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Timeshare mastermind Zamri Zainal walks from jail yesterday
Asia12345 | February 3, 2017
Zamri Zainal…..The mastermind of a million dollar timeshare scam is out after serving his sentence…..The time to strike is NOW!
Mr. Zamry was released from Police Custody on the yesterday the 2nd of February 2017.
Zeal Corporation, Double Z, Axial Management, Max Mega, United Wealth Management, Aztex International, ProBiz & ENC are the companies for which Zamri de facto directed. Under the pretence of providing a solution to disgruntled timeshare owners who were looking to sell or terminate their ownership to cut losses, he dragged them into greater financial loss by making false promise of returns and charging further hefty amounts to those who fell for their trap.
ITRA agents have been made aware of the location of the ill-gotten-gains of these fraudulent operations with these companies over the last 12 years within the Republic of Singapore.
We possess a brief window of opportunity…the moment we have been waiting for, for five years has finally arrived. We understand that Zamri has plans underway to emigrate to the location of the monies he has successfully hidden away from authorities till today. We would like to call out as a matter of urgency to those persons who have invested into the aforesaid companies to act against white collar crime by contacting us
Man convicted of raping partygoer on Sentosa beach SINGAPORE – A 26-year-old former Sentosa beach patrol officer was on Monday (July 18) convicted of raping and sexually assaulting a drunk partygoer on Siloso Beach. The High Court found that the prosecution had proved its case against Pram Nair – on one charge each of rape and sexual assault...
Woman jailed for acquiring funds she had reason to believe was from criminal conduct SINGAPORE – A few days after she came to know a man online, she agreed to let him use her bank account to receive money from his client, a court heard. Initially, Lye Kim Fah, 55, felt “shock” and “unease” when the person she met named “Allen Bruce” through a...
Victims cheated of at least $14,600 in new Facebook scam SINGAPORE – A new scam has surfaced on Facebook, with victims being cheated out of at least $14,600 in seven cases between September and November, the police said in an advisory on Friday (Dec 2). The scam involves fake Facebook “friends” who approach users of the social media platform saying...
Engineer who took 38 upskirt videos of women at MRT stations jailed 16 weeks An engineer who took 38 upskirt videos of women at MRT stations last August was jailed for 16 weeks yesterday. Jan Benedict Mendoza Fuellas, 36, a Philippine national, admitted to one charge of intending to insult the modesty of a 26-year- old woman at Bukit Panjang MRT station, and seven...
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EX-NFL Player James Hardy Attacks LAPD During Arrest
Jonathan Hailey
Former NFL player James Hardy III is dealing with a world of drama today. The 2008 second round draft pick attacked three police officers when they tried to place him under arrest on Sunday afternoon.
According to reports, the LAPD was called to an apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles around 4:30 pm. It’s still unclear what initially brought the cops to the complex, but when they arrived, Hardy refused to cooperate. Hardy injured three police officers during the attack. The former wide receiver for the Bills and Ravens was hit with a taser to get him under control, however, that didn’t work.
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After fighting with him a little longer, several police officers were able to place James Hardy under arrest. He was charged with felony obstruction of justice charges. He was later transported to the hospital to make sure he was alright after being hit with a taser gun.
Police officers believe James Hardy was under the influence at the time of the incident. The details surrounding the altercation are still being uncovered. We will update the story as details are made available.
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Local and nationwide protests erupt over President Trump's emergency declaration for border wall
By Gene Haagenson
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- There were protests both large and small across the United States on Presidents' Day opposed to President Trump's emergency declaration to get billions more to expand the wall along the Mexican border.
"We think it's a fake emergency, so there are real emergencies happening in this country, children being put in cages, families being ripped apart, gun violence, lack of clean drinking water, and not getting your way is not an emergency," said Claire Fitiausi.
A small protest in Hanford brought out concerned citizens, who say there are bigger priorities than a border wall.
"We need money to help our wounded veterans with PTSD, the homeless, there are so many people out there who need it more than playing, wall man," said Ben Miller.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra reiterated his plan to go to court to fight the emergency designation.
"We're going to try to make sure we keep the president from continuing to play this theater by manipulating the office of the president to do his bidding, simply because I think he's trying to essentially send a message to his base, a shrinkage base, that he fulfills his promises," said Xavier Becerra.
But the President's Central Valley base still supports him. Demonstrators rallied in Fresno over the weekend. 18-year-old Maddie Mueller was proud to support Trump.
"There are supporters in California who are for the President, who are for his national emergency who want the wall for our safety," Mueller said.
The rally in Hanford sponsored by Move On may have been small, but Democrats here rallied to defeat Republican Congressman David Valadao in the last election and believe, the times in this conservative area are changing.
"We are not a liberal hotbed; we are just concerned citizens who live here. There are concerned citizens all across the country getting together today to say that Democracy is important and just because the President says something doesn't mean it's right," said Claire Fitiausi.
Late Tuesday, 16 states, led by California and New York joined a lawsuit against the Presidents emergency declaration over the border wall.
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Peyton Manning strongly denies report he used HGH in 2011
ENGLEWOOD, CO -- Peyton Manning strongly denied a report set to air on Al Jazeera that contends the Denver Broncos quarterback received human growth hormone through his wife during his recovery from neck fusion surgeries in 2011 in Indianapolis.
In a statement Saturday night, Manning said: "The allegation that I would do something like that is complete garbage and is totally made up. It never happened. Never."
He added, "I really can't believe somebody would put something like this on the air. Whoever said this is making stuff up."
The allegations surfaced in an Al Jazeera undercover probe into doping in global sports that is set to air Sunday and was shared in advance with the Huffington Post.
The report claims Manning received HGH from an Indianapolis anti-aging clinic in 2011 while he was still with the Colts. It said the drug, which was banned by the NFL in the 2011 collective bargaining agreement, was delivered to his wife, Ashley, so that the quarterback's name was never attached to the shipments.
Liam Collins, a British hurdler, went undercover and spoke with Charlie Sly, an Austin, Texas-based pharmacist who worked at the Guyer Institute, the Indiana-based anti-aging clinic in 2011. Sly allegedly names Manning and other high profile athletes as having received HGH from the clinic.
However, Sly backtracks in a subsequent statement to Al Jazeera, saying Collins secretly recorded his conversations without his knowledge or consent.
"The statements on any recordings or communications that Al Jazeera plans to air are absolutely false and incorrect," Sly said. "To be clear, I am recanting any such statements and there is no truth to any statement of mine that Al Jazeera plans to air. Under no circumstances should any of those recordings, statements or communications be aired."
The NFL and players union added human growth hormone testing to the collective bargaining agreement signed in 2011 but the side didn't agree to testing terms until 2014. Nobody has tested positive, which would trigger a four-game suspension.
Manning, who joined the Broncos in 2012, has been sidelined since Nov. 15 by a left foot injury. Brock Osweiler makes his sixth consecutive start in Manning's place Monday night when the Broncos (10-4) host the Bengals (11-3).
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PDP AND SENATOR MAO OHUABUNWA ON VERIFIABLE PILLARS OF JUSTICE AND OPTIMISM – DON UBANI
Nigerians of voting age who had their Permanent Voter’s Card went out to vote candidates of their choice on Saturday 23rd February, 2019. The elections were meant to produce the President, Senators and Members of House of Representatives. Like in each of the one hundred and nine senatorial districts in the country, the electorate in Abia-North Senatorial District were fully sensitized and mobilized for the exercise.
Abia-North has the uncommon privilege of having one of the most quintessential Senators in Nigeria. He is Senator Mao Arukwe Ohuabunwa.
Apart from his physical mien which is naturally captivating, Mao is a flawless orator, in any ramification and by any measurable standard. He is a legislator that each time he speaks, those he represents; including those who may not have voted for him, would have every cause to be proud of having a brilliant and effective representative.
Senator Ohuabunwa; an astute legislator who enjoys experience of membership of both House of Representatives and the Senate, has obviously distinguished himself in the business of legislation. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Senator Ohuabunwa has, apart from initiating numerous motions and bills, verifiable evidence of having two Bills originated by him signed into Law by the President.
In terms of legislation in the ninth Senate, Senator Ohuabunwa ranks next to none. He has severally and continuously proved his legislative acumen. If there is any constituent in Abia-North that is not proud of having the calibre of Senator Mao Ohuabunwa as his representative, that person must be a compound ignoramus or merely a sadist.
Aside legislative brilliance and astuteness, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa has attracted many substantial dividends of democracy to his highly cherished people of Abia-North.
The above were the psychological frame of mind and overall mental concept of the electorate in Abia-North when they trooped out on the said Saturday 23rd February, 2019 to cast their votes. There was no doubt, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa was their choice.
Most recklessly and unacceptably, the Independent National Electoral Commission; INEC, that should have conducted a free, fair and verifiable comprehensive election in Abia-North, for no justifiable cause, opted for a course of action that could only have rendered it suspect.
The February 2019 Senatorial election in Abia-North had three major candidates. While Senator Mao Ohuabunwa was that of Peoples Democratic Party, Chiefs Orji Uzor Kalu and David Ogba Onuoha were of All Progressives Congress and All Progressives Grand Alliance, respectively.
Abia-North has more than seventy-five registered voters. Granted that the electoral body decided to be economical with the figure of registered voters in the district, INEC, after all the cancellations it unlawfully did, acknowledged in its Form EC 40 C(2) that the margin of lead between the alleged winner of the election; Chief Orji Uzor Kalu of APC and the second contestant, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa of PDP is 10,400 while equally acknowledging a total cancellation of 38,526 registered voters in the said election.
Since the margin of lead of 10,400 is, by far, less than the number of canceled registered voters in the district, the surest just decision the electoral umpire should, by law, have taken was to declare the election inconclusive.
By INEC’s electoral guideline, any election in which the number of canceled votes is above the lead margin, that election shall be declared inconclusive. The guideline was applied in many electoral contest in the 2019 general election, including those of Senator Enyi Abaribe of PDP and Sir Chris Nkwonta of APGA in Abia-South Senatorial District and Hon Ossy Prestige of APGA and Hon Uzor Azubuike of PDP in Aba-South/North Federal Constituency.
For INEC to have deviated from this established rule in the case of Abia-North, has been a source of painful concern to PDP in Abia State.
Being a Political Party of seasoned, tested and proven democrats, PDP in Abia State is known to have a lot of respect for the Electoral Body. That this injustice was perpetrated against Senator Ohuabunwa and PDP has not made the Party to lose the respect it has always had for the electoral umpire, as the Party knows that a big organization like INEC can not be said not to have some rotten eggs amongst its large number of personnel.
As a Party that has a track record of respect for the rule of law, PDP is optimistic that the National Assembly Election Tribunal handling the petition of the Party and her Candidate; Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, will consider the petition dispassionately and in accordance with law and justice and, therefore, give a ruling that will enthrone justice to the teaming members of PDP in the district who were unlawfully and unacceptably disenfranchised in Abia-North in the said election.
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H.S. ROUNDUP: Rockland hockey goes back-to-back
Chris McDaniel cmcdaniel@wickedlocal.com @ChrisMcDaniel88
A year ago, the Rockland High hockey team ended a 24-year league title drought.
This time the wait wasn’t nearly as long. On Saturday, the Bulldogs defeated Norwell, 1-0, in a de facto South Shore League title game claim their second consecutive league title.
It was Rockland’s senior captains who came through in the clutch against Norwell. Goalkeeper Harry O’Brien recorded his fourth shutout of the season while Mike Flaherty scored the lone goal. Flaherty has also been selected to play in the MHSCA Shriners Senior All-Star Game at March 31 at the Canton Ice House.
On Jan. 31, Rockland defeated Silver Lake, 4-2, behind three-point games from Flaherty (goal, two assists) and Zach Callahan (two goals, assist). Matt O’Brien scored one goal.
The Bulldogs now stand at 14-1-2 with an 8-0-1 mark in the league.
The Abington High hockey team needs five points in its final four games to reach the tournament.
The Green Wave’s offense has come alive of late. Since taking a 7-0 shellacking against Rockland on Jan. 20, Abington has responded with a three-game winning streak. Abington dispatched of East Bridgewater (7-2), Cardinal Spellman (11-4) and Cohasset (4-2) during that stretch.
Freshman John Polito netted a hat trick and an assist against EB on Jan. 27 while senior Brian Cashman had a goal and four assists. John Quinn handed out three assists while adding a goal.
Ryan Doherty and John Demarco each scored one goal while Billy Ward had two assists.
Quinn led the way against Spellman with a six-point performance with a hat trick. He had another hat trick against Cohasset with assists from Cashman and Ward. Joe McCarthy scored the winning goal in the third period.
To make the postseason, Abington needs two wins, or two ties and a win in its final four games. On Saturday, Abington hosts Spellman at Rockland Arena at 3:40 p.m. On Monday, the Green Wave travel to Sandwich to play at Gallo Ice Arena at 7:30 p.m.
Abington wraps up the season with home dates against Mashpee/Monomoy (Feb. 17) and Sacred Heart (Feb. 23).
The Abington and Rockland girls basketball teams will both be playing for South Shore League titles on Friday.
Rockland (13-3, 9-2) will host Norwell (15-1, 10-1) in a South Shore League Sullivan Division finale. With a win, the Bulldogs share the title with Norwell. A loss gives the Clippers sole possession of the league crown. In their first meeting, Norwell won 52-50 as Lexi Rothmann hit the winning shot with 2.7 seconds to play.
Abington (11-5, 7-4) will host Cohasset (12-6, 8-3) on Friday at 6:30 p.m. Much like Norwell, Cohasset already has a share of the SSL Tobin Division, but an Abington win on Friday earns the Green Wave a share of it.
To get the opportunity to play for the league title, Abington knocked off Carver, 44-42, on Tuesday. Sophomores Lauren Keleher (16 points, 14 rebounds) and Maddie O’Connell (17 points, five assists) led the way for the Green Wave. The win also clinched Abington a tournament spot.
The Abington boys defeated Calvary Chapel Academy, 83-63, in a non-league game. Bryson Andrews scored a team-high 19 points while John Muniz added 14 points. Christian Labossier and Justin Keleher each finished with 10 points.
The Rockland boys defeated EB, 56-40, behind a balanced scoring effort. Zach Sharland (13 points), Aiden Glennon (12) and Jude Bain (11) all finished in double figures.
The Bulldogs (14-2, 12-0), who have already clinched the SSL Sullivan Division title, are 40-1 in the last 41 league games. That one loss? Norwell. Rockland plays at Norwell on Friday (6:30 p.m.) hoping to finish with their second undefeated SSL season in three years.
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Women’s History Month Events 2018
With International Women’s Day last Thursday and the whole month celebrating Women’s History Month there’s so many social events and online concerns and features appealing to all ages.
Dress for Success Awards
Tuesday (6th March) was The Dress for Success Awards at Lloyds London. I was honoured to pick up an Award last year for Services To Radio so when asked to be the Greater London Patron, well how could I refuse? One of the other Patrons includes The Weakest Link’s Anne Robinson – goodbye! Anne gave a talk on Tuesday that had every female in the room (aged 20 to 70) just buzzing. It’s such a FABULOUS time for women and the men who are embracing the change. Just throw age out of the window, grasp life and believe You Are Fabulous. Anne was just that, Fabulous. She talked about starting out working on newspapers and television and told the awesome story about a fax – yes a fax – her husband received on her behalf about a TV show she was asked to present but her personality was one of the main requirements. Her husband says “shall we leave it as you’re busy writing”. “No,” Anne says, “let’s take the meeting”. If she hadn’t taken that meeting, they’d be no “Weakest Link”…… She ends her talk by saying “remember you’re FABULOUS and grab every opportunity”. Well, I’m now going crazy so have to leave the room.
WIQ Talks
Wednesday (7th March) 5pm, I finish my show on Afternoons With Angie, head to the bathroom at work in the basement (it’s huge with a shower) got changed and made my way to London Bridge, walked down Tooley Street to the Lalit Hotel. Media IQ Digital have asked me to speak about being in media – specifically radio which can be quite male top heavy, but you know me, I just do what I have to do to get the job done. Once again a room full of women and men of all ages and races who are just hungry to reach the stars and be the best they can be. WIQ Talks is the brainchild of Georgia Haig along with Harriet Cunningham, Ashley Powys and Nicola Young.
Media iQ Digital Promotional video discussing gender, diversity & equality in the Media.
Dress for Success Panel Talk
Thursday (8th March) was another day that I dashed out of Magic Towers straight after my show and made my way to Salesforce Tower for the Dress for Success Panel Talk. As opposed to being a panel member I hosted this talk with Jenny Garrett, Life Coach and Mentor; Adia May, Hollywood Entertainment Lawyer; Liz Dimmock, Founder and CEO of Women Ahead and Moving Ahead; and Caroline Smith, Head of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.
This was such an interesting event, as well as talking about women Pressing for Progress, there were also mothers in the room who were concerned about directing their children, and also a few Millennials who were seriously engrossed in the conversation, as you know Millennials work on a completely different time scale to Luminaries complete with the assistance of phones, tablets, laptops and especially social media.
Find out more about Dress For Success on their website https://dressforsuccess.org/
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Who’s on kira’s next list?
This is not exactly news, but yeah, these could be a lot fun.
Looking at the online Death Note (before I got my last heart attack…OH, I forgot to tell you all, but I’m not in this dimension any more…), here are some fun entries. The real names are withheld.
A.G. – “Watching too much Bleach A is 2 minutes and forty-three seconds into the newest episode. He then realizes how much Bleach is like Dragon Ball z and falls into dispair. He realizes that his friend D is right and the show is gay. HE commits seppuku with the senbonzakura he got off of the internet.”
Ray’s Take: D IS RIGHT! Commit seppuku now!
“Fidel Castro” – “Assasination. Family member kill Fidel Castro with a knife, thens runs away unhidden.”
Ray’s Take: How does one “RUNS AWAY UNHIDDEN”?
R. M. “Broken Skull
During a performance in the theatre located at P. Ridge, at approx. January 7th, at 6:23pm he will attempt his dive roll, but during his dive roll he starts having second doubts, causing him to lose concentration, therefore causing him to crash head first onto the floor, and bust his skull open, the paramedics will take him to S. Memorial Hospital, where he dies in the entrance from Blood Loss.”
Ray’s Take: Wow! What drama! What tragedy! What a pain in the ass to write!
“got fucked to hard in the ass ”
Ray’s Take:…I think he liked it “to” much.
D. “Drowning
S. will brutally rape him, and he will enjoy it, and then, he will be thrown into the River Styx, where he will slowly drown, and then be forced into sex with Hilary Clinton in Hell.”
Ray’s Take:…another tale of broken hearts.
After knowing that he is going to hell,
he cuts his 2 inch willie off with a rusty knife.
then he cuts out his intestints and hangs himself with them…………”
Ray’s Take: One title – Mission Impossible 4.
R. V. “Too much perviness
R. taughts his friends about their screen names and personal messeges on MSN messenger. After this he repeats the words “Assume the position” over and over. Dies due to over-perve. God bless his soul.”
Ray’s Take: Lovely. Simply lovely.
Raymond Y. Hu.
“Dies because his genitals got rotten and then goes to hell.”
Ray’s Take:…the onsen in hell sure is a good cure for herpes, and I got Enma Ai to take me there. Thanks!
And here’s the last one:
Deathnoteonline.com
“will be discontinued soon, due to unauthorized use of DEATH NOTE intellectual property, as claimed by VIZ Media, in a recent email from my inbox. It’s time to say bye. Thanks.”
Ray’s Take:…I think I see Kira sitting in the chair for VIZ Media’s CEO smiling.
I’m a hardcore Anime Fan and I’m proud of it. I know so many things and I’ve acquired so much knowledge you wouldn’t believe. But my love is anime. I’ve been drifting in this world for so long that I don’t even know what an anchor means. I’ve seen so many shows that I’ve lost count. The only thing I’m sure of myself is that I care for the lowly and disenfranchised. I hate the rich and powerful and I love what I do, or what I can do. I like anime and I don’t mind watching different types of shows. I have experience in different types of Japanese animation. I would be called an “expert” in a bizzaro world. One day, I’d like to start a revolution. I love the US, pizza, beer, sashimi, Chinese food, and steak. But I love freshly baked bread more than a well-aged steak. In reality, if I were born Japanese I’d be a real, hardcore Otaku. I love to love and I can hate strongly. I’m passionate in nature and I don’t mind shedding tears. I can be reached at rayyhum777 at animediet. My Twitter is rayyhum777 at twitter.
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Pipe Bomb Attacks
The Latest: Twitter ‘deeply sorry’ for error on Sayoc tweet
This Nov. 1, 2017, photo shows a van with windows covered with an assortment of stickers in Well, Fla. Federal authorities took Cesar Sayoc into custody on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, and confiscated his van, which appears to be the same one, at an auto parts store in Plantation, Fla., in connection with the mail-bomb scare that has targeted prominent Democrats from coast to coast. (Courtesy of Lesley Abravanel via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on pipe bombs sent to prominent critics of President Donald Trump (all times local):
Twitter is apologizing for refusing to take down a threatening tweet that pipe bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc sent to a former Democratic congressional press secretary earlier this month.
The tweet that Rochelle Ritchie complained about said “hug your loved ones real close every time you leave home.” She got it after an appearance on Fox News, and complained.
Twitter responded on Oct. 11 that the tweet did not violate its rules against abusive behavior.
On Friday night, after Sayoc’s arrest for allegedly sending at least 13 mail bombs to prominent Democrats, Twitter issued a statement saying it had made a mistake.
It said it was “deeply sorry,” that the tweet clearly violated its rules and should have been removed.
The company had by then disabled Sayoc’s account.
In arresting a Florida man suspected of sending at least 13 mail bombs to prominent Democrats, Justice Department officials credited DNA, a fingerprint match and misspellings for the key break in the case.
Cesar Sayoc, of Aventura, Florida, faces five federal charges in connection with the mail bomb plot that spurred a weeklong, coast-to-coast investigation and spread fear of election-season violence with little precedent in the U.S.
Sayoc will make his first court appearance next week, where additional details may be revealed about a motive.
In the meantime, Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggested that politics may have played a role and noted that Sayoc appeared to be a “partisan.”
Those who saw him in the Florida neighborhood, unmistakable in a white van plastered with Trump’s image and political stickers, described him as unsettling and troubled.
For the AP’s complete coverage of the mail-bomb scare: https://apnews.com/PipeBombAttacks
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Best Cities for Carpenters
Take a look at our deep dive into determining which U.S. cities are best for carpenters to pursue their careers in.
Adrian Mak
As new housing starts and new construction continue to grow at a healthy pace, carpentry has become a much sought after skill. Carpenters are an indispensable part of the construction industry, working in various capacities to build, install, and repair the internal structures of buildings. From framing houses to building wooden structures to hold concrete forms, carpenters play a key role in any new residential or commercial construction. Carpenters also perform tasks such as installing windows, doors, insulation, and cabinets. The job of carpenter is a versatile one, and carpenters need to be able to follow blueprints, sketches, or other instructions.
Carpentry is a specialized profession that requires substantial training. Most carpenters either attend a trade or vocational school or learn in apprenticeships or on-the-job programs.
Our study considered important factors that carpenters can consider when choosing a location to pursue their careers in, including the salaries that carpenters can earn and how much it costs to live in a specific city. We also studied the availability of carpentry jobs in each city.
We studied 395 of the largest U.S. cities to discover the most attractive cities for carpenters to pursue their careers in. AdvisorSmith’s study lists the top 50 cities for carpenters below. We also studied the top-10 small, midsize, and large cities for carpenters in the United States.
Top Cities for Carpenters
1. Kankakee, IL
Kankakee is a city in northeast Illinois that was originally centered around a station on the Illinois Central railroad. The city is located about 60 miles south of the Chicago area. The notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed two houses in the city that still stand next to one another today. The city also hosts several lumber and flooring manufacturers that provide jobs for carpenters.
Carpenters in Kankakee earned an average salary of $63,180, which is 27% above the national average. This high salary is augmented by a cost of living 12% below the average. There are also 5% more carpenter jobs in the city relative to population than in the average American city.
2. Longview, WA
Longview, Washington is a small city on the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers located in the southwest part of the state. The city was established as a lumber town to provide workers for two lumber mills in the city. Additionally, the city hosts an important port and has access to the Columbia River, I-5 highway, and railroads.
Longview’s enduring history as a center for timber processing and manufacturing makes it a great city for carpenters. The city offers average carpenter salaries of $69,590, or $33.46 per hour, which is 40% above the national average. Longview also has 33% more carpenter jobs per capita than the average city.
3. Carbondale, IL
Located in southern Illinois, Carbondale was historically a regional transportation and business center. The city hosts the flagship campus of Southern Illinois University. One nickname for the city is “Little Egypt,” which comes from the fact that the city is located where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers meet, similar to how the Egyptian city of Cairo is located in the Nile Delta.
Carbondale has an average salary for carpenters of $55,050, which is 10.9% above the national average, while the cost of living is 16% below the average U.S. city. Additionally, Carbondale has 35% more carpenter jobs per capita than the average U.S. city.
4. St. Louis, MO
St. Louis is a major American city located on the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border of Illinois. St. Louis hosts many major corporations as well as museums and cultural institutions. Perhaps most notably, Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of Budweiser, is headquartered in St. Louis.
Carpenters in St. Louis earn an average salary of $59,520, which is 20% above the average. Additionally, this salary goes far in St. Louis, with the cost of living being 9% below the national average. The city also has 7,960 carpenter jobs, which is 21% above the average U.S. city per capita.
5. Elgin, IL
Elgin is a city about 38 miles west of Chicago. The city started as an agricultural town on the banks of the Fox River before becoming an important manufacturing center. In recent years, the city became one of the fastest growing cities in the state of Illinois.
This growth in housing stock has provided many opportunities for carpenters, with the average salary being $71,050, which was the 3rd highest average salary in our study. Elgin also has 22% more jobs for carpenters compared with population than the national average.
Best Cities for Carpenters by Population
Since lifestyles differ substantially in cities of different sizes, below we highlight the most attractive small (population below 150,000), medium (population of 150,000-500,000) and large-sized (population above 500,000) cities for carpenters. We provide a breakdown by city to inform carpenters of their best choices in varied environments.
Top 50 Cities for Carpenters
The most attractive 50 cities for carpenters are listed below. We include information about each city’s size, total carpenter employment, the average salary for carpenters in a city, the location quotient, and the cost of living.
City Size
Hourly Average Salary
Annual Average Salary
Total Jobs
Location Quotient
1 Kankakee, IL Small $30.37 $63,180 230 1.05 88
2 Longview, WA Small $33.46 $69,590 240 1.33 103
3 Carbondale, IL Small $26.47 $55,050 340 1.35 84
4 St. Louis, MO Large $28.62 $59,520 7,960 1.21 91
5 Elgin, IL Large $34.16 $71,050 1,490 1.22 109
6 Fond du Lac, WI Small $25.08 $52,160 460 2.06 88
7 Peoria, IL Midsize $26.47 $55,050 840 1.02 89
8 Springfield, IL Midsize $25.41 $52,860 640 1.23 87
9 Atlantic City, NJ Midsize $30.44 $63,320 670 1.1 104
10 Michigan City, IN Small $24.09 $50,100 330 1.74 88
11 Terre Haute, IN Midsize $22.43 $46,660 470 1.44 80
12 Pittsburgh, PA Large $25.97 $54,030 6,060 1.1 91
13 Eau Claire, WI Midsize $26.24 $54,580 410 1.04 92
14 Beaumont, TX Midsize $22.77 $47,370 1,010 1.3 82
15 Williamsport, PA Small $25.45 $52,930 280 1.15 91
16 Saginaw, MI Midsize $22.2 $46,180 430 1.03 79
17 St. Joseph, MO Small $23.97 $49,860 230 0.91 85
18 Olympia, WA Midsize $30.97 $64,420 760 1.44 117
19 Green Bay, WI Midsize $24.19 $50,320 1,250 1.49 92
20 Rockford, IL Midsize $22.42 $46,640 890 1.28 84
21 Cheyenne, WY Small $24.48 $50,910 440 1.99 99
22 Columbia, MO Midsize $24.26 $50,470 580 1.29 92
23 Canton, OH Midsize $22.5 $46,810 930 1.13 85
24 Toledo, OH Large $22.43 $46,660 1,440 1 84
25 Flint, MI Midsize $21.98 $45,720 610 0.9 82
26 Janesville, WI Midsize $23.05 $47,930 400 1.28 90
27 Fairbanks, AK Small $30.89 $64,240 220 1.21 120
28 Duluth, MN Midsize $22.42 $46,630 780 1.28 88
29 Glens Falls, NY Small $23.81 $49,520 400 1.55 96
30 Jefferson City, MO Midsize $22.88 $47,580 490 1.38 91
31 Yakima, WA Midsize $23.49 $48,860 550 1.26 93
32 Morgantown, WV Small $22.74 $47,290 350 1.1 89
33 Spokane, WA Large $24.65 $51,280 1,520 1.34 99
34 Binghamton, NY Midsize $22.03 $45,830 570 1.16 87
35 Muncie, IN Small $19.86 $41,300 220 0.97 77
36 Bellingham, WA Midsize $29.52 $61,390 800 1.93 126
37 Madison, WI Large $27.59 $57,400 2,140 1.14 110
38 Anchorage, AK Midsize $32.85 $68,330 1,080 1.28 133
39 Indianapolis, IN Large $22.81 $47,440 4,840 0.97 90
40 Appleton, WI Midsize $22.93 $47,700 860 1.43 95
41 St. Cloud, MN Midsize $23.2 $48,260 870 1.71 99
42 Milwaukee, WI Large $25.65 $53,360 4,030 0.98 102
43 Philadelphia, PA Large $28.11 $58,470 12,360 0.9 111
44 Casper, WY Small $23.66 $49,220 300 1.67 101
45 Des Moines, IA Large $22.55 $46,890 1,710 0.97 90
46 Cumberland, MD Small $21.1 $43,890 180 0.98 85
47 Las Vegas, NV Large $24.26 $50,470 7,490 1.6 105
48 Omaha, NE Large $20.17 $41,950 4,050 1.71 89
49 Gulfport, MS Midsize $21.31 $44,330 930 1.28 90
50 Fort Wayne, IN Midsize $19.96 $41,510 1,250 1.21 84
Our study examined three key variables in order to determine the most attractive cities for carpenters to pursue their careers.
1. Availability of jobs for carpenters
The location quotient measures the density of jobs available to carpenters compared with the working population for a particular city. In our study, we ranked cities with a higher location quotient as more desirable for carpenters. Places with a higher location quotient offer more job opportunities for carpenters compared with other cities. In the United States, there were approximately 693,050 carpenters employed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
2. Salary data for carpenters in each city
Cities in which carpenters earn a higher average salary ranked more highly in our study. Since compensation is a critical factor in choosing a place to live as well as a profession, the average salary for carpenters was one of the most important variables that we considered in our study.
In the United States, the average pay for a carpenter is $23.86 hourly, or $49,630 annually, based on 2,080 hours worked per year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that employment for carpenters will increase 8% in the period 2016-2026.
3. Each city’s cost of living index
AdvisorSmith’s study adjusted the salaries in each city by a cost of living index. Due to the variance in the cost of food, housing, transportation, and other costs, the lifestyle that a carpenter’s salary can buy in any given city varies. In order to equalize the impact of the differences across cities, we used a cost of living index to normalize salaries within our study.
[1] Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics
[2] Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
[3] Sperling’s Best Places Cost of Living Index
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Main » 2016 » September » 28 » STATS Unveils New Global Brand Identity
STATS Unveils New Global Brand Identity
CHICAGO - Wednesday, September 28th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- STATS launched a new brand identity representative of the company’s global presence and future growth in sports data and technology. Following a year of organic growth and strategic acquisitions, STATS is unifying its portfolio under the new STATS brand to best serve the world’s leading tech, media and sports organizations.
STATS, the leading sports data, technology and content company, TVTI, the leading provider of video technology for baseball and ice hockey, and Prozone Sports, a pioneer of performance analysis in professional sports, will all operate under the new STATS brand with a new logo and visual identity around the world. The new identity includes a bold redesign of the company’s iconic logo and refined core principles and values for all STATS employees across the globe.
Through the acquisition of Prozone and TVTI, STATS expanded its geographic reach and sports coverage, while advancing its player tracking and athlete performance analytics. Now STATS is positioned to serve media partners, professional teams and leagues, and brands like never before by combining STATS proficiency in live data collection and fan engagement solutions, with Prozone’s expertise in athlete tracking and team performance solutions.
“STATS is at an inflection in our history, building on our US leadership but also investing much more aggressively in new technologies and solutions for our partners and building a global business,” said Ken Fuchs, Chief Executive Officer of STATS. “More than 800 teams, leagues and companies trust STATS to power their sports platforms due to the longstanding focus on the depth, quality and speed of our products. Our new global brand represents not only the fact that STATS pioneered the sports data industry, but also represents where we are taking the future of sports data and technology."
STATS provides sports data to its partners within seconds of the live action. Fueled by its core philosophy of Passion, Precision, and Velocity, STATS powers all aspects of sports partnering with the world’s biggest brands, media companies, teams and leagues.
Eight of the top 10 media companies in the world, sports leagues such as, Major League Baseball, 27 National Football League teams, Ligue de Football Professional, Serie A, Professional Golfers Association, National Rugby League, National Basketball Association and all 30 NBA teams, and the most popular fantasy games and tech companies such as FanDuel, DraftKings, Snapchat, Sportle and more have chosen STATS to be their official sports partner.
STATS leads in sports intelligence by delivering the highest quality and fastest feeds and products to media and technology partners around the world as well as hundreds of teams and leagues. STATS strengthened its football coverage for the 2016/17 football season by launching STATS Tier 6+TM data, STATS Live MonitorTM, STATS Post-Match Performance DataTM, and STATS EMEA Research & Editorial Team to provide enhanced data and editorial coverage for teams, leagues and media outlets. STATS was recently recognized for its innovation with the highest award for best paper in 2016 at the MIT Sloan Sports Conference.
The new STATS logo and visual identity represent a dynamic brand impacting hundreds of sports leagues, media partners and millions of sports fans. The logo embodies the passion and excitement of the fans, the skill and precision of the teams, and the velocity with which the game is broadcast and delivered within seconds around the world.
To see the new STATS brand visit: http://stats.com/introduction/.
About STATS
As the world’s leading sports data and technology company, STATS powers sports. We are trusted by more than 800 clients around the globe to enhance fan engagement and maximize team performance by analyzing sports data from more than 100,000 games a year with unrivaled speed and accuracy. We power sports on and off the field through data feeds, video analysis, sports content and research, player tracking through STATS SportVU®, and customizable digital solutions. For more information, go to www.stats.com and follow STATS on Twitter @STATS_Insights.
Dennis Dougherty
mediarelations@stats.com
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Baseline resistance to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors fails to predict virologic response to combination therapy in children (PACTG 338)
Susan A Fiscus1,2,
Andrea Kovacs3,
Leslie A Petch2,
Chengcheng Hu4,
Andrew A Wiznia5,
Lynne M Mofenson6,
Ram Yogev7,
Kenneth McIntosh8,
Stephen I Pelton9,
Sonia Napravnik2,
Kenneth Stanley4 &
Sharon A Nachman10
The association between baseline drug resistance mutations and subsequent increase in viral failure has not been established for HIV-infected children. We evaluated drug resistance mutations at 39 codon sites (21 protease inhibitor (PI) resistant codons and 18 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) resistant codons) for 92 clinically stable NRTI-experienced, PI-naive HIV-infected children 2 to 17 years of age who were initiating new therapy with ritonavir plus zidovudine (ZDV) and lamivudine or plus stavudine. The association between baseline drug resistance mutations and subsequent viral failure after 12 and 24 weeks of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) was studied.
There were few primary PI associated mutations in this PI-naïve population, but 84% had NRTI mutations – codons 215 (66%), 41 (42%), 67 (37%), 210 (33%) and 70 (32%). None of the specific baseline drug resistance mutations were associated with a higher rate of virologic failure after 12 or 24 weeks of HAART. Median week 12 viral load decreased as the total number of NRTI mutations at baseline increased (P = 0.006). Specifically, a higher level of baseline ZDV resistance mutation was associated with a decrease in viral failure after 12 weeks on a ZDV-containing HAART regimen (P = 0.017).
No increase was seen in the rate of viral failure after HAART associated with the presence of resistance mutations at baseline. This paradoxical result may be due to adherence, replicative capacity, or ZDV hypersusceptibility to the new regimen.
Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI) were the first antiretroviral drugs available and continue to be a component of anti-retroviral therapy (ART), despite the emergence of drug resistance over time. Few studies have investigated the role of pre-existing drug resistance and response to therapy in children [1–4] compared to similar studies in adults [5, 6]. The largest published drug resistance study of HIV-infected children found a high rate of primary mutations associated with resistance to zidovudine (ZDV), didanosine (ddI) and zalcitabine (ddC), but concluded that none of the baseline drug mutations were associated with a higher rate of virologic failure [2]. It is possible that HIV drug resistance may evolve differently in children because of differences in pharmacokinetics in children, fewer drug options, and higher viral burden, especially in younger children [7, 8] and unique challenges to therapy compliance. Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG) 338 was one of the first clinical trials to evaluate highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) which included a protease inhibitor, ritonavir (RTV), in children [9]. We investigated the role of baseline HIV drug resistance mutations and response to therapy.
There were very few primary resistance mutations to PIs in this PI-naïve population, although 88% of the children had polymorphisms that included secondary minor resistance mutations. The most frequent secondary PI mutations were at codons 63 (78%), 77 (37%), 36 (17%) and 10 (12%) (data not shown). Only two children had a primary PI resistance mutation (V82A). Other PI mutations (71, 33 and 20) were present in less than 10% of the study subjects. The most common NRTI mutations occurred at codons 215 (66%), 41 (42%), 67 (37%), 210 (33%), 70 (32%), 69 (22%), 118 (21%) and 219 (21%). The median numbers of baseline NRTI, thymidine analog mutations (TAM), PI and total mutations were 3, 3, 2 and 4.5, respectively (both primary and secondary mutations were included in the analysis for the PI mutations).
After 12 weeks on study, 51 (55%) subjects had viral loads suppressed below 400 copies/ml. The number of subjects with viral suppression dropped to 31 (34%) and 29 (32%) at weeks 24 and 48, respectively.
The association between the presence of a specific baseline mutation and virologic failure after 12 weeks of HAART was studied (Table 1). There was the suggestion of a potential association with virologic failure for only one baseline mutation, the NRTI codon 215 (unadjusted P = 0.019) for the three-drug combination regimen. However, in this case the presence of resistance mutations was associated with a decreased (rather than an increased) rate of viral failure at week 12.
Table 1 Association of baseline NTRI resistance mutations and viral failure after 12 weeks on HAART
When the association between the number of baseline resistance mutations and virologic failure after 12 weeks of HAART was investigated, the only significant relationship observed was in the ZDV/lamivudine (3TC)/RTV combination regimen. A higher median number of NRTI mutations at baseline was associated with virologic suppression (1.5 versus 4.0, P = 0.016). There was no apparent association between the number of baseline PI resistance mutations and the level of viral load after 12 weeks of HAART, although as the number of baseline NRTI mutations increased the level of viral load at week 12 decreased (Figure 1). A linear regression with adjustment for censoring of viral loads at the detection limit showed that after 12 weeks on HAART there was a decrease of 0.245 in log10 RNA (copies/mL) associated with each additional NRTI resistance mutation (P = 0.006).
Association between the number of baseline nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor mutations and viral load after 12 weeks on HAART (Viral load is the log10 RNA copies/mL value at 12 weeks.)
Association between the level of baseline ZDV resistance mutations and viral failure after 12 weeks on HAART was investigated (Table 2). The level of baseline ZDV resistance was categorized as i) high level (NRTI codon 215), ii) intermediate level (at least one of the NRTI codons 41 or 210, but no high level mutation), iii) low level (at least one of the NRTI codons 67, 70 or 219, but no high or intermediate level mutation), or iv) no ZDV resistance according to an algorithm specified prior to any data analysis. There was no association between baseline ZDV resistance levels and viral failure after 12 weeks on HAART for the two-drug HAART arm, although for the ZDV-containing three-drug arm a higher level of baseline ZDV resistance was associated with a lower chance of viral failure (P = 0.017). From Table 2 it should be noted that whenever a codon 41 or 210 mutation was observed a codon 215 mutation was also observed and the case was classified as having a high level of resistance. Thus the association between a high level of resistance and a lower chance of viral failure should not be ascribed to only the occurrence of a codon 215 mutation, but rather to the occurrence of codon 215, 41 and/or 210 mutations.
Table 2 Association of the level of baseline ZDV resistance mutations and viral failure after 12 weeks on HAART
The association between the presence of a specific baseline mutation and virologic suppression during the first 24 weeks on HAART was explored. Viral response was categorized into three ordered levels: full suppression (viral load no more than 400 copies/mL at week 12 or 24), partial suppression (viral load dropped 0.75 log10 copies/mL or more at week 12 or 24 from baseline, but no full suppression), and no suppression. According to this definition, 56 (60%) subjects achieved full viral suppression and an additional 13 (14%) achieved partial viral suppression during the first 24 weeks on HAART. There was no statistically significant (at the unadjusted 5% level) association between any baseline mutation and virologic suppression during the first 24 weeks on HAART.
For the 69 children with full or partial viral suppression as defined above, the association between the presence of a specific baseline mutation and viral rebound between the suppression and week 48 was evaluated. A rebound was declared if there was an increase in RNA of more than one log10 at any time between the time of suppression and week 48 from the nadir viral load value at or before the time of suppression, or if the child came off the assigned protocol treatment at or before week 48. Of the 69 children who achieved full or partial virologic suppression during the first 24 weeks on HAART, 37 (54%) had a viral rebound. In the three-drug arm children with mutation at the NRTI codon 67 seemed to be less likely to have a viral rebound after virologic suppression (unadjusted P = 0.002). There was also the suggestion of a potential association with virologic failure for the presence of any PI mutation (unadjusted P = 0.020) in the three-drug arm and for mutation at the NRTI codon 69 (unadjusted P = 0.028) in the two-drug arm, but these findings need to be treated cautiously due to the problem of multiple comparisons (see statistical analysis section).
We evaluated the association between resistance mutations and their potential effect on the ability of antiviral medications to reduce the viral burden in children with HIV disease. As expected, there was little PI resistance and considerable NRTI resistance in this PI-naïve, NRTI-experienced population. However, contrary to our expectations, we did not find an increase in the rate of viral failure after HAART associated with the presence of resistance mutations at baseline. The two specific associations identified at week 12 in our study (Table 1) were of borderline significance and were in the direction of a decrease, rather than an increase, in the rate of viral failure. As the number of NRTI mutations at baseline increased, the median viral load at week 12 decreased (P = 0.006) and as the baseline level of ZDV resistance increased viral failure decreased after 12 weeks on a ZDV-containing HAART regimen (P = 0.017). Our results were consistent with the drug resistance study of 135 HIV-1 infected children by Eschleman et al. [2]. Neither study produced significant evidence linking a specific baseline drug resistance mutation to a subsequent increase in viral failure. These results suggest that baseline genotyping may not be necessary prior to switching to a PI based regimen. This finding has particular pertinence in resource limited settings.
Possible explanations for these observations include adherence, replicative capacity, and hypersusceptibility to NRTIs. It is likely that children who were adherent to a non-suppressive NRTI regimen and thus developed resistance, were more likely to be adherent to a HAART regimen that contained a brand new class of drugs. Friedland and Williams [10] have suggested that the relationship between the development of resistance and adherence to the drugs is bell-shaped, such that both high and low degrees of adherence decrease the likelihood of the development of resistance. This concept has been supported by several recent studies [11–13]. The RNA results from PACTG 338, where most children had detectable, even high viral loads at baseline, suggest that the drug(s) they were taking were less effective in suppressing viral replication, resulting in ongoing viral production in the presence of ART. Thus, children who were more adherent may have been more likely to develop resistance to their non-suppressive initial therapy regimens The children's viral loads rapidly became undetectable once they were placed on drugs that were more suppressive and to which they had no baseline resistance (RTV and 3TC). Only 5 of the children had the M184V and only 2 had the V82A mutations at baseline. The effect would be less striking in children in the two drug regimen since the mutations associated with stavudine (d4T) resistance are primarily those seen with ZDV, ddI and ddC to which the children had been previously exposed (codons 41, 67, 70, 210, 215, and 219).
Another explanation for these results might be reduced replication capacity of the virus found in the children at baseline. The NRTI mutations typically associated with reduced fitness are M184V [14] and K65R [15]; however, only 1 child had the K65R mutation and only 5 had the M184V mutation at baseline. In addition, viral loads at baseline were relatively high: the median baseline viral load was 20,500 copies/mL and 20% of the children had baseline viral loads of 100,000–1,000,000 copies/mL.
Lastly, it has been shown that the L74V and M184V mutations confer hypersusceptibility to ZDV [16, 17]. However, in the 338 data set only 5 of the 47 children randomized to ZDV/3TC/RTV for whom we have data, had the 74V mutation. This could, however, be an explanation for why children on the ZDV/3TC/RTV arm who had more baseline NRTI mutations were more likely to have a viral load <400 copies/mL at 12 weeks than those with fewer mutations.
Limitations of our study include the fact that we have baseline resistance data on only a subset of children from the entire study and lack of information on adherence to the drug regimens, replicative capacity and hypersusceptibility of the viruses. We did not determine the occurrence of new resistance mutations after the initiation of HAART or investigate the virologic impact of these subsequent resistance mutations.
Despite considerable baseline NRTI resistance, the children in PACTG 338 who were treated with a brand new class of drugs (e.g. ritonavir, the protease inhibitor) in combination therapy responded favorably and rapidly. We did not observe an increase in the rate of viral failure after HAART linked to the presence of resistance mutations at baseline. In fact, viral loads at the 12 week time point were inversely correlated with the number of baseline NRTI mutations. It is important to remember that resistance is not an all-or-none phenomenon, and treatment failure is not defined by a resistance test. In order to better understand both the virology of mutated viruses in vivo and their response to anti-retroviral drugs as well as the use of resistance testing, prospective randomized clinical trials linked with pathogenesis-related in vitro analysis should be performed in children.
Patient population
PACTG 338 was a multicenter, randomized clinical trial that enrolled 297 children aged 2–17 years. All subjects were HIV-infected, had been receiving continuous, unchanged antiretroviral therapy for the 16 weeks before study entry, and were naïve to protease inhibitors and lamivudine (3TC) or had received no more than 6 weeks of ZDV plus 3TC in the year prior to study entry and none in the 4 months prior to study entry. Children were randomly assigned to receive either ZDV/3TC (n = 100), stavudine (d4T)/RTV (n = 97) or ZDV/3TC/RTV (n = 100). Children initially assigned to the ZDV/3TC regimen were not included in this evaluation of drug resistance and subsequent viral failure as this regimen was demonstrated to result in a suboptimal virologic suppression compared to protease inhibitor-based regimens.
A total of 92 children assigned to a RTV-containing regimen had both baseline resistance information and viral load measurement at week 12, and they were included in any analysis involving the primary endpoint of viral failure at week 12. Of these 92 subjects, the median age was 7.3 years, median CD4 cell count was 602 cells/mm3, proportion with CD4 cell count <500 cells/uL was 29%, proportion with CD4 percent <25% was 38%, median plasma HIV-1 RNA was 20,500 copies/mL, and the proportion with HIV-1 RNA copy number > 4 log10 was 75%. The majority of the children were African-American (66%) and 51% were male. Children had received prior treatment with ZDV monotherapy (46%), the combination of ZDV and ddI (37%) or other combination therapy (15%). Baseline characteristics of the children in this resistance analysis were very similar to the baseline characteristics for the overall PACTG 338 study of 297 children, except for minor differences in the CD4 cell count (648 cells/mm3), the proportion of African-American children (51%), and the proportion with HIV-1 RNA copy number > 4 log10 (64%). Children with viral loads <1,000 copies/mL were excluded from this resistance study. For the secondary analyses of viral suppression at weeks 12 or 24 and viral rebound after 48 weeks on HAART, two additional subjects were included, who did not have viral load measured at week 12 but did have information at week 24. The institutional review board at each institution approved the study and informed consent was obtained from all patients or their guardians.
HIV-1 genotyping
Sequencing was determined in batch at the conclusion of the study in two laboratories that participated in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Virology Quality Assurance Program. For HIV-1 sequencing, plasma RNA was extracted using the QIAampViral RNA Mini Kit (Qiagen Inc., Valencia, CA). Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and direct DNA sequencing of protease and reverse transcriptase genes were performed using the TruGene HIV-1 Genotyping Kit (Visible Genetics-Bayer Diagnostics, Toronto, Canada) according to the manufacturer's instructions. The International AIDS Society-USA recommended guidelines for resistance to protease inhibitor (PI) and nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI) were used [18, 19].
HIV-1 RNA copy number was assessed using the NucliSens Assay (Organon Teknika, Durham, NC) [20], which has a lower limit of quantification of 400 copies/mL. All RNA assays were performed at a single laboratory at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC that was certified as proficient by the NIAID Virology Quality Assurance Program [21]. Assay results from the NucliSens Assay were adjusted using Virology Quality Assurance external standards [22].
Fisher's exact test was used for associations between specific baseline resistance mutations and viral failure, the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to assess the association between the number of resistance mutations and viral failure, and the Mantel-Haenszel test for trend was used to evaluate the association between level of baseline ZDV resistance and viral failure defined as viral load > 400 cp/ml [23, 24]. Further, the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to correlate specific baseline resistance mutations and viral suppression, Fisher's exact test was used to investigate the association of baseline mutations and viral rebound, and the association between the total number of resistance mutations and viral load was assessed using the locally weighted scatter plot smooth [25] and linear regression with adjustment for left censoring. All P values were two-sided and were not adjusted for multiple comparisons. Because 39 codon sites were evaluated in this analysis, caution should be exercised in the interpretation of the P values. A conservative solution to the multiple comparisons problem is the Bonferroni method that multiplies the nominal P value times the overall number of statistical tests [26]. If the result is still <0.05, then the result is clearly statistically significant. Using the Bonferroni approach for any analysis involving individual resistance codons, a P value between 0.0013 (0.05/39) and 0.05 should be interpreted as suggestive but not necessarily definitive. P < 0.0013 should be considered clear evidence of statistical significance.
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This work was supported in part by the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, the Pediatric/Perinatal HIV Clinical Trials Network of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, the Statistical and Data Management Center of the PACTG (NIAID cooperative agreement AI-41110), 202PVCL04 from Social and Scientific Systems, and the UNC CFAR P30 A150410.
PACTG 338 protocol team members included: Anita Ballow, Frontier Science and Technology Research Foundation, Amherst, New York; Molly Nozyce, PhD, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Stephen Spector, MD, University of California, San Diego; Steve Douglas, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; William Borkowsky, New York University Medical Center, New York; Courtney Fletcher, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver; Mary E. Smith, MD, Lynette Purdue, PharmD, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland; Bethany Griffin, Social Scientific Systems, Rockville, Maryland; Sophia Lee, MS, Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; John Sleasman, MD, University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville, Florida; Ross McKinney, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Jeanne Berg and Becky Hoffman, MD, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois; Maria Gigliotti and Patrick Robinson, MD, Boehringer-Ingleheim Pharmaceuticals, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Laurie Reynolds and Vicki Rutkiewicz, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Wallingford Connecticut; Barbara Lane, RN, Glaxo Wellcome, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; Bach-Yen Nguyen, MD and Linda A Hawe, Merck Research Laboratories, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania; Kathleen Mohan, ARNP, Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, Washington; Moraima Rivera, San Juan City Hospital, Puerto Rico; Virginia Parks, San Francisco, California.
The following individuals and institutions participated in the study: Rosaura Aguayo, MD, Wanda I. Figueroa, MD, Eva Reyes, NP, Ramon Ruiz Arnau University Hospital, Bayamon, Puerto Rico; Kenneth McIntosh, MD, Catherine Kneut, RN, Nancy P. Karthas, RN, Children's Hospital of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; Stephen I. Pelton, MD, Ellen R. Cooper, MD, Anne Marie Regan, PNP, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Karen Dorio, RN, Margaret Chin, PNP, Michael Rosenberg, MD, Wanda Biernick, RN, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Ram Kairam, MD, Bronx Lebanon Hospital, Bronx, New York; Senih Fikrig, MD, Hamid Moallem, MD, Denise Marie Swindell, State University of New York at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York; Ellen Chadwick, MD, Debbie Cloutier, RN, Amy Talsky, NP, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Wyler Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Ram Yogev, MD, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Kenneth Rich, MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; S. Nicholas, MD, Columbia University, New York, New York; Michael Brady, MD, K. Koranyi, MD, Jane Hunkler, RN, Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio; George Johnson, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina; Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, Texas; Ross McKinney, Jr. MD, Lori Ferguson, RN, M. DeWalt, RN, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Rajendra Pahwa, MD. Saroj Bakshi, MD, L. Rodriguez, CPNP, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York; Mobeen Rathore, MD, Erin. Buckley, RN, CCRC, S. Mahmoudi, ARNP, University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville, Florida; John Sleasman, MD, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida; Elaine J. Abrams, MD, Delia Calo, CCRC, Maxine Frere, RN, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, New York; Juan Carlos Salazar, MD, Peter Krause, MD, Gail A. Karas, RN-C, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut; University of Mississippi Medical Center Children's Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi; Margaret Keller, MD, Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Torrance, California; Joseph A. Church, MD, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Andrea Kovacs, MD, Margaret Khoury, MD, James Homans, MD, Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Gwendolyn B. Scott, MD, University of Miami, Miami, Florida; Mary Jo Hoyt, NP, Barry Dashefsky, MD, Arry Dieudonne, MD, Paul Palumbo, MD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Russell B. Van Dyke, MD, Dawn Sokol, MD, Cheryl A. Borne, ADN, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Mahrukh Bamji, MD, Metropolitan Hospital Center,, New York, New York; Incarnation Children's Center, New York, New York; William Borkowsky, MD, Aditya Kaul, MD, Sulachni Chandwani, MD, Mona Rigaud, MD, New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York; Ann Petru, MD, Teresa Courville, RN, Children's Hospital of Oakland, Oakland, California; Harold Lischner, MD, Daniel H. Conaway, MD, Audrey Kamrin, CRNP, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Suzanne R. Lavoie, MD, T. Smith, RN, Cara Moggo, RN, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; Francis Gigliotti, MD, Geoffrey A. Weinberg, MD, Barbra. Murante, MS, RN, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York; Stephen A. Spector, MD, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California; University of San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California; City Hospital of San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Irma Febo MD, Licette Lugo MD, Ruth Santos RN, Ibet Heyer RN, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Ann J. Melvin, MD, Kathleen Mohan, ARNP, MN, Lisa M. Frenkel, MD, Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, Washington; Barbara W. Stechenberg, MD, Donna J. Fisher, MD, MariPat Toye, RN, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts; Michell A. Davi, RN, MS, L. Romard, PNP, State University of New York Health Science Center at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York; State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse, New York; Sohail R. Rana, MD, Helga Finke-Castro, MD, P. Houston, MS, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC; A. Bonwit, MD, Angelo Seda, RN, E. Talatala, RN, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, Washington, DC; and John L. Sullivan, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Susan A Fiscus
Center for AIDS Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
, Leslie A Petch
& Sonia Napravnik
Maternal, Child and Adolescent Program, University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Andrea Kovacs
Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Chengcheng Hu
& Kenneth Stanley
Department of Pediatrics, Jacobi Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Andrew A Wiznia
Pediatric, Adolescent and Maternal AIDS Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
Lynne M Mofenson
Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Ram Yogev
Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Kenneth McIntosh
Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Stephen I Pelton
Department of Pediatrics, SUNY Health Science Center at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Sharon A Nachman
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AAW, LMF, RY, KM, SIP, KES and SAN conceived, designed and implemented the primary study (PACTG 338), upon which this secondary resistance study was based. SF organized this secondary study and contributed to its design and implementation along with SAF, AK, LAP and SN. CH performed the statistical analysis. SF drafted the manuscript jointly with KES. All authors provided review comments and textual modifications during manuscript development. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Is Beauty in the Face of the Beholder?
Bruno Laeng, Oddrun Vermeer & Unni Sulutvedt
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Asus Windows 8 tablet PCs to start at $599, cost up to $1,299
Ballmer pegged “sweet spot” prices at $300 to $800.
Jon Brodkin - Sep 18, 2012 1:10 am UTC
With Windows 8 scheduled to launch on October 26, we’ve still received almost no official confirmation of what devices running Microsoft’s new operating system will cost. But leaked information published today by ZDNet reveals that a trio of Asus touch-screen devices will cost anywhere from $599 to $1,299.
According to ZDNet, this leaked slide, marked confidential, contains “Asus’ holiday roadmap.”
Microsoft hasn’t yet revealed pricing for its own Surface hardware, but CEO Steve Ballmer hinted at a potential price range in an interview a few days ago with the Seattle Times. Ballmer said the Surface will be a “very competitive product from the features perspective,” and that when companies “offer cheaper, they do less.” The sweet spot in the “bulk of the PC market,” Ballmer said, is anywhere between $300 and $800.
The Asus Vivo Tab RT is an ARM-based device, pre-loaded with Microsoft Office 2013, starting at $599, according to the slide published on ZDNet. The price is higher than an entry-level iPad (Microsoft’s primary competition), but identical to the third-generation iPad with 32GB of storage. As we’ve reported before, the Vivo Tab RT will ship with 32GB.
While the 10" 1366x768 display won’t be as sharp as an iPad’s, customers might get a lot more productivity out of these devices if they buy the optional keyboard dock. According to the slide leaked to ZDNet, the keyboard dock adds another $199 to the price, bringing the total price in line with a lot of decent Windows PCs.
The Vivo Tab RT runs Windows RT, a version of Windows for ARM processors that includes the Metro touch interface and a subset of desktop capabilities, including Microsoft Office. The other two devices described in the leaked slide run Windows 8, the version for x86 processors that is fully compatible with all desktop applications.
An Intel Atom-based tablet called the Asus Vivo Tab will start at $799, with an optional keyboard dock for $199. This will come with a trial version of Microsoft Office, according to the leaked slide.
Finally, the Asus Taichi, a dual-screen device with an 11.6" 1920x1080 screen and Intel Core i7 processors, will have a suggested retail price of $1,299. Described at the recent IFA show in Berlin, the Taichi is nothing if not unique. It’s built like a regular laptop, except it has a display on both sides of the lid. Only the display on the rear is touch-enabled.
In addition to the published slide, ZDNet said the leaked Asus roadmap includes "details about 12- and 13-inch laptops," with one costing $549 and the other, an Asus Transformer, costing $1,399.
If the leaked prices are correct, Asus’ Windows 8 devices won’t be undercutting the market’s cheaper tablets such as Google’s Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. That’s not a huge surprise, since Microsoft has been pitching Windows 8 and Windows RT as offering the best of both tablets and PCs. The idea of a $200 Surface tablet from Microsoft has been rumored, but based on Ballmer’s comments and the Asus leak it seems more likely that Windows 8 device makers will try to compete on features rather than price.
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jdale | Ars Praetorian
harteman wrote:
Is it just me, or are more people bummed out about the fact that the x86 tablets are astronomical in price? It is the only one I would consider purchasing too. If I can't run my windows games and applications on the tablet, it may as well not exist...
It's not just you. I'm not buying into the RT mobile-only ecosystem. If I get a full Windows 8 device and it turns out there are some decent Metro apps, ok, fine, but I'm certainly not counting on doing everything that way. On the other hand, I have existing Windows programs that would be useful to have on a tablet.
As for the prices, I could see those prices if the dock was thrown in for free. Or perhaps "Starting Price" means before heavy markdowns.
Jon Brodkin Jon is Ars Technica's senior IT reporter, covering the FCC and broadband, telecommunications, wireless technology, and more.
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Tablet price is about what I expect. Keyboard dock costs a bit much though. I'm wondering why it's $199 when the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity dock is only $150. Where did that $50 magically go towards improving?
KevinN206 Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
The title seems to imply that the prices are confirmed. This is not the case because these are "leaked" and nothing has been confirmed yet.
drfisheye Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
That's clearly too expensive for the RT version. They are desperate for higher margin products, so they'll just try it out. The Xoom and original Galaxy Tab were also overly expensive at first.
tlhIngan Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Well, I guess there goes the iPad and Android tablet market... sorry Apple, you had a good run with the iPad. But you can see Microsoft is definitely on your heels.
1058 posts | registered Jul 7, 2001
ronaldst Ars Centurion
I don't like this one bit. The market needs inexpensive products. RT models should be dirty cheap to compete with Android tablets.
DyDx Ars Praefectus
$600 for a Tegra 3 tablet? No way. MAYBE if that price included the keyboard dock.
harleylowspeed Seniorius Lurkius
tlhIngan wrote:
It's a good thing Microsoft bought those 93,000 Surfaces for their employees, they won't sell many more at the price Uncle Fester alluded to.
21 posts | registered Sep 17, 2012
Dean0 Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
I was really looking forward to seeing the rumoured $200 Windows RT Surface. As with most tablets, the base unit would probably be something with the dreaded 8 to 16 GB of internal storage, so you can expect to pay an additional $50 to $200 more to get something with a decent amount of storage (I think this is absolutely outrageous as a side-note).
If the base unit Surface starts at $300, I'd probably have to fork out at least $400 to get the type of storage I would require. Count me out. I'll stick to my 64GB Playbook which is currently selling for half that price.
salamanderjuice Ars Tribunus Militum
$600 is too much. Isn't the Transformer Infinity better in pretty much every way and $100 cheaper with a cheaper dock? Also how much space does WinRT take up? Win 7 installed on 32gb is pretty cramped so I'm hoping RT is about the same space as iOS.
iaflyer Ars Centurion
Asus (and Microsoft) are afraid of killing their core business - Wintel machines. Apple wasn't afraid of that with the iPad - and while the iPad is reducing the % of people who buy Laptops or maybe desktops (but much less), they are still making a lot more total money.
Gotta reinvent yourself to survive..
Too expensive - people will see them as Laptop or desktop replacements, not tablets.
aeolist Ars Centurion
I'm sure the Surface RT will be cheaper, but that just highlights another problem with it. Microsoft doesn't have to pay to license the OS, which is even more expensive than Windows 8 due to the forced Office bundling.
Surface RT will undercut all of Microsoft's "partners" and I doubt Windows on ARM will see much support past the initial lineup we have now.
Krautnapped Seniorius Lurkius
iaflyer wrote:
Asus (and Microsoft) are afraid of killing their core business - Wintel machines.
Which is ridiculous. My iPad has never replaced my home PC or work Mac, it's not suited to doing any real kind of work on. I highly doubt these prices will materialize, as no one can be so dumb to release a "tablet" that's 2 to 3x as much as Apple, which dominates the market. It's a sure fire fail.
ScifiGeek Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
$600 for an ARM Tablet? $800 for an Atom tablet?
That just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Someone was punked.
harteman Ars Scholae Palatinae
jdale Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
YourOldBuddy Ars Scholae Palatinae
Take a 500$ tablet. Add 100$ for license.
Yay. Slates.
kray28 Ars Legatus Legionis
At those prices, forget about it.
15470 posts | registered Dec 4, 2001
jdw Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
If that $1299 Taichi has specs comparable to the then-current Macbook Air at the same price, it might be interesting. Or it could be a mess. The "innovative dual-user applications!" copy on their site, unfortunately, leans me toward the latter.
It ought to be just one display that lights up on the side you're using. That seems potentially convenient to me for note-taking or sketching and then flip it open to pop out a few emails. The flippy-screen ones (e.g. the Dell in the linked IFA article) seem thick and inconvenient by comparison.
I agree with the others that the tablets are a hard sell at those prices.
ChesterChi Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
I'm concerned about the screen resolution -- seems like most of these tablets are going to have 1366x768. I know there is one higher-resolution Asus thing mentioned in the article, but that's the exception. It's just not enough to see much of anything, even web browsing. Many laptops these days seem to have the same ridiculously low resolution.
Hey guys, 1998 called, it wants its screen size back.
I don't care much for Apple, but they're doing this right -- iPad3 at 2048x1536, Macbook Pro at 2880x1800, now we're talking.
Jokotai Ars Praefectus
Hmm... Asus has yet to scrub the "Metro" moniker per Microsoft's request after the threatened lawsuit. It's still a leaked document and not a full advertisement release, though.
Also, why is it the lowest-priced item on there the only one which boasts a full install of Office 2013?
Houdani Ars Scholae Palatinae
These mid-range piggies have no business masquerading as high-priced tablets.
Drop RT. Lose the weak resolution. Skip the gimmicks. Include an actual processor. THEN, we'll start talking.
pixelstuff Ars Praetorian
I'm not concerned about the x86 based tablets being a little more expensive than the ARM versions, they usually use more silicon, run hotter, and need more electricity (bigger batteries). But what does perk up my goug-er-o-meter is when a mostly identical ARM based Android tablet is $100 cheaper than the ARM based Windows tablet. I figured Microsoft would be charging a license, but surely not more than $15 for the RT version (similar to the Windows phone version). Add to that a keyboard dock that is more expensive for the Windows version and it seems like gouging to me. What could they put in a dock that would make it cost an extra $50.
And I don't know what the resolution will be, but it better be 1920x1200 like the $500 Android version.
Thirdly, if Office 2013 included is the primary reason for a price increase, imagine what the monopolistic browser ballet people will say to that. Surely Asus (and more specifically Microsoft) wouldn't risk losing Windows RT popularity to the Android side just because they didn't offer a cheaper Office free version of the hardware.
Is there a sizeable group of people already paying this much for tablets? How many $499 iPads does Apple sell for every $800+ 64 gig 4G version? What are people doing with tablets that would justify this kind of cash outlay?
I've been chugging along well with my Nook Color that I picked up for $249 or so a little bit after it came out. Yes, it's starting to feel slow now, but for casual web browsing, basic (non-3D) light gaming and e-reading it still fits the bill. I have a desktop for real computing, and if I needed anything heavy duty while mobile I'd buy a real laptop. Tablets are still toys.
LoneWolf1510 Smack-Fu Master, in training
I hate Apple with a passion, but this...god, I'd recommend someone an iPad over these pieces of junk any day. Horrible pricing.
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kingsmuse Seniorius Lurkius
I like Asus products but it boggles my mind how they could possibly think this price structure will result in anything other than "Dead on arrival"
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jbrodkin Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Jokotai wrote:
Windows RT (regardless of hardware vendor) comes with Office, but it does not include Outlook. This is the ARM version, which doesn't run all desktop apps, which may explain why it's cheaper.
jcool Ars Tribunus Militum
ScifiGeek wrote:
$600 for an ARM Tablet?
32 GB iPad says "hello", on it's way out the door because they're selling quite well.
While I think MS will undercut this a bit with their Surface devices, everyone here freaking out about the prices needs to remember that these prices are actually right in line with the market, or at least the market that MS believes it is competing in.
They consider RT to be an iPad competitor, not an Android competitor, and the ability to run full(ish) Office to gives it comparable value to an iPad, therefore you see iPad comparable pricing. (and, probably lower pricing than this on other devices, specifically the Surface tabs I'm guessing).
The Windows 8 tablets are essentially Ultrabooks with a removable (or optional) keyboard dock and touchscreen. Therefore, they are at Ultrabook pricing, since they can do everything an Ultrabook can (basically), in addition to being a tablet.
So, to recap, the pricing makes sense. Now, you can argue that because of MS lack of apps or newness to the market or whatever, with regard to RT, and that they need to price lower to attract buyers (and I won't argue), but saying that they're out of line with the market really isn't the case.
jbrodkin wrote:
It's cheaper because RT is not a full PC with a full desktop experience like the other products. Office is an essential value add to make RT tablets more competitive with the iPad.
The others cost more because they are full PCs with additional touch and tablet functionality. And, like most PCs, they're bundled with an Office trial.
While this doesn't give us any idea how these products will be marketed, labeled, etc, which will make a huge difference.... I fear MS is going to have some real trouble if even theoretically tech savvy folks like Ars readers can't understand the difference between the RT product and Windows 8.
spazzblaster Ars Centurion
I'm sure a bunch of people said this already, but those would be good prices if the keyboard dock came included. With the added $200 the price becomes unreasonable, especially when you are trying to get people to buy these for the first time. It's not like they have a proven track record like the iPad.
I hope not all of the OEMs are going to go this route or it will be a bumpy start for W8 tablet/hybrids.
Sucks too, because I really want one, but not at those prices.
famousringo Ars Scholae Palatinae
The average selling price of an iPad was $650 for the first two years it was out. So lots of people forked out extra money for 3G and storage.
ASP dropped hard after the iPad 2 was offered at $400, though. Last I saw it was around $575, I think.
Maybe your tablet is a toy. But then, you did buy it from a book company.
Zanthexter Smack-Fu Master, in training
spazzblaster wrote:
With the added $200 the price becomes unreasonable, especially when you are trying to get people to buy these for the first time..
I wonder how they plan to woo folks that already have tablets to make the switch?
I'm interested in trying WinRT. While I hate the layered on tablet stuff Win8 put on my desktop, I have a feeling it'll work well on a tablet.
Thing is, I'm not $600 or $1,200 interested in trying it out. $200, $300, even, maybe, $400. But unless Microsoft has something comparable to the Nexus 7, they number of folks willing to "give it a shot" and spread the gospel afterwards is going to be mighty small.
Shoot, I'm even someone that's wanted a Windows tablet for years, but it looks like the same reason I didn't buy one in the past is going to apply now - astronomical prices for under powered hardware.
Josh A.K.A CLF Ars Praefectus
Kind of difficult to stomach that price point ($1299) when you can get an X230 for less.
William Topping Account Banned
jcool wrote:
They are most certainly not ULTRABOOKS. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
ARM chips / Atom Chips are not ULTRABOOK material.
Nice spin. But falls over with the most lightest of touches.
Ultrabooks... Yeah, sure they are.
kharms Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Maybe it's time to go buy some Apple or Google stock after all... I was (and still am) holding out for confirmed prices on the Surface tablets instead of buying the Nexus 7 because I do want a 10" ARM tablet, but there is absolutely no way that I am paying more than $300 for an RT tablet. If these companies cannot deliver prices at least 20% below the iPad price with comparable screen resolutions, then there is a serious issue here. The keyboard docks, meanwhile, need to be less than $150 and, to be frank, should be closer to a straight $100. Why on earth can't these Windows manufacturers manage to get something so simple right? If Apple's prices suddenly become market prices, then no Windows products stand a chance of competing among everyday consumers (businesses are usually different, but many businesses are now frequently letting their employees use consumer devices of their choice in the workplace)
Buxaroo Ars Praefectus
These prices are a total joke. RT was never on my radar, I am only interested in the x86 version, but $1300? Are you fucking kidding me? The most I would ever spring for one of these is $900 at most. Other than that, I see no point in these. I was looking forward to the Surface, I was thinking it might be a good intro the tablet market, except I would be able to actually USE the thing for something other than a toy.
But $1300 is way way too much. And $799+$199 for a ATOM? Your out of your fucking mind. No one is going to buy that. And and I agree with ChesterChi, low res for this price point? They are dreaming. Yeah yeah, it's not "confirmed"...you know it and I know it that they aren't going to be too far from this leak. And the "dock" is way over priced, I don't know why anyone would want to buy a Surface without one anyway. $800 for a Surface RT with a keyboard, that's way too much.
DOA from my point of view.
Claverhouse Seniorius Lurkius
Interesting; provided one finds the right Linux distribution to run these babies.
SolidSquid Ars Praetorian
Wasn't this the main reason for high returns on linux based netbooks? The fact people would try and install their software on it and it just wouldn't work? Seems like this might have an even worse problem with that since it's actually Windows this time, so more people are likely to be confused
I had to go and google what RT was, I'd assumed it was something to do with the rebranding of Metro after someone claimed it as a trademark
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Installation views: Werner Schreib and Annea Lockwood at Laure Genillard
Installation view, courtesy Laure Genillard Gallery.
Laure Genillard, London: 17 September – 12 November 2016
Werner Schreib and Annea Lockwood
Aftershock – The Grammar of Silence
Werner Schreib (b. 1925, Berlin, d. 1969, Lorsch)
Annea Lockwood (b.1939, New Zealand)
Curated by Rozemin Keshvani with accompanying publication.
Werner Schreib, Die kleinen Engel wissen warum (The little angels know why), 1965, Pyrogravure and frottage, 60 x 75cm; Werner Schreib, Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1965, Frottage, fumage and pyrogravure, 62 x 88.5cm. Image courtesy Laure Genillard Gallery.
Laure Genillard proudly presents the first major British exhibition of post-war German artist and poet, Werner Schreib together with a new sound piece by artist-composer Annea Lockwood.
Werner Schreib, Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1961, Frottage, 62 x 88cm. Courtesy Laure Genillard Gallery.
AFTERSHOCK features Werner Schreib’s uniquely crafted and fragile works on paper which he began to create in the 1960s. These works draw on his theories of semi-mechanical reproduction and combine found objects in the form of relics of a technical world deprived of their function (‘Relikte der technischen Welt, die durch ihre Abnutzung Funktion verloren haben’) with the techniques of frottage, collage, fumage and brûlage to describe the catastrophic events of the Second World War and the death-wish dialectic between technology and destruction.
Werner Schreib, Sie flüstern, sie murmeln…(They whisper they murmur), 1964, From the series of ‘Waiting for Godot’ by S.Beckett, Collage and frottage, 56 x 75cm. Image courtesy Laure Genillard Gallery.
Werner Schreib, Woher kommen all die Leichen? (Where do all the bodies come from?), 1961, Pyrogravure, 47 x 59cm; Werner Schreib, Kleine Fuge (Little Fugue), 1959, Etching with ink, 16 x 29.5cm. Courtesy Laure Genillard Gallery.
Schreib’s work combines Surrealist and Dada aesthetics with the sophisticated manipulations of a destructive art practice.
Installation view. Courtesy Laure Genillard Gallery.
The artist employs the very means of destruction to create works that engage in a discussion of terminal culture and its potential to bring about the end of civilisation.
Werner Schreib, La Poésie Arithmétique, 1964. Installation view. Courtesy Laure Genillard Gallery.
Werner Schreib, La Poésie Arithmétique, (detail) 1964. Werner Schreib, La Poésie Arithmétique, 1964. Installation view. Courtesy Laure Genillard Gallery.
Annea Lockwood’s installation (pictured below), DUSK, is an environmental sound work concerning the hidden and inaudible sonic phenomena generated through underground explosions from seabed ‘black smoker’ hydrothermal vents normally only accessible by seismologists.
Annea Lockwood, Dusk. Installation view. Courtesy Laure Genillard Gallery.
Lockwood has transposed these frequencies to the audible range focusing a listening experience on that which may not otherwise be heard and creating a work that gives us a glimpse into the hidden voice of the planet we call Earth.
“…what is so extraordinary … is that, whether you know the sources or not, the work is viscerally affecting while being completely invisible. In this way the piece is as close to a pure acousmatic experience as possible, where ‘The attention shifts away from the physical object that causes the auditory perception back towards the content of the perception.”
– Andy Horwitz, ‘A Trip Through the Garden of Sonic Delights’,
Culture Bot Maximum Performance (8/13/16).
Although World War Two officially ended in 1945, the process of unravelling the legacy of that war continues to this day, with repercussions and resonances that, like the aftershocks of an Earthquake, reverberate indiscriminately and uncontrollably, sometimes producing effects deeper and more devastating than the earthquake itself. The full extent of the atrocities committed in that war and their implications still remain shrouded in a veil of mass silence. Despite the lessons of World War Two, the technologies of death and genocide that foster ‘terminal culture’ spiral out of control.The exhibition AFTERSHOCK, The Grammar of Silence finds itself situated within this urgent context, presenting the work of two artists whose work represents a response to ‘terminal culture’ and a breaking of the silence in which terminal culture incubates and reproduces itself.
Werner Schreib was an important rising star in the post-war German art scene. He is best known to London audiences for his participation in the 1966 Destruction in Arts Symposium where he created several notorious pyrotechnic performances condemning the Allied involvement in the Vietnam War. His practice was outward-looking, collaborative and prolific, spanning painting, printmaking, performance, poetry and public sculpture, but his contributions were prematurely cut short when he died suddenly in a fatal collision with a jack-knifed lorry on the autobahn at the age of 44.
Schreib was deeply affected by the conflict between his Nazi schooling and the horrors he experienced in the war, the destruction visited upon Germany and the truth about the so called ‘Jewish solution’. Throughout the remaining 22 years of his life, he actively engaged in re-examination and critique of these experiences and of the logic of destruction through both his art and poetry and his collaborations with artists internationally. One of the earliest instigators of happenings in Germany, Schreib began his performance work in the early 1950s, while his paintings and poetry were exhibited in the 1958 Documenta. He was deeply influenced by the poetry and art of Kurt Schwitters and he developed a lasting friendship with Max Ernst whom he first met in Paris. Together with the Italian painter Luciano Lattanzi, he authored the Manifesto on Semantic Painting in 1960. Though not without controversy, his work was highly respected by his peers and received much attention in the form of television interviews, awards and exhibitions.
Lockwood was active in the 1960s London avant-garde sound-poetry circuit, working with Hugh Davies, Bob Cobbing, Henri Chopin and Gustav Metzger among others, and was also known for her GIass Concerts. Like Werner Schreib, she was a participant in the Destruction in Arts Symposium, creating piano destruction works with Ralph Ortiz. For Lockwood, who has a deep interest in our relationship to the ecology of the planet, the destruction of the piano was as much about the artist’s effort to explore uncharted languages of composition as it was about deconstructing the canon and culture of the piano itself. Lockwood was more interested in organic forms of deconstruction and eventually turned to events involving Piano Burning, Piano Gardens and the other Piano Transplants, in which defunct pianos were burned, drowned, beached, and planted in an English garden, and which all involve the action of slow, natural processes on pianos.
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Arkansas & Canada
Reports, Facts and Statistics about Arkansas’s No. 1 Trading Partner
$1.2 BILLION IN GOODS
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69,000 JOBS
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This is a presentation given by acting Canadian Consul General in Dallas, Vasken Khabayan on November 8, 2017 at the World Trade Center Arkansas. It contains strong visual data on the relationship that Canada has with Arkansas and America as a whole.
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The U.S. and Canadian steel and aluminum industries are deeply integrated with significant cross-border operations. Many U.S. firms rely on Canadian iron, steel, and aluminum imports as raw materials or components of finished products in the automotive, construction, energy, aerospace, defense, and agri-food sectors. This report from the Embassy of Canada highlights which Arkansas exports are facing tariffs or countermeasures and argues that Canada should receive a permanent exemption from the steel and aluminum tariffs.
PRESENTATION | Canada, the United States & North American Trade
This presentation was delivered by Consul General of Canada in Dallas Vasken Khabayan on October 23, 2018 at the World Trade Center Arkansas’s diplomatic briefing on the status of North America trade relations. The Consul General is responsible for the promotion of Canadian interests in the areas of political and economic relations, investment and trade, public affairs and consular affairs in the five-state territory of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. This presentations details the strategic economic and security relationships between the U.S and Canada and explains key features of the economic relationship that Arkansas has with Canada, the largest buyer of Arkansas made and grown products.
REPORT | Canada: Opportunities for Doing Business
This is a presentation given by Consul and Trade Commissioner Delon Chan of the Canadian Consulate General in Dallas on November 8, 2017 at the World Trade Center Arkansas. It contains in depth information on business, investment and trade opportunities in Canada. Listen to the accompanying Gateways Podcast to this presentation here.
ARTICLE | Arkansas Depends on Canada Trade
This in-house article reports on how the Arkansas economy benefited from exports amounting to $5.9 billion in goods in 2015. Arkansas’ top export categories are agriculture products, transportation equipment, chemicals, processed foods, machinery and computer and electronic products. Most of these goods went to Arkansas’ top export markets in Canada, Mexico, Japan, France and Singapore.
REPORT | Arkansas & Canada Trade
This is an infographic report with strong visual representations on the relationship that Canada has with Arkansas and America as a whole.
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REPORT | Surface Merchandise Trade with Canada and Mexico
This graph from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics compares Canada and Mexico’s surface trade with Arkansas.
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Malgré les plans d'austérité, les dettes de l'UE s'aggravent (article en anglais Star Tribune Business)
Despite austerity, E.U. debt gets worse
Article by: LANDON THOMAS Jr. and , D
AVID JOLLY
Years of recession in Greece haven't eased its crushing debt load.
LONDON -- As Greece and its international lenders
continue tense talks on reducing the Greek budget deficit, new data from the
European Union on Monday underscored the potentially Sisyphean nature of such
efforts.
Some of the countries that have made the most progress in closing their budget gaps -- Greece in particular -- have also had their overall debt loads get bigger as a percentage of the economy, according to data released by Eurostat, the European Union's data agency.
A recent report from the International Monetary Fund, one of Greece's international creditors, reached a similar conclusion. That helps explain why the IMF has started adopting a less-austere stance
toward debtor countries, even as countries like Germany continue to take a hard
fiscal line, insisting that Athens stick to a program of lower spending and higher taxes.
Critics of the eurozone's austerity push have argued against it as counterproductive. But the new data provide perhaps the starkest, most objective picture yet of the mounting burdens shouldered by
countries like Greece, Ireland and Portugal that have accepted bailouts, as
well as Spain, which may soon need to accept its own strings-attached European
aid.
The economies of all four countries have contracted sharply under the austerity regimes -- Greece's by one-fourth since 2009. But the size of the debts relative to economic output has soared. That raises serious questions about their ability to repay those obligations over time.
"If you want to make its debt burden sustainable, there will have to be some kind of debt forgiveness and restructuring," Jorg Kramer, chief economist at Commerzbank in Frankfurt,
Germany, said of Greece.
For now, though, the Greek government apparently sees little choice but to continue with a 13.5-billion-euro austerity package and a raft of changes to labor laws that its so-called troika of international creditors have demanded before releasing the next installment of bailout loans.
Negotiations continued Monday in Athens with the troika: the IMF, the European Central Bank and the European Commission.
The Greek finance minister, Yannis Stournaras, told the economic affairs committee in Parliament on Monday that the new austerity package must be approved quickly so that Greece can secure crucial rescue funding. "The cost of us not getting the tranche would be huge," he said. "People would go hungry."
"Do you think the Europeans are bluffing when they say, 'Take the measures to get the money?'" Stournaras said.
Many analysts and economists, though, say the most diligent deficit reduction programs will do little to bring down debt levels as long as economies are not growing and the interest rates that these countries pay on their debt remain stubbornly high.
"The theory that these countries will grow out of their debt problem has a strong aspirational element to it," said Lee Buchheit, a senior sovereign debt lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton in New York. He worked on debt reduction deals in Latin America in the
1990s and was involved in the revamping of Greece's debt earlier this year.
"There is not much doubt that this problem will require a more severe
remedy," Buchheit said.
There have been varying causes to the debt spirals. Greece and Portugal, whose ratios of debt to gross domestic product have hit new highs of 170 percent and 120 percent, respectively, can blame high interest rates and deep recessions. But for Ireland, with a debt burden of 117 percent of GDP, and Spain, with a ratio of 90 percent, a big factor is heavy borrowing they had to do to bail out their failed banks.
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Excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Christmas & Giveaway
Published by Amyjarecki at November 7, 2016
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A man’s life can fall apart in an instant…
Tougher than oxhide, Lachlan Wallace can take about anything except a breakup call from his wife two minutes before competing in the Karate Championship of the World. Arriving home with a loss, he agrees to watch his uncle’s cat over the holidays. Or so he thinks—until he awakes on a fourteenth-century battlefield beside a woman fighting for her life.
Never underestimate a woman’s determination…
Taken from her at the age of two, Lady Christina de Moray hasn’t seen her son in thirteen years. While traveling with Robert the Bruce’s army to exchange an English prisoner for the lad, a battle erupts. Losing the fight, Christina is rescued by a mysterious warrior while the English escape with her son yet again.
And never bet against the potency of passion…
Left with no way back to the twenty-first century, Lachlan agrees to help Christina rescue the lad from his English captors. If the heir is not returned by Christmas next, the Bruce will make his decision whom to grant the de Moray lands, including Lady Christina’s hand. Once his duty is fulfilled, Lachlan hopes to discover a way home—as long as he keeps his mind on the goal and ignores his growing love for the spirited woman who gives him her trust—and her heart.
THE TIME TRAVELER’S CHRISTMAS ~ EXCERPT
The first time Christina and Lachlan Meet…
…Christina wasn’t about to stop fighting—not until she took her last breath. Boring down with her heels, she thrashed. “Get off me, ye brute.” She would hold her son in her arms this day if it was the last thing she did. And by the shift of the crushing weight on her chest, she only had moments before her life’s breath completely whooshed from her lungs.
The very thought of dying whilst her son was still held captive infused her with strength. With a jab, she slammed the heel of her hand across the man’s chin. He flew from her body like a sack of grain. Praises be, had the Lord granted her with superhuman strength? Blinking, Christina sat up.
No, no. Her strike hadn’t rescued her from the pillager.
A champion had.
A behemoth of a man pummeled the pikeman’s face with his fists. “Never. Ever.” His fists moved so fast they blurred. “Harm. A. Woman!”
Bloodied and battered, the varlet dropped to the dirt.
A swordsman attacked her savior from behind.
“Watch out,” she cried, but before the words left her lips the warrior spun to his feet. Flinging his arm backward, he grabbed his assailant’s wrist, stopped the sword midair and flipped the cur onto his back.
Onward, he fought a rush of English attackers with his bare hands, without armor. Not even William Wallace himself had been so talented. This warrior moved like a cat, anticipating his opponent’s moves before they happened.
Five enemy soldiers lay on their backs.
“Quickly,” the man shouted, running toward her, his feet bare.
No sooner had she rolled to her knees than his powerful arms clamped around her. The wind whipped beneath her feet. He planted her bum in the saddle.
