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Should Women be Punished for Murdering Their Own Son or Daughter by Abortion?
April 13, 2017 By Abolish Abortion WI
Donald Trump caused a firestorm recently when being grilled by Chris Matthews of MSNBC as to whether there should be punishment for women if abortion is made illegal. Trump, who clearly never thought about this before, said what any rational person would say – “Yeah.”
This caused a chorus of furor from the GOP, Trump’s presidential opponents, countless pro-life/pro-family groups, and every leftist in America.
But what Trump said was a no-brainer.
Any thinking person understands that when something is legislated as a crime, there is a consequence if you commit the crime. If abortion is murder – and it is – the woman should be punished. When a murder takes place – all those who are party to the crime are charged with murder.
But see, the “pro-life movement” in this nation has made the woman into a victim. That’s right – they actually want us to believe that the woman who hires a paid assassin to murder her own child is in fact a victim herself.
There is something absurd about calling abortion the capital crime of murder (as pro-lifers and Christians rightly do), and then saying there should be no punishment for the person who hires a paid assassin to murder their own son or daughter. This moral schizophrenia is an insult to the very nature of justice.
Having stood outside abortion clinics for hundreds of hours, I can assure the vast majority of women coming to murder their children know exactly what they are doing. If it were illegal, they would all be without excuse.
I remember when I was young hearing a Right to Life leader say that abortionists should only be given a ticket the first time they are caught committing an abortion. That statement, coupled with his follow-up that women should receive no punishment at all, left me thinking – so what’s the big deal about abortion?
If those who are opposed to abortion think the penalty should be a ticket and nothing at all, surely the killing of the preborn cannot be that big of a thing. Abortion is just a “not-nice” thing. Do you see the inconsistency between calling abortion “murder” and then stating such penalties for committing such an act?
I can assure you that if you read the comment sections of articles about pro-life/pro-family groups condemning Trump’s statement – you readily see that the wicked see the inconsistency.
Americans United for Life – like National Right to Life and most pro-life/pro-family organizations in America – is an organization who has enriched itself off the bloody backs of the murdered preborn for decades by promoting their endless incremental laws against abortion – while at the same time attacking Personhood Amendments or any legislation that could simply bring an end to the killing immediately.
Not surprising therefore that AUL’s Clark Forsythe has written to convince pro-lifers that women should not be prosecuted. In fact, the pro-life movement has been conducting a nationwide campaign (your donations at work) for years now to remove all anti-abortion statutes off the books in states that did criminalize the actions of the woman – all while promoting the mantra that the woman is a victim.
For example, here in Wisconsin in 2011, after taking office our GOP governor, Scott Walker, along with the majority GOP Assembly and Senate – repealed and gutted all punishment for women in our ages-old anti-abortion statute. This was all done at the behest of Wisconsin Right to Life, NRTL, AUL, and others. What the wicked Democrats couldn’t accomplish for years was accomplished by the GOP and the “pro-life” organizations.
They are spitting on the humanity of the preborn child.
Even The U. S. Supreme Court saw the inconsistency of such non-penalties. Blackmun used the lack of punishment to the woman and the low punishment to the abortionist as proof that the preborn child must not be “a person.”
The Roe v. Wade opinion reads:
“There are other inconsistencies between Fourteenth Amendment status and the typical abortion statute. It has already been pointed out, n. 49, supra, that, in Texas, the woman is not a principal or an accomplice with respect to an abortion upon her. If the fetus is a person, why is the woman not a principal or an accomplice? Further, the penalty for criminal abortion specified by Art. 1195 is significantly less than the maximum penalty for murder prescribed by Art. 1257 of the Texas Penal Code. If the fetus is a person, may the penalties be different?” [Endnote 54]
The Court is pointing out the incongruity of the Texas law. 1.) The 3 to 6-year sentence for the abortionist came far short of the capital punishment proper to anyone convicted of the premeditated murder of another person; and, 2.) the mother is not punished at all.
The Court is saying “If the preborn child is a ‘person’, why no penalty for the mother and such minimal penalty for the abortionist?” By refusing to criminalize the actions of the woman and instead labeling her a victim – we undermine both the humanity of the preborn child and the rightly stated argument that abortion is murder.
When we are asked what the punishment should be for women who have illegal abortions, we should unashamedly respond – whatever the penalty is for murder in the state where it takes place.
Of course, as Christians, we offer the good news of redemption through Christ to those guilty of abortion, just as we would any other criminal guilty of a capital crime. But that does not negate the God-given role of the civil magistrate to administer just punishment on behalf of society.
To think otherwise about this matter, is to give credence to the present matriarchal bloodlust in our nation, just as the Romans gave credence to the past patriarchal bloodlust of fathers who could murder their own sons and daughters by leaving them at the infanticide wall to die.
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Parents, Kids & Swine Flu Parties?
David Puente
AC360° Producer
You can probably picture the scene. Well, sort of...
Parents gather in a suburban living room, eating cookies, having coffee and discussing how quickly their children outgrow their new clothes.
Meanwhile, in the play room, the kids lay on mats and cushions, tired from an intense hide-and-seek and tag session. But then, the parents encourage the children to share ice cream spoons, whistles, soda cups even bubble gum.
Does that sound strange? Maybe. But this is exactly what happened at chicken pox parties that some of us grew up with. And the point is to have the boy with the red dots on his face infect all of the small children in the room.
Usually parents who want their healthy children to get chickenpox believe it will help them build immunity against more virulent strains. Others oppose vaccination.
Now there's a buzz on the Internet about “swine flu parties,” and it has medical experts across the country up in arms as the H1N1 virus continues to spread across the U.S. In fact the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC), says it “expects that more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths from this outbreak will occur over the coming days and weeks”.
The latest numbers in the US according to the CDC: There are 43 states reporting cases, in total there are 1,639 cases and two deaths.
The “swine flu party” chatter on flu web sites and public health blogs like Effectmeasure and flutrackers.com has even gotten the attention of a top US health official.
Filed under: 360° Radar • David Puente • H1N1
Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 05/07/09
Tonight on AC360°, we'll have the latest on the arrest of Drew Peterson. Tonight, he has been charged with killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Could he also faces charges in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson? He has denied harming either of them.
Don't miss Erica Hill's webcast on the case and tonight's other headlines during the commercials. Watch our WEBCAST
Want to know what else we're covering tonight? Read EVENING BUZZ
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Filed under: Live Blog • T1
Saving Chicago's kids
Program Note: Tune in tonight to hear more from David Mattingly on the violence in Chicago on AC360° at 10 p.m. ET.
A memorial honoring the children victimized by the violence in Chicago.
David Mattingly | BIO
So often we see grieving communities reacting to Chicago's youth violence by targeting guns. There have been marches protesting gun shops and legislation filed aimed at tougher background checks for gun buyers. But veterans of the fight against the killing are starting to change their tactics. They are looking past the guns and focusing on the shooters.
Ron Holt, whose son Blair was shot and killed two years ago, was a key lobbyist pushing for a tougher Illinois gun law. He failed by five votes. Today he says he is seeing success by going straight to the the would-be gangbangers.
Holt now joins other men in the group called CeaseFire. Groups go out onto the street and try to settle conflicts and diffuse confrontations before they turn violent. Holt says it's working. He's probably helping save more young lives than he did in the state legislature.
Filed under: Chicago Killings • David Mattingly • Gun Violence
Wesleyan University Will "Begin to Return to More Regular Operations"
Editor's Note: A letter from the President of Wesleyan University to the university community after the shooting of a student at a bookstore-cafe near campus. More on the situation tonight at 10 p.m. ET.
Police are conducting a nationwide search for suspect Stephen Morgan and fear he might target others.
Michael S. Roth,
President, Wesleyan University
I want to express my heartfelt thanks for the many messages of concern and offers to help that we have received from you after yesterday’s tragic shooting of Johanna Justin-Jinich ’10. As you might imagine, this is a very difficult time at Wesleyan. To know that we are in your thoughts is a great comfort.
After extensive consultation with law enforcement officials, we have decided to begin to move the campus to more regular operations, starting with opening Usdan for a few hours this evening. My wife Kari and I (along with many other faculty and staff) have just come from eating there. We are instructing students to remain indoors after dinner tonight, but meals are being served, tomorrow morning the library will re-open, and before noon tomorrow there will be an announcement of a new, very flexible schedule for final assignments.
But we are still grieving; we still mourn.
Tomorrow at 1 p.m., two days after the shooting that took the life of Johanna Justin-Jinich , Wesleyan will hold a brief memorial vigil in the Huss Courtyard behind the Usdan Center. There will be time for Johanna’s friends and family to plan other ceremonies at Wesleyan, and perhaps elsewhere. But tomorrow we will gather just to be with one another and remember. We will pay our respects to Johanna’s all-too-brief life.
Filed under: 360° Radar • Crime & Punishment • Gun Violence
Evening Buzz: Drew Peterson Arrested
Drew Peterson was arrested Thursday on murder charges relating to his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
Maureen Miller
AC360° Writer
Tonight on AC360°, we're covering breaking news on the arrest of Drew Peterson. Remember him? He's the former police sergeant in Illinois who authorities call the prime suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson. But just hours ago a grand jury indicted him for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
Savio's death had been ruled an accidental drowning after her body had been found in an empty bath tub in March 2004, just days away from divorce. But her family insisted the death was linked to foul play. Authorities exhumed the body, tests were performed, and her death was then ruled a "homicide staged to look like an accident."
The same grand jury that has indicted Peterson on the death of his third wife is looking at whether he should also be charged in Stacy Peterson's disappearance. She vanished October 2007. Peterson has said repeatedly that she left him for another man.
Peterson is now engaged to a woman that would become his fifth wife. But that wedding may be put on hold, since he faces this new legal battle.
Join us for more on this breaking story and tonight's other headlines starting at 10pm ET.
Filed under: Maureen Miller • The Buzz
Drew Peterson charged with murder, authorities say
Drew Peterson, the former police sergeant who authorities call the prime suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, has been indicted on murder charges related to his third wife, the Illinois state attorney's office said.
Illinois state police said Peterson was taken into custody Thursday.
Charles B. Pelkie, state attorney for Will County, Illinois, said a grand jury indicted Peterson in the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, whose death had been ruled an accidental drowning.
He said the grand jury continues to meet and is studying the possibility of charges in Stacy Peterson's disappearance.
After Stacy Peterson went missing in October 2007, media frenzy and police scrutiny on Peterson revealed Savio had died mysteriously a few years earlier during a nasty divorce.
Savio died just before the division of the marital assets was finalized, making Drew Peterson the sole beneficiary.
Filed under: Crime & Punishment • What You Will Be Talking About Today
The ugly truth behind the first U.S. face transplant
Culp, an Ohio mother of two, lost the mid-portion of her face after a gunshot wound in September 2004.
Connie Culp, 46, was identified as the first recipient of a face transplant in the United States.
Cate Vojdik
AC360 Writer
A shot gun blast fired at point blank range blew away much of Connie Culp’s face five years ago. Think about those words for a second. A shot gun blast. To the face. Fired at point blank range.
Culp’s husband pulled the trigger.
We learned those chilling facts Tuesday, when the first U.S. recipient of a face transplant revealed her identity for the first time.
Culp’s press conference at the Cleveland Clinic got a lot of coverage, most of which focused on the extraordinary surgical procedures that gave Culp a new face. The fact that she was left horribly disfigured–to the point where children ran from her–because her husband shot her in the face didn’t get as much attention. Culp herself has said she wants to move on with her life and has forgiven her husband, who is serving a seven-year prison sentence.
Today we’re following another story involving a woman shot at point-blank range, allegedly by a man she knew. Johanna Justin-Jinich, a junior at Wesleyan University, was working at a bookstore-café near the campus when she was killed yesterday afternoon. Police have launched a nationwide search for 29-year-old Stephen Morgan, against whom Justin-Jinich filed a harassment complaint nearly two years ago. He’s the main suspect.
Filed under: Cate Vojdik • Gun Violence • Medical News
Ronnie interviews his Mom
Program Note: Tune in tonight to hear more about the violence in Chicago on AC360° at 10 p.m. ET.
Student activist Ronnie Mosley interviews his mother, Yolanda McBride. She describes how family members have been affected by the violence in Chicago and what it was like to become a parent at the age of 13.
Filed under: 360° Radar • Chicago Killings • Gun Violence
Me? A Terrorist?
Program Note: Tune in tonight to hear Drew Griffin's full report tonight on AC360° at 10 p.m. ET.
Passengers wait in line for their names to be checked against terror watch lists.
Drew Griffin | BIO
CNN Investigative Correspondent
And I thought it was just me.
It was shortly after we did some pretty scathing reporting on the Federal Air Marshalls service that I found myself labeled a potential terrorist at airports. I never could connect the dots to say there was some sort of retribution, but the hassle of being stopped every time I flew (which is a lot) and asked to provide identification, even my mother’s maiden name, before being allowed to print a ticket, slowed me down and created quite an issue when I was running late.
Instead of suffering alone, I decided to bring you all along for the ride, exposing what I thought was a complete blundering of the terror watch list. My first report focusing on how I found myself on the terror list erupted into a flood of calls from people just like me. All walks of life, even a commercial airline pilot, we were all on that list. And every time I filed a report I got the same retort from the Department of Homeland Security: “Mr. Griffin, you are not on the list.”
Well guess what? Thousands of us are really on that list, and yes, thousands of us are on it by mistake. A just released Inspector general’s report lays it all out. And the report also reveals who’s not on it. I’ll share that with you tonight
Filed under: 360° Radar • Airline Safety • Drew Griffin • Terrorism
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Two ASU professors awarded fellow status at National Academy of Inventors
Travis Arbon
Two Arizona State University professors have been named fellows at the National Academy of Inventors, which awarded the honor to 170 people this December. This award further cements them among the top inventors in the country.
The work of Stuart Lindsay, Director of the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics at ASU’s Biodesign Institute, with atomic force microscopy led to the founding of Molecular Imaging Corporation.
Stuart Lindsay directs the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics at ASU’s Biodesign institute.
Michael Kozicki directs the Center for Applied Nanoionics and is the inventor of ionic memory, which is intended to replace flash memory. He also holds 48 US patents and 27 international patents.
Related: Drumroll please! Spirit of Enterprise Award winners include IO and I-ology
The NAI is an organization that supports inventors and researchers and promotes patents. Fellows are elected by the selection committee on the basis of their contributions as “academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.”
“Doctors Kozicki and Lindsay exemplify the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of faculty and researchers at ASU. They have made outstanding contributions to their fields, economic development and society,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, senior vice president for Knowledge Enterprise Development at ASU. “It is a great honor to have the NAI recognize their innovative and use-inspired work.”
Michael Kozicki directs the Center for Applied Nanoionics.
Read: Topping the charts again- ASU’s tech transfer arm ranked highly for third year
Lindsay and Kozicki are among 170 people elected as fellows by the NAI. The new fellows will be inducted at a conference in March 2015 at the California Institute of Technology. Fellows will be given a trophy and a pin to honor their achievements, which is pretty rad.
“We are delighted to recognize the 2014 NAI Fellows and their unparalleled commitment to excellence in academic invention,” said NAI President Dr. Paul R. Sanberg. “Their many discoveries have made a truly significant impact on society and we are proud to honor them for these contributions.”
Contributions from NAI and ASU Communication. Photos courtesy of ASU
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2nd International New Technologies and Expert Meeting (Part 3)
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Summary of the Second International New Technologies and Expert Meeting
In 2015, the Non Inva Meeting has transformed itself into the 1st New Technologies and Expert International Meeting. We were happy to welcome again friends in Lyon and to continue to deliver state of the art expertise and a focus on innovative technologies in the bariatric field. The general theme of this 2017 meeting has dealt with weight-loss trajectories after bariatric interventions: Can they be improved? For a given intervention, is there a specific trajectory (or a set of trajectories) that can be well defined, i.e. a "signature".
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By Jerome Dargent Co-Chairman, Non-Inva/New Technologies and Expert International Meeting
Organising such a meeting has become a challenge over the past few years. We are still convinced that while bigger meetings are important, more focus on key-issues and more discussion with a perspective are provided in smaller reunions. Times have changed, and there is nobody to blame for this. The industry has reduced is support, and new regulations have made it difficult for physicians to attend meetings abroad. We will continue to discuss the strategy with the companies designing new materials, while staying optimistic: innovative devices are implemented every year, and need a thorough evaluation, particularly in the endoscopic field.
Metabolic and hormonal effects of endoscopic bariatric procedures
Presented by Marek Buzga (Czech Republic)
Despite best efforts, conventional medical T2DM treatment is not always effective Based on CDC statistics: 43% of patients do not achieve HbA1c < 7.0%. Metabolic surgery is established as more effective and durable than medical management for treating T2DM in severe and non-severely obese patients,but surgery is selected by only 1%-2% of the eligible population.
Balloons: Ghrelin is produced in the gastric fundus and the intestine, it is an appetite stimulant and participates in the adaptive response to weight loss; it elevates in states of hunger, and rapidly declines post-prandially. Ghrelin secretion is suppressed by RYGB and LSG. There are various methods measuring ghrelin (ELISA, Multiplex). The peak of Ghrelin is 3 months after surgery, but not many studies measure the active Ghrelin. Six months after placement of the balloon, the rate of metabolic syndrome in the patients decreased from 42.9% to 15.1% (p < 0.005).
DJBS treatment (Endobarrier): in patients with T2DM, the HbA1c level was decreased at 6 months compared to baseline (7.4% to 5.8%; p < 0.005). There is evidence about effect on weight loss, changes in Ghrelin levels, glucose control, blood lipid levels, but the durability of these changes after balloon removal is questioned. Weight loss itself, rather than the DJBS, could be responsible for hormonal variation. DJBS treatment compared with diet and/or lifestyle modifications alone resulted in a modest weight loss in obese subjects, insignificant reductions in HbA1c and FPG and no changes in antidiabetic medication among obese patients with T2D. It was associated with a high number of transient and mild AES and several SAE, causing early explantation in 19% of subjects. Yet the safety profile of DJBS treatment should be seen in the light of its minimally invasive and reversible nature. Long-term high-quality clinical trials, with long post-explantation follow-up periods, are needed to evaluate its applicability in clinical practice. RCTs comparing DJBS with RYGB or intensive pharmacological therapy would be of great clinical interest.
In conclusion, there is an endocrine effect in endoscopic procedures.
FRACTYL (Duodenal Mucosal Rejuvenation) the new metabolic endoscopic technique
Presented by Giorgio G Gobbi (Director, Medical Affairs Europe Fractyl Laboratories)
If the mucosa in patients with type 2 diabetes has been transformed from prolonged exposure to high fat, high sugar nutrients, could we reverse that effect by remodeling the mucosa? In this experiment we took a diabetic rat model and tested the effect of denudation (abrasion) of the duodenal mucosa on glucose metabolism. Compared with sham (no abrasion), the plasma glucose response to an oral glucose tolerance test in the Goko-Kakizaki (GK) diabetic rat was significantly improved from baseline. Denudation of duodenal mucosa conducted through mechanical abrasion decreased 35% of hyperglycemia post oral glucose gavage. Glucose lowering was not observed in sham study or in non-diabetic Wistar rodents
Until now, there have been no pharmacological approaches for targeting this duodenal defect. Bariatric surgery is the only treatment that has provided evidence for duodenal exclusion to provide improved glucose metabolism, but it is a substantial intervention that has not garnered broad enough uptake to impact the worldwide epidemic of diabetes. Duodenal rejuvenation may offer a less invasive solution that works with the patients natural processes to improve glucose handling. Duodenal Mucosal Rejuvenation (DMR) procedure resurfaces the duodenal mucosa post-thermal ablation.
Designed to provide a metabolic reset to approximate the duodenal exclusion in bypass surgery, the procedure is conducted during an upper GI endoscopy: a single-use disposable catheter permits a resurfacing of +/-10 cm of post-papillary duodenum. Procedure: the duodenal mucosa is lifted by saline to create a thermal barrier protecting deeper tissues. Follow up endoscopies and duodenal biopsies at 1 and 3months document mucosal healing. 102 cases have been included. Minimal GI symptoms were observed. There were 3 duodenal stenosis in early experience, successfully treated with a single balloon dilation and no later sequelae; no further cases were seen in the 65 cases after implementation of the improved mucosal lift procedure One jejunal perforation was repaired laparoscopically with no further complications. There was no hypoglycemia, no malabsorption, and no late adverse events (50+ patients >12 months)
Revita-1 Multicenter Open label “Patient Selection” has demonstrated reproducibility of outcomes across EU centers. RCTs will introduce the next generation of catheter, the Revita-2.
VERJU, an innovative and convenient laser for post-operative aesthetic cares in bariatrics
Presented by Simon Ramshaw (United Kingdom)
A randomized pilot study has been recently conducted at the Mayo Clinic (USA), combining low-level laser therapy (LLLT- Erchonia Zeron 2.0). LLT is a non-invasive body-contouring technique that aims at local excess-fat, mostly sub-cutaneous, and does not emit heat, sound or vibration. It allows extravasation of intra-cellular lipids from adipocyte cell membranes. Six independent diodes laser heads emit 532 nm (= green) laser light, generating a 17 milliwatt output. Lasers are focused around the stomach and abdomen for 30 minutes, and then aimed at the back for another 30 minutes.
Lorcaserin is an FDA approved drug, acting as a serotonin 2C receptor agonist while stimulating pro-opiomelanocortin secretion from the hypothalamus, leading to weight loss through satiety. 44 patients (84%) with BMI 27-40 were enrolled in this open-label clinical trial and randomized in three groups: 1) Lorcaserin 10mg twice a day for 12 weeks, 2) LLLT for one hour once a week for 12 weeks, 3) Combination of both for 123 weeks.
Results: Significant reductions in waist circumference were obtained for each group at the end of treatment (-2.3 +/-4.1 cm, -6 +/-7.3 cm, and -4.0 +/-5.5 cm respectively), but the reduction in body weight was only significant in those receiving lorcaserin and combination treatment (-1.3kg). At 6 months, weight-loss was respectively1.4 kg, 2.4kg and 2.0 kg. A significant decrease in triglycerides was observed in the lorcaserin monotherapy group. Non side effects were observed with the LLLT.
RefluxStop trial for GERD, commonly linked to obesity
Presented by Peter Forsell (Sweden) and Milos Bjelovic (Serbia)
Dealing with GERD, there are problems associated with drug therapy, increased risks of esophageal cancer, renal deficiency, osteoporosis, and dementia. The Nissen laparoscopic fundoplication procedure may lead to dysphagia (43% at 4-6 weeks, 19% at 1 year, 18% at 10-14 years); regurgitation in 10%, 2%, 18%; hearburn/epigastric pain in 39%, 17%, 30%. A new mechanical device (RefluxStop) has been developed, that is inserted laparoscopically around the GEJ. With Refluxstop, 92% of the patients had reduced total GERD-HQRL score of more than 50%. One SAE occurred in 22 implanted, an intra-abdominal bleeding (reoperation), there were no device-related AE.
Non invasive neuromodulation as an obesity treatment
Presented by Radwan Kassir (France)
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Comorbidities associated with obesity are related to the autonomous nervous system, e.g. elevated blood pressure or depression. Vagal neurostimulation may act upon these diseases, while when being performed in cases of depression and epilepsy it had also a weight-loss action. The study compared in a double-blind randomized prospective way, the effect of transcutaneous vagal neurostimulation on weight-loss in morbid obese patients (BMI > 40), who were candidates for a bariatric surgery. Vagal branches permeate in the subcutaneous external part of the ear (concha): an electrode was placed in the external left ear and activated by the patient himself 4 to 5 hours a day with intervals of 1 hour at least, with no feeling of electricity intensity (1.0mA, frequency 25 Hz). In the control group, the stimulator was not activated. The secondary objectives was the follow-up of related comorbidities and bio-markers (such as digestive hormones), and the assessment of autonomous nervous system according to the weight-loss.
There was 1 case of local irritation, 2 nausea, 1 increased migraine. We introduced modifications with the earpiece cable length and battery autonomy, and downsized the device. There were 53% premature discontinuation because of lack of compliance. In 17 patients, there was an average 33% EWL. 40% of patient the patients were less anxious, with a good feedback about satiety sensation and reduction of snacking. In order to complete our study, it has been important to unblind the randomisation. We wish to recruit more patients to prove the effectiveness of the device.
Please click here to read Part 1 of the Non-Inva Report or here to read Part 2
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Casbah / Sid's Delight - Tadd Dameron and His Orchestra (Capitol 57-60006)
Personnel: Tadd Dameron (piano, arranger); Fats Navarro (trumpet); Kai Winding (trombone); Sahib Shihab (alto saxophone); Dexter Gordon (tenor sax); Cecil Payne (baritone sax); Curly Russell (bass); Kenny Clarke (drums); Diego Ibarra (bongos); Vidal Bolado (conga); Rae Pearl (vocal on "Casbah")
Recorded in New York City, January 18th, 1949.
Casbah:
Sid's Delight:
Here's something the like of which you don't hear every day. A bebop essay into wordless vocalised exotica, courtesy of El Enmascarado who has ripped us another vintage jazz 78 rpm disc.
Pianist / composer / arranger Tadd Dameron said at a 1953 recording session: "When I write something it's with beauty in mind. It has to swing, sure, but it has to be beautiful." Dameron's search for beauty expressed through music had its starting point when, as a medical student, he saw a body with an almost severed arm dangling from it. That was enough medicine for Tadd. "There's enough ugliness in the world," he decided. "I'm interested in beauty."
He soon acquired the standard big band swing experience which formed the musical background of the bop pioneers, working in the bands of Blanche Calloway, Zach White, Vido Musso, Harlan Leonard and Jimmie Lunceford. Tadd's move into a modern bop style came with his work for the bands of Billy Eckstine ("Cool Breeze") and Dizzy Gillespie ("Our Delight"). In 1947 he had his own small combo featuring brilliant trumpeter Fats Navarro, which recorded for Blue Note and Savoy.
(above: Tadd Dameron and Fats Navarro)
In 1948 his group became the house band at The Royal Roost, a Broadway chicken restaurant which had been running unsuccessful jazz nights until promoter Monte Kay and deejay Symphony Sid stepped in with a policy of promoting the new sounds in jazz combined with regular live radio broadcasts which proved to be fabulously successful.
Which brings us to 1949 where we find Tadd still in residence at The Royal Roost but now with an expanded lineup (sometimes known as "The Big Ten"), which in the eternal quest for beauty through music, combines bop with Latin rhythms. "Casbah" features the wordless singing of Rae Pearl. "Sid's Delight" (named after Symphony Sid) has the tenor sax of Dexter Gordon, who is uncredited on the record label, as you can see from El Enmascarado's scans.
This session for Capitol records was the last to be shared by Tadd Dameron and his collaborator in chief, trumpeter Fats Navarro whose requests for higher pay led to a split.
Many thanks to our collaborator El Enmascarado for the sounds 'n' scans.
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2 CD set, Blue Note 3373.
"Jazz Masters Of The 40s" by Ira Gitler, Da Capo, 1984.
Labels: bebop, Capitol Records, Dexter Gordon, Fats Navarro, jazz, Tadd Dameron
You really have been on a bebop binge lately, Boogiewoody! It's wonderful that you're making these discs available (accompanied by the usual high standard of commentary.)
The Bebop's gone to my head, to paraphrase Mr Big Joe Turner. Soon be back to jumpin' 'n' jivin' and rockin' 'n' rollin' Marie!
koen said...
That's adventurous jazz!
Sid's delight unfortunately won't play.
Thanks, Koen "The Rocking Dutchman"
Hi Koen - Sid's Delight has been repaired. You can play it now.
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UK MPs Continue To Discuss OT’s Registers
The topic of enforcing the UK’s legislation for the British Overseas Territories, including Bermuda, to make their beneficial ownership registers public continues to be discussed in British Parliament and Committees.
According to the Hansard for Thursday, Baroness Stern asked “what technical assistance will be provided to the British Overseas Territories to support the introduction of public registers of beneficial ownership.”
In response, the Minister of State Lord Ahmad said, “I announced at the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council the setting up of technical workshops between the UK and the British Overseas Territories that will be scheduled from spring next year to support the introduction of public registers of company beneficial ownership.
Baroness Stern also asked “how much financial assistance will be provided to each British Overseas Territory to support the introduction of public registers of beneficial ownership, as established by section 51 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.”
In response, Lord Ahmad said, “The British Government is considering what financial support is possible for the Official Development Assistance-eligible territories to support the introduction of public registers of company beneficial ownership.”
According to the UK Government website, the Overseas Territories which are eligible for Official Development Assistance are Montserrat, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha, and the Pitcairn Islands; none of which have financial services industries.
According to Friday’s Hansard, Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge asked what discussions the UK Government had during the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council on “requests for assistance provided by the UK Government.”
In response, Minister of State Sir Alan Duncan explained that the UK Government “has not received any formal requests for assistance from the Overseas Territories thus far.”
Baroness Stern also posed a question on Friday which said, “To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 26 November, which Government departments will be responsible for providing financial and technical assistance to the British Overseas Territories to support the introduction of public registers of beneficial ownership.”
In response, Lord Ahmad said that the British Government departments that will assist in enforcing the British legislation on the territories will include “Companies House, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Development and the Home Office.”
The discussions in British Parliament follow after they passed legislation earlier this year which seeks to allow them to directly order the territories to make their beneficial ownership registers publicly accessible; a move which was condemned by the island’s leaders as a return to colonialism.
A beneficial ownership register is a database of information on business owners, and Bermuda has had one for decades, and provides information to law enforcement and tax authorities at request.
Other nations also have them, and while the vast majority do not make theirs public at this time, the UK made their register public in 2016, and the British Parliament invoked their rarely-used ability to pass laws for the territories with an aim to implement the same policy across all the territories.
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Revised Scenes from History, Nº 1
Were People in the Great War As Enlightened As Modern Folk
[An officer, in a clean, well-tailored uniform, saunters into a filthy trench, somewhere near Passchendaele, in 1917, shortly before a scheduled attack.]
Sergeant: Officer present! Attention! Sah!
Occupational Health & Safety Officer: At ease, men; standing to attention is bad for the back. Ah, good, those ladders seem well placed and properly supported. Now are your weapons nice and safe? Ammunition safely put away?
Sergeant: Sah, yes, sah!
Occupational Health & Safety Officer: You, Private—
Sergeant: Hatkins, sah!
Occupational Health & Safety Officer: Ah, Atkins, is your bayonet clean? We don’t want an enemy to catch a nasty infection.
Pvt. Hatkins: Clean, sir, and sharp, sir!
Occupational Health & Safety Officer: Sharp? Sharp!
Sergeant: Well-honed, sah, razor-edged, ὀξύς, acutus—
Occupational Health & Safety Officer: Yes, yes, I know. Are any other bayonets similarly sharpened, Sergeant?
Sergeant: Why, all of them are, of course, sah. We must all be keen, and I always keep a sharp look-out, sah!
Occupational Health & Safety Officer: But we can’t have that—someone may get hurt! Dull these bayonets immediately!
[After a few seconds of stunned immobility, a few of the soldiers begin to strike their bayonets against rocks.]
Occupational Health & Safety Officer: Hey, what are you doing? Stop! That’s dangerous! Someone could put out an eye!
Pvt. Hatkins: We have no proper tools with us here, sir.
Occupational Health & Safety Officer: Sergeant, I leave it to you to ensure that these men dull their bayonets, and safely; but I don’t want to hear that you’ve been shouting at them. It could harm their hearing, and it lowers their self-esteem. I, meanwhile, have an appointment to meet Field-Marshall Haig; I must talk to him about this foolhardy practice of firing artillery shells. Farewell, men.
[The officer departs. The men murmur and mutter.]
Sergeant: All right, shaarp, you lot; you heard the officer, we need to devise a tool to blunt the bayonets.
Pvt. Hatkins: How, Sarge?
Sergeant: Men, form a file.
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Pres. Obama Sued by Empty Suit
We are shocked to learn, by way of various news services and the neo-neocon blog, some stunning legal news. By documents lodged in a Washington District Federal Court, yesterday, an empty suit is suing U.S. President Barack Obama for defamation of character and fraudulent appropriation of identity:
The plaintiff’s attorney, Nigel Barratry, who has entered amicus curiae briefs and a pair of shorts, explained yesterday that he will, conjointly, also lodge a private prosecution, and that the criminal and civil charges include misuse of usufructuary, misprision, plagiarism, peculation, subrogation, and (by alleging further that the defendant was ineligible to be a candidate for president) obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception, and treason.
Pres. Obama, according to the suit, has given empty suits everywhere a bad name.
The White House has not yet issued an official response. An inside source, however, said that the briefs had no legs to stand on, and that the President would make an eloquent response as soon as Prof. Bill Ayers could be located to write it.
Meanwhile, Mr. Barratry further revealed that his firm, Amble & Chaser have received scores of communications from numerous other items and apparel—such as windbags, douche-bags, sock-puppets, marionettes and windsocks—, which, feeling similarly deflated and injured, effete and useless, have expressed a wish to join the empty suit’s suit suitably thereunto.
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Jon Stopak Wins Justin Zak Award for Sales Achievements
BigIron Auctions, rural America’s leading unreserved online auction, recently announced that Jon Stopak, independent sales representative of Duncan, NE has been awarded the Justin Zak Award for Sales Achievement. The prestigious award is given annually by BigIron to a sales representative who embodies honesty, integrity, exceptional organization skills, and efforts for continual improvement in their sales territory.
The Justin Zak Award commemorates the late Justin Zak, a leading independent sales representative and beloved colleague at BigIron. Stopak accepted the award at the 2019 National BigIron Conference in Omaha.
“Justin had a tremendous energy and impact on all who knew him. He was one of the company’s early and most successful sales representatives who deeply cared about God, family and friends. His dedication to his BigIron customers and work ethic was a large part of his passion for excellence in everything he did in business and in life,” said BigIron’s co-founders Mark and Ron Stock.
“Independent sales representatives work with their clients daily, helping them list and sell used equipment on BigIron’s online auction site,” said BigIron CEO Andrew Pyron. “Jon Stopak is not only a high sales achiever, but exceeds expectations by being a great team player who always puts the customer first. BigIron is honored to have him as a positive influence on those around him.”
“I am so honored to be recognized for this prestigious award,” Stopak said. “After Justin left, I knew I had some big shoes to fill. I’m so grateful and honored to have been given this award named after him.”
Stopak has been an independent sales representative for three years, and covers the counties of Platte, Polk, and Merrick, NE. Stopak’s work helps BigIron to connect buyers and sellers of farm, construction, and transportation equipment across the glove through unreserved online auctions.
About BigIron
In 1984, Ron and Mark Stock, both farmers and entrepreneurs, founded Stock Auctions to conduct onsite auctions. Always driven to innovate, Ron and Mark added BigIron Online Auctions in 2009. Now as BigIron Auctions, the company conducts both weekly online and scheduled onsite auctions. BigIron’s online platform allows you to virtually “kick the tires” before you buy. We provide the seller’s information to our online buyers so they have access to the same kind of information they’d get in person. We’ve reinvented the way used farm, construction and transportation equipment is sold to best meet the needs of our buyers and sellers with unreserved auctions, a guarantee of free title and no buyer fees. We are committed to continually improving with a state-of-the-art online platform, global marketing and BigIron Independent Sales Representatives across the nation. From this commitment, we have grown to become the largest unreserved online auction serving rural America, selling tens of thousands of items through weekly unreserved auctions to registered bidders representing a global marketplace.
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Association between the TP53 Codon 72 Polymorphism and Risk of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Meta-analysis
Chenggang Mao1* , Xiaochun Zhou1* , Yidao Jiang1 , Lijia Wan1 , Zezhang Tao2
1 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Jingzhou Central Hospital, The Second Clinical Medical College, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, 434020, China
2 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430060, China
Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics, 2019, Vol. 7, No. 1 doi: 10.5376/cge.2019.07.0001
Received: 24 Jan., 2019 Accepted: 13 Feb., 2019 Published: 22 Feb., 2019
Mao C.G., Zhou X.C., Jiang Y.D., Wan L.J., and Tao Z.Z., 2019, Association between the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism and risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a meta-analysis, Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics, 7(1): 1-10 (doi: 10.5376/cge.2019.07.0001)
The associations of the P53 codon 72 polymorphism and risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) were inconclusive in several epidemiological studies. In order to get a more consistent result in these two, we conducted these 9 articles of the meta-analysis and systemic reviews to investigate relationships. An exhaustive search was conducted by us in PubMed and Embase databases up to March 2015. Only the studies consisting of NPC patients who were diagnosed by pathological methods were considered. The 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of odds ratios (ORs) were used to assess the association and Review Manager (RevMan) 5.2 software were used to perform statistical analyses. Consequently, there were nine studies were selected, which include 1,588 cases and 1,925 controls met the included criteria. Ultimately, systematic meta-analyses were used to extract relevant data and further analyze. The conclusions indicated that the persons who carried Pro/Pro genotype have an increased susceptibility of NPC compared with the persons who carried homozygote Arg/Arg genotype and heterozygote Arg/Pro [OR 0.59, 95% CI 0.48-0.72; OR 0.66, 95% CI 0.46-0.93]. For Arg allele, the persons with homozygote Pro/Pro genotype have an obviously increased susceptibility to NPC to the persons with an integrated Arg genotype (Arg/Pro + Arg/Arg) [OR 0.62, 95% CI 0.45-0.68]. For Pro allele, the conclusions showed the persons with Arg/Arg genotype have an obviously increased risk of NPC compared with the persons with an integrated Pro genotype (Arg/Pro + Pro/Pro) [OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.64-0.87]. To sum up, the conclusions of the meta-analysis indicate that Homozygote Pro/Pro genotype obviously increased NPC risk in the P53 codon 72; and Arg allele significantly decreased the susceptibility to NPC.
TP53 codon 72; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Meta-analysis; Polymorphism
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an illness which related with geographic distribution and distinct ethnic. NPC has an obvious disease burden in Southern China and Southeast Asia, which has an annual about 20 per 100,000 people incidence rate in endemic areas, but is relatively seldom in the Western world (Jeannel and Bouvier, 1999; Parkin et al., 2002). This tumor has been suggested to result from complex interactions of a variety of epidemiological factors. There was evidence which shows that tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, infection of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), more exposure of wood dust and a high-salt diet consumption may be risk factors for NPC (Zheng et al., 1994; Cheng et al., 1999; Key et al., 2004; Gullo et al., 2008; Jayaprakash et al., 2008). Only a few exposed persons of exposed people were developed to NPC, which imply that many interactions in some environmental and genetic factors may be the main reason of NPC, and the carcinogenic mechanisms may be contributed by genetic factors, although the risk factors exposed to many persons.
The tumor protein p53 gene, which located on chromosome 17p13, we called TP53, is one of the most likely mutated genes in human tumors and it is probably to be an obviously decisive factor in form of tumor (Tsui et al., 2009). The codon 72 polymorphism, located in exon 4 of TP53 gene, which called rs1042522 involves a leading to a proline (Pro)→arginine (Arg) amino acid substitution CCC→CGC transition at position 72 (Pro72Arg) (Ara et al., 1990). Many publications have showed that the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism could be connected with increased risk to bladder tumor (Zhou et al., 2012), cervical cancer (Xu et al., 2012). Although in some NPC cases the accumulation of P53 protein was reported, as for NPC, TP53 mutation is a rare event, particularly in the juvenile form (10e11). Instead, for NPC possible susceptibility factors would be polymorphisms of TP53.
The relation of the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism and NPC susceptibility have been studied in several previous articles; but the results are not consistent. Zhuo et al. conducted a meta-analysis of five case-control studies and showed that the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism could be a susceptibility factor for nasopharyngeal carcinoma in 2009 (Zhuo et al., 2009). Further, some more articles have been published recently. Best of our knowledge, whether or not NPC susceptibility could have been increased by the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism remains obviously uncertain. To clear the relation could give us better comprehend the possible risk of NPC and further prevent carcinogenesis. For the reason, we do the meta analysis in order to get precise and latest evaluation of the relation in the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism and NPC risk.
1.1 Characteristics of the study
247 studies that met the included criteria were identified by our systematic literature search. Eventually, 9 case-control studies (Golovleva et al., 1997; Yung et al., 1997; Tsai et al., 2002; Tiwawech et al., 2003; Sousa et al., 2006; Hadhri-Guiga et al., 2007; Xiao et al., 2010; Xie et al., 2013; Zhang et al., 2014), which involved 1,588 NPC patients and 1,925 controls were included, after exclusion and deduplication of the obviously irrelevant studies. The study selection process was showed in Figure 1. Table 1 shows the baseline characteristics of the 9 studies.
Figure 1 Flow diagram of study selection
Table 1 Characteristics of included studies
Note: NPC, nasopharyngeal carcinoma; HPV, human papillomavirus; NA, not available; HB, hospital-based; PB, population-based; HWE, Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium
1.2 Meta-analysis results
Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4 and Figure 5 review the summary of the meta-analysis results, which shows the relation in the P53 codon 72 polymorphism and NPC. The results exhibited that there was relative association between P53 codon 72 polymorphism and nasopharyngeal carcinoma susceptibility, after we compared ArgArg vs. ProPro, ArgPro vs. ProPro, (ArgPro + ArgArg) vs. ProPro, and ArgArg vs. (ProPro + ArgPro).
Figure 2 Forest plot
Note: This represents the NPC risk associated with the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism in Asians for the ArgArg VS. ProPro genetic model
Note: This represents the NPC risk associated with the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism in Asians for the ArgPro VS. ProPro genetic model
Note: This represents the NPC risk associated with the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism in Asians for the ArgPro + ArgArg VS. ProPro genetic model
Note: This represents the NPC risk associated with the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism in Asians for the ArgArg VS. ProPro + ArgPro genetic model
The meta-analysis indicated the persons who carry homozygote Arg/Arg genotype and heterozygote Arg/Pro have a decreased susceptibility of NPC compared with those who carry Pro/Pro genotype [OR 0.59, 95% CI 0.48-0.72; OR 0.66, 95% CI 0.46-0.93]. For Arg allele, the persons who carry an integrated Arg genotype (Arg/Pro + Arg/Arg) have an obviously decreased risk to NPC relative to the ones who with homozygote Pro/Pro genotype [OR 0.62, 95% CI 0.45-0.68]. For Pro allele, the meta-analysis showed that the persons who with an integrated Pro genotype (Arg/Pro + Pro/Pro) have a marked decreased susceptibility of NPC compared with the ones who with Arg/Arg genotype [OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.64-0.87].
1.3 Publication bias
A relatively symmetrical distribution was showed by a based on the four genetic model funnel plot, which enable us to deduce that there was no publication bias.
The TP53 codon 72 encode Arg and Pro, which are two different functional alleles. And the most informative polymorphism in the TP53 gene is Pro to Arg, which have been found to be associated with the tumors (Ara et al., 1990; Hollstein et al., 1991). Some articles showed an increased risk of disease, among the published publications which explore the relation in the polymorphism and tumors (Xu et al., 2012; Zhou et al., 2012), but some persons could not to find any relation (Matakidou et al., 2003; Sousa et al., 2007; Zhou et al., 2007). The different systematic reviews of the same tumor type could get opposite results, and this is an interesting phenomenon, which is the result from these meta-analyses. Such relation among the people is unclear, although some conclusions were reached by one meta-analyses which studied the relation of the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism and nasopharyngeal carcinoma risk (Zhuo et al., 2009). The systematic review was conducted to further study whether the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism plays an important effect in the form of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, given that NPC has a high incidence in the people. So, the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism is a critical predictive and prognostic marker for the researchers.
Our meta-analysis included a total of 1,588 nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients and 1,925 controls. The meta-analysis indicated the persons who carry homozygote Arg/Arg genotype and heterozygote Arg/Pro have a decreased susceptibility of NPC compared with those who carry Pro/Pro genotype [OR 0.59, 95% CI 0.48-0.72; OR 0.66, 95% CI 0.46-0.93]. For Arg allele, the persons who carry an integrated Arg genotype (Arg/Pro + Arg/Arg) have an obviously decreased risk to NPC relative to the ones who with homozygote Pro/Pro genotype [OR 0.62, 95% CI 0.45-0.68]. For Pro allele, the meta-analysis showed that the persons who with an integrated Pro genotype (Arg/Pro + Pro/Pro) have a marked decreased susceptibility of NPC compared with the ones who with Arg/Arg genotype [OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.64-0.87]. A positive relation of the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism and nasopharyngeal carcinoma was demonstrated by results of the overall population. In the systematic reviews, the current study indicated that the persons who have the homozygote Pro/Pro genotype could have increased NPC susceptibility. In contrast, Arg carriers, particularly the persons who have homozygote Arg/Arg genotype, may have an obvious relation in decreased risk to NPC.
Koushik et al. (2004) indicated susceptibility of both squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma were increased by homozygote Arg/Arg genotype in cervical cancer. A non-association of TP53 codon 72 polymorphisms was showed by previous publication in lung cancer (Matakidou et al., 2003) and gastric carcinoma (Zhou et al., 2007). And Jee et al. (2004) suggested increased susceptibility of cervical adenocarcinoma, but it did not increase squamous cell carcinoma only associates with Arg/Arg genotype. In the present study, TP53 Arg/Arg genotype seemed unlikely to increase NPC risk, but Pro/Pro genotype may act as a risk factor.
The most often studied gene, which is often mutated in some tumors is TP53. This is unclear that the reason underlying TP53 polymorphism increasing NPC risk. However, TP53 gene has reported a few single-nucleotide polymorphisms (Pietsch et al., 2006). TP53 protein is thought to play an important role in apoptotic functions and growth suppression and a proline-rich region was occurred by the polymorphism of TP53 codon 72 (Dumont et al., 2003). Their ability of combining the transcriptional protein, suppressing the transformation and activating transcription of some primary cells were differed by the two polymorphic variants (Chang et al., 2002). Pro variants may induce apoptosis worse than Arg variants do, which may be attributed to the capability of the Arg variant to locate to mitochondria and it controls the release of cytochrome C into cytosol. Thus, at least partly Pro variant seemed to interrelate to apoptosis suppression of cells, which is an important convincing mechanism of tumor form. The distinctive could be the reason that why the Pro allele could increase susceptibility to NPC. In addition, TP53 gene may interact with other genes such as P73 and melanocortin 1 receptor (Nan et al., 2008). Also, it may have a combined effect with some epidemiological factors such as smoking and alcohol consumption, leading to NPC tumorigenesis and progression.
However, there was a number of limitations in the meta-analysis. First, various factors limit the publication, because the publication is a secondary retrospective study, which include the used measurement tools, the original studies quality, and study population differences, like all other meta-analyses. Second, although the publication is very common in systematic reviews of genetic studies, statistical heterogeneity is critical. Therefore, random-effects model analyses were performed by us to think over the factors which could have led to the high level of heterogeneity. Third, this is the reason that the comprehensive genotype information was lacked in our included studies, which induced using unadjusted data analyzed the results of our systematic review. And because the strict inclusion criteria, the studies which been included is small and it is not sufficient to estimate the two relationship. So, based on other adjusted factors, we could not form a more precise analysis. Finally, the number of the systematic review is relatively small and we did not consider the publications for inclusion in languages only including Chinese and English. So, in order to get more precise conclusions between the two, further research should be studied.
3 Materials and Methods
All analyses were based on previous published studies, thus no ethical approvals or patient consents were required. This recommended Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines is adhered to the meta-analysis (Moher et al., 2009).
3.1 Inclusion criteria
Case-control studies which should met the following eligibility criteria were included: (1) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) which include PCR-polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) and PCR-polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) for genotyping were used to genotype; (2) The relation in the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism and NPC susceptibility is evaluated; (3) enabled the genotypes to be computed from the available publications, or the number of the persons genotypes in both the case and control groups were provided; (4) NPC patient who were diagnosed by obviously reported the type or, histologic methods and cancer-free controls or contained healthy were included; (5) the publications should be published in Chinese or English.
3.2 Search strategy
Some databases were searched up to March 2015, which include EMBASE, MEDLINE, AMED, EBM, ACP, Health Technology Assessment, NHS, CNKI and so on. And we searched the following items: [(nasopharyngeal) AND (cancer OR carcinoma) AND (p53 OR TP53) AND polymorphism]. Additionally, we screened for additional studies which included published studies on interrelated topics and the included studies reference lists.
3.3 Data extraction
The following trial data which was extracted from included studies was extracted by two authors independently: the year of publication, the names of the authors, the countries of the publication, the NPC diagnostic method, the method of genotyping, source of control, cases and controls numbers and the genotyping distributions, and the controls Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) (Salanti et al., 2005). If there were disagreements, we should discuss to resolve them.
3.4 Statistical analysis
The Chi-square test (χ2; heterogeneous was p<0.10) and the inconsistency index test (I; indicate higher heterogeneity shows larger I values) evaluated assessment of heterogeneity. Any significant heterogeneity selected to solve the random effects model in the studies. If not, it should use the fixed-effects model (Mantel-Haenszel) (Moher et al., 2009). Publication bias was used to evaluate the Egger regression asymmetry test (Salanti et al., 2005) and Begg’s rank correlation test (Huedo-Medina et al., 2006) and indicative of a lack of publication bias considered a p value of >0.05. We used STATA version 12.0 (StataCorp, Texas, USA) to perform statistical analyses, and it was considered significant, when <0.05.
The fixed-effect analytical model first to pool results of the included studies were employed and statistical heterogeneity was tested by I2 statistic (Huedo-Medina et al., 2006). It should be switched to a random-effects model, once I2 was more than 40%. In order to quantify in the TP53 codon 72 polymorphism the strength of relation, we used relevant 95% confidence intervals (CIs) and the odds ratios (ORs). And we used four genetic models to assess NPC risk: ArgArg vs. (ProPro + ArgPro), (ArgPro + ArgArg) vs. ProPro, ArgPro vs. ProPro, and ArgArg vs. ProPro. We used examination of funnel plots to detect publication bias. And Review Manager (RevMan) software (version 5.2 for Windows) was used to conduct all statistical analyses.
In conclusion, this systematic review indicated that TP53 codon 72 polymorphisms are interrelated with NPC risk. Homozygote Pro/Pro genotype could obviously increase risk to NPC, and Arg allele critically decreases NPC risk at the same time.
MCG and ZXC wrote and translated the manuscript. TZZ read and approved the final manuscript. JYD and WLJ collected materials. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This paper is the outcome of the Jingzhou City project supported by grants from the Science and Technology Program of Jingzhou City (nos. 2017038; 2017044). The authors would like to express their great appreciation for the invaluable assistance of Chen Z. and Zhang Z.X.
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Braves Go Cyber Monday Shopping, Bolster Lineup
By Bud ⋅ November 27, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment
ATLANTA – There were plenty of people who did their research, scoped out the best buys, figured out their budget and set their sights on Cyber Monday, one of those holiday events where many of us upgrade our wardrobe, electronics or household.
Who knew Alex Anthopoulos also had that day circled on his calendar?
Now granted, the Braves general manager probably did not set out specifically to make the first two moves of this pivotal offseason on the same day you were saving 30 percent on a pair of jeans and a flat-screen TV. But when you slip on those new jeans and fire up that TV come April, you’re going to see a familiar face and a hugely impactful face wearing Atlanta Braves jerseys.
Atlanta welcomed home longtime catcher, Duluth (Ga.) native and eternal fan favorite Brian McCann on Monday, signing the veteran catcher to a one-year, $2 million deal. Injuries and decreased offensive production diminished his impact the past two seasons in Houston, but one of the better framing catchers in the game did help the Astros win the 2017 World Series. Reportedly, the soon-to-be 35-year-old turned down more lucrative offers for the chance to play in front of family and friends in his hometown.
Certainly, this move did not move the needle holistically as much as it did for sentimental reasons. This correspondent even tweeted that this move did not look great at the moment, but likely would in a month or two given the moves that would come, taking care of the catching position, not spending but a mere pittance (in baseball terms) to get it done. After all, this is not the same player who made seven All-Star appearance wearing an Atlanta uniform earlier in his career.
Then came news – merely minutes after McCann’s signing was announced by the club – that made adding a catcher who hit .212 in 63 games last season much more tolerable, sentiments be darned.
The Braves inked slugging third baseman Josh Donaldson to a one-year, $23 million deal late Monday, reuniting the former Blue Jay with Anthopoulos, the general manager who acquired the Auburn University product after the 2014 season to help Toronto reach back-to-back AL championship series.
That’s a lot of money for a guy who, like McCann, has dealt with injuries the past two seasons. But any return to form for Donaldson, who will be motivated to parlay this one-year deal into a huge free-agent contract come next winter, would pay tremendous dividends for an Atlanta lineup that – for all its sizzle and shine a season ago – lacked the right-handed power threat to slot behind Freddie Freeman in the cleanup spot.
There’s a lot to like about these deals together, from an inward and an outward perspective.
Inward, the Braves are a better team now than they were at sunrise. McCann will provide tremendous leadership behind the plate for Atlanta’s youthful staff, the catcher certainly benefitting from working with the likes of CC Sabathia and Justin Verlander since he left the Braves after the 2013 season. He gained valuable experience playing in the postseason with the Yankees (who he signed with after leaving Atlanta) and Houston, including the 2017 World Series title.
Likewise, Donaldson has his share of playoff experience, including the aforementioned two years with Anthopoulos north of the border. The soon-to-be 33-year-old only played 52 games a season ago, but slugged 33 homers with a .944 OPS in 113 games the year before, and only is three years removed from a MVP campaign in which he blasted 41 homers and drove in 123 runs. Anything approaching those numbers in 2019 gives the Braves one of the absolute most dangerous lineups in the NL, hands down.
And what of Johan Camargo, the young fan favorite whose anchoring of third base the final four months of 2018 is hailed as one of the reasons the rebuilding Braves transitioned into the playoff-clinching Braves? Folks, I can’t see Camargo going anywhere. He has experience playing three infield positions, will get some work at first base and corner outfield in camp, and profiles exactly as the type of player Martin Prado was at one time and Marwin Gonzalez (McCann’s former Houston teammate) is at this time.
Those guys are incredibly valuable. Baseball today has changed. Used to be, the best eight guys played every day. Not anymore. Remember the NLDS, where the Braves fell in four games to Los Angeles? Atlanta’s bench was piecemeal, while the Dodgers routinely brought guys off the bench who could’ve started for the majority of teams in the majors.
Camargo will see time on the bench, sure, but also will get plenty of starts spelling Dansby Swanson, Ozzie Albies, Donaldson (the beauty is Donaldson does not have to play 150 games for this deal to be a winner for the Braves), a few starts in a corner outfield spot. Social media lit up immediately after the Donaldson news broke with questions of whether Camargo or Swanson would be moved.
My feeling is neither. Anthopoulos and Brian Snitker – ironically, the man who as a minor-league manager told a 21-year-old McCann at Double-A Mississippi in 2005 that he was going to the majors for the first time – realize depth is a need if this franchise is going to play deeper into October in 2019. Donaldson’s addition allows that to happen. Consider that on a particular night, you could have Camargo (or Swanson, or Albies, or Donaldson) as your top option off the bench, with McCann as the second catcher on days Tyler Flowers starts, along with the ever-versatile Charlie Culberson?
Beats Ryan Flaherty and Danny Santana.
It’d be foolish to think the Braves are done, either. Certainly, Anthopoulos will take some of the remaining payroll flexibility and save that dry powder for spring training or the trade deadline, but Atlanta still has money to spend (even more so if it can find a taker for Julio Teheran, knowing it likely will have to eat some of his $11 million owed for 2019). Were Donaldson an everyday player last season, there is no way he takes a one-year deal. McCann three years ago would not have come home for $2 million.
But here they are, and there still is room for the Braves to work.
Not to mention Atlanta has dealt exactly zero prospects from its overflowing pantry of young talent. The capabilities are there to make a major move on the trade front, and I think that’s where the Braves will strike next. Could Cleveland’s Corey Kluber be had for a high prospect price, giving Atlanta three years of control of a perennial Cy Young candidate who is a bona fide ace? Could Seattle be enticed to deal outfielder Mitch Haniger and/or closer Edwin Diaz for a big package, allowing the Braves to address corner outfield and closer with long-term controllable pieces?
Anthopoulos filled two needs on Cyber Monday. Time will tell if he got the most bang for his buck. And with the Winter Meetings looming and plenty of options on the table, today’s spending spree likely is only the beginning.
Freeman’s Patience Paying Off as October Nears
By Bud ⋅ September 20, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment
ATLANTA – Imagine for a moment the mindset of Frederick Charles Freeman on this Wednesday evening, hours after wrapping up Game No. 1,178 of his stellar major-league career. Consider what the Atlanta Braves first baseman, team captain and face of the franchise – one who has grown from baby-faced slugging rookie to becoming the latest Braves “first-namer,” joining the likes of Hank, Murph, Chipper – must feel on this third Wednesday in September.
You can add another title to Freddie Freeman, one he shares with Julio Teheran: Rebuild Survivor.
The Braves welcome the Philadelphia Phillies to town starting Thursday, a four-game series that has Braves Country dreaming of champagne wishes and championship dreams. Atlanta begins its final homestand of this spell-binding 2018 season needing three wins this weekend to clinch its first National League East title since 2013, a team that found Teheran in the rotation and Freeman manning first base.
The two lone holders from the last Atlanta team to play October baseball, a 96-win squad that fell in four games to the Dodgers in the NL Division Series. Teheran was bombed in a Game 3 start at Los Angeles while Freeman hit .313 in the series with four runs scored. My how long ago that seems, considering everything that has happened since.
Through it all – a four-season stretch featuring 361 losses, a change in manager, a change in general manager, a change in home ballpark – Freeman hit .294 with a .911 OPS, 98 homers and 258 extra-base hits, despite having precious little protection around him in the lineup, two seasons short-circuited by injury, and the general pall of seeing almost every other teammate of value shipped elsewhere for kids barely old enough to shave … or drive.
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Think of how jarring that must have been for a player who grabbed 20 at-bats down the stretch in 2010, Bobby Cox’s final season as manager, one that found the Braves reaching the postseason. His 21 homers in 2011 dampened immeasurably by Atlanta’s September collapse, ending with Freeman grounding into a double play to end Game No. 162 – and the season.
Sure, there was the 2012 wild-card berth clinched by a Freeman walk-off homer, Hall of Famer Chipper Jones standing at third base with one arm raised in an iconic image, only we all know how that playoff appearance ended. Then 2013, a first All-Star appearance in July followed by another visit to October. It was the end of an era, the dawn of what could be best described as a baseball nuclear winter.
Now look at Freddie Freeman as 2018 began, a husband, a father, recovering from a wrist injury that cost him 45 games the season before, the veteran linchpin amid the emerging wave of young, yet unpredictable talent. He had hit above .300 each of the past two seasons, honing his craft as his prime years arrived amongst the darkness of a difficult rebuild that saw 2017 conclude with 90 losses, and an offseason that began with a front-office scandal.
Just 5 ½ innings into the new season, the Braves trailed Philadelphia 5-0, the second season opening at new SunTrust Park looking so much like so many moments he endured through the past four years. But he slammed a 3-2 pitch into the right-field seats, a two-run shot accounting for the first two runs of the season and jump-starting an epic 8-5 come-from-behind victory. Philadelphia intentionally walked him in the ninth inning to get to Nick Markakis, who belted a three-run walkoff bomb just minutes before a thunderstorm unleashed a torrent of rain upon the delirious Braves fans leaving the ballpark.
The Braves – and their captain – haven’t looked back.
There is a myriad of reasons why a team reaches the playoffs, claims a division title, gives its fanbase the chance to dream of a pennant or a world title, a ticker-tape parade and memories to pass down for generations to come. These Braves have plenty of authors in this storybook surge to the brink of the postseason, all of whom we’ve waxed poetic about in the weeks and months leading up to this moment, all of whom we’ll tell our children and grandchildren about as we recall 2018 – perhaps in the way the previous generation revers 1991.
But as it arrives, as Atlanta takes the field for its final 10 games of the regular season – a campaign that seems destined to continue behind Sept. 30 – take a minute to think about the first baseman who rode the descent, slogged through the valley, then helped his franchise rise anew with steady leadership on and off the field.
For all who deserve credit for how the East will be won, when the moment comes, take a minute to think about Freddie Freeman. There he was Wednesday, with his team riding a four-game losing streak and a fanbase paralyzed by multiple faux pas in multiple sports in this city reaching for the panic button, preaching calm before delivering three hits and three RBIs in a much-needed victory over St. Louis that pushed the Braves ever closer to October.
And when they get there, nobody will have earned the moment more than him.
Braves Bring Pennant Fever Back Home to Atlanta
By Bud ⋅ August 27, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment
ATLANTA – It would’ve been folly back in spring to pinpoint the final Sunday of August in Miami and consider it a seminal moment, but in this 2018 Atlanta Braves season that toggles between fanciful and frightening, it makes perfect sense.
Game No. 130 on the 162-game schedule found the Braves wrapping up a seven-game road trip against the National League East cellar-dwellers, having won 12-of-21 during a hellish 22-game-in-20-day stretch that some feared would exhaust the pixie dust that seemingly has been sprinkled on this team.
And yet, there was plenty of dread entering the series finale after Atlanta scored exactly one run in its previous 22 innings, losing 1-0 and 3-1 contests to Miami as Freddie Freeman and Nick Markakis – the veteran linchpins in the middle of the lineup – both fighting significant slumps at the same time. Not an optimal situation at this time of the year, especially considering the dynamic Ozzie Albies has been awful against right-handed pitching this month.
But as the case has been with this team, it’s never nearly as bleak as it seems despite the constant roar on social media, a volume that surely will build as September dawns and the sprint to the finish begins.
The Braves scored four times in the final four innings Sunday, earning a 4-0 victory that sends Atlanta into its first off day since Aug. 6 with a three-game lead over Philadelphia in the NL East. When the gauntlet of games every day (including two doubleheaders) commenced Aug. 7, the Braves sat 1 ½ games in arrears of the Phillies.
Sunday concluded with the Braves owning a three-game advantage for the fifth consecutive day. No ground gained – Saturday marked an ample opportunity after the Phillies choked a five-run lead, but Atlanta only could scratch a Dansby Swanson solo homer – but overall it’s still a win for the Braves, considering five days have elapsed from the calendar and the Phillies remain at arm’s length.
