwatch to think about at a fantastic price.The Samsung Galaxy Watch is the follower to the Gear S3 and is still among the ideal watches around. Compatible with Android as well as iphone, it currently comes in both 42mm and 46mm models.Samsung treads in between smartwatch and fitness tracker, additionally loading in a heart price sensing unit along with the GENERAL PRACTITIONER and also its much-improved Samsung Health software application. There's also the alternative of LTE, if you want for an untethered connection, with a standalone speaker for taking get in touch with the watch. It's now water-proof too, including swim tracking skills that get on the same level with the Watch Collection 4. The Galaxy Watch works on Samsung's Tizen OS 4.0 and seems like a far better option to Google's Wear OS right now. You still obtain that rotating bezel as well as one of the most effective displays you can find on a smartwatch. Nevertheless, the application option
still lags way behind the Apple Watch and Wear OS devices. That said, the Spotify application is great as well as provides offline playback.Battery life, we ought to say, is also solid, obtaining you 2-3 days on the 42mm version and more on the 46mm variation.
If you're not a follower of Wear OS and also don't desire an Apple Watch, this is the top option to consider instead.Garmin has been placing out best smartwatches for sports enthusiasts for some time now. Operating, biking, swimming, golf-- Garmin has had us well as well as genuinely covered. Despite the Leader name, the 645 Songs is a lot more in the mould of the Vivoactive 3 Songs. It's got a similar appearance and likewise brings the music this time around. This aids make the Garmin even more of a smartwatch competitor to the Apple Watch, Samsung Gear or Fitbit Ionic than before.Not just are you obtaining adequate storage for 500 songs, however you're getting the offline playlist assistance for Spotify, Deezer and also iHeartRadio. For moving your own tracks, boot Garmin Express on your computer system, pick the Music tab as well as pick from your own music to port over.That exact same eye-catching stainless steel layout is below. The 240 x 240 pixel display screen at the heart of the body is by no implies the brightest or most vibrant you'll find, but most importantly provides strong visibility in many workout conditions, whether you're sweating it out inside your home or outside. Nonetheless, there is no touchscreen or touchpad below, so you'll have to resort to pushing some buttons.As much as the variety of sporting activities readily available to track: while it's even more of the same, there are some significant exclusions-- like golf tracking and open water swimming( swimming pool swimming is there though). Heart price tracking is decent otherwise class-leading, as well as it won't keep you waiting around for a GENERAL PRACTITIONER signal. There's also all the tension tracking goodies from Garmin's fitness trackers. As multi-sport smartwatches go, this is the best in our eyes, and also builds on all the excellent job Garmin did with its previous iterations.For iPhone proprietors, Apple's Series 4 Watch is much and also away the most effective alternative readily available. The Apple Watch has a large, bright display; streamlined, comfy hardware; quick performance; very trustworthy battery life; and a whole host of fitness tracking and health-related attributes. The Apple Watch also has the best third-party Complete Price Guide To Watches Onlineecosystem-- there are many bands, accessories, chargers, anchors, apps, and watchface complications you can use with the Apple Watch.The Apple Watch stands out at supplying fast access to any notices that are available in to your phone, as well as it allows you respond to messages right from your wrist swiftly as well as quickly. You can utilize it as a speaker phone whenever you feel like emulating Dick Tracy, as well as it's fantastic for regulating Complete Price Guide To Watches Online
songs playing on your phone. It likewise has Apple Pay for purchasing points without a purse or your heart, general practitioner and also phone price monitoring for exercises, as well as also the capability to warn you if it finds particular heart problems.THE APPLE ENJOY COLLECTION 4 HAS Every One Of THE ATTRIBUTES ANTICIPATED IN A SMARTWATCH Battery life can differ depending on exactly how much you use the Watch to track tasks and also the amount of alerts you obtain, however in our testing, the Collection 4 Watch never stopped working to last at least an entire day in between fees, as well as usually it could opt for two days. It's still something you need to charge instead on a regular basis, yet you do not need to fret about it passing away on your wrist midway via the day if you've started with a full tank.Unlike basically every various other smartwatch on the market, the Apple Watch still doesn't offer an always-on screen, however, so it does not actually inform you the time until you touch the display or lift your wrist. It's still very paradoxical that the important things the Apple Watch is the most awful at is being an Complete Price Guide To Watches Online
actual time-keeping device.But aside from that, there's extremely little to whine about with the Apple Watch Collection 4, as well as it's conveniently the best choice for iPhone users.Of program, we're noting the Leader below as a smartwatch, and also Garmin has included respectable smarts. Health and fitness monitoring is wonderful as well as Garmin Link is a decent ecosystem for wellness data from steps as well as sleep The Galaxy Watch does work with both iPhones as well as Android devices, but it's best with an Android phone, as well as specifically, one made by Samsung.The Galaxy Watch has most all of the attributes you would certainly anticipate on a modern smartwatch: GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, touchscreen, multi-day battery life, voice control, mobile repayments, as well as heart rate surveillance. For that reason, we do not assume LTE smartwatches are a great buy for the majority of individuals-- it's far simpler and also cheaper to just keep your phone with you and also use your watch as a type of remote control for the phone in your pocket or bag.Which smartwatch you pick is going to be based completely on what phone you possess, so our choices are damaged down right into the finest option for iPhone users and the best one for Android owners.The Apple Watch Series 4 is as close to smartwatch perfection as we've seen to date-- it's a effective and functional wearable that can offer a huge variety of functions. While those looking for a simple smartwatch could discover the Series 4's substantial selection of health and fitness, wellness and also connected functions to be excessive, it's able to change in between health and fitness tracker, sports enjoy as well as serious health tool at will, making it a major crowd pleaser.Apple's most recent View enhancement offers us the most significant style modification since the initial, bringing new 40mm and also 44mm sizes (in comparison to 38mm and 42mm). Honestly, I do not mind that at all, smartwatches are all about being simple in my opinion, and also the S928 Sports Watch does a wonderful work at that.Where it does not have a display screen, the S928 Sports Watch makes up by supplying some of the finest functions that you can want in a smartwatch. In order to make things simpler for the reader, I am listing down the attributes below.Heart Rate Monitor: The watch comes with a heart rate display that is able to give genuine time heart price updates.GPS: The S928 Sports Watch additionally come with a built in 3D accelerometer +gyroscope3D, permitting the customers to be able to track every action they make throughout their workout regime.Outdoor Information: The watch is also qualified of maintaining a document of the exterior data, meaning that you get real time updates on how the climate problem is outside. Complete Price Guide To Watches Online
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San Juan Record Classifieds, Events, Businesses In Monticello, San Juan County, Utah
by Bill Boyle,
The San Juan County Commission worked through a full agenda in record time at their June 4 meeting.
There is growing concern about the maintenance of roads on the Navajo Reservation in San Juan County. In recent years, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Navajo Department of Transportation (NDOT) have restricted county access to roads.
Reports are growing that adequate maintenance is simply not occurring on the vital roads.
Hank Stevens, of the Navajo Mountain Chapter, said the road issues “are really impacting the community. This jeopardizes community safety.”
Stevens said the Piute Canyon Road, which allows access to Piute Mesa, is particularly problematic. He reports that local residents are forced to use their own equipment to maintain the road.
Stevens suggested the answer is to “get back to the partnership with the county that was established by your predecessors. That partnership worked well until BIA and NDOT decided to take over the roads.”
Public Works Supervisor Ben Musselman stated that the county is having difficulty with road issues, particularly related to a contract with the BIA.
BIA stated that the county does not have a right-of-way with the roads, but Commissioner Bruce Adams said the county should claim the right-of-way for maintenance and get the B Road funds from the state that would pay for the maintenance.
“We need to claim the B Road funds and do what we have always done,” said Adams.
Commissioner Kenneth Maryboy agreed and added, “We have been playing nice enough. It’s about time.”
A number of citizen comments were presented, all with a strict three-minute limit.
Comments ranged from Spanish Valley residents concerned about growth in their community to a Navajo Mountain Chapter official concerned about road maintenance issues in his area.
Other comments included a request for funding for a student group that is traveling to Florida and a plea for support of efforts to stop oil and gas exploration on public lands in San Juan County.
Monticello resident Kim Henderson addressed the Commission, saying she was expressing concerns she has heard from county employees.
Henderson pleaded for additional time to fully address her concerns, but she was held to the strict three-minute limit. She read several comments that she said where submitted by county employees who wished to remain anonymous.
Employee morale has been low in recent months as the new Commission has struggled to find its footing. Public meetings have been contentious and communication between the staff and commissioners has been limited.
At the end of the meeting, Commission Chairman Kenneth Maryboy addressed some of the concerns, while thanking citizens for expressing their concerns.
Maryboy said, “Bruce (Adams), Willie (Grayeyes), David (Everitt), and I have talked about working more closely with the staff. I don’t think that the staff needs to run to anybody to ask for any voice.
“I believe that these are good workers. I stand behind them and have worked with them for so long. Nothing should change. They shouldn’t worry, everything is going to be ok.”
The Commission agreed to changes in the County Administrator job description and decided to re-advertise the new position. Everitt said the position will be open for “three or four weeks.”
Three applicants had applied during the previous period. Everitt said they have been contacted and invited to reapply.
Changes to the job description include making the position exempt to civil service regulations. The new position is listed as an “executive-level, at-will, career service-exempt appointee who serves at the pleasure of the Commission in a confidential capacity.”
In addition, the position will no longer include specific oversight over emergency management responsibilities. Prior administrators also served as the emergency management coordinator, with a portion of the salary paid by federal emergency management grants.
Everitt explained that the emergency management responsibilities will be assigned to staff, with oversight assigned to the current EM assistant.
Commissioners approved an 18-page document which outlines policy and procedures for the Commission meetings. Everitt went through several changes that were made to a draft document that was presented at a previous meeting.
Commissioner Bruce Adams reported on the slow but significant progress on legislation before the US Senate to address the Navajo Water Rights Settlement. Adams said Senator Mitt Romney is taking a lead with the settlement. He suggested that the settlement could total $200 million.
County Attorney Kendall Laws informed the Commission that USIP, the liability insurance carrier for San Juan County, will handle the litigation filed by Rose Chilcoat.
Chilcoat sued Laws, San Juan County, and others in federal court, alleging she was harassed when charges were filed against her in a livestock case. The charges were eventually dismissed.
Laws explained that USIP provides coverage for elected officials and employees who are sued while working their official capacity.
In other matters before the Commission, Karah Nay discussed the San Juan Stampede Pro Rodeo, which will be held June 13-15 at the San Juan County Fairgrounds in Monticello. Nay stated that the rodeo, in its third year, continues to grow with world-class talent participating.
Saxon Sharpe, of the Humane Society of Moab, discussed the ongoing efforts to provide services in San Juan County. The county contributes to the efforts each year.
Mark Boshell, of the Governor’s Public Land Coordinating Office, introduced himself to the Commissioners.
Tammy Gallegos discussed Senior Citizen and Veteran Services contracts with Commissioners.
Commissioners approved a $180,000 loan for construction of a maintenance building for the Monticello Cemetery District. The loan will be paid over 30 years at 2.5 percent interest.
Monte Perkins asked for approval of a full-time position in the weed department. Perkins reports that a part-time position has been difficult to fill.
Nick Sandberg discussed a request for an easement for an irrigation line at the Dugout Ranch. The easement crosses land owned by the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA).
Jerry McNealy reports that the Spanish Valley Sewer and Water Project is progressing. He states that there have been delays associated with roads and hookups to the existing infrastructure in the valley. July is the estimated time of completion of the project.
The Commission plans a joint meeting in coming weeks with the Grand County Council at the Spanish Valley Arena.
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Hunt welcomes Mosimane to exclusive four-title club
Mntomuhle Gumede Mntomuhle Gumede
14 May 2019, 6:58 PM | SABC Sport Info Hub | @SABCNewsOnline
Tags: Bafana Bafana, Mamelodi Sundowns, Pitso Mosimane, ABSA Premiership, Gavin Hunt, Gordon Igesund
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The Mamelodi Sundowns mentor became the fourth coach to win the Absa Premiership title four times when he guided the Brazilians to the 2018/19 crown on Saturday.
Gavin Hunt has congratulated compatriot Pitso Mosimane on joining him as the most successful coach in Premier Soccer League history.
The pair, along with Ted Dumitru and former Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund, are the only four to have won a quartet of titles.
However, Mosimane is the only man to have done it with the same club.
Sundowns sealed the title when they won their final match of the season 1-0 against Free State Stars at Goble Park on Saturday.
Despite the celebrations and trophy handover that followed, there is still a chance that the title may be taken away should a PSL Disciplinary Committee ruling against them be reversed.
The Tshwane club was handed a R250 000 fine for using Wayne Arendse, who was not on the team-list submitted, in a match against Hunt’s Wits team last year.
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But the PSL appealed the decision with the outcome still pending and this has not pleased Hunt.
Wits ended the season in third place with points, three behind second-placed Orlando Pirates and five adrift of champions Sundowns.
Hunt conceded that he was hugely disappointed that his side did not make a stronger push for the title, particularly during the second half of the season after they had led the championship for a large portion of the season.
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— Bidvest Wits (@BidvestWits) May 12, 2019
Hunt, meanwhile, threw his weight behind Hlompho Kekana for the coveted PSL Footballer of the Year award.
The nominees for the glittering awards function that will be held on Sunday were unveiled yesterday, with the Sundowns midfielder, team-mate Themba Zwane and Pirates’ attacker Thembinkosi Lorch dominating the shortlists.
Hunt says the 33-year-old Kekana should have already received the award in years gone by and has backed him to finally take it this year. – Report by Thahir Asmal
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Get to know the insightful, musical mind of Sven Curth Reviewed by Cindy McBride on January 19, 2018 .
Hillbilly-Folk Music in New York State Photo by Carl Rubino…
Get to know the insightful, musical mind of Sven Curth
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Tags: artist, blues, Canada, Cindy McBride, concert, country, Editor: Sheila Walsh, Exclusive, Exclusive Interview, folk, Hillbilly, Hot Dog Stand, interview, Justin Bieber, music, music journalism, New York State, NY, NY Musicians, Reverb Nation, Reverbnation, Shutter 16, Shutter 16 Magazine, Sven Curth, Would You Rather, Writer: Cindy McBride
Hillbilly-Folk Music in New York State
Photo by Carl Rubino
Hillbilly, folk, and blues music may just seem like something you would hear when you’re in Southern territory of the United States. But how surprised would you be if I told you that an amazing musician who specializes in this type of music actually lives in New York State, about four hours away from Canada? That’s right, Sven Curth is a country guy who lives in the North!
The self-proclaimed music lover, and hater of self-promotion, is one of Shutter 16’s breakout ReverbNation Artists, meaning we (yes! us!) get the golden ticket to get to know the bluesy-folk musician.
With Northern roots and a Southern soul, Curth genuinely has a unique perspective of music. Influences upon plentiful influences are everywhere he looks, from the music he listens to to the environment around him.
“Although I love it dearly, I hail from a musical wasteland,” admitted Curth. “The music styles that I have chosen to dabble in come from my family, friends, education, travels, and experiences. Clearly the amount of sunlight a region sees plays heavily into its musical heritage. Or maybe people in the North are just too busy insulating, hoarding food, and chopping wood to have any time for such frivolity.”
And yet Curth found the vibe. Despite the majestic “wasteland” normalities, the folk artist found beauty in even the smallest of “frivolity.” To bring those ideas to life, and present them unapologetically on a platform, is whole new beast.
“I don’t recall my first show,” revealed the songwriter. A romantic notion or a traumatic sign?
“I used to play trumpet with my mom in church, but I never remember feeling nervous until I got older. In fact, the older I get the more nervous I am before playing… Once I get going it’s fine, and I find a drink or two helps tremendously… (Kind of a metaphor for life, really.)”
Escaping said wasteland, Curth spent time at the Berklee College of Music located in Boston, Massachusetts back in the 90’s, followed shortly by touring with the rock band Jim. However this is not where his talent in music began. One of the tracks on Curth’s second album entitled Con Disco Rotatorio is entitled “Hot Dog Stand.”
Oh yes, you read that right.
“Hot Dog Stand.”
A bold career aspiration which was the product of Junior High boredom, a little bit of rebellion, and a whole lot of satire, as I’m sure you can imagine.
Me and Jim by Sven Curth Thank goodness that career path didn’t work out (was it ever pursued?). Along with playing the guitar and mastering the mic, Curth also plucks the banjo and is confident with a bass, though states he is “a weak drummer at best.” Nevertheless, inspiration strikes the creative soul regardless of musical talent. All it takes are a few good role models and some courage. Curth’s origin of courage? Louis Armstrong. Muddy Waters. Duke Ellington, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Kris Kristofferson just to name a few. Take a second listen to his latest EP and tell us you don’t hear the subtleties.
If you would like to listen to the unique music of Sven Curth, or just get to know him better, please find him on Spotify, YouTube, Facebook, and especially check out his website! All links and user names are listed below!
BONUS: This or that…
Blizzard or Desert?
“I currently live in a blizzard for 6 months of every year by choice, so…”
Brutal Metal or Justin Bieber for a year straight?
“Could it be Brutal Metal covers of Justin Bieber songs? Or vice versa? I could see either of those being pretty entertaining!”
Never eat pizza or tacos ever again?
“What kind of post-apocalyptic-hell scenario are you conjuring here?! C’mon!!”
Have the ability to read people’s minds, or see into the future?
“Ugh!! Those are both horribly bleak options. Our species’ future is probably, at best, terrible, and I can’t even begin to imagine the horror of being forced to listen to the inane, predictable, brain-prattle of everyone, everywhere. If I have to live in a world where I have to read minds and see the future, OR there’s no pizza and tacos… Bye bye pizza and tacos.”
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Cindy McBride
Born and raised in Winston Salem NC, Cindy is a professional taco enthusiast and proud Hufflepuff. Fangirl by day, and concert photojournalist by night, Cindy’s photography career started in 2010 when her fiance took her to her first local show. With a small Kodiak point and shoot in hand, she quickly fell in love with the local music scene and concert photography. With musical tastes varying from Acapella to Heavy Metal, there is no telling what you will hear blaring from her headphones from day to day. When she is not spending time with her family, friends, or furbabies, you can find Cindy with her nose buried in yet another book, binging Netflix with her bearded better half, or out and about at various shows.
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The Druid Hill Farmers Market is managed by an all-volunteer nonprofit, supported by a partnership with the Rawlings Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, and made possible by Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks. For more information, including complete list...
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The historic Rawlings Conservatory & garden is ideal for weddings, parties, charity events, and meetings — whether you want an indoor or outdoor setting. The unique space can accommodate everything from cozy receptions, to large cocktail parties, to elegant tented affairs.
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In 2013 the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory reached a remarkable milestone: the 125th anniversary of it’s opening in 1888. Located in Baltimore City’s historic Druid Hill Park, the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory & Botanic Gardens is the second oldest glass conservatory in America.
The Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens has distinct environments that allow the display of plants from all over the world. The buildings create an appropriate environment for plants from tropical, desert, and Mediterranean environments.
Come in and see why Margaret Stansbury was so inspired to write “Glass House of Dreams.” We have copies of the book for sale, as well as prints of photographs from the book and prints of historic postcards, all of which celebrate Baltimore’s Victorian glass palace.
Something is always in bloom at the Rawlings Conservatory! Flowers and fruiting plants change from week to week. The Orchid Room features an ever-changing display of exquisite forms and colors. The Tropical House smells sweet from prolific blossoms throughout the year.
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Shipwrecks Part 1
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ZETLAND – Redcar’s Jewel in the Crown
Redcar’s Jewel in the Crown
The “Zetland” lifeboat, and how it has become a visitor attraction along the Esplanade at Redcar. Many thanks go to the Zetland Museum for the assistance in putting this page together, and in particular F. Brunskill. (2010)
It was the loss of the ship Adventure in 1789 that encouraged people to look towards building a boat, purposely built for saving lives at sea. As the Adventure was a Newcastle ship it was not unnatural that the South Shields boat builders should be involved.
An advertisement in the Newcastle Advertiser on 2nd May 1789 offered a ‘prize’ of two guineas for the best plan for a lifeboat…The boat should be capable of containing 24 persons and to go through heavy broken sea. Disappointingly the Gentlemen of the Law House only received two entrants to their requests, one from a Mr Woodhave and another from a South Shields boat builder Mr. Greathead.
It would be hard to say who ‘invented’ the first lifeboat but it seems, without question, that Henry Greathead built the first.
Greathead’s boat was built in the autumn of 1789 and whilst bearing no name was just referred to as ‘lifeboat’. It was not until the Greathead’s second boat, built some 9 years later, and bearing the specific name of ‘Northumberland’ that the first boat was retrospectively referred to as the ‘Original’
Many early reports and subsequent writings stated that the Redcar Lifeboat started her service at Spurn Point and was delivered here two years later. This in incorrect as the boat was ordered directly from the boat builder during his promotional visit to Whitby in July 1802. The Redcar boat was ordered by the Rt. Hon Lord Thomas Dundas and the Rev. Thomas Pym Williamson with the instruction that it be delivered direct from South Shields to Redcar later that year
(Incidentally according to records the first lifeboat to be placed at Spurn Point was in 1810, prior to that the place was considered isolated and would have been unable to muster a crew)
Lord of the manor Thomas Dundas was resident at Upleatham Hall and landlord to many of the fisher men and their families in Redcar. A ship owner himself he had seen one of his laden ships wrecked off the coast of Redcar earlier in the year and vowed to assist wherever he could. The Rev Williamson was Vicar of Guisborough and Upleatham so was also involved in the plight of the local fishermen and their safety at sea.
Redcar’s new lifeboat arrived on 7th October 1802 and was the cause of much excitement in the village and was recorded in the Newcastle Courant with fullest details.
Similar to Greathead’s first boat, she was delivered without name and commonly just referred to as the ‘Lifeboat’ and it was not until many years later, in fact 1838, when the Baron Dundas of Aske was bestowed with the title of the First Lord Zetland. It was this that prompted the people of Redcar to christen the lifeboat ‘Zetland’ in honour of their very generous benefactor.
In 1864 and with the arrival of a replacement boat, the Zetland was destined to be broken up as was the normal procedure for boats unfit for purpose. Due to pressure from Henry Walker Yeoman, the Earl of Zetland’s brother in law, the Zetland was allowed to be retained by the local people.
One of Lord Zetland’s friends who was staying at Upleatham wrote a poem regarding the boat retention his phrase ‘Thine age shall be respected, thy youth perchance restored’ was to become forever associated with the old boat.
Much controversy followed as Henry Greathead’s plans were considered the winner with William Woodhave being offered one guinea for his troubles (which he declined to accept )… Doubt will always exist as to the true reasons why Greathead’s design should have been accepted when it seemed to incorporate some of the features of the original Woodhave design.
Accreditation to AN OLD STAGER, Redcar & Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 02//06/894
THE ORIGIN OF THE SOUTH SHIELD
REDCAR LIFEBOATS
THE FIRST SOUTH SHIELDS BOATS
From numberless versions as to the origin of the lifeboat, space will allow for a mere glance. In 1789, the inhabitants of South Shields had been spectators of many shocking disasters at the entrance of the Tyne. A committee was formed, and premiums offered for the best invention calculated to brave the dangers of the sea in storms. WILLIE WOODHAVE and HENRY GREATHEAD suggested various methods, but none of these was adopted in its entirety. It was resolved, however, to combine the different proposals, and GREATHEAD was nominated to build the first lifeboat. She was known as the “Original” – launched in 1790, was rent in twain on rocks in 1830. The “Tyne” was built in 1833, and her last achievement was on the 6th December, 1832, having rescued one thousand and twenty-three lives, during 50 years. At Her Majesty’s jubilee in 1887, £500 was raised to erect a memorial to Woodhave and Greathead, in the form of a square tower and steeple, fountain, medallion of Woodhave, model boat by Greathead in a storm, and a four-dial clock costing £90. On Monday, 7th, May, 1894, the sheltered platform for the “Tyne” was completed and she was elevated to her position as a devoted relic from the treacherous ocean.
THE REDCAR LIFEBOAT “ZETLAND”
On the 7th October, 1802, the famous lifeboat which was built by Greathead, arrived at Redcar, and was joyously re-christened “Zetland.” For two previous years she was station at Spurn Point, mouth of the Humber. On September 12th, 1864, the “Crossleys” superseded the “Zetland,” after sixty four years of usefulness, being now in her ninety third year –
THE OLDEST LIFEBOAT IN EXISTENCE
with the additional blessing of having saved upwards of four hundred lives.
By way of contrast with the generous actions at South Shields and Redcar, the fact may be stated that in 1864, the National Lifeboat Institution condemned the “Zetland” to be broken up for firewood! A jack-of-all-trades gathered together his iron chisels, big hammers, axes &c., and was about to commence operations. Spectators were indignant at the desecration of their pet idol, and shouted, “Hold a bit! She’s as sound as ivver, and better than new uns.” Deputations interviewed the official, Capt. Ward, and “begged” the old craft for Redcar fishermen, on condition that she was never to be employed against the National Boats. Redcarites, proud of the ownership of their dear old friend, subscribed their mites, fishermen contributed 2/6d each. Lord Zetland and Squire Yeoman assisted, and she was sent to South Shields for repairs, at a cost of about £100. And thus we have verification of the motto on her hull,
“Thine age shall be respected,
Thy youth perchance restored,”
so far as appearances go, in being re-painted and fitted up for a visit to Huddersfield, on 23rd of June.
From the most reliable documents available, we present a summary of
THE CAREER OF THE “ZETLAND”
On the 8th, March, 1804, “The Rose” struck on Redcar rocks. The “Zetland” could not approach the vessel, but 26 lives were saved by fishing cobles.
March 25th, 1808, the “Caledonia,” Aberdeen, laden with granite, struck the Saltscar rocks. During the night only the helmsman was on deck. At the first crash he awoke the crew of 23. A signal of distress was fired, but not heard on shore. The captain refused to fire another gun; but the powder had become wet, and their efforts were in vain, and the vessel began to break up. Sixteen of the crew ventured in a boat and were lost. In the morning the “Zetland” heaved to the ship, and saved the remaining seven. The dead bodies of ten were picked up and taken to the Red Lion Hotel, and afterwards buried five in a row in one grave, at Marske. There are two headstones, Captain Booth, aged 50, another to Mr. Burnett, aged 18. Portions of the granite, with which the “Caledonia” was laden, were used in paving the footpaths in Moore Street, Redcar, and were only removed four years ago. Odd pieces are still to be found as relics of this catastrophe.
Nov. 18th, 1809. – Four ships ashore in Tees Bay. “Zetland” saved two crews, numbering 10; the rest perished.
Oct. 14th, 1814. – The “Two Brothers,” Whitby, stranded on South Gar. Crew of 7 saved by the “Zetland.”
Nov. 15th, 1817. – “The Rifleman,” Portsmouth, totally wrecked on Redcar rocks. Crew of 9 taken off by the “Zetland.”
Sept. 6th, 1826. – A large Greenland whaler named the “Esk,” was lost near Marske. Out of the crew of 29 only three were saved. Witnesses of the awful spectacle of poor humanity ever and anon cast ashore by the remorseless as waves, the harassing scenes of destruction on the sands for miles, was one which could never be effaced from memory.
Dec. 9th, 1834. – The brig “Mowbray,” was driven ashore between Redcar and Coatham. The “Zetland” rescued 10 seamen, and returned to the shore. Whilst gazing at the distant vessel, the boatmen observed two boys lashed to the rigging who had been left behind. In the meantime the tide had receded, affording a better chance of reaching the “Mowbray,” though at imminent peril George Robinson, coxswain, launched a small boat, and alone succeeded in bringing the two boys to land. For this noble deed a subscription was entered upon at Stockton, and in May, 1835, a silver tankard was presented to Robinson, which is still an heirloom at Redcar. The memory of George Robinson as coxswain is still in good repute among the senior classes of fishermen, whom he frequently admonished when on a risky journey, thus – “Noo, lads! Ah know you’ll dee yer best. Don’t forget there’s twenty- three on us!” and away the sallied, brightening all eyes, and cheering those in despair. Robinson died in 1859, aged 63.
On Christmas Day, 1836, according to his tombstone in Redcar Churchyard, William Guy, pilot, in his 41st year, was “plunged into eternity whilst engaged with others in a brave but fruitless attempt to render assistance to the crew of a Danish vessel off Redcar.” The name of the vessel was “Caroline,” with ten men on board. The “Zetland” was manned by 22, George Robinson, coxswain, two men to each oar. The boisterous ocean drove the “Caroline” and lifeboat hither and thither. The crew of the doomed vessel left in two boats, and one came within what Guy thought easy distance for hooking or casting a line. In the attempt he was washed overboard and lost to sight in a moment. The “Zetland” was smothered in the sea, ran several hundred yards invisible and ultimately washed ashore between Redcar and Coatham. Nineteen out of the twenty-two oars were dashed out of the men’s hands by the waves. William Guy was the only man lost from the “Zetland.” Seventeen days after, Guy’s body was picked up in the vicinity of Staithes and recognised by initials on his stockings and underclothing. Two of the heroic crew of the above mishap are still residing in Redcar, and familiarly known as Jacky Stonehouse aged 87, Thomas Boagey, retired captain, aged 73.
Saturday, 13th Nov., 1841, was calm, lovely evening when the “Susanna,” collier brig, sailed from Middlesbrough, but during the night a terrific gale arose. On the following morning she was opposite the Coatham, at easy distance from the sand hills where the Convalescent Home now exists. The masts wriggled to and fro, the sails were in tatters, whilst the ill-found, rotten vessel plunged into the troughs of the sea, or was hoisted by the waves mountains high, in view of scores of anxious spectators. The “Zetland” hovered near to save the crew of 11, but was unable to render assistance. The “Susanna” was cast upon the sand bank and every soul perished. A dog belonging the vessel swam ashore, and was carefully nursed. On board the “Susanna” was a near relative of Capt. Thos Boagey, of Redcar.
Nov. 15th, 1854 – The “Erskine” was wrecked on Lyedam Scar. Twenty-six fishermen endeavoured to reach the vessel in their cobles, but the sea rising quickly into a storm, the attempt was not successful. The ship with her masts gone, was thrown on her broadside, with the keel towards the shore. Sailors clambered on her exposed parts, and were rescued by the “Zetland.” On this occasion the “Zetland” carried 52 persons on shore, namely 9 of the crew of the ship, the 26 fishermen who tried to reach her in cobles, and 17 lifeboat men. In the absence of Sheildon, Robinson volunteered as cox, saying, “Aw’ll dee what aw can for ye.”
January 5th, 1857 – On this occasion great credit was due to the young men of Redcar, whose ages ranged from 17 to 21, in manning the “Zetland” lifeboat and two cobles, with Robert Shieldon as coxswain, to rescue the barque “EMMA,” off Redcar. When the “Zetland” was in easy distance from the ship the captain leaped into the lifeboat, but the crew refused to follow his example. Sufficient money was raised by subscriptions to present Shieldon with a gold watch, for his tact in saving nine lives. Willie Upton, now 76, followed Shieldon as cox.
On the 10th, February, 1864, there occurred one of the most disastrous gales within recollection of the oldest seafaring community in Tees Bay. The brig “Roman Empress” was smashed to atoms, but the “Zetland” was lucky, in rescuing ten of the crew.
On the 11th January, 1870, about 11.30 pm., the brig “Berdhinska,” of Whitby, whilst on voyage from Shields to the West Indies, with a cargo of coal, struck the West Scar Rocks. The weather at the time was hazy, and the captain took Hartlepool light for that at Seaham Harbour. Some of the fishermen went to her assistance, and thirteen of them agreed to get her off for £60. This they did on the next tide, with the help of a steam tug: and being very leaky, she was taken to Hartlepool. She had lost her rudder, and sustained much damage in consequence of rolling on the rocks.
On December 9th, 1874, a couple of collisions occurred with Coatham Pier. The brig “Griffin,” of Southampton, bound for Sunderland with a crew of seven ran through the shore end of the pier. There were carried away about six lengths of wood work and iron fittings. After striking and clearing the pier, the “Griffin” drifted about 100 yards inshore, and became embedded in the sand nearly opposite Coatham Hotel, where portions of her hull still remain. The “Griffin” was laden with valuable oak. The crew were saved. The schooner “Carrymbus,” Dundee, five hands, all belonging to Arbroath, Boulogne to Shields, passed through the same pier, midway from the saloon to the north end, and carried away on her bulwarks an iron girder towards Warrenby, after losing her bowsprit rigging, &c. The crew were below at the time of the accident, and remained there till the tide receded, and then walked ashore. The desolate and shivered condition of Coatham Pier, divided into three sections, with long gaps between each, was appalling. The repairs were estimated to cost £1,500. The “Garibaldi” was also cast on the beach, facing Newcomen Terrace East. The crew were saved. There was thus four vessels ashore in one day, within a mile of each other.
Oct, 28th, 1880, – The brig “Luna” dashed into Redcar Pier, at about 11 pm., and carried off about sixty yards, smashed six girders, and cracked other two. The “Luna” lost her anchor and masts at sea, and was shattered. The captain’s leg was broken in by an iron column passing through the cabin skylight. The deck was covered with debris but the crew were fortunately below. The men, however, were not rescued until four o’clock next morning. This was the last noble performance of the “Zetland,” when she carried seven to the shore. Somewhat odd on the same day, the schooner “Luna” ran dangerously near the north end of Coatham pier, about six o’ clock in the morning, towards Warrenby. The crew were rescued by the “Free Gardeners’ Lifeboat, “Emma.”
From sixty to seventy years ago, when collier sailing vessels were in full swing, “Richmond’s Records of Stockton and Neighbourhood” (a scare book), afford ample statistics of the dreadful shipwrecks annually, and sacrifice of hundreds of lives. Thus., Vessels lost or foundered –
November 4th, 1821, 95 October 11th, 1824, 140
October 14th, 1829 47 November 24th 1829 59
August, 31st, 1833 121
The total was 462
On October 11th, 1824, there were 37 vessels ashore within ashore within a range of six miles in Tees Bay. No doubt exists of the pluck and stamina of our sea-faring population, which are equal to all demands on their services, but, compared with the days of yore, the duties of lifeboat crews are now mere trifles.
We have not been very successful in tracing reliable Merchant Shipping data, except the words “Brig,” “sloop,” &c, being the only guides, no numbers as to lives saved, or by what methods, leaving plenty of scope for “guessing” at the results. We have therefore omitted all reference to these disconnected outlines which commence with September 29th, 1825. Resort for the best information has been to Richmond, Wm. Hutton (1808), Orde’s Cleveland. Tweddel, scrap books, old newspapers, &c. &c. Personal inquiries for confirmation of facts, have also been made of those who have a life-long experience as toilers on the sea.
In September, 1864, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was on a visit at Upleatham Hall, and wrote the following poem. Lord Stratford was British Ambassador at Constantinople during the Crimean War.
THE OLD LIFE-BOAT AT REDCAR
The Life-boat oh! The Lifeboat, we all have known so long.
A refuge for the feeble, the glory of the strong;
Twice thirty years have vanished since first upon the wave
She housed the drowning mariner, and snatched him from the grave.
Let others deem her crazy, no longer fit to breast
The surge that, madly driven, bears down with foaming crest;
But we, who oft have mann’d her, when death was on the prow,
We cannot bear to leave her, nor will we leave her now.
Our fathers long before us her worth in danger tried;
Their fathers too have steered her amidst the boiling tide;
We love her, – ‘tis no wonder, – we can but follow them;
Let Heav’n but never word of man – the dear old boat “condemn”
The voices of the rescued, – their numbers may be read, –
The tears of speechless feeling our wives and children shed, –
The memories of mercy in man’s extremest need, –
All for the dear old life-boat uniting seem to plead.
The Pow’r Unseen that lashes of storm the briny pool,
And, when the blast is keenest, forbids our heats to cool,
The hand of earthly kindness, that gave our boat its life,
That made it, bird-like, flutter o’er waves deadly strife.
And now that kindred Spirit, who makes the poor his care,
Shall heed our fond remembrance, nor spurn the seaman’s prayer:
Another craft, and brighter, may stem the raging gale; –
The plea of sixty winters, old friend! can never fail.
Thine Age shall be respected, thy Youth perchance restored,
And sires and sons together shall press thy heaving board:
No fears that storms be wanting: and, call it old or new,
We’ll cheer the boat that’s foremost to save a sinking crew.
NOBLE’S BOXER GRAPNEL
In addition to the splendid life-boat services at home and abroad, reference to the offer from the proprietors of the Daily Graphic, of a reward of £100 for the invention of the best means of communication may be interesting to many of our local shipping community
FROM SHIP TO SHORE
The above proposal was made in February 1892, on the 31st of March, 2,300 projects were received, while 300 more were sent to late for consideration, a total of 2,500. The Judges were Rear-Admiral Seymour, Capt. Vivian, and Capt. Wyatt. Their award was published in the Daily Graphic on the 2nd June, 1892, and the £100 price was granted to Messrs. Noble and Thomson, Southampton, for their Boxer-Rocket Grapnel. The three judges conclude thus – “That the Mercantile Fleet numbers 15,000 vessels, manned by 204,000 valuable lives, to say nothing of the passengers annually carried, with a floating capital of property at sea, on any given day, in ships and their cargoes, said to be worth not less than 200 Millions Sterling, we recommend the adoption and perfection of the best means of saving the lives of our seamen when shipwrecked. Up to date, the Boxer-Rocket Grapnel reigns supreme. Noble’s Grapnel Whip Line can be Fixed and Fired from a ship’s Deck in less than Fifty Seconds, and communication effected from the stranded ship to shore in Eighty Seconds.
WORK OF THE LIFEBOAT
In December last, a meeting of the member of this valuable institution was held in St. John Street, Adelphi, London, and Sir. E. Birkbeck, Bart, in the chair, when the second service clasp was voted to several gallant men for saving life during terrific storms of November, 1893. The thanks of the institution inscribed on vellum, were awarded to Richard Whittaker, a coastguard man, of Saltburn, for assisting a shipwrecked crew, and other persons. Rewards amounting to £3,383 were granted to crews of one hundred and ten lifeboats, for assembling on 133 occasions, during the month of December. Sums of money were also granted to shore boats, &c., for assisting at shipwrecks. Payments amounting to £7,500 were ordered to be discharged for three hundred and four lifeboats of the institution. From 18th Nov. to 21st Dec. the lifeboats were launched upwards of seventy times to aid distressed mariners, and were instrumental in saving about 800 lives.
LIFEBOAT DEMONSTRATIONS
It is gratifying to learn of the success of this movement in large towns, for the benefit of the national lifeboats, of which the following are examples – Manchester, £2,800; Glasgow, £2,400; Bradford, £1,500; Southampton; £300; Dundee, £180; Barry; £140; New South State, £25; with a handsome subscription from Liverpool, ending May 30th, 1804. The total income derived from Lifeboat Exhibitions, is a benefit to the National Lifeboat Institution, 0f £18,000 per annum.
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS
Jan. 1804. During our many recent investigations amongst fishermen, &c., it has often asserted that there was” no other lifeboat but the Zetland hereabouts.” This is a local error. A lifeboat was established at Hartlepool on the above date (1804). About the same period, Mr. T. Backhouse, of Darlington, presented Seaton Carew with a lifeboat, and also built a shelter for its reception.
March 8th, 1804, About midnight natives of Redcar were aroused by heavy firing; thinking an enemy was off the coast, drums were beaten to arms for assembly. The SEA FENCIBLES, commanded by Capt. Thrush, were in a short time present on the sands, when proof was afforded, that minute guns were being fired from the brig “Rose” of London, which was stranded upon Redcar rocks. The lifeboat could not get near the Rose, but fishing cobles reached the vessel, and carried 26 on shore. The brig was from Cristiansand, laden with timber, the vessel was totally wrecked. A patriotic poet of Stockton, addressed to the Volunteers of the district, a song entitled “The Mouth Of the Tees beginning with
Ye stout Volunteers, both of Stockton & Norton,
As loyal a corps as was ever once thought on,
Remember the day when by Allison on.
The troops were reviewed by the brave Colonel Seddon,
How he prais’d your Appearance, Manoeuvres and Dress.
What he said was your due, and he could say no less,
The let the French come as soon as they please,
But they’d better beware of the MOUTH OF THE TEES.
April, 1804. Violent storms at sea, shipwrecks; sloop on the North Gare, Seaton, where she sank and all hands perished.
June 12th, 1804. A smart action took place off Staithes, between the “Prs Augusta” cutter, and a French privateer if fourteen guns, when the latter departed, on approach of Capt. Thrush in two schooners, with a staff of the Sea Fencibles in an armed cutter.
Jan. 30th, 1807. A sloop from Newcastle for Stockton was stranded on entering the Tees. Two men assisting to clear the ship of her effects were drowned by the flowing tide over the vessel, to much grog, having rendered them incapable. The “Zetland” saved eight of the crew.
Nov. 23rd 1807. No less than seventeen ships were driven ashore within short distances of Tees Bay.
April 17th, 1812. The “Ocean” of Aberdeen, laden with granite, struck on Redcar Rocks, and shortly broke in pieces. The crew was composed of seven men and boys, four of whom perished.
Oct. 14th, 1814. The “Two Brothers”, of Whitby, with coals from Sunderland, wrecked on the South Gar, crew saved by Redcar lifeboat.
October 24th, 1822. The “St. Martin’s” from Miramichia, with timber, and the “Hawk”, from Sunderland, lost on the North Gar, crew saved.
Nov. 25th, 1825. The “Betsy and Ann” of Stockton ran ashore near Tees Mouth; vessel lost, the crew were saved. An Aberdeen vessel was wrecked in the same locality, with several crafts of smaller size, and the whole of the crews were lost.
Dec. 12th, 1830. Tremendous gale, several vessels on shore at Seaton, amongst which were the “Newcastle,” (Capt. Crowther) a Newcastle-on-Tyne ship, with crew of nine, only two were saved.
February 2nd, 1831. Twelve vessels were ashore in Tees Bay, and dozens of lives lost, with wreckage for miles.
November 2nd, 1844. A Gotenberg vessel named “Celia,”, from Memel to Hull, was wrecked at Seaton, six out of a crew of twelve, were saved.
Oct. 28th; 1852, – Twenty vessels were driven ashore; one was lost at Huntcliffe, and five off Seaton and Hartlepool. The crews numbered 60, only two persons were rescued.
Jan. 3-5, 1857. – Upwards of 130 seamen perished, four vessels being lost at Hartlepool, with all hands.
Jan. 4 to 10, 1853, – Eight laden vessels grounded on the bar at Hartlepool, and a dozen were driven on the beach at Tees Mouth. At the termination of the gale, 60 ships were wrecked between the Tees and Hartlepool, 40 at Sunderland, 34 at the Tyne Mouth, and 50 others in the neighbourhood. The ‘Maiden Bower’, a rock which for ages withstood raging storms, was levelled to the ground at Hartlepool.
March 22, 1857. – On this day (Sunday), the “Margarethe,” of Hanover, was wrecked opposite Redcar. There were several pathetic incidents surrounding this catastrophe. Firstly, the master was washed overboard; secondly, two young boys were saved, but in a dying condition when landed. They were carried to the Lobster Hotel, Coatham, wrapped in blankets, well rubbed with warm flannels, and hot bottles applied to restore animation and vitality, internal stimulants to rouse action in their dead-alive unconsciousness, but all was to no avail. In Coatham Churchyard, a tombstone is erected to the memory of the two youths as follows – “Here rest the bodies of Wilhelm August Meenen, aged 14, and Staye Meenen, aged 11 who were shipwrecked in the Margarethe, of Carolinensigl, Hanover, on Sunday, March 22nd, 1857.” Three out of the crew of four were temporarily rescued by the “Zetland”, including the mate, who after a short period of careful nursing, was enabled to return to his own country.
May 10, 1840. – The “Arcturus,” of Whitby, was wrecked at the Tees Mouth. In midst of a hurricane, the “Zetland and her crew rescued nineteen men.
Dec. 21, 1845 – The “Commerce,” of Stockton, (Capt. Lister), in making for the Tees, became a total wreck. The “Zetland” was unable to overhaul the vessel, and all on board were lost, the mate’s body being washed ashore next day, terribly mangled by the rocks.
Sept. 30, 1849 – The North-east Coast afflicted with severe storms of wind and rain. Sixteen vessels were ashore between Hartlepool and South Shields. Out of four wrecks in Tees Bay, the “Zetland” rescued two of the crews. Those of the “Albion,” of Newcastle, and the “John,” of Saltcoats were drowned.
Jan. 3-5, 1857 – Four ships, bound for Hartlepool, ran ashore, and all hands lost. It was estimated, that upwards of 130 seamen perished in this gale, whilst incalculable commercial damage was sustained on land and sea.
MONDAY, 6th, SEPTEMBER, 1858. – The Tees Bay Lifeboat and Shipwreck Society agreed to transfer their boats, stores &c., to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which included the “Zetland,” of Redcar.
March 7, 1859. – The “Margaret,” of London, in ballast, struck on Redcar rocks, the crew were saved.
Nov. 26, 1859. – The “Fortuna” was wrecked, but the “Zetland” saved eleven lives.
March 28, 1860 – Heavy snowstorms, driving numbers of vessels to ruin at Redcar, Seaton, Hartlepool, &c. The “Cora Linn,” of Stockton, laden with guano, was lost with all on board in Tees Bay. The “Zetland” was on duty, but useless.
Oct, 1860. – A most destructive gale, damaging houses, corn stacks, fruit trees, &c., at Middlesbro’, Stockton, Redcar, &c. A most exceptional event occurred, when the ebb tide on the Tees bar was remarkably low, so that in many places, the water was not more than a foot in depth.
Dec, 16, 1860 – The brig “Eliza,” of Stockton, was wrecked on the North Gar, near Redcar. The crew were saved.
Jan. 15th, 1861. – The “Theodore,” laden with coals and bricks, from Dieppe to Hartlepool, was lost near Skinningrove. Eight men took a boat, which was instantly swamped, the captain alone being saved, who had a lifebuoy on.
Feb. 9, 1861. – The most fearful gale of any within recollection on the North-east coast. 60 to 70 vessels ashore near Hartlepool, upwards of 50 seamen lost between Hartlepool and Huntcliffe. At Whitby, the lifeboat was upset, and twelve lost their lives.
Nov.1, 1861.- In a tempestuous sea, a brig was forced out of Hartlepool harbour, driven across to Redcar, and stranded, the new pier at Hartlepool being damaged.
Feb. 11, 1864. – The “Zetland” saved 10 lives from the “Roman Empress,” at Redcar.
Feb. 17, 1864. – The “Zetland” rescued seven of the crew “Brothers,” at Redcar.
Feb. 13, 1862. – The brig “Sceptre,” of Middlesbrough, bound for London, with coal, whilst lying at anchor, near Lower Hope Point, was run into by “S.S. Scotia.” The Sceptre immediately sank, and three of the crew, who were asleep in the forecastle, were drowned, the master, and other five of the crew, were saved.
Oct. 20-21, 1862. – Great losses of ship and lives during these two days, on the west and North East coast. There were upwards of one hundred casualties posted at Lloyds in three days.
Feb. 20-21, 1865. – Severe weather at sea for several days. A fishing smack at Staithes, ran inshore opposite Seaton and the crew of nine were lost. The Hartlepool lifeboat was to late to render assistance,. A handsome subscription was raised for the bereaved families at Staithes.
Nov. 16, 1865. – A Margate vessel, bound for Hartlepool, was wrecked on Saltburn rocks. On the following morning, a Scarborough brig was wrecked of the same rocks. Both crews were saved.
Dec. 16, 1865. – The schooner “Helen,” from Hartlepool to Aberdeen, was lost in a terrific storm. The master fell overboard the preceding day and was drowned. The mate an apprentice only were left on the vessel; they launched the ship’s boat, and after being exposed for twenty four hours to the pitiless waves, were picked up by a Welsh schooner, and landed at Peterhead, Scotland.
March 21, 1866. – The sloop “Gipsy” of Wisbeach struck the Saltscar Rocks, Redcar, about 2 a.m. and became a total wreck. The master, his wife, and two men, were saved by the Crossley lifeboat.
June. 17, 1866. – Two lives were saved by the Crossleys, from the “Dagmar.”
July. 31, 1866.– During a heavy gale the “Ostrich,” of North Shields, soon after leaving the Tyne, ran into Manhaven, on the rocks near Marsden, when ten of the crew, including the captain, were lost, and only two were saved.