“Behind!” Christina screamed, every muscle in her body clenching taut.
Throwing back an elbow, the man smacked an enemy soldier in the face resulting in a sickening crack.
She picked up her reins and dug in her heels.
“Whoa!” The big man latched onto the skirt of her saddle and hopped behind her, making her pony’s rear end dip. But the frightened galloway didn’t need coaxing. He galloped away from the fight like a deer running from a fox.
Christina peered around her shoulder at the mass of fighting men behind them. “My son!”
“Do you see him?” the man asked in the strangest accent she’d ever heard.
She tried to turn back, but the man’s steely chest stopped her. “They took him.”
“The English, of course.”
The more they talked, the further from the border the galloway took them.
“Huh?” the man mumbled behind her like he’d been struck in the head by a hammer. Everyone for miles knew the Scots and the English were to exchange a prisoner that day.
The champion’s big palm slipped around her waist and held on—it didn’t hurt like he was digging in his fingers, but he pressed firm against her. The sensation of such a powerful hand on her body was unnerving. It had been eons since any man had touched her, at least gently. The truth? Aside from the brutish attack moments ago, Christina’s life had been nothing but chaste.
White foam leached from the pony’s neck and he took in thunderous snorts. He wouldn’t be able to keep this pace much longer. Christina steered him through a copse of trees and up the crag where just that morning she’d stood with King Robert and Sir Boyd before they’d led the Scottish battalion into the valley. There, she could gain a good vantage point and try to determine where the backstabbing English were heading with Andrew this time.
At the crest of the outcropping, she pulled the horse to a halt. “The pony cannot keep going at this pace.”
The man’s eyebrows slanted inward and he gave her a quizzical stare. Good Lord, his tempest-blue eyes pierced straight through her soul. “Are you speaking English?”
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NASA Predicts Huge Asteroid Called Bennu Could Hit Earth
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NASA has announced that a huge asteroid 1,700 feet (1/3 a mile) wide might hit earth in the future, and now they think they know when it could happen. The asteroid is called Bennu and it could hit earth sometime in the 22nd century, specifically on September 22, 2135!
Don't freak out yet because the chance it will hit us is still relatively low at 1 in 2,500 chance that it will happen, according to reports. That is still a strong enough chance for NASA to launch a satellite to land on Bennu and take samples of it's makeup and bring them back to Earth. That satellite mission is already half way to Bennu and is expected to land on the asteroid sometime in November 2018. The samples will arrive back on Earth sometime in 2023.
The prediction says Bennu will most likely fly between the Earth and Moon around 2135 and the Earths gravity will alter the asteroid that may causing it to hit us. The good news is that even though Bennu could create a lot of damage, it is not a "global killer". It would not destroy all life on Earth if it hit but it would still be very catastrophic.
There are multiple plans to hopefully stop Bennu from hitting us. Ideas like a HAMMER device that slams into Bennu with enough force to chang its course or painting Bennu with a certain paint on one half that could change the "thermal dynamics" and it's orbit, according to reports. They won't decide on a plan until they know more about the makeup of the asteroid.
The asteroid that is theorized to have affected the extinction of the Dinosaurs was over 6 miles across.
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Chapter 468-10 WAC
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
468-10-400 Application of this chapter.
468-10-410 Adoption of model rules of procedures.
468-10-420 Definitions.
468-10-430 Application for adjudicative proceeding.
468-10-440 Standards of ethical conduct.
468-10-450 Appearance and practice—Appearance and/or representation by former employee, attorney or officer.
468-10-460 Answer.
468-10-470 Discovery, protective orders.
468-10-480 Excerpts from documentary evidence.
468-10-490 Motions before presiding officers.
468-10-500 Prehearing conference.
468-10-510 Evidence.
468-10-520 Petitions for review of initial orders—Final orders.
468-10-530 Brief adjudicative proceedings.
DISPOSITION OF SECTIONS FORMERLY CODIFIED IN THIS TITLE
468-10-010 Appearance and practice before commission or secretary—Who may appear. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-010, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-010.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-020 Appearance and practice before commission or secretary—Solicitation of business unethical. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-020, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-030.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-030 Appearance and practice before commission or secretary—Standards of ethical conduct. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-030, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-040.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-040 Appearance and practice before commission or secretary—Appearance and/or representation by former employee, attorney, or officer. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-040, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-050.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-050 Computation of time. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-050, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-070.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-060 Order in presenting evidence—Franchise applications. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-060, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-265.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-070 Official notice—Matters of law. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-070, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-370.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-080 Official notice—Material facts. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-080, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-380.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-090 Stipulations and admissions of record. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-090, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-400.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-100 Form and content of decisions in contested cases. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-100, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-410.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-110 Definition of issues before hearing. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-110, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-420.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-120 Prehearing conference rule—Authorized. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-120, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-430.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-130 Prehearing conference rule—Record of conference action. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-130, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-440.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-140 Submission of documentary evidence in advance. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-140, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-450.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-150 Excerpts from documentary evidence. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-150, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-460.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-160 Expert or opinion testimony and testimony based on economic and statistical data—Number and qualifications of witnesses. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-160, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-470.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-170 Expert or opinion testimony and testimony based on economic and statistical data—Written sworn statements. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-170, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-480.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-180 Expert or opinion testimony and testimony based on economic and statistical data—Supporting data. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-180, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-490.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-190 Expert or opinion testimony and testimony based on economic and statistical data—Effect of noncompliance with WAC 468-10-160 or 468-10-170. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-190, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-500.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-200 Continuances. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-200, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-510.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-210 Rules of evidence—Admissibility criteria. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-210, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-520.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-220 Rules of evidence—Tentative admission—Exclusion—Discontinuance—Objections. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-220, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-530.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-230 Briefs. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-230, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-535.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-232 Answer. [Statutory Authority: RCW 34.04.020 and 34.04.022. WSR 83-19-016 (Order 86), § 468-10-232, filed 9/12/83.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-234 Agency action following preparation of proposed decision. [Statutory Authority: RCW 34.04.020 and 34.04.022. WSR 83-19-016 (Order 86), § 468-10-234, filed 9/12/83.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-240 Petitions for rule making, amendment, or repeal—Who may petition. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-240, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-540.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-250 Petitions for rule making, amendment, or repeal—Requisites. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-250, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-550.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-260 Petitions for rule making, amendment, or repeal—Agency must consider. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-260, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-560.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-270 Petitions for rule making, amendment, or repeal—Notice of disposition. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-270, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-570.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-280 Petitions for rule making, amendment, or repeal—Form. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-280, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-575.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-290 Declaratory rulings—Who may petition—Action of commission or secretary. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-290, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-580.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-300 Forms. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-300, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-590.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-310 Stay of final decision. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-310, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-595.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
468-10-320 Consideration of economic costs and impacts in rule making. [Statutory Authority: 1977 ex.s. c 151. WSR 79-01-033 (DOT Order 10 and Comm. Order 1, Resolution No. 13), § 468-10-320, filed 12/20/78. Formerly WAC 252-08-600.] Repealed by WSR 94-14-101 (Order 145), filed 7/6/94, effective 8/6/94. Statutory Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW and RCW 47.01.101(5).
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Babylon 5 episodes, Babylon 5 Season 4 episodes
Production Number
Broadcast Order
Douglas Netter
& J. Michael Straczynski
John C. Flinn, III A.S.C.
David W. Foster
Christopher Franke
Story Date
November 1st -3rd, 2261
Between the Darkness and the Light
With the other races and the Earthforce vessels that joined the insurrection behind Captain Sheridan, President Clark makes his last stand at Mars and Earth. When his fleet is disabled over Mars, he decides that if he cannot rule Earth, no one can.
Cast Edit
Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan
Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova
Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi
Mira Furlan as Ambassador Delenn
Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin
Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto
Bill Mumy as Lennier
Andreas Katsulas as Ambassador G'Kar
Peter Jurasik as Ambassador Londo Mollari
Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan
Jason Carter as Marcus Cole
Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander
Guest Starring Edit
Ungela Brockman as Earthforce NCO
J. Patrick McCormack as General Lefcourt
Marjorie Monaghan as Number One
David Purdham as Captain James
Carolyn Seymour as Senator Crosby
Julian Stone as Captain Mitchell
Co-Starring Edit
Maggie Egan as Anchor
Karen Fineman as Kelley
Rick Cramer as Earthforce Officer
Featuring Edit
Kenneth Cortland as Telepath
Gary McGurk as President Clark
Cast Notes Edit
Regular characters who appear in this episode are John Sheridan, Susan Ivanova, Michael Garibaldi, Delenn, Stephen Franklin, Lennier, Marcus Cole, and Lyta Alexander.
Ivanova has no lines, as she is comatose throughout the episode.
Introduction Edit
In hyperspace, the combined fleet of the Earth Alliance Resistance and its alien supporters gathers in preparation for the push to Mars. Aboard a Minbari ship, a mortally wounded Susan Ivanova lies comatose, watched over unceasingly by Marcus Cole. Delenn enters the room and informs him a transport has arrived to take her to Babylon 5, as there is no chance to treat her without its resources. Though reluctant to leave, he eventually leaves to assume his post. Delenn hesitates in leaving, as she too feels the shock of probably losing such a close friend as Ivanova.
On Mars, Dr. Stephen Franklin records a log:
"November 1st, 2261, Doctor's Personal Log – We're ready. We're starting the final strike to free Earth and Mars. I don't know if this is gonna work, but it's gonna be one hell of a fight either way."
He and Lyta Alexander have been coordinating with Number One and the Mars Resistance in their part of the upcoming battle. Among one of the more unusual things being done is the transport of some 30 coffin-sized cases with the telepaths altered by the Shadows. With the help of an insider named Kelley, they are being transported into the Earthforce ships that are loyal to President Morgan Clark, one to each. Kelley (and Number One) are puzzled as to why they are transporting people in cryo units, and Franklin explains they are a way around the loyalists detecting weapons and that their effectiveness will be revealed soon.
A little later, on the Martian surface, they link up with Michael Garibaldi who was scouting ahead. Using code names based upon Snow White, he orders strike teams to advance on three ground stations surrounding the spaceport while his group advances on a fourth. Meanwhile, shuttles commence delivering final provisions (including the cryo pods) to the loyalists in orbit.
Act I Edit
At Ground Station Alpha, Earthforce soldiers keep a cautious watch. They know something is coming and are figuring the Mars Resistance to play a role. The station commander tries to contact Station Bravo but does not get a reply. Before he can wonder what is happening, one of the officers puts on a breather and draws a PPG on him. At the same instant, the exterior door bursts open. After a brief fistfight, Garibaldi and his strike team subdue the remaining officers, give them breathers, throw them outside, and secure the door behind them. The insider compliments Garibaldi on their efficiency. With luck, the other teams achieved similar success, meaning they effectively control the spaceport perimeter and the base itself does not know. Once the base re-pressurizes and the door controls removed to prevent enemy re-entry, everyone removes their breathers.Garibaldi observes the last of the shuttles depart the spaceport, meaning they will deliver their cargo to the destroyers in forty-five minutes. With a timeframe established, Franklin and Alexander make preparations. Franklin removes a strange piece of headgear and puts it on Alexander.
Aboard his old (and now current) flagship, the EAS Agamemnon, Captain John Sheridan enters the bridge and announces that the final battle to liberate the Earth Alliance is imminent.
"We're one jump from more trouble that most of you have seen during your years in Earthforce. It is my supreme hope that, in all the years after this, we may never see a day like this again."
He contacts the rest of the fleet and relays the battle plan. The first objective is to neutralize Mars so as not to be flanked. Then they will move for Earth. To maintain the "clean fight," the White Star fleet (all with human commanding officers) and the Resistance destroyers will carry out the fighting. The alien supporters will maintain a support role: acting only defensively. After ordering the fleet to await further orders, he disconnects everyone but Cole. He will lead the advance strike as soon as Garibaldi relays some necessary information.
In Mars orbit, the last of the Clark loyalist fleet assemble for a last stand and receive shipments from planetside. The fleet flagship is the EAS Apollo, commanded by General Robert Lefcourt, an old instructor of Sheridan's and a firm believer in the supreme authority of the law, no matter who is in charge. All the loyalist ships have had their IFF systems updated to recognize Resistance destroyers as foes, and deadly force is authorized. The force of 35 destroyers assembles, waiting for the battle to begin.
Act II Edit
The headpiece Franklin is applying on Alexander is a psionic amplifier. She is about to engage in a very long-range telepathic scan, and even with help from the amplifier, she needs to be outside to get enough reach. Meanwhile, Garibaldi uploads some data to "Snow White" (Cole).
Even as he awaits the order to begin, Cole cannot stop thinking about Ivanova. Although the others like Lennier appear to be consigned to fate, Cole cannot help but think there is something they have not thought about. Just then, the data from Garibaldi comes in as well as the go-ahead.
At Station Alpha, Garibaldi orders everyone to take cover. It is then that he reveals that what he had given Cole was planetary coordinates accurate to within feet: the kind of data one needs to successfully pull off a jump directly into an atmosphere. Even as Number One and the others listen in disbelief, the jump vortex appears and the atmosphere rumbles with the turbulence. Cole in his White Star emerges and strafes the spaceport. Noticing one turret still active, Number One orders the station's guns destroy that turret before it can fire on Cole.
In space, Captain Mitchell reports on the attack, but Lefcourt orders no action. He assumes it to be a feint meant to draw some of the ships away from the main line. He is patient and wonders what Sheridan's next move will be: in particular, what kind of "ace in the hole" he will employ.
Even as explosions rock the spaceport, Sheridan relays a message to Alexander: "Do it." Alexander stands and looks out into space. Her eyes begin to turn black from the intense psychic exertion. Inside, Franklin explains what is happening right now. She is reaching out to the cryo units sent to the destroyers. She is touching each of them, awakening them. Reprogrammed to become the central core of a Shadow vessel, they instinctively get up and move towards a computer interface, so as to merge with it and take control. The insider is shocked at the callous way Franklin describes such horror, but Franklin is only this way because he has surrendered to the inevitable. Without the technology available back home on Earth, there is no hope of removing the Shadow implants, meaning they are as good as dead. By employing them in this way, they can serve in the most humane way possible. By taking over the computers, they can disable up to thirty destroyers without having to kill the crew, and perhaps open the way to free their comrades from their enslavement. Thirty lives to save over thirty thousand.
Act III Edit
Sheridan receives word that Alexander's activated the telepaths. He gives the go-ahead for the main assault. Lefcourt looks on as a swarm of jump vortices herald the arrival of Sheridan's fleet as predicted. Suddenly, the Apollo's computer goes dead. Word reaches him that the same thing is happening to most of the fleet. Before Lefcourt can order any able destroyer to advance, communications go dead. Lefcourt suddenly realizes this was what the feint had covered up: a sneak attack brought aboard with their last supply run.
Aboard a Sharlin-class ship, Delenn reports on the enemy's status. To Sheridan's relief, she reports that the telepaths did their job. Twenty of the destroyers are disabled and five more are losing control, leaving ten active destroyers to fight. Using the chaos to his best advantage, he orders the White Stars to concentrate on the remaining destroyers, crippling them before they can take action. Meanwhile, destroyer security forces begin to encounter the telepaths. Though the telepaths fight back with arcs of electricity, one by one, the security forces take down the telepaths. However, the damage is done. Within minutes, the loyalist fleet is neutralized with few casualties. The Battle of Mars, such as it is, is over.
The way is now clear to move to Earth. Sheridan orders Delenn and the alien forces to remain at Mars to assist any vessels whose condition deteriorates further. As Cole's White Star leaves Mars and rejoins the main fleet Cole himself leaves the bridge to see to personal matters. In another room, Cole accesses the Babylon 5 archives, seeking out any references to treating mortal injuries. Once the fleet is assembled, Sheridan sets the jump target: Earth Beacon 11629.
Cole's search request completes, and he eventually comes across Franklin's log of healing Garibaldi with the Alien Healing Machine. In spite of Franklin's recorded warnings about its life-transferring nature, Cole orders a shuttle prepared.
Mitchell reports the killing of the telepath, but they are still dead in space and without external communications. Angrily, Lefcourt orders repairs completed with all possible speed.
To her surprise, Lennier reports to Delenn's Sharlin, claiming to be answering a summons from her. Before either can realize what just happened, Cole turns his White Star around and leaves the fleet. Lennier begins to suspect what happened.
Act IV Edit
Delenn tells Sheridan that Cole went AWOL and has gone back to Babylon 5. Sheridan fumes, but as he continues the conversation in private on an earpiece, he realizes Cole has learned about the machine, but Sheridan cannot send anyone to pursue him. Time is critical at this point and the final push must proceed. Regretfully, he orders the final jump.
As the Earth Alliance Resistance jumps into Earth orbit, Sheridan begins a transmission to all Earth frequencies:
"This is Captain John Sheridan. We are here on the authority of a multiplanetary force that can no longer stand by and watch one of their greatest allies falling into darkness and despair. We are here on behalf of the thousands of civilians murdered under orders from the current administration, who have no one else to speak for them, and on behalf of the Earthforce units that have joined us to oppose the tyranny that has darkened Earth ever since President Santiago was assassinated three years ago. We are here to place President Clark under arrest, to disband Nightwatch, and return our government to the hands of her people."
As he speaks, President Morgan Clark writes on his desk and the planetary defense grid begins to turn to the fleet. Sheridan continues:
"We know that many in the government have wanted to act but have been intimidated by threats of retaliation against your families, your friends. You are not alone anymore. We call upon you to rise up and do what's right. We have drawn their forces away from Earth and disabled them. The time to act is now."
Emboldened by the declaration, the Earth Resistance finally takes action. An Earthforce squad led by Senator Crosby marches on the President's Office.
"This is not the voice of treason. These are your sons, your daughters, whose loyalties have never wavered, whose beliefs in this Alliance has forced us to take extraordinary means. For justice, for peace, for the future, we have come home!"
As the resistance forces approach, Clark finishes his writing and arms the defense grid. Soon a salvo of missiles launches from the platforms. Sheridan orders evasive action and the Starfury squadrons launched to intercept the missiles. He then orders the destroyers to target the platforms. Back on Earth, Clark draws a PPG from his desk, aiming it at his head. Just as the Resistance breaks through, he fires. As the battle in orbit continues, Crosby notices the writing on the desk. Clark had written the line, "The Ascension of the Ordinary Man" again and again on the sheet, except that some of the letters had been circled.
Clark's final words
Sheridan soon receives a transmission. It's Crosby. She reports that Clark committed suicide. More importantly, she reports what the circled letters spell out: "Scorched Earth." She has learned that Clark has programmed the defense grid's particle beam cannons to turn toward Earth and set them to fire in ten minutes. He intended to take the entire planet with him. Upon hearing this, Sheridan orders all ships to target the defense grid, and immediately calls in Delenn and the alien fleet for assistance. The defense grid fights back, and many ships from all races involved are destroyed. The Agamemnon itself is critically damaged with no weapons systems, but ahead of it is the final platform about to fire on the North American Eastern Seaboard. With no other ships able to assist, Sheridan grimly orders ramming speed on the platform. Just then, the Apollo jumps in, and Lefcourt comes to Sheridan's aid. The Apollo fires on the platform and destroys it just in time for the Agamemnon to ride through the fireball. Soon, the news reaches him: mission accomplished. Earth is saved. Although Lefcourt tells Sheridan he still has to face a court martial, he also welcomes Sheridan back home to Earth.
Act V Edit
Captain James relays the news that Sheridan is wanted planetside as soon as possible. Delenn will join him later, but Dr. Franklin has already left Earth, hoping to keep Cole from committing "a terrible mistake."
ISN – the real ISN – returns to the air for the first time in over a year. Still choked with emotion, reporter Jane begins by speaking on behalf of the rest of the ISN crew, describing the imprisonment, torture, and sometimes death they endured. All that came to an end this morning. She then reports the breaking news: that of Sheridan's successful liberation of Earth. She goes on to keep the civilians on Earth calm, telling them that EarthGov is still working to compile the list of casualties. The Earth Alliance Civil War is now over, and it now time for humans to come back together and begin the process of healing and rebuilding.
Aboard a White Star, Franklin frantically tries to contact Babylon 5 without success. In between, he replays the log entry that sent Cole on his mad dash. Back on Babylon 5, though, Cole's mad dash comes to its grim conclusion. Even as the Alien Healing Machine drains the life force out of him to resuscitate Ivanova, Cole, in his final words, declares his love for her.
The Earth Alliance Civil War ends with the Liberation of Earth and the suicide of President Morgan Clark.
Sheridan's strategy to disable the destroyers defending Mars combines several facts discovered from earlier episodes:
Since it was possible to jump out of a planetary atmosphere, it is also possible to jump into one, provided the jump vortex doesn't cause the craft to crash onto the planet's surface (from "Messages from Earth").
The fact that the Shadow-altered telepaths would connect to computer systems and take control of them (from "Ship of Tears").
The fact that Lyta Alexander can make telepathic contact with those telepaths and stabilize them, even if only temporarily (from "The Exercise of Vital Powers").
DVD release Edit
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A Bed-Stuy Biennial, Nina Simone Self-Defense, and Other Art Events This Week
November 8, 2016 By Cassidy Dawn Graves
Nkiruka J. Oparah, study n° 080415, 2015, digital collage (image via BRIC)
BRIC Biennial: Volume II, Bed Stuy / Crown Heights
Opening Wednesday, November 9 at BRIC, 7 pm to 9 pm. On view through January 15.
BRIC’s largest exhibition to date is centered at Downtown Brooklyn’s BRIC House but also taking place in portions of Crown Heights’s FiveMyles, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Weeksville Heritage Center. The show’s sprawling spread reflects the artists represented in the show, as all 40 are local to Crown Heights and Bed Stuy. The theme for the exhibit is “Affective Bodies,” placing a focus on “bodily experience rather than on learned knowledge,” a somewhat subversive move in the world of art exhibits, as so many are grounded in theory, explained using highly academic terms, and/or featuring high-class educated folks. Each non-BRIC venue will showcase a different sort of work: Weeksville Heritage artists are focused on the “emotional resonance” people give urban spaces, the Brooklyn Public Library artists use preexisting documents as their source material to create new works, and FiveMyles will focus on performance art.
Stretcher Bar Painting 2, 2015
Pigment and oil on canvas
195.6 x 111.8 cm / 77 x 44 in
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Rita Ackermann, Kline Rape
Opening Thursday, November 10 at Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through January 14.
Admittedly, the title of this show is a little off-putting. Sure, the title refers to the painter Rita Ackermann creatively intervening in expressionist painter Franz Kline’s works, creating feminine curves and bright colors where there was previously only dark, harsh, masculine lines. It’s great to be offsetting the patriarchy in whatever way we can, but I wouldn’t exactly be throwing around the term “rape” if I was her, just as a general rule of thumb. But the paintings do look nice.
This series will be paired with another Ackermann series, Stretcher Bar. Supposedly the name stems from “the emergence of x-ray-like imprints which surface when impressions of paint and pigment become transpired with the structural presence of the picture plane itself.” To me, Stretcher Bar sounds like it could be a medieval torture device, or a watering hole where you’re encouraged to be particularly acrobatic or leisurely. The latter sounds like it could fit, as these paintings often feature wobbly, streaky, almost Rubenesque femme figures, fading in and out of the foreground and often accompanied by a drinking goblet. I’ll leave the rest of the interpreting up to you.
Jennifer Dwyer (image courtesy of the artist)
Opening Friday, November 11 at academic gallery, 6 pm to 9 pm. On view through December 10.
Three artists, each working in different mediums, explore the unknown and one’s desire to understand it in this group show opening at Long Island City’s academic gallery. Jen Dwyer’s sculptural ceramic works are soft and pastel-colored, sometimes dusted with sparkle, forming open spaces that viewers can inscribe their own meanings on or creating a jumble of nondescript shapes and odd, identifiable objects such as two feet. Natalie Fisk’s paintings merge reality and the supernatural, manifesting swirls of color that are at once abstract and clear. Meanwhile, Mary Negro’s large-scale drawings create twisting, turning webs you could get lost in. Her work begins with trails of “stream-of-consciousness writing” that she then goes over with ink, making the words essentially invisible. You could stare for a while and try to make out the words, hoping it’ll be able to “tell [you] more,” but you may never get that satisfaction.
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Wound: I Can’t Breathe
Friday, November 11 at 41 Cooper Gallery, 6 pm to 8 pm. RSVP required.
Not exactly a formal art exhibit but a “study center for practices of listening, attention, and collaboration,” housed in the basement gallery space of Cooper Union, Wound (like the clock, not like the injury) has for the past month hosted a variety of workshops and organizing tools, with in-person group activities as well as written scores for collaborative action penned by folks like Yoko Ono and feminist performance artist Linda Montano, books, clocks, and visual art pieces.
The experience comes to a close this Friday with one final workshop, Shaun Leonardo’s I Can’t Breathe, a “public-participatory” performance in the form of a self-defense class. Participants will learn only self-protective moves, no offensive moves, then will be paired up to practice what they have learned, with each alternating the role of an attacker. While this is happening, Leonardo will recite a text inspired by Nina Simone, welcoming the participants to embody their interpretations of the words in order to decide how to conduct themselves. As the title may have implied, the piece is about society’s need to fight to survive, and is dedicated to the memories of Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and so many others.
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Medium Binary Lasers
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Intermittent_Coherence
« on: 17 April 2019, 08:02:08 »
Why exactly does the Blazer automatically default to using cores from Large Lasers?
In theory shouldn't the principle apply to Medium Lasers as well?
Because I'd be totally down for 7 damage, 6 heat at 2 tons and 3/6/9.
Alsadius
Re: Medium Binary Lasers
« Reply #1 on: 17 April 2019, 10:23:20 »
A big part of the Blazer's value is headcapping. A Blazer Lite can't do that. Besides, this just isn't as cool
And with those stats, I'd rather just mount two MLs, because 7 damage isn't going to breach much more than 5, and I'd rather have 10 total than 7 total. At least make it 1.5 tons.
Also, I know it's canonically from a different era, but maybe the Heavy Medium Laser is what you want? The Heavies are fairly balanced in a 3025-tech setting (if only by their ludicrous heat in a SHS-only era), and we already have stat blocks for them.
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Rayneth
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As Alsadius says, the biggest appeal of the normal Binary Laser Cannon is that sweet 12 points of damage at medium range.
I don't really see much of a niche for Medium Blazers to fill other than some kind of rule of cool.
Sabelkatten
It would probably be pretty balanced at 6 heat, 2 tons, 3/6/9 range, and 9 damage. You generally have to go above 10 points for damage concentration to really matter, 2x5 points or 1x9 should be about equally effective.
It would make a powerful weapon against really light mechs, thought. Scouting and scout-hunting would become a lot more "interesting"...
Quote from: Sabelkatten on 17 April 2019, 12:13:09
That's my thought as well. The large blazer only does 50% more damage, which is why I went with 7 damage but even that would be a massive boon for light mechs. It would also be the perfect counter for those pesky Clan medium lasers when Revival comes around.
Quote from: Alsadius on 17 April 2019, 10:23:20
No, I meant blazers. We all know that Heavy Lasers are what Blazers want to be when they grow up.
Quote from: Intermittent_Coherence on 17 April 2019, 13:01:05
7 damage is probably too low. Even using the "50% more" from the Blazer, I'd round it up to 8. Doing 8 damage on 1.5 tons would be playable, I think, even with that high heat. Bugs would probably like that a lot, whereas at 2 tons I'd just take the two MLs on a Spider.
Ignoring weight/slots for a second, I think the Blazer might arguably be a better weapon than the HLL. 16 heat and 12 damage vs 18 heat and 16 damage(at +1 to hit)? Not an easy choice, tbh. The Blazer has BV 222, while the Heavy Large is 244, so statistically (using the base BV math assumptions, which probably under-penalize to-hit penalties), they're nearly equal in actual damage dealt. The HLL wins on the five tons you save, obviously, but otherwise they're not too far off.
Large laser amounts of damage in a 2 ton package(let alone 1.5 tons) is game breaking. It already surpasses the Clan Medium and Medium Pulse Lasers which are themselves already broken. And that's in the Clan Wars.
In the Succession Wars era, even more so.
Putting them next to IS Medium Pulse Lasers gives you a good option, do you trade +1 damage for -1 accuracy and +1 heat?
The_Caveman
A Living Fossil
Large laser amounts of damage in a 2 ton package(let alone 1.5 tons) is game breaking.
But with nearly as much heat and just over half the range. And the damage concentration isn't enough to deal a major blow to anything over 35 tons. It's actually less deadly than two medium lasers.
My problem with using something like a MBlazer as a primary weapon on a light 'Mech is it's just one more weapon with 9 range. Virtually everything carried by 3025 light 'Mechs has 9 range except for the street-sweepers, and all of it is most useful at ranges where the small stuff can hit.
For two tons, it'd be more useful for it to do 6 damage and have a range of 12 than to do 8 damage and have a range of 9.
Half the fun of BattleTech is the mental gymnastics required to scientifically rationalize design choices made decades ago entirely based on the Rule of Cool.
The other half is a first-turn AC/2 shot TAC to your gyro that causes your Atlas to fall and smash its own cockpit... wait, I said fun didn't I?
The MBlazer would be much like clan heavy lasers. Not so much a "why" as a "why not".
I think Caveman hit it on the head... the "why not" is simply range. A Medium Blazer is right down there with a Small one (5 damage, 2 heat, 1/2/3 range). You're better off with two regular weapons of that size.
But if you're generally better of with a pair of standard MLs then the MBlazer isn't unbalanced, and if it isn't unbalanced there's no reason to disallow it.
Other than it simply would never make it out of testing and in to production, sure...
It wouldn't justify the cost of R&D. Maybe you'd see it as a weird Solaris weapon, where the novelty outweighs the degree to which it sucks. But nobody is putting one into production because it's objectively worse than the tried-and-true tech and has no real niche.
Amusingly, you could strap two Clan medium lasers together and it'd be game-breaking. A two-ton headchopper with medium range and moderate heat. But then you've run smack into that one guy's law.
I think the clan version would only do 11 points.
marauder648
The Blazer gets a lot of stick but its not that bad. The Bombast however deserves every ounce of rotten fruit and veg lobbed at it.
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Absolutely... I love the "regular" Blazer Cannon. It's everything a 3SW weapon should be...
Quote from: Daryk on 22 April 2019, 04:34:34
I just wish they hadn't made it quite so heat-punitive in an era where nothing can spare it. At 14 heat it'd still be cumbersome enough to prevent it popping up everywhere, but not unbearably so.
I wouldn't have minded 14 heat, but I can totally live with 16. It's not bad as a drop in AC/20 replacement, but it gets tougher when replacing an AC/10.
Replacing an AC/20 with a Blazer is rough. Replacing an AC/10 is just farcical. You end up with 8 extra heat that you can't sink without ripping other stuff off the chassis.
I just think there are better ways this could've been handled. Like making the weapon 12 heat 12 damage and suffering spikes of +20 heat on a roll of 2. That would make it tricky to manage even in the DHS era without making the average performance so abysmal that nobody would include one without a gun to their head.
Try one on an Urbanmech… they work fine...
But the standard Urbie is ridiculously oversinked. Most mechs aren't.
It's not quite that bad... I'll have to dig up one of my Blazer threads to link here...
But it performs worse than just swapping both weapons out for two large lasers. Which are always going to be easier to find than a white elephant like a Blazer cannon.
Better/worse for the 2 Large Laser/Blazer Cannon debate is subjective. Sure, the first gets you more damage (if they both hit), but they're very unlikely to be to the same location. The Blazer converts any head hit into an instant kill (at least in 3025, before Hardened Armor). The only weapon in the era that does more damage to a single location is an AC/20.
Found one of the Blazer threads... this one had a Centurion and a Hatchetman in it...
So, a given blazer shot on a TN of 7 gives you a 1.6% chance of an instant kill and an average of 6.96 damage. Two large lasers give an aggregate 9.28 average damage with an 82% chance of doing at least 8 damage. My dice are cursed so I know which one I'm taking every single time. Plus you get to keep fighting if an arm goes missing.
And versus anything an UrbanMech should be fighting, both hits to the same location, unless it's the head, is less desirable than 8 points to two different locations. There's a lot of stuff in 3025 that has locations with <8 armor.
True, but there are plenty of 10-point locations too, and while they're PPC-proof, the Blazer will penetrate.
With cursed dice, I'd also go for more chances to hit, but I am a Blazer fanatic...
I like Blazers and use them on some of my more "flavorful" designs, but honestly, just one or two niche advantages (Head Capping) doesn't make for a "subjective" debate.
There's probably a good in-universe reason why nobody bothered to make ER or Pulse Blazers.
Quote from: Retry on 24 April 2019, 22:59:26
Actually a pulse Blazer has more potential than the regular variety IMO. A 15-damage weapon with -2 to hit would be great to have when fighting the Clans. Even better, putting two pulse lasers together implies it should have the -3 to-hit of VSPLs because of the increased rate of fire. 20 heat is a pain to deal with but in 3050+ you also have things like Gauss rifles and SSRMs to even out the heat curve.
A Large Pulse Blazer would be interesting! But by that point, I think the field is pretty crowded with options.
The relative value of a 12-point hit is subjective outside of head capping. Anything where "YMMV" is subjective by definition, and the Blazer is definitely in that category.
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RANCHI: Now honeymoon enclosures for tigers in Palamu Tiger Reserve. In a bid to check the declining number of tigers and raise their numbers, the wildlife wing of state forest department has geared up to set up separate enclosures for females and male tigers in Palamu Tiger Reserve. These enclosures would be made in a format that helps male and female tigers come close to each other for mating.
The tiger reserve, located some 170 kms from here, is spread over 1026 sq kms in Palamu district. As per the last census conducted in 2007, only 16 tigers remain in the reserve. Only one female tiger named Rani was spotted twice in the span of a year. Apart from recovering scats, pug marks and bodies of dead animals, forest staff have nothing as proof of presence of tigers.The only evidence of tiger presence in the reserve is tourists’ claim of spotting a tiger from time to time.
According to CCF (Wildlife) S K Sharma, the department has been directed by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to increase the tiger population.
“For that, we are planning to set 50 hectares of two separate enclosures for two female tigers. These enclosures will be part of 200 acre of larger enclosure of a male tiger. The enclosure of each tigress would have exit point to male enclosed space. The big cats will be provided complete seclusion and freedom to lead a life that is suitable for extending their families in these enclosures,” he said.
“The enclosures will be set up on Sariska model, a tiger reserve located in Alwar district of Rajasthan,” Sharma added.
Cubs, if any, will be put with female tigers for a year-and-a-half till they grew up after which they will be released in jungles with radio-collars which will help in monitoring their movements closely, he added.
While none of the forest staff has spotted a tiger in the reserve, the forest officials are planning to import two female tigers and a male tigers from other reserves and zoos .
The department is also planning to create a corridor for big cats from forests in Jharkhand through the Palamau-Garwah district to Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh to encourage breeding of tigers, sources said.
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Blue Rocks blast Lynchburg Hillcats, 9-2
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Front Page » Sports » Blue Rocks blast Lynchburg Hillcats, 9-2
Despite a 2-0 lead, the Lynchburg Hillcats fell, 9-2, against the Wilmington Blue Rocks on Thursday night.
The Hillcats (5-3, 34-41) and Blue Rocks (4-3, 35-42), have each won two games through the first four games of the series, setting up a rubber match in the five-game set on Friday.
Down by a pair of runs, Wilmington sent ten hitters to the plate in a six-run sixth inning. Blake Perkins led off with a bunt single, and moved to third on a double by D.J. Burt. Gabriel Cancel followed by hitting a two-run single up the middle to tie the game. After Zach Plesac (Loss, 4-4) walked Travis Jones, he was removed from the game. Billy Strode took over out of Lynchburg’s bullpen, and picked up back-to-back strikeouts. After walking Rudy Martin to the load the bases, Strode hit Chase Vallot on an 0-2 pitch to bring home a run, giving the Blue Rocks a 3-2 lead. The next batter, Angelo Castellano, sliced a bases-clearing three-run tripe into the right field corner, extending Wilmington’s lead to 6-2.
Prior to the sixth inning, Plesac had allowed just three hits through five scoreless innings, while striking out eight.
Meibrys Viloria added another run on an RBI single in the seventh and the ‘Rocks scored two more in the ninth to further their lead.
Both of Lynchburg’s runs came from Conner Capel, who hit two sacrifice fly’s in the first and sixth innings.
Plesac was tagged for four earned runs on six hits in five innings. His eight strikeouts matched a career high. Strode allowed three runs in 1.2 innings and Anderson Polanco allowed two runs on three hits in 0.2 frames.
Wilmington starter Gerson Garabito (Win, 3-6) fired seven innings and gave up two runs (one earned) on three hits. Vance Tatum pitched two scoreless out of the bullpen.
The series concludes on Friday with the decisive game. Lynchburg will send right-hander Justin Garza (3-5, 4.23) to the hill, opposite of righty Nolan Watson (0-0, 11.25) for the Blue Rocks. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. at Frawley Stadium.
Max Gun will be on the air beginning at 6:55 p.m. with the Hillcats pregame show, on TuneIn Radio and Radio434.
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Ana Sayfa NEWS Imagine by KIA: A new all-electric concept car revealed
Imagine by KIA: A new all-electric concept car revealed
Kia Motors has revealed its new all-electric concept car, ‘Imagine by Kia’, at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show.
Imagine by Kia
“Automotive design is about capturing the heart and making it beat that bit faster for that bit longer. We believe that there’s absolutely no reason why that should change simply because the car is electric,” says Gregory Guillaume, Vice President of Design for Kia Motors Europe. “That’s why our all-electric concept is designed to not only get your pulse racing, but to also signpost our holistic and emotional approach to electrification.”
“Today’s drivers understandably have many questions about electric cars. They’re concerned about range, the recharging network, and whether electric cars will still be dynamic and engaging to drive. So, when we first started thinking about this concept and imagining what its role would be, we knew that the best way to answer those questions and address those concerns was by approaching electrification purely from an emotional point of view.”
This human-centric attitude is perfectly aligned with Kia’s attitude on automotive design, as Guillaume explains. “When they talk about their electric cars, many carmakers promote the same rational and empirical data-driven messages as they do with their internal combustion engined cars, such as range, economy and performance criteria.”
“Kia prides itself on its power to surprise, which is why we wanted to move away from the rational and focus on the emotional, and embrace a warmer and more human approach to electrification. After all, electricity is found within every atom, it’s the energy that flows within us and around us on our planet. Harnessing its potential has propelled us forward from one innovation to the next,” says Guillaume.
A visual embodiment of Kia’s desire to move forward in the exciting world of electrification, Imagine by Kia is the company’s first pure electric four-door passenger car. Unlike the award-winning e-Niro electric crossover, which is based on the existing architecture of the hybrid-powered Niro, Imagine by Kia is underpinned by a low-mounted, induction-charged battery pack that powers a compact drivetrain.
Coherently drawing together elements of a muscular sports utility vehicle, a sleek and athletic family saloon, and a versatile and spacious crossover, Imagine by Kia is intentionally designed to not sit within the industry’s predefined vehicle categories.
“It’s a large C-segment car – the vehicle size that’s incredibly popular in Europe – but the only things it holds on to are Kia’s brand values,” explains Guillaume. “It hints at something familiar, but is something entirely new. I think of it as a category-buster, and a disruptor – it’s familiar and understood but at the same time progressive and new.”
Intelligently reinterpreting Kia’s iconic ‘tiger nose’ grille, Imagine by Kia features a bold new illuminated ‘tiger mask’ that encircles the main LED headlamp units. Separated by horizontal ‘eyelids’, the dipped and main beam units are housed with a single block of clear acrylic glass, creating the effect of piercing eyes floating free of visible support. This striking ‘tiger mask’ creates a distinctive and recognisable lighting motif that instantly marks this out as a Kia for the 21st Century.
“The inspiration for the ‘tiger mask’ was to create the look and feel of the headlamps being suspended within a transparent block of glass,” explains Guillaume. “This identifiable lighting signature could potentially be deployed as a unifying design element across Kia’s future electric vehicle range.”
The human approach to the design is encapsulated by the ruches adorning its front air-curtain and flanks. Each impulse ripple has a different length and is positioned at a different angle to the next so that light falling on the car’s flanks constantly creates the impression of movement.
“There’s a great sense of tension and purity in the car’s tautly-drawn sheetmetal and the crisp shoulder-line crease that runs around the entire car. I wanted to introduce an element to create a rippling effect in the metal, much like the shockwaves you would see if you threw a stone into a perfectly still mountain lake,” Guillaume says.
The paintwork is a further example of warmth and approachability. Six hand-applied layers of chrome-effect silver paint are covered in a tanned bronze tint that looks warm and inviting to the touch. Highly sensitive to changing light conditions, the depth and sheen further enhances the concept’s curves and contours.
A single sheet of glass is used for both the windscreen and roof, flowing from the base of the A-pillar and over the cabin to create a vast sky-window, before tapering into a double-bubble over the rear passenger compartment. The rakishness of the car’s high shoulders and narrow glasshouse are further enhanced by an illuminated dynamic streak that draws the eye from the A-pillar into the C-pillar, ending with an integrated lateral turn signal.
The front turn signals, located high up on the sharp-edged bonnet, feature illuminated glowing elements that appear to float in fins of clear acrylic glass. The rear lights are equally compelling. The turn signals are housed within deep-set tunnels to create a three-dimensional effect, with the looped lights extending outwards as they grow in size. Horizontal wrap-around brake light strips create a visual link with the Kia Stinger.
The lighting systems play a key role in underlining the concept car’s friendliness and accessibility. “The flush-fitting Kia script on the front of the concept lights up and glows as the driver approaches the car, followed by the illuminated tiger mask – a welcoming gesture to the driver at the start of the journey,” explains Guillaume.
Even the wheels contribute to the visual relationship that the car has with the movement of light. Each of the 22-inch alloy wheels has four flush inserts of transparent acrylic glass, polished at the front and diamond cross-cut at the back, to reflect and refract the light, much like a cut diamond would, as the wheels move. The wheels themselves are shod with bespoke Goodyear 255/35 R22 Intelligrip EV concept tyres.*
Guillaume and his design team also focused a great deal of their attention on the vehicle’s aerodynamics, ensuring the car sliced as cleanly as possible through the air to reduce turbulence and extend its range.
“The front air curtain; the way the double-skin bonnet channels air through the nose, up and over the front screen and roof; the double skinned C-pillar that creates an air spoiler; the completely enclosed underbody; the wind-cheating ‘wingcams’ and the hard-edged break-away around the car’s rear – all these features collectively boost aerodynamic efficiency and reduce turbulence and drag,” Guillaume explains.
“We wanted the interior to have a twinkle in its eye, to be full of surprising and delightful touches that amuse, engage and attract both driver and passenger alike,” explains Ralph Kluge, Kia Motors Europe’s general manager of interior design.
The layout of the powertrain created a chassis architecture that is distinctly different to that of a vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine. It’s a layout that Guillaume and his team fully exploited to maximise cabin space and create an airy and spacious interior – and one with a wry sense of humour, too.
21 individual ultra high-resolution screens curve their synchronised way across the top of the dashboard in a layout that’s at the same time both casual and co-ordinated. It takes just a single glance to understand what Kluge means. “These 21 incredibly thin screens are a humorous and irreverent riposte to the on-going competition between some automotive manufacturers to see who can produce the car with the biggest screen,” says Kluge.
They may form a striking sculptural feature that neatly ties in with the rippling and light-reflecting exterior design motifs, but this screen-wall is also highly functional. It effectively creates a single unified display from the driver’s point of view, without the ever-increasing bulk and rigidity of traditional in-car displays – a fresh and witty approach on how to move away from traditional fixed screens.
“It’s an immersive display delivering information on the car’s climate control, birds-eye navigation, drive and media systems. The screens will also display a raft of Kia concepts from years gone by to create an emotional link between past, present and future,” says Kluge. “With this arresting combination of artistry and information we’re drawing on memories of our past in a car that’s heading straight into our future.”
The cabin’s sense of light-heartedness is underpinned by the striking shockwave design of the four leather and silk-covered seats. “We wanted to create a polarity between how the chairs look and feel. Their diamond cross-cut shells look slim and lightweight but they are actually incredibly strong and robust,” adds Kluge, “and when you sit in them, you discover that the seats are very comfortable and supportive.”
The cabin’s airy atmosphere is further enhanced by the floating centre console that, like a wing, hovers independently above the low and flat floor. The doors – rear-hinged at the back for greater access – are swathed in a metallic fabric and leather, visually splitting the cabin into two distinct upper and lower levels. “The goal was to create an interior that felt de-cluttered rather than de-contented,” says Kluge. “This approach is also reflected in the tactile sculpted steering wheel and the pedals that are recessed when the car is stationary.”
The versatility of the all-electric architecture has not only enabled the Kia design team to create this open and spacious interior for passengers, but also for their luggage. Imagine by Kia boasts two capacious loadbays: a ‘frunk’ front trunk and a traditional rear storage area accessed through the glass hatch.
“As you all know, Kia prides itself on our power to surprise, and it’s this unorthodox approach that fired our collective imagination, moving us away from the rational, to embrace a warmer and more human approach to electrification,” says Guillaume.
“We imagined designing an all-electric car that not only answered consumer concerns around range, performance, recharging networks and driving dynamism, but one that also gave you goose bumps when you looked at it, and made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up when you drove it.
“We imagined a future where engaging and dynamic cars like this were an integral part of our transport requirements. So it will come as no surprise then that we have named our new concept ‘Imagine by Kia’. And its message is clear,” says Guillaume. “It’s time to free your imagination, to stop wondering and to start driving!”
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Difference between revisions of "Talk:Pokémon"
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OK, this may sound silly to some of you since I'm admittedly not as avid a fan of Pokémon as some people, but I notice a continuous trend is to render the Japanese title as Pocket Monsters. I assumed this was correct for a long time, but then I actually took a look at the katakana on the Japanese Pokémon Yellow game box, then looked at the Japanese game titles in general. It's off. ポケットモンスター should read as poketto monsutā, or Pocket Monster. If it was meant to be Pocket Monsters, it would be ポケットモンスタース instead. From what I've seen, this is the consistent spelling outside of some spinoff titles that literally use the ポケモン (Pokémon) name. Even on the Pocket Monster Pikachu box, it says Pocket Monster and Pocket Monsters in clear English, but on the other hand later Japanese games (as of 3rd gen) tend to write Pokémon in English instead, even though that is not in the direct title. So I'm confused. Am I missing something? Why do we use the plural if it's not in the Japanese text? Shouldn't we use the correct translation anyway when talking about literal Japanese titles? [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 20:33, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
:I just searched "Japanese plural" and most of the results state that most words in Japanese have plural form, remaining the same. --[[User:Abcboy|Abcboy]] ([[User talk:Abcboy|talk]]) 21:08, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Just a note that this does not give an idea of what Pokemon actually is in the opening sentence. The series of what? What franchise? It should be written as if the reader knows nothing about the topic. I know, I know, {{sofixit}} Nevermind, I've done it. — Jellochuu¾ 22:39, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
A* manga? And it links to Special? Um...there's at *least* five Pokémon mangas out there...The only reason I'm not changing it myself is because I don't know if we have a general "pokémon manga" listing.
I always wondered, are humans the only animals apart from Pokémon in the Pokémon world? Punkrockrevel 09:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thats what i believe...KPF☆
I'd think so... In one of the earlier episodes, there were fish swimming around in Cerulean Gym, though...
Also in the first episode a pidgey is seen eating a worm--Pokemon22495 03:45, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
The only reason the very first season had real animals is because the amount of Pokémon was very limited. You can't see any non-Pokémon, non-human animal in any of the most recent seasons, can you? TheBlazikenMaster 12:24, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Not unless you count coral(I don't).--Starlight the ampharos 14:13, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
We have Corsola. --Anangryzapdos 11:05, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
1 Very sad.....
2 Design Themes
3 Okay...
4 Impact section
5 Localization
6 About the pronunciation
7 Think this is a good place to ask.
8 The back of the first 3 movies in Etymology.
9 511?
10 Protection
11 needs an update
12 Pokémon
13 Move
14 Why
15 Logo
16 The Japanese Name of the Series
Very sad.....
Hello everyone , I just wanted to let you know that I find this page in very sad shape. This is a Pokemon wiki , you whould think that the page named "Pokemon" whould be bigger.
I just think that we should make this page more bigger.
--Pokemon157 01:45, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
It really doesn't need to be. Just look around the wiki, really. You'll just learn more. We don't need this page as big as the wiki.
I really don't think this is too shabby, really. :/ Tina δ♫ 01:55, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Unverified research and subjective opinion...? Also, embarrassingly, I don't know the tags for citation needed on Bulbapedia. I should really get on that...evkl 21:15, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Ditto that. Maybe this section should look at "repeated" designs, i.e. Butterfree and Beautifly. Er, wait... we have citation needed tags? Bulbabot told me we didn't need or want them because all of our information is 100% accurate... o_O — THE TROM — 21:45, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Is this page really needed? This is a Pokémon wiki, and if anyone comes here, don't you think that they'll know what Pokémon is? 0° 01:00, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I think it's necessary, yes. Just because we shouldn't link to this page every time the word appears (considering how often it does) doesn't mean we shouldn't have a page on the thing the wiki centers around. --((Marton imos)) 01:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
(DAMN conflicts)-This is more of a background and concept of it (in my opinion).--☆Coolピカチュウ! 01:03, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Impact section
sould we add a section about the impact Pokémon has had on the world to this artical?ŚĥîΠŶPî₭₳ĉĥŭ 15:30, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Is this page trustworthy, and if so would the information be notable on any page? Pokemon Could Have Been Muscular Monsters Redstar 00:56, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
About the pronunciation
I was looking at my old VHSs and on the back of one it gave a definition thing and gave a pronunciation as Poh-Kay-Mahn. Would that be right or wrong? As it can be a trivia on another page if not.--Midnight Blue 05:16, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Well I know it's not pronounced Poh-Ka-Mon. The é makes it Poh-Kay-Mon. Also, it's accepted as Pok-Kay-Mon pretty much anywhere now. In the animation, card game, etc. - Vhayes1992 16:57, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Think this is a good place to ask.
I have been noticing this on some pages. For Pocket Monsters in Japanese for Pocket, is it Poketto or Pocketto? B/c some pages have two different spellings.--Midnight Blue 03:45, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Flat romanization is "poketto monsutaa", so it's "poketto". Is that what you were asking? ▫▪Ťïňắ ♫♥ 03:51, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Yes, thank you, I'll go double check to see if I did see if it was on any pages.
Just search there's none, must of been thinking of Wikipedia.--Midnight Blue 03:56, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
The back of the first 3 movies in Etymology.
Is there anything we can put to make it more specific?--Midnight Blue 05:33, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Doesn't seem anything wrong with it to me. —darklordtrom 08:47, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
I may sound like an idiot, but 511 Pokémon - this is counting different forms (formes), right? I just wanted to make sure, as I coulnd't find the info elsewhere. Bulbajer 00:03, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Did you miss the announcement about the sixteen new Pokémon released last night? ... Kidding :P That number is automatically inputted via categorisation, but the categories are a bit screwy at the moment coz TTE's doing some testing. I've adjusted the count to manual input now. —darklordtrom 08:01, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Why is this page protected from editing? Tempest370 15:19, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bulbapedia:Protection
Always explain why the page has been protected in the protection log. In some cases, this may not be especially clear and it is important that those unable to edit the page know why they have been locked out.
Please?Tempest370 16:34, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
It's been protected for almost a year. I have absolutely no idea why, but it's unprotected for established users now. Sorry for the inconvenience. —darklordtrom 09:35, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you :) .Tempest370 17:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
needs an update
The part about Generation V is severely out of date. Flicky1991 12:51, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
You could update it. -Sketch 12:55, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Well, no. It's protected. Updated now though. —darklordtrom 07:16, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
I thought the accent mark was just a creative way to put the apostrophe for the "t" in "pocket". --Enervation 00:10, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Pokémon should be a disambiguation page and this should be moved to Pokémon (franchise). Wildgoose-The friendly goose in town! 00:15, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I think that's a good idea. People might search Pokémon, but are actually looking for the fictional creatures called Pokémon. サトシ 00:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Agree. One for the species and one for the franchise. - Vhayes1992 19:55, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
If this article had more beef, I'd probably be against moving it. But then again, as long as there's one for each entity, why not? On the other hand, if this article was split, there would be even less content in each separate article than what little is already in the unified one. Should I add a move notice at the top of the page? —ДlεχThεRσϛε 00:49, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Now that you put it that way, it's kind of a split decision for me now. - Vhayes1992 01:13, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
I don't think this needs to be moved. The article already covers both the franchise and the creatures, along with links to the Pokémon (species) article at the top and under the Creatures heading. In addition, if I search for Pokémon, I'm going to expect the franchise, not the creatures. If I wanted to find Pikachu, I would search for it, and I think most others would too. --Darth Zekrom 22:17, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Why is it that my work gets deleted a few minutes after I have contributed????? Mr. ADK 00:45, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
That means you've been undone, and the user who undid you most likely thinks (and has a valid reason like in this case, for example) your contribution wasn't necessary nor good, don't take it as a bad thing, because it's the best way to prevent bad edits from showing up in the wiki. Masatoshitalk 01:19, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Masatoshi's right. If you want to make sure your edits don't get reverted, make sure they comply with the MoS. Thanks, and have a good day. :) —ДlεχThεRσϛε 04:27, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
I thought that since this is a landmark-kinda article, it might fit to have the logo up and center. Apparently, my change was undone. What does everyone think? I think the 200px image on the right with the description is a bit cheap... -Ash Pokemaster (talk) 07:43, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
The Japanese Name of the Series
OK, this may sound silly to some of you since I'm admittedly not as avid a fan of Pokémon as some people, but I notice a continuous trend is to render the Japanese title as Pocket Monsters. I assumed this was correct for a long time, but then I actually took a look at the katakana on the Japanese Pokémon Yellow game box, then looked at the Japanese game titles in general. It's off. ポケットモンスター should read as poketto monsutā, or Pocket Monster. If it was meant to be Pocket Monsters, it would be ポケットモンスタース instead. From what I've seen, this is the consistent spelling outside of some spinoff titles that literally use the ポケモン (Pokémon) name. Even on the Pocket Monster Pikachu box, it says Pocket Monster and Pocket Monsters in clear English, but on the other hand later Japanese games (as of 3rd gen) tend to write Pokémon in English instead, even though that is not in the direct title. So I'm confused. Am I missing something? Why do we use the plural if it's not in the Japanese text? Shouldn't we use the correct translation anyway when talking about literal Japanese titles? LinkTheLefty (talk) 20:33, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I just searched "Japanese plural" and most of the results state that most words in Japanese have plural form, remaining the same. --Abcboy (talk) 21:08, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
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Where to stay in Québec City – a travel guide to Québec’s neighborhoods
Whether you’re planning a family getaway or a romantic weekend, choosing where to stay in Québec City is the key to stress-free travel. Use this helpful guide and find the Québec City hotel you’re looking for.
Old Québec
Set within the 18th-century ramparts of Québec City, Old Québec’s winding streets are lined with the steep-roofed former residences of New France’s wealthy merchants. Streets grow quiet after dark, and the air outside 17th-century chapels is faintly scented with incense. It’s easy to imagine the spirit of Old Québec on early morning walks through cobblestone streets and at museums like the Musée de l’Amérique Française, which recounts the experiences of the French in North America. Old Québec blends gradually into the Upper Town to the south, and is a mere stair climb – or funicular ride – above Lower Town and the port.
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The Citadel dominates Upper Town, its hulking fortifications looming atop the highest point in Québec City, Cap Diamant. Rue Saint-Louis and the avenue Saint-Denis are good places to look for charming Québec City hotels and restaurants, some carved out of former 18th-century residences and inns. Its cliff-top position makes the Upper Town a lovely vantage point for looking out over the slow-moving St. Lawrence River. The broad boardwalk of Terrasse Dufferin and leafy Battlefields Park are good spots for morning walks. Old Québec lies within an easy walk to the north, and downtown, with its business and parliamentary buildings, lies immediately to the west.
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Set at the base of Cap Diamant and in the heart of Québec City’s birthplace, Lower Town includes bustling rue du Petit-Champlain, the city’s oldest street, lined with outdoor cafés and bistros serving Québec meat pies and French baked goods. Admittedly, the shops along rue du Trésor don’t sell museum- quality artworks, but you’ll find some interesting mementos to take home with you – and bistros that stay open late into the night. Cruise and ferry terminals lie along the rue Dalhousie, and farther north is Québec City’s Marché, selling fresh strawberries and peaches in season. Climb by stairs or funicular to Upper Town and Old Québec, immediately west.
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Just outside Québec City’s walls, downtown stands in stark contrast with its glass-and-steel office towers and hotels. Business travelers are near the Convention Center in downtown Québec City, and leisure travelers are near the Parliament Buildings and the Capital Observatory. The 31-story office building may not be striking from the outside, but the observatory at its top offers unsurpassed views of Québec City and the riverfront. Old Québec and Upper Town lie immediately to the east and southeast.
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Middle- class residences lie within the pleasant neighborhood of Saint-Roch, which sits along the St. Charles River where it joins the St. Lawrence. Modest, family-owned restaurants sell nourishing meals like organic sandwiches or hearty fare like hamburgers. Saint-Roch is where to stay in Québec City to be near the main train station, linking the city via VIA Rail to the rest of Canada.
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How to Become a Graduate Assistant Football Coach
Marlon Trotsky
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Being a football Graduate Assistant, or GA, is a demanding position that demands long hours and involves everything from helping the coaches at practice and breaking down film to monitoring players' study halls and handling equipment. And all this is done while juggling graduate-level coursework in school. In exchange for putting in up to 100 hours per week, GAs receive free tuition and, perhaps more importantly, an introduction to the world of college football coaching. Most graduate assistantships last two seasons, although the NCAA allows for three. Furthermore, the NCAA mandates that each team can only field two GA positions.
Play football in college, if possible, either as a scholarship or walk-on player. This will not only give you insight into the game and how it functions, but will also provide you with a network of players and coaches you can turn to later on. Smaller universities and colleges are more willing to accept GA's with no playing experience, but this is unlikely at a larger Division I school. Volunteer as a team manager or in some other capacity if you are unable to play.
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Observe the coaches every day at practice, so you can begin to pick up on the nuances of coaching football. Take notes after practice on what concepts, techniques and tendencies you picked up that day. Speak with the coaches and let them know of your desire to serve as a GA and eventually go into coaching. Seek out a mentor on the coaching staff who is willing to talk with you about the profession. Hang around the football facilities and try to soak up as much information as possible.
Scour school athletics and NCAA sites for job openings, which are generally posted during the off-season. Also track job listings using sites like Indeed, a meta-search engine. Write to various schools' athletic department to inquire about a position in the program. Attend coaching conferences and clinics, networking with everyone you meet to gain contacts in the industry. If you played football, contact people from your former teams as well, as many of your teammates and coaches will have scattered to programs around the country.
Apply to and enroll in a graduate program after earning your graduate assistant position. As a full-time graduate student you will have to meet the same admission requirements as everyone else in your program. Schedule your classes so that they do not conflict with your GA responsibilities. This may require going to classes at less convenient times, including early in the morning, over lunch, or later in the evening. Continue reading about the game and watch football whenever you have an opportunity, taking note of the coaching strategy during various situations in the game.
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Marlon Trotsky was born in St. Paul, Minn. and graduated from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, while minoring in sociology. His work has appeared in various print and online publications, including: "The Trentonian," "San Jose Mercury News" and "Oakland Tribune."
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MLB: The Defunct Saga - Virginia Fury Added
By SFGiants58, June 8, 2018 in Concepts
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NicDB 1,634
The Notorious BiG
I think it says everything that you told me exactly what you planned to do and I'm STILL blown away! This might be your best one yet for this series.
My only nitpick is that "Los Angeles" looks crammed onto the road grays. Your LA monogram is the strongest part of this, so I say use that instead.
mungojerry311 13
These are absolutely great! Would it be okay if I adapted these concepts for OOTP Baseball?
coco1997 2,315
Location:Chicago
Wow, this is easily my favorite concept in this series so far. The Lakers as an MLB team? Sheer genius. My favorite look is the home alternate with the gold billed cap. You definitely did not disappoint with this one!
The Angels look nice! The gold alternate is absolutely my favorite, that’s a beautiful uniform.
CaptainKirkMN 46
Favourite Logos:Vegas Golden Knights, Saint Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles
I swear I thought Jack Cooke was a very young Kurt Russel.
Dalcowboyfan92 327
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The whole purple and gold coloring really works for the Angels; gold and purple are royal...almost "heavenly" colors, and fit with the whole Angel concept.
I like the interlocking LA fusing the Lakers and the Angels; and makes it look like they got married and had a baby; and the logo was the baby. XD
SFGiants58 7,256
The Mellow Midori
On 7/20/2018 at 9:39 PM, mungojerry311 said:
Thanks. Sure you can! Just make sure to give me proper credit in any public posting of them, please.
On 7/20/2018 at 6:32 PM, NicDB said:
Thanks! I really liked making this one. I do have to agree that the "Los Angeles" is a little bit crammed onto the uniform. The "LA" makes for a better road insignia.
On 7/21/2018 at 8:31 AM, coco1997 said:
On 7/21/2018 at 9:35 AM, MJD7 said:
On 7/21/2018 at 10:50 AM, Dalcowboyfan92 said:
On 7/20/2018 at 6:07 PM, Cardsblues02 said:
Wow, definitely get a tradition laden vibe, almost like the cities basketball team, the Los Angeles Lakers. Love the primary, classic logo. The getaway uniform is great. My favorite set yet!
Thanks, guys!
On 7/21/2018 at 10:27 AM, CaptainKirkMN said:
I do see the resemblance.
On 7/20/2018 at 6:28 PM, QueenCitySwarm said:
Fantastic. Simply amazing work! I love the purple/gold scheme and really wish this had happened instead of the mess of Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels, occasionally of Anaheim. Very excited to see what's next. I'm thinkings either San Francisco/Oakland or Seattle.
Thanks! I like that it's a cleaner narrative than the modern AL Angels. Also, you're right about your first pick.
SAN FRANCISCO SEALS (FORMER WASHINGTON SENATORS/NATIONALS or expansion team) - Seal of Approval
From that same Hardball Times article, we get this tidbit:
When L.A.’s flirtation with the Dodgers intensified, the Senators set their gaze on San Francisco and Seals Stadium. But the Dodgers’ move to California needed a second National League team to go west for approval. So the Giants were persuaded to abandon a move to Minneapolis and head to San Francisco.1
Again, O'Malley and Stoneham thwarted the Griffiths' plans to move out west. Admittedly, if anybody deserved to have their team rot in Candle$hit Park, it was Calvin Griffith. However. what if his rebound effort went through?
Let's assume that the move happens in 1958, with an expansion team taking up residence in LA. Griffith continues as owner for a bit longer, selling in the 1970s under financial duress (maybe threatening a Toronto move). Bob Lurie would buy the team, have issues drawing fans to that garbage stadium, and would deal with potential relocations to San Jose and Tampa Bay. The Magowan/Baer ownership group stops the move from happening, building Lefty O'Doul Park in the China Basin. The uniforms would have a decidedly retro aesthetic, embracing the off-white color and baseball traditions of both the club and city. This scenario would also work with an expansion team, just replace Griffith with an initial ownership group.
We've got a lovely identity salad of the current SF Giants, the Sens/Nats, and the PCL Seals here. The colors are the Seals' late 1930s-early 1940s navy and orange (co-balance, unlike the Tigers and Astros), with the off-white/creme of the current Giants. It works for both an expansion team and a modification of the Sens/Nats color scheme (like the Browns swapping brown for black as the Orioles). The primary logo combines and updates bits of my Project 32 concepts for the Giants and Seals (former Giants). I added a cap (1954 Orioles-ish) to the old seal logo (itself inspired by the PCL team's iconography) while using Belgrad for the roundel font (like the Art Deco of the Golden Gate Bridge). The cap logo and the seal are the secondary and tertiary, respectively.
The home and road set have a significant influence from all three of the clubs' ancestors/relatives. The pinstriped home uniform (which have a large role in the Seals' uniform history) features an off-white base and a home script that combines the "S" of the Senators' 1959-60 script with the reverse tail of the late 1950s Seals. It was a nice little touch to the design. The road set uses the cap logo (itself a blend of the Seals' later cap logo and the Giants' modern design) as a crest, as "San Francisco" was too long to render in the script font. It's a look that history for both the Giants and Sens/Nats, so it works. The asymmetrical stripes separate them from the Tigers and Astros, tying in to the Senators-style sock stripes. I know that it's kind of an unwritten rule to not use sock stripes and pinstripes, but the design is simple enough to not pose a problem. The number font is the Giants' one, with a no-NOB home uniform (for the extra retro touch at Lefty O'Doul Park).
The alternates are pretty standard, with an orange top at home and a navy one for the road. The away alternate uses the full-bodied seal logo, and the home jersey employs an alternate cap with an orange bill and white cap insignia. It's not that different from what the Giants do now, albeit with navy replacing black.
If you want to see what the home/road set looks like with a "San Francisco" script (rejected because it was "too jammed on the uniform"), here you go (within spoiler tags)!
The jacket features creme sleeves, the script on the front/primary on the back, and the sock striping on the trim.
While I love my Giants, I'd be more than happy with my hometown team looking like this. It's an identity that tastefully modernizes the Seals' look while keeping them distinctive within the majors (DO YOU HEAR ME, PADRES?!). C+C is appreciated, as always!
Up next, the first stop in a long relocation roundelay.
1Paul Francis Sullivan, “The Franchise Moves That Almost Happened | The Hardball Times,” The Hardball Times, June 21, 2011, https://www.fangraphs.com/tht/the-franchise-moves-that-almost-happened/.
Edited July 22, 2018 by SFGiants58
Added an image citation.
You nailed another one! The wordmarks and seal all look great!
Only suggestion I have is experiment with an orange base layer for the homes and road alt. I kind of feel like this team would try to "own" orange to separate itself from the other orange and navy clubs.
BellaSpurs 1,856
Location:The Bluegrass
Everything looks outstanding, shaping up to be another legendary thread by the one and only. Keep it up!
Griffinmarlins 968
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Favourite Logos:Pensacola Blue Wahoos Primary
This is probably my favorite one of the whole series so far. Every single thing about the Seals identity is amazing, especially the use of cream on the non-pinstriped uniforms.
Didn't expect to get another look at the SF Seals, but I can't complain!
That primary logo is a thing of beauty! The Seals set overall looks very nice. My only gripe comes with the alternate, where I feel the off-white stands out a bit too much in the numbers and player name. I would suggest making those orange, but that’s just personal preference.
Well, I'm back! Sorry for the delay, guys. Real life kind of got in the way for a bit.
On 7/22/2018 at 9:03 PM, BellaSpurs said:
On 7/23/2018 at 12:02 AM, Griffinmarlins said:
On 7/23/2018 at 11:31 AM, MJD7 said:
Thanks! The orange base layers doesn't look all that bad on the navy top. The pinstriped home uniform isn't as pretty.
Well, here's the first destination in a long line of speculative locations!
LOS ANGELES ATHLETICS - The other LAA. (Kelly Green/Scarlet Red/Yellow-Gold Update - the preferred version)
This was one I was a little hesitant to do, if only because of the relative lack of sources on it. The only one I could find on it was The Hardball Times' article on attempted relocation and an excerpt from John E. Peterson's book on the Kansas City Athletics (citing a New York Post report).1 Reading these two sources present an intriguing scenario. Noted Yankee toadie Arnold Johnson would move the Kansas City A's to Los Angeles, perhaps coordinating a move with the Sens/Twins. Since Peterson's book outlined the speculation date as after the Giants/Dodgers' move out west, I figured that the A's would move to LA while the Senators moved to Minnesota. Meanwhile, the AL would add expansion teams in DC and Houston (the Colts/the Continental League's Houston group). However, Johnson re-upped the Athletics' lease at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium and he died in 1960. Let's assume, for a moment, that the move went through. What would happen to the A's?
The team would begin playing at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, before setting out to build a stadium in either Inglewood or Anaheim. Arnold Johnson would die a year later than he did in our timeline, with Charlie O. Finley buying the team and rebuilding them in his image (green/yellow, white cleats, etc.). The squad would go on to be the Swingin' A's, looking wild in comparison to the restrained Dodgers. It's a bit like what the Angels do, except with green/yellow replacing the red-heavy design. One of the most important fluctuations is that the team never adopted Forest Green or returned to cursive scripts (which appeared due to the Oakland team's different ownership), instead building upon and modernizing the Kelly/Yellow-Gold while emphasizing Old English text.
The primary features the classic white elephant enclosed in a home plate shape, with "Los Angeles" at the top. The insignias include the "A's" mark and a new interlocking "LA."
The home and road uniform modify my alternate take for Philadelphia, albeit with a crest-style home uniform and arched Old English on the road set. The number font is off of my Reds concept, as I like the wider font to mix up the different A's designs (it also has precedence in the 1960s and '70s). Sock stripes exhibit a truncated Packers stripe, to keep the white and yellow from not touching.
The green alternates differentiate for each location, with the Old English "Athletics" on the home uniform. This set also has an "LA" cap, to slightly modernize their "initial LA" look (see the second set of special uniforms). The road alt features the A's insignia on the chest and the primary on the sleeve.
The second set of alts feature a gold jersey and a throwback. The throwback is the 1955-60 Kansas City Athletics uniform, with a tiny modification for Los Angeles on the cap logo. This would be their pre-Charlie O. uniform, highlighting how "blah" the team was before he bought them.
The primary dugout jacket feature the Packers-style stripe on the trim, with the insignias and tertiary logo on it. The throwback features the vintage script, with the "LA" logo on the back and the elephant on the sleeve.
This one isn't all that different from my previous Athletics concepts, but it features its own unique touches (arched Old English, striping, etc.). Since the A's will show up a lot in the series, I've got to do a lot to make them different each time. Here, they're the more colorful, Old English-embracing alternate to the Dodgers. C+C is appreciated, as always!
Up next, Charlie O. heads south!
1John E. Peterson, The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History, 1954–1967 (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012), 100.
Edited May 27 by SFGiants58
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bleuet 210
Your serie make us think the MLB designers often make lame products. I mean, I'd like to see more logos on jerseys "à la 70's expos"
Too many woodmark, too many teams putting city name on road, why not put Padres or Astros on a road jersey. Heck, what's wrong putting Milwaukee on a home jersey? I'd be fun, much better than funky graphics in numbers, socks etc, they seem not to know where is a balance between evolution and tradition.
More logos on the front of jerseys would add diversity and make everybody not look similar.
The A's are the hardest team to make exciting in a series like this because their brand has always been very un-localized compared to other teams.
The only thing I can say here is I'd like to see the LA monogram more. I feel like being LA's first baseball team is something that might break them from their tendency to emphasize the A... but they still get to use an A.
Cardsblues02 656
Love this A’s set. That road jersey is incredible, and the green “LA” cap is great. I really love what you’ve done with the A’s through the series. Overall love this set.
Whittier S 367
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Favourite Logos:Hartford Whalers ('93-'97), Milwaukee Brewers ('78-'93), Portland Timbers ('15- )
I want so much to like the Athletics uniform, but the arched Old English text feels so WordArt. That said, I get that you're rooting this in reality, and in reality, not all uniforms are spectacular.
Well worth the wait!
As much as I like this set, there's something kind of un-LA about a green and gold color scheme. I wonder how it would look if you added a touch of red, which would mimic the Los Angeles flag:
JH42XCC 171
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23 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:
LOS ANGELES ATHLETICS - The other LAA.
This was one I was a little hesitant to do, if only because of the relative lack of sources on it. The only one I could find on it was The Hardball Times' article on attempted relocation and an excerpt from John E. Peterson's book on the Kansas City Athletics (citing a New York Post report).1 Reading these two sources present an intriguing scenario. Noted Yankee toadie Arnold Johnson would move the Kansas City A's to Los Angeles, perhaps coordinating a move with the Sens/Twins. Since Peterson's book outlined the speculation date as after the Giants/Dodgers' move out west, I figured that the A's would move to LA while the Senators moved to Minnesota. Meanwhile, the AL would add expansion teams in DC and Houston (the Colts/the Continental League's Houston group). However, Johnson re-upped the Athletics' lease at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium and he died in 1960. Let's assume, for a moment, that the move went through. What would happen to the A's?
Excellent work on the "What If?" Los Angeles Athletics identity package, especially with incorporating the Green Bay Packers stripes on the socks.
By the way, you had them listed in the AL East. Shouldn't they be in the AL West?
On 7/29/2018 at 3:51 AM, Whittier S said:
On 7/29/2018 at 7:18 PM, JH42XCC said:
Thanks for the C+C, guys! I have to admit, it was tough trying to get the A’s to work just right in LA. The presence of the Dodgers (my scenario has them moving in after the Dodgers, then heading off to Inglewood or Anaheim) eliminated the use of cursive scripts. I definitely needed an update on this one.
I’ve employed the script/Old English hybrid from my Philadelphia Athletics concept to replace arched Old English (thanks @Whittier S), while employing the “LA” logo more prominently on the road alt (thanks @NicDB).
Also, per @coco1997‘s suggestion (thank you), here’s the green/yellow/red A’s!
While I’m not as big on it, I must admit that it’s a good look.
Thanks for the C+C, I really appreciate it! The A’s southern voyage should be up soon (here’s a hint - it would complicate the second Senators’ relocation plans).
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Q and A with volleyball seniors Avery Strohmeyer and Avolyn Lepo
Seniors Avery Strohmeyer and Avolyn Lepo pose with their coach Aaron Smaka on signing day. Strohmeyer is headed to Lake Superior State University, while Lepo signed for Oakland University.
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Ashton Voorhees, Reporter
Seniors Avolyn Lepo and Avery Strohmeyer are nearing the end of their volleyball careers at Grand Haven High School. Both have been successful in high school, and now they are both moving on to play college volleyball. They will sign for their respective colleges on Nov. 14 in the LGI. Lepo is signing with Oakland University in Rochester Hills, while Strohmeyer is signing with Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie. They were able to reflect on their time playing volleyball in high school, as well as look forward to their futures.
Q: What made you pick each of your colleges?
AL: “I really liked the volleyball program, the coaches, and the academics.”
AS: “I like the location of the school; it’s up north and it’s really pretty and the lake is right there and I love being by the water. It’s a developing program, with a new coach, so I’m really excited to be a part of the program progressing and becoming better.”
SENIOR STATS
AVOLYN LEPO : 246 kills (1.7 kills per set), 138 total blocks (0.9 per set)
STROHMEYER STATS: 76 kills (0.8 per set), 15.2% ace percentage, 43 blocks (0.4 per set)
Q: What has prepared each of you to play college volleyball the most?
AL: “Being in a successful high school volleyball program is super helpful, not a lot of kids are able to be in such a successful program with lots of coaches available all year round. Playing club volleyball in the offseason also helps with getting recruited.”
AS: “I would say my parents pushing me, whether it was to go to volleyball camps, go to everything that I can. Being a part of a really successful high school volleyball team isn’t something everyone gets to say, and just putting in a lot of time and effort.”
Q: What excites you most about playing in college?
AL: “I’m excited to play against some of the top teams in the country, because our preseason is always tough. We play against the likes of Michigan, Notre Dame, and it’s always tough, so that’s exciting.”
AS: “Just to say that I’m a college athlete. I’ve worked really hard for it.”
Q: What are you planning on majoring in when you’re in college?
AL: “I’m thinking health sciences.”
AS: “Environmental science.”
Q: Anyone from Grand Haven on your teams already?
AL: “Krysteena Davis graduated in 2014 and is a senior at Oakland now.”
AS: “Not anyone from Grand Haven, there are girls from West Ottawa also going there so there are people from West Michigan that we’ve played on that team.”
Q: What’s your favorite moment of your high school volleyball career?
AL: “Probably my sophomore year when we beat East Grand Rapids in the semi finals.”
AS: “Playoffs and pregame fun in the locker rooms”
Q: What’s the funniest thing that happened to you on a volleyball court?
AL: “Just funny things from practice like clowning around and jumping over chairs.”
AS: “I killed a bee, I clapped and killed it during the game.”
Q: What is one thing you’ll take away from playing volleyball at Grand Haven High School?
AL: “All of the coaches care about you, not just as an athlete or as a player, they care about you as a person too.”
AS: “I feel like coming from such a good invested program and invested community, a lot of good things come out of it. The program makes good people too.”
Q: What will you miss most about high school volleyball?
AL: “Playing with all of your friends and playing against your friends from club season.”
AS: “I would say pregame with all of our friends, and practices after school with all of our friends. Everything is so tight knit.”
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Uber says IRS probing its 2013-14 tax returns
(Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is auditing Uber Technologies Inc’s taxes for 2013 and 2014 and the ride-hailing company expects unrecognized tax benefits to be reduced within the next year by at least $141 million.
FILE PHOTO: A screen displays the company logo for Uber Technologies Inc. on the day of it's IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 10, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
In its full quarterly report on Tuesday, Uber said various state and foreign tax authorities were also looking into its taxes and that it was currently unable to put a definite timeline or estimate on the overall adjustments that might result.
The $141 million amount related only to its transfer pricing positions, which refers to the common multinational practice of charging for services between wholly-owned businesses in different countries or jurisdictions to reduce the tax it pays.
Earlier this year, the company had said in a regulatory filing that it expected unrecognized tax benefits related to the audit to be reduced within the next year by at least $127 million.
Industry experts characterize transfer pricing as a relatively risky strategy, which typically is among multinationals’ top tax concerns and has been used by authorities in the past to go after Apple Inc and Amazon.
“Although the timing of the resolution and/or closure of the audits is highly uncertain, it is reasonably possible that the balance of gross unrecognized tax benefits could significantly change in the next 12 months,” the company said.
The announcement came on a day when at least 11 of the brokerages, whose underwriting arms backed Uber’s Wall Street debut last month, weighed in with “buy” recommendations on the company’s shares as a statutory embargo lifted. Citi, however, initiated coverage with a “neutral” rating.
Uber shares gained 2.8% in afternoon trading as the technology sector bounced back from a sell-off on Monday.
The company’s stock has struggled since its market debut on May 10 and is trading below its IPO price of $45.
Still, the shares have outperformed rival Lyft, which have fallen by a third in value since its own debut in March, and analysts from Deutsche Bank said Uber’s stock remained the best internet IPO for investors since Facebook’s launch in 2012.
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“Uber should trade at a premium to LYFT given Uber’s larger global scale and reach, cross product growth opportunity and larger ability for long-term leverage,” said analysts at Morgan Stanley.
“It is still in the early innings in its core and emerging opportunities.”
In its first quarterly report as a public company last week, Uber reported a $1 billion loss as it spent heavily to build up its food delivery and freight businesses.
But many of the analysts covering the stock on Tuesday said they believed Uber had the scale and time to develop into another powerful U.S. global tech player.
RBC analysts believe the market under-appreciates Uber’s profit potential while analysts at Mizuho Securities expect the intense competition to rationalize over the next few years due to continued consolidation and listings of private peers.
“...Uber has ample room to gain operating leverage from economies of scale,” analysts at Mizuho said.
Reporting by Vibhuti Sharma, Tanvi Mehta, Karina Dsouza and Arjun Panchadar in Bengaluru; Editing by Patrick Graham, Bernard Orr and Shailesh Kuber
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Rimutaka Rail Trail threatened
Protecting the Rimutaka Trail
Greater Wellington has recently received an application from the Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust for permission to reinstate the railway line.
We need to front up on 23 Nov and 15 Dec at GW. Who can come?
Please email fran.wilde@gw.govt.nz and murray.kennedy@gw.govt.nz with your views.
Points you might want to make:
- with 80,000 visitors a year, the Rimutaka Trail is the most popular in the region.
- it's considered the best ride in the region for beginners and families
- it's a convenient and attractive link for cyclists to the Wairarapa. The alternative is SH2.
- "Classic New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides" rate the ride with 4 stars - "mountain biking paradise"
- we are concerned that the proposed new walkway would go around or over the tunnels.
- It's hard to imagine how any new walkway would be as good as the existing trail. A major feature of the Rimutaka Trail is that it follows the historic railway line, on a comfortable gradient.
- we've got nothing against vintage trains, but question whether a regional park is the best location
If you have biked or walked the trail, please say how you enjoyed it.
CAN - Cycling Advocates Network
Tel 04-210-4967 Mob 027-563-4733, skype patrick.morgan.can
PO Box 25-424, Wellington www.can.org.nz
More people on bikes, more often
Application to occupy historic Rimutaka Railway formation (Maymorn to
Summit)
Greater Wellington has recently received an application from the Rimutaka Incline Railway
Heritage Trust for permission to reinstate the railway line and operate a railway service on part of
the Rimutaka Railway formation. The application covers the GW-owned land from the forest
boundary at Maymorn through to Summit.
You may be interested in attending Greater Wellington's Social and Cultural Wellbeing Committee
meeting on 23 November when there may be a brief discussion about the proposal. The Council is
expected to make a decision on the proposal at its meeting on 15 December.
If you would like to
speak at the start of either meeting as part of Public Participation you are welcome to do so. It
would be appreciated if you contacted Francis Ryan (francis.ryan@gw.govt.nz) the day before the
meeting if you wish to speak. Alternatively, you can write to me with any comments you would like
the Council to consider.
Murray Kennedy
General Manager, Development Group
DD: 04 3817791
murray.kennedy@gw.govt.nz
142 Wakefield St
F 04 384 1826
www.gw.govt.nz
Rimutaka Rail Trail
Great Harbour Way
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additional points:the trusts
Permalink Submitted by AlastairS on 15 November, 2011 - 20:23
the trusts plan talks about a walkway, not a cycleway, alongside the rail line
the walkway climbs around tunnels and cuttings, introducing climbs into a route that is attractive because of its steady gradient.
the current proposal is to rebuild the Maymorn to Summit section, which was a conventional rail line, unlike the Wairarapa side, which used the unique Fell Railway system. It seems a pity to compromise an excellent walking and cycling trail in order to rebuild a conventional rail line.
Is the Rimutaka Rail trail under threat?
Permalink Submitted by Patrick on 16 November, 2011 - 10:20
Comment from Wellington Region Cycleways:
http://wellingtoncycleways.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/is-the-rimutaka-rail...
Our submission is available.
GWRC meeting - many presenters opposed
At the public participation section of the GWRC Social and Cultural Ctte today I presented our submission.
The public participation section started off with a presentation by the Rimutaka Incline Heritage Trust, and was followed by about seven presenters, none in favour of the proposal. Fran Wilde mentioned that there had been a large number of email submissions (thanks folks!)
Tom Halliburton of the Hutt Cycling Network talked about how vital the trail was as a cycle touring link, and a place for less confident cyclists.
The Fell Railway Museum want the Rail Trail preserved as a historic site, and see the best way of doing this as keeping it as a cycling/walking trail.
Robin Ward of Rotary/Hutt River Trail was concerned that the proposal would deny the public free access, and that the proposed walking track would be longer and involve more climbing; the popular Tane's track would be cut off from the picnic area by the rail line.
Nessa Lynch of Wellington Trails Alliance pointed out that as one of the most popular easy tracks for children and beginners, it was a way to get people into obesity preventing exercise.
Rob Stone of DOC spoke of the value of the trail.
David Perks of Wellington Tourism was careful not to oppose the proposal, but said that we had to be careful not to destroy a facility that was creating great economic benefits, dwelling at length on plans for the Wellington Wairarapa cycle trail.
Next step is for the proposal to go to the full council on 15 December. Watch this space!
Rail Trail submissions on RNZ Checkpoint
I provided a soundbite for this RNZ Checkpoint piece on the Rimutaka Railway proposal.
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There was no shortage of interest in Lassi Thomson
Bruce Garrioch
Updated: June 27, 2019 12:23 PM EDT
If the Ottawa Senators didn’t select defenceman Lassi Thomson Friday night, he wouldn’t have made it out of the first round without being picked.
Senators’ chief scout Trent Mann believes there was plenty of interest in the 6-foot Finnish blueliner who spent last season with the Kelowna Rockets.
“The progression throughout the year was noticeable,” said Mann Wednesday. “The staff liked his skating, we liked his puck skills, he has an NHL shot, he’s on the right side and he scored 17 goals.
“We liked his compete level. If you talk to (Kelowna coach) Adam Foote he says he’s got a high compete level. He hates to beat, he hates to get knocked down and he hates to lose. The whole package seemed to make sense for us at No. 19.”
Mann estimated that several teams behind the Senators had interest and he was the player on the club’s list that they had discussed earlier in the day.
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Published London: Penguin, 2004
Stephen embarks on a book about the images of war, based on his late friend Ben Frobisher's photographs. He is having recurring nightmares of his time...
The first casualty: the war correspondent as hero, propagandist, and myth maker from the Crimea to Vietnam
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Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent she is candid, self-deprecating, and funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan,...
All of these people: a memoir
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Published London: HarperCollins, 2005
Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and others acutely personal
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Published London: Two Roads, 2017
After an illustrious career spanning the 20th century legendary journalist Clare Hollingworth died in Hong Kong aged 105 in January 2017. She was famous...
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Published London: Simon & Schuster, 2018
In February 2012, Marie Colvin illegally crossed into Syria on the back of a motorcycle. A veteran war correspondent known for her fearlessness, outspokenness...
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Drawing on interviews with war reporters such as Maggie O'Kane, John Pilger and Christiane Amanpour, this work looks at the changing nature of war reportage...
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Clinton County Chairman Bob Fix, who is also the Chief of Police for the City of Breese, is on board to be the Campaign Chairman for Rafael Him’s State Senate Campaign for the 54th District. Rafael said it is humbling to have a talented leader join the campaign, and he called Bob a friend, role model and mentor.
"Bob will help us engage the people of the 54th District who are frustrated by establishment politics in Springfield and want a senator who will be their voice," Rafael said.