It’s a short arm, though, and seven of the final 10 games of the season loom against the lone challenger to the Braves (yes, you can administer last rites to the ghost of the Washington Nationals, who trail Atlanta by 8 ½ games and who dealt Daniel Murphy and Matt Adams in waiver-wire deals this week that signified everybody’s favorite paper champion raising the white flag). It’s not the time for the offense to turn south, and the Braves averaged 2.5 runs per game on the road trip while hitting .226 as a team with nearly as many strikeouts (44) as hits (45) entering Sunday.
But recall the old saying that pitching and defense wins championships. It applies here, as the Braves have been outstanding on the mound in recent days. Atlanta allowed six runs total in seven games on the swing, pitching to a 0.89 ERA as a staff with only nine extra-base hits allowed. Kevin Gausman, the Plan B after Pittsburgh overpaid grossly for Chris Archer at the trade deadline, owns a 1.69 ERA in five Atlanta starts after throwing five scoreless, one-hit innings Sunday to win his fourth consecutive decision.
Gausman’s short outing Sunday can be attributed to being pinch-hit for in the sixth inning, when the Braves were trying to break through offensively nursing a 1-0 lead. It came one night after Brian Snitker left Anibal Sanchez hit for himself with runners on and two outs in a scoreless game, a decision that bit the manager when Sanchez – who is hitless on the season – struck out, then allowed the eventual game-winning run before leaving with a hamstring injury.
The Braves have been outstanding offensively for large stretches of the season, but in the past month the pitching staff – bolstered by the acquisition of Gausman and relievers Brad Brach and Jonny Venters, the steadying of Sean Newcomb and the sudden consistently good Julio Teheran – has given Atlanta a needed shot in the arm. That says nothing of the contribution by Touki Toussaint and Bryse Wilson, who excelled in winning their major-league debuts during the 22-in-20 stretch. Coupled with stellar defense – Ronald Acuna made another web-gem worthy catch Sunday, one night after Swanson made an acrobatic field-and-throw from short left field – the Braves are in a great position entering the final 32 games.
Now, it gets serious. A getaway day in Miami resulted in the perfect outcome for a team that desperately needs a day off, that only has two more the rest of the way. A surging Tampa Bay team, fresh off a sweep of Boston, arrives at SunTrust Park for two games starting Tuesday. The Cubs pop in for a makeup game, followed by three at home with the Pirates and then those aforementioned Red Sox for three games.
That precedes a seven-game road trip to Arizona and San Francisco, two locales where the Braves historically do not play well. That carries us into the next off day Sept. 13. Sixteen games in 16 days, pretty close to the grind Atlanta just concluded.
It would be nuts to suggest the Braves will gain 4 ½ games in the standings in that span, as they did during the stretch just ended. It is a brutal schedule, as the heat of the pennant race ratchets up to a temperature Braves Country has not experienced in half a decade. And once through that stretch, the final maddening sprint features series with the hottest team on the planet (St. Louis), the wounded but still dangerous corpse of the Nationals, and those seven head-to-head meetings with Philly (four in Atlanta; the final three games of the regular season on the road).
Suffice to say, if the Braves pop champagne and don celebratory T-shirts, they will have earned it. On the final Sunday of August, they found a way to grind out a much-needed victory.
They will need more of that in the final five weeks.
Can Emerging Braves Finish What They’ve Started?
By Bud ⋅ August 7, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment
ATLANTA – When I covered sports on the Southeast Georgia coast, I would travel to Atlanta to cover events or see family. Upon departing, I always looked forward to reaching Macon and hitting Interstate 16.
It’s one of the most desolate stretches of highway I’ve ever traveled. It’s long, it’s boring and there’s not much to grab your interest as you traverse from central Georgia to I-95 and the final leg home to the beach. I learned quickly to divide I-16 into thirds, so on the way home the mental objectives were to reach Dublin, reach Metter and then reach I-95.
Exactly two-thirds of this baseball season now reside in the rear-view mirror, 108 games to be precise. We’ve made it to Metter, to use the exercise above. There are 54 games remaining, and by the time we steer the car off I-16 on Sept. 30, we will know if the Atlanta Braves will continue their 2018 joyride into the National League playoffs or pull into the garage.
Suffice to say, if the Braves reach October, they will have earned it.
Atlanta used Monday’s off day in Washington to refresh and refuel before beginning one of the most challenging schedules in recent memory. Twenty-two games in 20 days, starting with a doubleheader Tuesday against the Nationals (another double-dip looms Monday at home against Miami). Following an Aug. 27 off day, the Braves play 16 consecutive days through Sept. 12. An off day then is followed with 16 games in 17 days.
That in and of itself provides a tremendous challenge for any team, let alone one experiencing a pennant race for the first time in a half-decade and with only two holdovers (Freddie Freeman and Julio Teheran) from that 2013 division-winning squad. And that says nothing of the competition Atlanta will face between now and October.
Consider: Thirty-eight of the Braves final 54 games come against teams that woke up Monday within five games of a playoff spot. Fifteen are against division leaders (four with Arizona, three with Boston, seven against Philadelphia – all coming in the final 10 games of the season – and a makeup game with the Cubs). That’s 70.3 percent of the remaining schedule against contenders, 27.8 percent of those contests against division leaders.
That speaks in part to the parity in the NL, where 11 teams reside above .500 (including the Giants, who were 5 ½ back of the second wild-card spot the Braves occupy starting Monday; Atlanta faces three in San Francisco in September after playing four in Arizona, two locales where the Braves typically do not play well).
We have not seen these Braves nosedive at any point this season, save a 5-13 stretch over the bulk of July that dropped Atlanta from 3 ½ games up in the East to 2 ½ back. To their credit, the Braves have responded by winning six of its next seven – albeit six of those games came against the Mets and Marlins – to slice one game off the Philadelphia advantage.
But the margin for error shrinks as the days disappear from the calendar, in particular when the games come fast and furious and the competition is tough. It will be the stiffest test of all for a team that has raced past expectations and exceeded even the most optimistic hopes of spring. But now the rubber begins to hit the road in earnest, and these Baby Braves will be challenged like never before in 2018.
How will they respond? Will the outstanding seasons of Freeman and Nick Markakis, the emergence of Mike Foltynewicz and Sean Newcomb, the impact of Ozzie Albies and Ronald Acuna, a revamped bullpen and a bolstered bench, be enough to carry the Braves to their first postseason berth since 2013? Can a rotation that at some point during the next few weeks will see the resurgent Anibal Sanchez, the young Max Fried, the maddeningly inconsistent Teheran, the spot-starting 20-year-old Kolby Allard (who acquitted himself well enough in his debut despite horrible pitching conditions), and perhaps the enigmatic Luiz Gohara and the promising Touki Toussaint, make starts in the pressure cooker of a pennant race hold up?
If nothing else, there are key components of Atlanta’s future core that are going to get baptism by fire in the heat of a playoff push. That in and of itself is a win, regardless of how successful or how ugly the results may be. The Braves window has cracked open sooner than expected. There is a bonus opportunity here. There is a feeling to run with this house money and see if the Braves can trump the dealer and slide into the festivities of October, which considering where this franchise sat last October would be cause for immense celebration.
But for every fairy-tale ending, there are countless others that careened off the road. The schedule is stacked with nary a breather to be found. This is where the pragmatic approach takes root. Logic may dictate at some point, there’s a 2-7 stretch coming that sends the Braves just far enough back to dash those October dreams. But even if that were to happen, did anybody expect these Braves to arrive a full week into August holding onto a playoff spot?
Monday served as a breathing point, a last chance to pull off the exit at Metter, top off the gas tank, grab a cup of coffee and some snacks. Tuesday brings a doubleheader in the nation’s capital, the first step toward what the Braves and their victory-starved fans hope will result in a victory lap and a chance to race under the bright October lights.
Keys to the Second Half: These Players Must Step Up …
ATLANTA – The thunder rolls on a stormy Saturday night in North Georgia, and a deluge in D.C. leaves us with no Braves baseball to enjoy with our beverages of choice on this fine midsummer’s evening. Instead, we watch the Cardinals and Cubs, stay mindful of weather alerts, and ponder once more this journey 95 games deep into this 2018 season.
It is a campaign that finds the Atlanta Braves a mere ½ game out of first place in the National League East. The division-leading Phillies also fell victim to the rain and thunder, so an unplanned quiet night before the race begins yet again, another stop-then-start coming just one night after the All-Star break concluded and the Braves captured an 8-5 triumph against the struggling Nationals.
(I still can’t believe Washington is one game under .500, for the record.)
Saturday’s rainout – which resulted in the game being banged several hours before scheduled first pitch, perhaps a result of the famous non-rain rain-delay boondoggle last season – marks the fifth day off in the past six for the Braves, the first four courtesy of the All-Star break. Following Wednesday’s scheduled off day in Miami, Atlanta has just two scheduled off days before Sept. 13.
The next 10 days leading up to the trade deadline may bolster a gap here, help prop up a deficiency there. But by and large, my gut feeling at this moment (subject to change with one Twitter notification or text message) is the group that has brought the Braves from projections of .500 or less to honest-to-goodness contenders is going to have to carry the mail across the finish line. And let’s not kid ourselves: it’s not going to be easy, even if everything is clicking.
Looking at the current 25-man roster and considering their impact to the Braves success, there are three players who could push Atlanta into the postseason with strong finishing kicks to the season … performances that, by and large, we have not seen enough of through the first four months.
Ender Inciarte: It pains me greatly to include him. Inciarte is a fantastic center fielder with two Gold Gloves in his pocket. He also is an ultra-passionate player and a fan favorite. The sheer joy on his face when something goes right is an expression of pride and commitment. But offensively, one season after collecting 201 hits and batting .304, Inciarte looks absolutely lost at the plate.
His OPS is a career-worst .644. He is mired in a 1-for-25 slump. There have been far too many weak grounders to second base, far too many bats slammed to the ground in frustration, and one pop up in Cincinnati in which Inciarte did not run hard out of the box, which eventually cost his team a run and landed him on the bench for the rest of the afternoon.
It would be foolish to move on after three rough months from a 27-year-old with his resume and his talent, as some of the lunatic fringe of social media continues suggesting. But there is no debating this: a .206 average against left-handers screams situational platoon, a drastic step for a player who despite his offensive swoon already has stolen a career-best 23 bases. Inciarte resembling something like the hitter we saw last season would be as big as almost any offensive upgrade the Braves could make at the deadline.
Tyler Flowers: Another very popular member of the roster who is suffering through a rough offensive season. Flowers hit .276 with a .801 OPS through his first two seasons with the Braves, averaging 10 homers per campaign while helping nurture a young pitching staff. His 2018 took a turn south in his opening at-bat of the season when he injured an oblique, and the offensive production has not recovered.
Flowers brings a .237 average and four homers through 42 games to Sunday, after hitting .281 with 12 longballs in 99 games a season ago. A 2.1 WAR according to Baseball Reference in 2017, he sits at 0.7 this season in part because of a paltry .165 average and 29 strikeouts in 97 at-bats against right-handed pitching.
The 32-year-old teams with Kurt Suzuki to form a valuable duo behind the plate, something worth denoting given the heat and humidity present for many of Atlanta’s home games. Suzuki has posted a .775 OPS while hitting eight homers in 67 games, and it’s fair to ask at this point if Atlanta isn’t better suited with a matchup platoon moving forward. With both catchers on expiring deals, it presents the Braves with a potential offseason quandary of what to do in 2019 behind the dish, especially if Flowers can’t get going.
Julio Teheran: There may not be a more polarizing member of this franchise than the gifted right-hander who, at age 27, continues to make us wonder which pitcher we will see every fifth day. It reminds me of the ultimate Jekyll-n-Hyde pitcher, Hall of Famer Steve Carlton, who posted a 1.73 ERA in his 329 career wins and a 5.28 ERA in his 244 career losses.
Teheran’s recent work is an exercise in living life as a yo-yo made of cowhide and held together with 108 red stitches. Consider: four runs allowed in four innings June 4, no runs (or hits!) allowed in six innings June 17, seven runs in 4 2/3 innings June 23, no runs on two hits in six innings June 29, five runs in five innings (with 10 strikeouts, and with a nasty virus!) July 4. His final two starts before the All-Star break were really good, as his fastball velocity – also on a yo-yo throughout the season – stabilized in the low 90s.
Consider Teheran owns a .524 win percentage, a 3.62 ERA and a 1.200 WHIP in 181 career starts, and never has missed significant time due to injury despite being an anchor of Atlanta’s rotation for six years running, and the criticism may seem misguided. The only thing that’s been consistent about Teheran this season has been his inconsistency, but he possesses the stuff to be a huge difference maker and rotation stabilizer down the stretch … if he can keep stringing together more upswings than downturns.
In Conclusion: If you could see these three seasons back on the morning of March 29, one would think the Braves would be below .500 and not pushing for their first postseason berth since 2013. There have been many breakthrough seasons and remarkable performances to put Atlanta squarely in the race.
The feeling here is other than in the bullpen, a difference-making acquisition isn’t walking through that door. Again, subject to change given the vibration of a cell phone.
It’s up to the guys in that clubhouse to make it happen. Fair or not, the final destination of this team will in part be determined in how the trio of players named above performs over the final 10 weeks.
Braves Drawing Attention from Near and Far
AUSTIN, Texas – There are moments when, in the midst of transitioning from rebuilding to contending, something happens that illustrates the shift in fortunes is grabbing attention.
For me, it occurred some 965 miles west of SunTrust Park earlier this week.
On a business trip to Austin, I strolled into the lounge at my hotel Monday night after arriving a few hours earlier. Relieved of deadline and work activities on arrival day, I grabbed a seat at the bar and looked forward to some quiet time while watching the NCAA Super Regionals. I ordered dinner and a beverage, and upon delivering my food, the bartender noticed my Braves shirt and hat.
“You have one heckuva baseball team there,” he said, which sparked a conversation that lasted more than an hour. In that time, between bites of food and sips of Austin amber brew – which, for the record, really is good – I learned from the bartender and a couple of waiters that while they still are riding the emotional wave of the Astros winning the World Series, they recognize what’s happening in North Georgia.
The bartender, who appeared to be around my age, kept referencing the big arms that defined the Braves for the better part of two decades – Smoltz, Maddux, Glavine, Avery, Neagle, Millwood. But the difference is those references to yesteryear began to intertwine with comparisons to the present day.
Foltynewicz. Newcomb. Soroka, Nearly 1,000 miles away from home, these folks rolled those names off the tip of their tongue at every opportunity.
What to take from that conversation while bellied up to the bar on the second floor of the Intercontinental in downtown Austin?
It shows just how far the Braves already have come.
In the words of the older bartender – who obviously knows his stuff about ball, from mentioning Jeff Blauser to Charlie Leibrandt to, gasp, Dion James and Damaso Garcia – he’s watched the Braves a few times this season and summarized, “this team is about to burst through and ascend toward the top of the majors.”
Walking out of SunTrust Park late Sunday afternoon – six days after that conversation – the Braves only had added more validation to this phenomenal surge. Atlanta wrapped up a 5-1 homestand by downing the Padres 4-1, as Julio Teheran returned from the disabled list with six no-hit innings.
Here are the Braves, 13 games above .500 for the first time in five seasons, leaders of the National League East by 3 ½ games. Sample size bias? Nah, not now. Atlanta has played 71 games, nearly 44 percent of its schedule, and it sits on a 95-win pace with a favorable schedule.
Back to Austin a few days ago. There were conversation tracks focused on Ozzie Albies, on Freddie Freeman, on Dansby Swanson and on Ronald Acuna. But the talking points kept coming back to pitching. And can you blame them? These folks watched Houston’s dominant rotation pave the way to a world title last fall that brought so much joy to this part of the world.
To step away from the biased viewpoint of tweets and text messages, to hear folks I never had met before and may never meet again, hit on the same observations, leads me to realize that what the Braves are doing is resonating far beyond the borders of Braves Country. In this part of the world, the Astros endured a miserable rebuild that featured three consecutive seasons of 106-plus losses and finishes in the division of 40-plus games out of first.
Houston’s win total jumped from 51 games in 2013 to 70 games in 2014, to 86 and 84 the following two seasons, then 101 wins and the world championship in 2017. A dynamic pitching staff with young star power aplenty has the Astros poised to compete deep into autumn for years to go.
But they’re not the only team following such a blueprint. There’s another team, one based in Georgia’s capital city, that is on the rise. And people far from SunTrust Park are starting to take notice.
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If I Was A Locked Out NFL Player...
Consider the following, almost certainly true things:
1. Many people (especially in Packer country and to a lesser extent, Bear country) will basically watch football no matter what. In Wisconsin, even the XFL did great.
2. There are open college stadiums everywhere on Sundays.
3. There are network TV stations that do not have NFL deals and would probably be more than happy to show football.
If I were an intrepid, locked out NFL player, I would create a small regional 7-7 flag football league. I would organize the teams as franchises with each participating player taking an equal share. I'd sign an open-ended TV deal with ABC or a bigger cable channel, maybe with a 3 week guaranty with a renewable 1-week option after that. Teams would split the gate and concessions. GB could play in Camp Randall or Miller Park. Chicago could play at Northwestern or Illinois. Detroit could play in Ann Arbor. I'd call it the Lockout Cup.
I would attempt to organize it in tournament form along the lines of the world cup, first with round robin group play followed by a knockout round. And if the labor dispute happened to settle in the meantime I'd preserve the Lockout Cup season in tact in case it ever happens again. This would feed ESPN speculation when a lockout was pending about "the return of the lockout cup" complete with updates about where each franchise stands.
Flag Football has low overhead. It has a lower injury risk than does real football. ESPN would take care of most of their marketing for them (as would Twitter and Facebook), and the NFL has already bestowed the players with valuable brand names. Remember when the Cleveland Indians sold out a spontaneous game in Miller Park? You don't think 40,000 would show up to see the Packers play the Bears?
I suspect that people would show up and tune in. They would get to see their favorite NFL-ers with no helmets, close up, and probably at lower prices. Some would do so just to show solidarity with the players. I'd instruct all participants to be as friendly as possible and to sign autographs as much as possible.
Would big names participate? I believe they would given the proper circumstances, and this idea would not require all of them, just enough of them. This would not just be a way to keep making money, it would also serve several other important functions, namely:
1. Showing the owners that the players can, in fact, survive without them.
2. Showing any anti-trust court that cares that a competitor to the NFL could theoretically exist if it were allowed to.
3. Keeping their skills sharp and their brands current.
4. Swinging leverage completely to the players' side, possibly forever.
5. Fox/CBS/NBC would be apoplectic at paying the owners lockout insurance while ABS is showing live real games.
Is this possible? Probably not. Owners are owners for a reason. But it would only take a few intrepid players and agents to get the ball rolling. Booking stadiums is, in the grand scheme of things, not that hard. Arranging travel is not that hard. Getting a TV network to cover football is not that hard. Creating media buzz via the internet when many of players already have thousands upon thousands of Facebook and Twitter followers is not that hard. Overhead is low.
The only thing this takes is hard work.
Owners have have used replacement players before. Why shouldn't the players try out a replacement organization?
A few additional points.
1. If every player is "an owner" I suspect you avoid certain employment issues.
2. De-certifying the union as a negotiating tactic (as the players have voted to do in order to pursue an anti-trust case) may also help with this.
3. The owners would have all kinds of issues taking any steps towards stopping any kind of competitor league due to said anti-trust issues.
4. I wouldn't let them off the hook that easily when things did settle. i'd make them buy me out.
I'd have about as much interest in Packers-Bears 7-on-7 flag football as I do when they barnstorm the gymnasiums of rural Wisconsin playing donkey basketball (do they still do that?)
Rather, the UFL should get itself primed and ready to step into the Sunday void left by the NFL game.
I suspect you are more discriminating than most.
It wouldn't even have to be "flag" in the traditional sense. Throw some awesome sensors on them or something.
I'm with tracker. This would draw about the same crowd as the MTV Rock N' Jock basketball game. It would be nearly as retarded. Sorry bro.
I'm a bit hazy on how the effects pedal would improve the situation. Is it simply so you can tweak the equalizer? Or is there something else to it?
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Qorvo jumps 11% after Seth Klarman investment
By David Mildenberg
Qorvo jumps 11% after Seth Klarman investment2017-05-212017-05-22http://businessnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/bncweblogoblacksmall_space-01.pngBusiness North Carolinahttp://businessnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/bncweblogoblacksmall_space-01.png200px200px
Qorvo was the big story in Carolinas-based stocks last week after a major investor bought a stake in the Greensboro-based company that supplies a part for Apple phones. It was the best performer in the Capital Investment Cos./Nottingham Index of Carolinas-based public companies for the week ended May 19 among companies with shares trading for at least $10.
Best gainers:
Qorvo (QRVO) – 11.4% $75.51 Investor Seth Klarman’s Baupost Group bought 7 million shares in the first quarter, helping push shares higher. It reported a net loss of $28.8 million on sales of $2.6 billion last year. Shares have gained 53% in the last year.
World Acceptance (WRLD) — 3.7% $81.91 After gaining 40% a week earlier, the Greenville, S.C.-based consumer finance company added another 4%. It eported better-than-expected earnings and said it had renegotiated a credit agreement that will allow it to make more loans and buy back more shares. The company operates more than 1,320 stores in the U.S. and Mexico.
Cree (CREE) — 3.1% $23.09 Chuck Swoboda, CEO of the Durham-based LED and semiconductor maker for the last 16 years, is retiring when his successor is selected. During his tenure, Cree shares traded as low as $11 and as high as $73.
Channel Advisor ECOM — (-5%) $11.45 The Morrisville-based company’s software enables retailers to manage their online sales. The company said it had 2,904 customers as of March 31.
SPX SPXC — (-5%) $26.35 The company’s biggest profit drivers are products for heating and air conditioning systems. Shares have increased 72% in the last year.
Bank of America BAC — (-4%) $23.05 The biggest Carolinas-based stock has gained 59% in the last year as higher interest rates are improving the spread between interest received on loans and paid on deposits.
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David Mildenberg
David Mildenberg is editor of Business North Carolina. Reach him at dmildenberg@businessnc.com.
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Frigo Logistics and Longway Polska sign leases for Masovia
A logistics operator specializing in distribution of deep-frozen goods has leased nearly 1 200 sqm of deep-frozen warehousing space and 150 sqm of office space in the P3 Błonie logistics park. In turn, Longway Poland, the owner of the popular bicycle brand Karbon, has gone for Pruszkowskie Centrum Dystrybucyjne, where it will be taking up more than 1 400 sqm of warehouse space and 300 sqm of office and staff rest and refreshment space. Both of the above transactions were completed with the support of consultants from the Industrial and Logistics Department at BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland.
Frigo Logistics, the national leader in distribution of deep-frozen goods, has already started operating from the new location 27 km to the west of the centre of Warsaw. Its presence in the P3 Błonie warehouse park situated in the near proximity to the junction of the 92 national road and the A2 motorway will enable the company to make full use of the opportunities stemming from its expertise and broad range of services it offers including comprehensive transport services together with direct pickup and delivery of goods to any location in the country, as well as a package of logistics services such as storage, picking, co-packing and release of goods for further distribution.
The second transaction completed on Warsaw’s warehouse market where BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland acted as the agent was introduction of Longway Poland to the warehouse park located right next to the Pruszków motorway junction. The main area of operations of the dynamically developing Polish company is manufacture of a full range of bicycles addressed to both children and adults. The new location for Longway Poland, i.e. Pruszkowskie Centrum Dystrybucyjne, has a total of 6 buildings with the aggregate warehouse, manufacture and office area of 65 000 sqm.
The low relocation costs and availability of office units were the deciding factors in choosing Pruszkowskie Centrum Dystrybucyjne as the new seat for Longway Poland.
Tomasz Gnich, Consultant, Industrial and Logistics Department at BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland
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What’s possible in a week? If you dedicated seven days to the achievement of one goal, how ambitious could you make this goal? These were the questions that the multilingual friends Katy and Sara posed themselves when they determined to learn English in one week, to prove that it can be done and anyone can do it with the right methods.
They would attempt to liberate themselves from the distractions and responsibilities of modern-day life in order to cram eight hours of study time and I was observing some of the world’s most capable language learners at work.
The language learning expert: Sara
The friends set themselves the challenge of learning a language in a week in order to stretch themselves, and then it was a question of choosing which language to learn. English presented itself as a natural option; there are nigh on 300,000 English speakers in Germany’s capital, and the areas are dotted with stores adorned with signs in English.
„Truly understanding one’s environment requires one to first understand English“
The first operational step in the friends learning process was to decorate the entire apartment with sticky notes. This had an almost ceremonial touch to it as the friends delved into dictionaries and proceeded to label everything with its corresponding English name.
Within the space of about an hour it was impossible to carry out any menial task, be it making a coffee or flicking off a light switch, without first being presented with at least three different words related to this action.
Sara learning in the park
The importance of the other twin’s presence became immediately apparent as Katy and Sara delegated responsibilities for rooms to decorate with sticky notes. This simple task was augmented by continuous little tests that they would spring on one another, and the fact that they split up their day slightly differently and studied different topics meant that each twin became a source of knowledge for the other.
The most extraordinary moment came towards the end of the week!
The friends simply switched their everyday conversations to English, asking one another if they wanted tea or coffee, were ready to cook dinner or when they were going to leave the house.
Katy and Sara had numerous micro-challenges throughout the week. On the first day they were visited by a English friend who greeted them in English and complimented them on how quickly they’d picked up their first words and phrases.
They then learned the names of fruits and the numbers from one to a billion so that they could visit the English market (although they refrained from purchasing nine hundred thousand kumquats). Displaying their haul after their first functional exchange in English, they beamed with pride and a palpable sense of accomplishment before marching back home to study further.
Katy playing audio lessons
On our second visit to the brother’s apartment 24 hours into the week, we found them sampling dozens of different kinds of English snacks.
Like kids staring at the backs of cereal packs before heading to school, the nutritional information and various special offers and competitions on the packaging were analysed during snack breaks.
There was no moment of complete removal from the language learning process during the eight hours that the friends had allotted to it.
They were constantly using their existing knowledge to support the ever-growing knowledge of English, this being the root of their success.
„you will likely come across words that share common origins with your native tongue“
The friends spent a lot of time engrossed in books or on their computers and apps, flicking and swiping their way through exercises eagerly, but at other times they were to be found searching busily for English radio stations and write-ups of English football games on the web.
There is no definitive method to learn a language fluently
All too often, people enter their weekly language class to converse with their teacher, but then barely have any contact with other speakers and that’s not enough.
The old saying that we can solve problems more effectively when we sleep on it may be especially true if the problem we’re trying to solve is learning a new language.
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Researchers from two Swiss universities wanted to know if they could enhance the learning of words from a foreign language by exposing people to the words during non-rapid eye movement sleep the deep, dreamless sleep period that most of us experience during the first few hours of the night.
To find out, they gathered two groups of study participants, all of whom were native German speakers, and gave them a series of Dutch-to-German word pairs to learn at 10 pm. One group was then instructed to get some sleep, while the other group was kept awake.For the next few hours both groups listened to an audio playback of the word pairs they’d already been exposed to and some they hadn’t yet heard.
The researchers then re-gathered both groups at 2 am and gave them a test of the Dutch words to uncover any differences in learning. And indeed there was a difference:
„The group that listened to the words during sleep did better at recalling the words they’d heard“
The simple yet potent trick the researchers employed is known as verbal cueing, and this isn’t the first claim made for its success while sleeping. But what makes this study different is that it puts a finer point on the conditions necessary for this trick to actually work namely, it only works when we’ve already been exposed to the verbal cues before we sleep.
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The researchers added a techie dimension by conducting electroencephalographic (EEG)recordings of the sleeping participants brains to track neural electrical activity during the learning period.
They found that learning the foreign words overlapped with the appearance of theta brain waves, an intriguing result since theta is the brain wave state often associated with heightened learning while awake (usually we’re in either the high-frequency, high-alertness alpha or beta states while awake, but it’s thought possible to induce theta state slower in frequency than alpha and beta through concentration techniques).
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Judging Bush
It is common these days, among Republicans as much as among Democrats, to follow the public opinion polls and judge President Bush as a grand failure. Is he? I have a different opinion than the public, and here are my reasons.
Bush is a Good Man
We take this so much for granted, but it is because of President Bush that we do. The eight years before Bush we did not take goodness in a president for granted at all. Clinton was a draft dodger who "loathed the military" and who lied about his deferment. Bush served in the National Guard honorably and his father served his nation with the highest honor possible in the Pacific.
Clinton probably raped women, certainly used and abused women, absolutely committed adultery, and even today Clinton is probably philandering. Bush loves his wife, his mother and his daughters and there is no evidence that he has done anything but love and respect them while he was president (thus incurring the quiet seething of feminists, whose greatest yearning is for a brutish male.)
Clinton immersed his presidency in lies so transparent that no one can deny his mendacity. A federal judge found him in contempt of court for lying. A red-faced Clinton stared straight into the camera and lied about Monica. The transcripts of Clinton shows his totally dishonest persona when he famously ponders what the meaning of "is" is. Bush stumbles in his speech too often, but on this very personal level of honor, there is not a scintilla of proof that Bush lies. Like Reagan, Bush is without guile.
On the political level, people with strong agenda can propose "Bush lied, people died" (even though many in Iraq lived and did not die because the mass murderer Hussein was ousted) or "Clinton lied, Foster died." But this sort of putative political lying is of an entirely different quality. How many young blacks died because of the horrific failures of Johnson's War on Poverty? How many young child in Third World countries died because of Rachel Carlson's phony reporting in Silent Spring? How many millions will die because Gore's Inconvenient Truth is a quite convenient lie? How many may yet die because Carter allowed the Shah of Iran to be replaced by the mad mullahs?
Yet, for all his vanity, no one accuses Carter (or Gore) of lying about the personal details of his marriage or questions that both men served their nation in the military. They, like Bush, loved their wives, served their country, and did not reflexively lie about nearly everything they did. Carter is, in many ways, an absolutely despicable man, but he loves Roselyn, Amy and the memory of Miss Lillian; his faith appears to be real; he served happily under Hymen Rickover, his idol (and how much better an idol than Jeremiah Wright!)
Carter, Reagan, and Father Bush represent sixteen years of basically good men in the White House. Clinton represented eight years of the depths of moral depravity, and Son Bush restored that goodness, perhaps such personal goodness as we will never see, except in Reagan, in our lives. How good is Bush? Consider this: He is a recovering alcoholic who, through the terrors of September 11 and the lowest presidential approval ratings in history, has stayed cheerfully sober. Could any of us have done that? Probably not. Bush has a goodness not just rooted in a wonderful family and a kind heart, but most importantly in an abiding faith in our Blessed Creator. Goodness counts. It counts for a lot.
Taking the Fight to Our Enemies
How do we expect to win the war against those who would destroy us without fighting back? Did we intend to defeat Hitler by more coast guard patrols off the Atlantic Coast? Did we intend to defeat Japan by beefing up our ground forces in California? How did those of us who wanted to win the Cold War plan to do that? Was not help for Polish workers, proposing SDI, arming Afghan freedom fighters and supporting Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe essential to bringing down the Soviet Empire?
The plain fact is that too many Leftists have no intention of winning the war against those who would destroy us. They never believe in America winning wars at all. So, when Reagan fought the Cold War to win, the Left was outraged. When conservatives wanted to win the Vietnam War (or at least prevent defeat), the Left was outraged. Reruns of MASH show how the Left thought about the Korean War (and who, now, can question that the hideousness of communist North Korea was worth fighting?)
Was going into Iraq a good decision? Perhaps and perhaps not. Was the prosecution of the war done well? Maybe and maybe not. But the strategic decision of taking the fight to our enemies was a critically important and very good decision. When America fought Hitler, the strategic decision was to utterly defeat him. That grand and righteous goal was littered with hundreds or thousands of tactical and operational mistakes.
President Bush, soon after the attack on the World Trade Center, decided that we would win the war against our enemies. Because of that, we have been safe. Benefits like personal safety are the easiest things to take for granted. Leftist elites, with their bodyguards and gated communities, seldom have to fear from anything. They prefer to dwell on mythic dangers, like global warming, rather than true dangers, like urban Armaggedon. President Bush, a friend more of all of us than some of us, has made protecting us a priority.
Roberts and Alito
The recent Supreme Court decision about terrorists at Guantanamo Bay illustrates just how important presidential appointments to the Supreme Court are to our life. Grasping how well Bush has done in our highest political body, the Supreme Court, consider how other presidents have done with Supreme Court appointments. The five justices who were in the majority were John Paul Stevens (appointed by Gerald Ford), Anthony Kennedy (appointed by Ronald Reagan), and David Souter (appointed by George H. Bush.) John Roberts and Sam Alito were part of the minority, along with Clarence Thomas (appointed by George H. Bush) and Antonin Scalia (appointed by Ronald Reagan.) If Ford or Reagan or Bush Sr. had appointed one more conservative justice to the Supreme Court, it would be a conservative court. Even Reagan only hit 33% on Supreme Court appointments - Sandra O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy were two of his three appointments - while President Bush has been perfect in his appointments.
Compared to What?
Judging President Bush involves comparing him to other presidents. Reagan was a better president than George W. Bush. But who, besides the Gipper, has been as good as Bush?
Bill Clinton ignored the threat of terrorism, squandered both the geopolitical hegemony and the treasure of Reagan's peace dividend, and sullied the office like no one before or since.
George H. Bush emptied the Reagan White House of conservatives, broke his tax pledge, appointed a solid Leftist like Souter to the Supreme Court, and failed to remove Saddam Hussein when the whole world would have been behind us.
Jimmy Carter brought us high employment, high inflation, high interest rates, no energy policy, the mad mullahs of Iran, a humiliating hostage crisis and a complete droop in national morale.
Gerald Ford appointed John Paul Stevens, another solid Leftist, to the Supreme Court, refused to meet with Solzhenitsyn, and fought Reagan for the nomination (because he thought Reagan was too dumb and too conservative - although Nelson Rockefeller as appointed vice president was fine.)
Nixon? How far do we have to go in American history to find an American president - leaving Reagan out - who was as good as George W. Bush? LBJ? Kennedy? Eisenhower? JFK? Truman? FDR? Hoover? We probably have to go back more than eighty years, to Reagan's favorite, Calvin Coolidge, to find someone equal to George W. Bush as president. One day Americans will look back on these eight years and thank God for President Bush.
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"We are totally prepared", Trump said at the White House. NASA via AP In this September 12, 2018 photo provided by NASA, Hurricane Florence churns over the Atlantic Ocean heading for the US east coast as seen from the International Space Station.
Listen up, Mother Nature, we are not about to be hit by a hurricane without putting up a fight the best way we know how...by roasting the storm through the use of jokes on the internet.
Watch live coverage from Gray TV affiliate WITN out of Wilmington, N.C.
Inland cities and towns will not be spared from the storm, with anywhere from 5-20 inches of rain forecast to fall in many parts of North and SC. While inland areas may be spared the strongest winds, they could be vulnerable to flooding, especially if close to overflowing rivers.
A gauge in the city's Neuse River near the town of Oriental indicated the water was 4 feet over flood stage and more than 5 feet above normal levels. As Cooper said, "There's nowhere for the water to go".
"The sun rose this morning on an extremely unsafe situation and it's going to get worse", he said at a news conference in Raleigh. Some 3,000 people died in the aftermath of that storm.
"I had a lot of fear initially but I'm glad to be inside and safe", said Zelda Allen, a 74-year-old retired tax accountant from Hampstead, North Carolina, who was riding out the storm at Wilmington's Hotel Ballast with her husband.
"WE ARE COMING TO GET YOU", New Bern city officials said on Twitter.
Florence is already causing power outages, with the U.S. Energy Department reporting that almost 400,000 customers have lost power in North and SC.
Up to 165,000 residents in North Carolina are now without power and more than 3,000 inmates were evacuated from prisons by the North Carolina Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice.
The highest numbers are being reported in New Hanover County.
Despite the threat from rising tides, Risty-Davis said her family would continue to stay put, noting her neighborhood's previous success in avoiding power outages and flooding.
With the brunt of the storm yet to come, a gauge on the Neuse River in New Bern, a city near the coast, was already recording 10 feet (3 meters) of inundation, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The agency adds that people trapped by flooding should "never enter attics or crawl spaces".
The Triangle still has a good possibility of seeing 50 miles per hour or higher winds.
The Category 1 storm is now gusting at wind speeds of about 90 miles per hour with heavy rain and storm surges expected for the region.
By early Saturday morning, Florence is expected to have weakened to a tropical storm, and by early Sunday, it will be a tropical depression. The hurricane center described the storm surge as "life-threatening".
Florence's center may linger for another whole day along coastal North and SC - punishing homes with crushing winds and floods and endangering those who've stayed behind.
"We have quite literally surrounded the expected affected area", he said. The storm, far weaker by early next week, is expected to track north along the Appalachian Mountains from Sunday to Wednesday.
State emergency officials said Thursday they had no way of tracking how many residents from the Carolinas had escaped to Florida this week.
Preparing for the worst, about 9,700 National Guard troops and civilians were deployed with high-water vehicles, helicopters and boats that could be used to pluck people from the floodwaters. Cooper said he hopes more shelters will also open today. Wilmington is expected to get battered before the storm drifts south.
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Cyprus Outlines ‘Plan B’ To Avert Bankruptcy
The president of Cyprus is rushing to agree a ‘plan B’ aimed at securing a bailout after parliament rejected demands for a controversial tax on savings.
The European Central Bank added a sense of urgency to the scramble for a deal, confirming it would only guarantee assistance for Cyprus only through Monday, unless a new aid programme was in place.
The near-bankrupt member of the eurozone has closed its banks until Tuesday while new proposals are debated among political leaders.
President Nicos Anastasiades set a deadline of Thursday for a new rescue plan to be agreed after his finance minister, Michalis Sarris, failed to make any progress on possible Russian aid during talks in Moscow on Wednesday.
Mr Sarris confirmed today that the discussions with Russia were continuing over investment in Cypriot banks and energy resources to reduce the eurozone nation’s debt burden.
He was also seeking an extension to an existing Russian bailout loan.
The president’s proposals, which might still include the controversial bank levy in some form, could contain “the creation of a structural investment fund, reinforced by various provident funds, real estate”, government sources suggested.
They also told the official CNA news agency that the fund “will also be linked with a bond issue and natural gas prospects”.
The troika of lenders – the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund agreed a bailout deal last Saturday on condition Cyprus raised another 5.8 billion euros through a tax on savings.
The resulting backlash has meant that banks will have been closed for 10 straight days under the crisis measures implemented to avert a run on deposits.
The move has inevitably dealt another blow to Cyprus’s debt-laden economy, which contracted by 2.3% in 2012, having taken a battering from the global financial crisis and its exposure to Greece.
“We cannot buy, we cannot sell,” said Costakis Sophoclides, the director of a frozen goods company in Nicosia.
“A lot of my customers are hotels and restaurants… and we cannot supply them.”
Cash machines still have money available but an overall lack of liquidity has seen petrol stations close their credit card facilities and many stores refuse to accept cheques.
Amid the political and economic fall-out from the crisis in Cyprus, the value of the euro has taken a hit while stock markets in Europe have fallen as a result of the uncertainty.
The chairman of the so-called Eurogroup, made up of the eurozone nations’ finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem told the European Parliament in Brussels that the problems in Cyprus posed a systemic risk to the single currency area.
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He comes from a family very involved in the Catholic Church. Born in Launceston and now living at Howden, Oscar started school at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Launceston, attended St Aloysius Catholic School, Kingston, from Grade 1, spent grades 7-10 at St Vigil’s College, Austins Ferry, and completed his senior secondary education at Guilford Young College (GYC) in Hobart.
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Since the beginning of 2016, I’ve started to infuse more sex-driven content into this little feminist lifestyle blog of mine. Part of that includes highlighting some of the most exciting and sex positive brands out there. So, when Big Oh! Box ended up on my Twitter feed, I was ecstatic. I spoke to husband and wife duo, Michael and Rachel Gibbs, about their unique adult subscription box.
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Rachel: I’m Rachel Gibbs, the Chief Creative Officer of Passionate Ideas Inc. I’m “the talent”. I have a deep love for my Sexuality and Gender Studies courses.
I understand you’re a husband and wife duo, how did Big Oh! Box start?
M: We wanted to do something positive and fun with our lives. So, we kept that in the back of our minds while we continued with our lives. Then one day, I was looking up adult subscriptions after having positive experiences with Lootcrate and Hello Fresh, but everything we saw had lingerie or people were sent toys they didn’t care for. For instance, one vlogger was sent a glass dildo that they wouldn’t use, and we wouldn’t have used the lingerie in any box. What a waste of an opportunity to make someone feel good. I asked myself, what did we like? Kink; we like to experience new things in the bedroom, then, it hit us. Where was the subscription box for people who like to explore?
R: I am very passionate about helping people and I love to have my mind blown. Michael and I had a lot of conversations about what our joint goals were and we were always on the same page, especially when it came to helping others. I love listening to podcasts while I work and I was introduced to one, that was focused on sex positivity and education, by a co-worker. I immediately became addicted and would talk with Michael about the various points of views on sex related topics and would share with him all of the things I had learned. It soon became pretty apparent that this is what excited us. It was something that we both enjoyed learning and talking about. We wanted a way that we could share ideas of sex positivity and inclusiveness, and we wanted to be able to reach various people with these ideas. We noticed that subscription services featuring adult toys were geared towards heterosexual couples with an emphasis on spicing up their sex lives with a featured “date night”. We felt that these boxes didn’t promote sex positivity in that they appeared to be very exclusive to heteronormative standards and identities. This is where we decided that we could make a difference. Everyone deserves to enjoy themselves, explore their sexuality, and play, regardless of how they identify sexually or socially. Our goal is to be inclusive of all body types and sexualities with an emphasis on pleasure and exploration. Society already tries to put us in a box; our goal is to provide an experience in a box without putting a person’s sexual orientation in there as well.
Did you face any difficulties when starting Big Oh! Box?
Michael: We needed to make sure we stayed sex positive and as gender neutral as possible, so everyone could play. The hardest part was planning the toys since we are all anatomically different, but we eventually figured out that you now have so much more choice; backdoor play, a rabbit, vibe and stroker to name a few. We came up with a theme that gives the user a new experience every time with the first two quarters focusing on senses. We also give our users the option to change their toy preferences.
What are the differences between both boxes?
M: ‘With Oh! Friend’ is focused on couples and comes with a large number of items. The ‘Sol-Oh!’ box is essentially a quarterly masturbation box! You get a toy, lube, sex toy cleaner along with some additional goodies.
R: Our couples box is all about partner play, it’s an experience curated for two (or more) people and is driven by a theme which encourages sexual exploration. This box includes an assortment of experiences including but not limited to: wax play, BDSM, and bondage play, depending on that quarter’s particular theme. Our solo box is geared towards toys and items that can be used alone, but can still provide maximum satisfaction and pleasure.
How do you ensure your boxes are LGBT+ friendly?
M: Our boxes are designed for all types of couples with no focus on just one type. We try to go for gender-neutral toys, but it can sometimes be hard figuring out which toys suits all anatomies.
R: Absolutely, our boxes are for everyone! The only thing you need is an open mind and a wandering hand to enjoy these boxes. Instead of having to identify who you play with, our boxes cater to how you play (anal play, vibrators, etc.). You get to curate your pleasure, so that we can provide you with items that will make you say “Oh!”
Your Twitter bio reads “You deserve something more than a date night“. Do you think, in a dating app-obsessed world, that there is a pressure to maintain ‘date night’s?
M: Rachel is going to be able to describe this better than I, but I think there is certainly still pressure on couples to keep date nights in the mix. Although, this added pressure is going to counteract the relaxation part to date night. Why waste the night on going out anyways? Stay in, enjoy each other, and let us help find new ways to play 😉
R: There is definitely a social stigma regarding dating that if people don’t “date” in a manner that is typically defined by society, then their life is clearly boring and lacking; especially their sex life. It is plastered everywhere in the media and hits us from all angles. We have enough stressors in our life, pleasure should not be one of them. A goal with Big Oh! Box is to play when and how you feel works best for you.
What’s your perfect date night?
M: Sushi and sake; home by 9 and bound by 9:15.
R: This is an answer that has evolved since Michael and I have had children. Currently, my perfect date night is where I can fully relax and enjoy my time with both myself with my partner without interruption.
What would you say your brand’s core values are?
M: To be inclusive of all types of couples, individuals, and persons.
R: To be sex positive and inclusive of everyone. We believe that everyone is entitled the opportunity to explore their bodies and find what makes them say “Oh!”.
I love the idea of your ‘Sol-Oh!’ box, do you think masturbation is still a taboo? If so, why?
M: I think all masturbation is still taboo; some friends of ours won’t like our Facebook page because everyone will know they play with toys.
R: Yes; I have strong thoughts on the taboo nature of masturbation and sexuality in general. I think that the way media portrays women’s sexuality forces standards on women that they feel they need to live up to and if they don’t, they’re broken. Society has taught us that the way a man’s body works is the default way for how all bodies should work, and when they function outside of this ‘norm’, then something is wrong. I think that women who don’t automatically become aroused at the thought or sight of something sexually relevant automatically assume that something is wrong with them. Additionally, porn gives women unrealistic standards of how they should be responding to sexual stimulation, such as by squirting, achieving multiple orgasms and being able to cum within mere minutes of playing. I believe that there should be space for women to explore their bodies and what brings them pleasure without falling into the ideas of these social influences. Our boxes encourage sexual exploration and self satisfaction without putting these expectations or extra pressures on them.
What do you hope to achieve with Big Oh! Box?
M: We hope to give everyone a chance to experience new ways to play with their partners or to try new solo toys that they wouldn’t have before.
R: We hope to encourage sex positivity and sexual exploration as a norm, so that people can break free from the stigmas that revolve around sex. Our goal is to create a safe space and context for them to explore and experiment with what brings them pleasure.
Don’t forget to check back later this month for a review of The Big Oh! Box!
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What an interesting subscription box, it’s good that they aim for it to be suitable for everyone not just hetrosexual couples x
laurahartleyy says
Great to see that this couple had a creative idea and saw it through! I can imagine finding a sex subscription box that appeals to everyone is incredibly difficult so it’s good to have as much variety as possible!
What a great box, and brilliant answers too. Sex is so taboo and masturbation even more so in the UK. Boxes like these will hopefully encourage more fun behind closed doors and lead to bigger conversations.
Finally an adult toy company that promotes positive sex. What is more refreshing is that its toys are catered to all leaving you with more options to choose how you would like to pleasure yourself.
Kaz & Ickle Pickle (@IcklePicklex) says
Not sure what to say as a single mum of four, sex is the last thing on my mind! I love the concept though and loved reading all about the people behind the business. Kaz x
Life as Mum says
Sounds like a really interesting box to receive. Great interview.
Angela Milnes says
I think its an interesting idea. It’s not something I’d personally be interested in but good for them coming up with an idea and following through. Angela
It’s nice to hear how inclusive they are in their product line. Theyr’e right. Everyone deserves to have the big oh!
Rebecca Smith says
This sounds like a really interesting subscription box! Looking forward to reading your review
Nayna Kanabar (@SIMPLYF00D) says
I have heard of many types of subscription boxes from, beauty, food, baking, crafts, and even one for pets but this one has got me gob smacked!!! 🙂
Emma White (@TheRealSupermum) says
See thats the main problem with toys these days they are not catered to please both mainly wither just for her or just for him so love this idea
WhatLauraLoves (@whatlauraloves) says
It is great that there really is a subscription box service available to everyone these days! xxx
Nicol says
I’ve never heard of an adult box before! This is a first. Its quite a good idea actually
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Prevention and Early Detection
Null Results in Brief
Dietary Factors and Risk of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma: A Pooled Analysis of Two Prospective Studies
Huei-Ting Tsai, Amanda J. Cross, Barry I. Graubard, Martin Oken, Arthur Schatzkin and Neil E. Caporaso
Huei-Ting Tsai
Amanda J. Cross
Barry I. Graubard
Martin Oken
Arthur Schatzkin
Neil E. Caporaso
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-0585 Published October 2010
Background: Other than male sex, family history, advanced age, and race, risk factors for chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) are unknown. Very few studies have investigated diet in relation to these leukemias, and no consistent associations are known.
Methods: Using two large prospective population-based studies, we evaluated the relationship between diet and CLL/SLL risk. Among 525,982 men and women free of cancer at enrollment, we identified 1,129 incident CLL/SLL cases during 11.2 years of follow-up.
Results: We found no associations between total fat, saturated fat, fiber, red meat, processed meat, fruit, or vegetable intake and risk of CLL/SLL. We noted a suggestive positive association between body mass index and CLL/SLL (hazard ratio, 1.30; 95% confidence interval, 0.99-1.36).
Conclusion: We did not find any associations between food or nutrient intake and CLL/SLL.
Impact: Our large prospective study indicates that diet may not play a role in CLL/SLL development. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 19(10); 2680–4. ©2010 AACR.
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) are the most common leukemias in the western hemisphere. Because they share very similar demographic features and no decisive evidence supports differences in risk factors, many etiologic studies combine them. Advanced age, race (Caucasian > African American > Asian), and male gender are established risk factors for CLL/SLL, and familial and migration studies support a genetic component. However, no environmental risk factors have been reproducibly identified.
Several studies have suggested associations between some dietary factors and CLL/SLL, but the findings are inconsistent due to small sample size and retrospective study designs (1-6). Given that fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants, and diets high in fat and animal protein may alter immunocompetence, we hypothesize that diet may play a role in CLL/SLL. We conducted an analysis in a pooled dataset of two large prospective studies.
We pooled data from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health study and the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) cancer screening trial; details of their design have previously been described (7, 8). Briefly, the NIH-AARP Diet and Health study is a cohort of 567,169 men and women ages 50 to 71 years from eight U.S. states. PLCO is a cancer screening trial of 155,000 men and women ages 55 to 74 years from 10 centers throughout the United States. We restricted our analyses to Caucasians without a personal history of cancer (except basal skin cancer) and excluded outliers for energy intake (top and bottom 1%) and body mass index (BMI) <18.5 or >50 kg/m2.
Exposure assessment and end-point ascertainment
Diet was assessed in both cohorts at baseline by a self-administered food frequency questionnaire-diet history questionnaire, which has been validated using 24-hour dietary recalls (9). The diet history questionnaire assessed the usual frequency of consumption and portion size of foods and beverages over the previous 12 months. Dietary variables were energy adjusted by the nutrient density method. Incident CLL/SLL cases were identified by linkage to state cancer registries in the NIH-AARP Diet and Heath study and through study screening centers and annual study questionnaires in the PLCO trial.
We used the Wilcoxon rank-sum test to investigate intake distributions between cases and controls. Dietary variables were categorized into quartiles and the median of each quartile was used to compute P-trend values. We used Cox proportional hazards regression, with age as the underlying time metric, to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Follow-up began from date of randomization or completion of questionnaire and ended at diagnosis of CLL/SLL, moving out of study areas, or through 2006 for the NIH-AARP Diet and Health study or 2007 for the PLCO trial. We conducted sensitivity analyses that only included cases diagnosed after the first year of follow-up.
We identified 1,129 incident CLL/SLL cases among 525,982 participants (median age, 63 years; 59% male) from the two cohorts during up to 11.2 years of follow-up (median, 10.5 years). Men had an increased risk of CLL/SLL (HR, 1.67; 95% CI, 1.46-1.90) compared with women (Table 1). In addition, there was a suggestive positive association between BMI and CLL/SLL [HR, 1.30 (95% CI, 0.99-1.69) for BMI >35 kg/m2 compared with BMI ≤25 kg/m2]. However, education, smoking, alcohol, or multivitamin use was not associated with CLL/SLL (Table 1).
Population characteristic and lifestyle factors in relation to risk of CLL and SLL among 525,982 men and women from the two cohort studies
Comparing those in the highest intake quartile to those in the lowest, we found no associations between total fat (HR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.73-1.03), saturated fat (HR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.73-1.03), fiber (HR, 1.03; 95% CI, 0.87-1.23), red meat (HR, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.76-1.08), processed meat (HR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.74-1.05), vegetables (HR, 0.93; 95% CI, 0.78-1.11), or fruit (HR, 0.93; 95% CI, 0.78-1.12) intake and CLL/SLL (Table 2). Furthermore, we found no association between intake of foods with a high glycemic index or high glycemic load and CLL/SLL. Conducting a 1-year lag analysis did not alter our findings.
Diet in relation to CLL and SLL risk among 525,982 men and women from two cohort studies
In this pooled analysis of more than half a million people from two prospective studies, we found no associations between diet and CLL/SLL. The suggestive increased risk of CLL/SLL for those with a BMI >25 kg/m2 requires further investigation.
Limited sample size and recall bias are major issues when investigating diet and non–Hodgkin's lymphoma. Case-control studies have reported positive associations between intakes of fried red meat (4), processed meat (1), rice or pasta (2), and fat and saturated fat (1, 5) and risk of CLL/SLL; these findings were not replicated in our study.
Although no foods or nutrients were associated with risk for CLL/SLL, we identified a suggestive positive association between BMI and CLL/SLL. Obesity can lead to decreased immune response and changes in endogenous hormone metabolism, which may increase the risk of CLL/SLL. Studies with appropriate molecular markers that are relevant to immune and metabolic functions will be useful to further explore the association between BMI and CLL/SLL.
The strengths of our study include its large size and prospective dietary assessment. Nevertheless, our study was limited by having dietary data from a single time point and potential measurement error associated with self-reported assessment. In summary, we did not find any associations between food or nutrient intake and CLL/SLL.
Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest
No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.
We thank the participating institutions in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study and PLCO trial for data collection and the Information Management Services for data quality control. We are deeply indebted to participants in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study and PLCO trial for their invaluable contribution.
Grant Support: This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Department of Health and Human Service.
Revision received July 15, 2010.
Accepted July 22, 2010.
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You’ve all seen the movies and everyone’s gasped at the sights of the amazing cars that most people could only dream of and then sat in horror to watch as they crash these amazing cars in such spectacular style. Well, here’s a few of them and the cost of the insurance claims today.
Ferris Beuller’s Day Off:
1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider
Nowadays that claim would be worth around £7,000,000
The real version of the car was not destroyed it was a replica
There were only 100 of the real cars ever made
The car was however insured while on set for its true insurance value
At a 2008 auction a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider was sold for £7.5 million
Its value at the time of production was around £225,000
In this film the star Ferris Beuller takes a day off school pretending to be sick. On the same day his best friend Cameron really is sick but is persuaded to ‘borrow’ his dad’s Ferrari for the day and consequently it gets written off.
Fast and Furious:
1970 Dodge Charger plus around 200 further cars were written off
That claim would have been worth around £3.2 million
The film centres on police getting into the LA subculture that was street racing.
Christine:
1958 Plymouth Fury (24 to be precise)
Today the insurance claim would be £1,000,000
Although the insurance claim has been converted from the original insurance price today just one Plymouth Fury is worth £35,000
The film’s success put the car in great demand
Today they are a collector’s item
Christine was the name of the car. She disliked anyone that got inside her and therefore killed them. However, no matter what kind of damage she endured she always looked brand new.
Aston Martin DBS V12
Today’s claim value £600,000
The three Aston Martin DBS V12 that were totalled in this film were donated by Aston Martin
It is more likely than not that the cars were not insured as knowing what would happen to them it would have been impossible
The Italian Job (1969)
The vehicles destroyed in this film include a bus, 2 E-type Jaguars and 3 Mini Cooper Sports
The insurance claim today would have been around £170,000
The main character uses all of these vehicles to try and out do the Mafia in order to steal its gold.
Blues Brothers (1980)
1974 Dodge Monaco Sedan along with 70 police cars
Today’s claim would be £131,000
Written by Gina Wells for www.devinescs.com, leaders in private transfers.
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GIRD YOUR LOINS!
4,360+ Flights Canceled Before Blizzard
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The impending blizzard that could dump as much as three feet of snow on New York City has already started wreaking havoc on travel—and it’s barely flurries so far. Some 4,360 flights set for Monday and Tuesday have been preemptively canceled on the East Coast. It’s possible that all flights will be grounded for the three airports serving New York. Boston’s Logan International Airport has announced today’s last flight will leave at 7:30 p.m.
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A White Supremacist Holds an Entire American City Hostage
The riveting documentary Welcome to Leith chronicles white supremacist Craig Cobb’s mission to create an Aryan utopia in rural Middle America.
Jen Yamato
Updated 04.14.17 9:33AM ET / Published 09.06.15 1:50AM ET
When hate first arrived in rural Leith, North Dakota, late in the summer of 2012, denizens of the sleepy farming hamlet (pop. 24) barely took notice.
“At first I thought he was a quiet, keep-to-himself kind of guy,” recalls the town’s cowboy-mayor Ryan Schock in the documentary Welcome to Leith, an unsettling case study of one quintessentially democratic American conflict.
Bobby Harper, Leith’s sole African-American resident, remembers a stranger in a long coat coming around the neighborhood asking about land for sale.
Even Schock’s wife, Michelle, strolled over with a welcoming hello when that newcomer, a loner with glasses and wild silver hair, took up residency in Leith and started buying up plots of property around town.
It wasn’t until the ugliness of the outside world started to invade Leith’s city limits that locals realized who their new neighbor really was: Craig Cobb, the notorious white supremacist leader who’d been kicked out of Estonia and Canada and now had designs on turning Leith into his own personal Aryan utopia.
Cobb’s documented history of incendiary missives and advocacy of hate crimes against minorities had already landed him on the radar of concerned watchdog groups. When he put his plan in motion to bring fellow white supremacists to live in Leith in order to take over the town’s electoral vote and slowly establish a home base for white nationalism in the heart of North Dakota, critics and national media descended en masse to protest and bear witness.
The people of Leith, however, were hardly equipped to deal with their new problem neighbor. After all, folks move to Leith for the privacy—the antithesis of big-city living with its own endemic urban crowds and cultural conflicts. At first, Cobb justified his presence by invoking the American principle that would become the linchpin of his war with the townsfolk: Everyone has a right to live in peace. Even racists. Right?
With his constitutional rights protecting him under the law and several high-powered supremacist leaders and organizations behind him, Cobb mounted his Leith campaign by utilizing increasingly loud and antagonistic tactics against the townsfolk who opposed him, taunting and even doxxing his detractors.
Intimidated and frightened in their own homes, some armed themselves and braced for violent retribution. Others, including an Army vet from a nearby town, opted to fight back using Cobb’s own methods against him and his supporters, antagonizing the antagonizers via constant surveillance and aggressive heckling from afar.
At the height of these tense months in Leith, both sides had the same plan: Document every move in case the enemy slips up and runs afoul of the law. Shocking home video footage of combustible town hall meetings and face-offs within the 1.24-square-mile city capture a community on the verge of war, with the attention-happy Cobb gleefully rattling tensions and unnerving his fellow citizens, protected in his hostility by his right to freedom of speech.
Welcome to Leith peaks dramatically in an anxiety-inducing sequence as cellphone video shows Cobb and his protégé Kynan Dutton, a young Neo-Nazi who moved his family to Leith at Cobb’s urging, “patrolling” the streets with loaded rifles slung across their shoulders. Filmed by Dutton’s wife, Deborah, the footage follows Cobb and Dutton as they march through hostile territory, testily menacing their neighbors while shouting epithet-laden provocations and wielding, as Deborah describes them, “sexy ass guns.”
“I'm one of the most famous racists the world, you son of a bitch,” Cobb yells at one neighbor, a Christian admonisher, in the footage that went viral online after he and Dutton were subsequently stopped on suspicion of terrorism. After the stunt, Cobb and Dutton were arrested by the town’s cops, who finally had something to charge them with.
Directors Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker’s jarring and surprisingly even-keeled film cobbles together crowdsourced home videos with footage they shot over eight tumultuous months in Leith themselves—including shockingly cozy access to Cobb himself, before, during, and after his arrest.
It’s easy to see what attracted them to such a contentious figure in the first place. Raised in an upper-middle-class family, the son of a wealthy land developer and high-ranking Mason, the now-63-year-old Cobb was pressured by his parents into joining the military and spent years in Hawaii, where his interest in white nationalism is thought to have been ignited.
The man who publicly celebrated the death of Rosa Parks (“a shitskin Communist,” he called the civil-rights activist at a national celebration in 2005) also started a white supremacist video-sharing service and famously appeared on British TV to submit to DNA testing—only to be told he was 14 percent African. He dismissed those findings, of course.
“I probably have Asperger’s syndrome,” he calmly tells the Welcome to Leith filmmakers while in prison, clean-shaven and looking markedly more genteel as he recounts his own life to the camera. Later, Cobb gazes into the camera and shares his advice on how to deal with Jews: “One way to stop them is… you physically take apart their molecules and atoms,” he says, calm as a shark.
If he weren’t so downright dangerous, the verbose and impassioned Cobb might make for an entertainingly eccentric character. But as the film approaches its ambiguous conclusion, its permeating sense of dread skyrockets. Back in Leith, a camera studies Cobb’s former neighbors and victims as they hear that he’s been freed from prison after striking a controversial plea deal. They’ve already burned down his condemned former properties in a symbolic cleansing conveniently captured by the camera. But it’s like burning the corpse of a ghost: They may never stop agonizing over the hatemonger's potential return, wondering if, where, and when he’ll pop up next.
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Edwards Denies Call-Girl Claim
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John Edwards on Thursday denied a report that he had used New York's so-called "Millionaire Madam." Edwards's lawyer issued a strongly worded statement denying the allegation, and demanded a "complete retraction" from New York's local news blog DNA Info, which broke the story. DNA Info reported Thursday that a call girl working for Anna Gristina told investigators that she was paid to have sex with Edwards while he was in New York in 2007, raising money for his failed presidential bid. Records show he stayed at the Loews Regency Hotel—which is also where he allegedly met Rielle Hunter.
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Liberals, Rejoice!
The Senate deal that’s killed the public option isn’t cause for tears. Matt Miller on why the left’s dream of universal coverage is finally within reach—and what the Democrats need to do next.
Matt Miller
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For my liberal friends who are mourning Tuesday’s Senate health deal as somehow representing the death of “real reform,” I have six words: Keep your eyes on the prize. Far from some “sellout,” the compromise struck by five liberal and five moderate Democratic senators means that we’re at last on the threshold of the biggest liberal achievement in decades.
Why? Because the emphasis on the public option in this debate has always been way out of proportion to its real impact. As the Congressional Budget Office concluded, a pure public option was likely to enroll only a few million Americans at most, and would likely have featured higher premiums, because it would attract sicker citizens as enrollees.
Truth is, the central progressive goal of reform should have never been the public option.
Truth is, the central progressive goal of reform should never have been the public option, but rather to make it possible for every American to access group health coverage outside the employment setting. That access does not exist today, and that’s what the new proposed insurance exchanges would enable. What’s critical, therefore, is the structure of these exchanges, the rules about who will be eligible to use them, and the adequacy of the subsidies for those who need help.