Dec. 8, 1866. – The schooner “Wrecker,” of Newcastle, on leaving the Tyne, became disabled when near the North Gare, and became a wreck, neither lifeboats nor steamers could render any assistance to the ship, but a man named George Cowell, ventured off in a small boat, with the object of relieving the crew. Unfortunately the boat capsized, and the hero was drowned. The brave fellow did not succeed in his intentions like George Robinson the Redcar pilot and coxswain, who, on Dec. 9th, 1834, saved two boys, left by the “Zetland,” from the shop Mowbray.
THE “ZETLAND” IN RETIREMENT
June 22, 1894. – Positive information has arrived at Redcar from Yorkshire, that the old Zetland Lifeboat, “is not wanted.” It appears that the Lifeboat Saturdays at Huddersfield and Dewsbury, are to be managed more economically, by combining, and securing the same Lifeboats for each town, to save the expense of transmission from Redcar, &c. Thus after several weeks’ labour in painting, forcing, breaking, unscrewing rusty bolts in the carriage, which has entombed for thirty years in a damp, dark dungeon, opinion differ, as to whether the oldest existing lifeboat would not have been more attractive in Yorkshire than those of modern construction. During the process of renovation crowds of aged and infirm neighbours have visited the scene, anxious to gaze once more upon their old Friend-in-Need, when all others’ failed, and repeat the oft-told stories of their fathers and grandfathers. So far as the “Zetland” lifeboat is concerned, her career is closed:-
“The Light of other days’ has faded,
And all her glories past.”
But her Deeds Live in Hearts that loved her well, and they grace Britannia’s story.
RECORDS AT THE REDCAR BOATHOUSE
The following list is from the authorised version of the National Lifeboat Institution, in the boathouse of the Brothers, Redcar.
SAVED BY THE ZETLAND
October 25th, 1859, Isabella . . . . . . …2
November 26th, 1859, Fortuna . . . . . .11
Feb. 11th, 1864. Roman Empress . . . .10
Feb, 17th, 1864, the Brothers . . . . . . . .7
SAVED BY THE CROSSLEY LIFEBOAT
March 22nd, 1866. Gipsy . . . . . . . . . . 4
June 17th, 1866, Dagmar. . . . . . . . . . 2
The Crossley’s was then transferred to Middlesbro.
SAVED BY THE BURTON-ON-TRENT
Sept. 25th, 1868, Gentle Annie . . . . . . . . 3
Sept. 25th, 1868, Sybil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Nov. 23rd, 1869, Dawson . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Dec. 27th, 1876, Francis Mary . . . . . . . . 3
Feb. 6th, 1876, Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Sept. 25th, 1876, Pysche . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Sept. 29th, 1876, Morning Star . . . . . . . . .3
Jan, 22nd, 1880, Temperance Star . . . . . 2
Oct. 28th, 1880, Emanuel Boucher . . . . 7
Oct. 29th, 1880, Hayzard . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Oct. 10th, 1884. Samarang . . . . . . . . 13
Nothing is further known concerning the Burton-on-Trent, but the conclusion is, that she was condemned as useless.
From 1884, the lifeboat Brothers, permanently stationed at Redcar. Joseph Burnicle was appointed coxswain in 1873, and still retains that position
LIVES SAVED BY THE BROTHERS
Sept. 7th, 1887. Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
June, 23rd, 1892. Wild Rose – Assisted.
April, 14th, 1893. S.S. Rowan . . . . . . . . . . 17
Nov, 18th, 1993. S.S. Garnet . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Nov. 18th, 1883. Crew of brigantine “Harriet,” was rescued by the Rocket Brigade and Volunteers. The vessel became a total wreck, part of which is still on the beach.
The Bell Buoy, with compressed gas burning night and day, was lifted from its anchorage on the East Scar rocks, in the storm commencing on the 18th day of November last, and another was re-fixed in the same place, on the 30th December, 1893.
On the 23rd of May last there arrived a new carriage for the Redcar Lifeboat Brothers. On the following day, the old one was despatched elsewhere, and the new comer tested, along with the lifeboat. The last invention consists of four wheels, the two larger being six feet high, which are surrounded with seven jointed sand clams of iron, 14 inches wide, or double the width of the wood wheels below the sand plates. The two small wheels are 47 inches high, without clams, and 6 inches wide on the rims. Although the clams create a loud noise in turning round the large wheels, practical men declare in favour of the method, as being much easier to convey the life boat over the sand, even to the edge of the water.
The money collected by the citizens of Glasgow, at their Lifeboat Demonstration last year, inclusive of benefactions (£3,500), has been spent upon an hydraulic steam lifeboat, and was exhibited on Saturday last at Glasgow, with great favour. The procession and enthusiasm of immense crowds exceeded former occasions. Encouraged by the success which attended the Lifeboat Saturday Demonstration in Bradford last year, it has been decided to have one annually. At a meeting of those interested in the movement held on Friday, the date fixed for this summer was August 25th.
F. Brunskill
dean February 27, 2010 Lifeboat
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WHETHER you're a fan of monster trucks, motorbikes, BMX or just general mayhem, the Extreme Stunt Show Live Arena is the place to be. This event is heading to Southport Pleasureland's Car Park, on Marine Drive, Southport (PR8 1RX) on Sunday, 26 October, from 3pm! If you attend you will get to see the monster action, with the shows very own trucks Extreme and Lil' Devil, who will both compete to prove they're the best car crushing monsters in Europe! 2013 was a very busy year for these monsters, performing at over 150 shows during the summer meant they were in need of some long overdue TLC. The Extreme workshop was been busy over the winter months to make sure the trucks and in the summer they restarted the gruelling workout once again, putting both the trucks and the drivers to the test. The Extreme Stunt Show have told us that:- "Both still pulling 1500 horsepower and car crushing to the max, these machines are primed and ready for action in Southport!"
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ONE of Liverpool's most famous actors and comedians will be granted the Freedom of the City at a special ceremony next week. On Monday, 6 October 2014, Ricky Tomlinson will receive the honour in recognition of his varied work over the years fighting for justice, entertaining millions on TV and raising money and awareness for charity. Liverpool's Lord Mayor, Councillor Erica Kemp, said:- "The Freedom of the City is the highest honour we can bestow, and Ricky Tomlinson is most definitely a worthy recipient. Not only has he spent many years entertaining the nation in many varied roles, he is an advocate for justice, never afraid to speak out on behalf of others. He is incredibly supportive of many local charities and a fantastic ambassador for this City. I am delighted to be granting him the Freedom of the City of Liverpool." Ricky Tomlinson said:- "As someone Liverpool born and bred I am delighted to be awarded this honour. To be given the freedom of the City I love is a highlight of my career, I am incredibly proud to be joining the many great people who have also received this honour." Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson said:- "I can't think of many people more deserving than Ricky Tomlinson to receive the Freedom of Liverpool. As well as entertaining the nation as a versatile and talented actor, he has raised and donated millions of pounds to good causes and campaigned to raise the profile of hugely important issues ranging from Hillsborough to human rights. He embodies the very best attributes of the City; hugely passionate, opinionated and willing to speak up for and defend those who don't have a voice. Despite his incredible success over many years, he has remained absolutely true to his roots and works every day to improve the lives of others in the City." Ricky was born in Blackpool, as his mother, Peggy, was evacuated there during the 2nd World War, but returned to the City just 3 days later. Ricky has starred in films and many television shows most memorable as Bobby Grant in 'Brookside' and Jim Royle in 'The Royle Family'. In 1996 Ricky teamed up with writer Jimmy McGovern to give a brilliant and moving performance in 'Hillsborough' as John Glover the father of Ian who died in the disaster. Ricky has supported the fight for justice for the 96 victims and their relatives ever since the tragedy. Ricky supported the 1st national builders strike in 1972 fighting for fair pay and conditions. In1973 he was imprisoned, along with others, after being convicted of being an illegal flying picket. He is still campaigning vigorously to have his, and fellow convicted comrades verdicts quashed, demanding the granting of full pardons.
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Home News Fayemi, Akeredolu responsible for Ekiti bloodshed – Olusola
Fayemi, Akeredolu responsible for Ekiti bloodshed – Olusola
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Ekiti State and the incumbent deputy governor of the state, Kolapo Olusola, has revealed those behind the bloodshed at the All Progressives Congress, APC, secretariat.
Olusola alleged that his fellow contestant in the upcoming governorship election, Kayode Fayemi and the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu were responsible for the attack that left many people injured.
A policeman had allegedly shot six people, including Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele, in Ado Ekiti at the APC Secretariat in Ajilosun area of the state.
The policeman allegedly detailed to cover the rally, also shot teargas canisters arbitrarily at some people in Ojumose area of the state.
However, a statement by Lere Olayinka, Director of Media and Publicity, Kolapo Olusola Campaign Organisation (KOCO) claimed that Akeredolu brought the policeman who opened fire on people of the state.
The statement reads, “Today, the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi invaded Ekiti State with armed policemen and thugs, throwing the State that has been peaceful since the advent of Governor Ayodele Fayose’s government into bloodshed.
“Akeredolu led the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi to Ekiti in a show of federal might and in the process, seven people were hit by police bullets.
“At the APC secretariat, one of the mobile policeman, was said to be using his gun to push away the thugs brought from Ondo State and the hoodlums in turn dragged the gun with him, leading to sporadic shootings that left six persons shot.
“One of those injured was Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele. Five others also had gunshot injuries.
“The APC thugs backed by armed policemen later went on rampage at Ojumose area of Ado Ekiti, destroying the canopies and chairs in front of the residence of late Prince Adegoke.
“One of the Teargas cannisters fired by the policemen hit a Taxi driver, Odeyemi Olumide badly injuring him. He is now receiving treatment at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, alongside five others who were shot at the APC secretariat.
“As usual, the APC went to town with story that the policeman who fired the shots at the party secretariat was fake.
“However, information available to us is that the policeman was brought from Ondo State by Governor Akeredolu.”
Olusola, however, challenged the Police authority to “release the identity of the police officer to the public and how he left Akure for Ado Ekiti.”
The statement added, “We also wish to alert the public of the possibility of the APC shenanigans plotting to assassinate the policeman so as to sustain their lie that he is fake.
“We make bold to say that Governor Akeredolu of Ondo State and Dr Fayemi must be held responsible for any breakdown of law and order in Ekiti State. We are aware of their mobilisation of thugs from Ondo State to Ekiti for the July 14. The governor even reportedly boasted that he was ready to spend two months allocation of Ondo State on Fayemi’s election.
“The first manifestation of Governor Akeredolu’s plot to ensure that Ekiti is taken by force was the bloodshed witnessed in the State today.
“Lastly, let Governor Akeredolu and his stooge, Kayode Fayemi know that Ekiti is not a state to be taken by force and annexed to Ondo State by anyone, our people will resist the APC agents of bloodshed.”
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Home News Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Receives Records Of Appeal
Zamfara APC: Supreme Court Receives Records Of Appeal
The Supreme Court has received the records of appeal in the appeal filed by the governor-elect of Zamfara state, Alhaji Mukhtar Shehu
and 37 others challenging the judgement of the Court of Appeal, Sokoto Division.
The appeal court had about three weeks ago ruled that there was irregularities in the conduct of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.
Though, the court has received records of appeal, findings at the Registry of the court revealed that no date has been fixed for the hearing of the appeal.
One of the officials at the Registry of the apex court said parties in the suit are exepected to file, serve and exchange briefs before a date can be fixed for the hearing of the matter.
The case has also led to the non- issuance of certificate of return to the Governor-elect, Idris, and other members of the State House of Assembly.
The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), withheld the certificate the All Progressive Congress (APC) elected candidates in Zamfara, after the elections.
However, because of the urgency of the matter, the source revealed that the court may likely to abridge the stipulated time frame.
” The Supreme Court may abridge the time for parties to file and serve their processes because of the urgency of matter,” the source said.
Last week, the governir-elect, write to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, drawing its attention to the notice of appeal filed at the Supreme Court.
In a letter dated 2nd April, Alhaji Idris, had through his counsel, Mahmud Magaji, SAN, said that the purported judgement of the court of appeal, has no any positive or direct order.
He argued that assuming there is even a court order arising from the said judgement, they still have 21 days within which to appeal, thus, putting into abeyance the said judgement until after the laps of the said 21days.
He maintained that in the case at hand, the party (APC Zamfara) still have 21days existing side by side with their constitutional right of appeal.
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Press Releases April 2017
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SR Technics signs a 12-year contract with Philippine Airlines
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SR Technics Releases 200th Aircraft for easyJet out of Malta
SR Technics, a world leading MRO service provider, recently completed the 200th aircraft for easyJet at its Malta facility.
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Songs For a New World - Review
Like many British JRB fans, the original off-Broadway cast recording of 'Songs for a New World' is very familiar, but my only reference for Songs’ on stage are dodgy YouTube clips of small-town American school productions, often featuring voices ill-equipped to flatter the often tricky belts and harmonies of the show. Luckily director Adam Lenson has assembled the finest collection of musical theatre actors in town, moving them into a New York loft apartment set (complete with boxes of well-loved possessions). Finally the show looks as good as it sounds, and those (sometimes skippable) character songs are fully dressed in his production. A show which has many unanswered questions, this thoughtful production shows us it has thought about the answers, even when it cannot share them.
Jason Robert Brown, Musicals, Songs for a new world, St James Theatre, Theatre
What London Can Learn From the Tony Awards
'It's Bigger' exclaimed Neil Patrick Harris during the breathtaking opening of last night’s Tony Awards and my God it really was. The Tonys celebrate all things Broadway and, for a musical lover like me, are a great televised platform for the biggest new musical theatre productions to dazzle audiences with show-stopping medleys and a real taste of what they can see live on stage. While tearful acceptance speeches and awkward introductions always seem to labour awards ceremonies, it’s the entertainment segments of the Tonys which set this show above its awarding colleagues and which are a real lesson to London on how we could make the Olivier Awards something worthy of the primetime TV slot many of us think it deserves.
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International Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
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First Case of Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest in Senegal (West Africa): Congenital Heart Disease Management
Volume 4, Issue 5, September 2018, Pages: 39-42
Received: Oct. 25, 2018; Accepted: Dec. 21, 2018; Published: Jan. 29, 2019
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Abdel-Kémal Bori Bata, Department of Pediatric Surgery Child and Mother University Hospital, Cotonou, Benin; Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Amadou Gabriel Ciss, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Baba Ibrahima Diarra, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Momar Sokhna Diop, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Papa Salmane Ba, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Pape Amath Diagne, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Ndeye Fatou Sow, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Magaye Gaye, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Souleyman Diatta, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Mohamed Leye, Department of Cardiology FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Etienne Birame Sene, Department of Anesthesiology FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Papa Adama Dieng, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery FANN University Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Assane Ndiaye, Department of Pediatric Surgery Child and Mother University Hospital, Cotonou, Benin
Mouhamadou Ndiaye, Department of Pediatric Surgery Child and Mother University Hospital, Cotonou, Benin
Background: Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) is an extracorporeal circulation (EC) technique used to correct complex congenital cardiac lesions. This technique ensures excellent operating conditions while reducing consequences of organ ischaemia, particularly of the brain. Griepp was the first to demonstrate in 1975, that the technique offered a practical and safe approach for aortic arch surgery. Case Report: Authors aim at reporting the practical conduct of DHCA’s first case performed in Dakar (Senegal) on a 30- month-old patient diagnosed with supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC). The cooling had started 8 minutes after CPB was initiated and continued while the surgeon dissected the pulmonary veins, the collector, and the innominate vein. After the establishment and the starting up of the cardiopulmonary bypass, circulatory arrest was performed at 18°C with 32 minutes of arrest time. The anastomosis between collector and posterior of the left atrium was achieved during a circulatory arrest. In the immediate postoperative period, patient showed episodes of hypothermia and biological bleeding. During her hospitalization, the patient developed a lung infection and PAH crisis, kept under control with antibiotic, diuretics, oxygen and sildenafil. Neurological, kidney, metabolic or ionic complications have not been observed. The patient stayed at the hospital for 32 days. Conclusion: DHCA technique is a common practice in developed countries. However, it can also be carried out in West Africa as evidenced by this clinical case. This prowess testifies a strengthening of our skills in EC technique; and also, the possibility of correcting complex congenital cardiac lesions.
Deep Hypothermic, Circulatory Arrest, Congenital Cardiac Lesions
Abdel-Kémal Bori Bata, Amadou Gabriel Ciss, Baba Ibrahima Diarra, Momar Sokhna Diop, Papa Salmane Ba, Pape Amath Diagne, Ndeye Fatou Sow, Magaye Gaye, Souleyman Diatta, Mohamed Leye, Etienne Birame Sene, Papa Adama Dieng, Assane Ndiaye, Mouhamadou Ndiaye, First Case of Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest in Senegal (West Africa): Congenital Heart Disease Management, International Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. Vol. 4, No. 5, 2018, pp. 39-42. doi: 10.11648/j.ijcts.20180405.11
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Elassal AA, Debis RS, Faden MS, Alqari AH, Abdulaziz MA, Al Radi OO. Outcomes of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in pediatric cardiac surgery: A single center experience. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 2016; 24 (3): 228-31.
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Ross FJ, Joffe D, Latham GJ. Perioperative and anesthetic considerations in total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. In Seminars in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia. Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications. 2017; 21: 138-144.
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Porapakkham P, Porapakkham, P. Cerebral Protection in Aortic Arch Surgery: Clinical Outcomes from Single Institute. Journal Of The Medical Association Of Thailand, 2018; 01 (5): 621.
Rungatscher A, Luciani GB, Linardi D, Milani E, Gottin L, Walpoth B, et al. Temperature variation after rewarming from deep hypothermic circulatory arrest is associated with survival and neurologic outcome. Therapeutic hypothermia and temperature management. 2017; 7 (2): 101-106.
Urbanowicz TK, Budniak W, Buczkowski P, Perek B, Walczak M, Tomczyk J, et al. Brain activity monitoring by compressed spectral array during deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in acute aortic dissection surgery. Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol. 2014; 11 (4): 409-13
Jinghao Z, Botao G, Zhiwei X, Jinfeng L. The research on operation of obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in neonates. Scientific World Journal. 2014: 576569.
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Elassal AA, Debis RS, Faden MS, Alqari AH, Abdulaziz MA, Al Radi OO. Outcomes of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in pediatric cardiac surgery: A single center experience. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2016; 24 (3): 228-231.
Lee Y, Cho JY, Kwon OY, Jang WS.. Outcomes of surgery for total anomalous pulmonary venous return without total circulatory arrest. The Korean journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 2016; 49 (5), 337.
Geube M, Sale S, Svensson L. Con: Routine Use of Brain Perfusion Techniques Is Not Supported in Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2017; 31 (5): 1905-1909.
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Discussion in 'Politics' started by Quantum Quack, Feb 17, 2018.
Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member
I thought it was about time to start a thread that specifically deals with the Mueller inquiry, (special council investigation) that has been investigating Russian interference in the last Presidential elections that saw D. Trump elected.
Latest news states that up to 13 Russian nationals have been subjected to an indictment with more news yet to come to the fore.
According to some reports (unconfirmed) Russian money was also used to employ USA citizens as well, to troll social media and stage rallies in support of Trump.
Could it be that Trump is an innocent victim of Russian support? (no collusion)
Would the Russians purely support Trump simply to ensure Hillary Clinton fails to win the election?
If so:
Why did the Russians fear the election of Hillary so badly that their intervention was deemed necessary?
Surely if there was collusion between Trump and Putin evidenced, Mueller would have acted by now. But hey, this is about the USA so I guess anything is possible.
Russian interference
Collusion between Trump campaign and Russia.
Financial ties to Russia.
Quantum Quack, Feb 17, 2018
Given the state of play, globalization etc... the USA could just as easily interfere in the upcoming Russian elections. Will they retaliate? Are we in for a Cold cyber-war? (if not already)
iceaura Valued Senior Member
Quantum Quack said: ↑
We have much evidence of collusion as well, - the news of other Russian perfidy does not wipe that from the slate.
Not fear of Clinton but gain from supporting Trump - win or lose - would be the visible motive. It is unlikely that Clinton would have pulled back on the sanctions as Trump has, for example. Keep in mind that the laundering of oligarch money and other financial benefits are significant - maybe even overriding - Russian interests. Trump is obviously the better choice for that. And the various side benefits of trashing US governance and the US economy could hardly have been lost on Putin and his allies - although my guess is they will regret doing that when the full spread of consequences falls on them.
iceaura, Feb 17, 2018
A question:
If USA citizen knowingly took money from a Russian agency to pay for lobbying, pro Trump rallies, election interference, and social media pro-Trump trolling etc. would they be guilty of treason against the USA?
The reason I ask this is that I am confident that the FBI will be able to track down those USA citizens on Putin's payroll and I wonder what charges they would face.
Suffice to suggest that collusion with Russia is not an act restricted just to the Trump campaign or administration but also to any USA citizen or organization.
( the same could be asked of anything similar say in Australia or nations of Europe etc.)
iceaura said: ↑
Call me nuts, but I got and still get the distinct impression that Hillary "had something" or was working on something to do with Russia that required her to be defeated in the election as a must, even if the Ruble costs were high.
The attitude on video of one particular Russian during the campaign ( I would have to search for the video) seriously indicated that Hillary was indeed a significant threat to Russia's interests beyond mere sanctions etc. ( hence the washing of her private email server... perhaps)
sculptor Valued Senior Member
Call me nuts, ...
OK, if you insist.
You are bull goose bonkers NUTS.
(feel better?)
Meanwhile, It seems that Mueller is showboating here.
Of what practical use is indicting 13 foreign nationals who are not on US soil?
Can they be compelled to come to this country to appear before a grand jury?
sculptor, Feb 17, 2018
What goes round comes round:
The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries – it's done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University.
That number doesn't include military coups and regime change efforts following the election of candidates the U.S. didn't like, notably those in Iran, Guatemala and Chile. Nor does it include general assistance with the electoral process, such as election monitoring.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-elections-20161213-story.html
If we set the rules why do you think we are justified in objecting when others play by those rules?
Is this more of that "exceptionalism" rearing it's arrogant and ugly head?
I'll look around for a couple articles; it has to do with the fact that she was a powerful woman Putin perceived as having injured him. To the one, it was personal, to the other, she's a woman, which makes it doubly so.
But it's the same kind of thing like when Putin tried to intimidate Angela Merkel↱; she did well enough in the moment, and then crushed him in the press: "I understand why he has to do this—to prove he's a man," the German Chancellor explained. "He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this."
But we are also creeping closer to the threshold by which we will actually be able to declare that it only took an international conspiracy to stop the first American female president.
And, you know, that will probably hurt the feelings of some masculinisticish manly men.
Tiassa, Feb 17, 2018
sculptor said: ↑
Meanwhile, It seems that Mueller is showboating here
No, it really doesn't. Mueller is on the edge of being fired, and under continual attack - he has no such luxury, elbow room: everything he does is calculated.
We were breaking the rules - including our own. And anyone is "justified" in pointing to anyone breaking such rules - we won't get much sympathy, given our past, but that's hardly the point.
As long as it's acknowledged and understood that the Republicans who abetted and benefitted from the Russian efforts to prang our elections corrupted and betrayed their own country in the interests of a foreign power, anyone who wants to help the Left highlight the American bad stuff that the Left has been trying to get into the headlines since the Korean War is very welcome to put their shoulder to the wheel.
The Left hasn't even been able to get basic voting machine and tabulation security in place, let alone registration and logistic management and sophisticated cyber-stuff straightened out. We need all the help we can get.
C'mon - you know better than that. That's leverage.
The Republicans who abetted and benefitted from these crimes are now legally tied up with people formally indicted for felonies.
The Russian "government" has another breach it has to defend, another vulnerability.
Hillary was indeed a significant threat to Russia's interests beyond mere sanctions etc.
Follow the money. As far as is visible Hillary was no special threat to "Russia's" interests as a country - any more than any random Republican would be. Meanwhile the Russians focused on Trump, out of all possible Clinton foes, long before he had any obvious shot at winning. They didn't, apparently, hedge their bets early on, with others apparently more likely to defeat Clinton.
something to do with Russia that required her to be defeated in the election as a must, even if the Ruble costs were high.
This is the thing: the ruble costs were not that high. They didn't put that much into it, specifically against Clinton. They didn't have to - the heavy lifting (the creation of the Republican base, the acquiring of control over the voting logistics and tabulation etc, the organization of propaganda feeds and media amplification), was done by others. The Koch brothers alone, among the dozen or so pezzonovantes in the American fascist movement, probably outspent the Russians by multiples. Bots are cheap - State governments in control of voting logistics are expensive.
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LOL, retaliation. The US is well-known everywhere for interfering in every election which is somehow interesting for them, all over the world. And certainly they interfere in every Russian election, all the time. We are, of course, in a Cold cyberwar. The Russians have already speculated during the whole last year not about will the US try to interfere, but how.
Schmelzer, Feb 17, 2018
Schmelzer said: ↑
(takes innocent profile)
But The USA always attempts to inspire democracy in nations that appear to seriously lack it... don't they?????
Follow the money. As far as is visible Hillary was no special threat to "Russia's" interests as a country - any more than any random Republican would be.
Clue:
Do you recall the shooting down of MA17 (Ukraine 17th, July 2014)
and the later arrival of 100's of white , mainly empty(?) aid trucks (16th, August 2014)
yet to be resolved ....yes?
I tend to believe Hillary had the info that may have put Putin in a really difficult position if she became POTUS. That what ever happened in the Ukraine had to be handled extremely carefully (and still does) to avoid global hysterics.
LOL. Hillary knows something which could seriously put Putin in a difficult position, but Obama did not know it, or decided not to use it because he likes Putin so much?
BTW, about the "mainly empty": The first of these aid caravans had a really difficult job - they had to reach the almost encircled Lugansk. In that situation, they had to drive not on the main road but to follow small village roads. I hope you can imagine what is a small village road, Soviet time, with nothing done there after 1990. To prevent stalling, quite dangerous at that time (they could have easily attacked if their position would have been known to the fascists) it was very reasonable to use only half of the possible maximal cargo. The fascist tried to prevent this caravan and invented the claim that the other half have been weapons, which was nothing but laughable. (And not because there would have been no ways to transfer weapons - but the very idea that this first official caravan, which was in all the media, would have been used in such a primitive way to transfer them is what is laughable.)
Thinking about the accusations against those 13 Russians, it may be an interesting shift in the anti-Russian propaganda. The old pattern was one can claim whatever one likes, no proofs necessary, if somebody asks for proofs one refers to the secret services, and, of course, the proofs are there but so secret that one cannot present them to the public. This is, of course, sufficient for a lot of sheeple, certainly sufficient for fanatics like CptBork or joepistole, but it is not a problem at all for the Russians. They even love to write about all such claims in their media and use that well-known picture with Powell in the UN, as an illustration, no further comments necessary.
It may be that the US has understood that this old scheme no longer works, or works only for those sheeple who are anyway not a problem at all and go back to accusations they really can prove. That would be good - it would be no longer necessary to care every day if the next gas attack fake has been started. (The Russians have issued a warning that in the next days a new such attack is planned, White Helmets and reporters with microphones with CNN labels have been seen near Sarakib in circumstances which suggest preparations for a new fake, Macron for whatever reasons mentioning gas attacks is also a bad sign. Usually such open warnings have at least the effect of changing the place and shifting the fake in time, but there is not much time left before the Russian elections and Russian elections without any major anti-Russian US action? Hard to imagine.)
But, on the other hand, accusing Russia only of things they can really prove will not give much. 13 Russian trolls using false identities to distribute their opinions about Clinton - I'm not really impressed.
I tend to believe Hillary had the info that may have put Putin in a really difficult position if she became POTUS.
No different than any other President, a dozen employees at State some still there, the appropriate folks at the Pentagon, the CIA and NSA cadres of Russia watchers, etc.
People paying better attention are impressed - so predictably that the mere possibility was routinely and repeatedly denied, any proponents mocked and slandered, a major propaganda effort devoted to obscuring and undermining the accusations.
Oh no (if so) ... Obama knew about it and the issue must have been big enough for Trump to tone down his "Jail Hillary" rhetoric once he learned of it, after winning the election. The video clip on the local news here showing him leaving his first meeting after the election with Obama had him looking like he had seen a ghost...
Why do you think Trump hasn't pursued Hillary?
There is nothing stopping him from launching a special prosecutor investigation that we know of...
Why didn't he do it as a retaliation for the current Mueller investigation?
???????? Who has denied that among the many trolls in the net there will be a lot of Russian trolls too? There would be no point denying this. What has been denied by the Russians was the hack of that server of the Democrats. There would be no point for the Russians to deny that Russian people are doing what all the world is doing too - to use the net in anonymous or pseudonymous ways for distribution of information in support of their political or economic interests.
Why do you think Trump hasn't pursued Hillary? ... Why didn't he do it as a retaliation for the current Mueller investigation?
If he looked that way there may be a lot of reasons for this. Imagine he has learned about a more realistic version of 9/11. (Whatever this could be, it is open to speculation, but it seems sufficient for Trump not to open everything about 9/11 up to now.)
Whatever it was, some information about minor evil things done by evil Putin would have had any effect of this type. (The worst case of MH17 would be that it was shot by accident by the Russians and they did not acknowledge this. Accidental shots of civil airplanes have happened a lot of time, and nobody likes to admit them so that this would be a serious defeat for the Russians in the information war, but nothing serious. The Russian delivery of weapons for the Donbass is as "secret" as the US support for ISIS, everybody knows it, but the other side has no ironclad proof, so there is no reason to admit it openly. So, the reaction of the Russian officials if questioned is simply an "Oh, we do this? Do you have a proof? Show it.") So, both points would be clearly unwanted but almost irrelevant to Putin. And certainly even less relevant to Obama and Trump. So, they would obviously have published any proofs if they would had them.
sculptor likes this.
???????? Who has denied that among the many trolls in the net there will be a lot of Russian trolls too? T
Organized and financed by Russian government, informed and guided by the resources of the Russian intelligence services, in order to damage the electoral process and the US as a country, for Russian benefit.
There would be no point for the Russians to deny that Russian people are doing what all the world is doing too - to use the net in anonymous or pseudonymous ways for distribution of information in support of their political or economic interests.
So the fact that they did deny what they were doing, and so did the participating Americans, is yet another telling circumstance.
There would, as you say, be no point in denying ordinary trolling by unorganized individuals.
There would be no point in denying something Chinese and Japanese and Indians and Germans and Canadians and Mexicans were doing all the time.
There would be no point in denying "distribution of information" at all.
But the Russians apparently are not going to extradite - or even make available for deposition etc - the trolls Mueller named and indicted. Russia appears to have no more interest in investigating this matter than in investigating the large scale money-laundering and embezzlement from its own government, the deaths of journalists and lawyers and Putin-inconveniencing politicians, and the Russian involvements of Americans and international bankers, leading up to and surrounding this chain of events.
What has been denied by the Russians was the hack of that server of the Democrats.
And all subsequent participation in the events that followed - some of which seem to have altered the outcome of the US Presidential election. Many of these denials appear to be false.
The Russian delivery of weapons for the Donbass is as "secret" as the US support for ISIS, everybody knows it, but the other side has no ironclad proof, so there is no reason to admit it openly.
And good reason to hide it, since it invalidates claims of good motive and accordance with international law and all the rest of Putin's bs.
First, if one distributes information against a particular candidate, this is not a "damage" of the electoral process, but simply the usual way to use it. To damage US as a country? Not at all. It is certainly better for the US too if the elected president will not start a war against Russia, as Clinton has promised (ok, she has promised only to do things which would make such a war very probable, but not to have such a president is nonetheless positive for the US). The US does not like it if Russians participate? Ok, but why should Russia care? The US themselves heavily influences all Russian elections, and what the US is doing should be fine if others are learning from the US, not? From a Russian point of view, this is nothing but the usual freedom of speech of Russian people in Russia, also an American value, not? Ok, even if using pseudonyms is standard, it is not fine to use real names of real persons who do not know about this, but this is essentially nothing, the real harm to these persons is minimal.
What else? Informed and guided by the Russian intelligence services? LOL. What do you think is the job of the Russian intelligence services, if not working for the Russian benefit?
Did they? Link please. (Not to some Western propaganda fantasies, but to some Russian original. Or at least to some propaganda fantasy with a link, or at least particular information about who said what.
So you are against freedom of association? Should Russia forbid trollers to organize in free associations?
But the Russians apparently are not going to extradite - or even make available for deposition etc - the trolls Mueller named and indicted.
Of course. That's even forbidden by the Russian constitution. Those who do unlawful things outside of Russia can be sent to prison based on Russian law by a Russian court, so no problem if this was some real crime.
Many of them? Then it will be simple for you to link some of them. I'm waiting.
Not at all. Russia could have easily got a UNSC approval based on R2P for the people of the Donbass, at least after the completely unprovoked airforce attack against Lugansk https://thesaker.is/lugansk-attacked-by-ukrainian-air-force/ if not for the unfortunate point that the war was supported by the US, and the US has veto power in the UNSC. But this does not change the moral motives. And having the weapons and leaving the Russians there without them, as the victims of the fascists - this was completely unacceptable for the Russians.
Moreover, the Russians had the request of the legal president Yanukovych for military help against the coup, and the permission of the Duma to start a military action. So, as from international law, as from national law, even the open use of military force would have been fine.
The US themselves heavily influences all Russian elections
Elections? Do you dare to use that word for anything to do with Russia?
Elected by who? Certainly not the people by way of free and anonymous vote?
At least the USA has a democratic system that CAN be interfered with. The same can not be said for Russia in that it is not a democracy.
What point would there be in promoting an opposition party or individual that doesn't exist?
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remember the people who sued rescuers for saving their life when they had a heart attack.
claiming they should be able to sue the person for the family to get the life-insurance pay-out money off the rescuer ?
what country allows such a case to be heard in court ?
You didn't like the bullying so why do you talk negatively about society, passive behavior and sheep?
I get it that you fought back (who doesn't?) but there whole subject is really just about adapting to reality. Most people understand the concepts that you are discussing and yet have (apparently) adapted better to them than others.
Remeber the person who punched the other person was paid chimp change to pay for court costs for being prosectued by the punch commanders legal system.
Society=hidden bullies who punish you for fighting back.
Im more about adapting reality than adapting to it. Basically I am about creating utopias out of shitshows such as the human race.
I get it that you fought back (who doesn't?) .
im guessing your talking about the jews from WWII ?
China i believe.
IMO, perhaps looking at it from a mirroring perspective might help. Empathy is the ability to internally "mirror" another's emotions, feelings, intentions and physical behavior as if they were your own.
This is why we wince when we see someone hit their thumb with a hammer. Our brain causes the release of the same chemicals in our own body as the victim who actually has to deal with the pain. We produce saliva watching another eat a tasty morsel. We imitate a boxer's moves watching a boxing match. We get aroused watching two other people making love. We literally place ourselves in the other person's reality.
It's quite remarkable, it is not just emotional, it is literally a physical mirroring experience. If it is just emotional identification, then its called "sympathy", but that is one step removed.
It has nothing to do with intelligence, it's just a matter of being able to relate and physically respond appropriately.
avoid eating the poisonous food
avoid being injured by the wild animal when you try to stab it to death, over and over and over again... stabbing and stabbing and stabbing...
as blood flies everywhwere and it thrashes around and kills one of your hunting party whos sexual slave girl is the cave toilet cleaner...
and when they die the sexual slave cave toilet cleaner is beaten to death by the other cave women because the alpha female has not been hit in the face a few times by the alpha male as they return to the cave to make her fear attacking the young sexual slave girl for being a sexual rival and then the entire tribe die of ecoli poisoning.
all because 1 of the hunting party lacked empthy
etc etc...
hitch hikers guide to appropriateness
Yes, sometimes it just takes a single act to set an entire domino effect in motion. Clearly demonstrated during sports events, where 50,000 act as one and go nuts when their team scores. Every individual is internally scoring that goal. We just love that rush of adrenaline or dopamine.
Obviously zombies have damaged "mirror neural networks", they act the same singly or in groups......
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Again, you're almost completely full of shit. The use of drugs to treat mental illness is effective most of the time.
Just about everyone I've known who was an emotional mess before starting a course of anti-depressants... has still been a mess ever since. Maybe they should switch to vitamin water.
CptBork, Jul 5, 2018
how does that equate with stampedes and crushes ? (the psychology of sociology/etc...)
CptBork said: ↑
Are they worse and are they still alive?
IMO, stampedes are mass expression of the mirror neural function. A school of fish can move as if it is a single organisms.
As I understand it, it is a completely involuntary response mechanism. You cannot want to be empathic, you are or you're not in various areas and degrees of shared experiences and emotional responses. Stub your toe once really hard and you will produce the same physical response every time you see someone else stub their toe thereafter.
I'm confident that it plays a great part in shaping our social structure.
This NOVA clip may explain better.
Some are the same for now, some are worse mostly due to things not improving in their lives as they get older. I don't know anyone who was ever in a deep state of depression who credits pills for helping them recover, nor have I ever seen a magical turnaround in a depressed person who started taking pills. They never worked for me either when I tried them myself in the past, and at the various times when I gave them a try, in various different dosages, brands and combinations, I was pretty desperate for a boost. Some of these people ended up dying, usually from drug overdoses, including a former roommate, and many of those who are still alive wouldn't be so if they had a button they could push to die reliably and painlessly; I credit the pills for nothing.
No, sorry, psychiatrists are not scientists and it's incredibly pompous for them to call themselves such, just like it would be if the cardinals of the Vatican were to start proclaiming themselves to be scientists. The difference is that the medical community at large tends to listen to these people, and clueless uneducated politicians take the medical community's recommendations as gospel. Psychiatric evaluations are more about moral judgments than scientific diagnoses. Wanna die because everyone's an asshole to you and you're stuck in a position within society with absolutely no realistic prospect for advancement? Something must be wrong with your brain. Acting out because you don't like being abused by peers or family? Mental illness, ADHD etc. Have political views contrary to the goals of the leadership (i.e. Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, China, USA coming soon)? Mental illness, pills to the rescue (or a nice comfy cell)!
What kind of a mentally deficient retard thinks that pills are adequate and enforceable substitutes for having a fulfilling and rewarding life, and a place of dignity within society? Quack psychiatrists who don't understand what the placebo effect is, and push drugs for the big companies that fly them out to resort seminars, that's who.
You don't tell people to shut up and get over it when they're raped, do you? What if it happened 10 years ago but the perp is still out enjoying a consequence-free life?
I don't think psychiatrists call themselves scientists do they? They are medical doctors. If they do research then they are scientists I suppose. Most doing research are in neuroscience.
I don't think pills are supposed to be a magic cure all. People who are clinically depressed don't have a lot of options since there really isn't (presently) a cure.
None of that has anything to do with having an unpopular political viewpoint however.
No, what does that have to do with the subject at hand. No one is telling anyone to shut up and get over it.
USA coming soon
opiod addiction and suicide rate...
some might suggest its already there.
though... i tend to be leaning more toward the capitalist user pays health system that drives the bulk of opiod addiction because it places long term solutions out of financial reach.
be those operations or psychiatric therapy.
along with lack of social security.
if a person has to stop work to have an operation will they lose their house, job & kids etc...
#1 forclosure on USA mortgages is medical expenses so ive read several times.
the economic model is addicted to profit margin
the patients are addicted to the opiods
the voters are addicted to bi-partisan ideologies
its not an easy solution if you want to keep all the big corporates happy.
its do-able but the type of president who is capable of delivering that type of systemic change is probably never going to be interested in running for president assuming for a moment they rise to the top of the party.
the system doesnt reward charitable people who want to help others.
it rewards selfish people who want to keep everything to themselves.
rome in a day ?
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding you, but you seem to be implying that one's inability to cope with a given situation is somehow an automatic indicator of a mental defect on that individual's part. That sounds like victim-blaming to me. One could play the same game with black slaves too- how come they didn't just accept things and cope?
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Supergiant
Title: Supergiant
Subject: Supernova, Hypergiant, Star, Outline of astronomy, Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
Collection: Star Types, Stellar Phenomena, Supergiants
Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
Spectral type
Brown dwarfs
White dwarfs
Red dwarfs
Subdwarfs
Main sequence
("dwarfs")
Subgiants
Bright giants
Supergiants
Hypergiants
magni-
tude
Supergiants are among the most massive and most luminous stars. They occupy the top region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram with bolometric absolute magnitudes between −5 and −12 and temperatures from about 3,500K to over 20,000K.
Properties 1
Categorisation of stars 1.1
Variability 1.2
Supernova progenitors 3
Well known examples 4
Supergiants have masses from 8 to 12 times the Sun (M☉) upwards, and luminosities from about 10,000 to over a million times the Sun (L☉). They vary greatly in radius, usually from 30 to 500, or even in excess of 1,000 solar radii (R☉). They are massive enough to begin core helium burning gently before the core becomes degenerate, without a flash, and without the strong dredge-ups that lower-mass stars experience. They go on to successively ignite heavier elements, usually all the way to iron. Also because of their high masses they are destined to explode as supernovae.
The Stefan-Boltzmann law dictates that the relatively cool surfaces of red supergiants radiate much less energy per unit area than those of blue supergiants; thus, for a given luminosity red supergiants are larger than their blue counterparts. Radiation pressure limits the largest cool supergiants to around 1,500 R☉ and the most massive hot supergiants to around a million L☉ (MV around -9). Stars near and occasionally beyond these limits become unstable, pulsate, and experience rapid mass loss.
Supergiants are categorized on the basis of their spectra. Supergiants occur in every spectral class from young blue class O supergiants to highly evolved red class M supergiants. Because they are enlarged compared to main-sequence and giant stars of the same spectral type, they have lower surface gravities and changes can be observed in their line profiles. Supergiants are also evolved stars with higher levels of heavy elements than main-sequence stars. This is the basis of the MK luminosity system which assigns stars to luminosity classes purely from observing their spectra. In addition to the line changes due to low surface gravity and fusion products, the most luminous stars have high mass-loss rates and resulting clouds of expelled circumstellar materials which can produce emission lines, P Cygni profiles, or forbidden lines. The MK system assigns stars to luminosity classes: Ib for supergiants; Ia for luminous supergiants; and 0 (zero) or Ia+ for hypergiants. In reality there is very much of a continuum rather than well defined bands for these classifications, and classifications such as Iab are used for intermediate luminosity supergiants. Supergiant spectra are frequently annotated to indicate spectral peculiarities, for example B2Iae or F8Iabpec.
Categorisation of stars
Although the term supergiant does not have a single concrete definition, there are several other categories of evolved star which are not, not always, or no longer, generally treated as supergiants. Definitions based solely on spectral type, solely on luminosity, or on criteria such as size, mass, composition, internal structure, or life stage, will all include somewhat different stars under the heading of supergiant.
Asymptotic-giant-branch (AGB) stars are highly evolved lower-mass red giants with luminosities almost as high as red supergiants, but because of their low mass, being in a different stage of development (helium shell burning), and their lives ending in a different way (planetary nebula and white dwarf rather than supernova), astrophysicists prefer to keep them separate. The dividing line becomes blurred at around 7–10 M☉ (or as high as 12 M☉ in some models[1]) where stars start to undergo limited fusion of elements heavier than helium. Specialists studying these stars often refer to them as super AGB stars, since they have many properties in common with AGB such as thermal pulsing. Others describe them as low-mass supergiants since they start to burn elements heavier than helium and can explode as supernovae.[2] These intermediate stars develop oxygen–magnesium–neon cores that either lead to the rare oxygen–neon white dwarf or an electron-capture supernova.
Wolf–Rayet stars are also high-mass luminous evolved stars, hotter than most supergiants and smaller, visually less bright but often more luminous because of their high temperatures. They have spectra dominated by helium and other heavier elements, usually showing little or no hydrogen, which is a clue to their nature as stars even more evolved than supergiants. Just as the AGB stars occur in almost the same region of the HR diagram as red supergiants, Wolf–Rayet stars can occur in the same region of the HR diagram as the hottest blue supergiants and main-sequence stars.
The most massive and luminous main-sequence stars are almost indistinguishable from the supergiants they quickly evolve into. They have almost identical temperatures and very similar luminosities, and only the most detailed analyses can distinguish the spectral features that show they have evolved away from the narrow early O-type main-sequence to the nearby area of early O-type supergiants. Such early O-type supergiants share many features with WNLh Wolf–Rayet stars and are sometimes designated as slash stars, intermediates between the two types.
Luminous blue variables (LBVs) are a type of star that occur in the same region of the HR diagram as blue supergiants, but are generally classified separately. They are evolved, expanded, massive, and luminous stars, often hypergiants, but they have very specific spectral variability which defies the assignment of a standard spectral type. LBVs only observed at a particular time, or over a period of time when they are stable, may simply be designated as hot supergiants, or as candidate LBVs due to their luminosity.
Hypergiants are frequently treated as a different category of star from supergiants, although in all important respects they are just a more luminous category of supergiant. They are evolved, expanded, massive and luminous stars like supergiants, but at the most massive and luminous extreme, and with particular additional properties of undergoing high mass-loss due to their extreme luminosities and instability. Generally only the more evolved supergiants show hypergiant properties since their instability increases after high mass-loss and some increase in luminosity.
Some B(e)-type stars have temperatures and luminosities equivalent to blue supergiants, although other B(e)-type stars are clearly different. Some researchers distinguish the B(e) objects as separate from supergiants, while others prefer to define the particularly massive and luminous B(e)-type stars a subgroup of supergiants. The latter has become more common with the understanding that the B(e) phenomenon arises separately in a number of distinct types of stars, including some that are clearly just a phase in the life of supergiants.
While most supergiants show some degree of photometric variability, such as Alpha Cygni variables, semiregular variables, and irregular variables, there are certain well defined types of variables amongst the supergiants. The instability strip crosses the region of supergiants, and specifically many Classical Cepheid variables are supergiants. The same region of instability extends to include the even more luminous yellow hypergiants, an extremely rare and short-lived class of luminous supergiant. Many R Coronae Borealis variables are yellow supergiants although not all, but this variability is due to their unusual chemical composition rather than a physical instability.
Further types of variable stars, such as RV Tauri variables and PV Telescopii variables, are often described as supergiants. Although the rare RV Tau stars are frequently assigned spectral types with a supergiant luminosity class on account of their low surface gravity, they are lower-mass lower-luminosity post-AGB stars. Likewise the even rarer PV Tel variables are often described as supergiants, but have lower luminosities than supergiants and peculiar B(e) class spectra extremely deficient in hydrogen. Possibly they are also post-AGB objects, or perhaps "born-again" AGB stars.
The LBVs already mentioned are variable with multiple semi-regular periods and less predictable eruptions and giant outbursts. Although they are essentially supergiants in nature, extremely luminous, massive, evolved stars with expanded outer layers, they are so distinctive and unusual that they are often treated as a separate category without being referred to as supergiants or given a supergiant spectral type. Often their spectral type will be given just as "LBV" because they have peculiar and highly variable spectral features, with temperatures varying from about 8,000 K in outburst up to 20,000 K or more when "quiescent".
O type main-sequence stars and the most massive of the B type blue-white stars become supergiants. Because of their extreme masses they have short lifespans of 30 million years down to a few hundred thousand years.[3] They are mainly observed in young galactic structures such as open clusters, the arms of spiral galaxies, and in irregular galaxies. They are less abundant in spiral galaxy bulges, and are rarely observed in elliptical galaxies, or globular clusters, which are composed mainly of old stars.
Supergiants develop when massive main-sequence stars run out of hydrogen in their cores. They then start to expand, just like lower-mass stars, but unlike lower-mass stars, they begin to fuse helium in the core almost immediately. This means that they do not increase their luminosity as dramatically as lower-mass stars and they progress nearly horizontally across the HR diagram to become red supergiants. Also, unlike lower-mass stars, red supergiants are massive enough to fuse elements heavier than helium, so they do not puff off their atmospheres as planetary nebulae when their helium becomes depleted. Furthermore, they cannot lose enough mass to form a white dwarf, so will leave behind a neutron star or black hole remnant, usually after a core collapse supernova explosion.