“Rafael represents everything that Springfield is not and everything that Springfield needs – an independent, hard-working conservative public servant who seeks real solutions. There is real desire for change in Springfield and Rafael is a fresh and dynamic leader who I believe the 54th District will strongly embrace. He will fight for Illinois families’ needs, as opposed to his own, and because of that I am honored to fight for Him.” Bob said.
Having Rafael Him as our State Senator is so much more than his conservative record, he gets Illinois. He knows what Illinoisans need and who we are.
That’s why I’m honored to announce that I will serve as Rafael Him’s Campaign Chairman and do all I can to ensure we send to the state senate a public servant of integrity, character, and class.
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Rafael Him shares Illinois values, and calls Illinois home.
He fights for the right to life, religious freedom, and he fights for our Second Amendment rights.
Rafael Him believes government is the problem in our society not the answer.
He stands for our veterans. It’s his top priority.
Rafael will NOT participate in the state pension system. He believes public office is a civic duty not a career.
He is a strong fiscal conservative and has been at the forefront of the fight for fiscal responsibility in Clinton County.
Rafael knows that tax reform is critical for small businesses to thrive, and for the middle-class to succeed.
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Home / Reviews / Bulova Women’s 96P121 Analog Display Silver Watch Review
Bulova Women’s 96P121 Analog Display Silver Watch Review
The Bulova Women’s 96P121 Analog Silver Watch has a design that easily makes it one of the sexiest women’s wrist watches around. A stainless steel bracelet with a double push button safety deployment clasp is attached to a 28mm case of the same material, with the bezel and hands also made of stainless steel. It has a silver dial and employs a battery powered Japanese quartz movement.
It is a well-known fact that diamonds are a girl’s best friend and the Bulova 96P121 understands this, indulging its wearers with diamond markers at the one, three, five, seven, nine and eleven o’clock positions. The two, four, six, eight and twelve positions are marked in silver. This beautiful women’s watch is covered by scratch resistant mineral crystal and is water resistant to 99ft.
Bulova has come a long way from its humble origins in 1875, when Joseph Bulova first started business in New York City. Since then, the company has changed the way people have viewed time. A pioneer in the watchmaking world, Bulova has brought the world its first men’s and ladies’ wristwatches, the first clock radio and the first electronic clock. Bulova revolutionised timekeeping with the first fully electronic watch, the Accutron, which has been used by NASA on 46 missions including the first lunar landing.
The company has become famous for their Diamond watches and their use of the finest materials in their craft e.g. 315L surgical steel, diamonds, mother of pearl, carbon fiber, top quality leather and their signature Duramic nylon/ ceramic composite. Bulova’s legacy of ingenuity continues today with new innovations in accuracy, namely their Precisionist Collection.
A feat of horological genius, the Bulova Precisionist Chronograph features the famous Bulova Precisionist-class torsional resonator movement, making it one of the most advanced chronographs on the market today. Custom engineered to provide accuracy, this watch has been proven to be one of the world’s most accurate chronographs, boasting timing to 1/10th, 1/100th, and 1/1000th of a second. In laboratory testing the Bulova Precisionist Chronograph has been laboratory proven to be accurate to within seconds a year, its precisionist-class torsional resonator movement was also proven to be three times more accurate than standard quartz movement. It combines stop watch timing to 1/1000th of a second with this movement making it the only chronograph to do so and one of the most accurate in the world today.
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NAGA and Ontology Announce Massive Partnership - BIG Positive Changes for the Market
May 04, 2018 at 13:04 // News
Two titans in the blockchain industry — NAGA and Ontology — have just teamed up to change the way the world does business. Here’s everything you need to know.
In an exciting announcement today, two major players in the cryptocurrency space — NAGA and Ontology — have formed a long-term strategic partnership in an effort to effect “significant and powerful change” in the way business is conducted. Together, the two projects aim to bring high-performance public blockchains to the gigantic financial-technology (fintech) market, along with a series of complete distributed ledgers and smart contract systems.
NAGA is diverse yet unified cryptocurrency ecosystem which offers the world's first crypto-gateway to trade any sort of financial instrument and virtual good in a secure and transparent way. Ontology, on the other hand, is a new high-performance public blockchain and distributed trust collaboration platform.
Together, the two blockchain titans will explore application development, outreach, incubation, and the building of a new generation of public blockchain infrastructure and distributed trust ecosystems — with the intention of supporting real business applications and scenarios. NAGA Founder and Executive Director Yasin Sebastian Qureshi stated:
"We think that this partnership can really change the way crypto companies act and execute their promises. Our and Ontology’s precision and hard-working ethos will help us to not only deliver products ahead of the roadmap, but to also make them more reliable and more valuable for the whole community."
NAGA Founder and Executive Director Benjamin Bilski also added:
"We are super excited about the Ontology project and we are eager to announce new developments in cooperation with the platform. We believe that it will help to boost and grow our business exponentially."
Likewise, Ontology Founder Jun Li also expressed his excitement over the strategic partnership, stating:
"We are happy to welcome NAGA to build up the application ecosystem through wielding Ontology's next-generation public chain infrastructure [...] We feel confident that together we can open up the international market, expand the Ontology ecosystem, and advance global blockchain development."
It is hard to overstate just how large of an announcement this partnership is, as two massive projects with the scope and vision of NAGA and Ontology rarely form such strategic partnerships.
NAGA currently has a number of big projects in operation, including its NAGA WALLET, NAGA TRADER, NAGA CARD, NAGA COIN (NGC) and several others. The ecosystem is already one of the largest and most fully-realized in the cryptocurrency space, and the addition of Ontology’s power will only further solidify its already more-than-solid project.
The match is also a logical one, and far more than a mere PR stunt.
At the heart of NAGA is the aim to provide financial inclusion to individuals all over the world, while also providing the best products the industry has to offer. Likewise, Ontology is firmly focused on trust, identity, data exchange, and authorization, with its sights firmly set on the insurance industry, governments, and the medical sphere. The broad scope of Ontology’s project makes it the perfect fit for NAGA’s ecosystem, as it provides even more efficiency and trust.
What do you think about the strategic partnership between NAGA and Ontology? Be sure to let us know in the comments below!
Disclaimer. This article is paid and provided by a third-party source and should not be viewed as an endorsement by CoinIdol. Readers should do their own research before investing funds in any company. CoinIdol shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services mentioned in this article.
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Sid E. Holocaust testimony interviewed by Robert Krell, May 29, 1985.
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Sid E. testimony 1986 [video recording]
GenreTestimonies
Object IDSE8606_01_VA
Date of Recording12 June 1986
CreatorVancouver Holocaust Education Centre
InterviewerKrell, Robert
IntervieweeEibschutz, Sid
Duration3h 51m 51.0s
SynopsisSid E. was born in Piotrków Tribunalski, Poland in 1920. He recalls his childhood in Łódź growing up in a Hasidic family. He describes experiencing antisemitic harassment. He describes the German invasion in 1939 and increased anti-Jewish measures. He discusses traveling to Warsaw in December but returning to Łódź with his family. He describes ghettoization in the city and the crowded living conditions. He explains how he and his family remained with a small group working in manufacturing after the mass deportations. He describes their deportation in October 1944 to Sachsenhausen where he was separated from his mother. Sid describes working as a slave labourer and receiving assistance from a Soviet prisoner of war. He recalls being transferred to Königs Wusterhausen and seeing his father for the last time. He describes liberation by Soviet troops and receiving assistance from an officer. He describes reuniting with his brother, returning to Łódź, and learning his sister and mother survived. He discusses travelling throughout Germany to Berlin then Hannover with his brother. He discusses his marriage to another survivor. He recalls his siblings’ emigration to Palestine and his to Canada in 1948. Sid discusses his and his wife’s difficulties sharing their experiences with their children.
Other Holding InstitutionsFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (repository)
Funding NoteCataloguing and digitization of this testimony was supported by funding from the Government of Canada.
Permalinkhttps://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/776
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A poem about Saint Paul
From Saint Paul by F.W.H. Myers:
Whoso has felt the Spirit of the Highest
Cannot confound nor doubt Him nor deny:
Yea with one voice, O world, tho’ thou deniest,
Stand thou on that side, for on this am I.
Rather the earth should doubt when her retrieving
Pours in the rain and rushes from the sod,
Rather than he for whom the great conceiving
Stirs in his soul to quicken into God.
Ay, tho’ Thou then shouldst strike him from his glory
Blind and tormented, maddened and alone,
Even on the cross would he maintain his story,
Yes, and in hell would whisper, I have known.
F.W.H. Myers
The poem* Saint Paul, published in 1867, was very popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A 1916 Spectator article predicted that it would ‘always have its place in English literature’. However, it is nowadays practically forgotten.
The above extract from the poem may be taken to illustrate the fundamental difference between the way of thinking of Victorian intellectuals and that of modern ones. There is a sense of hierarchical significance; something can be overridingly important.
* from Saint Paul, included in F.W.H. Myers, Poems, Macmillan 1870.
These verses quoted in Celia Green, Advice to Clever Children, Oxford Forum 1981, p.121.
I appeal for financial and moral support in improving my position.
I need people to provide moral support both for fund-raising, and as temporary or possibly long-term workers. Those interested should read my post on interns.
Brexit and European visitors
Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty [...] triggers the start of a two-year process of exit talks before the UK is expelled from the 28-member bloc.
Prime Minister Theresa May has said that she will trigger Article 50 by March 2017. In theory, this means Britain will have left the EU by March 2019.
(Daily Express, 3 November 2016)
Brexit may eventually make it more difficult for citizens of European countries to enter Britain.
To any members of such countries who are interested in the possibility of forming an association with us, we would suggest they take advantage of the present situation to come on a preliminary visit, living in or near Cuddesdon.
‘I will defend to the death your right to say it’
The epithet ‘I disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it’ is sometimes attributed to Voltaire, but first occurs in a book called The Friends of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall (writing under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre), in her chapter on Claude Helvétius.
Helvétius was a French philosopher whose book On the Mind aroused disapproval, was publicly burnt in Paris, and then became a bestseller.
‘On the Mind’ became not the success of a season, but one of the most famous books of the century. The men who had hated it, and had not particularly loved Helvetius, flocked round him now.
Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now.
(The Friends of Voltaire, London, 1906, pp.198-199.)
Update: My colleague Fabian has posted an article about counter-extremism and the rule of law.
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firemonkey 1 month ago
I said there were no signs of autism in my parents. However in the assessment report it says my stepdaughter has said my father has quite a few similar traits to me.
JennyButterfly 1 month ago in reply to firemonkey
Once I started looking for traits or, more often, clusters of traits, I found a lot more evidence within my wider family.
Of course, many of them have a very narrow idea of what autism is, which means they instantly reject the idea. When, however we're looking for difficulties in socialising or interpersonal skills, the conversation loosens up. Likewise when we talk about reclusive behaviours or even terms such as "breakdown" or "bad nerves", which the older generation seem to use more readily.
Overall I find that, since the whole field of autism has developed and changed over the generations and previous generations framed some issues differently, there's actually a language barrier in this area. And it might all change again for future generations. But the underlying issues remain the same.
firemonkey 1 month ago in reply to JennyButterfly
My father said when I asked him that he could see no signs of autism in me as a child. That being 44-62 years ago it's probable he was thinking of much narrower definitions of it that were around at that time.
Yes, over forty years ago the diagnosis rates were much, much lower too. When i went to school in the 60s/70s I doubt very much whether it was even on their radar at all. I personally don't remember hearing the term "autistic" back then.
Plastic 1 month ago in reply to JennyButterfly
Yeah - back in the day, they just bunged all the 'special' or disruptive kids into the remedial class - there was no effort to diagnose or help them, it was all about keeping them away from everyone else.
I only really heard the term autism being used when Rain Man was the big thing.
Never considered I was remotely autistc - they all flapped and rocked - according to tv.
Also, the big thing is it was pre-internet - so information was so much harder to come by so parents had to accept what their gp told them - right or wrong.
c1962-63 I was assessed for what it now call cerebral palsy at Great Ormond street. This was because my first school in Thailand had voiced concerns. The result was negative and alternatives were not explored. School reports from 8-18 noted things like poor coordination, bad at drawing and writing,disorganised,messy, but there was no attempt to join the pieces together and suggest help was needed.
Yes, I actually saw this happen with a couple of my classmates. Generally no help was offered and more often kids were blamed for their difficulties. I find it astounding because this was not, after all, the dark ages.
JennyButterfly 1 month ago in reply to Plastic
Exactly. It didn't cross my mind I might be autistic because, even after I first heard of autism, it seemed like something quite rare that would totally prevent the kind of functioning I saw in my family.
Our difficulties seemed to be more related to having the kind of personality that didn't fit with the mainstream and left us isolated and excluded for much of the time.
Cloud7 1 month ago in reply to JennyButterfly
I went to primary school in the early 90s, not that long ago. When I first started I became mute and didn't talk (at home I was fine). The school bluntly phoned my mother and she was asked 'what's wrong with your child, did you know he can't talk?'. It upset her at the time but no support was put in place, I was just considered the weird kid who didn't talk at school. They decided to 'fix' me by putting a new child who joined the school (a known trouble maker from his previous school) next to me in every class to 'get me out of my shell'. It completely worked, so much so, my behaviour flipped on it's head. Instead of being the quiet kid who conformed I became loud and naughty and copied my new best friend - I went from one extreme to another. That was the only intervention put in place for me. For the next few years at each parent's evening I was described as a 'sheep'. Of course, that was all their doing and makes me laugh when I look back... Short-sighted idiots...
A dinner lady once slapped me across my face too... I was then made to stand in a room with other teachers and apologise TO HER for my actions. Can you imagine if that happened in 2019!! I'd be rich beyond my wildest dreams.
JennyButterfly 1 month ago in reply to Cloud7
Yes, my sons both went to primary school in the 90s and both we and the school completely missed their (and our!) autism. With hindsight we feel really shocked at ourselves.
But we raised issues like socialising and all round development at parents evenings and were reassured that everything was fine. It wasn't.
My older son now tells me that there was loads of bullying which was completely ignored by the school (and not reported to us) and that the dinner ladies in particular knew what was going on and did nothing. I'm not surprised he's angry about it all.
Surely more was known in the 90s? I am looking back with incomprehension (although some of that is actually against myself).
Plus, of course, i can't believe it was EVER considered OK to describe someone as a "sheep" or to slap a pupil's face. What on earth!
Lagrangian 1 month ago in reply to JennyButterfly
Just shocking. Regardless of a disabilty bully is not on. I think some people think it's normal. Or will toughen you up. It's actually not okay to watch another kid get hit by a group of kids.
JennyButterfly said:
It absolutely is not OK and if it were to happen to my children I'd be outraged. But because it happened to me I'm weirdly OK with, I've learnt to deal with a lot, even at that age. I remember it but it didn't scar me, when I think back I have no emotion attached to that memory. If anything it makes me smile, I was standing up for my younger brother at the time.
I remember a lot of bullying at primary school that was simply ignored. It usually only got dealt with when those who were being bullied had enough and hit back. I was bullied too, but again, I have no emotional attachment to those memories. I blanked it out. I don't even know if I was aware at the time I was being bullied.
Lagrangian 1 month ago in reply to Cloud7
I wasn't either. I remember a bully giving up because I gave them nothing. Just numb.
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HomeI won’t play a cleric!
I won’t play a cleric!
2014-08-25 2014-11-15 kentusrpg 5e, Classes, Counseling, Previous Editions3e, 4e, Bard, Basic Rules, Cleric, Druid, PHB
Many DMs heard that line and it will never stop. The fact, that it’s often very hard to get a cleric in your party. If you have someone who plays a cleric with pleasure, be sure to keep that player, because otherwise it’ll be hard to convince someone. But why is the cleric so important and why is there so much resistance of the players side to take a cleric-character? We’ll see…
Cleric’s Importance
In 3e and before, clerics had the only spell-list, which contented not only the best healing of hit points for the respective levels, but the spells to cure conditions, revive the dead, most spells which are able to undo stuff, which better never happened. Even though the druid got healing, he was way outclassed by a cleric, so parties felt much better having an actual cleric in the party (even though the Favored Soul had the same spell-list and was a favored choice, too).
But it could function with alternatives, like a druid who know how to keep some spells for healing, a smart party, which avoids hits before and during combat by strategizing smartly or magic items, I had a bard who could fulfill the healer and tank part by knowing how to use his resources well. But if someone dies, this means that the revive had to wait until they’re in town or to cast it per scroll, but that was a limited option without resupplying.
Why players don’t like to play clerics
These are just a few reasons, why players might think that being a cleric sucks. It’d be impossible to list them all, but I guess I got the main-reasons:
As a cleric, I’ve to play religiously: Religion is a vital part of life, even if you don’t believe in (a) god, you still have to deal with religion. Even made-up gods from a game might get under someones nerves, either because he doesn’t want to betray his ‘real’ religion or doesn’t believe in religion anyway and don’t want to participate in any fake one.
I can only heal and buff: If you compare the cleric with other classes, you’ll feel subpar in most aspects of combat: You don’t hit as hard as a fighter, your combat spells feel weaker than the wizard’s and his spell-list is more flexible in most cases, while you can’t really seem to shine outside combat like the rogue. Your only way to be a vital part is being able to heal and buff your buddies… and some players are more thinking about their own characters, sadly.
Too much responsibility: Being a healer means, that your party is depending on you with their life. If a character got killed, it seems to mean that you failed and will be blamed for it. It seems to be much less responsible to play a fighter (which results that the enemies get through and kill the casters) or a rogue (which get mobbed by monsters, being a burden for the rest of the party, because he thought an initial strike would be the best choice).
Almost no sexiness: Some class seems to be sexier than others, especially those who are more lightly armored and can dish out a lot of damage, while having a lot of skills. Archetypical being a cleric means heavy armor, mace and a dislike for undead, while chanting religious curses. It seems like less room to customize, less options to individualize and of course less aloofness. Especially, because you might think, that your party wants to play you the healing expert (because the healing part is the reason, why they forced you to play a cleric)
Why should you play a healer
Some players might not realized, that being a healer could be their real calling. They struggle with all kind of combinations but never got a real good character out of it, something was either missing or it was just bland without any individuality. If any of those players see these reasons, maybe they’ll consider playing a healer class.
In 5e it doesn’t have to be a cleric: In 4e every leader could somehow substitute a cleric (even though some were more challenging than others, like the artificer at low levels) and in 5e we have 3 classes, which got the right spell-list, to do the job: bard, cleric and druid. Everyone have enough healing, condition curing and reviving spells to get a party through the dangerous life of adventuring. As long you keep in mind to keep some spell-slots for emergencies.
No rolling d20 for your main-feature: Some players just sucks at throwing a d20. Really, really hard. Most of them still wants to play a d20-rolling class, thinking that it have to get better, some others get to damage casts, choosing those who don’t need a attack roll. For healing and buffing, you don’t need the d20 either and even though you can use spells like Guiding Bolt to, if you’re really keen about it…
Play simple: For those who simply can’t get a feeling for the battle map, the right spell to the right situation and lacks the overview of the combat situation, they can play a simple healer which does only needs to look out, how much damage each character have taken and heals them back, while supporting anywhere needed if no healing is required. As long you do your vital role well, the other players should praise you.
Be in charge: This is interesting for those, who don’t want to play simple: Some players don’t even realize, how much influence a healer and buffer has in combat, if he invest into it. Who to heal, which buff to use, it does make a great difference how you tribute all your spells, since characters who get buffed will take a more vital role in the battle strategy. And since you’re the lifeline, nobody should complain! Those who wants to optimize tactics and resources are far better of as supporting combat characters.
Backgrounds can make you otherwise useful: Since most out-of-combat parts or the game can be covered by somewhat smart ability arrangement and backgrounds, you can be a healer in combat and a… maybe trap-finder and -disarmer in dungeons. It’s possible!
Multiclassing: In 5e you get more and higher spell-slots even with multiclassing as long your secondary (or tertiary, etc.) class got the spell-casting feature, too. The only downside is, you can’t cast higher level spells, just use the lower spells with a higher spell-slot. Especially multiclassing into sorcerer might come handy, since this means that means full advancement in spell-slots and access to metamagic with healer spells. Or warlock, no further spell-slots, but pact magic usable with your other class’ spells, which means that you’re able to use them more often over the time. Since the most vital spells are at the lower spell levels, you can consider this option, if healing hit points and lesser conditions is your only concern.
Why should you play a cleric
Now let’s take a look at the cleric, since I mentioned some points earlier, that might be defused.
Easy plot-hooks: As long you’re not playing a cleric of a almost non-existent deity, there are always a lot of ways, how the church or the god can give you epic quests, which will decide the future from a hamlet to the whole existence itself, while the DM have much less trouble to come up with viable background and twists for the story by just reading a bit of the deities which would be involved.
Good role-play options: Like I said, religion is a vital part of everyone’s life. It won’t hurt anyone, if you role-play a religion made-up for a game, because it’s just for fun, having put your belief in the center of your character’s life, it becomes very interesting, especially if your background is somewhat strange comparing your actual deity. A criminal cleric of Tyr? How could that happen? And even if you’re not a great role-player, the cleric can give you enough material to actually survive all levels by using 2-3 signature quotes, like: “UNDEAD!!!” or “You foul, little…” … OK, last one isn’t that clericish, more like: “By Moradin’s iron underpants!”
Domains: Domains are great in 5e, since they’re a great way to customize your character. Do you want to kick asses with a sword? War! Do you want to heal with the least effort, so you have more resources to attack? Life! You want to be a better caster? Light! You want to be more roguish or druidish? Trickery or Nature! You want to mix some aspects altogether? Take another! Variety is given, just choose from 7 domains, another one in the DMG (Death) and much more in further rulebooks, I bet.
Prayer of Healing: Just this spell.
Playing a cleric? Might be worth it!
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4 thoughts on “I won’t play a cleric!”
Overview – Cleric | Kentusrpg smart-assing D&D 5e says:
[…] often somehow overpowered. But still not enough to ensure that every party have a cleric. Maybe this post of mine […]
I just want to say great post. I enjoyed reading it. By the way, i’m playing a cleric in the service of Sharess. 🙂
sovelisholimion says:
There is a thing to notice there: “…you’ll feel subpar in most aspects of combat: You don’t hit as hard as a fighter, your combat spells feel weaker than the wizard’s and his spell-list is more flexible in most cases, while you can’t really seem to shine outside combat like the rogue… ”
With a cleric and the right build (I’m talking 3.5), especially at high levels, you could WAY outshine the fighter in hitting things hard, just with a couple spells, with another couple of spells you could way outTank the tank, and well to “shine outside combat” raising the dead, removing curses and healing people who almost got cut in half seems quite shiny for me… the cleric is the best core class alongside the wizard and the druid, it’s just that people don’t know how to play it. All the other classes need multi-classing and PrCs to keep along with these 3… Just let people know about Divine MetaMagic Persistent Spells, and they’ll start playing cleric all the more often.
Sadly, this is a blog about 5th Edition D&D, so I don’t delve deep into the 3.5e mechanics, as they don’t fit much into 5e anymore. The cleric of 3rd Edition was the most powerful core class in terms of capabilities imo, which always felt like they needed to give him a push to let people play clerics. Great healer, okish melee, some good offense options, domains to give some push, additional domain spells per day, and more.
Even your build suggested later options of the class, as Divine MetaMagic Persistance weren’t part of the core. Going only by core, the cleric wasn’t that popular within my milieu, if you need to start taking advanced rules to it like feats, PrCs, archetypes, etc. all become valid options there, too.
In my opinion, playing a cleric in 5e is much more fun than it ever was in 3e. Without much work, you get a valid character, you’ve other healer options that aren’t 2-4 levels behind the cleric, so multiple healing classes happen more often, with the additional options of hit dice and such, there is a lot of options, that can be used.
And every cleric feels different, when you swap the domain.
Well, this post is mostly to tackle some old conceptions of how nobody wants to play a cleric, and what chances there actually are to find. It’s less about some number-crunch, and more about ideas how to not only have the sheet full of numbers, where “cleric” fills the line titled as “class,” but what kind of characters and game-ideas are behind it.
If you like being a cleric, it’s great! If you think it’s great to outshine a fighter in melee, go for it! It’s the best to play a character you like! Currently, I play a Tempest Cleric of Talos in a Storm King’s Thunder campaign, who tries to switch deities, while he has to rely on Talos’ power too much for his convinience. It’s a bliss, especially Sleet Storming enemy encampments to overcome numbers… This has to be Talos’ plan to make my character do his bidding, while giving me his divine magic, so that my character won’t be able to defy him any longer. 😀
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To access Couchbase Server, administrators and applications must be authenticated. Authentication is a process for identifying a user who is attempting to access a system.
Passing Credentials
Couchbase-Server authentication relies on credentials, which must be passed into the system by the user who is attempting access. Credentials can be entered manually, or passed into the system by an application. The credentials passed must match ones already stored and accessible by the system: if a match is achieved, the user is thereby recognized, and so may be granted access. If no match is achieved, the user is denied access.
To access Couchbase Server, administrators authenticate by means of a username and password. These credentials can be validated by Couchbase Server itself: alternatively if the Enterprise Edition of Couchbase Server for Linux is used, validation can be performed either on a network-accessible directory-server, by means of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP); or by means of the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) authentication-framework.
Client applications or systems can also pass credentials to Couchbase Server, by means of x.509 certificates.
Password-Based Authentication
To access Couchbase Server, administrators and applications must authenticate. Authentication is password-based. For additional security, applications can be designed to use passwords in hash-based challenge-response routines.
Administrator usernames and passwords, both required for authentication, are initially established during initialization of Couchbase Server: see Create a Cluster for details. Subsequently, passwords can be changed by means of the password-reset tool, reset-admin-password.
For best practices for password-definition, and restrictions on username-design, see Usernames and Passwords.
When the Couchbase Web Console is running on the default port, http://localhost:8091, the administrator’s username and password are passed in the clear, from the administrator’s browser to the console. Optionally, Couchbase Web Console can be configured for secure access, at https://localhost:18091; so that the username and password are passed in encrypted form. For information, see Manage Console Access.
Authentication for Applications
Couchbase Server-features — including data, settings, and statistics — can be accessed only by users who have been assigned the appropriate privilege. Each privilage is either read or read-write. Privileges are assigned by Full Administrators, in the form of roles. When a user successfully authenticates, their assigned roles are examined, and access is granted or denied by Couchbase Server. See Manage Users and Roles, for details on creating users and user-credentials, and on assigning roles.
To pass credentials, applications must use one of four mechanisms provided by the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) framework. These are PLAIN, and three members of the Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism family of hash functions; which are SCRAM-SHA1, SCRAM-SHA256, and SCRAM-SHA512. The SCRAM mechanisms allow applications to authenticate securely, by transmitting the password only in protected form. Drivers may need to be updated, to support SHA-based hash functions.
Password Authentication-Mechanisms
In ascending order of strength, the Couchbase password-authentication mechanisms are as follows:
PLAIN: The client sends the password in unencrypted form. All clients support this authentication-method. It is insecure, providing no defence against passwords being stolen in transmission.
SCRAM-SHA1: Uses a 160-bit key.
SCRAM-SHA256: One of a group of hash functions referred to as SHA2, SCRAM-SHA256 uses a 256-bit key.
SCRAM-SHA512: Another hash function from the SHA2 group, SCRAM-SHA512 uses a 512-bit key; and is the strongest supported authentication protocol.
During initial client-server negotiation, the strongest authentication protocol supported by both Couchbase Server and the application’s client OS is selected for use. For example, if the client supports only the PLAIN protocol, the PLAIN protocol is used; but if the client also supports the SCRAM-SHA1 protocol, then SCRAM-SHA1 is used.
A challenge-response method can be transmitted through both encrypted and unencrypted channels.
Note that the SCRAM challenge-response protocols authenticate only the process of password-validation. To secure the subsequent session, TLS should be used.
Certificate-Based Authentication
Couchbase Server supports the use of x.509 certificates, to authenticate clients. This ensures that only approved users, machines, or endpoints are authenticated.
Certificate-based authentication relies on a Certificate Authority (CA) to validate identities and issue certificates. The certificate includes information such as the name of the entity it identifies, an expiration date, the name of the CA that issued the certificate, and the digital signature of the issuing CA.
For a complete overview of Couchbase Server’s certificate-handling mechanisms, see Certificates. For practical steps required to set up client and server certificates, see Manage Certificates
Externally Based Authentication
Couchbase Server assigns users to different authentication domains:
Local: Contains users defined locally. This includes:
The Full Administrator for Couchbase Server.
Internal Components within Couchbase Server that support core functionality (for example, indexing, searching, and replicating), and run with full administrative privileges.
Generated Users, which are created by Couchbase Server as part of the upgrade process from pre-5.0 to 5.0 and post-5.0 versions; each in correspondence with a legacy bucket. Each Generated User is assigned a username that is identical to the bucket-name; and either a password that is identical to the bucket’s pre-5.0 password, or no password, if the bucket did not feature a password. Generated Users are created to ensure that legacy applications can continue to access legacy buckets after upgrade to 5.0 or post-5.0, with the same username-password combination being used for authentication.
Locally Defined Users, which are explicitly created by a Couchbase Server administrator; and each feature a username and password unique within the Local domain.
External: Contains users defined externally; either by means of LDAP or PAM. Passwords are defined and stored remotely. Note that External usernames do not clash with Local usernames.
When a user attempts to authenticate, Couchbase Server always looks up their credentials in the same order: which is Local first, and External second.
External authentication can be performed by means either of LDAP or PAM.
LDAP-Based Authentication
Couchbase administrators can be set up to authenticate by means of LDAP. This requires that each administrator be added as a user on an LDAP server, and their LDAP credentials mapped to Couchbase Server. Additionally, it requires that the saslauthd library, which handles authentication-requests on behalf of Couchbase Server, be configured to handle LDAP authentication.
LDAP authentication is currently available only for the Enterprise Edition of Couchbase Server, and only on the Linux platform. Note also that mixed-version clusters do not support LDAP authentication: therefore, to use LDAP authentication with a given cluster, upgrade all cluster-nodes to the latest version of Enterprise Edition Couchbase Server.
Couchbase Server is designed to interoperate with OpenLDAP software, which can be downloaded from the openldap.org website.
LDAP Benefits
Authenticating with LDAP provides the benefits of:
Centralized identity management. Multiple administrators can be defined, each with either read-only or full, read-write permissions.
Centralized security policy-management. All administrative accounts can be consistently protected: for example, through the enforcement of password strength-levels, password-rotation, and auto-lockout.
Simplified compliance. The activities of each administrator can be identified, tracked, and comprehensively audited.
The LDAP authentication-architecture used by Couchbase Server is as follows:
As the illustration shows, the administrator enters a username and password at the login prompt provided by Couchbase Web Console. This is checked against a local admin password file. If the saslauthd library has been configured for LDAP, the credentials are then checked against an LDAP directory service: if the credentials are validated, authentication succeeds.
For details on configuring the saslauthd library, see Configure saslauthd.
PAM-Based Authentication
Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide an authentication framework that allows multiple, low-level authentication schemes to be used by a single API. The Enterprise Edition of Couchbase Server, running on Linux, supports administrator-authentication through PAM’s Linux password-module.
PAM Benefits
Used with the Enterprise Edition of Couchbase Server, the PAM Linux password-module provides:
External authentication: Administrator-accounts defined on Linux systems, in the /etc/shadow directory, can be accessed for authentication-purposes by Couchbase Server.
Password policy-management: Linux password-management can be used across different Couchbase Server-nodes; to synchronize, maintain, and expire administrator-passwords.
PAM-Related Version Requirements
Use of the PAM Linux password-module requires all cluster-nodes to be Linux-based, running the Enterprise Edition of Couchbase Server, version 4.6 or above. Additionally, the saslauthd library version must be 2.1.x or above.
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English sentences with wounder how you are doing in context,
partial matches
Keep checking in and let us know how you're doing.
Wait 6 months, see how you're doing.
wounder (noun)
One who wounds.
wounder
When something is bad!
Is it too much to ask that they leave their smugness at the door for five minutes while they ask how you are doing?
Depends how much walking you are doing that day and which areas on campus you are on.
You basically just proved how rustled you are by doing that, grade A job.
These are too small for me, but I wanted to say how awesome it is that you're doing this!
Happy, glad, sad, mad, taking a shit in the locker room....I'm sure it's not hard to catch a bad rap when regardless of how you feel or what you're doing there is someone that would love to talk your ear off or ask you to sign something.
I'm genuinely asking how you're doing, and you can tell me whatever you want.
I hope you feel better, I know this is /r/offmychest and we probably won't get an update but I bet I speak for commenters other than just myself when I say I'd love to hear how you're doing later on.
Please keep us updated on how all of you are doing!
I'm not even saying corruption, I'm just saying that you literally have absolutely zero idea how much you are doing and what effect it has, because you are putting your money in the hands of someone else and hoping they do what you want with it.
Wouldn't be weird to drop a line and say hey I was just thinking about you and wonder how you're doing, etc.
I don't know how old you are, OP, but doing well in school and finding a job that doesn't piss you off should come before getting high with your friends.
You may think you're hiding how you feel, but you are probably doing a poor job of it.
Never use stats as a metric for how well you are doing, and players who emphasize stars are usually bad players.
So about half the time you're smashing buttons doing cool capoeira moves with absolutely no clue how you're doing them?
That alone makes it harder to determine how well you're doing.
That said, it seems to be MUCH harder for randoms on a relative basis, and I think this is because you have to go out of your way to get consistent feedback on how you're doing as a DPS, whereas you literally cannot avoid that feedback on the primary aspects of tanking or healing (ie.
What I like about Nami is that you can max either E or W depending on how you are doing and on enemy bot.
Depends on how well you're doing and the lineup.)
Use more or less depending on how many pieces you're doing.
Have a look at how you're doing it and what you can do to streamline if you can.
Does he know how you're doing now?
Yeah, the only problem with that is that depression doesn't care how well you're doing compared to others, it all feels like crap anyway.
Smoke some weed, pop some pills, snort coke or whatever, but keep track of how much you are doing and be knowlegable about the possible permanant effects this stuff could have on your body.
Thats not how it works, what you are doing is spending your hard earned money in a different place.
You'll work them out once you start shooting yourself in the foot and finally figure-out how you are doing it.
Depending on how you are doing your heat treating I suggest sticking with 1084 or 1075 for ease of heat treating in a forge.
if you can, reply this message with a "progress bar" so i know how you're doing with the redeemptions
Always carry a tp scroll with you regardless of how bad you're doing or what stage of the game it is.
I see, See mostly use something like an excel sheet that keep tracks of how well you are doing at these goals.
You can build more than one depending on how well you're doing.
Normally, it should be cleaned daily, but with so many cats, if that's a preferred litter box, I can see how even if you are doing that, that might not do the trick.
I don't care how much weight you're doing or how many reps or anything.
I don't show up at your work and point out how you are doing it poorly!
I hope we hear an update from you down the line about how you're doing.
CS isn't the only indicator of how good you're doing, so don't worry if you aren't hitting the fabled 10/min mark.
You may need to give me more information on how you are doing your parameter files.
I'm not taking issue with your goal of explaining its price (it's absolutely normally priced for what it is, and that's a worthy thing to explain), I'm taking issue with how you're doing it, which is questionable at best and ridiculous at worst.
As for lead choice, that'll depend on how you're doing in quests.
Please let us know how you're doing tomorrow.
Can you elaborate on how you're doing the quilt as you go?
Besides like I said she actually gives a shit about you and cares about how you're doing."
I know this post is a month old so I just wanted to kinda see how you are doing.
Depending on how much downloading you're doing I'd look into a seedbox and hop on private trackers.
Then other things like keeping an active log on a printed calendar to see how you're doing, and re-evaluating at specific points along the year to see if your SMRT objectives are still valid as your life has changed, to keep you on track.
Also, what happened to that feature where you can track how well you are doing on a specific, chosen hero?
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Following the announcement of B1A4’s contracts expiring at the end of June, it has been reported that members Jinyoung and Baro will be leaving the agency, choosing not to re-sign with WM Entertainment.
Members Sandeul, Gongchan, and CNU have re-signed their contracts with WM Entertainment and will remain.
After a series of long discussions between the members and WM Entertainment, Jinyoung and Baro decided not to sign new contracts with the agency.
B1A4’s contracts were originally scheduled to expire in April 2018, but the group agreed to extend their contracts for 2 months until June 30 to discuss a potential renewal.
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BTOB and B1A4 To Hold Solo Concerts Plus B1A4’s CNU Knee Surgery
September 5, 2015 B1A4 Kpop News, BTOB Kpop News, Hong Kong Kpop ConcertB1A4’s CNU Surgery, BTOB and B1A4, BTOB and B1A4 ConcertDe De Tillman
Reblogged By: De De Tillman; Asian Celebrity Re-Blogger
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Posted:Saturday September 5, 2015 @ 6:23 p.m PST
K-Pop fans in Hong Kong are in luck as both B1A4 and BTOB are scheduled to bring their concert tour to the city in November!
Recently announced by local organizer Jacso Entertainment, BTOB is scheduled to perform at AsiaWorld-Expo Hall 10 on November 27th, while B1A4 is expected to perform at the same venue just two days later on November 29th. Ticketing details have not yet been released, so fans will have to stay tuned to find out more!
Meanwhile, B1A4’s CNU is reported to be undergoing knee surgery after the group’s concert in Seoul, scheduled to be held on September 12th and 13th. BTOB is scheduled to hold an autograph session in Hong Kong on September 6th.
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Home Defense Technology Modernization & Upgrading Future Combat Systems (FCS)
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Army, FCS Team to Establish Evaluation Facilities in Texas
The US Army plans to establish an Future Combat System’s Brigade Combat Team evaluation unit Beginning in 2007 at Fort Bliss, Texas. The unit will be part of the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command and FCS Program Management Office. commanded by MG Charles Cartwright, program manager, FCS Brigade Combat Team. The activity at Ft. Bliss will be supported by the new FCS regional office established by Boeing and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in neighboring El Paso, Texas.
The mission of the Evaluation Brigade Combat Team will be to evaluate all FCS systems as they mature in preparation for deployment. They will also evaluate those technologies slated for early spin out into the current force beginning in 2008. These technologies include initial network capabilities, Unattended Ground Sensors, the Non-Line of Sight – Launch System, and the Intelligent Munitions System. These are all intended to fill existing capability gaps and enhance the effectiveness and survivability of current troops. Data compiled by the evaluation unit will then flow back into the broader FCS program and significantly reduce program risk while providing valuable user feedback to help ensure long-term program success.
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Technology Spotlight: C-130 Modernization
Navy, Marines Test Improvements to Hellfire Spitting KC-130J
A View to a Kill – AC-130 Gunship Style
Parallel to the Acquisition of C-130J, the IAF is Upgrading Part of its C-130H
Military Transports to Safely Fly Low-Level IFR with new Terrain Following and Terrain Avoidance (TF/TA)
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Wednesday 30 January 2019 6.00 pm
Printed minutes PDF 74 KB
Venue: Council Chamber
Contact: Alec Dubberley Service Manager, Democratic Services
Opening Prayers.
The Mayor’s Chaplain Reverend Ogle delivered opening prayers.
Council stood in silent tribute for Councillor Denis Beeston MBE who had passed away on 16 January.
Apologies for Absence.
Apologies for absence were received from Councillors R Ellis, Feeney, Greensmith, Powell and Scroggie.
Mayor's Announcements.
The Mayor expressed her sadness at the passing away of Councillor Denis Beeston MBE.
Members paid tribute to Councillor Beeston on his commitment to the people of Gedling and Bestwood Village and his long service to the community. Councillor Beeston was a loyal, respected and excellent servant of the Borough and a great supporter of many local causes and will be fondly remembered and missed by members.
The Mayor informed Council that James O’Riordan, former Borough and County Councillor, had suffered a severe stroke before Christmas. She had sent him good wishes on behalf of all members.
To approve, as a correct record, the minutes of the meeting held on 21 November 2018. PDF 76 KB
That the minutes of the above meeting, having been circulated, be approved as a correct record.
Vote: 35 For, 0 Against, 0 Abstentions.
Declaration of Interests.
Councillor Allan declared a disclosable pecuniary interest in Item 10 as the owner of an empty property within the Borough.
To deal with any petitions received under Standing Order 8a.
To answer questions asked by the public under Standing Order 8.
Question from John Flynn
On the Gedling Borough Council website, I saw that in the Infrastructure Delivery Plan for Rail Services at Sections 4.6 and 4.7, it stated that there were 4 rail stations in Gedling Borough and these were at Burton Joyce, Carlton, Hucknall and Newstead. There are 4 rail stations in Gedling Borough, but the list does not name all 4 stations in Gedling Borough. The station at Netherfield, although an operational train station, appears to have been omitted, and the station at Hucknall is outside Gedling in Sutton-in-Ashfield.
I am worried that this failure to recognise Netherfield train station could affect the accuracy and validity of the Infrastructure Delivery Plan. Certainly, the station at Netherfield is much neglected with very few trains actually stopping there. This is similar to the situation at Burton Joyce train station where a number of trains pass through, but few trains actually stop there. Is it possible to give some reassurance that Netherfield station has not been completely forgotten in the Infrastructure Plan, and, given the projected housing developments in the area around Burton Joyce, Stoke Bardolph, and Carlton, is there any plan to improve services and facilities at Netherfield and Burton Joyce stations?
Question from Sebastian Soar
I would like to know how many people were fined in Gedling Borough in the last year for failing to clear up after their dogs. I would like to know how often the councils 'mobile surveillance units' (reference to dog fouling posters in Gedling) have been deployed and how many people they caught in the last year. Does the council regard the answers to these questions to a be a success? And what other measures is the council doing to tackle this issue for local residents?
Question from John Flynn.
Mr Flynn did not attend and therefore the question was not dealt with.
Question from Sebastian Soar.
Response from Councillor David Ellis
It's important to be clear from the outset when tackling dog fouling that it is the owner's responsibility to clear up after their dogs. Most dog owners in Gedling are responsible and do clear up. I would applaud those who act responsibly.
However, we all know that there are some irresponsible owners who do not ‘pick up’ and allow their dogs to damage the environment for others. Dog fouling is not just unpleasant it can be dangerous.
The first approach we take is prevention. Our aim is to encourage owners to take responsibility and clean up after their dogs. The Communications Team at the Council uses a variety of media to get the message across - you may have seen the messages on the side of refuse freighters. The neighbourhood wardens engage directly with dog owners both on a casual basis and at planned events such as Arnold Carnival. These prevention approaches are all designed to reduce dog fouling.
We have also made it easier for owners to dispose of poo bags by introducing dual purpose waste bins across the whole borough area.
Where there are complaints of dog fouling in an area, we work with dog owners to make them aware of the offence and encourage reporting in order to identify those responsible. As appropriate we distribute leaflets to local residents, use banners (especially outside schools and parks), or signs on lampposts, and signs painted on footpaths. We find that this sort of reminder does work and reduces the problem.
The Council’s second approach, on which the question focuses, is enforcement.
Our Warden Service takes the lead on this. They are all well trained on gathering and using evidence for enforcement.
The operational tactics they can deploy are varied, ranging from overt patrols in uniform through to more covert ‘plain clothed’ approaches depending on the time of day and the location where dog fouling is happening. Last year the wardens undertook 15 of these operations, the majority of which were carried out very early in the morning when dog walkers are likely to be out.
Over the last year, 5 people were issued with fixed penalty notices for failing to clear up after their dogs. The owners admitted their guilt, accepted the notice and paid their fine of £50.
The council would not undertake any form of ... view the full minutes text for item 37.
Appointment of Deputy Mayor PDF 92 KB
View the background to item 38.
Report of the Service Manager Democratic Services.
Consideration was given to a report of the Service Manager Democratic Services which sought approval to appoint Councillor Sandra Barnes as a second Deputy Mayor of the Borough of Gedling with immediate effect for the remainder of the 2018/19 municipal year.
To appoint Councillor Sandra Barnes as a second Deputy Mayor of the Borough of Gedling with immediate effect for the remainder of the 2018/19 municipal year.
Independent Remuneration Panel - Report and recommendations for 2019/20 PDF 113 KB
Consideration was given to a report of the Service Manager Democratic Services to inform Council of the latest report from the Council’s Independent Remuneration Panel (IRP), relating to member remuneration for 2019/20, and invite Council to consider the recommendations made by the Panel.
An amendment was moved in the following terms by Councillor Michael Payne and seconded by Councillor Clarke:
To accept the recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel subject to the inclusion of allowances to Party Business Managers to be paid at the current rate of 25% of the Leader’s allowance with the 2% uplift in line with the pay award to senior officers.
RESOLVED to:
1) Thank the Independent Remuneration Panel for its work and accept the recommendations subject to the inclusion of allowances to Party Business Managers to be paid at the current rate of 25% of the Leader’s allowance with the 2% uplift in line with the pay award to senior officers;
2) Agree the schedule of members’ allowances for 2019/20 as attached at Appendix 2 to this report which will have been uplifted by 2% in line with the pay award to Senior Officers with the inclusion of the allowance to be paid to Party Business Managers;
3) Agree that the size of the Panel shall reduce from 5 to three members with immediate effect; and
4) Authorise the Monitoring Officer to make appropriate amendments to Part 6 of the Constitution to reflect any changes to members’ allowances agreed.
Vote: 34 For, 45 Against, 0 Abstentions
Council Tax Empty Property Levy PDF 155 KB
View the declarations of interest for item 40.
Report of the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance.
Councillor Allan left the meeting.
Consideration was given to a report of the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance to seek permission to change the amounts of council tax levied on properties in the Borough of Gedling which have been vacant for a period of two years or more.
1) Adopt an empty property levy of 100% with effect from 1st April 2019 for dwellings which have been vacant for a period of two years or more,
2) Adopt an empty property levy of 200% with effect from 1st April 2020 for dwellings which have been vacant for a period of five years or more; and
3) Adopt an empty property levy of 300% with effect from 1st April 2021 for dwellings which have been vacant for a period of ten years or more.
Councillor Allan re-joined the meeting.
Amendments to Scheme of Polling Places and Polling Stations PDF 86 KB
Consideration was given to a report of the Service Manager Democratic Services which sought approval to amendments to the published scheme of polling places, polling districts and polling stations for Gedling Borough.
To approve the polling place for polling districts GA3 and SB1 as detailed in the table at paragraph 2.1 of the report.
Vote: For 35, Against 0, Abstentions 0.
Referral from Cabinet: Gedling Gambling Statement of Policy PDF 117 KB
Report of the Director of Community Health and Wellbeing.
Council is recommended to approve the amended Gedling Gambling Statement of Policy at Appendix 1 to the report which includes the amendments approved for consultation on 21st September 2018 and amendments following the consultation.
Appendix 1 , item 42. PDF 453 KB
Consideration was given to a report of the Director of Community Health and Wellbeing, which had been referred to Council by Cabinet.
To approve the amended Gedling Gambling Statement of Policy at Appendix 1 to the report which includes the amendments approved for consultation on 21st September 2018 and amendments following the consultation.
Vote: For 34, Against 0, Abstention 0
Referral from the Appointments and Conditions of Service Committee: Pay Policy Statement PDF 343 KB
Report of the Service Manager, Organisational Development.
Council is recommended to adopt the Pay Policy Statement for publication on the Council’s website.
Consideration was given to the report of the Service Manager Organisational Development, which had been referred to Council from the Appointments and Conditions of Service Committee.
To adopt the Pay Policy Statement for publication on the Council’s website.
Referral from Audit Committee: KPMG Annual Audit Letter 2017/18 PDF 93 KB
Council is recommended to receive and note the KPMG Annual Audit Letter 2017/19.
App A - KPMG_GBC_Annual Audit Letter_201718.pdf , item 44. PDF 1 MB
Consideration was given to a report of the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance which had been referred to Council by Audit Committee.
To receive and note the KPMG Annual Audit Letter 2017/18.
To answer questions asked by Members of the Council under Standing Order 9.
To receive questions and comments from Members concerning any matter dealt with by the Executive or by a Committee or Sub-Committee (Standing Order 11.1). PDF 79 KB
Minutes , item 46. PDF 58 KB
Minutes , item 46. PDF 134 KB
In accordance with Standing Order 11.1, a number of comments were made and responded to by the appropriate Cabinet Member or Committee Chair.
To consider comments, of which due notice has been given, under Standing Order 11.03(a).
To consider motions under Standing Order 12.
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Disney Hub Login Guide
Complete Disney Hub Solution
Disney Channel App
Disney Hub Schedule
Ways to Access Disney Hub on Mobile, Step By Step Procedure to Follow
The Disney Hub on hand-held mobiles accesses the Walt Disney Enterprise Portal. The information available on the portal is not meant for public viewing. The information on the Walt Disney Enterprise Portal is closely protected. Only employees of the Walt Disney Enterprise have the right to access the Disney Hub.
Each employee is provided with a unique Account Hub ID and password. The employee has to use the given Account Hub ID and password as username and password to log in. Only if the login information tallies with the registered data, the user is allowed to access the available information like Disney Hub Schedule and more.
Here are the 5 step-by-step instructions all users need to follow:
Process of accessing the Walt Disney Enterprise Portal: At present, there is no available Disney mobile application so users cannot log in through their hand-held devices.
Users can access the Walt Disney Hub using their mobile: This is possible because every modern mobile operating platform – Android and iPhone – provides the latest browsers. Using these browsers, people can visit Disney Hub and login as usual. Browser facilities are no different from accessing the Disney Hub through PC and/or laptop.
Detailed information on how to access the Disney Hub via mobiles with no PC or laptop has been discussed as follows:
Use suitable web browsers for various mobile platforms. For an instant, Safari for iPhones, Chrome or Firefox for Android.
Go to the site – https://myid.disney.com/services/
As an employee, you have the required Account ID and password. Enter the right information in the appropriate boxes – username and password.
Click on “Sign In” button and complete login procedure. If there is no error in username and password, then you would be signed in.
Customer Technical Support for Accessing Disney Hub: Users, who forget their Account ID used for username and/or password, cannot Sign in. These users are banned from the online recovery of their user name or password; instead, they are advised to re-register.
Official Disney Portal:
Supporting contact page (help.disney.com/Contact)
Disney IT Support Centre Phone Number: 1-866-5Disney.
Contact Page: User can also click on the “First Time User” present on login page. The portal’s help page provides users with several suggestions. These focus on how to login to the Disney Hub Mobile Access. Other issues asked are redirected to the Walt Disney Support Team.
Going through the article, it is clear that Disney Hub can be accessed by employees of Walt Disney Enterprise. Only they are privileged since they are provided with the necessary username (Account ID) and password. Both these unique combined information are required for them to log in to the Disney Hub site. One can access the Disney Hub via PC, laptop and mobile. Yet, each of these devices has to be connected to the internet. At present, there are no mobile apps available. Hence, while on the go, users can use their latest browsers compatible with the mobile platform.
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Feb 17 Pets On Shabbos: Pawful or Pawesome?
R. Jason Allen
Halacha, Shabbos
Can you pet a dog on Shabbos? It is this and similar questions that we endeavor to answer in this essay.
We begin in Parshas Yisro in which we read that not only are we, our sons, daughters, and servants commanded to observe the Sabbath via abstaining from work, but so are our animals. As the verse says:
Shemos 20:10:
וְיוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי שַׁבָּת לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לֹא־תַעֲשֶׂה כָל־מְלָאכָה אַתָּה וּבִנְךָ־וּבִתֶּךָ עַבְדְּךָ וַאֲמָתְךָ וּבְהֶמְתֶּךָ וְגֵרְךָ אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ
[…] but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;
The Mishnah (Shabbos 128b) tells us that it is permissible to use a kli (vessel) to lift or lower small birds. Furthermore, a Braisa in the Gemara, notes that it is forbidden to “oker b’heima, chayah, v’oaf.” Rashi (d”hkofin & ein) explains that only via a kli could the birds be handled, since to handle them with one’s hands would be assur, since they are muktzah.
Yes, that’s correct: animals, or “ba’alei chayim” as they’re referred to by the Sages, are considered muktzah. And not only are they considered muktzah, but they are a very stringent muktzah, as even to use them for a permitted purpose — such as to appease a crying child — is forbidden (Tosafos on Shabbos 45b, d”hhacha).
Without getting too side-tracked into the nine (or so) different categories of muktzah (perhaps for another time), one of the most chamur (pun always intended) genres is that of “muktzah machmas gufo.” Items in this muktzah category generally include: money, rocks, sticks, sand, dirt, raw foods; they are things which have no usable function on Shabbos and are completely removed from one’s mind as a functional Shabbos article 1 . They do not have the heter to be moved for any reason (even “tzorech gufo” or “tzorech mekomo” as other categories have). It would appear from Tosafos’ definition of ba’alei chayim that animals fall into this category, which is also the opinion of Ran (Rif 21b, d”h mihu) and Rambam (Hil. Shabbos 25:26). Beis Yosef (beginning of OC §308) says explicitly that, in fact, ba’alei chayim are completely assur.
It isn’t surprising, then, that R’ Karo follows his own opinion in his formulation of the halacha in Shulchan Aruch:
Shulchan Aruch OC 308:39:
אָסוּר לְטַלְטֵל בְּהֵמָה, חַיָּה וְעוֹף; וְאַף עַל פִּי כֵן מֻתָּר לִכְפּוֹת אֶת הַסַל לִפְנֵי הָאֶפְרוֹחִים, כְּדֵי שֶׁיַּעֲלוּ וְיֵרְדוּ בּוֹ, וּבְעוֹדָם עָלָיו, אָסוּר לְטַלְטְלוֹ:
All animals and birds are forbidden to handle… and any kli which has an animal on it may not be handled either.
In se’if 40, R’ Karo continues and Mishna Berura (151-152) explains that an animal may be aided by humans to help it walk if there is tza’ar ba’alei chayim involved (i.e. l’tzorech the animal), but it cannot be lifted off the ground. And, if there is a possible hefsed mammon (monetary loss), then the animal can be pushed by a human (i.e. l’tzorech the human), but one must be careful not to violate the melacha of tzeida (trapping).
Three Kinds Of Handling
What is apparent so far is that there are three levels of “tiltul”, or handling, of ba’alei chayim:
Regular handling: picking up the animal off the ground for any reason (even for tza’ar or hefsed) is assur.
Helping the animal walk on the ground: permissible only when tza’ar ba’alei chayim is prevalent.
Pushing the animal: allowed for tza’ar ba’alei chayim and for hefsed mammon for the owner (e.g. if the animal might run away, etc.).
Why Are Animals Muktzah?
One thing we haven’t mentioned yet is what might be the sevara, or logical reasoning, as to why an animal would be considered such a stringent level of muktzah in the first place. Maggid Mishna (Hil. Shabbos 25:26) and Mishna Berura (308:146) both explain that since animals were used for work, and work is of course forbidden on Shabbos, they thereby have no utility on Shabbos and are thus inherently muktzah (machmas gufo).
Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim
What exactly is the law when it comes to a case of tza’ar ba’alei chayim? In what way can animals be handled in such a case?
Based on the above criteria, when an animal is experiencing tza’ar ba’alei chayim, the prohibition of muktzah was not removed to facilitate alleviating the pain. Chazal did, however, relax certain rules in the presence of animal suffering.
Carrying the animal is always forbidden; helping it to walk—without picking it up, however, is permissible. (Animals that are easily picked up, however, like a chicken, may not be walked at all.)
Pushing, or even pulling by a leash, any animal to assist it is permitted. This is true even in reshus ha’rabim since one is unlikely to come to carry the animal (see Bach, 308 d”h davka b’chatzer).
There is no prohibition of giving a pill or medicine to animals on Shabbos, as the g’zerias “sechikas smamanim” when it comes to medicine only applies to humans, not animals (SSK 27:54-57).
Other options for an animal in distress would be to ask a non-Jew to assist (MB 305:70), or bringing a pillow or step to facilitate the animal helping itself (SA 305:19, MB 305:69). In addition, there is a minority view espoused by Shulchan Aruch HaRav (305:26) and Chazon Ish (OC 52:16) that permits the direct removal of an animal (even by hand) from a situation in cases involving both tza’ar ba’alei chayim and hefsed mammon. Thus, if a person’s bowl of inexpensive goldfish (you know, the one’s that come in bags at the fair) spills over on Shabbos, the goldfish may not be rescued. If, however, someone’s expensive dog fell into a pool on Shabbos, it may be removed by hand, if it isn’t a reshus harabim and no non-Jew is available (see SSK 27:54-58). Further, a dead fish may be removed from a fish tank so as not to cause the other fish to die if the other fish are expensive, and there is no issue of borer here (SSK 27:28).
In a similar vein, if an animal is causing damage (hefsed mammon) — e.g. the house cat is jumping all over the furniture — the restrictions of muktzah remain in force. Thus, grabbing the animal would still be forbidden. The animal may, however, be pushed, pulled by its leash, or removed with a shinui (such as one’s foot) in such a situation (Halachos of Muktzah, pp. 122-123).
We do not help an animal when it’s giving birth on Shabbos (SA 332:1) since this involves excess tircha, and even to support it is forbidden (MB 1). On Yom Tov, however, one may support an animal in labor (SA OC 523:3). Biur Halacha cites Pri Megadim who is in doubt about what to do if the animal (either the mother of the offspring) may die; he allows one to ask a non-Jew for help, and if there is no gentile around, then the Jew himself can do it in such a life-and-death situation.
Could one perhaps draw a distinction between animals that are doing work versus domestic pets? Are things any more lenient when it comes to household dogs or cats (or the like)?
Although we did mention above that the opinion of Tosafos is that animals are indeed muktzah, the truth is that one of the ba’alei haTosafos (HaRav R’ Yosef) is a bit more lenient when it comes to animals that are “fit to help quiet a crying baby” (in this case, a small bird). Although Tosafos debunk this opinion, the Rishonim debate whether an animal which can be used to entertain a child is considered to be muktzah.
HaRav R’ Yosef (above), and Responsa Maharach Ohr Zarua (§82) believe that such animals are not muktzah by virtue of the fact that they have utility. Yet Tosafos (ibid.), Mordechai (Shabbos 316), Hagahot Oshri (Shabbos 3:21), and Rosh (Responsa) reject both these authorities because of two possible considerations:
First, the fact that an animal could be used to calm a child is insufficient utility to render the creature no longer muktzah machmas gufo.
Second, Chazal classified all animals as muktzah regardless of whether a particular animal has utility on Shabbos. This is an example of "lo plug rabbanan", Rabbinic legislation that was instituted for a reason, yet encompasses even the cases for which the reason does not technically apply.
The question arises, though, whether circumstances have changed since the time of the Rishonim. These authorities discuss animals which can possibly be used to amuse children, but not animals whose entire purpose is to entertain and provide companionship to their owners. R’ S.Z. Auerbach (cited in SSK 27, fn:96), in fact, raises the possibility of making this distinction, yet he rules that pets are still muktzah. It appears that this question is contingent on one's acceptance of one of the two reasons (stated above) offered by the Rishonim for why an animal that can be used to quiet a child from crying is muktzah. If one assumes like the first reason — that the position that the possibility of using an animal to amuse a child is insufficient utility to remove it from being considered muktzah — then a cogent argument can be made that a pet is nowadays sufficiently useful to the extent that one no longer can say that they have no purpose to their owners on Shabbos and Yom Tov, and hence are not muktzah. However, if one adopts the position that the rabbis have deemed all animals to be muktzah, regardless of their utility, then even household pets nowadays are to be included in this category.
When it comes to pets, the modern-day poskim are divided.
The machmirim (in addition to R’ Auerbach, above), or stringent:
Orchos Shabbos (2:19:124) states that even animals which people have as pets at home are muktzah, as “lo plug rabanan.”
R’ Pinchas Bodner (“Halachos of Muktzah,” pp. 119) states that pets are functionless. As looking at them or playing with them is not considered a function, they are therefore totally muktzah on both Shabbos and Yom Tov.
R’ Ovadia Yosef (Yabia Omer OC 5:26) also rejects R’ Auerbach’s possible distinction and says that Rosh’s logic of “lo plug” carries a lot of weight as an “omed hora’ah” in Yisrael.
The meikilim (in addition to Maharach Ohr Zarua and HaRav R’ Yosef in Tosafos), or lenient:
Minchas Shabbos (8:10) is lenient when it comes to parakeets — since people benefit from their voices and so therefore they are not muktzah — as well as any animal used to entertain a baby since it would be considered a usable kli at that point.
Halachos Ketanos (1:45), Nezer Yisrael (10), B’tzel Hachochma (5:33-34).
In a bit of controversial teshuva, R’ Moshe Feinstein (IM OC 5:22:21) writes that ba’alei chayim are muktzah, but animals used for “sha’ashuim (pets)” are not muktzah. The reason this teshuva is considered a bit controversial is the fact that it appears in volume five of Igros Moshe Orach Chaim, which is known to have been published posthumously 3 .
It is the opinion of Mori v'Rebbi, R’ Chayim Soloveichik, that house pets are not considered muktzeh since nowadays they do have a tzorech.
Animals Cages, etc.
An interesting nafka mina, or practical difference, between the two sides would be as follows: If pets are indeed classified as muktzah, it follows that anything the pet was standing on during bein hashmashos is also muktzah (based on the laws of bosis). Thus, birdcages, fish tanks, dog/cat beds, etc., which had their respective animals on them as Shabbos began are considered muktzah even if the animal was removed from them on Shabbos (MA 308:66, SSK 27:30).
Not everyone agrees to this stringent opinion, though. R’ S.Z. Auerbach (SSK ibid. fn:96) posits that although the fish and birds are muktzah due to their being ba’alei chayim, the cage or tank they are housed in is not muktzah since they, along with their animals, are for decorative purposes 2 . Others suggest within R’ Auerbach’s approach that he only allowed small fish tanks to be moved since they are “omed l’taltel,” whereas a big fish tank which does not move, or a birdcage, would not be allowed to be moved (ibid. fn:101).
One may removed the cover of a fish tank, though, to feed the fish (OS 2:19:124).
Feeding Animals On Shabbos
Feeding animals is forbidden on Shabbos unless they are dependent on you for their food and sustenance (SA 324:11). Based on this, Mishna Berura (ibid. 29-31) and Magen Avraham (7) strongly oppose the custom to feed the birds on Shabbos Shira (Parshas Beshalach) each year, since they’re not dependent upon us to feed them. Others (Chavos Yair and R’ Ovadia) say “minhag Yisrael Torah hi” and are lenient to allow feeding the birds so long as the food isn’t placed directly in front of them.
A starving animal, even though it is not yours, may be fed on Shabbos. Shaking out a tablecloth with crumbs onto the yard or street is also okay since you’re not going out of your way to feed the animals and birds by doing so (Yalkut Yosef, Shabbos 4:38-47)
Seeing-Eye Dogs
R’ S.Z. Auerbach (SSK 18, fn:62) states that a seeing-eye dog is not muktzah for a blind person on Shabbos. He reasons that since their essential function is such that they will be moved out of necessity, then one surely intends to move them on Shabbos and hence their designation as muktzah is avoided 3 .
Yom Tov
When it comes to Yom Tov, it should be noted that the halacha is slightly different when compared to Shabbos. Since food preparation (ochel nefesh) is permissible on Yom Tov, slaughtering an animal is allowed since they didn’t have refrigeration during the times of the Gemara to keep meat fresh over an extended period of time. Since one can prepare the meat of kosher animals, such animals are not muktzah (SA OC 497:6). All other animals, however, are muktzah. Ramah (OC 495) qualifies that milk-producing cows and egg-producing chickens, even though they will not be slaughtered, are nevertheless not classified as muktzah.
Shulchan Aruch (OC 305:1) paskins that decorative items should not be worn by an animal when its owner takes it into an area not enclosed by an eruv since an animal does not benefit from such items. Furthermore, Shulchan Aruch (ibid., se’if 17) rules that items which animals wear for purposes of identification are not considered beneficial for the animal. They are worn solely for the convenience and benefit of its owner.
The question arises, though, regarding identification tags which clearly benefit the animal, such as those which show that it has an owner and can be returned home if properly identified. Aruch HaShulchan (305:5), after some initial hesitation, rules stringently. He believes that halachah considers all identification markers to be in the category of items that a Jew may not permit his pet to wear in reshus ha’rabim on Shabbos. However, R’ S.Z. Auerbach (SSK 27, fn:33) disagrees when it comes to tags that are worn for the benefit of the dog, such as identification tags which allow the animal to be returned to its owner in case it is lost, provided that it is in the animal's interest to be with its owner. R’ Auerbach cautions, though, that if the tags are worn by the animal merely to verify that its owner has paid all the required taxes and fees associated with owning the animal, then the animal may not wear them since they serve only the needs of the owner. R’ Auerbach's ruling appears not to be limited to tags worn to prevent the animal's death; it seems to apply to any tag worn for the benefit of the animal.
Using A Leash
According to those poskim who allow pets to be handled on Shabbos, there would seemingly be no issue of muktzah to use a leash as well. However, one would need to exercise caution when walking a pet on Shabbos with a leash in an area not enclosed by an eruv. Firstly, Shulchan Aruch (OC 305:16) says that the handle of the leash should not protrude more than a handbreadth (approximately 3-4 inches) from under the hand of the person walking the animal. This is because it is forbidden to have a considerable protrusion as it would appear as if the individual walking the animal is carrying the leash instead of merely holding the leash. Additionally, Shulchan Aruch (ibid.) states that one must be sure to keep the leash reasonably taut, so that the leash does not hang within three inches of the ground. If the leash would hang so close to the ground it would appear to be an article that the animal is wearing unnecessarily.
Finally, the issue of “tzeida,” or trapping an animal on Shabbos, is another related topic with a number of issues that could arise. Tzeida is one of the 39 melachos, and if/how it would apply to domesticated pets is perhaps a discussion for another time.
As we've seen, there is much debate as to the propriety of owning house pets in their relation to proper Shabbos adherence. While many halachic authorities permit ownership of pets, a pet owner, however, must be aware of the many halachic complexities which arise. With appropriate care and attention, though, one can overcome any potential cat-astrophy.
1. Notwithstanding that one can designate such items for a permissible use before the onset of Shabbos.↩
2. This sevara seems strange to me, though, since based on the laws of bosis, the cage/tank should be muktzah as well, irrespective of its decorative purpose.↩
3. Additionally, the part that says pets are not muktzah is written in a bit of a smaller font. I’ve been unsuccessful in trying to ascertain why that is, but some seem to speculate or cast doubt on this psak of R’ Moshe due to the aforementioned quandaries.↩
4. An interesting side note regarding seeing-eye dogs: R’ Moshe Feinstein (IM OC 1:45) rules that it is permissible for a blind person to bring them into a shul.↩
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Label: ROCALTROL- calcitriol capsule, liquid filled
ROCALTROL- calcitriol solution
NDC Code(s): 0004-0143-01, 0004-0143-23, 0004-0144-01, 0004-9115-00
Packager: Roche Pharmaceuticals
Marketing Status:
Rocaltrol (calcitriol) is a synthetic vitamin D analog which is active in the regulation of the absorption of calcium from the gastrointestinal tract and its utilization in the body. Rocaltrol is available as capsules containing 0.25 mcg or 0.5 mcg calcitriol and as an oral solution containing 1 mcg/mL of calcitriol. All dosage forms contain butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) as antioxidants. The capsules contain a fractionated triglyceride of coconut oil, and the oral solution contains a fractionated triglyceride of palm seed oil. Gelatin capsule shells contain glycerin, parabens (methyl and propyl) and sorbitol, with the following dye systems: 0.25 mcg — FD&C Yellow No. 6 and titanium dioxide; 0.5 mcg — FD&C Red No. 3, FD&C Yellow No. 6 and titanium dioxide. The oral solution contains no additional adjuvants or coloring principles.
Calcitriol is a white, crystalline compound which occurs naturally in humans. It has a calculated molecular weight of 416.65 and is soluble in organic solvents but relatively insoluble in water. Chemically, calcitriol is 9,10- seco(5Z,7E)-5,7,10(19)-cholestatriene-1α, 3β, 25-triol and has the following structural formula:
The other names frequently used for calcitriol are 1α,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, 1,25-DHCC, 1,25(OH)2D3 and 1,25-diOHC.
Man's natural supply of vitamin D depends mainly on exposure to the ultraviolet rays of the sun for conversion of 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin to vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). Vitamin D3 must be metabolically activated in the liver and the kidney before it is fully active as a regulator of calcium and phosphorus metabolism at target tissues. The initial transformation of vitamin D3 is catalyzed by a vitamin D3-25-hydroxylase enzyme (25-OHase) present in the liver, and the product of this reaction is 25 hydroxyvitamin D3 [25-(OH)D3]. Hydroxylation of 25-(OH)D3 occurs in the mitochondria of kidney tissue, activated by the renal 25-hydroxyvitamin D3-1 alpha-hydroxylase (alpha-OHase), to produce 1,25-(OH)2D3 (calcitriol), the active form of vitamin D3. Endogenous synthesis and catabolism of calcitriol, as well as physiological control mechanisms affecting these processes, play a critical role regulating the serum level of calcitriol. Physiological daily production is normally 0.5 to 1.0 mcg and is somewhat higher during periods of increased bone synthesis (eg, growth or pregnancy).
The two known sites of action of calcitriol are intestine and bone. A calcitriol receptor-binding protein appears to exist in the mucosa of human intestine. Additional evidence suggests that calcitriol may also act on the kidney and the parathyroid glands. Calcitriol is the most active known form of vitamin D3 in stimulating intestinal calcium transport. In acutely uremic rats calcitriol has been shown to stimulate intestinal calcium absorption.
The kidneys of uremic patients cannot adequately synthesize calcitriol, the active hormone formed from precursor vitamin D. Resultant hypocalcemia and secondary hyperparathyroidism are a major cause of the metabolic bone disease of renal failure. However, other bone-toxic substances which accumulate in uremia (eg, aluminum) may also contribute.
The beneficial effect of Rocaltrol in renal osteodystrophy appears to result from correction of hypocalcemia and secondary hyperparathyroidism. It is uncertain whether Rocaltrol produces other independent beneficial effects. Rocaltrol treatment is not associated with an accelerated rate of renal function deterioration. No radiographic evidence of extraskeletal calcification has been found in predialysis patients following treatment. The duration of pharmacologic activity of a single dose of calcitriol is about 3 to 5 days.
Calcitriol is rapidly absorbed from the intestine. Peak serum concentrations (above basal values) were reached within 3 to 6 hours following oral administration of single doses of 0.25 to 1.0 mcg of Rocaltrol. Following a single oral dose of 0.5 mcg, mean serum concentrations of calcitriol rose from a baseline value of 40.0±4.4 (SD) pg/mL to 60.0±4.4 pg/mL at 2 hours, and declined to 53.0±6.9 at 4 hours, 50±7.0 at 8 hours, 44±4.6 at 12 hours, and 41.5±5.1 at 24 hours.
Following multiple-dose administration, serum calcitriol levels reached steady-state within 7 days.
Calcitriol is approximately 99.9% bound in blood. Calcitriol and other vitamin D metabolites are transported in blood, by an alpha-globulin vitamin D binding protein. There is evidence that maternal calcitriol may enter the fetal circulation. Calcitriol is transferred into human breast milk at low levels (ie, 2.2±0.1 pg/mL).
In vivo and in vitro studies indicate the presence of two pathways of metabolism for calcitriol. The first pathway involves the 24-hydroxylase as the first step in catabolism of calcitriol. There is definite evidence of 24-hydroxylase activity in the kidney; this enzyme is also present in many target tissues which possess the vitamin D receptor such as the intestine. The end product of this pathway is a side chain shortened metabolite, calcitroic acid. The second pathway involves the conversion of calcitriol via the stepwise hydroxylation of carbon-26 and carbon-23, and cyclization to yield ultimately 1α, 25R(OH)2-26, 23S-lactone D3. The lactone appears to be the major metabolite circulating in humans, with mean serum concentrations of 131±17 pg/mL. In addition, several other metabolites of calcitriol have been identified: 1α, 25(OH)2-24-oxo-D3; 1α, 23,25(OH)3-24-oxo-D3; 1α, 24R,25(OH)3D3; 1α, 25S,26(OH)3D3; 1α, 25(OH)2-23-oxo-D3; 1α, 25R,26(OH)3-23-oxo-D3; 1α, (OH)24,25,26,27-tetranor-COOH-D3.
Enterohepatic recycling and biliary excretion of calcitriol occur. The metabolites of calcitriol are excreted primarily in feces. Following intravenous administration of radiolabeled calcitriol in normal subjects, approximately 27% and 7% of the radioactivity appeared in the feces and urine, respectively, within 24 hours. When a 1-mcg oral dose of radiolabeled calcitriol was administered to normal subjects, approximately 10% of the total radioactivity appeared in urine within 24 hours. Cumulative excretion of radioactivity on the sixth day following intravenous administration of radiolabeled calcitriol averaged 16% in urine and 49% in feces. The elimination half-life of calcitriol in serum after single oral doses is about 5 to 8 hours in normal subjects.
Pediatric Pharmacokinetics
The steady-state pharmacokinetics of oral Rocaltrol were determined in a small group of pediatric patients (age range: 1.8 to 16 years) undergoing peritoneal dialysis. Rocaltrol was administered for 2 months at an average dose of 10.2 ng/kg (SD 5.5 ng/kg). In this pediatric population, mean Cmax was 116 pmol/L, mean serum half-life was 27.4 hours, and mean clearance was 15.3 mL/hr/kg.1
No studies have examined the pharmacokinetics of calcitriol in geriatric patients.
Controlled studies examining the influence of gender on calcitriol have not been conducted.
Hepatic Insufficiency
Controlled studies examining the influence of hepatic disease on calcitriol have not been conducted.
Lower predose and peak calcitriol levels in serum were observed in patients with nephrotic syndrome and in patients undergoing hemodialysis compared with healthy subjects. The elimination half-life of calcitriol increased by at least twofold in chronic renal failure and hemodialysis patients compared with healthy subjects. Peak serum levels in patients with nephrotic syndrome were reached in 4 hours. For patients requiring hemodialysis peak serum levels were reached in 8 to 12 hours; half-lives were estimated to be 16.2 and 21.9 hours, respectively.
Predialysis Patients
Rocaltrol is indicated in the management of secondary hyperparathyroidism and resultant metabolic bone disease in patients with moderate to severe chronic renal failure (Ccr 15 to 55 mL/min) not yet on dialysis. In children, the creatinine clearance value must be corrected for a surface area of 1.73 square meters. A serum iPTH level of ≥ 100 pg/mL is strongly suggestive of secondary hyperparathyroidism.
Dialysis Patients
Rocaltrol is indicated in the management of hypocalcemia and the resultant metabolic bone disease in patients undergoing chronic renal dialysis. In these patients, Rocaltrol administration enhances calcium absorption, reduces serum alkaline phosphatase levels, and may reduce elevated parathyroid hormone levels and the histological manifestations of osteitis fibrosa cystica and defective mineralization.
Hypoparathyroidism Patients
Rocaltrol is also indicated in the management of hypocalcemia and its clinical manifestations in patients with postsurgical hypoparathyroidism, idiopathic hypoparathyroidism, and pseudohypoparathyroidism.
Rocaltrol should not be given to patients with hypercalcemia or evidence of vitamin D toxicity. Use of Rocaltrol in patients with known hypersensitivity to Rocaltrol (or drugs of the same class) or any of the inactive ingredients is contraindicated.
Overdosage of any form of vitamin D is dangerous (see OVERDOSAGE). Progressive hypercalcemia due to overdosage of vitamin D and its metabolites may be so severe as to require emergency attention. Chronic hypercalcemia can lead to generalized vascular calcification, nephrocalcinosis and other soft-tissue calcification. The serum calcium times phosphate (Ca × P) product should not be allowed to exceed 70 mg2/dL2. Radiographic evaluation of suspect anatomical regions may be useful in the early detection of this condition.
Rocaltrol is the most potent metabolite of vitamin D available. The administration of Rocaltrol to patients in excess of their daily requirements can cause hypercalcemia, hypercalciuria, and hyperphosphatemia. Therefore, pharmacologic doses of vitamin D and its derivatives should be withheld during Rocaltrol treatment to avoid possible additive effects and hypercalcemia. If treatment is switched from ergocalciferol (vitamin D2) to calcitriol, it may take several months for the ergocalciferol level in the blood to return to the baseline value (see OVERDOSAGE).
Calcitriol increases inorganic phosphate levels in serum. While this is desirable in patients with hypophosphatemia, caution is called for in patients with renal failure because of the danger of ectopic calcification. A non-aluminum phosphate-binding compound and a low-phosphate diet should be used to control serum phosphorus levels in patients undergoing dialysis.
Magnesium-containing preparations (eg, antacids) and Rocaltrol should not be used concomitantly in patients on chronic renal dialysis because such use may lead to the development of hypermagnesemia.
Studies in dogs and rats given calcitriol for up to 26 weeks have shown that small increases of calcitriol above endogenous levels can lead to abnormalities of calcium metabolism with the potential for calcification of many tissues in the body.
Excessive dosage of Rocaltrol induces hypercalcemia and in some instances hypercalciuria; therefore, early in treatment during dosage adjustment, serum calcium should be determined twice weekly. In dialysis patients, a fall in serum alkaline phosphatase levels usually antedates the appearance of hypercalcemia and may be an indication of impending hypercalcemia. An abrupt increase in calcium intake as a result of changes in diet (eg, increased consumption of dairy products) or uncontrolled intake of calcium preparations may trigger hypercalcemia.
Should hypercalcemia develop, treatment with Rocaltrol should be stopped immediately. During periods of hypercalcemia, serum calcium and phosphate levels must be determined daily. When normal levels have been attained, treatment with Rocaltrol can be continued, at a daily dose 0.25 mcg lower than that previously used. An estimate of daily dietary calcium intake should be made and the intake adjusted when indicated. Rocaltrol should be given cautiously to patients on digitalis, because hypercalcemia in such patients may precipitate cardiac arrhythmias.
Immobilized patients, eg, those who have undergone surgery, are particularly exposed to the risk of hypercalcemia.
In patients with normal renal function, chronic hypercalcemia may be associated with an increase in serum creatinine. While this is usually reversible, it is important in such patients to pay careful attention to those factors which may lead to hypercalcemia. Rocaltrol therapy should always be started at the lowest possible dose and should not be increased without careful monitoring of the serum calcium. An estimate of daily dietary calcium intake should be made and the intake adjusted when indicated.
Patients with normal renal function taking Rocaltrol should avoid dehydration. Adequate fluid intake should be maintained.
The patient and his or her caregivers should be informed about compliance with dosage instructions, adherence to instructions about diet and calcium supplementation, and avoidance of the use of unapproved nonprescription drugs. Patients and their caregivers should also be carefully informed about the symptoms of hypercalcemia (see ADVERSE REACTIONS).
The effectiveness of Rocaltrol therapy is predicated on the assumption that each patient is receiving an adequate daily intake of calcium. Patients are advised to have a dietary intake of calcium at a minimum of 600 mg daily. The U.S. RDA for calcium in adults is 800 mg to 1200 mg.
For dialysis patients, serum calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and alkaline phosphatase should be determined periodically. For hypoparathyroid patients, serum calcium, phosphorus, and 24-hour urinary calcium should be determined periodically. For predialysis patients, serum calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, creatinine, and intact PTH (iPTH) should be determined initially. Thereafter, serum calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, and creatine should be determined monthly for a 6-month period and then determined periodically. Intact PTH (iPTH) should be determined periodically every 3 to 4 months at the time of visits. During the titration period of treatment with Rocaltrol, serum calcium levels should be checked at least twice weekly (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Cholestyramine has been reported to reduce intestinal absorption of fat-soluble vitamins; as such it may impair intestinal absorption of Rocaltrol (see WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS: General).
Phenytoin/Phenobarbital
The coadministration of phenytoin or phenobarbital will not affect plasma concentrations of calcitriol, but may reduce endogenous plasma levels of 25(OH)D3 by accelerating metabolism. Since blood level of calcitriol will be reduced, higher doses of Rocaltrol may be necessary if these drugs are administered simultaneously.
Thiazides
Thiazides are known to induce hypercalcemia by the reduction of calcium excretion in urine. Some reports have shown that the concomitant administration of thiazides with Rocaltrol causes hypercalcemia. Therefore, precaution should be taken when coadministration is necessary.
Calcitriol dosage must be determined with care in patients undergoing treatment with digitalis, as hypercalcemia in such patients may precipitate cardiac arrhythmias (see PRECAUTIONS: General).
Ketoconazole may inhibit both synthetic and catabolic enzymes of calcitriol. Reductions in serum endogenous calcitriol concentrations have been observed following the administration of 300 mg/day to 1200 mg/day ketoconazole for a week to healthy men. However, in vivo drug interaction studies of ketoconazole with Rocaltrol have not been investigated.
A relationship of functional antagonism exists between vitamin D analogues, which promote calcium absorption, and corticosteroids, which inhibit calcium absorption.
Phosphate-Binding Agents
Since Rocaltrol also has an effect on phosphate transport in the intestine, kidneys and bones, the dosage of phosphate-binding agents must be adjusted in accordance with the serum phosphate concentration.
Since calcitriol is the most potent active metabolite of vitamin D3, pharmacological doses of vitamin D and its derivatives should be withheld during treatment with Rocaltrol to avoid possible additive effects and hypercalcemia (see WARNINGS).
Uncontrolled intake of additional calcium-containing preparations should be avoided (see PRECAUTIONS: General).
Magnesium-containing preparations (eg, antacids) may cause hypermagnesemia and should therefore not be taken during therapy with Rocaltrol by patients on chronic renal dialysis.
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis and Impairment Of Fertility
Long-term studies in animals have not been conducted to evaluate the carcinogenic potential of Rocaltrol. Rocaltrol is not mutagenic in vitro in the Ames Test, nor is it genotoxic in vivo in the Mouse Micronucleus Test. No significant effects of Rocaltrol on fertility and/or general reproductive performances were observed in a Segment I study in rats at doses of up to 0.3 mcg/kg (approximately 3 times the maximum recommended dose based on body surface area).
Teratogenic Effects
Pregnancy Category C. Rocaltrol has been found to be teratogenic in rabbits when given at doses of 0.08 and 0.3 mcg/kg (approximately 2 and 6 times the maximum recommended dose based on mg/m2). All 15 fetuses in 3 litters at these doses showed external and skeletal abnormalities. However, none of the other 23 litters (156 fetuses) showed external and skeletal abnormalities compared with controls.
Teratogenicity studies in rats at doses up to 0.45 mcg/kg (approximately 5 times maximum recommended dose based on mg/m2) showed no evidence of teratogenic potential. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Rocaltrol should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
Nonteratogenic Effects
In the rabbit, dosages of 0.3 mcg/kg/day (approximately 6 times maximum recommended dose based on surface area) administered on days 7 to 18 of gestation resulted in 19% maternal mortality, a decrease in mean fetal body weight and a reduced number of newborn surviving to 24 hours. A study of perinatal and postnatal development in rats resulted in hypercalcemia in the offspring of dams given Rocaltrol at doses of 0.08 or 0.3 mcg/kg/day (approximately 1 and 3 times the maximum recommended dose based on mg/m2), hypercalcemia and hypophosphatemia in dams given Rocaltrol at a dose of 0.08 or 0.3 mcg/kg/day, and increased serum urea nitrogen in dams given Rocaltrol at a dose of 0.3 mcg/kg/day. In another study in rats, maternal weight gain was slightly reduced at a dose of 0.3 mcg/kg/day (approximately 3 times the maximum recommended dose based on mg/m2) administered on days 7 to 15 of gestation. The offspring of a woman administered 17 mcg/day to 36 mcg/day of Rocaltrol (approximately 17 to 36 times the maximum recommended dose), during pregnancy manifested mild hypercalcemia in the first 2 days of life which returned to normal at day 3.
Nursing Mothers
Calcitriol from ingested Rocaltrol may be excreted in human milk. Because many drugs are excreted in human milk and because of the potential for serious adverse reactions from Rocaltrol in nursing infants, a mother should not nurse while taking Rocaltrol.
Safety and effectiveness of Rocaltrol in pediatric patients undergoing dialysis have not been established. The safety and effectiveness of Rocaltrol in pediatric predialysis patients is based on evidence from adequate and well-controlled studies of Rocaltrol in adults with predialysis chronic renal failure and additional supportive data from non-placebo controlled studies in pediatric patients. Dosing guidelines have not been established for pediatric patients under 1 year of age with hypoparathyroidism or for pediatric patients less than 6 years of age with pseudohypoparathyroidism (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION: Hypoparathyroidism).
Oral doses of Rocaltrol ranging from 10 to 55 ng/kg/day have been shown to improve calcium homeostasis and bone disease in pediatric patients with chronic renal failure for whom hemodialysis is not yet required (predialysis). Long-term calcitriol therapy is well tolerated by pediatric patients. The most common safety issues are mild, transient episodes of hypercalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, and increases in the serum calcium times phosphate (Ca × P) product which are managed effectively by dosage adjustment or temporary discontinuation of the vitamin D derivative.
Geriatric Use
Clinical studies of Rocaltrol did not include sufficient numbers of subjects aged 65 and over to determine whether they respond differently from younger subjects. Other reported clinical experience has not identified differences in responses between the elderly and younger patients. In general, dose selection for an elderly patient should be cautious, usually starting at the low end of the dosing range, reflecting the greater frequency of decreased hepatic, renal, or cardiac function, and of concomitant disease or other drug therapy.
Since Rocaltrol is believed to be the active hormone which exerts vitamin D activity in the body, adverse effects are, in general, similar to those encountered with excessive vitamin D intake, ie, hypercalcemia syndrome or calcium intoxication (depending on the severity and duration of hypercalcemia) (see WARNINGS). Because of the short biological half-life of calcitriol, pharmacokinetic investigations have shown normalization of elevated serum calcium within a few days of treatment withdrawal, ie, much faster than in treatment with vitamin D3 preparations.