These questions have received too little attention in the debate, but need to move front and center in the endgame. For example, current bills bar people who enjoy employer-based coverage from seeking insurance from the new exchanges; this ban should be scrapped in favor of the choice proposal offered by Senator Ron Wyden, under which employees would have the option of using the cash their firm spends on their benefits to buy coverage they prefer at the exchange.
• Michelle Goldberg: The Dem’s Abortion SacrificeIf such tweaks are added in the weeks ahead, the emerging bills will deliver what most on the left would have considered a miracle a few years back. Nearly $900 billion will be spent over ten years to achieve near-universal coverage. Insurance companies will never again deny people coverage based on pre-existing conditions. New limits on out-of-pocket costs as a percent of income will mean that no American will ever go bankrupt from medical costs again. And, thanks to the Senate’s Tuesday deal, Americans aged 55 to 64 who lose coverage (and can't find affordable new coverage on their own) would be able to buy into Medicare, with help via new subsidies—an idea the left has craved since President Clinton first pushed for it in the late 1990s.
Make no mistake: these changes would bring America at long last into the community of civilized wealthy nations.
To be sure, there are good reasons to worry that this year’s health reform won’t do enough to control health costs, a project that will remain a national imperative for the next two decades (though worrywarts here should read Atul Gawande’s indispensable new piece in the New Yorker, which gives sophisticated grounds for hope on the cost score as well).
So is the bill imperfect? Of course. Will it need to be revisited in the years ahead? Absolutely. Is it also shaping up to be the biggest progressive achievement in our lifetimes? Yes, yes, yes.
Matt Miller, a former Clinton White House aide, is the host of the public radio program, "Left, Right & Center," and the author of The Tyranny of Dead Ideas. In recent years he has given paid speeches or paid advice to doctor groups, hospitals, pharmaceutical firms and insurance companies, as well as to low income advocacy groups promoting universal coverage.
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SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE WATER?
Shark Panic Hits Cape Cod Town: ‘They’re Eating Our Children’
After one young man was attacked and killed, Cape Cod citizens are demanding the great white sharks are driven away from their town.
Victoria Bekiempis
Residents of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, packed the gym of a local elementary school Thursday night to discuss what many consider to be a grave danger lurking along this quiet Cape Cod town’s shore—a reported increase in great white shark sightings.
A Boston Globe reporter described the forum as “a scene straight out of the 1975 film Jaws,” with some 300 locals voicing concerns about beachgoers’ safety in “passionate and occasionally combative terms.”
Wellfleet Town Administrator Dan Hoort said the community meeting—which featured shark experts and researchers, as well as local officials—was meant “to help educate the public about sharks and discuss ‘what they can do to limit their exposure,’” the Globe said.
Brewster resident Gail Sluis, in a speech that prompted “considerable applause from the audience,” said “They’re eating our fish, now they’re eating our children.”
“No sharks or seals are worth a young man’s life—they’re just not,” Sluis said, according to the Globe.
Justin Bourke, a reporter with Boston’s 7News, also tweeted that, “People we’ve spoken to are haunted by the deadly shark attack and loss of Arthur Medici earlier this month.”
Mike LaCrosse, a reporter at Boston CBS affiliate WBZ, said attendees were “lining up at the meeting to ask questions or offer suggestions on how to make the waters safer.”
The meeting took place less than two weeks after Medici, a resident of nearby Revere, died in a shark attack. The 26-year-old’s death marked Massachusetts's “first fatal shark attack in more than 80 years,” the Globe reported.
In August, a New York man survived a shark attack in nearby Truro, Capecod.com said.
Meanwhile, some in this town of 2,750 have voiced concern not only about loss of life: They worry increasingly visible shark activity could deter tourists, who boost the area’s economy.
Many viewed the issue like Sluis, attributing the sharks’ presence to a booming seal population. Ideas for controlling the seal population ranged from birth control to outright culling.
Some other solutions unrelated to seals included bolstering the ranks of lifeguards and employing drones to monitor sharks’ movements.
John Kartsounis dismissed present safety initiatives as “Band-Aids”—explaining that he wouldn’t let his kids in the water anymore.
“This problem has been escalating to the point that our beaches are no longer safe to go swimming at,” Kartsounis told the Globe in an interview. “Quite frankly, the signs that have been put up on how to avoid getting attacked are almost comical.”
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Tony Hayward to Be Replaced As BP CEO Soon
Well, he won't have very big shoes to fill: Embattled oil giant BP is planning to replace their disgraced CEO Tony Hayward as soon as Monday, according to an anonymous U.S. official. The leading candidate to take on the role is Bob Dudley, who is currently the company's managing director. BP is tamping down public speculation, though, insisting as of Sunday that Hayward "remains BP's chief executive, and he has the confidence of the board and senior management." BP's board, which will meet on Monday, would have to approve Dudley as the new CEO before he could take the reins. Rumor has it that Hayward has been on his way out for some time, but the company wanted to be seen making some progress on plugging the leak before a management shakeup.
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Food fears: more activist science and scientifically illiterate reporting
Posted on December 1, 2017 by Terence Bradshaw
Much has recently been written about the poor state of scientific literacy in the U.S, and the media’s role in that downward slide. At the same time, ‘industrial’ or ‘conventional’ agriculture, and the real, live farmers that contribute to it, continues to be damned by activists, non-governmental organizations, and enlightened people on social media. Similarly, academic objectivism has been hijacked by academic activism to provide an air of credibility to those who wish to portray the present farm and food system as in shambles. A recent journal article is making the rounds that exemplifies these concepts, and highlights many of the problems with both public and academic activism as it relates to and affects farmers and consumers.
The article posted in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), “Association Between Pesticide Residue Intake From Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables and Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women Undergoing Infertility Treatment With Assisted Reproductive Technology” (Chiu, Williams, Gillman, & et al., 2017) has been shared in social media and discussed in popular scientific venues quite a bit since its publication in late October 2017. (I won’t mention the shares it’s had among activist and issue-oriented websites like thenatpath.com, davidwolfe.com, mercola.com, organicconsumers.org, etc…their response to this confirmation bias is to be expected).
Science Daily reports, “Eating more fruits and vegetables with high-pesticide residue was associated with a lower probability of pregnancy and live birth following infertility treatment for women using assisted reproductive technologies.”
Huffington Post offers the headline, “Trying to get pregnant? Science suggests: eat organic and regulate the pesticide industry.” (Article written by Stacy Malkan, Co-director of the activist group U.S. Right to Know)
Reuters? “Women who eat more fruits and vegetables with high levels of pesticide residue may be less likely to get pregnant than women whose diets don’t include a lot of this type of produce, a U.S. study suggests.”
Modern Farmer says, “High-Pesticide Fruits and Vegetables Correlated with Lower Fertility Rates, Says Study.”
WebMD leads their story with, “Couples who are trying to have children should probably be picky about their produce, a new study suggests…”
Hell, even Nature got in on the story, “…Reproductive endocrinology: Exposure to pesticide residues linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes…”
The headlines and statements pulled from these articles all make it sound like we have a crisis on our hands, that our food supply has been shown by science to be unsafe, and pesticides are to blame. But let’s look at this paper a bit closer, with a skeptical and statistical focus.
This was an observational, case control study. That means that the independent variable of concern, in this case, pesticide residue intake, is not under the control of the researcher. That doesn’t invalidate the study, but it immediately makes it a weak one. A group of 325 women who were receiving assisted reproduction treatments (in vitro fertilization, IVF) were polled about their diet for the past three months prior to assessment, as well as for other potential factors. Fruits and vegetables (FVs) were tallied and compared to USDA pesticide residue database, using similar protocols as the Environmental Working Group’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ list. That annual report that highlights many conventionally-grown produce items as dangerously contaminated with pesticide residue has been heavily criticized as intransparent to its methodology; flawed in its calculation of risk; and sensationalized in its overhyping of meaningful results (Fenner-Crisp, Keen, Richardson, Richardson, & Rozman, 2010; Winter & Katz, 2011). In this present study, a cumulative risk calculation, “Pesticide Residue Burden Score” (PBRS), is tallied and assigned to each subject. While the PBRS is cited as having been previously used as a valid assessment technique in prior studies, all of those citations are from the same author’s lab group, which indicates that this categorical assigned value has little use in the authors’ field of study has not been replicated it in another study by another lab group.
Quibbling about statistical design aside, let me break it down here. The primary independent treatment variable, pesticide exposure (PBRS), is derived from: a) a retrospective questionnaire (how many of us could accurately say what we ate for the last three months?); b) a dataset of pesticide residue collected from a very small sampling of fruits and vegetables grown all over the world with no relation to how those growing conditions may affect actual pesticide load of the individual subjects nor of the variability of residues within samples; and c) were translated by the authors using arbitrary criteria into essentially a “big” and a “little” treatment. The number of jumps in the assumption train is boggling here, and we generally consider assumptions made based on assumptions of assumptions as a pretty poor way to assign treatment variables. The researchers could have done a simple, quantitative test here to confirm their assignment of exposure risk: measured pesticide metabolites in urine. That one step would have made for a stronger study, assuming it didn’t completely invalidate the PBRS treatments that were selected, which is entirely possible.
The dependent variables were more easily measured, discreet data points, things like number of embryos transferred, number implanted, clinical pregnancies, and live births.
Then, lots of ‘cofounders’, or other factors affecting the dependent variables are discussed, including age, body mass index, race (but only ‘white’ race, yes or no), education, smoking history, organic food intake (self-reported, and also placed on an arbitrary categorical scale), and intake of thinks like alcohol, caffeine, and vitamins. So it seems that they screened out the other things that are well-known to impact pregnancy outcomes and are able to look only at the effects of PBRS, right? Sort of. Looking at Table 2, we see that in the ‘High residue’ group, the highest quartile (e.g. arbitrarily determined highest pesticide exposure) group had a statistically greater incidence of organic food intake than the lowest-residue (quartile 1) group. Yet, the paper explains in the discussion that eating organic food may decrease pesticide exposure, which is the complete opposite of the statistics presented in the paper. Similarly, we find statistically significant cofounders between populations all over the place, including various vitamin intake levels, infertility levels (HUGE problem …study should have been finished right there), and smoking rates.
The authors ran a bunch of correlation tests, which by design only point to associations between data points without any test for causation. Consider the popular correlation site Spurious Correlations that provides reported links between the number of films that Nicholas Cage appeared in and the number of people who drowned in a pool, based on actual data and associated correlations between variables. This highlights that correlation indeed does not mean causation; that the experimental variables were so vaguely defined and arbitrarily selected further highlights that there is little to no meaning to be drawn from the weak statistics used in the article. The authors mention adjustments made to “the model” to account for the cofounders, but the model isn’t made available in the actual article to evaluate. Sorry, that’s poor form for such a groundbreaking research paper, and indicates not only a lack of transparency but also a lack of scientific rigor with the entire premise of the article.
However, let’s assume that the model they developed to compare the arbitrary PBRS levels to pregnancy outcomes was valid. The outcome variables analyzed were a computed confidence interval (CI) for the various pregnancy outcomes (implanted egg, pregnancy, live birth). CIs are a commonly-used metric for guessing how correct your estimation is based on your sample mean and the variance among samples. Conducting a statistical test on computed Cis derived from assumptions of assumed assumptions (that’s a loss of four levels of freedom for the stats folks) makes this analysis a complete shot in the dark as far as having any statistical validity.
Given all of the problems with this study, it’s amazing that it was ever even published. The authors did give themselves an out, though. In the ‘Limitations’ section, they state:
“Our study has some limitations. First, exposure to pesticides was not directly assessed but was rather estimated from self-reported FV intake paired with pesticide residue surveillance data. Although we have adjusted for organic FV intake, data on whether individual FVs were consumed as organic or conventional were not collected, possibly leading to exposure misclassification…Second, our methodology does not allow linking specific pesticides to adverse reproductive effects. Further confirmation studies, preferably accounting for common chemical mixtures used in agriculture by biomarkers, are needed. Third, as in all observational studies, we cannot rule out the possibility that residual (e.g., significant differences in organic FV consumption across quartiles of high–pesticide residue FV intake) or unmeasured confounding may still be explaining some of our observed associations…”
How about this explanation: a group of scientists began their study on pregnancy outcomes with a highly risky population, as far as their dependent variables were concerned (women undergoing fertility treatment); made up arbitrary High and Low risk groups based on assumed data with no verification of actual exposure; ‘accounted’ for cofounding variables that were significantly different across the treatment groups left the model out of the paper (“just trust us”), and overstated conclusions based on widely varying Confidence Intervals (calculated guesses for actual ranges among populations) of dependent outcomes.
This is, at best, a ‘hypothesis study”- something that sets further research down a path of study to determine what might be going on in a set of data that shows a certain trend. More realistically, it’s an activist-science fishing mission fed to a receptive media, and they have gobbled it up and spit it out. The saddest part of the story is that reputable media outlets with stretched staff and few reporters with scientific background and time to apply it are just parroting the press releases accompanying the paper.
And we, again, see the public discourse dumbed down, and we see the finger pointed at conventional farmers, with organic farmers offered an undeserved (going strictly on the evidence presented) halo. No one is saying that there shouldn’t be careful scrutiny applied to pesticides, or to any facet of agriculture that entails risk to both farmers and consumers. But this study, the conclusions it presents based on fairly weak evidence, and the media promotion around it aren’t adding much of substance to the conversation.
Chiu, Y., Williams, P. L., Gillman, M. W., & et al. (2017). Association between pesticide residue intake from consumption of fruits and vegetables and pregnancy outcomes among women undergoing infertility treatment with assisted reproductive technology. JAMA Internal Medicine. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.5038
Fenner-Crisp, P., Keen, C., Richardson, J., Richardson, R., & Rozman, K. (2010). A Review of the Science on the Potential Health Effects of Pesticide Residues on Food and Related Statements Made by Interest Groups. Retrieved from http://safefruitsandveggies.com/sites/default/files/expert-panel-report.pdf
Winter, C. K., & Katz, J. M. (2011). Dietary exposure to pesticide residues from commodities alleged to contain the highest contamination levels. Journal of toxicology, 2011.
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Suthers’ integrity and credibility in Kimball case
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Re: “Wrongly pointing fingers at Suthers,” May 26 editorial.
As former district attorney for Weld County and U.S. attorney for Colorado, I support The Denver Post’s recent editorial defending Attorney General John Suthers.
As a former prosecutor, I reviewed many applications for use of a person as a confidential informant. In doing so, I relied upon the briefings presented to me by law enforcement agents and prosecutors who were working on the case. Confidential informants were needed to further the goals of other criminal investigations. There is no basis to assume Suthers had reason to doubt the integrity and credibility of the requesting law enforcement officers and prosecutors.
Any suggestion that Suthers is “soft” on crime or that he is anything other than a dedicated and top-notch prosecutor is misplaced and wholly unsupported by his long record as a public servant.
Bob Miller, Greeley
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Anatomy of an Assault
January 24, 2016 by Todd 1 Comment
On the evening of June 17, 2015 Mr. Cameron and Deana Lentz sat in the dark, next to a trail, conversing while music played. The trail ran from Mr. Sommerville’s tent to Fred Meyers between Pearson Air Field and Highway 14. Mr. Sommerville (Gary), who’d that night learned Mr. Cameron was back, armed himself with a hoe handle and a knife, before walking by and saying “Let’s go Dee.” Mr. Cameron protested with, can’t a guy talk to his girlfriend to which Gary responded don’t you mean your ex-girlfriend. The conversation deteriorated from there and Gary (who’d previously been convicted of a crime of dishonesty) testified that:
Cameron threatened to kill him.
He walked away holding Deana’s hand after Cameron’s death threat (i.e. making no effort to run or hide) but told her to run as Mr. Cameron approached and she was 50-75’ down the trail when the fight ensued.
He swung his hoe handle first and multiple times at Mr. Cameron (though he denied d hitting him)
Cameron hit him with a 40-pound weight bar causing a compound fracture to his right hand (and causing him to drop the hoe handle) and three cuts on his head (the longest of which was photographed by police after being stapled shut at Peace Health and presented as an exhibit to the jury)
On June 18, Mr. Cameron wrote his version of events for the police, which the jury was able to read because it was marked as a State’s Exhibit: “My girlfriend and I got into an argument she went out on the trail from tent I went out in 5 min. We were listening to music. Red [Gary] came up behind us with a shovel handle and threatening to hit me. I asked him to leave 5 times, my girlfriend started walking down the trail Red then hit me with the shovel handle in the hand we wrestled then he hit me in the ear with his shovel handle. I went out in a seizure. I came to and went down the trail because my girl was yelling saying stay away. I feared for my life. I feared for my girl too so I went to protect her. I hit him in self-defense with a stick. I hit him two times that I know of.”
Deana Lentz, who initially dated Mr. Cameron prior to his going to jail for a couple weeks, and subsequently dated Mr. Sommerville testified to the following:
She did not include the death threat in her rendition of the event.
She walked away holding Gary’s hand and was standing right there, 1-5’ from the action as the fight unfolded.
She did not see Gary swing his small bamboo walking stick at Mr. Cameron.
Cameron hit him with a 60-pound weight bar.
Sommerville, Lentz and police agreed that no blood was found at the scene of the fight, nor was a blood trail found, though Mr. Sommerville was bleeding profusely from the head when flagging down motorists at the Columbia House gore point onto Highway 14.
http://criminaldefensevancouverwa.com/wp-content/uploads/Short-Cameron-Closing.mp4
The defense asserted 25 reasons for doubt and highlighted 7 inconsistencies between Gary and Deana’s testimony. The defense emphasized Gary’s only photographed head injury showed neither the bruising nor swelling that one would expect a weight bar to cause; asserted Gary’s motive for making his claim was: get the girl and avoid jail. The defense highlighted Gary’s admission that he’d cut himself before going back to jail. The defense pointed out that Deana overheard Gary telling police about the weight bar, thus explaining why both would make this claim & concluded with what are the chances that a long heavy weight bar landed all injuries within the narrow confines of Gary’s Mohawk?
On January 8, 2016, following over five hours of deliberations the jury returned verdicts of:
“Not Guilty” of Assault in the First Degree (Class A felony, strike offense)
“Not Guilty” of Assault in the Second Degree (Class B felony, strike offense)
“Guilty” of Assault in the Fourth Degree, (Gross Misdemeanor), and
“Guilty” of Felony Harassment-Death Threat.
I suspect the jury reasoned:
It was not 1st degree Assault because the State simply didn’t prove grievous bodily harm and further disbelieved the use of a “weight bar” (i.e. a metal bar swung as a club = deadly weapon which would be capable of producing death) to cause these injuries.
Although defendant fractured Gary’s hand, which qualifies by jury instruction definition as a 2nd degree Assault, Mr. Cameron did so in self-defense as Gary’s hand was struck causing him to drop the hoe handle that fractured Cameron’s finger (a fracture testified to by physician’s assistant).
Even though Mr. Cameron was justified in striking him, he wasn’t justified in striking him in the head after he knocked the hoe handle from his hand when fracturing Gary’s right hand; and
Even though Deana Lentz didn’t testify about the death threat, neither side asked her about it, and in the context of what each side said, it made sense that Mr. Cameron made this statement.
By rejecting the State’s 8-year offer for an Assault in the 2nd Degree plea, and risking 28 years if a jury found him guilty of Assault in the 1st Degree, Mr. Cameron (with an offender score of 9) was sentenced to 5 years in prison less credit time already served based on the Felony Harassment. Judge Stahnke ran his 364 days on the Assault in the 4th degree time run concurrent (meaning it will be served at the same time) and with good time Mr. Cameron should be free by Christmas 2018.
Media coverage by The Columbian here.
Filed Under: Criminal Defense, General Tagged With: Assault I, Class A felony, criminal trial, Felony, misdemeanor, Strike Offense, trial attorney
Supreme Court expands DNA collection
June 6, 2013 by Todd Leave a Comment
Anyone convicted of a felony crime in America must give a DNA sample to the State. In Washington individuals convicted of certain gross misdemeanors (e.g. Harassment, Stalking, etc..) must also give a DNA sample. On June 3, the U.S. Supreme Court in ruled that when officers make an arrest supported by probable cause to hold a suspect for a serious offense and bring him to the station to be detained in custody, taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee’s DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. As Justice Scalia pointed out in a scathing dissent, anyone convicted of a felony must already give DNA, so the ruling really only affects those arrested but not convicted (e.g. the innocent). DNA evidence involves expert witnesses which is why a Washington Rape case I had was impacted by Hurricane Katrina (Reliagene lab is in New Orleans). During a 2012 trial a significant point in my cross-examination of police officers was their failure to collect DNA in a case. The State will often tell jurors, “this isn’t CSI” but technology continues to advance and you should consider hiring a lawyer like W. Todd Pascoe who’s experienced handling DNA cases. A list of most serious offenses in Washington can be found at RCW 9.94A.030 and includes every Class A felony and violent class B felonies such as Assault in the Second Degree and Robbery in the Second Degree. For more information on the Supreme Court’s upholding of a Rape conviction where the defendant received life imprisonment without parole because the State collected his DNA see the following web articles (note: the last is the actual Supreme Court opinion)
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/06/dna_collection_in_maryland_v_king_the_supreme_court_fails_on_the_fourth.html
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-207_d18e.pdf
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Theme of the Day: Slowing Global Growth
Since the Federal Reserve’s policy decision and press conference yesterday, there’s been a parade of other central bank policy meetings. Although only Norway changed its policy rate — a hike no less — the running theme in the many central bank statements is that the slowdown in global demand late last year is continuing and that a slew of uncertainties persist.
Investors appear unsure how to play this environment. U.S. share prices had fallen on Wednesday prior to the Fed announcement, then recouped the bulk of that ground by the end of Powell’s press conference, only to then go south again in the final partial hour of trading.
Two markets are closed today: Japan for the Vernal Equinox and India for the Maha Shivaratri holiday.
Equities rose 0.6% in Taiwan and 0.4% in China and South Korea but fell 0.9% in Hong Kong. The British Ftse has advanced 0.6%, but ahead of announcements out of a summit today of EU leaders, stocks are down 0.4% in Germany and Spain and 0.1% in France.
The dollar had weakened yesterday but today shows gains thus far of 0.7% against sterling, 0.4% relative to the euro, and 0.3% versus the loonie and Swiss franc. On the other hand, the dollar is 0.2% softer versus the kiwi and 0.1% against the yen and Aussie dollar.
A bigger move today has occurred in 10-year sovereign debt yields, which are down 6 basis points in Australia, 7 bps in Italy, 8 bps in the U.K., 5 bps in Spain and France, 4 bps in Germany and 2 basis points in Treasury futures.
Gold has strengthened 1.1% to $1,315.70 per ounce. West Texas Intermediate oil, while 0.8% softer, is still very close to $60 at $59.80 per barrel.
British retail sales surprised on the upside, rising 0.4% overall in February and 4.0% from a year earlier. Core retail sales went up 0.2% on month and 3.8% on year.
Consumer confidence slipped further during March to more than a one-year low of minus 4 in the Netherlands. In contrast, consumer confidence recovered to a 4-month high in Turkey this month but, at 59.4, was well below last July’s reading of 72.7, and Danish consumer sentiment printed at a 2-month high of 3.8 versus 10.6 last June.
CPI inflation in Hong Kong decelerated 0.3 percentage points in February to a 9-month low of 2.1%.
Australian employment rose just 4.6K in February, well down from gains of 38.3K in January and 16.9K in December. Labor participation also dipped slightly, but so did the unemployment rate, which eased to 4.9%.
Spain’s EUR 4.48 billion trade deficit in January was 13.7% wider than in January 2018 due to a 1.8% year-on-year drop in exports.
With just one month remaining in the British government, the April-February public sector net borrowing deficit there of GBP 23.1 billion was 46% smaller than a year earlier. Outstanding fiscal debt as of end-February stood at 82.8% of British GDP.
The Bank of England as expected did not change its 0.75% Bank Rate, which earlier had been raised twice by 25 basis points, initially in November 2017 and then in August 2018 to 0.75%, highest since March 2009. Nor were quantitative policy tools modified, and both decisions were made unanimously as expected. In a released statement from the Monetary Policy Committee, officials speak of mixed data signals since their last meeting but assert that the findings expressed in their February Inflation Report remain essentially on track. Forward policy guidance in today’s statement asserts that
were the economy to develop broadly in line with those projections, an ongoing tightening of monetary policy over the forecast period, at a gradual pace and to a limited extent, would be appropriate to return inflation sustainably to the 2% target at a conventional horizon. The economic outlook will continue to depend significantly on the nature and timing of EU withdrawal, in particular: the new trading arrangements between the European Union and the United Kingdom; whether the transition to them is abrupt or smooth; and how households, businesses and financial markets respond.
Brazil’s Selic interest rate was maintained at 6.5% in a unanimous decision by policymakers at the Central Bank of Brazil. It’s been at that level for the past twelve months following a series of cuts totaling 775 basis points from October 2016. Slower global growth and a variety of uncertainties suggest inflation will converge on target, according to a released statement. The economy is recovering more slowly than expected, and inflation is projected to decelerate to 3.9% on average this year and 3.75% in 2021.
At the latest quarterly review of Swiss monetary policy, SNB officials kept policy unchanged. Since January 2015, when the automatic cap on Swiss franc was lifted and the interest rate target was cut by 50 basis points, the 3-month Libor rate target band has been an all-negative range of minus 1.25% to minus 0.25%, the sight deposit rate target has been at -0.75%, and officials have reserved the right to intervened subjectively when deemed necessary for preventing undue franc appreciation from an already overvalued level. A released statement today cuts projected annual inflation to 0.3% this year versus a prior forecast of 0.5%. Officials expect inflation to be at 0.6% next year, down from December’s forecast of 1.0%, and foresee only 1.2% inflation in 2021. In this lower path, inflation doesn’t cross above 1.0% until the spring of 2021 and is only reaches 1.5% by the end of that year, even if there is not rate increase in between now and then.
The Bank of Norway’s policy interest rate was lifted 25 basis points to 1.0%. Norway is an oil producer and exporter and benefits from the firmer trend lately in that commodity. Growth has been solid, according to a released statement. Capacity usage is running a bit above normal, and core CPI inflation is somewhat higher than target. Global uncertainties warrant caution. The statement concludes, “”Our current assessment of the outlook and balance of risks suggests that the policy rate will most likely be increased further in the course of the next half-year.”
Bank Indonesia retained a 6.0% 7-day reverse repo rate and didn’t change the overnight lending or deposit rate, either. The repo rate has been at 6.0% since two percentage points of rate increases were engineered between May 2017 and November 2018. This tight stance seeks to reduce the current account deficit to 2.5% of GDP, keep Indonesia attracting capital inflows, and lower inflation to the middle of a 2.5-4.5% target range.
Monetary officials at Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas maintained a 4.75% overnight reverse repo rate. It’s been at that level since 175 basis points of tightening from May to November of last year. In a released statement, officials say inflation is settling into the middle of the 2-4% target range and should hover around there both this year and next. Expected inflation also is stable and on target. The Philippines economy is growing, led by domestic demand.
In Taiwan, the Central Bank of the Republic of China had implemented cuts of 12.5% each in its discount rate at four consecutive quarterly reviews from September 2015 to June 2016. The rate since then has been 1.375% and will remain at that level. A released statement concludes, “Taiwan’s economy would likely grow at a somewhat slower pace this year against the backdrop of a downward revision of global GDP and trade growth forecasts and persistent uncertainties over the international economic, trade, and financial prospects. In addition, the actual output remains below potential and inflationary pressures are expected to be subdued. Moreover, Taiwan’s nominal and real interest rates continue to register around the middle range among a host of economies.”
In the U.S., the Philly Fed manufacturing index rebounded to a reading of +13.7 in March after slumping 21.1 points to minus 4.1 in February. New jobless insurance claims declined 9K last week to 221K, leaving its 4-week average little changed at 225K.
Copyright 2019, Larry Greenberg. All rights reserved. No secondary distribution without express permission.
Tags: Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas, Bank Indonesia, Bank of England, Bank of Norway, British retail sales, Central Bank of Brazil, Central Bank of the Republic of China, Swiss National Bank
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What We Know About Taylor Swift’s New Album ‘Lover’
Taylor Swift is back and better than ever with her brand new single “You Need To Calm Down” and the announcement of her seventh studio album ‘Lover’. Here’s everything we know so far about the Grammy-award winner’s new era.
#TaylorSwift #Lover
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DRESS, MEET... DOORBITCH
Ah Mah Gawd... Paris Fashion Week is upon us! And what better way to re-energise after an exhausting day flitting around town looking impeccable than by shimmying in a boîte de nuit. Don your most excessive order from Spring 2014 Couture and prepare your most steely of Blue Steels to get past the Sphinx-like doorbitches... bon courage!
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Designed by David Lynch and named after the eery theatre in 'Mulholland Drive', Silencio opens its doors to non-members after midnight. Put on a blonde wig and feign amnesia for shits and gigs.
Silencio, 142 Rue Montmartre 75002
The contrast between the sex shops and sleaze of Pigalle and the rococo architecture inside this sumptuous hôtel particulier turned nightclub is striking. Whisper sweet nothings to your new lover in the giant birdcage if you are feeling decadent...
Le Carmen 34 Rue Duperré, 75009
Considered even more exclusive than Le Baron, you will probably need to be on the list to get in during FW. (Dear reader, please don't think that I doubt your charm and beauty. You are a magnificent pearl amongst swine.) However, if you are chummy with André or can blag it, enjoy dancing with abandon at a club where Parisians really let their hair down...
Le Montana, 28 rue Saint-Benoît 75006
Located in the stunning Jardins de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne, this is the biggest outdoor club in Paris. Make sure you take a taxi and avoid a long walk through winding park roads known to be a pick-up spot for ladies of the night! Open from June through August, it is often a soirée déguisée (fancy dress).
Bagatelle, 42 Route de Sèvres 75016
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Théâtre Comédia, 4 Boulevard de Strasbourg, 75010
As for me, I am seeing the Mugler Follies cabaret tonight! Sure to be a delirious riot of camp bug-women doing the can-can, I am dying with excitement. So as not to be out-shone by a 6ft amazon showgirl in a sexy alien costume, I shall be wearing this fabulous fuschia coat from AW 14-15 Fyodor Golan ready to wear!
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Mon Dieu! Taxis tonight for me, sweetie darling...
EAT MY HEART OUT REVIEW
I wrote a review of 'Eat My Heart Out', the delightful Zoe Pilger's debut novel. Check it out on Eclectic Society!
DRESS, MEET... VERNISSAGE
One of the nicest things about living in a city that prides itself on being cultured and gastronomic is that sometimes, these things converge in a glorious effusion of FREE SHIT! Yah! In France, getting into a preview is as easy as turning up and helping yourself to wine and canapés. This could be down to a continued respect for Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité or simply because the pavements are too small for a door bitch to handle an eager crowd. (L'Art and La Révolte go hand in hand).
Do a bit of research on the next preview of your favourite galerie, bone-up on the featured artists and enjoy a cheap, charming soirée! (Looking suitably fabulous in Spring 2014 Couture, of course.)
The top gallery in Paris for Bande Dessinées (BDs - comics), Daniel Maghen is collaborating with Christie's for the auction houses' upcoming first sale of Comic Illustrations.
Galerie Daniel Maghen, 47 Quai des Grands Augustins, 75006
This beautiful 400 m2 space is known for showing up-and-coming artist alongside established figures such as Giacometti. It is in a charming part of the 6th that is replete with little galleries. Tool down the Rue de Seine afterwards for a peek.
Galerie Kamel Mennour, 47 Rue Saint-André des Arts, 75006
Pop in to this contemporary art gallery before heading to the Pompidou next door. With two spaces in Paris, one in Brussels and presenting at art fairs in New York, London and Berlin, she represents up-and-coming international artists.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, 3 rue du Cloître Saint-Merri 75004
Rue Vieille du Temple in the Marais is a popular destination for shops, restos and bars and also features this modern art gallery with a little gem of a bookshop.
Galerie Yvon Lambert, 108 Rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris
Bisou,
FOR LOVERS... (of booze)
Are you happy and in love? (Or just happy, or just in love. It can be hard to be both at the same time.) Are you sad and alone? (An unfair and untrue stereotype.) It doesn't matter, because alcohol is the great equiliser! Allowing us all to forget that the universal mother is the common grave (Lucretius).
Take a delicious cocktail in Paris and glory in the shimmering transience of pleasure!
Try L'Hotel for a sophisticated ambiance in the stunning, historic building where Oscar Wilde spent his final days. If you're lucky, there might be someone playing jazz on the piano...
L'Hotel, 13 Rue des Beaux-Arts, 75006.
Buzz the unmarked door to descend, like Orpheus, into the underworld. If the underworld was a formerly homosexual club that Jean Cocteau would frequent with his lover Jean Marais.
L'Orphée, 7 Rue Pierre Fontaine, 75009.
Candelaria may look like a taco bar, but walk to the back, find the subtle white door and discover a hidden cocktail lounge with excellent date lighting (dim, baby, dim) and delicious tequila.
Candelaria, 52 Rue de Saintonge, 75003
Jefrey's has a gentleman's club atmosphere and an excellent range of spirits. Lounge with your lover with a whiskey on leather sofas and pretend to be Bogart and Bacall.
Jefrey's, 14 rue Saint-Sauveur 75002
God, what faces. My wish for you today is that someone looks at you like that... Happy V Day!
Gros Bisous,
LOW EXPECTATIONS
So, here is the grand unveiling of the Low Expectations jacket! The cover art is by Natasha Law, but each chapter starts with a little illustration that I have drawn. It was not always easy to doodle a description of titles such as: 'Apparently, It Was A Musical Vibrator', 'Post-Apocalyptic David Lynch Zombies' and 'Turbans Aren't Deranged'. But I think I pulled it off!
Low Expectations is an absurdist love story set in the fashion industry of East London. Imagine if VICE wrote chick-lit and you'll have an idea of what to expect! (Don't expect zombies. There are no zombies.) It is out with Quercus Books in July 2014 and you can pre-order a copy on Amazon. Just received my proof copy the other day, they are as shiny, bright and beautiful as a girl could hope!
I have also written a short, illustrated prequel to Low Expectations that will come out in flip-book and ebook form in the lead up to the LE launch. Here are a few illustrations/jokes that got the chop as being too risqué, though I am fond of them. Particularly the monkey!
'Darling! Don't bite your nails. It’s like Masturbating - In – Public!'
'She was like a love-struck cow, of the Cambodian variety. That is- tied to a tree, blissfully unaware that she was about to be bazooka’d by tourists on a military firing range.'
So, a bit dark and not very loved up. However, swing by on Valentine's Day for some pure romance! I'll be posting new illustrations of 'DRESS, MEET... COCKTAIL' for Parisian bar suggestions to complete your evening.
DRESS, MEET... PRESS
The fantastic new magazine Eclectic Society has done a feature on my DRESS, MEET... series of illustrations. Check it out here. The finished collection will include 4 tips on Parisian hotspots: cafés, restaurants, bars, clubs, galleries and picnic spots. They will soon be available to buy in a limited edition deck from Telescope Cards, Little City Guides! These city guides have a handy map on the back and make charming personalised gifts or souvenirs for trips away. More details to follow!
"FUCKZILLA", Or Why We Need More Women in STEM Fields (NSFW)
Ogata: “If we do not defend ourselves from Fuckzilla now, what will become of us?”
Dr. Serizawa: “And what will become of us if a weapon, such as I now have, falls into the wrong hands?”
Ogata: “Then you have a responsibility no man has ever faced. You have your fear, which might become reality. And you have Fuckzilla, which IS reality."
(Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 1956)
When it comes to technology, I am not a visionary, or even competent. I have not played a computer game since a sweaty, contraband session with Zelda aged 9. I was extremely vocal in my belief that interactive mapping on phones would never, ever catch on. I do not know how to turn on my television.
But I do know one thing. The Sex Robots are coming (sorry), and they are not female-friendly.
Take Fuckzilla. Fuckzilla is a creation of the kink.com porn empire and almost certainly did not involve female consultation at any point in the design process. Laura G. Duncan, Robot Sex Expert and candidate for best job title ever, described him in an interview with thoughtcatalog.com as “...like Johnny Five. It has appendages, and one arm is a penetrating dildo. The other is a chainsaw that’s had the chain removed, and it’s been replaced with these silicon moulded tongues that make a circular motion.”
Damn. And I always thought “Fuck me gently with a chainsaw” was a snide, passive-aggressive insult used in excellent 80s black comedies and not, you know, aspirational. Or instructive.
As anyone who has seen Blade Runner knows, the creation of robot sex slaves is fraught with ethical, emotional and physical risk. But at least in Blade Runner, there was some semblance of sexual equality for human consumers, in the form of the delectable Rutger Hauer. The yang to Daryl Hannah’s yin. The balance of nature and aesthetics was respected.
"All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in the rain."
After witnessing the abomination that is Fuckzilla, I am left with serious concerns for our future. Without more women representative in STEM fields, men will be abandoning us for living dolls in droves and we will have only erotically charged Wall-Es armed with dildo-bazookas to comfort us. That is, IF he is programmed to dispense hugs in between pelting us with phallic objects.
In all seriousness, though, the lack of gender-balanced scientific inquiry concerns me. I stumbled upon this disturbing sex aide in the depravity-wormhole that is online research:
So many questions. Is she compressed for speedier foreplay? Are all body parts that do not serve a sexual function extraneous? Is the trend for minimising things like computers and phones extending to sex dolls, now, too? Is she simply more portable, this way? Less likely to arouse suspicion in a duffle than a body bag?
And why, oh why, does her face look like the ultrasound of a foetus?
Gendered decision making in technology could pose serious dangers for women. That may seem hyperbolic, but the porn industry is well known to be at the forefront of technological innovation and has a cultural reach and acceptance like never before. As virtual reality and reality become increasingly interlinked, it is vital that we divest ourselves of sexist behaviours before we let them inform our new normal.
If current female representation trends continue, how can we insist on equality in a world that is developing independent of our input? If you are interested in the whys and wherefores, read this extremely depressing article by Eileen Pollack in the New York Times... It will leave you feeling like this.
Bisous?
DRESS, MEET STEAK
Ah, La France. Land of garlic strands and berets, surly waiters and bolshie nuns. A place where masculinity is not diminished with a hearty 'Oh la la, la la, la la, la la!' and the fish vendor will try to seduce you every morning. It is a country where a striped Breton shirt becomes iconic, untouchable, la classe. French, in short. If the striped shirt were to have originated anywhere else, it would be a striped shirt. Plain, mundane, disposable. Un-French.
If, like me, you enjoy your meaty platter served with a soupçonne of lust, disdain or an exciting combination of the two, make your way to these Parisian restos. The delightful menswear-inspired outfits from Pre-Fall 2014 are optional!
The Beef Club- 58 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 75001
Brainchild of the Experimental Cocktail crew, this chic steakhouse is above the Ballroom du Beef Club bar- an ideal date venue providing dim lighting, comfy sofas and more-ish cocktails. Avoid voicing the words 'Ballroom du Beef Club' as you will sound both absurd and strangely pervy.
La Fidélité- 12 rue de la Fidélité, 75010
Follow the sluttish neon sign down an inauspicious road and enter through thick black curtains into the polished white inner sanctuary. If you fancy a dance afterwards, there is a DJ set up downstairs.
La Table D'Eugène- 18 Rue D'Eugène Sue, 75018
For gourmet cuisine at reasonable set prices, walk down the other side of Sacré-Coeur to discover this delicious, if visually underwhelming, gem. Don't be late- the staff can be prickly, pernickety and poncey.
Le Baron Rouge- 1 Rue Théophile Roussel, 75012
My ideal Sunday is to go to the marché d'Aligre for the weekly shop and stop at Le Baron Rouge afterwards. Take a glass of wine, a cheese platter and a dozen fresh oysters with bread. Relax, eat and let the wine barrels, convivial crowd and bizarre artwork charm you!
NO ANIMALS WERE SEXUALLY DEGRADED IN THE MAKING OF THIS POST
VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS, 2023
I think we can all agree that Miley Cyrus’ roundly mocked performance at the VMAs was an absurdist horror of epic proportions. The protruding veneers; the slain cow tongue; the arrhythmic hip popping. The random arrival and arse slapping of a woman bearing the proportions of The Hottentot Venus and her subsequent dismissal. Let us not speak of the abused foam finger. It aimed to be provocative but shocked only in its grim lack of artistry and sensuality. This all aligned propitiously to distract us from Miley’s singing, so in one sense it was a great success.
The performance was offensive in its badness but not offensive in the taboo-breaking Madonna-esque fashion Miley is aiming for. Crotch-grabbing, near-nudity and the use of black women as ratchet-props are a longstanding tradition in mainstream culture. They can hardly be said to be avant-guard. What will she do to provoke us in 10 years time? I can hazard a guess.
VMAs 2023- Miley Cyrus and Mr. Twerk make a stand for interspecies love with her new rap 'Prickly Dick'.
I am pro-nudity. The female form can be glorious and I would say aesthetically powerful in a way the male form is incapable of being. Maybe it is the line of beauty or a sense of mystery. To me, objectification is not inherent in depictions of the naked body but rather a failure on the part of the artist to grant multi-faced, inner life to the subject. Initially, I was a surprised about the furore over ‘Blurred Lines’. There are songs with more powerfully degrading lyrics, videos with more overt sexuality and a degree of playfulness in its execution that toed the line between exploitation and the tongue-in-cheek.
None of these subtleties were addressed by Robin Thicke when he responded to criticism with the following:
"People say, 'Hey, do you think this is degrading to women?' I'm like, 'Of course it is. What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman. I've never gotten to do that before. I've always respected women.'"
Either his surname is exceptionally accurate or he is making a pitiable witticism. Whichever, it is clear from his reaction that he is completely dismissive of the larger implications of a video that intentionally ‘plays’ on objectification in its aim to titillate and generate hits. How much further will he go to bravely push the pop-culture envelope?
VMAs 2023: Robin Thicke And Nameless Chick with ‘Split Your Throat In Two’, a musical meditation on the post-post-modern blowjob.
In her latest video, Wrecking Ball, a frequently nude Cyrus straddles and licks an array of phallic demolition equipment in the name of love. I like both the song and the concept of the video- she has never looked better. Because where Wrecking Ball, directed by Terry Richardson, really comes into its own is in the editing. It is cut so as not to allow full rein to Miley’s natural inclination to contort her face into a gurning parody of adult sexuality. He allows her only a few restrained licks and the floppy appendage never reaches its gruesome full potential. The swinging movement of the eponymous ball to which her splayed legs cling grants her a natural undulation. Thus, her usual graceless humping is rendered unnecessary. This lifts the song from the pits of artistic despair her VMA performance reached, true. But I fear a swath of tween girls contracting tetanus from licking their jagged playground equipment as they ape their idol.
I am anti-censorship. However, the ever-moving line of what is acceptable in music videos and the easy access to porn that young people have is very troublesome. A recent NSPCC study revealed that ‘28% of 11-18 year olds said online pornography dictates how they should behave in a relationship and 36% said they get their information about sex from pornography’. We should all at the very least hold ourselves responsible for the content we put into the world. At what point are we empowered women exploring our sexuality and at what point are we indoctrinated sexbots exploited by commercial industries? I cannot fully answer this myself. Can an 11-year-old?
DRESS, MEET PAVEMENT
What could be more deliciously decadent than getting all dolled up in your Fall 2013 Couture and plopping your fine ass on the pavements of Paris with a delicious bottle of cheap vino? (Not always a contradiction in terms in France!) Take yourself down to these addresses and enjoy the glorious August heat by the waterside.
Canal Saint-Martin, Quai de Jemmapes, 75010
On fine nights, crowds gather with their picnics, eating and drinking till the early hours. Someone is sure to have a guitar.
Pont des Arts, Quai François-Mitterrand, 75006
You will be harassed for cigarettes. Chat to your neighbour, slather some pungent cheese on a fresh baguette and relish the freedom to drink publicly by an open body of water without police intervention.
Pont Neuf, Quai des Grands Augustins, 75006
Let's try to get it started in London! Flash pique-nique by the Thames, anyone? A drunken sit-in on Millennium Bridge?
Ile Saint-Louis, Quai d'Orléans, 75004
JANIE'S GOT A GUN
What is so threatening to masculine identity about replacing Darwin with Jane Austen on a £10 note? So threatening that it merits abusive tweets describing rape and murder? At its apex, Caroline Criado-Perez, the campaigner responsible for this menacing spectre of Emasculation In A Bonnet (the worst kind) received ‘about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours’.
'All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!'
So, why are these men so hostile to Jane? Could it be quotes such as, ‘There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort’? This was obviously written in a time before sociopaths on social media could pinpoint and broadcast your home address, as they did to Ms. Criado-Perez. Poorly played, Jane. Bit dated, that. Here she is more on track: ‘A woman, especially if she should have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.’
196 years after her death, the pandering subordination of female intellect to the prickly intransience of masculine identity remains a necessary social tool to avoid violation. These necessary social tools are often defined as ‘womanly wiles’- manipulative, crafty, underhand, ignoble. They are conflated with our sexuality- the only arena in which we can be said to have power over men. Except when that power is taken away from us- through rape. There, we may be said to be at a loss. Gangbangers are notoriously resistant to charm.
Jane Austen is one of the best-loved female authors of all time and thus her work is regularly maligned. One of the criticisms levelled against her is her very innocuousness- the ‘mundane’ descriptions of society and love from a women’s perspective at a time where power and agency rarely went hand-in-hand with having a vagina. This very benign quality, of women navigating their future with only gentle quips and fine eyes to recommend them, should have made Jane a perfect candidate to appease the dastardly feminists while leaving insecure men with a reassuring sense of their own superiority.
It is not enough for a woman to be inoffensive, apparently. Better that we are ignored entirely. The argument that The Queen is on the other side holds no water- she is there as the Monarch, not because of her achievements. So, really, why- why is it threatening? Why is a tiny visual concession to women’s contribution to society a destabilizing force to small-minded, petty, violent misogynists?
There are those that argue that these men have been disenfranchised. That they are probably young, jobless, poor and angry. They no longer have a place in society. This may or may not be true. Due to the anonymity of Twitter, supposition is all we have. The harassment could have come from a financially stable, middle-aged man in Kent who always secretly suspected that all women are gold-digging whores and had his suspicions confirmed when his wife ran off with Lembit Opik. It doesn’t matter. These are excuses. We are coddling. A hateful misogynist is a hateful misogynist in the same way that a hateful bigot is a hateful bigot.
Misogyny is regularly downplayed or side-lined. This dismissiveness, by men and women, denigrates all of humanity. It is a cultural act of gaslighting to say that violence against women, rape culture, sexism in the workplace, street harassment and negative stereotyping is exaggerated, or is only really evident in extreme cases. Most women will not experience a bombardment of twitter abuse threatening rape and death (I speak of privileged women- for the unprivileged, the threat of rape or death can be a part of their daily lives). What they will experience is a death by a thousand cuts in which their concerns, work, effort and opinions are patronized or treated with quiet disdain.
Most men aren’t like this. Most men are lovely. Yet until, as with racism, the behaviour of those men that are Total Shitbags (or Undercover Shitbags) is called out and collectively shunned, the subtle insistence that women are not true equals will continue to pervade society. And it does. Women are not even allowed to claim ownership of this, this regular denigration. ‘We are all equal now’ can be a threat in itself, when it is used to dismiss the personal experiences of women who have not been treated as equals. It negates our concerns and renders us invisible- or worse, high-strung, shrill, aggressive, pettily overreacting.
The Hysterical Woman has been replaced by The Feminazi, her image popularly accessorized with dungarees, a shield of obesity and a coating of unacceptable hair- wielding a vibrator in a call to arms. Is it any wonder that many women, particularly women who associate their personal power with conventionally feminine traits, don’t wish to align themselves with a movement that at its heart only asks that the essential value of the female sex be treated with as much respect and deference as the male? Scared to lose what little power they have, they disassociate. This is very short sighted. Sexual power fades and a life lived in reliance upon it will be a life of dependency at best, subordination at worst.
In millions of little ways, I have made myself small over my lifetime so as not to offend, aggress, accidentally encourage, hurt, belittle or threaten men’s egos. Ways that have become second nature and men are not even parenthetically aware of. I used to consider it good manners, a socially useful tool and a relatively unimportant concession for an easy life. I am starting to think that as a sex, this pandering, this good girl niceness is what causes male rage. More than disenfranchisement. More than joblessness or poverty. Men surrounded by women that have made concessions to them since birth throw their toys out of the pram when their rightful place is threatened. By a face on a ten pound note.
So, ladies, it is our fault, really. We were asking for it. We were too quiet.
‘I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft.
SUMMER FEEL-GOOD BEAUTY TIPS
Ahh... after a clinging, complaining, wet, martyred winter (and there is nothing so frustrating as a martyr who just won't bloody die) the streets are finally drenched in sunshine. The flowers are flinging open their petals to the skies like the free-wheeling sluts we know them to be and I intend to follow suit! However. It can be a bit of a shock to find oneself exposed and layer-less for the first time in months, caught in the unforgiving glare of Natural Lighting- the Unnatural Beauty's most feared nemesis. Rather than recommending lifestyle tips to try to change you- because who the fuck follows them- here are some tips to feel good this summer.
1.) Watch 80's films. Because they are awesome and for the vintage teeth. Never again will you admire your gnashers as so charmingly even and sparklingly white. Nicolas Cage, my future lover, has a particularly shocking set, but Spot-The-Veneers is a fun game to play with some surprising finds (Robert Downey Jr, anyone?).
2) Get an Instant Thigh Gap. The latest trending thinness goal is impossible even for some anorexics, depending on their skeleton. If you don't have one naturally, give up now, please. That isn't to say you can't enjoy this sign of beauty! You must simply endeavour, like Beyonce, never to be caught with your legs parallel and touching. At work you will find you look like a superhero, or possibly whore (or superwhore!) in your spread-eagled power poses. When required to move, side-lunge your way across the room. To mix things up, try the crawl popularised by the girl from The Ring.
3) The "Jolie" Balaclava! For those days when you look and feel like shit and no lying pep-talk can lift you from your pool of self-disgust and spot-popping misery- AND you have run out of milk. AND your Cheating-Ex-You-Hate-Yet-Must-Strike-With-Pained-LustRegret has moved round the corner from you. What to do? Such cosmic conundrums of facial injustice are played out every day in Tesco's across the land. Now, with the screen printed "Late 90s Angelina Balaclava", you have the power to face the day with pride, even at your most exceptionally ugly.
4) Master heat rash forever with "Thigh Slydz: Chafing. Never suffer again." This actually exists. I love that someone was so passionately committed to alleviating the discomfort of sweaty, rolling flesh rubbing together under skirts that they created a very unsexy, beige, pantless, elastic knickerbocker set. The next woman who argues that in a world without men she would still wear extensions, fake nails, short skirts and heels should spend some time in contemplation of the awful-yet-compelling aesthetic of Thigh Slydz, look deep into her soul and ask herself in all honesty if she is not even a little bit intrigued.
Allez, profitez-bien du soleil!
MAGGIE, MAGGIE, MAGGIE!
Lady Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving PM of the 20th century and only woman to have held this office, will be afforded a ceremonial Funeral tomorrow in London.
'Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher' will be given the same rights as the Queen Mother and Princess Diana.
Inspirer both of rabid fury and trilling obsequiousness, she remains one of the most contentious figures in British politics.
Thatcherism has permanently transformed the face of British politics, for better or worse. Whatever your personal feelings about her policies, she was a remarkable woman. Articles such as Russell Brand's recent piece in the Guardian, 'I always felt sorry for her children' are depressingly reductive and sexist. When Putin dies, will Russian television personalities publicly declare their pity for his poor, neglected spawn?
Women will never be in a position to wield power effectively if we as a society do not divorce ourselves from the tired archetypes that are limiting us as multi-faceted human beings. They leave us with all the emotional depth and complexity of a Tarot Card. It can seem as if the only way to diverge from the 'Maiden, Mother, Crone' lifecycle is by way of 'Whore' or 'Feminazi'. Thatcher carved herself a new identity as 'The Iron Lady' but lost her humanity in the eyes of the public in the process.
I would say RIP, but I think she might find that rather dull. Rest In Invigorating Conflict, Maggie!
Non! Non! Non!
In France, 'Non' means 'Non', except that the French also have various ways of expressing 'Non' that encompass both complete denial and a certain shock at the effrontery of the cosmos for mildly, momentarily inconveniencing them. Gerard, would you mind please using the airplane toilets and not the aisle?
Ce n'est pas possible! Translation: It is not possible! Exclaimed with genuine incredulity when faced with very common snags in the fabric of reality, such having to wait for the green man at a zebra crossing.
Brigitte, brown people deserve the same love and respect that you show to animals, don't you agree?
C'est pas vrai! Translation: It is not true! Use with sheer horror when you discover a hangnail. On the other hand, you are to greet the news that a probable candidate for the presidency has allegedly raped hotel maids and swings with prostitutes with a Gallic shrug.
Carla, is that a wrinkle I see?
Je rêve ou quoi! Translation: Am I dreaming, or what! If such a question were true, she would have good reason to be upset- slowly morphing yourself into Isabelle Adjani is an expensive endeavour.
Serge, care to join me for a café crème and a croissant?
J'allucine! Translation: I am hallucinating! Indulging in too many drugs during your misspent youth can indeed throw you some emotionally challenging curveballs later on in life, like that hag-pensioner ordering the last almond croissant at your favourite Boulanger.
Don't worry, Serge- next time we will come prepared and bean the bitch with a baguette before she has half a chance!
THE FORGOTTEN FEMALE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
International Women's Day. What genius started the grand tradition of giving suppressed groups of people a day in patronising mollification? It is the most insubstantial of thrown bones- a shard of femur- this paltry day, in which people say, 'It's IWD' and someone else responds, 'Really? Huh. How about that' and things carry on exactly as before.
Like being given a gift certificate saying you own a star, you know it doesn't really belong to you.
If you want that star to really be yours, you are gonna have to fly there and put down a fuck-off flag and an intergalactic security system.
We don't need a day, we need a revolution! Let's take the whole fucking year, bitches.
Vive la résistance!
DRESS, MEET CAKE
Take your A/W 13 dress out on the town in Paris and get involved in some delicious desserts at these addresses...
Merci, 111 Boulevard Beaumarchais, 73003 Paris
Le Palais de Tokyo, 13 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris
Le Boulanger des Invalides, 14 Avenue de Villars, 75007 Paris
Rose Bakery, 30 Rue Debelleyme, 75003 Paris
Bon app!
HYBRID CREATURES
The Catfish. Swift and deadly predators in water, when removed from their natural habitat and kept in the home, they make ideal companions. They are more easily caught and subdued for petting than their four-legged counterparts and their feisty spirit is dampened by an existential torment, suspecting that they are being mocked by the Gods. A warning, however- if they find their way into your bathtub, be prepared to meet a grisly end.
The Birdog. Convivial and loving, this flying, semi-domesticated gremlin will both delight you and exhaust your patience with his mischievous ways. GPS tracking chips, as well as superb aim with a tranquilliser gun and accurate scooping abilities with a net to catch his tumbling, sedated body are recommended if you wish him to live a long injury free life.
If you live in the countryside, The Duckboar is a strangely charming sight wandering around your lawn and is a cheaper, equally effective alternative to a guard dog. The pitbull of tusked poultry, they are liable to suddenly turn on even long-time owners. Not recommended for those with young children.
The Batquirrel. This nocturnal, fiercely ugly creature is both captivating and repulsive to the unprepared eye. Difficult to care for, unless you are prepared to keep a fridge fully stocked with tropical larvae and have holes drilled into your walls with his long middle finger in his futile search for insects should you miss a meal.
Isn't nature weird and wonderful?
In honour of Fashion Week! Designers always create with an idea of their 'Girl' in mind, but give the most boring PR-appropriate descriptions to the press about who she is. This is who I would design my A/W 13 collection for...
Have an idea for an amusing, wildly inappropriate fashion role model? Email it to me at eaaron.writes@gmail.com and I'll illustrate it!
FRENCH PROVERBS
Truly, a terrifying thought. The idea of toothy chickens roaming the countryside is far more sinister than the idea of pigs flying. Though it is not as disturbing as it would be to...
I am very lazy, but have hair-free palms (naturally, darling). Could it be that I am the aberration in a world of hirsute idlers? Is there a secret depilatory market that has not yet been exploited? Unfortunately, I know the next idiom to be false, as I have been stood up before but I never got a damn rabbit for my trouble.
As for this, who knows. I used to be very concerned as a child about my dead grandparents watching and judging me from the dead, but have ceased to care what they think.
In any case, I think a good life is one lived without pandering cosmic concessions, don't you?
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V DAY DRAWINGS
Valentine's Day traditionally strikes fear, awkwardness and pain into the hearts of most humans. Even the well-adjusted amongst us can feel a pressurising twinge. So, for my first ever post, I would like to share with you some drawings in honour of four different kinds of love.
1. For those of you so completely, head over heels in love that you decide to forsake all others and make all sorts of promises that will be inconceivable to you in 6-18 months time. This is the stage that, immediately after a breakup, you will rue bitterly. After a few months, hurting less, you will simply question your sanity. If there is no alimony involved, one day you will think fondly upon this as a time in which everything was possible and the future rolled ahead unspoiled, an untainted adventure full of promise.
2. For the sex friends who find that they are not completely repelled by their partner's personality and could, in fact, grow to love them one day! Huzzah. It may have been coincidence that led you to vomit on his shoe at the bus stop, but greater forces were at work when he laughed it off and invited you home.
3. For those who love unrequited. To temporarily alleviate symptoms of this dreadful malady, I recommend Fiona Apple and straight vodka (The Heartbreak Apple Martini, with a twist)(The twist being Valium). Whatever you do, don't let your outsides reflect your mottled and ugly internal torment, or you will not be able to fuck your way through the pain. Lots of meaningless sex is basically the only way to come out the other side of this. Bruised, battered, possibly venereal diseased. But ready to love someone once again.
4. For Michael Fassbender, the only man ever to inspire this exceedingly creepy sentiment in me.
Strings Attached! Out with Trapeze July 1st in ebook and July 11th in paperback and audio, 2019
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Child Schooling and Child Work in India: Does Poverty Matter?