Stars more massive than about 40 M☉ cannot expand into a red supergiant. They burn too quickly and lose their outer layers too quickly, so they reach the blue supergiant stage, or perhaps yellow hypergiant, and then return to become hotter stars. The most massive stars, above about 100 M☉, hardly move at all from their position as O main-sequence stars. These stars convect so efficiently that they mix hydrogen from the surface right down to the core. They continue to fuse hydrogen until it is almost entirely depleted throughout the star, then very rapidly evolve through a series of stages of very similar hot and luminous stars, if supergiants, slash stars, WNh-, WN-, and possibly WC- or WO-type stars. They are expected to explode as supernovae, but it is not clear how far they evolve before this happens. The existence of these supergiants still burning hydrogen in their cores may necessitate a slightly more complex definition of supergiant: a massive star with increased size and luminosity due to fusion products building up, but still with some hydrogen remaining.[4]
The first stars in the universe are thought to have been considerably brighter and more massive than the stars in the modern universe. These stars were part of the theorized population III of stars. Their existence is necessary to explain observations of elements other than hydrogen and helium in quasars. Although they may have been larger and more luminous than any supergiant known today, their structure was quite different, with reduced convection and less mass loss. Their very short lives are likely to have ended in violent photodisintegration or pair instability supernovae.
Supernova progenitors
Most type II supernova progenitors are thought to be red supergiants, while the less common type Ib/c supernovae are produced by hotter Wolf–Rayet stars that have completely lost more of their hydrogen atmosphere.[5] Almost by definition, supergiants are destined to end their lives violently. Stars that are large enough to start fusing elements heavier than helium just do not seem to have any way to lose enough mass to avoid catastrophic core collapse, although some of them may collapse almost without trace into their own central black holes.
However, the simple "onion" models showing red supergiants inevitably developing to an iron core and then exploding have been shown to be much too simplistic. The progenitor for the unusual type II Supernova 1987A was a blue supergiant,[6] thought to have already passed through the red supergiant phase of its life, and this is now known to be far from an exceptional situation. Much research is now focused on how blue supergiants can explode as a supernova and when red supergiants can survive to become hotter supergiants again.[7]
Well known examples
Direct image of the star UY Scuti, a red supergiant which is one of the largest known stars.
Supergiants are rare and short-lived stars, but their high luminosity means that there are many naked eye examples, including some of the brightest stars in the sky. Rigel is the brightest star in the constellation Orion and a typical blue-white supergiant, Deneb is the brightest star in Cygnus and a white supergiant, Delta Cephei is the famous prototype Cepheid variable and a yellow supergiant, while Betelgeuse and Antares are red supergiants. μ Cephei is one of the reddest stars visible to the naked eye and one of the largest in the galaxy. Rho Cassiopeiae is a naked eye variable, a yellow hypergiant, and one of the most luminous naked eye stars.
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^ Sylvia Ekström; Cyril Georgy; Georges Meynet; Jose Groh; Anahí Granada (2013). "Red supergiants and stellar evolution".
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2018 – R V B/ W-M – CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY AMMUNITION AND FIREARMS – CROYDON CROWN COURT
This case resulted from an Operation Trident investigation into the supply of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Detailed surveillance evidence and telephone cell site analysis was central to this case which culminated in an 8 week trial. Complex legal argument lead to an application for dismissal of the principal firearms charge which was dismissed by the trial judge.
2018 – R V G-S/F – CONSPIRACY TO POSSESS FIREARM WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE – SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT
The main Defendant was incarcerated at the time of the offences which were said to have been involved the hiring of a gunman who subsequently discharged a firearm at the victim’s house. Operation Trident undertook a detailed analysis of the several mobile phones and electronic devices in order to build a formidable case which was successfully defended at trial.
2018 – R V T – CONSPIRACY TO POSSESS FIREARM WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE – SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT
The Defendants in this case were the subject of a lengthy Trident investigation into alleged gang related gun crime. 2 firearms and ammunition were recovered as a consequence of a surveillance operation. Alleged gang affiliation and social media downloads were pivotal issues and were carefully scrutinised.
2018 – R V F – MURDER – ST ALBANS CROWN COURT
The client was one of 5 youths charged with the murder of another youth. It was alleged that the attack was gang-related.
The disclosure in this case centred on mobile telephone evidence and relied on call traffic between our client and the victim, our client and the co-defendants, and call traffic between all defendants. In addition, there was extensive cell-site evidence which showed the movements of the client before, during and after the attack.
A careful comparison of the mobile telephone download call logs and raw billing data was undertaken by the defence. The trial in the matter lasted 7 weeks.
2018 – R V D – ATTEMPTED MURDER – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
The Crown’s case was that the complainant had called the ambulance service stating her throat had been cut and was bleeding. The defendant was attended upon and instructions taken in custody, including the history of their relationship.
This case involved the preparation of a bad character application for the complainant following a careful consideration of unused material. This included police CRIS report and CAD messages detailing previous reports to the police of the complainant assaulting the client . This included use of a kettle and a knife.
Following a 6 day trial this client was acquitted.
2018 – R V T/G – MURDER – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
SVS represented both Defendants in this case who were charged with murder. They were accused of shooting dead an unfortunate bystander during the course of a gangland feud. Murder squad detectives had investigated an incident whereby the main Defendant was shot at and stabbed in the head and then allegedly sought to retaliate by firing shots at members of the rival gang on a housing estate in West London. CCTV and cell site evidence was utilised in the preparation of this case and after a 6 week trial both Defendants were acquitted.
2018 – R V K – CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY CLASS A – AYLESBURY CROWN COURT
The Defendant was charged as part of a large scale surveillance operation that culminated in a lengthy and complex trial in relation to an allegation of conspiracy to supply class A drugs. This case attracted considerable media attention. After a 2 month long trial the Defendant was acquitted of the charges.
2018 – R V A – MURDER – LEWES CROWN COURT
It was alleged that the Defendant was a class A drug dealer and that he had stabbed and killed a drug addict in St Leonards on Sea. He was arrested near to the scene of the crime and was summarily charged. Following careful case preparation representations were made to the Crown and the murder charge was discontinued and an alternative charge of manslaughter was preferred.
2018 – R V S – CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY FIREARMS – KINGSTON CROWN COURT
The Defendant was charged as part of a multi handed conspiracy to import and then transfer firearms. The case involved a complex surveillance operation by British and German Police as the firearms were being imported from Germany by a Bulgarian gang. Telephone intercepts were also utilised. Alleged UK based members of organised crime groups were also arrested.
2018 – R V C-D – MURDER – BASILDON CROWN COURT
A drug addict in South Ockenden was hacked to death with a machete and it was alleged that the Defendant had set him up. There had been a long standing feud between the victim and the drug dealer who was alleged to have killed him. The Crown sought to prove their case by the use of eye witnesses to the murder and extensive telephone evidence and cell siting. After a fully contested trial the Defendant was acquitted.
2018 – R V H – CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY CLASS A DRUGS – PORTSMOUTH CROWN COURT
The Defendant was charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs in the Portsmouth area. There were 8 Defendants charged in total in this high level “county lines” case. There was a considerable amount of telephone evidence and evidence from undercover officers. The Defendant was the only one not to be convicted in this case.
2017 – R V E A-S– MURDER- CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
This was a case that was underpinned by gang related violence. The Defendant was charged alongside one other and was accused of the murder of a gang member from East London. It was alleged that he had stabbed the victim in an unprovoked attack. The case was heavily reliant upon CCTV and telephone evidence.
2017 – R V S – MURDER – BIRMINGHAM CROWN COURT
The Defendant who was from South London was accused of the murder of an alleged London based gang member at a party in Leicester. The case was investigated by the Midlands Major Crime Team and led to their enquiring into other knife related crime in this area. 2 other alleged gang members from South London were also charged in connection with these offences.
2017 – R V L – MURDER – LEWES CROWN COURT
The Defendant was charged alongside three others in relation to the murder of a man in Crawley. The motivation for this offence was alleged to have been drawn from illicit drug dealing in the Sussex area. The Defendant conceded that he had struck the fatal blow using a kitchen knife but advanced self-defence as an explanation for this. After a fully contested trial he was acquitted of murder.
2017 – R V M – MURDER – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
The Defendant was a youth that was accused of stabbing the victim to death in Harrow. The alleged motivation was gang related and driven by a desire for revenge. This case involved a number of sensitive issues due to the Defendants being youths. After a full trial the Defendant was the only one to be acquitted. Both of his Co Defendants were convicted of murder.
2017 – R V H – ATTEMPTED MURDER – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
This case concerned an armed robbery in East London. The alleged victim was shot at close range by the perpetrators. Operation Trident investigated the case and utilised telephone attribution/cell site evidence and CCTV. This case attracted considerable media attention.
2017 – R V B – ATTEMPTED MURDER – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
This Defendant was accused of the attempted murder of a police officer who was conducting surveillance in the East End of London. This case was heavily publicised and was investigated by Homicide and Major Crime Command. The investigation that was undertaken was complex and reliant upon CCTV as well as cell site evidence.
The Defendant was acquitted of attempted murder after trial.
2017 – R V K –POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT – WOOLWICH CROWN COURT
The Defendant was arrested by Operation Trident following a shooting in South East London. He was alleged to be in the company of a single accomplice in the course of attempting to fire shots at members of the travelling community. The case involved telephone and forensic evidence.
2017 – R V S– CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ROBBERY AND HAVING FIREARM WITH INTENT – MAIDSTONE CROWN COURT
This was a large scale armed robbery case which resulted in a trial involving multiple Defendants that lasted for 3 months. It was alleged that a travellers’ site in Kent had been the subject of a robbery by a gang of men armed with firearms. A complex and detailed investigation ensued.
2017 –R V E AND K – POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT
The Defendants were arrested by Operation Trident as part of an intelligence led surveillance operation. It was alleged that the first Defendant had travelled to Stockwell and fired shots at a rival gang member in order to exact revenge for being assaulted by him. The firearm was recovered on the person of the second Defendant who conceded that he was in possession of it but denied any intention to use it. Operation Trident analysed the Defendant’s phones and produced downloads in furtherance of their case. Both Defendant’s were acquitted of the main charge of possession of firearms with intent after trial.
2017 – R V T AND N-B – CONSPIRACY TO TRANSFER FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION – SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT
The Defendants represented by SVS were charged following a raid on a flat in East London by armed Police and Operation Trident. 11 Handguns, an assault rifle, ammunition for each of the weapons and 11 silencers were seized.
CCTV evidence was recovered which established that both Defendants were at the scene and telephone analysis linked them to the alleged conspiracy but they were both acquitted after a lengthy trial during the course of which neither Defendant gave evidence.
2016 – R V M – MURDER – CROYDON CROWN COURT
This is a case which relates to the heavily publicised murder of a man whose body has never been recovered which took place in Sussex.
Sussex Police undertook a lengthy investigation involving telephone and forensic analysis which necessitated the use of expert evidence.
2016 – R V A – MURDER – BRISTOL CROWN COURT
The Defendant was charged with the murder of a drug user and was also implicated in the large supply of class A drugs.
Medical evidence was pivotal throughout this case and a leading expert was instructed on behalf of the Defence who managed to undermine the Crown’s case. After a submission of no case to answer was made at trial the charges of murder and manslaughter were both dismissed.
2016 – R V M-G – ATTEMPTED MURDER – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
The Defendant was accused of carrying out a “drive by” shooting in West London. He transferred to SVS after admitting in his police interview that he had been responsible for the shooting but avoided conviction for attempted murder.
The Defendant was charged with attempted murder as it was alleged he had shot a police officer after Operation Trident had executed a raid on his home address. This case attracted national media coverage and a fully contested trial at the Central Criminal Court ensued. The Defendant had been detained by officers in possession of a firearm and was identified by a number of them as being responsible for the shooting but was acquitted by a jury after trial.
2016 – R V K – ATTEMPTED MURDER – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT
The Defendant was charged in connection with a gang related stabbing that took place in South London. Detailed analysis of telephone and CCTV evidence was utilised by the investigating police force.
Our client was identified by a former school teacher whose evidence was supported by CCTV. He was also arrested and charged with separate firearms offences during the course of his trial but was acquitted by a jury in his absence.
2016 – R V D – CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MONEY LAUNDERING – BLACKFRIARS CROWN COURT
The Defendant was alleged to be part of an organised crime network and was arrested following a surveillance operation. She was the only one of the four Defendants to be acquitted.
2016 – R V B – CONSPIRACY TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE AND MONEY LAUNDERING
This case arose from a complex investigation into money laundering and involved a great deal of telephone and cell site analysis by a regional Major Crime Team. There were eleven Defendants in total. After detailed representations were made to the Prosecution the Defendant pleaded to a lesser substantive count and the main allegations were discontinued.
2016 – R V M – CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY CLASS A – WOOLWICH CROWN COURT
The Metropolitan Police Special Intelligence Service had charged six men after the seizure of 200 kilograms of high purity cocaine valued at £70m. The Defendant was arrested at Tilbury Docks after the cocaine was found concealed in the rear of a vehicle being used by the Defendants.
A protracted investigation resulted in a trial after which the Defendant was acquitted.
2016 – R V P – CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ROBBERY – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
The Defendant is one of six Defendants charged by the Flying Squad in relation to a complex conspiracy to commit armed robberies. This follows an investigation that lasted for two years. In total it was alleged that ten armed robberies had taken place in the South London area.
After a lengthy trial our client was acquitted of the main charges.
2016 – R V B – CONSPIRACY TO TRANSFER FIREARMS – HARROW CROWN COURT
This case concerned the large scale manufacture of lethal firearms, and their subsequent onward sale. It was alleged that the conspirators would organise the purchase of de-activated firearms from antique or military shops and would then “re-activate” the firearms, and in so doing manufacture a fully functioning and lethal firearm.
There were eleven Defendants in total and the case was investigated by Operation Trident and it was alleged that they were connected to 30-40 firearms.
2016 – R V C – CONSPIRACY TO TRANSFER FIREARMS – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
The Defendant was one of four charged with plotting to transfer a loaded firearm onwards for use in a criminal enterprise. This case involved the use of cell site analysis and an undercover surveillance operation by Trident officers.
After 2 trials our client was the only defendant out of 4 that was acquitted.
2016 – R V R – CONSPIRACY TO TRANSFER FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION – WOOLWICH CROWN COURT
The Defendant was arrested in the course of an undercover Police “Sting” which involved the use of phone recordings and surveillance. It was alleged that the weapons were to be obtained for the purpose of being used in gang related activity.
2016 – R V A – CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT KIDNAP, FALSE IMPRISONMENT AND BLACKMAIL
This is a multi-handed kidnap case that is said to have taken place in the South London area. It was investigated by the Human Trafficking Unit and was based upon the evidence of the complainant combined with CCTV and cell site analysis.
Our client was acquitted after a fully contested trial.
2015 – R V S – MURDER – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
The defendant along with one other was charged with stabbing the victim to death in West London. After representations were made the charge was reduced to one of perverting the course of justice.
2015 – R V O – ATTEMPTED MURDER – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
A shooting took place in South London and the Defendant was charged with attempted murder. The case centred upon CCTV evidence and an identification by an eye witness and was supported by telephone analysis.
Our client was acquitted of attempted murder after trial.
2015 – R V O – POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE – WOOD GREEN CROWN COURT
Expert evidence was secured in this case by the defence which led to the case being dismissed because the prosecution’s forensic evidence was undermined.
2015 – R V L –HUMAN TRAFFICKING – MANCHESTER CROWN COURT
This was a multi handed case which concerned a complicated scheme whereby the alleged victims were being trafficked into the UK from Eastern Europe.
2015 – R V A-A AND A – KIDNAPPING, FALSE IMPRISONMENT AND BLACKMAIL – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
This was a multi handed case which related to a kidnapping in East London involving the alleged use of a firearm.
Following a lengthy investigation by the Specialist Crime Directorate there were two lengthy trials after which both Defendants who were represented by SVS were acquitted of all charges.
2015 – R V K – CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MONEY LAUNDERING – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
This was a multi handed trial which related to a conspiracy to launder large sums of money. Exceptionally detailed telephone and financial analysis was undertaken and then examined by our defence team.
2015 – R V B – CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ROBBERY – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
The MET’s Flying Squad had arrested and charged a number of defendants in relation to a series of armed robberies that had taken place in the South London area. Our client was acquitted of the main conspiracy to commit robbery with the use of a firearm after a fully contested trial.
2015 – R V P AND U – POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT AND CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY – SOUTHAMPTON CROWN COURT
Both Defendants were charged in relation to an extensive drugs supply conspiracy and also a related offence of possession of a firearm with intent. A large volume of evidence focussing on cell site analysis and ANPR readers was brought to bear.
The Defendants were acquitted of the firearms offence after trial.
2015 – APPEAL OF ISRAR ASLAM – COURT OF APPEAL
The Appellant had been convicted of robbery and received a substantial term of imprisonment. After instructing SVS and lodging an appeal against his conviction the Court of Appeal rule that his conviction was unsafe and he was acquitted following a retrial.
2015- R V B/ AND L – VIOLENT DISORDER – SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT
This case related an instance of alleged gang related violence in East London. A large volume of telephone and cell site analysis was produced by the Prosecution.
After the jury had failed to reach a verdict the violent disorder charge was discontinued and a lesser charge was substituted.
2014 – R V L – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT– MURDER
Lengthy and complex case involving complex forensic and evidential issues.
2014 – R v I – READING CROWN COURT – ATTEMPTED MURDER
There were complex psychiatric issues involved in this case and largely thanks to the intervention of medical experts recruited by SVS the Prosecution offered no evidence in respect of the attempted murder charge.
2014 – R v T – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT – ATTEMPTED MURDER, POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE AND POSSESSION OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION
This was a multi handed case that centred on a shooting. There had been a large scale investigation into an East London gang who were believed to be responsible for a spate of shootings which culminated in this lengthy trial.
2014 – R V A – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT – POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT
The Defendant in this case was acquitted after a full trial having successfully established a defence of duress.
2014 – R V S – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT – ATTEMPTED MURDER
A stabbing occurred in Brixton and the majority of the incident was captured on CCTV. A lesser charge was brought following successful representations.
2014 – R V D – SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT – ATTEMPTED MURDER
A stabbing took place in a restaurant in East London. The entire incident was captured on CCTV and the Defendant was apprehended close to the scene of the offence.
2014 – R V F – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT – POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE
The Defendant was charged with possession of a firearm following the seizure of a shotgun and a forensic link being established.
2014 – R V O – WOOD GREEN CROWN COURT – POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE
The Defendant was charged with possession of a handgun due to being forensically linked to the firearm.
2014 – R V M – SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY CLASS A
This case was the result of a complex investigation involving the importation and subsequent supply at street level of controlled substances valued at several million pounds.
2014 – R V R – BLACKFRIARS CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MONEY LAUNDERING
A detailed investigation resulted in multiple defendants being charged as part of a conspiracy. Although significant evidence was brought to bear the case was successfully defended.
2014 – R V T – SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT – POSSESSION OF FIREARM AND VIOLENT DISORDER
Operation Trident conducted an investigation into a shooting in the Newham area and the Defendant was charged having been identified by 2 eye witnesses. Detailed telephone and cell site analysis was deployed against the Defendant who was acquitted of the firearms offence as it was established that he had in fact been involved in a relatively minor public disturbance.
2013 – R V O – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT – MURDER
Multi handed murder trial concerning a fatal stabbing at a nightclub. The Crown’s case was founded upon CCTV evidence which captured the entire incident leading to the murder. The Defendant was acquitted after trial despite his Co Defendants being convicted of murder.
2013 – R V L – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT – MURDER
This was a four handed trial which arose due to a contract killing in Hackney. This was a shooting with a Mac 10 machine pistol that was said to have been carried out by gang members from Tottenham at the behest of the Turkish mafia. This fatal shooting was alleged to have been the twenty ninth shooting that had taken place during the course of a feud between rival Turkish gangs vying for control of the illegal drug trade.
2013 – R V M – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT – ATTEMPTED MURDER
This case concerned a stabbing in a nightclub during the course of which the victim sustained life threatening injuries.
2013 – R V S – INNER CITY LONDON CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY DRUGS
This was a complex and multi handed conspiracy to supply drugs.
Voluminous cell site evidence and raw call data had to be carefully analysed in preparation for this complex trial.
2013 – R V O at WOOD GREEN CROWN COURT – AGGRAVATED BURGLARY AND POSSESSION OF FIREARM
This case was dismissed prior to trial despite our client having been identified by 2 witnesses.
2013 – R V C & C – WOOD GREEN CROWN COURT – POSSESSION OF FIREARM & ROBBERY
This case related to an armed robbery and both of our clients were identified by the victim and the Police had also recovered property belonging to the victim from our clients. As a result of representations the case was discontinued prior to trial.
2012 – R V D – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT – MURDER
9 Handed gang related murder. This was said to be a planned execution of a rival gang member.
2012 – R V S – CROYDON CROWN COURT- CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FRAUD
Large scale conspiracy concerning tens of thousands of pounds of credit card fraud.
2012 – R V C – WOOD GREEN CROWN COURT – POSSESSION OF FIREARM
Our client benefited from a successful dismissal application prior to trial.
2012 – R V D – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT –POSSESSION OF FIREARM
Our client was acquitted notwithstanding the fact that he had signed police officer’s notes to the effect that both the firearm and a CS gas canister belonged to him. At trial he admitted signing 2 notebooks and the property search record to the effect that both were his.
After a 5 day trial during which 3 DC’s and a DI were accused of lying and fabricating evidence it took the jury an hour to unanimously acquit.
2012 – R V A – WORCESTER CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY CLASS A
5 Handed conspiracy in which no evidence was offered against our client following extensive representations.
2012 – R V M – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT – POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE
Representing client allegedly found to be in possession of a loaded firearm and mobile phone that had been used in furtherance of a conspiracy to supply drugs.
2012 – R V D – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY CLASS A
Multi handed conspiracy to supply class A drugs in the London and Oxfordshire areas. Vast amount of phone evidence and extensive surveillance.
2012 – R V W – CROYDON CROWN COURT – BLACKMAIL, FALSE IMPRISONMENT AND HAVING FIREARM W/INTENT
Our client was acquitted after trial with all prosecution witnesses attending and giving evidence against him.
2012 – R V D – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT – POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE
Multi handed conspiracy to transport a firearm from Bedfordshire to South London for alleged use in gang related acitivities.
2012 – R V P – LUTON CROWN COURT – HAVING FIREARM W/INTENT AND ROBBERY
Representing Defendant charged with having committed an armed robbery in Luton.
2012 – R V S – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT – PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE IN A MURDER CASE
Alleged that our client assisted in destroying a car that had been used in a drive by shooting.
2012 – R V A – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO IMPORT CLASS A
Complex and multi handed case relating to the importation of class A drugs into the jurisdiction.
2011 – R V I – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT – MURDER
Multi-handed murder which was alleged to be gang related.
2011 – R V Y – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT – MURDER
9 Handed murder case which lasted for 4 months and resulted in an acquittal after trial.
2011 – R V T – SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT – ATTEMPTED MURDER
This case concerned the attempted execution of a police informant who was shot 7 times at close range. Our client was exonerated despite having been identified and being forensically linked to the firearm used in the shooting and also the phone that had been used by the gunman.
2011 – R V R – BLACKFRIARS CRIMINAL COURT – CONSPIRACY TO STEAL
Large scale conspiracy to steal mainly centred upon the railway network. Our client was alleged to be the main ringleader and the case against him was successfully dismissed prior to trial.
2011 – R V S – READING CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO MURDER
This was a 5 handed trial which centred on a conspiracy to murder that was alleged to be retribution for an earlier attack on one of the Co Defendants. Our client was also charged with offences relating to possession of a firearm and conspiracy to inflict grievous bodily harm. Following protracted representations the conspiracy to murder charge was withdrawn.
2011 – R V S – CHELMSFORD CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO IMPORT CLASS A
Multi handed and complex conspiracy to import drugs to the value of 4.5 million pounds.
2011 – R V W – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT – CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ROBBERY
Defendant acquitted after full trial despite accepting that he had driven the perpetrators of the robbery away from the scene.
2010 – R V B – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT – POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE
Alleged South London gang member who was arrested in possession of a loaded handgun following a Police surveillance operation.
Our client who was portrayed as being an active member of a South London gang was alleged to have been in possession of a loaded firearm.
2010 – R V F – KINGSTON CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY CLASS A
Complex conspiracy involving extensive use of surveillance evidence and forensic analysis.
2010 – R V G – SNARESBROOK CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO POSSESS FIREARMS WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE
Large scale multi handed conspiracy relating to a firearms factory that had been set up in East London. Our client who had maintained that he had never visited the premises in question, was acquitted after a month long trial despite there being CCTV and DNA evidence linking him to the premises.
2009 – R V S – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT – ATTEMPTED MURDER
Multi Handed case relating to the kidnapping and attempted murder of a rival gang member.
2009 – R V A – CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT – ATTEMPTED MURDER
Our client was the subject of an Operation Trident investigation as a firearm had been deployed. This was a multi handed case and required careful analysis of complex evidence.
2009 – R V B – ST ALBANS CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ROBBERY
This was a multi handed conspiracy that related to robberies of numerous commercial businesses. There was a vast amount of material that had been collated and was subjected to close scrutiny.
2009 – R V C – KINGSTON CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ROBBERY
Large scale multi handed conspiracy that was the result of a lengthy Flying Squad surveillance operation. This case required the analysis of a huge volume of phone data and cell site analysis.
2009 – R V H – ISLEWORTH CROWN COURT – CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT BLACKMAIL
Multi handed conspiracy to commit blackmail which involved the alleged use of a firearm. Our client’s case was successfully dismissed prior to trial.
2009 – R V P – INNER LONDON CROWN COURT – POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT TO ENDANGER LIFE
This case related to a pre-planned Operation Trident which engaged surveillance on a vehicle carrying 3 suspected South London gang members. The vehicle was stopped and several Mac 10 machine pistols were recovered. Our client was acquitted after a full trial.
2008 – R V S – LUTON CROWN COURT -ATTEMPTED MURDER
This case centred upon a stabbing and a conviction was successfully averted as a result of a plea bargain.
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Famous Celebrity Make-up Artists
With their brushes, contour kits, makeup palettes and lip shades, makeup artists are known to dust-off-and-dab magic! Many celebrities are known to get their flawless looks from these stylists. The list of Famous Makeup Artists encompasses some leading international skilled professionals, who have been credited for their flair in creating beauty. The Praiseworthy Celebrity Makeup Artists have wooed the audience with their artistic strokes.
Top Ten Celebrity Makeup Artists
1. Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor’s creative makeup skills have won him the Academic Award for the popular epic fantasy movie – Lord of the Rings. In addition to this, he has received 4 BAFTAs, 5 Oscars and numerous other awards for his involvement in visual effects, makeup art and costume.
2. Pat McGrath
One of the most prominent and top makeup artists, according to Vogue; Pat McGrath is a dream to work with. She is the go-to lady for leading superstars including Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, and Jennifer Aniston etc. She is also the figure behind foremost fashion publicity campaigns like Calvin Klein, Prada, Valentino, Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana etc.
3. Laura Mercier
Creator of Laura Mercier Cosmetics, Body & Bath, Skincare and Fragrance; Laura Mercier has earned a name for excellent makeup tactics. Celebrities like Julia Roberts, Sarah Jessica Parker and Juliette Binoche prefers Laura when it comes to personal makeup. She also contributes to editorial shoots and cover designs, creating flawless and natural beauty.
4. Patrick Ta
Patrick Ta treats biggest stars like Chrissy Teigen, Gigi Hadid and Olivia Munn has made him one of the dominating entities on social media. Just a flick of his brush and you will see the magic happening! His style is easy and effortless and very relaxing.
5. Charlie Green
Despite devoting 20 years in the field of fashion and style, Charlie Green is still one of the famous makeup artists known to the contemporary world. She is an expert name for preparing stars and models for magazine covers and red carpet shows. There is nothing she cannot create!
6. Sir John B
Do you want to know who is the one behind Beyonce’s natural glamour and flawless face? It’s Sir John B, the man who approaches beauty with its finesse and lay emphasis on glowing and healthy skin. He is a true believer of natural beauty and wishes all women to embrace their inner-self with confidence.
7. Aaron de Mey
Meet the man who garnered the title of “One of the year’s Top Beauty Geniuses” by Elle magazine! Aaron de Mey is the person who glams up big names like Miley Cyrus and Kate Upton and known as a regular at leading fashion shows and events.
8. Mario Dedivanovic
One of the top ten celebrity makeup artists is Mario Dedivanovic, the man responsible for making contour the word-next door. He is one of the main elements of Kim Kardashian’s Fash Squad, and has now started giving makeup tutorials online. Like LITERALLY!
9. Joanna Simkin
Who doesn’t want to get their eyebrows on point just like Former One Direction star and now a music sensation Zayn Malik! Joanna Simkin is the girl of your dreams! A fantastic mom and creative bloomer, she started off at a very early age and became to be known as one of the leading makeup artists for Leona Lewis, Mercedes-Benz, Vogue etc.
10. Michèle Burke
For Michèle Burke, working with shadow, light, colour and form is life. Her passion for all these combination has ranked her amid the top famous makeup artist. Brought up in Ireland, Michèle has evolved into a dedicated professional makeup artist who has been awarded with two Oscars and six other nominations.
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Aviation A 2.2-billion baht proposal to renovate the old domestic terminal will be submitted next month.
Don Mueang readies to expand capacity
By Travel Weekly Asia / March 12, 2018
Thailand’s Don Mueang Airport is expected to undertake a third-phase development to ease overcrowding problems. Photo Credit: Elenathewise/Getty Images
The proposal, if approved, will kick start works later this year or early next year. The terminal, which is currently closed to passengers, can be operational by 2020, Suwannawat explained.
Thailand’s Don Mueang Airport will be submitting a proposal for a 2.2-billion-baht (US$70.3 million) renovation project for its old domestic terminal to the Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) next month, general manager Suthirawat Suwannawat said.
The upgrading of the old terminal is part of the third-phase development plan for the airport, which is being sped up to ease overcrowding problems, said Suwannawat in a report by The Bangkok Post.
Passenger figures are expected to increase by 14% to 42 million passengers this year, compared to the 37 million the airport handled in 2017.
The airport management also plans to push for the implementation of another two projects to help the airport's passenger handling operations, said Suwannawat.
The projects include a 22-million-baht jet bridge renovation project and the installation of more immigration checkpoints that will increase handling capacity from 2,000 passengers per hour to 3,000.
AoT is also expected to approve several short-term development projects for Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Mai and Phuket airports to address overcrowding problems there.
Suvarnabhumi airport handles 60 million passengers per year, well exceeding its maximum capacity of 45 million. Better management of the space at Suvarnabhumi and the use of automated systems to facilitate operations will be the key focus, said Aot’s president Nitinai Sirismatthakarn.
AoT Plc has plans to add a second airport each in Phuket and Chiang Mai.
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Anthony Caliendo Will Co-author The Recipe for Success With Jack Canfield
Anthony Caliendo will co-author The Recipe for Success with Jack Canfield, best-selling author and speaker.
Entrepreneur, Anthony Caliendo, Signs Publishing Deal With CelebrityPress® To Co-Author The Recipe For Success with Jack Canfield
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Anthony Caliendo will team up with other leading entrepreneurs and professionals, including Best-Selling Author®Jack Canfield, to release the new book, The Recipe For Success, a collaboration of expert advice on achieving success written by authorities from a diverse selection of industries.
Boynton Beach, FL – Dec 3, 2018 – Entrepreneur, Anthony Caliendo, recently signed a publishing deal to co-write the forthcoming book titled The Recipe For Success, published by CelebrityPress®LLC. In addition to Anthony Caliendo expertise, the publication features content from world-renowned entrepreneur, professional speaker, and Best-Selling Author® Jack Canfield. The book will be released under the CelebrityPress® LLC imprint, a leading business book publisher that publishes books from ThoughtLeaders® around the world.
The Recipe For Success is tentatively scheduled for release in early Spring 2019.
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Ginuwine "Doesn't Like" Timbaland?
This is so sad to read. In an interview with Vibe Magazine Ginuwine opens up about his current relationship with Timbaland:
He [Timbaland] really hasn’t been interested in working with me, so I can’t speak on the present. But back in the days, it spoke for itself as far as him being the most sought after producer. Music was boring until he came out with that new sound. Back then, I would have described it as futuristic because it was something that had not been done and people jumped on it. If it wasn’t for him making that style as hot as it is, a lot of producers that’s out now maybe wouldn’t even be here.
Ho goes on to talk about his disappointment in Timbaland's lack of support on G's latest album A Man's Thoughts which Timbo produced the joint "Get Involved":
Me and Tim were real close at one point. A lot of the times that I reached out, there were a bunch of excuses. I begged and pleaded with him because I felt a certain way but I was like, is it just a bad vibe that I’m picking up on? Maybe I’m bugging out, I don’t know. But it came out to be true and I still feel like he owes me an apology for that. The reason I’m pissed off at him now is because of what he did. I would’ve been cool and not bothered him if he would’ve said, ‘Nah, I’m too busy,’ or gave me the lame excuse like he’s been giving me. But don’t do it and then not do what you’re supposed to do [to promote the song].
Despite the friction though G still has a lot of love for Tim and still thinks he'd win out in a producer battle royale:
I would have to go with Tim. I’m still a man. I’m not gonna not say the truth just ’cause I’m mad at you. [Laughs] He’s one of the best producers ever to me. Pharrell actually came up behind him. And the only reason I said Polow [in the first round], I’m looking at it on a level of what’s out now. But as a whole, there’s no one that can touch Timbaland.
And what of Timmy selling out? G gives it to us straight up:
I don’t know about the sold out thing. I think any smart businessman would go where the money is bigger, but I also feel like you don’t forget your roots either. You don’t alienate the people that helped you and started you out… What is it about me now that you just don’t like? And if it is something, say it. I can take truth. I can’t take that kind of stuff and right now I don’t really like him. I really don’t. That’s not being a man.
It really bums me out to read this interview from a man who rolled with Timbo since the beginning. It makes me wonder if this is the same way Missy Elliott feels? And others from the Da Bassment days. What do you think, has Timbaland sold out? Is it all about the money? Or is Ginuwine just angry that his career isn't as hot as it once was? Leave a comment and let us know.
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Mr. Rios April 12, 2010 at 4:35 PM
I don't think he's sold out cuz he's always said it that he wanted to do pop music and not just be that hip hop producer. But when it comes to going back to your roots and treating those that you came up with wrongfully then that's worst cuz peeps like that aren't just friends, they're family. If this is how tim is acting then he just shut down family which means i lost some respect. Tim is the best but he ain't as hot as we know him! GO BACK TO YO ROOTS TIMMY T!
Bilza April 12, 2010 at 5:24 PM
wow that is really sad to hear. I do have alot of sympathy for Ginuwine. I mean why would Tim simply dismiss the great chemistry they had together?? If Aaliyah were alive today, would Tim be acting in this way? People talk about the great work he did with Aaliyah but I feel his work with Ginuwine is just as good. It's quite surprising on Tim's part how he would all of a sudden show a lack of respect, I mean dont know the man personally so who knows there maybe more to it than that. We dont know the whole truth behind this rift.
"I think any smart businessman would go where the money is bigger, but I also feel like you don’t forget your roots either"
This qoute sums it all up for me. It IS about money. You hear about Tim now saying he just picks up his pay cheque and his work is done, maybe it's not about the music anymore or maybe Tim has lost interest and is obviously looking for fresh sound so Ginwuine is not the ideal artist for him nowadays who's also lost some of his appeal. So now you have Tim going for the most recent established artists where your likely to earn more money. Apparently Ginwune said before that he did a few more tracks with Tim for his last album but Tim nowadays is charging major bucks for his beats so there you have it - Money talks at the end of the day.
Let give an AMEN to that and A HALLELUJAH!
I gotta agree with u
J Boogie April 12, 2010 at 9:40 PM
I've always wondered what Tim's music would be like now if Aaliyah was still with us and what effect she would have had on his direction.
I just can't imagine Aaliyah singing on some techno/pop beat. Then again I have her frozen in time on a stutter beat.
Mr. Rios April 12, 2010 at 11:23 PM
J, we all have her frozen in time on a stutter beat.
The click would still be together for reals. At least more together than now... their is no superfriends anymore.
I'm sorry but never in hell would Aaliyah be on no tecnho synth beat. I've been studying the Aaliyah cd and that mess she was with was for the 3000's. It still sounds 110% unique and better than anything (including tim;s stuff) that is out today. The tracks she did with Tank were incredible. That's where Hip hop was going with Rock. She was a trend setter... she showed Tim how to set trends.
IDK if y'all gonna agree with me but I'm just on some other stuff (not that stuff) right now just thinkin about how music was when they were all doing it. Most of their stuff in 1997 sounds like the year 2050. TIMELESS!!!! I understand now what hey were saying "Not the year 2G, but the year 3G". It wasn't for that time but for the future. Tim's production doesn't have that timeless anymore.
I'm finally saying it! I'm forever gonna be reppin tim til there is no more Tim, but as of now... he's been disappointing me. This interview just topped it off
big ups to Ginuwine. I love it!
I think it speaks to the single "Get Involved" that I had barely remembered it existed.
Ginuwine, one word: Danja.
Haze April 13, 2010 at 1:21 PM
Man yeah I mean Ginuwine seems like a decent guy and I agree with most of what he said. Get Involved was boring and lazy, a bit of hype at first because it's ginuwine and tim... But come on.. Shit.
And on the aailyah front, obviously timbo sound would be different, but as Boogie said I can't see Aailyah on a techno beat that timbo has been dishing lately.
Yeah fred, danja would deliver but that (old) Timbo/ginuwine chemistry is priceless...
Frederick April 13, 2010 at 2:30 PM
I don't think Tim will allow himself to settle and get chemistry with any other artist anymore. Last time we saw a long-standing chemistry was with him and Justin Timberlake... right after the Madonna album, the two went running separate ways, only to return on "Carry Out", which didn't really showcase their synergy well.
Though, to be fair, Tim and Justin did have a couple years' break from Justified to FS/LS.
And, notice what Tim and Chris Cornell have become... nothing. In this respect, I'll say that I admire what Danja is doing with NARS, sticking with his boys from high school and his hood, making good music.
Venture April 16, 2010 at 9:45 AM
Ha ha ha Big-A is hilarious!
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Ubuntu Might Become A Rolling Release Distribution Between LTS Releases
Author: Andrew | Posted: January 23, 2013 | Updated: 2013-01-23T17:27:02Z
Ubuntu may become a rolling release distribution, but keeping LTS (Long Term Release) releases every two years.
Leann Ogasawara, Canonical Kernel Team Manager has said in a recent Google+ hangout that it has been discussed to use a rolling release model between LTS releases. This is just a discussion for now, but it could become a reality starting with Ubuntu 14.04:
The plan was by 14.04 to target what we're calling a rolling release and go from a LTS to LTS only model and eliminate these intermediate releases. That was being discussed earlier, we didn't set anything in stone but that's still in the cards as a possibility of happening when we hit the next 14.04 release so it could go from 14.04 to 16.04 and everything in between is what they consider a rolling release [...], following the latest package releases, not only for the Kernel but for the entire distribution [...].
- Leann Ogasawara (approximate quote from the video)
If this becomes reality, I'm sure a lot of users will be very happy because they'd get the latest updates for all packages (and new packages would be available a lot quicker) without having to upgrade to a newer Ubuntu release. This might have an impact on stability, but some users already consider non-LTS releases to be "glorified betas" so at least this way Ubuntu users would get the latest updates in exchange for the stability offered by a LTS.
Besides possible stability, there's another downside which Canonical takes into consideration: a lot of hype is generated and many users get excited for each Ubuntu release, but using a rolling release model between LTS releases would mean there would be 3 less Ubuntu releases for every 2 years and thus, Ubuntu users would be less enthusiastic.
These and probably many other factors count towards taking a decision, but the most important one should be: "will this make Ubuntu users happy?". So, what do you think, would you like Ubuntu to use a rolling release model between LTS releases?
Below you can watch the full Google+ hangout video with Leann Ogasawara (video embedded from the minute where Leann begins to talk about the rolling release model):
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Falls Church, VA � February 17, 2011 � The Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12) is pleased to announce its participation in HIMSS11, destination for thousands of global technology and health care professionals, to address how ASC X12 005010 affects health care administrative changes and new regulatory mandates.
At the HIMSS11 Ninth Medical Banking Institute, held in conjunction with HIMSS11, ASC X12 representatives will describe 005010 health data transactions mandated by HIPAA and identify the steps a provider will need to take as part of the transition to this new version. The Medical Banking Institute features national experts and cross-industry leaders from health care, banking, financial systems, government and academia for an interactive dialogue of critical issues and next steps on building the future of medical banking.
Bob Poiesz, Vice Chair, ASC X12N (Insurance) and Jim Whicker, Principal Technology Consultant, Kaiser Permanente, will present best practices for ASC X12 005010 final testing and implementation at The Health Data Transaction Ecosystem and 5010 Impacts session. The session is an overview of the ASC X12 005010 health care transactions implemented under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and how they will impact the industry. Poiesz and Whicker will review:
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The sessions will illustrate the value of efficient data exchange in health care and will give examples of how organizations can address the business processes dependent on ASC X12 005010 transaction processing will help industry representatives develop an implementation strategy that identifies and mitigates primary risks.
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Professional Women in Virtual Reality Group Created
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BOSTON – September 17, 2014 — Women active in virtual reality technology, business, media and education have formed a new association to promote and celebrate contributions women have made and continue to make in virtual reality and to attract more women to this field.
Increase Visibility
Women in Virtual Reality will work to increase the visibility of women in this important field, highlighting both their contributions and expertise.
Women are already playing a significant role in the use and development of virtual reality technology. They are founding companies, developing technology, and inventing new and better applications.
The founding members of Women in Virtual Reality include the following industry pioneers:
Julie Le Moine, founder of 3D ICC, providers of Immersive Terf™, an immersive, unified collaboration virtual environment used by Enterprise, Organizations and Educational Institutions. She was the former head of the Fidelity Center for Applied Collaboration and a serial entrepreneur.
Crista Lopes, a professor at UC Irvine and former researcher at Xerox PARC, helped found the field of aspect-oriented programming, is a core developer of the open source OpenSimulator virtual environment platform, and is the inventor of the hypergrid system that allows users to travel between virtual worlds.
Nicole Yankelovich, director of the Open Wonderland Foundation which governs the Open Wonderland open source virtual environment project. She is also a visiting scientist at MIT’s Center for Educational Computing Initiatives and the CEO of virtual environment consulting firm WonderBuilders. She was also Sun Microsystem’s leader for Project Wonderland, which later evolved into Open Wonderland.
Jacquelyn Ford Morie, long-time virtual reality researcher and pioneer, formerly Sr. Researcher at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies and now Founder of All These Worlds, LLC
“It’s common for virtual reality conferences to be dominated by a very narrow demographic,” said Women in Virtual Reality president Maria Korolov. “But there are, in fact, women working in virtual reality, women in leadership positions, women working on difficult technical problems. It’s time to recognize these women and to start making virtual reality a more welcoming field for people of all backgrounds.”
Women in Virtual Reality goals include connecting journalists and event organizers to female experts, encouraging networking and mentorship, and looking for additional opportunities to increase the visibility of women in the profession.
Women in Virtual Reality is open to all individuals and companies who share the goal of increasing the number of women working in virtual reality, and in raising the visibility of those who are already doing so.
Other founding members include PookyMedia founder and CEO Pooky Amsterdam, AvaCon cofounder and president Joyce Bettencourt, Public Works Group founder Pam Broviak, Colorado Technical University professor Cynthia Calongne, University of Cincinnati Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research founder and AvaCon cofounder Chris M. Collins, Kings College lecturer Margaret de Jong-Derrington, Fandor CMO Robin Harper, virtual reality platform developer Chris Hart, former head of Linden Lab’s Community Gateway program Katrin Janssen, Business College Learnmark professor Inge Knudsen, Hypergrid Business editor Maria Korolov, University of Central Florida’s ACTIVE Lab director Stephanie Lackey, Cooperative Extension’s virtual reality specialist LuAnn Phillips, InWorldz co-founder Beth Reischl, National Defense University professor Paulette Robinson, military simulations researcher Gwenette Writer Sinclair, OpenSimulator core developer and Avination founder Melanie Thielker, virtual reality educator Barbara Truman, Absolute Computing Solutions founder Jane Wilde, virtual environment educator Francisca Yonekura, Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds founding member Aimee Weber, and virtual reality learning consultant Karen Zastudil.
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CHAMP by Anthony Sabourin
Posted: July 9, 2019 · Tagged: 1500+ WORDS · ANTHONY SABOURIN · FICTION
Most days I would sit in a big jacket in my stall in the dark of the parking garage and I would open the gate for people when they drove up in their cars. When they were gone and it was quiet again, my brain would be full of this image of a spaceship screaming towards Earth, burning up as it entered the atmosphere. I wanted to shed all of the pieces I no longer needed. To burn away until I was almost nothing. I don’t know, other times I’d just watch pornography but not jerk off. I appreciated everything.
Today I sat in Greyhound bus in Ottawa; my big jacket with my cold face amongst the heaving bodies and stale air, and suddenly the bus moved and we were on our way to another place. It felt like I was in the middle of a period of great transformation. I had stolen five hundred dollars and two grams of hash from my roommate. I was going to Montreal.
Outside of the terminal there was snow and cold, and the sidewalks were blue from rock salt. I breathed deeply and it felt sharp and good. I loved it. Matt was there to pick me up. He lived here now, and I had called him from the bus and sold him on old friendships and good times. We hugged and called each other shitheads and talked about how good it was to see each other and we didn’t acknowledge the distance between us. He looked clean shaven.
I didn’t bring any luggage. I saw him notice this and begin to look worried so I gave him another great big hug before he could talk about it. He walked me through the crowd past buildings that were brown and jagged, avant-garde and ugly. That’s the art museum. This is the subway station. I didn’t trust it. The signs were in French. He handed me a weekend metro pass and we walked into one of the brown buildings and submerged. The whole ride, Matt was talking about his new city – he was effusive in his praise, using words like “history” and “culture” and “Leonard Cohen”.
I remembered a night from when were in undergrad and the group of us took a bunch of mushrooms to watch the sunset from the Prince of Wales bridge. When the sun went down it looked like the sky above us was on fire. And we looked down and the water below us was on fire too. It felt like the end of days was coming, like this enormous hellfire was reaching out to embrace us and there was no escape. Matt looked at us and shouted out, “If we’re all gonna die then I want you to know that none of this has been worth it! None of it! You’re all pieces of shit!”
He jumped into the water and he was fine. The sun that night continued to set and instead of armageddon it just got dark. It looked like he was doing well for himself now.
He took me to his apartment and it was a long rectangle of open space and soft white light. There was an exposed brick wall and minimal furnishing. By the kitchen with the gas stove and the new fridge there were sliding glass doors that led to an outdoor seating area that was snowed in. Matt pointed out that in the upper left corner of the view you could see a small ‘+’ that was the cross on top of Mount Royal. The rest of it was blotted out by neighbouring apartments. He said that Montreal was the last affordable Great Canadian City and I said I had read that in a magazine, but I was lying. I was waiting to ask him about doing hot knives. There was a picture of him and his wife Lauren that was framed on the wall. It was from their wedding. They were holding each other happily and there were white flowers in the background. They had met in law school. She was hard-working and relentlessly cheerful in her disposition and so we hated each other. I asked Matt where she was and he told me she was working late. I asked Matt if he wanted to do hot knives.
We had sunken into the couch with blank smiles on our faces and scorched knives in the sink when Matt remembered he made dinner reservations for us. We walked through the streets at night with faces red as our bloodshot eyes, in the kind of cold that makes everything crunch. The restaurant, when we got there, was burnished metal, big windows, and tasteful wooden accents, a chalkboard menu written in elegant cursive handwriting and no prices – it was unadorned by branding, which meant expensive.
The people in the restaurant looked pleased and inert and they chortled away in their language. I didn’t know what anything was. Matt spoke casually to the waiter and a man came out from around the kitchen and made a show of presenting us with a bottle of red wine. He uncorked the wine and took Matt’s wine glass and poured a mouthful in and placed it in front of Matt. Matt picked up the glass by its stem and how he drank this wine was he swirled the glass around and brought it up to his nose and closed his eyes and inhaled through his nose. Then he opened his eyes and looked at the wine and brought it to his mouth and closed his eyes again and took a long slow sip. When he was done he nodded.
Now this motherfucker came up to me with the wine and I was too high to be around all of these rich people. After he poured it I wondered if I could have the same experience as Matt, so I did what he did. I swirled it around and I brought it up to my nose and inhaled and then took a long slow slip. But to me it just smelled like wine and tasted like wine. I started to drink quickly.