The early and late signs and symptoms of vitamin D intoxication associated with hypercalcemia include:
Early: weakness, headache, somnolence, nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, constipation, muscle pain, bone pain, metallic taste, and anorexia, abdominal pain or stomach ache.
Late: polyuria, polydipsia, anorexia, weight loss, nocturia, conjunctivitis (calcific), pancreatitis, photophobia, rhinorrhea, pruritus, hyperthermia, decreased libido, elevated BUN, albuminuria, hypercholesterolemia, elevated SGOT (AST) and SGPT (ALT), ectopic calcification, nephrocalcinosis, hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, dystrophy, sensory disturbances, dehydration, apathy, arrested growth, urinary tract infections, and, rarely, overt psychosis.
In clinical studies on hypoparathyroidism and pseudohypoparathyroidism, hypercalcemia was noted on at least one occasion in about 1 in 3 patients and hypercalciuria in about 1 in 7 patients. Elevated serum creatinine levels were observed in about 1 in 6 patients (approximately one half of whom had normal levels at baseline).
In concurrent hypercalcemia and hyperphosphatemia, soft-tissue calcification may occur; this can be seen radiographically (see WARNINGS).
In patients with normal renal function, chronic hypercalcemia may be associated with an increase in serum creatinine (see PRECAUTIONS: General).
Hypersensitivity reactions (pruritus, rash, urticaria, and very rarely severe erythematous skin disorders) may occur in susceptible individuals. One case of erythema multiforme and one case of allergic reaction (swelling of lips and hives all over the body) were confirmed by rechallenge.
OVERDOSAGE
Administration of Rocaltrol to patients in excess of their daily requirements can cause hypercalcemia, hypercalciuria, and hyperphosphatemia. Since calcitriol is a derivative of vitamin D, the signs and symptoms of overdose are the same as for an overdose of vitamin D (see ADVERSE REACTIONS). High intake of calcium and phosphate concomitant with Rocaltrol may lead to similar abnormalities. The serum calcium times phosphate (Ca × P) product should not be allowed to exceed 70 mg2/dL2. High levels of calcium in the dialysate bath may contribute to the hypercalcemia (see WARNINGS).
Treatment of Hypercalcemia and Overdosage in Dialysis Patients and Hypoparathyroidism Patients
General treatment of hypercalcemia (greater than 1 mg/dL above the upper limit of the normal range) consists of immediate discontinuation of Rocaltrol therapy, institution of a low-calcium diet and withdrawal of calcium supplements. Serum calcium levels should be determined daily until normocalcemia ensues. Hypercalcemia frequently resolves in 2 to 7 days. When serum calcium levels have returned to within normal limits, Rocaltrol therapy may be reinstituted at a dose of 0.25 mcg/day less than prior therapy. Serum calcium levels should be obtained at least twice weekly after all dosage changes and subsequent dosage titration. In dialysis patients, persistent or markedly elevated serum calcium levels may be corrected by dialysis against a calcium-free dialysate.
Treatment of Hypercalcemia and Overdosage in Predialysis Patients
If hypercalcemia ensues (greater than 1 mg/dL above the upper limit of the normal range), adjust dosage to achieve normocalcemia by reducing Rocaltrol therapy from 0.5 mcg to 0.25 mcg daily. If the patient is receiving a therapy of 0.25 mcg daily, discontinue Rocaltrol until patient becomes normocalcemic. Calcium supplements should also be reduced or discontinued. Serum calcium levels should be determined 1 week after withdrawal of calcium supplements. If serum calcium levels have returned to normal, Rocaltrol therapy may be reinstituted at a dosage of 0.25 mcg/day if previous therapy was at a dosage of 0.5 mcg/day. If Rocaltrol therapy was previously administered at a dosage of 0.25 mcg/day, Rocaltrol therapy may be reinstituted at a dosage of 0.25 mcg every other day. If hypercalcemia is persistent at the reduced dosage, serum PTH should be measured. If serum PTH is normal, discontinue Rocaltrol therapy and monitor patient in 3 months' time.
Treatment of Hyperphosphatemia in Predialysis Patients
If serum phosphorus levels exceed 5.0 mg/dL to 5.5 mg/dL, a calcium-containing phosphate-binding agent (ie, calcium carbonate or calcium acetate) should be taken with meals. Serum phosphorus levels should be determined as described earlier (see PRECAUTIONS: Laboratory Tests). Aluminum-containing gels should be used with caution as phosphate-binding agents because of the risk of slow aluminum accumulation.
Treatment of Accidental Overdosage of Rocaltrol
The treatment of acute accidental overdosage of Rocaltrol should consist of general supportive measures. If drug ingestion is discovered within a relatively short time, induction of emesis or gastric lavage may be of benefit in preventing further absorption. If the drug has passed through the stomach, the administration of mineral oil may promote its fecal elimination. Serial serum electrolyte determinations (especially calcium), rate of urinary calcium excretion, and assessment of electrocardiographic abnormalities due to hypercalcemia should be obtained. Such monitoring is critical in patients receiving digitalis. Discontinuation of supplemental calcium and a low-calcium diet are also indicated in accidental overdosage. Due to the relatively short duration of the pharmacological action of calcitriol, further measures are probably unnecessary. Should, however, persistent and markedly elevated serum calcium levels occur, there are a variety of therapeutic alternatives which may be considered, depending on the patient's underlying condition. These include the use of drugs such as phosphates and corticosteroids as well as measures to induce an appropriate forced diuresis. The use of peritoneal dialysis against a calcium-free dialysate has also been reported.
The optimal daily dose of Rocaltrol must be carefully determined for each patient. Rocaltrol can be administered orally either as a capsule (0.25 mcg or 0.50 mcg) or as an oral solution (1 mcg/mL). Rocaltrol therapy should always be started at the lowest possible dose and should not be increased without careful monitoring of serum calcium.
The effectiveness of Rocaltrol therapy is predicated on the assumption that each patient is receiving an adequate but not excessive daily intake of calcium. Patients are advised to have a dietary intake of calcium at a minimum of 600 mg daily. The U.S. RDA for calcium in adults is 800 mg to 1200 mg. To ensure that each patient receives an adequate daily intake of calcium, the physician should either prescribe a calcium supplement or instruct the patient in proper dietary measures.
Because of improved calcium absorption from the gastrointestinal tract, some patients on Rocaltrol may be maintained on a lower calcium intake. Patients who tend to develop hypercalcemia may require only low doses of calcium or no supplementation at all.
During the titration period of treatment with Rocaltrol, serum calcium levels should be checked at least twice weekly. When the optimal dosage of Rocaltrol has been determined, serum calcium levels should be checked every month (or as given below for individual indications). Samples for serum calcium estimation should be taken without a tourniquet.
The recommended initial dose of Rocaltrol is 0.25 mcg/day. If a satisfactory response in the biochemical parameters and clinical manifestations of the disease state is not observed, dosage may be increased by 0.25 mcg/day at 4 to 8 week intervals. During this titration period, serum calcium levels should be obtained at least twice weekly, and if hypercalcemia is noted, the drug should be immediately discontinued until normocalcemia ensues (see PRECAUTIONS: General). Phosphorus, magnesium, and alkaline phosphatase should be determined periodically.
Patients with normal or only slightly reduced serum calcium levels may respond to Rocaltrol doses of 0.25 mcg every other day. Most patients undergoing hemodialysis respond to doses between 0.5 and 1 mcg/day.
Oral Rocaltrol may normalize plasma ionized calcium in some uremic patients, yet fail to suppress parathyroid hyperfunction. In these individuals with autonomous parathyroid hyperfunction, oral Rocaltrol may be useful to maintain normocalcemia, but has not been shown to be adequate treatment for hyperparathyroidism.
The recommended initial dosage of Rocaltrol is 0.25 mcg/day given in the morning. If a satisfactory response in the biochemical parameters and clinical manifestations of the disease is not observed, the dose may be increased at 2- to 4-week intervals. During the dosage titration period, serum calcium levels should be obtained at least twice weekly and, if hypercalcemia is noted, Rocaltrol should be immediately discontinued until normocalcemia ensues (see PRECAUTIONS: General). Careful consideration should also be given to lowering the dietary calcium intake. Serum calcium, phosphorus, and 24-hour urinary calcium should be determined periodically.
Most adult patients and pediatric patients age 6 years and older have responded to dosages in the range of 0.5 mcg to 2 mcg daily. Pediatric patients in the 1 to 5 year age group with hypoparathyroidism have usually been given 0.25 mcg to 0.75 mcg daily. The number of treated patients with pseudohypoparathyroidism less than 6 years of age is too small to make dosage recommendations.
Malabsorption is occasionally noted in patients with hypoparathyroidism; hence, larger doses of Rocaltrol may be needed.
The recommended initial dosage of Rocaltrol is 0.25 mcg/day in adults and pediatric patients 3 years of age and older. This dosage may be increased if necessary to 0.5 mcg/day.
For pediatric patients less than 3 years of age, the recommended initial dosage of Rocaltrol is 10 to 15 ng/kg/day.
Capsules: 0.25 mcg calcitriol in soft gelatin, light orange, oval capsules, imprinted with ROCALTROL 0.25 ROCHE; bottles of 30 (NDC 0004-0143-23), and bottles of 100 (NDC 0004-0143-01).
Capsules: 0.5 mcg calcitriol in soft gelatin, dark orange, oblong capsules, imprinted with ROCALTROL 0.5 ROCHE; bottles of 100 (NDC 0004-0144-01).
Oral Solution: a clear, colorless to pale yellow oral solution containing 1 mcg/mL of calcitriol; each amber glass bottle of 15 mL of oral solution supplied with 20 single-use, graduated oral dispensers (NDC 0004-9115-00).
Rocaltrol Capsules and Oral Solution should be protected from light.
Store at 59° to 86°F (15° to 30°C).
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Home News Sports US women beat Japan to enter basketball semis
US women beat Japan to enter basketball semis
Rio de Janeiro: The ambitious Japanese women’s basketball team failed to make history at the Olympics as they lost 110-64 to the powerhouse United States in a quarter-final match here. The Asian champions, aiming for a medal finish, battled in every corner of the court in the first half on Tuesday before they were beaten by the Americans, reports Xinhua.
Japan trailed only 30-23 in the first quarter and closed in by just two points in the second on 46-44 before the US pulled away by 56-46 at the break. The US bench contributed 62 points, compared to 14 from the counterpart, when they extended the lead to over 40 points in the second half.
Seven Americans scored in double digits as Maya Moore and Taurasi led the team with 19 points each. Ramu Tokashiki led Japan with 14 points. Canada led for most of the match but surrendered down the stretch as France earned a berth in the semi-final against the US with a victory of 68-63. France turned a 13-points deficit into a one-point lead before the match was tied 50-50 at the end of the third quarter.
France scored eight straight points after trailing by 52-50 before Canada clawed back to 60-59. France scored next four points to give only 33 seconds to Canada, whoh failed to regain the lead.
In earlier matches, European champions Serbia snapped Australia’s medal finishing run in five consecutive Olympics with a 73-71 win. Australia have clinched three silver and two bronze medals since the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Spain edged off Turkey 64-62 in another quarter-final match to set up a semi-final meeting with Serbia. –IANS
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Home Community Theater Sandy Spring Theatre Group Holds Dance Audition for ‘The Producers’ on Sunday,...
Sandy Spring Theatre Group Holds Dance Audition for ‘The Producers’ on Sunday, 2/23@5 pm
DANCE AUDITIONS
Sunday, February 23, 2014 @ 5:00PM
1215 Connecticut Avenue, NW 4th
Music and Lyrics By Mel Brooks
Directed By Kristofer Kauff
Presented by The Sandy Spring Theatre Group
June 13 – June 29, 2014
At The Gaithersburg Arts Barn
AUDITION DETAILS:
-Please email kris@kristoferkauff.com to reserve your spot.\
The Audition begins at 5:00 PM.
-Bring a head shot and a resume to the audition.
We will take pictures for those who do not have head shots.
-You will sing a portion of a song, a cappella for initial auditions that best shows off your voice.
-Be dressed in comfortable clothing and ready to move.
-You will learn simple choreography, and then be asked to perform it.
-Ensemble rehearsals will be held in DC.
Tech week and performances will be at The Gaithersburg Arts Barn.
Max Bialystock was once one of Broadway’s most successful producers, but a string of flops has thrown his career into a tailspin, and now he struggles to raise the cash to stage new shows by playing gigolo to lonely old ladies. While going over his books, accountant Leo Bloom notices that Bialystock raised more money than he spent for one show, and points out that if one raised enough money for a show that closed in one night, you could make more off a flop than a hit. This strikes Bialystock as a brilliant scheme, and he decides to give it a try, persuading Bloom to join him in staging the world’s greatest flop. After discovering a truly vile script, “Springtime for Hitler,” a musical set in the Third Reich written by Neo-Nazi pigeon fancier Franz Liebkind and giving a key role to the secretary Ulla, a drop-dead gorgeous blonde with only a tenuous understanding of the English language, Bialystock and Bloom are certain they have the disaster they need for their plan to work. But the scheme unexpectedly goes wrong when “Springtime for Hitler” becomes a “so bad it’s good” hit.
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3 CHARACTER ACTRESSES (Females, 25-45) Several featured roles, including Hold Me-Touch Me, Lick Me-Bite Me, Kiss Me-Feel Me, usherettes, and Shirley Markowitz. Strong comic actresses who sing. Vocal range: Alto-mezzo.
ENSEMBLE (6 MEN, 6 WOMEN) Must be able to dance and sing well. Will play various roles, including little old ladies, chorus girls, Roger’s team, auditioners, prisoners, accountants, etc.
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Joe The Plumber Thinks Orlando Attack Means We Need A ‘Gays For Trump’ Movement
Fox Business trotted out that noted terrorism expert, Joe The Plumber, not only to praise Donald Trump’s terrorism-fighting mojo but to turn the marriage-equality opponent into some kind of icon for gays.
By NewsHound Richard
First, the segment highlighted a clip of Trump going after Hillary Clinton’s response to the horrific attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando: “She says the solution is to ban guns. They tried that in France, which has among the toughest gun laws anywhere in the world, and 130 people were brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists in cold blood. Her plan is to disarm law-abiding Americans. Abolishing the Second Amendment and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns.”
Rather than correct Trump’s falsehood about Clinton abolishing the Second Amendment, host Deirdre Bolton highlighted a Trump tweet from June 12: “Is President Obama going to finally mention the words radical Islamic terrorism? If he doesn't he should immediately resign in disgrace!”
Then came “Joe The Plumber,” the non-plumber whose real name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who gained notoriety in 2008 for publicly criticizing then-candidate Barack Obama – and later got a job that is probably thanks to the automobile bailout, largely overseen by Obama.
Bolton didn’t mention any of that. Instead, she asked Wurzelbacher why, besides business reasons, he supports Trump.
He responded, “Donald Trump is able to tap into the fear that is very real. Especially in light of what happened Sunday morning at 2 AM. Is that people do not feel safe in America. Because of radical Islam. Because of, actually, just Islam itself.”
Wurzelbacher went on to praise Trump for “putting the facts out there about what Barack Obama has and has not done” and how Hillary Clinton will (not) do the same as the “do-nothing Congress.”
Bolton interrupted to help validate her guest and to prompt him to also attack those who might not be suspicious enough of Muslims.
BOLTON: When you said ‘do-nothing Congress” I was thinking, what about do-nothing coworkers? As Judge Andrew Napolitano just told me, this person was flagged as a threat in the work place at one of the biggest physical security companies in the world and the employer, the boss, apparently was afraid say something because he didn’t want a kind of P.C. backlash.
Wurzelbacher then defended Trump’s Muslim ban, on the grounds that the FBI “could do a better job” if they didn’t have to do so much vetting.
WURZELBACHER: We really need to pause a little bit, make America safe again. And that’s not being bigots. It’s not being a racist. It’s just trying to keep the American people… safe. And that’s what the federal government’s job is to do and Barack Obama’s not doing it. He’s failed miserably.
Then came Wurzelbacher’s ridiculous appeal for Gays For Trump:
WURZELBACHER: As far as going for Trump and endorsing him, this is something where homosexuals should be out here, "Gays For Trump." You know, Hillary Clinton uses them for lip service. Donald Trump wants to make sure everybody gets protected and so we should start seeing social media light up, “Gays For Trump.”
Bolton added that she had just had on a gay guest who supports Trump because "these radical branches hate gays."
That guest, Gregory Angelo, from the Log Cabin Republicans, claimed that Trump is the most pro-LGBT nominee that this party has ever had.
While Trump is better than many Republicans on gay issues, he’s against marriage equality. And he was clearly uneasy over Michael Sam’s post-draft kiss.
Watch the hilarious, softball interview above, from the June 13 Risk and Reward with Deirdre Bolton, on the Fox Business Network.
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Fox News, On the Record With Greta Van Susteren, June 8, 2016. Joe Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. "Joe the Plumber" says all Trump needs to do in order to win over Bernie Sanders supporters is to just keep being Trump. Yeah, that should do it.
Scott Baio Suggests Obama Is A Muslim Who Wants To 'Totally Eliminate The United States'
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In September 2010, the Transactions Operations Committee decided to consider all appendices as supplemental material. If a paper's appendix is not initially designated as supplemental material, you will be asked to remove the appendix from the main paper file and resubmit the files via email to the journal administrator. The journal administrator will then upload the separate files to ScholarOne Manuscripts.
All supplemental materials must follow US copyright guidelines and may not include material previously copyrighted by another author, organization or company. If portions of your manuscript or supplemental files contain material that is the legal property of another party, you must retain pre-authorized written permission for reuse. Without proper clearance, your files will not be reviewed or published. If you do have clearance, please forward the documentation via email to the journal administrator.
It is essential that discussions of the social as well as the purely technical aspects of electrical and electronics engineering work be included in IEEE Publications. The following policies shall be implemented by the Publication Services and Products Board and followed by editors and authors:
The subject matter shall be relevant to the field of electrical or electronics engineering, or computer science, and the field's impact on society.
Reasonable efforts shall be made to provide for adequate and timely presentations of differing viewpoints.
Materials shall include a statement that the opinions expressed are those of the author, and no endorsement by the IEEE, its officials, or its members is implied.
ScholarOne Manuscripts requires authors to enter a name and email address while registering. Email is our primary means of communication, so it is very important to verify that all information submitted is correct.
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The IEEE outlines publication principles including authorship and author responsibilities in section 8.2.1of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual. Items specific, but not limited, to these principles are highlighted here:
Authorship credit and technical contribution
Coauthor awareness and approval of submission (or any revised version)
Ordering of authors on manuscript
Role of the corresponding author
Author conduct regarding plagiarism, dual submission, previous related work, and discussion of manuscript with reviewers
Citing the submitted paper in other relevant work under consideration for publication
Author responsibility for obtaining written permission to use material (i.e., charts, photographs, or other graphical or textual material) copywritten by other parties
Authors are responsible for reading and adhering to these guidelines. You must withdraw your submission immediately if you are unable to comply with any of them.
Submissions must represent original material and no version of the submission can be concurrently submitted to any conference, journal, or any other publication.
Papers are accepted for review with the understanding that the same work has been neither submitted to, nor published in, another journal or conference. If it is determined that a paper has already appeared in anything more than a conference proceeding or Letters, or appears in or will appear in any other publication before the editorial process is completed, the paper will be automatically rejected.
Papers previously published in conference proceedings, digests, preprints, or records are eligible for consideration provided that the papers have undergone substantial revision, and that the author informs the journal coordinator at the time of submission.
The question regarding concurrent submission appears on screen 5 in ScholarOne Manuscripts. Concurrent submission to these journals and other publications is viewed as a serious breach of ethics and, if detected, will result in immediate rejection of the submission.
We do not accept duplicate submissions of manuscripts. If you need to notify us of significant changes to the paper, please contact us. Please do not attempt to upload modified versions of papers that are already in ScholarOne Manuscripts. Identical submissions will be immediately rejected.
If any portion of your submission has previously appeared in or will appear in a conference proceeding, you should notify us at the time of submitting, make sure that the submission references the conference publication, and supply a copy of the conference version(s) to our office. Please also provide a brief description of the differences between the submitted manuscript and the preliminary version(s). You must select the appropriate designation for the files during the submission process in order to assist the editors and reviewers with differentiating between the files.
Please be aware that editors and reviewers are required to check the submitted manuscript to determine whether a sufficient amount of new material has been added to warrant publication. Section 8.2.1.B.9 of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations (PSPB) Manual specifies that authors should only submit original work that has neither appeared elsewhere for publication, nor which is under review for another refereed publication. If you have used your own previously published material as a basis for a new submission, then you are required to cite the previous work(s) and clearly indicate how the new submission offers substantively novel or different contributions beyond those of the previously published work(s). In addition, if you intend to submit a conference version of your paper to a conference after submitting to the IEEE Computer Society, you must state your intention to submit in your cover letter and provide a copy of the conference paper upon submission to the conference. You will also need to provide a brief description of the differences between the submitted manuscript and the conference version(s). Any manuscript not meeting this criteria will be rejected. Copies of any previously published work affiliated with the new submission must also be included as supportive documentation upon submission.
IEEE authors who receive public funding for their research, and then publish the research in an IEEE publication, are required to submit their papers to PubMed.* At this point in time, IEEE does not submit papers/articles for their authors, the authors must submit the forms themselves by going to, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/authorms/.
*Does not apply to TCBB, as this journal is already indexed by PubMed and Medline.
The policies contained in this Section 8.2.2.A shall apply to the Editors of all regular technical periodical IEEE publications, except IEEE SPECTRUM and Society newsletters. At no time should a manuscript be accepted or published in an archival journal without prior review of the complete manuscript by two or more independent referees conversant with the pertinent subject area.
IEEE requires that referees treat the contents of papers under review as confidential information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge that access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be regarded as confidential as well, and handled in the same manner.
Periodicals which are published in cooperation with non-IEEE organizations must have a review policy that ensures the quality of the papers. The policies of the non-IEEE organizations should be generally consistent with the IEEE requirements contained in this Section 8.2.2.A.
To access Section 8.2.2.A – The Review Process in its entirety, visit the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual.
You must indicate the reason for requesting or excluding reviewers during the submission process.
The peer review process assures the anonymity of the reviewers. You can request review in which your identity is also kept from the reviewers. This is called a double-blind review. Requests for a double-blind review should be clearly indicated during the submission process. (Note: Transactions on Cloud Computing, Transactions on Computers, and Transactions on Emerging Topcs in Computing do not offer this option.)
While you may request a double-blind review, such requests must be accompanied by an explanation in the cover letter on why the double-blind review is being requested. Furthermore, co-authors must be entered and listed in the co-author list during the submission process in ScholarOne Manuscripts. Papers requesting double-blind review must still provide copies of and differences from related papers by the authors that have been previously published. It is your responsibility to ensure that all electronic files (including but not limited to supplemental material and preliminary/conference versions), file properties, and materials submitted for double-blind review do not reveal your identity or the identities of contributing authors. Note that author anonymity for papers with preliminary versions cannot be guaranteed due to the possibility that reviewers may search for those versions on the Web.
Requests for double-blind reviews will be honored at the discretion of the Editor in Chief based on the reasons behind the requests.
The length of the review process varies between papers, and many factors affect the time it takes to review a paper. The time it takes for an associate editor to be assigned, and for available, qualified reviewers to be located, depends on the complexity and the type of material submitted for review. Each publication makes a concerted effort to keep the review time to a minimum that is consistent with keeping the publications reputation for quality and integrity. Each submission placed into review is sent to at least three reviewers, making one submission correspond to roughly three review requests. The review process for our transactions journals may take approximately six to twelve months to be completed. For IEEE Computer Architecture Letters the response time from submission to author notification currently averages one month.
Since we make an effort not to "over use" individual reviewers, we hope that you will make it a priority to help with the review of other submissions when we call upon you.
When your paper is accepted for publication, below is the author checklist designed to help you meet the final submission requirements. Please note that all IEEE Computer Society Transactions papers are edited electronically; therefore, electronic materials are required for all final submissions.
You will be required to submit your final publication materials by the due date given in the acceptance letter. To avoid delays in the publication process, please refer to the author checklist below when preparing your materials.
Author Checklist
One non-editable copy (.pdf) of your complete manuscript (for CAL only)*
One editable copy (.doc or .tex) of your complete manuscript must match the final accepted .pdf version downloaded from ScholarOne. A complete manuscript includes:
author affiliation data
figures and tables (including captions and titles)
footnotes, if any
references**
photo and biography of each author (regular or survey papers only)
Signed copyright transfer form submitted via ScholarOne Manuscripts only***
Supplemental material (if applicable) *****
Teaser image information******
Image permission (if applicable) - If you intend to use an image that you didn't create (that is, it originally appeared elsewhere or someone else created it), you will need to provide permission that you're authorized to use that image to the production editor assigned to work with you on your article. The editor will guide you on exactly what that process will entail.
The Transactions Art Guide lists our printing specifications. Please consult this guide when considering how to best create graphics that will appear at the highest quality in print and online.
* PDF files of final, accepted papers will be downloaded from ScholarOne Manuscripts and used for preprints and publication. No changes can be made to a preprint. Any typographical errors may be addressed with the production editor during the proofing stage.
~All editable versions (Word or Latex) must match this final accepted PDF version downloaded from ScholarOne. Any subsequent PDF files will not be used for production.~
**Please do not send a .bib file, we only use .bbl files. Please include only those references pertaining to the paper you are submitting.
***The author, in providing a signed copyright form, understands that all copyrights in and to the above work are assigned to The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. ("IEEE"). All text and figures must be owned and created by the author, except possibly for material such as text passages, figures, and data that clearly identify the original source, with permission notices from the copyright owners where required. Copyright clearance must be provided for the use of commercial or non-public domain images. The author represents that he/she has the power of authority to make and execute this assignment.
****Does not apply to surveys, concise/short/comments papers, brief contributions, CAL, TCBB, & TPAMI.
*****Must be a separate file from the main paper file and named as "log #-supp." The supplemental file(s) will also be downloaded with the accepted PDF from ScholarOne Manuscripts to be accessed with the article preprint.
******Applies to TC, TDSC, TKDE, TMC, TPAMI, TPDS, TSE and TVCG only. Please identify a teaser image from your manuscript that may be used in the abstract book as part of the OnlinePlus program and send this information via email to the publication's administrator. Note that failure to include this information will cause delay in posting/processing your manuscript for publication.
The IEEE Computer Society uses an online first publication model, which means that your paper will be posted online shortly after you submit all publication materials. As of 1 Feb. 2010, PDF files of final, accepted papers downloaded from ScholarOne Manuscripts will be stamped as a "PrePrint" posted to the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) and sent to the IEEE for posting in Xplore. No changes can be made to a preprint until the article appears in an issue. If for any reason you would prefer not to have your paper posted as a PrePrint, please advise the journal coordiator immediately; otherwise, your paper will be submitted for online posting shortly after all materials are received.
IEEE subscription-based publications are hybrid journals, allowing either Traditional manuscript submission or Open Access (author-pays OA) manuscript submission. By selecting "YES" to the Open Access question, you commit to pay the discounted $1,750 OA fee if your manuscript is accepted for publication in order to enable unrestricted public access. [Note: The open access article processing charge (APC) for hybrid publications is USD $1950 for all articles accepted on or after 1 January 2017.]
Any other applicable charges (such as over-length page charges) will be billed separately once the manuscript formatting is complete, but prior to final publication.
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The following policy on mandatory overlength page charges applies to the journals listed below:
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
• IEEE Letters of the Computer Society
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Big Data
• IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Computers
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
In its mission to maintain a consistent and high quality publication process, the IEEE Computer Society follows a strict policy on the lengths of published papers. Page length restrictions not only encourage authors to submit concise papers that readers will appreciate, but they help to keep the review process timely and maintain uniform editorial standards and consistency with page budgets. So that manuscripts meet page length requirements, supporting but nonessential information should be submitted as supplemental material. Independent of any voluntary page charges, the IEEE Computer Society assesses the authors of accepted papers that exceed the regular paper length limit after final editing and layout a fee called Mandatory Overlength Page Charges (MOPC). The regular paper page length limit is defined at 12 formatted pages for Transactions and four formatted pages for Letters, including references and author biographies. Any pages or fraction thereof exceeding this limit are charged $200 per page. Regular paper submissions to Transactions may not exceed 18 formatted pages. Authors will be notified of any assessed charges when galley proofs are sent for review. Payment must be sent at the time galley proofs are approved by the author. The Computer Society's policy on page limits as described here is strictly enforced. All submissions must meet the journal's submission guidelines.
The author is responsible for obtaining copyright releases and corporate and security clearances prior to submitting material for consideration. It is the IEEE's policy to assume that all clearances are granted when a paper is submitted.
The IEEE copyright form must be completed & submitted in ScholarOne Manuscripts upon submission. For more information, please refer to the IEEE Intellectual Property Rights Homepage and author FAQs.
This paper by Harold Stone (PDF) outlines basic author responsibilities in the area of copyright, re-use of material from your own previous publications and as well as publications by others. It also touches on issues of duplicate, simultaneous, and plagiarized publications. All authors should be familiar with the guidelines summarized in Table 1 of this paper.
New media center pages have been designed to host all Transactions journal's multimedia submitted by you, the EIC, volunteers, and authors. Any media (audio or video) received for Transactions journals will be posted on these pages. This multimedia may also be posted on the Transactions journal's home page for a short period of time and promoted in our relevant newsletters and press releases. Please refer to the Journals Media Center for additional information.
These templates are only meant to aid you in preparing a draft of your manuscript for peer-review, but they do not and will not reflect the final format for publication. The published paper will appear as formatted by IEEE Computer Society publication staff.
LaTeX (TAR)
LaTeX (ZIP)
Word (ZIP) double dolumn (can be used for peer review and final submission)
All IEEE Computer Society publications adhere to the prescreening process as outlined in the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB) Operations Manual, Section 8.2.2.A.3 regarding prescreening of articles by editors.
Note that “minimum technical content” is defined as what is normally understood as such by the publication's community.
All IEEE journals require an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) for all authors. ORCIDs enable accurate attribution and improved discoverability of an author’s published work. The author will need a registered ORCID in order to submit a manuscript or review a proof in this journal.
Follow these steps to link a ScholarOne account to a registered ORCID:
1. Login to ScholarOne and click on your name in the top right corner of the screen.
2. Click E-mail / Name in the dropdown menu.
3. In the ORCID section at the top of the page, click the appropriate link to either register for a new ORCID or associate the account with an existing ORCID.
4. A new page will open to create and/or validate your ORCID. Once the validation is complete, the new page will close and you will return to ScholarOne.
5. Save the changes to your ScholarOne user account.
Authors who do not have an ORCID in their ScholarOne user account will be prompted to provide one during submission.
English language editing services can help refine the language of your article and reduce the risk of rejection without review. IEEE authors are eligible for discounts at several language editing services; visit the IEEE Author Center to learn more.
Please note these services are fee-based and do not guarantee acceptance.
IEEE DataPort
IEEE DataPort is an online data repository of datasets and data analysis tools. The repository accepts all types of datasets up to 2TB and provides a DOI for easy citation. IEEE DataPort is currently available for free with coupon code Dataport1.
Several Computer Society publications are pleased to participate in a free trial offering IEEE DataPort, which supports authors in hosting and referring to their datasets during the article submission process. Participating titles include:
Computing in Science & Engineering (CiSE)
IEEE Software
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
Learn more about this exciting opportunity.
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IEEE Computer Society journals accept supplemental materials for review with submissions. These materials may be published on our digital library with the electronic version of the paper, where they can be accessed for free. A pointer to the Supplemental material will be included in the printed version.
If the author has included supplemental material, reviewers will be required to answer two supplemental material related questions during the review process.
The editor, as a member of the editorial board of the publication, is responsible for ensuring that the publication maintains the highest quality while adhering to the publication policies and procedures of both the Computer Society and of the IEEE. Although you may currently be serving as an editor or reviewer for one or more publications of other IEEE Societies, the procedures set out for the Computer Society's transactions may be different. Therefore, we request that you read through our entire guidelines at least once, in order to get a sense of our procedures, and to understand how you will be interacting with the support staff, the reviewers, and the authors in fulfilling the important role of the editor.
If the author sends a submission directly to the editor, they should be instructed to submit their paper to ScholarOne Manuscripts (S1M). The Journal Adminstrator (JA) checks the submission for compliance to our guidelines (i.e. page length) and then notifies the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) that the manuscript is ready for an editor assignment. It may or may not be the editor who originally received the paper. This not only ensures that our submissions are tracked properly, but it also ensures that each paper receives a fair and unbiased review. Papers submitted by authors directly to the editors should not be sent out for review. Any paper that does not go through the review process via ScholarOne Manuscripts will not be recognized as a submission and may not be published.
The most important role of the editor is the identification of appropriate reviewers for a manuscript. The EIC sends the editor a letter requesting that he/she handle the review process. Editors should assign three confirmed or five unconfirmed reviewers or administratively reject the paper in S1M within two weeks upon receiving their editor assignment. Should the editor decide not to assign reviewers but instead administratively reject the paper, he/she must include a detailed explanation of why the paper does not warrant reviewer assignment in the "Comments to Authors" section of the editor recommendation form.
Should a manuscript warrant reviewer assignment, the editor should personally secure the agreement of the reviewers to conduct the review in the allotted time before officially assigning them on as referees. This is central to the peer review process and triggers activities in S1M that set the peer review of a manuscript in motion. Therefore, it is extremely important that reviewers understand that the time frame established for conducting the peer review is three weeks from assignment within S1M, that the reviewers agree to this schedule, and that accurate contact information (in particular the e-mail address) for each reviewer is maintained in the S1M reviewer database. When a reviewer is chosen, the editor must check for any inaccuracies with the reviewer's information in the S1M database before assigning a paper to them, or add a new reviewer if they are not yet included in the system. Corrections to the reviewer's information must be communicated to the appropriate journal admin prior to assignment.
Reviewers are principally identified through peer contact, through the reviewer database in the S1M, or from references listed at the end of the manuscript. In rare circumstances, it may be necessary for the author to suggest possible expert reviewers, when a field is extremely narrow or new; this is an exception and the resulting reviewers may not be completely unbiased. This process should be used only in exceptional cases, since using these reviewers may compromise the confidentiality of the review process. In such cases, it is preferable to use references in papers published by the suggested reviewers as an augmented pool from which to draw potential reviewers. Note that the Computer Society's digital library, and other databases like the IEEE's Xplore can be used effectively to augment the reference list and database entries of S1M.
Select reviewers across a range of ability. Eager, more junior reviewers balance the more experienced, senior reviewer. Good reviewers are like diamonds -- although they are sturdy, one must be careful not to over wear them. It is extremely important that the schedule for conducting the review be met; one way to ensure timely reviews, and that a reviewer not feel overwhelmed, is to request one, but certainly no more than two reviews from a single individual at any given time. Also, there are occasions when reviewers may need assistance when performing their reviews. The first line of communication, when problems arise concerning the review itself, is the editor. The editor must be available for such communication by e-mail or by phone, and responsive to such requests.
ScholarOne Manuscripts will notify the editor and journal admin as soon as the required number of reviews are received. Manuscripts submitted to the transactions of the IEEE Computer Society normally receive three independent peer reviews. IEEE policy requires that no fewer than two peer reviews be conducted. Sometimes, in a very narrow field, due to workload or other factors, it is extremely difficult to secure a third review. In that event, it is permissible to have two peer reviews plus the review of the editor; however, three reviews should be the norm. Therefore, the editor must find at least three reviewers who accept to review the manuscript by the agreed three-week deadline. In the event that the editor provides the one of the reviews, this review should have the explicit indication that they have performed it.
The editor may recommend an "accept", "reject", "resubmit as new", or request a "major revision" for re-review. Editors may also request a "minor revision." In that case, the editor must personally re-review the paper before giving it a final acceptance. The editor is to complete and submit the recommendation form located in the paper's manuscript details. The EIC will render the final decision and will notify the author and editor of that decision.
If a major revision is recommended, the revision will be assigned to the same editor and sent out for a second round of reviews. Usually the same reviewers are used for the revised manuscript, but at the discretion of the editor. If a minor revision is required, the JA will notify the editor for a final recommendation after receiving a copy of the manuscript. If a paper is accepted, the authors are given a publication checklist and are asked to prepare their final manuscript.
As an editor of the editorial board, you will be contributing greatly to our prestigious journal and our high standards of peer review. The role of the editor in scholarly publishing is a very important one: management of the peer review of manuscripts by members of the peer review community. The IEEE Computer Society requires the peer review of all papers that appear in our transactions and papers are selected for publication only on the basis of merit and appropriateness.
The editors for the publications of the IEEE Computer Society are responsible for the consistently high marks our transactions receive in the peer review community. By assuring the selection of appropriate reviewers to identify quality manuscripts, and by efficiently managing the peer review process, the quality and value of our publications are increased.
The Computer Society has been taking steps improve the time from manuscript submission to publication. One of the hallmarks of quality scholarly publishing lies in rapid publication. These efforts will culminate with ScholarOne Manuscripts, our fully electronic submission and review system. A set of procedures has been devised to significantly reduce our submission-to-publication window from 2+ years to less than 1.5 years. The new procedures under which you will perform your duties as an editor should be considered as "standard operating procedure".
The formal term of appointment of an editor is two years, renewable once. The transactions Editor-in-Chief (EIC) makes the appointment. During the formal term, the editor functions as a member of the editorial board for the publication; however, although the formal (voting) term of an editor may end according to the calendar, the informal term continues until all manuscripts assigned to that editor have been peer reviewed and a final disposition has been made.
It is extremely important that when an editor is contemplating being away from "home base" for two or more weeks, that the JA be notified of the absence and be provided with at least one means of emergency contact (e-mail, phone, fax).
Because an editor is advised prior to acceptance of the terms of service and responsibilities of the post, he/she is not relieved of such duties during any protracted absences from home base, or during sabbatical. In the case that a long absence is necessary, the editor must establish a means for his/her work as an editor to continue effectively, and the JA must be provided, and updated, with full contact information as the editor moves from one location to another. In exceptional cases, the editor may request a suspension of the term of service, which will be determined by the EIC of the publication. Even in such cases, it is expected that the editor will follow up with final recommendations on any pending manuscripts.
The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) will assign an editor to the manuscript based on a paper's subject area. As a norm, an editor shall not be assigned more than three manuscripts per month during his/her term of service. This does not mean that each editor will only receive three manuscripts each month, as editors covering popular subject areas may be more active than others. Any difficulties with workload should be reported immediately to the JA and EIC. Temporary relief can be administered to ensure workloads do not fall behind.
IEEE Review Process Statement (8.2.2.A The Review Process)
Editors have 2 weeks to assign reviewers
Reviewers are given maximum of 3 weeks to review the paper
Reviewers are given 4 weeks to re-review major revisions
Editors are given 2 weeks to submit a recommendation in S1M once all or enough of the reviews have come in
Authors have a maximum of 4.5 months to submit their major revisions
Authors have a maximum of 3 months to submit their minor revisions. The JA begins sending reminders on the first week pending
Editors are given 2 weeks to review a minor revision and enter a recommendation
Authors are given a total of 2 weeks to submit their publication materials
Reviewers are given 6 weeks to review the paper
Reviewers are given 4 weeks to re-review major revisions.
Authors have a maximum of 3 months to submit their major revisions*
Authors have a maximum of 1 month to submit their minor revisions. The JA begins sending reminders on the first week pending.
Authors are given a total of 2 weeks to submit their publication materials.
Note: A one-time-only-request of extension could exceptionally be presented, provided that it is sent both to the Editor-in-Chief and to the TC Peer Review Support Specialist, and that it is received not later than 2 weeks before the expiration of the submission deadline. The request should be motivated and the Editor-in-Chief, based on the reasons in support to the request, can grant an one-time-extension by at most one additional month.
Reviewers are given a maximum of 6 weeks to review the paper
Note: These times are indicative and extensions can be given as needed.
Editors have 2 weeks to either administratively reject or invite reviewers to an assigned paper
Authors have a maximum of 3 months to submit their minor revisions. The JA begins sending reminders on the first week pending.
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
*The JA begins sending reminders on the third month pending. At six months, the JA will contact the editor with a copy to the Editor-in-Chief, requesting permission to close the paper's file. If you approve, the JA will notify the author that we are closing their file, but that they can resubmit. Although the resubmitted paper will be given a new log number and a new set of dates, the author will be told that if they include their previous log number with the resubmission, we will link the new paper to the previous version. This same procedure may be applied to minor revisions.
The editor will determine the disposition of the manuscript, based on remarks of the reviewers, and the editor's own assessment of the manuscript. The editor's recommendation must be well-justified and explained in detail. If the editor's recommendation conflicts with the reviews, or if the reviews conflict with each other, editors must be careful to explain the basis of their recommendation to help avoid an appeal of the Editor-in-Chief's (EIC) decision. In cases where revisions (major or minor) are requested, these should be clearly indicated and explained in the "Comments to Authors" section of the recommendation form. The EIC must then promptly convey this decision to the author. The author may contact the editor if instructions regarding amendments to the manuscript are unclear. All decisions are final.
Accept: An accept decision means that an editor is accepting the paper "as is" and with no further changes whatsoever. The paper will not be seen again by the editor or by the reviewers.
Major Revision: A major revision means that the paper should go back to the original reviewers for a second round of reviews. We strongly discourage editors from making a decision based on their own review of the manuscript if a major revision had been previously required. This may cause problems in the future if reviewers were to see a published paper that they did not have a chance to re-review. If a paper has already gone through two rounds of reviews, the option of a second major revision is not available.
Minor Revision: The minor version may not go back to the reviewers, if the editor feels the revisions are sufficient / appropriate. Any revision in length by more than 10% should be a major revision.
Reject: The manuscript is not suitable for publication.
Revise and Resubmit as "New": This reject decision may be an alternative to asking for a second major revision.
Administrative Reject: The editor rejects the manuscript without assigning it to reviewers due to significant deficiencies.
Administrative Reject - Out of Scope: The manuscript does not fall within the scope of the journal. Please suggest a more suitable journal for submission.
Second Major Revision
There is no rule against a second major revision as such; however, we strongly advise against it since the authors were already given specific instructions in the past and did not fulfill the requirements. If a major overhaul is required to the current version of the paper before it can be considered for the journal, we suggest closing the current file and recommending rejection. This will give the authors an unlimited amount of time to thoroughly revise their paper and resubmit it as new.
A recommendation of "Revise and Resubmit as New" is available. Editors may recommend that the author resubmit the paper as new as an alternative to asking for a second major revision. If you wish, we can instruct the authors to request the same Editor be assigned to their new paper, increasing the chances of an expedited review. Overall, this procedure will help avoid damaging the journal's submission to publication time, which is one of the foundations of its highly regarded reputation.
As the editor, you play a vital role with helping our papers move through the review process. This is especially true if we are having difficulties with getting enough reviewer feedback to make a decision. Here are some general suggestions of what you can do help expedite the review process:
Send personal reminders to your reviewers. ScholarOne Manuscripts sends up to three automated reviewer reminders. Although these three automated reminders are found to be very effective, receiving a personal reminder from the assigned editor, who is also a peer from the community, has much more impact. As the editor, you will be copied on the system's third reminder. This should be a trigger for you follow up with the reviewer. To do so, click on their name link under the review section of the paper's manuscript details.
Alternatively, we have set ScholarOne Manuscripts to highlight papers with reviewers who have been sent three reminders. This will indicate that the paper has become an "outlier". To see which reviewers require a personal reminder from you, do the following:
Log onto ScholarOne Manuscripts
Go into the Editor Center
Click on the 'Overdue Reviewer Scores' View
A list of the papers and their delinquent reviewers highlighted in red will pull up.
To send a message to the reviewer, click on their name link and a new message will open in your email program.
If you want to first view the ms details for the paper (i.e., the comments section) to get a clearer understanding of the paper before contacting the reviewer, click on the checkmark icon that appears under the "Take Action" section of the manuscript record.
Scroll down to the "Reviewer List" section to see the reviewer details.
Any correspondence to the reviewer should be done in the system by clicking on their name link. This will save a copy of the correspondence section of the manuscript details.
Make a recommendation once you have three reviews even if you have some outstanding. If one or two reminders have been sent to the remaining reviewers, you can inform them that you will be making a decision and give them a shorter deadline (i.e., one or two weeks) to submit their reviews. If they do not submit their reviews by the given deadline, proceed with making a recommendation. If three reminders have already been sent, then you should determine whether or not assigning a confirmed alternate reviewer(s) is more appropriate.
Inform your last reviewer that theirs is the last review you're trying to obtain. Informing a reviewer that you need their comments in order to make a recommendation often helps them better understand the added priority of submitting their review, especially if it is late and/or the other reviews give conflicting recommendations.
A comments paper is a paper commenting on an error one has found or a disagreement one has with a previously published paper. The JA retrieves as much information as possible about the published paper being commented on and forwards the information to the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) via ScholarOne Manuscripts (S1M). If the editor who was assigned to the previously published paper is no longer available, the EIC assigns the comments paper to another editor whose expertise areas closely match that paper's topic. The editor reviews the comments paper and if they believe the commenting authors may have a valid point, they contact the previously published paper's authors with an invitation to review and respond with a rebuttal.
If the authors agree, they gain access to the comments paper (as reviewers) & receive a deadline in S1M. The editor is notified when the authors have submitted their response/review in the system. If the published paper's authors agree with the comments paper's authors, the editor may then decide to publish the comments paper. If the published paper's authors disagree with the comments paper's authors, the editor may choose to either reject the comments paper (if the published authors proved the comments paper's authors were unfounded) or have the JA send the response/review to the comments paper's authors for their counter rebuttal.
After receiving the counter rebuttal, the editor may either reject the comments paper or choose to publish both the comments paper and the original authors' response. In fairness to both parties involved, if the editor chooses to publish the comments paper despite the original author's disagreement, they should publish their response too.
If the editor wants to send the comments paper to the published paper's reviewers, the reviewers should be given copies of both papers to review. Please note that regardless whether or not the original reviewers are contacted, the original authors should also be called upon to review the comments paper. Everyone should be given a deadline, at the editor's discretion, to submit his or her response. In order to be fair to all the authors, if the original authors respond arguing against the comments paper, then their response should also be sent to the reviewers.
Sometimes an editor may be more apt to ask the published paper's reviewers to review the comments paper if they are taking over from a retired editor and are not familiar with handling the comments paper without getting the insight from other experts in the field. Nonetheless, the published papers' author(s) should always be contacted.
If the authors provided a previously published conference submission, please take the time before assigning reviewers, to check the submission to determine whether there has been sufficient new material added to warrant publication. Section 8.2.1.B.9 of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations (PSPB) Manual specifies that authors should only submit original work that has neither appeared elsewhere for publication, nor which is under review for another refereed publication. If an author used their own previously published material as a basis for a new submission, then they are required to cite the previous work(s) and clearly indicate how the new submission offers substantively novel or different contributions beyond those of the previously published work(s). Please keep in mind that this rule applies to all aspects of the review process and must also be applied to all revisions and/or final versions submitted by the authors.
Per the IEEE PSPB policy, papers that do not meet “a minimum criterion for technical substance established for the periodical” may be administratively rejected pending consultation and agreement of the EIC and at least two editorial board members. Based on this policy, if you think that the paper is unsuitable for further review please select/assign the second editorial board member (instructions are in the editor assignment letter). You will be able to post your Administrative Reject recommendation after the review is submitted in the system. Please be sure to include detailed comments to the author on why the paper is not suitable.
Submissions to IEEE Computer Society journals must represent original material. We discourage submitting to more than one publication at one time. If it is determined that a paper (a) has already appeared in anything more than a conference proceedings, or (b) appears in or will appear in a submission to any other publication before the editorial process is completed, the paper will be automatically rejected.
Papers are accepted for review with the understanding that the same work has been neither submitted to, nor published in, another journal. Concurrent submission to other publications and these Transactions is viewed as a serious breach of ethics and, if detected, will result in immediate rejection of the submission. Papers previously published in conference proceedings, digests, preprints, or records are eligible for consideration provided that the author informs the editorial staff at the time of submission and that the papers have undergone substantial revision. The question regarding concurrent submission appears during the submission process in ScholarOne Manuscripts.
The guidelines for handling concurrent submissions are as follows:
If the journal administrator (JA) is informed of a possible concurrent submission, they immediately contact the editor handling the paper and the Editor-in-Chief (EIC).
The editor handling the paper in question and EIC at the other journal/publication are contacted to determine the status of the paper submitted to them. We also request a copy of that paper.
If the other paper is still undergoing review, both journals "swap" papers for comparison. The editors and EICs of both journals are involved in this process.
Based on the policy mentioned above, if the editors determine a clear case of concurrent submission, the manuscript is immediately rejected. The EIC sends the decision letter to the author via ScholarOne Manuscripts, using the dual submission letter template provided by the JA.
Editor-in-Chief Information
EIC Quick Links
Assigning an Editor
Writing an Editorial
The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) will assign an editor to the manuscript based on a paper's subject area. Should the editor decide to not assign reviewers but instead administratively reject the paper, he/she will be required to complete the editor recommendation form.
If the author sends a submission directly to the editor, they should be instructed to submit their paper to ScholarOne Manuscripts. The journal administrator will then send the manuscript to the EIC to be assigned to an editor. It may or may not be the editor who originally received the paper. This not only ensures that our submissions are tracked properly, but that each paper receives a fair and unbiased review. Papers submitted by authors directly to the editors should not be sent out for review. Any paper that does not go through the review process via ScholarOne Manuscripts will not be recognized as a submission and hence may not be published.
As soon as possible, but definitely within a two-week period, the editor should assign reviewers (either three confirmed or five unconfirmed). If possible, please directly contact the reviewers in advance and ask them to agree to do the review as this generally results in reviewers who are less likely to decline. We normally set a six-week deadline for reviews, unless the editor makes specific arrangements with a reviewer to review more or less quickly.
ScholarOne Manuscripts will automatically notify the editor as soon as enough reviews are received. Ideally an editor should have three reviews before making a recommendation on a paper. At that time, the editor may recommend an "accept" or a "reject" for the paper or request a "major revision" for re-review. Sometimes editors will also request a "minor revision." In that case, the editor should personally re-review the paper before recommending it to the EIC for acceptance.
If a major revision is recommended, the revision will be assigned to the same editor and sent out for a second round of reviews. Usually the same reviewers are used for the revised manuscript, but that is at the discretion of the editor.
If a paper is accepted, the final accepted PDF is downloaded from ScholarOne Manuscripts to be used for preprint and publication. All editable versions (Word or Latex) must match this final accepted PDF version downloaded from ScholarOne and any subsequent PDF files will not be used for production. The acceptance letter also contains a publication checklist to aid authors in submitting final files.
For additional information regarding these processes and other EIC-related topics, please refer to the IEEE Computer Society EIC Manual.
The editor will determine the disposition of the manuscript, based on remarks of the reviewers, and the editor's own assessment of the manuscript. The editor's recommendation must be well-justified and explained in detail. If the editor's recommendation conflicts with the reviews, or if the reviews conflict with each other, editors must be careful to explain the basis of their recommendation to help avoid an appeal of their decision. In cases where revisions (major or minor) are requested, these should be clearly indicated and explained in the "Comments to Authors" section of the recommendation form. The editor must then promptly convey this decision to the author. The author may contact the journal administrator if instructions regarding amendments to the manuscript are unclear.
Editorials should give a brief overview of current issues or the state of the journal, or give a short introduction to each new editorial board member.
Editorials cannot be regular papers. Editors are also prohibited from submitting papers to their own journal. Submitting to one's own journal may be misunderstood by certain members of the journal's readership as unethical.
Editorials should be no more than two pages in length, but not necessarily including new editor biographies and photographs. Biographies should be moderate in length, otherwise they will be edited.
Editorials should not include references unless absolutely necessary, and even then they should be limited to a maximum of four. Editorials must include complete and current affiliation and contact information.
Editorials must be submitted in an editable format, such as a Word document or text sent via e-mail. The editor-in-chief is responsible for reviewing the galley proofs of their editorial for accuracy of typesetting and communicating any corrections to IEEE Computer Society staff within 72 hours of receipt.
Guest Editor Information
Guest Editor Quick Links
Role of the Guest Editor
Deadlines for Special Issues
Call For Papers Template
Generally, guest editors (GE) will want to go through all of Special Issue submissions, weed out the papers that can be administratively rejected and then assign reviewers to the others. Generating a reviewer pool by confirming with referees ahead of time, even before the submission deadline helps guarantee adherence to our schedule. You will want to ask reviewers to complete and submit their comments to you within a maximum of three weeks upon receiving a copy of the paper. Authors should be instructed to submit their papers via ScholarOne Manuscripts. They are to specify exactly which Special Issue they are submitting to by making the proper selection in "Manuscript Type" drop-down menu on the first screen of the submission process.
Since the review process for Special Issues should be placed on a fast-track schedule, authors will be given a solid deadline for completing their major and minor revisions, at two months and two weeks, respectively. Authors should also submit a summary of their changes and responses to the reviewers' original comments. Major revisions should go back to the original reviewers for a second round of reviews with another two week deadline, by ensuring that their original concerns were addressed.
Minor revisions are to be reviewed by the GE only, unless you need one of the reviewers to ensure that their remaining concern(s) were fully addressed. The authors should be given two weeks to make their minor changes and the GE's should take no more than one week to review them and make final recommendations.
In an effort to adhere to our strict page budget, we are trying to better enforce our long standing page limitations and formatting guidelines with our authors. In order to help them adhere to these guidelines, we need your support by suggesting ways to maintain the lengths of their manuscripts should you decide to ask the author to add new content. Please offer suggestions as to what they can remove so their manuscripts still adhere to our page limitation and formatting requirements detailed on the author center page.
Because the proposed schedule gives guest editor (GE) essentially six months to complete the peer review process for Special Issue (SI) papers from start-to-finish, we must strongly encourage you follow a faster-paced review schedule by doing the following:
Assign reviewers within two weeks of the submission deadline
Give reviewers four weeks to review their papers
Enter recommendations within two weeks of receiving reviews (the EIC receives a week to evaluate your recommendations & enter decisions)
Give authors four weeks to revise their manuscripts
Give reviewers another three weeks to conduct a second review
Give authors two weeks to make any necessary minor changes before a final recommendation is made
Enter recommendations within two weeks of receiving minor revisions (the EIC receives a week to evaluate your recommendations & enter decisions)
All special issue materials must be received no later than 12-16 weeks before the scheduled publication date (depending on the frequency of the publication).
It is important to conduct an initial review before reviewer assignment to weed out poorly written papers or those that are not within scope of the special issue. We also encourage GEs to try and confirm with reviewers ahead of time, so that they know what to expect and agree to the time commitments. A good opportunity to do this is during the SI's corresponding workshop or conference.
The editor will determine the disposition of the manuscript, based on remarks of the reviewers, and the editor's own assessment of the manuscript. The editor's recommendation must be well justified and explained in detail. If the editor's recommendation conflicts with the reviews, or if the reviews conflict with each other, editors must be careful to explain the basis of their recommendation to help avoid an appeal of their decision. In cases where revisions (major or minor) are requested, these should be clearly indicated and explained in the "Comments to Authors" section of the recommendation form. The editor must then promptly convey this decision to the author. The author may contact the editor if instructions regarding amendments to the manuscript are unclear. All decisions are final.
Major Revision: A major revision means that the paper should go back to the original reviewers for a second round of reviews. We strongly discourage editors from making a decision based on their own review of the manuscript if a major revision had been previously required. This may cause problems in the future if reviewers were to see a published paper that they did not have a chance to re-review.
Minor Revision: The minor version may not go back to the reviewers, if the editor feels the revisions are sufficient / appropriate. Any revision in length by more than 10% should be a "Major Revision".
Resubmit as "New": This may be an alternative decision to asking for a second major revision.
Out of Scope: The manuscript does not fall within the scope of the journal. We ask that you please suggest a more suitable journal for submission.
If a paper has already gone through two rounds of reviews, the option of a second major revision is not available.
A recommendation of "Resubmit as New" is available. Editors may recommend that the author resubmit the paper as new as an alternative to asking for a second major revision. If you wish, we can instruct the authors to request the same editor be assigned to their new paper, increasing the chances of an expedited review. Overall, this procedure will help avoid damaging the journal's submission to publication time, which is one of the foundations of its highly regarded reputation.
Editorials should give a brief overview of the special issue, giving a short introduction to each paper. Manuscripts should be referenced in the order they are to appear in the publication. To protect the identity of the reviewers, no reviewers lists will be published. However, it is encouraged to acknowledge the general contributions of the reviewers as part of the editorial.
Editorials cannot be regular papers. Special issue guest editors are also prohibited from submitting papers to their own special issues. Submitting to one's own special issue may be misunderstood by certain members of the journal's readership as unethical.
Editorials should be no more than two pages in length, including guest editor biographies and photographs. Biographies should be moderate in length, otherwise they will be edited.
Editorials should not include references unless absolutely necessary, and even then they should be limited to a maximum of four.
Editorials must include each guest editor's complete and current affiliation and contact information.
Editorials must be submitted in an editable format, such as a Word document or text sent via e-mail. Guest editors are responsible for reviewing the galley proofs of their editorial for accuracy of typesetting and communicating any corrections to IEEE Computer Society staff within 72 hours of receipt.
Please click here to access the call for papers template. Submit the completed form with your Special Issue/Section proposal to the journal EIC and peer review support specialist. Contact information is found on each publication's "About" page.
Reviewer Quick Links
Task of the Referee
Conduct of the Reviewer
Kevin Bowyer, emeritus Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, recommends that all reviewers read the paper titled Task of the Referee (PDF), about reviewing archival manuscripts.
"This paper by Alan Jay Smith discusses the desired form and content of a reviewer's evaluation of a paper. Regardless of how much experience one has in reviewing papers, it is probably worth (re)reading this paper. I once had an IEEE Fellow return a review of a paper that consisted of just one sentence, recommending that the paper be accepted after the addition of one reference—to a book written by the reviewer!"
–Kevin Bowyer, Emeritus EIC, TPAMI, 19 June 2000
"... preventing consideration of a paper by taking a long time to review it is unethical."
"Keep in mind that if you expect to have your own papers published, you have a responsibility to referee a reasonable number of papers. ... Editors can choose not to handle papers by authors who don't fulfill their reviewing responsibilities."
–Quote from page 6
As a reviewer, you play an essential role in the peer review process. Our endeavors to administer a fair and timely review process for all of our manuscripts and to publish only papers of the highest quality is largely dependent upon the efforts of reviewers like you. Your help with meeting these important objectives is greatly appreciated.
To guarantee fairness to the author, the reviewer of a manuscript should abide by a number of guidelines, including, but not limited to:
Respond within the allotted time
Provide sound, constructive reviews
Assume that manuscripts submitted for publication are not meant to be public
Do not use material from a manuscript you have reviewed
Do not share material from a manuscript you have reviewed with others
Do not distribute copies of a manuscript you have been asked to review unless the material is already public
Tell the editor, guest editor, and editor in chief if there are any conflicts of interest involved in reviewing a manuscript
The IEEE details guidelines regarding reviewers in the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual (PDF).
To access Section 8.2.2.A – The Review Process in its entirety, visit the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Oprations Manual.
The length of the review process varies between papers, and many factors affect the time it takes to review a paper. The time it takes for an associate editor to be assigned, and for qualified referees to be located who are available to handle the review of a paper, depends on the complexity and the type of material submitted for review. We make a concerted effort to keep the review time to a minimum that is consistent with keeping each IEEE Computer Society's journals reputation for quality and integrity. Each submission placed into review is sent to at least three reviewers, making one submission correspond to roughly three review requests. The review process may take approximately six months to be completed.
If the authors submit a previously published conference paper, please check the manuscript to determine whether a sufficient amount of new material has been added to warrant publication. Section 8.2.1.B.9 of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations (PSPB) Manual specifies that authors should only submit original work that has neither appeared elsewhere for publication, nor which is under review for another refereed publication. If an author used their own previously published material as a basis for a new submission, then they are required to cite the previous work(s) and clearly indicate how the new submission offers substantively novel or different contributions beyond those of the previously published work(s).
Also included should be a brief description of the differences between the papers. You may use the public comments section of the review form to include your thoughts, if any, regarding the differences between the two papers.
When submitting a comments paper, the author must include the title and/or log number of the previously published manuscript. The journal coordinator will retrieve as much information as possible about the paper being commented on and will forward the materials to the Editor-in-Chief (EIC). If the editor who was assigned to the previously published paper is no longer available, the EIC will assign the comments paper to another editor whose expertise areas closely match that paper's topic.
IEEE Computer Society journals accept supplemental materials for review with regular paper submissions. Types of supplemental material can include: proofs, code, experimental data, short movies, appendices, animations and audio files. These materials may be published on our digital library with the electronic version of the paper, where they can be accessed for free. A pointer to the supplemental material will be included in the printed version.
All materials must follow US copyright guidelines and may not include material previously copyrighted by another author, organization or company. Please see our guidelines below for file specifications and information. Any submitted materials that do not follow these specifications will not be accepted.
Supplemental material must also undergo peer review, so questions pertaining to supplemental material (if applicable) are included in the review form.
Journal Media Center
New media center pages have been designed to host all Transactions journal's multimedia submitted by you, the EIC, volunteers, and authors. Any media (audio or video) received for Transactions journals will be posted on these pages. This multimedia may also be posted on the Transactions journal's home page for a short period of time and promoted in our relevant newsletters and press releases.
Please help us create a strong presence in the media center by inviting and encouraging volunteers and authors to submit multimedia content that is relevant in the topic areas of Transactions journals.
Content on the media center page may discuss:
Your paper, and it's content,
Experiments featured in their papers,
How the research is relevant to the research community at large, and
Hot topics in the industry.
We would appreciate your participation and hope that you will find this program beneficial to your success in this ever-changing publication industry. It is our hope that volunteers and authors will take advantage of this opportunity to discuss and promote their paper as well as promote the research that drives Transactions journal's community.
To submit media: ftp://transMedia@ftp.computer.org (User name: transMedia, Password: media2011).
For additional information send inquiries to Erica Hardison.
Multimedia Guidelines
What types of multimedia do you want?
What formats do you prefer for video and audio files?
How long should my files be?
Do I need to prepare a script?
What exactly can the multimedia team do for me? Do you have a "menu" of offerings?
Products that can help?
How exactly do I tape someone? Help!
Submission Instructions—Where will I post my files?
Hey, wait a minute—I gathered some multimedia content, why didn't you post it?
What if I'm taping a one-off audio/video file at a conference?
Okay, I think I can do this—any last words of advice?
Primarily, we want audio and video (which can also include animation and simulations). Examples of audio include EIC or guest editor introductions, article sidebars (author expansions), interviews, and roundtables. Examples of video include interviews, how-to tutorials, and conference/tradeshow clips. We also welcome links to blogs and other relevant materials.
If you're helming a special issue, examples of multimedia might include an audio introduction by the guest editors, audio/video/PowerPoint slides from authors, a link to an author blog for feedback, comments, and ongoing discussion, audio sidebars for each article, and so on. The best time to supply such materials is, of course, "as soon as possible." Failing that, we'd like to get them no later than at the start of the editing cycle (that is, when staff editors have contacted authors with a brief introduction and text editorial schedule).
For audio, we want the raw audio so that we can edit it if need be—for PCs, this means the .wav format; for Apple, .aif or .aiff. These are the CD-quality file types produced on each machine. For video, we want .mov, .avi, or .dv formats. We don't have the equipment to handle tape- to-digital conversions. If you're thinking of sending an .mp3 file (audio), note that it must be the ready-to-post, finished product (including any musical interludes). Manipulating .mp3 files doesn't yield good audio quality so only send in the .mp3 if it's absolutely ready to go.
Generally, shorter is better—audio files can go a bit longer because people tend to download them for listening on the go (still, 20 minutes or less is a good rule of thumb). To be compelling, videos must be much shorter—5 minutes max, preferably 2 minutes, if possible.
In a word, yes. Scripting or at least outlining your video or audio product in advance is a very helpful way of keeping it focused and sounding professional. In fact, the more tightly scripted it is, the better. Avoid loosely outlined material if you can because it often manifests itself in rambling or panicky pauses. If you plan on interviewing people, it's a good idea to share questions in advance so that all parties know what to expect.
Unfortunately, we aren't staffed as a professional multimedia production house—we don't have actors capable of doing voice-overs or huge editing bays that can fix video or audio files that started from a place of bad quality (recorded in a loud room, inappropriate noise levels, bit-mappy video zooms). But we do have a dedicated, smart, friendly group of people who will work with you every step of the way. Here are some of the things that team can do for you (see Computing Now for some examples; http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow):
– Insert musical intros and outros
– Following a transcript, insert markers into audio files, so that users can "skip" from question to question
– Apply filters to remove *some* of the background noise and/or boost vocal levels, but note that this is not a panacea (these filters can sometimes have the opposite effect, making the vocals boom out in an almost uncomfortable way)
– With your guidance, break up your podcast into more digestible segments—especially if it's reaching past the 20 -minute guideline
– Help you set up a release schedule for your podcast series (if you're doing a one-off audio file, this isn't all that important, but if you're wanting to set up a regularly scheduled program, our team can help you grow it)
– If time permits, help trim out any "uhs" and "ahs" (this is where scripting helps—but bear in mind that you don't want to remove ALL your personality, and a natural-sounding interaction between people almost always sounds better than something overly stiff)
– "Cut up" files into smaller segments—we sometimes reuse or repurpose our content
– Insert text to identify the speakers
– With your guidance, typically from some sort of script or outline, splice together bits from several different files to create a seamless final file (note, however, that we can't guarantee rush turnaround, and taking on projects like this is subject to the material passing a vetting process to determine if the quality and content are acceptable)
– Add your own prerecorded voice-over to the specific video segment you want to add it to
(Please note, the Computer Society does not make reimbursements for purchases made without prior approval)
For software, consider the following options:
GarageBand is included on most Mac systems.
Audacity ((http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) works on PC, Macs, and Linux machines. It's free and open source.
More advanced (and expensive) tools include Adobe Audition and Adobe Soundbooth. We don't recommend buying these software suites unless you're serious about audio recording. Audacity and GarageBand can take care of most podcasting needs.
Levelator (http://www.conversation snetwork.org/levelator) is a free program that does a good job leveling .wav and .aif files. But we only recommend it if you're interested in delivering a finished podcast to us.
If you'd like to add music to your multimedia, plenty of royalty free music can be found Online. Please contact your staff contact for suggested sources.
For hardware, you'll want
a good USB microphone. We use a MXL Studio One and have had good results.
headphones to test the final product. We have a couple of pairs of Sennheisers, but don't invest in expensive headphones unless you're pursuing production as a hobby/career.
For video editing software, you can use
iMovie, which is included on most Mac systems. It's a very lightweight version similar to Final Cut Pro.
Lightworks for PC users (http://www.lightworksbeta.com/). This is a free program but very, very strong. Again, only consider getting into this software if you want to pursue video production.
Adobe Premier, which is an advanced editing suite available for Mac and PC.
Commercial, off-the-shelf software options such as Pinnacle and Corel VideoStudio.
For hardware, consider
a good low-cost video camera, such as a Flip-like camera or Kodak Zi8.
a Sony ECM-DS70P condenser stereo microphone or Audio Technica ATR-3350 lavalier/lapel omnidirectional condenser microphone (or similar).
a desktop tripod and a lightweight tripod for non- hand-held shooting.
a USB camera for capturing remote interviews over a computer. We use a Logitech Tessar 2.0/3.7 and have had good results.
Even if you don't have an audio/video department to support you, it's relatively simple and inexpensive to set yourself up for audio recording (that said, again, please avoid using your cell phone). A microphone with a USB connection is a good investment if you want to record on a regular basis; you can also get an adaptor that will connect any normal vocal microphone to a USB device to plug into a laptop or desktop. As mentioned earlier, some free software applications such as Audacity are available for editing files, and GarageBand provides a good, simple solution for Mac users.
For video, something like a Flip cam (or equivalent, such as the Kodak Zi8) can provide a low-cost, good-quality result. Issues to consider when setting up to film:
– Be careful using public areas because noise can be a problem. Most cameras don't have an external microphone jack, so you'll have to use the built-in microphone, which will pick up background noise.
– Look for a simple background, such as a curtain. (Think how you'd feel if you watched this video: Is the shot appealing? Distracting?)
– Set up near a window or light source so that interviewees are facing the light. (If the light source is behind them, their face will be in shadow.)
– If possible, you might want to shoot a few minutes' worth of establishing shots (a sign with the name of the show, a room full of people, etc.) to include as B roll footage for editing.
At the moment, we still encourage people to FTP their files to us at ftp://transMedia@ftp.computer.org (User name: transMedia, Password: media2011), but we've found that the really huge files tend to choke up the server. We're working on that through our own internal IT department. In the meantime, if you experience a problem FTP'ing, you can either post the file on your own FTP site or website (send us the link to download it) or use a third party such as Dropbox.com or box.net. Once your files have been posted, please notify Erica Hardison at ehardison@computer.org. Please include in the email, your signed appearance release form (electronic signatures are accepted), and completed Podcast Episode Metadata Template.
Just as with our print publications, we have editorial standards and guidelines we need to apply to ensure that we're providing the best possible content to our audience. The emphasis here is on high quality—if something looks amateurish, or if the quality is so bad that viewers can't see or hear the file, we will exercise the right to not use it. This is why it's so important to strive for the best possible quality files you can get—it's somewhat easy to edit text, but if a video or an audio file is horribly recorded, there isn't much we can do to fix it.
There are some situations in which professionals should be used to help you obtain quality recordings. These would include high-noise situations such as on tradeshow floors and where special recording setups are required (conference organizers are notorious for controlling this, so do your research in advance of your attendance). You'll also want to make sure that you
1. obtain signed release forms from ANYONE who's identifiable on the video
2. mention on the recording with everyone present that the conversation is being recorded for possible podcast/broadcast
3. review recordings of takes you want to keep to make sure you got what you wanted
Choice of a venue for both video and audio recording requires consideration of many factors. If the shoot or recording is to be done at an unfamiliar location, you'll want to inquire with someone who is familiar with it about the factors listed below.
• Consider using professional assistance for the best quality recording and to allow you and your subject to focus on the content.
• Obtain signed release from venue officials, if necessary.
• When first meeting with someone for the taping, obtain a signed appearance release form immediately.
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• Mention at the beginning of every recording what it is and who is in it.
• Keep a log of each recording.
• Test everything. In particular, test the audio and all connectors. It's very embarrassing to be ready to start and then to find out you're missing an adapter. Audio levels are crucial, so do a short interview with a test subject and then review it to check the levels and background noise and to make sure there's no hum.
• If you're taping a conference call, use Skype (if possible) and ask all callers to be in a quiet location in advance of the call time, with a wired connection (not wireless or cell phone) and no planned interruptions.
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Suggestions for audio recording in an office or conference room:
Find an area away from air conditioning vents and other sources of noise (electrical panels can also cause interference). Service doors in hotels and conference centers can also be a source of noise if they are used frequently.
If possible, situate microphones so that they do not have to be held by hand and cables are out of the way.
Set recording levels properly
a. Peaking or clipping causes distortion to the audio.
b. Set the levels as high as possible without the levels peaking.
c. Setting the levels too low makes the audio hard to hear and causes a lot of noise when the volume is turned up.
If there is an interruption in the middle of your session, you may not have to start over. Simply pause and then resume when you are finished with the interruption. Mistakes can be edited out later.
Recording equipment setup and usage notes:
Choose a very quiet location for the recording session where you are not likely to be interrupted
Set recording levels in a brief test, as follows:
a. Position your microphone and materials as they will be set for actual recording.
b. Start test recording (press "Rec" on Microtrack).
c. Begin speaking in the normal voice you will be using for the recording.
d. Adjust the levels by setting them as high as possible without making the red indicators light (when the red indicators light, the audio is being clipped and will sound distorted).
General tips for recording speech:
When starting a recording, give the recorder 2-5 seconds to start before you begin to speak.
Seek to add interest by varying pitch, pace, and power according to the nature of the material.
Be enthusiastic. By animated delivery, give evidence of your strong feelings about the value of what you are saying.
If you are not specifically doing a reading, take the time to prepare an outline to speak from, either mental or written, instead of using a word-for-word manuscript for delivery. Preparing an outline helps you to organize your thoughts. Using it for delivery makes it easier for you to be conversational and to speak from the heart.
In some cases, scripting exactly what is to be said is best. For example, when a brief and concise message is to be conveyed, such as in introductions, conclusions, or advertisements, scripting is the best course. Be careful to make the script conversational - as the statements would normally be spoken rather how they would be stated if written.
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Young cellist provides the highlight in mixed evening from Illinois Philharmonic
Sun Mar 24, 2013 at 1:51 pm
Joshua Roman performed Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 Saturday night with conductor David Danzmayr and the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Jeremy Sawatzky
Continuing his first season as the new music director of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, 32-year old Austrian conductor David Danzmayr is creating a considerable amount of excitement as he attempts to take the 35-year old south suburban orchestra to new heights.
The end result of a worldwide search that yielded sixty candidates and seven finalists — each of whom conducted a concert over a two-year period — Danzmayr was the obvious favorite.
Having already conducted most of an impressive inaugural season made up of wide-ranging repertoire, Danzmayr’s familiarity and authority with Austro-Germanic repertoire was on display Saturday night at a packed Lincoln-Way North Center for the Performing Arts in Frankfort.
Weber’s Oberon Overture opened the program with tentative horn playing and some scrappy violin ensemble in the opening, which indicates the orchestra building that Danzmayr has ahead of him. Once the piece took flight, he led a performance of immense spirit and nuance.
The larger canvas of Brahms’ Second Symphony magnified the section problems heard in the Weber, but Danzmayr’s stalwart interpretation and the determination of the orchestra to realize that vision made this anything but a routine performance.
Momentum and a careful eye on larger structure were apparent throughout, with Danzmayr’s considerable attention to carefully sculpted dynamics and getting to the musical heart of each movement. The wind playing in the third movement was particularly poetic, the cellos in the poignant second movement quite introspective.
The clear highlight of the evening was a stellar performance of the Shostakovich First Cello Concerto with Joshua Roman as soloist.
A curious difference between the higher quality of the orchestral playing in the Shostakovich versus the Weber and Brahms were how many players actually kept their eye on Danzmayr: given the sudden shifts of the Shostakovich, players had little choice but to watch him but too many of the musicians were less attentive during the Weber overture and Brahms symphony with that lack of cohesion evident in the playing.
Apart from a hapless principal horn that was left in the dust during a duet, the orchestral playing was truly remarkable, Danzmayr attentive to the slightest nuances and soloists and sections rising to the occasion.
Of course, it helps considerably when you have a vibrant young soloist that can toss off this difficult concerto as if it were children’s play, which 29-year-old Joshua Roman did with aplomb. For those of us fortunate enough to have heard Rostropovich traverse this tour de force that was written for him, Roman provided a fascinating interpretative alternative.
Instead of the brooding, sweeping full-vibratoed Russian approach that Rostropovich and others have employed, Roman played with a full yet even tone with expressive touches of vibrato that were held back until climactic moments. His ability to play in the upper register with virtually flawless intonation was particularly inspiring but he also brought a rock-like energy to some of the piece’s ostinato sections.
A well-deserved standing ovation brought Roman back out to play the Sarabande from Bach’s solo Cello Suite No. 1 in G major with remarkable transparency and maturity for such a young soloist.
At the start of the concert, Chicago Classical Review founder Lawrence A. Johnson was given the 2013 Ruth D. and Ken M. Davee Excellence in the Arts Award. IPO executive director Andrew Bradford presented the award to Johnson, the citation noting that “at a time when important coverage of classical music is waning in cities all across the country, Chicago is one of a handful of major metropolitan areas that benefits from robust coverage of its classical music scene, thanks in large part to the work of Chicago Classical Review. With a staff of multiple writers, CCR’s output — including classical music reviews, news feature stories, and interviews — far outweighs that of any other print or online source in terms of depth or breadth of coverage.”
The program will be repeated 3 p.m. Sunday, March 24. ipomusic.org
4 Responses to “Young cellist provides the highlight in mixed evening from Illinois Philharmonic”
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at 10:58 am by dennis brainless
If the orchestra is not together, blame the conductor. They are musicians, not magicians or mind-readers.
This was a hard program for the principal horn. Maybe the IPO should spend a buck and hire an assistant.
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at 12:02 pm by Manny Fireman
I’ve been watching the IPO play under Carmon DeLeone for many years and they played together very well with him. Maybe they need some time to get used to the new guy. David Danzmayr also needs time to get used to the IPO. He is, after all, very young and has years ahead of him to gain experience.
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at 2:48 pm by Manny Fireman
It’s such an exciting time to be a subscriber to the IPO! David Danmayr is an exciting young conductor.
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at 3:30 pm by Richard Moutvic
The concert was indeed a wonderful experience with the orchestra following the baton of Maestro Danzmayr with excellent musicality sustained for most of the performance. Soloist Joshua Roman was superb in both the Shostakovich piece as well as his encore.
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Home » Charlton Athletic Match Reports » Slade Without Answers as Oldham Effort Increases Despair
Slade Without Answers as Oldham Effort Increases Despair
The concept of a draw that feels like a defeat is one that’s well accepted. An unexpected late goal, robbing a side of three points that seemed certain, and meaning supporters leave the ground deflated and disappointed. Deflated and disappointed despite, quite often in these circumstances, having seen a positive performance.
But the concept of a draw that fills you with despair, disgust, and furthers a disconnection from your club is one yet to be scribbled into the dictionary of football clichés. A perfectly predictable conceding of a late equaliser, preventing a side from claiming an unjust three points, and meaning supporters leave the ground utterly devastated as the context of supporting a crisis club overwhelms. Overwhelmed with anger, or possibly crushed by apathy, as a consequence of both the performance and the overall situation.
A concept, alongside “bitter ex-employee” and “we’ve learnt from our mistakes”, that supporters of Charlton Athletic will want submitted into that cliché dictionary. A concept that those inside a scarcely populated Valley were subjected to. A concept that provides pain that no dictionary definition can properly justify.
Sure, there was certainly despair as an unmarked Peter Clarke turned home a Paul Green free-kick to draw Oldham Athletic level with seven minutes remaining.
It a warranted equaliser for the Latics, who were able to control the game for large parts of it and played with positivity, but it more obviously just punishment for a horrendous Charlton performance. Josh Magennis’ 22nd minute strike, the result of a 21-pass move, coming completely against the run of play and totally undeserved.
Disgust definitely existing towards that horrendous performance. A performance that saw defensive failings, midfield sluggishness defined by constantly being beaten to the ball and misplacing passes having finally gained possession, and a distinct lack of attacking cohesion.
A performance instigated partly by player failings, but largely by the cautious mindset and difficult to understand tactics that Russell Slade – booed as he departed at full-time – has instilled upon a side that has the individuals to perform to a much higher standard.
And a sense of growing disconnection that comes from knowing the predictably of self-inflicted punishment, of having experienced these dark feelings many times previously, and knowing that the root cause is an ownership who have treating a once lovable club so poorly that even those who devotion is untarnished find it difficult to connect with the imitation of their club that remains.
But how can you possibly find the word to describe, which does justice to, the combination of all these feelings. The on-pitch despair, the disgust with failing players and management, and the constant fight against disconnection that exists largely from the actions and attitudes of those in charge of the Addicks.
There no concept, cliché, or dictionary definition that can properly describe the situation at Charlton, and the pain and sadness that supporters are feeling.
It has long surpassed anything explainable, but only seems to be surpassing anything explainable more and more with each passing day. There no concept, cliché, or dictionary definition that can justify this situation.
And it’s also pretty hard to explain, or at least make sense of, Slade’s insistence on playing imbalanced and seemingly cautious starting XIs. The insistence that wins would follow after another disappointing draw away at Oxford United on Saturday didn’t seem reflected in his line-up.
To the bald-headed boss’ credit, there was at least an additional forward brought in to assist the isolated Magennis. Though some would suggest that in Lee Novak, who replaced Kevin Foley, Slade had frustratingly partnered Magennis with a striker too similar to be a functioning partner.
A start, too, for Ricky Holmes. A start tainted by the fact that Ademola Lookman was the man sacrificed to bring him into the XI, leaving the midfield containing three centre-mids and a winger. With Jordan Botaka twiddling his thumbs on the bench, it a completely unnecessary imbalance.
Ezri Konsa, filling the gap left by the suspended Harry Lennon, also returning to the starting line-up, and it appeared from the opening exchanges of the game that he would have quite a busy night. A consequence of the Addicks struggling to retain possession for any length of time, and the physicality of Crystal Palace loanee Freddie Ladapo.
But, despite utilising the strength and aerial ability of the young forward, that certainly isn’t to say Oldham began the game playing in a direct fashion. Their passing swift, their movement excellent, and only indecisiveness in and around the box was preventing a genuine opening from being created.
In fact, though Charlton had the first efforts on goal of the game as Magennis struck a low effort straight at Latics stoppers Conor Ripley before Morgan Fox’s bizarre free-kick sailed harmlessly into the Jimmy Seed Stand, the visitors were in complete control of the early stages.
Restlessness increasing among the home fans as Oldham continued to steal possession and build promising attacks, largely as a consequence of midfielder Ousmane Fane’s efforts. Play broken up with ease by the tall Frenchman, and the next, positive, pass made quickly time and time again.
Restlessness that would soon turn to boos and anger. Anger that was shared by goalkeeper Declan Rudd, who reacted furiously to his side failing to deal with a Jamie Reckord cross, and allowing Billy McKay to work himself a shot on goal from close range. Thankfully, Rudd’s cries and arm wavings were made with the ball in his possession – the ‘keeper behind the strike.
So, both in terms of Charlton’s disgraceful early efforts and Oldham’s persistent attempts to be positive, it was completely unjust that the Addicks were able to take the lead with 22 minutes played.
Not that those celebrating the goal cared too much for whether it was deserved or not, and not least Magennis. A move that took in 21 passes, the first time Slade’s side had shown any sort of composure on the ball and forward thinking in their movement of it, resulting in the Northern Irishman breaking into the box from a tight angle from a Holmes pass, and firing through Ripley.
There probably wasn’t, but it would come as no surprise if frustration fuelled the vicious strike. Frustration, mixed with a tinge of fear, which still existed among the home crowd. No one inside The Valley naïve enough to think that improvement was not still required desperately.
Unfortunately, naivety remained in Charlton’s play. The goal not inspiring the Addicks to consistently move the ball around with more intent, to beat Fane to the loose balls, or to show any sort of energy and movement off the ball.
Defensively, too, there were serious issues that needed quick resolutions if this lead was to be protected. It all too simple for an unchallenged Ryan Flynn to feed an unmarked Paul Green down the right flank, with the ever annoying Ladapo awaiting in the centre.
Somehow, whether a result of poor finishing or sensational defending, the Palace loanee’s attempt to convert Green’s low delivery was blocked by Chris Solly and the loose ball ultimately claimed by Rudd. It truly a marvellous opening, and one that should have been taken by the Latics. Another wake-up call for the still desperately underperforming Addicks.
A wake-up call still not heeded, but the sense of panic that was beginning to creep into Oldham’s play was offering at least a degree of comfort. It understandable that a side without a win in six were desperate to make a positive first half performance count, but Ryan McLaughlin’s wayward effort from distance and Ladapo’s ambitious claim for a penalty having lost a battle with Konsa were not going to have the desired effect.
The half ending with Andrew Crofts, given the ball in space after a rare positive passing move, shooting from distance and forcing Ripley into a comfortable save, but it doing little to convince the home crowd. The applause for their side as they left the field at the break rather half-hearted, with many hoping Slade would inspire his side to greater things during the second period.
And while good work from the struggling Novak allowed Magennis to fire at goal from a tight angle and force Ripley into conceding a corner, the early evidence of a second half improvement was not positive.
For barely three minutes into it, Oldham had once again capitalised upon the statuesque defensive efforts of the Addicks and created a marvellous opening. A quick one-two allowing Ladapo to break into the box, but the forward’s effort fizzed agonisingly across the face of goal and just wide. Rudd as frozen as those in front of him.
But while Charlton had this lead, deserved or not, there was always the hope that a fortunate second would kill the confidence of the Latics, and thereby kill the game off. Space for Magennis inside the area, but his shot rushed and panicked, resulting in the ball sailing over Ripley’s crossbar.
It at least a bit more threatening, and encouraging, than Fredrik Ulvestad’s rather horrendous volley, who was closer to picking out the corner flag than the back of the net following a cleared Charlton corner.
Maybe Slade, whose side were still playing with caution and fear, felt similar with regards to the impact a second goal would have on the game. Lookman, in place of Johnnie Jackson, introduced, and there immediately great shouts of excitement as he ran with the ball. A contrast to the groans of displeasure as Kevin Foley, replacing Crofts, misplaced his first pass out of play.
But even having Lookman and Holmes on the pitch, two players whose mentality will always contrast whatever level of caution and negativity Slade encourages, did not inspire. Again, a sense that the Addicks were fortunate not to concede as a cross from the left picked out substitute Lee Erwin, and only the big German frame of Patrick Bauer denying the Leeds loanee a certain goal.
However, those two attacking influences would soon combine for the best chance Charlton would have to double their advantage. Lookman on corner duties, and his delivery flat towards the front post. Holmes meeting the ball first time, but his volley misdirected, and sending the ball back in the general direction from whence it came.
Similar frustration at the other end for the brave visiting Oldham supporters, as Green’s driven ball somehow evaded a series of outstretched legs in the centre. Any sort of touch would have seen the Latics draw level. Wasted chances, a continued dire performance, and gifting opportunities to the opposition increasing the sense that a capitulation was on the cards.