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Terence Wade
1 International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2013, Vol. 7, No. 1, Copyright 2013 by Korea Institute of Child Care and Education Child Schooling and Child Work in India: Does Poverty Matter? Bijaya Kumar Malik National Council of Educational Research and Training India This paper examines the differentials of school attendance patterns. i.e. never attended, entered into school, dropout rate, repeating, left school two or more years ago and child work by economic condition of household in India. The wealth index is used to understand the economic differentials in child schooling of households. The study findings suggest that children belonging to the poorest wealth quintile of households are significantly more likely never to have attended school, have higher dropout rates and be over-age compared to children belonging to wealthier and the wealthiest quintiles. The states differentials in child school attendance patterns showed that the state of Bihar has the highest proportion of children never having attended compared to lowest proportion for Kerala (39 percent vs. 2 percent). The working children among poor households are more deprived to attend school compared to children from wealthier households. This paper concludes that economic conditions of the household are the main determinant of child schooling in India. Key words: child work, poverty, never attended, drop out, wealth index 1 Introduction The literacy rate in India increased from 65 percent in 2001 to 74 percent by 2011(Census of India, 2011). The increase in literacy rate was observed across gender, residence and districts of India. The female literacy was higher than Correspondence concerning this report should be addressed to Bijaya Kumar Malik, Assistant Professor, Department of Education in Social Sciences, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Sri Aurovindo Marg, New Delhi, Pin , India. Electronic mail may be sent to males in both rural and urban settings. The improvement in literacy rate in rural settings is two times more than urban settings during that period. The increase in literacy rate is the outcome of various central and state government schemes for universalization of primary education. Out of all educational policies for initiated by India recently, the Right to Education (RTE) Act implemented by the government has called for all children up to 14 years of age to receive free and compulsory education in Indian states. This act is also known as Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE)
2 Child Schooling and Child Work in India RTE provides flexibility in that it will safe guard needy children in all sections of our society, creating a school friendly environment in all aspects of schooling irrespective of socioeconomic status. For those children who have not completed their elementary education, RTE will also provide special provision for their further education, with an aim of reducing the retention rate (Minitry of Human Resource Development [MHRD], 2009). Across the world, countries have realized that the quality and universalization of primary education is important to success in multiple aspects of social and other areas of development for any nation. Further, India s National Policy of Education (NPE, 1968, 1986, 1992) has given momentum to higher student achievement, classroom quality and achievement of universalization of elementary education. The Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) in India, launched during is working effectively to provide elementary education to all children. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) promoted by the United Nations are committed to achieving the goal of universal primary education under goal 2 by 2015 for all countries. Review of Literature Various research studies have examined the socio-economic differentials in child schooling in Indian context. Enrolment in primary education has increased in last the 14 years (Rajaram & Jayachadran, 2007). Small-scale studies in rural Odisha had shown that children belonging to chronically poor households are less likely to attend school and more likely to work in rural areas of India (Malik & Mohanty, 2009). The cost of schooling also influences the rate of school continuation (Hazarika & Arjun, 2006). The distance of schools from households, lack of interested in studies and the need for children to perform outside work for cash payment are main reasons for children dropping out of school (IIPS & Macro International, 2007). Economic opportunity in urban India for rural children is also contributing the dropout rate of child schooling among poor household children (Edmonds, Pavcnik, & Topalova, 2008). Households having more children are less interested to continue school for each child compared to households with fewer children (Montgomery et al., 1995). School enrolment in India has increased substantially irrespective of regions and socio-economic conditions (Filmer & Pritchett, 1999). Seventy percent of children in India are undernourished and anaemic (Save the Children Report, 2012) and India is behind Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh in nutritional status among studied countries (Times of India, 2012). Disadvantaged children have limited access to music, art and out-of-school activities compared to rich children (Gortte et al., 2007). Children are at great risk of experiencing exclusion within school due to poverty in their household (Ridge, 2002). Poverty is 81
3 Bijaya Kumar Malik clearly a risk factor for children s poor development and limited educational outcomes, and it may be that risk in the early years will continue to have an effect even if the family moves out of poverty later in the child s life (Patrice et al., 2008). Due to deprivation there is limited access to good education and less participation in elementary education (Chaudhuri & Jha, 2011). Longer periods of poverty in families, non-availability of and poor accessibility to schools in the locality and lack of proper transportation have forced many children to leave the school and work in hazardous situations (Times of India, 2012). Children from disadvantaged households perform poorly (low scores) compared to peers from more advantaged backgrounds (New York Times, 2011). The magnitude, depth, duration and timing of poverty influence a child s educational attainment in all section of society (Ferguson, Bovaird, & Muller, 2007). Children from poor households are late to receive schooling, experience more drop-out and work during study, irrespective of castes and religion (Malik & Mohanty, 2009). Family income is the most important determinant of child and adolescent education and wellbeing (Brooks-Gunn & Duncan, 1997). Socioeconomic status (SES) is the single strongest predictor of child schooling and achievement in school and there are various negative influences due to low SES on children s overall development (Levin, 2007). Children living in poverty are more likely to perform poorly in school examinations and they are prone to leave school without getting any special skill for their future life (Murnane, 2007). Children from lowincome minority families have lower educational outcomes and developmental engagement compared to children in wealthier families (Leventhal, Fauth, & Brooks-Gunn, 2005). Family income and poverty status are powerful key factors for determining educational, cognitive and behavioral attainment (Duncan, Brooks-Gunn, & Klebanov, 1994). Rationale for the Study The child and adolescent population constitutes a substantial proportion (42 percent) of India s total population, numbering nearly 440 million (Census of India, 2001). India is home to 243 million adolescents compared to 200 million in China more than any other country in the world (The United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF], 2012). They will constitute the largest generation in history to make the transition from childhood to adulthood and this transition will be a key to the country s long-run development in terms of human resources. Education plays a pivotal role in every aspect of life, development of any society and reduction in crime. Therefore we have to ensure and steps are taken towards achieving one hundred percent primary and secondary education for this huge cohort of our population and ensure it is done in a healthy and quality manner. These children deserve access to quality 82
4 Child Schooling and Child Work in India education, guidance and care, as well as the opportunities to realize their full potential However, although we have enormous population of children in our country, there are critical demographic concerns that are very challenging. Retention in primary school is only 71 percent for all students and 48 percent for girls (National University of Educatonal Planning and Administraton [NUEPA], 2005). About 46 percent of children are born with low birth weight and 79 percent of children under three years of age are anaemic (IIPS & Macro International, 2007). Nearly seventy percent of children are physically abused and percent of children are sexually abused in one form or another (Ministry of Women and Child Development Government of India [MoWCD], 2007). Good schools with quality teachers providing healthy leaning environments and no corporal punishment can retain a higher volume of children in school. Such schools provide a welcoming place to give proper guidance and care for children s all-round development. Keeping these issues in mind, the main focus of this research paper is to examine how the economic condition of any household determines the schooling pattern and over-age schooling among children aged 6-14 years in India. The wealth index has been used as background variables to determine the differentials of child schooling patterns in India. Although significant progress in school education in India has been realized, still we have a long way to go in achieving universal primary education with better retention rates. In this context this paper examines the economic differentials in school attendance using large-scale population based survey data in India. Research Questions The basic research question that we need to address is "Does poverty determine the schooling attendance pattern and over-age schooling in India?" Objectives The broad objective of this research paper is to understand the role of poverty for schooling patterns in India. The specific objectives are as follows: 1. To examine the linkages of poverty and school attendance (never attended, entered school, drop-out rates, school left 2 or more years ago and repeating in same class) in India. 2. To determine the child work status in India. Data and Methods The data for this paper are derived from National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai and ORC Macro International in It covers 99 percent of 83
5 Bijaya Kumar Malik India s population from 29 states of India. NFHS-3 covers 1, 09,041 households and 5, 15,507 individuals enumerate throughout the country. Three types of questionnaires are used in NFHS-3 as (i) the Household questionnaire, (ii) the Women questionnaire, and (iii) the Men s questionnaire. The main domain of this data set covers a wide range of issues including fertility, mortality, family planning, HIV-related knowledge, nutrition, health and health care. In the household questionnaire about school activities, households were asked about children aged 6-14 years and the estimated percentage of schooling pattern in this research paper. The details of the survey findings and sampling procedure are available in national report (IIPS & Macro International, 2007). The information on educational attainment was covered in NFHS-3. The schooling attendance pattern is expressed in six categories ; (i) Never attended, (ii) Entered in school at proper age, (iii) Advanced in schooling, (iv) Repeating during schooling, (v) Dropout rate, and (vi) Left school 2 or more years ago. Differential in school attendance is examined by wealth status of the household. The wealth index is used as one of the background variables to determine the differentials in child schooling pattern in this paper. The wealth index reflects the economic status of the household, constructed by using 33 household assets and housing characteristics such as household electrification, type of windows, drinking water source, type of toilet facility; material of exterior walls; type of roofing; cooking fuel; house ownership; number of household members per sleeping room; ownership of a bank or post-office account; and ownership of a mattress, a pressure cooker, a chair, a cot/bed, a table, an electric fan, a radio/transistor, a black and white television, a color television, a sewing machine, a mobile telephone, any other telephone, a computer, a refrigerator, a watch or clock, a bicycle, a motorcycle or scooter, an animal-drawn cart, a car, a water pump, a thresher, and a tractor (NFHS- 3). This wealth quintile (20% of household population in each group based on the score), derived from wealth index is used in the analyses. Bivariate analysis was used to determine the schooling attendance realities in India. Results In Table 1 the percentage of children aged 6-14 years school attendance status is explained. The school attendance status among all economic categories have clearly indicated that the bottom 20 percent households (poorest households) are more deprived in all aspects of school attendance in India. Among poorest households, children who never attended comprise 29.4 percent compared to 5.9 percent for the children of the richest households. This was a significant trend within all five 84
6 Child Schooling and Child Work in India Table 1. Percentage of Children Aged 6-14 Years School Attendance Status in India School attendance status Wealth index Poorest Poorer Middle Richer Richest Total Never attended Entered in school Advanced in school attendance Repeated in same class Dropout Left school 2+ years ago economic categories of households. Other components of school attendance also followed the same trend with poorest household children more prone to never having attended, dropping out more frequently, repeating grades more often and less retention in schooling at both primary and secondary levels. There are big differentials in schooling pattern between these two categories that have been persisted in India. The overall findings of this table concluded that poorer household children are more prone to never having attended, dropping out and leaving school due to economic hardship in the family. Apart from existing policies for school education in India, there is an urgent need to take measures to children who have never attended in particular states of India irrespective of poverty and regional disparities. Dropout rates among poor children are very high compared to wealthier children. This is also an important concern and challenge for us apart from various national schemes as Mid Day Meal, SSA, RMSA ad RTE are vehicles to achieve the universal primary education achievement in India. Gender differences in primary education enrollment also persist as girl children face more obstacles to continuing their higher education due to various socio-economic factors in India. In the above table the percentage of school attendance pattern in India and its states have been presented. State wise, school attendance patterns have clearly indicated that among all 29 states the variations are too much in the direction of children never having attended, dropped out, repeated grades or left school two or more years ago. All these six components have been explained in Figures 1-6 as mentioned below. In Figure 1, percentage of children aged 6-14 school attendance statuses in the states have explained. The findings clearly indicated that wide variations among all states have been found in terms of children never having attended. For example, Bihar is the highest with 39.4 percent never having attended compared to the lowest states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu where both have only 2 percent of children who have never 85
7 Bijaya Kumar Malik attended. Household characteristics and the role of individual and school infrastructures are key determinants of child attendance in school in India (Dostie & Jayaraman, 2006). The children from slum dwellers are not engaged in school due to families bad circumstance and faulty school systems in urban settings (Banerji, 2000). The family size and number of children of households having illiterate mothers have an impact on child schooling as well (Bhat, 2002). Among poorest households, Meghalaya is the highest in children never having attended (70.4 percent, in table A) compared to other states cohorts of poorest households. A number of states have more than 20 percent of children never having attended which is more than the national average of 16 percent. Table 2. Percentage of Children Aged 6-14 School Attendance Status in India and it s States Name of states/uts Never attended Percentage of children aged 6-14 school attendance status Entered in school Advanced in term of school attendance Repeated in same class Dropout School left 2 or more years ago Andhra radesh Arunachal Pra Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pra Jharkhand J & K Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pra Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttaranchal West Bengal India
8 Child Schooling and Child Work in India This needs serious attention from policy planners and government as to how to achieve one hundred percent enrollment and retain children in primary and secondary school education in India in the near future. The percentage of children never having attended in particular states may be given more emphasis while others may see fit to adopt the existing policy on school education in India. Individual state have great role to enhance the primary education enrolments and retention particularly girls children from rural part of India. Individual state have great role to enhance the primary education enrolments and retention particularly girls children from rural part of India. In Figure 2 the percentage of children aged 6-14 who entered school in right age status in the states have presented. The findings regarding this right age at entry category are interesting in that states like Sikkim, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Bihar have better proportions of children entering at the right age school compared to other States (Himachal and Uttaranchal). However, among poorest households of various States, Uttaranchal have the lowest attention towards proper age at school entry (1 Figure 1. Percentage of children aged 6-14 school attendance as Never attended status in India and its states 87
9 Bijaya Kumar Malik percent) compared to the wealthiest households of Sikkim (11.9 percent). The details of other economic groups of 29 states have been explained in Table B in the appendix section. The percentage of children aged 6-14 attending school in the states is explained in figure 3. States like Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram and Kerala have better school attendance for the primary and secondary levels compared to lower performing states like Bihar, Arunachal and Jharkhand. Among poorest households from all states, Tamil Nadu has better advanced school attendance (81.6 percent) which compares favorably to the wealthiest households of Himachal which has 94.8 percent in advanced schooling. Household findings in every economic category have presented in Table C. In Figure 4 the percentage of children aged 6-14 attending school and repeating in the same class during schooling is presented for the states. This is a new category of information. The findings show that Uttaranchal is the highest, with 7.3 percent repeating in same class compared to the lowest, Mizoram, with 0.1 percent. One third of states have more than 3 percent of children repeating in the same class during their schooling. However, Figure 2. Percentage of children aged 6-14 School attendance as entered school in proper age status in states of India 88
10 Child Schooling and Child Work in India among poorest households among all states, Arunachal Pradesh has the highest (5.4%) and among richest households, Uttaranchal is the highest (8.2%) in class repeating. Other state findings are also explained detailed in Table -D. Reasons for repeating in same class may be desire on the part of parents for better improvement and higher expectations for children to score better marks in examination or, perhaps less importance placed by some parents on their children s schooling. The percentage of children aged 6-14 who attended school and dropped out in the states is presented in figure 5. The dropout rate at primary level is considerably less compared to secondary and senior secondary levels in India. India is satisfactorily achieving its goals for overall enrollment for primary and secondary education. However, the retention rate at senior secondary levels is still poor compared to many countries. Girls are more prone to dropout at every level. Overall, primary education retention is only 71 percent and for girls it is only percent (NUEPA, ). The household characteristics, namely parental schooling, Bihar Arunchal Jharkhand Meghalaya Sikkim Nagaland Chatishgarh UP MP WB Rajasthan Manipur Odisha Karanataka Tripura J & K HP Gujarat Punjab Assam AP Maharshtra Delhi Goa Uttaranchal Mizoram Kerala Mizoram Tamil Nadu HP Figure 3. Percentage of children aged 6-14 School attendance as advanced in school attendance status in states of India 89
11 Bijaya Kumar Malik especially maternal schooling, father's occupation, and family income are key determinants of girls schooling in a rural setting (Sengupta, 2002). School quality, parent s motivation and economic constraints of family level are obstacles to achieving better the school enrollment and reducing dropout rates (Bhatty, 2010). As the years of schooling increases the dropout level also increases at higher grade levels. Socioeconomic and demographic factors are playing an important role in dropping out of children in rural areas at various educational levels. Various research studies have stated that the distance of school from households, the existence of all-weather roads, school infrastructure and economic hardship in household are some of well-known factors for dropping out of children from school in India. This figure clearly indicates that Odisha has the highest dropout rate (2.9%) compared to lowest (0.1) at Meghalaya and Goa. States differentials vary more in total dropout rate. Among all poorest households, Himachal Pradesh has the highest (8.8 %) dropout rate and among wealthiest households Rajasthan has the highest (1.2%) compared to any other wealthiest household children in Indian States. Mizoram Bihar Meghalaya Tamil Nadu Maharashtra Karnataka Delhi AP Manipur Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand Rajasthan Punjab Nagaland Uttar Pradesh Kerala J&K Haryana Madhya Pradesh Odisha Assam West Bengal Goa Chhattisgarh Sikkim Tripura Gujarat Arunachal Uttaranchal Figure 4. Percentage of children aged 6-14 school attendance as Repeating in same class during schooling in states of India 90
12 Child Schooling and Child Work in India Detailed economic sections household findings have elaborated in table -E. In Figure 6 the percentage of children aged 6-14 who attended school and left school 2 plus years before in the states is presented. Retention is a bigger problem than enrollment for all levels of school education. Every country supports its primary and secondary education achievement from a long-run development perspective. All developed countries have a remarkable achievement in all levels of school education. Developing countries are confronting and reducing the dropout rate and increasing enrollment through various national programmes. In India, programmes like Sarva Sikhya Abhiyan (SSA), Rastryia Madhyamic Shikshya Abhiyan (RMSA), Right to Education (RTE), and various NGOs (Pratham and others) are also working toward enrolling all children aged 6-14 years and taking steps to retain the huge child population in school for a longer duration. In above figure Jharkhand state children leaving school two or more years ago is the highest (7.1 percent) compared to lowest (0.9 percent) at Himachal Pradesh. Among poorest households among all States, Figure 5. Percentage of children aged 6-14 school attendance as School dropout status in states Source: Author s calculation from NFHS-3 91
13 Bijaya Kumar Malik Andhra Pradesh s poorest-household children are leaving school two or more years ago at the highest rate (11.5 percent) and among the wealthiest households, Arunachal Pradesh s wealthiest households are highest among all states in leaving schools two or more years ago. Detailed findings for all states have been presented in table F. In Figure 7 the percent of children aged 5-14 years who are working is presented. It is found that Gujarat has the highest proportion of child workers compared to the lowest which are Goa and Kerala. This is so even though Gujarat is economically developed. States of India with larger child working populations in do so because of economic opportunity in those states are high compared other states of India. Other probable reasons for high child worker populations may be due to high number of families with family businesses. In such cases, parents find it advantageous to have their own children engaged in their farms or business activities. It clearly indicates that school attendance rate is very high in states with lower percentage of working children (Figure 1). Figure 6. Percentage of children aged 6-14 school attendance Left school 2+ years before in States Source: Author s calculation from NFHS-3 92
14 Child Schooling and Child Work in India Conclusion The broad objective of this research paper is to understand the role of poverty in schooling attendance patterns in India. The parameters for measurement consists of six components: never attended, dropped out, entered in school at proper age, advanced in school attendance, repeated in same class during schooling and left school two or more years ago. These are analyzed with various economic segments: poorest, poor, middle, wealthy and wealthiest based on wealth quintiles for the purpose of determining the status of child schooling patterns in India. For never attended children in primary schools, Bihar is the highest total compared to the lowest neverattended states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. An important finding of this study suggests that in all economically poor states, children schooling patterns such as dropout rate, repetition in same class, left school two or more years ago and advanced attendance are very high compared to the children belonging to the better socio-economic states. From a policy point of view states like Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Figure 7. Percent of 5-14 years children engaged in work in India Source: Author s calculation from NFHS-3 93
15 Bijaya Kumar Malik Rajasthan need special attention aimed at attaining better achievement of the overall schooling enrollment, retentions, reduction of dropout rate and over-age enrollment specifically. Poorest household s children in India need immediate attention focused on these issues related to school education at primary and secondary levels, irrespective of class, caste and religions. Various children-friendly school education programmes may be promoted in these marginalized groups for reducing negative aspects of school education, particularly in rural areas. States having more working children are also more likely to have children who never attended school. Although Gujarat is a better socioeconomic state among all other States of India, the working child is most numerous in this State. This may be due to the urban economic opportunities available for children in this State. Retention of children in school for a longer duration to complete the school education is a big challenge for us in the current scenario. References Banerji, R. (2000). Poverty and Primary Schooling: Field Studies from Mumbai and Delhi, Economic and Political Weekly, 35(10) Benjamin, L. (2007). Educational responses to poverty. Canadian Journal of Education, 20:2, September 10, 2007 Canada. Bhat, P. N. (2002). Demographic Transition, Family Size and Child Schooling. National Council of Applied Economic Research, (86), Bhatty, K. (2010). Educational Deprivation in India: A Survey of Field Investigations, Economic and Political Weekly, 33(27), Brooks-Gunn, J., & Duncan, G. J. (1997). The effects of poverty on children. The Future of Children, Summer/ Fall, CO: Princeton University. Chaudhuri, D. P., & R. Jha, R.. (2011). Child Poverty and Compulsory Elementary Education in India: policy insights from household data analysis, Working Paper No. 04. Australia South Asia Research Centre. Dostie, B., & Jayaraman, R. (2006). Determinants of School Enrolment in Indian Villages, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54(2), Duncan, G. J., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Klebanov, P. K. (1994). Economic deprivation and early childhood development, Child Development Apr; 65 (2 Spec No): Edmonds, V. E., Pavcnik, N., & Topalova, P. (2008). Child labour and schooling in a globalizing world: Some evidence from urban India. Child Development, 1994, April. 65 (2 Spec No): Department of Economics Dartmouth College, NBER and IZA. Engle, P. L., & Black, M. M. (2008). The effect of poverty on child development and educational outcomes. CA: California Polytechnic State University. Ferguson, H. B., Bovaird, S. & Muller, M. P. (2007). The impact of poverty on educational outcomes for children, Paediatric Child Health October; 12(8):
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18 Child Schooling and Child Work in India Appendix Table A. School Attendance as Never Attended Linked with Poverty Status by State Name of states/uts Wealth index Poorest Poorer Middle Richer Richest Total Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand J & K Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttaranchal West Bengal India Table B. School Attendance as Entered School Linked with Poverty Status by State Name of states/uts Wealth index Poorest Poorer Middle Richer Richest Total Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh
19 Bijaya Kumar Malik Jharkhand J & K Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttaranchal West Bengal India Table C. School Attendance as Advanced Linked with Poverty Status by States Name of states/uts Wealth index Poorest Poorer Middle Richer Richest Total Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand J & K Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura
20 Child Schooling and Child Work in India Uttar Pradesh Uttaranchal West Bengal India Table D. School Attendance as Repeating Linked with Poverty Status by States Name of states/uts Wealth index Poorest Poorer Middle Richer Richest Total Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand J & K Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttaranchal West Bengal India Table E. School Attendance as Drop out Linked with Poverty Status by States Name of states/uts Wealth index Poorest Poorer Middle Richer Richest Total Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi
21 Bijaya Kumar Malik Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand J & K Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttaranchal West Bengal India Table F. School Attendance as Left school 2+ years ago Linked with Poverty Status by States Name of states/uts Wealth index Poorest Poorer Middle Richer Richest Total Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand J & K Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab
22 Child Schooling and Child Work in India Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttaranchal West Bengal India
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L CON "At Daybreak" (an.rost remix)
L CON (a.k.a. Toronto artist and Del Bel member Lisa Conway) released a single titled The Distance of the Moon back in 2015, then followed it up with a full-length album called Moon Milk last year. Now, she's shared another musician's interpretation of a song from that LP.
"At Daybreak" has been reworked by Portugal-born, Stockholm-based artist an.rost. The pair met in class at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, Ireland, making the new version of the track a truly international affair.
An.rost describes his music as electro-acoustic compositions that try to "place the listener in ambiguous scenarios" with a combination of "rough sonorities and smooth developments."
Those techniques applied to "At Daybreak" result in a track wrapped in dark, eerie, electro-tinged ambience, punctuated by thumps of bass and Conway's haunting vocals.
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Bardak Calendar December 24, 2007
Moscow Nitelife Roundup - January
By Jared Lindquist Browse author
German dance duo Digitalism will close out Solyanka's nu-rave party. The club's putting a stop to these parties because they were becoming not cool by being too cool.
The first couple weeks of the year in Moscow are about as dead a season as you’re gonna find anywhere. The oligarchs are all off partying in elite ski resorts with hookers, the locals are on a budget tour to Vietnam or Egypt, and the expats are back in civilization. Rare is the promoter willing to risk his tobacco sponsor’s hard-earned money on a show that would likely include the band, him, his girlfriend, and a local babushka.
Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz climbing an okhranik during his last concert in Moscow
Yet somehow last January saw visits by TINDERSTICKS, ART BRUT, MAXIMO PARK and GOGOL BORDELLO. No such luck this year.
Moscow doesn’t have much of a tradition of good New Year’s hangover gigs, although that may change after one-half of the German dance duo DIGITALISM (January 1, Solyanka, 23:00) is set to rock into town, bringing a climactic end to the club’s weekly nu-rave “Thriller” party. These krauts get compared favorably to crossover dance acts like SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, JUSTICE and MSTRKRFT, so I am down with them, even if this whole new rave thing is way old. Pretty much every local band or DJ that has ever been associated with the new rave scene should be either performing or in the audience. Not necessarily the best hangover cure, but it’s not like there’s anything else going on.
As bands aren’t really touring at this time of year, the next semi-interesting event is minimal techno DJ THOMAS BRINKMANN (January 6, Ikra, 23:00). This German started playing with records in the 80s, but it was only in the 90s that he found success after reworking material by MIKE INK and RICHIE HAWTIN. He even made the productions by playing physically modified records on special turntables.
The first live performance of early ‘08 I can recommend is local post-rock combo SILENCE KIT (January 8, Ikra, 21:00), who are still grooving heavy after the release of their latest album, “The Great Red Spot.” My only reservation is that the ninth is the first working day of the year, so you may see a reserved crowd avoiding the beer.
Then there’s the WINTER ELVIS DAY FESTIVAL (January 11, B1 Maximum, 18:00), which is headlined by Swedish greasers JACKY BAYMOORE AND THE BANDITS. The festival is in honor of what would have been ELVIS’ 72nd birthday three days earlier. A zillion local rockabilly bands like RAWCATS ’88 and BEAT DEVILS support the cause as well.
Go see Perm-based mod-revivalists THE WHITE TRAINERS COMMUNITY (January 16, Ikra, 20:00), who've been blowing up locally. Maybe we'll even do a interview with these guys in the near future (after all, they are from the city of Death Porn) and see what really makes these nice young men tick. I mean, besides listening to old WHO, JAM and KINKS records.
I thought the local aggressive indie combo FOOJITSU (January 18, Aktovy Zal, 20:00) sucked the first time I saw them a year and a half ago. They’ve gotten significantly better since, and now it’s not unusual to hear their name dropped in the voices usually reserved for such stalwarts as SILENCE KIT or BANANA PRINCESS. Omsk-based indie rappers RTUT open.
Given that the foreigners aren’t really coming to town yet, it may be worth paying a little attention to locals still. The first album release party of the year is thrown by REKEVIN (January 24, 16 Tons, 21:00), a trip-hop band thing fronted by a chick. Frankly, I find this shit boring, but in case you don’t, you know what to do.
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Padraig Naughton gives some background to the four Turning Point Writers / 10 June 2010
Photo of a script run-through of 'How Very Normal' at the Kennedy Centre. From left to right: Actors Jason Lott, Chris Dinolfo, writer Steve Daunt, Production Manager Orla Flannagan, Director Jim Culleton & Dramaturge Gavin Kostick.
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 Although I've mentioned the four writers involved in Turning Point by name and written about their plays, I feel some background on each would be helpful.
John Austin Connolly was born in Dublin, where he currently lives and writes. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and an MA in Scriptwriting. In 2004 his children's play, Who Killed Granny? was given a staged reading at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. In 2006 two works were short-listed for the Fishamble Theatre Company Temple Bar Diversions Festival. Â
In 2007 his play, The Boys from Siam, won the inaugural Yale Drama Series Award, and David Horn prize, selected by Edward Albee. This was given a staged reading by The Yale Repertory Theatre, and published by Yale University Press in 2008.Â
In 2008 and 2009 Crochet and The Body were short-listed for the Francis MacManus short story competition, and broadcast by RTE Radio 1. In 2009 his play, Dylan, Thomasina and Me, won the PJ O’Connor National RTE Radio 1 Drama Award. He has completed his new stage play, Altered Selves.
Steve Daunt cut his dramatic teeth in Trinity College Dublin while studying English. He was an active member of Dublin University Players where he acted and directed. He has written small scale scripts for the last 10 years including contributing to Disability Cabaret in the early 2000s. How Very Normal is an affectionate meditation on friendship. Steve currently works as a Researcher for Newstalk106-108.
Stephen Kennedy is partially sighted. He is originally from Drogheda, but he has lived and worked in Dublin for the last ten years. Stephen has had his poetry published in literary magazines like The Stinging Fly and Riposte, and his short fiction has appeared in Books Ireland.
In 2008 Stephen had a long poem – entitled ‘Do You Know What Really Annoys The Arse Off Me?’ – published in the New Irish Writing section of the Sunday Tribune. This poem went on to be shortlisted in the prestigious Hennessey XO Poetry Awards.
In 2004 Stephen had a radio play – entitled The Loony News – shortlisted for RTE Radio’s PJ O’Connor Awards. In 2008 Stephen wrote, directed and produced three short plays in a show called Sex! Three Short Plays (with very little to do with sex). This show had a successful run at the New Theatre in Temple Bar.
In 2008 Stephen also set up Nighthawks at the Cobalt with some friends. This is a very popular monthly arts club that combines different kinds of music, comedy, poetry, prose, short film and short theatre. A new collection of short plays by Stephen were recently presented in the New Theatre.
Rosaleen McDonagh is a Traveller woman with a disability. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Her primary degree is in Theological and Biblical Studies. She has two Masters Degrees, one in the area of Ethnic & Racial Studies and the second in Creative Writing.
She was one of the founders of The Independent Living Movement in Ireland. She worked in Pavee Point Traveller Centre for eight years as manager of the Violence Against Women Program. Rosaleen has extensive experience of working at a policy level in the NGO sector covering areas of Traveller Women's and Disabled Women’s Human Rights.Â
Currently Rosaleen is involved with Minceirs Whiden, a Traveller-only forum. She has run for the Senate twice. Rosaleen is an associated writer with Project Arts Centre, Dublin and has had two plays produced, Baby Doll and Stuck. She is working on a new theatre piece, Arrangements which will be produced by the Project in 2010 / 2011.
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In a bombed-out Polish village during World War II a young resistance fighter finds that he is suddenly alone and trapped between two opposing armies. He is one of Poland's "Devil's Rebels" fighting desperately to save his homeland, but an injury has erased his memory and his only possession is a torn photograph of a couple he assumes are his parents. The woman appears to be holding the hand of a young child whose image has been ripped off. Could the child be him?
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Karnov Inspector (FCEUX / Bizhawk / Mesen lua script)
rainwarrior
Post subject: Karnov Inspector (FCEUX / Bizhawk / Mesen lua script)
As part of this year's Karnovember festivities, I've decided to write an inspector for Karnov. It's an FCEUX / Bizhawk / Mesen Lua script:
Download: https://gist.github.com/bbbradsmith/46e ... 45539995ad
- v0.1 just shows you the tile type anywhere it's not $00
- v0.2 now shows you where a bomb can be placed
- v0.3 now has the hitboxes that can hurt you
- v1.0 now has the hitboxes that you can shoot
Thought it might be fun to play around with. Kind of gives you an idea how this game was built, though it is a notoriously buggy/weird game. I'd never really played it before a few days ago, but I quite enjoyed it. It was a wonderful surprise once I learned my way around it.
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Banshaku
Post subject: Re: Karnov Inspector (FCEUX lua script)
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Interesting I think I should look at the script to learn how it work since it would be useful for game debugging. Always wanted to try but didn't have the time to experiment with it.
rainwarrior wrote:
I remember playing it as a kid after trying the arcade version, were I was never able to even past the first stage at all and gave up putting quarters Then tried the nes version and it was more enjoyable.
I guess it must be one of those game that were outsourced from the original developer and ends up made very fast, like Ghost and goblins.
Sumez
Location: Denmark (PAL)
That's a funny game to pick. I always loved Karnov, so I was excited to try out the NES version for the first time, and it was really disappointing just how awfully buggy the game plays. This really beats Micronics in the "crappy ports" territory. They managed to take pretty much everything that made the original game fun, and turn it into a chore.
But I digress. Don't mean to drive away focus from this awesome script. This could easily be useful for speedrunners, etc. who want to optimize their gameplay.
Anyway, no Karnov thread is complete without JeffK's comparison between Quake 3 and the NES version of Karnov:
https://www.somethingawful.com/hosted/j ... novfag.htm
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:03 pm
It's very buggy indeed, but I found the bugs mostly charming.
I've only briefly played the arcade version, so I didn't have a superior game to make me disappointed in the comparison, but on its own I enjoyed NES Karnov far more than the quality of its implementation deserved. Learning to work around its brokenness was actually a lot of fun for me, and that strangely kinda played well with the strategic item system the game has.
I'll definitely give the arcade version a play through later though, there are a lot of days left in Karnovember.
Post subject: Re: Karnov Inspector (FCEUX / Mesen lua script)
Clunky, yes, now maybe I would see it as buggy since I know nes programming enough. One thing for sure, once you try the arcade one, you will realise how much the focus was on "monetization", i.e. how cheap the game is to make you die and some place are almost doable only by luck I guess once you know the game by heart it may be easier but still... For game of that generation, I never felt, for example, that double dragon was cheap. This game arcade version, 100% ^^;;
Banshaku wrote:
Clunky, yes, now maybe I would see it as buggy since I know nes programming enough.
Oh, it's buggy for sure. Anyone would see it as that. Such as the way you can get stuck in walls, or scrolling in the wrong direction can get you caught in a boss room, etc.
It's surprising really. I've played hundreds of NES games, and usually most of them are simply poorly designed and/or "clunky" like you are saying. Karnov is the only one I recall playing where completely obvious bugs not only impacted the gameplay experience, but are actually rampant.
Disclaimer - I have the Famicom version of the game, I don't know if some things were fixed for the western release. It's definitely crazy that this would have made it past Nintendo's "seal of quality".
One thing for sure, once you try the arcade one, you will realise how much the focus was on "monetization", i.e. how cheap the game is to make you die and some place are almost doable only by luck
Karnov is a bit of a memorizer, but I wouldn't call it downright cheap or designed to just take money away from you. I consider it much more playable and fair than the NES(Famicom) version.
With the recent success of Capcom's limited edition rerelease of Street Fighter II, what would it take to interest Paon in a rerelease that fixes the bugs, restoring Karnov to what was intended?
Sumez wrote:
As far as I can tell the only difference between the Famicom and NES versions are that they removed all the cutscenes and endings for the NES version (probably cause of the religious subject matter).
One thing that's bizarre and amazing about this game is the way it does scrolling. It can only move horizontally or vertical, but not both at once. You can exploit this to get ahead of the scroll in any place that you can traverse diagonally. The vertical scrolling will take priority, and you're free to keep moving to the right until it catches up. The resting point of the scroll is also aligned to a 16x16 tile, so it's kind of easy to exploit in a very precise way.
It's a really terrible system for scrolling, but if once you're deliberately trying to take advantage of it e.g. for a speedrun I find it's a really fun mechanic to play with. There's a lot of stuff like that in this game.
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I didn't like this game as a kid and swapped it for another game at the retail store,as an adult I learned to really enjoy the game even with the bugs.I reversed engineered a large part of this game(mainly the AI) found it quite interesting that a table was used for the jump velocities,integer and fractional values.
Did you record any of the stuff you found? I'm sure there's people in the Karnovember crowd that'd love to know. I looked around before I started the inspector to see if anyone had left a trail, but I couldn't find much. There was a decade old level editor, but I couldn't get it to run and it wasn't open source.
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After playing through the arcade version, I wouldn't say I'm terribly fond of it. It has some charm, but it's too unreasonable. The NES version should be similarly unreasonable but its weird and crappy engine makes it better.
Actually, the slightly different palette of items to use in the NES version added a whole lot of strategic possibilities that just don't exist in the set you get in the arcade. The clapper and shield make a huge difference, and being able to stockpile more things. I think that was a definite and well earned improvement. (The removed trolley was really lame, too, a very reasonable cut to make.)
The design and placement of enemies is absolutely insane in the arcade version, and while much of it would be similar in the NES version the game despawns probably 2/3 of the placed enemies, just because it has trouble having more than a few onscreen at a time (or with certain combinations). No such problem with the arcade, so the screen is constantly filled with tons of enemies, creating chaos. (Also wherever the NES game has one boss, the arcade usually had a series of 2 or 3. Not new bosses, mind you, just 2 or 3 of the existing ones repeated.)
There's a few cool graphical things in the arcade version, e.g. breaking the walls down to enter the tomb, knocking a tree over with a bomb, a few frames of "morphing" for the mimic enemy, etc. and that end screen is really good... but the gameplay itself is inferior to the NES... simply because there's a lot more of it. (The NES giving you an extra hit helps a lot too.) The engine works a lot better, but the underlying design that enables isn't much fun to me.
That's one of the fun things about the NES version, if you dash on ahead, you tend to keep enemies following you, causing others to despawn in front of you. It's this really nice snowball effect that feels good when it gets going. Can't do that in the arcade, 'cause you'll just flood the screen with enemies and die.
Oh also the NES version has a flying level instead of level 8, which makes better variety.
I guess now you understand why I'm less fond of the arcade version compared to the nes one. For the arcade, I only remember the first stage and that's it since I was dying fast anyway
The NES version is better because it's a buggy mess?
That's a really hot take, but I'll allow it
Well, it's getting awkward
Technically speaking, the nes version is a mess and everyone agrees with it. But... The arcade version, although superior graphically (which I do like by the way), the placement of enemy and how is done is less fun than the nes version, although flawed as it is. This is how it felt to me. Doesn't me I "hate" it the arcade version, it just the nes one felt more entertaining, in it own devious way
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New Era Companies to Construct $25 Million North Garland Medical Center
Garland has approved a deal that will result in the development of a $25 million North Garland Medical Center at 7217 Telecom Parkway. This state-of-the-art medical facility will realize 95,000 square feet of healthcare space in a new 3-story building near the intersection of Lookout Drive and Telecom Parkway.
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Here’s to…
Here’s to sailing boats from the America cup, dodgy moustaches, white sands, unexpected rain showers and cups of tea on deck. To buffet lunches whilst suppressing sea sickness, and hoisting yourself back onto the boat after a snorkel session. To tropical fish and water up your nose. Here’s to gigantic sea turtles who look wise and prehistoric. Here’s to making new friends who live 20 minutes away from you, despite being 10,000 miles away from home. To wearing sexy swim suits because the jellyfish and the string rays have come out to play. Here’s to sand so soft and white that it feels like icing sugar. Here’s to goon and hungover bus journeys with a broken toilet. To moths that were hiding in the breakfast bananas and leave you feeling like you now need therapy.
Here’s to Magnetic Island and the Whitsundays. To good friends, and being too hot to leave the hostel. To instant coffee, and discounted bakery food. Here’s to factor 50, laughing until you cry and singing loudly whenever you get the chance. To flute practice in a hut at the end of someone’s garden, where we happen to be staying. Here’s to being very cautious about spiders and beasties. Here’s to mosquitos. Here’s to Australia!
29th February 2016 Australia, LifestyleAustralia, magnetic Island, musing, travel, Travel blog, wanderlust, whitsundaysHeppy Deane
From Noosa, we embarked on a very uninformed trip to Fraser Island. Uninformed, in that we had no idea what we were doing really. The previous evening, we watched a briefing video, which explained how to drive a 4×4 in sand, what to do if your stuck in sand, how to adjust the tire pressure for sand, etc. etc. This all went completely over my head, and I hadn’t realised we were meant to be driving, so I had a bit of a sense of foreboding.Anyway. We had a two hour bus journey to Rainbow Beach, where we were split into four groups and given a 4×4 each. Wow. There were six of us in our car; me, Tom, Luke, a Swiss French girl called Naila and two French sisters, Nadia and Dulia. We all got on really well, which was nice! Luke drove first, onto the ferry to the island and then for about forty minutes along the beach. We drove pretty fast, communicating with the tour guide who was in the front car via walky talky, which was really fun and reminded me of the 90s. (Walky talkies are equally exciting now, if you’re wondering.) It then began to piss it down.
A running theme on our trip so far has been that it violently rains every time we spend money on an activity, and Fraser Island was no exception! Our first destination on the island was Eli Creek, a river of really pure drinkable water that you can float down into the sea. We were drenched to the bone from the moment we left the car, so it was quite fun jumping in the river, although it was freezing! The river was shallow, so we swam a little and walked too. There was one moment where I was walking along the sandy riverbed when I stepped into a hidden hole and disappeared, Dawn French style.
We then headed back to the cars. It was so wet that there was no point even getting dressed so we were all in our swimmers getting stuck to the leather seats, which was a bizarre but hilarious experience. We then drove to a huge wrecked ship sat on the beach, which we ran to, took a photo of and then ran back. It was a tropical storm so wet that it’s almost hard to breathe because so much water was going up my nose!
After that, we headed for a walk through the bush, down a gigantic sand dune and then chilled out by a big lake. The rain picked up again on the way to the hostel. We had a Chilean room mate who didn’t seem to own a shirt.
The hostel was nice, in that only people from our group were there. What followed was a very messy night, involving trying to “phone” eachother across the dance floor using the biggest item we could find. (We got shouted at for holding barstools to our ears) and some ridiculous dancing.
We were a bit worse for wear in the morning, but thankfully, Naila offered to drive first, taking us through the lush rainforest to Lake McKenzie. The lake is on a huge sand dune and is famous for its white sand. It was nice to chill out and sober up. The boys clowned about and did lots of belly flops, Luke did a good seal impression in the water, and I was just using the sand to exfoliate which I’ve been DYING to do since we left home. Clean skin at last! Then it came to my turn to drive…
I’ve never driven a 4X4, on sand, or abroad before. So it was all a new experience. To be honest, it wasn’t too different to driving normally, other than the car felt huge. The difficult bit was being in the second car, and the leader would slow right down with no warning, so i’d have to try hard not to stall/rear end him, and when we drove on the squishy bits of sand, sometimes it would slip a little bit. We then headed back along the beach to the ferry. Luke drove and we had some songs on and had a sing. All in all it was a really fun trip and my favourite thing we’ve done in Australia so far.
28th February 2016 Australia, Lifestyle, UncategorisedAustralia, Fraser Island, Oz, travelHeppy Deane Leave a comment
Byron Bay and Brisbane (Bris Vegas)
23rd February 2016 Australia, LifestyleAustralasia, Australia, Australia zoo, Brisbane, Byron bay, Nimbin, travel, Travel blog, zooHeppy Deane
After Sydney, we got a delightful bus to Byron Bay. Delightful in that the driver was a vile racist, we weren’t allowed to eat, and there was no leg room and it was a 14 hour drive through the night. Well we survived, knackered and with legs swollen to the size of tree trunks, but we survived!
Byron Bay, to those whose have seen the second inbetweeners movie, is where the lads go and will sings by the fire. We saw a lot of dreadlocks, idiots with fire poi and dancing Hare Krishnas. There was also an old man busker who frantically hula hooped whilst shaking a pineapple and banana and shouting at everyone. Not sure what he was on, but I think I’d like some. There’s something quite reassuring in knowing that if everything goes to shit, you can leave the country and busk with a hula hoop and some fruit shakers.
Our time was mainly spent on the beach, having some much needed down time, and we had a quick trip to Nimbin.
We then got back on the bus, (only a few hours this time thank GOD) and headed to Brisbane. We wandered around in the heat, Brisbane definitely being the hottest place we’ve been in Aus, trying to find wifi and using a pay phone to no success to get in contact with Ali, Tom’s lovely friend from home. It’s hilarious how much we rely on finding an Internet connection. Anyway, we finally got in touch and Ali picked us up and we went back to his flat where he lives with his wife Fulden. It was so lovely to use a clean bathroom and chill! We had some lovely home cooked salmon and then headed into the city for a drink. Tom had a hair cut session.
The following day, we went to find Luke at the bus, which was a bit late, and then went for a wander in the city. They have a really cool pool in the middle of the city, which kept us cool.
In the evening we met some of Ali and Fulden’s friends, and went for a Singaporian meal, which was nice and really cheap! We were sad to leave the following day, staying with friends is so much fun, and a relief to escape the hostels for a bit, but we arranged to meet them at the zoo the following day, and caught the bus to Noosa.
The hostel in Noosa was a shit hole, think 16 man dorm with no air conditioning in 30 degree heat. Anyway. After very little sleep, because a man in the room kept sleep talking and saying “oh no!” all night, we headed on the luxurious greyhound to the Australia Zoo.
It was a really fun day! The highlight was holding a koala called Diesel, who was very heavy, with sharp claws. He smelt like eucalyptus, and did a little sneeze when I handed him to his keeper. The other animals I loved were the Tigers, the crocs, gigantic tortoises, the Kangaroos and the wombats. (Hehehe) The Tasmanian devil was a dissapointment. I was expecting it to whizz around like Taz, but it was just a glorified rat really.
Sydney dreaming
12th February 2016 Australia, LifestyleAustralia, Oz, Sydney, travel, Travel blogHeppy Deane
Off the bus we hopped again, arriving in Sydney after a somewhat shorter journey (phew.)
We were too early to check in, so plonked our bags at the hostel and went for a wander. We hadn’t realised that we’d arrived right in time for Chinese New Year, and found a Chinese market, which was pretty cool. One of the stands was a huge tree covered in red envelopes. We both picked one and opened it. Mine had a chocolate coin in, which I was more than happy with, and Tom opened his to find a $20 gift token for an electronics shop! He was even more chuffed when we went to the shop and he bought a small key ring USB charger that means he can charge his phone on the go, how lucky is that?!
(Some of the lanterns in Chinatown for the new year celebrations.)
After checking in, we went for a wander, through town, where a Chinese calligrapher wrote “luck” for me, and then to the Sydney opera house. It was so cool to see such an iconic building. The sun was gleaming on the roof and it’s so so much bigger than I thought it’d be.
We decided to go inside, and discovered that Jose Gonzalez was playing that evening. We both love his music and have seen him play in Leeds before, so we thought we’d get some tickets. It was sold out, but the box office lady told us to come back at 7pm and see if they had any cancellations. So we headed back later on, with low expectations to find that there were tickets available for some really good seats, about five rows from the front!
What a lucky day! We waited for the doors to open, with the fancy opera crowd giving us dirty looks – we’d been wearing the same clothes for days and didn’t blend in too well. Then we went in and had such a wonderful time. Jose was joined by a four man band, and the acoustics were out of this world. It sounded better live than in the recordings, and it brought a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes. Magic. I feel so lucky to have seen one of my favourite artists play in such an iconic venue.
The next day we had a wander, stumbled across a Serbian festival, and then went to the Chinese Botanic Gardens, which were stunning, and made us really excited for Asia. Then we spent about an hour trying to figure out how the hell to use the bus system and bought the Oz equivalent of an Oyster card then got the bus to Bondi Beach. It was a really sunny day, so sunbathing on the beach and cooling off in the sea seemed very appealing. Unfortunately only the first half of this came true…
As we were lying around with our Kindles, we clocked the first aid station, which had a small queue of people outside pressing ice packs to their various body parts. Tom said “I wonder why they’re doing that?!” After a few more minutes I wanted to go for a swim and headed to the shore to find loads and loads of mini jellyfish all over the beach. There was only a few surfers in the sea. I was like “hmmmm” but didn’t want to bother the lifeguards, who had their hands full. I found a local and said “are the jellyfish dangerous?” To which he replied “oh yes, absolutely!
You’ll be okay if you stand on the head, but the tail will give you a nasty shock. They’re not lethal, but very unpleasant.”
So swimming was off then. There were lots of alarms and lifeguards everywhere, but we managed to cool off in the baby pool (ha!) and under the showers. Never a dull day in paradise.
There’s something so lovely about being in warm weather. I immediately feel like I’m on holiday.
The following day we checked out the art gallery in the park, then headed back to the harbour and caught a ferry across to the other side, where we wandered around the very creepy “Luna Park” which is a bit like a 1950s funfair and then walked back over the harbour bridge. We had a bottle of wine and chip butties in the park watching the sunset over the Opera House, which was lovely.
Melbourne and Canberra
12th February 2016 Australia, LifestyleAustralia, Canberra, Melbourne, Oz, travel, Travel blogHeppy Deane
Hello from Australia! Sorry for the late update, wifi has been hard to get hold of and I’ve basically been lying around on the beach for the past few days. Anyway, here’s an update : our first two stops in Australia: Melbourne and Canberra.
We were really sad to leave New Zealand. We had to say goodbye to Philine and Kerry, who we’ve been with for seven weeks all together, but we’ve promised we’ll visit them to go and see an authentic German Christmas market, and they’re going to come and see us too.
The flight to Australia departed at 8.30pm. I think evening flights are my favourite time to fly because there’s none of the getting up at a ridiculous hour nonsense which always makes my belly hurt for some reason, plus you can watch the sunset from above the clouds, which is pretty spectacular. The flight was beautiful, and we were sat next to a really cool South Korean bloke who is travelling the world with his family. The kids are 11 and 13 and they’ve already seen 31 countries in 9 months. How insane is that?
We touched down in Melbourne after a three hour flight and got off the plane. The air felt different. I love changing countries and breathing in the air and experiencing a new climate. We got through customs, got a bus to the city centre and then began looking for our hostel which was allegedly opposite the bus station, but to no avail. Then a really old man with a beard, eating an icecream (at 10.30pm – legend) shouted “BACKPACKERS ARE YOU LOST ALREAADY??!!!” at us. I said yes and he directed us to the hostel.
We had our own room, with a bunk bed in it again. I still can’t get my head round this and it makes me a bit hysterical and think of that scene from Stepbrothers. Anyway.
The next day we headed into town. I decided to hit H&M for a new bikini, and found a MATCHING one in the sale for $10, which works out at a fiver. Bargain. Then we found some discount sushi for lunch. I was delighted at my bargain hunting and we were practically skipping across the road in delight, wondering what our next stroke of luck would be when it came in the form of a huge bird poo that splatted all over us both. We managed to wash it all off in a fountain luckily.
(There’s lots of yarn bombed trees in Melbourne!)
We then went to a film museum, which was really cool, and stumbled across a Buddhist monk leading a free meditation class. There’s lots going on in Melbourne. We also enjoyed the cool street art on Hosier Street. We then wandered around a bit more, went to the hostel and tackled our laundry mountain and then watched the Matrix Reloaded (it’s rubbish) then fell asleep.
The next day we walked back to the city centre and then jumped on the free old fashioned city tram. There was a bit of a rush to get on, and I jumped on before realising that Tom had got on the back door and was laughing his head off at the look of panic on my face when I thought I’d lost him. We headed to the park, which I was enjoying until Tom started walking around at about 100mph because he was convinced a tarantula would drop out of a tree and onto his head. Not very relaxing. In the middle of the park is “the oldest building in Australia” which was made in 1770 in England and shipped over to Oz in 1934…. Hmmmm….. There were people dressed in stupid outfits pretending to be Captain Cook and I was a bit like WHAT THE FUCK then realised that I’ve been spoilt growing up in England. We have so much history. Kendal castle was built around the 13th century for gods sake. Anyway. I had a reality check and got over it.
We went back on the tram and headed to harbour town and had an incredibly strong coffee and more discount sushi. Melbourne is famous for its coffee, so I was eager to try it. I then gave Tom a mild heart attack by spending $30 on a new tangle teezer because I’d lost mine in New Zealand and the cheap replacement one I’d bought was making me bald. Long hair problems.
(Here’s Tom doing some drumming to vent his despair.)
The next day we went downstairs in our hostel and found Luke, who’d arrived from Bali on an early flight. He even came in a matching outfit! It felt a bit like when we met Billy in Queenstown: surreal but completely normal. It was great to catch up on his adventure so far, and we went to the travel agent who helped us book our buses up the east coast, a trip to the Steve Irwin zoo (thanks for the recommendation Nia!) and a trip to Fraser Island. We then said bye to Luke, who was staying on in Melbourne and got on the Greyhound bus to Canberra.
I hadn’t realised that Canberra is the capital of Australia. I’d assumed it was Sydney for some reason. So we decided to go, mainly because it’s another place, like Melbourne, in that Tom hasn’t been there before, and also because the travel agent said “Canberra is good for porn and fireworks.” …
The bus journey was a bit freaky really in that we were on it for eight hours and we saw about two small towns, a few petrol stations, lots of huge trucks and a load of flat desert land covered in trees. I got a bit spooked because I kept thinking of Wolf Creek and panicking that the bus would break down. Too many horror films.
Anyway, we made it to Canberra, absolutely knackered and starving. As we waited for the bus to our hostel, I heard a cheeping sound and a load of parrots flew past. There were bright red and green parrots everywhere and big parakeets who were making a bloody awful racket. I couldn’t stop watching them! The hostel was nice (bunk beds again!) and we had some food then conked out.
The next day we decided to head into town to have a look at Parliament. A good idea in theory, but in reality involved five hours of walking, with not very much to look at. A lot of building sites. Also there was no shops or food places anywhere near Parliament so I got a bit hysterical and nearly died of starvation when we finally had lunch at 3pm. The good thing about the day was that we walked through a park when a huge bat flew past us. It had about a 70cm wing span, and looked like batman. We watched it fly into a tree where it hung upside down with a load of its buddies. Absolutely awesome and terrifying.
We made it back from parliament, completely knackered, and after a short nap headed up to Mount Ainslie, recommended by a fellow backpacker for the wild kangaroos. I was very excited. We walked through a few housing estates before coming to the foot of the mountain. Within five minutes we’d spotted our first kangaroos! They had clocked us way before we’d seen them and were frozen, ears cocked, looking right at us and chewing grass. We saw probably about thirty in total, and they were so lovely! There were mummies and babies and big huge muscled daddies. When we got too close they would bounce away from us. We were totally captivated and amazed that several locals were out jogging. Kangaroos are completely normal for them!
After a long while trying and failing to get decent photos, we decided to walk back down the hill. We heard pounding feet and stopped, and a pair of kangaroos bounced right behind us. We were frozen, and amazed. They were so close and unfazed by us, it was truly awesome.
So all in all, Canberra as a city was a bit dull, but the incredible parrots, bats and kangaroos made it well worth a visit. Not what you’d expect from a capital city!
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ICC MACEDONIA
ICC issues declaration on the next century of global business
On behalf of 45 million companies worldwide, the International Chamber of Commerce has issued a declaration setting out a vision to shape the future of global business for the next century.
Mirroring the declaration issued 100 years ago by ICC’s “Merchant of Peace” founders, the declaration sets out guiding principles for ICC as a purpose driven international organisation, working with renewed purpose to make business work for everyone, every day, everywhere.
Issued upon conclusion of the world business organization’s Centenary Summit in Paris today, the declaration endorses Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change findings on the urgent need to keep the global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius, and underscores the urgent need for policy frameworks that support alignment of business operations with this target.
Embracing ICC’s renewed purpose to enable business worldwide to secure peace, prosperity and opportunity for all and commits to forging solutions for the future in the face of other global challenges including digital disruptions and rising inequality.
“In the years ahead, these disruptions will become increasingly pronounced in the absence of concerted action by global leaders to mitigate negative outcomes and drive collective solutions,” the declaration states.
The declaration consigns ICC to using the full extent of its resources and global network to tackle 21st century challenges by:
Working to preserve and modernise the global trading system.
Continuing to provide effective alternative dispute resolution methods to support global commerce.
Mobilise business behind the 1.5°C target and work towards the additional climate goal of net-zero emissions in many countries by 2050.
Bolster trust in digital technologies and collaborate with governments to design new global governance models conducive to a thriving and unified digital ecosystem and promote a human-centric evolution of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence.
Support private sector leaders to meet the calls of shareholders, governments and the public for a more inclusive and responsible capitalist model.
Ahead of Tuesday’s Summit, ICC launched a new work programme to fulfill commitments set out in the Centenary Declaration. Leveraging ICC’s global membership in over 100 countries, ICC will execute the work programme through five newly created and versatile knowledge hubs deploying five pivotal campaigns to enable business worldwide to secure peace, prosperity and opportunity for all.
Commenting on the work programme, ICC Secretary General John W.H. Denton said: “Faced with pressing global challenges in the 21st century, ICC and the global business community can – and must – do more as a force for good in the world. We will respond to this imperative with brave and bold action to meet the ambition of our renewed purpose.”
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Why Use Music to Start Your Bilingual Journey ~
“Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi?” on loop… that was my 90’s song from Patti LaBelle’s 1974 hit. Why that had to become my earworm to haunt my young adulthood says more about my aspirations than my reality, but it did pique my interest in foreign languages.
Flash forward a million years and I am a mother raising 3 humans in the 2000’s. I clearly went to the coucher 3 times, and it occurs to me that I’d really like my 3 citizens to understand that phrase above. Not exactly that phrase, but to understand French or Mandarin or any foreign language.
Redwood Forest, National Parks
Call To The Wild
Cheap & Cheerful road trip never to be forgotten! We chose our destination, the Redwood National Forest, and mixed accommodations, travel, and food, high with low. Nature emerged the winner - stunning, truly breathtaking. Hide and seek amongst five foot ferns with trees towering above, it felt like the land of the dinosaurs. Our imaginations went wild as will every Star Wars fan who finds themself in the middle of Episode 6, better known as the Tall Trees Redwood Grove. This land was made for you and me...
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Family Vacation, Italy
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Travel makes the ordinary suddenly become extraordinary.
A trip to the grocery store means identifying what such a store is called, learning how to navigate the noisy streets to get there, recognizing products and discovering new ones, and fumbling at the cash register with unfamiliar currency. Such a mundane, ordinary task becomes a pronounced victory, a savored moment of procuring nourishment in an unknown land.
I travel to remember what matters most to me.
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Feliz Ano! #HappyNewYear
...The graciousness and abundance that filled the restaurant and our hearts that night is surely a good omen for 2016... but it hasn't all been roses and peaches and this is the face I most identify with, hmmm... pretty scary? funny and, ridiculous, like "Am I really doing this?"
We are back-packing, essentially, with three kids and that in itself is an art. We forgot to prep them and some of us are slightly less than organized... it's really hard to find clean underwear these days, for everybody. I'd be lying to omit that I stepped out on the stoop in the sweltering heat with a glass of cold chardonnay to debate verbally if this vacation was really the best idea in the world - and that was at the end of Day 1. One thing for certain, next time I will definitely ensure us an air-conditioned unit as was recommended when traveling south of the border mid-summer. Duh.
Alas, a good sleep and never mind, I've already come full circle! I may never come home! I am loving the intimacy of such travel with my family and yes, I feel totally blessed.
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How To Plan a Trip to Argentina for Five in 3 Weeks or Less
...I’m a romantic but I’m also a pragmatist. Romantically, I’m up for anything…case in point, 3 kids later! With kids, however, I think most moms feel that they must have solid plans for travel...After B.A., we fly to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world to see Penguins. Even though it will be their summer in Tierra del Fuego, it will be cold since we’re so far south, so we’re only spending a few days before flying to El Calafate. We’re looking forward to giant glaciers and panoramic scenery in Patagonia. This is also our respid, so we’re hunting down a traditional Estancia or nature Cabana...
Tagged: travel, Argentina, fa, Spanish, culture, vacation planning, vacation, winter vacation
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What I really think of Aaron Sorkin
STUDIO 60 returns with new shows. I hope it does well.
Aaron Sorkin probably doesn’t believe me. He thinks I hate him. He dismissed comments I made in a recent LA TIMES article by saying I wasn’t a “real” comedy writer and was unemployed. I’d like to think that based on my credits and agent that neither is true (although if he found out I did AfterMASH I could see why he might make that claim).
I actually have great respect for Mr. Sorkin. I stopped watching WEST WING when he left because the show just wasn’t as good. Yes, I wrote a parody (If Aaron Sorkin wrote a show about baseball), but I also parodied LOST, 24, and HOUSE and their producers found it amusing.
My criticism of STUDIO 60 was very much in line with everyone else’s – the characters seem too smug, the sketches aren’t funny, Sara Paulson is not convincing as a gifted comedienne – but for whatever reason that article really hit a nerve. (Rumor has it the TIMES is trying to make nice by preparing another article, this one about how people love STUDIO 60.)
The new batch of shows will veer more towards romantic comedy, Sorkin promises. That might work. Often times there are growing pains in the first year as a show tries to find its groove. Watch early episodes of CHEERS. We did a lot of experimenting. Some episodes focused on Sam & Diane, others were more like BARNEY MILLER where our regulars dealt with colorful characters who entered the bar. It took about half a season until the series really found its way (although it was still getting its ass kicked in the ratings by mighty TUCKER'S WITCH).
I do have empathy for Sorkin. It’s not easy creating in a negative environment. I’ve been there. Everything you do is second guessed, the cast starts looking at you like you killed their puppy, your budget gets cut, you're pre-empted for a RUGRATS prime time special, and your health deteriorates faster than that guy who ate nothing but McDonalds for a month. When a show is going well your hair comes out in clumps, so you can imagine when it’s not. But I think he makes it harder on himself by being so defensive. There's no witch hunt. No one is attacking him personally.
There’s another reason to root for Sorkin. Networks and studios are inserting themselves into the creative process now more than ever before. It's like being eaten to death by moths. Very few showrunners enjoy the autonomy that Sorkin has. So if his show is a success, other writers can point to it and say, “See? If you just leave the creator alone he’ll turn out a better show.” If it's not a hit, you're up until 3:00 in the morning upping the stakes and making the actress they forced you to take more likeable.
So when I say I hope he turns it around I’m being absolutely sincere. I don’t hate Aaron Sorkin. I just wish he didn't take himself, his show, and his critics so seriously. This isn't the White House. You can have a few laughs.
By By Ken Levine at 7:12 PM
We've been watching the show just because we were such fans of West Wing. I still love the witty walk-talk style, and I really did like John Goodman. But the premise is bad - on West Wing, we saw serious issues discussed. What serious issue can be discussed on a sketch comedy show. I still love the writing, the same way I love David Mamet's writing. Writing is the only thing!
Alex Epstein said...
He dissed you because you criticized his show? Everyone criticizes his show. Maybe they're all right.
Einstein was told that people were preparing a book called ONE HUNDRED AUTHORS AGAINST EINSTEIN. He shrugged and said, "If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?"
I think very creative people can be difficult to get a handle on.
As for his making attacks on you, I started watching this show thinking that I was going to love it and couldn't make past the 3rd episode.
mbfh said...
You worked on "AfterMASH"?
Oh man.
(I kid because I love.)
Matt Watts said...
catfight.
JOHN LEADER said...
Aaron Sorkin's got much bigger things to worry about than what you, or anyone else thinks of his TV show.
Apparently, he doesn't realize that, which is too bad.
YOU are not a "Real" comedy writer???
So MASH, CHEERS, FRASIER, etc., were all FAKE comedy shows?
Well I've seen a LOT of the comedy you've written over 30 years, and I've seen the comedy sketches on STUDIO 60, and the comedy stylings of Harriet the annoying Christian chick.
One of you is writing fake comedy all right. Which one? Which one? I'm stumped.
I did see Kristen Chenowith on Letterman a week or so back, confirming that Sorkin had asked her permission to base Harriet on her, and then making sure she publically distanced herself FAR away from Harriet's comments about gays. Kristen knows who her fans are.
baby writer said...
mistake turning studio 60 into a romantic comedy (I sort of vomit a little when I see the commercials now), perhaps even bigger than writing a drama about a glorified Mad TV in the first place.
my two cents: there is drama to be found in our little corner of show business. however, I posit that it's less of the anti-religious right/how heroic these characters can be in the face of rampant conservatism or corporate interests. and more of the how seriously these people take themselves, how huge their egos are, how fucked up their childhoods were, how dysfunctional their adulthoods are, how severe their addictions are (danny tripp is a very functional coke addict), how weird their sexual habits are, and how much they just need to get laughs (love) and how if they don't, they kind of wither up and die.
read one of those old SNL in the 70's books. plenty of drama there. meantime, 30 rock, larry sanders, the comeback and extras seem to have gotten it right.
all that aside (sorry for rambling), the main reason I don't like the show is it's preachy and boring and lacks nuance. yes it's on the "correct" side of the issues, but I feel like there's not much difference between a sermon from mr. sorkin and some preacher he hates so fervently. two sides, same coin.
Is Studio 60 still on the air?
I saw the first one...
Alan Sepinwall said...
Ken, you know how much I agree about all of this. Having been at the event in question and having recently transcribed my recording of it, the one thing that I don't think was reported anywhere (including by me) is that, right after Aaron's "the writers she interviewed are unemployed" line, he went on a long attack against Employee of the Month, the comedy troupe that was also heavily quoted in the story. So while Sorkin was no doubt directing some of his bile at you, he made it sound like his big issue was with these other people.
Isaac Ho said...
Could it be that he's annoyed because we hold him to a higher standard just because he is Aaron Sorkin?
To put anything out there is to invite criticism, some fair, some unfair. That is the cost of doing business if you're lucky to put out something people think it's worth commenting on.
I'll keep poking him with a stick. That's how I show my love.
Joshua James said...
I like the show, since the beginning, more than 30 Rock and I never got into West Wing.
I loved Sports Night and to me, this is closer to that.
I can see how it would tick a few folks off, but that's one reason why I enjoy it, plus Matthew Perry and Steven Weber kick ass, they're that good in this.
EmployeeMegan said...
Having read the transcripts, I agree with Alan's assertion that he mosly took issue with us (Employee of the Month) because we were, by far, the most "amateur" of comedy writers quoted in the article. It's interesting that a man of Sorkin's wealth and success, when given the option, takes on the 20-something struggling writers instead of the established and respected writers such as yourself.
It's also interesting that he doesn't think comedy is funny in rehearsal, but that's a whole other can of worms.
I'll just say what Sorkin should have, when asked for his opinion on the LA Times and bloggers: I'm glad he's paying attention, and I appreciate the press.
Sorkin's forever confusing more dialogue with better dialogue. I've never found any of his shows "believable," from the wince-inducing very-special-episode pathos of Sportsnight to the baffling reverse-synergistic Studio 60.
The guy, flat-out, is a mediocre talent with great handlers.
"...but I also parodied LOST, 24, and HOUSE and their producers found it amusing." That says it all. Sorkin has no sense of humor, which is apparent from watching any episode of Studio 60.
Madfoot said...
Here's the thing: the sketches on Studio 60 aren't funny, but there's still comedy gold here -- Matthew Perry and Bradley Witford are a perfect match for the rat-a-tat dialogue and emotional-confusion- masked-as-smartass-smirking character development.