When it was quiet again I asked Matt what I should order and he said poutine so that’s what I did. To be honest I wasn’t sure if I liked food anymore. I mostly ate breakfast wraps from the coffee place on the way to the parking garage, and if I got hungry again I would buy another coffee and if I was hungry again at home I would pick at the leftover shawarma platters my roommate would leave in the fridge. My mouth felt like it was always full of acid. My diet made getting high more efficient, and I was becoming gaunt but in a fashionable way.
To say something, I told Matt that I was training for a marathon. I had been really into telling people that I was training for a marathon ever since I watched this video of a person in this spandex bodysuit undressing. It was this black room; all you could see was this person and their suit and it was like this tight blue androgynous cocoon. As the camera got closer you could see by their eyes that it was a woman. And then she started to unzip the suit and she took the head part of her suit off and this long blonde hair flowed out of it. It made me think that we can all be anything we want. Two naked men walked into the frame of the video and then it was pornography. In the parking garage I thought that I would better myself by becoming a marathon runner, and I did research online and bought nike running shoes at full price and a grey sweatshirt that said “CHAMP” on it, with the quotation marks, in welcoming letters that arced like a rainbow across my chest. I told my roommate and my dad and my manager at the parking garage that I was training for a marathon. Everyone is so happy when you tell them you are running a marathon. Or not happy, but they act like they are impressed with you, and it’s nice. My stuff came in the mail and I tried to run once but it was stupid. There was nowhere to go. Still, I started to wear the sweatshirt around to show that I was serious, and it became something to talk about with people. “It’s harder to train in the winter,” I said now, “but the key is to invest in good crampons.” I nodded to emphasize the importance of crampons.
Matt told me it was inspiring that I was training for a marathon.
We got lost in old memories. We talked about the time we did thanksgiving for our other roommates but we got too day drunk and fell asleep and almost burnt the apartment building down. It would have burned fast too – that apartment was littered with balled up Subway wrappers like so much kindling. Matt’s dad died when he was a kid and his mom never had much money so he worked at Subway for all of undergrad, and the smell became a part of him, it lingered on him like he was haunted. I remember I’d go to his Subway when it was quiet and I’d make logic puzzles out of convoluted sandwich orders to help him with his LSAT. He didn’t need the help anymore though – the waiter was coming with our food.
I looked at my poutine and there was this strange grey meat on it. I asked what it was and Matt told me “Foie gras.” They make foie gras by sticking a feeding tube into a duck, and force feeding it until its liver is big and fatty. They do this for a hundred days, sticking the feeding tube into the duck and feeding it against its will, and then they kill it and take out its liver. I knew this because when I felt bad about watching too much pornography I would watch a video about factory farming. I was curious about the foie gras though. Maybe it was worth it.
I took a bite and it made me sad. It was this smooth rich blankness, but it was just a texture. I wanted to eat a breakfast wrap. I sat picking fries and watching my food congeal into this brown-grey sludge. I looked at it and thought of soft splayed legs and sexual pumping and food tubes shoved into baby animals and rows of ducks in tiny cages.
Matt, overtaken by hunger from the hash, was drinking wine and eating lobster pasta with an intense focus. After a long pause, Matt looked at me like he had something important to say, some big epiphany that he wanted to share with me. He told me there was something that had been on his mind a lot lately, and so he told me a story and it went like this:
THE BLUE SHIT STORY
Lauren’s law firm has this famous bake sale. It was this big charity thing to raise money for cystic fibrosis or diabetes, he couldn’t remember. The partners at the firm took it very seriously though, it raised a lot of money and made them all look like pillars of the community. Lauren was an excellent baker, and she wanted to impress the partners at the firm. She wanted to make something that was decadent, artful, and difficult to bake, so she made macaroons. They were perfect blue clouds that tasted of chocolate and raspberries. People at the bake sale loved the macaroons. They sold out, and therefore they were making a difference for the people with the cystic fibrosis or the diabetes.
It took Lauren a day to realize what she had done. She used a lot of blue food colouring to make the macaroons the right colour, and now Lauren was in the bathroom, and she had just taken a shit, and it was blue. Matt ate some of the macaroons and his shit was blue too. All of these lawyers who had loved the macaroons were going to the bathroom and looking at their blue shit and they all knew why their shit was blue. All of these people who were supporting the people who had the cystic fibrosis or the diabetes were dropping these big blue hosses. Lauren was embarrassed. She wondered how she could go to work and practice law and also be the person that made everyone in the office shit blue. She was worried about getting a nickname like Blue Shit Lauren. Like she would be in courtroom and the judge would call up Blue Shit Lauren to present her closing arguments. But she went to work the next day and nobody ever talked about it.
Matt said he thought life was like that blue shit. He said life was this strange and wonderful collective experience that nobody was talking about.
He spun a tumorous mass of spaghetti around the tines of his fork, and shoveled it into a wide open mouth. I thought it was a terrible fucking story, like of course Laura would make macaroons, and who even cared what happened to a bunch of lawyers, and now all I could feel was foie gras lingering in my mouth and maybe it was the wine or the hash or I don’t know, but I felt the saliva pooling and I looked at the floor and one moment it was fine and the next it was covered with so many chunks of grey mush, so much reddish bile, and I felt like I would never stop heaving.
Outside of the restaurant, I was breathing out puffs of air while snow fell around me in fat flakes. Matt was still inside, smoothing things over and apologizing.
There was a concert we went to in our final year of law school. It was a reunion show in a small club, some punk band Matt was into. When the lead singer came out he had this substitute teachers head attached to a substitute teacher’s body – kind of frumpy and washed out. It was shit – the band was too drunk to do anything, and after four songs the substitute teacher just set his guitar up by the amp to generate a wall of feedback, and he walked off the stage to leer at the young girls who were waiting by the bar. After the show Matt kept apologizing to us. I really enjoyed it though. I think it was the first time I understood getting old.
Matt came outside and he looked at me, only now where before his face was flushed and happy, he just looked sad. He asked me if I needed help.
I told him I did. I told him I needed the kind of help I used to give at Subway. I needed help to go to shitty rich restaurants to feast on suffering, and that I needed so much of his help to be so pretentious and empty.
And still he did not jettison and burn off and fly away. He told me that he was worried about me – that I looked sick, and that he was scared for me, and that he wanted to get me help if I needed it. He told me that he worked hard to get the life he had, and that it made him happy.
I didn’t talk for a long time, but when I did I asked Matt if he thought that the average person could step into his life and do a better job with it. He asked what I was talking about. I took the five hundred dollars from my pocket and told him that it was my fee, and that I could free him. He looked at me one last time and left.
I was relieved. My throat was burning from the vomit and there was so much more that I could be doing. I had always felt like a patient zero in search of a disease.
Sometimes when I pictured the future, I saw myself as the King of this Great Pile of Garbage. I was seated on a mound of garbage bags, and it was so comfortable. People would come to me and seek my advice, and I would tell them to throw it all out. My garbage empire would grow and grow. Other times I could only picture blackened wood, embers fading into smoke. I was okay with that too. As for Montreal, it was alright. I walked by a costume store that was selling masks of babies and horses and dogs, and in the display window they were all perched on mannequins of male models. I walked by bars and saw young people who moved around as lithe and panicked as gazelles.
I had been drinking and was now great friends with these two punks. They both had shaved heads and leathery skin. They were older but spoke English. One of them had a head that was dented like a soup can. And the other one had a growth on the right side of his forehead, and that was how I could tell them apart. Otherwise it was a mess of patchwork denim and bad tattoos. I was buying us quarts of Fifty because I was rich. Quarts of Fifty were great because they came in these big bottles and were served with a tiny glass on the side, and you could poor from the big bottle into the tiny glass and feel like some kind of foreign dignitary. The guy with the dented head was telling us about how he got all of these dents.
HOW I GOT ALL OF THESE DENTS
“So I’m waiting at the Bonaventure Metro, right?” he says. “And, wait, shit, you don’t know. The Bonaventure Metro is brick everything. Even the benches. With the heat from the trains it feels like you are trapped in this great furnace.” I nodded. “So I was there waiting for my train and I look across the tracks and I see this deer. It’s just standing there on the tracks opposite from me, and I look at the deer and the deer looks at me and then it goes back to grazing. And I look around me because there’s a fucking deer on the metro, and I am telling people, regardez, c’est un fucking deer but nobody is doing anything. Actually, they are looking at me like I’m the crazy one but I know what I see. And then I hear the rumble of the train coming, and I get really nervous because the deer is right there, yes? It’s still on the tracks and it’s not moving. It just looks up again and stares right at me, and now I can see the light from the train, and there is more noise and you can feel the rush of air, and I just walked right onto the tracks.”
“Bullshit you walked right onto the tracks,” I said.
“It’s what I did!” he said. “I walked onto the tracks and I reach out for the deer only it’s gone, it was like it had never been there at all, and now the only sound in my head is the sound of the train, and I look and the train hits me smack, right here!” – he smacks the middle of his forehead with his palm – “and that was it, that was all I could remember. I woke up later in a hospital, and my head was covered in bandages. I became very famous in Montreal for a time as the man who survived getting struck by a train. They let me shake Jean Béliveau’s hand.”
His friend, the other punk, laughed and said “You got those dents in a bar fight don’t be an idiot.” Then they were both laughing and I was laughing too. I felt comfortable with these old punks.
I told them about how I had lost my job at the parking garage because one day I just left the gate open and went home because it didn’t matter. I talked about my roommate and how I was always stealing his food and how I owed him two months rent and had stolen all of his hash and money to come here, but that I’d left the rest of my hash at my friend’s apartment. I asked them where they bought drugs because it looked like they knew where to buy good drugs. They asked what I was into and I said that I pictured my body as this purification plant. I wanted to take in the world’s poison and process the chemicals and feel good or bad or powerful or ecstatic or tired or sick and leave only piss and shit smoke behind.
The guy with the growth on his head never told us about why he had the growth on his head but we all agreed about the drugs, and so we left the bar together to go and buy them.
We walked past portuguese chicken places and butcher shops and rows of houses with walk up stairs. It was late and people were leaving bars and clubs, pushing past us in the streets with their jackets full of the feathers of dead baby geese. The punks talked about hockey riots and jaywalking tickets and how Montreal was a city built on old garbage dumps, nobody knew how many, they just paved over them and built schools and parks and houses. We walked down sidewalks narrowed like clogged arteries from snow. I was impressed by the state of disrepair I encountered. There was exposed piping and holes in the street. I wondered if my friends the old punks were going to kick the shit out of me and steal my money but I didn’t care. We walked for so long that all feeling left my body.
We stopped in front of a house. It had white siding that was yellowing at its edges and windows that were covered in garbage bags and tape. This was the place. They walked up to the door and knocked on it and it opened. I couldn’t see past them into the house. They held open the door and I walked towards them. I could only make out curdled wallpaper and a soft blue light inside of the house. I walked inside. It felt like a church to me.
I smoked something crystalline out of a foil packet and I didn’t feel like I was drowning in the undertow of euphoria, I didn’t get to watch my spirit hover over the Lachine canal while my body stumbled alongside watching, and I didn’t get to meet the lizard king of my third eye. I smoked it all up and sat there with my head of asbestos, and my ashed cigarette body, but this was normal.
I looked over at the punks, who were passed out inside of their own heads like monks at peace with the world and I rifled through their pockets but found nothing except receipts and lint. I walked around the room kicking things over, knocking down lamps and picture frames and breaking glass. I punched at a wall but it didn’t make a hole like I wanted, it just really hurt my hand. I was bored of everything.
I left the house and stepped into the midnight blue of the sky and the yellow of street lights. The quiet of the street was interrupted by the crack of a drum and the sound of trumpets, and I watched as a procession of revellers marching in a dance down the street, in the middle of the road. They were wearing strange masks and thrift store clothing – tattered plaid jackets or dirty leather; nobody was dressed alike but it still looked like they were in uniform. Their leader was wearing a rubber face with cut-out eyes and I couldn’t place who it was supposed to be. He had a snare drum, and behind him there were women in animal masks with cut out mouths swaying and making cheerful noises with their trumpets. Behind them was a crowd of people – thirty or so men and women, all dancing behind them, shooting confetti into the sky. It was a cacophony of noise and jubilation. I watched as they came down the road, but when they got to where I was standing in front of the house everything stopped. There was no more marching or drums or sound, just confetti slowly tracing seesaw patterns in the air as it drifted down onto the street and a bunch of masks looking at me.
I said “English?” out loud and there was no answer.
I said ““If we’re all gonna die then I want you to know that none of this has been worth it! None of it! You’re all pieces of shit!” and I dove into the snow on the sidewalk and writhed around in it and got snow down my neck and back but it was still quiet on the street.
I got back up and looked at them and the grotesque shadows cast by their masks in the light of the street, and said “I don’t know what you want.”
A child in a jester’s costume broke through the crowd and grabbed my hand and pulled me in. The people in their masks patted me on the back and shook my hand and wordlessly welcomed me into their ranks. Everything smelled like tobacco, but there was something sharp behind it, like vinegar. The drumming started again, the quick rat-tat-tat of the snare, and we were dancing through the streets again.
We moved through the city past the fluorescent lights of Jean Coutu pharmacies and parks with trees that were collapsing under the snow. We passed under bridges and through neighbourhoods where houses were being demolished to make way for unfinished condos. When we passed people on the street they cheered us on. I thought of the mother I saw the day I left the gate up at my parking garage job, of her rusted green Corolla and car full of plastic bags and children pulling at her from the back seat and how it felt to leave the gate up. Of how it felt to see the spandex suit unzip in that movie, that moment of shedding your skin, and how I could never find it again afterwards; how some days I thought that I’d just dreamed it, but when I pictured it in my head it was so real. And we danced through the streets in the dark, and I felt a sense of belonging. More and more, people in the street applauded our marching.
As I scanned the faces in the crowd, I saw one that I recognized as my own. The face was my own dumb face, but it the cheeks were fuller, the eyes a bit brighter. The man looked like me but different – he was put together, a nice peacoat and an expensive haircut, but he was less interesting somehow. I broke off from the people in their masks and I approached this man and he said “Avez-vous besoin d’aide?” and I took whatever money was left in my pockets and thrust it into his hands and hurried back to the revellers, who again clapped their arms around my back and welcomed me with open arms as we moved down Rue de la montage past rows of old houses and construction sites and garages, galleries and glass buildings reflecting nothing but the cold. We continued to march until we approached the mouth of a tunnel. The man with the drum walked up to each of us and shook our hands and when he got to me he took of his mask and I understood. And he went back to the mouth of the tunnel and started drumming again and he led us inside, and soon there was only a perfect darkness. I reached out with my hand and felt for the person in front of me, and I found them and we walked together, and another hand reached for my back and we all walked like that in the dark, linked to each other. We followed the echoing sounds of the drums, and the story of the tunnel was this: as I kept on walking through the fertile, fetid darkness, I told myself I didn’t feel any different, but I didn’t know anymore if this was true.
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MATSUGUCHI, Masanobu
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Graduate School of Science and Engineering Materials Science and Biotechnology
1986, Kyushu University, Graduate School, Division of Natural Science, Chemistry
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HCl gas sensor coating based on poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) nanoparticles prepared from water-methanol binary solvent, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, Sensors, 18, 10, 3283, 2018/10, 10.3390/s18103283
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Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) nanoparticle-based gas sensor coating prepared from binary aqueous solutions, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, Abstract of the 12th Asian Conference on Chemical Sensors, 95, 2017/11
Fabrication of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) nanoparticles using a simple spray-coating method and applications for a QCM-based HCl gas sensor coating, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, Sensors and Actuators B, 251, 821, 827, 2017/11, 10.1016/j.snb.2017.05.130
A fractional exhaled nitric oxide sensor based on optical absorption of cobalt tetraphenylporphyrin derivatives, MIKI Hideshi, MATSUBARA Fumiya, NAKASHIMA Shunichi, OCHI Shinya, NAKAGAWA Katsuhiko, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, SADAOKA Yoshihiko, Sensors and Actuators B, 231, 458, 468, 2016/08, 10.1016/j.snb.2016.02.145
Morphological study of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) on an application for a mass-sensitive HCl gas sensor, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, TADA Ai, KUMADA Masashi, Abstract of the 11th Asian Conference on Chemical Sensors, 194, 194, 2015/11
HCl gas adsorption/desorption properties of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes grafted onto quartz resonator for gas-sensing applications, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, TAKAOKA Kenta, KAI Haruka, Sensors and Actuators B, 208, 106, 111, 2015/03, 10.1016/j.snb.2014.10.137
Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) nanoparticles for QCM-based gas sensing of HCl, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Noboru Harada, Satoshi Omori, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 190, 446, 450, 2014/01, 09254005, 10.1016/j.snb.2013.08.095
Highly sensitive toluene vapor sensors using carbon black/amino-functional copolymer composites, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Koji Asahara, Takashi Mizukami, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 127, 2529, 2535, 2013/02, 00218995, 10.1002/app.37578
Properties and stability of polyaniline nanofiber ammonia sensors fabricated by novel on-substrate method, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Takuya Asahi, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 160, 1, 999, 1004, 2011/12, 0925-4005, 10.1016/j.snb.2011.09.017
Design of polymer-based gas sensors, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Sensor Letters, 9, 2, 894, 897, 2011/04, 1546-198X, 10.1166/sl.2011.1638
Design of Polymer-Based Gas Sensors, Technical Digest of the 13th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors, 260, 2010
Fabrication of Polyaniline Nanofiber Films and Their NH3 Gas-sensing Properties, Abstract of the 7th Asian Conference on Electrochemistry, 108, 2010
Long-term stability of humidity sensor using polyaniline blend films upon DC operation, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Takashi Yamanaka, Makoto Yoshida, Shinya Kojima, Satoshi Okumura, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 156, 10, 299, 302, 2009/09, 0013-4651|1945-7111, 10.1149/1.3184148
Toluene-Vapor Sorption of Chemically Modified Methyl Methacrylate-co-Chloromethyl Styrene Copoylmers with N,N,-dimethyl-1,3,-Propanediamine Measured with a Quartz Crystal Microbalance, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, KAGEMOTO Muneyoshi, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 111, 2, 1086, 1093, 2009/01, 0021-8995, 10.1002/app.30650
Chemically modified copolymer coatings for mass-sensitive toluene vapor sensors, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Toshiyuki Uno, Takashi Aoki, Masami Yoshida, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 131, 2, 652, 659, 2008/05, 0925-4005, 10.1016/j.snb.2007.12.052
Poly(acrylamide) derivatives for QCM-based HCl gas sensor applications, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshito Kadowaki, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 130, 2, 842, 847, 2008/03, 0925-4005, 10.1016/j.snb.2007.10.049
Gas Adsorption Properties of Surface-confined Polyamidoamine Dendrimers on Quartz Resonators, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu，KOTANI Yorikazu, Extended Abstracts of the Papers Presented at the International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS 12), 259, 260, 2008
HCl gas monitoring based on a QCM using morpholine-functional styrene-co-chloromethylstyrene copolymer coatings, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshito Kadowaki, Kazutoshi Noda, Ryuichi Naganawa, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 120, 2, 462, 466, 2007/01, 0925-4005, 10.1016/j.snb.2006.02.039
Methanol permeability and proton conductivity of a semi-interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs) membrane composed of Nafion® and cross-linked DVB, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Heisuke Takahashi, Journal of Membrane Science, 281, 1-2, 707, 715, 2006/09, 0376-7388, 10.1016/j.memsci.2006.04.043
Molecular imprinting strategy for solvent molecules and its application for QCM-based VOC vapor sensing, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Toshiyuki Uno, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 113, 1, 94, 99, 2006/01, 0925-4005, 10.1016/j.snb.2005.02.028
A QCM-based HCl gas sensor coated with poly(acrylamide) derivatives, Proceedings of the 11th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors, TOI.5.3, 2006
A QCM-based NO2 gas detector using morpholine-functional cross-linked copolymer coatings, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshito Kadowaki, Masanori Tanaka, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 108, 1-2, 572, 575, 2005/07, 0925-4005, 10.1016/j.snb.2004.11.044
Depression of a capacitive-type humidity sensor's drift by introducing a cross-linked structure in the sensing polymer, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Makoto Yoshida, Takaaki Kuroiwa, Tsutomu Ogura, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 102, 1, 97, 101, 2004/09, 0925-4005, 10.1016/j.snb.2003.12.061
Improvements in the long-term stability of a LiCl dew-point sensor using cross-linked porous poly(vinyl alcohol) film, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Toshiyuki Uno, Ayumi Yamanaka, Takaaki Kuroiwa, Tsutomu Ogura, Yoshiro Sakai, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 97, 1, 74, 80, 2004/01, 0925-4005, 10.1016/j.snb.2003.07.007
Amino-functional cross-linked polymer coatings for QCM-based NO2 gas monitoring applications, Technical Digest of the 10th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors, 274, 275, 2004
Effect of sensing film thickness on drift phenomenon of capacitive-type humidity sensors, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yasunori Takahashi, Takaaki Kuroiwa, Tsutomu Ogura, Sachiko Obara, Yoshiro Sakai, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 150, 8, 192, 195, 2003/08, 0013-4651|1945-7111, 10.1149/1.1592522
Effect of humidity on NH3 gas sensitivity of polyaniline blend films, M. Matsuguchi, A. Okamoto, Y. Sakai, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 94, 1, 46, 52, 2003/08, 0925-4005, 10.1016/S0925-4005(03)00325-3
Monitoring of NO2 gas in air using piezoelectric crystals coated with amino-functional copolymers, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Masanori Tanaka, Electrochemistry, 71, 417, 419, 2003/06, 13443542
Effect of crosslinked structure on SO2 gas sorption properties in amino-functional copolymers, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Katsuya Sakurada, Yoshiro Sakai, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 88, 13, 2982, 2987, 2003/04, 0021-8995|1097-4628, 10.1002/app.12135
Monitoring of NO2 Gas in Air Using Piezoelectric Crystals Coated with Amino-functional Copolymers, Electrochemistry, 71, 6, 417, 419, 2003
Effect of NH3 gas on the electrical conductivity of polyaniline blend films, M. Matsuguchi, J. Io, G. Sugiyama, Y. Sakai, Synthetic Metals, 128, 1, 15, 19, 2002/04, 0379-6779, 10.1016/S0379-6779(01)00504-5
Competitive sorption of water vapor and CO2 in photocrosslinked PVCA film for a capacitive-type humidity sensor, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Nozomi Maeda, Yoshiro Sakai, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 83, 2, 401, 407, 2002/01, 0021-8995|1097-4628, 10.1002/app.10062
SO2 gas sensors using polymers with different amino groups, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Koji Tamai, Yoshiro Sakai, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 77, 1/2, 363, 367, 2001/06, 0925-4005, 10.1016/S0925-4005(01)00735-3
Humidity sensor based on alkali salts of poly(2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid), Yoshiro Sakai, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Norimichi Yonesato, Electrochimica Acta, 46, 10/11, 1509, 1514, 2001/03, 0013-4686, 10.1016/S0013-4686(00)00746-5
Effect of matrix polymer on the NH3 sensing properties of polyaniline blend films, Proceedings of the 5th East Asian Conference on Chemical Sensors, 215, 217, 2001
Effect of crosslinking structure on sorption of CO2 in photocrosslinked PVCA film, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Junichi Miura, Yoshiro Sakai, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 78, 1744, 1750, 2000/12, 00218995, 10.1002/1097-4628(20001205)78:10<1744::AID-APP50>3.0.CO;2-V
Drift phenomenon of capacitive-type relative humidity sensors in a hot and humid atmosphere, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Etsuro Hirota, Takaaki Kuroiwa, Sachiko Obara, Tsutomu Ogura, Yoshiro Sakai, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 147, 7, 2796, 2799, 2000/07, 0013-4651|1945-7111, 10.1149/1.1393608
Humidity sensor using cross-linked poly(chloromethyl styrene), Y. Sakai, M. Matsuguchi, T. Hurukawa, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 66, 1/3, 135, 138, 2000/07, 0925-4005, 10.1016/S0925-4005(00)00313-0
Effect of Crosslinking Structure on Sorption of CO2 in Photocrosslinked PVCA Filim, MATSUGUCHI M, MIURA J, SAKAI Y, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 78, 10, 1744, 1750, 2000, 0021-8995|1097-4628, 10.1002/1097-4628(20001205)78:10<1744::AID-APP50>3.0.CO;2-V
Humidity sensor based on alkali salts of poly(2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid), Abstract of the 7th International Symposium on Polymer Electrolytes, no page number, 2000
SO2 gas sensors using a polymer with different amino groups, Abstract of 8th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors, p.278, 2000
HCl gas adsorption/desorption chracteristics of NIPAM-BMA copolymer nanoparticles, ARIKAWA Daiki, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, The 64th Chemical Sensor Symposium, 2018/09 26
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Fabrication of surface-grated film of polyaniline and its ammonia gas sensing properties, KITAGATA Tokirou, YAGI Hajime, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, The 62nd Chemical Sensor Symposium, 2017/09 10
Fabrication of PNIPAM nanoparticle films by using a cononsolvency effect and their HCl gas adsorption properties, FUJII Shinnosuke, YAGI Hajime, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, The 62nd Chemical Sensor Symposium, 2017/09 10
FABRICATION OF POLY(N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE) PARTICLES USING SPRAY-COATING METHOD AND ITS HCl GAS ADSORPTION PROPERTIES, 2015/09 12
Functionalization of parylene-A films with polymer brushes for gas-sensing applications, SAKAGUCHI Tomoki, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, The 59th Chemical Sensor Symposium, 2015/09 12
A Fractional Exhaled NO gas sensor using Porphyrin Derivatives, MATSUGUCHI Masanobu, Ddenki Kagaku, 86, 112, 117, 2018/06, 10.5796/denkikagaku.18-FE0013
21, 5-6, 122, 127, 2008
24, 1, 26, 30, 2008
52, 7, 479, 2003, 10.1295/kobunshi.52.479
17, 4, 143, 149, 2001
Humidity Sensors Using Chemically Modified Polymer Thin Films, Yoshiro Sakai, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Electrochemistry, 67, 67(10), 950, 956, 1999/10, 13443542, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0033276729∨igin=inward, Most of the humidity sensors practically used are based on the change in electrical properties of polymers or ceramics with humidity. They are either resistive-type or capacitive-type sensors. Various chemical modifications of polymeric materials have been utilized to improve the properties of sensors such as sensitivity, hysteresis, long-term stability, durability in unfavorable atmospheres such as dewdrops or vapors of volatile organic compounds(VOC), etc. This paper overviews the novel methods of chemical modification which have been proposed by the authors.
A Capacitive-type Relative Humidity Sensor Having a Double Layer Structure Consisting of a Photocrosslinked PVCa and a PMMa Film, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Shinya Kubo, Yoshiro Sakai, Electrochemistry, 67, 170, 174, 1999/02, 13443542, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0033360569∨igin=inward, A double layer structure sensor (DLS sensor) consisting of a photocrosslinked PVCA and a PMMA film was prepared. Advantages of the photocrosslinked PVCA sensor and the PMMA sensor were reflected in the initial sensor performance of the DLS sensor. The sensing characteristics were affected by the thickness and the degree of crosslinking of the photocrosslinked PVCA layer. There was an optimum PVCA film thickness (around 0.1 μm) for reducing the effect of both instantaneous and long-term coexistent acetone vapor.
67(10), 950, 956, 1999
Sorption of CO2 in the photocrosslinked PVCA film, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Jun Ichi Miura, Yoshiro Sakai, Chemistry Letters, 229, 230, 1998/12, 03667022, 10.1246/cl.1998.229, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0032360437∨igin=inward, Sorption behavior of CO2 in the photocrosslinked poly(vinyl cinnamate) film was examined. The amount of sorbed CO2 was enhanced with the degree of crosslinking, while the amount decreased beyond ca.95 % crosslinking.
Stability and reliability of capacitive-type relative humidity sensors using crosslinked polyimide films, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Takaaki Kuroiwa, Tetsuya Miyagishi, Sachiko Suzuki, Tsutomu Ogura, Yoshiro Sakai, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 52, 53, 57, 1998/09, 09254005, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0032156565∨igin=inward, Newly developed crosslinked polyimide and fluorinated polyimide-based humidity sensors were fabricated for office building and factory applications. Both sensors showed good initial sensor performance. The stability and the reliability of these sensors were evaluated by exposing the sensor elements to various test conditions. The crosslinked polyimide sensor was resistant to chemicals and the crosslinked fluorinated polyimide one exhibited long-term stability in harsh environments. By using these sensors properly, their sensor performance is superior to that of most commercially available capacitive-type sensors. © 1998 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
Characterization of polymers for a capacitive-type humidity sensor based on water sorption behavior, M. Matsuguchi, S. Umeda, Y. Sadaoka, Y. Sakai, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, B49, 179, 185, 1998/07, 09254005, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0032121159∨igin=inward, The water sorption behavior of polymers for a capacitive-type humidity sensor was examined using three different techniques. The sorbed water in hydrophilic polymers with a pyridine or hydroxyl group was highly bound and that in less hydrophilic polymers with a carbonyl or ether group was loosely bound to the polymer as determined from the sorption analysis. Among less hydrophilic polymers, the tendency to form the clustered sorbed water molecules was higher for PEG and EC, which have an ether oxygen as the hydrogen bonding basicity. The results of this study proved that cluster formation of sorbed water of a sensing polymer was closely related to the sensor's characteristics. The polymers with a weak hydrophilic site, which have a low hydrogen bond propensity, are suitable for the capacitive-type humidity sensor.
52, 53, 57, 1998
3, 229, 230, 1998, 0366-7022|1348-0715, 10.1246/cl.1998.229
Solvatochromic study of water sorption in polymer films, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Hiroshi Mizuguchi, Kenichi Umeda, Yoshiro Sakai, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 63, 1681, 1691, 1997/03, 00218995, 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4628(19970321)63:12<1681::AID-APP18>3.0.CO;2-2, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0031097843∨igin=inward, A solvatochromic method was used to characterize the water sorption behavior of polymer films. Four different dyes were dissolved in various solid polymers and the relative water vapor pressure in the atmosphere was changed. Evaluated solvatochromic parameters depended not only on the amount of sorbed water but also on the kind of polymer. A linear correlation between the ET(30) value and Taft's multiparameter was confirmed in both the dried and the water sorbed polymers. The correlation equation was almost identical to that obtained by other researchers in liquid solvents. These results suggest that the dissolved dyes behave as indicators of microenvironmental changes in the solid polymer film. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
63, 12, 1681, 1691, 1997, 0021-8995, 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4628(19970321)63:12<1681::AID-APP18>3.0.CO;2-2
Effect of the film thickness on the humidity sensing characteristics of cross-linked PVCA film, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Masami Minomura, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Takaaki Kuroiwa, Yoshiro Sakai, Electrochemistry, 64, 1107, 1112, 1996/12, 13443542, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0347070315∨igin=inward
Carbon dioxide sensor using N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate and methyl methacrylate copolymer, Hirofumi Yokouchi, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Yoshiro Sakai, Sensors and Materials, 8, 69, 78, 1996/12, 09144935, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0030532748∨igin=inward, N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate (DMAEM)-methyl methacrylate (MMA) copolymers with several different compositions were prepared by γ-ray irradiation. The sorption of carbon dioxide on the copolymer was measured by the frequency change of the 4 MHz quartz oscillators coated with the copolymers. Carbon dioxide sorption on the DMAEM-MMA copolymer was characterized by the dual sorption model (Henry type and Langmuir type). The fraction of Henry-type sorption is the smallest for the copolymer with 0.1 DMAEM mole fraction. A fast-response sensor could be fabricated when a copolymer with 0.1 DMAEM mole fraction was used.
Humidity sensors based on polymer thin films, Y. Sakai, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 35, 85, 90, 1996/09, 09254005, 10.1016/S0925-4005(96)02019-9, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0030234081∨igin=inward, Studies on humidity sensors fabricated with organic polymers for the last 10 years are reviewed. Several useful methods for improving the characteristics of humidity sensors based on polymers are proposed. In the case of a resistive-type sensor, cross-linking of hydrophilic polymers or formation of interpenetrated polymer networks with a hydrophobia polymer makes the hydrophilic polymers durable at high humidities. Graft polymerization is another method of preparing water-resistive humidity sensors. In the case of capacitive-type sensors, cross-linking is also useful to modify the hydrophobic polymer to produce a sensor with small hysteresis, high selectivity and high sensitivity.
Effect of the degree of cross-linking on the characteristics of a PVCA capacitive-type humidity sensor, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Masafumi Shinmoto, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Takaaki Kuroiwa, Yoshiro Sakai, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 34, 349, 355, 1996/08, 09254005, 10.1016/S0925-4005(96)01826-6, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0013050126∨igin=inward, A cross-linked PVCA film was prepared on a suitable substrate by using a photoirradiation technique and evaluated as a capacitive-type humidity sensor. The sensing characteristics were considerably affected by the degree of cross-linking in the film. The sensitivity was particularly enhanced up to ca. 95% cross-linking, beyond this the sensitivity decreased. This has been explained by the variation in the ability to adsorb water with the degree of cross-linking. Similar behavior was observed for the adsorption of organic vapors and the adsorption of the larger organic vapors was greatly reduced by using the highly cross-linked polymer. This behavior was explained by the molecular sieve effect of the cross-linked film. It was confirmed that the effect of coexistent acetone vapor was considerably smaller for the sensor using highly cross-linked PVCA film.
35, 1/3, 85, 90, 1996, 0925-4005, 10.1016/S0925-4005(96)02019-9
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Effect of cross-linking degree of PVCA film on the characteristics of capacitive-type humidity sensor, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Masafumi Shinmoto, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Takaaki Kuroiwa, Yoshiro Sakai, International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators, and Eurosensors IX, Proceedings, 2, 825, 828, 1995/12, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0029546859∨igin=inward, A cross-linked PVCA film was prepared on the substrate by using photoirradiation technique and it was applied for the capacitive-type humidity sensor. The sensitivity was enhanced until the cross-linking degree became ca. 95%, while further progress of the reaction resulted in the decrement of the sensitivity. This was related to the variation of water adsorption ability with the cross-linking degree. A similar behavior was observed for the adsorption of other organic vapors. These behaviors were explained by the microhole distribution change in the film with the progress of the cross-linking reaction.
Effect of carbon dioxide on the electrical conductivity of polyethylene glycol-alkali carbonate complex film, Yoshiro Saikai, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Hirofumi Yokouchi, Kazuhiko Tamai, Materials Chemistry & Physics, 42, 1, 73, 76, 1995/01, 0254-0584, 10.1016/0254-0584(95)80043-3, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0029390991∨igin=inward, A solid film consisting of triethylene glycol, K2CO3-polyethylene glycol of high mol. wt., was prepared on a sintered alumina substrate with a pair of golden electrodes and their electrical conductivity was measured. When CO2 gas was introduced into the air, the conductivity decreased. This change was reversible. The sensitivity to CO2, designated as (change in conductivity caused by CO2)/(conductivity in air), was the highest when a polyethylene glycol of mol. wt. 6000 was used. The sensing mechanism was interpreted in terms of the change in concentration of the charge carrier K+ ion by CO2. © 1995.
Humidity sensor durable at high humidity using simultaneously crosslinked and quaternized poly(chloromethyl styrene), Yoshiro Sakai, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Hiroki Sakai, Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical, 25, 1/3, 689, 691, 1995/01, 0925-4005, 10.1016/0925-4005(95)85152-6, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0029292576∨igin=inward, In order to prepare a resistive-type humidity sensor that is durable at high humidities or even in dewing, poly(chloromethyl styrene) is simultaneously crosslinked and quaternized (that is, a quaternary ammonium group is added to the polymer) by the reaction with N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-1,6-hexanediamine on the surface of an alumina substrate on which a pair or gold electrodes is previously deposited. The sensor is durable even after soaking in water for two hours. The response time is shorter in samples with a higher degree of quaternization. An interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) film is also formed on a similar substrate using the crosslinked quaternized poly(chloromethyl styrene) and ethyleneglycol dimethylacrylate. A sensor based on the IPN film has a shorter response time than a sensor based on the crosslinked quaternized poly(chloromethyl styrene). © 1995.
A thin-film polysulfone-based capacitive-type relative-humidity sensor, Takaaki Kuroiwa, Tetsuya Miyagishi, Akihiko Ito, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Yoshiro Sakai, Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical, 25, 692, 695, 1995/01, 09254005, 10.1016/0925-4005(95)85153-4, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0029292053∨igin=inward, A capacitive-type relative-humidity sensor utilizing a thin polysulfone (PSF) sensing material has been fabricated to achieve reproducible relative-humidity measurements with long-term stability even in hot and humid conditions. The sensor showed a good initial performance with 0.5%U(%r.h) hysteresis and 0.1±0.1%U °C-1 temperature coefficient of capacitance along with good stability with less than +3%U shift after 1000 h of exposure to 40 °C, 90%U conditions. © 1995.
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Detection of carboxylic acid vapor using poly(N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate), Yoshiro Sakai, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Tatsumi Saito, Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical, 14, 1/3, 625, 626, 1993/01, 0925-4005, 10.1016/0925-4005(93)85120-Y, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0027608243∨igin=inward
A thin film polyimide based capacitive type relative humidity sensor, Takaaki Kuroiwa, Tomohito Hayashi, Akihiko Ito, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Yoshiro Sakai, Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical, 13, 1/3, 89, 91, 1993/01, 0925-4005, 10.1016/0925-4005(93)85331-4, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0027590717∨igin=inward, A capacitive type relative humidity sensor utilizing newly developed cross-linked fluorinated polyimide has been fabricated using thin film technology and evaluated for commercial building and factory applications. The sensor showed a good initial performance with less than 1% r.h. hysteresis and a 0 ± 0.1% r.h./°C temperature coefficient of capacitance along with good stability especially under high temperature and high humidity conditions. Also, because of the inherent chemical resistance of the polyimide, good sensor stability when subjected to volatile environments has been demonstrated. © 1993.
Effect of Sorbed Water on the Dielectric Properties of Acetylene-Terminated Polyimide Resins and Their Application to a Humidity Sensor, M. Matsuguchi, T. Kuroiwa, Y. Sadaoka, A. Ito, K. Nosaka, M. Ishibashi, Y. Sakai, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 140, 3, 825, 829, 1993/01, 0013-4651, 10.1149/1.2056166, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84975395971∨igin=inward, A cured acetylene-terminated polyisoimide oligomer was used to prepare a capacitive-type humidity sensor. Sorption behavior of water on the cured film was examinedby measuring the dielectric constant and water content. The amount of sorbed water was small and the sorbed water did not form clusters. This is due to the hydrophobic nature and rigid structure of the film. The sorption behavior reflects its excellent sensor properties, i.e., low hysteresis, low temperature coefficient, durability against acetone vapor, and long-term stability in a high temperature and humid atmosphere. Among the polyimides prepared by curing the oligomers with different chain lengths, the mostsuitable composition for a reliable capacitive-type humidity sensor was API-3-API-1. © 1993, The Electrochemical Society, Inc. All rights reserved.
Solid state electrochemical CO2 gas sensor using zircon-based sodium ionic conductors, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, D. Manabe, Journal of Materials Science, 28, 8, 2035, 2039, 1993/01, 0022-2461, 10.1007/BF00367559, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0027578045∨igin=inward, The sensing properties and characteristics of a zircon-based sodium ionic conductor as an electrochemical CO2 gas sensor which can be expressed as O2, Pt|Na ion conductor|Pt, Na2CO3, CO2, O2 were examined. The electro motive force (e.m.f.) was found to be a function of the logarithm of CO2 concentration and the 90% response time was less than 2 min at 430°C while the number of electrons for the electrochemical reaction was slightly above than 2. The coexistence of water molecules (≥ 90% RH) induced the response time delay and the lowering of the e.m.f. value. Changes in the response characteristics were mostly recovered after cutting off the water vapour, while the recovery time was prolonged when the working temperature was increased. © 1993 Chapman & Hall.
Ionic conductivity in Na5YSi4O12-based ceramics with and without additives, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, K. Komatsubara, Journal of Materials Science, 27, 18, 5045, 5051, 1992/09, 0022-2461, 10.1007/BF01105272, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=34249838746∨igin=inward, Addition of Na2O-Y2O3-SiO2 glass to Na5YSi4O12 during the sintering process induced enhancements in conductivity and decrease in its activation energy. The highest conductivity and activation energy were 1.3×10-1 S cm-1 at 300 ‡C and 0.21 eV, respectively, for Na5YSi4O12 with about 20 wt% Na2O-Y2O3-SiO2 glass which was sintered at 1000 ‡C. This improvement may be caused by the formation of a Na5YSi4O12 phase from the added glass. Such an improvement in the electrical characteristics was not achieved by the addition of 10 wt% or more Na2O-Al2O3-4SiO2 glass or α-alumina in which the conductivity decreased monotonically with an increase in the amount of additive. © 1992 Chapman & Hall.
Optical humidity sensing characteristics of composite thin films of hydrolysed nafion-dye with a terminal N-phenyl group, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshiro Sakai, Yu Uki Murata, Journal of Materials Science, 27, 18, 5095, 5100, 1992/09, 0022-2461, 10.1007/BF01105279, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0000752775∨igin=inward, By using composite films of hydrolysed nafion and dyes having cyanine or triphenyl structures and with a terminal N-phenyl group, an optical humidity sensor has been fabricated. In the reflection mode, the optical intensity of the absorption peaks which depend on the used dyes decreases with relative humidity. The raising and recovery times are less than 1 min. In dry air, the alkyl amine group reacted with SO3H of hydrolysed nafion and formed a proton additive. Sorption of water molecules induces the deprotonation of the quaternized ammonium group. © 1992 Chapman & Hall.
Effect of heat pretreatment on electrical conductance changes by NO2 adsorption of lead phthalocyanine thin film, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, Y. Mori, Journal of Materials Science, 27, 5215, 5220, 1992/01, 00222461, 10.1007/PL00020242, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0041850603∨igin=inward, The sensing characteristics of an NO2 gas sensor using lead phthalocyanine thin film are influenced by heat-pretreatment time and ambient gas. The response behaviour of conductance for the change in ambient gas was characterized using Elovich's equation. The first stage in the adsorption and desorption kinetics reflects surface phenomena and the second stage the film diffusion. Both components were improved by heat treatment in air. The rising time in the NO2 adsorption process was within 2 min, and the recovery time within 5 min at 130 °C for the film annealed in air for 1 h. The heat pretreatment induced the formation of a continuous layer of fine particles, ∼ 0.1 μm in size, and larger single crystals isolated from each other, which formed on the continuous layer. The formation of the larger single crystals is not preferable in fabricating a sensor with fast rising and recovery times. © 1992, Chapman & Hall. All rights reserved.
Optical humidity sensing characteristics of Nafion-dyes composite thin films, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshiro Sakai, Yu uki Murata, Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical, 7, 1/3, 443, 446, 1992/01, 0925-4005, 10.1016/0925-4005(92)80340-4, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0026838016∨igin=inward, By using composite films of hydrolyzed Nafion and dyes having a terminal N-phenyl group, an optical humidity sensor has been fabricated. In the reflection mode, the optical intensity of the absorption peaks which depend on the dyes used was influenced by relative humidity. In dry air, the alkyl amine group reacted with SO3H of hydrolyzed Nafion and formed a proton additive. Sorption of water molecules induces the deprotonation of the quaternized ammonium group. © 1992.
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Water resistive humidity sensor composed of interpenetrating polymer networks of hydrophilic and hydrophobic methacrylate, Y. Sakai, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, K. Hirayama, Transducers '91, 562, 565, 1991/12, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0026392288∨igin=inward, An interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) film composed of cross-linked 2-hydroxy-3-methacryl-oxypropyl trimethylammonium chloride (HMPTAC) polymer and cross-linked ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) polymer was formed on a sintered alumina substrate with interdigitated gold electrodes to fabricate a water-resistive humidity sensor. The impedance of the sensor decreased from ca. 10 7 Ω to ca. 10 2 Ω with increasing humidity from 0% RH to 90% RH. In spite of the cross-linking and interpenetrating with the hydrophobic polymer, the sensitivity is almost the same as that of the HMPTAC homopolymer sensor. Little hysteresis was observed. The characteristics of this IPN sensor changed little even after soaking in water for 120 min. This sensor is more water-resistive than other IPN sensors prepared by using melamine resin or HEMA polymer as a second incorporating polymer. It seems that this is due to the good compatibility of HMPTAC and EGDMA.
Effect of crystal form on the conductance in oxidative gases of metal-free and some metal phthalocyanines, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, Y. Mori, W. Göpel, Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical, 4, 3/4, 495, 498, 1991/01, 0925-4005, 10.1016/0925-4005(91)80157-F, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0026172379∨igin=inward, The conductance of a semiconductor can be expressed by the Meyer-Neldel relation, i.e., σ = σ*exp(E/kT*)exp(-E/kT); the adsorption of an oxidative molecule induces a decrease in the activation energy, while the pre-exponential factor is almost unchanged. T* for phthalocyanine films is considerably higher than that for whiskers. This difference arises because the interaction between phthalocyanine and an adsorbed molecule is a function of the depth from the phthalocyanine surface. The activation energy for conduction is almostly uninfluenced by the crystal form, i.e., film and whisker. © 1991.
A Capacitive-Type Humidity Sensor Using Cross-Linked Poly(methyl methacrylate) Thin Films, M. Matsuguchi, T. Kuroiwa, Y. Sadaoka, A. Ito, Y. Sakai, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 138, 6, 1862, 1865, 1991/01, 0013-4651, 10.1149/1.2085886, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0026173423∨igin=inward, A capacitive-type humidity sensor was prepared using cross-linked poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). The electrical capacitance changed linearly with the relative humidity over the range of 10-90% RH and the sensitivity (the ratio of capacitance at 90% RH to that at 10% RH) was about 1.13. The amount of sorbed water on PMMA at 90% RH was 25 mg/g which was one-third of that on cellulose acetate butyrate. This low hygroscopicity of PMMA was effective in reducing any hysteresis. The decrement of temperature coefficient and high durability for acetone vapor were achieved using the crosslinked PMMA film with divinyl benzene or ethylene glycol dimethacrylate as the cross-linking agent. © 1991, The Electrochemical Society, Inc. All rights reserved.
A Humidity Sensor Using Polytetrafluoroethylene-Graft-Quaternized-Polyvinylpyridine, Yoshiro Sakai, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshiaki Kanakuro, Masaharu Tamura, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 138, 8, 2474, 2478, 1991/01, 0013-4651, 10.1149/1.2085997, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0026202641∨igin=inward, On polytetrafluoroethylene films (0.05 and 0.5 mm thick), polyvinylpyridine was graft-polymerized by γ-ray irradiation. After quaternization of the pyridyl group of the grafted films, sandwich and surface-type sensors were prepared by vacuum deposition of gold electrodes. Electrical properties of these resistive-type sensors were studied in relation to the grafting ratio as well as the amount of sorbed water. Scanning electron microscopy observations and impedance measurements suggest that for the 0.05 mm film, graft-polymerization proceeds homogeneously into the film, while for the 0.5 mm film, the reaction is limited only near the surface of the film and is inhomogeneous. The prepared sensor is completely resistant to water. © 1991, The Electrochemical Society, Inc. All rights reserved.
Optical-fibre and quartz oscillator type gas sensors: Humidity detection by Nafion® film with crystal violet and related compounds, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical, 26, 1/3, 489, 492, 1991/01, 0924-4247, 10.1016/0924-4247(91)87038-5, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0026123285∨igin=inward, By using Nafion® film with crystal violet and malachite green, an optical-fibre and quartz oscillator type humidity sensor has been fabricated. The optical intensity, with a minimum at 615 nm in the reflection mode, decreases with relative humidity for a film with malachite green. The rise and recovery times are less than 1 min and the hysteresis is only ± 1%RH at 50%RH. For the film with crystal violet, a similar characteristic is confirmed at 630 nm. Composite films can be used as an optical and quartz oscillator type humidity sensor, since the sorption of water induces colour and oscillating frequency changes. © 1991.
Optical fiber humidity sensor using nafionr-tri-phenylcarbinol composite, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Yoshiro Sakai, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 138, 2, 614, 615, 1991/01, 0013-4651, 10.1149/1.2085639, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0026105580∨igin=inward, By using Nafion1 film with tri-phenylcarbinol, the optical fiber humidity sensor was fabricated. The optical intensity around 450 nm in the reflection mode increases with the relative humidity. The resolution, i.e., the sensitivity to the relative humidity decreases in the range above 30% relative humidity. In a dry atmosphere, the dye exists in the form of tri-phenylcarbonium ion, and with increasing the relative humidity, the dye structure changes from the carbonium ion to carbinol. © 1991, The Electrochemical Society, Inc. All rights reserved.