Fane continued to dictate against a Charlton side that seemed to have disregarded the need for a competent midfield, Erwin tested Rudd from range, and Konsa put in a well-timed tackle to deny the Scot inside the area. With time running out, there was not the fluency to Oldham’s play that there was in the opening period of the game, but they certainly remained on top.
Not that they could have been anything but against this truly horrendous effort by the Addicks, who found themselves attempting to protect and on the back foot. This lead more and more undeserved with each passing moment. A Latics leveller easy to predict.
So there was not a great deal of surprise as Green’s delivery was swung in, a dire defensive set up allowed Clarke to glance a header goalwards, and the bottom corner of Rudd’s net rippled.
That not to say seeing the Oldham skipper sprint away in celebration was any easier to take. Nor was it any easy to disregard the outrage, anger and embarrassment that overwhelmed as rumblings of discontent began to interrupt the visitors’ celebrations. Fury around The Valley.
Lookman, in the most Lookman of ways, attempted to bring calm, and maybe even some joy, but cutting inside and firing towards goal from distance. His effort bouncing back off the crossbar, and no one in red quick enough to react.
But, though a sign of some character, regaining what was an underserved lead would have been an even greater injustice.
In fact, it was Oldham who showed the greater intent in what remained of the game. Erwin’s curling effort always going wide, but it more concerning to see their pace passing play, positivity and pace keeping the Addicks on the back foot.
The Addicks, with an apparent top six budget, pegged back in their own half against a side in the relegation zone, and effectively clinging on for a draw in the game’s final moments.
Though it was Charlton who had the final say. A desperate roar of encouragement as a corner was won deep into four minutes of additional time, only for Lookman to send it soaring over the heads of those who stood inside the box. Fitting.
The final meaningful act before boos filled The Valley air, while emotionally broken players, who had certainly not given enough to be physically drained, sank.
A curtain call which saw Slade, so often one to lap up any sort of crowd acknowledgement, bow his head in shame as he departed, serenaded by boos. He the instigator of yet another bleak and unbearable Valley night.
For, on this night exclusively, it had to be the manager that oversaw such a directionless, structureless, and cautious effort that took the blame. For this night alone, there was no one else Slade could blame.
He could, in truth, attach a certain amount of blame to those who attempted to perform for him. There not a player who comes out of tonight with any real credit, with Solly and Fox so often static and beaten with ease, those in midfield second to every ball and unable to work new chances, and Holmes so often running needlessly into dead ends.
But these are individuals in a side that are so obviously being poorly managed. There is quality in this side that is not being utilised properly. Quality in this side, if not to challenge for the duration of the season, to overwhelm those who might well spend their season struggling to avoid relegation.
Oldham, however, were allowed to dictate. Credit deserved for the way in which they made the most of Slade’s side sitting off them, as they often knocked the ball around in quite a classy fashion with Fane very impressive, but that taking nothing away from Charlton’s disgusting efforts.
Slade’s imbalanced and cautious side, without cohesion and lacking the confidence to attack with persistence and bravery, getting no less than they deserved. Defeat, in fact, probably more fitting than a point.
That we are ten games into a season and a side with individual quality is still performing without any sort of fluency, identity or intent is extremely worrying, and Slade must take the blame for that. He has a serious amount of improvement to make, and to make incredibly quickly.
Nonetheless, there is no denying that the deep feeling of dread, and the growing disconnection, that comes from such a grim night in SE7 is born out of a bigger picture than simply the tactics that Slade attempts to deploy.
A hushed crowd of barely 8,000 would not have experienced such a grim night, to add to their growing collection of grim Valley days and evenings, were it not for the overall stain that Roland Duchatelet’s ownership has inflicted upon the club. The regime the poison that makes on the pitch matters feel particularly bleak.
Slade’s failure to create a competent side another symptom of a club that is diseased, and will be until changes are made that reverse the disconnection. That remove the indescribable feeling that comes when you combine all the pain the club inflicts upon its supporters.
By Kyle Andrews in Charlton Athletic Match Reports on September 28, 2016 .
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Bring back Curbs and get rid of the negative Manager otherwise Charlton Ath will be down.
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The Library of Congress > Chronicling America > The news scimitar. > November 26, 1918, 4th EDITION
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National Lampoon's Senior Trip
A group of high school slackers -- stuck in detention and forced to compose a paper about the public education system's failings -- find themselves summoned to the nation's capital after sending the essay to the president in this outrageous comedy. But little does the commander in chief know that the class brainiac wrote the piece and that the students on their way to address Congress are wild party animals. Matt Frewer and Valerie Mahaffey star.
Matt Frewer, Valerie Mahaffey, Lawrence Dane, Tommy Chong, Jeremy Renner, Rob Moore, Eric Edwards, Kevin McDonald, Michael Blake, Tara Strong, Nicole de Boer, Sergio Di Zio, Fiona Loewi, Kathryn Rose, Danny Smith
Kelly Makin, Alan Smithee
Comedy, Late Night Comedies
Goofy, Raunchy
Widescreen 1.85:1, Full Screen 1.33:1
English: DTS 5.1 Surround, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
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Huawei Mate P20 Pro: AI Cinema effect adds ‘Sin City’-like color isolation to your videos
October 16, 2018 ENR 0 Comments
When is a phone not a phone? When it’s a camera, of course. That’s where we’re at with most new-fangled smartphones — the phone functionality itself is a secondary consideration, while its various internet-connected apps and features are pretty much a given. In 2018, the quality of the camera is nearly always positioned as the main selling point and differentiator.
When Samsung launched the Galaxy A9 last week, it touted the phone’s four-lens rear-facing camera, which includes telephoto, zoom, and depth features. A few months back, Light raised $121 million to bring DSLR-quality photos to mobile cameras through algorithmic imaging. Reviews these days also tend to focus on the quality of the camera, as with the recent iPhone launch and Huawei’s P20 Pro, which we called mind-blowingly awesome.
With that in mind, Chinese smartphone giant Huawei today unveiled the Mate P20 and Mate P20 Pro and, again, the camera (both hardware and software) was a major focal point. The company showcased a new ultra wide-angle camera lens, for starters, but a couple of particularly interesting video camera effects stood out.
You will have noticed that “bokeh” has become a buzzword in smartphone photography — due to improved depth-sensing capabilities that blur the background while keeping the subject firmly in focus. Well, the Huawei Mate P20 range can now do that with video so that when you follow a person around a room, the background is blurry while the subject remains crystal clear.
But arguably the more interesting effect is what Huawei is marketing as “AI Cinema” mode, which is capable of rendering both color and black-and-white images in a single shot, similar to the color pop feature recently announced for Google Photos.
AI Cinema
In the device itself, Huawei actually calls the effect “AI Color,” and it sits just to the left of “background blur” — the bokeh video effect.
Above: Huawei Mate P20 Pro: Video effects
Image Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat
When you activate the AI Color feature, the subject you are following remains in color while everything else is in black and white. This presumably works for pets too (we didn’t have any hamsters on hand), and we are told it can also work for inanimate subjects.
Here’s a quick GIF we made of the effect in action.
Above: Huawei Mate P20 Pro: AI Color effect, (AI Cinema)
It is possible to recreate similar effects in professional video-editing software, but having something like this baked into a smartphone — and able to work in real time — is a notable advance not only for smartphone camera technology, but for the underlying AI-powered computer vision smarts that enable it.
The ‘Sin City’ effect
If you’ve seen the award-winning 2005 flick Sin City, you’ll know what Huawei is playing at. Sin City garnered critical acclaim for the way it mixed splashes of color into what was largely a black-and-white movie, allowing one character in a scene to be represented in color while everyone else remained monochrome or to appear in color against a black-and-white background.
Above: Brittany Murphy in Sin City (2005)
Image Credit: © 2005 Dimension Video/Buena Vista Pictures
Some scenes were rendered with just a smidgen of color sprayed across an otherwise black-and-white screen.
Huawei’s effort isn’t quite up to the standards of Sin City‘s color-processing prowess, but it shows how technologists are pushing the boundaries of what is possible with a tiny AI-infused pocket rocket.
It also serves as yet another reminder of how big a marketing role the smartphone camera now plays. The fact that the Huawei Mate P20 / P20 Pro has ditched the 3.5mm headphone jack wasn’t mentioned throughout the announcement, and nobody really even asked the question. I briefly considered asking about its omission, but what’s the point — it’s pretty much assumed now that most flagship phones won’t come with a headphone jack. It’s a minor inconvenience, designers think, when all people really care about is the camera.
This article was originally published by Google.com. Read the original article here.
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Krakow Major Qualifier Day 3 Recap
Main Krakow Major Qualifier Day 3 Recap
The Krakow Major qualifier day 3 saw the first set of both qualifications and eliminations. Notable results saw the European sides of G2 and Mousesports qualifying, while CIS team Tengri and US nationals OpTic faltered.
Krakow Major Qualifier Day 3 Winners
Completing a convincing campaign in Bucharest with a win over FlipSid3, the French side look forward to a restful final day watching their potential opponents duke it out for the remaining six slots. The G2 squad, who played some of the best that the qualifier had to offer, will look to prove their worth in both the upcoming major and in the ESL Cologne tournament, prior to Krakow.
Source: HLTV.org
The Krakow Major qualifier day 3 saw the European squad scrape through into a perfect qualification run, beating fellow Europeans of PENTA by the smallest of margins possible. Mainly thanks to 17 year old Robin ‘ropz‘ Kool going off in the final match, finishing with a kills to death ratio of +17.
Despite their current world ranking of 15th, Mousesports were able to sneak through the qualifier unbeaten. Although the draw which the Eurpoeans got was by far and away the easier of the two, when compared with that of G2’s. Going forward, Mousesports have plenty to prove after a qualifier run which was far from convincing and will have a chance to do so in Cologne next week.
Krakow Major Qualifier Day 3 Losers
Tengri
After being picked prior to the qualifier as underdogs, the CIS team showed that the element of surprise wasn’t enough of a benefit after losing three consecutive games. However, the CIS team wasn’t a total letdown, as they proved they could push some of the qualifier’s big boys to their limits, falling 14-16 to the Germans of BIG. Although, ultimately the guts shown by the CIS squad ended fruitlessly and will go home disappointed no doubt, but with experience nonetheless.
OpTic Gaming
For a team who won ELEAGUE in the last year, a failure to qualify for a major is a far cry from the American’s glory in Atlanta. Falling in consecutive games to PENTA, Vega and Renegades isn’t the end of the world, however for OpTic, a squad which has players with great potential, this performance was a disaster.
Should the Americans face similar troubles in Cologne next week, roster trouble may be imminent, with a potential departure of star player Oscar “mixwell” Cañellas looming over OpTic’s heads when they play North in only five days. However, fans of the American side may have reason for hope based on past results. Going back to previous LANs, OpTic finished top four in four of their last six tournaments prior to ECS.
Krakow Major Qualifier Final Day Preview
The final day of competition will leave every team fighting for qualification and each team’s fate decided. Every team will play at least once, with those who end up with two wins and two losses playing a decider. Due to time constraints, all matches will be best of one. As a result, underdog teams will be at an advantage.
No matter which teams end up in the major, both the coming day of matches and the resultant major will no doubt hold the highest level of CS:GO.
What did you think of the third day of play for the qualifier? Tell us in the comments below!
Alex Geenty
Alex is an Esports writer from New Zealand. He has religiously covered the CSGO scene for over a year and has in-depth knowledge of the players and the teams they play for. Alex started writing about CSGO for various online publications and has been writing for over 2 years. Many of Alex's articles cover in depth the teams, strategies, and tournaments of CSGO.
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Interview with sketch comedians O'Shea & O'Gaukroger
Comedy duo O'Shea & O'Gaukroger are bringing their show 'We're Dead Serious' to the Camden Fringe as part of a UK tour http://femalearts.com/node/1843 performing at Ace & Eights Saloon Bar at 7:45pm on Saturday 15th August 2015.
Wendy from Female Arts caught up with Marina (O'Shea) and Tess (O'Gaukroger) to talk about soggy underwear, bus drivers and women in comedy.
What makes ‘We're Dead Serious’ unique?
Marina: It’s a culmination of a year’s touring, mixing our experience from stand up gigs to music festival appearances to plain ol’ sketch. It also involves Tess taking her trousers off, Australian gummy bears and recorded personal phone calls between us both…
What do you hope the audience will take away from the show?
Marina: A new found appreciation for gummy bears - we have been told a few times people will never look at them in the same way again - and wet pants from laughing.
Tess: Please make sure that you do actually take your wet pants away with you though, venues seem to have a real problem with unwanted, soggy undergarments left after the show and our reputation for it is beginning to precede us.
What made you want to bring ‘We're Dead Serious’ to the Camden Fringe (and not Edinburgh)?
Tess: Distance. Edinburgh is a really, really long way away. It doesn’t look that far on google maps but trust us, IT’S FAR. Lack of haggis nearby is also important to factor in when booking tours.
Can you tell us more about your comedy short films ‘Crack’ and ‘Two Birds, One Pint’? Do you have a preference between performing comedy live and acting to camera?
Marina: ‘Crack’ was a piece written a year before it was filmed, and was actually shelved as we weren’t sure it was good enough to be a filmed piece. On a whim, we decided to shoot it as a side project on the day we were scheduled to shoot another short – and we still can’t believe it’s gone on to do as well as it has! Three film festival screenings, including one at the BAFTA recognised London Short Film Festival. And to think it was almost binned… ‘Two Birds One Pint’ is actually based on mucking around backstage at a music festival we were compering. Two days in and we looked like Cousin It’s long lost sisters , yet we were having to meet all these beautiful musicians, all fresh and cool – so we started ‘peacocking’ at them backstage. We still regularly ‘peacock’ to this day.
Tess: But performing live is like nothing else; there’s not one show we’ve done which is the same as another. Having audience involvement means you never know what you’re going to get; there’s something totally exhilarating about that. Acting to camera we know what we’re going to get- the only uncertainty is whether it will make others laugh as much as us! In live performance, you find that out instantly.
How did you get into sketch comedy? And how does the comedy scene compare in London to Bristol?
Marina: Sketch comedy got into me. Unknowingly, I’d been doing it for years. I was spotted by a male comedy duo, who wanted to expand into a group. They met with me and told me there was this thing called sketch comedy that you could make money from. I spat my tea out. Then apologised, and miraculously they offered me a spot in their comedy show anyway. I worked alongside another girl in the group, and realised I much preferred not having to act up to our male counterparts, or always be cast in the female role. I enjoyed the writing of our own work too; something I’d never done before. And then I saw Tess, playing a male role in a play...
Tess: I was poached by Marina. I’ve got no idea how I got here. Bristol’s comedy scene is blossoming and it’s a great city, but you can’t beat London for the number of great sketch comics per square mile.
Do you think there is gender equality in comedy? If not, why?
Marina: Yes, no. Sometimes, maybe. Labels are a pain. We never think of ourselves as a female duo, or purposefully write about being women in comedy. Or write solely about comic things that only women would find funny or relate to. Instead, we’re people. That’s the first step towards equality – taking it yourself. We identify as people doing comedy, not women.
You have completed several UK tours…what’s the worst part of being on tour?
Marina: Tess. She’s a right dick.
Tess: YOU ASKED ME TO COME.
Marina: Guilty. Also, sat navs that decide you need to turn into the middle of a field off the M5, and driving 7 hours to do 20 minutes of material (you’ve got to really love this job to do that).
Marina: My mother for comedy, and bus drivers for happiness. Also Tess. Because I look up to her. A lot. When she’s talking.
Tess: I’m inspirational from all angles. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are big idols of mine, because their writing is sharp and playful, and they involve themselves in all aspects of their projects.
Marina. Taking over your TV’s. It’s been too long since good, fun sketch was on TV. We’re slowing down our live gigging, to focus on getting a pilot ready for TV. So. Watch. This. Space. (Or maybe your TV).
(c) Wendy Thomson @topgirls for Female Arts / O'Shea and O'Gaukroger 2015
You can find O'Shea and O'Gaukroger at:
https://www.facebook.com/OsheaOgaukroger
https://twitter.com/OSheaOGaukroger
https://instagram.com/osheaogaukroger/
https://www.youtube.com/user/OsheaOgaukroger
http://www.camdenfringe.com/detailact.php?acts_id=317
Gender Equality stats
Sounds great, I'm booking tickets110
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Lifshitz & Miller LLP Announces Investigation of Advanced Disposal Services, Inc., Boston Scientific Corporation, Cavco Industries, Inc., Evoqua Water Technologies Corp., HomeFed Corporation, KeyW Holding Corporation, Level Brands, Inc., and Nightstar Therapeutics plc.
PR Newswire April 23, 2019
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Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. (ADSW)
Lifshitz & Miller announces investigation into possible breach of fiduciary duties in connection with the proposed sale of ADSW to Waste Management, Inc. for $33.15 per share.
If you are an ADSW investor, and would like additional information about our investigation, please complete the Information Request Form or contact Joshua Lifshitz, Esq. by telephone at (516)493-9780 or e-mail at info@jlclasslaw.com.
Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX)
Lifshitz & Miller announces investigation into possible securities laws violations in connection with allegations that BSX had not demonstrated assurance of safety and effectiveness for their surgical mesh products.
If you are a BSX investor, and would like additional information about our investigation, please complete the Information Request Form or contact Joshua Lifshitz, Esq. by telephone at (516)493-9780 or e-mail at info@jlclasslaw.com.
Cavco Industries, Inc. (CVCO)
Lifshitz & Miller announces investigation into possible securities laws violations in connection with a previously received subpoena from the SEC.
If you are a Cavco investor, and would like additional information about our investigation, please complete the Information Request Form or contact Joshua Lifshitz, Esq. by telephone at (516)493-9780 or e-mail at info@jlclasslaw.com.
Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. (AQUA)
Lifshitz & Miller announces investigation into possible securities laws violations in connection with allegations that certain persons improperly sold shares amounting to approximately $500 million.
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HomeFed Corporation (HOFD)
Lifshitz & Miller announces investigation into possible breach of fiduciary duties in connection with the proposed sale of HOFD to Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. for approximately $38.00 per share.
If you are a HOFD investor, and would like additional information about our investigation, please complete the Information Request Form or contact Joshua Lifshitz, Esq. by telephone at (516)493-9780 or e-mail at info@jlclasslaw.com.
KeyW Holding Corporation (KEYW)
Lifshitz & Miller announces investigation into possible breach of fiduciary duties in connection with the proposed sale of KeyW to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. for $11.25 per share.
If you are a KeyW investor, and would like additional information about our investigation, please complete the Information Request Form or contact Joshua Lifshitz, Esq. by telephone at (516)493-9780 or e-mail at info@jlclasslaw.com.
Level Brands, Inc. (LEVB)
Lifshitz & Miller announces investigation into possible securities laws violations in connection with allegations that an error existed in certain LEVB's unaudited financial statements.
If you are a LEVB investor, and would like additional information about our investigation, please complete the Information Request Form or contact Joshua Lifshitz, Esq. by telephone at (516)493-9780 or e-mail at info@jlclasslaw.com.
Nightstar Therapeutics plc (NITE)
Lifshitz & Miller announces investigation into possible breach of fiduciary duties in connection with the proposed sale of Nightstar to Biogen Switzerland Holdings GmhH for $25.00 per share.
If you are a Nightstar investor, and would like additional information about our investigation, please complete the Information Request Form or contact Joshua Lifshitz, Esq. by telephone at (516)493-9780 or e-mail at info@jlclasslaw.com.
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MUA - BlackRock MuniAssets Fund, Inc.
BlackRock MuniAssets Fund, Inc.
100 Bellevue Parkway
http://www.blackrock.com/investing/products/240224/blackrock-muniassets-fund-inc-usd-fund
Industry: Asset Management
Mr. John M. Perlowski Chief Exec. Officer and Pres N/A N/A 1964
Mr. Neal J. Andrews Chief Financial Officer N/A N/A 1966
Mr. Charles Choon Sik Park Chief Compliance Officer and Anti Money Laundering Officer N/A N/A 1967
Mr. Jay M. Fife Treasurer N/A N/A 1970
Ms. Janey Ahn Sec. N/A N/A 1975
Amounts are as of and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay is salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.
BlackRock MuniAssets Fund, Inc. is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched by BlackRock, Inc. It is managed by BlackRock Advisors, LLC. The fund invests in fixed income markets. It seeks to provide current income exempt from federal income taxes by investing primarily in a portfolio of medium-to-lower grade or unrated municipal obligations the interest on which is exempt from federal income taxes. The fund was formerly known as MuniAssets Fund, Inc. BlackRock MuniAssets Fund, Inc. was formed on June 25, 1993 and is domiciled in United States.
BlackRock MuniAssets Fund, Inc.’s ISS Governance QualityScore as of N/A is N/A. The pillar scores are Audit: N/A; Board: N/A; Shareholder Rights: N/A; Compensation: N/A.
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Elvis Photo Shoot Sessions
Speer / SUN era shoots (1954-1955)
Publicity Photo Shoot (1956)
Love Me Tender (1956)
Loving You (1957)
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
King Creole (1958)
G.I. Blues (1960)
Flaming Star (1960)
Wild In The Country (1961)
Blue Hawaii (1961)
Follow That Dream (1961)
Kid Galahad (1961)
Girls, Girls, Girls (1962)
It Happened At The Worlds Fair (1962)
Fun In Acapulco (1963)
Viva Las Vegas (1963)
Kissin Cousins (1963)
Roustabout (1964)
Girl Happy (1964)
Tickle Me (1964)
Harum Scarum (1965)
Frankie & Johnny (1965)
Paradise Hawaiian Style (1965)
Spinout (1966)
Double Trouble (1966)
Clambake (1967)
Speedway (1967)
Stay Away, Joe (1967)
Live A Little, Love A Little (1968)
Charro (1968)
The Trouble With Girls (1968)
Change Of Habit (1969)
Las Vegas (1972)
Photo shoot for “Girls, Girls, Girls” (Paramount) – also part of the shoot were multiple lady co-stars from the film, including Stella Stevens and Laurel Goodwin. Even Colonel Parker (Elvis’ manager) dropped in during the shoot.
Photographer; ???
The co-stars; Laurel Goodwin, Stella Stevens, Jeremy Slate.
The very last photo is something that was used to advertise the movie (as the title on it suggests) but the actual photo of Stella is more than likely from another photo shoot session (for another movie) altogether.
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Talent made in LCI Barcelona at the Bridal Fashion Week
The Valmont Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week, an international reference event for the bridal sector, is once again held in Barcelona. The fashion shows of this edition have taken place from 23th to 26th April and, in them, the talent came out of Felicidad Duce, the Fashion School of LCI Barcelona, has been very present.
Four of our alumni have presented their latest collections during the fashion week: Inmaculada García ("Cathedrals") and, within the catwalk New Talent Show, Mireia Balaguer ("ANASTASIA"), Lorena Panea ("Kemet") and Olga Macià ("A New Bloom").
On the other hand, almost 60 students of the School have collaborated with the creative producer Studio Cortés during these days. They have been helping in the backstage of the different fashion shows carried out in spaces like the fairground of Montjuïc, the Casa Llotja de Mar and the Palau Reial de Pedralbes.
Congratulations to all the participants!
Source: Valmont Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week.
Open entries
Countdown to the 3rd edition of the LCI Barcelona Fashion Film Festival
The only fashion film contest in our city and the first in the world to reward new promises in fashion, audiovisual and advertising is back.
The student Sofia Massuti wins the Bronze Award in the Yinger Prize contest
Held earlier this month in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, the grand finale of the competition welcomed proposals of twenty students from different design universities.
Our alumni Domingo Rodríguez (Dominnico) succeed in Madrid Fashion Week EGO catwalk
The designer from Alicante, who graduated from LCI Barcelona three years ago, presented his proposal for the next spring-summer season: "Harajuku Kids".
"Memories of the Future"
Our students present their collections within the 080 Barcelona Fashion's OFF program
One more year, the students of the Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Design had the opportunity to show their final projects in the framework of the Catalan catwalk.
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2017–18 National League
For the professional baseball league, see National League.
The 2017–18 National League season, known as the Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons, is the third season under English football's new title of National League, fourteenth season consisting of three divisions and the thirty-ninth season overall.[1]
National League (English football)
← 2016-2017
2018-2019 →
The National League covers the top two levels of non-League football in England. The National League is the fifth highest level of the overall pyramid, while the National League North and National League South exist at the sixth level. The top team and the winner of the play-off of the Premier division will be promoted to English Football League Two, while the bottom four are relegated to the North or South divisions. The champions of the North and South divisions will be promoted to the Premier division, alongside the play-off winners from each division. The bottom three in each of the North and South divisions are relegated to the premier divisions of the Northern Premier League, Isthmian League or Southern League.
This is the first season to include six teams in the play-offs for each division, with the 4th-7th placed teams participating in the qualifying round and the 2nd and 3rd placed teams qualifying for the semi-finals.[2]
National LeagueEdit
Relegated
← 2016–17
2018–19 →
The National League consisted of 24 clubs.
Promotion and RelegationEdit
The following teams changed divisions after the 2016–17 season:
Fylde were the first team to be promoted after a 3–0 win against Boston United F.C. on 22 April 2017 clinched them the National League North title. Maidenhead United were promoted on 29 April 2017 after a 3–0 win over Margate, competing in the top tier of non-league for the first time. Ebbsfleet United were promoted on 13 May 2017 after beating Chelmsford City 2–1 in the National League South Playoff Final, returning to the league after a four-year absence. On the same day, Halifax Town were also promoted after beating Chorley 2–1 in the National League North playoff final, securing them an immediate return to the league.
Leyton Orient were relegated from League Two on 22 April 2017 after their 3–0 loss to Crewe Alexandra ending their 112-year stay in the English Football League. On 6 May 2017, despite a 2–1 victory over Doncaster Rovers on the same day, Hartlepool United became the second team to be relegated from League Two following Newport County's 2–1 victory over Notts County, ending their 96-year stay in the EFL.
The six teams replace Lincoln City, Forest Green Rovers, York City, Braintree Town, Southport and North Ferriby United. Lincoln City were promoted to League Two after beating Macclesfield Town 2–1 on 22 April 2017.[3] Forest Green Rovers were promoted after beating Tranmere Rovers 3–1 in the 2016–17 National League Playoff Final on 14 May 2017. They were the league's longest serving club, completing nineteen seasons in the top-flight. This is a mantle that has now been passed to Wrexham, who enter their tenth season in the league.
After seven years in the National League and surviving relegation battles over several seasons, Southport were unable to escape the drop and they were the first team to be relegated on 21 April 2017 after a 3–0 loss to Dover Athletic. After just one season in the National League, North Ferriby United were relegated three days later after a 3–1 defeat at Barrow. On the final day of the season, Braintree Town were relegated after losing 2–0 to Aldershot, ending their six-year stay in the league, which also confirmed the club's first relegation in their history. York City's 2–2 draw against Forest Green Rovers was also not enough to save them after Guiseley's last minute equalizer against Solihull Moors confirmed back to back relegations for the Yorkshire club.
Team changesEdit
To National LeagueEdit
Promoted from National League North
Promoted from National League South
Maidenhead United
Relegated from League Two
From National LeagueEdit
Relegated to National League North
North Ferriby United
Relegated to National League South
Promoted to League Two
Stadia and locationsEdit
Ebbsfleet
Solihull Moors
London teams
Sutton United
Locations of the 2017–18 National League teams
Locations of the 2017–18 National League clubs (Greater London clubs)
Aldershot Town Aldershot Recreation Ground 7,200
Barrow Barrow-in-Furness Holker Street 5,045
Boreham Wood Borehamwood Meadow Park 4,502
Bromley London (Bromley) Hayes Lane 5,300
Chester Chester Deva Stadium 6,500
Dagenham & Redbridge London (Dagenham) Victoria Road 6,078
Dover Athletic Dover Crabble Athletic Ground 5,745
Eastleigh Eastleigh Ten Acres 5,250
Ebbsfleet United Northfleet Stonebridge Road 4,500
Fylde Wesham Mill Farm 6,000
Halifax Town Halifax The Shay 14,061
Gateshead Gateshead Gateshead International Stadium 11,800
Guiseley Guiseley Nethermoor Park 4,200
Hartlepool United Hartlepool Victoria Park 7,856
Leyton Orient London (Leyton) Brisbane Road 9,271
Macclesfield Town Macclesfield Moss Rose 6,355
Maidenhead United Maidenhead York Road 3,377
Maidstone United Maidstone Gallagher Stadium 4,200
Solihull Moors Solihull Damson Park 4,313
Sutton United London (Sutton) Gander Green Lane 5,013
Torquay United Torquay Plainmoor 6,200
Tranmere Rovers Birkenhead Prenton Park 16,789
Woking Woking Kingfield Stadium 6,036
Wrexham Wrexham Racecourse Ground 10,771
League tableEdit
Promotion, qualification or relegation
Macclesfield Town (C) 46 27 11 8 67 46 +21 92 Promoted to EFL League Two
Tranmere Rovers (P, O) 46 24 10 12 78 46 +32 82 Qualified for the National League play-off semi-finals
Sutton United 46 23 10 13 67 53 +14 79
Boreham Wood 46 20 15 11 64 47 +17 75 Qualified for the National League play-off qualifying round
Aldershot Town 46 20 15 11 64 52 +12 75
Ebbsfleet United 46 19 17 10 64 50 +14 74
Fylde 46 20 13 13 82 56 +26 73
Dover Athletic 46 20 13 13 62 44 +18 73
Bromley 46 19 13 14 75 58 +17 70
Wrexham 46 17 19 10 49 39 +10 70
Dagenham & Redbridge 46 19 11 16 69 62 +7 68
Maidenhead United 46 17 13 16 65 66 −1 64
Leyton Orient 46 16 12 18 58 56 +2 60
Eastleigh 46 13 17 16 65 72 −7 56
Hartlepool United 46 14 14 18 53 63 −10 56
Halifax Town 46 13 16 17 48 58 −10 55
Gateshead 46 12 18 16 62 58 +4 54
Solihull Moors 46 14 12 20 49 60 −11 54
Maidstone United 46 13 15 18 52 64 −12 54
Barrow 46 11 16 19 51 63 −12 49
Woking (R) 46 13 9 24 55 76 −21 48 Relegated to National League South
Torquay United (R) 46 10 12 24 45 73 −28 42
Chester (R) 46 8 13 25 42 79 −37 37 Relegated to National League North
Guiseley (R) 46 7 12 27 44 89 −45 33
Source: National League official site
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of matches won; 5) Head-to-head results [4]
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.
Play-offsEdit
Qualifying round Semi-finals Final
2 Tranmere Rovers 4
5 Aldershot Town 1 (4) 6 Ebbsfleet United 2
6 Ebbsfleet United 1 (5) 2 Tranmere Rovers 2
4 Boreham Wood 1
3 Sutton United 2
4 Boreham Wood 2 4 Boreham Wood 3
7 Fylde 1
Qualifying roundEdit
Aldershot Town v Ebbsfleet United
2 May 2018 Aldershot Town 1–1 (a.e.t.)
(4–5 p) Ebbsfleet United Recreation Ground, Aldershot
19:00 Kabamba
106' Report Winfield
119' Attendance: 3,319
Referee: Allan Young
Rendell
Oyeleke
Wabo
Kedwell
Boreham Wood v Fylde
3 May 2018 Boreham Wood 2–1 Fylde Meadow Park, Borehamwood
Andrade
Report Grand
30' Attendance: 1,244
Referee: Joseph Johnson
Semi-finalsEdit
Tranmere Rovers v Ebbsfleet United
5 May 2018 Tranmere Rovers 4–2 (a.e.t.) Ebbsfleet United Prenton Park, Birkenhead
Coulson
Referee: P Wright
Sutton United v Boreham Wood
6 May 2018 Sutton United 2–3 Boreham Wood Gander Green Lane, Sutton
Bolarinwa
53' (o.g.)
Folivi
Referee: Matt Donohue
FinalEdit
Main article: 2018 National League play-off Final
12 May 2018 (2018-05-12)
45+8' Report
Wembley Stadium, London
Results tableEdit
Home \ Away
A.F.C. Fylde
F.C. Halifax Town
Updated to match(es) played on 28 April 2018. Source: The Vanarama National League
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top scorersEdit
As of matches played 14 April 2018[5]
Andy Cook Tranmere Rovers 24
Danny Rowe AFC Fylde
Macauley Bonne Leyton Orient 22
Bruno Andrade Boreham Wood 19
James Norwood Tranmere Rovers
Josh Rees Bromley 16
Ryan Bird Dover Athletic 15
Danny Kedwell Ebbsfleet United
Louis Dennis Bromley 13
Chris Holroyd Wrexham
Monthly AwardsEdit
Each month the Vanarama National League announces their official Player of the Month and Manager of the Month.
Manager of the Month
Nathan Vaughan[6] Solihull Moors
John Still[6] Dagenham & Redbridge
Scott Wilson[7] Macclesfield Town
Jay Saunders[7] Maidstone United
Josh Rees[8] Bromley
Craig Harrison[8] Hartlepool United
Danny Rowe[9] Fylde
Luke Garrard[9] Boreham Wood
Connor Jennings[10] Tranmere Rovers
John Askey[10] Macclesfield Town
Sam Wood[11] Eastleigh
Mark Yates[11] Solihull Moors
Elliott Durrell[12] Macclesfield Town
Daryl McMahon[12] Ebbsfleet United
Mitch Walker[13] Dover Athletic
Matthew Bates[13] Hartlepool United
Andy Cook[14] Tranmere Rovers
Alan Devonshire[15] Maidstone United
Team of the seasonEdit
At the end of the season, the National League announced its official team of the season.[16]
Shwan Jalal Macclesfield Town
Shaun Pearson Wrexham
Steve McNulty Tranmere Rovers
Manny Smith Wrexham
Elliott Durrell Macclesfield Town
Danny Whitaker Macclesfield Town
Craig Eastmond Sutton United
Louis Dennis Bromley
Andy Cook Tranmere Rovers
Danny Rowe Fylde
Bruno Andrade Boreham Wood
National League NorthEdit
Gainsborough Trinity
To National League NorthEdit
Promoted from Northern Premier League Premier Division
Promoted from Southern Football League Premier Division
Relegated from National League
From National League NorthEdit
Relegated to Northern Premier League Premier Division
Relegated and voluntarily demoted to Midland Football League Premier Division
Worcester City
Transferred to National League South
Gloucester City
Promoted to National League
Bradford PA
Greater Manchester teams
F.C. United
Locations of the National League North 2017–18 teams (see Greater Manchester map for more detail for these clubs)
Locations of the Greater Manchester clubs in 2017–18 National League North
Alfreton Town Alfreton North Street 3,600
Blyth Spartans Blyth Croft Park 4,435
Boston United Boston York Street 6,643
Brackley Town Brackley St. James Park 3,500
Bradford Park Avenue Bradford Horsfall Stadium 3,500
Chorley Chorley Victory Park 4,100
Curzon Ashton Ashton-under-Lyne Tameside Stadium 4,000
Darlington Darlington Blackwell Meadows 3,300
F.C. United of Manchester Manchester Broadhurst Park 4,400
Gainsborough Trinity Gainsborough The Northolme 4,304
Harrogate Town Harrogate Wetherby Road 3,800
Kidderminster Harriers Kidderminster Aggborough 6,238
Leamington Leamington New Windmill Ground 3,000
North Ferriby United North Ferriby Grange Lane 2,200
Nuneaton Town Nuneaton Liberty Way 4,614
Salford City Salford Moor Lane 5,106
Southport Southport Haig Avenue 6,008
Spennymoor Town Spennymoor The Brewery Field 6,000
Stockport County Stockport Edgeley Park 10,852
Tamworth Tamworth The Lamb Ground 4,000
A.F.C. Telford United Telford New Bucks Head 6,300
York City York Bootham Crescent 8,256[17]
Salford City (C) 42 28 7 7 80 45 +35 91 Promoted to the National League
Harrogate Town (P, O) 42 26 7 9 100 49 +51 85 Qualified for the National League North play-off semi-finals
Brackley Town 42 23 11 8 72 37 +35 80
Kidderminster Harriers 42 20 12 10 76 50 +26 72 Qualified for the National League North play-off qualifying round
Stockport County 42 20 9 13 75 57 +18 69
Chorley 42 18 14 10 52 39 +13 68
Bradford Park Avenue 42 18 9 15 66 56 +10 63
Spennymoor Town 42 18 9 15 71 67 +4 63
Boston United 42 17 9 16 67 66 +1 60
Blyth Spartans 42 19 2 21 76 69 +7 59
York City 42 16 10 16 65 62 +3 58
Darlington 42 14 13 15 58 58 0 55
Nuneaton Town 42 14 13 15 50 57 −7 55
AFC Telford United 42 16 5 21 55 69 −14 53
Southport 42 14 8 20 60 72 −12 50
FC United of Manchester 42 14 8 20 58 72 −14 50
Alfreton Town 42 14 7 21 67 71 −4 49
Curzon Ashton 42 12 13 17 52 66 −14 49
Leamington 42 13 10 19 51 65 −14 49
Gainsborough Trinity (R) 42 14 4 24 47 73 −26 46 Relegated to the Northern Premier League
Tamworth (R) 42 11 9 22 55 77 −22 42 Relegated to the Southern Football League
North Ferriby United (R) 42 4 9 29 25 101 −76 21 Relegated to the Northern Premier League
2 Harrogate Town 2
5 Stockport County 0 6 Chorley 1
6 Chorley 1 2 Harrogate Town 3
3 Brackley Town 0
4 Kidderminster Harriers 0 7 Bradford Park Avenue 0
7 Bradford Park Avenue 2
Stockport County v Chorley
2 May 2018 Stockport County 0–1 Chorley Edgeley Park, Stockport
19:45 (UTC+01:00) Report Walker
Kidderminster Harriers v Bradford Park Avenue
2 May 2018 Kidderminster Harriers 0–2 Bradford Park Avenue Aggborough Stadium, Kidderminster
19:45 (UTC+01:00) Report Boyes
Harrogate Town v Chorley
6 May 2018 Harrogate Town 2–1 Chorley Wetherby Road, Harrogate
15:00 (UTC+01:00)
61' (pen.)
O'Keefe
Brackley Town v Bradford Park Avenue
6 May 2018 Brackley Town 1–0 (a.e.t.) Bradford Park Avenue St. James Park, Brackley
Harrogate Town v Brackley Town
13 May 2018 Harrogate Town 3–0 Brackley Town Wetherby Road, Harrogate
Leesley
CZA
A.F.C. Telford United
Boston United
Bradford Park Avenue
F.C. United of Manchester
Kidderminster Harriers
Nuneaton Town
As of matches played 24 April 2018[18]
1 Jason Gilchrist Southport 26
2 Jason Oswell Stockport County 24
3 Aaron Williams Brackley Town 22
4 Reece Styche Darlington 21
5 Adam Boyes Bradford Park Avenue 20
Jon Parkin York City
7 Ashley Chambers Nuneaton Town 19
Joe Ironside Kidderminster Harriers
Glen Taylor Spennymoor Town
10 Marcus Dinanga AFC Telford United 17
Jack Redshaw Salford City
12 Daniel Maguire Blyth Spartans 16
National League SouthEdit
Havant & Waterlooville
Bognor Regis Town
The National League South consisted of 22 clubs.
To National League SouthEdit
Chippenham Town
Promoted from Isthmian League
Transferred from National League North
From National League SouthEdit
Relegated to Isthmian League Premier Division
Relegated to Southern Football League Premier Division
Gosport Borough
Concord Rangers
East Thurrock
Hampton & Richmond
Locations of the National League South 2017–18 teams (Greater London shown in more detail below)
Locations of the National League South 2017–18 teams (Greater London clubs)
Bath City Bath (Twerton) Twerton Park 8,840
Bognor Regis Town Bognor Regis Nyewood Lane 4,500
Braintree Town Braintree Cressing Road 4,222
Chelmsford City Chelmsford Melbourne Stadium 3,019
Chippenham Town Chippenham Hardenhuish Park 3,000
Concord Rangers Canvey Island Thames Road 3,300
Dartford Dartford Princes Park 4,100
East Thurrock United Corringham Rookery Hill 4,000
Eastbourne Borough Eastbourne Priory Lane 4,151
Gloucester City Evesham Jubilee Stadium (groundshare with Evesham United) 3,000
Hampton & Richmond London (Hampton) Beveree Stadium 3,500
Havant & Waterlooville Havant Westleigh Park 5,300
Hemel Hempstead Town Hemel Hempstead Vauxhall Road 3,152
Hungerford Town Hungerford Bulpit Lane 2,500
Oxford City Oxford (Marston) Court Place Farm 2,000
Poole Town Poole The BlackGold Stadium 2,500
St Albans City St Albans Clarence Park 4,500
Truro City Truro Treyew Road 3,857
Wealdstone London (Ruislip) Grosvenor Vale 3,607
Welling United London (Welling) Park View Road 4,000
Weston-super-Mare Weston-super-Mare Woodspring Stadium 3,500
Whitehawk Brighton The TerraPura Ground 3,126
Havant & Waterlooville (C) 42 25 11 6 70 30 +40 86 Promoted to the National League
Dartford 42 26 8 8 81 44 +37 86 Qualified for the National League South play-off semi-finals
Chelmsford City 42 21 11 10 68 45 +23 74
Hampton & Richmond Borough 42 18 18 6 58 37 +21 72 Qualified for the National League South play-off qualifying round
Hemel Hempstead Town 42 19 13 10 71 51 +20 70
Braintree Town (P, O) 42 19 13 10 73 55 +18 69[a]
Truro City 42 20 9 13 71 55 +16 69
St Albans City 42 19 8 15 71 58 +13 65
Bath City 42 17 12 13 64 48 +16 63
Welling United 42 17 10 15 68 59 +9 61
Wealdstone 42 16 11 15 64 62 +2 59
Weston-super-Mare 42 16 7 19 66 73 −7 55
Chippenham Town 42 15 9 18 64 70 −6 54
Gloucester City 42 15 8 19 56 70 −14 53
East Thurrock United 42 13 11 18 68 84 −16 50
Oxford City 42 13 10 19 60 69 −9 49
Concord Rangers 42 12 10 20 46 62 −16 46
Eastbourne Borough 42 13 7 22 57 80 −23 46
Hungerford Town 42 12 7 23 45 68 −23 43
Poole Town (R) 42 11 9 22 47 73 −26 42 Relegated to the Southern Football League
Whitehawk (R) 42 8 10 24 51 89 −38 34 Relegated to the Isthmian League
Bognor Regis Town (R) 42 5 12 25 41 78 −37 27
^ Braintree Town were deducted one point for fielding an ineligible player in matches earlier in the season.[19]
2 Dartford 0
5 Hemel Hempstead Town 0 (2) 6 Braintree Town 1
6 Braintree Town 0 (3) 4 Hampton & Richmond Borough 1 (3)
6 Braintree Town 1 (4)
3 Chelmsford City 0
4 Hampton & Richmond Borough 3 4 Hampton & Richmond Borough 1
7 Truro City 1
Hemel Hempstead Town v Braintree Town
2 May 2018 Hemel Hempstead Town 0–0 (a.e.t.)
(2–3 p) Braintree Town Vauxhall Road, Hemel Hempstead
Parkes
Hampton & Richmond Borough v Truro City
2 May 2018 Hampton & Richmond Borough 3–1 (a.e.t.) Truro City Beveree Stadium, Hampton
19:45 Cook
Hudson-Odoi
99', 120' Report Neal
8' Attendance: 922
Dartford v Braintree Town
6 May 2018 Dartford 0–1 Braintree Town Princes Park, Dartford
Chelmsford City v Hampton & Richmond Borough
6 May 2018 Chelmsford City 0–1 Hampton & Richmond Borough Melbourne Stadium, Chelmsford
Hampton & Richmond Borough v Braintree Town
13 May 2018 Hampton & Richmond Borough 1–1
(3–4 p) Braintree Town Beveree Stadium, Hampton
15:00 Attendance: 3,127
EAB
H&W
OXC
WHI
Bath City
Eastbourne Borough
East Thurrock United
Hungerford Town
St Albans City
Truro City
Welling United
1 Sam Higgins East Thurrock United 25
2 Alfie Pavey Dartford 22
Jason Prior Havant & Waterlooville
4 Sam Merson St. Albans City 20
Matt Paterson Oxford City
6 Gethyn Hill Weston-super-Mare 19
7 Philip Roberts Braintree Town 18
8 Warren Bentley Poole Town 17
9 Dayle Grubb Weston-super-Mare 16
^ "The Official National League Website". nationalleague.org.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
^ http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/the-national-league/big-changes-national-league-play-offs-confirmed/
^ "Premier League and Football League: Ups & downs and European qualification". 2 May 2017 – via www.bbc.com.
^ a b c "The FA Handbook Standardised Rules 2017-2018 (page 539, section 12.2)". The FA. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
^ "National League Top Scorers". BBC Sport. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
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Edward Albert
For his father, see Eddie Albert.
Edward Laurence Heimberger (February 20, 1951 – September 22, 2006), known professionally as Edward Albert, was an American film and television actor.[1] For his breakout role in Butterflies Are Free (1972), he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor.[2]
Edward Albert in 1977
Edward Laurence Heimberger
(1951-02-20)February 20, 1951
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
September 22, 2006(2006-09-22) (aged 55)
Malibu, California, U.S.
Katherine Woodville
(m. 1978; his death 2006)
Kate Jackson (mid-1970s)
Edward Laurence Heimberger was born in Los Angeles, California, to actor Eddie Albert (1906–2005), and Mexican actress Margo (1917–1985).
Albert made his motion picture debut in a 1965 drama, The Fool Killer,[1] as a runaway orphan who crossed paths with a disturbed Civil War veteran, played by Anthony Perkins. He is best known for his work in the film Butterflies Are Free (1972),[1] in which he played a blind man, starring opposite Goldie Hawn. In addition to winning the New Star of the Year – Actor award, Albert was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
The following year, he starred opposite Liv Ullmann in the film adaptation of the play 40 Carats. Albert appeared as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot in the epic 1976 film Midway, portraying the son of a famous (and fictitious) naval captain (played by Charlton Heston). Later in 1976 he made a guest appearance in an episode of the NBC dramatic series Gibbsville. He also was featured in the Gene Hackman suspense film The Domino Principle (1977) and the drama The Greek Tycoon[1] (1978) opposite Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset. In 1981, he starred opposite Ray Walston and Erin Moran in Roger Corman's cult SF horror film, Galaxy of Terror.[1]
During the 1983–1984 TV season he co-starred as Quisto Champion on the NBC series The Yellow Rose along with Sam Elliott, Cybill Shepherd and David Soul. He also had a recurring role in the late 1980s television series Beauty and the Beast, in which he played Elliot Burch, the millionaire New York developer who loved series heroine, Catherine Chandler (played by Linda Hamilton). He also played Mr. Collins, father to Wesley Collins, the Red Ranger from Power Rangers Time Force.[1] Albert also voiced the blind superhero Daredevil in two episodes of Spider-Man: The Animated Series in the 1990s. Albert also appeared in the 1987 film The Underachievers.[3]
In The Ice Runner[1] (1992), he played a betrayed and threatened agent arrested in Russia, who wants to escape from his prison. In 1993, he made a guest appearance in the television show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (season 2, episodes 6 & 7, "Where the heart is" Parts 1 & 2) as Dr. William Burke, the Boston doctor competing with Sully for Dr. Mike's attention. In Guarding Tess[1] (1994), he played the son of kidnapped former First Lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine).
Albert was a prominent advocate of both the environment and the heritage and rights of Native Americans, especially the local Chumash tribe, and served on both the California Coastal Commission and the California Native American Heritage Commission.[4] Because of his work, the Escondido Canyon has been renamed in his honor as the Edward Albert Escondido Trail and Waterfalls.[5]
Albert was engaged to actress Kate Jackson in the mid-1970s, during which time they lived together.[6] He and his wife, actress Katherine Woodville, married in 1978, and had one child, daughter Thaïs "Tai" Carmen Albert.[5][7]
In his last years, Albert cared for his father, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died at the age of 99 in 2005. The younger Albert was diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2005. He died on September 22, 2006 at the age of 55, surviving his father by only sixteen months.[4]
FilmEdit
1965 The Fool Killer George Mellish
1972 Butterflies Are Free Don Baker
1973 40 Carats Peter Latham
1976 Midway Lieutenant Tom Garth
1977 The Domino Principle Ross Pine
The Purple Taxi Jerry Keen
1978 The Greek Tycoon Nico Tamisis
The Squeeze Jeff Olafsen
1980 When Time Ran Out... Brian
1981 Galaxy of Terror Cabren
1982 Butterfly Wash Gilespie
A Time to Die Michael Rogan
The House Where Evil Dwells Ted Fletcher
1983 Veliki transport Danny
1984 Ellie Tom
1986 Getting Even 'Tag' Taggar
1987 Distortions Jason Marks
Terminal Entry Capt. Danny Jackson
The UnderAchievers Danny Warren
1988 The Rescue Cmdr Merrill
1989 Fist Fighter Harry 'Punchy' Moses
Mind Games Dana Lund
Accidents Eric Powers
Wild Zone Colonel Elias Lavara
1990 Out of Sight, Out of Mind Kurt Williams
1992 The Ice Runner Jeffrey West
Exiled in America Filipe Soto
1993 Shootfighter: Fight to the Death Mr. C
Fist Fighter 2
Broken Trust Peter Wyatt
1994 Hard Drive Examiner
Guarding Tess Barry Carlisle
The Other Man Richard
Red Sun Rising Decklin
Demon Keeper Remy Grilland
Sorceress Howard Reynolds
1995 The Royal Affair
1996 Space Marines Capt. Gray
The Secret Agent Club Max Simpson
Kid Cop Frank Rebbins
1997 Modern Rhapsody The Choreographer
1998 The Man in the Iron Mask Athos
1999 Unbowed US Army Officer
2000 Stagehost U.S. Deputy Marshal Coburn
2001 Ablaze Mayor Phillips
Mimic 2 Darksuit
Night Class Shelly
Extreme Honor Senator Richards
2003 A Light in the Forest King Otto / Ridgewell
2004 No Regrets Alex Wheeler
The Work and the Glory Martin Harris
2006 A-List Alfred
Sea of Fear Captain
2007 Fighting Words Marc Neihauser
2008 Chinaman's Chance: America's Other Slaves Charles
2010 Street Poet Marc (final film role)
TelevisionEdit
1973 Great Mysteries The Young Gambler
1974 Killer Bees Edward Van Bohlen TV Movie
Kung Fu Johnny Kingsley McLean Two Episodes
Death Cruise James Radney
1975 The Rookies Edward Milland Episode - "Nightmare"
Medical Story Thor Halverson Episode - "A Life in the Balance"
1976 Ellery Queen Lee Marx Episode - "The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep"
Origins of the Mafia Sebastian Episode - "Gli antenati"
1975-1976 Police Story Billy Bob/Clay Peters Two episodes
1976 Gibbsville John Episode - "Afternoon Waltz"
1978 Black Beauty Lewis Barry
The Love Boat Doug Warren Two episodes
The Millionaire Paul Mathews TV Movie
1979 Silent VIcotry: The Kitty O'Neil Story Tom Buchanan TV Movie
The Last Convertible Ron Dalrymple TV Mini-series
1981 Walking Tall Clell Brewster Episode - "Kidnapped"
The Littlest Hobo Joey Green Episode - "The Hero"
1982 Today's F.B.I. Carl Episode - "Bank Job"
Tales of the Unexpected Sam Episode - "In the Bag"
1983 Blood Feud Phil Wharton TV Movie
The Yellow Rose Quisto Champion 22 Episodes
1984 Murder, She Wrote Tony Holiday Episode - "Hit, Run and Homicide"
1985 Deadly Nightmares Arthur Brown Episode - "Man at the Window"
1986 Brothers Tony Martin Episode - "Still Married After All These Years"
1987 The New Mike Hammer Oliver Alden Episode - "Deadly Collection"
1987 Houston Knights Lester Farnum Episode - "North of the Border"
1986-1987 Falcon Crest Jeff Wainwright 18 Episodes
1988 ABC Afterschool Special Bill Watson Episode - "Daddy Can't Read"
1987-1990 Beauty and the Beast Elliot Burch 10 Episodes
1991 Guns of Paradise Robert Carroll Episode - "Birthright"
The Girl from Mars Dan Puttman TV Movie>
Midnight Caller State Senator Joran Pearl Episode - "The Added Starter"
1992 Body Language Charles Stella TV Movie
Bodies of Evidence Charlie Harper Episode - "Nearest and Dearest"
Civil Wars Miles Wachtel Episode - "Das Boat House"
Silk Stalkings Edgardo/Tio Mendoza/Felix Bustamente Episode - "Scorpio Lover"
1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Zayra Episode - "A Man Alone"
FBI: The Untold Stories Drew Dobson Episode - "Dapper Drew"
L.A. Law Warren McElroy Episode - "Hello and Goodbye"
In the Heat of the Night Lamar Sloan Episode - "Legacy"
Time Trax Frank Haskall Episode - "Treasure of the Ages"
Dark Justice Quin Episode - "Incorrect Dosage"
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Dr. William Burke 2 episodes
1994 Fantastic Four Silver Surfer/Norrin Radd Episode - "The Boxer"
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Power Rangers Time Force Mr. Collins 39 Episodes credited as Edward Laurence Albert
2002 The Brothers Garcia Bobby Juniors Dad Episode - "Space Race"
2003 She Spies Beck Episode - "Off with Her Head"
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Delphi (IDE)
(Redirected from Borland Delphi)
Delphi is an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software,[1] developed by Embarcadero Technologies. It is also an event-driven language. Delphi's compilers use their own Object Pascal dialect of Pascal and generate native code for Microsoft Windows, macOS (IA-32 only), iOS, Android and Linux (x64 only).[2][3][4] Since 2016, there have been new releases of Delphi every six months, with new platforms being added approximately every second release.[5]
Delphi includes a code editor, a visual designer, an integrated debugger, a source code control component, and support for third-party plugins. The code editor features Code Insight (code completion), Error Insight (real-time error-checking), and refactoring. The visual forms designer has traditionally used Visual Component Library (VCL) for native Windows development, but the FireMonkey (FMX) platform was later added for cross-platform development. Database support in Delphi is very strong. A Delphi project of a million lines of code can compile in a few seconds – one benchmark[which?] gave 170,000 lines per second.[clarification needed]
Delphi was originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows as the successor of Turbo Pascal. Delphi added full object-oriented programming to the existing language, and since then the language has grown to support generics and anonymous methods, and native Component Object Model (COM) support. In 2006, Borland’s developer tools section was transferred from Borland to a wholly owned subsidiary known as CodeGear, which was sold to Embarcadero Technologies in 2008. In 2015, Embarcadero was purchased by Idera Software, but the Embarcadero mark was retained for the developer tools division.
Delphi and its C++ counterpart, C++Builder, are interoperable. They share many core components, notably the IDE, VCL, and much of the runtime library. In addition, they can be used jointly in a project. For example, C++Builder 6 and later can consume Delphi source code and C++ in one project, while packages compiled with C++Builder can be used from within Delphi. In 2007, the products were released jointly as RAD Studio, a shared host for Delphi and C++Builder, which can be purchased with either or both.
1.1 Characteristics
1.2 Backward compatibility
1.3 Limitations
1.4 Issues
2 Code examples
4.1 Early Borland years (1995–2003)
4.1.1 Borland Delphi
4.1.2 Borland Delphi 2
4.1.4 Inprise Delphi 4
4.2 Later Borland years (2003–2008)
4.2.2 Borland Delphi 2005
4.2.3.1 Turbo Delphi and Turbo Delphi for .NET
4.2.4 Codegear Delphi 2007
4.2.5 Delphi for PHP
4.3 Embarcadero years (2008–)
4.3.2 Embarcadero Delphi 2010
4.3.3 Embarcadero Delphi XE
4.3.3.1 Delphi Starter Edition
4.3.4 Embarcadero Delphi XE2
4.3.10 Embarcadero Delphi XE8
4.3.11 Embarcadero Delphi 10 Seattle
4.3.12 Embarcadero Delphi 10.1 Berlin
4.3.13 Embarcadero Delphi 10.2 Tokyo
4.3.14 Embarcadero Delphi 10.2 Tokyo (Community Edition)
4.3.15 Embarcadero Delphi 10.3 Rio
5 Roadmaps
6 Related software
6.1 Borland Enterprise Studio
6.2 Borland Kylix
6.3 RAD Studio
6.4 InterBase
6.5 JBuilder
6.6 RadPHP (formerly Delphi for PHP)
6.7 Delphi Prism
6.8 Free Pascal and Lazarus
6.9 Third-party libraries
7 Applications and software made with Delphi
Features[edit]
Delphi supports rapid application development (RAD). Among the features supporting RAD are the application framework and the visual designer.[citation needed] Delphi uses the Pascal-based programming language called Object Pascal introduced by Borland. It supports native cross-compilation. Its visual designer has traditionally used Visual Component Library (VCL) for RAD.
To better support development for Microsoft Windows and interoperate with code developed with other software development tools, Delphi supports independent interfaces of Component Object Model (COM) with reference counted class implementations, and support for many third-party components. Interface implementations can be delegated to fields or properties of classes. Message handlers are implemented by tagging a method of a class with the integer constant of the message to handle.
Database connectivity is extensively supported through the many VCL database-aware and database access components.
Later versions have included upgraded and enhanced runtime library routines provided by the community group FastCode, established in 2003.
Characteristics[edit]
Delphi is a strongly typed high-level programming language, intended to be easy to use and originally based on the earlier Object Pascal language. Pascal was originally developed as a general-purpose language "suitable for expressing the fundamental constructs known at the time in a concise and logical way", and "its implementation was to be efficient and competitive with existing FORTRAN compilers"[6] but without low-level programming facilities or access to hardware. Turbo Pascal and its descendants, including Delphi, support access to hardware and low-level programming, with the facility to incorporate code written in assembly language and other languages. Delphi's object orientation features only class- and interface-based polymorphism.[7] Metaclasses are first class objects. Objects are actually references to the objects (as in Java), which Delphi implicitly de-references, so there is usually no need to manually allocate memory for pointers to objects or use similar techniques that some other languages need. There are dedicated reference-counted string types, and also null-terminated strings.
Strings can be concatenated by using the '+' operator, rather than using functions. For dedicated string types Delphi handles memory management without programmer intervention. Since Borland Developer Studio 2006 there are functions to locate memory leaks.
Delphi includes an integrated IDE. The Delphi products all ship with a Visual Component Library (VCL), including most of its source code. Third-party components (sometimes with full source code) and tools to enhance the IDE or for other Delphi related development tasks are available, some free of charge. The IDE includes a GUI for localization and translation of created programs that may be deployed to a translator; there are also third-party tools with more features for this purpose. The VCL framework maintains a high level of source compatibility between versions, which simplifies updating existing source code to a newer Delphi version. Third-party libraries may need updates from the vendor but, if source code is supplied, recompilation with the newer version may be sufficient. The VCL was an early adopter of dependency injection or inversion of control; it uses a-"re-usable" component model, extensible by the developer. With class helpers new functionality can be introduced to core RTL and VCL classes without changing the original source code of the RTL or VCL.
The compiler is optimizing and single pass. It can optionally compile to a single executable which does not require DLLs. Delphi can also generate standard DLLs, ActiveX DLLs, COM automation servers and Windows services.
The Delphi IDEs since Delphi 2005 increasingly support refactoring features such as method extraction and the possibility to create UML models from the source code or to modify the source through changes made in the model.
Delphi has large communities on Usenet and the web. When Delphi was owned by Codegear, many of its employees actively participated.
Backward compatibility[edit]
Each new release of Delphi attempts to be as compatible as possible with earlier versions, so that already-developed software and libraries can be retained. Incompatibility necessarily arises as new functionality is added.
Limitations[edit]
Although each new release of Delphi attempts to keep as much backwards compatibility as possible to allow existing code reuse, new features, new libraries, and improvements sometimes make newer releases less than 100% backwards compatible. For example, the design of the standard class libraries (VCL/RTL) had become somewhat dated and restrictive; Embarcadero released in 2011 as part of Delphi XE2 a new compiler and cross-platform VCL replacement called FireMonkey, based on Direct3D and OpenGL, which runs on other platforms in addition to Windows, supporting their features, but is not fully backwards-compatible with VCL applications. FireMonkey applications do however allow easy sharing of non visual code units with VCL applications, enabling a lot of code to be ported easily between the platforms.
Issues[edit]
Some releases of Delphi have been reported to be unstable. Delphi XE7, in particular, was often reported to be slow and subject to severe memory leaks.[citation needed]
Code examples[edit]
To show a message:
procedure TForm1.ShowAMessage;
ShowMessage('Hello World!');
To give a label a caption using the VCL:
procedure TForm1.ShowSomethingOnCreate;
Label1.Caption := 'Hello World!';
To give a label text using FireMonkey:
Label1.Text := 'Hello World!';
Delphi was originally one of many codenames of a pre-release development tool project at Borland. Borland developer Danny Thorpe suggested the Delphi codename in reference to the Oracle at Delphi. One of the design goals of the product was to provide database connectivity to programmers as a key feature and a popular database package at the time was Oracle database; hence, "If you want to talk to [the] Oracle, go to Delphi".
As development continued towards the first release, the Delphi codename gained popularity among the development team and beta testing group. However, the Borland marketing leadership preferred a functional product name over an iconic name and made preparations to release the product under the name "Borland AppBuilder".
Shortly before the release of the Borland product, Novell AppBuilder was released, leaving Borland in need of a new product name. After much debate and many market research surveys, the Delphi codename became the Delphi product name.[8]
The chief architect behind Delphi was Anders Hejlsberg, who had developed Turbo Pascal. He was persuaded to move to Microsoft in 1996.
On February 8, 2006 Borland announced that it was looking for a buyer for its IDE and database line of products, including Delphi, to concentrate on its ALM line. On November 14, 2006 Borland transferred the development tools group to an independent subsidiary company named CodeGear, instead of selling it. Borland subsequently sold CodeGear to Embarcadero Technologies in 2008. Embarcadero retained the CodeGear division created by Borland to identify its tool and database offerings, but identified its own database tools under the DatabaseGear name. In 2015, Embarcadero was purchased by Idera Software, but the Embarcadero mark was retained for the developer tools division.
Versions[edit]
Inprise Delphi 4.0.
Early Borland years (1995–2003)[edit]
Borland Delphi[edit]
Delphi (later known as Delphi 1) was released in 1995 for the 16-bit Windows 3.1, and was an early example of what became known as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. Delphi evolved from Borland's "Turbo Pascal for Windows", itself an evolution with Windows support from Borland's Turbo Pascal and Borland Pascal with Objects, very fast 16-bit native-code MS-DOS compilers with their own sophisticated integrated development environment (IDE) and textual user interface toolkit for DOS (Turbo Vision). Early Turbo Pascal (for MS-DOS) was written in a dialect of the Pascal programming language; in later versions support for objects was added, and it was named Object Pascal. Delphi has always used Object Pascal, which continued to be developed, as its underlying object-oriented language.
Borland Delphi 2[edit]
Delphi 2, released in 1996, supported 32-bit Windows environments. Delphi 1 was bundled with it for creation of 16-bit Windows 3.1 applications. New Quickreport components replacing Borland ReportSmith.
Delphi 3, released in 1997, added new VCL components encapsulating the 4.71 version of Windows Common Controls (such as Rebar and Toolbar), TDataset architecture separated from BDE, DLL debugging, the code insight technology, component packages, component templates, DecisionCube and Teechart components for statistical graphing, WebBroker, ActiveForms, MIDAS three tier architecture, component packages and integration with COM through interfaces.
Inprise Delphi 4[edit]
Inprise Delphi 4 was released in 1998. IDE came with a completely overhauled editor and became dockable. VCL added support for ActionLists anchors and constraints. Additional improvements were method overloading, dynamic arrays, Windows 98 support, Java interoperability, high performance database drivers, CORBA development, and Microsoft BackOffice support. It was the last version shipped with Delphi 1 for 16 bit programming.
Borland Delphi 5 was released in 1999. Added concept of frames, parallel development, translation capabilities, enhanced integrated debugger, XML support, ADO database support and reference counting interfaces
Attempts to support both Linux and Windows for cross-platform development were made, and a cross-platform alternative to the VCL known as CLX shipped in 2001 with the release of Delphi 6. This was the second product in Borland's series of Linux-compatible native developer tools, establishing code-compatible IDEs for both Linux (see Kylix above) and Windows (Delphi 6) using the shared CLX component framework for both. Later efforts would include CLX in C++Builder 6 and add C++ code-compatibility to the RAD tools line.
Delphi 6 included the same CLX version (CLX 1) as the first version of Kylix. CLX 1 had been created before Delphi 6; its feature set was based on VCL 5 and lacked some features added to the VCL 6 shipped with Delphi 6.[9]
Delphi 7, released in August 2002, became the standard version used by more Delphi developers than any other single version. It is one of the most successful IDEs created by Borland because of its stability, speed and low hardware requirements, and remains in active use as of 2017. Delphi 7 added support for Windows XP Themes, and added more support for building Web applications. It was the last version of Delphi that did not require mandatory software activation.
Later Borland years (2003–2008)[edit]
Delphi 8 (Borland Developer Studio 2.0), released December 2003, was a .NET-only release that compiled Delphi Object Pascal code into .NET CIL; the IDE was rewritten for this purpose. The IDE changed to a docked interface (called Galileo) similar to Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET. Delphi 8 was highly criticized[by whom?] for its low quality and its inability to create native applications (Win32 API/x86 code). The inability to generate native applications is only applicable to this release; the capability would be restored in the next release.
Borland Delphi 2005[edit]
The next version, Delphi 2005 (Delphi 9, also Borland Developer Studio 3.0), included the Win32 and .NET development in a single IDE, reiterating Borland's commitment to Win32 developers. Delphi 2005 includes design-time manipulation of live data from a database. It also includes an improved IDE and added a for ... in statement (like C#'s foreach) to the language. However, it was widely criticized[10] for its bugs; both Delphi 8 and Delphi 2005 had stability problems when shipped, which were only partially resolved in service packs. The ability to compile native windows applications (*.exe) was added back into Delphi 2005 after being removed in Delphi 8. CLX support was dropped for new applications from this release onwards.
In late 2005 Delphi 2006 (Delphi 10, also Borland Developer Studio 4.0) was released combining development of C# and Delphi.NET, Delphi Win32 and C++ (Preview when it was shipped but stabilized in Update 1) into a single IDE. It was much more stable than Delphi 8 or Delphi 2005 when shipped, and improved further with the release of two updates and several hotfixes.
Turbo Delphi and Turbo Delphi for .NET[edit]
Main article: Turbo Delphi
On September 6, 2006 The Developer Tools Group (the working name of the not yet spun off company) of Borland Software Corporation released single-language editions of Borland Developer Studio 2006, bringing back the Turbo name. The Turbo product set included Turbo Delphi for Win32, Turbo Delphi for .NET, Turbo C++, and Turbo C#. There were two variants of each edition: Explorer, a free downloadable flavor, and a Professional flavor, priced at US$899 for new users and US$399 for upgrades, which opened access to thousands of third-party components. Unlike earlier Personal editions of Delphi, Explorer editions could be used for commercial development.
Codegear Delphi 2007[edit]
Delphi 2007 (Delphi 11), the first version by CodeGear, was released on March 16, 2007. The Win32 personality was released first, before the .NET personality of Delphi 2007 based on .NET Framework 2.0 was released as part of the CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 product. New features included support for MSBuild and enhancements to the VCL for Windows Vista, but the C#Builder feature was dropped in this release as sales were not as high as expected due to Visual Studio also offering C#. The Windows Form designer for Delphi .NET was also dropped in 2007 because it is based on part of the .NET framework API, which Microsoft had changed so drastically in .NET 2.0 that updating the IDE would have been a major undertaking. Delphi 2007 also introduced DBX4 as the next version of dbExpress. For the first time Delphi could be downloaded from the Internet and activated with a license key. Internationalized versions of Delphi 2007 shipped simultaneously in English, French, German and Japanese. RAD Studio 2007 (code named Highlander), which includes .NET and C++Builder development, was released on September 5, 2007.
Delphi for PHP[edit]
In CodeGear era emerged an IDE targeting PHP development despite the word "Delphi" in its name. That one is Delphi for PHP whose highlight is a VCL-like PHP framework which enables for PHP the same Rapid Application Development methodology as in ASP.NET Web Form. Version 1.0 and 2.0 were released in March 2007 and April 2008 respectively. The IDE would later evolve into RadPHP after CodeGear's acquisition by Embarcadero.
Embarcadero years (2008–)[edit]
Delphi 2009 (Delphi 12, code named Tiburón), added many new features such as completely reworking the VCL and RTL for full Unicode support, and added generics and anonymous methods for Win32 native development. Support for .NET development was dropped from the mainstream Delphi IDE starting with this version, and was catered for by the new Delphi Prism 2009 (Version 1.0).[11]
Delphi Prism was developed by RemObjects Software and distributed by Embarcadero from 2008 to replace Delphi.NET. It is a combination of RemObjects's mostly Delphi-compatible .NET compiler (without RTL or VCL), a version of the Microsoft Visual Studio Shell without C# or VB support, and some Embarcadero technologies such as dbExpress. Prism is cross-platform capable insofar as it supports the Mono .NET libraries.
Embarcadero Delphi 2010[edit]
Delphi 2010 (code-named Weaver, aka Delphi 14; there was no version 13), was released on August 25, 2009 and is the second Unicode release of Delphi. It includes a new compiler run-time type information (RTTI) system, support for Windows 7 Direct2D, touch screen and gestures, a source code formatter, debugger visualizers and the option to also have the old style component palette in the IDE. The new RTTI system makes larger executables than previous versions.
Delphi Prism 2010 (Version 3.0) which is the last Visual Studio 2008 only based one was also released in August 2009.
Embarcadero Delphi XE[edit]
Delphi XE (aka Delphi 2011,[12] code named Fulcrum), was released on August 30, 2010 with Delphi support for Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure were bundled.
Delphi Prism XE (Version 4.0) which is the first Visual Studio 2010 based one (However, it can also integrated into Visual Studio 2008) was also released in August 2010. It is essentially a rebranded Delphi Prism 2011 (also Version 4.0) which was released three months earlier.
RadPHP had been incorporated in to RAD Studio since RadPHP XE (Version 3.0) that was evolved from the formal Delphi for PHP product developed by CodeGear in its Borland days.
Delphi Starter Edition[edit]
On January 27, 2011 Embarcadero announced the availability of a new Starter Edition that gives independent developers, students and micro businesses a slightly reduced feature set[13] for a price less than a quarter of that of the next-cheapest version. This Starter edition is based upon Delphi XE with update 1.
Embarcadero Delphi XE2[edit]
RAD Studio XE2 World Tour
On September 1, 2011 Embarcadero released RAD Studio XE2 (code-named Pulsar,) which included Delphi XE2, C++Builder, Embarcadero Prism XE2 (Version 5.0 later upgraded to XE2.5 Version 5.1) which was rebranded from Delphi Prism and RadPHP XE2 (Version 4.0).
Delphi XE2 natively supports 64-bit Windows (except the starter edition), in addition to the long-supported 32-bit versions, with some backwards compatibility. Applications for 64-bit platforms can be compiled, but not tested or run, on the 32-bit platform. The XE2 IDE cannot debug 64-bit programs on Windows 8 and above.
Delphi XE2 is supplied with both the VCL, and an alternative library called FireMonkey that supports Windows, Mac OS X and the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad portable devices. FireMonkey and VCL are not compatible; one or the other must be used, and older VCL applications cannot use Firemonkey unless user interfaces are recreated with FireMonkey forms and controls. Third parties have published information on how to use Firemonkey forms in VCL software, to facilitate gradual migration, but even then VCL and Firemonkey controls cannot be used on the same form.[14] Embarcadero says that Linux operating system support "is being considered for the roadmap", as is Android, and that they are "committed to ... FireMonkey. ... expect regular and frequent updates to FireMonkey".
Pre-2013 versions only supported iOS platform development with Xcode 4.2.1 and lower, OS X version 10.7 and lower, and iOS SDK 4.3 and earlier.
On September 4, 2012 Embarcadero released RAD Studio XE3, which included Delphi XE3, C++Builder, Embarcadero Prism XE3 (Version 5.2) and HTML5 Builder XE3 (Version 5.0) which was upgraded and rebranded from RadPHP.
Delphi XE3 natively supports both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows (including Windows 8), and provides support for Mac OS X with the Firemonkey 2/FM² framework. iOS support was dropped with XE3 release initially (with intent to add support back in with a separate product – Mobile Studio), but applications can continue to be targeted to that platform by developing with Delphi XE2.
On April 22, 2013 Embarcadero released RAD Studio XE4, which included Delphi XE4, and C++Builder. There has been no major upgrade for either Embarcadero Prism or HTML5 Builder thence.
Delphi XE4 is the first release of the FireMonkey mobile platform, featuring cross-platform mobile application development for the iOS Simulator and iOS Devices.
In this version Embarcadero introduces two new compilers for Delphi mobile applications, the Delphi Cross Compiler for the iOS Simulator and the Delphi Cross Compiler for the iOS Devices. These compilers significantly differ from the Win64 desktop compiler as they do not support COM, inline assembly of CPU instructions, and six older string types such as PChar.
The new mobile compilers advance the notion of eliminating pointers. The new compilers require an explicit style of marshalling data to and from external APIs and libraries.
Delphi XE4 Run-Time Library (RTL) is optimized for 0-based, read-only (immutable) Unicode strings, that cannot be indexed for the purpose of changing their individual characters. The RTL also adds status-bit based exception routines for ARM CPUs that do not generate exception interrupts.
On September 12, 2013 Embarcadero released RAD Studio XE5, which includes Delphi XE5 and C++Builder.
It adds support for Android (specifically: ARM v7 devices running Gingerbread (2.3.3–2.3.7), Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3–4.0.4) and Jelly Bean (4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x)) and iOS 7.
On April 15, 2014 Embarcadero released RAD Studio XE6, which included Delphi XE6 and C++Builder.
It allows to create natively-compiled apps for all platforms for, desktop, mobile, and wearable devices like Google Glass, with a single C++ or Object Pascal (Delphi) codebase. RAD Studio XE6 adds support for Android 4.4 KitKat. It also became possible to create FireMonkey mobile apps for Android.
On September 2, 2014 Embarcadero released RAD Studio XE7, which included Delphi XE7 and C++Builder.
It enables Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to extend existing Windows applications and build apps that connect desktop and mobile devices with gadgets, cloud services, and enterprise data and APIs. Also, it enables developers to extend Windows applications using WiFi and Bluetooth App Tethering, and create shared user interface code across multiple device form factors, etc.
On April 7, 2015 Embarcadero released RAD Studio XE8, which included Delphi XE8 and C++Builder.
Embarcadero Delphi 10 Seattle[edit]
On August 31, 2015 Embarcadero released RAD Studio 10 Seattle, which included Delphi and C++Builder.
Embarcadero Delphi 10.1 Berlin[edit]
On April 20, 2016 Embarcadero released RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin, which included Delphi and C++Builder, both generating native code for the 32- and 64-bit Windows platforms, OSX, iOS and Android (ARM, MIPS and X86 processors). Delphi 10.1 Berlin Update 2 introduced the ability to create Windows 10 Store applications from the Delphi IDE using Desktop Bridge.
Embarcadero Delphi 10.2 Tokyo[edit]
On March 22, 2017 Embarcadero released RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo, adding 64-bit Linux support, limited to console and non-visual applications. In addition this release features RTL and IDE improvements, multi-tenancy support in RAD server and improved database capabilities.
Embarcadero Delphi 10.2 Tokyo (Community Edition)[edit]
On July 18, 2018 Embarcadero released Community Edition for free download. You are not allowed to earn more than $5,000. Library source code and VCL/FMX components are more limited compared to Professional.
Embarcadero Delphi 10.3 Rio[edit]
On November 21, 2018 Embarcadero released RAD Studio 10.3 Rio. This release had a lot of improvements, new components for High DPI / 4K screens on the VCL and an entire relooked IDE. Two new features were added to the language: inline block-local var declarations and type inference.
Roadmaps[edit]
Embarcadero publishes "roadmaps" describing their future development plans. The most recent one was published in May 2019.[15]
Related software[edit]
Borland Enterprise Studio[edit]
A precursor to RAD Studio, it is a software development suite that includes support for multiple languages. Borland Enterprise Studio for Windows supports Delphi.[16]
Borland Kylix[edit]
Similar to Borland Enterprise Studio, but only supports C++ and Delphi, but for Linux. To get a product out quickly and cheaply, they made the IDE depend on the Wine libraries rather than Linux's native system libraries (glibc). The expense of developing a native glibc version of Kylix, combined with the lack of Linux adoption among programmers at the time, made sales go soft, and Kylix was abandoned after version 3. This was the first attempt to add Linux support in the Delphi product family.[citation needed]
Kylix used the new CLX cross-platform framework, instead of Delphi's VCL.
RAD Studio[edit]
It is a development of tool suite by Borland Software Corporation (later Embarcadero), consists of Delphi, C++Builder, Embarcadero Prism, and HTML5 Builder. Like Delphi, there are different editions of RAD Studio: Professional edition, Enterprise edition, Ultimate edition and Architect edition.
InterBase[edit]
InterBase integrates natively to Delphi and C++Builder for client/server or embedded development and can be accessed by all major languages and platforms in the market with database connection protocols like ODBC, ADO, ADO.NET and even with Java by JDBC/ODBC Bridge or Java type 4 connectors.
JBuilder[edit]
Tool for Java development based on Eclipse since version JBuilder 2007.
RadPHP (formerly Delphi for PHP)[edit]
Main article: RadPHP
RadPHP (now superseded by HTML5 Builder) was an IDE for PHP that provides true RAD functionality. It has a form designer similar to that of Delphi or Visual Basic, and an integrated debugger based on the Apache web server. It also includes a VCL library ported to PHP. Unlike other IDEs it supports Web 2.0 features such as AJAX.
Delphi for PHP was announced on March 20, 2007, renamed on October 2010 to RadPHP, and is based on Qadram Q studio. Embarcadero acquired Qadram in January 2011.
Delphi Prism[edit]
Delphi Prism (later known as Embarcadero Prism) derived from the Oxygene programming language (previously known as Chrome) from RemObjects. It ran in the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE rather than RAD Studio. It was licensed and re-branded by Embarcadero to replace Delphi.NET when that product was discontinued.
Although RemObjects Oxygene was further developed and incorporated support for native Java, Android, iOS and OS X development, the version licensed by Embarcadero was limited to only supporting .NET. It was eventually discontinued by Embarcadero with the release of Delphi XE4, leaving the Delphi product line with no support for .NET development.
The Oxygene product it was based on continues to be developed by RemObjects as part of their Elements product line.
Free Pascal and Lazarus[edit]
Free Pascal is an open-source Pascal cross-platform cross-compiler that supports most of Delphi's Object Pascal code. Free Pascal also has its own language extensions, multiple compiler [language syntax] modes, and supports 18+ operating systems and 9+ processor architectures.[17] Lazarus is a cross-platform RAD IDE that uses the Free Pascal compiler. Lazarus and Free Pascal – free software independent of Embarcadero – are largely compatible with code written for Delphi.
Third-party libraries[edit]
Project Jedi (Joint Endeavor of Delphi Innovators) – A collaborative open-source effort by the Delphi developer community to provide translations of Windows API interfaces, additional components and controls, and algorithms and data structures.
FastCode – Enhanced runtime libraries and memory manager.
Teechart – Charting library.
OpenWire (library) – Data flow, events, and state synchronization component library.
Bold for Delphi – Persistence mapper that supports Object Constraint Language (OCL) and derivation.
Quadruple D – DirectX library for Delphi
mORMot – The Synopse mORMot Framework, which implements Client-Server SOA ORM MVC;
TMS Business – Set of frameworks that include TMS XData (Rest/Json server framework) and TMS Aurelius (ORM framework)
.Net Runtime Library for Delphi – Best library to work with .Net framework from Delphi.
.Net DLL/WSDL Importer for Delphi – Used for importing .Net DLL, GAC Assemblies or WSDL into Delphi.
ADO.Net VCL for Delphi – Fastest and most reliable database connectivity solutions for any database using ADO.Net technology in Delphi.
Applications and software made with Delphi[edit]
A few famous or well-known applications and games developed in Delphi include:
Age of Wonders[18]
FL Studio[19]
GameMaker Studio 1.X[20]
Original War by Altar Interactive[21]
QuickBooks Point of Sale[20]
Resource Hacker[22]
Siege of Avalon[23]
Skype (Windows client only)
SpeedFan[20]
SuperMemo[24]
Total Commander[25]
^ William Buchanan (4 February 2003). Mastering Delphi Programming. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 10–. ISBN 978-1-137-17356-0.
^ "Performance Comparison from Delphi 2010 to XE6 (Part 2)". Riversoft AVG. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
^ "The Delphi Geek: Built For Speed". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
^ "Discussion on Hacker News about Delphi being alive". Hacker News. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
^ "List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated". Stack Overflow. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
^ "Recollections About the Development of Pascal" (PDF).
^ Lingfeng Wang; Kay CHen Tan (20 January 2006). Modern Industrial Automation Software Design. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 113–. ISBN 978-0-471-77627-7.
^ Intersimone, David. "Borland History: Why the name "Delphi?"". Retrieved 2013-01-07.
^ Brian Long. "VCL versus CLX".
^ Tim Anderson. "Borland's quality problems and Delphi 2005". Retrieved 2010-06-16.
^ "News Briefs: December 15, 2008". SDTimes. BZ Media LLC. December 15, 2008. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
^ "Delphi Insider: Sneak Preview: Delphi 2011 is Delphi XE". Retrieved 2010-09-02.
^ "Embarcadero Introduces Starter Editions of C++Builder and Delphi Rapid Application Development Environments". SD Times. BZ Media LLC. January 31, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
^ Stuart, Simon (2011-10-19). "World, Meet MonkeyMixer – Use FireMonkey forms directly in VCL Projects". Simonjstuart.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
^ "RAD Studio Roadmap May 2019". community.embarcadero.com. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
^ Borland Enterprise Studio
^ "Free Pascal Homepage". freepascal.org. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
^ "Still using Delphi? - Age of Wonders Heaven Forum". aow.heavengames.com.
^ Deahl, Dani (May 23, 2018). "Music production software FL Studio is now available for Mac". The Verge. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
^ a b c "Good Quality Applications Built With Delphi". wikia.com.
^ Interview with Martin Klíma, published in the Czech gaming magazine LeveL 11/2012 (October 19, 2012).
^ https://github.com/theqvd/theqvd/tree/master/windows/tools/Resource%20Hacker
^ "CartBlanche/Siege-of-Avalon-Open-Source". GitHub.
^ "Case study: SuperMemo 98 implementation in Delphi 3".
^ "TotalCommander website : www.ghisler.com".
McConnell, Steve (1993). Code Complete. Microsoft Press. ISBN 1-55615-484-4.
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The UK Government has announced to escalate the probate fees from April 2019. Families may end up paying up to £6000 to execute the will of closed relatives. This higher fee will affect almost 300,00 families each year. However, the Government is expecting to raise £145m in its first year.
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Secondly, the fees are payable upfront. We can imagine the hardship of the executors to fund the escalated probate fees. Borrowing could be an option; but the executors may find it lengthy or not interested at all to borrow the funds.
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Hazard Analysis for PIG/Thwaites from 2012 to 2040-2060 Timeframe
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Considering the conceptual correlation that I have made between the "Jakobshavn Effect" and the "Thwaites Effect"; the linked reference that indicates that the outflow of surface meltwater accumulated within crevasses along the margins of the Jakobshavn Glacier; could very well have significant parallel importance to the Thwaites Glacier by 2060 should a strong El Nino effect induced (superimposed on top of the strong warming trend in this area) surface melting in the Thwaites Basin by (or after) 2060. Such an occurrence in the Thwaites Basin could serve as a trigger to destabilize the Thwaites Glacier before the end of this century"
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgrf.20039/abstract
Lampkin, D. J., N. Amador, B. R. Parizek, K. Farness, and K. Jezek (2013), Drainage from water-filled crevasses along the margins of Jakobshavn Isbræ: A potential catalyst for catchment expansion, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 118, 795–813, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20039.
"Saturated crevasses occur in local depressions within the shear margins of Jakobshavn Isbræ at inflections in the ice stream's flow direction. Spatio-temporal variability of seven distinctive saturated crevasse groups was examined during the 2007 melt season. The area of saturated crevasses reached its maximum extent, ~1.8 km2, in early July, and remained largely constant until early August. Filling rates are correlated with regional melt production, while drainage rates are highly correlated with areal extent. Estimates on potential drainage volume from the largest crevasse system are ~9.23 × 10−3 km3 ± 2.15 × 10−8 km3 and ~ 4.92 × 10−2 km3 ± 3.58 × 10−8 km3, respectively, over a 16 day interval and are more than required for a distributed basal hydrologic system across this area to temporarily flood bedrock obstacles believed to control basal sliding. Future drainage events, likely extending farther inland with warming, could result in enhanced lateral mass discharge into the ice stream, with implications for the dynamic evolution of the entire basin."
“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”
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The following link leads to a free access pdf of the reference cited below; which not only indicates that Synthetic Aperture Radar is a good tool for correlation surface winds with deep water velocities (in this case for the Amundsen Sea); but also their findings indicate that the sea ice in the Amundsen Sea dissipates with increasing local warming, that the CDW velocity will increase; which in-turn should accelerate ice mass loss from glaciers, ice streams and ice shelves around the Amundsen Sea coastal areas:
http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/5/8/4088
Carvajal, G.K.; Wåhlin, A.K.; Eriksson, L.E.; Ulander, L.M. Correlation between Synthetic Aperture Radar Surface Winds and Deep Water Velocity in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica. Remote Sens. 2013, 5, 4088-4106.