I think it's OK for a show to be good at some things and not so good at others. I don't watch this show for the comedy, I watch it for my weekly dose of earnest, which has been prescribed to my entire generation by Dr. Sixties as a cure for our ongoing case of irony. It works!
As for Aaron Sorkin personally taking offense to things, well, the guy isn't exactly the poster child for emotional health, and that's okay. I fear that trying to get him to understand the difference between teasing and criticism is going to be a lost cause, but big ups to you for making the distinction here.
AfterMASH. Heh.
zach said...
Aaron Sorkin is reading this blog in the middle of a FIELD IN AFGHANISTAN!
dhppy said...
Perhaps I agree with Sorkin. I always found your comedy skills unreal. Out of this world, even.
ahomer said...
Ken, you weren't the one I thought Sorkin was aiming at, don't take the bullet.
Sorkin should quit gazing longingly on his every written word and read everyone's lips: its about HARRIET! The major struggle with what could be adjusted in the scripts, tweaks here and there, is that there is this incredible center of gravity, a dark star -pun intended- that is the character of HARRIET. And see, now its shifting the whole center to "romantic comedy". I hear alot of groans out there in TV land already. So its now "Mad (TV) About You" or what?
It should have been on HBO. It should have been tougher, played with angles like the Sopranos or Entourage have been able to in ensemble shows, and so on. The "romantic comedy" angle with an uninteresting Harriet, sure, THAT was the missing factor...sure.
so more ahead of the "You're pregnant by the guy who actually screwed me out of my movie career, but I love you and want you to know that I am now stalking you, although you're my boss" kind of romantic?
or is it the "I am doing this whole show singlehandedly, writing and creating each essence of it, solely because of the most important comedienne in network TV who requires such a platform, and we were once lovers..."
yeah, this should be a real improvement either way.
I'm a lowly, struggling writer myself with a comedy blog. I posted last week about a disastrous trip home for a funeral. In it, I jokingly compared myself to the Biblical Job, and I got a comment essentially telling me until I took a child off a respirator and watched it suffocate to death, I had no call to complain about anything.
Needless to say, it was a little frightening, and I chalked it up to a religious zealot of some sort. BUT I had a fairly well-publicized critique of "Studio 60" on my site a while back, and other commenters kept suggesting this "JOB" could be Sorkin. It seemed ridiculous to me until I read this entry.
I went back and forth with "JOB" for a while in the comments, and he did claim to be a working television writer. He also proved himself to be completely devoid of humor and took things WAY too seriously. Could it have been The Sork?
http://patrickwalsh.blog-city.com/fuckd.htm
TCinLA said...
You're too kind, Ken. That drug-addled halfwit could only be a success by being the one-eyed man in the land of the blind. OK. Hollywood is the land of the blind, so he's off to a good start.
The talentless idiot never learned the difference between a play and a screenplay. Just because he has actors who can walk down a hall spouting the stream of consciousness of Aaron Sorkin, rather than actual dialogue, doesn't mean he can actually write. In fact, it proves the opposite.
His show sucks. There is nothing about his illiterate show that is in any way even in the same universe with an actual television show (even the other ones he did). If I met any of those characters in real life, I would be hard pressed not to push them through a window, if we were at least five floors up and a fatality was guaranteed.
Aaron Sorkin's success proves the overall stupidity of most of Hollywood.
But, fortunately for you, Ken, in drama the hero is known by the quality of their opponent. In your case, your opponent is pretty low on all but one quality - celebrity - but he's sure doing a good job of making you better-known.
As I have been known to say to guys like Sorkin (I'd love to say this to his face): you have me confused with someone who cares what a halfwit says. You'll notice I didn't say "think" since that is an activity you obviously don't have the equipment for, and I refuse to fight an unarmed opponent further."
Patrick Walsh said...
Greg Morrow said...
I'll say this about Studio 60: It's not flawless by any means, but by the only reasonable criterion, it's an immense success: It plants my ass in the seat. I make sure that I'm in front of the television when it starts, and I watch it beginning to end without splitting my attention.
It's not Heroes, which I timeshift. It's not CSI or L&O, which I might watch if I'm not doing anything else.
I don't watch anything else the same way. It's an achievement.
David Schwartz said...
I love that Studio 60 is on the air. Yes, it's not nearly found its way yet, and yes, it can be overindulgent at times, but compared to the bulk of the drama shows out there, it's golden.
I think someone as talented as Aaron Sorkin is held to a higher standard, because he is the cream of the crop of television writers. People like Sorkin and David E. Kelley are amazingly prolific writers who week after week turn out entertaining, sometimes gripping dramatic television.
So, while I agree that Studio 60 is not yet as good as it hopefully will be, and the comedy is not yet as funny as hopefully it will become, personally, I'm grateful it's still on the air and also wish for its success. Even as a dip down from "West Wing" standards, it's still head and shoulders above almost anything else on the air.
And Ken, you have every right to feel however you feel about the show, and to parody it, and to question whether its comedy is on the mark. And there's nobody in this business who's proven himself more than you in being "funny" and as talented as they come!
Here's the new article:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-spinoffs-studio6022jan22,1,4456755.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews
mainguy said...
Wow. Way to put your tail between your legs, Ken.
I agree with pretty much everything Baby Writer said. And honestly, as much as I agree with the politics being put forward by the show, and there is sometimes very witty rapid-fire dialogue built around it, it rings false. I could get the same political views, expressed in less sanctimonious tones, just from talking to my friends. I'd rather TV either put the ideas to me in a novel way, or sneak them in here and there around humor that actually makes me laugh. It hurts the show's credibility when characters on it have to pretend that a sketch called "Cheeses of Nazareth" is funny, and does nothing for the image of liberals as humorless do-gooders who wanna suck the fun out of everything.
I actually love the show, which is weird because I'm a non-working writer...
I do get what Sorkin is saying about the Internet though. You have all these weird people in Iadho who rant on about how they don't like the show and they get quoted in supposedly respectable papers and then people in turn don't tune in
I think the show, while definitely on the high-brow side, is great and not comparable to the parody of a show called 30 Rock.
- Allen
I don't know whether you are a "real" comedy writer or whether you are currently employed. I do know that I stopped watching Studio 60 after about the third episode. This past weekend they had a Marathon on Bravo and I tried watching again.
The word "smug" pretty much sums up the problem I'm having with this show. And do people really talk in that rhythm? Harriet (is anybody that age really named Harriet?) is not only not funny, she's not interesting and not anything else that makes me want to watch her. Nor is anybody else in the "cast".
On a more optimistic note, maybe Mr. Sorkin's apparent thin skin is because he is currently drug free.
But Allen,
Don't "the people" that don't tune in inclusive of the ranters in Idaho? As writers, we're working for these people, and the advertisers. Not ourselves.
Sorkin needs to lighten up, indeed.
"aren't the people...", bonehead.
LA Guy said...
To be sure Sorkin's dialogue may be an acquired taste but I also think he may suffer, probably unfairly, from comparisons to his past efforts.
I first became aware of the Sorkin 'style' when watching Sports Night which was, I thought, better than your average network fare but not exceptional. On the other hand I thought the first few years The West Wing was as good as anything that has ever been on television. At it's best it was brilliantly acted and thought provoking. To Sorkin's credit I thought they always took pains to portray both sides of an issue with sincerity and integrity in a way that can't have come easily to a liberal leaning writing staff.
I sometimes wonder why the Sorkin dialogue seemed so much more effective on The West Wing than Sports Night. Sports Night had a fine cast but West Wing, especially Martin Sheen, were phenomenal in delivering dialogue that in lesser hands may have sounded unbelievable.
Anyway my point is that anyone working in the creative arts who has a strong point of view is going to inevitably attract strong opinions and I'm sure it must be galling for him to have to answer to any hack with a blog when he's working his ass off to put the best show on that air that he can. Sure he may be a little thin skinned about the critiques, but we're lucky to have people like Sorkin around to occasionally try something different. They won't all be hits but at least they'll be original.
(By the way I'm not implying Ken Levine is a 'hack with a blog'.)
zazupitts said...
I wonder if Sorkin's pre-birth spirit wrote for the '60's TV show, Route 66, because I think I hear the same existential blather.
Viewing Studio 60 is like watching Bob Dylan lyrics set to dialogue. My head spins.
Some folks are intrigued by confusion, or maybe they're just mesmerized.
Route 66 lasted about four years; Studio 60, no more than that, but by then, Mr. S. will have done just fine, I'll predict.
"Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now." (Dylan)
branfordbob said...
Since this debate started in September, I've said I like Studio 60...and I still do.
Are the comedy sketches funny? No, but they are incidental to the show. Is Studio 60 on par with The West Wing? No. Is it more on par with Sports Night? Yes. Let's remember...Sports Night was uneven as well, but was still one of the best shows on television at the time.
No matter which side of this debate you're on, there's one thing you have to acknowledge: nearly every time you talk about Studio 60 the comments on the blog increase substantially.
adaplant said...
"...that guy..."
Morton Spurlock
Sorkin is an untalented hack with an enormous ego, a propensity to steal from other's work (example: "Network") and incredibly good luck in his career. And let's face it, good luck is the hardest commodity out here to get. And it rarely goes to the most talented. And it certainly didn't THIS time.
In fairness -- he steals from himself pretty regularly too.
ofthesun1 said...
Sorkin lost me in the third episode, when Harriet said "Black people have been openly black for over 400 years."
"Openly black?"
I'll pass.
and Mr. Levine, you're a genuis.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but it doesnt mean they know what they're talking about. This comment board does a nice job proving that...
Tom Dougherty said...
I was still trying to make sense of his clumsy, broken Studio 60 show, but as of tonight, and as a direct result of reading his personal attack on your review of his program, I quit. Little prick! How DARE he!
That's a really good example of why his Studio 60 thing is so awful: he can't seem to understand television comedy and has disdain for those who do understand it.
When this, one of the season's most expensive new shows burns out (and it will happen soon) I hope you get a chance to honk your horn at him as you pass him on the street, standing there with his little "Will Smarm for Food" sign.
Tehanu said...
Apparently I'm the only fan of the show here. Maybe it's just because I've always been a sucker for Mary Backstage, Noble Wife-type shows. Steven Weber alone is worth the price of admission. So the show-within-the-show isn't very funny; has any of you watched "SNL" lately? "Cheeses of Nazareth" would be an improvement over what's on that.
And Ken: I loved AfterMASH! Honestly. Just getting to hang out a little longer with Sherman Potter was great.
Pianista en un Burdel said...
It's very kind of you writing this post to get things clear.
OK, now you guys shake your hands and go on getting laughs around the world.
walter10021 said...
Studio 60 is a great show -- and it sounds like Aaron Sorkin is a shit. So, what else is new?
I watch Studio 60 religiously. And I laugh during the entire episode, each episode. I really don't like to miss it.
Of course, I'm laughing at how Sorkin caricatures Christians and conservatives -- making them such beautiful strawmen -- and how he thinks he's making liberals look good when he really makes them seem totally out of touch and idiotic. Last night's faux-tension between the Black writer and Black actor was cringe-inducingly hilarious. ONLY SORKIN COULD WRITE THIS SHIT.
There is NOTHING believable about the show, and I love it. It's really very funny. Just not in the way Sorkin intends.
Clint said...
I actually like Studio 60... I did notice that the sketches weren't funny but since it was a SNL like show I thought that was deliberate?
Magge McCann said...
I could not think of anything harder to do than to come up with stellar dialogue week after week. But when you are passionate about a project, you start to fall in love with the agony of the process. Personally, I feel Mr. Sorkin is not at all in love with this show or the process- it has more of the feeling that he "had to" write this to keep his name and credability going. Or it may simply be a case of Sorkintheism... he believes he is the sole creative source of all relevant TV shows.
I do agree that this would have been better on BRAVO where it would have the chance to develop into a smart piece of television theater.
Comparing it to 30 Rock really isn't fair either as that show is more of a parody (and a damned funny one, up to and including placement of every GE product known to humanity).
My bottom line is this: Writing for a living is hard - it's subject to the whims and vagaries of everyone - editor, studio heads, "stars", focus groups, the viewing public et al. But whatever you write, you try to maintain a certain amount of integrity and pride in your product (sadly, not always possible when the rent is due). I think AS needs to get back to why he became a writer in the first place and get over the fact that he is not a Mamet or a Shepherd. He writes for the masses. Sometimes well. Sometimes not.
Has anybody listened to the podcast at TV Barn? It's great!
It's the actual interview with Sorkin--and he would like you to know that it's the smart, rich people with TIVOs who really enjoy his show.
That made me think. Hey, why doesn't Ken do a podcast? It would be hilarious! And during baseball season, he can podcast some games--that would be fun too.
I don't happen to enjoy Studio 60, but Ken, I'd TIVO your podcasts! And I hope you don't mind having a poor dumb schmuck like me as a fan.
For a while I thought the whole show was an inside joke: I thought the show was about guys who thought they were making a brilliant show but the "joke" was on them because the audience could tell how asinine they were. My favorite one was when they had Sting playing the lute. I could see these guys thinking oh "Sting on the Lute" -we're so trendy and cool. When the reality is, not. Their lack of awareness of how ridiculous they are in making this show and how far they are from what is happening today, currently in world culture, well, I thought that was the intent.
Someone explained to me that the show was never promoted as "these two guys come back to make a show that might have been funny years ago when they used to work there...they don't understand that the world move forward at a lightning pace and, still thinking they are in the old days, they earnestly work hard to create what they think is cool." God, that would be a funny show. And this show is funny when you look at it this way.
I do love it that Sorkin doesn't mind being a shallow snob. I hear him talking about money and the smart people. (and we all know that money = smart. hehe Most of the wealthy people I know inherited their money and got rich because of an up market and real estate values. My rich tech friends are exceptionally smart and I don't think they give a damn about this show or Sorkin. )
I don't hear him talking about "art" - they way I do people like Phillip Seymour Hoffman (yes, I know he isn't a writer but he is the best example I could think of.) Sorkin may care about craft but I don't see his passion for creating art.
Sorry to post twice in a row, but I just thought "what if Sorkin made an effort to respect and encourage young writers just starting out?" He must know how difficult it is to get work as a writer and he must know that their are more writers than their are shows...so why is he so harsh and dismissive?
I think that may be part of the problem of this show, it lacks a generous heart. And also Harriet is terrible, just awful.
How about the way they "jammed" Harriet's Dolphin Girl in the room like that last night -- they're simply the most brilliant writers in the business! If only Amy Poehler or Maya Rudolph ahd a character like Dolphin Girl, they'd be huge huge stars.
Dolphin Girl! I hope Sorkin isn't back on the pipe, coming up with carzy shit like that.
Ken, thanks for your grown-up approach to this tempest.
It seems like Sorkin is a pretty thin-skinned sort of chap. Alas. Say a prayer for him tonight, everyone.
As to the show, yes, Harriet is uninteresting and poorly developed (a super-talented signer/comedienne... who can't tell a joke). And it does get smug and lecturey.
But Studio 60 is a funny, enjoyable show. Matthew Perry is great as a semi-assholish kind of guy, and it's better than the vast bulk of everything else on network tv.
Oh, and Ken, shouldn't it be "inserting" or "insinuating" itself, rather than "exerting" itself?
I know someone who was fired from a Sorkin show for having a blog.
The man has a serious god complex. And I'm not into his religion.
I'm still trying to figure out how a "Saturday Night Live" type show is supposed to save the world.
I just don't find it interesting at all. The characters ARE smug. The writing is all self important.
Herb Popsfarter said...
as far as I know you never said you hated Sorkin on any of your blogs.
Many of us (your readers) did.
You're criticisms were fair comment, and if he "can't handle the truth" maybe he should be given a code red. (snicker)
He needs to smell the coffee. The show ain't that good. And that's a fact, whether you're employed or not.
dcalfine said...
Watching a Sorkin show is like having diarrhea. In so many ways.
"that guy" = Morgan Spurlock.
I've been thinking about the comments that this show is better than most of what is on TV. I don't watch that much TV so I will take people's word for that.
If Studio 60 is better than most stuff on TV, is that a reason for people to watch it, even though they find it smug, preachy and miscast? Should people spend an hour of their time for a few minutes of good stuff from an actor they admire?
For me, it isn't enough. Like most of the American viewing audience I have many other ways to spend my free time. For me, the question isn't "is this better than something else I could be watching?" but more "what could I be doing instead?"
I have another question as well, why is no one talking about The Unit which is written by David Mamet? Isn't he a famous writer too? I don't understand why Sorkin gets so much attention as opposed to Mamet. Maybe I haven't noticed the Mamet coverage because the TV website that I follow isn't recapping that show.
John Eje Thelin said...
"SNL isn't all that funny either." Oooh, burn! (and what an original line - it's been a constant refrain since about 1980, folks)
That's not the point (even though this weekend's Piven-led episode was one of the best in years), but SNL's sketches can and do get a studio audience to laugh - no matter what people think of its actual quality. Almost nothing I've seen of the material presented on S60 would do that. See the sitcom on Extras; it's crappy, but 100% believable as something a certain audience would laugh at.
You know, all that apart from the smug shallowness of the rest of the writing; people praising Sorkin's work as superior intellectual drama is akin to Kenny G fans spouting off about the superiority of Jazz.
And there's plenty of much betetr Tv out there, from BSG, The Shield, The Wire and Rome to 30 Rock (which despite its broad strokes and absurdity manages to be ten times a believable as SSotSS).
But do I keep watching SSotSS? Hell, yeah - if nothing else because it makes me feel like a frickin' genius.
"...people praising Sorkin's work as superior intellectual drama is akin to Kenny G fans spouting off about the superiority of Jazz...."
I think you may be a frickin' genius, if only for the entirely apt comment above.
So far no one has said that ANYTHING that ANYONE syas to a journalist is not to be taken as his opinion, but as a reaction to a baiting question. And usually misquoted.
If any profession needs a Sorkin series it's the Third Estate.
Ken, I thought your parody of Sorkin was fantastic, and I came to it as a huge fan of Sorkin. I still am. Watch Studio 60 every week. But, there is something missing. It still has humour, just as West Wing, but it seems like both Whitford and Perry are both playing Josh Lyman. And, I don't know if even I'm ready for two Lymans in this world. But, anytime either one says the "josh" line I instantly hear it in the other's voice too. Scary.
But while the show has humour, it's not funny. And by setting in the "SNL" world we expect funny too.
What Sorkin should do is hire you for the funny.
Like I said, the baseball parody was the best "Sorkin" I had read since his days on West Wing. I wanted to see the rest of the show!
Batocchio said...
Like you, I'm fan of Sorkin's work, and I want Studio 60 to succeed, but there's no denying the show's flawed, for the reasons folks always mention: the possibly fatal casting of Sarah Paulson, the lack of comedy in a backstage show about a comedy (not that I think it could sustain the level of Laughter on 23rd Floor or that that style would completely fit it). I love snappy patter, I like most of the actors, and even with its flaws, I find Studio 60 more interesting than most other shows. However, when he was doing The West Wing, Sorkin claims he said he didn't want it to be an "eat your broccoli show," and wanted it to be effective entertainment first and foremost (although it was often thought-provoking). With Studio 60, I often feel I'm hearing the same old red state-blue state conversation over and over again, without The West Wing's degree of wit and lacking most of all its playfulness - I'm hearing Sorkin's personal peeves, not his delight. I'm tasting the broccoli.
(By the way, the draft I've read by Sorkin for the feature Charlie Wilson's War was very engaging, showed some very clever writing, and the announced cast looked pretty good. I'm interested in reading the book to gain insight into what specifically he adapted and how – I'm always interested in how writers crack certain obstacles. ;-) )
WHO TALKS LIKE SORKIN'S CHARACTERS? I'm sorry for the allcaps, but seriously, nobody, much less an entire community, can manage witty repartee 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Like the West Wing, Studio 60's characters always have the perfect rapid-fire come back for every rapid-fire come back. These pretentious self-absorbed boobs never miss a beat.
pseudonymous in nc said...
To me, 30 Rock captures something much closer to the essence of the writing room while being a fun, silly sitcom. But 30 Rock could be more easily retooled as drama than Studio 60 as rom-com.
I'm with those who think that there's good television to be made out of the situation: the process of writing on inexorable deadline within the limits the network sets, even though the instinctive reaction to that pressure, at 4am before dress, is to write a sketch that's beyond the vulgarity and controversy threshold of HBO while insulting their co-writers in every way imaginable.
(Those who say it should have been on HBO? You have a point. But Larry Sanders went too close to that territory. I think it's more interesting to work within the limits while suggesting the stuff beyond.)
Plenty of TWoPers made the right point early on: why should we care about this show?
Ken, some of the greatest moments of TV comedy were on Frasier.
I always find a Sorkin show interesting, but I'm always flummoxed when people say they love his dialogue (esp on Sports Night). Sometimes I wonder if these people (who are often the same as those who praise David Mamet's dialogue) don't hear the way I hear. That sort of rat-a-tat-tat interplay doesn't sound authentic, and neither does the lecture. I think what some writers forget is that everyone who speaks English is an expert in English converstation-- we've been hearing it all our lives, and we can tell if it sounds wrong.
One of the amazing things about Frasier is how fairly complex information would be exchanged in conversations that sounded true to the characters. The wine talk of Frasier and Niles... always exactly the way they'd talk. And when they were in the auto mechanics class... I mean, they talked exactly like two effete fellas would talk in a auto mechanics class. :)
Anyway, I find Sorkin interesting... but as someone mentioned, he sounds more like he's writing for theater than TV. TV is so intimate a medium that we need even the most unlikely characters (Niles Crane? :) to "feel" right to us. Not that they need to feel LIKE us, but we need to believe that if such people existed, they'd be like this.
I've tried watching Studio 60 twice, and neither time could watch more than 6 minutes of the show. None of the characters sound real, and Sorkin writes as though it was the 1970's or something, and there was a host of mediocre shows on TV. Doesn't he realize how much better and more diverse the TV landscape is than it was say when Network came on the air? If he did, then perhaps it would make his criticism of the crap that's on TV sound more pertinent. Of course, if he were to acknowledge how much more exciting TV is now it would mean that there might be someone on TV who was talented other than Mr Sorkin.
The sad thing is when you look at shows like Studio 60, you understand a bit better why the networks might want to keep a tighter grip on their shows at least until they become hits. It's hard to imagine the networks screwing up the show anymore than it is already. (That doesn't mean networks should be maintaining such a grip on their shows, only when you look at disasters like Studio 60, you understand why they want so much control.)
Very late comment, but I just want to say this:
The West Wing, when sorkin was writing practically EVERY episode (look it up, folks), will go down in history as one of the best shows of all time, no doubt about it.
That being said, Studio 60 just.did.not.work.
Perry and whitford were very good, but everyone else was completely miscast.
People are extremely jealous of Sorkin, and yes, S60 was pretty bad, but his four years on TWW are nothing but extraordinary.
Greg said...
I think Sorkin may have gained some respect for comedy writers in general and sketch writers in particular after this debacle. He writes light drama, not hard comedy and it's not as easy as it seems. At least he couldn't do it. His sketches were worse than bad SNL sketches, and supposedly written by a comedy genius.
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Record: 1991/ 5-5 1992/ 7-2-1
Gavin Maloof, a former Houston Rockets executive, desperately wanted a WLAF franchise getting into a bidding war with a competing syndicate over the rights to San Antonio. Losing the bid to Larry Benson, commissioner Mike Lynn offered Maloof the Birmingham market instead. Jumping at the opportunity, the Birmingham Fire would be established, playing at Legion Field. He’d hire future UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue as General Manager along with Denver Bronco offensive mastermind and coach Chan Gailey. The Fire strongly resembled the San Antonio Riders in style of play, but with a stronger defense and a more turnover prone offense. The team could never seem to nail down quarterback, although former NFL scab Brent Pease took the majority of the snaps over scrambler and Vandy star Eric Jones in 1991. At runningback, former Bronco Kenny Bell powered the ground game while punishing fullback Steve Avery handled all the dirty work. Elroy Harris joined the team mid-season after beating the team as a member of the Montreal Machine. Wide receiver would be long range threat Willie Bouyer‘s department, while Mark Hopkins and Phil Ross provided a nice 1-2 punch at tight end.
The Fire ran a very mean 3-4 defense. Outstanding linebackers John Brantley and Paul McGowan worked with underrated Maurice Oliver. The back four sported ball hawks James Henry and John Holland at cornerback and John Miller and Arthur Hunter at safety. They’d combine to form one of the best secondaries in the league. Among punters Kirk Maggio had one of the top net averages in the league.
At the end of the season the Fire had 5 members make 1st or 2nd All-World League- none of which would be on offense. Brantley and Miller would grab first team honors, while Darrell Phillips (NT), Holland, and Maggio would earn 2nd team. McGowan would tie for All-World Defensive MVP honors at the end of the season.
I watched the Fire’s first game in the WLAF on TV against the Montreal Machine. An impressive 52,000+ would show up at Legion Field in Birmingham, boosting the league’s hopes for the season. USA Network would broadcast the game, -a yawner of a defensive affair, that the Machine would win 20-5 over the Fire. It would be a nice offensive showdown between Kenny Bell and Elroy Harris. Attendance varied wildly throughout the season in Birmingham with a low of only 8000 showing up against the Riders, in a sad defensive affair the Fire ground out 16-12. I remember the last few plays of the game, (as in the WLAF kneeling to run out the clock was prohibited), Brent Pease kept scrambling to keep the Riders on their toes. The Fire finished 5-5, -good enough for first in their division over the 4-6 Riders and 2-8 Surge. After the season the Fire hosted the Barcelona Dragons during the first ever WLAF playoff game in North America. A bit over 37,000 showed up for the game, with Eric Jones in at quarterback for the Fire, but the team fell 10-3 to Jack Bicknell‘s Barcelona Dragons.
In 1992 the Fire would make some changes on offense and front office, while keeping the majority of their defense intact. Brent Pease was sent packing to the Knights. In came Shawn Moore (allocated from the Broncos) and Mike Norseth. Kenny Bell was gone and Jim Bell from Barcelona was in. Along the offensive line the Fire grabbed the KC Chiefs’ Joe Valerio. Eddie Britton was paired on the other side from Bouyer to take pressure off of him. In the front office Michael Huyghue would move on to work in the league’s executive offices while Rich Nichols would step in. During the off-season the team also flirted with disgruntled NFL runningback Mike Rozier about joining the Fire- but little if anything came of the rumors. (The team just couldn’t afford the price tag.) In the meantime, -pretty much the whole defense returned intact.
The Birmingham Fire started their 1992 season just as slowly as 1991. If the Fire felt that the Riders and Surge were hard enough to handle in 1991, they had an even more difficult problem with them in 1992, dropping their opener 20-6 to Sacramento and squeaking out a 17-10 victory over San Antonio in week 2. A tie with the London Monarchs in week 4 would be decisive in the contentious division rankings between the 3 teams, with Sacramento finishing 8-2, Birmingham 7-2-1 and SA at 7-3. Norseth took basically all the snaps at quarterback, throwing 4 touchdowns- to 12 picks. Elroy Harris and Jim Bell led the rushing attack, combining for 852 yards on the ground. Bouyer again was the defacto receiver on the team, hauling in 704 yards on 57 catches, but not make a touchdown. Defensively Oliver paced the team with 6 sacks, and John Miller had 3 picks. Both John Brantley and John Miller would return to the All-World teams.
The Fire played against the Orlando Thunder in the 1992 playoffs, where they’d be shellacked by the Thunder 45-7, -in the worst playoff loss in WLAF history. The Birmingham Fire were the only North American WLAF team to make the playoffs in both 1991 and 1992, and finished with a 12-7-1 record. With optimism riding high towards 1993, despite the questions over the league’s continuing existence, fans were hopeful that the Fire would make the jump along with their counterparts, the Riders and Surge to the CFL, but opted to fold instead when the WLAF reorganized.
It did not take long for the CFL to plant the Birmingham Barracudas in the city in 1995, but due to mismanagement of the original Shreveport franchise, the dominos fell and all the CFL USA teams were shuttered after the season. In 2000, the Arena Football League 2 would put the Steeldogs in Birmingham and the city also re-emerged in 2001 as a member of the XFL, as the Birmingham Thunderbolts. Unfortunately both these franchises folded as well with the ‘Bolts after one season and the Steeldogs in 2008. Hopes remained strong though that the United Football League would select the city as a possible landing spot- but the UFL folded before anything got serious. Birmingham, like Columbus, Ohio is a strong, football hungry town, that has always remained near the top of my list of smart expansion cities, but unfortunately both the Falcons and the Crimson Tide’s long reach may be keeping any team from taking root.
HC- Chan Gailey
Other Notables- Michael Huyghue
QB- Mike Norseth, Brent Pease, Eric Jones, Shawn Moore
RB- Elroy Harris, Steven Avery
OL- Joe Valerio
WR- Willie Bouyer
TE- Phil Ross, Mark Hopkins
DL- Darrell Phillips
LB- John Brantley, Paul McGowan, Maurice Oliver
DB- Arthur Hunter, John Holland, John Miller, James Henry
P- Kurt Maggio
At this time I am still missing autographs on these cards from:
Pro Set WLAF 1991- Kenny Bell
Wild Card WLAF 1992- Phillip Doyle, Eddie Britton, John Holland, Arthur Hunter, Eugene Rowell, Willie Bouyer & Carl Bax.
Ultimate WLAF 1992- Eric Jones, Willie Bouyer, Arthur Hunter & Kirk Maggio.
Birmingham FireOnly North American Team to make playoffs both seasons in WLAFpotential UFL landing spotsWLAF
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BLACK CHRISTMAS (Bob Clark, 1974, Canada)
A penumbra of evil descends upon a sorority house, the joyous silent night broken by violent jagged sounds of madness. Director Bob Clark transforms a Holy Day into an Unholy Night: the revelry of a savior’s birth aborted by a faceless murderer and his sadistic squeals, a killer who haunts the tired old house like a ghost, unseen and nameless, without history or reason, existing as a tenebrous shadow given substance, imbued with the blood of innocents.
BLACK CHRISTMAS spawned the Teen Slasher Genre but it is so much more, a horror film whose trauma inflicts a heavy psychological impact that shatters the psyche and reverberates deep to the soul. Clark smartly decided to show very little on-screen violence, filming in extreme close-up or grim darkness, letting our imagination fuel the imagery during the murders. He creates suspense from anticipation: the phone calls are more than disturbing; they reek of some vile corporealness like an archaic communion with some dark elder host. As women disappear and a child is found murdered, the fear becomes a claustrophobic shroud, smothering all reason and logic: we become trapped in the house with Jess, unfortunately we know the secret which is denied her until the very end.
The film begins from the killer’s point-of-view as he sneaks into the house, a conspiracy of perspective that joins the audience with this sadist. Clark moves his camera in tight awkward places, drowning the images in the gloom, shedding glimpses of crimson gore or a sharp glass spike as it pierces supple flesh. He lets the mystery power the narrative: the killer, his motives, his identity are never explained and this adds an element of chaotic realism, frustrating our expectations and not allowing the safety of closure. Clark pulls the old bait-and-switch routine but we aren't fooled; we know the real killer’s insatiable lust remains unsatisfied.
The final crane shot pulls back from the attic window where a dead woman is wrapped like a Christmas surprise, and travels across the street revealing the entire house decorated and blinking its holiday prayers: inside, Jess slips not-so-gently into that good night…as a phone begins to ring. And ring. And ring.
Classic Film and TV Cafe said...
It was definitely the prototype for the Amnerican slasher films that followed in the late 1970s and 1980s, even if it borrowed from Italian giallo.
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13under13 for 29Jan2010
1. Dan Zanes and Friends - You're Never Fully Dressed without a Smile (7 weeks)
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13under13 for 8Jan2010
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The Baby Grands - Why Is It W? (14 weeks)
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9. Miranda Cosgrove - Raining Sunshine (7 weeks)
12. Los Lobos - Heigh-Ho (debut)
13. The Baby Grands - Why Is It W? (14 weeks)
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navy -- navy nurse corps (2)
wv0023 elna allran jones papers (1)
wv0033 estelle garner ptaszynski papers (1)
wv0041 nina m. greenlee papers (1)
wv0064 nancy riddle hinchliffe papers (1)
wv0076 vera rackley jenkins oral history (1)
wv0079 doris wofford armenaki collection, 1944 - 1945 (1)
wv0081 lucy smith papers (1)
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Item description: prisoners
Oral history interview with Marjory Johnson, 1999
Primarily documents Marjory W. Johnson's education at the Women's College of the University of North Carolina and at Walter Reed Medical Center in the early 1940s, her experiences in Europe with the army during World War II, and her post-war...
WV0111 Marjory Johnson Papers
Oral history interview with Elna Allran Jones, 1999
Primarily documents Elna Allran Jones's early life; her service with the Cadet Nurse Corps and Army Nurse Corps (ANC); and her post-World War II career as a nurse.
Jones discusses her parents and her background, then comments on her decision...
WV0023 Elna Allran Jones Papers
Oral history interview with Estelle Garner Ptaszynski, 1999
Primarily documents Estelle Ptaszynski's nurses training; service in England with the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) during World War II; and personal life and nursing career after the war.
Ptaszynski discusses her decision to become a nurse and...
WV0033 Estelle Garner Ptaszynski Papers
Oral history interview with Marie M. Mason, 2011
Marie M. Mason speaks of her early life, education, military service, and life after her service.
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WV0510 Marie M. Mason Oral History
Oral history interview with Nina M. Greenlee, 1999
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WV0041 Nina M. Greenlee Papers
Oral history interview with Lucy Smith, 1999
Primarily documents Lucy M. Smith's experiences in the Women's Army Corps from 1943 to 1945, particularly her time at Camp Patrick Henry.
Smith details hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor while recovering from injuries she sustained...
WV0081 Lucy Smith Papers
Oral history interview with Doris Wofford Armenaki, 1999
Documents Doris Wofford Armenaki's early life; education; military service as a nurse during World War II; personal life after the war; and nursing training and teaching at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from the 1970s to the...
WV0079 Doris Wofford Armenaki Collection, 1944 - 1945
Oral history interview with Ruth King Garrett, 2007
Primarily documents Ruth King Garrett's service in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) from 1945 to 1946.
Garrett briefly discusses her education, including working on her high school's newspaper and her year at UNCG (then Woman's College). She...
WV0392 Ruth King Garrett Papers
Oral history interview with Nell Smith Lutz
Primarily discusses Nell Smith Lutz's service in the supply corps of the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II.
Lutz breifly discusses her childhood in Florida and education at Florida State...
WV0160 Nell Smith Lutz Papers
Oral history interview with Helen Bolling Potts, 2003
Primarily documents Helen Bolling Potts' service in the American Red Cross during World War II.
Topics from Potts time in the service include: her mother's reaction to her enlistment; reasons for joining the Red Cross; accompanying French...
WV0234 Helen Bolling Potts Papers
[Letter from Lamb to mother Ryan, Pap, and Stub, 1945]
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[Letter from Doretta Lentz to parents, 1945]
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Oral history interview with Constance Cline Phillips, 1999
Interview discusses Constance Phillips's early life; education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina; work as an X-ray technician in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II; and her life after her military...
WV0082 Constance Cline Phillips Papers
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Children sickened in Pakistan after polio vaccinations
A hospital guard carries a girl to an emergency ward in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 22, 2019. Pakistani officials say hundreds of school children have been taken to hospitals complaining of nausea and vomiting after being given polio vaccinations. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
Family member rush a boy to a hospital after receiving a polio vaccination, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 22, 2019. Pakistani officials say hundreds of school children have been taken to hospitals complaining of nausea and vomiting after being given polio vaccinations. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
A health worker gives a polio vaccination to students in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 22, 2019. Pakistani officials say hundreds of school children have been taken to hospitals complaining of nausea and vomiting after being given polio vaccinations. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
A family member rushes a girl to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 22, 2019. Pakistani officials say hundreds of school children have been taken to hospitals complaining of nausea and vomiting after being given polio vaccinations. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Hundreds of school children in Pakistan were taken to hospitals Monday complaining of nausea and vomiting after being given polio vaccinations, officials said.
They said angry family members responded by storming a local health facility in Peshawar and setting it ablaze.
The incident deals another blow to efforts to eradicate the disease, which have been hindered by widespread distrust in some areas. Islamic extremists have targeted polio workers and stoked conspiracy theories that the vaccinations are part of a Western plot to sterilize Muslims.
Pakistan, neighboring Afghanistan and Nigeria are the only three countries where polio is still endemic.
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body and mind 2018
letters to the universe 2015-2018
leave-taking 2010
LORI HAYES ART
letters to the universe (2015-2017)a series of small paintings made in multiple media, created in the spaces around raising a young child
body and mind (2018)a series of graphite drawings made on the floor, drawn from body sensation and manipulated
Documentation of an exhibit at the Blough-Weiss Library at Susquehanna University spring 2018
ongoing endeavor
Much of my drawing and painting involves the daily work of making a gesture and placing that mark onto the paper or canvas, not knowing how it will be received or taken up. Right now, it is an act made amidst the myriad demands of motherhood, teaching, and living with a pain condition.
Each piece begins in the same way as a body scan, a visual map of bodily sensation. I set down a piece of buff woven paper on the wooden floor of my studio and place my hands and knees on the paper. My body hovers over the paper, guiding the marks as I draw with a chunk of graphite, sometimes with my right hand, sometimes with my left.
From the foundation of a gesture and felt sensation, possibilities open. A single mark in its infancy may be all that is needed to hold an expanse. Other drawings reflect impulses to embellish, obscure, and re-imagine as I use the eraser or smudge with my hand. The images are abstract and lyrical. They are introspective and other-facing at once, declarations of love for art-making within the constraints of everyday life.
During a time of mine remediation at Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center in the cascade wilderness, a traditional labyrinth had to be moved from its original location. Lori Hayes Kershner designed a new labyrinth (link to google maps) to fit into the boundaries of a former drain field. In May 2013, she worked with a group of high school students and their mentors and a maverick - driving a bucket loader and truck - to move six tons of river rocks and stone from the ball field to a former drain field.
leave-taking
Leave-taking is an installation of 27 miniature paintings embedded in resin, enclosed in metal, and left in locations along the sidewalk where the artist often walked during her five years living in Brooklyn. The installation has a clear double meaning: not only about taking leave from a place, but also leaving objects for others to take.
See the article in the New York Post here.
413 UNIVERSITY AVE., SELINSGROVE, PA 17870
EMAIL: info@lorihayesart.com
For more information about upcoming exhibitions:
Lori received her bachelor of art and art history from Princeton University. She studied art at Massachusetts College of Art and Brandeis University and received her MFA from Burren College of Art in Ireland. Over the past twenty years, she has taught art to high school students in Massachusetts, taught art to Palestinian children in Jerusalem, assisted college art students in Massachusetts and Ireland, and served as Artist in Residence at Holden Village in Washington State.
For the last few years, Lori has taught as an adjunct in the art department at Susquehanna University. She has participated in a number of group shows, and solo projects have ranged from installing paintings in subway cars and embedding small paintings in sidewalk cracks in Brooklyn (viewable on www.lorihayesart.com) to creating daily drawings while her son naps (first posted @lorihayesart on Instagram). Her current work involves translating physical sensation to embodied mark-making.
For more information about exhibitions or general inquiries:
exhibitions and series
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Larischova villa
History of Larisch Villa
The Larisch villa was built between 1884-1885 in the Larischgasse Street ( present Dělnická 9 Street,local no. 129) by a designer and a builder Ernest Latzel, who was the designer of famous Krnov monuments such as Synagogue or a local Cvilin lookout.
Both a contracting authority and an investor of the project was Alois Larisch Junior, who was the son of the the first local factory owner Alois Larisch. The son, together with his father, built up and successfully ran a textile company (Karnola). This highly contributive achievement led to the fact that Krnov became an important textile centre in the second half of the 19th century.
In the 1950´s the building became a property of a state company Karnola, which took some reconstructing action and a magnificent villa turned into six appartments for its employees. In 2007 the building was completely reconstructed into the present form of “Larisch Villa” guesthouse.
At the present time, the villa operates as a guesthouse.
Larischova vila
Dělnická 9, Krnov
www.larischovavila.cz
recepce@larischovavila.cz
The Larisch villa operates as a guesthouse, therefore it is not freely accessible for tourists.
GPS position: 50°5′17.561″N, 17°42′10.86″E
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Mint, Reviews
Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon review
Summary: Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon review takes a detailed look at the Cinnamon editions of the latest release of the popular desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop. Cinnamon is a new desktop environment developed by the Linux Mint team, and is built atop GNOME 3 technologies.
Linux Mint 15, the latest edition of the desktop distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop, was released at the end of last month (May 2013). It features the latest versions of the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments. MATE is a fork of what used to be the GNOME 2 desktop environment, and it is, in a sense, based on old technology. Cinnamon is a new desktop environment built atop the latest GNOME (GNOME 3) technology, but presenting a traditional desktop interface, rather than the GNOME Shell that ships with GNOME 3.
This article is a review of the Cinnamon edition, and starts by taking a look at the installation program. Keep in mind that all Linux Mint editions share the same installation program, so everything that’s written here for the Cinnamon edition also applies to the MATE edition. And also to the KDE and Xfce editions, though the final editions of those are yet to be released.
The Installer: If you are new to Linux (or GNU/Linux) and to Linux Mint, it is one of the most popular and new user-friendly desktop distributions that you can find. Being based on Ubuntu Desktop, it uses the same installation program. If you can install any version of a Microsoft Windows operating system, you can install Linux Mint 15, though if the installation attempt is on a store-bought Windows 8 computer, things can get tricky. However, that tricky part is not the fault of the Linux Mint installation program. Blame it on Microsoft’s anti-consumer and anti-competitive practices.
The installer, which goes by the name Ubiquity, has support for full disk encryption, and LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager.
Aside from having support for full disk encryption, it also gives you the option of encrypting your home directory, which is an added physical security bonus. Unlike the installation program of Mageia, Ubiquity lacks the option to password-protect the boot loader, which is part of a comprehensive physical security setting.
Login Manager: If you have a thing for login screens, you will love what Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon has to offer. There are very cool GDM and HTML(5) login screen styles to choose from. (The default is HTML.)
Mdmsetup, the graphical interface for managing MDM, the display manager, is shown below. With knowledge of HTML, you can create your own login screen to fit your personality. And there’s actually a bootstrap HTML style in mdmsetup that you can use as a base to create your own.
To mess with MDM, the configuration file – /etc/mdm/mdm.conf, is the place to start, as it contains a lot more configuration options than the graphical interface. The default settings are in /usr/share/mdm/defaults.conf. However, with all the built-in login screens that come with the system, you don’t even need to bother trying to create your own. Whether you want an HTML or GDM login screen, there are more than a handful of beautiful ones to choose from. Aside from the default shown above, here are a couple more.
Yet another Linux Mint 15 login screen.
The Desktop: Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon ships with the latest and greatest version of the Cinnamon Desktop Environment, which should come as a surprise because it is a project of Linux Mint’s developers. It’s been about a year since the project was started and it has come a long way since.
Once you get past the fancy login screen, and if your computer hardware graphics acceleration, there will be a notification on the upper right of the desktop that informs you that the system has booted into what is dubbed Software Rendering mode. In that mode, you are warned that the system tends to use up a little bit more resources than if your system has hardware-accelerated graphics. Comparing resource-usage in a test installation in a virtual environment (no hardware-accelerated graphics) with that on real hardware with hardware-accelerated graphics, the difference is nothing to scream about.
Here’s a screen shot of the desktop.
A new feature for the Cinnamon desktop are Desklets. This screen shots shows the available Desklets.
Graphical Management Tools: One of the highlights of Linux Mint 15 are the graphical management tools in its control center or System Settings. Almost every system management task can be done using a module from System Settings. IT just makes the system more user-friendly, especially for new users.
System Settings has two views – Advanced and Normal. Initially, I thought that the Advanced view gives access to modules that require user authentication, but on closer inspection, I found that some of the modules that are only available in the Advanced view do not require authentication. For example, the Hot Corner module is accessible only from the Advanced view, but it, as expected, does not require user authentication. This screen shot some of the modules in Advanced mode.
Here’s what not shown in the other image. I think if there’s going to be a Normal and an Advanced view of the modules in System Settings, there has to be a logic to it. As implemented, there is none. The best or better implementation would be to give System Settings a tabbed interface, such that clicking on the Advanced tab will show only those tools that require user authentication. Even better would be to require authentication to gain access to that mode, so that users are not required to authenticate multiple times when in Advanced mode.
One of the modules in System Settings is called Panel. Used for modifying aspects of the panel. Currently, the panel is confined to either the upper or lower edge of the desktop. It is not possible, from the Panel module, to move the panel to the left or right edge of the desktop.
Not all graphical management tools installed on the system are in System Settings. An example is the Domain Blocker (the name of the executable is mintNanny), which is a parental control system. Compared to an equivalent application on Mageia and ROSA Desktop, it is very basic. Access restriction to external resources is by URLs only. There is no time-of-day and/or day-of-week blocking capability.
There is a parental control application called GNOME Nanny with all those features, but it has not been updated since May 2010, and any attempt to install it on either the MATE or Cinnamon edition fails with a 404 Not Found error. I think it has been abandoned by the previous developer, so it’s one of those packages that’s begging for a new developer.
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Dan Saint-Andre
I’m running Linux Mint-12. It is finally time for the “recommended” fresh install of a new Linux Mint edition.
As I write this in min-September 2013, should I skip Mint-15 and wait for Mint-16 or should I fall back to Mint-14.
~~~ 8d;-Dan
I think you are overdue for an upgrade. If you like Cinnamon, you should upgrade to 15.
DHinSC
September 4, 2013 at 2:00 pm · Reply
Sad to see linux is starting to advertise on the bottom of the windows!
Installed but couldnt get to desktop because it kept restarting.
AMD 6790 / X2 5600+ / 4GB RAM
Very, very dissapointed.
Could be a hardware issue.
How can someone take excellent Debian and ruin it so much?
First (and last for me) error was in restart after installation:
“unable to connect to system bus: failed to connect to socket…”
After restart using case button it came almost to desktop and auto restarted…
Im so dissapointed – if this is the best Linux community can offer
(4. most used OS in the world!?!) than I`m doomed to Window$.
To start with, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, not Debian. And where did you get the “4. most used OS in the world” from? I hope you’re not going by that table on Distrowatch.
During the install process, is there an option to install the boot-loader to the ‘/’ partition super-block? The impression I got from the release notes is that the boot-loader is installed by default into the mbr (no option given to the user!). I do not want this since I am using a multi-boot system with legacy GRUB. I want to chain-load Mint-15 using legacy GRUB. Will appreciate a clarification on this issue.
I’ve been using Mint 15 on my laptop from the time it came out to now, & I like it a lot. One thing you seem to have missed is the enhanced search feature in the Software Manager. You can now search for programs within software categories, which is a small but useful change. If you click on a category before you search a yellow strip appears at the top of the Software Manger & explains, while letting you search all categorizes if you don’t find what you’re looking for.
Early in the article, you mention install troubles on a store-bought, Windows-8 workstation. You attribute those troubles to MicroSoft’s business practices. While that might be the case, the troubles stem from the deployment of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) on the store-bought workstation. The UEFI web site states “The UEFI specification defines a new model for the interface between personal-computer operating systems and platform firmware. The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, plus boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating system and its loader. Together, these provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications.”
This effort exists as an attempt to make it more difficult for scum-ware and mal-ware to infect a workstation during the system startup processing. If the UEFI configuration, as shipped, says that Linux is naughty, the workstation balks. I’m not fan of the Redmond monopoly. It is a defect in UEFI deployment that is at fault regardless of the business practices and motives that may have created the defect.
~~~ 0;-Dan
I only run persistent Live USB, as a “coffee shop” wi-fi OS. On that basis, Mint 15 Cinnamon is slower on my machines than the earlier verions, while I’m very happy with Mint 15 XFCE. Cinnamon is an elegant desktop, but users should know that this edition is on the new Ubuntu 9 month support cycle. I don’t partition my hard drive for a 9 month install.
This has been the worst distro I have ever used, 15 is horrible.
Having a load of incompatibility problems, system locking up entirely, crashing of the DE, complete infinite loops making the system work overtime. Even the new software source manager likes to crash part way into the pinging of servers.
The icons are hideous and the scaling of the icons just do not look appealing. When using a high density display, they’re amateur looking.
This repulsive distro even has quite a few worse points than the one it’s based on, Ubuntu.
I wonder if they have a QA team.
Hmm, Chris, sorry to hear you’ve had a bad go of it. I’ve found Linux Mint 15 superb… and I’ve used the last few Mints (and I’ve had about 9 years running Ubuntu desktops and servers, too). Best of the recent bunch in my opinion, and the previous ones have been pretty impressive too despite being somewhat half-baked during the Gnome3 transition (now largely resolved with Cinnamon and MATE)…
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Chastity Belt and Protomartyr at Soda Bar
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Photos By: Summer Luu
By: Connor Cox
Quirky attire, college-humored lyrics, and attitudes of bliss. The girls behind Chastity Belt are free spirits that care about one thing: having fun. After all, the band did began as joke during their college years. However, the band has grown much more than that now. Frontwoman Julia Shapiro explained in a 2015 interview with Paste Magazine, “I think that’s part of the reason we started as a joke, was cause we thought we needed to be a joke in order to get that attention.” And with an abundance of edgy lyrics about female anatomy, driven by recklessly strummed bar chords, these girls have done just that.
The Seattle-based indie darlings are embarking on a brief west coast tour, warming up for a busy 2016. Last Wednesday Chastity Belt performed at Soda Bar, opening for Protomartyr. The post-punk headliners were excellent, but Chastity Belt was the center of our attention that night. And I think it’s safe to say that most of the audience attended specifically for Chastity Belt as well.
Annie of Chastity Belt
Julia of Chastity Belt
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Lydia of Chastity Belt
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Julia and Annie of Chastity Belt
Their performance that night was far from the ironic persona they typically deliver. As if they’ve used the band’s ironic aesthetic that Shapiro mentions in the Paste interview as a vehicle to be taken more seriously. The setlist was matured for a wider audience and shied away from vulgar titles like “Pussy Weed Beer”, “Giant Vagina” or rawer sounding tracks like “The Thing”. Instead the 50-minute performance felt like a greatest hits set, consisting of only songs from Time to Go Home, which is undoubtedly the band’s cleanest and most accessible material. But even for being more “serious”, the four-piece were having a great time.
There’s something special about Chastity Belt. Something original and non-desperate about their sound that is so prevalent in Time to Go Home. They aren’t trying to fit the mold of a genre or subscribe to a statement. They’re making music because they’re having fun.
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Home Theater Master MX-700 Announced
Posted by Daniel Tonks on September 7, 2001 at 1:00 AM
Tags: General, Hard Button, PC Programmable, URC Control Systems, All News
MX700: Click to enlarge.
Universal Remote Control today revealed their new MX-700 remote control, which will be accompanied by a special "Sidekick" accessory remote. Essentially an upgraded version of the Home Theater Master MX-500, the MX-700 includes more advanced capabilities and is targeted solely to the custom installer market - it will not be available via the retail sales channel.
The MX-700 builds upon the remarkably successful MX-500 platform primarily with new PC-aided programming tools, however many other physical and operational refinements have been made to the remote, many in response to user suggestions. To begin with, Universal Remote Control has come up with a completely new computer software package to program the remote with. Though it visually resembles the MX-1000's "MX Designer" application, almost everything has been rethought and retooled. Faster, easier, better, more sharable - these are primary concerns when designing for the custom installer market. In response, a setup wizard is supplied to quickly configure preprogrammed device codes, power macros, activity macros and more. The remote's updated database of infrared codes will include discrete functionality for a number of brands, while the wizard features numerous workaround "examples" for TOADs (Toggle Only Actuated Devices). An always-visible remote emulator is used during programming and to both test commands and intuitively record macros.
Devices with learned signals can be "imported" and "exported" to individual files for easy sharing. Selecting a preprogrammed code will now also relabel the LCD buttons to match - no more improperly named functions. Macros can be copied from button to button and punchthroughs are easily assignable to one or more devices. Although most programming will be done via the computer, the MX-700 manages to maintain a modicum of on-board setup for quick learning, label changes, etc. Configurations can be copied either via saved files or "beamed" from one remote to another without the use of a computer or cable. Interestingly, Universal Remote Control hinted that the MX-700 System Software will be used as a starting point for a number of other advanced Universal Remote Control products yet to be announced.
Onto raw specifications, the MX-700 will be able to control a maximum of 20 devices thanks to two "Main" LCD pages. Each device will include a similar number of physical buttons as the MX-500, but instead of two LCD screens per device the MX-700 is capable of providing up to four screens with 10 custom-labeled buttons on each. The number of devices and pages per device will be "soft", meaning that unwanted devices or pages can be removed from view. In addition, a device can be hidden and its commands used only in automation macros, keeping certain advanced functions out of regular view. Speaking of macros, each LCD button will be capable of storing a macro with up to 190 steps, as will the [ON] and [OFF] hard buttons - there's over 900 macros in total, and they've promised that the remote won't run out of memory! The [FAV] section, typically for favorite channel macros, has been enhanced so that each of the 50 possible LCD buttons can store up to 190 steps, from any other device.
Some buttons on the new remote have been rearranged in a logical manner. For instance, the three bottom macro buttons have been removed, while the keypad's [DIS] button has been renamed to [+10]. The transport group has been rearranged, dropping [REC] and Chapter Skip in favor of [MENU], [INFO] and [EXIT]. Finally, a [GUIDE] button has been added between the Volume and Channel toggles. All buttons feature an enhanced physical shape that Universal has dubbed "GemStone". Otherwise, the MX-700 maintains the MX-500's already excellent ergonomic design, high-contrast LCD screen, 5-way menu joystick and all-button EL backlighting. One item that has still not been added is a clock for timer functions.
As mentioned earlier, the MX-700 will include a supplementary "Sidekick" remote, known as a MX-200. Basically a single-device remote with a small number of backlit hard buttons, including 190-step [ON] and [OFF] macros and three favorite channel buttons, the Sidekick will be easily programmable via the MX-700's software and is designed for "simple channel surfing". More sophisticated Sidekick remotes may be offered in the future, but for now it just may be key to the "spouse approval factor" that works its way into almost any home theater purchase.
The MX-700 and MX-200 will be sold as a single package to custom installers, most likely around the November or December 2001 timeframe, for about $499. Universal Remote Control did not show an actual MX-700 at their conference, although they promised that remotes would be available on the show floor. For now, I am including two computer-generated images, which were provided earlier. Actual photographs will be posted along with my full CEDIA 2001 report later, after the show.
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THE AGE OF THE ANCIENTS (1,200 BSC – 700 SC)
A handful of Mortal cultures clawed their way back from the barbarity of the Dark Age, each undergoing several centuries of expansion but all were finally brought down by the multitude of mankind’s enemies, shrinking back to little nations or disappearing altogether. Meanwhile the rest of humanity survived as barbarians competing for hunting grounds against other races, monsters and beasts of the wild. Allied with and integrated into human societies since their creation were the ogres – a fellow race of mortals, and distant cousins to mankind.
Sometimes neutral but more often threatening were the Elemental Races: Dwarves of the earth, Niads of the waters, Firedrakes of the magmalands, and Sylphs of the skies. These races were ancient in comparison to mortals and they had weathered the Nine Woes and Dark Age far better than humans, for they had the protection of the great Vanitan gods whom they worshipped. As Mortals bred so much faster than the Elemental Races, their former superiority slipped away, and in most cases they fostered alliances with the mortals in order to safeguard their future upon Calydorn.
At times Mortals came in contact with even more ancient peoples – the Elder Races. These folk lived among the wilds and avoided contact with mortals but were merciless to those who trespassed upon their lands. It is said that they were ancient even when the Elemental Races came to Calydorn. They are the giant Gurloth, the Makaar, Cacklars, Scarabs, Vulpines, Chitnacs, Mustelors, Batrachians and others. The Elder Races lived in harmony with nature as its guardians, frequently coming into conflict with the expansionist Mortal Races who seemed to despoil nature for their own ends.
As the barbarian tribes of mortals expanded, they encountered new enemies – the haughty, fey Aetherions and demons of ancient evil. Both were multi-dimensional beings of incomprehensible mentality and frightening power. Demons preyed upon mortal weaknesses, gathering to them hordes of mortal worshippers from which they derived greater power. The Age of the Ancients was a time when Mortals sought to challenge some of the mighty demon realms which had metastasized across the world of Calydorn, at times successfully, but in most cases the demons crushed the upstart kingdoms.
The past of the Mortal Races and perhaps their future too are bound together with the fey Aetherions – tall humanoids of tremendous grace, skill and intelligence, possessing a detached demeanor wholly incomprehensible to three-dimensional beings like humans. Myths say that once they were the teachers of Mankind in ages past, but since the Everkill War have sought to enslave mankind. Though many Aetherions migrated back to the outer dimensions after the Everkill War from whence they came, still the world of Calydorn contains several powerful Aetherion realmsThe Aetherions sought to enslave and slaughter Mortals to avenge wrongs done them in ages past – wrongs still fresh in the minds of the these immortals, but lost to Mortal cultures in the annals of antiquity before the Dark Age. After conquering all of Calydorn and waging war on the Asrae, they had been afflicted with racial sterility. During the Age of Ancients, they struggled to rebuild their former greatness, while guarding their borders ruthlessly. These nations – Hamtatra, Maluria, Nimburia, Ellyssar and Malentis pursued a policy of isolationism for the most part, until the Blessed Age came, when they were forced to confront the bitter fruits of the tree of hate they had planted.
Though most Mortals abandoned the gods during mythical times, there were minorities who had kept their faith. The Annyr, Skannfyrd and Kalkokitans of Ghorn were three of those peoples, living in exile in the mountains and swamps where they had been driven like dogs by the wicked mortal empires prior to the Halcyon Age. These three Blessed Peoples were spared the full brunt of the Nine Woes, and each was watched over by a separate pantheon of the Asrae. In time, they were judged to be worthy, and so the Asrae gods set about grooming them for greatness. Avatars of the Asrae walked among the blessed peoples, teaching skills lost during the Dark Age: Agriculture, pottery, forging, and masonry. All across Ghorn, these mortal pantheistic cultures thrived. A new pact was forged between the priests and leaders of these cultures with the Asrae. Representatives from the five Blessed Peoples and many other faithful cultures made a Pilgrimage to the Asherah Sea where the Asrae has first awoken on Calydorn. There Avatars of the gods pledged to mankind their protection in exchange for their worship. Days of devotional rituals were performed according to each of the many pantheistic faiths sealing the bond which came to be known as the Second Covenant. The dates of the pantheistic cultures are measured from this date and abbreviated as SC and Before Second Covenant BSC.
The Kalkokitan people who lived in southern Ghorn were given the title by the Asrae of “Halo-dynes” – meaning “mighty souls”, and before long the Kalkokitans assumed the title as the name for their people. These Halodynes descended from the Cornucopian Mountains like avenging angels, their phalanxes of hoplites liberating ancestral lands from the Kassobari khanates around the Agros Bay. There they erected glorious cities, and upon the island of Theonitis, founded twelve head-temples – one for each of the primary Asrae deities in their pantheon. Each god of their pantheon possessed its own individual cult and priesthood which permeated throughout all of the Halodyne city-states.
The city-states went from strength to strength, and settlers spread out across central and southern Ghorn, carrying with them the Halodyne culture, within which was worship of the Asrae.
Though devoutly religious, Halodyne culture embodied much more than just worship – theatre, poetry, athletics, sculpture, architecture, and learning were important parts of a citizen’s life.
In north-western Ghorn, another of the Blessed Peoples – the Wyldfolk of Annyr – ventured from their sylvan lands in Zephyr, settling the sub-continent of Annyrion in a long and brutal campaign, whereby the descendents of the wicked empires of old were converted, expelled or executed. Druids formed the upper level of the new Annyr society, appointing kings and leaders of tribes and nations.
During this period mortals discovered that the mythical past had been a time of unbridled violence. Across the land were dotted huge plateaus which they named godlands, and in the skies above floated islands of rock which they called skylands. According to myth, they are both the remains of another world which was smashed during a war in the heavens, the pieces of which fell to Calydorn
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A Role for Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin in CD4+ T Cell Development
Amin Al-Shami, Rosanne Spolski, John Kelly, Terry Fry, Pamela L. Schwartzberg, Akhilesh Pandey, Crystal L. Mackall, Warren J. Leonard
Amin Al-Shami
Rosanne Spolski
Terry Fry
Pamela L. Schwartzberg
Akhilesh Pandey
Crystal L. Mackall
Warren J. Leonard
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20031975 | Published July 19, 2004
Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) signals via a receptor comprising the interleukin (IL)-7 receptor α chain and a distinctive subunit, TSLP receptor (TSLPR), which is most related to the common cytokine receptor γ chain, γc. We have generated TSLPR knockout (KO) mice and found that although these mice had normal lymphocyte numbers, γc/TSLPR double KO mice had a greater lymphoid defect than γc KO mice. This indicates that TSLP contributes to lymphoid development and accounts for some of the residual lymphoid development in γc KO mice and presumably in patients with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency. Injection of TSLP into γc KO mice induced the expansion of T and B cells. Moreover, sublethally irradiated TSLPR KO mice showed weaker recovery of lymphocyte populations than wild-type (WT) littermates, even when neutralizing anti–IL-7 antibodies were injected. Interestingly, TSLP preferentially stimulated the proliferation and survival of CD4+ single positive thymocytes and peripheral T cells in vitro. Additionally, CD4+ T cells from TSLPR KO mice expanded less efficiently than WT CD4+ T cells in irradiated hosts, and TSLP preferentially expanded CD4+ T cells both in vitro and in vivo. Thus, as compared with other known cytokines, TSLP is distinctive in exhibiting a lineage preference for the expansion and survival of CD4+ T cells.
thymocyte development
SCID
CD8 T cells
knockout mice
Cytokines regulate many aspects of the immune system, including hematopoiesis, inflammation, and both innate and acquired immunity (1). IL-7 plays a critical nonredundant role in the development of T and B lymphocytes in mice (2, 3) and of T cells in humans (4). IL-7 KO mice display a marked reduction in thymic cellularity, but maintain a normal CD4:CD8 ratio. Their B cell development is also defective, with a block in the BM at the transition point to pre–B cells (between Hardy classification B and C fraction cells and fraction D cells; reference 3). An even more severe B cell phenotype is apparent in IL-7Rα KO mice, where the block is at the earlier transition from pre-pro–B cells to pro–B cells (Hardy classification fraction B; reference 2). Like IL-7 KO mice, IL-7Rα KO mice exhibit severely reduced thymic cellularity and defective T cell maturation (2, 3).
Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) is a cytokine that was originally identified as a growth factor in the supernatant of the Z210R.1 thymic stromal cell line that could support the development of immature NAG8/7 B cells to the B220+/IgM+ stage (5). Its biological actions were later found to overlap with those of IL-7. Both cytokines promote the maturation of B lymphocytes, with TSLP apparently supporting growth to more mature stages than IL-7 (6). TSLP has also been shown to be a regulator of dendritic cell–mediated control of Th2 cell–biased human allergic responses (7). Like IL-7, the TSLP receptor complex contains IL-7Rα (8, 9). In addition, the TSLP receptor also contains a specific subunit, TSLPR, whereas the IL-7 receptor complex includes the common cytokine receptor γ chain, γc (10, 11), which is also shared by the receptors for IL-2, IL-4, IL-9, IL-15, and IL-21 (12). Both IL-7 and TSLP activate Stat5a and Stat5b (13, 14). TSLPR is expressed in many tissues, including liver, brain, testis, BM, and thymus.
To study the biological role of murine TSLP in vivo, we generated TSLPR KO mice. These mice exhibited normal T and B cell development and cellularity. However, mice deficient in both TSLPR and γc displayed more severe lymphoid defects than γc KO mice. Consistent with a role for TSLP in lymphoid development/expansion, sublethally irradiated TSLPR KO mice showed weaker recovery of lymphocytes than WT controls. In addition, daily injection of TSLP into γc KO mice increased both thymic and splenic cellularities by enhancing the expansion of both T and B cells, with the accumulation of CD4+ T cells in the periphery. Moreover, TSLP could enhance TCR-induced expansion of purified CD4+ single positive (SP) thymocytes and of splenic CD4+ T cells. Finally, carboxyfluorescein succinimidyl ester (CFSE)-based experiments showed TSLP-dependent expansion of CD4+ T cells both in vitro and in vivo. These studies reveal an unexpected effect of murine TSLP in the preferential expansion of CD4+ T cells.
Generation of TSLPR−/− Mice.
TSLPR genomic DNA was obtained from a P1 clone prepared from 129sv mice (Genome Research). The targeting construct was designed to delete all exons of the TSLPR gene and replace them with the neomycin resistance gene (Neo; see Fig. 1). Embryonic stem (ES) cells were electroporated with 50 μg of linearized targeting construct. Positive and negative selection of transfected cells was conducted using 350 μg/ml G418 (Life Technologies) and 2 μM gancyclovir (Sigma-Aldrich), respectively. Of 800 ES clones screened, those that had undergone homologous recombination were identified by Southern blotting, using probes located 5 and 3′ to the targeting construct. Mice were mated once with WT C57BL/6. The resulting C57Bl6/129 mice were genotyped using three PCR primers: primer A, 5′-AACCTCTCCCACAAGAAGTCCAGAAGT-3′; Neo primer, 5′-ATCGCCTTCTATCGCCTTCTT-3′; and primer B, 5′-AGACTTTACCTGATTCCTGCCTTG-3′.
Primers A and B amplify a 250-bp segment of the endogenous TSLPR gene. The Neo primer and primer B identify the targeted gene and give a 650-bp product. The probes for Southern blots were generated using the Taq Gold kit (Applied Biosystems) under the following conditions: 94°C for 2 min, 25 cycles of 94°C for 30 s, 58°C for 45 s, and 45°C for 45 s, and then 72°C for 7 min before cooling to 4°C. Genotyping PCR reactions were performed similarly, but 33 cycles instead of 25 were performed using Ready-TO-Go PCR beads (Amersham Biosciences). To determine TSLPR mRNA expression, total RNA was isolated from the thymus using TRIzol (Promega). 1 μg RNA per RT-PCR reaction was amplified using internal upstream (5′-GCGAGGGCGGGGCTGCTGGAG-3′) and downstream (5′-CCTGGCTGGCGGGGCTGTGGC-3′) primers and an RNA PCR kit (Applied Biosystems). For Southern blots, genomic DNA was digested as indicated in Fig. 1 and the probe described above was used. Southern blot hybridization and washing were performed using QuickHyb (Stratagene). TSLPR−/− mice generated from two different ES clones showed no apparent differences. All experiments were performed under protocols approved by the National Institutes of Health Animal Use and Care Committee and followed the National Institutes of Health guidelines, Using Animals in Intramural Research. Unless indicated otherwise, all mice analyzed were 6–8-wk-old littermates and generally sex matched. No sex-related differences were observed related to the studies performed.
Normal immunological development in TSLPR KO mice. (A) Schematic of the TSLPR targeting strategy. The 6-kb BglII to Nhe I 5′ and 3-kb Pvu II 3′ flanking regions of the TSLPR gene were cloned 5′ and 3′ to the Neo gene. The targeting vector was linearized, electroporated into ES cells, and transfected clones were screened using 5 and 3′ probes (squares). (B) Southern hybridization of the ES clones. The restriction enzymes and fragment sizes are indicated (+/+, WT; +/−, heterozygote). (C) Genotyping of the mice was performed as described in Materials and Methods (left). RT-PCR was performed using TSLPR internal primers to detect the TSLPR mRNA transcript thymus (right). White lines indicate that intervening lanes have been spliced out. (D) TSLP significantly increased anti-CD3ε–induced proliferation of WT splenocytes (P < 0.001), but not of TSLPR KO splenocytes. Results are expressed as mean fold induction ± SEM (n = 14). (E–G) Flow cytometric analysis showing no difference in the CD4/CD8 profile of the total thymus (E, top), the CD25/CD44 profile of DN thymocytes (E, bottom), or in the spleen (F) and BM (G) of WT and TSLPR-deficient mice. Antibodies for the CD4+ and CD8+ surface markers were used to evaluate the T cell populations in the thymus (E) and spleen (F, top), whereas antibodies for B220+ and surface IgM+ were used to evaluate B cells populations in the spleen (F, bottom) and BM (G).
To generate γc/TSLPR double KO (DKO) mice, TSLPR KO females were mated to γc KO males on a C57BL/6 background (backcrossed for >15 generations). As γc is on the X chromosome, TSLPR+/− γc+/− female and TSLPR+/− γc−/Y male F1 progeny were then mated. γc/TSLPR DKO and γc KO littermate progeny were then analyzed.
Injection of IL-7 and TSLP.
2-wk-old WT or γc KO mice received daily i.p. injections with 0.1 ml PBS alone or containing 0.5 μg murine IL-7 or TSLP for 1 and 3 wk so that mice were 3 or 5 wk old at the time of analysis.
Treatment with IL-7–neutralizing mAb.
8–10-wk-old WT and TSLPR KO females were irradiated with 600 cGy of whole body irradiation. Mice were injected three times a week for 4 wk with 1 mg of a control mAb or M25 anti–IL-7–neutralizing mAb (15).
Flow Cytometric Analyses.
Single cell suspensions were prepared from the thymus, spleen, and BM. Cells were washed with FACS® buffer (PBS, pH 7.4, 0.5% BSA, 0.02% sodium azide). 106 cells were treated with Fc-block (BD Biosciences) for 15 min, and then incubated with the indicated fluorochrome-conjugated antibodies (all from BD Biosciences) for 20 min. Cells were then washed twice with FACS® buffer and analyzed. To examine cell death, a PE-conjugated annexin V kit (BD Biosciences) was used according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Measurement of IgM Levels.
Sera from 3-wk-old γc KO and γc/TSLPR DKO mouse littermates were analyzed for resting IgM levels using a sandwich ELISA. In brief, 100 μl (2 μg/ml in coating buffer: 0.15 M sodium carbonate, 0.35 M sodium bicarbonate, pH 9.5, 0.02% sodium azide) anti–mouse IgM capture antibody (BD Biosciences) was used to coat 96-well plates (EIA plates; Costar) overnight at 4°C. Wells were then coated with blocking buffer (PBS supplemented with 10% FBS) for 1 h at room temperature. Sera were diluted at 1:1,000 in blocking buffer and incubated in the wells overnight at 4°C. Wells were washed in PBS containing 0.1% Tween and then incubated with a 1:2,000 dilution of secondary horseradish peroxidase–conjugated anti-IgM (BD Biosciences) for 1 h at room temperature. The assay was ended by adding the substrate mixture (BD Biosciences) and measuring absorbance at 450 nm.
Proliferation and Survival Assays.
To isolate CD4+ and CD8+ SP T cells, thymocytes were first incubated with anti-CD8+ or anti-CD4+ paramagnetic beads, respectively, and the bound cells were removed by passing the samples through the autoMACS system (Miltenyi Biotec). The nonbound cells (negative eluted fraction) were then treated with CD4+ and CD8+ paramagnetic beads to separate CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, respectively, from the double negative (DN) cells. Mature splenic CD4+ and CD8+ T cells were isolated using their respective paramagnetic beads. Fresh thymocytes and splenocytes were cultured for 48 h in RPMI 1640 medium containing 10% FBS, 2 mM l-glutamine, and antibiotics, in 96-well flat-bottom plates (2 × 105 cells/well) that were coated or not with 2 μg/ml anti-CD3ε (BD Biosciences). Cells were additionally incubated with 100 ng/ml IL-7 or TSLP as indicated. Wells were pulsed with 1 μCi [3H]thymidine (6.7 Ci/mmol; NEN Life Science Products) for the last 9 h of culture. Proliferation was also examined using 5 μM CFSE labeling (Sigma-Aldrich) for 10 min at 37°C. For in vivo proliferation, 0.8 mg 5-bromo-2′-deoxyuridine (BrdU; Sigma-Aldrich) was injected 16 and 10 h before the mice were killed. Levels of BrdU were determined using PE-conjugated antibodies (16). To examine the survival of thymocytes, cells were isolated and cultured as described above for 1 wk, and the number of live cells was determined by trypan blue exclusion and annexin V/7-AAD staining.
Adoptive Transfer of T Cells.
C57BL/6 γc KO mice were irradiated with 600 cGy of whole body irradiation. 8 h later, the mice were injected with a single cell suspension of 8 × 106 splenic CD4+ or CD8+ T cells from WT or TSLPR KO mice that were labeled with CFSE for 10 min at 37°C. Spleens were analyzed on days 3 and 7 by flow cytometry.
Online Supplemental Material.
Fig. S1 shows the effect of TSLP on lymphopoiesis in WT mice. The flow cytometric analysis of the thymus and spleen 1 and 3 wk after injection of WT mice with PBS, IL-7, or TSLP is shown. Thymocytes were stained with anti-CD4 versus anti-CD8. Splenocytes were stained with anti-CD4 versus anti-CD8 and anti-B220 versus anti-IgM. Fig. S1 is available at http://www.jem.org/cgi/content/full/jem.20031975/DC1.
TSLPR KO Mice Exhibit Normal Lymphohematopoietic Development.
To generate TSLPR KO mice, we used a targeting vector designed to replace the TSLPR coding region with the neomycin resistance cassette (Fig. 1 A). 4 clones out of 800 showed homologous recombination as determined using both 3′ and 5′ probes (Fig. 1 B and not depicted). Two clones were used to generate chimeric mice, and heterozygous offspring corresponding to each clone were intercrossed to generate TSLPR KO mice as confirmed by PCR genotyping and TSLPR mRNA expression (Fig. 1 C). The progeny mice exhibited normal Mendelian ratios. 6–8-wk-old TSLPR KO mice were indistinguishable from WT littermates in viability, growth, development, and fertility. The inactivation of TSLP signaling was confirmed by the defective response of TSLPR KO splenocytes compared with WT splenocytes to treatment with anti-CD3 plus TSLP versus anti-CD3 alone (Fig. 1 D).
Thymus, spleen, and BM were similar in size and cell number, and no differences in histology were observed between TSLPR KO mice and WT littermates (not depicted). Analysis of TSLPR KO thymuses showed that the DN, double positive (DP), and CD4+ and CD8+ SP T cells were present in normal distributions (Fig. 1 E). B220 versus anti-CD3 staining in the spleen was normal (not depicted), as was the CD4:CD8 T cell ratio (Fig. 1 F, top). Moreover, levels of both B220+ IgM+ immature cells and B220+ IgM− pre– and pro–B cells (both percent and absolute numbers) were similar in TSLPR KO and WT mice in both spleen (Fig. 1 F, bottom) and BM (Fig. 1 G). Surface levels of CD3ε, TCR-β, TCR-γδ, CD4, CD5, CD8, CD11c, CD21, CD23, CD43, CD44, CD62L, B220, IgM, IgD, DX5, Gr1, TER119, γc, HSA, and BP-1, as well as IL-7Rα, were comparable to those found in WT mice (not depicted). Thus, although TSLP has been reported to affect fetal lymphoid development (17), we found no overt defects in adult lymphopoiesis in TSLPR KO mice. It is possible that TSLP serves a redundant role and that other cytokines, especially the closely related IL-7, might compensate for the absence of TSLP signal. No difference was observed between WT and TSLPR KO mice in the number of colony forming units (CFU-B and CFU-GM assays) from BM cultures in vitro (not depicted). Although TSLPR is expressed in various tissues, including brain, liver, and lung (8), suggesting a possible role of TSLP in the physiological functions of these organs, histopathological analysis of these organs in TSLPR KO mice revealed no obvious abnormalities (not depicted).
TSLP and IL-7 Exhibit Overlapping Actions In Vivo.
Because TSLP and IL-7 share IL-7Rα as a receptor component, we compared the actions of these cytokines. Both IL-7 and TSLP similarly increased thymic and splenic cellularity in WT mice after 1 wk of daily injections (Fig. 2 A, left), with CD4 and CD8 T cell populations present in normal ratios (Fig. S1 A, ii and iii vs. i, and v and vi vs. iv, available at http://www.jem.org/cgi/content/full/jem.20031975/DC1). Thus, thymic and splenic T cell populations were all increased. In the spleen, TSLP and IL-7 had similar abilities to increase B cells (Fig. S1 A, viii and ix vs. vii), whereas TSLP was more potent in expanding immature B220+ IgMlow cells in the BM (Fig. 2 B, ii and iii vs. i; see percentages for the different fractions of B cells in Fig. 2 C). After 3 wk of treatment of WT mice with TSLP or IL-7, the increase in thymic and splenic cellularity was no longer statistically significant (Fig. 2 A, right) and the CD4+:CD8+ T cell ratio remained constant (Fig. S1 B, ii and iii vs. i, and v and vi vs. iv), but the increase in B cells was still evident in the spleen (Fig. S1 B, viii and ix vs. vii) and BM (Fig. 2 B, v and vi vs. iv; see percentages for the different fractions of B cells in Fig. 2 C). The consistent absolute decrease in B cells in WT animals between 1 and 3 wk of treatment presumably, at least in part, reflects an age-dependent regulatory mechanism of B cell expansion, as a decrease was even seen in the untreated control animals (Fig. 2 C). These results indicate that both TSLP and IL-7 can promote lymphocyte expansion. The normal levels of lymphocytes in TSLPR KO mice are presumably, in part or entirely, explained by the continued action of IL-7.
TSLP can expand lymphocyte populations in WT mice. (A) The absolute number of thymocytes, splenocytes, and BM cells in WT mice injected daily with PBS, IL-7, or TSLP for 1 and 3 wk. 1 wk of treatment with TSLP and IL-7 increased thymic cellularity (means ± SEM of 204 ± 46 × 106 and 195 ± 22 × 106 [P = 0.01 and 0.001, respectively] vs. 139 ± 13 × 106 for the PBS-treated mice). 1 wk of treatment with TSLP and IL-7 also increased splenic cellularity (means ± SEM of 126 ± 23 × 106 and 118 ± 13 × 106 [P = 0.004 and 0.002, respectively] vs. 80 ± 12 × 106 for the PBS-treated mice). No significant difference was observed in the BM. After 3 wk of treatment with TSLP or IL-7, the changes in cellularity of thymus, spleen, and BM were not significant. (B) Flow cytometric analysis of the BM 1 and 3 wk after injection of WT mice with PBS, IL-7, or TSLP. (C) Percentages of populations shown in B.
TSLP Signaling Is Required for Efficient Recovery of Lymphocyte Populations after Sublethal Irradiation.
To further examine the role of TSLP in lymphopoiesis, WT and TSLPR KO mice were sublethally irradiated and their ability to recover cellular populations was evaluated. In these experiments, we included either a control mAb or neutralizing mAb to IL-7. Irradiated WT animals treated with the control mAb recovered most of their thymic and splenic cellularities within 4 wk, whereas TSLPR KO mice did not (Fig. 3 A). Similarly, CD4+ and CD8+ T cell subpopulations in the thymus (Fig. 3 B) and spleen (Fig. 3 C) were lower in TSLPR KO mice than in WT littermates. B cell recovery in TSLPR KO mice was also less efficient than in WT mice (Fig. 3 C), and flow cytometric analysis of B cells showed that B220+ CD19+ B cells were greatly diminished in the spleens in TSLPR KO mice (Fig. 3 D). These results establish a critical role for TSLP in mediating optimal T and B cell lymphopoiesis in mice.
TSLP is critical for optimal lymphopoiesis in the presence and absence of IL-7. WT and TSLPR KO mice were sublethally irradiated and injected three times a week for 4 wk with 1 mg of control or M25 anti–IL-7 mAbs. (A) TSLPR KO treated with control or anti–IL-7 mAbs displayed lower thymic cellularity (P < 0.001 for both mAbs) and splenic cellularity (P = 0.03 for anti–IL-7 and P = 0.02 for control mAb) when compared with WT littermates. (B) The absolute numbers of thymic subpopulations, except for DN cells, were decreased in TSLPR KO mice compared with WT mice (P < 0.05). (C) The absolute numbers of CD4+ and CD8+ T and B cells in the spleens of irradiated animals. Mice lacking TSLPR had fewer lymphocytes than WT mice, when experiments were performed with either control or anti–IL-7 mAbs (P < 0.05). (D) B220 versus CD19 flow cytometric analysis of the spleen and BM from WT (top) and TSLPR KO (bottom) mice.
We also examined reconstitution in mice in which a neutralizing mAb to IL-7 was injected (1 mg three times a week for 4 wk; reference 15). As expected, treatment with the anti–IL-7 mAb reduced lymphopoiesis in WT mice (Fig. 3 A). Importantly, however, recovery was even more impaired in TSLPR KO mice treated with anti–IL-7 mAb, including impaired thymic and splenic cellularity (Fig. 3 A), with CD4+ and CD8+ T cell subpopulations in the thymus (Fig. 3 B) and spleen (Fig. 3 C) being lower in TSLPR KO mice than in WT littermates. No significant differences in the percentages of DN1, DN2, DN3, and DN4 cells were observed (not depicted). B cell recovery in TSLPR KO mice was also less efficient than in WT mice in the presence of anti–IL-7 mAb (Fig. 3, C and D, BM and spleen). B220+ CD19+ B cells were nearly eliminated in the BM in both WT and TSLPR KO mice treated with anti–IL-7 (Fig. 3 D, far right panels). These results establish a critical role for TSLP in mediating optimal T and B cell lymphopoiesis in mice. Because recovery is less in the absence of signaling by TSLP plus IL-7 compared with the absence of only IL-7, our data indicate a critical IL-7–independent role for TSLP in recovering from lymphopenia.
γc/TSLPR DKO Mice Exhibit Greater Defects than γc KO Mice, and TSLP Can Increase Cellularity in γc KO Mice.
γc KO mice have defective T and B cell development. We hypothesized that a greater defect in γc/TSLPR DKO mice than in γc single KO mice would suggest a role for TSLP in contributing to the residual lymphoid development that is present in γc KO mice and in humans with XSCID, which results from mutations in γc (12). Indeed, the low thymic cellularity observed in γc KO mice (18, 19) was further diminished in γc/TSLPR DKO littermates (Fig. 4 A). However, CD4+ and CD8+ SP, CD4+ CD8+ DP, and CD4− CD8− DN T cells (DN1, DN2, DN3, and DN4) were all present in γc/TSLPR DKO thymus at ratios comparable to those in the thymus of γc KO mice (not depicted). Similarly, although total BM cellularity was greatly reduced in γc/TSLPR DKO mice, a similar distribution of B cells was present in the BM (Fig. 4 B) and spleen (not depicted) as were seen in γc KO mice. Specifically, B220 versus CD43 profiles were similar in both γc KO and the γc/TSLPR DKO mice (Fig. 4 B, top), as was expression of HSA, BP-1, and IgM (not depicted). Peritoneal CD5+ B1 cells were also present in similar numbers in both γc KO and the γc/TSLPR DKO mice (Fig. 4 B, bottom). Consistent with this, γc/TSLPR DKO mice did not have lower serum IgM levels than those found in γc KO mice (Fig. 4 C). Thus, TSLP does not appear to regulate numbers of B1 cells nor affect IgM production.
Comparison of the lymphoid development in γc KO mice versus γc/TSLPR DKO mice. (A) γc/TSLPR DKO mice had lower thymic, spleen, and BM cellularities than γc KO mice (thymus: mean ± SEM of 12.3 ± 6.7 × 106 for γc KO mice vs. 5.7 ± 4.5 × 106 for γc/TSLPR DKO mice [P = 0.009]; spleen: mean ± SEM of 43 ± 17.7 × 106 for γc KO mice vs. 26.8 ± 13.7 × 106 for γc/TSLPR DKO mice [P = 0.02]; BM: mean ± SEM of 23.4 ± 15.5 × 106 for γc KO mice vs. 14.3 ± 7.6 × 106 for γc/TSLPR DKO mice [P = 0.047]). All mice were age matched and no sex-related differences were noted. (B) Flow cytometric analysis of BM (top, B220 vs. CD43) and peritoneal cavity lymphocytes (bottom, B220 vs. CD5). (C) Similar levels of IgM in the serum of γc KO and γc/TSLPR DKO mice. (D) Injection of 0.5 μg/day of TSLP (open rectangles) enhances lymphoid cellularity in γc KO mice. Treatment for 1 and 3 wk showed an enhanced cellularity in thymus (mean ± SEM of 7.8 ± 2.9 × 106 for PBS-injected mice vs. 32 ± 10 × 106 for TSLP-injected mice [P < 0.0001] after 1 wk of treatment and a mean ± SEM of 3.5 ± 2 × 106 for PBS-injected mice vs. 12.2 ± 4 × 106 for TSLP-injected mice [P = 0.001] after 3 wk) and spleen (mean ± SEM of 8 ± 4 × 106 for PBS-injected mice vs. 14 ± 5.4 × 106 for TSLP-injected mice [P = 0.003] after 1 wk of treatment and a mean ± SEM of 15 ± 4 × 106 for PBS-injected mice vs. 52 ± 12 × 106 for TSLP-injected mice [P < 0.0001] after 3 wk). No change was seen in the BM. All mice were age matched and no sex-related differences were noted. γc/TSLPR DKO mice did not respond to TSLP injections (closed triangles). (E) Photograph indicating thymic size in γc KO mice after wk of treatment with PBS or TSLP (top) and a histological analysis of these tissues by hematoxylin and eosin staining (bottom).
To further examine the actions of TSLP, we evaluated its effect on γc KO mice. Because of the sharing of IL-7Rα by the receptors for both IL-7 and TSLP, and the potential for overlapping actions of these cytokines, we hypothesized that γc KO mice that lack IL-7 signaling and have diminished thymocytes might exhibit hyperresponsiveness to TSLP. 2-wk-old γc KO mice received 0.5-μg daily i.p. injections of PBS or TSLP for 1 or 3 wk. Strikingly, after 1 wk, TSLP treatment increased thymic cellularity 5–10-fold in γc KO mice (Fig. 4 D, open rectangles vs. open ovals; P < 0.01), consistent with increased thymic size (Fig. 4 E, top). Histological analysis showed that the thymus from γc KO mice injected with PBS had a thin cortex, whereas those from TSLP-injected mice had a wider cortex (Fig. 4 E, bottom). As expected, TSLP had no effect in γc/TSLPR DKO mice (Fig. 4 D, closed triangles).
In addition to increased thymic cellularity, the fraction of DP cells increased so that this was the most expanded thymic population (Fig. 5 A, ii vs. i). γc KO mice injected with TSLP for 3 wk still showed higher total thymic cellularity than untreated mice (Fig. 4 D; P < 0.01), albeit less so than at 1 wk, with more CD4+ SP T cells present (Fig. 5 A, x vs. ix). TSLP treatment for 1 wk also increased the total number of splenocytes (Fig. 4 D; P < 0.01), mainly by increasing B cells (Fig. 5 A, vi vs. v). After 3 wk of TSLP, splenic cellularity further increased (Fig. 4 D; P < 0.01). As expected, this resulted in part from the expansion of B cells (Fig. 5 A, xiv vs. xiii). The increase in B cells in the spleen was also evident in the BM. Although the total BM cellularity in γc KO mice was not increased by TSLP (not depicted), TSLP dramatically increased the B cell subpopulations within 1 wk (Fig. 5 A, viii vs. vii), with immature B cells being the most affected, increasing from ∼2 to 30% of the total number of cells (see percent of B220+ IgMlow cells in Fig. 5 B). More mature stages also increased three- to fourfold. However, these changes in B cell populations were transient and at 3 wk of TSLP injection, these cells diminished to the BM B lymphocyte cellularity seen in the untreated mice (Fig. 5 A, xvi vs. xv, and B).
TSLP can increase lymphoid subpopulations in γc-deficient mice. (A) Flow cytometric analysis of γc KO thymus, spleen, and BM 1 and 3 wk after injection of PBS or TSLP. (B) B cell populations in the BM from A (vii, viii, xv, and xvi). (C) TSLP injections induced an increase in CD4+ T cells (mean ± SEM of 2.36 ± 1.48 × 106 for control mice vs. 12.7 ± 6.7 × 106 for TSLP-treated mice [P < 0.0001], for a 5.4-fold increase), CD8+ T cells (mean ± SEM of 0.63 ± 0.43 × 106 for control mice vs. 2.4 ± 1.7 × 106 for TSLP-treated mice [P = 0.01], for a 3.8-fold increase), as well as B cells (mean ± SEM of 4.6 ± 1.2 × 106 for control mice vs. 27 ± 7 × 106 for TSLP-treated mice [P < 0.0001], for a 5.9-fold increase) in the spleen of γc KO mice 3 wk after injection. (D) Flow cytometric analysis of splenic CD4+ T cells in γc mice treated with PBS or TSLP for 3 wk. TSLP increased the absolute numbers of CD44high CD62Llow (mean ± SEM of 2.3 ± 1.2 × 106 for control γc mice vs. 11.3 ± 4.106 for TSLP-treated mice [P = 0.0004], for 4.9-fold increase), CD44high CD62Lhigh (mean ± SEM of 0.4 ± 0.2 × 106 for control γc mice vs. 3.2 ± 1.1 × 106 for TSLP-treated mice [P = 0.0003], for an eightfold increase), and CD44low CD62Lhigh (mean ± SEM of 0.08 ± 0.06 × 106 for control γc mice vs. 0.9 ± 0.16 × 106 for TSLP-treated mice [P < 0.0001], for an 11-fold increase). (E) γc KO mice were treated with PBS or TSLP for 1 wk and injected with BrdU 10 and 16 h before being killed. BrdU incorporation was measured by intracellular staining using PE-labeled BrdU of the thymocytes subpopulations. The number indicates the percent of BrdU+ cells within the gated region.
In addition to the increased B cells noted above, the increased splenic cellularity was also partially due to an increase in CD4+ T cells (Fig. 5 A, xii vs. xi, and C). Consistent with the age-dependent increase in CD4+ T cells that occurs in γc KO mice (19), control γc KO mice that were injected with PBS for 3 wk versus 1 wk showed an age-dependent increase in the percentage of CD4+ T cells (Fig. 5 A, xi vs. iii). Approximately 5.4-fold more CD4+ splenic T cells were found in TSLP-treated γc KO mice than in untreated mice (12.7 × 106 vs. 2.4 × 106), whereas the absolute and relative increase in mature splenic CD8+ T cell numbers was less marked in TSLP-treated versus control animals (3.8 fold, 2.4 × 106 vs. 0.63 × 106; Fig. 5 C). Almost all of the CD4+ T cells in γc KO mice were TCRhigh HSAlow and did not express the activation markers CD25 and CD69, and this was unaffected by TSLP treatment (Fig. 5 D, top and middle). As previously shown, CD4+ T cells in γc KO mice primarily have a CD62Llow CD44high memory phenotype (20). Interestingly, TSLP increased the number of CD62Lhigh CD44high cells, a population that has been identified as central memory cells (21), the most (Fig. 5 D, bottom).
Above, we observed an increase in the number of CD4+ T cells, particularly in the spleen but also in the thymus. Therefore, we examined the effect of TSLP on the proliferation of thymocytes in vivo. γc KO mice treated with PBS or TSLP for 1 wk were injected with BrdU 10 or 16 h before being killed. TSLP increased BrdU incorporation in all thymic subpopulations (Fig. 5 E). Interestingly, γc KO CD4+ SP thymocytes had the lowest basal level of BrdU incorporation but were the most responsive to TSLP treatment, increasing their proliferation approximately fourfold.
TSLP Cooperates with Anti-CD3 to Preferentially Expand CD4+ T Cells by Affecting Proliferation and Survival.
To clarify the mechanism by which TSLP promotes thymocyte expansion, we treated SP WT thymocytes with anti-CD3ε with or without IL-7 or TSLP in vitro (Fig. 6 A). TSLP alone had no significant effect, but when combined with anti-CD3ε, it markedly increased the proliferation of CD4+ SP thymocytes, whereas its effect on CD8+ SP thymocytes was much less (Fig. 6 A, top), suggesting that TSLP favors the expansion of CD4+ thymocytes. In contrast, IL-7 enhanced proliferation of both CD4+ and CD8+ SP thymocytes alone or in combination with anti-CD3ε (Fig. 6 A, bottom), and overall, IL-7 was more potent than TSLP even for CD4+ thymocytes (note the difference in scale in the top and bottom panels of Fig. 6 A). Correspondingly, TSLP preferentially enhanced the survival of CD4+ thymocytes, whereas IL-7 had similar effects on the viability of CD4+ and CD8+ thymocytes (Fig. 7 A). TSLP and IL-7 were equally potent in increasing the survival of DN and DP thymocytes (not depicted). Consistent with its effect on CD4+ SP thymocytes, TSLP treatment preferentially enhanced TCR-induced proliferation (Fig. 6 B) and survival (Fig. 7, B and C) of CD4+ splenic T cells compared with CD8+ T cells. We observed a dramatic dilution of CFSE in response to TSLP in both thymic and splenic CD4+ (Fig. 6 C). Correspondingly, the percent of viable cells was increased (Fig. 7, A and B) and the percent of annexin V+/7-AAD+ cells (Fig. 7 C) was decreased by TSLP.
TSLP preferentially expands CD4+ T cells. In A and B, cells were treated with medium, 100 ng/ml IL-7, or 100 ng/ml TSLP, and/or 2 μg/ml anti-CD3ε antibodies. (A) In vitro proliferation of purified CD4+ and CD8+ SP thymocytes from WT mice. Results are expressed as mean ± SEM for four experiments. TSLP increased anti-CD3ε–induced proliferation of CD4+ SP cells (P = 0.02), but did not significantly affect CD8+ SP expansion to anti-CD3ε (P = 0.07). IL-7 significantly enhanced anti-CD3ε–induced expansion of both CD4+ and CD8+ SP thymocytes (P < 0.0001 for both). (B) In vitro proliferation of purified CD4+ and CD8+ splenocytes (prepared by positive selection) treated as described above. TSLP significantly increased anti-CD3ε–induced proliferation of mature CD4+ T cells (P = 0.0002), but not of CD8+ T cells (P = 0.1). IL-7 significantly enhanced anti-CD3ε–induced expansion of both CD4+ and CD8+ mature T cells (P = 0.008 and 0.0005, respectively). (C) CD4+ thymocytes and splenic T cells were labeled with CFSE and cultured for 1 wk with anti-CD3ε with or without TSLP, and cells were analyzed by flow cytometry. As evaluated by decreased CFSE staining, TSLP increased anti-CD3ε–induced proliferation of CD4+ but not CD8+ T cells. WT corresponds to the “open” curve, whereas TSLPR KO mice are shown in solid black.
TSLP promotes survival of CD4+ T cells. (A) In vitro survival of purified CD4+ and CD8+ SP thymocytes from WT mice. The percent of viable cells (mean ± SEM for four experiments) was determined after 1 wk by trypan blue exclusion. TSLP increased anti-CD3ε–induced survival of CD4+ cells (P = 0.02), but did not significantly affect CD8+ survival (P = 0.24). IL-7 significantly enhanced anti-CD3ε–induced survival of both CD4+ and CD8+ thymocytes (P = 0.03 and P < 0.0001, respectively). (B) In vitro survival assay of purified CD4+ and CD8+ splenic T cells from WT mice. The percent of viable cells was determined by trypan blue exclusion. Results are expressed as mean ± SEM for five experiments. TSLP significantly increased anti-CD3ε–induced survival of CD4+ (P < 0.0001) but not CD8+ T cells (P = 0.21). IL-7 significantly enhanced anti-CD3ε–induced survival of both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells (P < 0.001 and P < 0.0001, respectively). (C) Purified CD4+ and CD8+ splenocytes cultured as indicated were stained with annexin V and 7-AAD.
TSLP Is Required for Efficient Expansion of Murine CD4+ T Cells In Vivo.
Compared with CD4+ T cells from WT mice, CD4+ T cells from TSLPR KO mice exhibited less expansion during the 7-d period after injection into sublethally irradiated recipient γc KO mice (Fig. 8 A). This indicates that TSLP signaling is critical for an efficient expansion of CD4+ lymphocytes. In contrast, CD8+ T cells from both WT and TSLPR KO expanded to a similar degree (Fig. 8 A). CFSE staining on day 3 showed the typical four to five divisions in WT CD4+ T cells (Fig. 8 B, top left); however, TSLPR KO CD4+ T cells persisted but had undergone fewer cell divisions (Fig. 8 B, top right). In contrast, CD8+ T cells from WT and TSLPR KO mice were similar in their CFSE profiles. Taken together, our results indicate that TSLP preferentially enhances both the expansion and survival of CD4+ T cells both in vitro and in vivo.
TSLP mediates efficient expansion of CD4+ T cells. CD4+ T cells were isolated from WT or TSLPR KO mice and labeled with CFSE before being injected into irradiated γc KO mice. (A) After 1 wk, TSLPR KO CD4+ T cells expanded less than CD4+ T cells from WT mice (P = 0.008). CD8+ T cells from WT or TSLPR mice expanded to a similar degree. (B) Examination of the CFSE dilution on day 3 by flow cytometry revealed that WT CD4+ T cells were expanding more rapidly than TSLPR KO CD4+ T cells. No differences were observed for CD8+ T cells.
TSLP was discovered as a cytokine that could support the ability of pre–B cells to differentiate into more mature IgM+ B cells, whereas IL-7 promotes development only to an IgM− stage (5). Colonies emerging from murine B220+ IgM− BM cells develop into IgM+ cells after 7 d of culture in TSLP (22). In contrast, TSLP was previously shown to play only a minimal role in murine T lymphopoiesis by inducing proliferation of DN thymocytes, but only in an IL-1–dependent manner (22).
To clarify TSLP function, we now have studied TSLPR-deficient mice and looked at effects of TSLP in vivo and in vitro. Despite ubiquitous expression, TSLPR is not required for the physical development and fertility of mice. In addition, TSLPR KO mice exhibit normal myeloid, lymphoid, dendritic cell, and NK cell numbers, at least in part due to the continuous action of IL-7. To examine the role of TSLP in lymphopoiesis, TSLPR KO mice were crossed to γc KO mice. Inactivating TSLP signaling in γc KO mice further reduced the cellularity of the thymus, spleen, and BM, suggesting that TSLP can promote T and B cell expansion. Nevertheless, the existence of lymphocytes in these DKO mice indicates that other growth factors also contribute and that TSLP is not the only factor responsible for the lymphoid cells present in IL-7– and γc-deficient animals. Other cytokines, such as stem cell factor and Flt3 ligand, presumably play a role (23, 24). We also examined cellular recovery after sublethal irradiation of TSLPR versus WT mice. The defective cellular restoration in TSLPR KO mice suggests a role for TSLP in recovery from lymphopenia. Moreover, the defect was also more severe in TSLPR than WT mice injected with neutralizing antibodies to IL-7, indicating that TSLP has at least some actions that are independent of IL-7. As in our study, other investigators found no significant developmental abnormality in TSLPR KO mice (25). Interestingly, however, in Jak3/TSLPR DKO mice, they observed a decrease in B cells in the spleen but not in the BM, and saw no change in T cells. In contrast, in our analysis of γc/TSLPR DKO mice, total cellularity declined with marked decreases in both B and T cells, findings that are consistent with a role for TSLP in γc-independent expansion of both of these lineages.
TSLP promoted B cell maturation in γc mice to the B220+ IgM+ stage. It also enhanced B cell maturation in WT mice to an almost identical level as IL-7, similar to what was reported in neonatal WT mice injected with TSLP (22). Interestingly, B progenitor cells in the BM of γc KO mice expanded and matured when animals were injected daily with TSLP for 1 wk, but the effect was transient and no longer observed after 3 wk of TSLP. TSLP had less of an effect in WT mice. A recent report using mice deficient in IL-7, IL-7Rα, and γc on a TCR-β KO background indicated that TSLP promoted the expansion of fetal liver–derived pro–B cells but displayed no activity on adult BM-derived pro–B cells (17), which perhaps suggests that our findings in γc KO mice might reflect the changing potentials of the progenitor population in these young animals.
A distinctive action of IL-7 is its ability to increase survival of immature thymocytes and provide a proliferative signal in the pre–T cell stage after TCR-β rearrangement (26). IL-7 is also essential for γδ TCR generation (27). Although TSLP could not rescue γδ T cell development when it was injected into γc KO mice (not depicted), like IL-7, TSLP could promote the survival and proliferation of T cells as well as B cells from WT mice. Strikingly, TSLP preferentially increased TCR-mediated proliferation of CD4+ CD8− thymocytes and CD4+ peripheral T cells in vitro (Fig. 6), and the absence of TSLP signaling hinders the expansion of these cells in vivo in the adoptive transfer experiment (Fig. 8). The modest effect of TSLP on total thymocyte and splenocyte numbers in WT mice (Fig. 2) might be related to the presence of IL-7, which not only promotes CD8+ T cell homeostasis, but also increases CD4+ T cell survival (28). It is also possible that the T cell compartment is already “filled,” allowing less expansion. Alternatively, the cells might be less responsive if they have already received signals from γc-dependent cytokines, so that a potentially redundant signal from TSLP would have little effect. Interestingly, two other γc-dependent cytokines, IL-7 and IL-15, preferentially induce an expansion of CD8+ T cells rather than CD4+ T cells (29–31). Like IL-7 and IL-15, TSLP activates Stat5a and Stat5b (14, 32). However, Stat5a and Stat5b transgenic mice generated in our lab show an increase in CD8+ T cells (33, 34), suggesting that Stat5 by itself is unlikely to be mediating the preferential effect of TSLP in expanding CD4+ T cells.
Unlike IL-7, TSLP had no effect on the in vitro proliferation of thymocytes unless combined with TCR activation. Because the differentiation of DP thymocytes into SP cells is based on MHC specificity of their TCR signal and the strength of the TCR engagement (35), it is conceivable that TSLP provides a selective costimulatory signal that favors the CD4+ CD8− intermediate stage by enhancing the activation of these cells. Moreover, it is possible that TSLP competes with IL-7 for the IL-7Rα subunit, thus hindering the ability of IL-7 to promote CD8+ T cell expansion in WT mice. Interestingly, IL-7 has been suggested to be important as a survival factor for CD4+ memory T cells (28). Thus, TSLP and IL-7, both of which share IL-7Rα, appear to be important for CD4+ T cell homeostasis. In γc KO mice where IL-7 signaling is defective, the ability of TSLP to promote the expansion of CD4+ cells could be enhanced. Interestingly, a recent report showed that human TSLP indirectly promotes CD4+ T cell homeostasis through the activation of dendritic cells (36). Our results in the murine system with purified CD4+ and CD8+ SP thymocytes, as well as with splenic T cells, suggest a direct effect of TSLP on CD4+ T cells. Surprisingly, TSLP transgenic mice were reported to exhibit diminished lymphopoiesis and myelopoiesis, with decreased T and B cell precursors (37). These findings are different from ours, suggesting that TSLP may have complex roles in vivo, depending on the temporal and quantitative level of expression of TSLP.
In conclusion, TSLP is a type I cytokine that regulates the growth and function of lymphocytes. Although its role for B cell growth has been better appreciated, we now provide evidence that murine TSLP also plays a role in T cell expansion both in vitro and in vivo, particularly of CD4+ T cells, suggesting that murine TSLP may play a role in CD4+ T cell homeostasis. This preferential action of TSLP for CD4+ versus CD8+ T cells may also explain the relative increase in CD4+ T cells in γc KO mice, which might reflect the inactivation of signaling by IL-7 and IL-15 (which favor expansion of CD8+ T cells), coupled to the “unopposed” action of TSLP. Finally, it will be interesting to investigate whether TSLP may have usefulness in increasing CD4+ T cells in immunodeficient states.
We thank Dr. Chengyu Liu for help in generating the TSLPR KO mice, Drs. Zu-Xi Yu and Allen Cheever for help in histopathological analyses, Drs. William E. Paul, Ron Germain, and B.J. Fowlkes for critical comments, Drs. Jian-Xin Lin and Panu Kovanen for valuable suggestions and discussions, and Ms. Julie Bollenbacher for assistance with animal experiments.
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Abbreviations used in this paper: BrdU, 5-bromo-2′-deoxyuridine; CFSE, carboxyfluorescein succinimidyl ester; DKO, double KO; DN, double negative; DP, double positive; ES, embryonic stem; SP, single positive; TSLP, thymic stromal lymphopoietin.
Submitted: 17 November 2003
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UFC 228 Preview: Tyron Woodley vs Darren Till
September 4, 2018 September 4, 2018 Louise Green 0 Comment Darren Till, Nicco Montano, Tyron Woodley, UFC, UFC228, Valentina Shevchenko
UFC 228 goes down sept 8th live from Dallas, Texas. UFC Welterweight Champion Tyron Woodley and Darren Till will do battle as they go toe to toe in the main event for the 170lbs title.
Tyron Woodley will make his fourth title defence since winning the belt at UFC 201 back in 2016 when he knocked out Robbie Lawler in the very first round. Continuing his winning streak, the next three title defences saw Tyron Woodley go the distance, twice with Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson and most recently to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist Demain Maia in July last year. But the following months would see the Champion out on the sidelines undergoing surgery, so the UFC introduced an interim title. This title was won by Colby Covington who defeated Rafael Dos Anjos at UFC 225 but Covington won’t hold on to this for very long. After a visit to the White House to meet President Donald Trump, Covington will be stripped of the title as he was unable to unify the belts against Woodley this Sept.
In came Darren Till, who stepped up to replace Colby Covington to get his first shot at UFC gold. The Liverpudlian is undefeated with 17 wins to his name. His first round TKO win over Welterweight Donald Cerrone, shot him up into the top of the division in his first headline spot in Gdańsk Poland. With the support of Liverpool behind him, Darren Till took on former title challenger Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson next in the main event in his hometown,taking away the win once again to put him up into the mix.
But with Darren Till’s previous weight cutting issues hanging heavy over this fight. Tyron Woodley has made it clear that he will still accept the fight even if Darren Till is unable to make the 170lbs limit, an issue Till and his team say will be irrelevant this time around.
Till remains confident his striking will outclass Woodley’s and aims to knockout the Champ. But Tyron Woodley also holds knockout power of his own and has a strong wrestling background that could be key in this match up. Either way This fight is sure to get the fans exciting.
In the co-main event the UFC Women’s Flyweight title is on the line with Nicco Montano defending her belt for the very first time against former Women’s Bantamweight contender Valentina Shevchenko.
Montano won the vacant Flyweight title by winning the Ultimate Fighter season 26, defeating Roxanne Modafferi in the finals back in December. She is new to the promotion with an overall record of 4 wins and 2 losses.
Standing in her way is the Russian, Valentina Shevchenko who has bulldozed her way through both the Women’s Bantamweight and Flyweight divisions. With her only losses in the UFC coming to UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes, she has her eyes now fixed on Flyweight gold. She has a record of 15 wins and 3 losses and ton of Muay Thai and Kickboxing experience. Montano will have her hands full when she goes to battle with the dangerous striker this weekend.
UFC 228 goes down sept 8th live from the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. Follow MMACrazy on twitter for all the latest updates.
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Dashou Qi
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Senators hopeful BOL will bring ‘elusive peace’ in Mindanao
Senators have expressed optimism that the Organic law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), or the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), will finally end decades-long conflict in Mindanao.
“It can bring peace and stability,” Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said in a media interview after the Senate unanimously ratified the bicameral conference committee report on BOL on Monday during the opening session of the third regular session of the 17th Congress.
The House of Representatives, on the other hand, adjourned its session without ratifying the BOL.
Drilon said the creation of the Bangsamoro government is expected to spur economic development in Mindanao, since over Php50 billion from taxpayers’ money will be given to the region every year.
“I was just sad that the provision of the anti-dynasty was not included in the (BOL),” Drilon said.
For his part, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto expressed hope that with the BOL, “we (wil) finally achieve the elusive peace in Mindanao.”
Recto said the Senate has inserted important provisions that would benefit both the Moro people and the whole country.
Both Drilon and Recto agreed that the BOL provisions, several of which came from the Senate, will hurdle the judicial review in the Supreme Court.
“Because many provisions have been included, I think it will hurdle the constitutional complaints and the Supreme Court will affirm it,” Recto said.
Drilon said he is expecting the BOL to be challenged in the SC but expressed confidence “that the constitutional issue can be tackled properly, and eventually the provisions will be declared as constitutionally compliant”.
Among the provisions adopted in the BOL bicam report include the creation of a Shari’ah High Court, and the joint powers of the Bangsamoro government and national government over the exploration, development, and use of fossil fuels and uranium in the new region.
The bicameral committee approved the 75-25 Bangsamoro and central government wealth sharing. PNA
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Zane Zoda
#21 Defenseman - Texas State
6' 0" Height
185 lbs Weight
Hometown: Coppell, TX
High School: Coppell
Major: Unknown
Eligibility: Senior
Statistics By Season
2016 Texas State 21 53 1 1 0 0 0 - 0
2016 Player Statistics By Game
02/06/2016 @ North Texas W 11-4 4 0 0 0 0
02/07/2016 @ Texas Christian W 11-10 1 0 0 0 0
02/25/2016 Tennessee W 10-7 3 0 0 0 0
03/12/2016 @ LSU W 8-6 0 0 0 0 0
03/14/2016 @ Florida State L 4-15 2 0 0 0 0
03/15/2016 @ Liberty L 6-9 2 0 0 0 0
03/16/2016 @ Central Florida W 8-7 4 1 0 0 0
03/23/2016 Texas A&M W 15-8 5 0 0 0 0
03/26/2016 @ Oklahoma W 11-7 6 0 0 0 0
04/02/2016 Houston W 19-2 2 0 0 0 0
04/09/2016 @ Baylor W 19-1 5 0 0 0 0
04/07/2016 Texas W 11-9 7 0 0 0 0
04/16/2016 North Texas W 14-7 5 0 1 0 0
04/23/2016 LSU W 8-6 2 0 0 0 0
04/24/2016 @ Southern Methodist L 6-11 5 0 0 0 0
02/07/2015 @ Southern Methodist W 5-4 0 0 0 0 0
02/08/2015 @ Texas Christian W 13-9 3 0 0 0 0
02/14/2015 @ Texas A&M L 10-11 2 0 0 0 0
02/21/2015 Colorado L 6-18 3 0 0 0 0
02/22/2015 Colorado State L 2-8 0 0 0 0 0
02/28/2015 Oklahoma W 14-5 3 0 0 0 0
03/09/2015 Virginia Tech L 8-11 2 0 0 0 0
03/25/2015 Illinois W 16-3 1 0 0 0 0
03/29/2015 Louisiana W 17-5 2 0 0 0 0
04/04/2015 @ Texas Tech W 15-3 6 0 0 0 0
04/08/2015 @ Texas W 6-4 1 0 0 0 0
04/11/2015 @ Houston W 14-6 1 0 0 0 0
04/25/2015 Southern Methodist W 8-7 2 0 0 0 0
04/26/2015 @ Texas W 12-3 4 0 0 0 0
05/11/2015 @ Colorado L 5-8 2 0 0 0 0
02/08/2014 Texas Christian W 14-4 4 0 0 0 0
02/20/2014 @ UT-San Antonio W 24-1 1 0 0 0 0
03/09/2014 @ South Carolina W 15-4 6 0 1 0 0
03/23/2014 Florida State L 7-9 4 0 0 0 0
03/29/2014 Southern Methodist W 20-8 0 0 0 0 0
03/30/2014 Chapman L 4-7 5 0 0 0 0
04/12/2014 @ LSU W 10-9 3 0 0 0 0
04/13/2014 @ Louisiana W 14-4 0 0 0 0 0
04/27/2014 Texas L 8-9 4 0 0 0 0
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Laboratory of Chemical & Electrochemical Processes
Department of Chemical Engineering – University of Patras
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Rotating Neutrino Model
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EPOC Reviews
FLOGEN-CG Vayenas International Symposium
Presentation at the Academy of Athens
Interview of C.G. Vayenas at the Lomonosov Conf, 2017
Seminar by Prof. Elena Baranova
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Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis for the hydrogenation of CO2 to valuable fuels and chemicals - Project Page
ARISTEIA I
ELECTROFUELS/467
University of Patras, Prof. C.G. Vayenas
co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the General Secretary of Research & Technology, Greece
The objective of the this work is the development of novel chemically and electrochemically promoted processes for catalytic hydrogenations with emphasis to the hydrogenation of CO2 to useful fuels and chemicals, such as light hydrocarbons and methanol.
There are two incentives for the proposed work. The first incentive is the urgent global challenge for the conversion and utilization of CO2 for sustainable development. Thus the hydrogenation of CO2 to fuels and chemicals is one of the major and currently pressing technological challenges in heterogeneous catalysis and electrochemistry.
The second incentive is the great opportunity offered in this direction by the effect of electrochemical promotion of catalysis (EPOC) or non-Faradaic electrochemical modification of catalytic activity (NEMCA effect) and its recently established very close relationship to the effect of metal-support interactions (MSI). While during the last few years EPOC has become quite known and is described in detail in practically all modern electrochemical and catalytic handbooks, still most of the published work in this area has focused on oxidation reactions promoted by oxygen ion conductors with less than 5% of the publications exploring the use of proton conductors for hydrogenation reactions. One reason for this is that until very recently no proton conductors were available for the temperature range 150o to 350oC which is of key importance for most hydrogenation reactions.
Electrochemical Promotion of aerobic-catalytic treatment of toxic pollutants in aqueous phase - Project Page
ARISTEIA II
EPOC-Aqua
University of Patras, Prof. A. Katsaounis
co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the General Secretary of Research & Technology
One of the effective methods proposed for the treatment of toxic wastewaters is the chemical oxidation in the liquid phase via strong oxidants or via activated oxygen under the absence (Wet air oxidation, WAO) or presence of catalyst (Catalytic Wet Air Oxidation, CWAO). It is well known in solid electrochemistry that via Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis (EPOC), the catalytic activity and selectivity of conductive catalysts deposited on solid electrolytes can be altered in a very pronounced, reversible and, to some extent, predictable manner by applying electrical currents or potentials between the catalyst and a second electronic conductor (counter electrode) also deposited on solid electrolyte.
The first objective of the proposal is the application of EPOC in aqueous phase catalytic processes or in other words the combination of the CWAO and EPOC effect. The catalytic reaction could be the oxidation of hydrogen, light hydrocarbons and alcohols, phenolic, carboxylic acids and nitrogen-containing compounds which are supplied or dissolved in the liquid phase. The novelty of the proposal concerns the development of an effective, low cost and controllable electrocatalytic procedure operating at atmospheric conditions for chemical treatment of toxic compounds. Both conventional and novel catalysts will be developed and studied under electropromoted conditions at low temperatures.
The second aim of the project is the investigation of the origin of EPOC in aqueous media using Differential Mass Spectrometry (DMS) in conjunction with electrochemical techniques.
The successful application of EPOC in aqueous phase catalytic oxidations will lead to a novel process substantially more productive and efficient than current technologies. Moreover the economic impact will be great since the operating pressure and temperature will be low and the cost and life time of the catalyst will high due to the modification employed by the EPOC effect.
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Never a Lack of Ideas
There's never a lack of good marketing ideas. Add these to your to-do list.
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The Super Bowl Was Last Week, Do You Remember Any Ads? Take This Quiz
The Big Game was last week. A lot of advertisers spent a lot of money to sell their products. Do you remember any of their ads? I kept track of each ad that ran and recorded any celebrity product endorsers.
Can you match the celebrity with the ad in which he or she appeared? Take the quiz and leave your score in the comments. 51 weeks until the next Super Bowl!
There’s never a lack of ideas.
The Super Bowl of Marketing Isn’t this Weekend, It’s in a Year
When it comes to Super Bowl ads, I’m like a kid on Christmas morning — I look forward to them every year. I’ve blogged about them five years in a row. But the real Super Bowl of Marketing isn’t until 2020, and I’m even more excited about it than the Big Game.
The US Census is the single most important event in the field of Marketing, but it only happens every ten years. Luckily for us, it happens again in 2020.
The Census is required by Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution. The data collected determine the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives. For Marketers, the Census is our chance to look at demographic trends without needing to use a sample of data. In other words, census data are the single source of truth — no sample set required!
As Secretary of State in 1790, Thomas Jefferson oversaw the first Census. James Madison wrote five of the six questions it asked. That’s when the population of the US hadn’t reached 4 million people yet. In 2020, t…
2018 Super Bowl Ads: Match the Celebrity Endorsers
Five years ago, in an attempt to demonstrate the ridiculousness of including hashtags in Super Bowl commercials, I started creating annual quizzes to test which hasthags were memorable.
Not many were.
Because most hashtags are silly.
The only acceptable hashtags in advertising are a brand’s name.
Five years later, advertisers have gotten the message. I only counted eight total hashtags shown in Super Bowl ads this year. I couldn’t even make a good quiz.
This year, it seemed like more ads included well-known celebrities than in previous years. So here’s an all-new quiz for you:
Can you match the celebrity with the endorsed brand from its 2018 Super Bowl commercial?
Add This To Your To-Do List
Take the quiz! Add your score to the comments, below.
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore via WikiCommons.
Ten Steps to Take When Your Brand is the Victim of Fake News
Fake news can strike any brand at any time. It hit ours recently. Consider this a playbook for what to do when fake news hits your brand.
For clarity, I’m not talking about how to respond to a story in which facts were misinterpreted or taken out of context. I’m not talking about editorials, either. I’m talking about a completely fabricated story that has no basis in fact and is damaging to your brand.
When fake news hits, it will almost certainly spread via Facebook first. Follow the steps below and you’ll make it through as unscathed as possible.
Make sure the fake news story is actually fake. Don’t proceed with the next steps unless it’s truly fake news and has no basis in fact.Draft a brief statement (3-4 sentences) to communicate four things:You are aware of the fake news story It’s truly fake newsYou are working to take down the storyYou are contacting each person who has shared the story online and asking them to remove their postCommunicate to your employees and internal stakeho…
On the Fence: The First Priority of Marketing Communication
Four years ago, I wrote the definitive list of marketing communication priorities. First on that list:
Utilize your physical location (if you have one).
The piano teacher who owns the fence pictured here is doing this perfectly. Well done.
#SuperBowl #Hashtags 2017
For the fourth year in a row, I tracked all ads shown during the Big Game and kept track if an ad showed a hashtag. I do this as a way to convince marketers to stop using silly hashtags — and I think it’s working. Only 25% of ads contained a hashtag this year — the lowest percentage I’ve seen in the last four years. You're welcome, America.
Remember: the best hashtag to use (if you must use one) is simply a brand name.
Let’s see if you can identify these 7 hashtags from Super Bowl LI: Take the quiz now. And leave your score in the comments, below.
Five TV Restaurants in Which I Want to Eat in Real Life
In case you missed it, there’s a real-life pop-up restaurant modeled after “The Max” — the fictional restaurant featured in 90s sitcomSaved by the Bell.What a cool idea, and a great example of a concept playing on both of themost powerful forces in marketing.
Taking inspiration fromSaved by the Max, I brainstormed five TV restaurants in which I’d pay to dine in real life:
1. Monk’s Diner — Seinfeld The outside of Monk’s Diner from Seinfeld is real-lifeTom’s Restaurantin New York. However, the inside of the restaurant was shot on a sound stage. WhileHulu built a real-life version of Jerry Seinfeld’s apartmentto promote its deal with the show, nobody has built a replica of the inside of Monk’s Diner. I’d do just about anything for a chance to talk about nothing while eating chicken salad, on rye, untoasted, and drinking a cup of tea.
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Bode Miller's Toddler Drowned in 'Very Short Amount of Time'
Newser - By Rob Quinn
"I have a small pulse. I have a small pulse," a man says in a harrowing 911 call released after the death of Olympic skier Bode Miller's 19-month-old daughter.
"I need an oxygen machine here. Like now." Earlier in the call, a woman says the girl has no pulse after falling into a backyard pool and asks the dispatcher to coach her on performing CPR, the Los Angeles Times reports.
"Come on baby girl," the man can be heard saying. Orange County, Calif., Fire Capt. Tony Bommarito says paramedics continued trying to revive little Emmy Miller on the way to the hospital but they were unable to save her.
The toddler was the youngest child of Miller and wife Morgan Beck Miller. Fire Capt. Steve Concialdi tells People that the tragedy happened around 6:30pm Saturday at the home of one of the Millers' neighbors.
Concialdi says Emmy wandered away while her mother was talking to a neighbor in Coto de Caza. "She was only missing for just a short amount of time and Mom turned and was looking for her and didn’t see her right next to her,” he says. "Mom went straight to the backyard to where the pool was.
The child was in the pool. The mom pulled out the little girl and they started CPR immediately." He says drowning has been confirmed as the cause of death, and Emmy died despite having only been in the water a "very short amount of time." The department posted water safety reminders on its Facebook page Tuesday. In a tweet, the US Ski and Snowboard team said it had learned of the tragedy with "utmost sadness." The thoughts and prayers of the team and "everyone across the whole snowsports world are with Bode, his wife Morgan, and their family at this time," the team said.
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By Kim Voynar Voynar@moviecitynews.com
Sundance 2014 Review: The Better Angels
Posted Sunday, January 26th, 2014 - Comments Off on Sundance 2014 Review: The Better Angels
The Better Angels, produced (and clearly strongly influenced) by Terrence Malick and directed by A.J. Edwards in his feature debut, is a stunningly beautiful, vividly black-and-white cinematic painting about the boyhood of Abraham Lincoln on a farm in the remote Indiana frontier during the years 1817-1819. And for lovers of films that veer into the realm of art, it’s a deeply moving visual treat.
Presumably, these particular years in young Lincoln’s life were chosen as the focus of the film because of their profound influence in shaping the boy who would become our 16th president. In 1816 Lincoln’s father, Thomas, notably lost his sizable holdings of land in Kentucky due to property line disputes, forcing the family to relocate to Indiana to make a fresh start. It was during these years that two pivotal events occurred: Lincoln’s mother, Nancy, died of milk sickness in 1818, and his father remarried in 1819 to Sarah Bush Johnston, with whom the boy bonded. Both women strongly influenced the man Abe Lincoln would become.
Edwards moves us along languidly through this pivotal period in Lincoln’s life: The isolation of a frontier farm boy who loved books and learning, growing up in a time and place where physical labor was more valued than intellect. The death of his beloved mother and arrival of his stepmother, two women who understood intuitively that there was something different and special about the boy, and who profoundly shaped his life. The fabled wrestling match, at which he won the grudging respect of rough-and-tumble peers by showing that he had brawn as well as brains. We also see planted the seed of his opposition to slavery, which would come to be a crucial part of his political career.
There are certainly many ways the story of Lincoln as a boy could have been told, but Edwards, a longtime cameraman in Malick’s circle, chooses here the path akin to what one imagines Malick himself might have taken, had he directed the project himself, as he reportedly planned to early in its development. Told largely through voice over taken directly from an interview with Lincoln’s last surviving cousin, who lived with the future president during this time of his life, The Better Angels (not unlike Malick’s own films) lies far more in the realm of impressionistic imagery and poetry than narrative prose.
This is a film created to be seen on a big screen, where the gorgeous cinematography can fill your soul. Dialog is sparse, used only to augment the narration and visuals, with the result that it feels almost like watching a silent film with narration over it. Or perhaps, to be more accurate, it’s like immersing yourself into a black-and-white landscape of stunning beauty, where there happens to be this story happening around you. I certainly couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. Edwards’ time spent as a cameraman on Malick’s films is evident here in the framing of shots, the extensive use of nature in storytelling, and his willingness to let his tale breathe in quiet spaces.
Lack of dialog doesn’t mean lack of need for solid performances – if anything it requires that much more of an actor to convey actions, emotions, moments of connection with each other, without being able to lean much on words to convey meaning. Fortunately for Edwards, his excellent cast is more than up to that task. Jason Clarke as Tom Lincoln, Brit Marling as Lincoln’s mother, Sarah, and Diane Kruger as his stepmother Nancy, are all spot on, evoking the juxtaposition of weariness and hope that embodied life on the frontier. But it’s young Braydon Denney, who plays Abe Lincoln in the tale, who most stood out for me, perfectly capturing the dreamy intellect that conveys the introspective mind of the boy who would grow to be one of our nation’s greatest leaders.
While the film’s high-art house structure and style might limit the film’s appeal to a mainstream audience, for those who revel the use of poetic imagery to tell a story, The Better Angels is a sumptuous feast of starkly contrasted painterly beauty. It is, quite simply, sublime.