Electrical conduction and microstructure of Ag2O-B2O3 glass and Ag3Zr2Si2PO12 composites, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, Journal of Materials Science Letters, 9, 1028, 1032, 1990/09, 02618028, 10.1007/BF00727867, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0025490943∨igin=inward
Adsorption of cholesterol at hexane/water interface, M. Matsuguchi, M. Aratono, K. Motomura, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 63, 17, 20, 1990/06, 00092673, 10.1246/bcsj.63.17, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0025283807∨igin=inward, The interfacial tension between hexane solution of cholesterol and water was measured as a function of temperature and the mole fraction of cholesterol in hexane under atmospheric pressure. The interfacial tension vs. mole fraction of cholesterol curve was observed to have two break points at a certain temperature; the concentration of the break point increases with increasing temperature. The experimental results were analyzed by applying the rigorous thermodynamics of adsorption at interfaces developed previously. The excess number of moles of cholesterol and the thermodynamic quantity changes associated with its adsorption were found to show the discontinuous changes at the break points. It was concluded that the first-order phase transition takes place from the gaseous to the expanded state and from the expanded to the condensed one in the adsorbed film of cholesterol at the hexane/water interface.
Ionic conductivity and crystal structure of fired crystalline zirconium phosphate completely and half exchanged with some monovalent cations, Y. Sadaoka, Y. Sakai, M. Matsuguchi, Journal of Materials Science, 24, 2081, 2092, 1989/06, 00222461, 10.1007/BF02385425, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0024681586∨igin=inward, For LiLi-form, the decomposition of dilithium zirconium phosphate with a layered structure and formation of lithium dizirconium triphosphate and zirconium pyrophosphate was achieved by firing at 600°C or above. For NaNa- and KK-forms, any distinct variations of the external apperance were not confirmed by heat-treatments, while the crystal growth was detected for RbRb- and CsCs-forms fired at 900°C. For half ion-exchanged forms, monovalent cation dizirconium triphosphate was mainly formed on heating up to 600°C or above. The activation energy in ionic conduction decreases with increasing monovalent cation radius. This dependency can be realized by Anderson and Stuart's model based on the classical ideas of ionic crystal theory and elasticity theory. The activation energy for the fully exchanged form is slightly higher than that for the half-exchanged form and the pre-exponential factor in σT=σ0 exp (-E/kT) for the former is less than that for the latter. © 1989 Chapman and Hall Ltd.
Effects of firing temperature on morphology and crystal structure of zirconium bis(monohydrogen phosphate) and its alkali salts, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, S. Mitsui, M. Toita, K. Hatanaka, Journal of Materials Science, 24, 432, 438, 1989/02, 00222461, 10.1007/BF01107423, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0024607148∨igin=inward, In zirconium bis(monohydrogen phosphate)monohydrate, the stability of water of crystallization and of the crystal form was strongly influenced by its crystal size. The water of crystallization of a smaller crystal was completely released on heating to 200° C while a part of this water was held at 300° C in a larger crystal with a diameter of several micrometres. While a smaller crystal was decomposed by heating to 900° C and cubic zirconium pyrophosphate was formed, for a larger crystal, α-layered zirconium pyrophosphate was formed instead of cubic zirconium pyrophosphate and a layered structure was held. For the Na2-, K2- and Rb2-forms, good layer structure was retained even by heating to 1000° C. For the Li2-form, the layer structure was decomposed on heating at or above 900° C. The thermal stability of the layered structure increased with increasing crystal size and ionic radii of the alkali cation. © 1989 Chapman and Hall Ltd.
A Humidity Sensor using Cross-Linked Quaternized Polyvinylpyridine, Yoshiro Sakai, Yoshihiko Sadaoka, Masanobu Matsuguchi, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 136, 171, 174, 1989/01, 00134651, 10.1149/1.2096579, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0024302352∨igin=inward, Poly(4-vinylpyridine) was simultaneously cross-linked and quaternized with α, ω-dichloroalkane on the surface of an alumina substrate that had a pair of gold electrodes on it. The impedance of this device varied from 107 to 103Ω for the entire humidity range. The effect of preparation conditions such as reaction time or quaternizing reagents on the electrical properties as a humidity sensor was investigated. The resistivity depends on the amount of sorbed water regardless of the degree of quaternization. © 1989, The Electrochemical Society, Inc. All rights reserved.
Humidity sensor using microporous film of polyethylene-graft-poly-(2-hydroxy-3-methacryloxypropyl trimethyl-ammonium chloride), Y. Sakai, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, V. L. Rao, Journal of Materials Science, 24, 101, 104, 1989/01, 00222461, 10.1007/BF00660939, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0024303634∨igin=inward, An hydrophilic monomer, 2-hydroxy-3-methacryloxypropyl trimethylammonium chloride, was graft-polymerized in a microporous polyethylene film using three different initiation methods, that is, with benzyl peroxide, pre-U.V. irradiation and mutual photo-initiation. Humidity dependence of the impedance was measured for the grafted microporous polyethylene films. Among the three graft polymers, the one prepared by pre photo-irradiation seems to have the most homogeneously grafted layer. The impedance increases as the grafting percentage increases except in the low grafting percentage region. The response time for the abrupt change of humidity becomes longer as the grafting percentage increases. The activation energy for conductivity has a maximum at 40% relative humidity in the plot of activation energy against humidity. © 1989 Chapman and Hall Ltd.
Humidity sensors based on organopolysiloxanes having hydrophilic groups, Y. Sakai, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, N. Moriga, M. Shimada, Sensors and Actuators, 16, 359, 367, 1989/01, 02506874, 10.1016/0250-6874(89)85006-1, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0024640126∨igin=inward, Two types of humidity sensors were prepared from organosilicon compounds having hydrophilic groups such as NH2, N +(CH3)3Cl- and SO3H. The first is a pressed silica gel disk grafted with hydrophilic organosilicon compounds. The second type is a sintered alumina plate on which a cross-linked organopolysiloxane film having a hydrophilic group was formed. The impedance was measured in the humidity range 0 - 100%. The impedance varies with the hydrophilic group in the order SO3H < N +(CH3)3Cl- < NH2 < OH. Also the amount of adsorbed water depends on these groups, according to the order N +(CH3)3Cl- > SO3H > NH2 > OH. The grafted silica gel device is quite resistant to water. The humidity-sensing characteristics of the alumina-plate type sensor do not change even after soaking in water for several hours. © 1989.
Electrical conductivity of Na3Zr2Si2PO12-doped sodium aluminosilicate glass, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, S. Nakayama, Journal of Materials Science, 24, 1299, 1304, 1989/01, 00222461, 10.1007/PL00020211, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0024640597∨igin=inward, To improve the electrical conductivity of sodium aluminosilicate glass and Na3Zr2Si2PO12 crystal, crystal-glass composite systems were examined. For the ceramics with a lower content of the glass, the activation energy of ionic conduction was lowered and the conductivity enhanced by adding glass and the pre-exponential factor was lowered. Whilst the activation energy of ionic conduction of Na2O-Al2O3- XSiO2 (X=4, 6) glasses could not be lowered to the limiting value of ca. 0.5 eV, the glass-based sample doped with Na3Zr2Si2PO12 powder indicated that the high ionic conductivity and its activation energy was lowered to ca. 0.3 eV. The composite of Na3Zr2Si2PO12 crystalline powder and sodium aluminosilicate glass is a useful material to the solid electrolyte. © 1989, Chapman and Hall Ltd.. All rights reserved.
A humidity sensor using graft copolymer with polyelectrolyte branches, Y. Sakai, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, V. L. Rao, M. Kamigaki, Polymer, 30, 6, 1068, 1071, 1989/01, 0032-3861, 10.1016/0032-3861(89)90081-5, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0024680757∨igin=inward, 2-Hydroxy-3-methacryloxypropyl trimethylammonium chloride was grafted on to the pore wall of microporous polyethylene film by a γ-ray pre-irradiation method. A humidity sensor was prepared by depositing gold electrodes on both surfaces of the grafted film. Complex impedance measurements were carried out at various humidities. From the complex impedance analysis, the values of parallel resistance and parallel capacitance were estimated. The parallel resistance decreased as the humidity increased, while the parallel capacitance remained constant. The parallel resistance also decreased as the grafting ratio increased. The value of parallel resistance depends on the amount of sorbed water in the film. The sensor is stable for a long time in ordinary atmospheric conditions. It is even stable in water for more than 2 h. The sensor prepared by γ-ray pre-irradiation at 9.0 × 104 R h-1 for 4 h was heat-resistant up to 130°C.
Electrical properties of α-zirconium phosphate and its alkali salts in a humid atmosphere, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, S. Mitsui, Journal of Materials Science, 23, 2666, 2675, 1988/08, 00222461, 10.1007/BF00547435, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0024056966∨igin=inward, Humidity dependence of impedance was examined by using the complex impedance analysis for fine crystalline zirconium bis(monohydrogen phosphate) monohydrate and its alkali salts. The value of C0 in Cp(ω)=C0(j ω/ω0)-α was hardly dependent on the relative humidity and monovalent cation species. The resistive component and its activation energy decreased with increase in the relative humidity and the former was expressed as R=R* exp (-E/kT*) exp (E/kT) The pre-exponential factor R*, was hardly influenced by the humidity and decreased when the acidic protons were replaced with monovalent alkali cations. The activation energy of conduction was strongly affected by the degree of orientation and particle size of crystal with layered structure in a whole humidity region and increased by replacing the protons by alkali cations. © 1988 Chapman and Hall Ltd.
Humidity sensor composed of a microporous film of polyethylene-graft-poly-(2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonate), Y. Sakai, V. L. Rao, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Polymer Bulletin, 19, 318, 1988/03, 01700839, 10.1007/BF00255390, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=34250097054∨igin=inward
Effects of sorbed water on the dielectric constant of some cellulose thin films, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, K. Takahashi, Journal of Materials Science Letters, 7, 2, 121, 124, 1988/02, 0261-8028, 10.1007/BF01730591, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0023962122∨igin=inward
Humidity sensor composed of a microporous film of polyethylene-graft-poly-(2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonate), Y. Sakai, V. L. Rao, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Polymer Bulletin, 18, 501, 506, 1987/12, 01700839, 10.1007/BF00255333, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0023592580∨igin=inward, Inside a microporous polyethylene film, 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid was graft polymerized by ultraviolet irradiation. A humidity sensor was fabricated by depositing gold electrodes on both sides of the grafted film. The impedance was measured as a function of humidity for the acid and alkali salts of sulfonate. The sensor has long term stability and is resistant to water. © 1987 Springer-Verlag.
Humidity sensors using KH2PO4-doped porous (Pb, La)(Zr, Ti)O3, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, H. Aono, S. Nakayama, H. Kuroshima, Journal of Materials Science, 22, 10, 3685, 3692, 1987/10, 0022-2461, 10.1007/BF01161478, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0023437224∨igin=inward, Humidity sensing devices were prepared by using fine porous (Pb, La)(Zr, Ti)O3 (PLZT) particles with ferroelectricity instead of insulating metal oxides such as alumina and zircon. The impedance of PLZT with 1 wt %. KH2PO4 was 106 Ω and lower than that of zircon with 3.8 wt % KH2PO4 by a factor of 102 in a dry atmosphere. In addition, the impedance in a humid atmosphere was controlled by the adding of potassium dihydrogen phosphate and changed by about four orders of magnitude in the humidity region 0 to 90% relative humidity at 1 kHz for samples burnt at 700° C. The humidity dependence of impedance is mainly governed by the change of coverage of adsorbed water. The hydrophilicity is affected by the burning temperature and lanthanum content of PLZT used as starting particle for porous PLZT ceramics burnt with KH2PO4. From complex impedance analysis it is confirmed that the resistive component inserted in parallel with the capacitive component decreases steeply with an increase in humidity, while the capacitive component is poorly dependent on the humidity. © 1987 Chapman and Hall Ltd.
Electrical properties of zirconium bis(monohydrogen phosphate) monohydrate and its related compounds in a humid atmosphere, Y. Sadaoka, M. Matsuguchi, Y. Sakai, S. Mitsui, Journal of Materials Science, 22, 2975, 2982, 1987/08, 00222461, 10.1007/BF01086500, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0023399685∨igin=inward, Humidity-impedance characteristics were examined for amorphous and crystalline zirconium phosphate. The impedance of crystalline zirconium phosphate is lowered with decreasing particle size. While the impedance of amorphous zirconium phosphate increases steeply with an increase in the burning temperature, the impedance is poorly dependent on burning temperature for crystalline zirconium phosphate in a humid atmosphere. Fine-grained crystalline zirconium phosphate is a suitable material for use as a humidity sensing device because of its humidity sensitivity and response to humidity changes. The existence of amorphous phases is responsible for the increase in response time. © 1987 Chapman and Hall Ltd.
A Capacitive-type Relative Humidity Sensor Having a Double Layer Structure Consiting of a Photocrosslinked PVCA and a PMMA Film(jointly worked), Electrochemistry, 67, 2, 170, 174, 1999
Stability and reliability of capacitive-type relative humidity sensors using crosslinked polyimide films(jointly worked), Sensors and Actuators B, 52, 53, 57, 1998
Characterization of polymers for a capacitive-type humidity sensor based on water sorption behavior(jointly worked), Sensors and Actuators B, 49, 3, 179, 185, 1998
Sorption of CO2 in the photocrosslinked PVCA film(jointly worked), Masanobu Matsuguchi, Jun-Ichi Miura, Yoshiro Sakai, Chemistry Letters, 3, 229, 230, 1998, 0366-7022|1348-0715, 10.1246/cl.1998.229
Solvatochromic study of water sorption in polymer films(jointly worked), Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 63, 12, 1681, 1691, 1997, 0021-8995, 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4628(19970321)63:12<1681::AID-APP18>3.0.CO;2-2
Humidity sensors based on polymer thin films(jointly worked), Sensors and Actuators B, 35, 1/3, 85, 90, 1996, 0925-4005, 10.1016/S0925-4005(96)02019-9
Effect of the Film Thickness on the Humidity Sensing Characteristics of Cross-linked PVCA Film(jointly worked), DENKI KAGAKU, 64, 10, 1107, 1112, 1996
Effect of the degree of cross-linking on the characteristics of a PVCA capacitive-type humidity sensor(jointly worked), Sensors and Actuators B, 34, 1/3, 349, 355, 1996, 0925-4005, 10.1016/S0925-4005(96)01826-6
Carbon Dioxide Sensor Using N, N-Dimethylaminoethyl Methacrylate and Methyl Methacrylate Copolymer(jointly worked), Sensors and Materials, 8, 2, 069-078, 1996
Competitive Adsorption of Water and CO2 on Acetylene-Terminated Polymide Resins for a Humidity Sensor(jointly worked), DENKI KAGAKU, 63, 9, 841, 846, 1995
Preparation of Vitreous Sodium Aluminosilicate and Its Application as a Solid-State Electrochemical CO2 Gas Sensor(jointly worked), Denki Kagaku, 63, 4, 325, 328, 1995
Capacitive-Type Humidity Sensors Using Polymerized Vinyl Caboxylate(jointly worked), Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 141, 3, 614, 618, 1994, 0013-4651, 10.1149/1.2054779
Effects of the Cross-Linking Structure on the Water Sorption Ability of Poly (vinyl carboxylate)(jointly worked), Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 67, 1, 46, 51, 1994, 0009-2673|1348-0634, 10.1246/bcsj.67.46
A Humidity Sensor Composed of Interpenetrating-polymer Networks of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Methacrylate Polymers(jointly worked), Journal of Electrochemical Society, 140, 2, 432, 436, 1993, 0013-4651, 10.1149/1.2221063
Effect of Heat Pretreatment on Electrical Conductance Changes by NO2 Adsorption of Lead Phthalocyanine Thin Film(jointly worked), Journal of Materials Science, 27, 19, 5215, 5220, 1992, 0022-2461, 10.1007/BF02403819
Optical Humidity Sensor Using Reichardt's Betain Dye-Plymer Composites(jointly worked), CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 1, 53, 56, 1992, 0366-7022|1348-0715, 10.1246/cl.1992.53
Water Resistive Humidity Sensors(jointly worked), Polymer Applications, 40, 3, 30, 36, 1991
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SD High School Football Week 6 Preview
Lolita's High School Football Hour with John Kentera
Braden Surprenant
We are now at about the halfway point of the season and playoff races are in full force! Last week Helix defeated St. Augustine and got themselves back into the Open division playoff conversation. Mission Hills, who everyone thought played themselves out of competition this year, has resurrected like to almost biblical proportions and are also right on the cusp of being a dark horse in the Avocado League.
Before we get into this week’s games, here is how the San Diego Union-Tribune poll looked like entering the week:
Rank Team Record Opponent This Week
1. Torrey Pines 5-0 idle
2. La Costa Canyon 5-0 idle
3. Cathedral Catholic 3-1 vs Olympian (1-3)
4. Helix 2-3 idle
5. Eastlake 3-0 @ El Camino (1-3)
6. Madison 4-1 idle
7. St. Augustine 4-1 idle
8. Lincoln 5-0 idle
9. San Marcos 3-1 @ Mt. Carmel (0-5)
10. Mission Hills 2-3 idle
These rankings are fun and I enjoy voting in the poll each and every week, but they do not matter. All the power rankings that multiple media entities and other people come up with, do not matter. The rankings that do matter are the calpreps.com rankings, as they are the ones that determine the playoffs for the CIF San Diego Section. These rankings are determined by computers that evaluate multiple factors including margin of victory as well as strength of schedule. Essentially, if your team defeats a team that has a higher rating than you, your score goes up. Beating a team with a lower rating might lower your rating if you do not win by a large enough margin. That can play a huge effect for some team’s league schedules down the road.
For an inside look at the playoff picture for each division CLICK HERE.
Since most of the Top 10 is on a bye this week we are going to feature five games outside of the top 10. Last week we went (8-4) in game picks, which gives us (45-16) record on the season. Rankings are according to calpreps.com.
Game of the Week: #11 Steele Canyon Cougars (3-1) @ #26 Mira Mesa Marauders (4-0) 7 pm
Series: 2017 only meeting, Steele Canyon Won 52-26
If you love offense and fireworks, this is the game for you! Mira Mesa is off to a great 4-0 start under new head coach Chris Thompson and seems to be firing on all cylinders offensively. Led by their senior quarterback, Noah Tumblin, the Marauders are averaging 37 points per game. Tumblin leads that charge as he is 23/33 with 552 yards and 7 touchdowns through the air. Tumblin can also get it done with his legs as he has rushed for 169 yards on 36 carries for an additional 4 touchdowns. Defensively, Mira Mesa is led by their senior all-around athlete, Marcus Dean who leads the team in tackles with 16 and interceptions with 2.
Dean is going to be busy on Friday night as the Marauder defense is going to have to slow down Steele Canyon wide receiver, Chance Johnson who is just now starting to turn it on. Johnson leads the Cougars with 9 receptions for 128 yards and 1 touchdown. The other weapon Mira Mesa is going to have to look out for is senior quarterback Nathan Barnett. Barnett is 23/44 with 320 yards and 1 touchdown through the air. Like Tumblin, Barnett also uses his legs to create offense for the Cougars. He has rushed for 325 yards on 62 carries and has scored 8 touchdowns on the ground.
The Cougars and Marauders will be running up and down Mira Mesa Blvd on Friday night. In what will be a tough game for Mira Mesa, I am going to give them the home field edge in this one.
Mira Mesa 42-38 over Steele Canyon.
#13 Christian Patriots (4-0) @ #29 Santa Fe Christian Eagles (3-1) 3:30pm
Series: Christian (15-11-1) All-Time. LM: 2017 Santa Fe Christian Won 30-7
These two teams have played each other twenty-seven times since 1978 and have been fairly back and forth, with a slight edge to Christian. I think 2018 will be much of the same. Fairly even game with a slight edge to Christian. That slight edge I keep using is going to be Christian quarterback Owen Easley who is off to a great start to his senior season. Easley is 60 for 95 with 793 yards passing and 6 touchdowns and has only thrown one interception this season.
Santa Fe Christian however, has a pretty good defensive player at the linebacker position. His name is Cade Ellis and he leads the Eagles with 22 tackles, including a tackle for loss and has even blocked a punt earlier this season. Offensively, Santa Fe Christian is going to have to feed their running back Jack Miles and get him going if they want to be successful. Christian has already slowed down a D1 prospect running back earlier this season, so we will see if Miles can power his way to the end zone this week in a Friday afternoon contest.
Christian with the slight edge 24-17.
#28 Poway Titans (3-2) @ #24 Grossmont Foothillers (1-3) 7pm
Series: Grossmont (2-0) All-Time LM: 2015 Grossmont Won 20-13
This game is the most intriguing game of the week. Poway comes in (3-2) and has shutouts in each of their three wins, and are allowing only 7.4 points per game on the year, but their strength of schedule is mediocre at best. Grossmont, on the other hand, comes in at (1-3) but have a strength of schedule of 28.1 which is one of the higher SOS in the county.
It is going to be a matchup of Poway’s shutout defense and Grossmont’s underperforming offense. Grossmont enters the game averaging only 13 points per game, and have allowed opponents to score an average of 34.5 points per game.
We will see how much the strength of schedule plays into this one. I think it will.
Grossmont 28-24 over Poway.
#68 Orange Glenn Patriots (3-1) @ #77 Army-Navy (2-2)
Series: Orange Glenn (3-0) All-Time. LM: 1966 Orange Glenn Won 49-0
As you can tell by the last time these two schools have played each other, they have been around for a long time. Speaking of a long time, it has been a long time since Orange Glenn has been one of the top programs in the county, but things seem to be looking up for the Patriots in 2018.
The Patriots have two players that are lighting up the scoreboard every Friday night, Ethan Villalobos and Cael Patterson. From the air, Villalobos is 27/50 with 355 yards passing and has four touchdowns. On the ground, Patterson has put up 628 yards on 74 carries and has made it to the promised land 10 times already this season.
Army-Navy also has a great ground attack led by Senior running back Hadi Assi. Assi has 727 yards on 92 carries and 6 touchdowns.
Look for one candle burning in the church steeple tonight as this game will be a ground attack game and a quick one at that.
Patriots head the Paul Revere’s oneth by land warning and pull out the win 56-21.
Tony Burner Memorial Cup:
#43 El Capitan Vaqueros (1-3) @ #31 West Hills Wolfpack 7pm
Series: West Hills (15-11) LM: 2017 West Hills Won 10-3
These two teams in the East County have played each other twenty-six times since 1989, but this year will be different. This season the two teams have decided to have the game be called the Tony Burner Memorial Cup to honor Tony Burners tragic passing. Tony Burner played for the Wolfpack and his dad, Ron Burner Sr. has been the head football coach at El Capitan for sixteen years. Rob at Al’s Sports on Mission Gorge Road created the trophy below:
Our Trophy donated by Rob at Als Sport for the Tony Burner Memorial Cup vs West Hills. He knocked this out of the park. I’m humbled by this pic.twitter.com/IixDXS4Avz
— El Capitan Football (@ElCapFtball) September 18, 2018
For more on the meaning of this game John Kentera will joined by Ron Burner Sr. on the High School Football hour, Thursday night at 9:45pm on 97.3 the fan.
As far as the game is concerned there are two athletes that will be on display. For El Capitan, it is the senior wide receiver, Yaphet Yokley. Yokley is an explosive wideout that can also do damage as a ball carrier. He leads the team with 14 receptions, 227 yards, and 3 touchdowns receiving. Rushing he has 130 yards on 11 carries and a touchdown. He has also returned a kick 95 yards for a touchdown for the Vaqueros.
West Hills can pack a punch with their quarterback, Jordin Young. Young is 17 for 31 with 3 touchdowns and has thrown for 237 yards. Like most quarterbacks we have highlighted in this article, Young can make things happen with his legs. Young has 5 touchdowns on the ground on 37 carries and has rushed for 414 yards.
The game will be played with heavy hearts, but once the opening kickoff starts it will be a great game.
El Capitan 17-14 over West Hills.
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Review of Aus-SL Tests-2019 (2)
February 8, 2019 February 8, 2019 abn397 AC Gilchrist, Australian cricket, C Vaas, Cricket, Cricket statistics, IA Healy, KC Sangakkara, M Jayawardene, MA Starc, MDK Perera, ML Hayden, MS Kasprowicz, PJ Cummins, R Herath, SK Warne, Sri Lankan cricket, Test Cricket "Test Cricket", AC Gilchrist, Australian cricket, C Vaas, Cricket, Cricket statistics, IA Healy, KC Sangakkara, M Jayawardene, MA Starc, MDK Perera, ML Hayden, MS Kasprowicz, PJ Cummins, R Herath, SK Warne, Sri Lankan cricket
Hope that you have seen Part 1.
We now move on to Bowling:
Most wickets (15 and above):
Note Herath’s late surge after Muralitharan retired. Starc heads the current players.
The most 5wis are 6 by Herath and Starc. The most 10wms are 2 by Warne and Starc.
Best innings bowling (6wi and above):
Cummins has the best figures among current players.
Best match bowling (9wm and above):
In this series, Cummins (10-62 at Brisbane) and Starc (10-100 at Canberra) surpassed the previous mark for Australia vs Sri Lanka at home. It was earlier held by Siddle (9-104 at Hobart in 2012).
Best bowling averages (Minimum 2000 balls, all instances):
Herath and Warne have the best bowling averages.
Vaas and Warne have the best economy rates.
Herath and Warne have the best strike rates.
Most dismissals (12 and above):
Gilchrist and Healy have the most catches by a keeper (32) and Gilchrist also has the most stumpings (5). The most catches by a non-keeper are 20 by M Jayawardene. Only Kusal Mendis represents current players here with 12 dismissals.
Most innings dismissals (4 and above):
This time Hayden has the most catches by a fielder with 4.
Most match dismissals (6 and above):
Healy and Gilchrist yet again, while Hayden’s 7 catches as a non-keeper were a share in the world record at that time.
Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings, 0.5):
Sangakkara has the highest dismissal rate, while M Jayawardene has the highest by a non-keeper.
All-round overall performance (see criteria):
Only Vaas meets these criteria.
All-round match performance (50 and 5wi in match):
Only two such performances.
Review of SA-Aus Test series, 2017-18 (II)
April 7, 2018 August 10, 2018 abn397 AB de Villiers, Australia-South Africa cricket, Australian cricket, Cricket statistics, Cricket victories, CV Grimmett, DW Steyn, Heaviest defeats by runs, HJ Tayfield, M Morkel, MG Johnson, MV Boucher, Q de Kock, SK Warne, South Africa cricket, Test Cricket, VD Philander, VY Richardson, WJ Whitty "Test Cricket", AB de Villiers, Australian cricket, Cricket, Cricket statistics, CV Grimmett, DW Steyn, Heaviest defeats by runs, HJ Tayfield, M Morkel, MG Johnson, Q de Kock, South African cricket, TL Goddard, VD Philander, VY Richardson, WJ Whitty
Continued from Part 1.
Another new record in this series was the margin of victory in the 4th Test:
Highest margins of victory in all Tests:
South Africa recorded its highest margin of victory by runs, surpassing the 358-run win against New Zealand in 2007-08. Australia still holds the record for the heaviest defeat by 675 runs in 1928-29. That marked the debut of DG Bradman (18 and 1) who was made 12th man for the next Test (but ended up fielding most of the time) and then made 79 and 112 in the third Test.
South Africa’s heaviest defeat of Australia until now was by 309 runs in 2012-13.
Now we return to individual records-bowling:
Steyn and Johnson have the highest among contemporary players, while Morkel retired a little behind them. It is possible that Steyn will not play in Tests against Australia again, so it remains to be seen if Philander can catch up.
Innings bowling (including all instances of 7wi and better):
A lot of entries by Grimmett, though Philander’s 6-21 in the final Test just gets in.
Match bowling (including all instances of 10wm and better):
Rabada’s 11-150 is the best for SA v Aus at home, surpassing the century-old 10-116 by CB Llewellyn in 1902-03. SA’s best against Aus remains Tayfield’s 13-165 at Melbourne in 1952-53.
Philander, MG Johnson, Steyn, Morkel and Lyon all find their place here.
The best average is by Grimmett followed by the lesser-known WJ Whitty.
The best economy rate is that of TL Goddard (1.72) followed by Grimmett.
The best strike rate is that of WJ Whitty (41.1) followed by Steyn.
Now for fielding records:
AB de Villiers is in second place with a combination of keeping and fielding dismissals. He might have a chance of displacing Boucher. de Kock is still working his way up. Ponting has the most catches by a fielder (35), just ahead of de Villiers (34, plus 16 as keeper). Kallis and GC Smith (33) are just behind.
While Grout and Lindsay have made 6 dismissals each, 3 others are among several who share the world record of 5 catches by a non-fielder. VY Richardson, maternal grandfather of the Chappells, was the first to do this in any Test back in 1935-36. The next to do this was Indian debutant Yajurvindra Singh in 1976-77. SPD Smith achieved this in what will be his last Test for some time.
de Kock equalled the record of 8 dismissals in this series, while Paine took 7. No fielder has taken more than 6 catches in a match.
Best dismissal rate (minimum 20 innings, minimum 0.650):
Haddin has the best average among contemporary players. Simpson and MA Taylor have the best averages among non-fielders, though the “hybrid” ABD has a higher average.
All-round overall performances (see criteria below):
Johnson, Goddard and Benaud lead Philander and others. Although Tayfield was not a recognized batsman, he did well enough to qualify for this list. Oddly enough Shaun Pollock and Kallis did not do too well against Australia.
All-round match performances (fifty-plus and 5wi-plus):
A number of good performances with PJ Cummins standing amidst the ruins of Australia’s collapse in the last Test. There are instances of 100/5wi by Kelleway (in one of the neutral Tests) and Benaud. And Steyn achieved the less common feat of 50/10wm, making his highest Test score.
Test captaincy and non-captaincy records
March 4, 2018 April 21, 2018 abn397 Captains and non-captains, Cricket, Cricket captain, Cricket statistics, English cricket, GC Smith, LK Germon, PW Sherwell, SK Warne, SR Tendulkar "Test Cricket", Cricket, GC Smith, LK Germon, PW Sherwell, SK Warne, SR Tendulkar, Vizzy
It is easy enough to get the full figures of Test captains from Statsguru:
Those who captained for 35 or more Tests:
And it is easy enough to find those who were non-captains in the most Tests:
Those who played 100 or more Tests as non-captains:
While Tendulkar, Kallis and Chanderpaul did captain their team in some Tests, there are others (starting with Warne) who never captained at all. We now take a closer look at this category:
Those who played 80 or more Tests without ever captaining their teams:
SK Warne leads here with 144, with JM Anderson and VVS Laxman as runners-up. The highest for other Test teams are:
Sri Lanka-132 (M Muralitharan)
South Africa-101 (M Ntini)
West Indies-98 (CEL Ambrose)
New Zealand-86 (Sir RJ Hadlee)
Pakistan-76 (Mudassar Nazar)
Zimbabwe-67 (GW Flower)
Bangladesh-40 (Javed Omar)
In a few cases (e.g. Warne) they led their country in a few ODIs. Sometimes even that consolation was not there.
At the other end of the spectrum, there are a small number who captained their team in all their Tests. There are various reasons for this-mainly because only amateurs were considered suitable to lead England until Hutton in the 1950s. In the West Indies, the captaincy was restricted to those of European ancestry for the first few decades.
In some cases (notably SA) most players were inexperienced in the early years and there was a rapid turnover of players as well as captains. And there were strange cases like the Maharajdhirajkumar of Vizianagram which Indian cricket fans would know about.
So here is the full list of 24 players who captained their side in all their Tests:
The leader here is the long-forgotten South African Percy Sherwell of the early 20th century:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/47186.html
Interestingly, he was a wicket keeper-one of the few who played more than a handful of Tests as captain until Dhoni came along.
The only instance of “pure captains” in recent years was LK Germon of NZ in the mid-90s. He was also a wicket keeper. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37101.html
We also see James Lillywhite jnr of England who captained his side in the first 2 Tests ever played and never played another, CA Smith who played one Test but carved out a career in Hollywood and N Betancourt who seems to be here because at that time (in the West Indies) the captain had to be from the territory where the Test was played.
Tail piece: LK Germon does possess an odd record-he has scored the most runs on debut without scoring a fifty:
Review of Australia-England Tests-1
January 12, 2018 January 12, 2018 abn397 AN Cook, Australian cricket, Cricket, Cricket in 2017, Cricket statistics, DA Warner, DG Bradman, English cricket, George Lohmann, JC Laker, JJ Ferris, JM Anderson, L Hutton, SK Warne, SPD Smith, Stuart Broad, Test Cricket, The Ashes "Test Cricket", AN Cook, Australian cricket, Cricket, Cricket statistics, DA Warner, DG Bradman, English cricket, GA Lohmann, JC Laker, JJ Ferris, JM Anderson, L Hutton, RAL Massie, SCJ Broad, SK Warne, SPD Smith, The Ashes
You might wonder why the title does not refer to Ashes Tests. That is because all Tests between the teams have not had the Ashes at stake, such as the 3-Test series in 1979-80 and a few one-off Tests in the 1970s and 80s.
The results of all these Tests are summarized here:
Australia leads by a healthy 144-108 margin, besides 95-57 at home. At home, England have a slender 51-49 lead which may vanish with one bad series.
Looking at the individual performances, starting with batting:
Most runs (2000 and above):
Only Cook and Smith among current players, with Clarke and Pietersen from the recent past. Bradman’s total is still the record, with no one else crossing 3700.
Highest innings (200 and over):
From the recent series we have Cook (244*) and Smith (239). Smith also has 215 from 2015. Cook’s 244* was significant as the highest score in any Test by an opener carrying his bat through the innings. The previous record in all Tests was 223* by GM Turner for NZ v WI in 1972. In matches between Aus and Eng, the previous record was 206* by WA Brown in 1938, which is listed above. The record for England was 156* by Hutton in 1951.
Highest batting averages (Minimum 20 innings, 45.00):
Bradman again heads this list. Among current players Smith is the highest, though in 9th position overall. Warner is also there. There is no one else from the recent past, as Cook’s 40.20 is below the cutoff of 45.
Now for bowling:
Warne leads here, while the current players are Anderson (104) and Broad (95). From the recent past there is MG Johnson (87).
Best innings bowling (including all 8wi and above):
Laker has the top two spots. No example from the current series, although Broad’s 8-15 is in 4th place overall.
Best match bowling (including all instances of 12wm and above):
Headed by Laker and followed by Massie’s freak debut. Nothing from current or recent players, except Warne’s 12-246 in 2005.
Best bowling averages (minimum 2000 balls, below 25.00):
Dominated by the 19th-century players. Of those who played in 2000 or later, the best is by RJ Harris (20.63) and McGrath (20.92). Next are Warne and MacGill towards the bottom.
We see that the top two in this table are Lohmann and Ferris from long ago. For economy rate, the best are Attewell (1.31) and Ironmonger (1.74) who do not appear above because of their higher average. For strike rate, it is Ferris (42.2) and Lohmann (42.2).
Those who missed the bus at Lord’s (Revised in Aug 2018)
October 28, 2016 March 6, 2019 abn397 CEL Ambrose, century, Cricket, Cricket grounds, English cricket, five-for, Lord's cricket ground, Lord's honours boards, MA Atherton, MJ Hoggard, RT Ponting, SK Warne, SM Gavaskar, SR Tendulkar, statistics, ten-for, Test Cricket "Test Cricket", Ambrose, Atherton, century, Cricket, English cricket, five-for, Gavaskar, Hoggard, JM Anderson, Lara, Lord's, Lord's honours boards, Ponting, statistics, ten-for, Tendulkar, Warne
The honors board at Lord’s are well known-anyone who scores a century or takes a fiver or a tenner gets his name on them, even if it is a neutral Test not involving England. If you need to brush up, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_honours_boards
and for Indian players featured there, full details are here:
https://abn397.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/indian-cricketers-on-the-lords-honours-boards/
However, note this extract from the Wikipedia article:
“A number of very distinguished players such as Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Curtly Ambrose and Brian Lara are not named on the honours boards.”
It may be recalled that there was much heartbreak when Sachin failed to score a century in 2011, which was generally understood then to be his last Test there.
We now look at the aspect of prominent players failing to reach a board-worthy performance at Lord’s despite several opportunities. And there are some visitors who simply did not get to play enough at Lord’s.
Many English players whose career lasted about 5 years would have played 10+ Tests at Lord’s. Visiting players with long careers usually manage 4 Tests, unless they miss one Test or series. So we begin by identifying those who batted in at least 8 innings there. A further stipulation is that their batting position is 1 to 8, to eliminate tailenders without much batting ability.
So we have this for Most matches at Lord’s without a century:
Atherton, Thorpe and Gatting played the most innings there without a century-particularly odd as Gatting played for Middlesex. Atherton did score 99 there and has the most fifties (7).
Visitors are led by Gavaskar and Tendulkar, followed by Azhar Ali, Faulkner, AW Nourse and Ponting. Lara played in only 3 Tests and 6 innings. The highest averages here are by Dexter (51.62) and FS Jackson (47.71).
While most of the batsmen here scored at least one fifty, some did not. They include Ramprakash (HS 40 in 13 innings), bowling all-rounder Emburey, Brearley, wicketkeeper Downton, Tendulkar, Faulkner and Ponting. The lowest average here is 10.38 by Ramprakash who was a specialist batsman, unlike some of the others. Then comes all-rounder Pringle (16.11) and another famous batsman Ponting (16.87). Tendulkar at least got into the 20s.
Apart from Atherton’s 99, there are 90s by TE Bailey, JM Parks and FS Jackson.
Next, we take up bowlers who bowled at least 1000 balls (while bowling at no 1 to 5) and never took a five-for:
Hoggard has the most Tests (11) and innings (20) here with a best of 4-27. However Edmonds has the best bowling figures of 4-6, while Hoggard has the most wickets (37). Lillee (17 wkts), Kumble and Gibbs are the only visitors here.
Ambrose and Warne did not bowl enough balls here.
The best bowling average here is Laker’s 24.43, followed by Wardle’s 26.78.
And one gets similar results if we look for those who made the same effort and never took a ten-for:
Here, Anderson has the most wickets (103) with a best of 9-43. He may, of course, play a few more Tests at Lord’s. He also has the most 5-fors (6). Oddly enough Anderson has almost twice the wickets of the next bowler Willis with 47. The best bowling average is by Willis with 18.76 followed by Illingworth with 19.85.
Sir Richard Hadlee has the most wickets by a visitor (26).
Kings of the fourth-innings chase (Revised-Jan 17, 2018)
July 8, 2015 January 17, 2018 abn397 analysis, best average, Cricket, Cricket statistics, fourth innings, Fourth innings performances, GC Smith, GD McGrath, M Jayawardene, M Muralitharan, R Ashwin, R Herath, run chase, SK Warne, statistics, Test Cricket "R. Ashwin", "Test Cricket", 4th innings, Adam Gilchrist, batting, best average, bowling, Cricket, Cricket statistics, fielding, GD Mc Grath, Graeme Smith, M Muralitharan, Mahela Jayawardene, Performances in 4th innings, R Herath, RT Ponting, run chase, SK Warne
This was originally written in July 2015. For some reason it started getting some views again during the 2nd Test between South Africa and India in January 2018. So I thought of revising it.
We also see which bowlers have been most successful under these conditions. Here we consider all Tests ending up to January 17, 2018. The batsmen are arranged by order of averages. GC Smith is the only one to have over 1000 runs in successful chases.
A cutoff of 15 innings is considered:
GC Smith also has the most centuries (4) and 50+ scores (10).
It is also interesting to see which bowlers have been most successful in terminating 4th-innings run chases.
Here we take a minimum of 1500 balls bowled:
While Warne is the only one with over 100 wickets taken in Tests where a side is bowled out in the 4th innings, Ashwin and McGrath have the best averages. Herath (85) and McGrath (83) are next to Warne.
The best economy rate is (unexpectedly) by RA Jadeja followed by Ray Illingworth. And the best strike rate is by Waqar Younis followed by Ashwin.
Herath (10), Muralitharan (7) and Ashwin (6) have the most fivers. Ashwin and Jadeja can be called the twin destroyers in the 4th innings at present.
While we are at it, let us see about
Fielding under these conditions (again with a minimum of 15 innings fielded) and minimum 0.500 dismissals/innings:
Gilchrist has the most dismissals with 52, while he and Haddin have the most catches (47). Gilchrist also has the most stumpings with 5. M. Jayawardene has the most catches (27) by a non-keeper followed by Ponting with 26. When we look at dismissals per innings, Haddin (2.173) has the highest followed by Gilchrist, Healy and Boucher. Among non-keepers, M. Jayawardene (1.285) is followed by Redpath.
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Research ArticleCLIMATOLOGY
The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum
Shannon E. Loomis1,
James M. Russell1,2,*,
Dirk Verschuren3,
Carrie Morrill4,5,
Gijs De Cort3,6,
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté7,8,
Daniel Olago9,10,
Hilde Eggermont3,11,
F. Alayne Street-Perrott12 and
Meredith A. Kelly13
1Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
2Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
3Department of Biology, Limnology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
4Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80305–3328, USA.
5National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305–3328 USA.
6Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium.
7Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands.
8Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508 TA Utrecht, Netherlands.
9Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 30197-00100, Nairobi, Kenya.
10Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
11Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
12College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA32 7QD, UK
13Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03750, USA.
↵*Corresponding author. Email: james_russell{at}brown.edu
Science Advances 27 Jan 2017:
Shannon E. Loomis
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
James M. Russell
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, USA.Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
ORCID record for James M. Russell
For correspondence: james_russell@brown.edu
Dirk Verschuren
Department of Biology, Limnology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Carrie Morrill
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80305–3328, USA.National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305–3328 USA.
ORCID record for Carrie Morrill
Gijs De Cort
Department of Biology, Limnology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium.
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands.Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508 TA Utrecht, Netherlands.
ORCID record for Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Daniel Olago
Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 30197-00100, Nairobi, Kenya.Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
ORCID record for Daniel Olago
Hilde Eggermont
Department of Biology, Limnology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
F. Alayne Street-Perrott
College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA32 7QD, UK
ORCID record for F. Alayne Street-Perrott
Meredith A. Kelly
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03750, USA.
ORCID record for Meredith A. Kelly
The gradient of air temperature with elevation (the temperature lapse rate) in the tropics is predicted to become less steep during the coming century as surface temperature rises, enhancing the threat of warming in high-mountain environments. However, the sensitivity of the lapse rate to climate change is uncertain because of poor constraints on high-elevation temperature during past climate states. We present a 25,000-year temperature reconstruction from Mount Kenya, East Africa, which demonstrates that cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum was amplified with elevation and hence that the lapse rate was significantly steeper than today. Comparison of our data with paleoclimate simulations indicates that state-of-the-art models underestimate this lapse-rate change. Consequently, future high-elevation tropical warming may be even greater than predicted.
Copyright © 2017, The Authors
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
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By Shannon E. Loomis, James M. Russell, Dirk Verschuren, Carrie Morrill, Gijs De Cort, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Daniel Olago, Hilde Eggermont, F. Alayne Street-Perrott, Meredith A. Kelly
Science Advances 27 Jan 2017 : e1600815
A new temperature record from East Africa demonstrates that the tropical lapse rate steepened during the last ice age.
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Thomas A. Edge Archives & Special Collections (Athabasca University)
Fondsatu-12 - Mufty Mathewson fonds
Fonds atu-12 - Mufty Mathewson fonds
Mufty Mathewson fonds
Source of title proper: Title based on contents of the fonds.
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1943-1981, predominant 1955-1956 (Creation)
Mathewson, Mufty
0.06 m of textual records. --- 16 photographs.
<p>Mufty Mathewson was born in Kingston, Ontario to Kenneth Hadley Tremain and Nora Patricia Tremain (nee Bermingham). She graduated Head Girl from King's Hall Compton, Compton, Quebec in 1950. In 1954 she graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec with a diploma in Physio and Occupational Therapy and in 1975 she graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta with a Bachelor of Physical Therapy. She married William Wallace Mathewson and together they have four children; Bruce, Wendy, Robert and William Mathewson. <p>Mufty began her career in 1954 as a physiotherapist at Montreal General Hospital in Montreal, Quebec and worked in this profession until 1979 when she changed careers and taught photography at the City Arts Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. Much of her volunteer work centered on photography, she published articles and was a member of several photographic arts committees. In 1986 Mufty worked as a physiotherapist at the Workers Compensation Board in Edmonton, Alberta, however she resigned from this position when her daughter suffered a brain injury in 1987. In 1997 her book Courage After Coma was published which talks about a family's recovery from a daughter's severe brain injury.</p>
The fonds consists of photographs taken of or by Mufty Mathewson on her trip through Europe. Textual records include letters written to and from her family, a yearbook and paperwork from her first job.
Mufty Mathewson deposited the records in the Thomas A. Edge Archives & Special Collections in 2011.
The material is in English.
There are no restrictions on access. Permission for use required. Subject to The Copyright Act.
File list and digitized material is available.
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Jan 30, 1989 -coal might get restricted?!
January 29, 2017 Coal miningAnn Henderson-Sellers, Bob Hawke, John Button, Russell Blongmarchudson
From the get-go Australian politicians knew that there may be trouble ahead. This below, from The Greenhouse Effect: Living in a Warmer Australia by Henderson-Sellers and Blong [review by New Scientist here] gives a taste of that (though to be clear, the authors, not Hawke and Button, are raising the possibility).
On the morning of Monday 30 January 1989, the ABC 7.45am news reported the Prime Minister, Mr Bob Hawke, had begun an overseas trip to Korea, Thailand, India and Pakistan, with the primary aim of promoting Australian exports, particularly coal, iron ore and agricultural products. Juxtaposed with this report was one describing Senator John Button’s encouragement of Japanese investment in Australian forests designed to safeguard our timber resources. The viability of these economic moves may also be subject to the greenhouse effect. Australian exports of fossil fuel, particularly coal, may be restricted by increasing international pressure to try to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide. (emphasis added)
(Henderson-Sellers, A. and Blong, R., 1989:3)
Turnbull, #climate and the National Press Club #auspol
January 29, 2017 Uncategorizedmarchudson
On February 1st Malcolm Turnbull will make a major speech on the Coalition’s climate and energy policy at the National Press Club.In his last public utterance on the topic, at the Sydney fish market in December last year, he spilt coffee , perhaps trying to douse the flames caused by Josh Frydenberg’s declaration that carbon pricing would be considered in this year’s policy review. Turnbull ruled that out, so who knows what he will say on Wednesday. One well-informed and immensely experienced observer reports that
“Turnbull will announce new vehicle emissions standards and a new energy efficiency scheme. He and his office are looking at “technological solutions” – bright new ideas in solar thermal, or battery or carbon storage technology that might fill the policy void. But all those technologies need government policies to provide investors with incentives and certainty, and without actually confronting the climate doubters no one can imagine what that policy might be.”
(Another similarly-credentialled observer says he is the weakest Prime Minister since Billy McMahon )Who knows, perhaps Turnbull will dust off the ‘Greenhouse Challenge‘ voluntary programme for industry that Prime Minister Paul Keating started and John Howard extended. We will know soon enough.
Meanwhile, the National Press Club has a long and interesting (if you’re a pathetic geek like me) history with climate change, and it tells us something about Australian journalistic responses to climate change.
Clubbing together
The Press Club began life as a press luncheon club, the result of some journalists having an (uncharacteristic for the profession) drinks in a Canberra watering hole. It seeks “to provide a genuine national forum for discussion of the issues of the day by the personalities who help shape them.” (A cynic might say that it is a way for journalists to have stories handed to them literally on a plate, with some nice plonk alongside.) The first speaker, on 17 May 1963, was Chief Justice and External Affairs Minister Sir Garfield Barwick. Soon after Barwick helped establish the Australian Conservation Foundation. The Press Club initially only held a few events a year, but it has grown steadily and there are now about 70 a year. Early environmental speakers included conservationist Harry Butler (October 3 1979) and in mid 1984 the German Greens Petra Kelly who you can hear here
The Club, naturally, reflects the concerns of the day, and politicians of the day fly kites and announce policies. The climate issue seems to have reached the Club in October 1988,when the Liberal Senator Chris Puplick, the Opposition’s Environment spokesperson launched the Opposition’s environmental policy and spoke on past Coalition. It seems bizarre now, but Puplick then went on to develop a policy on climate change that was more ambitious than Labor’s and took it to the 1990 Federal election.