"Abstract: The recent observed thinning of the glacier ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea (Antarctica) has been attributed to warm deep currents, possibly induced by along-coast winds in the vicinity of the glacial ice sheet. Here, high resolution maps of wind fields derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data have been studied and correlated with subsurface measurements of the deep water velocities in the Amundsen Sea area. Focus is on periods with low ice coverage in 2010 and 2011. In 2010, which had comparatively low ice coverage, the results indicate a more rapid response to wind forcing in the deep currents than in 2011. The SAR wind speed maps have better spatial resolution than available reanalysis data, and higher maximum correlation was obtained with SAR data than with reanalysis data despite the lower temporal resolution. The maximum correlation was R = 0.71, in a direction that is consistent with wind-driven Ekman theory. This is significantly larger than in previous studies. The larger correlation could be due to the better spatial resolution or the restriction to months with minimum ice coverage. The results indicate that SAR is a useful complement to infer the subsurface variability of the ocean circulation in remote areas in polar oceans."
The following reference indicates that short ice shelves / ice tongues such as those for PIG and/or Thwaites are particularly subjected to calving induced by long period waves:
Normal modes of a coupled ice-shelf/sub-ice-shelf cavity system; by Sergienko, Olga V.; Journal of Glaciology, Volume 59, Number 213, March 2013, pp. 76-80(5); DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3189/2013JoG12J096
"Abstract:
Ice shelves and ice tongues are dynamically coupled to their cavities. Here we compute normal modes (eigenfrequencies and eigenfunctions) of this coupled system using a thin-plate approximation for the ice shelf and potential water flow in the ice-shelf cavity. Our results show that normal modes depend not only on the ice-shelf parameters (length, thickness, Young's modulus, etc.) but also on the cavity depth. The dominant eigenmodes are higher for ice shelves floating over deeper cavities; they are also higher for shorter ice shelves and ice tongues (< 50 km long). The high-eigenfrequency eigenmodes are primarily controlled by the ice flexure and have similar periods to sea swell. These results suggest that both long ocean waves with periods of 100-400 s and shorter sea swell with periods of 10-20 s can have strong impacts on relatively short ice shelves and ice tongues by exciting oscillations with their eigenfrequencies, which can lead to iceberg calving and, in some circumstances, ice-shelf disintegration."
The following linked reference (with a free pdf) presents information on the sediment layer beneath the PIG, needed for more accurate modeling of ice mass loss from this critical glacier:
http://www.igsoc.org/annals/54/64/a64A110.pdf
Subglacial bathymetry and sediment layer distribution beneath the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, West Antarctica, modeled using aerogravity and autonomous underwater vehicle data; Atsuhiro MUTO, Sridhar ANANDAKRISHNAN, Richard B. ALLEY, 2013; Annals of Glaciology 54(64) 2013 doi: 10.3189/2013AoG64A110
"ABSTRACT. Pine Island Glacier (PIG), West Antarctica, has been experiencing acceleration in its flow speed and mass loss for nearly two decades, driven in part by an increase in the delivery of relatively warm Circumpolar DeepWater (CDW). However, at present, the configuration of the sub-ice-shelf cavity and bed conditions beneath the PIG ice shelf that dictate such oceanic influences remain poorly understood. Here, we use aerogravity data and ocean bottom depths measured by an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to model the bathymetry and sediment layer thickness beneath the PIG ice shelf. Results reveal that the deep basins, previously found by AUV on both landward and seaward sides of a submarine ridge, extend substantially to the north and south. The water column thickness of the basins reaches 400–550m on the landward side of the ridge and 500–600m on the seaward side. The sediment layer covers the whole expanse of the seabed beneath the ice shelf, and the thickness is in the range ~ 200–1000 m. The thinnest sediments (<200 m) are found on the seaward slope of the submarine ridge, suggesting that erosion by advancing ice may have been concentrated in the lee of the topographic high."
The linked reference (with a free pdf and see the attached reference figure) presents a very interesting discussion of the potential migration of the eastern shear margin of the Thwaites Glacier, that could someday contribute to the accelerated ice mass loss from this critical basin:
http://www.igsoc.org/journal/59/217/j13J050.pdf
Weak bed control of the eastern shear margin of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica; Joseph A. MacGREGOR, Ginny A. CATANIA, Howard CONWAY, Dustin M. SCHROEDER, Ian JOUGHIN, Duncan A. YOUNG, Scott D. KEMPF, & Donald D. BLANKENSHIP; Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 59, No. 217, 2013 doi: 10.3189/2013JoG13J050
"ABSTRACT. Recent acceleration and thinning of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, motivates investigation of the controls upon, and stability of, its present ice-flow pattern. Its eastern shear margin separates Thwaites Glacier from slower-flowing ice and the southern tributaries of Pine Island Glacier. Troughs in Thwaites Glacier’s bed topography bound nearly all of its tributaries, except along this eastern shear margin, which has no clear relationship with regional bed topography along most of its length. Here we use airborne ice-penetrating radar data from the Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA) to investigate the nature of the bed across this margin. Radar data reveal slightly higher and rougher bed topography on the slower-flowing side of the margin, along with lower bed reflectivity. However, the change in bed reflectivity across the margin is partially explained by a change in bed roughness. From these observations, we infer that the position of the eastern shear margin is not strongly controlled by local bed topography or other bed properties. Given the potential for future increases in ice flux farther downstream, the eastern shear margin may be vulnerable to migration. However, there is no evidence that this margin is migrating presently, despite ongoing changes farther downstream."
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The MacGregor et al 2013 paper that I cite in the immediately preceding post is more significant than my brief comments from yesterday (and also in this post) indicate for reasons including:
(1) The first attached figure from MacGregor et al 2013 indicates: (a) In panel "b" the red jiggly line shows the crack location for the large iceberg that just calved from the Pine Island Ice Shelf, PIIS, this austal winter; which indicates that the next major calving event from PIIS will likely relieve the buttressing action on the glacier labeled "SW tributary", which will most likely accelerate the ice velocity, and will likely extend the upstream flow stream, for this "SW tributary" glacier; and (b) Panel "a" shows that if the flow stream for the "SW tributary" glacier extends about 50km upstream then it will link with the eastern shear margin of the Thwaites Glacier (see also the figure in the preceding post that shows the shear strain from 2009).
(2) The back ground image of the second attached figure from NASA-JPL shows the changes in ice mass loss through 2012 as measured by the GRACE satellite (note that no scale is provided as the amounts may need to be increase by up to 40% to correct for GIA interpretation according to: An investigation of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment over the Amundsen Sea sector, West Antarctica; A. Groh; H. Ewert, M. Scheinert, M. Fritsche, A. Rülke, A. Richter, R. Rosenau, R. Dietrich; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.08.001). Nevertheless this background image clearly shows that along the deep eastern portions of the Byrd Subglacial Basin and just west of the "Thwaites Glacier eastern shear margin" that the amount of ice mass loss has increased significantly between 2009 and 2012, indicating that either: (a) the ice flow in this critical area is slowly accelerating [and if the link between the flow stream for the "SW tributary" and the "Thwaites Glacier eastern shear margin" link as discussed in point (1) this may accelerate even faster]; and/or (b) a large amount of basal melt water is flowing out of the deep eastern portion of the Byrd Subglacial Basin.
(3) The third attached image shows the altimeter measured ice surface elevation change along the Amundsen Sea coastline by 2011 (see the "Surge" thread for details), indicating that the coastal zone of the Thwaites Glacier Gateway area is thinning rapidly and if the acceleration of ice flow along the "Thwaites Gacier eastern shear margin" discussed in points (1) and (2) occur then this thinning would both accelerate and would extend toward (and would link with) the thinning area upstream of the "SW tributary" glacier.
(4) Given sufficient time, and/or sufficient ice flow acceleration, the ice thinning along the extended Thwaites Glacier Gateway discussed in point (3) could convert the ice in this area into an ice shelf that floats over the top of the somewhat rough bottom topology in this area shown in the fourth attached image.
If the scenario develops as discussed above over the next three decades then this would match the WAIS collapse scenario that I have presented both in this thread and elsewhere in the Antarctica folder.
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NASA-JPL GRACE SLR Contribution Focused on Thwaites and PIG for 2012.jpg (77.18 kB, 892x503 - viewed 614 times.)
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The following link leads to a copyrighted Bachelor's thesis entitled: Evaluating Transience of a Potential Geothermal Flux Anomaly Beneath a Tributary Ice Stream of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, by John Boone DeSanto, 2013, the University of Texas at Austin:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CGIQFjAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Frepositories.lib.utexas.edu%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F2152%2F20103%2FDeSantoThesis_physics.pdf%3Fsequence%3D2&ei=o-EpUp7rDMWY4wSohYC4Aw&usg=AFQjCNFRPM5uuUOFDknpwow-haI6e_tnbQ&bvm=bv.51773540,d.bGE
"The Amundsen Sea Embayment of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) is currently one of the most rapidly changing sectors of a continental ice sheet. As a marine ice sheet, the WAIS is in a potentially unstable configuration. A model is proposed to evaluate the effect of geothermal flux on flow in ice streams using ice layer drawdown anomalies, features identifiable by a thick layer package resting on top of deformed ice. Drawdown anomalies represent either significant loss or mechanical deformation of basal ice.
Several features with the geometry of drawdown anomalies are identified in Thwaites Glacier along an ice stream tributary near Mt. Takahe. These anomalies correlate with the surface ice velocity and have thick layer packages that age at a constant rate, implying deformation at a single origin corresponding to an upstream edifice. The abnormal amplitude of upstream drawdown anomalies implies a thermal event at the same edifice 1000-2000 years ago.
This provides another example of high heterogeneous geothermal flux in the WAIS."
This thesis indicates that high geothermal basal heat fluxes may have occurred on the perimeter of Mt Takahe (a volcano) 1,000 to 2,000 years ago; which supports the concept that if sufficient ice mass loss occurs from the Thwaites Glacier (say by the end of this century), then significant heat fluxes may occur again around Mt Takehe, which could serve to accelerate ice mass loss from Thwaites Glacier.
The following abstract is taken from the proceedings of the following IGSOC sponsored symposia. The finding that the rate of retreat of the PIG grounding line is very sensitive to increasing ice shelf basal melting rate; implies that PIG will continue to contribute ice mass loss to SLR if we stay on the current BAU pathway that we are currently following, which would also serve to accelerate ice mass loss from the Thwaites Glacier as indicated in the MacGregor et al 2013 discussed a in a couple of prior posts:
International Symposium on Changes in Glaciers and Ice Sheets: observations, modelling and environmental interactions; 28 July–2 August; Beijing, China; Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
http://www.igsoc.org/symposia/2013/beijing/proceedings/procsfiles/procabstracts_62.htm
Sensitivity of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, to ocean melting
G. Hilmar GUDMUNDSSON
Corresponding author: G. Hilmar Gudmundsson
Corresponding author e-mail: ghg@bas.ac.uk
The sensitivity of Pine Island Glacier (PIG) to different ocean melting scenarios is investigated through numerical modelling. Melt rates are derived using an ocean circulation model (MIT/GCM), and an ice-flow model is used to calculate rates of grounding-line migration and ice drawdown over the next two centuries. The ice-flow model uses unstructured grids and allows for robust and accurate calculation of grounding-line positions and ice-shelf buttressing effects. It is found that changing a baseline reference ice-shelf melt-rate distribution by a factor of two can either lead to a stable grounding line at approximately the currently observed location, or to an irrevocable retreat of PIG. Calculated near-future ice loss is, hence, strongly dependent on applied basal melt rates. This high sensitivity illustrates the importance of using realistic ocean forcing when assessing the future contribution of PIG to global sea levels."
The linked reference indicates that over the last 30-yrs of measurements that is no observable trend for increased snow fall in the Thwaites Basin:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50706/abstract
Medley, B. et al. (2013), Airborne-radar and ice-core observations of annual snow accumulation over Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica confirm the spatiotemporal variability of global and regional atmospheric models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 3649–3654, doi:10.1002/grl.50706.
We use an airborne-radar method, verified with ice-core accumulation records, to determine the spatiotemporal variations of snow accumulation over Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica between 1980 and 2009. We also present a regional evaluation of modeled accumulation in Antarctica. Comparisons between radar-derived measurements and model outputs show that three global models capture the interannual variability well (r > 0.9), but a high-resolution regional model (RACMO2) has better absolute accuracy and captures the observed spatial variability (r = 0.86). Neither the measured nor modeled accumulation records over Thwaites Glacier show any trend since 1980. Although an increase in accumulation may potentially accompany the observed warming in the region, the projected trend is too small to detect over the 30 year record."
The following abstracts come from the linked sources and are relevant to the Thwaites Glacier:
www.igsoc.org/symposia/2013/kansas/proceedings/procsfiles/procabstracts_63.htm
Contact: Secretary General, International Glaciological Society
Sensitivity of Thwaites Glacier to ice-shelf melting
Ian JOUGHIN, Ben SMITH
Corresponding author: Ian Joughin
Corresponding author e-mail: ian@apl.washington.edu
Strong thinning as ice streams have sped up along the Amundsen coast produces ice loss well in excess of that from other regions of Antarctica. Much of the increases in speed appear to be caused by the loss of buttressing as ice shelves have thinned in response to warmer ocean water and subsequent loss of basal traction as the grounding line has retreated. We have developed a finite-element implementation of a prognostic shallow-shelf ice-stream/shelf model, which we have applied to Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica. The model uses an improved bed map from data recently acquired as part of operation IceBridge. We have conducted a number of numerical tests to examine the sensitivity of the glacier to increased melting and surface accumulation. For melt rates comparable with present, the glacier continues to lose mass at roughly its present rate. Strong sub-shelf melt produces stepped retreat of the grounding line by >40 km over 250 years. Examination of the annual thinning rates shows rapid evolution of the spatial distribution of loss over periods of several years (i.e. comparable in length to a typical satellite altimetry mission). In particular, with each episode of grounding-line retreat, a pattern of strong thinning initially develops near the grounding line that then diffuses inland over periods of several years. Only with increased surface accumulation and reduced melting does the glacier stabilize. Thus, it is likely that Thwaites Glacier will continue to lose mass over the next several centuries at a rate largely determined by the amount of warm circumpolar deep water that makes its way to near the grounding line.
The implications of reflector geometry on radar data acquisition
Nicholas HOLSCHUH, Sridhar ANANDAKRISHNAN, Knut CHRISTIANSON
Corresponding author: Nicholas Holschuh
Corresponding author e-mail: ndh147@psu.edu
The structure of internal layers in ice sheets is used to interpret ice-sheet flow dynamics. The goal of radio-echo sounding is to accurately reproduce that layer geometry. Radar data from Thwaites Glacier and the northeast Greenland ice stream (NEGIS) show that layers whose dip angle exceeds a threshold do not produce a coherent signal in the data. This is likely due to destructive interference in trace stacking and off-nadir backscatter. Reduction of signal amplitude due to destructive interference in stacking is a function of radar center frequency, reflector dip angle and stacked trace spacing. As the stacked trace spacing increases over a dipping horizon, the phase difference between component pre-stack traces increases, resulting in a less coherent stack. Airborne data are more prone to this signal loss given the higher velocity acquisition platform. In addition to destructive interference in stacking, dipping reflectors sample off-nadir portions of the antenna radiation pattern, reducing the signal recorded by the receiver. Imaging reflectors from wide angles also results in longer englacial travel times and thus additional englacial attenuation relative to horizontal reflectors at comparable depths. Both of these effects lead to further reduction in reflection amplitude. Here we use signal amplitudes to interpolate the slope field of the internal layers and reconstruct layer geometries in radar data from Thwaites Glacier and NEGIS. Our results show that it is possible to infer layer angle with reasonable uncertainty for most dip angles and thereby also provide useful data on current/past stress state and the basal properties responsible for internal layer folding even when layers are not directly imaged."
Flow history of Thwaites Glacier inferred from radar-detected flowlines and flowbands
T.J. FUDGE, H. CONWAY, G. CATANIA, D. BLANKENSHIP, K. CHRISTIANSON, I. JOUGHIN, S. KEMPF, D. YOUNG
Corresponding author: T.J. Fudge
Corresponding author e-mail: tjfudge@uw.edu
Patterns in radar-detected internal layers in glaciers and ice streams can often be tracked several hundred kilometers downstream from their origin. Here we use distinctive patterns detected in the onset region of Thwaites Glacier in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica to delineate flowlines and flowbands. Flowbands in the onset region contain information about flow over the past 700 years, which is the approximate time for ice to flow along the flowband. Our analysis of flow conditions over century scales gives perspective on recent changes observed on Thwaites Glacier. Along the eastern margin, flow measured with GPS between 2009 and 2010 is rotated outward by about 1° compared with the long-term flow direction. However, such small rotation is within the directional uncertainty of the long-term flow (about 3°); it is not clear that this apparent outward rotation is a response to changes at the grounding line. We use two radar-detected flowlines to define a 110 km flowband in the middle tributary. The ratio of fluxes through gates at the downstream and upstream ends of the flowband is calculated from continuity for a range of values for past thinning and accumulation rate along the flowband. For comparison, we use InSAR-derived surface velocities (from 1996) and estimates of accumulation rate, to define the geometry of the present-day flowband and to calculate the present-day thinning rate and flux ratio. The geometry of the modern flowband is closely similar to the long-term average, but the flux ratio is higher than the long-term average. The simplest explanation for the change is that the modern rate of thinning along the flowband (about 0.52 m a–1) is larger than the long-term average. The method does not allow us to determine when in the past 700 years the rate of thinning increased.
Buried information: constraining bed geometry and material from the Doppler-dependent radar-scattering function
Dustin M. SCHROEDER, Donald D. BLANKENSHIP, R. Keith RANEY, Duncan A. YOUNG
Corresponding author: Dustin M. Schroeder
Corresponding author e-mail: dustin.m.schroeder@utexas.edu
The morphological, lithological and hydrological basal boundary conditions of ice sheets and glaciers can exert strong, even dominating, control on their behavior, evolution and stability. However, the scales at which the physical processes and observable signatures of this control occur are typically smaller than the spatial resolutions achievable using ice-penetrating radar. Further, the strength of calibrated radar bed echo returns is a combination of both the material (i.e. relative permittivity, conductivity) and geometric (i.e. rms height, rms slope, auto-correlation length) properties of the ice–bed interface. This ambiguity in the relative contribution of material and geometric bed properties, along with uncertainty in englacial attenuation from underconstrained ice temperature and chemistry, also makes definitive assessment of basal conditions from echo strengths extremely difficult. To address these challenges in interpreting geometric and material bed properties at glaciologically relevant scales, we present a new algorithmic approach to measuring the radar-scattering function of the ice–bed interface with varying Doppler frequency by performing range-migrated SAR focusing using multiple reference functions spanning different ranges of Doppler frequencies from the bed. We parameterize this scattering function in terms of the relative contribution of angularly narrow specular energy and isotropically scattered diffuse energy. This specularity content of the bed echo is insensitive to englacial attenuation and is a measure of both the angular distribution of returned echo energy and the geometry of the ice–bed interface at the sub-azimuth-resolution scale. We present an application of this technique to a gridded airborne radar survey over the entire catchment of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica. We show how the information in the along-track scattering function of the bed can be used to assess the extent and configuration of distributed water across the catchment and detect the transition of the water system from distributed canals to concentrated channels. We also show how this information can be used to constrain the morphology of basal bedforms and infer the distribution of deformable sediments and exposed bedrocks across the catchment. These applications demonstrate the potential to extract rich information from focusable radar-sounding data to constrain the radar-scattering function as well as the material and geometric properties of the bed.
Firn variability derived from a statistical analysis of airborne ice-penetrating radar over the Thwaites Glacier catchment, West Antarctica
Cyril GRIMA, Dustin M. SCHROEDER, Don D. BLANKENSHIP, Duncan A. YOUNG
Corresponding author: Cyril Grima
Corresponding author e-mail: cyril.grima@gmail.com
A dry firn layer covers most of the Antarctic ice sheet. Firn characteristics are a function of accumulation rate, air temperature and surface winds. As such, they are indicators of ice-sheet accumulation history and mass balance. To date, most of the observational techniques for firn characterization at depths of a meter or more achieve limited geographical coverage (i.e. ice/firn cores, ground-based GPR). During the aerogeophysical campaign of the 2004/05 austral summer the Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA) project surveyed a 15 km grid over a 600 km &mult; 400 km area covering the Thwaites Glacier catchment, West Antarctica, with the High-Capability Radar Sounder (HiCARS) system operated by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) onboard a de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft. The HiCARS system transmits pulses with a 60 MHz (λ = 5 m) central frequency that are chirped over a 15 MHz bandwidth and 8000 W peak power. One resulting data product is a calibrated radar dataset sampled every ~10 m along the survey tracks that have been coherently integrated and range compressed. In this study, we applied a statistical method to the surface echo in order to separate the coherent (specular) and incoherent (scattered) parts of the signal. We use these estimated components with a backscattering model to derive and map the roughness and real part of the surface permittivity. The resulting permittivity values reflect the physical properties of the first 5 m of the firn. We analyze these results in the context of firn density and/or possibly wetness spatial variability. We observe a ~30 km wide vein of high surface permittivities ~100 km inward from the coastline with a northern boundary that matches a prominent slope break for the surface. We discuss the implications of our results for formation climatological context of catchment-wide firn properties in general and the high-permittivity vein in particular.
Constraining the recent sea-level contributions of Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, West Antarctica, using CReSIS ultra-wideband airborne radar systems
Brooke MEDLEY, Ian JOUGHIN, Sarah B. DAS, Eric J. STEIG, Howard CONWAY, Sivaprasad GOGINENI, Alison S. CRISCITIELLO, Joseph R. McCONNELL, Ben E. SMITH, M. R. VAN DEN BROEKE, J.T.M. LENAERTS, D.H. BROMWICH, J. P. NICOLAS
Corresponding author: Brooke Medley
Corresponding author e-mail: bmed@u.washington.edu
One of the largest sources of uncertainty in quantifying the glacial contribution to sea-level rise originates from our lack of understanding of spatio-temporal snow accumulation rates. Traditional in situ measurements of the accumulation rate (i.e. using firn cores, snow pits and stake farms) are time-consuming and inadequately capture the complex spatial variations in regional accumulation. We use ultra-wideband airborne radar data to track near-surface internal horizons to calculate spatio-temporal accumulation rates over Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers along the Amundsen coast of West Antarctica. Here, we combine data from both CReSIS snow and accumulation radar systems to generate a spatially complete high-resolution gridded map of mean accumulation rate, thereby constraining the total mass input into these dynamic glaciers over the past 25 years. We furthermore find the snow radar is capable of imaging annual horizons, an improvement over the multi-year resolution available using the accumulation radar system. Based on the annual accumulation rates generated from the snow-radar echograms, we find no significant trend in the accumulation rate over much of Thwaites Glacier. These data indicate that the recent substantial increase in Thwaites ice discharge to the ocean has not been balanced inland by additional snow accumulation. This suggests the Thwaites contribution to sea-level rise has increased over the past few decades as regional accumulation rates have not increased to offset the accelerating discharge of this glacier.
How well can we determine ice thickness? Examples from Thwaites Glacier
Duncan A. YOUNG, Donald D. BLANKENSHIP, Scott D. KEMPF, Chad A. GREENE
Corresponding author: Duncan A. Young
Corresponding author e-mail: duncan@ig.utexas.edu
Ice-sheet models increasingly require high-resolution ice thickness and topographic data to resolve basal hydrology and internal stress fields. Additionally, new technologies for sampling the bed (e.g. RAID) will require good understanding of bedrock topography. Our primary tool for ice thickness determination has been airborne ice-penetrating radar. A variety of different systems have been fielded over ice sheets, with variations in center frequency, power, range, cross track and azimuth resolutions. Given the expense of fielding airborne campaigns, we need to be able to assess the resolutions and uncertainties that can be retrieved with through both legacy datasets and new systems, to target campaigns appropriately. Bed uncertainty quantification for ice-sheet models requires an evaluation of the spatial distribution of uncertainty in the ice thickness data upon which they rely. Ice thickness uncertainties are dominated by errors caused by cross-track reflectors, which bias thickness measurements low. Cross-track uncertainty is anisotropic, meaning that determinations of cross-over uncertainty do not capture our full knowledge of the bed. The grounding zone of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is an area of fast and changing ice; ice flow is fast and the bed is rough. It has been a target of data acquisition both by the AGASEA program of 2004–05 and Operation IceBridge (OIB) between 2008 and 2012. AGASEA fielded a 60 MHz, 15 MHz bandwidth coherent system on a Twin Otter flying at 60 m s–1. OIB fielded a 195 MHz, 10 MHz system on a DC-8 flying at 130 m s–1. Both systems had broad cross-track beam patterns. The surveys were designed to interleave over the grounding-zone region, with one line reflown for intercomparison purposes. Over deeper ice we also have incoherent data from the 1990s with much less along-track resolution, but tighter line spacing. We evaluate the along-track repeatability and orthogonal cross-overs of these three surveys and construct a model for sensor-based uncertainty as a function of basal roughness and sensor configuration.
Joint seismic- and radar-sounding analysis of the subglacial environment of upper Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica
Leo E. PETERS, Joseph A. MacGREGOR, Sridhar ANANDAKRISHNAN, Anthony HOCH, Huw J. HORGAN
Corresponding author: Leo E. Peters
Corresponding author e-mail: lep144@psu.edu
Thwaites Glacier is one of the fastest and largest glaciers draining the West Antarctic ice sheet. While much attention has been given to recent retreat, thinning and acceleration near its grounding line, little is known of the subglacial environment of Thwaites Glacier farther inland and how ice dynamics there might respond to coastal changes. Here we present both ground-based seismic- and radar-sounding surveys from upper Thwaites Glacier, characterizing the subglacial environment and its influence upon ice dynamics. During the 2008–2009 Antarctic field season, we collected 60 km of seismic data and 440 km of radar data ~200 km inland of Thwaites Glacier grounding line. These coincident surveys extend 40 km along flow and 10 km across flow. We find large variability in the subglacial environment, even in this slow-flowing region of the glacier (<200 m a–1), with distinct regions of wet unconsolidated sediments and potentially lithified dewatered sediments at the bed. Some of the brightest bed reflections in the radar data are observed across seismically inferred lithified beds, suggesting that in regions where bed roughness varies significantly, bright radar reflections are not indicative exclusively of wet ice-sheet beds. Modeled basal shear stress, seismically inferred basal conditions and radar-inferred small-scale bed roughness are all correlated. Our observations will allow modelers to better conceptualize the subglacial environment and to predict how Thwaites Glacier will respond to ongoing perturbations in ice flow originating near the grounding line.
The following abstracts come from the linked sources and are relevant to the PIG:
Tomographic observation and bedmapping of polar glaciers and ice sheets with IceBridge sounding radar
Xiaoqing WU, John PADEN, Ken JEZEK, Eric RIGNOT, Younggyu GIM
Corresponding author: Xiaoqing Wu
Corresponding author e-mail: xiaoqing.wu@jpl.nasa.gov
We produced high-resolution bedmaps of several glaciers in western Greenland and Antarctica from IceBridge mission sounding radar data using the tomographic sounding technique. The bedmaps cover three western Greenland regions (Russell, Umanaq and Jakobshavn Glaciers) and one Antarctic region (Pine Island Glacier). The ground resolution is 50 m and the average ice thickness accuracy is 10–20 m. There are some void areas within the swath of the tracks in the bedmaps where the ice thickness is not known. Tomographic observations of these void areas indicate that the surface and shallow sub-surface pockets, likely filled with water, are highly reflective and greatly weaken the radar signal and reduce the energy reaching, and reflected from, the ice-sheet bottom. We present these interesting observations and the bedmaps, which can soon be accessed by the public through the National Snow and Ice Data Center website.
Ice thickness and density of the Pine Island Glacier floating ice shelf
Kiya RIVERMAN, Sridhar ANANDAKRISHNAN, Knut CHRISTIANSON, Leo PETERS
Corresponding author: Kiya Riverman
Corresponding author e-mail: klw367@psu.edu
Pine Island Glacier (PIG) in West Antarctica flows into an ice shelf that has been thinning since at least 1990. This has resulted in a 34% increase in the flow speed of Pine Island Glacier from 1996 to 2006 due to reduced buttressing forces on grounded ice. With the potential for this glacier to contribute dramatically to future sea-level rise, there is strong interest in modeling the current and future melt dynamics of the PIG floating ice shelf using coupled ocean–ice models. These models require ice thickness and density data. We present high-resolution gridded ice density and thickness data for use in future modeling work. We have used a digital elevation model (DEM) generated from stereographic pairs of images from high-resolution (WorldView) imagery. We determine variations in ice density and degree of flotation from precise ice thickness (from seismic and radar data) and elevation measurements. In January 2013, ice thickness measurements were collected from ground-based reflection seismology, ice-penetrating radar and hot-water drilling. By inverting for ice density and degree of flotation and interpolating across the shelf, we have used these data to generate an ice thickness map from the WorldView DEM.
Unfortunately, I did not (and will not) have time to comment about all of the IGSOC Beijing and Kansas Symposia abstracts that I posted. But I would like to say that the number of references being published about the Thwaites & PIG Basins indicate that this is a rapidly changing area of study and readers should take the various references as sign-posts on a long journey and not as welcome signs of your final destination.
For example I will make a few brief comments about the following sentence by Joughin & Smith 2013, reference 67A030 of the IGSOC Kansas Symposia (entitled: "Sensitivity of Thwaites Glacier to ice-shelf melting"):
"Strong sub-shelf melt produces stepped retreat of the grounding line by >40 km over 250 years."
Joughin & Smith are excellent researchers but when they say that their model says strong sub-shelf melting produces a stepped retreat of the grounding line by over 40km over 250 years, this is not a prediction of what is going to happen (but it is a sound guide post for further research). Their shallow-shelf ice stream/shelf finite element model certainly does not fully model such issues as (also see the "Risks and Challenges for RCMs of the Southern Ocean" thread): (a) the increasing occurrence and influence of crevasses as the ice stream thins more than the boundaries of the ice stream; (b) the influence of the "SW tributary" glacier accelerating once the PIIS retreats sufficiently so that the increased SW tributary velocities destabilizes the eastern shear margin of the Thwaites Glacier; thus causing the Thwaites Glacier velocites to accelerate; (c) increased CDW flow when the current El Nino hiatus period comes to an end; (d) the influence of probable future surface water melt on both the ice shelf and of calving of the ice streams; (e) the observed subglacial hydrological system beneath TG; and all of the other issues such as: geometric/basal friction (Thwaites Effect) and the rate of regional warming, that I have discussed in this and other threads.
For my one thousandth post, I would like to just note that the interaction between the PIG and the Thwaites Glacier drainage basins may well represent the largest risk to the stability of the WAIS this century. Unfortunately, very few reseachers consider multiple synergistic feedback factors at the same time in their analysis, thus giving a false sense of security. In this regard, I have the following points about such multiple synergistic feedback factors for the PIG/Thwaites system in the 2012 to 2060 timeframe:
- MacGregor et al 2013 clearly cite: (a) the possibility that the Thwaites Glacier may have retreated back at least to the eastern shear margin during the Eemian, as the radar signal might indicate the occurrence of marine sediment beneath the glacier; and (b) the SW tributary glacier could be activated by one more major calving event for the PIIS; which in turn could active the eastern shear margin for the Thwaites Glacier, that should accelerate ice velocities out of the Thwaites Gateway, with associated ice thinning and grounding line retreat.
- The continued retreat of PIG combined with the recurring major El Nino events (though 2060) could synergistically increase what I called "horizontal advection" of warm CDW from the trough leading to the PIG to the trough in the Thwaites Gateway leading to the BSB; where the ice is current thinner and has more crevasses since the local ice tongue surge event during the late austral winter and spring of 2012; and thus the ice is this trough area is much more susceptible to calving acceleration from the warm CDW.
- The possibility that GIA corrections will increase estimate ice mass loss estimate from PIG/Thwaites by up to 40%, raises the possibility that the basal meltwater subglacial hydrological system is more active under both the PIG and especially under the Thwaites Glacier than previously expected; and if so this active subglacial drainage system would promote ice mass loss.
- The austral winter of 2013 was the warmest on record, thus raising the probability that in the near future there will be more days of surface melt during the austral summer, which would likely flow into the increasing number of surface crevasses in the ice in the Thwaites Gateway (especially as it thins); which should promote accelerated calving of the ice in this area (which is not constrained laterally as is the PIIS).
- The observed trend of increasing concentration of methane in the atmosphere over Antarctica will likely lead to increased coastal wind velocities which will likely increase the flow of warm CDW into the ASE; which will promote ice mass loss for both the PIG and the Thwaites Glacier.
- Based on the observed snowfall trend it is unlikely that snowfall will increase before the grounding line for the Thwaites Glacier retreats to upstream of the gateway; at which point an increase in snowfall will actually accelerate the "Thwaites Effect" by providing more driving force to promote rapid calving and groundling line retreat after the 2040 to 2060 timeframe.
- It should be remembered that any significant acceleration of ice mass loss from the GIS in the 2013 to 2060 timeframe will help to de-stabilize the PIG/Thwaites system by raising sea level in the ASE due to the fingerprint effect.
There are other feedback factors discussed in this and other threads, but it is impossible at this time to predict the rate and amount of their synergistic interaction; and thus we will need to keep a close watch on this critical area in the coming years in order better assess the timing of any possible tipping point in the PIG/Thwaites system.
ASLR
ASIF Governor
Agree on Thwaites. Alley admits that after the next pinning point under Thwaites comes loose, next stop is the Transantarctic mountains. I do not know what the effect of CDW will be once it pours into the Byrd Subpolar Basin, but I think it will be beyond anything that even Mercer imagined.
To paraphrase Hadane, "WAIS is not only more dangerous than we suppose, it is more dangerous than we can suppose."
Sidd,
You certainly know how to put this matter into prospective!
I am traveling, so I will not be posting much.
The following NASA website offers the accompanying description of gravimeter measurements and the accompanying image of one of the highest resolution figures of the Thwaites Gateway that I have yet seen:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/instruments/gravimeter.html
"The gravimeter measures the shape of seawater-filled cavities at the edge of some major fast-moving glaciers. Data about the amount of water under ice fills in a crucial gap in knowledge related to calving and melting of glaciers. Water has less mass than rock and thus exhibits a lower gravitational pull, meaning that the gravimeter can show what lies under the ice. The AIRGrav gravimeter, developed by Sander Geophysics (www.sgl.com), uses several sensitive gyroscopes to keep the instrument orientation stable. Accelerometers measure the force of gravity from the Earth below while GPS is used to record, and then remove, the motion of the aircraft.
More details on the AIRGrav system can be found here: http://www.sgl.com/Gravity.html
The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics' (UTIG) obtains gravimeters for its surveys through leases or partnerships with other agencies."
The caption for the accompanying figure is:
"Gravimeter data showing bedrock and sub-ice water near the Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica"
This 2013 image indicates the presences of large body of water beneath the location of 1996 grounding line at the entrance to the Thwaites Trough (see earlier posts in this thread); and if this body of water remains after the 2012 surge of the Thwaites Tongue then this large body of water should decrease the stability of the ice in the Thwaites Gateway.
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I thought that I would magnify the image of the gravimeter corrected Thwaites Gateway bathymetry (from the University of Texas) in order to make it clearer that the top elevation of the submerged seamount in the middle of the gateway (between the ice shelf and the ice tongue) is almost 100m deeper than previously estimated. This is a critical finding as this submerged seamount is one of the key pinning points for the ice in the gateway, and when the ice stream in this area thins sufficiently (due to such factors as CDW advection and also if the PIIS has one more major calving event that removes the ice shelf buttressing of the SW Tributary glacier, this will re-direct ice flow away from the eastern side of the Thwaites Gateway towards the PIG, which will lead to more rapid ice thinning in the Thwaites Gateway), then the ice in the Thwaites Gateway will float over the top of this one-time pinning point; which will lead to an acceleration of ice flow through the gateway.
Improved Thwaites Gateway Bathymetry - Gravimeter Corrected.jpg (130.74 kB, 819x460 - viewed 465 times.)
My previous post on this reference on the PIG did not provide a link to a free pdf (which indicates areas of grounding line retreat of up to 0.06 m per day), so I am providing that here:
Channelized Ice Melting in the Ocean Boundary Layer Beneath Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
By: T. P. Stanton, W. J. Shaw, M. Truffer, H. F. J. Corr, L. E. Peters, K. L. Riverman, R. Bindschadler, D. M. Holland, S. Anandakrishnan (2013), Science.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6151/1236.full.pdf
JimD
ASIF Upper Class
I am sure you would find this interesting.
Evidence from ice shelves for channelized meltwater flow beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1977.html
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JimD,
Thank you. I have reposted this linked reference in the FRIS/RIS thread. These types of very large channels are more common for ice shelves with the advection of warm ocean water; however, this is not the case for these channels in the FRIS, and their discovery indicates that the FRIS is less stable than previously thought.
The linked thesis work by Docquier (2013) represents some of the most recently available modeling work on the Thwaites Glacier:
http://theses.ulb.ac.be/ETD-db/collection/available/ULBetd-08222013-150617/unrestricted/Thesis_Docquier2.pdf
However, the author acknowledges the limitations of his model and of his findings and suggests that the following improvements could be made to his model:
"• Compare the results obtained for TG (Chaps. 5 and 6) with other models, e.g. Elmer/Ice (finite-element full-Stokes model) [Favier and others, 2012] or BISICLES (finite-volume higher-order model) [Cornford and others, 2013], as already carried out for Pine Island Glacier [Favier and others, submitted].
• For the 3D simulations (Chap. 6), take into account the whole drainage basin of TG (see Section 6.5) and use lateral boundary conditions that involve a prescribed amount of lateral drag obtained from observed velocity gradients at the sides.
• For the 3D simulations (Chap. 6), test the sensitivity of grounding-line migration on both Glen’s flow and basal friction coefficients.
• Include iceberg calving [Nick and others, 2009; Bassis, 2011; Nick and others, 2013], atmospheric and oceanic coupling, sedimentation effect [Alley and others, 2007], subglacial processes [Schroeder and others, 2013], thermomechanical coupling [Pattyn, 2003], etc. in the models. For example, oceanic coupling would permit us to better
understand how the ocean interacts with the ice shelf base and what is the effect of basal melting on grounding-line migration [Goldberg and others, 2012].
• Acquire higher bedrock spatial resolution close to the grounding line of TG and use Bedmap2 data with the Tinto and Bell [2011] bathymetry.
• Test other methods to interpolate data onto our model grid (e.g. nearest neighbor, spline, cubic)."
The following link leads to an article indicating that in January 2014 the British will begin their six-year iStar program to survey PIG and PIIS. I believe that this will be a critical time for the PIIS and I look forward to monitoring their results (particularly during January 2014):
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/376323/uk-scientists-probe-pine-island.html
Thanks for the link to the Docquier thesis. I have not yet had the time to do more than scan it, although I did read Ch. 6 more carefully, and I agree with the caveats in the last chapter, especially the lack of basal hydrology.
That led me to reread Gladstone(2013). Earth and Planetary Science
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.022
and they are much darker than i remember, with 7.6-18.9 cm. SLR from PIG alone by end century.
This is from a reduced dimensionality ice sheet model (integrated vertical shear, if I recall correctly this approximation increases the effective viscocity of the ice. Other approximations are an isothermal ice sheet, and no basal hydrology) coupled to a two box model for ocean iceshelf interaction and basal shelf melt, with BRIOS for ocean forcing. Nice. Can be improved, and I am sure it will be, but nice nonetheless.
They state, and I agree:
"If the real PIG system is as susceptible to collapse as indicated by the more rapidly retreating members of the confidence set, it may be that other WAIS outlet glaciers are similarly vulnerable"
and some in EAIS also.
Thwaites is the current gorilla, but i harbour fears about others.
Hopefully in the next ten to twenty years the Antarctic glacial models will be able to more fully account for such factors as: (a) retreating grounding lines; (b) ocean-ice interaction (including changing currents and winds); (c) calving risks (both for ice shelves and at the grounding line; (d) subglacial hydrological systems; (e) surface melting risks; etc.
However, at the moment I am particularly concerned about the interactions between the PIG and Thwaites Glacier with regard to: (a) the growing risk that the PIIS will retreat sufficiently in the next few years to activate the SW Tributary which MacGregor et al 2013 (see reference below) indicated could more strongly activate the Thwaites Eastern shear margin; and (b) the synergy between the advection of warm CDW from PIG toward the Thwaites Ice Shelf and Ice Tongue (note that when the current El Nino hiatus ends, this local circulation pattern could amplify).
MacGregor, J.A., Catania, G.A., Conway, H., Schroeder, D.M., Joughin, I., Young, D.A., Kempf, S.D., and Blankenship, D.D., (2013), "Weak bed control of the eastern shear margin of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica", Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 59, No. 217, doi:10.3189/2013JoG13J050,
The following link (posted by Hans in the ASIB), indicates that a large El Nino event may be likely to occur around January 2015. If so the austral summer of 2014-2015 could sign a significant increase in ice mass loss from the WAIS:
http://news.imau.nl/?p=1056
Quote from link:
"Based on anomalously low sea surface temperatures in the southwestern Indian Ocean north of Madagascar (see http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/index.shtml), I predict the evolution of a big El Niño in the Pacific that will peak around January 2015. We have an ongoing fight to get our analysis published."
The following linked article supports the point that in a big El Nino year both PIIS and PIG will lose ice more rapidly than normal:
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/antarcticas_pine_island_glacier_melt_blame_el_nino-127129
Pine Island Glacier is one of the biggest routes for ice to flow from Antarctica into the sea and the floating ice shelf at the glacier's tip has been melting and thinning for the past four decades, causing the glacier to speed up and discharge more ice.
It's been a key factor in estimates for sea level rise in a warming world but it turns out that the ice shelf melting depends on the local wind direction, which is tied to tropical changes associated with El Nino.
The Pine Island ice shelf seems to have thinned nearly continuously, though observations only began in the 1970s. Earlier studies have said that warm deep-ocean water is melting the ice shelf from below, suggesting that warming global oceans are gradually targeting the underside of the ice sheet, but the picture turns out to more complex than simple cause and effect. The deep ocean has been getting warmer but, more importantly, more warm water has been reaching the ice shelf.
The study, led by author Pierre Dutrieux at the British Antarctic Survey, uses new data to show how winds and topography control how much warm water reaches the ice shelf. University of Washington co-authors provided atmospheric modeling expertise to help interpret the observations and show how they are related to climate conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
"These new results show that how much melt the Antarctic ice sheet experiences can be highly dependent on climatic conditions occurring elsewhere on the planet," said co-author Eric Steig, a University of Washington professor of Earth and space sciences.
Under the right conditions, the warm deep water that surrounds Antarctic can flood the continental shelf and make its way to the glacier margin. Measurements during the last two decades have shown the persistent presence of a thick layer of warm water on the continental shelf, in contact with the Pine Island ice shelf.
In January 2012, British Antarctic Survey researchers and colleagues from Germany and Korea revisited the area to gather more data. They found the layer of warm water was much thinner than before and was topped by a thicker-than-usual layer of cold water that surrounded, and thus protected, the ice shelf. They estimated half as much meltwater was being produced from the glacier compared to 2010, making 2012 the year with the lowest summer melting of the Pine Island Glacier on record.
Detailed measurements of water temperature, combined with a computer model of ocean circulation, shows that the reduced melting in 2012 was because less warm, deep water was able to make it across an underwater ridge that separates Pine Island Glacier from the Southern Ocean. Reduced flow across the ridge can be explained by a change in winds, which were persistently easterly for most of the preceding year, researchers noted. Winds in this region are normally westerly.
This raises the question of why the winds were different in 2011 and early 2012 than in previous years. Steig was co-author of a 2011 study in Nature Geoscience, led by UW postdoctoral research Qinghua Ding, that showed that winds in the Pine Island Glacier area are related to changes in the tropical Pacific tied to El Nino events. In 2012 Steig and Ding published a paper with UW atmospheric scientist David Battisti and co-author Adrian Jenkins of the British Antarctic Survey that linked the Pine Island Glacier melting to the tropical Pacific.
The new study provides the observations to back up the UW authors' theoretical work.
"We had thought that the wind variability played an interesting, but relatively small role, but the new data supports our idea and shows that it has a strong effect," Steig said. "The wind field in late 2011 and early 2012 had changed dramatically compared to previous years – the dominant westerly winds in the surrounding area were easterly almost all through late 2011 and early 2012, and those changes were related to the very large 2011 La Nina event."
In 2012, the El Nino tropical system switched to a La Nina, reversing the local winds in this region of Antarctica and causing less warm water to flow into the area.
If the conditions observed in 2012 were to continue, the authors write, it would have profound implications for the Pine Island ice shelf. Continuation of this thick layer of cold surface water would reverse the current thinning trend, potentially allowing the glacier edge to rebuild. It is not likely, however, that such conditions will persist.
"2012 was probably just a rare event," said Steig, "and I expect that a return visit to Pine Island area would find conditions much more similar to those observed in earlier years."
To those who would like access to the source material for the information cited in my immediate past post, please see the following links, abstract, and related references:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2014/01/02/science.1244341.abstract
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2014/01/02/science.1244341.DC1/Dutrieux.SM.pdf
Pierre Dutrieux, Jan De Rydt, Adrian Jenkins, Paul R. Holland, Ho Kyung Ha, Sang Hoon Lee, Eric J. Steig, Qinghua Ding, E. Povl Abrahamsen, and Michael Schröder, 2014, "Strong Sensitivity of Pine Island Ice-Shelf Melting to Climatic Variability", Science; Published online 2 January 2014 [DOI:10.1126/science.1244341]
"Pine Island Glacier has thinned and accelerated over recent decades, significantly contributing to global sea-level rise. Increased oceanic melting of its ice shelf is thought to have triggered those changes. Observations and numerical modeling reveal large fluctuations in the ocean heat available in the adjacent bay and enhanced sensitivity of ice shelf melting to water temperatures at intermediate depth, as a seabed ridge blocks the deepest and warmest waters from reaching the thickest ice. Oceanic melting decreased by 50% between January 2010 and 2012, with ocean conditions in 2012 partly attributable to atmospheric forcing associated with a strong La Niña event. Both atmospheric variability and local ice shelf and seabed geometry play fundamental roles in determining the response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to climate."
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The linked reference indicates that the PIG is now entering a period where its contribution to SLR will increase by a factor of 5 over the next 20-years. While this article indicates that the rate of ice mass loss from PIG will roughly stabilize after that; however, I would like to point out that it the retreat of the PIG triggers accelerated ice mass loss from the Thwaites Glacier then it is probable that ice mass loss from the PIG will continue to accelerate well after 2030:
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2094.html
L. Favier, G. Durand, S. L. Cornford, G. H. Gudmundsson, O. Gagliardini, F. Gillet-Chaulet, T. Zwinger, A. J. Payne & A. M. Le Brocq, (2014) "Retreat of Pine Island Glacier controlled by marine ice-sheet instability", Nature Climate Change, (2014); doi:10.1038/nclimate2094; 12 January 2014
"Over the past 40 years Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica has thinned at an accelerating rate, so that at present it is the largest single contributor to sea-level rise in Antarctica. In recent years, the grounding line, which separates the grounded ice sheet from the floating ice shelf, has retreated by tens of kilometres. At present, the grounding line is crossing a retrograde bedrock slope that lies well below sea level, raising the possibility that the glacier is susceptible to the marine ice-sheet instability mechanism. Here, using three state-of-the-art ice-flow models, we show that Pine Island Glacier’s grounding line is probably engaged in an unstable 40 km retreat. The associated mass loss increases substantially over the course of our simulations from the average value of 20 Gt yr−1 observed for the 1992–2011 period, up to and above 100 Gt yr−1, equivalent to 3.5–10 mm eustatic sea-level rise over the following 20 years. Mass loss remains elevated from then on, ranging from 60 to 120 Gt yr−1."
Due to the importance of the information in my immediate past post in this thread, I provide both the attached image, and the following links to articles about the research:
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-giant-antarctic-glacier.html
http://elmerice.elmerfem.org/37-an-antarctic-outlet-glacier-engaged-in-an-irreversible-retreat
The attached image is from the paper and shows: "Relaxed surface velocities plotted on the Elmer/Ice computational domain, the solid black line represents the relaxed grounding line. b, Domain zoom-in with the bedrock elevation (in m). The 2011 grounding line from is shown "
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agreed. PIG is gone. I posted a comment at realclimate on this paper, which i reproduce below. The Livingstone paper is really nice, check it out.
Realclimate comment:
Here’s to you John Mercer ! Wish we had listened.
doi:10.1038/NCLIMATE2094
Last para: (MISI is marine ice sheet instability)
“Here we show that for the next decade the PIG grounding line is probably engaged in an irreversible retreat over tens of kilometres and that the dynamic contribution to SLR will remain at a significantly higher level compared with preretreat conditions. All three models, despite their differing physics, numerics and parameters, support the notion of MISI in PIG, and two out of three cast doubt on any possible recovery. Starting from the first years of significant imbalance increase, the variation of the mass loss between experiments after 20 years is relatively narrow with a cumulative contribution to SLR of 3.5–10 mm over this period (Fig. 4). Afterwards, estimates diverge dependent on further retreat of the grounding line across a region of gentler slopes and stronger basal traction behind the instability zone. Once the grounding line has crossed the steep retrograde slope, imbalance decreases but remains between three and six times higher than the mean estimates obtained for the past 20 years (20 Gt yr−1 ; ref. 4).”
Now consider that these models are not coupled to the ocean, except thru a prescribed melt rate. No basal hydrology as far as I can tell (In this context see Livingstone et al. (doi:10.5194/tc-7-1721-2013 which I find fascinating.) And Thwaites is next door, and order of mag wider. And every prediction has underestimated so far.
I agree with sidd, and I note that the PIIS is loosing its grip on the adjoining shoreline due to increasing cracking.
The following link provides some new WAIS information by the BAS (mixed together with information previously cited here):
http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/researchers-focus-on-pine-island-glacier-says-bas.html
The following link and abstract are for a poster presentation at the 2014 Ocean Science meeting in Hawaii Feb 23 to 28. This research indicates that ice mass loss from the ASE is expected to increase significantly over the next 20-years:
http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2014/viewabstract.asp?AbstractID=18136
by: Eric Larour, Y. (NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA, eric.larour@jpl.nasa.gov); Dimitris Menemenlis, Michael Schodlok, & Helene Seroussi
TOWARDS BETTER SIMULATIONS OF ICE/OCEAN COUPLING IN THE AMUNDSEN SEA SECTOR, WEST ANTARCTICA, USING A COUPLED OCEAN, SEA-ICE, AND ICE-SHEET MODEL.
Currently, observations of polar ice sheets (Antarctica and Greenland) show a contribution to Sea Level Rise (SLR) of approximately 1 mm/yr, out of 3.4 mm/yr globally. This contribution is expected to increase significantly in the future, to a point where steric expansion will be overtaken by the contribution of melt-water runoff as well as calving and melting of ice shelves. It is therefore paramount to better understand the interaction between the ocean and ice-sheets, in order to better quantify the feedbacks between melting under ice shelves, ocean circulation, and ice-sheet dynamics. Here, we show recent results of coupled ice/ocean simulations in the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of Antarctica, using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm) and the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM), over a period of 20 years, coinciding with the acceleration of the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers. Our simulations take into account the shape of the cavities (generated by the ice-sheet model), as well as melting rates (generated by the ocean circulation model) under ice shelves in a fully two-way coupled mode. We show results on the sensitivity of ice-sheet dynamics and ocean circulation to the shape of the cavity, as well as the underlying circulation. Our approach demonstrates the influence of a fully coupled approach on the evolution of the Ocean/Ice System, and presents an efficient way of implementing such two-way coupling."
The linked (free access) pdf summarizes recent mass balance observations for both the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. While this article is an excellent summary, it does not provide sufficient discussion about the influence of changes in ENSO and the PDO on the response of these two important glaciers:
Medley, B., I. Joughin, B. E. Smith, S. B. Das, E. J. Steig, H. Conway, S. Gogineni, C. Lewis, A. S. Criscitiello, J. R. McConnell, M. R. van den Broeke, J. T. M. Lenaerts, D. H. Bromwich, J. P. Nicolas, and C. Leuschen, 2014: Constraining the recent mass balance of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica with airborne observations of snow accumulation. The Cryosphere, in review.
http://polarmet.osu.edu/PMG_publications/medley_joughin_cryo_2014.pdf
According to the linked blog post science begins today on the ocean component (Ocean2ice) of the iSTAR - NERC Ice Sheet Stability Programme to Investigating the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. On Feb 2nd 2014, the RRS James Clark Ross has crossed into the Amundsen Sea and they will take metocean data, during a 30-day mission, all the way to PIIS:
http://www.istar.ac.uk/2014/02/02/below-the-antarctic-circle/
The Ocean2ice goals are stated at the following link:
http://www.istar.ac.uk/projects/ocean2ice-istar-a/
Other iSTAR missions are described at the following links:
http://www.istar.ac.uk/projects/ocean-under-ice-istar-b/
http://www.istar.ac.uk/projects/dynamic-ice-istar-c/
http://www.istar.ac.uk/projects/ice-loss-istar-d/
The linked reference (with a free access pdf) indicates that airborne measures of the snow accumulations for both the PIG and the Thwaites Glacier, indicate that there is less snow accumulation near the coastal/low-elevation areas and more snow accumulation in the interior/higher-elevations, than previously expected. This means that the gravitational driving force exerted on these glaciers is increasing faster than previously expected (which means that ice flow velocities for these glaciers will be accelerating faster than previously expected):
Medley, B., Joughin, I., Smith, B. E., Das, S. B., Steig, E. J., Conway, H., Gogineni, S., Lewis, C., Criscitiello, A. S., McConnell, J. R., van den Broeke, M. R., Lenaerts, J. T. M., Bromwich, D. H., Nicolas, J. P., and Leuschen, C.: Constraining the recent mass balance of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica with airborne observations of snow accumulation, The Cryosphere Discuss., 8, 953-998, doi:10.5194/tcd-8-953-2014, 2014.
http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/8/953/2014/tcd-8-953-2014.html
"Abstract. In Antarctica, uncertainties in mass input and output translate directly into uncertainty in glacier mass balance and thus in sea level impact. While remotely sensed observations of ice velocity and thickness over the major outlet glaciers have improved our understanding of ice loss to the ocean, snow accumulation over the vast Antarctic interior remains largely unmeasured. Here, we show that an airborne radar system, combined with ice-core glaciochemical analysis, provide the means necessary to measure the accumulation rate at the catchment-scale along the Amundsen Sea Coast of West Antarctica. We used along-track radar-derived accumulation to generate a 1985–2009 average accumulation grid that resolves moderate- to large-scale features (> 25 km) over the Pine Island-Thwaites glacier drainage system. Comparisons with estimates from atmospheric models and gridded climatologies generally show our results as having less accumulation in lower-elevation coastal zone but greater accumulation in the interior. Ice discharge, measured over discrete time intervals between 1994 and 2012, combined with our catchment-wide accumulation rates provide an 18 yr mass balance history for the sector. While Thwaites Glacier lost the most ice in the mid-1990s, Pine Island Glacier's losses increased substantially by 2006, overtaking Thwaites as the largest regional contributor to sea-level rise. The trend of increasing discharge for both glaciers, however, appears to have leveled off since 2008."
The attached image from the British Antarctic Survey, showing differences in Antarctic sea ice from 1979 to 2012; confirm that the Antarctic sea ice around the ASE is declining, which will expose the ice shelves in the ASE to more degradation from storm action:
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Many people are concerned about an abrupt collapse of WAIS ice shelves due to melt pond mechanism similar to what happened for the Larsen B ice shelf; however, it may be many decades before such a mechanism could cause a rapid collapse of the PIIS. Nevertheless, the rate of retreat of the PIG grounding is expected to accelerate markedly over the next 15 to 20-years due to both gravitational (becoming unpinned from the ridge shown in the first attached image) and ocean-ice interaction reasons (possible El Nino events and continued warming of the CDW), and this in-turn should accelerate the rate of the PIIS ice velocities at least five times resulting in accelerated thinning of the PIIS. Thus both the enlargement (elongation) of the sub-ice shelf cavity and the thinning of the over-lying ice, will markedly increase the susceptibility of the PIIS to abrupt collapse in the next two decades due to events that might increase the hydrodynamic, and hydrostatic, pressure within the sub-ice-shelf cavity. Sources of hydrodynamic & hydrostatic pressure that could destabilize the Pine Island Ice Shelf, PIIS (or other marine glaciers with rapidly retreating grounding lines), include:
(a) Large El Nino events, could temporarily raise eustatic sea level by 6 to 8mm (due to increased rainfall over the ocean and concurrent increased drought over land) over a one or two year period, and could also induce the ABSL to direct more wind and ocean currents into the ASE,
(b) Accelerated land water mining due to increasing anthropogenic water demand;
(c) The fingerprint effect associate with ice mass loss from Greenland. Note that several Greenland marine terminating glaciers appear to be primed for rapid grounding line retreat over the next approximately twenty years;
(d) Storm surge & storm tide could increase due to increased storm activity in the Amundsen Sea.
(e) King tide (high astronomical tides) amplitudes can increase with increasing regional sea level;
(f) Local steric sources: The Southern Ocean is freshening rapidly, resulting in regional steric SLR.
(g) Winds (such as that associate with the ABSL) and ocean currents (such as the CDW) re-directed into the ASE, which would increase ocean elevation in the embayment, and stagnation pressure beneath the PIIS;
(h) Tsunamis have been proven to induce cracking in Antarctic ice shelves (see Walker et al. 2013, DOI: 10.1002/2013JF002742), and a large Pacific seismic event could readily direct a large tsunami into the ASE and from there into the PIIS cavity.
(i) Hydraulic connections (jokulhlaup or glacial outburst flood) of the sub-ice-shelf cavity to the pressurized basal meltwater subglacial hydrological system underneath the PIG. The second attached image shows red dots where satellites have measured rapid changes in the ice surface elevation, which indicate a rapid movement of pressurized basal meltwater (ie. subglacial drainage events). This image indicates that there is a significant amount of subglacial basal meltwater periodically being released from beneath the PIG into the sub-ice-shelf cavity. Note that the build-up of hydrostatic pressure from say storm surge, or a tsunami, could serve to trigger a jokulhlaup event; so the simultaneous increase of hydrostatic, and increase of hydrodynamic, pressure is not improbable.
(j) Passing high pressure atmospheric systems, could temporarily increase the hydrostatic pressure in the PIIS cavity.
(k) Continuing eustatic SLR contributions from mountain glaciers.
(l) Local seismic activity could temporarily increase hydraulic pressure within the confined PIIS cavity.
(m) Tidal amplification due to funnel effect within a sub-ice-shelf cavity that narrows upstream.
The third attached image shows how far upstream the PIG grounding line has already retreated, and the longer the bending moment arm, and the thinner the ice shelf thickness, and the higher the sub-ice-shelf hydrostatic/hydrodynamic pressure within the cavity; the more likely the PIIS might fracture in a brittle manner, at the upstream end of the moment arm. Note that the build-up of hydrostatic and hydrodynamic pressures beneath PIIS would also likely degrade the lateral shear restraint provided by the sidewalls of the PIG/PIIS trough. Lastly, as I have noted before, a major upstream retreat of the calving face of PIIS (as could happen for the postulated hydraulically pressurized induced upstream flexural fracturing of the PIIS), would decrease buttressing of the SW Tributary Glacier; which in turn could activate the eastern shear margin of the Thwaites Glacier.
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The linked article about how the BAS has installed ice penetrating radar systems with millimeter accuracy and 3D image capability on to the PIIS this summer and will retrieve data from the units during the next austral summer, in an effort to determine how quickly the ice shelf is deteriorating (primarily from ocean-ice interaction). However, on disturbing finding from this effort is that the researchers found a much higher concentration of crevasses extending to the surface of the PIIS than was expected; indicating that the ice is accelerating (which increases stress in the ice) and/or basal melt water channels may be causing stress concentrations in the bottom of the shelf. The following are selected quotes from the article:
"The radars, developed with funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), have been placed on the ice shelf surrounding Pine Island by University College London (UCL) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists to record changes of the Antarctic ice in unprecedented detail."
"Although we've previously taken snapshots of the ice with radar, this is the first time year-round monitoring has been possible," said Dr Keith Nicholls of the British Antarctic Survey. "Where changing ocean currents interact with the underside of the ice shelf, the rate of melting can change season by season, month by month, even over days or hours. The advantages of this new system cannot be overstated."
"The units also boast antenna arrays – Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO – different from the WiFi router philosophy) – that allow the researchers to construct 3D images of the ice.
"This will be very useful because of the uneven shape of the ice-sheet's underside," Dr Nicholls commented. "We will be able to see how the shape of the surface influences the melt rate."
Pine Island Glacier is thought to be highly sensitive to climate variability and has thinned rapidly over recent decades.
"The main culprit is warm water in the circumpolar current, which is eating away at the underside of the ice shelf floating at the edge of Pine Island Glacier," said Dr Keith Nicholls of the British Antarctic Survey. "A continuous record of seasonal changes, which is what the new array should give us, will give us a far better understanding of how that's happening."
The deteriorating state of the ice shelf was revealed in another way by the recent mission: the plan had been to emplace eight of the small radar stations, but new crevassing of the ice prevented the team landing by plane at many planned locations
"The increased crevassing may be a result of accelerated movement of the ice shelf, or stresses from channels melted into the underside of the ice – they were certainly unexpected from our planning survey," said Dr Nicholls.
Daily bulletins remotely posted by the installed radars reveal they are working well. The data though will remain a mystery until the researchers return to download them in person next year."
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-custom-designed-radar-antarctic-ice-millimetre.html
With a nod to Colorado Bob in the ASIB, the following links lead to articles indicating that six studied marine glaciers in the ASE are losing ice mass at a rate that could result in an instability mechanism and that these marine glaciers can "feel" events (such as the major PIIS calving in November 2013) happening at their calving face, several hundred kilometers upstream, very quickly after the ice face event:
Mouginot, J., E. Rignot, and B. Scheuchl (2014), Sustained increase in ice discharge from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, from 1973 to 2013, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL059069.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL059069/abstract
Abstract: "We combine measurements of ice velocity from Landsat feature tracking and satellite radar interferometry, and ice thickness from existing compilations to document 41 years of mass flux from the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica. The total ice discharge has increased by 77% since 1973. Half of the increase occurred between 2003 and 2009. Grounding-line ice speeds of Pine Island Glacier stabilized between 2009 and 2013, following a decade of rapid acceleration, but that acceleration reached far inland and occurred at a rate faster than predicted by advective processes. Flow speeds across Thwaites Glacier increased rapidly after 2006, following a decade of near-stability, leading to a 33% increase in flux between 2006 and 2013. Haynes, Smith, Pope, and Kohler Glaciers all accelerated during the entire study period. The sustained increase in ice discharge is a possible indicator of the development of a marine ice sheet instability in this part of Antarctica."
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-major-west-antarctic-glacial-loss.html#jCp
I posted a short comment about Seroussi(2014) on realclimate which i expand here:
http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/8/1873/2014/
doi:10.5194/tcd-8-1873-2014
PIG may keep melting even if melting from warm ocean is reduced. The model is a 3D treatment, but alas, is not coupled to ocean, rather drivers such as rates of basal melt are imposed by hand. They find grounding line is not so sensitive, in contrast to Favier(2014) DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2094 which they attribute to smaller rates of basal melt in their model.
" This is probably caused by the different patterns of melting rates: basal melting rates in Favier et al. (2014) are as high as 100 m/yr over large areas, while only a few points have melting rates above 50 m/yr in our study. "
I should also refer to Gladstone(2012) doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.022 with a simple (ish) coupled ocean ice model that sees PIG retreating for a couple centuries. I am looking forward to other coupled ocean ice models such as Goldberg(2012) doi:10.1029/2011JF002247 for detailed cases with PIG and Thwaites bathymetry and in situ validation.
but i fear that nature outruns our calculations
Thanks for the great reference. Regarding your comment: "but i fear that nature outruns our calculations"; I couldn't agree more, particularly as I believe that a major El Nino event will be coming in 2014-15; which should significantly accelerate sub-ice-shelf basal melting for the PIIS; particularly after September 2014 when a large El Nino should help position the ABSL so that it directs wind/current towards the PIG at least from the end of Sept. 2014 to February 2015.
nukefix
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Quote from: AbruptSLR on April 22, 2013, 01:47:19 AM
The attached figure showing the average snowfall accumulation across Antarctica from 1955 to 2005. This data clearly indicates..
What data is that? RACMO2 or similar?
nukefix,
Could you provide the reply # as I cannot readily remember when I made this post.
The linked Discover Magazine article about the Pine Island Bay glaciers includes a nice video of the use of ESA's SAR satellite radar interferometry use to estimate the retreat of the PIG grounding line (see attached image and the YouTube link below). I note that 2010-11 was a strong La Nina event, so we will need to wait & see whether the rate of grounding line retreats accelerates during the current possible 2014-15 El Nino event:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2014/04/24/antarctic-glaciers-flow-faster-iceberg-drifts-toward-sea/
Quote related to the following video: "In the visualization, based on data from radar instruments on European Space Agency satellites, the Pine Island Glacier is seen where it empties into Pine Island Bay. Past what’s known as the “grounding line,” where the glacier rests on bedrock, the ice floats and is part of a giant, permanent ice shelf that fringes the coast and tends to hold back the flow of the glaciers.
In the visualization, the ice shelf can be seen flexing up and down from tidal action. And as sea water, which has become warmer at least in part from human-caused global warming, circulates under the ice, it causes the shelf to thin. With less of a buttress to hold things back, the glacier speeds up. This, in turn, causes the grounding line to retreat."
http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2014/03/Pine_Island_retreat
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The ESA page links to Park(2014) doi:10.1002/grl.50379
I attach figs 3a and 3b below. Note the bedrock peak at 25Km upstream of the 2011 grounding line which :" ... does not straddle the entire glacier width [Vaughan et al., 2006], and relief to the south side of the glacier, in particular, slopes gently."
The south side is toward Thwaites. Upstream of the peak the bed is again retrograde for a hundred or two hundred klicks, almost all the way to the Transantarctic mountains.
They state that although
" ... further retreat is at odds with simulations of the glacier evolution under conditions of increased ocean melting [Joughin et al., 2010]."
but then go on:
"However, the PIG geometry has impeded retreat at other times during our survey, and yet the retreat has progressed over time. Moreover, recent simulations of the PIG evolution that utilizes an adaptive-resolution domain [Gladstone et al., 2012; Cornford et al., 2013] have suggested that the grounding line may be able to retreat much farther inland should ocean melting persist. It is also possible that ocean melting has exceeded that imposed during existing simulations."
Gladstone(2012) is a good paper. That last sentence in the quote above is borne out by the ocean simulation papers you linked by Bromwich and Dinniman in 2014, which indicate the models have difficulty advecting enough CDW into the sub-iceshelf cavity.
In short, retrograde bed to the next peak 25Km up, and then next stop the Transantarctic mountains. Meanwhile Thwaites at 55 Km width (10 times Jacobshawn) wants to play too.
We desperately need good fine scale coupled atmosphere-ocean-iceshelf-icesheet models. Bromwich and Dinniman both have static ice, hopefully will include ice dynamics in the next iteration, and succeed in getting up to the "right" CDW borne heat influx.
One phrase that shocked me in the Park paper:
" ... relatively warm (~4 C above freezing) seawater to access the glacier grounding line."
4C above freezing is HOT.
Another thought that occurred to me was that recent paper demostrating that a kilometer is about the maximum stable thickness of an iceshelf, but unfortunately i cannot now recall the reference.
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Thanks for the great post. I think that the reference that you are thinking of regarding 1km thick ice is:
Bassis, J.N., and Jacobs,S., (2013), "Diverse calving patterns linked to glacier geometry", Nature Geoscience, 6, 833–836, doi:10.1038/ngeo1887.
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yes, Bassis was the one. thanx
While I posted the reference for the attached image in the Forcing thread Reply #197, it is from a paper about GCM projections for the Pliocene. I posted the reference in the Forcing thread as the paper clearly shows the importance of polar amplification on global warming in a world with GHG close where we are headed in the next few decades. However, I am re-posting this image because polar amplification is only part of the significance the study; while this image makes it particularly clear that with Pliocene levels of GHG the ambient temperatures in the ASE during the austral summer will be well above freezing, lead to extensive surface melting. Furthermore, if the ESS is above 4.5 degrees C (say due to Arctic Sea Ice extent loss by 2020), then it may be possible that extensive surface melting will occur in the ASE during the austral summer, beginning around the 2040-2060 time-frame.
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The following abstract comes from the International Glacial Society Proceeding 65 at the following link:
http://www.igsoc.org/symposia/2014/chamonix/proceedings/procsfiles/procabstracts_65.htm
The following extract from Nias et al 2014 confirms that the Thwaites Glacier, TG, will degrade in a different manner than the PIG currently is exhibiting:
Contrasting dynamics and sensitivity of the Amundsen Sea ice streams
Isabel NIAS, Stephen CORNFORD, Tamsin EDWARDS, Tony PAYNE
Corresponding author: Isabel Nias
Corresponding author e-mail: isabel.nias@bristol.ac.uk
Abstract: "Ice loss from Antarctica is centred on an area of West Antarctica known as the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE). The stability of this area is a key control on future global sea level. Within the ASE, loss appears to be primarily associated with ice streams draining the area, including Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers. The majority of research that attempts to understand the mechanisms responsible for this ice loss is based on modelling and satellite studies of Pine Island Glacier (PIG). From these studies a mechanism for accelerated flow and dynamic thinning of PIG has been identified whereby relatively warm Circumpolar Deep Water upwells onto the continental shelf and migrates under the ice shelves, causing increased melt and retreat of the grounding line. By comparison, there has been relatively little model-based research carried out on Thwaites Glacier (TG) and the cause of the thinning observed in the glacier interior is less clear. We seek to understand the differences in sensitivity to various parameters between PIG and TG using an advanced numerical model. BISICLES is a vertically integrated high-order ice flow model with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). AMR provides a means of accurately modelling grounding-line migration with sub-km resolution, while avoiding the computational demands of a uniformly fine resolution. The position of the grounding line is important to ice-stream dynamics and stability, particularly on upward-sloping bedrock, typical of the ASE. Using BISICLES, we ran a perturbed model ensemble for PIG and TG. Latin hypercube sampling was used to generate sets of parameter values for a range of physical conditions, including ice rheology, basal sliding and bed topography. We present probability density functions of the likelihood of sea-level contributions from PIG and TG under the same oceanic forcing. Initial results suggest that these probability density functions are very different."
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The Mouginot et al 2014 reference provides a nice summary of recent ice mass loss from the ASE:
Sustained increase in ice discharge from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, from 1973 to 2013
Jeremie MOUGINOT, Eric RIGNOT, Bernd SCHEUCHL
Corresponding author: Jeremie Mouginot
Corresponding author e-mail: jmougino@uci.edu
Abstract: "The glaciers draining into the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) are known to be major contributors to sea-level rise from Antarctica, with a total mass flux comparable to the entire Greenland ice sheet. Since first revealed with satellite radar interferometry in the 1990s, this sector has been significantly out of balance due to glacier speed-up. Here, we combine measurements of ice velocity, and ice thickness from existing compilations to document 41 years of change in mass flux from the ASE. We derive ice-surface velocity from Landsat satellites between 1973 and 1989, ERS-1 for the winters of 1992 and 1994, ERS-1/2 for the winter of 1995, RADARSAT for the six winters between 2000 and 2005, ALOS PALSAR for the five consecutive winters between 2006 and 2010, RADARSAT-2 during fall 2011 and spring 2013, and TANDEM-X for winter 2012 and summer 2013. We also present the evolution of the grounding lines of the ASE glaciers between 1992 and 2011 using differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry (dinsar) data from the ERS-1/2 satellites. We estimate here that the total ice discharge has increased by 77% since 1973, with half of the increase occurring between 2003 and 2009. Grounding-line flow speeds at Pine Island Glacier stabilized between 2009 and 2013, following a decade of rapid acceleration and ungrounding of its ice plain, but acceleration reached far inland and occurred at a rate faster than predicted by advective processes. Ice flow speeds across Thwaites Glacier increased rapidly beginning in 2006, following a decade of near stability, leading to a 33% increase in ice flux between 2006 and 2013. Haynes, Smith, Pope and Kohler glaciers all accelerated during the entire study period, undergoing rapid ungrounding of ice plains or losing floating ice extensions. These results and satellite measurements give a good overview of the ice dynamic of the ASE during the last four decades , which is of great importance for understanding the evolution of a major part of West Antarctica."
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Open Murder Charges in Muskegon Co. Motorcyclist’s Death
Posted 5:23 PM, July 7, 2014, by Matt Erspamer, Updated at 06:07PM, July 7, 2014
Robert Earl Gee
MUSKEGON COUNTY, Mich. (July 7, 2014) — The Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office announced Monday that open murder charges were issued related to the June 26 killing of Jake Rameau.
Robert Earl Gee, 30, is accused in Rameau’s murder. Muskegon County online jail records show he was taken into custody July 4 on a concealed weapon violation.
Rameau’s motorcycle crashed around 2 a.m. June 26 in the 2400 block of Peck Street in Muskegon Heights. Investigators later revealed that he had been shot, which caused the crash.
Dashawn Andrew Boylan, 25, also faces charges connected to this incident. He is accused of stealing the car that Rameau was chasing the night of his death, the prosecutor’s office said.
The investigation is ongoing and more charges may follow.
“The investigation has revealed that the victim in this case died a hero and we extend our sincere condolences and prayers to his family and loved ones,” Chief Assistant Prosecutor Timothy Maat said in a written statement.
I only hope you feel the pain you have caused us all!
Now can someone tell me, how this could be the fault of the NRA or a lack of "gun control" ?
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Were glad he was caught.
And in 20-25 years, these animals will be rehabilitated & free to destroy the lives of other innocent families. Bring back capital punishment & put the rabid dogs down !
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Just put all these pieces of shit on a remote island and dropping a f***ing bomb on it!
I wish they would bring back the death penalty. Take a life and forfeit your own. Jake was a good man. And taken from so many, what gives this guy any more right to live?
Taking this ass holes life would be to easy, He needs that prison life so they can torcher him, get raped and beat daily. make him suffer and wish he was dead. Piece of SH..
Happy to hear he is caught for what he has done. I believe more actions should be taken. Jake lost his life because of this man. Jake was a wonderful man, father, brother and friend. Too many of us have to deal with his loss. He is missed so much and nothing will ever bring him back. He deserves more justice for what has happened! Love you jake. You will get your complete justice.
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United Kingdom - Scottish nurse treated for Ebola 'complication' - full recovery from Ebola , discharged
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October 9th, 2015, 03:05 AM
NHS Scotland - Confirmed case of Ebola diagnosed in Glasgow - Nurse Pauline Cafferkey treated at Royal Free London hospital - free of the virus - discharged
A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone has been readmitted to an isolation unit in London following an "unusual late complication".
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed that the virus is present in Pauline Cafferkey but said it was left over from the original infection.
It is not thought to be contagious.
The 39-year-old, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, has been flown back the isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Ms Cafferkey spent almost a month in the unit at the beginning of the year after contracting the virus in December 2014.
Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey back in isolation - BBC News
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Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey 'in serious condition'
A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone last year is in a "serious condition" after being readmitted to an isolation unit in London.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed that the virus is still present in Pauline Cafferkey's body after being left over from the original infection.
She is not thought to be contagious.
The 39-year-old has been flown back to the isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Bodily tissues can harbour the Ebola infection months after the person appears to have fully recovered.
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey 'in serious condition' - BBC News
A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone last year is in a
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Pauline Cafferkey case shows we still know little of Ebola's long-term effects
Last week the Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey was in celebratory mood as she met the prime minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron. She flew down to London after being selected for a Pride of Britain award by the Daily Mirror and joined other winners and families for a reception at No 10 Downing Street.
Alarm over Ebola nurse's school visit: Parents express worry over victim's trip to primary only 24 hours before she suffered a relapse
Information extracted from the article:
Nurse Cafferkey visited pupils at Mossneuk Primary on Monday 5th October 2015 but she fell ill hours afterwards
Dr Ben Neuman, a lecturer in virology at the University of Reading, said:
... the chances of it [Ebola] being passed on to others were slim, but added:
...‘It has never happened, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. Eventually, ideally, you would want to see anybody coming into contact with an ebola survivor, like pupils at Mossneuk School, being vaccinated for ebola. It is not the kind of virus you mess around with.’...
...It was claimed she had come into close contact with eight to 12-year-olds, even letting them try on an ebola suit...
The story that is being widely reported as above seems incredibly unlikely, and potentially disastrous. If this nurse has relapsed as reported almost a year after recovering, the response might indeed need to be the reaction above: vaccinating everyone who has come into contact with Ebola survivors. That might mean vaccinating the entire populations of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, as well as many people in the United States, UK, Spain, etc. I'm not sure the world is ready to have to vaccinate that many people against Ebola, or for that matter, to quarantine all the Ebola survivors.
The fact that this might happen in the only Ebola case in Scotland, but in none of the thousands of cases in West Africa(the majority having an earlier onset date than her), seems odd.
Given that there are now thousands of Ebola survivors, and no previous reports like this have happened, I can think of several more likely scenarios than what the media is assuming has happened:
1. Something extraordinary and not directly Ebola related (perhaps a drug interaction from some medicine she was on to deal with post-Ebola syndrome?) suppressed her immune system and caused the virus to re-emerge into the bloodstream. Thus the reason we've never seen this before is because that extraordinary event has never happened to an Ebola survivor.
2. This is actually a new Ebola infection, unrelated to her previous one. The virus has been passaging H2H for the past year since she was infected, and it is conceivable to me that her previous infection might not protect her against currently circulating virus. She is continuing to campaign against the virus. Perhaps her last 21 days of exposure before taking ill should be investigated for links to recent Ebola cases, to animals, or to a laboratory.
3. This is an unrelated infection, causing Ebola-like symptoms only because of damage to her body from the Ebola infection. Thus the Ebola genetic material in her blood is a red herring caused by the first infection, and something else is making her ill.
4. This is merely a post-Ebola syndrome, caused by damage done during her acute Ebola infection, such as Dr. Spencer and many in West Africa suffered, and the media is misreporting her present illness.
I would like to see if any virus can be cultured from her current blood, and if so, whether it matches that of her previous illness, as well as also whether it is potentially infectious in, say, laboratory animals.
To me, this story seems unlikely to be correct as is being reported.
VDU blog is reporting Tweets that show (via case #4 above):
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com/
The complication may be meningitis caused by replicating virus in her CSF. That would be unlikely to be spread, as the virus would not be in her blood (nor would she have hemorrhagic symptoms).
(I am posting Ian's fulll blog here since he is giving quite a bit of background. FT has permission to copy his blogs in their entirety.)
Is the next Ebola virus revelation...reactivating infection?
Great. Are members of the Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) species the most educational viruses of modern times or what? I mean, we've "known" about EBOV since 1976, but the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic is the epidemic that keeps on giving - we seem to learn a brand new thing every few months.
And the latest is a doozy although we don't know many of the details yet.
So what do we know about this new finding of a seeming return of infection in a former EVD case? Or is this new disease because of damage from the old infection?
A 39 year old nurse, PC, was originally infected with EBOV while working for 3 weeks in the Save the Children’s Kerry Town Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone. She did not show signs of illness until after arriving home in Scotland [1]
PC was believed to have become infected while treating EVD patients in some way related to her use of a visor as part of her personal protective equipment, rather than goggles, [10]
PC entered a Gartnavel Hospital isolation unit on 29-DEC-2014, and was subsequently flown to the Royal Free Hospital (RFH) in Hampstead, North London on 30-DEC-2015. She stayed there for around a month [2,4]
During her time in the RFH, PC was treated with convalescent blood plasma and an experimental antiviral drug
PC was declared free of EBOV in January 2015 but continued to report thyroid problems afterwards as she described just a week ago [3,4]
On Tuesday 06-OCT-2015, PC was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow, Scotland after feeling ill. She was then readmitted to the RFH, 06-OCT-2015, 9 months and 7 days after being declared free of Ebola virus.
She is described as being in serious condition. However, it is unclear what her signs and symptoms were at presentation, or have become since.[4]
Descriptions note that PC is "not thought to be contagious". Presumably this means she is not symptomatic with EVD and if so the testing that must have identified EBOV somewhere in her system must have does so from a part of her system that is not readily in contact with the environment. Nonetheless, she is once again isolated at one of the world's best infectious diseases hospitals.[4]
There are also recent reports of PC having had thyroid problems after recovering-perhaps virus has been replicating in this tissue. PC's "condition is a complication of a previous infection with the Ebola virus".[4] Which leaves a lot of room for idle speculation but could just be that she is ill because of what the fallout from what EBOV previously did to a tissue/organ rather than because of EVD itself. Perhaps follicles in the scalp have been a site for virus replication, relating to her earlier hair loss. Another site may be the central nervous system...
All speculation. Again, nothing is known about PC's signs and symptoms of disease when she presented herself to the QEUH, what tissue(s) are involved in her current illness, which samples tested positive first and where the virus may have been replicating all this time. While we understand that some tissues are sites for EBOV persistence, there is clearly much more to learn about the frequency and full range of tissues that harbour infectious EBOV once it becomes undetectable in the blood.
Apart from how shocking and scary this must be for PC herself, another issue is how this will impact on the fragile processes of accepting of EVD survivors back into their West African communities. Extending the length of time that some male survivors are known to harbour EBOV already put pressure on their acceptance by some, but the potential for virus to return to the blood or other tissues - if indeed that is what has happened here - even after that time frame, will require a lot of communication to explain. It will be vitally important for this process that the facts underpinning what's happened here are deduced soon and communicated in ways that can be understood in West Africa. This is a chance for the World Health Organization to show off their shiny new intent to do better at communicating and reacting.
This is not the first time EBOV has been found to persist in a convalescent former EVD case.[5,6,7,8,9] But this may be the first documented time that the virus has re-emerged into the blood and caused symptoms in the same former EVD case (correct me if I'm wrong - are there other examples?).
Shingles has been thrown up today as an example of a similar disease that results from a virus recurring but it's not the same thing at all. Although, we don't know that with absolute certainty. The viruses are very different - that we know for certain. Varicella Zoster virus (VZV) is the herpesvirus that first causes chickenpox, usually in childhood,. Decades later after lying dormant and not exciting our immune system, VZV can reactivate to produce whole virus that results in shingles. As far as we know, EBOV does not go dormant, but remains active at some sites, like the testes and the eyeball,[5,7] where our immune system is programmed not to venture in full force, so as to protect those sites from unwanted inflammation (in a nutshell).
Hopefully, some key information will be made clear soon (as opposed to in the scientific literature weeks or months from now) as it will be vitally important for the continued management and support of EVD survivors in West Africa. It is also important knowledge for communicating real risks, and informing and toning down perceived but unrealistic ones. What falls into which category is however becoming harder and harder to discern.
I'll update this blog post as more information comes to hand.
References...
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h36.long
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-30629397
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a6687571.html
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.co...t-chronic.html
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.co...reporting.html
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.co...real-deal.html
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.co...-of-ebola.html
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.co...sages-and.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ospital-london
Last edited by sharon sanders; October 10th, 2015, 07:21 AM. Reason: added full blog
. As far as we know, EBOV does not go dormant, but remains active at some sites, like the testes and the eyeball,[5,7] where our immune system is programmed not to venture in full force, so as to protect those sites from unwanted inflammation (in a nutshell).
Herpes also seems to act as a chronic infection in the eye of some human hosts, so maybe not so different than ebola. MSF recommends using the better protection of goggles for good reason, I think.
http://iovs.arvojournals.org/article...icleid=2122099
Ocular herpes simplex
Study of patients
with recurrent herpetic keratitis has
shown persistence of virus in the tear film
and virus antigen within lacrimal gland
and conjunctiva even between clinical episodes.
9 In fact, when cultures are made of
tears or saliva in normal humans, random
herpesvirus isolations are made in 5 to 7
per cent of the individuals.10'12 This random
distribution of herpes isolations is consistent
with chronic low-grade infection resulting
in intermittent shedding of virus.
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Family condemns hospital failures after medics sent Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey home - and mistake could have cost chance of crucial treatment
07:01, 11 OCT 2015 UPDATED 10:56, 11 OCT 2015
BY BRENDAN MCGINTY
“She had been slightly under the weather the day before but things really deteriorated and on the Monday night, she phoned NHS24.
“She said, ‘I’ve a temperature, my head is splitting and I have a sore neck and photophobia.’
“Pauline gave her name and details. They must have known who she was but she was told to wait and that a nurse would be in touch within the next two to four hours.
Pauline took herself to the *out-of-hours GP service at *Victoria Hospital, where, Toni said, she was assessed by a female doctor, told she was suffering from a virus and sent home.
“Instead of being taken into hospital, she spent the whole of Tuesday very ill, suffering from severe symptoms.
“By the Wednesday, things became even worse.
“This time, a GP came from the out-of-hours service and immediately phoned an ambulance.”
Sam Allen said medical staff caring for the 39-year-old nurse at London’s Royal Free Hospital would be entering “unknown territory” as they battled to save her from the deadly virus just months after she had been given the all-clear.
Dr Allen, an award-winning Ebola specialist based at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, said: “I’ve never treated anyone who’s had a relapse before.
Family and friends of the nurse have to be tested for the virus as a precaution...
Dr Ben Neuman, a virologist from the University of Reading, said the effects of Ebola on the body can last for up to two years.
He said: “Once the virus is removed from the blood once, it tends to retreat into the hard-to-access components of the body. It’ll hide in places like the back of your eye or breast milk.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/sc...-after-6612236
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Update on Ebola case close contacts
All close contacts of Pauline Cafferkey since she became symptomatic have now been identified.