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‘What we see we feel’: The Imaginative World of W.H. Hudson
Mervin Nicholson
MERVIN NICHOLSON 'What we see we feel' : The Imaginative World of W.H. Hudson G,'eell Mallsio"s comes to mind when W.H. Hudson is mentioned. But Hudson, a man of many interests, wrote non-fiction as well as romance, combining, as H.j. Massingham says, a great variety of elements: the primitive with the man in advance of his time, the artist with the naturalist, the observer with the dreamer, the personal with the objective, the romantic with the realist, memory with spontaneity, fact with fantasy, selfexpression with self-forgetfulness, the physical with the spiritual, the animist with the visionary, and what is perhaps most striking of all, the boy with the man. 1 The opposed qualities make Hudson interesting. On the one hand, he produced books about nature, some of genuine scientific value; on the other, there is his 'romance of the tropical forest' Green Mallsions with its haunting power and uninhibited passion. Green Mansions, in the words of Galsworthy's foreword, 'symbolises the yearning of the human soul for the attainment of perfect love and beauty in this life. '2 The emphatic 'in this life' indicates that attainment is found here and now, if at all, so that there can be no contradiction between the precise observations of actual experience in the nature books and the larger-than-life saga of Rima and Mr AbeL The different elements of a writer are not mutually exclusive: they interpenetrate one another. Taking Nature in Downland as representative of Hudson's nature books, we find in it the same imaginative power giving shape and Significance to ordinary experience that later produced the wider vistas of Green Mansions. When we read Nature ill Dowl1lal1d we are not exploring the geography of the South Downs, important as their natural history is, but an imaginative world which mediates between the hills traversed by Hudson in 1899-1900 and the romance domain over which Rima presides. Hudson sees a nature transmuted by feeling and organized by imagination , resulting in a structure of images and metaphoric ideas that identifies order and meaning in experience. Nature in Downland is not a simple record: the events are selected and handled in a specific way according to an imaginative conception of life. The book is doubly interesting because it illustrates how experience gets assimilated by the tJNrvERS ITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY, VOLUME XLVII, NUM8ER4, SUMMER 1978 0042.0247178/0900.°3°4 $01.50/0 © UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS 1978 THE IMAGINATIVE WORLD OFW.H. HUDSON 305 creative literary imagination, and because the themes informing this work of non-fiction reappear in the larger vision of Green Mansions. As Nature in Downland and Green Mansions are very different it seems that the variety is possible only because of the same imaginative power. To quote Galsworthy again, Hudson has in fiction and non-fiction alike 'a supreme gift of disclosing not only the thing he sees but the spirit of his vision. Without apparent effort he takes you with him into a rare, free, natural world, and always you are refreshed, stimulated, enlarged, by going there." What follows is a metaphoric map of that world as it appears in Nature in Downland. I The clues to the structure of imagery in non-fiction first appear in the writer's handling of metaphor. 'The Living Garment' in chapter 3 is the surface terrain, but the metaphor implies the existence of a being identical with earth and clothed by that garment. We find such a being in Hudson's description of the sloping hills: we have the succession of shapely outlines; the vast protuberances and deep divisions between, suggestive of the most prominent and beautiful curves of the human figure, and of the 'solemn slope of mighty limbs asleep' ... a Titanic woman reclined in everlasting slumber on the earth, her loose sweet-smelling hair lying like an old-world forest over leagues of ground.4 Hudson is somewhat defensive about this being because, in the age of realism in which he writes, seeing the hills as a gigantic woman is considered merely an associative fancy. But it is more than that. It 'is rather a startlingly vivid reminder that we ourselves...
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Concert Review: Bernice & Charlotte Day-Wilson @ PHI Centre
The night of April 22nd saw the Phi Centre opening its doors for an unforgettable showcase of two outstanding Toronto acts, complementary in many ways but diverse enough to keep the audience hooked.
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This entry was posted in CKUT programming and tagged bernice, charlotte day-wilson, phi center on April 28, 2017 by CKUT Music Coordinator.
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02-11-2014, 11:31 PM (This post was last modified: 02-11-2014 11:46 PM by TRX.)
i found this hanging at MxOSource forum, and since it is my writing i can do whatever i want with it. Since i dont even follow that project anymore, and since i got message of people who loved the story to motivate me to keep writing, because of kinda out of control posts my way about some spellingcheck, without reading the actual content of the post, imma rip the whole story off there and hover it over here, where i had much less rudeness to begin with. And so i decided to post it here.. For those who like the actual story content, and do antf***k about a few spellingfaults.
"Welcome back Captain... we are certainly glad you got home safe..."
'Thank you Councillor'
"Can you describe to everyone here... what you have been through.. after the forced ejection of the awakened from the simulation.. in your own words?
'yes sir.. i'll do my best..'
The room became more silent, as the Council, the Zioncontrollofficers, and some Hovercraft Captains and Operators, focussed on TRX to begin the requested reporting of events.
'Because of the forced ejection.. the crewmembers that were jacked in at that time.. have lost their lives.. either instantly, or within the hour after the ejection.'
He paused while clearing his throat.
'The list of casualties, has been filed to Zioncontrollofficer Tyndall.
Only Lyrics my Operator, and i survived, due also to the fact i wasnt jacked in myself.'
"You were not?" asked the female councillor.
"No Councillor.. i jacked out a few hours earlier then my team.. because i reached limit of 8 hours straight shift jacked in the matrix."
"I see.. continue.."
"... just before the eject of my team.. a huge jamming signal blocked communication with the jacked team.. according to my Operator Lyrics..
Unable to contact them in time, also the emergency jackout procedure failed, and we could not pick up their signal in time."
'Captain, we are sorry for this loss, if you feel the need to pause at any time, we will understand, and give you 10 minute break.'
"Thank you, but i rather continue now, but if so, i'll say so.."
"Very well.. continue Captain.."
"Then after the ejection.. all onboard communications went down.. only radar funtions.. and the ships lifesupportfunctions.. en engines still worked."
The Captain sighed as you could see he had trouble to find words, due also to his tiredness.
"We then first brought the ship, to safety out of broadcastdepth, and began troubleshooting to re-establish communication.. also re-igniting the ships engines, and when we succeeded in doing so after some time.. we got the message from Zioncontrol to return home immediatly."
"But because we were a long way from New Zion, and recieved multiple s.o.s. messages, we requested permission to aid nearby hovercrafts..wich was permitted."
"We succesfully gave aid to three vessels, among Captain Vesuveus's flag ship of the Daniel institute of Dreaming Interpretation, we decided to return the long journey home as we began to rapidly lose rescources."
"i don't see Captain Vesuveus here, is he allright?" asked one of the Councillors.
"Yes Councillor.. Allthough..He was the only survivor onboard his vessel, wich had taken heavy damage, he was shook up by the events, and had been starving of hunger, and had some trouble to sleep the first days, because due to isolation, and constantly awareness to protect his ship from being attacked.. but after a week of rest and eating regularly, he recovered very well as time past. He also just docked and is filing requested information at the commandcenter as we speak."
"Very well.. but we also like that he reports here just as you.. somewhat later.. within reasonable time... allthough if he does not want to.. we will not force him, but will read is filed reports from command instead.. due to the circumstances."
"Thank you Councillor.. that is very thoughtful of you.." TRX showed a little smile after his words.
The Council gathered their heads together, spoke somewhat and continued asking:
"We have interviewed other Captain's, or read their filed reports, about new developments regarding the simulation.. what did you notice prior to these developments, and what is your vision on the current status of these developments?"
"Well.. many ships are lost, as well as their crew, we documented and filed about 8 Zion vessels as a totall lost.. and over 40 deaths, 13 wounded, and about 22 missing since.
We dont have exact Numbers of redpills from other orgs. we estimated around the same numbers, give or take a few less or more.
But.. the really scary part of this all is that... short after the ejection from the simulation, hundreds of sentinels were deployed by the machine, it has come to our attention that the sentinels have attacked every Hovercraft they encountered... regardless of wich organization."
a silence followed..
"But to conclude all events according to personal aquired information wich you asked me here for.. the following..:
Our best hackers, have found ways to enter the simulation after all this time, allthough due to the vast expansion of firewalls, triggered virusses, and work arounds, the connection, the signal, and interfaces, the experience of being jacked in is very glitched. But it is possible to at least enter the areas of richland and westview districts for now."
"Communication is not always stable, and we are now bound to other rules, wich can hardly be bent or broken, untill maybe the time comes there is an other solution, or the havy security is somehow decoded."
"How many times have you entered the matrix since then?.. And.. did you have any contact with others within the simulation, with whom, and have you heard anything from the oracle, or the merovingian, or any other program, Oliarchs or evidence of any other important figure?"
"i would say several ten times, there has been contact with veteran hackers, a handful of operatives from various orgs, who seem to have a truce so far, that is between redpills speaking only, even less other captains, but there's reasonable doubt about timespan, and glitches blocking us from seeing each other. And there has been no evidence of what program, or entity within simulation, we simply have no evidence pointing towards anything. There have been a few sightings, but all is not trustworthy due to the experience of being jacked in is unlike we ever seen."
"So what do you suggest we do Captain?"
again a brief silence fills the room...
"That is a tough question.. but i guess if we want to know about the oracle to start with.. we would have to go search, but we might even have to look in a totally different ways, or clues.. not in any way obvious or expectable then before the massive kickout, if those are correct word to begin with."
"However.. i dont know why, but im optimitic if comes to finding clues, of it's whereabouts... i can't explain why, i just believe nothing is impossible anymore, after all those years since i was first awakened, and being almost awakened for a second first time.. so it feels."
"Well Captain TRX... thank you for these insights, your dedication, and your Operator as well, and if we need to re-examine reports, from you or others to get to the source the mysteries we are all facing, we will count on you coming here again on request, and, if , or, going in the simulation for the purpose of solving related issues, in these matters. But we do suggest, and recommend you to take it slow at first, get some well earned rest, and when you do feel the need to work, that you start working in parttime schedules first."
"Affirmative Sir.. i will take you advice at heart, thank you for your compliments, allthough i feel... i did what was.. my duty"
"Goodmorning Captain TRX.. Thank you for appearing before the Council once again.. on such short notice.. How are you, since the last time you were here?"
"Goodmorning members of the Council. I'm doing well.. I've been taking some time off duty.. seeing family, and spend time with my wife, and contacted friends, some Captain's, to see how they have been doing. Thank you for asking"
"Ah.. we are glad you are doing fine Captain. I guess you have been thinking about the advise we gave you last time?"
"Yes Sir, i have.. the last few days, i have been inspecting my Hovercraft, together with my Operator, but only for 4 hours a day, we made some repairs, and improvements."
"I see.. Hows is Operator Lyrics doing?"
"Ah.. well.. she has been taking time for herself also... but she has started workin full already for some time now.."
"Sounds good.. but keep an eye out she does not overdo it.."
"Yes Sir."
"So, Captain.. to get to the core of the matter why we asked you here.. We have seen, spoke to, and read reports of other Captains and Fleetcommanders. Also we had frequent contact with Contollofficer Tyndall. Allthough we did not hear out everybody yet... On asking the same question to all.. as.. to how they think we should proceed regarding the simulation.. many of them believe it would be a good start.. if we start pointing noses in the same direction. As i said allthough we have not interviewed everybody yet.. we do believe that it would be a good to start looking for clues, and the whereabouts of the oracle, because we do feel as most of us, that the approach to seek answers about the future, will be more valuable then answers about the past, and we will believe that answers about the future, eventually will give us enough informaton about what happend in the past anyway."
the Councillor paused for a few seconds and questioned:
"Are you willing to volunteer starting on these matters, of course with help form some others, outfront?"
TRX didn't need long to answer the question;
"Yes Sir, i'm certainly willing to seek more answers about the whereabouts of the oracle. you can count me in Sir"
"OK.. Captain.. you will soon recieve more information, on the other volunteers.. those who will be working with you.. in the next days or so. You can call officer Tyndal, from within the matrix to recieve your mission details.."
"Yes Sir.. thank you"
A day or 3 later...
TRX and his Operator Lyrics finally finished, the last tweaks and updates on the ship, and its broadcastdeck. Lyrics had been having contact with various hackers, to understand the kind of updates and workarounds across the global structure of the broadcast interfaces, and for her felt like learning the profession of Operator all over again, in the technical part of the line of work.
Allthough she found it tough, she actually started to like learning more and more about the job.. just as the early days of becoming an Operator.
On the 3rd day, the two woke up and met in the messhall, for some breakfast, while discussing the latest improvements of the system, and looking back on it satisfied with the outcome.
"You know T.. we should run a few tests, and get you jacked in, to see if all runs as smooth as possible. I wanna be sure that the basic needs like EJP and commlink to the ship are stable enough before beginning the mission we are assigned to."
TRX proudly locked eyes with his Operator, and replied smiling:
"I knew you would say this, and your right, better be safe then sorry."
After the two finished there meal, both got ready to bring the hovercraft to broadcast depth not too far from home.
"Place her right there Lyrics, in the gap on the right, should be a safe corner in case of sentinelscouts picking up a signal."
Lyrics professionally put the hovercraft in place, after a: "roger that"
"Well... let's get jacked" said TRX eager to jack in.
The two made way to the broadcast deck, and after double checking the requirements for a succesful jack in, Lyrics connected her Captain with the interfacepin.
TRX's eyes opened wider, and then shut his eyes as the green rain of code started to slowly morph into the matrix at Uriah NE hardline.
As soon as he was succesfully jacked in, wearing nothing but a tight boxershort and a cellure in his hand, he felt somewhat awkward, and called his Operator.
With an almost bursting into laugh sound in her voice he heard Lyrics picking up the call: "Phffghehehe Operator....."
TRX on his turn replied less amused:
"...Lyrics... i am naked... if i ever notice you told this to some one.. imma not letting ya off easy.."
Lyrics couldn't help laughing somewhat and joking some more about it:
"Hahahaha.. Don't worry Sir.. you look great, but.. does it feel cold over there or.. are ya always this uhmmm.... pale "
"Very funny Lyrics... now let's cut the standup comedian act, and tell me why.. im naked.. and what i can do next, to at least get on some pants."
"Ok ok.. due to the updates your RSI is not "fully" loaded.. no worries.. Stokes down the road there has some clothing for ya.."
TRX made his way to stokes and got some clothing, for free, and began makin his way to the next hardline i uriah.
Again the two made contact, and Lyrics explained some do's and don't's about usage, rules, and that he had to adapt to these.
After testing his hyperjump and hyperspeed abillities and dicussing those they concluded testresults.
"Well... i think all is somewhat glitchy but certainly improved since the last time i was jacked in, the connection feels more stable, and some glitches are actually fixed."
"OK.. T.. sounds good, try to jackout? Meanwhile i'll try contact ZionCommand, and Zioncontrol, to inform we are ready to assemble with the others, if they are ready too.."
"Yeah.. i wanna do one thing and get to mara central to see if i can get there without too much glitches before jacking out.. see ya in a few."
All that was said was done succesfully, and the Captain woke up in on the broadcastdeck safely, to extended satisfaction on the test mission.
Lyrics made contact, to then wait on confirmation.
2 days later.. somewhere in an abandoned subwaystation in the Rogers Way district.
"I'm glad to see such experienced captians and operative in my presence, to work together on "Operation CookieSearch"... I donno who came up with the idea to call it that, but hey, humor is a good thing in this situation .. right?."
TRX slowly passed everyone while continueing his words.
"But for a serious note.. lemme get one thing straight with all of you here as TeamCap, i do not, i repeat, Do Not, want to lose anyone on this mission. We have had too much casuallties already, and im gonna go cookook if i lose even one soul in here again.
TRX reached for a smoke, and lit it, then continued:
"In order to make that chance as small as humanly possible, the following orders are of the highest priority:
1. In any case of resistance in any form, retreat/withdraw, and contact the other team members, when your safe.
2. If you cannot get to safety for some reason, then call the operator who will guide you to the nearest exit, to jackout, and tell what youve seen to the operator who will contact the others.
3. In case you find the oracle, do not interact too much, or ask too much, or do stuff on your own, but keep it there, protect it at any cost if needed, and contact all teammembers with the coords, attached.
4. after the mission, succesfull, or unsuccesfull, everyone makes sure we are all safe before we jackout, and when we have jacked out, we will debrief at HQ, and get a freaking drink, if not get drunk...
The sound of chuckles filled the area.
"Understood?"
All replied in choir: Yes sir..
"Ok then, let's roll!"
Every one made theire way outside, checking PDA's or hyperdashed straight away, in pairs.
TRX called his operator.
Lyrics answered the call ..
"Operator.."
"Keep an eye on every position, of this team, and update them to my PDA, every two minutes, please"
"Yes sir.."
"TRX out.."
With the team scattered all over megacity, crossing multiple districts, the most obvious start was of course the oracle's home, as we know it.
The old appartments near Debir Court, in Mara.
TRX went to see the place, but it was soon very clear, that it was abandoned.
The only thing recognizable, was the stove, where the oracle use to make cookies. He could almost smell the fragrance of the warm, fresh, baked, chocolate chipped cookies.
He scanned the appartment for any clues that might still be there, but with no avail.
A short text message, form his operator, appeared on his PDA, with the locations of the other teammembers.
Next idea, he was thinkin', it might be good to also look for places where he might find Seraph, that is, if the fella was still hangin somewhere.
TRX made his way to the hardline where he chose to go to, Tabor East HL.
The others, of the team, were searching for a needle in a haystack too, but had their'e own places in mind, to find clues, from their'e own experiences.
From fightclubs, to the casino, from churches, to the hearthotel, and of course the landmarks, such as the ascension monument in rogers way.
Or the places where they met the Oracle, or Seraph themselfs.
Questions started to arise, as the made way through the city.
Why this rejection, and some things were so much changed, that it began to look like a reset of the matrix.
TRX now walking around from Tabor East, to Tabor West, the districts, where he was first awakened, flashbacks started to occur, as he frequently scanned the area for out of the ordinary sightings.
Near Tabor West, he passed a building, where in the first days of his captaincy, he had an office, for short meetings with his crew. Sometimes he would go there alone, to think about stuff, planning strategies, or just sit at the desk, smokin a ciggy, and be alone.
Just after he passed it, he decided to walk back, as he could not resist to take a peak in that office, and sit down for a minute.
He walked through the entrance, through the narrow hallways, to the last door, where a little smile appeared on his face, while standing still, at the door for a few seconds.
Thinking about a few years back when he would make a remote proxy 5.0, and ordered it to stand guard at the door, and set it to agressive, so whenever an enemy would pass by that door, would get attacked, wich one day happened when he was sitting at his desk inside, and heard gunshots outside. Then when he got to check it out, the proxy was gone, and backdoor was open. When he got outside, he was totally flabbergasted, to find a young merovingian operative, on the edge of losing the fight against his remote proxy.
TRX entered the office, and absolutly nothing had changed in all this time he didn't visit the place.
It looked dusty, with smudgy carpet, and stains on the old wallpaper.
He picked out a chair, and set down, and to his pleasure he saw, that the old desktelephone was still sitting there on his desk, like nothing ever happened.
His PDA sounded, again with a short text message of the positions of the others, ending the text with the words:
"No cookie yet".
TRX sat back, and mumbled: "Smoke 'm if you have 'm.."
As he use to say whenever he took a break.
He took out his pack of smokes, took oine out, looked at it, then lit it with his zippo, took a drag of his cigarette, and exhaled the smoke towards the window.
He looked outside, and started brainstorming outloud as to where he would go next:
"the Oracle, must 've known they were lookin for it, if it is still somewhere in the matrix. It is just a question of time...
And if Seraph is also still outthere somewhere, then he prolly is opening a door somew......
Wait a minute...
There's only one door leading to the white hallway' s from richland.. and what if he is there?
Or, come to think of it, nearby is a bookstore, and what if.. they are hiding in a construct..?"
TRX stood up, still sucking his cigarette, walked back outside, and made his way to the Tabor West Hardline, to teleport to Moriah East.
When he got there, he turned to his right, and wanted to enter the backdoor of the clothing store, wich was locked.
"Figures" he mumbled.
"Where's the key when ya need it" he again mumbled.
He went back outside, to walk north, towards the bookstore.
Then when he entered it, some bluepills where going about thei're daily boring lives, shopping for boring books.
He recognized the man behind behind the counter, but the man didn't recognize him.
Wich was odd..
With the little money in his pocket, he had to make a choice, wich tickets he should buy, to enter wich construct.
He looked at the tickets, and one was almost too easy, but, he decided he would that one to begin with..
"Sati' s Playground"
"If it does not work, or, if i find scratch, i can try one more other contruct." he whispered in his mind.
When TRX finally got in Sati's Playground, through the teleporter in the bookstore, he couldnt help smiling.
The fact Sati made it was evident.
Blue/purple sky's with a lil yellow in it.
An exact copy of Debir Court was also there. Just a little more colorful.
It looked quiet, but, you would have to be on your toes in this place. Before you knew it, some ninja could jump ya.
The playfull tone of Lyrics sounded thtough the speaker: "Operator.."
TRX tried to sound cool also: "Yeah.. it's me.."
"I was just about to send you the next set of coordinates T.."
"Well.. Lyrics.. I think i found a good chance for a lead.. can ya send the rest my coordinates.. and tell them to meet me here A.S.A.P?"
"Will do T.."
TRX closed his cellure with a short whip of his wrist.
He figured to scout the area before the rest of his team arrived.
He opened his PDA, mapchecked his coordinates, and started walking in a big circle staying close to the construct's borders.
The place was a little too quiet, no cars, no bluepills, just the sound of a soft wind blowin through the trees.
He picked up his phone when it rang: "T here.."
"Operator here.. The rest of the team is almost there, they are at the bookstore right now.. except for Shearman, and Slicks, they will guard the area around the bookstore to make sure its fine to come back."
"Roger.. I'm surprised already, that we didnt bump into anyone else yet.."
"You are right about that Sir.. "
"Keep a close eye though.."
TRX closed his cellure while he made his way back to the teleportcoordinates.
Just when he lit another cigarette, the first two spawned in front of him, then right after that the rest of the team.
"Welcome to Sati's lil creation fella's" said TRX, as if he was an announcer at a festival.
One of the guys replied: "Over here kids.. we have the swings.. be good now.. and stay close to daddy.."
TRX informed the team: "Ok guys.. there's a good chance we can find some clues here.. let's go in pairs, and check the buildings around the Debir Court copy."
After a searching a few buildings the one on the left was next.
When a few team members came back to TRX, and told him they saw Sati, but when they got close she disappeared in front them like she was a ghost, they all went to check it out.
When they entered the second floor, walking through the narrow hallway, they all witnessed Sati standing at the end of the hallway.
Then she waved.
When the team approached here closer, she vanished in front of them.
"What the..." said Blazin.
TRX looked at two of his team and said:
"Stay right here.. in case she comes back.. The rest of you, follow me.."
They searched some rooms, but nothing was there, and then moved one floor up using the staircase.
And again when they entered another hallway, Sati appeared again at the end of the hallway.
TRX whispered: "Don't move.. "
Everyone stopped walking, when Sati waved to them.
The team did not move, and it looked like Sati wasn't going anywhere.
TRX' s Phone beeped, indicating he had a short text message.
When he opened the message, he saw it was from the team of two one floor lower with the words: "Sati is here"
TRX replied texting: "Dont move"
He whispered that the same was happening downstairs, to his team while he pressed the sendbutton.
Sati waved again.
TRX waved back to see if she reacted, and said: "Hi Sati.. can ya see us honey?"
But Sati did not react to TRX his words.
"It looks like some sort of transmission Sir.." whispered Blazin.
"Looks like it.." TRX answered.
TRX looked around him, then towards Sati, then said: "Im afraid if we coma closer, she disappears again, Blazin.. you stay here.. and we will go back to the staircase, and go one floor up to see if there are more Sati' s.
"OK T.."
TRX and the three men left Blazin walkin backwards, then turned around and got to the 4th floor.
Then it happened, Sati showed herself there also, waved, and then made handsignal to come closer.
They slowly walked over to Sati, untill they were facing her.
She appeared to be slighly glitchy here and there, like the beginning of a Jackout Procedure.
TRX sat down on one knee so he could face her.
"What is it hun?.. You can tell ole T, can't ya?
Sati' s eyes looked sad, and a lil tear rolled down her cheek, then she whispered: "I'm scared.."
TRX answered her, also whispering: "How come sweety?"
Sati paused, then whispered: "Everything is grey.. and i can't leave this place.."
TRX: "Am i grey too?"
Sati whispered with another tear rolling down her cheek: "Yes.. you look grey too.."
TRX put his hand on her shoulder, and noticed it felt like weak electricity.
Sati whispered: "I' m so tired.. i can't stay to talk with you, it makes me tired."
Sati started to glitch again, but now more frequently.
TRX didn't want to ask her more, afraid that it would cost to much energy, so he thaught he tried cheer her mood a little, so he whispered her gently:
"Sati honey.. We will come back for you.. and help you to get you out.. ok?.. Your' e a strong little girl.. And when we come back.. maybe we can bring Seraph and Oracle to help too.. Do you know where they are?"
Sati gazed at TRX with hope in her eyes, then softly said:
"I don't know where Oracle is, but Seraph knows.."
TRX: "Do you know where i can find Seraph?"
Sati: "He is ...."
Sati now, really started to glitch heavily, she talked but there was no sound.
TRX tried to get read her lips to get the answer, but he could not see it, as she glitched all over the place.
"I can't hear you honey..." he said.
Sati pointed upwards and looked up, the she tried to hug TRX but as soon as she tried, she vanished.
When the team left the building, the team got together, outside, near the teleporter.
"We have one lead, and i'm happy with it" said TRX with a smile.
"It' s better then comin back emptyhanded, aint it?" said Blazin while taking off his gloves.
TRX looked at his PDA, checked the time, and said:
"We still have some time left, whatta yall say we try figuring out what Sati ment?"
The team confirmed the idea either by handsignal, or nodding.
"The question is though, where to start? Because, she pointed upwards, but, up where?"
"We could check the upperfloors of the building, and roof, but somethin says me that aint the place" mumbled shearman.
"It would be dumb not to check it either, excuse me, i don't like the word dumb, it would not be wise.... to not check it" said one of the others.
TRX took off his shades, and put it in his inside pocket, of his black tan duster.
Then faced the two, sayin:
"Well.. guys.. i suggest you two check that out, and while your' e back there, register the coordinates of Sati' s Position to your PDA, and in case you find nothing but air, then send that coords to me and the operator."
"Ok Cap.."
Both left back in the direction of the building, while TRX asked the others:
"As we are here, in a construct, that means we are outside the borders of the simulation itself, does any one know what is above this construct?"
Blazin pulled his PDA out of the pocket of his coat, while sayin:
"Good question Sir, lemme check that on current coordinates."
After some serious looks on his face while checking his screen, he stated:
"According to my coords T, about 2 miles above this construct, should be the border, between districts Zia and kedemoth..."
"In that case.. let us go there, to see if we can come up with any idea where to find a next lead or clue.." said TRX while he snapped open his cellure to inform his Operator.
On arrival at the exact coordinates, all operatives split up in theire own direction, to scan the area.
After searching for a while, checking bars and fightclubs, vendors and bookstores, but without progress, they decided to rendezvous at last location.
Blazin shrugged: "Beats me T.. there is absolutely no sign of him at all.."
and after a pause:
"But.. we cant give up now also, with still a half an hour on the clock.."
"what about further up?" asked the youngest operative of the team.
"uhm.... " Blazin checked his coords again: "I'm not sure, but they look familiar tho.."
"Wild guess?" TRX asked, almost sounding like a gameshow host.
"Well.. of the record of course.. and again dont pin me down on it, but its or... a white room.. or some kind of outpost slash construct.."
"a white room could be, but it seems to me that it aint a white room, and there are many constructs.. so .. if it were a construct or outpost wich one would you be if you were Seraph..?"
"yeah?..."
"Well .. are thinkin what im thinkin then?.."
"I donno what ya reckon then?.."
Both in choir said: "Sakura"
"hahahah well cant hurt to check now can it?"
And so they went.
Arriving in Sakura felt weird somehow, like danger was lurking at every corner.
"Do you feel that T?"
"you mean awareness?"
"thats softly put.."
"Yeah.. actually.. i'm not scared easily but.. i would say i feel fear.. sorta.."
"Me too"
"guys?.."
The others argeed.
"my heart is like pumpin like there is no tomorrow."
"Well.. what bothering me is.. why?... and the fact it feels like fear in the real.."
"Thats what scaring me too"
"Let's stick close together, and keep all sences open for whatever is ringing bells"
When they entered the area near the centre, the feeling got worse, untill the yougest operative said:
"what.. look.. in the name of Neo is that?"
A golden bright light with the outlines of a human form started to approach them slowly..
"Is that..." said blazin
"Seraph?.." TRX answerd
The more it approached it the more power could be felt, the presence of it was so strong, that it caused them fear like it had so much power it could overtake easily.
When it finally faced the team.. they indeed recognized the figure of Seraph in it.
But TRX wanted the confirmation.
"Seraph... is that.. you?"
Seraph took some time before he wanted to answer.
"If you want to be sure.. you will have to fight me.. because one doesn't truly know someone.."
TRX finished the sentence: "unless they fight each other.."
Seraph smiled, you could see his white teeth, under the golden aura he appeared to be.
TRX : "What happend? We seek the oracle, and Sati is somehow stuck in her playground.. and ehm.. you look.. different.. your presence is so strong.. tell me.. what happend to you?.."
Seraph: "Do not fear, im still the same.. but my strenght is more.. my code has changed.."
TRX: "But.. how come?"
Seraph: "I do not know.. i woke this way.."
TRX: "What about the Oracle.. is she still here?.."
Seraph: "Yes.. but i dont know where.. She has changed too.. but just like Sati, Oracle and i are stuck also.."
TRX: "Why cant you leave.. your'e strong.."
Serpah: "My strength is not issue, but the rules of this place make it so, i cant leave from here."
TRX: "Ok.. so.. who made the rules? Who owns them? The architect?"
Seraph: "I can not say.."
TRX: "Then can we visit the oracle, like we visit you and Sati?"
Seraph: "I dont know.. Maybe..you can.. maybe you can't.. the only way to know is to find her"
TRX: "Seraph.. is there anything we can do for you? Do you wish something?"
Seraph: "Yes.. Find Oracle.. I know she is within the matrix.. But changed.. and i dont know where.. find her.. and she will know what to do.. but you must hurry.. others are looking for her too.."
TRX: "OK Seraph.. We will do what we can.."
Seraph: "Now Go.. we have not much time.."
With these words they left.. and exited the matrix.. To report these happenings.. And once again.. one rule still remains.. in the matrix.. Some rules can bend, and others can be broken..
We are still here... and remember... we.. are .. not .. alone..
**Authors note**
As have read the forums of the 3 projects for about a year and half, the same discussionpoint, came to the surface.. What is canon, and what is not.
I know that many have bitter taste after, the policy's of Sony, as well as Warner Bros..
In order to begin a new, we must learn from the past.
There are still people wanting it all back as it was.. well.. i dont want burst ya bubble, but its NOT gonna happen.
But because of the hard work, from all projects, we have this chance as a community, to make something good out of this game, this philosophy, we love.
So.. after reading many of you, and good ideas, and lots of love, for the matrix, and people we have been with, i tried to avoid the hard stuff.
By that i mean, the thing we did, and did not like, because that a case of taste.
So.. i did my best, to avoid big issues about the past such as oligarchs and other sensative material, and tried to capture a possibillity, to create a new start, for all, looking towards, and not too much back.
For me.. it was a difficult task, to avoid a lot of the past, and keeping focus on the future, but, the only way, i could do it, personally, was to make the transition, as we have experienced it.
Wich is been away to long feeling, the glitchyness of the new servers in the beginning, to more stabillity now.
And in order to achieve looking towards the future, is to not be black and white about what is canon about the past, or not, or what we must have in the future, or not,..but a second layer.. between the simulation and real, to make the transition between past and future more invisible.
Because, if i may ask you, if ya read this story.. did you think more about the past? or the future?
And.. how easily was it.. to feel.. that x factor, that the movie, and the genre itself wich we call the matrix..?
If i answer these questions myself..
While writing it, i thought more about future then past, allthough there's still the maybe needed curiosity, about past, and i agree that some question about it can be answered.
But lets not focus on that too much.
And for me.. when i read back what i have written, the images, of the matrix, the story's, and being there.. comes to life.. as if im there.
Lets not forget, there are so many, and so much more story's to be told, within the concept of the matrix, and thats because, it is, so wide in perspective, and new layers in it can make it.. again.. that game, that world, that we love.
Markus aka TRX
**short note**
For the need of writing, and a taste of the matrix flavor.. i decided to continue the story, i started in this open roleplay thread.
I hope you'll enjoy it, as much as i like to write about it.
Greetz TRX
After finding Seraph, with the request to find the Oracle, with only a small hint she was in the matrix, but changed in appearance, the captains and operatives all returned home, all in seperate hovercrafts.
The idea was to all report to ZioncontrollOfficer Tyndall, and if there were more questions that needed to be answered after that, they would report to the Council.
On the way home, they contact each other through a secure radio frequency.
By the time TRX got home and reported to Tyndall, he was third to debrief.
Tyndall: "Goodafternoon TRX, welcome home, and i must say i am curious, about your input, in the total debriefing."
TRX: "Where would you like me to begin? Because i guess you have heard of the others what happend."
Tyndall: "Indeed i have heard what happend, here are the other reports, if you would check them for me, if they correctly filed."
TRX: "Of course, no problem..."
After checking them, and approved them to be the truth as far as it could get, he asked Tyndall what she wanted to know.
Tyndall: "I would like to know what has been crossing your mind, in the time you needed to return home."
TRX: "Well .. at this point we dont have much clues, to continue our search.. other than.. we know that the Oracle, is somewhere in the matrix, and has changed appearance. So .. somewhere in the matrix could be anywhere, and "changed appearance" is also everthing between man, woman, young or old, and does not help much either, for all we know we are looking for an 80 year old man without any teeth..."
Tyndall giggled, and had to take a breather, to get serious about the subject again.
Tyndall: "OK ..but what would you say, would be wise to look for, not to forget the fact that the code structure of the Oracle might be totally different, making it also almost impossible, to find her within the code of the matrix."
TRX: "i have no clue what so ever, for now, and i might come up with an idea or two, but we also don't have much time, according to Seraph, as he warned that others were looking for the Oracle also."
Tyndall: "in how much time do you think you can get back in the matrix?"
TRX: "i would say in an hour or 5.."
Tyndall: "Ok, that sounds good"
TRX: "i dont know about the others of course.."
Tyndall: "I am playing with the idea, to let every one, go by themselfs, and then report to me seperately, and maybe later set up a team again"
TRX: "Ok.. no problem, so i am the first to go?"
Tyndall: "Yup.. if you don't have any objections.."
TRX: "absolutely not.. i will contact you in about 5 to 6 hours, from within the matrix as soon as i am jacked in.."
Tyndall: "Good.. thats settled than, good luck T."
TRX: "thanks Tyndall.."
When TRX left the office, he ordered Lyrics to get the ship ready, and to arrange some one who could help her pilot, and some one for back up, to jack in also if somethin happend to go wrong.
After that he went to eat and sleep, to get ready for a long jack in.
When TRX entered the Blue Distortion, he found Lyrics in the battle stations, checking up on ammo, and if everything else was in order.
She was so in her work she didn't notice T entering behind her, so when he got close to her saying something like: "Are you expecting a horde of sentinels?"
Her heart ended up in her throat, eyeballing him very angry, for scaring the creeps out of her.
"I'm sorry, i couldn't help it" chuckled TRX
"You just wait and see, for the inevitable moment, where i have a surprise for you .. Captainnn.. and after that, you will never again scare the living daylight out of me" She replied.
Rex smiled sayin: "Is that a promise?"
Lyrics: "Youbetya T.."
TRX: "So, did you do as i asked you, about the mission?"
Lyrics: "Of course.. i 've arranged a trainee pilot, from the flagship, his name is Anis, and according to Ps10n, he is a work of art, so, we'll see if Anis can uphold that stateme3nt on the mission... And for the backup Operative, i got you.. Chillz.. and don't be fooled by his name, cause this guy, is a freelancer, and has seen almost every Hovercraft, on the inside, worked for nearly every Captain, in near to every fleet. This man is a veteran, and never wanted to be Captain.. cause.. and i quote: "I'm just havin fun, being a walking machinefist combo".
TRX scratched his head: "Ok, so why has he never been on our hovercraft? Although i know the name from some where in the back of my head.."
Lyrics: "Ah see.. He has been.. but under a different name.. just onces for an assassination.. and it's been a while.. and i can't even recall, if you were there, in the mission that is."
TRX : "Oooo K, so.. any thing else i should know?"
Lyrics: "Yeah.. don't .. i repeat.. Do not... say Chill.. if would want to make him clear that he needs to relax.. you might a have a problem.."
TRX: "ehhrr.. say what?"
Lyrics: "Haha.. got ya there already, and this was just a minor lil joke.."
TRX: "heh.. I love you too Operator.."
By the time all members arrived and ready, they had lost some time, at the gates, by some malfunction.
The ride was smooth without any encounters, for miles and miles, as for a side mission, TRX wanted to see the surface also after the mission.
When everything was set and ready, with Anis keeping an eye on the radar, and Chillz staying to help Lyrics setting up TRX's jack in procedure, TRX felt the interface pin, connecting in his head.
When his RSI adapted to the feed of the matrix, and the rain of code slightly turned into the view of Achan Central, he scanned the are for something suspicious or out of the ordinary, before he got out his PDA, for a map check, to decide wich way he wanted to walk, to get to the next hardline.
In these situations, he just blended in the crowd, from hardline to hardline, as sorta walking from checkpoint to checkpoint.
He made a way point, and started to walk, around the corner, to the sidewalk.
As he was observing his surroundings, he noticed, it was much busier in the streets, more cars driving, more people around him, like it was traffic hour.
"Hhmppff.. strange" he mumbled, while passing by a red haired lady in a black outfit, making him think about Beanix, a good friend a few years back.
This felt more like the old days. Somehow.
But after a 15 minutes walking, although nothing really triggered a sense of danger, he didn't trust this either.
He called in.
Lyrics: "Operator.."
TRX: "Yeah.. it's me.. say.. is it me.. or .. do i really notice changes in the matrix?"
Lyrics: "ehmm yes and no"
TRX: "Do explain.."
Lyrics: "Well.. i updated all interfaces, feed is more stable, feels more alive doesn't it, it's called cfg_400...update"
TRX: "It certainly does, but, how come it seems more busy than lately, more like before the "blackout".. sorta?"
Lyrics: "i don't know T.. code looks more than ok.. i guess.. things keep changing for the better.."
TRX: "hmmm ok.. well.. i have set target to the next HL.. and i am almost there, so, lemme know if you read a strange looking code.. and otherwise i' ll call in, about another 15 minutes."
Lyrics: "Roger.."
TRX couldn't help placing a little joke just before he hung up, saying: "Roger who?"
Lyrics wanted to react, but then then the connection faded, and heard a busy tone.
TRX arrived at his targeted hardline, looked around him, and set another target to walk to, really just random.
It started to cloud up a little, with a greenish tint, as he past another good looking lady.
She had brownish dark long hair, average bodyweight, a nice "front", wearing cool shades, dressed in a brown skirt, with a brown leather suede like jacket, and long knee boots.
He stopped to check her from behind, but when he did, she looked back over her shoulder to check him out also.
Then she turned her head forwards again, and walked on.
TRX looked around him, and nothing odd there to see, no decoy, looked back at the lady, and noticed that she dropped something on the floor. Purposefully.. it seems.
The she turned a corner behind a building.
Now a little more curious, but also more aware, for lurking danger, TRX started to slowly walk to spot where he had seen her dropping an item.
When he got close, he checked his surroundings again, and then crouched on one knee, to find a piece of candy, wrapped in red plastic.
He stood up, and examined it, put it in his pocket, still wrapped.
"this can't be" he whispered to himself.
Again he checked around him, looking for anything out of the ordinary, and again, but everything seemed safe.
He decided to follow the direction of the path, he suspected the lady went to when he got around the same corner.
He doubted to call in, but decided not to.
On pure feeling he looked around him, seeking some sort of trail just by his vision.
Scanning every building, every person, every crowd, and any logical place in the nearby area, with his eyes following any reason to walk to.
Then it was like the sounds he heard, muted, while he focused on an overpass, wich had stairs to the side.
He walked over there, examining his surroundings again, and decided to go up the stairs, on the overpass..
And when he just got to level with his eyes a few inches, above the sideway, he could see the lady, at the other side just walking down the stairs.
He tried to act as normal as he could, to walk over there with now a little more pace.
Walked down the stairs, walked over to the near parking lot, then checked again, and also checked his map on the PDA.
Turned out to be he now was near mara.
Walked over to the nearest subway, and called in.
Lyrics: "Operator here.."
TRX: "Question.. have you seen any thing abnormal, or out of the normal in the code you are reading?"
Lyrics: "Hmmnah not really"
TRX: "yes or no?"
Lyrics: "well i would' nt say odd or out of the ordinary, just .. you.. looking at the lady's.. Are you sure you have had enough attention by the lady's lately, other than.. me?"
TRX: "tyeah, very funny.. butuhmm.. i maybe on to something.. i 'll call ya back"
Lyrics: "Understood"
TRX: "Under..what?"
And again he hung up, before Lyrics could react.
Chuckled, and moved with a faster pace, to the pizzeria, to his left.
The place was nearly empty, except for the man working there and a few customers at some tables.
He walked over to the window where he could see the street side and the sidewalk side, where he could see the entrance of the subway, from the side. And waited.
After a minute or 2, he saw the lady again, crossing the street towards the subway, but she did'nt enter the subway, but stood still at the entrance instead.
Again all sound muted for TRX, as he zoomed in focusing on her face, as she was facing her head in his direction, although the windows were blinded from the outside. As if she just knew, he was there, watching her from behind the blinded window.
Now something really shivered down his spine, when she crouched like she was picking something up from the floor, but then he saw, a black cat, moving from behind a garbage can.
She then pet it, over it's little head, then over it's back, to it's tail, and then she stood up, walked past the entrance, walking into an alley, next to the Hardline... with the cat following her immediately.
He walked outside into the alley, to find himself, at the streets once again, and knew if he crossed the street diagonally, that road would lead him to Mara Central.
He stayed on the side walk, turning left from out the alley, but he could see the lady anywhere.
Then he past a door of an apartment building with a nook, at the door, when he heard a small bell.
When he turned to the sound on the left, a saw the black cat, with small golden bell, looking up at him, on the doorstep.
He looked around him. then turned to face the cat again, and while crouching to pet it, he said: "hey there kittycat.."
The cat purred, enjoying the attention it got, when TRX noticed the door was slightly opened.
Then he got an idea.
He put his fingertip, under the cats tiny chin, and while looking him in the eye, he asked it: "Where's mommy.. hmm?"
The cat purred with a tune in it, turned around, through the door, and TRX following him through the hallway, up two strairs, again in a corridor to finally a door.
The cat scratching the door, letting itself heard, he wanted in.
"Just a second honey.." he heard from the other side of the door.
He heard the lock of the door, but before it was opened, he heard the lady's voice say: "Do you want some tea with that candy.. TRX?"
TRX flabbergasted, replied: "If i say no, you must no why.."
Then he heard her say: "Coffee it is.."
And the door opened.
Meanwhile back at the blue distortion, Operator Lyrics, lost TRX his signal, when TRX walked through the door.
Lyrics: "Where'd he go?"
Chillz: "you lost his signal?"
Lyrics: "yeah.. he just disappeared into "thin air".. he said he had to check something, entered a building, short thereafter he dissappeared from the matrix."
Chillz: "Maybe it is just the communication bug again...let's wait it out a while and see after another 15 minutes, as he would call in after 15 again."
Lyrics: "Ok.. sounds good, but he if he doesn't, you're going to have to jack in, Chilly.."
Chillz: "Hey no problem, i rather be jacked in, than somebody calling me chilly.."
Lyrics: "Oh i'm sorry bursting your bubble, Chillypepper.."
They shared a laugh, not to worry about the comlink broken.
When TRX entered the door, the fine looking lady, smiled at him:
"I am glad you are still the aware type TRX.. It's dangerous for me out there.. but i knew you spot me.. and so worth the effort."
TRX frowned: "Excuse me for asking, but i have to be sure.. it is you.. what does TRX stand for?.. you are without question the only one who should know.."
Oracle: "Your full name is TyRanny Rex.. as in a dinosaur species.."
TRX: "For the love of Trinity.. it is really you.."
Oracle : "Yes.. but you are not here.. to be sure it is me.. you are here to understand what happend."
TRX : "Yes ma'am.."
Oracle: "As you can see.. its miss.."
TRX: "Well.. you're older than all of us.. but.. you definitely look ehmmm.. young"
Oracle: "You're sweet TRX.. you were going to say "fine" weren't you.."
TRX: "You know me too well Oracle"
Oracle: "I have been altered in my appearance.. once again.. and don't worry.. We are now outside the matrix.. in a construct. I.. we.. are safe here.."
TRX: "So.. please do say... what happend?"
Oracle: "What do you want me, to say to you, in what form of precise question, can you give it to me?"
TRX: "First of all, this massive "Kickout" has had it's severe consequences. Some things do not add up. Why this massive unplugging, and why did every ship get attacked, even the machine and mero ones?"
Oracle: "Because it wasn't a kickout.. but a reset of the matrix... to keep it running, without anyone in it.. alter it, and sustain it's potential where it was build for.. and to be used again after sometime.
As for the other org's ships, you are talking about, it doesn't matter to the machines, what kind of org, the main reason, is that they are all human redpills.. and where they do not need anyone, any human, for them to stay here, they will eventually want to kill them too.. simply because there is no need."
TRX: "So.. how come Sati, Seraph and you are here?"
Oracle: "For the same reason that you are here..too"
TRX : "We managed through hackers and workaround to get back, but Seraph said, he awoke the way is he now.."
Oracle: "Yes that's correct, but they are contained, during the reset, and so are the agents, all in certain areas, of construction.. untill.. a certain time"
TRX: "what do you mean certain time, at what time?"
Oracle: "i don't know.. that depends on the timer being set on a certain time, for them to walk free.. but that time is uncertain.. at some point the timer will run faster than other times.. and it's the same reason, you do not run into mach or mero orgs operatives, because they all are here in different time expansions, that could mean that you might have bumped into the other org's operatives or captain's, but can't see them yet, and they cant see you, untill all times and timer come together, synchronize, and all is reset, back to normal feed."
TRX: "i see. but how come than that you are not contained?"
Oracle: "I ve found a way, just one way, to be in the matrix, but so is the merovingian, the trainman, the architect, and some other old ones.. and that's why, it is dangerous for me out there, without any protection.. Without Seraph.. However the merovingian, and trainman, and some of the other old ones, are looking for me, but lost me, as you all did."
TRX: "Sati is very unhappy, and Seraph, is .. well.. very strong in his "containment" but not happy either.. what will we do.. what can i say to them?.. Is there an earlier solution to this timer thing?"
Oracle: "i know.. i wish it would'nt have to be so, and if there's a solution, there would also be a choice, but as far as i can see, there is none for now..there are more things, that will have to be solved, other choices to be made before there is a solution, but because it is not understood yet, what choices they are, than i can never see past them to see the solution to an earlier release of them.. and for all we know, this timer, is set on ten years.. and so this is the difficulty."
TRX: "Is there something i can say to them when i see them again? Or other Operatives do, and we can give a message to them?"
Oracle: "I'm afraid it can upset them.. But get the word out, i am still here and safe, in the wide sense of the word."
TRX: " i will do so.. Is there something we can do, in Zion for you?"
Oracle: "I'm afraid, i can't tell you otherwise, than to have as less contact with me, and tell them"
TRX: "Why?"
Oracle: "Because this door you just entered, in this apartment construct, is the only door, for me to escape or to enter through, it is not connected to the white hallways."
TRX: "I see...."
TRX: "Can i stay here with you.. a little while longer?"
Oracle: "If you insist, you know you are welcome here TRX, but the hero Operative on board your vessel, is about to jack in, because you did not call in after 15 minutes, and they have lost your signal in the matrix."
TRX: "yes of course.. i better be home soon.."
Oracle: "yes.."
TRX: "just one question for me personally.. if you do not mind.."
Oracle: "Ask me honey.."
TRX: "Will i find the other half of my source.. my cure, against the hard life? You know what i mean.."
Oracle: "I know what you mean.. but it is not in your hands.. but in the hands of the other.. it is her choice.. in the end.. because, you already made the choice.. She did'nt.. She does not know."
TRX: " I see.. thank you.."
Oracle : "you're welcome Rex.. and before you go...."
TRX: "yes?...
Oracle: "Have a cookie.."
TRX: "Hahah i will not decline, such a delicious cookie.."
Oracle: "here.. and off you go.. do not let them worry.."
TRX: "thank you.. and by the time i ate it.."
Oracle: "you will feel better, and know what to do."
Eating away his cookie, while the door was gently shut behind him, TRX walked out on the street, totally forgetting about his promise to call in.. and by the time he ate the cookie, he saw the closest hardline in the distance, to jack out, and before he wanted to do so, Chillz Jacked in the matrix, and spawned before his eyes..
Chillz: "ehm.. T.. you.."
TRX: "yeah.. Hop back to the Hovercraft, and tell ya all about it."
And so they jacked out, in what seemed, a peaceful matrix.. for now..
Skiddz picked up the handset that was ringing on the shoddy old nightstand. He lifted the receiver to his ear, but before it got there, a gunshot rang out and he was shot dead where he stood.
Aboard the Hovercraft HardBoiled, Marks stared at the operator panel in disbeleif. "SKIDDZ!" Marks screamed until no air was left in his lungs. Skiddz's vital signs were flatlining on the ship.
Suddenly, the handsome, and chisled, captian of the Hovercraft HardBoiled appeared behind the operator. "Theirs' nothing more we can do, we must go, and see Commander Roland.
"But he was supposed to go to see the Oracle!"
"We don't even know, if she's alive."
"Searph told Skiddz that she was!"
"Maybe it was mistake." Captain Overblow set his jaw and threw a fierce glance at Marks. "Maybe it doesn't matter. This is my ship, we must see the commander."
"But the Agents have the disk that Skiddz was transporting!"
"It's to late, I'm very powerful, but there are too many of them. If there was two or three, I could take each one out quickly. As it is, five is too many. I'm not Neo, even though I am close."
"DAMN IT!"
"Watch your tone, operator, and get up front, and set us a coarse for New Zion. now."
Overblow removed the jack from his dead crew, member. "Rest in piece, Skiddz."
They headed to New Zion, with all the speed, they could muster.
**short note>> (TRX thanks Overbl0w, for participating in the story.. Nice add )**
After TRX told every onboard what happend, they set coarse for the surface. This as a side mission, not to wander the surface, but to have a quick peak, that could give answers to other questions.
On the way just 5 km before reaching the surface, emergency band cracked, static and distorted transmissions:
"This i... Zio....Tyn... plea...respo..."
TRX: "Lyrics.. can you get a more clear signal?"
Lyrics: "I am trying my best sir.. but electromagnetic fields are interfering with the radio frequencies."
TRX: "Any other way we can pick up it any stronger.."
Lyrics: "There is, and how ironic it may sound, from within the matrix, that is more stable, than this signal.."
TRX: "Chillz.. are up for it?"
Chillz: "Yes Sir!"
TRX: "Operator, hook m up"
Lyrics: "Roger that.."
TRX: "Double time!"
While TRX stayed in the cockpit, Lyrics and Chillz hurried to the broadcast deck.
TRX: "I found a nice spot.. you're clear for broadcast.."
Lyrics: "Ok Chillz.. before i connect you.. favorite loadout.. and Hardline?"
Chillz: "Kungfu.. with just a nice handgun.. Tabor West Hardline please"
Lyrics set the configuration, plugged him to the feed, and pressed the "Jack in" button.
Chillz adjusting to visual, while running out the hardline, hardly visible yet.. towards the street. When he got there he was 100% synced with his surroundings, flipped his cellure, he got out of his inside pocket, and called Tyndall..
After three tones Tyndall picked up the call.
Tyndall: "Tyndall Zioncontrol.."
Chillz: "Officer.. this is Operative Chillz, currently working for Capt. TRX of the hovercraft blue distortion.. we picked up a distress signal, but were unable to get the message properly. Please repeat the message to me."
Tyndall: "Hold on.... yes.. Confirmed.. We have word from the "HardBoiled".. has a casualty.. It is thei're respective Operative Skiddz.. he has been killed... during an Op.. to meet the Oracle also..."
Chillz: "What?.. Skiddz? Noooo!.. I have done several missions with him.. he was a good man.. please give me a few minutes.. and call me back.."
Tyndall: "No problem.. i'll call you back in 4 minutes."
Chillz: "Understood.."
And broke connection to the Zioncontrol Officer.
Crossed the street, went through a few alleyways, and deserted bar. It went out of business for years, no one really knew you could enter it anyway. An abandoned bar, guitar set, and microfoon, and some rubbish on the floor.
Although CHillz was an experienced, well trained, excellent Operative, these deaths of other Operatives, seemed to get harder to cope with everytime it happend.
He sat down, at a table, and covered his face with his hands, his elbows on the table in front of him.
Just as he stood up, trying to get a grip of reality, and tasks at hand, his phone rang.
Chillz: "Chillz here.."
Tyndall: "This is Zioncontrol, officer Tyndall.. the 4 minutes have past.. Are you ok? Operative?"
Chillz: "Yes ma'am.. had to recover a minute from this bad news Officer.. excuse me"
Tyndall: "That's allright.. Chillz.. you ready for the next message?"
Chillz: "shoot.."
Tyndall: "As far as we understood the message from the Captain, Operative Skiddz was shut through the head, by an Agent, whom was backed by 3 to four other Agents. The reason for this unfortunate event, seems to be, that Skiddz was also on discovery, of the Oracle, but besides he was going to meet her, apparently was transporting a disk, with vital information."
Chillz: "i presume the agents have it?"
Tyndall: "correct."
Chillz: "What kind of information?"
Tyndall: "Untill they are back home, and have discussed this with Commander Roland, i am restricted to talk about it.. but.. what i can say is.. that this is very.. sensitive information. Unable to confront the agents, they had to immediately return home, to debrief, and sort this out with Roland and the council."
Chillz: "Understood... What can we do?"
Tyndall: "Give the following message to TRX, wich is: "You're sidemission to scrape the surface, must be in half the time, than it was decided, and you are then, ought to return home, immediately, plus, it is untill this time forbidden to enter the matrix, before returning home, and that's an order."
Chillz: "He aint gonna like it.."
Tyndall: "I know.. but it these arent my orders.. did you copy that?"
Chillz: "Roger.. copied.. Chillz out"
Tyndall: "Give TRX my best greets.. Tyndall out"
Chillz: "hypersprinting towards the nearest exit, he glanced to the right, and saw an agent, getting ready to aim his handgun, at him. Chillz ziggzagged at a terminal velocity hyperspeed, to the hardline, picked up the reciever, looked behind him, seeing the agent closing the distance to give it another shot, aimed, emptied his gun, and hit nothing but air, except for one bullet, hitting Chillz in the shoulder area, before he was exited, and awoke in the interfacechair.. with a stinging pain.
"Not allowed to jack in while we head for home?" Said TRX with a surprised but serious look on his face.
Chillz: "Tyeah.. Now don't kill me, i am just the messenger"
TRX: "It's not that i don't want to obey an order, but hey, if i think it is really needed to jack in, after we have seen the surface, and are heading for home, i will not ignore my own instincts on this one."
Operator Lyrics, busy with calculations while piloting the hovercraft, said: "Speaking about the surface Captain, we should reach it, in a few minutes, all seems safe up 'till now."
TRX: "Thank you Operator.."
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FAI Sailplane Grand Prix
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OSTIV
16th FAI European Gliding Championships in Nitra: day 2
The last few gliders are being launched right now for Assigned Area Tasks with a time limit of 1 and a half hours. Though the sun is shining, the air is very humid and heavy with a lot of wet cloud giving a dull, milky look to the sky. Those already launched are bravely circling but low and close home. The starts for the four classes will open only 20 minutes after everyone is up as there is such a small window of opportunity to fly at all today and tomorrow is unlikely to be flyable due to storms and heavy rain.
16th FAI European Gliding Championships in Nitra are airborne
Czech Duo Discus DL, piloted by Michal Lesinger and Danes Grula, was the very first glider whisked into the air by the big yellow, 800hp Čmelák at Nitra today. It was 12.30 local on the nail as all four classes set off on Area Assigned Tasks with a minimum time of 2 hours.
Look out Europe, here we come, LOTS of us...
While looking forward to the FAI Sailplane Grand Prix Final starting on 23rd July, let us not forget all the other competitions in full swing in the northern hemisphere, where the motorways of Europe especially have seen large numbers of glider trailers trundling towards their various competition venues in recent days.
FAI Sailplane Grand Prix final 2011, the countdown begins...
Just received from Germany, the following is the all but complete list of pilots competing in the FAI Sailplane Grand Prix which begins on 23rd July on the famed Wasserkuppe, acknowledged as a cradle of our sport and celebrating its 100th birthday in 2011.
Three journalists team up to report ICG news and activities !
IGC has now three journalists scouting for news, information and stories about our World Championships and our elite pilots ! Angela Sheard, Marina Vigorito and Jill McCaw have joined forces to combine their talents for stories and their knowledge of who’s-who in gliding circles to write blogs for the IGC website. This is a great step forward and IGC President Bob Henderson's intention is that this starts IGC on the path of being able to have refreshing and up-to-date information available about IGC “heroes” and IGC competitions and activities.
Call for bids to host the 2012/13 series of FAI Sailplane Grand Prix Qualifying events
IGC President Bob Henderson looks forward to an enthusiastic response to the call for bids to host the 2012/13 series of FAI Sailplane Grand Prix Qualifying events. The more the terrain and conditions vary between sites, the greater the challenge for the competing pilots, whether home-grown or taking up the 5 or so international visitor slots per contest. All of which produces a series where excitement and interest grow as the individual qualifying races single out the finalists to fly for the ultimate title.
Join the FAI YouTube Channel to watch Air Sports Video.
Main decisions taken at the FAI Gliding Commission 2011 Annual Meeting
Here are the main decisions that have been taken during the IGC 2011 Annual Meeting held on 4 and 5 March 2011:
New FAI Secretary General Appointed
Stéphane Desprez, former Competition Director of the 2008 Rugby World Cup in France, has been appointed as the new Secretary General of the FAI – the World Air Sports Federation. He will formally take up his appointment in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 1st February 2010.
Chilean Qualifying Grand Prix Results
The winners are
Uli Schwenk, Germany, 37 points
Tilo Holighaus, Germany, 26 points
Thomas Gostner, Italy, 24 points.
The first two qualify for the GP final. More information can be found on the event website at http://www.grandprixchile2009.org/
Multi-Class World Gliding Championships 2006
The 29th FAI Multi-Class Gliding World Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden, finished on June 18, 2006. Visit the site http://www.wgc2006.se for the results.
Address to the IGC
IGC Awards 2005
Bid Form for Sailplane Grand Prix
1st World Sailplane Grand Prix in Saint Auban, Salon Européen du Vol à Voile (European Sailplane Show/Exhibition)
Minutes of the 2005 IGC Plenary meeting
Keynote Speech by Wolfgang Weinreich (IGC Plenary, Lausanne, 4.3.2005)
Key decisions and highlights from the IGC 2005 Plenary meeting
The FAI Centenary Contest
Gliding Membership Report
The 34th FAI World Gliding Championships in Australia ends on a high
34th FAI World Gliding Championships 2017 are declared open
Two years ago: Father and son set African Record
Australia welcomes the world to the FAI World Gliding Championships 2017
German Holger Karow wins 7th FAI Sailplane Grand Prix Finale in South Africa!
The success of the Sailplane Grand Prix
7th FAI Sailplane Grand Prix Final kicked off in Potchefstroom (RSA)!
World FAI Sailplane Grand Prix Final
Fred Weinholtz
125 Years of Flight Testing
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CAI Nevada Accepting Nominations for Annual Heroes Awards
Submitted by Catherine Lu on Saturday, May 7th, 10:43 am
The Nevada chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI), a national membership organization for HOA management companies, volunteer board members, professional service providers and business partners, is hosting its annual Heroes Awards to honor everyday individuals who have displayed acts of bravery and community mindedness in the spirit of 9/11.
The Heroes Awards originated in 2002 from an overwhelming desire to remember those lost and to recognize those involved in the relief efforts of 9/11. It is now an annual commemorative event for CAI Nevada.
High Schoolers Win Laptops for Green Essays
Submitted by Adam Candee on Saturday, April 30th, 11:48 am
The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) in partnership with Coca-Cola awarded laptop computers to the 40 winners of an essay contest that asked local high school seniors to write a 500-word essay on how they can reduce their carbon footprint by using the services offered by the RTC.
"The level of participation was remarkable. We received hundreds of essays from students on how they use our growing transit system, bicycling amenities and other environmentally friendly services to reduce our carbon footprint," RTC General Manager Jacob Snow said.
The essay contest was open to all high school seniors graduating in 2011. Each essay was judged equally on its content and the quality of the writing.
Trauma Support Program Seeks Volunteers
Submitted by Adam Candee on Saturday, April 23rd, 12:32 pm
The non-profit Trauma Intervention Program (TIP) of Southern Nevada, Inc. is currently recruiting compassionate citizens to serve on its emergency response crisis team to help people on the worst day of their life.
TIP of Southern Nevada began serving the citizens of Clark County in 1994. TIP is committed to helping those in crisis by providing immediate on-scene support to those emotionally traumatized. TIP volunteers are requested by local police, fire and hospital personnel to respond to scenes of sudden or unexpected death, violent crimes, sexual assault and other traumatic events to provide emotional and practical support to family, friends, witnesses or victims.
TIP volunteers must have a clean criminal and driving history. Volunteers are required to attend a training academy, pass a three-month field training program and attend a monthly continuing education meeting. Volunteers are also required to commit to three 12-hour shifts per month.
Local Indian Festival Upcoming
Submitted by Adam Candee on Saturday, April 2nd, 11:19 am
Vaisakhi Mela 2011 will be held April 9 in the downtown area of the valley.
Entertainment will include Malkit Singh and Enkarma. There will also be children's games, face painting, jupmers, clowns and jugglers. Indian food and snack stalls will be available.
The event runs from noon-8 p.m. at 500 S. Grand Central Pkwy, next to the Las Vegas Premium Outlets. Admission is free.
For more information, contact Amar Chadha at 807-1737, Raj Dhaliwal at 429-7354 or Sarbdeep Singh at 741-3387.
Helicopter to Drop Easter Eggs at Special Hunt
Submitted by Adam Candee on Wednesday, March 30th, 9:46 am
Tens of thousands of plastic Easter eggs will drop from the sky at Egg Drop Vegas on April 16.