Puplick and his Labor opponent Graham Richardson debated at the Press Club on March 7, 1990, just before the Federal election, and it was from the club that Bob Hawke made his final (and successful) appeal to green-minded voters, calling on disaffected voters not to vote green but, if they did so, to direct their second preferences to Labour. He warned. “When you wake up on 25 March there won’t be a Democrat government or a green independent government.”
In June 1989, the inaugural Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, Rosemary Follett, had appeared at the club and said that she was
“particularly concerned with environmental issues of national and international significance. The people of the ACT can be assured that the government intends to act locally in addressing issues such as the Greenhouse Effect and Protection of the Ozone Layer.”
Richardson had appeared shortly afterwards,after two cancellations for lack of journalist interest.. He talked tough (it’s how the man rolls) on the Federal government perhaps using its constitutional powers to override state decisions on environmental matters. He also confirmed a report by Michelle Grattan about a Cabinet meeting at which Treasurer Paul Keating had vetoed his proposal for a 20 per cent reduction in Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2005 (the so-called ‘Toronto Target’ ). He told the assembled hacks
“… When I put this target to our Cabinet, I came under close questioning by the economic ministers. I couldn’t sustain my argument with sufficient science.
“I haven’t yet learnt how to lose gracefully so I was angry. I delved into the department’s records so that I could write to my Cabinet colleagues and demand a reconsideration. The cupboard, however was bare, and the letter was never written.”
[Dunn, R. 1989. Cabinet reduces greenhouse target. Australian Financial Review, 26 July.]
Sir Ninian Stephen, by then Australia’s first Environment Ambassador, spoke wittily in late 1990 on the topic of “the environment: a passing storm or an issue for all seasons” (you can listen here – He argued that it didn’t matter what he said, only if he blundered in the Q and A.
The following year the Canadian entrepreneur behind the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, Maurice Strong, spoke. In November 1992, after Rio, Jeremy Leggett, a former geologist who had become Greenpeace International’s Atmosphere and Energy Campaign leader spoke (his book The Carbon War is a terrific read, btw).
Worth remembering
Amid all the advocates of action (Ian Lowe, Peter Garrett, David Suzuki, Bob Brown, Gro Harlam Brundtland, Nick Stern), perhaps the one we should most remember is President Kinza Cloduma of Nauru. In late 1997, when the Australian government’s diplomatic push for special treatment at the impending Kyoto Protocol meeting had silenced the South Pacific Forum’s attempt at a strong pro-action statement, Cloduma told the journalists
“I am not impressed when Mr. Howard openly scorns the critical nature of the situation in order to bow to the will of the fossil fuel industry.”
There have been peaks and troughs of concern since then, with scientists speaking in September 2000 “Greenhouse Science Forum: How Real is Climate Change? What does Science Tell Us?”, Ian Lowe spoke in 2005 on “ Is Nuclear Power Part of Australia’s Global Warming Solution?” (his answer was ‘nope’).
In the white-heat of the 2008-9 carbon pricing battles, Ross Garnaut seems to have had a camp-bed at the NPC, so often was he using it to launch various drafts of his climate reviews. The Greens’ Christine Milne argued on 17 June 2009 that “The Climate nightmare is upon us.” Bob Brown and Ziggy Switowski debated nuclear versus renewables in April of the following year [thanks to the reader who alerted me to this!]
Less emphatically, Penny Wong, Kevin Rudd, Greg Combet and Julia Gillard all used the NPC to launch various climate policy papers. In mid 2011, Gillard, under ferocious attack over her carbon proposal launched “The Government’s plan for a clean energy future”. She was asked by Mark Riley about journalist famously suggesting that journalists ‘don’t write crap – it can’t be that hard.’
Since then the club has seen – among others –
June 2013 350.org founder Bill McKibben on “Global warming: do the math”,
19 February 2013 Senator Christine Milne Leader of the Greens “Australian Democracy at the Crossroads: the mining industry and the quarry past versus the people and the innovative future”,
5 June 2013 Greg Combet on , The Clean Energy Future plan one year on: How carbon pricing is working
14 March 2014 Bernie Fraser Reflections on Australian Climate Change Policy‘
10 December 2014 Stephen Chu ‘Managing Energy, Economic Growth and Environment Risks‘
In May 2015, Christine Milne argued that Prime Minister Tony Abbott was ‘barking mad’ on climate change.
The run up to the 2016 election a debate between Greg Hunt, then Environment Minister and Mark Butler, the Labor Shadow.
Two way traffic
It hasn’t been one-way traffic. An early example of a sceptical perspective came in mid 1992 when Prof Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology spoke. (He had been brought out by the CSIRO atmospheric science division, which was then headed by G.B Tucker. Tucker had been aware of the issue in the mid-70s, and written an early monograph – The CO2-climate connection : a global problem from an Australian perspective– in 1981, but in retirement wrote pieces for the Institute for Public Affairs with titles like ‘The Greenhouse Panic’. But I digress)
Three years later the Club heard from Dr Patrick Moore who was billed as a “ Canadian Environmentalist and one of the founders of Greenpeace”.The first term can be debated. The second cannot.
Climate change exploded as a public policy issue in Australia in late 2006. It’s ironic to remember now, but when John Howard’s hand-picked emissions taskforce suggested that a low tax on carbon emissions — less than $5 per tonne – might give Australia a start in preparing for an eventual global emissions trading system , the Minerals Council of Australia chief executive Mitchell Hooke argued at the press club that while Australia should not embark on unilateral action, there was scope for “unilateral leadership”. He said
“I don’t want a blunt economic instrument of a carbon tax [but] I would see that kind of low order price as being part of a cap and trade framework.”
Hooke hardened his line, of course, as time went on. At the peak of the 2011 carbon pricing battles, in June, the Australian Coal Association’s Ralph Hillman spoke on “The mining industry’s position on the carbon tax.”
The same month, Lord Monckton and the Australia Institute’s Richard Denniss squared off in a debate. Two weeks later former President Vaclav Klaus President of the Czech Republic spoke on “Climate Change: A new ideology”
Bjorn Lomborg followed up his October 2003 visit with another ten years later in December 2013. Now that he won’t be having his ‘consensus centre’ , the trend suggests it might be another 6 years before he appears again.
Journalism and climate change
The Press Club’s willingness to host those who deny basic scientific facts is indicative of a broader difficulty that journalism has had with this issue. Academic studies of the journalism profession’s dilemma over climate change. One influential paper argues that “balance is bias”, given the overwhelming scientific argument (and dare we say ‘consensus’) on anthropogenic climate change. The authors argue that
“the prestige press’s adherence to balance actually leads to biased coverage of both anthropogenic contributions to global warming and resultant action.”
John Oliver put it more visually with this stunt on ‘Last Week Tonight’
Australia’s experience has been extensively studied – see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. For starters.
All this is part of a battle for hearts and minds – what counts as ‘common sense’ and shapes or sustains the institutions – “stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior” – underpinning society.
Recently scientists have been admitting that studying climate change exacts an emotional toll. Journalists are following suit.
Malcolm Turnbull first addressed the club on March 18 1992, wearing his Australian Republican Movement hat. He might need better head-wear this time round. When Kevin Rudd launched the White Paper of his ill-fated and unloved Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme three protesters were dragged out The numbers of protesters there to greet him on February 1st will probably fall closer to that than the 1500 who turned up to say g’day to Pauline Hanson in 1997.
But on the day, and indeed all through the year, Turnbull will – like other endangered Australian fauna – be feeling the heat.
[cross-posted from here. Thanks to @AndyMechanarchy for alerting me to the Zwitowski/Brown debate]
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Rainbow Arts
£9.99 cass
£14.99 disk
Remember the theme to "The Fall Guy"? "I've been on fire with Sally Fields, I've made love to a girl named Bo, yes I've had Farrah in the sack, I've been in love with Kim Basinger. Oh I'm the unknown stuntman, la de da da da"? What a great life eh? All the danger, excitement yes, women yes (or no depending on sex and/or sexuality) but danger? What sort of person thrives on danger?
The Danger Freaks, an elite band of stuntmen and women that's who. The idea behind this game is to carry out all the stunts in a certain movie without killing yourself and without going over budget. Flash tricks and breakages of any equipment are expensive. Smashing into anything or falling off or over things is damaging.
You are given three attempts to complete each of the stunts, which are composed of three sections. The "racing forward very fast" section, the "run to the getaway vehicle" section and the "clamber aboard the helicopter" section.
The racing forward bit consists of you moving at top speed, weaving in and out of obstacles such as violent policemen, holes, and rampant sharks. Certain obstacles take different approaches to get around. Barricades need to be ducked under, potholes need to be wheeled over. Sharks need to be avoided etc.
Graphics aren't very good unfortunately. Sound isn't that much better: the intro tune is poor and the in-game FX aren't really anything in the way of a step up.
Not Rainbow Arts' finest. A surprisingly sub-standard quality product from a company famed for raising standards.
There's little to separate this from the 8 bit version for the usual minor improvements in sound and graphics. The gameplay is the same which makes this even less of a good buy than the 64.
LASTABILITY
Reviewed by Tony Dillon for CU Amiga, pp.40-41, Issue May '89, May 1989
US Gold/Rainbow Arts, C64 £9.99 cassette, £14.99 disk; Amiga £19.99
The stuntman is a hardly fellow, and in Danger Freak, you can find out first hand what happens when the soppy actors step aside and the going really starts to get tough.
How about a bit of climbing on motorbikes, jumping over ramps, ducking roadblocks and avoiding hazards such as blazing barrels, holes in the road and vicious baseball bat-wielding extras?
Next try and stand on the back of a speeding sports car and attempt to grab hold of a rope ladder attached to a waiting helicopter (but make sure you don't leave it too late or you'll go smashing headfirst into a wall!), then pull your water wings on and get into the sea for a mad dash on jet-skis, taking care not to go careering into logs, buoys, sharks and landmines!
You begin the game with three lives, and eight 'takes' per life. Hitting an obstacle means the scene must be cut, using up a take, and losing all eight forfeits a life.
I thought Colt Seavers was a hero. But that little lot, the Fall Guy may well go into retirement!
I thought stuntwork was supposed to be an exciting job, full of danger - and isn't it meant to be demanding to an almost unbelievable degree? If it's anything like it's portrayed in Danger Freak, I think I'll join them - I just fancy a bit of a kip. The only exciting thing about this game is waiting for the next level to load, to find out if it gets any better. Saying that, though, the levels are very difficult, with new obstacles appearing almost directly after negotiating the previous one. As an example (and this applies only to the Amiga version, by the way) in 80% of the cases, if you jump over a ramp, you'll land right on top of an explosion, losing one of your eight takes. Not very forgiving, to say the least. The C64 game is streets ahead of its 16-bit counterpart in the graphics and sound departments, sporting some really effective characters and obstacles. Playability wise, though, Danger Freak should go back to the storyboard.
Smashing, I thought, an action packed stuntman sim, full of different obstacles, to really test your skill and courage. Playing, however, made me feel like smashing my head against the wall. And the trouble is that the game (well the 64 version at least) could have been something special if not for one problem: it's just too difficult. The 8-bit version stands head and shoulders above the Amiga in terms of presentation but in both the obstacles are way too close to one another. Graphically, the 64 wins hands down, with neat sprites and scrolling backdrops, while the Amiga has to make do with basic character definition and animation, with average parallax scrolling scenery. This'll take a long time to master and in the long run it's probably not worth it. Try it out first.
PRESENTATION 54%
Average title screen, with pleasant rainbow effect.
GRAPHICS 47%
Poor, by Amiga standards. Basic sprites which aren't animated at all, although there is some effective parallax scrolling in the background.
SOUND 48%
Again, not the best to be heard from the 16-bit. Sparse effects and an annoying title tune.
HOOKABILITY 41%
The game's bland appearance does nothing to inject atmosphere into the frustrating gameplay.
Progress is annoyingly slow, seriously diminishing any lasting interest.
A poor attempt at a potentially interesting subject, Danger Freak misses the mark completely.
1 to 4 players. Usual Rainbow Arts attract mode and a colourful loading screen.
Great sprites and backdrops, with masses of colour, and effective animation on the characters.
Fitting sound effects, but an annoying title track.
The game looks and sounds good, but it's too difficult from the outset.
Progress is slow, putting a dampener on any inital interest.
Pleasing to the eye and ear, but a killer on the patience, so ultimately it fails to impress.
Reviewed by Gordon Houghton & Paul Rand for Zzap!, p.82, Issue 50, June 1989
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Spurs 2 Arsenal 2 – A roller coaster of a match ends in a missed opportunity
What an enthralling roller-coaster of a game. What a crazy seven minutes from 1-0 down to 2-1 and a man up. What a 14 minutes of heaven until Sanchez brought us back down to earth.
Deflated and disappointed at the end it almost felt like a loss but in the cold light of day this was fantastic entertainment and still leaves us with everything to play for.
In a lot of ways it was a carbon copy of last season’s fixture. Spurs playing well early on, dominated without quite breaking through. This was never going to be as one-sided as last year – Wenger’s decision to play with two holding midfield players a clear acceptance of the fear Pochettino’s team holds for him. Still, it was surprising how negative Arsenal were, sitting deep, hitting Welbeck early to try to use his pace on the break.
Just like last year we failed to capitalise on our early ascendancy and gave away a soft goal late in the half, leading to a rocky period around half time. For the first time I was worried.
Then came the turning point of the match, a deserved red card for Coquelin that helped rouse the team and the crowd. Within seven minutes Spurs were in the lead and it looked like they would go on to get more. It wasn’t so much the man advantage that made the difference, more the mental momentum shift.
The Kane goal was a thing of beauty, worthy of the occasion. The Spurs striker cemented his reputation with two goals in last year’s fixture and he seemed destined to win the game again, running over to celebrate below where I was sitting.
Pandemonium ensued in the stands. It was a wonderful moment, one of those intense experiences that makes supporting Tottenham so worthwhile, despite all the ups and downs.
Then out of nowhere the sucker punch. Up until Sanchez’s goal it had felt relatively comfortable. We were still on the front foot.
In the last ten minutes either team could have won, with our defence suddenly porous and Arsenal leaving plenty of gaps at the back.
With 26 shots to 10, Tottenham clearly had the stronger claim to the three points. The title is still a possibility for us, today was never going to be decisive in that way. But we had the chance to finish them off, unfortunately we didn’t take it.
Were you happy with Spurs performance? Can Pochettino’s men still win the title? Please leave your thoughts in the comments section below.
Discuss it with me on Twitter: @ABPSpurs
This entry was posted in Match Reports and tagged arsenal, north london derby, Premier League, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur on March 7, 2016 by Jon @ AnythingButPenalties.
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The Kosovo Blunder: Moves Towards a Standing Army – Global Research
There never is a time not to worry in the Balkans. The next conflict always seems to be peering around the corner with a malicious enthusiasm, eager to spring at points of demagogic advantage and personal suffering. The centrepieces of future disaster in the region tend to be Kosovo and Bosnia. The former is now intent on formalising military arrangements, thereby fashioning a spear that will be able to be driven deep through the heart of Serbian pride.
On Friday, the Assembly of Kosovo passed three draft laws with overwhelming numbers that it would form an army. (Serbian lawmakers boycotted the session.) The current Kosovo Security Force of 3,000 lightly armed personnel is to become somewhat more formidable: 5,000 active troops backed by 3,000 reservists in the next decade. This move was brazenly chest beating in nature, an assertion that security, as provided by the 4,000 NATO troops forming KFOR (the Kosovo Force), was inadequate and, more to the point, to be bypassed altogether.
It also came as a calculated assault, timed to bruise Serbians in Kosovo – numbering some 120,000 – and politicians in Belgrade, suggesting a marked change from negotiations some three months prior. Then, it seemed that a land swap offer was in the making, one that would have reflected the relevant though tense ethnic composition in the region: the Preševo Valley in southern Serbia, predominantly Albanian, would join Kosovo; Serbia would re-establish dominion over the majority ethnic-Serb area of Kosovo to the north of the River Ibar.
Things subsequently soured. Kosovo had already agreed to raise a 100 percent tariff on imports from Serbia, a move that is economically insensible but parochially clear. Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj justified the action by blaming Belgrade’s efforts to foil his bid in admitting Kosovo to Interpol. Aggression from Belgrade was cited on all fronts: from the seething Deputy Prime Minister Enver Hoxhaj; from the foreign ministry (“abusive” lobbying by Serbia was cited); and from the prime minister himself.
To have such an army will be another feather in the cap of Kosovo’s aims to consolidate its sovereign credentials and sever the umbilical cord with Belgrade. The danger here, as ever, is how the ethnic Serbs, backed by their indignant patrons,
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Israel bombs Hamas sites, split on ground invasion
Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilities, training centers and leaders’ homes as Israel’s offensive against Gaza’s Islamic militant rulers entered a second week.
There were tentative signs that the current phase of fighting may be nearing an end. Most of the airstrikes targeted empty buildings and abandoned sites, suggesting Israel may be running out of targets.
Israeli defense officials said some 10,000 troops, including tank, artillery and special operations units, were massed on the Gaza border and prepared to invade. They said top commanders are split over whether to send in ground forces, in part because such an operation could lead to heavy casualties but also because they believe Hamas already has been dealt a heavy blow. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were classified discussions.
By IBRAHIM BARZAK and JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press
At the same time, international cease-fire efforts were also gaining momentum. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is visiting the region next week to try to end the violence, and President George W. Bush and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon both spoke in favor of an internationally monitored truce.
But Hamas, in its first reaction to the proposal on Saturday, reacted coolly to the idea of international monitors.
Israel launched the offensive on Dec. 27 in response to intensifying rocket fire by Hamas militants in Gaza. The operation has killed more than 430 Palestinians, including….
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Home By Country Malaysia SNSM steer clear of Dasam Granth entanglement
SNSM steer clear of Dasam Granth entanglement
In another major decision, Sabha members gave green light to selling Sabha House in Titiwangsa and Ipoh, moving HQ to Brickfields. Major plans afoot to develop Khalsa Land in KKB
SNSM jathedar Jasbir Singh (right) in action at one of its functions. INSERT (from left): Gurcharan Singh, Suret Singh and Balvinder Singh
By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA |
A Malaysian Sikh youth outfit has rejected an attempt to entangle the organisation with debate on the so-called Dasam Granth (DG), instead trying to keep its focus on what it deems as more pressing issues at hand.
At its annual general meeting on 29 June, a good majority of the Sikh Naujawan Sabha Malaysia (SNSM) members present were in no mood to drag the six-decade old organisation into what has been an acrimonious debate within some circles regarding Bachitar Natak Granth (BNG), commonly badged as DG.
After a calm and collected discussion, the house was persuaded to reject a BNG-related resolution package proposed by two senior members of the organisation.
In another major decision, the SNSM members gave the green light to a proposal to possibly selling its existing headquarters in Titiwangsa, estimated to be worth RM5 million, and move its operations to the 4-storey building it owns in Brickfields. Both are located in Kuala Lumpur.
The underlying idea is to utilise funds unlocked to develop the Khalsa Land, a 22-acre Sikh campsite in in Kuala Kubu Bharu (KKB) tucked at a lush jungle foothill just an hour’s drive from Kuala Lumpur.
Also approved was the disposing of the Sabha House in Ipoh which has ‘fallen into disuse and is currently unutilised’, estimated to worth some RM1 million.
Termed as consolidation of current SNSM assets, the idea was proposed by Gurcharan Singh and second by Harnarinder Singh, both actively involved in the team developing the campsite located about 80km from the Kuala Lumpur city centre.
With the Khalsa Land International Sikh Centre project ‘gathering pace’, the resolution noted the imminent need to raise funds, as typical development orders are time bound.
“We need to make sure that timing is right. The property market may be a little soft at this juncture,” one member told Asia Samachar.
SNSM CHIEF
When contact, SNSM jathedar Dr Jasbir Singh said that the organisation would like to continue its focus towards Sikhi parchar, education, welfare and developing the youth.
“We want to stay away from controversies as it time consuming and does not benefit anyone. We have bigger responsibilities to shoulder such as to create awareness on substance abuse, alcoholism and sexual abuse,” he told Asia Samachar.
He added that the Sabha, as the organisation is commonly referred to in Malaysia, has a huge project at Khalsa Land.
“We need experts who can help us craft a strategy for funding. Not only for construction funding but also future maintenance of the buildings. We need all the help we can get. Khalsa Land is for everyone’s use. Let us come together to play a part,” he said.
Jasbir also urged the youth need to play a bigger role and stop accusing elders who are taking a lead.
“The elders are there to lead and provide directions and support. The elders are there because of the youth and the youth need to come forward to support and start taking responsibilities to be part and also to lead in activities,” he said.
SNSM elects a jathedar, who then appoints members to its executive committee, for a two-year term. Dr Jasbir is serving his second term which ends next year. This is his last term as per the constitution.
CONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION
The five resolutions connected to BNG, keenly discussed at the meeting, were proposed by former SNSM secretary Suret Singh and seconded by former SNSM jathedar Daljit Singh.
After vehement objection from the floor, Suret, a retired senior Malaysian civil servant, withdrew the resolutions.
Balvinder Singh, a lawyer and a long-serving SNSM volunteer who spoke out against the proposed resolutions, said he felt SNSM should stay away from the DG dispute as it does not serve any purpose in its main objective in serving the needs of the youth.
“The youth are not interested in these conflicts and have bigger and more pertinent challenges which Sabha needs to address. There appeared to be a push by the pro-DG side to steer Sabha into this conflict and onto their side. Sabha should reject this,” he told Asia Samachar when contacted.
Among others, the proposed resolution wanted the general assembly to adopt as ‘Sabha policy’ a controversial letter entitled ‘Sikh Naujawan Sabha Reaffirms Sri Akaal Takht’s Stand on Dasam Granth’, issued by the SNSM exco on 18 July 2018.
Balvinder said the letter was factually incorrect as per the Sikh Rehat Maryada (SRM) and an existing Gurmatta from the Akaal Takht.
“Sabha should now withdraw that letter and apologise for the factual errors and state that it simply follows SRM and will keep away from this controversy,” he said
SNSM was set up in early 1960s and officially registered in 1967. Amg others, it runs Sikh camps and other activities.
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SNSM chief speaks out on incessant attacks (Asia Samachar, 12 March 2019)
Newly appointed SNSM exco issues stand on Dasam Granth (Asia Samachar, 21 July 2018)
Malacca booster for Khalsa Land (Asia Samachar, 25 March 2018)
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Manjit Singh July 4, 2019 at 10:25 pm
Each Gurdwara should have constitution allow to choose parallel committee along the original committee. Forming this Youth Committee is to provide space for them to operate youth agenda within their vicinity. Gurdwara structure should evolve and be aware of millennial, Gen X and Gen Z youth which hunger for empowerment and innovation.
Kulwant Singh July 4, 2019 at 2:35 pm
Asia Samachar, you show either your ignorance, or deliberate facetious-ness by referring to Dasam Granth as Bachitar Natak Granth. Shouldn’t you avoid acting in such a manner?
Gursharan Singh July 4, 2019 at 11:57 am
Moving to Brick fields may not be a wise economic move as it has higher value and potential for further appreciation. Better to remain in Titiwangsa and look for ways and means to monetize Brick fields property.
Reconsider selling of CURRENT HQ which has appreciated by about 75% and one of the reasons to acquire it was its location and parking facilities and both problems will be faced by members unless they come by trains.
No comments on Ipoh property.
Gur Fateh
Dya Singh July 4, 2019 at 11:53 am
This is heartening and refreshing news from Sabha! Congratulations to cool level headedness by all. Yes, the DG controversy is not part of the constitutional mandate of Sabha.
All the best with the issues that matter especially inspiring youth towards the Guru, Guru Granth Sahib. Sabha must maintain the status quo until such a time when there is collective responsible Panthic ‘evolution’.
Guru dhi meher and warmest Waheguru Fateh to all.
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Riot Police Called to Disperse Student Protest at Adventist University in Zimbabwe
October 26, 2017: Solusi University authorities called riot police to disperse a crowd of students protesting a fee hike at the Adventist university in Zimbabwe on Thursday, October 19.
According to Zimbabwe’s Chronicle, Solusi students had boycotted classes last week in protest of the raised school fees.
The students at the Adventist institution were protesting a USD 90 fee increase labeled as a “development levy.”
Current fees are set at USD 900 per semester for students of the humanities and business and USD 1000 per semester for those studying science.
The university called the riot police as the protesting students demanded to speak with vice-chancellor Joel Musvosvi to raise their concerns.
Zimbabwe’s News Day reported that student groups around the country protested the fact that five students accused of inciting fellow students to protest were suspended by Solusi.
Godknows Mdhari, secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (ZICOSU) said that the body had deployed lawyers to challenge Solusi’s decision to suspend the student leaders.
“The university has so far been cooperating well in handling the matter and we expect normality to return at the institution very soon,” Mdhari said to News Day.
The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) is vowing legal action against Solusi. The union’s president, Alister Pfunye, promised action to return the suspended student leaders to campus and said the union would “sue the dean of students in person for an illegal act with his administration in sending away the student who are defending academic freedoms.”
Solusi University is an Adventist institution that has been operating in Zimbabwe since 1894. It was the nation’s first private institution of higher education. It is located in the outskirts of Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe. Over 4,500 students are enrolled at the university.
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Dr. Gao Chang Hong
Title: Associate Professor – Petroleum Engineering
Department: Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department
Office: Bldg.G-314
Email: changhong.gao@aurak.ac.ae
Dr. Gao is associate professor of petroleum engineering at AURAK. He received Bachelor’s degree from University of Petroleum (East China), Master’s degree from University of Tulsa, and PhD from Curtin University, all in petroleum engineering.
Prior to his current position, Dr. Gao taught seven years at UAE University, Petroleum Institute Abu Dhabi, and University of Aberdeen. He also worked for Sinopec for five years, first as a field engineer, later as office and research engineer.
Dr. Gao conducted research in oil recovery, drilling fluid, and production technology. In 2014, Dr. Gao was elected Taishan scholar by Shandong province government and awarded research fund of two million CNY. He supervised two PhD students, and six Master thesis in UK. Dr. Gao has published two books and more than twenty peer-reviewed journal papers. He also authored a few SPE conference papers.
PhD in Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University, Australia 2008
MSc in Petroleum Engineering, University of Tulsa, USA 2003
BSc in Petroleum Engineering, University of Petroleum, China 1999
Drilling Fluid Technology
Oil Recovery Method
Gao, 2018, Petroleum Production Technology, Science Press Beijing
Gao, 2017, Petroleum Drilling Technology, Science Press Beijing
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
Gao (2018) Experiences of microbial enhanced oil recovery method in Chinese oil fields, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 166, July 2018, 55-62, Elsevier
Gao (2016) A novel biopolymer to enhance oil recovery, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 6 (4), 749-753, Springer
Gao (2016) Unique rheology of Gellan gum and its potential applications in enhancement of petroleum production, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 6 (4), 743-747, Springer
Gao (2016) Potential of Gellan gum as mud thickener, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 6 (4), 857-861, Springer
Gao (2015) Potential of Welan gum as mud thickener, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 5 (1), 109-112, Springer
Gao (2015) Potential of Welan gum to enhance oil recovery, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 5(2), 197-200, Springer
Gao (2015) Carbonated water injection revisited, International Journal of Petroleum Engineering, 1 (3), 164-177, Inderscience
Gao (2014) Empirical correlations for viscosity of HPAM, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 4 (2), 209-213, Springer
Gao and Shi (2014) Successful polymer flooding projects at Shengli oilfield from 1992 to 2012, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 4 (1), 1-8, Springer
Gao (2013) Viscosity of partially hydrolyzed Polyacrylamide under shearing and heat, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 3 (3), 203-206, Springer
Gao, Li, Guo (2013) Heavy oil production by CO2 Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 3 (3), 185-195, Wiley
Gao, Bellout (2013) An evaluation for two Bacillus strains in improving oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs. Petroleum Science and Technology, 31 (11), 1168-1174, Taylor Francis
Gao (2011) Scientific research and field applications of polymer flood in heavy oil recovery. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 1 (2), 65-70, Springer
Gao, Zekri (2011) Applications of microbial enhanced oil recovery technology in past decade. Energy Sources Part A, 33 (10), 972-989, Taylor Francis
Gao, Zekri, Tarabily (2009) Microbes enhance oil recovery through various mechanisms. Oil and Gas Journal, 107 (31), 39-43, Pennwell
Gao, Zekri, Tarabily (2009) Field cases illustrate MEOR effectiveness. Oil and Gas Journal, 107 (32), 41-47, Pennwell
Gao (2008) Understanding capture of non-Brownian particles in porous media with network model. Asia Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, 3 (3), 298-306, Wiley
Gao (2008) Factors affecting particle retention in porous media. Emirates Journal for Engineering Research, 12 (3), 1-7, UAEU
Gao (2008) Simulation of reservoir permeability decline due to invasion of large particles. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal, 48 (1), 1-11, APPEA
Gao (2008) A network model for capture of emulsion droplets in porous media. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal, 48 (1), 21-29. APPEA
Gao, Rivero, Nakagawa (2007) Pore network modeling of formation damage due to suspended particles. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal, 47 (1), 187-196, APPEA
Gao, Rivero, Nakagawa, Sanchez (2007) Down-hole separation technology – past, present and future. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal, 47 (1), 281-290. APPEA
SPE CONFERENCE PAPERS
Gao (2014) Comprehensive model to calculate the viscosity of HPAM, SPE 169700 presented at SPE EOR conference in Muscat, Oman (poster)
Kang and Gao (2014) Shale gas boom in USA inspires Chinese operators, SPE167723 presented at SPE/EAGE Europe Unconventional Conference in Vienna, Austria
Gao (2014) Experiences of polymer flooding at Shengli oilfield, SPE 169652 presented at SPE EOR conference in Oman (presentation)
Gao, Kang, Zhang (2013) Scientific research and field applications of CO2 immiscible flooding. SPE 165210 presented at EOR conference in Malaysia
Gao (2011) Microbial EOR in carbonate reservoir: an experimental study. SPE 143161 Presented at EOR Conference in Malaysia (presentation)
Gao, Nakagawa (2007) A literature review on smart well technology. SPE 106011 presented at Production and Operation Symposium, Oklahoma City (presentation)
Gao (2003) Empirical heat transfer model for slug flow and bubble flow in vertical subsea pipes. SPE 85651 presented at Nigeria Annual International Conference (presentation)
Gao (2001) Effect of magnetization on drilling fluid. SPE 062735 presented at IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference in Malaysia
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Star Wars › Off-topic
Do you like the fantastical vision in Lucas Film's movies or do you like the new movies visions?
IG88VSBossk
June 10, 2018 2:32PM edited June 2018
Just wondering what the community thinks of the new director's vision of the Star Wars movies that have come out in recent years. (Ron Howard, JJ Abrams, Rian Johnson, Gareth Edwards) compared to George Lucas. I was watching Revenge of the Sith and kind of miss that magic touch of Lucas. The new ones to me sort of look dark and depressing now, especially Solo (well dark in film shots anyways). What is your thoughts?
Post edited by IG88VSBossk on June 2018
Kenobi_Dude
The new versions and have way better technology/editing/cinematography than the prequels. I like the darker feeling of them. Say what you will about the actual screenplay/directing, but the new movies are better produced overall, I think.
Lucas was way too excited to overuse the CGI/technology of the late 90s/early 2000s, which made the movies look like a giant, colorful video game for kids. I like playing video games.... not watching them in theaters. Some of the battles were epic though like Geonosis.
I feel that the current directors should be given a screen play written by a goid writer and told to direct that movie. Rian Johnson bring allowed to make story devidions was in my opinion the biggest problem with TLJ.
These directors are not George Lucas and should not be given so much freedom to create their own story.
I think the two ST films did a very good job bringing back a lot of the Star Wars ”magic” that was lost in the prequel trilogy.
Skowsa
I have to agree with you. Strange as it may seem, the prequels feel more Disneyfied to me than the sequels.
Somewhere between "the sky is falling" and "everything is awesome" lies the truth.
The initial two Lucas movies were great and groundbreaking.
RotJ was the beginning of Lucas trying to get too cute, aka the Ewoks.
Jar Jar Binks was the next extension of this, as well as an extended movie about a little by. The bulk of Phantom Menace really did not even need to be filmed.
So I have a love/hat relationship with Lucas.
The other movies have not captured the initial magic.
They have good parts and some really really d u m b things, such as Poe Mispronouncing "Hux" That entire scene set the movie up to be bad from the get go...
Dissident1002
Writing aside (and without bias to any particular era):
The ST, I believe, is meant to look and feel like the OT. We are shown familiar climates (desert, snow, forest) in TFA
The PT looks too fake and clinical, way too much CGI, way too much thrown at the screen, way too many lightsabers, these films look like hybrid cartoons. I always felt that Lucas was competing against Titanic, Jurassic Park, even T2 with the visuals. Once he saw what was possible with the latest CG, he went nuts.
The Stories generally look too dark and grimey, to me, to feel like proper SW movies. Rogue One's Death Star scenes, and the last few minutes on the Blockade Runner do look and feel like OT. Solo is visually ugly overall. I hope Kenobi and Boba Fett do not have the same gray, dirty look as the first two stories.
Darth_Cerebus
LeftTurnus wrote: »
Like with The Last Jedi, the beggining and end battles were the only parts that really gripped me. The Battle of Naboo and the Resistance escaping the cruiser was where I go back into full-attention. They just focused too hard on the story at the time and it didn't help it. The prequels had it rough in this regard because they had a set story to tell in a much smaller time limit that the sequels had (aka none).
RIFRIG
I totally agree ^^^^^^
CountVonLux2
Lucas’ visions by FAR.
I dont know anyone who likes the disney movies.
George did a better job of building characters.
ST characters come off either as shallow stereotypes or whatever the plot finds convenient at the time.
These new movies just feel cold, hallow and rushed. Not at all like Star Wars. They kinda feel like they're a cheap knock-off brand that you would find in a bargain bin at your local pharmacy.
Say what you will about the prequels, but they were a whole lot better and felt more like Star Wars than these new movies.
No, man. No.
You better believe it.
mastery0ta
I see less "vision", and more reboot. Ohhhh the xwings are blue now! Standalones have been awesome, 7+8 feel uninspired. At least the prequels had world building and a plot that links them together.
Original Triology > Prequel Trilogy >>>>>>>>>> Sequel Trilogy.
These new movies have thus far done nothing but cheaply copy the originals, and destroyed the original characters and their character development that they had gone through in the original trilogy.
sCr0llx
June 12, 2018 10:07PM edited June 2018
I do not like at all the new saga (7,8) but the stories are great, Rogue One and Solo are the movies that I like the most along with The Empire Strikes Back , episode 7 can be said to be a copy of episode 4 and episode 8 is the most absurd movie in all of history, , if Luke tried to save his father he did not know and was a murderer, he did not explain how he could try to kill his nephew he saw growing up and had not killed anyone. On the other hand, Rogue One is my favorite, I really like the story they tell you and the battles in space, Solo is an entertaining and nostalgic film, I had always wanted to see more of Han, to see how the kessel run was crushed, how I won the bet and how it was known with Chewy
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sCr0llx wrote: »
I do not like at all the new saga (7,8) but the stories are great, Rogue One and Solo are the movies that I like the most along with The Empire Strikes Back , episode 7 can be said to be a copy of episode 4 and episode 8 is the most absurd movie in all of history, , if Luke tried to save his father he did not know and was a murderer, he did not explain how he could try to kill his nephew he saw growing up and had not killed anyone. On the other hand, Rogue One is my favorite, I really like the story they tell you and the battles in space
Always worth watching a film a couple of times.....Ahch-To wasn't a vacation.
2000sGuy
New Saga films are hot gatbage. The reason people say it brought back the star wars magic is due to their shameless re-treading of the same events and plot points from the OT, except done worse, not to mention it straight up ruins the original characters to make way for these new shallow ones.
Rey- Has no motivations, faces no challenges that make us root for her, little character growth
Finn- had potential, but is nothing more than a joke
Poe- has no real growth either, had wasted potential, but hes the best case scenario out of the bunch
Rose-weak character, made to push a message that has no place in star wars
Kylo Ren-initally had potential, by the end of tfa was the butt of all jokes, showed potential of growing at the middle act of tlj but by the third act is returned to hus laughable self.
I mean “the force is female”. Yea that represents Lucas’ vision well.
It might of brought back the magic for now, and the cinematography might be nice, but in the long run i dont see how these movies are going to age well from a critical standpoint. At least with the prequels Lucas made a story he felt was good and didnt start lashing out at fans for not liking his stuff.
Other than that Rogue One is ok, and to me Solo is a thing thats ok but not really rewatchable
Hey Man.
DarthJ
Say what you will about the prequels, but George Lucas built a fascinating, amazing world with the prequels. Yeah the script and elements of it are average, but the planets, ships, all felt unique. Seeing the Jedi at their peak was cool too.
For me, I don't dislike the ST. I just find it bland and average. It tries too hard to be the OT, and just tries to go 'wow look a bigger Death Star, but its a planet!' Or 'wow, look, a Jedi who will be the most powerful yet!'. Point is, it tries to be it too much, as well as trying to outshine the OT too much. The result is it doesnt work. The charactets are generally bland. Rey is bland and I feel indifference towards her, Finns character development was shot from the start if VIII, Kylo is well acted out but regresses into a moody teen most of the time. The 2nd half of VIII was terrible for his character. Poe is the only one who has developed well.
Maybe I am biased as I was 8 when TPM was released, but I like the prequels and the world they created and added to.
PSN: ibrajoker59
Nope, wrong again. Luke’s story in TLJ is great. And it has a Yoda scene that almost tops the ones in ESB. One of the best Star Wars films and far ahead of the PT in quality.
You do realise people are allowed a different opinion from you? No-ones opinion is wrong. Freedom of speech, democracy and all that.
LOL, I’m well aware. But from my point of view, saying the PT has destroyed the OT characters is plain wrong. I don’t have freedom of speech here?...
Ppong_Man12
Imo, the new films feel like a made for tv series, something to watch on the CW, the Lucas movies feel like movies, great movies I might add. In fact the ST films are so good they have to rely on the same old characters from the OT to carry their movies, gg. Loved the OT, loved the PT, liked RO and Solo, the ST is an abomination imo.
You do, and I respect your opinion. But no-one is shouting down your opinion, which you are doing to others. The other guy just brought up a different point on his opinion, he didnt say 'you're wrong' like you are doing.
Jimmy89
The best part of the sequel trilogy is
A 3rd Death Star
General Hux
Canto Bight
Vice Admiral Holdo
killing Luke off
killing Snoke off
And the best story ?
Sorry, but there is nothing like a "Lucas Vision" except you start to think of George Lucas like a cartoonish figure with $ in his eyeballs. Then yes, that would be a Lucas vision.
Movies are not singularities entirely produced by a sole person, there are always so many people involved who bring in their own creative ideas and plans. George Lucas original purpose for Star Wars was to make an actioan movie that pushes the special effects to a new limit. He did it, thats something I acknowledge - but everything else?
Pretty much all I love about Star Wars was not made Lucas, that already starts with the great design of the droids, architecture and costumes. All of this design was pretty much done by Ralph McQuarrie.
The music? John Williams. My two favorite Star Wars movies, ESB and ROTJ? Lucas did not even direct those.
The great character building in Episode V, that people nowadays praise over the new movies? That was Irvin Kershners work, not Lucas's.
Long story short:
I always judge each and every movie on its own, not based on the biggest name on the cover.
Lucas is not responsible for everything good, as Kennedy is not responsible for everything bad.
For all the people who still think Lucas would've been a good writer, the official Star Wars channel has a making-of from Phantom Menace online where Lucas said the following:
"The moment young Anakin flies into the Droid ship and destroys it with a single torpedo, we recreate what Luke did in a new hope. This is poetry, lets hope it'll rhyme."
A friend of mine who I showed that scene is a doctor and his professional response was:
"That man clearly had a stroke."
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"Yeah, ok, Jeff. But Lady Gaga also said: 'I think that men and women deserve to love each other equally'...
...So please, Jeff, if you going to live your life according to Gaga quotes, accept the entire canon." - John Oliver.
Batman20
Lucas is better he created Star Wars without him all this doesn't exist. Who cares if he messed up the prequels except for revenge the original trilogy films are amazing
Thank you. Yesterday, I stated my same opinion in the comment section of a YouTube video and some guy starting replying calling me a "fake fan" for simply not liking every single thing that has a Star Wars label on it. So it's refreshing to see someone who understands that opinions are, just that, opinions, not facts.
And in that regard, in my opinion, the new trilogy has destroyed the characters of Han, Luke, and Leia.
TFA reset Han's character development and simply turned him into a mix of his character at the beginning of ANH and a guy who walked out on his wife and son.
TLJ turned Luke from the most optimistic character who felt the light in his Sith Lord of a father and redeemed him, to a man who gave up on everything just because he had one of his padawans turn to the dark side.
And I would rather not have to relive the cringe of the Mary Poppins Leia scene in TLJ.
CarapaceonMenace
I still don't get how Luke had such optimism for his child murdering father but has a bad feeling about his nephew and tries to slaughter him in his sleep.
Don't click unless you want to know the truth....
Toddyrocket
Lucas's movies.
But my personal view is Rogue One captured it nicely.
Gareth Edwards well done you should take over and bring balance back to Star Wars.
CarapaceonMenace wrote: »
Fogcityroller
Definitely love/hate relationship with Lucas and the same with Disney. I'm waiting to see how Disney responds to the realization that they're releasing too much too quickly before I fully opine about how they're handling the franchise and (hopefully) learning from their mistakes. Lucas never learned from his mistakes, and was incredibly stubborn about what he did with a childish aversion to criticism and a god complex to boot.
I understand the fixation on Lucas as he was the original creator, but thinking there is some juxtaposition on Lucas' vision vs. Disney's vision is rose-colored goggles. I consider A New Hope and Empire to be quite dark, so I'm not sure I see a major difference between those and Disney's movies. The first two prequel films are just piles of CGI and have no personality whatsoever.
When I hear "Lucas's vision" I honestly think CGI and toys, and obviously money. No different with Disney. When people accuse Disney of being out to milk Star Wars it makes me roll my eyes because Lucas was all about that from the moment he saw the box office money roll in from A New Hope. The first episode of "The Toys That Made Us" on Netflix accurately shines a light on his turning Star Wars into a licensing machine. Lucas was ALL about the money and there's no denying that.
He released a goofy Christmas Special, which if Disney did that today there would be riots in the streets. Add to that two Saturday morning cartoon series about the Ewoks and Droids and two made-for-TV movies about the Ewoks.
Then there's the "Disney is shoehorning dumb scenes and characters for no reason" argument. Yes, they do have some scenes and events that play out for no explicable reason but the prequels were full of this kind of nonsense. Lucas would shoehorn scenes full of CGI just because he wanted more CGI, and I won't even bring up the special edition since it's been ridiculed to death.
Both are fine for their own reasons. I have some issues with both, but ultimately it's not important.
Midichlorian
Episodes 1-6 > Legends EU > Canon EU > New Anthology films > Sequels.
"Dude, don't call us plucky, we don't know what it means."
Devoted worshipper of Haruhi Suzumiya
mastery0ta wrote: »
Like in the EU before this where literally everything was exactly the same besdes new characters? XD At least the sequels tried to make everything feel new and different.
I’m not ”shouting down” his opinion. The bloke I quoted never mentioned once that it was his opinion he stated when he said the new movies destroyed the OT characters. Yet you could read that between the lines in his case, but not in mine? And ”others”? Who else did I respond to? Sure you’re not just taking a stab at me because I’m in the ”ST over PT camp”?...
And in that regard, in my opinion, the new trilogy has destroyed the characters of Han, Luke, and Leia.TFA reset Han's character development and simply turned him into a mix of his character at the beginning of ANH and a guy who walked out on his wife and son.
I see you don your halo now, retroactively, so I will do the same:
And, in my opinion, you are very wrong. Felt the light in his father and then went mental on him, trying to cut him to pieces for mentioning his sister... I’d say Luke was very close to the darkness in the OT too, like his daddy.
And note, that I never said anything about your ”fandom” or what you are allowed to think or feel. I refuted the fact you stated.
Anapoda
I rate episode 8 lower than even the phantom menace so...yeah...sad times in that galaxy far far away.
But it is his opinion. Its his thoughts on the films and the saga. Yes, its your opinion that he is wrong, but you are the only one repeatedly saying 'no' or 'you're wrong' - thereby you are shouting down his opinion. Just agree to disagree.
If someone were constantly flagging your posts and saying 'you're wrong' to you, I would have said the same to them. Because your opinions aren't wrong. So, no, I'm not picking on you for film choices. I would do the same if someone were having a pop at you saying you are wrong.
Anapoda wrote: »
But Phantom Menace had some great scenery in Naboo, a great space battle, introduced the sleek N-1s to the universe, the Battle of Naboo all around was hectic and was a good intro to larger scale battles between ground troops that wasn't seen before in this scale. And then we get Darth Maul and the Duel of Fates, one of, if not the most, iconic lightsaber duels in Star Wars history. Fast paced action and superb swordsmanship that the original trilogy didn't have (for obvious reasons), and it gave a great soundtrack consistently matching the tone and atmosphere through the whole movie, which is pretty standard for Star Wars, to be fair. Besides Jar Jar being pushed too hard to be comic relief and the empty spaces for Anakin's freedom story before the podrace, it was a pretty great movie.
He didn’t write that it was his opinion and I didn’t write that it is my opinion that he is wrong. What difference is there? Why not give me the same benefit of a doubt here? Well, I think I know why... In my very first post in this thread I literally wrote that ”I think” that and that about these films, stating it is my opinion. Don’t you think the subsequent comments are in reference to that?
And you should still answer who else I responded to, since you implied that it was generally how I talk to people. You deliberately trying to enhance the malice here by using words as ”others” and ”constantly”. Don’t make stuff up.
Darth_Cerebus wrote: »
Really the whole trilogy had a lot of great story, it's just George Lucas needed some help as far as writing goes. Awkward dialogue and rushed story.
AmenFashion
Lucas' vision was incredible. His stories actually had heart and felt inspired. Say what you will about the effects from the prequels... I was completely transported into his world and I don't think I ever really left. All 6 films are pure magic.
TFA was a pretty solid movie. It took me to a very similar place as the other films, which I enjoyed in my adult life.
TLJ however... I'm pretending that movie never happened. It felt shallow and uninspired, and I really can't find one redeeming quality about this movie.
"He's no Jedi..."
To me, TLJ is one of the best Star Wars movies - top three - but I do agree that PM is not that bad. It is imo the best PT movie. Jar Jar is hard to get around and little Anakin in his fighter is a bit... meh. But the rest is not all that bad actually. I recently rewatched them and have adjusted my opinion slightly.
If the best thing about a movie is its scenery, well, sorry but that's not a very good movie.
I don't suffer from sleep apnea but if a film isn't great I do get symptoms of it.
I have watched all episodes with the exception of A New Hope at the cinema & the only Star Wars films to have this affect on me were The Phantom Menace & Attack of the Clones.
For me the Saga starts at episode III & all films from that point are good to great.
The difference being that you are saying they are wrong, whereas the comments responding to you have not explicitly said 'you are wrong' - they simply state their opinion after your comment. They may disagree but they dont state your opinion is wrong - your opinion is your thoughts and right to you. Again, if someone had retorted back to you with 'you are wrong' I would say the same to them. So in no way am I picking on you in particular or out of malice, I just dislike someone saying their opinion is wrong.
Well my bad on that, you havent to others in this thread. But I remember your name from other ST threads having a bash at anyone who has a difference of opinion to yours. Although those threads generally go down the toilet quickly, so you probably gave as good as you got.
If you felt I was picking on you out of malice then I apologise. I dont want to derail this thread and like I said, I am not picking on you.
you've gotta be kidding me, they destroyed luke...
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The Auctioneer has sole discretion, (a) to refuse any bid, (b) to advance the bidding as he may decide, (c) to withdraw or divide any lot or combine one lot with another or others, (d) to exclude any person from the auction rooms, and (e) to require pre-payment in full.
4. Reserves and Seller's right to bid
Lots put up for sale are subject, (a) to any reserve price imposed by the Seller, (b) the right of the Auctioneer to bid on behalf of the Seller, and (c) where no reserve has been imposed (but in no other case) for the Seller to bid personally or through any one agent. It is the responsibility of the Seller to ensure any reserves are received by the Auctioneer.