A total of 58 close contacts have been confirmed and they are a mixture of healthcare workers and Paulines friends, family and community contacts.
Decisions on the management of close contacts have been taken by an expert group including, Health Protection Scotland, Public Health England, Scottish Government, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and other national experts with experience of Ebola.
This group has agreed that, as a precautionary measure, close contacts who have been established as having had direct contact with any bodily fluids would be offered vaccination. These vaccinations have now taken place.
The rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine offered is currently being trialled in collaboration with the World Health Organisation and has been tested in over 7,000 people during the recent outbreak of Ebola virus infection in Guinea. It is an unlicensed vaccine, currently being trialled.
40 of the 58 close contacts were confirmed as having had direct contact with Paulines bodily fluids and were offered the vaccine in line with criteria set out by the expert group:
25 of them accepted the vaccine
15 have either declined the vaccine or were unable to receive it due to existing medical conditions.
It is known from the existing clinical trials of this vaccine that some one in four recipients are expected to experience a rise in body temperature. Therefore, if anyone who has been vaccinated experiences a raised temperature they will undergo a precautionary Ebola blood test. All blood test samples for Ebola in Scotland are tested at the Scottish National Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Test Centre in Edinburgh.
All 58 close contacts are being closely monitored. This includes a period of 21 days since their last exposure where they will have their temperature taken twice daily, restrictions placed on travel and, in the case of healthcare workers they have been asked not to have direct patient contact during this period.
The 25 who were vaccinated will undergo additional monitoring because the vaccine is still being evaluated.
It is important to stress once again that there is no risk to the general public. Ebola is not spread through ordinary social contact, such as shaking hands or sitting next to someone. Nor is it spread through airborne particles.
http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/about-us/me...lose-contacts/
Update on Pauline Cafferkey
Updated: 1pm
We are sad to announce that Pauline Cafferkey’s condition has deteriorated and she is now critically ill. Pauline is being treated for Ebola in the high level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital.
https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/news-me...ine-cafferkey/
Pauline Cafferkey, Nurse With Ebola Complications, Is 'Critically Ill'
by MAGGIE FOX
It's not precisely clear if the Ebola virus has returned to cause a repeat infection. If it has, it would be the first documented case.
"We know that Ebola can linger for many months after visible symptoms have cleared. We also know from outbreaks in the past that survivors can show a variety of symptoms, and the debilitating effect of these can last for a very long time, but this is frankly staggering, " said Jonathan Ball, a virology professor at University of Nottingham.
"I am not aware from the scientific literature of a case where Ebola has been associated with what we can only assume as life-threatening complications after someone has initially recovered, and certainly not so many months after."
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebo...ly-ill-n444371
(1) if there were that many contacts identified and now being monitored, this means that the symptoms she exhibited were bodily fluids (diarrhoea or vomit or blood or urine...).
(2) since contacts were offered (experimental) vaccination, this means these fluids were contagious.
The virologist, Dr. Ian MacKay, who seems to know a great deal about Ebola, said as much in:
(1) https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/653670293035048960
We are now 9 days post re-isolation. Six contacts have displayed enough symptoms to be tested for Ebola, and all have tested negative:
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scot..._-Imageandlink
We still also have no report on what bodily fluids of the patient have tested positive for Ebola, and most importantly, whether infectious virus has been cultured and sequenced. There is, in my mind, at least some risk that this incident may be related to genetic drift of the virus over the past year within the patient leading to eventual immune "escape", so there is a chance this virus might be somewhat different than the one that originally infected her.
And her blood?
The article also claims that this has occurred with a small number of survivors in West Africa.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/wo...-ill.html?_r=0
The Royal Free Hospital, which last Friday referred to Ms. Cafferkey’s illness in a news release as “an unusual late complication of her previous infection,” said Wednesday that she was being treated for Ebola. The virus, several experts said, managed to somehow persist and apparently re-emerged to cause a severe disorder of her central nervous system. Dr. Aylward said her spinal fluid had tested positive for traces of Ebola.
“This isn’t a recurrence of Ebola hemorrhagic fever; this is clearly a meningitis-like syndrome, a neurological syndrome, which is a result of the lingering of Ebola virus,” said Stuart T. Nichol, chief of the viral special pathogens branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. He stressed that the complication appeared to be extremely rare.
Ailing Ebola Nurse in UK May Be Rare Case of Relapse
By MARIA CHENG, AP MEDICAL WRITER LONDON — Oct 15, 2015, 9:22 AM ET
MacDermott hypothesized that Cafferkey's relapse might have been triggered by her immune system.
"If the immune system is distracted, say by fighting off another infection, that might give the virus a foothold to start replicating again out of control," MacDermott said. "It is unusual that it would be able to spiral out of control and (produce) an acute infection again but it's not impossible."
MacDermott said other diseases like herpes also recur when a person's immune system is weakened, and said it was possible that similar cases to Cafferkey's were going undetected in West Africa.
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Training camp signings
Longtime Bear Olin Kreutz is now a Saint. Image via Wikipedia
In this post, we analyze veteran signings during training camp, from the beginning of the league year on August 4 to the first cut down date on August 30. (For analysis of earlier signings, check out this mega pre-camp signings post.)
49ers (add WR Braylon Edwards, SS Donte Whitner and QB Josh McCown; keep FS Dashon Goldson) – We discussed the Edwards and Whitner signings in this post. Goldson is a talented free safety who looked for a big deal on the market but couldn’t find it. He re-signed for one year. McCown comes on board as a backup quarterback, at least until Colin Kaepernick is ready.
Raiders (add TE Kevin Boss, safeties Matt Giordano and Josh Bullocks, and CB Lito Sheppard) – After losing Zach Miller to the Seahawks, the Raiders gave Boss a four-year, $16 million deal with $8 million in guarantees. Boss isn’t the dynamic receiver that Miller is, but he’s pretty good and will fill a need. He at least allows the Raiders to continue doing the things they want in their offense. After losing S Hiram Eugene, the Raiders added Bullocks and Giordano. Bullocks has great speed but hasn’t played consistently; Giordano is more of a system player. Likely only one will make the team. (UPDATE: Bullocks was quickly cut.) Sheppard was once a solid starter, but he has fallen off to the point that he is just barely a passable backup.
Jets (add WR Derrick Mason) – Mason, who was cut by the Ravens, got a one-year deal to come to the Jets as the third receiver behind Santonio Holmes and Plaxico Burress. Mason is still a productive guy, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him find a bigger and bigger role as the season progresses. He’s a nice addition given his experience and dependability.
Saints (add C Olin Kreutz, CB Trumaine McBride, RB Patrick Cobbs and PK John Kasay) – After losing starting center Jonathan Goodwin to the 49ers, the Saints brought in veteran Kreutz as a short-time replacement while they develop young players. The long-time Bear, who’s known as a locker-room leader, got a one-year deal worth $2 million. McBride is a vet who will fight to add depth at corner. Cobbs is a versatile back who does great work on special teams and is also a good receiver. Still, he’ll be fighting to win a roster spot. With PK Garrett Hartley hurting, the Saints brought in veteran Kasay from Carolina. Kasay still has pretty good field-goal pop for a 40-something.
Patriots (add DEs Shaun Ellis, Andre Carter and Mark Anderson, DT Gerard Warren, LB Niko Koutouvides, S James Ihedigbo, and LS James Dearth) – We covered the Patriots’ defensive line pieces in this post. Koutovides will fight for a roster spot to provide depth at linebacker, and Ihedigbo will do the same at safety. Dearth takes over at long snapper.
Chargers (keep WR Malcom Floyd and LBs Stephen Cooper and Kevin Bentley) – Floyd got a good look in Baltimore, but he ultimately decided to return to San Diego on a two-year deal. He’s a great complement to Vincent Jackson because he’s also big and fast. Cooper is a solid run-down inside linebacker who had a chance to start until he landed on injured reserve. Bentley came on board after that to add depth.
Steelers (keep OLB Lamarr Woodley, add WR Jerricho Cotchery and S Macho Harris) – Woodley, the Steelers’ franchise player, benefited from the Steelers’ cap situation and got a six-year, $61.5 million deal. Woodley doesn’t get the pub that James Harrison does, but he’s a terrific pass rusher who steps up even more in the playoffs. Cotchery, an ex-Jet, adds depth and experience for a young receiving corps. Harris, an ex-Eagle, has yet to make a big impact in the NFL.
Jaguars (keep TE Marcedes Lewis, add LBs Matt Roth and Gerris Wilkerson) – Lewis, the Jaguars’ franchise player, got a Zach Miller-sized deal (five years, $34 million, $17 million guaranteed) to return. Lewis had a terrific year last season and is the Jaguars’ best receiving threat. Roth got a one-year, $3 million deal to come to town as a strong player against the run and a pass-rush threat. He’s been better in a 3-4 than a 4-3 like the Jaguars use, but at this point in the offseason he’s a nice addition. The Jaguars will find a way to use him. Wilkerson is a versatile linebacker who may be able to back up at all three positions, and that could help him make the team. (UPDATE: Wilkerson was cut.)
Ravens (add RB Ricky Williams and OT Bryant McKinnie) – After losing Willis McGahee and LeRon McClain, the Ravens added Williams with a two-year, $4 million deal to back up Ray Rice. Williams and Vonta Leach fit better with Rice, because they will have more set roles that they can fill effectively. The result is a net gain for the Ravens’ running game. McKinnie fell out of favor in Minnesota, where his lax work habits and max gut impacted his play on the field. But the Ravens needed help at tackle, and McKinnie was the best option on the market. If McKinnie is right, he could start at left tackle and let Michael Oher move to right tackle, where he has played more effectively. McKinnie could also be a factor at right tackle as the Ravens try to develop rookie Jah Reid. The signing is a bit of a risk, but it’ll be interesting to see if the Ravens can get something out of McKinnie that the Vikes couldn’t in recent years.
Eagles (add WR Steve Smith) – The Eagles continued their offseason spending spree by adding Smith, an ex-Giant, on a one-year, $2 million deal. Smith isn’ t healthy at the moment, but if he recovers he becomes a fine inside option for the Eagles’ talented receiving corps. Plus, he was Eli Manning’s safety blanket, so signing him hurts the Giants. That’s a win/win for Philly.
Redskins (keep ILB Rocky McIntosh; add OT Sean Locklear, P Sav Rocca, and LB Keyaron Fox) – McIntosh is a solid starter at inside linebacker and a nice pairing with London Fletcher. Fox is more of a special-teams guy, but he provides depth as well. Locklear is a backup at tackle who has talent, although he hasn’t always shown it. Rocca takes over as the team’s punter.
Falcons (keep RB Jason Snelling, add TE Reggie Kelly, S James Sanders, and CB Kelvin Hayden) – Snelling returns on a one-year deal as Michael Turner’s backup. Snelling is a bruising runner who also has some receiving skills. He didn’t find a starting job elsewhere, but he’s good enough to do so if Turner gets hurt. Kelly, a former Falcon, returns to serve as a block-first tight end behind Tony Gonzalez. Sanders, who started for the Patriots last year, is a solid but unspectacular player who provides some depth and assurance. Hayden, an ex-Colt, has played well when healthy but hasn’t been healthy lately. It will be interesting to see if Hayden or Sanders finds playing time.
Lions (add RBs Jerome Harrison and Mike Bell and S Michael Johnson) – After losing rookie Mikel Leshoure to injury, the Lions brought in Harrison and Bell – who were traded for each other last season. They will likely fight for one spot to become the hardnosed complement to Jahvid Best. (UPDATE: It will be Harrison; Bell was cut.) Johnson, a former starter with the Giants, adds depth at a major trouble spot for the Lions. Don’t be surprised if he emerges as a starter.
Vikings (add DE Stylez White) – After losing Ray Edwards in free agency, the Vikings waited until after the second preseason game and then added White, an ex-Buccaneer who’s at least an average pass rusher. It’s a nice find this late in free agency, because White has enough punch to keep defenses from completely skewing their protections to guard against Jared Allen.
Bengals (add TE Bo Scaife) – Scaife, the long-time Titan, got a little more than the minimum to be the veteran backup for Jermaine Gresham in Cincinnati.
Seahawks (keep DE Raheem Brock, add S Atari Bigby and LB David Vobora) – Brock was one of the underrated players on the free-agent market, so it’s a coup for the Seahawks to keep him. He’s not huge, but he provides a good pass-rush threat. Bigby was once a starting strong safety in Green Bay, but injuries limited him to four games last season, and he was replaced. He will help to fill the gap left by the departed Jordan Babineaux. Vobora, an ex-Ram, is effective but limited athleticially. Still, with Lofa Tatupu gone, he adds depth and should be good enough to serve as a backup.
Giants (keep DT Rocky Bernard, S Deon Grant, and DE Dave Tollefson; add PK Rhys Lloyd, DT Jimmy Kennedy, DE Jimmy Wilkerson and CB Brian Williams) – The Giants cut Bernard in a salary cap move, but brought him back after the market didn’t offer a big deal. Bernard has talent, but 2010 was disappointing. They also re-signed Tollefson, a decent backup end. Grant played a lot in New York’s three-safety alignment last year, and is still good enough to contribute in pass defense. Lloyd is a touchback machine who is unproven on placements. Still, he should take pressure off of Lawrence Tynes. Kennedy, a former first-round pick, had a down year last year after rebounding in 2009 in Minnesota. He adds depth after Marvin Austin’s injury. Wilkerson adds depth at end. After injuries to Terrell Thomas and two other corners, the Giants brought in Williams for depth purposes. Williams really struggled with Atlanta last year and should be viewed as a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency option only.
Titans (add S Jordan Babineaux, CB Frank Walker, OT Adam Terry, and WR Kevin Curtis) – Walker will help to replace injured CB Ryan Mouton. Babineaux, an ex-Seahawk, provides depth behind Chris Hope. Terry hopes to hook on as a backup swing tackle. Curtis continues his comeback from cancer in Tennessee, which has young receivers but not a ton of experience at the position.
Cardinals (add DE Nick Eason, P Dave Zastudill, QB Brodie Croyle and CB Fred Bennett) – Eason is a solid backup 3-4 defensive end, and as an ex-Steeler he’s someone Ken Whisenhunt knows. He will add depth for the Cards. Zastudill will challenge Ben Graham for the punting job. Croyle, an ex-Chief, comes in as the veteran quarterback and sets the Cardinals’ hierarchy. Croyle will back up Kevin Kolb, with John Skelton as the developmental third quarterback. With Greg Toler hurt, the Cards picked up Bennett, whom the Bengals had cut. Bennett showed potential once upon a time, but it’s been years since then.
Buccaneers (keep DE Tim Crowder, add CB Ashton Youboty) – The Buccaneers kept Crowder, a free agent, on a two-year deal. He’s a solid but unspectacular option. Youboty has not been an effective NFL player, but he has talent and is worth a look, especially with Aqib Talib’s availablility in question for the season. (UPDATE: Youboty was cut.)
Chiefs (add OT Jared Gaither, TE Anthony Becht, and S Sabby Piscitelli) – We discussed Gaither’s addition in this post. Piscitelli is a hard hitter, but he struggles in coverage. Becht is a veteran who is still an effective blocker. Still, he could contribute as a special-teams guy in K.C.
Rams (keep WR Mark Clayton, OL Adam Goldberg and LB Ben Leber) – Clayton, who got off to a great start last year before injury struck, isn’t completely healthy but is now in the fold. He will get time to recoup from a Rams team that wants him to be a starter for them. Goldberg is a versatile lineman who can play anywhere across the line. He provides a security blanket for the Rams. Leber adds depth at linebacker. He’s still good enough to jump in as a starter if necessary.
Panthers (add WR Legedu Naanee and DT Kentwan Balmer) – We discussed Naanee in this Panthers training-camp update. The Panthers claimed Balmer, who had been cut by the Seahawks, to address a gaping defensive tackle need that’s growing by the day. He’s worth a look-see, but the former first-round pick has yet to pan out and won’t be a huge factor.
Bills (add WRs Buster Davis and Ruvell Martin and ILB Kirk Morrison) – Davis, a former first-round pick, was a disappointment in San Diego. Now he goes to Buffalo, where he will have to beat out a group of talented young receivers. Martin came on to add depth during a time of major injuries at the position. Morrison replaces the injured Reggie Torbor and should be an upgrade. He’s a solid player against the run, and he teams with Nick Barnett to give the Bills a solid duo at inside backer.
Dolphins (add RB Larry Johnson, OT Ray Willis, LB Marvin Mitchell and S Gerald Alexander) – Johnson, a former elite back, tries to resuscitate his career in Miami. Even if he makes the team, he’ll have trouble finding playing time. Willis, an ex-Seahawk, provides depth at offensive tackle. That’s important if the Dolphins plan to rely on Marc Colombo as a starter. Mitchell is a backup linebacker who can play any spot and also a key special teams player. Alexander, a four-year vet, will try to add depth at safety.
Colts (add DE Tyler Brayton) – Brayton doesn’t generate a lot of pass rush, but he was decent against the run the last couple of years in Carolina. He will add size to the Colts’ DE corps.
Cowboys (add PKs Shayne Graham and Dave Rayner) – Graham signs on to compete with David Buehler for the Cowboys’ kicking job. When Rayner was released in Detroit, the Cowboys quickly brought him into the mix too.
Browns (add OT Oniel Cousins) – The Browns claimed Cousins, cut by the division rival Ravens, to add depth at right tackle. He’s worth a look, especially for a team with OL needs.
Texans (add WR Bryant Johnson) – Johnson, a former first-round pick, hasn’t panned out at any stops, but he has enough athletic ability to be an acceptable No. 4 receiver. If he has to play much, though, the Texans are in trouble.
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Training camp cuts roundup
Ex-Jet Jerricho Cotchery. Image via Wikipedia
In this post, we’ll discuss the players released during training camp. This will include players cut until the first cutdown on August 30. (For players released earlier, check out this link to our pre-camp cuts analysis.)
Vikings (cut OT Bryant McKinnie) – We discussed McKinnie’s release in this post.
Cowboys (cut C Andre Gurode) – Gurode has made the Pro Bowl the last five years, but the nine-year vet’s play no longer matches his price tag. It’ll be interesting to see what contingency plan the Cowboys have in mind, but it’s clear that Gurode still has enough in the tank to be at least an above-average center for someone.
Bills (cut OLB Aaron Maybin) – Maybin, a former first-round pick, was an utter disappointment in Buffalo. He never provided much of a pass rush, and so his impact was negligible. His talent may earn him a look elsewhere, but it’s hard to see someone who was such a complete bust completely turning his career around. The Bills, under a regime different than the one that drafted Maybin, cut the cord after two seasons, indicating they thought he was a hopeless case.
Jets (cut WR Jerricho Cotchery) – Cotchery has been a decent starter for the Jets, but after the Jets spent big money for Santonio Holmes and Plaxico Burress, his price tag proved to be too much. So the Jets (who also lost Braylon Edwards and Brad Smith) will likely try to add a veteran as the third receiver until Jeremy Kerley develops. Cotchery latched on with the Steelers.
Saints (cut OT Jon Stinchcomb and DE Alex Brown) – Stinchcomb had started every game at right tackle the past five seasons for the Saints, and he made a Pro Bowl just two seasons ago in 2009. But his play slipped last year, and he’s not the heavy-duty run blocker the Saints seem to prefer at this point. So New Orleans saved $2 million plus and released him. Still, he’s good enough to start elsewhere, especially for a West Coast offense team. Brown, whom the Saints added last season, is a decent starting defensive end because he’s OK against both the pass and the run, but he’s no longer an impact guy. He lost his job as the Saints upgraded across the D-line and his pricetag no longer matched his expected contribution.
Bengals (cut DT Tank Johnson, CB Fred Bennett and QB Jordan Palmer) – The Bengals gave the troubled defensive tackle a chance, and it worked out beautifully in 2009. But last season, Johnson’s performance fell off. If he can prove he’s healthy and stay on his best behavior, Johnson could still latch on as a backup DT elsewhere. Bennett, a former Texans starter, has completely fallen off the map. Palmer (the brother of Carson Palmer) lost a roster spot after the additions of Andy Dalton and Bruce Gradkowski.
Titans (cut DT Jovan Haye) – Haye was a starter for the Titans in 2008-2009, but he lost his starting gig last year and then lost his roster spot this year. Still, he provides experience at a position of need, so he should find a job somewhere.
Broncos (cut RB LenDale White) – The Broncos signed White after the Titans and Seahawks gave up on him, but he got hurt last preseason and missed the entire year. After adding Willis McGahee, White became expendable for Denver.
Steelers (cut WR Limas Sweed) – Sweed, a former second-round pick, was supposed to replace Plaxico Burress in the Steelers’ offense, but injuries and inconsistency limited his impact. Instead, later draftees like Mike Wallace, Emmanuel Sanders, and Antonio Brown emerged, making Sweed extraneous. Some team will really be looking at the way-back machine if it is to give him a second chance.
Ravens (cut FB Jason McKie and OT Oniel Cousins) – McKie is a decent fullback, but after the Ravens upgraded with Vonta Leach, he became expendable. Given the dearth of teams that use a fullback, McKie could have trouble finding work. Cousins entered camp as a potential starter at right tackle but lost the job and then a roster spot. The addition of Bryant McKinnie made Cousins an expendable piece.
Eagles (cut DE Ricky Sapp) – Sapp, a fifth-round pick in 2010, was battling knee injuries and roster depth before he left the Eagles early in camp. Given their depth, the Eagles decided to cut Sapp instead of keeping his rights.
Patriots (cut safeties Brandon McGowan and James Sanders) – McGowan, who was a starter at free safety for the Patriots in 2009, had fallen behind youngsters Patrick Chung and Brandon Meriwether at the position. So he was released. The more surprising cut was Sanders, who was a starter and a regular last year and a starter in the third preseason game two days before his release. He’s still good enough to fit in somewhere.
Redskins (cut PK Shayne Graham) – Graham lost out in a kicking competition with Graham Gano. The vet will likely become an injury replacement somewhere before the season is out.
Rams (cut LBs David Vobora and Na’il Diggs) – Vobora, a former Mr. Irrelevant, was a stat-minded favorite, but his talent wasn’t going to justify a roster spot. It’ll be interesting to see if an analytics-driven team gives him a shot. (UPDATE: Seattle did.) Diggs is a solid veteran who is a replacement level starter at best. He will find work as an injury fill-in at some point.
Lions (cut RB Mike Bell, DT Montavious Stanley, and PK Dave Rayner) – Bell, one of the running backs whom the Lions signed after Mikel Leshoure’s injury, failed to make an impact to win a job. Stanley provides decent depth at tackle but lost a job on Detroit’s deep line. Rayner did a good job filling in for Jason Hanson last year, but Hanson’s back for his 20th year in Detroit.
Jaguars (cut WR Tiquan Underwood) – Underwood, a former sixth-round pick, becomes the first draft pick of the Gene Smith era to be cut in Jacksonville. His three years were underwhelming, and the Jags have added a ton of other receivers in the draft since he was selected.
Bears (cut DE Vernon Gholston and DT Tank Tyler) – Tyler, an ex-Chief and Panther, has never lived up to his draft status as he’s bounced around the league. But he’s not nearly the bust that Gholston, a former sixth overall pick, was. The Bears took a shot on Gholston as a reclamation project, but it obviously didn’t take. (Meanwhile, Amobi Okoye, a similar case, has performed pretty well.)
Chargers (cut LS David Binn) – Binn played 17 years for the Chargers, but he’s always been small for a long snapper and no longer holds up. The Chargers’ special teams problems last season ultimately led to many changes, including this one.
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FR: March signings
As we continue our coverage of free agency, we’ll compare signings from March using Football Relativity. This post includes signings beginning March 11; for signings from the first week of free agency, check out this elongated post.
10 – Jets (added RB LaDainian Tomlinson, S Brodney Pool, and LB Lance Laury; kept FB Tony Richardson) – Tomlinson had a great career in San Diego, but he showed serious signs of slowing down in recent years, with his yards-per-carry average dropping to 3.3 in ’09. So the Chargers eventually had little choice but to release him and move on. With the Jets, Tomlinson should know that he’s taking a subservient role to emerging youngster Shonn Greene, and with Leon Washington returning from an ACL injury, Tomlinson could find carries hard to come by. The positive of that is that Tomlinson will stay fresher, but he’ll have to show a little more patience than he did in San Diego. If Tomlinson knows what he’s signing up for and is willing to be a 10-touch-a-game back, he could help because he provides more contrast to Greene than the departed Thomas Jones would have given. If not, Tomlinson will fade away in a strange-looking uniform, and the two-year, $5.1 million deal the Jets gave him will be wasted. Unfortunately, our hunch points toward the latter scenario. Meanwhile, Pool is a promising player who wasn’t tendered as a restricted free agent in Cleveland. He’ll get $1.3 million in a one-year deal with the Jets, where he’ll have a chance to replace the traded Kerry Rhodes in the starting lineup. Richardson is a solid blocking fullback who knows his role and plays it well. Laury, who was not tendered by the Seahawks, is a backup linebacker and special-teams ace.
10 (con’t) – Cardinals (added OLB Joey Porter, QB Derek Anderson, UFA OG Rex Hadnot and UFA LB Paris Lenon; kept UFA OT Jeremy Bridges, UFA LB Monty Biesel, and C Ben Claxton) – Porter, who was released by the Dolphins, is still a quality pass rusher who can make an impact in a 3-4 defense. At age 33, Porter has a lot of miles on his tires, but with 26.5 sacks in the last two years he hasn’t shown signs of major slippage. He helps to replace Bertrand Berry, who said he is retiring, for an Arizona defense that needs playmakers badly after losing Karlos Dansby and Antrel Rolle in the offseason. Porter isn’t the athlete the departed are, but he can help. While $17.5 million over three years (with a potential $7 million more in incentives) seems rich for a 33-year-old, Arizona was in a spot where it needed a defensive jolt. Porter can still provide that. Anderson, who had one good year out of four in Cleveland, got a two-year, $7.25 million contract in Arizona to back up or even challenge Matt Leinart. Anderson is not consistent, but he has a strong arm, and he’s fearless enought to go for the big play. That has too often led to interceptions, but in the run-first, big-play offense Arizona is moving toward, he could actually be a fit. The fact that Arizona has such a talented corps of receivers makes Anderson a better chance. At the least, he’ll challenge Leinart and force the former first-rounder to step up in order to seize the starting job, and if Anderson does that he’ll be worth the freight the Cards are paying. Hadnot got a three-year, $9 million deal to move over from Cleveland. He’s a physical guard who can also play center and figures to become a starter for Arizona. Bridges, who started several games last year, is a talented tackle who has gotten into trouble off the field. Lenon started for the Rams last year and now moves over to provide a veteran to help fill the gaping hole left by Karlos Dansby. Biesel provides depth but will help more on special teams.
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8 – Bills (added UFA DE Dwan Edwards and ILB Andra Davis; kept UFA TE Joe Klopfenstein) – As they move to a 3-4 defense, the Bills brought in reinforcements. Davis had a pretty good year as an inside ‘backer for Denver last year and was a nice addition on a two-year deal. Edwards, who got a four-year, $18 million deal to move over from the Ravens, is a sturdy end who can shine in the 3-4. Both are quality additions for a team that desperately needs them.
7 – Browns (added UFA TE Benjamin Watson and QB Jake Delhomme; kept UFA OL Billy Yates) – Watson was an inconsistent talent in New England, but he had some production, and he’s a better tight end than what the Browns had. Tight end is a crucial receiver in the West Coast offense, which is what Cleveland is moving toward, and so making an addition at that position is sensible. Watson got a three-year deal worth $12 million with $6.35 million guaranteed. Delhomme got $7 million over two years while still getting $19 million guaranteed from the Panthers deal he was released from. Delhomme is a terrific locker-room leader, and he has shown a knack for performing well under pressure earlier in his career. But his interception and fumble problems have been stark since his meltdown in a playoff game against Arizona in the 2008 season, and at this point it’s hard to see him breaking that year-long trend soon. Still, Delhomme may be a better answer than Seneca Wallace, who doesn’t have the pedigree of performance Delhomme has over his career. The Browns are getting a little bit of a discount on Delhomme because of his sweetheart Carolina deal, and at those numbers he’s worth a shot. We just don’t expect that shot to come in. Yates is a backup lineman who helps add depth now that Rex Hadnot and Hank Fraley are gone.
6 – Redskins (added UFA RB Larry Johnson, UFA QB Rex Grossman, P Josh Bidwill, and CB Philip Buchanon) – Johnson was released in Kansas City midseason last year as his production waned and his complaints persisted. Johnson landed in Cincinnati as a backup to Cedric Benson, and he looked a little better, averaging 4.4 yards per carry in Cincy versus 2.9 in K.C. Now Johnson moves to Washington, where he will either work with Clinton Portis or replace him, depending on what the ‘Skins decide to do with their incumbent veteran back. Since Portis’ contract is basically guaranteed, we figure he’ll be back. That’s just as well, because Johnson is no longer a starting-caliber NFL back. He’s better in the role he had in Cincinnati at the end of last year, and spot duty will allow him to keep the limited pop he has left in his legs. The three-year, $3.5 million deal Johnson got indicates that’s the role he’ll have – but the potential of making up to $12 million in incentives indicates that more malcontent behavior could be in the offing if Johnson doesn’t get the ball as much as he wants. Grossman, a former Bears starter, was solid as a Texans backup last year and now moves with ex-Houston offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan to Washington. Chances are that Grossman, who got a one-year deal, will back up Jason Campbell. Bidwill was released by the Buccaneers in a cost-saving move after missing the ’09 season, but if healthy he is solid. Incumbent Hunter the Punter Smith is a free-agent, so the Redskins need a fallback option. Buchanon got a one-year, $1.5 million deal to provide help at corner. Buchanon’s a marginal starter but he’s worth that price for depth purposes if nothing else.
4 – Chiefs (added OG Ryan Lilja; kept C Casey Wiegmann) – Wiegmann made a Pro Bowl with the Chiefs two years ago and now returns after being cut earlier this offseason. His veteran wiles help a young offensive line. Lilja, who started for the Colts over the past few years before being released this offseason, got a three-year, $7.5 million deal to come to K.C. and help to stabilize the offensive line as well. He’s not an elite guard, but Lilja will be a big upgrade for a Chiefs team that needs solid starters up front.
3 – Packers (kept UFA OT Mark Tauscher, franchise NT Ryan Pickett, and RFA S Nick Collins; added P Chris Bryan) – The Packers rarely get too involved in the free-agent market, instead preferring to develop through the draft. So it’s no surprise that their big strategy has been to re-sign their players. Tauscher, who the Packers brought back at midseason last year to help a horrible offensive line, got a two-year deal to remain at right tackle. He’s a veteran who provides stability until T.J. Lang is ready to seize a starting job. Pickett, the Pack’s franchise player, went from a $7 million tender to a four-year, $28 million deal. He’s done a great job for the Pack after bombing as a first-rounder in St. Louis, and he became even more valuable when he moved to the nose when Green Bay implemented the 3-4 defense last year. Collins, who had been angling for a new contract for two years, got a four-year, $23.4 million deal. He’s a playmaking safety who really adds to the Packers’ defense. Bryan is an Australian Rules Football player whom the Pack hopes can become a solid NFL punter a la Sav Rocca, Mat McBriar, or Darren Bennett. That strategy has actually been pretty successful for NFL teams.
3 (con’t) – Rams (added C Hank Fraley, CB Kevin Dockery, and TE Darcy Johnson; kept LS Chris Massey) – Fraley, who was released by the Browns, isn’t physically gifted, but he’s a rugged center who can help an offensive line that really struggled last year. Dockery and Johnson are former Giants who know now-Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo from days in the Meadowlands. Neither is more than a role player, but they could help a roster bereft of talent. Massey got a four-year deal for being a dependable long snapper.
3 (con’t) – Steelers (added UFA ILB Larry Foote; kept UFA QB Charlie Batch) – Foote was a long-time Steeler who was cut before last season and went to Detroit, where he played well. Now he returns to Pittsburgh on a decent deal that’s worth $3.9 million in year one and potentially worth $9.3 million over three years. He should return to the starting lineup for Pittsburgh. Batch provides stability at quarterback, which is vital given Ben Roethlisberger’s legal problems and Dennis Dixon’s inexperience.
2 – Titans (kept UFA CB Rod Hood; added UFA DE Jason Babin and CB Tye Hill) – Hood started for the Cardinals in the Super Bowl two years ago and then went on an odyssey through Cleveland and Chicago before he found a home in Tennessee at midseason. The Titans brought him back because he fit their defense and can provide depth at a position that has been troublesome for them. Babin was an unrestricted free agent who had given the Eagles right to match any contract offer he got, but Philly opted to let Babin leave on a one-year, $1 million deal. Babin has never realized his potential as a first-round pass-rusher, but Tennessee’s defensive line coach Jim Washburn is one of the best, which makes taking a shot on a talented player reasonable, especially at the price Tennessee is paying. Hill, a bust with the Rams, never found a role with the Falcons last year and was released. But he’s fast, and given the Titans’ struggles last year in the secondary he’s worth a shot to see if he can help.
2 (con’t) – Chargers (added CBs Donald Strickland and Nathan Vasher; kept UFA DT Ian Scott) – Scott did a solid job as a fill-in starter at nose tackle for the Chargers last year, and he fits in as at least a backup this season. Strickland, who was released by the Jets, now gets a chance to replace Antonio Cromartie, who was traded to the Jets. Strickland isn’t great, but he’s good enough to be a third corner on a good team or maybe even a starter, so he’s a nice addition for the Bolts. Vasher hasn’t played well in recent years, in large part because of injury, but he performed admirably for Bolts defensive coordinator Ron Rivera back in Chicago, and that led to this chance in San Diego. Vasher, a cover-two specialist, got a two-year, $4.5 million deal
2 (con’t) – Patriots (added UFA TE Alge Crumpler) – After cutting Chris Baker and letting Ben Watson leave via free agency, the Patriots had no experience at tight end. They now have some in Crumpler, who proved in Tennessee that he is no longer the receiving threat he was in Atlanta. But Crumpler is big, and he’s a good blocker, which could make him a fit in the Patriots’ offense. New England should still look for a young tight end, but Crumpler will fit in at least some sets.
2 (con’t) – Dolphins (added C Richie Incognito) – Incognito is a talent who is tempermental on the field and off, and that act wore thin on the Rams, who cut him. But his talent, physical play, and aggressiveness merits a second chance if he can get with the program in Miami. He’s good enough to start if everything falls in line.
1 – Seahawks (added UFA TE Chris Baker, UFA WR Sean Morey, LB Matt McCoy, WR Ruvell Martin, and RB Quinton Ganther) – Baker is a versatile tight end who isn’t great but who fits well as a backup to John Carlson for the Seahawks. Baker got a two-year, $4.75 million deal. Morey is a special-teams dynamo who will make a big difference in that area moving over from Arizona. McCoy played for new Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley in Tampa Bay the last two seasons. Martin and Ganther were non-tendered as restricted free agents by the Rams and Redskins, respectively.
1 (con’t) – Buccaneers (added UFA S Sean Jones and LB Jon Alston; kept UFA LB Angelo Crowell and WR Mark Bradley) – Jones was once a great prospect for the Browns, but he left Cleveland and then spent one mediocre year in Philly. Jones has talent to help the Bucs at a problem position, but it remains to be seen whether he’ll actually live up to the promise. Still, he’s worth a look for a Bucs team that needs a ton of help. Alston was not tendered by the Raiders in the offseason despite starting eight games over the past two years. He adds depth to the Bucs’ linebacking corps. Crowell missed last season with an injury, but if he can return to his Buffalo form, he could help the Bucs. Bradley showed some potential in Kansas City, and that led the Bucs to bring him back even though he wasn’t tendered a restricted free-agent offer.
1 (con’t) – Vikings (kept UFA DT Jimmy Kennedy) – Kennedy, like Ryan Pickett a former Rams first-round bust, found a home as the third defensive tackle in Minnesota, and he opted for a two-year, $6 million contract to stay with the Vikings. He’s a key player for the Vikes who may be even more key if the StarCaps case goes against starting DTs Kevin and Pat Williams.
1 (con’t) – Panthers (kept UFA DE Tyler Brayton and OT Rob Pettiti; added CB Marcus Hudson) – Brayton, a former Raider first-round pick, became a sturdy run-stopping end for the Panthers, and they brought him back on a three-year deal to add experience to a defensive line that averaged 23.8 years of age before he was re-signed, according to Darin Gantt. Brayton doesn’t produce a huge pass rush, but he is a legitimate presence who keeps opponents from cheating in their blocking assignments. The Panthers didn’t tender Pettiti, whom they signed out of the UFL, as a restricted free agent, but they brought him back anyway. They signed Hudson, who was not tendered by the 49ers, to add depth at corner.
1 (con’t) – 49ers (added UFA CB Karl Paymah; kept UFA OT Barry Sims) – Sims is a good swing tackle who’s acceptable as a starter in a pinch, and that made him worth $2.1 million in 2010 to the Niners. Paymah is a fourth corner who can plug into the third spot in a pinch. He has good size, but his cover skills are spotty.
1 (con’t) – Bengals (kept UFA S Roy Williams; added WR Chris Davis) – Williams started for the Bengals last year before an injury sidelined him. He no longer has great range or coverage skills, but he’s still an asset against the run.
1 (con’t) – Colts (added OT Adam Terry) – The Colts, who added OG Andy Alleman previously, brought in Terry to continue the project of adding size to their offensive line. Terry, a five-year veteran who was not tendered a contract by the Ravens, missed the ’09 season with injury. He’s more of a third tackle who can fill in on both sides than a starting candidate, but he’ll help provide depth.
1 (con’t) – Eagles (added WRs Hank Baskett and Chad Hall) – Baskett (aka Mr. Kendra) comes back to Philly after a year in Indy marred by his gaffe on the onsides kick in the Super Bowl that proved devastating for the Colts. He’s a big receiver who won’t play much on offense but could help on special teams. Hall, a former Air Force player, is eligible to play now after completing his service requirement. He could end up being an under-the-radar prospect.
1 (con’t)- Lions (added LB Landon Johnson; kept DE Copeland Bryan and UFA S Marquand Manuel) – Manuel and Bryan (who was non-tendered as a restricted free agent) are depth players for Detroit. Johnson was released as a backup in Carolina, but he’s versatile and can provide depth at all three linebacker positions.
1 (con’t) – Bears (added CB Tim Jennings) – Jennings, a former second-round pick, never became a rotation corner in Indianapolis, and he wasn’t tendered a restricted-free-agent offer. But he could find a role as a third or fourth corner in the Bears’ cover-2 system, especially now that Nathan Vasher is out of Chicago.
1 (con’t) – Falcons (added S Matt Giordano) – Giordano was released by the Packers in the offseason, but he could find a home and a role with Atlanta, given the Falcons’ lack of depth in the secondary. Giordano is also an asset on special teams.
1 (con’t) – Saints (kept UFA LS Jason Kyle) – Kyle, a long-time Seahawk and Panther, got a Super Bowl ring as the Saints’ long-snapper last year. Now he gets a return engagement for another year. You don’t notice him, which is the ultimate compliment for a snapper.
1 (con’t) – Giants (added P Jy Bond) – Bond is another Australian Rules Football player trying to make the move to the NFL as a punter. He’s insurance in case the Giants can’t agree to a deal with long-time punter Jeff Feagles.
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Week 9 moves
We do a weekly update on major NFL transactions. We include signings, releases, and also players who are put on injured reserve, because they are lost for the year. You can check out the Week 8 transactions here and work your way back through the season.
Lions (add CB Jack Williams) – Williams was the player that the Broncos cut to add Ty Law late last week, and he was obviously in demand as four teams put in a waiver claim. He went to Detroit, which cut Jason David in favor of Williams. That’s the kind of move a bad team needs to make, because while Williams probably isn’t a starting-quality corner, he could end up being a nickel or dime guy down the line. Once again, the Lions showed aggressiveness in adding a guy who might be able to help, which is a good sign.
Raiders (add DT William Joseph) – The Raiders brought back Joseph, a former first-round pick by the Giants, and cut former starting OG Paul McQuistan. In other words, they shuffled the deck chairs. The Titanic? It’s still sinking.
Subtractions
Chiefs (cut RB Larry Johnson; put OG Mike Goff on injured reserve) – We broke down Johnson’s cut on our MVN blog. The Chiefs also put Goff, a long-time starter in Cincinnati and San Diego who moved to K.C. this year and started seven of eight games, on injured reserve and signed Justin Rogers to take Goff’s roster spot.
Panthers (put LB Thomas Davis on injured reserve) – Davis had been a big playmaker at the strong-side linebacker spot, but he suffered a knee injury that will sideline him over the rest of the season. That’s a blow to a Panthers defense that has just a placeholder at the other OLB spot in Na’il Diggs. Carolina promoted LB Kelvin Smith from the practice squad to take Davis’ roster spot.
Browns (put LB Eric Barton on injured reserve) – Barton was one of the ex-Jets that Eric Mangini brought over to install his defense in Cleveland. Now he’s one of two starting inside ‘backers who is out for the year. That’s a blow to a Cleveland D that is bad to begin with. The Browns signed Josh Stamer to take Barton’s roster spot.
Bengals (put WR Chris Henry and S Roy Williams on injured reserve) – The Bengals suffered two big blows because of injuries this week. Henry, the team’s No. 3 receiver and top deep threat, broke his arm vs. Baltimore last week and is gone for the year. Williams, who has been starting at safety, suffered a forerarm injury as well. These injuries will test the Bengals’ depth. To fill these roster spots, Cincy promoted WR Maurice Purify from the practice squad and brought back OG Scott Kooistra, whom they had cut last week.
Eagles (put CB Ellis Hobbs on injured reserve) – The Eagles took two blows at cornerback this week. Hobbs, who was not only a corner but also the team’s kickoff returner, sustained a neck injury that ended his season. Meanwhile, fourth corner Joselio Hanson was suspended four games after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. To replace the two corners, the Eagles signed CB Ramzee Robinson (who can also serve as a returner) and promoted CB Jack Ikegwuono from the practice squad.
Buccaneers (put S Will Allen and LB Rod Wilson on injured reserve) – The Bucs suffered two injuries to defensive players. Allen, who had been playing as an extra defensive back, suffered a thumb injury. Wilson, more of a special-teamer, suffered a shoulder injury. To replace them, Tampa re-signed LB Matt McCoy and promoted CB Derrick Roberson from the practice squad.
Redskins (put S Chris Horton on injured reserve) – Horton, who started 10 games as a rookie, started five more this season with more limited success as a sophomore. Now he will miss the second half of the season with a toe injury. To replace Horton, the Redskins brought back RB Quinton Ganther.
Giants (put LB Gerris Wilkerson on injured reserve) – Wilkerson was a backup linebacker, and, as importantly, a special-teams ace. But a wrist injury will end his season. To replace him, the Giants added CB D.J. Johnson, who will step in on some special-teams coverage units.
Bills (cut RB Xavier Omon) – The Bills thought Omon had promise, but he couldn’t find a role behind Marshawn Lynch and Fred Jackson. So he was finally cut so that the Bills could activate WR James Hardy from the physically unable to perform list.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Traditional Games > The Game Room > Compact Enforcement Region 7
John_A_Tallon
Oh my! Check out that mitre!
Recruitment/OOC chatter thread
Original photos by Yuki Shimazu, Luke Zeme,ORAZ studios, Terence T.S. Tam, and Tamura Shogundo
Change rode on the crest of the tsunami. Kiyoshi Inagawa, the boss of the Inagawa-kai, was not too pleased with any of it. Two months ago, in February, he had decisively settled the issue of who would succeed his late adoptive father. Then he learned that the Yamaguchi syndicate had taken advantage of the power vacuum presented by the Inagawa succession matter and moved in on Inagawa turf in Tokyo. It was not just a case of them courting a gang away, as the Yamaguchi had done with the disloyal Patriotic Society. The Yamaguchi were deploying their own men, Soga men, and cutting into the bottom line for smuggled goods. And worst of all, the Yamaguchi syndicate godfather, the man known as the Hidden Leader, was getting out of prison. With him running things directly, it could be assumed the Yamaguchi families and associates would be much harder to displace.
In Kiyoshi's own words, “The only bright spot is the tsunami made it possible to quickly raise extra operating capital. But that is a silver lining, since now there is much greater scrutiny on things than before. What is done with that money will determine the fate of the Inagawa clan. We will do what we must before the Yamaguchi godfather can take it as a personal affront.”
Noboru's computer finished playing back Kiyoshi Inagawa's recorded conversation. It was luck, pure and simple, that one of Inagawa's lieutenants had gotten their boss talking about his worries and that his smartphone had been infected by Noboru's monitoring program. Unfortunately, even with his own lieutenants, the Inagawa boss tended to not spell out the details more than necessary. What he planned to do with that money, besides somehow use it to get Soga out of Tokyo, wasn't known.
It was enough to convince Miyoshi Soga, the boss of the Soga clan and Noboru's and Katashi's adoptive father to boot, to shuffle resources around. The business that Inagawa was worried about was an excuse for Soga to even be in Tokyo, but it was critical it be maintained. Without the Soga's help, it was very likely that Patriotic Society's troubles would tear that gang apart. Which was exactly what the Yamaguchi syndicate did not want.
Boss Soga looked unamused, and said, “Since it would be very unfortunate for our special project to fall apart right before the Hidden Leader's return to civil society, I am giving you boys extra help.”
“Thank you, boss.”
“I can spare Tanaka-” a prospect that both gladdened and worried the two Soga lieutenants, given the hitman's fearsome reputation, “- and can tell Saito to be at your disposal. He may be able to learn what the Inagawa intend to spend their money on.”
Katashi replied, “That's good. No telling what Saito might learn from his gamblers.”
Noboru asked, “Mr. Saito is one of our pachinko hall operators, then?”
“Yes, and a competent soldier. Go and pay him a visit tonight to plan your strategy. Tanaka will be there. And anyone else Mr. Saito thinks may be useful.”
Neither the topic of the missing highschool student Norie Gensai, nor of the evidence of the Patriotic Society's dysfunctional boss murdering one of his own whores, had come up during the meeting with Miyoshi. Neither matter obviously related to the issue of Inagawa deciding to make a move on Soga's Tokyo branch, and with a little luck the issue of what to do about the Patriotic Society could be resolved without fuss.
Gwak Min Seong, the debtor who stole from one of the fishing boat captains Soga collects money from, didn't even rate as a potential issue to bring up with the clan head. But he is still out there, somewhere.
Photo by Michael Dunn
Welcome to Compact Enforcement Region 7. With the scene set, the game proper can begin. I'll ask that the following conventions be observed: put your character name in bold at the top of your post, and any skills or abilities relevant to your character's actions at the bottom of your post, in italics. Underline uses of limited use abilities like Luck, Serendipity, or Gizmo.
The Luck advantage runs on game-world time instead of on real-world time, per the option in GURPS Powers. Hours can pass between posts and I've never found pegging a certain number of pages of progress to Luck resets to be satisfactory.
If you want to perform actions which the other players may not know about, you can either hide the information in spoiler tags (trusting to the honor system that no one will act on the information there) or you can just contact me through private message, email, or IRC.
Katashi Soga, a ranking lieutenant of the Soga crime family. He took his boss's surname when he was formally adopted into the family. He's a solid generalist in the ways of Yakuza with a moderate talent for business. Has a wife and daughter. Originally from Kobe.
Noboru Soga, a trusted second lieutenant of the Soga crime family, and a social climber rapidly rising up the ladder. He's the family's computer expert, and is currently attached to Katashi. He and Katashi are personal friends. No children, no wife.
Taka Jō, a tattoo artist. Thanks to his misspent his youth as a hoodlum, he knows many of the local Yakuza and has a reputation as being willing to run small time smuggling, forgery, and other side jobs. Does good work with inks, both on flesh and on paper. Doesn't talk about his personal life to clients.
Ichiro Tanaka, Yakuza hitman/enforcer. He's a cold sort of man, which is fitting for the son of a sushi chef (a good sushi chef needs cold hands, or so the saying goes). He is unquestionably loyal to the point where Boss Soga would have adopted him into the family, except for his drinking problem regularly interfering with his work. One wife, no kids.
Melissa Mayfield, a struggling actress from America. She was not very lucky when it came to finding a reputable talent manager, and besides her legitimate work she found herself being drawn into the criminal underworld. So far she's only been involved in small things: helping run interference as an obvious distraction, putting on show fights where she was the predetermined loser, the softer side of criminality. No family in Japan.
Naomi Aoshima, a castaway from another world. Destitute and alone after being ripped from her homeworld, the first people to actually help Naomi were the Yakuza. Her world-spanning travels imparted the artist with an ability that her rescuers realized they could capitalize on: when she wills it, she can turn into a giant. In exchange for financial support and the means to live life as a legal non-entity, Naomi helps do the rounds frightening and intimidating reluctant debtors. Life has been hard for her, and her new home seems to be full of no end of strange things.
Kenichi Saito, a pachinko parlor operator who lives and breathes Tokyo. Thousands pass through his gaming parlor's halls, and he always seems to know the right guy for whatever you need done. He's a sharp businessman, but he's bought into the propaganda about his heritage meaning he's less of a man than "pure blooded" Japanese. Has a sister he supports.
John_A_Tallon fucked around with this message at Apr 17, 2014 around 04:48
# ? Apr 1, 2014 01:58
Saito's Pachinko Parlor, the Manager's Office
Sometimes helping people is its own reward, and sometimes having them feel like they owe you enough that they'll show up to a late night meeting with a couple of scary men was the reward. Teinosuke Minobe is obligated to be present, of course. He is Saito's assistant manager, competent at running operations when Saito wasn't present. He had to be involved in this meeting. He was the very definition of a forgettable man- average build, average face, average looking suit, graying hair. He could have been a salaryman getting ready to retire from any company in the city.
The two Soga specialists, Katashi and Noboru, were the whole reason the meeting had been called. They and the hitman assigned to them, Tanaka, oozed serious business.
The other people... well, presumably Minobe had a good reason for calling them in. He usually plays things cautiously, but he'd been the one to get the call from Boss Soga about the meeting, and he had arranged things for Saito during the day shift.
Everyone, with the exception of the women, knows Taka Jō if only by reputation. He is Minobe's cousin, and while technically not a part of the Yamaguchi syndicate is quite friendly with them. The bosses more or less overlook that he is not formally a part of any family, in light of his generally good reputation and the small scale of his involvement in the Yakuza way of life.
Saito recognizes the two women at the meeting as well. One was the illegal immigrant who Minobe had taken charge of and taught how to make herself useful enough to justify keeping in food and shelter. The other was the actress Saito had pointed to an entertainment industry associate of his. Why Minobe had called her up was anyone's guess; Saito had implied he might call on her for a favor or two someday, but what she can do to help the Soga tonight is not clear.
Maybe Minobe is finally going senile.
There are seats for everyone, though the office is a bit crowded with eight people.
From Naomi's perspective, her immediate boss simply demanded she show up at the office tonight. So, she did. When Mr. Minobe wants something done, or even worse if his boss Mr. Saito wants something done, it has to happen. They were very clear about how quickly the help she was getting could go away.
Melissa is in much the same boat as Naomi, though from her perspective this is all very irregular and weird. She's an actress, and these men are clearly not producers or directors. Maybe Mr. Minobe was mistaken in calling her? No. No, the older businessman doesn't make that sort of mistake.
For Tanaka, the matter is extremely clear. Boss Soga said to help Katashi Soga however he wants. So that is what is going to happen, until either Mr. Soga or Boss Soga say otherwise.
This is everyone's chance to describe their characters, and have their characters introduce themselves. You can question each other, or Minobe, as much as you want. If your character isn't the sort to introduce himself or herself, Minobe will do it.
Katashi has rank within the Soga equal to Saito's, but has greater status thanks to being formally adopted into the clan.
John_A_Tallon fucked around with this message at Apr 1, 2014 around 02:30
AmyL
Melissa Mayfield
Why the hell am I in Japan again?Melissa bitterly asks herself, standing respectfully when the door opens to reveal the gentleman coming in from the electronic dings and clanks of metal balls in the parlor. She tries to relax but it can be clearly seen that she is out of her depth.
Here she is, a cougar from the East Coast having a midlife crisis stuck in the Far East doing odd bits, getting on the fight circut as the 'Number 1 kickboxer in the World' to get beaten up by the upbeat and oh God so loving annoyingly cheerful domestic talent right in the face, and seemingly pointless errands extending her visa and reducing her debt in Japan. All this so not to resort to the classical career of a foreign actress to be in the porn industry or worst.
Inhaling slowly, she wills herself to calm down so she can be ready when Minobe makes his introductions of the 'lesser' people inside.
AmyL fucked around with this message at Apr 1, 2014 around 02:43
BuBuBear
Taka Jō
Taka Jō adjusted his tie and tried to relax in the crowded office. When cousin Minobe had called him earlier for a meeting, he'd been curious. When he told him it was for a meeting with some higher ranking Soga and he potentially had a job waiting for him, he'd been nervous. Now, he was worried.
Taka was an unattractive young man in his early 30s. His nose had been broken and fixed at least once, and he had a few ugly scars on his chest and face. Thankfully, he knew how to wear a suit, and the sharp blue number did much to hide any unpleasant injuries. It didn't stop the ends of his tattoo sleeves from showing if he stretched the wrong way however.
But his tattoos showing wasn't what worried him at the moment, he'd done so many for Yakuza clients that he'd have a hard time thinking it was a problem for them. No that wasn't it.
Taka rubbed his fingers together, feeling the cigarette that wasn't there as he took in the room, and more importantly it's occupants. Cousin Minobe looked nervous, he was doing a good job containing it though, and Taka doubted anyone else would be able to pick up on it.
The owner of the pachinko hall they were borrowing an office looked a bit confused as to why the women were here, Taka couldn't blame him for that.
Tanaka, the famous hitman was across from him, calm, composed, serious. He occasionally glanced at the women in a way that made it clear to Taka that he didn't know why they were here either.
One of the women he sat near, a foreigner was restless, she didn't seem to know either, which confused Taka a bit. The other simply looked attentive.
Two suited men, bit of a difference in age that matched the quality of their suits were sitting together. Both looked like they had things on their minds, but the confusion shared by the rest didn't show on them. The Soga men then.
Taka briefly clenched his fist to stop himself from seeking a cigarette, this wasn't the time for that.
Calm down.
Taka exhaled softly as he slipped into the mental pathways that had been drilled into him from his time in temple and made himself comfortable in the chair as he watched, and waited.
The reason they were here would make itself clear soon enough.
BuBuBear fucked around with this message at Apr 2, 2014 around 01:48
Ekkerates
Ichiro Tanaka
Ichiro's nerves calmed as he left the crowded pachinko hall for the small meeting room. The clicks and beeps force him to close out external stimuli, which makes him vulnerable for attack. Ichiro has never been in this room before but it is familiar enough, one backroom made for unwritten contracts is much like any other.
He rests his right hand just inside his jacket lapels in a classic display of danger, just a hairbreadth's away from his knife. When meeting new associates for the first time, one must not exude an air of friendliness, especially not when the associates are not Yakuza. Ichiro knows that sort of air can lead to one believing one's own presentation which leads to exposure of one's weak spots.
Ichiro's blue-grey suit had been chosen only hours before by his wife, who said it brought out the subtle colouring of his brown eyes. The burnt orange turtleneck had been his choice, no tie for assailants to grab.
Ichiro is a tiger ready to pounch, and still slightly hung-over from last night.
St 13 - DX 13 - IQ 10 - HT 11
HP 15 - Will 12 - Per 10 - FP 13
Basic sp: 6.00 - basic move: 6
Basic lift: 34 - damage thr: 1d-1 sw: 1d+2
Japanese (native)
English (accented)
Mandarin (broken)
Cultural familiarities:
Wealth (comfortable [40 000 $])
Appearance +1 (attractive)
Acute sense (smell/taste) 3
ambidextry
Hard to kill 3
social regard (feared) 1
flexibility (+3)
combat reflexes
unusual background: inherited magic ring
telekinesis 4 (-45% modified, magic, breakable and stealable ring, 2FP)
Incurious
Reputation (member of yakuza [+1 from Yakuza members, -3 non-corrupt police])
Code of honor (ninkyo)
Duty (to obey boss)
Dependent (wife, mariko)
Brawling 15 - Climbing 14 - Cooking (Sushi) 11 - Driving (Automobile) 13 - Fast Draw (Ammo)
14 - Fast Draw (knife) 15 - Fast Draw (Pistol) 14 - Forced entry 14 - Guns (Pistol) 16 -
Guns (SMG) 15 - Holdout 11 - Intimidation 13 - Judo 14 - Jumping 15 - Melee weapon (Knife)
18 - Savoir-faire (Yakuza) 11 - Stealth 14 - Streetwise 11
On person:
Blue suit, 3 lbs., body
Leather gloves, $30, hands
Ballistic vest, 2 lbs., $400, torso
shoulder holster, 1 lbs., $50, torso
Glock 17, 1,9 lbs., $600, holster
2 glock box magazines, 1,2 lbs., $64, holster
Large knife, 1 lb., $40, sheathed
Sony smartphone, 0,3 lbs., $300, pocket
Silver and Shibuichi ring (magic), nub of left pinkie
Wedding band, ring finger
snakeskin wallet, 0,3 lbs., $100, pocket
apartment/car keys, pocket
Seiko date/alarm/timer watch, 0,2 lbs., $400, left wrist
Swan fountain pen, $45, pocket
not on person:
2012 Lexus ES 350, $30k
$5000 in savings
Ekkerates fucked around with this message at Apr 1, 2014 around 03:54
GTD Aquitaine
Naomi Aoshima - Saito's Pachinko Parlor
She kept her fingers clasped to keep them from dancing for a cigarette. She'd had to stub out a fine one only half-smoked when her phone had jangled with the tone she reserved for Mr. Minobe alone, but to smoke in the presence of the organization's superiors without leave to do so seemed the proper, respectable thing to do. The Japanese thing to do, maybe. If she was back in Aoteara, she'd have lit up without a care--yet Aoteara was far away, and her cares were close enough to touch.
Whether or not her cares were the same as the others at the meeting--not likely, she thought with a wry, inward smile. No doubt they spoke the same mushy standard as everyone else, no doubt they had no trouble blending into a crowd of their countrymen. Except for the European, at least. Naomi had given her a careful look when she'd come in. What the hell could a European bring into consideration that the Japanese couldn't do equally well themselves?
It could be that there was more than she was seeing. She tapped her cheek with her right index and middle fingers, anything to make them forget they weren't holding a cigarette for a while longer, while she buried her fear. Four months--it wasn't enough time to get used to this. Hardly enough time to forget that her life was a chopstick balanced on a rice grain.
"I believe it is customary when one meets people for the first time to give one's introduction" Ichiro says in calm, measured tones reserved for those of unknown affiliation and in-laws. He speaks in Japanese (and will always speak in Japanese unless otherwise stated).
"I believe some of you may have the advantage on me, but my name is Ichiro Tanaka, I am a specialist and the group which utilizes my special skills is, I believe, well known to all present"
Naomi looked the man up and down. Squarish head with the hard-packed look of the sort of enforcer she'd had to dodge time and again on the streets of Tamakikyo--she didn't expect to find hidden depths under an exterior like that. He spoke in the overly formal, standoffish tone that was so common in this Japan and which she was still having to get used to. There were just as many people in Aoteara, but at least people there were direct. Conversation here seemed more like dancing with words.
"Naomi Aoshima," she said with a nod of the head. She would speak as properly as she could manage, but drat if she would put her family name before her own. Not even the Home Islanders did that, not the ones she'd known. "I'm something of a specialist as well."
PythagoreanCup
Widely regarded as a bad move.
Noboru Soga
Noboru sits patiently in his chair. He is a man of average height with a trim, athletic build. Wearing his slim, black suit with his hair slick and parted he is the picture of a Yokuza brother or perhaps a young businessman. It is a difficult distinction for many, a fact he is most grateful for. His sleepy eyes gaze out from amidst sharp features to observe all those present as they begin to introduce themselves. Saito he had met before and Taka Jō is a known affiliate and well regarded for his craft, yet the two women were unknown to him. Curious. Unfolding his hands and rising to his feet he begins to speak in Japanese.
"Thank you for getting us started Ichiro and thank you for arranging this meeting Minobe." he says, regarding the aforementioned men before speaking to the whole room "I am Noboru Soga and this is my Elder, Katashi Soga. We are here to protect the interests of the family and our mutual employer has asked you, Elder Saito, to assist us." he pauses purposefully "As well as any outside assistance you may call upon. We will discuss everything tonight-after introductions of course."
Taka bowed slightly as the younger Soga spoke his piece and cleared his throat as he spoke "Taka Jō is my name. I am an artist, body art is my specialty. Beyond that I do odd jobs here and there. I am very good with my hands"
Taka waggled his fingers to punctuate his statement, a small smile following.
"If you are in need of an item or service, I may be able to provide it or find someone who can."
Melissa bows slightly and respectfully, waiting to speak till Taka Jo is finished.
"My name is Melissa Mayfield and my specialty appears to be put in the spotlight while everyone in the background takes care of the important work," Melissa smiles wryly, "An actress by trade."
Tanaka's face brightens slightly, a small smile begins to form on his lips. "Mayfield? Weren't you in that gender-swapped production of South Pacific last year? I loved your Emile, the plantation owner."
"Ah yes, thank you, it was fun to be in that play," Melissa nods, trying to frantic to recall the half-drunken, half-depressed hazed when and where playing that one night at something something God forsaken place in, where was that again?
"It was good that I seemed to be stretching my roles in unique and profitable ways that are unknown to traditional actresses not involved in the usual sidework," she coughs slightly over not wanting to offend anyone, but she is curious now to why she, the only apparently obvious foreigner of the group, is involved, well all in good time right?"
Seven-and-ten
Addition is hard
Katashi Soga
Katashi leans back in his chair and rubs his forehead, as silent as Noboru's damnable car, while he waits for the others to speak. When the room is silent once more, he stands and straightens his suit before bowing shallowly.
"Welcome, everyone. And thank you for the use of your building, Saito-san. As my little brother has said, I am Katashi Soga. For those of you who are not familiar with us and our business, the Soga family have recently come to Tokyo to support our allies the Patriotic Society. This has upset a more powerful group, the Inagawa-kai.
"Previously we have been working under the impression that our operations were small enough to fall beneath their notice, but Noboru recently managed to intercept communications that indicate we have become a problem to the Inagawa. One they want to remove, and soon. With the information we have now, we believe that they will attempt to remove our presence within the next six days. They will begin politely, but our position in Tokyo is not something we can give up. They will soon progress to violence. However, if we can resist their endeavours until those six days have passed, they will not be able to continue without provoking more serious repercussions.
"What I need to know from you, Minobe," he says, indicating the man who gathered this oddly disparate group, "is how an actress, a tattooist, and..." He looks at Naomi appraisingly. "...some kind of fighter will be able to assist in this?"
Cardinal Ximenez
"You could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault."
Kenichi Saito
Saito took a sip of his coffee. They had assembled a bit of a motley crew here, to which he could only guess at the purpose. Two foreign women... the higher-ups weren't planning on having him set up some kind of weird long con, were they? Best not to think too hard.
"I am certain most of you are well acquainted with myself..." he stumbled, "Ah, but you may not remember me very well; Miss Mayfield, Miss Aoshima. Kenichi Saito."
He grinned.
"I apologize if I am being direct, but it does seem like you are a bit tense. I assure you, there's probably no need to be too worried. We're all friends here."
And then Soga had to ruin the mood.
"Minobe's judgment is much like that of a Zen monk. It's ineffable until... POW, you are suddenly enlightened."
Cardinal Ximenez posted:
Kenichi Saito, aka 'Teriyaki-san'
Kenichi was born in 1990 as the result of the brief indiscretion of Kichiro Saito, a mid-level Yakuza grunt, and Song Seung-uk, the secretary of someone working for Chongryon. Kenichi came to the attention of (the now married) Kichiro a few years later, after Song died in mysterious circumstances. Kenichi wasn't quite neglected by his new family, but the issue remained a sensitive one.
By the time Kichiro died (of a far less suspicious heart attack), it was increasingly clear to Kenichi that the prospects of the traditional job market were fading away for his generation. Following in his old man's footsteps was a fait accompli. Fortunately, Kenichi had natural talent for the business, and proved himself as a prodigy.
The rising Kenichi (now known by the monkier "Teriyaki-san", after a confusing incident involving mistaken identity with a Kikkoman executive) was one of the first to establish a new pachinko parlor after a major crackdown by the police in the mid-2000s. The venture has remained quite profitable.
Kenichi now supports his half-sister, Keiko, a reclusive NEET and dojinshi software enthusiast, while climbing the ladders of the loose Yakuza hierarchy, more out of bored ambition than anything else.
pre:
Ken'ichi SAITO, "Teriyaki-san"
199/200 pts
Attributes [50]
ST 9 [-10]
DX 10 [0]
IQ 12 [40]
HT 12 [20]
Secondary Characteristics [0]
HP 9 [0]
FP 12 [0]
Will 12 [0]
Per 12 [0]
Basic Speed 5.50 [0]
Basic Move 5 [0]
Advantages [129]
Ally (Lieutenant, 75% of starting points, 12 or less) [6]
Appearance (Handsome) [12]
Charisma 3 [15]
Criminal Rank 2 [10]
Independent Income 5 [5]
Language (Japanese, Native) [0]
One-Way Fluency (Understands Korean) [1]
Reputation +3 (Yakuza, got a major 'in' into pachinko) [5]
Smooth Operator 3 [45]
Status 1 {implicit} [0]
Street Smarts 2 [20]
Wealth (Comfortable) [10]
Disadvantages [-34]
Charitable (15 or less) [-7]
Dependent (Sister, no more than 25%, loved one, 9 or less) [-20]
Sense of Duty (Lieutenant) [-2]
Social Stigma (Hafu) [-5]
Quirks [-5]
Distinguishing Feature (Body Tattoo) [-1]
Keeps everything in writing [-1]
Loathes his heritage [-1]
Pretentiously chivalrous [-1]
Skeptical [-1]
Skills [54]
Acting - IQ/A - IQ+3 [2] {3}
Area Knowledge (Tokyo) - IQ/E - IQ+3 [2] {4}
Carousing - HT/E - HT+4 [2] {3}
Computer Operation - IQ/E - IQ - [1]
Current Affairs (Tokyo) - IQ/E - IQ+3 [2] {4}
Detect Lies - Per/H - Per+2 [2] {3}
Diplomacy - IQ/H - IQ+2 [2] {3}
Driving (Automobile) - DX/A - DX [2]
Fast-Talk - IQ/A - IQ+3 [2] {3}
Gambling (Pachinko) - IQ/E - IQ+3 [8]
Guns (Pistol) - DX/E - DX [1]
Holdout - IQ/A - IQ-1 [1]
Housekeeping - IQ/E - IQ [1]
Intimidation - Will/A - Will+3 [2] {3}
Knife - DX/E - DX [1]
Law (Tokyo) - IQ/H - IQ+1 [2] {4}
Leadership - IQ/A - IQ+6 [2] {2} {3}
Merchant - IQ/A - IQ+2 [2] {4}
Politics - IQ/A - IQ+3 [2] {3}
Running - HT/A - HT-1 [1]
Savoir-Faire (Yakuza) - IQ/E - IQ+4 [2] {3}
Search - Per/A - Per-1 [1]
Scrounging - Per/E - Per+3 [2] {4}
Sex Appeal - HT/A - HT+7 [2] {1} {3}
Shadowing - IQ/A - IQ+2 [2] {4}
Sports (Baseball) - DX/A - DX-1 [1]
Streetwise - IQ/A - IQ+5 [2] {3} {4}
Urban Survival - Per/A - Per+2 [2] {4}
{1} Includes appearance bonus of +4.
{2} Includes bonus from Charisma 3.
{3} Includes bonus from Smooth Operator 3.
{4} Includes bonus from Street Smarts 2.
# On Person
Ordinary Clothes, 2 lbs., body
Undercover Holster, 1 lb., $125, right leg
Holdout Pistol, 1.5 lbs., $300, holster
Small Knife, 0.5 lbs., $30, sheathed
Cellphone, 0.25 lbs., $250, pocket
Pocket Pachinko Machine, 0.5 lbs., $45
# In Storage
Update 1 (2014-03-29): Added languages, underling, logical explanation for wealth level.
Update 2 (2014-07-24): Deducted $500.
Cardinal Ximenez fucked around with this message at Jul 24, 2014 around 17:05
If Mr. Soga is confused or angry enough to be so straightforward and blunt, then placating him is the unspoken priority of everyone in the room. He is the man in charge here, after all.
Minobe plasters on a smile, grinning and bearing the very direct question. "Sir, I was told that if we had anyone with any special talents I should have them available. These three, Mr. Jō, Miss Aoshima, and Miss Mayfield- well, I believe they fit that description. Mr. Jō's talented with his hands, and has a wide variety of skills that may be helpful. Miss Aoshima is, as you said, a fighter, and is not what our opponents may expect. A surprising woman."
The way he worded that suggests that he believes other organizations to not expect Soga to be using a female fighter.
"And Miss Mayfield is an actress. Her talent, her job, is getting people to pay attention to her and believe whatever she's trying to convey. A distraction apparently unconnected to us can be very helpful."
He pauses, and then says, "And as you said sir, we must only resist for a week. If we can learn what the Inagawa have planned, then we can use our enemy's strength against them. Like in judo."
Directly and bluntly addressing these peoples uses seems like a diversionary tactic to Ichiro. Minobe has some important information and he seems to want to make a show of it. Once Minobe goes quiet, Ichiro places his hands on the table and clears his throat.
"Very informative, Minobe. But I think you may have missed the esteemed mister Soga's actual underlying question. What new information do you have which makes these people useful to us?" Ichiro turns his head slightly towards Melissa. "No disrespect intended, miss Mayfield." and turns his gaze back to Minobe. "But whatever it is, it must be important to involve a foreigner civilian."
Did a drop of sweat just roll down Minobe's brow? The older man says, "I was only told to get our special associates, if we had any, ready to be briefed and made available to Mr. Soga."
Ichiro places a hand on Noboru's shoulder and whispers in his ear "I don't want to question your or Katashi's association to these people. But I don't trust this man. From my point of view he seems to be hiding something, but due to your seniority I will not act on my suspicions unless you do."
"I'm sure we would not have been assembled if the need was not pressing," Naomi said with quiet calm. It drat well better be pressing, she could have been finishing a new cityscape sketch otherwise. "Nevertheless, speaking as a... foreigner, of sorts, there is a certain advantage in bringing unanticipated elements to the field. Surprise can be worth an army, if used properly."
GTD Aquitaine fucked around with this message at Apr 3, 2014 around 03:53
Taka glanced between the Elder Soga and the known hitman as the woman who called herself a foreigner spoke.
For some reason they had decided to put a bit of pressure on cousin Minobe, perhaps he could step in there.
Besides, they were questioning his value, and that would not do.
"As Naomi-san said, there is value in having a variety of skilled individuals on a task. Perhaps we could better address the matter of exactly how we can bring those skills to bear if you -ah- explain what kind of violent measures the Inagawa are likely to take, and if we are to be on the offensive or defensive for, Soga-san"
Katashi rubs his temple, feeling a headache coming on. These people have no idea what they're getting into. But, if they're all Minobe can get, they'll have to be put to some kind of use. He says, "It can't be helped. If any of you have ideas on how your skills could be used, or on what Inagawa will try, say something."
Seven-and-ten wrote most of that, and in the interest of moving the game along a little I'm just posting it and having Katashi issue an invitation to brainstorm here.
Noboru's expression goes unchained as Ichiro whispers into his ear, as if what he were being told were the details of the day's weather or the status of his latest bid on Ebay. No mind to the fact he was actually eagerly awaiting the shipment status of his NISMO chip. It would drive so well...no-focus, focus. He smiles and holds up a hand to Ichiro before shaking his head once. Saying, softly, "Withhold for now." before turning his full attention back to the conversation.
"Violent measures? They will begin by assaulting our men, attacks of opportunity at first. Clients who pay us to protect them are also at risk. Any property of ours could be targeted, I would not discount arson. Should none of this work, and it will not, then they will draw arms and the streets will see blood." he says with a contemplative frown, eyes far away for a brief second "Our goal to prevent this from happening." he hopes it will not come to that and his left hand secrets itself into his pocket, he feels for the beads of the rosary. It is no time to pray, but simply feeling them is comfort enough. "I will of course try to learn what I can, but we will need to cast a wide net and use whatever methods we have if we are to learn the exact details of their plans before they act."
His other hand pulls out a smartphone and his fingers fly over the screen.
Stolen Secrets Database
PythagoreanCup fucked around with this message at Apr 6, 2014 around 04:33
"Intimidation absolutely has its place in any proper arsenal," Naomi said. She was still unsure regarding the precise politics that circumstances had thrust her into, but some things were universal--people would be themselves, no less and no more, regardless of which Japan she was in. "The best way to win a battle is to convince the enemy to concede the field to you. I would imagine my own particular talents lie in that direction."
He chuckled.
"What sort of intimidation are you supposed to pull off?" he asked. "No, no, really, that's a serious question. I presume you have something up your sleeve if you were brought to me."
"For what it is worth, we should be pretty careful. Doing something overt could just be used as a pretext against us. Which is why a group of plausibly deniable... ah."
And thus Saito was enlightened.
Naomi regarded the man Saito with a look that was half pitiful and half predatory. There was no way he could know if he hadn't been told--no way he could even guess, unless he was mad. Naomi herself would have thought the same way only months before. The world was a certain way, after all, and some things just couldn't happen in it.
Until, of course, the day that they could.
"Some things are more than can just be seen," Naomi said, standing up from her seat. "I've seen things, Mr. Saito. Things that made me learn. Things that made me... well, I suppose I can show you. If we're to be working together, we should all know what we're capable of... what each of us brings to the fore."
She walked to as open a spot she could find in the cramped room, knelt--the roof was low enough that she couldn't quite judge it, and a concussion would be an unpleasant end to her usefulness--and took a long, calming breath. Then she grew, reveling in the sensation of warmth and power that shot through her, until she reached her full scale. Her proper scale, it felt like, in which she could be the person she'd always been meant to be.
"As you can see," she said with a smile, "I do indeed have something up my sleeve."
He pinched himself.
"...did everyone else just see Miss Aoshima... transform?" he asked, meekly.
"Yes, yes we did see her loving sprouted like a beanpole," Melissa breaks the silence, wondering why she didn't take her family's advice to stay back home. "Ok, what are we suppose to be doing again? Pull a circus act so we can frighten them to pieces?"
She tries to relax from being agitated, inhaling and exhaling to get her thoughts in order.
Katashi pushes his chair back and reaches into his jacket before calming down. That was not the kind of specialist he was expecting.
"That is certainly very impressive, Miss Aoshima, but could you please sit down?"
Having settled down from the shock of seeing a woman grow several feet in a matter of seconds, Katashi considers the consequences of this new information. She'll definitely be useful, but if the Yamada family finds out...
He turns to Minobe.
"Did you know she could do this?"
Much like his superior, Ichiro reached for his gun, but unlike his superior, Ichiro actually brings it out. He stays his hand and does not point it at Naomi. He holds the glock 17 in place over his chest, before replacing it in its holster.
"That's... quite disconcerting, miss. But may I ask that if anyone else has a similar revalation that they please state what it is before showing us. I think we wish to avoid any nervous gunfire."
"Wait, wait, everyone loving believes this? People don't just turn into giants! Like, where does all the energy come from? It doesn't make any goddamn sense! It's far more likely I've been drugged. ...or had my brain damaged."
"This person does, in fact, just turn into a giant," Naomi said with a cat's grin, as she moved to sit cross-legged on the floor. If some of them were having such trouble with her being nine and a half feet tall, better that they accustom themselves to it now--in the heat of battle, there were enough distractions that no one could control. "The world is not as limited as what you can see. Believe what you want, or the evidence before you."
Taka blinked slowly and purposefully as he struggled to accept what his eyes were telling him.
The reactions of the others in the room meant that either what he was seeing was real, or they were all suffering from some mass hallucination...or himself a rather vivid reconstruction of the world in a limited hallucination.
This time, when he found his hands reaching for a cigarette, Taka did not stop them. He slid the unlit stick into his mouth as his eyes flickered from the gun the enforcer so brazenly pulled out and the frankly unbelievable sight of a woman that just grew 4 feet in a handful of seconds.
Were he not at the cusp of his meditative trance, this may have been a much more devastating revelation.
"...I can't say that I can do anything quite like that. But as I said before I am good with my hands, and those who know of me should also know of my skill as a smuggler and procurer of items and information. If you need someone to get to items computers can't reach, I should be able to serve handily. Beyond that I also know some first aid and can serve as a medic for those you'd rather not take to the public hospitals"
Unable to help himself, Taka reached out towards the giant woman as he spoke, his desire to confirm what he was seeing to himself outweighing his more reserved habits "Naomi-san, may I see your hand?"
It is like something out of television, or a bad comic book; a little unreal moment was demanding its place in reality. One moment, the woman had been sitting in her chair at attention. The next, she was kneeling by the door, her head nearly touching the ceiling.
Naomi’s change into a giant had only taken a second. Her clothes had been chosen or designed to be able to take their owner suddenly going from a size 15 to a size 40T (not that anyone makes ready to wear stuff that large). Her baggy pants had stretched into capri leggings. Her running shoes were made of some sort of stretchy material- they had enough give that she could probably get around in them. Panels on the back of her overly long windbreaker had unfolded to allow the garment to still fit, though its hemline was now midriff, and the t-shirt she was wearing underneath exposed.
Minobe is the only person in the room who didn’t look surprised at Naomi’s special ability. He wears a neutral expression when Katashi asks another pointed question, and replies, “Yes, Mr. Soga. She needed help when she came to Japan, and we have employed her with simple tasks while she learns how to properly help us. Mr. Saito was aware of her, though not of her special talent.”
Minobe’s a second lieutenant, roughly the same as Noboru, but he’s been relatively ambitionless. Most people would probably classify him as a good worker, a solid and conservative pair of hands to keep daily operations going while his supervisors are busy with other things, and no more. If such a man thought an implausible event would upset or trouble his supervisor, he might try to hide it instead of address it. Taka and Saito both know, with certainty, that doing so would be relatively normal for Minobe.
Not that there’s really anything normal about this woman who talks with a weird accent and can turn herself huge in an instant.
"You may, Taka-san," Naomi said. The honorific still tasted odd in her mouth, as if she was speaking a language hundreds of years dead. The executives and courtiers in Chukyo loaded their mouths until they overflowed with grandiloquence, but it only hid souls tarnished and dim. Here--she still hadn't made a decision about here, yet. "I apologize for demonstrating my talent in such a crass manner, but I trust its helpful nature is clear."
Taka takes Naomi's hand, gently at first as if afraid something horrible will happen, and then firmly when it becomes clear that it will not.
...hopefully
Taka holds her much larger hand in one of his, the other running over the surface and pressing down at certain points.
The hand...feels real. Flesh, muscle, bone, all there. Her acupoints felt normal and were as far as he could tell, all there.
He ran his hands briefly along the fire and metal meridians while shaking his head in wonder.
After Naomi's big reveal, he had begun to assume that this was all a dream; the meeting, the Soga, the giant fairly attractive woman was probably some joke by his subconscious that he'd have to bury and never speak about, but now...
"...how are you doing this?" he said, as much to himself as anyone else as he released her hand
Esoteric Medicine
"I just do," Naomi said. "But it was not my intention to distract us. We did not assemble so that I could be the center of attention. I'm sure there are far more vital things that need to be discussed."
"Uh, right. Miss Naomi is of course right." Ichiro says. "We should of course discuss our plan of action. Mister Minobe could you send for a waitress to bring us... on second thought, no, nevermind that."
"We are all here quite aware of the importance of appearances, the simple fact that Miss Naomi here entered the room being of average stature proves that. What we have at the moment is evidence that points to the Inagawas intent to harm our little family, unfortunately this evidence, and I intend no disrespect, was gathered in a way that does not reflect well on us if it were to be revealed. I believe firmly that we should strike first against the Inagawas, what with their quite dishonorable intent to turn against a close family, but first we must have something which justifies our own attack against them, but which does not mark us as an untrustworthy ally. While maintaining our business is top priority, maintaining face is the highest priority of all."
"So... let's assume we all take this seriously. If we are to exploit Miss Aoshima's abilities, we will have to be very careful. If a giant woman shows up in public or at a sufficiently large gathering of people, we attract a lot of attention, and not the good kind. ...it's like the proverbial bringing an ICBM to a gunfight."
Saito, making sure to roll his eyes in passing at loving Minobe, that bastard, faced Aoshima.
"If you could not turn into a giant monster, what else could you do? This is very important. If you cannot get out of sight of whatever you are brought in to wreck up, really loving fast, you are of little use to us at present."
"It would be easy enough to disguise her and to be fair, if none of us have heard about someone rampaging in downtown Tokyo, it shouldn't be that hard to keep it a secret if we are careful."
Melissa nods thoughtfully while hiding her glee at her chance to take the piss at someone remotely connected at her woes in this miserable country.
"After all, we are all here today to serve for the greater good."
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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > SUSPIRIA! (2018) Remake and original 1977 restoration discussion
Hollismason
So there's going to be a remake of the classic horror film Suspiria 1977.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uGIEY7tdg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY6QKRl56Ok
The film is directed by Luca Guadagnino(Call Me by Your Name) and written by David Kajganich.
It stars Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth
Music is by : Thom Yorke
Release Date : November 2 , 2018
If you don't know it's a remake of the original 1977 film by Dario Argento , being the first part of The Mothers Trilogy a loosely connected trilogy of films about evil witches. It takes place at a school for ballet. It has neon lighting and a killer soundtrack.
Original Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MecSlkWMHPY
Soundtrack by GOBLIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pins1y0XAa0
Starring: Really no one you'd recognize really unless your really into Italian film.
Suspiria is really considered by many to be Dario Argento's masterpiece of cinema. Considered by many to be one of the greatest horror movies ever made. A lot of this is because many people see it as a evolution or modern version of the gothic horror genre pushing it into modern times with neon lighting to match.
In recent news for this film though is there is a new 4k restoration of it that has been going on tour recently in theaters around the country.
Here's the restored trailer for the 4k film :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y0EEqtWrJI
So this is the thread to talk about Suspiria the 4k restoration and the upcoming remake of the film.
The non restored version of Suspiria can I believe still be found on Amazon Prime and for free on Tubi Tv if you have not seen it.
Hollismason fucked around with this message at Sep 11, 2018 around 13:20
# ? Sep 11, 2018 03:03
Zwabu
I was skeptical about the whole idea of this. But this looks... lovely.
It's still going to bother me that the original musical theme is missing, such a central element of the original.
I'm loving the casting of Tilda Swinton though. That's going to make this picture.
Choco1980
I fell in love with a Video Nasty
Ahem, I think Jessica Harper and Udo Kier are both known enough outside Italian Cinema
Samuel Clemens
I think we should call the Avengers.
Joan Bennett and Alida Valli too. Suspiria has a surprisingly stacked cast for a low-budget Italian production.
Fun fact: Alida Valli's real name is Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg.
flashy_mcflash
I joined the #RXT REVOLUTION.
he knows...
Ultra Carp
I'm seeing the poo poo out of this on opening day - Suspiria is one of my favourite movies, Tilda Swinton is my favourite actor, and Luca Guadignoingongoingognoingginino made my favourite movie last year.
Is the poster in the OP official? "Based on the Dario Argento's cult classic" is pretty awkward.
Spatulater bro!
I'm seeing the 4K restoration of Suspiria in the theater on September 23rd. Hyped as hell.
As for the remake I thing it looks great, and from what I've read it's going to totally be my thing. I love how the director didn't attempt to replicate Argento's style but instead gave it his own. I think the film world is big enough for two version of Suspiria to exist, especially when they each take such different approaches.
I was apprehensive about til the second trailer.
I'm seeing the 4k restoration this fall.
Rivethead
The boys at work sure ain't gonna like this!
Jessica Harper is playing "Anke" in this new version. I can't wait.
china bot
you listen HERE pal
SAY GOODBYE TO TELEPHONE SEX
I'm anticipating liking the remake more than the original. Now they just need to remake Inferno & Phenomena as coherent films.
Hollismason posted:
Jessica Harper was in Phantom of the Paradise, how dare u
Friends Are Evil
flashy_mcflash posted:
Think that poster's probably a fan design.
china bot posted:
Phenomena is perfectly coherent. It's just trying to be like, three films within a single running time.
Suspiria isn't incoherent either. If you accept the basic premise of witches being real, it's a very straightforward horror story.
Samuel Clemens posted:
Even moreso in the original Italian as I discovered when I saw the remaster in theaters. The English dub isn't bad per se, but it does muddle some bits that end up causing confusion.
Also lol that there are some people who can't accept a fantastic premise in a horror film and then spend far too much effort drawing all sorts of weird conclusions in their reading because of it.
Basebf555
The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!
Fun Shoe
Neither is Inferno. A woman who lives in an apartment building discovers that it's home to one of the Three Mothers, she finds out a bit too much and is killed for it, and her brother travels there to find her because she'd sent him a letter right before her disappearance. That's about it?
Choco1980 posted:
True. I'll be honest, it took me like 5 viewings to make sense of Inferno, but apparently that's just me.
e: Inferno was my favorite Argento film even before I could fully wrap my brain around it, so coherence isn't a full-throated criticism here.
china bot fucked around with this message at Sep 14, 2018 around 15:03
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
everything is yours
Creepers, on the other hand,
The Notorious ZSB
I SAID WE'RE NOT GONNA BE FUCKING SUCK THIS YEAR!!!
The original is fantastic, the soundtrack is imo the best feature of the film. If there is anything this new one has to live up to beyond anything else its the score and music they'll use.