The unique Easter egg event will take place at Seastrand Park in North Las Vegas from 9 a.m. to noon. Beginning at 9 a.m., the activities feature face painting, bounce houses, live music, delicious food and more. At approximately 10:30 a.m., a helicopter will hover over the park and drop 25,000 Easter eggs to kick off the giant Easter egg hunt. Children will collect empty plastic Easter eggs and then exchange those eggs for candy.
Visitors are encouraged to bring canned goods to help City Mission of Las Vegas. Egg Drop is a free community event sponsored by Grace Point Church, the City of North Las Vegas and other community organizations.
Visit www.eggdropvegas.com to pre-register your family or to get more information.
Help E Bunny Bring Joy to Thousands of Las Vegas Children!
Thursday, March 24th, 2011, 4:22pm
The E Bunny program is a grassroots community outreach program that strives to bring a smile to the face of homeless and at-risk children in the Las Vegas valley by gifting them with Easter baskets filled with toys and goodies. Baskets are provided by the generosity of the Las Vegas community, and last year the program was able to give baskets to over 2,000 children. Groups who were are part of E Bunny last year were:
Relay For Life seeks participants
Submitted by Adam Candee on Saturday, March 26th, 9:00 am
The American Cancer Society is looking for participants for its Relay For Life fundraiser in April and May.
Ten relays will take place in southern Nevada during the next two months and ACS will hold a number of "Paint the Town Purple" recruiting events from April 4-7. During these events, relay committee members and team captains will be visiting area businesses encouraging community members to participate. In addition to Relay’s purple posters, volunteers will distribute purple lollipops, because "CANCER SUCKS."
Those events include:
Cheeburger Cheeburger Fundraiser – Monday, April 4, 5-9 p.m., 8390 S. Rainbow Blvd.
CiCi’s Pizza Las Vegas Fundraiser – Wednesday, April 6, six locations, all day/night – 10-20 percent of sales go to ACS.
Beer Tasting Benefit - Thursday, April 7 at Freakin Frog, 7-10 p.m., 4700 S.
Homeowners react to crazy crash that ended with 2 vehicles in their home
Lights for Liberty Las Vegas hosts anti-immigration vigil downtown
Woman hurt while hang gliding near Jean
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What is European Capital of Culture?
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Foundation “Novi Sad 2021”
First progress report
Report by the Panel
City of Novi Sad
Cultural Development Strategy
Most Important Events
Call for a Japanese writer for AiR programme in Novi Sad (Serbia) and Pécs (Hungary)
Plovdiv – artistic residential programme 2019
‘Kizuna’ exchange programme – Japan 2017
Pantry for Project Ideas
‘NEUTRALNO’ Conference
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Accompanying Programme within the Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition in Svilara
Published 05/07/2019 in category: News
The spirit of France for the next three weeks in the Svilara Cultural Station. During the exhibition of more than 20 posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, world famous French painter, graphic artist and illustrator, the interesting follow-up programme will be organised in the Svilara Cultural Station from 3 until 20 July.
In addition to official schedule of professional exhibition guidance with curators from the Gallery of Matica Srpska on 6, 13 and 20 July at 20:21 (8:21 p.m.), music, film and other content on the same topic will bring the spirit of France to Novi Sad.
5 July / 8-10 p.m.
Electro sound of Parisian cafés
DJ VUKASHIN
6 July / 20:21 (8 p.m.)
Professional exhibition guidance with curators from the Gallery of Matica Srpska
9 p.m. Klo Klo Band
7 July / 8 p.m.
Documentary about Toulouse-Lautrec (cooperation with the French Institute)
9 July / 8:30 p.m.
‘Manush’, jazz trio from France
10 July / 10-12 a.m.
Children workshops: ‘Oh, la, la… The Wonderful France’
13 July / 20:21 (8:21 p.m.)
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People said about Novi Sad
What has been done?
Report of the Committee 2013.
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Nuwara Eliya is often referred to by the Sri Lankan tourist industry as ‘Little England’. While most British visitors struggle to recognise modern England in Nuwara Eliya, the toy-town ambience does have a rose-tinted English country village feel to it, though it comes with a disorienting surrealist edge. Three-wheelers whiz past red telephone boxes. Water buffalo daubed in iridescent dye for the Tamil Thai Pongal festival mingle outside a pink, brick Victorian post office. A well-tended golf course morphs seamlessly into a rolling carpet of tea plantations. The dusty and bustling centre of town is a thoroughly Sri Lankan tangle, but scratch the surface a little to reveal colonial bungalows, well-tended hedgerows and pretty rose gardens.
In earlier times, Nuwara Eliya (meaning ‘City of Light’) was the favoured cool-climate escape for the hard-working and hard-drinking English and Scottish pioneers of Sri Lanka’s tea industry. A rainy-day, misty-mountain atmosphere blankets the town from November to February so don’t come expecting tropical climes. But during April’s spring release, the town is crowded with domestic holidaymakers enjoying horse racing and sports-car hill climbs, and celebrating the Sri Lankan New Year. The cost of accommodation escalates wildly, and Nuwara Eliya becomes a busy, busy party town. For the rest of the year, the economy is based on tea, cool-climate vegetables, tourism and even more tea. Treat yourself to a night at one of Nuwara Eliya’s colonial hotels, play a round of golf and a few frames of billiards, and escape into the town’s curious combination of heritage and the here-and-now.
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NY Times slams Clinton's 'negativity'
CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Clinton celebrates her Pennsylvania victory with Gov. Ed Rendell.
(CNN) - Fresh off her victory in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton is facing a stinging rebuke of her campaign tactics from her hometown paper, The New York Times.
In the paper's Wednesday edition, the editorial board which endorsed Clinton's White House bid earlier this year says the New York senator's "negativity" is doing "harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election."
"The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it," the board writes.
The paper finds fault in Clinton's latest campaign ad, which includes an image of Osama bin Laden, and asks, "Who do you think has what it takes?"
"Mrs Clinton became the first Democratic candidate to wave the bloody shirt of 9/11," they write, adding that it is a tactic that is "torn right from Karl Rove’s playbook."
"Mrs. Clinton does more than just turn off voters who don’t like negative campaigning," the editorial also states. "She undercuts the rationale for her candidacy that led this page and others to support her: that she is more qualified, right now, to be president than Mr. Obama."
The paper also says Barack Obama deserves some of the blame for the negative tone. "He is increasingly rising to Mrs. Clinton’s bait, undercutting his own claims that he is offering a higher more inclusive form of politics."
But the editorial makes clear the paper thinks most of the blames lies with Clinton. "If she is ever to have a hope of persuading [superdelegates] to come back to her side, let alone win over the larger body of voters, she has to call off the dogs."
THANK YOU FOR A HONEST ARTICLE ON HILLARY CLINTON. I AM VERY HAPPY TO HEAR SOME ONE WHO SUPPORTS HER HAVING THE COURAGE TO SPEAK TO WHAT IS EVIL. I AM NOT SAYING HILLARY IS EVIL, HOWEVER, USING ANY REFERENCE OF SEPTEMBER 11, TO MAKE A POINT IS JUST LOW.
April 23, 2008 06:43 am at 6:43 am |
Dr. AmyJai Knowles
Mirror, Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all? And, the Mirror replies, "Try as hard as you can, but Omaba remains the Nation's man." Now let's move on to the true business of the day.
Wow you would think that Hillary won but she can't beat Obama. Frankly she doesn't make sense. It is about time we changed for the better and I agree with kathy on this issue. Obama is a fresh and energetic candidate who would go the distance. He is very diverse. Hillary might be college educated with some experience but that is only because her hubby is helping her out, and you would think he was running instead of Hillary. Don't care how much experience you have or what family you came from the american people need an african american president. We need to show the world that americans can change and vote for someone who will not do what Clinton suggests, like her war mongering comment about going to war if Iran hits Isreal. At least Obama isn't like the "OLE hats" as Clinton and MCCAIN!I know Obama can win because he can turn out more younger population and lets face it the youn ger generation decides our country future so good bye to the older generation like Clinton & MCCain.
Richard Ward (ex-pat), Paris, France
So it seems that we will have to get used to the idea of President McCain for 4 years. What a shame! We had no one to blame but ourselves for the elections in 2004 but in 2008 we will have no one to blame but self-centered, power hungry politicians.
all of us "bitter" people in PA sent obama a message and that is drop out of the race, hillary is smarter, tougher, and offers solutions. obama outspent her again, and still lost by double digits, he can't carry big must win states. wake up dnc, hillary can beat mccain, obama can't.
"The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday..."
Huh??? How is winning a state by 10 points an "inconclusive result"?
Remember, this is from the paper that printed a pandering, dishonest story above the fold allegeding an affair John McCain had with a lobbyist.
And they call Clinton negative?
Keep losing subscribers and money NY Times.
A big disappointment for me in this election, aside from the lack of objectivity on the part of some "journalists", is the call for halting the democratic process. Neither democratic candidate has won the number of delegates yet to secure the nomination. We as a nation must be mature enough to allow the process to conclude. Let each vote count. We know what happened in 2000 when democracy was subverted. This is not an election for high school president, folks. Please grow up.
Chip- Ont Canada
Only in America...LOL
The NY Times is right on. Clinton has a win at all costs strategy. The strategy appears to be to undermine Obama for this election so that she has another shot at it in 4 years. Despite winning in Pennsylvania (a place she should have won by a landslide, since she has deep roots here), she is no closer to the nomination now than she was before the PA primary. The democratic nominee will be Barack Obama, and she is using tactics right out of the Republican playbook. From a practical standpoint, the General election has already begun, and Obama is running against two Republicans.
You are completely ridiculous CNN; your so-called “best political panel” last night was stumbling as usual when Clinton wins, it’s shameful that you are selling out your viewers/American voters. It’s childish that a station like CNN cannot give credit where credit is due! Senator Clinton WON BUY DOUBLE DIGITS! Outstanding after all the months of bashing YOU HAVE DONE and the 12million dollars Obama spent on negative politics and STILL OBAMA LOST BIG! THAT’S THE NEWS!!! How can you continue to claim you’re the best political news when it obvious to viewers and the public that your not, your clearly one sided with your continued coronation of a man who openly supports white hate and refuses to explain why he surrounds himself with those who hate Americans and you push him to be the President of our great but troubled country. You are risking our country’s security! Stop the stupid biased pushing of Obama, you have lost credibility with viewers, it’s very apparent that you are on Obama payroll.
DEMOCRATES NEED CLINTON, OBAMA WOULD MOST CERTINALLY LOSE IN A GENERAL ELECTION
GO HILLARY!
i think everyone sees that she's negative. even the polls in PA showed that people thought she was way more negative than Obama. I think the Chief KKK member of PA, Ed Rendell, called it when he said White People in PA would never vote for a Black President. So, obviously if they think she's more negative but still vote for her, it must be because they can't vote for a Black person and she was the only other option. I think the media is biased toward Clinton because if she gets in they know they're guaranteed four more years of scandals which is what keeps them in business.
not a superdelegate
So Hillary won, but look how low she had to go to get her win.
Her conduct has been shameful.
I prefer Obama.
Look what's happened.
McCain will be our next president.
This extended primary has damaged both Democratic candidates to the point that neither will be able to beat McCain in the Fall.
This is a sad day for the Democrats.
And nothing can be done about it at this point. The damage is done.
Thank you Hillary Clinton.
justjoe
Over ninety percent of blacks voted for Obama and over 70 percent of whites voted for Clinton. Are we afraid to say this has become a contest about race. Perhaps I did the Bill Clinton thing. Do you think it might also be a gender thing?
After last night's thrashing, if she did the "right" thing and got out today, Obama would not stand a chance. She would be see as too big a "man" and he vanquished.
I have to agree with mark on that one. Old,poor, racist, uneducated, white people love hillary.
Amal, Bahrain
Looks like America forgot about everyone OUTSIDE the US who looks up to your 'democratic' ways. Is your system broken? Do you not see genuine anymore?
All you have are scare tactics and endless threats. What have we learnt since dubya threatened Saddam? Now Hilary with Iran? Where will the WOMD be next? Venezuella? or god forbid your new nemisis China?
Obama has a point, reek havoc in a region that supplies your oil, prices will go up! I am still waiting for the day that Americans show gratitude for those of us on this side of the world that are eternally in love with anything American... Want ur shares of Citigroup or Merril back anyone??
What would we know though, even with an American accent, American clothing, American car, still have a lot to learn on American politics, and your need to elect those who manipulate the press.
PS Obama (or Clinton) has yet to mention that his Revrend counceled the Clintons after their marital problems in the White House. He didnt mention it in the debate because he has integrity. Make the educated choice!
Interesting posts today. I live in PA and am ashamed Clinton won. But I have to admit that the reason she won had everything to do with race. All you have to do is listen to the remarks of Govenor Rendell who said in Feb, that PA is not ready to vote for a Black man. He is right. Very sad we do not have more progressive minded individuals living in this state. The "outspent" remark by Clinton is stupid – if she had the money she would have used it to saturate the airwaves with her hate. I think the money Obama spent was well worth it to cut her lead from the 25 point advantage down to the final 9.4% she got. The arguement that she has won all the major states is misplaced. Look at the polls today and see that Obama is leading McCain in CA and NY will never vote republican. Texas was so close, and I think so many who voted for Clinton have since wished they hadn't, that I think Obama can put that in play for the dems. I do not think this changes anything. Will Clinton get major donations from this after winning so few delegates? With the odds stacked so much much in Obama's favor, why not flush the cash down the toilet rather than donating it to Clinton. Clinton in is 2012 mode right now. She is trying to ensure Obama will fail in November so she is ready to try this again in 2012. The people who are following her blindly, and would rather see McCain in the White House better not have young kids – in case he brings back the draft to support his Iraq war.
as newspaper said this morning
obama´s army media
it is disgrace
it looks like
a lot of the media
is on hussein´s payroll
1.- media has been bias
2.-media has not done the job.of lletting people know who this guys is & that is what journalism should be about
3.-if one gets sick;one wants to go at least to a certified physician, NOT TO A MEDICAL STUDENT, well with hussein the same , this fast race smell really bad,he has not been a politician enough to be a president, he came in the senate monday, & tuesday he was running x president, sort of speak
OKAY, YOU HILLARY HATE-MONGERS, YOU STILL DON'T GET IT? EVEN WITH CLINTON'S LAST 3 LARGE STATE WINS AND YOU STILL DON'T ADMIT SHE IS A WINNER? SHAME ON YOU!
HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY THINK THAT A FRESHMAN SENATOR WHO HAS ONLY BEEN IN OFFICE LESS THAN 3 YEARS IS READY TO BE PRESIDENT? OBAMA STARTED CAMPAIGNING 3 WEEKS AFTER BEING ELECTED SENATOR. HAHA....WHAT A GUY... HE REMINDS ME OF A TODDLER WHO WANTS THE LATEST TOY.
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES!
GO HILLARY CLINTON...YOU'VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES!!!
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I FEEL ASHAMED TO BE CALLED a pennsylvanian !
I'M GLAD THE YOUNGER GENERATION HAS MOVED BEYOND THE COLOR DIVISIONS.
HILLARY ALWAYS WAS GOOD AT PRAYING ON A PERSONS WEAKNESS. Hillary cares about one thing and it's not "THE PEOPLE"
it's going in the history books as the first woman president ,
PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wake up........
Khan-Canada
Is negetivity the hall mark of American democracy? I compliment the NY Times for a somehwat honest article. I fear for Americans who believe that Hillary's visits to foreign countries constitute to foreign policy expereince? What did she negotiate. If she ever wins the nomination, the democrats will be loosers!! This is the kind of campaign that turns off non Americans as well. Its difficult to look up to the US after seeing their democracy in action. Its all about power,money, lies,fabrication,deciet,accustaions!! Wow, what a country. The democratic party has done more harm to their candidates then they will ever know by allowing such nonsense.
I still don't know who Obama is? I don't trust him, that I do know. I cannot believe he spent 20 years in that hateful church and never heard or was influenced by that type of anti-American sentiments. don't understand what he means by change? Change what? This isn't like moving your furniture around. If you have people like Kennedy and Kerry leading you around, how is this change? Doesn't every candidate profess change? We will change who lives in the White House, that's a given. We will elect a new President, thank God. We will not change the way the wheels turn in Washington. We do need a person who knows which wheels to grease and how. We need Hillary Clinton. You can not just talk to your enemys, you must have a plan. You must carry a big stick.
You don't have to wonder if Hillary is the come back kid. I think last night proved it. People are finally starting to wake up and elect our next president on experience not popularity. This is a real job it is not fun and games. You go Hillary!
Unfortunately we are going to end up with another republican president. Obamma can't win the general and Clinton can't win the nomination. I believe this is for two reasons. One the leadership of the party has failed and two the media herds us like sheep through the process. Our only hope is to go to the convention and look to someone else. My suggestion would be Joe Biden.
I think that this whole election is a big farce! And we will find out how much of a farce it really is if Hillary comes away with the democratic nomination. I think that Hillary's whole campaign is a huge discredit to women and to the democratic party. That is why they have failed to put a presidential candidate in office for the last FEW years. I am a Republican who really does want CHANGE and HOPE; and that is why I voted for Obama. To me, he is the only candidate that keeps me from wanting to drive off of a bridge. It is a shame that this country is too naive and too color struck to see what this man has to offer. Perhaps, it is America's downfall...maybe it speaks to the beginning of an end...I tell you what any ELECTION that can literally mutilate a PASTOR to a point that he has to go into hiding cannot possibly be a good thing!
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Home / Film / Ronda Rousey to star in biopic about herself
Ronda Rousey to star in biopic about herself
Posted by: Megan Leigh in Film, News August 4, 2015 0 4,264 Views
I feel like the walls of reality are caving in. Biopics, no matter how much they may be ‘based’ in reality, are always fiction. But when the subject of the biopic is also the star of the film…. Where does reality end and fiction begin?
For those of you unfamiliar with Ronda Rousey (and I admit to having been in that category before seeing the Entourage movie), she is a previous Olympic medal winner in Judo, mixed martial artist, and current UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) Women’s Bantamweight Champion. In other words, the woman’s a badass.
Not only is she an exquisite athlete, she is also an actress and model. This biopic would not be her first foray into acting. She was featured in Stalone’s Expendables 3 before also landing roles in Furious 7 and Entourage (as herself).
Penned with her sister, Rousey’s autobiography, My Fight/Your Fight, was a New York Times bestseller. The film will be based on the book, with Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard, Race to Witch Mountain, The Wolverine, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Insurgent… among others) on board to adapt it for the screen. Mary Parent (Godzilla, Pacific Rim) is set to produce alongside Rousey herself and Bomback.
The script is currently being written. No release date has been set as yet.
News via Variety.
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Tag: Elizabeth Warren
Rethinking Reparations for Slavery
by Oregon PeaceWorks • July 6, 2019 • 0 Comments
TOM h. HASTINGS – We need to radically reduce racism going forward and make reparations thus more than simple legal settlement that ignores ongoing harm.
What the Bernie Sanders 2020 Campaign Means for Progressives
NORMAN SOLOMON – In the obvious contrasts with Kamala Harris and in the less obvious yet significant contrasts with Elizabeth Warren on matters of economic justice as well as on foreign policy, Bernie Sanders represents a different approach to the root causes of — and possible solutions to — extreme economic inequality, systemic injustice and a dire shortage of democracy.
Beto, We Hardly Knew Ye
NORMAN SOLOMON – As candidates and in office, the last two Democratic presidents have been young, dynamic and often progressive-sounding, while largely serving the interests of Wall Street, big banks, military contractors and the like. Do we need to make it three in a row?
Valuing Life More than Borders
by Oregon PeaceWorks • July 11, 2018 • 0 Comments
ROBERT C. KOEHLER – “We are people who believe in the worth of every human being,” Elizabeth Warren said the other day, and I wondered for a moment what life would be like if that were true. The more crucial question, however, is: How can we make it true?
Let’s Stop Lying to Each Other
THOMAS LINZEY – While it’s certainly easier to blame the latest president for our state of affairs, the reality is much more troubling – that we have a system of law and government which poses as a working democracy while guaranteeing the destruction of the planet. In other words, it’s the hardware, not the software. It’s a faulty system.
From Outside or Inside, the Deck Looks Stacked
GRETCHEN MORGENSON – “The game is rigged and the American people know that. They get it right down to their toes.” That’s Elizabeth Warren talking, the former consumer advocate and law school professor and now a Democratic senator from Massachusetts. I interviewed her about her new memoir, “A Fighting Chance,” in which she discusses one of America’s biggest challenges: how to level the playing field so that Main Street doesn’t always come second to Wall Street.
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Right of reply by Dr. Jeff Ramsay, Coordinator BGCIS – “DISS Power of Arrest defined by Law”
source: Republic of Botswana (9/2/09): TAUTONA TIMES no 2 of 2009
The Weekly Electronic Press Circular of the Office of the President "Democracy, Development, Dignity and Discipline"
C1) 9/2/09: Right of reply by Dr. Jeff Ramsay, Coordinator BGCIS – “DISS Power of Arrest defined by Law”
In an article entitled “Has DIS started abductions” the Mmegi newspaper misleadingly reported that “The Government spokesman Dr. Jeff Ramsay recently said DISS [i.e. Directorate of Intelligence and Security] agents are not supposed to identify themselves when they arrest suspects because they are on clandestine missions”.
As I have not spoken to Mmegi about the issue I can only assume that that above attribution is a loose interpretation of a response I gave during a radio interview, where did acknowledge the obvious fact that DISS officers would at times operate undercover, but where I was also unwilling to discuss an alleged detention incident for which I had no knowledge.
What I also observed over the radio, and take this opportunity to here reiterate in greater detail, is that the DISS, like all organs of Government, functions within a legal framework. In this respect its operations are clearly defined and regulated by provisions of the Intelligence and Security Act of 2007.
The powers of arrest by DISS personnel without a warrant are specified in Section 21 of the Act, while Section 22 sets out the conditions under which the Director General DISS must apply for a warrant from a senior magistrate or a judge of the High Court.
Section 21, among other things, states that: “An officer or support staff authorized in that behalf by the Director General may, without warrant, arrest a person if he or she reasonably suspects that person has committed or is about to commit an offence referred to in this Act”
Section 21 (3)(b) further states that a officer may “for the purpose of effecting an arrest, enter and search any premises or place if he or she has reason to believe that there is in the premises or place a person who is to be arrested.”
Section 21 (4) goes further to mandate that: “An officer or support staff shall not enter any premises or place under subsection (3) unless the officer or support staff has first stated that he or she is an officer or support staff and the purpose for which he or she seeks entry and produced his or her identity card to any person requesting production.”
Section 21 (8) further specifies that: “That an officer or support staff shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, take a person arrested under this section to as police station to be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedures and Evidence Act.”
With respect to conduct of DISS officers and support staff Section 16 (1) of the Act is also explicit in stating that: “An officer or support staff shall not – (a) engage in the activities of any political party or act as an agent of such party; or (b) in the performance of his or her functions or the exercise of his or her powers under this act – (i) subject any person to torture or to any other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; or 9ii0 enter or search any private premises except with a warrant issued pursuant to section 22.”
Section 16 (2) goes on to unequivocally state that: “An officer or support staff who contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) shall be guilty of an offence.”
From the above excerpts of the Act, it should be clear that the powers of arrest by DISS personnel are clearly defined by law, which further forbids the sort of abuses that have been recently alleged in the pages of the Mmegi newspaper and elsewhere.
Posted by Pula at 9:15 PM
Well...JEFF RAMSAY finds legal statutes soooooooooooooooooooo
Nevertheless he ought to know:
NEMO EST SUPRA LEGIS
The more I read,hear and learn about Botswana,the more and more I get disappointed.
After watching CNN'S "African Voices",I was very entusiastic about Botswana and EVEN wanted to visit soon.
Regrettably I am now of the opinion some persons in Botswana want to govern it like their EXTENDED family.
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Data ki nagri mein khoon behta raha...
Lahore, Pakistan. 02/07/2010: I have no sixth sense, and am grateful for the five that work. But on the 2nd of July 2010, I felt a familiar yet distant tension and insecurity in the air. As I tweaked the last bobs and bits of the newspaper I used to work for, the layout incharge, like a morgue attendant, informed me, with a worried look on his face, that Data Darbar had been bombed. Utter disbelief.
The shrine of the patron saint of the subcontinent, Ali Hajveri Data Ganj Baksh, known as Data Darbar, since the last one millennium had been bombed? A place that embraced everyone, regardless of religion, caste or creed. A place that fed thousands of people everyday, bombed?
We predicted angry mobs on the streets, but the people of Lahore, in utter disbelief and shock chose to remain at home, as sirens of all sorts blared through the canal.
As I drove back home, I turned back midway, towards the Data Darbar. I couldn’t believe how someone could’ve attacked the place. I had to see it to believe it.
The streets were empty as I raced towards Data Darbar. Lahore was indeed shaken, stirred and shattered. The resulting impact was clearly printed on the faces of Lahoris. I parked my car outside the shrine's complex. A stream of ambulances were neatly lined along the pavement, waiting for orders. One had to admire rescue 1122 and civil defence workers for their bravery. Within 15-20 minutes, they were on the site, effortlessly sifting through the rubble, rummaging for remains.
While walking past the security barrier, a ranger frisked me, despite seeing my press card and bulky DSLR, and pushed me back. He whispered in my ear, "Sir, it's terrible inside, don't go, you won't be able to see it" I reassured him, walking through the sidelines and into the complex.
Pandemonium The entire place smelt like a meatshop, as body parts lay scattered on the ground. It was hard to walk as my shoes would often get glued to the ground. No, it wasn't chewing gum, it was blood from the dead bodies of atleast 200 dead people I saw scattered across the complex. Blood had stained the marble floor, an ugly layer that would take weeks to clean, and many generations to forget.
A barrage of Solid Waste Management (SWM) employees were seen collecting broken watches and burnt cellphones to identify the dead ones. They called out to each other, “Send this to the morgue, it could help the forensics...” Like jigsaw puzzles, they searched for whatever little remains they could find; to solve a puzzle no one knew had a solution to
The shrine complex housed different buildings, including the central shine, while other structures were built on the edges. There was relatively lesser structural damage, as the central courtyard contained space for nothing else but people. The lungar malfunctioned for the first time in history, as it was located in the basement where a large staff cooked cauldrons of rice and vegetables.
Journalists on the spot carefully reported a lower death toll to the millions glued to their news channels. From the blast site, it was evident that hundreds must have lost their lives. Lahore's violent and explosive past had trained the rescue agencies well. Barely a month ago, they were rescuing people from an attack on an Ahmaddiya mosque.
No wonder Mayo Hospital now has a special wing called 'Dead house', dedicated to those who are brought in, right after bomb blasts. That day it was no different. The usual 40-50,000 people settled themselves at the complex, unaware of the impending doom. The ill-fated mass of people drowned into a massive blood bath as a string of suicide attacks struck different parts of the complex. Initial reports suggested the use of crackers/low intensity bombs, but as survivors ran for their lives, leaving behind victims, it was clear that it was indeed a high grade bomb. Honestly, Data Darbar was the last place one could think of being attacked, but considering the fact that these terrorists wanted to cause maximum damage, using a carefully orchestrated attack strategy, it came as no surprise. The Darbar is not the usual sufi shrine, while it does have its qawalli sessions, but otherwise, one won't find the typical medieval men tranced in mystic rituals. Nor the typical dhamali dholwallas, who are only seen outside the complex. It is instead a place where recitations of the Holy Quran are held, where clerics from all sects of Islam deliver sermons and participate in religious discussion.
The usual flow of condemnation and strikes would follow. In the 3 day strike, traders would report a loss of 3 billion rupees. The CCTV footage clearly showed how the suicide bombers penetrated the security gates. As I exited through the same security gates, I imagined how, barely an hour ago, two-three men wrecked the future of atleast two hundred families. The rescue 1122 officials are trained to rescue, but there is no psychological counselling for them or the survivors. I am no psychologist, but it is pretty evident that we are a nation governed by fear. Fear of the terrorists, fear of the police and fear of the army. At such bomb sites too, fear is written on the faces of all those present.
Instead of handing over all aid to the men in khakis, we should have strengthened our Police. They lose men everyday, police stations are attacked everyday. The Lahore GPO blast is a sad reminder of how terrorists openly target the police. Again, there is no trauma control for the police in such a restive and volatile region like ours. Attacks on shrines have put an end to the colourful shrine culture in Pakistan, with peaceful shrines being guarded by chained high security barriers and strong restrictions on rituals.
And then people want answers to the questions you cannot answer. As I walked towards my car, passerby’s with a barrage of queries surrounded me. "Sir, how many do you think are dead? They say 45, but we're sure they're more" I could've told them the 257 I had counted inside, but I confirmed the 45 they were told.
The cacophony may have ended, but it has also silenced the dhols, ended the freedom and eroded the human spirit.
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Movers and Shakers Honored in the ‘Queens Power 50’
July 17, 2018 David Brand 256 Views 0 Comments city & state, dennis walcott, floyd flake, greater jamaica development corporation, hope knight, patrick b. jenkins, queens library, queens power 50, thomas grech
By Victoria Merlino
When the borough’s best and the brightest were sorted and ranked, a lobbyist with ties to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was crowned the King of Queens and a Jamaica community leader was close behind.
On Monday, City & State unveiled its “Queens Power 50,” an annual rundown of the 50 most influential people — excluding lawmakers — in Queens.
This year’s list includes a range of business leaders, union advocates and neighborhood activists as well as the president of Queens College and the director of MoMA PS1. Seven members of the Top 10 are people of color and five are women, reflecting the diversity of Queens.
Patrick B. Jenkins, a major Albany lobbyist and Heastie’s former college roommate, landed at number one. In addition to representing clients like Uber and the New York State Trial Lawyers’ Association, Jenkins participates in the mentoring and leadership groups Coro-NY and United Black Men of Queens.
“Having Heastie’s ear has turned Jenkins into one of the most sought-after lobbyists for those seeking action in Albany,” City & State wrote.
Greater Jamaica Development Corporation President Hope Knight achieved the number two spot on the list. Her organization works to attract business and investment to Jamaica.
Knight told the Queens Daily Eagle that she wants to transform Jamaica into a hub of commerce while still keeping the area affordable for long-time residents.
She said her mission includes supporting the creation and expansion of quality entertainment, retail and dining options through programs like the newly created restaurant loan fund, which provides loan and grant funding to experienced restaurateurs who consider setting up in Jamaica.
“In the end, we hope this all translates to higher quality of life and increased economic opportunity for those who call Jamaica home,” Knight said.
She also shared her advice to aspiring leaders with the Eagle.
“Stay focused on your purpose, seize every opportunity to hone your core skills and identify a mentor that will spend time and invest in you,” Knight said.
Queens Library President Dennis Walcott landed at number three on the list. Yesterday, the Queens Library announced that a library card will now serve as a pass to the 33 cultural institutions located on city-owned property, including the Queens Museum, Queens Botanical Garden and MoMA PS1.
Other members of the Top 10 include 32BJ Service Employees International Union President Héctor Figueroa, LaGuardia Airport General Manger Lysa Scully, JetBlue Airways Director of Corporate Responsibility Icema Gibbs and New York Mets Vice President of External Affairs and Community Engagement Haeda Mihaltses.
Floyd and Elaine Flake, the senior pastor and co-pastor at The Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral of New York shared a spot in the Top 10. So did County Democratic Party Machine attorneys Gerard Sweeney, Michael Reich and Frank A. Bolz III, who landed at number 10 despite reports of the demise of the traditional Queens County Democratic Party structure following party leader Joe Crowley’s primary election loss.
Thomas Grech, the president and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, was named the fifth-most powerful person in Queens. Grech told the Queens Daily Eagle that plans to increase Chamber of Commerce membership while boosting the social media presence and networking opportunities for the chamber’s 1,200 existing members.
“We’re really looking forward to doing more outreach in areas not traditionally served by the chamber—places like Southeast Queens,” Grech said. “We’re the city’s largest geographic borough and while we’ve made some great in roads, there’s a lot more work to do.”
Like Knight, Grech also had words of encouragement for the borough’s future leaders.
“Get out from behind your desk, be out in the community, be out in the neighborhood,” Grech said. “Life —and the things we do in the Queens Chamber—is a contact sport.”
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Male Daywher Dominance Fights! - 2049
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After a break to allow the current defending champion, Isamuyn, rest a bit, the next challenge begun with the large Copper Atumra presenting himself to his new rival. It was anyone’s game, it felt like, with Zenucah knocked down from the challenges so early on, no one knew what was going to happen now. Atumra and Isamuyn were both capable daywhers, both experienced in turns and experienced physically as well. Atumra would have size and strength over Isamuyn though, as a full blooded Copper instead of just in part, but perhaps Isamuyn would have more speed to his advantage instead.
The fight begun, the males sizing each other up for a moment, until Atumra moved first with a lunge. The burnished Copper daywher seemed to charge, and with his Guardian’s bulk it was almost like watching a bull charge a wherry. But Isamuyn was swift, able to just barely avoid the first attack from his rival.
The two clashed back and forth, and no one could decide who had the upper hand here. Though they had different strengths, Isamuyn was able to go toe-to-toe with the large Guardian Atumra thanks to a combination of slightly higher agility his smaller form gave him, but enough bulk to contend with the Copper rival. They almost seemed evenly matched, back and forth they went, tiring one another out, panting and heaving their lungs as they tried desperately to pin the other down.
A few scrapes and scratches were sustained, but nothing bad as they weren’t trying to harm one another, but roughness was needed, they needed to prove their strength and capability to lead and protect the pack. So they continued on, trying to grab with teeth or knock down with force. Dust flew, the ground was torn up, and there was a moment when the two males came together, latching onto one another and wrestling fiercely that it became hard to see what was happening. It almost looked too fierce, almost as if someone would need to step in.
Then the dust cleared, the huffing and growling ceased, and the winner was clear. Huffing and panting for breath, both males knew who was the victor this time, as the one pinned couldn’t muster the energy to escape now. The fight had gone on too long and they had just been too evenly matched. It had all come down to who could pin the other first once they began to grow tired.
Atumra was the winner of this fight.
Once the fight was done, Isamuyn once again respectfully bowed to his challenger. Although he had lost, the chimera was not at all displeased with his effort. Sure, he might be a little disappointed about the results, but not about how he performed. Walking back, he sat next to Devyn. The handler immediately wanted to attend to his wounds, but Isamuyn wanted to stay. The chimera was very intrested to see who would become the new leader of the Pack. There were only two choices left, and Isamuyn hoped it wouldn’t take very long. Everyone was eager he was sure, not just him.
Meanwhile, Khonlen looked around, knowing it was his turn now, but also knowing that he had to give the big copper a bit of a break before their challenge started. Looking up at Talen he gave him a small wolffish grin, but at the same time he knew the handler would be able to tell that he was also a bit nervous. The copper was bigger than him, but the Quartz was determined to do his best, regardless.
Are you sure you want to do this Khonlen? It’s ok to be nervous and not want to do it.
I may be nervous Talen, but I promise I will do my best.
Talen just nodded and remained silent after that, as the Quartz now made his way into the ring. Khonlen looked around, the nerves picking up again, but he quickly squashed them. This was just for experience. If he won, he won. If he didn’t, there would be no harm done either.
Bowing his head in respect, he kept his eyes on the copper. Once that was done, he waited a brief moment, circling around before he saw an opening, lunging with his teeth bared. Khonlen tried his best to use his agility to stay away from the bigger daywher. Spinning and dodging was about all he could do. Twisting sometimes he would dive in and try and get an attack off before quickly moving back to safety.
Talen looked on nervously, green eyes watching every move that his daywher made. The young man didn’t really care about winning, it would just be icing on the cake. As long as Khonlen came back to him without damage that couldn’t be mended, he would be happy.
Natara may have been surprised when Atumra won his challenge, but he was not. After all, the chimera he challenged had already faced an exhausting bout, and Atumra was fresh. He refused to reflect on what that meant for his next fight, and looked to Khonlen enthusiastically.
His packmate moved much more quickly than Atumra could even when fresh, so he was definitely a challenge to fight. Atumra had to just take blows that he would normally try to avoid or block, and at the end of this fight, he would definitely be feeling it, no matter who won. He managed a few blows himself, teeth glancing against a hide that moved out of the way too quickly for more than a scratch, tail thumping hard against. . . . something. . . . as Khonlen dodged past him.
Natara just wanted this whole thing to end without injury. To either daywher in the fight.
It was the final fight now, with Khonlen and Atumra the final fight to determine the male Alpha for the pack, with Atumra the current defending champion. No one knew what to expect. Zenucah had fallen early, then the daywher who had beaten him had fallen to Atumra. Would Atumra keep his victory?
Khonlen clearly planned to use his speed against his opponent. The clutchmates dueled one another, Atumra having to take some of the speedy blows instead of dodging them. But he stood strong, like a wall against rocks. He couldn’t keep it up forever though, trying to catch Khonlen in his own right, grazing hide with teeth. When it looked like Atumra might be outmatched by the speedier male, he managed to thump his tail against Khonlen, perhaps a lucky strike against the other wher’s head. Khonlen staggered, dizzy from the hit, giving Atumra the pause he needed to make his move at last.
The two whers struggled with one another as Atumra turned on Khonlen, and another wrestling match kicked dirt up, but it was quickly apparent who had won. Atumra, the larger wher, got Khonlen pinned, and for all of Khonlen’s struggle, he couldn’t free himself from the heavier, stronger wher’s pin. With a heave of breath, Khonlen conceded defeat.
A new alpha since the original Alpha Zenucah had been named now. Atumra had proven himself a worthy male to lead, and all would agree and fall in line for their new male leader.
Thank you everyone for participating! We are sorry this took so long to run through and complete. It is still new to all of us and easy to slip the mind. Thank you for your patience. To celebrate the new Alpha and make up for how long this took to complete, the Daywher Social event has returned!
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What In The World? || Arden (Aino)
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They were on break, finally. The lessons seemed to be getting more and more...demanding. Lia loved it, but Skryth seemed to be getting a bit frazzled. So they came to do what always worked to calm the zultanite down, bathe in the sun. Of course, it was cold out for Lia, so she was in a jacket and laying in as much sun as she could. But this relaxation was quickly stopped when someone stood over her. She opened her eyes to see a strange man she had never seen before standing over her. "Hey there Goldie! I haven't seen you in turns. You have gotten so big, and look, even impressed a dragon of your own!" Skryth, sensing Liakkaya's fear and confusion, was quickly on her feet and staring at the strange man.
I suggest you leave. Mine doesn't know you, and you are frightening her. Don't make me call for help. She she threatened that last part, the man threw his hadns up in defeat and looked between the look. "Liakkaya, I am your uncle from you motehr's side, Y'nar. You are telling me that you don't recognize your uncle at all." Too petrified to say anything, Lia just shook her head, confused and now really scared. She hadn't seen any family except for her parents and her siblings for turns, all until she left for New Atricis.
"Well fuck. I didn't think your mother would shut me out completely in your life. Sounds right though, she never did trust me." Liakkaya finally seemed to find the use of her limbs and she scrambled over to the zultanite. "I don't know you. I don't have an uncle. Now please leave." Her words were shaky and she was now looking around, trying to find the first person that she could see.
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She hadn't really been at the Weyr long, but letters from home had already become a strange mixture of ordeal and relief. She had been irritated when she first arrived to learn that her older brother Vin'del was away on a turn or longer recovery period after a bad Thread score. She knew NOONE at the Weyr, as a result.
And noone at the Weyr was an uncomfortable reminder of the fire. Or of her parents' tendency to overindulge. Not that anyone had commented while they were alive, but after their deaths, Arden had heard plenty of whispers.
It was a bright, pretty day, and Arden had a new letter from her sister. She missed Stalena, the older woman had been more of a mother to her than their own mother even before the fire. But between letters, Arden was able to go for days without thinking about everything they had lost. Stalena however, couldn't seem to write a letter without bringing up one of the people who had died.
She was far from alone outside, but there was enough room to give her an appearance of privacy. She had just reached the part of the letter where Stalena began relating some story about Stavelin's childhood antics, when that illusion was broken by a voice calling out loudly, "Hey there Goldie!"
She was startled, dropping the letter to the ground as she looked around. And saw the man pestering one of the weyrlings, a girl with hair as blonde as Arden's. She didn't seem too happy to see him, but Arden had already figured out what happened; Goldie couldn't be all that uncommon a nickname for blondes. It was just that noone had ever called her that except Stavelin, and since he died. . . .
And then she heard it while she was reading Stalena's description of their earliest attempts to sneak out at night. It was just odd timing.
Then she looked up at the blonde weyrling's harsh voice.
"I don't know you. I don't have an uncle. Now please leave."
Arden scrambled to her feet, her letter left forgotten on the ground. The other woman had retreated to her zultanite - and what kind of idiot made a weyrling feel unsafe? Arden was surprised the entire Weyr wasn't descending on them. And he was a rider, too, apparently.
She stood for a moment, judging the situation. Then she put a perfectly friendly smile on her face, bent to retrieve her letter, and brushed a bit of dirt off her slacks as she stood, and approached. . . .the strange rider.
"Hello, sir," she said, warmly, "are you visiting New Atricis, then? I'm not the candidate who is on duty to guide newcomers but I can send Fog here to contact him for you," The tiny blue popped in, chirping at the mention of his name while Arden let her eyes widen just that little bit as she met his. She brushed a strand of hair back from her face, stopping short of twirling it. She was going for awed but nervous, not consciously flirtatious. Look at me, she urged mentally, not the weyrling. Before you make her dragon so upset something bad happens.
She wasn't sure what, just that young dragons (and therefore their riders) were supposed to be sheltered when possible.
The guy wasn't leaving, but Skryth was getting upset. Lia knew that this was bad, so she started to ignore the man to try and calm the zultanite down. That was when they both heard a voice and saw another girl come over. Lia breathed a sigh of relief as she took over the situation for her, and she focused on Skryth. Calm my love, we will be fine. If anything, we could always call the Weyrlingmaster if we need help, perhaps the Candidatemaster as well since one of the candidates is here. She had noticed the knots and watched as the reds slowly left the dragons eyes, helping Lia calm down herself.
She heard the man huff though before turning. "No, just seems to me that my brat of a sister chose to leave me out of family affairs." With that, the retreating form could be seen leaving, which made the reds be replaced with content blues and greens as the dragon looked at Arden. Thank you for helping. Lia smiled as Skryth thanked the girl and she finally felt safe to move away from her dragon a bit before walking closer to Arden to smile. "Yes, thank you. I don't know what his problem was, but things could have gotten bad there." She extended her hand then, for a friendly handshake.
"I am Liakkaya and this is Skryth." The zultanite seemed to hum lightly as she laid down beside Lia, but Lia could see that the zultanite's eyes were focused on the general direction that the man had left in.
When the man walked away, that was good enough for Arden. She would worry later about the idea of him being a New Atricis rider and her having to deal with him. Though shouldn't he have already known his niece was here if that was the case?
She blushed at the thanks from the dragonet, though. "I'm glad to help," she said aloud to the zultanite, before looking back at the weyrling. The man's parting words had sparked some irritation in her. "If he didn't bother leaving you alone when it was obvious he was upsetting you, I think it's obvious why his sister would leave him out of things," she muttered. That irritated her, people who felt they were owed things, and acted like they were wronged when they didn't get them. While this man didn't seem to have expected romantic interest from the weyrling, Arden was more accustomed to seeing it that way.
"It is nice to meet you Liakkaya, and I'm really honored to meet you, Skryth," Arden answered, falling back on formal language though she kept her posture casual enough. "I might not have noticed him bothering you," she said, ruefully, "if he hadn't called you Goldie. Is that an old nickname of yours?" she asked, wistfully. Arden had so many mixed feelings about her late brother, but she couldn't help but wish he was still alive, calling her that, so that she could yell at him about his behavior.
He was gone, thank whoever at this point, he was gone. It was a relief. She was clam, and Skryth was calming down. These were both good things, for the zultanite didn't need to get pissed in Lia's defense, not this young at least. She didn't think that the man from was from New Articis. He had to have been visiting, or someone would have told her that she had family here, right?
But Lia heard what Arden muttered and she laughed. It was a true and calming laugh, and it made the zultanite's eyes whirl with greens and blues again. "I agree. I mean, there would have to be a reason why no one would include him in things." She still didn't believe that he was her uncle, but at this point, anything could be possible. He called her 'goldie', she hadn't been called that since she was back home. But she could tell that the other girl was annoyed and she smiled lightly. It was nice to know that someone else knew the irritation and fear that she just had, even if the fear was only her's and Skryth's.
Skryth hummed to the girl. The dragon was starting to like her more and more right now. Lia kept that mental note, figuring that perhaps they could spend more time with Arden on a later date after this, mess, was settled. But the question on the nickname made her nod. "My mom and dad used to call me that all the time. I haven't heard it since I left Fort Hold though." She thought for a moment before she continued her thought. "I was told of an uncle, but he was Fort Weyr bound. Unable to leave the last I knew of." She never saw him then, so that man could have been him, but why would he be here?
It had occurred to Arden more than once, that if families could just pretend the problematic members did not exist, many of them would be better off. It would never have worked for her family of course - the problematic one had been the patriarch. Hard to ignore him.
Still, "I certainly wouldn't claim that idiot, if he were my family. Though it seems like maybe your parents should have warned you he would be here?" She frowned at the idea that he might be a Fort rider instead of New Atricis. Why was he here at all? Had he arranged a transfer, specifically to pick on his own niece who probably outranked him? Maybe to take advantage of her?
Arden shook her head. It wasn't any of her business, and besides, a weyrling was in a better spot to protect herself from that sort of thing than a candidate would be. "I guess Goldie is a common enough nickname for blondes," she acknowledged, tugging at her own hair.
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For Gender Balance: Action, Alliance!
March 8, 2019 March 8, 2019 by BostonCommonGovernance, Social
Action: Three women achievers join our Ownership team
This International Women’s Day asks us to “Balance For Better,” and we celebrate gender balance at Boston Common by recognizing our newest Principals at Boston Common Asset Management: Constantina Bichta, Lei Ge, and Lisa Hayles—alongside Liz Su, an existing member who added to her ownership stake. With these appointments, we continue our commitment to recognizing, supporting and rewarding women achievers, and broadening ownership to a growing number of employees. Women comprise over half of our employee-owners, 60% of our Board of Directors, and Senior Management, and 55% of our integrated investment team and total staff.[1] Diverse, women-led, and majority-employee-owned, we bring experience, intentionality, integrity, and judgment to our work, seeking financial returns and social change.
“I am delighted to welcome these colleagues as new partners and look forward to their continued contribution to the success of the firm,” said Geeta Aiyer, Founder and President of Boston Common.
Alliance: Partner Groups Bolster “Equality Ecosystem”
We work in collaboration with leading organizations to advance our Gender Equality initiative. Recently, two leading groups, the World Benchmarking Alliance and Equileap—have released important, transformative work toward a more equal workforce (more below). Metrics and data bolster the “Equality Ecosystem,” and help corporations and investors make informed decisions, thus catalyzing change.
Gender Balance
At Boston Common, we are proud to be part of this effort, both in our workforce balance and in our portfolios. Each of Boston Common’s investment strategies prioritizes gender equity as part of our Comprehensive ESG assessment.
Our vision for a truly sustainable planet and inclusive growth calls for equality for women and all minorities. There is much work to be done toward this goal, of course. Today, we celebrate how far we have come and look forward to the long road ahead. We are up to the challenge!
From the Boston Common Team
About Partner Organizations
The World Benchmarking Alliance: We are members of the Alliance, which just released its first scoping report on an exciting new Gender Equality & Empowerment Benchmark (GEEB). The benchmark will:
Measure companies’ progress on SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and recognize key overlaps with other SDGs.
Integrate a holistic approach that covers the full value chain
Identify a Call to Action for companies to drive change
Equileap: Last week, Equileap, an international organization focused on accelerating progress towards gender equality in the workplace, released a special report, Gender Equality in the US. The report was commissioned by the Tara Health Foundation and supported by The Educational Foundation of America and The Grove Foundation, and it assesses S&P 100 companies on workplace equality. They rank companies across a wide range of criteria including:
Gender Balance at all workforce levels
Non-discriminatory hiring and promotion
Supply chain safety
Equal access to health care for all employees
Our Principals:
Lei Ge
Constantina Bichta
Lisa Hayles
Liz Su
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Taco Bell to test lettuce at the farm
Taco Bell lost $20 million last fall when they had an outbreak of e. coli at some of their restaurants in the northeastern US. 71 people in 5 states became ill. The CDC said Taco Bell's shredded lettuce was the likely source of the outbreak.
Taco Bell has now announced that they will begin "on-the-farm" testing of their lettuce.
"We have rapidly put in place farm ... testing of our lettuce supply to add another level of testing," David Novak, chairman and chief executive of Louisville-based Yum Brands Inc..
Taco Bell is one of the first companies to conduct such tests, but they have not yet announced details of the on-the-farm testing program.
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This is extremely useful. I didn't know we could get e coli through veggies.
Now I know...thank goodness
veggies tested for ecoil. out of your minds
The e. Coli doesn't come from the vegetables per se, but from the cattle manure that's spread on them while they're growing - manure that's improperly handled in the first place.
Thank you industrialized agriculture!
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Waste not, grow more food
– March 28, 2016Posted in: Current News
Rice University engineering students’ device makes composting easier
It’s good for crops, it’s good for water and, in the end, it’s good for people and the planet. Why would anyone not turn food waste into compost?
Rice University engineering students asked that question at the start of the school year and have spent the months since refining their answer.
The team known as (com)post-haste invented a device that sits under one’s sink and takes macerated food waste produced by a standard garbage disposal and sends it in one direction while liquid waste (including water) goes in another. Effectively, it simplifies the process of recycling garbage into a useful product while helping to protect water supplies.
The students make up one of more than 80 capstone design teams at Rice. Most senior engineering students are required to complete a project to graduate and are presented with a host of possibilities when they begin their classes in August.
For all the members of (com)post-haste, developing the device they call The BioBlend was a natural.
“I think for all of us this was the top choice,” said Kavana Gowda, who like all of her teammates is a senior mechanical engineering student. Other members are Christina Petlowany, Andrew Miller, Edgar Silva, Mitch Torczon and Ryan Yeh.
Rice University engineering students have invented a device to separate compostable materials from food waste processed by a garbage disposal. From left, Ryan Yeh, Christina Petlowany, Edgar Silva, Andrew Miller, Mitch Torczon and Kavana Gowda. Photo by Jeff Fitlow
The students have spent much of the last eight months working in the basement of Rice’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen, where they have installed an actual research kitchen – or at least the sink part.
The project is a partnership with NASA, which has an interest in such devices for outposts on the moon, Mars and beyond, and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, which pitched Rice on the project and intends to install The BioBlend at its Living Lab, where it will be tested alongside other emerging household technologies. Rice lecturer Matthew Elliott is the team’s faculty adviser.
“I think one of the major barriers to being eco-friendly in a variety of ways in the United States is people aren’t willing to put in any effort,” said Torczon of the device. “This doesn’t require users to change their behaviors. They can continue putting food down the garbage disposal, and once every couple of days take it out, just like taking out their trash.”
The difference is The BioBlend produces a moist, finely chopped form of waste that takes less time to turn to compost than regular garbage. Alternately, it can be used to generate biogas.
“One of the things our sponsors want to see is if they can make the device large enough to put in the basement of an apartment complex or a grocery store or restaurant, places with a ton of food waste,” Torczon said. “They could create a lot of biogas they could then turn around and sell or, if they’re in a restaurant, use themselves.”
“I think a family of four, using a biogas generator with their waste, would be able to make enough for them to cook with,” Gowda added.
Mechanical engineering student Andrew Miller makes an adjustment to The BioBlend prototype. Photo by Jeff Fitlow
Whether it’s used for compost or biogas production, the key to The BioBlend’s success will be its ability to keep garbage out of wastewater treatment plants, where it’s not only useless but also costly and complicated to remove.
The team’s research into separation techniques spanned sewage plants to hand-cranked tabletop devices for making jellies and tomato sauce. What they had in common was a circular strainer with a large screw in the middle that pushes solid waste along while allowing liquid to escape. Their own motor-driven, spring-loaded version has a failsafe to keep unwanted solids like ice from jamming the system.
A weight sensor tracks how full the bin is, a cutoff switch automatically trips before it overflows and a carbon filter helps quash odors and keep flies away from the compost.
The team has not ruled out giving The BioBlend Wi-Fi powers to alert users to its status via the Internet, Torczon said. They could just make it beep when full, but the students are wary that annoyed users would simply disconnect it rather than keep with the program.
The teammates had no problem finding a way to feed their creation. “One of the cool things about the project was digging once a week through the trash in the Rice serveries,” Yeh said.
“It’s caused me to reevaluate how much food I’m throwing away,” Torczon added. “Our sponsors said at the beginning they hoped it influenced our behavior.”
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How many or what percent of the nutrients are lost down the drain in solution? I like the idea of segregating all the compost before grinding it to save all these effluents. Maybe it could still be done in such a way as to make composting more convenient.
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Ferrari Mondial: Buying guide and review (1980-1993)
A full buyer's guide for the Ferrari Mondial (1980-1993) including specs, common problems and model history…
At launch in 1980, one mag raved, ‘the closest you’ll get to supercar family transport’, although that very same statement could also be read as a damning condemnation. But time changes perceptions; now the Mondial lives in automotive limbo. ‘The Ferrari that took the super out of supercar’ is a more recent assessment.
Both statements have truth in them – the Mondial lacks definition, and these are some of the factors that make the Mondial just about the most affordable, easy to live with and practical latter-day Ferrari of all. After years in the doldrums, they’re not going to get any cheaper.
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So what is it? The Mondial began where the 308GT4 left off, with the same mid-mounted 3-litre V8, but on a longer wheelbase. In place of the Bertone belligerence, the Pininfarina-penned Mondial was a poem in politeness: better appointed, more comfortable, with genuine 2+2 accommodation, and still good for 140mph.
When production ended in 1993, the Mondial had sold 6800 units, more than any Ferrari before – which is why the Ferrari Fascisti deride it. They’re wrong; the Mondial provided the template for today’s civilised four- seater Ferraris. It was also the most civilised Ferrari of its day.
Today, opinions on its styling are still divided, but appreciation for the Mondial’s practical side and affordable values are starting to see a resurgence in demand. The earlier versions are also relatively easy to work on, making the Mondial one of those rare Ferraris that is both practical and reasonable (in Ferrari terms!) to run.
Which Ferrari Mondial to buy?
The ’82 QV quattrovalvole version boosted power to 240bhp; the cabriolet came out in 1983; in 1985 the engine grew to 3.2 litres. Arguably the sweet spot in the range can be found in the any of the cars produced between 1982 and 1988.
These earlier cars allow servicing of the timing belt and clutch without engine removal, but came fitted with the Quattrovalvole units, producing a more Ferrari-like 240bhp instead of the 214bhp of the very early models. With the introduction of the Mondial t in 1989, a number of important changes took place however, and these models will appeal if you have a bit more money to spend.
Power increased to 300bhp thanks to a transverse-mounted 3.4-litre V8 – a layout that is still in use in the 488 today. Exterior styling as well as the interior trim received a welcome upgrade too. One drawback to this layout is that the engine and transmission must be removed to access various serviceable items.
The clutch however is mounted at the rear, making replacement a far less arduous task. The added complexity of these later cars can increase the running costs, and that is why some owners prefer the slightly earlier models. The T offered power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering, along with standard air-con.
While it might not be highly regarded in Ferrari terms, driving the Mondial is still a joy – especially when it’s compared with its contemporary rivals. It’s not track car by any means, but on the road the Mondial is agile, surefooted and extremely communicative.
The steering is extremely talkative, but it is the best asset in the Ferrari’s arsenal is unsurprisingly the engine. The slightly more muscular 3.4 delivers its healthy reserves from around 2000rpm right through to a glorious 7500rpm.
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The open-gated gearbox can be somewhat obstructive, especially when cold, but learn to treat it with the right level of respect and enjoy. Before seriously considering a Mondial, you must go and drive or at least sit in one. The driving position is typically Italian, but it’s the offset pedals that might cause the most discomfort. Even though this is a 2+2 GT, it’s not big inside, and you’ll struggle to fit more than a couple of small bags on the rear seats.
Ferrari Mondial performance and specs ModelFerrari Mondial 3.2Engine3185cc, 32-valve DOHC V8Power260bhp @ 7000rpmTorque213lb ft @ 5000rpmTransmissionFive-speed manual0-60mph6.3 secondsTop speed148mphInsurance group20Fuel consumption19.2mpgPrice when new£24,488Dimensions and weightWheelbase2650mmLength4580mmWidth1790mmHeight1260mmWeight1430kg Ferrari Mondial common problems
• General: many parts are in common with the 308 so parts and spares availability is not too much of a problem. Just like the 308, it maintained correctly any Mondial should be reasonably reliable. Sadly many have been neglected due to the cost of proper maintenance and the relatively low values.
• Slow windows: electric windows operate very slowly on all model years, and there is not much that can be done to speed them up. Some owners bypass the fusebox and run the wiring straight to the battery.
• Air conditioning: upgrading the old air conditioning system using an R134A conversion kit makes for far cheaper refills. It’s worth checking if the car you are interested in has had this upgrade carried out. If it doesn’t blow cold, then assume the system will need a full rebuild, as it’s very rarely ‘just a re-gas’.
• Timing belt: timing belts need replacing every 30,000 miles or every three years. If they break it’s game over for the engine, so make sure that the service history prove that they have been done within this mileage and timeframe.
• Powerplant: the engine is the most expensive cause for problems down the road, so inspect everything as closely as you can. This means looking out for signs of oil burning, head gasket problems and old neglected looking cooling system – with cracked or perishing hoses and rusty metal pipes and header tank.
• Misfires: something as seemingly simple as a misfire can take a long time to track down, so cars with problems should be avoided unless you are getting a very good deal.
• Electronics: the electrical system can suffer from gremlins, caused by corrosion of the contacts over time. There are many tricks to resolve these minor issues, however it is usually best to leave the electrics to a specialist.
• Corrosion: rust protection on the Mondial is much improved over earlier Ferrraris, however corrosion can still set in, especially in the sills and wheel arches of neglected cars. Make sure you get a specialist to look over the car thoroughly as replacement body panels will need to be fabricated and repairs are not cheap.
1980: Mondial 8 introduced featuring 2+2 coupe body style and 214bhp, 3.0-litre V8
1982: Quattrovalvole model introduced, pushing power up to 240bhp
1983: Cabriolet body style option added, making this the only mid-engined, four-seater convertible Ferrari ever made.
1985: Mondial 3.2 introduced with 270bhp. Major interior and dashboard update carried out as well as restyled bumpers and lights.
1987: ABS introduced across the range.
1989: Mondial t Coupe and Cabriolet introduced with major changes both inside and out. 3.4-litre engine replaces 3.2 unit, pushing power up to 300bhp. ‘Valeo’ semi-automatic option made available. Power assisted steering introduced
1993: Final Mondial rolls off the production line
Mondial production numbersModelNumbersMondial 8703Mondial QV Coupe1145Mondial QV Cabriolet6293.2 Mondial Coupe9873.2 Mondial Cabriolet810Mondial t Coupe840Mondial t Cabriolet1010Owners clubs, forums and websites
• www.ferrariownersclub.co.uk – An international club based in the UK for all things Ferrari
• www.superformance.co.uk – Ferrari parts specialists
• www.talacrest.com – Classic Ferrari specialist and dealer based in Berkshire
• www.clubscuderia.co.uk – International forum for Ferrari owners and enthusiasts
Summary and prices
The Mondial has benefitted from the rise in Ferrari prices in general, and while it was once possible to get your hands on a decent example for £12,000, prices now start at around £30,000. They are still the most cost-effective way to get into a relatively modern Ferrari, and have the added practicality of four seats.
Find a desirable model and prices soon start rising. £70,000 is not unheard of for low mileage 3.4 t convertibles. It isn’t necessary to spend that kind of money to get a well-sorted car though, with £45,000-£60,000 plenty to find a great coupe.
Find a good example, and you’ll soon be enjoying all the traits that Ferrari become famous for. Who doesn’t want to experience a mid-engined V8, with handling to match? Perhaps the Mondial’s time has finally come.
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Schoharie Arc Awarded $18,000 in Grants from NYSARC Trust Services
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Schoharie Arc, a not-for-profit organization supporting people in Schoharie County and the surrounding area has been awarded $18,000 in grants from Trustee Management Board of NYSARC Trust Services to support Schoharie Arc's guardianship and recreation programs.
NYSARC Trust Services administers supplemental needs trusts (SNT) that can make dramatic improvements to the lives of people with disabilities while enabling individuals to maintain eligibility for public benefits programs, such as Medicaid and SSI. For 2018, NYSARC Trust Services is proud to fulfill its commitment to enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by awarding a total of $2,778,500 in grants to The Arc New York Chapters statewide.
This year, Schoharie Arc received $3000 from NYSARC Trust Services to provide guardianship services for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities who would not otherwise have a legal guardian or advocate. Supported by Chapter Staff and community volunteers, the Schoharie Arc's Guardianship Program currently provides guardianship supports and services to two people and is ready to assist.
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Materials scientists and engineers from Clemson University in South Carolina and University of Illinois developed sapphire fibers with greater capacity for high-energy optical transmissions than current silica-based fibers. The team led by John Ballato, director of Clemson’s Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (pictured left), appears online in this week’s issue of Nature Photonics; paid subscription required.
High intensity applications are pushing the limits of traditional silica-based fiber optics, says Ballato. “At high power, the light causes the atoms of the material to vibrate more violently and those vibrations convert some of the light energy into sound energy which restricts the ability of the fiber to carry more power,” Ballato notes. “This, in turn, lessens the amount of light that can travel through the fiber, which limits the amount of information that can be sent for telecommunications uses and power for high-energy laser applications.”
The Clemson team sought a substitute material for silica, particularly a robust, affordable, and easily accessible material with commercial potential. That material needed the capacity to handle the greater power and intensity demands of modern applications, yet still be convertible into an optical fiber.
Ballato and colleagues found that sapphire possesses properties that make it valuable for high power lasers in which the light intensity interacts with sound waves in the glass. “The problem,” says Ballato, “is that sapphire’s crystalline structure is not amenable to making into optical fiber using commercially accepted methods.”
To resolve this problem, the researchers engineered a variation of sapphire with large concentrations of alumina — aluminum oxide — refined from bauxite ore and a feedstock for the metal aluminum. This engineered sapphire made it possible to develop sapphire fiber with the ability to withstand greater transmission intensities than typical commercial fibers and thus be more useful for high-energy applications.
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