5. Buyer's duties
The Buyer shall forthwith or as soon as possible after the sale, (a) supply his name and address, (b) supply, if so required, bank or other suitable references, (c) pay the full purchase price in a way acceptable to the Auctioneer, notwithstanding any prior arrangement for advance payment required by the Auctioneer, and (d) on proof of payment clear the lots purchased by the times specified. Lots may not be cleared during the sale except by permission of the Auctioneer.
6. Liability of the auctioneer and Sellers
Subject to Condition 8: (a) faults and imperfections (if any) are not stated in the catalogue and neither the Seller nor the Auctioneer is responsible for any defects whatsoever, (b) no warranty is given or authorised to be given by the Seller or the Auctioneer with regard to any lot other than the Seller's right to sell it, (c) any express or implied conditions or warranties relating to description or quality, are hereby excluded.
7. Catalogue descriptions
Descriptive statements contained in the advertisements or catalogues or made up by the Auctioneer or any member of his staff should be taken as matters of opinion only, and shall not be taken as statement of fact.
8. Forgeries
Notwithstanding Conditions 6 and 7, if the Auctioneer receives notice in writing from the Buyer WITHIN 7 DAYS OF THE SALE that in his opinion a lot is a forgery (as defined in Condition 12) and on giving such notification the lot in question is returned to the Auctioneer at his working premises in the same condition as when bought, then if on considering such evidence as the Buyer supplies to prove his assertion, the Auctioneer decides that the lot is a forgery the sale of the lot will be rescinded and the purchase price repaid to the Buyer.
9. Property in lots and risk
The Buyer shall not become the owner of any lot, and the Auctioneer shall have a lien thereon, until the Buyer has discharged the purchase price in full together with any other charges due, but after the fall of the hammer the risk of damage or loss shall nevertheless be the Buyer's.
10. The Premium
The Buyer shall pay to the Auctioneer a premium of 20% of the hammer price together with VAT on such premium.
11. Default by Buyer
If the Buyer fails to make payment in a way acceptable to the Auctioneer or to remove any lot or lots bought by him within 7 days of the auction or in any other material respect fail to comply with these conditions, the Auctioneer shall have the right, (a) to resell the lot or lots by public auction or otherwise without notice to the Buyer, and if any deficiency arises on such resale, after deducting the Auctioneer's full costs and expenses, the Buyer shall be responsible to the Auctioneer therefore (but any net surplus to be the Seller's) or, alternatively, (b) to store the lot at the Auctioneer's premises or elsewhere and to release the lot to the Buyer only after payment in full of the purchase price together with any other charges due. The Auctioneer reserves the right to charge storage of 50p per lot per day on any lot or lots uncleared by the time specified together with any removal expenses. In addition, interest will be charged at 2.5% per month or part thereof (34.4% APR) on any accounts that remain unpaid in part or full 1 week after the sale. Interest and storage will be charged from the date of sale. In addition, the Buyer shall be liable for all legal and court costs incurred by the Auctioneers in pursuit of payment from the Buyer. The Auctioneer reserves the right to refuse any cheques and will not release lots purchased until evidence has been received that any cheque accepted has been cleared.
12. Definitions and interpretation
In these conditions: (a) Reference to the 'the Auctioneer' shall be taken to mean the firm of Gardiner Houlgate or any director, partner or employee thereof at the time of sale; (b) Buyers shall be deemed to be the principals unless to the prior knowledge of the Auctioneer they are acting as agent on behalf of a named principal; (c) 'Forgery' means a lot (i) which is so constituted as deliberately to deceive when considered in the light of its catalogue description, and (ii) whose value as such is materially less that if it had complied with the catalogue description; (d) The Interpretation Act 1978 shall apply to the general construction of terms and expressions used in these Conditions as if contained in a statute.
13. What is Temporary Importation?
Temporary Importation is a system that applies to lots which have been imported for sale from outside the EU. It allows the point of importation to be delayed until after the sale at auction.
These lots are indicated in catalogues by the use of the following symbol *
Only the Hammer Price will be treated as the import price and the Buyer’s Premium will be subject to UK domestic VAT at 20%. So whilst the Hammer Price will continue to be charged with Import VAT at 5% or 20” as appropriate, the Buyer’s Premium will always be charged with domestic VAT at 20%
Lots subject to Temporary Importation will be offered under the Auctioneer’s Margin Scheme and will be subject to import VAT of either 5% or 20% on the buyer’s Premium. Anyone who wishes to buy outside the Margin Scheme should notify us immediately. An invoice under the normal VAT rules and charging VAT at 20% on both Hammer and Premium will then be issued
Temporary Importation should affect only private individual buyers who are resident within the EU. Anyone who is registered for VAT in the EU should be able to recover the VAT on the Buyer’s Premium either on their VAT returns or through the 8th Directive Refund Scheme. Any non-EU buyer who exports the lots from the EU will be able to have the VAT refunded provided the appropriate export regulations are complied with
14. Property sold with a * Symbol
These items have been imported from outside the EU to be sold at auction under temporary importation. When Gardiner Houlgate releases such property to buyers in the UK, the buyer will become the importer and must pay Gardiner Houlgate import VAT at 5% on the Hammer Price
These lots will be invoiced under the Auctioneer’s Margin Scheme. Gardiner Houlgate must bear VAT on the Buyer’s Premium and hence charge an amount in lieu of VAT at 20% on this Premium. This amount will form part of the Buyer’s Premium on our invoice and will not be separately identified
VAT registered buyers from the EU should note that the import VAT charged on property released in the UK cannot be cancelled or refunded by Gardiner Houlgate
VAT registered buyers from the UK should note that the invoice issued by Gardiner Houlgate for these items is not suitable evidence in respect of import VAT
VAT registered buyers from the EU countries may be able to seek repayment of the import VAT paid by applying to HM Revenue and Customs. On request, immediately after the sale, the office can either ask HM Revenue and Customs to generate a C79 certificate (for UK buyers), or obtain a copy of the import C88 (for other EU VAT registered buyers), which may be used to claim recovery of the VAT. Otherwise Gardiner Houlgate may re-invoice the lot and charge VAT at 20% on both the Hammer Price and the Premium and provide a tax invoice to the buyer
15. CITES Restrictions
As of 2 January 2017, new laws came into effect to control the import and export of all items made with rosewood. Any lots containing any amount of rosewood will therefore be subject to restrictions when exporting outside of the EU. It will be the buyer’s responsibility to make sure that the relevant paperwork is in place before shipping
Some lots are sold with CITES article 10 certificates, allowing the commercial use of an item containing an endangered species. Lots subject to this are marked in the catalogue
16. Gemstones
Many gemstones have been treated in various ways to enhance their appearance. For example, sapphires and rubies are routinely heat treated and emerald treated with oils and resins. Some stones may require re-treating or oiling periodically. Enhancement affects market value and all Gardiner Houlgate estimates assume that gemstones may have been enhanced, in any case all lots are sold as seen and purchasers are deemed to have satisfied themselves as to condition and any possibly treatment of stones
17. Artists Resale Rights (or Droit de Suite)
On certain lots in the catalogue and which are sold for a hammer price of 1000 Euros or greater (converted into the currency of the sale using The Design and Artists Copyright Society threshold calculator on the date of the Sale) the Additional Premium will be the percentage of the amount of the Hammer Price calculated as follows:
0-50,000 Euros 4%
50,000.01 to 200,000 3%
200,000.01 to 350,000 1%
350,000.01 to 500,000 0.5%
Exceeding 500,000 0.25%
These Conditions of sale are subject to English law, which shall apply to their construction as well as their effect. The Seller and Buyer agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
We are pleased to accept payment by the following methods: debit cards, credit cards (see below), cash to a maximum of £9000, Building Society cheque or Bankers Draft.
Cheques will be accepted when supported by a guarantee card up to the limit of the card and at the discretion of the auctioneers, unless arrangements have been made with us prior to the auction. Payment direct to bank is also accepted, please contact the office for details.
Card payments - we are no longer able to accept payments by credit or debit cards for 'customer not present' transactions over the telephone. Card payments are still accepted at the saleroom and must be supported by 'chip and pin', under no circumstances will this method be bypassed. Card payments via Gardiner Houlgate Live will only be accepted if they have been AVS (addressed matched) and 3D Secure via Sage Pay, with a maximum transaction value of £500. All payments at the discretion of the auctioneer.
Release of Goods
Payment and clearance should be made within 7 days after the sale. Goods will not be released until full payment has been received and a paid invoice produced. All funds paid direct to bank will be checked for clearance. For clients arranging courier or third party collection – written instruction must be received from the purchaser; identification will be requested from the courier and vehicle details will be taken, unless known to us. For security purposes our premises are monitored with 24 hour CCTV.
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See, Lisa.
Shanghai girls : [club] a novel / Lisa See.
Borrow-a-book Club.
Borrow-a-book Club is a service available to Burlington County Library System customers wishing to establish book discussion groups.
11 paperback books -- 4 hardbacks -- 1 large print pbk. -- Clip board.
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Canvas bag with books
9780812980530 (pbk.)
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Library Journal Review
In prewar 1930s Shanghai, carefree sisters Pearl Chin and younger, prettier May are the "beautiful girls" whose images on posters beckon viewers to buy products. They openly scoff at their parents' superstitious, old-world ways, but they soon learn that the good life is but an illusion. The Japanese army's brutal invasion of the city makes their lives as beautiful girls impossible. Their businessman father loses everything to the ruthless mob, and to pay off his debts he forces his daughters into arranged marriages to Chinese men living in the United States. See is masterly in her powerful depictions of the prejudice and harsh treatment the sisters encounter as they try to assimilate into the strange new world of Los Angeles. Possibly the best book yet from the author of Peony in Love; highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/09.]-Marika Zemke, Commerce Twshp. Community Lib., MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Today they would be called fashion models. But in early-twentieth-century China, sisters Pearl and May were known quaintly as beautiful girls, whose sophisticated cover-girl images set the standard for young Chinese women and exemplified the hopes of an ancient nation catapulted into anxious modernity as it balanced on the brink of war. Paradoxically, Pearl and May were also the products of a traditional upbringing in which their father controlled their destiny, selling them into marriage to Chinese men from America to settle gambling debts to a depraved Shanghai mobster. The tortuous route they take to first avoid, then accept, and finally embrace their abrupt fall from grace is rife with the most heinous tragedies rape and murder, betrayal and abandonment, poverty and servitude. Through it all, one thing ensures their survival: the sisters are tenaciously devoted to each other, though time and events will strain this loyalty nearly to the point of destruction. Examining the chains of friendship within the confines of family, See's kaleidoscopic saga transits from the barbaric horrors of Japanese occupation to the sobering indignities suffered by foreigners in 1930s Hollywood while offering a buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.--Haggas, Carol Copyright 2009 Booklist
Two sisters escape war-ravaged Shanghai, only to face discrimination and the threat of deportation in the United States. See's latest fictional exploration of the lives of Chinese women (Peony in Love, 2007, etc.) begins in 1937 Shanghai, a cosmopolitan city under imminent threat of Japanese invasion. As oblivious to rumors of their beloved city's collapse as they are to their family's circumstances, Pearl Chin and her younger sister May continue to shop, frequent nightclubs and pose for illustrator Z.G.'s advertising calendars featuring "Beautiful Girls." However, Papa Chin, having lost his fortune to gambling debts, has sold his daughters into marriage to Sam and Vern, sons of Chinese-American entrepreneur Old Man Louie. After hasty weddings (only Pearl's union, with Sam, is consummated), the brides refuse to accompany their husbands to California. When Shanghai is bombed and Papa abruptly disappears, the women and their mother join the stream of refugees fleeing the Japanese on foot. Along the way, Pearl and her mother are brutally raped by Japanese soldiers, while May hides. Their mother does not survive, but the Chins reach Hong Kong and embark for the United States, having decided, in desperation, to join their husbands. At San Francisco's notorious Angel Island immigrant-internment center, May, pregnant by a boyfriend, prolongs the sisters' already extended quarantine until she is able to give birth in secrecy. Pearl claims May's daughter Joy as her own and Sam's. Once reunited with their spouses in L.A.'s Chinese district, the former Shanghai princesses must acclimatize themselves to a life of drudgery, toiling in the Louie family's curio shops and restaurants. Despite engrossing complications involving immigration issues and the impact of the '50s Red Scare on Chinese-Americans, the Chinatown section, spanning 20 years, seems overlong. The final chapters, however, wherein Z.G.'s Beautiful Girl artwork resurfaces as Maoist propaganda and the FBI stalks the family, are worth the wait. The close suggests See's next setting may be the People's Republic, a development sure to please her readership. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience."-- USA Today <br> <br> In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn't be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides.<br> <br> As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown's old ways and rules.<br> <br> At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most. Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are: Shanghai girls.<br> <br> Praise for Shanghai Girls <br> <br> "A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood." -- Booklist<br> <br> "A rich work . . . as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey." -- Denver Post
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Serial CEO & Co-Founder, Accelerator Manager and now VC Partner… Bryony Cooper has seen startups from every angle!
Come to Wolves Summit tomorrow and meet Bryony where she will be a speaker or just text us at hello@arkleybrinc.vc, and we match you!
We are very happy to welcome Bryony to the team as Partner and Chief Acceleration Officer of Arkley Brinc VC. Previously, she was running Brinc’s IoT Accelerator in Bahrain and served on their global Investment Committee. As a serial startup entrepreneur and enthusiast, she co-founded 3 companies by the age of 30.
Whilst CEO of German innovation hub IXDS Labs, Bryony managed ventures such as ‘HINT’ (digital health IoT) and ‘Fritzing’ (an open-source hardware). Formerly CEO & co-founder of T Dispatch, a fleet management platform for transportation, she helped to raise $2.5 Million and acquired an international client base.
Bryony was featured in the book ‘Dear Female Founder’; a series of letters to inspire the future generation of women entrepreneurs. She has spoken at various startup and tech conferences around the world, such as Web Summit (Dublin), Pirate Summit (Cologne), Mobile World Congress - 4YFN (Barcelona) and Women Power Summit (Bahrain); next you can see her at Wolves Summit 2018 here in Warsaw on 23 - 24 October.
How did you first get involved in the startup world?
My first business was a web development and SEO agency in London, back in 2009. I started out as a copywriter/editor, but naturally gravitated towards a managerial role. An in-house project with my business partner lead to us to co-founding T Dispatch - our first real startup. We quickly raised a pre-seed round, and from there it just snowballed!
What do you like about startup life?
One of the things I love is the variety. No two days are the same and the speed of learning is unparalleled. I have been in charge of sales and business development, PR and marketing, management, investor relations, finance, admin and operations... all at the same time! It never gets boring. The energy and resilience of startup founders really inspires me; the ability to get knocked down and always get back up again is paramount.
How did you get to know Brinc?
We first crossed paths whilst I was running IXDS Labs in Berlin, because both our companies focused on connected hardware and IoT. We were creating new ventures, Brinc was accelerating and investing into startups. We invited Bay McLaughlin, Brinc co-founder, to speak at IXDS, and he gave a super engaging talk! I was later approached to join the company by Mateusz Soltysiak, Director of Brinc Poland, who I’d known in my professional network since T Dispatch days. My background and skills seemed to be a perfect fit, so I went for it!
Why do you think Arkley and Brinc are such a good match for a joint venture?
Arkley already built its reputation as one of the leading hardware investors in Europe; they betted on the IoT sector long before other European investors, and already have an amazing track record. Arkley also has a great network of partners in Europe, reaching to San Francisco. And all their teams got follow-on funding! Brinc is not only an accelerator, but an end-to-end platform that can support hardware and IoT startups from concept to commercialisation. From building the first prototype, to product development, production and finally distribution. Brinc has spent years cultivating a network of service providers in the Greater Bay in China, so they can help teams navigate the complex world of manufacturing. Arkley Brinc VC is a key player in building an ecosystem to support European IoT startups with much needed capital, and can connect teams with every resource and service provider necessary to go to market.
What have been some highlights in your career so far (aside from joining Arkley Brinc VC)?
I was really happy to get a seed investment ($90,000) from my first ever pitch in front of a crowd back in 2012. Being a featured contributor in the book ‘Dear Female Founder’ was a great moment for me, as I’m a strong advocate for gender diversity at board level and in the tech sector. It was also a great experience to launch the first IoT Accelerator program in the MENA region with Brinc in Bahrain.
And finally, what advice do you have for first time founders who are looking to start a business?
Find a real-life problem to solve in an underserved market. Do your homework, become an expert in your field/industry category and be prepared when you approach investors. Surround yourself with positive, supportive individuals who want to see you succeed; be open to constructive feedback and always assume there is more to learn. Be humble; one of the most common reasons I’ve seen founders fail is because their egos are too big and it ends up creating conflict! You can’t build a business by yourself, so accept your weaknesses and find co-founders or partners who complement your personality and skill set.
Write to us at hello@arkleybrinc.vc if you want to meet Bryony personally!
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Real Innovation in Wireless Security
Daryl Coon
September 12, 2012 - 0 Comments
A few weeks ago, Gartner released their MarketScope for Wireless LAN Intrusion Protection Systems. The paper is designed to provide an evaluation of the currently available WIPs solution and, as you might guess, Cisco is one of the featured vendors.1
I spent several weeks, working behind the scenes to provide customer references and content for Gartner. During that effort, I was struck by the level of innovation Cisco has introduced into wireless security. Real innovation that works in the real world. We not only offer two levels of wireless intrusion protection, we also deliver three ways to deploy those solutions.
Cisco’s backend intrusion detection and prevention is built into every Cisco wireless network deployment, providing always-on security and preventing wireless threats from connecting to the wired network. This level of security requires no licenses and no additional equipment. Pretty generous, I think and no doubt why more than 70 percent of Cisco WLAN customers use this WIPS capability.
Leveling up to Cisco Adaptive Wireless IPS provides security optimized for the wireless environment. Using the Cisco Mobility Services Engine, aWIPS is able to locate, identify, and mitigate over-the-air security threats—even if they’re only transmitting intermittently. Through the Mobility Services Engine’s location capabilities, aWIPS is able to discern whether intrusion signatures are multiple rogues or one rogue detected by multiple access points. That’ll eliminate a lot of nervous moments.
While these solutions provide a great range of capabilities, it’s the deployment models I really thought showed leadership.
The basic monitor mode uses one set of access points to provide wi-fi and a second set of access points to monitor for rogues and other threats. It’s a good solution for deployments that need full performance wi-fi and always-on, full-spectrum security. But, with twice the number of access points, this level of performance carries a price.
This is where most vendors stop. Not Cisco. We introduced an overlay technology called Enhanced Local Mode. In this deployment model, one set of access points provides wi-fi and security. Essentially, the access point toggles between the two functions. Wi-fi some times, security some times. This model is a great option if cost is the primary concern. Sure, you lose a little wi-fi and security performance but, for many applications, the result is more than enough. And the savings are worth it, especially if on-channel protection is the priority.
The third model—Shared Monitor Mode—uses our Aironet 3600 access points and a special, plug-in security module. Using this tandem, you can deploy a single set of access points and get full performance and security. No compromise in performance yet with half the access points—and their installation—of the monitor mode deployment.
Combine the two levels of security with the three deployment options and Cisco can provide the level of wireless security that fits any company’s performance and security needs, and budget. I think that’s the kind of innovation everyone likes. Innovation that works for them.
1 Access to the full report is available only to named Gartner seat-holders. If you have a seat, you can download this report by entering G00226398 into the search field on the Gartner website.
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Birthday Song for Jazmine, Happy Birthday Jazmine
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Social Reaction
Packers vs. Seahawks: Score and Twitter Reaction from 2015 NFC Championship
Tyler Conway@jtylerconwayTwitter LogoFeatured ColumnistJanuary 18, 2015
Russell Wilson wasn't his best Sunday. In fact, he was probably near his worst. But when it came time to save the Seattle Seahawks' season, Wilson got the job done.
The former Pro Bowl quarterback hit Jermaine Kearse for a 35-yard touchdown in overtime, completing a historic comeback and sending the Seahawks to the Super Bowl with a 28-22 victory over the Green Bay Packers.
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A game that seemed like an easy Packers win throughout instead became the stage for the biggest comeback victory in conference championship history. Down 16-0 at one point and 19-7 with just over two minutes remaining and one timeout left, the Seahawks needed miracles (plural) to mount a comeback.
The first came via a beautifully floated 26-yard pass from Wilson to Marshawn Lynch that set up a one-yard Wilson touchdown run. The next occurred on the ensuing onside kick, when Packers tight end Brandon Bostick allowed an easy catch to bounce off his head and into the waiting arms of Seattle's Chris Matthews. And then another happened on the Seahawks' two-point conversion attempt after their go-ahead touchdown, when Wilson launched a floating prayer that came down in the arms of Luke Willson.
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That touchdown allowed Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers a heroic moment of his own, as he led the Packers down the field for a game-tying field goal that forced overtime.
But it wasn't to be for the Pack. The Seahawks won the coin toss and needed just six plays to march 87 yards, with Wilson hitting Kearse over the top amid a rocking CenturyLink Field. The win is Seattle's second straight conference championship and leaves open the possibility of the first repeat Super Bowl champion in the last decade.
No one ever would have thought that would be the case during Seattle's nightmare first half Sunday.
A touchdown underdog and the recipient of a Week 1 beating in the same building, the Packers came into Sunday a battered bunch. Rodgers was dealing with a torn calf muscle, Randall Cobb a reported abdominal injury that kept him in the hospital Saturday night, per Fox Sports' Jay Glazer, and Eddie Lacy a knee injury that had him on the injury report. One could have understood if the Packers were a bit of a mess offensively.
But the Seahawks' offensive struggles were a feature early on, and they nearly sent Green Bay to Glendale, Arizona.
Wilson, Seattle's steady commander-in-chief, was anything but for most of Sunday's game. It took him nearly the entire first half to make his first completion to a player wearing a Seahawks uniform, and things rarely went well when he did. He finished with 209 passing yards, all but 12 of which came during the second half and overtime.
Arguably the best Seattle pass before overtime came from punter Jon Ryan, who hit Garry Gilliam on a 19-yard fake field goal touchdown toss.
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Russell Wilson's 1st completion came with 3:58 left in the 2nd quarter, the longest completion drought to open a game in his career
Wilson was also responsible for four of the Seahawks' five turnovers, setting a career high at the worst possible time. While he saw pressure throughout, his interceptions were largely the product of plain bad decisions.
Wilson twice threw right into coverage when Ha Ha Clinton-Dix had safety help over the top. Another interception cut a potential touchdown drive short when he floated another pick right into the hands of a waiting Sam Shields. The fourth interception was the result of a tipped pass, but it was nonetheless telling that Wilson didn't get to 100 passing yards until midway through the fourth quarter.
It was the exact opposite of a typical Wilson—and for that matter, Seattle—performance. The Seahawks committed eight penalties, couldn't get anything going when they held onto the ball and generally seemed underprepared. All Green Bay had to do was hold fort and avoid screwing things up on the opposite side of the ball.
Seahawks have 4 first-half turnovers ... it's the most they've had in the 1st half of any game since 2006 Week 12 ... against the Packers
For as poorly as Seattle's offense played, its defense played nearly that well. The Packers settled for field goals twice inside the 5-yard line, didn't turn any of Wilson's interceptions into touchdowns and coughed the ball up two times themselves. Mason Crosby, who was perfect on five field-goal attempts, was probably Green Bay's most reliable weapon.
Rodgers, noticeably gimpy from the outset, struggled all game to get going. He threw two interceptions and his 178 yards came on 34 attempts, good for only 5.2 a throw. His quarterback rating of 55.8 was the second-worst of his playoff career and just the third time he's been below 90 in a January contest. Rodgers' longest pass completion was 23 yards, and it was his only throw longer than 15 yards.
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The Packers as a team gained 306 yards, a minuscule number for Football Outsiders' top-ranked offense.
"Our defense sets this team's tone," Seattle linebacker K.J. Wright told Jim Corbett of USA Today on Friday. "Twenty years from now, you can look back on this defense and say, 'Those guys were one of the best.' … It's a defense full of leaders, all-pros and Pro Bowlers, a defense that plays together and for each other."
The Packers found arguably the most success on the ground. Lacy finished with 73 yards on 21 carries, and James Starks busted open a key 32-yard run in the fourth quarter that sparked a field-goal drive. Green Bay's 4.5 yards per carry as a team were a full yard better than Seattle's regular-season rate.
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Lacy with some all growns up and he's all growns up runs.
"I think with Eddie Lacy, I don't think there's a lot of people who want to tackle him," Packers coach Mike McCarthy told reporters during the week. "He's playing at an extremely high level. He's playing the best football of his two-year career. His ability to be a three-down player. He is of primary importance to us and he has delivered."
On the other side, Marshawn Lynch turned in a typically brilliant performance. He rushed for 157 yards, gashing the Packers on read-option looks in particular. His 24-yard touchdown run with 1:25 remaining gave Seattle its first lead of the game and inspired a redux of his not-so-appropriate-for-children touchdown dance.
Outside the first-half turnovers, the game largely followed an expected template. The second half fell much closer in line with what everyone saw on film, with Seattle slowing down the Green Bay offense and moving the ball in a solid, controlled pace.
The only thing that really went wrong in the final 30 minutes for Seattle was Richard Sherman suffering an arm injury. Sherman's status for the Super Bowl may be the thing the Seahawks have to worry about most over the next two weeks. The Pro Bowler was in obvious pain and received treatment on the sideline after every possession despite staying in the game.
That said, it would be a surprise to see him sit out the Super Bowl with the history of a repeat on the line.
With Wilson due for a massive new contract after the season, the Seahawks are going to have to make tough decisions about veteran players. Lynch's exit has been rumored, and a number of key contributors are set to hit the open market. Cutting costs to facilitate deals for Wilson, Sherman and Earl Thomas is a reality of the business. This will probably be the deepest this core of players ever is going forward.
In two weeks, we'll get to see whether they take advantage. For now, the Seahawks celebrate as a team whose performance Sunday was historic. If they become repeat Super Bowl champions in two weeks, it will be even more so.
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Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: Does the NFL Have a Dipping Problem?
Mike Freeman@@mikefreemanNFLTwitter LogoNFL National Lead WriterOctober 28, 2015
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1. The NFL's "silent plague"
During the Vikings' telecast on Sunday, it was reported that running back Adrian Peterson was ill from swallowing his chewing tobacco. Peterson denied the story and said what really made him ill was some whack seafood.
"I've been dipping for the past 10 years," Peterson told the media after the game. "Swallowing dip? My body's immune to it. That doesn't affect me at all."
Wait...hold on...what? Adrian Peterson has been using dip for a decade? This got me wondering: How much is dip used in the NFL?
The answer: a helluva lot. A whole helluva lot.
It turns out dip isn't just a baseball thing. It's also a football thing. As baseball has moved away from dip—slowly—football players might now use it as much, if not more, than their baseball counterparts.
I asked four active players and one recently retired one what percentage of NFL players dip. The lowest estimate was 40 percent. The highest was 60 percent. (In MLB, the numbers seem to be trending much lower than that.)
The players I spoke to describe an NFL awash in dip. Almost the entire offensive line on nearly every team uses dip, the players said. Many running backs. Most of the defensive line and a number of linebackers.
Equipment managers on teams often make dip runs for players. They bring back bags full of dip and hand it out to players.
One player, who is white, said dip use differs across racial lines and positions. "It's mostly racial," said the player. "White guys dip, only some of the black guys. It's also by position: OL, DL, LB, FB biggest dippers."
What has also mostly gone unnoticed is that players dip while on the sideline all the time. Television cameras either don't see it or choose not to show it, but I'm told dipping happens often during games.
I have to say, in 25 years of covering the sport, I have never heard of dip being this prevalent. I'm not saying it's a big deal, but interestingly the NFL, when it comes to dip, is going in a different direction than baseball. Baseball is trying to eliminate dip use due to cancer concerns.
One NFL coach I spoke to called it "the silent plague."
"I don't think guys using it understand the dangers it presents," the coach explained.
That seems slightly dramatic, but then again, there's a reason why Major League Baseball has tried to ban chewing tobacco altogether. The head of baseball's players' union, Tony Clark, told the Associated Press (via USA Today) that some players quit chewing after Hall of Fame player Tony Gwynn died from oral cancer last year.
Before his death, Gwynn told the San Diego Union-Tribune's Bill Center he believed his years of using dip led to him getting cancer. The Mayo Clinic says chewing tobacco can increase certain cancer risks including "esophageal cancer and various types of oral cancer, including cancers of your mouth, throat, cheek, gums, lips and tongue. You also face an increased risk of pancreatic cancer."
Mayo also says dip is highly addictive—as addictive as cigarettes.
The interesting part of this, from the NFL side, is that players I spoke to said the union and NFL have done little to curb use of chew. "They don't care," said one player on the use of chew.
One factor that might explain some of that: A player explained to me that a higher percentage of coaches chew than players. Why do coaches use? "Probably to help them stay awake," the player said, referring to the long hours the coaches keep.
The NFL is at an interesting crossroads now when it comes to dip. I asked the league for comment on the apparent prevalence of dipping, and in response received a statement explaining that it is against league policy to appear in ads for tobacco products or to use any tobacco product "in the playing field area or while being interviewed on television," which would seem to mean the sideline dipping is against the rules.
Beyond that, it appears the league has no interest in curbing the use of something that potentially increases cancer risk.
We'll see how long that lasts.
2. Before the Cowboys enabled Greg Hardy, there was Jeremiah Ratliff
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Watch the reporter's face in the background while Jerry Jones calls Greg Hardy a "real leader" https://t.co/oHgbEDgf3i
The way Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is enabling Greg Hardy's childish behavior is, well, pretty disgraceful. Deadspin had it right with its NSFW headline.
But there is another example of a team enabling the behavior of a troubled player and ignoring his issues so it can take advantage of his talent. It is one of the most startling, unbelievable, worrisome examples of player enabling you will ever hear.
By now, you've heard the story of former Bears player Jeremiah Ratliff. He had a heated exchange with Bears officials after being cut and had to be escorted out of the team complex by security.
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Jeremiah Ratliff was escorted out of Halas Hall on Wed. by #Bears team security. Ratliff had an animated exchange with GM Ryan Pace outside.
Lake Forest police were later stationed at Halas Hall on Wed. after #Bears security escorted Jeremiah Ratliff off Halas Hall premises.
What you may not know was that something similar happened last year with Ratliff and the Bears. It was a scary and bizarre moment.
In the last week of the season, on a Friday, according to a player who witnessed the entire incident, Ratliff showed up to practice and was behaving belligerently toward players and coaches. The coaching regime, then led by Marc Trestman, would not allow him to practice.
Ratliff went ballistic, this player said, and was asked to leave practice. He departed but later returned. Practice was stopped and most players went off to the side while a small group of players and coaches tried to calm Ratliff down and get him to leave.
It didn't work initially. Ratliff destroyed the game clock on the practice field, smashing it and kicking it. Later, he shoved an assistant coach to the ground. While all of this went on, Trestman never intervened. He just stood off to the side and watched.
And this is the most incredible part. The uber-enabling part. Not only was Ratliff never punished by Trestman...he was named one of the captains the next day. The entire locker room was incredulous.
Trestman justified making Ratliff a captain by saying he brought intensity, but no player bought that. That move, the player said, led to Trestman officially losing the locker room. Trestman was fired soon after.
You can't blame the new coaching staff if, fully aware of what happened with Ratliff last year, they just wanted to get him as far away from the team as possible.
This is the lesson for the Cowboys. You cannot mess around with the players the way Trestman tried to. The players know why Jones is defending Hardy, and it has nothing to do with passion. It's because he's talented, and the players know all of this. They're not dumb.
3. What the hell, Ravens?
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I am rarely surprised by anything in the NFL any longer, but I have to say that Baltimore having just one win has stunned me.
What has really been staggering to watch is how poorly coached the Ravens have been. There are talent deficits, to be sure. But under the John Harbaugh regime in the past, you didn't see so many mistakes. Not big mistakes. Not mistakes on basic fundamental stuff. Not on tackling. Not on blocking. Not taking stupid penalties.
No, Harbaugh won't get fired. But that organization needs to make major changes this offseason.
4. Will Arian Foster be in the NFL next year?
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The short answer is yes. The real question is where will Foster be?
He signed a five-year contract in 2012, and according to NFLPA records, Foster accounts for $8.7 million against the salary cap this season and $9.3 million next year.
He is coming off serious back surgery last year and a torn Achilles this season. He turns 30 next year, and I don't see the Texans keeping him unless he renegotiates his contract to ease the cap hit. That's definitely possible.
It's more likely the Texans cut him and Foster finishes his career in a place like Washington.
5. Tom Brady blows off Darrelle Revis
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I know, I know...some of this is like high school. I usually despise the "this guy hates that guy" stuff.
But this is interesting. After the Patriots beat the Jets, Darrelle Revis approached Tom Brady to shake his hand, and Brady blew him off. Clearly blew him off.
Not a big deal, I know. Not saying it is, but it's just...interesting. These guys were close teammates when together. My guess is Brady didn't appreciate Revis basically saying that he thought Brady cheated.
And that led to the cold handshake.
I'm told by people on Twitter that the team's color analyst said that Revis and Brady did indeed say hi, and that video was their second handshake. Or something like that. Others say Brady did indeed react coldly to Revis.
6. The Colin Kaepernick situation keeps getting messier
CSN Bay Area's Matt Maiocco reported this week that 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was called out by a teammate during a players-only meeting last month, leading to some tension within the team. The story says all beefs were settled. But on Sunday, Fox's Jay Glazer reported that's not really accurate. There are still some beefy beefs. Glazer said Kaepernick is "on an island" in the 49ers locker room.
So where are we? Both stories are probably true. There was a meeting, but there still may be some hard feelings.
The bottom line remains that the team is at a major crossroads not just with Kaepernick but with the head coach as well. The 49ers could get rid of both after this season.
7. The AFC South is historically putrid
This from the Elias Sports Bureau: For the first time since 1970, a team with a losing record is in first place in its division after seven weeks. That would be the 3-4 Colts, and 1970 would be the NFL-AFL merger. That is a long time.
8. Cold, but funny
Browns fans have a sick sense of humor. Can't blame them.
9. Philip Rivers making history
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Philip Rivers threw for 503 yards against the Packers two weeks ago. He threw for 336 against the Raiders last week, the fourth-highest total following a 500-yard performance in NFL history, the league said.
That is an artificial stat, for sure. It means almost nothing except for two things.
First, to throw for that kind of yardage after a massive amount the week prior does show a level of mental sturdiness and skill.
Second, Rivers' 336 yards after a 500-yard game is the fourth-most all time. Fourth.
In 2011, Tom Brady had 517 passing yards against the Dolphins and then 423 against the Chargers. He's first. In 2006, Drew Brees had 510 against Cincinnati and then 349 against the Falcons. In 2014, Ben Roethlisberger had 522 against the Colts and then 340 against Baltimore.
10. Brilliant story on wife of Hall of Famer
I knew Gene Upshaw well. Sometimes he hated me, sometimes he liked me. That's how it should be. But he was always a class act, and he was one of the top two or three offensive linemen of all time. His linemate, Art Shell, was the same. If Upshaw and Shell played today, they would dominate the same way they did when playing for the Raiders decades ago.
I thought I knew a lot about Upshaw, but I didn't know this about his widow. The Washington Post's Lonnae O'Neal wrote an incredible story on her this week. It's worth your time.
Mike Freeman covers the NFL for Bleacher Report.
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The Influence of Antioxidant Additives on Oxidation Stability in Spark-Ignition Fuels
Author: Anton Paar
24.11.2015 14.05.2018 Category: Oxidation Stability, Petroleum Industry, Various Petroleum Properties
Oxidation stability is an integral part of the standard specification for spark-ignition fuels (ASTM D4814 / EN 228). Typical gasoline is primarily composed of naphtha (cycloalkanes), paraffins (alkanes) and olefins (alkenes). As refiners seek to maximize the production of high-value products from low-value stocks, there is increased pressure to include catalytically cracked naphtha component streams with high olefin content in the gasoline blending pool.
In particular, the unsaturated components are inherently unstable and subject to deterioration due to oxidation, which can cause undesirable fuel characteristics such as darkening, formation of polymers and reduced induction periods. Aging of gasoline can occur both during storage and use in an engine with hydroperoxides as initial reaction products, which – followed by a series of subsequent reactions – give rise to aldehydes, acids and polymers. Ultimately, these oxidation products are responsible for an acidity increase leading to rusting and corrosion, oil thickening leading to loss of viscosity control and the appearance of insoluble materials leading to filter and nozzle blocking. The primary purpose of antioxidant additives is to extend the induction period and period for which gasoline can be stored before unwanted oxidation products are formed. However, the response of a gasoline to an antioxidant in terms of increased induction period and thus oxidation stability depends on both the antioxidant and the fuel composition. In order to achieve the best possible results for a certain fuel blend a thorough screening of antioxidants and their concentration is essential to obtain the most cost-effective solution.
Rapid Small Scale Oxidation Test
A solution for this would be to use a RSSOT (Rapid Small Scale Oxidation Test) according to the ASTM standard D7525. The RSSOT was developed as an alternative to the standard test method for oxidation stability of gasoline (ASTM D525), which is the traditional bomb method. An automatic RSSOT instrument uses this new test method to measure the induction period of spark-ignition fuels, including those containing alcohols or other oxygenates under accelerated oxidation conditions. A typical test is conducted with a small sample volume of 5 mL. This is introduced into a test cell and charged with oxygen to 500 kPa at a temperature of between 15 °C to 25 °C. The measurement is started by heating the test cell to 140 °C until the break point is reached. The break point is defined as the pressure in the test cell which is 10 % below the maximum pressure of the test run. The induction period, which can be used as a measure of the oxidation stability, is specified as the time elapsed between starting the heating procedure of the test cell and the break point (pmax -10%), which is commonly measured in minutes.
Oxidation Stability Tester RapidOxy
The fundamental parameter influencing the induction period of the RSSOT is the applied temperature. Investigating the temperature dependence from 110 °C up to 160 °C in 10 °C increments at 700 kPa has revealed that the RSSOT induction time is highly dependent on the applied test temperature and that the rate constant k increases with temperature. The Arrhenius plot shows a linear correlation of the rate constant against the applied test temperature with the general conclusion that the RSSOT induction period of a fuel sample is approximately cut by half for each temperature increase of 10 °C.
In comparison to the RSSOT, the standard test method for oxidation stability of gasoline, ASTM D525, is typically conducted with a large sample size of 50 mL in an oxidation pressure vessel at lower temperatures of 100 °C and an oxygen pressure of 700 kPa. The break point for the ASTM D525 is defined as the point in the time-pressure plot that is preceded by two consecutive pressure drops of 14 kPa each within 15 minutes. The corresponding induction period is defined as the time elapsed between the application of temperature and the break point. Although ASTM D7525 and ASTM D525 are similar in some aspects, the test temperature, sample size and break point definition, in particular, make the RSSOT method a faster, safer and more user-friendly alternative (Table 1).
Sample size 5 mL 50 mL
Test temperature 140 °C 100 °C
Oxygen pressure 500 kPa 700 kPa
Break point pmax -10% 2 consecutive Δp of -14 kPa each within 15 min
Induction period Time between application of temperature and break point Time between application of temperature and break point
Table 1: Comparison of the RSSOT / ASTM D7525 with ASTM D525
Thanks to the higher test temperature and smaller sample size the ASTM D7525 test method reaches the break point approx. 15 to 25 times faster than with ASTM D525. Moreover, the break point definition of the ASTM D525 with two consecutive timed pressure drops of 14 kPa can lead to tests in which the break point criterion is never reached and thus no induction period can be measured. The clear definition of the ASTM D7525 break point as pmax -10% eliminates this problem and an induction period is obtained in every test. Additionally, in contrast to ASTM D525 no additional safety measures like a burst disk is needed because of the apparatus design of the RSSOT. The eruption of a burst disk during a test can be a major hazard to the surrounding laboratory staff and laboratory environment.
These advantages make the RSSOT ideal for the fast optimization and release of gasoline.
Measuring the influence of antioxidant additives on gasoline with high olefin content
A “raw” gasoline with an olefin content of approx. 40 % and a commercially available antioxidant were used for this investigation. The influence of the antioxidant additive on the induction period was screened for concentration from 0 ppm up to 50 ppm and tests were done in parallel using both test methods ASTM D7525 and ASTM D525 (Table 2). The results show that with ASTM D7525 a short induction time of 23.55 minutes is obtained with 0 ppm of antioxidant, which can be gradually prolonged up to 17.60 min with an antioxidant concentration of 50 ppm. As expected ASTM D525 has a much longer induction time of 199.34 min with 0 ppm antioxidant, which likewise for ASTM D7525 is prolonged with increasing concentration of antioxidant additive. Overall, the measured induction periods were approx. 20 times faster with the RSSOT in comparison to ASTM D525.
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Antioxidant (ppm)
ASTM D7525 (min)
ASTM D525 (min)
0 13.55 199.34
Table 2: Influence of antioxidant additives on the induction period of gasoline with high olefin content
Plotting the induction periods of ASTM D7525 and ASTM D525 against each other shows a linear correlation with an excellent data fitting of R2 = 0.98.
In ASTM D4814 the limit for automotive spark-ignition engine fuels is set to a minimum induction period of 240 minutes using ASTM D525 as the test method or a minimum induction period of 360 minutes for EN 228. Correlating these minimum ASTM D525 induction periods to ASTM D7525 the minimum induction period with the RSSOT has to be approx. 14 min for ASTM D4814, respectively 16 min for the EN 228.
To assess the influence of the antioxidant, the additive concentration was plotted against the ASTM D7525 induction period. The linear slope with a fitting of R2 = 0.99 indicates an excellent correlation between RSSOT induction period and antioxidant additive concentration. Using this plot the minimum antioxidant concentration needed to meet the limits defined in the specifications of ASTM D4814 and EN 228 can be determined. The ASTM D4814 oxidation stability criterion of 240 minutes induction period with ASTM D525 correlated to 14 minutes induction period with ASTM D7525 and can be met with 6 ppm of antioxidant concentration. The EN 228 oxidation stability criterion of 360 minutes induction period with ASTM D525 correlated to 16 minutes induction period with ASTM D7525 and can be met with 30 ppm of antioxidant concentration.
Ultimately, these results show that ASTM D7525 allows fast product optimization and helps to prevent excessive use of antioxidant additives to get the most cost-effective solution.
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First published in Petro Industry News volume 15 Issue 6
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25 Free and Cheap Things to Do in Cancún
Gina Martinez May 18, 2018
Explore more of Mexico with these Memorable Mexican Vacations Under $100 a Day.
ESCAPE THE DAILY GRIND
As summer vacation season nears, few things sound more appealing than a trip to a tropical paradise. The stunning city of Cancún, situated on the northeast Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, can make an affordable beach destination — especially with all the free and cheap things to do in the area. Here's a list to help with planning a budget-friendly Cancún getaway.
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TOUR THE MUSEO MAYA DE CANCÚN
A few hours' visit to the Maya Museum affords a thorough glimpse into this fascinating Mesoamerican culture, which existed from 2,000 B.C. to 1697 A.D. The museum houses paintings, pottery, jewelry, and other artifacts from various eras of Maya civilization, and visitors can see archaeological evidence of the famed Mayan hieroglyphs. Admission costs about $5 a person, including outdoor access. The museum's grounds feature a lovely garden and the San Miguelito ruins, the remains of a small step pyramid.
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EAT LIKE A LOCAL
For meals in the Yucatán peninsula, choices boil down to: foreign restaurants (pizza, burgers, etc.), touristy "Mexican" food, and authentic Mexican food. Make that last choice for the most delicious and inexpensive food in Cancún. According to the local newspaper, tourists should look for restaurants with painted or handwritten menus, cooking stations up front, and modest decor. Choose establishments that are crowded with locals rather than empty (there's a reason). Don't miss the tacos, pozole (a hearty red soup with chicken, avocado, veggies, and spices), whole fish, empanadas, and ceviches. Note: While tap water in Mexico isn't suitable for drinkin, most restaurants serve bottled water.
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RELAX AT THE PARQUE DE LAS PALAPAS
Take in the local Mexican culture in the main city square, the Park of the Palapas (palapa refers to a thatched-roof shelter). This recently renovated, family-friendly park (free to enter) has ample seating for groups to relax and enjoy cheap snacks from food stands: Corn on the cob, fried plantains, and quesadillas are the specialties. Kids can run around and play soccer while adults sit in the open-air food court or browse the artisan stands (which are in the design of palapas). Free outdoor live music plays weekends and most weeknights, too, and visitors often can catch a performance from a mime or other street entertainer.
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VAYA A LA PLAYA
Of course, don't miss the gorgeous, free-entrance beaches while in Cancún. Locals reportedly love Playa Tortugas (Turtle Beach) for a more low-key atmosphere and pristine quality. Another option farther outside of the crowds: Playa Delfines (Dolphin Beach), which offers free parking, rare in the area, or easy access by bus or taxi. Visitors might find the waves at Delfines a bit rougher than those at Tortugas. For more populated, action-packed beaches, try Playa Las Perlas (Beach of Pearls), Playa Linda (Beautiful Beach), and Playa Langosta (Lobster Beach), all open for free public access and located just north of the hotel zone. The last three beaches are sheltered from turbulent waters by Isla Mujeres (Island of the Women), just off the coast.
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EXPLORE THE LOCAL RUINS
A day trip to the famous Maya ruins at Tulum and Chichén Itzá costs about $70 to $80. But right in Cancún, tourists can see spectacular archaeological ruins for less than $5. What is possibly an old lighthouse at Cancún's highest point, Yamil Lu'um (Hilly Land) -- aka Templo del Alacrán (Temple of the Scorpion) -- dates to 1200 A.D. and offers free admission. For about $3 to $4, visitors can explore El Rey Ruins or El Meco Ruins, sites of old Maya temples and structures. Look out for free-roaming iguanas and awesome views of the lagoon.
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MOSEY AROUND MERCADO 28
A giant outdoor flea market in downtown Cancún, Market 28 holds more than 100 artisanal stands selling jewelry, clothing, crafts, and pretty much any kind of souvenir imaginable. While browsing, locals and tourists alike frequent a wide variety of local Mexican grocery and prepared food stands. Market 28 is also the place to go for banks, post offices, Internet cafes, and ATMs. Most places and stands in the area accept U.S. dollars but not credit cards.
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EXPERIENCE UNIQUE NIGHTLIFE AT COCO BONGO
The premier spot for nighttime revelry in Cancún is Coco Bongo. The booze runs freely, but there's no conventional dance area for patrons. Rather, the club features thrilling, nonstop performances by acrobats, musicians, aerial dancers, conga lines, and more. The air stays filled with balloons, confetti, and soap bubbles. Cover charges run on the steep side: $70 Monday to Wednesday and $80 Thursday to Sunday. However, that includes unlimited domestic drinks from 10:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m., plus the entertainment, so for partying night owls, Coco Bongo could turn out to be a relatively inexpensive night out.
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UNWIND IN A COZY CAFÉ
Located in the La Isla Shopping Village, Ah Cacao Chocolate Cafe attracts locals and tourists alike for its out-of-this-world coffee and cold chocolate drinks, delicious desserts like corn cakes, and friendly service. It earns top honors from reviewers on TripAdvisor and Foursquare. Ah Cacao sources its coffee and chocolate directly from Mexican plantations and seeks to support farmers using sustainable growing practices. It also has locations in nearby Playa Del Carmen.
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The warm Caribbean Sea breeds exotic fish and coral reefs that are best enjoyed with a mask, breathing tube, and fins. Getting off the beaches and into designated snorkeling zones affords the best glimpses of underwater wildlife. Many ideal spots are free for independent snorkeling, including cenotes (swimming holes with limestone formations and coral reefs dating to the Ice Age, as well as underwater caves), Punta Cancún (with lots of bright parrot fish), Paamul Cove, and the Puerto Morelos coral reefs. To save on rental fees, bring along snorkel equipment (all-inclusive resorts might provide it for free); otherwise, renters pay about $6 to $10 each.
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VISIT THE INTERACTIVE AQUARIUM
The Interactive Aquarium Cancún maintains 13 tanks as well as marine artifact exhibits. The wide variety of aquatic life includes eels, piranhas, jellyfish, lionfish, sea lions, clownfish, rays that visitors can touch, and sharks. Every evening at 7, guests can watch a unique dolphin presentation for no extra charge. The aquarium is 365 days a year, and general admission costs $14 a person.