I'm excited for this new one, it looks like they've gotten the vibe of the original captured well.
font color sea
Expelliarmus!
https://variety.com/2018/film/news/...ria-1202960972/
Well, uhm, that's something
So you can be sued for paying homage to something now
https://imgur.com/a/h1ULbR1 - for reference, similarities between art and movie
I, Butthole
Begin the operations of the gas chambers, gas schools, gas universities, gas libraries, gas museums, gas dance halls, and gas threads, etcetera.
I DEMAND IT
font color sea posted:
I mean in a visual medium, homage requires similarities not carbon copies - those look lofted wholesale. It's not reminiscent of the work, it copies it, which fits plagiarism more than homage and especially in a legal definition.
Didn't Darren Aaronofsky buy the rights to Perfect Blue specifically so he could copy images from it for Black Swan?
Didn't this happen when The Cell came out, or is Damian Hirst not litigious like that?
From what I can see in the article it seems they're not suing for plagiarism, but for reproducing the artist's work commercially, though.
What's the distinction?
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:
Apparently the estate explicitly has in their copyright or whatever that the work can be reproduced for scholarly purposes as an umbrella permission? (ie classrooms, museums, etc)
Now I'm even more confused, isn't that already part of fair use? Maybe I should stop asking questions and just read this poo poo.
duz
Excellent. The Arkham Asylum shower cam is operational once more.
Saw the 4k restoration two weeks ago, looked really good. Plus it was my first time seeing it so extra bonus.
Probably that plagiarism isn't codified in law, copyright is.
Requiem for a Dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0ulBpi2zA
Nah, copyrighted work applies copyright indiscriminately unless they apply exceptions - screening a film is still technically a breach unless there's a specific license, such as education copies etc. Fair use to my knowledge concerns some degree of transformative use, such as critique via narration (video essays, let's plays and the like).
What's been done here is more akin to finding a really good sentence in a book and using it without quotes while saying "hey this is a great source!" - with the double whammy of being used in a commercial product.
Film steals from art like constantly.
Origami Dali
Get ready to fuck!
You fucker's fucker!
You fucker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-uJbQNTyZw
Granted, usually it's homage to art that's long out of copyright.
# ? Oct 1, 2018 02:28
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, who wrote the Suspiria monograph in the Devil's Advocates series, has some thoughts on the flick here: http://sensesofcinema.com/2018/feat...ninos-suspiria/
CountFosco
Welcome back to the Liturgigoon thread, friend.
RIP Satoshi Kon, you remain missed.
Neo Rasa
Everyone should play DUKE games.
Just LOL if you thought an Italian horror movie wasn't going to rip something off.
Neo Rasa posted:
Then a Hong Kong movie rips them off whole sale by stealing their Goblin soundtrack.
It is the circle of life.
This movie loving owned.
# ? Oct 28, 2018 21:20
Martman
SEXY... defines my posts and my ride
How's the music? I love Radiohead and I wonder if Jonny Greenwood helped teach Thom how to make a movie score or whatever.
It's very sparse, as it should be, and has some well timed falsetto crooning.
Ehud
I love the stuff he’s posted so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpULWBT1WEg
Ehud posted:
The scene this accompanies kicks fuckin rear end.
I thought this was getting a wide release on November 2nd, but there aren’t any showtimes.
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Title: Long Overdue
PAIRING: Buffy/Giles
Rating: FRT - Harmless really, just a few mild swear words, nothing you don't hear on television.
FEEDBACK: Will be appreciated
E-MAIL: rgilesbabe@cox.net
SUMMARY: A first kiss.
DISCLAIMER: The characters mentioned in this story are the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, Sandollar Productions, Kuzui Enterprises, 20th Century Fox Television and the UPN Television Network. The story was written out of the love that I have for the characters (especially Giles) and for the enjoyment of the readers. No money is being made from its publication on Live Journal.
SPOILERS: None - set in the future - after Chosen and Not Fade Away
NOTES: When I posted my story for the fic-a-thon I was looking over the combination of words that the other authors had selected, and I noticed that no one had picked a combination that I thought was pretty obvious, and this idea popped into my head. So, I hope no one minds that I'm doing two stories. My second combination is: Kiss-Nightclub-Tipsy/Drunk.
Long Overdue
Lorne looked around his new club with satisfaction. Rick's Place was a decided hit, although he had to keep explaining to people that there was no 'Rick'. Ah, the younger generation had no taste in movies. Or music either. They kept asking the DJ to play the most outrageous sounding things. And people kept asking him to have a karaoke night.
Lorne shuddered. He refused to listen to people sing. He had no intention of ever again being in the position of telling people their possible futures. No, he just wanted to run a nice bar. One that had music for people to dance to, but not so loud that they couldn't sit and have conversations. A place where HE could sing a song or two on a slow night, but no one else.
'People' being a generic term of course. He had gotten the idea for Rick's Place one evening while watching the classic movie Casablanca on late night cable. Neutral territory where demons and humans could mingle without fear of attack. Like his previous bar, Caritas, but without the singing. And not in Los Angeles. Not even in America. He thought back to the series of events that brought him here.
When Angel had declared war on Wolfram and Hart, Lorne had had every intention of going back to Pylea, because even though he wasn't welcome there, he knew he didn't belong in LA anymore. A few hours of thinking, while trying to find a sorcerer willing to open the portal, had changed his mind. What he really wanted was a change of scenery in this dimension. Someplace safe for him to operate. He decided to sleep on the matter and see if the next day brought any ideas.
He had barely put his head on the pillow when he had the dream, or perhaps it had been a vision. A vision from Cordelia. She told him to go to Rome. There was a large community of non-violent demons there, a Slayer training facility, and Angel, at Buffy’s insistence, had closed that branch of Wolfram and Hart. All he needed to do was check in with the head Watcher at the training site and establish his credentials as a good guy and he would be left alone.
Lorne had doubted that things would be that easy, but he had no where else to go, and things in LA looked pretty bad. So he got back up, found a sorcerer, asked the sorcerer to put a disguise spell on him and was teleported to Rome. He had appeared right outside the training facility.
When Lorne entered, two things happened. His disguise disappeared, and alarms went off. He thought that he was going to be killed before he had a chance to explain why he was there, when deliverance arrived from a most unlikely source.
"Hold your fire," the voice shouted to the half dozen girls holding crossbows, "he's on our side." A girl with dark hair pushed her way through the crowd. "Lorne, good to see you man. How's it goin’?" She threw herself into his arms.
"Faith! You're a sight for these sore eyes. What are you doing here? I thought you were in charge in Cleveland." He returned the hug, wincing slightly. "Careful of the ribs, sweet thing, I need them to breathe."
"I was here to pick up some girls to take back with me when we heard about the ruckus. Giles called and told me to bring all of them and meet him LA. What happened? How's Angel and Wes?"
Lorne pulled away and sank onto the nearby chair. "Angel felt that his mission had become corrupted. He decided to go out in a blaze of glory and take out a group called the Circle of the Black Thorn. They were the human element for the senior partners of Wolfram and Hart. I told Angel I would do one thing he wanted done, but that then I was out. I don't know what's happened to any of them."
He looked up at Faith, misery clear in his eyes. "I'm not a fighter. My being there wouldn't have made a difference. In fact, it might have been a liability."
Faith patted him on the shoulder. "I know, don't worry about it. You do what you have to do." She took a deep breath and straightened. "Giles needs to know about this. I'd better call him." She snapped at the girls as she hurried away, "Get back to packin'. We still might be goin' to LA." The girls scattered.
Lorne sat in the now empty room, feeling miserable.
Lorne took a sip of his drink and shook off the memories. That had been five months ago. Faith and the girls hadn't gone to LA, because by the time she had called Giles it was over. An exhausted Willow had appeared in the London headquarters after sealing the dimensional rift that Angel's actions had opened. She had been in a deep meditative state at a holy site in Peru, had felt the rift open, and had teleported to LA to close it. Wesley's body had been found at the Hyperion hotel, along with Gunn's, but there had been no sign of Angel, Spike or Illyria. Not then, or since.
All of the Wolfram and Hart offices around the world were deserted, although Lorne was sure that this was only temporary, and LA had been declared a 'keep out' zone by the demon community. Shell shocked survivors still appeared in his bar from time to time, needing to tell their tales of how they had gotten out that night. He listened; after all, that's what a bartender was supposed to do, right? He had stopped asking about the others, since no one seemed to know.
Lorne was sure that Angel and Spike were just dust floating in the wind, but he worried about Illyria. Had she survived the battle and was lost somewhere without Wesley's guidance? Or had the energy of the troubled Godking finally been released from Fred's shell and sent to its true resting-place?
The doorman, Malcolm, turned to look at Lorne for guidance. Uh, oh, must be major trouble because Malcolm had handled everything so far. Lorne had taken a few steps towards the door, when three women pushed their way in. He blinked in surprise. Think of the devil.
"Lorne, how's it goin', jolly green?"
"Faith," he braced himself for her hug, "long time no see. Have you moved here?"
Faith gave him a gentle squeeze and a pat on the butt. "Nah, just in town for B's birthday. Do you remember Willow?"
Lorne turned to the other women and blinked. Whoa! A soft white aura surrounded Willow; she was practically glowing from the energy she possessed. She hadn't looked like that when she had re-ensouled Angel. Lorne took her hand and bent over to kiss it. "I remember meeting you, but you've changed since then. No wonder you were able to stop them."
Willow blushed. "It was nothing. I just invoked you're basic earth goddess. She didn't want them coming here cause some demons have no respect for the planet."
Lorne nodded, knowing that it really hadn't been that easy, but he was willing to let it go so that Willow could have her privacy. He looked at the third member of the group. He had never met her, but had seen her image many times in the memories of Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, and Spike. So this was Buffy. Strange, somehow he had thought she would be taller. "Welcome to Rick's Place, I'm Lorne, your host."
Buffy had been gazing around the bar, but turned back. "Yeah, got that when Faith called you Lorne. Rick's Place. Catchy name; you must love Casablanca."
Lorne looked surprised. "You've seen the movie?"
"One of my favorites. Mom loved anything with Humphry Bogart." Buffy looked around at the tables, many filled with demons. "Nice idea as long as everyone follows the rules." She looked back at Lorne. "They don't start anything, we don't start anything. We're just here for a night on the town."
She had barely finished speaking when the sound of a chair scraping across the floor could be heard. In the dimness of the club a large, misshapen, form could be seen approaching the group. Buffy took a defensive posture, blinked, relaxed, then jumped at the demon.
"Clem," she grabbed the demon in a fierce hug, "it's so good to see you. I didn't know if you made it out of Sunnydale in time. How have you been? How's your family?"
"Slayer, good to see you too. Everyone's fine. We originally went to LA, but when things started heating up there we came here. My wife's got family here, made the move easier. I knew there was a group of Slayers in town, but I didn't know you were with them."
"Not officially, I'm retired now. Dawn and I are living here while she's going to art school." Buffy gave him a worried frown. "Did you check in with the head Watcher? I wouldn't want one of the newbies taking you out by mistake."
"Yeah, my wife's uncle Otto took us over. No problem." Clem gestured back at the table. "Uh, if you're not too busy, I'd like to introduce you to some of the family."
"I'd be happy to meet them. Lead the way." Buffy took a few steps then turned back. "Go ahead and order the drinks, I'll be right back." She took a couple more steps and turned again. "NO BEER."
The others watched her step up to Clem's table, and then Lorne and Faith looked at Willow. She gave a little shrug. "Buffy and beer are kinda un-mixy. Wine's okay."
Lorne led them to a table close to the dance floor, but not so close they couldn't talk. "Is anyone else going to be joining you?"
"Maybe, later. Dawn, that's Buffy's sister, said something about a present she was expecting by special delivery. She might bring it here, or she might just wait until we get home."
"Did I hear mention of a birthday?"
"Yeah, Buffy's 25th." Willow looked stricken. "Please, no singing 'Happy Birthday'. No cake or anything like that either. Buffy's birthdays usually suck, big time, and we've only got 4 hours to go. Don’t jinx it for us, please."
Lorne placed his hand on his chest, over where a human heart would be. "Word of honor. No singing, no cake. But I insist that the drinks be on the house. What would you like?" Lorne took their order and returned to the bar.
When Buffy joined the others at the table, there was a glass of white wine waiting for her. There was also a bucket with a bottle of champagne and three champagne flutes sitting in the middle of the table. A small tag on the bottle read 'Happy Birthday'. Buffy gave Willow a look.
"He promised, no singing. He said he does this for anyone who comes in on their birthday, no special treatment, honest."
Three hours later Lorne was sitting at the table keeping the girls in constant giggles as he told them some of the funnier stories of his time with Angel and company. They were all well and truly buzzed and Lorne was planning to see them home after the bar closed. He was telling them a second hand account of Wesley dancing at a party, giving them Cordelia's version of the event. "She said he looked like a featherless bird trying to get off the ground."
The image struck the girls as especially funny and Faith fell off her chair, which made Buffy and Willow laugh even harder. Willow calmed down enough to say, "Yeah, he was such a geek in the beginning, but the last time I say him, whoa boy. If I wasn't into girls I would have made a pass."
Buffy looked at her in disbelief. "Wesley?"
Faith climbed back on to her chair. "Yeah, B, he dirtied up real good. He was hot; you wouldn't have recognized him."
"You're joking me, right? Wesley, hot? Never happen."
Willow waved her hand in the air. "Wait, just a minute, I can show you." Her eyes narrowed in concentration and she muttered some words. A glass ball appeared, with an image of the way Wesley had looked when she saw him at the Hyperion. "There." She handed the ball to Buffy.
Buffy blinked owlishly. Opened shirt, spiky hair, beard stubbled cheeks, and no glasses. "That was Wesley? Wow, he WAS hot. Damn, why didn't he look like this when he was our Watcher? I might have listened to him." She shrugged. "Probably not. He was trying to take Giles' place. Didn't matter what he looked like, he would have still been a pillock."
Willow looked at her earnestly. "What does that word mean? Giles won't tell me."
"Wouldn't ever tell me either." She grinned. "Must be something really bad."
Without thinking Lorne said, "I know." Three sets of eyes looked at him questioningly. He blushed deep green. "It's an English slang term for, for, well it means….." he stopped, leaned forward and whispered in Buffy's ear.
"Get outa town. Really?" Her face lit up and she started giggling as she told the other girls, "Only Giles could call someone a dick and make it sound so elegant. It must be the accent." She deepened her voice and said, in a very good approximation of Giles' voice, "Pillock." This time all three girls fell off their chairs.
When Willow was getting back into her seat, she happened to glance at the door. "Oh, no," she groaned. She looked at her watch. "Less than an hour to go, we almost made it." Her head hit the table with a thump.
Lorne looked sharply at the door, and gasped. Three ghosts had just come in. Next to him he heard Buffy murmur, "Angel and Spike? But Spike died in Sunnydale."
Faith frowned. "Yeah, and who's the blue chick?"
Willow's head came up and looked at the woman. "Fred?"
Lorne looked at Buffy in confusion. "Didn't anyone tell you? That amulet that you gave to Spike bound him to Wolfram and Hart. After Fred found a way to break the binding he stayed on as part of the team until that ….. problem."
"You mean until Angel almost ended the world." Buffy glared angrily at the trio. "And no, I didn't know." She glared at Faith. "Did you know?"
"Not me, B. Not a clue."
Buffy realized that Willow was silent. She looked at her. "You knew, didn't you?"
"Andrew told Giles when he brought Dana back to London. I was there, so I heard."
"Why didn't he tell me? I had a right to know."
"Giles felt if Spike wanted you to know he was alive, he would tell you himself. He didn't."
Buffy was silent, staring at the man standing still on the other side of the room. "That bastard."
"Buffy, Giles felt"
Buffy cut her off. "I don't mean Giles, I mean Spike. How dare he come back from the dead and not tell me." She stood up, the chair flying out from behind her, and rushed across the room. "You BASTARD. You should have called me!" She smacked him.
Spike rocked back from the blow. "Happy birthday to you too, pet."
"I'm not your pet." She turned to Angel. "And stop smirking. I'm not yours either."
Angel frowned. "No, you're the Immortal's latest toy."
Buffy smacked him as well. "As if. We went out together a few times, had a few laughs. That's all. Me, get serious with another vampire? Been there, done that. Twice. Regardless of what some people might think, I do learn from my mistakes."
"But Andrew said,,,"
"You listened to Andrew? And you think I'm stupid. Where have you been for the last five months? People have been worried, you big dope."
Illyria moved between Buffy and Angel. "You will not address him in that manner. He fought very bravely. He is a champion."
Angel pulled her back. "Illyria, this is Buffy."
"You are the Slayer? The one they both loved." Illyria looked her up and down. "I thought you would be taller."
"That's it, she's going down." Buffy started to move towards the blue woman, but found that she couldn't. She looked down and saw that a band of green energy encircled her torso. "Willow! Let me go!"
A most unexpected voice behind her said, "Fighting in a bar? I thought you learned your lesson about drinking the last time."
Buffy stopped struggling against the energy. She closed her eyes and a smile swept over her face. "Giles," she whispered. Raising her voice she said, "I'm not drunk." She heard a snort from behind her and a 'yeah, right' from Spike. She glared at Spike. "I AM NOT DRUNK. A little buzzed, yeah, but that's all."
She tried to turn around and the energy dissipated. Buffy faced a smiling Giles. "And no beer has touched these lips. Just wine and champagne." She flung herself at him, grabbing him in a bone-crushing hug. "I've missed you. Why didn't you tell me you were coming?"
"It was a surprise," Giles drew in a pained breath as her arms tightened. "And I would rather not make a trip to the hospital. Ribs, Buffy, ribs." Her grip loosened and Giles heard a muffled 'sorry' from the head that was burrowed against his chest. "I take it that you like your present?"
The blond head lifted and mist green eyes met emerald green. "I love my present. I've missed you so much." Giles blinked and withdrew a bit.
"I meant Angel and Spike. I'm only here because I brought them in the Council jet."
Buffy pulled away, angry again. "You mean you wouldn't have come if you hadn't been bringing them? Forget what I just said, I haven't missed you a bit." She turned around, stomped back to the table, picked up a glass of champagne and gulped it down. She grabbed the bottle and re-filled her glass.
Giles followed her over to the table. "Now, Buffy."
"Don't 'Now Buffy' me, mister. For months I've been trying to talk to you. You're always 'busy'. You couldn't come for Dawn's birthday; you couldn't be bothered to come at Christmas. Now, you finally show up, and it's just to bring THEM?" She turned her back and hunched her shoulders. "Go away." 'Hic'
Faith and Willow started giggling again, but stopped at Buffy's glare. Struggling to keep a straight face Willow said, "Let's go say hi to the guys." Faith and Lorne nodded and the three crossed the room to where the other trio was still standing.
Faith walked up to Angel. "I think this rates a hug." She wrapped her arms around him and gently squeezed. Faith turned to Spike. "You too, Liz."
Spike gave a huff. "Good to see you too, Slayer." He gave her a hug, then turned to Willow. "You're looking good, Red. How's life been treating you?" He hugged Willow.
"Pretty good, actually." She pulled back and gave Spike a smack on the arm. "Why didn’t you call? I would've wanted to know you were back with us." She turned to Illyria. "Hi, Fred. You've changed. Blue is a really good look for you."
"The Fred being no longer inhabits this shell. I am Illyria." She turned, stalked over to a window and stood looking out at the city.
"What?" Willow looked at Angel.
Angel ducked his head for a moment then looked back at Willow. "Um, Fred's dead. She opened a sarcophagus that contained the spirit of an ancient god. When Illyria's spirit took over, Fred's soul was destroyed."
Willow looked appalled. "That's what you wanted my help for? That time you called Giles?" Angel nodded. "But, I couldn't have helped. I'm not so powerful that I could have taken on a God."
"Once I stopped and thought about it I realized that, but at the time I was desperate. I was responsible. If I hadn't brought all of us to Wolfram and Hart, Fred wouldn't have been there when the sarcophagus was opened."
"No offense, but if she's a god why is she hanging around with you?" Faith asked.
"Wesley." At their blank looks he continued. "Fred and Wes were in love. Regardless of what Illyria said, some of Fred must still be in there cause she was attached to Wes. Helping Illyria acclimatize to life in this dimension was the only thing that kept Wes going after Fred was gone."
Faith was frowning. "If you had a god on your side, why were you losing the fight in LA?"
“A couple of weeks before the big bad we had to neuter her.”
Faith and Willow gave Spike a puzzled look, but he just grinned at them. Angel gave Spike an annoyed glare. “Fred’s body couldn’t contain Illyria’s power. It was causing temporal disruptions. Wes made a devise that changed her and prevents her from accessing more than a fraction of that power.”
Willow stared at him, not sure what was surprising her the most; the fact that Wesley could have build a devise that could drain the power of a god or that Angel was using words like ‘temporal disruption’. Trying to collect her thoughts, she turned back to see how Buffy and Giles were getting along. She sighed. Giles was talking, but Buffy still had her back to him and appeared to be ignoring him.
Spike chuckled. “Watcher having a rough time of it, eh?”
Willow turned back around. “Well, things have been a little….” she trailed off.
Faith laughed. “Giles has been ignoring her and B’s pissed.”
“Yeah, kinda like our first year of college, but reversed. He’s just been buried in work and she doesn’t understand. Dawn said she’s been moping around the apartment for weeks.”
“ME?” Buffy’s voice came ringing across the room, “What about YOU?”
Everyone looked this time. Buffy and Giles were nose to nose arguing fiercely.
“This doesn’t look good.” Willow sighed.
“Maybe I should go over there and knock some sense into her.” Faith offered.
“Just give them a little time; he’ll calm down and then he’ll calm her down.” Willow sighed again. “Looks like Buffy’s birthday curse strikes again, although on a scale of 1 to 10, an argument with Giles can’t be more than a 1, can it?”
“The Immortal? Oh, please, not you too.” There came the sound of a smack, but although they all winced, no one looked.
Willow carried on determinedly. “So, where have you guys been the last few months? We found Wes and Gunn, but there was no sign of any of you.”
“After you closed the rift, we cleaned up the stragglers, or at least we thought we did. Illyria had already taken Wesley’s body to the Hyperion before the fight, so we took Gunn’s there too and started to make arrangements. We were attacked by a small group who had hidden. One of them had the ability to open a small dimensional portal and they tried to pull us into their realm.”
“Lucky for us that Blue had enough power to divert us. Even though she couldn’t bring us home, at least we didn’t end up in some hell dimension.” Spike gave a little shrug. “Not a bad place really, not much different than the time I grew up in.”
“How did you get back?” Lorne asked.
“We traveled around, kept our ear to the ground, and finally found a coven. They didn’t have a lot of power, but with Blue helping them they were able to get a message through to this dimension. Watcher got the coven in Devonshire to create a link between the two groups and heh, presto, here we are.”
“Oh, damn.” Angel said softly.
Willow and Faith looked at him questioningly, but before either could say anything Spike morphed into game face and snarled, “Bloody Hell!” He was glaring over Willow’s shoulder.
Willow glanced at Faith, who had already turned to look at what Spike was seeing. She had a big smile on her face. “I’d say the birthday curse just got broken, and about damn time.”
Willow looked around and saw Buffy and Giles in each others arms, kissing passionately. She gave Faith a high five. “Yep, it’s long overdue.” Willow looked back at her friends. They were still kissing and showed no signs of stopping any time soon. Her smile widened and she nodded. “Long overdue.”
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Transport for NSW – Submission by David Holland regarding the Discussion paper on Long Term Transport Planning for NSW
As an advocate for both adaptive thinking and the Environment the Habitat Association for Arts and Environment has included the latest publication by one of its members, David Holland, on transport planning for New South Wales.
For those who are surfing the web from outside of Australia, New South Wales is arguably the most populous State in Australia and has a large economy in Australian terms.
This means that transport planning in New South Wales (NSW) is pivotal to the future success of that economy and the well being of the residents and workers of the State.
We may even go as far as to say that without a solid strategy for the future and new co-operation between the various transport agencies, NSW is poised to produce more transport bottlenecks which will affect the states future prosperity. The submission outline three themes that Mr. Holland feels are important for the way forward. They are sustainability, security and reliability.
The submission not only looks at very practical aspects of providing a sustainable public transport system, but also sustainable ways to operate transport systems into the future. This is highlighted in the approach related to handling freight. The submission proposes a logical but revolutional way to handle freight service between regions and between other Australian States.
The use of renewable energy in the rail system is touched on as a way for the State to meet renewable energy targets.
The Central Coast of NSW is referred to in much of the submission. David believes that regional Australia is often left out of detailed transport planning processes because of the assumption that all commuting, as has been traditionally the case, is flowing to and from the Sydney metropolitan areas. With the slow but steady improvement of job opportunities in the regions, more and more commuting is being done intra-regionally. This means that public transport services should not only accommodate this trend but transport planning should drive this trend, providing appropriate infrastructure to give greater opportunity for regional investment in the growing regional economic powerhouses of the Illawarra, the Central Coast, the far west of Sydney around Penrith and the Blue Mountains, and the south west of Sydney around Campbelltown.
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Submission for the North Wyong Structure Plan NSW Australia
The North Wyong Structure Plan is one of the most important documents compiled for the Central Coast. It identifies the pattern or template for development in the fastest growing areas of the Central Coast, the areas north of the township of Wyong.
The plan has been produced from the objectives of the Central Coast Strategy 2008, which is the main future looking document for the whole Central Coast.
The relationship of this plan to the Draft Central Coast Regional Transport Strategy (CCRTS)
Recently, the Central Coast has had the opportunity to be presented with the Central Coast Regional Transport Strategy. This document although still in draft, in our opinion, was not able to satisfactorily identify the future transport needs of the Central Coast. By not using demographic trend data to show the huge needs in transport for the future of the Central Coast it was not able to properly analyze future transport trends and plan projects that relate to these trends. As this plan relies on the CCRTS for transport planning into the future we feel that the transport component of this plan is inadequate.
This document however, while only touching on transport has been able to show the capacity that the Central Coast will be able to contribute to NSW and the growth potential of the area covered by the North Wyong Structure Plan.
Trend from Private to Public Transport
The Plan outlines a potential of up to 10,000 new jobs with the release of developable land over the scope of the Plan. With this increase in employment opportunities there will be an increasing burden on transport infrastructure to move commuters. To increase efficiencies and reduce carbon emissions the Plan should move with the trend away from private forms of transport to public transport. This planned trend will help avoid cost blowouts on roads funding and time wasted by commuters waiting on congested roads.
It is expected that a large proportion of the jobs will be filled by workers from the southern parts of the Central Coast and Newcastle. It would be ideal that everyone living in the region would be able to walk or ride to work, but this would not be practical considering individual life style choices. However, workers will examine the feasibility of how to get to a particular job. This is where transport plans and transport planning must use a forward planning model to help enable large parts of the work force to easily access public transport.
The CCRTS, of which the Plan relies as a blue print to achieve sustainable transport is lacking in vision. The Plan lacks a vision for transition from the medium term planning to the long term planning. The Plan, for example, relies on the CCRTS to supply the needed road infrastructure for the massive amounts of movement that is planned within the Plan. This movement must be planned so that workers leave their cars at home and travel by public transport to work, either locally or from the regions. Bus services must become a seamless option for commuters.
Extractive industries planning
As identified in the Plan there are a number of natural constraints both now and into the future. These include: 1. loss of biodiversity due to urban expansion; 2. pressures on the urban and natural landscape by mine subsidence; and, 3. potentially non developable areas in the short and medium term caused by extractive industries. The latter will become a balancing exercise between the release of land for urban purposes, and land for extractive industries. It is noted that the Plan includes these extractive industries as an asset to the region, given potential jobs creation opportunities.
We believe extractive industries are incompatible with urban areas because of the many negative effects related to these industries (i.e. impact on urban and natural environments). We thus oppose any extractive industries within the Plan. North Wyong should be reserved for urban development and low impact industry.
Wetlands and flooding
Other constraints mentioned in the Plan include both flooding and sea level rise. Flooding is an issue in the North Wyong given much of the land is low lying. Many of these low lying areas are designated wetlands. With the extra hard stand areas planned that will form house roofs and road surfaces, ways of moving accumulated water away from the more fragile wetland environments will need to be addressed.
Climate Change Issues
Sea level rise is part of a larger environmental challenge, that of a changing climate throughout the world. As a result the Wyong north area is likely to experience sea level rise
(see report on climate change)
http://www.cen.org.au/images/stories/Issues/Planning/climate_change/planning_for_climate_change_r2a.pdf).
Climate change impacts will increase constraints on developments in low lying areas, and in particular around waterways. In addition, as a result of climate change it is expected that increased precipitation in coastal regions both in volume and intensity will also affect constraints on development. In summary, climate change issues should be addressed in the Plan.
A Social Impact Strategy Needed
The Plan has not explicitly included the growth of education institutions or mass movement of students to and from school.
The Plan seems to assume that students would get to school as they always have, by bus or walking. However, unless culture changes, an ever increasing amount of parents will be transporting their children to school, by large family cars. These cars put a large burden on the local road infrastructure. As a result we suggest that the Plan address the social and transport issues within a social impact strategy on this transport factor for the whole of the Central Coast and in particular North Wyong.
Finally, the Plan should address the ever increasing instances of vandalism and graffiti inWyong Shire. An investigation should address the causes and the social drivers for this behavior and propose some viable solutions.
Bushell’s Ridge growth and a rail and bus interchange at Bluehaven
The Bushells Ridge area is expected to become a commercial and light industrial area, and will be supported by housing in the new Warnervale Town Centre, urban expansion in Wyee, Gwandalan and existing urban areas such as Blue Haven etc. It is also expected that many job holders will come from Newcastle region and Gosford region. This trend will see long convoluted bus trips from the new Warnervale station to the Bushells Ridge industrial estates. This lack of efficiency will ensure that commuters opt to use their cars to travel to work. Our long standing suggestion is to include both rail yards and a commuter station at Blue Haven. This would reduce the distance to work for the commuters and allow a good bus service from the rail to Bushells Ridge. This would also enable a range of bus services to connect at this interchange from Charlestown, Swansea, Gwandalan, Mannering Park,Norah Head and Lakehaven also providing a good connection to the Lake Macquarie bays and the beach from the rail.
See:http://www.cen.org.au/images/stories/Issues/Planning/wyong/planning%20public%20transport%20structures%20in%20north%20wyong%20the%20%20%20%20%20%20bluehaven%20bus%20and%20train%20interchange%202nd%20ed.%20rev%202%2015.01.2010.pdf
We commend the Department of Planning on taking the initiative to not only plan for urban and industrial activities within the Plan but to plan for natural areas that will continue to carry a pre-settlement signature of the biodiversity in the Wyong Shire from the mountains west of Wyong to the Sea.
We also commend the inclusion of the proposed Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) Central Coast Conservation Plan (CCCP) in any analysis of biodiversity within the Plan. This is needed to give scientific rigor and proper priority to natural resource and ecological attributes for future generations. Incorporating the CCCP would highlight the importance of ecology to overall environmental health of North Wyong. By detailing, for example, the conservation values of the landscape within the two major corridor systems planned for the sub region, it will enable planners and ecologists to agree on the most appropriate planning decisions in regard to biobanking.
By the plan identifying the green corridor areas it ensures that future generations will be able to appreciate the aesthetic attributes of the pre-settlement environment.
Biobanking the natural resources of North Wyong
Currently biobanking is written into the legislation (with DECCW outlining some guidelines). Some developers however (often via contracted companies) are attempting to water down these principals and use the legislative opportunity of biobanking for advantage. One advantage that appears to be sought is to reduce costs by not doing various environmental studies as required by the legislation outside of biobanking agreements. We thus recommends that the Plan, in conjunction with the CCCP, close this potential loop-hole by incorporating more stringent requirements on biobanking in North Wyong (e.g. when a plot of land is to be subject to a biobanking agreement). As a result, with a biobanking policy in place, strategic corridor land can be part of the biobanking process. This will ensure the connectivity desired, providing a range of elevations for the preserved land and a diversity of biota from the various elevations. Overall this would ensure a working ecology is preserved.
As a general comment we are encouraged by the inclusion of green corridors within the Plan. We agree with the Plan’s assessment that the unique biodiversity of the Central Coast should be preserved in a way that allows movement of biota throughout the system. (i.e. due to external environmental changes). We, however questions whether this plan will properly cater for the expected north south biota migration opportunities that will be needed to accommodate the effects of climate change (noted above). We ask that within the Plan some consideration for biota migration be made, relying on the CCCP analysis of this issue. Finally, it is encouraging to see two clear corridors have been planned, one within the Lake Munmorah area and the other within Wadalba area. The Plan should ensure the pre-settlement floral diversity within these corridors is protected.
We agree with the Plan that the land within these corridor areas should be explicitly zoned for the purpose the land is intended and no other, so as to ensure no encroachment or fragmentation of the land is possible by developers, Wyong Council or the State.
Land Management and Land values of Green corridor Lands
We are concerned about pressure brought to bear on both state and local governments by land owners who have a perception that their green corridor land will be devalued by the Plan. Given this scenario, in the interests of transparency, it would be worthwhile identifying the benefits of these green regions more clearly in the Plan. A user’s guide to biobanking should be considered, identifying clearly the land market produced for green corridor land through the land development process. The guide should show land owners that their land will not lose value but become more valuable under the biobanking opportunity presented through State environmental legislation. Other options for Green Corridor land include Voluntary Conservation Agreements (VCA) and the purchase of these lands by State and local government due to the importance of these lands for the future of the regional landscape. Both the VCAs and the government buyback opportunities will increase the scarcity of land available for biobanking, thus enabling the price of land to be supported at a higher level within the corridor systems.
A plan should be developed within the CCCP detailing the management of these corridor lands. The Plan should reference this issue, and defer to the CCCP. Current management practices of the small amount of designated corridor land at Wadalba have not been managed well to date. (see Attached Document on the History of Wadalba Hill) We suggest that the management of the corridor lands should be overseen by the DECCW. That private contractors and local government land managers are accountable through regulations relating to the management of corridor lands. As part of these regulations, the level of management of biobanked land should be considered and managed accordingly as per the DECCW 13 point Code.
Corridor lands are a valuable environmental assets and the Plan should give major consideration to the value and future management of green corridor lands.
We commend the Plan on its recognition of the need to preserve the remnants of Aboriginal culture in the sub region. The Plan states that Aboriginal sites identified by artifacts and markings need to be considered as land is developed. However, the Plan is less clear when explaining cultural sites that have little surface evidence related to the cultural setting of Aboriginal history. We believe that the Plan should be more specific about the identification and preservation of places of meeting, as well as culturally significant places that have only the landscape as a remnant of the history associated with past Aboriginal activities. One potential example of this is associated with Wadalba Hill. (Ref. Aboriginal Law Lady Elder Marjorie Woodrow’s application regarding Indigenous Heritage East Dept of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and under the Commonwealth Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act (ATSIHPA) 1984)
Wadalba East Town Centre
The Plan shows a new town centre to be placed at Wadalba East on the eastern side of Wadalba Hill. The Plan indicates that this will be a centre that will have a variety of planning zonings including commercial zones and medium and high density residential zones, supported by some industrial zones. How does this new town relate to the existing town centre of Wadalba? Will the old town centre continue to develop into a sub-regional centre as first planned, with higher density housing and high intensity commercial opportunities? Please provide some commentary within the Plan on the nexus between these towns.
Tertiary Education Opportunities
The Plan identifies that the Shire has more students leaving school earlier compared with the State average. It is most likely that students are not taking up this option who live in the North Wyong area because of the lack of access to University type institutions in the north Wyong area and the Central Coast at large.
Lack of access is likely to be due to two factors:
The availability of suitable transport to an appropriate tertiary institution that a student can and has an interest in attending. Public transport on the Central Coast is used in the main by the young travelers and the elderly. If young travelers cannot access their chosen institution by public transport they cannot attend classes. Access to these institutions must be time effective, both in length of time for the commute and when the commute needs to take place.
The institution must be within an acceptable distance from the student’s place of residence. Currently the only option for students wishing to attend university tertiary education is the Ourimbah Campus of the University of Newcastle. The University’s Callahan campus is not served well by public transport and many Sydney universities require a long commute by train after an extended time on the local bus network.
With the expected growth to the region in population to the year 2036, it is probable that the number of students resident in the North Wyong area will be an additional 20,000 attending both public and high schools. Out of this there should be a significant number desiring to commence University studies. We thus need a university institution in the North Wyong sub-region, possibly at Warnervale near the new Station.
Within the Plan there are a number of residential building densities identified (i.e.as high as 15 dwellings per hectare). If these are to be ground level dwellings, what social impact would this density have on the neighborhood? This subject should be investigated in the Social Impact strategy as outlined above.
In addition, with such high density at a ground level, would this be a model for access to affordable housing in the North Wyong area? Can affordable housing be established in a different format and density or is affordable housing excluded from the North Wyong area altogether. Affordable housing needs to be clearly identified in the Plan.
Review of Plan objectives
We commend the Plan on referencing the Central Coast Regional Strategy’s (CCRS) objectives and clearly identifying where the Plan sits in the forward planning of the Central Coast. It is important that the Plan fit into a larger planning framework. By referencing this plan as an action of the CCRS, the Plan is elevated to a status it needs.
Overall the strategy has given hope for a bright and prosperous future for the North Wyong sub-region. It identifies the large potential for jobs growth with a growing population. It identifies that even with the growth in population the natural environment is important to preserve for a number of reasons. It proposes green corridor links from the coast to the lands west of the freeway, which will revolutionize the current planning process undertaken by Wyong Shire Council.
We look forward to reading the amended Plan with the above considerations included.
by David Holland
Bachelor of App. Sc. Environmental Planning,
Grad. Dip. Environmental Management
In co-operation with
Dr. Ray Rauscher
B.E. (Civil Engr), M. Town Planning, PhD. Sustainable Resource Management
Categories Aboriginal Culture, Affordable Housing, Biobanking, Biodiversity Preservation, Bus, education, Green Corridor Planning, Land Management of Green Corridors, North Wyong, Population Growth, Promoting public transport use, Social Impacts, Sustainable Communities, Transport interchanges, Transport Planning, Wildlife Corridor Planning
Submission on the draft Central Coast Transport Strategy 2006 – 31
This submission on the draft Central Coast Transport Strategy (herein referred to as the dCCTS or the Strategy) is laid out under the following headings:
Structure of the dCCTS
Issues, Concerns and Questions
Connections between Statistical Data and Works
A Complete Strategy for the Central Coast
A Proposed Structure for the Strategy
1.0 Structure of the dCCTS
The dCCTS is divided into three time frames.
Current to 2012
Medium term 2012 to 2020
Long Term 2020 to 2036
Each timeframe addresses: Rail, Road, Buses, Bicycles, Walking, Freight, Transport Interchanges, Car Parking and Governance.
The dCCTS lists projects in order of:
1. Recently completed or soon to be commenced;
2. Long term.
There is some reader confusion between these two project categories. For example, the $300 million roads funding is noted as a future project, though these funds are mostly already expended on the nominated projects. Also, the new bus routes as announced by the State were finalised with the commencement of new schedules on 8 Nov 2010.
2.0 Issues, Concerns and Questions
There are a number of issues, concerns and questions that must be raised.
2.1 Central Coast Bus Review
I see the dCCTS as needing to compliment the recent Central Coast Bus Review (under the Outer Metropolitan Bus Review) process. I draw attention to the submission on bus transport needs compiled by myself on behalf of the CEN.
Ref. (Bus review Central Coast 2009)
This submission highlighted the bus needs of the North Wyong District. The dCCTS heralds the result of the outer metropolitan bus review, but many of the North Wyong services (i.e. Lakehaven) as requested in the submission have not been incorporated within the new bus timetables (8 Nov 2010). The dCCTS states that a North Wyong Bus Servicing Strategy is to be prepared between 2012 and 2020. This seems to be yet another delay for the North Wyong area to get a comprehensive plan established. (dCCTS ref p32, 47).
Additional issues associated with the new expanded services for North Wyong extolled in the Strategy, are in contradiction to the new timetable which run the last services generally earlier in the evening than the old timetable to certain destinations north of Lakehaven and in particularly on the weekends. Finally, new peak hour services are ending their runs later at Morisset and Wyee stations than from Lakehaven, thus disadvantaging workers returning home from Tuggerah in comparison to these afore-mentioned locations.
2.2 More Services Needed for North Wyong
The claim in the strategy is that more services run past the Wyong Hospital. This is true except on Sundays where there are now fewer services to the hospital and services finish several hours earlier. Saturday services are not much better even though services between Tuggerah and Lakehaven have increased dramatically on Weekends (ref. p. 29 dCCTS).
2.3 Contributions from Key Stakeholders
I express concern in the comment that Transport NSW will allow contributions from key stakeholders when assessing the needs of the community for additional services. Can the State define ‘key stakeholders’ (dCCTS ref. p31)?
2.4 Bus Corridors
No Strategic Bus Corridors were identified in the North Wyong Area. There is a need, however, for these services, as follows (not exhaustive):
Lakehaven to Gosford via Bateau Bay
Lakehaven to Charlestown via Swansea
Lakehaven to Gosford Via Tuggerah
Tuggerah to The North Entrance via Mingara
2.5 Metro Bus
The Metro Bus is a Sydney program and would thus need more explanation of its introduction to the Central Coast (ref p31 dCCRTS). The Strategy suggests that it should be expanded to the Central Coast. If Metro Bus is to become the dedicated bus transit ways on the Central Coast, I suggest The Entrance and the Tuggerah transport interchanges should come under any Metro Bus program and other Central Coast interchanges should be investigated (dCCTS ref p32).
2.6 Fast Rail and Freight Services
The strategy mentions long-term planning for a fast rail and plans for a loop rail for freight services though there are no references to any improvements to the current level of access to the rail. The one exception here is, the addition of the Warnervale township station. The fast train and freight loop installations on the Central Coast will take pressure off the existing rail line, thus allowing an expanded system to meet the Central Coast’s growing population (ref p33, 38). CEN has submitted proposals to the State for two new stations, one at Blue Haven and the other at the southern end of the Coast’s rail line west of Woy Woy Station. This will give quicker access to rail for about 20,000 people by the year 2036.
Planning Public Transport Structures in North Wyong: A Proposal for a Blue Haven Bus and Train Interchange
2.7 Parking Trains
The outer metropolitan rail carriages (called Oscars), currently park in Wyong. With the advent of the proposed Warnervale township station, the dCCTS proposes that these cars be parked at Warnervale. Comments are made that this arrangement will service the new township in morning peaks and again in the evening peak period. I suggest caution in parking trains in expanding urban areas (ref recent noise problems at Gosford station). This occurrence could be avoided by accommodating rail carriages parking areas at the proposed Blue Haven station. ( See Above Web Reference). A Blue Haven station could subsequently be provided as the population in this district grew (ref p29).
2.8 Local Government Transport Plans
The dCCTS suggests that local government (LG) should be involved in preparing local transport plans, but recognises that currently no legislative mechanism allows councils to do this. In earlier submissions to the State, CEN has stated the importance of LG completing transport plans as part of councils’ overall infrastructure planning. The dCCTS suggests a time frame for this type of planning post 2020; however the need exists at present (ref p49).
2.8 Minor Towns not Addressed in Strategy
Although many of the destination towns are considered in the strategy, smaller towns with some potential for population growth have been ignored. These towns have the potential to accommodate green fields development in some cases, but more pertinent to the strategy they will be able to accommodate redevelopment at a higher density than present, thus creating an opportunity for more efficient public transport systems.
Higher Density potential urban areas:
Ourimbah, Toukley, The Entrance, Long Jetty, Bateau Bay, Budgewoi etc.
Greenfield potential development areas:
Wyee, Gwandalan, Chain Valley Bay, Nords Wharf, Catherine Hill Bay, Warnervale, Woongarrah, Wadalba, Doyalson etc.
2.9 Secure Bike Parking (Page 14)
It is questionable whether secure bike parking in all areas has been achieved. It is evident that bus interchanges in many shopping centres have not installed this kind of equipment for bus travellers. See Wyong Council’s On Road Bicycle and shared pathway Strategy.
2.10 Wyong town Centre (Page 24)
Wyong Town Centre and interchange has been identified as a growth centre. This means that the integrity of the town’s function must be protected. I believes that without special and combined effort from a range of government agencies, the town will stagnate. As part of the $300 million flagged in this strategy, a road is planned to be renewed through the town. It is our assertion that if the road is pushed through the town, it will split the town from the transport precinct. We believe that the town will be left behind by developments at Warnervale and Tuggerah. We feel that the interchange and transport precinct at Wyong is the key to revitalise the town by providing both function and a sense of place in the town. The interchange should provide a nexus for the CBD and the Baker Street master plan developments.
2.11 Commitment to Provide Alternatives to Private Transport in North Wyong (page 24/25)
It is imperative to fulfil the commitment to provide alternatives to private transport on the Central Coast, especially North Wyong as a State growth focus. As the population in North Wyong grows, private transport congestion will increase. Outlying places like Gwandalan, Chain Valley Bay, Mannering Park and Nords Wharf must be provided with a bus service that will discourage residents from purchasing that second car and encouraging them to travel on public transport exclusively. These residents will increasingly be a major contributor to traffic on the Pacific Highway at Charmhaven for example.
2.12 Changing Demographic due to Climate Change
As outlined on page 28 of the Strategy the government’s key projects will (with population as a driver for more accessibility improvements to the transport network), improve productivity and economic competitiveness, and integrate with the existing transport network to contribute to environmental sustainability. However, has the Strategy considered the effects of climate change to demographic patterns beyond 2030?
2.13 North Wyong Public Transport Links to Newcastle
I would encourage the preparation of a North Wyong bus Servicing Strategy and would like to contribute to this process in its initial stages through my involvement in the CEN. One of the priorities for this connection would be a bus service to Charlestown Square, providing both commuting and shopping opportunities.
2.14 Promoting Public transport use
One of the Strategy aims is to reduce the population’s reliance on the car and encourage the use of public transport. However the Strategy does not show a process by which this could be achieved. The announcement of a separate study and program to achieve this would help the Transport Strategy show that it had addressed this issue. (dCCTS p.5)
3.0 Connections Between Statistical Data and works
3.1 The dCCTS quotes a range of statistical data.
Facts like:
Travel Patterns (p.16):
1.9% decrease in trips during weekdays;
9.5% increase in trips during weekend days and
Bus travel remains the same in 2008-10 while car travel has increased 3%
3.2 What assumptions could be made from the nexus of these facts?
One hypothesis is that there may be a lack of buses on the road and this is increasingly so on weekend.
Other examples of the nexus follow.
a. Central Coast residents drove 30 km more per day than 5 years ago (p16).
Why is this? Could it be due to the urbanisation of the Central Coast over a larger area, thereby requiring residents to travel further to work and shop etc? What transport conclusion could this present? One suggestion from this data could be that the Central Coast needs better connectivity or transport, via road, rail and bus between the north and south of the Central Coast.
b. Journeys to work via public transport have dropped by 1% over the last 7 years (p17); and 86% travel by train while only 14% by bus.
What could be gleaned from this data? It seems that cars are used to commute to stations in most cases. To reduce the number of cars on the road, the drivers of these cars should be targeted to catch the bus. What strategies could be implemented?
c. Fewer people travel outside the Central Coast for work (down 1.6% since 2001).
This data shows that more people are finding work on the Central Coast and that the inter-Central Coast transport trend is increasing. This adds more weight to the need for more connectivity of transport within the Central Coast. If the government wishes to reduce individual carbon footprints and reduce congestion on the road then increased investment in public transport is essential.
d. The population is aging (p.24/25). The strategy suggests more home and community care programs. In addition easier access to bus transport must also become a priority. This will mean low floor buses, kerb heights appropriate at every bus stop; shelters at every bus stop; proper lighting. Roads surfaces on bus routes maintained to ensure smooth travel and smooth stopping at bus stops.
4.0 A Complete Strategy for the Central Coast
The Strategy announces a range of initiatives by the State government to enhance the Central Coasts transport systems. However the local councils have not been considered in this strategy, only to say that local councils must get involved after 2020 in transport planning.
Councils, although not commissioned to provide bus and train services are by far the biggest provider of roads infrastructure on the Central Coast. As such they are charged with the maintenance of many roads that buses traverse. They provide infrastructure for the bus services in the form of bus shelters and are to maintain the streets free of obstacles such as overgrown trees etc.
Council has been working on planning documents that show plans for future development and future population growth nodes. Although much of the data within this Strategy document has come through the Bureau of Statistics, more precise information should have been sought to accurately assess public transport needs particularly in the North Wyong Area (e.g. Toukley Master Plan and Council population projections).
The Strategy should consider all aspects and involvements relating to transport, not just projects that the State agencies have provided or will provide. Money that has or could be provided to councils and community transport to provide components of better transport should be considered in the strategy. For example, road funding to Councils to provide and maintain road surfaces for heavy vehicles where bus routes exist should be considered.
5.0 A Proposed Structure for the Strategy
The strategy presents a vision and it outlines aims in the first few pages. These aims are in the form of a narrative and could be put in point form to highlight the direction of the strategy.
Data is presented, however, as mentioned in point 3 this data is not clearly connected to decisions and nominated projects.
Projects are listed over three time frames, leaving the last time frame a little nebulas from 2020 to 2036. This time frame should be more detailed given the expectations of the residents of the Central Coast. The Strategy needs to be more than a works program. It needs to be a vision for the future of the Central Coast residents and a forward planning document for successive governments’ budgets.
The Strategy rightly considers the preparing of a subsequent more detailed strategy called the ‘North Wyong Bus Servicing Strategy’. This is one of a number of outcomes of the Strategy. The strategy should be an empowering document and it should herald a number of outcomes.
Finally, under the section of governance, the Strategy announces that the strategy will be reviewed in a five year period. I would encourage the government to continue to monitor the factors relating to the Strategy within this 5 year period and incorporate new information into the next revision of the plan.
B.A.S. Environmental Planning
Member of the Sustainable Transport Committee of CEN
Member of the Community Environment Network (CEN)
Categories Bus, Fast Freight, Heavy Vehicle, Metro Bus, North Wyong, Promoting public transport use, Rail, Road, Secure Bike Parking, Structures of Strategies, Transport interchanges, Transport Planning, Very Fast Train, Wyong Town Centre
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Forums > [H]ard|Ware > Video Cards >
AMD Not providing R9 Nano samples to several sites.
Discussion in 'Video Cards' started by Stoly, Sep 3, 2015.
Sep 6, 2015 #201
Hornet [H]ardness Supreme
While I agree that there are plenty of fanboyism when it comes to graphic cards, it's certainly no worse than what we see in other area of interest. Maybe it's just in our nature to be emotionally invested in stuff, from favorite brand to sporting teams.
Regardless, I really don't see what that has to do with hardocp as a PC hardware review site. It would be ridiculous for AMD to not send hardocp a review sample just because of what they see in the forum, and I certainly don't believe that's the case.
Hornet, Sep 6, 2015
Fixall [H]ard|Gawd
What bothers me most about this situation is it causes me even more distrust... I don't believe that there was such a limited amount of Nanos that AMD couldn't spare four or five more cards to send out to all the major review sites... So that leads me to believe either; A. AMD thinks several review sites are biased towards Nvidia, or B. AMD is only sending cards to sites they think will give them favorable reviews.
Neither of those bodes well for me, the consumer, who is just looking for as much in depth, unbiased information as possible so as to make an educated decision.
Fixall, Sep 6, 2015
Ripskin 2[H]4U
DigitalGriffin said: ↑
You know I was an AMD fan. I routed for the underdog. I thought AMD offered value and clean, honest business practices, even if they didn't always come out on top.
This release treats intelligent people like me, like chumps.
Am I taking this personally? Nah. It's a gaming card after all, not a heart pump. I kept waiting for the Hail Mary pass. NVIDIA needs price competition for the steaming piles crap known as nSync and Phys-X. But I am disappointed in a brand I championed. I expected more in terms of ethics.
I dunno if they were ever clean or honest in business practices but they offered good value for the money. However they keep pushing people away I never hated one side more than the other in the CPU or GPU market. I just bought the best I could afford and get away with.
My 5820 is the first Intel chip since the P3, simply because AMD had good chips at a great price. My AMD GPU fun appears to be running out as well after just two cards. Their loss not mine. I kept my 7970 as it is still decent and I was hoping these pending releases would give me something I wanted that would last several years but now I'm looking to next years 980 replacement for my money.
I really hope AMD can pull their heads out of their asses and put out some competition but after this many years of continual downward trending its hard to see the turn around.
Ripskin, Sep 7, 2015
DeerSteak Gawd
This is probably not a great time to work at AMD.
https://twitter.com/amd_roy/status/639930842727497728
DeerSteak, Sep 7, 2015
Vittra Gawd
Oh, I don't know about that. AMD seems to be fine with Roy running his mouth on Twitter, it may actually have been what he was specifically hired to do.
Vittra, Sep 7, 2015
MavericK Zero Cool
LOL @ all of the "[H] is nVidia-biased" arguments. There's a difference between being biased and reality being what it is...which is that AMD has been shitting the bed on both the CPU and GPU fronts for awhile now. My guess is these people claiming [H] is nVidia-biased haven't been around the site long enough to see times when AMD was ahead. Admittedly it has been awhile but it's happened before, and there was no bias then either.
MavericK, Sep 7, 2015
Derangel [H]ard as it Gets
Fixall said: ↑
I've always wondered exactly what goes into discussions of how many units of anything to give away to reviewers. Even on extremely limited stock items like the Nano it's interesting that AMD simply won't provide a few extra review units. To be honest when a company claims "there are a limited number of review units" or "Sorry, we don't have any left to give you" I always think it's code for "we don't trust you to give us the review we want so we're simply not going to provide you with one".
Vittra said: ↑
Sure seems like it.
Derangel, Sep 7, 2015
The Mac [H]ardness Supreme
He makes some pretty batshit crazy comments sometimes, im not sure thats helpful.
The Mac, Sep 7, 2015
The Mac said: ↑
Edit: Totally read your post wrong.
Yeah. Roy has been that way for a while. It's occasionally amusing to see him be blunt.
Brent_Justice Moderator
DeerSteak said: ↑
Ok, wow
Brent_Justice, Sep 7, 2015
TaintedSquirrel [H]ardForum Junkie
That made my jaw drop. What the hell is he doing?!
TaintedSquirrel, Sep 7, 2015
Brent_Justice said: ↑
There are some other "gems" from Roy about the situation.
n=1 2[H]4U
TaintedSquirrel said: ↑
Going out with a bang.
n=1, Sep 7, 2015
Alright I gotta know what TPU did to upset the AMD overlords. lol
If AMD is denying cards to sites they believe write unfair reviews, who's to say they aren't giving priority to sites who write favorable reviews? This shit is whack.
Unstableone [H]Lite
Hard to be really impressed at a smaller card when the watercooled version was already pretty small.
IMO sucks they are dictating samples after [several and fair] past reviews of the fury and 390 coming up short.
On the other hand, nvidia would probably do the same thing if they were losing.
Can't really do anything about it, but you can decide not to purchase the product from being unsatisfied with how the situation is/was handled.
Situation is too similar to previews/reviews from videogame review sites or even youtubers.
Unstableone, Sep 7, 2015
x3sphere 2[H]4U
Unstableone said: ↑
Does not make sense to me. I could understand if the cards were in very short supply but according to Roy this is not the case.
When you're the underdog you'd think getting samples to as many sites as possible would be priority. More coverage cannot be a bad thing, unless the product is a total flop? I can see passing over obvious NV shill sites, but not those that have given you a fair shake in the past.
x3sphere, Sep 7, 2015
Probably because they didn't give Fury X an "Editor's Choice" recommendation.
I'm actually curious to see if PCPer gets one. If they do I'm gonna lmao.
Pieter3dnow [H]ardness Supreme
Derangel said: ↑
Not to sure if anyone at AMD has a clue at this moment, to be fair they have done it before even to [H] when they released a new Piledrivers cpu.
But someone at AMD must be smoking something if they are thinking that their position in today's market is due to unfair reviews.
Why can't someone at AMD PR find a better suited job like maybe door(wo)man, this is clearly not working for them.
Even with the best odds that all of the favourable reviews by all of the websites which get delivered a Nano (the product is pretty niche to start with) it won't be the sales beast that will make the bean counters smile...
Or is this just a good example of a company doing weird things out of desperation ?
Pieter3dnow, Sep 7, 2015
Mahigan Limp Gawd
Pieter3dnow said: ↑
To be fair, "smoking something" has always helped me think much clearer
Mahigan, Sep 7, 2015
Grimspoon Limp Gawd
If review sites are the new "old media" and youtubers and twitch streamers are the new "new media" (and I'd be inclined to say that's pretty much how it is now); I can't say I'm all too surprised to see AMD trying to capitalize on such a rapidly expanding market.
Not saying I agree or disagree with what they might be doing here, just saying I'm not surprised if this is their current mindset or strategy.
Grimspoon, Sep 7, 2015
Now I really, REALLY hope [H] purchases a Nano to do a review. I'd like to see exactly what AMD is so concerned about.
I'm sure the cost of the card could almost be fully mitigated by selling it on the "For Sale / Trade" forum here.
Okay... So that's just so lame.
Tup3x, Sep 7, 2015
Grimspoon said: ↑
Is that twitch streaming where people beg all day to pay for a sub or ask you to donate so they can keep playing games, to make you feel "guilty" flash the donations with flashy graphics and quirky sounds to draw the attention that it is "normal" to be part of the "in crowd".
I'm wondering how that meeting at AMD went that someone did a google on AMD videos and Nvidia and decided that AMD needs to get in on the youtubers. Which of course do "anything" to generate money ......
In that area it is not uncommon to "force" good reviews , or just skip on the negative bits there has been a lot of that happening on youtube .
Ocellaris Ginger @le, an alcoholic's best friend.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a group of YouTubers get Nanos to review. A lot of the reviewers are aggressively positive and don't provide a lot of benchmark comparisons or in depth analysis. They just ramble on about how it is amazing AMD could fit such technology in a small card and tell everyone they played games with the card and it was amazing what it could do.
At this point, AMD is running out of good options. They know a lot of sites are going to shit on a $650 card that doesn't perform like the price. People have been fitting large GPUs into small chassis for a long time, the only market for the Nano is going to be the people that absolutely. Need a card that is 2.5 inches shorter than other options.
Ocellaris, Sep 7, 2015
I can understand that, but do people who spend a lot of $ on graphics cards really follow YouTube streamers and the like for hardware information though?
I can see reach on social media being more important in the low to mid range segment but people who are spending $600+ on cards, it seems like they would want more detailed analysis. Speaking for myself here, as someone who has always bought high end, I like reading the detailed reviews from [H], Anandtech, TechReport, etc...
The YouTubers are always light on details and it basically seems like they're just regurgitating AMD PR with a few benchmark numbers thrown in. I don't find most of their videos informative at all, they certainly don't sell me on a product costing $600+.
People with money to burn consume all sorts of information before making purchases. Sometimes that content is exclusively YouTube videos since that is their go to for pretty much anything. The same people watching YouTube for reviews may be in the same demographic of people that hurl money at Twitch channels. If those people have $100 to send to a Twitch streamer on a regular basis, they may easily have $650 for a GPU.
kac77 2[H]4U
x3sphere said: ↑
I don't think they have an objection to review sites. There are many that are receiving them. There are a couple of things that AMD does have a valid point on. The first of which is having review sites give their opinion on the card, perf/$ and all without even testing it. If I saw that about a product that I was about to launch the first thing that would come to my mind would be "does he/she really need the product to review if they have already made their mind up about it?" Especially since companies have been charging more for big performance in small packages since forever. This shit ain't new and for anyone to pretend like it's taboo or it's never been done when we have products from phones to preassembled HTPC's and laptops that follow that same pricing structure is really not being that honest with themselves. [H] never really has been that much about small form factors but the others in your list most certainly have.
Now is $650 too much? Maybe/maybe not but from a professional standpoint it's best to say nothing and put that into a review then to go giving your opinion before reviewing it. That's an area where I'm sorry they have a right to be pissed and to do whatever they want as a result of it. I just think they could have handled it better. Instead of being bitches and withholding the hardware if it were me I would have done that and then released a press release detailing exactly why. AMD really needs to get a handle on their marketing department because some of the things they do or don't do really leaves one wondering if anyone is at home and I don't really even know why TPU didn't get one.
kac77, Sep 7, 2015
Both Linus and Jay have one so maybe that is part of it but given Roy's comments on Twitter there are probably other reasons as well.
kac77 said: ↑
I don't think they have an objection to review sites. There are many that are receiving them. There are a couple of things that AMD does have a valid point on. The first of which is having review sites give their opinion on the card, perf/$ and all without even testing it. If I saw that about a product that I was about to launch the first thing that would come to my mind would be "does he/she really need the product to review if they have already made their mind up about it?" Especially since companies have been charging more for big performance in small packages since forever. This shit ain't new and for anyone to pretend like it's taboo or it's never been done when we have products from phones to preassembled HTPC's and laptops that follow that same pricing structure is really not being that honest with themselves. [H] never really has been that much about that but the others in your list most certainly have.
Now is $650 too much? Maybe/maybe not but from a professional standpoint it's best to say nothing and put that into a review then to go giving your opinion before reviewing it. That's an area where I'm sorry they have a right to be pissed and to do whatever they want as a result of it. I just think they could have handled it better. Instead of being bitches and withholding the hardware if it were me I would have done that and then released a press release detailing exactly why. AMD really needs to get a handle on their marketing department because some of the things they do or don't do really leaves one wondering if anyone is at home.
After the Fury X and the Non-X AMD shouldn't be surprised if even some reviewers are really skeptical about the value of the card, especially when AMD themselves are calling it an underclocked Fury X.
Most products that go after small form factors are. As I said before this isn't new. Don't think so? Check out the prices for ULV laptops, or the BRIX. They are 3 and 4 times the cost (and usually perform worse) then their larger representatives. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Honestly with how compact Fury X is already, AMD should've just scrapped the Nano, and use those cherry picked binned dies on the Fury X instead so it at least has a bit more legroom.
Rizen [H]ardForum Junkie
I feel like I must be getting old because I much prefer reading reviews to watching a YouTube video. For one thing, I can read faster than most people can talk, and a lot of tech journalists have obnoxious voices or mannerisms. Maybe that's rude or mean, but it turns me off from watching them.
And I can't get into streaming at all. I'd rather be playing the games myself than watching someone else play them.
I get that's where a lot of viewership is these days, but I somehow doubt the people willing to shell out $600+ for a top of the line GPU are the kids watching LoL on Twitch...
Rizen, Sep 7, 2015
Rizen said: ↑
Haven't you ever heard of Infotainment ?
It's not just you. Hell I'm not even 30 yet and I still feel the same way.
ManofGod [H]ardForum Junkie
n=1 said: ↑
The problem with that is that often, you need to see what is going on to disassemble things most often. Heck, even things you read come with pictorial examples of what is going on. It was much easier to watch a short video to configure the VPN on an RV320 than try to find instructions that at best is cryptic at times.
ManofGod, Sep 7, 2015
ManofGod said: ↑
Sure, in some cases it helps to have a picture reference - when I am working on my car, for example, I check out videos online so I get a better understanding of where the part I'm replacing is located, best angle to get to it, etc. Certainly we should be using the best medium for the task at hand. But reading GPU reviews, it's just a card that we install in a box under our desks. YouTube isn't a good medium for image quality because of compression and you can't accurately compare framerate unless you see it in person. I just personally find text easier to digest.
KickAssCop [H]ardness Supreme
lol @ Roy from AMD. What a moron. I don't have words to describe.
KickAssCop, Sep 7, 2015
For somethings Youtube reviews are fine but I agree for GPUs. Youtube GPU reviews tend to not be detailed enough and quite frankly I've yet to find any that do GPU reviews in a way that I like or find useful.
PRIME1 2[H]4U
So I was right. All along I was right. Every AMD fan should bow before me and apologize for doubting me.
It's not about supply, it's about cherry picking review sites.
AMD is a shit company.
PRIME1, Sep 7, 2015
jbltecnicspro [H]ardness Supreme
Sounds to me like the review sites that didn't get a review sample can just go out, buy one, and then rip it to shreds. Technically speaking, the Nano looks great. But not at $650. Fuck that noise.
jbltecnicspro, Sep 7, 2015
jbltecnicspro said: ↑
Of course There is nothing AMD can do if people post negative comments for products, especially if they have purchased them at retail.
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Going From 0 to 1: The Hard Part of Starting Anything New (Campground Booking Update)
“Oh shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.”
I usually don’t cuss in blog posts, but technically I didn’t say this. This was a stream of Slack messages that popped up a few days ago and unraveled into the catastrophe that was my weekend.
Getting traction in any new business, blog, or endeavor always takes ten times longer than you think it will. For a while you think you see the light at the end of the tunnel, but really it’s just some guy named Richard holding up a candle just to mess with you and laugh as you go by. As it turns out, you’ve got at least another thousand hours of complete darkness as you try to piece together your pride and keep moving forward.
Well, Richard had a good laugh this week.
If you’ve been following along awhile, you know that w’ve been working on a software startup called Campground Booking. I’ve talked at length about Campground Booking on the podcast, but it’s been awhile since I gave an update, so this is me. Giving an update. About our first day of accepting reservations for a campground. And if you can’t tell from this intro, it’s not a happy update.
The past year, my two co-founders (Bob Orchard and Paul Ryan) and I have been trying to solve a big issue we face as RVers — booking campsites.
We’re solving this problem in two ways. The first is that we’ve built a modern property management system that campgrounds can use to run their entire property. This is a SaaS (software as a service) model and they pay us a monthly fee to use the system.
Screenshot of our campground owner dashboard. Luckily we have an awesome design in Bob Orchard to make this look super clean.
The second way we’re solving this problem is by creating online travel agencies (also known as OTAs) in outdoor hospitality, meaning we’re enabling reservations from high trafficked websites in the camping niche (like you see below).
This is the consumer-facing side of our reservation system on Travel British Columbia’s website.
What our individual booking pages look like for campgrounds
We’re currently in a partnership with the Canadian Campground Association. They brought us on board to help power reservations to their 2,100 parks across Canada.
As part of rolling out across Canada, we’ve launched a beta reservation system with a website called Travel British Columbia. This means several campgrounds in British Columbia will be using our full property management system to power their campground and take online reservations.
And while this is great, we haven’t had to deal with a large flux of reservations coming through the system just yet.
That was until Saturday.
Paul (my co-founder and Campground Booking’s CTO) has been working around the clock to finish everything, work out bugs, and check all the boxes before going live. Just a couple days before going live, the campground told us that they expected hundreds of reservations to go through the system within a matter of hours.
Apparently, campgrounds in Canada book out reservations faster than a Taylor Swift concert. This would mean that our new little software system would be pounded by hundreds (or thousands) of users within a short period of time.
Oh, boy.
Saturday we were putting some finishing touches on the campground’s account — making sure all their profile images looked solid, taxes were correct, and all the little nuances that go into making a reservation.
I was nervous, but mostly excited.
After all, it has been almost two years since I started kicking around the idea of building a solution for booking campsites. I knew it was an issue as an RVer, but I lacked the skills to build it myself. Luckily, I met a couple people who did have the skills to build it in our RV Entrepreneur Facebook group. We’ve had our heads down the past year working on a solution together, calling campgrounds, visiting campgrounds in person, pitching the product, getting feedback, and still juggling client work/blogging in the process.
Finally, I was excited just to have something be live. I was excited to see our product in action after hundreds of hours of work.
That was until Paul’s stream of Slack messages starting coming through, letting me know that something was wrong.
Apparently, a couple bugs that we hadn’t had time to test or prepare for were causing the reservations to not process correctly. We were watching everything break before our eyes and within minutes of clicking “Go live”, we had to shut it down.
But not before more than 300 reservation requests went through the system and we had over 1,000 people trying to book a site. Let me just say that again, 1,000 people trying to book a campsite in less than 5 minutes.
Paul and I jumped on a call and I tried to talk him down, but I could tell he was freaking out.
Ultimately, we would have to call the customer and let her know what happened (and quick). They’d trusted us to deliver on our part and we’d let them down.
It was a crappy feeling, really crappy. We called her, told her what happened and laid out the best course of action for what to do next. We apologized profusely and told her that we would handle all of the inbound emails/calls/support that was already coming through the system.
Oh shit, indeed.
Over the past few days, myself, Bob, and Paul have responded to countless emails and we’ve rectified most of the situation. As it turns out, many of the reservations that came through were actually okay. We were able to shut it off before campers had to deal with bigger issues like double booking a campsite. None the less, I’ve still had to respond and try to calm down a number of angry campers (of which I don’t blame them). Lucky for us, Bob’s previous experience was in customer service and he’s been handling a lot of the heavy lifting on this front.
I wanted to share this story because as a blogger — we like to say that we share the good and the bad of our lives, business and travel — but most of the time we share the good. I’ve realized that when I do share the bad, it’s typically far enough in the rearview mirror for me to spin it in a positive light. There’s nothing wrong with gleaming life lessons from mistakes, but sometimes it can be more real and honest when you share the pain while it’s present and raw.
And trust me, the pain is very real this week (just ask Alyssa, she’s had to deal with me).
What I’m reminded of this week is the relentless persistence it takes to make anything go from 0 to 1, the audacity it takes to bring an idea to the world, and the “oh shits” you’ll have to go through while you try to make any dream become a reality.
It’s easy to dream and to talk about you want to do, but it’s not easy to get punched in the gut so early and so often before your business even reaches traction.
I think that’s why it’s so easy to quit ventures like blogging, business, or any longterm endeavor before letting it run its course. You start off on this high of what could be possible, but then once you’re in the weeds you realize it’s just a bunch of hard work. It’s in moments like this I try to remind myself of that original vision, the original goal and pain point that we’re trying to solve with Campground Booking.
After having gone from 0 to 1 on our blog, I understand the depths of despair that happen before you achieve any momentum. For years nobody read our blog (other than you Mom, thanks) and this month we will reach over 100,000 page views (that’s not nothing). I appreciate where we are now because I had to go through a similar journey just to get to this moment. I had to deal with endless setbacks, just to share my words. How much harder will it be to build something that thousands or millions of people will use?
I don’t think it’s possible to build anything of substantial value or meaning without going through your own share of “oh shit” moments. They are what make getting to 1 so meaningful and worthwhile. You just have to hold onto that original excitement that made you start in the first place.
That’s what I’m doing this week, that’s what you should do too.
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Huawei plans 40,000 new stores in two years
Chinese phone maker Huawei plans to more than double its global store network from 30,000 to 70,000 by 2017.
Huawei sees building its retail network is the key to selling more mid-range and high-end smartphones, taking on Apple and Samsung headon.
More than half its current retail outlets are in China, which means the brand so far has only a modest presence and brand awareness internationally.
By definition, Huawei’s stores will range from stand alone outlets to concessions and “display zones” where its phones were demonstrated for sale.
Glory Zhang, chief marketing officer for Huawei’s consumer business group, says the company plans to launch more ‘high-end’ smartphones in international markets by the end of this year.
Huawei is in the midst of a rapid growth phase. In 2013 it shipped 52 million smartphones, a figure dwarfed last year by 75 million, which made it the world’s third largest phone manufacturer. It is on track to ship well over 100,000 handsets in 2015.
Within its own product range, high end units comprised just five per cent of its sales last year, but in the first quarter of 2015, they accounted for 34 per cent of sales.
Its newest showcase model is the P8, with a sleek metal body, (pictured above).
Besides its retail network ambitions, Huawei has also revealed it plans to create a global service center network with urban customers no more than five kilometres from a repair shop.
Zhang is confident about the brand’s international ambitions.
“We’ve done this for a long time. We feel deeply that it’s easy to make a phone, but hard to make a good one.”
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HomeBasketball Recruiting5-star DJ Harvey cuts his list of schools to sixteen
5-star DJ Harvey cuts his list of schools to sixteen
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DeMatha guard DJ Harvey is one of the top players in the area and in the country. During his time at DeMatha, Harvey has received offers from over 50 schools but yesterday he cut his list down to 16.
To the 50+ schools, thank YOU coaches that took the time to recruit me. I'm honored to announce my Final 16 #blessed pic.twitter.com/7caD5H6ypa
— DJ Harvey (@TheRealDJHarvey) January 14, 2016
According to ESPN, DJ Harvey is the No.12 player in the 2017 class and No.1 in Maryland. He was name 1st-team All-WCAC last season and is a key part to DeMatha’s success this year. Alongside his teammates like Ryan Allen, Nate Darling, and Markelle Fultz, DeMatha has become a top five team in the country.
Standing at 6 foot 6, DJ has great size for the wing position. Harvey is athletic and he can rebound the basketball extremely well from both sides of the court. He can attack and finish at the rim as well as make the mid-range jump shot.
Some notable schools on Harvey’s list are Duke, Notre Dame, Maryland, Arizona, North Carolina, Louisville and NC State. In the 247sports Crystal Ball predictions, there is an 82% chance that he goes to Arizona and a 18% chance he goes to Duke.
Harvey has visited schools like Duke, Notre Dame, NC State, and Arizona State. He’s visited Georgetown and Auburn but those schools didn’t end up on the list. On January 7, North Carolina head coach Roy Williams met with DJ Harvey according to 247sports.
Besides DJ, Duke is looking at players like Gary Trent Jr., Trae Young, and Wendell Carter Jr. as they try to continue their success when it comes to recruiting top players. When DJ visited Duke, it looked like he enjoyed his time there. In an article from NY2LA.com, DJ said “I was just in awe. It was like a dream come true.”
When it comes to Notre Dame, they have a strong connection with DeMatha. Head coach Mike Brey is a DeMatha alumni and New York Knicks guard Jerian Grant who was a star player at Notre Dame went to DeMatha also.
DJ Harvey is another player in the WCAC (Washington Catholic Athletic Conference) that the University of Maryland is trying to reel in. They already landed St. John’s Anthony Cowan but players like Gonzaga’s Prentiss Hubb and Paul VI Brandon Slater are on the Terps radar. The Terps were looking at DeMatha’s Markelle Fultz and Paul VI Corey Manigault but they decided to go elsewhere.
The recruiting process is far from over for DJ. But cutting his list down is a big step towards making his final decision. As he continues to play basketball, expect the schools he’s looking at try to do their best to convince DJ to come and play for them.
Ryan McFadden is a freshman at Iona College and alumni from DeMatha Catholic High School. He is a sports writer for the Ionian and founder of Inside The Locker Room. Follow him on Twitter @RMcFadden15.
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Weekly Roundup: Better Skills, Better Education DO Equal More Money
by Don Willmott February 4, 2011 7 min read
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Evidence of inequities in salaries. An EarthWeb analysis finds that salary levels can vary wildly between staffers with the same job title. IT experts in the top 25 percent command far more robust paychecks than their average (but still highly competent) colleagues. One example: The mean salary for all data warehouse managers in 2011 is $61,452. Compare that to the salary for the data warehouse managers in the top quartile: $90,897. The study finds that in many cases, the higher-paid workers have more aggressively sought higher paying positions by job-hopping on a regular basis. Additionally, these high wage earners typically started their career at a younger age, in a better first job, and had a more prestigious degree to propel them.
Toshiba’s U.S. business was slapped with a $100 million lawsuit for alleged discrimination against female employees over pay and promotion. The issue has also bedeviled the tech giant at home in Japan, where workplace sexism has long been acknowledged as standard operating procedure. This class-action suit, which includes 8,000 women, claims the company regularly fails to pay women equal salaries and bonuses as men who do similar work, segregates women into lower pay-grade positions and favors men for promotion. In 2008, the average wage level for women in Japan was about 68 percent of that for men, according to Japanese stats.
Google, which has been on a hiring tear, is looking for dozens of new hires to support the Android OS and its related apps. The Android market is lagging behind Apple’s enormous App Store and Google wants to turn that around, especially considering that Android was the best-selling smartphone platform during the holiday quarter. Manufacturers shipped 33.2 million Android phones worldwide during the fourth quarter, up more than 600 percent from a year earlier. In fact, Android has left Nokia’s Symbian platform in the dust, a major shift in the smartphone marketplace. (For tips on implementing Android in your IT infrastructure, click here.)
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Big, cash-rich tech companies are starting to throw some money around, not just to invent the next big thing but also to stimulate job growth. Intel announced plans this week to invest $100 million directly into U.S. university research over the next five years to drive innovations in computing and communications. The company will open Intel Science and Technology Centers across multiple universities, starting at Stanford. The task for the first center: to improve visual computing experiences for consumers and professionals.
Intel is also working with IBM and HP on a White House initiative to create jobs and promote growth in emerging technology areas, such as cloud computing, healthcare and mobile applications. The investment is part of the White House’s Startup America campaign, a joint effort between the public and private sector to promote new business activities and spark growth in emerging technology sectors. The investment dollars – including $200 million from Intel and $150 million from IBM – will go into the hands of companies seeking funds which, everyone hopes, will lead to the creation of jobs.
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Marcuse, Resistance to the Counterrevolution
From “The Left Under the Counterrevolution,” which appears in Counterrevolution and Revolt by Herbert Marcuse (Boston: Beacon, 1972), 52-3.
This society strives to impose the principle of nonviolence on the opposition while daily perfecting its own ‘legitimate’ violence, thereby protecting the status quo. Thus the radical opposition faces the problem of the ‘economy of violence’: its own counterviolence is bound to cost dearly, in lives and liberties. What is the political value of sacrifices under these circumstances?
Martyrs have rarely helped a political cause, and ‘revolutionary suicide’ remains suicide. And yet, it would be self-righteous indifference to say that the revolutionary ought to live rather than die for the revolution—an insult to the Communards of all times. Where the Establishment proclaims its professional killers as heroes, and its rebelling victims as criminals, it is hard to save the idea of heroism for the other side. The desperate act, doomed to failure, may for a brief moment tear the veil of justice and expose the faces of brutal suppression; it may arouse the conscience of the neutrals; it may reveal hidden cruelties and lies. Only [ze] who commits the desperate act can judge whether the price [ze] is bound to pay is too high—too high in terms of [zir] own cause as a common cause. Any generalization would be ambivalent, nay, profoundly unjust: it would condemn the victims of the system to the prolonged agony of waiting, to prolonged suffering. But then, the desperate act may have the same result—perhaps a worse result […].”
Distinction must be made between violence and revolutionary force. In the counterrevolutionary situation of today, violence is the weapon of the Establishment; it operates everywhere, in the institutions and organizations, in work and fun, on the streets and highways, and in the air. In contrast, the revolutionary force which is destined to terminate this violence does not exist today. Revolutionary force would be the action of masses or classes capable of subverting the established system in order to build a socialist society. Examples would be the unlimited general strike, the occupation and taking over of factories, government buildings, centers of communication and transportation, in coordinated action.”
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SSX Review: Insane Tricks and Deadly Descents
Carving down a snowy white mountain, the sun glistening off the tops of the many peaks in the distance, you line up for your next leap. Taking to the air, you grab your board and perform an insane trick before landing perfectly on a grind rail and busting out a handstand on your board. That’s right, SSX is back, and apart from one or two minor missteps, delivers the fun fans will remember.
It’s Tr-Tr-Tricky!
For those who don’t know, SSX began life on the PS2, when console gaming was at the peak of its fascination with extreme sports. Its raison d’etre was over the top tricking, with ludicrous jumps and even more ludicrous signature tricks being the highlight of each iteration. The series proper hasn’t been seen since 2003’s SSX 3, and fans have been clamouring for another installment ever since. The game drops you (literally) straight into a tutorial to show newcomers the ropes. Players can choose from multiple different control schemes, from the all new analog trick control to classic button controls which SSX veterans will be instantly comfortable with. The series’ core gameplay remains intact, and in no time at all you’ll be busting serious air, performing mid-air cartwheels on your board and making grinds the length of several football fields. In World Tour mode, you’re tasked to tackle the nine “deadly descents”, representing the nine different mountain ranges available. There is some story about Team SSX taking on former member Griff to be the first to conquer all nine, but this really is tacked on and serves no real purpose. Each range introduces you to the specific gear necessary to tackle that particular deadly descent, and after a few warm up runs, you tackle the main challenge.
It’s here where SSX almost falls apart. The deadly descents range from the fun (leaping over large gaps with a specially made wingsuit), to the mundane (extra rocks, ice and trees) all the way to infuriating (whoever thought the darkness or 02 tank descents were fun need to have their head examined). Thankfully, after several attempts, these can be bypassed, so if you get stuck you’ll have the option to skip these quite quickly. It seems to me that after the initial fan backlash when the game was subtitled “Deadly Descents”, EA may have made the decision to change up the focus, but didn’t want to remove what was already in place.
The Chase Is On
World Tour mode serves as the entree, to the main course that is Explore Mode. One for completionists, it features over 150 different runs with gold, silver and bronze scores to beat. Each run begs to be replayed multiple times to find the quickest run, or the run with the best opportunities to trick and keep your combo multiplier increasing. Central to the entire experience is RiderNet, the SSX take on Need for Speed’s Autolog system. Every action, as well as those of your friends, is recorded by RiderNet and posted to your wall, instantly creating a sense of competition amongst your comrades. Taking on your friends time is as easy as clicking on the post in RiderNet, which takes you directly to the exact run you were challenged on. It’s difficult to convey the sense of how addictive this system is, but with a group of friends consistently overtaking each other’s scores, a ten minute play session can quickly turn into a five hour marathon. Global Events are as close to traditional multiplayer that SSX offers, allowing players to set up worldwide customisable events, or smaller events amongst their own friends. While some might bemoan the lack of a true online multiplayer, RiderNet is a perfect fit for SSX, and complements the score chase nature of the game to a t.
The game is visually stunning (well, as stunning as snow can be), with each of the nine ranges displaying its own distinct visual style. Africa is full of underground slopes, Siberia is a maze of pipes turning the slopes into your own veritable rollercoaster, and my personal favourite, the Himalayas, have sections of the Great Wall that just need to be grinded. The soundtrack too, is a perfect compliment to the action, featuring on the fly remixes of various dance numbers interspersed with Run DMC’s “It’s Tricky” once you build up your trick meter, in a nod to the series’ heritage.
While there are a few things which stop SSX from being truly great, with a group of friends and a healthy amount of competitive spirit, SSX has the potential to give you months of enjoyment. It easily blends together instant gratification with a depth and subtlety that many will still be discovering many hours after they first pop the disc in. Add to that the near endless replayability derived from RiderNet, and you have a title that 1080 back-flips the competition.
Final Score: 8/10
Note that the version reviewed was for XBox 360
Deadly Descents
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What is dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS)?
Posted by Carolyn Spring | 1 Jul 2012 | Dissociation FAQs, Explaining dissociation and DID
Dissociative disorder not otherwise specified is a strange-sounding diagnosis and it is meant to be a ‘residual category’, that it is to say “the predominant feature is a dissociative symptom (ie a disruption in the usually integrative functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment) that does not meet the criteria for any specific dissociative disorder” (APA, 2000, p.503).
HOW IS DDNOS DIFFERENT TO DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER?
The diagnostic criteria are given below, but on the whole DDNOS is the diagnosis of choice for partial dissociative identity disorder. The ISSTD Treatment Guidelines make a helpful distinction between two types of DDNOS: ‘not yet’ and ‘not quite’. Type 1a DDNOS is people who do in fact have dissociative identity disorder but have not yet been diagnosed. Type 1b DDNOS is people who do not quite meet the diagnostic criteria for DID — usually because they do not have amnesia between alters, or their alters/parts are not quite ‘separate’ enough to be classified as different identity states. DDNOS is actually the most common dissociative disorder and so there is some debate about whether it should be reformulated: as a ‘residual’ category it is meant to mop up a few cases that do not quite fit into other diagnostic boxes, not be a category all of its own!
Colin Ross (2007, p.142) says that: “The dividing line between dissociative identity disorder and most cases of Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified is arbitrary. Most cases of DDNOS are partial forms of DID which lack either clear switching of executive control, full amnesia barriers between identity states, or clear differentiation and structure of identity states. They are partial forms of DID with the same patterns of childhood trauma and co-morbidity.”
In summary, many people will be diagnosed with DDNOS because during the diagnostic process they fail to exhibit either amnesia between alters, or sufficiently elaborated alters. Many however may go on to be diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder at a later point, and many may actually have DID but there was not sufficient evidence for it during the brief diagnostic interview, based on the restrictive criteria specified by the DSM-IV.
SYMPTOMATIC PRINCIPLES FOR DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
Diagnostic Criteria (Code 300.15) from DSM-IV:
This category is included for disorders in which the predominant feature is a dissociative symptom (ie, a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment) that does not meet the criteria for any specific Dissociative Disorder. Examples include:
Clinical presentations similar to dissociative identity disorder that fail to meet full criteria for this disorder. Examples include presentations in which a) there are not two or more distinct personality states, or b) amnesia for important personal information does not occur.
Derealization unaccompanied by depersonalization in adults.
States of dissociation that occur in individuals who have been subjected to periods of prolonged and intense coercive persuasion (eg, brainwashing, thought reform, or indoctrination while captive).
Dissociative trance disorder: single or episodic disturbances in the state of consciousness, identity, or memory that are indigenous to particular locations and cultures. Dissociative trance involves narrowing of awareness of immediate surroundings or stereotyped behaviours or movements that are experienced as being beyond one’s control. Possession trance involves replacement of the customary sense of personal identity by a new identity, attributed to the influence of a spirit, power, deity, or other person, and associated with stereotyped “involuntary” movements or amnesia and is perhaps the most common Dissociative Disorder in Asia. Examples include amok (Indonesia), bebainan (Indonesia), latah (Malaysia), pibloktoq (Arctic), ataque de nervios (Latin America), and possession (India). The dissociative or trance disorder is not a normal part of a broadly accepted collective cultural or religious practice.
Loss of consciousness, stupor, or coma not attributable to a general medical condition.
Ganser syndrome: the giving of approximate answers to questions (eg, “2 plus 2 equals 5”) when not associated with Dissociative Amnesia or Dissociative Fugue.
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