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BIKE AROUND TOWN
Bicycling lets visitors see a city in a new way -- and avoid renting a car or constantly paying for transportation. Guided bike tours charge lots, but bike rental can be incredibly cheap. One standout in reviews on TripAdvisor is Hola Bike. It rents adjustable beach cruisers for $10 a day (minimum four days), including a lock, drop-off, and pickup. Extras such as helmets, baskets, lights, and kiddie seats are just $1 to $2 more. A more rugged mountain bike from a company such as Elite Cyclery runs $30 for a half day and $40 for a full day with discounts if multiple bikes are rented.
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TAKE A DAY TRIP TO ISLA MUJERES
Dubbed "Island of the Women" due to its history as a sacred site to Ix Chel, the Maya goddess of childbirth, Isla Mujeres has crushed-coral sands, pristine water, and a calming ambiance. From Cancún's hotel zone, ferries run to Isla Mujeres for about $8 round trip; for even cheaper (though longer travel time), guests can take a quick bus ride downtown and catch a ferry for about $2 each way. While on the island, be sure to shell out the $3 entry fee to visit the sea turtle sanctuary Tortugranja (Turtle Farm), where indoor and outdoor pools house six species of sea turtles under a year old. Generally the sanctuary holds a ceremony in October, open to the public, for releasing the hatchlings to the sea.
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BAILA COMO LOCO
Dance like crazy late into the night at La Vaquita nightclub. The name literally means "The Cow," and indeed, the place is decked out in cow-themed decor. The cows apparently inspire revelry, because La Vaquita is the hot spot for hip-hop dancing in Cancún. A skip-the-line pass, which includes entrance and bottomless drinks all night, costs $35. The open bar, as in most clubs in Cancún, begins evenings at 10.
BROWSE AVENIDA TULUM
A walk down the area's main boulevard, Tulum Avenue, offers another way to get a taste of local culture just outside the more touristy hotel zone. From one of the main hotels, a bus ride for less than $1 takes guests to the shopping district. Browsing the shops can be a free means of cultural immersion. When making purchases, note that haggling is customary; Avenida Tulum is a great place to practice speaking Spanish, as some shop workers probably won't speak English.
GET ADVENTUROUS AT AKTUN CHEN ECO PARK
A day trip to the huge rainforest park of Aktun Chen, which translates from Mayan to "natural well inside a cave," could be the highlight of a Yucatán vacation. National Geographic named the caves, which house fruit bats and feature amazing fossils and rock formations, among the world's most impressive underground walkways. From Cancún, take the cheap ADO bus and then grab a taxi for a quick ride to the park. Activities include zip-lining, swimming in the cenote, and cave tours. Customers can purchase single activities separately for $30 to $45 each or a package deal for $106, but there are discounts of 15 percent to 20 percent if ordered online.
According to Expedia, rental cars can be hired for less than $10 a day in day in Cancún, and many are less than $5, from popular and well-known agencies like National, Alamo, and Budget. The resort town of Playa Del Carmen is only about 40 miles away if you’re looking to hit the road for a bit.
EXPLORE THE JUNGLE IN A SPEEDBOAT
Throughout the touristy areas of Cancún, visitors can choose to rent personal watercraft, which cost about $40 for half an hour, and hit the water on their own. However, Jungle Tour Cancun’s professionals lead jungle tours on an exciting course through the mangroves around the coast. For two people (on a two-seater speedboat), the tour costs about $55 for about two to three hours and includes a snorkeling opportunity, too.
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APPRECIATE MAYA-INSPIRED ART
Artists and brothers Renato and Adán Dorfman create gorgeous, Maya-influenced works in various media, including painting, sculpture, mural, music, architecture, and poetry. Their work can be browsed in the Dorfman Art Gallery, located conveniently in the Plaza Kukulcán within the city's hotel zone. Head artist Renato creates renowned work in the style of authentic pre-colonial Mexican tradition, with his own environmentally attuned touch. Guests can browse the gallery for free, and it's also purportedly an esteemed spot to pick up traditional Mexican art.
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GO SUBAQUATIC AT AN UNDERWATER MUSEUM
Under the sea off the shores of Punta Cancún, Manchones Reef, and Punta Nizuc lie over 400 humanoid statues, shallow enough for snorkelers, divers, and glass-bottom boats to see. The reefs in the area have sustained damage due to climate change, so these statues serve as artificial reefs designed to attract marine life. Artist Jason deCaires Taylor has created exhibits including "The Silent Evolution," "The Garden of Hope," and "Man on Fire." Snorkeling and scuba diving tours are about $40 to $60; divers must be certified. The Fodor's travel guide reports that swimmers can explore the area for free independently.
EXPERIENCE LOCAL CATHOLICISM
Another way to get immersed in a place's culture is to visit the local houses of worship, whether during a service or not. The lovely, modest Iglesia del Cristo Rey (Church of Christ the King), located in Parque de las Palapas, has an open-air design and attracts flocks of residents and travelers alike. A large statue of Mary and a rock fountain in a serene garden in the back allow for quiet contemplation. Iglesia del Cristo Rey is cited as a primary spot for religious wedding ceremonies in downtown Cancún. The Chapel remains open 24 hours; Sunday Masses start at 8, 10, and 11 a.m. and 12, 5, 6, and 8 p.m. (free entrance, of course). English translations are available, and certain Masses may be celebrated in English.
TAKE AN ATV TOUR
Most tours in the Yucatán peninsula cost hundreds of dollars, so an ATV tour available through Viator is a steal at $55. For about 90 minutes (some reviews estimate the tour lasts more like an hour, although that doesn't dampern most of the feedback), guests drive semi-automatic all-terrain vehicles through the jungle and along the pristine coastline. The tour stops to allow riders to take a dip in the Caribbean Sea or hang out at the restaurant in the area. The cost includes hotel pickup and drop-off, a bilingual guide, and the ATV rental.
RIDE A BUS TO MERIDA
If time allows, visit the "beautiful white city" of Merida for a step back into Mexican colonial times. The city has lovely white houses, horse-drawn buggies, ancient trees, and many historical monuments to explore. On Saturday nights, the main square closes to traffic for outdoor cultural dancing and performances, free to the public. The bus ride from downtown Cancún to Merida lasts four hours and can cost $25 each way, though prices do vary dramatically both higher and lower. The buses reportedly accommodate passengers with comfortable seating and on-board movies. Visitors who choose to stay overnight in Merida can find many hotel rooms for $40 a night or less.
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Hiring a fishing charter can cost hundreds of dollars, but frugal anglers will be happy to hear that fishing from land or a pier doesn’t even require a permit, according to reports online. Keep it even more affordable by bringing your own gear, but be sure to stay away from areas where people are swimming.
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COMMUNE WITH CRITTERS AT KABAH PARK
Here's a hidden gem that offers a green escape from Cancún's bustling, touristy chaos: Kabah Ecological Park, aka Parque Urbana Kabah. With playgrounds, seating, and paths for jogging and walking amid jungle foliage, visitors can breathe deeply and beat the heat, as well. What many park-goers love most is the wildlife: turtles, badgers, deer, coatis (adorable!), and exotic birds all hang out in the park, right in the middle of one of the biggest tourist cities in the world. Within Kabah, the small Casa Maya Museum displays photographs from Cancún's past and the Campamento Chiclero (Bubblegum Park) offers brief lessons on how the Maya produced chewing gum from tree resin.
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PARTY AT SEÑOR FROG'S
A list about Cancún wouldn't be complete without one more wild nightlife spot. A cheap and popular option is Señor Frog's, a family-friendly restaurant during the day that turns into a crazy club by night, with tequila conga lines and wet T-shirt contests, among other risqué activities. Accommodating up to 1,500 guests, Frog's keeps the entertainment going until 3 a.m. (late for the area), and has live music and DJs every night. It’s mostly frequented by the 18-to-25 crowd. At about $5 to $15 each, the cost of alcoholic drinks can add up quickly. Señor Frog's offers an “open bar” deal ($60 if ordered online) that includes dinner and all you can drink until closing time.
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Rumble Fitness Opens Near D.C.'s West End This Month
By Gary Duff | April 3, 2019 | Lifestyle
Boxing-inspired fitness company, Rumble, has set its sights on D.C. with a new location opening April 12 at 2001 M Street.
“We are thrilled to be entering the vibrant Washington, D.C. market and look forward to becoming part of the community,” says Rumble CEO Andy Stenzler.
Under his leadership the fitness brand, who recently added Equinox to its investor portfolio, has opened multiple locations in New York City, Los Angeles, San Franciso and Philadelphia. Locations in Palo Alto, Chicago, Boston and Brooklyn are already on their way.
Like its other outposts, D.C.'s Rumble will offer customers some of its signature workouts: the 45-minute, 10-round strength and conditioning classes found at the fitness concept's locations across the country is also on the bill in D.C.
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BonzAI! Let the Brawling Begin
Teams of dedicated programmers code relentlessly for eight hours straight. Their mission: develop an artificial intelligence (that’s where BonzAI’s AI comes from) that will play a given game and defeat all comers. A total of 104 players comprised the 40 teams that assembled April 9 to play the fourth annual BonzAI Brawl. Sponsors include the Department of Computer Science…. [read more]
Open House for the Humanities Digital Media Zone this Friday
The renovated Humanities Digital Media Zone (HDMZ) will host an open house at 1:30 p.m., Friday, April 29. Members of the Michigan Tech Board of Control and the administration are expected to attend, and the public is also welcome. The HDMZ is located on the first floor of Walker. “The HDMZ is designed to create a flexible and sophisticated technological work and social environment,” said Erin Smith, director of the project and senior lecturer in humanities…” [read more]
Murthy Receives Distinguished Service Award
Michigan Technological University adopted a paid maternity leave policy in January 2010, due in great part to Pushpalatha Murthy. For her efforts, Murthy will receive the 2011 Distinguished Service Award, which carries a prize of $2,500. Murthy, a professor of chemistry and director of the Women in Science and Engineering group… [read more]
Farewell Gathering for Retiring Biological Sciences Faculty
Biological Sciences invites the campus community to join in recognizing three members of the department who are retiring at the end of this semester, including Professor Eunice Carlson, Associate Professor Ronald Gratz and Associate Professor Robert Keen, who have logged a combined 108 years of teaching and research excellence at Michigan Tech. The festivities will be from 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 26, in Memorial Union Alumni Lounge…. [read more]
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Tuesday was award day at the Air Force ROTC program. Lt. Col. Kerry Beaghan, detachment commander, led a ceremony that recognized a year of work, achievements, service and leadership by the cadets. This is what Beaghan said: “All the cadets have worked tremendously hard this year and this ceremony is a small, but visible way, to recognize their achievements…” [read more]
Yap, Lee Receive Bhakta Rath Award for Nanotube Research
For groundbreaking work in nanotechnology, Yoke Khin Yap and Chee Huei Lee have received Michigan Technological University’s Bhakta Rath Research Award. Yap, an associate professor of physics, and then-PhD student Lee (he graduated in 2010) invented a technique for synthesizing boron nitride nanotubes. Compared to their carbon-based cousins, boron nitride nanotubes have alluring qualities but…” [read more]
Tech Students Receive NSF Awards for Grad Study, Research
Graduate Research Fellowships support students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based degrees. Among the recipients within the college is David Schaeffer, who will continue work on his PhD in Psychology. Honorable mentions include physics undergraduate Eric Petersen and master’s student in biological sciences Jonathen Ebel. Tech student Erin Thoma, who is earning a PhD degree in mathematical sciences, was selected to participate in NSF’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes…. [read more]
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About the Blue Ridge Mountains
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“Trout are among those creatures who are one hell of a lot prettier than they need to be. They can get you to wondering about the hidden workings of reality.”
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Truly one of the most engaging programs in the region, Trout in the Classroom is a national program established by Trout Unlimited. It is an in-class environmental education program for elementary, middle and high school students. With a 55 gallon tank set up in the classroom, students raise trout (brook or rainbow) from eggs to fry and then release them into VDGIF approved cold water streams and lakes. The hands on approach of the program makes a profound connection with the kids.
The lessons of the program include water quality, scientific monitoring and coldwater conservation. The long-term goal is to reconnect an increasingly urbanized population of youth to the system of streams, rivers, and watersheds that sustain them. The classroom will receive the aquarium equipment in early fall, receive the eggs in October, raise the trout through the winter until they are fingerling when they will be released into a local cold water stream.
This program falls directly in line with BRDC's Mission and we aim to bring it to kids throughout the Blue Ridge. For more information about Trout in the Classroom please visit: http://www.troutintheclassroom.org
Release day is a big deal for students as they set free nearly 100 tiny brook trout after watching and caring for them over the span of an entire school year
The Trout Population has Increased in Wilson Creek
Last week was absolutely beautiful and we couldn't have had a better time on Wilson Creek in Grayson County as the 7th grade students of Independence Middle and Grayson Highlands Schools and the 5th grade students of Piney Creek Elementary School released their trout.
November Programs: Grayson County Public Schools
November was a busy month as BRDC joins the 1st, 5th and 7th grade classes to study Owls, Watersheds and Trout.
As the school year wraps up, the student's hard work as part of the Trout in the Classroom program is paying off.
Having reared brook trout fingerlings from eggs for the last 4 months, the students now feel the pride of releasing the young trout into local streams.
Learning about Amphibians & Aquatic Insects
BRDC has been busy with education programs, working with Galax Middle School, Fries School, Fairview Elementary, Grayson Highlands, Independence Elementary.
Grayson County's fourth grade students participated in the Natural Heritage Program with an emphasis on salamanders, toads, and frogs. Students learned about salamanders commonly found in the Blue Ridge.
The Trout Have Arrived!
As part of the Trout in the Classroom program, classrooms set up 55 gallon tanks to create a suitable habitat for trout.
Trout in the Classroom Release
For four months, the 7th grade class at Grayson Highlands School have been raising trout from eggs to fry in a 50 gallon aquarium. On March 24, the students celebrated their success with the release of 80 small fry into Wallen's Creek.
In 2014 we received generous support from Grayson National Bank to expand the participation in Trout Unlimited's Trout in the Classroom program. Their support allowed us to install two more tanks: one in Mrs. Murphy's 4th grade class at Piney Creek Elementary and one at Mr. Horton's Galax High School Ag class, for a total of three 50 gallon tanks including the one managed by Mrs. Perry's 7th grade class at Grayson Highlands.
With support from Grayson National Bank, we are happy to announce that we will be bringing Trout in the Classroom to two more regional public schools! This terrific program, developed by Trout Unlimited, brings hands-on science directly to the classroom. Students raise native Brook Trout from eggs to fingerlings in a 55 gallon aquarium throughout the school year. If they are successful, they will get release them into their local VDIGF approved watershed. I know there are a bunch of kids out there looking forward to this as much as we are!
Trout in the Classroom: Grayson Highlands School
Over the past four months Mrs. Perry’s seventh grade life science students at Grayson Highlands School have been diligently raising native brook trout in their school lobby for all visitors to see. This is part of a program called “Trout in the Classroom” and revolves around the students learning about the biology and ecology of one of the most iconic species of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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First edition, second printing
Gettysburg-58 alternate edition
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This was made by Charles S. Roberts II at his home at 305 Gun Road Baltimore MD. Has the Avalon Hill Gun Road Address on box and the mapboard, and the 501 number is not on the box. Everything else is the same as the other 1958 Edition except there are no range cards.
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I'm Not On Here Enough
I’ve been going through this, and oh my, it’s amazing. The Milwaukee White Sox, 90’s Nationals, and Indy Arrows have to be the peak of this thread.
I’ve always felt like Indianapolis (biased) has always been a good candidate for relocation/expansion, but then you realize that is lodged between Chicago and Cincinnati. Can’t do anything about that.
I’ve felt like an Indiana White Sox concept would be nice to see, or maybe A’s. If there is one thing that I have learned, you can put Athletics in front of a location name and you can make some visually appealing concepts.
Keep up the good work dude!
12 minutes ago, IndianapolisCubs2009 said:
I’ve felt like an Indiana White Sox concept would be nice to see, or maybe A’s.
Ah yes, that old White Sox to Indianapolis rumor that’s persisted for years. I don’t think there’s ever been any validity to it, but I certainly wouldn’t turn down another White Sox relocation concept from @SFGiants58.
Wow, this is a lot to take in! I think you made the right call going with “Tarpons,” although “Twins” could translate well, you’re right that it seems too closely associated with Minnesota, especially in the navy/red scheme.
The red/orange variants are very nice as well, the orange pinstripes work wonderfully to truly give the “creamsicle” effect, I didn’t even realize the base color was white until I zoomed in. Maybe this idea is influenced the throwback Bucs a bit much, but it could be a nice look to have a white-crown cap paired with the orange alt. Well done!
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"Tammy & Pete" ROCK!
TAMPA BAY CANNONS (former Texas Rangers) - Yeahmanthat'sFortBrookedangumSlateandScarlet, tellyawhat!
Tampa Bay Sweepstakes Intro
The next franchise in the lineup was the Texas Rangers. By 1988, the problems inherent in the glorified minor-league venue Turnpike/Arlington Stadium had become all too apparent. It's rinky-dink, built-on-speculation (and poorly expanded upon) construction provided little-to-no shade in the hot & humid Texas summers. The history of crummy ownership and poor play did not help matters (UrinatingTree provides the details here). Majority owner Eddie Chiles had fallen on hard times and ill health (Frank Morsani recalls being told that Chiles had Alzheimer's in Stadium for Rent and To Be Frank), which prompted him to sell the club. Morsani and the TBBG saw the perfect opportunity to get that team for the Tampa stadium.1
The TBBG (namely, Morsani and Bill Mack) hashed out a contract to buy Chiles' stake for $85 million, one which looked promising. Once again, the deal fell through due to complications from minority owners. Ed Gaylord, who owned 33% of the team, triggered his option to take a majority stake. While the other baseball owners (especially Jerry Reinsdorf) rejected it (due to Gaylord owning superstation KTVT), it scuttled Morsani & co.'s deal. The deal probably would have been rejected anyway, since Dallas/Ft. Worth is too valuable a market to lose, even though Morsani hinted at spurring on an expansion team to replace the Rangers.2
Meanwhile, AL President Bobby Brown (originally from Texas) and exiting Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth helped to assemble a new ownership group headed by George W. Bush, Rusty Rose and Richard Rainwater. Said group swept in and bought the team for $79.3 million, leaving Morsani out in the cold again and further up financial fecal creek (having spent $500,000 on attorneys for the sale). This would spell the end of the Al Lopez Field site project.3 The Rangers would get a taxpayer-funded stadium to replace the glorified bowl of bleachers. but that's a rant for another day.
TL;DR: Rusty Shackleford as Frank Morsani, Puff-Puff as Ed Gaylor, and the falling cigarettes as the Bush/Rose/Rainwater ownership group.4
However, what if either deal went through, and the Rangers moved to Tampa? How would their identity adapt to the Gulf Coast?
Unlike "Twins" (which kind of works), "Rangers" really doesn't sound right in Tampa Bay. I wanted a name that kept with similar themes to the Rangers' identity, so I looked to the Rays' 2008 rebrand ideas for inspiration (citation in link). The name "Cannons" stood out, as it fit with the history of the region. The Tampa Bay area's growth started around the US Army outpost Fort Brooke, where it served as a valuable outpost in the Seminole Wars and the Civil War (for the Confederates - hey, the actual Texas Rangers have done questionable stuff as well). Heck, cannons from the fort remain on the University of Tampa campus:
It seemed like a local identity that would keep the ethos of the Rangers' moniker intact.5
I imported the slate blue from the Project 32 Rangers concept, alongside scarlet and gold. I carried over the Caniste Semibold from my Florida White Sox concept as the central font. The primary features a baseball roundel with the insignia in front of a diamond and crossed cannons. The insignia is the secondary, while a roundel with the crossed cannons is the tertiary.
The home and road set go for a slate/scarlet co-dominant look (a la the 1972-82 Rangers), while also featuring red-billed caps (like the 1972-85 headwear). Thick sleeve and pants trim appears here, so that the set uses the whole color scheme. The socks use a similar pattern. Caniste numbers also appear here, as a display font felt more appropriate for an expansion team (rather than an Original 16 club like the White Sox) and the more modern arching style. The NOB's are one-color, for legibility. I also put the primary on the sleeves.
The alternates include both scarlet and slate blue jerseys, with the blue shirt using the tertiary as a patch and the "Tampa Bay" wordmark (road wordmarks at home being a Rangers-esque touch).
The second set of alternates features a red-crowned cap, along with matching belts, undershirts, and socks. I didn't want to pair them with the red jersey, for fear of it being too much red. The fauxback is my attempt to produce a 1963-67 Washington Senators-style jersey, albeit with the Cannons' name and color scheme. The cap logo comes from the Tarpons/Twins, with a few adjustments to bring it closer to the original Curly W. I re-used the font from my Sens MK II concept, for that extra touch of accuracy.
The jacket continues the co-dominant color scheme theme, with red sleeves and gold shoulder trim.
While the Rangers' name really wouldn't work in Tampa Bay, one could keep the spirit of it intact for the new locale. It also allows me to continue my theme of "what the Rays should have done in 1998 or 2008," building an identity with a more local flare. C+C is appreciated, as always!
Up next, Morsani makes a final stand with TWO proposals for 1993 NL expansion teams. Here's a hint: one has a NHL name and the other has a MLS/NASL moniker.
1 Andrew Clem, “Clem’s Baseball ~ Arlington Stadium,” Clem’s Baseball, December 1, 2018, http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/ArlingtonStadium.html; Bob Andelman and Lori Parsells, Stadium For Rent: Tampa Bay’s Quest for Major League Baseball, 2nd edition (St. Petersburg, FL: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015), 55-57; Frank Morsani and Dave Scheiber, To Be Frank: Building the American Dream in Business and Life (Tampa, FL: BlackWood Books, 2015), 130-35.
2 Andelman and Parsells, Stadium For Rent, 58-59; Morsani and Dave Scheiber, To Be Frank, 133-36.
3 Clem, “Clem’s Baseball ~ Arlington Stadium,” Morsani and Dave Scheiber, To Be Frank, 131-136.
4 Author's note: King of the Hill never really specified whether or not Arlen was Rangers or Astros territory. I'd guess Rangers, if only because of Hank's derision at Boomhauer being a Texans fan.
5 Jonah Keri, “Chapter 7: The Exorcism,” in The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First (Bristol, CT: ESPN Books, 2011), 134;
“The Establishment of Fort Brooke — FlaHQ 31:273‑278 (1953),” University of Chicago, accessed December 11, 2018, http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Florida/_Texts/FlaHQ/31/The_Establishment_of_Fort_Brooke*.html; “Ft. Brooke Cannon - History of Tampa, Florida - Wikipedia,” accessed December 11, 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tampa,_Florida#/media/File:Ft._Brooke_Cannon.jpg; “Fort Brooke - FortWiki Historic U.S. and Canadian Forts,” accessed December 10, 2018, http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Brooke.
I gotta say, I really like the logos & wordmarks made for the Cannons, but I also prefer the red heavy set of the alternate over the slate blue kit for a Tampa Bay team. What would red undershirts look like on the road and with the red & blue alternates, respectively? I feel like this is kinda like the Indians current look, where the jersey could pop really well with either blue or red undershirts, I just have a feeling the red would look better. Either way, this set is definitely a winner.
Beautiful work as always!
Cannons name is very nice, concept looking solid as usual!
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The twins, new tarpons and cannons, have been some of the best concepts you’ve made in this series yet. And I much prefer the red and orange for tarpons. Also the font works much better for the cannons than Sox, gives off a circus-y vibe like circus cannons. The blue jersey is my favorite of the bunch!
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On 12/11/2018 at 3:38 AM, SFGiants58 said:
"You get a new savior as owner; George W. Bush. Dubya! That's a heck of a lot better than moving to Tampa Bay."
Also, this Morsani guy is totally trying to give Crazy Charlie O. and his constant identity crisis a run for his money.
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Oh that script is phonomenal, really well done concept!
Also I want to be mad that you stole my Tam and Pete logo idea that I never finished but I think I'm gonna just have to deal
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I just happen to find this thread in the middle of the Sweepstakes...... pain is an understatement. They still look awesome!
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It’s probably the colors more than anything, but this brings back memories of the old Calgary Cannons. I was lucky to grow up in Alberta in the 90s when they had some serious top class AAA action going on up there. Those were glory years for baseball in Canada. Nice work as always!
On 12/10/2018 at 6:14 PM, IndianapolisCubs2009 said:
Thanks! I never found any credible evidence that White Sox to Indianapolis was a credible rumor, but I'd definitely consider doing it when the time comes (for funsies). I'd probably do the whole black/red deal with them, with a region-appropriate city script/insignia.
On 12/10/2018 at 11:09 PM, MJD7 said:
Thanks! I'm rather fond of the orange pinstripes, as they provide a modern twist on a traditional design convention. The white-crown looks pretty good.
On 12/11/2018 at 6:39 AM, KittSmith_95 said:
Thanks! The whole point of the set was that it could work with a slate-crowned/red-billed cap or an all-red cap. It does look pretty solid with a red cap:
I prefer slate with a red bill, as it's more unique within the AL and fits more with the "military fort" theme. Still, it's a strong alternate look.
On 12/10/2018 at 11:56 PM, MBurmy said:
On 12/11/2018 at 12:33 PM, coco1997 said:
On 12/12/2018 at 6:40 AM, BellaSpurs said:
On 12/12/2018 at 11:24 AM, Dalcowboyfan92 said:
Morsani was one of the big money people behind bringing a team to Tampa Bay, looking for any and all opportunities to get in on the action. You kind of feel sorry for the guy by the end of the story, as he faces bankruptcy problems once his expansion group fails.
On 12/12/2018 at 11:43 AM, raysox said:
On 12/14/2018 at 8:02 AM, HereComesThax said:
Thanks! I was hoping a Tampa Bay Area resident who was alive during the time would post here. The whole thing must have felt like getting pummeled by a Muay Thai champ for the better part of a decade. I'll get into it for the final post, but I maintain that the shell game really hurt baseball's standing in the market.
On 12/15/2018 at 11:24 PM, appleclock said:
Thanks! The Calgary Cannons had a pretty strong look, so I'm glad my concept reminded you of them.
The first of the two expansion teams should be up soon!
FLORIDA PANTHERS, PT. I - Morsani's green and gold grasp at expansion
This was Frank Morsani’s final stand. After the failure of the Rangers purchase, he triggered the National League’s interest in expansion in 1990. He set about turning the Tampa Bay Baseball Group towards expansion, branding themselves as the “Florida Panthers.” The team would play in the Suncoast Dome, giving in to the pressure to use the poorly-located, taxpayer-funded white elephant. Morsani also restructured of the group once he realized that Bill Mack’s deep pockets wouldn’t cover the group’s many expenses (e.g., demolishing Al Lopez Stadium, renting the Tampa land, paying for offices, etc.). Businessmen Mark Bostick and Lance Ringhaver agreed to take Mack’s place. While it brought a bit more stability, they did lose Mack’s baseball connections.1
The group went into the expansion meetings, competing with groups from all over the country, including two others in the Tampa Bay Area (the Schur/Porter/Kohl partnership – detailed more in the next post – and a team headed up by Sarasota-based businessman Tom Hammonds, Hawk Harrelson, and Don Drysdale – which never received serious consideration).
After making their presentations in New York to the NL expansion committee on September 28, 1990, Morsani and his partners came away confident. Said confidence died on December 18, 1990, when the NL announced that six cities made the cut: Denver, Miami, Buffalo, Orlando, Washington, and the Schur/Porter/Kohl group in Tampa Bay. Morsani had made a valiant final effort, only to find himself betrayed by baseball again. He would soon file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, while also mourning the death of his baseball insider, Cedric Tallis, from a series of heart attacks. Frank Morsani would sell the trademark for the name “Florida Panthers” to Wayne Huizenga.2
TL;DR: Shinji Ikari as Morsani and the many faces and visions flashing over him as the mental trauma of his attempts to get a baseball team, one that basically killed a close friend of his:
The National League (and Major League Baseball as a whole) denied Morsani’s group for several reasons, most notable among them being:
1. Morsani was facing publicized lawsuits from two Tampa Bay Area banks for defaulting on sizable loans. Morsani had been paying many expenses out of his personal pocket, weakening his financial state (losing $3-million of his fortune on “baseball expenses”). Bostick and Ringhaver didn’t have that same “wow” factor/financial standing as Bill Mack.
2. The Schur/Porter/Kohl group had far more money. Among their group was Roy Disney, Walt’s nephew, who was worth about $660-million. Sidney and Allen Kohl also had a sizeable fortune to back themselves from their Wisconsin supermarket chain. While they did not have the same local connections as Morsani, they were more financially solvent.
While the TBBG did get screwed over by baseball’s owners and the expansion committee, Morsani wasn’t exactly going to be the best position to lead an ownership group. I’ll get into the details of it more the Tampa Bay Sweepstakes wrap-up, but the tale of the TBBG is one of the most disheartening stories of failed expansion, especially with the potential for a privately-funded stadium in a better location and deep local connection.3
So, this is a baseball concept series, yes? Well, let’s get to the concept! What if Bill Mack footed the bills to avert Morsani’s financial mess? What if the Panthers came to be?
The above is from the Kindle edition of Stadium for Rent - seriously, go read this book when you have the time.4
Morsani created a design with green/yellow color scheme. However, I expect that MLB Properties would point out that the A’s might have an issue with another team adopting their color scheme. I figured that they’d convince Morsani to employ metallic gold instead of yellow. Morsani, who would later become a big-time booster at the University of South Florida, would probably be thrilled with the proposition. Red would be a minor accent color.5
Much like the Rockies and Marlins, Phoenix Design Works would handle the designs. They would create a mark akin to the 1994-present Detroit Tigers’ head logo. I wanted to repurpose the NHL Panthers’ design (since Huizenga wouldn’t own the name), with enough adjustments to make it fit within the Phoenix Design Works’ style. The “JetBlue” panther head provided the base, one that I tweaked to include bits of the 1993 “electrocuted” panther (taller eyes, whiskers, and curved fur bits at the bottom of the jaw). Here is a comparison:
The logo sheet features two roundels, which include a primary with the team/city name and a tertiary with the state outline and the cap logo (pointing to Tampa Bay). The secondaries include the cap logo (an “F” with claw marks) and the solo panther. Albertus Medium is the base font, with a few modifications. Glyphic serifs make for fantastic “claw mark” simulations.
EDIT: The tertiary is now the panther head on its own, per @coco1997's suggestion. The first image is here.
The uniforms use the same template as the 1993-2002 Marlins, with a pinstriped home uniform, double-outlined wordmarks/lettering, nameplates, and thick cuffs on the road uniform. I tried to imitate the Marlins’ old wordmark, albeit less messy and without that “s-tail.” The primary is on the sleeve, while the cap logo appears on the socks.
The alternates include a vest and a green jersey. The green jersey features the panther on its own, along with a metallic gold bill. Original image, with the first tertiary on the vest's sleeve, is here.
Outerwear features the claw mark pattern on the gold sleeves, for an exceptionally-bold look. Original image here.
The Florida Panthers could have had a strong identity within the confines of the era’s aesthetic conventions. But how would I spin the design to fit with my tastes? That post will be coming later today!
1 Bob Andelman and Lori Parsells, Stadium For Rent: Tampa Bay’s Quest for Major League Baseball, 2nd edition (St. Petersburg, FL: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015), 156–60, 168; Bruce Lowitt and Kenneth S. Allen, “Is the Cat out of the Bag? - Morsani Team Would Be Florida Panthers,” Tampa Bay Times, April 12, 1990, sec. Sports; Frank Morsani and Dave Scheiber, To Be Frank: Building the American Dream in Business and Life (Tampa, FL: BlackWood Books, 2015), 136–38.
2 Andelman and Parsells, Stadium For Rent, chaps. 12 "The Pitch"-13 "Happy Holidays, Mr. Morsani"; Marc Topkin and Karl Vick, “Tampa Bay Makes Its Pitch,” Tampa Bay Times, September 29, 1990, sec. National; Marc Topkin, “Tampa Bay Group Signs Merchandising Agreement,” Tampa Bay Times, May 25, 1991, sec. Sports.
3 Morsani and Scheiber, To Be Frank, 146–51.
4 Andelman and Parsells, Stadium For Rent, 189.
As for the other expansion group, we'll see soon enough.
Edited December 18, 2018 by SFGiants58
Removed the state outline logo and added intro piece.
The dugout jacket is the best thing about this set. The two tones for the jacket, with the faux claw marks makes it look visually distinctive, and very eye-catching and appealing.
The tale of Tampa Bay Baseball Group can be summed up in one meme.
Right being Morsani and the TBBG
Left being; well, not TBBG, and the eventual choice
Oh man, the Panthers are totally ‘90s in the best way possible! The colors, the primary and the secondary logos are all excellent.
The only part that doesn’t work for me is the tertiary logo. It just looks like a couple disparate ideas (the state outline, panther face and “F” logo) floating together. I think you could simplify the logo or just drop it altogether and the concept wouldn’t suffer for it.
Pumped for the next expansion team!
I like it. I've wanted a team in dark green pinstripes. I like the scripts, but the partial underline feels like a Twins trademark, and I wonder whether that would fly.
The primary reminds me of the Kane County Cougars logo, at least the one I grew up with:
Assuming Tampa replaces Miami in that timeline, would Miami get a team later down the line, or Do the Florida Marlins just start off as the Miami Marlins
Edit: And what happens to the irl Panthers?
23 hours ago, Dalcowboyfan92 said:
Thanks! I really enjoyed designing that jacket and the claw pattern.
That’s a good Top Gear meme. I’d also argue that one could sum up Morsani’s bid (and the other Tampa Bay bids):
Richard’s 924 is the Hammons bid (never given any serious consideration, underpowered, odd), Jezza’s 928 is Morsani and the TBBG (ambitious and a former favorite, but fallen on hard times and reduced in value by “problems”), and Captain Slow’s 944is the Schur/Porter/Kohl Brothers’ group (looks outwardly like the best option for performance and the league, but hiding deeper problems).
I miss 2002-14 Top Gear.
22 hours ago, coco1997 said:
Thanks! You’re right about the tertiary, which is why I excised it in the update. The solo panther head is way better.
22 hours ago, the admiral said:
Thanks! Dark green pinstripes (which I also did for a Chicago A’s and my Twin Cities Twins concepts) look fantastic. The dark green/metallic gold look gives me shades of this:
Of course, I doubt Jagūar (that's how you pronounce it, 'Muricans)/Ford PAG would have sued with a looser resemblance than the Jacksonville Jags.
I don’t think that the underline would be too much of a problem for the team. The color scheme is entirely different from the Twins, while the Twins’ mixed-case rounded slab-serif font bears no resemblance to Albertus. It’s no different than I also believe that it’s a cleaner way to handle how the Florida/Broward County Marlins’ handled their script tails.
I didn’t know about the Cougars’ logo. I definitely can see the resemblance, albeit with mine having a repurposed NHL Panther as the centerpiece.
37 minutes ago, BellaSpurs said:
The Miami team would probably exist, either by expansion or relocation. Wayne “Captain Video” Huizenga was making his way through baseball’s owners and leading the charge for Miami baseball. He gets his Miami or “South Florida” team no matter what.
I figured that the South Florida NHL team would adopt a different name, maybe one that doesn’t use a state name or employs a “South Florida” identifier (as he was prone to like, see my Florida Flamingos concept for more info).
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The seat may not protect children under 9kgs as good as it should if forward facing. A rear facing car seat would be better at protecting them because of the fragility of their cervical spine. But only 15% of parents asked in the survey knew their child’s weight.
Your baby grows fast.
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Did you know? Leaving or forgetting a chid in a vehicle can have fatal results. From all reported deaths by heatstroke inside cars, over 70% were left unattended.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance (PC)
Written by Cheryl Gress
Developed by: Warhorse Studios
Published by: Warhorse Studios
Available on: PS4, Windows, Xbox One
ESRB Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Alcohol
(Kinguin Affiliate Link)
Thank you Kinguin for sending us this game to review!
Kingdom Come: Deliverance takes place in Bohemia shortly after the death of the great emperor Charles IV. His son, Wenceslas, took his place and was an idle and self-indulgent leader who divided the country on being fit to rule or not. Sigismund, Wencelas’ half-brother and king of Hungary kidnapped him and raided Bohemia in his absence.
One of the first towns to be razed is Skalitz where Henry, the blacksmith’s son, resides. Prior to the brutal massacre of his town, Henry enjoyed his time at the pub with his friends and was pretty serious with a tavern girl named Bianca. The game starts with Henry waking up with a hangover and being tasked to help get the finishing pieces for his father’s finest sword. One of the quests involves getting money or items back from the town drunk. After getting my butt handed to me, I quickly learned that the battle system in this game is not very forgiving. Unlike in Dynasty Warriors 9 I recently reviewed, Henry does not start off very strong at all and it’s in his best interest to talk his way out of trouble instead of using his fists. With practice, Henry will improve on his speech, warfare, and horse riding techniques.
Since I was not able to convince or beat any money out of this drunkard, I resorted to having my friends help. They agreed as long as I aided them in chucking manure at some bloke’s house who was talking bad about King Wenceslas. As funny as that task was, I didn’t like having to do it twice due to the quest being broken. Apparently, “taking back” one of the unpaid-for tools too soon renders Henry’s friends immovable from the drunk man’s house and unable to assist. When I left the axe alone and did the quest again it worked as it should have. Unfortunately, this was not the only broken quest I experienced. The other glitch was when I was learning how to pickpocket. After failing too many times, the quest failed and I got in trouble with the law despite still being in a training setting. If you get caught by the guards, you can pay a steep fine or do some time.
Strong Points: Challenging battles and excellent story; beautiful visuals and wonderful voice acting
Weak Points: Lame saving system that requires you to drink a specific alcoholic beverage to save your game outside of the auto-saves; game crashes/stops responding at times; broken quests
Moral Warnings: Intense violence and lots of gore and gruesome murder scenes; drunkenness and vomiting; witchcraft/paganism represented along with Christianity and hypocrisy within; gambling; people seen having sex with nudity (breasts/backsides shown); strong language with every word in the book used and blasphemy
Money isn’t terribly easy to come by in the beginning of the game. There are some side-jobs that will throw you some coin, but a majority of it can be found after looting bodies of Cuman soldiers or bandits. Almost everything in Henry’s inventory deteriorates over time. Non-dried food will slowly spoil and you can die from food poisoning if you ingest bad food. Antidotes are available if you can make it in time. Surprisingly, you can sell spoiled food to traders though.
Weapons and armor get dirty and deteriorate over time and with use. The more battles you do, the more ragged your clothes will get. Also, be sure to stop by and wash in every basin you pass by or the townsfolk will complain about your stench.
No matter how bad Henry smells, it won’t deter ladies from letting him have his way with them. Henry can solicit a prostitute at a bathhouse and there’s a love interest that he can pursue a relationship with that ends in lots skin being shown. Breasts and backsides are also shown in a night of debauchery spent with a town priest. Not only do the priest and Henry get drunk and fornicate with harlots, the priest bargains with Henry to do the sermon in exchange of revealing information from the confessional. The sermon ironically talks about the financial corruption of the church, fornication, and drunkenness.
Witchcraft is also seen and there’s an incident revolving around divination and hallucination as a result of a powerful concoction made by the town herbalist. Most of the townsfolk are God-fearing people and many of the conversations started or ended with “God be with you” but the rest of the dialogue would be riddled with all sorts of cussing and blaspheming. Pretty much every word in the book is used along with some other colorful metaphors to describe unsavory people.
Given that this game takes place during the Crusades of the Holy Roman Empire, you can expect lots and lots of violence. Along with the puddles of blood you will find both human and animal corpses sliced open. Raping of women is also seen and alluded to. After Henry sees loved ones killed in front of him, he has to flee on horseback quickly to the next town and warn them. While stealing a horse he can save a woman from being raped. Given that I got my butt kicked by the town drunk, I wasn’t about to take on four armored men. Henry and I both felt bad about leaving that women behind but I don’t think he would have survived assisting her.
Gameplay - 19/20
Graphics - 10/10
Violence - 0/10
Language -0/10
Sexual Content - 0/10
Occult/Supernatural - 5/10
Cultural/Moral/Ethical - 0/10
While fleeing the town, this game gave me quite the adrenaline rush knowing that soldiers were quickly riding after me and had I not pushed my horse to its limits, I would have been filled with arrows and killed. I died a few times before seeing the opening credits. Death isn’t fun, but what makes it worse in this game is the saving system. While this game auto-saves at key points, manually saving requires consumption of a specific alcoholic beverage. Many hours of gameplay were lost to this “feature” before discovering one of many game mods that bypass it.
Visually, this game is breathtaking and the open world is a pleasure to explore. The quick travel markers are handy, but they won’t stop random bandits or Cuman soldiers from attacking you. The NPCs look unique and there’s a lot of variety in their appearances and personalities. Some characters are more likable than others.
Each line in this game is voice acted and done so superbly. The background music is pleasant to listen to and is available on Steam for purchase along with a digital art book. The background chatter and sounds of nature are all fitting as well.
As wonderful as this game looks and sounds, it requires hefty computer specs to run well. Thankfully, I’m blessed with a powerful enough PC to run the game smoothly though not at 60FPS. I did experience one infinite loading screen which cost me about an hour and a half of game time being lost before discovering the game save mod. As convenient as the mod is, it does bring on some new issues so your mileage may vary.
Despite some frustrations with the saving mechanisms and broken quests, I still enjoyed the story and gameplay in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. There is plenty to do and the story changes depending on Henry’s choices. Even with good intentions, Henry won’t be able to escape the horrors of war and many other sins are easy to become ensnared in with the opportunities available to him. This game definitely earns its Mature rating and should not be played near young ones. If the moral issues don’t bother you, it’s worth holding out for a patch or two before picking up this title. I personally find the moral issues too much to continue playing with a clean conscience.
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Gift of Parthax (PC)
Written by Cinque Pierre
Gift of Parthax
Developed By: Foldergeist Studios
Published By: 1C Entertainment
Available On: Linux, macOS, Windows
ESRB Rating: T for Teen: Violence, Blood, Use of Tobacco
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Thank you 1C Entertainment for sending us a review code!
The wonders of magic are a thing that many people take interest in. I’ve had my fair share of moments pretending I was some kind of wizard, shooting lightning bolts out of my hands, or summoning creatures to fight for me. Unfortunately, the only magic that exists in this world is the magic of your imagination, to take us away from our lives, even if it’s just for a moment.
Gift of Parthax is a top-down 2D action-arena game where you engage in wizardry war against monsters and myths, and sometimes against other wizards too. The game focuses on spell-casting and the mystic arts to aid you in gladiatorial combat instead of the typical sword and shield. The playable character goes by the name of Arif (don’t ask me how to pronounce that) who is forced to fight for his freedom, thanks to the dastardly Parthax. Not only that, but Arif must also find a way to save his friend, Veleus, who was cursed with an illness by the titular character. With only his smarts and mystical prowess to back him up, Arif must brave the mythical creatures that are also fighting for their own freedom.
Utilizing pixels and sprites, reminiscent of Sierra Entertainment's point-and-click adventure games, it does look rather clean and has an appeal to those who appreciate retro-styled graphics. The characters may not be expressive, but are distinct and I can tell what each enemy and NPC is supposed to be. The aesthetics of Gift of Parthax are of the ancient and mystical kind and everything looks like it would belong in such a place. Overall, the graphics do what they were intended to do.
As Gift of Parthax only takes place in a select amount of areas, you’ll get friendly with the scenery pretty quickly. After an optional tutorial, Gift of Parthax sends you to a hub area where there are ways to prepare you for the battles that await. You can test your spells on the dummy in the rest area, buy runes and potions from the merchant, or speak to the gatekeeper to enter the arena. The menu grants access to your spells; up to four standard spells and one arch-spell can be equipped at one time.
Strong Points: Great music and sound effects; lots of flexibility in your playstyle
Weak Points: Very repetitive; controls are clunky with no option to remap; poor job in explaining the mechanics
Moral Warnings: Use of magic; all kinds of mythical creatures from slimes, to fire demons, dragons, and many more; blood stains can be seen in the final arena and blood-based magic can be used by yourself and other mages
The spells consist of a wide variety of abilities and elements. You have the option to make Arif a pyromancer, geomancer, cryomancer, arcanist, or a mix of all the above. Each category has its own variety of spells such as projectiles, summons, and traps. Some spells even mix the elements, such as the magma shot that does both fire and earth damage. Your spells depend on how much mana you have, which can regenerate over time, or with the consumption of a mana potion, increase your mana regeneration. Spells can be swapped around and enhanced with runes that can grant a variety of effects. Each spell can have up to four runes equipped to it at a time, and runes can be stacked for greater effects.
You first start off with a simple fireball spell, but at the end of a successful bout, a new spell is learned, which you can equip through the spellbook located at the lower end of your user interface. Knowledge is also gained, which increases your power, how much damage can be taken, and the max amount of mana at your disposal. If a challenge is failed, half the amount of money on hand is forfeit. However, on the hardcore difficulty setting, if you happen to die even once, you must start from the very beginning. Difficulty starts off very simple, but ramps up quickly so make sure you are prepared adequately.
Even with the large amount of spells and the versatility in your loadout, in an ironic sense, the controls are pretty limited. There aren't a whole lot of keys or buttons used in Gift of Parthax, so it actually is rather strange that there is no way to actually remap or rebind the keys or controls. You have your standard WASD or left analog stick to move, the 1-4 keys, scroll wheel, or bumpers to select your spell, the left mouse click or right trigger to attack, mouse or right analog stick to aim, and the left shift key or left trigger to dash. Q/E keys or X/Y buttons are to consume your health and mana potions. As you can tell, there is a lot of empty space, and I would have really liked the ability to move things around. Pressing the left shift key for a crucial skill is rather uncomfortable for me to do constantly and would have preferred to have it as the space bar.
Going back to my earlier statement of there being a few amount of areas, this also causes Gift of Parthax to become very repetitive. You go into an arena, fight some waves, go into the rest area, and then back into the arena when you’re ready to do so. This happens from the beginning of the game right until the credits. With very few and similar enemy types, arenas mostly having the aesthetics being the only major difference, and the best strategy for most battles consisting of “circle around the outer parts of the arena until everything is dead,” the game gets old very fast. Sometimes there are bosses to mix things up, but even so, the bosses even feel similar.
Gameplay - 10.5/20
Graphics - 8/10
Violence - 6.5/10
Language - 10/10
Sexual Content - 10/10
Occult/Supernatural - 3.5/10
Cultural/Moral/Ethical - 10/10
The repetitive nature of the game is not helped by the tutorial, as it does a poor job explaining the game's mechanics. (Not that I finished the tutorial mind you—because I couldn’t even figure out how to complete the dang thing!) I had to discover anything that wasn’t blatantly obvious via trial and error. Some things are explained in the control options, but other stuff like using the arch-spell and what knowledge does, and even the fact that there are multiple endings due to choices you make in boss battles, I had to find all of this out myself or from guides outside of the game. Using either keyboard & mouse or controller can host its own set of problems. If I happen to use keyboard & mouse, interacting with non-player characters can be deceptively difficult as you have to click a rather small section of their character. With controllers, talking to a NPC is way easier, but aiming isn’t nearly as accurate. That in itself can be frustrating as there are some enemies that are pretty hard to hit. Meanwhile, Arif is actually pretty easy to take hits with the character's hitbox being larger than it appears.
In all honesty, the only thing that made me complete this game was the excellent soundtrack and sound design. Each piece can invoke both a sense of mystery and intensity. Unlike the graphical style, the music takes a more modern orchestrated approach. The sound effects have a boom to them and when mixed with the engaging music, it really does a great job of making you feel like a wizard. I see that the soundtrack was praised enough for it to be free DLC if you choose to listen to it on the road.
In the case that you missed it, there is a lot of magic usage within the game. Enemies consist of a wide variety of mythical creatures and monsters. There are your typical slimes, dragons, and stone creatures seen in every fantasy-based game, some demon-looking creatures, ice golems, and of course other wizards. In the final area, blood stains can also be seen, and some mages (including Arif) can use blood-based magic, but no characters actually bleed due to violence.
In the beginning, I was having quite some fun with Gift of Parthax, but with its large amount of issues, some which are really grating on the mind, and the lack of explaining crucial mechanics, at the end I was simply glad to be done once Parthax took a dirt nap, even if it only lasted about 5 hours. The most unfortunate thing about Gift of Parthax is that it isn’t even a bad game, it’s a disappointing one. A great soundtrack, art style, and the feeling of being a wizard gets bogged down by a lack of focus and extreme repetition that would make an assembly worker do a double take. If you buy Gift of Parthax, make sure you know exactly what you are getting into with this one.
Cinque Pierre
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